Making Progress on 2013 Goals!

So, one goal that I had was to blog everyday so that I could see progress, share insight and have forward motion with my business and my health ventures.  Today, I am blogging.  Hopefully, I will get in the habit and eventually start posting more interesting things that people will actually want to read. 

Right now, I must be honest, I'm not thrilled with the URL.  I didn't necessarily want to use my name to brand myself.  I also wanted to make the blog slightly general.  I didn't want to only focus on one health aspect since I have a few and I didn't want it to be an entirely medical billing blog.  I added a blog to my medical billing site.  I should start to figure out what is going there.  But first things first, get in the habit of writing blog posts and think of things that can go in them.

The progress that I made today towards gaining clients was great.  I went to two networking events.  One of them had the exact people that I needed to meet.  At BNI, the person who gave me the referral told me he would talk to his doctor again so I can get in to see his billing person.  That's great!  It means that the networking is actually working!  It's tough to be patient though. 

I'm also making some progress on the health front.  I weighed myself this morning and I'm down to 145.7!  I had gotten up to as much as 150, so my jeans should start fitting much better now.  I think I was down at 140 when I bought them, so I still have a few pounds to lose.  How did I do it?  Well, I'd love to say that it was diet and exercise or the cool breathing device that I got.  But over the weekend, I got sick and lost my appetite, so that probably knocked off a pound or two.  The rest has been the diet and exercise. 

I always like to be certain before I promote something, so before I create any kind of program or course on easy weight loss, I'm going to make sure that it is simple and easy to stick to.  I actually increased my carbohydrate count immensely the last few weeks because it has been the winter holidays.  Up until the first week in December, I had been on 20 carbs a day doing the modified Atkins diet for seizures.  It didn't work in preventing the seizures and I also gained weight because I didn't exercise as much.  I'm not going to tell people that they need to do Atkins because it didn't really work for me.  I gained pounds!

For tomorrow, I'm going to probably be substitute teaching to earn some spending money.  Starting a business, the income doesn't just pour in and sometimes you need part time positions.  I actually like substituting for the middle school kids.  They are nice.  Maybe I'll even let them read this blog.