Definitions and Acronyms for me to remember:

NR = New Rich

DEAL & DELA

D for Definition

E for Elimination

A for Automation

L for Liberation

W4W = Work for work’s sake

Dysphoria is the direct opposite of Euphoria

Eustress is a term coined by endocrinologist Hans Selye which is defined in the model of Richard Lazarus (1974) as stress that is healthy, or gives one a feeling of fulfillment or other positive feelings. Eustress is a process of exploring potential gains. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustress)

Key thoughts for me to remember that strike a cord with me:

D:  To retire early or young.

NR: To distribute recovery periods and adventures (mini-retirements) throughout life on a regular basis and recognize that inactivity is not the goal.  Doing that which excites you is. (Ferriss 22)

D:  To make a ton of money.

NR:  To make a ton of money with specific reasons and defined dreams to chase, timelines and steps included.  What are you working for? (Ferriss 23)  For many years this had been my focus to simple make a ton of money.  Now though, because of personal and spiritual changes that have gone on in my life, my focus is still to make a ton of money but it is to accomplish specific goals in the area of giving, starting charities or non-profit organizations and pursue activities alone, with my wife and with our kids that we haven’t and can’t do now.

D:  To have freedom from doing that which you dislike.

NR:  To have the freedom from doing that which you dislike, but also the freedom and resolve to pursue your dreams without reverting to work for work’s sake… (Ferriss 23 and 24)

Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. (Ferriss 24)  This is the freedom multiplier!

Let the hard questions begin!

2. How has doing what you “should” resulted in subpar experiences or regret for not having done something else? (Ferris 37)  My attending college immediately after graduating high school and attending the college that I felt my parents wanted me to attend has been something I have definitely had regretted.  I do have to admit though if it had not been for me to attend where I did, I would now be married to my wonderful wife and we wouldn’t have our awesome inspiring kids.

3. Look at what you’re currently doing and ask yourself, “What would happen if I did the opposite of the people around me?  What will I sacrifice if I continue on this track for 5, 10, or 20 years? (Ferriss 37)  This is a hard question.  I am in some ways already doing the opposite of what the people around me are doing, though I know I can do more.  I have already proven to myself that I can have a professional career while only having attended one year of college.  Do I want to ever get a college degree?  Defiantly, but on my terms and where I want to attend!

At the age of twenty I had already gotten married to a woman with two children.  At age twenty-one we had three children.  In the process of fighting against current of what others do I have been all of the following: Call Center Representative (four  times), truck driver, pizza delivery professional, electronics store stock person and sales person, part of a mall cleaning crew, retail associate at two different clothing stores, insurance sales person for three different companies, an outside sales professional at one computer support company, a Regional Account Manager, an Inside Sales Professional twice, and have joined and quit two MLM companies.

I have been on the verge of ending my marriage more than I like to admit.  I have dealt with suicidal thoughts.  Overcoming a particular destructive addictive behavior is a daily fight for me.

“What would happen if I did the opposite of the people around me?”  When I do it against God’s principles it destroys me and those around me.  When I do it and I am aligned with God’s principles, I am more blessed than I know how to express!

“What will I sacrifice if I continue on this track for 5, 10, or 20 years?” If I were to sacrifice and fight against God’s will and principles I would be miserable.  If I continue to only trust marginally in God and His will and not continue to fight the current of mediocrity I too will be miserable.

So, why the sarcasm for “vacation” at the very beginning of this post?  Simply for the fact that over this next year I am going to strive to enjoy my vacations with as little drama as possible from outside forces – Here’s to the beginning of an awesome year!

The 4-Hour Workweek – Beginning the Journey is a post from: domingo rogers

Regular width Push-ups: 3 Sets of push-ups (8, 7, 6)

In tonight’s two, 1 hour classes, we concentrated on stances, blocks, and perfecting the power of our kicks.  We also worked on forms and Master Marsh really stressed how important the basics are.  It really hit home how simply the practice of many of the  fundamentals of Tang Soo Do can be practiced in small ways at the office, home,  and school for myself and for the boys.

I’m really looking forward to improving in Tang Soo Do and other sports as I get ripped and build muscle and developing explosive power!

100DTD Challenge (Physical Day 4) is a post from: domingo rogers

Day 3

• Leg raises 6 inches off the floor (3 sets – one minute each)
• 5 sets of frog stand for 30 or more seconds
• Standing Dumb-bell curls: 3 sets of 15 @20lbs
• Pull-ups:  3 sets of 5 (parallel, wide, close)

Day 2 and 3 – 100DTD Challenge (Physical) is a post from: domingo rogers

Ok, it’s the evening of September 13th and I looking at the clock as I type this.  There are 15 minutes left in this day before we roll into September 14th.  The kids are back in school, we are in our “routine” of getting them up and out the door, and I haven’t been “vigorously” acting on my plan to gain muscle mass and improving my over-all health.

