New Year's Goals (resos)

[krnyc2008]

@birdman12345

@krnyc2008

Do less. Breath more. Be bored more often and deal with it better. No new initiatives or hobbies, focus on existing ones.

Contemplating killing the internet at home for a month and see if I survive.

Should try just using the phone for phone calls and text messages, and getting off social media.

I am already using the phone for calls and texts. Are you not?

I am not on social media. I am addicted to blogs and forums. Waste hours, so it has to stop.

[birdman12345]

I use my phone for stupid crap. Reading useless stuff, especially when I wake up in the middle of the night. Its not good. Its more of a habit though that I just will look at my phone on a regular basis even when I dont have any reason to. I’m not on any social media but I’m addicted to the phone. No bueno.

[iheartiheartmath]

Have s3x at least 104 times.

[Isaiah_53_5]

@birdman12345

I use my phone for stupid crap. Reading useless stuff, especially when I wake up in the middle of the night. Its not good. Its more of a habit though that I just will look at my phone on a regular basis even when I dont have any reason to. I’m not on any social media but I’m addicted to the phone. No bueno.

There could be a couple things going on here. Your brain could be seeking a release of dopamine in a period of restlessness during the night. After that, the blue light from the device could possibly prolong your being awake.

You might try putting a certain food or drink on your nightstand (or a book) to adjust the way your body reacts to awakening during the night.

[GorillaNerd]

Be more awesome and hopefully to transition to a gangster with real theories that are complete.

[anon47629474]

@birdman12345

I use my phone for stupid crap. Reading useless stuff, especially when I wake up in the middle of the night. Its not good. Its more of a habit though that I just will look at my phone on a regular basis even when I dont have any reason to. I’m not on any social media but I’m addicted to the phone. No bueno.

wifi f’s with sleep state brainwaves. Unplug your wifi, shut off your devices and you’ll be less likely to wake up at night.

[birdman12345]

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[krnyc2008]

@birdman12345

I use my phone for stupid crap. Reading useless stuff, especially when I wake up in the middle of the night. Its not good. Its more of a habit though that I just will look at my phone on a regular basis even when I dont have any reason to. I’m not on any social media but I’m addicted to the phone. No bueno.

Can you put the phone in the different room for the night? So you can’t easily reach it if wake up… You shouldn’t be holding your phone next you during sleep anyway, for health reasons.

Also, a trick I do during the day is put a rubber band over the phone. Less tempted to use it this way

[Isaiah_53_5]

@Charlie_Work

@birdman12345

I use my phone for stupid crap. Reading useless stuff, especially when I wake up in the middle of the night. Its not good. Its more of a habit though that I just will look at my phone on a regular basis even when I dont have any reason to. I’m not on any social media but I’m addicted to the phone. No bueno.

wifi f’s with sleep state brainwaves. Unplug your wifi, shut off your devices and you’ll be less likely to wake up at night.

lol

How exactly do you turn off all the wifi around you then?

Also, source???

[birdman12345]

No need, just sleep in your lead lined sensory deprivation tank. You… you have been sleeping in your lead lined sensory deprivation tank, haven’t you?

[anon47629474]

@Isaiah\_53\_5

@Charlie_Work

@birdman12345

I use my phone for stupid crap. Reading useless stuff, especially when I wake up in the middle of the night. Its not good. Its more of a habit though that I just will look at my phone on a regular basis even when I dont have any reason to. I’m not on any social media but I’m addicted to the phone. No bueno.

wifi f’s with sleep state brainwaves. Unplug your wifi, shut off your devices and you’ll be less likely to wake up at night.

lol

How exactly do you turn off all the wifi around you then?

Also, source???

uh I don’t need to. I don’t live stacked on top of other people like a savage.

