Escaping Tartarus

Tag: morning-routine

  • Day 4: Cold Water Therapy

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    I came home feeling like crap yesterday and this unfortunately carried over to this morning. I still made myself take a shower, I didn’t do straight cold water – but – I did make myself leave it on the coldest warm water setting I could and then I still did some straight cold water therapy…

  • Day 3: Cold Water Therapy

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    I still don’t know if it’s just because there’s a section of the water main on my house that’s exposed to the outside overnight that the water seems so much colder when I first get in the shower – or if it’s just that my body adapts, but damn it’s COLD. I guess the real…

  • Day 2: Cold Water Therapy

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    I peeled myself out of bed after some internal arguing and I got into the shower. I flipped the shower on before I could think about it and brrrr. Soooo cold. But again like yesterday it got less cold after a minute or two – I don’t know if that’s just from water sitting outside…

  • Cold Water Therapy

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    So after deciding to put an end to Embracing Warriorship as I kept “failing” at my goals. As I was up and journaling this morning, I realized I had started to put too many “big” habit changes into my day. So I needed to throttle back. Yeah I can definitely add changes into my day…

  • Day 8: Embracing Warriorship

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    I got the core stuff done yesterday (again, this is the next day), which is always nice. Thinking about how much difficulty I’ve been having with getting through things – I’m thinking I’ve been relying too much on willpower and I’ve generally got so much crap going on anyway that I don’t have much left.…

  • Day 6: Embracing Warriorship

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    Yeah far less stress on myself when I don’t overload myself with everything. I did my journaling, cold water exposure, and took my dog for a walk after I got home from work. I realized I’ve been floundering with my goals for this – making them far too complicated. Eh derp. I’m pursuing the path…

  • Day 5: Embracing Warriorship

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    Something absolutely unexpected happened yesterday – my neighbor who almost made me punch his lights out – apologized. So yeah, that’s nice, I know another of my neighbors by name and hey he’s walking his dog on a leash and apparently not being so much of a jackass. Wow. In other news I’ve actually been…

  • Day 4: Embracing Warriorship

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    I’m really not feeling like I’m embracing warriorship today – but I’m going through everything. I showed up at the dojo and did some light bag work, light stretching, and some combinations in the air. I just couldn’t get my joints to warm up. I probably need to get some sleeves for my knees and…

  • Day 3: Embracing Warriorship

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    I woke up on time and got through my morning stuff done and then took care of everything except for weight training. My body is still acclimating to the new training schedule, so I’m going to forgo weights today. I’ll get up early tomorrow and get training in the dojo done. A good sweat after…