The yeabuts

kacarter1017

The road to being healthier is rarely smooth. Each of us travels the road differently; no one way is right. As I counsel women on being heart healthier, I hear many excuses. I call these the "yeabuts." Yea, but I don't like fruits. Yea, but I don't have time. Yea, but...you get the picture. We all have yea buts that we deal with as we continue on our journeys. Although I would love to judge some of the yeabuts as silly, just a reason not to try, etc., the reality is, for that woman that excuse is a roadblock.

At this point, I don't have any yeabuts. Not exactly sure how I got to this point. Wish I did because I could sell it and retire!! And that's not saying I won't have a myriad of them in 2 weeks. Not likely, but I keep that thought in my head at all times. Keeps me humble and keeps this journey real. What I can say is I sat down with myself, got real, wrote down what my yeabuts were and then figured out how to work with them and/or how to change things in my life to get rid of the yeabuts.

For me, job stress and hours were HUGE yeabuts that were keeping me from being successful. I changed jobs and found that was the key to being able to get started. I had been in the same area for 17 years, so this was kinda scary. I had thought I would retire from that area- I did love what I did, but it was going to kill me.

I'm not saying everyone needs to change jobs, but I think we all need to take an honest look at our lives, identify our personal yeabuts, decide if we want to deal with the yeabut or not. We can be successful with some yeabuts in place, but it will slow our success. Some may derail us completely. Some can be changed quickly, some take time. Thinking outside the box for a way to deal with the excuses can be freeing and empowering.

We control our yeabuts, they don't control us.