Day 35 Recap

Thanksgiving. Always a great time of year for seeing family, having some fun outside and EATING enormous quantities of food! We had our family get together today and the food situation was in full effect. I actually did a pretty good job avoiding over eating during the dinner component of the meal, but dessert was a different story.

My grandmother made this incredible pumpkin cake that is hard to describe. All I know for sure is that the one rather large piece I ate probably had the same number of calories as my entire meal! It was awesome though and the fact that I did not have any beer or wine made it that much easier on my stomach to digest the rich food.

It was a long day at my parents' place chasing Thomas around their yard. My folks live on a 6 acre property so my 1.5 year old son has plenty of land to keep him busy. I was happy to chase him around to help burn some of those calories off.

After stopping at the inlaws place on the way home, it was after 8pm when we finally got back to our house. I was finally feeling relatively normal after having that extremely full feeling in my stomach all day. So I threw on my outdoor shoes and went for a good 30 minute hoops session at the outdoor hoop near my house. It was a great workout. Normally at this time of year the weather is a bit too cold to be outside at night but we are having unseasonably warm temperatures this long weekend.

What I really like about this challenge is the fact that I stuck to my routine, even on a long weekend holiday. In the past, I would have never exercised after a meal like that even if I had the energy to do so. Now, because I am in this mindset of "inevitability thinking", it was simply not an option. The only question I was asking myself was "what exercise will I be doing tonight?"

Now that I understand how to literally create this mindset for myself, I am excited to think about all of the other areas of my life where I can create this sense of inevitability.

From a business perspective, I am always inspired by the story of John Assaraf who took Remax of Indiana from a struggling real estate company with no hope for the the future, to a 5 Billion Dollar in Sales organization. He did it by introducing one habit of inevitability thinking. That habit was to be in front of prospective client/partner every single day and ask them to buy into his venture. He would do this until he achieved his vision of $5B company...which eventually took him 5 years.

I am starting to realize that anything is truly possible if you hold the image of what you want in your mind and continually do everything in your power to bring that vision into reality. My personal goals for this challenge is a great start...but it is JUST the start of what I am planning. Very exciting stuff!