He also says he wakes up at 4 a.m. every morning.

"In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do push-ups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches," he adds. "I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing."

Often we look at successful people in all walks of life and tend to envy their lifestyle. What we often forget is how hard they work, even after they become successful to maintain their schedules.

It is a fact that winners in all of sports work just as hard or even harder once they get to the top of their sport. And they also take plenty of breaks in-between. But what keeps them going? I have touched on this subject several times, and the answer is "pure adrenaline" from the high that one gets as a success.

Often when that "high" is missing, some of these types of personalities have turned to illegal drugs to "keep up the high". Of course that leads to another type of "crash" where the whole world comes tumbling down, and the press jumps all over such people. But, all in all, I think the "successful high" can be experienced by all of us, regardless of our chosen profession or the day-in-day-out rhythm of life.

Regardless of what we do, I think the "high is there" for people who do their best in what they do. Just take any main street in what ever country you live in and walk down it. Then look at the establishments that have been there for decades and decades. Odds are good that the person running such an establishment has the "success formula" well established. The work ethic, the rhythm, the pace --they are all set, they all work and day-after-day the practice their craft.

I too wanted to experience that, but with programming problems and countless "starts and stops" in the late 90's and up until 2005 the problems were countless. However, now I see that this blog has been my salvation. When the times were difficult and the going was tough, I just turned to the blog and wrote away my pains and my frustrations. I wrote away my anger and I wrote away my 'hate' that I could not express to anyone when things didn't work.

Of course, in the end I concluded that I was not going after the programmer who did not complete their work or the programs that did not deliver what they promised. What I ended up saying and doing was "to blame myself" and get on with it. My conclusion was NOT to blame anyone, but to succeed 100% and that in itself would convey everything that I needed.

BACK to MY BLOG THOUGHTS

What the blog has allowed me to do is present a platform for the ideas that I have. It has been a 'vent' and a 'test bed' to suggest and then execute the ideas that would enable success.

Does it give the high of sitting in a stadium with 20,000 people looking on? Not really. Does it give the same feeling as 20,000 fans jumping up and down screaming? No, not really.

Does it give one person the satisfaction that what was thought of was executed? Yes. Does it give one person the satisfaction that when failure was stared in the face, a silver lining was found and the steps continued. Yes. Does it give me a plat form for advancement? You bet. All types of feelings, all types of thoughts and ideas that I never thought would surface around 18 months ago are surfacing and the feeling is great.

As I approach 300 days of blog updates, I hope to continue my discussion many more day, hopefully a long time after the step building conclusion.

There is another point that I'd like to make... Often the journey in life and that of success if full of "starts and stops" that come up at the most in opportune times. What is interesting in my blogging experience is that, especially lately, the executions of my daily thoughts here has given me an "evenness" in my work and execution of those items. The problem with stopping is that momentum stops as well. I have talked about that a few times in the past. The blog has allow me to continue and even raise the bar and momentum at all times. Even when Maxsimo.NET took a pause, I have been able to "fire up the ideas" and network needs in this platform and "march on". This type of feeling, this type of expression, this type of energy is priceless to the Entrepreneur in me.

May success be with you. Carpe Diem, Sam.

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