I have been extremely busy since the end of the year up until just the last couple of days. I was either sick, spending time with my family up north or just doing regular holiday type things. During this time I decided to step away from the computer and take a break, just get away if you will. I have been catching up on e-mails that I have just been flagging that I wanted to go back and read. I subscribe to Chris Brogan’s blog. He writes great material if you are into the whole social part of social media. He came up with his 3 words for 2010, as he has done over the past few years and this has inspired me to do it as well. In today’s blog on here, you will read about how these words affect my personal life. On my business blog today as well, I am writing about how these three words affect my business. If you would like to read that as well, go to my Chris Stocker Inc blog. Now, onto the three words: growth, dedication, health.
Growth
When I sat down to think about words that could describe what I want to either accomplish or work at this was one of the first ones that popped into my head. Even though I have been 6′ tall since the 8th grade and haven’t grown since, well not vertically at least, that’s not the growth that I mean. I want to grow as a person, a human being. Over the years I have caught myself saying to myself, “how would you feel if somebody did that to you” and I look back at situations and feel horrible. Whether it is yelling at a customer service rep over the phone, it’s not their fault, they are just doing their job, or getting impatient at an elderly person driving in south Florida (for those of you that live here you know that’s at least once before every stop light!), or even being short or rude with Amanda or family or co-workers.
In 2010, I want to work hard to not be that type of person and to grow into becoming a bigger and better person at heart. Be more considerate, take others feelings into affect more often. I don’t want this to sound like I’m some inconsiderate prick right now because that’s not the case, but there is always room for improvement and that is where I want to be.
Dedication
What’s the point of having goals and setting benchmarks if you don’t have the dedication to stick with these things. How are you to lose weight when you can’t dedicate 30 minutes a day to exercise or eating a healthy meal. In 2010 I plan to work hard at dedicating myself to tasks that I put my mind to, no matter what it is. Exercising, work, business, relationships, anything. There is no more laziness in my life. Sure there will be things that I have to give up, but what I gain from them will help me get back what I am missing. What do I mean by that? Here is a perfect situation that usually happens every day. I have two options, watch tv and spend time with Amanda or work out and be healthy. If I make the decision to work out then I am losing out on that 45 minutes of spending time with my girlfriend. Well in the long run, by working out and spending that 45 minutes to exercise, I am saving myself who knows, maybe 1-2 days or even months added onto my life in order to spend more time with her in the future. Dedication is about being able to see the long term goal and pushing yourself to get to it. Knowing that what you are missing out on now will come back ten-fold in the future.
Health
I think this word pretty much summarizes the entire thing. This year I have set some goals for my diabetes, in regards to my weight and A1C. With plans that I have worked out already, this should be manageable. Becoming a healthier person will make me happier, feel better about situations and I feel grow as a person. I will need dedication and growth within myself to get to this healthiness that I am seeking.
As you can see all three of these words fit together in the end. Do this exercise yourself if you haven’t already. Also, like I said if you would like to see how these three words relate to the other side of my life and how they all interact with each other than check out my other blog as well.
Have a great day everybody.
Hey Chris
Nice overall outlook in the coming year and those three simple words do intertwine.
As a diabetic, it always seems that everything we do in our personal lives is partially because of diabetes.
So good luck and lets see if you were able to achieve said goals.
p/s: Option 3 get Amanda to go work out with ya. Am sure she understands why you have to do it for effective diabetes management and it can be a fun exercise for both of you creating those quality moments.
cheers
Ronald Gregory