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At the library I picked up Unstoppable Women: achieve any breakthrough goal in 30 days by Cynthia Kersey. I love books with definite timeframes in the title.
I get these books and usually just passively read them. It’s like the way I once watched exercise videos; I’d watch them and hope that some miracle would happen so taht my body would, through exposure, be encouraged to start and keep moving. In the middle of the video I’d remember that “hope is not a method” and either start exercising or turn it off.
At any rate, I read parts of Unstoppable women propped up in bed. It made me tired so I went to sleep. It didn’t bore me it was just overwhelming.
I have so many areas of my life in which I’d love to “achieve any breakthrough goal” that it has taken me a week to sort out that losing 25 pounds is the one I’d most like to achieve. It’s the one that keeps nagging me. It’s the one that could positively influence all the others. Weighed in this morning at 165 ½ pounds. I’m 5’3" so I’m officially obese.
The Unstoppable System
| Last night I picked Unstoppable Women back up and decided to actually consider taking the challenge. It’s fairly simple two part program: a- preparation, b- 30 day challenge. So we’re actually talking at least 31 days. Is this the lazy part of me start trying to talk my motivated self out of committing? The prep is emotionally intense, especially if you chose a goal that you’ve been having trouble achieving in the past. It might take a week to do the planning. Getting out of the house might help me get started. It would just be me, the book, a blank notebook, and my favorite pen. It’s a good excuse to visit the coffee shop and have a piece of carrot cake with a large decaf. I could even take a walk since the coffee shop is in my favorite part of town. Yes, yes – focus – focus. |
The 30-day program is just that. 30 days of inspirational and hopefully helpful to-dos. Each day consists of …
- absorbing an “unstoppable insight” gleaned from the author’s experience counseling many other wanna-be-better people
- reading an “unstoppable woman story” (more about my issues with this below)
- completing a predefined “unstoppable action” (when do you do the actions from your planning session?)
- creating your “day planner” for the following day (this reminds me a lot of Barbara Sher’s Wishcraft)
On Saturdays you also have “intimate conversations with Cynthia”. I hate that girlfriend talk fluff! And on Sundays there’s a weekly review.
Is my emotional intelligence to low for this book?
Hello. It’s me again trying to not commit. You’d think I was a 25 year old guy instead of a 42 year old woman. Here’s another confession: I can’t read the book cover to cover because a large part of it consists of people’s stories; Verneta Wallace’s story, Margot Fraser’s Story, J.K. Rowling’s Story, etc., etc. There’s something about reading “inspirational” vignettes that makes me tired.
But?! But change is my mantra for this year so my personal challenge is to read ¼ of the stories. There are 26 listed. On day 30 I’m supposed to write my own unstoppable story. I don’t know that I’ll take this heighten-my-emotional-intelligence sub-project that far but I will read 6 ½ - okay 7 - of the stories.
Having my own copy of Unstoppable Women would be best but I’m going to have to settle for rechecking this copy out from the library.
Do I really want to join the Unstoppable Women movement?
We’ve already established that I’m not good at committing. Yet, I feel compelled to try (“there is no try only do” – where did I read that?) I will take the challenge. Will I follow the system exactly? Maybe not at first. There are so many parts of my personality that make following a rigid system near impossible. Why do Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable – keep coming to my mind? Maybe it's because Kim represents unstoppable women.
Can you join me in the Change Challenge?
If I’m going to follow through, all the self-help books I’ve ever read, say I need emotional support. In my emontionally-narrow opinion, writing to strangers counts – especially if strangers right back so buy Unstoppable Women or get it from the library and challenge yourself to do something or at least post comments so I’ll know there’s intelligent life out in the world.
Will I keep my commitment?
Okay, I’m going to ...
- do the planning part of the unstoppable women challenge this week
- consult my calendar, once I have a plan in hand, and see when I have 30-days that are structured enough for me to follow the program as designed by Ms. Kersey. I need to do an elimination diet and I’ve been trying to schedule it for weeks.
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