It's been a while... and I don't know if there is anyone still following this post... but changes are a coming.
I'll try to focus on keeping this blog up to date. As all the new changes are part of overall change in terms of setting and following a strict regime, if I add blogging updates it really shouldn't be a problem.
Briefly... here's what's coming.
ONE:
I'd like to start two books this year, both with my good friend GinaMarie Blain. Both are about the Laws of Attraction and getting what you want by making life changes. That puts me under a bit of pressure, which I think is good. I am a big believer in teaching after you've accomplished and succeeded at exactly what it is you are trying to teach. I, as of yet, have not. But... I know WHAT to do so now 2012 is doing it. I've had some successes and I've had some set backs. One thing I can say is this: For the things that are in my control I can do better... and better I shall do.
The second book is going to be about the Laws of Attraction and how to use them as well... but also a whole lot more. It's going to be for people who want it all... and will get rid of excuses to get it. It's going to combine the Laws of Attraction with positive thinking... it's going to cover HOW YOU THINK ABOUT THINGS and how your perspectives and thoughts influence you and your circumstances... it's going to cover serious polyphasic sleep and how to get the most out of it... it's going to cover diet and nutrition(!)... and it's going to cover organizing your life... basically it's going to weave all this together so you can be more positive, productive, happy, energetic, and successful. Wow. A lot of effort to demonstrate the "proofs" is in store for me in 2012. The thing going for me? I know everything of which I want to write is true. And that's a big... no HUGE thing. My successes and failures so far have nothing to do with what I want to write about... and how feasible or not these things are. My successes and failures have been 100% the result of my level of commitment. Yes folks you're hearing me say it here and now... it's all me. No more excuses.
TWO:
True commitment to my polyphasic sleep.
I can't say it doesn't work. I can't say I don't feel better doing it. I can't say it just isn't how I want to live. I CAN say I've cheated as I've tried to ramp up after a break (MY issue) and I can say that it takes planning to pull off. I can also say that after succeeding with and failing with it, I have lost no love for it. It will make my life better and more fulfilling.
THREE:
Goal setting. I haven't taken this seriously enough and starting today it's going to be a daily part of my life. I'll blog more specifics as I hammer them out, but needless to say, once a day I will be setting a block of time aside for reflection... oh... wait... let's do it in number 4.
FOUR:
Reflection, Meditation, and Organizing daily block of time.
The idea is simple and very overlooked... a set block of time each day that one uses for the following...
1. Reflection on previous days goals.
2. Setting/reflecting on new days goals.
3. Reviewing of goal materials (yes this means giving a look at the future, fun things on your goals list. That makes you keep it perpetually handy as well as forces you to LOOK at it... often.)
4. A meditation period to clear my head and start work calm and focused.
FIVE:
In combination with the polyphasic sleep... four "blocks" of time make up each day, surrounded by the four nap/exercise/eat periods. Those four blocks will be the basis for my daily organization... at roughly 5 hours each, they should work well for getting good chunks of things done while not overprioritizing (by accident) any one thing... that was a big problem before... falling too much into one thing and neglecting other things... including personal time.
Perhaps there's more... but I gotta gets other stuff goin...
See y'all soon.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Monday, February 1, 2010
Life Experiment 01 - Day 2010.02.01 Block 2 start
Good morning all my little hibernators out there... it's time for an update.
I wish I could say I'm done with my acclimation phase. I wish I could say that I've stuck to this like glue. Here's the scoop. Monophasic sleeping is like Taco Bell. It's not healthy for you. It doesn't make you feel good. It's a hedonistic pleasure that holds only an immediate gain. And while the consequences are easily not worth the gains, it still takes will power and resolve to completely avoid the hedonistic pleasures completely. Add to that... if you are on a diet you unravel your successes when you Taco Bell binge. Monophasic sleep holds no benefits over polyphasic sleep that I am interested in. It takes more time, it breaks my schedule, it tires me, it depresses me. The only thing is, like Taco Bell, it periodically sings it's sweet, alluring song when I'm at my weakest. The penalty is great.
The loft is still a disaster. I'm going to right that this morning. More importantly, I stay stuck in what I feel like is the "almost acclimated" phase. The suggestion is that I quit and try again in a month. I have two words... f that. My goal is a complete week of NO errors.