On Saturday, my wife Kelly and I were going over finances on Saturday and it hit me – I’ve been paying what amounts to be $81.50 (this our family membership for 7 people divided by 2) a month for a awesome gym membership and I have hardly used it, outside of going to the pool this past summer, for months!  What a waste of money!!  I have great equipment, great people to work out with – my wife, my buddy Jake, my buddy Russ all work out at the same gym.  But, I haven’t vigorously acted on my commitment, my goal to vastly improve my functional strength, gain healthy muscle mass, and increasing flexibility, while improving my 5K time.  In less words – I have no excuse for my lack of effort!

With my desire to kiteboard, snowboard, rock climb, slack line, sail, bike, move up the ranks in Tang Soo Do I must be a role model to my kids, to other skinny guys out there that even at the age of 30 (going on 31 this January) I can and will achieve the fitness goals!  **One of the ideas I have for my blog is to start posting video clips of me doing some of my work outs and hopefully inspiring some of you**

So looking out for the next 100 days as the clock has just turned to midnight, here is what has been playing in the back of my mind since I last blogged on my 100DTD Challenge (Physical):

• Starting yesterday (September 13th, 2009) and ending (December 21st, 2009) commences my 100 DTD Challenge (Physical) and my one and only freebie that I am giving myself.
• Here again I am making the following commitment which will take preparation and planning that I hadn’t put in like I needed to - Here I am committing to:
• Working out 1 hour a day every day – no excuses

My goals:

• • Build applied strength
  • Increase flexibility
  • Put on muscle mass

I’m not quitting and giving excuses even if I get sick, unless I’m hospitalized, on why I’m not working out in some way or some how for one hour.  With the tv shows that I’m interested in watching this fall, there is no reason for me not to move our couch out of the way and set into one of my Tang Soo Do stances, to work on my legs.  Or, during the commercial breaks break into doing push-ups or using the Iron Gym pull-up bar that Kelly gave me as a gift!  I am on my way to dynamically changing physically and growing as a person!

The one and only reset that I’m allowing myself has been set.  The system has been rebooted and all systems are go.  As you follow me on my #100DTD Challenge what has gotten you up and off your rear into a lasting focused plan for weight loss or weight gain? I look forward to hearing your stories and tips!

Fitness Results for yesterday (13 September 2009)  Kelly and I walked with our oldest son.  I was stoked to see that Kelly improved her time on our walk/jog circuit in our neighborhood by 30 seconds!  I then did sets 6 sets of push-ups (20, 12 , 7) in the regular and wide position.

100DTD Challenge (Physical) – Hitting the reset button is a post from: domingo rogers

Now if you have been living under a rock and haven’t watched Fringe, you don’t know what you are missing!  Go program it into your dvr now.  And then come back and read why you just did that.  What are you doing…go program it, NOW!

Ok, your back now.  Fringe is a television series (co-created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci) that mixes a bit of science, a lot of science fiction, well placed dry comic humor, with a splash of conspiracy theory in for good measure.

The show for the most part takes place in the Boston, Massachusetts area but often leads to locations around the United States.  If my memory serves me correct, I believe one or two episodes had an international twist as well.  With a team that must work under the watchful eye of Homeland Security the show gets it’s name because of the way “fringe” science is used to solve and deal with the strange and quite often shocking events in the show.  My draw to the show is that it does hark back to some of it’s predecessors in the same genre, The Twilight Zone (the classic black and white) and The X-Files.  I would have to say though that for me the writers of Fringe have done what past screenwriters of those other said shows did well but have done a much more  superb job in building characters that draw the audience member into their chaotic and strange world.  One that I’m looking forward watching every Thursday night!

Recently, in leading up to this coming weeks season premier, Fox aired rebroadcast of some of last seasons shows.  Unlike some reintroductions of shows that networks do, where there isn’t any point to watching the show for  long time viewers, Fox did something ingenious.  They introduced a Twitter interface that allowed some audience viewers to tweet with a few of the cast and support members of the show while watching the rebroadcast.  This was especially interesting to me for two reasons.  The first one being that I love twitter and I believe it is here to stay.  Second, it was confirmed by Fox that the series of symbols that is shown before commercial breaks is a code/message of things to come.  A quick search after watching the show confirmed this.  One blog that has a well put together entry on this is by Julian Sanchez. What will the Fringe Glyph Cipher reveal this season?  You’ll have to watch for yourself to find out.

