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This video also just popped up in my YT recommendations. Jackman illustrates some pretty nuanced views on spirituality and human nature, and he doesn't judge lower stages, as in the example of the missionary work his father did. Definitely high stage green or stage yellow if you ask me. Way more grounded than the lower stage green "hippie spirituality".

I am currently shaping my life purpose around music. I am thinking a lot about what massive value I can create through my music, and also bump into the fact that there is just so much music out there, as @Rilles already mentioned. It is however still possible to create massive value with music and to be innovative. Innovation in and of itself is one of the cornerstones of creating massive value I guess. For me personally, I think it is going to be on the intersection of several disciplines. I want to find a way to combine music creation with story, systems thinking and consiousness work. A great example of life purpose through music (among many others) is Melodysheep, who combines 3D art, music, video editing, and scientific topics to re-imagine the way we educate our young: .

Pink Floyd bassist and singer Roger Waters about his current tour which is heavily anti-Trump, anti War and pro love for all people.

So I've got a big juicy vision for my live. I've got my goals for the next 10 to 20 years, for the next 3 years, for this year, even for the coming 3 months. I'm going to make a big impact in the world. I'm gonna sing songs for polar bears with ADHD, teach evil dictators how to meditate, and turn Mars into Earth's vegitable garden. But how do I plan this stuff and follow up on this planning? How do I make a create a year planning, a month planning, a week planning? Which tools can I use? How do I get back on track when I back slide and how do I prevent this from happening? How do I deal with and adapt to road blocks and unexpected life situations that mess up my planning? How many hours a week should I work? How much time should Iplan to rest? How do I combine private stuff with work/life purpose stuff? How do I plan it all? This is still something I haven't figured out completely, and I have the feeling there are many more struggling with this (especially younger people). Nobody ever taught me this stuff in school! If I would be a better planner, I feel I would become way more productive (duh!). A comprehensive how to plan your life guide would be very welcome.

Works! I am currently quiting and haven't reached that stage yet. But the last time I quit for about 10 day I could get out of bed way easier after about a week of not drinking coffee. Seem here! Here is a technique that has worked for me in the past. When lying in your bed just before you go to sleep, repeat at what time you are going to wake up the next morning, like an affirmation. Repeat this about 20 times. Example: "I am waking up at 7 a.m. tomorrow. I am waking up at 7 a.m. tomorrow." Et cetera.

Interesting. I also have my top 10 most important values now, but I'm still not quite sure about all of them. Something doesn't feel exactly right yet. I might go through the whole process another time, just to be sure and to see if any differences occur. Curious about what the positive and negative motivation excercise will do for you, that's where I currently am (pass #09).

I just copy pictures from Google Images I like (such as people I admire and things which symbolize my most important goals and desires) to Paint. I'm sure there are more suffisticated ways to do it, but this works for me.

A lot of beautiful and inspiring vision boards here! This is mine for now: My vision board really helps me to create powerful, positive, emotional and vivid images for my future. How does this work for you guys? How do you work with it? Do you look at it daily, weekly? Do you close your eyes and visualize stuff after you looked at it?

Go to a party then! Plus, you don't need a ton of friends. Imagine all the time you would have to spend to keep up all those friendships. It seems like you have a lot of cool interests, which definitely helps in finding friends. Also, face to face contact with friends works way better than contact through social media. Ask one or some of your best friends/acquintences to meet up, do something fun like going dining or having a couple of drinks at the pub.

I can relate to that. For a while last year I had the feeling that I should just get enelightened and all my problems would get solved, including financial problems.... Doesn't work that way I guess hahaha. Now I'm focussing on building a cool career first, getting some material success, and on building a stronger and healthier ego. First things first.

Great lyrics! Great music! Love 70's prog rock! Carry on my wayward son For there'll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don't you cry no more Once I rose above the noise and confusion Just to get a glimpse beyond the illusion I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man Though my mind could think I still was a mad man I hear the voices when I'm dreamin', I can hear them say Carry on my wayward son For there'll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don't you cry no more Masquerading as a man with a reason My charade is the event of the season And if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know On a stormy sea of moving emotion Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean I set a course for winds of fortune, but I hear the voices say

I quit coffee last firday because I have a free period. For me after 12 years of drinking 2-4 cups of coffee daily (I started when I was 14!) it's not easy. I am quite sensitive to cafeine and feel the effects almost imediately. Today was quite awfull. I woke up around 10 in the morning, even though I put my alarm at 6. I am craving food now that my body can't get the dopamine boost from coffee. I can't concentrate very well and procrastinated my day away. I felt a light headache, and overall grumpiness. For the rest I felt okay.... My main reason for quitting is that I hope it will make me wake up easier and earlier in the morning, with a clearer mind without needing those cups of drugs. @Alien How are you feeling now? Any problems in the process of quiting?

@Liam Johnson Cool writing style Liam! I'm a fan, although I only read a couple of your entries. I'm especially interested in how you apply the Life Purpose Course to your life as a musician. Did you finnish it yet? I'm also working on the Life Purpose Course at the moment (working on my values), and am also very passionate about music. Is it your plan to combine music with personal development?

