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November 2009 
word of the week
Posted on Feb 18th, 2009
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tara
tara
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 17, 2009:
discipline.
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I've decided to take it up a notch and reinstall the concept of discipline. Just writing the word makes me want to run away screaming and if I semm to vanish all of a sudden, you know why. I say reinstall as I am familiar with the word, it's the action attached that seems to have eluded me for a while. some of oyu will know that I suffered a blow to my activity levels back in october, when my back went belly up and that's when discipline took a backseat in my lil life. absolutely understandable, one cannot expect anything to hang about when not being applied. I did however expect discipline to return promptly when needed, like when whistling for your dog to come back. Appearently not so. Lying on the couch for a while has evidently invited the potato to come along for the ride. I've done the preliminaries, assessed the situation, signed up at the gym good riddens! and written to do lists for the many loose ends needing a knot to tie them up. One could be tempted to conclude that i'm set to go, to do and get with the program. Appearently not so. Uptight seem to be the predominant word, the feeling intensifying whenever I throw a glance in the direction of my plans. Overwhelmed, lazy, procrastinated springs to mind as well. It takes a bit more than three weeks to install a new habit and the potato sure as heck latched on to that notion asap. A deaf potato by the way. Listening to turbo speed pep talks by mr. robbins has absolutely no affect other than me thinking, is he ever gonna come up for air? Could be cuz I know the tricks already and the one day at a time baby steps approach and the act as if approach and and the one that actually works. Just do it. The lil suitcase is packed with pocket money, a lovely lunch to go has been prepared. All I need now is a destination.. not for me, for the potato.
I like the word 'indolence'.
it makes my lazyness seem classy.
bern williams.
- to the girl who loves commercials. don't sweat it baby.
nike just do it tv commercial
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Hi dear Tara!
Wow, discipline is one of those words that might stir all kinds of emotions! Applied self-discipline, struggling with those to do lists, I think we all struggle with that occasionally. But I have found, that when I beat myself up over all the stuff I did not do, when I go through a down time, I will less likely get going. So here is to a new day, a new opportunity. Hugs to you, dear one! May the light of motivation reach you!
Discipline,what i like about discipline is that after awhile it’s no longer discipline but just an everyday M.O….still the dauntingness of it,that mountain,the first step the beginning….and the Tony dude with the zillion watt smile, maybe his never coming up for air is his potato shield..personally the potato groove is cool,and I even have a name for it….hanging ;-)
The suitcase lovely making me think of Betty Boop,and another adventure,and the commercial ….it just has that dotty circle going round and round maybe it’s time for me to upgrade,Apple store here i come.
I like the idea of challenges and experimenting better than the word discipline. I want a gym that looks like the rehearsal space for Cirque du Soleil and then maybe I would go to the gym. I want trapezes and ribbons and odd props. But I did love that commercial and this one even more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfQLYfTy5q8&NR=1.
Hmm, my intention was really just to get someone to invite the potato over for dinner ;-)
Discipline to me is like Bridget says, just another word for M.O, a matter of repetitive action. I found it amusing to observe my transitional difficulties with going from gimp to getting with the program as I seem to be more a creature of habit than imagined. I sure would like to frolick about in a trapez, that is when I’m able to touch my feet again on a regular basis. Signing up at the gym in my current rehab mode is quite an experimental challenge with the variety of choice handy at one location. I have some adversion anchored in relation to a gym from earlier days of going overboard as a fitness freak & it’s quite wonderful working through it, one baby step at a time. And oh do I love the treats, lounging in the sauna & the steam bath, yay!
