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12-06-2011, 01:40 PM
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But 5/3/1 focus more on strength because the sets are like 5x5, 3x3 for strength training, as oppose to hypertrophy (building mass) by going 3x8 o 3x10 [And no, I never thought of quitting. I find MrRottenTreat's posts funny. It's like fat women hating on skinny women; underneath the contempt lurks envy] Last edited by Ubermensch; 12-06-2011 at 01:43 PM. | |
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12-06-2011, 03:57 PM
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I am willing to make a beat that almost everyone in the gym that he goes to works, sleeps and reads. I do not understand how adding learning a language to this mix turns you into a Uber-human.. If you want to start this path to greatness; a la bradley cooper.. why not initially work on some foundation.. learn to speed read? then maybe you could get through more than 30 pages of a book per day. | |
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12-06-2011, 05:59 PM
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Ubermensch should change his topic title to "Project Ubermensch: To become an average human in 365 days". It seems that his title is making MrRottenTreats knot his panties in a bunch. MrRottenTreats is nerd raging hardcore. "YOU'RE NOT LIKE THE GUY FROM LIMITLESS, HOW DARE YOU. STOP WITH THIS STUPID UBERMENSCH NON-SENSE!!!" Jokes is on MrRottenTreats, everyone is giving him an amused look. It seems Ubermensch is only getting started. What if he doesn't succeed in making $10k per month on the Internet by day #365 - what if, he only makes $5k per month in passive income? Hm. At the rate of 1 book per every 9 days (30 pages / 275 pages), that's still 40 books read per year. Ubermensch is destined for greatness, you can see his daily habits compounding overtime for something awensooooooooooooome. MrRottenTreats - instead of nerd raging and contributing little value, show how you can beat Ubermensch by creating your own "MrRottenTreats Daily Log thread". You can do it, baby girl. |
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12-06-2011, 06:53 PM
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and why are you referring to yourself in the third person? ahhh because once again you are stuck in a dream world. and yes changing it to "becoming and average human" would work.. because currently your probably in the lowest quartile... baby steps that whole way your are going about this is a joke. Your blogging your daily life which is nothing spectacular... I started reading it and was waiting for someone to tell me this was a joke... and by day 50 I thought you needed a wake-up call... thats it. Last edited by MrRottenTreats; 12-06-2011 at 06:56 PM. | |
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12-06-2011, 07:06 PM
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12-06-2011, 11:49 PM
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| Ubermensch Day #46: Goal Psychology Meditate like a monk: meditated for 7 minutes. (total accumulated time: 66 minutes). I wake up, roll out of bed like a hamster, and meditate. The time passed by shockingly fast, as a whirl wind of thoughts enter my mind. I un-consciously choose to entertain it, because my mind is still a foggy haze right before waking up. The 7 minutes pass by shockingly fast. Exercise like a War God: Went to the gym – it’s finally not raining! But it’s cold. Really cold here in Canada land. Did my dead lifts, heaviest set being 240 lbs (108 kgs). I grunt like a pregnant lady giving birth. Did 50 good mornings and 50 hanging leg raise before calling it a day. I have marched to the gym through hail, snow, and rain. I showed up to the gym many times when I haven’t slept all night, only to workout, come home, eat and pass out. Going to the gym is no longer a contest of “will power” or “discipline”. It is joy. Joy of of exercising authority over my body. Joy of lifting the weight high into Heaven like a War God and smashing it back down into Earth. Joy of the “muscle pumps” and experiencing soreness the day after, because it was a damn good work out. The gym is no longer a place with fancy machineries and heavy plates; it is a sacred place to test the limits of the mind and body. When I was in the Zen center, I thought it was goofy that monks would bow before entering the meditation hall, and bow before leaving. Now I realize why they do that – to pay respect. Respect for a place that cultivates them to become a better human being. Listen to self improvement audio (15 minutes) while doing yoga stretches: watched 2 1/2 hours of Internet marketing (current progress: 17/43 videos) It’s crunch time for Internet Marketing course, “Unstoppable Affiliate” e-course, 5 hours worth of content. I need to quickly assimilate the course, then immediately implement (ie, build websites, increase conversion, build backlinks, competition analysis, profit analysis, keyword research etc ad infinitum). Read a fascinating book: Finished reading Principles Of Social Competence by Manhood Academy (Progress: 181/181 pages | Real page count is 284 pages total). Notes: Relationship balance – am I giving the other person pleasurable incentive to met my expectations? Am I removing dyfunctional behavior from the other person that is hindering the relationship, am I directing the person’s behavior by stating my expectation; am I able to meet everyone’s needs with my expectations, including my own? Removing dyfunctional behavior must be replaced with functional behavior, punishment and incentive must be given. Guide and restrict them. Social competence goes into 3 stage: First you must be governed (as a child). As you grow, you become the archor (as a father, teacher, or employer etc). Eventually with enough wisdom, becoming the managing spider – governing a community, manage the lives of others. Last stage shoulderes huge responsability. Excellent book, I would re-read it again in 3 years time. Currently reading: Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoffrey Colvin (Progress: 15/208 pages – physical book page count: 240) Up coming books I’m reading:
Learn a foreign language: 1 hour, concentration of words, grammar (additive particle, topic particle, identifier particle,subject particle) and reading comprehension. (Total accumulated time starting at Dec 01 2011: 352 minutes) Phrase: I am a student = 나는 학생이다 Breakdown: 나는 (I am) 학생 (student) 이다 (is) Phonetically: 나는 (na neun) 학생 (hackseng) 이다 (ee da) Note: 는 is a topic particle Phrase: He is kind = 그는 친절하다 Breakdown: 그는 (he) 친절 (kind) 하다 (is) Phonetically: 그는 (ku nin) 친절 (jin seo) 하다 (ha da) Phrase: John went = 존은 갔다 Breakdown: 존은 (john) 갔다 (went) Phonetically: 존은 (jon eun) 갔다 (kut ta) Eat = 먹다 (meog da, sounds like mo oat da) Ate = 먹었다 (meog-eossda, sounds like mo oat cut da) Drink = 마시다 (masida, individually it’s pronounced “ma sa da”) Go = 가다 (ka da) Come = 오다 (oh ta) A person = 사람은 (sa ram eun) Sky = 하늘 The sky = 하늘은 (은 is a subject particle) Word of the day: plutocracy /noun/ – ploo-tok-ruh-see – a government or state in which the wealthy class rules. Example, “The rulers of a plutocracy society will be … uh … nice people.” Building an online business (Yeah!): Next 2 days is going to be crunch time for learning, once I blast through the marketing video course (taking notes, 10 pages worth), I will immediately take action, and report the profits the websites. The only CPA networks I’ll use is Neverblue Ads, ShareAsale, and Clickbank. Watch something inspiration: watched two episodes of Chiyahafuru (8/25 episodes). This show always bring a tear to my eyes, I like Chiyaha steadfast attitudes that propel her to greatness; it’s a classic plot of an underdog turned champion. Watching the show gives me a temporary boost of motivation; it makes me want to go to the gym and lift weights with the intensity of a thousand sun. I want to dead lift a 5 ton truck; until my muscle tears, my tendon stretch, my spinal cartilage compress. Daily Conclusion – what Ubermensch thinks: Achieving goals requires a certain level of stoicism. It’s like watering a oak tree – you water it everyday, and the growth seems imperceptible. You plant the damn seed and you water it for a week and you don’t even see a damn stalk. It requires a level of belief that underneath the surface, it’s working. I think the biggest fundamental shift in life is knowing that … life doesn’t owe you ♥♥♥♥. What if you wake up the next morning with vagina cancer? What if, you let the dog out and it runs away from home, never to return. What if you’re squatting on the toilet, an armer robber kicks down your bathroom door and shoots off your testicules? Yet despite knowing this, we still march on forward with the daily habits. Why do most people fail at their goals? I think it’s a fundamental error in judgement – they’re creature comfort who want to feel good now, and tomorrow can wait. Yet tomorrow delay itself until next year, and they make a New Year resolution, and that new year becomes next decade, until they’re old and senile, looking back at their squandered life. “Do the habit today, or suffer from the consequence a year from now” I blog everyday because I cannot motivate anyone; I can only motivate myself. By blogging, I hold accountability for every action I take, for every minute I spend, for every thought I ponder about. One day when I achieve greatness, I will look back into this blog and chuckle to myself. Last edited by Ubermensch; 12-07-2011 at 12:13 AM. |
