Trying to Work Out this Working Out Thing

I've turned over this new leaf, and I am going to the gym pretty regularly now. The problem I'm having is fitting my sweat sessions into my day in some kind of regular schedule. Time management is not my biggest strength.

So far, I probably have never gone to the gym at the same time from one day to another. I've gone at all different times. Partly because, I want to see what the crowds are like at different times of the day, and partly because I need to fit it in whenever I can since my workload can vary so much. But I think to really be successful at this, I need to make a regular schedule for my gym so I have no surprises and have a plan.

See, when I go to the gym I work hard and sweat a lot... who doesnt, right? So I'm there maybe 1.5 hours. Then since I hate being sweaty and dirty, I have to shower and dress when I get home which can take up to an hour. So, maybe I'm a little high maintenance. I can't seem to decide on what time in my day is best to fit this all in.

I'm not much of a morning person, so I am not likely to get up early and go work out. I start my office hours around 8:30-9:00am, so getting up before then to work out, shower and get ready for my day... like I said, I'm not really a morning person.

Then during the day, it is a little difficult to be away as most of my client work needs to be done then. So it is difficult to interrupt my work mid-day to work out, but that is when the gym is less busy.

Then the evenings after I close up shop, the gym tends to be way crowded. But I leaning towards the evenings since I can shower after at night and it saves me some time the next morning. Just can't make it too late or I have a hungry grumpy Mr H2O.

So yeah, that is my dillema. Nothing monumental. Though in writing all this, I think I've talked myself it to sticking with the evenings.

A Good Month, But Help Needed

So it's been a month since I've been here last, but I must say it was a pretty good one. The best news is that I have lost a total of 30 lbs now and I have reached "Onderland" (in the 100's). I haven't been there in over 5 years. I couldn't be more thrilled and I am feeling really good about myself. And I can now visually see my results so far which is a first.

So other good news, my business has really taken off in the past couple months and I have reached capacity for clients and have a full practice. It is very exciting and really helps Mr. H2O and I out a lot. All this is really great, but it is causing me some extra stress because I am worrying about getting all my client's hours in, while still taking care of myself and taking care of my husband and house. Well the latter 3 are suffering a bit.

I am still eating healthy and staying on the diet, but I am not getting as much sleep and I am not getting ANY work outs in lately. And I have gotten REALLY behind my house work with laundry piling up, dishes piling, and I even heard Jeff pick up a broom so it must be bad. I am trying, but I know I can try harder. The biggest thing is that I need to spend less time doing non-billable items early in the day like I normally do and save it for later when I usually hit the wall on "work" type stuff. And I know if I immediately get up and get "dressed to the shoes" that I get a lot more accomplished and it gives me a little more energy. Time to get back to FlyLady.

But even with improving my daily habits and such, I still would like to grow my business a little more and am considering hiring my own assistant. I am just one phonecall away from freaking a little as I don't think I can physically handle another new client and I need to figure out how to remedy this. Michael Russer, well respected real estate speaker/coach had said that there are more Real Estate Professionals out there that need VA's than Virtual Assistants to handle them. I didn't believe him at first, but I am starting to believe him now. I wish I could clone myself, but I guess it's time to begin my assistant or subcontractor search instead of waiting for science.