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Another way you can help speed up the process for the coffee, would be to look for used equipment. If you can learn to distinguish models and their values, then you could acquire gear much faster. I had stumbled upon $2,000+ of coffee making gear the other day for $1,200. Not the craziest deal, but the more you look and know will make it easier. Not only that you will have a solid understanding of what the best machines are to use. People will die, or go out of business. Leaving this kind of gear getting sold by their children. Sometimes even abandon in a storage unit etc. There is a lot of opportunities to start out. Not only that you can scout goodwill for decent machines to just get you started. You might not run into the best commercial machines there, but you can find some solid deals. I actually just found a $300+ machine for $20 at a garage sale the other day still new in the box. You can check values on these machines on ebay. Use the sold listing filter to see what they sold for. Typically just type in the name of the machine and the model number at the bottom. This same process can be repeated for any thing you need for the business, such as a truck or the cart.

It feels like I am far surpassing what I thought I could do. I'm about to hit my $50k listing value possibly even today. Sales have been seemingly just pouring in. I got a loan for inventory and stuff, but it seems to have been massively worth it. It's hard to believe how much good stuff I have been finding, but I have really trained hard for this over the last few years. Really the main thing I have been missing is consistency and knowing what items to buy. I wasted so much money and time on bullshit, but it seems like I have a much better eye these days. The quality of stuff I carry is great. I want to keep listing at least 20 items a day 5 days a week. I think my results coming this winter are just going to be unbelievable. I had been so use to just not having that much money it will be really nice. I will have to move a bunch of my stuff at the end of next month. I think this will be a closer step to me moving out. It is starting to seem more and more realistic. I can almost taste my own financial independence at this point it feels like. I just need to buckle down and stay disciplined. I really need to save up and be smart about how I am going about things. I've been looking in a warehouse. I don't think that they would accept me there just yet. It's in a pretty bad area with a 10ft high barbwire fence. Honestly, I don't give a shit about the place around it. The price and structure are really attractive. I would imagine I could produce a lot of income just by simply having something like that. I could easily hire people as well. I'm still thinking about moving to a better area for sourcing though. At some point I could really nail down this habit and start my next venture.

He has an enjoyable writing style. I didn't get any massive improvements from the subtle art book, but it was enjoyable to read at least.

I would personally be pretty aggressive with it if it were me. I would invest about 500 of that into my own development. Books, seminars, etc. If the food in your house sucks get some healthy foods etc. If you started investing into a retirement fund at that age with like 500 of that, it would be super powerful. Even 250 of that would put you really far. There is probably some limits on how much you can contribute. Don't get sucked into a bunch of speculative investments though. You need to find accounts that have tax advantages. This would immensely help you in your retirement years. Even if you just managed to do this for a year or two, then stopped. I would take the last 400 and just keep saving it until I had a goal of what I wanted. One year of that and you would have some good coin to start business with or something like that. Of course if you want to do something like start your own business and have a vision of that, then I would start there. Most of the big returns will come from investing into yourself.

That is coming from a guy who literally destroys his body to do that lol.

States and stages are different things for sure. There is also levels to spiritual development in play as well.

The life coaching thing is not going as smooth as I thought. I am pretty solid with finding a solution to problems. It seems more of just talk therapy though right now. I need some more practice and reading of coaching material. I can see what would help them well, but there is so many things that can be limiting people. Of course if someone was more successful and had more drive it would be easier. However, I like the idea of helping someone more disadvantaged. It's posing more of a challenge though for sure. I put together my first 6 tier rack that has casters on it. The thing can hold 800 pounds with the casters on it. This is really helping me clear up space in the garage right now for inventory. They are $100 each, but I could see myself putting like $500-$600 into these. I think that would be really worthwhile investment. I had seen it was looking like NFTs could be sold on ebay. I know a fair bit on crypto and I have a really good ebay account. This could provide me a opportunity to hop into a high rising market. I think I missed a fair chunk of the rush coming in with people dropping $69 million on one, but this could still be a decent route. I know I am kind of chasing a bit of stuff "to get rich" or whatever, but this seems like a decent opportunity. Given the fact that I am already operating in this industry it would not hurt for me to check that out. This could solve a bit of my issues with winter sourcing as well.

