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photo credit: h.koppdelaney

“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”

Anatole France (1844 – 1924)

Once again it is time for personal accountability! I have to say I had a great week.  I really good about the direction of things in my life and my business.  First of all I am getting consistent affiliate sales.  This is such a great thing because it is the first time I have had consistent affiliate sales.  So my business is going well!  Next I have been working on two personal goals that I have.

My first personal goal:

Losing weight. Isn’t that what most of us want to do. For me this is a huge deal.  I have literally never been thin.  I have never been fit!  In high school I hovered around 175lbs.  Since then I have steadily gained weight.  I have lost 20lbs here and 30lbs there but I have always gained it back and some more.  After having four children this also has added to my weight gain.  So I am going to tell you I am starting out at 274lbs.  So this week I got my Christmas present early!  I got a Bodybugg.  What is a Bodybugg you ask!  It is what the Biggest Loser contestant, on the hit show on NBC, wear strapped to their arms.  It calculates the calories they burn.  The Bodybugg comes with a free 6 month subscription to their online program.  Which helps you keep track of your calories consumed as well.

Now I got the Bodybugg on Wednesday, so I started on Thursday.  I am on track to lose about three pounds this week. I am so excited because it gives me the control to know how much I am consuming and burning.  If I haven’t burned enough toward the end of the day I go do something active.  It may be something as little as going and doing the dishes or walking up and down the stairs a few times.  I am really excited because I have a lot of hope that I will be able to lose all of this weight.  My goal is to lose 130 lbs by December 2010.  I need to lose 2.5lbs a week in order to do this!

My next goal is new.

I have decided to start writing a book. I have no idea if it will ever get published but I really feel like this is something I have wanted for a very long time and never knew it!  Have you ever experienced that?  This week I have begun.  I have many plots and story lines bouncing around in my head.  Yesterday I began by naming my characters and writing there backgrounds down.  I am working on my grammar and punctuation.  I know that I am not really great at that but with practice I will master it.  I just know it!

Okay so onto what I accomplished this week!  Here is what I did out of my personal accountability goals:

• Complete 5 auto responder messages.- I did four.
• Complete 10 pre-scheduled blog posts for my blogs. – I did twelve.
• Complete 5 Squidoo Lenses. – I didn’t complete any.
• Continue to write in my gratitude journal and affirmations – I missed two days.

As you can see I did pretty well for this week. This coming week I will be volunteering at a Scholastic Book fair on Tuesday so that day is completely wiped out from my schedule.  The rest of the week I will have limited time to work because of exercising and family obligations.

Here are my personal accountability goals for this coming week:

• Complete 6 Squidoo Lenses.
• 5 auto responder messages.
• Set up four or five blog posts for my affiliate blog

That is it short and sweet!  I have a lot to get do this week on a personal basis with Christmas around the corner and my oldest daughter has a birthday this month too.  I would not recommend having a December baby!  It makes life complicated!

I hope you all have a great week and enjoy this season of the year!

photo credit: MarkWSutton

Here are my Wordless Wednesday Pictures:

Okay this is my 3 year old daughter after she has snuck into my bathroom and gotten into my make up. The top picture is after I put eye make up remover on her face.  The bottom picture is after I cleaned her up.  I couldn’t get everything off because she covered her eyelids with mascara.  She also used my lip ,that doesn’t come off of anything, I swear!  The lip pencil is what is still on her eyes.

She took all of my make-up out to my bedroom floor and dumped a bunch of my powdered mineral make-up all over the floor. We had to use a spot cleaner to get it out!  What you can’t see in the picture is she drew up and down her arms with my lip pencil (remember the one that doesn’t come out)!  She was a mess and my room was a mess!  She ruined a few of my brushes.  Needless to say we keep our bedroom door locked, so she doesn’t get into it!  Yesterday we discovered that she can lock our bedroom door (with a penny).  I am not sure what we will do with her now.  It is only time before she realizes that she can unlock the door the same way!

I tell you terrible two’s is nothing compared to the three’s!