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— Did a great job at this. Walked once while Cat had her Sax lesson, once to the post office, and once to the flea market with Sean.
- Drink two bottles (aluminum ones) of water a day–I drank two bottles two days and one bottle two days. I have a long way to go to get where I want on this one.
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
- Drink two bottles of water a day
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.–Great job on this one. We only ate out one night.
- Pack my lunch four days a week–I packed lunch twice, my boss bought lunch one day, and I ate at home twice. Not bad, but still not a habit
- 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.
- Pack my lunch four days a week.
- Not buy any magazines
Goal–Build my online presence
Progress
- Post five book reviews at Amazon—Done. However, I’ve decided to drop this as a butterfly for now as it takes too much time and I think the payoff will be less than some of my other activities.
- Get Listed on three blog sites—Done.
- Write two articles for online sites–This is a duplicate of one in the next section, so I will report on it there.
Butterflies for the Week
- Get listed on three more blog sites
- Post an article on More
- Post an article on Divine Caroline
- Find two more places to post articles (just have to find them, not post)
Goal–Build KUDOS Power
I’m scaling back on this one because there are not enough hours in the day to do everything I want / Need to do. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to build KUDOS Power a lot slower than I had hoped.
Progress
- Write three articles for KPI–Done
- Write three articles for KPO–NOt done. I just didn’t have time
- Write an article for More–Done. Death of a Hearthtrob is currently on their front page.
- Write an article for Divine Caroline–Done
- Rewrite The Portable Coach–Spent significant time on this. It is about 25 percent of the way done and I plan to get it finished this week.
Butterflies for the Week
- Write three articles for KPI
- Rewrite The Portable Coach
- Follow up with my contact at Westinghouse
Goal–Build better relationships with my family
Progress
- One dinner or activity with John this week—We went shopping. It wasn’t as great an activity as I would have liked, but it was something.
- One dinner or activity with Cat this week—We went out to sushi this week.
- One dinner or activity with Sean–Sean and I went to the Maxwell Street Market
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.
Cairn by Cairn 