Exercise & Feeling Good, Exercise & Feeling Bad

So it may be due to past conditioning or behavior, but when things start to go good I extend that out...a bit excessivley at times. Yesterday, for example:

• found out that a potential book deal may be still on
• did some cool consulting work & made a good bit of cash...not that it matters much, but it is good to have more than you need so it is not a worry
  
• talked to a professor who wanted me to come visit his class
• and then I worked out for a while

The thing is, as more good things happen, and I feel better, due to my historical behavior and reward circuitry I try to do more and more and more. Not usually a bad thing, but what happens is that inevitably tomorrow ends up being less good than today.

Now that is not to say it is always getting worse, just that when you have a great day the odds are fairly low that the next day will be able to beat it. So the same overreactive reward circuitry which made me feel great yesterday perhaps helped me feel like shit today, due to the step decrease in positive triggers.

Other than sleeping in, nothing bad happened today, and yet for a while I still felt horrible. I kicked the pattern of only rarely exercising by going to work out two days in a row. Good things happened:

• I got to work out
• checking the mailbox I found out that my jury duty was canceled
  
• I started reading a good book
  

I think we are more perceptive of noticing the patterns in the world that fit our current congruent mood. Thus during a everything was just too good to be true dive the key is to keep doing some of the things that make you feel good, and then you will pick up on the patterns of things that make you feel good.

It is not about doing as much as you possibly can (which is my patented screw myself over even when I am supposed to be doing things that are good for me technique), but it is about making sure you are doing something each and every day which helps justify that day as a day not wasted.

If I can combine reading and exercising that would be amazing, although I may enjoy them more separate. I think combining fluffy reading could work, but not deeper stuff. Music almost always makes working out better though.