So, yeah, you could say it has been a while since I wrote a new installment. How does that happen? Well, I can’t speak for you, but for me, it is about procrastination which is actually just “lazy” with more syllables.

I receive an uplifting message in my email every day from a Kabbalist named Yehuda Berg.  I do not practice this particular spiritual path, per se. I just love what the guy has to say. He actually sends the emails to anyone who requests them, not just to me.  I didn’t meet him in rehab or anything like that. He has a blog- one he keeps up with much better than I have been keeping up with mine. I’ve been keeping up with the Kardashians better than I’ve been keeping up with my blog.

Today’s Yehuda installment is a doozy:

“Carrie Fisher once wrote, ‘Instant gratification takes too long.’
It’s a funny quote, but it’s the way a lot of us feel and it leads us to pacify our desires with short-term fulfillment, delaying all our dreams from coming true. Instead of waiting for our soul mate, we settle for someone who is good enough. Instead of putting a few hours a day into making our dream job or a promotion manifest, we become complacent with the position that merely pays the bills.
Where are you substituting your birth right with a short-term fix?
It’s time to start thriving instead of merely surviving.”

Ouchy, ouch, ouch! So much here to think about. This is what I do. Even with a silly blog that I started for the exact reason-  I did not want to become complacent about life. I love to write. This is a perfect venue. Actually, any venue, including the back of a napkin will work. I get caught up in the mundane. I’m not just caught up in it,   I am wound up in it, like a fish in a net.

Making healthy changes in life is all about just that:  making the changes. No one ever finished a novel by talking about finishing it. They actually did it.

I am not certain if writing a novel or becoming more healthy in every aspect of life is a “birth-right” as ole Yehuda put it.  I actually do not like that expression at all.  I don’t believe in birth-rights. I think too many things feel like they belong to us or are somehow owed to us just because we exist. Nothing worthwhile is ever just handed to anyone. I know this because I have had so many things handed to me. I have not appreciated many of them.

Wow, that is a lot of honesty for a Wednesday morning. Bottom line, I am either going to do (insert thing I say I am going to do here) or I am not. If not, move on, stop talking and thinking about “one day when I (fill in the blank)”. My one day is now.

Ps the scale has stopped moving. Actually, the lbs part of the scale has stopped for a bit. I have, however,  lost body fat. I have a body fat scale. I do not put a lot of stock in its accuracy, but the little “F” number is dropping. I will take it.

So, now, I have to ask myself, “am I missing another boat today, like the cartoon dinosaurs, because I am all caught up eating trees or something boring like that?  Am I missing the best part of life while I am zeroing in on the most mundane?”