Things did not go as planned. Sunday and Monday were not too bad even though muscles we pretty sore Sunday from Saturdays fitness class. The fitness class by the way is awesome and more people should attend. Tuesday however things went downhill quickly, at least for most of my requirements. Our two oldest went on an after school trip in to the city to see a play and were not due back at the school until 11pm. This made it pretty easy to go out for dinner and spend some extra time with Dawn and Baker. We did go somewhere with some healthier options though. On Wednesday, I was invited to go watch the first Oiler's play-off game with some people that I haven't seen in a few years. We met early then with a late start and and the game going in to overtime it was pretty late when I finally got home.
Up until this point I had tried to keep up with the physical requirements daily so that not only could I keep up with them but so that they become fairly routine as well. A habit if you will. I have also really never been very good at just letting go of some things once they have happened and moving on. I have been working on this but struggling with it as well. So when I woke up on Thursday and started thinking about it I started to panic a little. Not a lot, but enough where the feeling of defeat crept in. I started thinking about one of our previous IHC meetings where we were discussing letting go of what happened and starting over fresh. Like I mentioned previously this is something that I have never been very good at.
While having breakfast I started doing some math. Add up the push ups and sit ups that I had already completed, subtract that from my weekly goal, divide by the three days left. Suddenly the outlook changed. That number was not that big and scary. This was now something that I knew could be accomplished. With one very minor change in perspective, the doom and gloom of defeat had been eradicated by optimism.
Even with having certain goals, whether they be daily, weekly, yearly, it is important that we still take some time to live life and experience things. With that being said, it is also very important to find a way to not beat yourself up over the small failures so that you can find a way to reach your goals. It is way too easy to go down the path of doom and gloom and forget about your goals completely.
Up until this point I had tried to keep up with the physical requirements daily so that not only could I keep up with them but so that they become fairly routine as well. A habit if you will. I have also really never been very good at just letting go of some things once they have happened and moving on. I have been working on this but struggling with it as well. So when I woke up on Thursday and started thinking about it I started to panic a little. Not a lot, but enough where the feeling of defeat crept in. I started thinking about one of our previous IHC meetings where we were discussing letting go of what happened and starting over fresh. Like I mentioned previously this is something that I have never been very good at.
While having breakfast I started doing some math. Add up the push ups and sit ups that I had already completed, subtract that from my weekly goal, divide by the three days left. Suddenly the outlook changed. That number was not that big and scary. This was now something that I knew could be accomplished. With one very minor change in perspective, the doom and gloom of defeat had been eradicated by optimism.
Even with having certain goals, whether they be daily, weekly, yearly, it is important that we still take some time to live life and experience things. With that being said, it is also very important to find a way to not beat yourself up over the small failures so that you can find a way to reach your goals. It is way too easy to go down the path of doom and gloom and forget about your goals completely.
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