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@Zigzag Idiot Awesome, I totally agree with that. It really gives you a new perspective on what is possible. I enjoy the deep research and fine details. I am going to put Washington on my list to read and possibly Lincoln too. My only thing is the time it takes to get through one and the actual weight of the book lol. I seem to get more out of the paperback, but it is tempting to use it on my kindle. My posture is awful while reading these. I don't mind the length if I balance it out with other good books and the author is good. I don't mind it taking a bit if the read is really good though. Do you have any notes that you take? I use book marks to mark notable events in the book, plus take some notes on what make them successful.

@Zigzag Idiot I am going to get the Alan watts one for sure. I really enjoyed the autobiography of a yogi as well. Sounds pretty interesting. Did you personally get any value from them? I have not considered them. I seem to be learning a lot history as I read these as well.

It's nice to have a bit of extra money. I need to make sure that I keep a good amount saved up, but I am really going in with investing into myself. I got almost $400 of bulk groceries today, which will be huge for me coming up as I have not been buying any nuts because I have had no access to decent priced stuff. I really put down into a bunch of stuff that will not go bad and I did last weekend too. I have mostly streamlined my grocery shopping to pick up on all of the stuff that goes bad quickly too. This is cutting out so much time and saving me a small fortune in food since I buy all organic. I got a nice yoga matt and some other stuff today too. I am going to keep up with this and not be cheap with any of this kind of stuff. I want to feel the best that I can. Going to be doing some different yoga today. I haven't really done much yoga, but I have been doing one new thing per week. So this week I am going to try that out for a 25 minute sessions and see how that goes. I am really hopeful that I will feel excellent from doing it. I am mostly familiar with kryia yoga, which is entirely different. Called my dad again after so many months. It is kind of sad to hear him it sounds like he has just pissed his life away to make a bunch of money. I mean he seems content with it, but he just isn't an interesting person. I could have sworn I heard his wife wanting to charge me $40 for my birth certificate on the phone, but I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt. If that is the case that is just stingy as fuck as he should be a millionaire at least. I can tell I don't really jive with him much. I am probably going to limit my contact. There is so much that needs to be discussed with his previous bullshit too. I can just tell in the conversation it isn't there. On that same note I am going to just keep investing into myself. I enjoy the few friendships that I have. I don't really need a whole lot out there in terms of communication. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today, I am thankful for: Lots of groceries Day out Yoga matt

Definitely feels like I am feeling "alive" again. Video games are feeling boring, energy is going up, tasks getting done, and feeling happier. I started taking a probiotic today and maybe that is helping a bit. I notice the burping going down a bit and digestion is working better than it was. So I think the issue is gut related. I am easily getting up to 3 solid focused hours of reselling in now. I was straggling with just one aside from shipping and all the other tasks. I mean in terms of just picturing items. I am enjoying that time and listening to educational stuff while I do it. I am going to really keep deeply investing into myself this year. I am going to get anything that is going to move me to the next step. I am thinking about redoing the life purpose course again from the start, but I did not fully finish it either. I am going to keep going deeper and deeper with all of this. I feel like I am building a lot more passion in my life and I can see it in all of the things I do. I just want to take it to the next level. I can see the value of building out my reselling business more. I know for sure that I want to list all of the posters and that will take about 100+ hours of work. Then I want to take care of all of the larger items. This business is really a blessing that I have this. As much as I sit here and go back and forth on what I am doing this is incredible. I can see this sticking around for years even if I don't put in a bunch of effort. This will be making me money for a long time. I need to keep taking it seriously until I decide what I want to do next. This can afford me so many opportunities from where I am at. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today, I am thankful for: Probiotic More energy Great toastmasters meeting

I think in the more near term it would be good for you to work on those social skills and for paying rent. You will want to spend your time strategically and work on building up what you want for a business on the side. You also should get as much value that you can out of the position while you are there. Anyway that you can improve yourself, art, etc while on the job. That might come in the form of listening to audio while in transition, or just building up your social skills. It's unlikely that you won't benefit from being able to articulate yourself better. I would also search for a job that is close to what you want to do for your purpose, passions, hobbies, etc. That will help bring up your mood and possibly help give you ideas of what you want and don't want. You can also use them to build up future skills.

