RIVON Ping Ping Paddle Set Review

I found that it has good power and it has a good spin for a budget Ping Pong Set. I played with the paddles for 2 weeks at my church and it works well. I get good topspin, I can attack short or long backspin balls and I can attack my friends serves! I can push and chop the ball with good backspin. Rivon Table Tennis Paddle Set $37 and FREE Shipping (Amazon Affiliate Link) https://amzn.to/2LBYsN7

Keep Going Forward

A letter for my younger self.

No matter what happened to you, the future is better!
No matter who leaves you, the future is better!
No matter failures, the future is better!
The future is better!

Keep going forward!

Why I post what I post on social media?

God is always good. I share on social media my working outs because in 2014 and 2015 I had health issues that I did not think I could recover, but God healed me.
I share pictures of my food because I want to get better at eating more healthy and this will inspire me to do that. I have been called God to share the word of Jesus Christ to others. I love Jesus!!!
I share animal pictures and videos because I love them.
I want others to be happy to and I found funny and inspiring stuff will help make others as happy I am.

How To Take Notes in College

I found making the first 3 pages of my notebooks as the index and having page numbers to be the most useful. 😇I sometimes use only one notebook for multiple courses and it saves me time looking through it. They show the "Bullet Journal" more as a planner system than for taking notes, but I use it for that. 😂

I also found videos using the "Bullet Journal" for people with ADHD, which maybe I have? 🙅
I use my iPhone with google calendar as my planner, but I just find index and page numbers so useful.

What type of tools do you use to keep yourself focus?

Let me know by commenting!!

If you cannot watch it here's the youtube link https://youtu.be/nqGHQHHfV88

How to Get More Intelligent

My journey of going through college made me look up the topic of how to get more intelligent.
I found this video on how to produce more brain cells to be good.


The good things:
Diet is blueberries, fish oils, green tea without caffeine, red onion, and many others.
The body is mostly exercising, sex, sleep, music, sounds of nature, being in nature.
The heart is feeling positive emotions, good relationships helps improve the brain.
The mind is writing, reading, teaching, working that making you think.
The spirit is prayer, meditation, sending love energy.

I find the bad things to be common sense so I am not going to writing down most of them like I did with the good things, everyone can do to improve brainpower. I do not think to be intelligent is having more brain cells than other people, but how you use what you have in that area. I also think that challenging your thinking ability to be more important than having more brain cells. I think of my intelligent as a muscle that must be worked to get stronger.

Check one of my older video on how to lower pain in your neck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWvdPB8N5zQ

Disclosure

Disclosure
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Dorian Howell and Dorian Howell Blog is not part of Robinhood.com in any way, Dorian Howell and Dorian Howell Blog is just a fan of them.

My New Journey Through College Part 1

I have not made a blog post since July 15, 2014, on How I Use Visualization To Drive Creativity.
I decided on starting to share my journey of college and my ideas on how to make it more fun and easier.

I have completed five college courses and by 2020, I will have completed four more college courses.

In my first semester by chance, I only did one college course on World Religion that I made a video on if it is worth taking it. I also made some friends that I still have and I learned about college clubs.

How I Use Visualization To Drive Creativity

(Note to read all of this post click here )

This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur turned VC. He sold his second company to Salesforce.com, becoming VP of Product Management. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner focusing on early-stage technology companies. Read more about Suster on his blog at Bothsidesofthetable and on Twitter at @msuster.

Creativity. I’ve always believed it’s been one of the most important attributes of business success yet something very few business leaders talk about. So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity.


As a practitioner of creativity rather than as an instructor of it I’m certain that there are many ways to get the creative juices flowing and how to release more creativity. The one that works best for me is visualization coupled with self talk.

Visualization is so important to help yourself & others conceptualize ideas. It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is a long post, so I put an executive summary here if you want to get the point without reading all the detail. If you plan to read the post you can skip the summary if you want.

• Almost all business success relies on creativity. This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives


• Despite the importance of creativity, there seems to be almost no focus on teaching it, encouraging it, training at it & incorporating it into our daily routines. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design.


