Insanity Day 11 - Failure

Evening World, Evening Universe.

Today was a completely failure in terms of doing my measurements and doing my insanity workout.

I went out Saturday night and had amazing time. I was out with one of my best friends and his old work stuff. The place we went to was called North pole, which is around the corner from Greenwich DLR station. 

I ended up, crashing at my friends house that night, so wasn't able to do my workout in the morning. I then had planned to do it later today. However I only recently got in.

This doesn't mean I am going to fall off track. In fact I am going to get back on track with improved focus and dedication. I wanted to go out and this is the price I paid. It wasn't scheduled so I hadn't planned a workout around it. 

Today's 'Feature Pictures' will be posted tomorrow so you will be expecting two, apologies. However I did update my facebook album with a few photo's I found today.

The rest of the day I spent helping my mate painting his room. It was so much fun, painting is very soothing and a great way to blow off stress. A few other friends came over and helped. We all made a day out of it. 

After finishing we went out for a good meal at Frank and Benny's.   

Tomorrow is another day, I can't wait.

Goodnight World, Goodnight Universe.

 
Happy Training, Happy Fitness.

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Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.

Dealing with Stress

So for a long time now I have been dealing with a lot of stress and normally I would say a small amount of stress is always good for you. It keeps you on your toes but like most things to much of anything is bad for you.

So why have I been over stressed? I decided to do some research into what can create stress but also how to combat it. During my search I came across a lot of helpful tips on how to combat stress, which also highlighted the main causes for stress.

The first part to solving anything is accepting their is something wrong. In my case what has been stressing me out the most is;

1. What I do for a living (work) isn't  meaningful enough to me and it's not what I want to do
2. Fear for leaving my current job and not getting another one
3. I create many 'To Do Lists' and never complete them properly or at all
4. Procrastination when I know I should be using the time for something more important
5. Erratic Sleeping patterns
6. Poor eaten pattern 
7. Over indulging on alcohol

Now that I have outlined what has been stressing me out, I just have to find a solution that will fix each one.

1. Create career plan, decide what you want to do based on what you like and what your good at.
2. Anything worth doing comes with risk but if its important enough make that change and embrace the fear. Do the research, make plans and fulfill them.
3. Never overlord yourself with to much in one go and make time to get tasks done. Its all about prioritizing whats important and whats not. So create prioritizing color indicator for each task with time and date and appropriate reminders.  
4. use sundays to schedule your week ahead and make time for relaxation and entertainment
5. Creating a strict sleeping routine and stick to it and everything else will follow 
6. Manage my meal times and make sure they health.
7. Stop drinking

These are things that I will have to incorporate into my weekly scheduling not that I haven't already. However I haven't structured to my work schedule and days off and that's where it all goes wrong. This is why I shall use Sunday as the day where I alternate my week ahead schedule, plan and prioritize my to list that week. 

It's all about taking control and finding the best way to relief stress. There are many ways of releasing stress so the best way is finding what works well for you and adapting it into your lifestyle. Others ways of dealing with stress are;

1. Physical exercise
2. Mediation or me time
3. Stress Diary - To help you keep track, reflect and make the appropriate changes to keep stress to a minimum
4. Learn to say 'NO',you come first.
5. Accepting the things you can't change
6. Volunteer work can be fulfilling and rewarding, helping those less fortunate then you are can help put things into perspective 
7. Avoid unhealthy habits and people/individuals that stress you out
8. Connect with people
9. Be positive
10. express yourself more rather then bottling it all up

An one of the most important things to remember is to remember what helps you. Keep it fresh in your mind with reminders. The last thing you want to do is to fall back into the same bad habits and behaviors that resulted in your high stress levels to begin off with.

Below are some links i got a lot of helpful advise from;

How to Mediate
10 Tips dealing with Stress
Dealing with Stress
Steps to do with Stress
Stress management
NHS - Ten Stress Busters
BBC -  The Consequences of too much stress
BBC - Learning How To Relax

Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.

40 Days, 40 Nights was easy? Still got 325 days. . .

Today is the 40th day of my no sexual interaction (celibacy) for one of my new year revolution challenges.

Funny enough one of my most favourite films is '40 days and 40 nights'. A romantic comedy about a guy called 'Matt' played by 'Josh Hartnett' who is broken after his long relationship with a women and finds no trouble getting women into bed but can't find that emotional connection most seek for. Due to the lack of an emotional connection when he comes close to climaxing a dark whole appears above him and he panics. Needless to say no climax.

I don't know about everyone else but no climax for most guys pretty much means the end of the world.

As the film progress he finds out that his ex 'Susie' played by 'Emmanuelle Vaugier' is engaged and getting married. Matt decides to seek advise from his brother about he's emotional state who is a priest in training. Matt then decides to make a vow of celibacy for the '40 Days of Lent'.

During the rest of the film Matt meets the girl of his dreams (one day ^_^ if I haven't already), 'Erica' played by 'Shannyn Sossamon' and is unable to do anything about it physically.

Now during his '40 Days of Lent' he starts to suffer hallucinations about women and the fact that his roommate and friends at work started a betting on how long he could last.

They created a website that people around the world could bet too didn't help as women in the work place and around his life try to entice him off the righteous path.

I can't say I've suffered hallucinations yet however the dreams I have been having are crazy mental. That's right i said crazy and mental neither should make either redundant because intent was to describe the level of insanity brought fourth and I plan to survive the whole year without knowing what the future holds. Bring it on.


I can fully appreciate the fact that for some people it takes deep mediation and focus (example Monks) however I know with my philosophy everything is within are powers within it be physical or mental and we decide what we personally do.

One of my favourite parts of the film is how they describe the 'THE SPECIAL SPOT' a place where you feel at ease and can enjoy your existence and everything around you. I can personally say I've only shared this with two women in my life and I truly believe in the importance of the first KISS.

 I hope everyone enjoyed this blog I know I haven't done many personal blogs but there will he more so I hope you all follow.

Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.