Day 14 done, first thing i did this morning.
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Day 14 done.
Since we had a rest day, here are two thoughts from Marcus Aurelius. Iām still chewing on the second one (2.17), particularly the meaning of āphilosophyā and the implication that it is the eternal. The first quote can apply very much to my thinking on sobriety (the value of the present day as the only reality) as well as to contemplation on proper living and dying. Iāve added my own emphasis.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
2.14 Even if youāre going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you are living now, or live another one than the one youāre losing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone, and should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you canāt lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you donāt have?Remember two things:
- that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period;
- that the longest lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.
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2.17
Human life.
- Duration: momentary
- Nature: changeable
- Perception: dim
- Condition of body: decaying
- Soul: spinning around
- Fortune: unpredictable
- Lasting fame: uncertain
- Summary: The body and its part are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion.
Then what can guide us?
Only philosophy. Which means making sure that the power within stays safe and free from assault, superior to pleasure and pain, doing nothing randomly or dishonestly, nor dependent on anyone elseās doing or not doing something. And making sure that it accepts what happens and what is dealt as coming from the same place it came from. And above all, that it accepts death in a cheerful spirit, as nothing but the dissolution of the elements from which each living thing is composed. If it doesnāt hurt the individual elements to change continually into one another, why are people afraid of all of them changing and separating? Itās a natural thing. And nothing natural is evil.
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Day 14 
Switched from low to high plank a few times but made it through in 1 go. 
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Day 14 done. Same went up after a minute and came down and finished
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Day 15 done before bootcamp this morning. Still staying in the flat plank, but Iām shaking for sure!
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Day 15 
Marcus Aurelius on not waiting for your life to beginā¦
Meditations, 3.1
Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be up to understanding the world - to the contemplation that aims at divine and human knowledge? If our mind starts to wander, weāll still go on breathing, go on eating, imagining things, feeling urges and so on. But getting the most out of ourselves, calculating where our duty lies, analyzing what we hear and see, deciding whether itās time to call it quits-all the things you need a healthy mind forā¦all those are gone.
So we need to hurry.
Not just because we move daily closer to death but also because our understanding - our grasp of the world - may be gone before we get there.
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Day 15 done
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Day 15 made it to a minute before moving to high plank. I just realized when I looked at the calendar I did 1:45 yesterday 
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Day 14 done ā¦had to take a 1 sec adjustment moment at the 20 sec mark
Day 15 done ā¦went into high plank at the 40 second mark
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Day 14 and 15 both done. I did most of that 3 min 30 in high plank. That will teach me to forget a day.
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Day 15 done
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Went to boot camp this morning and then came home to plank, thatās the wrong order for sure! Day 16 is done though.
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Day 16 now to get ready for interval run. I donāt wanna 
I read something once āthere is no bad weather only bad gearā Itās 7f here so Iāll be layered up
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Day 16 done most of it in high plank though.
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As long as it gets done, itās a win!!
Personally I find high plank to be more comfortable Low plank is super hard for me with these longer times
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Iām stuck in work till late tonight, because of this miserable weather. Iām off the next couple days. Iāll double up and catch yous
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Day 16 done. Itās amazing how much of this is mental. Watching the clock count down is the worst way for me to meet this challenge.
An excerpt from Marcus.
Meditations 2.4
ā¦trusting that all is for the best. For we carry our fate with us - and it carries us.
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day 15 done. WHOOF that one was tough
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I planked for 4 hours today and by planked I mean I fell asleep face down on the sofa 
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Lol the best kind of plank
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