July 30, 2016

What a day!

I didn't sleep (as usual). Don't laugh, but I almost always make lots of love (polite talk here) before these module workshops lol It's a curse. So I saw my ex. We both missed each other. We made "love" until 4 minutes before I had to leave which was around 5. Came home. Dropped the car off. Took a shower, wore some clean clothes. Packed my bag.

That reminds me! I need to pack a lunch!!!! I didn't have time last time, but this time muhaha! I'll pack one. Met some dude on the way there. I kinda got lost on the way there, but I ended up arriving well before the start time so it was okay. I'd like to get there just before 8:30. I like the value added by these module workshops, but at the same time, I find that I can learn WAY more on my own at home. Nevertheless, it's always good to talk to classmates to see what they're doing!

I'm interested in taking a DENSMORE 5 day class... I thought it was cool. And I'd like to have that advantage too!

Then there is PrepFormula, which I'm a part of. My friend from class advised me to do their cases and ask for feedback from my mentor. We have the same mentor and she does respond but quite late.

 I told her Mike from PrepFormula is awesome and I also have an actual mentor that might be willing to help me with a case too. :)











So I got to class, and we marked our own cases using the guide that was provided to us in our candidate materials. It was a lot of review, because I had read the material. While I wasn't a fan of review, it never hurts to hear things twice. Especially when the subconscious respects repetition.

The hardest part was a day 2 type of case they gave us. Wow. When you don't prepare at all. Things are tough! I had to leave the classroom to read my way. A lot of student around me thought my way of studying was entertaining. I tend to highlight everything I read. I could careless, if they think the way I study is entertaining. OOO I need to bring a USB tomorrow to transfer my notes to my friend. She gave me a ride on the way back so I owe her. Next time, I'll take the subway which is $3.25.

Speaking of TTC, what time do I have to leave home to get to the workshop tomorrow?

It's 4:19 AM I have to leave at roughly 7. What do I do in the meantime? I wanna floss and brush my teeth + Oil pull... I just ate like 5 peaches lol  They were gonna go bad if I hadn't.

I need to pack a lunch.

Yes, and I'd like to actually attempt the day 2 case... That's pretty much all I have to do before class.

July 29, 2016

Day before Capstone 2 module workshop.

Spent 20 minutes retrieving sticky tack from shoppers drug mart. It'll be useful for when I'm in the bathroom. I'm going to use it to surround myself with cue cards while I do my "duties" lol.

It's already quite late in the day. I woke up rather late: 10:35. I'm going to try and use my blender Ithink... The time is now 12:49 PM... I'm still kinda tired too!

Wasted some time surfing the internet = 30 minutes. Now I'm going to go eat and start the day. LOL I start the day late because I CAN! I suppose I'm missing that sense of urgency which is bad. I'll need to watch some motivating video while I eat I guess to instill urgency and motivation.

The following is a minor problem specific to my own productivity and my own body. So if you're thinking... OMG... what is this guy writing!? I'm just writing up a solution according to my own bodily problems. Everyone's different! So feel free to find your own minor problems and solve them with your problem solving skills!

If you understand biology, you'd know that when you poop, you're also releasing energy. Which is why things like this can happen. Same thing for all animals, including humans. I tend to get tired, I sometimes run to my bed to bring myself back to a relatively sleepy energetic status.

However, I'm thinking of a new approach. I should eat immediately after doing a number 2. I would be eating because humans gain energy that way. What are some foods that help me feel energized?

• Almonds, and other nuts
• probiotics (I wanted to avoid yogurt, but apparently the sugar in it is easily absorbable)
• Apples! <-- why didn't I think of this sooner!
• Mushrooms <-- iron helps transport oxygen
• Water
• Sunflower seeds 
• Spinach
• Sweet potatoes
• in-season produce
• eggs 
• spicy food (I prefer cayenne pepper for spice
• pop corn (I should order some organic popcorn!)

So if you're anything like me, you have a limited amount of food at home to help energize you. That being said, out of this list: I will probably just grab: a small handful of almonds + cayenne pepper grounded up, add it to water in a water bottle. I'm gonna try to do this every morning, and keep it around the exit of my bathroom. Unless I buy apples in which case I'll just keep those around the exit of my bathroom. I'll remember to eat up afterwards and BAM!!! problem solved :) w00h000!

I think it worked! :) I feel energized. Ready to study. Going to go at it. Ttyl in 75 minutes hopefully I'll have a complete response for a mini case I'm doing.

BTW, I have replaced the time limit + fav. TV show with CPA videos on the CPA Way, and I just eat and stop whenever I feel like! I might use both in the future, but for now, Yeah, WHENEVER I EAT, I just turn on my x-box which I have modified (so that it has XBMC which stores all my favorite video files). I simply transferred the CPA Way videos that were given to me by CPA, and then I watch whenever I eat ^^ totally sweet!

It's 4:56 PM, and I have to do 3 more tasks before I can prepare an outline for the case I just read... Then I also have to write a response... That being said I'd like to get my tasks, outline, and response done so I can meet the deadline.

I'm not in the mood to work, that being said I have some motivation issues... Also I keep thinking of my ex! I really want to be with her in the future! I think I should give her a call. I don't want her to think that I don't care... But if she's dating someone else, then I'll 1000% call it quits and give up.

So I called her! And she said she missed me and she loved me!? WOOOHOOO! :) I was happy. I couldn't help but act calm and cool. But I felt like: Aren't I supposed to be saying I miss you and love you? I told her I did miss her! I didn't tell her I love her, although I definitely do! She told me after she said goodbye so I was sort of taken by shock that she said that. I miss her so much :( If you've been reading my blog, you'd know that I miss her a lot! And that although I tried to remove her from my life because I thought she was a distraction, I suppose I learned the hard way: it's even more of a distraction if you try to remove someone you love a lot. She was kind of mean to me, before we parted ways. At least I thought so. But I think I over exaggerated her meanness. I'm going to see her tonight after I finish writing my case. I would like to go for a walk with her. I still don't know if she is seeing anyone else. If she is, then I should be wasting my money to go travel to see her. She's about 20 to 30 minutes away. And capstone 2 is tomorrow morning!!! So I really have to keep my interaction with her short :(

ANYWAYS, back to the accounting world. I just read some CPA documents. CPA gave us a case to do before the workshop. I read it and I mean some stuff came to mind, but I was more overwhelmed than anything. I was thinking: how am I supposed to write a response for this!? I felt like my technical skills had withered a bit. Too much to write an effective response. Alas, they're not expecting perfection! Yay! So I came across a similar solution to the case I was gonna write and I thought "YES! A solution! I will read this before I write the case and BAM! All the right thinking patterns will come to me!" Then, I read the CPA guide to writing cases as well as the guide to debriefing cases. So apparently, you gotta attempt a case on your own before you actually see the response lol. I suppose that's expected. Conclusion: I'm going to attempt a response the way they've told me to do it in their how to write a case response guide and THEN I'll look at a solution I found that might tell me where I went wrong and how to correct my response into an answer that would reach competency.

So I'll need 75 minutes of free time. the time is now 8:30 ... If I start in 10 minutes 8:40 I'll be done by 9:55 PM :) that's great! And then I can debrief with their solution. And then I can hand in an awesome response by 12 PM I'll try to leave for her place before 12.

I might trim my hair, wash my face, take a shower, wear nice clothes, lift some weights, and eat some healthy food before I leave to her place. :) I'm so happy she doesn't hate me or hasn't forgotten about me. Life is great. <-- Just because a girl is happy to see you or misses you, doesn't mean she wants to date a loser. That being said, I'm about to say something incredibly wise (that I didn't come up with myself), IF THERE IS SOMETHING YOU WANT IN LIFE, WIN! Before I called her, I know that if I were to fail the CFE, then she would be unhappy with her choice of men. But if I passed, she'd be like oh yeah, I got a good one. Do you know what I mean? I want her. I miss her. That's all good and dandy. But what's not good is if I fail the CFE. And since they'll give us plenty of opportunities to reach their MPIs (minimum point indicators?) then that means there are plenty of opportunities to fail us. So I'm still putting the majority of my emotions and focus into passing the CFE. I'm just giving some time to where my instinctual drive wants to be, i.e. with her <3 But yeah. I want her, so I'LL WIN! And if I don't win then I'll try and try again!

July 28, 2016

9:20 AM  - start time

Okay because I had the car today, and I had to do some family stuff (had to see a lawyer to sign some papers <-- can I be any more vague? :P)

ANYWAYS, So I had the car and then I went shopping! I got a bunch of stuff that I didn't get the other day. Maybe it for the best. I DON"T KNoW but here's what I purchased:

Ear plugs = love 'em bought 2 boxes from home depot or whatever

Walmart = socks! they rock... I bought a staple gun. I bought a relatively cheap one. I think it was 17 bux and they generally sell for more than 40 to my knowledge. HEY LEMME BELIEVE WHAT I WANT! jus kidding... But umm... Yeah, what else did I buy: staples for the staple gun (5 bux) jeezzzz.

