Starting a Business

I have been absent for last couple days, because I am in the process of trying to start a business.  I have spent the last 2 days solid working on my idea and trying to jump start it as fast as possible.  Success comes with hard work and if it doesn’t work out than at least I learned something from it and can use that knowledge to do it better next time around.  Today, we are hitting the business hard and are shooting with 75% confidence that we will end up on the local news for some free advertising.  Yes, we are going to extraordinary measures to get free advertising, but sometimes you just have to take some calculated risks to become successful.  So if I make it on the news, you bet this site will be the first place to show it and it will be super non the less.  I have a few more days to hit it hard and then a fun bachelor party filled weekend, so I will be back ready to hit it hard on Tuesday.   Unitl then, I will probably fit in a few posts here and there.  If you haven’t gotten the chance, take the time to view some of the older articles by thumbing through the categories section. 

Have a great week!

 

Adam

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The Foundation for a Better Life

I saw a new Foundation for a Better Life commercial and always like the messages they send.  They always make me feel inspired to be a better person.  Enjoy!

 

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A Life Story and Lesson’s Learned

This is a story I wrote about a Backpacking trip in which I screwed up big time and almost made a very bad situation.  It is a long story, but the lessons learned are invaluable.  Success comes with learning from mistakes made in life.  It is an interesting story to tell and probably pretty interesting to read, so take the time to read it and tell me what you think. 

Summer 2006 Backpacking Trip Disaster

Near the beginning of the summer, I decided to take my Little Brother Luke from Big Brothers Big Sisters on his first backpacking trip to Star lake which is somewhere between Lake Tahoe and Carson Valley in the Sierra Mountains. It was around the middle of July, when I set the date to go on our trip to the weekend of August 12^th.

Now on the week before the hike I stayed very busy between work and other various events, one of which was attending an orienteering class. In this orienteering class, the instructor emphasized how important it was to have a good map of the area in which one was hiking. At the time, I kind of baulked at the idea of needing a map for I was just planning on taking the Tahoe Rim trail to Star Lake. How hard could it possibly be? So on the day of the hike, Luke, my brother Ben and I quickly gathered our supplies and headed off to the trail head. The day was beautiful with the temperature around the mid-90’s and not a cloud in sight. We drove through Gardnerville and down Highway 88 before turning to Highway 89 to get to the well known dirt road which would eventually lead us to the trailhead. From years past I remember having to pass 2 bridges before getting to the trail head, so I looked out for the bridges and felt comfortable as things looked familiar from the last time I had been on the road. We made our way past the two bridges and followed the path which looked most traveled and later ended up at a nice circle dead end with a trail head. I was proud of myself for finding the trail head so easily. We lathered ourselves with plenty of sunscreen and even practiced some of the skills Luke and I had learned from our orienteering class. Soon after, we headed down a nice trail with the intention of ending up at Star Lake. Within 5 minutes, something didn’t seem quite right because we were climbing straight up a mountain and Luke was already complaining about his shoulders hurting. It was only about 10 minutes into the hike when I decided Luke wasn’t going to be able to carry a backpack, so we distributed Luke’s equipment between Ben and me. I knew in my mind that about 1 mile up the path was when the trail would join the Tahoe Rim trial, so we continued to hike. Read more

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Be a Hopeless Romantic on me!

I said I would run a contest to compliment my Google Keyword Challenge for the top “Hopeless Romantic” Spot, so here it is.   The prize is going to be a gift certificate to Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse valued at $50(or romantic restaurant if Ruth’s Chris is unavailable in your area).  This one should be fun, because if you win, you are not just winning for yourself, but rather for you and your date.  I like the idea because being a Hopeless Romantic is very selfless and by taking someone special to dinner that is just great. 

The deal is, that if you win, you must plan a romantic evening for someone special and then send me your plan.  I will review it and post it, so make it fun and entertaining. It must meet the requirements for a hopeless romantic evening by having it be somewhat of a surprise to your date.  That means you must do something that your date doesn’t know about that will make the evening more exciting.  On the date, take a picture of you and your date and send it to me.  If you give me permission, I would like to post the picture, but I don’t have to.

HOW TO ENTER:

1.) Leave a comment about why you should win and what you preliminary plans for a hopeless romantic date would be. The contest will be judged based on your response.

2.) Digg and Reddit my story by clicking the links.(I can see if it was clicked), also Favorite Me on Technorati if you want.

3.) Tell all your friends internet savvy or not.

4.)Additional emphasis on entries for those who mention this contest on their blog using the following text.

Adam from TheAdamBox.com is making it easy for you to be a hopeless romantic for an evening by giving away a $50 gift certificate for a romantic outing. Enter Here.

The Contest will be run until I recieve at least 25 applicants.

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