What will Motivate me to get going and keep rolling?

Seven Days ago I started 101 in 1001 and I’m already wishing I got to call and say Conundrum. You see the premise of this show (which I love der it is on TV) is that when things go bad a single pilot gets to pilot a sphere with an alien power source to go back in time and fix what ever catastrophe has occurred. Problem is you can only go back 7 days. So this might be a reasonable opportunity to go back 7 Days and kick my arse. Why because I have done 2 parts of fuck all with regard to the weight loss goals and if I don’t do something I never will.

What do I need to do? Do I need to create some embarrassment like the biggest loser? That show is about embarrassing the contestants and doesn’t really talk strategies for starting and continuing safely.

I am not going to do photographic embarrassment, you dear reader do not need that and once the first photo was out there I would justify that the worse is out there so who gives a rats arse. Just like when I smoked the Packet warnings and commercials had no effect but since I gave up around 12 years ago, I see them now and think you complete dickhead.

So I will tell you that:

• I can’t weigh my self at home right now because I am over 150Kgs
• I do have Cankles
• I have the same discolouration (well bands all round) the base of my calves just like Damian from the Biggest Loser
• I eat shit I shouldn’t
• I’m Lazy. A week on and nothing

OK look at that calculator to maintain my weight I need to consume 3352 calories a day WTF?? I don’t know if that is a lot but I assume it is and worse than that I’m getting FATTER so I must be beating that number “Yay Me”

SO I wonder what I need to stay alive apparently a BMR - This is your base number of calories a day you burn just by being alive and doing activities like breathing.

BMR = 66 + (6.23x341)+(12.7x74.17)-(6.8x42) = 2847

Now we already established I’m a slug so multiply by 1.2 to get Calories = 3416 so that is to stay where I am but as I go through this I notice intellectually interesting as it is this sounds like Gaol.

So I’m gonna stay with my plan and do 5BX and Couch to 5Km and eat less but not count calories at all. Are we good with this friends?

Oh I reserve the right to do stupid shit like the Soup Diet if I choose to, just to learn me about unsustainability.

I will start to train together apart with Angie (just like I drink together apart with her evil twin) but right now she doesn’t need to help me I need to be really pulling for her so no stress or pressure when you are able we will compare notes.

So no Conundrum next week… How best to I report progress??

#BCC2011 How to Handle Difficult Clients

One of the best sessions I went to at Bar Camp Canberra 2011 was “How to Handle Difficult Clients” by Danni (@daniib) and Jason (@jhando).

I found them both to be engaging speakers although it was mostly a conversation. Which gave me some insight into what it might be like to be a client ish.

I took quite a few notes and rather than retype and reimagine these are the notes as I took them

BTW I thought the session was great and some other folk spoke to me about it later and Lurved it too

Andy Clarke’s Killer Contract

Andy Clarke 24 Ways

Merlin Project Method

#BCC2011 How to Handle Difficult Clients

One of the best sessions I went to at Bar Camp Canberra 2011 was “How to Handle Difficult Clients” by Danni (@daniib) and Jason (@jhando).

I found them both to be engaging speakers although it was mostly a conversation. Which gave me some insight into what it might be like to be a client ish.

I took quite a few notes and rather than retype and reimagine these are the notes as I took them

BTW I thought the session was great and some other folk spoke to me about it later and Lurved it too

Andy Clarke’s Killer Contract

Andy Clarke 24 Ways

Merlin Project Method

101 in 1001

@GnomeAngel you are to blame for this ….

Perhaps I need to add being able to say I enjoy reading this blog and not have to visualise how when men hug with the three taps on the back which I sure is really tapping out “I’m not gay” but perhaps as I get more desperate.

The Mission:
Complete 101 pre-set tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (i.e.. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined.

Start Date: 16 March 2011

End Date: Wednesday 11 December 2013

1. Find 101 things to do with my life (given it is half over)


2. Complete the Couch to 5k(Thanks Angie I think)


3. Do Complete 5BXcircuits every day for a Month


4. Do the 200 sit-ups challenge (www.twohundredsitups.com)


5. Lose weight get down to (F#ckin’ Fat Prick) where our scales work. Don’t know What I way but more than 150Kg ‘Not Happy Jan’ April 5th 2012


