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He positioned these to help someone new coming to the channel.

Make sure you take a day off from all of it a week at least. I know how it is. I don't typically hang out with people or go out much. Work, save, invest, then repeat. Don't cheap out on your health or lose focus on that. Bring in good habits slowly and keep working at it. Exercise and a good diet will keep you grinding.

INFJ-A / INFJ-T Sounds like me. Kind of an interesting reflection.

Does anyone have any good sources for looking into non gmo and organic benefits? Pro or against is fine. I've seen some stuff suggesting things like a lemon for example would be pointless to buy organic because of the skin. As well as there is a slight difference between organic and non. I grab them when it is a viable option. I buy in bulk usually, so I get it most of the time. But some things I get don't offer these though. I will dive into it myself, but just figured if someone here is into it, I would like to see some good resources.

While his advice is good to start. I suggest you really dive into content based solely around this type of diet to help get the most knowledge. Look into supplements that are recommended too.

I've had the thought to get rid of stuff a few times during the course of my self actualization journey. I have picked up a little minimalism things here and there. During two meditation sessions I thought of how some of these items are being a burden to me. I have mental labor at the thought of installing them, fixing them, or using them. So I think I am actually going to commit to selling more of my stuff that I had some attachment too. I've hit a few of these experiences even before doing this work. But I kind of want to try a bit less stuff and use the money to better myself or business. I've been distracting myself with random things lately too material wise. So might just be better to remove them. What's your experience with possessions and what not? I might eventually try trailer living and cut back quite a bit once I own my own property and see how I like it.

@oMarcos I see what you mean! I kind of try to go with the flow and just build a routine from doing a thing so much right now. I have an F it day where anything goes in terms of time stuff, but I usually still work out at least. Sometimes I could go on video games in the week, but I am going to limit it to once a week I think. I usually don't have time for the video games anyway. You should try the app taskful that helps me quite a bit. I am a bit more scattered and sometimes I just go on there and see what task I feel like doing.

I want to try to build a powerful daily routine. My life is too scattered. Sometimes working too many hours often. I want to set a good routine to build myself a more rounded day with self actualization work. I even took more time to introspect today and it has been great. My proposed schedule: Wake up 6-6:30am (going to take a little work to get there again) Get business stuff sorted ( A must before 9-10am ) Can cost 0-4 hours depending on day. Typically 30-45 minutes. Working on efficiency to drop times to a minimum. Meditate for 1 hour : I mediate in the bath tub typically. I've been on it for over 6 months and almost every day. Maybe you have another suggestion?? Shower:10-15 minutes Prepare smoothie while working on computer for up to 2 hours. 30 minute yoga session : I have tried one beginner yoga session on youtube. I really enjoyed it. Working on space to make this a habit. Have lunch. Usually pre-made soup. 2 hours of solid business work. 2 hours work out session. Bike rides or walking and jogging daily. Upper body work out daily. Sometimes with binural beats, mostly informational stuff, sometimes music. Always out in nature. Eat dinner (45 minutes cook, prep, eat) Read 30 minutes or a chapter. Sometimes the chapter takes me awhile lol. With all of this I assume I have expended roughly about 11 hours and 15 minutes. I aim for 8 hours of sleep. So this would leave me about 5 hours and 45 minutes. Now of course that is to assume I do it perfectly. But I can aim for something like that. I would need to cut out more distractions. Of course I have to do stuff to maintain the house and what not too. What kinds of things would you guys recommend I use in the estimated time left over? I have thought about trying a journal. I even spent some extra time just today to just think about stuff instead of work tonight and it was totally worth it. What kind of tips do you have for maintaining a schedule? My biggest issue is really just wake up times I feel like. If I can get myself up early I completely crush the day usually. I struggle a bit with falling asleep. I think if I were to remove more work and pc time from night time I would be able to maintain it. I want to have a day every week I can not do most of this. Take it and go hiking, work on a car, tinker with audio stuff, play video games, travel a bit, etc. Just do something random.

It was nice and sunny out. Hitting the rainy season where I live.

@oMarcos To show successful days or what on it? Or just like a list of the schedule?

