OK So the past 2 days have been among the busiest since I became an entrepreneur. Because of this, I have once again decided to merge 2 days worth of "recap" into 1 post. Considering it is after 1:00am, I will let myself off the hook :)
Monday (day 22) was a great day in terms of productivity. I took my daily photo, ate a healthy breakfast, spent time with my wife and son and got a great start to my day bright and early. After a full day of development on the new version of IGNITE YOUR ESSENCE and putting the final touches on a goal setting workshop for a local university, I had all kinds of energy left for the "dreaded" monday workout.
I call it "dreaded" because it is my most challenging workout of the week. I do 6-8 heavy sets of chest and back weight lifting followed by high intensity cardio. I usually finish the session with a completely soaked T shirt!!
I want to jump ahead to TODAY which was Day 23. Instead of going forwards let me go backwards. About 2 hours ago, I went for a jog. That's right...a jog at almost 11:30pm. I was officially the latest workout of my life. But it was literally the first opportunity I had to workout and the thought of breaking my streak after 22 consecutive days was MORE PAINFUL than the fatigue I had to overcome to get my shoes and jogging pants on and go for it!!
It was actually an amazing experience to kind of "observe" my mind, and be able to ignore the voice trying to rationalize why I should take a day off and get back tomorrow. I did NOT WANT to give in to this voice because my goal has become so strong and the excitement of being almost 1/3 of the way through is awesome!
For my own purposes and for the readers of this blog, I want to document the activities of my day:
7am - Rise and Shine after a long night getting up with my son (I think he is teething
7am-8am - Family time, breakfast, morning prep
8am-9am - Email responding and some research
9am-10am - Work on the website
10am-11am - Final touches on my Workshop for the university students
11am-12:30 - Drive to university
12:30pm-2pm - Pre-workshop classroom prep and meet with coordinator
2pm-630pm - Delivered back 2 back 2 hour workshops (a TON of fun. great people in the course. very positive people too)
630pm-830pm - Drive home
830pm-1030pm - Work on website
1030pm-1130pm - Up with Thomas. he is still having problems with his teething :(
11:30pm-12am - Late night jog (23 straight days baby, woo hoo!!)
12am-2am - FINISHED WEBSITE...IT is up and running. check out igniteyouressence.com
So, the point is, it was a LOOOOOOOONG day but I had no problem sticking to my fitness committment EVEN though it was after 11pm, EVEN though I was exhausted from delivering 2 workshops and driving 3 hours. This is a great system of staying committed. Just by virtue of having this blog, it is keeping me committed because I don't want to have to admit to my readers that I was unable to stick with my plan!
SUGGESTED ACTIVITY - Get an ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNER as soon as humanly possible. Work with this partner to hold you accountable for one of more of your goals. Why? Well, as you can tell from my 90 day program so far....IT WORKS. You will LOVE the results, I promise
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