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January 2022 21-Day Challengers, look to your Email for congratulations as well as the final instructions!
How’d it go finding a house cleaner? I could recommend someone if you need.
Curious: I never heard any feedback or thoughts about my last post to your thread. Did it prompt anything!?
And… it’s DAY 21!!! Where does your Challenge stand? What remains yet to do? And what will you build on from here?
~ Mark
Still staying off facebook except for pooping or posting, and one other exception: actually looking for information, like tonights looking on the west seattle group for a house cleaner!
Alright… putting a string of not “stellar” days together, but at least *solid* movement forward. Regular-ish bedtime at 2-3a; regular-ish wake up time @ 11a. More importantly I’m feeling rested and getting semi-good sleep.
Let’s tighten up the pattern: I still want to get in bed, by 1a; be ready for sleep by 2a. Striving for 11a – 10a wake up time.
All of this, of course, predicates that I get my work done IN THE DAY (as opposed to after midnight as I have for the past ~2 years.
I want this. Now let’s just put the work in to achieve it. <3
There’s considerable theory that the creativity and deep problem solving occurs when we’re screwing off; relaxing. That being said… boredom IS one of the huge reasons many (erm… myself) included doom scroll. Same as going to the ‘fridge and looking for the umpteeth time even though you KNOW there’s nothing good in there: boredom.
I’m getting ready to publish an article meant to provide inspiration on goals that people can set. I think that stasis – having life “as is” IS a huge part of 99% of people’s lives.
But, preemptively, even before the article… is there NO area of your life that you’d like to improve!?
And be careful here…
A quick 2 stories: you know I grew up in Las Vegas. My dad would sometimes gamble for entertainment. Vegas can be a superstitious town – lots of concepts of “luck” and how cards and dice and bets “go.” One of those beliefs is that numbers – the numbers you’re betting on – “run,” they develop patterns.
And, to be sure, if you look at the STATS you’ll actually see this.
The problem!? The problem is statistics show trends AFTER they happen. It’s like cherry picking: just because AFTER the dice were rolled 1000 times you can see groupings of repeated numbers or patterns does NOT mean that ANYONE could have predicted when and where those numbers would have come up or will again.
But… when a table is hot (hitting the numbers people are betting on) the idea is… GET IN ON THE TREND.
My father found himself, one night, on a hot table. He watched as number after number the players were betting on was rolled again, paying off all of the betters who had bed on those numbers. We didn’t have a lot of money so my father was a cautious better and he watched while others were raking in BUCK$.
Looking to a man to his right that was one of the ones raking in handful of casino chips my father remarked, “I wish I was winning as big!”
The man looked him in the eye and remarked, “it’s not that you don’t have the money… you don’t have the balls.”
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It was just a while ago I was listening to a new podcaster. Promoted himself as “how to get rich” or some such focus. He was full of swear words and bravado, but I never really got much out of the topics he discussed.
Until about the 4th or 5th podcast of his I listened to: “You’re not bored…” he yelled, “you’re SCARED.”
Pick the goal that will change your life. The one that DOES put the fear of God into you: launch your own business so you can quit your job? Find your wife? Start an MBA?
Explore your fears, Kolea. Then name a goal.
Absolutely brilliant progress! Nicely done. Post a photo (if you’d like) of your neatly folded clothes or the pile of donations!
Meant to add that you picked the right month for this Challenge: Jan 13 is “Clean Off Your Desk Day” and Jan 14 is “Organize Your Home Day”! 🤣
So… *when* are you starting on the book!? 😉 Enquiring minds want to know (aside from the fact that effective goal-setting requires a date and deadline! <3
Still haven’t been on facebook except pooping or posting!
Those are good questions though. I find I don’t really have much else going on in my life besides working and working out right now. So that extra time that I’m not on social media, really isn’t being used for anything productive. And I think thats the problem. Sometimes I just pace back and forth since I don’t have anything else to do.
I guess there’s no higher level goals that I have right now.
I should take out my recycling, but thats not very enticing…
Another step forward: 4a-11:20. Not *enough* sleep… but stoked by:
- I was genuinely tired and ready for bed well before the 4a bedtime (something that’s really been off for months and months); and
- I awoke naturally (I believe… although something could have woken me) at a semi-normal time; and
- It’s 2 days in a row of a semi-routine
Plan tonight: light stretching prior to bed; in bed by 1a, lights off by 2a; tryptophan and CBD!
Looking to string together a number of days!
What’s the goal (aside of the stated)? Like… how will this make a difference in your life. And I mean deeper than, “I won’t waste time” or “I’ll have more time.”
Like what’s the USE of the time? What difference will it make in your life!? What will you build or create with extra time? AND… how do you turn this from a task (“Don’t visit Facebook unless I have something to post.”) into a mission (“Use my disposable income to [insert life goal that improves your life long term]”)
Checking in! Which of the suggestions did you implement!? First thing today, BEFORE you get tired, implement one (or a few) and dedicate 10 minutes to starting ONE of the projects! <3
@Koleah Haven’t ever heard of Phenibut. I’ll Google it.
I have used ZMA, melatonin and tryptophan.
ZMA really only gives me more dreams, but I’ve never found it to help me either fall asleep faster or sleep more deeply.
Melatonin HAS proved useful for shifting circadian rhythm and I do use that from time to time.
What I love and have had supper good experience with is tryptophan.
But, honestly, all are pretty lightweight.
Anywho… SUPER breakthrough: after being out of the Mastermind for 2 days and REALLY struggling with some super fractured sleep for 2 days (like, “go to bed at 11p and wake up at 2a, then stay up until 6a and sleep to 11, then go back to sleep until 2p with a horrible headache) last night I had a breakthrough:
Bedtime by 1:40a, sleeping until 4a; back to sleep by 4:20a, sleeping until 11:40 – so, like, ~10 hours of sleep.
As screwy as that sounds it was super good sleep and FAR more than I’ve had in weeks or months.
it also represents a major step forward with a ~2a bedtime and a semi-normal waking time. Woke feeling like a million dollars, the sleep even affecting systemic inflammation (aside from chronic migraines I also am usually HORRIBLE achy, stiff and sore in the morning – strong indicators of chronic systemic inflammation).
Last night I was feeling awful after 6 hours, 5 hours, 6 hours and 4 hours daily sleep so I threw everything I could at, including:
- Aleve pain killers (for a headache)
- CBD
- 1/4 Sumatriptan (Imitrex) tablet
- Turmeric
Working to put 2 nights of these together. Heading to bed shortly!
Thanks for the suggestions, Odmaa and Kolea!
