You can't see, if you don't look.

So today I was bemoaning to my trainer that I am getting bigger than I am happy with and he asked a few "nudgey questions" much like I do with my clients to make me look at the whole picture, rather than the snap shot I was considering.  Suddenly I was able to see, what I needed to change and where I'd gone somewhat off piste.  As I was doing better than I had been, I failed to notice I wasn't doing my best.

But this is true of so much more than coffee versus water and vegetables versus fruit.  Look at your wardrobe, how much of it actually gives you pleasure and how much of it do you wear, so you won't get arrested?  Try a little exercise, go to your wardrobe and without taking anything else into account look at it.

• If somebody offered it to you, would you buy every piece again?
• Would somebody else be able to tell what kind of person you are from your clothes?
• Does it excite you?
• If you have a terrifying event to go to, do you have an outfit you can trust?
• Do you want to be the person you see in your clothes?

It is not the easiest process to do on your own but if the answer leads you to wishing things were different, keep up that momentum and change something.

Next time you go shopping, look.  Look in shops you would probably normally avoid, walk past the items you have and try something new.  Be willing to ask for help and advice.  I promise the less of a mission you make it the more successful it will be.

Instead of ignoring the problem and hoping it'll go away deal with it now, then its done and you can think about something else - like where the good shoes are.