{"id":461,"date":"2020-02-05T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T15:13:27","slug":"unmotivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Unmotivated!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Skating Uphill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By<\/strong> <strong>Judith Lawrenson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>January Issue<\/strong> 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is there\nsuch a word as \u201cunmotivated?\u201d I\u2019m just wondering!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, 2019, was very up and down for me. I do not mean just weight\neither. A week or so ago I was so unmotivated to look to the future that I took\nmy 2019 resolution lists, yes, lists, and made the 1 into a 2 by putting a\nlittle curl on the top and made the 9 into a 0 by filling in the empty space up\nthe side. Can you picture it? It now looks like I have made new resolutions on\nthe 2020 totally unmodified lists. BTW I still have them shamelessly up on my\nfridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, times change,\nand something happened that actually got me motivated-Christmas! I love it and\nas soon as I went down to the basement to unpack my boxes, the world changed. I\nput up all of my stuff and loved it then went to California to see my daughter\nfor a week, then came home and slowly over the period of a week, I put things\naway and had quite a good time doing it. I looked at everything, re-loved it,\nand saw it into its box. Strangely enough, that got me on the move. I checked\nout my old resolutions and still liked them so that was good. I figured I could\njust try it all again. I had stuff on the lists that were good resolutions:\nwrite letters, eat less white sugar, call my friends, etc. those are good things,\nright? So, I just kept them, and I am ultra-motivated to do them. You know what\nthey say about the second time around, right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, that\nis one motivation done and I am really happy with that. Happiness means you\nhave picked something good to be motivated about, you know. In fact, I believe\nthat thinking about doing something that will make you happy is the best of all\nmotivators. In truth, why would you not? So, let\u2019s try to recall a happy time,\nor think about a new thing that we have seen or read about that perhaps is\ngoing to move the \u201chappy bar.\u201d I love to cook and take several cooking\nmagazines and I am going to try to try something our of each one at least once\na week. I do not think that sounds hard since I am always trying to think of\nsomething new to have. I always check for exotic ingredients first lest I get\nstuck in the middle or the recipe contains something expensive that the recipe\nneeds \u00bd teaspoon of and I will never use it again. That criteria dealt with,\nsets give some new food a try. Motivation? Sure, eating pleasure and perhaps\neven compliments. I love compliments and consider them to be right up there\nwith my top motivators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This next\none is one of those \u201cIf you can afford it\u201d ideas. How about a little trip? It\nis pretty cold and ugly here in January so I was thinking a small cruise? You\ncan actually go on week-end cruises for a smaller price than you would think.\nIf you do not like to cruise, how about just a getaway? Sometimes one night in\na hotel with a pool and spa can do wonders for your outlook. Other outlook improvers\nthat can push that motivation button are very simple. Shop a little. I do not\nmean for clothing, I mean for a feel good thing. Giving of yourself can bring not\njust a good feeling, but actual JOY! Help someone, pet a dog, or better yet\nadopt one, do anything that makes you feel that you have given yourself a\nforward push and that it felt so good you want to do it again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My greatest\nmotivator is a very selfish one. I am in to my very own personal health and\nwellbeing. &nbsp;I feel sometimes that I am\ngetting pretty old and those numbers are looking me stone cold in the eye. On\nthe other hand, I don\u2019t feel that I am done yet if you get what I mean. I can\nonly go on to do more of the things that I want to do if I am fit and well\nenough to do them. I make myself go to the Dr. and get that flu shot and\nmammogram and talk about preventative medicine. I exercise and watch my weight.\nPerhaps that is my biggest battle, but not being able to breathe in my jeans\nfor a whole day or having to lie on my back to zip up a pair of pants can\nmotivate the hell out of both you and me! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motivation\nis a funny, and very personal emotion. Sometimes it lasts and sometimes not,\nbut if it is something that becomes a part of your life and value system, your\noriginal effort will be well worth it-I promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skating Uphill By Judith Lawrenson January Issue 2020 Is there such a word as \u201cunmotivated?\u201d I\u2019m just wondering! Last year, 2019, was very up and down for me. I do not mean just weight either. A week or so ago I was so unmotivated to look to the future that I took my 2019 resolution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-a-healthy-lifestyle-published-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}