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I have about $10K saved up, and I'm not exactly sure what I should do with it. I've been thinking of getting a loan to buy an existing business, or buy a 2 bedroom apt/condo/house, live in it, + rent it out. I'm also expecting to get another $10K next year from something, so that would leave me with over $20k. Should I buy an existing business? What goes into it, what's required, who should I hire or get advice from, what should I know, etc.? Could it potentially be making passive income, or would it be a full-time job doing 12+ hours a day? I live in Canada by the way.

What's a good strategy for building a Youtube following? How I currently think about it: In the beginning, put out a bunch of specific content, quantity over quality. Once you start to have a bit of a following, then that's when you start to focus more on the quality of the videos. You could also even look into promoting your channel somehow through sharing it on social media, advertising, etc. Also keywords, title, thumbnail is important as well. Good strategy? How would you do it?

Are there certain things this person needs to practice to develop him/herself further into the stage? Is it the social conditioning? Is it the content that they consume? Does it come from certain needs/desires that they have in life? Is there anything that prevents them from developing further into the stage?

So I tried LSD for the first time, at a friend's house. This is the 2nd psychedelic I've ever tried, the first one I've tried was magic mushrooms, but I took it improperly and I had a bad trip. I bought 3 tabs + some shrooms from a trusted dealer who went to my highschool. I bought a ehrlich test kit anyway just to be safe and to make sure. It turned purple so it was definitely LSD. I took a week off work so I could try this psychedelic and have this trip. It was Monday, no responsibilities at all, decided to trip with a good friend I've known for over 10 years at his place. He was my trip sitter while he was working on some things in a separate room. We agreed on him checking up on me every 15-30mins. Setting was perfect, it was a nice room with a large window and a large bed. Friend had a bluetooth speaker so I played some music on that. For this first trip, I decided to take 1 tab just to see what the effects are like on me. I held the tab under my tongue, and I started to feel the effects within' 45mins. I smoke weed quite frequently, so I was comparing it to a body high similar to what you feel on marijuana. Within' that first hour, I felt very concerned with how I needed to show my appreciation to my friend for letting me trip at his place. When he checked up on me, I let him know how much I appreciated it, then I gave him a hug. I think my emotions were heightened at this point. 2 hours in, I believe was the peak of the high. No visuals, just an intense body high. Nothing made any sense. This high felt very relaxing and I felt like doing nothing at all. I brought my laptop with me, but I didn't feel like doing anything other than sit in the bed and listen to some music. Listened to some hip-hop jazz and some electronic dance music. Had some really good conversations with my friend during this experience. Later on, the effects started to wear off, and I still felt like I haven't even experienced the peak yet. I was quite disappointed but overall it was a pretty enjoyable experience. Since the last trip was quite underwhelming, I decided to trip again in that same week on Thursday. I decided to take 2 tabs, because I was looking for some profound spiritual experiences that is often talked about in this community. Same thing, tripped at my friend's place, listened to some music, but on 2 tabs this time. Started to feel the effects 30-45mins in, starting off with the same body high that I previously experienced. At around 2 hours, was the peak of the experience. Emotions were heightened, nothing made sense, had some slight visuals where the window curtains were quite wavy along with some rainbow colors. During this 2nd hour, it got pretty bad. I started to have negative thoughts taking over my mind. I was comparing this trip to my last trip on Monday. I started to have thoughts like my friend was neglecting me, and that I was probably bothering him when he was doing work. We didn't have the same deep conversations like we did on Monday so that was probably why I felt neglected. This felt a bit upsetting to me, and it distracted me from doing the contemplation that I wanted to do during this trip. This entire trip was mainly about me and my friend, when it should have been about me thinking about my other personal relationships such as with family or co-workers. I told him I know I shouldn't be feeling this way, but I feel neglected. He made an effort to converse with me but my mind was in space and couldn't have a proper conversation. I felt very needy, my emotions were heightened and I felt like I needed him to check up on me more often than he was. I also had no sense of time, so it felt very long since he last checked on me. Effects started to wear off around the 3rd or 4th hour, and things started to make more sense. I told him that now the effects are worn off, I know I shouldn't have felt that way because it was definitely the drugs. Overall, this 2nd trip wasn't the best. It was emotionally overwhelming, had a lot of negative thoughts running through my mind. But in this trip, I learned that I need some time away from people in order to have the best conversations with them the next time I see them. I already knew that, but this experience made it a lot more clearer for me. I didn't experience "God" or "ego-death" but hopefully the time will come next time I ever try psychedelics. But for now I'm going to stay away from them for a couple months.

