Do you REALLY, REALLY want to?

Accountability - 1A

TIME-OUT!!!

Yesterday I started a series Ten Steps to Reach ANY Goal

https://www.success.com/10-steps-to-achieve-any-goal/

Okay, when I saw this article - TEN STEPS to Reach ANY goal I figured I better look at it.

I wrote about the first two steps:

-1 Redefine Accountability

-2 Think as if your life depended on it

I have to jump into step 4 immediately!!!

-4 You’ve gotta want it more than you don’t want it.

Okay - read this - and take it to heart!!

If you want a goal, you MUST want it.

Story.  Seven years ago, my doctor told me I was “pre-diabetic”.  That was NOT the message I wanted to hear.  I had an idea of what diabetes could do to me - and none of it was good.  I DID NOT WANT TO BE DIABETIC!!!!  

It seemed easy at the time, but within two-and-one-half months, I lost 40 pounds - or about 1/6th (or 16.66%) of my weight.  I really wanted NOT to be diabetic - Really - Really wanted it!!

There wasn’t a real diet involved - cut out the sugar, cut out the salt, cut out the snacks - eat well - and get some exercise.  I will I could say more about how it happened - but I HATED the thought of being diabetic and LOVED the thought of NOT being diabetic.  I wanted to lose the pounds much, much more than I wanted to keep them!!

Current Story.  I’m up about 10 to 12 pounds over where I should be and where I want to be.  BUT - I don’t want to lose the weight ENOUGH.  (Recently I added ice-cream back into my diet - and being cheap - I talked about that last week - I bought the big gallon container of vanilla ice cream.  And … then I “knew” I needed something to go with it - and I got the two-liter bottle of root beer!!!  Yum - now I can have root beer floats - WOW - they taste so good.  They really refresh me more than drinking a large glass of unsweet ice tea!!!  

The reality is that this time around I don’t want to lose the weight enough to REALLY work at it.  

Two days ago, I was at some friend’s house playing bridge - and they had snacks - milk chocolate covered peanuts (did I even tell you how much I like chocolate-covered peanuts?)  And, I gobbled them up.

In the past month, I had a craving for butterscotch pudding and for tapioca pudding - so I made two batches.  The box said four servings per box and about 90 calories per serving (I didn’t read all the other nutrition stuff) - so 360 calories - and guess who ate it all in ONE afternoon/evening? 

I hate my weak abdominal muscles and I want to work on them - sit-ups, planks, squats, lunges, etc  Okay, Karen, how is that going?  (Ahh - I have done a few - when I find the time!!! What a cop-out!!!)

You do know that I have a very major goal related to my gender - and that is proceeding as planned.  I REALLY WANT that goal - REALLY, REALLY!!!  

I have a sheet of blank poster board in my bedroom.  It is the first thing I see in the morning.  And, it is COVERED in post-it notes - with encouragement (including Bible verses - “Ask and you will receive”; “God will give you the desires of your heart”).  It has been my “mantra” when I wake up - I WILL get to that goal!!!! 

Some motivational speakers when talking of change, suggest making the old (that is current) situation so painful and making the new situation so desirable that your brain adapts.  I buy that.  One uses lung cancer as the old “If you keep smoking you will get lung cancer” - with images of lung cancer pasted up around his desk, room, and bathroom mirror.  

I am getting through one and only one item today in this talk about reaching 100% of your goals - for me, I have to HATE the old/current situation and desired (love?) the new situation enough to change!!!

And, to fit with yesterday’s blog - I need to be accountable about it!!!  Back to the ice cream and diet - if I don’t tell anybody - then I can sneak in a rootbeer float almost any time!!! 

Right now, while I’m writing this - my brain is ‘fired-up” - but tonight before bed - after 4 to 5 miles of walking, and I’m tired - it might be a different story.  I REALLY need to make my goal!!  I have to OWN IT!!!

May you have better fortitude that I do on some days!!!  May God Bless you all!!!

Hugs!!

Karen