So the long weekend is over, school officially started and I am ready to get myself moving...literally.
To movitvate myself, I took a lesson from my 4 year old and made myself a sticker chart. My daughter has already taken charge of monitoring my progress and is sweet enough to share her stickers with me for days that I do well!
The goal is to do 20 minutes of activity every day for the next three weeks. Each week I sucessfully complete I will earn a reward (which I will put up on my sidebar somewhere once I figure them out!). The weeks need to be consecutive in order for me to earn the reward for weeks 2 and 3, otherwise I start the count back as week one.
I am also using the chart to monitor my first food goal. My goal for that is simply to eat breakfast every day. Something I have a very hard time with. I figure, start small and build from there.
The goals are simple and basic, yet have been too much for me to master until now. I realize that in order to reach that big picture, I need to start with baby steps and build on them once as I master each one. I chose 3 weeks as my initial starting point because I read somewhere that it takes 3 weeks of continually doing something before it starts to become habit. As each behavior becomes habitual, I can then start to add on. The chart worked like a charm for my daughter, so why not try it for me!! I need to have a place where I can physically see my progress and be accountable!
How do you all keep yourself accountable???
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