I have been taking it easy for a few days. I am starting to feel a good bit better now that I have rested. Read to start getting back into action. I got some new shelving in today that has casters on it. I am going to test out this new inventory model that I think would work well for the types of items that I sell. It's been on my mind to get a bit more help with it. I know a guy that I could probably have help me picture items. I feel so strange about proceeding with scaling this. I suppose I don't know what else to do right now. It's like it isn't producing a lot of cash flow, but it totally could improve. I just need more infrastructure for it. I've hit a good amount of bottlenecks even recently with just the sheet amount of stuff laying around. It's really slowed me from getting the stuff listed. I need to make a habit of listing earlier in the day I think. Probably after breakfast would be good for me. Business is so tough to figure out it seems like. The shit I am doing right now is straight forward, but I mean for a real successful business. For this one to even reach 6 figures of net profit I would have to seriously bust my ass. I am not really in a good area for it to work well either. If I was in a larger city it would be much easier. I could still do decent though. If I really stepped up my learning and keep progressing. Part of me just feels like working on something new though too. I guess I am just not fully sure on what. It feels like a lot of the stuff I want to get into is just saturated. I've been practicing a bit with trying out life coaching stuff. I can for sure give some solid advice at this point it feels like. I suppose it depends where the person is at though too. I can obviously only bring someone up to where I am at. Even the though tof that just seems like bullshit for monetizing. Like I would never get decently rich doing that. Having some sort of hourly pay just totally caps what you could ever earn. It's not all about getting rich either. I like doing that so far. If I was going to go through a lot of fucking effort, learning, challenges, etc I would at least want to have millions to show for it. I would not want to have to ever do something for money again.

I've had a business in this. It's good for someone trying to get some cash together. Cleaning a car for 5-6 hours to get maybe a hundred bucks or two isn't really worth it. I mean even if you did a half ass job and turned them in a few hours it still isn't that great. You can actually invest into good gear, products, and learn a lot of techniques. I started it originally because it was pretty satisfying after cleaning my own rig nice. No much so after that. Personally, I would go with something a bit less labor intensive that scales better. Online business opens up a lot of options for you to choose from. Not to say that there is not money in those other ones. Plenty of successful businesses there. I would also base it off something you are passionate about. Another thing I have learned in business is that these types of businesses make it fucking hard and grindy to even make six figures. No doubt you could make 6 figures mowing, but you got to run the numbers. Unlikely, you would be mowing that many lawns yourself. Try to find something where you are not too late to the party. Where it's growing a lot and is a bit more new of a field. There will be a lot more opportunities there. You don't even have to come up with any good ideas either. You just need to execute on an idea well. Of course if you can take the life purpose course and work on that too. Although, from the stuff you mentioned it sounds like you just want to get your feet wet in business. The stuff I mentioned is practical for creating a life purpose too. That's one tough thing in business too that can put you into a bind. Starting out it can be hard to actually put capital into a business. I would recommend working a job to get some starting capital. Even if you decide to go with one of these routes. You don't want to be losing money using some crappy old mower for example. Test the business out though before you dump a lot of money in it. It's still on the tail end of garage sale season and you can even get a decent mower for like $10-$20 if you look. Test to see if it is even profitable. You can even do that with your own coffee from home if you have some friends or family who might buy it if you want to go that route.

That industry is super saturated. It would be hard to compete with a lot of the chain stores. Of course if you can bring in special coffee or something different, then it could be viable. Having the perfect location would help as well. Where I am located I have seen things like 4 coffee places on the same street in my small town. I would not want to throw down that kind of money to compete with them personally. Even if I could reach 15% of their total market share it would be tough. Also, the point of running a business like that to me would be to not work all the time. I would not want to be serving coffee 7 days a week even if I had the chance of making that kind of money in 3 years. You will also run into the issue of not being able to actually work on advertising or other aspects of the business. Such as improving your supply chain, new products, new recipes, etc.

