Last week I introduced you to The Slight Edge. This week we will cover its underlying philosophy.
The premise is summarized in this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Do the thing, and you shall have the power.” Jeff Olson, the author, then makes this libertarian friendly observation, “The are two prevalent types of attitudes: entitled and value-driven. A value-driven attitude says, ‘What can I do to help you?’ An entitled attitude says, ‘What have you done for me lately?’ An attitude says, ‘Pay me more, and then maybe I’ll work harder.’ A value-driven attitude says, ‘I’ll work harder, and then I expect you’ll pay me more.’”
“Your philosophy drives your attitudes and feelings, which drive your actions.” “…Understand that little steps, compounded, do make a difference. That the things you do every single day, the things that don’t look dramatic, that don’t even look like they matter, do matter. That they not only make a difference – they make all the difference.”
Olson really emphasizes your personal philosophy is the key. There is no magic formula. No hidden secret has been kept from you. Your success, however you define it, starts and ends with your philosophy because it determines your actions. Said another way, your actions (or lack of action) reveal your philosophy.
Give some thought to your philosophy over this long weekend.
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Mask compliance in my neck of the woods is becoming increasingly erratic as the end of the mask mandate comes on June 15th. Masks are still mandatory in my gym, but it is genuinely funny to see what people are doing. I estimate 20% are wearing their masks properly. The remaining 80% have their noses poking out or are just wearing it like a chin strap. Gym staff has turned a blind eye. Hell, gym staff is well represented among the chin strap crowd.
Weekly cuteness is in honor of Festus. Sorry on the loss of your beloved cat. I have been down that road half a dozen times. It’s no fun. This is how I picture the two of you in happier times.
I imagine this is many of you this weekend.
This week’s music seems appropriate both for the holiday and the philosophy.
The Slight Edge – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-slight-edge-jeff-olson/1117316866?ean=2940149056156
Well, not much in the ways of workouts the past week, but I did manage a new low weight, and a new low body fat percentage still. I now have less then 10 pounds to drop before I hit my goal weight. I haven’t been this thin since just before the lockdowns started last year. The plan is to work to hold that goal weight (+/- 5 pounds) for a month, then aim do drop another 10 pounds.
One night coming up, the girlfriend and I are going to spend part of a work bonus I received on some fancy cocktails and dinner out. That night will be the opposite of GlibFit.
I apparently found the couple of pounds you lost.
Dammit.
Sorry to hear that.
So far, I’m down over 30 pounds from the beginning of the year (all of which was gained during the lockdown year). It really is nice to have the goal weight back in sight again, even if my original reward dinner place (a ~$70 steak tasting dinner of three different 6 ounce cuts) is still closed. I’ve already started eyeing the aspirational cycling jerseys I bought early last year that I haven’t been able to (comfortably) fit yet.
Ooh, fitting into aspirational clothes is huge!
Yes!
Much more relevant than a stupid scale. Great job, Neph!
I’m back to where I can fit back into my favorite bowling shirts again. The aspirational cycling jerseys are all mediums. Once they fit comfortably, it’ll mean that the favorite jerseys (most of which are no longer in production) will need to be retired.
188.8# goal is 184.0
Soooo close! Way to go.
Also soooo close!
Damn, that is a big cat.
Weight is 265.8 lbs @ 26.1% bodyfat.
I was in Pennsylvania last weekend and brought back many baked goods, beer, and pretzels. I’ve been devouring too many of them. I am in danger of not making the late June GlibFit goal. There is time, but not much. I will make some adjustments to what I eat and cut back on the goodies from PA.
Continued from the prior post on ancient Greek we’ve at least got this going for us…
English dictionary of ancient Greek ‘spares no blushes’ with fresh look at crudity
Cats gonna cat.
“Why must I be like that- why must the dog chase the cat ? Must be the dog in me.”
-George Clinton
Neglected citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A
I lost a bunch of weight a few weeks ago, now I’m adding some back on but I don’t know how much. I see the ortho doc on Thursday, optimistic that I’m gonna get some good news and I can start learning to walk again and get outside. I see the grass is in need of cutting and maybe ride the lawn mower. That’s gonna be my exercise for a while.
Have begun to eat better/more.
Do you chug that Ensure stuff? It’s high fat/high-carb for weight gain.
Tres sr drank tons of that stuff after his heart surgery.
I do, I got a couple cases of the 20 G protein, Boost brand, but I have some Ensure as well. I have one as soon as I get up. Whole milk has 9 G per glass and I drink a couple glasses of that as well. My appetite is returning but since I don’t do any work I’m not using a lot of calories. I do therapy but that’s not a lot of work, more like stretching.
Give your body what it wants in terms of protein. Wishing you the best with physical therapy.
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Eat more steak.
This.
Glad you are back on the road to kicking ass, J!
Glad you are bouncing back, 3rd Favorite Old Man! <3
Jeff Olson sounds like a guy I’d like to work with, someone that would cover for my lazy ass.
Race cancelled due to no wind. Returning boat to the other side of the island cancelled since wind should be good next weekend. Heading out by sailboat (using the iron sail) to the ocean to fish. Hopefully we’ll get a mahi-mahi or something else that is tasty.
