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This one comes to you straight from the dream world my friend. I’m not even fully awake in bed typing – or tapping – this out.

Just wrote the dream down with all details in my diary. I’m not sure why im chronicling it here but that’s how it will be for the new site on dreams when I do get that going – and I was “told” to write this to you so I am..

Nothing much – I was supposed to have dinner with a friend. At the last minute that friend turned into another.

Is McDonald’s ok, I asked.

Apparently it was. . .

And it was there in the freezer, along with vanilla ice cream and “frozen” chicken. (Or a pack with that written on it, at any rate – I didn’t actually see any chicken).

I asked my friend to help “clean ” some vegetables with some nasty growth on them while I reheated dinner etc.

Of course “he” said “Hire a maid to do it” and “let’s eat first,!” – both statements my ex made all the time, of course.

I’ve never got it.

When there’s a lot of work to be done, especially stuff I don’t “want to do” – it gets done FIRST. . .

Such as dishes.

They don’t stay piled up for days in the kitchen like with my ex.

It’s just nasty, the sort of kitchen she prefers. I still remember my mom in 2004 asking me in China after dinner (which she cooked with my sister apparently when they visited me) “if I did the dishes” before sleeping.

I was too drunk that night. Hehe. But, I did do them the very next morning before work.

The lesson is this – unlike what most self help gurus say about doing the easy stuff first and then tackling the hard stuff – I’m about getting the hard unpleasant stuff out of the way first.

Life. Fitness. Anything.

Get the work done first. 

Eat, rest later.

All too often if you do it the other way, the work never gets done – and piles up for weeks ugh. Still remember a fellow posting a picture of a very nasty kitchen on Twitter, asking “if you’d visit a house like that”.

No way. The owner has NO pride – either in their own life or the house.

When writing a book (an activity most dread or have “no confidence to do”), lots of people talk about “getting the easy stuff out of the way to build momentum” and eating a bear one bite at a time.

I’m on board with #2.

But momentum?

For me, the parts of the book I most dislike are the “routine” stuff. Copyright, disclaimer etc – maybe the product marketing at the end and such – and the basic outline of the book already very much there in my head but fleshing it out on paper can be a pain …

… That’s how I start. I get THAT out of the way first. THAT builds momentum . If I’d start with the parts of the book I enjoyed doing, I would not get half of what I do get accomplished now done.

Roadwork before, not after.

Pushups pullups, only then do I allow myself the long luxury of stretching.

Other part of the dream involved me executing a nigh perfect side kick which took out someones jaw literally – now I’ve forgotten the specifics of the dream, but the message remains – and I’ll share it again as I have before.

Stretch AFTER your exercises. Not before.

A bit of stretching as a gentle warm up is fine before. But for the most part? Stretch AFTER not before.

And thats that.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee