Let me elaborate on the specific changes I made within my own context, and some more specific future goals that require habits I can begin to establish right now.
(Begins to sit, think, and eat an apple)
I've had a grasp on nutrition for some time now, having spent some time weight training in high school and surfing bodybuilding forums for professional articles on the subject. I graduate, spend a summer working, and move to a small private college where the food is limited and generally unhealthy. I ate through my first real winter and gained ten pounds or so. More over, I was in a slump at school and depressed. I finally figure some stuff out the end of my second semester at school, started to force myself to get through all my reading, and found a very pretty girl I felt I could really be myself around (this whole idea of "my self" I have issues with, namely that life is a becoming). I get a cool job at a downtown caffe in my city, meet young professionals daily, and enjoy a fairly relaxed summer vacation.
I started school in late August, and now it's September, October, November and I'm in fantastic relationship and doing tremendously at my studies. Today is day 13 of this diet change, and here is what is composed of:
No dairy drinks
No carbonated drinks
No refined sugar
Whole grains
Eggs and veggies in the morning
Tuna fish (this is terrible, I will be a mad hatter in 5 years)
Juices
and whatever else is basically vegan at my school (sometimes just rice and salad--not especially balanced)
I'm also taking a multivitamin, vit E, vit C, and flaxseed oil supps with some low sodium v8 juice as a light bedtime snack, usually with a banana I grab from commons.
I cut the caffeine completely and guys, I will never go back. I have no paranoia, my limiting beliefs have ceased to surface, I am utterly flexible in my physical body, my thinking is stronger vertically as well as horizontally, and, as a writer, I feel my writing has improved dramatically. I've begun to learn how to PhotoRead, practiced some of Steve's personal productivity stuff, and I feel like I've spent less time doing nothing and less time doing work, I have butt loads of free time to write, watch films, read books, socialize and party (college student, I do drink and smoke pot on weekends). The only hangups I've had with my girlfriend is her worrying that our relationship is too good, hilarious.
I cannot list the amount of difference these things have had on my overall life within the last 6 months. I feel like I'm inundated with abilities I've been working on all my life, and finally they're coming together with motivation and creative thinking. I feel like I'm constantly embracing all corners of my intelligence.
I am so overjoyed guys. Doing these things are hard, but they become better when you feel their effects, and I encourage all of you to spend your time now to experience them later. I like Steve's idea, demolish your goals.
Cheers
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