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Hotcakes #73: Lifestyle Design teezeCrost & Gwardo define and discuss "lifestyle design". What the H is lifestyle design? We're about to tell you! Mike Boudet also calls us up with a piece of his mind regarding Canada's GOLD MEDAL WIN!
Hotcakes #72: Inferno & Escape from Hell Gwardo walks us through hell in this episode as he explores the creativity of two books based on Dante's Inferno, "Inferno" and "Escape from Hell". Also, you'll swear bing crosby is in the house, and we have some really good silver dollar hotcakes for you!
Hotcakes #71: What is Super Bowl? After another week off due to a certain sinus condition, we're back with our Super Bowl episode! Where did it come from? Why is it so Huge? What do you eat during it?! teezeCrost tries to understand the appeal (while secretly just craving more lemon pancakes) and Gwardo seems to know some things, but would prefer to riff on Ice Cube movies. Enjoy!
Hotcakes #70: Christmas Vacation 2 The first episode of 2010, and the 1st official Hocakes episode done in the new format. There are still kinks to work out, but we think we're off to a good start. This is a "cold flapjack" episode in that our topic of discussion is the failure that was "Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure". Have Fun!
Hotcakes #68: Womb Mates In this trial run of a concept for the NEW SOUND of Hotcakes, teezeCrost’s topic pick is the Hollywood flop “Battlefield Earth”! Have a peek at the recipe for disaster!
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Hotcakes Shirts

Hey, e’rbody. Well, it’s time to make some Hotcakes shirts-and possibly hoodies-happen. But I’m being indecisive, so we’re now taking suggestions for a quote to go under the logo.

“We put together breakfast, then take apart your world”
“We’re the friends your Mom likes”
“Something smells… Great.”
“We’ll nourish your mind, not your waste line”
“Try it. You’ll like it!”
“Down with cold flapjacks”
OTHER _______

It’d help out a bunch if you let us know what you’d want to wear. Thanks!

Hotcakes #73 Actual Show Notes

I don’t know if this will be a regular thing, but I thought it was worth posting my show notes for the latest Hotcakes episode. These have not been edited at all. They are the notes I wrote for myself and Gwardo in preparation for the show. You can hear the show here: http://hotcakespodcast.com/allepisodes2010.php

Lifestyle Design:

-1st time I came across ‘Lifestyle Design’ was when I read Tim Ferriss’s “The 4 Hour Work Week”.
The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).
-Great concept, but Tim has defined it very precisely around his own experience, desires and abilities. Everyone has different resources and goals
-For the purposes of discussion, let’s simplify definition as “The nurturing and optimization of major and minor life elements to maximize life enjoyment”
-What are the major and minor elements? Minor are numerous and different for everyone, but…
-Major elements are core building blocks of our existence: mind(mood, mindset, outlook), body(maintenance, use), surroundings(home, work, events, travel, people)


Ingredients to LD’s Success

Ability to provide audience with a sense of productivity while reading/listening casually
Ability to inspire. People love to feel inspired
Potentially contains actual useful information.

Sources of Lifestyle design info:

Books (an incomplete list)


* 4 Hour Work Week – Tim Ferris
Tim talks about his own achievements, the achievements of others, and how it’s not so impossible to escape the 9-5 and live more free. Verges on providing false promises, but overall is very motivational will inspire you to want to achieve the ideal life he lays out


* Think and grow Rich – Napoleon Hill (http://www.amazon.ca/Think-Grow-Rich-Original-Restored/dp/1593302002/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267905393&sr=1-6)

revised edition released in 2004. Original done in 1937 during great depression.
“with the help of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, the author of this remarkable book spent two decades interviewing hundreds of people renowned for their wealth and achievement. He distills the collective wisdom of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, and others, offering priceless advice on positive thinking and overcoming adversity.”
Highly recommend this book as a guide to reaching your goals. Some seemingly fluffy concepts, but all essential steps to achieving anything! Keeps your thoughts in line for success


*How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie 1937

Another depression era book teaches you people skills. Basically, tells you how to be a likable gentleman.


*The Secret -Rhonda Byrne – 2006
Not really recommended. Means well, is uplifting, but basically takes a tiny element of think and grow rich and expands it into more than it is. Read/watch/listen if you’re bored maybe.


