#4hc

Hey Hey!

And so it begins.

I've been lugging around tomes like The Four Hour Body and The Four Hour Chef and all sorts of uniquely sized books on lifestyle change and harnessing your inner woo shit since like 2008. Some of them I've taken a lot of action on - like 4HB's "minimum effective dose" (MED) prescription to any changes you need to make in life - and some I keep revisiting but never really dive much deeper down the rabbit hole to see real change - see The Four Hour Work Week among others.

So far this year has been rife with challenges. Financially, after realizing I'd been carrying on like an idiot I buck up and get a plan together only to see the first quarter of 2017 absolutely hound me with financial road blocks: car repairs here, an emergency trip there, medical-related situations that ultimately contribute to the gaining momentum of overall decision fatigue to the point where I just throw money at everything and forget the plan. The good news is, the plan is never truly forgotten. And as I discussed yesterday the problem isn't the plan it's the lack of flexibility in my current budget.

While they can all boil down to a financial impact, not all the challenges have been financial in origin. The beauty of the house has been dealing with the aforementioned medical challenges which pushes me into "crisis support" mode. Maybe I don't need to be in this mode, but I feel compelled to switch into it. She needs support so she can focus on the situation in front of her. This leaves the little decisions to me, but those mount up and at least once a week result in grabbing expensive takeout food, or not optimizing the fridge to use the food up. Everything boils down to food in our freaking house :)

But since about early March, when I got back into regularly journal-ling and back into habit focus I've started to feel a shift in me. That inner Woo shit activating and saying, "look, you can be stressed out, but take that energy and direct it". I was chatting with the beauty last night about just this concept, if your brain is going to spool or ruminate on something then harness that effort and turn it into productivity. It's harder to do than say, sure, but for me, things like writing every morning, journal-ling and focusing on top tasks each day - and celebrating when I achieve them - is huge. I'm... entering "state".