Im back

Wow, its been almost a year since my last post, to my two readers i'm sorry and i will be blogging more than often:)

What's new in my life? well i have been reading the 4 hour work week and it points out some very interesting things, like how we just work for the sake of working when we need to work in order to enjoy our lives...we work to retire at 60 and then try to enjoy our lives. This is impossible because we spend the best years of our lives trying to build up money so that we can "enjoy" it when our bodies arent able to anymore...the writer advocates taking a mini vacation every 6 months or so and he doesnt believe in retiring...

This got me thinking, how can i enjoy my life more right now? Well my dream car is a Range Rover and i have decided to take one for a test drive this weekend, this is a big step considering i have never even touched one...this weekend is gonna be such a fun one...drive a Range, Currie Cup final and maybe a trip to the driving range on Sunday...

"don't waste your youth growing up"

till next time kids

If Life Gives You Lemons

A big goal for me this year is not to waste money, this is not to be a miser or stingy with money but over the last two years i have wasted money on useless things and this does not help my cause at all. Here is a list of things that i dont want to waste my money on ever again.

Cooldrinks and fizzy drinks,

buying lunch from the cafeteria or any where else for that matter ( i cant justify to myself why i have spent R20 everyday for the past two years buying sandwiches, this adds up to over R10 500 of bread in just 24 months...thats crazy.)

McDonalds, KFC or any other junk/fast food joint, honestly the food from there is rubbish, has no nutritional value and is a waste of money.

Magazines, i dont read everything is there...i will allow myself one magazine "treat" a month. No more buying 6 or 7 a month

Excessive going out, there is actually no point to it anymore, it doesnt make sense to drink 10 beers at R15 a pop every other night and then go straight home...what a terrible habit this is and i dont even get to enjoy being drunk 'cause i get home and sleep...weekends should be enough and one or two free ones is cool during the week...

impulse items, these i think cost me a lot because i think that this is "ghost" money because i dont keep track of it and i wonder "where did my money go?"

However i do want to develop new habits and enjoy my money as well, here are a few things that i will do with my money this year...

Go out for breakfasts, lunches and suppers, this is with friends and especially with my girlfriend.

Go to Live shows, concerts and the theatre.

Go to the movies.

Go away for weekends.

Buy Fine, Quality, Expensive and Stylish Clothes, cosmetics, frangrances and accesories.

Enjoy Fine Dining, Whiskeys, Brandies and Wines...

The Value of a Minute

A book that i was reading recently said that we waste so much time waiting and doing things that do not in anyway contribute to achieving our dreams. the way that i understand it is like this. a wasted minute becomes a wasted hour, which becomes a wasted day, which becomes a wasted week, which becomes a wasted month, which beciomes a wasted year...which eventually leads to a wasted life.

That is why it is so crucial to have a dream which you are sold out to and to be able to answer the question "what are you doing right now that is leading you towards achieving your dream?"

My greatest dream is to have TIME...i want the time to spend with my girlfriend without all the pressures of expectations and society, i want time to sleep when i want and wake when i want, i want time to travel and enjoy my life...this leads me to asking how am i going to get that time? the only way i see how to do that is to build an asset that will pay me enough to do what i want to do...unfortunately in this world we are brought up to believe that wwe must work for 40 hours a week for 40 years of our lives and then we will have enough money to do whatever it is that we want...how am i truly going to enjoy my life if i only get that time at 65? what i am essentially doing right now is trading the best years of my life sitting behind a computer for money...how sad this is:(...so my goal for me to be able to enjoy my life is to become a MILLIONAIRE!!!

i want to build an asset that will allow me to retire at 30 and enjoy the rest of my life without having to worry about money...

i am working really hard on my business, i will work on it everyday i need to tweak my routine a little from to day onwards i am going to limit the amount of time that i spend watching tv...last night i really wanted to get some reading done instead i spent 5 hours watching telly, that led to me reading late and falling asleep halfway through and being tired today i need to be asleep at the latest 22h30...this will give me 6 hours of sleep. we've got plenty of dvd's at home so i can relax my mind with those...

