sub newsletter (May 2015; #1 of 4)

Sub Newsletter (May 2015; week 1 of 4)

In effort to regain trust of everyone, I'm making this sub newsletter public. I hope everyone interested gets to read it.

▤▤▤ Lacking structure, which is foundation for success/gains
It's been tough recovering from the gap of my family trip 3-weeks ago. My little brother graduated from Marines Boot Camp and I didn't play Yoshi for ~9 days. That break broke the already-lackluster structure in my day-to-day schedule. I had concluded a while ago that working out can compliment a stream schedule, but it takes work. I've yet to put that work. I have to go to the gym when it's less crowded (avoid the lunch runch, avoid the 4PM after-work rush). I have to wake early and get any non-stream errands done so I can stream guilt-free for the remainder of the day. I have to end stream with ~2hr to prep meals and be able to get-up-and-go to the gym within an hour of being awake. It all takes discipline I lacked tbh.

I called myself out in February about it -- https://twitter.com/trihexx/status/567430819728211969 -- but haven't shown much progress since. Yesterday, missing a stream (when promised from tweeting about it), I feel like I failed myself. I fought hard to get the money saved up and opportunities to be able to stream this generously, & I'm neglecting it! This behavior is -not- an option. Not to get the gym goals I want, nor the speedrun goals. Both must be the focus of my day, not the "burden".

I hated myself yesterday, but I woke early (5 AM), stayed up, worked out, and banned myself from Twitter -all day-. Sounds small, but I'm admitting I'm a middle-school-girl on it, it's addictive and I blow an hour+ on it daily (awful). That entire day, I wanted to tweet an apology about the no-show, but not being able to (self-punishment), meant I had to think about my actions & what I can do to fix this problem, rather than let it remain.

So here's the schedule I'm shooting for:

- Awake at 8:30 am CST (or sooner)
- Morning cardio (15 min)
- Breakfast
- Gym (1.5hr max)
- Post-gym cardio (20-25min)
- Post-gym meal
- Shower
- 10+ ask.fm answered/all pending tweets replied
- Stream by 2 PM CST (the dream)
- Stream -OVER- by 10 PM
- Use 2hr to cook tomorrow's food, and ensure any dumb errands done to get-up-and-go in the morning

It's ambitious, but I almost nailed it today, and I feel amazingly productive. I accidentally got on this schedule destroying myself to stay up yesterday, and I refuse to lose it due to negligence!

▤▤▤ More structure in sub-related updates
Starting next week, sub newsletters go out every Thursday (or sooner). Each one will have a small goal I've "planned" for a while to accomplish.

So, next newsletter is "Thurs, May 14th | Goal: debut new posters (Fujino Waifu tribute & more??) to stream"

▤▤▤ 100% Runs Progress
I took a break from runs because I needed more practice and runs were failing too often. I inteded to take a week off, at most, but have almost doubled that time due to schedule neglect. I'm coming back hard today and from here on, I hit the ground running, for the SGDQ Crunch.

Be sure to follow along w/ my public pastebin notes (I'm literally reading these while doing pre-run crunch): http://pastebin.com/qyTC1jcm

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▤ Sub Count - 353 (I don't deserve that, thankfully you guys stick around. <3 Let's go!)

Wrote this in a rush, definitely have lengthier, more-thorough newsletters after this & beyond. You guys deserve -at least- that!