In Chantell’s episode of Extreme Weight Loss, she used 2 mason jars and marbles to help her visualize her first goal. One jar held 91 marbles, each representing 1 pound, that she needed to lose, to reach that first milestone. The other, empty, awaiting to be filled!
As she lost each pound, she moved a marble to the second jar, and continued to move marbles from one to the other, as she worked off each and every one of those pounds, helping her visually see her progress. She was literally watching herself lose her marbles! 🙂
Creating a way to help you see how you are doing as you work on a goal can help you see greater success and serve as a reminder of what you are focused on attaining. Keep it where you will walk past it and see it regularly to help you stay on track.
You can fill a jar not only with marbles, but with anything similarly small like decorative rocks or even buttons! Mason jars are inexpensive, and if you don’t have any readily handy, check the goodwill for fun jars and containers to hold “your weight”. I love these darling apothecary jars filled with pebbles! The possibilities are endless as you create a way to visually track your goal. You can even include your favorite motivational quote to give you additional inspiration!
How do you track your goals? Let me know in the comments below!
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I love this idea, I’m going this weekend to get stuff to make my own jars to help with motivation!
LOVE this idea! My husband and I are committed to getting ourselves healthy, and our kids! Can’t wait to lose MY marbles!!! 😉
LOVE! Such a cute idea! I’m so visual and this is an amazing representation for me! Thank you for everything!!
I keep track in my mind of how many pounds I have lost. I can tell by how my clothes fit and how I feel. I keep on track by making a fitness goal which is my very first full marathon! 26.2 miles! In Oct! So scared and so excited all at once! lol Thanks for giving us unique ways to keep going!
I have several friends that do this too. I am going to make me a loss jar. I have lost 31 lbs. so far and have 5 lbs. to go to my goal! The last 5 lbs. are the hardest to loose.
This is a great idea! I am a visual person so it would be a great motivation to move the marbles from one jar to the other 🙂 Thanks for the tip! Krista
I love that these were featured! I’ve been using pounds jars for about 6 months now and am 13 months into my journey! I have lost 152 lbs and have watched the “lbs left” jar wind down! 28 lbs left to my goal 🙂
Steph
I love this idea and will be using this as a visionary tool to help others (as well as keep myself on track)! Thank you for being such a positive show that truly cares. xoxoxoxo
SO cute. Love the idea. I want to do this! Thank you heidi
This is an awesome idea. I used to use something similar to this with my kids when they were little. They would earn “poker chips” for chores and behavior and put them in jars so they could see their progress (then they could buy a reward based on value etc). I will be buying 75 rocks or marbles when I go shopping tomorrow, that was my goal when I started the Turbo Cycle last Monday.