Monday came, and things turned around. It started with a check... Over the weekend, I finally got payment from one of the projects I'd been contributing to. Now, what was so uplifting wasn't so much the money itself, though I'm not gonna lie, I was really fretting for a bit. What had me so stoked was what this represented. For at least 11 years, I'd been talking about making my own company to work in the game industry. Of course, back in those days it was going to be more like a giant game dev studio/ omni-corp of awesome. Back then, I was only like 19 so whatever. My company's acronym was always DSGS which, at the time, stood for "Dat's Some Good Shit". You can probably see why I decided to make a slight change (on paper anyway ;-P). So, what this check represents is the actualization of a dream. Yeah, sure, it's not a giant game dev studio. Hell, I'm not even sure if I'll even be able to do enough business to live off of at the moment, but it's a start. It's the start I needed to show me that I'm still in this and despite all the career and financial hardship, 2012 has basically been the best year of my life. I spent all day Monday trying to open a bank account for my business and as a result, ran out of time to do a routine. I took Monday as the rest day and started in on Tues with Yoga X.Yoga X this week was amazing. I can't remember a time where I was able to roll through all of the moving asanas so smoothly and actually hit every pose. I get that I was essentially recovered since I hadn't done anything in like 5 days, but it felt great. It also proved that these changes are real. I'm also getting really close to being able to do the crane balance pose. I think I just need to overcome whatever fear must be gripping me for some reason. I had it held for a split second a couple times.
Core Synergistics was a different story. One of my problems was that I decided to go out and have dinner before doing the routine I think. It actually took me 2 hours to complete it, and it's only an hour long routine. That was not a smart move on my part, but when you get cooped up in your room all day every day like I do, you kinda gotta jump at the chance to get out sometimes. I did 6 prison pushups unmodified! I was impressed. Every move is improving. All the superman, banana, boat, and bow poses I can see and feel myself with my limbs raised higher, with those muscles engaging. It's incredible.
Then yesterday, I blasted through Kenpo X without pausing. I was on fire or something. I've never been able to go through that routine without having to stop and take some sort of 1-2min breather or something more than once. I know it was working because I'm starting to feel the soreness now in my back and shoulders. I'm so looking forward to X Stretch today. I haven't done a progress pic in a couple weeks so I snapped a couple today.
I've gotten back into powering up with juices specifically in the mornings. Just trying to keep my immune system up and get as much fresh fruits and veggies in to start the day and set the way for a good day. This week, I've been in an orange color phase. It's always good to take in as many different colored fruits and veggies as you can each day. Each color grouping carries specific beneficial properties. Even if they're technically the same plant, different colored versions of that plant will help you sometimes in completely different ways. So bear that in mind, and try to eat the rainbow. Here's what I had this morning:
1 Small Sugar Pumpkin
1 Head of Green Leaf Lettuce
2 Granny Smith Apples
1 Golden Beet
4-5 Carrots
1 Lime
1/2" piece of ginger
1 Orange (not pictured)
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