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I do enjoy drawing once I get going and in the flow and I enjoy seeing the fruitation of my work. What I do however have is a resistance to start everyday. As for your advice people lose me when they show negativity and insulting nature when they're trying to help such as "you dont know this or that" when it's simply not the case, there is so much blindness and assumption on your ends. I'm going to be bluntly honest here, you do NOT know me better than I know myself so don't tell me what I am or not. What I am asking is if you were lazy and how did you overcome it? What changed your life. You could just say "for me it was lack of consciousness and it helped me a lot" that does not mean it will 100% work for me like you claim to, I'm not the one being stubborn and arrogrant. I've been doing 1 hour meditation for the past 3 years this is not a spiritual problem or raising consciousness problem. This is a lack of discipline problem and motivation problem, in fact spirituality has killed the motivation because I have less ego desires, such as "it's not important if i master something" or "make a lot of money" or "do x, y, z". Thanks for your time and advice through, I know what you mean when there is no way around doing it, you just got to do it, I'm trying to understand why for some people its so easy and for others they have life long problems trying to do things.

Not true in every scenario, there is something called "the pain process", "and deliberate practice" which many artist find difficult. What you mean is a lot of artist like to doodle. When it comes to actual studying like bone, structure, muscles, anatomy, perspective, colour, lighting, most artist find it difficult to find motivation. There are videos and videos about artist burn out and different types of practice. Such as just drawing for fun practice which yields little results to delibrate real learning practice (drawing the same thing a thousand times).

Don't bother responding to him @eleveneleven this is what he does, he's a troll. He's also using tidbits of information I shared and making assumptions to attack me, such as "his mother locked him away" nobody locked me away lol, I started heavily playing video games is what I said, because I enjoyed them a lot. I was looking for tangible things from people such as yourself @eleveneleven who had laziness issues and managed to turn their lives around thanks for sharing your ideas. @Etagnwo on the other hand went ape shit and was like "lol you're unconscious, unaware, angry, not present enough, git gud kid" and then he started getting angry because I didn't agree with that being the reason. I follow a lot of great artist some of the BEST, these people usually dont know what spirituality is, who don't do consciousness practices, who are not enlightened who are at various stages on the spiral dynamics, people at stage blue for example heavy islamic person drawing some great artwork. Spirituality is not necessary for mastery of a field or productivity. Because Leo has heavily gone into spirituality the forums have become a nutcase job every time someone has a problem the solution is always: "lol raise your awareness and consciousness, be more present" the same answer to everything. "how do i build muscle?" raise your consciousness! be more present! "how do i can become a rocket scientist?" raise your consciousness! be more present! "how do I learn to catch a fish?!" raise your consciousness! be more present!.

I don't have time for this @Etagnwo please don't derail the thread anymore, you have been muted from my side. Focus on your own problems first before you "help others" . Goodluck!

You should really research what it means to be an internet troll. Being overly negative, making assumptions, blaming, stirring people up on purposely and then asking them if they got upset is precisely what a troll is. "In Internet slang, a troll (/troʊl, trɒl/) is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses[2] and normalizing tangential discussion,[3] whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

Stay on topic please. This does not help, I do not need other people trying implant their opinions and beliefs into me about my own consciousness, thanks. I know who the regular arguers are in this forum very well. This place is always a shitfest of others telling others how low their consciousness is, I dont want to participate in that nonsense anymore. I totally understand what you're saying about the mind creating problems. However my meditation practices is the time i spend practicing no-mind, in the maya we have problems to solve and this is a problem I am trying to solve.

Ah yes I've seen his videos on procrastination, but I'll rewatch to refresh my memory. I am willing to relocate (within reason) but the problem is you need to be really exceptional artist for them to relocate or get you a work visa, otherwise they will just get someone in their own country without the hassle. It's usually when you're not replaceable they would help you relocate.