Wahoo?
When I was a kid we never cancelled races due to wind.
Foodstirs makes keto cookie mix.
https://foodstirs.com/products/foodstirs-organic-keto-chocolate-chip-cookie-mix?_pos=4&_sid=b2e9b30d5&_ss=r
Gf is in the kitchen mixing up a batch. We’ll see how it goes.
Keto is latin for “tastes terrible”.
The Birch Benders brownie cups are pretty good – add Rebel ice cream and whipped cream.
Also, I’m calling #fakenews on yer assertion.
*googles keto beer options*
Bleah!
*googles keto pizza options*
Nope.
I have had a couple keto pizza misadventures. I think now your best bet is a cheat day, and forget about keto pizza.
Spaghetti squash carbonara, on the other hand, is delicious.
We’ve done spaghetti squash marinara, and it was good. It has a good bite. I like 50/50 squash/Durum better though. I would enjoy a carbonara with it too, I’m sure.
I recently discovered the best ever keto ice cream…
Enlightened Keto Ice Cream Cake flavor ice cream. A mix of chocolate and vanilla ice cream, with swirls of chocolate fudge and chunks of cake. Only 8 grams carbs total in the entire pint carton, 2 grams per “serving”, but it’s hard not to eat the whole pint in one sitting! Super creamy, unlike the more gritty consistency in most keto ice cream brands. It’s like having a really good ice cream sundae, and actually hard to differentiate from regular sugar-loaded ice cream, as there’s no artificial sweetener aftertaste.
I got it at Safeway in the Bay Area, not sure if it is available elsewhere.
Website says my local Giant stocks it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XqeuPfGu9bQ
Shooting ranch dressing.
These euphemisms…
Worth it if only for the Barrett
Completely unrelated to anything, but tickets for Viva Las Vegas 2022 are going on sale Tuesday morning. The girlfriend had already tasked me to get up at 04:00 a couple weeks back when the rooms at the hotel it takes place in were available to be booked, so I’ve already got a room booked. Bands and the like will be announced right after
lastthis year’s Viva in September.The 29 year old dish washer (and never a service call) bit the big one. It had begun to get pretty noisy, ker-chug-ker-chug, and was not going to last much longer. I’m supposed to get a new one delivered Tuesday, from Home Depot.
My neighbor took it out, about 10 minutes, put it out on the deck. The new ones come without power cords/hoses/etc, extra cost items. Same as ranges, always need a power cord. Like a car without a spare. My neghbor said he’d be happy to put it in. I’m glad I live where I do.
29 year old dishwasher? You stud.
Heh.
Twenty-nine year old woman in today’s world and she’s a dishwasher?
Hardsoft pass.How does he wash the newer dishes?
Yeah, my DW is probably about that old, its ugly but it works well. Simple to install but whoever remodeled the kitchen (two owners ago? Three?) didn’t know what they were doing, so there is a gap up above where the final screws are supposed to go, so it kinda leans forward when you go to unload the top. Putting in a new one when it’s time is going to be fun.
It’s always something weird in an old house.
The 29 year old dish washer (and never a service call) bit the big one. It had begun to get pretty noisy
My dishwasher’s 49 years old, is noisy as hell, and generally give me no end of grief. The preacher told me it was a lifetime deal, though, and her daddy said “No take backs.”
Guess I’m stuck.
Mine’s the same age, and most of the time it doesn’t even clean the dishes.
In my previous house, the dishwasher wax probably already around 20 yo when we moved in. 10 years later I noticed a mildew smell in the finished basement near the bar sink. I looked snd looked under and around the sink but no leak.
Finally I noticed it was coming from the basement ceiling. Happened to be beneath the dishwasher.
On close investigation of the dishwasher I saw a pinhole in the middle of the back wall of the dishwasher; turns out a long screw had been driven in on the other side of the wall and barely grazed the dishwasher. It had taken nearly 30 years of vibration but that screw eventually pierced the dishwasher wall and allowed it to leak and drip very slowly into the basement.
Crazy. I removed the screw and got a new dishwasher.
This is the kind of stuff that renders pre sale “home inspections” useless. The inspectors never find that kind of crap; they just collect their fees and keep lobbying that inspectors protect consumers.
In case you don’t have anything to do this evening and it’s not a school night for you, we’ll host a Glib Long Weekend Zoom starting at the regular time. 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Glibtime, 6 p.m. Spud time, 5 p.m. AZ and Pacific.
Have a great afternoon, kids!
One very minor regrets in switching careers (not that I had one previously but) is that the new job doesn’t do banker holidays other than a very few. Memorial day is one of them!
Of course, having tomorrow off doesn’t magically make the work go away. In fact it slightly exacerbates the workload because we’re a day closer to breaking ground on the many projects with which we’re involved. If anything it makes things marginally worse than just working tomorrow.
There’s a non-zero chance I may be able to join from the backyard fire pit.
Why the hell should I still need the heat on this close to June? Bring the global warming on.
It’s 102° here, you insensitive asshole.
Upper 40s and a cold rain all day.
I had to get rolls for dinner tonight, and shopping was packed.
