Making a bigger impact. Donald Trump, the man with even more attention than he did in the TV days – one quote I really like from him is: If you’re doing to do something, do it big! A quote I am trying to live by more. It is true, if you are going to do a business, why aim small? …
Fitting in the fishbowl – Your Growth Based On Your Environment
Fitting in the fishbowl – Your Growth Based On Your Environment Greetings from Manila. Things are moving fast, and I just joined forces with Alpha Rock Capital, a holding company of Amazon businesses. Merged our business with them and I’ll also be joining as parter and director of business development. The timing of the deal is funny as it matched …
Build A Foundation Like Bamboo
Feeling Like Bamboo, and The Shoots Are Coming A pretty cool clip I read while reading Atomic Habits book is about building habits / systems – not just goals. What is this story of bamboo? It spends 5 years underground building its roots. Making a strong and solid foundation. Then, after those five years, it suddenly shoots up into the …
Amazing Staff Email
Getting Emails Like This Makes Me Warm and Fuzzy Inside It has been a stressful few days, but then again when isn’t it stressful? Got a nice email from Ling Ling – a team member from 10 years ago! Yes, 10 years ago. It was 2008 when she worked for me, doing sourcing work in our Shenzhen, China office. For …
Finding Happiness (A Tweet From Justin Kan)
Finding happiness, it is already there – my main takeaway from Justin’s amazing summary of happiness is – realizing that life is a game. There are rules, and we all want to win – but we need to take it easy sometimes as well.
Creative Juice
How do you get that juice flowing?
Hustle
If you search the blog here – you will find it written a ton of times. Many blogs are built on it. I almost think Gary Vee sticks in my head for a few minutes after I even think the word hustle! I think my mom thought I was saying a bad word the first time I mentioned hustle to …
Ideas While Drunk? How Do You Release?
Getting Any Ideas While Drunk? Am I Missing Out By Being Sober? Early morning sober morning here as I type this up. Been sober for at least 3 years, maybe 4 (I can’t remember if I stopped drinking in 2014 or 2015) and reflecting on that. Some ask me why did I stop, or when did I stop – what …
Rules To Teach Your Son
Browsing Facebook and found this (from Ray Costa) and want to document it for the blog. For life. For me to remind myself how I should be raising my own kid. and how maybe you can learn and be inspired on how to teach yours! Cheers and enjoy: RULES TO TEACH YOUR SON: 1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting …
Meditation Has Been Life Changing
How do you go about with your meditation and mindset? Mike shares insights and strategies
Dealing with FOMO
Dealing with FOMO Mike’s blog 153 How are you dealing with FOMO? It is often an internet meme – but it is real! FOMO, for those not up on the internet slang, stands for “Fear of Missing Out” and I would say has been in existence since the stone ages. All this bitcoin and ICO insanity has been nuts the …
Gary Vee in Hong Kong Rise #hustle
Vlog – Pushing Limits – Gary Vee in the House Mike’s Blog 115 Stay on top of the game. So this guy has really pushed me harder even when I thought I was pushing hard – Gary Vee. It is great to have a chance to see him at the Rise Conference and get an autographed copy of his book …
Finding Your Passion, Growing Your Talent, and Making it Sustainable
Here are my reflections from participating in the GIFTED Seminar. I took part in the seminar after the Abnet Easter lunch on April 16, and was pleasantly surprised with what I learned. Heck, I didn’t even expect there to be a seminar after the lunch. It started out with a clip on how the McDonald brothers created the business model …
Sunday Morning Hustle
It is Sunday morning. 7:30am and I am grinding. Some people like working at night – I enjoy working in the morning. Its much harder to get out of bed (wake up early) than to stay out of bed (go to sleep late) and you have much more discipline that way. Because if you work late – then how do …
Most People Die at 25, We Just Don’t Put Em in a Box til their 75, Mike’s Blog 084
“Most People Die at 25, We Just Don’t Put Em in a Box til their 75”, powerful. This is a quote that has been engrained in my mind almost every day. I can’t remember where I first heard it, but I googled it and found a similar variation via Goodreads: “Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until …