Pyrorazor's Road to Consistency

[Pyrorazor]

Coming back from the depths of last challenge where I struggled to get back into gear, comes a new day where I'm ready to take on the next challenge! This time around I'm going to work on being consistent because looking back at the last challenge, I sucked at it immensely. Also, since my end goal is to ultimately learn parkour, I believe picking up the skill of consistency will help get me to my end goal. 

 

Challenge Objectives: 

 

Main Quest 

 

(overall) to learn Parkour

 

(Current Challenge) To be consistent! 

 

Health Quest (+1 STR, +1 DEX, +1 STA) 

• TMNT Workout (MWF) 
• Running (T,TH)
  • Side Quest: Eat a salad at least three times a week. 

Creative Quest (+3 WIS)

• Draw or paint at least once a week 
• Write something (paragraph, journal entry, or something just to get my mind to loosen up a bit)
  • Side Quest: Finish space paintings from last challenge (3) 

Life Quest (+1 CHA)

• get back into school
• get a job
  • ​Side Quest: Update challenge every friday 

Grading

1. Health Quest:
   • A - all five days within the week
   • B - four days a week
   • C - three days within the week
   • D - two days within the week
   • F -  one day/No days at all. 
2. Creative Quest:
   1. ​Art
      • A - Art for the week
      • F - no art 
   2. Writing
      • A - writing all five days in the week
      • B - four days
      • C - three days
      • D - two days
      • F- one day/ no days
3. Life quest
   • Pass - if I get a job or get back into school ( no fail because getting accepted is totally out of my control) 

 

So I believe this isn't too much work for me to handle. I'm pretty good at keeping up with my workouts and I'm cutting back the salad because prices went up and I'm broke. The only things I'm truly worried about is the creative stuff because I'm lazy as hell, but having it to just be an open ended thing instead of something specific, it'll let my brain to relax a little. My mind works in mysterious ways so hopefully this will work. Also, I'm cutting back on my updates because it proved too much to do at one time, and since I'm focusing on being consistent, I'm going to try update every friday and use it as a recap and see how that works out. I also need to find a better grading system.

 

This challenge is gonna be fun. I'm pretty happy about all the support I got last challenge and excited for everything that will happen during this one. 

 

 

[Dianakdrury]

Looking forward to what you get through in this challenge.

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[tundralily]

Ahoy there fellow cut lass! Stopping by to say ye challenges look awesome. Subbed!

[Amdhiel]

Avast, thar fellow cutlass! I be stoppin' in to shout hi-ho 'n follow ye challenge.

[mitch_dee]

subbing for consistent success 

[starsapart]

Ahoy lassie!

 

Here via the Cutlasses to follow along and support you!

[Pyrorazor]

Looking forward to what you get through in this challenge.

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Thanks! I hope it's successful

 

Ahoy there fellow cut lass! Stopping by to say ye challenges look awesome. Subbed!

 

Ahoy! be look'n forward to completing this challenge among the high seas with ya lot!

 

Avast, thar fellow cutlass! I be stoppin' in to shout hi-ho 'n follow ye challenge.

 

Arr matey! I thank ya! 

 

Ahoy lassie!

 

Here via the Cutlasses to follow along and support you!

 

Capt'n! Be excited to be part of ye ol' Cutlasses! 

[Anaticula]

Fellow Cutlass checking in! I really like your challenge, and think that having to let us know each day if you've done something creative is going to be a big help! Wishing you luck!

[Pyrorazor]

Fellow Cutlass checking in! I really like your challenge, and think that having to let us know each day if you've done something creative is going to be a big help! Wishing you luck!

 

Ahoy mate! yeah I'm apart of an art group on here and there challenges are pretty open minded so it'll fit nicely with my challenge here. Thanks! I'm looking forward to it  

[Pyrorazor]

First day of the challenge!! It was pretty awesome, and I did pretty much everything today. I have a chart that will help me throughout the week so I can accurately do my weekly wrap up. I'll most likely be posting my art up here as well and/or any milestones I've reached during this challenge. Anyway, here is my first art piece. It's for this thing I'm doing called the "Index Card Collection." It's a long story, and I'll probably elaborate on my battle log or something, but here is what I did: 

 

 

you get points if you know who this is  

[Pyrorazor]

Another installment for the Index Card Collection: 

 

my first attempt but I love Harley a lot  

 

[starsapart]

Yay arts!

 

What was that dude's name... Johnny Bravo?

[Pyrorazor]

Yay arts!

 

What was that dude's name... Johnny Bravo?

 

yup! that was Johnny Bravo. 

[Dianakdrury]

Loving the index cards. Best of luck with the challenge.

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[fiddle-on]

Yay coming back from failure and trying again! Last challenge, I made it about a week before I stopped. I'm pushing to do better this time. I love your creative goals. It's amazing how much you can do by just spending a little time a day working on something.

