While I'm not a businessman, my dad is a pretty successful one. Him and his brother started a company from scratch in the 80s and are now the largest restaurant equipment dealer in the southwest US. Twice a year, he takes 2 days off work. He doesn't eat, just drinks tea, and reflects on the status of his company and family and what direction they are headed in. He does a lot of meditation and turns off the internet/tv and everything and I think this is a small reason why he has stayed on track all these years. I doubt he had the liberty to take all that time off when he was just starting up as he was A MACHINE which you have to be but I'm sure he took time to step back and take in the whole picture early on.

In any case, MightyAtom hwaiting!

Smuft

Canada318 Posts

March 21 2011 17:24 GMT

#24

nice post hyung <3

Regression

Netherlands69 Posts

March 21 2011 21:33 GMT

#25

Good luck and hope that you will reach your goal. Your posts give a small clue to a different (not neccesarily better) lifestyle. I'm just wondering what type of work a bussiness man does, like how does your day looks like.
I could imagine a lot of meetings, phone calls, reading stuff, but that is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

MightyAtom

Korea (South)1897 Posts

March 22 2011 12:46 GMT

#26

@ThePurist ^^ yes U of T Knox College
@Impervious trying ^^ getting there, at 116.7 kg today (from 121.2 3 days ago)
@ZeaL. Thank you,for sharing that, it really did give me inspiration
@smuft *kiss*
@Regression: depends, when I was a corporate executive: lots of reporting, budget meetings, and signing stuff and yelling at people. New firm, spend a couple of days trying to figure out wtf needs to be done properly, then working non-stop in trying to implement it for a couple weeks straight, then repeat, then review, and keep at it. I find if I slow down a bit and stop to think about the entire situation, I may just gg, so I don't think about it, just focus on the goal and keep my expectations realistic.

MoonBear

Straight outta Johto18973 Posts

March 22 2011 13:22 GMT

#27

MightyAtom-hyung, you're an inspiration for many of us including myself. Best of luck to you; I know you'll succeed! ^^ Fighting!~

QuanticHawk

United States32130 Posts

March 22 2011 15:34 GMT

#28

Your blog is always a very interesting read, gl!

MightyAtom

Korea (South)1897 Posts

March 23 2011 02:44 GMT

#29

@MoonBear & Hawk ^^ thanks getting more into the zone now. Cheers ^^

SkyLegenD

United States304 Posts

March 26 2011 21:53 GMT

#30

MightyAtom-hyung fighting! Tell us how it goes~

Zona

40426 Posts

March 28 2011 01:59 GMT

#31

Good luck. I'm trying to engage my own machine mode, too.

Kutsuki

United States29 Posts

March 28 2011 16:40 GMT

#32

I'll share with you a story about my business. My friend and I started a gaming store in Baltimore, MD named Xanadu Games (http://xanadu-games.com). This project would be our gateway into being business owners, the store will tell us do we have what it takes to make it in business. If we can't run a very simple "brick and mortar" store then we should not be doing this. We were able to start up with a small budget of 35k and we've been through a lot of bumps on the way but we are slowly on our way to becoming profitable. 2011 has been profitable for us so far, we are on our way to building our cash cushion and paying back debt.

For all of you guys out there aspiring to own your own business and have your money make money for you. My advice is simply, "it's better to say I tried and failed than I didn't try at all". Business is not simple but all you have to do is either come up with a new idea or make an existing idea better.

To get un-fat:
Cardio is the most important thing for any person. It will help you with a healthy heart and shave off your fat. I recommend the Elliptical machine, it's the least boring and burns a few more calories than the standard treadmill. The elliptical is sort of like a stair master but it won't have an impact on your knees that running gives you in the long term. You can also setup a tv or bring your laptop and stream something while you do your workout to make it less boring. You want to aim to maintain 100 strides per minute, if you can do over 110, you are not putting enough resistance. If you aren't sweating then you are not putting enough resistance. You want to gradually make your way to 30 mins, start with a 5 min warm up at a light resistance then go into your normal resistance. If you can get yourself to do this everyday for 30 min, you'll be in great shape in no time.

Ghardo

Germany1685 Posts

March 28 2011 17:16 GMT

#33

I need a part of that. Machine Mode... will you ever possess me?

I hate it that the correlation between intentions and real actions is only something like 0.3. Maybe I can overcome that shit, too, sometime... Mind > Body COME ON

MightyAtom

Korea (South)1897 Posts

March 28 2011 23:45 GMT

#34

@Skylegend, Got out of the weeds finally lol- its 8:41am in Korea now, been working nonstop since yesterday 6am I need to sleep.
@Zona, & Ghardo: don't think, just get out a sheet of paper, write out the top 6 tasks, and just do it one by one.
@Kusuki: nice write up, good to see you're slogging it through and coming out on top, and I agree with you--- I give up on being fit, I use to be an international level (or almost) rugby player, I just don't want to be so fat that I feel like a slob when I'm working, but my health has improved heaps because I'm not drinking a bottle of whiskey every two days ^^

dahornnn

United Kingdom395 Posts

March 29 2011 00:49 GMT

#35

your blogs are impressive
dang your children will be lucky to have you as a father thats fo sho!
gl with it all sir

Kalingingsong

Canada633 Posts

March 29 2011 01:39 GMT

#36

I will not stop until these are done, no matter how sick, how much I want to say I don't need to go so full out, I will get what I want or die trying, I know, reality check, if I don't go this hardcore, I simply won't make it. That's the reality of the position I have put my family in at the cost of my ego. If I'm going to be a selfish egotistical fuck, then I'd better be a successful selfish egotistical fucker.

You are my hero, I love you.