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The one thing I'll say is that you're going to have to learn to pace yourself and take a break when you need it. The demand for this kind of help is overwhelming. I've hopped on the depression forums or subreddits before to try and help people out, and it's like a deluge. There is a constant flood of people posting for help and support. I would respond to one message, and 3 more are posted in the meantime. You can respond to suicidal/depressed people for hours straight as fast as you can, and just barely hold the line. It's extremely fatiguing and emotionally hard to constantly surround yourself with depressed/suicidal people. So you need to give yourself a chance to recharge so you don't get burned out. Especially if you're dealing with people 1 on 1. Also I've found that there will always be some people you can't help, and don't even seem to want help. They post online about how suicidal or depressed they are, but also shoot down every possible suggestion or attempt to cheer them up. Some people have been depressed for so long that they're just addicted to complaining and it's the only meaning left in their life. I dunno how I feel about handing out physical cards. My guess is 95% will get discarded. Generally people will only seem to want help or reach out once they're seriously depressed. So some kind of online platform that people can find and access 24/7 would be better. I think making a website that lists all of your reasons, maybe have one display and a button they can click to display a new random reason, would be an infinitely better use of your time.

Watch the sales video and read the sales page in full. It should be able to address any questions or concerns that you have, and explain more than I ever could. That's its job. It tells you exactly what you'll learn and what you'll leave with, plus who it's right for. https://www.actualized.org/life-purpose-course As for my personal experience... I quit my full-time job I hated in the area of study that I went to university for, and started my own business based on my life purpose that is still going strong after 3+ years. I re-do the entire Life Purpose Course every December to refine my life purpose, or see if I need to change it, plus setting a whole set of goals for the next year. You asked about the course back in April and have probably been debating it with yourself ever since. It's only $250. Just pull the trigger already. The way I look at it, I got way more than $250 worth of value from Leo's Youtube videos before I ever even took the course.

Working for a big company is more secure, but also more chance that you get stuck/comfortable. Once you have a steady income, will you be able to give it all up to pursue something risky?

1. how much this amount money has value to you? I can earn it in 1 hour if I have work (I'm self-employed so sometimes I do, sometimes I don't) At minimum wage in my country (Canada) it would be about half a day or 4 hour's work. 2.Is it a big amount or a small one? Small. I would spend $50 on something on Amazon with minimal research. 3.What can you afford to do with that money? It will pay either my internet or phone bill for the month. For $100 I could go grocery shopping and buy as much meat, organic vegetables, name brand products as I wanted for the week for 1 person. 4. Will you be sad/very sad/less care/don't care if you loose that amount of money? I would be upset at myself for a bit for losing it, but I wouldn't think about it for hours or days. I would feel worse if I got scammed than if I just lost it. 5. If you give away that money to others, will you be giving to much or too little? Too much for most things. If I was giving a gift to my niece or nephew I might put $20 in a card. When I was a child or young teen I would be very excited to receive $50. It's far too much to give to a homeless person, maybe $5 or $10 if I was being generous. Probably too much to donate to a charity unless I was receiving a tax receipt for it.

Good news, you can learn to do pretty much anything online with free Youtube tutorials and other resources nowadays. What are you interested in? Learn how to make basic websites/blogs for people, learn basic photoshop/GIMP skills and sell logos and designs on Fiverr within a week, sign up for Textbroker and start writing articles for $0.01 per word. Lots of generic "virtual assistant" / data entry jobs on Upwork. Do you play an instrument? Then offer basic music lessons via Skype/Zoom. Speak a second language? Translate stuff Longer-term (3+ months learning) - learn programming. Or SEO (search engine optimization) and then help local companies to rank higher in Google search results. Learn to make some basic mobile games and publish on the app store. Cut grass in the summer, shovel snow in the winter. Walk people's dogs. Instacart / SkipTheDishes Think about this concretely though: Where are you going to get internet access for hours a day to do your work? Where are you going to get the money to buy and customize a van to begin with? Do you have the skills and tools necessary to build a van? Where are you going to get them? How much extra will that cost? Realistically you aren't going to accomplish this until you're 18 anyway, so don't worry about credit cards and work restrictions yet. I really think you should consider all the points I made in your last thread which you just outright dismissed as well.

