HA! I laugh in my own face!

Day 254 — I have a friend who makes me laugh. Actually, I have several friends who crack me up. And mercifully, I laughed a lot today…as much as I cried the day before. As manic as this may sound, it is actually an indice of my journey to find my center. And, in truth, this IS my center…for where I’m at…right now.

I am working toward finding equanimity in all aspects of my life. I now am recognizing how stress has been like a predator looming large, seemingly lurking just around the corner, ready to strike me down. And as I skitter around trying to dodge it, I am catching myself, telling myself, that stress is the problem. When now I know it is my response to it that is the issue.

So laughing is a terrific antidote. And today I did a lot of it. And for that, I am so very grateful.

There are many opportunities in a day to choose to be happy…and today I chose happy over bitterness, sadness, insecurity, and anger. I had multiple opportunities to choose for sure. But I recognized these negative, stressful emotions for what they were and made the conscious decision to not “wear” them. Which in my case might mean “eat” them.

Instead, today, I chose to react differently. I reminded myself about what I value and made decisions based on those values:

Love

Joy

Freedom

Health

Peace

Instead of stewing about things that weren’t perfect, be judgemental of, or find fault with others…I picked up the phone and called someone I love very much, who doesn’t hear it nearly enough from me, and told them I loved them. Then I had dinner with the most hilarious, heartful, friend and the universe rewarded me by running into a bunch of lovely people whom I know, enjoy, and don’t see nearly enough.

At work today some members of our team played a prank on me. I almost flipped my $hit. But when I realized what was going on (more like they admitted it), I simply feigned annoyance. I wasn’t mad at all! I chose to look at it as an opportunity to embrace the fun part of revenge. They should be prepared.

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