Day Seventeen

The day's task today was to go on a walk for 30 minutes. I actually forgot to do it in the morning, and then right up until the end of the day at work, a continual stream of things to do seemed to launch themselves at me relentlessly. Before I knew it I was surprised with a phonecall at 6pm from Jo, who, along with Katie, I was supposed to be meeting up with that evening. Inwardly I panicked, thinking I wouldn't have a chance to do my walk, and be set back a bit, because I'm quite proud of what I've achieved in terms of completing tasks. However, the lovely girlies agreed that we should go on a walk together, because (despite my cult-like enthusiasm about the NDD) they seem keen to support my flab-fighting efforts. I love my friends!

Interestingly, I noticed that our walk consisted of the journey to church - which was odd, because we had no reason to go there. I think I am beginning to notice other people's habit traps now as well as my own.

Anyway, my thinking habit to bust today was to give up being afraid. Well, I didn't have much time to be afraid; but if I'm honest, I did fail on this one. I completely forgot about it and then realised at the end of the day that I'd waffled randomly about something because I was afraid of what people would think of me once I'd said it. I just made it worse! Nuts! I'll have to apply myself to that task again at some point. It seems easier to give up fear when you start on the tiny things, like worrying about looking foolish.