Rebuilding Rob

As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

What does the best version of yourself look like? What is something you can do today to be one step closer to that version?

I don’t know if I have ever completely embodied “the best version of myself”. There have been things that I’ve done in my life to better myself. Unfortunately, some of them end up coming at the cost of sacrificing other aspects of my life. But I think the best version of myself would look something like this

Rebuilding the body

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: I’ve got to lose some weight. Particularly on my gut. I’ve been pretty good about going to the gym. Though not so much the last week or two. I would like to correct that. But I have recently started looking at some abdominal and “dad bod “gut workouts. I have got to start losing some weight on my stomach. I’m carrying around for too much weight there; probably more than I even realize.

I’ve been cutting back on snacks, I’m down to about one soda per day. I think I’m getting my voices to a point where if I get back into working out, I will see some real results pretty quickly. It’s time to take action in this regard.

Rebuilding the mind

I need to read more. There’s no other way around it. A year pass, I could use the excuse of “having to read what I was teaching my students during the school year“ but this school year, my students are working entirely online and I’m functioning more as a lab facilitator than I am an actual classroom teacher. My point being that I don’t have to read any novels for instructional purposes and I have an awful lot of downtime during my workday.

In my defense, I did recently pick Anna Karenina back up and try to get back into it. I got about 200 additional pages right before I put it down a week or so ago. There are a lot of books that I want to read right now. I just need to pick them up and start. Fred has been telling me that I have to read The Anxious Generation. She says it is illuminating as far as social media and it’s impact on. Children is concerned. Sounds like it’s right up my alley.

Rebuilding relationships

As I mentioned in the last few posts recently here in here, this time I start getting some definitive answers on certain people who are in or at least on the periphery of my life. I’m kind of tired of wasting peoples time. Likewise, I’m kind of sick of spinning my tires. If I’m going to invest in a romantic relationship with Veronica, I’m all in.

XST is another problem. We’re not talking nearly as much as we used to, and it seems like we’re both kind of keeping each other on the periphery. But she’s another one that I’m tired of screwing around with. At this point it’s put up or shut up time. If she’s not interested in me or interested in a serious relationship, I will wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors.

I know, Relationship Rob is not necessarily indicative of the best version of myself. but at the same time, I feel like I’m being disingenuous to some people in my life and wasting too much time with others. If we’re talking about the best version of myself, I figure it should be in all facets of my life.

Also, I realize I may be overdoing it with the whole Rebuilding motif; but that’s kind of my thing.

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