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Lots of dishes you can make with quinoa too. A very versatile item that, I have used as a staple in my diet.

Starting to really value investing in myself more. I got a dreamboard started today, and it really gives me a good feeling looking at it. The idea seemed like it would not do much before, but I think this could be useful. I think I am going to try releasing on the stuff for it. I might get a smaller whiteboard for other release practices too. This one is really big, so I cannot miss it lol. I invested about $120 in a all organic mediation set too. I am hoping is will really be a game changer for my meditation. My legs ache a bit from long sessions. I am not really sure how people are able to do it without something like that for so long. I suppose with anything the legs would probably break in for it, but that doesn't seem optimal for my legs lol. Getting back into the sedona method. Trying to review more processes from the book. I am thinking that I enjoy having a physical book quite a bit more now. Of course digital is still really nice. I got a bunch of the small book section markers and that will really help me review the book. On the kindle it is just nothing like having tabs in a physical copy. I am sure if I built this up with a few book it would give me some great results. I will probably order more books Had an amazing 4 hour call with my friend. I have not really been talking to people much lately. Family, but there is not quite the connection. I can communicate and have fun with someone at any stage, but it lacks the need for deep conversation. Not to mention I am not going to talk about anything with personal development with them as they would just reject it, or think the idea of it is weird. I feels as if I am making a lot of progress lately. The ego backlash does so much to improve you. It seems it is required for change. Maybe that is why so many people are not able to grow is because they try to stay is their homeostasis. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today I am thankful for: Dreamboard! Sedona method Awesome dinner

I've been going into deep dreams every night now for at least two weeks. My sleep cycle is all of the sudden just amazing and super high quality. These dreams seem to be very related to my personal life and very vivid. I actually had a dream last night where I had hugged a teacher of mine where there had been resistance in our relationship years ago. The benefits from these seem to be very mild. Although, they are giving me some food for thought and some ease with past relationships. Couple questions: Seems like a really high amount to have is that normal? I use to lucid dream like 6 years ago, but I could most certainly do it with these because I wake up in the middle of the night a few times to pee. I am very easily able to go back into a deep sleep. Could it be worthwhile to try that again? I mean I know I can try it, but it doesn't seem as favorable here. I never really tried many practices or techniques for any sort of spiritual benefit, when I did do it. Just techniques to control it. Any way to get more benefits from these? I have considered a journal for insights or something possibly.

Got a nice mediation set up coming and I got a whiteboard today. I've been meditating for a few years, but I am thinking this should be well worth it. The dreamboard seems great. I am loving the idea of it so far. I am writing stuff out and releasing on it. Do I place new things on it daily? Sounds like an inspiring way to start the day. I think I will leave the items on there until the next day. I think I got a bit too big of a board lol. I have plenty of space though. Thanks @Nahm

In my experience just switching to not processed whole foods will bring in a lot of the results. Not counting calories or doing any of that. A diet filled with lots of veggies and fruit. I could eat as much veggies and fruit as I can and still be lean. Addictions to things like sugar can be a bit hard to overcome. I found it easier with myself to just find substitutes of things with natural sugars. I was able to lose 50-60 pounds in what seemed like less than a year. It was a gradual change with a lot of exercise though too. The result speed is going to vary by what you put into it. Also, I should say I have managed to keep my results for a few years. Without any need to revert back to eating crappy. It takes a few months of dedication to get your taste buds adjusted to healthy foods. I love the taste of fruits and veggies now. I have seen success with various fasts speeding up that process to get it to taste better. This one is good with the video above:

Kind of like how you have seen in the stock market so many people getting in who have really no idea how it works. A lot of younger people as well. Not saying I didn't buy some stocks either. Just for a retirement account though. Unusually, this would be a good indicator that the market is being driven up by just fear of missing out and newbies. Once it starts to go down they are going to sell even at a loss and send it down further. If you notice the markets are higher than before covid. The amount of unemployment is around levels of the great depression, lots of businesses going under, inflation, and lots of measures being put in place to keep the economy a float. Some of those businesses are killing it, but it just puts it in perspective of how things really are going. I read a book call the great crash of 1929 and it outlined all of the reasons for the great depression and what happened with it. This is really similar to that. I added in the quote here some of my notes from the book. There was also things like natural disasters going on like we are seeing a lot of. Not that I am coming here to predict a market crash, I just want to give you something for a point of reference. The great crash of 1929 is a good book if you want to understand it better. Also, good example would be just seeing someone you know who has never mentioned investing all of the sudden be really into it. I've been on this forum a few years ago and even the amount of topics around bitcoin here is scarce, but once the price goes up you can see how much interest there is. Also, if you mention stuff about it while the price is down people take it much less seriously even though nothing has changed aside from the price lol. I can't really tell you where the price will go for it. However, if you observe the market cycles you can get a better understanding of what is going on.

