Making a Decision

I had a fantastic experience today.

My biggest obstacle in moving to L.A. has been to find someone to fulfill the rest of my apartment lease agreement. I felt, where there is a will there is a way, but as time began to creep by I began to get anxious about the situation. I had posted to Craigslist, but only once, and recieved some dud responses to my inbox. Honestly, I was hoping my landlord would find someone.

Last week I began to feel the pressure. I realized I needed to turn that feeling into action! I began posting the add everyday. Then after getting some advice from my landlord, I revamped the ad and decided this was it! This is the ad that will sell it!

In the meantime I've been thinking about what I want. Focusing on getting specific. I've learned that the more specific your goal, the more likely you will achieve it. Basically vague desires produce vague results while definite desires produce definite results. (I highly recommend reading Think and Grow Rich...a mind altering book. A book I had seen but actively avoided because I thought the title was hokey).

This book has brought to life the fact that I need to improve my decision making skills. I have had a problem with making definite decisions. Instead of taking control of my decisions I have had the attitude of 'have a general idea of what you want, then when something comes along you like, act on it.' My ideas were general and vague. That is all changing now. And already this change in my thought process has caused me to achieve exactly what I want.

Last night I made the definite decision that the next day I would have a person to fulfill my lease. It was not negotiable. I decided that it would happen. And I felt fantastic about that decision.

Well, I got emails inquiring about the apartment, and by 2:00 today my goal had been reached! And to add the suaveness of God/universe/whatever power you believe- the guy didn't realize it until he arrived, but he had been on a waiting list for an apartment in my complex last year. I needed him to allow me to get to where I want to be, and he needed me to get to where he wants to be!

That little detail reminded me that we all have something to give, and we need each other to make our lives better.

(I am telling you, this book I have read is really fantastic. It has expanded my thought process from the foundations that I had developed through reading books like The Secret, Blink, Happier and The Wishing Year. Think and Grow Rich takes the cake. I'll most likely have to write more about it as I apply the concepts to my own life.)

Cookie Dough

I am having the hardest time motivating myself to get to the gym. I keep planning to and then I don't. It's a vicious cycle. And then I'll go for a few days in a row and then I don't for a week.

I'm going back to strict vegan for a while. Until I lose the extra weight which I happily gained from my LA trip, and then sucummbed to eating crappily in my downtrodden state once I returned to Jacksonville. I think I have 7 pounds to lose. I don't know. I haven't weighed myself...as I haven't been to the gym to use the scale. But my stomach is looking gooey. Which makes me think of cookie dough. Which sounds really good right now....but no! I will exercise my will power!

Consider this a blog to spur my own motivation. It's a purely self indulgent post- as have been my eating habits. (But let's be honest, most blogs are.)