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My 30 day challenges, day 21 – by Philip Dodson

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Today is the end of the third week, for 21 days I have 100% stuck to all 8 challenges. When I started off, I was unsure on one or two of them, especially the no booze and most of all, the getting up every day at 5.45 am, including weekends.

However, as the habits are well and truly formed, I actually do most of them automatically now. Just shows that having a goal and working on it every day really does work.

So here is today’s pic of the Angry Birds sticker album that I bought for my daughter.

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My daughter sat there happily finding the right page to match the numbered sticker to, marking them off at the back and we’ve all been there when you get two of the same. But then half the fun of collecting stickers is swapping them with mates. I used to love collecting the football ones as a kid.

Today has been a day of mainly relaxation and family time. I did my exercises first thing this morning, I then went for a bike ride and the rest of the day was spent with my family.

When you run a business, especially at the start like I am, it is challenge to spend time with your family. However, it is essential that I set time aside to do so, otherwise I feel I will lose focus on the reason that I do, what I do. It isn’t for money, it’s to do something that I am passionate about and it’s to all to do with my family.

I even got to make home made pizzas today, which is one of my specialities and the kids love it as there is no veg involved!!!

Tomorrow starts another busy week and I am looking forward to it as always and I am glad I had time today to switch off with Team Dodson.

My 30 day challenges, day 18 – by Philip Dodson

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Today is day 18, on the home stretch, a lot less days to go than I have done. The good news is that, I thought by now that I’d be really looking forward to re-introducing some of things I’ve cut out, actually it has made me want them less.

So I had a visit at the hub today from my wellbeing Guru @wellbeingsarah aka Sarah Martin, who felling guilty for making me workout at 7.00 am on my birthday the other week, brought cakes. Although, I hear you say ‘that’s no good’, trying to help me be more healthy and then bringing cakes, not only that, insisting on me having more.

So here is today’s pic of the said cakes!

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These however were no ordinary muffins, they were in fact made with coconut flour! Who knew such a thing existed. Since Sarah mentioned that she was making muffins from coconut flour, I have been perplexed, I get how you get milk from a coconut, but flour!

Anyway not only were the muffins delicious, they are nowhere near as calorific as normal cakes & gluten free. They had lot’s of other healthy benefits, which I can’t remember now.

Sarah and I were having a meeting, not just eating muffins, about running a seminar, followed by a exercise & wellbeing course at the hub. Run by Sarah, you’ll be pleased to hear.

It’s important for all of us to look at our overall wellbeing. Very often as business owners, we overlook many elements such as diet, exercise, stress, sleep, and other factors that have a big impact on health and overall physical & mental wellness. I’m starting to sound like a medical expert – uh oh.

Sarah initially had me on a diary on my diet, exercise, stress and sleep. Simply doing that made a big difference and helped me to identify things I needed to change. This was a big part in making the choices I did for my 8 ’30 day’ challenges. She then went through an exercise routine, that I could easily do first thing in the morning at home or at the hub – so I was stumped, couldn’t wheel out the usual excuses as to why I had no time.

The net result of all this is, I am sleeping better, eating more healthily, losing weight and getting fitter.

The key to this, like anything else, is setting a goal and taking small frequent steps to reach it and that is the same for anything in life or business.

Small steps and a goal = results.

It is that simple, yet often we complicate things.