I’m only cheating myself by not actually starting on the pushups training for the first two weeks of the competition. Had to put off working out for the first two weeks because of a family vacation and a heavy, heavy workload. Ended up being too exhausted to workout at all.

Now that work has settled down, I got started today.

Woke up and did the first week/day one of the challenge. Did seven, rested, seven, rested, five, rested, four, rested, and then as many as I could before failure/bad form. I ended up finishing seven at that last point.

I’m INCREDIBLY sore right now. I’m really hoping that I’ll be able to rest well enough over the course of tomorrow to work on day two.

Pushup log begins!

Initial test was 15 pushups before my form looked bad and my muscles failed. So let’s hope I can hit 100 pushups after six weeks of training!

So man, it’s been a while since I’ve updated this. So…let’s see what’s happened in the past couple months (GTD-related and otherwise).

- I still haven’t finished the book. Regardless, I’m still compiling lists, doing weekly braindumps into a Moleskine journal, I use GMail consistenly and have moved all my previous email correspondence to it, added the Better gMail Firefox Extension to further organize my mail.
- With the help of my girlfriend, I donated nearly 200 articles of clothing out of my closet to Goodwill. No seriously. Three giant lawn bags full of clothes. I have room in my closet, room in my armoire, and peace of mind knowing I don’t have to think twice about that horrible t-shirt that I thought I’d still wear tomorrow. Reducing the clutter, one fashion nightmare at a time.
- Currently studying for my first Microsoft certification and I’ll be taking my tests in Early May.
- My mental Inbox is pretty much clean everyday. And it feels good being able to write everything down in a to-do list and empty my head before chopping down the proverbial tree of stuff one layer at a time without having to remember anything.
- I love me some Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

I’m really trying to get this book finished, but with deadlines and projects at work, Christmas shopping, and spending QT with the girlfriend, it’s been really hard for me to sit down in my own little world and get the book finished. I’m midway through the third chapter and this seems to be the hurdle that I can’t seem to jump over to get started on finishing this book. To be honest, I actually fall asleep when thumbing through the chapter.

In my opinion, it does seem a little too over-the-top when it comes to me wanting to actually implement GTD into my life; reading this book seems to be for people who are in higher positions/jobs that take on a whole lot more responsibility than I do in mine.

I’m hoping to get the book finished hopefully by the end of the year. I’ve got 12 days.

http://thinksimplenow.com/clarity/how-to-cure-packrat-itis/

After reading this article and watching TV shows about compulsive hoarders, and of course, the constant consulting by my girlfriend to clean my damn room, it really puts me into the “this could get much worse” phase when it comes to how unkempt and disorganized my room is.

I’ve been making a steady effort to clean my room, organize my electronics, and the hardest one — keeping my computer desk clean. I take personal inventories of what I have in my room and I’ve been trying to implement routines for stuff that I put in my room. New mail? Put it in the mailbox. Dress down to lounge clothes at the end of the day? Make sure the clothes are in the hamper or back in the closet. Done getting served in Halo 3? Put the controller back.

One issue I’ve had with living in the basement of my folks’ house is the hand-me-downs that come down here to die from upstairs. My parents are notorious for saying “it’s still good” a lot and demote a lot of their old stereo equipment and furniture downstairs to my room. …I have a couch and loveseat from what I think is the mid to late-1970s staged as my main sitting area. And they hurt.

That’s one of the main reasons why I plan to move out to my own place sometime in the first quarter of the new year. Give me an ability to start over and begin a non-cluttered life from scratch. Will I be able to make it in an apartment/town home without the presence of free heirlooms? I’m gonna have to. Otherwise I might go insane.

Currently trying to move away from using my ISP’s POP3 email address that I’ve been using for the past seven years to one of my gmail accounts that has been dormant for the past three or four. While I love using my ISP’s email at home (yay Thunderbird!), and logging into it isn’t a big deal, I do have an issue with storage. My ISP can only allow so much storage for emails before they start raining down warnings from the heavens. And I’d rather not have those emails saved on my hard drive when that could be used for something else.

In time, when I finish reading the book and implementing the GTD further into my life, I’ll definitely open the field to people to comment and converse with me.

Happy Black Friday everyone! Don’t get trampled in the rush!

After years of struggling with what to do with this webspace besides store random files, amidst all the Web 2.0/social networking/horrible-looking push-button “webpages” out there, I’ve finally decided what to do with this thing.

I’ve been a faithful reader of Lifehacker for about six months now, and I’m in the middle of reading David Allen’s Getting Things Done. After being influenced by how much material is out there on the net regarding the whole GTD concept, I’d thought I’d somewhat chronicle my journey through the book as well as past the book. Documenting little nuances that I’m discovering while applying GTD to my life, tips and tactics that I pick up online or stumble upon myself, and my attempt to get friends and family to understand GTD and how I’m using it (and possibly trigger interest in them to want to try it out.)

This blog will include stuff that I’ve dugg, GTD-related or otherwise, random thoughts that come to mind, the occasional picture or two, and whatever else I feel would be fun to share with everyone. I’ve been blogging on and off since around 2000 or so, on various homes around the internet, so it’s not exactly new to me. But after being out of the game for about three or four years, I look to come back with a renewed purpose in writing — I’m in a very serious relationship with my girlfriend, I’ve finally started on my career, and I’m looking on how to keep everything organized as I make the transition to life in grown-up land. In time, I might get comfortable enough to actually want to enable commenting. I’ve had a bad experience with people commenting just to give me grief and it hit me rather personally, so I want to try and avoid it until I’m good and ready. Hope you’ll understand. Anyway, I hope to document stuff on a more regular basis, and I hope there’s someone out there crazy enough to follow along.

Note to self: wear a cup.