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Finished the sedona method book today. What a great shift this has made in my life. I have made a lot of progress from this emotionally and my connection to reality it seems like. This has really made a big transformation for me. I am going to keep doing the practices and I intend to read the book more. I am going to focus more on really getting the information and embodying the information Vs how many books I read. I do like reading a lot though and I have missed a good read for a bit due to putting the time just into this. Sold a pair of speakers today for almost $800. I paid $10 for them, so this should be one of my best flips. I am starting to move quite a bit of the higher end items in my store. It is great that my sales are picking up. I still am going to keep working at getting as much items as I can up. It will be an up hill battle going for my listing goal. I have notice lately I actually feel just really good working on my reselling business. Not nearly as much resistance and I am just enjoying learning stuff and listening to music while working on it. I really have it pretty easy it seems like. I am putting in 4 hours of focused work and some bits here and there. I feel amazing everyday and my income is growing more and more. I want to put in some more work in other areas of it sooner or later. Right now it is just listing time pretty much to get the most out of this 4th quarter. I do think that I will need to work on getting some more back up inventory if we go into another lock down though. I have a lot of posters, but that is only going to last so long. I am still going to aim to get enough money together to try to buy businesses out or something. I could even try to order the pallets online or something too. I suppose still a good bit of options. I could try storage unit auctions too if they have them still. For now though I just need to list really. I mean if I got all of the posters up and most were selling I would not really be that worried about money I imagine. I feel so good going through my day it seems like. I love going to the park so much. It makes me wish I would have went there earlier lol. I can spend hours there it seems like. It will suck though once the rain starts coming in. Although, I could maybe just find some cover and hang out there still. Just right now the sun comes out and it has been like 55-60 degrees and it is amazing. Usually, it will just be raining all the time once it hits this time of year. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today I am thankful for: Big speaker sale! Good sales Great peaceful state

@snowyowl You're getting an alternative currency. It is deflationary, so your value is coming from it becoming scarcer. Also, the actual cost to produce one plays a factor in it. It is set up to get more and more difficult, so it costs more in electricity and computer hardware. So with a regular dollar for example it inflates and loses value. This is designed to do the opposite. The value like anything is subjective though just like the dollar would be. It only has the value society assigns to it. @Deco Rim There is a lot of other coins that are decentralized. You could actually copy the code of bitcoin and just make another one. It wouldn't be the same Bitcoin though. You are mostly getting the user base behind that coin. I mean if I wanted to be anonymous I would use a different coin opposed to BTC. To be fair though the creator is not publicly know still, so it can still work.

I notice I didn't really think much about video games at all this weekend. I had an awesome time. I spent a bunch of time at the park reading yesterday. Today, went to the beach and got a bunch of groceries. I am all stocked up for a good amount of time. This is helping me save a ton of money and makes me not have to leave town for groceries for at least 1-2 months. Of course I have to replenish some things here and there still. I had an awesome time this weekend. No headphone use, which is a nice break for my ears. No video games and not a whole lot of stimulating stuff. I did not spend a day meditating. I would like to get back into that. I am still working on some ego backlash. It really shows how many strong habits I have been working on building. I dream almost every night it seems like now. I have dreamed about 7 days in a row now. I might try to find some way to advance my spiritual growth with this. I use to do lucid dream years ago, but have not really practiced it since. I am going to work on building my emergency fund, then I want to build up a good amount of capital to start buying the left over inventory of businesses that are closing. I think this would be a really good way to capitalize on this time and expand my reselling business. I notice even the larger stores are starting to close a little around here. Kind of sad, but the global problems are just exploding the issues with these business. I am going to keep investing in myself knowledge wise and see how I can max this out. The funding will go a long way if I can use do this wisely. I am getting some amazing results with the sedona method. I have probably put in over 45 hours of practice/reading it at this point. I was able to get a customer to change a bad review yesterday very swiftly and diffuse the anger in the buyer and allow them to understand why I use the packing material I did. I realize on my part I should have used a box. I am going to invest in a box to just make it look better packed. I have a priority envelope I can fit stuff in for $7 that saves me a ton of money, so I line it with cardboard and the item with a lot of bubble wrap. Understandably this buyer assumed it was not as well protected, but the cardboard is a super tough, one I have bought for comics that I cannot bend pushing on both ends with full force. I am going to find little boxes that fit instead because I can see how the buyer cannot see it from the lense of someone who has been shipping for a few years. Not to go off to much from the point here, but I got the buyer to understand that easily and they changed the rating. Even though my first reaction was to be mad because it really can lose me money if someone left a bad review. I was able to almost instantly diffuse myself with the sedona method. I allow my self to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today I am thankful for: Awesome grocery deals and good stuff Great drive Great dinner

@Someone here If you can tough it out a few weeks it starts to get easier. Good luck!

