Saw this and was amazed…
Easy opening! We’ve all been there, sat in a restaurant trying to open something sealed in plastic, bending the forks to try and open it. We all know that frustration. It should be simple and now it is!
Errrrr
(You can see the scar on the left where I got the stitches last time > http://www.flickr.com/photos/omarc/5581616189/in/photostream)
January 10, 2012 Leave a comment
Tonight the mantra was – ‘What have you got?’. You know what. It worked. Got up a little faster, pushed myself a little harder.
January 9, 2012 Leave a comment
I am planning to dip my toe in the waters of smartphones again this week. Just a toe mind. The reason I didn’t upgrade when my last smartphone gave up was that I feel that I (and we) are distracted by them too often. Too often, I was getting it out looking at it, replying to a tweet or opening an email often in the company of other people. I didn’t like that and still don’t. My desire to be more in the moment, to be aware of what is happening right now didn’t like I was allowing myself to be distracted in this way. When I feel like I should be listening or talking or thinking. So I took it away as a means of not checking. Fairly abrupt (I don’t mean that) but, well it has worked for me.
Which isn’t to say that I think they are bad per se. I’ve read a few discussion on minimalism, something I like, about whether smartphones are ‘acceptable’ or even necessary. I think I’ve come around to the idea that it is not the technology that’s the issue but how we use them. Which when I say it seems really obvious but it’s the not the supercomputer in your hand that’s the problem… Which is entirely the problem that I would like to overcome somehow.
Anyway, so in the first instance I plan to use the iPhone as a fancy iPod Touch about the house coupled with this to stream music from Spotify/iTunes to the little stereo I have in my room. Which will hopefully get me off the computer a little bit. Me? Tied to the computer? How very dare you. We will take it from there I think.
January 8, 2012 Leave a comment
It’s well known that multitasking is unproductive, but a team of American researchers studying “chronic media multitasking” found that people seem to grow less effective at frequent task-switching with practice. The alarming suggestion is that the kind of activities encouraged by new technologies might actually make us worse at navigating precisely the kind of distraction-filled world those technologies are ushering in. Depressed by that thought? Don’t worry, an iPhone game featuring an adorable baby polar bear will be along to take your mind off it shortly.
One standard reaction to this is that we should embrace techno-distraction; another is that we should shun it, unplugging frequently in favour of silent contemplation or frolicking across mountaintops. But a movement headed by academics at Stanford University suggests a tantalising third option: what if we could harness the technology itself to induce serenity?
January 8, 2012 Leave a comment
January 7, 2012 Leave a comment
Whatever your vision is, whatever your goals are, right now is the time to set the tone for the rest of the year. Your goals may just be in your head as dreams, desires, or New Years resolutions right now. But the only way to make them a reality is by making a commitment to yourself to put your internal goals into action. Make that internal decision to go out this weekend and follow though on your plans.
Take little baby steps if your need to. Tone it down. Maybe you don’t have the skillset right now to go out on Saturday and randomly approach five women. Start off by approaching one woman and see what happens. Then the day after, approach two women. Maybe you don’t have the confidence right now to ask out the Starbucks girl. That’s fine. Start off by engaging her in a 15 second conversation. Start off just by smiling and saying, “Hi.” It’s all part of a much bigger picture, and that picture is how you envision your social life to look like this year.
The main thing right now is to make a commitment to yourself to take action. Give yourself your word, and then keep your own word. Put one foot in front of the other and just start doing something. Momentum is the name of the game. Get a start on something, even if it’s just a little tiny baby step, because that is the first step in following through on the bigger picture of your commitments.
By following through on your commitments right now, this weekend, you are setting the tone for the rest of the year. You are rolling the ball into action and it’s going to start gaining momentum. Then the next day, you take another step and put your goals even further into action. And further.
January 7, 2012 Leave a comment
Today would normally be my cheat day, or my cheat weekend except it isn’t and it’s fine. It really is. Cold chicken salad with avocado for lunch.
Feeling goooooooood!*
I mean after the 15minutes it took me to recover after the battle ropes.
January 7, 2012 Leave a comment
January 7, 2012 Leave a comment
Crossfit Total – 342.5 kg
Backsquat: 115kg
Press: 67.5kg
Deadlift: 160kg
500m row – 1:29.6
Coming up to day 6 of my 30 day paleo challenge. Minor wobble aside where I was in a shop in a bad mood but managed to resist the pork pies and chocolate. I feel more aware of what I’m eating and just generally how I feel. Seem to be getting better at making sure I’m eating properly (not skipping meals, eating when I’m hungry) and am slowly working things out in that regard. So, it’s all good.
Right. I need to get up off the sofa.
January 6, 2012 Leave a comment