Butters

She didn't blame me lol she said in the sweetest tone of voice "it's you!" and then I said "what?" she said the escalator light was green and then turned red right as I got on. I got back to that same subway station 5 hours later and the exact same thing happened and we all had to take the stairs. Right before that I got a comment on my ig from some Jesus freak who said she had a very important message for me. The events of that day were just uncanny or felt supernatural somehow.

Idk man, the events of that day were just really odd. Like both an elevator and the escalator stopped working right as I got on them. Then a lady told me it was because of me.

Day 35: Something is happening, something where this whole journey of making money turns into a spiritual journey. Some things might flip: the need for money can turn into the need to let go. Idk. There's something to be said for 'just do your best and the universe will take care of it'. Funny how in the most challenging times your true essence might come forward. Yesterday was kinda rough. Had slept poorly for some reason, even though I was feeling great the day before, and the whole day was challenging because of negative thoughts. However I stuck to the program and just did less demanding tasks that needed to be done anyway. And those paid off because I made 2 relatively big sales on my Etsy digital store after creating a 50% store-wide discount. But I made those sales only AFTER I did a spiritual cleanse using a YT video, and went to kickboxing class at night. Then the rain literally cleared outside, it was wonderful. So there is something much deeper at play here, like my experience is rendered from consciousness. But of course I try to turn my bad financial situation into a real external force that's not within consciousness or not affected by my state, and that's where the duality occurs. Perhaps it doesn't even matter what you do, as long as you stay true to your essence. I've experienced some child-like wonder after doing a throat chakra exercise yesterday. This all sounds like nonsense I know, I can't really point my finger to what I'm trying to say here.

What do you mean by not using the mind?

By game and rules you mean expanding love? Actually have you watched Leo's video on ketamine? Very interesting.

@Yimpa @Evelyna isn't it miraculous that we are connected through the same experience and same consciousness? This is something I had overlooked in the past, but it's really special.

I think so but I don't think they've got a good point. It's just natural to touch people in club (not unprompted from behind tho 😂).

There's other PuAs who say don't do any physical escalation.

Congratulations. I've lived there for 3.5 years and it's an amazing culture, though Java is quite different from Bali. Can't wait to visit SEA again soon and travel around for a year or so. How long are you planning to stay? 30.000idr ($3) for a coffee is crazy expensive tho, tourist prices. Edit: just googled and 30.000 idr is only $1.8 these days. Yay for inflation I guess.

Day 33: Doing well, I'm in a nice flow of taking daily responsibility and keeping my eyes on the ball. That means I'm not constantly overthinking but I keep going and flowing, one day at a time. I do my gratitude once or twice a day now and it is so helpful. Whenever low emotions like fear or doubt pop up I'm able to see them for what they are and not be trapped by it. Love and care: What I wrote here yesterday was great, however I must combine that 'hard-ass capitalist' view with love and genuine care. Care about my product, care about the customer, care about my work. I don't want to be in a situation where I launch a course, make lots of money, but then have some skeletons in my closet because I did it with questionable ethics. If that were to happen I'd have made the product out of a need for money or success and not with the intention of creating a great product for the customer. But yeah, 95% of people don't even finish the courses they buy, so having questionable ethics around this is very tempting. Easy money. But if I'm going to make this course, I want it to be good. Also I want my YT channel and public persona to be genuine. I had one genuine TikTok that got me 50 likes out of 500 views. Then I have less genuine TikToks I made because I thought I 'must make more content' and got no likes but 1500 views. Now these are not real metrics to judge anything on, these people are not even my audience, but to me it's significant just as a personal note. This attitude requires greater trust in the universe and that money will come by being consistent, open, loving and creative. Funny thing is, I can see that this approach will have so many more benefits in the long run and can actually make me lots more money long-term. Because being genuinely myself in the content is going to set me apart from the competition who don't have strong personalities. Most 'make money' guys are boring af. Blue Ocean strategy. Heart chakra: Not sure what to say about this yet because I'm only dipping my toes in it, but opening the heart seems important in this time for me. The gratitude really helps. Here's the short Tony Robbins version I use before sleep (and the Priming one in the morning):

This whole thread reminds me of that IT Crowd episode where Roy tries to be a 'bad guy'

OK hold up, so are there levels to human states of consciousness and then some tier 2 happens and there's again stages of God consciousness? Can you explain how you see this?

