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Morning Musings: April 12

Apr 12, 2024

Maybe I don’t really want the responsibility of knowing that I could fix it.  Many is the time that once I forced myself to looked at the number – albeit later after I had starved it off – I found […]

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Morning Musings: April 11

Apr 11, 2024

One of the things I see all the time in my practice all the time is people truly intending to pay the bills, but never completely paying up.  They are often baffled by the weight they are carrying. They slowly […]

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Morning Musings: April 10

Apr 10, 2024

If the debt can be cancelled, it needn’t be a catalyst for another lost week.  I remember when “looking” prompted me to formulate a concrete plan for the rest of the day that would allow me to balance it with […]

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Morning Musings: April 9

Apr 9, 2024

Guilt comes from the same part of my brain that the emotionally driven eating does.  Einstein says something along the lines of, “you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that conceived the problem”, or words to that effect.  […]

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Morning Musings: April 8

Apr 8, 2024

Guilt is not a solution.   Exactly how is more guilt going to translate into something useful, something concrete that I can help myself with?  In fact, guilt can sometimes really be just a way of throwing my conscience a bone.  […]

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Morning Musings: April 7

Apr 7, 2024

Somehow knowing it is fixable makes it harder not to fix it.  Maybe that is the very reason I sometimes don’t want to know.   With knowledge comes responsibility.  I will feel that much more pressure to be accountable.  Easier to […]

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Morning Musings: April 6

Apr 6, 2024

My perspective is invariably off.   On the one hand, I can minimize the damage and think I can fix it with a “lite” dinner.  Once when I was serving h’ors d’oeuvres a catering job (OK, OK, so it is a […]

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Morning Musings: April 5

Apr 5, 2024

Turns out, it is harder to do the very thing I didn’t want to do in the first place – deny myself some future food pleasure – than it is to be fatter.  It is a consequence that has the […]

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Morning Musings: April 4

Apr 4, 2024

Paying a caloric bill is a bigger price than being fat.  No matter how much I hate the extra weight, denying myself some other food is a harder price to pay than wearing it.  It was only after I started […]

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Morning Musings: April 3

Apr 3, 2024

Distressingly enough however, many mornings I still wake up defaulted back to the original factory settings.   My mission (should I choose to accept it) is to reprogram the system…yet again.  I am happy to say that lo these many years […]

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