Vision. A clear, lively and positive vision to live for. I notice that that is my problem. I get lazy because I forget why I want to improve myself. I forget that life is short. Leo talks about this a lot in his video's. (I just read in the guidelines that this is not the place to discuss this kind of stuff, sorry!!!! )

@Rachityczny I also struggled a bit with that one . For me it means your ability to stick to the thing that you are trying to master, and to stick to your life purpose, once you've found it. It means that you don't quit your life purpose after the initial excitement has worn off, or once you start experiencing the first obstacle on the road, or when your first inner demon pops up. It means sticking to your life purpose, even when times are hard.

(Vegan) pesto is also very tasty to mix through rice!

Here are some tasty seasonings and stuff like that to spice up your meals: Turmeric Seasalt (not too much) Black pepper Garlic Onion Lemon juice (already mentioned) Cayenne pepper Cardemom Curry powder Paprika powder Fresh or dried herbs like oregano, thime, parsley, sage, rosemary Yummy! Lately I started mixing brown rice with lentils, to add a good source of plant-based protein. You can also stir-fry an egg and mix it through the rice.

Amsterdam, somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy. Let's meet up!

Name: Robert Age: 26 Gender: Male Location: Amsterdam, NL Occupation: Recruiter Marital Status: Single Kids: No Hobbies: meditation, personal development, reading, music, cooking and eating healthy I got into personal development about 6 years ago when I read the book The Music Lesson by musician Victor Wooten. This book describes all the spiritual and musical growth of the author in the form of a novel. His story totally blew me away and completely changed my whole worldview forever. After this I discovered Alan Watts' lectures on YouTube and another paradigm shift happened. After that I decided to pursue my passion and started studying music at conservatory. During this time I attended a meditation course and immediately thought it would be cool to be a meditation teacher my self one day. Then a couple of years ago I discovered Actualized.org. The first video I watched of Leo was his spiritual enlightenment video. The second one was the how to get a girlfriend video. I remember thinking to myself: "Is this guy for real or what?" After that I slowly started getting interested in personal development more and more, and started working on myself more and more. Personal challenges I've overcome: Overcoming social anxiety and shyness Shifted from very narrow minded to very open minded Changed from a very mediocre guy with a very small life vision into a passionate enthusiastic guy with a big and bright vision Saying no to the love of my life after two years to persue my dreams What I'm working on now: Healing an over use injury that forced me to quit playing music 3 years ago Finding my Life Purpose with Leo's Life Purpose Course Law of Attraction (visualization and that kinda stuff) Building a stronger work ethic Cleaning up my diet (killing those last remaining junk food cravings) Gaining a better understanding of the field of personal development Quiting coffee (have been a junkee for about 12 years)

Hi all! This week, having more spare time than usual I planned a little stay-at-home meditation retreat. It was my plan to meditate for a total of about 16 hours, devided over monday till friday. So that's a little over 3 hours per day. I devide them in sits of 2 times 20 minutes each. The problem I encountered yesterday on the first day was that my knees started hurting quite badly. I sit on a high meditation cushion (I'm 188 cm) on a blanket on the ground. Because of the pain I decided to quit after meditating for 2 hours devided over the day. I heard that pain and discomfort often disappear after a while when you meditate for long periods of time during a week long period. But of course I don't want to damage my body. What to do? Is this normal? Does the pain go away after a while? Should I sit through it? Or should I stop when it hurts to bad? Any tips from experienced meditators are welcome!

@AlwaysBeNice Haha, I guess you're right! @molosku Thanks, I'm going to experiment. I'm used to sitting in a regular cross legged position. When I just meditate for 20 tot 40 minutes a day this isn't a big problem. It starts getting painfull when I meditate longer than that.

Record all the songs you write and ideas you come up with. Build a library of musical ideas.

I developed quite a practical way of reading a book over the last years. This process is really helpfull for me, it helps me to get a lot of juice out of the books I read: 1. First I select a book on a topic that I really want to work on (duh!), like something on life purpose if I want to work on that, or something on emotions if I want to work on mastering that area of my life. So I select my book very purposefully and strategically, because reading a book that's really good at the wrong time doens't help you anything huh (believe me, I've been there)? 2. After I chose the right book to read I start reading the first chapter and underline all the most important sections in that chapter (that's different for everyone). This underlining of the most important sections might be hard at first, you might underline too much in fear of "losing" a lot of information. But when you ask yourself what you want to get out of the book (what is my purpose with reading this book?) before you start reading it, you become pretty intuitive in underlining the right stuff. 3. When I finish the chapter I start reading it again, now a bit faster, and I write all the most important points (the underlined passages and sentences) down on my Laptop. Uh, that is, I type them in a Word document, I don't write them on my laptop with a pen.... 4. I repeat steps 2 and 3 for all the chapters in the book. I also make sure that I do all the excercises in the book at least once, and yup, that's sometimes a bit tedious because I want to read on, but when I don't take practical action on what I read, I might as well not read it at all. 5. Now that I read the whole book and did all the excercises I have a document with all the most important points of the book per chapter. Cool! I read this document at least once or twice to see if I really understood everything and to remember the key points better. After this process you should have a pretty good understanding of the material you've read, and you've got a summary on your computer that you can always go back to if you forgot some of the important points! This process will take you longer than just reading the book once and jotting some points down on a piece of paper, but I think it's really worth it . I'm a pretty slow reader, but I have been able to increase my reading speed a lot with the book Breakthrough Rapid Reading by Peter Kump, and I'm still working on this. This book also goes into getting a better understanding of the material you read and remembering it better. Hope that helped!