Best Wishes to All!

Hi Everyone, 

I found it very rewarding to be in this group, and thank you all for your participation.  I appreciate the attempt to make this Blog an effective tool as well.

Thank you, Bruce and Kym, for sharing a heart-felt and experience-honed intelligent system for creating and sticking with positive changes/choices.  I learned so much that will always be of benefit to me, and I am inspired to make the most of it.  

I wish us all the courage, perseverance, and inspiration (including support systems!) to make the daily choices that bring our highest visions of ourselves to life.  Work it, we are worth it! 

Noel

Time to go

Hi everyone.

I think it is time for this incantation of our blog to shut down. It was always my hope that it would be used as a tool to help each other, but it doesn't seem to be. I know many of you are working on some great stuff and have your own (I hope!) support systems. I will still be working on our Prize Club concept, but I need to figure out the most appropriate format.

It is our intention to create a blog on One on One's website. It will be different from this, but I hope very worthwhile. We will let you know as soon as it is up and running.

Thanks for your courage and inspiration. If there is ever anything I can do to help you, please let me know. It would be a pleasure.

Bruce

anyone up for a fun run/walk?

Last spring i decided to run a 5k to "see how i'd do" and support a worthy cause. Well, it's that time of year again and i'm running again. actaully, i'd forgotten that it was coming up, but when i got the email reminder on saturday it inspired me to hit the treadmill yesterday for 5k. Not too bad for someone who hates running, but there's much room for improvement by the 4th. last year was 29 minutes (yuck, but i did beat the turtle), so i've got to beat that this year.

Saturday April 4, Noon start

5k run or 3k walk

http://www.psuautismspeaks.org/

you're welcome to sign up as an individual, join an existing team or the prize club could create a team. i'm running for Team David.....David is the son of one of my employees who has austism.

Personal Mission Statement

As I was working on my personal mission statement this morning, I realized more than ever how very important it really is.

My Prize of feeling good enough about my body to wear whatever I want and not feel overly self conscious with my shirt off shows up nowhere in my mission statement. What does show up is (to name a few);

-my commitment to be an inspiration to others;
-to care for my spiritual, mental and physical self;
-to be a patient, loving human being;
-to be a good example for my children.

How can I be that person if I don't feel good about myself? How can I be that person if I;

-eat for every reason other than nutrition;
-am not willing to take care of my body and health;
-am not willing to take the time to be proactive and live abnormally;
-make excuses that I know aren't real but make anyway in order to protect my ego;
-have low self esteem and allow it to go even lower by doing nothing.

When I am not WORKING to be the person I aspire to be, I slowly become anything but inspirational, anything but patient, anything but loving and anything but a good example. It is insidious...it doesn't happen all at once. It happens slowly over time. I drift downward. I become miserable. It would be nice to be one of those people that drift upward, but I am certainly not one of them.

I strongly recommend that each of us take the time to create a personal mission statement. A "creedo" of sorts. I am fond of saying that if you don't know where you are going, you are going to have a heck of a time getting there. I am also fond of using Steven Covey's term "begin with the end in mind". What kind of result are you looking for? What might you want to have said about you at your funeral? How do you want to be remembered?

Let's all take some time and think about these questions for Wednesday.

Looking forward to Wed. Meeting

Jean, I hope you are doing really well today!  You are in my thoughts for a quick full recovery.

Everyone--I will be at the meeting on Wednesday, and I look forward to working on commitments.  I'm ready to work towards a couple of more intermediate type goals with the Prize Club strategy.  Aligning my everyday thoughts and actions with my highest purpose (Prize) moment by moment is my goal.  I need some help in "linking" strategies to re-connect and realize my purpose with my everyday and every moment actions.  Then I think the commitments I make will be most effective and do-able. 

This is exciting to take stock, re-evaluate, and decide on more effective way to work the Prize Club philosophy!  We have more understanding, more experience, and success to guide our choices.  The best is ahead!  Hope to see you Wednesday. 

Meeting on Wednesday night?

First of all, I want to let you all know that Jean was hospitalized last week with a blood clot in her lung. I am pleased to report that she is doing well and due to be released today. She said she might even be able to work out tomorrow! We all wish you well, Jean.

Would anyone like to get together on Wednesday night at 7:00? I am going to plan on it, assuming there is any interest at all. I would like to focus on commitment and accountability, but would like to hear from you. What do you need and what would you like to focus on? As I said last week, I want to kick my personal growth program up a notch. No more "business as usual", no more "rollercoaster".

Please let me know if you can join us on Wednesday.

Happy First Day of Spring!

What a good feeling!

Thanks everyone for the support. Several of you have taken the time to speak with me personally which has been really uplifting.

Yesterday was great! Eating was good and exercise was really good. I did some strength training in the morning and could have skipped our Group Training class in the evening, but my conversation with Lorrie the day before and our renewed commitment motivated me to do exactly what I didn't feel like doing. Man was it worth it. I really felt great while I was doing it and even better afterward.

I also got a good start on my Mission Statement. As I was working on the it, I realized that I essentially have one in the front of my journal! I jotted down my core values and beliefs a couple years ago, but never labeled it a "Mission Statement". That's OK, I have more to add now that I have addressed it again and more formally. My main purpose for doing this is to help align my behaviour with my beliefs. This is part of my strategy to be the person I aspire to be...not to leave it to chance and "hope" I turn out OK and am happy. Being proactive...that's where it is at.

I think another meeting sounds good Stacey. However, I want to give a little thought to the objective. I think it is important that we be there to support each other, but I think it is even more important that we do the leg work necessary to achieve our Prizes. I would like to hear from all of you. What do you feel like you need right now? What would you like to do at our meeting? I see what several of you are doing, and see the success you are enjoying as a result. Is the extra work worth it?

For those who are doing things as you always have, either feel good about it or make a change. Don't live in a world of regret, guilt and powerlessness. You have choices and should be choosing to do what makes you happy, whatever it may be. I like Kym's concept of living abnormally. My "normal" living got me out of shape and miserable emotionally. It is truly "abnormal" for me to eat the way I am eating and exercise the way I am exercising.

Comments?

This is for those of us who use the excuse that we are just too busy to exercise and don't have the time! 

Make time for your self today!