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@Artiekee

Definitely not getting the time into reselling I would like this week, but I suppose it would be for the best. I want to crank it out the next couple of days, so I can get some fresh inventory on Friday. Working on resetting my sleeping schedule again and I did get up on time today and well. I feel a bit better also. I am starting to wonder if there is an item in my smoothie that makes me feel fatigued. I felt fine, then drank it, but I also drink a ton of it and it usually gets me quite full mixed with a lot of nuts. I might try to do a test to see if removing an item here and there will make me feel any different. Once I hit dinner though a couple hours later it is not an issue, so I will see if this even persists. I actually did a semi impromptu speech in front of people I did not know on Zoom today and it went really well. I was requested to come speak about toast masters and I did an good job. I was really focused on my words and I did not seem to use any fillers and I made up the end part of it as I went! I did not write down anything for it, but I had the idea going in my mind of what I was going to do. The last part was all impromptu and I really killed it. I am starting to get quite good at doing this. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 20 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Waking up early Progress Got good games in the haul that I did not notice

I would highly recommend reading the intelligent investor and starting from there. There is a lot of good information out there. I would suggest setting up a roth IRA through a broker like Vanguard or similar. You can invest into ETFs on a regular schedule without looking at the market or knowing much. With your plan you would be just dollar cost averaging and buying in at the same time. I am pretty big on the idea of time in the market rather than timing the market. Now if something is a great deal I will buy it and add it into my portfolio specifically. It is very important that you use an IRA for your assets. You can grow your money tax free if you follow the age guide lines for it. Roth IRA for example would be 59.5 until you can withdraw it assuming you're in the US. Also, just any money in and the sooner the better is fine. You can become a millionaire investing $50 a month if you pick good enough investments. The thing with the market is you don't know what will happen. I personally like to dollar cost averaging and have a long term horizon. If the market or a specific blue chip stock I like takes a hard hit that I believe it will recover long term I put in more cash than normal and buy up the deal. It takes a considerable amount more time and energy to research and find good stocks. You really don't have to be an expert to buy ETFs that are broad and give you a good amount of action in the market. In the future as you grow your wealth it would be worth considering to invest in other assets and be well diversified. Also, consider investing the money into your own business, or yourself first if you are not already. However, I think it is wise to put anything in the market as you can. You're likely not going to look back in 40 years and regret tossing a few hundred bucks in during this time.

Seems as if I never have a lot of time. Getting back into my sleeping schedule tonight though at the least. I got a big task done of my reselling list today and it makes me still feel like I have the ball rolling well. I did really well on a gamble I bough for an old computer I could not open too. It looked junky on the outside, but I figured since someone had customized it was an old gaming pc and I was right. Just one part off it would double my money, but there is plenty of good stuff in it and it looked like 4 hard drives, which the 90s ones can get like $25 ea it seems like. I am going to just try to get it to work and sell it whole if I can though. I got a lot of other good stuff I am starting to sort right now. Sales are doing well and it seems like I have the ball rolling well. Hopefully these few larger sales go well and I will definitely be getting ahead now. I still kind of feel like making someone videos, but I definitely feel a lot of time restrain with how much I have to do with reselling at least for right now. I know for sure I need some high output at least while it is still garage sale season and stuff is the cheapest. I will see how things go and who knows I might take time off reselling and work on that in the future. I just have to see where I am at with what I want to do. I feel kind of weak today it seems like. Possibly slightly sick, but not too sure. That has definitely put a bit of a damper on my energy. I was feeling sick this weekend a bit too now that I think about it. Hopefully my energy picks back up. I need to work on getting myself a better time schedule, but who knows maybe my issue is being too strict to a schedule and routine all the time. I mean the morning routine is excellent if I nail it time wise. But maybe more of my day should be with just how I feel at that time. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 20 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Getting my old car up for sale! Really needed to get on that for awhile Getting a roll on some new inventory Feeling optimistic

