As I’m forced to remind myself from time to time, my current focus is on finishing my doctoral dissertation. When I left LSU several years ago I was done with what seemed to be ‘the hard part’ at the time but little did I know that the real ‘hard part’ would be in getting myself to focus on it long enough to finish it. I was busy taking on new things (like another job at West Point), managing my growing company,... 

Image via Wikipedia If you sit at a desk or spend as much time on planes as I do you’ve probably got chronic back issues. I do. Nothing bad. Certainly not debilitating by any means but enough where daily maintenance is necessary. I stretch, exercise, and perform special exercises just to keep myself ‘tuned up.’ Part of that is because I’m pretty sensitive to misalignments and hypertonicity. Because of this, I find... 

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Despite having a small office in SoCal that I’ve never actually been to, I’ve primarily run HPC out of my home office for the past 5 years. This requires some creative use of collaborative tools, software, and specialized equipment. Here are some of my most commonly used web tools: WEB 2.0 Tools Zoho tools. I use this with my business partners to share files and documents that we’re... 

This morning I woke up at 10am (after going to bed at 3:40am), ate a light breakfast, spent the better part of the morning dancing with my daughter (we’re getting ready for a wedding next week), did about 2 hours of work on my dissertation, answered some emails, sent out some DVDs to customers, did a hill running circuit workout with my wife (using my daughter for resistance on calisthenics) and then ate a nice lunch. Now, since I’ve... 

Well, I have to be honest. For the last couple days I’ve little to nothing on my dissertation. Despite the fact that it SHOULD be my primary focus right now, my OCD / ADD has gotten the best of me. I’ve been spending too much time blogging about the Olympics on ELITETRACK, setting up streams of passive income, making adjustments and new feature additions to my 3 websites, taking care of the athletes I work with, and watching... 

Since I’ve left my full time job at West Point, I’ve pretty much been able to go to sleep and wake up when I want. Normally, I’m a super-late night owl forced to operate on a ‘normal’ 9-5 day. If left to my own devices, I’m more likely to still be awake at 5am than to wake up by 5am. I’ve been like this for as long as I can remember. My Dad’s kinda like that too. In fact, my thought processing,... 

Since I’ve left West Point, 90% of the people I train are trained by correspondence. In other words, we live in 2 separate places and they receive their workouts and other necessary information via email, phone, IM, or text. In fact, every one on the HPC Elite team was trained this way for most of last year. This isn’t new to me though. I’ve been training people like this for almost 7 years now. And while it isn’t... 

If you’ve been anything like me you’ve been taking in as much of the Olympic Games as possible. They only come around every 4 years and to me it’s the best programming on tv…even with all the cheesy tidbits between events. The track & field competition starts in just a couple days. I can’t wait. I’m a track nut. When I watch the games I can’t help but wanting to be there though. It’s a... 

One of my favorites websites that I like to check out is Freelanceswitch. I check it out several times a week. The site is full of useful information for people who are trying to make it on their own as freelancers. On the web, especially in the areas of web development, graphic design and blogging, those who are trying to make a living off of their skills are referred to as freelancers. In the world of business, people who are trying to... 

One of the most frequently asked questions when I go and do consulting work or talk at clinics is “where are you located?” The answer isn’t real quick and easy. When people ask who don’t know us, they’re expecting us to have a shiny, new facility complete with tons of weight, rows of weight lifting platforms as far as the eye can see, and motion analysis equipment to track everything under the sun. The truth...