Bring in some more details. What can you offer that is unique? Part of your strategy might be to get them to realize what is "bullshit." Most people don't think their lives are bullshit, or they wouldn't be doing the stuff that they are doing. Not really the direct answer, but this thread has a good amount of stuff on it for you to read.

Going to revive this topic as I am looking for more. I am in the middle of reading Walt Disney's biography and it is incredible.

Depends what skills and knowledge you have. If you don't have many skills, then a job would provide that. More context on your situation would help though.

Not posting right now, but I have some ideas brewing. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKxT3rSbBUMTOymk0C-DZQ

I would just make sure that you fully enjoy it and you are passionate about it. It sounds like you already really like it. I would see what you can find with your unique strengths and talents how you could add to it.

Going in for allergy testing soon! Hopefully, this will give me some leads on some stuff I can improve and try. I did notice a bit of an uptick in my mood and energy today following of me eating some probiotic bars that I bought at the store. My probiotic supplement should be here soon too. I am going to research a high quality multi vitamin, which I have not been using. I supplement other stuff and have tested a lot with my diet, but who knows. I might be deficient in something even though blood tests last time did not say anything. I am excited to see how this detox goes though for sure. I am thinking this should give me a good of progress. Really starting to feel a lot more charged up about building a life in the personal development field. I really need to dive in this year with training, research, and really taking the time to form and build an amazing business. I am really going to give it my best. I am not ready to quit reselling, but I am going to dedicate a lot of time to this too. I am going to keep myself moving in the right direction and really developing myself to the highest levels, so I can teach others. It is tempting to do the youtube right now, but I know I am not going to be giving it my all. I know that if I focus enough on reselling I am can automate a lot of the stuff and build enough cash reserves to fund my development and progress. I still am enjoying reselling and I like looking for items still. No hate there. It actually feels odd to leave it. But I know that if I did personal development stuff it could really give me a much higher "ceiling" to progress and grow in. With reselling a lot of it is just to benefit my personal survival and doesn't create the kind of impact I want. When I read stuff like Walt Disney or Steve Jobs biography, that is the kind of passion and drive I want. I really want to create something great for the world. I have a lot to learn with marketing and business to take it to the next level. Toastmasters has been going really well. I am getting so much out of it seems like now. I feel much more apart of these communities and I feel like it is advancing me a lot with my skills and speaking. This has been one of the best decisions I have made in the last few years to join these. I am getting better and better as I go. I am thinking about joining a third group and even thought about having 5 different groups and going 5x a week. The amount of training I would have would be unreal, but I could get a lot of practice done outside of all of that too. I notice even just writing this my elevation with mood and motivation. It could be a mix of more sun, chemicals resetting, or the probiotics. I would guess at the probiotics, but we will see. I am going to really dig in tomorrow and prepare a lot of items to list. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today, I am thankful for: Feeling better Great run Walt Disney bio book!

Got a good amount of rest on this extended weekend. Going to focus on getting up on time and getting more done. I really need to get products up before the next stimulus. I want to get a lot new things up and moving. Sales have been really good this weekend especially considering my store size is down a lot. I have not been putting up as much as I have been wanting to. I do still need to go and reprice a bunch of stuff too. Going to be doing my allergy appointment tomorrow. I also got almost everything in for starting my 8 week detox. Hopefully this well help me out a lot energy wise once I complete it. I think this would be an awesome plan to do for awhile. I am actually going to be teaching a group about it while I am doing it and about toxins for 5 weeks, so I might have some others join me on it possibly. I am mostly just going to recommend the 2 week version though, as isn't too extreme and people could see some results just from that. Got a ton of bulk groceries today, which was a big relief. I realized today that I did not take my week off for this quarter like I had planned. I have not really had a ton of extra money and it just hasn't been in the cards. I am going to work on brining more of that in. I can't just take time to reset, when I get sick. I did do 3 days off this weekend though, so that was good. I am not relaxing enough though. I did not spend one whole day mediating/ off electronics, but a good amount of one. I can see that habit will be good if I can keep working on it. I really want to get to doing a whole week mediation. I allow myself too effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today, I am thankful for: Groceries Long peaceful drive Feeling tired

