Failure at 26%

I began 2012 with a New 15 DAY Resolution, which felt more reasonable than a New YEAR Resolution. My resolve was to workout with my old Denise Austin video every single day. It’s a great video that lasts only 22 minutes, and is set on a California beach. Pretty painless – and it was only for 15 days.

How do you think The Joy Lady did? Have you read the title of this blog entry? I skipped two days completely with no good excuse. Two other days I took a walk with my husband and called that a substitute for exercise. So, I failed 4 days of the 15. That’s 26% failure.

Is there a failure in your life today that’s dragging you down? What regret, worry, or fear wakes you up at 4AM? We’ve all been there, living twists and turns that don’t go as we had hoped – many that are way more serious than an exercise routine. A lost job, a failed marriage, or a troubled child can all make a strong person question her wisdom, or even her worth. If this is you right now, I challenge you to take a different perspective by uncovering, with gratitude, what you have accomplished.

As I evaluate the first 15 days of 2012, I see that I worked out 11 days! That’s ELEVEN (11) days of success! That’s a better exercise streak than I had all year in 2011!  Mathematically that may be only 74% completion, but emotionally that’s 100% JOY!