CHOOSE YOUR HARD

By Katie Welborn, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner

Do you ever think about how much time we spend avoiding the thing(s) that we know we have to do, but don’t want to do?  Why do we make things harder on ourselves?

Just like you (and everyone else for that matter), I’ve wasted LOTS of time avoiding the ‘hard thing.’ For me, the lightbulb moment was when I realized how absolutely, positively HARD I was working at AVOIDING working hard. Read that again.

Getting up early to hit the gym before work is hard. But skipping your workout, sleeping in, and then dragging through your day with low energy is also hard.

Carving out two hours for meal prep on Sunday is hard. But scrambling to pack lunches and fix dinners on the fly, day after day, is also hard.

Giving up some of your favorite foods that you’ve discovered aren’t serving your body is hard. But continuing to consume those foods and suffer the consequences is also hard.

CHOOSE YOUR HARD

I try to remind myself in these situations that I am working hard either way - I can either work hard at avoiding, or work hard at embracing. Who do I want to be? The choice is mine.