Cleanse day #3
Today I woke up with energy and surprisingly did not want to vomit. Thank God. Thank God for grace and the energy I need to move forward on this thing. Just four more days.
I think I can do it. I know that I will.
I have been reading and listening to all these encouraging stories and books about building a story and making a difference and its all been very inspiring but these authors and thought share-ers never fail to mention how tough the actual work is.
We are all living a story.
What kind of story are you living? What kind am I? We as people love to have accomplished, writers love to have written, musicians love to have created wonderful works of music. But how many of us love the work involved? The long treturous hours it takes to get there? Not many people that I know at least… unless you are a masochist of some sort… or unless you found some magical key to the universe that I am yet to be aware of. If that is you and you have the magical key, please tell me about where I can purchase one.
I will say though that I have some sort of joy almost, having looked back on yesterday and thinking about how miserable I was… and I was miserable, If you know me you know I was because I told you. I told anyone that would let me tell them because I needed encouragement. I needed to be told that I can get through this, and those of you who I spoke to did encourage me and thank you so much because it was what got me through. I have joy now because I am glad that I overcame my body. I decided that I was going to control it instead of it control me.
This all may seem very dramatic for one day of pain… but I felt so low, I cant describe to you the defeat. In the battle of my body vs. me… in the sense of letting my cravings and laziness take over my life… I have always let it win. I never really have over come it. I have not thought it possible, and even though I am still not sure that it is possible for me I am going to choose to believe it is.
So on with the story.
To have a story you need 1. Want Something 2. Imagine a climatic scene ( you accomplishing your goal or getting what you want etc. ) and 3. Create and inciting incident (this is something in a story that forces a character to move, forces them to push through conflict)
A story is when there is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.
So far in this particular story I know what it is I want… I want to be healthy and happy with my self physically. So now I just need to imagine a climatic scene… and think of something that will help me turn a simple goal of just “loosing weight” into a story.
I gotta keep thinking on this one…
Also, this is just one tiny story. I have about 5 or more other stories I want to create this year… but for those I need to figure out what it is that I want. Sometimes thats a harder question to answer than you might think.
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