Day 41 and 42 Recap

Another 2-for-1 recap. My ideal goals was to do a daily update but that was a secondary goal. The primary goal was to stick to this 90 day Challenge through thick and thin. So far...so good.

The recap writing in this blog has been a bit of a challenge just because of my incredibly busy schedule. As I likely mentioned in previous posts, I am currently balancing 3 critical areas of my life right now; family, fitness and business.

I recently learned a great lesson from one of my clients. He said that each 15 minute block of time represents just under 1% of your day. So a great way to think of it is that you have 100 segments of time in a day. Each segment is 15 minutes long.

Well, with my current lifestlye, I will say with a great deal of honesty that finding 2 segments to do a blog update is often impossible.

So now that I have made excuses as to why I haven't been doing daily updates...let me provide the actual update-- LOL!

Day 41, Saturday was supposed to be primarily a family day. We had planned a long time ago to spend the day in a nearby city visiting my wife's sister and her family. Becuase I have a lot of business contacts in that area, I ended up scheduling 3 business appointments to maximize my trip. It wasn't my favourite decision to make because I want my family to feel that I am committed to giving my time to them as well.

Thankfully my wife is very understanding and supportive and so I was able to take these appointments which ended up being very beneficial from a business perspective.

By the time I was all done, it was getting close to dinner hour and I met up with my wife, son and her sister's family back at their house. It was at that point that I realized I had not done my fitness for the day. Dinner was 30 minutes away and so I decided to throw on my running shoes and go for a jog.

NEVER would I have done this in the past. I would have just let myself off the hook and said that there was not enough time in my day for fitness. The truth is, there is always time for the things that are important to you. What we all lack is a forcing function to keep us on track. This 90 Day Challenge is proving to be a genious forcing function for me.

After my run, I came home feeling proud of myself and I was able to enjoy my evening visiting with family and having some fun. I did eat some junk food but I kept the quantity relatively low by my standards!

As for today, Day 42, my wife son and myself were all feeling very worn out from a busy weekend. We also all recently got over a cold/flu so it was a good day to be at home and spend some time together. We were also able to do some house work which has become difficult to schedule with our crazy calendars. It is amazing how a clean house can help clear your mind and make you more productive for work....so I am glad we invested the time.

My Day 42 fitness was awesome. It was the startup of my Men's sunday evening basketball league. This is the third year I am playing in this league and I really enjoy it. there is always a great turnout and the level of competition is actually quite decent. There are even referees in the league which make it more competitive...which also means a BETTER WORKOUT because I always play harder when the intensity goes up.

Note to self...time for new basketball shoes. My feet are killing me after playing and they were hurting the past few times I was out for a basketball game.