@Michael569 I was planning on trying to get a blood test soon. I will ask them to check the levels and see what they say. I live in Washington in the US, so sun is not out much this time of year. If It is though I am sitting in it lol. Thanks! By the way I am glad to see you offering services outside of this. You have my vouch for sure.

@mandyjw Yeah, I have been contemplating on them similar to what you suggested. This will definitely reinforce this for me. I am going to put a journal to write them when I wake up now too. I can see a fair amount of value in this stuff for sure. Strange that I am just getting them in abundance lately. @SirVladimir That sounds really interesting. I should be capable of doing that. About 6 years ago I was able to place myself in space and such, so training this shouldn't be too hard. I dreamed last night, but was not able to put myself fully in control. A lot of the ones I have right now feel like an RPG game where I actually think about the out put or the outcome and I can choose it. I use to be able to find myself in them and just go to flick a light switch (It would not work) to be able to put myself in full control. That and I would spin in the dream if I started to wake up to keep myself in it. @Javfly33 I would probably prefer to stay away from kratom. Just because it is an opiate, or like one. I have tried it though.

@Michael569 I have a 5000IU vitamin D that I take every other day. Was super hard to find one that was fairly clean and plant based. Would it be worthwhile to just do 2000IU daily instead?

@lmfao Great share. I am working on implementing some stuff from that. I am doing a 2 hour timer for internet browsing a day right now too and it seemed really effective today.

I feel really good today. It was one of those days where I seemed to crush pretty much every habit. I am still contemplating what is the most important ones to prioritize for me. I am also going to keep reconsidering how I use the internet and how much. I noticed with timing myself today I drastically cut time down and I really didn't notice it much at all. I got way more business work done where I could have easily just got sucked into the internet. I have considered a being a life coach a bit. Of course I need some more experience in life to really get to the point where I could do it well. I have thought about that or running a large conscious business. Possibly something with food, but I am not sure yet. I can tell for sure working on my speaking skills will help with about any route I go. I can see a lot of potential right now for building the reselling to the point where I don't really have to worry about money much. I could aim to scale it even larger and grow to having a few employees. This could be optimal for sure. If I were to figure out a few niches to narrow down into and build a few processes it could definitely happen. I am quite good at this as it is. Of course, I could do something else too, but having a good amount of capital actually gives me a lot of options. This business can provide me enough money. I have actually been able to save up $1,000 recently, which is great. I have been selling well. I can't put it all in an emergency fund, but I can keep tossing some in. I am now rounding up a bunch of misc items to clean, picture, and list. I am going for about 20-30 to help clear up space and get a good variety back into the store. Comics are actually selling quite well at the moment too. I am still finishing getting the listings up for them. I actually will make a fair profit off them. I had considered it a bad buy, but not too bad. I might have found a single one in it worth $100 too, so that helps. It was a grind listing them, but I could do it again for sure. It was actually kind of enjoyable. Once, I can clear out these misc items I am going to set up everything just for posters. Reading through the EDT stuff is super powerful. I am getting a lot better grasp and seeing more of the stages in others. Also, I am noticing when I was at these stages and recalling those times. These seem highly accurate and the model seems to be very well constructed. I am also learning quite a few new words with this one too. I actually went under my set limit of 2 hours of internet time, so I think it would be good for me to set the timer to be more mindful of it. I have no issues listening to information and stuff while I work. Of course not including that. I am meaning more like browsing and such. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of #50,000. Today I am thankful for: Up beat mood Ear is feeling better without using headphones! Making a lot of progress in my life

@seeking_brilliance I will give it a shot, thanks! @abrakamowse I have written down insights too. I will probably write down more meaningful ones I think. I will read through the thread.

@fridjonk Yeah, I have only tripped a handful of times so far. I have tried mushrooms and LSD. I prefer LSD, but I have more experience with it. The mushrooms definitely have their own unique experience too. I might try N-N-DMT next, but I need to do some more research on it. That and I am looking at bettering my spiritual techniques to pair with it. I do kriya yoga, which has been incredible. I could not imagine even doing higher does LSD without a solid kriya practice. I have had a point with LSD where everything entirely went to nothing. No thoughts, no feeling, etc while practicing that. My contemplation needs some work for sure. I have not really read a lot of spiritual books yet either though.

