Last week, it turns out, was National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Until I read about it later on Huffington Post’s lifestyle page, I was not aware of this awareness event, but that doesn’t matter, because I’m always aware of eating disorders.
They’re everywhere. I’m not just talking about the classics, good ol’ anorexia and bulimia. That’s way too narrow a definition. There are so many different ways for someone’s eating to be dis-ordered. As in, messed up.
I can count on one hand, two lady fingers, and a chicken wing the number of women I know who don’t have some kind of weird shit around food. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Laura Belgray | Posted in luggage, self-help-y stuff, success | Posted on 08-02-2010
In my quest to be one of those people – the successful ones – I’ve observed a couple of things that separate them from the other people:
- They set limits and stick to them.
- They fly carry-on. Read the rest of this entry »
Two months ago, my sister had a baby.
But for all the time she spends feeding him, burping him, changing his diaper, putting him down or picking him up, I’m pretty sure I spend more time each day with my laptop. Read the rest of this entry »
I believe in a success gene.
OK, maybe it isn’t truly a gene – you’d have to do one of those nature/nuture tests where you separate identical twins, and see if one of them grows up to be a captain of industry while the other becomes captain of towels at Lucille Roberts.
But I do know this:
Some people naturally have those “success habits,” and some don’t. Read the rest of this entry »
In the past couple of years I’ve been into some self-help-y, self-discovery-ish stuff called “Transformation.” If you know me, you wouldn’t think it was very me. I’m not a rainbows-and-butterflies-and-group-hugs type.
But I’m attracted to the practical side of it: all about living in the moment, how what you resist pers– never mind, I’m getting bored describing it. It’s great, useful material, but ick. It doesn’t sound right coming out of my mouth. Or my keyboard.
Well, I’ll just mention one of the key tenets: that your life could only have happened the way it happened, because it did. So if you totaled your brand new ibook by spilling coffee on it, or spent your life’s savings on Powerball tickets, or chose the slowest line at Food Emporium, then it couldn’t have happened any other way. Actually, it could have, but now it can’t have. You can’t go back and change it.
I know, duh. But that means there are no mistakes, which is very helpful. Read the rest of this entry »
