Two days after running 27.5 miles, I’m of two minds about it. On the one hand, I am very happy to have successfully run the marathon distance (plus over a mile) once…
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Day 15: Using my great focus for good
So I am a GREAT FOCUSER. And when I use this power well, it is amazing what I can accomplish. I can run marathons, adopt Intermittent Fasting to lose (and keep off)…
Marathon Training Update #1
Happy New Year! Hello, 2021, it is nice to meet you at last! Today I want to give my first update on my plan to train for and run a marathon. I…
The Habits that Save Me From Myself
A few days ago I wrote about my reading habit, and how I have read 145 books in the last 5 1/2 years, so many which were 500 pages or longer, etc…
Good habits rock!
I really love the idea of compounding efforts, or, shall we say, the benefit that accumulates when you turn a positive action into a regular habit. To put it simply, effort adds…
Expirtate the Unwanted!
No matter how much I write about it, the principle of little things adding up always fascinates me. To this day, I repeatedly find myself thinking of Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank…
Day 386: Having Something Good to Read (Revisited)
A couple of nights ago I finished “Grant,” a weighty biography by Ron Chernow that I have written about previously (here and here). I finished it much as I started it: satisfied…
Day 345: Thoughts on Alice Schroeder’s Buffett biography
On Friday I finished the Buffett biography “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life” by Alice Schroeder. In all, it took me just over two months, at the pace of…
Day 146: Fast Times with Intermittent Fasting
Over four months ago, at the end of August, I began doing intermittent fasting. This involved a significant but quite manageable adjustment to my eating schedule. Instead of eating at all hours…
Yosemite: the Sequel!
Thirty years ago, I went backpacking in Yosemite. I was seven years old. Each year at my school in Pleasant Hill, California, we went on a week-long camping trip. That year we…