I am grateful for yesterday’s….
- Struggles, emotional and physical, on Day 2 of the CAC-Free protocols…. (Why do I give thanks for seemingly negative things? Melody Beattie teaches brilliantly in Make Miracles in 40 Days that it’s when we get genuinely grateful for the good, bad and ugly that the ice flow starts to shift… And I had an extraordinary experience of this with her 40 day project, in 2013/4, getting an out of the blue miracle job offer on day 40… The stuff’s good.)
- Exhaustion, sadness, grief and numbness spiralling out of me as the detox did its thing
- The strength to hold open the doors of surrender and self-compassion while my unresolved emotions wiggled out of the melting ice caps of addiction-based frozenness, and sallied on out of the building.
- An important conversation with my love
- This BRILLIANT documentary on fasting: http://dougorchard.com/wp/fasting/ – covering all aspects of fasting comprehensively, using new science. Ty! I’m looking forward to getting going with some Intermittent Fasting and Extended Fasting once I’ve settled into this CAC-Free regime. For now, I’m going to start noting my Eating Window in the chart below, to bring awareness of when I start and stop eating.
- My daughter’s wholesome cooking, and then mine too. Carb-free is fine, especially when taking a Low-Carb-High-Fat approach in the style of the DietDoctor.com. And building in plenty of raw stuff for crunch and satisfaction really helps.
- Discovering I have a backdated payment coming to me. Heavens, I am so blessed to have watched the tide turn. All is well. All is good. All is protected and warm.
- Not thinking about alcohol. It was fine. The Dry Jan FB pages were v helpful too, in terms of seeing where others were in Dry Jan, and reminding myself I’d done this before and it’s going to be fine.
So today. Day 3 of CAC-Free. I slept well, and dealt with No Coffee by having some muesli breakfast followed by a cup of builders’ tea. Lovely. All fine. (I actually kicked off the day with a strong shot of berocca which got the old innards working again at last, after a long stand off – thank goodness – brain fog reduced instantly… )
I felt a bit confused about yesterday’s ‘offer simple help’ approach. Or self-conscious rather. Not wanting to publish the post… Maybe I was embarrassed to mix business with this writing about health/MEDS etc. But today, a day when I’m scheduled to review and action my marketing strategy for 2019, a book I ordered arrived, and it’s very nicely in line with our dialogue yesterday. So, yes, life can’t be categorised. And these inner dialogues are for all parts of my life. So, the book is This is Marketing by Seth Godin. He cooly challenges the over-weaning kind of marketing anyone might still lean towards:
“You’re not a cigar-smoking fat cat. You don’t work for a soap company. You’re not an obsolete industrial marketer. Why are you acting like one?” p8
He challenges us to take a different approach to offering our products and services to the world:
“Marketing is one of our greatest callings. It’s the work of positive change. … Marketing is not a battle, and it’s not a war, or even a contest. Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem. It’s a change to change the culture for the better. Marketing involves very little in the way of shouting, hustling or coercion. It’s a chance to serve instead.” . p2
In other words…
Offer Simple Help. You’re welcome. 😀
Yes! I would like this year’s achievements to be about simple help offered and given. That would be nice. In December, I collated all my completed work and achievements, and it was such a nice process and I felt so strengthened to reflect on what I had done, and been granted the opportunity to do.
I want to make this year gentler for myself in the following way: Instead of listing tasks and goals for ticking off or crossing out (and leaving myself with a year’s worth of scrawled and thus neutralised crossings out), I intend to pencil in potential achievements ahead, and then write over them in ink afterwards when and if done. I can rub them out if they are not done, in the knowledge that if they weren’t done they weren’t meant to be. At the end of the year, in my lovely Action Planner (which I hope will arrive today) I’ll have a record of achievements achieverised. That’s nice, soft, and a good recognition that everything we do beyond keeping ourselves alive is ‘gravy’ to the meal – especially if we are orientating our efforts towards an intention to offer simple help.
Lovely. And so much softer, compassionate and encouraging than the Goal Orientated approach, which is much more A-type than your-type, if we may say. You can note down ‘blessings’ and ‘confirmations’ too – that gives space for the incomings of grace, mercy and miracle. And, dearest friend, it gives you a satisfactory acronym… 🙂
Achievements, Blessings and Confirmations. ABC. Yes indeedy! High five!
Let every offer-of-simple-help-accepted, every task completed, every blessing received, every confirmation manifested…be witnessed and marvelled at! This is the work of living on the bright side of the coin. The more we SEE the problems unravelled, the solutions activated, the immense ease with which the universe meets our needs, the more our intentions can be realised – smoothly, gently, effortlessly.
Be playful with the notion of achievement. It’s all a gift from the source of all creation and wonder. Let it in humbly and with a sense of awe.
For now, lay your mind’s eye on those potential future achievements you sense to be coming in on the tide for your very simple, effortless ‘achieverisation’. Smile them in to shore, welcomingly.
Today I am noting potential future achievements achieverised.
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| MEDS Trackers Jan2019: | Day: Thursday 3 Jan 19 |
| Med&Ex: Download Hour – Med | Aerobic | Qigong | 10:10:10 YES! |
| Diet: Chopchopchop – mindful, plant-based food | YES! |
| Sleep: Sleepstate: 9Screens, 10Books | Nope… |
| Med minutes | 10 (silent) |
| Active minutes | 12 (good trot) |
| Steps | 6000 |
| Food: Muesli; tea; chicken&cucumber in a lettuce wrap; home-cooked rabbit & veg stew (by my eldest); 10 jelly beans; peach squash; a few pork scratchings before bed (!); licorice tea in bed. AWESOME. |
Eating window: 10.30am – 10.30pm = 12h |
| Dry? | YES! Day 3 |
| Screens off | Whoop… 11.30 |
| In bed (with books..) | 11.30 (Good reading!) |
| Sleep Window |
12.40 – 7.40 |
| Hours slept (as per FitBit data next morning) | 6h12m (a bit short!) |
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