Today I woke up early with a mild headache. Even though I do have a mild headache, I still continued my early workout routine. I’ve mostly finished my 4x3 push-up reps, and some ab core cruncher. I usually followed the P90X (a commercial exercise routine which was popular around 2007-ish) routine. The headache was not going to win the morning, and honestly, moving helped more than lying still would have.
Later in the afternoon, I went back to coding my own project. Then I saw a YT (YouTube) video on how to dance the hip-hop style. I tried a few beginner dance steps, and it was easy; it was just a 3 form dance pose routine that anyone could do. I danced and followed the tutorial for about an hour, and practiced it for another hour or so. It’s not that hard, so I didn’t sweat a lot, but one thing I noticed is I’m kind of slow, or have some delay, when following the dance instructions and doing the formations.
That delay is worth a note in the journal: my brain catches the move a beat later than my body should. Practice is the only fix, and two hours of it in one afternoon is a decent start.
At night, mostly I just worked on my own project, then at dinner time just ordered some food from a fast-food chain. I think that sums up all the things I did that day.
🧠 Final Thoughts
A normal day in one paragraph: workout through a headache, code, discover a new skill, practice it for two hours, work some more, and call it a night. Days like this are not dramatic, and that is exactly why they are worth writing down, because a year of days like this is a life moving forward.
The lesson I am taking from today: the headache was not a stop sign, and the dance tutorial was not a waste. Keep the routine, keep learning, and the compound interest of ordinary days does the rest.
❌ Originally posted on January 24, 2020.