It's Spring...ish, and therefor its full of cleaning for many of us. For me, my messiest thing isn't my cluttered apartment or my nill to nothing portfolio. It's my schedule. I am a human shotgun blast. My interests have always been spread wide, far and as thin as can be. This has afforded me a great many experiences, and I regret nothing. It has also lead me to the things that I love because I just tried random shit, to put it crudely. It has also given me more headaches and stress than any one man should experience, a near ulcer, those old fashioned "bi-polar days" and, of course: depression due to simple lack of will power.
Today is the first day of a simple shift in schedule and habit. It's time to focus on the ol' vessel, the body, the machine, health monster etc. I'm using March as a sort of "jump off" for a new me. This time, as opposed to the other many many times I've tried this, I'm taking it all slow. One thing at a time. Working focus and clarity well before a full turn around.
The beginning is easy: no eating out for 2 weeks. Only cooking at home, with the exception of green juice. It's the 1 treat I get. Woot. The short of it is that I am broke, as hard as can be, and it's because I drop horrifying amounts of cash on restaurants. It's been my thing for some time, and I love food that is cooked for me, and being able to eat anything that I want, whenever etc. Too expensive, and I need to save some cash. I often forget I'm a starving artist because I spend all of my cash on said food, therefor removing the starving but leaving a broke-ass artist instead. Not a great change.
Anyhow, I've begun, and I've had two of them green juices from Energy Bar, adjacent to PSU, and another from Green Leaf, near Pioneer Courthouse Square. Feels good like it should. Blah. I'm hungry! I also may have started my day with 2 Safeway brand chocolate croissants. Not great, but fattening and delicious.
That in mind, I look forward to my first real meal of the day: chicken stir fry, brown rice and a wasabi sauce I make that's just damn fine.
Also, a part of this whole endeavor is adding challenges on top of any exercise that I may do during the day (which I encourage folk to join in on, should they be feeling froggy). Today's is easy: 50 push ups over the course of the day. All the challenges need to be done by the end of the day I post, unless I say otherwise. Not hard, 50 push ups. Simple as all hell.
Call it a prelude or preamble or something, anything really that you want. Baby steps. That's where I'm at.
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