Reading Time: < 1 min When reading the book “Effortless” by Greg McKeown, he made a big push toward encouraging us to take small steps. It’s not unlike what I’ve talked about before with One Percent Can Make a Huge Difference, but he took it a bit further, saying: “Do not do more today than you can completely recover from […]
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My favorite Supernatural workouts
Reading Time: 2 min I mentioned back in May that I was really enjoying the Supernatural VR app for workouts, and I haven’t slowed down. Since that time I’ve done 270 separate workouts, with each one lasting around 15-20 minutes. They have roughly 800 workouts available right now, with more added every day, but I tend to gravitate back […]
All-nighters are for people who don’t know how to plan
Reading Time: < 1 min There are times when most everyone has needed to pull an all-nighter at one point or another. However, if you have to do it regularly it’s a sign of poor planning. In a recent post, Ryan Holiday summed it up nicely: Sleep is one of the most important parts of my work routine, period. All-nighters […]
Balance in any given day is overrated
Reading Time: 2 min Balance in life is always important. Balance between exercise and rest. Balance between work and play. Balance in eating and sleeping. However, none of that means that every single day should balance out perfectly. Consistency is worth a lot, but looking at balance across your life in terms of weeks or months is often more […]
Zwifting along
Reading Time: 2 min I’m sharing this largely because I wish I had known about it a few years ago, so maybe I can save someone else from that. In short, Zwift is an app that puts you in a virtual world connected to your treadmill or your stationary bike. It’s kind of like being in “Second Life”, in […]
My list of daily goals
Reading Time: 2 min A few weeks back I started tracking a list of daily goals. These are separate from any to-do items I might have, and unrelated to anything on my calendar. They’re simply a list of things I’d like to accomplish every day. As of today, it’s a list of four main goals with five sub-goals in […]
Digging into Android Wear 2.0
Reading Time: 2 min Last week Google announced Android Wear 2.0, the first major upgrade to their watch software. Google wrote an in-depth blog post that covers all of the new features, and this video shows them off a bit: Similar to the iPhone vs Android battle, Google released their watch first in 2014 (and Apple followed suit the […]
Track your habits with Habitbull
Reading Time: 2 min I’m the kind of guy that likes to track things. We have many systems at GreenMellen for tracking work and progress, I wear a FitBit to track my steps, I have a GPS watch to track my runs, etc. However, there are a lot of other habits that I could track, so I started looking […]
Daily Burn for great workouts
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve done P90X off and on for a few years, and I run outdoors periodically, and walk most evenings for a while on our treadmill. However, I started doing Daily Burn a few weeks ago (since pretty much everyone else at GreenMellen was already doing it) and I’m really enjoying it. P90X gives a great […]
Wilt Chamberlain could have been better — can you?
Reading Time: 4 min Malcolm Gladwell has produced some great content over the years, and a recent podcast of his had some very eye-opening thoughts. Malcolm spent most of the podcast with Rick Barry, a basketball player who famously shot his free throws underhanded (“granny style”), as seen here: Wilt Chamberlain, one of the greatest basketball players of all […]