Day 134 of 103in365: 33/103

Hey There,

So I am content with my weigh-in this week, No loss but no gain. I have been on a bit of a gaining streak and it was important to me that this week marked the end of that nonsense. In my head, I am invisioning a train headed in wrong direction. The conductor first needs to stop the train before the direction can be reversed. This week past week was "stop the train" week. This coming week is "get going in the right direction again" week. (Last week's name was easier to say)

I woke up and worked out before work this morning and I am going to do that much more often. I did have to give up a bit of sleep to do it, but it payed off in having more energy as the day went on, and the pride I felt that I did it!

This week, I have been thinking about how our lives are made up off an accumulation of all the decisions that we make. Sometimes the decision is, or seems to be, small. Sometimes the decision is much larger.  ("Leon is getting LARGER")

I have been looking at my journey with the same sentiment. (The first part, not the Airplane part.)

Reaching my goals of weight loss and fitness will either be achieved, or not achieved, by the accumulation of seemingly small decisions. They are small decisions when looked at by themselves, but they are quite large and will make all the difference, when looked at for the part they play in the bigger picture.

Should I work out right now? Should I eat this, or should I eat more of this or less of this? These decisions multiplied by all the times we make them, make up the success or epic fail.

If we want to get closer to our goals, we need to make all the small decisions on purpose. On purpose we can make the decision to get a bit closer to our goals everyday.

On purpose we can also decide to let our hair down and not be perfect once and awhile. If we make a habit of doing this too often though, we will be getting ourselves closer to that epic fail.

I have been trying to live by the 95-5 rule that I talked about a few months ago. If I am doing the things I need to be doing 95% if the time (watching what and/or how much I am eating, staying hydrated, working out etc.) I can not be perfect 5% of the time and still reach my goals.

Tom Landry, head coach for the Cowboys for almost 30 years, said this about goals. "Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."

Take away for the week. Setting a goal is good. More important though is coming up with a good plan and sticking to it. Even when it feels easier to make the excuse that you can slack a bit today and it won't affect the big picture. News flash Ginger! Slacking a bit today and then slacking a bit more and more, adds up to the epic fail and not to success.

My goals are too important! I choose success!

Scuba

Day 127 of 103in365: 33/103

Hey There!


I thought I would do something different this week!

Here it is!

Scuba