What’s Your REAL Score?

We keep certain thoughts in our mind, swimming around and ever-evolving and moving around. Often times, we let our minds keep track of the stats. Something, with regards to activities we are attempting to master, keeping score matters. The baseball player who wants to win the game, or the SAT tests that a student needs to improve his score on to get into Harvard.

Recently a good friend of mine brought to my attention that my “score” may be lower than what I say it is. When people ask me, I say, “I stopped counting after 30, because it doesn’t matter to me anymore”. And honestly believed it to be true. I recently wrote the “list”, and here’s my final tally as of 15 minutes into it. I am counting every “insertion” or “happy ending” for me as “1″: Read more

What are your Dreams?

If there was one thing that you could achieve in this lifetime that would make you feel like life was worth living, what would it be? If you died tomorrow, what would be the one thing that regretted not being able to do?

This is an important question to answer for any man who chooses to travel in a path of his own choosing. As I started asking my friends this question, I realized that most people haven’t really even thought about it.

In this post I will share my dreams with you. Read more

Hot Chicks With Cameras

I like cute girls and their little cameras. Girls, if you end up sleeping with Hunter Moore, don’t text him naked pictures of yourself.

Code of Honor

Inspiration: Rich Dad’s ABCs of building a business team that wins.

• Business is easy, managing people is hard
• Entrepreneurs create jobs, they don’t need jobs
• The difference between a business person leader and a self-employed entrepreneur is the ability to lead teams
• Under pressure, the code becomes clearer. Sharper. Calmer. In support of each other
• Our mission: Elevating the financial and relationship well being of humanity
• Google: To organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful
• Living your own business life
• Never abandon your teammate in need.
• When a code is established, do it early on when the heat is off.
• Under pressure, the team with the strongest code survives. I.e. Military men under fire still need to stay calm and work as a team.
• My own father used to tell me, “always be at least 5 minutes early. This gives you time to prepare and think, and you will be more equipped to take advantage of opportunities and avoid mistakes. Remember the 5 minute rule, son.”

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What Is You Gift?

What is Your Gift?

One of the key business lessons I learned was to focus on your strengths, and try to neutralize your weaknesses in the most efficient way possible. Spending life worrying about what you’re not good at is just painful and not much fun.

Ironically, that’s what school teaches us to do. Raise your grades! Be good at everything. Stay quiet and behave. In the real business world, leaders are born from leveraging their strengths and being able to see the strengths in other team members.

Instead, school puts social pressure on us to become best students. When I was in undergraduate business school, the best kids who started their own businesses didn’t have the highest GPAs. They maintained average Bs while they worked on their side businesses. A close friend of mine to this day, EH made and sold a website about student ringtones for $50,000 his junior year. His GPA was around 2.8 / 4.0.

So how to do find out what we are good at? Many management consultants have tried, and business books such as Strength Finder 2.0 and personality tests attempt to answer the question via large scale surveys and measurements. Read more