@MDMD Yeah, starting you would be best off doing advertising for stage orange businesses. It would become increasingly difficult as you move up the spiral too. You can get a job closer to what you want to do, or even in what you are wanting to do. You could be gaining skills through working that you want. Since it isn't going to happen making the business over night. You might even be able to work around someone doing copywriting if you look into all of the options.

You can learn something of value from anyone. With that said though, there is not just toxic orange available for you to learn from. There is a lot of healthy orange material that is available out there too. For example the hustle culture is a good example of toxic stage orange. While a more healthy version would look like someone trying to build success for themselves without too much ruthlessness, scamming, trickery, etc. There is plenty of stage orange pursuits that actually create a ton of value for a lot of people without major negatives. Something to consider is that you can use many different stages to approach business, which will likely make it much more meaningful. For example a stage green business would show a lot more appreciation towards helping the world and others. Yellow would integrate more systematic structures into the business and more insight on how it effects the eco-system as a whole. Also, even stage blue would be important in business as that is where a good amount of integrity and discipline can come from. Some options might be to start looking into other jobs that you are more passionate about in the mean time. Are you passionate about this? Or is this just a route to escape the 9-5?

@Twega Yes, that would be how you would use it. A good system will provide good quality water even from poor tap water.

What are you most passionate about?

I hit $40,000 listed today! I am easily going to reach my $50,000 goal before September. Hard to believe I use to have such a hard time trying to reach that level. I have really been putting my new found energy to work. I am going at this with a lot of consistency. It has been distracting me from a bit of reading and those things, but it is crucial that I get this worked out before winter. Summer sourcing season is over around September anyway. I only maybe have two months left of good quality inventory. At this rate though I feel like I could seriously sell 10k in one month at some point before the end of the year. I feel like I should be back into $4k a month if I keep up the work. At the rate I am going I expect some months to way out perform that though. I could sell that much now and this is one of the worth times of the year to be selling online. I bet I could get $2,400 or more net on that. I will actually be making a decent livable wage. I know that is not really even all that high, but still. That is good progress. If I can keep that fairly steady I will be able to start backing off the reselling and putting work into my life purpose more and more. I will also have the funds for it. I have so much to learn still in business. Even though it seems like I have done a lot at this point. What I want to do next will really be pushing my comfort zone I feel like. It will be a big change for me for sure. I really need to keep on this life purpose stuff and get this more figured out. I want to really get things nailed down. I have been playing with some new routes that I am thinking about trying. I think part of my issue too is being held back by the idea of making something entirely new. I feel like I would need to start in other industries to really even be able to do something like that. It's hard for me to thinking of something self-help related that is not just self-actualization stuff. Although, it is super powerful stuff. The market is tough and I am not sure what I can full provide there. I know I can do a lot of the entry stuff that I have learned. I suppose I should just start where I am if that is the market I want to do. ]

It makes me really sick personally, but I have heard of people using huperzine-A for dreaming. I don't really recall much of the facts on it as it has been a few years now. You'll have to do your own research on it. Sickness can be caused if your brain already produces too much of the chemical it creates supposedly. I dream quite often as it is, so that could have been my issue. I am not so sure there is a known connection between dreaming and the levels of heavy metals in your body. Personally, I would try some different techniques for lucid dreaming. I use to do it about 7 years ago with some good success. I would usually do something like flip a light switch in the dream to confirm I was there. The light switch won't work. I would also start spinning in the dream if I was going to wake up.

I went floating again and I had another dream like strange loop experience. I have had these kinds of dreams before. I had been laying in the tank for close to an hour I would guess. Doing decent with meditation. I slipped into more of a dream state. I had this reoccurring experience of being at the float place, waking up from the tank. This repeated multiple times. Until, I was sure that I really woken up. I was laying in the tank in this dream state and it was as if I had a intense LSD visual trip inside the tank. I was so sure that it was the reality that I could not believe had I had that experience in the tank. Then I woke up in the tank. That was probably the best $60 I've spent for the tank for sure. It feels like I am making some really good progress with inventory. I didn't hit my 20 listings per day, but I am getting myself back to speed. I am easily going to list 20 or more today though. All really good items too. Garage sale hunting today with thrifting was really good. I guess there is a local flea market I can go to as well. I am going to give that shot tomorrow. My main problem right now is actually too much inventory. Not enough selling. It's that time of year though, so I need to just tough it out. If I can last a couple more months like this sales will come rolling in. I did make some time for life purpose work. I am being more deliberate and fitting it into my schedule daily. It will be tough, but I really want to get results.

