Am I doing for me what I need to be doing for me? It’s so much easier to sit around and make excuses about not knowing what to do or how to do it. It’s a lot more fun to complain about someone else. It’s a lot less painful to blame something else, anything else. What I need to do is to put my big-girl panties on, roll up my sleeves, and get to work. I have plenty of things to focus on that I can be doing right now; I don’t have time to do nothing but sleep and feel sorry for myself. Regardless of my external circumstances or current crisis, I still need to eat well and exercise. I need to do my reading and writing, and I desperately need to shower. Everything else will work itself out if I just take one day at a time and do what I need to do to take care of myself right here, right now. I will get through this. I will prevail. Everything will be okay, and, more than that, everything can be really great if I stay strong and carry on.