I am actually ahead on bills and everything right now even after starting to travel and source inventory. I tried out spending the money in advance and just letting it flow instead of worrying about it and it seemed to work out really well. I think that I am going to keep following this kind of principle with it. Living less with a mindset of a shortage and getting the things I need to prosper. I know for sure that I want to give it all I got right now on reselling to maximize my income coming into 4th quarter. I really feel like I could do anything it seems like. I feel so powerful and well rounded compared to how I use to be. I feel incredibly calm and focused on whatever it is that I want to do. I know for right now financially that this is the best decision for me. I am going to give it my best effort and get my income soaring up. It has already had a big spike. I just started working on expanding my business onto Amazon now too, which is exciting. I am going to start setting up a system that will hopefully aim to put my products on 10 different platforms at least by the end of summer, so I am ready for 4th quarter. I still wonder a bit with the life purpose stuff of what I want to do. I know for right now it is best for me to put my focus in on what is working. I really love driving and traveling to the sales. I feel so at peace and just my mood with it all is great. I feel like things will come to me in time for the direction that I want to go. I need to keep exploring and learning a lot of new things. It will surely help if I have a good amount of funding behind me to do what I want to pursue, when the time comes as well. I need to contemplate more on a vision for myself. I have been thinking of a 1 year plan a lot and I seem to be aligning with it quite a bit. I find it strange with working on the youtube thing. I suppose me chosing something with the least resistance is not the best for me lol. I mean this thing itself seems to have a lot against me to do it. I like the speaking and this work. I feel like I am probably just having some backlash to moving up the spiral a bit possibly too is why I feel like seeking the reselling more. Looking at it logically though this is the best possibly thing for me to do right now to position myself better. If I want to go for a life purpose it will be much harder without more finances taken care of. It is just finding a balance on what is the best for me. I also don't have reselling. I really like doing this work. Something about driving around lately puts me in almost a meditative state that just feels great. I kind of wonder if it is bad for me at this point to build attraction to girls. I noticed a girl working at costco the other day and she quickly looked away from me, when I looked in her and I figured she had some attraction to me if she was doing that. She was actually pretty cute. When she had finished putting my groceries in the cart we both said have a good day at the same time, then looked into each others eyes for probably like 10 seconds and smiled (with masks lol). I just went on about my business after that, without a word. I have to admit that I kind of wonder if that hurt her feelings because I did not do anything with that. I mean there was obvious attraction there, but I am not really itching to go out on a date or anything really. I mean I would hope she felt good about that, but I don't really know. I would not bother if that would just hurt their feelings. I don't know. Maybe one of these times I will ask for their number. I am just not really in a rush and don't really have a motive to do that. I feel like I have a lot of inner work to still do and not only that, but getting my finances and stuff straight before I really bother. I feel like a relationship would just hold me back and this point. I don't want to just have sex with them either. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 20 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Back healing Having a day to rest Feeling more secure financially

Feel like I am really getting in the rhythm of getting items up and listed. I want to reach $30,000 worth of items listen by christmas time and I think that would be doable for me. It will be a bit of work, but if I find good items it won't be too hard. I am going to keep turning this and reinvesting, so I can get myself in a better financial position. I know that if I am able to work through this a lot that I will get to where I can pursue a lot more work on myself and get myself more free. I have to admit I have been enjoying it and just feel really good lately. Not much resistance and I am not really going in and overdoing it at all. With how I have things set up I am already 2-3x productive with the same amount of time that I was literally just doing on this business it seems like. Now that I am going to have a couple weeks a month where I go fully in on reselling I imagine that things will go quite well. I have been contemplating the meaning of life. I realize that to a level it is pointless, but I feel like I can bring meaning by finding helpful work down the road. I can really see that I will hit a level of financial security where survival will not be a top priority. I don't really feel like I am going to be happy by just getting a bunch of material stuff. More just the fact that I would like security. I assume that I am going to want to help people and find ways to give the most. I realize that a lot of my work with the reselling is more selfish. I will really just want to finalize what I want to do and go from there. I know if anything I can mostly resale seasonally if needed too. I definitely want to get more reading in. So far I am actually really enjoying the autobiography of a yogi. I think as I dive deeper into this book that I could find a lot of value. I got to the story about the tiger fighting today and it stuck a cord a bit how I might have to go through my journey a bit. It's like you know the answer, but you still have to make the mistakes to get to it. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 20 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Good sales consistent motivation Good health

