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A portfolio is just a way to prove that you can deliver the goods that you're promising to people. With spiritual stuff, there probably isn't going to be scientific measurements you can take to judge results. It will be hazy stuff like feelings of wellbeing and how happy people are, which is subjective. So I think the best way is probably just to offer free or massively-discounted coaching to a lot of people to gather a large number of testimonials. Written testimonials are good, but if you can get someone to record a 1-2 minute video explaining how you helped them, that's way better. A Youtube channel is also a portfolio of sorts. People get to know you and trust you, then they're far more likely to buy your paid services when you offer them later.

Yes it's possible to have more than one medium. But you have to master them one at a time. Spend at least 6 months mastering just Youtube videos, just podcasting, etc before adding something else. If you try to take on multiple new mediums at once, you'll spread yourself too thin

If you had to decide between doing what you love for $20k a year and needing a roommate, basically living in poverty and barely getting by, or working a $100k job, it'd be a much harder decision. For perspective, median income in the US is $31,000. That means half of people make less than that. In most of the world, people have it even worse. Doing what you love for $70k is a no-brainer. That's upper-middle-class, especially if you've got a partner who makes the same. Most people go to school for 4 years just to work a job they hate and won't ever end up making that much. Like honestly, what are you really going to spend an extra $100k/year on? Making $70k a year sitting in an air-conditioned room, doing what you love, living a comfortable life, waking up excited every day. VS earning $200k year working your ass off in the heat of summer and covered in bugs in the bush, or freezing in winter, exposing yourself to cancer-causing chemicals every day, being away from loved ones for weeks or months at a time. It's an obvious choice.

If you want/need to start making money right away, you might have to start off with something less creatively satisfying like designing logos and graphics for people on Fiverr or Upwork. Maybe designing custom characters for people to use as profile pics, drawing Twitch emotes, stuff like that. I started a webcomic last year, and honestly it's hard to get noticed or grow. As a writer it's easy for me to get stuff to rank in Google, because search engines are built on words. But there is no way for people to randomly find your art in Google. Doing comics and art stuff is a lot more about "networking" type stuff, basically just posting your comics all over. Post them to Reddit every day in appropriate subreddits. Upload them all to Tapas, Webtoon, and similar sites. Open a DeviantArt and any kind of similar site, post lots of your art and make it obvious that your work is for sale, you do commissions, etc. It's going to be a grind just to get noticed and build some kind of a following. You also NEED a website of your own... don't just trust other platforms. Try to funnel people to your own site, collect email addresses of your fans (even if you don't know what you'll use them for yet.) Look at the websites of your favorite webcomics and see what kind of stuff they've got on there, and try to copy it. Nowadays setting up a website is fairly easy... just buy a domain, get a host like Bluehost or HostGator, install Wordpress on your site and there are already free themes available for creating a comic-focused website. Just watch a few Youtube tutorials and you can probably do it in an afternoon. That's about all I could find about it. There are very few guides about how to grow and build an audience as an artist, and like no high-quality comprehensive paid courses. And personally, I just drew about 50 comics and gave up anyway. But if you're super passionate about it, and want to keep drawing for years before you start getting paid, it could still work. Don't overthink it and try to specifically use spiral dynamics in your marketing or appeal to a specific customer base. Your art will naturally be at a certain spiral dynamics level that attracts people at that same level, and turns away people who aren't. You have time to try as many things as possible and see what works. Just throw as many ideas out into the universe as you can, and see if any pick up traction. Make shounin manga, shoujo manga, senin manga. Do them all and see what works. Don't worry about how to provide value or think that your art needs some loftier purpose. You don't need to convey political messages or spiral dynamics. Entertainment and aesthetics in themselves contribute value. You need to do absolutely everything yourself at first. In my opinion, for at least the year. You need to create all your own processes and master them yourself before you try to delegate them to someone else. If you don't know how advertising works, how will you know if the person you're hiring is good or bad at advertising, or whether what they're doing will actually benefit you or not? Even stuff that you understand, trying to delegate it before you have a good process in place will just lead to tons of misunderstanding and problems. You also don't want to delegate stuff like the actual drawing. That's the area that you're the master on and want to focus on. No one will ever work on your project as hard as you do. Yes, this is how almost any business or meaningful project is started. You should expect to put your entire life and all your spare time into it for at least the first year or two. When you work that hard at something, you also have to realize that it's going to become not-fun any more at some point. Even if it's your life purpose, you'll have days that you hate it. You're creating a job for yourself and there will be long stretches where it feels tedious and boring. But you have to push through and keep doing it if you've got some larger vision in mind.

