New Year, New Resolve

In my last posting, I talked about Reflecting, selecting and removing. Here's how it went.

Reflecting: I spent about 90 minutes reviewing old blog posts today looking for some insight. I can't say I found any, mostly it just felt repetitive. Maybe that's the insight? I'm repeating the same behaviors over and over and over.

When I looked for positive reflection, I did note that from April until July I exercised very regularly and got fit enough to do a triathlon, probably the high point of my fitness year. Unfortunately I also managed to train enough to develop a semi-serious foot injury which set me back for months and kept me from my Urbanathlon dreams. Still there was a lot of fitness added to my life this year.

On the downside would be the injury I mentioned and my remarkable inability to get my diet and weight under control. I might also add my continued anxiety of school and career choices.

So my only real insight is a reminder that we are what we repeatedly do and I'm going to try to find some  positive behaviors to repeat this year instead of the same old tired choices I've made for years.

Selecting: There are literally dozens of choices I could make for goals this year, but the article I read said pick 2-3 that you will actually do. I'm going to cheat and combine a bit, but here are my 2012 goals.The top priority is health, health, health:
1. Stop eating French Fries beginning in January (today) and stop drinking soda by February.
2. Complete the A New Me program through my health insurance plan.
3. Get my weight to 180 lbs. or less by Riverfest so Hannah and I can go on the Bungee trampoline thing that I've been too heavy for for the last two years. That one wounds me just to type.
4. Urbanathlon and/or an Olympic distance triathlon.

Removing: I need to create space for the things I want to do so I've identified some useless things I do that could go away or reduce. Here they are:
1. No more games on Facebook (bye Zuma and Bejeweled)
2. Reduce blog updates to weekly
3. Reduce looking at grad school or other jobs to weekly
4. Reduce checking email at work to 4 times a day, every 90 minutes.


So, I'd hoped this might be a deeper post today but it's not there. Instead I hope this is  practical path to meaningful change. If I'm doing this entry in a year, I hope that good health is a given and I can get on to other topics. I'll feel unstuck then.