HopScotch: Getting to the Next Level

Dear LiHK Leader,

Let's get to the point: are you doing the same old thing to get to your goal?  For me, weight loss can be difficult if I continue to do the same thing!  We hit plateaus when our bodies get used to doing the same thing.  The only way over the plateau is to intensify your workout!  This is always my challenge!  Losing weight is challenging enough and now I have to make it MORE challenging?!?!  Really????  But the challenge is really not the problem- it's the CHANGE!  Many of us just don't appreciate change; hence why we have to make the conscious effort to do something different!  I burns me to my core that I have to walk/jog faster or lift more or change my routine, but if I want to see results, I have to do it.

Now think about it, you have been trying to get to your goal and making the same moves to get there.  And you know what, sometimes, just to get started, you may have some repeated activities, but then you have to move past them, toward the next step.  You have come this far, so keep going (that's what I keep telling myself too!).  This is for any goal we desire to accomplish!  Sometimes it feels like hopscotch... we place the stone on the first number, jump there and jump back.  However, you can only succeed at hopscotch and make it to the end when you keep throwing that stone, keep jumping to the next space, return to the beginning, reflect and throw the stone again to get to the next level.  Granted it may feel like you are stagnant at times because you stepped on that line and had to start over, but you are only refining your balance and skill when you jump back and forth, adding an additional step along the way.  What if you only threw the stone to the number 5, over and over and over again?  You will play the same game plan and never go anywhere.  

Bottom line: TAKE THE NEXT STEP, INTENSIFY YOUR ACTIVITY, DARE TO BE DIFFERENT FROM THE SAME OLD STUFF THAT YOU DO!!

I am living as an example right now!  I am blogging!  I have done it here and there, but there is an audience that enjoys reading and relating, so I am taking my stone and throwing it to number 6 and I'm gonna keep on jumping!!!  I am stepping out of my comfort zone and daring myself to be different.  What will come of it, who knows?  But follow me and find out ;-)

Thanks for reading; until the next time, love the life you're leading!

Signed, the leading lady,
Dr. Jai