6. Lose weight get down to 145


7. Lose weight get down to 140


8. Lose weight get down to 135


9. Lose weight get down to 130


10. Lose weight get down to 125


11. Lose weight get down to 120


12. Lose weight get down to 115


13. Lose weight get down to 110


14. Lose weight get down to 105


15. Lose weight get down to 100


16. Lose weight get down to 95


17. Lose weight get down to 90


18. Drink 2L of water a day for a month


19. Drink 2L of water a day forever (do you know how much kidney stones hurt? I do)


20. Hound @GnomeAngel to do 30. on her list


21. Get @GnomeAngel to cross off 95. on her list


22. Replace 19 through 22 with actual things


23. Start and Finish the Masters of no effort


24. Watch a Roller Derby once (maybe more) [Might need to wait for a friend to be in condition again] 30/04/2011 & 28/05/2011


25. Be able to say I enjoy reading this blog and not have to visualise how when men hug with the three taps on the back which I sure is really tapping out “I’m not gay”


26. Do a wine tasting Appreciation ^Drinking course


27. Learn to Touch Type 40WPM


28. Do Photo365 project (beginning on July. 1, 2011)Take Photos and post them to my Personal Blog not because I a daily obligation but because I think they are nice or interesting.


29. Set and Keep Dates with my Children Individually (at least monthly)


30. Prepare MS Management and Identity Tool Based Business Plan


31. Pass Certification exams for System Center Config Manager


32. Pass Certification exams for System Center Operations Manager


33. Pass Certification exams for System Center Orchestrator


34. Pass Certification exams for System Center Service Manager


35. Pass Certification exams for Forefront Identity Manager


36. Pass Certification exams for TOGAF 9


37. Pass Certification exams for SABSA


38. Take Elizabeth to the National Gallery 6 Times


39. Take Elizabeth to the National Portrait Gallery


40. Take Elizabeth out on Date once a Month


41. Take Elizabeth out on Date once a Fortnight


42. Update this Blogat least once a week


43. Update my other Blogat least once a week


44. Eat lunch with 10 people I look up to


45. Paint the House


46. Build a comfy retreat in the front courtyard


47. Tidy / Reduce house (maintain for 3 Months)


48. Tidy / Reduce house (maintain for 6 Months)


49. Tidy / Reduce house (maintain for one Year)


50. Tidy / Reduce house (maintain for 4 Eva)


51. Scan then mount our Wedding Photos


52. Take a Random Weekend Trip


53. Spend Time with Friends at least once a month


54. Give 5 "I saw this and thought of you" gifts


55. Send 10 "just because" cards/letters


56. Go 30 days without fast food or take-away


57. Do 15 unsolicited very nice things for friends or strangers


58. Put my business card into at least 20 free lunch contests


59. Get up the minute that the alarm goes off every day for a month.


60. Make a new friend.


61. Make a quality friend.


62. Clear out my inbox and keep emails organized.


63. Write down 5 good things a day for a month straight (or longer)


64. Surprise someone. (with a visit, flowers, something nice)


65. Invest my time in someone, be intentional.


66. Visit an active volcano


67. Hold 5 dinner parties for 2 + other people


68. Become a “Friend of” a museum or art gallery


69. Remind myself I have a job I love and LOVE it. Daily for 1 month and Mean it


70. Send someone a hand written note, postcard, card or letter each month


71. Write a letter to my kids of what I wish for them – put it away for their 18th birthday


72. Donate $10 per item not completed


73. Throw out 101 things


74. Draft a New 101 in 1001 list for 12/12/2013


75. Do two mid-term reviews on my list


76. Plant a vegetable patch possibly with fruit trees


77. Call my family interstate at least once a month


78. Donate 100,000 grains of rice on freerice.com


79. Devote 4 Hours per week (preferably 1 hour per day to Professional Development)


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101. Watch 100 of the IMDb Top 250 all time best movies (watch again if seen before start date)

