Tag: mental-health

What is your favorite form of physical exercise?

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Torn between pull-ups and hiking.

Pull-ups are great, you against your weight. Each cookie and chocolate bar you ever ate pulls you down. Your will pulls you up. Who will win? However, I lost my ability to do pull-ups about a year ago and it is not on my list of things to do next year. Which leaves us with hiking.

Hiking is like walking but you’re somewhere far from computers, wifi, work, city life, cars, and many of the stress factors. You against a hill. Or against your thoughts. Much better.

Just a cool photo from before I became a car brain. Not sure why Photos decided to show that to me. The shadow in the mist is Glozhene Monastery.

This was likely from my old blog, maybe 15 to 20 years ago. I can’t reach Malyovitza these days but whatever I can reach, I do in a similar fashion. Jeans, LOL. So inappropriate. Some things never change.

What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life?

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  • Minimalism – my wife is a minimalist and I enjoy the simplicity of that concept, particularly about clothes, electronics, and furniture. I also apply it to books and only keep the ones I love.
  • Sleep – if something is not important enough to be done first thing in the morning, it’s not worth doing last thing in the evening. This helps me go to bed sooner.
  • Reading – I try to read for about 2 hours per day. ~~10pm to ~~midnight is reading time. Helps me sleep better.
  • Walking – my goal is 10k per day and I do that for cardio fitness and meditation. 2 hours of walking per day requires sacrifices but then I found hacks – if a 30-minute drive can be replaced by a 1h walk, that’s half of my daily walking at the expense of 30 minutes. So I walk to places that people would normally drive to. Also, playing football with my kids counts as walking and family time.
  • Calendar – if a task is important enough, I put it on the calendar, personal or professional. This forces me to complete important tasks better than a to-do list. Less important and not-time-sensitive tasks still don’t go to the calendar.
  • Blogging – I try to blog daily and participate in the community.
  • I drink sugar-free sodas and eat chocolate. I can probably do better here but it increases the present-day comfort at the expense of my future self.