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Step 3: Set Those Mini Goals! (Part 2)
Our assignment for this week is to set some mini goals to meet for the remainder of the month. We’ll be covering a wide variety of topics throughout the year. If you can choose just a few changes to focus on right now, you’ll find adding on more skills as the year progresses is much easier than trying to make many changes all at once.
If you no mini goals come to mind, take a look at your food diar that you've been keeping since last week. Have you discovered any particular weaknesses? Where do you need to improve your habits? What do you think you can handle right now? Write down at least three "baby steps" and get ready to take them.
For example, here are my baby steps for this month:
Ultimately, you are the only one who can control what you eat and drink and how much activity you get. Your success will be 100% yours. Sure, you’re getting some help along the way from others -- the Web, your doctor, a nutritionist, etc. -- but it’s you who makes the decision to commit and you who every day will do (and not do!) what it takes to reach your goal. Got doubts? Prove it to yourself; you’re made of stronger stuff than you ever imagined.
Keep keeping that food diary and have a good, long think about those mini goals. Once you write them down, get focused on what you need to do to meet them. And then? Just do it! Good luck and I’ll see you next week!
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Meeting these mini goals will help you develop the motivational skills we mentioned earlier. When you feel the sense of accomplishment that will come your way when you meet your goals, I guarantee you’re going to like it. Success itself is a great motivator. And meeting any goal, no matter how small, is a success. Remember that feeling every time you start to reach for that snooze button or put coins in the vending machine. Now, imagine the even bigger sense of accomplishment you’re going to feel when you meet your goal weight.
