How Rude?! Let me introduce myself
My name is Christian Carroll. My high school friends call me CC.
You can call me whatever you want.
I'm on a mission to have fun in this life. I do a variety of things that some people would call weird, others would call impossible, and others inspiring. I don't really care either way I just do them because they sounded interesting at the time and for some odd reason other people have asked me to share them online. So after about 2 years of saying no. I finally gave in and put up this site.
The Influencers on Me:
- My Dad (Taught me to challenge the status quo and the value of hard work)
- My Mom (Instilled my passion for traveling the world)
- Tim Ferriss (introduced the world of lifestyle design and life hacking)
- Dr. Tim Francis (the best doctor in the world in my opinion I model my doctor skills around his teachings)
- Jim Cramer (learned a remarkable amount about investing and 'seeing the big picture')
- An eclectic array of entrepreneurs, investors, doctors, personal trainers, athletes, digital nomads and more. Maybe I'll interview a few of them one day? Anyone in particular you want to hear from?
I have a couple things I can offer you:
I go on passionate 'learning binges' of an eclectic list of topics/skillz/knowledge. Then I digest them. Test them. Widdle them down into the simple rules or habits that you can follow to gain that skill or knowledge.
For example: Lifting. I read a few books, blogs, research journals, and tested it out at the clinic at school with blood tests, measurements etc. Got pretty good results: 20 lbs of muscle in 30 days. Not the best I've ever heard. But the key is: I can repeatedly reproduce those results. In fact, I put them into 10 habits or rules that you can implement into your life. I made the varsity hockey team as a freshmen in hs at 105 lbs. I'm 190lbs now. I know what its like to be small and I figured I'd share my fun experiments with you on what worked and what didn't. That's what this site is all about. Fun projects. Worked or didn't. No harm no foul.
Let's see what are some of the weirder things I've done...
- I was apparently in no hurry to get started in this world, I was almost a month late and came out 'baked' not 'slimy' as my mom recalls. Nonetheless, here I am, trying to Live the Dream everyday.
- Well I've turned orange after juice fasting for 21 straight days..who said 5 lbs of carrots a day was too much? this guy.
- I got a finance major and was a manager in the #1 student led value investing fund in the US only to turn down a job on wallstreet and apply and get into the top Chiropractic School in the Nation. Yes, soon that's DOCTOR CC to you :)
- I played high school golf (and won a Mass State Championship) with 2011 PGA Champion and Ryder Cup Juggernaut Keegan Bradley.
- I'm the proud oldest brother of 4 siblings. I love my family. Yea, that's not weird, but it's my blog so I can write it!
- I've gained 20 lbs of lean muscle in 30 days
- I applied to 23 scholarships during my 'classes' senior year in high school and though I didn't have the highest GPA in my class (3.25) I did get the most money (I payed for a full year of college when you add it up!)
- I've delivered a 1 hr research presentation to 40+ med students on Vitamin D. the link is here.
- I've started (and not successfully launched yet) a supplement company. Loooots of stories and experiences to come from this one.
- I once wrote a book on eating and how it can effect your skin. I had horrible skin growing up...
If any of this interested you I encourage you to wander around the projects list and see what interests you and then send me some feedback on what you want, if you liked it, have any suggestions, or just want to tell me your story. It's all cool, I love stories, especially when they involve a learning opportunity for my readers!
Peace out.
With Much Love,
CC
You can call me whatever you want.
I'm on a mission to have fun in this life. I do a variety of things that some people would call weird, others would call impossible, and others inspiring. I don't really care either way I just do them because they sounded interesting at the time and for some odd reason other people have asked me to share them online. So after about 2 years of saying no. I finally gave in and put up this site.
The Influencers on Me:
- My Dad (Taught me to challenge the status quo and the value of hard work)
- My Mom (Instilled my passion for traveling the world)
- Tim Ferriss (introduced the world of lifestyle design and life hacking)
- Dr. Tim Francis (the best doctor in the world in my opinion I model my doctor skills around his teachings)
- Jim Cramer (learned a remarkable amount about investing and 'seeing the big picture')
- An eclectic array of entrepreneurs, investors, doctors, personal trainers, athletes, digital nomads and more. Maybe I'll interview a few of them one day? Anyone in particular you want to hear from?
