Butterfly Bliss-Volume 3

For those of you who haven’t read about my butterfly challenge, I’m following the lead of one of the bloggers I greatly admire, Charley Forness at Scribe for the Tribe, and trying to make small changes every week in the hopes that the small changes will add up to bigger changes in my life. The original challenge article is here. This weekly check in will include a report on last week’s progress and on my goals for next week.

Goal–Lose 30 lbs by 12/31/2009

Progress

• Walk at least 20 minutes three times a week— I only walked twice this week. Once I get home from work, I just want to putz around the house and not do anything. I need to figure out a way to get more motivated on this one.
• Drink three bottles (aluminum ones) of water a day–I didn’t do such a good job on this one. Two days I managed to drink two bottles of water and two days I managed one bottle.

Butterflies for this week (Based on my progress from last week, I’ll keep the same goals)

• Walk at least 20 minutes three times a week—I think I need to work on this as it isn’t habit yet.
• Drink two bottles of water a day—I need to be realistic about this and acknowledge that I’m struggling. Hopefully, I can start drinking two bottles and then work up to three.

Goal–Have Sean’s tuition and the taxes paid by 12/31/2009

Progress

• Cook dinner at home six nights a week to save money.–We did a good job on this and we’ve worked on cutting the costs of the food that we eat as well. I’m also trying to work through the food in the freezer.
• Pack my lunch four days a week–I didn’t pack lunch at all this week, but I did come home and eat one day. I ate out two days and skipped lunch one day. Definitely need to keep this as it is not a habit yet.
• Not buy any magazines–I did buy a Woman’s World magazine, but resisted the urge to buy several more.

Butterflies for the week

• Cook dinner at home six nights a week to save money. I still need to work on this as it is not ingrained yet.
• Pack my lunch four days a week—This one needs to stay on the list as it is not a habit yet.
• Not buy any magazines—I’m going to keep this one until I can eliminate buying the Woman’s World.
  

Goal–Build my online presence

Progress

• Post five book reviews at Amazon—I didn’t get any book reviews posted as I spent my time working on articles for KUDOS Power. I also wrote an article for More magazine that I’m waiting to see if they post online.
• Comment on at least 10 blog entries around the blogosphere—This was pretty easy as I read a lot of good blog entries this week. I’m going to eliminate this one as a butterfly as it is ingrained.
• Get listed on three more blog sites–No progress on this one.

Butterflies for the Week

• Post five book reviews at Amazon
• Get listed on three more blog sites
• Write two more articles for online sites

Goal–Build KUDOS Power

Progress

• Write five articles—I wrote four articles for KPI and two articles for KPO this week. Good progress on this one.
• Find five sites to post articles on–I found a list of sites where you can post articles for free. I also found that I can post articles on More magazine and several paper magazine sites. This is definately something I will explore.
• Reorganize the site for both individuals and organizations–Site has been completely redesigned.
• Rewrite The Portable Coach–Did not do this one. Am going to postpone it until next week as I will spend time this week working on articles.

Butterflies for the Week

• Write three articles for KPI
• Write three articles for KPO
• Write an article for More
• Write an article for Divine Caroline
• Rewrite The Portable Coach

Goal–Build better relationships with my family

Progress

• One dinner or activity with John this week—I didn’t make it out with John this week
• One dinner or activity with Cat this week—Did not get time to spend with Cat this week as she had layout for pacer every night this week.
• One dinner or activity with Sean–Sean and I went to the Holocaust museum this week.

Butterflies for the week

• One dinner or activity with John this week
• One dinner or activity with Cat this week
• One Dinner or activity with Sean

Wish me luck this week. I’ll check back in next Sunday.