Ten til 2am, kitchen floor :
Normally my posts are scheduled ahead of time, but for this I had to complete the subject before publishing.
46 mantra pushups, the 15 and 4 mantra sets done like so ; 15+15+4+4+4+4.
I’ve done pushups every day for 3½ years without a miss.
6 more months makes 4 years no days off, and a definite zero misses PR length since I started during the summer of 2008.
I suggest everyone do their PT daily.
I still remember the miss on 5/13/2016 (if I actually did them that day the streak is much longer), I can remember the reset started 5/14/16.
One day in April of last year I dropped during my peak energy for the day doing 3 reps in the kitchen with a ridiculous fever to keep the streak alive.
(Pushups streak, plural hence 3, because I was very weak that day, and three sounded better to me than two, which felt like too much of a technicality for pluralization. Likely it was the most difficult low rep pushup set I’ve ever done.)
I can taste 5 years, zero misses.
To an old friend, I still recall walking those city hills at night, talking, I recall where I said this, that hedge next to the beat up car, the mood :
Daily Discipline! A victory every day!
No matter how small it seems, it’s a win! You must exert your will in the world!
I recall restarting the reps back in 2012 after most of that school year off, of shocking you when I did them with you that night eleven days in, having started the very same night as you, doing mine up to that point in secret. Gotta walk the walk, as “do as I say not as I do” is a farce, is unmanly.
I pray for you brother.
Persistence & Tenacity