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Think it should be called the 3 P's Paleo food, Primal thought and Parkour movement. Just an idea of how these 3 areas could include better health. Paleo food s, keeping things natural and original . meat vegtables and fruits and water. Keeping foods simple and fresh and of high quality Primal thought , this is keeping life simple being happy with what one has got, not wasting money on junk getting out of the consumer mentality, being frivolous and resourceful. Keeping in mind the bigger picture and nature. Getting out and about, meeting new people. Having fun and also getting good quality rest. Understanding what the dangers are in life. Parkour , this is a movement art that defines the world as your play ground, using what is around you to train. Climbing , pulling jumping running ducking and weaving through the obstacles of the urban jungle. Parkour is not about treadmills and weight machines, but about using your own judgement to jump gaps climb objects and find new paths...

As I messed up the first batch of pork crackling , this time I'm watching lots of Pork Crackling instructional video's. Cooking Videos for pork and cooking it so i get crispy crackling.

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Primal fun, Parkour. For the fun aspect of my exersie routine I love to get out at the park and just have fun, Climbing and doing all differnt freestyle exersises. Here is a short compilation some of the action.

Forget the gym , ive been practising parkour for a few months and really enjoy this art of movement especially along with a paleo lifestyle , its the basic way of just moving around the objects in the environment and its also a great all over body conditioner.

Just a post, to clarify in my own mind what is the paleo or paleolithic or primal or caveman method of eating. It basicly looks at what food is available when , you take away all the noise , all the packaging, advertising bullshit media, what cool or comes with a free toy. All the rubbish that is vacume packed coloured and preserved. Any thing that is enhanced or played with. All the trickery and cons, and additional stimulants. I want my food to be real, and original. I want to eat what man has eaten for hundreds and thousands of years. Somthing that  my body was designed to use. And the optimal food for my mind. I've become sick of the use of the term normal food when associated with words like chocolate bars and crisps and microwave meals. The norm is cheap, easy and your getting taken for a ride. So I'm keeping , to what I see as real food, with its origins found on the earth I walk and Il let the puppets keep getting their strings pulled.

I went to market and picked up , allot of bacon , a kg of turkey, lots of eggs and also bags of nuts. In these Pictures I've got my 3rd week on paleo pictures, there is my food shopping. Cooking up a bacon salad. My big ol bowl of fruit The can is I am saving my fats from cooking, when cooking bacon or meat have an old tin can ready to save the fats. Bacon fat and other fats really help to give extra flavour to allot of meals.

Part of my primal efforts, is having more rest and getting more sun. Today I woke up with the sun, I had allot more energy today and felt a whole lot more positive for my day. I made vegetable juice with cucumbers, pears carrots and apples. Which was nice and sweet and had my salad and also today while out on a trip with friends, I had a dinner kebab. This is basically meat lamb chicken and salad. Was very good, mayonaise must be paleo as well as its eggs and oil. So I used that as a dressing. My exersise of the day , workout of today was pullups and working the Grok hang . Hanging from my pullup bar for as long as possible. The Grok hang mainly trained my hands and my grip as that was the first thing to go as I Hung from the bar. I also did various pull and chin up exercises assisted with a chair. I actually found this very usefull, using a chair to do pullups allowed me to get more repetitions, I was able to train the movement for allot longer. Using a chair under the chin up b...

So 2nd day in this week , and I've been reminded of the rule to get more rest. Today felt like a long struggle, partialy worn out from a late night and an early morning being rudely interupted by the alarm and fact I had to be at my desk within the hour. So when I got in I put a beef stew on the slow cook , read about the importance of rest and took a nap and so far tonight , I've been practicing the art of taking it easy and having a rest to just get a handle on where I am  at the moment. I'm aching from my work outs so , just taking it easy and having naps and rest. Tomorow is a nice long walk in the countryside and a day spent looking around, uni. Another idea which was suggested to me was keep tihe curtains open, sleep with the curtains open, and also have the window open a but for some air. Allowing the sunlight to come in the room in the morning should help, towards my morning tiredness. So I am sleeping with the curtains open , and taking more naps and also trying t...

