Seeing Stars
I’ve mentioned previously the plans my sister Snap, my cousin Wings, and I made regarding getting healthy/healthier in ’05.
We each set certain goals and, because goals are useless if you don’t have a specific way of achieving them, we each wrote a Plan. I russled up some matching notebooks and kicky pens and each day, we track our progress. Every day that you meet all the components of your plan, you get a little foil star.
Who knew of the power of foil stars?? We had our first check-in last night, and each one of us had gotten a star every day thus far. I’m so proud of us! Snap and Wings have had trouble losing weight and keeping it lost in the past, so it’s exciting to see them motivated. Previously, they both looked to me like I had answers because I was having success, but I think sharing our notebooks last night brought an important point home for them.
Losing weight isn’t the end. You don’t hit goal and then get to cruise. It’s still work. It’s still a daily struggle for me to make the good choice in the face of bad choices. It’s still a Herculean effort to drag myself into the gym and pound the treadmill when all I want to do is snuggle with Pete and watch TV. I hope the three of us doing this together will let them see that success is just in the doing. Every day that you make more good choices than bad, well, that day’s a success.
String enough of those days together, and you just may have something.
We each set certain goals and, because goals are useless if you don’t have a specific way of achieving them, we each wrote a Plan. I russled up some matching notebooks and kicky pens and each day, we track our progress. Every day that you meet all the components of your plan, you get a little foil star.
Who knew of the power of foil stars?? We had our first check-in last night, and each one of us had gotten a star every day thus far. I’m so proud of us! Snap and Wings have had trouble losing weight and keeping it lost in the past, so it’s exciting to see them motivated. Previously, they both looked to me like I had answers because I was having success, but I think sharing our notebooks last night brought an important point home for them.
Losing weight isn’t the end. You don’t hit goal and then get to cruise. It’s still work. It’s still a daily struggle for me to make the good choice in the face of bad choices. It’s still a Herculean effort to drag myself into the gym and pound the treadmill when all I want to do is snuggle with Pete and watch TV. I hope the three of us doing this together will let them see that success is just in the doing. Every day that you make more good choices than bad, well, that day’s a success.
String enough of those days together, and you just may have something.
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