The last year has seen a lot of change in my life. Some of my doing, much not. Job challenges and health challenges, most recently. A desire to minimize but a realization that I have not done much to actually streamline my life on that front.<\/p>\n
Fits and starts; that is probably the best way to summarize 2015.<\/p>\n
Maybe it is bit a sign of my age, but probably more a byproduct of my personality traits, I do not make a lot of true and lasting change. I am a creature of habit. Old habits. Bad habits. Lazy habits.<\/p>\n
It is easier to just let things be than to kick your butt into motion to change them. Especially when things are comfortable, familiar and easy to fall back on.<\/p>\n
I saw this most in my health. Not that I am, necessarily, unhealthy. But I was told three years ago that I was pre-diabetic. I changed my eating habits and lost twenty pounds. Then went back to just doing what I always did, eating everything in sight that looked good.<\/p>\n
So, as you would expect my last blood test confirms that I am now diabetic. You get what you get when you got what you got!<\/p>\n
I will try diet and exercise again, first, to see if that will help so I do not immediately have to go to meds. But MAN am I finding getting back into working out hard!<\/p>\n
Same can be said with many of my other \u201chabits\u201d, they are well worn and exceedingly hard to break. Thus, I continue to wallow in my old ways and \u201callow\u201d life to just move forward on it\u2019s own.<\/p>\n
I need to take a hold and make 2016 a pivotal year for me. Really make true and lasting change for the better. Get rid of the baggage and fluff of life and take a hard line with myself on those elements of life that are better managed than left to happen of their own accord.<\/p>\n
In effect get a strangle hold on my bad habits and forge a life moving forward of positive improvement. I mean that was the whole reason I switched from my previous blog format, The Observation Deck, to The Vitruvian Journey. I meant to forge these lasting changes and then went and just idled along.<\/p>\n
So, I am here and now in front of God and everyone (well the few of you who actually read this) and taking a stand in 2016 for true and lasting change!<\/p>\n
Keep me honest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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