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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

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Let sleeping dogs lie? Where's the fun in that?

You have probably heard that old expression before, to “Let sleeping dogs lie,” or alternately, “Don’t poke a skunk.” Both warning you not to rock the boat. You should “just go with the flow, accept things as they are, etc.” Enough of this nonsense! If you don’t shake things up every now and then, you’ll never know what coulda, shoulda, woulda been.

I don’t mean you should go out and incite a riot or anything of that magnitude, but if you continue to do what you’ve always done, then you’ll have what you always have. Oh my, apparently I can’t stop myself!

I love going into a job, any type of job whether it’s a new work role, volunteer role or even just a home project and figuring out why things currently are the way they are and how we can work together to make them better. At work, when I’m trying to figure out why we’re doing something a particular way, they know better than to give me the answer, “because we’ve always done it that way.” I’m sorry, but that just doesn’t cut it with me. I am challenging each and every one of you to challenge something in your life. Ask yourself, “Why, why, why am I doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?”

For example, you may be planning to work on your weight “one more time.” Have you always waited until Monday to start your diet? Why? Other days of the week work just fine. If you fall off the wagon, do you view that as a green light to eat whatever you want the rest of the day? Why? So you weren’t perfect, none of us are, start back on track right now, today. Do you feel the need to prepare “special, diet food” just for you and another meal for your family? Why? This time make it a lifestyle change for everyone in your family and focus on how together you can make fun, nutritious meals and not on making anyone feel deprived because they’re on a DIET.

Poke that skunk. Wake up that sleeping dog, ’cause they can be a LOT of fun, they can change your attitude and help you change your life. I’m off to wake up those sleeping dogs!

BariBelle

Will this year bring a “whole new you?”

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Happy New Year from BariBelle!

Happy New Year! I hope 2012 brings you everything you want. Have you thought about what you truly want? What would make you happy? Have you “resolved” to make it happen? How about instead of making resolutions, you determine exactly what it is you wish to achieve in 2012 and then set your goals  planning step by step how you’ll reach them.

If your wish is for a “whole new you.” Why is that? For as far back as I can remember, every year when school would let out for the summer, my mother would put me on a diet and state, “When school starts back, you’ll be a whole new person.” Whether it was meant that way or not, I always wondered what, besides a few pounds was wrong the way I was then?

Now, I’m not a psychologist, although I do know several great ones, but it does seem to me that may have had a bit of an effect on my self esteem, my personality, and my relationship with food. It’s taken me a very long time to finally realize that  what I like about me, I like and I don’t have to change for anyone. What I don’t like, well, I don’t have to change it all at once and since I’m changing it just for me I can work on those changes at my pace. I can set my own goals and I am the only one responsible for me meeting or not meeting those goals. As I work on those changes, I won’t become a whole new me, nor do I want too. Maybe I’ll just become a better version of me.

BariBelle