After two years of concerted work, I can now do this. Next, two years of posterior-chain flexibility work to be able to upright my pelvis so I can straighten my spine and sit up like a proper human.
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Day 73/100 – qm →
Freedom is the capacity to pause; Your list of three people →
Freedom is the capacity to pause in the face of stimuli from many directions at once and, in this pause, to throw one’s weight toward this response rather than that one.
The pause is especially important for the freedom of being, what I have called essential freedom. For it is in the pause that we experience the context out of which freedom comes. In the pause we wonder, reflect, sense awe, and conceive of eternity. The pause is when we open ourselves for the moment to the concepts of both freedom and destiny.
~ Rollo May from, “Freedom and Destiny”
Check out Maria Popova’s, “Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom and the Significance of the Pause”
Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom and the Significance of the Pause – The Marginalian
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…and my favorite season is here! I love the cool evenings, and how the knowledge that Daylight Savings is about to kick in makes me pay extra attention to my time outdoors in the evening. One thing I love doing is walking while listening to podcasts where I often find inspiring gems.
Here’s an example from The Tim Ferris Show Episode #86
General Stan McChrystal on Eating One Meal Per Day, Special Ops, and Mental Toughness (#86) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
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Around 1 hour 20 miutes in, Chris Fussell says:
I had a great mentor of mine, early on in my carrer, say, you should have a running list of three people — you can but you don’t need to share it with them or the world — that you’re always watching: Someone senior to you that you want to emulate; A peer who you think is better at the job than you, and you respect; And someone subordinate who is doing the job that you did a year or two or three years ago better than you did it. If you just have those three individuals that you’re constantly measuring yourself off of, and who you’re constantly learning from, you’re going to be exponentially better.
~ Chris Fussell
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Aside: DST should be abolished. It no longer saves us energy (it’s original purpose), but it does cause a statistically significant rise in traffic accidents:
Daylight Savings Time and Traffic Accidents | New England Journal of Medicine
(that’s the actual New England Journal of Medicine mind you.)
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Day 72/100 – oops →
Walked 4 miles, forgot to take a photo. Here have a screenshot of a great podcast I listened to. :P
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Day 71/100 – rain →
straight-up running in the rain today. meh.
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Day 70/100 – yes please →
Walking. This almost feels like Autumn!
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A dozing ox →
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
~ Lao Tzu
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Day 69/100 – rain →
Haven’t been out in the rain in a while. Drizzling, dreary and humid. 30 days to go on this challenge (and I’m experimenting with a dietary change for these last 30 days. Big post at the end. :)
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Day 68/100 – regular class →
Thanks @shanley.joe for a wee quirky challenge. Super-chill class on a muggy— wait, wat month is it? Why is it still summer?
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Day 67/100 – hiding →
spent hours today running around Leaser Lake. Really enjoyed a drive through my old high school stomping ground on my way to help train search-and-recovery dogs. Perfect weather to play in nature while not following the paths
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Way too much fun →
Ima b covered in poison-ivy. #dontcare “Professional Scent Item” is going on my resume.
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