High-Performance Lifestyle
Life is about constant motion.
It’s ever changing, fluid, unmolded, and always evolving.
Those that stagnate, are still moving. Just backwards, further away from what they desire.
Life is in constant motion, never still.
You are either moving towards or away from your goals, but you are never the same. – Chief
It could also be the best damn memoir I’ve ever read.
I started reading Shoe Dog by Phil Knight during a three-day excursion to Puerto Rico.
My mind was full of dancing clubs, drinks on the beach, scuba in the sun, and girls on the run.
Instead, I was getting a first-rate business education with a dose of the real world from the founding father of Nike.
The billion-dollar company Nike. The company that sponsors all of the best athletes in professional sports.
Although he writes passively, like an average person. Although he speaks of himself as a shy guy. He is, without doubt, a titan. A business “tycoon,” which he tells us, comes from the Japanese word for Warlord.
Perhaps he is a business warlord. Defining and redefining the idea of an athletic shoe — rising to victory among giants of the industry.
If you watch the show Shark Tank, then you know Mark Cuban as a tough, self-made billionaire. He is the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a business mastermind that uses his experience as an entrepreneur to invest in the up and coming.
Cuban has a rich history as a business tycoon. With no technical background, he started by building a small technology startup. He found success by outhustling his competitors.
He remained vigilant by attacking the edges: he read for hours a day, even going through the manuals each of his products.
After seven years of on the grind, he sold MicroSolutions and took with him invaluable insights that he would later use to propel himself to the top of the business world. [Read more…]
I decided to get an MBA, for no other reason than to have one. Many internet gurus would argue against getting a degree that is not from an elite university since it is mostly moot in the grand scheme of things.
Remember, there are numerous business savvy billionaires that did not go the traditional route: Steve Jobs, Ali, Zuckerberg, blah, blah, blah.
But I plan on leveraging my MBA to some degree like I do with all of my resources. I plan on writing a future post that explains how I used this MBA to make money online. Stay tuned by subscribing here.
Still, it is not necessary to get a degree in business to become savvy at business. For free. The internet is full of free or very low costing resources, all aimed at building better businesses (or businesspersons).