@SerpaeTetra Yeah, you're right for sure. I am just going to focus on being up early right now. Only 1pm and today has been quite productive.

It sounds like a lot of the issue is maybe around where you live and the limited options it's providing you. It might be worth it to consider a new place to live. I am sure the relationship sounds great now. But imagine how much better of a partner you could find investing more into yourself. Not having someone trying to get you to resist change. Having someone who has maybe developed similar habits and practices. I say once you make it about another 5 months or so you will be able to be quite healed from this as long as you continue working on yourself. Watch Leo's new video on love. I think it would help you see the beauty in this dissolving. I bet you are headed towards a great future if you stay on the right track.

@SerpaeTetra I mean to be fair it isn't really going to account for things that come up. I don't feel like I have 5 hours left of the day at the end. Maybe 2 hours of computer time when I relax. The yoga and reading will be newer additions. I do read, but not as consistent as I would like. But even then usually I just don't sit on the pc for that long. It depends how the day goes. Sometimes I just feel like doing 10 hours of work. So I want to set some limits and try and focus on good quality hours of work. I am working on making this into my day. But a good chunk of these habit I already do.

@studentofthegame Hey! I try to be, but sometimes it isn't always the case and it definitely hasn't always been. I am trying to get on the right track to moving into a bigger life purpose and being more independent. It's going to be a lot of work. I am sure I am in some way or another. I have been doing a bit of shadow work and good introspection on issues I may have, but it isn't always easy to spot them. Pessimism is one big thing I have been putting time into lately and it has been a big improvement to try and move past thinking that way and being more positive. I am reading authentic happiness and it has been helping with that. When I mentioned the friend stuff it's something I am working on. I'd like to have more higher spiral friends that are not just into drugs or drinking. My last relationship was kind of abusive and just pretty low quality. And I've grown up in abusive environments. So just where I am at I have low tolerance anymore for low quality people. I'm sure even at some point I will find an awesome girl that treats me good and some more awesome friends that treat me well too.

@Deepconcepts Not the case at all lol. I write quite a bit and pretty fast, so size doesn't matter. Just content. I think that's a good quote. Just kind of a go with the flow type idea I assume. I did actually wake up at 7:30 toay and got a couple hours of work done with a quick meditation. So it's been a great start of working on a good routine. I spent yesterday mostly just working on a bike and have been giving myself a bit of a break. I have a few big projects to work on. Yeah, if you like you can message me what you are working on. I'd love to hear.

I find it important to have a reason and vision why you must resist certain temptations. Do you want to lose weight? Have a cleaner diet? Those types of motivations will make it easier to resist the ice cream bar. I would not try to resist something without a specific reason, or you will likely fail resisting it. Try to focus in on one resistance. I quit nicotine after 5 years of use 4 months ago. I visualized how much better my physical activity could be without it. I visualized how much more attractive to the opposite sex I would be. I visualized how much more powerful I would feel without it. The constant need and brain training from. I rarely even think about it now. And it is extremely rare I get a craving for some unless I am having ego backlash.

There is always someone out there for everyone. You just have to put yourself out there more. Shop at different stores, eat a different places, do different things. You will be surprised how many more you start meeting with just that. If you start adding hobbies and stuff finding them gets easier and easier. Is it possible to live life with out them? Yes. While you are younger the urge is much stronger to find a partner as your brain was designed to do that. Once you get older I assume it just gets easier to not have one around. It really just depends on how much you work on yourself to be alone. Start doing some weights. Start eating better. Start talking to women a bit. Even just smiling, waving, saying hi etc. You will be shocked at how much your confidence will raise. Once they start noticing that they will be all over you. Just confidence will do it really. But work on yourself. If you are needy, then don't expect to have any luck. Work on getting yourself into a great spot and you will be fine. Saying it won't happen is a bad mind set. It will happen if you want it to.

