Physical Intelligence - Day 64

This time last year I procrastinated on the accounts, and the same is exactly true this year.  At the college session I took with not one book related to time but EIGHT.  All of these books have been purchased by members of my family, so they are permanently around our home but here I am experiencing "Groundhog Day" !

My chief argument yesterday was that if we have a question about time management, we are the best person available to answer our own question.  Otherwise we compile much in the way of techniques and methods, it is no different to overwhelming ourselves with gym equipment choices or modes of different exercises.  We know by common sense that offering ourselves too many choices is a recipe for doing less and choosing even less than what we are doing.

Grant Cardone says "create time" don't "manage time" - which is more agreeable with me considering that I am actively focused on time mastery now and not time management :

This is why instead of thinking time, I prefer to think of FLOW.  For me flow does not necessarily mean engaging in an activity we dislike, but outsourcing or delegating that activity so there is more time to engage what we are in flow with.  EXCEPT that is not how physical intelligence works.  Physical intelligence makes time PHYSICAL.  Whether that is actually a time delusion all depends on how concrete our view of time is. I have a extremely abstract view of time.

In physical time multi-tasking has a purpose in supporting cognitive time.  A good example of this is mulling a difficult problem in one's head and taking a walk in order to think CREATIVELY.  Again it is whatever style or way that is appropriate to each individual person, this idea that time management is a cookie cutter for everybody is simply very cookie.

The watch-word again is CREATIVELY, because the study outlined in the Discovery video above suggests that FOCUSED activity suffers if we are multi-tasking and that includes walking.  That also reveals yet again why I would argue against the idea that time should be managed, as opposed to someone else whose life work requires intricate focus.  I would rather think out-aloud than to proof-read what I am thinking out-aloud.  It all depends on what the thinking is actually generating. 

Which brings me to how physical fitness can be released from the bonds of time-bound activity.  When our mindset is that time must be managed, then we have blocks of time set aside for exercise, but physical fitness is way more than just meeting an exercise schedule, it can take root in everyday actions at anytime during the day - so long as that activity is not taking bandwidth or energy from simultaneous activities.   This is why I do not like multi-tasking but why I am fan of reading creative books on a treadmill, while being mindful of keeping safe while I am using that treadmill.

The relationship between music and fitness is one that I have thought about before, but not the idea of CONTINOUS FITNESS that is not a time-bound activity.  What does these tracks do?

I don't know what music like this does for others, never mind the visual dimension of how we see our respective worlds and how that in turn creates a physical reaction within us, but I do know that this kind of music naturally makes me move.  So turning on music for me is a trigger for dancing or some other form of movement - and all of that constitutes as physical exercise.  Of course dancing while driving a car should not lead to distractive driving but I am not distracted by allowing the music to move my mid section, while my eyes are the on the road and my hand and feet are focused on driving the car.

Moreover this CONTINUOUS FITNESS with music can occur in a bed, and here it is all about how I move my body or even how I flex it, or more to the point something I can call horizontal yoga. never mind the idea of "Bedtime Yoga"

It is after all us who dictate how our life moves and I already have discovered through my own exploration of physical intelligence that human beings were built for movement.  As for this weekend I will avail myself two more mini-crunch icecream sticks and then get myself heading to CONTINUOUS FITNESS as a means of becoming that little bit more physically intelligent.