@eleveneleven Wow thanks for sharing that, makes a lot of sense and I see the similarities, I should give that a try. I feel like these are my main problems: Resistance (I SHOULD do this / this is WORK) Perfectionism, I want my art to look good and not crap Burnt out from repetitive boring/hard studies to maximize growth rather than doodling for fun. Long road ahead to get any results or rewards (its like whats the point!) Addiction to stimulus, giving in to feel good escapes, even meditation can be this!! I need to find a way to make this fun again but I feel like I'll be wasting time by not doing *real/difficult* studies like anatomy, etc. @Nahm Thanks man, that clears up a lot, that explanation was much better than your original message, I'm not sure if its a spiritual problem though, or spiral dynamic problem. We might be overcomplicating it but it's food for thought. I'll take some notes.

What...? Yeah you talking about the experiement where someone can scan the brain and see someone made a choice before they said they made a choice? Wasn't that test debunked or did not tell the whole picture, that's what I concluded on it (nothing I can take away from it). @Nahm Benjamin Libet Free will experiment?

I was going to ask if you meant something else, I found your message very vague and mistook it completely, I thought you were being negative by labelling me... forgive me. Could you elaborate please.

Any suggestions? I've messed around with affirmations and hypnosis, even recorded my own specific realistic ones. I also did Leo's 90 day me sheet, vision board, affirmation, contemplation, visualisation. Can't say it help a lot. It did a little I guess I should go back to it. I seem to fall off the wagon too often and need to keep getting back on track.

You're basically saying what this guy is saying (about the dragon); Seen it, seen it long ago, seen it multiple times. But... What do you do when the dragon is there and your body is frozen and you can't move? paralyzed. You have to face the dragon everyday, some people win vs the dragon nearly everyday and some lose more often. Who's at fault for losing?

I'll rephrase my question did any of you who had laziness issues overcome it? and how? what worked for you? I know the "the just do it", "just start" or "your feelings don't matter" methods. But you do realise this doesn't always work in the long run and for everyone right? Otherwise everyone will be productive once they know these simple tips and tricks. That's why I mentioned if some people are just genetically gifted and hard wired to be hard workers. Some Scientist say they actually found laziness genes and if they give it to lab rats those rats become lazy naturally. Which is messed up as that means some of us are destined to be lazy.

I'll share interesting story though. When I quit my 3d job I was in a similar position as Leo I was getting a low salary and I asked for a pay rise I didn't get it so I quit my job to pursue love and live abroad instead with my girlfriend. After I left the company some new guy got hired and took over my position, the company also gave pay rises to everyone after a while and the new guy was promoted to a leader. Anyway the new guy went on holiday and died in a motorbike accident which left me considering: Would I have still been alive if I stayed? Did my actions lead to the inevitable death of this guy? What he thought was a blessing ended up being his death. I mean who knows right? Who knows if winning a billion dollars Is actually a good thing if for example the first business class flight you book crashes or you die on holiday or something. It's hard to see whether something is good or bad, we see short term ramifications but we're unable to see long term ramifications.

@Nahm What like how you're doing it now? I'm hardly active on the forums mate, come off it a 7500 post person telling me I'm wasting my time on the forum, you could see the irony right? I knew some will use the opportunity of advice seeking as an element of weakness, I don't care. This is typical of humans that's why people are afraid to let people see their flaws. As a mod you should at least refrain from a trolling post there is 0 constructive criticism in your post. I'm forever learning. @Mad Cat It's not spiritual bypassing. I'm not doing spirituality to bypass anything I picked up spirituality as a balancing skill, to help improve life and now my daily practices are enjoyable. A lot of productivity books have "meditation" as a productive habit. It's just these practices for me destroy the ego's agenda, as in you enjoy being more instead of striving for doing. Also there is no concrete rule on when you should practice it, many people start it from childhood, some like eckhart tolle ad sadhguru get enlightened by sheer luck/mistake.

@Scholar Thanks for reply, I already read the "War of Art" and I know everything you are speaking of, there's no need for the assumptions of "you dont know this or that", knowing doesnt make doing any easier though, everyone knows how to get muscles, hitting the weights everyday is what's hard through. Weird coincidence I was reading today the "Good" quote from Jacko on optimize.me. I think I need to read his book "extreme ownership" I think Leo talked about him in a previous video. @Etagnwo My spiritual practice is fine, this is not a spiritual problem. Might as well tell a starving person "it's all an illusion, just forget about the thoughts". I do my daily practices and engage the fundamental self of emptiness on a daily basis. Again this does not help with "heroes journey" or "business" or "productivity" lol.

