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I love this so much I have to share again and explain how I lived through these rules in my early entrepreneurial life

eddie — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:29:52 +0000

I found this video a while back in its short form and recently came across the long version and realised that there was more impact when the video was placed in context. This was Arnold Schwarzenegger's now legendary "Life's 6 Rules" speech, originally used during the Governor's 2009 USC Commencement Address.

Watch the video below for the full effect.

In this video he talks about his six rules of success which are:

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How much time do people really spend in their homes?

eddie — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:22:06 +0000

For people who have a nine to five job and who need to travel a distance everyday to get to work and back, the amount of time they actually get to spend in their own homes is remarkably little. In an average week of 168 hours, you can calculate that 63 hours are spent getting to work, spending time at work and then returning home in the evenings.

The average person with a daytime job will be in bed by 9.30 pm and will be up at 7 am every working morning. So during a working week they will spend on average 56 hours at home asleep in their bedrooms.

The only real time a person holding down a nine till five job actually gets to spend any quality time in their own homes is at the week end when they get to spend two complete days in this personal environment.

Working whilst moving at over 100mph

eddie — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:18:02 +0000

If you said to someone 100 years ago that they could be travelling at over 100mph with hundreds of other people at the same time in the same transport, they would call you a crazy man. If you said to someone 20 years ago you could be communicating with anyone at anytime from anywhere, they'd say you were crazy too.

If you told someone 5 years ago that you could connected to all your friends in real time, and have the ability to video chat with them on a train moving at 100mph, they would probably say, ok it's possible, but maybe in 10 years time. I just got off a video Skype call with a friend in Singapore.

Sometimes the littlest things can make you so happy

eddie — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:44:34 +0000

I was just going through some heavy coding issues to do with some web code problems we've been experiencing with some projects and this issue has literally been bugging us for about 5 months.

I've spent the last 3hours working on this with a firm mind to have it sorted and fixed. When we get into the problem solving on the code level, you have to be extremely logical and also non-assumptive.

I tell my programmer this all the time, we must start from a position of not assuming anything until we can prove it. Anyways, without going into the nitty gritty, the problem has been fixed and the root cause was a small in descript file which had only one line of code in it, that seemingly wasn't related to the problem.

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It's all about the commitment levels you live by

eddie — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:19:45 +0000

So I was thinking about tribal society the other day and I realised something that I thought was fundamental to success and in those days, survival of the human race. It was that these hunters who were out protecting the tribe and also hunting for food, were totally committed to what their role in society was.

When they went out to hunt, they were totally committed to returning with the goal, a great big hunk of dead meat! That didn't mean that they succeeded every time they hunted, sometimes they came back with nothing, but that didn't matter because they would go out the next day to try again.

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A fundamental issue of impossibility?

eddie — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:29:53 +0000

We live in such interesting times and something that I often discuss with friends and colleagues is the reality of how unable we are as human beings to adapt and live in these times.

What I mean by this is that in our current age, we have more technology that helps us to supposedly do things quicker and better, but our very own engineering, our internal mind and physical human form, isn't moving anywhere near as fast as technology is.

Our human forms are actually not designed to live in this day and age, in fact we are so far behind that it's no surprise that I think at some point in order for the human race to catch up with technology, we will have to augment ourselves with technology.

Why are we still building office spaces when more residential spaces are needed?

eddie — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:32:35 +0000

Yesterday there was a massive 10 page spread in the City A.M free newspaper. This paper is distributed around central London, primarily within the business hotspots of Canary Wharf, the West End and City of London Zone.

The headline that caught my attention was "Why London remains the centre of the world". In essence, the articles were about why London is still seen to be a commercial property investment zone, even though we are in recessive times.

Right up front, I would agree with Mr William Murray that these buildings of architectural beauty are in no doubt inspiring to Londoners and people all over the world. However I would raise the point that iconic architecture can be equally applied to residential developments.

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How much energy is really being used by office space in London at night when it's empty?

eddie — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:45:25 +0000

We are all aware of the importance of energy saving efficiency in all aspects of our lives. We attempt to drive cars with better fuel consumptions and low carbon emissions. We switch off all the lights in our homes when we turn in for the night. We all have thoughts of saving the planet. With all this said, it is certainly time to turn our attentions to the empty offices that continue to waste energy by needlessly leaving on equipment all through the night.

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Building a World without Offices

eddie — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:32:42 +0000

In a world which is littered with fantastic buildings from the magnificent Petronas towers, to the skyscrapers of New York, imagine how much energy was use to build them, only for them to be left barren and unused over 50% of the time.

Imagine if we had saved 50% of the energy we've used to create those buildings and how much less carbon we might have produced as a result of working and being an efficient planet? Would we be in this global warming crisis we are in today?

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What can we learn from online con men?

eddie — Sun, 22 May 2011 22:33:33 +0000

In any line of business, no matter if you are online of offline, there is no substitute whatsoever for putting in some hard work and doing the 10,000 hours which Gladwell talks about in his book Outliers.

When I hear of all these so called "internet marketing" systems and programs which teaches people to become gazillionaires overnight, my spine positively chills as I think of all those poor souls who get sucked into the hype and don't get that it's just a get rich quick scheme. (twitter hashtag #GRQ if you ever come across one)

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