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12-07-2011, 03:34 PM
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12-07-2011, 09:44 PM
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| Ubermensch Day #47: Boiling Point Meditate like a monk: meditated for 7 minutes. (total accumulated time: 79 minutes) Now I realize why there’s proper form for sitting, proper form for breathing, even proper form for placing your hand (resting on your lap, at the navel, left hand underneath the right hand). When proper form is achieved, order is in place. This helps make zazen much more enjoyable instead of agonizing. Exercise like a War God: 6 KM march today (Total accumulated KMs: 9), went to the grocery store and bank. There’s snow on the ground here, in Canada land. The weather is dark and gloomy but I’m radiating light like Jesus on a Pogo stick. Listen to self improvement audio while doing yoga stretches: Still plowing through the Unstoppable Affiliate video course. (Progress: 2.5 hours / 5 hours, 24/42 videos) Review of what I learned yesterday and today:
Once I’m done through this video course, I will not refer back to it. A sweet ratio is 1:9 for learning/action. I probably should spend around 45 hours of solid work before consulting anymore marketing material. Read a fascinating book: Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoffrey Colvin (Progress: 35/208 pages – physical book page count: 240). The book discuss why talent is – ahem – over-rated. The important fact: “deliberate practice” and lots of it. Deliberate practice is learn, do, review, adjust, and restart again. Then do this for a least a decade to become world class. Learn a foreign language: More particles stuff. (Total accumulated time starting at Dec 01 2011: 412 minutes) Written form: This = 이것 (e got) It = 그것 (ku got) That = 저것 (troll got) Spoken form: 이것은 → 이건 (e gone) 그것은 → 그건 (ku gone) 저것은 → 저건 (troll gone) Here = 여기 (yo-gi) There (it) = 거기 (ko-gi) Over there = 저기 (jo-gi) 여기는 is also usually contracted to 여긴 for the pronunciation’s sake. 여기는 → 여긴 (yo gin) 거기는 → 거긴 (ko gin) 저기는 → 저긴 (jo gin) Finally after 7 weeks of learning Korean, I can speak (and read) this fluently with minimal accent: 안녕하세요. 만나서 반가워요. 내 이름은 Ubermensch입니다. 당신의 이름은 무엇입니까? 나 배고파. (Hello. Nice to meet you. My name is Ubermensch. What is your name? I’m hungry) Word of the day: meritocracy, noun, mer-i-tok-ruh-see. Ex: “Poker is strictly a meritocratic society” Building an online business (Yeah!): It’s going to consume another another 2.5 hours to finish the Unstoppable Affiliate e-course, (Progress: 25 / 42 videos watched), when I’m done, I’m going to rather up the tools needed and get to work. The Blue Print:
Mile stones (must be profit, not revenue):
Watch something inspiration: Watched 1 episode of IdolMaster (19/25). I have to stop watching Anime that is still airing, waiting for episodes to come out once a week sucks. Daily Conclusion – what Ubermensch thinks: Everyone has burst of motivations, like the New Year resolution crowd that hit the gym, only to disappear into thin air a week later (or 2 weeks at best) How do you sustain and keep your self motivated for days, weeks, years, decades, until the day you die? It’s from understanding – through direct experience – which will trigger life changing epiphanies. Allow me to explain … When a person sits down and watch a piece of ♥♥♥♥ TV show (Hello, American Idol) they fail to see that it’s squandered use of time – time that could’ve spent going to the gym, or reading a book, or making money. “But 1 TV show can’t hurt …” “It’s just 1 donut … I’ll walk it off. I’m not fat” “I’ll leave it until tomorrow … meh” It’s only after years when they’re still working the same boring job, or become a bloated sea cow do they see the error in their judgement. This is when they panic and looking for miracle breakthroughs – get rich overnight books, or magic diet pills. The real secret have been staring at them in the face everyday – yet they fail to see it. (Strangely enough, going to the gym and watching TV takes the same amount of mental effort, once it becomes a habit. Strange but true) How sustained progress is made: Sustained progress is daily habits. The habits can be simple or complex, but as long as it’s a habit, there will be progress (assuming continuous, proper course of adjustment is made) [Note to self: try not to sound so serious, you can offend people and come off as pretentious. BUT I'M WRITING THIS FOR ME, NOT FOR OTHER PEOPLE. Shut up voice] |
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12-08-2011, 12:03 AM
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Around the 1 to 2 month mark. Your body gets use to the training, and you know what to expect when you hit the gym (in terms of exercise routine and gym etiquette) The biggest mental barrier is the first month. It will make or break you. |
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12-10-2011, 03:25 AM
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| Ubermensch Day #48: Inner demons Meditate like a monk: meditated for 7 minutes. (total accumulated time: 86 minutes). I’m achieving excellent meditation form thanks to the guidance from the old monk from the Zen center; zazen on hard wood floor no longer hurts my knees and foot. When we zazen in the zendo, we had cushion seats and another cushion to wedge between the ass. I’m doing zazen like a samurai; there’s a certain false pride in that. Exercise like a War God: Marched to the gym at 8:00 AM as usual. There’s one guy that does homo-erotic poses in front of the mirror while swinging 5 lbs dumb bells around. I think he’s recovering from an injury. Or, he just enjoys doing nancy boy warm ups in front of the mirror. My new favorite exercise is dumb bell rows, I can feel my lats swelling like a tumor while pumping 50 lbs DBs. Listen to self improvement audio (15 minutes) while doing yoga stretches: n/a Read a fascinating book: Read 25 pages, Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoffrey Colvin (Progress: 60/208 pages – physical book page count: 240). Apparently, IQ and memory plays a small role in success. The author claims that sucess is merely hard work (“deliberate practice”). Studies found that the most elite violinists simply practiced more then their cohorts; Jerry Lee Rice, regarded as the “greatest wide receiver of all time and one of the greatest players in National Football League history” simply WORKED HARDER then his peers. I think the author is trying to tell us something. Learn a foreign language: Word of the day: stratocracy, [struh-tok-ruh-see], noun, government by the military. “The congo is a stratocracy” Building an online business (Yeah!): n/a Watch something inspiration: Watched 1 episode of IdolMaster (20/25). I cried manly tears, why is it so sad. The media exposed Chihaya’s younger brother died in a car crash. Chihaya got depress and gave up on her singing career. Her peers encourage her to sing again, and in the end she does; her passion is singing, her purpose is to keep singing, because that’s why made her younger brother happy when he was alive. I have slowly reduced my anime consumption from 3 episodes per day, to 1. It’s affiliate marketing crunch time, so sacrifice must be made. But it’s still 365 episodes per year, or 121 hours (20 mins * 365 = X / 60 = 121) Daily Conclusion – what Ubermensch thinks: I like pacing around in a dark room and think. Sometimes it’s for 5 minutes. Sometimes 30. I call it quality thinking time. I think people are scared of being alone, alone with their own thoughts, with their inner demons, scared of what the future will bring them. People hold themselves accountable when they’re alone. Did they spend this year thriving and full of joy, or being miserable and merely trying to survive? Are they doing anything to improve themselves? These kind of thoughts are the inner demons, and it’s scary. So they drown out these thoughts through junk TV shows, junk novels, junk magazines. The first step to living an amazing life is instilling daily, positive habits. [And to those people I say, you're going to die one day. Accept it, have fun in life, and die without regrets. I personally recommend farting in a crowded mall on a Saturday.] - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - - Spent quality time (read: 2 days) with the newly “acquired” big boobs girlfriend, hnnnng love her so much. Love is self hypnosis and I’m fully aware of it. But still – it feels so good. I used functional authority to change her mind from “No, I’m not staying overnight with you in the hotel. We’re not going to have sex” to “Ughhhh don’t stop, keep going” all night long. More on this on Day #49. Last edited by Ubermensch; 12-10-2011 at 04:00 AM. |
