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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
Good luck though ~ | ||
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OmgIRok
Taiwan2699 Posts
Best of luck to you, I know you can do it.  You go girl! | ||
thedeadhaji
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Z3kk
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Cres
United States227 Posts
1. I will only eat one pack of shin ramen, fruit and a can of tuna every day with lots of coffee until I lose all my excess weight as I think I need to be light to be able to work hard, I became fat after I became an executive, its time to get back down to 84kg. Get back to the hunger killer that I was. I'm not sure if this is going to benefit you, its important to eat well to keep yourself functioning optimally. While you probably aren't going to have time to go to the gym and workout or whatever to get in shape, this kind of low nutrient diet is only going to drain your energy (though yes, you will lose weight). I'm younger, not as experienced as you, but to me, your version of the perfect worker is someone that pushes past their own healthy limits. You talk about working until you can't see straight, and you contrast that with your current lax lifestyle. These are two extremes, and I can't see either of them being healthy. I think this kind of thought process goes through many people. They look at themselves and realize that their life isn't what they want it to be, and then they set their goals and kick into overdrive, but a majority of them burn out after a while of pushing themselves so hard. You also mention this, that after your businesses are stable you are content to stop. Bouncing back between the two extremes is tiring. I wish you the best of luck~ | ||
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chomsky
Canada97 Posts
thanks, and good luck | ||
Lovedrop
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On March 21 2011 14:28 Z3kk wrote: I'm not sure as to how much you know about nutrition, but my common sense tells me that your eating regime doesn't seem very good--i.e. will it even make you full? I read haji's post before he deleted it and he brings up a very good point. :O Nonetheless, each time I read one of your entries, I feel some level of empathy...I have to haul ass as well. I wish you godspeed and intense focus! Thanks, responded to Haji, but I set myself a reasonable target to get the business to be able to function 1 week without me. | ||
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hammeronetime
United States64 Posts
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On March 21 2011 14:30 Cres wrote: I'm not sure if this is going to benefit you, its important to eat well to keep yourself functioning optimally. While you probably aren't going to have time to go to the gym and workout or whatever to get in shape, this kind of low nutrient diet is only going to drain your energy (though yes, you will lose weight). I'm younger, not as experienced as you, but to me, your version of the perfect worker is someone that pushes past their own healthy limits. You talk about working until you can't see straight, and you contrast that with your current lax lifestyle. These are two extremes, and I can't see either of them being healthy. I think this kind of thought process goes through many people. They look at themselves and realize that their life isn't what they want it to be, and then they set their goals and kick into overdrive, but a majority of them burn out after a while of pushing themselves so hard. You also mention this, that after your businesses are stable you are content to stop. Bouncing back between the two extremes is tiring. I wish you the best of luck~ In terms of my diet, I am extremely overweight and most of my life, when I am productive, I usually eat less than nothing, even when I was a national level rugby player in Korea. I have one of those bodies that don't need much to run on, I gain muscle very quickly and lose it very very slowly, but also I gain weight at a steady weight as well. There is something to be said about balance, but it depends what you want to achieve. I think when it comes to Olympic level athletes, their lives are not very balanced either, but its very regimented. I want to be more than great, I want to be the world's best at what I do, and that requires not to be balanced. Every since major CEO will make the same speech to MBA's about how they wish they had more balance, but if they did well then they wouldn't be making that speech as the CEO. But point taken in any case. That being said, I am a bit older, I'm not just going to throw myself at this blindly, I am far more regimented in my approach, but that being said, do I think I'll be a healthy balanced person at the end of this process. No. I will need sometime to recover also getting myself into this intense mode makes me a pretty unsympathetic guy (I've already told my wife twice to please stop asking me anything for the rest of the day). Do I expect to burn out, to be perfectly honestly, no, not this time. Why is this the exception?, because this really is where I really want to be career and ambition wise. While I have investors, they've given me enough freedom to do what I see fit and that was always a constraint in my previous job. I enjoy input, I'm not infallible, but a lot people when they get higher up in a big corporate are running scared every day. I hate that and I hate when the fear of others affects my ability to make a decision. But, here I am with everything I've ever really wanted in this opportunity at the age of 36, the prime composition of my experience and youth to do something great in business, and I find that I worked hard when I was an entry level nothing. And I don't want to regret that I didn't put my everything into it, right now. Thing is, effort alone isn't ever enough and I know as well, willing yourself alone will lead to burn out. That being said, thanks for the luck, will need it and I think it's work for myself, it does make that difference. | ||
