Charley, Bella and Nikki
Ah, take 2 on this post. Nothing like a Mozilla crash to really f*ck up your Mojo.
So, I had a completely original idea (ok, not really) that I’d pick a day of the week to give updates on how things are going in my personal life since I write about personal development heaps of the time and I like to set a goal or thirteen all the time.
And Monday seemed like a good day for now because it’s after the weekend when I do most of my assessing, obsessing and anything else that’s non-Cube Rat related.
And maybe it won’t be more than once a month, I’m not sure. As these things go, I’ll do it for as long as I enjoy it, then stop and pretend it never happened.
And…oh, no more and’s.
Ok?
Just a short bite of the bitter Charley apple…
Fitness
I’m fat.
‘Nuff said?
This is the first year, in my 37 I’ve earned and misspent, that my usual plan of putting on thirty pounds in the Winter and then taking it off in the summer hasn’t worked out…well it has partially worked.
The Winter part…we’re good.
The Summer shape-up…not so much.
It’s a matter of pockets of time, and as I’ve written in my book “You, Simplified,” we all have twenty four hours in a day and we fill every moment doing something. That “something” may be writing a symphony, or staring at your navel lint.
And I’ve consciously opened up the few blocks of time that aren’t triplet or work related so that I can fill them with blogging and creating info-products.
So there are no pockets of time outside of work to workout. I sleep about five hours a night as it is and if you want to talk about early risers, I get up sometime between 3:00 and 5:00am most days to administer an emergency bottle of formula.
But there is a lunch hour (more or less) at work that I can play with.
So I joined the gym at work on June 17th, for the purpose of using their pool for a quick workout.
Why the pool?
Because it is confirmed that I am the world’s most inefficient swimmer and even a short workout like, say, 200 meters, takes me a good fifteen minutes and I’m completely blitzed head to toe after it.
So, I picked something I royally sucked at, that takes a lot of energy for me to do, and am using that as my workout.
Smart, huh? Maybe not. But if it turns my man boobs back into man pecs, if it helps me drop the Winter 30, then I’m good with it.
The Project
I’ve been hinting at my next product release for mid-July with a couple teaser posts.
The structure is still in flux but I am looking at a video, one instructive audio, six meditation audios, and an eBook right now.
I’ve just finished up the six meditation audios this past weekend and am very pleased with them. I’ve been using myself as a laboratory with them and am enjoying the benefits.
The Gamma meditation session has been so completely helpful in my brainstorming sessions this past weekend that I couldn’t be happier. I went through over 200 index cards with ideas for this project and a half dozen others. If I never sell a copy of this thing, so be it, at least I got major value out of it.
I’m only about 25% of the way through the written eBook and have not started the video or instructive audio, but I am still comfortable with a July ship date.
Hopefully twenty other bloggers won’t be releasing something at the same time.
Sweet Vegetarianism
I made a declaration on this blog in the second week of May that I’d be going vegetarian. Despite some terrific advice on taking it slow, I did what any complete idiot would do, I went cold turkey.
Till this past weekend, I hadn’t strayed even for a single meal.
But then I took my wife to her favorite high end Steak and Seafood restaurant. As it turns out, they serve nothing but meat.
Meat in the salads
Meat in the appetizers.
Meat in the soups.
Main courses? All meat.
Meat in the coffee….mmmm….meat coffee. Okay, not exactly, but everything else is true.
And so I knew going into that meal that it was more important to make sure my wife enjoyed her night out than it did for me to take a stand on my food choices.
So I had a steak.
Still as delicious as I remember it, but I was back on the wagon the following day and I really haven’t had any cravings since I started in mid May.
And we had a good time.
Hope the rest of you are too on this Happy Monday. Thanks for reading and take care.
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Steve Pavlina switched to polyphasic sleep to see what it was like. He opened up more time in his day. Since you have to wake up in the night for your kids in any case, this might be for you. You don’t have to follow the same pattern that he did, but polyphasic sleep should be up for consideration.
I’m working on getting rid of my man boobs too. I’m reading a book called the body fat solution and it has opened my eyes to proper eating and efficient exercise. Good idea with the swimming. Anything that can get you good intensity in a short amount of time. I’d shoot for 20 minutes of high intensity 2-3 times per week. Then consider some strength training perhaps even just body weight exercises. Push ups, burpees, squats, pull ups, dips, etc.
Wondering how you felt after eating a steak?
I LOVE steak, or at least used to, and seem to like a ribeye cooked on the grill at home the best. However, my wife and I were thinking of cutting out red meat (from our diet
I noticed that when I abstain from steak for a while, it seems to sort of make me sick when I eat it again… seems I have a little trouble digesting.
I also tend to go through exercise cycles. My wife and I travel every six months so we hit the gym for a few months prior to vaca, then slack for a few months on return. I’m trying to keep it going the entire time now. Running every other day and finally signed up for a 5K. Of course I had to find the “right” iPhone app for running first.
Hi Jared,
Actually I felt okay. I only ate about half of a ten ounce sirloin. The next day, honestly, I felt a little off but I can’t say for sure whether it was related or not. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.