How long has the feeling of not caring about anything gone on for? Has it been for years straight, or do you go through periods where you get motivated to do stuff for a while, and then slip back into not caring? Do you feel like you could be depressed, or are you happy with a life of not striving and just think you've got drastically different priorities than most people?

If you're doing stuff to relieve the symptoms of the vaccine or trying to use the Wim Hof method to kill the spike proteins off before they do their thing, you're probably rendering the benefits of the vaccine ineffective and preventing yourself from developing immunity. There aren't any heavy metals in the vaccine, at worst I believe there's a little plastic of some kind in it as a stabilizer if I recall correctly. The kinds of regiments being discussed here are basically the equivalent of when you're a kid and your parent gives you medicine, but you tuck it in your cheek and then spit it out when they look away. The only small group of people would want to do this are people who want the benefits of being able to show proof they're vaccinated (travel, etc) without fully "taking" the vaccine. It's a more legit and untraceable way of basically faking your covid paperwork. If you want immunity to covid, just suck it up and deal with the aches and chills for a few days. (This is my thoughts despite being anti-vax myself. I'm currently compiling a list of reputable scientific, peer-reviewed studies to convince my pregnant wife that the risk of vaccine side effects are on the same order of magnitude of contracting covid itself. I've had my first shot but iffy about getting my second.)

Maybe I'm underestimating my own abilities, but I reckon anyone who's completed a high school education worth of English classes could probably write a novel just as well as I could. I don't feel like years of blogging would give me any significant advantage. At least in terms of writing quality. I would have more endurance that I've built up... I'd write more words per day and finish my book faster than a random person off the street. But I feel like that's it. I believe that being a good storyteller is far more important for fiction than the technical act of writing. Spell check has come a loooong way, it isn't just about spelling/grammar any more. There are multiple programs out there like Grammarly or Writer.com that have advanced AI to also fix your style, clarity, delivery, and other technical aspects of your writing for you. As long as English is your first language and you got a C+ or higher in Grade 12 English class, you're probably close enough that a bot can fix the rest for you. It's the over-arching details... the character, being able to draw the reader into an imaginary world, that makes the novel. Not all writers are necessarily creative people. Their writing might end up technically great, but the story would be boring and missing that spark.

As someone with a writing-related LP / career, I'm gonna disagree with everyone else so far on this point. Writing a blog post vs. writing a sci-fi novel are completely different. It's like another language. To say that you're improving your skills as an author by writing forum posts is kinda laughable, although if someone's purpose isn't writing I can see why they'd think so. If you aren't a professional writer, you can't see the actual level of depth in this field and you're falling into a trap of "writing is writing." You wrote both essays and stories in school, so it must be as easy as just switching between them, right? It's not like a blogger could be 100x or 1000x better at crafting a blog compared to a fiction author? I write blog posts and articles for a living, I've been doing it for years, but I still wouldn't be able to write fiction worth shit. Blogs are big on research and teaching with a little bit of marketing/copywriting (or more like journaling, depending on why you're writing them), stories are almost entirely plot and dialogue driven. It's not like a musician where you can write/play pop songs, or you can write/play blues songs, and both are increasing your overall "music talent" and musical theory. It's more akin to saying that practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is almost entirely grappling and fighting on the floor, will 1:1 help you with your boxing mastery, which is almost exclusively standing upright and throwing punches, because both are forms of fighting. Writing blogs vs writing stories require entirely different skillsets. Aside from the fact that you are writing in English and might pick up general improvements to your spelling/grammar, there's very little 1:1 crossover. About the only thing in common besides language is that both will require you to develop discipline and write consistently. If you try to write both stories and blogs, you're going too broad and it's going to end up taking you 20,000 hours to master instead of 10,000, because it's actually two completely different skillsets. Everything else you listed -- getting feedback (if you actually listen to it and internalize it, and your editor actually knows what they're talking about, not just a family member proofreading for you), reading fantasy/sci-fi (only if you're actively trying to learn and take away lesson while reading it) are also part of the fiction-writing mastery process though. Other story-writing-adjacent things MIGHT help your mastery or they might not. The fastest way is to focus on actually doing the thing. In this case, sitting down and writing stories every day. 80% of your dedicated practice should be writing, only 20% getting feedback or reading other author's work as research. In other words, you write for at least 4 hours for every 1 hour that you read. Unless you are brand new and just getting started, then you can skew it a bit more to research in the beginning.

Yes Lesson 74 - Dealing With Fear (22:14) Lesson 75 - Releasing Your Greatest Fear (31:40) (This is a guided meditation if I recall correctly) Lesson 76 - Limiting Beliefs (29:35)

Make sure you factor in the extra costs like vehicle maintenance and gas if Instacart doesn't cover those expenses too though.

