Weekend over, I've noticed the improvements!

So, Welcome to Monday readers, or what is left of it anyway.

I've been busy relaxing, it's actually not something I'm accustom to, normally I'd be working a little bit each day but ignoring the outcome from doing so.

Since I took this challenge to better myself, I've noticed, asfter a few days anyway, that I now laugh a LOT, and before hand, I might smile of do that lazy half laugh at semi amusing things but now I'm catching myself actually tipping my head back with full on laughter.

I'm not sure if it's the excitement of knowing I can achieve what I'm setting out to do or if it is in fact some psychological effect being lifted from carefree amusement, either way I'm very happy indeed.

I spent Saturday indoors mostly. I did DDR a little bit and noticed my stamina had also improved a lot!
Saturday's weather was very poor, and I decided that to spice up the weekend that me and a few mates would ride into the sun seeking adventure, weather permitting of course.
I checked online to see the forecast, it seemed like Sunday was going to be a nice day, so I set about the procedures of the adventure. Me and one of the friends went to his place to make a bike for the other guy joining us as he did not own a bike.
I really wanted the other guy to come so it was important that he had the ability to, he is also stretched with work so it was important to give him the release that I knew we were going to achieve with an adventure.

We built a crude bike, it was nothing amazing, the numbered gears did not work but the high-low ratio one did, so it was just about "usable".

Sunday came, and I awoke to crystal blue skies and a warm breeze, seemed my karma was paying off!

On a Sunday I go visit my parents for a roast dinner, however recently that has been a bit hit and miss as when I'm in Birmingham they are making a roast, and when I'm back home they have other things to do and attend.
I love my parents, they feed me and love me unconditionally but they aren't as worldly as they might believe, you know the people, kinda have their own set ways of doing things and think anything a bit unusual or different is somewhat frighting.
It comes from the Physiological fear of orchestration, the fear of standing out.
They believe that by doing the same things that others do yeild the results that are defined as normal, and as a result we shop where others shop or buy that car that will get the attention of others or even opinions that the media force feed you on a daily basis.
Anyway, I got my mother to read this, and as I predicted she reacted weirdly, using words like brainwash, and in some sense she is correct, I want to wash your brains CLEAN, its from all the daily brainwashing that we become the dutiful tax payers.
The rich get richer, the middle class pay the rich and the poor exist to remind the middle class why they should keep working.
Its the irrational fear of difference that still as a species holds us back today, we see race as difference, we see wealth as difference, we see politics and religion as difference.
My political agenda is unbiasd, I personally don't think any of the apparent "options" we have are the right option, and I do firmly believe in the new world order as a concept, call me a conspiracy theorist if you will but I also don't believe that we are powerless.

If you want some interesting info, look at this video.
BUT before you do, remember, as with all things, look at an opinion, then look at the evidence around that and finally make your opinion.
Its the best way today to see when something is manipulation and when something is factual.
If your capible of critical analysis then you should have no problem seeing the truths and lies in this video.



It is a long video, and I perfectly understand that people do not have the time, you however only really need the audio.

Ok,global politics aside, my parents will never understand what I'm currently doing, and as with the majority of my life, explaining it to them will not fix this, so as with most aspects of my life I've kept myself to myself, as a good strategist you just know what battles you can win and those you cannot.

Back to the weekend adventure, I left my parents a little later than predicted, and rushed to the location we were going to meet, I thought one of the members would not turn up, as the previous night we had a few drinks.
He was there, it was exciting that the plan was coming into fruition!
We saddled up and rode off into the sun, the task? Find a pub named the "Three swallows", it was about 10-12 miles away and the road we was taking was the coast road, watching the ocean and amazing views on route.
The ride was long, and we had to frequently do stints on the bike we made, it was difficult to ride over the hilly landscape.
The bikes were as follow:

My bike:
Name: "The mizasuke 6"
Weight: (heavy)
Comfort: (High)
Speed: (Fast)
Gear combinations: (32)
Terrain: (All)
Conrtol: (Very good)
Breaks: (Very good)
Modules: (Mud guards, Front suspension, Glasses holder, Dice caps)

Mr J's bike:
Name: "Wells Breeze"
Weight: (light)
Comfort: (low)
Speed: (Very Fast)
Gear combinations: (1)
Terrain: (Road)
Conrtol: (difficult)
Breaks: (Terrible)
Modules: (Tire pump, Lights)

The bike we built for Mr K:
Name: "Green Dragon: Mode: Impact"
Weight: (heavy)
Comfort: (average)
Speed: (Very slow)
Gear combinations: (2)
Conrtol: (average)
Breaks: (average)
Terrain: (All)
Modules: (Back frame saddle support)

So as you see the bike we built was pretty tragic, so we took turns using it, but that hardship grew us closer, teaming up to tackle a problem all in the aid of arriving at the pub, it was a long ride, and was very hard work, in my stint with the green dragon, I had to give it almost my all to beat a blind summit hill on route, it reminded me that I'm getting stronger but I still have a long way to go.
Once we reached the pub, I bought a pint of IPA smooth, it is not my normal drink of choice, I prefer spirits, but it was just what I needed, me and my fellow adventures sat basking in the sunset enjoying a pint, it was then I realised this was what I needed, that thrill of adventure that chasing of a destination!

