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Reviews"The storyline was pure reading heaven..." - Talia Ricci, Joyfully Reviewed, for Riding Partner "This
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and is full of some hot bed play." Marina, Cupid's Library Reviews for Revealing
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Today's "Make a Difference" isn't about charity or causes or recycling or the environment. It's not about adopting pets from the shelter or giving money to save the rainforest (though you can click on The Animal Rescue Site and The Rainforest Site every day to "give" to those causes). No, today's blog is about making a difference to you. Today's tip: Forgive Yourself I can hear you saying, "what?" I saw a wonderful movie a few weeks ago, What the BLEEP do we know?, and it was the most wonderful combination of quantum and theoretical physics and spirituality as I'd ever seen or heard. The crux of the matter is, how we think affects our world. I've known this for a long time. I've struggled with it, but am working to improve myself. One of the areas where I feel I have the most work to do though, is to simply forgive myself. I'm a Type A, nose to the grindstone, hard taskmaster when it comes to me, my dreams, and my goals. And when something happens to fall short, I take it hard. Take my weight loss journey for example. I was doing so good. And then I passed a milestone I hadn't seen since my college days -- dropping below 200 lbs. Whoopie! I partied. I felt like I'd done it. And I immediately fell back into old habits. Three months later, I'm no longer under 200 lbs (though still quite a bit smaller than I was), and I recommitted to Weight Watchers today. But more importantly than resigning up for that $16.95/mo online plan was the fact that I forgave myself. That's right. Lying in bed last night, I thought, "I will succeed. I will do this. And I forgive myself for falling into old habits and slipping from the weight loss wagon. I forgive myself." I'm sure it probably sounds corny, but for someone overcoming a lifelong habit of negative self-talk (Too fat, too nonathletic, too well..everything bad!), it felt good. Damn good. And so, instead of focusing on the past, after all, it's the past and can't be changed, I'm looking to the future. My first meal of the day... my first week back on plan... and I know that it will all come about because of one simple thing: forgiveness. Make a difference to yourself! Be gentle with yourself.  
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