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 Today was an extremely hectic day in my life. I started out the day knocking tasks off my list of things to accomplish. I was extremely focused and got alot of things completed. Next, I had to run to hockey practice by myself as my wife had a PTA Christmas party to attend. I handled all the equipment manager duties alone. As we have a game tomorrow morning (and evening), I had alot of gear to bring with me that I normally would not be bringing. As soon as hockey practice was over I had to head home with my son. I dropped him at home and took my daughter to her boyfriend's house so they could hang out with his parents and then I headed off for the 30 minute drive to the Christmas party. I had a great time at the party because I knew everyone who was there. The party ended around 10:30 p.m. and then we had to go pick my daughter up from her boyfriend's house. |
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Archives for 2008
7 Working for the planRest 4.5:D6 (D406) Visiting
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| We found out a few days ago from Alison's cousin that her brother was going to be in town from Singapore with his wife and son. Today we met up with Alison's brother, her cousin and her cousin's wife for dinner. I spent the entire day avoiding carbs so that I could eat something with them at Buca di Beppo's italian restaurant. The dinner discussion was fun as we all caught up. We had not seen each other for many years. We spoke about our children and what we've been doing with our lives. My brother-in-law told us alot about what he does for a living. Later we accompanied them all back to my brother-in-law's hotel room to meet his wife and son and both in-laws who had spent the day at Disneyland. We had a very wonderful discussion with them about so many different things. Both couples (my brother and sister-in-law and my wife's cousin and his wife) have only been married for 5 years and each have a 3 year old son. With my wife and I having 4 children, there was alot of advice being sought by the two couples. It was just a really fun time and I enjoyed watching my wife reconnect with her brother. The night turned into a very late one as we did not leave my brother-in-law's hotel room until midnight. This is extremely out of character for me. At the same time, I was fine with it because it was for my wife. |
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Rest 4.5:D5 (D405) Thinking
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| Today was one of those days spent thinking about the future and what it holds. For the past several months I've been planning for what to do with my career. I've had two options that I've considered–staying with my current company (and what that looks like as far as what I want out of it) and "Plan B" (and what that looks like as far as what I want out of it). Today I started to put some plans in motion with regards to having a "Plan B." No decisions have been made nor will there be any made soon, but having a "Plan B" is always a smart thing. I have always developed software for other people. My new plan involves creating software that I can sell to a niche market. I have gained a load of understanding about this niche market over the past 7 years and feel that I have alot to offer in this area. Having a niche is the one principle I've read over and over again. It will make it easier to sell any product that is created. I also have a strong partner who I trust and can rely on. All of these things add up to an exciting new plan. Thus, today was spent with my mind wandering to this new plan and how to execute it. It is something that I will need to plan out thoroughly because, as this transformation process has taught me, planning will make it work. |
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| Today was a steady state cardio session for 1 hour. |
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| Taking control of your life means having a "Plan B" that can work for you just as well, if not better, than your current plan. |
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Rest 4.5:D4 (D404) Busy busy day!
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| Today was an extremely busy day for me with work. I had to get a copy of our software out to the testing team for them to test the latest changes to the software. Once the testing is done we will either put the build out to the entire company or send it back to development for bug fixes. With the new process I implemented a month ago wherein the business user who made the change request is involved in unit testing, I think we will have a good chance of this build passing the QA process. There are alot of important changes to the software contained within this build. I actually got alot of work done today. My focus was intense and I just kept knocking things off my task list all day long. It was a non-stop productive day. |
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| Today was the second round of testing to set repetitions for my M5. Testing went well. |
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| Focus will bring about great results in everything you do. |
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Rest 4.5:D3 (D403) Delays
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| As I woke up this morning I realized that it would not be wise to do another test round today as I had just done one on Sunday. Thus, I went to the gym and did a cardio session. I managed to get in an interval session for 30 minutes on the bike. I spent my morning drive on the phone with Carlos DeJesus. We were discussing evidence of success and what qualifies. The discussion, as always, was awesome. Carlos told me about his cardio circuit. We discussed how many people Carlos has trained to a successful result. He can point to many different success stories as a result of his training. People like Carlos don't need to brag because they have the evidence to back them up. To me, this is a key indicator of who to listen to. Anyone can come out and espouse a certain idea, but can they back up what they say? If not, why should anyone listen to them? Ideas are easy to come by, but the facts to back them up is another story. To me, if there are no facts then I can't listen. Carlos has done what most of the internet gurus have not. Carlos has trained champions. Carlos himself is a champion. Something tells me that Carlos is not done training champions. I realized at one point during our telephone conversation that without Carlos I would probably never have tried High Intensity Training. I would not have seen the gains I recently saw. Life in the gym would have been extremely different. With a coach like Carlos in my corner, the only thing stopping me from winning that body building competition during the summer will be me. All other factors have lined up perfectly. Thank you, Carlos, for your instruction, friendship, motivation, guidance and mentorship. As you stated, when we mentor someone we don't mentor them towards dependence, but towards independence. Thank you for teaching me the "how" and "why" behind things. |
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| Who you listen to determines how far you will go. |
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