Today’s tea tag told me to keep up. “What?!?” I quietly shouted. Keep up- How insightful. Not!!! I guess the tea company hired a few less than enlightened writers. Oh well, maybe tomorrow’s tea will be more fruitful. So I set it aside, and went on with my task at hand- keyword gathering. Yippee!
But as the day progressed I continued mulling over my tea quote. “Keep up” hmmmm…. Keep up at work? Keep up with fashion? Keep up with what? I become rather annoyed when I don’t fully understand something and there is no one around to explain it to me, but I couldn’t let this one go. Just then, as I reached for a super fatty, not good for me, Fruit Bar from Great Harvest (something I try to always limit if not avoid completely), it hit me.
KEEP UP- with yourself. Keep up with your goals, with your own expectations. Don’t let you get in your own way. So often, we as humans, set goals for ourselves and after a week or two we allow them to fall by the wayside. I am just as guilty of this as anyone else out there, I’ve made a commitment to my body that I have let slip through the greasy, sugary, fired cracks. I set a goal for myself quite some time ago to only put things in my body that would nourish it, and while my delicious Fruit Bar has nutritious properties, all-in-all it’s still considered a ‘don’t’.
I owe a bit of thanks to the delectable treat I consumed, I was able to understand what otherwise may have plagued me all day. But I say farewell to it. I am going to practice what I preach and stick to my previous goal. I am going to keep up with myself, as best as I can. Sure, I am bound to hit a few bumps in the road, or trip over a stick (that sound a whole lot more my style) but just because I fall and scrap my knee doesn’t mean I give up on the journey, right? There are so many cliché sayings I could interject here; if you get bucked off the horse, climb back on and show him who’s boss. Life’s a series of consecutive 50 yard hurdles, you may catch your foot and fall on your face, but you must stay in the race (I made that one up)….. but I will stop right there.
I have always thought life is about constantly improving one’s self, persistently striving for the bigger and better. How can that be accomplished if we allow slack in the tether between us and our objectives? It’s a common problem for many people today, we let laziness rule. That has got to change! So take charge, It’s like my dad always said about my 9th grade math class, it’s a lot easier to keep up than to catch up!
Keep up with yourself….I love it!! Sounds like a good life motto.
I Love It!! “It’s a lot easier to keep up than to catch up”, soooo true. Thanks for the daily insight. Always good nuggets of inspiration for the day!