A Deck of Cards = Nice Body?

It's damn cold here in NYC.

Damn Cold.

Since my Gym is across town, and it's DAMN COLD, I am less than motivated to go over there.

However, I DO need to work out.

So, I remembered a workout I used to do in college, and thought I'd do it.

It kicked my ass.

Here it is:

Take a regular deck of 52 cards, and shuffle them.

Then turn over a card:

If it's a Spade, you do that number of squats
If it's a Club, you do that many Pull-ups
If it's a Diamond, you do that many crunches
If it's a Heart, you do that many push-ups.

Aces are worth 20.


You can of course increase the intensity by adding weight, by varying the excercises, by doing full sit-ups instead of crunches, etc.
You can also play with the Jokers being something special- like 10 of each in one big circuit.

I take no responsibility for your muscles the next day.

A Deck of Cards = Nice Body?

It's damn cold here in NYC.

Damn Cold.

Since my Gym is across town, and it's DAMN COLD, I am less than motivated to go over there.

However, I DO need to work out.

So, I remembered a workout I used to do in college, and thought I'd do it.

It kicked my ass.

Here it is:

Take a regular deck of 52 cards, and shuffle them.

Then turn over a card:

If it's a Spade, you do that number of squats
If it's a Club, you do that many Pull-ups
If it's a Diamond, you do that many crunches
If it's a Heart, you do that many push-ups.

Aces are worth 20.


You can of course increase the intensity by adding weight, by varying the excercises, by doing full sit-ups instead of crunches, etc.
You can also play with the Jokers being something special- like 10 of each in one big circuit.

I take no responsibility for your muscles the next day.

If you want another great "OLD-SCHOOL" approach, check this out- It kinda hurts though!

THE SECRET- again!

I can't recommend THE SECRET enough:

I CANNOT RECOMMEND IT ENOUGH.

I also recommend the CD's.

Here's my take on it:

Our THOUGHTS about something generate a FEELING about that, and those FEELINGS send out a VIBRATION into the Universe- and affects your destiny.

Do you realize what this means?

I have finally become a MUTANT with SUPER-POWERS!!!

Let me explain:
See, when I was around 9 years old, and all the way until.... 34, I used to LOSE SLEEP because I was SO EXCITED that I was going to wake up, and my MUTANT POWER would be there.

I THOUGHT about what power I wanted, and while my friends wanted to fly (lame) I wanted to have SUPER TELEKINESIS- because with THAT power, I could do ANYTHING!

The point was, I wanted to be able to DO ANYTHING!

So now, whenever I am thinking about THE SECRET, I imagine that I have FINALLY grown into adolescence, and have the super-powers I have been waiting for, and I can DO ANYTHING!!

So how do you get those feelings when you don't have the thing yet?

Here's what I've been thinking:

When you were younger, and you asked for something for Christmas, and you KNEW you were getting it- didn't you FEEL that energy BEFORE you actually got it?

That's the feeling you need!

So- now that I FEEL like I am a MUTANT with SUPER-POWERS, I've been doing EVERYTHING I can!!!

What's YOUR super-power?

Go get THE SECRET!!!

THE SECRET- again!

I can't recommend THE SECRET enough:

I CANNOT RECOMMEND IT ENOUGH.

I also recommend the CD's.

Here's my take on it:

Our THOUGHTS about something generate a FEELING about that, and those FEELINGS send out a VIBRATION into the Universe- and affects your destiny.

Do you realize what this means?

I have finally become a MUTANT with SUPER-POWERS!!!

Let me explain:
See, when I was around 9 years old, and all the way until.... 34, I used to LOSE SLEEP because I was SO EXCITED that I was going to wake up, and my MUTANT POWER would be there.

I THOUGHT about what power I wanted, and while my friends wanted to fly (lame) I wanted to have SUPER TELEKINESIS- because with THAT power, I could do ANYTHING!

The point was, I wanted to be able to DO ANYTHING!

So now, whenever I am thinking about THE SECRET, I imagine that I have FINALLY grown into adolescence, and have the super-powers I have been waiting for, and I can DO ANYTHING!!

So how do you get those feelings when you don't have the thing yet?