I've decided that writing in the blog needs to be a more mandatory part of my routine to help ensure this.
I'm starting the day with coffee, oatmeal, and a grapefruit. I made a killer pork tenderloin roast with Julia yesterday, and am going to follow that up with stuffed cabbage rolls and then split pea soup... I LOVE split pea soup and never knew how friggin cheap it is to make...
Anyway... keep pulling for me everyone. The benefits to this I am 100% committed to.
I wish I could say I'm done with my acclimation phase. I wish I could say that I've stuck to this like glue. Here's the scoop. Monophasic sleeping is like Taco Bell. It's not healthy for you. It doesn't make you feel good. It's a hedonistic pleasure that holds only an immediate gain. And while the consequences are easily not worth the gains, it still takes will power and resolve to completely avoid the hedonistic pleasures completely. Add to that... if you are on a diet you unravel your successes when you Taco Bell binge. Monophasic sleep holds no benefits over polyphasic sleep that I am interested in. It takes more time, it breaks my schedule, it tires me, it depresses me. The only thing is, like Taco Bell, it periodically sings it's sweet, alluring song when I'm at my weakest. The penalty is great.
The loft is still a disaster. I'm going to right that this morning. More importantly, I stay stuck in what I feel like is the "almost acclimated" phase. The suggestion is that I quit and try again in a month. I have two words... f that. My goal is a complete week of NO errors.
I've decided that writing in the blog needs to be a more mandatory part of my routine to help ensure this.
I'm starting the day with coffee, oatmeal, and a grapefruit. I made a killer pork tenderloin roast with Julia yesterday, and am going to follow that up with stuffed cabbage rolls and then split pea soup... I LOVE split pea soup and never knew how friggin cheap it is to make...
Anyway... keep pulling for me everyone. The benefits to this I am 100% committed to.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Life Experiment 01 - Day 2010.01.29 Block 3
Well... It's an hour away from my nap and I'm getting tired. I think it's a good sign as I'll be able to stay up without a problem... but I am looking forward to my 5:30. I'll have no company tonight so I'll be focusing on finishing putting the loft back together (it's been a massive full on effort) and getting ready for my show Sunday.
My other task is really reorganizing my work effort into the four 5ish hour blocks in my day. I'm just poking at tasks that need to get done, but I have an opportunity here to really bang some stuff out.
Still not drinking enough water. Always something to work on I guess.
My other task is really reorganizing my work effort into the four 5ish hour blocks in my day. I'm just poking at tasks that need to get done, but I have an opportunity here to really bang some stuff out.
Still not drinking enough water. Always something to work on I guess.
Life Experiment 01 - Day 2010.01.29 Block 3
Naps are going really well... Murphy's Law of course states that when I'm organized and my phone isn't gonna die etc., I wake up without it. That's what this nap was like. It is also weird how, from the perspective of dream length, I can't tell a difference between hibernating and napping for 30. The only difference I can still tell is that when my alarm DOES go off, I can usually tell that I haven't been asleep that long. Now... maybe that's because I'm used to waking up in a hazy, sleepy daze when I sleep longer... and the absence of that makes me feel like I haven't gotten very far into sleep... Maybe it's because my environment hasn't changed much (like sunlight)... Maybe it's cause I'm in the same position as when I started. At the same time, I usually don't wake up from a nap TIRED... which is the real point.
In fact, the ONLY part that is still difficult at times is I will usually hit some sort of fatigue point during the day or night. Today's was in the mid morning... nighttime was fine. I'm obviously still in the acclimation phase and I totally expect that to disappear.
Back to work me... I talk to y'all soon.
In fact, the ONLY part that is still difficult at times is I will usually hit some sort of fatigue point during the day or night. Today's was in the mid morning... nighttime was fine. I'm obviously still in the acclimation phase and I totally expect that to disappear.
Back to work me... I talk to y'all soon.
Life Experiment 01 - Day 2010.01.29 Block 2
Ok... time to update the blog.
Despite periodic setbacks, including yesterday's where my iPhone died in that magical half hour of nappy land, therefore NOT alarming me, on a night I was particularly tired consequently sleeping for hours, I'm actually doing well. The fact that I seem to be able to rebound to my polyphasic schedule with increasing ease tells me I'm acclimating.
