The Slight Edge

Have you been blinded by the "Quantum Leap"? The "Overnight Success"? The "Breakthrough"? I have and I believe it's because I am a dreamer. I can dream with the best of them. If my fantasies were to come true, wow, I'd be won amazing human being. LOL

I was listening to a CD that my friend gave to me. She knows how much I enjoy personal development products. She also knows how much I talk about the quantum leap yet end up many times in a quantum heap of unfulfilled goals. I have listened to the CD twice on the way to work. It actually is quite different from most things that I have come across in changing your life through achieving new goals and behaviours.

The basis of the Slight Edge by Jeff Olson is that we are where we are by the small consistent decisions that we make over time. Not a single decision, but compounded decisions to do or not do brings us to wherever we are in life. I believe this for the most part because when I lost 85 pounds, it was be consistent and persistent about my exercise, food choices and learned behaviors that brought my success. My success did not come from just attending one Weight Watchers meeting or going to the gym once or choosing to eat a salad instead of a bag of chips once. It was my daily decision to do the "slight edge" activity that brought me to a size 10.

When I gained the weight back, it was because of the slight edge activities that found 70 of the 85 that I had lost. Staying in bed instead of going to the gym. Eating more than I needed one too many times. Choosing food over emotional techniques to get through the trauma, drama or boredom.

Now, I sit here on the edge of a choice. To add daily exercise back into my routine or to continue to work my plan without it. I know that it will make a huge impact on my weight loss and it will also make a huge impact in my emotions. Here's why: I have more opportunities to fail each day that I DON'T workout. I like that I don't feel this sense of failure in my life. I also have never been good at exercising 4 times a week and being happy with it. It becomes an all-or-nothing situation. Rationally, I know that it doesn't have to be this way. Experience-wise, I know it has been this way. I guess it's another "slight edge" opportunity for me. To learn to be happy with 4-5 days of workouts and choose the two days that I will be off from exercise at the BEGINNING of the week.

Boy Matters:
Text today: "I miss you! Have a good day!"
My response: "What do you miss?"
His response: "Your beautiful smile. I'd like to see you."
No response from me to this one.