A documentation of my journey to improve my life
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Life…Not As Advertised Life is exciting, life is adventurous, life is spontaneous and life is trilling. Life can whisk you away to new and interesting places, or push you to do things you never thought were possible. Life is amazing, fantastic and exhilarating! …or at least that’s what we’d like our lives to be. Unfortunately the reality is that our lives are more often a pretty simple and uneventful experience. We get up, scramble to get ready, go to work,...
Stuck In A Comfort Bubble So often in life we find ourselves living in a comfortable bubble that we’ve created for ourselves. We sit wrapped in our artificial security blankets living cautiously and conservatively, assuring that we are rarely forced to step far outside of our comfort zones. This can sometimes be a nice luxury affording us a sense of security and comfort, like a good job or a nice house, but often this is the very thing that holds us back from achieving what...
This whole year has been about challenging myself to be better, striving to get more out of life and pushing myself out of my comfort zone. Whether it’s been challenging myself to be a better cook or attempting to be more mindful and more productive I’ve tried to focus my challenges on areas I knew I had personal deficiencies with in an to attempt to slowly improve my life. This months swim challenge is in some ways very different though…This is the first...
No meat, No Dairy, No Eggs, No Fun? Vegans, the most dedicated, and often most outspoken of the meatless movement. As far as I could tell these people lived, ate, slept and breathed health and animal rights, sacrificing some of life’s most guilty dietary pleasures such as pizza, ice-cream and milk chocolate. Their sacrifice and commitment in the face of the common and easy dietary lifestyle really intrigued me. Having done my research over this past month and realizing the damning correlations...
Few times in my life can I recall having been moved by something so strongly that I was immediately forced to take action. To watch or read something and then immediately have the need to know more about it or the need to call a friend just to share must mean that it had profound impact on your life. This was the feeling I had after finishing the documentary Forks Over Spoons. Before the credits were even rolling on the screen I had grabbed my...
Carnivorous Consideration Let me just start off by saying that I am a carnivore, well I guess omnivore actually but either way a meat eater. and I would even go so far as to identify myself as a meat connoisseur. Few things can beat grilling up a good streak on a nice BBQ on a hot summers day. Getting a steak to just the right temperature where you can see grill marks on the outside but the inside is still juicy and red (FYI: medium rare is...
Step 2: Automate to Execute To truly be effective at the important things I need to first get through the mindless things. I can’t count how much time I regularly waste on last minute grocery shopping, trying to figure out what I’ll make for dinner, paying bills, searching for information online, and on and on… To fix this issue my plan is to get as many of these things off my plate as I possibly can by implementing some of...
The Productivity Plan If you’re anything like me your biggest problem with productivity isn’t motivation; the biggest reason I don’t get anything done is because I’m either overloaded, distracted, unfocused or all 3. Besides battling constantly to try and put a dent in my endless lists of unfinished work and generally struggling with prioritization and time management (see GTD article) I am regularly fighting with personal distractions and a lack of focus. After researching for the last few weeks and...
Pretentious attitudes, long hair, man buns, Lulu Lemon, tight pants, overly bendy, over complicated, stretching disguised as a workout. This was basically my general perception of Yoga and those doing Yoga up to the beginning of this month. Was it a bit (quite) prejudgemental? Well, ya, but I’m not sure this was totally my fault. My only experiences with Yoga to date hadn’t really been the most positive. Besides my one-off encounters with the friendly but strange hippyish types practicing their...
3 hours 32 minutes, 4 cups of tea, half a box of somewhat stale Triscuits and 1 celebratory beer after we began I took a step back and I felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders. My girlfriend Brittney and I had just spend the better part of an evening writing down and filing every single last “need to do” in our lives. And when I say every I mean Every! “Finish installing the return-air vents, send thank you cards to friends,...
