On October 31, 2024, it's Halloween and the kids are nine and six, but I'm going to tennis tonight. It's also the day before Laura's big trip to New York with her friends this weekend, so I'm spending a little extra time, having lunch at home with her, and we enjoy the luxury of picking the kids up from school together. It's amazing doing little activities like that. It leaves me feeling like I have so much time wealth.
A morning of crypto, yoga, and time wealth
I film my crypto video in the morning and I go to the Power Flow Yoga with Jeremy on Thursday, which feels great since I haven't been to yoga in a few days, and then the kids come home. They go over to my mom's house as a first stop trick-or-treating. Then they go off with Laura's family walking around the neighborhood while I go to tennis clinic.
Playing tennis like lasers with the Inner Game of Tennis
Just five of us guys show up and the coach, and I'm having so much fun applying the Inner Game of Tennis book that I started reading yesterday. I'm hitting shots all over the place and I'm just having fun seeing how hard and fast my shots fly across the court. The coach is commenting on how my shots are coming across like lasers. I'm missing all over the place and yet I'm having a great time. I'm curious to what my body can do.
Then halfway through, after we warm up, we start playing doubles games and I hit a lot of shots that go in, a lot of shots on the line, and I love it. I love seeing what my body can do, and I'm practicing just giving it a general direction like play tennis and have fun, hit the ball in the court, and watch what happens. After the tennis clinic wraps up, I talk with the coach a little bit afterwards and talk with all the guys while I'm there, getting to know everybody's name. Then I go home and walk and meet the family out while they're trick-or-treating.
The candy haul, and why I'm throwing out my scale
We get back home and the kids dump incredible amounts of candy. They got my favorite kinds of white chocolate candy. Oh yeah, you obviously are white chocolate, aren't you, Jerry? So I get as much of the white chocolate Hershey's and Kit Kats as they'll give me, along with some of the Butterfingers. This morning, I had the leftovers from mom's birthday last night and I already ate about half of a cake. So a little bit of candy on top of that should be great.
But I'm trusting my body. I've come to believe it's extremely intelligent. In my experience, it's not going to hurt me. It knows how to throw calories away. I'm getting rid of my scale and just feeling into my body, feeding it when it's hungry, satisfying it with the foods that feel right to eat, which is mostly a whole plant-based diet. And then if I want to have a little bit of fun foods, I trust my body to not store those as fat, because I've come to believe we live in an abundant universe. To me there's no need to hoard calories like you're never going to see them again, which unfortunately happens a lot when you do things like dieting. In my experience, it trains your body that food is scarce and it should hoard as much as possible. This is how I've chosen to relate to my own body, and it's a lot like the day with no plan when I let my body tell me what to do.
Diaries, beats on Splice, and freestyling for fun
I'm getting ready to put together the timeline for my diaries of the yoga crush girl, and I'm really excited and a little intimidated to do that as well. I put the kids to bed with Laura and then I go shower. And before I go see my mom, I start playing around on Splice with some loops. These are so much fun. I've got my headphones and my iPad on, and I'm doing different kinds of loops on Splice, little beats that it generates for you, putting together various sounds and sticking them into something like EDM or trap beats. And I'm just freestyling over these, having so much fun. I do little freestyles just softly to myself in my room for 20 minutes.
Before I rip myself off the iPad to go visit my mom for a little bit, I am grateful that I'm playing so much in my life. I did the yoga practice today and I played more in my yoga practice than I ever have before. I diverted from the script given by the instructor, and he enjoyed seeing how playful I was. I altered positions into things that were fun. I even made myself laugh a few times. I was moving around on the mat so much, got good and sweaty during my yoga practice today, and combined with tennis, I really enjoyed the exercise. This is the kind of playful day I keep sharing in my Life playlist.
Getting Laura ready for New York, and looking toward November
With Laura getting ready to go to New York tomorrow, we sit down and talk and get ready for the weekend ahead. Laura's got everything planned and super easy for me, and I'm so excited for her trip to see her friends. I'm often overly dramatic in my head before trips, but she seems to be just looking forward to it. And I'm looking forward to what November brings.