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Hey Everyone. I decided to add a little Role-Playing into this challenge to spice things up. Role-Play stuff is in Blue Italics. Real-Life stuff is in regular font. Bottom-Line Tactics are at the bottom. Enjoy! Big Adam the Blue Rogue has long sailed the wild skies of the world in search of adventure, glory, and booty. For many moons he has braved the shifting currents of fate - pursuing adventure and sailing through skies both fair and foul. In his travels, he has seen many great and wondrous things. But weeks ago, the Blue Rogue received an invitation to attend a gathering the likes of which the world has never seen. It was a great gathering of Adventurers from all over the world. There, the Rogue met fellow warriors of all types: Brave Swordsmen and Swordswomen, Agile Ninjas, Stealthy Assassins, Brave Rangers, Wise Druids, Inexhaustible Scouts, Acrobats, Berzerkers - too many to name. There were even a few fellow monks. The Blue Rogue found himself both humbled and honored to stand among such a mighty company. For they welcomed him gladly as one of their number. For three days, the warriors feasted, danced, performed great feats of strength and skill, and exchanged tales. And oh, the Tales! Journeys undertaken, Battles won and lost, the shared glory of all those who strive against mighty forces. Bonds of Friendship were formed, vast quantities of rum imbibed, and the Rogue learned much from his new friends. But Alas. All things must come to an end. True Adventurers cannot long tarry from their quests, and the pleasures of revelry must be enjoyed in moderation. So the diverse Heroes returned to their respective Lands. The Blue Rogue returned to his ship with a new fire in his heart and new lessons engraved upon his mind - ready to set forth and do great deeds, so that if ever he finds himself among such mighty company again, he may regale them with new tales of danger, victory, and defeat. Thus! With all this in mind, the Blue Rogue knows he must continue to train himself. With the Lessons of Great Masters on his mind, he sets forth on the following training plan - that he may be fit to face whatever challenge comes his way: 1) Drilling the Basics: Eat, Sleep, Move “The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.†- Michael Jordan There are plenty of little things I can do to shore up my fitness, but the basics are the most important. Eat Well. Sleep Enough. Move Frequently. Goal: Get 7-8 hours of sleep every night. Eat 80-90% Primal. Move and Stretch Every Day. 2-3 Strength Training Sessions/week. 2) Intermediate Drills: Meditation In addition to my current Morning Meditation, add an Evening Meditation every day to start the evening off right. After Dinner each night, do a 10-Minute Meditation to breathe out the day’s BS and re-center myself. I’m hopeful that this will help curb post-dinner snacking and mindless eating, but even if it just puts me in a better mood and nothing else, it’s still a worthy addition. Goal: Daily Post-Dinner Meditation 3) Sparring / Find a Crew "As Iron Sharpens Iron, so one person sharpens another" - Proverbs 27:17 I haven’t really made a solid effort to make friends in my new town. I joined a Kung Fu club, but haven’t really connected with anyone there. I connected with a few people through Meetup, but didn’t reach out to follow up and hang out further. There’s really no good reason for that. I think there was a good bit of “not good enough†syndrome preventing me from being the one to take the lead, reach out, and turn acquaintances into friendships. But I’ve made some strides in the headspace department recently and want to keep on pushing myself in that area. Meeting new friends and reaching out to existing ones seems like an excellent way to do exactly that. Plus I need some local community in my life. Aye, every good pirate needs a crew! Goal: At least once/week, hang out with a Local friend, go to a Local Meetup (Other than Bible Study), or go to some Social-Oriented Event in Town. I thought a lot about this challenge and looked back on my past challenges for lessons about what works and what doesn’t. I came up with two things: 1) Small, sustainable habit changes over temporary measures. 