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Challenge Half-Way Point

31 days in January, so today is our mid-way point. Wow. Where did the month go?

If you’ve had a hard time getting started with your goal, well, you’re not alone. I’ve done pretty well with my writing goals – at least in the past week or so – but I haven’t even considered my exercise goal yet.

See, I got super busy in the past week and a half, and since my livelihood is writing, I thought that was the goal to get a handle on first. Makes sense. And I stick by that decision. But I really need to start considering how to work exercise into my days more often.

I don’t understand how I became such a couch potato. I used to TEACH martial arts. I studied ballet until I was 18. I was a gym rat for a good portion of my life and dated weight lifters in college. I even had a subscription to Muscle & Fitness because of one of my ex-boyfriends. I studied chemistry in undergrad and was fascinated with supplements and how different vitamins and minerals affected our bodies.

Somewhere along the line, I gradually stopped working out and started becoming a couch potato. I think it was becuase of grad school (I went at night, working full time), but that’s been over for a while now and I’m still comparatively inactive. So what’s up with that?

Here we are at our half-way point and I haven’t done anything with my fitness goal. Okay. So it’s time to get started, right? No time like the present and all that. So in addition to writing, this week I really want to work on working out. I’ll let you know how I do next week. Wish me luck!

In the meantime, the new Samhellion newsletter is out with lots of good articles on resolutions and such. I’m one of the editors and I contributed a piece this month, so take a look!

I also wanted to let you know that we’ll be having more great guest bloggers! Please comment on their posts to make them feel welcome and let them know that someone is out there, reading their guest blogs. Thanks!