December 2010
76 posts
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Prompt: Healing. What healed you this year? Was it sudden, or a drip-by-drip evolution? How would you like to be healed in 2011?
Confidence. Neither, it was concentrated but not quite sudden. Social balance.
What I Ate
Ham, two butter burgers with turkey and cheddar cheese and onion.
Workout
200 pushups.
200 sit-ups.
20 minutes cycling while watching the movie Ransom. 1am. Good stuff.
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Try. What do you want to try next year? Is there something you wanted to try in 2010? What happened when you did / didn’t go for it?
Learn Ruby. Rails. And everything else that stands in my way of learning those two things. This could take years, and I will persist.
What I Ate
Protein shake, 3 tinga tostadas, slice of chocolate cake, potbelly’s sandwich with chips.
Workout
200 pushups.
225 sit-ups.
20 minutes cycling.
All while listening to Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia
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Prompt: Lesson learned. What was the best thing you learned about yourself this past year? And how will you apply that lesson going forward?
That I march to a different drummer. Or, better yet, I’m making the band.
Workout
200 pushups.
225 sit-ups.
20 minutes cycling.
What I Ate
Protein fruit smoothie, pepperoni pizza with truffle oil.
Workout
150 pushups.
200 sit-ups.
20 minutes cycling.
What I Ate
Cheese grits, 3 cinnamon roll biscuits, and homemade potato wedges.
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Prompt: Friendship. How has a friend changed you or your perspective on the world this year? Was this change gradual, or a sudden burst?
The only thing I can think of is when my friend Claire provided the tipping point moment for me to pursue my dream. I told her my dream, and she simply asked me what I was waiting for, and then I acted.
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Prompt: 5 minutes. Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010.
Probity. Start company with Claire, Mike, PD, and Maggie learning computer programming and graphic design. Focus on the Ruby programming language and solve the problem of productivity.
Also - you have a lot of wisdom,...
What I Ate
Good amount of water, love candy bar, fruit and protein milkshake, and steak veggie and mashed potato dinner.
Workout
25 minutes cycling.
130 pushups.
200 sit-ups.
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Prompt: Appreciate. What’s the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it?
My Father. I don’t do enough to express gratitude but if you knew me or my Father you might understand partially why that is…
What I Ate
A big bowl of raisin bran crunch cereal, fried egg and cheese sandwich, and shrimp fried rice with egg foo yung.
Workout
30 minutes cycling.
125 pushups.
225 sit-ups.
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Prompt: Action. When it comes to aspirations, its not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step?
Learn computer programming, learn graphic design, generate ideas that add value to people’s lives that I am passionate about, find a way to obtain resources to continue providing that value to people’s lives.
Immediate next step: Complete Rails Ch. 6 screencast...
Workout
20 minutes cycling.
100 pushups.
250 sit-ups.
What I Ate
Bowl of cereal, 6 maple sausage pancake dunkin donut thingies with hashbrowns and a texas burger from ribs n bibs with fries.
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Prompt: Body integration. This year, when did you feel the most integrated with your body? Did you have a moment where there wasn’t mind and body, but simply a cohesive YOU, alive and present?
I haven’t.
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Prompt: 11 Things. What are 11 things your life doesn’t need in 2011? How will you go about eliminating them? How will getting rid of these 11 things change your life?
Mediocrity
Waste
Haters
Negativity
A Job
Drama
Laziness
Procrastination
Clutter
Fatigue
Stress
Workout
20 minutes cycling while watching The Fugitive.
110 pushups.
225 sit-ups.
What I Ate
Yogurt, granola and honey, a bowl of honey nut cheerios, 4 tinga tostadas, and as a future prediction - sweet potatoes and fish.
Workout
20 minutes cycling while watching Keith Olberman.
100 pushups.
200 sit-ups.
What I Ate
Greek omelett with toast and potatoes with a cup of coffee. That’s it.
Workout
20 minutes cycling while watching the unfortunate depreciation of the Obama White House.
100 pushups. 200 sit-ups.
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Prompt: Wisdom. What was the wisest decision you made this year, and how did it play out?
Leaving my job at a VC to band together with my most trusted and brilliant friends to endeavor on an unprecedented journey to pursue meaning in our lives through righteous actions.
The jury is still out on the outcome but in order to muster the courage to make this decision I had to pull from all the wisdom I...
Today
Review of the day:
Politically frustrated but also invigorated. Much more work to be done tonight. Proud to continue my personal health month streak.
What I ate:
Monte cristo with fries, love candy bar, a butter cookie, and a large pastrami sandwich.
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Prompt: Party. What social gathering rocked your socks off in 2010? Describe the people, music, food, drink, clothes, shenanigans.
I can’t think of a party I thoroughly enjoyed unfortunately. Except…
The probity office painting party.
Fried catfish. The whole crew came out minus Claire plus friends from near and far. Mike whipped up a playlist just for the occasion, and we had some...
Workout
20 minutes cycling while playing Star Wars the Force Unleashed 2.
65 pushups.
200 sit-ups.
Today's meals
Chicken bacon cheese and avocado sandwich on ciabatta. 2 slices of thin pizza, a slice of chocolate cake and a handfull of organic popcorn.
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Prompt: Beautifully different. Think about what makes you different and what you do that lights people up. Reflect on all the things that make you different - you’ll find they’re what make you beautiful.
Apparently I’m halfway decent at galvanizing and rallying people behind a cause.
Workout
20 minutes cycling while learning about Obama’s unfortunate compromise with republicans on extending the bush tax cuts. 100 pushups. 200 sit-ups.
Food I ate today
2 fried egg and cheese sandwiches, two cups of coffee, potato wedges with ketchup, two pieces of bread with butter, and a couple handfuls of organic popcorn.
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Prompt: Community. Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011?
I have discovered community through Probity. Probity is where I will seek to strengthen that connection.
Workout
20 minutes cycling, 60 pushups, 180 sit-ups.