You Say Goodbye/I Say Hello

Say goodbye to:

• Excuses.  The only person you're lying to is yourself.
• Quitting/giving up/settling/incompletion
• Fake food, i.e., anything that lists ingredients you cannot pronounce
• A sedentary lifestyle
• Friends who you have to ask for moral support.  True friends are already giving it.
• Trash talking.  Repeating it, creating it, believing it, listening to it...so tacky
• Spending money you don't have (we're all guilty of this one)
• More of the same—boring!
• The Peter Pan days...I don't know about you, but I'm only getting better with age
• Small talk.  Be real, go for the gold
• Holding grudges
• Smoking, forever.  On top of the infinite health problems, it's the #1 aging culprit.
• People who are afraid of commitment; major red flag for immaturity, and that's lame.

Say hello to:

• Owning your behavior.
• More literature
• More green food
• Knowing what a catch you are.
• Organic animal products (for too many reasons to list in this list)
• Being too good for (fill in the blank)...it's okay to want the absolute best
• Finishing what you started
• Realistic goal-setting
• Apologizing...your pride is not more important than your relationships
• Saying your prayers.  Someone up there is listening.
• A new type of exercise...it's exhilarating! 
• Accepting your faults and imperfections; you'll be so much happier this way.
• Commitment—a plant, a dog, a project, a significant other—because life will be so much richer and more rewarding

Carpe diem!

XO,

E