I can’t believe it is now March!

Sorry for the long delay in posting…it’s been an intense 10 days. I had to push myself really hard to get through all of the things I needed to do, and I ended up with some pretty strong dehydration.

13 days ago I posted about an 8 day challenge. It went so-so. I did great the first 3-4 days, and then the reality of working long hours, handling ‘life’ things, and getting ready for a super fast whirlwind trip to Chicago all caught up with me at the same time and the last 4 days went less great. I earned $5 out of 8, which is pretty good. The last day (Thursday) I earned my dollar simply because Wed-Thurs I recognized I was getting dehydrated and I took action…not quite enough but that act of drinking water on a day I was flying was impressive – I had to pee when I got to the airport, when I sat down on the plane, before I got off of the plane, and when I landed…pretty sure the guy in my row was regretting his seat choice…

Something that was great from that week is that I got a ton of activity in: I really pushed myself at my riding lesson on Thursday, I went hard at barn chores on Friday, I hiked Oconeechee with a friend on Saturday, and Sunday I played tennis for 2 hours. The problem that came with all of the activity is that I wasn’t drinking to compensate and I got somewhat dehydrated, and then I didn’t over compensate in the days following either (except Wed/Thurs), and then Fri/Sat I did poorly with water…so now, I have been dealing with intense dehydration for the last few days. I have hit 125-150 oz of water the last 2 days, but it is going to be another 3-5 days of hitting those numbers to get back on track (possibly sooner if I increase my consumption to closer to 200 oz.).

February was really hard. It brought with it a lot of memories of misery, dependence, struggles, and frustration. I found it difficult to gain traction. With all of the snow and crap weather, it was hard to get outside. In general it was just a challenging month and I am happy to see it go.

I do feel strongly that March is going to be my month to get things off the ground! I have a few things happening that are going to be very stressful and time consuming (new software implementation at work), and are going to be excellent opportunities to overcome bad situations and in the end succeed despite my circumstances! I will post later about my plans for achieving success in March later this week 🙂