I got a really nifty Fitbit for Christmas. It has a little vibration that goes off 10 minutes before each hour if I haven't walked 250 steps that hour.
Since Christmas, some days I've achieved 8 or 9 active hours, other days 3 or 4.
In the past, I would set a goal of achieving 10 active hours per day, then after a week or two, I would not be able to do it, then I would just quit all together.
I'm doing things differently now. How can I break a movement goal into a tiny, achievable step, so I can Level Up my movement?
I'm going to choose the number 5. It's a little above my lowest days, but still possible to do. My Mom taught me yesterday to put on an active song and move during that song. It gets me enough steps, and jamming to Footloose and What Does the Fox Say with my Mom was really fun! And it gave us a break from our costume sewing and painting.
It's more difficult for me to be active on days when my creativity is flowing and I'm working on projects. It's easier to be active when my focus is on dog training. Because I'm always inventing ways to incorporate dog training lessons into life, I'm going to play the Magic Circle Game with my dogs during some of my active times. (It's in K9 Level Up, Level 2: Loose Leash)
I am prone to making really good choices in some areas of my life, and making really bad choices in others. The more I work with dogs, the more I learn about myself. If I can take something I want to teach my dog, and learn to break it down into tiny, reachable pieces, can't I do that with myself, and teach myself to be more healthy, one tiny step at a time?
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