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What is 49 difficult? I am glad you asked! 49 difficult is my riff on 75 hard. I believe it will push me but not be over whelming.   Check out 75 hard here:  75 Hard | The 75-Day Tactical Guide to Winning the War with Yourself (andyfrisella.com) The summary is: Follow a diet - you pick it but follow it 100% Complete two 45 min workouts, 1 must be outside Take a selfie to show your progress Drink 1 gallon of water Read 10 pages in a non-fiction book. Two of those I could finish on any night with 15 min left (read, and take a selfie) I'm going to keep those. Drink 1 gallon of water seems like an achievable goal, but one that will make me stretch. I have a half gallon mug, if I fill it twice a day I will get there, I suspect I'm not too far off. I'm not ready to do two 45 min workouts every day, so I am going to do 1 a day, and at least 4 of those have to be outside in the week.  I think this one is doable as I can go on walks, play disc golf, or do field work and meet this re

 It's Presidents Day 2023.   I have been at the new me now for 7 weeks so it is time to assess how things are going. 1 Diet - I started this with the GAPS diet which stands for Gut And Psychology (or Physiology in her later book) Syndrome and was designed by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride. The whole premise of GAPS is that if we heal our gut and our microbiome then other things in our lives will get better. So, per the GAPS protocol I pretty much ate soup: meat stock, boiled meat, boiled vegetables that are very soft,  for 3 weeks. The GAPS protocol also pushes probiotics (but only), so I started making kefir (both water and milk kefir) and tried my hand at sauerkraut. Mostly things went really well.  I felt better although it could have been just missing grains, legumes and sugar, all of which have some inflammatory impact. About a week in I found another book I really liked, by Dr. William Davis called Super Gut. I'm not sure I am convinced of everything he proposes, but I defi

  It's been a while. I'm trying to turn over a new leaf again this year. I've built a new planner, I'm working on my North Star goals, I've uploaded a few TikTok videos with more to come, I've done some yoga, and begun a mindfulness practice ... It's only January 4 and this year has been pretty good so far. So, I'm not setting any unrealistic goals for me to achieve in the next few months like "$10 monthly income from secondary sources!"  This year my goals are more general. I want to improve my relationships with God, myself, my wife, my kids, my friends, and others in that order.  That breaks down to a bunch of small things completed on regular intervals. I'm hoping that includes more study and prayer, more healthy choices, more blog posts, more videos on YouTube and TikTok, more personal interactions, more writing love notes to the love of my life ;-) ...  So I am throwing this out into the universe. Don't be surprised to see some up