Good for you Cruise! Every little bit helps. WAlking is good for you in so many ways and being active clears your mind and soul. The more active you are the more you will want to do more things. It sounds like you are ready to do some changes. The picture is great!
You did a nice job on it.
Ana

A few moments ago I grabbed 2 more Christmas cookies to eat, as I was finishing up the first cookie, Mom was in the kitchen and it's like an unseen Something/Someone moved Mom to tell me, "You can't live on cookies. Do you want me to make you a chicken (using part of the Christmas chicken) sandwich on a biscuit?"

I replied, "Yes. Is that the Christmas dinner roll?"

Mom said, Yes, and I finished the first cookie, laid the other down, waited till I was given my chicken sandwich. Am now in the process of eating said chicken sandwich.

Isn't it amazing that when you're really committed, an unseen kind of Positive Force moves and causes things to happen that are conductive to you staying committed?

You may call that Force anything you wish.

Just finished the chicken sandwich.

EDIT: Where do everybody go? Did you all abandon this thread (dropped like a hot potato) already b/c of what I've said (I hope not)?

Also am cutting back on salt so I won't get high blood pressure.

THose are all good choices cruise.

Hey Cruise02, I procrastinate and I need a day to focus resolutions, better behavour etc so why not New Years Day? When I wanted to loose weight I used Lent to give up sugar - the year befor when I gave up eating meat - Lent again. Just knowing it was Lent made me stick to those diets.

Whatever works - use it

Your resolutions will build your strength/charater

Don't know if it is allowed here or not, but lately I'm getting more serious about the Good Book. Before I was just casual about it.

But anyway I realized a possible reason why I keep making excuses for not cleaning up my act is the fear of success - I'm like, I feel safe 'n' snug in my bad habits so I keep doing them. The fear of success is maybe I'm afraid to get out there and start helping people with their computers once I become a computer tech in 3.5 years from now (having started school this past Sept '11) or so, I sort of don't know what will happen to me once I succeed in finishing my education, getting a driver's license, and launching a career, so the other day I ordered this book on Amazon overcoming the fear of success

Another possible reason that I keep going back to my bad habits is b/c I'm lazy. I get lazy when it's rainy all day for more than one day in a row, and I can't get out. When I'm stuck in the house I just laze around the house acting mopey.

Since school let out in mid-Dec. and I have until Jan. 30 before next semester's classes start, I'm trying ways to get out of the house (against insurmountable circumstances), and although I was successful a few times already, having gone to Bible study about 3 Saturdays, my best friend's house (and staying all day this past Sat & Sun, coming home Sun night) all day on 2 Saturdays, going to Barnes & Noble's cafe to game on the go approx. 2 times already (since school let out), I'm the type of person that wants to be on the go while Mom's been there, done that when she was younger, now Mom wants to stay home, and rest and relax. I'm trying to keep myself busy these days, but being cooped up in the house, it's hard as I keep getting low and down in the dumps. That's when the excuses (and temptation to go back to bad habits) come. (sigh)

I can't wait until Jan. 30 when classes start.

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In my Bible Study lesson my teacher (on a 1 and 1 basis) started studying about what not cleaning up our acts does this past Saturday and when Mom & I got home I started thinking about how keeping the unclean behavior in my life would prevent me from getting my blessings from the Good Shepard, and now I'm on the verge of tossing out that unclean behavior from my life, except I found out that I have a hard heart this past Tues (which I really need to work on).

I was under the impression you had done this for your New Year's resolution? Did you quit? Good luck on your journey.

Ana

Have to admit, yes, I did quit (due to feeling down in the dumps) but Tomorrow (3/12/11) will hopefully be a better day; to date, a few days ago I installed my Driver's Ed 99 software along with my racing wheel onto one of my computers I have in my office to do a few practice sessions on learning how to drive a car. Yes, one of my goals is to learn to drive a car - so I can borrow Mom's car to go to Barnes & Noble/Panera Bread and game on the go after supper when I'm finished with school, have a job hopefully at Best Buy's Geek Squad so I can gain experience fixing people's computers and not have to rely on the lousy bus service in our area nor have to walk far to bus stop/back home, worry about time of day/weather conditions when I want to get out to the local coffee shops with my laptops to game on - and I drove the virtual car in my Driver's Ed program around the block a total of 7 times, first time having a wreck, next few times making it a little farther, until the last few times I almost made it back safely to the Driver's Ed software's Virtual Driving School Parking Area in the Virtual Car, and boy, I felt so happy that I took the time out to do this!

Congrats! Tell yourself it "will be" a better day and you will find that it will indeed be one. Good luck driving!

Ana

Oh, Thank you soooooooo much, BET!

BET, what you said about Monday being a better day - you were right! Mom took me up to the community college campus where I signed up for 2 summer classes in the computer tech (IT support) field and renewed my fedral grant for school for the coming 2012/2013 term, but after we got home I discovered that one of the summer classes that I signed up for was 1 credit/much shorter than the other class (which is 3 credits/10 weeks) so next week Mom's going to take me back up to the campus so I can add a 3 credit class that'll be 10 wks so as to knock off 2 years off of the length of my schooling (projected length = 3.5 yrs with the addition of 6/7 credits summer classes), otherwise school would take 5 years - and this is only for the PC/network admin training.

Also, with the driving thing, I just got this driving testing software **this**

(but I'd like to set this aside until I'm actually taking real-life driving lessons/have learners' permit before I use it) which came with a pamphlet saying that there is another software package available that goes more in depth regarding driving mistakes that add to car accidents in addition to other driving-relasted stuff that cost $75 and hopefully that I could buy for my birthday (am more interested in this one for after using Drivers Ed 99 for a bit).

Excellent! Positive thinking brings about positive changes!

Ana

Guys, I decided that I couldn't wait until my birthday (might buy a game or 2 then) so I sprang for this driving software **here**.

Good luck!

Ana