Going in to week three of eating my paleo diet, I've started to become tired of the price of wanting to eat clean food. My food budget for this week was $30 so far I've spent $45 and my meat and eggs that I stocked up on Saturday are running low. As I didn't have anything for my evening meal I had some eggs, so now I'm short on eggs for breakfast. My lunch today was revolting, cucumber and lettuce, cheap lettuce and cucumber which was overripe and full of seeds. Did not enjoy when I got home I googled meal ideas for paleo diet and meal ideas for primal eating and it even turned out Tue cashew nuts were out of the picture. I love cashew nuts! So my mind is giving me sticking points what to do for food, tomatoes and peppers mushrooms and greens. Then what about dressimg, trying to keep thus simple but like I've said previously this meal choice on eating just meat and veg , is difficult especialy on a budget. I have stewing steak , but what do I stew it with, potatoes ...

I've been watching some videos to day one which I will put below about just turning off the distractions, I play computer games , watch movies and look on endless webpages, in a loop constantly searching around. Looking for some advice, keeping my self amused. I find a movie that will take my fancies, watch it to distract mysself. I will watch some porn or look at adult sites, and silently feel a regret for doing so. I will sit and browse through Facebook and look at others profiles or endlessly, skim through YouTube and Blogs and forums , obsessing over the little details of food health exerise and opinion. Traveling to work in the same old routine and waking up alone looking in the same mirror at the reflection every morning. I'm not depressed, I just find it difficult to break the cycle of patterns I have fallen in to. Much like the others who I work with and associate , seems life makes it easy to get in to a groove. The people who do well always do well and the people wh...

Yesterday morning was fine, went and did my weekly hunt for food , walked around the markets and got my meat eggs fruit vegtbles and can home and got my Grok on with some Bacon and eggs. All was good this was the aniversery of my second week on paleo. Or week 2 eating a primal diet, then came the challenge friends.and forien places. We decided to got out for the day and check out a new city. I had 3 meals away from home and although o took a back pack full of fruit with me, it was impossible eating full primal. The first place we stopped of for lunch I managed to just about get away with it by having the salmon salad, although this did come with bread and included baby potatoes, and a bread roll. There was nothing on the whole menu that was purely carb free. Then we stopper for coffees which included sugar, another hit to the system, allot the way we visited relatives who brought out cups of milky tea with buiscuits and cakes, I had to oblige and have a little cake, the evening meal...

So now on week two of eating paleo diet and I have to say its been easy so far and I've also seen and felt great results , but as I go along with this I'm running out of ideas for food . Ok so I will have a big salad for lunch and some eggs for breakfast but its after work my evening meal , struggling to come up with intresting ideas. While I'm also trying to stick to a budget. I attempted to mate a boiled cabbage and it was awful. Todays cabbage stir fry was sick. So I'm scratching my head. Tomorrows shopping and paleo day is getting my meat and veg and also come up with some recipies. I've seen grilled peppers, need to use up my carrots also, and bin some of my carb stuff like potatoes, for The time being I'm sticking to this way of eating. Drank a fruit juice that was high in sugar today, I was almost like being whacked on drugs, when I was talking to my customers I was all disoriented. I was mixing up their account numbers and very unfocused. Have to really ...

Today I ate my salad for lunch and had my eggs for breakfast and also a snack when my evening meal turned out rubbish , I tried to make some kind of stew/soup or boiled veg with a bit of chicken and Bacon in it but it turned out rubbish . Tasted poor and not very appealing or satisfying. Running out of food ideas for this primal way of eating, I must state for the record the clarity of mind that I have had for the last 2 weeks has really been great, apart from the bouts of depression, I am starting to feel like this is working.  There has been a noticable reduction in body fat even after just 2 weeks and my skin tone and leanness is really improving. Worked out. I really targeted the areas that dont get used much today, I sit at a desk  all day so I really targeted my legs and core tonight, did allot of squatting and plank. Paleo American primal for tomorrow Salads Eggs Dinner, this is the hardest meal for me, I don't just want cabbage every day, need to look on the net and get som...