So then! I went to food basics! OH em gee. That place is great. I love this grocery store... They have everything I want at cheap prices.. So I purchased like a weeks worth of vegetables and fruits and beans and super foods (e.g. onion, garlic, ginger, etc.) and it was 50 something dollars! I can live with that!!!!  awesome! 50 bucks for an entire week of food. I'm talking breakfast lunch, dinner. That's a freakin' deal!!! See now I know, I legit got a deal lol...

So after I bought a bunch of useful stuff, I hit on some hot girl I saw. I immediately asked her if she had boyfriend, she said yes, so i left. Great story huh? But seriously, I ask the important questions first hahaha She smiled at me and she said it in a nice manner so I'm guessing she was telling the truth. She looked like she could've had a boyfriend HOT Dayum she was sexy.

OKAY back to reality... And possibly a success factor for the reader for the upcoming CFE. During Capstone 2 they give us flash cards to use for supplementing our learning <-- CPA trying to be fun. Anyways, what I ended up doing and it took me only 1-2 hours. I printed out the flash cards they gave us, and I did it using regular white paper!!!! I'm telling the reader this can be done. You don't have to go out and buy fancy durable paper for flash cards. If you play with the margins in microsoft word, and then you position the cards they give you correctly, you can make flash cards for free at home.

 

 Stapled the folded papers together to create flash cards!

The above is a blurred layout of what your word document could look like. So basically, to create flash cards, all you have to do is take the ones they give you, manipulate the margins in that same document to look like only the bottom portion of the image above. And then do the exact same thing for the upper portion, and then you print one out and then you print out the next slides in reverse order. This is not gonna make any sense unless you're actually in Capstone 2.

 

Here's the current set up in my bathroom, I usually play games while I'm on the throne. But NOW! Oh boy, I'm going to have a "blast" with these flash cards hahaha 

I personally don't think i'm giving out any content here, since I've blurred the words significantly. I'm just explaining that, you can make flash cards for free. Instead of having to pay whatever it you'd normally need to pay for them. I literally spent 1 dollar... Oh man, the folding was a hassle though. 1 hour of: match the edges, pull the paper, create creases, flatten the edges, fold fold fold and staple click!

July 27, 2016

How I will take my breaks

 

Notice: the timer... This would be similar to a CFE Gold medalist break, 15 minutes.

There's something that fascinates me about World Records... To me, they are proofs of the frontiers that the human race can achieve. That's what they mean to me. Also a world record is just super impressive. That being said I wanna be the best when it comes to all the CFE writers.

I've been using study time per day a key success factor and relevant measure.

1129/1440 = 78% of minutes in the day max for studying=

I'll need to plan ahead a bit. I'm gonna go grab fruit, veges, carbs, protein to mix in both concoctions. and then I'll actually try and carry this idea out. I have carbs. I just need protein.

I did the calculations and if I want to keep up with my current pace,

I need to study 7 hours on the 28, 29, and 30th...

but my max study time available will be 18 hours... <-- :) Nice!!! I'd love to be able to pull that off...

OH MAN. I ate some oatmeal, I stuffed it with a bunch of powders that are good for you (tumeric, cinnamon, black pepper) + canola oil + a handful of walnuts <-- last 2 for omega 3s... I fell asleep soon after eating this...

I created a bunch of videos of all the dancers I've made friends with. One of which had the guiness book record for headspins. I watch this before I study. Because I can actually communicate with these people and they'll listen!!!!! <-- To me that's just out of this world. Insane. Amazing. So yeah, I watch these vids to inspire me to achieve the same level of greatness that they've achieved. I also have a section of videos strictly for people who are guiness book world record holders, just to see what the human body is capable of. That being said I'm going to do my best. :) Alrighty!!! Time to get to work and do whatever it is CPA wants me to do before the Capstone 2 module workshop... Need to take off my jacket though; I'm fired up!

oh man I already used a permanent marker on my white board LOL -_-;; What I did to remove it was just used an eraser and a sponge + water. Worked great! Although it left a weird dent in my white board. That'll teach me to be careful... I should install a string that attaches to my calendar and a string that attaches to my white board.

July 26, 2016

The time is now 6:20 PM.

Let's see how many hours I can study today!

Yikes... Didn't get anything done at all *_* Ah well! I won't sweat it.

But I did manage to buy:

a pickle jar LOL! Before you throw rotten food at me, my idea was the following: buy fruits, blend them into a smoothie, keep them in a jar, sip them through a smoothie straw and voila (no need to brush teeth!) - so the pickle jar will save A LOT of time in the future :) at least I believe so.

paper - the amount of cases we have to do is insane, and the amount of case solutions that will come with it are also insane. That being said, paper was an essential buy. I bought a lot. Hopefully at least 2 months worth.

rye bread - helps with digestion

coconut oil - for oil pulling

erasers - we get to use pencils on our CPA exams NOT pen. So the erasers might prove useful.

A 50 by 70 cm white board <3 love white boards, they help with thinking. U read that correctly. I'm a dude so I'm not some chick with white beard fever. I like white bOards not white beards.

Floss! Because floss is awesome and I have great teeth. Did I mention I have great teeth? Well I sort of have to.

Soap - I ran out of the bars and I'm running out of the liquid. So I bought a GIANT soap container full of soap, and I bought 2 small & cheap soap dispensers so I can refill them as much as I like. <-- I like to minimize my costs ;) in other words, I'm thrifty.

And that's all I bought! Now I'm going to go lie down. I might pass out. I hope I don't. I'm kinda sad I didn't use the day today... I am motivated :) because I have a new concept it's called:

PHENOMENAL FOCUS.

So I wanna apply this concept. I need to feel excited about life. :) AND STUDYING!

July 25, 2016

Death Study Day
 
Disclosure - I'm not responsible for any damage/harm that someone incurrs on themselves when using my method. This is something I do once in a blue moon, and it's available for anyone else to try at their own risk. Although, you have to be pretty pathetic to die doing this. It's not like you're moving lol. When I said "This is something I do once in a blue moon", I'm referring to workingout. I do something called a death march which is where all I do is walk for 9 hours straight. I basically walk from my house to downtown and back without any breaks. I'm a breakdancing champ, but I'm also an accounting champ. At least... I want to be!

Background: After watching one of my favorite anime, I decided to create death study.

Purpose: to study for 24 hours straight with minor breaks for bathroom and water. Click here to read a link about why studying when you're hungry is actually beneficial.

Materials:

- 1 giant pitcher of water
- nearby access to the bathroom
- an environment to study in
- a stop watch (with timer function)
- 24 hours of uninterupted time

Method:

So, Here we go. I'm going to start soon. It should be noted that I had a nice big healthy breakfast and cleaned my teeth before I started. So, basically what I'll need to do is set my timer to 24 hours it goes to 23:59 but whatever it's essentially the same thing as 24 hours. And then you just need to use whatever resources you have to study!

The time is now 1:49 PM so I should be done by 1:49 PM tomorrow.

Yesterday I really took it easy... I took a break to help a friend and from there on, I was playing games, eating, and never really got around to studying again. I'm glad to have nearly mastered valuations, but I didn't completely master 'em... Furthermore, I don't think I made the CFE gold medalist study time.

I'm "In it, to win it!" - as my best friend Daniel once said.

Starting... NOW!

Notes:

2 minutes in and I already have distractions -_-. Bare in mind, when you're doing this death study thing, take it incredibly seriously. If someone says they need you or want you for something, tell them it will have to wait and that you're busy and then carry on. Do NOT try to help them or give them what they need. This is called DEATH STUDY for a reason! It's because you gotta study like your life depends on it!

10 minutes in and my ear started to itch from the ear plugs, hence the need for a bathroom. I usually use q-tips + coconut oil to stop any itches I have. Works like a charm. Make sure when you take your breaks (assuming ur crazy like me and want to do this death study thing, that you PAUSE your watch for any time you go to the bathroom and if you have to take care of a bodily urge such as an itch in the ear <-- this isn't an experience to annoy you, this is an experience designed to make you become aware of the urgent need to accumulate a lot of study time.

Just to ensure my body, physically, has enough strength to go 24 hours, I'll be using my changing seated positions method. I can describe it for you at the very least: Imagine a telephone number screen it goes:

1,2,3
4,5,6
7,8,9

Now imagine that 5 is you seated perfectly straight. The numbers represent positions so 1 is leaning towards the top left. You should get the idea by now. I'll be using that, because 24 hours is daunting, and I think my body will appreciation the diversification (as it usually does). This shouldn't take too much of a conscious effort lol, just change your position whenever you feel uncomfortable.

