YOUR HELP NEEDED PLEASE

Happy Monday all!

I need everyone's help on answering some questions for me. To the right of this post is a poll asking you what you would like to see more of on my blog. If you are a new comer to my blog, PLEASE answer this if you aren't thinking of coming back. If you are a long time visitor, let me know what you would like to see more of! ;) I really value each of your opinions and promise to listen and respond to your requests. Thank you!

Anyhoozle, I didn't workout on Sunday...still feeling pretty yucky and I figured one more day of rest would be smart. But I did do something REALLY important and something I recommend everyone do whenever you come to a place where you are struggling with motivation or accomplishing something. As most of you know, I have been struggling with consistent workouts. I knew that was primarily a result of how many hours I have been working. And I also knew that work was getting more and more challenging and that was a result of a new team structure we are testing. Regardless, my days were looking like this:

• Wake up at 5am and work for 2 hours, get food ready (at least I was still doing that) go to work
• Work at office from 8am to 6 (skipping lunch lately when I would normally lift)
• Go home, eat dinner and then work for another 2-3 hours
• Repeat

As you can see, I was putting myself and my workouts in second place to work. Over the weekend I wrote down all of the obstacles me preventing me from working out on a consistent basis. And then, and this is the most important step in this process, I wrote down what I needed to do to overcome those specific obstacles. My reasons and how to overcome them were the following (I am giving you the Reader's Digest version - short and sweet) but you will get the idea:

• #1: Working too many hours - need to delegate and take them time to off load projects to other team members.
• #2: Sickness - make sure I am getting gallon + of water daily, eating whole foods and keeping a gratitude journal.
• #3: Lack of motivation - review my goals and what I am training for DAILY - keep note cards that outline my goals and read DAILY.

I believe that we can all accomplish our goals in life but we must understand the obstacles and make adjustments based on those obstacles. For me, I was allowing my work to interfere with my life and therefore put me out of balance with those things important to me. Which is probably the REASON I kept getting sick. My body/mind/soul was telling me to honor myself, my body and my soul. Everyone should know what method of goal setting works for them....Jody and I write down our goals every year and review them often. We achieve 90% of the goals we right down! How cool is that??? So, my little poor man's Photoshop job (below) will be a reality in September! :)
Jessica


P.S. I ran for a half hour this morning (350 calories - slow pace) and we started our Isagenix cleanse again today. Feels goooooooooood. Flushing the bod. Flush, flush, flush. :)