Day 6 of my personal 12 week challenge to better health and fitness.
Hi everybody,
Creating my own 12 week challenge for myself brings about its own insights.
We probably all know this point but it is worth repeating. If we fail to plan, we could be planning to fail. This is where using something like the 12 week challenge worksheets can assist, otherwise we are leaving our planning up to chance.
I know that I like to be spontaneous at times but the concept of having a weekly plan tends to keep me on track. From my experiences, it is too easy to deceive myself into thinking that I am on track but in actual fact not!
The advantage of the worksheets is that you can record what activity you have done and look back over the week and see in black and white what you have actually done. You are not relying on your memory.
I am far from perfect with this, but I do realise the importance of gauging my performance.
As an example of this, I work in a very busy inbound government medical call centre. Every call that we receive is recorded on a productivity spreadsheet. The type of call is recorded as well. As a call centre operator, I can tell how I am progressing throughout the day. Any processing work I do between calls is also recorded. The end result of all this is knowing at the end of the day my productivity. I aim for 100% productivity. Sometimes the result is more; sometimes it is less but I know after a 4 week period just how well I am going.
Use this as an example to encourage yourself to map your weight loss progress. Don’t leave it to chance. From my experiences, if I leave it to chance, then September rolls into October and then before you know it Xmas is here.
If you haven’t already done so, download the worksheets from my blog at
http://jamestansell.com and join me in challenging yourself to better health and fitness.
Catch ya soon.
By the way, we celebrated International Pirate Day at work yesterday, so the extra temptations were on show. The treasures I am referring to were cakes and sweets, not gold!
So remember to get into the habit of planning your week as this will generally keep you on track.
Have a great weekend!
bye for now.
James
