I've recently realized I have my own mantra. For the last year or so during my trying to become healthy, and better. I started to look at EVERYTHING from a health perspective. The way I sleep, eat, move, have hobbies, clean, improve spiritually, relax, and care for my baby. I've shared this with a few friends these last few weeks. I hit a point when I we finishing my kitchen that I just couldn't keep up on my work outs, and eating less (I'm a stress eater). As I was berating myself for not doing it, I found this little phrase, even though I'd told myself this for a long time, I understood it better then I ever had before. "Be better than you were yesterday." For a while I tried to be better in EVERY aspect of my life, but I knew I was setting my self up for failure. As I sat there looking at my life and all of the beautiful parts of it, I realized, I can be better than yesterday at something. Maybe I worked out, maybe I stayed inside my calories, or prayed, read my scriptures, made my bed, cleaned the kitchen, was more patient with G. Whatever, as long as I got out of bed and did something better than I did the day before, then I am a success. I hope that more women can find this, so often we put so much pressure on ourselves to be perfect, of course I'd like to be, but what is even better, I like myself.
I'm better than I was yesterday.
1 comment:
Love it. Sometimes... my mantra is "I can do this until bedtime." Not quite as inspirational, but there are those days. I like that you just focus on one thing to be better at, instead of everything :)
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