February Goals Review - March Goals

February 2008 Goals Review:

OK, I'm pretty sure I sucked ass this month, let's review. Still really need to concentrate on my intake and get better at logging stuff in The Daily Plate

• Eat less fast food in February than I did in January. This will mean less than 6 trips to a fast food restaurant. NOT EVEN CLOSE! This week being sick, I know I've been in a drive through at least 6 times alone. FAIL!
• Drink less soda in February than I did in January. This will mean drinking soda on less than three occasions in February. UMM Nope. Each of those trips to the fast food restaurant included a soda of some sort. The rest of the month was OK, but not fantastic.
• Perform at least 15 workouts in February. This is to include a minimum of 5 workouts where I do at least two triathlon events.I was really good on this one! I know I hit at least 5 days where I did two or more events. I may have just missed the 15 total workouts with it being a short month and my missing the last week of it, but I'm saying COMPLETE!
• I will weigh less on March 1st than I did on February 1st (308.0). My stretch goal is to lose 8.5 pounds in February putting me UNDER 300. I was 302.0 as of yesterday morning. I forgot to weigh today, but we'll call it 302.0 to end the month. So 6.0 pounds gone for the month and that's with missing a week in the gym. Didn't get under 300, but that'll come (hopefully) next week.
• I will continue taking my daily vitamins AND Fish Oil supplements to the plethora of pills I'll be popping in the morning.Yeppers
• Do at least one group workout with some or all of Daboyz training for the Triathlon
Nope, tried, but couldn't connect

March 2008 Goals:
Again, why fix what's not broken. My goals in March will pretty much mimic my goals in February with some slight modifications:

• Eat less fast food in March than I did in February. This will mean seriously re-dedicating to my focus and keeping the car outta the drive through
• Drink less soda in March than I did in February. I'm allowing the occasional Rock Star as a drink. The important thing is that it does not have High Fructose Corn Syrup
• Perform at least 15 workouts in March. This is to include a minimum of 5 workouts where I do at least two triathlon events. (Swim/Bike, Bike/Run, etc.) AND at least TWO days in which I complete the entire Triathlon
• I will weigh less on April 1st than I did on February 29th (302.0). My stretch goal is to lose 7.5 pounds in February putting me UNDER 295.
• I will continue taking my daily vitamins AND Fish Oil supplements.
• Do at least one group workout with some or all of Daboyz training for the Triathlon

That's it . . .

Are You Uncomfortable?

Have you ever had an "ah-ha" moment? Then later that day or week had another "ah-ha" moment? And then maybe just to make a point, sometime later, but still soon enough to remember the first two, you have a third, unmistakeable "ah-ha" moment? That's the universe flicking you in the nose and saying "Hey! You! What do I have to do? Put this on a bus?"

As you can probably imagine by now, I've had three such "ah-ha" moments this week. Let me explain. On Monday I was attending the first day of the Brian Buffini Turning Point Retreat. During the morning's discussion, Brian metioned something about getting uncomfortable. i.e. You can't sit back and be comfortable, you've got to do things that make you uncomfortable to grow. OK, great.

Tuesday I was in a seminar on new home sales. The trainer, Jeff Shore, had a whole section on how top sales professionals do what's uncomfortable for them to expand their business and grow. I'm seeing a PATTERN . . . .

Two nights ago, I wanted to have something to fall asleep to, so I scanned my vast library of Tony Robbins "Power Talk" series. I have to explain this. A couple years ago, I ordered a Tony Robbins series on CD from a late night infomercial. I'm embarassed to admit, I'm an infomercial guy. If it dices, slices and cleans your living room sofa, I'm SOOOO there! So along with this Tony Robbins series, they signed you up for a month of his "Power Talk" series. If you don't like it after that month, you can cancel at any time you'll only be billed for the ones you keep blah blah blah. So my kit came and I never opened the "Power Talk" CD I got . . . and I continued to receive (and not open, not once) "Power Talk" for the low low price of $29.95 per month for the next two years before I finally cancelled it. I literally have 24 - 30 "Power Talk" CD packs unopened in my office. So I grabbed two. One was about overcoming problems, which I listened to that night and the other was "Raising Your Standards". I popped the latter into the CD player in the car for my trip to Olympia this morning. I could have literally chosen from 30 other CD's, but why did I pick this one? It was somewhere in the middle, looked like EVERY other CD, but for some reason it stood out to me.

During this conversation with my close personal friend, Tony, he mentioned that we need to quit "shoulding" on ourselves. Say it, you'll giggle just like I did. We need to turn our "Shoulds into Musts". Instead of "I should go on a diet" change it to "I must go on a diet so that I can . . . " fill in the blank there. Tony goes on to say that the only way to really grow is to get uncomfortable. Wait. Back that up. What did he say? Uncomfortable? I swore that's what he said. Yep, that's what he said. OK, universe. I get it. Seriously. Tony made the weight lifting analogy. You're working on your biceps and doing curls. You want to do 10 reps of some weight. Which is the one you least want to do? Yep, number 10. Which is the one that's going to give you the most growth? Nope, number 11. You've got to do the stuff you really don't want to do or the things that make you uncomfortable to grow.

Tony goes on to further say that we're doing just what we need to do to survive. We're making just the amount of money we need. Not the amount we want or the amount we've set goals for, but just the amount we need. But if we just got uncomfortable for a bit and changed our thinking from "Shoulds" to "Musts" and stretched ourselves a bit, our growth would be exponential.

So my new mantra is "Are you uncomfortable?"