Shevonne Polastre

Since September, I haven’t been exercising the way I usually do. With the kids’ extracurricular activities and no gym membership, I’ve been scrambling around trying to find a way to workout. My community has a great (and free) gym, but I am not a person who can get up before seven, and I don’t want to leave the kids alone in the house in the evenings. I decided that it’s time to get a gym membership that gives me the option to bring the kids along.

I loved Gold’s Gym when I had them, so I am rejoining it again. I am going after work today to activate this 7-day free pass to see if the one near my job (my membership was at another one) does it for me. I want to do a century ride, so I have to get back into spinning. Body Pump and yoga always helped me as well.

This is the last day of my “laziness.” I am celebrating by eating a burger, which I won’t be seeing for a long time. Exercising and eating right keep me sane, so it’s time to find it again.

I would say my vision statement every day, and it didn’t work. Actually, the opposite started to occur. It might work for others, but not me.

During the Thanksgiving break, I decided to update my five-year plan and the personal goals associated with it. I also wanted to ensure that I had planned out how I wanted 2012 to go. I’ve been doing this since I was pregnant with Cebastian, and it has really kept me focused on achieving all of the things that I want for my children and me.

I had heard about creating a collage of what you envision as your perfect life and placing it in somewhere you pass every day, but I had never done it. I decided that this time, I will. Last night, I cut out pictures of how I want my perfect life to look like, and I taped it on my bathroom mirror. This morning when I went in to take a shower, I saw my future life, and it got me thinking of the different ways I can make it come to fruition.

It might sound silly, but try it. I also rewrote my vision statement for my life, and I taped it in the medicine cabinet. Goal setting is something that definitely keeps you on the right path. You just have to create S.M.A.R.T. goals and ensure that you revisit them every week.

Are you a goal setter?