Chapter 9 of The Slight Edge is entitled Faces of The Slight Edge. It should be entitled the Forces of The Slight Edge. Those forces are: Momentum, Completion, Habit, Reflection, and Celebration.
We all know the adage slow but steady wins the race. It’s not the slow part that wins. It’s steady. The steady participant got in motion and stayed in motion. It’s the consistent forward progress that makes you a winner.
Completion isn’t the sexual act some of your perverts assumed. It’s acknowledging the incomplete things in your life drain your energy and addressing them bit by bit. In the fitness context, it’s not getting five workouts done in one day. It’s knocking them out once a day Monday through Friday. Which leads to the flip side. Your feeling of pride and satisfaction for having completed the task.
Olson has beaten habit to death at this point. Any of you reading this series know what it is. Habit propels you up the success curve or down the failure curve.
Reflection is an interesting one and, I think, misnamed. Olson is really talking about accountability. There are lots of ways to hold yourself accountable. You make a checklist and check things off as you go. You can journal. In your journal you can record what you need to do and what you’ve done. This also gives you a chance to start your day by reviewing what will make it successful. It’s amazing how that keeps you focused on the actions breeding success. You can have an accountability partner. Some people prefer to talk it out rather than write it out. If that’s you, then find someone with a similar inclination and keep one another accountable.
Celebration is an overlooked part of motivation and goal setting. You need to celebrate your successes. It may not be the best idea to celebrate hitting your fitness goal by getting blackout drunk while eating a pound of bacon, but I’ll leave that to you. When you hit an interim goal, celebrate it. When you reach your bigger goal, celebrate it. Do it in a way that is obvious to you. You get to feel good about what you’ve done. Reaching goals isn’t meant to be a horrible slog. It’s meant to make you feel good and keep you feeling good about your striving.
Stay on the upward curve my friends.
Weekly cuteness. This is going to trigger some of you.
Slow is smooth,
Smooth is far,
/Disc Golf Mantra
And spin your disc 65MPH at the same time,
Weight has started bending back down, just before a weekend that I know will destroy any thought of dieting.
Currently checking the finances to see if I can swing going to a beer and punk festival outside of Pittsburgh in October.
“beer and punk” I love Beer, it goes with everything!
Cheers!
Seriously, they do a beer fest before the punk bands start playing. It’s Punk in Drublic. The girlfriend’s not interested in the concert, but she’s willing to drop me off and pick me up while she goes to Kennywood.
FTFY.
*sigh*
Considering the main band got kicked off their own tour once for making a (bad) joke about a shooting (and stepped away from another show because of “outcry” over the same joke), I really hope not. At one point, the headliner even had a song that aligns with libertarian ideas.
Well, it sounds Hella fun, i hope you get to go and Rock that Mutha Fucka!
/50 shades of Tres,
This past week was particularly bad for my diet – I was practically carb-bingeing. I blame my co-workers for bringing in bagels, chocolate chip cookies, and Killer Brownies (TW: photos of said brownies) and myself for my utter inability to resist temptation.
But today is a new week and a new month, so I’ll set myself a weight loss goal and plan to celebrate reaching it by buying myself some article of clothing in my preferred size. (NOT sweats or yoga pants!)
photos of said brownies
I think I just foodgasmed.
I just broke out the stored clothing that I couldn’t fit into for most of last year to run them through the dryer and get the wrinkles out.
I still have aspirational cycling kit that I won’t wear in public until I drop some more weight.
That’s it! “Aspirational clothing” – the perfect term for the item to keep hanging from the corner of your full-length mirror, taunting you to fit into it like Cinderella in her glass slipper. (Guys – feel free to come up with your own analogy.)
“Aspirational clothing” That’s all I wear if I’m not workin’
/Clothes Horse
Completely unrelated. Mid month I should be heading down to the Columbus area to pick up some sour beers that have been waiting for me. There’s a non-zero chance that I’ll be spending a night there, or if there’s incentive, head over Dayton way to spend a night there before heading home.
Be careful over Dayton way, there’s a bunch of deplorables over there. There and Hamiltucky you know.