[Isaiah_53_5]

@Charlie_Work

@Isaiah\_53\_5

@Charlie_Work

@birdman12345

I use my phone for stupid crap. Reading useless stuff, especially when I wake up in the middle of the night. Its not good. Its more of a habit though that I just will look at my phone on a regular basis even when I dont have any reason to. I’m not on any social media but I’m addicted to the phone. No bueno.

wifi f’s with sleep state brainwaves. Unplug your wifi, shut off your devices and you’ll be less likely to wake up at night.

lol

How exactly do you turn off all the wifi around you then?

Also, source???

uh I don’t need to. I don’t live stacked on top of other people like a savage.

ok…

source? amirite6

[Twice_the_man]

@Twice_the_man

I wrote 5 things down on a post-it note that I put into my wallet. These are separate from the job/money/career goals, these are just things I’d like to do before age wins the war, and now is as good a time as any.

1. 299 pounds. I’m in the back half of my 30s and have been over 300 pounds for all but 1 day since my senior year in high school. There was a day in 2004 when I stepped on the shipping scale at work and it said 299. I was down 60 pounds in 3 months at the time. That evening I had an accident that broke an arm, a wrist, an ankle and that was the end of my journey into the 200’s. I’ve been as low as 304 since then. The Sunday after Thanksgiving this past year, I was 357 pounds. This morning I was 341 pounds. I’m taking things slowly and just hitting 2200-2400 calories per day. I figure I’m 4 or 5 months out from this goal, but I’m already 6 weeks in and it’s been pretty easy, even with the holidays.

2. Dunk. I could do it in high school, I’ve done it a few times since. I’m old, but with some weight loss and the squat, deadlift and calf work I’m doing I think this one is achievable. I coach a basketball team and I can still grab the rim pretty easily so we’re only 5 or so inches from getting there. This is pure vanity, obviously. Plus, I want to lord it over my teenaged son that I’m old and fat and can dunk, and he’s 6 feet tall and skinny and can’t touch the rim.

3. 100 consecutive push-ups. I started doing push-ups on December 18th, following the hundredpushups.com program. They have you start with an exhaustion test I did 5. Last night was my 8th session on the program and I did 4 sets of 5+ and my 5th and final set got to 11. I’m having to do each week of the program twice so far to hit the targets to move on, but I’m already pretty sure this goal is going to be reached.

4. Bench my body weight. My senior year in high school during our fall football training camp I weighed in at 307 and benched 305, then failed at 315. So I’ve never benched my weight before. The last time I benched was probably 18 months ago and i was just doing 8 and 10 rep sets around 185 or so because I’m old and broken. I’m going to push this into the back half of the calendar year, because It will be much easier to bench 280 than 340.

5. 1 pull-up. The rest of these goals are fairly easy for me to achieve, or are at least something I’ve been capable of before. This one, I’ve never really come close. I did one super jerky, possibly jumping pull-up in middle school, but I doubt it would have counted anywhere but my imagination. It’s my stretch goal of sorts. I figure if I get light enough and strong enough to do 1 pull-up, I’ll be in a pretty good spot. I’m going to start mixing in some assisted pull-ups soon to see how Herculean this task will be, but I’m guessing I’m talking about bridging 150 pound gap right now.

Some updates 2 months in:

1. 300 pounds: I was 317 this morning after a pretty aggressive workout. I’m thinking I can knock this one out by the first week in April.

2. Dunking a basketball: I haven’t really been training for this specifically, but I’ve been playing a little more ball and on good, loose days I’m able to get enough of the rim to hang on it, could probably dunk a tennis ball right now.

3. 100 consecutive push-ups: Was up to the low 20s consecutively but I pulled an ab muscle and backed off. Still doing a ton of chest work in the gym, so hopefully I’m able to get right back at the low 20s within a week or two of restarting these.

4. Bench my body weight: I’ve been lifting 4 days per week but as bench is more vanity than anything, I haven’t even done a barbell bench since re-starting my lifts, but I’m able to rep DB press with 100’s, so I’m probably within 70 or 80 pounds of this goal.

5. 1 pull-up: Yeah…not any time soon.