Progress!

So, I was super discouraged this last week.  After running and dieting and starting to work out these past 4 weeks, last week when I checked my weight I was up 7 pounds!  To be honest, I did start drinking a lot of water and everyone was like "Blah, its water weight.".  But it was still a bit discouraging.  I stuck with it and kept it up!

And the rewards are finally starting to show!  I checked my weight, and I'm down 5 pounds again.  Only +2 from where I started!  I'm going to attribute that to muscle weight! 

So for those of you who aren't seeing any positive gains, stick with it!  The fact that you are sticking with it will help keep you going until you do!

Assumptions

Assumptions have gotten in quite a bit of trouble.  I'd make silly assumptions about friends/people I'd be interacting with, and make a fool of myself.  The only point I wanna make with this short post:  I found its sooo much easier to ask someone a simple question instead of spending X amount of minutes doing something for someone and realizing it wasn't what I expected.

"Slow down" v2.0

Quick update: I'm at sogen-con. Having a blast and enjoying the weekend off.

So, I've been told to "slow down", and I always thought that they meant to stop rushing. What I didn't think about what a different meaning. The long term vision of slowing down.  I've been too focused on things in the near future and haven't put much thought into the direction of my life 5+ years down the road.

First run through this made me think of tailoring my days to aim for that longer goal.  It helped a lot to realize that in 6 years I'll be thirty and still should have plenty of potential i can tap into.

Momentum!

On a positive note, this is the third week that I've been continuous with my diet and exercising!  And its only getting easier.  Momentum is definitely the word I would attach to this.  Initially, it was very difficult to go from no exercise and bad eating habits, to even taking the first step.  Even the first couple days was difficult just to get it continuing. 

However, at week 3, I'm feeling a different pull.  Whenever a decision comes up that would hurt the progress I've made so far, I get to thinking that I'm already deep into this process, and it makes my decision to not do that task that much easier.

I'm not sure how intermixed with my decision process it is, but there is also one more component.  I read someone say that when you come to a bad decision, ask yourself if this is a decision you would want to make the same every day.  At the beginning, its easy to let that slide because I've only dieted/exercised for 2 days.  But now at 3 weeks, I've got a lot more to lose.  Asking myself that question as I progress makes it easier and easier to say no.

Problems

So, I started my queue last night, and told myself I had 1 thing in it to do before I left for work this morning.  But you know what?  This morning, I didn't bring up the queue at all, and so it didn't get done.  For now, I need to work on not going completely on auto-pilot in the morning.  This might be resolved by adding a process in which I periodically go through my queue, or what I'm liking even more right now, is going through everything I'll need to do for a task as I'm entering the last period of time before an event (Like after waking up, since my morning is pretty much devoted to getting ready for work).

Trying to remember what to do

So, one big issue I'm having is with remembering all the tasks that I tell myself I need to do before something.  As I'm planning it out, I will usually touch on most of the things I need to do at least once in my mind.  However, when it gets to a point where I can actually do the tasks, I won't always do all of them because I forget some. 

I'm testing out a way to help with this: Error checking.

Simply, I'm going to keep a "Total tasks" variable in my mind to keep track of how many tasks I have in my queue.  That way, whenever I add a new thing to my list, I know how many tasks I need to have in my queue, and I'll go through my queue to refresh in my mind all of them. 

It has helped me the last two days to ensure that I complete all the tasks, when I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have remembered on my own.  I'll keep posted with how much I think this ends up helping.

Returning!

I'm going to start using my blog for a lot of things, like how I think humanity can be bettered and also as a medium for me to display some of my creative writings like story ideas and poems.  For now, I want to challenge some people!

I challenge everyone to say hello to someone you have been avoiding speaking to.