August 23, 2016

Like Steve Ballmer said the following:
"my dad said 'If you're gonna do a job, do a job.  And if you're not gonna do a job, don't do a job. And that is the key of everything' No, seriously, the notion is that if you're really gonna do something then GIVE it your Heart, body, and soul. And do it. And really care. And have the kind of brain that forces you, where you're always thinking about it, and worrying about it, and caring about it, and nuturing it, and tending to it, and growing it, and just WOOOOOOOOOOH You either be all in, or be all out. There are disadvantages to this kind of personality, I will tell you.. It's not all a bed of roses. But if you want to start something particularly, the notion that says if you're in, get in, be all in, be accountabilty in, if you're going to be 1 of the 13% (in the room) of the folks that peter was talking about that's doing start up, i gaurantee you,that unless you're all in, and not in for 6 months, let's see how it goes, or a year, no start ups do well that quickly. You gotaa be in you gotta stay in and you gotta take a long-term view. you gotta be as hardcore as anything if you're gonna be successful. I would say that's the best piece of advice... it's kind of simply put by my dad, but I've interpreted it kinda like religious writings, it's got much in the way of interpretation by me at this stage. Uhh, I would say that's probably the best piece of advice I ever got. The worst piece of advice is very simple. I had a bunch of people when I was at Stanford business school tell me not to drop out to join Microsoft, and that cosmically would be the worst advice I ever got in my life."

Spent the last 3 hours installing some software for a good friend of mine. He's going to come by and use it. And I'm going to be out of his way, studying my ass off. Anything else??? hmmm... Yeah...


4 AM - I'm gonna have some cereal + cartoon, then sleep.
4 PM - checked social media
5 PM - get rid of social media. (deactivating my facebook <-- i waste time on it.)

hmmmmmmmmm anything else? yes I need to eat... I'm feeling sick still a bit... whatever MIND OVER MATTER. gonna try and eat some healthy food.

5:37 - Ate some super healthy fruit smoothie. I added blue grapes which basically have a ton of vitamin c and have the texture of blue berries (they might have the same properties which would be GREAT because blue berries are definitely a super food in my opinion).

Now I'm gonna floss and watch some of my old favorite cartoon: Ned's Newt.

Oh man! I'm so happy!!! I'm so organized with all the study material for Capstone 2... :) Everything is within a seconds reach. Gotta e-mail a friend who sent me a bday card. And then finally I can have a long study session. I think it's important that if you're feeling sick, you need to wait till you get well to study, otherwise you're going to have 10 less effective study sessions.

What would you rather have. 1 day to get feel great and 9 days to study while you feel fine

or

10 days where you feel less than optimal..

I would much have the former, since with the former, emphasizes effectiveness, over time... Time is REALLY important. But quality is almost always better than quantity. especially when you consider that CPA's standards are quite high!

I'm happy to say, I went through the modules before (unlike some candidates who get to skip the modules). Because I went through the modules. I'm aware that I'm not gonna have enough time to go through all the cases. UNLESS, I totally bust my balls and reeeeeeeeeeally work my ass off.

I can do that. I can work my ass off.

So the plan now is:

Finish all the cases first.
Learn all the cases second.
keep learning until I can do them within the a lotted time limits.

Now obviously this may take a lot of time... But I think I can do it in a months time... :)

The plan: eat bread and hummus and try to reach 24 hours in terms of study time... :)

STarting now (10:02 PM)!