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Comeh
United States18919 Posts
I wish I could have half the of your passion (perhaps I'll feel this when I will have kids and a wife to support). | ||
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Quint
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Renoir_scII
Canada112 Posts
Best of wishes and I hope you find the discipline within yourself to consistently work as hard as you need to. | ||
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Entropic
Canada2837 Posts
Dave hyung I think you mean to use the word "causal". Ie. It's important to know whether the investment in marketing and subsequent growth is actually causal or merely correlated; which is what you meant to say I think. Also Dave hyung, get super big, big enough to do a IPO!!! | ||
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red.venom
United States4651 Posts
How about cook up 14 chicken breasts on monday or sunday and microwave them for lunch and dinner with something simple(slices of veggies, salad) and workout more I also have to be one of the only people reading who cant stand how business people think and do things because no one posts negative comments in your threads. | ||
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tenacity
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MightyAtom, I've learned a lot from your posts and I want to thank you for everything you contributed to TL.net. Now, I respect you even more for showing another side of you. I wish you all the best and the success you deserve and I know that you will and can do it. 화이팅! | ||
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qdenser
Canada133 Posts
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
Thanks, we will all meet one day I'm sure, thanks for being more articulate than I could (IPO I wish), I won't die and feel so much better already and have my thoughts clear, you guys are all smart, so you'll all make it as well and of course I love the community as well, so I really appreciate that also it's been helpful to you guys, thanks for letting me contribute and, doesn't Charlie Brown hear that after he screws up? lol. | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On March 21 2011 17:33 red.venom wrote: I don't think youre approaching nutrition the right way not to mention shin ramen loaded with salt and fat(They are fried noodles man). How about cook up 14 chicken breasts on monday or sunday and microwave them for lunch and dinner with something simple(slices of veggies, salad) and workout more I also have to be one of the only people reading who cant stand how business people think and do things because no one posts negative comments in your threads. Ah, nutrition isn't my goal or losing weight as much as simply limited my food intake and when I eat shin ramen, I feel like I'm a desperate student again. I've tried the entire chicken breast thing, not for me, I'd rather just some yogurt instead of all that blandness. I there were negative comments here and there, but I normally thoroughly respond to all comments, good or bad, but I think most people enjoy getting exposed to some side of business that is a bit more of an insider's view. But for me, business is about the ultimate form of modern social competition and I'm more attracted to the strategy side of things than actual cash. I actually didn't study business until very late, did political theory/english lit and then grad school in theology and the main reason why business attracted me is that when I do make money, I can do whatever I want with it (within in reason), if I want to build a library in my wife's name or build an orphanage then I don't need to petition or ask anyone to help me, I can just do it myself and ultimately, that is what I'd like to do; not be a philanthropist but have the immediate ability to help with my own money whenever I wanted. ^^ | ||
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ThePurist
Canada686 Posts
Did you say you studied at UofT or something ? | ||
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Impervious
Canada4209 Posts
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ZeaL.
United States5955 Posts
In any case, MightyAtom hwaiting! | ||
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Smuft
Canada318 Posts
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Regression
Netherlands69 Posts
I could imagine a lot of meetings, phone calls, reading stuff, but that is probably just the tip of the iceberg. | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
@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
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QuanticHawk
United States32080 Posts
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
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SkyLegenD
United States304 Posts
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Zona
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Kutsuki
United States29 Posts
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. | ||
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Ghardo
Germany1685 Posts
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 | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
@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 ^^ | ||
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dahornnn
United Kingdom395 Posts
dang your children will be lucky to have you as a father thats fo sho! gl with it all sir | ||
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Kalingingsong
Canada633 Posts
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. | ||
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MightyAtom
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