@fridjonk Oh yeah, it is incredibly hard to actually sit there without other thoughts filling my mind while reading before. It will still happen of course, and when I catch myself I do go back and actually read what I had written out again. Tripping is super powerful. I have a lot of ups and downs afterwards though. At least with LSD for me. It super excels your growth with a lot of things. It feels like I am advancing years from a trip. Of course it spans out over time not just right after the trip. I am starting to wait until I really integrate everything and start to get stuck with something else before I trip. Usually, could take about 2-6 months. Before I tripped last I was really stuck on this fear with money and it hasn't been an issue. I was worried would not be able to work as hard without losing that fear and I am actually getting much more done now and much more efficiently. I would be interested in messaging if you would like to.

@Loving Radiance No, there is no way for me to know the sources you are getting it from specifically either. Either way I would make a large bet to say it contained that stuff I mentioned.

I was listening to Leo's ego backlash video and I am starting to prioritize my habits. So far I know mediation is the top and reading is likely the second most important one. I am starting to notice how many things that I have built up at this point. No doubt that I can have a lot of good habits at once after building them up for a few years. However, I think that I need to really make sure that I am putting the most important ones to the top. I would love if I got to the level with reading again where I could spend 5 hours in a day reading. I really love reading, but there is resistance to actually starting the read. Once I am in it isn't really an issue at all. Of course trying to do the full days of just meditation is a tough one as well. Of course if I did do the meditation the whole day, then reading would not be as easy to fit in. I suppose if I were to get to the point where the day without electronics was my main relax day it would help. Made some great progress as I mentioned above. I am going to start investing more time into knowledge around this business. I need to take it seriously if I want to be successful with it. I am finding new tricks here and there though regularly that I think will make some amazing changes over time. I just figured how to get clickable links added to all of my listings to link back to my store easily. Took a bit more digging and there was actually no guide for that. I will be able to for example on all comics bring the person into my store to look at all of my comics, then other things if they want. Might seems like a small change, but that could easily add more sales over time. I mass edited them all at once to add that too, so 200+ listings done in a few minutes. I am up 91% in sales from last month too. Shows how wild it has been with covid lol. I feel like I am still slacking quite a bit with reading and doing the sedona method. I am still using the sedona method daily though right now. I need to set aside like 15 minutes to actually work on it though. That and my reading just has not been up to par. I am blowing a lot of time on the internet too during the day. I do have an addiction to the internet. I waste a fair amount of time on here. I do get a lot of valuable information and stuff here. I should work on setting a timer for how long I can actually use the internet for browsing. I would guess it is a few hours a day at least right now. Could even be 3-4 easily if not more sometimes. A lot of the stuff I actually look at is a lot higher quality at least. I think it is robbing me of a lot of my motivation to do other stuff and it wastes my time. No doubt an hour or two would probably be well worth it. More time is not always that beneficial. I could try tomorrow with the stop watch on my phone to do only two hours. Not sure if I can, but would be nice to have something for the pc that does it. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today I am thankful for: Great run Introspection Good idea

@Loving Radiance You don't want to be drinking tap water at all. You are not going to know what is in it and most is filled with a variety of chemicals and metals. If you can get your own reverse osmosis system that would be best. That or something that does fluoride, chemicals and other metals. I would not cheap out on it though. You can buy bottled reverse osmosis water, but they usually put some chemicals in it and it sits in plastic for so long you are just getting toxins from the plastic instead.

Completely finished processing all of the comics. Now just listing the last bit! Big milestone for inventory! Took a lot of self motivation to complete these. I have had these comics laying around for a couple years. I am nearly ready to get right into the posters. Just need to get the misc items laying around first to work on clearing some space. Otherwise, I am completely ready to move forward! Going to do a nice run in the rain I think today. Will be something to push me a little bit more as I have been getting soft with this stuff.

@fridjonk I might make a food post here showing some examples of some healthy meals. I will tag you if/when I get to that. It's under 40 degree fahrenheit here usually. I am quite cold with even a light sweatshirt lol. I was getting sick for a bit, but might consider it. Edit: I have considered making a few videos on it as well. We will see. quite busy as of late.

