Weeding around the house

Back home again tonight. I am so overcome with the opportunity this is to keep a record of all the healthy ways to change my thinking and in so doing, my life. I was off work today- and needed to do some major gardening around the very wild and weedy side of the house. Out came the gardening gloves, shovel, small hand saw, pick ax, and patience! The first thing is to take some stock and acknowledge the problem. Small things first - pulling up all the small weeds. Next up, the BIG things. And by big, I mean the thick, bush-like weeds that I have been ignoring for a few years now. These big, bad boys have been pruned back a few times. But the roots were allowed to remain, and in so doing, these weeds have come back and come back again. This time, they are going away for good! And that means, roots and all. Slowly, slowly, I loosened up all the roots, dug them all individually. When I thought I had them all exposed, the plant was still stuck. Carefully, I moved around again and found the hiding root keeping these weeds in place. When the first plant came out, there was a THRILL of excitement. How often my mind is like those weeds. I prune back the discouraging, negative thoughts, but the roots remain, and these thoughts come back like the bad habit they are. It's time to root out all trace of these thoughts - the not good enough ones, the not fast enough of a runner ones, the you can't do it ones, the it's too hard thoughts. I could go on, you probably have your own thoughts like this one that come back and come back and come back to you. For me, the white flower I clipped on for the Madison Mini Marathon was a promise to myself to control and nuture my thoughts so that I had a good race, and so that I could finish with a smile. So here's my promise to myself now. My mind is like my home and garden. It takes work, and I want to have that fun life, a creative life, a productive, enjoyable, relaxed life. Time to go to work on the weeds! In the meantime, per myfitnesspal.com, I burned 909 calories with my 3 hours of weeding today!