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12-10-2011, 01:21 PM
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| Ubermensch Day #49: Relevation Daily Conclusion – what Ubermensch thinks: It’s midnight. I’ve been outside in an 33 hours drunken adventure. I’ll try to write this to the best of my ability. Using functional authority for sex. (Or maybe she just really loves me) Spend 24 hours straight with the girlfriend that I love so, so, so much. I used functional authority to change her mind from “No, I’m not staying overnight with you in the hotel. We’re not going to have sex” to “Ughhhh don’t stop, keep going” all night long. What I used: Stated expectation Functional authority Negative association Incentive/reward Social pressure Positive association Ubermensch: So, I’m going to put my penis inside you. We’re going to a hotel after this [restaurant] Big boob girlfriend: No. Ubermensch: Do you have work tomorrow? BBG: Hm, no. UM: Why don’t you want to? You know that’s not normal, don’t act like those weird girls. [Negative association] . We’re going to the hotel, it’s what normal couples do [stated expectation + social pressure]. BBG: But I don’t feel comfortable … UM: Fine, we won’t have sex. We’ll just cuddle and do cute couples stuff. [Downgrading expectating] Sounds good? BBG: Sounds okay then. ——————————— *cue to hotel bed scene* UM: Take off your shirt BBG: Hm, no. UM: Why? Is there something wrong. I expect you to be perfectly honest with me [stated expectation] BBG: Well, because [reasons extracted] … UM: Thank you for being honest with me. I like it when you’re honest, it makes you a good girlfriend [reward]. Take off your shirt. BBG: Okay dokey UM: Whoa, nice boobs. Whoppee-doo, tell me something more exciting Ubermensch, even my grand parents have sex! What’s the big deal? The deep, weird epiphany I had, and my promise to her. Ubermensch: So, I’m going to be making $10,000 per month on the Internet. We’ll live in a condo over looking the lake. It’s just me and you, baby. Big boob girlfriend: Sounds good. *cue to the next day* UM: You know, I WILL be making $10,000 a on the Internet. If I don’t make $10,000 a month, I would be lying to myself. I would also be lying to you. I feel so pressure – I can curl up in a ball in the corner and cry … BBG: *giggle* UM: or I can try until I make it BBG: You have my support. UM: Thank you UM: Tell me what’s your perfect day would be like if you couldn’t fail or have any bad consequence BBG: It would be … [her list]. What about yours? UM: Mine would be … waking up in the morning with you, in a condo, on the 55th floor, over looking the lake . My first thought in the morning is … “Damn, life is awesome!”. I’ll wake up at 5:00 AM, before the sun rise. You would be still sleeping, so I’m going to molest you. Morning sex. BBG: *giggle* UM: … then we’ll wake up and have oatmeals and fruits. Or left over sushi from last night. I’m going to hit the gym, and you’ll come along with me. You’ll be wearing lulu lemon pants, and I’ll be like, “Hmm baby you look sexy”, and you’ll say “Oh, thank you Ubermensch”. After that we’ll come back home and have a hot bath together. Then I’ll get to work by turning on the computer and checking how much money I made overnight. Then I’ll delegate an army of workers to do the work, because I’m too lazy to work … BBG: But that is a type of work UM: Yeah, good point. I expect you to work in a job that you find meaningful, and not some generic office that. BBG: Yes. UM: In the evening, you’re going to cook me an awesome, healthy dinner and we’ll eat while drinking wine, overlooking the lake. Then we’ll go to someplace nice, like a fine arts museum, live music or the nicest mall and buy you whatever you want. After that, we’ll get home and sex … then I’ll pass out immediately afterwards. And you’ll be like “Ubermensch, oh my god wake up …”, and I’ll be like “No, leave me alone!” BBG: *giggle* Sounds perfect UM: That’s my promise to you, baby. *kiss* [epiphany] – The will to great … My epiphany was, "If all men are cut from the same clothe, I can be one of the greatest, too." When we have deep epiphanies, it feels real. It’s like the difference between reading about putting our hand in a burning camp fire, and actually doing it. However, epiphanies must work in conjunction with action – or else it’s just mental masturbation. Or worse, a bravado. Ever since Project Ubermensch started 41 days ago, I’m tunnel visioning. By that, all I did – slowly – was building and instilling the habits with a steadfast, unwavering attitude. But what’s more, Project Ubermensch is no longer a pet project; it feels more real and consequential. I mean, what if I don’t make $10,000 a month? I would disappoint myself, my girlfriend, and my parents (Yes, I told them about this). I would also disappoint the people who read my blog. I feel a complusion to succeed, like a crack fiend who needs his next fix. The most I made online per month was $800 strictly from half ass attempts at SEO’d affiliate websites. To hit the 10k USD per month barrier is simply by scaling up the operation. I think once I break the 10k barrier I would have much more confident in my ability to generate money on the internet by the boat. ————— I know that once I hit my 10k USD/month goal, I will look back into this blog post and chuckle. “LOL, Y SO SERIOUS UBERMENSCH?”. It’s okay future Ubermensch, it’s just the natural course of things to take it seriously. [Edit: After passing out from the drunken 33 hours adventure, I woke up, ate breakfast, and spent 45 minutes writing this ... on a Saturday] |
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12-10-2011, 01:56 PM
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Hi, I'd just like to drop by and say I'm a fan. I take the same steps pretty much, and if it weren't for my college workload I'd probably be working on my own online business. I can feel the "crack fiend" urges already and I've barely scratched the surface - what's your life going to look like by day 100? 200? Looking forward to a year of inspiring posts, brah. |
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12-11-2011, 12:18 AM
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| Ubermensch Day #50: A New Meaning (Saturday) Meditate like a monk: meditated for 7 minutes. (total accumulated time: 93 minutes). The time flew by really, really fast - as if 1 minute passed. This means, my body is getting used to sitting meditation. However, it also means my mind is too clouded - or does it? I need to consult the monk at the Zen center for guidance. Exercise like a War God: Marched to the gym on a Saturday morning (10:00 AM). I need to sweat the alcohol out from yesterday, so I squat, bench press and dead lift like a boss, with very little break in between - like a speed demon. For that brief moment in time, nothing matters but lifting the weight. Put it up, put it down. Pose in the mirror like a boss. Listen to self improvement audio (15 minutes) while doing yoga stretches: Spent 1.8 hours watching and taking notes on affiliate marketing. I'm at the link building section, pretty stoke for this. (Progress: almost done / 5+ hours, 38/42 videos) What I learned today:
I have perhaps 6 or more videos until I'm finish this course, can't wait. Read a fascinating book: Read 25 pages of "What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else" by Geoffrey Colvin (Progress: 85/208 pages – physical book page count: 240). In this part, he discuss the components of deliberate practice. It is: 1. It's designed specifically to improve performance 2. It can be repeated alot 3. feedback on results is continuously available 4. It isnt much fun Gee, nice to know Mr. Colvin. I'm excited to read the next part, "How Deliberate Practice Works". Learn a foreign language: Spent 25 minutes reviewing numbers from 1 to 10. I'm using deliberate practice instead of going through the motions. This is accomplished by spending the first 10 minutes memorizing how to pronounce it (without the dreaded foreigner accent), then counting the number from 1 to 10, then 10 to 1 backwards. Then I wrote a long, long string of numbers and pronounce it in Korean without looking at the notes. Word of the day: gerontocracy / [jer-uhn-tok-ruh-see, jeer-] / - government by a council of elders. "Old tribes, they favor a gerontocracy society ya know" Building an online business (Yeah!): I'm blasting through Unstoppable Affiliate course, I'm excited to finish watching the course so I can actually start marketing. Here's the rough draft of the blue print:
