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GIRLY MEN SLEEP
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I was watching a video with Arnold “I’ll Be Back” Schwarzenegger.  I think it was an earlier TV interview someone taped and transposed over their own series of photo’s.  Think your typical “winning winners lifestyle choices to be the winningist winner from winner-ville” type of thing.  You’ve all seen the business book selling this tripe, or heard it or seen it.  You can’t get away from the raping of trees to sell glittery unicorn dust this entire industry represents.  Now, it started out making a great deal of sense.  Identify what your dream is and then work like a dog to get it.  Unfortunately it went off the rails after that.

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It starts with, you only need six hours of sleep.  You can sleep more when you are dead, it seems to imply.  Then by example Arnold gives these three or four jobs he had each day ( college classes, working out, acting classes and a job for a paycheck ).  Now, I’m inclined to disbelieve this to a certain degree.  If for no other reason than the man couldn’t possibly had any acting lessons in his life.  I think Arnold is old enough and slow enough now I can say that.  If he gets pissed at me I can always outrun him ( albeit, then suffering a heart attack ).  Then, how are you not eating and crapping for like two or three hours, you need so many calories working construction and lifting weights hours on end?  

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But it is probably close enough to take his meaning.  If you don’t manage your time well, you don’t achieve greatness, or at least fulfill all your dreams.  I can totally get behind this message.  I could have saved a good many years by focusing earlier.  But there is just one little problem with the message in its entirety.  Few people can or should do this.  It is all well and good if you wish to achieve super success.  But most people simply are not wired that way.  If you are not one of those folks, let me repeat myself.  Most people are normal, not freakishly anal compulsive!

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Drive and ambition, discipline and striving for greatness.  Those are good things.  But you can take that too far.  You can take taking it easy far too far also.  Is moderation such a hideous concept?  Here is my advice.  Identify your passion.  Let nothing stand in your way to making that your life’s work.  But at the same time, make enough room in your life to actually have a life.  That means time for friends and family and yes, by gum, time to stop and smell the roses, to relax and to decompress.  That is what the Arnold Plan is missing, the intangible non-measurable aspects of enjoying life.

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The Time Stuffers always say, hey, you only get one life.  Why are you wasting it on TV and other non-productive activities.  Why?  Exactly because you only do have one life.  If you don’t enjoy TV, fine.  Others do.  Or if they don’t enjoy it they use it for stress release.  I have close to no stress my whole day, because I’m finally doing what I love full time and also because I don’t have to deal with other people.  But to me, TV is a way of turning off my over worked brain at the end of the day, so I can start fresh tomorrow.  The Arnold Plan would call this a waste of precious time you cannot afford to squander.

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When I take my one day off a week, it is a complete waste of time.  Unless I find a kick ass article to read, I only spend a couple hours reading non-fiction online, a couple hours in admin tasks and any chores that need to be done, then I spend half the day wasting it watching a movie or YouTube videos.  I might pick up some good ideas on either YouTube or the articles, but my main purpose is to give my brain a rest, giving myself a day of no scheduled work tasks other than the minor stuff ( changing ads, answering comments, monitoring the regular web pages I follow ).  And then, nine times out of ten, having taken that down time, my brain is rested and ready to kick ass the next day.

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You have to rest to continue at your best.  That is just common sense, isn’t it?  You must waste time to sleep or your body falls apart, and you must waste time rebooting your mind, clearing away stress.  And that is just to retain optimal performance.  That doesn’t even touch on the simple fact that many people have a satisfactory life just reproducing.  Yes, Arnold, if your parents hadn’t “wasted” so many years raising you, you wouldn’t be around to achieve super stardom.  I’m not claiming this was a poor choice on his part, dedicating his entire waking life to being numero uno.  I’m saying most people would agree with me that it isn’t a choice for them.

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I think I’ve lived in both worlds.  I saw plenty of years just doing the minimum to get by, happy with just reading and the occasional movie.  I could argue that reading was a continuous education, and it was, but it was no where close to a maximum effort towards greatness.  And I had plenty of years where I was sleeping little and working the remaining waking hours.  Nothing was on my radar except prepping and writing about prepping.  I got a crap ton done, and I don’t miss the singly devoted effort years.  The added bonus was that it allowed me to ignore the bitch wife ( who, to increase productivity and maximize effort, I could have left.  But I was being noble and just and not kicking her out without a means of support ).

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I also had several years where I watched no TV, read hardly any books nor watched hardly any movies.  And had no social life or time to myself.  Yeh, that is called raising kids.  According to super achievers, that would have been wasting time because I wasn’t pursuing greatness.  The horror!   What a complete waste of time that was, according to the Arnold Plan.  Not that this is any worry, overachievers just work harder making greatness and money and the hardly ever seen wife does all the child rearing.  Except she is also humping the pool guy because you have no time for her.  Then a few years later her and Julio get half your money as she leaves you.  But…fame and fortune!

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Or, half a fortune anyway.  People that want greatness, good for them.  But stop and think that most people don’t want that.  It isn’t laziness, it is that greatness simply isn’t their passion.  When someone has a passion, they aren’t lazy with that.  Yes, some have passion but lack discipline to take that further, but the answer to that isn’t to go overboard and drop everything and blindly pursue that passion.  Moderation.  Alcoholics give up booze but smoke three packs of cigarettes and drink coffee all day long.  Female Fatties who repent go total vegan and jog and go to yoga and in time look like a buff guy.  A little overboard there, honey.  All you had to do was not eat at McDonalds every third meal.  Moderation.  Anything to excess, whether it be to not waste any time, never be fat again, or try to kill themselves with a vice, is not a good thing.

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Tomorrow, balancing these requirements when prepping.

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