Five Easy Minutes

By Tommy Leung on 04/24/2010 in Life

We are surrounded by products that offer us a quick and easy solution. We see most of them with fitness products–4 weeks to six pack abs! Isn’t it odd how many of these programs there are? Certainly, if any of these products worked as advertised, why would we need another?

The secret is this: they don’t work.

Often, there is no quick and easy way to where you want to go. There are only snake oil salesman telling you they’ve found the shortcut. The long forgotten secret. The magical incantation.

If there was a quick and easy way, no one would have to sell it to you over and over. It would be widely used. That’s what happens to good ideas: they spread.

There are best ways to do things. There are optimal ways to six pack abs. It just isn’t going to take 4 weeks. It’s quicker than doing it wrong. But, it’ll be work–hard work. It’s definitely not magic.

So buckle down and do the work; it’ll get you there. It won’t be quick and it won’t be easy but, you’ll get there.

Greatness doesn’t come in 4 weeks, just 15 minutes a day, or in five easy minutes.

SuperTommy is Awesome

By Tommy Leung on 04/13/2010 in Life

Designer Genitals

By Tommy Leung on 04/11/2010 in Life

I just watched America the Beautiful and have much to say. However, one scene in the film was particular interesting. This woman brought a Playboy to a plastic surgeon from Dr. 90210 and complained how her vagina didn’t look like the ones in the magazine.

Basically, she wanted a “designer vagina“. I thought it was pretty ridiculous. Let’s forget that Playboy PhotoShops the pictures in their magazine, who wants to have identical body parts as someone else?

Outside from some catastrophic and unfortunate event that would actually justify plastic surgery because the alternative would be worse, why would any woman find the need to surgically alter their vagina?

Then I thought of all the penis enlargement ads. I guess designer vagina’s are the female equivalent of penis enlargement.

Audi works too

We don’t expect everyone to be the same. The idea is the same. We get it. When we get into a car, we know how to drive it. It doesn’t matter if its a BMW, Nissan, Volkswagen, Toyota, Kia, or Ford. It doesn’t even matter if its a sedan, coupe, or SUV.

Perhaps we haven’t driven this exact car but, we’ll figure it out just fine. We don’t need every car to be exactly the same.

So, here I am thinking how ridiculous the idea of designer vagina’s are but, I realize that I don’t think penis enlargement is as ridiculous. Logically, they are both equally ridiculous unless what you’re driving isn’t a car but, a Hot Wheel. If that is the case: less ridiculous and understandable.

For any lady that reads this, don’t do it. Don’t have any cosmetic “enhancements”. You don’t need bigger–or smaller–boobs or a tuck of any kind. You are just fine. Trust me. There’s always that one asshole who, apparently, only dates models. I’m pretty sure there’s more of those guys than actual models–so, someone is full of shit.

For the dudes, I believe the male enhancement business is quite large. Stop adding to it. I get it. It’s how we are. We want bigger biceps than the next guy. We want to bench more weight than him too. I know. We can show off our bigger biceps and higher bench weight at the gym. But, no one drops their pants at the gym–it’s bad manners. There’s more to it than being a 16 wheeler.

Look, worldwide average is between 3.8 and 6.3 in. Yes, it is quite the range but, you more than likely fall in there. If nothing else, an adult gorilla measures in at 1.5 in. He’s still strong as hell and will rip us in half with his bare hands but, we win in this department. So, Mrs. Gorilla, how you doin’?…maybe not.

Right In Front of You

By Tommy Leung on 03/26/2010 in Life

I went to the gym tonight like most Tuesday nights. I’ve been to this gym for a while and have become accustomed to their layout. Gyms don’t often rearrange equipment; it’s heavy.

The gym had recently bought some new equipment so they had to rearrange some things to make room. There is a weight rack that holds 2.5lb plates. On nights that I feel extra strong and decide to push myself more, I add two 2.5lb plates and go another set or two–slow and steady.

I turned towards where this weight rack has been situated for months at the end of the room and it wasn’t there. I quickly scanned to the left and to the right; wasn’t there. I looked behind me. Not there either.

Now, did I really look in a different place? Is looking to the left, right, and behind me really looking somewhere I wasn’t already looking? Or was I just looking at a slightly different spot in the same place?

If we were on a sinking ship and just walked to the other side of the ship where we can’t see the leak, is the ship now not sinking? No.

We always seem to be looking for something and we just can’t seem to find it. Maybe we can’t find that solution, that great idea, that special someone, that perfect someone, that great job, the great life, or whatever because we are just looking at a different deck board on the same sinking ship.

So where do we look? A Canadian pop star did say it was right in front of you all along. Well, maybe it is right in front of you.

There I was at the gym, trying to find this weight rack. I realized it made no sense that anyone would move all that weight very far. I turned back towards where it used to be situated. This time, I saw it. It was four feet in front of me.

It was right in front of me.

Hanging In There

By Tommy Leung on 03/05/2010 in Life

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often times, the difference between success and failure can be five minutes or just 5 seconds. You were right there! You just called it quits too soon.

Sometimes, victory isn’t about beating your opponent. Sometimes, it’s just a matter of outlasting them.

So hang in there. You won’t fail until you decide to. Failure is in your control.

You can give up at any time. There’s no need to rush into it. Hang in there a little longer; the results may surprise you.

Fear is Good

By Tommy Leung on 01/17/2010 in Life

Fear is bad. That’s what we believe. Fear isn’t a pleasant feeling. We’d much rather be happy or excited than scared. Our body doesn’t respond positively to fear: heart races, palms sweaty, hair stands on end, and thoughts go a mile a minute. This is not relaxing.

No one will blame us for avoiding fear. It’s bad. It’s sound advice to avoid bad.

But, fear tells us something. The more we fear something, the more we know we need to do it.

We don’t fear the things we know. Why would we? If we know we’ll perform fine, what is there to be afraid of? We can handle it. We only fear what we don’t know. We don’t know we’ll perform well. We don’t know we can handle it.

The catch-22 is that we’ll never know we can if we are always in fear. We fear, we avoid: nothing changes.

Right now, fear is telling you this is ridiculous. Fear wants you to think there is danger. Don’t listen. There is always danger. Going from crawling to walking was dangerous. Much safer on four limbs than two.

Fear is how we know what we need to do. What we know is safe. We might hate it. It might not be for us. But, we are familiar with it. There’s no surprises. It’s safer to complain about it than change it.

Fear makes the unknown look dangerous and the known look safe.

Once upon a time, the known was unknown. They are both dangerous. It’s a frame of mind. Change your frame of mind. Change your world.

Fear is good.

Awesome Tomorrow

By Tommy Leung on 01/02/2010 in Life

There are past accomplishments that hold a special place in our minds. We were awesome then. These are the stories of great triumph. They make us feel good. It’s nostalgic. And why not? It is always nice to look back and know that we’ve done something.

We were awesome yesterday but, that doesn’t make much of a difference today.

There are moments as we live them that we know are awesome. Lives are changing right before our eyes. Someone is better off. This feels even better than being awesome yesterday. We can confirm that we are still awesome. It’s nice to know that.

We are awesome today but, it’ll be yesterday tomorrow.

Then there are moments we haven’t lived. Will we be awesome then? Or did we already live our last great feat? Is greatness going to be a tease now? The unknown is scary–maybe our best days have passed.

Or our best days have yet to come. We might look at yesterday and forget that awesome took work. No great accomplishments happened by pure chance of luck. We were awesome because we chose to be.

Choose to be awesome tomorrow because that’s the one that counts.