Thought Art

@Juan Some simple math of your expenses vs savings will let you know how long your savings will last.

Read one of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books

But it can also be really nice

@Buck Edwards you just click learn more and then connect anyway

Osho, I want to feel the vibe people spoke about from being in his presence during his prime. I’d like to meet Mantak Chia. I’d like to meet Ram Dass, Socrates, some of the OG Greek skeptics, I’m interested in meeting a lot of people from history… hard to decide. I’d like to meet Leo cuz I heard we both 6”2 and we gotta see who is taller

Read the success principles by Jack Canfield

I don’t know or fully understand ur question

Don’t be a fool. You can hurt yourself tripping, or even others.

@OBEler Wow.. yeah it doesn’t work on me.

You can play the views game or the value game. You can do both as you think about your long term strategy. I am growing my Qigong YouTube channel. It’s always going to be niche but it’s part of my marketing and community building. I just finished my first year. I have about 288 subscribers and have seen most of my growth in the past 3 months. It seems to be picking up speed. I am getting lots of comments, shares and likes. I am seeing regular students watching, and commenting on new Qigong routines and community posts. I have regular traffic the last few months of about 150 views per 48 hrs. My last few videos have seen a large boost in views and engagement which feels nice. In the beginning I got hardly any views and to get 300 in a day feels great especially because I made my videos to help people, not to get views. Even though my views are small, that’s fine. That’s because I am focused on being a creator, not a competitor. I am focused on offering authentic value and engaging with my small audience. I am improving my product each week that I make a video, research Qigong more, etc. I am growing my audience, building my skills, taking care of my self, studying, and trying to find a long term balance that will ultimately result in my success. I am now building out a back end; funnels, news letters, online course, email lists, website, online products. The trick is to get the course sales to be largely automated in the long run. I see YouTube as a powerful tool for engaging and connecting with my audience/ students. I don’t see it as a main source of income in itself. But, because my brand and offer is movement based I focus on marketing and building my core audience through lots of free value. I often feel great joy and love as I think about my slow building Qigong business/ online school. I find it very beautiful. It’s joy only a life purpose level effort can create. I am building one of the best online Qigong schools in the world I think.

Sunday vibes

Following Leo’s idea on popular topics you also need to develop an entertaining style. 1. list out your 10 favourite YouTubers with styles you like and contemplate what about that style you want to add to your videos 2. Practice making videos in that style you like. 3. Pay attention to both structure and content of successful videos and copy it, but also make it your own. 4. Keep making videos!! 5. find cheap courses on video editing, lighting, story telling, and even YouTube video creation and apply what you learn.

An online Krya course with videos etc would be cool Qigong is my focus run but have a bunch of PDFs in my common place system on Krya. I’m interested in it for sure.

What if Satan is so powerful he can make you believe in Christ? That you are a sinner?

How do you learn to be more selfless, and more loving that isn’t just lip service

Less talk more action I say ? I appreciate you Leo, even though you were cranky Leo for awhile there. Thanks again! You’ll continue to grow as you teach and you learn. It’s not easy doing what you are doing. The work you share with Humans is appreciated and there is much here to enjoy in the human domain of love, relationships, service and healing. keep it up!

Idk, just heard it happening from Hamilton Morris. But, know from experience it’s possible for people to be very disoriented which would suck while your house is burning down.

Locked for low quality

Looks like a cool set up. Warning also to always be extra cautious when using open flame and 5meo. You could lose consciousness and burn the house down. Strongly consider having a sober partner hand the torch.

