Setting Yourself Up For Success

So I wrote a long post earlier today about obstacles and overcoming them.  My cold seems to have come back and I wasn't feeling like doing anything I knew I should be doing tonight.  I was having an internal struggle about just laying around all night or prepping my food for the week and getting in some activity. 

Long story short, I decided to suck it up and do what I knew I needed to do.  Upon arriving home from work I went for a nice 30 minute walk with my husband and the dog.  Then, after dinner, I prepped everything I needed for salads for the next 2 days for lunch.  I also straightened up some stuff upstairs.  All in all, it took me about an hour and 15 minutes.  Now I can lay around for the rest of the night and watch Michigan win the Sugar Bowl.  And you know what?  I feel so much better for doing what I knew I should do. 

I knew that if I didn't prep my lunch for tomorrow that I would end up going out and buying something fattening.  And it was just as quick to prep my lunch for the next 2 days.  I knew that if I didn't take the dog for a walk, that she would be a holy terror tonight and I wouldn't get any rest anyways.  And I earned 3 activity points for my short walk.  It's all about setting yourself up for success, and I feel like I did that tonight. 

Yes, life can present obstacles and challenges.  The true measuer of what you're made of is how you handle those obstacles and challenges.  I could have just thrown my hands up in the air in frustration tonight, winged it this week, and failed miserably on the scale come Saturday.  But instead, I met the challange head on, am prepared to have a good week, and hopefully I'll be rewarded on the scale.

"Some people only dream of success, while others work hard every day to achieve it."