Don't forget to start your timer when you are taking an extremely small yet essential break. NO DISTRACTIONS. ABSOLUTELY NO means of COMMUNICATION (e.g. e-mail, social media, cell phones). Now's your chance to exercise self-control <-- the most important trait in this universe... at least in my opinion it is. :) You should render yourself into a Monk that doesn't speak if you do this right... Or at least a Monk who talks about CFE-related stuff to him or herself.

1 hour and 15 minutes in... Damn, this is tough already...

a little past 2 hours in... Okay.... Going crazy lol... but I'm making good progress... To entertain myself but mainly to be more efficient for the CFE, I decided to change my keys around using a program called sharp keys. Here's what I did in a nutshell.

downloaded the program sharp keys a year ago (i've done this before for cpa exams)

then i rearranged my keys so that my additional number pad also has nearby brackets i have to use shift but whatever, still closer, and i have a new comma key that replaces my enter key which i never press. and i have some backspace, delete, and enter keys which i have replaced with my right alt, ctrl and weird windows button I never use. So all in all = efficiency achieved!!!

Now then, I'm going to go do more learning!!!! yay... lol.

2 and a half hours have passed... I'm already starving *_* FML!!!!!!!!! I want food :'( not water. I'm not a plant!!! I can't do this!!!! GAHHHH!!!!! okay, for the future CFE exam, definitely will bring food for each day... possibly a snack that is healthy and might even possibly help me clean my teeth like an apple or something with vitamin c... But for today... WE GOIN ALL OUT BAYBEH... fuck my life... no really I don't think I can do it I eat so much everyday!!!! ....

Isn't this weird? In the past, I have frequently taken 3 hour walks, with no problem, no food... And yet, when I'm studying, all of a sudden after 2 hours I want food. What gives body!?! Oh and I've even done something called death march where I will walk for 9 hours straight!!! And even then I'm not super hungry... I can't explain it, I didn't study enough about biology to know why the body supresses it's hunger during a walk as opposed to when it's studying! Either way I WILL DO THIS BECAUSE:

1 - I believe in myself... I have faith in myself! Yes!!! The cheesiness of this blog never disappoints those who seek cheese!

2 - I'm a champ. bottom line. end of story. mi casa, su casa. nike: just do it. Okay enough with phrases that are becoming increasingly incoherent. Time to get back to work... Arrrrgh. Going to have a sip of water tho.... I'm thirsty... not to mention HUNGRY!!! Okay next time I do this... I'm going to create a food bottle + straw, one for each time of the day... Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner. It will contain blended up food, so that I can just swallow it. Instead of making my mouth a breeding ground for bacteria and thus wasting time on stupid shit like eating or brushing my teeth... I need to be more like those asian students with IVs <-- ethical issue here! As for eating food out of a blender, I'm still cool right? Right? Anyone? j/k...

Just ate 2 fish oil pills, and sipped on water... I'm glad I'm doing this death study thing... It's helping so far!!!! made me realize where my bottlenecks were in terms of my productivity. 

So 3 hours have officially passed. I'd definitely take a break by now... At least that's how I feel at the moment BUTTTT this is death study baby... and I'm taking it very seriously *giggles* and umm *giggles* IT"S SERIOUS STUFF. No, but in all honesty, I am taking it seriously... breaks to type in my blog are definitely breaks... But they're not destructive breaks that last for like 30 minutes long... More like 5 minutes or 10 minutes if I really go on a rant. I won't do that though... Is this even possible? I think I may reach a new level of nerditude. Good though man... I need to reach a new level of nerditude... I'm almost there... Going to get back to work. Need to finish off the quantitative and I'll double check to see if there's anything qualitative that's commonly seen on these egg-zams.

Oh man, I am so hungry! What a weird game I've decided to play...Well, I believe I'm pretty much done understanding how valuations work. I wanted to know this because I have a good feeling I'm gonna get tested on it! There's always SOOOO much detail in these cases and then you also have to make up your own reasonable assumptions, so there's a lot of work to be done... But I guess you gotta get the main stuff done as fast as possible. I have yet to test myself, so I should get to that FAST!!!

So I was tempted to go grab some food, afterall I am hungry! But forget it. I'm strong! IN THE MIND, BODY AND SOUL. I'm also healthy, I'm not taking any medication. THIS IS JUST A ONE TIME THING. Normally I eat a lot. So I have enough fat and muscle on my body for it to survive 24 hours without food... Still freaks me out. I'm about a third of the way. I was REALLY tempted lol.... I think once eating starts to significantly distract me from my work, then I'll eat something. Otherwise, I'll continue this death study... But wow. I was totally ready to give up and eat something. I don't think eating is horrible thing, OBVIOUSLY not. But I'm a man of principle. When I say something, it gets done. There's not ifs, there's no butts, there's no excuses. I respect my past self. I understand the importance of abiding by a statement my past self made. If this is a mistake, which I THINK IT IS. Let me learn from it. You know? As I said above, I'll plan my meal next time accordingly with a blender LOL. Inside scoop: I love blenders and blended food. Sounds gross but I really do <3 bless those smoothies and what nots. Okay, I'm gonna get back to studying, because this is death study and not death blog lol.

fuck it, ima go eat a sandwich. i deserve it lol I got shit done. Tell you what!!! I will still continue studying for the 17 hours I have left. This is still a death march... I just got hungry that's all ! It's too distracting.. I don't like the idea of not feeding my hungry body... Alright, time has been paused. I learned what I needed to learn so far. And I will do more learning later.. Good learning experience overall, and would recommend ATTEMPTING to do what I did to others. Of course, always including my disclosure: You do so at your own risk.


Result: This ended up being just a really good study day. I stopped studying at 11 PM and I started at a little less than 2 PM.

July 24, 2016

By now, my plan was to have finished mastering day 1 type cases...

Unfortunately, things haven't gone according to plan and I still don't know EVERYTHING there is to know about the day 1 cases..

Fortunately,... I know like 80% of everything there is to know lol. So that's pretty good!

The only thing I feel as though I'm missing right now are my quantitative analysis skills.

The ability to create a mock case

and the ability to write a mock case...

So for quant skills.

So yesterday (16 minutes ago) I broke my study record, and basically the average study time for a CFE gold medalist (i.e. 8 hours - I've read that they commonly study from 9 am - 5 pm)

Now, I want to go beyond that. Assuming I can even do that... I think the keys to going beyond those levels are having one crap day and other good days... by that I mean. Have a day where you accumulate groceries (so your food situation gets handled)... Recognizing your awake time. So let's say you're awake from 8 AM to 12 PM that's 16 hours of possible study time less anytime to eat and poop (what? we all know you poop lol) I guess the ideal study time would be 15 hours leaving 20 minutes for eating and pooping. Jeez. See I like to make these plans, but I don't necessarily stick with them. For example: I said in a previous post that I was going to start a polyphasic (I think that's what it was called) sleeping pattern. Which assured me of 12 hours of studying per day... Hey, if I have trouble reaching the 12 hour study mark. I'll try for that again. But man... that 1 or 2 days of polyphasic sleeping took a toll on my looks. I'm going off on a tangent, so back to my point: I started a polyphasic sleeping pattern, and I didn't stick with it. Frankly, it's quite crazy. I have done it before. But it's not the easiest schedule to stick to.

As long as I'm awake & studying, that's a good sign for me.

Another thing I like to do is leave water out in cups. I like the convenience of drinking water to keep my hydrated. Another excellent thing I've done is I'm pretty dang organized with my space. I'm living in my parents basement, and I have a pretty sweet room. My room is basically set up like this:

Entrance > bedroom > some space for a tv and gaming console > giant closet with sink > bathroom

What I did was become slightly more disciplined. For example, whenver I need entertainment, I make it a mission to do so on my tv with gaming console. Whenever I want go to the bathroom, I go to my bathroom, whenever I want to study, I moved my study table from my bedroom to this random giant closet with a sink. My mom came and she was like WATTTT's going on!? I'm like SHHHHH i'm studying. Go away! Ur a b!tch. j/k I would never tell her to go away (okay that was an extra joke). I don't tell my mom she's a b!tch. At least not yet... LOL OKAY, I digress. Anyways. The point is... Now that I have a room, just for studying. Whenever I'm in it, that's all I do. I don't take naps in between studying which I used to do. I also have the freedom of studying 24/7 if I want to. There are no library hours where I can get kicked out. <3 mwah! I love this odd studying room. It's SO kick ass...

One of my many mottos is: The more organized you are, the more money you make. This is true for whenever you're cleaning your room, and you find that 20 dollar bill (you know the one your mom gave you! LOL I'm kidding, last 20 I found I earned. But still I like to make these types of jokes because I still live with my parents). But yeah, in this case, I'm applying my motto to my actual spaces which I use for various activities. It was much more mixed. I still play games in the bathroom on my throne, but even that I've realized not to play too much.

