Quotation Inspiration

I'm a little behind on my 30 day challenge, but I've got them typed out at least. I won't bombard them on here all at once, I'll just randomly post them over the next few days to catch up.

Unknown Author: "Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can."

I saw this quote and knew I needed to use it for my writer’s challenge for WEGO today. I don’t live by it, that’s for sure. It is how I’d like to live my life though. I wish I knew who said this because it is very powerful in a subtle way. In almost everything I do each day I find negative reasons not to do something or negative reasons that are forcing me to do something. I need to look at the bigger picture and look into the positives of things more often. I think in general as a society we are trained to be negative and not try and look at the positive spin on things.

For instance, don’t say you can’t run tonight because you have a load of laundry, say you CAN run tonight because you need to cut out a little bit of time for yourself and do something good for your body.

Instead of saying “I can’t go to the dentist this week because I’m just too busy at work,” tell yourself, “I can schedule my appointment for my cleaning during my lunch hour,” and make time for it because it is important for your body and overall being.

A big thing is telling yourself that you can’t cook a healthy meal because you don’t have anything fresh on hand. Plenty of healthy meals can come out of the freezer and pantry! Defrost some chicken breasts, sauté up some frozen veggies and serve it over brown rice.

It is my belief that most of the time people use the negatives and say they can’t do something because really they just don’t want to, not because they truly aren’t capable of doing it.

Health Time Capsule

2112 – 100 years from now. I’m going to guess I won’t be around then, as that would make me 130, almost 131. If I were to put things in a time capsule that would show my health focus right now, they would scream “Dairy free!”

I’ve been desperately searching the interwebs for meal plans and diets that involve dairy free eating and I’m just not coming up with a lot of appealing prospects. I’ve always been an avid milk drinker and don’t even get me started on the cheese consumption in our household.

I would include the containers to some dairy free products in my capsule as I’m sure in 100 years they will have hopefully changed for the better and people can see where they started at with these types of products. Going dairy free, especially for breastfeeding, is becoming more popular and acknowledged these days. I’d hope that in 100 years there is much more research on this and people are able to more easily adapt their diets to restrict the dairy products they are using.

I’d also love to throw in a pair of running shoes as that is where my butt needs to get in gear these days. I feel a thousand times better about myself when I’ve been actively running and why not, it’s such a healthy way to get in exercise and relieve some stress. I’m sure people won’t question the running shoes one bit and that it will be something people are still out there doing.

Overall I would hope to be able to show people where things came from and hopefully give them an idea of how far they have advanced in 100 years.