Oh, and Middletucky, I forgot about that.
Dude… I know Pennsyltucky, and Brunstucky. The deplorables recognize me as one of them.
We’re looking to move to WV. I told my wife, don’t worry, they’ll think I’m one of them. I was born in Scioto County, OH. Geographically quasi Appalachia. Population wise, 100% Appalachia. I talk the language and I have the accent and lingo down to native level perfection.
Pennsyltucky, yeah, that’s a different thing. Definitely not quite Appalachia like. I knew someone from Shrewsbury. I used to call it Possumbury.
Wonderful! The only set thing on our calendar at the moment is a Dragons game on Wednesday the 18th. What qualifies as incentive? Maybe a festival or some musical entertainment in the area (that’s not TT & me?)
It would be a weekend, as I do still have a day job. And just meeting up for people for food and drink would be enough.
I tidied up Tranquility Base once. I can do it again! Will ponder what local delicacy we could OD on this time… ? (GlibFit-Friendly, of course!) I’ll tell TT you’re an aficionado of all things Pratchett, and he should be unable to resist.)
I got brisket !
So how’s your availability mid-month, homey? Any chance the lovely & talented Jugsy would be about? (Not that your company isn’t more than enough!)
She ships out in the morning but we’ll work something out.
Ill score you hot sauce, too. Haven’t forgotten
Sours, Jelly af!
Hi Big Chafed, Thanks for new edition and greetings from NOCal. Fantastic book summary, I do my journaling here….
Great hike this morning. Breezy, high 60s. The drought is taking a toll on the trees, there were 4 large trees that fell over 6 mile loop trail in the last month. There have been no storms, the trees are just falling over from lack of water…or Big Foot.
G-fit update: Sleep was very good. Food was very protein with fruit. Hike mileage was down to 41 miles this week. Wim Hoff/meditative “ancient man” techniques; Did it once. Weight held pretty steady at 173. No Fast. Did some MIIT workouts.
Goals: Meeting goal weight range max (175-170). Still not dead from Covid…
Vaxx update (Tin Foil Hat Meth Paranoia Ramblings): So I puzzed over the super urgency with which Gov wants to vaxx everyone with something that isn’t a vaxx and doesn’t prevent illness nor reduce virus spread… Vaxx that isn’t, doesn’t (for those into the brevity…) You know this vax was not designed to be used (circa 2018). It was a CYA for some never-hope-to-use-local fail-safe contingency.
Anyway, I have come to this conclusion: Govs are trying to steer the future Covid generations into less virulent or less pathogenic forms. A reverse weaponization through serial selection per se. Using the vaxxed peoples as bioreactors to select, produce attenuated virus in order to out-compete the WVL super-charged virus.
Notice that the vaxx is a mRNA gene therapy that codes the body to replicate only the Covid spike protein which is intended to create an immune response to the spike only. Therefore, when a “vaxxed” person gets randomly infected with Covid, their immune system “may” be more likely to attack spiked-Covid thereby allowing not-so-spiked Covid (less virulent) to proliferate within the vaxxed persoreactor (I.e selective pressure). Said persoreactor then sheds into the environment less spiky Covid which infects next persoreactor, who sheds less-less spiky virus; rinse and repeat to a benign smiley face Covid. The predominant smiley face Covid generations are less-less spiky, less-less virulent and by shear prevalence and numbers outcompete WVL covid to eventually become the new variant that will be named… “The Scranton Variant” (no Greek alphabet here). Named after the humble roots of The Leader of the Free World. Songs will be written and persoreactors “the vaxxed” will become heroes with free health-care. We will all live happily ever after; world without end, Herd Immunity; Amen.
So that’s why everyone needs the jab. No jab, no heroes. No heroes, no Scranton variant. No Scranton variant, no happily ever…just selfish anti-vaxxies ruining everything.
