Scheduling Life

I always use to think that scheduling your life was so rigid and uncreative. As it turns out, it's actually very freeing. Freeing in the true term of FREEDOM, you make it, you get to stick to it or not, but you know that the positive, productive, and growing side of you feeds off that stick-to-it nature, while that destructive, lazy side fights to take away that momentum and keep you comfortably dissatisfied. 

If I hadn't said it in prior posts, I'm on the P90X system at the moment. I'll be the first to admit that keeping the motivation for such an intense training regime has been tough. I've missed a few days but I have the resolve to complete the course cause I've found enough why's to get out of this fat suit and back into the shape I recognized myself. The hardest part I've found isn't even the workouts that really do a number on every fiber in my body, but getting off the couch or chair and pulling out the mat and weights to actually throw the DVD on. 

I'm sure that regardless of which exercise program you're on, it's the follow-through that makes you see the results. With this program, it works you so hard it's actually impossible not to expect results just from getting though workout-after-workout even if you don't do as many reps as the insane group on the television. 

In the past year I've really learned the value of finding a mentor. You can't really push yourself consistantly without knowing there's an external force expecting results. They don't have to be mind-blowing results either, just a constant push forward. That's actually what I'm liking about the message boards and this guy Tom  who's already completed the 90 day challenge and has the results I'm wanting. Even if it's not an in person mentoring, I can at least email him and get  some pointers from someone who's gone through the trials and knows the mental challenges of seeing the program to completion. 

Being the new year, I've also started to put my schedule into portable forms with syncing my iPhone with the laptop. As much as I love my planner, my phone is almost always at my hip and I really can't escape it. The biggest challenge for me is to actually sit down and chunk out time for writing. This use to be an arbitrary task and I'd do at any spare moment I had. The problem with that is when you're tired and unfocused the television or Wii usually seemed to win out to the keyboard. By chunking an actual time, I have no excuses and have a soft goal for how many pages I want to achieve in this time. My writing mentor Gordon, always told me that this is a business that measures it's winners in years of longevity. 

Alright, calling it a very early evening! 

Be great to each other!