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Sunday 6th October 2013

fudoshin: 21 days of exercise: day 1

Please do not leave advice or feedback.  Thank you.  Prayers welcome. 

                                                                                                                          

The commitment is thirty minutes of exercise before midnight of
any of the following format: running, jogging, a combination of
running-walking-jogging, swimming, walking, attending a fitness
class, stationary biking, biking, dance class, aerobic class, yoga,
karate (or other martial arts).  My ultimate goal is to run a
second marathon. In order to do that I need to being able to run for
30 minutes again.  My goal is to complete the running plan by doing it as a 28-week plan, which is a slower version of the
eight-week Rodale run/walk plan. I'm going to shoot for doing one unit of the running plan per day and running three
miles a day and swimming for one mile on weekends, so that I can make
some progress in my running plan, even if I don't make it during the
week. But all I have to do for my commitment is one half-hour of
exercise per day, of any format above. I am doing this because:

  1. I want to be able to wear the clothes
    in my closet. I don't want to have to be choosey, only wearing the
    extra-large shirts or things that don't look great on me, b/c of how
    I feel about my body.
  2. I'm sick of feeling sorry for myself
    that almost no one asks me out on a date; I'm sick of attributing
    that circumstance to my appearance. It's not about my appearance.
  3. I don't want to be the “ugly one”
    in the photographs at work. I want to take pride in the way I look
    and have the means to do that via the clothes I wear.
  4. I feel that running or exercise will
    give me the strength I need to show up to other commitments in my
    life. Challenges in the running sphere require me to meet other
    priorities in my life so that I can exercise unimpeded and feel good
    that my investment in myself is going somewhere.
  5. I want to feel good about myself when I
    go outside or meet people.
  6. I don't trust myself to exercise at the
    end of the day or at some point before midnight unless I make the
    commitment here to do it. Being accountable to others by making a
    commitment here, helps me to be accountable to myself. Making a
    commitment here, helps me to have the faith in myself that at some
    point in the day the exercise will get done.
  7. Practicing being on time for this
    commitment will assist me in being on time for other appointments,
    projects or time-sensitive communications in my life. Running is a
    practice in self-accountability.
  8. Running or jogging helps me to practice
    willpower for other activities that require energy.
  9. Exercise helps me to feel comfortable
    in what I am doing, b/c I am not constantly fidgeting at my desk or
    feeling like I SHOULD be running/swimming/walking or getting out in
    the sun or that I SHOULD have done those things last night.
  10. Exercise helps me to avoid feelings of
    not being adequate, because I have confidence in myself as a person
    interacting with co-workers, managers and figures of authority.
  11. Exercise helps me focus on what's most
    important to me in the moment and helps me avoid unncessary or
    counter-productive confrontations or interactions.
  12. Exercise makes everything tighter,
    which makes me feel more comfortable with myself, helps me to be able
    to live with myself.

 

movingalong's Sunday

health insurance papers

hospital finance papers

flea treatment for cat

grocery shopping

Vic 10/6/13 ck in

PA maintenance(showing up, basics, plan, exer.)

balance- more in balance today, thinking in terms of  consistency  helps me surrender to balance.(easier said than done) thx pa   beautiful starter jalla, thx

Rexroth Check In 09.10

Thanks for the start jalla. The words help me a lot today. Woke after nightmares and disturbed sleep so Get up, Dress up, Show up is a bit hard. So today's list:

x Up prayer and reflection
x Write journal and plan today
x Check emails and phone messages
x Wash up
x Pack food for later deliverty today
x Pack everything else for going out
Out to church
Visit shop for wine glasses - near church
See builder at church for advice
Home early and out again to deliver food to charity
At charity see if there is anything else I can do
Visit new flat which is close to charity
Home and rest a little
Plan week
Write journal
Prayer and reflection
Bed and sleep

Somehow I am ready for church.

Peace Rexroth

Rexroth Check Out 22.58

x Out to church
Visit shop for wine glasses - near church - no time
x See builder at church for advice
x Home early and out again to deliver food to charity
x At charity see if there is anything else I can do - and there was and I was very busy for nearly three hours
x Visit new flat which is close to charity - and it is fine
x Home and rest a little - little time for rest
x Plan week
x Write journal
Also two very long phone calls with friends

Todo:

Prayer and reflection
Bed and sleep

Night Rexroth

love it!

Get up, dress up, show up!! love it!

 

Peace and rest to you Rexroth.

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woops double posted

Sunday

  • shopping list
  • note and card m
  • readings
  • tidy
  • laundru
  • finish reading docs 
  • notes in(2 pomos)
  • edit (6 pomos)
  • check references
  • check bibliography
  • print doc
  • give doc m
  • accounts
  • print return sheet book
  • t reciepts
  • sept reciepts excel for sarah
  • call v
  • call l back
  • call mgs
  • call n
  • skype d w/ m
  • rehab excercises 
  • HIO
  • visit from v and m

Encouragement

Thanks to Jalla for lovely thread starter and to Mole and Lennon -my encouragement to you today.

Today I choose to be powerless in order to gain a greater power.

To give up every moment.

To give up every thought.

To give up every motivation.

 

Main aim for today:

to plug away at physiology questions - aim to be done by midnight tonight

 

Important tasks today:

return sisters dvd to blockbuster by 7

Building up tasks:

brisk walk

healthy meals

My temptations:

TV

internet

daydreaming

--> remember the 3T's- Timed? Task? if not then Tmr!

 

Reward: finish reading "house of mirth" when end of day in bed

 

 May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father... Col 1v11

update

Well- going well from 1300-1630

wasted time on internet 1630-1815. mmm - totally thought of 3Ts but didn't.

So to regroup - dust yourself off, all is not lost!!

washing off line

walk to video store to return

1930 return - dinner make bed...

2030 study again

bedtime midnight still...

Mole's check in

What a lovely thought -miracles in the invisible makes me feel blanketed with them. Thank you jalla for words and images.

daylight saving starts at midnight and so we lose an hour 

print out electricity quote 

8.30 pick up w K or walk to town

9-10 ring

10-11 F with band check out teen fantasy

pick up papers  

home

eat healthy meal

1 hr planning

2.30 -3.30 walk with B 

30mins declutter

4 A for tea - get water rates ready

5 ring S

hol prep

R prep 

eat healthy meal 

declutter

check in

bed by 11 

My Day Today

I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone and online meetings, and my life.

I want to thank jalla for starting this trend.

Things I will do today

1. Go to the 5:45 a.m. telephone ACA meeting

2. Go to the 6:45 a.m. telephone OA meeting

3. Go to the 7 a.m. telephone DA meeting

4. Go to the 8 a.m. telephone OA meeting

5. Take shower

6. Eat breakfast

7. Get dressed

8. Go to the 9:45 a.m. telephone CLA activity line

9. Go to the grocery store to get money orders

10. Go to churcch at 11 a.m.

11. Eat lunch

12. Go to the NA business meeting at 1:30 p.m.

16. Eat dinner

17. Go to the 7 p.m. online EA meeting

18. Go to the 8 p.m. telephone CLA meeting

19. Go to the 8:30 p.m. telephone PA workshop

Thanks for letting me share