Aug. 26, 2015

4:05 A.M and I up again. Had to pee and wife was snoring.

XD - Excel Diet

I ate okay yesterday, very low carb. BPC +Bulletproof coffe for breakfast, two questbars for lunch, nuts and low cal grape drink for a snack and for dinner tuna with seeds and pistachios and some cheese. Walked almost 18,000 steps.

POD - Principle of Day

Each day I randomly select a focus from a list of key principles I keep in a spreadsheet. Yesterday's was FOCUS. I take the principle and create an image using pbrush.exe (Paint brush software). I then show it on my desktop to remind me.

I2$
I'd like to have a better way to turn an idea into money as I haven't yet done this. I have a few books that could help. From Idea to Success , $100 Startup, and The 22 Immutable Laws of BRANDING. are on my bookshelf that I've read but know need to implement.

I had 2 downloads of the XD (Excel Diet) spreadsheet yesterday. I'm over 100 so this could be the opportunity to focus on.

I had a few new ideas and I'm not sure to work on them or to work on something else. I could also DAMAGE (Don't Ask Me Ask Google Everything) on how to go from idea to money

Why I've failed with my previous ideas?

Here is a list of reasons, maybe excuses why I've failed.

1. Twixcel - Twitter automation because Twitter changed the API so software stopped working.
2. No one knows about the idea
3. If someone does know I'm not following up
4. I'm not charging for any of my content
5. I get excited, work on project, slow my work and then move on to next project
6. I haven't committed any cash to an idea
7. I haven't gotten any feedback
8. I'm working solo
9. I have a job so I can only work on my ideas in my spare time

WOAD
I worked on Wisdom of a Dad on train in morning and afternoon and at lunch and at night. I'm editing the book which is pretty boring. I've noticed that there are still many typos, duplicate content. I'm still adding content to it which is bad. I'll never finish if I keep doing this, so unless the content is earth shattering I'll keep the idea in a separate place, maybe in my blog.

Dog
Walked Lola with Cheryl and Max. Lola almost ran into street at Hollywood park after I took her off leash,. I screamed, "LOLA STOP" and she did. I've been thinking about how I dealt with neighbor with a dog. I was correcting the husband because he was holding his dog's leash too tight when around my dog. A few days later I saw his wife and she didn't remember me but she would up letting my and Lola into her back yard. Her dog Riley is a puppy but was very aggressive and excited with Lola. Lola already had a play date with Stella. When we got home she was panting very hard and was even shaking a little.

She just went through a phase of not eating her food.

Work

Worked on creating trade blotter in Python. After 2 weeks to a month awaiting permission, I set up a meeting with Anudeep and Ivan to chat about the method to get the data to be merged into our online Risk system. Ivan doesn't shet up. He's one of those people that my saying "I'm smart enough to know I'm not that smart."

Work was fun. I even worked late which I haven't done for a while. Boss finally said hello to me which is pissing me off. One of the reasons I worked late is that I have my car back.

Walked from work with Evan. He was stressed because he had to work on a project for Debby who is his boss's boss.

I merged Shortcuts to my main spreadsheet at work.

Family
Max was sick last night but felt better today. Nigel had his first day of school today. I hope it went well.

Cheryl saw neighbor walking her dog and was afraid that neighbor would criticize what she was wearing as she's done it before.

Health

My blood sugar has been good for me the last couple of days all under 100. 82 at 8 pm. 92 at 8:30 am. 

I walked 17,900 steps which is 7.9 miles according to Walk Logger app on my phone.

Goals

1. Declutter - Desk is messy
2. W < 160
3. I2$ - Turn an Idea into money
4. WOAD - Wisdom of a Dad
5. bs = 83
6. No foot pain
7. Listi.net accessing SQL Server
8. Read books I have, especially library books
9. Add content to Twixcel spreadsheet
10. Learn the Hanukah song on the Guitar

Messy desk

Stocks

Stocks bounced back yesterday in the morning and dropped near the close yesterday. It's my understanding that the close tells you what the big investors are doing. I don't know if this is true or not. Here is the chart.

Dow Chart

I'm thinking that the market up at the close would be a buying signal.