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Over last 15 years, I have tried to loose weight and sooner or later I ran into - "I dont have time" or "this customer proposal is more important" syndrome. Derailed my effort. Before I knew I was back to or worse than where I started.
I feel different this time. Its almost as important as eating everyday to stay alive. As important as having work to earn bread for family.
Being analytical, I have tried hard to find whats different this time. I dont think I have exact understanding but here are some factors that I came up during my pondering .
- Something just triggers this mindset where working out becomes a part of you. Almost a necessary activity like taking a bath. You can skip a day or two but it starts to smell and feel like you MUST do it.
- I feel the trigger has one or more the following components : 1) WHO - You do it for someone. It could be you yourself, family, kids, grandkids, girlfriend. 2) You have a strong realization that LIFE is finite & You want to have a better and longer life. 3) You are FED UP with something.
- Goal setting & how your mind processes goals - In past, my goals had a finish line. Like - "I want to loose weight" or "I want to run a half marathon". I was able to achieve those goals and almost soon after that my mind was like: "That's it man. We are done. Lets go back to default mode" (busy work, less active life style). This time my goal is - I WILL LIVE REST OF MY LIFE IN A HEALTHY MANNER. There is no end date or finish line. The results do not matter. I dont have goals to loose 2 pounds every week. I just do what I need to do to live healthy.
- There is also realization that EVERYONE must go through pain and pay with money and time, for your health. You do it in Gym or Doctor's office. You chose.
- Accountability was a big factor for me. In past, I would start but drop off at some point. This time I hired a gym-owner fitness trainer (awesome guy). My net investment is less than 3K a year. I go to him 2 days a week. Just that will easily help me live at least a year longer (keeping all other factors same). Whats the value of one year of time for me? Priceless. 3K is dirt cheap.
I can go on. I have been taking notes in a google doc with a hope to covert that into a eBook someday. I have thoughts from so many different perspectives, that I feel can help others too.
I had a self realization and received the advice from myself during one of my "zen state pondering" that - being in the best shape of my health with improve EVERYTHING by 10x in my life.
A technologist for 24 years. Almost got my last product startup acquired in 2014 by a (back then) 500 million USD company. I have been obese for 15 years.
I have lost 30 pounds in last 4 months and now lifting and working out 4 days a week(I try 5 days). I look forward to working out now. I feel so much more energetic and elevated state of awareness. Everything is already so much better.
2 - Those world class mathematicians need to get started sooner in life to learn most of whats out there so they can work on extending the reach of collective human knowledge on Math. So, these mathematicians better get to calculus before they graduate high school.
3 - I wish there were two courses like "math for bright kids" and "math for not-so-bright kids". Since you feel you didnt need to learn calculus and, assuming you felt the same way when you were in school, you would be taking "math for not-so-bright kids" .. AND THAT would not have been acceptable to your parents back then.
4 - I wish teacher had magical powers to know who would go on to be a world class mathematicians but i dont think we are there yet but I feel if there are enough mathematicians in the world, we may get there some day. Case in point - Einstein did bad in school and showed his brilliance relatively late in life.
In any case - lets stop the bickering because you had to study little bit more than what you are comfortable with, for the sake of overall evolution. Theres more good than bad here.
Long answer : people with better physical appearance are generally more successful, leaving all other conditions similar.
Bottomline: part of career growth planning should focus on improving physical appearance. Join gym, eat right, get timely haircut etc.
Step by Step, one concept at a time with just a few mins of small videos.
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