Restartings – Focused Journey of Continuous Life Improvement
Taking a look at how we can all improve our life and achieve goals that help us to be better human beings and help others along the way. It’s important to constantly take a look at where we’re at in life and tweak ourselves towards our goals.
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66 Days Remain in 2011. Be Good!
I’ve been pushing myself harder both personally and professionally.
Taking the attitude that I should push until I break something and then work around there can be dangerous and wise at the same time when managed appropriately. I’ve been doing the P90x and am on the “rest week”, basically lower impact workouts before the next round. I’ve contemplated a pause during this period, extending the “rest week” and adding some core intensity. This may prove more realistic and stress relieving during a couple weeks of upcoming travel. Goal being strengthen core so I return to more intense workouts. This brings me to last night when I kicked my own ass.
Feeling an incredible sense of urgency about my work and eager to make more sales progress immediately. I’m partially aware the majority of my stress is internally generated, however that doesn’t make it any less real or important and I’d rather drive myself than have someone ever have to do it for me… Anyway my point is I’ve learned the best way to manage self-induced or externally received stress is fitness.
Last night I decided hitting a boxing bag was the best way to stay focused and burn energy. WOW I was intense! Felt the workout all the way through my chest and did some extra pushups to enhance things. I woke up today feeling good, then stepped out of bed and OW! My shoulder blades feel like they were pulled apart during the night or something. YIKES! I think my body is adjusting to the extra intensity. THIS is why I’m thinking of taking 2 weeks to refocus on core and push my body harder than before so I can obtain even better results with my P90x and other efforts.
Team call at work last week one gentlemen from Cincinnati mentioned wanting to run when we were all together on an upcoming business trip. Something about that commitment to fitness that required nothing more than a little time, some good gym shoes and probably a heart rate monitor (runners love their paraphernalia!) and made me wish I could run. Maybe I can run and need to get over the awkward arm-swinging version I’d been mocked as a child and give it a try again. It’s been over 3 years since having a cigarette, yet my lungs feel strained with cardio work. THIS is what drives me to improve; the awareness that I have been and can be continuously better.
I’m going to be 42 in 10 days and glad I’m aware of the need to workout NOW.
Monday’s Super Brain Focus!
It’s Monday morning. I’m super focused on my work and eager to make some great progress today. My job is enjoyable, yet high pressure and it’s important to me to achieve continuous positive output and this week is definitely not an exception.
I’d once heard a side effect of ADD is super focus, I’ll call it DDA, Darren’s Disciplined Awesomeness. I share more about this on my site, Super Brain Focus. What I do is totally let everything else drop out of my mind and focus 100% on the tasks at hand. It’s a rather intense state of mind but necessary for achieving greatness. Part of this transition I like to refer to as RHD – Rapid Human Development, in that I look at where I’m trying to get to and work tenaciously backwards to obtain this goal as quickly as possible. Most goals we set for ourselves are rather attainable but takes our own internal discipline to really be in tune to receiving these awesome successes.
In short, keeping a maniacal focus on tasks at hand will bring goals to us sooner. I’m also “back on” coffee this week after taking a couple weeks off and reestablishing my caffeine tolerance levels. Honestly, I don’t see a tremendous productivity boost from coffee and in fact suspect dependence and tolerance will ensue, but taking every extra boost I can this week as it means that much to me to conquer new goals!
Restartings – Focused Success!
Make the Most of Every Single Day!
We all share the same time currency, in that we get 24 hours each and every day to spend. I’ve got a new career I love and put in about 12 hours a day into it between appointments, training, emails and administrative tasks. I put another 1-2 hours a day into fitness and when you factor in meals and hygiene there’s really not a lot of time currency remaining. Television is a luxury I enjoy on the treadmill.
To maximize results, I’m getting up earlier and earlier. Today for instance I’d popped out of bed before 5am to kick into my Yoga-X (week 6 of P90x workout) and have time for a quick low carb breakfast (scrambled eggs and avocado), a cup of green tea, and showered and smiling at work by 7am. I used to believe that abusing caffeine was necessary to achieve results however have been off coffee for nearly a week and beginning to regain focus. Welcome to Today, enjoy this video!
Just a Month Away from 11/11/11!
Unsure the value of the mysterious date coming up of 11/11/11 but figured it was worth mentioning. I’m currently on day 4 of my coffee withdrawal and going just a little crazy, especially combined with my aggressive lower carbohydrate dieting and focused on discovering my RHT (Rapid Human Transformation) project every day.