So I've been eating all primal now for a week and a half , paleo foods salads and meat and veg. I have found the variety on veg is very limited, cabbage brocaly and some cucumbers and celery, most other foods seem to be off the menu. Started to save the fats , I cooked my eggs in Bacon fat this morning and stir   fried my cabbage in chicken fat from ky baked chicken portions. Meat box in the fridge is starting to fill up. Finding it hard  to see how this is going to work long term, I feel great on the stable energy from this method of eating . But I'm running out of ideas on the food front. If in doubt then ol check out the web. Have been feeling lazy, and I'm worried that although I am eating high fat , I don't want to start getting fat. I thought the idea was that exersise when you feel , like it and rest when you need to I've done a session which is a hard session yesterday. Although if you read that post, I only actully did the lower level routines, which kicked...

Decided to start doing some primal fitness this evening .  I could squeeze 4 of the five movements. Thinking I would be at the level 4 already I thought as a warm up I would just do a set of the lowest foundation exersises, so with arrogance I got in to the starting position and to my disbelief o struggled to finish the full set. The aim is to master each movement before moving on. I am still on the basic set, my pressups felt flimsy. My squatting was awkward and my back and legs creaked. In the half plank position I trembled all over and felt loose after 60 seconds. Don't be fooled by all these fancy movements, get the basics down first, tomorow is going to be another play day as bodyweight goes, more focus on doing each rep well with good motivation, taking time to build the power in to each movement. Although number of reps is important , as I am at a foundation level, I thinly that its more important to learn each position well. Grease the groove, do allot of sets of low reps...

Drinking green tea for a long time but its mostley been the variety that is I the tea bag form don the supermarket. Recently decided to go to market and but the fresh loose leaf quality stuff. I was in shock and owe how crisp and fresh / flavorful the green tea was. Usally I drink it not really enjoying the taste but for the percieved health benifits, also under the assumption this drink is going to be good for my sexual health and hormones. I drink it and think nothing of it. Good quality green tea is another storey Having said that not only was I amazed at the flavor of the good unprocessed tea, the relaxation was deep and almost imediate. The next thing this was making me super horney. This is funny to put but the increased energy and blood flow was amazing, green tea would find a definitive place in the bed room and also as a pre work out tonic. The increased vigor , stamina blood flow the flushed of the capilaries.. was very noticeable. The effect was something to look forward to ...

This my first of many bloggs using my phone for my blogging , being the first its a good way to keep the blog updated without having to air at my desk. As I go in to my second week of eating like the primal man I've noticed a few things , I really enjoy the clarity of mind at my work. I absolutely destroyed my work today. I can't wait to see the stats tomorow . I looked at my billing history also i took 70 k last year in payments.  What do I got to show for it not much there is no commision. Going Grok , even though there has been some bog temptations today , cheap cookies at work and cheap chocolate I resisted pretty good. Just working and smacking on my salad at lunch. Still there were a few things I could have done without , had allot of cheese and cream sauce on my veg and after half a bar of dark chocolate after eating that I passed out for about 2 hours. After that I haven't really had the motivation to do much with the last 3 hours tonight. I'm getting pumped alr...

First impression Despite what you may read as allot of negative and unwanted results from this style of eating below, I believe that what I have felt this week has been a part of the process of coming of the coffee and junk and sugars, I've felt bad but its felt like a part of the process. As I look on the web of peoples results and stories I just think that the first week and possibly week 2 are just the shock to the system, I'm still going to give this way of living a long enough time to see if this is going to work for me. I feel slimmer although I've no way of weighing myself, I'm not doing this for how much I weigh, I don’t care, its more about body composition, i.e. how lean I am and how functional I am on my own 2 feet, how heavy I am is not the goal, I want to bring my fat ratio down I want to become more productive and motivated in my mind. But on the whole taking the rough with the smooth, it’s been an enjoyable week and some great meals and lessons alon...

