CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930’s 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s !
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
This is the post where I track my personal weight loss program during the month of February 2009…
THE GOAL: 6-pack abs in 1 month
THE METHOD: High Intensity Cardio 6 days a week. Slow weight training 3 days a week. Fat and Protein diet with lots of water…
Day 28 – The Last Day!
Found a gym and worked out hard. I can’t believe that I 28 days have passed already. Feels like only 2 weeks since I started this mission. Well, I failed to reach my goal of a 6-pack. I’m not dissappointed becasue I learned so much about nutrition and how my body works. I lost about 3% body fat in total, maintained most of my muscle mass and reduced my weight by 2 kg. My love handles are almost gone and I can see the beginnings of my 6-pack, which feels good.
So what next? I’m going to take a break while I’m in South Africa, although I’ll keep doing cardio and some body weight exercises to maintain my current physique. Then, in April, I’ll get back on another program to focus stictly on building muscle with 3 primary ‘multi joint exercises – deadlifts, bench press and squats…
I’ll create another pose to track that then.
Thanks to everyone who encouraged me. Your support spurred me on and updating this post every day kept me focused and committed.
I have answered some of your questions in the comments below.
Till next time, keep fit!
Day 27
Ran on the beach for the first time in ages… It’s hot here, so I hope I burned more calories than usual. Cannot track my body fay % here as I left my scales in London! No space in my my luggage for those… Read the rest of this entry »
I flew to Egypt for two weeks on a windsurfing trip, but I ended up in bed.
No, I wasn’t sick – I was addicted…
A friend asked me to review a book called “Outrageous Mastery” by Sasha Xarrian (who I introduced you to last week) and I literally could not put it down.
The book was so gripping that I actually sacrificed windsurfing to read this book. If you know me well, you’ll know that hardly ANYTHING can tear me away from windsurfing.
Is getting the life of your dreams turning out to be harder than you thought it would be?
If you’re still dreaming of one day living the good life, you’ve possibly fallen prey to the single most common mistake I see people making when creating their designer life.
Before I dive in though, allow me to explain how I define a ‘designer life’.
In it’s simplest form, a designer life is a life that you customize to meet your ideal criteria in every area of life. As I define it, it includes having the freedom to do whatever you choose whenever you choose. There’s more to it, but for the sake of simplicity, let’s use this definition for the moment.
The Biggest Mistake People Make Is…
WAITING…
Waiting is the killer of all great ideas and probably the most common mistake that stops people taking action towards creating their dream life now and actually fulfilling their dreams.
“Waiting is only one measure above death” – Werner Erhard
Although its great to dream of one day owning a mansion overlooking the sea, a red Ferrari, sporting 6-pack abs and being married to Mr Right, you’re probably not going to get all of those things in the next 7 days.
So, here’s how you can you begin living your designer life today, without waiting for your dreams to arrive in the future?
Ask yourself this, “What is it about the things I want that make me feel good?”
Continuing the example above, you may answer:
being able to see the sea from my bedroom
having a car that turns heads and thrills me to drive
having a healthy, fit body
having a loving relationship
Now, take a moment and do the math. When you add up the monthly cost for you to actually do and have the things that make you feel good, I expect you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
You can have all of the things that make you feel good now, without having to own a mansion or a Ferrari. I’m not suggesting that you give up on your dreams. I am suggesting that you can afford your dream lifestyle right now in some shape or form and you don’t have to wait for it.
So, get busy living it now, rather that waiting for your dream life to arrive someday in the future.
Watch the video below.
I interviewed this man earlier this year. He’s 70 years old and decided to stop waiting and follow his dream of sailing around the world. He also happens to be my father…
Watch this video, it’s inspiring…
So remember, your dream lifestyle is closer than you think, if you quit waiting for it.
Till next week, keep Living (with a capital L)
Your partner in success,
P.S. If you enjoyed this article, please leave your comments below and bookmark this page on your favorite social bookmark sites using the links below.
Join thousands all around the globe visualizing a world that works for everyone…
What is New World Day?
New World Day is a day to shift our focus from seeing the world as a place full of problems, to seeing the world the way you’d like it to be.
At 17:00 GMT on 29 October 2008, thousands of people from across the globe will collectively visualize the world being the way that they want it to be.
How can I participate?
All you need to do is click the PLAY button below and listen along to the recording as you are guided through visualizing the world the way you want it. If you don’t want to use the recording, you can just close your eyes and visualize.
So, turn off your phone, close your email program and instant messenger and enjoy…
Why Visualize collectively?
Numerous studies show that a group of people collectively focussing their minds on a single goal, can make a massive impact in the real world. Practitioners of Trancendetal Meditation have successfully carried out numerous experiements where they lowered the crime rate in the city they were meditating in, just by collectively meditating…
Right click here and select “Save target as…” and download the meditation and please send your friends to this page so they too can experience it…
I really want to hear from you, so when you’re done visualizing, please leave your comments about New World Day by clicking the “add comments” link at the top of this post…
P.S. If you know friends who you think would like to participate in New World Day, please email them, Facebook them, Twitter them and let them know about this page…
If you’re happy staying ignorant about the effect the media is having on you, then do not read this post… It’s controversial, and also educational.