More details on this in later posts. Watch something inspiration: Watched 1 episode of Chiyahafuru (Progress: 10/25 episodes). Watching cartoon has never been so exciting, an emotional roller coaster. Daily Conclusion - what Ubermensch thinks: The "Daily Conclusion" part will no longer be about me dispensing half baked advice (the mean and condescending undertone doesn't help either) Instead, this part will be an evaluation of me. Everyday, I'll put myself under heavy scrutiny :
Since I post a blog post every 24 hours, this serves as a good way to give constant feedback to myself. The purpose of this is to eradicate dysfunctional behaviors, including denial, un-aware of competence, or negative thought patterns. It is to be replaced with a more functional behavior - deliberate practice, introspection, proper course of adjustment, thorough planning. This is taking personal responsability to the fullest, and revealing every weak link in the armor. I'm looking forward to recifying the problems. [Thank you MrRottenTreats for pointing out that I need to put more time and effort into building the business] ------------------ My priority right now is making more money on the Internet then I can shake a stick at. So this is what's the new schedule will look like (rough draft): Wake up Meditation (7 mins) Gym (1 hour) Read (30 minutes?) Business (3 hours) Anime (20 minutes) Korean (20 minutes) 15 minutes audio of self improvement If I finish the daily list before sleep, I'll simply loop to the top and go again. I haven't touched the PS3 in 3 weeks. I don't feel the need to play video game anymore once I realize it's a dysfunctional hobby. |
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12-11-2011, 03:19 AM
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Don't mean to sound like a fanboy or anything, I just might though. I'm a major fan of what you're doing. I can see you going pretty far in life with all of this. I'm freaking 16 and it makes me want to start something like this! Hah. I was wondering though, what is your method to becoming fluent in Korean? I've been trying to find ways to become fluent in Russian without spending 100+ USD towards a program and I'm plum out of good ideas. Last edited by rubixmon; 12-11-2011 at 03:24 AM. |
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12-11-2011, 11:37 PM
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| Ubermensch Day #51: Imposed Limitation (Sunday) Meditate like a monk: meditated for 10 minutes. (total accumulated time: 103 minutes). Today is the first 10 minute meditation session. SUCCESS! I’m confident to say I have instilled the meditation habit down now. When I first started it seems to be a daunting task – having the discipline to sit still, because we all know time comes to a standstill during meditation. My first meditation habit when I started on day #35 was for 5 minutes, and continue the daily habit until day #49, where I had 33 hours of alcohol and sex. Exercise like a War God: n/a (rest day) Listen to self improvement audio (15 minutes) while doing yoga stretches: Listen to Jay Z “Lost One” music video, looped 3 times. Read a fascinating book: Read 25 pages of “What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else” by Geoffrey Colvin (Progress: 110/208 pages – physical book page count: 240). Summary of the chapter(s):
Learn a foreign language: Learned how to read out the years. (Total accumulated time starting at Dec 01 2011: 452 minutes) For example, 2011 would be “ee cheun (2 thousand), ship ee (11)”, or 4915 – sah cheun (4 thousand), ku beck (900 hundred), ship oh (fifth teen). Learned the months “woh”, the year “Yeung”, and the day “eel”. Deliberate practice, yo. Word of the day: vitriolic [vi-tree-ol-ik] / very caustic; scathing: vitriolic criticism. Building an online business (Yeah!): I finally finished the Unstoppable Affiliate course! I sat on my ass and watched 43 videos (5 hours total), 2700 words of notes, and 5 days of material absorption that makes my head hurts. Here’s the tentative blueprint for my $10,000 USD per month affiliate marketing plan:
Revenue generation model: Affiliate commissions from sales and CPA – THAT’S IT. The model is strictly writing good presell content, and then getting the visitors to click on the merchant website and make a sell. I’m not going to even create a mailing list (for now) Traffic generation model: SEO – THAT’S IT. End goals: 1. Passive income. To make $10,000 USD per month “hands off, passive income”. Live the lifestyle I envision. 2. Thank the girlfriend for supporting me. Fly her and I to some place nice. (See this poontang? It ain’t free, boy! This is different time zone poon tang / Chris Rock joke) 3. Systemize the whole business and outsource or automate every single part of the operation. I’m merely a ghost in the machine, observing without doing any “real” work. (Besides yelling at people via skype) 4. Take a break, have sex with the girlfriend, then come back and aim for $20,000 USD per month. After that? Use the profits to quickly build other similar business venture (adsense empire? Amazon kindle publishing? Ebay drop shipping? Hmmm) Contingency plans: 1. Alternative traffic besides SEO: After the website is established and is shown to generate profit, I will drive other traffic into it – email marketing, youtube marketing, ezine ads, media buys, PPC etc. This is a contingency plan in case I get Google ♥♥♥♥♥ smack. 2. Network diversification: I won’t rely on 1 company for payout, I’m going to spread it between 3 main networks – shareasale.com, neverblueads.com and clickbank.com. However, in the future I plan on expanding to about 20+ affiliate networks and in-house affiliate programs. 3. Hosting diversification: sometimes web hosts get cracked into or DoS, so I’m going to register for 3 different webhost companies, in case one is shot down to ♥♥♥♥. 4. Save the money and put it into various investment vehicles, including a brokerage account, and property units. 5. Hire a lawyer, an accountant, and pay the tax man. Current monthly business expenses (as of Dec 11 2011) 1. ActuallyRank.com $89 per month 2. Buildmyrank.com $59 per month 3. Backlinkbooster.com $9 per month 4. Autoresponder $20 per month 5. Web hosts on 2 servers $14 per month 6. Business mailbox $10 per month Total expense per month: $201 Current monthly revenue generation (figures from last month): 1. Autoresponder affiliate program: $23 per month 2. In-house CPA program that pays out $1.80 per signup: $200-$250 per month (average) 3. Clickbank: $20 per month (average) 4. Adsense: $20 per month (average) 5. Saleasale: $0 6. Neverblueads: $15 (average) Total revenue per month: $303 (average) From what I can understand, the 3 core activities is: 1. Research – market, keywords, offer affiliates, competition spying etc 2. Content building – make website, presell articles, etc 3. Link building – SEO, yo. And that’s all I’m going to do. Doing the SEO affiliate site model, no deviation whatsoever. Watch something inspiration: Watched 1 episode of IdolMaster (21/25). Hell yeah, kid cartoons. Daily Conclusion – what Ubermensch thinks: Originally, when I started Project Ubermensch, I took Saturday and Sunday off by doing nothing. It was reasonable back then – I just started the project. Now, the project is a 7 days a week thing, and this is the second weekend of me implementing this new imposed discipline. As long as I get my sleep, exercise, proper diet and light dose of socialization, I shouldn’t burn out. I have build up the stamina over the past 51 days to confirm this. It seems – to me – the path to success entails:
———————————- I spend my weekends indoor, from morning to night, learning nerdy stuff like search engine optimization, crafting presell letters, and search engine algorithms. This ♥♥♥♥ is BORING. However … This is merely the price I have to pay in order to accomplish the $10,000 USD per month goal. When things get boring, I just think back to my girlfriend and my promise to hers, and the life style I envision. Last edited by Ubermensch; 12-11-2011 at 11:44 PM. |
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12-13-2011, 01:53 AM
