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Surprise! You overate again at Thanksgiving dinner. Surprise! When you went into the break room on treat day, you ate two donuts and a brownie. Surprise! You’re eating every sugary carb you can get your hands on three days before your period starts. The realities you encounter are repetitive. Some repeat more frequently than others, but for the most part, there is more predictability in the unexpected than your brain allows you to believe there is. On one hand, you know these unexpected things are getting in the way of your goals. On the other hand, calling them unexpected means you get to be a victim to them and don’t have to expect yourself to do anything about them. It feels icky to acknowledge that, but as much as this hinders you, it also serves you, right? It means you cannot be held accountable to your actions. It is a kind way to give yourself an easy out – “I didn’t know!” “I was caught off guard.”

As you get curious in your Owner’s Manual process, get curious about the patterns in these unexpected realities of your life. Don’t allow yourself to be surprised and be victim to things that are not really a surprise at all. Get these things in your Owner’s Manual. Record how often they tend to happen. Look at how you’ve handled that (or other things like that) in the past and what worked and what didn’t. Practice pausing and making your action a choice, and see what happens. There is power in owning your choice even if that choice is to eat three donuts on treat day. So the next time it happens, instead of being all, “Oh my gosh! You won’t believe what happened!” be all, “There’s this thing again. I got this. I choose X this time.”