Cooking with Anna Excuses, Excuses

by Anna Hamilton

These past few weeks have been a struggle. Something in the air, the phase of the moon, the alignment of the planets…something was just off. I didn’t want to go to the gym. I didn’t want to eat healthy foods. I didn’t want to do anything. I wanted to live like a slug. I was cozy in my sloth-like state of mind. And then, I read a quote from Alan Maiccon, “Be stronger than your strongest excuse.”

Be stronger! Did I feel good not putting forth any effort to be a better person? No, I felt worse! My body was swollen and sore. My mindset was negative and self-sabotaging. All the hard work I had been doing for the past months was slowly washing down the drain.

It was easier to fall back into bad habits than to be strong and keep going. Why do we give up on ourselves? Fear of who I can become has held me back for so many years. I have lived in