Day 0 on my way to myself.

I come a long way of 10 years and made finally the decision to get my attitude and attraction back.

Foremost, my main goal is to reach inner happiness again, to feel well in my skin, feel soul-beautiful, whole and just great.



To reach all this, I set up a plan which I want to follow through and instead of jotting down my thoughts in a long, boring text, I just bring up my main areas on which I will work:



1. Attitude: I was always one of the most positive people I knew and I want to return/be that. For that I will develop focusing only on the positive sides of "things" and "obstacles", knowing that I "can do everything" and go through it. For this Imade up a very private program, mainly by reading books and keeping track of all that what I am doing in this area.

In my accountability-log I will call this area attitude and I can "score" daily 10 points for living by my small daily goal (that what I want to do or achieve) .



2. Nutrition: I don't consider myself of being overweight or struggling with weight (I am 163 cm short and 52 kg) but I don't feel happy and have not much self-esteem in my body which I would like to change within the first mission (ending: 24 August, 2008...I entered myself for the Sprint Triathlon in Stockholm and think I am just "crazy" ;-) to do so. BUT I AM SO EXCITED! and I want to try to finish...750 m of swimming in the Archipelago, 20km of bicycle-riding, 5 km of running in a row!!!). For this I bought the famous book of Tom Venuto "Burn the fat and feed the muscle"...something I can just recommend...but I still have to put Tom's ideas and words into my daily eating-habits.

Nutrition contains also my drinking-habits, which shall from tomorrow on be at least 8 big glasses of water.

In my accountability-log "nutrition" can count 10 points.



3. Exercise: I was earlier in my life, before I became sick, a sports-jock and sport was good for me; it made me relax and it took me away from my daily stress. My job is really hectic and I work many hours per day, travels are involved and I have also sometimes a lack of sleep. Exercise will give me physical and also mental strength which is good for me. Mens sana in corpore sano.



For that I set up a cardio-plan which contains running and until I reach my first short-time goal at the 24th August,2008 I will also swim and cycle a bit.

The will also be logged on the NIKE+ -side and I will enter there a "challenge" as well to keep me on track.



Strength training will be a training program from the e-book Turbulence Training which I like a lot: It is easy, doesn't take too long and is not boring.

Furthermore I thought about crunches, dips and push-ups.



I will try HIIT on some days as well to get my body-feeling back and motivate myself.



Each exercise will count 10 points.



4. Furthermore I have 2 big business-projects and each of them can count 10 points per day as well if I follow my very private plan.



5. Life-long-learning is also huge point in my life and I want to fulfill 2 projects within the next 18 months, it might push my work-life a lot and I want to follow it up by a private plan. Following up this aspect of my life will count 10 points.



6. My main business-project, which can daily count 10 points.



7. Implementing new habits into my life. I give myself for each new habit 28 days to become a habit and want to start with drinking 8 glasses of water assuch a new "habit".



So much to do...and I am so excited to start tomorrow!



Thank you Lynda, Lilla, Christy, Debbie, Suzette, Adam, Michael, Mike, Dougal (You know who you are!) for so much inspiration in the last 9 months... I sat on the fence and watched your fabulous way. You are all so positive and spray a good and warm atmosphere.

And thank you Carolyne Myss for the great seminar last weekend. It pushed me off the fence to take action...the time has come, 10 years is a long time. I want to start now. To start to become me and make the right choices.

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