Yeah, I am 24 and still feel a bit young if I decide to go that route as well. Granted I have a good amount of knowledge in a few domains. There isn't anything stopping you if you go full force into it though and train for it. Really just doing life itself is going to help you with that anyway. Now creating something worth sharing is what you would want to aim for. No, you are going to needed business skills to get clients etc anyway. There is a lot of other options that you can do and you can even create businesses and find jobs that relate to what you are interested in.

I would suggest skipping the dating for awhile and do a lot more inner work. You would be surprised just by working on yourself that you will attract better partners. I would suggest aiming to get to a point where you don't feel like you need a relationship. That is going to come through you finding a purpose and working through a lot of your inner demons. You can go into one and see how it goes, but women are not attracted to neediness and it will eventually cause problems. Even if you find someone who wants that it will cause a codependent relationship. You would definitely want to work on that at a minimum.

Wow, sales are going really well. I managed to get all of the money for taxes and my bills coming up in two weeks together. Now just need to sell $500 more until then and I will put it right into inventory. I am really picking up the pace an energy on this. I am really starting to see how within just a few years this could put me much better off financially. I am going to balance this still with pursuing a life purpose though too. I have actually had some thoughts on a new business that I had really been thinking about before. Obviously I would need capital and stuff to fall back on, so this route seems quite optimal. I am not sure if that is what I want to do yet, but I am going to stay open minded and consider it. I did not quite get the serotonin (or maybe I did) from that long fast, but I am hitting a really nice amount of flow. It just seems like I am killing it on all of my work and how my energy levels are. I feel really good and seem to be just cutting through tasks where I would not even have wanted to just a few weeks ago. A few weeks ago I did not even feel like doing this business much and now I feel excellent and good overall doing it. I feel like I am in a really good mood and just keeping things going at pace well. I still want to make some videos as a good creative outlet though for sure and I think I have some good stuff to make. I wonder a lot if I could really be the best at that though. I would need to narrow it down more and really consider my options. I started shopping at farmers markets and it blew me away with just this little one. The quality is noticeably better even from the organic stuff I buy at the store. I am going to talk with the farmers a bit more and ask them about their practices and stuff. The taste and large variety in a appearance makes them seem less enhanced. However, it could be just that those expensive ones just take out the "ugly" looking fruit, but I am not too sure. I notice the stuff is able to rot well and that makes me think that most of this stuff is not treated with a lot of chemicals. Under $50 went really far it seemed like, so I am probably going to do this more often. I really thought about getting into making my own kimchi, sauerkraut, and hot sauce. Those three things are basically it for what I buy that is put together by someone else besides a whole food. I think that I could really make some awesome stuff and I could do it in bulk since this fermented stuff can last like a year or so. I found some good recipes and stuff for me to make some good stuff. I also started researching into getting a juicer and diving deep into maybe some juice cleanses. I want to try some natural methods to pull out heavy metals too. I am starting to get really serious about the quality of food I eat at this point. It has become a bit of a hobby. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 20 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Good sales! Farmers market Feeling good

