Visiting Thubten Dhargye Ling this Sunday I’ve decided.

Cities I want to live in at sometime in my life: San Francisco, Boulder,  Austin , NY, Buenos Aires. Probably in that order.

Sweet Quote by Good ol’ Teddy Roosevelt:

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

New business model focusing on local search. I’m really excited about this new strategy. It’s vetted and there is a clear enough roadmap.

Went to LBC meditation center today. Trying to find a good teacher near home. Probably going to try one new one every week

Downtown Fullerton Friday

This week:

Business

Lots of work to do with local search plan. Allready have two sites up. Get more sites in the network up and running.

Sales calls

Partner with marketing

Triathlon

Swiiiiiiiiiiiiiim

Hit the weights to maintain

Make sure to get enough calories and carbs. Greens and whole wheat. Keep protein intake at 180g

Buy vitamins at GNC

Spirituality

Find another center. Visit a Vajrayan center.

Finish book on consciousness

2 sits a day. Walking meditation after lunch

Books to finish:

Consciousness Explored

Rise of T Roosevelt

East of Eden

Elegant Universe

Audiobooks:

The Alchemist

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

-Wed: Junk food

-Thurs: More junk food

-Fri: Beerpong in Compton + junk food

-Sat: Deja Vu. DT Huntington Beach. Wow. Brosanity

-Sun: Saw Jon off at airport

-Mon: Back to Tri training, diet back on track

Overall super fun week.

Things to do:

Business:

Talk to suppliers

Cashflow.

Market products

Network

Training:

Swim…..

Spiritual:

Find a teacher

Books to finish:

Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

The Elegant Universe

Exploring Consciousness

Audiobooks:

Man’s Search For Meaning

Walden

-Vegas. Dont ask.

-OCTriClub meeting. Met some amazing people. Listened to some amazing stories from disabled triathletes.

-Meditation workshop at the Unity Church in Long Beach.

-Tri training is going well. Started listening to China study while training. Everything is pointing me in the direction of vegetarianism.

This week

Business:

-Get all the supplier relations stuff out of the way.

-Finish the sellers permit junk. Start uploading products.

-Hire more people to take over data entry and SEO

-Start testing products

-Write quality content; how-tos and reviews

-Start link building on the site

Tri-Training

• Speed workouts - Do these workouts on the ’short swims.’  These workouts should include shorter swims with recovery in between but focusing on swimming fast (ex. 5 x 100s, then 10 x 50s)
• Endurance - swim a straight 500, mixing whatever strokes in with your freestyle to finish, get your time, this will be your base for long workouts, as you build endurance this time should decrease (ex. 3 x 500 matching your base time each swim) Strength - these workouts include ‘medium’ distance swims (ex.4 x 200s with little recovery time in between), also mix in some other strokes and kicking. Try to include some stroke drill work in every workout.  Do the strength workouts for ‘medium’ swims on the ’swimming emphasized’ program at     if your swimming needs most improvements.

Spiritual

Meditation 30morn. 30night. Sunday session at Unity Church

Check out Zen center in Newport

Books to finish

Let My People Go Surfing

Letters To Young Contrarian

Audiobooks

China Study

-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

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)

-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

-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

-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