Este es mi primer día para cambiar

Progress no. 1752824453

I am putting this out into the universe, that today is the first day I change. I will change my eating habits, that I will eat less that I can burn off. I will not buy anything that I am not replacing. I will invest in my learning ten times more than I entertain myself.

Today is Friday, July 18, 2025. I will update this post on July 18, 2026 for the following:
Current state:
Weight: 172 lbs
Job: Employed
Hours in daily study and/or reading non-fiction: zero hours.
Exercise: Zero hours.

Fight resistance!

FightGravity

#change

Progress no. 1711147945

  “A year from now, you will wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb  

“If it’s meant to be, it’s up to me.” –William H. Johnsen

“Two things I get every day, a chance and a choice. What I do or do not do daily, have consequences.” –Dad

“What is easy to do, is also easy not to do.” –Emanuel James Rohn

“Tomorrow You will wish you had started today” –Start Now

Tracking the following:

Weight 170 lb - Goal 140 lb by 09/2025 - 1%
Readiness: Microsoft AI-900 - 06/31/2025 - 5%
CompTIA Security+ - 25%

Completed:

ITIL v4 Foundation - 03/15/2024: PASS - 100%
Microsoft DP-900 - 04/12/2024: PASS - 100%

Progress no. 1753280667

After my teeth being cleaned, I cannot floss between my teeth in the top back. When I try, my floss gets shredded and breaks. I will have to contact the dentist. 🙁

#dentist.

Progress no. 1753258378

To quiet today.

#family

Progress no. 1753169210

“How you do one thing, is how you do everything.”

With that, I started to cut down my browser tabs. I regularly have about ten to fifteen tabs open. I often do comparison or have a browser tab open to remember something I was searching. But whatever the case maybe, I almost always have multiple tabs open. If I keep that many tabs open, that means I am trying to do many things at one time. If I do that with Web browsing, what other parts of my life am I doing that with? Again, “How you do one thing, is how you do everything”.

I often hesitate in doing something, “pulling the trigger”. Just today, I saw a sale on a pair of glasses that I have been “eyeing” on for the last year. I said to myself, if these glasses ever go on sale, I will buy them. Today there were on sale and took me literally forty-five minutes to an hour thinking about them. Thoughts: Will they be cheaper, will I actually wear them, what if I do not buy now, and they become out of stock… on and on. I have to change this, as this is holding me back. Why was I hesitating? I better figure this out!

So many other things I want to clear up in my life that now I can visual as I keep the “how you do one thing, is how you do everything” mentality.

I will keep this in mind more often as I do things in my life throughout the day… and see how my life changes in one month, three months, six months and in a year.

#focus, #onething

Progress no. 1752829927

The first time I heard of this was from Les Brown.

Source

You’ve all probably heard the story –

A man walks into an old general store. As he moves through the aisles, he notices a dog lying beside the checkout counter where the owner is sitting. The dog is whimpering and whining when he walks in, and again he notices him doing the same thing when he approaches the owner to check out. He asks the owner, “Your dog seems to be in pain. What’s the problem?”

The owner responds, “Oh, that’s just old Rover. That’s where he lays and naps every day. He’s whimpering and whining because over time a nail has worn through the floorboard, and it hurts him.”

“Why doesn’t he just move?” says the visitor.

The owner replies, “Well, I guess it just doesn’t hurt enough to move.”

I’ve often referenced that silly story when trying to help people understand that they’re griping and complaining is worthless if they don’t have an interest in the solution. Ever been around them – they know there’s a problem, but they keep wallowing in it. Whatever good advice that’s offered, it’s irrelevant because the “victim” doesn’t want the solution. The solution is never what he’s after; it’s the audience.

Well, I thought about this the other day when I was lamenting over people who are like the dog. I can’t stand when people harp on their issues with absolutely no interest in any solutions. Why? Because that would take away their excuse to complain.

And then I realized that I was complaining about these people. Which kind of made me part of the problem. My response to their lack of responsibility was frustrating me. I wrote an article years ago entitled “Is it Better to Engage the Fool or to be the Fool”? If the dog on the nail continues to bother me, I guess I am also the Fool.

So, the next time I see or “hear” a dog on a nail – the Fool, I’ll just smile and walk on by.

Progress no. 1752026779

Things That Aren’t Doing the Thing

Preparing to do the thing isn’t doing the thing.

Scheduling time to do the thing isn’t doing the thing.

Making a to-do list for the thing isn’t doing the thing.

Telling people you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing the thing.

Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn’t doing the thing.

Writing a banger tweet about how you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing the thing.

Hating on yourself for not doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. Hating on other people who have done the thing isn’t doing the thing. Hating on the obstacles in the way of doing the thing isn’t doing the thing.

Fantasizing about all of the adoration you’ll receive once you do the thing isn’t doing the thing.

Reading about how to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading about how other people did the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading this essay isn’t doing the thing.

The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.

Essay by https://strangestloop.io/

Progress no. 1752026744

Will my day be filled with NOISE or with SIGNAL? Where I go is up to me. I need not let my mind control me, I need to control my mind.

Let me get back on track. I have been distracted, resistance have gotten me. My Nemesis has been winning the days. Time to fight back and win my days!

F – Follow
O – One
C – Course
U – Until
S – Successful

Focus8

#focus, #concentrate

Progress no. 1749837020

How to get ahead when I cannot get started? So frustrating!

Frustration Just Ahead Green Road Sign with Dramatic Storm Clouds and Sky.

I just need to step back and …

frog

#reevalute

Progress no. 1749198457

Nintendo Switch 2 madness

Who can afford this?

Long lines at retail stores. News stated, “three hundred people in line!”

Switch300people

Costco: $524.99 with Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack individual membership

NintendoSwitch2CostcoFreeShipping

After taxes: $580.17

NintendoSwitchShoppingCartCostco

After shipping and taxes: $593.68
Target: $499.99 without Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack individual membership

NintendoSwitchShoppingCartTarget

Target: $499.99 Free Shipping – Total after taxes: $552.54

#gameconsole

Drop

Progress no. 1748961383

#benefactor, #dailylog, #fate