This past round of sleep held interesting dreaming results. While I don't think I had a lucid dream, the colors were VERY vivid and I felt like I was more conscious than I even remember. I even remember THINKING in the dream, "Wow. This is the most vivid dream I think I've ever had," and VERY slightly manipulated it's direction.
I have a lot going on in my life and I'm at a point where I'm going to start turning all these hours into productive ones. My updates will start shifting to how well my productivity runs.
I have a lot of work cut out for me... 5 major projects running concurrently, and I'm not organized. Besides the show Sunday, I'll spend today and the weekend trying to organize.
Workouts are good... I've added upper body toning via the bowflex.
If you look out the window on your left, you'll notice these points of interest.
• Diet is switching to all the nutrisystems I haven't eaten. When I'm outta those I should be in a good position as far as weight loss goes.
• I'm not drinking my water as I should. I have to do something about that.
• I've decided that, for now, if I'm tired in either of my night blocks, I'm going to drink coffee, as it doesn't seem to affect my sleep. It's more important to solidify this pattern of sleep than anything, and I have to do whatever I can to ensure that don't falter.
• I've really been happy with the general schedule and amazed how generally alert I am at all hours of the day. When I talk about it with people, and they speculate how hard they think it would be for them, I'm happy to contract them, and they nod and smile... but generally they just don't understand. Of course that's fine. I'm not looking to convert anyone... in fact, I'm not looking for this new time to be especially social. I thought, in the beginning, that it would be easier for me to do this with someone, but not anymore.
It's time to go kick some ass.
Despite periodic setbacks, including yesterday's where my iPhone died in that magical half hour of nappy land, therefore NOT alarming me, on a night I was particularly tired consequently sleeping for hours, I'm actually doing well. The fact that I seem to be able to rebound to my polyphasic schedule with increasing ease tells me I'm acclimating.
This past round of sleep held interesting dreaming results. While I don't think I had a lucid dream, the colors were VERY vivid and I felt like I was more conscious than I even remember. I even remember THINKING in the dream, "Wow. This is the most vivid dream I think I've ever had," and VERY slightly manipulated it's direction.
I have a lot going on in my life and I'm at a point where I'm going to start turning all these hours into productive ones. My updates will start shifting to how well my productivity runs.
I have a lot of work cut out for me... 5 major projects running concurrently, and I'm not organized. Besides the show Sunday, I'll spend today and the weekend trying to organize.
Workouts are good... I've added upper body toning via the bowflex.
If you look out the window on your left, you'll notice these points of interest.
• Diet is switching to all the nutrisystems I haven't eaten. When I'm outta those I should be in a good position as far as weight loss goes.
• I'm not drinking my water as I should. I have to do something about that.
• I've decided that, for now, if I'm tired in either of my night blocks, I'm going to drink coffee, as it doesn't seem to affect my sleep. It's more important to solidify this pattern of sleep than anything, and I have to do whatever I can to ensure that don't falter.
• I've really been happy with the general schedule and amazed how generally alert I am at all hours of the day. When I talk about it with people, and they speculate how hard they think it would be for them, I'm happy to contract them, and they nod and smile... but generally they just don't understand. Of course that's fine. I'm not looking to convert anyone... in fact, I'm not looking for this new time to be especially social. I thought, in the beginning, that it would be easier for me to do this with someone, but not anymore.
It's time to go kick some ass.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Life Experiment 01 - Day 10 start
Sorry for the break in writing... Massive overhaul of the loft... trashing a lot of stuff collected across the ages. My goal is a tranquil, clean, simple environment to better ease this transition...
Some new things. I finally started to noticably lose weight... I've consistently weighed in at 251 for over a day now... that's 14 lbs from my heaviest. As I have a lot of nutrisystem meals left over from when I was on the program, I'm going to switch most of my meals to that... until they are gone/mostly gone. That'll help with having to worry about buying/cooking for the moment, and it will aid in portion control.
As well, I've started using my bowflex as part of my workouts... nothing too extravagant, and all upper body... the legs are getting all the workout on the bike. It's felt good, and I'd like to incorporate the bike, the bowflex, and stretching into all 4 workouts. I'm not quite there yet, and sometimes I skip a workout, but I'm getting there. Trying not to overdo it.
