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@Leo Gura Thanks for sharing that. I did not consider krill as an option initially. I will dive a bit deeper into this. It seems like this whole market of these fish oils is much more deceptive than it should be lol. Just researching the krill oil I came across something suggesting to not buy heated cod liver oil, which is what the expensive one I had shown has done, but it still seems to be one of the better options. I might rotate a few of these and see if I actually notice a difference between the two. I notice the krill is not as potent in EPA and DHA, but from what I am reading is more bioavalible. I think the krill might be a superior option just from that. Seems worthwhile to do the research on this though as I am now making a substantial upgrade from regular fish oil.

@Michael569 Yeah, I had seen on the reviews for that b12 that said it was pretty pricey. I was considering breaking the dose down in to multiple days a week. Not sure where I had picked that up from, but I realize that that one I was taking now was too high of a dose, so it was only worthwhile maybe once a week. I will do some price shopping on that one for sure. I considered experimenting with eggs and maybe something else. I have been vegan for a few years though and I don't mind it. Being as you had seen my food intake do you have a suggestion on anything? I added some rolled oats recently here and there and have been doing a lot of different fruits and other things to have a larger variety. I was listening to a podcast the other day that mentioned how easy it would be to skip over some good stuff that is needed just from getting to stuck in a way of eating. I figured I may as well try some stuff and just see how it goes. I have really no comparison in my energy with me eating those products and just eating healthy versions of them. Only me going from eating bad foods and going to vegan eating. I don't feel bad at all, but would be curious how I would feel the more I research and experiment. I just did a 10 mile hike today with ease considering I have not gone in quite awhile. That and other health and performance seems well. I had seen my supplement contains this, but I will do some more research and likely opt for this form. Was a lot of confusing stuff it seemed like on the different kinds. Just optimal health and maintenance. My mom and dad both have arthritis, so there is some concern there, but not too much being as I eat much better than them. I do a lot of running and exercise and I noticed with starting to take this my injuries and such are very minor and seem to go away easy. That and I do not seem to get the injuries as much in the first place. I would be willing to experiment with not taking this though and seeing how I do. I did see that the cod liver oil potentially would cover this type of stuff too though. Not really sure.

@Villager Albert I did research the carlson cod liver oil and I opted against it for the fact that it has the added vitamins in it. The label on that one seems a little deceptive in how it portrays that. Not easy to notice at a first glance. The one that I am thinking here has less added things and it is certified organic. USDA is pretty strict from my understanding and I feel like that could easily warrant this to be in the price range it is. I did not see anything cheaper that I liked due to additives and such. I actually just went to their website and this seems very high end and sustainable. I will do some research on these. Thank you!

I think that I am missing a good amount of balance with stuff. I have been really wrapped up in chasing success lately that I had even contemplated ending friendships. I actually just had a call for an hour and a half with the friend and it went well. I see that I do this type of stuff with food and such too. Cutting out the video games and such for a year has been great for me to try new things. The food stuff has been amazing for my health too. I just need to work on a balance for my happiness. I am going on a hike tomorrow, so that will be a nice way to blow off some steam and get out and actually do something different too. My sales are blowing up today and yesterday. I am selling over 50% more this time of year than last year, which is great. I am thinking that I have a shot of selling $10,000 worth of inventory in December, which would be amazing. I based this on how my sales were going last year and with how things are moving this seems doable. I am going to keep at it, but still give me self some room to relax a bit too. I feel like I don't over work, but I do fill almost my entire day with a routine. I have almost made 25% on my investing since I started in march. I mean I could have bought some tech and probably done better, but that is really good. I did not buy anything I felt was overvalued either. Just businesses that were hurt by the pandemic that I see a bright future for. I am getting quite a bit better at this. I also put in nearly half of the investment this month, so that is really good considering I grew that much on the money I put in. We will see how this stuff fares though. I am not really worried about short term profits with it in a ira, but it is fun to watch it grow and learn. I still think a harder recession is likely coming. It really just depends on how much money is given out. I do need to lay out a more intense plan and I am thinking about reading another large book from Benjamin Graham on investing that is 700 pages lol. I am getting a lot better at spotting high quality deals since the beginning of march for sure. Starting to fork out more money for my health for sure. It is a big step for me, but I don't really fell stuck in a scarcity mindset with stuff like this as much. Although, I do value saving money and such I probably can strike a better balance here sometimes too. I spend almost $50 a month on goji berries right now lol. I do love them though. Items listed: $23,000 out of $30,000 $2,330 out of $6000 IRA contribution $700 out of $3,000 savings 24 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Talking with my friend Laughing Hike tomorrow

