from the desk of the chief executive ninja...: Cardio Kung Fu challenge, day one...maybe...

So I’ve been trying to start this CKF challenge for several days now, with no success. You see, I’m this weird mix of type A meets free spirit. I love rules, as long there are no rules to encumber me. So when I tell myself I’m going to start some kind of challenge (that type A part of me), I immediately revolt (the free spirit part of me). For the last 6 days, I’ve started each day with the intention of starting the challenge and ended each day saying to myself “tomorrow I’m really going to start this thing.” I started this morning knowing I wouldn’t be starting the challenge today so maybe today it will actually stick. I’m not planning on it, but who knows. In any event, I’m posting my before pictures and stats because I plan to start, wait for it…tomorrow.

Why the challenge in the first place you ask (you may not be asking but I’m going to pretend you are)? Well, since leaving my full time job to focus on building this business, I’ve regained some of the stress weight I lost (which is good, I don’t mean to mislead anyone here, my BMI is still 23 and I’m well within the healthy weight range for a woman of my height and age) but I’ve done it in the wrong way. I went from stress starving to stress eating, my treadmill has cob webs growing on it and though I’ve been prepping for my next CKF class (which starts this week, I’m totally stoked!!!) I haven’t been doing the workout all out. I’ve been honing my class leader skills, which is good, but I haven’t been reaping all the benefits on CKF. That changes today, at least the CKF workout part. I’m not going to commit to the not-stress-eating part, not today anyway and if my track record is any indication, giving myself permission to stress eat will result in my not stress eating. I’m a riddle, just ask my husband.

Developing this business has been nothing but exciting. I’m learning new things each day and growing in ways I never could have envisioned. This is the right time for me because for once, things are falling into place. I’ve been a frustrated entrepreneur for over 20 years but this is the first time any of my ideas have taken hold. This, I’m convinced is due in large part to timing. I needed to be in the right stage of my life and I’ve finally arrived there. I developed my first fitness program way back in 1992 but it never took off because I needed the experiences I’ve had in the last 20 years to get to this place where things could take off. There isn’t a day of the week that goes by without me doing something to build this business and I love it, that’s how I know it’s right. But just because things are exciting and positive doesn’t mean there isn’t stress. Good things bring on stress too, I have to remind myself of that because I’ve been hesitant to label it stress but I know I’m stress eating so it’s there. The facts are, this business is exciting for me, it’s my calling and my passion. I’m not going to quit, that’s a fact. I’m also pre-hypertensive and have an irregular heartbeat and I need to manage my stress so I stay healthy, that’s also a fact. I need to practice what I preach, so to speak, and practice CKF, thus the CKF challenge.

What exactly is this CKF challenge of which I speak you ask (again, you may not be asking but I’m going to pretend you are)? For today, it’s doing the workout, plain and simple. My educational focus is personal training, I have a base line knowledge of nutrition and bioenergetics but I don’t I’m not a dietician and I don’t pretend to have the next great diet for you. I’ve learned from personal experience that when I eat a balanced diet and practice the principles of CKF, it does crazy good things to my body. So that’s the start of the challenge for me, doing the workout today. It’s a start at least and I believe we’re only failures when we stop trying, in business and in life in general.

So here are my statistics…for the first time ever.