Sarcasm aside, this is the only reason for urgency. Someone sold this as a solution. The pitch: Well, if the vax doesn’t make you immune..it makes you less sick. If it doesn’t make you less sick, it at least, makes the virus less virulent for the next person. (wink, nod, right?!) No matter the SAEs from the vaxx, it is worth it since there is an off-chance future virus may be less virulent. Quite honestly, it is all we got right now to change the course of the virus.. You know, this is so stoopid…it might just work.
Right, it’s all we got…! Just need to sell the vaxx without making the to-be-vaxxed know that they have become the product. Well, they always fall for something free, try that first. : pitch end Reality : the vaxxed aren’t the product, the vaxxed are the experiment!
Discuss among yourselves………………………………..
To live better, fat adapt, skip a meal or three!
This whole thing makes me think of this King short story.
I remember when King used to be good, before he went total woketard and sucked.
Who the hell is Big Chafed? You Tulpae are getting totally out of control.
Big Chafed is the nickname for your nethers after a visit from STEVE SMITH.
Yikes!
I disagree with your conclusion. I don’t think they thought it through that far. They pushed an ineffective vaccine as a payoff for the corporations they front for. Big Pharma. We live in a country where the government is in place to make cronies rich at the expense of the people and don’t give two fucks who dies.
Well that’s like your opinion..man.
I don’t disagree with the cronyism and dont give a fucks…but Pharma gets paid by the government for vaccine delivered and it doesn’t matter how many vaccines are used.
Why the full court pressure now? We went from carrot to stick pretty quick. There is not even a subtle hint of desperation..it is full on panic from my perspective.
My take is there is every indication that this bug of a virus is getting badder with each passing wave and someone has modeled its pathogenesis to something really scary.
The virus is not getting badder. It is getting more transmissible. Big difference. Maybe it will get badder and they know and that is right up my alley of conspiracies because I fully believe “they” created this to cull the herd so to speak. We have a bunch of Malthusians in charge of shit they have no business being in charge of. [rest of comment redacted]
I looked on the PANDA site for statistics about cases and death. Something has definitely changed in the last couple weeks and days. Cases are up in every country. Deaths in the US attributed to Covid are up as well from a trough. GI/GO is real but these guys are actuarials out of South Africans with no agenda..other than to oppose lockdowns.
In my county, June cases were about 30/day. Now they are at 400/day.
My worry is there will not be a Covid season. There will be Covid waves
Also, not only does big Pharma get paid for every vaccine whether it is used or not, the
Gubminttaxpayers paid for the research to develop it and the big pharma companies also got themselves immunity. It stinks to no end for something that has a mortality rate of what? .03% for the vast majority of people?My take is there is every indication that this bug of a virus is getting badder with each passing wave and someone has modeled its pathogenesis to something really scary.
I don’t buy it for at least 2 reasons. First, I don’t buy the ‘well intentioned but overwhelmed governors’ narrative. Second, the public health industry has so beclowned themselves that I don’t believe they could pull off a “keep calm and carry on” narrative while secretly hiding the panic-laden models showing the end of civilization. In fact, if anything, they appear to be panic mongers just like the climatologists, sociologists and every other -ologist who are bought and paid for with federal grant mongers.
Moneys*
I don’t think the beclowned know about any real data/science. They are getting paid to deliver a message of keep calm urgency no matter what. They don’t know why…the less they know the better.
If Joe knew the real reason, he would blurt it out a presser. They would never tell him.
So, what’s the real reason here? You think it’s a Chinese bioweapon? Is the spike protein setting up for long term mortality? I’m just not seeing where the latent scary part is going to come from.
I really don’t know the real reason.
I would like to think that blowing up the world..at least economically was over something serious, not some cynical power grab…I don’t think Govs are evil..but they are opportunists.
Maybe I’m not cynical enough here.
I don’t think the beclowned know about any real data/science.
To be clear, I’m not referring to the craven politicians or to TMITE. I’m referring to the public health scientists who decided to make a name for themselves by using questionable models and statistical analysis to hype up the dangers of this virus. The people who whored out their credentials to lend credence to the panic. They’re the ones who beclowned themselves. The media and the politicians did what they always do, set new standards for depravity and evil.