Selling out to my dream

Well its a new year and it comes with a world of new possibilities...i guess that we all make resolutions and hope that we will keep them, i am learning that hoping such things is not enough. The most important words in my life will be JUST DO IT...i am stealing this from Nike as i have realised that the most impotant thing that anyone can do for themselves is to take ACTION...taking action is the only thing that does actually matter, how many dreams do i have? pleanty and how am i going to achive any of them? by simply taking action.

It doesnt have to be big things, think about it this way, if i do just one thing a day that will bring me closer to my dream then by the end of the year i will have done 365 things that will be putting my dreams within my grasp.

From now on i will not be lazy, (how can i be lazy about things that will be beneficial for me?)...i am still debating whether to go to gym in the mornings or afternoons but i am really leaning towards the mornings as this will mean that it is over and done with by the time that everyone wakes up i will already have one over them, i can then get to work at about 8 and work till about 4...this will allow me to free up my late afternoons and early evenings. On Mondays i can spend time with my girlfriend doing anything that she wants to do...it doesnt matter as long as i am with her, Tuesdays and Thursdays i will go to Rugby Practice, Wednesdays i get to spend more time with the one that i love...i really enjoy going to movies and we can do that, Fridays can be used as rest days as there will be games on Saturdays and Sundays we will go to church...

My main goal this year is to be a WHOLE person...i want to enjoy this year to the fullest...i wanna learn and experience new things...

The only way i will achieve my dreams is to sell out to them, it has to be the last thing i think about before i fall asleep and the first thing i think about when i wake up, time is such a funny thing...i only took action yesterday and i will take action everyday, here is an account of bad baheviours that are holding me back...

Jan 1: I wont do anything today because it is a holiday and i just drank all day

Jan 2: I just want to relax and i watched tv all day

Jan 3: I havent seen my freinds "ALL" year maybe i need to spend some time with them and AGAIN i drank my productive time away...

Jan 4: Wake up and go to work (is it not funny that i will work at making someone else rich but i dont prioritise that in my life?) then i was lazy to go to gym...a win for me yesterday was that i drew up a list that has 200 names, i ironed my shirt last night, which made it possible for me to get ready for work in 30 minutes, and i made lunch for today wich means that i dont have to spend money on useless things like R15 sandwiches...

Today is my day...JUST DO IT!!!

coleoptera through the ages

success

i am learning everyday that being successful is not doing new and wonderful and exciting things everyday, what the most successful people in the world do is that they set a goal (and never change it) then they find and way in which they are going to achieve this goal, once they have found that...they just do that thing everyday this gradually leads them to attaining their dreams...the only change that ever happens is when they re- evaluate their technique to get better results... i must stick with my methods.

yesterday was tough, i gymmed legs and then went spinning for an hour...WOW!!!

How to get and keep a girl

On my never ever ending quest to know things i was reading a Glamour magazine, which had a comparison between John Mayer and Jake Gyllenhall and ten girls were asked to choose which one they would go for and a whopping 8 out of the 10 went for John Mayer...WOW (this he must be the biggest fag i can think of...)

The question on my mind was why? and the answer is pretty simple really this is how i see it...what attracts a woman into a relationship is never what will keep her in that relationship, you see women always want the bad boy and they think that they can change him...Why did they not want Jake, the majority of them said that it was because he is a good boy and good boys are boring and no fun at all...you see guys a woman wants to be swept off her feet and live in the moment and be carried away in a blizzard of lust and love.

The problem with this is that it doesnt sustain a relationship, ask any girl what kind of husband she wants and i guarantee that it will almost be the exact opposite of what has been described above, she wants the sweet guy, who will love her children and be home immediately after work and basically be the Jake Gyllenhall...

So here is how any guy can use this to his advantage, to get the girl you have to be the bad ass, basically be a dick, dont care sort of guy...i know a lot of people are disagreeing with me, but how many times does the sweet chap lose out on getting the girl because she will choose the guy that is no good for her, dont fool yourself and say rubish like "I'll just be myself and i will get her" we all know that hasnt worked for you in the past 24 years...

After you have being the prick and gotten the girl, then you cant slowly go back to being your little cute useless self, this has two benefits, you dont have to walk around pretending to be something that you are not and she will actually think that she managed to changed you...

on my next blog, i will talk about how to be an douchebag...