@Deepconcepts Thanks for your your advice and well put together response! I was mostly having the issue of working too much, but where I am with my business I should be able to work 6-8 hours a day and be able to reach the goals I want. At least for the time being. I do have a strong work out routine and I have been working much more on volume. I have been working out for a year now. I guess kind of where I am going is to move out of constant work and a bit more personal development. I will give that a shot more with the meditation. I have been in a flow for it today for about 3 hours or so. Had a long drive, but did use the binural beat. I did hang out with some people today. I really only have one friend anymore these days and it isn't a super strong relationship, but I went and hung out with his friends and him for a car show today as it was a day I decided to blow of steam. I had followed them up to this place about an hour or so out. We ate there and were going to drive to park I thought. I lost them in the traffic. I figured they drove out on the beach and I just got out of my car and spent like an hour by myself just looking at the cars and stuff. They didn't actually notice until they had read the message asking if they went on the beach. I actually felt better just going and doing that myself. I told them it was fine and I really did consider where they may have went. I just really had no interest in searching for them since I did message him with no reply. I cut off two big circles of friends I had this year. I know over 500 people in my town as in I have their numbers in my phone and I could talk to some of these people. Just removed anyone who doesn't respect me, abuses drugs, lives a low quality life, etc. Not hard to remove people it seems. I mean even when I talked to those people today I told them I did not care about it. Even my cousin I told him I don't care if he makes time to talk with me, but I do value it when we do. But we didn't talk for like 4 months. I mostly talk to a member on this forum through messages and sometimes to another friend who is into this type of work over video games if I play them, but I will not play for month or so sometimes. I don't actually go meet these people. Really I talk to my mom, which probably isn't always the best idea. But I live with her and could not talk much for days if I am working. Just depends I suppose. I mean I see people while exercising and some business related stuff and I kind of flirt with girls a bit, but I just avoid them once they show too much interest. I have abundance in terms of options. So yeah, I don't know just not really something I feel I want at the moment. I do realize that these are pretty crucial pieces to happiness. I'm pretty happy usually though. I mean I have good people skills. People tend to like me. I'm an excellent salesman when needed too. I've just got to a point where I'm tired of people hurting me, so I just don't really care anymore to build a relationship with people. I've found it easier to just make money more and replace any time you may need someone. Like if you need a ride for some reason you can always pay someone. Or whatever. I'm aware to this issue. But I have to be honest I find a good sense of peace in it for the time being. When I was in my last business I would spend hours every days with people I became to know very well. And I have not talked to any of them anymore. I realize a lot of it was just survival based, but I have thousands of hours of experience with people. I do actually have a german shepard that can jog 6 miles straight with me if needed. It works out with me 3-4 days a week of 6 miles. Usually, 2 jogging and 4 walking right now. Just to get back into a high consistency without the intensity as I have already hit high intensity physically several times this summer. It wants to go more than it is right now, but I do not take it biking when I go for days in between. Perfection is not really a goal that is in mind. I just have the time and drive I feel like to attempt to add more. But I could try and lay off the time things as much and just do what I can and not stress it as much. I just feel I get sucked into a time loop if I don't focus on it as much. Majorly even just waking up again at the time desired would be mega impactful. I can do it. Yeah, it is weird how it all works. I find myself thinking of those ideals often. And analyzing others of what they are doing with them. It's a strange thing to think about. I will try just one new thing when I am ready. Probably just the wake up time to get it solid for now.

Weighing yourself every day is a terrible idea. Move towards a healthier lifestyle and you will not need to worry about it.

I think enjoyment is really the largest factor in it. I was a terrible student in classes I did not enjoy. I suck up information like a sponge while I am interested in the topic. I actually will get partially though a book and switch to another if I get resistance to reading it. I like to be excited by the information I am taking in. If I am excited by it I will share it with others, which in turn makes it very memorable for me. When I had resistance in college I just powered through it. I could still find my self in that rut now. But really all I do is stop doing it. Sometimes I find myself without much time to read a book, or resistance to it. I have one right now I am itching to read more of. But I am okay with the cycle of not reading it. I have retained half of the book very well and have improved my life from the information as it is. You're probably just burnt out. I go and play some video games, work on a car, listen to music, or on occasion smoke weed. Now I don't mean to indulge in those things all the time. Just take a day a week at least if you can. I have a hard time with my business stuff spilling into the time, but when I get it I perform so much better. Take your mind off it for a day if you can. I bet you will come back more refreshed.