And I also realised this is why I'm so happy, it is because I decided that by the end of the year I wanted to be wealthy, not just in the financial perspective but also in life as a whole.
This destination that is causing so much excitement and making each day an interesting journey of self development.
I know I will reach it, and I know that I will enjoy all the process behind it!

Onto today, Monday:

I have not achieved much today in amount but I have purchased a home weights bench, I needed one, and it saves money from gyms etc, so that is now set up in my room that now resembles a gym more than a bedroom.
There is the weight bench with weights, dumbbell, abs turner, and a abs cruncher, its not a lot in some respects but it is just what I needed to de-stress myself each morning and night, so I can now do the running and still do weights without having to hit the gym!

Today has been a set up for the week, I need to buckle down tomorrow and really hit some one of the issues I've faced, create new milestones and get a hold of the weeks before it passes.

I really wish I had more time to add more details, but if I have eventful weekends I'll report on them on the Monday, and as you guessed I really distance from work and the blog during weekends.


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DAY 10:
(Morning)
Refer to lunch ( I woke up late as my room has no light when the weather is bad, also alarm was not set)

(Lunch)

Morrisons Breakfast, it was terrible but I had to eat and I was out and needed something fast, a bad choice but sometimes you have to work with what you have.

1 Mocha (2 sugars)

(Dinner)
Not a small dinner as I missed breakfast.
Had the other half of the rack of lamb, with mash potato.

1 Pint of cranberry and blueberry drink on ice.
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Day 10:

After a heavy cardio day yesterday during the bike ride, Today I set up the weight bench and have been doing reps of 7 35KG all day, its not super heavy but by making the raising slow and the decline slow it really is working the muscles.
Remember the speed of an exercise can greatly raise it's effectiveness.

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I don't have too much to say today, however I'd like to present you with a problem, I was wondering what you think is the most common excuse for people being stuck in a position they dislike, but yet do nothing?
So, what excuse, and why do you think that.. comment below, also if you have any friends you might think would take an interest in a bolg like this, please send them this way, this week I'll be promoting this blog to see what kind of a community this blog can create!



Peace you beautiful, beautiful readers!

In case you was wondering... because I never explained!!

I don't post on weekends. (excluding this post)

Peace!

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion"

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion" - Chinese Proverb

Hello, It is Friday, and as promised I will share what the working week has taught me.

You have followed me in my journey on self development, it's interesting and exciting for me!
To start with, I faked my enthusiastic nature, well by faking what I mean is I really tried to focus my energy into making my brain associate self development with pleasure and excitement.
Soon enough I managed to program myself to associate these things.
This gave me a little extra boost, I know enjoy learning the process and actions that help create a successful transition from what I was, to what I want to become!

What do I want to become?
Firstly, I have worded this not in the correct way, and this is important, the way you word things will actually help dictate them as they become common to your vocabulary, and as the saying "monkey see, monkey do" go's, by saying that sentence I'm focusing on the main actioning word which in this sentence was "want".
By changing this to "will" my brain will start to believe this way of thinking, and do some extent I will become whatever the subject is.

So the correct way to word this would be "What will I become?".

I will become healthy: Lose up to 2 Stone.
I will become Physically fit: Toned and defined body
I will become wealthy: By this I mean I will have assets generating cash from investments.
I will become a successful: In whatever business I undertake I will become successful at it.
I will live abroad: Living in a better climate, both economically and weather.

Remember what I was going on about with phrasing?
Well my challenge to you is to start thinking in alternative formats.

For example, common phrases like "I can't afford it" and "I can't do it" should be replaced with "How can I afford it?" and "How can I do it?".
Always challenge yourself to fix problems that you would otherwise reject, you might surprise yourself.

So anyway This weeks Data!

Weight Decrease: -6 pounds.

Exercise level: I feel a lot lighter, better breathing.

Food: Was hungry a lot the first few days, now that it is a routine I can say that the hunger has subsided.

