I haven’t been keeping close track of my May Bootcamp goals and again I really only completed about 50% of the goals I set. Most of my major goals have not gotten the attention they require.

One change I am making for June is creating my own Bootcamp goal and I think this is a positive step that will help me focus better. And there are some things I have planned in May that should come to fruition soon. I try to balance the fun things I do with the real work required in those “challenging” goals, but I am going to be harder on myself to try and get those more difficult goals completed. 12 months ago

It helped a lot with an overall since of being in control. 12 months ago

I chose to focus on my eating during May, in support of my goal to lose 10 pounds. During the month of May, I lost about 5 pounds. Now, I have only 2 pounds left to reach my goal!

The things that I did in May to help were as follows:

• I tracked my food as best I could using MyFitnessPal.

• I developed some meals that work for reaching my calorie goals.

• I got a ton of walking exercise, and started tracking this with my FitBit, which I got on May 13. LOVE IT! 12 months ago

Finished this Bootcamp with one simple thought: “Do it now, then let it go”. There are times for planning and strategizing and thinking and reflecting but in the last week of May I realized that there was a time to do things as well and I have not been very active in doing. But I found that when I stopped planning and procrastinating and actually moved with action and purpose, things happened. When I quit contemplating the “ifs” at work and became more assertive, I got the position I wanted (for now) and the raise for me and two of my staff. When I quit looking at a problem from every angle and just grabbed a hold of it, I resolved it relatively quickly. When I quit imagining intimacies and romance and took action… I got the positions I wanted there, too.

I had not expected this to be a month of great progress because keeping it simple seemed like it was not going to yield many results. A few important and neglected things would be attended to, but the next month I’d be back at it again, dealing with larger issues and grander schemes. What I found was that by letting go, I got more results. By narrowing my focus, I made room for greater accomplishments. By looking past the complexities, what I thought was hard and unmanageable was much simpler.

You put water on a plant, it grows. You put too much water on it, it drowns. It wasn’t necessary for me to always batter my way against the opposition. Sometimes just a few well aimed strokes caused the opposition to crumble. Again, I got better results when I took action, then released the sense of expectation. That is the main thing I will take away from this month’s bootcamp. 12 months ago

- run (didn’t happen)
- go to the sauna (no, it is a sauna outside full time)
- go to aerobics classes
- get a full body massage (it has to be this month)
- meet with friends (did it a lot)
- read
- travel a bit (went for two very short trips, one to Hungary and one to the Seychelles)
- eat good food (very well done)
- stretch12 months ago

My mantra for May was to just…

Let it go.

Whether it’s a mental mothball or dusty possessions. Less is more. It sounds easier in theory than practice, but I’ve made a lot of progress and it’s getting easier. 12 months ago