The Monday Project: The Future ME

**UPDATE** Duh! I almost forgot to announce the winners from last week’s project! They are Renee at CutieBootieCakes, Jennifer at PrairieKnitWit Cooks and Shrinks and Audrey at The Lewis 4! Send me your snail mail if I don’t have it already!

Project Peopllllllllllllllllllllle!!!! (Said like at the beginning of “Whoop There It Is!” where he yells, “Party Peopllllle!!”

It probably sounded better in my head.

Anyway, it’s Monday!! Time for another Monday Project!! Aren’t you excited????

Well, you know how when you look back at a year, you sometimes think, “Holy crap! I never saw that coming!” As if you were talking to “past-self” who was looking ahead at the year, and you wish you could tell “past-self” all the ”stuff” that was about to go down  – good and bad. But obviously we can’t because of that whole space-time continuum and the obviously very complicated science surrounding it therefortowith…

And you know how sometimes you think to yourself, “I wish I knew then what I know now!” And you know how sometimes you look back and wish you could send “current” self back to the past to tell yourself that something you’re about to do a really bad idea? Kind of like I wish I could send “current self” back to past-self to tell myself that letting my children have that free cookie in the bakery when we went grocery shopping was really like opening a huge can of worms and should be avoided at all costs. Or that the crazy wall of hairsprayed bangs that I had was a bad idea because I’d end up with all these pictures of myself looking like a lunatic…

This week is sort of like that, only in a more positive way.

For this week’s project, I want you to close your eyes. (Well, after you read this.) And pretend that it’s January — of 2011.

One full year ahead.

And when you think about January 2011, think about where you are sitting. What you look like. Where you are. Think about all the things you did in 2010. How far you’ve come. The goals you’ve reached. The obstacles you faced in 2010. The things you learned. Visualize where you will be. Physically, mentally, emotionally. I know you don’t have much to go on since we’re not even out of January 2010 yet. But that’s kind of the whole purpose. 

Now, ”future self” (*this is me waving to  your future self and saying “Hi!!!”*), go ahead and write ”current self” a letter. Tell yourself what you’ve done in 2010 and who you’ve become. Tell yourself about all the scale and non-scale victories you’ve had. Anything that you think is valuable for your current self to know, go ahead, tell it.

Write the letter to yourself like it actually happened. No hypotheticals. Because “future-self” actually knows what went on in 2010! You have to trust her (or him)!! Channel “Future Self”. So that’s what it is this week. “Future-self,” write “current-self” a letter about what 2010 is like and what you hope for 2011.

Blog it and on Friday, link it. This is one of those things you can actually hold in your hand when January 2011 comes around and you can see for yourself just what you’ve done. I am sure you will agree with yourself on that day and maybe even surprise yourself. Because you’ve got 11 more months to make it real. And you will. Because you rock and because you’re you, and ps. I already know what you’re made of. (And because future me told me so.)

You can also print it, sign it and stick it on your Motivation Wall. And if you haven’t done your Motivation Wall, this is a perfect time to finish that up too! Have a wonderful week, sisters (and brother!)

Category: Christie O., Fitness, Rethink Your Shrink, The Monday Project