Little late for the pregame self-hype, but so it goes.
I found a strange moment at lunch today when I was trying to picture/conceptualize differences in mindsets or mental environments of driven people and generally unmotivated or unfocused people. Obviously I align with the unfocused/unmotivated side of things (except as regards things that I really, really enjoy). Anyway, the specific context was my thought process addressing how much and what sort of things I felt I should be eating at lunch, given my goals and future. I told myself to limit what I consumed, and I did. Funny how that works.
Anyway, the conclusion I came to was that I need to pick up the sword and battle the foes threatening my future more often. The foes are ever-present and malevolent in intention. To name but a few: my own neglect, passivity, and temptation to continue through life in ‘cruise control’ or autopilot; the subjective experience of tiredness, self-pity, and the notion that I deserve to be lax; and, even more dangerous, the insidious thought that stasis would be better than expending effort.
The last foe is especially insidious, because it’s a double lie: 1. expending directed effort is always better than stasis. 2. There’s no such thing as stasis; only regression. The body was not meant to be inactive and at rest; it’s made to move and act and do, and without these it drives itself into premature expiration.
Things I want to get cracking on tonight after work:
- Dishes.
ü (sort of – made a big dent) - Drag the trash out, break down some boxes.
ü (still need to drag, but that’s ok) - Jog 2 miles.
ü /2 – Jogged one mile. - Rip some muscles on the hanging rings.
ü - Get started on the Raspberry Pi 3 work.
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That should suffice for my sufficiently short evening.
EDIT: Oh hey, I could make this into a to-do list with some light modification.