Sleep: Sleep was weird to start, it was hard to force myself to sleep earlier, but now I'm reaping the benefits of a 12pm sleep, waking at 7-9am.
(Used to sleep at 3-6am until mid day)

Eating habits: I've switched my eating habits completely, I now eat a large meal in the morning (Wake up hungry) And then have a medium meal at lunch and then finally a small meal for dinner (No later than 6:30pm usually).

Mood: During getting used to the different changes my mood was still very good, mostly from the ways I've changed my thinking I've noticed I laugh a LOT, and it made me realise that I rarely laugh these days.

Negative points: little time to myself to relax and unwind, usually very tired before I sleep and I've started to try helping others change their lives, when really its not my job to, not until I've at least sorted myself out.

Things to do: Sort out my bedroom and optimize it for work, and finally get my schedule finalized and keep a journal.



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DAY 7:
(Morning)

English breakfast: Branston beans, 2X Bacon (Fat removed), 2 80% pork sausages(more pork equals less fat and connective tissue), 2 slices of toast and a poached Egg (Greatly more healthy AND more tasty than a fried egg).

1 Half pint of Blueberry Juice

(Lunch)

Whole Lamb Shank (Slow Cooked for 4 hours) and mash potato

(Dinner)
Weetabix X3 Semi skimmed milk.

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Day 6:

DDR, light session, legs ache a little bit.

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Met up with a friend today, had a really good time and winded down in the pub, it was just what I needed...

Oh and the answer to the title?

Well a lot of people only live their lives by what they are told or by what others think is an acceptable life, even the so called youth factions of today, emo, punk or rocker they all have peers that dictate what style, music and lifestyle they should choose, which in turn is not a decision at all!

Choose more, choose what makes sense to you, choose your own opinion, choose your own culture and choose to live YOUR life through YOUR eyes.

Nothing really matters when things don't matter to you.
I listen to a massive spectrum of music, nearly every genre in fact.
I once had the pleasure of learning multiple times, from different people from different sub cultures that they were in fact all the same culture, re packaged and distributed to make money.
I had mentioned music I liked, or wore a band related item of clothing, and people would either be excited that I liked something they liked or if I liked something they did not like, that in fact I was ridiculed for it.
Now the same thing happens with football, and teams (a well know way to control the anger of the masses, since Roman times) and rockers with different bands, and scene kids with what style clothing you were in or gamers and what games you play and rich kids comparing what you own or have and even the council estate people judging what you wear.
They all fit in line, the packages change but the people fall in line, so company's can make money and profit from your so called intellectuality.

You never get a guy ridicule you, or even dislike you because of the type of fast food chain you eat at or what type food or drink you like, or even the cigs you smoke or even the places you get your shopping!
No, because these things can be viewed universal, everyone wants to eat different foods, smoke or drink, because it makes massive money and helps link the people that claim to be different.
Being different is to remove prejudice, to be intelligent and realize all these different control mechanisms.
TV will program you to like different things, it really is a hate machine, spewing biased media, soul destroying adverts and constantly face raping you with lifestyles you should be living.

To break free and be individual would be to firstly realize all the things that make us the same, breaking free from the worlds media grip, realize that your consistently
lied too, sold and force sold what the corporations want you to have.
Even how much we should weight or how beautiful we should be...

Madness... use the brain to make decisions, look at adverts, see how they employee emotion to sell you things you do not need.
Seems obvious but people are still held by the chains, and I just want us all to break free.

Peace, you beautiful readers.

Lasting the Whole War.

Evolving is not a painless process, you know those irritating Wisdom teeth?

I was talking to my dentist about them (I was having problems with mine at that time) he explained that they are a result of our species recent evolution.
The phrase "teething problems" seems somewhat relevant now, I mean its a process, a means to an end.

So just like our wisdom teeth, our personal evolution is going to create some issues in your life until they iron themselves out!

The reason I'm talking about this is today, I noticed some changes myself.
I've probably cut my eating habits quite a lot! Well according to my calculations maybe as much as 40% deduction.
This food deduction has effected my DDR ability, and I found myself tired much quicker, I mean I know it makes sense, less input equals less output.

Was just surprising, I was not expecting to feel like that, however my ability has gone up, nearly got perfect scores on various songs.
DDR for those that don't know it is a dancing machine in the arcade where I live, its not really dancing but at the level I play at it is defiantly a workout.

Other changes?
Hmm More tired in evenings, and until I get my time management right I'm having next to no free time to wind down.
So just teething problems!

I did Invent something amazing, Pizza flavoured panini, I known, ground breaking lunch technology!!
I'll discuss that later, for now I'll discuss the food concept, I have finally broken the morning problem.

