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Morning Pages Entry – December 29, 2013

Well, we are narrowing in on another badge for my journal writing. Day number 30 in a row is coming up soon. That should be pretty cool. Yesterday had a few good things happen. One, I did head off to weight lifting again, and the back was feeling pretty good. It’s becoming a good routine, and I actually had to start a new fit fix card, because I’d filled up the other one already. It’s good to see the progress I’ve made with the weights, and it should be interesting to see, if I can keep u...

Morning Pages Entry – December 28, 2013

A new record writing streak again today, but I feel like I may not have much to write about. Although, maybe I do. The highlight yesterday, was my squash match with David, who currently has the number 2 spot on our team. I ended up in a very tight match with me winning 3-2. He actually had me at 10-8 in the 5th game, but I managed to come back, and win 12-10. It was a pretty exciting finish . . . at least for me. That moved me up to the number 2 spot on the team. I had hoped to play an of...

Morning Pages Entry – December 27, 2013

So, here we are a couple of days after Christmas, and to be honest, I’m going a little bit stir crazy with not enough routine it would seem. Or at least, not enough good routine. Yesterday, I can so close to indulging in some junk food because I was just getting bored and restless. I really need to get out and play some squash today to get back on the right track. Yesterday was really the first day, that I’ve had to use will power to stay on the right eating path. At least it was the firs...

Morning Pages Entry – December 26, 2013

So, here we are the day after Christmas, boxing day to be exact I suppose, and things are pretty mellow around here at the moment. Jennifer and Grandma Theresa are here for the day, but Jennifer is heading off for skiing with some friends around supper time. She’s taking our car, and driving up to horseshoe valley for a few days, but will be back before news year. The girls are upstairs cooking stew, and it’s a pretty relaxed day. Had a lot of fun last night with the cousins and Uncle Bob...

Morning Pages Entry – December 25, 2013

Wow, this is kinda close, but I think I’m gonna make it anyway. Today is Christmas, and I am a little drunk . . . ok, maybe more then a little bit drunk, but I’m going to get my journal in anyway, and not ruin my streak. If Christmas day doesn’t give me something to journal about, I don’t know what day will. A number of things went on today. I did almost make it down here first thing this morning to write this, but I got a bit distracted, and before I knew it, I was having Christmas break...

Morning Pages Entry – December 24, 2013

Yesterdays squash game was simply awesome . . . at least for me, not so much for the guy I was playing . . . sorry Mark. But, for me it was the best I’ve been moving in a long time. I was getting to all kinds of shots, I had time to watch Mark, and was getting pretty good at reading what kind of shot he was going to hit. I tweaked my back a little bit near the end of the fourth game, and it’s still a bit sore today, but nothing serious like before. Overall, it was I pretty resounding matc...

Morning Pages Entry – December 23, 2013

Well, here we are on the eve of Christmas eve, and things seem to be going pretty good. It’s a Monday, so we’re going to do some more Anthony Robbins tapes, and hopefully get some writing done today. At the very least read some of the “Selling Writer” book, which should hopefully get your head into the right space for some writing. We also have a squash game today with Mark, which should be interesting, as it’s the first challenge match I’ve been able to play since the ankle incident, and...

Morning Pages Entry – December 22, 2013

Well, it looks like I’m a paid member of the site now, and it looks like we’re only a few days from Christmas as well. I always like this time of the year, as the anticipation before Christmas is a feeling I seem to enjoy, even more then the days of Christmas and after Christmas. The excitement of knowing something fun is coming means more to me then the actual day itself. Sort of like the wanting something is often more palpable then actually having something . . . the joy of the hunt so...

Morning Pages Entry – December 21, 2013

The goal with my eating habits, or at least one of the goals, should be for this to be an easy thing to do. I don’t want to be obsessing over it, and it seems that I actually am getting to that point a bit these days. I need to find a way to quit doing that, so that I’m not thinking about it so much. So that food, is just another regular everyday thing that I do. Maybe, there’s something in Tony’s tapes, that can help with that. I started listening to his subliminal tapes yesterday, think...

Morning Pages Entry – December 20, 2013

Neuro Associations were the lesson for the day yesterday in Tony Robbins sessions. Understanding that we associate certain tasks or goals in our life with either negative (paid) or positive (pleasureable) feelings. The key to the sessions yesterday, was to identify positive and negative associations with things I need to get done, and to find ways of attaching new and positive associations with things that i’ve been not accomplishing. The writing of the books, is obviously the big thing....