@Lindsay I had wanted to study Stephen Hawking because he actually enjoyed his life from the stuff I read. However, I don't know quite enough about it. There is no doubt about it that evolving to a higher stage would be beneficial especially in his situation. It sounds like he is more in red and blue, but probably has some orange too. If you feel like you must try to move him if he is christian or anything, then zig zigular would probably be good or something similar. Basically a mix of religion and self achievement. It is highly unlikely he will move up unless he is ready though and has to exhaust those stages. He would have to go through them fully to really move up well and healthy. You are talking about some serious work to really get someone of that age with their beliefs and such. One thing that I have found to work well is just leading by example. People can start to tell once you have really worked on yourself. You can give nice tips that meet their level of development. Someone in that position likely needs just very fundamental self help techniques. Something to consider would be the fact that he might have made it as far as he could with his life experiences and situation. I try to analyze why someone might be the way that they are and there is a lot of factors that can contribute. Especially someone who is not able to move for that long could seriously be hindered not to mention assuming their age likely could have had racist parents etc. The best way that I have found to apply spiral dynamics in a situation like this is just to be able to meet them on their level. When you get angry at what they say or hurt I want you to try thinking what it must be like to be them. Imagine what it would be like to have their experience. Not just a bit, but like really try to immerse yourself into the feeling of it. Likely you will just feel sorry for them.

Did another 42 hour water fast and it went quite well. I did not notice a big serotonin rush this time, but I do feel quite energetic overall. I think there is quite a few benefits to this and I will do more of these in the future. I don't think that I need to do really long ones all the time, but I think on occasion it would be really good. The research I have looked at suggests it does quite bit for removing toxins. I am going to research juicing a bit too and I might do some stuff to try to remove heavy metals after awhile. I think this might be able to help a bit though, but it seems like others use charcoal and stuff. Really feeling good about putting work into the reselling business right now. This is definitely my best option financially right now and I still do enjoy it. I will keep putting work into my speaking, but I am not too sure how I feel about monetizing that or anything. I will keep thinking about it and who knows I might find some other way to go about my purpose. I think even with this right now I enjoy it and I really do need the freedom that this will give me to pursue other things. For reselling this is a really optimal time to be pursing it on all sides for me. I am still excited to put out some videos I think that I am going to do more casual ones on the weeks that I am mostly reselling. I think that will give me a good balance on what I am doing without over extending myself. Really trying to work on handling a lot longer meditation sessions. The kriya yoga has really been well worth it seems like to me. I imagine if I am able to practice enough it will have some good pay offs over time. I think in general though it helps keep me balanced and focused throughout the day. Not to mention I feel like I have a lot more control over my emotions than I use to. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 20 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Finding a lot of good items to list Will be listing over 50 items in 48 hours tomorrow! Good sales and prospects

Why do you believe they need to change? Is it to fit what you would like for them? I realize that being moved up the spiral is nice. Especially once you get closer to tier two. You have to consider at a certain level it will just distract you from working on yourself. I have to admit even with myself I enjoy helping others, but you have to consider if they actually want the help.

I would imagine as more things start to transition into stage green, then there would start to need more need for a consultant. Someone who could come into a business to help guide and train it towards transition to a better environmental impact. Not going to happen over night, but eventually customers will demand it. For example if they were to go into a super market and go through all of the products overusing and using plastics. The makers of the products want to stay on the shelves and will make changes to stay there. So the store could consult with someone who could help bring in solutions and maybe work with the companies on what types of packaging would be a better option and not only that, but gearing the store into more eco friendly options. I have no experience with it, but this is what comes to mind for me. You could apply this same scenario to all sorts of industries and not just the super market. There is a massive amount of businesses that could use the help in the right direction.