Surprised sales are still picking up well with all of the extra benefits and stuff ending. I think if we do enter into a larger recession it likely would not be as bad as the great depression just because of the fact we understand more how to control and manipulate the economy. Not to say we could not enter one at all though. It would just require a larger catalyst. I suppose depending on how long covid goes for and if reinfection is possible this could draw out into something like that. I will still take bets on solid companies impacted though. I'd be sure to get them more as they continued to drop off if this persists even longer. Funny thing with the covid is I had already pretty much been training to live like this. Going to start reading more book the pair with the life purpose course. I am going to keep mixing it up though. I am quite far off from the goal I had with books. I read so many 500 page books though and learned a lot. I know if I stopped reading big books I could probably hit it. I think it is wiser to chose what interests me though. The fact that I have even read this many books is great. Averages out to a few books a month. Several biographies and all sorts of good stuff. I have much more knowledge retained now. It does suck that you lose information though. I take for granted how incredibly far I have come even since just starting this journal. Everything about my life has drastically improved. Everything I do anymore it seems like I do well at it. My life is so radically different, but I imagine this is just the start if I keep going with this work. I can still see a big path for change and development in my life. So many things to discover and work on. Items listed: $23,000! out of $30,000 $2,129 out of $6000 IRA contribution $700 out of $3,000 savings 24 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: New breakfast option! Finding really good stuff Good health

Really spending the extra money and getting foods that I really enjoy that are really healthy. I am changing things up a lot from normal too. I found at least 4 new items to try today. I think this is really boosting my energy and keeping me on top of my game with energy levels. I feel quite good. I have really ate a bit at that savings I had, but I am buying a lot of inventory and investing into my business. I mean really all I need mostly right now is enough cash on hand for a tow if something happened to my car. I do have business funds on the side I can get into and liquid assets if there is an emergency though. I don't even need a car to run my business right now technically. I do plan to buffer it up here again soon once I get this quarters taxes and stuff sorted. I just need to see how much more I can pay myself at the moment. I did quite good sourcing today. I did not find anything spectacular I actually left most a $600 set of blow molds in a bin, which I should have taken. I did grab 3 and I found a $300 item for $30 plus a suv full of pretty good items, so I really have no complaints. I am really overloaded with inventory, but I am wanting to push the limits on my spaces as much as I can. This is going to really raise my income coming into 4th quarter. I am going to work towards getting my inventory on close to 10 different platforms this up coming month. I am going to work on having a really effective cutting edge system for managing this. I might climb a mountain again this weekend. Not sure if I will go for that, but I did talk to the friend who does that today. It is strange I had basically just accepted all of these friendships ending and not worrying about it. I will admit I feel I have far surpassed this friend in terms of this kind of work especially considering he has minimal interest in self improvement. It is a strange feeling to come to that. It feels good to not be as needy in relationships in general, but for me this is just flat out leaving all of them. I am not trying to make a limiting belief that I can't make more friends into this type of work or path, but I also don't really look. I had just stopped talking to my friend who I have been friends with for 6 years and I almost feel guilty just for not just being honest to them of why. I don't think they are a bad person and I actually have enjoyed our friendship a lot over the years. I guess I just really want to be around people who want to improve. I realize even with this relationship I feel is hollow a bit just from the fact of how different were are in terms of a growth. I have had this friend for over a decade on and off though. I don't try to rely on anyone as much of a need for them now at all. I had a lot of relationships in the past the had a benefit to them or factors that could benefit me. I try to be more aware of that now. I do see for this relationship I do enjoy having someone to go hiking with as I would not have access to this otherwise I would have to go solo, which I have considered. I feel like I will need to come to a good break from working here sooner or later and really invest in some time to self reflect. I feel like there is so much stuff I need to reflect on more. I feel like I am having some ego backlash after a year of doing psychedelics every two months and a lot of personal development for the last year. Not that I have not had some serious backlash going into this either lol. I feel a bit of an urge to play video games as I am pretty sure I actually did hit the one year mark without them. I am going to keep going until the new years that I wanted though. Even then I rarely even have time to consider playing them now if I did. It has honestly been such a relief to remove them from my life. I find it strange that I even had as much time for them as I did. It seems more fun now to grow and do stuff in real life. Items listed: $22,000 out of $30,000 $2,129 out of $6000 IRA contribution 1,200 $700 out of $3,000 savings 24! out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Good finds! Making some major progress with my business Feeling motivated