Primal Paleo eating experience day 2 Yesterday was my first full day as a hunter gatherer, I walked for hours around my town looking for meat and vegetables, I had a sack on my back full of food and my catch, by catch I mean the food I snared by handing money over to the stall owner. It felt nice giving my money to individual vendors as opposed to just paying my money at a till at a massive supper market. My money felt like it was going to something local as opposed to an unknown entity or business corporation. Felt good to give to local stores and sellers. Walking around I noticed sugar was everywhere there was one person who was caring a sack of sweets a huge bundle of those tubes that contain flavoured sugar. My Back pack was full of meat. I purchased Rabbit, I cooked and ate a rabbit for the first time yesterday also ate its kidneys and liver. Very interesting flavour and something felt simple about just cooking up some meat, can’t wait to get back outside and use the BBQ, chicken ...

Going Caveman Blueprint Paleo for 30 Days Paleo diet eating like a caveman, I've ordered a book and from what I’ve seen and read. You eat your meat and you eat your fruits and veg. What you don’t eat is stuff that was not around millions of years ago. You don’t eat bread you don’t eat pasta, or potatoes. I've been eating allot of bread recently as I've been trying to bake it and work out how to make the perfect loaf of bread. I've also noticed that I'm not as vibrant and active as I have been in the past few months. Not sure if these are linked or might just be I'm drinking too much coffee now that there is a free vending machine at work. I have experimented with raw foods and found great success with those and also juicing and making smoothie’s I still stick to a mainly junk free and vegan diet , but this makes more sense to me. Cut out the stodgy the pasta and the sugar and caffeine and just live like the caveman the animal that man is. Being grain fed almost ...

Paying to have time off work, you know that work is wrong when it cost money not to do , free time cost me £258 for 5 additional days off work. To get away you have to pay , don't think that working 40 hours a week is enough. You want to see something other than a computer, I want to see your money. You want freedom you have to pay of it.  One day I will be financially secure to not have to work all the time, work any place any time and live off my own results. I want my freedom, I want my own time table I want to see. Even if it cost's me money, I will pay money to have more free time. Just a bitch for the boss's dollar at the moment , every day working on a way to break out of the rat race.

FreeSole Barefoot review Nike , after looking at buying the Vibram five fingers for a long time I decided due to the fact they are so hard to get hold of in the UK, I would go for a pair of Nike Free instead, the Nike Free sole is a flexible sole , the sole is not as thin as the Vibram nor does it have the toe pockets for each toe, but what it does do is double as a shoe that can be worn almost any place walking bareoot. The Nike Free TR is a good enough looking cross trainer that is goes with most jeans and trousers , and is a good start for free running and a closer barefoot experience for walking barefoot, I know that these have strengthened my toes and feet the first few weeks these trainers were painful. My toes and feet ached.  I will have some Vibram's the feeling is that they are coming at some point in my life. I am very happy with my Nike Free Barefoot trainers at the moment, i mite even buy a second pair of the same shoe just ...

Pink Noise for concentration, relaxation and meditation So I have found that I can concentrate allot better when I have some noise to block out external distractions, Usually I use music and some ambient trance to block out any distractions and work harder by listening to music, I have found I can work longer and harder with deeper focus and concentration when i have music to focus on and create my own head space, But the music has become repetitive and also a distraction in its self, Which track to put on and the volume and also becoming borde of my music selection, I have found Royksopp to be very effective for working especialy their Album Melody A.M this album has worked for years. Recently I have started using my MP3 player again, and as it's been a holiday weekend I've used it allot to work on my blog and also to aid in sleep when my neighbors have been partying.  Once again music works fine but it has also been rather distracting and annoying at times...

