THINK Challenge - Wkly Overhaul

Accountability Challenge - 21 days

If you have a goal in mind and it requires daily action, accountability is your best and most powerful guide. For any society to function and for any person to perform at their highest and best accountability is key.

Challenge: Pick one or two or all goals from the list below (or you can create your own) and see if you can write in an accountability journal about how it is going for 21-days straight.

Start date: January 10, 2010
End date: January 30, 2010

Area of Personal Wellness & Accountability goal ideas:

Stretching In The Morning - Try Dr. Oz's *"7-Minute Stretch"

Getting 7.5 to 8-hours of sleep. (*Count back 7 to 8 hours from when you wake up and make that your bedtime)

Exercise - Just 30-minutes a day.
*Do squats while you watch TV, play with the kids, rearrange the closet, take a walk, do dishes, have a family dance party. Just figure out a way to get in a half hour of movement after dinner to give your metabolism something to do.

Healthy Food Choices
*Replacement: Mindful Eating. Everything we eat should nourish us, and the ability to focus on that will help us all meet our goals of losing or maintaining weight. A simple solution is to pre-plan meals, especially snacks. On Sunday night, pack a variety of healthy snacks—12 almonds, one string cheese, 2 tablespoons of cranberries, 5 dark chocolates, 18 mini pretzels—in individual plastic bags for the week ahead. At 3pm on any day, you can reach for a baggie and know you are giving your body a good boost.)

*Excerpt from The Dr. Oz show

Interesting Bible Principle:
1 Corinthians 6:19: What! Do YOU not know that the body of YOU people is [the] temple of the holy spirit within YOU, which YOU have from God? Also, YOU do not belong to yourselves,

Accountability to YOURSELF:
On a daily basis – for 21 days straight, I highly recommend that you write in an accountability journal about your day. Write what was accomplished, what wasn’t and why.

This can be very brief – the point is to MAKE yourself write it out so you can hold yourself accountable. You will become less guilty as well.

You’ll also have an opportunity to give positive self-feedback on a regular basis; this helps with maintaining the high level of motivation needed to be successful.

As you build the powerful habit of accountability, you have to have a laser like focus on taking deliberate daily action towards this end. Being single minded about writing, checking in and taking action on your goal is imperative.

If you are NOT coachable in this regard, you will not have much success with creating this new habit.

Have fun with this process, if you slip up, dust off and jump back in. It’s the only way!

I'll be check-in to let you all know how it is going for me and I hope you do too!

Wishing you abundant success, foodieoverhaul