Starting to think more about the best route for myself. I think I am going to focus on youtube more as a hobby and keep doing it as I can. I filmed some stuff yesterday and it turned out surprisingly pretty good aside from some speaking mistakes. I think I need to add more focus and time into my reselling business especially right now. The market is in a prime position for me to profit and grow right now. I need to double down on it and get closer being more independent. At the same time I really enjoy youtube, but it is not really something I am itching to make some money from and I realize that it would be a year or more out if I really put in a lot of time. I am just going to pace myself and keep practicing. I am reading books, toast master twice a week, and still making some videos so not like I am not training for it at all. I just want to position myself better financially. I think if I just proceed with patience, then eventually it will work out. Starting to read some autobiography of a yogi and it seems pretty good so far. I am going to be interested to read this and reflect on it. I think with how much I enjoy Steve Job's work that this will be something awesome to read being it was his favorite book. Going to listen a long with this with the audio book too. I have been listening to summarize and stuff of book I read, but listening to the whole thing will be interesting. Once I am done I am going to rent the move about it too like I did with a few different Steve Job's documentaries. I notice I have a large up tick in energy and motivation. I feel like in between my trips in gives me much more rapid ups and downs of how I feel overall. I do want to continue with it, but I think after some time I am going to take a longer break. I currently am doing two month between each one and it seems to stick around quite a bit with it. My habits and stuff seem pretty solid on either end of it though at least. Some things drop, but it seems like I have plenty of will power to pick things back up and keep myself on track. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 20 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Day off Sales picking up a bit Getting a good garage sale haul for the first one of the year

Lacking a bit this week on my book reading for sure. I am trying to get some more work in though and it seems to be going well. I managed to get 2,000 music CDs cleared out, so that helped a lot with space. I need to remind myself of the bigger picture and keep my focus on the good paying items. I think once I am able to get into the posters things will start getting a lot better. I need to make some more space, so I can do more bulk media too. Even adding this in once or twice a month will really help me have a better bottom line and consistent income. I need to build things up a bit better for myself in terms of consistency. I feel like I need to do some more work in this as well and this will add a much needed amount with the extra day. My days are not really work heavy. I think it gives me a good balance though overall. I am thinking I can work 6 days a week sometime and really I will only be working 35 hours or so I imagine by the time I do youtube and the reselling. Probably does not sound like a lot, but it does add up by the time I have a routine full of reading, toast masters x2 per week, and all of my other habits. I am not going to sit here and BS myself though it's not like I spend every second with maximum focus. I do put in the work though I feel like, but I know that I could be adding some more time into this stuff by working on my schedule more. Getting down my sleeping schedule especially. I am only going to be doing the 6 days once or twice a month coming up. I could also use this to bring in new inventory with garage sales, but I am kind of keeping it more consistent with the stuff I have going. I can really easily move the media stuff and I have timed and calculated the profits from three runs, so I have a good idea of what I can make per hour and it is quite good. That and the fact it takes too long to list other individual items, but the fact I can find rares too makes the garage sales good. I am just not going that deep into them this year I think. I have so much stuff backed up from last year it does not really matter for me to pursue them much. Plus I can do stuff like order in the bulk DVDs, which that too can give me more consistent income without me expending so much effort and time. I have still been struggling with my inner conflict on the youtube. I am conflicted still because I am contemplating the life purpose stuff a lot more too. I thought maybe my purpose is something along the lines of "sharing bits of information I discover". My personality type and strengths seem to revolve around that. I am surprised that some people even want to listen to me. I am like a wind up toy that just starts spitting out a bunch of information if you ask about a topic I know about. Of course some people really find it helpful though too. I can go on and on in a conversation if you give me the right topic. So maybe something with this is my purpose. I am still going to keep hunting, but that is a lot of what I like to do. I noticed how much I was excited to even just look into more diet stuff the other day. I love researching stuff extensively more than most people would even bother. Self doubt is a mother fucker for sure. I am going to power through and just see what happens. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 19 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Getting 14 items ready to list I am going to cram in some more tomorrow! Going for 20 quality items this week Making progress with space Feeling positive

@Sombra Sounds good! Mostly what is needed is larger firms having ETFs for crypto. It will help the price stability a lot and get exposure to traditional investors. I am sure this would result in a good price spike as well lol. Of course it comes down to places capability to store it and the overall demand.

@Sombra Appreciate the tip! That's some great news! I already hold some actually and trying to get more exposure to domestic market kind of stuff right now. I see a bright future for crypto and I am excited to see what this tech will do in the future.

