A friend of mine recently posted something on social media talking about her motto in life: do the hard things. I have always looked up to her and she inspires me to keep going, so her post really got me thinking.

What would MY hard thing be? What is ONE thing that I can do that would be really difficult and hard to accomplish?

And it occurred to me: I have never ever, even once followed through with a plan. Not once. I am REALLY good at planning. I have a different plant every week (or every day), it seems! And I stick to that for as long as I want to, and then I move on to another plan. And it’s not working for me!

I REALLY want to get back into completing 5Ks. Like REALLY badly. And I keep creating plans to accomplish this and then just give up. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for adjusting a plan if it’s not working for you, but I just flat out give up because “I don’t wanna” do it anymore.

So my “hard thing” is going to be to follow through on my resolutions from the beginning of the year – to lose 2 pounds a week and to follow a budget (and start saving money). Those were the two biggest things I wanted to accomplish this year.

Since I also really want to complete a 5K, I’m going to start actually following through on going to the gym or taking longer walks outside, if the weather allows.

So this is my plan for this week: Track all of my calories every day, drink 80 oz of water a day, workout Tuesday at the gym, Wednesday @ bootcamp, Saturday w/Nicole (either at crossfit or the gym), and Sunday at the gym. Tuesday I want to walk 1.25 miles on the treadmill at the gym and by Sunday, I want to walk 1.5 miles. I also want to weigh myself daily, and lose 5 pounds this week, which should be TOTALLY doable since most of it will be water weight.

I also just ordered a big monthly calendar that I’m going to hang on the wall and use to track my overall weight loss and budgeting goals. I figure having a whole year written down on the calendar will help me stay accountable for longer!