Belly Fat Cure – It will kill you!

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The Belly Fat Cure by Jorge Cruise is what we are going to talk about. Jorge has build himself a multi-million dollar book deal telling people that he can cure your belly fat. This sounds great, but in reality it’s a load of poo! The books are well done and about $20 each. There are just a few problems. While I think Jorge means well (really I don’t) I don’t think he is telling the truth about everything, and I don’t think he is really in a position to be handing out eating advise since half of what he says does not make logical sense. I also wonder how much of this diet he actually does? He post pictures of meals he is eating and most of them are whole foods, not the processed crap he is encouraging you to eat.
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Personal Marketing 102 (Online Dating)

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So you have read Personal Marketing 101 and now you are going to read 102. Super! We are going to dig deeper into the issues wrapped around online dating and why it is an absolute mess that clearly no one on these sites is aware of. I was thinking of starting a business to help people build a profile but I think those already exist. Plus you should never pay for advice from someone who clearly is this cynical. Sadly for comical purposes I purposefully have broken some of the rules. I just wanted to fit in.

The topics for today will include: Religion, Duck Face, Old Photos, Smokers and Party Girls

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Personal Marketing 101 (Online Dating)

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I never thought I would have the knowledge to write anything like this, but here I am writing about one of the most annoying parts about being single. Let me be clear I could care less about the dating part, it’s easy to find people to go out with without using a dating site, but frankly dating sites are just one “hot mess” after another and I can’t stop reading them. It is better than the tabloids or the gossip section in a paper. I don’t know how to explain the idiots that post the most interesting stuff on dating sites, but you have to look for it. Facebook has nothing on dating sites.

Dating sites are full of crazy people who have no idea what makes a good online profile. Some profiles are short and some ramble on for days with no freaking end in sight. Dating is now a full blow “Marketing Effort” and most people are failing at it. Unfortunately for legal reasons I can’t screen shot this madness and share it but I can write about it.

Here are some of my observations.

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Riding Alone

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I do enjoy riding my bike, but to be honest I enjoy it more when I ride with other people. Riding alone stinks. I have ridden short runs the past two days and both were alone, just me, the bike, and the open (not really) road. I do enjoy it but I always feel like I am going way to slow.

Sleep. Have you thought about it?

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So recently I was thinking about sleep. I was thinking about how doctors and science still don’t know why we sleep other than we are tired, and that I can see by Facebook that some people do not sleep. I get really cranky when I don’t sleep so I can only imagine how much it must suck for someone who can’t sleep every night.

There was a point last week with the time change when 8 o’clock rolled around and I was beat and ready for bed. So I went to bed and got about 10 hours of sleep that night. I felt great the next day. So much so I started thinking.

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You can’t be Vegan all the time….

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So a journey stared about 60 days ago. I was in pain on my left side of my abdomen. I went to see the doctor and  figured he would throw some antibiotics at it. That did not help at all. So I went back and saw him again. We took some X-rays and didn’t see much, other than some “stuff” on the left side that needed to be cleaned out. So I did that with a few items and a Salt Water Flush one morning. I think I got most of it out and was all clean but still hurting. I assumed at this point it had to be what I was putting in my mouth.

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Lynda.com – Best $25 I ever spent

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Learning is a life long thing….journey….no….learning is life. You learn something every day!

So the other day I was looking to learn more about developing iPhone applications and take a bite out of that $4 Billion dollar a year industry and found Lynda.com.

For $25 a month you can listen to everything on the site. So I figured I could spend $50 on a book I will struggle with or $25 for a video series to let me SEE what is going on and then do it. There are other FREE tools all over the web to help you learn you just have to be willing to look for them.

I found this PDF to help with Xcode. LINK

 

I also found this link with lots of other stuff about Xcode and writing apps for the iPhone.

With all this said you have an endless set of online resources to help you learn and think better!

So you think you can think?

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So my last post was about thinking, and this post is going to follow up on that I hope.

Work is a place where you can get into a rut and not have to think too much. It’s what makes experts, well, experts. They have a broad knowledge of things and have “10″ things that always resolve about 99% of the problems.

They are the big time smarty pants people who have been doing that job so long then know everything about the system or process and they don’t have to think to get out of a jam, they just do the “10 simple steps” to resolve it, it starts working and they more on.

But what happens when you have to think about things? What happens when everything you know is wrong? What happens when the “10 simple steps” don’t work?

At that point you have to start thinking.

Are you able to think about what you know. what you don’t know, and what you need to know so that you know?

I was pondering this today and it’s not easy.

Thinking, it’s harder then you think

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Thinking is an art that most people don’t have. Now it’s I am not trying to say that no one is thinking out there, but too many people are locked into a thought to actually think about it. Putting on shoes and getting ready don’t require much thought, but taking something you have done for years or a value you have held onto for years and rethinking how to make it work is where real thinking takes place.

There are words to describe this type of behavior but they make people who can’t think angry so I will refrain from using them at this time.

So when dealing with people who won’t think and can’t talk about a problem honestly and work through it you sometimes have to give up and walk away. This has been my week. Not that walking away is a bad thing, but it’s harder than you think. Yes there are going to be random uses of the word “think” in today’s post. And it’s my first post on here. There is a new category call “Thinking” now too….oh boy!

Last weekend as I sat around thinking about a new million dollar idea…my thinking and research lead me to AppSumo and then to Derek Sivers. Derek is a thinker, but more importantly he helps people think. Now Derek might not know this about himself, in fact he might be surprised to find this out, but he is in some circles a “muse” and this week Derek was my muse. He was kind enough to post a series of videos, called UNCOMMON SENSE, to start my thinking. He was also kind enough to answer a few emails where he helped me think about things I had not thought about in a long time. Mostly his communication to me got me to thinking. Real thinking, not the everyday thinking but some big time thinking only thinkers have.

Then I found some more videos on TED and his site that made even more sense to assist my thinking process.

So as the week progressed I asked people in my life a few pointed questions and got back some very interesting answers.

Some of them were funny, some of them were not, and just a few were down right thought provoking. I have written a bunch of stuff this week and plan on making thinking a part of my day.

Now the big question you all are asking is, what did you ask your friends? Well I guess you will need to be one of my friends to find out, but they know who they are and they know I appreciate it. Maybe The Patch Factory can work on them and put them into production. Before that happens, I am going to think about them some more.

Lastly my challenge to you out there reading this. When you are being a stubborn and someone is frustrated with your ideas and your not thinking, stop for just a second and actually stop being so bull headed and think about the problem. Not the other person, not your opinion, but the problem and then start to sort it out. The solution may be more simple than you think!