My Big Hairy Audacious Goals

The other day I was binge listening to Ruth Soukup Do it Scared podcast, and one of the things that she talks about is what is known as stretch goals. These are goals that are out of your comfort zone, and you almost believe they are unattainable. These are goals that make you nervous and makes your tummy tie up in knots when you think about them. Most people myself included are always setting goals that are easy for us, and we may have accomplished that goal, but there is no real satisfaction in attaining them.
I have to admit that I am super guilty in doing this. I am ALWAYS giving myself an easy out with whatever I decide to do. For example, I have lost 75 pounds in a two-year span one way I did that was to join a gym. At, first I was so fat that it was getting hard to walk. I think I had more of a waddle than walking and the goal of walking on the treadmill at 1.0 wore me out. At the beginning that was all I could do and I felt better about finally taking charge of my health. Th problem came when I did not change as I got stronger and leaner and able to do a jog. I kept at the speed of 2.0 and walked. It may have helped if I had challenged myself to say an hour of walking, but nope at most I think I would do 15 mins then call it a day. Of course, my weight loss stalled, . Once I realized that I had not lost a damn pound in three months and my muscles were not becoming tougher I gave in and started looking at workouts to do. I was looking at some workouts, and for me, I wanted a program I could do anywhere both when I had no gym to go to and second I wanted a program I could do at the gym. I work from home, and I need to get out sometimes plus going to the gym then coming back home help ease my mind into a wok it mode. If I stayed at my apartment, I tended to just scroll thru my social media feeds, and I get almost nothing done. It was for that reason that I hated Beachbody. I mean

I may be an introvert most of the time, but I need people around me grinding and pushing themselves to have the motivation to do a full workoutClick To Tweet. Confession time: if I worked out at my apartment I would usually be all like fuck this shitty workout and plop down on my couch. Needless to say, that method was a complete and utter failure. However, if I am at the gym, you better believe I am not going to be the fat girl first off the treadmill. My ass is staying on it until that fat girl over there was done. Then again if I am traveling or something, I wanted a workout that I COULD do if I lacked access to the gym. Pretty soon I was bored with my routine, and I admitted that I needed to step it up. So I looked, and I was almost always on Instagram, and I kept seeing Kayla and her BBG workouts but what pulled me in where the transformation stories. I mean holy shit, if you haven’t, you should go and check them out, they will blow your mind. But then insecurity crept up on me, and I kept putting it off until one day I was like ok I will give this a try for a month, and that is ALL. I couldn’t even get through the workouts at first then I became stronger. Soon people began asking how much I was going to lose and I honestly had no idea. Well, I DID. I wanted to get to 140, but I was 320 pounds at the time. So I kept putting off to get a subscription to the BBG Sweat app. Finally, I agreed to give the BBG workouts a try, and it was fucking magic,  The weight started melting off, and some small part of me wanted to scream imma make it to 140 pounds! But again what if I failed and was the laughing stock of the entire community? I arrived at the point where I could say 140 without laughing at my very own still morbidly obese self. After I put it out there, I felt sick, but I HATE failing so I hauled ass and bought me a year worth of the sweat app started doing hardcore paleo again, and you know what? That goal kept me going to the gym and eating low carb and all that stuff. My Gym Planet Fitness in Kent Ohio has the misfortune of being beside a Dairy Queen. Yeah… Well since I didn’t have the willpower to keep denying myself a blizzard day after day I started going to the gym at 5 am when everything was closed and ta da problem solved!

I did the steps that Ruth explained on her podcast and threes one more goal that still scared the shit out of me, but It gives me the courage to seek out new clients and new works.

What was the second goal?

I wanted to have a 100k year meaning I wanted to earn 100k and prove everyone wrong when my mom and other people would feel the need to make a comment on how you could not make that kind of money writingClick To Tweet. I told everyone that I was not other people and that I was too going to have a 100k year and I will be like Nah Nah Nah all the way to a tropical island. I am still outlining on how exactly I am going to accomplish making 100k a year, but you know what? I don’t care I want it so bad that I am willing to make tons of sacrifices just to make it happen and I am confident that I will make it happen one way or the other.

So those are the two goals that make me want to work hard and to achieve them. So I am now clear on where I want o to focus my energies from here till I reach the goals.