Lessons in self reliance

In our lives we accomplish most significant things on our own. Yet for ever so small things we ask for assistance from others. I have trained myself to be a fiercely independent person and still almost on an impulse end up asking for help for things I could easily have taken care of on my own and more often than not am let down, and then it stings even more. Well take for example this one time I needed to catch a flight and asked a coworker for a ride. The guy I had asked had let me to dry several times previously, but being too old a dog to learn new tricks I asked the small favour again. It did not come as a big surprise that he stuck me again at the last minute. Now the first impluse for me was to paste him with the tastiest of profanities in my vocabulary, but that was not the answer.

The choice in life is to learn from mistakes and follow the timeless adage - " once bitten twice shy"...

More imortantly self reliance is a continual journey on a one way street, no turning or looking back...

Let's see how long the sting lasts this time

Bought new Sneakers….

Week 3 of the new lifestyle and things are holding up just fine. Have successfully managed to increase the intensity of the workouts and now can hold out well enough for half an hour. And to celebrate the achievement decided to treat myself to a brand new pairs of sneakers (already clocked 3 miles on them).


It is amazing how this new routine has worked wonders (so far) for me. No more burning of the mid night oil. No more reaching office late. No more eating junk food.

So now the challenge is to take the workout levels a notch higher. I have been clocking around 300+ cals for the last week and today broke into the 350+.


Fun all the way….

And I finally made it to the Gym...

After a patient build up over two years and mental prep of even longer I finally managed to haul myself down to the gym today.
After immense mental shadow practice and prep I carefully choose the strategic time of 6:00 am in the morning to hopefully have the whole gym to myself and to go about my ‘workout’ in gay abandon. But lo behold even at this unearthly hour (at least to me) the place was filled with enthusiasts. Nonetheless I boldly went in to explore hitherto uncharted territory. 10 minutes on the treadmill and 5 minutes on the stepper is all I could manage to squeeze out 125 precious calories. Whew!

But now that the barriers have fallen and the earth has begun to shake, only the sky is the limit. And perhaps the timing can be tweaked a bit ;)

Would let the world know how it goes from here….