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| Ubermensch Day #52: Free Journal Software Meditate like a monk: meditated for 10 minutes. (total accumulated time: 113 minutes). Meditating the first thing in the morning is not optimal, my mind is a foggy haze, and concentration is hard. I'm going to switch it - after I'm done going to the gym, shower, and a book ... THEN meditate. Exercise like a War God: I marched to the gym today, still coughing phlegm. I don't think this cold is going away. Did barbell overhead press, heaviest being 90 lbs for reps. Then did 50 dips and 50 pullups. Then 60 crunches and called it a day. Listen to self improvement audio (15 minutes): watched "The Human Machine", a Navy Seal guy who runs ultra marathons until his kidney fails. It's a really, really inspiring video. It's 6 minutes long and I looped it 3 times. "Life is one continuous journey, there's no limit for me ... I'm going to continue doing this until the day I die" "You'll always hit a wall, but you can always go parallel left or parallel right and find the door ... and you open it. If you don't open it, you sit there and quit. Personally, I never quit" You can watch the video here: Human Machine - YouTube [If you know any inspiration video, please leave the link in the comment section] Read a fascinating book: Read 25 pages of “What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else” by Geoffrey Colvin (Progress: 135/208 pages – physical book page count: 240). Notes of the chapters: know where you want to go practice directly (you can't read about riding a bike or swimming) practicing in the work self regulation (self discipline) is key exceptional performers setting specific as ♥♥♥♥ goals that isn't necessary outcome dependent, but the process of reaching the goal improving better element of the work BP (best performers) use specific, technique oriented plan. Razor sharp blade. BP, self observation during work meta-cognition - knowledge about your knowledge, thinking about what you're thinkg [editor: This is to uncover areas where we're uncompetent in and rectify the problem) deepening your knowledge the economy is no longer finacial capital but human capital a mental model forms a framework on which you hang your growing knowledge of your domain how to distinguish revelent from irrelevent information mental model allows you to project what happens next Learn a foreign language: n/a Word of the day: n/a Building an online business (Yeah!): Here's what I did today: Installations, tool gathering and set ups: Signed up for Actuallyrank.com ($89 USD per month) Installed scrapebox to reverse engineer competitor's link campaign Installed SEO spyglass for intelligence gathering of competitor's backlinks (similar to scrapebox) Actual work I did: Reverse engineer my competitor's keywords, the keyword is "best _______ book" - when someone enters "best ZXY book", we assume they're pre-disposed to buy the book if the review page sounds genuinely good. I used SEMrush.com for this. The monthly local search volume is 91, with global search being 170. I used Google adwords keyword tool for this. (Pretty low search volume, but this is my first real "test" at SEO, I'll go low) I already had a "best ZXY book" page for my authority site I wrote a week ago. It was 1500 words - I wasn't afraid to DELETE IT ALL, and re-write it according to the Unstoppable Affiliate presell page strategy. I re-wrote 1000 words again, it took 1.5 hours or something. It's a slow progress because I'm re-learning but that's fine. In the future I expect to craft high quality presell letters quickly. I also picked a different landing page, since the default landing page seems to be superfluous and might hurt conversion rate. How much is the affiliate commission per sale? $32 from inital sale, and a potential $30 from backend upsell. Interestingly enough, my website for "best ZXY book" page ranks #4 on Google.ca, and #5 for Google.com. Spent - 30 minutes (?) - posting comments using ActuallyRank.com Business thoughts: If I want to make $10, 000 USD per month in a breakneck pace, I have to work smarter and harder then other affiliates. This means more indepth competitor intelligence research, thorough keyword research, professional and highly aesthetic, high quality articles that lead to sales ... but more importantly, lots of action in an intelligent and thought out matter. After that, I simply use profits from the website to leverage the business by hiring people and make them work for me. Tee hee. Watch something inspiration: Watched 1 episode of IdolMaster (22/25). Anime - always inspiration. (LOL) Daily Conclusion - what Ubermensch thinks: You probably know the awesome power of journaling by now. The software I'm using right now is called "Red Note Book" and it's free! It works on Windows, Linux Or Mac. You can download it here: RedNotebook I recommend you write something down everyday, even if it's a short sentence like "My math teacher didn't wear a bra today and I can see her erect nipples" to "I caught my wife cheating with a black man, so I collapsed in the corner in a fetal position, crying my eyes out" --------------------- After hanging out with my girlfriend for 24 hours straight (full of lust and passion), I didn't call or text her for 2 days. On the second day she texted me and I ignored it. On the third day, I sent her a text. The reasons are two folds: to instill a low level of dread (fear of loss). Second is alpha aloofness (I'm a man on a mission, after all). I'm sure the cutesy text I sent her today made her heart summersault. Machiavellian psychology! Interesting ♥♥♥♥. --------------------- Shout out to Transcendance [http://transcendencelog.wordpress.com] for creating the new banner, I feel cool now. Visit his site, he's also doing his own self improvement journey. --------------------- The first reason I write this blog is to document my journal to become super human - mentally, physically, intellectually and financially. Obvious stuff. By writing it down into words and documenting it, I cannot lie to myself, or others. The second reason: Once I hit the 10k per month mark (passive income), I hope it serves as an inspiration to a whole generation of college students (who are laden with debt and can't find a job) to become their own boss. But first, I must lead by example ... --------------------- Today is tiring as heck, woke up at 8:00 AM, went to the gym, came back, and worked all the way to 8:00 PM, a full 12 hours, morning to night. It's a bit hard because I'm still adjusting to the new work load, after that it should be more smoother sailing - perhaps in 2 weeks time. Man, my head hurts, this is brain overload. I need to lay down. |
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12-13-2011, 06:51 PM
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He can call his project whatever he likes, as long as he grows. For someone who is making only 500 dollars a month, 5000 dollars seams something only an ubermensch could achieve. Maybe you already make 5000 dollars, and for you it seams easy. But this is about him and his view on life. We are here to support him for whatever he is doing, because taking action is what makes us become better. Criticizing each other doesn't help us grow at all, it doesn't help us take action. @Ubermensch, I wish you best of luck. The more action you take, the better you will eventually become. | |
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12-14-2011, 12:38 AM
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| Ubermensch Day #53: Intense Concentration Meditate like a monk: meditated for 10 minutes. (total accumulated time: 123 minutes). I'm slowly getting better at meditation, and it's bringing me closer to the immediate reality (ie, now). I momentary have heighten hearing sense. The birds chirping outside and cars noises sound much more clear. Exercise like a War God: Marched to the gym in really warm weather. It actually feels like spring - in the middle of winter. Did barbell bench press, dumb bell bench press and dumb bell rows like a boss. Stared at a cardio bunny on the tread mill, we established eye contact and she broke it, acting flustered. (adjusting her hair, checking to make sure her shirt isn't up too high) She looked at me again and I was still maintaing eye contact before I broke into a ♥♥♥♥ eating smirk. Listen to self improvement audio (15 minutes): Watched Alec Baldwin's "Best performance scene" (7 minutes, looped twice), where he berates, I mean, motivates a bunch of salesman - Baldwin's style. You can watch it here: Alec Baldwin - Best performance - YouTube Read a fascinating book: Read 25 pages of “What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else” by Geoffrey Colvin (Progress: 160/208 pages – physical book page count: 240). Notes:
Learn a foreign language: Learned Korean for 20 minutes (Total accumulated time starting at Dec 01 2011: 472 minutes). Past, and present form for nouns; interesting enough, there is written and spoken form of the nouns. I'm going to spend 30 minutes per day learning korean - deliberate practice. That amounts to 3.5 hours per week, which is fine. Word of the day: carapace - kar uh peys - a bony or chitinous shield, test, or shell covering some or all of the dorsal part of an animal, as of a turtle. Example: Use that carapace as a shield. Building an online business (Yeah!): Worked from 5:21 PM to 8:18 PM or so. Here's what I did:
This is the second day implementing the Unstoppable Affiliate method, and it's so mentally debilitating. When I'm writing the home page in this particular niche, I cannot go on autopilot. I must think everything through.