I can see how I am back to doing a bit more stage orange stuff and my focus is all on that mostly. I feel like I need to work through having a good amount of security, which will then allow me to explore and grow much easier. I am not going into a lot of the shadow of orange, or at least that is what I want to believe. It is strange how I can go from wanting to be done with reselling to enjoying it again. I guess I did not stop enjoying it. I took on a lot of what Leo said as it not being a good life purpose, which to be fair I agree it isn't. I just took it to a level where I wanted to get out of it now. With how everything is positioning me and my knowledge I already have with it I think this is the best route for right now. This pandemic has made this work much more valuable and I am very well positioned to benefit from it. Not only that I will be able to step away more from this business whenever I want. It can be on the side and bring in income. I can basically turn it on and off. So much exploring to do, but I know that this is what I need to tackle. I am going to be more mindful to make sure this does not drag me down and slow my growth. I am really maxing out my space of available inventory. It is seeming more and more feasible that I could even reach 50k of items listed. To me that is just unbelievable going from 10k just a couple months ago. Of course I want to meet my goal of 30k, but I am getting close to reaching it 3 months ahead of time! Sales will start to take it down faster though, so I suppose it will likely be harder than I think. I have made some very well positioned moves for this season. It has easily made up for any slack that I gave it earlier in the year working on yotuube and stuff. I am reading the book the great crash of 1929, which lead into the great depression. It is almost identical to the stuff going on in the world and the scenario, with obvious differences too. It makes me wonder how it will be best to position myself. I could see the stock market taking a big plunge once it meets reality a bit and the prospects are not looking as good. I still have some stocks and stuff and I am not getting out of the market, but I would like to make a good cash position to benefit from such a scenario if there is one. I feel like I am doing really good with the researching of stocks and companies. I know that I will get a lot more experience as I go though. Items listed: $22,000! out of $30,000 $2,129 out of $6000 IRA contribution 1,200 out of $3,000 savings 23 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Make better use of my space Building a better strategy Getting back on track with my intense workout

MEANT TO POST THE OTHER DAY Seem to have some sort of pain in my joins today it seems like. I am kind of wondering if this is the result of detoxing something. Not sure. It seems like my hands are irritated too. I am going to explore this a bit further, I did not follow the exact protocol or anything from what I researched. Going to refer back to the notes and try some other things as I go. Found a rare piece of furniture worth $900 today for $20. I have been looking for this brand for a bit now and had it in mind. I am really starting to draw a lot of new distinctions with stuff especially now with all of the training I have done. My bit of time of facebook a day seems to pay off well with stuff like this. I have been using it to watch videos to laugh a bit every day too and it seems to be worth it for that. I will probably go on another few month break again from it though eventually as it seems to take up more time that I want occasionally. Not that I can really complain. I don't feel like I waste a lot of time on stuff like that. It seems so strange lately like if I help some other it seems as if I get an abundance of help out of nowhere. I am running into a lot of good things lately and it seems as if I am bringing them to me. I notice if I am positive I seem to get a lot better stuff too. I feel like this is in part from kriya yoga, but I am not sure. I am not aiming to get anything from helping anyone either. It seems that just the instance will arise to help others. I notice I am more compassionate to someone who would be homeless and I feel like giving people food or something when I see them. I definitely feel less concerned with a bit of money like I use to be. I feel more how valuable it would be to build a life purpose around helping people more. The world is so complex and there is so many things I could go and do. So many things that I can learn and discover. I have reached a point where I can make good money and position myself to search more of what is out there. I am enjoying this a lot right now too. Items listed: $20,000 out of $30,000 $2,129 out of $6000 IRA contribution 1,200 out of $3,000 savings 23 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Rare furniture find! Feeling more postive Finding a good read