57 and cloudy here at the moment. But then, that’s typical for this time of year.
We have 2-3 days of 90+ weather scheduled this week. There goes summer. That’s about what an average summer consists of, in mid-July. This year we’ll probably get another few days like that.
Climate change! Climate change!/ Gomer Pyle voice./ Goooollllllyy, Sarge
L.A. is right around 70. I had the A/C on all the way out to the badlands.
Come back here and you’ll be plenty warm.
Yeah, this the first time I’ve had the heat on this late in Virginia. Since Friday, I’ve had the heat on.
We’re not going to turn the heat back on. Currently 66 in my house. Saturday morning when I came downstairs it was 59 in the house.
You people…
I’ll run the heat and ac on the same day.
You know what they say about the Dutch people. Tighter than bark on a tree.
I’m with Sean. Being comfortable IS an under rated luxury, but it’s one I can afford.
A few days ago we weren’t turning the heat back on either. It’s 48 and raining right now – and the heat is on.
GlibFit.
https://archive.li/cpl64
Again many sorrows and kind wishes to Festus.
It seems insane to me to have an animal like that as a pet. Do you know how powerful they are?
That’s just me, though. Each to their own.
I follow that channel a teensy bit, As I understnd it, that particular cat has some physical and mental problems that makes it impossible for him to be in the wild or a zoo.
Russians be crazy.
That cat bites the pages of the book like my cat does. Except my cat isn’t 300lbs of muscle or whatever with enough bite power to puncture a steel keg, maybe.
My dad about killed our cat when she chewed up the corners of all his MBA books. That was hundreds of dollars of damage she did.
Most of the documents and books from that time frame have gnawed corners.
Chafed!
OK, motherfucker, I’ll order the book. The stack is getting taller and my life is getting shorter, but damn if it doesn’t look promising.
Give some thought to your philosophy over this long weekend.
I have been. We are completely upending our lives shortly and I’m both thrilled and terrified. All the easy, comfortable things are going away. I’m gonna need to build new social networks, learn a new place, but most of all – find a new gym!
I’m gonna go plain Jane lifting gym this time. Lifting over the last bunch of months in the back of a warehouse with a bunch of cool guys has changed my thinking on a gym. I don’t need amenities or hotties.
Fucking great music choice.
Have a great week, Glibfitters!
Get a gym near a coffee house, after you finish the lifts you can have a cuppa joe and check the ladies going in and out . Works for Jimbo but he skips the lifts.
“For me it wasn’t really about the money, it was about sticking it to the big guys by letting other big guys take my money.”
For GameStop that is totally true. Some of them are making money anyway.
That dude’s exactly like my brother with the stock market. He’d be way ahead of the game to just spend it all on hookers and blow.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b43cVD3tkUI
Crayfish vs scorpion vs crab.
Still not as cool as the scorpion vs. camel spider fights I saw IRL.
For my glibfit penance, I took the kid to Mt. Baldy and skated the full pipe with him. There was a pro photo shoot there with about 8 guys. They were totally cool. My kid’s board was all splintered and chewed up so the pro skater took his trucks and wheels off and gave his signature deck to my kid. Very cool move. We were laughing and joking. It was a good time.
I barely hit around 3;30 and 8:30. It took a good bit of trying to even get that high. The pro was riding up around 1 and 11. Vinny was hitting 4:30 to 5. The hike back out nearly killed me. 60 degree incline with gravelly ruts. Luckily, it was a nice 70-ish degrees out, but still, I rested a few times. Getting old.
For context, this is where we went skating.
Next week I’m going to attempt to accomplish one of my Glibfit goals by riding 200km. Things are lining up well. The weather report looks good. Not too hot and not too windy.
Good luck man!
Still hoping to get a century ride in this year.
Diet has stalled out. Been stress eating and man now reluctant to step on the scale.
Gonna have to make myself do it anyway though.
Per the theme of Glibfit this week, I am not entitled nor am I being “what can I do for you?”.
I just don’t know what to do career wise. Maybe I should stick it out and see how things look in a year. Or maybe I should grab the bull by the horns and take initiative to find my next job now.
Neither option is “entitlement” driven. I just don’t know what is best for me, for us, for our Nation..
I don’t want to force change prematurely but I also don’t want to miss the last train out of here’ through indecision.
Do you get many headhunter inquiries?
I just read that President Piddles has an “upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin.”
I’d love to be able to eavesdrop on the Kremlin’s “preparation” for said meeting and compare it to the equivalent prep from the White House.
And how are they selecting Biden’s translator? Can someone slide Condi Rice in there unnoticed as interpreter to make sure Biden doesn’t bet Putin Alaska in a push-up contest?
Will Putin try to make a fool of Biden while the world is watching or play nice and lull the U.S. to sleep so he can plot more mischief?
He doesn’t have to try. Biden does that just fine on his own. Only question is will big tech and TMITE tell us about it or will it relegated to the right wing blogosphere where they can call it fake news.
We’re out from under the covid orders June 13th, but this still happened. Fucking Burbank cops need chippering. Hi, Preet.
I’m off to work, kids. Mind the store.
/stands, salutes Zoom call
/moons Tulip