If you are young (under 30) then I'd go all-in on the hemp business and try to grow it as fast as possible, with the aim of selling it in 5 - 10 years. Then you and your relative can exit with a couple million dollars each and focus on more risky projects that you actually love. If I recall correctly, Leo started off with his brother doing an SEO business that sounds quite similar to this. Sometimes you gotta do the grindy work for a couple years to set yourself up in a good position for what matters long-term.

If you have thousands of dollars sitting in your bank account at any given time and not earning any interest, then yes. If you have to struggle to invest a little bit into crypto or stocks every paycheck, then probably not. You'd be better off buying a home if you currently rent (in most places), or invest in yourself (learn a new skill, take online courses), or start a business. Investing is a good way to get an extra 5 - 10% per year on any extra money that you have laying around and hopefully meet or exceed inflation to maintain your purchasing power as the dollar loses value. It's also pretty much necessary in one way or another if you hope to ever retire. Although so few people can afford to buy a home or invest now, that I feel like either the government is going to have to bail out our generation, or we're all going to be living in squalor when we're older.

It might be against Amazon's TOS, definitely read carefully what is or isn't allowed. You could sell it off of Amazon but it would be a lot harder. You'd have to host it yourself and drive all of your own traffic to it.

The only thing I've learned from trying to plan long-term, is that things 5 or 10 years out will be so different that you won't be able to predict them. I feel like I'm a pretty boring person that set an ordinary path for myself. And I still ended up moving to another country, leaving my fiancée, starting an entirely different career path, and other stuff that I wouldn't have been able to foresee 5 years ago. Now I set goals for the year, but that's about as far out as I go. Even my yearly goals, I only end up completing maybe 60% of them. As well as adding several major new things to the list that weren't originally on it. If you can set 10-year goals and consistently hit them, or not have your goals and priorities completely change halfway through, then you probably aren't growing enough as a person.

Saying this kinda stuff is how I ended up going into accounting just because my parents said it would be a good career. Accounting is BORING AS FUCK. It doesn't get any better when you're actually working in it. It's actually more tedious and repetitive than school even. If you don't like it, save yourself 5+ years and find what you're really passionate about instead. If you're only a couple months into a university-level accounting program and think it's deep now, you're probably only about 5-10% as deep as it actually gets.

A 6 - 10% job offer rate is extremely high. Most people don't even get called for an interview at anywhere near that rate. Maybe 1 in 50 or even 1 in 100 get to just the interview stage, depending on the field. If you look around online you'll see people complaining they sent out hundreds of resumes with 0 response back all the time. Also where the hell can painters make the equivalent of a $67,000/year salary? That's crazy for relatively mindless labor. In contrast, I know CPAs (professional accountants, basically the accounting world equivalent of a lawyer or doctor) who only make $70k/year. Take that shit. Even if it's only a temporary job for like 4 months, you'll make $21k in 4 months. Then for the other 8 months you can look for another job or do whatever. Plus you can listen to podcasts and stuff while you paint.

Oof, really, playing any kind of video games is a deal-breaker for you? I can understand if it's holding them back or wasting their time, or they're obsessed and spend too much time on it. But as of 2018, 66% of people played video games. Probably even higher now. As far as I know, even Leo still enjoys the occasional video game. How's it any different from a guy who spends 1-2 hours per night watching Netflix, or even reading a book? It sounds like your acceptable range might be too narrow. Let's say that creepy or guys that don't have their stuff together can range from 1 - 6s. And guys you describe above are 9s or 10s. That means you're only willing to accept guys in the 7 - 8 range. Maybe give some 6s a bit more of a shot and see if they surprise you. Pretty much the only way to have a guy that "takes care of you" is to assume a more traditional housewife role. Then what do you bring to the table for him, if he's providing for you all day? Do you know how to cook and clean at an acceptable level, are you willing to take on that role? Guys don't want to be a provider for a feminist. If you want to be taken care of, then you need to submit to that role completely. Guys don't want to provide for a careerwoman. He's already earning all the money he needs, why would he want someone that goes out and adds another 30k to the household and then he still has to come home and do chores anyway?

Yeah that's a stupid thing to say to someone who you only kinda like who is a potential date. I'm not saying that in jest, that's a legit stupid thing to tell a guy. Even if you feel that way, it's not socially acceptable to tell someone that on the first couple of dates, or who you've only had a couple conversations with. You will scare away all except the most psycho/abusive/narcissistic men by saying stuff like that. A woman who says she's in love with you and would give up her life for you on the first date is a psycho too. But it seems like you're lying to yourself too, because no rational person would give up their life for someone they kinda like. There is some kind of massive disconnect there.

