Exercise Summary: 3.78km with FBH, no time recorded but a brisk pace was achieved.
Okay so it’s only Day 1. But you can’t get to Day 7 without a successful Day 1.
I also thought I’d add in the excerpt from the Art of Possibility that I mentioned earlier:
Ben Zander writes:
“Waiter,” I said, in an exuberant mood, “I have perfect life, but I don’t have a knife.”
I was having breakfast with a friend on one of my periodic visits to London to conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra. I heard giggles behind me and, turning around, caught the eye of a girl about twelve with a typically English pudding-bowl haircut. We exchanged smiles, and then I went back to my conversation and to my breakfast.
The next day, I passed the young lady again in the breakfast room and stopped to speak with her.
“Good morning. How are you today?”
She drew herself up ever so slightly and, with a tilt to her chin and a sparkle in her eye, answered me.
“Perfect,” she said.
Later, when she was leaving with her parents, I called out mischievously, “Have a perfect day!”
“I will!” she responded, as though it were the easiest, most obvious choice in the world.
And with that, she sailed out into a universe of possibility.
If you haven’t got the book – buy it! It is the best “How To” book ever written in my opinion. You won’t find checklists or instructions, rather you will find great and broad concepts that, once you get your mind around them, you are compelled to change how you think forever.
Anyway, back to my Perfect Day 1.
- Exercise 1 – 4km run/walk per day: My walk was, according to MapMyRun (I forgot to take the Garmin, doh!), 3.78km so I’m taking that as a completion as I think I walk around 2km at work (I work in a converted warehouse!)
- Exercise 2: I’m doing the 100 Sit Ups today as I seem to have damaged my wrist and need to rest it to re-start the 100 Push Ups challenge!
- Diet 1: 1.8litres of water – check!
- Diet 2: 2 days of vegetarian – beef lasagne today so vegetarian tomorrow – still on track.
- Diet 3: No snacking on disallowed foods – check!
- Diet 4: No alcohol – check!
Okay, on to Day 2 tomorrow.
