{"id":110,"date":"2011-06-06T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/?p=110"},"modified":"2012-06-09T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T02:13:12","slug":"how-long-do-i-have-to-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2011\/06\/how-long-do-i-have-to-do-this.html","title":{"rendered":"How Long Do I Have to Do This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.\u00a0 Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.\u00a0 Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.\u00a0 And this is all life really means.&#8221; \u00a0~Robert Louis Stevenson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>It isn&#8217;t always easy to do the right thing. \u00a0 We are tempted to fall back into old, familiar eating habits. \u201cHow long do I have to do this?\u201d we ask.<\/p>\n<p>The answer &#8212; just do it today.\u00a0 Tomorrow you start again, but right now all you have to do is make it until bedtime. 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