Daily 5 Minute Journal - July 24, 2016

Today I mowed the back yard and cut up some branches, went food shopping and took my wife to train station and took dog on a play date.

It's 2:23 pm and I'm a little tired.

I've been into Scott Adam's blog lately, which I find very interesting

I was at the Yankee game with my son. We left at 12 PM and got to the gate a 1 PM for a 4:05 PM game against the SF Giants.  I got a spot on the street and saved $30.

There was no batting practice and we got there 3 hours early to see it. Amazingly, my son still got a ball.  He's up to 47 balls now.

Unfortunately the Yankees lose in extra innings. Brian McCan could have won the game with a long fly ball, a walk or a grounder past the infielders. He got up with bases loaded and he swung at the first pitch and blooped a short fly ball which was caught. The man on third couldn't tag up.

Also, no Arod. If you do go to a Yankee game the best seats are in the grandstands behind home plate as these seats are in the shade.

I'm having pains in my arms, I think from lifting weights. Almost feels like my tendons/ligaments are injured. I have to rest them or take it easier at the gym.

This is the 3rd time +Tim Ferriss  advice didn't work

1. His slow-carb diet failed
2. His 30 gms of protein within 30 minutes of awakening failed
3. His suggestion to gaining strength failed as I injured myself

Daily 5 Minute Journal - July 11, 2016

I'm on vacation today and I've spent most of the day reading through Scott Adam's (Dilbert creator) Blog on Persuasion.

I've started working on the outline for a book called The Persuasion Bible.

I've always been interested in the subject and have read a number of books on it. Recently I've seen new reasons to use it in my daily life. 

At work some of his suggestions appear to have been useful to get others to help me out..

I'm also re-reading his great book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.



Yesterday I was at the Sands Point Preserve and had a nice time. Lot's of dogs.

My weight this morning was 169.2 which is higher than I need to reach my daily goal.  I'm going to try to limit my calorie intake to 1500 calories. 

Another thing I tried as suggested from Tim Ferriss' 4 Hour Body was to take pictures of what I ate. I've been unsuccessful at doing this. I'm not sure why. 

Today I went to the Dermatologist for a checkup and everything was okay.

I already took my dog for a walk and find she's very lethargic. Yesterday I read about dogs eating garlic and it's one of the symptoms of poisoning.  I noticed that the Trader Joe's treats I've been giving her has garlic in it.

Even though I'm on vacation I have to do my self-review and send out an email for others to follow up. I've been procrastinating on this.

Are you underappreciated?

If you are, tell me in the comments below, because I can help you be appreciated more and feel your pain.

The most common places to be underappreciated is at home and at work.

I help people all the time and feel underappreciated. The worst was when they gave a co-worker an award at work and not me. I did at least half of the work if not more.

Ask yourself are you under-appreciating someone?  If you are the person might:

• quit
• leave
• get even
• stop working hard
• find someone that appreciates them
• perform poorly

Joe Rogan and Sam Harris

Found a new great podcast today from Joe Rogan via Sam Harris.



 JRE #453

5 Minute Daily Journal - May 25, 2016

Trip to Cornell

I'm back from my trip to Cornell to pick up my son. We brought the dog and it went well for me but my other son doesn't like the dog. Same son drove part of the way, which I like.

We ate at Mark's Pizza in Ithaca, NY, Pizza was very good and they had outside eating so we were able to bring the dog there.

We also at at Purity Ice Cream and bought the dog her own vanilla. I had a brownie Sunday with Chocolate Debris which was also delicious. There were 3 other dogs at the ice cream place

Storage Closet

We got a storage closet to store my son's stuff. It's a weird place that makes me feel there's a terrorist storing his supplies there. I hope the government keeps tabs on this.

We used Google maps to get directions from Cornell to the storage closet and had to go back and forth 3 times. The third time we went there my son said "Let's do it without Google Maps."  So we did and it was so easy. I tried to show him the power of something that's hard at first can become so easy.

Cleaned Garage

Prior to leaving I decluttered the garage with the help of my son. I wish I had taken before and after pictures. It's amazing how quickly I can accumulate junk. I'm throwing out my hockey net. I feel sad about it. Hockey has very good memories for me, but my kids never got that interested and it's time to move on.