Ok, enough about Fringe.  Here are shows am I interested in this fall in no particular order.  And no, I don’t have the DVR set to record any of them, yet!

Accidentally on Purpose

FlashForward

Glee  – Kelly twisted my arm on this one.  Well not really, but she did watch the pilot, told me it was good and now I’m excited about the show!  And I lied…this one is programed already.

Hank

Shark Tank – Already watching this and it too is programmed.  Dang it.  There goes my credibility!? I love watching the many entrepreneurs demonstrate their products/ideas and negotiate either to their demise  or to their benefit.  I believe like most “reality” tv shows a lot is edited out but I think there are some good business, marketing, and negotiation bits that can be learned.  So, for now I’ll be watching Shark Tank for awhile.  Thanks Mark Burnett!

So in closing, that’s it for my personal list of tv shows that I’m looking forward to watching.  What are you going to be watching this fall?  Do you have an recommendations of shows?  I’d especially like to hear all of your thoughts on what you think this season of Fringe has in store!  *with a lisp* Let the theories…I mean series begin!

Fringe & Other Fall TV Shows is a post from: domingo rogers

Everyone Is Doing It – That’s the Problem!

Many experts that are in the blogosphere recommend submitting articles to such sites as GoArticles and EzineArticles.  These sites are great, and they have their place, but honestly I was looking for a way to stand out in the crowd.  Why should I submit my articles where everyone was submitting them?  I was looking to build contact lists of unique visitors to my site.  To do that I knew I needed to go against the grain but still find a proven system, just one that hadn’t be worked to death!

Building Your Email List

As I was doing my research on where/how to submit articles I found that Aweber, (a company that I partner with) and iContact are two of the leading companies that can provide a solution of managing the email contact lists that you are building.  But I still had a problem – Where is the benefit to investing in Aweber if I’m not getting traffic?  The answer for me actually was waiting for me as I was looking for products to market through ClickBank.

Getting Quality Traffic to Your Blog

The Directory of Ezines which was created by, my now friend, Charlie Page.  What I found perfect about what Charlie offered was that I could promote products, publish articles and do joint ventures with ezine publishers!  Charlie’s credentials stand on their own power.  He has been teaching people like you and me how to strategically target articles to the right Ezines to promote offers and more importantly how to get the most bang for your advertising dollar.  His resources, if you are truly serious about building your contact list, are worth every penny of the lifetime membership fee!

Results

Since launching my site in July of 2009 I have grown my list of unique visitors by over 535% and I am now on track to see over x,xxx this month alone! If you are like I was, just two short months ago, and starting out as a blogger I will now leave you now with two big tips!

Tip #1 Write unique content and publish through The Directory Of Ezines – Publish where the masses aren’t!

Tip #2  Capture every one of those readers with an opt-in offer with Aweber from the very beginning – Trust me, your bank account will thank you!

Great I Have a Blog – Now What? is a post from: domingo rogers

This first video, performed by Chris Tomlin, needs no less of an introduction suffice to say this is his version of Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone).  Enjoy

This second video is performed by a fairly new artist to me, by the name of Mindy Smith.  Today this video and the song, Come To Jesus, meant a lot to me….

Even in hard times there is hope in His arms.

Ok, now for some really cool trailers!  My good friend Jake Carpenter (@jakecarpenter) tweeted this link recently and I feel that it is cool enough to be mentioned here.  This movie is going to be released for standard theater screens and Imax.  Can you guess where I want to be watching Avitar in December?

This next trailer made me so stoked when my brother emailed me.  For those of you who didn’t know me in high school and in college, I was a huge MechWarrior and BattleTech fan (both on the computer and the table top game).  Well without further ado, MechWarrior -

And finally the video to make you think about this next week

Cool Music Videos & Just Cool Videos is a post from: domingo rogers

The premise of the story is that a cash strapped taxi driver, played by Dwayne Johnson, is forced to think beyond his job when the two teen runaways, played by Anna-Sophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig, get in his car.  The teens, who possess supernatural powers,  are forced to work with him and he in turns learns that that there is much more at stake than getting their sizable tip.   Through their combined efforts and with a little help from the lovely scientist, Carla Gugino, they are able to beat the odds in the Race to Witch Mountain!

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

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Movie Review: Race to Witch Mountain is a post from: domingo rogers