I have been switching up my food quite a bit. Working on making it as healthy and different as I can. I am going to work on building out a few different meals and perfecting them like I have with the quinoa dish. I do spend about 2-3 hours a day making food right now. Seems like so much, but I am getting high quality food. Plus I do enjoy it a bit. I find it quite fun to do. Should have all of the comics done tomorrow. This is a great step for me in moving forward with this business. I've been hung up on this stuff for a bit. I want to get through the few big items quickly and rotate over to the posters as soon as I can. It will be a game changer for me. I know my next goal should be to reach $75,000 listed. Of course I need to reach the $50,000 first. I feel like I am building up the momentum to really get his done. I notice my exercise habit is not as strong lately. I am still getting it in for sure, but not as motivated with the cold and I put it off into later in the day. I am doing the reselling first, which seems to be a huge driver for my energy. My routine is great right now. I might do a small walk in the morning possibly to wake up more. It could not hurt for me to do a cold shower probably sometime soon. That is one habit that is hard as hell to keep lol. I suppose I would want to see some massive benefits to make it worth it. I love a good warm shower. Study this EDT is really intriguing. I can see myself reading this research paper a good chunk of times to really get the grasp of this. I know their is some resistance to reading the spiral dynamics book again. It would not hurt to brush up on it more though. I really should try to utilize my notes more. My notes are amazing quality, but I don't review them at all mostly unless the topic is in mind and I want a reminder of something. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today, I am thankful for: Great dinner Feeling good energy towards reselling Feeling happier

@Danioover9000 I forgot to mention I do a cup of blue berries, 1 banana, 1 spoon full of hemp seed, and 1 spoon full of flax seed with it. A few extra things to make it much better. The hemp seeds are fantastic in it texture wise. I buy organic frozen blueberries to keep costs down a bit, but it is worth not getting them frozen if you can. I am not close to anything decently priced. So I can can more than 3x frozen for the money.

I make my own oatmeal with it. Cacao powder, maple syrup, peanut butter, and cinnamon in it right now. All organic and it's super tasty.

This and you will probably need about 6 months of living expenses build up.

I mean it really depends where you are at. I have been slowly building my reselling business on the side for years without realizing it. For me reselling is a no brainier compared to a job. I already have all of the systems in place and I have a ton of inventory. My memory about items is fantastic compared to most people who are reselling it seems like. I will remember little things I had seen online about an item even over a year ago and it will get me a good profit. The pandemic has made all of my items worth more and I don't have to leave the house. I was actually working on youtube and this as the same time, which was a bit of a mistake. However, I made a ton of growth doing that when it comes to my speaking skills and getting more of a taste for what I want. Problem is I have not really invested enough full time into reselling for it to make enough money with little effort. Although, it is starting to get there for me. If I could trade it for having something more fulfilling I would. It's fun to run this business and it is profitable. I love having my own schedule and it has really advanced my development. My goal is to make it mostly automatic, have a good amount of savings, then I am going to deeply pursue a life purpose. It probably sounds really nice to be doing it. There are a lot of aspects of this business that aren't really as cool as it sounds. You'll find it interesting how much hostility is baked into buying and selling stuff. It's directly tied to your survival and the buyer or seller depending on the situation. No matter how nice you are to people. Returns, damaged goods, theft, etc. Not only that it isn't a cake walk to actually make a good profit. Even making a few thousand a month can be a bit of a task. You have to be able to source a lot of inventory. You either need really good inventory or a lot of inventory. A big factor will come into play is where you live. I am an hour a way from a really good city to source in. My own city sucks. A lot of the time it is going to take upwards of 2000 items in your ebay store to have a consistent income. I am at 750 and I can hit times with no sales. I have the back log of inventory to hit about 2k and my average item price is pushing towards $50 each, which makes a big difference. I also pay very little for each items. Usually a dollar or two. If you are not able to pay that little it starts adding up. Thousands of investment capital. I have well over $5000 invested in inventory right now that is not listed yet. I don't want to come off saying you can't do it. You totally can. I think anyone could become a reselling if they were dedicated. It's a great skill to have. I'll never pay much for items again. I could easily furnish a house with quality stuff for under $100. I also enjoy learning about collectibles and stuff. There is a good amount of satisfaction knowing that my customers are very happy receiving my products. It's going to come down to if you really enjoy it or not. Nothing wrong with making a few bucks on the side with it either. It isn't a do or die. If you wanted to escape wage slavery, it is possible. You would need to aim for that 2000 listing mark to make it happen. Or have really hot selling items, or somewhere in the middle of that. A more creative business would also produce more money potentially. Reselling really does not have a roof though either. The richest man in the world is a reseller. However, the timing is not as ideal compared to that now, but still plenty of meat on the bone with the amount of online shopping expanding. Also, the pandemic is making stuff sell much better and for more money.

When, I see posts about bitcoin price predictions on actualized to me it would be a good indicator to sell. If you were trying to time the market that is. In my opinion just put it aside and forget about it.