Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Jacob Cassidy

Updates on Successful Transformation

For the past 11 weeks I’ve made some huge life changes (see my last post “Living Life Now“) and am likewise making some huge changes on this blog.

In the next few weeks, the Successful Transformation Blog will be completely overhauled in design and presentation. My mission is still the same – To show other how to live a life full of joy, love, and passion by doing it myself and revealing my successes and failures for others to learn from. You can expect to see 1-3 new articles posted here each week after the new design is launched.

I’ve also kicked my first Internet business plan into action and have scheduled to launch the products in late August. I’ll be sharing a lot more about this business soon as I’ll be using it as a case study you can learn from to develop your own Internet lifestyle.

This is getting very exciting… talk soon.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Jacob Cassidy

Living Life Now

Finding Joy In The Moment

It’s been 11 weeks since I’ve posted last. Not because I’m quitting this blog, but rather because I’ve made some huge life changes since and have been settling into my new life emotionally, mentally, and physically.

The biggest change has been getting into a full relationship with the woman I’ve been dating for the past 10 months and moving 3500 miles so we could be together. I went from spending my days isolated and huddling around a fireplace in the cold dark winter in Meadow Lakes, Alaska to moving back to Las Vegas and dancing in some of the hottest clubs in the world with my girlfriend.

See, I’ve made a huge mistake when I decided to move back to Alaska. I thought I would be able to get a major jump start in my business and fitness goals by having all the free time in the world to work on them. That’s why I left my thriving social life in Las Vegas and all the fun that went with it to move back into my parent’s rustic log house in the middle of nowhere. [Click Here to Continue Reading...]

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 by Jacob Cassidy

Operation Treasure Monthly Report – February 2010

It’s that time of the month again. When I break down what I’m doing to go from poor to wealthy and build an income online to free me from the prison of poverty and location-fixness I’m currently living in.

This month’s post is going to be short and sweet because I was on a semi-vacation in Las Vegas visiting my sweetheart for nearly the entire month. Not a whole lot got done business wise other than brainstorming and clarifying my vision further.

I did get most of a new design done for this site after getting feedback that the current design is, well, ugly. Later this week you’ll be able to see it. The design itself will constantly evolve as I learn how to design it better and have more resources to play with. [Click Here to Continue Reading...]

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 by Jacob Cassidy

Operation Herculean Update – Week 4

Just a quick update this week. I took off all of last week because my training partner got pretty sick from overheating in Bikram yoga and my upper left back around the shoulder blade was still bothering me from pushing myself too hard in a normal yoga class. I’ve been letting it recover and helping it along the way with self massage. It was starting to feel pretty good, then 12 hours of traveling from Las Vegas back to my hometown in Alaska jacked it up again.

So I’m taking another week to work on it and get it good enough to begin lifting weights seriously beginning on Monday, along with starting my real muscle building diet. This means I’ll start packing on weight from here on. My goal is to add 1 to 2 pounds a week to my frame over the next 4 months.

Currently my official weight stands at 172.2 lbs, only an increase of about 1 ½ pounds this month, but I also lost a couple pounds of fat from my waist. My main focus was to get conditioned to begin lifting weights seriously and besides my strained upper back muscle, I feel my condition is stable enough to begin.

Next week, Operation Herculean truly starts. Time to get rocking.

Jacob

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Jacob Cassidy

Operation Herculean Update – Week 3

Another fun event-filled week in Las Vegas and I still managed to gained 2 pounds while losing nearly another ½ inch of fat from my waist this week. Better results than I was expecting because my exercise and diet is completely unstructured right now.

Here’s a quick breakdown of what I did this week:

Monday

I did my first Zumba class ever, a type of hip hop/Latin dance cardio class. It’s a fun class for the right people, the girl I’m seeing loves it for example, but after trying it out I’ve decided I’m not really a fan.

I have two problems with the class. First, I have the opposite issue as most people in that I have a fast metabolism and don’t like stuffing myself full of food. Doing high energy cardio for an entire hour each day would quickly diminish my ability to gain weight and would likely make me even skinnier. And second, my energy levels are pretty low presently from being sedentary for so long, and the class is too high paced for me at my current levels (this should self-correct as I get fitter). [Click Here to Continue Reading...]