GTD #30: Bridgewater

Getting back into weightlifting has been rewarding, physically and mentally. Figuring out a good game plan for my career in the future - not sure if it'll work, but it feels right for me and it'll have value in the world over the next ten years. Made some major updates to the Physical Training Program 2 as I work my way through it. Haven't gone for a run or bike ride in quite a while, but lifting and yoga has taken the priority. Approaching adulthood in my own way - debts are paid, goals are set, and I'm back to having a dream again. Without dreams, we wander through life like ghosts, which is how I've felt for years. Just fixated on the things I have, the things I could get. But with a dream, it makes the stuff I'm not happy about today matter a whole lot less more. I'm building to something. Even if I never get there, at least I'm moving in a direction I'm jazzed about. Grinding!

March 1st, 2026 to March 31st, 2026

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Weightlifting has been great, and even though I don't have a full gym setup yet, it's amazing how far you can get with a bench, dumbbells and a dream. Nutrition is the aspect that I've really improved on as well - your muscles can only get so big based on the inputs you're adding to the system. The magic is working.

Didn't get any long sessions in this month but kept up a decent amount of momentum. Yoga always is the cure though, especially as I continue to lift weights, yoga balances me out and gets me the mobility I need to lift harder and move through life gracefully.

The live action One Piece is so good, and the Chopper episode made me tear up countless times. I never really gelled with One Piece as a kid, but over the last year I've gotten hooked on the series. It's as goofy and silly as Dragon Ball but the emotional aspects are so deep and powerful, more than any other shounen I've seen. The fight logic isn't as thrilling as other shounen series, but it makes sense in the context of the main character and the story - it's more of a comic book adventure than focused on combat IQ.

Speaking of anime, the first half of Jujutsu Kaisen's third season just wrapped, and that has the combat IQ I've been craving. Fights move incredibly quick, characters come up with theories and strategies in the heat of the moment, and you never know what's going to happen moment to moment. Fantastic.

Truth by Kamasi Washington was the final song in Homeland, which as I've mentioned over the last few chapters, is one of my new favorite shows of all time. This song perfectly captures the show and is the perfect bookending to the entire show. As they say, no notes. Absolute cinema of a song and story.

Let God Sort Em Out is a strong album by Clipse. I've transitioned away from listening to traditional hiphop, just because I've heard so much music that I've enjoyed the eclectic futuristic sounds of artists like Playboi Carti. But LGSEO hits on that old school flavor while updating it, slightly. Just enough that it's not boring but you're still getting that Clipse flow about dealing drugs and being a boss.

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3/3/2026

I feel like such a failure. I need to bring myself to live in the real world. Yeah, yeah, we've been here before. Don't worry though, I'm still training. Still trying to figure it out.

3/5/2026

I decided I'm working on my pathway to becoming a CEO by working on my storytelling skills, my financial skills and my leadership skills. I'm getting nowhere lately. The only time I'm enjoying my day is from 8PM to midnight when I'm ripped out of my mind, and even that isn't fun anymore. I just don't know what to do and I'm paralyzed, which is something I've struggled with my whole life. Even these updates are repetitive. IDK man. Therapy helped 100%, I can't deny that and it's gotten me to a better place. But it's just on me to do the work and pick a direction and just start walking. Training has been great. Writing has been great. This entire project has been great. But I'm still stuck on this level of the game of life I guess. Finding a glorious reason to live has been the mission.

3/6/2026

Some more reflecting last night. I think I'm going to focus on one great product to start - the Sendo app. I created an initial version but I had an incredibly awkward process for doing it - writing code with ChatGPT on my iPad and pasting it into the Sketch app in one giant file. I worked on that Version 1 of the app for a few months and proud of how it came out. All of the basic functionality was there but it was a pain to make changes, especially because I was doing it in one giant file. So as a proof of concept and validation that I could figure out the Developer process for an app, it worked. Now I need to revisit the app and rewrite it properly for a real launch. The app serves as a training tool to complete The Challenge. It isn't meant to replace Strava or Apple Workouts, just another world to enter to focus on training. So I think it'll be useful. One important thing I need to figure out is Exercise Guides, I'm always going on Google to figure out how to do a workout, so being able to do that through the app would be legitimately useful.

Now the tricky part is how to write it. I'm going to buy the Macbook Neo to replace my 2015 Macbook which I can't even use to write the app code because it hasn't been updated in years. So it'll be a fresh start across the board, and this time I'm pivoting Sendo to focus on creating great products instead of primarily being a blog about my training. The blog will still exist but it'll become more of a product update and ongoing insights into the development process. Or really it'll be a mix of both. I'm feeling excited again!

3/16/2026

I'm not a normal person. I've never been. There's this thing in my mind, in my brain that doesn't function normally. Look, I get it. Normal is relative. And that plenty of people in life and history aren't 'normal' and are able to live flourishing lives. I'm just trying to figure out how to overcome the darkness in my mind. I think Sendo, this website, is part of the solution. I thought that I beat out this thing, but it never went away the whole time. That's deeply frustrating but it's also a bit relieving to recognize that again. This blog is becoming a problem though - yes these are my feelings, yes this is anonymous, but all of these problems and issues leaking out of my head onto the internet isn't good either. But at the same time I feel like I need to be honest, I need to keep going because this will be important later on. Not from a delusions of grandeur perspective, it's just nice to have a record of my feelings and emotions at this moment in my life. I'm not even saying everything I want to say because I want to be more careful. Ugh.

Anyway, I'm in Week 8 of the PTP2. In following the program I made so many changes and figured out how to improve it, so I'll drop a post on the updated PTP2. I'll do this for the PTP1 as well, and then for the cycling programs while I do a 2nd cycle of the PTP2.

3/31/2026

Been a while since the last update, I've been traveling and busy with life. The world is tilting towards crazy these days, so looks like I'll have to hunker down and save my money. The next year of my life is going to be crucial - every decision affects the future. Getting debt free, figuring out the right place to live, even my spirit animal - all of it's been coming together lately. My heart says Florida, my head says New York. I'm still going to try and split the difference.

See you for the next one.

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