Not sure what got me this morning... For the last two weeks I have been showering with cold showers to the point where I was no longer scared. It was quite fine until this morning when I had pretty much had enough.
I think it was probably the fact that my life was too disorganized and too many things were happening that I needed to take a step back and organize some before I went ahead again.
I am doing daily workout routines focused on upper body (MWF) and general cardio with swimming (T/TH). The routines somewhat wore me out each day, and I think that's what is slowing me down in work. After spending my entire summer at Google where I had chosen a schedule that worked for me. I woke up really early, and went to work for a good 8 hours, ate well, and then went home to relax and maybe do some side work.
So, now that I am starting in the Fall, what is happening? I think its mostly that I am not taking enough classes for those to be a responsibility on their own. I finish all of the work that is required for my classes and I am left with a huge void that I call research. But research isn't something you crank out in a few hours. It is a long term process of human thinking and understanding. This made me realize that I allocating more time for research doesn't necessarily mean i'll have more time, but rather, that I can lead a more relaxed life and produce better research, instead of more.
I feel like when I am active and I have 30 meetings in one day without having to worry about my diet I would go on for however much I had to. However, now that I am on a diet, doing daily work outs, perhaps I am not rationing my food correctly.
I need to be much better about that. Right now I basically only eat chicken, and rarely touch vegetables. I have yogurt (which is cheating in paleo) with almonds every morning, alongside 3 boiled eggs, but to be quite honest with you, not having fruits or vegetables is probably what is making me extremely tired.
Therefore, I am changing things up to improve my eating habits. I was going to setup a more detailed weekly plan of what I eat, but I won't do that until I head out to the super market and actually find what kinds of things I can eat (I am looking for things I can buy in bulk that don't expire for a while, and are cheap). I am going to pack heavy on the canned fish which I think will be my way of making dinner, possibly another large pack of steamed vegetables, and lastly, look for a replacement for the yogurt I have every morning.
I will do my best to get back into the cold showers tomorrow, perhaps not as cold as I was, maybe creating a nice, smoother transition into it, James Bond style.
Cheers,
Daniel.
I think it was probably the fact that my life was too disorganized and too many things were happening that I needed to take a step back and organize some before I went ahead again.
I am doing daily workout routines focused on upper body (MWF) and general cardio with swimming (T/TH). The routines somewhat wore me out each day, and I think that's what is slowing me down in work. After spending my entire summer at Google where I had chosen a schedule that worked for me. I woke up really early, and went to work for a good 8 hours, ate well, and then went home to relax and maybe do some side work.
So, now that I am starting in the Fall, what is happening? I think its mostly that I am not taking enough classes for those to be a responsibility on their own. I finish all of the work that is required for my classes and I am left with a huge void that I call research. But research isn't something you crank out in a few hours. It is a long term process of human thinking and understanding. This made me realize that I allocating more time for research doesn't necessarily mean i'll have more time, but rather, that I can lead a more relaxed life and produce better research, instead of more.
I feel like when I am active and I have 30 meetings in one day without having to worry about my diet I would go on for however much I had to. However, now that I am on a diet, doing daily work outs, perhaps I am not rationing my food correctly.
I need to be much better about that. Right now I basically only eat chicken, and rarely touch vegetables. I have yogurt (which is cheating in paleo) with almonds every morning, alongside 3 boiled eggs, but to be quite honest with you, not having fruits or vegetables is probably what is making me extremely tired.
Therefore, I am changing things up to improve my eating habits. I was going to setup a more detailed weekly plan of what I eat, but I won't do that until I head out to the super market and actually find what kinds of things I can eat (I am looking for things I can buy in bulk that don't expire for a while, and are cheap). I am going to pack heavy on the canned fish which I think will be my way of making dinner, possibly another large pack of steamed vegetables, and lastly, look for a replacement for the yogurt I have every morning.
I will do my best to get back into the cold showers tomorrow, perhaps not as cold as I was, maybe creating a nice, smoother transition into it, James Bond style.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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