"The morning problem": The inability to eat large quantities of food in the morning to fit into the new eating plan (Eating more in the morning, and decreasing at lunch and having the smallest meal at dinner time)

I made sure I stopped eating at around 6:30pm, so that come morning I'll have worked up a hunger.
Like doing any exercise, if you lift a heavy weight straight away you're going to have difficulty!
But using a smaller weight then moving up when your comfortable will soon help you lift the heavy weight with ease, so it is repartition of the small things that will help you get better and eventually be able to do the big things in life.

I firmly believe that the biggest problem for me will be keeping it going long enough to become routine, once I achieve routine this will all become a lot easier.

I had the pleasure of listing to people in the street where I live, they were talking about finally getting a house and getting their mortgage and buying things for the said house, things that were not important, things like huge TV's and items that will just blow a massive hole out of the expenses row of their balance sheet.
It dawned on me, that every seminar I watched was right, books I've read too, people really do have no financial literacy, me included to a degree.
So I asked a good old friend to teach me old school accounting, I need to know the process that money takes, only by understanding it can I make the wise decisions to help amass the funds I will need to break out of the shell and fully evolve.

Whenever you buy something, just think about what its for, if you need it, and could you have invested the money more wisely.

I'm REALLY tired and tonight I'm going to try playing some video games and have a light jog to just cool down from a hard day.



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DAY 6:
(Morning)

English breakfast: Branston beans, 2X Bacon (Fat removed), 2 80% pork sausages(more pork equals less fat and connective tissue), 2 slices of toast and a poached Egg (Greatly more healthy AND more tasty than a fried egg).

1 Half pint of Blueberry Juice

1 English Tea (2 Sugars, dark)

(Lunch)

Pizza Flavour Panini (I'll explain in the last message)

(Dinner)
Weetabix X3 Semi skimmed milk.

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Day 6:

DDR, Heavy session, was completely drained afterwards.
(Will do a weight thing on Fridays, showing how much I've lost or gained)

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Kikojui's Pizza Panini

Need:
Panini
Dried Mixed herbs
Parma ham
Cheese
Tomato ketchup

Cut the panini in half, lightly butter(or margarine) then sprinkle a pinch or two of dry mixed herbs(they come in a pot in the spices and herbs section) then add a peice of parma ham as the next layer on top of the herbs.
Add cheese (whatever preferable amount) then finally add some tomato ketchup on top of the cheese.
Put in a foreman grill or in the oven or under a grill until the cheese is melted and the panini crispy and hot.

Server and Enjoy!

That is all I have time for, hope something in this was helpful.
Please comment if you have enjoyed this blog, it helps motivate me and lets me know people are actually reading it.

Peace out you beautiful people!

Your Rival is a loser!

Welcome back, glad your still reading I admire you, by you just reading this tells me you are also interested in making lasting changes to your life.

Today we talk about your rival, we all have a rival, some consider a friend a rival some consider an enemy, but the truth is your rival is a loser.

A loser? yes a loser, your rival, the one person in your life that holds you back is of course yourself.
But not yourself in your entirety, just the worst aspects of yourself holding you back, and as you know it is probably your hardest fight because your rival self has all your ability's and knows what you fear, knows how to manipulate you through the primal instincts of fear.

Fear of failure, fear of what you might need to do to achieve your goals but you need to ask yourself daily, whenever your unable to do things you want, ask yourself "What do I get from not doing this?" then after that process "what do I get BY doing this, what do I gain?" 99% of the time the gains outweigh the pain.

Everyday whenever anyone wants to make any lasting changes you will come face to face with your rival self, and you have to tackle the problem without remorse.
Tell yourself, wait better still, envision whenever you make decisions that all the other decisions are like balloons attached to that decision, each balloon is a different choice attached to that decision, envision that when you make a decision that all the other balloons (choices) are cut free, they are now out of the question, once you can drill into your rival self that once you make decisions you stick to them, it will no longer be able to temp you into changing or not following through in these decisions.

Know this phrase?
"You have to learn that things in life worth having don't come easy"

Well I disagree with it, I think once you have complete control over yourself, and your rival is destroyed you'd have no difficulty going out into the world and getting whatever it is you want!

Confidence to stand up to your rival self is hard, your rival has every insecurity, fear, phobia and desire at it's disposal, but once you analyse decisions and work out when you make decisions based on emotion, you can turn it around, and make sure decisions are only governed by thought.



For example lets say your battling weight, and you want to lose weight.
You know you have to either A) Try to diet or B) Exercise.

Dieting manuals make me sick, you don't need to use them, it comes down to simple equations as to how to manage your diet.

