For possibly the first time in my entire life, my New Year’s resolutions do no include resolving to lose a significant amount of weight. They don’t have to, because, despite hurdles even Jesse Owens couldn’t have successfully navigated, I kept last year’s resolution to lose 100 pounds. To date, it’s a loss of 102.6# to be exact, and I’m quite comfortable right where I am.
But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing left on my “to-do” list. Far from it! What it means is that I can free up all that motivational energy expending in fussing and fretting over calories, portions, exercise, ad infinitum, and concentrate now on a few of the things I placed lower in my priorities last year.
Tops on my list is finishing the third book in my cozy mystery series, and then figuring out, and setting up, the publishing of said series. I finished book one in 2011, and book two in 2013, and I’m pretty sure both could stand a good editing before I throw myself into the next one. So then editing becomes the top priority.
Except that there’s a deadline for a contest inviting play submissions I want to enter… So finishing my full-length play takes the first block of time. And now that I’m back at goal weight, what about that book I wrote 10 years ago about my weight loss journey? I abandoned the idea of publishing it when I gained back 100 of the original 231 I’d lost.
And so it goes. Another snowball effect in the making. But nevertheless, I’m sure whatever I choose to work on “first” will be just fine; I just have to make NOW a good time to get started!