Have you been watching the news lately?
Are you feeling a little uncertain about your future because the banks are breaking; financial markets are crashing and the headlines say that the world is going to hell in a hand basket?
Maybe you find yourself worrying about your future, or are considering cancelling your holiday because you’re not sure if your next paycheck is a sure thing…
Well, I’d like to share a very powerful strategy for ensuring that no matter what happens in the world, you remain in the driver’s seat – positive, powerful and prosperous.
Credit Crisis? What Credit Crisis?
I found out about the credit crunch a few days after the rest of the world did. Because I haven’t owned a television in 5 years and I don’t read the newspaper (unless I’m in it ), I’m often unaware of what is going on in the world until I need to know.
Now, you might be thinking that this is a little irresponsible of me. After all, as responsible citizens, surely it’s our duty to stay up to date on current affairs, is it not?
Have you ever feared that if you lost everything you’d end up on the street, homeless?
Well, not so long ago, my new friend Matt Morris found himself living his worst nightmare – living out of his car, showering in the rain in a church parking lots and washing himself in gas station bathrooms. Now, just a few years later Matt used personal development to turn his life around and now runs Success University the largest personal development website in the world, owns a multi million dollar business and his company feeds almost 100000 children every month.
Matt has lived through the ultimate rags to riches story and if you want to know how he did it, what he attributes all his success to and how you can make your own success faster, make sure that you watch this fascinating interview to the end.
To find out more about Matt’s awesome company, Success University, and how you can educate yourself for personal and financial success, click here to go to Success University’s website (opens a new browser window).
P.S. I’m a member of Success University and I use it all the time. Its has everything from Business training to personal development training to Internet marketing training. I’m also on the teaching faculty, so Success University members get my “Mind Mastery 101″ CD free (normally $67). Check out Success University here.
Petr Muzik is an extraordinary man. Not only is he my father, but he has just returned from fulfilling his life long dream – to sail around the world on his yacht, ‘Shoestring’.
For many years, my dad had a goal of sailing around the world. He built three yachts in our back yard as I was growing up. His last yacht, ‘Shoestring 3’, took him 15 years to build, between raising a family and running a business.
Some people thought Petr would never set sail, but in 2005, my dad set to sea for what would become a three year epic journey that changed his life forever.
Tragedy struck one month out to sea when Roy, my step brother, was killed in a motorcycle accident and my dad had to turn around and sail one month back to Cape Town for the funeral. However, by the time he arrived in Cape Town, he had to postpone his trip for another year, waiting for the trade winds to blow again.
Having sold his house and car to go sailing around the globe, my Dad and his partner May, lived aboard Shoestring in Cape Town harbor until the trade winds returned one year later.
Undeterred, they left Cape Town for South America, traveled through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean and on to New Zealand and Indonesia. From there, he crossed the Indian Ocean where his boat was shipwrecked in a coral atoll called Cocos Keeling.
In the middle of the night, anchored in a small bay in paradise, the wind changed and threw Shoestring onto a coral reef. Water flooded the boat and Shoestring began to sink. Miraculously, there was a boat anchored nearby who had a generator and a pump (Shoestring’s pumps could not cope with the rate of water coming in) and came to the rescue. During the shipwreck, the rudder had broken off and the propeller was so damaged that Petr had to cut it off with a hacksaw. Things were not looking good. Shoestring had sustained intense damage and was now left with a hole in the side of the boat, no propeller, no rudder and a bent keel!
Again undeterred, my dad pulled the boat into shallow water and waited for the tide to go out. He then had a 6 hour window in which to repair the holes in the hull. Amazingly, with the help of some fellow yachtsmen, they slowed the leaking down to a manageable level. Now, all they needed was a rudder and they could limp home across the Indian Ocean.
Miraculously, one of my Dad’s crew found an old catamaran rudder lying in a bush on the coral atoll!!! What are the chances? It was as if god had reached down and placed the rudder there just for ShoestringDad attached the rudder to Shoestring and sailed for 30 days across the Indian Ocean, finally completing his amazing trip in December 2007. The sailing community put him on the cover of Sailing Magazine, acknowledging his accomplishment.
The moral of this story in the words of my father: “If you have a dream, just do it!”
Watch this fascinating video interview with my dad and hear the story from the horse’s mouth with photographs too.
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), I’m often unaware of what is going on in the world until I need to know.
Petr Muzik is an extraordinary man. Not only is he my father, but he has just returned from fulfilling his life long dream – to sail around the world on his yacht, ‘Shoestring’.
Tragedy struck one month out to sea when Roy, my step brother, was killed in a motorcycle accident and my dad had to turn around and sail one month back to Cape Town for the funeral. However, by the time he arrived in Cape Town, he had to postpone his trip for another year, waiting for the trade winds to blow again.
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