• Many people are visual thinkers. Therefore to drive creativity people need to do visual brainstorming


• You need to find what works for you to put yourself in that environment and learn how to do “self talk,” learn how to create visual charts, learn how to test & iterate ideas and the learn how to effectively communicate results.


• For me I can only do this by myself. I think team sessions are better for testing ideas than for original thought, but that’s me. Solitude & creativity go hand-in-hand.


• I use tools to invoke my creatieve self. One example is driving, which has an actual physiological reason it makes you creative. The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward


• One of the books that first made me aware of the “creative brain” was “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards. It’s a book about creating art but shows how an artist’s mind gets “into the zone,” how creativity can be invoked, and why looking at what you create in a different way than the rational mind would conceive is an important part of creativity. She literally encourages you to draw things upside down.


• Other ways I drive creativity are time pressure, showers & occasionally wine. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above. For others they swear by music. I personally find music more distracting than helpful.


• Adding structure to creativity is not an oxymoron. It’s how you codify your ideas


• Like anything, creativity takes practice. There’s no such thing as “not being a creative person.” Some people are more creative than others but it’s within us all. You just have to dedicate yourself to a wanting to tap your creative juices.


• I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. These are all creative processes.


• Visualization is a well known technique in professional sports where the difference between winning & losing is often psychological more than physical. If it can work for them, it can work for you.

THE DETAILS

What exactly is visualization? – It is exactly as it sounds. The process of visualization is literally imagining or seeing things in your mind. When I need to give a speech and I’m writing a slide for my deck, I think up the story in my mind that I’m going to tell for this slide. I literally imagine myself on stage saying the words. I think about how the audience might react and whether if I were in the audience I would be intrigued.

It’s why before every speech I call the organizer and drill them about who will be in the audience. I want to know how many people, their level of tech sophistication, their age and their interests. I look carefully at who is speaking before me. In order to visualize how an audience will receive my presentation I have to be able to imagine the whole situation.

When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. If I know I have a topic I’m interested in writing about many times I’ll literally think whole sentences in my mind as a test drive before I ever sit at the computer and type.

Strange, I know. But for many people the most important driver of innovation is this kind of visualization & self talk. Yet it almost sounds too strange or mystical and as a result I seldom hear leaders talk about it. So I thought I would.

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. I hear very little discussion ever about how to be more creative.

It’s ironic because I believe creativity is the most important success criterion for a startup. And if we’re reflective, it’s also one of the most important success criteria for investors, senior executives, tech writers and virtually anybody involved in business leadership. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. That’s a shame.

Creativity is what helps us think of our ideas in the first place. It’s what helps us imagine what feature sets would be most appealing. It’s how we package our company story and drive our press coverage. As a VC it’s how I think through which markets will be attractive in the future, which ones I want to be in now and how the technology & business world will likely evolve. Without creativity I’d simply invest in the trends I’m seeing on TechCrunch which I inherently believe means I would be investing in what has already happend rather than imagining what could be.

When I make important phone calls I literally play out the start of the call in my mind’s eye before I ever pick up the phone. I imagine myself saying my opening line and put myself in the shoes of the receiver to think about how they’ll react.

There is not a single important business function I do that doesn’t involve creativity. And whether I’m preparing to attend a board meeting, I’m planning to lead a strategic discussion with an executive team, or whether I’m preparing for a TV interview – I use the same process.

Art Williams - Just do it speech

Just do it! become more & better than you are now! Just do it!
Become a Exercise instructor go to hfu1.com/tai-chi-certification 

Time Management Tips From Successful People

Both ways of time management starts by writing down all of what you need to get done the next day.

Watch this video to see 2 types of time management.

30 Day Better-Feeling Thought Process Esther & Jerry Hicks

30 Day Better-Feeling Thought Process Esther & Jerry Hicks

Just try it! Believe that you're feeling better & you will feel better.

All I can say try it! 

