Hello time to reflect with my last blog for this challenge.  As I pack to go to Waiheke for the retreat followed by a weeks holiday, I will be on leave for the final call, so this is it for round two.  Challenge is a great word for what I’ve been doing, and as I said at the beginning it’s a word I can’t resist. 

Round two has left me in a totally new place and I’m poking my nose out to see what it’s all about.  Window shopping in regular stores is a heap of fun.  Trying on clothes because the label says 14. Magic!! Noticing that the styles I used to wear now look ridiculous on me.  Oops. Checking the seams to see if I can take the clothes in at a later date, and yes tonight doing just that so I have something to wear to Auckland tomorrow.

I’m reflecting on a new found confidence.  I’m varying my days so I don’t have too much routine in my food, my spare time, my exercise time, my reading  and even my work day.  If complacency formed the old me it’s not getting a second look this time.  I have a new spring in my step and it’s such fun.

Motivational books are a big hit these days. I have learned so much about myself and how the old me was formed and why, and what the new me can/is going to be.  Anything goes and there are some very good choices on the shelves. Because you don’t know what you don’t know this is a great way to learn at my own pace.  I’ve read a few in the past and during my deffered lifetime I got to the end and thought yeah great- now what.

I’m at another turning point for this retreat so I’m looking forward (tentitavely I must say) to see what/ or who will come out the other end this time.  Size 14 was so long ago bell bottom jeans were in fashion, and size 12 is next and I think that was school uniform days.  Richard (Naturopath) suggested this morning that such a liberation is like getting out of jail – now that puts a whole new perspective on life. Do I walk or do I take off at a gallop?

Catch you next round. Ali xx

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