I recently saw a blog where someone said they gave each year a "theme." Well this year is the Year of Leaving My Comfort Zone, the year of the S-t-r-e-t-c-h.
I'm stretching out of my comfort zone.
I'm stretching my ideas of what is possible.
I'm stretching my physical and mental abilities.
A while back I made a list of life goals, both medium and long range. When I look at what is keeping me away from them I see that they are all outside of my comfort zone in some way.
A fairly bad scare about my blood pressure gave me a big push to take my health seriously, but I have a long ways to go to be where I want to be. In fact, I'm not yet able to picture where I want to be, though I can picture some stops along the route.
Getting physically active is definitely outside of my comfort zone. I've always been a fairly bookish and slow-moving sort of person. I've never been either athletic or thin. Losing weight is also outside of my comfort zone. And posting this stuff to a public forum?
Yet I'm doing all three.
It's going to be a repeated process of stretching out of my comfort zone, then working and waiting while my comfort zone grows and stretches out to meet me, but hopefully I'll get better at it as I go.
So what are my actual goals?
*To get off my blood pressure medication
*To maintain and gradually increase my exercise level and integrate being more active into the rest of my life
*To continue to get a better handle on food
I'll get more specific about goals in my next post, but I wanted to at least get this out there before I leave on vacation in 2 hours. I'll also be posting about my vacation exercises. (My big challenge for the week is to exercise with no gym and no people working out around me.) And I promise, once I get there I'll reply to people who have answered posts of mine...but for now I have a plane to catch!