Developing a Mature Mind Developing a mature mind and relationship to reality is essential to living a good life. In fact, I have learned that the ability for us to be successful is directly correlated with how mature our mind is. Essentially, if from birth you magically had the maturity of someone with massive life experience... someone who self reflected, learned, self actualized you would easily ace life. But, because we are born in ignorance we have to go through the trials and tribulations of developing wisdom. In my case, this has been the trial of developing wisdom through massive failure. I have tried, and failed so many times in my life. But, at the same time I think one think I had that was special is that I have tried a lot of things in life and do my best to expose myself to lots of different information and experiences. I think to the degree that I am wise is because of all these experiences and my open minded approach to learning. However, I do not consider myself wise to the depths and completion that I hope to one day be. In many ways I am foolish. I think it's important to discuss that there are key areas that make up our lives. They are: Relationships Finances Career/Business Hobbies Spirituality Health and Fitness Education Each of these areas requires foundation levels of study, and direct experience to begin developing wisdom in them. It can take years to develop wisdom in these areas. I think it's important that if you are reading this, and you are interested in becoming wise that you make the commitment today that you will develop a mature, wise understanding and relationship to these areas of human life. Some examples: 1. A wise person in relationships understands enough about human relationships both theoretically and experientially that they are able to go about building relationships in a healthy conscious way. They know when to let people into their lives and when to have healthy boundaries. They are wise in the way of relationships and cultivate healthy relationships in their lives. 2. A person who is wise in finances knows the difference between foolish financial practice and wise financial practice. The wise person saves money, invests, builds wealth and uses money to free themselves from meaningless work, or better yet wage slavery. The wise person realizes the importances of studying healthy financial habits, wealth creation and investing. A wise person is also aware of how scams work and can easily spot and avoid them. 3. A wise person in the area of business is realistic about the amount of work that is required with building a business. They know that building a business is challenging, takes time, takes money, has risks, and requires a lot of emotional labour for it to become a reality. They go about business is a way that is thinking, 5, 10, 15 years down the road. Generally a wise person is thinking long term. 4. A wise person realizes the importance of developing hobbies as they add to the enjoyment of life. They also realize what types of things are better off a hobby, than what is better pursued as a career. 5. The wise person goes about spirituality in a slow, deliberate manner. They know when it's the right or wrong time to pursue spirituality. For example, if you are young then spirituality needs to be done in the context that you also have many other goals, pursuits and karma to burn through. They are careful with psychedelics, and do all things in moderation. They are wise to avoid cults, religions, and ideologies. They root their spirituality in wisdom, and balanced, healthy epistemology. 6. The wise person realizes the importance of proper nutrition and exercise and invests in that from a young age. They realize that if they want to be able to afford healthy foods, gym memberships etc then they must find a way to earn enough to make that a reality. They only eat junk food in moderation if at all. They use food and fitness to elevate their happiness. 7. A wise person realizes that their education, intelligence and understanding of reality that is embodied is the deciding factor on their happiness and ability to enjoy life. I personally think I am in the early phases of understanding what Wisdom is, and implementing the principles of wise living in my life. I have a lot to learn, and many challenges to overcome that I created simply due to being unwise with many of the above categories. Wisdom, is really the key to all human problems. Wisdom grounded in a deeply profound self love. I have a lot of work to do. I need more discipline. I need more planning. I need more long term thinking. I need more experience. I need more money. I need more success. I need more relationships. So much to work on. A wise person, I think.. see life as a game. They know it's a passing dream. But, they realize they want to honour it and enjoy the time they have here on earth despite so many challenges that humans face... or create for themselves simply due to their own foolishness or the foolishness of others. Become Wise.

@001 Thanks, I kindly disagree. I think there are many degrees of wisdom and there are wise ways of interaction with each of these domains of human existence. I personally think that developing a healthy body is wise when you look at all the benefits that come with proper nutrition and exercise. You might say, “Well, lots of people who go to the gym aren’t wise” yeah? Well, who is wise. The person who goes to the gym 3 times a week and feels good and looks attractive? Or the person who neglects taking care of their physical body? I think going to the gym, or yoga studio, or dance hall… can be a wise decision. However, if you are wise you will do what works for you. Notice that many people who meditate also are not necessarily wise. I am not saying that going to the gym makes you wise in all the ways. Wisdom is a broad and nebulas notion. Meditation can contribute to wisdom, meditation can be a wise decision. Meditation though is not itself wisdom. That goes for any single example I could provide. Yeah, mediation and contemplation IS what I did when creating this post. I was contemplating for me, examples of how I personally contemplate each of these areas of human life and what I think wise interaction is with each of these domains. You may come to different conclusions and may follow your own wisdom. I kindly disagree that physical fitness is avoided by wise people, or couldn’t be a wise decision someone makes in their life. I also disagree that wise people don’t create these sorts of lists when contemplating wisdom for themselves. The listing of examples of wisdom wasn’t meant to be absolute or exhaustive.

Wisdom Mood

@ZenSwift Malt, I find it pretty mild but also enjoy how calm I feel afterward, calm and focused and clear minded. Placebo? Idk

Money

Most of my problems right now are the result of: 1. Lack of maturity 2. Lack of Wisdom 3. Lack of integrity 4. Lack of emotional Control/ intelligence 5. Trauma and addiction 6. Being a fool It takes years I’m learning to self correct both these behaviours and the damage they have caused. Start Now.