"Eat in proportion to the effort you expel"
I said this a post or two back, if you add more to anything than what's going out things fill up!
Also being wise to WHAT you eat helps, sometimes small things actually carry a big punch!

My task to you today (or whenever you read this) is to do one of two things, one, look at the saturated fat content of any packaged foods you plan on consuming, anything that is small and over 2 grams of saturated fats is bad.

And Two, look at what unhealthy foods can be substituted for better alternatives.

I think whatever time of day you have your biggest meal, you should aim for no more than 5 grams of saturated fats, if something just says "fat" and will not provide the saturated fat figure it is normally around half of what is the "fat" content listed.

Meals, I know I've brushed the subject, but when you look at the times you expell the most energy for most of us the evening is the time of the day we tend to expel the least, but also the time in British culture that we eat the most, when you think about it that is a pretty messed up counter productive system.

So, for effective meals, your breakfast should be your biggest meal of the day, lunch should be second biggest and dinner should be the time of the day you eat the least!
You will spend less of the evening delegating energy to digesting food, and more time to recovering energy you expelled while relaxing, pointless to eat a huge meal and spend the evening digesting it all.

"The National Cholesterol Education Program recommends that your saturated fat intake be less than 7% of your total food intake daily. That is, if you are following a 2,000-calorie diet, you should not consume more than 14 grams of saturated fat each day."
(Source: http://cholesterol.about.com/od/cholesterolnutrition101/f/satfatfoods.htm)

Now Its important to think about foods that stimulate brain power, foods that boost brain power are listed here: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/wellbeing/features/boost-brainpower/1/


Giving your brain a little boost will only benefit you, you should look into your diet, a few small changes will make a big difference and a lasting difference on not only your appearance but also your health.

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DAY 5:
(Morning)

1 bowl of Bran-flakes (no sugar) (Soya Milk)

1 Pint of Cranberry and Blueberry juice

(Lunch)

Cheese and Parma ham panini (not too much cheese)
1 Pint of Cranberry and Blueberry juice

(Dinner)
Half a rack of lamb coated in breadcrumbs, herbs and garlic, with mash potato.
1 Pint of Cranberry and Blueberry juice (loving blueberry juice, bought some today)

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Day 5:

NONE
Really annoyed, but I literally was back to back with things to do, I did however buy some decent jogging bottoms to make my runs more comfortable in this volatile weather.
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Remembering that any choices you avoided any opportunities you failed to take up or even all the times you did not accomplish what you set out to do, the only person that held you back was yourself, make your body your slave, don't let your fears and weaknesses enslave you.

Peace!

Succeeding in Failure..

Today, I failed at something.
Sometimes (more often to some) we all fail what we try to achieve, but it's the perception of failure that also is different when you look into the thinking of various successful people.

making failure into success is simple, its completely about mindset and like with most decisions in life, it's also about detaching emotions to those decisions.

To create success out of failure you need to re program your thinking, once you realise the very simple yet fundamental approach towards failure you will never fail again.

"Failure is a means to success!"

When you fail something, get up and try again in a different way while learning the lessons from the last fail, by doing this you educate yourself towards good decisions.

People that make good decisions and are successful are only that way because they did what others could not, and that is persevere!
Keep trying, changing approaches.
To make good decisions, you first have to understand what are bad decisions, when you make a decision, if it's bad you learn and try again, soon enough all the experiences from those bad decisions will equate to good decisions.

Whenever you're doing something, think to yourself "what is the outcome?" by that I mean for an example, your going out to see a friend, by asking yourself what the outcome might be you can manage it effectively!
A lot of people go to their friends houses or go to do something without really thinking what it is they want as an outcome, and as a result become bored or stuck for things to do.

Its a lot like exercise, saying "I'm going for a run" will result in just running until your tired, returning and feeling possibly satisfied.
If you say "I'm going to run 3 kilometres, its much more likely you will reach your goal and feel a sense of achievement.
By applying this thought process to your everyday life you will see fast changes in the productivity of your day, making you more efficient and also boost your moral.

Like I said at the start, I failed something today, it is the second time in a row I failed it even after attacking the issue at a different angle, I will just keep trying different angles and learn until I succeed.

Finally for today, I decided that carrying a notebook is essential in learning how things work and effect your life.
Keeping notes of things that you hear or see can become vital, by re-reading things over and over they begin to stick to you and you'll remember them more effectively!

Something I have noticed is that people really do think that becoming successful and/or wealthy is impossible.

One vital thing I learned is this:

"School Conditions you to being an employee, not an employer"

And it's true, education, TV and even the government all tell you, go to school, get good grades, go to university and get a safe job.