I don't feel like reading 1,500 words (I don't feel like it should take that long to fully explain your situation), so I'll just give my generic opinion on quitting school... The further you are toward completing your program, the more likely you should finish it. If you aren't halfway through, just quit. More than halfway, it's worth starting to consider finishing just for the sake of finishing and having your degree. Skimming your post I saw lots of stuff like "beyond painful", "I despise", "I chose medicine as a tool for getting a visa", "I hate the medical school part completely". If that doesn't make it immediately obvious what the right choice is, then I don't know what will.

I'm sure there are people who get absolute bliss from doing their chosen career every day. But don't worry about hypothetical situations or other people. Examine if that's something you think you can experience, and why you're asking this question in the first place. Without more context I don't know where this question is coming from. It almost sounds like you're trying to rationalize giving up a relationship for your career to yourself.

This makes the most sense to me. If the complaint is that rich people are living off interest, dividends, and rent payments from assets or "wealth" they inherited or built decades ago, then sure, tax those things at a higher rate. The problem is the "leeching" of value that comes as a side-effect of having wealth, not the wealth itself. I find taxing future income that comes solely from the fact they hold assets to be ethical. But taxing the existing assets themselves, not so much. If they ever choose to sell the actual assets, it's already a taxable event.

Quit a job in the career that I went to university for, to do something I enjoyed and was passionate about instead. (It was the right choice, but it's a scary one for most people.) I guess technically end a long-term romantic relationship as well

What you're describing is pure tyranny. Some outside international force coming into an autonomous country and unconstitutionally forcing people to pay tax under threat of violence. That's hardly tax, more like extortion and blackmail. The UN becomes a mafia at that point. Maybe if we implement some kind of "one world government." Good luck with that within the next couple hundred years, those kinds of words are a conspiracy theorist's wet dream. If you think Q Anon is bad now, try to introduce a "New World Order" like Alex Jones has been warning about for decades and watch 50% of the population freak out. I'm not in favor of this because: 1. You'll never catch the actual billionaires and trillionaires. They can just move themselves or their corporations to another country where a wealth tax doesn't apply. They'll keep doing it until there are no countries left without wealth taxes. You can LITERALLY buy a passport to most Caribbean countries for a $100k investment or donation to their development fund. There will always be an incentive for a few of these countries to never have a wealth tax, so rich people flock their with their money. So really you're penalizing the most enterprising and entrepreneurial people in society, those earning $200k to a few million per year with quick-growing businesses that are actually delivering innovation and social change. 2. Like someone else has said, how do you tax unrealized gains? Bezos and Musk might be able to pay a wealth tax out of their bank account. But for most people who are multi-millionaires on paper, it's all tied up in their business. They'd have to start selling off physical assets, or ownership in their company, just to cover the tax. Which in turn downsizes the company, hurts workers, etc.

Not just a high-paying job. You'd need to be in the top 1% pretty much to accomplish this. Most people don't EARN $5,000 per month. Let alone have $5,000 per month left over after paying their rent/mortgage, food, utilities, etc. If you lived at home and had $0 expenses, your parents paid for everything, you still need to take tax and employee expenses into account. Realistically you have to earn $80,000 per year and spend $0 for the entire year to save $5,000 per month after tax! So for someone who actually lives by themselves and pays for stuff, you're looking at requiring a salary (or household income) of like $150,000 to accomplish this. Because at least here (in Canada), your tax rate goes up to like 30%+ once you exceed $60k per year. So from that point onward, you're basically working for 70% of your salary for the rest of the year. Even more if you live somewhere like California or New York where cost of living is through the roof. Most people are living week-to-week and have close to $0 in their bank account after each pay once they pay for rent and food. This is such boomer advice. "Just save $60k a year bro." A consistent 10% return on your investment is also insanely optimistic. Try like 4 - 5% Have fun with this strategy over the next couple of years as we enter hyperinflation. If you don't put your money into tangible assets, your fiat money risks becoming worthless and losing all that effort that you put in. The real "Great Reset" that's coming is rich (excluding the mega-rich) and poor alike being reset back to 0 if our currency hyperinflates:

I'd say yes it's possible In the life purpose course, at one point I think you're asked to look back over the kinds of activities you enjoyed doing growing up, and that you do in your spare time. Somebody may have sunk thousands of hours into jewelery-making without realizing that it's their life purpose. Sometimes your life purpose is super obvious and you feel like an idiot once you realize it, because it's been in front of you the entire time.