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Wake Up: 31 Days and Actions to Take Charge of Your Life
123 pages, Unknown Binding
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Matt Frazier
18 books56 followersMatt Frazier is a vegan ultramarathoner and founder of the No Meat Athlete movement.
Frazier shares training tips and vegetarian recipes on his site, No Meat Athlete. When he's not running, cooking, or blogging, Frazier's a full-time graduate student working on his Ph.D. in applied math. He also enjoys reading, gambling, music, and brewing beer. Frazier lives in Maryland with his wife and son.
Frazier shares training tips and vegetarian recipes on his site, No Meat Athlete. When he's not running, cooking, or blogging, Frazier's a full-time graduate student working on his Ph.D. in applied math. He also enjoys reading, gambling, music, and brewing beer. Frazier lives in Maryland with his wife and son.
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December 27, 2022
An e-book from No Meat Athlete's Matt Frazier.
I enjoy and a appreciate No Meat Athlete. I have listened to many an NMA podcast while out on a long run, I utilized NMA's "Marathon Roadmap" while training for my first two marathons, and will be using their "Ultramarathon Roadmap" for my first ultra this fall. The NMA cookbook has some cool recipes, and really I just appreciate NMA being there, a resource for vegans and vegetarians who want to focus on fitness and such.
I got the No Meat Athlete "bundle" for Christmas (a big batch of e-books from various authors, work out plans, recipes, etc). Not sure if this title was a part of it or if it was just something free they put out around the same time (I think maybe the latter, or maybe both).
Anyway, this is a month-long goal development thing. 31 entries, each focused on defining and then working toward specific goals, each with an "action" for the day. (For what it's worth, my yearly goals for this project are to run that ultra, to refocus on healthy eating in general, to support local businesses more fully, and to be more patient with my kids).
Some of the stuff in here was good. I like the process he used for identifying and focusing on goals, important for someone like me who has about 600 goals and tends to freeze up on all of them. I like the "anchor habit" bit, basically finding something to do for a certain amount of time each day, every day, no exceptions, that keeps the focus going. And so on.
Some of the stuff in here was probably good, but either harder to work out during the current COVID environment, or else just stuff that I've already been doing. For instance, gratitude practice, including expressing appreciation to people. I've been doing little gratitude practices for years, so sure, cool, but not helpful to me right now. Or cutting back on overwhelming social commitments. That would have been very good advice to me a year ago, when I was running fifteen different directions, hardly had time to spend with my family, felt like I needed to do so many different things just to keep my head above water. Since COVID? Yeah, not a problem. No overwhelming time commitments, lots of meditation time, lots of family time, lots of time to focus on those four goals.
And then some stuff just didn't strike me as particularly useful. But there wasn't much of that, and you can't really expect each and every piece to be dead on relevant and important.
Overall, useful. For me, worth the time it took to read and go through the "program."
Not sure if it's still free on the No Meat Athlete site, but if so, and if you're having a hard time kick starting some goals (maybe you'd like to go vegan? or run a marathon? or start a little side business?), probably worth your time, too.
UPDATE:
Just read this again.
As is often the case, I find myself with many, many things I'd like to accomplish-- run more marathons, run an ultra, complete a 350 mile bike ride for my 50th birthday, organize another Vegfest, expand some of the programs the non-profit I volunteer with is running, take the kids on a canoe trip, write my manifesto, record a bunch of songs I've written, write some short stories, be more patient with my kids, get that promotion, start up a vegan summer camp for kids, climb a few mountains, reconnect with old college friends, take my wife on a "second honeymoon," and so on and on and on and on and on.
I decided to go through this again and see if it would help me refocus on a few core goals, help me clear some space.
It's a decent program.
This time through, much of it didn't really do much for me as it's stuff I've already got in place. Some of it from my last read, some of it from before that. Gratitude practice is something I've done for years. My anchor habit (daily meditation) is intact from long before my first read through. Many of the other daily activities are already there to some extent.
I did however really like the first couple of weeks of this. Listing past "wins" (that list can get longer with each read), prioritizing the goals, putting things on the calendar, making commitments.
Definitely worth the second read through, even if not as useful the second time.
And still something I'd recommend for people trying to figure it out, trying to get life to run on a different track.
I enjoy and a appreciate No Meat Athlete. I have listened to many an NMA podcast while out on a long run, I utilized NMA's "Marathon Roadmap" while training for my first two marathons, and will be using their "Ultramarathon Roadmap" for my first ultra this fall. The NMA cookbook has some cool recipes, and really I just appreciate NMA being there, a resource for vegans and vegetarians who want to focus on fitness and such.
I got the No Meat Athlete "bundle" for Christmas (a big batch of e-books from various authors, work out plans, recipes, etc). Not sure if this title was a part of it or if it was just something free they put out around the same time (I think maybe the latter, or maybe both).
Anyway, this is a month-long goal development thing. 31 entries, each focused on defining and then working toward specific goals, each with an "action" for the day. (For what it's worth, my yearly goals for this project are to run that ultra, to refocus on healthy eating in general, to support local businesses more fully, and to be more patient with my kids).
Some of the stuff in here was good. I like the process he used for identifying and focusing on goals, important for someone like me who has about 600 goals and tends to freeze up on all of them. I like the "anchor habit" bit, basically finding something to do for a certain amount of time each day, every day, no exceptions, that keeps the focus going. And so on.
Some of the stuff in here was probably good, but either harder to work out during the current COVID environment, or else just stuff that I've already been doing. For instance, gratitude practice, including expressing appreciation to people. I've been doing little gratitude practices for years, so sure, cool, but not helpful to me right now. Or cutting back on overwhelming social commitments. That would have been very good advice to me a year ago, when I was running fifteen different directions, hardly had time to spend with my family, felt like I needed to do so many different things just to keep my head above water. Since COVID? Yeah, not a problem. No overwhelming time commitments, lots of meditation time, lots of family time, lots of time to focus on those four goals.
And then some stuff just didn't strike me as particularly useful. But there wasn't much of that, and you can't really expect each and every piece to be dead on relevant and important.
Overall, useful. For me, worth the time it took to read and go through the "program."
Not sure if it's still free on the No Meat Athlete site, but if so, and if you're having a hard time kick starting some goals (maybe you'd like to go vegan? or run a marathon? or start a little side business?), probably worth your time, too.
UPDATE:
Just read this again.
As is often the case, I find myself with many, many things I'd like to accomplish-- run more marathons, run an ultra, complete a 350 mile bike ride for my 50th birthday, organize another Vegfest, expand some of the programs the non-profit I volunteer with is running, take the kids on a canoe trip, write my manifesto, record a bunch of songs I've written, write some short stories, be more patient with my kids, get that promotion, start up a vegan summer camp for kids, climb a few mountains, reconnect with old college friends, take my wife on a "second honeymoon," and so on and on and on and on and on.
I decided to go through this again and see if it would help me refocus on a few core goals, help me clear some space.
It's a decent program.
This time through, much of it didn't really do much for me as it's stuff I've already got in place. Some of it from my last read, some of it from before that. Gratitude practice is something I've done for years. My anchor habit (daily meditation) is intact from long before my first read through. Many of the other daily activities are already there to some extent.
I did however really like the first couple of weeks of this. Listing past "wins" (that list can get longer with each read), prioritizing the goals, putting things on the calendar, making commitments.
Definitely worth the second read through, even if not as useful the second time.
And still something I'd recommend for people trying to figure it out, trying to get life to run on a different track.
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