Today, is the 30th of November and is the last day of my attempt to grow a moustache for Movember (it is also my 29th Birthday!). I thought it was time for a update.
It was my first attempt to grow anything out of my facial hair and I am not very impressed! I typically stay clean shaved all the time, so it was weird letting my facial hair grow (or attempt to anyway!). My top lip has been very itchy. It was strange and somewhat disconcerting finding bits of food that were sticking to my tashe!
So can I grow a moustache? Let’s have a look:
Answer: Sort off! (Well, I can grow a bum fluff one anyway!)
So that is the final result of my 2011 attempt – not bad! Roll on 2012′s Movember for another stab at it! Anyway, I hope you enjoy the rest of your St Andrews Day and we’ll talk soon. I’m out for dinner tonight with the family for my birthday meal out and then it’s only a few short weeks before I become an uncle for the first time. I really can’t wait.
Bye for now.
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Over the last few weeks, I have had quite a few people mention that I should offer website design, development and assistance to others, as they love the look and interaction of my sites. So I’ve decided to go for it!
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Hi Guys,
I have decided to participate in the glorious spectacle of Movember!
For those who aren’t sure what Movember is, it is when, for the month of November, men grow a moustache in support of and to raise monies for several Prostate and Testicular Cancer Charities. Friends, family, work colleagues etc donate money (and generally laugh at you) for growing the moustache. All the monies raised go towards working on early Cancer detection methods, Cancer treatments and support for sufferers. I think that is an awesome cause, and hope you do to! Having lost Grandparents to cancer, I am keen to raise monies in remembrance of them.
The challenge begins on the 1st of November, where you start with a cleanly shaved face. Your challenge is, over the next 29 days, to grow a spectacular moustache! I am sure mine will consist mainly of Bum Fluff!
If you would like to donate and support me, please go to http://mobro.co/bodklb
Here is a pic I took today of me Cleanly Shaved as per the ‘rules’ (Yes, I know, I am looking slightly odd!). The challenge is now on!
1st of November – 3pm – Cleanly Shaved
A million dollars. Imagine that. Imagine being able to check your bank balance and seeing six figures plus potentially in your bank account! Well, I am going to do more than simply try and imagine it … I’m going to try and earn it!
I am taking part in the first ever ‘Million Dollar Blog Project’, a blog challenge created by Corbett Barr over at http://thinktraffic.net/. The idea is to create a blog that will create $1 million dollars in profit over it’s lifetime. This may seem a unobtainable amount, but if you break it down to over ten years, it’s simply £100,000 or even less with a longer website life.
As I have just lost my job, I’m very keen to start making money as soon as possible, so let the challenge begin!
To keep up to date with my current progress, stats, the leaderboard etc, please go to:
http://thinktraffic.net/mdbp/stats
I am really keen to hear your comments, advice, conclusions, opinions on posts and everything else, so please add your comments to the posts or use the contact form on the site. Rock on!
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From Podge to Hell to Muscles (well some)!
From Supersetting, I’ve now moved onto the Challenge Series. A list of exercises. 30 reps. Pace: flat out!
Postive Outcomes (e.g. – exercises going up in reps)
- I managed to do all 30 reps on each exercise despite thinking initially that it was too high a rep count and that there was no way I could manage it on all exercises.
- The weights went up on nearly all exercises each sessions.
- The bodyweight exercises seemed to get easier and I could pump out a few more reps per exercise than the last session. Unfotunately, I couldn’t do 30 reps in one go for some of them, but I was getting closer!
- The exercises I was really worried about doing (as I felt I would look stupid doing them) like the frog jump ec gave me confidence as I did them.
Negative Outcomes (had to wait to access weight bench, didn’t eat enough etc)
- My shoulders are a lot weaker compared to other parts of my body – they gave out easy on the pushups etc. I need to bring them into line, in terms of strength, with the rest of my upper body.
- Still not eating right. No breakfast, small lunches on occassions and definatly not meeting the required calories for the day.
- No matter how hard I tried, I found I could only manage a maximum of 2-3 hanging leg raises
- I had to keep double checking my form as some of the exercises were new to me.
- Couldn’t do 30 reps at the start and had to do exercises in bursts of reps.
- Had to do deadlifts in a small number of reps at a time to work on the correct form.
I have become a big fan of Corbett Barr recently. If you don’t know who he is, let me explain. Corbett runs a website called http://thinktraffic.net a site dedicated to helping you get more traffic for your website or blog. In between the articles on topics like SEO and traffic generation, I found a post he had written about finding your true voice, the voice that you talk to your audience with (http://thinktraffic.net/5-extraordinary-blog-post-types). Now I’ve never been really happy with any of my posts. Some have come close, such as the Russian Dolls post (http://www.qualitybloke.com/youre-a-russian-doll-2/), but I have always felt like I am not talking to you, my valued reader, the way that I want to, the way that I feel is needed. I feel shackled but social conditioning, by what I have read from anonymous bloggers about what you should say and do on your site, despite people outgrowing these.
Anyway, in Corbett’s good post, I found that number 4 really hit home to me – “The Soul Baring Post”. I have always felt like two people. There is the everyday me, the face that I show to the world. He is constrained by how society tells him he must act, that I must do the dull 9-5 job because other people have always done this and still continue to do so. That I should have gone to University and will be a failure because I didn’t (you know who you are – I see your eyes when I say I didn’t go because of homesickness) and so on.
Yet, there is another me. The website me. Recently he has become more apparent as my site has grown and developed. He has not fully emerged out of the shell yet. I still feel that he is being held back in there by the everyday me, the everyday me is afraid of what people may say if the website me was allowed full reign in this world. Yet, I have come to a point in my life where I have never been so unhappy. I am literally at the Tipping Point (a book that I should read apparently). I either accept a life of never stepping out of my comfort zone, never confronting those who need it, adhering to how others believe I should act and say and continue to regret nearly every day or I stop. I draw a line in the sand, I cut the baggage that I have been carrying, the emotional scars, the regrets, the pain and upset, the lost loves, the misery of losing family members and sorely missed pets and let the real me out. It’s scary to even think of doing so. Yet, like I think when people say they are embarrassed to stretch at the gym as people see it as sissy – it’s not them that has to deal with the pain later on, it’s you.
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