Say if your top value is peace of mind/tranquility/calm after doing all of the values assessment passes in the course. It's what you strive for. You're really jealous of the monks who can just grin and seemingly not worry about anything. But right now you're the exact opposite and it's not a congruent value at all. You're a very anxious and stressed person and you're 100% negatively motivated to pursue peace of mind/calm/tranquility to get rid of those feelings. Is that really something that you should build your life purpose around? Or is it better to see as something that you need to tackle first before you can really start to work on your life purpose? Or should you just drop it lower on your list so it doesn't occupy the top 3, but realize it's something that you should still be doing on the side? Same situation if one of your top values is health/vigor/energy, but only because you're currently obese, tired, and in pain. If you put health/vigor/energy as your top value, I feel like that might mislead you into a life purpose like being a personal trainer or something similar. When really you just need to get your health sorted out, independent of your life purpose. If you do want to prioritize calm and tranquility in your life, what are the best ways to go about increase your congruence with those values? Going to therapy/counselling, daily meditation habit, experiment with CBD and other supplements said to reduce stress? What would the life of someone who highly values calm and tranquility look like, short of becoming a monk or yoga teacher?

Who is going to trust a homeless guy with their pets? That's nothing. 200 hours in 5 years is 40 hours a year. So you've spent the equivalent of one full work-week pursuing those topics in 5 years. Literally I think you could watch a 1.5 hour Actualized.org video per week and double that. Like have you even looked into this, or are you just talking out your ass? A quick Google search for "Buddhist monastery Sweden" shows at least 14 temples. Plus 2 Hindu ones. Have you even tried reaching out to them? If that's not good enough, get a part-time job at minimum wage and work 100 hours, that's less than 3 weeks full-time, and you can buy a ticket to a "real" monastery in Thailand or Nepal. Where are you going to get all of this knowledge while you're homeless? You won't be able to afford books, they probably won't even let someone homeless-looking into the library to use the free internet. They'll call the cops on you. So it sounds to me like you aren't actually interested in becoming homeless, but going on some sort of unemployment/welfare system. Have you done any basic research into what the requirements are to get this? Do people under 18 who have never had a job and dropped out of school even qualify? How many times in the past month have you meditated for more than 2 hours per day? How do you know you're capable of "hardcore" practice? This is the devil talking Look dude, I remember what it's like to be 17 and thinking that you have all the answers, but you don't. This is going to seem ridiculous when you look back in a decade or two. And I agree with the sentiment of some other posters here that dropping out of school to become homeless with no backup plan would be a really bad choice. Honestly I don't think you could even survive life in a monastery. You don't seem able to adhere to rules or discipline. Life in a monastery is way more regimented than going to school. They decide when you wake up, when you meditate, when you eat, what chores you have to do, when you can sleep. I don't feel like you are pursuing this for noble or positive reasons. You just want to escape things in life that are boring or uninteresting to you. You'll learn that sometimes even an enlightened person has to suck it up and do things they don't want to. (If you are truly enlightened, would there even be a feeling of resistance to school, etc?) If you truly are enlightened, it's unlikely that you'll be able to maintain it while being homeless. Higher states of consciousness are only really possible for someone who has their food, water, warmth, rest, security, safety, friends, feelings of accomplishment, etc sorted out. If you're constantly getting into arguments and fights with other bums, hiding from store owners and the cops, starving and wondering where your next meal is going to come from, trying not to lose your toes and fingers to frostbite in winter, etc you're going to go back into a state of survival pretty fast. Before enlightenment - Chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - Chop wood, carry water.

