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Confidence in the face of nay-sayers

Well, this is the first update of 2023. I started 2023 with a bang, I think. I did my first outdoors 5k! Also, the first race of the 9+1 program, to get into the NY Marathon. I ate noodles and

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2023 Q1 GP

I love the “GP” aspect. It is sort of a F1 race. But no, that is not what the GP stands for. It stands for Goals and Plans for this particular quarter, which will run from Jan 1 to March

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A bow on the cake

As I end 2022, I feel – fine. Content. Some things went well this year. Great even, perhaps. Some things didn’t go so well. That is life, and that is fine. I have already summarized things in the EOY post,

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Prevention is better than …

I’m now at the age where I need to seriously start to think about the main reasons I will die, or some of the reasons I will get degraded health. Some big ones that I can somewhat control: More on

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2022 EOY

This is a bit of a special entry. Similar to the 2015 review when I moved to the Meditations, I am going to a do a whole year review; and then move to a regular schedule. I’ll will evolve this

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What are we waiting for?

This is it boys, this is war. War on lack of motivation, focus and control. So, it’s been 10 years since the last update on this blog. Things are, in many ways, still the same. The key issue still is

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Is 10 years a long time?

Probably a 6th or a 7th of my life. Clearly, I didn’t sustain my blogging habit from 10 years ago. I want to start the journey again. I have been doing quite a bit of logging in general. And I

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Focussed passion

To actually be successful, I think you need the general passion and confidence I described in the previous post; and focus that energy towards a goal.

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Confidence. Passion. Confidence?

Some people say you gotta fake it until you make it. Some people say you gotta be passionate about what you do. Can you fake confidence and make it into real confidence? What about passion? Can you ‘fake’ passion? A

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Courage

I am not a *huge* Gandhi fan, but I do admire him. I certainly don’t think he was a Mahatma (maha, atma). But I do take his deepest message to heart about true courage. Violence is a cowardly thing to

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