03/07/2026
Keep doing the work, even if at times you feel like you are spinning your wheels. Also, get some data. The last few weeks have been rough for a variety of reasons. And to be honest I just assumed I wasn’t losing weight…. Cause I just felt like I wasn’t. I was doing a majority of the things I knew to do. But I had a few missteps, I have been very much in my head, and I was feeling bloated… so… I assumed I wasn’t losing weight. But when I forced myself to weigh in today after avoid the scale for two weeks… I was down four more pounds.
Now I’m talking in particular about losing weight but this really can be applied to any area of our life. How often do we get in our head, focus on a few missteps, and forget that we have been doing a lot of work to move forward? I know I’m notorious for this. But it’s also a very human thing to do. We forget that doing the hard work, the repetitive, responsible, and times frustrating work is paying off when we don’t even realize it . We forget that God said He is faithful to complete the work that He began in us, and it’s not contingent on anything we can do or offer. We do need to keep the course though. We need to keep moving forward, even if we are limping. And we will make mistakes.
There is a lot of areas in my life I want to be better at. I want to be a better follower of God, daughter, sister, friend, aunt, business owner, teacher… and the list can go on. I want my people to know that I care deeply about them and that I’m trying to become the best person I can be for them. But I’m in process. And as long as I am still set making forward motion…I need to give myself some grace for the missteps. Because honestly, the people that really love you are already giving you that grace. We just often don’t believe that in our core.
So get the data, keep your eyes set forward, keep doing what you know to do, and don’t give up. It really is going to pay off.