4HB problem

4HB is shortcut for Tim Ferriss' Four Hour Body. My review on Amazon is here.

I highly recommend this book.  I enjoyed reading it but there is so much information I'm not sure where to start with implementing it. Unfortunately my gym Planet Fitness doesn't have kettle bells or weights to do a dead-lift or bench-press.

Be an Idea Machine

I starting reading Claudia Atucher's book Become an Idea Machine which basically gets your to come up with ideas to work your idea muscle.








The author makes the point that most people say they don't have time to come up with these ideas so they should create 10 moments that have. Here is mine:

1. Before bed
2. In bathroom
3. 1 item per hour and you'll come up with ten in ten hours
4. On train
5. Subway
6. During daily walk from work
7. While walking the dog
8. While waiting
1. On a line
2. at a stop light
3. for the train or subway
4. for the elevator
5. for computer to run a report at work
9. While making coffee
10. While eating meals
11. While taking a shower, don't have a good way to record them
12. Before turning on TV
13. Before laying down on couch
14. While driving to gym

The first 2 exercises are to come up with

• 10 ideas on things I dislike and gratitude for them
1. Aging. If you're not aging you're dead
2. Pain. No pain no fingers
3. Death. Grateful that I'm forced to do as much as I can in this life
4. Osteoporosis. Grateful that I have bones.
5. Boss. Grateful that I have a job
6. Long Drive to Cornell. Grateful that my son was smart enough to make Cornell
7. People blocking Escalators. We have the technology to create escalators
8. Terrorism. Grateful that most people live peacefully
9. Waiting on a line. Grateful that there is a product I want that I'll wait for
10. Woman at work lets door slam in my face. I'm grateful I have a job
11. Not making $ from my ideas. I'm grateful that I have ideas
• 10 Apps I want.
1. App that helps you live longer
2. App that helps me identify and reach my goals
3. App that automatically finds money and deposits it into my bank account
4. App that tracks rude people and makes them take classes to get rid of their rudeness
5. App that finds all spelling errors and helps you improve your writing
6. App that lowers my blood sugar
7. App that helps me LWAKIO
8. App that turns Ideas to $
9. App that does STS or Smart Task Selection
10. App that locates the nearest easy to use bathroom

Loss data to phone

I'm using an app that I like a lot called Color Note. It's a to-do list/list type app. I entered some data to it for the address of my storage closet. Before I leave I check and the data is gone. This fits into the general problem of data loss. It's a good reminder to backup your stuff. What data of your's is vulnerable to loss because you don't have a backup?

$1.49 Chicken Nuggets

Burger King is running a $1.49 promotion for 10 chicken nuggets. This is obviously a loss leader as you'll wind up buying much more. I go to McDonald's for lunch and they're charging $3.99 for 10 nuggets. I buy water and a soda but stop at Burger King across the street for the $1.49 nuggets and that's it.

Blog

I have to start taking more pictures that I could include them in this blog. I'm not in the habit of taking enough pictures so I can get more people to read it or just to remind myself of the pictures.

Best Food Secret on Long Island

Yesterday, I ate at a restaurant in Plainview, NY called DirtyBurger. It's near Fareway and was formerly where another restaurant called Cheeburger, Cheeburger was located.

I'm reluctant to write this review because I don't want crowds at this place.

Our friends raved about the food.

The decor is proper for a burger joint and our friends were already seated. Of course we are 5 minutes away from the restaurant and they were 20 minutes away and still arrived there first.  We got there early to beat the crowd at around 6:30 PM on Saturday night.

Our meal started with $3 margaritas. It was very salty and didn't seem to have much alcohol or taste.

For appetizer we had Nachos with Guacamole. The chips where warm and had a nice spice taste and the gaucamole was very good.

For the main course I had the Skirt Steak, medium well with the dirty fries. The "dirty" spice has some honey mixed in and as a low carb eater I asked the waiter if they could hold the honey. She said it would be too spicy and wouldn't taste good that way.

