Update:
On Thursday, I got to the office and spent the morning and early
afternoon working on my message, emails and typing some notes from a
meeting. Mid-afternoon I left to go the
Home Medical Supply Store to pick up my seat cushion for my wheelchair. It was sort of funny as I waited in line,
sitting in my wheelchair, a woman rushed in unaware that I had been waiting 10
minutes and jumped up to the counter when the sales person was free. I figured if she was in that big of rush, she
could go first. I eventually got my
cushion and it feels good!
I did my weigh-in for the Biggest Loser and I had lost 4.8 pounds in
the last week! Those daily bike rides along
with my exercise workouts really paid off!
So far I have lost over 19 pounds.
I have plenty more pounds to lose but it feels good to have made so much
progress so far. I’ll just keep doing
what I’ve been doing.
After my work out on Wednesday night, I decided that I would not do any
of my floor exercises or free-weights on Thursday. I have been pushing it hard every single night
and all my muscles were sore at the start of Wednesday night’s workout. I figured that I really needed to give the
muscles a rest for one night.
Despite the forecast, I did manage to put another 5 miles on my bicycle
on Thursday. I decided that after dinner
I was just going to sit and watch TV. It
hasn’t even been on since last weekend.
Going to bed early was also on my schedule—but I often plan to do that
but never quite get everything done to actually do it. I believe that tonight is the night!
One anecdote from Thursday morning:
I have had one sore spot on the back of my right heel for a couple of
weeks now. Although I always crank the
laces as tight as I can get them, the sore has probably been caused by the shoe
rubbing up and down as I am walking. So my physiatrist recommended three things to
try. Add a poly sock-liner, add a second
sock, put a Band-Aid over the spot before putting on the socks. I’ve been doing all three and the redness and
sore have healed. But as I examined my
foot (have to do it each morning) it seemed that the bump on the back of my
heel is larger than it has been. I
wasn’t certain exactly what I was seeing; but as I sat in the wheelchair with
my stump up on the calf pad right in front of me, I thought to myself: “I’ll
just compare the way this looks to the heel on my left foot.” Oophs!!
Ain’t goin’ to happen! I laughed
at myself for a good long time. Although
in my defense, I did have a left foot for over 55 years, so it was natural
habit to assume I still had it even seven months after the amputation, I
guess. Sometimes change is hard to wrap
our minds around.
Thought for the Day:
It amazes me as I look back on my life some of the mistakes that I have
made. Most were inconsequential; however
some were real doozies. Some mistakes I
have repeated over and over while many I have learned from so that I don’t
repeat them. It is pretty amazing to me
how creative we can become in making almost the same mistake repetitively. We
figure that we are close to being right so we just move a little left or right
and try again. It reminds me of people
ice fishing. They drill a hole through
the ice and don’t get any bites. So they
drill another hole just a foot away. If
they still don’t catch fish, another hole gets drilled, often very close to the
last hole. While I know that a few
inches can make a difference in whether you catch fish—the idea that I am
talking about is that once we get an idea in our head; sometimes it is hard to
move away from it and start with a fresh, creative approach.
One of my favorite sayings attributed to Mark Twain (along with a host
of others) is this:
Obviously we need to change what we are doing, our attitudes, or our
thinking if those things don’t really work for us. Change doesn’t happen
without a conscious effort. So when
things don’t turn out the way we’ve hoped, we need to stop, ponder, and plan
for a different outcome; not just try to do the same thing over and over.
“Mistakes can often be our best
teachers. If we are willing to admit
them and learn from them, we gain in knowledge and wisdom. We can do so if every time we take time to
reflect on them by asking:
What went wrong?
When did it go wrong?
Where did it go wrong?
Why did it go wrong?
How did I contribute to making it go wrong?
What can I learn from this experience?
How will I apply what I’ve learned in the future?”
[John Maxwell,
Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn].
So today when you make a mistake, take time to ask yourself those
helpful questions so that you can begin again more intelligently.
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