Raphael

@Average Investor My contact also told me that it's not possible to bootstrap a business without fundings. I didn't really understand why. Do you know why? I'm sure that he is talking about the online web applications business.

19 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:23 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:27 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 10:51 AM - 11:31 AM: I had a conversation with a client. Work Duration: 40 minutes I didn't sleep for the entire night. My mind was insane, I had an incredible amount of thoughts that I was unable to control. Because of that I woke up very late and pretty tired in the morning. I was unable to do any kind of work during the day. Maybe it's a backslash after the last productive week. Total Work Duration: 40 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

I never thought that way concerning competitors. Should we not have a look sometimes at how they are doing in order to compare ourselves? I never met my contact physically because he lives in another country, we only talked on Skype until now, so I'm a little careful too. I'm currently quite ignorant of the law and regulations in both countries, so I don't know how it will go for the lawyer. However, I got a huge positive intuition when he announced that he could fund my project. I got this idea last year that is very promising, and innovative, I kept thinking about it almost every week, I met this guy several months after, and now he is proposing me to fund it. Being able to work full-time on my dream project is very appealing, it seems like everything is synchronizing for me, but I'm still careful though.

18 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:25 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 09:36 AM - 10:39 AM: I searched for new clients and sent a proposal. Work Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 11:20 AM - 12:59 AM: I slacked off on youtube during my previous break. Aside from that, I continued to search for more clients online, I sent more proposals and responded to various emails. Work Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 02:20 PM - 03:28 PM: I continued to search for clients and sent a few proposals. I slacked off a little near the end by distracting myself on the actualized.org forum and looking at some porn images. Work Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 03:43 PM - 04:18 PM: I searched more and sent more proposals. Work Duration: 35 minutes I slacked off a lot today, I didn't want to go out of my bed in the morning and I have been very lazy. I spend the whole day searching for new clients and was a little distracted sometimes because I was looking at other websites. Total Work Duration: 4 hours 25 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

17 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:40 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: No work for today Total Work Duration: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

16 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:30 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:20 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 08:39 AM - 09:51 AM: I did some research on PWAs and Ionic, responded to a potential client, and searched for an eCommerce template. I distracted myself at a moment in the middle. Work Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 03:48 PM - 04:28 PM: I searched for new clients and sent a proposal. Work Duration: 40 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 10:21 AM - 11:42 AM: The bug that I had yesterday is independent of me because I'm using a third-party API. Aside from that, I continued my HTML/CSS design. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 11:51 AM - 12:36 AM: I'm really satisfied with this new HTML view that I created. I also had a lot of... positive thoughts! Instead of the usual negativity. But having so many thoughts still means that I'm not completely focused on my work. Deep Work Duration: 45 minutes 01:38 PM - 02:32 PM: I continued the work on the template and I added the API call. I noticed that I did a little mistake on the backend, I need to correct that in order to finish the current task. Deep Work Duration: 54 minutes 02:43 PM - 03:39 PM: I did the correction to the backend, completed the work on the frontend, created the pull requests, and merged them. Deep Work Duration: 56 minutes I think I'm starting to build a work-ethic momentum, I successfully worked for at least 6 hours on four days. I worked a little less today, but in total it makes more than 30 hours this week. Total Work Duration: 5 hours 48 minutes, including x hours x minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

15 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:19 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 10:51 PM - 11:13 PM: I had a call with a client and I also presented him my personal project. He said that he has investors that could finance my project. Work Duration: 22 minutes 01:11 PM - 01:38 PM: I finished the PAW tutorial and did a few research. Work Duration: 27 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 08:41 AM - 09:45 AM: The API that I thought yesterday was bad is actually correct, but I wanted to restructure it in another way, so I did it. I also correctly integrated the call from the front-end, and I finally created two pull requests that I merged. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 10:02 AM - 10:51 AM: I added an external API and did some setup. Deep Work Duration: 49 minutes 11:21 AM - 12:13 AM: I started following a new tutorial on Progressive Web Applications with Angular. Deep Work Duration: 52 minutes 01:44 PM - 02:56 PM: I got back on my personal project and found a very strange bug. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 03:06 PM - 04:39 PM: Damn that bug is hard, I still didn't figure out how to fix it. It has something to do with the SameSite attribute when sending cookies from the backend. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes Total Work Duration: 6 hours 19 minutes, including 5 hours 30 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

14 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: ~ 09:10 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 08:40 AM - 09:16 AM: I corrected an issue on my project backend API. Deep Work Duration: 36 minutes 09:21 AM - 09:58 AM: I created an error modal, created a pull request, and merged it. Deep Work Duration: 37 minutes 10:21 AM - 11:43 AM: I corrected a bug, added some icons, and created the transitions. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 11: 53 AM - 12:54 AM: I did some HTML & CSS work. I got interrupted by thoughts sometimes and also a car outside. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 02:07 PM - 03:26 PM: I continued the HTML & CSS design. I encountered some issues with the choice of colors, shadows, and borders. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 03:56 PM - 05:02 PM: I completed the design and did an API call. However, I realized that I did some mistakes on the backend that I will have to correct. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes My reading time will be at 0 minutes for an unknown number of days until I find another book to read. I just finished Deep Work, I now need some time to properly integrate its lessons. Total Work Duration: 6 hours 1 minute, including 4 hours 3 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

