#day1 of #30days of #radicalaccountability
I keep hearing the advice “Life’s easy when you live it the hard way and hard if you live it the easy way.” Every time I hear it, I write it down. And today, at the Herbalife Central Florida STS, the speaker was looking right at me when he said this exact phrase.
I may live a relatively easy life — enough to eat, a safe place to live, satisfying employment, a good support system — but let’s be real: I make things a lot harder than they need to be. I am living my life the easy way, making excuses instead of taking ownership and doing what needs to be done.
In the last 3 months, I have made massive improvements in personal accountability. A big one for me is that for the first time in my life I took on a physical challenge and actually stuck with it. I started training for a half-marathon on August 4, and two weeks from tomorrow, on November 16, I will be running this race. I will have trained for 16 weeks, even though it was hard, even though I thought I couldn’t do it. This is huge for me, and it sparked a bunch of other personal triumphs I’ll talk more about in a future post.
And while I definitely celebrate these changes, they’ve made it unmistakably clear to me that I have a long way to go. Which is what made me wonder: What would happen if, for 30 days, I just did everything I’m supposed to do the way I’m supposed to do it when I’m supposed to do it whether I feel like doing it or not? How would things change?
It’s been on my mind and my heart for weeks now, and today pushed me over the edge from contemplation to action. That’s why for National Blog Posting Month 2014, I’m launching #30days of #radicalaccountaility. For the month of November, I’m going to be posting daily about my journey toward an easy life by doing it the hard way: getting up on time, sticking with my nutrition and fitness plans, doing daily personal development, staying on top of the housework, parenting my kids gently, loving my husband thoroughly, and, well, being the best me I can be.
I don’t expect perfect. In fact, I suspect some days are going to be epic failures and will make me want to “take my ball and go home because this is stupid anyway.” But I’m in it. For 30 days. No matter what.
I’ll be documenting my meals, snacks, workouts, the scale, and more as @FLFitMom on Instagram, and blogging here daily through the whole month. Radical accountability means I’m sharing the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s time to get real. August was my month of #noexcuses. September, though I can’t seem to recall the hashtag I thought was so clever when I thought of it, was my month of #pushingharder. October was my month of #peaceandpatience. And now, November, it’s time to put it all together and be radically accountable for my life. Let’s do this.