Daily Ramblings – Motivation Monday –

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Consistency, Discipline, Learn, Persistence, Read, Social, Spiritual, Work Ethic, Write

Every day that you get up, you decide how hard you’ll work. You decide what you will do today. You decide how much you will put into every task at hand. You decide.

Enjoy the video, folks, and have a killer weak!

Here’s my daily schedule:

Read my books and articles

Learn coding, writing, history, sociology, and adult education

Exercise

Spiritual exercise, reading, journaling, reading

Write in my journals, my book, write my assignments

Post helpful and insightful articles, quotes, check in with friends and family on social media

Skim Google News, Flipboard, Pocket, The Epoch Daily, Daily Wire

Get in some video game play if I have time

Have a great week, folks.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Motivation Monday – Week of September 14, 2020.

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Consistency, Discipline, habits, motivation, Persistence, rituals, systematic

Well, here we are. Yet another Monday to tackle. Since retirement, the days have taken on a different meaning. Each of my days is roughly the same, unless I decide to pursue something new and unique. I enjoy consistency, but also like to add in some variety now and then.

The three things I missed the most during the lockdown are my libraries, coffee shops, and gyms. Libraries are still closed, and coffee shops are still pretty locked down, so I only have the gym. Getting out on the road, interacting with people at the gym and Starbucks is really nice. You never know who you’re going to meet or what will happen.

I’m really glad my gyms are opening back up. I missed going to them. My routine won’t be any less intense than my home workouts, but it’s the feeling you have when you’re on a machine or bench pounding away. That makes all the difference. I also miss the chance meetings with people, asking about how to use a machine or asking if they can work into my sets.

Now that the gyms are open, I’ll begin going again tomorrow. My schedule is in place, and I’m ready to get back at it.

Here’s my weekly schedule:

Writing Daily

Exercise Daily

Spiritual Exercise Daily

Social activities Daily

Reading Daily

Learning Daily

I hope all of you have a fun-filled, productive week!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Workout Routine – Gym Time!

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Barbells, Bodybuilding, Dumbbells, Exercise, fitness, Gym time, Weightroom, Weights

Our gyms in Michigan are finally open! I’m so stoked. I’ll be starting up again tomorrow. I hope everyone is having a great Monday!

Workout Schedule:

Monday – off

Tuesday – Cardio

Wednesday – Full Body Circuit

Thursday – Cardio

Friday – Full Body Circuit

Saturday – Cardio

Sunday – Full Body Circuit

Have a great week!!

See you at the finish line!

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Motivation Monday – Labor Day

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Consistency, Determination, Discipline, Exercise, Labor Day, motivation, Reading, Social, Spiritual, Writing

Today, I’m relaxing and enjoying Labor Day! So today’s posts will be shorter than normal. Here’s my week!

• Writing (Journaling, Book Writing, Blogging) daily
• Learning (History of Maths on Curiosity.com, Codecademy, Sociology on Study.com, Writing Class on Master Class) daily
• Exercise (20 minutes cardio, exercise bands) daily
• Spiritual (Reading Bible, Spiritual Exercise) daily
• Reading (Fiction, Non-fiction) daily
• Social (posting helpful quotes, connecting with friends, supporting people with pleasant things to say) daily

Have a great week, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Motivation Monday – Week of August 31, 2020

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3rd quarter, Assessment, Consistency, Determination, Goals, motivation, Track

Well, folks, we’re in the last week of August 2020. How is your year turning out? I realize this question may seem a bit sarcastic, but what I want to know is how are you doing with achieving your goals. I know some of them had to be put on hold or cancelled. A bunch of my goals were put on hold because the library, coffee shops, and other places I wanted to go for writing sites are still closed. The rest of my goals are on track. 

As we approach the end of the third quarter (end of September), continue to make adjustments to your plans for the goals you have. You can still achieve them, but if you’re a little behind, you’re going to have to kick into high gear to get over the finish line. 

