Umeå in Sweden. Cold in winter, but warm in the summer.
Umeå in Sweden. Cold in winter, but warm in the summer.
Building a network from ground up is a hard thing. The toughest thing about it is having the courage to meet new people But.once a person has opened herself it’s not that difficult to close and keep up a good contact.
Always Be Closing, because you never now will you’ll need them.
One people in your network doesn’t make a network, and certainly won’t make you a successful connector. To reach this higher status you must remember a golden rule, to give something back to the network. This could be connecting two great people, but also helping someone changing the rooftop of their villa.
By helping others, others will help you.
Once you’ve built an extraordinary network will there be other people helping you and start introduce you to new people. Your network will start to grow a little on it’s own. Biggest thing to notice in this point is that everyone start from the bottom but they can always reach higher than you.
Treat everyone in the same nice way, because they can reach a higher level than you.
Go out, start build a great network and remember that everyone has something interesting to say.
A perfect game when moving and exploring a new city is to find astray. Simple choose a direction, set a time limit of 30-40% of total time you want to be gone and start walking. When the time limit is reached then turn around and try to find your way home. The best outcome is when you’re trying to find a new way home after you’ve turned around, which should be possible most of the time.
Worst possible outcome: It will take twice the time to walk home than it took to walk there, and you have to ask for directions.
Best possible outcome: You will find your own way home, find new cool areas you didn’t know existed and meet new peoples.
An anecdote from my find astray-experience in Barcelona
It’s the second night for me and my friend David in Barcelona, a big game Barcelona FC vs Real Madrid is on the TV tonight and we set a goal for ourself to watch it on a local pub. The direction is set to the south, but suddenly changes to west because our current path was boring, after a couple of car dealers and more direction changes and not to forget a ton of walking we finds a nice little pub owned by a chinese. This pub is really a corner pub, where everybody knows everybody and we become there guests. After eating and seeing the game ending 1-1 it is time to walk home. We start walking home from a point that we only have a little clue on knowing exactly where we are, and seeing some kids playing around with firecrackers. Walking for an hour, thinking that maybe we should ask someone and David starts asking for the street we lived on. Asking for a unknown street gets us nowhere, and I think we should ask for the big busstop that we now the direction from instead. Bingo, the next person gives us perfect directions to the busstop and we came home with a new experience in life.
Lessons learnt
Don’t be afraid to become lost, people is living in the city your in. People aren’t that dangerous.
Try it out in your own city, and remember if you have no idea of where you are then ask.
Every day should be a perfect day, every day should give you new experiences. There is four elements that builds the perfect day
Getting things done
Get a todo-list for your work, and make sure that it get finished each day. Exploring my 2-3 hour workday, it should be possible to get all the work done before 11, and absolutely at 12 as latest.
Social expansion
Social interaction is important for the human being, and getting yourself confirmed makes you even more happy. Therefore is a really good day when you get to meet a new person or get a old acquainted to a friend-stage or similar. This is a point where it is good to know and have some experience about the area of pickup artist.
Something physical
You should do something that gets you exhausted at least once a day. This could be helping a friend move into a new apartment, but also taking a swim in the pool.
Eating good food
Being aware of what you put in your stomach making sure you keep your health further. This together with the fact that good food tastes good should make this part a natural part in everyone’s life. Sure you can skip it sometimes, but when you really want the perfect day then you should start off eating a great breakfast and continue eating great food throughout the rest of the day.
In my life am I now trying to work my 2-3 hours per day, keeping up with old and new friends, spending some time at Europe’s biggest sport center IKSU. Still lacking the good food, but I’m sure it will come soon.
Please take this as a challenge, and try making your next day a perfect day.
It is possible to cut down your 8 hour work day, to 2-3 hours of work! Do this yourself by following 5 simple rules stated below:
Try to find your best working-hours, and set the schedule to these. Use a todo-list like teuxdeux.com and set what should be finished on each day, work your hours and then go out or take up another project.
Don’t trust me? Trust yourself, and try it out. Worst possible outcome is one week of lost income, best possible outcome is a 10-15 hour workweek instead of 40-60 hour workweek.
Once again time for a 100 day challenge. This time topics are the following:
Starting today: I will start taking more photos, and sharing these, start the challenge of becoming a pickup artist and talking to some old friends. There will be regularly updates on the blog, tracking my performance.
This is a summarizing post of my travel to Barcelona, Spain.
There is a wide spectrum on how good beach players people actually are, and both me and David are somewhere in the best in the group of bad players. This means that we will easily win over the bad local players and loose shamelessly over the good players, and the only group we found that allowed us to play were the bad players meaning that we kicked there asses.
Tourist, this is an interesting topic because I’m a tourist on paper in Barcelona. On the other hand am I a digital nomad, trying to figure out my life and some new cool ideas. One day as a tourist is therefore enough, and check all the places through some simple planning in a day plus getting some room for a extra surprise in the and is the best idea ever. Start the day by visiting Camp nou, which was our main attraction, then off to catedral la sagrada familia. After two events was it time for the mandatory siesta, then some random googling to find a new night-attraction which led us to a castle plus a olympic arena aka a pretty big and awesome place actually.
Tapas, a social eating experience were you share some plates of food and eat what you like from each plate. This is an experience that will be greater the next time, because by then I will make sure that we’re a bigger group of people and therefore can share even more plates! More food for the people is good shit.
Digital nomad at the local Starbucks, free wifi and a marvelous view of the ocean. Sat down and just felt that this was the perfect way of me to work. My feature tactics is to work 2-3 hours per day then for the rest of the day simple enjoy my life and be happy. With 90 minutes of free internet is this truly possible.
Found my way to Spain today, ordered the trip for 9 days ago. Planning with short notice is the way things should work, no worries!
The backpack weighing in on 7.1 kilogram, at least 0,75 kg to much… I’ll hopefully learn how to be more minimalistic during this travel.
But the flight control went without any problem, and I’m now in a hotelroom in Barcelona.
A note about the food: It is hard to order in when you don’t speak the language, but thanks to my friend David we got something to eat at last.
Just noticed that there is no lock on the bathroom door, really no problem but interesting to share anyway.
A temporary goal is to say a complete meaning in Spanish.
(and by the way… this blog is on it’s way)
The messy apartment, a classy scene in a everyday student room. I don’t joke around when I tell you that at least 10% of my 25 sq. m apartment is clutter. With a expensive apartment (cost 3800 SEK per month) this isn’t a sustainable position. 380 SEK per month does this clutter alone cost me, this is equal to 19! beers at the local student pub.
What to do:
If the clutter is worth more than the cost of the clutter (for me 380 SEK), then sell it.
If the clutter is worth less than the cost of the clutter, then give it away or throw it away.
It’s that simple… now I’m going to clean up my own clutter and save my self 19 beers a month.
Now it’s time for us to change the way people workout!
I will during february follow the “From geek to freak” method mentioned in Four Hour Body. It’s probably not possible for my to get from 146 pounds to 180 pounds in one month, but it should be possible for me to gain at least 10 pounds, and getting over the 70 kilogram limit.
I will go from 5 exercises per workout to 3, and will reduce workouts from 4 times a week to a maximum of 3 times a week. This is a minimalistic approach to training and muscle gain. BUT by getting from eating less than 100gram proteins per day to eating 170gram+ should give me a kick start.
Let’s change the look of our own body with simple exercising.
