That last attempt rather petered out, so I'm starting again tomorrow. That's all I'm saying right now, so good night!
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Added by Alexander on June 14, 2009 at 12:06pm —
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I want my website to be a proper informative guide to the mass of self-help info out there - not just a load of links, but actually providing real information. My plan to put 100 hours work into the site is coming along nicely: seven hours in, and a workable structure has emerged for arranging it, with a number of main subject areas, each of which then has resources indexed under it. At the moment I've got a framework for four main subject areas (Relax & De-stress; Losing weight; Getting fit…
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Added by Alexander on May 15, 2009 at 6:59am —
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RIGHT! This season I am going to get a proper website going, and my plan is basically to put 100 hours' work in over the next few weeks and at the end of those 100 hours I want it to be pulling in a passive income of at least 100 pounds a week. Naked greed! Or "generating prosperity" as I believe the accepted phrase is around here. Actually, 100 pounds a week isn't that much, but it will make a big difference to me. And I'm planning to do this without putting any more money into the project. All…
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Added by Alexander on May 14, 2009 at 5:07am —
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Oooh, I've actually managed to sell something on Amazon! At last! Anyway, the last day of my fast went very much like the first two, although I did get a little dizzy at one point, it wasn't a big deal really. Cleansing crisis? What cleansing crisis? All in all, fasting has been a rather disappointing experience. Still, I have lost a bit of weight, and I suppose that now I've proven to myself that it's not such a big deal after all, I can always fast for a day or two if I feel the need to lose a…
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Added by Alexander on May 8, 2009 at 4:16pm —
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Bought an mp3 player off ebay... and it had a worm on it! I think my antivirus software stopped it though, and I've now (1) disabled autorun (hell, you actually have to edit the registry to do that on Windows XP? That's insane!) and (2) formatted the thing, so I think I've got rid of it. I found out how to check for hidden files (I know it was dir -s on real DOS but it's dir /ah on the command shell in XP, for some reason) and it seems to be gone. Something I read suggested that formatting didn'…
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Added by Alexander on May 8, 2009 at 8:41am —
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61 hours on just water and still feeling, well, normal. No terrible lows, no ecstatic highs, just very much the same as usual. Maybe a little bit tired but nothing really "challenging". I've lost six pounds though, which is great, even though I doubt I'll keep it all off. Planning to break my fast tomorrow, and I'll try not to go too mad...
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Added by Alexander on May 8, 2009 at 3:21am —
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...and still fasting. Which is going really well - it almost seems like it's going TOO well, because I haven't really felt any great hunger or headches or dizziness or anything, but I haven't experienced a "fasting high" either... basically, I haven't eaten for 46 hours and I just feel very much the same as usual.
Lost a ten pound note today, which was rather annoying. It must have dropped out of my pocket as I was cycling - I figured the most likely places I could have lost it were in the lock…
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Added by Alexander on May 7, 2009 at 12:18pm —
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Yesterday was my first full day on a water fast, and it went well. I haven't eaten since 8pm on Tuesday and it's now nearly 8am on Thursday so that's 36 hours so far and I haven't felt anything too bad as far as side effects go. I had a headache last night but it was fairly mild, and I was really tired, too tired to blog and I was asleep before 11pm which hasn't happened in years. But I haven't really felt hungry. From what I've read, day two seems to be the worst so I've got that to look forwar…
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Added by Alexander on May 7, 2009 at 1:46am —
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Well, I said I'd be a bit quiet for the first few days. I also said I wanted to do a little fast, and I'm prepapring to start that tomorrow. Also tomorrow I want to try recording a bit of background for my meditation audios, if I can find the find cables to hook stuff up to my computer. So that's day 6 pretty well booked up!
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Added by Alexander on May 5, 2009 at 12:06pm —
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...though of course it's liable to change and develop and all that. I'm going to try to write some imaginative relaxation/meditation/visualisation scripts and record them - some basic ones for free and more amazing ones for sale. Until last month I was still using an old computer that didn't even have a CD burner. So now that I can actually burn CDs I'm hugely excited by the possibilities! That, and the processing power to do brilliant audio editing stuff. So... I've managed to get my details up…
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Added by Alexander on May 1, 2009 at 4:42am —
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I wasn't going to start my season until Monday but since so many people are starting theirs tomorrow, I'm going to bring it forward. Though the first few days may be a little quiet...