I notice more of where my dad is still at and hasn't changed too much. Not that I am really all that surprised by that. I imagine he still has a bit of a mix of red to him, but still deep into orange and blue. I mean there is nothing wrong with him from how he was raised. I can see how his life style has not really created anything meaningful for him besides having a lot of money. I thought about sitting down with him and telling him all of the reason why I did not talk to him for those years. I know he knows why, but I can tell he would just deny it. It would be more for me to just move on from it. I enjoyed talking to him again, but to be fair I would not really care if I had a relationship with him or not. Hit a really nice buffer in sales that will pay off all of the upcoming expenses. It is so tempting to keep sourcing as much as I can. The quality of the stuff I am finding is just incredible and it seems steady with $50-$100 of consistent items. Although, I can see the amount of what is coming in is starting to die off for sure it has been great. This has been an awesome season for sourcing. Hopefully I can fit in a few more runs of a really good stuff. I have a good chunk of stuff to work through and great ready for 4th quarter still too. It will be nice to have set myself into a good position for this year. I can imagine that I will have an excellent amount of sales. I want to save up a good amount of money and crush through these goals that I have! I have a lot of different possibilities of stuff that I can pursue for a life purpose. I really should try to narrow it down for something higher on the spiral though. I know things like stocks and stuff are tempting to a degree because of how much money can be made. It is fun too, but I know that does not go quite deep enough. I think that I do want to teach people stuff, but I am not too sure. I know like lately I am excited to teach my toast master group about eating better and stuff and if I did benefit them that would cool. I see maybe something like that. It dawned on me today while I was thinking of what I would do if I lived near this goodwill bins that I travel an hour to get to. I would be capable of learning a good amount of every single category of stuff, which most people are not capable of doing at all. I am already kind of starting to do that to a certain level even now doing furniture stuff, a bit of art, etc. Actually finding big ticket items in these categories just by making newbie distinctions and some memory. To me that makes me think of how much I could achieve with learning about anything I want. I am very capable of storing a lot of knowledge on subjects. But to fill my mind about various items that I don't think are super meaningful is probably not a good long term approach. For right now I want to make a lot more money to explore these options and I am already well positioned knowledge wise so it makes sense. Plus this stuff is pretty fun. But it is something where I know that I am not pushing myself to my highest capabilities. Items listed: $20,000 out of $30,000 $2,263 out of $6000 IRA contribution 1,200 out of $3,000 savings 23 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Found a lamp likely worth $950 for $5! Good sales Meeting bills ahead of time

Seem to have some sort of pain in my joins today it seems like. I am kind of wondering if this is the result of detoxing something. Not sure. It seems like my hands are irritated too. I am going to explore this a bit further, I did not follow the exact protocol or anything from what I researched. Going to refer back to the notes and try some other things as I go. Found a rare piece of furniture worth $900 today for $20. I have been looking for this brand for a bit now and had it in mind. I am really starting to draw a lot of new distinctions with stuff especially now with all of the training I have done. My bit of time of facebook a day seems to pay off well with stuff like this. I have been using it to watch videos to laugh a bit every day too and it seems to be worth it for that. I will probably go on another few month break again from it though eventually as it seems to take up more time that I want occasionally. Not that I can really complain. I don't feel like I waste a lot of time on stuff like that. It seems so strange lately like if I help some other it seems as if I get an abundance of help out of nowhere. I am running into a lot of good things lately and it seems as if I am bringing them to me. I notice if I am positive I seem to get a lot better stuff too. I feel like this is in part from kriya yoga, but I am not sure. I am not aiming to get anything from helping anyone either. It seems that just the instance will arise to help others. I notice I am more compassionate to someone who would be homeless and I feel like giving people food or something when I see them. I definitely feel less concerned with a bit of money like I use to be. I feel more how valuable it would be to build a life purpose around helping people more. The world is so complex and there is so many things I could go and do. So many things that I can learn and discover. I have reached a point where I can make good money and position myself to search more of what is out there. I am enjoying this a lot right now too. Items listed: $20,000 out of $30,000 $2,129 out of $6000 IRA contribution 1,200 out of $3,000 savings 23 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Rare furniture find! Feeling more positive Finding a good read

