I Am MissFit: Challenge For Change- (Humbling) Week 1

Thank God this challenge is 45 days!  The first 5 days have been very difficult for me.  It turns out, change is hard! 

Here's a little reminder of the challenge that I have posed to myself:

• To give more than is expected of me.  Everyday I will give of myself 100%, because there are a lot of times that I hold back and that limits my potential.
• To be more organized.  Everyday I will strive to be more organized in my work and school life, in hopes that it become a habit.

Recap of my week:

Day 1, Monday June 10, 2013: Over slept.  All of my personal training appointments were cancelled due to construction.  One might think that this would have been the perfect time to get organized or do some school work, but I played way to long in the gym and tired myself out.  I was pissed at myself, but better luck tomorrow...

Day 2, Tuesday June 11, 2013:  Woke up feeling exhausted, which is weird because I had 7 hours of sleep.  I got some advice that I should eat some more carbs, so I made that happen.  Instantly I felt better.  I even hit a snatch PR later that day!  I believe I hit the PR due to the fact that I let go of any fear or anxiety and gave it my all.  Because of that, I treated myself to an almond mocha smoothie from Smoothie King.  :)

Day 3, Wednesday June 12, 2013:  I had to be up super early to run the 5:15am class.  I hadn't done that in a long time so I was excited for it.  I think that the added carbs helped my energy levels, because I was very pumped!  Although the start of my day was great, it didn't hold.  I ended up getting off track with my to do list due to procrastination.  At this point, my good intentions are failing me.  I started to rethink my approach to this challenge.  Am I going to be able to change?  I must find a way!

Day 4, Thursday June 13, 2013:  This is a better day.  I wake up on time, but I feel extremely overwhelmed because I have a full day at the gym plus a huge workload for school.  I decided to take a rest day from working out for a couple of reasons, but mainly because I was tired and my hamstring wasn't cooperating with me.  That was a disaster waiting to happen...so I opted out.  I let my dislike for my Statistics class get the best of me, I put off the homework assignments that were piling.  Besides, the NBA finals were on...

Day 5, Friday June 14, 2013:  I woke up on time.  I had my 2 usual personal training sessions that morning.  My energy levels were great!  I had a few meetings, and I even snuck in time to get my eye brows done :)  When I got home, I started to evaluate my actions during the 1st week of the challenge.  I have so much changing to do!  I can do this!

Like I said earlier, change is hard!  The first thing that needs to change is my attitude.  I am determined to take the necessary steps to get the wanted outcome.  I will be honest, I thought that my actions would be different because I took on the challenge to change.  Heck, I'm the one that started this Challenge For Change...so I feel there is a little more pressure on me to produce.  But the truth is, I can only take this one day at a time and try my hardest!  Bad habits are hard to break.  I have 45 days....I will stay patient.

Weekly Wrap-Up

Hi All,

Because one of the challenges for myself is to be more organized, I have had to re-route my days.  I am going to be posting a weekly wrap-up that will summarize my week and the progress (or not) that happens for me. 

L. Brittney 

I Am MissFit: Challenge For Change- My declaration

Today is the first day of the 45 day I Am MissFit: Challenge For Change.  I'm not sure if it will have much of a following or if anyone will actually take part in it, but it won't stop me from participating in the challenge myself.  Personally, I need to change a couple of things about myself and figured that I'd invite anyone, heck everyone, to join me in the process.

Recently I took a mini-vacation to Florida to "try to relax."  As I was lying on the beach soaking up the sand, I began to evaluate my life and the outcome was simple- I need to change.  I tend to be extremely self-critical (...but who isn't) and honest with myself, but the one thing that I feel I lack when it comes to changing habits about myself is "follow through."

I asked myself, "how can I commit to the changes that I need to make in my life?" And then I had what they call an "A ha moment."  I thought, "why not pose a challenge on The MissFit Movement blog to other women looking to make a commitment to change something in their lives?"

I am a firm believer in what I like to call "walking the talk."  I know that by publicly posting what I want to change about myself, I will have to hold myself accountable and follow through because people are watching.  To be completely honest, maybe no one will be watching me at all, but there is a possibility that someone will be watching...and that is enough motivation for me.

So for the next 45 days I will take at least one action, daily, towards the changes that I want to occur in my life and document it for all to read. 

My I Am MissFit: Challenge For Change is:

• To give more than is expected of me.  Everyday I will give of myself 100%, because there are a lot of times that I hold back and that limits my potential.
• To be more organized.  Everyday I will strive to be more organized in my work and school life, in hopes that it become a habit.

For the next 45 days I will be posting my journey.  It is said that the definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, so this better work because I don't want to be crazy.  I am not really sure what is going to happen, but I do know one thing...I will change!  Stay tuned.


In Good Health,

L. Brittney

I Am MissFit: Challenge For Change

Let's face it, there are things that we aren't particularly happy about in our lives that we would like to change.  Have you ever found yourself thinking "I should eat better" or "I should be more organized" or "I wish I had the will power to workout more" or "I wish I was more adventurous" or "I should take up a new hobby" or "I wish treated my family better."  Stop wishing your circumstances would change and do something about it!  Like Tony Robbins says, "stop shoulding all over yourself" and take the necessary steps to elicit the change you desire in your life. 

Not all change is improvement, but without change there can be no improvement.  Max Depree reminds us that, change is necessary for growth, because in the end "it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." 

If you had 45 days to change one thing about yourself that you wanted to improve, what would it be? 

Would you change:

• how you eat?
• how you exercise?
• how you treat others?
• how you treat yourself?
• how you think?

Do you want to:

• get stronger?
• be more adventurous?
• learn a new sport?
• get organized?
• lose weight?
• be more positive?
• be more disciplined?

This is a challenge to create change within ourselves to inspire change in others.  Be a change agent .  When others see you taking necessary steps to change an aspect in your life, you give them the needed courage to make changes within themselves.  We all know that significant change doesn't happen over night, but the decision to make change happens instantaneously. 

This challenge has no grand prize.  There are no game rules.  The only rules that apply are that hold yourself accountable by posting your challenge for change to The MissFit Movement facebook page.  Starting June 10th, for 45 days make a commitment to yourself and to the MissFit community that you will take the necessary steps to become the MissFit that you want to be.  Let's make a change together. 

Over the next 45 days, how will you challenge yourself to change?  Make your declaration here and feel free to post comments, pictures, even videos of yourself taking action!  Let's have some fun and affect some change in our lives!     

Start posting today!