Here's what I've been thinking:

When you were younger, and you asked for something for Christmas, and you KNEW you were getting it- didn't you FEEL that energy BEFORE you actually got it?

That's the feeling you need!

So- now that I FEEL like I am a MUTANT with SUPER-POWERS, I've been doing EVERYTHING I can!!!

What's YOUR super-power?

Go get THE SECRET!!!

www.ContagiousGiving.com

Last night, after performing my "Marital Obligations", I fell asleep (typical man) around 1:30, but woke up at 3am with an IDEA!!

Actually, I've had the BIG version of this idea for a while, but I finally thought of a way for me to START SMALL, and get it going:

www.ContagiousGiving.com

I'm a little wobbly, buut I'm still thinking it all out. Of course while in my fervor, I discovered some other sites already doing this, but that's great- MORE FOR EVERYONE!!!

Gotta go- it seems that I have given myself a TON of stuff to do!!

www.ContagiousGiving.com

Last night, after performing my "Marital Obligations", I fell asleep (typical man) around 1:30, but woke up at 3am with an IDEA!!

Actually, I've had the BIG version of this idea for a while, but I finally thought of a way for me to START SMALL, and get it going:

www.ContagiousGiving.com

I'm a little wobbly, buut I'm still thinking it all out. Of course while in my fervor, I discovered some other sites already doing this, but that's great- MORE FOR EVERYONE!!!

Gotta go- it seems that I have given myself a TON of stuff to do!!

"I'm trying to get my Aura BRIGHTER than any of yours..."

I heard this the other day, and had to write about it.

This quote came from someone who saw what he thinks were auras escaping people as they were dying. So it asks the question:

Is there a competition for whose Aura is brighter?

I say there IS.

I say that most people ARE somehow competing with each other for who is the "better person", and that the "scoring mechanism" changes depending on who is doing the thinking. For example:

Rich people think they're winning
Poor people think they're winning
Ugly people think they're winning
Pretty people think they're winning

They all think they're winning- but the game has arbitrary rules, and no one is following them anyway!

Can you play a game of basketball without a net?
Can you play a game of "tag" if no one is "it"
Can you run a race without a finish line?

No- and similarly, you can't play the "Who is BETTER" game unless everyone agrees to the rules, and is playing the same game.

I might think I'm playing basketball against you, but if you think we're playing soccer, we BOTH think we're winning the game- and meantime:

THERE IS NO GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ask a Muslim, and he'll tell you he's winning the game against the Christian, who thinks he's winning the game against the Jew, who thinks he's winning the game against the Muslim.

Not only that, but even in those LARGE competitions, they compete against each other:

Muslims are trying to be "More Muslim" than the other Muslims.
Christians are trying to be "More Christian" than the other Christians.
Jews are trying to be "More Jewish" than the other Jews.

In this "Better than you" competition, everyone agrees that the scoring mechanism is to be "More Liked by God" than anyone else. However:

No one is asking the same God!

And more importantly- HE IS NOT ANSWERING!!!!

(and by the way, atheists and the "non-religious" DEFINITELY feel superior too)

And it's not just in religion:

"My CAR is better than you car, therefore I am better"
"My WIFE is better than your wife, therefore I am better"
"My CHILDREN are better than your children, therefore I am better"

Sometimes we subtly agree to these games and their rules, but then find a game where WE are the winner:

"Yeah, he drives a nice car, but our house is bigger"
"Yeah, she's pretty, but at least I'm smart"
and my favorite:
"We're not rich, but at least we're honest" (spider man 1)

It would seem that we all think we're in a million different races, but none have a finish line, and in the meantime, we could actually be helping each other run our OWN race.

Look, I'm not saying that I am above ANY of this- (in fact, my wife actually IS better than your wife :-) )

But I AM saying that we have LEARNED all of this, and we can UNlearn it too.

You don't compete with your friends about who learns their ABC's faster, because you have all already learned them, and they aren't important anymore. In fact, if one of your friends or family members didn't know their ABC's, you'd try to help them-

we'd ALL try to help them.

So what do we have to learn before we can ALL try to help each other in our OWN races?

Beats me, but in the meantime, why don't we work on helping YOU get your Aura brighter according to what YOU think it should be, and I'm gonna ask you to help me with mine?