Lincoln Nguyen’s Blog

Recap:

-The important company formation stuff is done, thank god

-Wrote tons of content

-Did some SEO and a lot of other internet marketing. Hired new employees overseas to do IM

-Finished Joy of Living book and Zorba the Greek. Going to read 1 book + 1 audio book a week.

-Ready to start the real 16 week triathlon training plan after 2 weeks of priming. Finally starting to not suck at swimming.

-Went to Startups uncensored on Wed.

-Hiked the last 2,000 ft to peak of Mt. Baldy. Played in the snow at the summit. Got a gnarley vneck tan.

-Just got back from Crystal’s pool party

Overall productive week.

Meditations:

Business

Focus on one thing at a time. This week getting supplier relationships in order.

Keep time log and calculate efficiency ratio at end of week

List all products and later start working on the proprietary product once a clear winner is determined

Follow Suster’s advice. Build out this business then hire a partner.

Dont fall in love with your ideas. Test. Test. Test!

If it takes less than 2 minutes. Just fuckin do it.

(5) 90 minute work sprints per day. Think of it like football practice. Leave nothing undone each day.

Fitness

Make sure to eat whole grains and slow digesting carbs. Forget about carb loading. 6 meals.. spaced out. Cut out dairy. Find some casein to take before bed.

Switch to the swim focused triathlon plan. Swim on Wed, Sat, Sunday mornings. Swim at the Costa Mesa 24 on weekends. Check out Mission Viejo lake for open swimming sessions. Test out the waters.

Listen to audiobook when weightlifting, running, and biking only. Be mindful when in car, walking, and routine tasks.

Spiritual

Be nonattached, nonresistant, nondefensive. Be compassionate.

Find a Zen center

Learn more about Vedanta, Contemplative Christianity, Neurobio, Quantum Physics, Philosophy of science, Neuroethics

Establish routine for meditating. Formless meditation -> form based meditation (breath, sound, sensory) -> mantra

Books To Finish:

Black Swan

Way of Peaceful Warrior

Zen and Art Motorcycle Maintenance (Audio)

Check to see if Delivering Happiness is out yet at HBPL

Recap:

Doing the catalina sprint tri. I’ve decided. Started training monday.

Shaved head

Lifts went down this week. Blaming it on the extra cardio. Gotta find a new weightlifting plan.  Volume training aint gona cut it. Found out I am terrible at swimming. Evening runs at the park are awesome.

Playing the waiting game until all the legal stuff goes through. Going to hire some new workers to do SEO related stuff + routine tasks. Gotta remember to work on the business and not do busy work. Leadership + Creative work. Outsource everything else.

Trying some cool concentration mediation techniques.

Watched dope video about neurobio+mindfulness

T Training:

M-W-F: Long run, long swim, long bike

Thurs: Short Run

Sat: Short Swim + Short Bike

Sun: Swim+Hike

Books to read this week:

Zorba the Greek

Zen & Art Motorcycle Maintenance (Audio)

Recap

-Talked to manufacturers for cleantech project.

-Filed LLC. Need to get licenses and LLC # in about a month. File for state license.

-Got CC MU website up and running. Now need to start evangelizing the shit out of it.

-Added good content to the email list

-Crazy bbq weekend. Ask Quynh to bum off her beachhouse.

-Started training for sprint triathlon.

Things to keep in mind:

-BE PRODUCTIVE!!!!!!!!!

-Make 90 day goals

-Work in 90 minute blocks. Think of it like a 5 round fight. Batch important tasks.

-Triage. Throw out things that waste time ie: talks, books, etc. No charlie rose, foratv, youtube this month.

-Experiment with different time management techniques.

-When resting, dont think about business.

-No computer after 630 PM

-Find somewhere to swim openwater. or swim out and around a small jetty.

-Get road bike.

-Eat a salad everyday

-Rethink strength training schedule. Cut it down to 2-3days/week. Almost passed the eff out talking to Tommy Tuesday. Carb bonk.

-Listen to audiobooks on runs/bike rides

Fiction

Adventures Kavalier and Clay

Walden

Les Miserables

The Alchemist

Zorba the Greek

Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Atlas Shrugged. again

Solar

Fight Club

Confederacy of Dunces

On The Road

Brave New World

Lord of Flies

Business

Rework

Black Swan

Intelligent Investor

Emotional Intelligence

Getting Things Done

Joesph Stiglitz’s.. book on economy

How To Make Millions with Your Ideas

Spin Selling

Secret of Power Negotiating

Getting Past No

5 Steps to Epiphany

In Pursuit of Excellence

Top Grading

How To Win Friends Influence People. Again

Power of Full Attention

Think and Grow Rich. Again

Iconoclast

Mousedriver Chronicles

Tribal Leadership

Yes - R. Cialdini

Health/Fitness

The China Study

8 Weeks Optimal Health

Spirituality

Awakening the Buddha Within

Way of Peaceful Warrior

God Is Not Great

The Buddhist Atheist

Tao Te Ching

Alan Watts books

Living the Tao

Diamond Sutra

Theory of Everything

Upanishads

Tibetan Book of the Dead

New Testament

Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience to Happiness

Mindsight

Philosophy

Meditations M Aurelius. again

New Republic

Wealth of Nation

R. Waldo Emerson’s Self Reliance Essays

Letters To A Young Contrarian

Science

The Mating Mind

Selfish Gene

Red Queen

Elegant Universe

A Brief History of Time

How We Decide

In Search of Memory

Biographies:

Warrent Buffett: Snowball

Vagabonding

Into Thin Air

Tony Hsieh’s Book on Happiness

Ted Leonsis

Andy Grove

Anthony Keidis

The Fight Pilot Who Changed The Art of War

Benjamin Franklin

Hitch 22

Misc:

