11-15-09.....Sunday, the beginning of a new week.

"Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal in mind. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism. Charles Jones

I think the above quote fits in so well with the things we have been hearing and talking about at our meetings the last few weeks. Failure is automatic, especially if we are not doing anything. If we don't track, how can we know exactly what we have consumed in a day. If we don't go out and get some exercise how can we expect to keep healthy lungs, and build muscle. If we don't talk to one another, how will be ever know when its time for us Sister Weight Watcher Friends Forever to circle the wagons.

Maybe during this Bermuda Triangle time each and every morning we should write a goal across our trackers. If you track on line, you will find there is a place at the bottom to ''add a note.'' If you write a goal for each day on the top of your tracker, then each time you go to fill it in, you are going to be reminded of ''your goal for today." It could be something as simple as, ''I am going to track today." Our goals do not even have to be about our weight. It could be, ''I will attend my Saturday morning meeting, whether I have had a good week or not."

We want to say "this is a stressful time of year", when in reality, everyday of the year can turn into a stressful time. When our Dad got sick, many morning's began with him feeling pretty good, but then the later in the day it got, the worse he got. Dad had Congestive heart failure, and Black Lung disease. So between 7 & 8 o'clock at night we were making a mad dash to the ER to get fluid pumped off Dad. I can remember, on the drive home so many time, Mom saying, ''you never know when you start the day how it is going to end." It is the same with us, we get up things will be going alone fine, then ''bam'' something goes wrong.

We don't want to dwell on the bad stuff, but we know the stress is out there, maybe today won't be your day to get hit with it, but at some point we all get our day of stress. So we prepare the best we can, and we move on to another day. Today is a brand new day, no smudges on this day....yet. Begin today.