I had such aggressive goals when I started this blog. The initial reason was to promote my Beachbody coaching business. Since I withdrew as a coach (due to financial reasons) my goal became personal. I had transitioned from wife and mother working outside the home to a full time, stay at home mother and home educator. I’ve always been passionate about truly supporting other women and this move gave me the ability to do just that.

It’s been a year and 1/2 filled with not only spending lots of time with my children, and neighbors but also helping numerous girlfriends with their children for a date night, doctor appointment, school trips, hair appointments, etc. I have been so blessed!

Regarding my exercise I set a goal in 2019, before Memorial Day, after reading an article in the Runner’s World magazine. Although I enjoy running I’ve always said it wasn’t my preferred method of exercise. The magazine encourages a “running streak” from Memorial Day until Independence Day. You are supposed to run at least one mile per day during that time. I completed that with a friend and enjoyed it so much I decided to continue indefinitely. I ended up breaking my streak in August when we were on family vacation because I wanted to just be able to relax and we were doing a bunch of hiking during that vacation as well. I got back to it later in the month of August and set the goal for a 365 day streak. I made it until December. My streak lasted 145 days. December 30th, 2019 was day 145.

I had started to have a lot of ache, pain and strain in my knees. I was doing other exercise during this time as well such as lifting and other cardio and weight programs. I am the type of person who once I set a goal there isn’t much that can deter me even if my body is practically shouting to take a rest. Getting sick on December 30 got my attention. I think it was a combination of some type of virus and my body just giving me the most obvious signal that I needed some rest. I haven’t run since then.

I would be lying to say that I have no regrets about stopping. Because of the “Type A” nature of mine it killed me a little to stop running after I’d set the goal for 365 days. I have since set some new goals.

I’ve been interested in running a Spartan race. I haven’t due to the distance from Savannah and the cost. In November I started looking at the Spartan race again. I was looking at the obstacles to see what I would need to add to my exercise routine to be ready. I found out that if you sign up to volunteer at the race you can race for free. That is huge considering the race fees alone are over $100 and the closest ones to us are in Atlanta and Jacksonville which also requires at least a 2 night stay. AJ and I discussed it and talked about where the race was in Atlanta in April. I felt that would give me enough time to train, it’s warm enough that we can tent camp, and maybe even head up to North Georgia to visit our friends and their new baby!

What goals have you set for yourself? Is there a goal you set and you just aren’t loving it? Is your body talking to you, like mine was, and telling you to start or stop something? Is there an adventure you’ve wanted to take and there was a niggling feeling holding you back? Is it something you’ve procrastinated about? Is there a wall you need to push through? A new program to try? Nutritional changes? Relational changes or boundaries? Is there something you’ve wanted to learn and haven’t taken the time? Is there a book you’ve wanted to read?

Now is the time!

Please share your stories with me. I love to encourage and see you killing it!