September 11, 2014
As I sit here today, I reflect on what happened in New York and D.C. 13 years ago. Any anxiety I feel for my petty issues seems miniscule compared to the enormity of the loss on that day.
Today, all of us are 13 years older and we’ve been blessed with time to gain perspective on the event. Determined terrorist tried to knock us down, and we resolutely stood back up. Today, in D.C., the sky is not as blue and crisp and it’s far more humid.
I thank all of the people who have fought to keep our freedom over the last 13 years and beyond. We are blessed as a nation to have opportunities that other people in other nations don’t have.
I really wanted to write today to talk about yesterday’s “didn’t go as planned” day. I want to show that I really am just like everybody else. I really do have a hectic schedule, really can get off track on taking action toward achieving my goals, and really can get back on track with a little “oh well” and re-setting. I want to show you how I do that so that you can apply the same principals if and when you get off track from achieving any of your goals.
Yesterday (Wednesday) began with the alarm blaring in my ear at 5:30 a.m. UGGGHHHH! Because I spent the prior evening recording my Muffin Toppled® AMUSE-ICAL™ Pre-Month One Even Day video with Elliott White of True Fitness and Nutrition, I had gone to sleep after midnight, and therefore I was exhausted all day Wednesday. In addition, I was sidetracked all day attempting to retrieve my computer hardrive. You see, last May my computer crashed. Last week I realized that I had lost ALL of my videos during that crash. The crash was so BAD it prevented the launch of www.witandfit.com cold in its tracks within days of launching. I considered it a sign.
Getting back on my feet last week, after the kiddos went back to school, I realized that the videos that I assumed Carbonite had backed up were not restored onto my new computer. Unfortunately, Carbonite only backs up videos if you manually tell it to back those videos up. Since I didn’t realize that you had to manually back them up on Carbonite, I never did the manual back up. I’m digressing here here to save you from the same heartache. Not only did I lose all of my business videos and testimonials, I lost four years worth of my kid’s concerts and milestone moments. Unfortunately, I learned last night that my hardrive is unreadable and the next step will be mega recovery at mega expense. I’ll sit on this info for a while until I decide what to do, and if you possess the magic powers to bring my hardrive back, I’d be thrilled to hear from you!
Meanwhile back to Wednesday: because of the Tuesday night’s activities, the blaring alarm, the emotional drain of losing those videos and the afterschool carting of a child from a hot soccer field, I fell asleep at 7:00 p.m. Loyal fans, here’s how I fell asleep- propped up in a chair like an 82 year old. Like Rip Van Winkle, my eyes stayed shut until 6:30 a.m. this morning.
That means that I didn’t get my strength training workout in on Wednesday as planned. Oh no!
What did I do?
Even though I wanted to scream like a banshee and say a lot of naughty words, I chose to remain calm, reset and re-aim.
I changed my strength training workout to today and skip interval cardio. By next week, I should be back on track with my M/W/F workouts. If I had really not been able to perform the strength training workout today, I would have just done two this week and done the routine for 5 weeks, instead of four. That’s the cool thing about the monthly workouts in the Muffin Toppled® AMUSE-ICAL Workout. It’s adaptable to my schedule and YOUR schedule. Each four week program is designed to be done over four weeks if performed three days a week. However, they are adaptable to be completed over six weeks if you are on a two day a week strength training schedule.
I’ll follow tomorrow with the interval cardio routine planned for today and finish off the week on Saturday with another strength training day. That will still line me up for my strength training on Monday of next week (with Sunday as a rest day in between.)
Yay! I’m still undefeated because the flexibility built into my plan will still allow me to move forward toward my goal of fitting into those clothes by September 24, 2014.