Getting up early challenge over! Couldn't do it, getting up early was hard, especially at 5am . This is not just getting up early this was getting up stupidly early. I mean this was torture, and the days when I managed it I was tortured. I felt like a walking zombie, the living dead. I think that even though I did not manage this task, once again it was something new. I have a new insight on the mind of someone who wants to get up at 5am. Damn this was too hard, waking up at 5am when the alarm went off then setting the alarm for 6am, then 7am then just getting up at the usual time. And since this for the first time ever I have slept through an alarm and been late for work. Ah no this has the opposite effect of what I wanted to achieve, I was more tired , more of a mess, a social ghost drifting around asleep and awake when everyone else was sleeping.  More realistic and something that I am currently working on is just not abusing my sleep , I need to get a certain amount of sleep so...

This sole is Good , I have the Nike Free TR , which has a camouflage back and nice black colour, they are a cross trainer that look smart, so can be worn any time very functional , If you need to run any time I can break in to a full Sprint wearing the Free's . I've experimented with different types of shoes. But have found that using these I've been jogging more and more. Also found that I'm on my toes allot quicker. I really like just running on the spot and also climbing with these , the deep grooves down the middle really help to get a feel for my footing around the rope and where the edges are. I think with the Free's they do take a while to get used to, you need to become confident that they will provide just enough support on your feet. I really want to upgrade next to the Vibram FiveFinger's more than likely I would get the Ko's as I like the idea of the extra support they offer. And are a bit more covered up over the top of the foot. This sole is...

Nike Free Video Reviews , Nike Free TR's , I have a pair and I love them , they are the most comfortable pair of trainers I have ever owned. Each time I put them on , the possibility's are endless, I run Climb and walk with these for hours. Nike Free TR unboxing reviews After a month of use reviews [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRzg9FGFneU[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_2gbMqe0xQ&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPDiHZHHvR4&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnizzgzyzu8[/youtube] Barefoot Ted! Barefoot runner , all he does is run around all the time wearing these small sandals, found that barefoot Ted had a channel on youtube, the first time i ran barefoot I felt it in my feet for hours, it's a really great experience , and I even had comments from people saying don't your feet hurt.

Day 9 Monday 9am I was absolutely tired and worn out, I had spent all Sunday training parkour and running doing body weight exercise, plus the outside air, by the time I went to bed I slept when the alarm went off at 5am I heard it but I was worn out and my body was aching, felt more beneficial to sleep the extra 4 hours. This experiment on the few days where I have got up around the 5am mark has really run me in to the ground. Still try and get up tomorrow, I really felt better for the extra sleep, my arms and back of shoulders were really aching today. Day 10 Tuesday 5.30am Got up at early today, put on the trainers and got out the house, went for a jog. Had a bit of a run then some walking, felt really great jogging at that time , there was a few cars about and people walking around must of thought he’s serious. The air was nice and clean and it really blew the cobwebs out of the system, took a while to get used to. The iPod headphones kept falling out of my ears while I was jogging...

Day 6 waking up at 5am Starting to wake up before the alarm goes off, this is a sign that my body clock is starting to adjust to the new wake up time of 5am, By 10 or 11 Pm this is the time that I need to go to sleep. How does this make me more successful, I supposed I can spend? This morning did not help as its been raining hard the sky outside is dark and black, Today the tv went on for some sound , and the computer came on for some entertainment, there is live channels on tv and its weird watching the same people who are on at this time of day. I am tired, but I'm not going to sleep this one today.  Six days I've been getting up really early and all its been so far is just a new experience, I think at the end of this I would have gained the skill of being to get out of bed even when I feel tired and my mind tells me not to. Also struggling of things to do but I struggle when things to do anyway I think just having to get up early rubs this in my face a little more. Because n...

I am Trying to get up at 5am , day 5 Woke up and got up at 5.30am, once again i had pressed snooze with out knowing three times. So got up at 5.30, which is still good going and allot earlier than usual. Very tired last night I went to bed at 1am , so only 4 hours sleep. I had breakfast and checked on all the usual sites, made a drink. By 6.15am I was running out of things to do and motivation, thought I may as well chill for a bit, fell asleep. Not at work till 11.30am today, so plenty of time woke back up at 9am. Not sure, this must be the 5 day hump. Day 5 being the day when all the initial, hype and motivation has worn off and it gets down to just doing it. Think this is where i'm at, I've done this by the book now i'm starting to feel it catching up with me. Need to change some things up if i'm going do this , just keep working on this 25 days to go.

