I am ...

When I stopped working, I declared it the Year of ME (The Middle) and the Year of Yes (Shonda Rhimes) and the start of My Happiness Project (Gretchen Rubin).

The year was great!  I worked hard at being HAPPY, living HEALTHY in a relaxed (i.e. not stressing about it) way and the pay off was everything I'd hoped.

The problem with that goal is it had a timeframe.  One year.  And one year + one day, the motivation started the slow slide to not-quite-magical anymore.

I've tried to get it back and I can't find it anymore.  I've thought about EVERY year making a declaration so there is no break, no real end.  But it would have an end - in my mind there is an end.  That year, that goal ends.  Ends are a bad place for me.  They are an excuse to slack, to slide, to stop the real effort.

Given my Whole30 coaching and the coming Project Healthy Body, I thought about making this the start of something ... something with no defined END, but a defined GOAL and growing GOALS.

The beginning of a FOREVER change.  Sounds a bit woo woo and corny (I think so too), but it worked for a year, why can't it work for a year + infinity.

Lots of the "experts" I read-listen-follow love the power of the "I AM" statement.  It's simple and powerful.  Tony Robins, Whole30, PHB, etc, etc.

Sounds like something to try.

I AM ...

I need to think about what I actually am (i.e. what I want to be when I grow up LOL!).  My plan is to start with one or two and then GROW that list.  Nothing needs to stop but as I continue to make progress, I can ADD to the list.  Maybe, it can become my morning MANTRA (or meditation - dare I try it again LOL).

The more I think about it, the more I like it.  My personal MISSION STATEMENT so to speak.

I don't want an endless list to start.  That will dilute each "I am" too much.  I want each one to have solid meaning and be a solid goal.  Make sense??

Hmmmm ... lots to think about.  It's a good start.  Later gators.