Here is my schedule for the week:

• Writing Daily (Journaling, Book, Blog, Classes)
• Learning Daily (Writing Class, History Class, Coding Class, Sociology Class)
• Spiritual Exercises Daily (Journaling, Meditation, Reading)
• Exercise Daily (See Workout Routine)
• Reading Daily (One fiction book, two Non-fiction books)

Have a great week, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Motivation Monday – Week of Aug 24, 2020.

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Coding, Exercising, journaling, K.M. Allan, Learning, motivation, Reading, Spiritual, Writing

I hope everyone’s weekend was outstanding! I got my work done and took some time to watch a few Marvel movies. I re-watched Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Iron Man 3. These are all great stories, and the special effects are over the top. I also got in some entertainment reading. I’m reading K.M. Allan’s second book in her Blackbirch series, which is really entertaining. I don’t read a lot of fiction, because non-fiction is more up my alley, but the Blackbirch series is awesome. I highly recommend you buy it, if you enjoy a good story. Here’s the link: https://amzn.to/2QlKrmR

Anyway, I hope all of you have a great week! Here’s my daily schedule:

Journaling daily (Personal, Dream, and Spiritual)

Coding daily (Data Science Path Codecademy)

Writing daily (Book, Blog, Classwork)

Exercise daily (See Workout Routine)

Reading daily (multiple books, articles)

Learning daily (Codecademy, Masterclass, Study.com)

Spiritual daily (Contemplation, Spiritual Reading)

That’s it folks! Have a great week!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Motivation Monday – Week of August 17, 2020.

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Ambition, Consistency, Dedication, Discipline, Drive, motivation

Howdy, folks!

It’s Monday, and it’s time to get at it.

Here’s my schedule for the week:

• Journaling daily
• Exercise daily
• Book work daily (doing research on Afghanistan)
• print(“Coding work daily”) (This is a little joke. It’s the syntax used to print text to a console.)
• Classwork daily
• Post quotes and uplifting articles to my social media
• Scan the news daily
• Read daily
• Spiritual exercise daily

I hope each of you has a terrific week!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Motivation Monday –

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Consistency, Determination, Discipline, Drive, motivation, You VS You, YouTube

A little motivational video for you to kick off the week strong. Enjoy!

Have a great week, folks!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Motivation Monday – Week of August 3, 2020.

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Consistency, Dedication, Drive, Exercise, K.M. Allan, motivation, Reading, rituals, social media, spiritual efforts, Writing

Here’s my schedule for the week:

I’ll be conducting some research on Afghanistan for my book. I’ll be taking three courses (Sociology on Study.com, Sociology course at Grand Canyon University, and Malcolm Gladwell’s writing course on Masterclass). I’ll also continue pushing through my Computer Science course. I’m currently working on a Python project that reinforces the algorithms surrounding various search strategies.

I’ll also continue reading my books. One of them is on politics by Ben Shapiro, the other is a book on Afghanistan for my book research, and the third is a book by one of my favorite new authors (K.M. Allan) who just released book two of her Blackbirch series.

I’ll be jounaling daily, blogging daily, doing my spiritual exercises, spiritual reading, physical exercises (see my workout routine posting), and posting meaningful quotes and other uplifting content to my social media feeds.

Well, that’s it folks. Keep pushing on whatever goals you set for the year. I realize that some of them have probably gotten nixed due to COVID, but do the best you can. I’m rootin’ for ya!

Have a great Monday!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Motivation Monday – It’s That Time Again

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Consistency, Determination, Discipline, Drive, motivation, Persistence, Proactive

Here we are again, folks. Another Monday. The start of another week, and another week to excel and succeed. Mondays used to be a drag. I’d have a great weekend, and then, before you know it, it’s time to head to work.

Now that my schedule is more my own, I love Monday. I love starting a new week, and driving through all of my tasks. I guess I’m somewhat addicted to checking things off my daily to-do list.

I hope all of you have a terrific week!

My upcoming week:

Write a paper for school

Write a discussion board posting for school and respond to two others

Work on my book

Work through my Python Course

Work through my writing Course on MasterClass

Exercise daily

Spiritual Exercise/Reading daily

Journaling daily

Post uplifting quotes, poems, and articles to my social media feeds

Until next time…

Dave