21 Day Challenge Part I - Introduction Post
Tomorrow, Friday, February 25th is the very first day of our challenge. So whatever your goal is, whatever habit you want to break or make - tomorrow when you wake up, make sure you begin!
*The challenge will still be 42 days overall, however I've decided to break it up into two parts. This way if you think you've got your new habit going and you want to try a new one you can. Plus this way its not a long, continuous, never ending challenge but instead almost like two seperate ones. Plus, the second half (in my opinion) will be much harder. It will be the "testing" part of the challenge, testing to see if you really have made a habit.
*It will be good if we can state each day in our journals whether or not we have accomplished our new daily habit, but our major 'check in' days will be each Friday. This day I'll make a post entirely geared towards the challenge, you can tell me how your week went, things you want to keep doing or things you want change, and to get an overall look at your behaviors.
* I don't want this to be about numbers or really about losing weight. Of course most of us will be doing it in hopes of changing our weight, but I don't care about weigh ins - this challenge is about changing our lifestyles, changing ourselves for the better, to help us with weightloss but to help us over all as well. I'm not saying to not report success in weight change, but I am saying to not let a gain bring you down or forget about your over all goal.
* If you miss one day, don't give up. Just start again. Don't look at it as a mistake, a failure, or anything negative. The whole point about doing something so consistently - is that if you mess up you will hopefully gain the ability to be aware of it and change it, and make up for it the next day. If you're doing so wonderfully every single day, what is one day going to do?
You have every right to take this challenge as independently as you wish, do as you wish - but here is a list of things I plan to do to keep myself on track and some things you may want to do as well.
- Mark down the days on your calendar 1-21, so you can keep better track of how well you are doing.
- Remind yourself in your journal what day of the challenge it is, even if you're just designating a small portion of your journal to it.
- Make a To Do list daily with your new habit on that list to be marked off as "done"
- Plan ahead for "back up" for if you need something to replace a bad habit (that is better than it) or something to make up for not doing a new habit. Like if you're trying not to snack on chips, make sure you have healthy yummy snacks available.
- Find (research) different ways to accomplish or control your new habit on the internet or in books, make things interesting so you don't get bored.
About the Habits
It can be anything. You can making a new habit or breaking an old bad one.
It doesn't have to be daily. If you just want to make sure that you have a 'schedule' with your habit (as in you work out 3 days a week) the other days of the habit you just need to make sure you don't binge, or completely laze out, do something else productive on those days! Do something that will help you make sure you stick to your new habit, whether its putting cold waters in your fridge for your work out, or cleaning your clothes, or getting a good nights sleep.
Tell me what they are! :)
I'll be stating my new habit tomorrow, and you guys can too if you still need more time.
- I found this new website challenge thing, its the "2005 Self Challenge" at http://www.self.com . I like it because it tells you how many calories you burn with your exercise - fitted to your weight and height. It also keeps a meter on the front page of how many calories you've burned since the beginning of the challenge, and how many minutes of workout you've done. Yep, thats the only reason I like it :P Sign up if you wish, I think they supposedly have free give aways too. Oh, and I did 15 minutes of Tae Bo Boot camp.. and I'm still sore two days later. Oh. My. Lord.
Hope you're all doing well :)