Wishing you a menu of problems. Do you want fries with that?

I was reading about living with illness this week. I found an interesting insight. When you are ill you have one problem. When you feel healthy you have many problems. I want a life with 100 problems and wish everyone a new year full of many problems. Life should be like eating at the waffle house. There should be pages and pages of options to choose from.

When I gave up my work and active life, I instantly lost having anything interesting to talk about. Being ill is isolating. Beyond spending time sorting benefits and treatment option, being ill is a full-time job. I have been walking a very narrow path with my Chron's disease. It has left me with very little to talk about outside of my condition and treatment. So boring. At the store the clerk will ask me what excitement am I up to later in the afternoon? I am looking forward to plugging into an IV drip and falling asleep. For the holidays I am looking to expand the problems I can enlist to make my day worth talking about at Albertsons.

You are not a monument.

Be ready to make a change. You are not a monument. This came up in my reading last week. It struck a chord with me. The projects and plans I have been working on might need to change as I don't seem to be getting anywhere with them, not even 1% at a time. I started using a daily scale app to track my weight and it has not moved in the last year. I feel like this process has become my personal Washington monument. As much as I push on it with my current efforts it does not budge. I am learning to change how I interact with my world. If I was making 1% progress toward my weight goals, there would have been a successful completion months ago. Twelve months later, it is time to change up my goal and my plan. Also, to follow up, going forward everything has a 90-day review built in. No more open-ended goals.