We all have insecurities at one time or another… as parents, as professionals, as people. Most of us are in a constant search for the perfect work/ life balance that allows us to feel good about who we are, and the choices we make.

Recently I did something a little unusual with my insecurities, I exposed them to someone I’d only just met. Christopher Kabamba is a new blogger I stumbled upon a short while ago. I could tell from my first few exchanges with him that he is someone I deeply respect. He has a stillness about him, and an aura of peace and understanding.

In one of his comments he shared this James Allen quote:

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I get asked how I stay thin fairly regularly, because I make no secret of my likes (sweets) and dislikes (cardio, resistance, and endurance training), and yet I weigh less now than I did before pregnancy.

It is tempting to chock it up to genetics, but that’s not really the case. I have lots of family members who are significantly over weight. I attribute my fortuitous circumstance to Free Will (not willpower, as in denying indulgences, but freedom of choice).

Here’s the deal: this is not rocket science. It is a simple equation.

Calories Consumed must be less than or equal to Calories Burned.

I already know, as a given, I will not burn a lot of calories each day; therefore, I can’t consume very many. That’s it. That’s the whole trick to it.

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“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” (John Ruskin)

Well, it is now officially snowing in Vermont. I believe the first day we got a foot of snow, which, in Georgia would’ve qualified as enough to shut down the entire State. The second day we got a bunch more and, after that, I stopped keeping track.

There is a LOT of snow, and the snowflakes are so huge that they don’t all fall DOWN. Some of them just float around, defying gravity, prolonging their joyful dance until they are so exhausted, they flop down on top of the others to help erase all the little differences on the surface of the world.

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