@Preety_India Hey, I'm very impressed by your story. I thought I had a bad childhood, but what I experienced seems futile compared to what you experienced. This is incredible that you are still here after what you went through. You are amazing, you're a strong woman, much stronger than many men. Stay strong ❤️ P-S: How are your average days now?

13 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:30 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: No work for today Total Work Duration: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes)

Nationalism Is An Animal-Like Behavior Imagine a family of savage dogs who lives on a piece of land that contains a lot of other animals to eat. These dogs will pee on this territory to show that it belongs to them. In order to keep their precious territory, they will need to defend themselves against other dogs or more dangerous animals. For that, they need a sense of identity and they need to be united together to defend their good, because otherwise if they are confronted with an enemy they wouldn't be strong enough to defend themselves. So the survival of the family comes from a strong attachment of its members to the group and a strong attachment to the precious piece of land. Similarly, people pees on their territory with their culture, their language, their symbols, and also literally. They are proud of their country and of their identity and don't want it to change. Why? Because this is needed for the survival of their ego and because the ego doesn't want to die. People who are very proud of their country behaves much more like animals than they think. They are lower on the spiral and don't realize it. The lower they are, the more animal-like they are. The higher they are, the more human they are. Being proud, defending a country at all costs is nationalism, an animal-like behavior.

12 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:14 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 08:40 AM - 10:13 AM: I responded to a client, read some emails, created a portfolio, and took an English test. Work Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM: I analyzed a Wordpress website and sent a mail report to another client. Work Duration: 45 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 10:33 AM - 12:26 AM: I created another template for the same client and sent him the work. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 01:35 PM - 03:25 PM: I started to work on another template. I got interrupted by a phone call at a moment. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 03:36 PM - 03:56 PM: I finished the other template and sent it to the client. Deep Work Duration: 20 minutes Total Work Duration: 6 hours 25 minutes, including 4 hours 3 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 35 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

11 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:41 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:10 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 01:52 PM - 02:18 PM: I searched for clients, sent a proposal, and get a positive answer a few minutes after. I'm now going the start the client's work. Work Duration: 26 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 09:40 AM - 10:36 AM: I completed the validations for the update API, did a pull request, and merged it. Deep Work Duration: 56 minutes 10:58 AM - 12:04 AM: I created a new service and set it up on the application startup. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 12:11 AM - 12:56 AM: I found out a bug on the backend. I tried to resolve it, but I got confused. I had a lot of parasites thoughts that didn't help me. Deep Work Duration: 45 minutes 02:25 PM - 04:03 PM: I designed the header for the client's widget. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 04:18 PM - 05:27 PM: I continued the work for the client. Positioning some icons is giving me some difficulties. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 05:40 PM - 06:51 PM: I completed the work and sent it to the client. I hope I'll like it. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes Total Work Duration: 6 hours 15 minutes, including 5 hours 49 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

10 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 02:22 PM - 03:26 PM: I reported notes from a book to my commonplace book. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes I need to put more attention when reading. I read a little too mindlessly and too fast, I need to take time to analyze details and take notes. Total Work Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes, including 1 hour 20 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes)

Tips To Sleep Better Exercise regularly Eat properly Have regular waking up and going to bed hours Avoid any kind of distractions late at night: work, video games, TV, reading, parties, nightclubs, etc. Eliminate stress, anxiety, anger, and other negative emotions Be happy Have a consciousness practice every day: meditation, yoga, breathwork, etc. Have calms and relaxed days without a lot of distractions Work in a highly focused manner Reduce internet use and notably social media use to its minimum Reduce shallow activities Don't eat a lot before going to sleep Don't drink a lot before going to sleep Finish to eat at least 2 hours before going to sleep Stop everything at least one hour before going to sleep: no screens, no reading, etc. Just do nothing. The mind and body needs to be empty and relaxed to sleep properly Become enlightened

09 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:58 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:06 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 01:37 PM - 02:40 PM: I searched for clients online. Work Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 10:23 AM - 11:43 AM: I wanted to add some custom validations on the mongoose model, but I got some errors. I asked a question on Stack Overflow and did other corrections. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 11:50 AM - 12:19 AM: I updated the validation function, but I will still need to figure out how to activate it on updateOne. Deep Work Duration: 29 minutes It seems like each productive day that I have is followed by an unproductive day where I have a backslash. Even though I wake up early today, I took a lot of time to get started. I procrastinated a lot on the internet and in the afternoon I got completely seduced and spend all remaining the time watching video game lives on twitch. Total Work Duration: 2 hours 52 minutes, including 2 hours 49 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 30 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