I have a couple things I can offer you:
I go on passionate 'learning binges' of an eclectic list of topics/skillz/knowledge. Then I digest them. Test them. Widdle them down into the simple rules or habits that you can follow to gain that skill or knowledge.
For example: Lifting. I read a few books, blogs, research journals, and tested it out at the clinic at school with blood tests, measurements etc. Got pretty good results: 20 lbs of muscle in 30 days. Not the best I've ever heard. But the key is: I can repeatedly reproduce those results. In fact, I put them into 10 habits or rules that you can implement into your life. I made the varsity hockey team as a freshmen in hs at 105 lbs. I'm 190lbs now. I know what its like to be small and I figured I'd share my fun experiments with you on what worked and what didn't. That's what this site is all about. Fun projects. Worked or didn't. No harm no foul.
Let's see what are some of the weirder things I've done...
- I was apparently in no hurry to get started in this world, I was almost a month late and came out 'baked' not 'slimy' as my mom recalls. Nonetheless, here I am, trying to Live the Dream everyday.
- Well I've turned orange after juice fasting for 21 straight days..who said 5 lbs of carrots a day was too much? this guy.
- I got a finance major and was a manager in the #1 student led value investing fund in the US only to turn down a job on wallstreet and apply and get into the top Chiropractic School in the Nation. Yes, soon that's DOCTOR CC to you :)
- I played high school golf (and won a Mass State Championship) with 2011 PGA Champion and Ryder Cup Juggernaut Keegan Bradley.
- I'm the proud oldest brother of 4 siblings. I love my family. Yea, that's not weird, but it's my blog so I can write it!
- I've gained 20 lbs of lean muscle in 30 days
- I applied to 23 scholarships during my 'classes' senior year in high school and though I didn't have the highest GPA in my class (3.25) I did get the most money (I payed for a full year of college when you add it up!)
- I've delivered a 1 hr research presentation to 40+ med students on Vitamin D. the link is here.
- I've started (and not successfully launched yet) a supplement company. Loooots of stories and experiences to come from this one.
- I once wrote a book on eating and how it can effect your skin. I had horrible skin growing up...
If any of this interested you I encourage you to wander around the projects list and see what interests you and then send me some feedback on what you want, if you liked it, have any suggestions, or just want to tell me your story. It's all cool, I love stories, especially when they involve a learning opportunity for my readers!
Peace out.
With Much Love,
CC
My Bucket List: WHat would you do Before YOu Die?
The Lion Status 100 (and youtube video links for each one!)
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
If you do these. your biography will outsell Steve Jobs'.
Hey Everyone,
About 6 months ago I read a great life analogy for happiness. The visual was if you fill your bucket (life) with sand (less important things), then when you go to put in the big rocks (things that really make you happy), they won't fit. BUT, if you put the big rocks into the bucket (your life) first, then the sand just seems to pour right in without too much hassle allowing your life to be filled with all the "BIG ROCKS", but without totally ignoring the other parts of life.
My Bucket List is a combination of the Big Rocks that excite my life and make me happy.
My Big Rocks:
· Family/Friends
· Epic Adventures
· Integrated Medicine
· Travel
· Entrepreneurship/Finance
· WTF Moments (Things you do that you wake up the next day and say, "What the … did I do that for? O well, it will make a great story one day.")
If each or all of those are present in my life, by all definitions, I had an awesome day and my life is full of happiness and purpose. Notice: None of them is "have a big house" or "fancy car" or anything really materialistic. While money does help you accomplish things, it rarely "fills" your inner happiness. Money will come and go but happiness is something, regardless of the amount of money or materialistic things you have, that is a basic and ATTAINABLE human RIGHT. What was this country founded on again? O yeah, "the right to the pursuit of happiness." It seems our current government doesn't always remember what our founding fathers instilled (but that's a different conversation for a different day).
