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what’s so cool about my puma shoes and adidas cap? well, nothing, its just a title, the main subject is fitness, get the right activity for yourself. since i have started putting on weight, like many, i made the same common plans, like hit the gym, run as much as you can, proper dieting, etc…


And to motivate myself, i bought these sporty puma shoes and a cool adidas sporty cap, its an adidas taylor made cap, its uber cool , that would keep me motivatied and would remind me that i need to do some activity, to put myself in good shape.


But, to be honest, both are still there kept inside my bag, and i have still not hit the gym or started any physical activity, to keep myself in good shape.


while surfing through my google reader i cam across an article by Zentofitness, and this was really good, because, the main thing that author wants to tell is, do what you enjoying doing the best. Don’t just do the standard workouts, because you just want to stay in good shape and keep yourself healthy. you need to enjoy your workout, thats the key. so here’s the Zentofitness post for you.

The Main Subject: How to Find The Right Activity For You ?


Movement is key to health and vitality, we all need to move or at least do something active consistently throughout our lives. Sure the activities will change with time but it is important we find out what we love to do in terms of movement.

A workout can be anything you want it to be from cleaning up the garage and gardening to a good old run or weights session in the gym. They all vary in intensity and provide different health benefits, but most importantly we all have our preferences…..

Your idea of a fun workout or activity may be different to mine, For instance, I grew up playing a lot of sports – Soccer, Tennis, Cycling and was generally an active kid and loved to be outside playing. As I grew older my love for sports remained but I stopped playing them as often and started spending more time lifting weights at the gym, going for runs, and sprints plus more general fitness training. The important thing I realised was that at one point I stopped working out and being active because it was something I really enjoyed but rather as it made me feel good and it was something I felt had to be done. Big mistake…….


It was only recently that it hit home that exercise and workouts had become somewhat of a chore, I was in a routine and not doing things I loved to do to keep active. I think this happens to a lot of us as we grow older, the things we originally did to keep active go out of the window and we workout to keep fit by doing standard workouts……

1. Think of the Ideal Active Lifestyle


Take a moment to sit down and write out a week of your ideal activities if time was no option, for me this would be:

• 2 hour long tennis sessions a week
• 1-2 Weights Circiuts in the gym
• 1 Barefoot Run
• Some Light Stretching and Yoga
• Lots of Walks

Now compare your ideal week of activity to what you are doing presently, I bet it is pretty different….. It is not to say you should aim to emulate the exact ideal scenario but rather to be used as a tool to see what you would really like to be doing. This exercise will allow you to get in touch with what you really want to be doing….

2. Which Activities Do You Enjoy Best


Take a journey back in time and remember back to what you enjoyed doing as a child and even your teenage years, think of all the sports you did and which ones you liked the best. Things like:

• Running/Playing with freinds
• Skateboarding
• Swimming
• Cycling
• Sports (Tennis, Golf, Baseball, Basketball, Football etc)
• Surfing

Think back to more general activities you enjoyed before you started working out or stopped working out. This should give you a pretty good idea of what you would enjoy doing and can give a template for some activities you can pickup to re-discover your passion for something….

3. Stay Active For the Right Reasons

It happens with most of us, somedays you get up in the morning and don’t feel like going to work, just feel like escaping, and sitting in office with this kind of feeling you do feel lost. Don’t get into that dullness and let down your feelings, You can still feel inspired when there’s no motivation.

• Build your ideal workplace

“There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.” –Timothy Ferriss

Tim Ferriss has always advocated the idea of using your environment to your advantage. He believes that controlling your environment is often much more effective than relying on self discipline. He finds that he writes the best between the hours of midnight and 1 AM to 3 to 4 in the morning. As he is writing, he will put a movie in the background so it will feel like he is in a social environment, even though the entire movie is on mute. Next to him may be a glass of tea. This is what puts him in the mood to do quality writing and make him so successful.

Look around your room right now or your workspace. Does it inspire you? Does it give you motivation? Is it noisy or quiet? Sometimes the hardest thing we do to ourselves is try to force ourselves to work in an area that is subconsciously telling us, “I can’t work here.”

And when you are constantly trying to discipline yourself, you will feel worse and be less productive. Instead try to build your ideal workplace and ideal time. Free it from distractions. Perhaps add a piece of artwork or a quote of your favorite person nearby you on the wall. Maybe add a beautiful plant in the corner to give you inspiration. If you feel more energy and enthusiasm during the night, schedule your day to work at midnight if you can. If you can realize the power of having a productive environment, you will naturally feel inspired and motivated to get work done.

• Connecting the Dots

“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” – Steve Jobs


Steve Jobs at a Stanford commencement speech said that giving this speech the students was the closest thing he came to graduating college. He’s never finished college. He recalls that the working class savings that his parents had made their entire life was being spent on his tuition on a college he says was as almost as expensive as Stanford. After 6 months, he couldn’t see the value in it and dropped out. Not knowing where to go in life, he decided to take a class in calligraphy. He, however, didn’t see any practical application for it in life.

