Tag: Habits

• January 9, 2023

  2022 Workouts

  In 2022, I worked out 130 times using the same prin­ci­ple and tips I used in the pri­or years. I missed a lot of work­outs, but I nev­er cease to amaze by how small num­bers add up over the year. Month Num­ber of work­outs Excus­es for missed work­outs Notes Jan 9 Skipped first week for hol­i­days. Feb 13 Mar 11 Missed… Read more

• February 3, 2022

  Big Skills = Small Skills. Compounded.

  

  It’s tempt­ing to want to find the one big skill that will set you apart. But most incred­i­ble things come from com­pound­ing, and com­pound­ing isn’t intu­itive because the incre­men­tal inputs are nev­er excit­ing on their own. Big Skills by my favorite blog­ger and author, Mor­gan Housel Read more

• January 8, 2022

  2021 Workouts

  I exer­cised 142 times in 2021. When I took a count in July, I antic­i­pat­ed miss­ing about 10 work­outs through the remain­der of the year, but I actu­al­ly missed just one. At 3x per week, I was lucky enough to work out about 47 of 52 weeks. That makes 2021 yet anoth­er good year in terms of phys­i­cal activ­i­ty and… Read more

• January 4, 2020

  2019 Workouts

  Exer­cis­ing is one of the foun­da­tion­al habits that I want­ed to incor­po­rate in my life. In 2014 I found a col­league who is pas­sion­ate about per­son­al train­ing. He used to run exer­cise class­es at my then work­place. He encour­aged me to work out three times a week, became my account­abil­i­ty part­ner and have been since. Three hours a week seems… Read more

• December 27, 2018

  Old habits. Not new resolutions.

  Just a thought that popped up while work­ing out the upper body in the last hour. But first some con­text. Last week and this week, I am find­ing it very hard to exer­cise. It is after all hol­i­day sea­son, and I have had excel­lent exer­cise com­pli­ance so far this year. So why not take a break for Christ­mas and… Read more

• October 17, 2018

  Atomic Habits

  My favorite habits author James Clear’s book Atom­ic Habits is releas­ing today. I ben­e­fit­ed from his work over the last many years. The con­cept of Iden­ti­ty-Based Habits which I first learned from his blog has helped me in many ways espe­cial­ly with build­ing and keep­ing my exer­cis­ing habit. I like his style of writ­ing and explain­ing ideas. So… Read more

• April 11, 2018

  Gave up on Mac’s Hot Corners

  I recent­ly learned some Mac tips and one of the things I was excit­ed about and tried is Hot Cor­ners. But after a few months of try­ing them they proved to be Annoy­ing Cor­ners. I often acci­den­tal­ly send my mouse point­er to one of the cor­ners of the screen and invoke them inad­ver­tent­ly. So I dis­abled Hot Cor­ners today.… Read more

• October 18, 2017

  First 5k of 2017

  I final­ly ran the first 5k of this sea­son! I intend to run a 5k every week­end for rest of the spring and sum­mer. I ran about twen­ty-five 5ks in 2015. But I did not run much in 2016. This year I try to do bet­ter again. My run­ning goal is mod­est: I just try to run a 5k each week­end. I start… Read more

• October 13, 2017

  James Clear’s “1% Better Every Day” video

  I learned a LOT about habits by read­ing James Clear’s blog. He has heaps of great posts on his site, but if I were to pick one, it is this: Iden­ti­ty-Based Habits: How to Actu­al­ly Stick to Your Goals This Year. The gist is that: Build­ing good habits and chang­ing our­selves for bet­ter is all about our iden­ti­ty… Read more

• March 7, 2016

  Round The Bays 2016

  Yes­ter­day I ran at a run­ning event called Round the Bays. Accord­ing to their web­site, it is one of the world’s largest fun runs and New Zealand’s largest mass par­tic­i­pa­tion sport­ing event. It is a 8.4km walk / jog / run from the city along the water­front to St Heliers Bay, one of the rich sub­urbs. My employ­er paid… Read more