Really need to work on breaking down more of my product. Going to try to go sourcing twice more before the season is over. I am making some major progress. I am $600 shy of having $20,000 worth of items listed, which is great for me. I am still aiming for breaking $30,000 before christmas. This will likely be difficult to do as sales pick back up going into fourth quarter. I am crushing it though. No way for me to source tomorrow with the amount of stuff I have backed up in my car. Really need to dedicate a solid 5 hours or so to getting stuff from it pictured and organized. Did really good on a speech today in my toast masters. I have literally been not practicing and just going in for it. I did have about an hour to come up with it before hand and I did look at notes on this one. I did an inspiring speech and I did it about my journey with diet so far. I got some really good feedback and people were inspired without knowing that was my intention for my project. I still see value in continuing this pursuit. I really wish it was in person though as I feel like this would give me more skin in the game in terms of the actual stage freight feeling. I have been debating on going sky diving. I will probably not do it while the virus is a big deal though, but this is one of those things that has had me scared and I notice I even get sweaty and a bit nervous even reading about it. I am going to do a more comprehensive and updated fear list and start working through more of it. I have re-listened to the fear videos from leo a few times now too. That and the life advice part 1 and 2 seem to be really good for what I am working through right now. I do need to get back on track with the life purpose course, but it seems like I have lost the time being so busy with reselling. I will have some time once I stop adding in the sourcing soon. I will have a lot more energy to pursue it as well. By the time I hit the weekend I am usually tired now. Going to work on a reading a few of Warren Buffets book recommendations. I enjoy learning about the stock stuff and learning stuff about the market. I feel like this is a very worthwhile skill to build up and the fact that I enjoy it is a plus. There is so much to learn in any domain it seems never ending. Items listed: $19,000 out of $30,000 $2,001 out of $6000 IRA contribution 1,200 out of $3,000 savings 22 23 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Resting Being more strategic Sales picking back up

I would really try to work on your well being for a start. This could be easily linked to lack of micro nutrients, exercise, or just a poor diet. With myself I am working more and more on developing a life purpose, but I can say that building a good health foundation is going to be essential.

Almost ready to wind down the season for sourcing. Probably going to go another week or two. I am pretty full with really good inventory. Not just need to put the focus into getting all of it up for sale. Going to be a grind, but I am going to work on getting 1,000+ items listed. It will be some work, but I think with the system I have set up it will not be that taxing and hopefully would just take a few months. Definitely dipped into the savings a good chunk. Bought quite a bit of a stock and this month is quite slow for reselling because people are buying school stuff. That and just buying hundreds of dollars of inventory a week is eating up a lot of my free capital. I am feeling really good about the research and the moves I am making with this stuff. I have been contemplating a bit more on what I would like to do after this or what the next chapter might look like. I really want to get the finances in order. I have thought about moving eventually too. I am working in on some stuff with the radical honesty book so far. It is strange how much we hold back from others to not hurt their feels etc. There is still some stuff I can see I need to work on though. So far the results have been going doing this though. I did go visit my dad for the first time in many years. It went pretty well. It is nice to have him as a part of my life again. I notice that I don't really have hardly any relationships anymore with relatives or friends. I can't complain to much since I could work on that. One piece at a time though and honesty I do enjoy keeping to myself a bit more these days. Revisiting a good chunk of Leo videos and I can see a lot of stuff that I still should work on. I am going back on the fear videos right now and I am going to start working on taking better notes of these and really applying myself more to the information in them. The spiral dynamics stuff is really starting to click a lot more since I have researched it deeper too. Still want to spend more time taking notes though and actually sitting down and watching the video. $2,001 out of $6000 IRA contribution $2,400 1,200 out of $3,000 savings 22 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Day off Relaxing Clean room

@Mada_ I have never heard of those. I will do some research on it. Thanks for the suggestion!

Everything I eat is organic. I start of with a good sized bowl of almonds and walnuts. Usually with Goji berries as well. Sometimes cashews too. Smoothie: Either has a mix of blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. I usually try to get cherries in too. The fruit is sometimes a more tropical mix like peaches, mango, pineapple, dragon fruit, etc. Both usually have 1-2 bananas in it too. 3 Tablespoons of hemp seed 3 Tablespoons of chia seeds Use to have a tablespoon of cocoa powder and will probably get some more soon. One table spoon of flaxseed. One or two handfuls of mix of spinach/kale and it has some other greens usually mixed in. Half of an english cucumber. One cooked beet. One large carrot. One handful of celery. Good sized piece of ginger root. One serving of lions mane powder. I was looking to start adding a tablespoon of spirulina soon too. The smoothie fills up a large blender. It is maybe close to a half gallon or so. Dinner 3/4 to 1 cup of Qinuoa 1/4 cup of green or red lentils. 1 Large Avacado One cup of sauerkraut Two large stalks of bok choy Two Brussel Sprouts Some green onion Some Cilantro I use a Jalapeno Hot Sauce for it Not really a whole lot of variation. I change up the fruits and sometimes add potatoes and stuff to the dinner. Doesn't really bother me to eat this everyday though. Anything I could change or improve? I supplement zinc every other day, b12, glucosamine, D-3, and omega 3. I intermittent fast with this too usually 18-20 hours a day. Interested in more nutritious items or even things that are healthy to add more variety. Was likely going to start supplementing probiotics and stuff soon too. A side note is I am 5' 10" and weigh 143 pounds. I am very athletic and exercise a lot every day. My main goal is to build some extra muscle and just be at optimal health. Would be awesome to hear from @Michael569 on this too Edit: I am getting at least 70g of protein per day. Sometimes more if I eat a lot of nuts like today. Maybe 80-85g. As another note I eat fruits, veggies, nuts, and seeds only right now.