The government and world government, much like ant queens, want workers, not other competing queens.
Don't think for a second that you need a safe secure job, don't think for a second you can't make it big.



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DAY 4:
(Morning)

1 bowl of Bran-flakes (no sugar)

1 Pint of Ice mineral water with a slice of lemon
(My replacement for cordial and fizzy drinks)

(Lunch)

Cheese Toasted sandwich

1 Pint of Ice mineral water


(Dinner)
Small Fry up (Poached Egg, 80%pork sausages x2 small, 2 rashers of bacon fat cut off, branston beans and two slices of toast)

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There will be people that doubt your changes, they will not understand the process that will eventually make you successful rich and have the body you desire.
You will experience ridicule from their doubt and fear if you start to succeed.

My advice is simple, much like my friend said in my first post don't make it a big deal to your friends/family and it wont be taken as a big deal.


Peace out you beautiful readers!

Question:
If I posted ways to cook things that are healthy and still yummy or even techniques to shaving off sat fats etc, would you readers want them?
(Been thinking about it but I won't do it if nobody has a need for it)

The time of your life!!

Evening, I'm going to jump right into the thick meaty subject of time, and the time of your life.

Its a common concept that the time of your life is the younger years of your life, I somewhat disagree, it would be foolish to assume that there were no perks to being of a younger age but there are also a few fundamental aspects that lead me to believe that the time of your life can only happen when you finally decided to live it!

By living it I don't mean skydiving and other extremities, I mean the things that make lasting change, things like deciding that the wages your paid are too low, or deciding to quit your job and become self employed.

Some facts about Work I've recently learnt.

The average man/woman in his/her career prime works for three to four people:

1. His/her boss, who by working for him/her helps make his/her business more successful.

2. The Government, through enormous tax, when you add all the tax's together you lose on average 65% of your total earnings, you effectively work from January to may solid, paying nothing but tax's if you combined it.

3. The Bank, whom with the average persons card expenditures and enormous mortgage, which you will be paying off until you hit retirement, only to have a house that has the chance to depreciate in value or medically find yourself in a position where you can no longer live there.

Finally, in my opinion most peoples biggest problem.
4.Yourself, buying luxuries that instantly lose value that end up becoming liabilities!
We all know the people who as soon as excess cash comes into their hands its blown on a TV or car, things that as soon as you walk out the shop lose half their value. Buying financial Liabilities, through the expense of net earnings is going to keep you in the rat race, always struggling and just getting by then maybe you start a family well your income will have to increase to accommodate the new expenditure, then you need a bigger house, so you work harder to get the money to keep all these things and eventually work your life away for a pension that will be worse off than you had been while working.

I once learn't:
"wealth is not how much you earn, its how much you have left"

So start thinking about all the things you buy, or think you want that are actually liabilities?
I mean its absurd to assume that I'm saying never buy things you want, but make your money work for those things, buy assets and not liabilities.

So I feel the time of your life is this instant, right now, you need to act and make the changes you want, don't be that person that is hoping their problems will just sort themselves out or that "If I can just win the lottery" because five, ten, fifteen years down the line you'll be regretting not reminiscing.
Make the changes now, make use of your time effectively and don't put off changes any longer, now is the time of your life!

Next point, I was Driving to sort out a load of business seminars and while listening the song by Muse "knights of Caledonia" I heard a sentence that made me stop and think, its something that's very horribly obvious, but only when it clicks do you realise its full meaning and really look at your own life.

"Don't waste your time or time will waste you"

It's like I said its obvious right? I mean if your wasting time you are not moving forward, but phrased like it is really makes sense, we all have a time-line and expiration date.
Like a Tomato, you get it a little green, it slowly turns red, then finally wins and rots, if you buy a load of fruit and you find its all rotten what do you think?
That's right it's a "waste" now when you analyse the statement, why is it a waste?
Well some will say it's because you was going to eat it or in the case of this sounding more coherent you'd say it had a use and never reached its potential by being used to its maximum.

Same applies to us, we are not here forever, so our time has to be watched carefully, if you start to waste time (and believe me I've done way too much of that) your potential is slipping you by!

We often confuse watching the TV as entertainment, but what purpose does it really have?
Its nice for me to sit and watch documentaries or even relax with some shows but what am I really getting from it?

I'll tell you, your getting force fed adverts, consistently and assuming you watched advert free channels (if they still even exist) then all your effectively doing, in its most basic form, is sitting (usually in a bad posture) facing a plastic box and usually snacking.

If you watch two hours of TV a day or more, my challenge to you is to spend at least one of those in a productive manner, maybe go for a jog or bike ride, maybe even catch up on some work you should have done or even call a relative, something more than vegetating in front of a plastic square.



