Year 15, day 1 of my burpee sidcha
I was 40 years old when I did my first burpee in 2011. Today I’m 54 and haven’t missed a day. Now I do more than burpees in what I call “my twice daily burpee-based calisthenics.”
Daily burpees helped me develop the sidcha concept, which I consider one of the most important developments of my life. I’ve come to see sidchas as the most effective way to reach one’s potential.
My recent resting heart rate of 38 beats per minute is evidence of not missing a day. It’s hard to fake.
I wonder when I’ll decrease my daily number of burpees or other parts of my calisthenics sidcha.
The most annoying part
There is one very annoying side effect of sidchas: the near-universal reaction to say I have more discipline somehow naturally. No one would look at a body builder and say they have big muscles and that’s why they go to the gym. Everyone knows Schwarzenegger first went to the gym, then grew muscles as a result.
Would anyone say Miles Davis was a great musician before he started practicing?
I didn’t start with discipline. Because I didn’t have discipline but valued it, I developed it through the sidchas. That people would belittle, dehumanize, and insult me so cavalierly still surprises me.
I guess that’s the price of developing what people value but don’t put the time in to develop themselves. They’d rather insult someone than face themselves.
Oh well, c’est la vie. What am I going to do, stop my sidchas?
Hardly. I hope they try, at least. They’ll be glad they did.
As long as I’m extolling their virtues, I might as well include this webinar on sidchas. I recently watched it for the first time in years. It’s good.
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