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Reflections from Beyond Barriers 2024: Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in New Delhi, India

Reflections from Beyond Barriers 2024: Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in New Delhi, India

I recently returned from the Beyond Barriers 2024 event in Delhi, where I represented the Cal State Fullerton Center for Entrepreneurship at a truly inspiring gathering. This event marked the culmination of a year-long collaboration with Yuukke, an organization committed to empowering women through entrepreneurship. For the past year, women

How to Rewire Your Brain: My Journey From OCD to Mental Freedom

How to Rewire Your Brain: My Journey From OCD to Mental Freedom

When I was six years old, I began experiencing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Disturbing, intrusive thoughts of my family dying or the world ending occupied my mind for several hours a day. To alleviate these thoughts, I’d make deals with God to keep my family safe. For example, I

The Road to Rapid Learning: How Scaling Transforms Your Marketing Strategy

The Road to Rapid Learning: How Scaling Transforms Your Marketing Strategy

Late last night, an idea popped into my head. What if I was already on the right track, but just needed to ramp up the intensity? I've been delving into the Lean Startup concept, with the primary takeaway being the necessity for rapid learning, experimentation, and testing. This

To-Do Lists Suck: Here's Why a Someday/Maybe List is Better

To-Do Lists Suck: Here's Why a Someday/Maybe List is Better

To-do lists suck! They’re often a list of other people’s priorities. Tasks get added at a faster rate than those finished leaving you with a constant feeling of incompleteness. This affects your sense of accomplishment and ability to “turn off” from work. To-do lists are helpful for capturing

Creating your optimal daily schedule

Crafting Your Optimal Daily Schedule: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your Perfect Day

Ever wondered what your perfect day would look like if you could just throw the rulebook out the window? Maybe you'd travel, work from a beach, or finally kickstart that side hustle. Picturing it? Awesome. Now, let me tell you, it doesn't just have to be

Startup Notes: Survey Results Are In

Startup Notes: Survey Results Are In

Welcome back to another edition of my Startup Notes, where I peel back the wrapper on our journey in snack innovation. Just a little heads up - we like to keep a few recipes secret, so while I'm excited to share our progress and what we've

Goal Setting How-To: Transform Your To-Do List with the 3-3-3 Rule

Goal Setting How-To: Transform Your To-Do List with the 3-3-3 Rule

When I started my business, I was obsessed with goal setting. I'd have goals for everything: My life, the year, the month. I'd brain-dump everything I wanted to achieve and narrow it to about 10-15 things, then dive in. In hindsight, I was dealing with major

Master Your Time with Day Theming: A Productivity Game-Changer

Master Your Time with Day Theming: A Productivity Game-Changer

Day Theming is a productivity framework that's used by some of the most successful people in the world. Imagine taking an overwhelming to-do list and transforming it into a manageable stream, each day dedicated to different aspects of your personal or professional life. However, you don't

New? Start Here

New? Start Here

Hello, friend! Welcome to VictorMacias.com, my personal blog. My name is Victor Macias, and I am a serial entrepreneur, startup coach, and Shark Tank Alum. I've built multiple 6 and 7-figure businesses and I'm passionate about helping others create life on their terms. I publish

Overcome Procrastination: The 2-Minute Technique for Building Momentum

Overcome Procrastination: The 2-Minute Technique for Building Momentum

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits has a great method for building any habit. Make it so small that it’s laughable if you don’t do it. Want to go to the gym, but are lacking motivation? Commit to tying your gym shoes and driving to the parking lot. Want

Beyond the 5 AM Club: Discover Your Chronotype for Optimal Performance

Beyond the 5 AM Club: Discover Your Chronotype for Optimal Performance

The 5 AM club isn’t for everyone Much thought is placed on “what” to do and “how” to do it. We believe if we just do what successful people do - wake up at 5 am, meditate, grind, we’ll be successful. However, an often-overlooked question must be answered

From Strengths to Superpowers: Unleash Your Full Potential Through Daily Practice

From Strengths to Superpowers: Unleash Your Full Potential Through Daily Practice

We’re each wired with attributes that help or hurt us depending on their application. A simple shift in alignment can 10X your results. While a blind spot can block you from achieving the life you want. “It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of