The loft still has a ways to go... I'll be working on it tomorrow too.
Til then......
Some new things. I finally started to noticably lose weight... I've consistently weighed in at 251 for over a day now... that's 14 lbs from my heaviest. As I have a lot of nutrisystem meals left over from when I was on the program, I'm going to switch most of my meals to that... until they are gone/mostly gone. That'll help with having to worry about buying/cooking for the moment, and it will aid in portion control.
As well, I've started using my bowflex as part of my workouts... nothing too extravagant, and all upper body... the legs are getting all the workout on the bike. It's felt good, and I'd like to incorporate the bike, the bowflex, and stretching into all 4 workouts. I'm not quite there yet, and sometimes I skip a workout, but I'm getting there. Trying not to overdo it.
The loft still has a ways to go... I'll be working on it tomorrow too.
Til then......
Monday, January 25, 2010
Life Experiment 01 - Day 8 start
Well it's approaching 5a.
Yesterday went fairly well. Slept decently in my car before the bridal show began. I am tired though... My breaking of the rules is costing me somewhat. My body, while ABLE to abide with 4 short naps, is definitely not conditioned yet... it's still punishing me. All my resolve will have to go towards making it through this period.
I took a day off the exercise. I wanted to give myself a little bit of a break. I have no idea if it helped or hurt, but it was harder to get on the bike five hours ago.
Sleep – 25 minutes.
Fatigue – yep.
Exercise - 20 minutes on the exercise bike, despite the time off, butt did NOT like.
3.97 miles
182 calories
31.9 carbs
Weight - 261 lbs
Food - Butter Chicken (homemake by yours truly, but not well)
Mood - Neutral
Health - sore throat
I am thankful that getting up is NOT the hard part of this for me. I was very concerned that my inability to make good choices when comatose would be the real issue for me successfully partaking in this experiment. Really the hardest part is battling the fatigue while you acclimate. Thankfully this is also not a critical week and I'll have help and the bridal show a week from yesterday.
Another item on my agenda that I think will help (although it's gonna require it's own acclimation phase... sigh) is addressing my posture. As I sit at my desk slumping, my body want to lay down because that is more comfortable. Of course I will not do that as it obviously puts me in a bad situation with potentially falling asleep. I think as I get more and more fit, and I improve (re: fix) my posture, it will be easier and easier to adapt to a much more upright life.
I'm also reconsidering caffeine. It doesn't SEEM to hinder my sleeping, and if that helps get through this period successfully, I'll dump it again when it's not longer necessary.
So I have 40 mins before my 5:35 nap. Gonna do something to wake myself up for it.
Yesterday went fairly well. Slept decently in my car before the bridal show began. I am tired though... My breaking of the rules is costing me somewhat. My body, while ABLE to abide with 4 short naps, is definitely not conditioned yet... it's still punishing me. All my resolve will have to go towards making it through this period.
I took a day off the exercise. I wanted to give myself a little bit of a break. I have no idea if it helped or hurt, but it was harder to get on the bike five hours ago.
Sleep – 25 minutes.
Fatigue – yep.
Exercise - 20 minutes on the exercise bike, despite the time off, butt did NOT like.
3.97 miles
182 calories
31.9 carbs
Weight - 261 lbs
Food - Butter Chicken (homemake by yours truly, but not well)
Mood - Neutral
Health - sore throat
I am thankful that getting up is NOT the hard part of this for me. I was very concerned that my inability to make good choices when comatose would be the real issue for me successfully partaking in this experiment. Really the hardest part is battling the fatigue while you acclimate. Thankfully this is also not a critical week and I'll have help and the bridal show a week from yesterday.
Another item on my agenda that I think will help (although it's gonna require it's own acclimation phase... sigh) is addressing my posture. As I sit at my desk slumping, my body want to lay down because that is more comfortable. Of course I will not do that as it obviously puts me in a bad situation with potentially falling asleep. I think as I get more and more fit, and I improve (re: fix) my posture, it will be easier and easier to adapt to a much more upright life.
I'm also reconsidering caffeine. It doesn't SEEM to hinder my sleeping, and if that helps get through this period successfully, I'll dump it again when it's not longer necessary.
So I have 40 mins before my 5:35 nap. Gonna do something to wake myself up for it.
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