I’m a big Mark Cuban fan. He made a ton of money by selling an internet company he started and then bought a sports franchise. How awesome is that? He said something in a blog post that has really stuck with me lately.
“Getting there requires being ready when opportunity presents itself.” – Mark Cuban
My plan for the future: be ready when opportunity knocks. There have been a couple of times I wasn’t prepared, I need to change that.
Having graduated from college over a year ago I find myself having occasional lecture withdrawal. I know, it seems strange, but I can’t help it. Academic Earth is a web site full of academic lectures. The tagline to the web site says it all, “full video courses from leading universities.” For those of you who have wondered what it would be like to go to an elite school, you can get a tiny glimpse because the lectures come from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Yale and others. New lectures are added often, which means for now my lecture withdrawal is sedated.
You can see links to all of the videos here. Below is a list of all of the videos and the lengths. They range from 5 minutes to 2 hours.
Bob Proctor – The Science of getting rich: 1 Hr 47 Mins
Deepak Chopra – The way of the Warrior: 1 Hr 8 mins
Jim Rohn – Your best year ever: 10 mins
Tony Robbins – Interview with Charlie Rose: 55 Mins
Oprah Winfrey – Interview with David Letterman, Part 1: 10 Mins
The Secret – The movie (with subtitles). 1 Hr 29 Mins
Nick Vujicic – Speech Preview: 24 mins
Malcolm Gladwell – Authors at TED Talks: 18 mins
Joe Vitale – Portable empire: 9 mins
James Arthur Ray – Live Presentations – 28 mins
Steve Jobs – Commencement Speech at Stanford: 14 mins
Mary Foley – AOL retiree at aged 33, turned Author and speaker: 6 Mins
Paul McKenna – Accelerated learning: 50 Mins
Ross Jeffries – Speed Seduction 1: 1hr 54 Mins
Brian Tracy – Sales mastery (part 1): 17 Mins
Les Brown – On Mastery TV: 44 Mins
Tim Ferriss – Authors at Google with Marci Alboher: 56 Mins
Michael Beckwith – Bridging heaven and earth show: 58 Mins
J K Rowling – Autobiography Part 1 of 5: 10 Mins
Jack Canfield – The success principles: 5 mins
Wayne Dyer – The power of Intentions: 2 Hrs 15 mins
Tony Buzan – Mind Mapping: 6 mins
You can read descriptions of each article and see links to each one by going here. This will definitely be something I spend the next week reading through.
#1 – Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
#2 – Violent Acres’ Most People Are Depressed For a Very Good Reason
#3 – Steve Pavlina’s Don’t Die With Your Music Still In You
#4 – Brian Kim’s How to Find What You Love to Do
#5 – Fred Gratzon’s Top 10 Signs You’re Made to be an Entrepreneur
#6 – Steve Pavlina’s 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job
#7 – Darren Rowse’s 18 Lessons I’ve Learned About Blogging
#8 – Caro Clarke’s Are You a Writer?
#9 – Danielle Gibbings’ Need a Reboot?
#10 – My own 10 Reasons It Doesn’t Pay To Be “The Computer Guy”
In what will be the first of a long series of posts about personal development or inspiration in the form of videos. Steve Jobs has some great advice. I’ll take suggestions for a name to call the series. Something to become a weekly feature like Weekend Reading and Monday Morning Distraction.
If you are looking for something to do on a Sunday afternoon, look no further. This list is a 100 Skills every man should know. I know about 42/100 so far, but when I have some time I will try to learn to do more. Some of the stuff is actually very cool.
This is a great read. Anyone who knows me in person knows that this is something I am definitely all about. For those who don’t know, Warren Buffet is America’s richest person. He recently overtook Bill Gates due to fluctuations in the stock market.
I couldn’t come up with a witty title for this post, for that we will have to wait for ‘Gate’s comments.
Hack College is something I wish I would have known about when I was actually in school. The tagline for the web site is “Lifehacks, Study Tips for College Students.” There are some really good resources there for college students. Life Hacker, which is a great site in it’s own regard, also has a great list of some of the best posts from Hack College.
Mint.com is without a doubt the coolest web site I have seen in a while. It amounts to free financial management tools. The site already has over 100,000 users and helps manage about $3 billion. The web site has received rave reviews from Forbes as well as other sources.
To use the web site all you have to do is pick a username and a password and then enter in bank account information. Mint then generates tons of stuff for you to look through. It makes pie graphs to break down spending habits, shows spending trends and can even create budgets for you to stick to.
After graduating I started saving all of my receipts to put into a giant excel spread sheet, but this is a million times easier and better. You can delete an account you make, so I urge everyone, at least give it a chance. I guarantee it improves your financial management.
*If you are worried about security, read the Forbes link.
Discuss: Reactions / thoughts from people who have tried it?
Check them out here. There a handful I might look at, it is always fun to learn new stuff.