Rank	Rating	Title	Seen Previously	Date Seen 101 in 1001
1	9.2	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)	Yes
2	9.2	The Godfather (1972)	Yes
3	9	The Godfather: Part II (1974)	Yes
4	8.9	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)	Yes
5	8.9	Pulp Fiction (1994)	Yes
6	8.9	Schindler's List (1993)
7	8.9	12 Angry Men (1957)
8	8.8	Inception (2010)
9	8.8	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	Yes
10	8.8	The Dark Knight (2008)
11	8.8	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)	Yes
12	8.8	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	Yes
13	8.8	Seven Samurai (1954)
14	8.7	Fight Club (1999)	Yes
15	8.7	Goodfellas (1990)
16	8.7	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)	Yes
17	8.7	Casablanca (1942)
18	8.7	City of God (2002)
19	8.7	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)	Yes
20	8.7	Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
21	8.7	Rear Window (1954)
22	8.7	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	Yes
23	8.7	The Matrix (1999)	Yes
24	8.7	Psycho (1960)	Yes
25	8.7	The Usual Suspects (1995)		04/06/2011
26	8.7	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	Yes
27	8.6	Se7en (1995)
28	8.6	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	Yes
29	8.6	Memento (2000)
30	8.6	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)	Yes
31	8.6	Sunset Blvd. (1950)
32	8.6	Toy Story 3 (2010)
33	8.6	Forrest Gump (1994)	Yes
34	8.6	Leon: The Professional (1994)
35	8.6	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
36	8.6	Apocalypse Now (1979)	Yes
37	8.6	Citizen Kane (1941)
38	8.5	North by Northwest (1959)
39	8.5	American History X (1998)
40	8.5	American Beauty (1999)
41	8.5	Taxi Driver (1976)
42	8.5	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)	Yes
43	8.5	Saving Private Ryan (1998)	Yes
44	8.5	Alien (1979)	Yes
45	8.5	Vertigo (1958)
46	8.5	Amelie (2001)
47	8.5	Spirited Away (2001)
48	8.5	The Shining (1980)
49	8.5	WALL·E (2008)
50	8.5	Paths of Glory (1957)
51	8.5	The Pianist (2002)
52	8.5	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
53	8.5	Double Indemnity (1944)
54	8.5	City Lights (1931)
55	8.5	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
56	8.5	M (1931)
57	8.5	The Lives of Others (2006)
58	8.4	The Departed (2006)
59	8.4	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
60	8.4	Aliens (1986)	Yes
61	8.4	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
62	8.4	Requiem for a Dream (2000)
63	8.4	Das Boot (1981)	Yes
64	8.4	Reservoir Dogs (1992)		9/04/2011
65	8.4	The Third Man (1949)
66	8.4	L.A. Confidential (1997)	Yes
67	8.4	Modern Times (1936)
68	8.4	Chinatown (1974)
69	8.4	Black Swan (2010)
70	8.4	Life is Beautiful (1997)
71	8.4	Back to the Future (1985)	Yes
72	8.4	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
73	8.4	The Prestige (2006)
74	8.4	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)	Yes
75	8.4	Raging Bull (1980)
76	8.4	Cinema Paradiso (1988)
77	8.4	Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
78	8.3	Singin' in the Rain (1952)
79	8.3	Rashômon (1950)
80	8.3	Some Like It Hot (1959)
81	8.3	Once Upon a Time in America (1984)	Yes
82	8.3	The Green Mile (1999)	Yes
83	8.3	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	Yes
84	8.3	Amadeus (1984)
85	8.3	All About Eve (1950)
86	8.3	The Great Dictator (1940)
87	8.3	Bicycle Thieves (1948)
88	8.3	Full Metal Jacket (1987)	Yes
89	8.3	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	Yes
90	8.3	Braveheart (1995)	Yes
91	8.3	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	Yes
92	8.3	The Apartment (1960)
93	8.3	Downfall (2004)
94	8.3	Metropolis (1927)
95	8.3	Gladiator (2000)	Yes
96	8.3	Up (2009)	Yes
97	8.3	Gran Torino (2008)	Yes	22/07/2011
98	8.3	The Sting (1973)
99	8.3	Unforgiven (1992)
100	8.3	Oldboy (2003)
101	8.3	The Elephant Man (1980)
102	8.3	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
103	8.3	The Maltese Falcon (1941)
104	8.3	The King's Speech (2010)
105	8.3	On the Waterfront (1954)
106	8.3	Rebecca (1940)
107	8.3	Sin City (2005)
108	8.3	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)	Yes
109	8.3	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)	Yes
110	8.3	Die Hard (1988)	Yes
111	8.3	The Great Escape (1963)	Yes
112	8.3	Princess Mononoke (1997)
113	8.3	Batman Begins (2005)	Yes
114	8.3	The Seventh Seal (1957)
115	8.2	Jaws (1975)	Yes
116	8.2	Blade Runner (1982)	Yes
117	8.2	Hotel Rwanda (2004)
118	8.2	Fargo (1996)	Yes
119	8.2	The General (1926)
120	8.2	Heat (1995)
121	8.2	No Country for Old Men (2007)	Yes
122	8.2	For a Few Dollars More (1965)	Yes
123	8.2	Yojimbo (1961)
124	8.2	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