A recent key motto is the one I talked about in a previous post about being ELITE, and being AVERAGE, and being a LOSER. It's on my mind a lot! My motivations are also on my mind A LOT!

Here's the most recent motto I picked up from one of my favorite shows (I have a good portion of my favorite shows on my gaming console):

If there's something you want, WIN!

This motto doesn't always hold true, but in most cases I'd have to agree that it does. For example, I want to be happy in the future (then Win at studying!)... For example, I want to eat (then Win at work!)... For example, I want a girlfriend (then Win at pick up)... For example, I want to get in better shape (then Win! at dieting and exercise)... There is a concept called upward spirals. Here's a cool document about it and more.

Another motto that's been on my mind:

Success breeds success

Implication for myself: yes, the first day I tried to study, I got 1 hour done, I even had 30 minutes of studying the entire day the same week... Today I hit 9 hours of studying. Anything is possible, and just by staying positive (and surrounding myself with positive people (i.e. no one because everyone's a turd j/k but I only chatted with other candidates, my ex was soooo negative sometimes. Whenever I told her something I was proud of, for example a month ago I think I studied for 2 hours straight, and i'm like oh yeah... studied for 2 hours straight ;)... she's like that's not that much. You suck. You should study longer. I was immediately like... wtf! I'm so proud and happy about my accomplishments. and she turned it into poop. She is the type of person, who when you're excited about something you bought, e.g. a camera, and it's a $100 camera, and you bought it on sale for $30, when you say: I GOT A GREAT DEAL ON A CAMERA!!! I GOT IT ON SALE!!! GUESS HOW MUCH I BOUGHT IT FOR!?? She'd say 1 dollar lol. or like something low below the amount you bought it for. Like, what the heck!!! Anyone who's socially savvy KNOWS to at least say something higher than normal. Or someone who's smart, knows that no one wants to hear an amount lower than what you bought it for on sale, that is a shot in the foot. so glad she's gone..... kinda.

*Sigh* okay so, enough ranting...

Here's some food for thought (see bottom):

Conceited / Cocky / Full of yourself. What are the meanings of these words:

Conceited - to be have an excessively favourable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit.

Cocky - to make claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud.

Full of yourself - very self-satisfied and with an exaggerated sense of self-worth.

Okay, so what is the point of stating 3 synonyms? The point is: don't be satisfied with reaching your goal. It doesn't guarantee that you will pass in my opinion.

Think of something you do to the max. For example: Sometimes when I eat a good plate of food, I'll lick the plate. Or sometimes when I play a game, I'll tell myself "I gotta push myself to the max!" Sometimes when I study or spin on my head, I do everything I can to push myself to the max. 


HOWEVER, it's not always on my mind. I'm not all omniscient (that means I don't know everything). So thoughts escape me. That being said, I need to try to keep in mind, this is a war. I don't want to walk out of the war thinking: "Damn, I was so full of myself and my study methods, that I thought for sure I would pass, and then bam. I didn't pass"

So in conclusion, what I'm trying to say is: whenever you have the opportunity to kill it in life KILL IT! because we can't freeze time like you can save a state in a video game, you can only follow through with your best strategy of doing what works. So I need to learn how to recognize when I feel I've accomplished a lot, I should respond by telling myself: it's not enough, and look for ways to improve.

and as CFE gold medalists have said: it's a marathon, not a race.

kay, going to play a quick game, do a bit of studying, brush my teeth and head to sleep!

I did play a quick game, I did NOT do a bit of studying and I didn't brush my teeth, because I passed out...

Fortunately I got 8 hoursof sleep and my dark circles under my eyes are gone! Yaaaay! That's always nice to look good...

It's 9:53 AM

Which means study time left in the day is limited to 14 hours... someone's at my door... Hmmm wonder who that is...

Food basics (a grocery store) near my house is open! I think I'm going to allocate some time to shopping since I need to have convenient (and healthy) food. And I don't wanna be hungry while I study...

Hmmmm what to eat?

Here's an interesting article on breakfast for the brain.

May or may not go to grocery store today! Woo-hoo?!
 

Just ate 2 eggs with (bread + mustard+ walnuts) + 4 fruits (i.e. banana, peach, orange, cherries)

I always like to eat 5 things for a meal generally 5 fruits for breakfast, but I figure the egg will help since I read something about the brain enjoying choline and that eggs are a good source of choline. I ran out of my favorite sunflower seeds, so I really do need to go grocery shopping also we barely had any oranges, and I do like to eat 5 fruits. I have the money. Now I just need to set aside some time to go to the store!

ANYWAYs, going to clean my teeth, and then work the rest of the day. Life is good.
 




Started studying at 3 PM. Not timing my study sessions today, Just going for the gusto, as long as I can which hopefully should be around 12 AM. or even better 3 AM. Need to drink water... thinking about it makes me thirsty lol!

Only those who can endure defeat can grow stronger - that being said, I need to start testing myself, and yes... Failing.

5:00 PM - was starting to feel sick, my nose would not stop running! So I went upstairs and ate some ground beef <-- I heated it up and threw out any saturated fats <-- they tend to make me feel like ass. And then I had some chicken bbq skewer with vegetables. I saw some onion on the counter and I was like.... mm mmm.. mmm ;) looking good onion. SOoooo, I ate it raw along with the ground beef I was eating. Onion has anti-cancer properties, but more importantly, it has vitamin C!!! So does watermelon, so I ate some watermelon as well. I didn't rinse my mouth water coconut oil afterwards,,, maybe I'm not storing my coconut oil properly... I've eaten coconut before and that stuff can go bad... so maybe i need to place my coconut oil in a cooler place. Either way, I'm feeling a lot better now... I just closed my bathroom door, maybe that was making me sick LOL :S I really don't know... But nevertheless:

COLD SYMPTOMS + VITAMIN C from VEGES/FRUITS = BYE BYE COLD SYMPTOMS

Came downstairs with a calm and focused mind. Then I identified some cases that had a concept I wanted to master. And now I'm going to master it based on 2 major reasons:

1 - I'm elite. When I fall, I get right back up and keep working
2 - I'm a winner. When I feel like not starting/continuing, I start and I continue. Also I'm focused.

These reasons aren't specific to myself (although I created them), they can generally be applied to anyone. It's a conscious choice to be elite and/or a winner. Just don't get emotionally attached to the outcome of these mindsets. if you lose, so what. You can win a good mindset, but you can't win without one. That being said, it's only advantageous to support the above 2 reasons wholeheartedly.

I felt like taking a break...But guess what... lol my values still hold true. I suppose this is a break by just writing this down... Lemme re-write this for myself and the reader:

Not one athlete exists who hasn't fallen. The most elite athletes get back up and continue working. The average ones take longer to rise, and the losers are content lying flat on their backs.

In my case, knowledge is power. I can clearly see the options I have:

be elite. be average. or be a loser.

being elite <-- you're admired by anyone who knows you
being average <-- people care for you, but do so in a fluctuating manner
being a loser <-- people don't care for you, because you're a contagious problem

Yeah, IF i had a choice. And I do because I already know how the elite/average/loser will act. I'd rather not be a loser, because I don't think it's cool to lie flat on your back. Unless of course, you're sleeping.

Okay... This is too much LOL I'm just going to be elite and get back to work :P YEAH BAYBEH! <-- I usually say this to all the other online players when I capture the flag in a game of unreal tournament.

July 23, 2016

I started studying around 12 / noon today.

And so far I've studied for 3 hours and 30 minutes. There are 8 hours left in the day. my aim for today is 12 hours, so I'm going to continue. I was about to take a break but eff that. "Everything I do, I do it big" "Black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow"

+3 hours

+2 hours &29 minutes

Oh snap... I pretty much reached 9 hours! Score!!! :)

July 22, 2016

1 hour from 12 to 1AM.

it's 7:55 AM and I woke up 10 minutes ago... First thing I did was brush my teeth because I had forgotten to do it.

I flossed, rinsed, and then lied down (told myself i'm only going to lie down for a few minutes which was literally a LIE down)

Beware of the "LIE" down.

So after I finished brushing my teeth, of course being the "millenial" that I am, I turned on my phone and tried to use a dating

app. It didn't work... Then I thought of a weird idea about how bearded homeless men get laid more than me because being bearded

is a trendy thing. Then I thought this which was actually important:

I should study.

But then i'm like pfft I don't want to start studying.

Then I realized... This is the path of the LOSER!

Remember peeps, being a loser/winner is literally a conscious choice. So obviously I will choose to be a winner.

The qualities of the winner are: they start whenever they feel like not starting, and they continue whenever they feel like stopping.

The qualities of the loser are: they don't start whenever they feel like not starting, and they stop whenever they feel like stopping.

