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Hey friends, I just wanted to tell you how much fun I've had this year and I owe a lot of it to you guys. Seriously. I knew once I went public at the beginning of this year there was no way to put my finger on what might happen. That's part of the beauty of it though. Sometimes it's so easy to settle into an existence where everything is mapped out. Everything is premeditated. There's not much room for spontaneity. Well, that's actually a good thing in many ways. I don't want to live my life bouncing around from one thing to the next without much of a plan and I have for some of it. BUTTTTTTT, if everything is so thought out and processed, for me at least, a HUGE element is missing. That playful part of the unconscious that gets released when you're a bit scared. You take chances. You minimize the risk but you take chances. You push yourself. Well, that's what's happened since I went public this year.
It was because of doing that where I fell into the opportunity to make some big changes in my life. One was to start getting my physical self back. As many of you know, I had tried, like many of us, to do crash diets, faddish little tricks that would get me somewhat presentable only to feel empty in the long run. Well, as many of you have followed, Tony Horton came back into my life and I've had a great ride since June. Being able to put it out there publicly has made all the difference. I remember when I decided to say, "I'm Getting Into Shape..." publicly something happened. I wanted to do something drastic to make me stay the course. Sure, at the beginning it was scary. I'd said that MANY times of the last 10 years and could never stay with it. That's because I'd only tell myself. To put it out there publicly was the best thing I could have done.
So now I'm here looking at the end of '07 and I'm putting my goals together for this coming year. Over on the MDB message boards one of my friends I've made there, Mike French, who is UBER fit, has something that he's started where he's asked people to make *1* goal for the first quarter of '08. March 31st is the cutoff date. So I jumped in. I said, "I'm 202 lbs right now and probably around 16% body fat so by the end of March I WILL be 180 lbs and at least 10% body fat. There, I've said it...
When I declared I was going to get in shape back in June I remember going through those feelings of "Man, I've said this before and fallen off of it and now a bunch of people are watching... whoa..." but that was exactly what I needed to do. I remember hearing about some people talking about it behind closed doors saying, "He'll never stay on it..." Well, I'm glad I heard about that because it just fueled the fire. Motivated me even more. I had a few people telling me they didn't like hearing me going on and on about this fitness stuff, that they like my music and to stick to that... well, I listen to everything that's written to me and I consider it. As many of you can tell, I don't have governors on my sites. You make a comment, it's up immediately, not waiting to be approved. So I read it all and if people don't like what I'm saying, I'm paying attention to it and considering it. Ultimately, what I've come up with at the end of the beautiful year going into the next one, and PLEASE don't take this as belligerence, but it's my website, my myspace page and I'm going to continue talking about what makes me happy and what I'm into. The reason I say that is because in throwing myself even deeper into being public about my goals I'm going to be taking people along the ride very intimately. As many of you know, I've got my webcast channel... scheffyshow.com and I'm going to be doing all kinds of things with it. Believe me, I haven't forgotten where I came from. It's music. So the trick is to tie in as much of this as I can. As you can see, I love blogging. Love the interactive thing here on the net with you guys so if I'm going to put energy into this why not tie as much of it together as possible? If I'm excited about working out maybe I can put some of the music I'm working on during some of my rants and raves during the scheffyshow.com webcasts. I'm working on it folks.
I know I've threatened to get my photos together from the first 90 days of P90X but I'm stubborn and *I* want to be the guy to put those pictures together. People have offered but I want to do it. The more self contained you are the better. It's more inspiring that way to me. I'm getting more and more away from depending on anybody other than myself for my solo endeavors. It's just more inspiring for me that way.
Oh, I'm going to start a regular night for "The Scheffy Show" starting this Wed., Jan. 2. I'm going to webcast from 6 to 8 pm, pacific time. That's 9 to 11 for you east coasters... For my first show I'm going to have Alex Ligertwood on with me. We'll talk about all kinds of things and play some music, sing a bit. For any of you that don't know who he is, he was Santana's lead vocalist for 16 years having sung a handful of hits inluding "Winning". Let me tell you about this guy. Scottish dude with one of the greatest voices on the planet. This guy's range puts most of us to shame. He's a baritone in his speaking voice but his range is amazing. He's got all the notes I have up top and THEN some! Yup, Alex will be with me on Wed. night.
I'm going to try and do my Wed. night show with a guest so stay tuned folks! Well, I know I've been pretty long winded here so I'll close for now. You never know, I might just jump back and add something later. We've still got a few hours until takeoff! Talk to you soon... Jason
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