Alpha Asian

How you eat sometimes reflects upon how you are as a person and whether you exercise control over your decisions and your situations. Do you control the things that happen in your life, or do you allow yourself to meander and drift into situations? Do you allow someone else to control and dictate what your choices are? The best way to avoid making bad food choices in a restaurant is to avoid eating in a restaurant. Don't eat out more than 2 times a week. That goes for takeout too. Control what you eat and pack your lunches for work, so you don't put yourself in a situation where you are tempted to make bad choices. But you gotta live life, and that means eating out with friends and family. I'll be honest with you, I don't put any restrictions on myself when I eat out. The whole point of eating out with friends and family should be to enjoy yourselves. Just make the experience a little more special by eating out only twice a week instead of everyday. You can stil

I didn't even realize this until today, but the Alpha Asian blog is 7 years old. Wow! Who knew that I'd be keeping this thing going for this long? When I set out to write this blog, I wanted to create a blog that aggregated positive energy, energy that inspires Asian Americans to follow their bliss. I think in a way I've made my mark, because other bloggers are starting to do the same thing. Seven years and I posted over 800 entries with the help of talented Asian Americans on the web. That's a lot of stuff that can get buried over time, so I decided to archive 157 of the old videos HERE. The Alpha Asian blog, back in the day

Sometimes people ask me, "How do you find the time to do all the things that you do?" I have a job that's a little more demanding and stressful than the usual 9 to 5. My wife and I have a daughter who's quite a handful at the moment. In my spare time, I run 2 blogs, write for various exercise magazines and websites and I’ve authored a number of books. And I still find time to workout. People have dreams to accomplish something, but very few people accomplish what they dream of doing.  For example, a lot of people want to write a book, but most of these people never write one.  People use the excuse that they don’t have time. This is bullshit.  Everybody has the same 24 hours in a day.  You cannot save time.  You can only spend it.  But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.  You just have to get into a habit of taking action, of taking the first steps. Here are some my mindset tips on what Guy Kawasaki calls the “art of the start.”  These are tips to

I find that most Asian Americans have no knowledge of history.  The history they are taught is the history of Western civilization, and when they do learn of Asian histories, they only learn of how Asia got colonized by European powers. I'm a bit of a history buff, and I've always had a fascination of with historical badasses of all cultures.  When most people think of an Asian badass from history, they think Genghis Khan and that's it. But there were a lot of Asian badasses in history. A funny and educational site on badasses is BadAss of the Week .  On this site blogger Ben Thompson lists badasses from history, the modern era and fiction. Here are some notable historical Asian badasses from the badass site: Koxinga, Pirate King of Taiwan Kim Yushin Tran Hung Dao Date Masamune, the One Eyed Dragon Yue Fei Lapu Lapu

American Heathen , which Stanford students researched, wrote and illustrated, focuses on the life and times of a Chinese American man who dedicated much of his life to improving the lives of Chinese immigrants in 19th-century America.