Im the CEO of my body

Hi Everyone,

How are your goals progressing?

The last 3 weeks have been manic for me, first the successes;

• my company landed a very prestigious contract, our best and biggest to date
• I have maintained my 99 kg, through a lot of healthy eating and portion control

And now my disappointments;

• Too much celebrating of the new contract, I still have not kicked the alcohol into touch!
• Very limited exercise

I guess with all successes you need some disappointments, they have to balance out.

Winning this contract has been huge for my little RFID company, it will change our business and marketing plans for 2010 & 2011, I have not done the 2012 plans yet. I will let you have more details next month when we start deployment. As soon as we found out we won the contract I had to change my plans for the next 3 months, I am back to working very long hours just to make sure we deliver beyond our customers’ expectations, this has stopped all my 3 day plans and I have had to live on “good health instinct”, the knowledge I have built up over the last 3 months on good food and portion control. I cannot stress enough it is not only important to lose weight but to learn how to maintain that weight lose. I am so glad I have not only lost weight but learnt the basics of maintaining weight lose and living healthily.

On the exercise front, due to unforeseen reasons I now have my kids 24/7, as a single, full time working parent, there is very little time to yourself and if there is any, personally I sleep. I thought I was fit, blow that, doing what I am now doing is far more exhausting than running 20 km every day. I have 2 more weeks of being both parents but I am enjoying spending the extra time with my kids. They have really kicked in with me on the healthy eating front and we are cooking a lot together, my 3 year old loves making salads with me.

With the start of a new month (it is already March in Australia) I am putting in more effort to get back into weight lose mode, back to my 3 day plans and regular exercise. Wish me luck.

Well, I have to go, I have a flight in a few hours, school lunches to make, bags to pack….

Keep well & I would love to hear how you are doing. Are 3 day Plans working for you?

Jon

Day 1, I am not sure which day it was exactly, nothing special had made it any different from any other day, it was also not a day I had planned on being day 1 but I just knew it was day 1. There were so many things going on in my life and I was trying desperately to get control of them or fix them, high flying on some aspects of my life and low flying on others. I wanted the low aspects of my life to be better, I had tried a thousand different ways to fix them but nothing had worked, little improvements here and there but not a single one had a long term effect.

Why not! Did I need to accept that my life has great aspects and bad aspects to it.

Editors Note: No Jon and nor do any of you.

What  do you think makes up a successful business person? Is it just good business acumen and being professional or do you also think they also need to be fit & healthy, have a good marriage, good relationship with their children, good friends & social life, well off, charitable, morale,  etc etc etc. In 2007 I had some of them but not enough of them to make me happy or even feel successful. It then hit me, I needed to stop trying to improve on the bad aspects I had to radically change each one of them, I needed understand it, the effect it had on other aspects of my life and then I had to put the time and effort into that change.

But where to start, I was already so busy and I had no free time. Okay I need to start by making more hours in the day! Not possible, no super powers!!! What next, I need to drop something in my life, great idea but what. “Work”, No, I need to work to pay the bills and keep a roof over my head. “Family”, No can do, I love my kids too much. “Wife”, Yes great idea she can go, most of the fun has gone anyway. After an hour I began to think that might not possible, it will cost me a lot of $$$ and who else would love a chubby middle age businessman. Okay I can’t drop anything!!!

New brainwave, I don’t need to improve on the bad aspects of my life, I need to find out what causes me to make those aspects bad. What are my poisons?

Editors Note – Good boy Jon, take responsibility for your life.

Poisons, what are my poisons? Well I eat and drink too much, I procrastinate, I always try to help everybody else, I trust that people will be do as they say, I’m not completing tasks properly, I worry so much…Oh my god there are so many!!! Okay now pick 1 and start. So I went for a walk, I needed to stop worrying about so many things, I had to stop and focus. That was it, my eureka moment, focus on the poisons. It was at this point that I knew day 1 had started.

More next week

Jon