sorry

i have not been posting i have been busy with stuff like playing video games and d&d and other stuff. but you guys have much more... "uhh" i think the word that i'm looking for is, important things to do then playing video games like you dean you have Bridges to build and you Steven you have a biz to run am i rite

A funny undertaking

So today is two days away from Easter, the time for new things.
Well a slightly new undertaking for me is entering a comedy contest in the new yorker,
where my entree is 'thirteen dead fish with no appreiciation'.
You need the picture to really get it, but I thing its funny.
My real new undertaking i'v decided is going to be piano, yes thats right piano.
Thank you ladys and gentleman, i'll be here twice a week!

Not going to think of it as being behind ...

About the only thing I've been able to maintain the original schedule for is blogging. Probably that's because I spend such a considerable amount of time online and posting here qualifies as fun. However, for the other areas, I'm going to focus on reorganization, recalculation, and renewal. Spring is the time for hope, for new growth, for optimism, for laying plans to get good things to grow. While I'm not where I could be in the schedule, where I am is good. The roots go deep.

Behind i am not (exept on blogging)

i have been pulling double on every thing except blogging
and as such i'm starting to pull double on blogging too.
so how is every body doing on there stances im doing great
because i do quadruple the normal amount.
Chow.

Getting back in the saddle ...

Moments are sometimes longer than what we normally conceive of as moments. The good times, the highs, can be alarmingly brief, and the lows can stretch on forever. It seems that a lot of time is spent looking up from the ground, contemplating how best to get back in the saddle.

But that's the thing -- to always get back on. Because to give up is unacceptable. After you give up, then what? Sometimes I can land back in the saddle with a single leap, landing gracefully. Sometimes even a stirrup held by a friend isn't enough. But even if I have to build a contraption to hold the horse and lower myself into the seat, though it may take a little longer, the effort makes the success all the more sweet.

So, I'm building. A bit at a time. And I'm making it work. Those are the skills that this program comes down to, sometimes, a toolbox of skills that applies to everything we do.

Closer to the goal.

After reminding myself of some good goal setting techniques, my quest for 60 pushups in 60 seconds is getting closer.  

I decided to start a little smaller 30 in 30 seconds, then 40 in 40, 45 in 45, and so on.

Last night I made another step along the way.  

50 pushups in 50 seconds.

I also did it with situps.

On to 55.

What it's all about

When it all comes closing in on you.  When the pressures of life seem overwhelming.  In that moment you may look at this program, all the exercise, all the reading, all the blogging, and you may think, "why, what's the point?"

When that happens, push through, do what you can at the time, make up the rest later.  Push through to the other side.

When you get there, I hope you will realize, that those hard moments, those struggles, those days of getting down on the floor and doing ten more pushups anyway, doing one more kind of act even though you don't want to, writing one more entry despite all the other struggles going on, 

that is what it's all about.