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Food
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DAY 3:
(Morning)
Yoghurt (fruit strawberry)
1 Pint of Juice

(Lunch)
1 Cup of Coffie 1 sugars.

Bowl (NO SUGAR YAY!!)

(Dinner)
Shepard's pie
(Lamb, Broccoli, Chillies, spring onion, pepper, garlic, dried chilliX1)
Pint of Mineral water.

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Fitness
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Day 1:
Bike ride (1 mile)

1 Hour of Cardio (DDR)
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So today was hard to wake up, I spent too long writing my blog, and ended up trying to sleep at 1am, ended up tossing and turning until 4am, terrible as I needed to be up for around 9am.
Will sleep like a log tonight!

Thanks for reading, any questions or comments feel free to write them, I'll answer what I can.

Peace.

Climbing into eggs.

Ok, so your probably thinking "oh another blog huh" yes it is a blog!
it's not just a mere blog, its something more, I plan to share my experiences while under going a massive, life changing transformation. This page will be packed full of information regarding self improvement, health, fitness and general life skills that we as people require to get where we think we deserve to be in life.
So before we start I have a few important questions to ask:

1. Do you think that changing yourself to get through life better is fake?
In other words do you fall in the category of people that say "changing yourself is stupid, why should you change for anyone?"

I will explain why this opinion is wrong, unless you already live the life you always wanted. HOWEVER if your stubborn and think that no matter what I or anyone else says you will always feel that way described in the first question, then leave, this page is not for you but thanks for taking the time to take a look.

2. Do you think you know everything about living you life to its maximum, if you think so, then again what I'm going to be talking about will be pointless to anyone that cannot open their minds to a new concept, a new way of living, but thanks for taking time to read this.

Ok assuming your reading this, then you have what it takes to make your life what you want it to be, to be healthy in not only body but mind, a crazy concept being fit minded but its vital to achieve all your goals.

Reasoning behind the Blog:
This blog is as much for my own benefit as it is yours.
I benefit from writing my findings and helps me to solidly learn them and the concepts that follow.

you've seen successful people in your life, and I bet you you have thought to yourself "I'm way smarter than that guy/girl" well as much as you might think, intellectuality is not the cause of success!
We can create a list of reasons we "think" people are wealthy "Oh they had a wealthy upbringing" or "They were lucky, I've never had the money" you can create a massive list of reasons, and granted different environments give you an edge but its ultimately down to one important factor that determined a successful life, that factor is the most important power we as humans own!
I was once taught:

Goal setting!
"Without a goal your a Ship Without a rudder"

Now forget that, it is now Time management!

you can have all the goals you want but if you don't manage your time its the only thing in this life you truly have control of. "How you spend your time is how you spend your life"

Now forget that, the key to success in life is Discipline!

you can manage your time until your blue in the face but if your not disciplined nothing matters.

Its belief!
You can be disciplined, managing your goals with plenty of time but if you don't believe, nothing works!

They all in fact are the number one way to success, but its very difficult to try managing them all, there is one point, when you condense it all down, one funder-mental point that equals success!

Its not knowledge, there are countless people across the world, you defiantly know some of them, that know, they should change their life, they know but they still don't do anything about it, people with PHD's to people who work in supermarkets they all have elements of their life's that they want to change but do nothing about it!

most of us know what we need to change in our life's but still do nothing about it.

Remember this well:
"Knowledge is only its power to the extent it is used"

The Single most important power we have, the single aspect that determins who is rich, who has the body they want or who leads the life they desire, is The ability to act!

All the great people in this world have this ability.

Colonel sanders, you know who he is right? the Guy responsible for KFC.
Every US state that has a populous of 30k+ has a minimum of 1 KFC.

He was 65 years old, he was inspired by his first social security check, it was 99 dollars, he decided at that point that he no longer wanted to live like that, and he TOOK ACTION he thought what resource do I have, and used a recipe for chicken he used to serve in a restaurant.

He decided to offer restaurants his recipe for free in exchange for a cut of their profits!
But if some old man came to you and said "I've got this recipe and I want you to sell it and give me a cut of your takings" you'd have probably said no thanks and shown him the door, well He was turned away from the first place he visited, and the next, and the next and so on, he never gave up and he continuously acted.
Do you know how many people rejected him before he secured his first place? over 1000 over the space of 2 years.

Its action that lead to success, and the ability to make decisions.

I also learn't
"If you let learning lead to knowledge you become a fool, if you let learning lead to action you become wealthy"

Wake up tired? it effects your whole day, having the energy to make these actions is the first step.
If you wake up ready to go, full of energy, you give yourself a massive boost.


