Almost Perfect

I can be the type of individual who is good at brushing things off and letting things go, but there are moments like this were I beat myself up for almost reaching a goal and not completing it. I can be a competitive person, and I am the most competitive with myself. I don’t normally vocalize my goals to the world and many times I only share them after I have completed them.

I’ve been on a weight loss journey for close to two years and a weekly goal I have is to “close my rings” on the activity app of my Apple Watch. As you can see on the picture above, I was only minutes away from closing my exercise ring for Sunday, May 10th.

I will be honest and say I was pissed off at myself for falling asleep and not doing at least 5 minutes of weight lifting. By the time I woke up it was too late to close out a perfect week. I realized that this very tiny bump in the road could’ve easily made me not care for the rest of the month and I would’ve slacked off in working out. I’m still a bit mad at myself, but it has pushed me to go above and beyond now. I will definitely get frustrated at the end of the month when I look back at my rings and even if this happens again, because I’m sure it will, I need to keep going.

Knowing that I’m not the only one who can be extremely hard on myself, I want to encourage you to keep going. If you’re reading this far already, keep going after your goals even if you messed up a few times. It is better to keep trying and have plenty of wins and one failure than to have one full failure that stops you from winning. You got this, keep going, tell me your story, we can do this journey together!