(Publish on 1330152open: Health)

“Your conscience (the zsms) can trick you.” Is it Valid to feel guilty that I have not been to the stadium for a few months?

Nowadays I’m busy with kids, ADE, UChicago prepration … Not as free as before. Instead of stadium, I chose
* basketball downstairs (with kids)
* playground downstairs (with kids)
* or even exercise at home (with kids)
* stretch lower body (with boy’s help), which doesn’t require the stadium:) * swimming pool on a monthly basis (with boy)
* short jog to office
* weight lifting using boy

(master copy — pripri )

–The search strings:

1m1d

1 minute a day

a minute a day

–the list

stretching

recite a chinese poem

5bi

pull up,

push up,

jumping jack

floss threader

dotnet – review my own blog

dotnet – review my books

Situation: I committed myself to fill up the PR forms this weekend. At this moment, I find myself more interested in math or

exercise (2 arguably more important goals). Should I change course? I feel it depends on many factors – urgency, level of difficulty

vs level of motivation, … I feel it's a good idea to focus on result i.e. “laser output”.

Problem: guilt

Solution:

Problem: slow progress

Solution: accept it. Notice it's better than no progress

Tip: capture the impulse energy

UChicago

Mtg bx

c++ 5 to 7

cholesterol

Early education

ccard? LG

furniture? don't spend too much time

renovation? don't spend too much time

–case – tooth brushing: I can choose to set myself a short-term goal of

A) “go to the bathroom and pick up the brush, even if without paste” or

B) “go to the bathroom and pick up the brush, and put paste”

In either case, the implicit pressure is — if you pick up the brush then you must brush for 10 sec or more.

Now, that pressure is a challenge, a real resistance, and a non-trivial problem to overcome. However, I don't have a way to remove

that pressure. It's part of Both choices.

Now, B entails another implicit pressure — “the brushing has to be longer — once you put paste in your mouth you would have to

rinse”. This pressure can be removed if you choose A. I believe no dentist would advise A over B. However, By taking A, I increase

my chance of going to the bathroom and picking up the brush. That makes a real difference when I'm very tired and demotivated.

–case: pull-up. I can set myself a modest goal of

A) “stand up, walk to the bar and do at least half a pull-up”

B) “stand up, walk to the bar and do at least 5 pull-ups”

–case: go to the stadium, even if 5 minutes before closing, even if no jogging at all.

–case: open a c++ IDE and spend 1 min coding

In my perception, one of the “biggest rocks” is getting more exercise, not only cardio, but c++ coding too. Sometimes the “rock”