I’ve got an interesting idea for a post, just never got to it tonight. In keeping with my “post a day” routine, I wanted to make sure to get something up here tonight. I’ll have my planned post up in the morning. Shit it’s late.
Peace
Alright so I did my 7th workout of the last 8 days. Other than feeling pretty sore in the legs, I’m overall stoked with myself. As long as I make sure to get to the gym at the right times (the Pacific Beach 24 Hour Fitness is a Bro Fest, dudes with their hair done wearing nice clothes and shit) it’s an awesome experience. Yesterday I even pulled off an hour and forty five minute workout!
Right now I’m just trying to get my whole body back into workout mode, trying to get over that initial soreness shock that comes with not working out consistently for a long time. Probably in another week or so, I’m hoping to either find a good workout plan to follow or just design my own (designing my own would simply take longer, so I’m still up in the air about it). Since I’ll probably design the workout plan in a spreadsheet, I’ll be sure to upload it here for anyone who might want to follow along.
Other than that, I’m just trying to get my life back on track in regards to productivity. I have a bunch of projects I want to do personally as well as professionally so I need to step my game up and make things happen. As I go through that, I’ll probably be writing some posts about how I’m overcoming certain addictive qualities I have with using the Internet.
Also, I’ve adopted a little system that Jerry Seinfeld apparently uses to stay consistent with a long running project. He simply has a big calendar on the wall in his workspace that he puts large red X’s on each day he does what he’s supposed to do. As the “chain” grows, he becomes more and more reluctant to break it. Simple, but it seems pretty cool. I’m going to test it out with this blog. I printed out a simple month of May calendar using Microsoft Word and I’m going to put an X over each day I write a blog post. I’m obviously getting a late start as it’s already the 10th, but hey, it’s something. 1 day down! Peace
Well, I’ve learned that the difference between saying you will do something and actually doing it can sometimes be pretty devastating. So rather than promise to write here more often and promise to do anything else anymore, I’m just going to actually do the things instead.
Letting my actions speak for themselves I guess.
I went to the gym yesterday, it was nice to go again. I’ll be going today when I get home from school, two days in a row! haha.
Til then…
I have gotten pretty bad to keeping this
blog updated, so you could imagine my surprise when I checked my Analytics statistics today and saw this:
Google didn't add the "Holy Shit!"...
That
traffic has inspired me to try and keep this blog updated more. Granted, I got 800 or so visitors from Stumbleupon because of a picture of a
toaster oven, never the less, it was inspiring.
April is going to be a big month…
Well I sure haven’t been able to stick to what I said I was going to do this year very well so far. I’m kind of in survivial mode for income so it’s limiting my ability to explore different
projects and keep this
blog updated, but at the same time, I could be putting out more. School takes up a good portion of my time now which is tough because it just adds one more thing to my juggling routine.
But at the same time, I should be able to handle everything. I have to, really. I have my main project going, somewhat slowly, but going. I have another idea for a project that I can guarantee would make me enough money to live on. I just need to build it. And I’m getting close to experimenting with building and selling some niche blogs soon, as I have started reading about how that works and I have all of the skills necessary to make those things very easily.
Those niche blogs might be able to help me close the gaps on my income stream so that I can slowly start focussing more on what is going to really set me free financially. That’s really what I want in
life right now, and not in a shallow way whatsoever. I look at making a good amount of money through something I have built as truly a mark of success.
I want to build
products for the internet. I have the ideas, I just need to implement them. I have started implementing them, so now I just need to finish them. Keeping a balance between making enough money to survive and also
working on other projects to hopefully make a comfortable living in the future is quite the experience.
So all of that being said, I’m going to do my best to write on here as much as possible. I know, I have already said that once this year. Hopefully I can stick to that statement this time.
Peace
I finally started
working on mockups for the first product of my soon to be company. So stoked about it. I haven’t gotten past the Photoshop stage yet, but I’m nearly half way done mocking up all of the user interface screens so once those are done, I’ll move on to slicing those up, coding them, and then plugging them into the application I’m going to start
programming.
I’m not going to get too detailed as to what the application is until it launches, but I will say that it has to do with fitness and it’s going to be a really simple and easy to use tool while still being pretty powerful behind the scenes.
I’m really excited to be able to use a lot of what I have studied over the last few years to put together a functional product for the web. I’m tackling all things technical while my
business partner will take care of the marketing and sales sides of things. Hopefully we can reach a point where this can become our full time job, as we have another product we want to build which is really unique and has the potential to change its market in a big way.
I’m hoping to write about a lot of the things I learn along the way. Whether it’s how to fix things, or how to plan out things, or some sort of
programming trick I learn along the way, I’ll put up some posts about them so someone out there might be able to take something away from it.
I’m also starting school (5 classes) this Friday which is probably going to steal a lot of time away from me as I will have a pretty big
reading load to take care of every week. I’m hoping to adopt a 6 hour a night sleep schedule so I’m probably just going to end up addicted to caffeine and kind of crazy so it should be entertaining at least.
Time for some Ramen and some more work.
D
No worries, I have just been a little bit distracted from
blogging lately. I’m currently up in Idaho/Wyoming doing some
snowboarding the girlfriend and her family. Today was a great snow day, a little windy, but nice overall. I’m wiped out now but we’re staying up all night for
new years of course so I’m going to be especially tired tomorrow.
I do plan on having a good post put together for tomorrow though.
Resolutions?
I’ve been busy
working on a few
projects lately but have been keeping pretty good notes about a bunch of stuff I figured out a long the way so get ready for a barrage of
tech/
programming/geeky oriented posts coming into this weekend…there’s going to be some good info though about stuff that I figured out from relatively sparse, scattered information on the internet so I’m hoping I’ll be able to help someone out if they had any of the same problems that I did while trying to do something similar.
That was a long sentence.
Check this shit out!
Wall Street Journal posted some research about salaries for different college majors and
Philosophy beats out Marketing,
Business Management, and even Chemistry! (Check it yourself, sort by median Mid-Career-Salary, then think about whether or not you want to switch to Philosophy to bring in the biggg buckkkks).
Frankly, I had no idea that Philosophy majors made that kind of
money, but I would imagine it’s in a completely unrelated field from what they studied.
What’s crazy is how big of a salary jump is made from entry level to median level salary: 103.5%. Philosophy majors are doubling their salaries by mid career, not too bad at all considering the bad rap we get as philosophers.
Why do they make that much money? My guess is that it’s because Philosophy is hard and abstract, so anyone who can reason their way through it probably has a pretty good sense of problem solving.
And who loves problem solving? Big companies willing to pay you some good money to fix their problems.
So I tend to check my
traffic stats for this
blog once a day to get an idea of whether or not people are actually coming to check out what I’m saying (turns out I got about 25 page views today, not too shabby). I did not, however, expect to find out that this search term led someone to this site:
I mean, I’m not one to judge people very often. But cell phone masterbating?
What the fuck does that even mean? Like masterbating to stuff on your cell phone or using your cell phone as some sort of awkward sex toy?
I will definitely think twice about borrowing someone’s cell phone in the future.