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Lately (last 3-4 years) I've been particularly attracted to history books, anything from 5000 BC up to first part of 20th century. I find it really stimulates my imagination and it gives me great perspective on my own life as short as it is in the grand scheme of things. I creates a certain sense of finiteness and makes every day a bit more purposeful. It also helps me appreciate how fortunate I've been throughout my whole life despite all the issue we all continue focusing on. I also love, where I can, visiting sites I read about with a completely transformed story in my head. Couple years ago I took a backpack and a tent and hiked an ancient road built by Romans in Wales for 3 days , crossing a few sites of former Roman forts and cities on the way, spending 2 nights in the middle of Brecon Beacon national park. Was one of the most memorable experiences of my life and it was a particular history book that prompted me to do that. I no longer read books about health because it seems most of them are either biased, filled with delusional quackery or written for a quick profit, hijacking an ongoing fad trend. Similar problem with most new books written on self help, personal finance and mindfulness.

It sounds like you're trying to build your business with integrity rather than just "sell stuff" the way 90% businesses work. So for you many of the original models won't work. Sending out more spam emails in order to attract 1 in 1000 customers is likely to burn you out. Where you should start is trying to understand your customer and your USP. Not just on a surface level but actually build an ideal client avatar and understand them to a depth. Not so much that it gets singled out to one particular person but not so broad that you will try to talk to everyone. AI can help guide you through it. The physical side of business (website, accounting, legal bits) is actually the easier part, the hard part is copy writing, profiling your client, creating your own brand manual etc. There is value in mentoring if you can afford it and there is lots of good content on getting started but it has to start with being able to answer these questions who are you? what do you do? who do you work with? how does it work? why should people care? When you are scoping these things, be specific. No fluffy sentences, no fillers and no place holders. Every sentence on your website needs to hold a value or communicate something.

Yeah, that's a very common side effect of withdrawal. It is going to get better after a while, but a few things you could consider to help you Rather than cold turkey you could go for gradual reduction. Say if your starter was 5 cups a day, you could aim to reduce it by 1 each week and replace that cup with green tea for example. It will take longer but might be more doable. Eventually you may either end up at a very low intake, such as 1 cup per day or completely switch to green tea and then get off that as well. Depends how far you wanna take it. Mix your caf coffee with decaf in about 8/2 ratio and gradually aim to minimise caf while increasing decaf. At some point, you won't even notice that you are drinking decaf.

After years of experiments, my wife and I have niched it all down to morning green afternoon fruit mix evening chamomile I don't even know if any of them works but definitely helps keep us hydrated and gives a sense of routine too.

Good tip. I recall it always took me a few hours to go through each video because i was taking so many notes. One additional tip is, make notes to something to which you'll be able to return later. There is something to writing manually that I don't get from typing so written notes for this particular scenario might work better for that deep cortical retention I've found revisiting my notes even after 7 years helps me refocus and see where I've gone astray.

Sounds like you're at a stage where putting your time into something that transcends the usual 9-5 job would give you the motivation. With your age, financial background and skills you might be uniquely positioned to start working on your life purpose before having kids. Do you feel a deeper sense of passion or calling towards any direction? We all do, given recent events just important not to let it slide you too deep emotionally. I've noticed my day to day mood kinda worsening lately and I've correlated it to exposing myself more to media and news so I'm actively cutting myself away from all of it.

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I'm not an expert but maybe you could take this outside of just therapeutic setting. Conflict resolution requires a lot of soft and hard skills like listening, empathy, negotiation, being able to find win win scenarios. I cna imagine stuff like this being important in larger international organisations. Is that something that would be of an interest? Legal firms, procurement organisations, international peacekeeping organisations, government bodies, international relations etc

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It's unlikely that their price: earnings ratio will be what it was anytime soon. The investors clearly saw how overrated their stock was and the bubble burst. If you got some leftover cash lying around and want to go for it for the thrill of it, sure why not? But there is always risk in investing in a single company that you don't have when you invest in a fund where individual performance tends to balance out among the index corporations. Otherwise if you wanna play slow and strategic game, nothing beats standard index fund investing with regular monthly contributions. The Tesla case has been repeated over and over across years by many other companies, tech giants and industrial Corps going back to 60s but if one thing is clear is that the index funds have always shaken off radical drops where many companies haven't.

