I wish weight were a purely aesthetic consideration – but, it isn’t when it impacts flexibility and miles hiked. So it’s important for my health and also for accomplishing my other goals. I hate to admit it but it’s been falling pretty much last on the list for quite awhile. Like many, I’ve made some progress in this area in the past and then lost ground when my routine changed. That’s how I got to still having it on my list of unmet goals.  The real power of excuses on this one for me (and I suspect for many of you) is that I don’t really want to do the process – I want the result but unlike photography or some of my other goals I don”t like the ‘doing’ part.  Here are the excuses I know I’ve used in the last six months:

• I’m too tired (who isn’t?)
• I have too many other projects
• I’ll do it tomorrow (it’s raining, there’s nothing on tv, etc.)
• I don’t have the right equipment (this would be easy if I owned that $5,000 treadmill…)

As you can see there’s nothing really imaginative on this list and yet while I suspect the excuses are common, there seems to be a slightly different solution for everyone.

Next week: How I plan to overcome these excuses

Holding myself accountable:

So how’d I do on photography last week? I’d have to give myself about a C+. I did get the camera out for a few brief interludes and did start the first few sentences of that book  but not as much as I’d hoped for.

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