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I have a confession to make. I am a closet hooker. NO, NOT THAT KIND OF HOOKER! I am an occasional rug hooker. But with the never-ending succession of quilting ideas, it is hard for me to get to my rug hooking. At most, I make about one hooked rug per year. And I usually attend one big rug hooking event each year as well, which motivates me to actually WORK on my hooked rug occasionally. 

Over the last couple of months, I would tell myself every week "I'll hook my rug on Sunday." But it never happened. Instead I did some hand-quilting, or even knitted on occasion. So one Sunday, I set myself up for success. I actually set myself up to hook when I got home from church. I put away the current hand quilting project. I put away the knitting that is always at the ready. I even dusted the little side table off, and cleared away the clutter of needles and needle threaders that had fallen. And I got everything ready to go.

And guess what? I HOOKED ON MY RUG!

The correlation is obvious, right? You don’t need me to point out that we need to do the same thing to set ourselves up to make healthy choices when it comes to our diet, do you? I wrote about specific things I do to keep myself on the healthy eating bandwagon on my blog:

Setting yourself up for success, whether in art or healthy living…its a good thing.