Definitely getting close to the end of the season for sourcing. I have serious made some major moves in terms of the quality of stuff I am getting. I have cut out getting most items worth under $50 with some exceptions in certain categories. My organization and such has allowed me to bring in a massive amount of stuff. I managed to find a rare 15 year old subwoofer worth $600-$700 for $30 and a set of speakers worth $800+ for $10. Some really good quality stuff coming in with good margins. Spending a lot of time studying a stock again. I found a really good position that I am going to start building in a company. I am likely going to take $1,000 out of the savings I saved and put it into the roth ira towards that company over the next month. I am starting to get pretty good at picking out good stocks that are beat up from bad conditions. Although, I have read some books and just been practicing it seems to be going well. I think this knowledge and experience will really make this an amazing portfolio in the long run. Really sticking with a lot of foods that are getting me to detox. I notice feel like crap sometimes after the smoothie that is loaded with stuff to help me detoxify. I am also showing symptoms of detoxification. I will see how I feel from doing this for a few weeks. Hopefully this will be well worth feeling like crap. I am also spacing out my meals and not doing short 4 hour eating periods right now due to not feeling as well from this. It is just not sustainable right now. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $2,400 out of $3,000 savings 22 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Getting a good amount done with a few hours of work. Making progress on space Finding great items

Working a bit this weekend, but trying to get some extra mediation in. I am probably going to take Monday off though I think. I am getting an a ton of stuff done and really being a bit more strategic with how I am going about my reselling business. I am still enjoying this it feels like. I think that I could enjoy whatever I put my mind into though. I think this is going to help me transition with going into my next adventure and discovering more. There is so much stuff out there to discover and learn about. I think this time is pretty crucial for me to keep developing myself and building a skill set. Not to mention this is probably the best time for me to be into reselling currently just given the current circumstances. I think that I want to develop something unique for my next business. I am going to keep working on my speaking skills and building knowledge. I notice even with the youtube it was hard for me to sustain my full engagement with it. In reselling for example I do have those dips I suppose too. Summer time is always the best time to be in reselling for sure. I am getting more of a feel for things though. I think there is a lot more to discover and learn though. I paused for a bit and through that I do have a good amount of time to really Forgot to post the above, but it saved it. Adding a little more to it. going to take tomorrow off from working extra. Going to try to be mindful about making more for each hour that I work and avoid too much of the heavy service stuff. I seem to be averaging it higher and higher though. There is so many facets of things to learn and discover. I feel like business and finances are something I really want to tackle, so I can have a good foundation to work from. The ability to make high level distinctions and be creative seems to be the best route to making the most money and doing what like. I notice that I have lost most of my friends just from being busy for a few months. To be fair I had not really had that solid of relationships. The watering and cultivating of relationships is quite difficult while being busy a lot. I think a lot of this is for the best for me. I am starting to evolve quite a bit with my development and I don't need anything holding me back. I have out grown most of these relationships, or in one case not had enough time to really cultivate it. I notice I never feel lonely anymore like I use to like a year or so ago. It does not bother me although I do message people and talk and such. Just the idea or feeling never comes to mind. I have really worked through a lot of that stuff and I think that mechanism within me was keeping me in toxic relationships. I do have to admit I do the toast masters and stuff too, but I don't really connect with those people at all on a personal level. I no longer talk to the person outside of it. I feel as if I am just building a skill there. I actually find myself kind of distracted a lot even in the meetings on there. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $2,400 out of $3,000 savings 22 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Doing some hard work Adding a side gig Found a way to save $40 a month

