Today is a good day to start

I was in bed for a while longer, until my children came to get me up for breakfast. My husband and I had made bread the night before for dinner and breakfast. We have been baking bread for several days and love to do it. We are always impressed by how much they grow after they are put together, left to rest, and baked.

Then we set out to do our homework. I accompany my children until it's time to prepare lunch. Among the activities for today was making a puppet, so we got down to business and in a few steps we had accomplished that mission. My husband brought us some liquid silicon that we needed to stick our eyes, tongue and nose together.

Creating is a lot of fun and we loved the result. I personally fell in love with this puppet that we wanted to be a horse, but that doesn't look like any animal to me. Now we don't know what to call him, but he's very cute.

In the afternoon we were watching TV. We also prepared the dough for tonight's and tomorrow's breads, and I did some cleaning.

After 6 p.m., while the breads were being baked, I remembered that I had set out to do sit-ups today, made an effort to master my will, and finally began. The routine I chose was one that I extracted from an Instagram video by the famous Richard Linares (the model is his wife) and I summarized it in the following image:

When I saw it I thought it would be easy (I had just come from practicing aerobics four days a week), however it was so hard that I couldn't finish it. I realized that two months without exercising took me to zero. Far from discouraging me, this pushes me to start again, to fight to achieve the progress I had, I confess that it is not easy, but why does the will exist, if not to dominate and strengthen it?

When I finished my abs today, I felt satisfied that I had taken the first step, that first step that breaks the inertia and that is usually so difficult. Now comes another important step, and not an easier one, which is to keep up the habit.

Life is built on challenges to achieve dreams.

As Arjona also says: do not accept flowers if you do not like thorns; if I like to eat bread, I have to exercise, so who said fear?

The important things in life cost effort... and are the ones we value most.

Thank you to those who support me in this virtual adventure with your company.

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