I think the public health scientists are just a clueless as the polis’. Everyone is just playing a part. This whole thing is highly compartmental and only a handful know the truth (cough Foochie)…So your typical DARPA-like project.
I don’t think it’s about either getting rich in the drug business or about the ‘vid being super scary. The left wants nothing but power. they are using it to punish their enemies, plain and simple. They act like if you’re not vaxxed you’ll kill people, but they know it’s bullshit. They want to stretch the boundaries of what the government can do. They portray the unvaxxed as right wing heathens and then lash out at them (us). They want to quell all rebellion, that’s all. They pounce on any data that backs up their claim and push harder. They want permanent and unlimited power. They’ll do anything for it.
I really don’t think the vaxx is a power and control thing. Money is a power and control thing. Getting money, denying money is control.
Maybe the vaxx is a means to an end to control money. IDK
But why the sudden urgency to vaxx everyone? What changed? Why would Gov really care for anti-vaxxies? F’em.
? $$$$
Money is not the only type of power. This is about exercising the orchestrated power of their conquered institutions to humiliate and cow the deplorables in a way that doesn’t eat up all of their political capital. Mostly in the pursuit of making deplorables personae non grata.
Vaccine is a winning issue for the low info/low engagement crowd, so they’re weaponizing every institution they own to push it for every little bit it’s worth.
There is a right way and a wrong way to humiliate. What worked in the eastern block ain’t gonna work here. I think even the dumbest grifting politicians working a long con knows that.
Have they changed the strategy from long con to short brutal con? Cause they are starting to be brutal.
Have they changed the strategy from long con to short brutal con?
Yes. Notice how many masks have slipped over the past few years. They’ve solidified the institutions they needed to control, and now they don’t need to be careful to retain power.
Well, I guess that’s the way to retain power over shit hole. Great!
They get paid no matter what. This push is about forcing the people they don’t like to do what they want. The deal was made a year or more ago. This doesn’t pad anyone’s account. It just hurts the people they want to hurt. Nothing more. They must be so proud, now that Europe is more interested in freedom than we are.
Chafed!
I’m checking in from Mountain Time! I am officially a CO resident.
A few more days of chaos and I re-establish my habit and routines. I’ve kept a journal of my lifting for the last 8 months or so and it’s interesting to look back on what solid habits do, as compared to fucking around when your brain and energy are elsewhere.
Another party song.
Have a fantastic week, Glibfitters!
The one and only time I visited CO was October/November 2002. Really liked the place, but I spent virtually zero time in either Denver or any of the other larger centres, so mebbe that had something to do with it.
And you didn’t go to the GABF? I went once, and realized (while waiting for my plane on a layover) that I was there while it was going on a second time.
No, our buddies, the SU and I had numerous photographic targets in mind so we headed south the morning after landing in Denver and spent the next couple of weeks screwing around southern CO and all of NM. I totally dig White Sands — still some of my favourite photo memories from a lifetime of shooting.
Where did you land? i lived in Canon City for several years,
Arvada. Renting a place while we explore and make sure we like it!
Every time I think about CO, I want to climb a mountain and dig up gem stones.
Dood, move to the good side of the state. You city folk would fit nicely in Grand Junction (small city with cool stuff) and we need more of your kind over here. That and I could drive up drink all your beer puke in your back yard and sleep on your couch.
At least now they might get some break from the Califorianites who are now invading Idaho to turn it into a shithole. CO is big and it will take some time for the Californianites to totally ruin it.
I expect if I move to the east panhandle of WV, I’ll have maybe 2-3 years before the progtards fleeing their self created DC and Balmer shitholes, totally ruin it and I have to flee again. They should have never built that train, dummies. Now they’ll need a wall. Maybe Trump will run for Governor of WV.
I did tons of work out of GJ- natural gas pumping stations in Parachute & Rifle.
G_d, it gets hot out there in the summer.