I'm at a point in my life where I feel the need to focus on dating, relationships, and becoming an attractive male overall. With that being said, I'd like to focus more on doing masculine practices to improve my masculinity. Most spiritual practices for me are at a pause for me at the moment. I've previously done a couple years of meditation, but I don't know how much of it has directly impacted my level of masculinity and in what way. I have a feeling I might get some answers related to Leo's video on full-circle, but I prefer not to have those answers here. I'll watch the video if I want to hear about that. Is meditation a feminine practice?

@Leo Gura I'll be honest I had no idea how many ug each tab was. Don't know how to figure that out. Didn't ask the dealer, and didn't get it sent to a lab or anything. I doubled the tabs, took them 3 days later and it definitely didn't seem like the same effect as the 1 tab. 2 tabs felt a lot more intense and I was way more in my head. Could the bad trips also be a cause of larger doses and not being prepared for it? 1 tab was enjoyable for me, but 2 tabs was a bit terrifying. And I definitely would say the 2nd trip on 2 tabs wasn't good because of what happened in my environment. I was completely fine, until I started to over-analyze my friend's behavior around me. I know shouldn't have felt this certain way because he was busy doing work, having phone calls with clients, plus computer work, but I felt like he was neglecting me even though he probably wasn't. So some negative thoughts took over my mind and the whole trip was entirely focused on that.

I often find myself not knowing what exactly to work towards, or at least that is an excuse I tell myself. I want to create something big and develop my skills to earn a living. But not knowing what to work towards prevents me from doing so, then I end up wasting my time on distractions. There's so much information out there, how do we search for the best sources? The way I learn best, is to learn from a teacher who is straightforward, like Leo. If its a "how to" video, I want to know the truth, not some fluff. How do I develop my trading skills to earn a living as a Forex trader? What do I do? How do I develop my skills to become successful in Amazon FBA? What do I work towards? These are questions I ask myself. But writing this thread makes me realize I'm just making excuses.

I often notice this about myself, and how I act this way with co-workers at work. I often only socialize with those who work the same position as me, and those who I work closely with. I rarely speak to others who have nothing to do with me, even if I want to speak to them. I only speak to them if they’re around me like in the changing room. And so, there’s this girl I’m interested in, she’s a server, I’m a cook. We were starting to have somewhat of a relationship, but now its been dying out quickly because of me. Its tough to keep it consistent when we work the same shift, but not directly together. Any suggestions on overcoming this? Best solution I can think of, is to change my position into something that works a bit closer with her. Other than that, I think maybe I could practice cold approach with strangers for the short-term confidence. Thoughts would be appreciated.

^ What Leo said. But I actually was thinking of making a similar post around this topic. Honestly I find that I tend to be less social when I focus on spiritual practices and listening to advanced topics. I think its just mainly the fact that I start to focus inwards and occupy myself with deeper thoughts rather than focusing externally.

What are some apps that you use with your smartphone or computer to minimize distractions? Just wanted to share, I found this cool website blocking app called "Cold Turkey." It's a program you install on your computer that works for almost all browsers. You download it, then within the app, it asks you to install an add-on for each browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc.) I've tried a few add-on website blocking apps previously and none of them have been as good as this one. For example, other apps would let you block a website, but at the bottom of the page there's an option to unblock the site. But with Cold Turkey, it basically allows you to permanently block a site until a specific date. So what I did personally was search my entire history, blocked 40+ p-rn sites until March 2020. Giving myself 3 months without p-rn. I was on Day 25 of semen retention today and relapsed. So much progress lost for completely nothing. There's another great Firefox add-on for Youtube called "DF Youtube" which allows you to block out specific unnecessary parts of Youtube. So you can block out the comments, trending videos, recommended videos, etc. Personally I only have my subscription videos enabled and I never get sidetracked watching a bunch of recommended videos. Highly recommend these apps to anyone.

