No chocolate…… 

I am really like a big child, which leaves me contrary after the Easter Weekend. This year I didn’t get a single Easter Egg….. nor any other Easter gift.

So I am off the chocolate and had expressed clearly to family and friends not to get me any as I am working to reach Goal 8 before my last birthday in my 30’s! But nothing….. now that requires revenge planning I think!!! Bring on Easter 2019…..

I did however get to to back to hike to the top of Clare this weekend. This time with two great ladies; Lorraine and Edel. We went early (I mean early, thanks Edel) but got to the top with the skies still clear and sunny! It was great to share this special place with some of the special people in my life. We followed this up by lunch in The Piper Inn (YUM) and a quick stop at Wild Irish Chocolates in Tuamgraney where I bought some gorgeous fudge and some chocolate. White of course, that would be my favourite.

That is just a little bit of writing about chocolate…..

The Thumb Tack Theory!!!

So you know by now that I use my own techniques to ensure I maintain motivation to reach all those simple goals of mine.

For my goal to lose weight, I have used a simple visual to keep me motivated. I have a little notice board which looks like a cloud. That I use to symbolise or visualise my dreams…. One at the time of course. It is a little one.

So I have two sets of thumb tacks; one set resembling the weight loss journey I have to achieve in pounds and the other in kilos. Every Wednesday when weigh in occurs any loss (or gain) gets taken off the board.

It is absolutely great to see the numbers shrink and the target nearing.

So that is the Thumb Tack Theory, which I think is a great name by the way!!

Multitasking

I will have to do some bragging!!! Oh well, no, not bragging, simply sharing a proud moment.

This weekend I completed a course in Behavioural Safety Leadership. I will have to say that I found the course super interesting and relevant to both my work and for myself. Excellent content and topics which I want to learn more about.

So the bragging is about the fact that I completed the course and achieved 95% as final score and 97.5% in my final exam!! Learning can be so much fun!!!

Doing this course over  a number of weeks required discipline, focus and multitasking. End result – moving one step in the right direction of Goal 2.

Increasing my reading average!

To finish this blog post I wanted to share a quote which I came across.

I am currently reading a book. Yes you heard me right, I am trying to increase my average per year to start with, then I will move on to be the CEO that reads one per week. The book I am reading is Matthew Syed’s, Black Box Thinking, an excellent read.

In it, I came across a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

This quote really hit home with me as we are continuously taught to learn from our own mistakes. Altough that may be true and we do need to make some of our own too, it is worth learning from other peoples mistakes. So thank you Eleanor for those wise words.