I am slipping back into old patterns which I can recognise. Typically when I start challenges like this, I start with a lot of motivation, maybe string together a couple of good days, then make some bad decisions which derail me.
This is the position I find myself in right now. I haven’t ticked off many of my target habits over the last 4 days, and the weekends decisions ruined any chance of hitting my work hours, calorie deficit, golf practice, and a lot of other habits that I’m trying to achieve.
I made some bad decisions, and it almost put me back to square one.
However this time is different. I’m not restarting, and instead I’m going to work towards making today a perfect day with my habits, and aim to tick all of them off. I am going to make time to achieve all of them, and put in a good day. Then I’ll do my PM reflection, and plan to tick them off again tomorrow.
I am committed to changing, and committed to turning my life around. This will start with changing my habits and being consistent about them. This will definitely be hard but I’m up for it.
I’ve got 50 hours to do in 5 days, but I want to take a massive chunk out of that today, and again tomorrow. I have to eat in a 8,000 calorie deficit over the next 5 days which will be slightly easier than the work hours one but will still be difficult.
A lot of the other goals will come off the back of being able to complete the 50 hours of work in 5 days to get to my target of 56 hours for the week. This is going to be the most critical habit and a lot of the others will flow off this.
To achieve 56 productive hours in a week, all I need to do is sit in front of my computer, and not be distracted. I don’t have to be working at 100%, I just need to resist distractions, and keep moving forward. It sounds so simple, but for some reason I’ve never been able to achieve it.
I work a little bit, then get tempted to go find distraction. I want to start off by getting at least 10 hours done today, and then I want to try for 12-14 tomorrow. This will get me down to needing just over 8 for the last 3 days, and I can try take 10 again on Friday leaving me 16 over the weekend. This is still a lot but I have to hit these goals, I am committed to being a different person and making change in my life.