Glad to hear things are turning around for you. Keep at it!

@fridjonk Funny enough with this I let them know they can return the item for a full refund and they stopped replying. I am going to go to the side that this was someone just finishing for a partial refund. It happens fairly often with this stuff and I just have to hold my ground. I pay the shipping if they decide to send it back too. I am typically not to bothered, but this customer was irate about this. However, it is good practice because I am sure there will be plenty more people to not be happy with me. I have to be careful with these though because my survival is directly related to if they decide to send it back or not. In this case I would be out $32 of shipping and not to mention the profit I would have had is now gone. Of course if I know I made the mistake I should just send a refund and not hassle them. In this case though I have no idea how a snow globe can all of the sudden have a good sized air bubble, but not be leaking any of the liquid. This customer had actually said they already have one and it is possible they were looking to replace their one that had an air bubble.

I can see the benefit of adding more people to my life. I suppose that or actually keeping up with people a bit better. I get sucked into a lot of what I am focused in on. I have to admit I am slowly getting absorbed into just being alone mostly. I know I need to get a better mix of more interaction. I should dedicate some time to call my dad probably. I blew him off for couple months. Feel like I have been blowing off my local friend a bit too. So maybe I don't need more, but I just need to work on maintain a bit more. To be fair I have neglected the relationship part for awhile. I have been practicing the abundance type stuff. I have been working on letting money flow easier. Not looking at my bank account as much. I wanted to buy some stocks yesterday for my roth ira because the market was going down and I did not really have a lot of extra money. I bought more than I would have permitted in that case. Sales had been really slow for awhile. All the sudden between then and now I have sold almost $800 worth of stuff. I realize that I am heading into a high sale season, but this mind set seems to really help. I really need to build up a good amount of savings though. I realize that I could miss out on opportunities or get into a punch if I don't build up more. I don't want to cash out investments to pay for something. Starting to contemplate even more on life purpose stuff. It seems like the more I go to the park and really think about things I discover and think about a lot. Allan Watts gives me a good bit to think about too it seems like. I really want to build my next business into something I really just enjoy. I still like this reselling a bit. There is some nice aspects to it. I really want to get into a good financial position. I can see with this that now would be an optimal time to really grind on this aspect of my life. Money can open up a lot of doors for growth for me. The timing just seems right with the pandemic. I realize that I don't want to live here forever too and I need to capitalize on the opportunity as much as I can right now. I am going to focus in on what I can do to get the best results with this business. I see the potential with it more and more. I really think there is a real possibility for me to sell 10k worth of stuff or more this December. Mind blowing to think that. I am going to invest in more stuff to listen to. I seem to get in a really good work flow listening to others who are really accomplished with their reselling business. I have been thinking about investing in the mastermind still and a few others things to keep me motivated towards it. I have not really decided what my end goal is with this. I just know right now I want to build up capital and stability to open up more doors in my life. I have been fighting off a good amount of ego backlash it seems like. From being sick and just the backlash I usually expect awhile after a trip. I am really becoming good at this. I am becoming really powerful and effective. It seems like I can really maintain myself well. I am actually getting up at 5am consistently with no off days. I am actually getting more reselling work done than normal. I am building more of my schedule around that and not being leisure with it. I am having a good balance still and fitting in the sedona method, park, etc still. I am having a hard time picking back up the intense workout, but I notice my energy is lower than normal. It would probably be in my best interest to be a bit easier on myself for just a bit longer. I need to work on releasing more often. I forget that I can remove unwanted emotions and get to higher states. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today I am thankful for: Almost $500 in sales when I got up! Really nice weather Great park session

I will give it a shot instead. I have been working with the headphone volume a bit more on the big ones. It helps me get a lot of work done for sure, so hard not to use them. I could try to cut down the use of them a bit though. I have been taking some breaks with them too. I notice I do have some ringing still after cleaning. I am guessing that I have some tinnitus. It could be from the amount of flushing I had to do and could be temporary. But based on what came out I assume I unblocked it. This time it is quite a bit more bearable though. I can't really recall if this fully went away from being flushed before or not. I will probably have them check it out next time I get a check up. @kag101 I have had them flush it a few times over the years.