Ya, it gets warm here in the summer it is a desert after all. We are damn near Utah and if I had my druthers we would be. I want to start a secession movement to remove western CO from eastern CO and join Utah. They are better managed at the moment given the current fear mongering authoritarianism that seems to be so prevalent. Polis is holding back because of the All Star Game but new mandates are coming I am sure. He killed lots of old folks in homes by inaction but got a pass. [rest of comment redacted]
“drink all your beer puke in your back yard and sleep on your couch”
do the Glibs have a flag, seal, or coat of arms yet ?
I figured you should know the code.
No way Tundra can pass that up.
Right? I forgot to mention piss in his walkway shrubbery.
Where’d you move there from? If it’s any of my business, just curious.
Minnesoda! As Jimbo said, I was tired of being the second best looking Glib in our town!
Well, I think I can totally say congratulations now!
Thanks! It will be a fun adventure
And CO is warmer than MN, not kidding,
Most of the time yeah, until the temp drops 70 degrees Fahrenheit in an hour and it comes a total whiteout blizzard. Good news, it might be 70 again a couple of days later. Never lived there, just going by what a friend who lived there told me.
It was -24 in Canon, pretty bad, but the Seasons are long, and 100 degree days are expected a few days in summer, plus Rain,
And you don’t get GIANT MOSQUITO BITES ON YOUR ELBOW!
/Bugs, I hate em,
The upper Midwest winters are horrible. Even in northwest IN near Chicago where I lived it was unbearable. weeks at a time not above 15 Fahrenheit in the day and months you don’t see the ground. Then when it does finally warm up, the worst thunderstorms you ever experienced.
Meh, I played when it was 15 degrees out, the ice skips were awesome!, seriously, yes, Winter gets old real quick up here, and I haven’t had a hard Winter here yet,
MI isn’t as bad, Yusef. Cold, yes, snow yes. But you don’t have that constant wind and there’s little in the way of apocalyptic thunderstorms. And mosquitos? IN was a giant fucking swamp before they drained it, nothing but mosquitos and swamp diseases. And even today, the mosquitos will eat you alive in the spring and summer. Black flies in the fall.
H, I get the benefit of living right on the the coast, so the lake effect snow goes over us and lands in Cadillac,
But sorry, Manistee may as well be Bullhead as far as wind goes, but I love the wind, My life revolves around the sky.
Don’t hate the lake effect snow. Embrace it. It makes us hearty folks.
Happy for you, Tundra – sorry we never had an opportunity to meet. All the best!
I haven’t been in Colorado since 2011, and even then I was only passing through. But west of Denver is beautiful. Congrats!
OT – texted you my suggestion for an excerpt to post from my favorite of your novels. You may peruse and ponder at your pleasure.
And back. I answered you in my head, I swear!
Congrats on the move. How’s the back. Take it easy, when working out there. The elevation could make things very interesting/intense. Maybe do some Wim Hoff to fast adapt..
Congratulations on the move. I hope you settle in easily.
Where’s my magic bullet?
Arvada?
Brand new part. West and north. Super nice area.
It’s temporary. I needed a place and we found one here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/80scartoons/comments/ou9jy4/spotted_outside_a_local_walmart/
Heh.
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I made two days of intermittent fasting of 14 hours. Weak I am. Last week sucked. However I did log about 27 miles of walking according to my Iphone/tracking device. Some miles painful some not. My legs are weirder than Chafed’s music links.?
That’s not bad. Try eating last meal before bed… earlier. Then 14 hours is mostly spent sleeping. When you wake next morning, do some light exercise/stretch before hydrating with water or coffee or beer. Then, see if you can go a couple hours before eating anything.
I get up around 0300 during the week so I try for dinner around 6-7 PM and then I am out. I try to make it to 10 the next day to eat but sometimes I fail. Also I am doing the 1+1+1 some mornings with stretching and I, in my head, think drinking some protein afterwards is a good idea so that blows my fast. I am never going to have the abs or pecs I had 20 years ago but I can feel it and I can lift heavier stuff at work which makes an old(er) man feel good. I have skipped more days than I achieved but that is the story of my life and I roll with it. Consistent mediocrity is better than lazy ass fat ass fuck head. I excel at mediocrity. Someday I might excel at excellence but I am not there yet. I am weak! I Goggins myself all the time to be better but I am good at ignoring good advice.
