Sustainable progress

Feeling well!  The sun is shining and I've been sleeping better which is definitely making a difference.  Yesteray I managed to get some excercise which was exciting.  I took a single dumbell out the the park across the street and did some simple curls and presses with my one good arm.  I still can't do anything with my left but I wasn't complaining, I was outside and I was working out again.  Other than that I did a few planks but that was it.  It's amazing what just some exercise, as opposed to none at all can do for your overall sense of well being.

I am so, so bad for trying to take the world on as soon as I feel well, or as soon as something positive happens.  This has been a slow realization over the last 3 months or so, but this afternoon it really hit me as I was sitting in my chair on my laptop this afternoon.  I had a document open and was trying to plan my workouts for the upcoming week, before I had even done any stretching or rehab work to recover from the workout I just did. 

I've got it completely backwards sometimes.  Rather than doing the rehab and the stretches that were responsible for getting me exercising in the first place, and which would obviously be the determining factor of if I would be able to exercise the next day, I was busy looking up what kind lifting program I was going to start doing.  I get so far ahead of myself, always chasing the next "cure", rather than just working hard at the ones I've already discovered.  Here's a couple more examples,

- I easily spend as much time, if not more, looking at recipes online, than I actually do preparing the food that's already in my house, and I probably "researched" the night before when I should have been in bed.

-I've literally found myself looking up yoga schedules at night and planning when I'm going to go, instead of just getting on the floor and doing some!

I always get stuck in these loops.  At least I'm becoming more aware of them, and making efforts to get out when I find myself there.  I find nature, just getting out in general, is one of the best things for breaking those cycles. 

I chose the title of this blog because that is going to be my intention for the next few days.  It was exhilarating to lift weights again yesterday, but if I want to do it again I need to slow down and be disciplined.  I am feeling like I'm on "the up" again, but this time I am going to make it sustainable.