What is it about AAA studios that appeals to you? Creating your own AAA game studio sounds like an extremely lofty goal. I'm guessing most game studios start as indies and then grow over time with the success of their games? You could try to go work for an AAA to get a feel for it. I'm not sure what about it being an AAA studio makes it particularly appealing. It seems like the most stressful and grindy kind of studio you could work for. Definitely as an employee, working at an AAA studio doesn't seem like a life purpose to me. It lacks the artistic integrity you mention, you're just a cog in a machine. I would look to games like Stardew Valley. Wildly successful, 10+ million copies sold. Just one guy did all of the programming, artwork, and music for it. That's $100 million + straight in his pocket. And you can tell that he was living his life purpose in creating it. Look at a game like Assassin's Creed. One of the biggest AAA franchises and it's only sold 140 million copies across all games. Then deduct the massive overhead cost of the studio, all of the employees, and everything else from that. IMO indie is the way to go, and Minecraft isn't the only one who has made a killing at it. Dead Cells, Undertale, Hollow Knight, Prison Architect, Enter The Gungeon, Celeste, etc etc etc... all sold 1 million or more copies.

I first did the Life Purpose Course 2-3 years back, and I've been pursuing that to great success so far. But for months now it's felt like it's not really my purpose any more. I don't feel passionate about it, I don't feel like I'm having a greater contribution to the world and it's not fulfilling me. It's not just drudgery or the normal level of resistance that comes and goes, I know what that feels like. I've put in time to master something and now I feel like I'm at the limit of what I can do to keep growing, and I want something different. I haven't put in 10,000 hours, but maybe about 4,000. So I went back through the course to try and find a new life purpose. The problem is that most of my results came out the same. My top 3 values, signature strengths, ideal medium, high-consciousness virtue to build my career around all came out very similar to the last time. What do I do in that case, where the course points me back toward what I'm already doing? I've tried finding other things I can do that fit the same values/strengths/etc but I'm blanking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Life Purpose: Summarizing information in an easy-to-digest format and empowering people to pursue their dreams. My top 3 values are: 1. Contribution/Impact/Significance 2. Health/Vigor/Energy 3. Personal Growth/Development/Self-Actualization/Self Improvement My 3 signature strengths are: 1. Judgment, critical thinking, and open-mindedness 2. Perspective wisdom 3. Love of learning The high-consciousness virtue I want to build my career around is: Richness: complexity, intricacy, depth, differentiation Ideal medium: Writing, blogs, courses, video ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Currently I'm a freelance writer. I write blogs/articles for other people to earn a living, and then I've also been creating a couple blogs/websites of my own on the side, with the hopes that I eventually get enough passive income from those to pursue whatever I want. My websites are doing just okay... one has 4,600 views in the past month, the other has 2,200. But I've only made a couple hundred bucks in ads and affiliate sales so far this year, basically it pays for the hosting and domains and not much else. It feels like nothing significant is happening, and even if I 10x the amount of content on my sites I'll only be making a couple hundred dollars per month. Writing for other people is steady money but usually about topics that I'm not passionate about. I'm getting a one-time payment to help someone else get ahead, instead of setting up something more recurring for myself. Just trading my time for money. I've also hit a rate where it seems hard to find clients willing to pay above that much, like I can't advance any further. Honestly I don't know how these companies are paying me $100+ per blog and turning a profit, when I write the same quality and style of content on my own site but can't make a living from it. I also tried to start a Youtube channel. I put up 45 videos so far (I was uploading regularly 3x a week) that I felt were providing useful information and answering questions people would search on a particular topic, but I've got 8 subscribers and less than 300 total views between all of them since May, so I feel a bit disheartened and pretty much gave up. I started a webcomic recently on a whim, but I don't see that going anywhere. I don't know where to go from here... except maybe starting another website on a different topic, or another Youtube channel... something I'm more passionate about right now... do it for a few months and see if it gets any traction... if not, repeat until I find something that sticks. Funny enough, the thing that has probably always brought me the most satisfaction, the thing I keep doing even when I'm not getting paid for it, is answering questions or giving my opinion on Reddit or forums like this. But how the heck do I monetize that? Unless I make like an "Ask Amy" newspaper column type thing where I answer questions from random people. But I'm already offering lots of advice on specific topics through the things I've outlined above.