People sometimes say its not good to make a lot of changes at once, that we should gradually introduce new concepts or life modifications into our lives. I believe if we’re determined to make tremendous growth that we should commit wholeheartedly into what is is we’re looking to achieve and make great things happen.
Mentally I feel less focused than before modifying caffeine and diet, however I’m slightly less anxious and anticipate this all will pass too in time. I’m accepting this short-term discomfort as a step in the journey towards long-term awesomeness. I’m feeling confident that surviving 3 days of this modified lifestyle is a good sign of things to come and that if I can do 10% of something, I can do the remaining 90%.
We are our biggest obstacles in life, sometimes it’s important for us to get out of our own ways and reach towards our dreams!
I’m hopeful that by 11/11/11 I feel extremely balanced and focused. I’m curious how much change and awesomeness I can add to my life during just this short period of time. I’m confident that staying on this journey, which likely will have some more challenges before getting easier is extremely worthwhile.
Life is Often about Restartings…
The best part of awareness is the capacity for change. I often look at my life with the opportunity to rewrite and reshape to align better towards goals. With Yom Kippur around the corner and just being at a different place in life than I was a year ago I’m focused on realigning my capabilities and goals better as always. The road sign on the left is to represent the 87 days left in 2011 and help me stay focused on goals as there’s really no time to screw around. The 100 days is here and now!
For 25 years I’ve made a point to “write the next chapter” of my book of life as so many people seem to follow the cards they’ve been dealt without playing them as well as they could. I’ve learned that goals shift and our focus must follow as well. This video shares a lot of thoughts on this important topic and I hope it helps you to focus as well.
Procrastinating Procrastination
In the interest of rocking these next 97 days of 2011 I’m focused on focusing better on focus! This being said the best method to overcome self-limiting patterns of procrastination is to procrastinate said procrastination!
I’ve got a great deal to accomplish today and working backwards allows me to really see through the steps necessary to succeed. Keeping focused on goal permits me to let distractions fall by the wayside so I can achieve what’s being focused on. Today this involves organizing finances, finalizing my business plan for work and re-organizing my side business to better operate smoothly as well.
One thing I’ve learned that helps to propel everything I’m working on throughout the day is starting every day with exercise. During this time I’ll generally create my “frog list” of what has to be done during that day to reach goals. There’s only so many hours in a day and I want to get all that I can out of each one!
Christmas, then One Week Left!
This year is dwindling down fast – It’s exciting and I look at it as goal sand in the proverbial hourglass – I’m increasing aware that I need to super focus and get a lot more things done today and every day and push away lots of other time sucking activities in order to meet goals. I need more coffee.
Crazy and Productive Day
I really do believe that ‘if you can’t measure you can’t manage’ when it comes to organizing successful productivity and today is far from an exception as I’ve used a good deal of time to best manage my time going forward – excited and focused and out of here to make some good things happen!
Moving at the Speed of Mind!
These past couple of weeks have been amazing. The only thing that disrupts my ability to over achieve is telephones, so I went ahead and turned them all off. Maybe I’ll turn them back on end of year – who knows and who cares – without that unnatural productivity restraint I’m making incredible progress. Back tomorrow – rocking projects!
The ramblings of a crazy man? Possibly...
This is Darren Williger and I am taking a look at what I can accomplish in the next 100 days, both personally and professionally.
September 2010 I had this thought - WOW there\'s just over 100 days left this year. Then I realized all my annual goals, professionally and personally - and said \"Darren, it is time\". A GoDaddy coupon code encouraged me to pull the trigger on this new domain and had the site up in minutes.
December 2011 seemed like an awesome time to do this exercise again! Over the next 100 days I will be taking a more serious look at my health and wealth, learning to focus more on what\'s important, and scheduling everything in my life for maximum productivity. I\'ll share details here, mostly to hold myself accountable and track my results on achieving greatness!
I\'m totally immersed in my new career and focused on learning more daily. It\'s been an incredible shift these past few months. On the side I\'m going to be exercising, writing, making more videos, photographing meals, tweeting, speaking and eating. Looking to minimize unproductive time sucking activities.
I\'m limiting my side business focus to weekends as I ramp up my new career. New blog coming soon, appropriately named Saturday Night Marketing. I\'m very excited!
It has been one helluva year so far - many challenges, and some frustration sweat and tears along the way - additionally, many net new opportunities have unfolded as several old ones fall by the wayside. Seems this pattern has repeated in life relationships as well.
I am so excited and grateful for all the incredible opportunities I\'ve been afforded and ones I will continue to create for myself. I\'m not going to allow anyone or anything (including myself) get in the way of the success and greatness I deserve!
Thanks for joining me on this journey!