Brandon Rasean Personal Trainer

Day 271. Doing less because I do the most sometimes.

Last year, I found myself doing way too much. This year, I want to do much less.

Man, today I jumped out of bed with some new energy. I don’t know if it’s because I slept so much this weekend, felt recharged, the full moon, whatever. I just woke up feeling like new beginnings were coming.

I was like, alright, this week is gonna present the opportunity for me to be great.

We’re a few weeks out from my birth month and this is my time. I’m a fall baby. Naturally I’m thriving 😂 I’m feeling like a kid again. I’m feeling hungry.

And today was just that. Being present with my clients, having a good time and enjoying a straightforward Monday. Worked a little late, but everything felt easy.

I watched some of that Jay-Z interview over the weekend and it had me thinking. First, why Rick Rubin?? Whatever. Beside the point.

I remember being a kid watching Jay-Z and Dipset floss so hard and thinking, man, I wanna get it like those guys are getting it.

It wasn’t necessarily the clothes or even the things.

It was the freedom in which they presented themselves.

I think that spoke to a lot of young Black men.

People will say, “Y’all always wanna buy the Benz or the Range Rover.”

Nah.

For us, some of that stuff represented a little bit of freedom. I don’t expect everybody to understand that, but at one point, that’s what freedom looked like to us.

Now we’re finding what freedom looks like in other ways.

And we’re chasing that.

But that was some of the first inkling of hope I remember seeing through a Black man.

Day 270. Doing less because I do the most sometimes.

Last year, I found myself doing way too much. This year, I want to do much less.

Fit check on a Sunday..
Man, I ate what I wanted all weekend. I’ve been exercising like six days a week and I’ve just been hungry lately, so I’m leaning into it.

Fall, we bulking.

Woke up this morning and my wife was like, “Yo, we going swimming or what?”

Damn 😂

So I ended up in the pool with her. Couldn’t really catch my breath, so I only clocked about 20 minutes, but it was good practice. She likes swimming while she’s pregnant, so I’m gonna be there with her while she does that.

Hit the grocery store after that. Productive as f**k. Felt like walking around and grabbing some fall clothes, so did a little shopping too.

Ended up back at the crib putting some stuff together for the nursery. It’s actually been really fun watching this room come together.

We had some heart-to-heart moments today too. Just talking about how vulnerable we’ve been with each other.

I guess you’re not really free until you can be vulnerable around the people you’re around.

And with that comes the type of progression you want.

The type of love you want.

Good night.

Day 269. Doing less because I do the most sometimes.

Last year, I found myself doing way too much. This year, I want to do much less.

Draked all day.

Did right and killed everything. The weather spoke. It say stay yo ass in.

Day 268. Doing less because I do the most sometimes.

Last year, I found myself doing way too much. This year, I want to do much less.

I killed this week.

But most importantly, we bout to enter week 21.

Proud of you ❤️

Day 267. Doing less because I do the most sometimes.

Last year, I found myself doing way too much. This year, I want to do much less.

Hope y’all had a great day.

I want to work out at 4am tomorrow, which means I gotta get up at 3.

But I didn’t get home until late tonight.

So wish me luck 😂

Good night.

Day 266. Doing less because I do the most sometimes.

Last year, I found myself doing way too much. This year, I want to do much less.

What keeps me going and what I really love about my routine is that it’s mine.

It belongs to no one else.

Nobody I know has a routine similar to mine, and I just keep stacking and stacking, adding more positive habits to it. The more I do that, the more it feels like it uniquely belongs to me.

It’s like your favorite song in the summer. You want to have it on repeat. You want everybody to know about it, but at the same time, you want to feel like it was made just for you.

That’s how I feel about my routine.

And here’s how you measure your happiness.

This is a built-in happiness meter.

When you’re super happy, you really don’t care what anybody else is doing. You’re too busy living your own life.

When you start getting overly concerned about small things happening in the world or things happening to other people that aren’t even really happening to you, but you allow them to make you feel victimized or screw with your emotions and how you interact with other people…

I don’t know.

Your happiness meter might be trying to tell you something.

Good night.

Day 264. Doing less because I do the most sometimes.

Last year, I found myself doing way too much. This year, I want to do much less.

Fall look gonna be bulked up.

Big weight.

Deep waves.

No friends.
Day 264. Doing less because I do the most sometimes.

Last year, I found myself doing way too much. This year, I want to do much less.

Fall look gonna be bulked up.

Big weight.

Deep waves.

No friends.

Good night.

Day 263. Doing less because I do the most sometimes.

Last year, I found myself doing way too much. This year, I want to do much less.

I think I cracked the code on a weekend routine I can actually keep up with.

Good night.

Day 262. Doing less because I do the most sometimes.

Last year, I found myself doing way too much. This year, I want to do much less.

I ran.

Worked on my swimming.

Recovered.

Good night.