Day 70 (Week 10) - Done.

Transformation Challenge Over!

Push ups: 50.

Pull ups: 8.

3 Mile Run: 32:59.

Slight change in body. Weight: lost a couple of pounds, a little more definition, but do I have the Brad Pitt Fight Club abs? No. I have about 15% - 20% of my goal -- I have about a 1.5 of a 6 pack.

What's next? I will work on:

• Towel pull ups for grip training. 
• Keep running 3-4 miles a week. Cause I like it. 
• Aim for 100 crunches / 2 min. mark.
• Continue push ups. 
• BJJ drills. 

The Hurried Child book notes

by David Elkind. (Growing up too fast too soon).

An oldie but a goodie. And the exact opposite of Tiger Mom, which I read just before this.

• when people are under stress they become egocentric and do not -- cannot -- appreciate other people's needs or interests.
• If we take some of the pressure off schools and school administrators, we will take some of the pressure off children.

• If we are asking too much and hurrying our children developmentally or energetically, we can either cut back on our demands or increase our supports.

• children are most like us in their feelings and least like us in their thougthts.

• We need to respond to a child's feeling more than to her intellect. By responding to the young child's feelings, we lessen the stress of hurrying.

• If we summarize the way in which the three age groups react to hurrying, we might say that young children tend to blame themselves, children tend to blame the world, and adolescents tend to blame their parents.

• adolescents pay us back in their teen years for all the sins, real or imagined, that we committed against them  when they were children. [able to process and react by then. - didn't have the mental capacity before]

• play is nature's way of dealing with stress for children as well as adults

• if we concentrate on the here and now, without worrying about yesterday or tomorrow, our children will do likewise.

So what do i take away from this? That I really need to be nice so they don't turn out to be monsters as teenagers?

I Made $2000 in 2 Days. Hell lucky!

Yes, I know it was complete dumb luck. A gamble. Speculation. Call it what you will, but I'm writing it down to see if it's possible to replicate the performance. To find another like it. And I'm trading in my tax-advantaged account.

Stock A - DF.
Bought $3000 worth May 9, 2012, after an earnings surprise, after a spike of about 30%. It went down and back up a bit. Sold it two days later, lost just the transaction costs (-20).

Stock B - ARNA
Bought $3800 worth May 9, 2012, after spike of about 25% - once again trying to ride the momentum. After I bought, they suspend the stock from trading for one day while they have a FDA ruling panel to approve their diet pill. By all accounts, it looks like it will get approved.

May 11, FDA approves it. Stock opens and jumps 55%, and I close out my position, pocket $2000.

* I was lucky to get in ahead of the news that I didn't even know about. But I did stumble upon it by price and volume action.

** DF - i think i will stick with under $10 stocks for now.

Day 54 (Test Day Week 9)

Push ups: 50.

Crunches (2 min): 59

Pull ups: 8.

3 Mile Run: 28:59* (PB).