So I wasted 4 minutes typing the above... Not a big deal, because I figure with a fresh start... I slept for like 3-4 hours... My body

has just naturally tuned into this type of sleeping pattern... COOL! Anyways, with a fresh start I bet I can hit 3 hours straight of

studying no problem. I'm gonna go at it, and I'll see what I come up with. Let the games begin!



The internet is down so I'm writing this from a notepad file... Man... Some of these student solutions I'm reading provide HORRIBLE audit trails...

I realized the best thing to do is look at the marker solutions... I happen to have those... telling me exactly what to do... Although, the student solutions

I'm reading are successful responses so they're not bad... Maybe it's good I'm struggling a bit... All I know is I can't take too long of a break...











So far I've accomplished 1 hour and 38 minutes of studying,











and the time now is 10:34... I would LOVE L O V E to go to yorkdale today to breakdance...

But I feel like I really need to use every single hour from now until the 23rd.. and the 23rd is tomorrow! I wanna be ready!!! >_< Gahhhh! It's true...

I probably will have to be able to use every single hour...

because not only do I need to understand all the qualitative analysis... i also need to understand the rest of the report parts, and then I'd like to

come up with a sample additional information for the company I got for Capstone 1... All of this takes A LONG ass time... Not to mention, I still haven't understood..

omg... hahaha, yeah. Def. can't go to practice... but hey, at least I'll be prepared. It's called a trade off! And it's simply a choice. I choose to

be a winner. So that's what I'll be. it is what it is. I can go have fun, or I can work my ass off. I'll chose work my ass off if it means more fun in the future.

I don't live in the moment, I'm not some motorcyclist lol. I'm an accountant!

I took a 15 minute break to eat (rinsed my mouth with water before I studied)...

I got the 15 minute break idea from a CFE gold medalist... YEAAAAA. It's 11 AM. Results for Capstone 1 are released in 1 hour... I'm not really concerned,

I'm more interested in learning quantitative analysis for the various types of alternatives I could see on the CFE Day 1 case.

Now, i'm gonna go back to work!

I wasn't timing myself :( But I think I earned:




1 hour! :)


Good news: I passed Capstone 1 ^^ hahaha I'm happy. Our group rocks... It's basically official. And now back to our regular programming *_*.

+ studied for 30 minutes. 

+ studied for 10 minutes.

 + studied for 4 hours and 30 minutes

Total amount of time studied today *Drum roll* =  7 hours and 48 minutes! Nice :D okay not bad... I was hoping for more... But I'll just have to make it happen ;)

July 21, 2016

Still haven't reached the 8 hour mark... But I'm getting there!

Let's see how today goes. I might try to follow my polyphasic sleeping pattern. However I noticed it does take a bit of a toll on my body. My eyes look mega tired. My immune system gets crappier because of the lack of long sleep. To resolve that immune system problem, I can just brush my teeth and eat healthy (disease fighting) food so that I don't get sick.

Kay. Gotta get to work! Startinggggg NOW! 6:43 am

studied for 34 minutes

ate a slice of pumpernickel bread with hummus on it. rinsed my mouth with water.

Meditated/Slept for 20 minutes <-- a giant lawnmower sound woke up me up...

now i'm back at it again.

1 hour and 38 minutes. YEAH BAYBEH! And it's only 9:47 :D woohoo!!! Feeling it ^^

Focusing on myself *thumbs up* iz very niiiiice! I like!

okay... oops. I napped for 2 hours lol. going to start studying again. I should use an alarm so that my meditative relaxing / sleeping sessions aren't 2 hours long.

It's now 12:18 and I'm going to start studying again. so from 6 to 12, I basically studied 2 hours. :S... okay not good. I need to up the ante!!! Going to try and stop studying in A FEW HOURS!

ttyl blog.

accomplished an extra 3 hours and 13 minutes of studying!!! Wow. Woohoo! I noticed my ideas and answers get MEGA refined when I increase my experience :)

Just finished studying an extra 4 hours O)_(o... 1 hour of which was into the next day... so to be fair I'll add that onto tomorrow but SUH-WEET! I'm almost 100% ready for the qualitative analysis required for alternatives... Man, I'm so dangerous right now LOL! lots of studying helps :P

so assuming I studied 3 hours + 3 hours and 13 minutes + 2 hours = 8 hours <-- CFE Gold medalist level ;)

Awww yeuhhhhh! But I'm sure there is a level above this!!! *_* And I will achieve it!

Now I need to eat and brush my teeth! Woohoo :)

July 20, 2016

"Nobody told you, that you'd face the truth alone" <-- from my favorite song. :P

Here's a bigggggg analogy that really upp'd my mood and why I'm going to SMASH the day today:

"There isn't one athlete that exists that hasn't fallen.

The elite athletes are the ones that fall and get right back up and work hard.

The average athletes are the ones that hesitate and take longer to get back up.

The losers are the ones who are content with staying on the ground."


I won't say where I got this from, but I didn't create it. I can DEFINITELY relate with it though. I used to be one of the top athletes in Canada, so I think I like the wording. But I don't really think this has anything to do with being an elite athlete. There is only one difference between an elite athlete and a crappy one. An elite athlete has an INSANE amount of fire burning in him to reach the top of the game. The ones who are average, are the ones that play for fun, they use their natural abilities to attain whatever level of success they can from the game. And the ones who lose are the ones who quit the playing the game. Period.

Anywho, I still like the above quote.

Just finished 1 hour and 50 minutes. Need to do MORE! I'm going to. Today will be an awesome day! Just going to take a break.

+ 35 minutes

went swimming, showered, dried (all while my printer printed out some documents)

*back to studying now*

+56 minutes
+43 minutes
=
4 hours and 4 minutes of studying done today... Okay not bad!

July 19, 2016

High hopes for today! Need to sleep! Ttyl!

So far I've completed 2 hours and 30 minutes today... Crap, my hair tends to thin when I don't get much sleep.

While I have created a study schedule, it clearly isn't aligned with my natural lifestyle. That being said, I'm sort of doing my best to abide by it. For example, I'm the type of person that spends a good portion of his life in the bathroom lol it just takes me longer to brush my teeth because I'm anal about it. So allocating 30 minutes for eating, cleaning, and brushing my teeth, basically isn't enough.

Fortunately, if I plan carefully I can follow the schedule. Even then, it's usually hella tight. For example, In the morning, I have cut up fruit, blended it into a smoothie, and then drank it, just to make my meal time shorter. But when I don't buy groceries and what not, then I have to rely on whatever's in the fridge. :(

Anywho, I'm still studying right now. It's going pretty well. There's a lot of iterations which have to take place in order to refine your method. SO, it truly is tough. I'm going to aim for finishing Capstone 1 material by the end of Saturday/beginning of Sunday... That way I can start studying for Capstone 2 stuff soon. I find out if my group passed for Capstone 1 in 3 days. And then there's a 1 week break until Capstone 2... Time to go back to studying.

I'm not really timing myself right now. Just keeping a mental note. it's roughly 1:30 PM and I'm going to aim for around a later time (lol I don't want to say what time because I don't want to jinx it!) I haaaate when I say I'll study for X:XX until Y:YY and I don't reach it. But I know in my head how long I want to study for.... I thought I studied for 4 hours today but who knows, it might've been 6... It was somewhere in between. I'm going to aim for A LOTTTT of hours tomorrow!

July 18, 2016

I've created alarms for my schedule. It's KEY to take each alarm VERY SERIOUSLY.

Also another key is to realize that things that are interesting are like 3 pointers (they yield nearly zero points in the short and especially long run). Things like studying are 2 pointers (they yield a few points in the short-run and a lot of points in the long run).

Okay, I have a great feeling about today!

Got 6 hours of studying done today :D... Yup! Today was great. My whole polyphasic? sleep pattern thing works! I'm hoping I can reach higher. And trust me. I'm getting work done which is great.

I'm gonna go back to sleep basically cuz i'm suppposed to be doing that, however I just woke up so I thought I'd give this an update.

July 17, 2016

Okay. MAYBE, I shouldn't have said I found the magic pill lol.

But I did improve A LOT!

I went from studying an hour to 2 hours a day to 4 hours a day within the past few days... So it's a very good improvement! that's 400% compared with the beginning 1 hour to the now 4 hours a day so far...

I'm hoping to reach 12 hours a day. But it really depends on how well I will stick to the schedule I made...

So I'm getting better. Just have to get EVEN better :) ... It's pretty cool!

Now it's 4:35 AM. I'm going to report back with how many hours I'm able to put into today. I have a REALLY good feeling... but I know I have to be incredibly disciplined :( ... lol... I wish I had someone to be here with me... all of a sudden. And I hope I pass. I shouldn't say I hope. Or good luck to me... Because I was listening to my past self about how I'd pass the CPA Taxation course, and I was like No luck! All skill! Gotta try hard if I'm going to make something happen. I was impressed with myself lol... <-- I'm not congradulating myself <-- which is unprofessional. But I am just impressed with my past self. That's all. Okay, I'm really tired. I also had some ground beef which I rarely do, and I feel a tad gross / sick. Afterall, it's a dead animal that I ate. also ate some dead chicken LOL! this is the reality. And I'm merely stating facts. ANYWHO...