I'd find a way to generate income with the property. Doing minimal work tends to produce minimal results in my experience.

@Giulio Bevilacqua Have you ever been the inflicted by their bad decisions? People who are high and drunk often tend to make bad choices. Maybe they drive around drunk or whatever it may be that they do. Do they ever commit crimes with you there? Bring illegal substance in your car while on a car ride? Those are just some ways that just their choices could effect you. People who hang out around people who smoke cigarettes are more likely to smoke them. You can pretty much replace "smoke cigarettes" with steal, drink, speed, play video games, play soccer, you name it. Do you ever talk like those friends do? Maybe they have a funny way of saying a word, or they have a saying for something, that you have noticed yourself to do the same.

@bmcnicho Why would you make yourself miserable to try to make someone feel better? I am sure other people around you promote you to be a nice guy and continue with it. You can skip our advise, but I would suggest you work on yourself as well. Because I was very weak, when I continued an abusive relationship for the same reasoning. I hope it works out for you either way.

Easy way to get hooked on crazy in my experience. I'd run for the hills while you still have a chance. I'd say that she will eventually become very clingy and push you anyway. But if you think she needs help now imagine once you are with her for a year what it would be like. Dump all of your time and energy into her making very minimal gains.

@montecristo Yeah, I do still take omega 3, calcium, and b12. I would suspect I just do not get enough of the b12 without it. I am going to get blood tested next week though, so I assume they would inform me if I am deficient elsewhere. I think with my consumption of chia seeds is more than enough omega 3, but like you said I would probably need to see into it more. Coming winter I would consume D12 supplements too. But even for me having a big of experience within that realm it isn't something I am an expert on. I have spent the time researching what I eat though to help make sure I am keeping up well with other essentials and eating foods that would give me the vitamins from the suggested supplements. I was more suggesting towards the need for a more diverse diet to survive using the winter as an example. Where we sit at now we have access to all sorts of foods that we could not get access to. So that is why we now sit at the issue of what is right and wrong and not what is the only options. I will take a look more into what I can do with a diet. I have considered fish and what not. But to be fair things have just been going so smoothly I just have not really pondered adding more things. I just successfully cut off added sugar and I rarely will eat out. My diet is very well managed and prepared. My diet consists of a large variety of fruits, veggies, beans, quinoa. I snack on things like nuts and other protein bars and etc. Breakfast is a smoothie that consists of fruits and veggies that get rotated. Lunch is a similar thing to Leo's health soup, but I have beans and many of my own favorite rotating veggies in it. And dinner is quinoa with a variety of things like mushrooms, avocado, 3 different Yum sauces, hot sauce, tofu, tempeh, and working to add things like black beans and other things to switch it up. I will admit I have hit struggle points of eating the same thing or not eating enough. But where I sit now things rotate very well and I don't seem to get bored. I work out almost every day for 60-120 minutes and seem to have plenty of energy for my small business that can eat up sometimes 60-70 hours in a week of work sometimes. I plan to run a marathon next summer if I am able to. But even this summer I completed a mountain hike that was over 500 floors and 24+ miles in 17 hours. So I feel my energy source is good. But monitoring it well with the blood tests and stuff I think can prove me well. But I have to admit for someone not 100% committed to the life style and research it could prove difficult. I feel like most individuals could massively benefit from some sort of professional nutritionist, even myself. I see hardcore athletes with a lot of money have access to that type of stuff, even getting meals specifically designed for them after months of tests and etc. Wheat is another beast I have not really researched. It is very scarce in my diet at this point as I don't keep any bread products around and pretty much completely stopped eating substitute meats and etc. But yeah, I'd imagine we exploit the shit out of anything that can make our society a profit unfortunately. I'll look into it more though as I never considered wheat to be something exploited. I'll take a look more into the other stuff as I can to. I've found this conversation to be well. As I have not had much of an informed talk with someone on the subject.