Melbourne Rock Anthem! (Party Rock Anthem Cover) - Kimmi Smiles, Maribelle Anes, Louna Maroun

Melbourne Rock Anthem! (Party Rock Anthem Cover) - Kimmi Smiles, Maribelle Anes, Louna Maroun
I like one more than the one from LMFAO



LYRICS:
Party rock is in the house tonight,
Everybody just have a good time
And we gon' make you lose your mind
Every body just have a good time (x2)

We just wanna see ya
Shake that!

Oh Shh
What's that move?
Feelin like I wanna dance with you now
Legs moving
Heartbeating
You can't dance? Hah!
Watch me then.
Stop!
Just watch and learn
Keep your eyes on my foot work
Louna, Kimmi and Maribelle
Gotta sit tight yo,
It's show and tell.

(I'm burning up)
Gunna set this place on fire
(I'm heating up)
Everything that you desire
So take my hand, let's go on a journey
Everybody welcome to ... Burn City
Oh!

Party rock is in the house tonight,
Everybody just have a good time
And we gon' make you lose your mind
Every body just have a good time (x2)

We just wanna see ya
Shake that!

Everyday I'm Shuffling.

We got our hands in the air
Everybody's down.
We gunna throw a party
Gunna rock the town.
Gone live, live, live it up
Live, live, live it up
Live, live, live it up
LIVE IT UP NOW!

Get up, get down
Put your hands up Melbourne town (x2)

Party rock is in the house tonight,
Everybody just have a good time
And we gon' make you lose your mind
Every body just have a good time (x2)

We just wanna see ya
Shake that!

We go hard in Melbourne tonight,
We created the shuffle, lieeeee

Gratitude

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." Cicero

I can't believe that this beautiful song doesn't have more views. Share the love! Share your passions! Share your life!

More great videos & more go to my website DorianHowell.com

Chess games & my analysis #1

First game I played black my rating 1253 vs AeroEri rating 1304 as white 3 minutes time limit for the game.
The opening d4 I played f5 the Dutch Defence because is not played that often so a lot of people think  I mis moved but I like it because it makes them burn some time thinking their next move, but I have to watch out for fool's mate.
So getting back to the game white played c4 simple move, I played Nf6 to keep from any tricks on h5.
I won the game on time but I think I would of won by checkmate too. Because he got a lot of pawns but I have both bishops & he's Knight is not that good at the end.


I know this is not that good of analysis because it just shows 2 moves & the end but I think this game was boring.
I will want better chess blogs tomorrow
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Pharrell Williams - Happy

I can't believe I didn't hear this song sooner!

I love how positive this song is and how the video is not like most music-videos where it's has sexy women dancing

People of Chess.com

What I think about people on chess.com

Pretty girl seeking a rich husband got a shocking Investment banker's reply

This post is from http://wetindeyng.blogspot.com/2014/02/pretty-girl-seeking-rich-husband-got.html

Everytime I read this post I like wow!

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:

Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?


I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York.

My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?

Among those I’ve dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit.
If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden(?), $250k annual income is not enough.

I’m here humbly to ask a few questions:

1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches are only average-looking? I’ve met a few girls who don’t have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys.
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)
Ms. Pretty

A philosophical reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan when you continue!


Dear Ms. Pretty,
I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor.
My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I’m not wasting time here.
From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain.

Put the details aside, what you’re trying to do is an exchange of “beauty" and “money" : Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square.
However, there’s a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can’t be prettier year after year.

Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It’s not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a “trading position".
If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or “leased".

Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income.This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps.

signed,
J.P. Morgan CEO

New song Team by Lorde

Lorde - Team
Got more than 10 million views in one month on youtube.

I Achieve My Goal with Delt Flys

I achieve my goal of doing Delt flys with 20 pounds in each hand & doing 12 reps.

I have a hard time with most exercises that have me in a bent over position, because I it's harder to breath & I get tired quicker.

How I achieve my goal was by lying on a exercise bench so I wasn't moving up & down when doing delt flys, it made doing delt flys easier but it made it even more hard to breath.

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My Birthday Story

 Thanks for everything!
If you can't watch it here than here's the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkB6cPOMw5o