Right now, while your already spending your time on the “Internets”, click over to CrossFit and read just a few pages (1,2,3) about this amazing fitness program that I think *anyone* can do, reguardless of current fitness level, physical limits, or financial situation. If you’re currently not satisified with ANY part of your exercise program, and are willing to put in more effort and less time, I ask you to consider this simple yet unusual program (compared to the “big box fitness marketing”).
I’ve been a Zone diet fan for almost a decade, but always fell in and out of the discipline of controlling my hormones via controlling my macronutrient levels of food intake. Recently, I started to consume all sorts of information about CrossFit methodoligy and techniques, which has also lead me back to the Zone, which, like you would expect, leads you back to CrossFit.
Loved the punishing workout I received by Thomi and Pat of CrossFit Virginia Beach so much we’re already signed up for more instruction/pain in what I’m sure will be a life changing fitness program for us.
In a email discussion I replied with some of my opinions on what to do when just starting to think about quiting a “E quadrant” job for starting your own business (or doing it on the side until successful enough to quit day job). Thought it was worth posting.
Anything that will help get you out of the Rat Race I’m a fan of. Beth and I spend most of our free time focusing on investments that will help us retire before I’m 40. Real Estate rentals, stocks, and eventually businesses. If your thinking of a business… i suggest several things:
- read Rich Dad Poor Dad and Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki before you start… they are my business/investing bible
- set a detailed plan for what you want and when, including what you will do if things go great or go bad. in the few years of research I’ve been doing, it often comes down to people just ‘doing’ before they are ‘being’ what they need to be to be successful in what they do. You and I are naturally interested in tech, which is the ‘be’ and once we starting ‘do’-ing the job it came rather naturally. if your mindset isn’t one of a business owner (which is different then an employee) you won’t transition well because you’ll start the do before you have the be. Kiyosaki explains this more, and I’m actually dealing with it now myself in stock investing (doing before being).
- having started two of my own businesses, my wife another, my brother another, my brother-in-law two, my grandfather more then i can count, my uncle one, two friends, etc…. one thing is true in them all: you will not become wealthy if you ‘own your job’… meaning if you just do it all yourself, you’re what Kiyosaki calls a “S quadrant, or self employed, or small biz”. this person does it themselves because “no one can do it better” and everyone I see do this spends LESS time with family and generally has no real change in overall financial status, almost without exception. It’s ok to start out this way but the plan truly needs to be to work yourself out of the day-to-day labor (can you leave the biz for months and it still thrive?) by hiring others or working a network marketing downline, etc. I actually quit a very successful indi consulting gig with 6 or more clients because I wasn’t willing to hire others to do the work and I was in the worst health of my life and never saw my family. This was before I truly understood the Cashflow Quadrant book.
- watch The Secret http://www.thesecret.tv/ (better yet, buy the dvd at target or something) and BELIEVE IT WILL HAPPEN (We are learning to use the law of attraction after watching this and realizing it has worked in our past even when I wasn’t aware of it).
hope this helps. I’m mostly theory at this point, so take it as “free advice” which is to say “the most expensive advice is the free kind”.