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Live to Work
I was born into an environment where all I knew to do was to work diligently. This habit caused a sore in my soul that is barely starting to heal. I was taught to live to work. Everything I did was never good enough. As a result, I worked even harder and [...]
Continue Reading →Youth is supposed to be ethereal, yet I felt anchored. I desperately needed a change in the wind. Rather, my sails were down…and I just needed wind.
LIFE IS TOO SHORT
…to be doing the same thing over and over – 40 hours a week for 40 years.
In 2009, I decided to [...]
Continue Reading →When I started my first business about 10 years ago, I swear I hadn’t a minute to myself. Every minute of everyday was dedicated to doing something. My calendar was always filled with events and my to-do list was always growing.
Does this sound like your life?
“I’m making money. I’m working my ass off. [...]
Continue Reading →In October 2009, I was in New York for PPE. I got a text message from Mike Colon asking, “Hey! Do you want to meet Grace Ormonde?”
Duh. The magazine company is only the benchmark for luxury weddings. At first, I thought he was pulling my leg.
I miraculously arrived at Mandarin Oriental Hotel on [...]
Continue Reading →Unlike Tim Ferriss, some of us do not work 4 hours a week. For small business owners, it’s not even 40 hours a week. It’s roughly…400 hours a week.
Sometimes, we’re so inundated with our work that our businesses might look like this. Does yours?
If we were to look at our [...]
Continue Reading →“If this goes through, Lawrence, I guess they’ll have to shave a few hours from afternoon tea,” giggled Grace.
The air was filled with romance drawn from scenes of The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and other Greats walking through the same opulent lobby. The Plaza Hotel is the quintessence of elegance, which was the [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, Julie and I whimsically went to Boiling Crab to eat dinner. Upon sitting down, we immediately noticed two things.
The walls were all tagged up The smallest table seated four people (up to 16+)
Interesting concept. If my hunch was correct, they were doing exactly what I did in Atlantic City, New Jersey [...]
Continue Reading →Julie asked me yesterday why everyone was so provocative with their Facebook statuses. Many people have been updating their statuses with “I like it on…” And it went viral.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. The attempt was to raise prurient curiosity. In actuality, the word “it” is an ambiguous reference to “purse” and [...]
Continue Reading →In August, I attended my first LA PUG! I know, I live under a rock. Anyway, my friend, Kenny Kim, was in town, so I went to go hang out with him and Roberto Valenzuela. It so happened that it was the same night as LA PUG. Roberto, being the PUG leader, graciously [...]
Continue Reading →During the summer of 1998, my girlfriend and I attended a summer business academy at USC. Aside from studying diagrams, plotting charts, and creating a fictitious stock portfolios, we were asked to set goals. At the time, it was a very simple question – where do you imagine yourself to be in four years?
It [...]
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