Sites


Some useful links and tips, but in general more of a time consumer than saver, no?

Random Show: http://kevinrose.com/search/random+show | http://www.fourhourworkweek.com

Kevin Rose, founder of digg.com and Tim Ferriss, author of the 4 Hour Work Week talk about life, business, and travel. Very interesting video cast.

http://www.43folders.com

Merlin Mann’s website about “finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.” Great advice and thoughts on avoiding procrastination etc. Also co-hosts You Look Nice Today as HotdogsLadies

“You Look Nice Today is an audio-based Journal of Emotional Hygiene.” Really funny discussions of personal thoughts of 3 intellectual fellows.

http://zenhabits.net

Leo Babauta -”Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness.”

http://artofgreatthings.com

Jeffrey Tang- “It’s about getting inspired and making great things happen. It’s about living the life that you dream of living and doing the things that you love doing. It’s about finding things and achieving things worth getting excited over. It’s about meeting other passionate people and making even greater things happen together.”

http://internetbusinessmastery.com/category/podcast

Join Sterling and Jay for the #1 internet business and marketing podcast.
Can’t speak on their writings or business ventures, but along the lines of 4-hour-work-week in terms of inspiration and advice…

Was thinking of including sites like http://treehugger.com and http://greenlivingideas.com, and some fitness blogs, but these are more individual interest items. Learning about things you’re interested in and passionate about is an important part of lifestyle design, but is not specific to lifestyle design, and dependent on the individual.

Recent Articles/Posts I’ve gotten a lot out of:
http://www.43folders.com/2010/02/05/first-care <-Boil down your ideas so you’re capable of caring about them!


Hotcakes 73 & 74 Recording Soon

hotcakes art 2010 Hotcakes 73 & 74 Recording SoonOk, star gazers, this weekend isn’t going to work for recording for Gwardo and myself, but we ARE planning our next topics!
For episode 73, I’ll be talking about the concept of Lifestyle Design. Got any life hacking tricks, or websites you visit to better your life? Any sub-topics you want covered? let us know!
For episode 74, the topic has yet to be decided on. Your suggestions are welcome!

As always, to get in touch with us you can comment on the blog, or on hotcakespodcast.com, or…
Email us at hotcakes@hotcakespodcast.com, call us at 339-225-3784! (“3 EZ CAKES, UG”), skype us at username teezeCrost, hit us on facebook.com/hotcakespodcast, tweet at us at /gwardo or /teezecrost.

Recent Happenings

Hi, e’rbody. teezeCrost here. Just a few li’l tidbits of news.

n293723721724 6821 Recent HappeningsFirst off, Gwardo and myself attended a meetup for Winnipeg Bloggers this past Sunday at the King’s Head pub. This ended up being a very good time and we got to meet some like-minded internet junkies. Not only did we talk about our blogs etc, we also yacked about all the greatest things on TV. Foremost, 30 Rock. Wonderful stuff!
Here’s a rundown of the blogs of people we met:

KylaRoma.com
I’m on my way – Destination: Hell
Last Night’s Leftovers
Slurpies and Murder
Northern Belle
Emily-Jane.net

sweetdicklogosml Recent Happenings

Next up, although a website is never truly “finished”, I’m officially at a point where there’s nothing left for me to do but add products and clean all the test data from the database. This is a great milestone to be at! Shouldn’t be long before we open the site to the public with a few simple product choices in there in a quiet soft-launch(just ’til we know the kinks are all worked out). Will keep y’all posted!

Lastly, apologies to any facebook/twitter/buzz followers who’ve been receiving excessive, repeated updates. Buzz and a few other things found themselves in a repeat loop of somekind, but I’m pretty sure I’ve resolved it. Also, anyone who’s been experiencing broken links on Hotcakes feed items, you should have no problems now. If you want the boring details, CuteFTP’s otherwise awesome podcast uploader provides no way of providing URLs on a per-item(episode) basis. It DOES however provide its own unique <guid> value. This unfortunate combination of states causes Feedburner to MAKE UP episode links based on the random GUID value. So I wrote a PHP script to run every time we release an episode that auto-rewrites the links in the feed, and pings feedburner to notify it of the changes.