Salesmen and stigma.

Why do people hate door-to-door salesmen? (of which I am a recently indoctrinated one)

I mean, it is fair to feel annoyed, but what sparks the vehement rebuttals, the rude door slams? Every door, I swear, slams when the person is done talking.

At the end of the day, we are facilitating a service which someone with a reasonable amount of intelligence, decides is necessary.

I, for example, sell Optus products. I don't understand why, when we promise to save them money on their home phone and internet, it seems to not even register with them.

And maybe that's it. 

It doesn't register.

How can they understand what we're saying, when they don't even listen to it.

So, that seems to indicate that the mode of delivery, the first impression and the appearance of the salesman are the major obstacles in the way of closing a deal, and not the product itself.

Where's 'SalesDogs' anyway?

Leverage

Sometimes your own motivation is not enough. Then you need...leverage.

This is some of the things I want to do within 6 months.

1 - kickboxing/boxing: either make a damn club or become more involved in an existing one.

2 - football: play 2-3 times a week at least

3 - gym: hit the weights 3 days a week

4 - carb loaded breakfast, then less carbs 

5 - start a business

6 - get a job

7 - drink less pepsi max/coke zero/ etc etc etc

So, we shall see.

Alive

There's nothing like a motorcycle to make you feel alive, make you feel young. It can be described as akin to soaring like an eagle. 

In a car, even with the possibility of lowered windows or convertibles, we are largely within our on environment, protected, and so near yet so far from the outside world.

On a motorcycle, we immerse ourselves in the world through which we travel, something similar to the old days of widespread horseback riding.

So, I think we should get motorcycle licenses and get some cheap shit motorcycles from ebay or something. It's not the speed at which the bike travels that matters (initially anyway), but the whole immersive experience of 'flight'.

Who's in?

Jack of all trades, Master of a few.

The popular saying goes: "Jack of all trades, master of none", and refers to someone with relatively superficial knowledge in various fields, while not being outstanding in any particular one. Dabblers, dabbling in different fields, accurately fit this description.

Now, as one seeks to improve himself, he can look for information from various places. Some sources say, to become an interesting and more complete person, we must try many many dishes from the feast of life. We must 'try' everything, so that we know about alot of things.

Others, such as 'Mastery' by George Leonard, talk about the way of mastery, telling the reader that the route to mastery is the ultimate pleasure in life. Mastery, the conscious and continuos practice of one field in which the person find peace and pleasure.

At first glance, these may seem the contradict each other. However, it is rather logical to conclude that, in order to get on the path to mastery, we must love the field. In order to know whether we love it or not, we must dabble in a few. They will all invoke one emotion or another, but when we find one which we enjoy doing, and not just enjoy because of the end results, that is the one we must get on the path of mastery with. And it is to find this specific field, or discipline that we initially dabble. And as learning is a lifelong process, we continue dabbling to find more things to master. A woman (who's name escapes me at the moment) on her 70th birthday decided to 'dabble' in mountain climbing. She has since climbed many of the major peaks around the world, at 95 becoming the oldest person to climb Mt Fuji.

In conclusion, dabble, but use the dabbling as a way of gathering information, not only of the world, but of your initial responses, and use them to choose specific fields to master.

Become a Jack of all trades, and a master of a few.

PS: Read Mastery by George Leonard. It will make alot of little things in this passage clearer.

Day Three

My nutrition plan took a bit of a hit this afternoon when we went to some family friend's place for lunch. Since then though, it's been clean.

Hit the gym today for shoulders, back and biceps. Tomorrow is boxing, that's gonna be fun. 

Day One

Today, I ate everything according to the book, and recorded every single thing that went into my mouth, and the results were recorded in FitDay once again.

Total: 2577 Cal, 247 g of Protein, 116 g of Fat, but only 33 g of Saturated Fat.

As far as workout goes, we arrived at the gym at 8.25pm, thinking it would close at 10pm as it usually does. However, in a way that some people quote as 'a trick of the demons', it was closing at 9pm. Not to be deterred, I performed 4 sets of squats, focussing on form mostly, going from 10kg on each side to 25kg on each side. Supersetted with ab stuff on a swiss ball.

The gym was closing, so I went home and did my lunges before having a post workout shake.

All in all, I would say Day One has been successful.

The Train Timetable

Nutrition is 80% of body conditioning. To that end, I have made a nutritional plan with the aid of a program called FitDay. A screenshot of the program is below. It basically allows you to enter in a type of food and the quantity consumed and calculates EVERYTHING you'd ever need to know.

So, using the program, I have created a rough outline for a typical day's eating that Jithan should be doing:

Breakfast: 
Weet-bix (3 biscuits) with 1.5 - 2 cups of milk. 
450 Cal, 22g protein. 

Snack: 
100g can of tuna 
200Cal, 29g protein 

Lunch: 
100g garden salad, 2 hardboiled eggs, Medium chicken thigh and wing 
450Cal, 40g protein 

Snack: 
200g (2 cans of tuna) 
400Cal, 58g protein 

Post workout snack: 
Protein Bar/Shake 
324Cal, 14g protein 

Dinner: 
150g garden salad, 2 slices cheese, 1 hardboiled egg 
300Cal, 20g protein 

Snack: 
200g (2 cans tuna) 
400Cal, 58g protein 

TOTAL: 2500 Cal, 241g protein.

Of course some variation will be needed so I don't die of boredom, and of lack of variation. Of course there'll be cheat days and meals in my plan to keep me from going insane, but not for 1 week at least. And this plan begins tomorrow. 

Along with this will be a 6 day workout plan, as follows:

It's a 6-day program, with 3 days devoted to cardio (cycling, jogging, boxing circuit) and 3 days for weight training. 

Day 1: Chest and Triceps 
Day 2: Cardio 
Day 3: Back, Shoulders, Biceps 
Day 4: Cardio 
Day 5: Legs, Abs 
Day 6: Cardio 

If all goes to plan, significant changes should be visible before uni starts in March. So, I'll follow my progress on here for the next few weeks, see how everything is going.

Welcome

Welcome!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Yes, Jithan is blogging. Isn't it funny?

We'll see who's laughing when my blog becomes the most read blog in the whole world. It will be me, and probably you because you won't be able to believe it either.

But it'll happen.

Till my next (and first proper) entry, laters.