Ever feel like you have bitten off more than you can chew?

Perhaps that horrific moment in the changing room at your favourite store, when with a wiggle and contortionist movement, you managed to fit your body into an ill fitting garment, all is fine......just as long as you don't breath, cough or dare I say it... laugh!

Looking in the mirror, you try to make it work though, go on, we've all done it, if I put my shoulders back here, or wear something loose fitting over top, or if I put some control topped pantyhose on, it could work...couldn't it?

The horror  really sinks in, though, as you hear a piece of cotton finally let go with a pop, as you try to shrink yourself enough to get back out of it.

Well okay, it wasn't really the garment that was ill fitting, it was that our eyes told a story that was somewhat different, to the hard reality that a size 8 is simply not going to fit on a size 12 body; No matter how much sucking it in, pushing it up and hoping for the best that we do.


Ultimately though, we eventually manage to untangle ourselves,  awkwardly admitting to the sales assistant that it was perhaps not quite the right fit.

I was having an interesting conversation this evening with a good friend of mine, who is currently going through some incredibly big changes in their world. To top it off has embarked in some pretty full on study. Seeing the words, I think I've bitten off a bit more than I can chew, appear on my screen were not something I ever thought this person would utter.

After a bit of a pep talk, and some successful distraction, I'm optimistic that a bit of renewed vigour for the task at hand was awakened.

This conversation got me thinking about those times where I've personally felt a little stuck and overwhelmed.

And I think my figurative example above sums it up for me.

At times we do have our eyes set on a prize that is a little far reaching, and some times, try as we might to force the situation, it's just simply not a good fit for us.

The great thing is, there is nothing that we can get ourselves into, that we can't get out of, even if damage does mimic the effort we used worming our way there in the first place.

More often than not, there is an amazing alternative just around the corner (or on the rack as the case may be), and sometimes it's worth holding on to our original plan and adjusting a few other things in our environment to make it work ....like eating a few less twinkies.

Night x