I'm doing 42 things
while researching questionable exercise equipment (ab circle pro) and even more questionable supplements (Jillian Michaels triple process detox and cleanse) are making me weep for our world. The abject avarice, the unconscionable greed of the con artists and snake oil salesmen (and women) is honestly deeply disturbing.
I don’t feel that I can leave these people alone while I have the ears of several hundred people. I feel it is my duty to share what I am learning about them, but just splitting my focus to research them and their scams is making me angry and distracted.
Honestly it makes me happy to know that a) I don’t have enough power to corrupt myself, and b) what little power I have, I have wielded as responsibly as I could.
Wow there are some shitty people in this world though.
Mark's Life List
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1. get my book published
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2. reflect daily in a 'one sentence' journal
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3. Journal regularly
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4. Sell 25 Poker Timers per day
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5. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
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6. Learn Spanish
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7. change the world (for the better)
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8. take 43 photos of 43 places within 43 minutes of where I live
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9. live, not merely exist
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10. have multiple streams of passive income
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11. be a photographer
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12. organize my life
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13. live sexy
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14. get my back hair lasered off
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15. return to italy
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16. Join Amnesty International
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17. Learn Latin Dance
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18. draw better
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19. scan all my old photographs
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20. explore my sexual limits
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21. Finish what I start
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22. Get a tattoo
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23. play in the World Series of Poker
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24. Go someplace very, very dark and look at the stars all night
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25. discover what i want to do with my life
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26. Make a movie
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27. Submit an article for Modern Drunkard Magazine
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28. start my own cult
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29. fight for gay rights
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30. learn to play the harmonica
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31. Photograph answers to 20 questions about me
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32. floss regularly
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33. find the end of a rainbow
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34. set up an ebay store
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35. Finally solve Savage Island!
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36. Evaluate my progress
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37. see Bard on the Beach
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38. Fund a KIVA loan
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39. complete the 100 push up challenge
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40. understand my excuses and make them work for me
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41. make a photobook
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42. train for another half marathon
1 entry . 1 cheer2 people
How I did it: I had been overweight for most of my adult life and had never had any success in losing weight. About 6 years ago, I decided to change the way I looked at the whole weight loss problem that I was having. To quote: So, over the years I dieted and got fatter, and on this morning I stood in the bathroom realizing that I was part of this epidemic of weight gain in North America. I had tried to be fit. I had joined a gym… Read how I did it…
is November 15th at 8:30 am. I am training for a 10k this Monday October 12th. That gives me just over a month to get my training complete. I am giving myself plenty of time. I will work out my training routine on Tuesday. Three runs a week, one tempo, one interval and one lsd (long slow distance). I will work up to 18k before the run. I should clock about 120km in training. If I can pull this off, it will be a significant amount of exercise through October and November.
But I am blogging. It isn’t the same, that is for sure, because my blog is about weight loss and related issues, but at the same time, I am having fun writing about some things that bother me. Nothing is more fun than writing about things that bother you. It is like the best part of journalling! Shortly I will start my own blog blog and journal away.
