Spring Body TuneUp Time-Review of Week 4
May 16th, 2008
photo credit: pierre lascott
This is my final review that I do of this challenge in the form of a post.
After this one, I’ll move it into the forum, where I’ll be posting my goals with regards to this for the coming week, and eventually the review on Friday as well.
Putting this onto the forum is another of my 30-day experiments, however if anyone would like to join me there, I’ll keep it going as long as there is an interest.
If it’s just me, it goes after 30 days.
The purpose of moving it into the forum, is to continue accountability in the process, while freeing up my Friday spot to post about other things.
In case anyone would like to join me in this, here is a brief description of what we will be doing, and why.
How To Use The Accountability Partners Section Of The Forum
Accountability partners are people who check in on one another, monitoring and encouraging their progress in whatever goals they may have.
They report on what they intend to do, perhaps define a timeline, set a course for themselves, record their progress, what tools and support they used to get as far as they have come, and what they intend to use to get themselves further along on their goals. Best of all, they help other people to do the same.
They may be looking to move their lives forward in matters concerning health, career, education, relationships, financial management–whatever area of their life they seek to improve, that is what the accountability partners report on.
If you would like to use the forum here for this purpose, please do so.
It has been proven that in areas of self/life improvement, being accountable to someone is a great incentive to keep you goiing. Just knowing someone is there, checking up on you, encouraging you, and perhaps even going through the process right along with you, can do wonders.
If you would like to go along in the process with me, I would be honored to help you, while you help, encourage, motivate, and be a great inspiration to others as well as to me.
That is what the forum is there to do.
Other Stuff Coming Up
Recently, I gave some thought to what I would like to do in the next three years.
I sat down, pen in hand, daughter off to school, husband at work, and son having a nap, and jotted ideas down as they came.
I noted what I would like to learn, do, how I could improve my life, little tweaks and big goals. All of it got made note of.
This is the list which I will share here with you.
They are in no particular order, although many are thirty day challenges for me to do.
I will begin some this week, when my husband is off on a fishing trip. This will allow me to get a good head start on some of it.
Note: if you have goals and changes of your own for your life in the next 3-5 years, why not share? Comments, ideas, and encouragement are always most welcome!
Without Further Ado, The List!
This list is for the next three years, and I’ll add to it as I come up with more stuff. Of course, I’ll publish about them here.
1. Help install new flooring in downstairs bathroom.
2. Paint basement walls.
3. Go to the gym 3 times per week, for thirty days.
4. Participate in National Novel Writing Month
5. Maintain a weight of no greater than 127 pounds for three months.
6. Help build our cottage.
7. Help build our garage (beside cottage).
8. Build up an emergency fund of $5000
9. Do not use an automobile for thirty days.
10. Eat no meat for thirty days.
11. Drink only water for thirty days. No juice or alcohol. (Does coffee count as water? Guess not…)
12. Work on current novel project three times per week for thirty days.
13. Read through 15 self development/life improvement books in three years.
14. Get my weight down to 127 pounds.
15. Complete writing a novel.
16. Eat a healthy breakfast every day for thirty days.
17. “Stuff Reduction Program” for thirty days. (Currently working on.)
18. Travel to some other country.
19. Get Little Man off bottles.(Working on.)
20. Get Little Man potty trained.
21. Work on Little Man’s vocabulary (thinking flashcards and lots of books!).
22. Eat nothing with sugar listed in the first four ingredients for thirty days.
23. Get Little Man sleeping always in his Big Boy bed! (Actually, when I made the list, we had just finished making his bed for him. Since making the list, that is where he has been sleeping. Just gotta get the crib out of his room to remove temptation!)
24. Take old wallpaper off walls in Little Man’s room.
25. Redecorate Little Man’s room with cars, etc!
26. Organize my office.
27. Decorate my office (even though I generally work on my laptop in the kitchen!).
28. Toddler proof the basement door.
29. Adopt a dog that fits well with my family (good with kids, etc).
30. Learn how to paint pictures.
31. Take a beginner’s guide to digital photography course.
32. Get useable and suitable office furniture.
33. Take 1 trip per week to Goodwill, with at least one bag full of stuff, for thirty days.
34. Do a good deed for someone every day for thirty days.
35. Walk for a minimum of 30 minutes daily, for thirty days. On bad weather days, use the treadmill.
36. Eat a salad every day for thirty days.
37. Try a new recipe once a week, for thirty days.
38. Take a photograph every day for thirty days. Publish my favorites here.
39. In the next three years, do a total of ten guest posts on sites other than my own.
40. Write five pages of something, daily, for thirty days.
41. Over the course of the next 3 years, I want to become a professional, full time writer (including with the stuff on this site!)
Review of Spring Body tuneUp–Week 4
Average calories per day: 1807
Total Calories of Junkfood For the Week: (why is this one never zero?):3421
Aerobic Exercise (days): Friday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Resistance Training (days): Friday, Monday, Thursday
Steps Per Day (average): 9471
Best Time Spent With Family: I took the kids yard saling on Saturday, and we had a terrific time going through more stuff to eventually add to my stuff Reduction Program! Fun. Cheap. gives me more stuff to do later. Who could ask for more? 
Best Time Spent Alone: When I sat down and made the list, above. It was great! You should definitely do this.
Biggest Goal Achieved This Week: Got my series, the Achievers, up and running. check out the first post here
The Five Most Influential Forks On My Road To Happiness/
Be sure to check in next Wednesday, for Part two of the series, when Lacy Boggs, of The Me Makeover and The Spiral Notebook answers the question: What was it that made the most difference, what had the most positive impact, in your life?
Big Goal Set For Next Week: I will get the Accountability Partners section of my forum up and running, and post both my goals for this Spring body Tuneup there (today), as well as progress/pitfalls, etc, with the second report being on Friday of next week.
Total $ Saved Toward Shameless Bribe For Weight Loss: $53.62
That’s it for this week’s review! Hope to see you in the forum!
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