2012 New Years Resolutions
- Run at least 20K a week
- Run a 5k race sub 25mins
- Read a book every 2 months
- Study something new in spare time
- Get body fat index below 8%
- Visit 3 new countries
2011 resolutions review
- Drink more water
- Pass
- Alcohol free year
- 4 months at the beginning, 4 months at the end. Fail.
- Train for a half marathon
- Changed mind and training for quick 5K. Fail.
- Do more photography
- Not really. Fail.
- Read book every 2 months
- Check, read 8 books however 6 were in the last 2 months. Pass (retake).
- Take health/fitness seriously again, get body fat index below 10%
- Achieved in summer, but since lost, Fail (retake).
- Learn something new in spare time
- Nope nothing. Fail.
- Visit 3 new countries
- Only 2; UAE and Afghanistan but didn’t really have time so, Pass (retake).
One topic they wrestled with was his belief, which came from his Buddhist studies, that it was important to avoid attachment to material objects. Our consumer desires are unhealthy, he told her , and to attain enlightment you need to develop a life of nonattachment and non-materialism. He even sent her a tape of Kobun Chino, his Zen teacher, Egan (girlfriend at time) pushed back. Wasn’t he defying that philosophy, she asked, by making computers and other products that people coveted? “He was irritated by the dichotomy, and we had exuberant debates about it
– Extract from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Favourite and Stupid RAF Reg Sayings
- Expect the unexpected
- Adapt and overcome
- Pressure makes diamonds
- Start sparking
- Today it’s pockets, tomorrow pouches then it’ll be safety catches
- Listen in!
- Do it with the speed of a thousand gazelles
- Give the enermy the good news
- Weapon. Kit. Self.
- Pain is just weakness leaving the body
- Train hard, fight easy
- Not a Dali Lama troops
- If ain’t training it it ain’t raining
- It’s a easy as putting on a hat
- Now imagine the Landrover is an Apache
- Mag to grid get rid. Grid to mag add
- Greens are for dying in, not ironing
- You’re in your own time now
About me
Greetings,I'm a Hardcore Christian, who is in the Royal Air Force Police, loves Technology, the Internet and Photography and I enjoy a mean Workout ... and this is a glimpse into my somewhat life/world.