I wear over the ear headphones a lot more to prevent build up. I rarely wear the push in kind of ear buds. I wear basic apple pod headphones for 40 mins every other day. I am not using any Q-Tips. I do sometimes allow some water in the ear, but I am not doing much about the wax. It seems like I have to have my ears flushed regularly almost to keep the excessive wax out. I bought my own kit and did it myself today and I literally got some wax out that was like a ear plug. A major relief in how I felt getting rid of it. I realize this should be a last resort, but I seem to need to do it. I know there is some oils and stuff out there for it? Anything healthy and natural to do? Water doesn't really seem to cut it. Maybe less headphone use? I use the over ear ones a lot, but they are not doing anything to obstruct wax to my knowledge.

Did not quite reach the 30k mark I wanted for this month, but I am just about at 28k. I am going to hopefully finish up all of the comics tomorrow. I think that I can get it done for sure. I am on a roll with them now that I have a good process down. It is such a relief to finally be listing them after they have been sitting around for a few years. I am so close to being able to put in a lot of work with the poster. It is going to really change my business I think. I see a lot of potential for this business to make me profits. It will be really nice if I can keep my expenses low and start saving up a good amount of money. It is hard to not feel bad for the customer if they claim something is wrong with something. The problem is the validity of what they are saying or doing. I shipped a snow globe for $80 to someone double boxed with packing peanuts around it. Took a ton of care and attention to the packing. They already said they had one of the globe and asked me to make sure there was no bubbles in it. Of course I checked and the pictures show no bubbles. Once they receive it some how there is a huge air bubble inside of it. Of course the start attacking me with insults and such. It is hard for me to determine if they are just scamming or if it is just a freak incident. I am getting better at ignoring this type of stuff and moving on. Of course just saying to send it back. I am working on releasing this more. I have to admit I almost feel like I am scamming them in some way, when it is highly possible they are actually scamming by their behavior and messages. I am working on letting that go for sure. I notice how people take things so personally as if I devised a plan to sell them a globe with an air bubble in it instead. I do this to a degree and I catch myself more and more. Blaming others when you really have no idea of the cause of something. Picking myself up from a bit of black lash plus being sick. My diet is getting cleaned up well and I am going to keep up with the other habits as much as I can. I have been skipping one toast master thing a little when I don't have a role. I need to take that more serious, but the focus is mostly on the reselling right now. I will get more into that though as I have the time. I need to just double down this holiday season and get things going really well. I notice my mediation practice is just so powerful at this point it changes my entire state for a good duration. I completely had let go of angry or insulting customers with a good amount of ease today. The sedona method is applying a lot to that. I did discover today to that I am having a bit of hang ups on the idea of even having the relationship while digging into the method. I think that is why I am not really wanting to talk to girls that seem really interested. I just have some stuff holding me back. Fears of the relationship. Something I need more introspection on and releasing. Some things with my EX too it seems like. Even though I have pretty much left that in the dust a long time ago I have some releasing to do. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today I am thankful for: Sun Sedona method Good sales day

@ThermalTide I did try the peroxide, but it was too far gone. Probably would be more effective if I did it ever couple weeks or something. I like the home kit a lot, but I can see the benefits of having someone do it for sure.

@Loss Sounds like perfectionism. It can be really though to break through. I have hit that wall quite a bit. I don't have specific fix advice for it, but it is out there. Just the fact you are here would indicate you are ready for change. I would start working on building good habits. I would specifically start with one really good habit though and get it locked down. Reading, meditation, exercise, or clean eating. All of them would be great, but if you can at least nail down one solidly the rest will start to come easier. I would recommend meditation or exercise the most. Exercise would help give you heavier near term gains in my opinion with mood, energy, and well being. Mediation is amazing though too, but takes some time to ramp up.

Got back into the schedule and I was doing great today. I got a lot of comics done. I am up to speed now with them and I have a solid process for turning them out. If I really work at it the next few days I might be able to get all of the processed I think. It was quite a bit of work, but it is such a relief to finally have them listed. Really making some significant progress on breaking through limiting beliefs and subconscious things around money. I am really taking these practices seriously and getting a lot more results. I know that if I can apply myself to more techniques in these books I could have some seriously life changing shifts. Still thinking a lot about the van life stuff. I am going to research a few different things and make a list of the pros and cons. I think this will really help motivated me into the right direction. I could see myself doing a lot of self help, spiritual practices, and running and online business with that route. It sounds absolutely amazing right now. I am starting to realize though that I don't really need the external stuff to create some sort of happiness though. However, I could see something like that really catapulting my growth. Moving out in general probably would. I had actually seen a good sized apartment a couple hours away for $500 a month that looked nice. I mean where I live a big piece of shit is like $900 a month lol. So there is a lot I could explore and think about. I like the idea of the minimalism and stuff. I basically already do that, but this would be a bit more hardcore. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today I am thankful for: Amazing weather Great run today Good work flow

@Member I will do some research on it. I appreciate the share.

