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21 Days of Accountability – Day 5

by Chavah Kinloch on August 16, 2010

I’m in need of an anthem. I wrote a post earlier in the year that talked about my past anthems, you can read it here.

What is an anthem? It’s a song that conjures up feelings of empowerment and increases your desire to achieve and meet your goal, whatever that goal may be.

I’m a firm believer that music can help you burn more calories. Surely somewhere there’s a statistic out there that can help me out… It makes you fidget when you’re sedentary and during a workout it pushes you to keep up to the beat that’s pumping through your ears. It makes you move and you feel good doing it. Everything’s more fun with music.

Do you have an anthem? Can you recommend a song that could maybe be my perfect new anthem? Let me know!

Good music is essential for a great sweat session IMO. I don’t know why it is but my gym doesn’t always have music playing. On the occasion that I’ve for some reason forgotten to bring my own music, I’ve found it a real struggle to either work out to music I didn’t like, or no music at all. It gets on my nerves that although I’ve worked out, it’s felt like a drag the whole time. Therefore my ipod is a life saver. Best investment ever.

Your challenge today – put on your favourite music and move.

Right now I desperately need some new music though! I have some really great movers but they’ve been on my ipod for a while and I need to switch it up. I’d love to hear what you have on your playlist. There are so many great songs that slip my mind.

On a side note – I went to bed earlier than I have in years yesterday. I was so excited. Then come 12:00am Boston started screaming and hasn’t stopped since. Alll night…allllll day. My day is going sh*t and I cannot wait to get to the gym in an hour. I’m freakin tired but I welcome the break.

Ok back to it, leave me a song recommendation if you will :) Hope your day is going smoother than mine!

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What a Day

by Chavah Kinloch on April 28, 2010

Two more off the list!

30. Change the music on my ipod.

Who would have thought changing the music on my ipod would be SUCH a mission. It’s pretty straight forward stuff right? Yes, it is. So how come it took me about 12 hours. I know!!!… but explaining the whole ordeal would just be too much of a mission. It involves error messages,  slow uploads and dying computers. Let’s just say I started my evening off last night being my happy little self and by the end of it I was not a happy chappy. I ended up just going to bed and in the morning when I woke up, everything I had set up had magically found it’s way onto my ipod. I think I might need to say thank you to my hubby.

8. Write a poem.

I wrote a poem today. Well, I didn’t actually write it so much as typed random words without stopping to think. It took me all of about 30 seconds and when I stopped to look, I’d written two verses. It’s a pretty dark poem. I’m not quite ready to share it in it’s entirety just yet so I’ve put it in an image. I figured I’d turn it into a little piece of art. It features the whole poem but it’s a little hard to read..on purpose. Some things are better left to the imagination. If you by chance manage to read the entire thing though, congratulations. It really encompasses the state I was in at the time of writing it. There’s been something bugging me the past couple of weeks, I don’t think I hid it too well but I think… I HOPE that it’s finally finished with today. If anything, at least it’s given me a chance to create through poetry. I’ll take it.

Don’t worry, I feel much better after getting it all out now :) Nothing bad has happened tomorrow. Get up and try again.

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