What a month

Posted on February 4, 2010, 12:24 pm, by PaulW, under Uncategorisable.

Wow what a month. Well it is nearly 2 really. I have had my first Christmas away from my immediate family, though I did spend Christmas day with my family.

I have set myself some new goals, fitness and personal. Today is the day I kick it all off.

I will report back if it is successful, I think I will be. I don’t know quite why I am blogging this. Its probably something to do with public accountability. Maybe thats is why I am so stop start too?

I feel strong though. Mentally strong. I feel I have a purpose. I feel the need to push myself on. I want to break myself down to my component parts and start again.

“Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.”
- Evan Esar

I want to find me. I want to fond my limits and push them. I want to feel alive. I think in modern life we worry too much about everytthing. I want to get back to me.

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”

Buddha.

If I can punish myself the most, make myself hurt the most, then no one can ever beat me. No one can ever hurt myself as much as I can. And this is also the reverse.

“The only person stopping me, is me”
Paul Williams.

I am my own worst enemy. Well enemy, lets go to war. Lets light the paper and see where this goes. Lets blow this up.
Finally. The truth I needed to hear:

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For some of you, it’s decision time. You know it and you’ve known for a long time. Of course you can find more reasons not to change and more ways to rationalise what you’re not doing, being and creating… or you can simply stop with the excuses and explanations… and change. Once and for all. You can train like you wanna play. You can be the change in your world. Today can be ‘just another day’ and this post can simply be ‘just another one of my articles’ that you don’t act on – or it can be the start of the most incredible journey you’ve ever had.

I made my choice long ago.”
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/learning-personal-development-from-elite-athletes.html

Here’s to the future.

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The back story

Posted on December 2, 2009, 7:48 pm, by PaulW, under Finances, Fitness, Starting.
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I am a young(ish) professional just on the cusp of something really amazing. I am buying my own house and trying to get fit. These two things are not directly related nor are they completely separate. They are just my 2 most important  goals in life.
I have written a few blogs in my time, blogs about teaching, blogs about fitness, but never a blog about fitness and finance. So, as I like a challenge, here it is, my attempt to be a blogger who blogs about fitness and finance.
Actually, there is a link between these 2 goals. Discipline. Something I have always tried to have, and something I deal with on a daily basis as a teacher.
Yes, I can discipline school kids, but can I be disciplined with myself?
This is after all one of my biggest difficulties, making myself do things. Sometimes these things do not always seem to have immediate value (work, emptying the bins) but they really do. If I can get my work out of the way > I can have the rest of the night to myself, and so with the bins. If I empty the bins now, I don’t have to do it until it is full again.
Inevitably these two situations do re-occur regularly (along with another 200 things I have to do), so I think there must be some strategies that I can develop to deal with re-occuring but pretty horrible tasks.
I am reading around alot of different topics at the minute, to show a little of my research I will list some here:
  • Goal setting
  • Saving money
  • Creating routines
  • Beating procrastination
  • Writing clearly
  • Using time well
  • Nutrition
  • Exercise and mood
  • Sleep
  • Resistance training
  • Mortgages
  • Life Assurance
There are other topics, but these are the most forth-coming in my mind right now.
I will pose questions, and I would love comments so please share the love, and let me know, how and why  did you get here?

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Hello world!

Posted on November 23, 2009, 9:52 am, by PaulW, under Uncategorisable.

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