Don't fix your weaknesses, create guardrails instead

Don't fix your weaknesses, create guardrails instead

Do NOT fix your weaknesses. It’s a waste of time that results in mediocrity. Instead, get curious, discover what they reveal about you, and create guardrails. A guardrail can be a rule, a tool, or a person to protect you from yourself. Ray Dalio, the legendary billionaire Hedge Fund

Slow Down to Speed Up: Unpacking the Navy Seals' Philosophy for Success

Slow Down to Speed Up: Unpacking the Navy Seals' Philosophy for Success

The Navy Seals have a saying, "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast." This principle not only applies on the battlefield but in everyday life as well. The concept suggests that in order to make real progress (grow, scale, speed up), it's essential to first slow down

Startup Notes: I'm Launching a NEW Startup

Startup Notes: I'm Launching a NEW Startup

Over the past few years, I've been on an incredible entrepreneurial journey. If you've followed me on social media you've seen the highs (landing a deal on Shark Tank) and the lows (What happened to Nui). Now, I'm getting ready to take

Living a Life Without Goals

Living a Life Without Goals

Goals don’t work. They create stress, overwhelm, and guilt. They’re usually entirely made up. Goals make you rigid, shutting you off from other, sometimes better, opportunities. Your outcomes don't come from goals, they stem from your actions. If you focus on the right inputs, the outputs

Understand your weaknesses and fill the gaps with technology and/or people

Understand your weaknesses and fill the gaps with technology and/or people

We each have unique strengths and weaknesses. The greatest entrepreneurs know how to leverage their strengths and mitigate their weaknesses. One of the best ways to do this is with the use of technology and/or people. Filling in your gaps increases your bandwidth. It also shortcuts your success because

The 45-Day Self-Love Experiment

The 45-Day Self-Love Experiment

I’ve been doing an experiment for the past 45 days that’s completely changed my life. I’m calling it the self-love experiment. It comes from the book, “Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It.” The concept is simple, so simple that you may be tempted to dismiss

Self-love is critical for long-term success

Self-love is critical for long-term success

The road to success is filled with highs and lows. In order to succeed, you need to have the stamina to stick it through. For this reason, it's critical to practice self-love and compassion. This will increase your self-esteem and make it so you enjoy the journey and

Build new habits by doing what's easy

Build new habits by doing what's easy

To build a new habit, take the path of least resistance and make it easy. Building habits requires consistent repetition over an extended period. Often, the perceived difficulty of performing a new action prevents individuals from engaging in it. For example, an aspiring writer might dread the idea of generating

Track inputs to increase your odds of success

Track inputs to increase your odds of success

Tracking inputs encourages consistent monitoring of progress, leading to more effective goal achievement by fostering awareness and enabling timely adjustments. Examples of input activities: * Input (writing) vs Output (book) * Input (prospecting) vs Output (clients) * Input (dieting) vs Output (six-pack abs) For better goal achievement, implement the following daily input tracking

Do more quality work with the Unschedule

Do more quality work with the Unschedule

The Unschedule is a concept developed by Neil Fiore, author of The Now Habit. It flips the traditional schedule on its head. Instead of scheduling work obligations first, you prioritize guilt-free play and other social commitments. By prioritizing guilt-free play, you remove the underlying causes of procrastination and reduce resentment

Make your habits so easy that it's laughable if you don't complete them

Make your habits so easy that it's laughable if you don't complete them

For Behavior Modification, the key is to just get started. One of the quickest ways to get started is to make something easy by breaking it down to its smallest component. For example: * Don't commit to working out, commit to one pushup every morning. * Don't commit

What if resistance is life showing you what to subtract?

What if resistance is life showing you what to subtract?

Derek Sivers, musician, entrepreneur, and TED speaker says, "I do things, but I stop before anything gets stressful... "You notice an internal 'Argh.' That's my cue. I treat that like physical pain, what am I doing? I need to stop doing that thing that

'Easy' is Life Showing You What to Add

'Easy' is Life Showing You What to Add

I believe that if something is easy for you to do, it's a sign that you should do more of it. Here's why: * If it's easy, it means you're good at it: What comes easy for you may be difficult for someone