I encourage you to make a list of things that truly give you inner happiness. It may be quiet time in the woods, taking your wife on a dinner date, traveling to a foreign country, or just finding new places to eat. Whatever it is, I implore you to write them down and start saying "NO" to the things that don't fulfill one of your big rocks, and start saying "YES" to the things that do. It will have a profound effect on the rest of your life. I promise you.
My Lion Status 100 Bucket List:
(and I'm sure it will change as I age and different things become more/less important to me.)
NOTE: SLASH THRU THE ONES IVE DONE. Create blog posts and youtube video links around the ones I want to do/have done! as well as update the list and put it into sections? Or put it into the cooler ones higher?
1. Become a World Class Doctor
2. Help someone overcome an 'incurable' disease
3. Start a business in medical school
4. Marry the 'one'
5. Drive a NASCAR
6. Skydive
7. Swim with sharks
8. Triathlon
9. Travel to a foreign country to help underprivileged children
10. Become a New York Times best-selling author
11. Surf and "shred the gnarr" in California
12. Set up a successful cash practice
13. Generate $1 million in revenue in a fiscal year
14. Buy a boat
15. Go on an epic all-inclusive cruise with friends
16. Go to a private island
17. Do something every week that expands my "bubble"
18. Truly love and accept myself and others
19. Become a better Christian
20. Start a hedge fund/invest as a private equity investor
21. Work with a start-up company
22. Meet a president
23. Have 100k + subscribers on blog/youtube/facebook/twitter
24. Stumble upon one of my own websites
25. Be on a board of a company
26. Coach a young sports team
27. Adjust Tiger Woods
28. Be a DC on the PGA Tour
29. Catch a blue marlin deep-sea fishing
30. Go hunting and eat what I hunted
31. Buy a pimped-out golf cart
32. Become a member at a prestigious golf course
33. Shoot even par on 18 holes
34. Dunk a basketball
35. Weigh 190 lbs <10% body fat
36. Play in a poker tournament in Vegas
37. Compete in a Mr. ___ competition
38. Make a complete fool of myself in front of an audience
39. Sleep in a tree house
40. Ride an elephant
41. See the great pyramids
42. Play golf at a US Open course
43. Kiss the Stanley Cup
44. Play St. Andrews on a windy day
45. Go to the Master's
46. Give a stranger a $100 bill and ask them what they'd do with it
47. Buy a homeless person a meal
48. Pay for someone's groceries
49. Play Pebble Beach with my dad, brother, and grandpa
50. Get in the Guinness Book of World Records
51. Go on a shopping spree with someone
52. Pay off my parents' mortgage
53. Teach a seminar
54. Give a presentation to 50+ people
55. Be featured in a national publication
56. Jump in a cab and yell, "Follow that car!"
57. Walk by a Girl Scout cookie table... and not buy anything!
58. Take a hot air balloon ride
59. Ride the highest coaster in North America
60. Go on a safari
61. White water raft
62. Test drive a really expensive car I can't afford
63. Have a bunch of kids and be an awesome dad
64. Bench-press 300 lbs.
65. Make a video on YouTube with more than 100,000 views
66. Make a video on YouTube with more than 1,000,000 views
67. Play guitar and sing to an audience
68. Build my own website
69. Juice fast (I did this for 21 days and turned orange)
70. Sell a bunch of belongings at a garage sale
71. Send a message in a bottle
72. Run the Boston Marathon
73. Get a hole in one!
74. Take advantage of "all you can eat shrimp" and "endless salad and breadsticks" (because I've been a server at both restaurants, and I want revenge! Note: I'll leave a big tip and take digestive enzymes with you.)