 

Fiddle

 

http://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/index.php?/topic/56499-fiddle-on-get-back-on-track-again/

[Pyrorazor]

ooo depression hit me like a ton of bricks today and boy was it bad. I did manage to fight through it and get majority of the things I needed to do today. I'll be finishing up the rest after I post this update. I really dislike it when it happens because my brain decides to hyperfocus on it, and it's really tough to get out of it. Luckily during the time I was doing art, I took most it out on the painting that I did, and then lit it on fire cause it turned out to be really weird. I did work on a rough draft for a friend and I'll post that tomorrow once it's dry. ahhh it's days like these that really screw up my thinking. I'm glad it happened during the first week, but man times like today are tough.  

[Pyrorazor]

WEEK 1 Update

 

I had a pretty good start on the challenge! I killed it the first day and then sort of tapered off the next two days, but yesterday and today was epic! Here is the progress for this week: 

 

Health Quest

• Did the TMNT workout all three days
• Ran on Thursday
• Ate three salads this week

I made progress on the TMNT workout, even though at the start of the challenge, I hadn't worked out in a week. It was tough but I'm getting used to everything. The handstands part are my biggest challenge right now. I'm starting off with planks before going into wall planks, just so I can build strength. On the PULL aspect, I'm doing arm rows cause I can't do pull ups at the moment, so I'm doing that to train myself. I'm hoping as the weeks go by, I'll be getting stronger. Didn't run on Tuesday because I believe I was at the beach at that time for the whole day so I relaxed and forgot about it. (heh heh) 

 

Grade: B, A for side quest 

 

Creative Quest

• Did art three days this week
• wrote 4 out of 5 days

Totally smashed the art aspect for the week. I might have made the ART part too easy, but I'm going for consistency here so eh. Writing everyday is definitely the hard part because even just writing random stuff down seemed not enough. I did manage to write most for the week so I'm happy about that, but I have the weekend to catch up on what I want to write, that way I'm not stuck on ideas for the upcoming week.

 

Grade: A for Art, B for writing

 

Life Quest

• GOT A MOTHERF**KING JOB! 
• updated challenge on Friday

YUP I got a job!! :DDDD I got the call tonight and they offered me a position which I gladly accepted! I go fill out some paperwork on Sunday and I start working I think next week! Gosh I'm so freaking happy, I've been applying for months and to finally get a job, is the greatest feeling ever. Just a bundle of joy right now. 

 

Grade: PASS

 

I dub this week a success! I've managed to check off mostly everything off my list for each of the days and I'm pretty proud of myself. I really thought I wasn't going to get a good start, and after having a mini depression attack yesterday, I was nervous. However I fought through it and now I get to enjoy my wonderful weekend!  

[Dianakdrury]

That's so great to hear! Good luck with the new job.

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[starsapart]

Wooooo, good close to the week!

[Pyrorazor]

That's so great to hear! Good luck with the new job.

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Thanks! It seems like a job I can handle, so I'm ready to start.

 

Wooooo, good close to the week!

 

YES! Can't wait to do it all over again tomorrow

[Charlie_Quinn]

Ahoy fellow Cutlass! Sorry I'm a bit late to the party. 

 

Congrats on a great week one and on the new job! That's awesome news!

[Anaticula]

Awesome to hear about the new job! And you're doing great on the rest of your challenge too!

[tundralily]

ooo depression hit me like a ton of bricks today and boy was it bad. I did manage to fight through it and get majority of the things I needed to do today. I'll be finishing up the rest after I post this update. I really dislike it when it happens because my brain decides to hyperfocus on it, and it's really tough to get out of it. Luckily during the time I was doing art, I took most it out on the painting that I did, and then lit it on fire cause it turned out to be really weird. I did work on a rough draft for a friend and I'll post that tomorrow once it's dry. ahhh it's days like these that really screw up my thinking. I'm glad it happened during the first week, but man times like today are tough.  

 

 

Congrats on the new job and an awesome first week! Sorry to hear about the depression things, that is super difficult to deal with. How are things going this week? 

 

Here's some cute to end your day! 

 

[Pyrorazor]

Congrats on the new job and an awesome first week! Sorry to hear about the depression things, that is super difficult to deal with. How are things going this week? 

 

Here's some cute to end your day! 

 

 

Thanks! Things are getting better. This week is gonna get super busy, so it'll distract me from things for a while. 

 

I love the gif! how do you guys find these things??

[Pyrorazor]

Week is off to a good start. I sent a ton of packages after being lazy and not sending them. 

 

Workouts are great! Did my TMNT and running workouts and since I had extra energy left, I did a bunch of exercises for the mini challenges. Planks are not fun, but I killed it on the mountain climbers and the dumbbell rows. I didn't do as much as I wanted to, but I also didn't want to kill my body so I eased up a little. 

 

I did my art!! More space painting but I finished up 1 of the paintings I needed to do. which is here: 

 

 

A little wonky but it came out pretty good. My friend liked it a lot, so I'm giving it to her. Just two more to go