Workouts were pretty same as usual, Chest Day at the gym in the morning, 35 minutes of cardio at the park with a few warm-up exercises, netting me 1.67 miles.
Had to go through a little training for an hour, but it was easy and mostly stuff Kat and I already knew, but the refresher and formality of it is nice for a check mark! Most of my other tasks went well and were without incident. Learned about the Locus of Control today in the Master Class video, which is the area of your life that you can actually control, so you can be aware of what you can control and what you can’t control in any situation. Each of us should familiarize ourselves with our true Locus of Control, so we know what is out of our hands, and what we can actually do something about. I actually struggled with part of this as it was attempting to put full control of everything in your hands, which excludes God. I think there are plenty of things that we can have free will about and can maintain without our Locus of Control, but we also need to be ready for those things outside of our Locus of Control to change our path if it is in line with God’s will and our prayers to Him. His will can always re-route us at any moment to work through something for Him. We have to be ready for His calling, don’t we? I think so!
Got talking with a couple of people about something that we have initiated at our house, and got complimented on it today, and thought I’d share it with you too! We have what we call a “Basket of Debauchery” at our house. It is filled with all sorts of snacks: peanuts, macadamia nuts, pistachios, dried fruits of a dozen varieties (our favorites include pineapple, apple rings, cranberries, raisins, cherries, coconut fruit, and mangoes), and a few crunchy snacks like goldfish crackers, granola bars, yogurt covered pretzels, etc. We try to keep them all relatively healthy snacks, but on occasion there is a little chocolate covered something, or a small chocolate bar that we can break a piece off of, etc. This basket is used any time people in our family are hungry. This includes just after a meal you can grab a crunchy and a fruity instead of getting seconds. Snack times in between meals, same thing…grab a crunchy and a fruity. What we try to do is get them all portioned ahead of time in little snack size zip-lock bags, but we don’t always make it that far. What we do to begin with is put all the bulk bags into the basket so we can grab a serving any time we need one. We do, however, stick to an actual serving as listed on the packaging, so we don’t over do it.
I received no less than two compliments on this just today! So here it is for you and your Healthy Snacking!