I have been reading a lot of the Walt Disney biography and it is great. I can see how much I really want to build a life like that in terms of finding something I love doing that much. I have really been thinking about the Youtube stuff again. Part of me feels like my lack of motivation is just because the reselling thing is not doing it for me. I could do both, but I think that is wasting a lot of my energy. I am at a point where I can get the reselling running really well. I am actually in the process of getting ready to pump out those 1,000 posters, which I am still thinking should be worth about $40,000-$50,000. I guess I just don't know how far I want to take it. I know I need to do that. I have the source for PC parts coming in etc. I love the freedom for it. I just don't seem to have the motivation to put a lot of hours of work into it. I know I can easily get by with just minimal work, but I don't want that. I want to actually have a good amount of cash coming in. I started cashing out some investments a little bit. Cool to see how well that I have done. I am going to be able to take out a small percent of what I put in and actually just have all profits in. It will be nice to have a bit of extra cash saved up too. I really have been running myself dry investing a lot into business, bills, etc. I really need to increase my income, but this will help for now. I am going to start with my 8 week detox soon. Hopefully this will help me feel less fatigue and mild depression. I am not sure why I feel depressed sometimes now. I kick ass at a lot of habits and stuff. It isn't like I just sit around sad, so it doesn't really make sense. I feel like something is holding back a lot of energy from me in that sense. Might even by why I am not getting as much business stuff done. I am really killing it with my monthly planner whiteboard. This has been such a good $12 investment. I am getting a lot of stuff done it seems like. Making a lot of progress on projects and stuff I want done. I won an evaluation contest in my toastmaster group. I was surprised that I won. I am going to be competing at a district level next. This should give me a lot more motivation to train more. I have been taking the deliberate practice much more seriously. I have considered doing the Youtube videos for more training or joining one more Toastmasters group. I thought about it and I only trained public speaking for about 104 hours this year. Not bad, but honestly if I were doing like 1 hour a day of deliberate practice 5 times I week I would be getting good. I can see my progress is quite good compared to my peers, but this doesn't really mean much. I want to get better at it and I need more training. I am going to work on utilizing the time in the toastmasters sessions better for training too. I am going to start trying to do speech evaluations on all speeches too. I am recording the others, so I could evaluate their speeches after the meetings too. No surprise, but I am back debating the youtube thing quite a bit again. It sounds fun, but I just don't have enough direction to establish what I want to do. I should do some videos for fun again and just see how it goes. I felt good learning and doing that stuff, when I did it. I pushed myself too hard too fast I think though too lol. I was going hard filming in public towards the end and really pushing myself. I need to tone it down a bit where I am just in deliberate practice. I think part of the problem is the toss up of time. I know I can only do one thing really at a time and reselling is paying the bills. I am going to work on my vision more and really nail down a niche. I will get to work on this more, but I need more planning for sure. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today, I am thankful for: Reading Making a lot of health progress Reflecting on my speaking progress

@Striving for more I found the sedona method to be one of the most effective techniques. Improving mindfulness overall has been very helpful. Diet and exercise all play a big role too. Cubensis mushrooms actually seemed to temporarily remove it for a few weeks. Seems to be something significant there towards it. I use LOA a bit with spends and receiving money. I have spent money I felt like I could not (actually fairly often lol), then receive much more soon after it seems. I practice that I learned from Abraham Hicks, which is worth looking at. I do a bit of visualization too with my goal to help me. Something I found really helpful was to have one primary goal too.

Propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, and nicotine make up the majority of what you commonly see. The main issue revolves around black market products and lack of regulation. That is where you would find poor quality ingredients being added. Should someone make it themselves and get quality products and do the research it can help cut down any BS coming in. Use of essential oils and alcohol would be a poor choice in flavoring too. This can be monitored by who is making it and it is relatively easy. You can find flavorings that are based with propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin. I have seen first hand hundreds of people have success with quitting cigarettes by using this stuff. It will be revolutionary in getting people to stop smoking if it is utilized properly. I still think it is harmful and only recommend air for the lungs. As others said there is a lot unknown. Still versus a cigarette I think I'd take my chances vaping. I don't do either though.

@mmKay For me this was in second grade. I always just took whatever was provided or recommended by others for most of my life until just a couple years ago. I eat lentils almost daily now though. Amazing!

@Lyubov They are projected to have about 5% of the harm of traditionally cigarettes according the Royal College Of Physicians. You still have to consider that you might be getting some other contaminates especially from cheaper Chinese devices. I was vaping for about 5-6 years and I can say my life is much better off without it. It is a shitty addiction to have. You'll have to come to your own conclusion on what is best for you though.

