The final day of the first week of the Brodyssey has arrived. I really feel as if I am in the middle of something powerful and irresistible for no other reason than the fact that I am spending so much of my time and focus during the day toward these goals.
I will not be weighing myself or measuring my arm, chest or waist circumference, because I want the final measurements to be surprising and motivating. I prefer to measure instead how I am feeling, and how other people are responding to me and the differences so far.
The biggest, and most obvious difference since I have begun is an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment. I can steadily watch these commitments I have made move closer and closer toward culmination and at the end of the day, I have a sense of achievement and pride. It's probably not for the best that I have anything more to contribute to my own self-image, but yet I am still finding it even easier to hold my head high and look passersby in the pupil when we cross paths.
I feel healthier since I have gone all organic and have been eating just stews. I am rarely ever hungry. I am full and satisfied and energetic all day, and when it comes time to eat, I eat. There is no discomfort of hunger or over-eating. (More details on this to come in a later post)
My HST routine, having a full-body workout every other day, leaves me feeling pumped and athletic the whole 48 hours until my next lift. The progressive loading is feeling challenging but fun, and I have not yet felt any influence to slow down in the adding of weight. A pumped, strong feeling came to me right after the second workout, and has not left yet, today being the fifth. My shoulders appear broader, my arms appear fuller, and my waist appears more trim. (More details on this to come in a later post)
Since I am reading so much during a day, and writing, and going about the rest of my work as well, my mind has been moving a lot more than normal. Although my brain does occasionally feel like it needs rest, a short episode of Psych or 30 minutes of PS4 gets me right back to working condition. In fact, my real problem I am facing is my mind racing on without me at night. I am getting so used to constantly plugging in to my memory and creativity that nothing slows down for me when I need to get to bed. I have discovered a solution, however, in playing solitaire on my iPhone. Even then, I keep seeing new tricks and shortcuts to the game to increase winning probability, decrease move counts, and shorten time to victory. I guess the brain really is like a muscle.
About halfway through "Hemingway's Boat," and discovering his "Iceberg Theory" of writing is giving me positive feedback to my own writing, of which the steady progress is, cyclically, motivating me to read more and more voraciously.
The outline of my my own book is approximately 85% complete, becoming more realized and complex every time I sit down to write on it. The ideas are coming so quickly that I am needing to force myself to chew through the skeleton before the narration begins. Each time I stop my writing for the day, I feel as though the next day's beginning will be exponentially easier.
Taking a cold shower every day has exactly the expected benefits. And after this time, I do not feel like I am being cleansed in any temperature of water besides cold. I yelped a little bit the first few days, but am looking forward to my showers as of late.
Observations of the supplements are being reserved for later in the journey to solidify conclusions.
Overall, the journey is much less daunting of a task now that I am developing these self-improvement exercises into daily habits. I am expecting that at the end, I will continue most (if not all) of these habits well past the thirty days.
Update: Virility Vitamin t-shirts are almost ready. The "Game Changers" book is in production. The website is up, though not completed. And the campaign is still moving along.
Tomorrow: Why the stew-roids diet? And how does it fit into our understanding of proper nutrition?
No comments:
Post a Comment