It’s was soooo cold this morning.
The alarm went off at 5.25 and I met Lynsey for a run at 5.45am.
The pavements were frosty so we ran on the road down to Beith and back. 5.14kms precisely.
It’s my first run of 2025 and I did not stop once. I even ran up the hill from the little gift shop towards Gateside, without stopping. It wasn’t my fastest but it was stamina building. Thanks for Lynsey for never complaining about running slower than she would on her own.
Check how steamed up my glasses are!!
It felt really good to run after a week and a half off.
I’ve also got rid of all the bags of rubbish from last week which is a great relief. I can’t take anything back out of them now. That’s always the worry.
My Vinted parcels have started arriving with people so it’ll only be a few days before that money comes through.
It was a beautiful clear sky on the drive to work this morning…. (I’m sure it was while we ran but I never looked at the sky!).
Work was super busy and the day went really quickly again.
So I’ve said all week that I feel different this January. I am very aware of almost every minute of every day.
I am appreciating every single day since I went back to work, instead of wishing it to be over.
Driving home I click on a podcast by Jay Shetty where he is interviewing Mel Robbins on her “Let Them” theory.
It is an amazing listen.
I’ll post the link to it here Mel Robbins – how to use the Let Them theory
I think this could be a game changer.
It’s exactly what I’ve been talking about in the last few days… handed to me in a theory!
We spend so much energy in our lives being annoyed by things we have no control over.
The husband who doesn’t segregate the recycling properly, the boss who never follows process, the shop that makes you go downstairs to pay when their are tills upstairs, the customer who treats you in a way that winds you up….. these are “random” instances that may or may not have happened recently….. 🙄 we cannot control any of these.
We can choose to get all bent out of shape and to talk about it to anyone who will listen or we can choose to “Let Them”.
Thinking let them means that these things don’t have power over you.
It’s not let it go…. But let them.
Let it go means you have to pass it off and forget about it.
Let them is let them be who they are and stop being so incensed about trying to change them. you have no control over changing another person.
You can choose to sit them down and explain from a “let me” perspective and tell them just why their actions bother you so much and they can choose to respect that and change or they may stay the same. You then need to decide whether you can live with that or not.
Think how much of our energy is wasted on anger at others.
Telling others how angry we are because of x, y and a. Spreading all of that negative energy.
Let them….
Please listen to the podcast as it really blew me away. Mel and Jay explain it way better than me.
It gave me a lot of peace.
Please take note of this…. Our lives are very short and we need to live in each and every moment.
I’m off to crochet to show off all my baby blankets… I’m very excited but I better get back out of my jammies!!
Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️
The Rambling Sloth 🦥 