The immortal Jellyfish
Small, transparent jellyfish that can reverse its life cycle
I was looking for a logo for the site and wanted something that resonated with my aims and ambitions as well as looked good and I came across the immortal jellyfish. And I liked the jellyfish logo too.
Thing is, we can reverse our lifecycle….ish! Hear me out.
I’ve been trying to get my backside out of bed early for weeks, nay months recently. It was really pissing me off that I was setting the alarm and then just sleeping in. The sleeping in was disturbing me most. I spent literally most of my working life getting up early, because I had to and even when I retired I still couldn’t sleep in. My idea of sleeping in would be getting up at 0900! Gradually though I began sleeping in. It didn’t bother me because sleeping is good, right?
Anyway, as I do I looked at ways that I could be better and do better and getting up early was part of it. Couldn’t do it, couldn’t fuckin’ do it. What I could do was get up; do my morning exercises, wrist rolls, elbow rolls, shoulder shrugs, neck rolls, back stretches, hip circles, knee circles, ankle rolls, balance exercises, push ups, planks, groin raises, glute bridges, child squat, horse stance, cold shower, wim hof breath work… Thing is after I’d switched the alarm off it made no sense to get up until after 0900 because step daughter and wife were up now, doing their thing or getting ready for work. So I’d wait till they were done and gone. Add a helping of procrastination, top it off with a side order of guilt and my day was beginning. At about 0920?
So then my day begins, and by the time I’ve done all the good stuff, plus water and supplements, watched crap TV, scrolled YouTube etc, it’s lunchtime. But I still need to workout. But I can’t be bothered. But I should be bothered. Eventaully ‘but I should be bothered’ wins and I go to the gym or go for a walk, or cycle to the gym, workout, cycle back. So I’ve done it. In fact I really enjoyed it, I always do.
Thing is, the day is over pretty much by now. I wanted to do more. Like this blog post. Like learning how to do this blog post. Like riding my motorbike.
And all I had to do was get up earlier…
Goggins. David Goggins. A bit of a hero of mine. He’s a guy who was a self proclaimed loser with no prospects, no future and all the cards stacked against him. He was also massively overweight. One day he decided he wanted to join the Navy Seals,the US elite fighting unit. He used all the bad things in his life, and used them to motivate him from that moment onwards. Great story. Anyway I was listening to one of his books and I thought ‘fuck me, this guy lost 100 pounds, became the best of the best, runs 100 mile races for fun and I can’t get out of bed at 0600’. I think that was what was needed.
So this week I got up early. Hate it. But.. Good things seem to be coming from it. It’s a win. Life didn’t want me to do this, it wanted me to stay in bed, waste my life, grow old, decay and die. Not just yet Life. And I’ve taken back a bit more life so I can use it to live more. And I’ve overcome the lazy, old, fat part of my brain and made it fitter.
So just like the jellyfish I’ve reversed my life from being and growing old to being and growing young. Younger.
You are what you do people. Better diet. Move more. Do more.
All starts with thinking better
Have a good day.