December 12, 2008
The holidays are approaching real fast. I’ve been in vacation mode the last few days at work but my true holiday doesn’t come until the 23rd of this month. This means I’ve been showing up at work and trading like I’m on vacation which is just dumb. It’s just dumb because there are so many opportunities out there and I need to be in trader mode…not vacation mode or not be there at all.
Also, I’ve yet to give up a bunch of my personal belongings as I mentioned in JB Giving Back. That’s all part of the mood I’ve been in. My goal today is to make at least two phone calls to get the process rolling.
What else? Oh yeah, the JB Health. Well, it’s a new year that’s rolling around the corner and I’ve been an avid runner for several years now and I’m just bored with it. I shouldn’t have to listen to my ipod just to get going and stay going. I love the high of the long run but I need a change of pace from the short ones so I’ve put together some goals and ideas. There’s always a bunch of options I get to do when the weather is permitting and the first thing that always, and I mean always, takes precedence when the conditions are right is surfing. I love surfing and I will surf before anything else. If I lived in a location where I could surf like scheduling a tennis match then that’s what I’d do but I can’t so I have to be imaginative to stay healthy and blow off the steam that’s accumulated at the office. All traders need to let out a lot of tension. So here goes. My idea is to join a gym. I don’t love the gym per se. I mean it’s ok but it gets boring like jogging and it’s cool to have a gym partner but that’s when I was in school. I’m not hooking up with a gym partner these days and I’m definitely not squandering my money to pay a trainer to be my partner so I figured that I can make it interesting and challenging at the same time. The gym I want to join is approximately seven miles from my house so I figured I’d buy a new bike (my beach cruiser wont’ cut it) and bike there to get a thirty minute workout in then bike home. I’m pretty stoked on the idea because if you think about the whole common gym routine it’s pretty backwards. I work by the gym I want to go to and every morning I see the gym goers drive up in their cars, get out with low energy and hop on a lame cardio machine to get them going (by the way, I don’t get the avid runners on those machines). If I go on my bike, it will take me ten or fifteen minutes longer to get there but I’d already have my cardio done and I get to push myself or challenge myself again by riding back home. The amount of time is totally the same.
In conclusion, moving forward it’s all about positive change, making goals and keeping them. This JB journal will help keep me in check.