08 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:33 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:05 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 01:35 PM - 02:43 PM: I searched for new clients online and sent a few proposals. I got an answer. Work Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 02:50 PM - 03:56 PM: I continued my quest to find new clients and sent a few more proposals. Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 08:58 AM - 09:45 AM: I did some project planning for the front-end part of the application. Deep Work Duration: 47 minutes 10:15 AM - 10:38 AM: I planned new tasks for the API development. Deep Work Duration: 23 minutes 10:43 AM - 11:38 AM: I started the API development for the statistics, but paused it because I noticed that I did the steps in the wrong order. Deep Work Duration: 55 minutes 11:43 AM - 12:38 AM: I created the route to create new statistics dashboards and corrected the previous work. I also did a pull request and merged it to the 0.4 branch. Deep Work Duration: 55 minutes 04:16 PM - 05:15 PM: I worked on some update functions. Deep Work Duration: 59 minutes Total Work Duration: 6 hours 13 minutes, including 3 hours 59 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 31 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

@Raptorsin7 Thanks

07 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:35 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: No work for today I didn't work at all today. I didn't sleep correctly and I didn't want to do anything, so I just spent time bullshitting on the internet and doing nothing most of the time. Maybe it was because I did a pretty powerful breathwork session on Wednesday and because I had a long talk with Nahm, so I had ideas that I needed to integrate, which I didn't do properly because I distracted myself too much. Total Work Duration: 0 minutes (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 34 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

06 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:25 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:15 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 09:40 AM - 10:42 AM: I reported notes from a book to my commonplace book. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes Total Work Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes, including 1 hour 2 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

Feel Feel, just feel. Be, just be. That's a thought, and this too.

Why I Failed In Affiliate Marketing A few years ago I got into Affiliate Marketing as one of my first attempts to get into business, and I miserably failed. Now, that I'm a little more mature I understand why I failed so hard. I got into Affiliate Marketing after watching videos of a guy who made a lot of money selling software available on JVZOO. I wanted to reproduce the same thing, but the issue that I got is that most of the products were very bad quality products that provided very low value. So, the business model of this platform for most of the products is to manipulate people to make them think that they are buying awesome products. In other words, their business is the scamming business. At the time, I was conscious enough to see this issue, so it was very hard for me to do it because I was obviously doing a bad thing. But, at the same time, I wanted so bad to make money and some of the promises of affiliate marketing were so compelling that I forced myself to do it. I felt very strong resistance and negative emotions, I was depressed, but I ultimately created a landing page with a sale funnel, and a Facebook Ad to get traffic. I finally did one sale, but then got a very negative comment on Facebook and choose to stop all this shit and never do it anymore. It was a too dirty business for me, and I couldn't handle it emotionally. Scamming people through affiliate marketing was one of the most difficult things that I did because it was so unconscious and unethical. If you want to create a business, please create the more conscious business that you can, it will bring you clean money and much more satisfaction in life. Don't do unconscious Affiliate Marketing, it sucks. Don't scam people, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Feel the joy of building a conscious business that empowers society.

Love VS Discipline I realized with the help of people on this forum and Leo that Love is far more important than discipline. Discipline is about using force to achieve results. If we take as an example a kid who doesn't like to eat fish, his parents need to use force in order to make him eat, it's a difficult and painful action for the kid. Where if he likes fish, he would eat it quickly without any difficulties. Most bosses, directors, managers, and self-help coaches talk about discipline. They need discipline because they don't love themselves enough and don't love what they are doing, so they need to use force to accomplish things. They feel tight and stressed all the time, their lives are fake, they think they are better and superior, they brag about how good they are, where in fact they are depressed and anxious. Discipline is for low-conscious people that cannot evolve higher, it feels hard and painful. Love is for high-conscious people, it feels smooth and creates results in a relaxed manner. With Love everything that someone wants or needs to do in his/her will life happen naturally, smoothly, happily, and without any difficulty.

05 May 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:43 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 01:28 PM - 03:13 PM: I searched for job opportunities online and send some proposals. Work duration: 1 hour 45 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 08:55 AM - 10:15 AM: I created the select component to better deal with HTML selects and used it to change the language on the application. I also fix the language loading error on the app startup. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 10:34 AM - 11:57 AM: I added the delete account functionality for the user. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 12:10 AM - 12:28 AM: I did a code review and merged the pull request. Deep Work Duration: 18 minutes 03:22 PM - 04:40 PM: I created an algorithm to load the Terms Of Service in the specific language, pushed it, and merged it to the main branch. I also did a little of project planning. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes Total Work Duration: 6 hours 4 minutes, including 5 hours 41 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 34 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)