Do more

As you know this blog is about strategy.

Do you want to know one very powerful way of getting an edge on anything that you want in life?  Either its loosing weight, getting this job you're looking for, taking over an opponent... just about anything...

... DO MORE!

That's it.  Do more.  Just when ever you think you're done, do one last think that will give you just this incremental advance.

If you work in sales and the others do 80 calls a day.  Do 81.  That will be about 260 more calls than average per year.  Who's going to get lucky sooner or later?

You swim, swim a little longer.  You run 5 Km.  Try 5.1 Km next time.  You list 100 pounds on the bench press?  Try 102 pounds next time... You get the idea.  Just incremental improvement and its amazing what difference this would make at the end of the year.

The Japaneses have a word for this: Kizen.  Which could be translated as "continuous incremental imporvement".

One last example.  Lets say you want to write a novel.  You always push its start to the next day.  Because I your head the task is so huge and there is so much amount of hours to commit, your brain gets over driven before you get started.  But what if you tell yourself that you'll do a page a day.  No more that a single page per day.  But no less than a page.  That's 365 pages at the end of the year.  You got yourself a book right there.

So start today.  Ask yourself, on each task that you are doing: "what is the little thing that I can do on this before I leave the task?"

I don't know who said it but someone said:"Work every hour of your day, and you will accomplish more that anyone".   This is so true.

Start today.  Do more.  And its amazing what you will accomplished at the same time next year.

Know thyself

The first step in my philosophy of living like a hero is to take control of my body.

I want to go from this:

 To this:



















And I want this resust by October 31st. 2012.


The game plan

How am I going to do this?

First I am going to follow this schedule of training:

Monday: Weight training
Tuesday: Running
Wednesday: Weight training.
Thursday: Running
Friday: Running
Saturday: Weight training.
Sunday: Off.  Relax.

This is until september.  Because in september I am going to join the Adult swim team of my town.  The reasons for that are a) I was a swimmer when I was young.  I love it.  b) swimming will be very good in training all my body parts and increasing my cardio capacity.

So from september to November I should juggle with swimming, running and weight training until the first snow falls.  Then for the winter I'll stick with swimming and weight training until spring.

My weight training:  I will follow the 300 Spartan Workout

Motivator:  In order to stay on track I already subscribed to my town marathon in September.  And I subscribed to the Spartan Race next May 2013.  And for the up coming Halloween, I want to dress like the spartan in the picture above.  So I need the body that goes with the suite. I also subscribed to a running course in my town.  And I will join the swimming team in September.  It's all about commitment!

Eating:  I eat like a pig and I eat anything that comes into my reach.  I need to change my entire view on eating.  I shall make an entire post on it. Coming soon.

And strategically speaking if you eat better than average, you should be healthier than average (all things being equals).  Which puts the odds on your side a little more compared to the average guy.

One last thing about eating.  I start training first and I will start my eating habit detoxification a little later.  When I reach that part.  I shall have a last meal.  Just like the death sentenced prisoners.  I will go and eat fat food and potatoes chips and all that for one last day.  Then.  The next morning, I start my new eating regiment.  Which will consist on decreasing the size of my meal and choosing a low fat regime.

Oh!  And one last thing about the Spartans.  Are you still looking for some moral and ethic axioms and maxims on which to run your life?  How about the spartan life motto:

• A Spartan pushes their mind and body to their limits.
• A Spartan masters their emotions.
• A Spartan learns continuously.
• A Spartan gives generously.
• A Spartan leads.
• A Spartan stands up for what they believe in, no matter the cost.
• A Spartan knows their flaws as well as they know their strengths.
• A Spartan proves themselves through actions, not words.
• A Spartan lives every day as if it were their last.

Pretty cool isn't it?

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Make it count

Live your life like a hero

 "What we do in life, Echoes in Eternity"

What does it means to live you life like a hero?  What is a hero.  What can be considered as heroic?

This shall be the start of a new post time that I will add to this blog: live your life like a hero.

Whouldn't you like to wake up in the morning and be happy to be alive.  You have a purpose, you know exactly where you're going.  And you just can't wait for this day to start in order to accomplish what you are aimed to accomplish?

I shall come back in further post on the concept of hero, what is it, what it represents and all.  But in the mean time ask yourself this question:

"What does it means to me being a hero?"
"What would I consider hero to me?"

For someone this could me something as simple as loosing 10 pounds.  For another is being more at home and learn to say no at work in order to pass quality time with friends and family.  For someone else this could be running a marathon or climbing mount Kilimandjaro.  Or plainly taking care of a sick loved one.

What does it mean to you?  What is your definition?

In the mean time I am going to leave you with Ayn Rand's definition of a modern hero:

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

Share it here in the comments if you want.

We shall develop on this concept more on the coming posts.