@Member This time it drug out for months and months. This one has been going for at least 6 months. I am going to stay on top of this. It seems like it does effect my concentration and my well being enough to want to make some serious change.

I think my kit has something similar. If not I will just use my larger bottle to add some water. I was doing a bit of the hydrogen peroxide drops for a little, but it was probably too late since it had build up so strongly. I will more regularly do this. My concern was potential damage from it. I am down 3 volume clicks on my iphone now that I removed the wax. I am going to be more mindful of it. Checking on my phone it does tell me the decibel rating for the sound. While I run with the earpods I am almost always listening to educational content. Looks like it could range from 55-91DB. It does not record data for the over the ear headphones. Daily average is 62DB with those. I will try to remove the higher end stuff off for sure. Dropping down those clicks will make a big difference on the over the ear. I have had it quite a few times where even up to like 80-90% of the hearing is gone. Feels like the whole side of my head is plugged lol.

Took a bit of a resting day. I spent some time doing some self care stuff. I used my ear cleaning kit and removed a large piece of wax from my ear. I think this will improve my mediation a lot and general discomfort I had. I did do some work, but I kind of put it off from not really feeling good in the morning. I need to address eating as healthy as I can when I don't feel well. I do still need to address any mold build up in my room. I notice a little in the window. I am going to add a dehumidifier in here soon too. I shouldn't have an issue once I do that. I am going to work on trying to free up more space in here soon too. I imagine that should help a lot with air flow and prevent dust build up etc. Going to work on getting up earlier tomorrow. I am going to put in the extra effort to crank out more items in the morning time too. I really want to get through these comics as fast as I can. I am so close to being able to start listing posters. I just need the extra push to get there. I have everything set up to do comics pretty easily now too. I just need to break through the resistance and get through it. I have been seeing some van life stuff and I have considered possibly doing that at some point. I am starting to build up a bit of a vision for what I want in my life. I am really leaning towards working on youtube videos and building my own digital brand. I want to do the life purpose course though and really dive into what I want to do fully. I think I could definitely try some sort of van living though if I had a good stable income and savings. That would be an awesome adventure. I bet it would really help grow me as well. I could see some negatives to doing it too. I might read some books on it and keep researching it. I like the idea of the tiny homes and stuff a bit too. A lot of options to consider. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today I am thankful for: Orders picking up more Going to the beach soon! Not craving games

It effects so many aspects of your life. I am so lucky to have been able to improve and research on this. Your energy, mood, and a lot of medical issues can be resolved and prevented just from eating well. Your awareness will be raised from it as well. So many garbage things in US culture at least that are just chemical toxic crap. Improving this area starts to spill into other aspects of your life as well.

I am not running/ walking as much as I was now, but still jogging like 4 miles every other day. I was burning through a pair of $60 running shoes every two months before it seemed like. I can't imagine if I spent more they would last much longer though either. I would bet they would feel amazing though at the higher prices. I find it really helpful to actually try the shoes on and find the best feeling pair. I have seen places that actually get ones more formed to the way you run, but I don't know of any locations for stuff like that here.

@Member Yeah, in 3rd grade my teacher had talked to me about my excessive hand washing. So I am sure we are probably in a similar boat. I am still a bit overly picky with food stuff. I am starting to take the mold and stuff pretty seriously from a health stand point too. Search for ERP therapy if you want to see more of what I am talking about. I might explore this stuff a bit more. My goal is to eliminate OCD. I have mostly broken out of thought loops so far, which has been amazing. I feel much more at peace and liberated from more of my thoughts. Still a bit of an issue with hand washing and going into a very low conscious state doing it. No longer much of an issue in the shower. Video games seem to stir up OCD behavior too, so I quit playing them again for now.

@Member Could do some research on exposure and response therapy. Most seem to recommend doing it with a therapist. However, it doesn't seem all that complicated. I was having a bit of the same issue too at the start and I have broke through that cycle. I actually don't wash the bags or anything of the food I buy anymore either. I realize that I need the germs to actually thrive. That and I have heard that surfaces aren't really as much of concern for the virus. I will even consciously eat something without washing my hands from touching those food items etc now. Obviously if I have some grime or something gross on my hand I will wash it before eating. I still have good hygiene practices of course. I just don't have the same tendency to over worry about the germs from the virus or in general now. I actually have very little concern at this point with those germs from the virus. I wear a mask and all of that and I don't go out often anyway.