This I think is very helpful and pointing me back in the right direction, thanks. It seems silly to do things to set myself up in a position to do what I want in the future, instead of just doing what I want now. However then the problem becomes... what do I want? I'm not sure what I would do every day if I had infinite money and everything that I wanted. There are times after I complete a big project and have no other work lined up, where I can do whatever I want for a month or two. But I just end up squandering it... browsing Reddit, watching Youtube for hours and hours at a time. Nothing that feels productive or meaningful. But there's also nothing I would rather be doing in those moments either. When I do find some sense of purpose, it always seems temporary. I can never seem to do anything for long without wanting to jump to something else. I almost need a handful of projects on the go at any given time. That way I can switch from one to the other once I become bored of one. Now the idea that my purpose is what I already am, what comes natural, that it's right under my nose, really has me questioning. Maybe it's something as simple as doing housework and cooking for my partner, and I'm just overlooking it because it's not very sexy or lofty. Or maybe everything I'm doing is just a distraction and reason to avoid admitting that I don't really know what I want. Do you have any specific marketing things that you would recommend? I feel like I already have a decent grasp of SEO, how to get web pages to rank at the top of Google search results. I've taken some internet marketing courses that cover those kinds of topics. Should I branch out into paid advertising like Facebook ads and stuff like that? Or is there some other marketing topic I'm overlooking? I have considered trying to pivot into a business of doing full SEO for companies instead of just writing blogs/articles for them. I'm not sure if that would be more or less aligned with my life purpose compared to what I'm currently doing. Seems like a mostly sideways move, but might be a good way to branch out into new marketing stuff. I'll follow up on your suggestion of working with more conscious organizations as well. I will try cold emailing some organizations that I would feel more passionate about working with, instead of just applying for what I find on job boards. I agree with this assessment too. Part of me feels like I have unreasonably high levels of impact and contribution that I want to reach. Like I want Elon Musk levels of impact, I want my work to still be remembered several generations for now, and I'll never be satisfied with anything less. Not sure if that's just trying to overcompensate for something, how to overcome that feeling, or what. Other parts of me realize that's illogical, that I have a short finite life and I might as well enjoy every day while I'm here instead of wasting it trying to create some legacy. Hard to reconcile between the two.

Some vitamins for sure. You can get Vitamin A poisoning from polar bear meat because it's so high. There's also a thing called rabbit starvation you can get if you only eat rabbit meat, because it's so low in fat. If you are getting your vitamins from leafy greens and vegetables, it's very unlikely that you're going to reach harmful levels. Your body can naturally balance it out, or you physically won't be able to eat enough. If you're taking supplements I'd go with the recommendations on the bottle though. Vitamin D it'd be hard to get too much unless you are really overdoing it. I forget the percentage of people that are Vitamin D deficient but it's huge. Most people can take 5,000 iu's a day without any issue. But check with a doctor if you aren't sure.

Don't focus on becoming a more "academic" writer. Writing in general is shifting toward a much more casual, conversational style. Write the same way that you would talk if you were explaining something to a friend. There is a place for super airy poetic language if you're trying to win a Pullitzer Prize or have your book dissected in university literature classes. If your goal is to convey a message, using big complicated words will just frustrate, confuse, and bore readers. Focus on learning to write for the web from people like Neil Patel and then write that way. Keep paragraphs to just 2-3 sentences in length. Use tools like Grammarly or http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ to clean your writing up and make it more readable, and less passive.

It doesn't matter if you're on the front line or just in some kind of support position. You're contributing to an organization that potentially kills innocent people and exploits third-world countries. Arguably paying taxes does the same thing. But that's unavoidable and you're coerced with jail time and other threats to comply. Deciding to join the military is totally voluntary. Just like if you're an accountant for a tobacco company or a janitor in a gun company. You're still playing some part and making their bigger picture possible. Doesn't mean that you can't still find sihk or buddhist soldiers in the world. The mind will bend over itself to find justifications for its behavior. Then again, a country needs soldiers to protect its borders to provide the kind of peace for ordinary citizens to pursue awakening. But there's a big difference between a military that just defends its country, vs being Imperialistic. I don't know how the UK's army compares to the US one, but I would not feel like it would be moral to be part of America's military industrial complex.

