Category archives: Lifestyle

New Direction

I am going to sep­a­rate the IT arti­cles from my per­son­al blog, ClintonAustin.com and move the tech-cen­tric arti­cles to AustinITConsulting.com/blog. When I first made this deci­sion, it comes with some reser­va­tion. Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy has long been an intel­lec­tu­al pur­suit of… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Get Better

“You can build your time bet­ter when you find a pas­sion,  The Inter­net and pub­lic ser­vices give free edu­ca­tion, So it real­ly ain’t a case of rich or poor, It’s a case of self-moti­­va­­tion and noth­ing more, Like Bil­ly says, whether you… con­tin­ue read­ing »

80% Solutions

When I decid­ed to start my grad­u­ate pro­gram two years ago, I had a young fam­i­ly, a full-time job, and a con­sult­ing busi­ness.  This peri­od has taught me the val­ue of the 80% solu­tion. The 80% solu­tion means that all… con­tin­ue read­ing »

First Kettlebell Workout

So start­ing today, I am back on the 4‑Hour Body / 4‑Hour Cook­book work­out.  I put togeth­er Tim Ferris’s cheap ket­tle­bell and did a ket­tle­bell work out for the first time.  Need­less to say, this after­noon I am set­ting down… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Continuing On The Path

Since March, I have con­tin­ued the path of putting a fire under­neath myself both pro­fes­sion­al­ly, per­son­al­ly, and phys­i­cal­ly. For the pro­fes­sion­al fac­tor, I have enrolled at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tam­pa to get my Mas­ters in Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion degree. Because of… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Hearts of Palm Recipe

So after one month of Tim Fer­riss’ slow carb diet and going to Title Box­ing Gym three times a week, I have lost a total of 14 pounds.  The biggest chal­lenge of the diet is the diet restric­tions of no… con­tin­ue read­ing »

4 Week Weigh In

The new offi­cial weight is now 224 lbs.  Actu­al­ly, I have hit 224 lbs in week 3 and have plateaued in week 4.  The rea­son­ing why I think that I have plateaued is because of the head cold that had… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Next Step

The thing that I am focus­ing on now is the phys­i­cal con­di­tion­ing of the body.  I am try­ing to tack­le this in two steps.  For the diet­ing por­tion, I am doing Tim Fer­riss’ “Slow Carb Diet”.  The jest of the… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Need to try harder.

I think that every­body hits a plateau in their life and they become com­pla­cent on what life has to offer to them.  In the past three years, with the bless­ing of my son, I have had to restack the pri­or­i­ties… con­tin­ue read­ing »

Reflection by our society.

Update: The sto­ry got cred­it­ed to Gen­er­al Petraeus instead to Mr. Nick Palmis­ciano.  Regard­less, very good points.   His sta­tis­tics are accu­rate and revealing…….as well as his insight on the effects on those who have borne and are bear­ing the sac­ri­fices……. Nick… con­tin­ue read­ing »

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