A good blog deserves a good bone.

What I have to do when it comes to working out is convince myself it’s a luxury. And it IS a luxury. But I guess you could say getting your coochy waxed is a luxury also and it’s not one I look forward to or like … or have ever done. So what I do is tell myself that I GET to work out today and not I HAVE TO work out today. Or I try. Like on the days that I don’t have time to work out I say, “I didn’t get to work out today.” But on the days where I do have time and it’s worked into my schedule I hear myself say, “I still have to work out today.” So I try to catch myself and turn that into something I’m looking forward to just as much as I look forward to my afternoon snack. It works. Not every time, but it works.

That’s good advice for many things. You may remember a few blogs ago I listed things I don’t enjoy doing that I would love to have an assistant do FOR me. Right? I wonder if I can find a way to convince myself that it’s something I GET to do for myself. Like … OH, YAY! I get to walk down to the UPS store and buy some stamps from the slow lumbering zombie employees (not the fast moving “28 Days Later” zombies) who have seen me every month for the last 8 years and always act like they are seeing me for the first time. How delightful that will be. Or … I’m so looking forward to going to the Laundromat! I will have time to read and write and sweat profusely since I can’t leave because if I leave the dryer will mysteriously cut off 10 minutes early and the next time I go to the Laundromat I will see a person who doesn’t speak English when I ask her about it wearing my Elvis Costello Concert T-shirt. That will be something for my diary! (That really happened.) Uh oh. I don’t think I accomplished what I was going for. I was trying to trick my psyche into seeing these things as luxuries. Oops.

Okay, well, I’ll keep at it. I’m sure I can turn it around the same way I did with exercise. Right?