I just have a single quote for today but as before, check out Toni’s blog for more Quotable Sunday contributions.

"Bad habits are easy to start, but they make your life miserable. Good habits are hard to start, but they make your life wonderful."
     — Joel Osteen

I’ve joined the Shredheads and have been paired with the wonderful (but blogless) Laura. Our jobs are to workout and to encourage each other. I’m rooting for Laura (and she for me) but I’m having a hard time rooting for myself. I think that’s partly (mostly?) because I know my history with exercise. I also think that other areas of my life are very much playing into my attitude about my health and exercise. For example, my sewing room is unusable. It is packed full of things - items moved there from the living room while the laminate was being put down and the numerous large clear plastic tubs full of fabric and yarn which have already been purged once yet need it again to further reduce the volume. This room needs to be restored to a usable state for a few reasons (maybe for sewing?), including the fact that I will be having a closet added to the back entrance, which will require a wall being built straight across the end of the sewing room about two or three feet deep. This is stressing me a little. Or a lot. It seems overwhelming to get it from the state it’s currently in to the state it needs to be in. And then there’s the kitchen, which is currently still in a state of disarray (though I did get the bottom cabinet doors on tonight). There’s so much to do in there and it won’t get better for a few weeks yet (new paint on the walls, building a wall, and the building of the closet adjacent to the kitchen).

There is also another area where there is much need for organization and prioritizing: meals, specifically the way that I eat. I don’t eat badly but nor do I eat great. My cupboards are essentially free of junky and unhealthy foods, however that doesn’t mean that I make smart choices. I still find myself ordering in Chinese and pizza when I wait to eat supper with my boyfriend when he gets off work. I still grab subs and Chinese at work on my night shifts. And I still give in to the chocolate bar basket at work (proceeds of the sales go to local charities) when I find myself bored with what I’m doing. I need to change my eating. I have all the makings of clean eating in my cupboards, what I need is the drive and stick-to-it to carry it out. Tomorrow, I plan to pick up one of the clean eating books sitting with my cookbooks and begin reading from the beginning.

That is the plan for tomorrow. To begin, with one step, the journey of decluttering my life and finding a balance instead.