Go try approaching with these on and with them off too.

I recall always seeing a lot of stuff where guys would be bringing stuff to girls at work etc. I had one girl I did that for with coffee and stuff. It never really sat well with me since there was no actual investment in a date or anything on their part. I have actually stopped talking with girls who wanted me to buy them stuff and drop it off to them. On a date it would not really bother me though I suppose. I can be a bit cheap, but under $30 or so for them on a first date or something is fine with me. It's doable without money though. If that part of it bothers you. There is a lot of free stuff out there that is fun too. I suppose my main issue would be their choice of foods haha.

It feels like I am starting to come at the reselling with even a bit of a different approach. I have so much old bullshit laying around that I need to shift through. I found a new technique for quickly identifying items without a lot of thought, so that is helping a bit. I am going to be putting a lot more thought into decluttering everything and being a lot more specific on the things that I buy. Space is starting to become much more important to me as I keep growing this business. I am very close to having 40k listed. I am very on track with my goal of 50k by September. I should surpass that much quicker! I'm starting to do walks more to try to contemplate. I didn't really gain any major insight today with about an hour of it. Nice to get away from work and the house for a bit though. Really my main focus right now thought wise is to keep working on developing an LP. Being some sort of consultant seems to really align with my skills and gifts. It's just that I'm not sure what angle I could come at that from. Ideally, I still want to make something new and creative. I would like to try to read 5 books on a few different topics to really get a taste for them. Something that would push my knowledge deeper in some areas. I could get some answers from that. Part of me does feel like the consulting thing does not scale very well. I'd need a front end operation to bring in clients. Which the logical thing would probably be to do the typical videos/content route. I suppose there is the possibility of creating something new. The speaking sounds fairly good though. I notice I feel a bit more inclined to want to create videos still. I actually felt a bit sad looking at how I stopped doing it. So maybe that's the way to keep moving forward. I still need some more clarity though. Clarity will be key with this. I notice to of how it's very hard to compete with most of the people that getting the most traffic. I realize how it's irrelevant to compete, but it's important to look at the marketplace. Not very many people want just the most solid advice. They want it all dressed up with a bunch of bullshit. A lot of animations, super out going presenter, and entertainment value from it. I suppose the important thing is the niche itself though really. So what can I really offer that is so unique that it busts through needing any of that bullshit. No doubt, I want to be able to provide a lot of value. Maybe it does require some level of dressing it up with bullshit. It's so strange how so much of life is set up like a pyramid scheme. From information to money. I feel such a disconnect from most of society at this point. When you start to see how much a charade most of this is. I suppose that it's still possible for me to just be at the beginning of this unraveling of this. I've hardly even tapped into this on a metaphysical level either. I notice little bits and pieces of that though. How I connect to this reality and am "in it" seems suspect for sure. I suppose on another note I did get my vaccine. With so much bullshit on both ends of it, I can see how it makes it hard to decide. The news media has been extremely irresponsible with covid as a whole I feel like. For what it worth to me statistically, it seemed to be best off taking a vaccine.

I think it's good to discuss his perspectives on here due to the fact that many will just take his perspective as the truth. Personally, I have found a lot of good quality stuff within his dating stuff, but it depends where you come at it from. It's actually hard for me to consider just having casual sex, but maybe it would grow me. I think there is a lot of value to many on here with learning to approach women and socialize. I think balancing that with multiple other perspectives is important though. Even just reading something like this (the thread as a whole.) It sounds like some sort of scam or trick that has to played. Life in general is full of this type of stuff it seems like within survival. Although, this thread is a lot more blatant than most. It paints a lot of the picture of where a fair amount of this sub-forum is coming from. I had never heard this term before. I can feel a bit of a taste of that here and even some of the values. A lot of this work in general feels like it pushes you a bit this way.

