Pete Dudchenko

Day two in my four week series about sticking to an exercise program. I’m actually surprised at the motivation I’ve already seen from blogging about this. I don’t expect a lot of people to follow these posts but just the fact that I’ve made an announcement to do this gives me a certain level of motivation. Knowing that if I don’t go to the gym, I have to publicly post that I failed for that day is enough to cause me to go.

Day one and day two…check it off the list.

So tomorrow I get a day off. I think I’ll catch up on Heroes.

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I once heard that if you try to quit smoking, you should tell anyone and everyone who will listen. The reason being that it’s harder to have a set back if there are others watching you. Plus the constant, “How’s the quitting smoking thing going?” keeps you on your toes. Well, since it’s the holiday season and since I tend to eat like there’s no tomorrow during the holiday season, I’m enlisting my online audience to keep me motivated. I’m not quitting smoking this time (already quit) but I am trying to get more exercise and stick to it. So for the next four weeks I will be posting daily updates to whether or not I’m reaching my weekly goals in the form of this chart:

As you can see, the first week has already started and since I was a slacker on Sunday, I’m making my first day at the gym tonight. Hopefully by tomorrow you will see a nice big, blue check mark next to “Monday.” If not, well feel free to ask, “How’s the whole exercise thing going?” in my comments sections.

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Heading to the airport on the holidays usually brings thoughts of screaming babies, long delays and pictures of stranded passengers forced to endure a sleepless night on the floor or an empty terminal. Here’s one tip to help those traveling during the holiday months which is to check out FlightStats.com.

It’s a website that you can check flight information around delays, and even better, how long that security line is going to take to get through so you can plan to leave the house a little earlier if you need to. Plus you can set up alerts to be sent to your phone or email address if anything changes. It even tells you what gate your next flight is if you have a connection.

And the coolest thing is that all of this can be accessed through your cell phone which makes it nice when you don’t have access to your laptop or an Internet connection.

Check out FlightStats.com

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