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Riding Too Hard

I have started listening to Deepak Chopra, and he was talking about the close relationship between mind and body. Basically, our external reality is affected by our internal representation. So I thought I had it. I am enjoying myself tremendously!

I am learning so much every night. Watching videos online, writing my ebook, writing our story for the video on our wedding, getting regular exercise. I am having fun!

However, I have been pushing my body too hard. For the past week, my body had been showing signals. I had very bad eyebags. My eyes were swollen. It usually doesn’t bother me. I don’t care so much about how I look, but this time my eyes hurt.

I think I can only say that I have been trying to do too much, too fast. I am cutting on my sleep. I always wondered how successful people can stay awake for 20 hours a day. I guess I’v ebeen trying to accomplish that myself.

Unconsciously, I am walking faster, I am eating faster. I am filling up every second of my time I can fill with something useful. When I walk from Bukit Merah to my office, I am listening to an audio book. In bed, I am reading a book until I can’t read any more. Every single moment, I must be hearing, watching or at least thinking something. Unconsciously, I think I must have been breathing faster, my heart must have been beating faster too.

So yesterday, my body finally gave in, and I felt a cold and sore throat developing. Went to see a doctor, infected sinus and throat.

Working at a faster rhythm is great, but I think we have to bear in mind our Human Dynamics too. I am a PE, and I need my natural rhythm. I do not think that increasing my rhythm is a problem, but I guess I need a slow acceleration, rather than a sudden spurt. So when I am home, what did I work on straight away? Slowing my breathing, taking a long rest in bed. My body deserves it. 🙂

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Who is Rich Schefren?

Watched the Rich Schefren business presentation today while waiting for Hwei Min in her office.

Must say that it is a good reminder for me. It was a revision of Robert Kiyosaki’s Casflow Quadrant for me. In the midst of my struggle with the technology and development of my product, I have neglected the importance of treating Internet Marketing as a business. A business with a capital B!

I am reminded to think of the scaleability of the business from the very beginning. Rich says to focus on your core competency and get others to figure out the rest.

For example, I know that that I suck at programming. I really dislike figuring out the technology of IM. I can learn codes, I am trained in the square syntax of prograaming language, so any language should be easier for me to pick up than others who are not technically trained. But I have come to terms with the fact that I find it a struggle to think linearly. I can, with lots of hard work, train myself to pick it up, but I figure I will always be slightly slower than those who are technically inclined.

So instead of forcing myself to work on the technology of it all, I should find someone else to help me. Instead, I should work on the content, I think I do better at that.

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Bring back my Animaniacs!

I really miss that show… Yay for Youtube, i can search for old shows, music that are hard to find.

I can’t really pin down the reason why I love it so much. And I will personally hantam anyone who says its a cartoon for kids! It’s not!!!

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IM Update – Getting your domain up

Ok… from what I know, getting a search engine friendly domain name is one of the basic things you can do to optimize your site.

So today, I spent ONE HOUR to sign up for the domain. Ok… I spent half the time checking email, checking forum, doing this blog, searching for a proper domain… talking to Hwei Min…

Speaking of which.. a cool resource is nameboy.com . Go there to try out different combinations of keywords to set up your name with. They will also show you its availability.

The rest is crap however. If you really want to buy a domain, go to godaddy.com. Its cheaper.

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Hwei Min and Wai Keen Animation

Quick updates on my progress on our video montage. It’s been confirmed,we will do an interview plus photo montage plus animation on how we met.

For the animation, i’ve developed a simple character profile for the major characters, in a cross between Toriyama’s style of drawing plus South Park style of animation.

Dragon ball meets South Park? Ya la… Its too tough to animate fully like Naruto, Bleach or even the Dragon Ball series. South park seems simpler, the key word being “seems”. It’s still many frames. Sigh…