Getting My MBA at 48

Motivation

Indeed motivation especially self-motivation is one of the simplest yet hardest thing to do.

I can in my own mind summons up the power to move mountains or build super-computers, but can’t seem to transfer that same creative motivation to movement.

I remember reading Anthony Robbins, “Awaken the Giant Within” about,

Motion is Emotion, Emotion comes from motion, movement, the nervous system needs to move. Expending energy give us a sense of greater energy.

That is some of how I feel right now, that I am not creating enough energy. I have always believed in perpetual motion, things in motion tend to stay in motion and things at rest tend to stay at rest. My version the more you do the more you do, the less you do the less you do.

I am on this cusp

I need to keep the momentum going into the direction of my dreams.

Commitment, dedication, determination

I write this because I want to learn, the problem is I feel sometimes I don’t have enough time to learn all that I want to learn.

Reading books about fixing my resume takes time, writing my resume takes time, learning to write apps takes take, learning to make ebooks takes time, even now I feel that I need to read “Awaken the Giant Within” again and that takes time, the gym takes time.

Boy it sure sounds like I need to master my time, bend time and make time work for me. After all how long do I want this to take before I finish classes.

So I need to remember that Mastery of anything is as long as I want it to take.

With my school work, this blog and the few other things I have on my plate I need to use commitment, dedication, determination to help me achieve.

I have the rest of the night then most of the day before I have to sit at the airport for 5 hours tomorrow night.

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Hot day in Phoenix

Yes, it was only 109F today, but I have managed to stay cool most of the day.

After a bit by the pool, the water was great, then to the gym. I have spent the later part of the day getting ready for tomorrow, and working on school work.

I have to do a revised resume and a cover letter, and put it on Linkedin. Those are easy it is coming up with 6 exhibits of certificates, awards, letters of commendation, performance evaluations, papers, publications, pictures of things created, transcripts, licenses, presentations, conference material, etc.

Even that is ok, it is the 10-15 slide power point presentation summarizing the salient points of your career field, explaining the how and why you will be successful in your chosen career, and addressing each of the following competency areas;

Leading people and teams

Developing sustainable solutions

Serving customers

Managing products and services

Managing technology and innovation

Assessing the competitive environment

Planning for the future in the global marketplace

and to top it off a 15-20 minute digitally recorded video presentation that highlights my qualifications for the career path to the audience.

OK those are going to be a little tougher for me to crank out.

ONE, PowerPoint I know little about so I either mutter through it guessing or spend time reading the the book, either way I know I am at a disadvantage.

TWO, the video presentation that part is easy it is coming up with content and actually looking ok in the video.

But I will attempt my best this week to get as much done as possible on these projects. I guess I better start an out-line and work from there.

In between flying and recurrent, we will see how much time scheduling actually lets me have off, or how crazy they work me. That is always a guessing game.

Anyway, back to studying, laundry and getting ready for work, flying in the morning.

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Hot Day in Detroit

I am sitting here in Detroit, actually Livonia at the Radisson. It is a nice quiet hotel, but I think that is just because business is slow.

The hotel lobby bar is just cool, retro sheik. They also have a great happy hour free tap beer and appetizers, a man on a budget dream.

It was a nice day, didn’t get much accomplished though, even with 29 hours there you have to sleep twice, which just cuts into everything.

But I got some good rest, and a little studying done so it was good.

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Finished Professional Networking Essay

Amazing, I have got time to finish the essay.

I have been sitting stand-by all day 7:00 am – 7:00 pm, I am grateful that I did not get called out to do a turn, ( fly out to a city then come back in the same day).

It was a pretty good essay, but I thought that signing up to Linkedin should be done months before at least the beginning of the 3rd semester.

I feel that I am behind on things like networking, since I haven’t really done much especially professionally.

To much concentration now on finishing my assignments, life, being healthy and then networking. There is always when I am flying to do a little networking, since I see a lot of business people.

Time to get some food, relax a little and maybe watch a movie (since I don’t have cable, no TV) and then back to essay 1.

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I Think its a Beautiful Day in Houston

Since I have not been outside yet I think is nice outside as much as I can see from the window. I have gotten up exercised and studied some and now I am getting ready for work.

I have to mention yesterday I was reading articles in the Wall Street Journal and the AppleInsider during my airport time and or a lack of a better words right now there was an article that pissed me off.

I guess in a good way because on the flight to Phoenix, I got this really great idea for a business that I pretty sure no one has thought of before or I would have already seen it.

Now I really need to bend time, get support from Family and Friends, to get my MBA finished by June and have this up and running before then, God and the Spirits willing.

So with exercising, studying and working on this project, (sorry I can’t talk about it yet, don’t want to give away the goodies) and family I guess I am going to live a Spartan life.

Discipline and time mastery

Exciting times, and these four quote by 3 famous men are the makings of an inspiring day.

“Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur. (Shorten version, Luck favors the prepared mind)

“When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.”

“We will either find a way or make one” Hannibal (Hannibal’s feat in crossing the Alps with war elephants passed into European legend: a fresco detail, ca. 1510, Capitoline Museums, Rome, incase any one out there is confused who Hannibal is)

“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Not to meant some great music to get your mood on the right side of excellent.

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