Yes we CAN comeback! A new chapter

Saying it's been a while would be a huge understatement.

Our last post was in April 2010 - It's now March 2013!

Oops.

Although we had high hopes to do every principle step-by-step and report back it just didn't work out that way.

However the Principles work! We employed just some of them and not to the fullest and we've seen great success.

For example - as of the last few entries before we dropped from this blog- I had just took a 'crazy' leap to run a half marathon and made weight loss goals (based on J.C's principles).

And guess what? I ran that half marathon. Yes I did. VICTORY!! You can read about that half marathon that took place in May 2010 here.

But guess what else? I went on to run 8 more half marathons, a full 26.2 marathon and a 200 mile Ragnar Relay Race that I've filmed for a documentary!

Picture during the 200 mile Ragnar Relay Race with my before and after pic

Thanks to that one goal and following the Principles to get there I went on to run all those races, launch a successful running blog with hundreds of followers, become a health blogger for a few major projects that pay me a good salary, made dozens of new friends from across the country, have traveled to some really cool places for races, reach and maintain (for 3 years!) my ideal weight and gain confidence. Beginning to run also led me to come in 4th place for Progresso Soup's "Souper Me" contest, landed me in the pages of Health Magazine, featured on the blog, "Run Like a Mother," and countless other amazing experiences and a changed life.

Just one goal on the list - with a (pardon the expression) somewhat half-assed approach to the Principals and my life is amazingly changed and better.

And a bunch of other good things have happened too.

That's just my story. Amy has some great success to share too.

Because of our success we decided to get full back on Jack track and pick up this life-long adventure and journey.

We've been reading our Jack re-tooling our vision boards and cracking open our gratitude, victory and goal journals.

Watch out world.

Two morals of my story? As Jack teaches, you can do amazing things when you take the steps to get there.  I never thought that I could be happily maintaining my goal weight or would consider myself a runner but with three years of running under my belt - that's me!

Also - it's never too late to recommit to getting better. So we fell off the blogging band wagon and some of the Principles - we are back.

"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one."

XO
Jen