Do something!

I was scrolling through Facebook as I always do in the evening, and this image caught my eye. I scrolled back up to it and read it more carefully. I immediately thought, "what if I could do one thing - just one - each day that future me would be thankful for?"

I have struggled with my weight, with my self-esteem, and with my role in life for many years. So many, that I can't exactly remember when it all started. I have tried, too many times to count, to change my behavior in order to be thinner, to be happier, to find more meaning. It usually always included one extreme or another. Liquid diets to drop weight quickly, major life-changing decisions before bed that would disappear by morning...well, you get the drift. Most of these ended up adding to the feelings of failure and inadequacy and did nothing to instill change. Tonight, as per usual, I have decided to try again. This time, I will try to do one thing each day, just one. A decision that my future self will appreciate but without the extreme all or nothing approach. My one thing today? To give this a try.

I am always telling students and teachers that it's important to foster a culture where it's okay to fail, but what I never realized is that I didn't have that culture within my own life. Talk about do as I say not as I do! I need to practice what I preach (pardon the cliche) and so this is my attempt to do so.

Will I succeed? I have no idea, but I'm willing to give it a shot.