Things to do for tomorrow:
I'm going to stick to the principle of slow, incremental progress. Practically speaking, this means making 1 page of content per day and 5 to 10 backlink per day. Even a mere 1 page per day will amount to 365 pages in 1 year's time - enough to become a true authority website. I'm going to flesh out a plan for my SEO routine. For example, I'll utilize Actuallyrank.com on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and get 5 backlinks each day. Then Tuesday, Thurs and Saturday can be BuildMyRank.com day - or something like that. I have to think this through, but the most important thing is getting a base weekly SEO routine up and going. Saturday and Sunday should be delicated to rolling out mini-websites. This includes building content and backlinking. It's unsafe to rely on 1 main website, because it might get ♥♥♥♥♥ slap by Google. I'll let the mini-website sit there for months - after it pass through Google 3 months "hazing" period, I can be more aggressive with the link building and content, and slowly morph it into an authority site too. Watch something inspiration: Watched 1 episode of Chiyahafuru (Progress: 11/25 episodes) Daily Conclusion - what Ubermensch thinks: Hmmm, my head hurts. |
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12-15-2011, 12:21 AM
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| Ubermensch Day #54: 20 Mile March Meditate like a monk: meditated for 10 minutes. (total accumulated time: 133 minutes). I think too much in the morning; this is no good. I have to focus on breathing in, and out, and disregarding the scheming and planning thoughts. Exercise like a War God: (rest day) Read a fascinating book: Read 25 pages of “What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else” by Geoffrey Colvin (Progress: 185/208 pages – physical book page count: 240). What I learned from the book:
Learn a foreign language: Learned Korean for 30 minutes (Total accumulated time starting at Dec 01 2011: 502 minutes). Deliberate practice - how to read the consonants and vowels, and working damn hard to eradicate any "foreigner" accent. Learned some professions:
Word of the day: redress (can be noun or verb) to use as a verb - to set right or remedy, adjust evenly again. Building an online business (Yeah!): Site Construction (elapse time: 3 hours)
Thought #1: The page looks utterly professional - I'm a bit surprise myself. However, what matters most is getting the clicks and making the monies. I will report when I make the first sale for this. Thought #2: My email campaign for this niche haven't produced any money, simply because I'm promoting a sub-optimal offer. I'll switch to this ZXY offer and see how well the conversion goes. Thought #3: I have to train myself for this, in the future I hope to create a high quality presell page much faster. SEO to the top using ActuallyRank.com: (elapse time: 15 minutes ) Build 5 potential backlinks by blog commenting, heh. Profitability and competition analysis: Elapse time (45 minutes?)
Things to do tomorrow: Write/modify 12 new emails promoting new offer SEO work - 7 backlinks ... Things done today: Modified banner, added "as soon on Google, msn, bing" logo (5 minutes; 25 minutes to learn how to) Professional quality 750 words presell page (2:40 hours) Use Actuallyrank.com to build 5 potential backlinks (15 minutes) Watch something inspiration: watched 1 episode of IdolMaster (23/25). I feel 5 percent smarter just by watching this youtube clip: Death Note - Near best scenes/moments - YouTube "Unless you play the game ... or solve the puzzle. You're nothing but a loser" - Near Daily Conclusion - what Ubermensch thinks: Yesterday I mentioned the business work is mentally debilitating but it's expected (kinda like the first day at the gym) It's the third day simple implenting The Unstoppable Affiliate system, so there plenty of things to learn. Last night, I spent 30 minutes learning how to use Paint.net to create a semi-professional quality banner before passing out. Today I wrote down a detailed plan of the business, so I know exactly what to do. This prevents me from panicking or not knowing what do next. Step #1: Offer discovery Is it a hot product that other affiliates are offering What it's potential conversion rate? What network is the offer hosted on, or is it an in-house affiliate program? Step #2: Market spying Is it an existing market online? Is the market full of buyers? Can I see buyers on amazon? What does Google insight and trend shows me? Are there affiliate programs for this market? Step #3: Competition reverse engineering Who are my competition? What are they promoting? What keywords are they dominating at the SERP? How many back links do they have? Can I beat their ranking given my time and resource? Are their advertiser spots on Google adwords? What are they promoting on their landing page? Step #4: Keyword research and analyse What are the competitive keywords? Simply reverse engineer the competition using SEMrush.com or alternative Use Google Adwords Keyword tool for product, brand name and target keywords Have I written down a list of at least a dozen profitable keywords to use for my website? Step #5: Construction of new website Install thesis theme High quality banner with “as seen on google, bing, msn” logo Add favicon Highly aesthetic website design ensuring conversion (getting the clicks) About page, contact us, privacy statement, FTC notice (LOL) Step #6: Website Home Page Home page contains short introduction, and picture Link of the most interesting articles Opt in list at the bottom (if applicable in niche) Step #7: Website Population Write a least 3 product review page (main revenue vehicle) 10 to 30+ articles targeting long tails, convert the visitors into buyers or put them into the mailing list Mailing list campaign, entertain, inform and recommend them products for affiliate commissions For long tail articles, what is my call to action at the end of the article? The options are either: recommend them the product at the end, or let them join my mailing list Step #8: SEO campaign Diverse link portfolio: link networks, RSS, social bookmarks, forum profile links, article backlinks, comment links A systematic, weekly, 7 days a week SEO routine Good SEO practice using traffic travis analyzation tool Step #9: Loop step 7 and 8 until desired income is achieved ------------------------ Friendly reminder to myself: there are so many ways to make money online, from e-commerence, "freelancing work", to Amazon kindle publishing. There's even sub-categories, like blogging or making sites with Adsense. But my first $10k USD per month is going to be strictly affiliate sales - like Miyamoto Musashi, my focus will be razor sharp. If I want to hit the $5,000 USD per month milestone by March 31 2012, I need a mixture of authority website and mini-website (since mini-websites will contain Exact Match Domain, which ranks faster on Google) The plan is to work on authority website(s) for 2 weeks, then spend the next 2 weeks working on mini-sites. Perhaps the work schedule isn't highly optimal but what's important is getting the work done. ------------------------ The habits seem to be building steam; I noticed in the past 7 days, the first thing that pop in my mind as I wake up is: "Hell yes! Time to accomplish the habits for today!" The strive towards excellence is mentally and physically exhausting; building a business and hitting the gym is hard work. But this is merely the price I have to pay to become great. I noticed in life, you're progressing upwards, or declining down hill. There seems to be no middle ground for this. |
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12-16-2011, 04:19 AM
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| Ubermensch Day #55: Bob The Couch Potato Meditate like a monk: meditated for 10 minutes. (total accumulated time: 143 minutes). The session went okay; I meditate and business ideas pour into my mind but I gently remind myself to pay attention to the present moment - the sound of the birds chirping, the car engines outside, my exhalation. Exercise like a War God: I marched to the gym in freakishly warm weather here in Canada land. It's dark and gloomy but the march continues on. Did my dead lifts, good morning and hanging leg lifts like a boss. Today I saw a beta male masquerading as an alpha male - he strutted into the gym, chest puffed up, body swaying. He was 6'2, 190 lbs or so, and was somewhat muscular. He looked like an alpha male from a distance but upon closer inspection, he wasn't: His wore thick glasses, he dressed like main character from "Revenge of the nerds" and the swagger to his walk seems slightly forced. Later when I was outside of the gym, I saw him alone with his heads down, snuggling in his own arms. Confidence cannot be faked to the observant eyes. Read a fascinating book: Read 23 pages of “What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else” by Geoffrey Colvin (Progress: 208/208 pages – physical book page count: 240). What I learned from the chapter(s):
