I'm starting my day early today. I want to get after it this morning, as I feel that I desperately need a victorious day.

It's been a while since I've felt good about the way my day has gone. Yes, yes, I'm fine: I just need to get out of a funk. It usually happens around this time of year since it's right before my own business' busiest season and smack dab in the middle of retail season, a time when I go back and help my parents at their work. To be honest more so than getting ready for my own insanity is doing this last bit.

I just came back from the gym: I did a routine of the Peloton, lifting, a 15 minute treadmill walk, the sauna, and the cold plunge (twice, but for like 10-15 seconds apiece... It physically hurts. Oh well, I'll work my way up to 3 minutes). I feel a lot better, and I feel like I want to take on my day.

Sometimes we need to just release, and thone of my favorite ways to do that is going into the gym, sauna or steam room, or honestly even for a walk or a run or a swim. It's a slow kind of a burn, and it really makes you face some realities about yourself when you're doing something difficult (walking is more of a relaxed enjoyment, to be honest). I had some experiences like that this morning when I was on the treadmill, and my mind started wandering into some dark places.

I do wonder, a,ctually not really wonder but more so am curious about the impact, of certain foods and how the] impact you in the hours after consuming them. There is a thing that whole foods give you more mental clarity than processed foods, which makes sense. I just feel also that while you're working out, they can help you finish stronger. When you're in the cold plunge, they can help you stay in there and embrace the suck longer. When you're in the sauna, they can help you withstand the heat longer. I think this is because they are exactly what were used to, and since we've been doing difficult things for hundreds of thousands of years, whole foods and non-ultra-processed foods are exactly what our bodies have adapted to consuming to get those things done.

Anyways I have a long day and I need to get a move on. Let's get after it today and revisit our thoughts tomorrow.

Vivek

I'm starting my day early today. I want to get after it this morning, as I feel that I desperately need a victorious day.

It's been a while since I've felt good about the way my day has gone. Yes, yes, I'm fine: I just need to get out of a funk. It usually happens around this time of year since it's right before my own business' busiest season and smack dab in the middle of retail season, a time when I go back and help my parents at their work. To be honest more so than getting ready for my own insanity is doing this last bit.

I just came back from the gym: I did a routine of the Peloton, lifting, a 15 minute treadmill walk, the sauna, and the cold plunge (twice, but for like 10-15 seconds apiece... It physically hurts. Oh well, I'll work my way up to 3 minutes). I feel a lot better, and I feel like I want to take on my day.

Sometimes we need to just release, and thone of my favorite ways to do that is going into the gym, sauna or steam room, or honestly even for a walk or a run or a swim. It's a slow kind of a burn, and it really makes you face some realities about yourself when you're doing something difficult (walking is more of a relaxed enjoyment, to be honest). I had some experiences like that this morning when I was on the treadmill, and my mind started wandering into some dark places.

I do wonder, a,ctually not really wonder but more so am curious about the impact, of certain foods and how the] impact you in the hours after consuming them. There is a thing that whole foods give you more mental clarity than processed foods, which makes sense. I just feel also that while you're working out, they can help you finish stronger. When you're in the cold plunge, they can help you stay in there and embrace the suck longer. When you're in the sauna, they can help you withstand the heat longer. I think this is because they are exactly what were used to, and since we've been doing difficult things for hundreds of thousands of years, whole foods and non-ultra-processed foods are exactly what our bodies have adapted to consuming to get those things done.

Anyways I have a long day and I need to get a move on. Let's get after it today and revisit our thoughts tomorrow.

Vivek