Getting a roll on putting more items out. I am going to try to get a really good batch going for this week. I really need to work on clearing out more space, so I can get into listing the posters. These should give me the best ROI once I am able to do that. I need some more supplies, but going into next month I should have some extra money to start getting supplies in for them. I really want to get down my habit of waking up early. I am doing it like 50% of the time it seems like. It is really tough sometimes and I think part of the issue is just lack of hours on my sleep. I can try to force it more though and hopefully adjust soon. I know that if I can open up those couple hours in the morning it is really going to allow me to get a lot of reading in. Reading has be critical on a lot of my decisions and information into this year for sure. I love learning about new stuff too. Going to dive in a lot deeper on supplements, nootropics, diet, toxins, fasting, etc for awhile. I already know quite a bit, but I really want to keep refining this for maximum health. I just got a pyrex set to help cut back on any plastic use as well. I am well aware that I cannot avoid all toxins of course. Just doing what I can to actually know what to avoid and ways to reduce them. $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 19 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Getting some work done Feeling well Having the space I do for my work

Did not fully follow through with my mediation day, but I still managed to get a decent amount in. I could have went for it, but it is not too big of a deal. I might go for it next weekend possibly. Going to wrap up a 400 page book today, so I am happy about that. I am going to keep some focus on learning to read at a better rate, but not only that learning how to better retain the knowledge from the books. My note taking is becoming a lot more sophisticated for sure. I still realize that it is hard to grasp and retrain all of the knowledge though. I will get there as I continue to learn and do this type of stuff. I realize that I will need to make a good effort to really improve myself to be able to actually pursue something like the youtube videos. I need to have a really solid foundation for everything else in life. I am not going to quit practicing or training for it though. I am going to be more accepting of the amount of time and the work that I can put towards it. Realistically it makes sense for me to try to add another day of work into my week with reselling maybe twice a month. I need to boost my income and get myself to a higher level of stability. Not only that, but still working towards a direction of more independence. Aside from the financially really just maxing out my own personal development. Today was the first time in 3 months I actually went out and did much outside of my house that was not relating to this work. I think maybe I went to the beach once though without intent to record (not sure). It seems strange almost to interact with people I had before. I am working on no judgment though. I realize that my friend is in stage orange and it is healthy for him to work through it. I prefer doing stuff like hiking and that type of stuff though. I see he is getting a little taste of green. I notice some stuff I have from green is with my knowledge of diet it gets to me a little watching people eat bad things. I need to work on not really suggesting the stuff as much. I have to let people do what they want. Obviously there is a balance though. I am sure in some cases a nice tip someone could find it really useful if they are open to it. I've really made a lot of growth and progress in the last 6 months it blows me away. It's cool that I make the videos jsut because of the fact that I see where I was at even then. Mind blowing that to think that I was even making videos on reselling 8 months ago. I wish I did not delete my old investing videos lol. That was back in like 2018, which I was even just learning about spiral dynamics then. I have had some massive growth in that time. It will be cool to look back on this journal towards the end of the year and review that. Goals for this year: $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 19 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Getting out for a bit Up lift in mood Being social

Managed to get some bulk groceries today, so that was really nice. I have not be able to get a good quantity of anything for quite awhile. It was really nice enjoying the drive and contemplating. Doing a lot of work with listening to spiral dynamics stuff too. I seem to be getting a better grasp of the model. It is much more complex, than what I had originally though when I got introduced to it. I notice I am much more inclined to listen to stuff to learn about it now. I imagine I should try to get more audio books and stuff since I like long in depth type stuff. Didn't produce a video. I found a good topic to do pretty fast, but what I had was not aligned. I did go to a spot to film, but it was massively packed lol. I did not bother and just went on with the day. I feel like I have a lot more contemplation to do before I decide what I really want to do and how I want to do it. I am going to keep doing this as practice and just see what comes of it. I have a lot of self doubt still too that plagues me, but I seem to be sticking with this okay even with that. Not making content at a decent rate to really build any following. I feel like I am just going into growth mostly right now. I am not sure fully what I want. I know that I am passionate about this type or work. I am not sure how I feel about communicating it that way. I do realize though too that going this route is still a lot less saturated than any of the ebay type business stuff. So it is not like it is an over crowded market. I know that when I get this down I want to put the pedal to the medal and really make some good work. I should work on better discipline for myself though overall. Going to go for another day of mediation and fasting. I am not sure if I will make this a habit or not for the weekend, but honestly I would just be reading most likely if I was not doing this. I probably should get out of the house more though. I mean I go out and exercise, but I don't really go out and do much. I might go to the small local beach and maybe read or something sometime this weekend too. I seem to be happy not having to do much outside of here, but an adventure would nice. Goals for this year: $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 19 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Bulk groceries Relaxing drive Day to myself