I'll report back here with my total progress for the day! I think if I ever reach 12 hours a day, it should be sufficient. If I don't feel that it's sufficient, then I'll try to up the ante, although, that's borderline crazy! :P

It's 8:58 AM... Came upstairs... Started making hummus. Woohoo! Now, 1 hour from now it should be done! I just have to add some salt and baking soda. I'm not super hungry! But I would like some nice fruit or something... They took away my online banking *_*...


It's 3:49 PM... I'm going to have to forgo my new sleep schedule,

but that's not the biggest problem...

 The biggest problem was the above. See this statement "I wish I had someone to be here with me" I said that because I was lonely. BUT BEING ALONE IS WHAT I WANTED. If I wanted my relationship with my ex to work out or take over a portion of my life, that would've happened. I didn't. Because I got for what I asked. IT"S A TRADE OFF. I or any other candidate who had to make a similar sacrifice needs to understand it's a trade off!!!! You're trading off the time you could spend having fun with your partner to study for a better job in the future!!!! Moreover, I'm not doing this for my lover. I've been with many women so far in my life. A lot of which were smoking hot. The girl I was with last was NOT the hottest girl I've ever been with. She did NOT have the best personality ever. But when you're with someone for so long, you tend to rationalize your feelings like "omg she/he is the hottest, or omg he/she has the best personality" Let's be real. There is a billion something people on planet Earth, and it's full of people you could potentially have a relationship so NO, I do not want someone here to be with me. That was a mistake, and almost a negative statement in my eyes. That shit will bring you down! So there's no need to get down.

Here's my basketball rule: you want to go for 2 pointers, instead of 3 pointers. I won't go into to detail, because believe it or not, it's a very secret rule of my own. But I'm going to apply it.

I want to be studying in 2 minutes! So I need to get off of here. Another thing, I wanted to say was:

I don't have kids right now. But if I ever plan on having one or more. If there is even the slightest chance, that I will have a child. I need to kill it right now for them. I need to prove that I'm willing to take pain*infinity for them. So, I'm going to go prove it right now. PEACE! That alone is enough motivation to make me pass the CFE and 1,000,000 other exams just as difficult. My own child will be that precious to me. Alrighty. I'll ttyl! And I'll let u know what happens with my day. Yesterday was 4 hours of studying = completed. Today will be = 1 hour! Crap... I got so bored of doing work. I kept going on my phone.

Here's something I used to do. Throw away my phone or lock it up.

One thing I used to do to nail all my study sessions was rehearse all my values. <-- This was very meditative, similar to prayer. I remember I'd get more study sessions in when I'd do this. Time to execute :@ grrr

July 16, 2016

Starting a polyphasic sleep pattern.

Only way I've found true control in my environment is my room. Studying at other locations like schools or libraries harbour potential distractions. They're not bad places to study. I just haven't found much success with them.

I believe I've found the magic pill. What i did was created signs in my room for example, one sign above my bed says r zone, another sign says s zone and another sign says b zone. Each of which are designated areas for ONLY that activity. For example the sign above my bed, r zone is for when I need to rest. I created a schedule. So far I'm following it like clockwork. Which is great, because I haven't studied this much in a very long time. I just finished my first three hours. I plan on studying 4x this amount. The schedule goes something like this:

study for 3 hours, eat & clean for 30 minutes, rest for 2 hours, go to the bathroom for 30 minutes, and then start studying again. And then 4 x this a day, = 8 hours of sleeping  aday, 12 hours of studyig per day, 2 hours of eating cleaning a day, and 2 hours of going to the bathroom + grooming <-- not that i'll really need to groom myself lol but hey... I can always adjust this schedule, I'm just trying it out. I used to use the same schedule when I was in my bachelors program :P And it worked like a charm. So, let's see how the CFE likes it. I think it's awesome! Anyways, I've wasted 5 minutes of my 30 minute break on here... so i'm gonna go eat, i'm starving!

So I ended up studying for 3 hours straight! Yaaaaay. But then I ate and brushed my teeth (went overtime with that) and went to sleep and overslept..... -_-...  I have 1 hour remaining in the day. I'm going to try and grab it so I can say I studied for 4 hours today. ttyl!

July 15, 2016

Oh man. Today was a utter failure I got like 1.5 hours of studying in. It's 3:37 AM right now. I ate some cereal with banana and nuts. before that I had some chicken. I'm good for food, and have had plenty of rest. I wish there was somewhere I could study. I could study in my room, but there are so many distractions here! I hate it! I really need to minimize distractions... hmmmm.

July 14, 2016

I basically spent the first 3 hours of today playing unreal tournament. That game is SO sick... I was about to play again, but maybe I shouldn't LOL...

I need to plan very carefully. Because the next 2 months are crucial to my success...

I'm really happy with the whole going out and studying thing. It gets me out of my comfort zone, and really keeps me on my toes to study.

I like the whole late night study habit though... It's nice. But if I can study during the day that would be great too.

Ideally, I'd like to get to York or the Library by 6 AM or 9 AM respectively. I think I'll aim for York... I dunno. I think because it's an educational institution, I take it studying there VERY seriously. If it were the library, I'd feel too comfortable. Just what I think...  *Yawn*

What's my goal for tomorrow... Honestly... Keep growing man. Anything more than 4 hours I would be INCREDIBLY satisfied with. Because then I know I'm growing 100%

first day was 1 hour.

Then was 2 hours.

And hopefully anything more than 4 hours and it's 100% growth.

Sooner or later I'll just need to maintain whatever growth level I've created.

Money is a huge factor because I need money to ... well. EAT! other than that. Travel, Sleep, are all things I have taken care of. For travel I have a bike. which works great. And for sleep I have my trusty: Bed. lol. Yeah so I really just need money for eating.

I need I have $240 coming in over the next year from OTB. and other than that, I have no income! As far as I know... There is money that pays my phone bill, but I think I need a phone. I have my RRSP which I have shown in the past to that I take money out of it lol.

When I was tutoring I was charging $20/hour... People want someone who's a specialist. That's where the money goes. I really have to keep it simple stupid, and get the money from my dad (who said he would get it to me) or just take it from my RRSP. My competition are people with jobs, they are not thinking how can I pay for this, because they work and thus have the funds!

July 13, 2016

Started studying at 4PM... I was pretty bored after 30 minutes.

I went to the bathroom and played a game of street fighter 2 turbo. I was so happy that I beat ryu on the hardest difficulty level :) I was suuuuper happy actually! but then I realized we were tied, and there was another round remaining. During the remaining round I lost, because he was really tough! Anyways the LESSON: "no matter who the opponent, there is no such thing as a guaranteed win" Which got me thinking about how I study. A lot of times I get really happy for completing a certain portion of the assignment. When the fact is: there is the whole remaining portion of the assignment that needs to be finished. A win isn't the REAL win unless you've won all the matches in the competition. And a study session isn't a study session unless you've studied everything it is you need to study.

There is another proverb I put into play. AND IT"S A GREAT ONE!:

"If you keep doing what you've always been doing, you're going to get what you've always got."

That being said, I was really unhappy with my study habits. I kept falling asleep on my bed, because the work was incredibly boring!

So thanks to my brain, it said. HEY! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU"RE DOING!? Remember that proverb!? APPLY IT! So I did, I asked my mom for the car keys. She was like are you going to go breakdancing!? because usually I ask for the car keys for this reason, I told her NO, I'm going to go study at the university! And she was like fine. So I drove to the university nearby, they always keep their doors open 24/7, and I just parked my car, brought a bunch of papers (didn't use all of them, but I did use many!) Then I walked to this spot I remember I studied in once. And I went there and it was GREAT! I studied for 1.5 hours. So total for today is 2 hours! :D that's twice as much as I studied yesterday lol.. I know it's not much, but I'm very proud of myself, and I don't care what people think. I am happy with growth no matter how small or big. 100% growth is awesome. I'm not complaining.

 I'm going to try and go there tomorrow. I'm a little worried there may be classes there during the day... What day is it tomorrow? July 14th... Do university students have class on July 14th? Whatever, I will just find a classroom that's not being used... The library close by me is good. But york university is GREAT! I really like it. It opens at 6 AM much earlier than the library. and it Closes at 11 PM much later than the library. the only difference is, it takes much longer to get to york university. Furthermore, the library has a grocery store beside it and York university doesn't. I wish my br0ther would answer my freakin' calls. This is bananaz! He doesn't seem very reliable right now... Honestly, I'm just going to pull money out of my RRSP... He's too unreliable, at least for me.

