No.2206
I've decided that it's time to go off the grid to have a nice reboot. I want to start sunday.
The basic plan is this:
-go minimalist as fuck
-sell off/donate unneeded items
-build up a nice routine (bed time 8 pm, rise time 6am)
-classical education everyday
-save up some serious cash
-move to a strict vegetarian diet
-fasting (perhaps)
-cutting off distractions (tv, movies, parts of the internet that aren't educational)
-getting on a good workout routine
The daily routine I had for working out included : 5x5 pushups (tri,wide,reg), crunches (reg,russian,runner) squats,heel/calf raises, and jumping Jacks on top of running 1 mile twice and possibly doing some yoga or crap like that. (Are Cold showers after a morning run alright?)
On a scale of 1 to 10 what's the likelihood of me failing this shit?
Also perhaps you could recommend me some good books or advice.
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No.2208
>Pushing your resolution back to Sunday as opposed to starting immediately
>Starting way too much at once
>Not easing into it
If New Year resolutions are an indicator, your chance of success is about 8%. Which you may think is alright, except that the people that do get into that 8% are the same type of people that have been living like this their entire lives, in other words, they are people that aren’t in the position that you or I are in life. They are the type of people that have been smashing through challenges their entire life. If you are going to approach your resolution with motivation as your source of drive, then I’m sorry to say but your chance of success is even lower than 8% and you will probably fail and burn out.
Willpower is what will get you to that finish line and I’m sure that’s what you were planning to use, which is good, because it is far superior to motivation. The only problem is that willpower, like motivation is also a limited resource. Your resolution, like the resolutions of millions of people every year, will drain your supply pretty goddamn fast. You don’t just have one massive goal, no, you have a bunch of similarly difficult goals, if I picked up on everything in your comment correctly and this is your plan, then you are probably going to be part of the 92% that fails.
The extremely popular personal development strategy of “getting motivated” is unreliable, full of false assumptions, and a giver of disappointing results. But the better alternative of willpower is frequently misused to the point that it’s even less effective, which is why many people turn to getting motivated in the first place.
Here’s what you should do instead, break down all of the goals you have written down further to the point that each one is so easy, you could do them now. After this, gradually increase the effort required over time.
>build up a nice routine (bed time 8 pm, rise time 6am)
Go to sleep 10 minutes earlier and wake up 10 minutes earlier every day, do this daily, every day going to sleep 10 minutes earlier than before etc etc.
>cutting off distractions (tv, movies, parts of the internet that aren't educational)
>classical education everyday
Reducing time you spend on distractions by an hour every week as opposed to cutting it off completely. Use the time you would have otherwise spent on distractions to study classical educations. So for the first week you will have 1 hours less for bullshit and 1 hour of classical education every day.
>move to a strict vegetarian diet
Gradually replace the food you eat now with food from a vegetarian diet
Basically something like that, where each new habit is started off pretty goddamn easy and slowly increased in effort. Not only does this mean you willpower will be able to handle the new change but it is also turning each and every one of these goals into a habit, once any of them turn into a habit, you won’t need motivation or willpower to do them. Imagine all of these goals as seeds, at the start you have a bunch of seeds but after a while they grow and grow until eventually you have a bunch of plants. If you were to just plant a bunch of plants now, they would eventually wither, but if you give them time to go from a seed into a plant, they will live for a long fucking time.
If you need recommendations on books this is the most relevant:
>The power of habits
No.2209
If you think you can push through the month+ where most of that shit will suck, then good for you and I hope it works out.
But you workout plan sucks ass. 3 chest, 3 abs, 1 leg, 1 calf. That's incredibly unbalanced and will fuck you up. (assuming you manage building any muscle on a vegetarian diet). 1 chest exercise is plenty, but you need a back exercise to balance it out, or you'll fuck your posture. You don't even need to hit your abs when you're doing a proper routine because other movements will train them. But if you want to, one movement is fine for them. Do planks or hanging leg/knee raises, much better. Looks like you're doing bodyweight stuff so you better do some fucking pullups, the god of bodyweight training. And find something heavy, like a branch or some shit to push overhead, opposite movement as a pullup. You can also do handstand pushups but I doubt you're at that level yet.
Do me a favor, save me the time of typing all this shit out, and take a look at reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness. There you're gonna find some excellent info for anything you wanna know about getting fit or ripped with just your body and shit you can find laying around.
And your bed time/up time calls for 10 hours of sleep. You don't need that much damn sleep. Do this instead - set yourself a wake up time, whatever sounds good. Something between 5-7am. And get up at that time every day, no matter what. Now, just go to bed whenever you get tired. No need to schedule a bedtime, that's stupid. The amount of sleep you need varies day to day and when you have a stable waketime, your body will start getting tired at the appropriate time.
For books, get yourself some books on Stoicism. Meditations, the Enchiridion, etc. A Guide to the Good Life is an excellent intro book. Besides that, get yourself some nonfiction that interests you.
Work hard. Your odds of success/failure are in your hands, nobody else's.
No.2327
>-move to a strict vegetarian diet
I hope you're not doing this for health reasons. I get it if you're doing it for moral reasons but there's nothing wrong with eating meat when it comes to health, it's better to have meat in your diet actually.