Paradigm Shift

Sometimes she thinks to herself, "I'm going to be nice to myself, and let myself ___________ (eat another brownie, take the elevator rather than the stairs, sleep in, buy a cup of coffee etc.)"

But today, she thought to herself "I'm going to be nice to myself and let myself ____________ (enjoy the comfort of not being too full, take the stairs, get up earlier and go for a run, keep the money in my pocket)."

All this self control today, she thinks, this exercising of the brain and the muscles in new ways, perhaps led up to the moment when she needed to exercise other kinds of self control.

America and its tourists often has trouble knowing that less is more, silence can be kindness, and so is that burn of walking up 5 flights of stairs.