I'm going to make sure that I really work on how I am going about things. I want to make sure my schedule is not just reselling. I need to spend time to foster my skills. I want to make sure that I am actively working on life purpose daily too. I think there is plenty of time in the day to do the reselling stuff. It isn't that tiring either unless I do a lot of hours. I just need to make sure I am disciplined with not wasting a lot of time during the day. I'll go easy on my self as I am getting back into rhythm aster a break though. Inaction has been one of my biggest issues. If anything has really set me back it is that. I think a lot of that stems from just doing a lot of the same things over and over. Doing what is most comfortable workwise etc. I noticed my thinking changed a lot leaving my environment here. I think that is something I need to try to do more regularly. It's fairly expensive though for hotels and such. It would be really worth it though. If I were to do a meditation retreat that would be amazing. I'd like to invest into that. Once it gets more into fall it will be easier for me to take a break maybe. It's awesome that I can still get sales for my ebay business while I am gone too. Another thing I would like to do is save up to try heavy metal detoxing. I would be vary curious to see what kind of effects that I could get from that. I still want to do more protocols health wise and this is for sure one that has peaked my interest for awhile. I still need to buy the books and study this a bit more though. I would be curious how my life would be effected from this. Who knows what the potential could be here if there is something here that is limiting me in others ways. I feel like I am ready to take toastmasters much more seriously again. I don't want to burn myself out at all, so the one group right now I think is good. I want to start building out a lot of speeches ahead of time. Really work on designing much more engaging and informative stuff. I feel like I have just been half assing this so much. I lacked a good vision though with it. I still do, but at least I know that I want to do more with this.

I had some pretty big break throughs with my life purpose work today. It was a good idea to take an extended break from this fully. I dove into my strengths a bit and it was really feeding more and more into my values. I now have 9 values that are really solid. I am still doing some contemplation for a 10th. I had actually done this part before, but I think that I did not really invest enough time into it. It seems like I have just been much more able to contemplate lately. It seemed as though I had a block there for awhile. From what I did today, I got a pretty good look at what I might want to do for a living. My strengths really benefit from having relationships with others. I've had a client based business before, so I have a lot of experience with one on one with people. At the time I did actually give them advice funny enough. A fair amount of people actually valued it then. I am much more advanced I feel now though for sure. The advice was not the point of the service though either lol. I have also one on one coached someone to start a successful business from scratch. My top strength is input. So basically, I like to store a lot of information and learn a lot. Learner was also up there by that. So it went hand in hand with learning and storing the info. I notice that others will pick up my my large variety of stored facts and information too. So these types of strengths go well for teaching. These are things that I can really start to hone and increase my skills with. I really enjoy reading books, so if that was part of my life purpose, then that would be ideal. Of course this probably just sounds like some stuff I already thought before. However, I have made a lot of clarity here. I'm not so sure I want to just rush right back into the youtube thing or what. I'd kind of like whatever I do to be creative and expand and build something new. My goal isn't to just copy Leo. This work is just so damn good. It's hard for me to want to learn or study other things. There are for sure segments and things that are not fully tapped into here though either. There is a lot of stuff to contribute. It's also really hard to market a lot of this stuff. So it might be best to teach lower level stuff that I have more fully mastered if I go that route. I also did enjoy teaching the stuff last time. Survival, overworking, and some anxiety around it stopped me last time. I was actually having a lot of fun. It was the most alive I had felt doing some work. I have pondered about stuff like learning how to heal trauma much more deeply. Psychology is quite interesting to me. Same with health stuff, which seems to go hand in hand a lot. I do like the one on one stuff a good bit. So there could for sure be some potential here to work with people like that. I am good at building connections with others. My listening still needs some work though for sure. If I wanted to give advice I would need a lot more work with maybe life coaching type material. I did kind of prematurely cut this off yesterday after working on it for about an hour. I think it would be wise for me to start back up on working on life purpose stuff daily. I am back in the groove for it and refreshed. I am still going to balance the work I need to do as well.

