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Lets Transform Ourselves (2 Weeks Completed ! r/dailyprogression for pics) via /r/selfimprovement

Lets Transform Ourselves (2 Weeks Completed ! r/dailyprogression for pics)

Background information:

I'm a 20 year old Middle-eastern guy who's very figgity, impulsive and really only thinks about the short term benefits of everything. I used to be addicted to Gaming, but ever since i became 18 years old i decided to leave that part of me behind. I live in a lower-class home, we live off of welfare and I've had the fortune of being born with an above average-IQ which has led to me being able to go to university with a loan.

Last year 2017 December 17th I quit university, broke up with my girlfriend (whom i lived with for 4 months), ditched all my junky friends and moved back to my hometown.

So this is what I'll be doing every single day.

Waking up in the morning at 7:30 AM

Meditate for 10 minutes

Practise a skill/craft in my case Programming for 2 hours (not currently bec of holiday)

Walk for 2 hours per day

Do 60 Pushups + 240 Situps

Read a book (Currently : 4-Hour work week) for 2 Hours

Go cycling for 1 hour (not currently bec of holiday)

Be hygienic

Eat clean and track the calories that i'm taking

Log of 18th of August 2018 - Current time 00:14AM :

Hello hello, i'm here again delivering you the very sought after log of the day ! or not... Maybe a little? Ah lets just get on with it. Alright so before I go into the details, I'm going on a holiday tomorrow. I've changed things up already and i won't be programming as that will not be part of my holiday, however I will be doing everything else aside from programming and cycling. I really want to ride a bike there on my holiday in Albania but the thing is.. I can't take my bike with me and we don't hire bikes there. Now I've explained that we can get into the juicy stuff.

Today I woke up a little bit later than expected at around 9 AM, I still count it as waking up early since i still am feeling the after effect from the "Lolly." so it passes. Now I get into my morning routine, the casual breakfast, teeth brushing and showering(love it). Once I went on my laptop to check my sales i noticed one of my products were sold and it was a biggie. That made me feel really good, but i was still feeling a little drowsy and decided i'd go for the 2 hour walk.

The past few days I've been playing Pokemon GÓ a lot with my little brother and i'm really getting into it. They've added new Pokemon and you can finally start battling people in the game, and that's what i love about the game. So whilst I was walking I was also catching Pokemon and ... spent a couple of bucks on it like 3 $ to get raids passes and be able to catch legendary Pokemon I ended up catching Regirock ! I know this all sounds nerdy but it's just part of my routine now, so you'll have to suffer :D (jk) On my walk a strange lady also approached me and asked me if i had any money, she was bankrupt and needed some. I did have money but I told her I was in a similar situation, university students aren't further away from bankruptcy (lol). I also noticed that I'm walking faster than when i started the walking habit, i'm putting more distance on so the 2 hours that I walk gradually becomes a greater distance. And yes I did manage to complete the full 2 hours, I used the stopwatch of my new casio watch to be able to track it, super handy.(get it?)

Now for the meditation session... I tried to meditate after the walk but I had to clean my room so that was a bit distracting. Speaking of distraction, because of the hangover I got from "legstacy" I have become a bit more impulsive. I know it right away, because i start being reckless and well litterly let my impulses get the better of me. I was trying to cope with it today but it was just horrible, when i want to read i just get distracted by facebook. Usually it never happens and i just close it right away when i want to focus on something, but today it was different. Now for the meditation, the same thing happens ! I get distracted and stop like at minute 2 and go downstairs to eat. I tried to do it again after the distraction and did manage to finish the meditation session, it helped me with dealing with impulsiveness during the whole day since my mind had become clearer.

After the Meditation session I played a little bit with my little brother, you gotta give your family some love y'know. I told my sister what she could buy for me for my birthday (Aug 21st is my birthday), I recommended her to buy books since I love reading. The specifics : the 48 laws of power by Robert Greene. I've heard a lot of good things about the book and I really would like to have it and place it in my bookcase and never even touch it. Obviously I wouldn't do that, i'd do that after reading it.(lol) So it's about time to have diner, my mom made something special it's a cultural dish you guys don't know "dolma." She knows I love it and she made it for me. After diner i randomly (IMPULSE) decided to go for a walk, i ended up walking for an hour and a half just catching pokemon outside, you gotta catch 'em all y'know.

Alright so enough pokemon, once I gotten done with that I read my book again "the 4-hour workweek" by Tim Ferris. It's just an amazing book that guides you through a way of quitting your job and living the life you'd really like to be living. What Tim does really well is explain how you can live an extravagant Life whilst not even spending more than you'd usually spend. His point that he tries to make is that you should live rich, not be rich. Living rich means that you are enjoying the time that you spend on earth, and not working your ass off to make some papermoney which you can't even spend because you're working constantly. And today I learnt more about how to really set-up goals, and it's helping so much because I can envision my future self better which makes me motivated and strengthens my belief of actually achieving it.

I've done almost everything on the list, i wanted to skip programming because my holiday is gonna start and now way that I am going to "work" whilst i'm on holiday. So the only thing that was really left for me to do is : Riding the bicycle and doing my push-ups and sit-ups. At the time of my bicycle ride, It was dark outside about 10:00 PM and I was going to bike for an hour. I didn't have any lights on both ends of the bike, so quickly grabbed that to prevent myself getting hit by a car or get a fine from the popo. Being assured that i wouldn't be able to get into any issues because of not having any light on my bike I left my home with biking clothes and all. What I've learnt is that even if it's warm outside, when you bike you're going to get it cold especially when you use a racing bike like I do (20 miles / hr). I noticed that because of all the biking I do, I get to know my home-city a lot better. I've been taking a lot of different routes and been to places I've never gotten to if it weren't for this habbit so i'm grateful for that.

My legs were really sore during the bicycle trip and it's probably because I've been doing it the past week every single day, so that's why tomorrow will become my rest day. No exercises, for a whole day and I will also be having a slight "cheat day" when it comes to my diet, just so i can cope better with another week of relatively strict eating. After biking with sore legs, I came back home feeling warm because this time I had a sport jacket on me.(good stuff) I still had to do my push-ups and sit-ups and so i did that, my push-ups were once again 15 per set and sit ups 40 per set. did 4 sets for the push-ups and 6 for the sit-ups since that's a lot easier. I found that my push-ups had gotten easy, so next time i'll be doing 20 push-ups for 3 sets and my sit-ups will remain the same other than that i will increase the time of planking to 1 whole minute (45 seconds before).

Now guys I've written this all for you before I go to bed, I really hope you appreciate this and are also motivated by what I am doing. Remember to take breaks every now and then just to be able to let go of some of that steam you're building up during the productive days. Have a great day !

(pics on /r/Dailyprogression)

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