The year is looking up! See I may not have been blogging for the longest time, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t have a life too. Went thru a major down, but there’s no place for sad-sob dramas on this blog! I only keep referring to it because it’s one of those events where something good comes out of a bad.
And good did happen! We all have our dreams, right? But how many of us actually have it written down, clear as crystal? We certainly didn’t. So we went on to make a vision statement for our life. I tell you, it’s empowering. It’s not perfect, God no! But it’s a start. We broke it down to the missions we had to embark on to reach that vision, and broke it further to set goals and deadlines. It all sounds so corporate but we now have in our possession a powerful tool that has helped me in particular move forward. The goals and deadlines made us accountable and by the end of 2010. I had paid off 70% of my credit card debt, my son’s remaining tuition for this school year, and I am a dress size smaller.
Our goals are ever polishing, ever perfecting. We didn’t meet all the deadlines we set, but you know what? It’s the personal will to carry them out that was the challenge. So I’m still proud of what I accomplished. What a level up.
And the dress size. You have no idea how much personal will I needed to size down. See, I decided months and months back that I was gonna stick to a proper fitness plan. I didn’t totally give up the extra calories. Ice cream is soul food too, okay? LoL. But I was eating less portions and adding more clean food, like veggies and fruits. And I exercised. I was hitting the jogging haunts. I didn’t have time to do it evenings because I supervised homework with Zach and worked on my online biz, so I hit the streets in the morning. 5:30AM kind of mornings. Oh ok, 5:45. Or for as long as first light was out. Then I discovered dance aerobics and got hooked on that. And I still kept my cheat days of food. The changes weren’t immediately evident, especially to those you are with on an everyday basis, but to acquaintances I’d bump into, they’d definitely comment that I was slimmer than last. It was liberating. What a level up.
And hey, get this… 2011 I took my fitness resolve further and I’m back at the gym. Yeah, yeah, I’m probably labelled a Resolutioner right now and the bets are on that I won’t make it past March, but we’ll see. Nothing like naysayers buzzing around me about what can’t do. I believe I’m on a good fitness plan to burn fat faster and tone the muscles plus the instructors and my hubby are pushovers enough to motivate. I got through a whole week of my “grueling” new program that prompted me to start a new blog, transfor.MAY.tion. (A shoutout to Pinay Mommy for helping me set it up!). Now that is levelling up!
Tots is also levelling up at a new job. Only tradeoff is that the work takes him across the sea, to the next island, Iloilo. Oh well. Could have been worse. Iloilo is just an hour away by ferry and he gets about 1-2 weeks assignment back at the homefront every month. And we could just as easily go visit him too.
This month, the kids will be levelling up as well. Birthday month for both of them! Zach turns six in nine days while Joey becomes a three-year old munchkin two days after her brother. Will be planning birthday menus soon.
So 2011, be kind. We want to have lots of family fun this year!
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