Rising from Sleep, awakening early day 4 I am glad that I won an I-Pod Shuffle , the new Skinny 1 that looks like a memory stick while I was on my holiday. This morning doing a little bit of dancing about to wake up. Woop jiggle jiggle, wake up! Seems to be working, I pressed the snooze button twice, got up at 5.20am. The two hits on the snooze button were completely unconscious, its only at about 5.18 I caught myself and just got up. I forgot how nice it is just to have some music playing, it's almost time as well for the sunrise to happen as well. Wish my house was empty, even though I am up, there is things that would be easier to do like the cleaning if there wasn't people asleep all over the place. After this weekend, still getting up at 5am, I feel like im learning about how to manage tirdness, at the end of the day my energy is still high even at about 12am. Like I thought it would be a challenge, im learning to understand how to cope with tirdness through out the day. A...

Wake up at 5am for 30 days, day 3 So i got up at 5am yesterday and packed my bags for my holiday, started traveling at 7am arrived at 12pm. Spent the day sight seeing till about 7.30 feeling groggy, and sleepy. Went on some rollercoster rides and was almost too sleepy to even experiance any fear or rush. The ride felt relaxed as though my senses were dulled. I then went and watched a movie, the new A-Team , that period of time i could have easily fell asleep , i was sitting there and with the explosions and gun fire i was just comfortable with my head on my hand almost falling to sleep i closed my eyes a few times. Then i went in to the town and enjoyed a night out until i finaly got in and went to sleep at 2.30am, almost 24 hours awake and i felt it. Sleepy tired and run down , no naps during this period of time. Just 2 hours where i was sat watching a film. I slept, and then at 4.45am i woke up almost like on autopilot like it was part of my normal routine, i woke up before my alarm ...

I really enjoyed yesterday, it was like my own personal secret getting up early and working my day with the additional 2 hours at the beginning. As I am now up at its 5.20am something I read yesterday where, waking early seems to be just like shifting time zone is starting to feel like the case. I am having difficulty writing this blog right now I’m still half not with it. With the alarm going off at 5am the last two days it has caught me right in the middle of a vivid dream. Both times I have been in the dream stage at the time. Which is good because both days my dreams were almost like nightmares, so its good that they got interrupted. And I've had a chance to see what is running through my mind, at these points of my day. I would have usually had a dream gone back in to deep sleep then had another then woke up. But getting up at 5am its stopped those, too much time dreaming about these weird situations and worries, just put a stop too that altogether. Think I need to look in to ...

How to wake up at 5am, for the next 30 days. So after yesterdays wake up time of the unusual early time of 7am and reading and writing about getting up early benefits over the course of that day it manifested in to the goal of waking up at 5am for the next 30 days. I've been struggling to get up early for many years always thinking of ways of doing it, so instead of trying to get up an extra 20 mins early or 30 mins , lets just completely burry this old habit buy getting up at 5am , this is two and a half hours early for me. Like the cold showers im sure this is going to feel harsh for the first few weeks, but then once ive got over the initial shock they will become a new experience and insight for my character. I nearly slipped up on the first day, I jumped out of bed at 5am, then stood and thought il just lay down for 30mins and decide what im going to do with this time. I also thought i better set my alarm for 30mins as well, mmmm sounds like someone is trying to get back to be...

Reasons and Health Benefits for getting up early in the morning So my next big challenge in life is to overcome my need to spend all day asleepand day dreaming, as much as i love a good snooze its almost a guilty pleasure that i love and hate at the same time, true its very comfortable laying arround for 2 or 3 hours snoozing and daydreaming, but at the same time i also miss out on those 2 or 3 hours a day activly working on my life. If i just had more time in the week then i would be able to do more with myself, the main part of my snooze thoughts is thinking and brainstorming ideas, but as im half asleep these strokes of insight and genius are soon forgotten, it would be better to just get up and write these ideas on some paper, and do a quick 20 minute's of brainstorming and mind-mapping. Ive got lots i want to do and im sleeping through my life, missing the point and the action by laying in the dreams and thoughts of my own mind. Motivation to get up early, so I've made thi...

