This 100 days leads right up to my 55th birthday, which will be April 18. The 2025 version didn’t go well at all. I had wanted to drop somewhere around 10 pounds. Instead, it was just 1-2 pounds. Keto just didn’t work as well for me last year. In both 2023 and 2024, I had
Since I can remember, I’ve been interested in basketball and national politics. In the past couple of years, though, my interest in national politics has waned as it has increasingly become more WWE than policy. My interest in sports have widened to include football, too. Sports have become an almost unbelievable celebration of human ability.
Instead of resolutions each year, I set out on a 100 Day Challenge that starts 100 days before my birthday, April 18. I’ll turn 54 that day, and I always want it to be a day I’m proud of instead of sad about. For my health goals, I’ve set myself up well for the past
In the past couple of weeks and months, right around the time I hit 53, I’ve realized I need to make a couple of changes in my growth mindset. In case you haven’t heard of it, a growth mindset is the firm belief that learning, effort, and persistence will create improvements in all areas of
Winter is a great time for me to pursue my health goals. I’m almost always in control of it since we rarely travel and I mostly leave the house for exercise or groceries. That hasn’t been the case this year, as we’ve already had two trips where it was difficult to do a keto diet
I was going to call this post “My 2024 Physical Goals”, but it just doesn’t feel right to me to call them goals. I’m just going to do what I know I need to do, and I’ll achieve what I want to achieve. There’s no striving necessary. Anyway, here they are through April 18, 2024,
2023 turned into a great year for me, and I’m not quite finished celebrating. We have our annual New Year’s Day party for close friends and neighbors, so there will be one last hurrah before I start practicing for 2024. With a birthday on the 108th day of the year, I “practice” what I want
We’re now a few weeks into 2022, and I have to say, it could have started better without the omicron variant of COVID. At least it’s not 2021 or 2020 anymore. For the most part, I think this will be a great year, but there’s a long way to go for that happen. This year,
It’s January 2, 2020. Have you broken your New Year’s resolutions yet? I’d bet about half the people who make resolutions don’t even make it to Day 3. And that’s absolutely fine as long as they don’t give up or feel badly about themselves at this point. For me, I start thinking about things I
It’s Day 7 of my #500DaysTo50 project, and right on time, Vishy Anand, one of my chess heroes, turns 50 years old today. I’m sure I first heard of Anand when he was 14 and I was 13. Back then, I thought I was on the path of becoming a grandmaster player, and I figured