I agreed to have it with the honey. This was one of the best tasting meals I've had in a long time the steak and fries were to die for.  And the waitress was right as the spice and the honey together is what made it taste so good. If they removed the honey it would just be spicy.

My wife had the Lamb burger medium and it came back very rare. She complained to the waiter and she replied that's how it's cooked here.  Now this is a bad way to treat a customer. Just say sorry and cook it a little more. It came back pretty quickly and my wife loved it.

The prices where a bit high but worth it. The bill for the 4 of us came out to around $95 with tax and a $16 tip pushes it to around $28 a person.

I liked that they served alcohol every though my drink wasn't to my liking.

Now if our friends didn't rave about it we never would have gone. There are so many burger places these days it's hard to distinguish them:

• Bareburger
• Shake Shack
• 5 Guys
• All American Burger
• Smashburger
• Cheeburger, Cheeburger
• White Castles
• Burger King
• Wendy's
• McDonald's

The name dirty brings up images in my mind of dirty food and unclean conditions. The place also opened where another burger joint Cheeburger, Cheeburger was located and went out of business.

I had no intention on trying this restaurant until my friend raved about it. She saw a TV show reviewing restaurants at 4 AM when she had trouble sleeping and they said how great the food is. 

You can learn more at DirtyBuger.com.

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Daily 5 Minute Journal - May 3, 2016

Sick at work

Today I left work early as I was feeling lousy. There are two possibilities and both are drug side effects:

1. I upped my Metformin dosage
2. Risedronate side effect
3. Combination of the two drugs
4. Something else

Dr. Mercola

This is a good website with a vast amount of medical information at Mercola.com and his twitter feed:

Tweets by @mercola

iPyrhon

Today a coworker mentions iPython.org and it looks like something to look into.

May Goal is Health

I'm trying to figure out my goal for May 2016 and I think its my health. This is a bit vague. I want to finish a few books:



Some other tasks are:

1. Set up Dr. appointments especially heart and colonoscopy
2. Set up Skin Dr. appointment

Goal Q's

There are a number of questions I could answer to help me figure out my goals:

• If I had 1 year, month, week, day to live what would I do?
• What do I want said at my ulogy
• If I couldn't fail what would I do?
• If I came into $100 million or a billion dollars what would I do?
• What did I like doing as a child?

Prepare

I run my weekly Tuesday meeting today and I get to the room and there's no phone. I didn't check the room on Monday. I will do this next week.

Cooties at Work

Today while cleaning up after making Bullet Proof Coffee at work two people poured their dirty liquids in to the sink where my clean dishes where sitting. This pissed me off. I said something to one of them to not do that I don't want cooties, jokingly.

I thought the word cooties and it was related to when a girl touched or kissed a 5 year-old boy. You give yourself a "cooties shot" to inoculate yourself.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I listened to an interview between Gary Vaynerchuk and James Altucher. They were discussing his book: This is the second time I've come upon his work. Steve Scott also interviewed

There are other interviews at http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2016/03/gary-vaynerchuk/

Gary says there is an arbitrage opportunity to buy on Ebay and sell on Amazon you could make money.

You can listen to Gary's podcast on Youtube. I was surprised at the high rating Gary's book got on Amazon 4.9 of 5 with 353 reviews which is very good.

Derek Sivers

James also interviewed Derek Sivers. Derek has a great link of his books summary at http://Sivers.org/book

He has 3 Ted talks

1. How to start a movement
2. Weird or just different
3. Keep your goals to yourself

4 Hour Body

I continue to read The 4 Hour Body.  Tim Ferriss was discussing running and talked about how running isn't about pushing off but about falling and catching your center of gravity. The important thing is to run 180 steps a minute or 90 each foot. The only problem with this book is that it's packed with so much information it may be hard to actually implement.

New York Islanders

Tonight the Islanders play game 3 against the Tampa Bay Lightning. This is a big game for them.  They haven't looked that good in the playoffs and have been outplayed in just about every game. It's not fun to watch but Thomas Greiss has kept them in the games.

Scully 

I came across this plaque in Little Italy in NYC. Scully was one of my favorite games as a kid.