You are going to need to find a way to set yourself apart from the competition. Self-help and get-rich-quick gurus are a dime a dozen. Many of them have decades more experience in the field than you. What special do you have to offer?

For me, it's like desire. You feel pulled to do something. That in itself is meaning. You are the one that creates the meaning for yourself! You are listening to judgements from society saying that being a chess player will never provide an income for you and that it's not practical. That doesn't mean that it doesn't have a strong sense of meaning for you. You are thinking about it too narrow-mindedly. There are more ways to be a great chess player besides just competing in tournaments. I typed "chess strategies" into Youtube and the first result is a channel with 683,000 SUBSCRIBERS!!!! You don't think you could get a sense of meaning and passion from conveying your love of chess to others and teaching them the game that you love? That guy is absolutely living his life purpose through chess.

If your friend doesn't exist when they're not in your direct experience.... then what happens when you send someone a text message? Does your friend blink into reality for a split second to receive and respond to your message and then goes back to non-existence? Or is there no one on the other end and really you're just texting yourself?

I think web development for self-help websites is a good niche. But if it takes you 6 months to build a small site, I think you're going to have a hard time.

Depends on the person I think. Personally I felt the same way as you. I don't need coffee every day to function, I can just get it once a week or whatever. But lately I've found I'm around people at work who want to go grab Starbucks every day or every couple of days, and it feels like I'm becoming more dependant on it. Mood has gone down, less energy if I don't have it. If you have any kind of cravings I think it's probably best to cut it out entirely before it gets worse. But I'm also a very "all or nothing" kind of person.

Don't get paralyzed by indecision. It will never feel 100% perfect or like you're 100% ready. At some point you just have to start trying stuff though. Are your careers something that you could try out at home for a few days to get a feel for it? If you wanna be a writer or artist, spend a day drawing or writing the first chapter of a story. If you wanna be an accountant, open up some software like Excel and just start filling it out with examples as if you were really working for a business. That's just a negative story that you tell yourself. But if you keep repeating it over and over, that's likely what you're going to end up with. Change your narrative.

Personally I think like everything, it's about moderation. If you can't go a day without jerking off, you should probably do nofap. But I also think people get obsessed with it when they start talking about 100 or year-long streaks or make it their whole identity, start talking about it to family and friends. Longest I've gone is about a week and I think that's about the sweet spot. Definitely do feel more confident and more energy. The studies seem to show your testosterone levels max out after a week of nofap.

Literally everything. Money, weight / health, relationships, family.

At least completely finish the life purpose course and give yourself a couple of weeks to contemplate and integrate everything before making any big life decisions. You're already partway into the semester and have already paid for everything. It won't be a huge waste or loss of time to spend a few months to finish the courses that you're enrolled in now. If it turns out that your life purpose could apply to your current studies, it'll mess you up way more if you drop out and then try to get back on track in a few months. Sounds like your current course isn't the right fit for you. But don't be too hasty about abandoning before you have something else to move on to. If nothing else, it'll be way easier to explain to your mom if you have something you're passionate about to replace school with, and can give her a timeline of how you're going to accomplish it. Instead of just "I dunno, I'll figure it out"

Making a girl have 4x gushing orgasms back-to-back. Shoutout to Leo's "how to make a girl squirt" video haha. I get what he's mentioned a couple times about being able to enjoy your partner's orgasm as much as getting off yourself.

Totally depends on you. Maybe you would find being a windmill turbine or radio antenna technician enjoyable if you love heights, being outdoors, climbing, and adventure. Personally I'm afraid of heights. So the idea of spending every day 300 feet in the air would be hell for me.

I think this may already be a mistake. If you're halfway through the course, you haven't done most of the values passes or life purpose exercises yet. Don't jump to conclusions and think you've figured it out before you go through all of the material. You might have suspicions, but let it fully play out first.