Jessica's Blog — Freedom

So the moral of Blackjack is that even if you follow the rules you can still lose. I just spent a weekend in Vegas, and I finally found a game I thought was interesting. I may have lost some money but the lessons I learned were priceless. I have gone through life following the rules. Being a good girl. Doing things "right". Every time I broke the rules I would pay, sometimes way more than my rule breaking would call for. I was the one who would always get caught no matter what I did.  It made me think of...

So why do we let things go? We get into this great spot of eating healthy or exercising, reading, meditating or going to church, and all of a sudden you just stop. What happened? Do you even know? It's not like we wake up one morning and decide, oh, I'm just going to eat sugar again or oh, I'm going to stop running. But all of a sudden we do wake up to realize that we did let it go. And then comes the painstaking battle of getting back on track. Sound familiar? This is something I have been dealing with...