Sales trips are a trigger for me. Before I moved to California in January I would come to California once a month for work. I wouldn't work out, I would eat every meal at a restaurant...a lot of them really great restaurants but I would live in excess for the week. Think about it...work pays for my meals so while I would stay in my daily money allotment I would eat completely different compared to when I was at home. I don't know if it was convenience, if it was getting to try new places, feeling luxurious for a week or mistaking it for vacation. But regardless, I would eat as if I would never get this opportunity again...like the good was going to disappear.
Good is always going to be around. We no longer have to hunt and gather and conserve and save. This is the first sales trip I have been on for awhile since I live here now and all those feelings and desires are coming back to me. I will admit I have not been perfect the last two days. Finding excuses like this is the last time in coming to LA. Well LA is only an hour and thirty minutes. If there is a restaurant I really want to come back to I can. I need to stop thinking of food as if it's disappearing that I need to gather it all up. There will always be future opportunities to eat certain things I enjoy. It's not going anywhere. No one night stand with a meal, giving me temporary satisfaction is going to taste as good as success.
As always the hardest thing for me in this journey is the mental part. I am my biggest competition and my biggest threat.
