Friday, August 14, 2015

Challenge V - Day 1 - Ghost in the Machine


Assessment - Day 1 of 27 (Thursday)

Day started off well - down to 211, happy with the direction of life. Did my Miracle Morning, watched some of the Toastmasters Int'l Convention, went to DEFY! for my first full crossfit workout...and then the wheels came off a bit. The ghost of my overtime failure in May materialized more fully as I went to the watch party for our contestants Semi-Final Contest - her friends, her family were all there, and it brought back all the feelings that surrounded my situation this year - specifically the consequences of going overtime.

To make matters worse, the live streaming didn't work and we weren't even able to watch. Very sad situation for the 25 of us in downtown Denver trying to watch, and just as frustrating, I'm sure, for folks trying to tune in around the world.

And food - they had food. Well, junk. Candy. And I resisted...until frustration took hold. M&Ms and Snickers and Oreos - get into my BELLY!

Hungry for real food on the way home, I then stopped at Taco Bell. Sigh.

Ended the day with my home club meeting, then watching a couple clients compete in the late rounds of the semi's, then getting daughter home from babysitting...

27 Days 'on Fire' Goals Review: 

Goal - 195 lbs
Day 1 - 211 
Start of Day 2 - 213 Went off diet, as outlined above. Steak, two KFC Chicken Breasts, M&M's, Snickers, stuffed potato burrito & some other one dollar spicy burrito from Taco Bell. I know - just horrible, especially after the good start, and the workout.

Goal - Website Revised - NP
Goal - Podcast Restarted - NP
Goal - Speak & Deliver book ready for printing - NP
Goal - Schedule 25 speeches - NP

Ancillary activities - Watch Party (4 hrs), Solar Speak (2 hrs), picking up daughter from babysitting, blogging (30 min) Convention watching via streaming (4 hours) podcast listening (30 min) wasted time (2 hrs at most).

Closing Comments:

A lot of my life is just - living life. Surviving from one appointment to another. The Toastmasters Convention has weighed heavily on my mind - both my contest situation, my clients contest's results, and in some ways some frustration that I'm not in a position to just attend it anyway. Day 1 may not have been as 'On Fire' as I'd designed, and frankly, as I type this on the afternoon of Day 2 - it's not going much differently, but I do feel more even keel about life in general.

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