Watch something inspiration: Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha (Progress: 1/25). This is a more "mature" anime, with violence, blood and romance. It's ranked one of the top 20ish anime of all time, and I can see why. Pretty excited to watch this series! Learn an awesome foreign language: Learned Korean for 30 minutes (Total accumulated time starting at Dec 01 2011: 532 minutes). Re-learn the particles 는, 가. Examples: 나는 학생이다 = I am a student, 하늘은 높다 = The sky is high. Word of the day: ameliorate /uh-meel-yuh-reyt/ to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate. Build passive income streams (Yeah!):
Daily Conclusion - what Ubermensch thinks: I don't sleep, I hustle. After I'm done the work for the day, I learn more business stuff, and spend about 30 minutes planning what to do for next week, month, year and decade. -------------------------------- The new year is coming up, and people will make resolutions. I don't make New Year Resolutions, I make EVERY DAY Resolutions - it seems to stick better. Around 95 percent of people who make "Hit the gym every day" resolution will fail. While that's unforuntate, I think the problem can be abated: go to the gym 5 minutes per day, and slowly build it into a habit. One guy I know started his gym habit by waking up, going to the gym with a coffee, and sitting on the stationary bike. He didn't even bother cycle. His goal was to instill the habit. Now 1.5-ish years later, he looks really fit and hits the gym every morning at 6:30 AM doing circuit training Ubermensch Maxim #1: Motivation will start the goal, habits will accomplish it. -------------------------------- Yesterday I saw a group of middle school children - aged 7 to 10 - play "chicken" with a BUS. I saw their collective faces giggle as the bus sped down the road. One girl ran in front of the bus to cross the road. The bus driver slammed on the brake - the little girl barely escaped death. She ran into the school before I had a chance to scold her. -------------------------------- Imagine a fat guy. Let's call him Bob the Couch Potato. He comes up to me and say: "Ubermensch, I'm fat. Like 60 pounds overweight, and I can't quite see my penis anymore. Plus, my energy is low. And, I haven't had sex in 18 months. I tried to bang the red head Starbucks cashier by slipping in sedative ... pill ... into her drink, but it turned out to be laxatives! It gave her diarrhea. Haha ... eh. So, like, give me advice to change my life for the better?" I would smirk, and tell him: "Bob, It's time for you to move to Thailand. You'll get drunk on cheap beer, bang cheap $2 dollar hookers, and get high on cheap drugs. All. Day. Long" "Sounds good!" beamed Bob. "Man, I owe you a beer. You wanna go to the bar? It's on me!" "No." /trollface.jpg |
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12-17-2011, 12:21 AM
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| Ubermensch Day #56: Hustle Hard Meditate like a monk: meditated for 10 minutes. (total accumulated time: 153 minutes) Meditation teaches patience - but not the ordinary kind. It's the patience of the soul and mind. Practically speaking, this means being calm when dealing with an obnoxious little kid who keeps on YELLING. Exercise like a War God: Marched to the gym today in surprisingly warm, sunny weather. It's not dark and gloomy here in Canada land. Did squats, leg calves and bench like a boss. I don't want to squat 300 lbs anymore, what if I injure my spine and become cripple? I messed up my back really bad from a previous injury, and from dead lifts 6 months ago. I'm going to switch from a strength routine to a body building routine. Read a fascinating book: Read 28 pages of Empire State of Mind:How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office by Zack Greenburg. (Progress: 28/196 - Physical hardcover page count: 240). He grew up in the ghetto, and how he's worth half a billion dollars from his business ventures. I want to finish 1 book per week. To do this, I simply: (total page count / 7). It looks like I need to read 28 pages per day to accomplish this. Watch something inspiration: Watched 2 episodes of Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha (Progress: 3/25). This anime is fast pace, action anime with a supernatural theme. A TALKING DOG. WHAT THE HECK. Exciting. Learn an awesome foreign language: Learned Korean for 30 minutes (Total accumulated time starting at Dec 01 2011: 562 minutes). Reviewing particles: 영수는 먹었다 = Young-su ate 하늘은 높다 = The sky is high 나는 샀다 = I bought (concerned to what I did) 내가 샀다 = I bought (concerned with who did it) 내가 마셨다 = I drank (may ga, ma shot ta) 는/은 = introduces the subject 가/이 = identifies a subject. Word of the day: efficacy / ef-i-kuh-see / ef·fi·ca·cy [ef-i-kuh-see] Show IPA noun, plural -cies. capacity for producing a desired result or effect; / example: efficacy of daily habits Build passive income streams (Yeah!) 45 minutes site construction: Wrote a 450 word article for my website, format it, insert links, and inter-link websites, inserted URLs presell the affiliate product. I use SEMrush.com to reverse engineer my competitor's keyword, heh heh heh. 45 minutes SEO: Wrote 150 words to get 1 backlink, using BuildMyRank.com. I cannot write another 150 words, my brain is fried from writing. Got 5 potential backlinks using ActuallyRank.com, wrote comments on high PR, index blogs. Goal right now is to build all the backlinks and rank for "ZXY review" keyword. 45 minutes maintaince / planning: Add call to action on the home page to an affiliate offer; remove footer to reduce footprint (Google, you dun knoe me!); fix some "broken" links. 45 minutes intelligence research / analysis: The CPA campaign makes me $8 to $10 per day ($200-$250 per month - $13, 000 USD total in the past couple years), I forgot that if I want to make it $20, $50, or $100 per day campaign, I just need to scale it. By that, I mean building an authority site, getting more traffic, thus more conversion. I already have a conversion tunnel in place, I just need more traffic. This is common sense, yet I completely forgot about this! I already have an aged domain for this, I just need to build it into and authority website ... which I'll do next Monday [Dec 19 2011] Business thoughts #1: I'll be working a solid 3 hours per day, 7 days a week. This shouldn't lead to burn out, since it's a mere 3 hours a day, or 21 hours per week. Business thoughts #2: The most important aspect is highly focus work: constructing/expanding the websites. The maintaince aspect will upkeep the website, and the intelligent research / analysis will incrementally improve the business. There should be no room for wasting time. Business thought #3: Things are beginning to piece together; a webpage isn't merely just a page with content. A web page is a place to insert 3 call to action promoting the affiliate product OR getting them to join my mailing list ... where I continue to sell them the affiliate program. However, it's a fine balancing act - the article has to provide value to the visitor, the product has to provide value to the visitor, and I have to integrate the 3 calls to action in a non-annoying, non-obonoxious way. Daily Conclusion - what Ubermensch thinks: What is your biggest self improvement "question"? Leave a comment, and I'll try to answer it to the best of my ability. Last edited by Ubermensch; 12-17-2011 at 12:28 AM. |
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12-18-2011, 04:53 AM
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| Ubermensch Day #57: Magic Bull ♥♥♥♥ (Saturday) Meditate like a monk: meditated for 10 minutes. (total accumulated time: 163 minutes). I listened to the birds chirping outside and that's it. It feels genuinely nice because it reminds me of nice, breezy sunny summer days. Hnnng! Exercise like a War God: [rest day] Read a fascinating book: Read a fascinating book: Read 28 pages of Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office by Zack Greenburg. (Progress: 56/196 - Physical hardcover page count: 240). Jayz negotiated his record deals (50/50 split, as oppose to 10 percent), and engineered his rival against Nas as a publicity stunt to generate more sales; the fans seem to eat it up like hot cake. Watch something inspiration: n/a Learn an awesome foreign language: n/a Build passive income streams (Yeah!): 45 minutes SEO: n/a 45 minutes site construction: build banner for website, it almost looks professional. 45 minutes intelligence research / analysis: HOLY COW. For the past 3 days, I have trouble sleeping because I'm concocting a master plan, and doing hardcore competition research. This is what I discovered: 1. I should scale up my current $10 per day campaign to $100 per day (campaign made $13k USD so far) The market is HUGE, and the people are desperate. Like thristy joggers, they'll "buy" the product. I don't have to sell anything but just stand there and say "Here it is, go here". I'll slot this category as a "fast profit, long term project". Plan tonight is to register for 3 domain names to scale this project. 