An old adage states: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”
Building and maintaining a strong social network is a major key to success.
This C2G Challenge aims to rekindle old friendships and strengthen bonds that have been worn down by time and neglect… Read more…
C2GC: Early Rising Update
It’s been over three weeks of the C2G Early Rising Challenge. I’ve slackened up a bit and over slept a few times, by choice, but I felt it was for best for my overall energy level.
Waking up early has definitely proved its benefits to me and I plan on practicing it past the thirty day mark.
If you have yet to attempt rising early, I recommend giving it a shot. Try it for a week. Consciously attempt to knock out a major action item before you would normally even wake up, it’s pretty enlightening.
C2GC: Ending Information Addiction
The C2GC of Ending Information Addiction is still proving tough. This may be due to my current circumstances of leveraging the web to build my income and plan out some future career steps.
I have however successfully cut down on my TV time. I am watching under an hour of TV programming daily, almost to no time at all. This however may change with the advent of Football season.
Weekend Reading and Links from around the Web
Enjoy your weekend and push some comfort boundaries! 
P.S. Don’t forget to remember what it means to be an American today. Our liberties and freedoms are not granted without sacrifice.
C2GC Update
It has been 2 full weeks of the Early Rising Challenge. I am very happy with my ability to stick to this challenge; I have been getting up with no problems almost everyday and do not have to nap much.
Waking up early almost doubles my productivity hours from my previous schedule of waking up between 10am-12pm. The increase in hours allows me time to work on this blog, exercise, study and prepare a delicious breakfast.
I wish I was having the same success with the C2GC of Ending Information Addiction. My ability to completely cut out internet surf time and non-essential information updates has improved, but not nearly to the level I was hoping. It is encouraging that I have made forward progress, now I just need to push harder.
The problem lies when I have short spans of time between my next scheduled actions. If I have 15 or 30 minutes to kill before my next action item, it is very easy and gratifying to surf web. My goal is to use those free moments as productivity bursts.
These 15-30 minute productivity bursts will constitute reading a book, cleaning/organizing my living space, making a phone call to a neglected friend or whatever short-task I can find.
Hopefully these productivity bursts will be the key to furthering my recovery from information addiction.
Weekend Reading Suggestions
Here are a few good links I’ve come across on the web. The range of topics is pretty random, it is only limited to what I find interesting and potentially beneficial. Please share if you have some good ones!
How Police Interrogation Works – I strongly recommend reading this.
47 Lifestyle Design Resources – Check out these if you are interested in Lifestyle Design. It will become a prevelant topic here.
16 Things I Wish They Taught Me In School
Tyler Durden’s Words of Wisdom
Enjoy your weekend!
Newspapers, Facebook, Myspace, AIM, Digg, Stumbleupon, Fark, E-mail, Chat, bla bla bla… Today’s list of information vehicles and internet applications that we waste our time on are becoming endless. It is the source of Information Overload that is affecting us all. You can waste years of your life reading, chatting, surfing, updating, checking, refreshing, clicking, and watching your TV or computer monitor.
How much time are you spending per week reading the latest news or gossip about your friends? How many times a day do you check email or make yourself available to the world at a moments notice? How often is this information actually instrumental in achieving our goals?
The largest addiction that is afflicting America today is Information Addiction.
The internet is the single biggest waste of my time, followed closely by TV, and I am going to do something about it. This idea was inspired by the book 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris, and the blog 30 sleeps.
This C2G Challenge is aimed at ending the information overload and addiction that is consuming so many hours of my daily life… Read more…
Early Rising Update
Well, after the first week of the Early Rising challenge, I am a little surprised.
Waking up has been easier than I predicted. It may because of the fresh new outlook and motivation or some other unknown, possibly short term, factor.
One thing I have noticed is that waking up is a bit more pleasant when I started using my cell phone as an alarm. The old alarm sound, which has been pissing me off daily for about the past 10 years, may have conditioned me to start the day thoroughly annoyed with the WAH-WAH-WAH sound it makes.
At any rate, as expected my days seem substantially more productive. I can get more done, cook good meals and carry out my day in a less rushed manner.
3 more weeks left until I will allow myself to change the schedule. Maybe I’ll decide to keep it.
Weekend Reading Suggestions
Here are some links from around the web that I find worthwhile and interesting. Please share more in the comments section!
The mouse and the Rectangle – A study on conditioning and thought process
How to Craft a Killer Elevator Pitch
How to Eat optimally for Massive Size and Strength
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Enjoy your weekend!