Comedy Writing Secrets

Mindlines

Artist’s Way

Last week:

-Effin Email problems

Meditations:

Business/Financial

-Learn to write better copy

-Turn on PPC to $200

-Focus on one product at a time

-Call up advisors

-Email CC lists

-Read industry news in cleantech, web, and HIT

-Workday starts at 8 ends at 630

-Stick to 3-5 important tasks each day

-Prioritize and apply 80/20

-Call up manufacturers

-Test, test, test.. look at analytics.. then test more

Fitness:

- 6 meals

- Cut down on salty foods

- Add 5 lbs to major lifts

- Surf/hike weekends

-Bball 20 minutes after each workout

Spiritual:

- Meditation (30 min morning. 30 at night)

- Be mindful

- Finish neurodharma podcast

- Nonattached. nonresistant. nonjudgmental.

Misc:

-Go to bed at 10

-Experiment with GTD

-Buy a bike

-No booze

-Finish Fountainhead. Reread Zen & AMM

Week in review:

-Cliff jumping in Arcadia mountains with Dennis & co. on Sun

-Buffalo WW on Sat.

-Flight on Fri.

-Had lunch with Patel

-Watched way too many videos online

-Hectic weekend, didnt get around to emailing lists

Meditations:

Financial:

- Turn PPC back on this week

- Fix autoresponder

- Do 10 things off the action list every day.

-1 hr of research HIT/Solar every day

-Email lists from CC

-Workdays go 8-6:30. no exception

Physical:

-Add 5 lbs to every lift

-More protein, more greens

-Shoot ball after workouts

-Cardio weekends: surfing or hiking

Emotional/Social:

-Spend more outdoor time with friends

-Email/Call up mentors

-Call up randoms

-Setup 2 meetings a week

Spiritual:

-Cut down on watchin clips online

-Practice TM (30 morning, 30 night)

-Be mindful, be compassionate

-Nonjudgmental, nonresistant, nonattached

Misc:

-Finish Fountainhead

-No Social Media or bullshit online clips

-No TV

-Draw in sketchbook

-Play guitar

Last week:

Experimented a lot with Adwords. PPC is a business onto itself. I’m going to try to squeeze the most out of the PPC campaign and get really good at traffic before I move onto anything else. I was testing a lot of different product ideas. It will probably be best to take a deep dive on one of these ideas and get some real customer feedback through surveys. Traffic -> Conversions -> Economics and fine tuning

This Week:

Bus:

Keep testing muse ideas

Polish the PPC campaign with much more emphasis on keyword research and buying related terms

Spend an hour each day at least on senior care project

Keep the workday from 8am to 6:30pm. Nothing gets done after that time anyways. Why draw it out.

Spir:

30 minutes of meditation in the morning and at night

Practice breath meditation

Be present. Be the consciousness behind the thoughts. Observe thoughts.

Nonresistance. Nonjudgment. Nonattachment.

Be like M. Aurelius

Phys:

Get calipered

Write down weights. Do the exact exercises written down in the plan.

6 meals/day

More leafy greens and lentils

Buy milk and cottage cheese.

Rel:

Give to receive. Give value to everyone you come into contact with. Practice law of abundance.

Network.

In 6 Months:

Have muse business generating cash

Backpacking trip to Europe

Training in BJJ and Muy Thai

DJ Residency at Les Deux or other LA lounge

Review

Fit: Sucked it up big time with shitty meals towards the end of the week. Diet needs work. Good gains in strength.

Bus: Dry tested a bunch of ideas. Some progress on UI of website. Need more work on the personal health records portion of website or other tools for visitor retention

Spi: Doing really well. Watched a bunch of eastern thought videos. Meditated at least 30 minutes per day. Most days more.

Rel: Didn’t have any meetings this week.Nice break. Went to Caltech forum on saturday

Meditations

Fit:

-220+ grams protein/day

- 6 meals per day

- Green tea 6 cups

-Add 5 lbs to every major lift. Add 10 lbs to deadlift

-Surf(Sat) + Bball(Sun) + Hiking(Sun)

Bus:

-Test more Green muse ideas — product based, automated, dry testable, $50-200

-Start marketing community blog section of carecrunch (email lists, add list to front page, social media, google groups)

-Get resellers license with EMRs? evaluate time commitment

Rel:

-Network and follow up

Spi:

-Check out some of Krishnamurti’s stuff

-Be mindful. Practice breath meditation and keep using vippassana.

Biz:

Microtest new muse ideas in clean technology

Decide whether to invest or divest

Write out operations plan

Change up marketing, increase max CPC for 1 day.

Contact Angel Investors

Complete the integration of PHR into the senior care site

Fit:

6 meals/day - 200+ g protein, lean meats, 1 cheat meal

Start serious cut for 6 weeks

Add 5lbs per lift

Bball + Surfing

Spir:

Be present

Vipassana meditation 30 minutes every morning

Observe the thinker

Finish Power of Now during morning lifts

Rel:

Network with angel groups and LA startup community

Contact ppl on whose.who list

Misc.

NO TV, energy drinks, alcohol, smokes.

Meditations:

Did a lot of planning and research last week. This week is all about execution.

Things to keep in mind:

Biz:

Lean test business ideas - its not about the cost its about the time it takes

Execute!!!! Treat business like a sport. Manage your time/energy. Think of it like a 2-a-day. Gives a psychological edge.

Think big!

Fit:

Add 5lbs to lifts every week.

Track weights on chart.

BBall sunday mornings with John

Tubs of Whey arrive today, get back to 6 meals/day

Rel:

KIT

Spir:

Be present

Practice Vipassana or TM

Observe the thinker

Practice walking med

Watch GoogleTalks on Zen