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Are they weirder than my music links?
He said weird, not hateful.
Got the first bill from my medical woes. I opened it an saw ‘$6.29’. Apparently it was just the bill for the test done to check kidney function before injecting contrast for the CT scan. Not the bill for the CT scan, just the kidney function test.
I mean, given the letterhead, all of my procedures were under the same umbrella company, why am I going to get a flurry of individual bills instead of one consolidated bill? This has got to be a more expensive way to operate.
Don’t worry, democrats are going to save us from all that. For only 60% of your income, you won’t get any more bills, you’re covered! No fuss no muss, no worries be happy, utopia!
” No fuss no muss, ” no available appointments for 6 weeks as your back collapses,
“no available appointments for 6 weeks”
That’s for the sniffles. If you’re really sick, it’s until after you’re dead. Got to control those costs.
The insurance paperwork millstone grinds slowly…
I just want to be sure I got this right. So, Smeagol went to NASA and offfered them 2 billion dollars to give him the moon lander contract they had awarded to SpaceX? Is that like, I dunno, illegal or something? I don’t really know, I didn’t think you could bribe to get awarded a government contract. Did I miss something? I know, we plebes don’t understand how stuff works, I get it that I don’t get it.
Today is the first time I have seen effective ads blasting Newsom in the recall election. Kudos to Larry Elder and his staff. If he actually has the money to pursue this, Newsom might just get recalled.
Haven’t seen Larry’s ad, but I’m getting blasted by Newsom’s. They are even on the local rock station. Telling me of the doom we face if he’s not retained, LOL.
You know what is weird about recall ballot: You can vote No Recall and then vote for a replacement Gov. We could we end up with ” Gov Bruce” phoning it in from Australia. That would be magical…
Last I read Newsome was under 50 percent which supposedly means he loses? And Elder was leading the also-rans.
Among likely voters, Newsom is at 50% which is within the margin of error. That is a big swing from where he was. Elder is leading all the recall candidates.
I only got one ride in this week (20miles) but I’ve hit the speed bag everyday for 15-20 minutes, which may not be the most strenuous exercise but it’s fun so I do it, which some might say is the important thing.
Also re: the vax/anti-vax kerfuffle. People on both sides keep throwing around numbers that supposedly prove one thing or another, they contradict and “fact-check” each others claims, until one can’t figure out what to believe. That said I can definitively report that the J&J vaccine does not make one immune to hangovers.
My take is there is every indication that this bug of a virus is getting badder with each passing wave and someone has modeled its pathogenesis to something really scary.
According to my model, you’re all gonna die.
Are you really giving that sort of credit to the people whose models have been spectacularly wrong from the get-go?
The models are reverse engineered to support their desired outcome.
Yeah…I put that one in for you Brooksie. Hook, line and sinker.
Complete fucking bullshit. Viruses do not mutate to get deadlier and kill their host. That is not science.
If it is, why didn’t the Spanish Flu kill us all before 1930?
Only in a country where public education has made everyone incredibly dumb could this happen.
Correct virus don’t mutate at all. Sometimes they reassort with the help of genetically engineered clones. Sometimes those reassortants can make a virus more pathogenic or more infective…like when done in a lab trying to obtain gain in function.
The Spanish flu wasn’t concocted in a lab with a potpourri of other virus components. It was concocted in chicken coop.
Is the little boy finally right?
Is the wolf really here?
Good. So long, little boy.
Good. So long…wolf. Pow!
My sarcasmometer is on the fritz. it may have fatally overheated at some point.
Well, your threadometer is most definitely broken beyond repair.
Didn’t run a lot. Only two days this week. Was out of town for work. Ate well, though. Pretty protein heavy/carb light. Only ate one cheeseburger this week, and got a salad instead of fries.
On the road again this week. Got to eat well. I should run more as I know the area/have routes, etc. Plus there’s a nice hill which is perfect for hill sprints. Maybe lots of hill sprints this week?
Okay well everybody get up offa that couch and move your ass. Have a good week, Glibs!