We are now well in to February and
my year has started off well. January was all about having my operation for menorrhagia
and then healing from that and now I feel like life can really take-off. I no
longer have a lack of energy, nor am I anaemic. 2018 is a year that I plan to believe more in
myself and in God’s great plans for me, I wrote about it at the beginning of the year and posted my first
update last week. The area of my life that I really need to get a grip on
is my health and specifically my weight, which sadly, is affecting my health
and not in a good way.
However, I am feeling very positive
and I am going to take lots of little steps that all add up and will make a
difference. If I’m honest many of these steps (or changes) are things I have
committed to before and then they’ve not happened or I’ve let them slip but I’m
not going to let that stop me. I have to believe that mentally I am now in the
right place and that since I have been freed from my terrible (and constant)
bleeding that things in my life can change for the better.
The fear of failure must no longer
stop me. I’ve been reading a book recently (yet another one) called ‘The Year
of Saying Yes’ by Helen Doyle and it is just a fiction book. A great story about
a woman called Isobel who changes her life by saying yes to a series of monthly
dares and it has been so helpful to me. I have come to realise that often I say
no or I am passive in my actions because I am scared it won’t all work out.
What the book has made me realise is that it is better to try, better to take
one step, better to do it imperfectly, than not at all.
It felt like a God-moment when Boots
recently got in touch and asked if I’d like to take part in their
#BootsLittleBoosts campaign as this is all about how I am boosting my health
and wellness routine for this New Year. They want to know how I’m going to shake
off the excess of the winter festivities and to embrace the year ahead with new
vigour. It fits in perfectly with my new ‘Believe’ philosophy.
So here goes, I know that Little
Steps = Big Changes if I’m consistent and I’m going to set my focus in four key
areas -
