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Mental fog

When I was on vacation, I felt optimistic about this year. I was eating right, sleeping well and the mind was calm and clear. There was no sound outside – just quiet. I could hear my own thoughts. But now…

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Lowering the friction

The key to consistency will be to make it easy for myself to do the things I want to do. For instance, I want to be able to go running as easily as possible. To switch, disconnect, etc and just…

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Do not falter in pursuit of consistency

Just get through this. Maintain the consistency. The body will adapt. It has to. Give it time, and be consistent. The runs will be the engine. This post is more of a self affirmation. Feeling a bit low in the…

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Building confidence

Not in that usual sense. Not in the sense where you pick up women in a bar. Or in the sense where you lead a company or a group of men into a real or metaphorical war. These are outward…

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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: Obesity Atherosclerosis…

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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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