How is it working for you now?
The beginning of the year everyone started making their vision boards, making resolutions of what they
were going to do different or start, and writing down goals. The month is almost at an end and I wonder
how is it working for you now? Have you kept it up? Have you partnered with someone to hold you
accountable?
The reason why this sticks to the paper it because like most of us we have good intentions of what
we envision the plan to be. What we do is get bored, discouraged or worse forget what we were
supposed to be doing until someone reminds us. " Hey I thought you were on a diet?"
So for February let's plan a restart if you're you off track. Tell one person who you trust to
hold you accountable. Do the check in daily, weekly or bi weekly whatever you both agree to.
I know for myself that last year I found that with being confined to the home because of "Shelter
In Place", I wasn't walking my usual steps. At work I was doing my daily 10,000 steps and had a
partner to compete with on a friendly basis. Now I get up, get ready for work , come across the
hall into my home office and work for 8 hours. I am coming out to go to the restroom or to get
something to eat and go back into the office. My weekly outing was to get into my car and drive to the
grocery store, get gas, and maybe drive to get something to eat. The accountability was gone and I was
getting depressed from not being outside or walking. I slept better and I was seeing the results in my
waistline but now that had stopped.
Speaking with others who are more visual the vision board let them visualize what they had goals for
this year: to travel, eat better, get a promotion, and to spend more time with family. The only thing is
what are the steps to get to those pictures pasted on the board. That needs to be further planned out
so that it becomes a reality.
The list of goals is great if you break it down into weekly, daily, monthly tasks to get to the main goal.
If you make it unrealistic you get discouraged with not seeing it happen and we aren't even done
with January.
So let's do a restart for those who stopped. The dream can become reality. The goals can be
accomplished. Be specific, break it down into smaller obtainable goals, and celebrate the wins.
Who will be my accountable partner and check in ?
Blessings,
Patricia A. Saunders
Author, Blogger, Speaker
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About the Author:
Her work has been featured on a Coast to Coast Book Tour at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Toronto Word On The Street, Sacramento Black Book Fair, Tucson Book Festival, Miami International Festival of Books and AARP Life@50+ Spring Convention. Recently she was chosen among 100 authors from around the United States to participate in the Author's Pavilion at the 2018 Congressional Black Caucus Convention in Washington, DC.
She is a monthly blogger of her own blog Blessed & Curvy who covers today's hot topics. Also she is certified speaker with the Professional Woman Network for Women's Issues & Diversity.
She released her first self published book Through the Fire (March 2012) which covered emotions from situations, circumstances, and life lessons that have influenced her over her lifetime. On a mission to complete a book a year in case she inherits the ugly disease she released her second book Loving Me (2013) and third Let It Rain (2014) which is also self published and covers various topics from love, grief, self image, self esteem, bullying, and discovery of self love .Her fourth book (2016) This Too Shall Pass was released by AuthorHouse Publishing and readers have given it a five star rating. The book was inspired from three note cards she received after the passing of her mother when she felt like giving up on life, on the brink of losing her home and being unemployed that encouraged her to live for those who loved her. Her fifth book was released by Book Baby Publishing (2017) There Is Sunshine After The Rain a non-fiction novel that includes poetry is birthed after the tenth anniversary of her Mother's passing, the reality that with every lesson that she has experienced through life that there is a reason, there are tests that all are faced with, but it's how you respond. Saunders chose poetry and nonfiction to let the readers know the thought process behind the poetry, tools to help others who may face the same circumstances, and it builds a relationship further between the author and those reading her words.
Patricia is a Supervisor in Silicon Valley, in her spare time she enjoys to travel, wine tasting, and spending time cooking for friends and family.
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