2. My health niche website haven't made any sales yet - but that's OKAY. It may take months to get on the first SERP but I'll continue to build it into an authority website. I'll slot this category as a "slow profit, long term project" Business thoughts #1: If I want to achieve $5K USD by March 31 2012, I need to put more time into the business. I think 6 hours per day, 7 days a week (42 hours) is better then 21 hours per week. This way, I can work on 2 website con-currently. Business thoughts #2: Maybe I should go to the college library for a couple hours for a change of scenery. When I see students who are $30,000 USD in debt to obtain a degree just to get a job, this motivates me to work harder. (I know university is a breeding ground for higher learning, however the primarily source of motivation is "get a well paying job". Nothing wrong with that, of course) Business thoughts #3: I tried to figure out what sort of font that conveys authority - to do this, I simply went to a government website and copy their font style. I also learn color psychology - the type of colors that conveys authority and trust. Daily Conclusion - what Ubermensch thinks: Went to the mall today with my friend to shorten my watch, it cost $5. When the lady told the Indian man the cost, he exclaimd: "THAT COST TOO MUCH". I lol'd. Then we went to the most balling mall in town and got stuck in the parking lot for 40 minutes because everyone do their last minute shopping there. I'll remind myself to never go shopping during the holiday again - for the rest of my life. Also bought a $40 t-shirt from Zara, balla balla! However, had to wait in line for 20 minutes. Yes I mad! I learned my lesson, the next time I ever do shopping is on Monday morning, like I always do. -------------------------------- I'm going to let the cat out of the bag: "The Law Of Attraction" is a marketing scam. It appeals to the herd mindset, because: 1. Anyone can do it ("Think and let the universe help you!") 2. It requires no work ("Sit around ... and you'll generate $100k USD effortlessly") 3. It feels good (Whether it works or not) Upon watching "The Law of Attraction", fat housewives will sit around, chanting affirmations "I will attract skinness to my body. I will get a sexy body by this summer". Likewise, books will go un-read, places will go untraveled, because people "wish" instead of "do". It's easier to watch Oprah Winfrey then jog 5 KM, right Miss Brontosaurus? (But "The Law Of Attraction" can be a good mental masturbation tool to start a habit) It's time to shovel the horse ♥♥♥♥ away, because the waffling smell is obnoxious. Sounds harsh - but it's tough love ... |
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| Ubermensch Day #58: Mind Of Steel Meditate like a monk: meditated for 10 minutes. (total accumulated time: 173 minutes). I like meditating; I have solidify this activity into a daily habit - something I thought I couldn't do. Zazen (meditation) is surrending hope. By that, I mean there is no place to hide or go but to confront reality - the present moment. Practically speaking, if means facing daily confrontations without cowarding away. I have marked my calender, on January 31 2012 I will start meditating 15 minutes per day. Exercise like a War God: [n/a - rest day]. After 13 months of squatting 3 times per week, and bench 1 time per week, my legs have grown pretty big compared to my upper body. To undo "T-rex" mode, for 2012 I'm going to bench 3 times per week, squat 2 times per week, and work on my core 3 times per week. 2012 will be the year to morph into a "beach" body - actual pecs with a nice six pack, completed with traps, back muscles, and muscular legs. Read a fascinating book: Read 28 pages of Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office by Zack Greenburg. (Progress: 84/196 - Physical hardcover page count: 240) Jay-z relied his success by having mentors - and then firing them once he completed his objectives (LOL). He sponsored a street basketball team, and leveraged that team to sell his Rebook shoes; he also co-own a club and a alcohol brand. Everything he does, he cross promotes his brands to generate more revenue. Learn a foreign language: Learned Korean for 30 minutes (Total accumulated time starting at Dec 01 2011: 592 minutes). I'm excited. Today session was learning how to form a sentence. Which means, I can learn how to form sentences and say: "Hello sexy baby, I'm going to put my penis inside you". (future note: need to learn about past and present form for nouns) Various types of sentence order: Subject + noun Subject + verb Subject + adjective Subject + object + verb (Adjectives in Korean can change present tense) Sentence break down: 나는 학생이다 = I am a student 나는 (I) 학생 (student) 이다 (am) 나 (pronoun) 는 (particle) 학생 (student) 이다 (declaration?) 리사는 선생님이다 = Lisa is a teacher 리사 는 (lisa) 선생님 (teacher) 이다 (is) 리사 (lisa) 는 (particle) 선생님 (student) 이다 (declaration?) Subject + Verb 주영은 달려요 = Ju-young runs [polite spoken form] 주영 (ju young)은 달려 (runs) 요 (polite ending) 주영 (subject) 은 (particle) 달려 (verb) 요 (polite suffix) Subject + Adjective 그는 크다 = He is big (ku ein, ku da) 그 (subject) 는 (particle) 크 (adjective) 다 (declaration) 그녀는 작다 = She is small (ku yeong ein, shot ta) 그녀 (subject) 는 (particle) 작 (adjective) 다 (declaration) Subject + object + verb 나는 사과를 먹었다 = I ate an apple. (naneun sagwaleul meog-eossda) 나 (noun) 는 (particle) 사과를 (object) 먹었다 (verb) Word of the day: emend - "eh-mend" verb, "to edit or change, or free from faults or error". Time to emend this article. Amend is to add, emend is to improve. Building an online business (Yeah!): Spent 3 hours learning how to fully customize thesis theme. That's too much time spent, however I'm just getting used to thesis so that's okay. I installed a custom hook on top of the blog, and on the bottom of the box, call to action. It seems highly effective but only time can tell how much conversion I make. When I brainstorm business strategies, it takes a while for my brain to systemize the plan. I have to sit and think it through how to turn the plan into an weekly actionable frame work. And here is what I came up with: Weekly objectives: Populate website with 6 pages of content - progress: 0/6 Get 30 backlinks via blog commenting - progress: 0/30 Get 10 backlinks via link network - progress: 0/10 Start date: Dec 19 2011 Due date: Dec 24 2011 Business thoughts #1: When I don't put my ideas into an action plan, I start to mentally panic. Huge, aspiring goals are intimating, and they seem so complicated. However, everything can be broken down into simple action steps to achieve the goal, and that principle have never failed me. Business thought #2: in the future, it should take me about 5 minutes to fully set up a website in wordpress, install thesis and customize it. Then it will take 5 minutes to create a high quality header image. The name of the game is speed in execution and systemization of the business. Watch something inspiration: Watched 2 episode of Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha (progress: 2/25). This anime serie is absolutely stunning, from the high quality animation artwork to the music composition, to the fast pace, intelligent plot line. Everything works in synergy produce a high calibre anime, akin to Cow Boybebop. I have been watching the "wrong" episode of Darker than Black. Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha Gaiden is actually an OVA with 4 episodes. Duh, no wonder the stories didn't really make sense. Daily Conclusion - what Ubermensch thinks: Last night, I was laying in bed while my brain was spewing business strategies. My mind click, whirl and pump out countless business strategies. I tell my mind to quietly SHUT UP, I'M TRYING TO SLEEP. First thought when I woke up this morning was "Aha! So that's how I can improve the business". -------------------------------- Ever met a female who seems to possess a high degree of feminine charm? Her angelic smile, her child like laughter, her innocent mannerism. How she looks eternally youthful. How her seductive, womanly figure induce erections even from the holiest men. She looks so pristine that you just want to sit there and admire such Godly perfection. When you have sex with her from behind while pulling her hair and hearing her soft moan, you think to yourself: "Wait - is this real? Yes it is. I'm fornicating with an angel." That's what it feels like everytime I make love with my girlfriend. -------------------------------- A person can only achieve greatness through narrow focus. When we think of someone who accomplish great, they only dedicated their LIFE to only 1 thing - think Mother Teresa (philanthropistic work), Albert Einstein (theoretical physics) or Genghis Khan (Ancient domination war lord). The law of narrow focus (single function) is apparent in nature. Honey bees are useful because of their single function, so are squirrels that bury thousands of nuts. Disperse focus (or, unlimited options) is the enemy of greatness. -------------------------------- Miyamoto Musashi had a mind of steel; he dedicated his whole life to swordmanship. His arduous habits fascinates me. He spent his years from age 14 to 26 and did nothing but practice swordmanship and killed a bunch of people, from morning to night. Nothing else mattered in his life except achieving swordmanship mastery. Interestingly enough, it took him about 10 years of hard practice to become world class. By the time he was 26, he had his most famous duel with a high calibre swordman, Sasaki Kojiro. Miyamoto Musashi ♥♥♥♥♥ smacked Sasaki Kojiro with a wooden stick (on the head!) and instantly killed him. Sasaki Kojiro was wielding a long sword, aptly called "The bird cutter'. I will pay homage to Miyamoto Musashi by going to Japan and bowing respectfully in front of his tomb; I will also shed a manly tear. It's a subtle reminder that life is a race against time. |
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