@mmKay I recall going to school and not taking food with me. The only option I had to eat every day was a peanut butter sandwich. We were poor as fuck, but I recall never wanting to eat that for some reason and it was my only choice. I would actually collect a lot of food from all the other kids and eventually got in trouble for it from the teacher. She called my mom and confirmed I had "plenty to eat" lol.

@LfcCharlie4 I have a hard time watching something like Jim Cramer and keeping my mind intact lmao. I watch some market stuff. I like deep analysis of stuff. Everything money on youtube is probably my favorite right now. I usually find small time people who are covering a lot of the thing that I am wanting to invest in. I had one guy I was watching with 100 subs break down SPG a lot and that has done amazing in my IRA. I would define that as a wonderful company. I love getting a laugh from crypto daily as well if we are talking crypto. I get some market insight every now and then too. I can still see it growing as well. Just the rapid appreciation is what would deter me from wanting to buy any. I actually just hold at this point. I haven't bought anything crypto in years. If there is a continued large printing of money, then this possibly will become another asset that companies want to acquire just to stay more hedged against usd.

@Striving for more I ate peanut butter for many years while I was younger. I am starting to discover more allergies that I am not really aware of too. I am following the book called the Toxin Solution if you were interested in learning more of what I am working on.

@LfcCharlie4 Those are some good points. Mostly where I am coming from is just how much of my time and energy is it taking. Stocks and all that really don't help me be mindful as much. As it can be fun it is a lot for my mind at least. I am not saying that I am not thinking long term the crypto market as whole would do well. I was recommending bitcoin at $3-$6k to people for years, shit even when it was under $1,000. I am very reserved and not really that big on promoting the hype. I also think these levels produce much more risk for those who don't really have much idea of how these markets work. A newbie is not going to be able to watch 20% of their holdings disappear in a couple hours. I have watched most of the large bitcoin crashes at this point lol. I just can't recommend it to someone at these levels. I just think the risk and reward is not very favorable and will cause many to lose their money.

It's getting there. I spend most of my time working on that now. Yeah, I can totally see that. I am going to keep working to align myself with that more. I appreciate your clarification. I have seen you post on the topic a bit and this resonates with me. I'll take what you said and reflect on it more. I can see how a lot of this stuff still clogs my mind even while trying to take a more prudent approach.

Starting to feel a lot better I feel like. I am working on really keeping my routine solid and really giving myself time to relax too. I have put reading and meditation at the top of this list now too. Lately it feels like I just cannot get enough reading. I feel like doing reading verse doing business work lol. I am starting to do no electronics until 10 am and cut off at 8pm (ideally 7:30). I am going to work more on doing things like going hiking more. I want to get my car fixed up, so I can do stuff like that. I am really strapped for cash atm with buying inventory and taxes. I will be fine though, just a lot of bills coming up in a short time frame. I managed to find a source for inventory from a guy that buys storage units. I seem to have a massive influx of inventory coming in at a good rate without spending a lot of time going to get it. I really need to dial down what I am doing and just get myself right where I am actually making some good money. I really want to advance myself further this year. Only con to this is I feel like I need to be buying anytime the items are offered. I am going to keep pooling cash to keep up with this. It is also in one category that I really like too! Really starting to work on digesting a lot more of what I read. I am listening to the books again on audio as well. It seems to be the best route for me to really get a lot of learning done. I feel like I am really going in a great direction. I notice I still have some envy or just comparisons with other people. It is more when I am in a lower emotional state though. I want success for others. I have no issue there. It's mostly with comparing or trying to justify why I don't have something. I realize I can get anything I want if I work for it. I have been very blessed to come across this work. I can't really imagine what my life would be like without it. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today, I am thankful for: Reading Planner Finishing first book of 2020!

@ShardMare Wow, thank you so much for sharing that. I am going to dig into that deeper. I can see a deep need in my life to build mastery in this area. I notice how ineffective I am in communication and those around me.

@Leo Gura What about taking the earnings from something like this to help create the massive value? I see why you are not pro on a lot of this stuff. I can see it being a big trap. Do you just plainly hold cash and not invest? I have found some joy in researching and sharing some information on this stuff. I seem to actually be better at making money with investing, than I am with business. It's crossed my mind to do it on a higher level, but it isn't my life purpose. I just see it as a way to reach that level of getting me to that independence to be able to create something great to share with the world.