Made some pretty big progress with contemplation. I actually had some resistance to an idea of existence from it. I am getting a bit more in depth with it. Most days are not too significant though. I try to spend some time thinking about a vision of what I would like to do too. My meditation is going excellent right now. That reset on the weekend was exactly what I needed. My business is doing really well. I am still finding really good stuff right now and am just putting in a lot of work. Need to get stuff listed as much as I can though. It feels great to have savings and a lot of good inventory in stock. I am definitely starting to see some dividends from my work in this business. I think this 4th quarter is going to be amazing. Feel a bit sick maybe from too much detoxing type food. Not too sure though with that. I would guess that might be the case since a lot of the stuff I am eating is promoting that. I don't expect to feel at peak condition all the time though anyway. Starting to read radical honesty today. I think will probably pair well with me working towards being as honest as I can. I am definitely on the right track though I believe. Only a chapter in though, so don't have much of an opinion on it. It seems like a good book though so far. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $2,400 out of $3,000 savings 22 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Getting stuff listed Working on my situation Good fortune

Spent the day meditating yesterday and it was great. I really need to set aside the time to do that again soon. It is really easy to build up resistance to it, but once I am finally in it things go so well. My habits are going really well it seems like. I want to work on sticking my more intense workout in more often though. Sitting here and realizing just how good my life can be from this work. It seems unfair that I can live so happily and enjoy life while many others struggle with so many things that keep them stuck. I don't want to take this for granted. I want to make something worthwhile while I am here. It was so nice to have some time to sit and reflect this weekend. Maybe I can get myself to go for it next weekend too. Going to work on adding in more ways to reduce toxins in my life. I want to stick to being a lot healthier. There is so many more complex distinctions to make once you start taking health more seriously. So many little things in every day life that is harmful and toxic, but slips by unnoticed. I am going to work on being less cheap in my health as well. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $2,400 out of $3,000 savings (might have to bump this up a bit!) 21 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Selling spare car!! Feeling great Relaxing

As an update for this thread I did specifically go and get a larger variety of stuff to eat today. I got dried coconut, dried figs, pumpkin seeds, and I add in the spirulina today for the first time. The spirulina really over powered the smoothie though, so I might do a smaller amount or do it more infrequently because that killed the taste for sure lol. I did not measure it though either just a good amount on a spoon. I will try to search for some more things I could do to keep a larger variety of stuff in my diet. I will probably get a few kinds of rice. Part of my issue to is I only shop at fred meyer and costco pretty much exclusively. I will maybe try to find a whole foods again (they shut down the one I use to go to) and try to get some new stuff. It was a struggle to find anything new to add even at costco. It seemed the organic section actually got smaller and their frozen fruit selection is not even as good.

@Call Me Whatever That makes sense I am probably more where I can maintain myself right now. My legs are quite muscular, but of course I do a lot of running and that helps. I am not sure that I would be able to hit that kind of threshold with the stuff that I eat very easily. I will try to break 100g a day though and that would help. I don't need to be super shredded, but being more toned would be nice.

I think part of my issue is the fact that I just over think what I want to do instead of letting it just happen. I was re-watching Leo's video on the counter intuitive nature of life and this one seemed to click for me. At the same time I do think that I want to start reading some books on strategic thinking. I think there will be a good balance between both of this. I don't think that I will simply get what I want in life by just letting it happen, but at the same time it kind of needs to happen. I am going to work on taking better video notes too. I have a set up in one note, but I have not been consistent with it enough. I realize that I am missing out on a lot of the stuff or even just forgetting it because of that. Going to be up early tomorrow and be ready for show time. I have a more refined strategy for getting better items and I think that I am going to come out with some really good stuff tomorrow. It feels great to be able to spend this type of money on inventory and still what I need for bills and all of that. I need to crank out some extra cash this up coming month and I am going to knock out as much financial stuff that will come in the way. After September I really want to invest in all of my poster stuff. I am going to try to make a video, when I get the chance. It seems like I have just been in a daze with reselling. The videos are just for fun, but I do feel like I dropped my commitment to them. Part of me feels like I should just keep my mind on one business at a time. Which to be fair I am really seeing the results here. I would say though that even the videos had improved so much while I had been doing them. I will still keep it in mind as something I want to do. I just know for the next few months at minimum that reselling needs to be a top priority. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,400 out of $3,000 savings 21 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Great weather Good advice Feeling very good