July 12, 2016

July 11, 2016 was all talk and no show. I did do mostly everything I said. But i didn't get to start studying :S Never made it past brushing my teeth. It happens, yes. Anyways, I woke up. Brushed my teeth, I was so exhausted. I should try to sleep whenever I'm tired instead of staying up. Okay, there are no absolutes, so that's kinda BS. But generally, sleep when you're tired...

I just organized my room, my brain feels clear because my room is clear. lol. Seriously though, it's so clean *_*

I've arranged my room into study mode for Day 1 CFE. So I'm going to continue organizing just a bit more and then I'll start studying soon.

 Literally got 1 hour of studying done from 5:30 AM to 6:30 AM. I'll get better... This happens. 

July 11, 2016 - List of Motivations

there are two types of drives for me:

intangible drives (various motivations) and tangible drive (i.e. food)
- food actually gives you energy, and makes sure your body's organs are healthy (In the past 20 minutes, I've been eating a giant bowl of awesome salad: broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoe, romaine lettuce, carrots, sesame seed oil, mustard, and kiwi!) <-- delicious and nutritious.

- intangible drives push you to do the right thing.
There are a lot of intangible drives.

I've mentioned a few in prior posts, for example:

I gotta pass to avoid failure!
I gotta pass to maintain my lifestyle
I gotta pass to increase the life in my life
I have to pass for my future children
I have to pass for my wife (I'll most likely want to give the world to her)
I have to pass for my friends
I have to pass for my family
I have to pass for ME (i.e. my own betterment)!
I have to pass because I'm wearing my CFE gold medalist shoes!
I have to pass in order to be a BOSS!
I have to pass in order to avoid/mitigate being someone's BITCH!
I have to pass to attain knowledge and wisdom!
I have to pass for my future business!
I have to pass for my peers!
I have to pass for all the things I've given up to do this
I have to pass for my environment (my environment is FULL of over-achievers <-- both close and far) 
I have to pass based on my past (I have been overachieving for a LONG time now, I've been growing and growing and I don't have any excuse for why I shouldn't be able to grow in terms of the mind) 
I have to work on passing because the exam is approaching!

My specific goal

ET Motivational Video - Work while working, 120% effort, Sacrifice

Rocky Motivational Video - You gotta be willing to take the hits, Cowards blame others 



You gotta have a drive, and it's gotta push you to do the right thing...

Until about the 15th motivation, I probably would have taken a break. and played 1 game and then started studying. But I won't do that now. There's so much riding on this!!!! I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW!

I have no hesitation to move forward right now :) So I'll be doing that.

I'm gonna start flossing, brushing, and then oil pulling and then I'll start up because I KNOW, I mean LOOK AT ALL THOSE MOTIVATIONS. There are probably MORE, that I can't even see. Scary... Can you imagine if you had 1,000,000,000,000 motivations? by that I just mean everyone on planet Earth was dependent on your success? It's a thought! Alrighty. I'm going to get to it. PEACE and TTYL!

July 10, 2016

I am done Capstone 1. Most likely we passed based on the feedback we received after we finished our presentation. It was fun!

It was actually a great learning experience.

I don't do presentations often, but I have spoken before in front of thousands of people. I mainly used a relaxed body language to determine my mood, instead of being nervous <-- which doesn't help. I still had a hint of nervousness. But I kept telling myself. I practiced OMG the way I was practiced was hilarious. I googled some random 3 faces. and then I printed them out and taped them on a wall, and presented to them. Because that's what the panel we told would be. 3-4 CPAs. We got 3. Anyways.

My presentation was fairly spot on. Here is my KEY to doing presentations well: LAND THE PLANE!

by land the plane, i mean look hit your point that you were supposed to memorize, but when it comes out of your mouth, maybe it won't be exactly the same as you had planned on saying it. Maybe you'll feel like using different words. However, YOU MUST LAND THE PLANE, and by that I mean, you must flow with your thoughts into a solid point. So I did that and BAM, no "ummm"s no "hmmms" it was simply flowing. Which is important. I fumbled once or twice but I just carried on and continued. because YOU GOTTA LAND THE PLANE lol. you need to move on and make the points you need to make. it looks AWFUL if you were to just stumble and stop. but if you stumble. Gather your thoughts. and keep going, it'll be just fine :) <-- this is for the actual presentation. Even when you're practicing. The way I practiced was with a video camera. I filmed myself (1)- giving the presentation to the camera x5 (2) - looking in the mirror x5 (3) - to the random faces I printed out on google  images x2 or 3?

There was so much urgency, that I didn't stop very much. I was actually VERY impressed by my brain. After 2 or 3 presentations, you can see the difference. You mind is a lot like a bike wheel or hamster wheel in that if you give it a push, it will continue. So you basically turn a speech which you have to try and memorize, into a speech that is autopilot.

This is a great learning mechanism. It basically proved my TEARS theory. I have this theory called T.E.A.R.S. it stands for Technique + Experience + Application reigns supreme. And WOW! I definitely saw how if you accumulate experience (it doesn't matter if it's 4 PM or 4AM) If you are using your brain, your brain will give you improvements in recall. Because I was recalling VERY well. after I went through the process above. So another KEY is EXPERIENCE.

I got to the parking location and parked across the street where there was free parking. My group members paid for parking (which to me, didn't make much sense) but whatever. My team was waiting, while this guy came in and started babbling about a new pokemon game and I'm pretty sure he was hitting on one of our group members. I really didn't care, I just ignored him.

To me, it's very common sense. If you go in well-prepared for a test/presentation/exam, you shouldn't listen to ANYTHING a fellow writer/presenter is saying. They might wanna throw you off your game. Especially when you have to recall certain words in a speech. The last thing you want to hear is some distraction speak lol. So I politely ignored/listened selectively. Waited until we had to leave (which i wanted to do). We went in early. My group member made the mistake of being like ALRIGHT LET'S DO THIS WOOOOOH! WE WERE BORN READY! lol it was funny and nice to see his enthusiasm. But we had a bad start. He started presenting with the powerpoint not even on -_-... When the powerpoint was on though, He was quite dependable and did a great job. So did my other team member. The other two were also good. One of them brought cue cards, which was a clear mistake (they spotted it and talked about it in our constructive criticism after the presentation), however since majority of our presentation was good, they gave us a good sign that we did well. They said: our slides made sense, we kept good eye contact (oh yeah!) and we also spoke clearly and articulately.

Lastly, I spoke to my friend, gave some tips to her team, and then hung out with my 2 group members a bit, and then drove home!

Now, I haven't had any sleep because I was up all night gaining EXPERIENCE. Which wow, you really shouldn't underestimate and bam. Now I'm going to pass out. Hope this was a helpful post. Although I didn't go into any content of the case we presented (which is against CPA rules). I don't think it's against the rules to write about how you prepared for a speech. Should be fine! Peace out :)

Okay two more points before i go! We actually had technical difficulties during our presentation. The mouse stopped working 1/3 way through and we ended up having to use the keyboard, THEN THE KEYBOARD stopped working, and we had to use the mouse pad on the laptop. Pretty crazy, so make sure there are ZERO technical difficulties with your preparation laptop. and go with that one! Another thing, the projector provided by CPA was not centered. It was horrendous for the first few slides, completely off the projector screen. So I grabbed a nearby small item and centered the screen.  Lastly, a criticism with more than one team was taking questions. If you don't have a rule where after one person answers a question, another person who hasn't answered the question will need to answer, your presentation will look as though it weighs heavily on a few group members. This isn't what markers want to see. They want to see the entire team answering questions. So implement that rule, and you should be fine. If a team member wants help with a question they can ask. Otherwise omg. Do that rule, I didn't get to speak, and was a tad annoyed by this.

who cares though! Probably passed! Yeeehaw! gnyte.

July 9, 2016

Today I met up with my group at 1:30 at our meet up spot.

We went through the presentation twice.

I timed my part to about 5:39 seconds after omittiing all the details in the implementation plan...

I looked back one too many times apparently. So I'll try to perfect that before I go to bed.

I saw a girl with a really nice ass on the way back, so as soon as I got home, I jumped on my bike and started up a conversation with her. LOL she is into business and she seems like a really cool girl. And we may hang out and play video games! THE POWER OF CREEPING LOL. I still miss my ex a lot. :'( I'm not quite sure breaking up with her was the best decision. Although she was super toxic for me, I still miss her. It's called a bad addiction!

Oh, So finally I go home, then I went to Staples to print out a business card design I had. Then I cut it out with scissors. The damn paper cutter at staples worked horribly! Messed up one of my cards slightly a bit. It's okay though! I still think it will add value to our presentation, so I'll be paper clipping those puppies onto the slides we hand out.

