How’s everyone holding up out there? Only a couple of more days and you’ll make it thru the toughest week. By now, your body should be screaming for you to “stop!”. In fact, last night mine was attempting a coup–it hurt everywhere, and it took me a while to fall asleep. But hang in there; take one day at a time.
The hardest part of any exercise program is keeping up with it. So remember to pace yourself. Just start off slowly like I am doing and take it one day at a time. It’s been only four days, but I can feel my body changing (it won’t be visibly noticeable for another week or so).
Just hang in there: only 86 more days to a new body!
Today is a down day (giving the major muscles time to rebuild). So I did 30 minutes of Tai Bo (this is a very good work out for cardio and is convenient because you don’t need any equipment or have to leave your house).
There has been minimal aching as a result of yesterday’s workout. In fact, yesterday I felt an increase in energy and rigor that lasted throughout the day.
I had little trouble finishing the 1.5 mile jog and barely broke a sweat. Another half-mile would not have been a problem.
Remember not to push your body too hard, too fast when first getting back in shape. You don’t want to cause injuries and deflate your morale.
This is a chronicle of my journey from being 20 lbs over-weight, having flabby stomach and man-boobs (I might actually miss the man-boobs), to having a toned and muscular physique (including big guns, nba shoulders–or maybe just ncaa, hard pecs and eight-pack-abs–six packs are web 1.0, I’m going for web 2.0).
I prefer free weights over machine, but my subdivision amenity center only has machine. But its good enough to get the bodies activity engines started again.
I met with a commercial real estate broker yesterday afternoon at the construction site of one of his retail developments. The site was a new development on the fringe of a very expensive neighborhood. The demographics were great; the neighborhood had one of the highest house values and income levels in all of Dallas (Bush almost bought a house there a few months back). But the area is at the beginning of gentrification (upgrading the hood) and would take at least a year or two to become “desirable”. Across the street from the center were run down houses and a liquor store on the corner–which will be torn down in a couple of months.
At first he was quoting me $35 per sqft + $10 NNN. But I told him the area had potential but needed a lot of work and time to make it upscale, so that price would be too high. I also added that the current state of the economy would prevent most retailers and small businesses from being able to afford to lease space in his development. I told him that now is not the time to be greedy.
In an economy like this, we have to help each other out. If he would lower the rent, businesses would have more room to make profits and the center could be leased out. Then when the economy picks up (a few years a most), he could universally increase the rents and make a huge profit.
He said he’ll come up with a proposal and send it to me. I think he’ll do whats right.
Happy New Year everyone!
I hope 2009 is turning out to by a great year and that you are still keeping up with all your resolutions. It’s only the 14th day of the year and I’ve already broken a couple of them:
Keep hope alive, keep resolutions on track, keep sending me those checks (that’s my 9th resolution: place subliminal messages on blog to achieve #8)
I found a great article on how entrepreneurs are rushing to turn members into profits. The amount of money to be made is huge. $50 billion dollars a year in online advertising in the US alone.
But the competition is steep. Some experts predict that there will be 250,000 social networking sites within a year; from 850 sites today. Furthermore, the US market is dominated by the top three sites. MySpace, Facebook, and Linkedin are the top social networks earning $700 million, $300 million, and potentially around $100 million, respectively. So where’s the money?
If you add up the top three earnings, there are still roughly $49 billion left over to divide–that’s a big pie. Jump on the wagon and get yourself a slice.
(read the whole article at the link below)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/industry/2008-05-11-social-networking_N.htm
Who will be the next Facebook or YouTube? The founders of these social networking sites have been catapulted into wealth and fame. Tens of thousands of social networking sites have sprung up in hopes of reaching the same level of success.
But its not just the pros putting up social networking sites. Every day people are putting up sites about baseball, gardening, video games, and everything in between. Sites that cater to social network entrepreneurs and amateurs have also made a name for themselves. Ning and ONEsite have given non-programmers the ability to easily establish their own social networks without any coding.
I am also trying to cash in on the social networking wave. I came up with my social network concept and have been looking for freelancers to do the coding. One guy gave me a quote of $45,000, while a second guy quoted me $1,800. The first quote is way out of my budget. I offered him a chance to make more money by letting him take a down payment of $5,000 and 25% of monthly revenue until a total of $120,000. That’s three times his asking price. But he turned it down, said it was too risky. That’s one of the differences between an entrepreneur and a worker. Entrepreneurs will take calculated risks to obtain unproportional gains. The second quote was way too low. I can’t trust a million dollar idea to a thrift shop.
If there are any programmers out there that are interested in being part of a startup social networking site, send me a note at huynhcorp@gmail.com.
Somebody tell me why the ISM numbers, which came out this morning, are bad but WM hasn’t come down yet?
Yesterday I overreacted and sold all of my WM holdings–10,000 shares–the second it broke $5.00. Granted I made $11,000 in three days from WM, but I could have made so much more. To my dismay, right after I sold my WM holdings, the price went up. And up. And it didn’t stop until $5.80. I could have made another $8,000 (or 72%) if I had not overreacted and waited a couple of seconds. Well, that’s the stock market for you (luck+skills+tears and sweat).
Now I’ve been waiting for it to come down so I can jump in again.