Austin's Thoughts

“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 have or you have not wealth, The sys­tem might fail you, but don’t fail yourself,…

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 things do not need to be per­fect if it is not a mat­ter of life…

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 to write this blog posting.

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 my GPA was high enough, the Uni­ver­si­ty waived the GMAT require­ment, but the Uni­ver­si­ty required…

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 dairy, fruit, or starch­es.  I have worked around this by intro­duc­ing new meals into the…

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 diet con­sists of just eat­ing meat and veg­eta­bles with­out bread, rice, pota­toes, dairy, and fruit.…

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 in my life.  I have been work­ing for a income instead of enjoy­ing what I…

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 Palmis­ciano, CEO of Ranger Up, for­mer Army Cap­tain, 1998 grad­u­ate of West Point, and Duke…