75. Cliff jump
76. Photo bomb a ride at a theme park
77. Go to Australia and tell the first beautiful woman who speaks to me with an Australian accent "I love you" before she finishes what she's saying
78. Design my own T-shirt
79. Try to sell that T-shirt to someone
80. Go on a wine tasting tour
81. Read every book my favorite author has written (mine's Tim Ferriss)
82. Have a Star Wars marathon and watch all 6 in one day with friends. (costumes preferred)
83. Apply to Harvard (and get in?)
84. Finish medical school
85. Meet and have dinner (and wine) with Tim Ferriss
86. Invest in an IPO (initial public offering) before it trades on Wall Street
87. Pay for my kid's college education
88. Walk behind a waterfall
89. Start a scholarship for unique kids
90. Donate microloans to entrepreneurs worldwide via www.kiva.org
91. Go to the Super Bowl
92. Get a diplomate in Applied Kinesiology
93. Score a goal in hockey on a penalty shot with a triple deke (I've actually done this)
94. Give a Ted talk
95. Bet on a horse at the Kentucky Derby! (Also: bring a beautiful girl with one of those big rich people hats!)
96. Be the change I want to see in the world.
And… other things I've done:
· Gone to a Harlem Globetrotters game
· Went to a game at Fenway Park
· Went to a game at Wrigley Field
· Saw a Red Sox / Yankees game at old Yankee Stadium
· Got the "king of email detox," Tim Ferriss, to e-mail me
· Smoked a Cuban cigar
· Ice skated at Rockefeller Center
· Saw the Boston Commons lit up during the holidays
I'll end with this quote:
"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Just make sure that it's worth watching when it does!"
Peace out,
CC
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
If you do these. your biography will outsell Steve Jobs'.
Hey Everyone,
About 6 months ago I read a great life analogy for happiness. The visual was if you fill your bucket (life) with sand (less important things), then when you go to put in the big rocks (things that really make you happy), they won't fit. BUT, if you put the big rocks into the bucket (your life) first, then the sand just seems to pour right in without too much hassle allowing your life to be filled with all the "BIG ROCKS", but without totally ignoring the other parts of life.
My Bucket List is a combination of the Big Rocks that excite my life and make me happy.
My Big Rocks:
· Family/Friends
· Epic Adventures
· Integrated Medicine
· Travel
· Entrepreneurship/Finance
· WTF Moments (Things you do that you wake up the next day and say, "What the … did I do that for? O well, it will make a great story one day.")
If each or all of those are present in my life, by all definitions, I had an awesome day and my life is full of happiness and purpose. Notice: None of them is "have a big house" or "fancy car" or anything really materialistic. While money does help you accomplish things, it rarely "fills" your inner happiness. Money will come and go but happiness is something, regardless of the amount of money or materialistic things you have, that is a basic and ATTAINABLE human RIGHT. What was this country founded on again? O yeah, "the right to the pursuit of happiness." It seems our current government doesn't always remember what our founding fathers instilled (but that's a different conversation for a different day).
I encourage you to make a list of things that truly give you inner happiness. It may be quiet time in the woods, taking your wife on a dinner date, traveling to a foreign country, or just finding new places to eat. Whatever it is, I implore you to write them down and start saying "NO" to the things that don't fulfill one of your big rocks, and start saying "YES" to the things that do. It will have a profound effect on the rest of your life. I promise you.
My Lion Status 100 Bucket List:
(and I'm sure it will change as I age and different things become more/less important to me.)
NOTE: SLASH THRU THE ONES IVE DONE. Create blog posts and youtube video links around the ones I want to do/have done! as well as update the list and put it into sections? Or put it into the cooler ones higher?