@CreamCatI can relate to some of your things. Goodluck, I tried the whole I'll just work 12 hours a day thing and fix it and it backfired on me lol, I did like 1 week then i cowered for a month not doing anything, ego backlash sucks. I hope it works out for you though! Self Mastery is a great thing.

Yeah I hate when that happens and your post gets deleted, thanks for the post. The mindset is there, I want ownership of my life, and I want to be indepedent worker (have a good career as a freelancer or similar), but its just so difficult to actually do it day after day, I don't know how people do it, they just seem genetically gifted, like their mind is just hard wired to pump work out dude, whilst it comes so hard for me. I admire people like Leo who work for themselves and run all aspects of their life and sign their own paycheck. PS. @Leo Gura If i remember the top left and top right noses are yours, your videos are good quality for facial references I should draw you one day fully, as some bad ass sage flying on mystical creatures haha.

If i was a women I'd consider it rude, as a guy I barely ever get any people starting small talk, it's very rare, and if it does happen the guy seems rather gay to be fair or elderly people just looking to socialise. Most guy's have a total lack of interest in any unnattractive women, elderly, and men, they just looking to stick their dicks somewhere. So rude? yes definitely. Either be very sly or actually meet people through natural means. As for women, continue to shut down those PUA douche bags, no offense, but nothing good will come out of it, they will move on if not soon then later, consider that your attractiveness fades, or you get a face injury, they will be PUA the next chick asap. Douche bags are not keepers, or husband worthy, SHUT THAT SHIT DOWN ON THE SPOT LADIES. Unless you're looking for a short term fling or 1 night stand then sure why not... PS: funny story I once created a female profile on a dating website and boy the messages did NOT stop, dating life is ridiculously easy as a average to decent looking women.

Good movie to watch for if you want to trip balls without psychedelics I dont... even... know, anything anymore. What is.... life

Drugs are only good to make you see beyond the mind, to take the mind less seriously, if you're locked on the state of mind then it may be good for you. They probably won't enlighten you though, if a person keeps resorting to drugs for spiritual practice, they just created a recreational bad habit and labelled it as "good practice". Like i said many times before the best guru's never recommend drugs and I dont think its because they have a "war on drug" agenda, its just that wanting spiritual mystical experiences is the opposite of being. Its more doing, and more movement. For example I didnt do much shamanic breathing, i notice i have enough experience in meditation that i can silence the mind moderately easily through regular meditation than to force a mental shutdown through breathing excercises which gives me negative side effects, like nausea and headace.

Yeah that was one of the most creepy scenes. Definately a creepy spiritual / evolution / alien / sci-fi movie. It has so many subtle stuff that you may miss and the meaning behind the scenes are vague. This is the kind of movie i would have disliked before I got to know about all the stuff Leo talks about This scene was pretty much spiritual, a fragmented mind: @Quanty Did you notice the subtle things happening with the the ouroboros infinity tattoo?

@Leo Gura @Key Elements @cetus56 @Nahm This guy has like 3 posts and he keeps advertising his products in all of them, just so you know.

I dont see anything wrong with the video but it's basically his "opinion" masked as "facts". It's just your classical: "YOLO, live your life the way it is, and dont worry about ego death or spirituality." He said accidental ego deaths dont happen...? heh, Eckhart Tolle had an accidental ego death through severe depression. Sadhguru had an accidental ego death just gazing on top of a hill, sadhguru said he was never into spirituality. To me ego death doesn't mean you never experience ego ever again which is a stupid statement. To me ego death means: You are the emptiness before you are the ego. Which is obviously plainfully true, because the ego comes and goes, the mind isn't always 100% there or "on", the emptiness however is 100% always there even when you are in deep sleep.

When a Kid is enligthened as ****, and can use emptiness well (better with sound enabled)