The Sunday Snewz Issue No. 29
October 22, 2023: Decisions, Decisions
When I walk out the backdoor of my house, I have a decision to make - turn left and head to a sexy, swanky little wine bar where there will be people I know and love or turn right and arrive at the basement of the Presbyterian Church for a meeting of fellow recovering addicts. Dark walls lined with bottles turned on their side, upbeat music and some whipped feta or smoke and coffee stained glue-down carpet? What to do, what to do! It’s an excrutiatingly tough decision on a Friday evening after dealing with a crook from Vegas who believes he has me by the short hairs and a teenage daughter who holds the codes to my nuclear button. You’ll be happy to know I took a right and spent an hour with people who made my night better, not worse. I made a decision that didn’t extend my shitty day into Saturday and Sunday, with the addition of a headache, melancholy mood, impatience, irritability, guilt and residual emotional hangover.
What’s even more amazing is that my husband, while I was off to the 5:15 Happy Hour AA group, was sitting in an Al-anon meeting across town. If you would’ve told me even a year ago that this would be us on a Friday night, I would’ve said not in a million years! But it’s true and it’s a beautiful thing.
This is what life comes down to - decisions. No matter our intentions or what we say, it is only what we decide to do that counts. Intentions don’t keep me sober and saying we want a healthy and healed marriage doesn’t cut it. The only thing that creates change is what we decide to do. Change is hard and after thirty-one years together, change may seem impossible. But all things are possible - depending upon the decisions we make.
Decide On Health
In my decade plus of coaching, there was rarely a time I couldn’t predict if someone was going to be successful in their quest for a healthier life. Those who were successful had made the decision it was finally time for change. They were ready to do whatever it took to get healthy. I didn’t have have push them, I just had to give them an intelligent plan and encourage them when they felt weak. The unfortunate souls who stumbled time and time again and eventually never came back were those who hadn’t committed to the decision to change. They made excuses, cut corners, pushed back on my expertise and tried to write their own rules, in an attempt to make up a game that would be easier on them. They simply hadn’t decided they really wanted health.
Getting healthy isn’t complicated, but it isn’t easy either. It’s hard work and it won’t happen until you make the decision to commit.
For those who have made the decision to take control of their health by taking control of the single most important factor, their diet, I’m delighted to announce the Colors Not Calories System by Copow! After years of feedback and brainstorming on how to make my philosophy on nutrition systematic and simple for people to follow, I will be releasing the CNC System with the opening of our storefront Copow Market in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in January 2024. People have seen life changing results after using my cookbook and removing the obsession around calorie counting and soon they will be able to have fresh prepared meals and a structured system to follow to create even more success.
Specifics will be released as we get closer to opening our market!
Grampa Biden
In his remarks to CNN from Air Force One in during his trip to Israel this week, Biden’s vacant, gooey eyes and paltry speech was reminiscent of my Grandpa Ozzie during this final years of dementia when we would take him to dinner and give him only two choices from the menu - spaghetti and meatballs or the steak, Grandpa? The decision Biden faces isn’t as simple as Israeli or Gaza - the decisions he has to make could lead the world into an unholy war. I’m thinking he’s barely capable of choosing spaghetti or steak.
Bobby’s All Wrong But Still The Right Guy
There are a number of issues I disagree with RFK Jr. on but that doesn’t mean I don’t think he’s our best option as President in 2024. People seem to be forgetting that you don’t have to agree with someone 100% to believe in the job they are capable of doing. In his appearance on The Tim Dillion podcast, he was flat out wrong about the issue of homelessness in San Francisco. To be honest, his response seems down right naive and ignorant. Come on Bobby, you’re smarter than that, I found myself yelling into the screen of my iphone. My hope is he will read San Fransicko and have some lengthy discussions with people like
Michael Schellenberger who have investigated the issue extensively and understand it much better than Bobby. I have faith he will do that because the difference between RFK Jr. and every other candidate is he’s willing to admit when he’s wrong.As we head into the upcoming election year - you have a decision to make. Do you want a President who polarizes and divides or one who practices humility and wants what’s best for Americans, not just himself. Resist the urge to single out individual issues that are nothing more than talking points the bikini clad left and right sling around in their mud wrestling matches and research where he stands on issues that matter most.
This week while they fought about Israeli’s and Hamas and just how much more money we don’t have should be given to other countries who can’t get their shit together, Bobby remained undistracted and did what an American President is supposed to do - met Americans who need his help.
Later this week I will be heading to the Sacred Valley in Peru to experience another culture. Seven days at an ayahuasca healing retreat followed by some alone time with my husband in de Sagrado de Incas. After a week of watching the culture wars burning out of control in the West, I look forward to embracing a culture who hasn’t forgotten why they exist.
For this reason, I will be taking a two week hiatus from The Sunday Snews. I won’t have internet service, nor would I spoil the experience by checking up on a culture of the spoiled, on a high speed train to self destruction.
I will be sure to write some inspired articles while away and I’ll see you back here on November 12th!
Needs No Introduction
What decisions are you making today that do not serve you? What consequences will these decisions lead to in two, five or ten years? It’s never too late to make new decisions.