How am i going to get up earlier each day, learn to get up at 6am or earlier Latest goal to work on is how to get up early, there will be plenty of time too sleep when im dead. The goal getting up early and sleeping less , too much time. Just like the cold showers, they will probly feel bad for the first few weeks but then once i get them in to the system , it will start to feel bad by not getting up early. The cold showers hurt at first , but now it seems that as im on a role it would be a shame to quit now. Getting up early, how early should i get up? . The reason i stay asleep for so long is due to day dreaming, i almost find it hard to face life when im half asleep. By getting up and out , then i hope this will improve my focus. Of all the hours ive spent daydreaming and thinking in my daze, i honestly dont remeber what ive been thinking about or if that this has even been of benifit to myself. Its going to be a struggle to get up early, perhaps just go straight for 5am so i can t...

Seems to me when ever i want to do anything anymore i always get the question why arnt you drinking? Are you driving? No !! What the fuck, whats with all the booze, can i not just hang out and be social without all this money spent on drinking. Im not sure what it is just seems to thats all i get when i meet up with people. Drink Drink, and more Drinking. I've had enough of all this drinking and expectation to drink and get drunk. Some of my best sober nights would have been even better if not for all the drink pestering. I enjoy a drink when i feel like a drink but the majority of the time im in just a good frame of mind to not need a drink. When ever people want to see each other in my area, there is always drink involved. Do people hang out without drink, whats normal? I haven't seen any people for a while because im avoiding the drinking situations. If it involves just drinking then im out. People never seem to get together for healthy reasons, lets meet up and drink vegeta...

The way i got around this goal is setting the alarm for when i need to get up, if i press snooze then il be late. if i set my alarm for before when i need to get up il just go back to sleep. So i just set it for when i “Need” to get up. If its the weekend or i have no plans i turn the alarm clock off! This is working, i still feel a little tired in the morning , but at least i haven’t been spending 30mins talking in my head why pressing the snooze button is a bad idea, then thinking ok just press it 1 more time. Those mental games that get played when there is the choice to press the snooze just cause more tiredness. I wake up and get up or im in trouble! See more progress on: wake up when my alarm clock goes off

Although it does not worry me, its a debt that i have hanging over my head, that i wish i was clear of. University was great, i enjoyed the experience of the whole thing every year i was there i was also creating more debt. Ive been working on trying to pay some of it back, i want to cleat this debt. Still i am on an income that does not allow me to clear this loan, i could pay some of it off but then im also not going to be able to save for the future. So im in a situation where, this is a goal i am trying to think creatively about. The easiest way to clear this is to just get a higher paying job. Although i am happy in my current role, so i will keep working at clearing this debt. See more progress on: pay my student loans

in order to stop hitting the snooze button , set your alarm for that momnet in time when you would panic and say “oh crap i need to go go” so the alarm is an alarm. if your gona hit snooze then just set the time so that snooze is not an option, then if you want to get up earlier it is due to your own natural choice and motivation rather than the buzz of the alarm going off. using this aproach i am starting to wake ealier naturaly as i am now trying to get up before the alarm goes off, rather than after it has made its anoying beep. The alarm should be just that an alarm!! Learn to wake up before the alarms are raised! See more progress on: stop hitting snooze

"Dont Make Sense" How I did it: mix ideas together and talk about things then add in technical longwinded explinations, then make animal noises for no reason, or think that the other person understands random numbers ... gibberish , picture yourself as one of those strange people huddled over a bottle in a door way , those hairy smelly people who are missing teeth Lessons & tips: dont think , just talk as soon as you start to make sense , change the subject It took me 2 days. It made me Crazy sounding See more progress on: Learn to speak fluent gibberish