1. Become a World Class Doctor
2. Help someone overcome an 'incurable' disease
3. Start a business in medical school
4. Marry the 'one'
5. Drive a NASCAR
6. Skydive
7. Swim with sharks
8. Triathlon
9. Travel to a foreign country to help underprivileged children
10. Become a New York Times best-selling author
11. Surf and "shred the gnarr" in California
12. Set up a successful cash practice
13. Generate $1 million in revenue in a fiscal year
14. Buy a boat
15. Go on an epic all-inclusive cruise with friends
16. Go to a private island
17. Do something every week that expands my "bubble"
18. Truly love and accept myself and others
19. Become a better Christian
20. Start a hedge fund/invest as a private equity investor
21. Work with a start-up company
22. Meet a president
23. Have 100k + subscribers on blog/youtube/facebook/twitter
24. Stumble upon one of my own websites
25. Be on a board of a company
26. Coach a young sports team
27. Adjust Tiger Woods
28. Be a DC on the PGA Tour
29. Catch a blue marlin deep-sea fishing
30. Go hunting and eat what I hunted
31. Buy a pimped-out golf cart
32. Become a member at a prestigious golf course
33. Shoot even par on 18 holes
34. Dunk a basketball
35. Weigh 190 lbs <10% body fat
36. Play in a poker tournament in Vegas
37. Compete in a Mr. ___ competition
38. Make a complete fool of myself in front of an audience
39. Sleep in a tree house
40. Ride an elephant
41. See the great pyramids
42. Play golf at a US Open course
43. Kiss the Stanley Cup
44. Play St. Andrews on a windy day
45. Go to the Master's
46. Give a stranger a $100 bill and ask them what they'd do with it
47. Buy a homeless person a meal
48. Pay for someone's groceries
49. Play Pebble Beach with my dad, brother, and grandpa
50. Get in the Guinness Book of World Records
51. Go on a shopping spree with someone
52. Pay off my parents' mortgage
53. Teach a seminar
54. Give a presentation to 50+ people
55. Be featured in a national publication
56. Jump in a cab and yell, "Follow that car!"
57. Walk by a Girl Scout cookie table... and not buy anything!
58. Take a hot air balloon ride
59. Ride the highest coaster in North America
60. Go on a safari
61. White water raft
62. Test drive a really expensive car I can't afford
63. Have a bunch of kids and be an awesome dad
64. Bench-press 300 lbs.
65. Make a video on YouTube with more than 100,000 views
66. Make a video on YouTube with more than 1,000,000 views
67. Play guitar and sing to an audience
68. Build my own website
69. Juice fast (I did this for 21 days and turned orange)
70. Sell a bunch of belongings at a garage sale
71. Send a message in a bottle
72. Run the Boston Marathon
73. Get a hole in one!
74. Take advantage of "all you can eat shrimp" and "endless salad and breadsticks" (because I've been a server at both restaurants, and I want revenge! Note: I'll leave a big tip and take digestive enzymes with you.)
75. Cliff jump
76. Photo bomb a ride at a theme park
77. Go to Australia and tell the first beautiful woman who speaks to me with an Australian accent "I love you" before she finishes what she's saying
78. Design my own T-shirt
79. Try to sell that T-shirt to someone
80. Go on a wine tasting tour
81. Read every book my favorite author has written (mine's Tim Ferriss)
82. Have a Star Wars marathon and watch all 6 in one day with friends. (costumes preferred)
83. Apply to Harvard (and get in?)
84. Finish medical school
85. Meet and have dinner (and wine) with Tim Ferriss
86. Invest in an IPO (initial public offering) before it trades on Wall Street
87. Pay for my kid's college education
88. Walk behind a waterfall
89. Start a scholarship for unique kids
90. Donate microloans to entrepreneurs worldwide via www.kiva.org
91. Go to the Super Bowl
92. Get a diplomate in Applied Kinesiology
93. Score a goal in hockey on a penalty shot with a triple deke (I've actually done this)
94. Give a Ted talk
95. Bet on a horse at the Kentucky Derby! (Also: bring a beautiful girl with one of those big rich people hats!)
96. Be the change I want to see in the world.
And… other things I've done:
· Gone to a Harlem Globetrotters game
· Went to a game at Fenway Park
· Went to a game at Wrigley Field
· Saw a Red Sox / Yankees game at old Yankee Stadium
· Got the "king of email detox," Tim Ferriss, to e-mail me
· Smoked a Cuban cigar
· Ice skated at Rockefeller Center
· Saw the Boston Commons lit up during the holidays
I'll end with this quote:
"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Just make sure that it's worth watching when it does!"
Peace out,
CC