It might not hurt to make your own page that posts these types of things. If you are committed to the cause and passionate about it, then it would probably be worth it. You could even make money talking about stuff like that these days. I know a lot more people are starting to use the internet in India, so there is a large audience there for sure. Also, don't get caught up too much in the likes and all of that garbage.

It's been nice to take a break from work. I went to California and Las Vegas for a couple of weeks. It's blown me away how much there really is out there in the world. I have explored some other states a bit, but not in a long time. So many different people and different ways of life even just a thousand miles away from where I live. It's inspired me more to start working more heavily towards moving out. I am still on the fence there and it isn't something I can do right away, but I can see some major benefits of it. If I were in my own place with my own rules and values it would really help my growth. I can still do a lot here while I am working towards that. I feel like I still have some stuff to solve here. I was also considering moving to Arizona in the past and that for sure changed my mind a bit with how much heat is there. I was actually in Arizona very briefly and it was super hot. I am not too big on the 100 degree weather. It is hard to even walk around for that long lol. I am sure the other seasons are not too bad though. I actually had no allergy issues in the desert areas. I did actually work on thinking about my top values more while I was gone. I really want to get myself more honed in onto figuring out what my next business will be. I did discover a few values that I had not really thought about. One was Truth. Before I had not really considered that as a top value, but the more I do this work I think it has started to rub off on me. I can see the value of dedicating a good portion of my life to discovering the Truth. I notice in general I have made a lot of fantasizes of what enlightenment might look or feel like. I think that if there is some way to integrate this into my life purpose it would be great. I'm not sure how it would go about it, but I suppose even if I help people move in that direction by just making them more healthy. I also solidified health as one of my top values for sure. I know this is a value that I hold strongly, but this is for sure one of the top that I have. A lot of my thinking and things that I want to do are geared towards the health of myself and others. I'm going to recommit myself strongly to really deeply discovering these. I am planning on making sure that I am being much more consistent with all of this. I really want to have more clarity in my life. Whatever it takes for me to do that will be 100% worth it. One thing I noticed while I was out was how much more attractive girls I can meet in larger cities. It would take me a year to meet as many attractive women in my town versus these places in week. I have been thinking more about moving closer to a larger city I am familiar with. If I am still reselling then it would be fairly easy for me to make rent and such there. I could also easily meet new women and maybe make some more friends that way. It would be a good experience for me for sure. I am still thinking about sticking it out another year here and mapping out what I want to do next though. I did think again on the super health fast food restaurant, or trying the teaching thing out again. So if I can get some grounding with something else, then that would change a lot. I really need to save up some money as well to make this happen. This current environment isn't really a major drag, but I can see it could hinder me from trying as hard. I just need to keep my focus up and work hard. One thing that that I find I need more improvement on is removing more of the filter from my mind about people. This trip has opened me up to see a lot of different people. Where I live it's basically just white people and I don't have a whole lot of contact with people in general. I notice my mind tends to have slight judgments. I won't to work on toning this down and just experiencing people as they are with no filter attached to it. I did face my fear of heights a good bit on this trip as well. I have always been afraid of those Ferris wheels and I went on a big on at the Disneyland park. I used my release techniques a good bit on it and it helped a lot. I noticed myself even wanting to go on a even larger one in las vegas. The sky diving still seems quite scary, but I think this would grow me a lot. I wanted to do some pick up a little bit, but I did not do that. I had thought about the clubs in vegas, but I am not vaccinated and it just seemed a bit irresponsible. I can try some clubs at the larger city near me. A lot more stage green women that way too. I'm still not sure how I would feel about just hooking up with a girl if that is what would happen. I have never done that before. I have only been in committed relationships. I think there is still a lot of potential benefits of socializing that I have just not had. I've been pretty cooped up a good bit of my life. It feels good to be back home. I want to keep it rolling off of this experience. It's given me a good bit to contemplate and work on.