2) Add things that make me happy and put me in a good headspace instead of trying to restrict myself. Hence: making some local friends, using meditation to get out of post-work funk, getting the basics right, and perhaps most importantly… Setting Sail: Finding a New Job Training is necessary and important, but a Sky Pirate cannot only train. He must explore new lands and test himself on new challenges! For too long, the Rogue has tarried at his current Port. It has grown comfortable and easy and no longer presents a challenge. His ship has begun to grow barnacles from sitting at harbor and the sails long to be filled with new winds - carrying the scents of new lands. He feels the pull to remain where he is. To be grateful that he has found a place where he can live comfortably with plenty of food and security. But he knows that if he stays, his heart will die. He will neglect his training - for what use is training where there is no battle to fight or challenge to overcome? - and allow the fire in his eyes to grow cold and dim. The once proud ship will be chopped up for firewood, the cutlasses be set aside to rust, and the pirate’s hat hidden away so as not to stir up the old longings. He will cease to be the Blue Rogue and allow others to name him. But this shall not come to pass! For the Rogue has resolved to set sail within the next fortnight. Each night until then, he will research and attempt to map a new course. But when the fated night comes - whether he has mapped a course or no - he will up anchor and let the winds take him where they will. For come what may, a Sky Pirate must heed the call of the open sky. No further comment. End of November / Annual Review Results is my resolved-upon cutoff date. Summary: Daily Disciplines: (New/Challenge-Focus Disciplines are in bold. Old/Continuing disciplines are not) Meditate after Dinner.Daily Movement and Stretch10 mins career work5 mins self-workMorning RoutineBedtime Routine Guidelines: 80-90% Primal Food Choices.Hang out with Local people 1x/weekGet Sufficient Sleep

Hey guys, it's Simone! After meeting a lot of you at camp and hearing about the great communities you've built on here, I'm going to give the forums another go. I know my handle is currently a previous nickname (snowfox) but I'm using Virago as my superhero title right now, so I'll be changing that shortly (apparently I need 16 more approved posts before I can do so ) - so don't get too comfortable with my current NFR identity Camp gave me a lot of good things to think about, and since as usual I have approximately 293874971 things I want to work on, I spent some time yesterday breaking things down, getting organized, and prioritizing. I still have way too much on my plate, but I'm going to be patient with myself and see how October shakes out to determine where I'm really spending my time. For now, I have two main areas of focus: professionally I have goals for my current job, my continuing education, and for my future entrepreneurial aspirations, and personally I have wellness goals (fitness + nutrition), creative goals, and financial goals. I'm sure you can imagine how many individual things are piling up in each of those categories... Currently my professional priority is a scholarship application for a full ride to my upcoming graduate program, which is due on the 17th. I'm also struggling heavily with sales at work and NEED to bring in some new clients (ah, the lovely aggressive sales-based life of a personal trainer in a globo gym!), so that's a close second. For my own growth, my two top priorities for the rest of the year are to develop positive nutritional habits (meal prep, increasing veggie intake, say no to foods that disagree with me, etc) and to hit my 4 big workouts regularly each week (with 2 extra days of movement/skill work/play) - I have specific strength and movement goals that I hope to reach, but the consistency is key right now. I'm meeting with a nutritional/wellness coach TODAY to help me with the first goal. I want to do ALL THE THINGS - sign up for krav maga and dance classes and archery and tactical firearms and SCCA/autocrossing again, add olympic lifting to my powerlifting schedule, get a kettlebell certification so I can teach kettlebell skills as a Camp NF Headmaster in a few years (shhh I didn't just publicly admit that), do more obstacle races, start/finish my masters program and become a freelance coach/trainer, travel to so many countries and so many national parks, learn Spanish- and bluegrass-style guitar, learn Spanish and several other languages, get into leatherwork and cosplay, level up in meditation, pay off my credit cards, make enough to live comfortably, start contributing to my IRA again, have insanely amazing mobility knowledge like Kate Galliet... ...but for the next three months, I'll settle for consistency in workouts/diet and a little more stability in my career. Phew! It's time to get out of the planning paralysis of "Phase 1" (no more collecting underpants!) and launch into PHASE 2: ACTION! It was great to meet many of you at Camp. Let's finish the year out strong! (My superhero/alter-ego: "The Virago," created by a dear friend and the artist behind The Rabbit Hero.)