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Larkability Reflections

The War Within

Written reflection with audio conversation

A trail of horse hoofprints across wet sand on the beach at Warrnambool, with waves and a glowing sky on the horizon.

The biggest surprise of the last year? The work wasn't actually that hard. The hard part was constantly bargaining with myself .. "I shouldn't eat that .. but I deserve a treat" or "I've blown it .. I may as well finish the lot!" .. or - I LOVE this one - "If I eat it all before I get home, it never happened!".

Of course I'm talking about chocolate and the sugar addiction I tried for decades to overcome.

But once I stopped negotiating with myself and started treating a few daily actions as non-negotiable, everything changed. The war within disappeared.

Consistency beats intensity every time.

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