Bro you can't fap 20x a day 😂😂 Did you really thin that's what Leo does all day? How many hours is that lol

Day 32: Great week so far, starting every day with my Tony Robbins priming exercise and I also do the 5-minute gratitude exercise at night. I wake up feeling great and actually excited to get up and start my day! That's a wild difference from thinking about stressful or random shit. Built my website last week and have uploaded a couple more shorts to YT, TikTok and Instagram. Today I realized I have to make a course as soon as humanly possible because this business model doesn't make sense. I put time and energy into making the content and I enjoy that. But then I also have to work on an hourly pay doing 1-on-1 Zoom calls with possibly no retainer? It's flawed. My TikToks get 500 - 2000 views now and I only uploaded 5 videos. If I can just focus my efforts on making better, more engaging content and then monetize through a funnel with a course at the bottom. That also allows me the freedom to make longform Youtube content, which is FUN! Course just makes so much more sense at this point. I will work on this in reverse: make the course landing page FIRST, before I even record it. I might even not record the course at all until somebody actually pays real USD $$$ (and then refund them) just to see actual people buy it first. Dude, course is the way to go. I love Youtube. I see these "make money" Youtubers get so damn rich off that shit. Just one guy: $10K - $15K pm off his own PoD business $xxx of his course which is $997, who knows how many he sells per month but probably quite a few, and that course is dogshit (I torrented it last year) $47 pm for his private group Then he does sponsored videos all the time, which I bet pay absolute premium flat fees or affiliate commission Youtube monetization (probably his lowest income stream) That's just a Youtuber, you probably don't even know him and I'd estimate he makes at least $1M per year. So that would be me running my regular PoD stuff but I'd be more motivated to share. Then on top of that I make content which is more fun than regular Etsy / Shopify. So I do both and monetize in every direction. This isn't rocket science. Just got this video recommended, the universe confirms lol Actions taken: Built and completed website to sell my coaching (which I won't pursue because course) Further investigated my tax situation, still figuring things out here Recorded 2 more shorts in a different style Posted the shorts to YT, Insta, TikTok Started following people on Instagram, currently have 11 followers Created 50 drafts in my Etsy digital store Quit stupid smoking All these efforts are wasted if I don't build an efficient funnel, that's the next step. Next steps: Create course outline Create course landing page and payment Create free mini-course for top of the funnel Find software to efficiently manage funnel Keep making content Open another Etsy print-on-demand store and load products Keep learning Etsy Remember I need to make around €250.000 profit per year pre-tax to make €10.000 pm net, depending on how investments are structured etc. This also popped on my feed today, I think I had to go so low with my shit finances to wake up and take responsibility for my life too:

Earlier you said extroverts don't need game cause they're naturally social, but introverts need to learn game. Which one is it? 🤷👀

Immature, watch Leo's video on maturity.

👏 👏 👏 Love that. So how long did it take you to get to only working 10 - 20 hours while saving plenty? And what do you mean by moving to welfare state?

@Leo Gura so your point I think is: the more you prioritize money, the more you sell out. So how do we escape wage slavery and not have any financial concerns while prioritizing higher values?

Extra note to self: Bro, if you just focus on your energy. Fuck. Did that this morning, I am so strong today. Mirror principle is real. The world is all connected. Thoughts and events are of secondary order, state / energy is primary.

If enlightenment is a dial, like Leo said, then is Leo just the guy with the least brain fog? Is this a good way to see it? If not, why not?

If everybody thought like you nobody would ever suggest anything to anyone.