Anything else? Yeah... ummm... I need to practice presenting before I head to bed and it's already 12:43 PM!

 Buttttt, I did just make an AMAZING SALAD (carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, romaine lettuce <-- all chopped up, and then drizzled with sesame seed oil and a bit of mustard) Awww Yeeuh


REMEMBER PEOPLE: FOUNDATION, FOUNDATION, FOUNDATION.

You need a healthy body to sport a healthy mind. So that's what I did just now and I feel PHENOMENAL after eating my salad :)....

So I'm leaving home at 8:40, Gonna start brushing my teeth at 8:10, going to take a 10 minute shower at 7:40  by 7:50 I'll be drying myself off and jumping to in my suit. And then from 7:55 I'll have some whole grain cereal I bought and try to go to the bathroom. and then I'll floss and brush my teeth at 8:10.

So basically, my plan is:

7:40 AM - wake up and shower
7:50 AM - dry and get dressed
7:55 AM - finish getting dressed and eat breakfast <-- for breakfast eat the cereal i bought + add walnuts
8:10 AM - finish breakfast and floss then brush teeth 
8:40 AM - leave home for yorkdale holiday inn
9:00 AM - arrive at Yorkdale holiday inn
9:45 AM - present presentation and participate in Q&A.

Worse case scenario, just wear whatever you need to dress professionally and leave with cards as well as a print out of what you need to say.

But yeah we'll aim for best case scenario where I"M READY AND HAVE TIME FOR THE INTRICACIES.

Ttyl cfe peeps!

July 7-8, 2016

I've been working on my presentation Got 3/8ths memorized. Time to go for the remaining 5/8ths.

I"M GIVING IT 100% of MY EFFORT. NOTHING LESS!

July 6, 2016

So now that I know I passed the report portion of Capstone 1. I need to give a presentation in 4 days.

To do well on the presentation I have to do a bunch of things. Which I have not yet done.

I'm a fan of this blog because it's keeping me in check a bit.

says my current self --->I'm lonely. But being alone is a great thing! <-- says my past self

Also the world is an AMAZINGLY HUGE AND INCREDIBLY BIG place.

I'll fall in love again. I've done so, I don't know how many times. And my ex was definitely not perfect... But I really liked her... :(... I joined tinder yesterday, because I was so lonely :/

Here's a thought:

"Lack of mental focus is a breeding ground for defeat."

So I'm going to delete my tinder account immediately! Even after liking all those profiles... YOU GOTTA KNOW WHEN TO CALL IT QUITS!

Is right now the time? As long as you can exercise self-control. I'd like to not go on that app, for the next 10 days. And just devote myself to my work to conquer the CFE. True that.

I did 89 handhops today :) This is what my body is capable of. It's a killing, living, growing machine. Each and every atom! And scarily enough (scarily is that a real word? Whatever... ) scarily enough, it grows when I'm asleep!

Alright peeps! Time to go grab a carrot, GRIND IT, and then turn it into carrot salad, AND THEN I'll need to prepare a sweet potatoe :)

I can't wait to start up again studying for the CFE. I really want to achieve the CPA designation so I can give my future family a better life. I don't believe in god, but I do believe in intangible assets ;). Damn, that's gold, it should go on a T-shirt or something. seriously though. If I ever have a boy or a girl or children, I'm going to make sure I spend a TON of time with them <3 I can't see you kids, But when I have you, you're going to be showered with love not only from the present but far in the past, that you can't even fathom. I know the amount of love for my children (no matter how mischievious) is going to be endless bottomless pit. I'm prepare to kill myself over a thousand times. You get the picture though. My love for my future children is immeasurable. And that being said I"M GOING TO ROCK IT as long as I possibly can tonight so that I'm prepared for my presentation and even generate some questions that I could ask my teammates as well as myself on the report. Got it? GOT IT! LET"S DO THIS GRRRRRRRRR! okay snack time though *leaves*



 Woke up 6 PM went to bed at like 8 AM. So that's 10 hours of sleep. Yup. definitely well rested.

Now that I've woken up I watched a cartoon while I flossed my teeth, then I brushed my teeth, and now I'm doing some oil pulling which I'll do again, immediately after I eat breakfast (fruits, some nuts, grains) and I'm going to cook my garbanzo beans for later. into hummus of course.

July 5, 2016

Beginning to understand that deadlines are useless!

Early As Possible (EAP) is the my new policy, otherwise you may never even meet a deadline!

I'm dedicating this EAP technique to my first born child and I'm going to use it to tackle: my presentation coming up. for now.

YES!!!! I passed the report portion of the Capstone 1 program.

Phew... Man the pressure was KILLING me... Peace and props to my group! you know who you are lol....

July 4, 2016

Kinda been bummed out lately, since the girl I thought who loved me, didn't really give a shit about me.

She was going to go to Florida without me. :S And she didn't say a word. Lame, right? I think so.

This is what I wanted though. I wanted to be focused on only my school work, so be careful what you wish for. It might come true.

So ... I'm just eating watermelon... I woke up 30 minutes ago from a long nap...

It's 6:27 PM if I werrrrre a CFE gold medalist I would probably leave the next hour to clean up and energize myself, so 7:30 PM and then leave 8 hours after 7:30, so 3:30 AM... But I'm not a gold medalist :(... I"M BETTER. lol okay so I'll be studying 12 hours. I think I can do it. Although it seems unrealistic.

Today I wanna prove to myself that I"m better than a medalist  in terms of calm mind, focused on studying.

So now... I'll just finish my watermelon.. om nom nom...


Content can't always be matched, but time and hard work can. I have no idea which cases those CFE gold medalists did. but they did say how much time they put in.

Anyways... I actually didn't wake up this late, I woke up earlier, and I was studying before I fell asleep. I'm in the process of giving my Capstone 1 preparation... LOL in the meantime I have to wait to figure out if our part 3 submission was good enough for a pass. So I may get kicked out and here I am preparing for presentation that will never happen, THAT WOULD SUCK! I hope it doesn't come to that.

 I'm going to start watching the other presentations given, so I can figure out what I like to see and EMULATE THAT! I've noticed I really like people with continuous flow, almost like a song!

So far, I've eaten a banana and watermelon. Just applied a nose strip to my nose to get rid of any blackheads. I think it's important when you're giving a presentation that you look and feel as best as you possibly can. When I see presenters that look like crap, no matter how good the content is, I do not want to be looking at a blob, I wouldn't want to give them a good mark, nor would I want to let them into my community of professionals. This is just the way I see it. I'm not even a CPA yet. So my opinion isn't really reliable. But I think what I just said is logical, and wouldn't be surprised if this is the way CPAs saw it as well.

I present in 5 days. Still gotta get my 6 minutes ready...  Need to watch a few more videos though of CPA candidates giving their presentation. Brb.

July 2, 2016

Haha! Unreal really is a great game! I just played it today.

I haven't posted in a while because I've been really busy!

Today my group and I finished our Capstone 1 report.

It's been crazy! Things to do include understanding it all! Well... The report format anyways... and then thinking of a potential new report that I would have to do that has similar concepts...

Here are some eliphanies I had within the past hour or so:

Rule #0: URGENCY / 1 CHANCE <-- imagine you only get one chance. In reality, I think you really get 2 or 3. But imagine 1! and Use that imagination like it's a freakin' lucid dream. BE SERIOUS. THIS IS URGENT

Rule #1: Believe in yourself <-- When you take on a task you gotta believe that you can do it! You are truly amazing beings! Realize it! Believe it! Embody it!

Rule #2: Trial and Error <-- You're going to practice A LOT! and expect errors! That's okay! As long as you're practicing new cases absorbing them like a sponge and then becoming a better person (or sponge if you're a spongebob)

Rule #3: Mountains of trial and error. <-- I'm aware that that's basically rule #2. But it's just that important that it's also rule #3. You need that much practice.

Rule #4: Do what works!!!!!! If something is working for you, KEEP DOING THAT! In fact, MILK IT. You know how people technically steal milk from cows? Yeah well you need to be so devious, so naughty, that you should be milking what works like a hog. Like a freakin' hog. Don't let anyone else know. Just keep at it. And go, go, go! Nothing else matters. It's no one's but yours. All your experience. BE GREEDY with whatever works. Because if you are, you'll go far.  <-- I admit, I was babbling and brainstorming a bit, but there's some substance in there. It's not that hard to find... Is it?

Those are my 4 rules with 1 hidden rule. It's hidden because it's the the result of a journey I had. I derived these rules from an activity ;) I won't say which activity but yes, self made rules, of what is my interpretation.

An odd thought: I know you can't freeze time. But if you could, what would you do.

Another odd thought: What's more painful, damage to your body or self-esteem.

Another most likely last thought: You have 1 life to live. You're on earth for a limited time. What do you want to say you did? And how will you use your time knowing these above statements?