Every day I read (Voltaire still amazes me, as does the book on body weight conditioning,), I listen to podcasts (Lifestyle Business Podcast, Bulletproof executive) and radio shows, and use RSS feeds (Mark Cuban) to collect information to access when I am driving, or forcibly idle, and I collect thoughts, ideas, and things to research on pieces of paper I keep near. At the end of the day, or week, I will take the pile of notes which are filling up my pockets, and then write them down, and look into the ideas I might have. It could be books to look for or read, (right now I am still looking for James Altucher’s book on hedge funds), ideas to improve my sites (I want to take my bambozzle books further), I find possible topics for the blog (this one for example.) An enormous amount of information flows around us, and our brains are wired to see patterns, so we need to be aware of ideas or concepts that we can grab and use to make ourselves, our lives, and our business better. D Making money is exactly like war.
It is a very competitive environment. The winner of a war is the side with the best information, knowledge and understanding of the terrain they’re on and the opposition they’re facing. Just as in a war, your business needs “intel” in order to succeed and make money. You need to know everything you can about: The Buyers The Sellers The Products The Services The Competition The Supply Chain The Distribution Channel The Methods others used to win The Methods others used that failed The financial methods used as leverage to grow faster The most efficient ways to buy, sell, create, outsource and network We will all have failures along the way. It’s failing fast, learning from that failure, and getting back in the game that makes the difference between winners and losers. Get Rich Click! by Marc Ostrofsky People have commented on some of my posts, and they asking me about whether I really do what I write about (I do). I thought I would write down what I did today as an example, and this is a pretty normal day, nothing special; Woke up and made some Bulletproof Coffee which is coffee with grass fed butter and MCT Coconut oil. (more on that later, but check out The Bulletproof Exec.) I have been studying various health supplements, and this popped up on my radar a couple of months ago. I am a believer. I then sat in the sun and read a couple of chapters of the biography on William Sherman, then one chapter on Lean Supply Chain, and then a couple of chapters on using bodyweight for physical conditioning. I am becoming obsessed with being able to do a one arm push up and one arm chin up. Seriously obsessed. Made my group some Cinnamon Pecan Pancakes, which were pretty good. Made a plan for what I will cook this week, six meals, including carnitas, Korean Chicken, and Homemade Pizzas, made a quick grocery list, and then went out and got the goods. Made sure I got my Brazilian nuts and almonds. My favorite snack food. While I was out, I stopped by a bookstore, because I am looking for a book by James Altucher on Hedge Fund trading (still haven't ound a copy), and then got a Taro Boba, which breaks the meal plan, but I love. I always believe on having a heavy hand with the good things in life. I get obsessed with ideas, and I am now diving deep into stock trading concepts. (I think when everyone gets out is exactly when you should get in.) Bought the new Wired magazine, so I could read the article on Startup Weekend, and also read the article on the pharmacology of a memory pill. I am interested in smart supplements. Got back and wrote a four page report for work outside and then emailed it out. I then set up my plan for the week on what I want to get done. I am digging into Microsoft AX, and I am reading some white papers, particularly on the sales and production side. I am working on what measurements, and how to get them that I will need to execute what I think needs to happen. I worked on my online bookstore, I have decided to ramp it up, and then take it in a new direction. Need to get it running better first. Sold a couple of books through it today. Listed some items. Came up with an idea for my website network. Discovered someone already had the URL Ramenprofitable.com. Watched Amazing Race, because I love Amazing Race. Worked out. Still on the perfect push up. (No where near.) Set up my chin up bar. Wrote this post. Will write some other items later, I have many in motion, and then I will work on the web site. I have some ideas I need to get down. That about sums it up, tht is my day, and does not count the time I spent with the family, for example, watching them play Arkham City, or the talks (trying to convince my nephew to do the Amazing Race with me), but it shows the time I spent trying to make all the parts of my life better, a little bit each day. I will have some coconut ice cream. I have to. Its good. I always try to make sure that each time I leave a room, I leave it better than it was when I came in. I treat my days the same way. Make them better for you walking through it. What did you do today? D The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times― Paulo Coelho2/15/2012
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ― Paulo Coelho The thing you do need to do is learn. Learn accounting. Learn finance. Learn statistics. Learn as much as you can about business. Read biographies about businesspeople. You don’t have to focus on one thing, but you have to create a base of knowledge so you are ready when it’s time. - Mark Cuban
This is what life is all about,Superfly, it is about making the choices in your life, and doing the work, and learning the way. I have absolutely no patience with people who aren't learning, who are not changing who they are daily. They are asleep while others are busy creating themselves and the world they walk through. Education is not a place, it is a way of being, and anyone not interested in learning is going to learn the hard way that Darwin was right, and they will find themselves culled from the herd. Ignorance is not a viable survival skill. When I say Universities are on their way out, that doesn't mean education is out, because education has never been more critical to your life and to your success than it is today. Learning has never been more possible, it has never been easier, and you can have access to almost any data, any information, from anywhere, in the world, and it has never been easier to be better tomorrow than your are today. You have the tools of giants. Your IPhone has more computing power than the computers used to get to the moon. You have access today to tools giant companies and countries couldn't get twenty years ago. You got the stuff, now use it. Listen. Any time your life settles into a routine, you are stagnating. Any animal doing the same thing every day, take the same path to the water hole, is in the end, a dead animal. Look around you, the world changes constantly, and anyone not changing and adapting is simply done and not worth know. I want people in my network who seriously know their stuff. What did you learn today? Seriously. What? Today I learned how to cook Banana Pancakes from scratch. I studied SEO for about an hour trying to understand how internet businesses function. I read some Hemingway, two short stories, trying to learn how he manages to make the entire story about what isn't said. the empty spaces in the dialogue. I started to learn how to use body weight as a workout process (fascinating). That isn't all I did today, but it shows the point. In my humble opinion, once you have learned how to learn, then you can try as many different things as you can, recognizing that you don’t have to find your destiny at any given age—you just have to be prepared to run with it when you do. - Mark Cuban Hey You. Get away from the TV, get off the couch, and go create something. Make Yourself. D Being sick for the last couple of weeks, I was fascinated to find how much being sick changes how you are. The way you view things. It gave me a kind of distance to the things around me. Objectivity. It is also amazing how being sick makes you more aware of what energy you have, you triage quickly, to do what matters. Energy is key. Almost back............... almost. Reading right now; A biography of Civil War General William T. Sherman,it is an old style biography,and the prose is kind of stilted, but the subject is fascinating. 137 - the story of the friendship between Jung and Pauli. This is an amazing book about the relationship between Jung the psychoanalyst and Wolfgang Pauli, and their fascination with the unusual in the world. The Nick Adams Stories by Hemingway - it isn't about his style, Hemingway is the master of what isn't said, but implied. Convict Conditioning - a book on using your body weight to get stronger. I like the idea of using all your muscles to insure ypu stay strong and healthy. D |
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