125	8.2	Touch of Evil (1958)
126	8.2	The Wizard of Oz (1939)	Yes
127	8.2	Ran (1985)
128	8.2	Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
129	8.2	Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
130	8.2	Wild Strawberries (1957)
131	8.2	Snatch. (2000)
132	8.2	The Sixth Sense (1999)	Yes
133	8.2	The Deer Hunter (1978)
134	8.2	Annie Hall (1977)
135	8.2	The Big Lebowski (1998)
136	8.2	The Lion King (1994)	Yes
137	8.2	Cool Hand Luke (1967)	Yes
138	8.2	Strangers on a Train (1951)
139	8.2	Donnie Darko (2001)
140	8.2	It Happened One Night (1934)
141	8.2	High Noon (1952)
142	8.2	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)	Yes
143	8.2	District 9 (2009)	Yes
144	8.2	Platoon (1986)	Yes
145	8.2	Toy Story (1995)	Yes
146	8.2	Into the Wild (2007)
147	8.1	There Will Be Blood (2007)
148	8.1	Million Dollar Baby (2004)	Yes
149	8.1	Notorious (1946)
150	8.1	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
151	8.1	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
152	8.1	Gone with the Wind (1939)	Yes
153	8.1	Trainspotting (1996)	Yes
154	8.1	The Gold Rush (1925)
155	8.1	Scarface (1983)
156	8.1	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
157	8.1	Groundhog Day (1993)	Yes
158	8.1	Ben-Hur (1959)
159	8.1	Avatar (2009)	Yes
160	8.1	The Big Sleep (1946)
161	8.1	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
162	8.1	The Graduate (1967)	Yes
163	8.1	Amores perros (2000)
164	8.1	The Wrestler (2008)
165	8.1	Life of Brian (1979)	Yes
166	8.1	Finding Nemo (2003)	Yes
167	8.1	The Kid (1921)
168	8.1	Ikiru (1952)
169	8.1	The Terminator (1984)	Yes	16/07/2011
170	8.1	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	Yes
171	8.1	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
172	8.1	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
173	8.1	The Wages of Fear (1953)
174	8.1	The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
175	8.1	Casino (1995)
176	8.1	Stand by Me (1986)
177	8.1	The Thing (1982)
178	8.1	Twelve Monkeys (1995)	Yes
179	8.1	How to Train Your Dragon (2010)	Yes
180	8.1	V for Vendetta (2006)
181	8.1	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
182	8.1	Les diaboliques (1955)
183	8.1	Gandhi (1982)
184	8.1	Ratatouille (2007)	Yes
185	8.1	My Neighbor Totoro (1988)	Yes
186	8.1	The Social Network (2010)
187	8.1	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
188	8.1	8½ (1963)
189	8.1	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
190	8.1	The Princess Bride (1987)	Yes
191	8	Star Trek (2009)	Yes
192	8	Good Will Hunting (1997)	Yes
193	8	The Hustler (1961)
194	8	The Killing (1956)
195	8	The 400 Blows (1959)
196	8	Network (1976)
197	8	La strada (1954)
198	8	The Battle of Algiers (1966)
199	8	The Incredibles (2004)	Yes
200	8	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
201	8	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
202	8	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
203	8	The Exorcist (1973)	Yes
204	8	In Bruges (2008)
205	8	The Wild Bunch (1969)
206	8	Dial M for Murder (1954)
207	8	Stalag 17 (1953)
208	8	Persona (1966)
209	8	Mary and Max (2009)
210	8	The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
211	8	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
212	8	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
213	8	Rocky (1976)	Yes
214	8	Fanny and Alexander (1982)
215	8	Children of Men (2006)
216	8	Let the Right One In (2008)
217	8	Ed Wood (1994)
218	8	Big Fish (2003)
219	8	Magnolia (1999)
220	8	Barry Lyndon (1975)
221	8	Mystic River (2003)
222	8	Manhattan (1979)
223	8	The Truman Show (1998)	Yes
224	8	Rosemary's Baby (1968)
225	8	Patton (1970)	Yes
226	8	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)	Yes
227	8	Festen (1998)
228	8	Roman Holiday (1953)
229	8	Infernal Affairs (2002)
230	8	Howl's Moving Castle (2004)		3/04/2011
231	8	His Girl Friday (1940)
232	8	Sherlock Jr. (1924)
233	8	Nights of Cabiria (1957)
234	8	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)	Yes
235	8	Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)	Yes
236	8	Duck Soup (1933)
237	8	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)	Yes	26/03/2011
238	8	Harvey (1950)
239	8	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
240	8	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
241	8	Sleuth (1972)
242	8	Rope (1948)
243	8	Three Colors: Red (1994)
244	8	Monsters, Inc. (2001)	Yes
245	8	Beauty and the Beast (1991)	Yes
246	8	Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (2003)
247	8	In the Mood for Love (2000)
248	8	Crash (2004/I)
249	8	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
250	8	Castle in the Sky (1986)