Dilemma

This morning I was faced with a very hard dilemma:

My husband had to be to work by 6:30 this morning. A new hospital, a new rotation.

So, he got ready to leave and his car wouldn't start.

He had to take the van.

This would be fine, but on Monday's I usually go to they gym after the kids go to school. This is my weight lifting day, which I love. He's going to take the car. I have no way of getting there. What am I going to do? How am I going to get my points? How am I going to get to they gym.

I thought of all sorts of ideas: borrowing a neighbor's car, riding my bike there (but then working out in my bike shoes wouldn't really work), and then I started thinking about my long list of things to do today..........and I thought, "Do I really need to work out today?"

I was telling my sister in law about the whole car situation and not being able to get to the gym and she said, "Why don't you just run on the treadmill?"

I usually have a hard time 'changing the plan' or doing something different, so this thought pattern did not occur to me. I sometimes have that thing people call "tunnel vision" or a hard time seeing outside the box. I like to stick to the schedule. If I can't lift weights, then I can't work out.

Right?

Wrong!!!

I said to myself, "You know what, it's 20 minutes of exercise and I am the only one who is putting the boundaries of "lifting weights on Monday's" on myself. I am going to go for an outside run.

I did.

It felt great!