Stewart’s Blog

Agricultural Extension Agent:  Mr. Farmer, I’ve been by to help you several times.  Why are you not doing the things I’ve shown you?

Mr. Farmer: Son, I wasn’t doing half the things I knew I should be doing before you show’d up.

My workout crashed today but I feel good about it.  My diet has been rough the last two days.  I’ve been running hard at work.  I carry my eats w/me but I have not had time to stop and eat much.  So, I have arrived home the past two evenings with most of my food STILL in the box.  

My poor diet stuck a knife in my workout today.  I feel good about it because I know what happened.  I can fix this problem.  I don’t need to try harder.  I just need to make some changes in the way I fix my food (making it easier to eat on the run) or I need to get space in my day to eat.  No problem.  There are fixes for this.  

I feet great yet I didn’t finish my workout.  Usually this is reason to feel badly. I feel good because I understand (really KNOW) something a little better now that I only "knew" before.  Strange, huh?  Really not.  We are all that way.  Thinking we "know" something just because it’s a fact in my head.  In my arrogance, somehow I am think I’m above being human (read: I ought to know better).  The result is to be surprised when I find that I’m NOT above my humanity.  Worse and NO surprise–I am one of the more poorly functioning humans.  Oh, how I need help.

–Stewart

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