And in that I have always been a work in progress.

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How can you build a regular fitness routine?
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The building lay entirely within intention.

What are you willing to do – emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually – to make this how you live. Akin to making your bed in the morning. In my view, it is not at all about what you do. Moreso, it is entirely about who you become.

A little about me.

Challenged by bulk my entire life. Rigorous activity took command of it when circumstances were amenable to it. Or shall I say, I made room to allow those circumstances to appear.

Running and cycling were two of my favorites, and still are. But just not physically possible any longer. Thank you football ! I like doing the circuit training I created for PF. Trying to work that into days again is the obstacle. During Covid, I flipped a tractor tire up and down a football field for several months. Yard work is good for the core. Shoveling snow too. I love doing physical work.

Taken steps, literally, to raise the fitness level here. First, began walking with a weighted vest. Already need something heavier. The distance is increasing – already in the three to four mile range – so I will now focus on quickening the pace. In time, I think I could walk to PF, hit the circuit and walk home. That would be ideal.

Eating is being addressed as well.

Really into Cheerios, bananas and 1% milk in the morning. Some yogurt, even plain 0% is yummy to me. Lots of veggies – digging tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and peppers raw – with or without yogurt dip.

My snack driving from client to client? Hard boiled eggs. Salad burritos are good too. Never really a soda guy, cut way down on toast, steak once a quarter, mostly chicken, pork and fish. Pasta the way my bestie makes it is to die for. Maybe a burger on the grill once in a while. Tacos with black beans in the meat. Cut back on the tortilla chips.

All is in place to make progress, with the exception of increasing the portion size of the exercise while finding the correct level for portion size when I am hungry. That is happening.

But it is all a building process.

As I suggested, it is not at all about what you do.

Moreso, it is entirely about who you become

And in that I have always been a work in progress.

At all.

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Who are some underrated people in history?
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Now there is a concept.

Brought forth for consideration in a world where “influencer” is a respected vocation and some guy who goes by “AI” finds the time to write papers, proposals, presentaions, books, answer phones, provide customer service and appear in media shorts or commericals. Sheesh. He must get less sleep than Elon. But I seriously digress…..If this is me writing this….I wonder…

How about the men, women and children that handled the agricultural needs and maintenance here and all over the globe way back when, and in some cases, up to now ?

Or those of varied backgrounds that literally linked nations via rail, or helped to provide a path for vessels to access one body of water into another?

The teens and young adults from all countries that took a bullet in the trenches, on a battlefield, in a jungle, on the ocean, or in the air?

The women that built those modes of death and warfare while keeping families in tact away from the conflict, here, there and everywhere?

How about those labeled, rounded up for their beliefs and essentially converted and reduced to perishable goods across the planet?

Families working diligently and tirelessly to remain intact, so that theirs may learn and live to do the same?

Those gifted with diverse abilities that despite their challenges are well suited to show the rest of us what is important in life?

More of these that are underrated will come to mind I am sure. And these examples don’t even touch the centuries and millenia prior.

The thing I have witnessed about being underrated is that though bearing that mantle it literally means that you have nothing to lose.

Without expectation, there are no foreseeable means to accrue anything of what is deemed as “value”. Least of all, what may be termed as a “future”.

Their being underrated as such, but accomplishing what they did, pretty much cost them everything, but made things happen for us. Eventually.

Despite that, we bask in ourselves, though our gratitude is vastly underrated, if even present.

At all.

Welcome to Wisconsin, Ryan!!

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Working with a client today, got out of the car and took a gander.

Never thought I would bump into him and his family in Grafton. Last I heard he was alone in space trying to dispatch some astrophage and save the world.

But given the supportive nature of his parents, especially dad, they must just fly in wherever and stay the summer.

Don’t get down about your duds, buddy. You can still do some swimming in that outfit. And I bet you are flyin’ in ten weeks.

Welcome to Wisconsin, Ryan!!

Don’t need to carry around that fossil anymore.

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What I felt like sharing today: what will I try to do better today than I did yesterday?

Not that I don’t like the prompts. I just felt like talking about this is all.

The past week has been trying to say the least. Some metamorphosis going on me thinks. Figures, it is spring afterall. Allegedly.

I am looking to find some peace of the internal variety. After spending so much of my life over functioning over everything, a dozen or so steps need to be taken backwards. Not so much to start over. More so, to remain in the here and now is all. Some days, I might find myself in a pair of soles from the 70’s or 80’s. Other times, I was in something so far ahead that they hadn’t even made it out the designer’s noggin yet.

That being said, there is a definite need and value to just staying right here. I may get a little agitated by the desire to go futz in the yard or design some screen to keep leaves out the window wells. The former comes as an aside when I got a spare twenty minutes. The latter is still on the drawing board. They are just fulfilling distractions.

But those have never fallen into the “over” category. More so antidotal by nature. So for today, I am going to remain right here. In my thoughts. Definitely in my words. And finally in my actions. I aim to avoid the crisis I can create within the top floor, that spills out of my lips and ends up being made into a mess.

Hallow happens to have a two week journey embracing peace and serenity. And if todays ten minutes is anything like yesterdays, then I am on a pretty dang good path.

So with regard to the actual prompt from today, my aim is to minimalize my over side into extinction.

Don’t need to carry around that fossil anymore.