We have to make a million choices each and every day, so it makes sense that to keep things simple, we always make the same ones. But the easy choices don't always mean the right choices.
Commit today to changing it up, to doing something different, and making the choice that improves your life for the better. Believe it or not, pretty soon that choice will be the easy one to make too.
"3/4 (amúgy már a 4. a héten, de a súlyzósat még beiktatom) Ma végre ismét kiszabadultam, egyedül sétáltam a gondolataimmal a repce táblánál. Mondjuk a felénél felhívott az óvó néni, de vele is lélek simogató beszélgetést folytattunk. "
"I "ran" 14 minutes on treadmill yesterday to hit a mile. Not a good idea. My knees are a little sensitive today. My biggest challenge will be with sticking to only 10 minutes to allow my old body to build support tissue. I think it best I NOT run today and let them recover so I can try 10 minutes tomorrow. I think I should change to 5x/week to allow more healing time between runs."
"Took a 3rd night off. Now comes an equally hard part. Counting & moderating my drinks for the next 4 days. After a few days of not drinking, I tend to overdue it when I do drink. Don’t like to count my drinks, but I will so I can reach my goal. "
"I was up at 6AM! Quick 15 MIN yoga workout and making smoothie now. It was good to move my body and stretch this morning. I’ve lost 2 pounds since doing this challenge! "
"I have a theory. I’ve had pretty good success in converting stress into excitement, since those are two similarly embodied emotions with vastly different psychologies around them. All it takes is a perspective shift to convert one into the other.
Given that premise, can the same be done with the sexual tension I get? I think yes.
All I need is an emotion to associate all the more powerful feelings with that isn’t obviously not the same (converting arousal into sadness, for example). I’m thinking I can use either excitement or motivation as emotions to shift to. I’ll have to keep an eye out for when those emotions come up, more so than I have in the past. Those emotions come out of nowhere and are sometimes hard to control, but maybe I can catch them early, like precursor emotions, and change my mindset on those emotions instead of full blown intensity."
"Watched much less YouTube than I normally do, although watching has been replaced with scrolling. I never would have expected getting rid of watching videos to have this effect, but in retrospect it makes sense.
YouTube’s main goal is to keep you on the site for as long as possible. YouTube doesn’t control what videos go up where. If they did, they would keep you on the site with the content itself. So instead, YouTube needs to format the presentation of titles, thumbnails, etc. on the home-screen and sidebar to entice you to keep watching. Match this up with users changing their titles and thumbnails to make people click, and you have a positive feedback loop of addictive content on the platform. To be clear, the addictive content isn’t the videos, it’s the slot machine nature of the recommended videos.
How to win? Walk away. We’ll see how successful that is."
"I feel as though I’m subtly suffering every day. It seems obvious in retrospect that not being able to get to work is suffering, but in the moment it’s much harder to identify. Thinking about writing down all the ways I needlessly suffer."
"Good day! I wanted to reward my hard work with game time but stuck with my goal. I’ve been getting more accomplished and it feels good. I’m grateful. "
"Ok so I was hungry again and forgot to photo 😶 but leftover lentil curry and rice for lunch. For reference, this is a 1L container and was filled to the same level as the last little remaining bit"
"I want to give a political campaign money like I want a hole in the head. This goal is super important to fighting for my health and if I am asking my mom to do hard things, I need to do them as well. This will be hard - that is why I am putting 2k against it. This will help me, remind me why I am doing this and help me on my journey."
"Week 4, Day 1 Complete. Starting on Eccentric motions this week. My hip flexor pain has been gone for a few days now so I'm tapering back a little on hip flexor exercises and doubling down on shoulder exercises."
"Soooo I skipped my Tuesday workout 😬 which means you’ll either have to accept me doing a double one of these days or I’m going to make you and Kirsten workout with me on Saturday 😅"
"My Procrastination tendencies are frequent at the moment, I think the stress of exams and levels of insecurity aren’t helpful currently.
There were two instances of explicit content and masturbation this week, I’ve noticed the occurrences per month have increased recently and I need to work on reducing that again.
Trying to make healthier choices this week with food and exercise. My prayer time has been sporadic and minimal so I need to improve on that.
I think there’s an element I’m missing that’ll need faced soon once I can figure it out and why I’m a bit stuck at the moment.
I’m feeling a bit like there are too many moments of self sabotage; I do well for a short time and then after a small setback, progress halts. "
"I WENT A VERY SLOW PACE YESTERDAY, 14:00's for 11 minutes. Knees a bit sore today. I really hope they will hold up as support muscle builds. I need to go slowly. REMEMBER: SLOW IS FAST AND FAST IS SLOW! AMAZING HIGH AFTERWARDS, DANCING IN THE SUNDECK!"
"2/4 eleredt az eső, így az ovi séta helyett felpattantam a futógépre. A vállalt lépésszám már majdnem megvan, de ha az idő engedi, este sétálok még a szabadban."
"Ayooo blig weighed in at 281.4. That’s a 3.6 lb loss. I’ll take that any day especially with the big cheats over the weekend. I’m set up nice to be back to living in the 270s again starting next weeks weigh in. "
"Dinner - Was so hungry I forgot to take a photo, but this was a full bowl of rice and lentil curry.
I also didn’t turn on my TV at all tonight. I cooked. I video chatted with a friend"
"Thoughts are still pretty intense, I’ve become more conscious of just how sexually I frame every relationship I have, even just looking at total strangers. I was able to talk it out with a friend, and initially that seemed to help immensely. We’ll see if those positive thoughts hold stable over time."
"It seems like the easiest way for me to not be on YouTube is just to not be in the house at all. That seems like hardly a solution.
One thing I have noticed is that it’s so automatic for me to just open the laptop and watch without giving it a second thought. Being more conscious of when I’m thinking about watching YouTube might be the next step in having more control over this addiction."
"I woke up at 5:50 before my alarm. I did a great workout today! I did lunges, curtsy lunges, planks, scissor kicks, push ups, squats with weighted bands, jump rope, jumping jacks, and kettle bell swings. I can feel my body really sore after my workout but it’s good, burning them calories baby!! 🤣 anyway, onto making my smoothie. And then kicking today’s butt 💪🏻 LETS GO!"
"I continue to be unapologetic and insistent in my thankfulness. I’ve also taken the advice in relation to an anecdote of Simon Sinek where he mentioned that olympic athletes made a mental switch from stress to excitement, two similar physically embodied phenomena but two completely different mindsets. It’s really been helpful in keeping perspective in “exciting” situations."
"I didn’t hit my vape not once yesterday.
Yesterday was pretty challenging for me due to high level of stress I was dealing with but managed to stay strong.
Yay go me :)"