@louhad It's a trap that is easy to fall into. Be aware of not wanting to associate with others because of their spiral level too. Especially in green this is a trap that is prominent. Blue and orange won't want to hear it anyway haha. Good luck to you!

Got about 6 hours of reading in today, so that was really good. The most that I have done in quite awhile. That was a really good session and I seem to be learning quite a bit. It is a much more difficult concept that I first thought it to be. I am getting a lot higher level understanding though it seems like. I am going to keep practicing with using this information though. I notice I am getting much better on controlling my emotions and reactions to stuff. This seems to be giving me a lot better communication with others. I am starting to care a lot less what others think about me as well. I feel as if I am coming off a bit more authentic in my interactions. I still want to work on fully removing judgment, but it is not bad. I don't usually have a lot of negative thoughts for people. If anything I just feel sorry for them in bad cases. I managed to get three sealed ipads for my business for fairly cheap, so I am happy about that. I seem to be doing pretty well keeping up with the money that I want to earn. I have not had nearly as much interest in my reselling business. I feel as if I still like to do it and it is not bad. Just overall I feel like I would be ready to move on from it if I had a really good life purpose going. I still have a lot of inventory to list and stuff. I am sure I can use it to supplement income when needed as well too. Goals for this year: $1,256.00 out of $6000 IRA contribution $1,200 out of $3,000 savings 19 out 44 books Marathon Today I am thankful for: Reading a lot Ipads coming in Gaining knowledge

You would have to get an idea if they are even open to the idea of moving up the spiral or not. You would want to see if they are open, arrested, or closed in their beliefs. People might be closed in one area and open in a another. They would also be more open to things in stage orange and not in stage blue. You would want to ask yourself why you want to move them in the first place though? Maybe instead of changing them learn to approach them better as they are. They would be much more receptive to orange. Two steps ahead might be a large leap for someone. Politcally they could have orange views that might allow them to potential be receptive to it if they are open. I have to admit as I move further up the spiral it is well worth it. The problem with focusing on others so much is that you will end up not getting in more growth yourself. One of the best ways to use this is to move yourself up the spiral. Now there is a good need for spiral wizards out there, so not saying that is not of use. Realistically though we need all of the people in tier one too, so there is no harm in having a diverse bunch even if you view one way as better than another.

@Philipp I have had some similar issues with that. You need to get in the habit of setting deadlines for yourself and just finishing your product at that time and releasing it. Depends what you are doing, but for me that is what has worked to get rid of that. I have been moving so much myself in terms of growth it is kind of hard for me to grip what I want fully. I am going in the right direction though for sure at least. I am practicing speech and doing stuff to gain skills still. Diving deeper into my self improvement and reading a lot of books.

Well, my prior approach of just doing stuff and seeing what happens has not been quite as fulfilling. So far with investing a bit more contemplation in every day I am building more and more ideas. As well as giving my self a diverse amount of books to read and information to look at. I have made a good amount of progress while still running some stuff on the side just to see how I like things. No I have not just instantly found my LP. Just looking into the idea at all has really expanded my potential future growth. If you had talked to me a year ago all I would have cared about was selling stuff online and making some money for myself.