Unexpected reminders.

Today I was going to make a quick post on Facebook and ended up with this:

"I love those unexpected little reminders that we need in our lives. I'm sure they are ALL around us and only when we open our eyes, we will see them and then UTILIZE THEM!

For months and months I have told myself daily that I would work some kind of exercise into my day and with out fail I went to be that night not exercising and thinking the same thing about the next day. Yesterday after my rant about sweets I was feeling a bit guilty because eating clean is only 1/2 the battle. There MUST be physical activity. I had been sitting there thinking that I should get up and go on a walk, but it was a little windy and cold out, and then I saw Jess Ainscough's post and she said "Don't let the weather be an excuse not to move your body!!". WOW! perfect timing. I put my walking shoes on and although I didn't go into that windy weather, I did hop on my treadmill for 30 minutes!

Also, I know that I spend too much time on my computer. It's been a problem for quite some time. The internet (weather it be Facebook, blogs, Pinterest) is addicting. Each day I tell myself that I wont get on so much and with out fail, I'm on my butt here longer than I wanted. For a month or so I had this awesome system down at home where I found the balance in my 20 min days and it felt good. It incorporated getting stuff done at home while getting also getting to hop on here or check email or update my blog etc. Lately, all that has fallen to the wayside and I start to feel that guilty feeling again (you know, that wonderful guilty feeling we get when we KNOW we are in the wrong, but don't want to admit it ourselves?). Yep, I was feeling that! So again, this morning I hop on Facebook to see a post by a new friend who wrote an old post about her internet addiction and it just "happened" to be bumped up because some other new friends commented on it. It was the little reminder that I felt balanced when I did my 20 minute days and so today I start over with those!"

It is funny that the little reminders are ALL around us and it isn't until we chose to SEE them that they become helpful in our lives. I'm happy for my little reminders today!