Routine #1 – Daily Fear Facing

Been an intense start of this week. Yesterday I cramed in 17 hours of work. Today a bit less. The remarkable thing whit having too much stuff to do, is that you don’t stop to think twice about those fears. You just act. Beacuse you don’t have a choice unless you want to disappoint other people. And that – to me – trumps whatever fear is in my way.  Also, you work up this great momentum.

A learning from this is that we need to build up this self-respect. To not be okay with letting ourselves down without first putting up a real fight. I’ve reached quite long when it comes to this as a result of working on my self-esteem, as it’s a fundamental part of it. But then comes the next problematic step we need to stay aware of.  Unawareness, cover-ups and the stories we tell ourselves.

You  – I – get scared of challenging yourself because you know that once it’s out there – you are going to do it! or at least fight hard and long for it. And that sucks. Hard. But that’s when the results, growth and happiness comes! That is as long as you don’t get maniac about it. Like working 17 hours in a row is just stupid. If you do it every day. Once and a while it’s good to prove to yourself what you’re made of.

Man am I all over the place today. Anyways, just came up from the gym where I faced some particular fears of mine. Making people dislike me. But, in a cause of standing up for myself! Was this guy that just let go of the cables, letting the wights crash down making a crazy loud noise. Now I’m not the gut that easily gets irritated, but that was just plain laziness as it wasn’t even that heavyweights.

I identified the fear. After a while. Tried to come up with these excuses,  like myself not being the perfect guy on the gym.   You’re such a Hypocrite! But it kept getting worse. The feeling of telling someone something that will make that person not like me, It just fu**n hard for me. Eventually, I couldn’t neglect the fact that it was a perfect practice opportunity for me to stand up for what I believed in. So I did it.

Excuse me, do you mind not just letting go of the weights like that. Hurts my ears.

He mumbled and looked away. But problem fixed and I felt proud. Nice work Alex, you successfully managed to be the winey guy! Sweet!

Routine #2 – New thing

Put Philadelphia cheese in my green tea with Kiwi.

Routine #3 – The Daily Fail

Put Philadelphia cheese in my green tea with Kiwi.

See you when I see you, Fear Facer,

🙂

/Alex

I’ll keep it to a minimum for a while, but just to keep myself reminded of following through on these habits! ..AND to dare me to put up some fear DARES.

This early Tuesday morning I’ve identified a fear of a rest day. Been at it hard and intense for almost three week’s in a row without a break. Need it. Fear challenge accepted. AND with that, at least a 16 hour fast.

Routine #1 – Daily Fear Facing

I have a regional meeting coming up tonight. Used to scare me a lot, now I’m rather looking forward to it.

Routine #2 – New thing

Routine #3 – The Daily Fail

I’ll fill it up as the day run along.

Good luck with yours, Fear Facer,

/Alex

Routine #1 – Daily Fear Facing

– 5 km max out. Do I dare to try me? Yes, and with that came a new PR 22:10

– A gut at the gym started talking to me. nice gut I seem around a lot of times. Felt I wanted to interact back, but he’s a super serious weightlifter and that intimidates me a bit. so I pushed the realized fear down. Until I couldn’t anymore and initiated a conversation. It’s fascinating how such a small thing can fill me up with such proudness for doing what’s hard. Also had a giving fun conversation – Bonus!

Routine #2 – New thing

Woke up feeling all tingly and happy after yesterdays “date”. Call it whatever – tea time with a very nice girl! Not used to this, but I like it.

Routine #3 – The Daily Fail

May have pushed myself a bit too hard at the end after running and going to a gymnastic session, I decided to do some deadlifts. Eaches some in my back now. Maxed out. Hope it’ll be okay soon enough!

Hey guys,

Can’t help myself. this is like a journal to me. But really need to prioritize. Saturday morning and I’ve been up editing for on an hour.  So much fun. Part 2 of last weeks’ Sunday video when I went out asking for speed dates. Fun fun.

Yesterday went out for an after-work beer mith my friends. Dared myself to try actually have a beer sit down and enjoy it. So afraid of alcohol these days. The beer itself helped to the extent that I wasn’t thinking about being the odd man out, which I otherwise sometimes tend to do when everybody else is drinking and not me.  Anyways this whole thing ticked some identified daily fear boxes and the daily new thing box!

Also faced some squat fears and did a Live stream, and yeah asked a girl out too ( talk more about that in the stream) :

Challenges of the day:

• Dare to max out in the dumbbell press, see how many reps I can push out with the 36 kg’S. Haven’t tried them before.
• Controlled eating behaviour, with at least 30 min pause between eating more
• Talk to at least one stranger

Have fun with your day, Fear facer,

🙂

/Alex

Too much to write. To little time. Maybe a daily post is unnecessary? Especially when I don’t have the time to do it properly?

Anyways, the 7 coming days I have A TON of work to do. An exam due next Friday evening, 3 videos that need to be edited, along with some serious workload at work this period. So I need to get realistic and pause some things.  No blog posting for a week and no Live stream until 16/11. Sunday video will be out though:).

Routine #1 – Daily Fear Facing

A lot of small social pushes. One I especially have in mind, which was identified and written down a couple of days ago finally had to be faced. The empty box next to it kept staring at me, screaming “cross me off, cross me off”. And it really wasn’t a big thing. Have a neck problem due to an old whiplash accident. Making me need a chair with a neck support, which we don’t have at my office. So I needed to have a conversation about them purchasing one for me. At least that was the outcome I was hoping for. But it was a conversation I kept avoiding. Subconsciously I kept telling myself I had more important things to do and that I would deal with it later. But when I really paused and reflected, I realised it kept draining me of energy thinking about it and should just be done. So I did, and now I’ll have a chair with neck support within weeks! Nice.

Now there for sure were more fears that were met today. But that one is plenty to give an example of what a daily little fear facing action could look like. Remember, it’s about creating that habit and keeping the momentum going so that we are ready for the big things when they come. Because they will. come.

…or one more! I also dared to try maxing out my chins. 28 semi-strict ones. New record. Nice Alex. Nice.

Routine #2 – New thing

Try vegetarian lasagna – Nice! Also, I was the last man leaving the office. Meant I had to learn to turn on the alarm system;).

Routine #3 – The Daily Fail

Hm.. Did I? Can’t think of any particular – it’s been a good day! But that also means I didn’t play gutsy enough;)! Or it was just one of those days! Or actually, I did lose my temper for a few seconds there when my little brother was nagging me about the lights. Keeping myself control is something I want to be able to do in all situations!

Tip of the day

Just have to recommend you to watch this incredible video by Simon Sinek on leadership. BUT, it says so much more about how we all work than just telling a story about what great leadership looks like. HIGHLY recommended.

See you tomorrow, Fear Facer,

/Alex