A week in review, CNBC style

Pop: Cross-training. No amount of triathalon style training prepares you for playing a weekend game of touch football. And while you wouldn't expect running and swimming to improve your spiral, the muscle aches and pains you get from cutting back and running fly routes are a lot different from the ones you get from pushing for that last mile. Mix up your daily routine and boom, another wrinkle, another comfort zone pillaged. By the way, spending your friday afternoon at a football clinic with your boss in central park is priceless.

Drop: Appetite. My stomach got hit by one of those summertime Honey I Shrunk the Kid rays, or else beer has found a way to double in size after I drink it.

Pop: Spending money on clothes. A painful process for sure, but cost/benefit (both professionally and not) in a city like new york is pretty much a no-brainer at this point.

Drop: (off) everything that you can at goodwill, for a nice tax write-off.

Pop: Girls that play sports. 95% are in shape and 100% are fun to hang out with.

Drop: The over 27 female crowd, who sound a little less than convincing when they say "Oh yeah I'm not looking for anything serious either, I just wanna have fun." Right. That's what the scorpion told the frog.

Pop: Post-game drunken revelry. The highlight of a lot of people's week I'm sure.

Drop: Clutter at the Brooklyn public library kid's section. This project was a trip down memory lane, with classics like "Where the Wild Things Are", "In the Night Kitchen", "The Giving Tree", and "Goodnight Moon" as well as some newer ringers like "Dogzilla", "Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp" and "Soccer Mom from Outer Space". The sweet thing about books like these? They fit in perfectly with my attention span, which as of late is around 30 secs long, and somewhat less if you're a girl and look like you weigh more than I do.

Pop: Living in the moment. There will always be stretches of days where you feel like "If x problem were fixed, I'd be set."

Drop: Worrying about the future. My advice - focus on the process, not the result. The idea is not that results don't matter. The best way to be competitive, though, is to play the macro statistics game and not micro-manage. You want to win in the long-run AND the short-run.