"have given blood five times now" How I did it: when there is a session on, go in and ask to give blood. they will take your details , and test you too make sure your ok to give. you sit on a chair wait for your name. lay on a bed . they put a needle in your arm , you lay there for about 10 mins looking at the celing. you get up and get as many drinks and food as you need. then you leave. for about 2-4 hours you feel kinda stoned. ... do not drink alcohole after you will be destroyed.... easy to do though. they call you back every few months to do it all again. Lessons & tips: dont drink booze after , you will be very sick, drink lots of water , and rest put on some tunes when you get in and chill for the rest of the day. It took me 1 day. It made me Dopey See more progress on: Donate blood

"daily log of events good to remember my life" How I did it: every night i get my diary or a bit of paper , and write down the main things that happen to me in the day, what i did , who i saw , anything new , somthing funny, or different, i always think to myself when im tired and need to sleep , "ok time to write up this day" n just fill the page with all the info i can remeber. if i didnt do this there is so many fun things i would forget about. a simple log of events means i can read and relive the events . its funny cus big issues that really get to you when written in a diary seem to be small and insignificant when you read them after a few weeks. and its funny looking at tomorows blank page and wondering what will be written there within the next 24 hours. Lessons & tips: write places you went to and be descriptive so that you can remeber , write about the little unique events. allong time i used to write  .i got up and watched tv. but that didnt really ...

"keep a diary so you can remember" How I did it: as part of another goal on here i started a diary, so i combined the two and while writing my diary i wrote down the things from the day that made me happy and the best bits of the day. Each time i wrote my daily log of events , the best thing to write about where the good times of the day. Its a good way to remeber , allot of the moments i wrote about i would have usaly forgot because they are so unique and simple. example i went for a walk and saw the most amazing colors as the sun was setting after a rain fall in the park, the different vibrant shades of greens , so because i wrote this down each time i read that page in my diary im taken back to the walk . the freshnes of the air and the feeling in my eyes trying to focus rich brilliant colors. Lessons & tips: write anything that made you feel happy, or nething that was good or made you feel joyful, excited, smile laugh, cry  sense of wonder. write it in good descript...

"Plan think doodle" How I did it: Ive filled allot of books with thoughts and plans, the thing to do is experiment , ive got little pocket books , books with blank pages , grids , dates diary's, journals and a3 artists pads.  Some times just a quick note other times pages and pages Even just a list of random thoughts , was writing a blog and 1 day i listed 500 ideas for blogs and articles.  Some times i just need to see an idea on paper.  im left handed and i wrote about 10 pages with right hand. just keep it around. for ideas ect i put six months because ive 3 or 4 pads on the go as well as writing on my computer  Lessons & tips: Try all different sizes and styles of pens and paper, just write and doodle  It took me 6 months. It made me observant See more progress on: fill up an entire book with thoughts

wooo , had a while where i went back on the warm showers, but now the boiler is broke im on the cold 1’s again, think the trick is just stand under the water and feel the pain, it lasts about 1-2mins then the water just seems to feel warm. not sure if this is the point where your skin just goes numb. then massage the cold water in to your skin. feels good the first 1-2 mins is the worst and also if you put your head on the water, you get the brain freeze feeling, and can be hard to open your eyes, your whole head goes numb See more progress on: take more cold showers

"cold n chilly" How I did it: i take more cold showers now because as part of trying to achieve other goals i go to the gym and do more, a cold shower really cools me down and sorts me out. i think cold showers are cold , so no suprise when i take one they are cold. i just take a short cold shower of maybe 60 seconds just to quickly freshen up, or maybe a longer one when i get back from the gym and im too hot. Lessons & tips: if you dont like them dont put the water on the coldest setting just have them cool .  or if they are too much , just turn the water on for 20seconds then turn it off and maybe try and last 30 seconds next time . or alternate between hot and cold... or go straight in without thinking about it. or just do 1 part at a time.. there is lots ofways to go about it. they are just a bit cold at first Resources: cold / hot water. towel exersise shower It took me 13 days. It made me ahhh freezing See more progress on: take more cold showers