Ten years later, they were designing the first Macintosh computer, and it all came back to him. He used the ideas that he had learned in calligraphy class, including the different types of typography, and put it in the Mac. It was the first computer to have beautiful typography, which has affected the different types of typography that we use today. If he had never dropped out in collage, he would have never taken that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do today.

Sometimes when you’re trying to reach a goal, it’s impossible to connect the dots where you currently are. Somehow you just have to trust in yourself, and have faith that you will reach your dreams, despite not having the slightest clue or perfectly laid out road to where you are going. Nobody can connect the dots looking forward; you only can connect them when you’re looking backwards. You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future; you have to trust in something, whether it’s karma or destiny, but trusting yourself is the first step towards feeling inspired and having the motivation to move forward.

• Hard Work

“Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-world action. Think about that. You’re working too hard.” – Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield was once giving a speech to an audience. He tells of a story of a chiropractor …

A Little excerpt from “The Secret Scrolls” By Rhonda Byrne.

Ask, Believe, Receive – just three simple steps to create what you want. However, very often the second step, believe, can be the most difficult one. And yet it is the greatest step you will ever take. When you master believing, you have mastered your life.

To master believing, all you have to do is tip the balance of your thoughts, words, and actions, from ‘not believing’ to believing. The ONLY thing that can ever get in the way of manifesting what you want, is having more thoughts of ‘not believing’, speaking more words of ‘not believing’, and taking more actions of ‘not believing’, than you are of believing. Base the majority of your thoughts, words, and actions in believing, and the law of attraction must obey you.

Believing contains no doubt. Believing does not waiver. Believing is absolute faith. Believing remains steadfast despite what is happening in the outside world.

This post i am writing is not the technical or productivity stuff i usually write about, its just i wanted to share about some sites and blogs that i follow through my google reader, they are even on my blog roll, and they give a kind of feel good factor. i recently added Dilbert’s comic strips to my blog roll

Work Awesome: is a blog by the envato guys. its a really cool blog, the posts here are very practical, something you can really try out and somethings which are going on in many peoples office lives or say careers. There’s an article that i would recommend to everyone, “The Importance of Doing What You Love“. this post is really motivating, i did the same with my career , after working for 3 years as a linux administrator and having a quite good experience in administration, and receiving a good pay, i switched my career to web development, because somewhere at the back of my head i knew that web development is something i always wanted to do, so took a risk in my career life and started learning on python and got recruited by a small design firm as a fresher python developer. The pay is quite less compared to what i used to receive as an experienced Linux administrator, but the Best part is I am happy, and as said in the comments “There is nothing like the feeling of knowing that you’re waking up everyday to do what you absolutely love.” There will be stress and pressures but slowly as you get experience you learn to handle them.

Box of Crayons: Do Less good work, Do More Great Work. this is what the blog title says, and you’ll find posts which you give good motivation and inspiration to perform better at your work. From Box of Crayons one thing i would like to recommend is “The Eight irresistible principles of Fun“. its a flash animation and its really good. Have fun at Work.

Zen to Fitness: This one’s a blog on Healthy living. Well, there are many blogs and sites on healthy living and stuff, but this one i really liked and follow through my google reader.

Paulo Coelho: One of the best writers, Author of “The Alchemist“, and many other books, But, The Alchemist is one of favourite novels. Ok, getting back to the blog, yes, this blog has really cool posts about people and life that will make you think, i like the “10 seconds read….” posts, and one of the 10 seconds read post that i loved is the “10 seconds read: Angels Talk“.

West Coast Poppin: west coast poppin, is not a blog on motivation or a blog on healthy living and stuff, its a site about locking and popping dance, you may be wondering why am i mentioning about it ? well, i love dancing specially popping is what i used to do when i was a kid, now as a grown up adult and working in the IT and software field, you never get time to do the active stuff, because 8 – 12 hours of the day you are on that office chair, which doesn’t give any exercise to your body, and it surely takes away all the activeness and flexibility that you might have. And in case of some critical issues or major project launch’s, you even spend you weekends in the office. This website westcoastpoppin gives me a feeling, like i should start dancing again, (may be at least give it a try when alone at home and no one’s watching )
every day i watch at least a couple of dance videos during short breaks or during the lunch hours.
This is like you can follow the blogs or sites that posts about the stuff that interests you, it will make you feel good. And I think if you keep reading blogs or sites that interests you, you will get the motivation everyday and you’ll surely give it a try, at least once. Say, if you like swimming, and feel you wanted to swim or were a good swimmer back in your old days, so, i would say, search for some blog or website about swimmers or something by the swimmers for the swimmers, and if you like read it for even few minutes every day, you’ll surely be motivated to give it a shot at least once.

If you have any blogs or sites or links that you would like to recommend, please share it with me and everyone