I think what you're describing is sort of a curse of being competent enough that you can organise your life so effectively that working on your life purpose every day is no longer a luxury or a possibility but it becomes a reality. So the rules of usual 9-5 work/life don't apply to you anymore because you have to master your own time and at the end of a day there is nobody there to give you a pat on the back and say "good job today". No boss to celebrate success with and no promotion to be secured. Its just you against you and every day feels like a drag even you are probably achieving more than 80% of your peers clocking at 9-5 job. Tho it may feel like the opposite. What the LP course doesn't fully tell you, I feel, is how miserable working on your LP often is The results are amazing and those moments when you feel like its working and you are on a path towards something greater than yourself is the best feeling ever but the hours and hours and hours of manual grudging work that nobody praises or rewards you for is frustrating and disheartening. I've experienced that more than enough time where I should feel achievement at the end of the day but all there is , is a feeling of incomplete void. Somebody raised a thread about the misery of pursuing the path of self help optimiser and this is basically it. You become so competent that it takes a lot of imagination for someone to actually appreciate what you've achieved. (often including yourself). Not to mention you yourself have to create a system of tracking achievements and milestones otherwise you'll go crazy with feeling of inefficiency. But the opposite is a mid life crisis so savage that some people actually ponder taking their own life. Fathers who have an epiphany in the midst of their 50s realising they have pissed away their most productive years in some corporate job, had kids too early, pushed their dreams aside and no longer have time or energy or mental vigor to go back to school and get re-educated. That sort of misery will outweight any grudging work you put into your LP today by a magnitude of ten thousand. So its suffer now or suffer later but if you are conscientious enough that time will come ad that is as guaranteed as the next day's sun coming on the horizons. So you are on the right path, just need to fine-tune day to day operations. On a practical note, it also sounds like you're simply not giving yourself break and instead are whipping to achieve performance. Could you share a little bit more detail on how your day to day routine looks like from morning to evening? How do you measure progress in your work? How often do you take time to reflect on past period? Do you have a mentor or someone to help you create a structure or navigate path forward? When was the last time you've taken a holiday? How do you celebrate success albeit a small one?

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This is hard to generalise as different people may have different requirement. Compare a 17-year old teenager who is growing at a rate of 6 centimetres a year who also attends a basketball practice 10 times a week plus leads an active social life with a 52 year old dad who spends 9 hours a day sitting in the office does not exercise and drives car to work. You're looking at a difference of up to 1500 calories of energy requirements easily. But averaging it out using something like a gaussian curve of normal distribution, 80% of people will be somewhere along the average. Meaning average activty, average lifestyle, average amount of deviations (e.g. sunday hike, or saturday bike trip with kids). And so for those, using something like recommended caloric values are actually pretty darn useful and accurate. The remaining 20% may need to do some additional adjustments. But if we were to move away from this completely because it feels hyperrational and needing too much micromanagement, the other option is to use your intuition and observe your body signals losing hair prematurely or graying hair - might need to eat more (but also could be unrelated to diet) losing weight unintentionally - might need to eat more (or an ongoing complication) gaining weight unintentionally - might need to eat less or ongoing health complication like hypothyroidism often constipated - need more fibre, eating too much processed food and processed meat bad skin, too flaky, dry, eczemas - might need to eat more wholefoods and more protein, more healthy fats, less crap low energy - might need to eat more unprocessed food overall or might need to eat more food overall need to sleep after lunch - need to eat more wholefoods and less processed stuff to balance postprandial insulin spikes poor exercise recovery - low protein / low calories not gaining muscle despite training - more protein or more calories total problematic teeth - more wholefoods, less sugar (or poor dental hygiene) Also, all of the above could be completely unrelated to food in some cases or could be completely related to food as well so important to step away from observing just one symptoms and look at the full picture. Not sure if that helps

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yeah that's it. Completely forgot the diagnosis name. , exactly. I initially panicked that I had vitiligo but it was reassuring that it was just a skin infection. I didn't experience any of the dryness or itchiness. It was just worrying. I don't think about it anymore, there's just 3 small spots left Interesting stuff. Vitamin D in general has positive effects in autoimmunity but I'm surprised to see that remission was achieved by some of those participants. It would still be interesting to be sure which one it is but good to hear that you've put it into remission.