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Strength, health, embodied discipline, and the quiet work of maintaining capacity for duty and life.

"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training." — Socrates

The Gymnasium

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The Gymnasium holds training, health, physical capability, and the practical maintenance of strength and vitality.

This realm is about discipline in the physical sense, the habits, routines, and choices that shape endurance, energy, and readiness over time.

Featured in The Gymnasium

4:30 AM

·1 min
Discipline Time Habits Morning
Originally published on 2021-09-07. When you are young you are dependent on others and you have few responsibilities. Therefore you do not have to spend the bulk of your time managing these responsibilities. However, as you age you increase both your independence and the number of things that you are responsible for. You want to maximize this new found independence and responsibility, and in fact I firmly believe that doing so to the best of your ability constitutes a life well lived. For further reading see my article on this topic: Maturity Matters. Unfortunatly, this comes at the expense of your personal time.

Journal For Discipline

·4 mins
Journal Discipline Habits Planning
Originally published on 2021-10-02. Over the past two years I have kept a daily journal for tracking tasks, notes, and events. For taking notes I follow the Bullet Journal Method. The images to follow display how I have organize my journal. It is what works for me.

2026

Getting Back Into Running

·5 mins
Gymnasium Running
The Spark # Okay, so I’m in the process of getting back into running. Fun fact: my wife and I’s first date was a run. When we met, we were both heavily into it, but a few years later she got injured and had to stop completely. I sort of slowly fell out of the habit myself. I still ran occasionally into my late twenties, but it wasn’t until after I had kids that I stopped entirely.

2021

Journal For Discipline

·4 mins
Journal Discipline Habits Planning
Originally published on 2021-10-02. Over the past two years I have kept a daily journal for tracking tasks, notes, and events. For taking notes I follow the Bullet Journal Method. The images to follow display how I have organize my journal. It is what works for me.

4:30 AM

·1 min
Discipline Time Habits Morning
Originally published on 2021-09-07. When you are young you are dependent on others and you have few responsibilities. Therefore you do not have to spend the bulk of your time managing these responsibilities. However, as you age you increase both your independence and the number of things that you are responsible for. You want to maximize this new found independence and responsibility, and in fact I firmly believe that doing so to the best of your ability constitutes a life well lived. For further reading see my article on this topic: Maturity Matters. Unfortunatly, this comes at the expense of your personal time.
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