I’m currently reading the art of less doing by Ari Maisel. This book is exactly what I needed as I begin to process, “What’s next?” The author was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in his mind to late 20s, and had to completely change his life because he couldn’t work more than one hour.
Questions I’m pondering
How can I begin to earn more money by doing less?
How can I create as much and more value for others using less of my time?
What structures do I need to put in place so that I can spend more time doing what it is I truly want to do?
I don’t have the answers yet, but I’m in the inquiry of.
Stage 4 of Emperor Fitness continues to impress.
My protein/ amino acid intake has been excellent. I’m fasting for 12 to 16 hours without difficulty. I woke up today at 187 lbs, 7 lbs lighter than a week ago. My current goal is to get to 175 lbs. Then I’ll gauge how my body looks and feels from there.
I haven’t weighed 175 lbs in over a decade. But this time I’ll be much more muscular. I’ll also look to have my body fat measured once I get down to 175 so that I can gauge what if any, additional fat loss is necessary to get to between 15 to 18% body fat. Realistically, I’m in the 25%+ body fat currently.
For some quick body fat math, 187 lbs at 25% body fat means have roughly 47 lbs of fat in my body. If I get down to 175 lbs at 18% body fat, I’ll have 32 lbs of fat in my body so that would represent 15 lbs of fat loss.
The Social Stark Under Attack
I do appreciate the social benefits of using Stark. It’s been a while since I ran Stark prior to the experimental and this custom.
For the most part, people are more pleasant up front, and when I’m pleasant to strangers, they’re even more pleasant and appreciative. Big city life can make people jaded. I would rather be the light that shine to the darkness; the example of how I want people to behave.
I did have a rather strange incident Monday morning. I was on the escalator leaving the subway with easily hundreds of other people doing the same thing. About halfway up the escalator the woman behind me moved and somehow hit her face on my backpack. We weren’t all packed in, and I thought that someone walking to the left of me might have accidentally bought my bag with her elbow or shoulder.
I didn’t think anything of it but then the woman started speaking aggressively and loudly. Then I heard her say yeah. I’m talking to you. At which point I pulled one of my earbuds out to see what the commotion was behind me.
She continued to go on about how I needed to move. (When there was nowhere to move to as we were all in line on the escalator) so I said, “excuse me.”
She went on to say something about how she hit her face on my bag because I was in her way. Now granted we were all standing in line on the right side of the escalator.
She was so loud and aggressive unnecessarily that I actually felt bad for her. Here we are at 6 something in the morning and this woman is irate and looking for someone to blame. I wasn’t moving or dancing on the escalator or doing anything that would have caused my backpack to hit her.
So without saying much my turn my head back up put my earbuds in and went about my business, deciding not to let her bad mood on a Monday morning ruin my great mood.
Must be the iron frame.
*Edited for clarity
