Journal Entry – May 29, 2025 (Movement & Temperament)

Journal Entry – May 29, 2025 (Movement & Temperament)

Location: Garage + Yard + Movement Space

Action: Stretching, reflecting, reading, balancing body and mind.

Entry Title: Temperament in Motion

I shut off the screen to let the phone charge, but I didn’t stop recording the moment.

Instead, I stepped into it.

Grabbed the bat. Stretched. Moved with intention. One leg over the other, switching sides, twisting, extending. Feeling the pull in my hamstrings and the fire in my back. The body speaks. It teaches.

And then I started reading…

Stoic truth. Discipline is destiny. Temperament is everything.

A body can be broken, but a disciplined spirit rises. Roosevelt had a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament. That struck me. What matters is not how much we control our wake-up time or food—if we’re still being yanked around by distractions, moods, and impulses.

Mosquito buzzed me. Twice. I laughed, swatted it off. Back to the page.

My head and heart—they’re the tools. The command center. I don’t want to let them languish. I want to live led by purpose, not pushed by instinct.

I read. I stretched. I listened. I moved.

Then I walked over, calm, grounded, and picked up the forearm bar.

I’m not building muscle.

I’m building mastery.