Not as productive with the hours today as I would have liked. I did get some stuff done and I am getting on track. I just need to keep building the momentum for it. A day at a time and keep building up the habit for higher hour and good sessions. I feel like I am getting a lot done with it though. Getting a bit of a cold it seems like now. My nose got super runny today out of no where it seemed like. I probably pushed it a little much and got sick out on the run. I have noticed since I am working out a bit lighter that I am having a bit more energy. I am not really as driven to get the hardest workout in as it seems to take energy out of the rest of my day. I am quite tired by the time The day is wrapping up it seems like. I noticed I have more issues around money than I have thought. I am going to work more on that for sure. I did some practices with the sedona method on it today. Not only that, but studying and investing more time into it. I have had resistance to "stage orange" material or anything like that. Not that everything about money needs to be from that anyway. I should focus and study this to really help me maximize my efforts. Building a better relationship to money is going to take me far in life. I can already see some things and mindsets that I have been getting hung up on that have been hindering my results. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today I am thankful for: Having an awesome session at the park Getting deeper meditation Not having covid, but a cold lol

I had a buddy kill himself after telling me he was about to "get his girlfriend back" or something like that. We were talked and had just hung out the day before that. I stopped mid conversation because I had to take my girlfriend at the time to the hospital. I told him not to do anything crazy etc. He believed his girlfriend had been talking to other guys and stuff. I replied to him later at the hospital, but I checked facebook and found out that he had hung himself. I almost punch a brick wall I was so overfilled with emotion about it. I had blamed myself for a bit about it, but to be fair looking at it now he was pretty fucked up. It wasn't my fault and I can't have any grief for that. He made the choice to do what he did. I got it out and it effected me for awhile. Strangely I was even having a hard time remembering his name the other day. It's been about 3 years since that happened now. Time heals the wounds.

I found mushrooms to be the most effective myself. The OCD actually will temporarily completely go away. Not a complete cure, but it could help you move in the right direction. If you can work on building your awareness as well will be a huge benefit. I have found consistent mediation, good nutrition, etc to be really helpful. Since you know at least what emotion it is coming from that will help a lot. I would try to work on getting to the root of why you hate the things that are coming to mind. I would possibly suggest trying to remove stimulants too. I found these to be very counter productive for working on OCD. Sounds counter intuitive, but you can try to just allow yourself to have the thoughts. A lot of the negative impact is really coming from your resisting it. Not saying to act on the thoughts. Just acknowledging that they are just thoughts. I use to get stuck in a lot of thought loops with OCD. I found this to be quite practical. Comes back to also working on mindfulness as much as possible. Just don't beat yourself up for having the thoughts. Allow them to just be and accept them.

Didn't do the full day of meditation without electronics, but I did do most of it. It was fucking awesome today. So surprising that I can be happy doing nothing. I hit a few points where it felt like a mild trip too. I didn't do as much contemplation today, but still some things to ponder. I had a really good feeling of peace over me as I went on through the day after. I was using the sedona method on breaking an addiction. I used the technique on gaming. It made me realize that I just feel kind of empty and sad while playing the games. I know I had been excited during the week to play them and all of that and there is some fun moments. I feel as if it is just kind of filling some sort of void. I decided today during my meditation to uninstall the games. I think playing them again was a bit of an ego backlash. Not saying I won't ever play a game again, but these are not making me happy. They are actually more than anything keeping my ocd and unawareness more intact. I am actually make massive progress with the OCD. I am down most of the habits and really not having much of an issue. Especially after I do longer meditation sessions I am much more conscious. I have been having a bit of an itch that I just wasting a lot of time with bullshit. I really want to nail down a good income as a top priority right now. Start saving up a good amount of cash and start making some more opportunities for myself. I notice I am pretty good at investing. I am up 20% since march, but I have to admit I could buy anything with it being cheap then and make money. I am more aware of how to spot that type of opportunity though. I put in all of my money extra on hand to do it. I just need more cash to act on these types of things. Even though I don't look at stock stuff every day I still know quite a bit now and could use that to help me build financial freedom. Thing is though when I buy something with reselling and sell it I am making a lot more than 20% return. More cash is really needed to do much with the stocks and stuff. I need a good amount of cash to get the wheels spinning. I am pondering a bit for what route that I want to go in the coming years. I do want to move out here at some point. If I raise my income a lot now though I have time to really get a good amount of savings going. I am not really sure how I want to go about it yet though. I allow myself to effortlessly reach my listing goal of $50,000. Today I am thankful for: Awesome meditation day Feeling refreshed Making my life better