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Added by Alexander on April 30, 2009 at 5:10pm —
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It must be the return of nice weather... I'm back to give this another go. I haven't even looked at this site in about five months, and I'm amazed people have been sending me messages in that time. I'll try to get back to you all.
Some vague and not so vague ideas have formed in my mind, and hopefully blogging about them should give me the spur to put them into action... not that it worked last time! Still, if you don't try, you'll never know how badly you would have failed!
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Added by Alexander on April 27, 2009 at 5:57am —
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Much like the hundred years' war, my first 100 Day Reality Challenge has run a little over schedule. That awkward pause in the middle has rather muddied the waters, but I think it was the right decision. Anyway, 121 days later, here I am, still alive, better off in some ways, and not much changed in others.
My original goals, then.
* Lose another twenty pounds.
Did this well within the 100 days. Today I weighed in at 147 pounds, which I think is something like 35 pounds less than I weighed at…
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Added by Alexander on September 23, 2008 at 11:06am —
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I haven't blogged in a while, because I haven't done much in a while. So much for that frenzy of activity I was going to have. I haven't been out running in over a week, though I have cycled 154 miles, which puts me ahead of my target to cycle 1000 miles in season 2. Dogs are still depressing me, though there is some good news on that front in that the dog that some idiot used to let roam loose around the village hasn't been seen in a while and may be dead.
I'm still hula hooping and still read…
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Added by Alexander on September 22, 2008 at 3:02pm —
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Didn't really achieve much. It was raining all day and the dog problem is really depressing me. I didn't write anything much and I probably overate and will have put on more weight than I can reasonably lose by next weigh-in, and everything's shit. I did read most of "God Is Not Great" though, and hula hooped quite a bit. It doesn't really make up for all the bad stuff though.
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Added by Alexander on September 14, 2008 at 2:43am —
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Apparently, owners of predatory animals have now started lying in wait for me. Today I spent 25 minutes waiting for someone with a dog to move from their position at the corner of the only road into the village so that I could travel the last 200 yards home. I am not pleased. I saw an ad on the telly the other day for a charity which rehomes dogs. I think I should get in touch and ask if they can rehome all the local dogs as far away from me as possible. There are plenty of islands off the coast…
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Added by Alexander on September 12, 2008 at 5:24pm —
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Well, this is something new. I am now a pioneer of simultaneous seasonality! A new set of intentions, and 100 days to cram it all in before it all falls apart for yuletide.
I'll really get cracking tomorrow, but today I've figured out what I want to do. Season 1 (still in progress) has been frustrating in some ways but hugely successful in others. A few intentions are carried forward, in particular writing my second website, for which I want to do 100 articles within the first 50 days. A relate…
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Added by Alexander on September 11, 2008 at 5:27pm —
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With just 12 more days to go on season 1, unfortunately there's no way I'm going to achieve ALL of my intentions, but going through them, I feel like I've done quite well on some of them, especially the health and fitness goals, all of which I have achieved. And I've laid the groundwork for those goals I haven't quite achieved yet.
Anyway, today I cycled 23 miles and I went to the library where, unknown to me, there was a book waiting to be picked up. I'm getting a bit of a backlog on my readin…
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Added by Alexander on September 11, 2008 at 5:05pm —
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I did manage to get my blood pressure checked, but only after a wild goose chase. I went to the location listed on the Brlood Pressure Association website, at the time listed, only to find that the information was, quite simply, wrong. They'd never even heard of the Know Your Numbers campaign.So I ended up going right across town to the pharmacy where I had my blood pressure checked before. Clearly the woman there didn't recognise me, but anyway I did eventually get it checked and it's fine. It…
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Added by Alexander on September 10, 2008 at 11:35am —
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Bought some tapes today. Tapes are great. But anyway... I did get some good cycling in, and I wrote a bit but not as much as I would have liked, and I read a bit but not as much as I would have liked either.
If I hadn't had that pause in the middle of my season, today would have been day 1 of season 2. I wasn't joking about overlapping seasons: to get season 2 over before yuletide, I'll want to start it this week, quite likely on Thursday. Then I'll have a couple of weeks of mad frantic intense…
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Added by Alexander on September 8, 2008 at 4:56pm —
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