100 Day Challenge – Day056 – SISSP – Stress Into Success Strategy Plan!
Checking in on the 100 days. Today has been incredible and filled with non-stop and increasingly frustrating weirdness intensity. Instead of walking around with this stress and letting it potentially damage me, I’m investing this energy into fitness by turning stress into success! the100days.com
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100 Day Challenge – Day055 – RHT (Rapid Human Transformation!) – Ambiguousity
MONDAY! Amazingly moving busy chaotic not even stopping to eat nor even wanting to type of day and stressed now late at night focusing on catching up with rounds of email that didn’t even sync to Outlook or phone until past 5. Starting to think DAMN dude take a breath. Go work out… LOL 
It’s time to take an hour and workout even though I keep kicking my own ass about how I need to put that extra hour into work then realizing again (thanks the 100 days!) to remember about balance. Sometimes I forget what I know – fortunately I left a map at mindsatori.com I visit sometimes.
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100 Day Challenge – Day051 – RHT (Rapid Human Transformation!) – Raunchy Radisson Rantings
I’ve just experienced the most unsanitary, unsafe and untrustworthy hotel.
Continuously enlightened from different experiences going on all around… Today began with challenges. Working up in Appleton, Wisconsin, I’d stayed at the Radisson Paper Valley hotel on the recommendation of a coworker. The outdated room was visibly dirty, had cigarette burns in the furniture, patches in the carpet, a bloodstained pillow and a bad shower valve resulting in an unexpected temperature spike causing me to burn like a lobster. Despite perhaps my worst room in decades of professional business travel, the people working there were all extremely friendly and helpful. The restaurants were very good and my coworker said they a clean room. I do believe this was one-off however that’s really a lot of bad stuff going on! Well, my lesson learned – I didn’t want to be angry. I just didn’t. I was up for business and didn’t want to carry any frustration or angry energy to the meeting with me. I didn’t want to throw up on Yelp without taking time to think through what happened, a “social responsibility” so to speak. Walking to breakfast, I’d bumped into a manager and brought these matters up, calmly and in detailed camera phone photos. He’d offered to compensate the night’s stay, however my instinct was to not accept this as if it would somehow erase things; as if these horrible hotel horrors hadn’t happened. I’d much rather reflectively realize that in the big scheme of things this isn’t that big of a deal, it was gross but I’d gotten to my meeting on time, met a cool person, and had a rather successful day. You have to add up things I learn, and today definitely was successful!!
management at this Radisson seemed to care, until I’d learned they’d violated do not disturb, trying to cover their neglect.
Radisson Paper Valley Hotel – Appleton Wisconsin featured outdated and disgustingly insanity rooms, including filth on dresser, walls, television and bathroom, a bloodstained pillow, a shower valve that went bad and burned me, and management encouraging housekeeping to violate do not disturb, prior to seeing room. He did see the bloodstained pillow, valve-broken shower, and my photos of the filth, much of which the housekeepers weren’t able to hide before we got to the room.
My journey to Denver begins….
I can’t remember the last time I was on a plane. I’m very excited about this trip. Wow last time i flew was executive platinum, this battle class is rather cramped LOL good times ahead! I’m psyched about the game today too!
Feeling Like I’ve Not Slept Lately…
Granted, I don’t sleep much. However the past 2 days I’ve been in a semi-zombie state but still making progress and rocking forward. My brain just feels off from where I want it to be. I’ve looked at my food and supplement intake to see if something’s impacted this sleep or how I feel but can’t come up with any explanation.
In fact I’ve not even taken GABA before bed which I was doing for a while. Well, I’m not going to over-think into this when I have things to do and feel like a zombie. Perhaps it’s just another step towards growth. Perhaps this is what happens as I approach 42. Yeah I’d not really thought much of that, perhaps both my body and mind are needing more than the few hours of sleep I normally feel OK with. Last week I’m up at 5 every day and working out, this week barely ‘aware’ as I wake to an alarm at 6. That’s the other difference – I’m depending on an alarm. I’ve always had one as a “safeguard” but don’t like to depend on it except when necessary traveling. I usually wake up and turn it off before it’s ever even close to alarming. I mean who wants to wake to an alarm, what a horrifying experience. OK I digress. My body is probably trying to take care of itself and is speaking to me. Now it’s time to learn to listen within.
Making More Lifestyle Adjustments
These focused days have motivated me to take my dedication towards life enhancement even further. Over the next 10 days I’ll be reassessing my goals and steps towards attainment. I’m definitely looking to strengthen my physical core and pausing (extending ‘rest’ week) P90x until the 2nd week of November.
I’m more aware of how much I miss martial arts and reading for some reason. I’ve been very focused on my work which I need to be and also enjoy as there’s always more knowledge to embrace and opportunities to chase. This weekend begins an awesome work training trip I’m extremely excited about. #rockon!
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.
Wisconsin, Cheese and Geckos
I put the green geckos in here because I could. I snapped this with my camera phone.
Off to the great state of Wisconsin where they have great cheese and customers to work with and excited about the journey. I’ve got a lot of “windshield time” which I really don’t mind. On one hand you can look at drive time frustratingly as a trap into transport time which we can’t control. Alternately, I enjoy the opportunity to catch up with audio books, phone calls, or just process my mind with some music. It’s not a bad thing.
Grabbing lunch with a customer and likely will not photograph my meal. This is seriously something I think about as I enjoy food photography but am aware that unless social was discussed in advance with a customer they may find this odd so I’ll hold back.
Wishing everyone a fantastic day today, make it great and keep it green!
Immersed In Work and Bike Riding!
The 2nd part of the title is wishful thinking I would like to make happen. Let’s see how I do. It’s 2pm and I’ve been focused on catching up at home and with work. I’ve got to call cat genie as the computerized litter box is beeping and its 60 degrees with a limited number of bike riding days remaining. I should go enjoy some sunshine!
My plan is to contact cat genie technical support and sneak in a bike ride while processing my work projects. I’m making a business plan and summary, focusing on account strategies and creating presentations for this week’s meetings and getting schedule worked out over next few weeks. I’m mostly ignoring my side-business at the moment as … immersed in my work. Fighting hard for success!
3:30pm Update – Cat Genie called and walked me through resetting the unit. Unfortunately, the error exhausted the granules and liquid and have double-upped my orders for these supplies which I hope to have this week. I’m VERY aware of two things (1) LOTS of work to do (2) there’s little bike riding time left.
Guitar Therapy is Always Good!
I’ve got lots of work to catch up with this weekend so making sure to include guitar too!
The Day the Blogging Died…
My webhost made an error, effectively removing all my work, posts, updates, etc. across all my blogs. They’d restored a backup from months back instead of a current one, resulting in other chaos and many missed posts. In the interest of moving forward I’ve reassembled what I could here from cache and fortunately had local copies of this and my main blog. Unfortunately, I didn’t have this for homemade wine and others.
The situation sucks but like any other I’m learning from it and moving forward. Making blogs isn’t my full time gig so it’s not my full time focus. I’m looking at this side business differently as a result of what’s happened and have decided to focus on selling off a majority of my VRE (virtual real estate) in order to focus heavier on my main career and hopefully gain some more time for enhanced fitness as well. Only so much time…
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!