I think most of your audience is in YouTube so perhaps make an episode promoting the course? Or even shorts on your main channel why not, you can always delete them later. Also you can update your channel banner and post status on yt. And send emails to your list maybe? But if you really want to build hype around it you create an affiliate program and get influencers in similar space to promote it to their following, as long as there's audience overlap. Your videos have reached perhaps 200k souls? Maybe more. Are you looking for ways to reach those people?

Interesting, thanks for sharing! Day 29: Been yoyo'ing between doing the work and procrastinating. This is how mediocre people start a business. Exceptional people are consistent no matter what. So how do I become consistent no matter what? That's the real question. I start a project, then I work on that for a bit, then when things get difficult I 'dry quit' and just abandon the project and nothing gets done. Why does this happen? Because of EMOTION. No matter how important it is I work on the project, if my emotion comes up and tells me to procrastinate, I will do it and BACKWARDS RATIONALIZE. Emotion > Backwards Rationalize The contents of the backwards rationalization is completely irrelevant. Perhaps we can even say that thoughts and the contents of my thoughts are kind of irrelevant. So ask myself a different question: what can I do to boost my emotional state continually? NLP exercises like this one are really good for me. I should do these every morning to get myself in the right place emotionally. The human brain works associative, that's why life is so tricky. The brain is always solving problems, so I have to make sure I ask it the right questions. 8-step cycle of brain thoughts: "I am working to make $10K pm and travel to Bali soon" Holding thought of Bali, of ideal self in mind *bill arrives* OMFG BILL ARRIVES!? ME NO HAVE MONEY FOR BILL! 10 billion neurons firing at once, horrible scenarios flashing through mind at lightning speed Now I'm in reactive mode, now I'm starting to think that life is LIVING ME instead of me living my life (being lived) Now I will retract. Now I will lay on the couch watching Youtube. Now I will spend my last money instead of saving it. Now I will not wake up on time. Now I will not do any work. Now I will not look at my finances After some time, go back to step 1 Of course I cannot stop bills from arriving but I should be able to change how I react to setbacks or disappointing impulses. There is absolutely no problem with a setback, since these often are opportunities. The problem is with the ego solidifying the current reality and current state of mind. I don't know how to better express that, but that's the actual problem. I am one creative thought away from solving the problem. Entrepreneurship is just solving small problems one at a time, and having solved a problem is the payoff. Not the money. Money is fake, money will be spent, money is relative. The payoff is the satisfaction of having solved the problems today to the best of my ability. So how do I break the 8-step cycle once and for all? First of all let's not judge it. The subconscious mind has but one task: to protect me from danger. Because my dad was always poor, my subconscious brain will get me to emulate my dad's behavior from when I was young when I'm under pressure, and I do that emulating by doing his behavior; laying on the couch and 'being broke' (which is also a thought, and I'm one thought away from 'being rich'). This emulation behavior happens because things get tough and scary, so my system wants to go back to comfort (which isn't actual comfort, just trauma). Now, what tool does the subconscious mind use to TRICK ME into this trauma-comfort behavior? EMOTION! There will be an emotion so damn strong that repels me from doing the correct work and steer me towards procrastinating. So how do I make sure this trauma-emotion doesn't trick me? I think the only way is by pumping my state daily through videos and exercises like the one above, all while understanding how the mind works like I wrote here. Btw you guys might think I'm talking after some teaching but the cool thing is: these are genuine insights I've had into my own thinking mind. I've heard this as theory in the past, but noticing it is really cool. I will now also make a schedule like Deya in this video. Because if I can control my emotions, then I can work according to a schedule Final note: if you're reading this and you're like "why is this guy being such a bitch with all this internal conflict", you must know that when I started my first business ventures in my early 20s, I was completely unconscious and it was kind of easy to go off that motivation, but these issues were always there. I've had successes in business and life, but now, in this period of massive turmoil and huge financial stress, I'm looking to identify and fix these deep rooted financial issues once and for all.

This is a fun thread. @VictorB02 I am absolutely jealous of you for going to Bali but you inspired me to have that on my goals list again. Been in 2013 and I've heard a lot has changed but still paradise to me.

Because brain and fog are inside the dream?