Why this blog?

I have a craze for keeping things organized. Though I fail at it miserably in the department of Thoughts, but whatever. Because of this craze I have ended up creating many blogs. Don't get me wrong, I am not a blogger, at all! I don't post regularly on any of them, but it just feels against my style to post one thing that's related, or in my opinion, confined, to a blog that has a wider more general scope, or worse, the one that's confined to another subject.

Perhaps, at a later day, I may be able to go through all this stuff, and filter out among all of them what's really worth keeping, and put them all in once place. That will be easy to manage, No? But for now, I find it easy to manage it like this, keeping all the different colored balls in their separate baskets. And therefore, I am starting this blog.

I read productivity porn a lot, and I know a thing or two about how making your goals public makes it a part of your identity, the way your mind sees your self, which in turns makes it easy for your mind to help you keep on track, because the mind gets very very upset when your actions are not in line with the image of self your mind has. I experienced this too, last week I told my friend I am gonna do workout. I have been telling my own self that I am gonna work out, but I never really did. But when I told my friends about it, it became a part of my image, and not just the image they had of me, but the image my own mind had of me, the identity, as we call it. So, I tinkered my identity a bit, and it was easier to do an action that's in line with one's identity. So, I have been working out for one week now.

Also what I did was write a post on my main blog about it, and share it on my friends walls, taunting them, telling them how awesome I was and what not; they probably think I am awesome by now... haha. What I noticed was, that doing that motivated me even further. It helped it make it easy for me to keep in track, i.e. less will power was needed. Then I blogged even more about it, and well, that also helped me in a way.

One more purpose that blogging was serving was of logging. Keeping accountability aside, when I posted the exercises I did in one workout, and what I was planning on doing in the next session, It became very natural to do them. The mere act of having a record was enough to improvements, without me making the Mental effort to improve. Now, the physical effort is still there, of course. But part of the mental effort is keeping record of where you were last time, where you should aim to be next time, where you finally aim to be, and where you end up. This logging every session, online, publicly, made this whole thing pretty fun! I could be honest with where I was, after all, I am trying my best. I could be practical with my ambitions, because I was making them public. And doing just these two for every consecutive workout meant I was automatically measuring performance between what was done last time, and what was done this time. And I hope that if I make a mistake, the documented existence of that mistake will even prevent me from making the same one again. More mistakes to try! :)

That being said and decided, I looked up online services to log my workouts. Some of them did have a whole fitness community with them, which would have helped in all these things I just mentioned above. And really, none of them made the cut. They were too rigid. As in, it was difficult to i) Make it personal ii) Record my assortment of exercises in it. So, here it is. Here's the blog, which documents how Saad gets fit, for the world to see, and be awed. And they're used to be being awed by now. Haha...