@Michael569 My thinking with following it is that it could possibly help me remove any stored up heavy metals potentially. I had actually worked with some light chemicals for years and was exposed to quite a bit of nicotine for a 5 year span. I was thinking that possibly going through it could help. I noticed after I did my first water fast that my pee is clear a large majority of the time now and it was not before. I think that a couple of those has really helped. I was actually considering reading his encyclopedia of natural medicine. I take a good amount of interest in learning about this kind of stuff, so trying out a bit of the more of the deeper topics. I am the type of guy who reads the 150 healthiest foods cover to cover although I did kind of skip some foods I would not want to eat lol. Studying what each food actually does and what makes it healthy is interesting to me. Most of the foods in my daily eating are the healthiest rated ones in that book. Yeah, I agree with this. I spent a lot of my time initially looking at both the counter arguments for vegan and vegan stuff. It becomes an ideology very easily. Peoples views get so skewed when it comes to it. I believe that there is a right diet for each individual. Also, that some foods are just simply healthier than others. I will be sure to check out those recommendations!

Yes, I have calculated the nutrients needed and what I consume. I suppose that is a part to why I do not like to change what I eat. That is also why I take the supplements that I do and not a multi vitamin currently. It allows me to skip supplements like calcium as they are not needed. That was part of my interest in coming to question what others think about this because I have just worked at this without really asking for an opinion on it. I will actually do some potatoes and sweet potatoes every now and then mixed in with the evening dinner. I am really big on spicy food, so the last meal is incredible to me and I change the hot sauce when I can. Sadly my habanero hot sauce has made me feel sick, so I have to drop using it. I did recently discover some organic jalapeno hot sauce that is incredible. I will reflect on this more. Same with the smoothie. I do look forward to drinking it and the taste of that does alter on the fruit amount and what fruit I use. I introduced the flaxseed recently and it felt awful for a bit. No issues now, but I am going to be a lot more mindful of this. I actually notice now after my dinner I actually still feel like eating more sometimes recently. My main interest with intermittent fasting is the detox capacity. I will occasionally do a couple day water fast and I have absolutely incredible results. My first year of going vegan was a bit like this for sure. I have evolved quite a bit and I think am starting to find a good balance. I love to help others with their eating, but never try to encourage going vegan because I know how much time and research I have placed into this. Most are not able to successfully pull it off and I have had times of low energy and stuff not able to figure it out myself. All of the stuff I have cut out really does not bother me at this point. When I was ending my addiction to junk foods, sugar, etc I use a lot of awareness. I no longer feel the need to eat that type of stuff. But I do agree that I should find those pleasure items to enjoy more of then as well with what I do now. I will definitely take this advice to heart. This is exactly the type of advice I was looking for. I do have to admit I really like rice and I never would go to eat it anymore. I will incorporate this and see what else I am willing to give on. I will try to not be too overly cautious of stuff and enjoy things sometimes more often. That will probably include me spending the $7 on a small thing of kimchi lol. The piece with growing the microbiome I did not consider, so I can see why this would be really valuable for me. Not at all. I really appreciate you taking the time to analyze this and give me a through opinion of it. I can tell you are very well versed in this domain from the stuff I see you reply to people on here. Again I really appreciate it. I had seen you suggesting a book called the toxin solution and I am just about to finish the book. I am planning on doing the full program soon and going to buy all of the stuff to prepare for it, then read back through each step as it comes and assist it with my notes. This has really allowed me to take this to the next level it seems like. Do you have any tips with that book? Do you also have any other really good nutritional reads or things relating to that book?

@louhad Yeah, I feel really good overall. I have wondered about trying less contaminated seafood or something possibly. I feel like I have a lot of energy though and I could probably just find a higher quality version of fish oil and such. The glucosamine has quite a bit of seafood stuff with it too. I suppose part of the concern is just eating the same thing every day. It makes it really easy to shop, prepare food, and I love the taste of each meal. I try to do a intense core and upper body work out 2-3 times per week. High intensity, but don't spend nearly as much time as I do with cardio. I go for about 10 minutes each session directly after 40 minutes of elliptical. But maybe that is not the approach for it? I like the core aspects as it helps my mediation posture strength a lot. I have been doing this for several months now and I definitely do have some gains, but I am definitely on the lean side. I know just my dinner is well over 1,000 calories typically too, so not like I am not eating enough.