But that was then. This is now.
We're suddenly 3 weeks into the new year, and many of us find ourselves back to our everyday routine. We didn't intentionally decide that our goal is no longer important to us. Because really it is. It's just that little by little, our pre-holiday commitments and schedules creep back into our post-holiday lives, and unless we wrote it down and proclaimed it to the world (or an accountability group), resolutions gradually fade from consciousness.
That's how it has gone for many years for me, and probably for you, too. So let me share with you a concept I picked up just before the new year this year: 52 Mondays.
52 Mondays is a life-changing book, written by Vic Johnson. Inspiring. Right from the outset, Johnson challenges readers with this question:
If you had started something new and worked on it every week since one year ago, what might you have been able to accomplish?
He goes on to explain:
If you had written 1,000 words every week, you'd be close to completing a novel.
If you had taken in one music lesson per week, you might be approaching a level of proficiency.
Etc. Etc.
Wow! Where could I be now, if I had spent 2012 working weekly towards my goals?
I realize that fitness goals will never be reached with just one Monday work-out per week. But we can use the concept of 52 Mondays to attain our fitness resolutions, just by thinking of our main goal as a series of 52 weekly accomplishments. Perhaps this week you resolve to find a work-out partner. Next week to try a new class, or to venture to a new area of the gym to incorporate free-weights (gasp!). The next week resolve to meet with a nutritionist, and the following week to implement her meal plan. You get the idea.
If your fitness resolutions for 2013 have already started fading away, would reframing your goals as a series of 52 weekly accomplishments get you back on track?
Where will you be in January 2014?
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