I’m in for the sauna and steam bath – I get my warmth at Bikram yoga class. :-)
the kundalini yoga teacher had us doing fire breathing for what seemed like hours but was really less than 15 minutes. she said, “let the mantra carry you through.” and she said, “yogi bajan said, ‘when you keep up, you’ll be kept up.’” I could do more than I thought I could do. the mantra did help. the yogi bajan pep talk did help.
in bikram’s the other day I said my mantra silently, “may all sentient beings be happy, may all sentient beings be well, may all sentient beings be free from suffering.” over and over and over again in my head until I was in a sort of trance. bikram yoga often creates a trance for me. I can’t count on my own discipline to get me to class. it’s a craving now. I crave that trancelike feeling. I get myself hydrated and properly nutrified beforehand so I know I’ll be able to enjoy it instead of suffering through a class where I’ve gotten dehydrated and bonked. I hate the headache after a bonked class.
i don’t have discipline. i can never do things out of discipline. i can only do them out of excitement, enjoyment. If I can convince myself that the enjoyment after the pain will be worth it or if I can convince myself that the pain will be a sort of trancelike enjoyment– then I can do it. but if I’m in the middle of a good book – all bets are off. :-)
I hear ya SFL – #1 derailment of any plan for Lil: a good book : )
Tara, so glad you’re back up and about. I’ve been pondering the whole “discipline” thing lately myself though I find it easier to wrestle with if I think of it in terms of priorities. This still isn’t helping me with exercise, but it’s working in other areas : )
Held og lykke
Lil – Yep. good book= what plan? and dinner? I’ll eat later. phone ringing? I’ll check the message later. exercise? later…… and then the real trouble begins if that one good book leads to another. :-)
Speaking of good books Miss Diamond Lilly — I have kidnapped The Daily Coyote. I told Farland that I have it, but that I will not relinquish it until I’ve finished reading it. And I’m sorry I forgot to tell you that I’d received it in the mail and I’m also sorry that I don’t check my mail as often as I ought to.
LIfe has been…….. very full. I’ve been trying to be disciplined about walking every day, yoga everyday, husband time every day, dog tlc every day, and I’ve been working OT at the comm center and plus I even taught a yoga class last week.
Then last night – after a week flying high with near perfect exercise, meditation and diet disclipline — crash! I landed on the couch and ate an obscene amount of junk food. Watched a documentary and then a junk film.
this morning I am at work, not organized enough this morning to get healthy breakfast here with me, so I am drinking coffee and eating some funyons someone left on the counter. eeeke. must get back on track.
jeannie, yes the funyuns were worse than anything else I could possibly have eaten. worse than eating nothing at all. so for lunch I ate nothing at all.
note to self – become a good food snob. only high fashion, REAL food from now on. I like that way of thinking of it. I can’t wait til summer and farmer’s market again. I miss those days of sexy mixed greens eaten with fingers right from the bag with little bits of goat cheese rolled into it. and luscious red tomatoes. mmmmmmmmmmm.
native food for this time of year in colorado must be dried elk meat??? and other dried things??
Ok, judges call … funyons?
for dinner last night – a frozen organic bison burger and frozen organic potato wedges with some garlic, olive oil (so not local, but organic), and amy’s organic ketchup. and water.
now it’s noon on my day off. I talked to aimee in nyc and mom in another part of the state each for about an hour on the phone while still in bed. I read the beginning of “making the alphabet dance” by ross eckler. I napped and dreamed some more. adam came in and told me there is 10 inches of new snow outside and now the sky is blue and clear and the sun is blindingly bright reflecting off the snow. I must get up!
girls, I was just thinking I need to get some food inspiration and here you’ve done it already.
I’ve never actually made a smoothie without dairy. I love dairy. It might be my downfall someday, but so far, it doesn’t seem to be a problem. I think I come from a long line of norwegian milk maids or something. :-)
but I’m game to try something new. one of the juicer guys used to make me something with wheatgrass and ginger and apples and pears or something– I loved that!! he went out of business and I don’t have a juicer.
I like carrot juice.
sometimes– when I need a 2 minute dinner – I open a can of black beans and eat them right out of the can, so I like jeannie’s canned beans and tomatoes recipe. I might try that. I’ll have to remember to buy “tinned” tomatoes. I hardly ever do that.
I used to make smoothies for Jordan – plain yogurt, blueberries, local honey, maybe a banana – and I tried to sneak tofu in there a few times, but he didn’t like the texture then. although for me– tofu in is fine.
a sprinkle of cinnamon on top does wonders on oatmeal. just oatmeal and tons of cinnamon seems to make me happiest lately. and I’ve stopped sweetening coffee in favor of just putting some cinnamon on top. this is new for me.