Can you imagine living a disgustingly boring life, that you look forward to only two days of the week out of seven?
Funny how a lot of people look forward so much to the weekend, and then during that weekend do things to yourself so that come Monday you have trouble remembering the two days you looked forward to!

Second step is digestion.

Digestion!? I hear you say, well Digestion takes up more energy than running, again your thinking I'm crazy and its concept is initially crazy, I mean how can digestion possibly be more draining than running?
Well do you run for eight, twelve, ten even sixteen hours a day?
If you wake up tired even when you have 8 hours sleep its because your eating in such a way that your body is constantly digesting and using energy to do so, if your digesting while your sleeping, then your actually gaining very little energy due to the digesting counteracting the restorative effects of sleeping!

The media has dictated that we eat way more than we actually have to, your eating should be in proportion to the amount of exercise you've been doing.

Smaller the exercise the less fuel we need!

If every day you filled your car with say £20 of petrol every 5 miles you travelled you'd soon reach the maximum that car would take, become heavier and less effective, now on the same note if you added £20 for every 120 miles you'd soon find yourself empty and the car unable to work, well you are the car and the fuel your food.

I've tried this, eating nothing a good four to five hours before sleep, I woke up at 6am, and for the first time in years woke up fresh and ready to take on the world.

So my challenge to you, is to start trying to manage your eating in proportion to the effort output. If you do this you will lose excess weight and be in a position to exercise the toning you might want to give yourself the body you want.

Next thing is I want to hear if your sleep has improved from creating an atmosphere to sleep efficiently.

NOW onto me, I have to Write down what I've eaten during this, I've got two days worth of data.
(From now on the personal details will be at the end of each post and will contain the current days data)

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Food
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DAY 1:
(Morning)
1 Pint of Blueberry Juice (Heavy antitoxiant )

1 Bowel of Branflakes + sugar (I'm going to phase out cereals as they are a bad source of energy for the morning Breakfast should be the biggest meal of the day, media tells you its dinner.

(Lunch)
1 Cup of Coffie 2 sugars.

1 Pork Mama (Thai noodles, not bad sat fats)

(Dinner)
1 Stir Fry (Mange taut, Peppers, Dried chillies, ginger, spring onion, nut mushrooms shatarki mushrooms Chicken)
1 Boiled Rice (need to invest in a steamer)

1 Can of ChronicIce (hemp and green tea, imported)

***TEST***

Ate a Galaxy mini Egg and a cheese sandwich before sleep

Woke up Groggy and lethargic.

DAY 2:
(Breakfast)
Ocean Pie (Its Cod and prawns in a potato topping and cheese sauce)

Glass of water

(Lunch)
Skipped (forgot was too busy with projects)


(Dinner)
Scampi, beer batter chips, Broccoli and a slice of Pizza express margerta pizza (very low Sat fats, all oven cooked.
Large to make up for lunch.
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Fitness
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Day 1:
Bike ride (1 mile)

1 Hour of Cardio (DDR)


Day 2:
Bike ride (1 mile)

1 Hour of Cardio (DDR)
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I was discussing with a friend who recently tried to change himself, he tried to quit smoking, eat 1000 calories a day + a bowel of rice, and stop masturbating.
It was due to last a month and he lasted thirteen days, the friend said that the person in question claimed it was boring, but I actually think failing it probably killed him inside, if he takes action and tries again, and gives it the right attitude I believe he could really make some lasting changes, it was daily Vlogged and I think a contributing factor was the diminished views of his videos almost as if without our support it was just too much.

I was discussing how he tried to take on too much at once, and had not thought out the process so well, I give him my respect for trying to make the change but you just have to know what is achievable.

After it I went on to discuss how easy I found it to quit smoking, I just stopped in October so four months now, no cravings and defiantly no problem.

My friend said something to me about me stopping smoking that made me think.
"you didn't make a big deal about it, so it wasn't a big deal to quit"

It was a very well made point, by making these video blogs he added more pressure to himself, and ultimately made it a big deal and that big deal added to the already enormous task of changing so many things in his life all at once without first conditioning his mind that ultimately led to his failure.

Like I quoted earlier:
"Knowledge is only its power to the extent it is used"

His best bet is to read this, get back onto it but scale it down, making small but lasting changes instead of devoting too much time and energy to a massive amount of changes.

Thanks for reading this LONG post, they won't be this long but I wanted you to know just what it is I'm doing, and that I'm going to achieve the goals I set out, if you only learn one single thing from each of my posts it will be more than enough for me.

Peace!