Getting My MBA at 48

Good Day in Charlotte, South Carolina

It was a good flight last night into Charlotte from San Diego.

I was able to get some rest this morning before I went a good 6.5 mile walk. It is a interesting walk, because it goes through 2 hospital areas, 1 college and lots of beautiful homes, huge! With lots greenery, trees, flowers, and other garden variety of plants.

I do like the walk, to me it is better than doing cardio, a lot fresher, and more enjoyable. I probably will feel it in the morning.

Then back to the hotel to work on my essay, I have gotten a fair amount done, I am going to work on it some more later before I have to sleep.

I did find out that I got a 4.0 out of 4.0 on the essay I just turned in, which was actually the 4th essay. But I am happy that it turned out well. I feel that I will have this essay done by Thursday.

Time to sign off.

Tags: books, business week, Charo, education, flight attendant, flights, flying, management, online university, phoenix, San Diego, schedule, South Carolina, strategy, studying, success, travelers, us airways, wall street journal, western governors university, wgu

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.

Tags: accounting, apple, books, education, flight attendant, flights, flying, Hannibal, Human Resource Management, iPad, Jr, Louis Pasteur, management, mba, music, Oliver Wendell Holmes, online university, schedule, sleep, strategy, studying, success, technology, travelers, university, wall street, wall street journal, western governors university, wgu, wsj

Downtown Houston

We got in an took the long drive to downtown Houston to the Club Quarters. I have always like the hotel, the rooms are alway clean, neat and very functional not to mention free internet.

They are not in every city because they cater to professional businessmen, but I do like staying in the hotels, we have a few cities we get to say in the CQ mostly in a big city.

But on to the day, I got up early to pick up Mari since she was flying in from her trip and I just decided to stay at the airport because I only had 45 minutes before I had to be there anyway.

So I got at the airport at almost 10:00 a.m., flew to Phoenix at noon, waited till 7:00 p.m. before I was suppose to be there for the trip to Houston then flew to Houston.

By they time we got here and made it to the hotel it was almost Midnight.

14 hours of airport and airplane time today, plus the 2 hours getting ready in the morning totaling 16 hours of my days.

Doesn’t leave much time for my Accounting and writing essays on Ethics.

I am head to bed because I am 3 sheets to the wind.

Tags: accounting, books, education, ethics, flight attendant, flights, flying, life, management, mba, online university, phoenix, schedule, sleep, strategy, studying, success, technology, travelers, wall street journal, western governors university, wgu

A Day at the Beach, don’t I wish

Yes sitting at the airport for 5 hours was just a thrill, no it not a day at the beach but I do get to see people I haven’t seen in awhile and that makes it fun.

As always it is hard to study, to much going on. To many conversations all at the same time, it gives you a head ache. So to avoid the talking I went for 1 hour and 40 minutes walk around the balcony, it took 1 minute and or 93 steps to complete. Walking for a 100 minutes = 100 laps or 9300 steps. Actually it felt good.

Nice to have the movement, I need it.

Not much happened at all the rest of the day, I did not pay attention to the news though I did inquire as to the cost of an online subscription to the Wall Street Journal, because the New York Times is thinking of a cost between $9.99 to 30.00 a month.

For the new iPad, which is ridiculous because I certainly wouldn’t pay that amount and I don’t think that they will get many that will pay that kind of money for online reading.

Even with the success of Apple’s iTunes companies have complained about Apple’s pricing strategy of $.99 yet they are now after 7 years approaching 10 billion downloads.

Apple has let some make pricing adjustments, (raise the price) yet download have drop 8 to 10 percent every month since companies have been changing the prices.

Me I really believe $.99 per song is a good price and I have to say that of all the downloads at least 20 percent have been the album anyway not just a song.

But I don’t think corporate America will wake up to that fact, it is always trying to push more and more out of the consumer.

At 5:45 I got on the flight back to San Francisco, totally filled as always. Who says people are not flying. It was a pleasant flight with no real mishaps.

I will have to go back in on Friday, but it leaves me with 2 full days of studying, exercising and scanning.

So I am off for a bit a reading before lights out.

Tags: accounting, apple, books, education, flying, iPad, iTunes, life, management, mba, new york times, online university, phoenix, san francisco, schedule, strategy, studying, success, technology, travelers, wall street, wall street journal, wsj

After a Long Flight from Maui

I just got back a few hours ago from flying all night from Maui. It has been the first time I have gotten back to San Francisco early and though I have the afternoon off and tomorrow morning I am still tired.

I have only had 1 day off this month, actually I have only 1 day off since the 25th of December and I pretty much worked the whole of December.

I AM TIRED, exhausted.

I studied yesterday in Maui, but only got a few hours in, today I just haven’t been able to concentrate. I got everything else done so tomorrow all I have to do is exercise, study and iron my shirt.

I feel bad because I haven’t even had the energy to write here on the blog it has been 6 days since my last entry and I didn’t even finish it.

I know life happens but I am having to work too much to compensate and that is wearing on me and cutting into my study time.

I have been trying to keep up with the news that has been going on and before I go on

Please go to the

American Red Cross to donate the Hati Relief Fund

They need our donations, and prayers.

It has been a big week for the American Automotive industry, this is the opening of the North American International Auto Show, I was hoping to be there but I decided to work instead, I have to friends that work in the industry. One at GM the other at Chrysler’s I wish them the best we need to be back on top of this industry.

I was reading in Business Week magazine edition about how some of the for profit school are going after the military members, giving them degrees according to the article that are not quite up to standards for better job placement.

It is all about the business of making money not the business of education. Seems that is always the deal, money.

Though I have always said it is what you get out of the education that matters, but the schools have to have meat and potatoes (good curriculum) for you to be able to learn.

I am going to sleep so I can get up early tomorrow, exercise and study then a little nap  before flying the redeye San Francisco to Charlotte.

Tags: accounting, American Red Cross, books, business week, cancelation, chrysler, delays, education, flight attendant, flights, flying, gm, Hati Relief Fund, hawaii, life, management, maui, mba, North American International Auto Show, online university, san francisco, schedule, sleep, strategy, studying, success, wall street journal, wgu