My recent experiment with dropping alcohol for a bit got me thinking about running several other similar sort of trials. Rather than think, "hey, I am going to do this thing forever" it was "what if I tried this for a week? Or maybe a month?"
Like what if I did some set number of body squats every day for a week? Or wall sits for some time every day for a month? And then the thought extended to other possible experiments outside of just physical exercise. What if I spent 15 minutes every morning for a quarter working on writing songs? Or what if I gave up social media for a month?
Would I see a change? I can't say that I have seen some sort of profound physical change in dropping beer: I still have oddball sleep, I haven't dropped 10 pounds, and I sometimes still feel lethargic. Mentally, however, I do take some satisfaction in that I have been able to manage a small amount of discipline in making this choice. That certainly means something. So I wonder if I will enjoy that with other experiments. And maybe I will also be able to see some other benefits.
I quickly penned out thirty possible ones the other day - everything from physical disciplines to mental ones to "art" projects to, well, frankly things I have thought I could do but for whatever reason I have put off. I'll start this week with 100 push ups a day (not in one shot, likely sets of 20-50). It is an easy start. I should be able to push away from the desk at some point, not look at the phone, drop and do them. No harder than saying no to a gin and tonic, right?
The bigger objective here is to make little changes over time to make larger improvements. Some of these experiments will work. Some will fail. I might falter. I might hate it. I should learn a thing or two in any case.
7 miles in the afternoon, slow (9:15) with a lot of breaks. 100 push ups (20, 20, 25, 35) over the day.
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