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Conor Neill –  Who would you bet on?

Watched this dope TED Talk on Saturday morning (10/3/15)

  • Marshmallow Test
  • Intelligence – Not chess intelligence, not business school intelligence.  Adaptive intelligence: when you’re running down the street and a lamp post is coming towards you… seeing the lamp post coming and changing your course.
  • Energy – health and a bias to action.  People who don’t get ill often, people when they get a cold there back to work tomorrow cause they recover quick, they sleep well.  Bias to action: people have a tendency to take action over thinking about action.
  • Integrity – saying “no” to most things. An alignment between what your calendar says you do and what you say you do.

Tools:

  • Intelligence: write stuff down.  If you write down ideas, people you’ve met, and things that are going on, 6 months from now you won’t be the intelligence of one moment: you’ll be the accumulated intelligence of six months of ideas, things written down, and people’s quotes.
  • Energy: High-performance athletes… never let his mind see more than the next fifteen minutes.  never further than stroke, stroke, breath. Climb everest one step at a time.  What’s the next step?  Deal with next unit
  • Integrity: T-I-M-E.  This world is full of good intention… But, if you say your parents are important to you, open the diary and show me the hours.  The coherence between a diary and your values is where integrity begins.  And it’s kind of horrific when you start to look and become aware of where your time goes.  So little of my time really goes to the things that I mean to do. So often I slip off into Facebook and what was supposed to be a minute, is an hour, and then lunch comes.  But once you start to get the minutes dedicated things that matter… success in life is not one massive good decision.  Success, is repeated, consistent, good habits.

We so underestimate what we can achieve in a year and so overestimate what we can achieve in a day. A page a day and you have a book in a year: you’ll never write a book in one day.

NYC AirBnbs, Feb – June 2015

Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

This spot had the most character – David is a writer and has a huge collection of books that are displayed nicely throughout the apartment.  The place was nice and comfortable to stay in all day, which was perfect because it was February and freezing outside most of the time.  We were here during the Super Bowl and NBA All Star Weekend.

The location was okay – it was 2 minutes away from the Clinton/Washington stop, where we could catch the C line which runs about once every 10 minutes.

We were also close to the F/G, but we didn’t take that line very often.

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Small Business Solutions Ideas

  • Protecting yourself
  • Operations manual
  • Managing employees
  • Legal issues
  • How to set up your own intranet site
  • How to use free resources (google drive, Dropbox)
  • How to make sure employees don’t steal from you
  • Start in the retail niche (salons, restaurants)
  • Do interviews, case studies, webinars, 7-part series, get testimonials
  • 10 employees or less is the niche
  • Lots of people have ideas but they don’t know where to start.
  • Maybe even have a space already.
  • Need to put procedures in place to keep things organized.
  • Clock ins, etc

8/26/14: First steps to redesigning our lifestyle

  1. Prove to my wife that it’s possible to make a living online – Check
  2. Get on the same page about what our ideal lifestyle would be – Short Term: location flexibility = living abroad;  Long Term = we can spend more time with our kids.
  3. Decide on a direction – Online income (no ceiling on earnings)
  4. Get over the fear of leaving a ‘normal’ life – Need to rewire our minds.  Helps to look at those who are already doing it.
  5. Acknowledge that we will need to make sacrifices in order to get the results we want – Will need to make the most of our free time & invest money into the business.
  6. Understand that we’ll need to treat it like a real job and show up to work everyday. – This will require lots of self-discipline!
  7. Make a really good plan, with deadlines and specific deliverables – THIS IS OUR NEXT STEP!  DO THIS!

Soon, life (live) as we know it will be very different!