@Knock Thanks, I’ll look into it. Biggest thing I’m looking for though is an app like Cold Turkey but for the iPhone. There’s a huge lack in apps like that for the iPhone. If you know any that would be nice if you could share

@Javfly33 Oh! I get what you’re saying, everything is one and nothing is separate so there’s no spiritual approach, everything is spiritual! So maybe the solution to the addiction is to burn myself in a fire, jump off a cliff, do meth, crack, and heroin! It all exists within’ reality, and so that’s also a spiritual approach! But its not even a spiritual approach because its not separate! Yes of course I get what you’re saying, I’ve been listening to Leo for 6 years now. And I’ll tell you now, just quit your theorizing. Even Leo wouldn’t give that advice to people because he knows how to speak from that person’s perspective. If its a topic on getting laid, then he’ll provide straight up, practical advice on how to get laid. He doesn’t go and say “Getting laid is an illusion! Its all one, you and the girl are one!!” I’ve seen this so many times on this forum where people try to teach advanced theory to others and it NEVER helps. “Can’t you see?! Reality is one! You’re ignorant and I’m not!” Yeah, great advice. The advanced individual understands default positions and how perspectives work. They understand that you can’t teach newbies to “SEE” a higher perspective. Sorry for being so blunt, but hopefully I could stop you now before you continue to give the same advice to others. If not, then continue with that advice until you learn from your own experience.

There used to be a Youtube channel called SimplePickup, where they would post videos of them picking up girls. But honestly their website might be around, not sure I haven’t checked. They had this course/product they were selling called Simple 30. It was basically a 30 day cold approach challenge that got a bit more difficult over the days went on. Basically day 1 would be say “hi” to 5 people, then day 2 “hi-five 5 people”, something like that. I would look into that if you’re interested. It might not be around anymore, but you possibly could find something on the internet. That’s how I started off with a few friends when I decided to do cold approach pickup back in the day.

@Nivsch @Javfly33 If the thread is clearly about the practical surface level solutions, then post about the practical surface level solutions! I’m not asking for your basic spiritual understanding on how to fix the issue. That’s the issue with this forum. People ask for specific practical answers on a practical topic, but they get “spiritual” answers from different forum users. If I want the spiritual answer then I’ll go and make the thread specifically about the spiritual discussion surrounding the issue, simple. I’m a straightforward person. Spiritual tools are not the solution to all of life’s problems. It’s about implementing all sorts of tools into your development.

Ever since I started a Kundalini yoga practice at a nearby yoga studio, I started noticing some slight, constant ringing in my ears. It’s been almost two-weeks now but I noticed it only a couple days after starting the practice. It sounds like what you hear when you turn on a TV from the early 2000s, and the screen is pitch black. This hasn’t stopped since. Why does this happen?

What about Amazon products? They have the Kindle, which is designed specifically for reading e-books/pdfs. New ones go for around $100 USD, you probably can find an older version or used one for a lot less. They also have the Fire tablets, which are pretty decent and are at a low cost. I bought my dad the Fire 7 tablet for his birthday and its not bad. Reads pdfs, ebooks, plays video, has two cameras but aren’t the best, downloads apps, pretty good but basic tablet. It only costed me around $80 CAD (tax included), or $50-$60 USD.

In my experience I’ve done MLM for a year and its not worth it. Not saying its a scam and doesn’t work, people can definitely make a living off of it if you put in the work and know the right people. The reason why I gave it up was the fact that the people you surround yourself with are manipulative and fake as hell. Its a psychologically unhealthy environment to be in, I don’t care how much they preach personal development. The longer you stay with them, the more you become like them.

So I went to this last minute event in my area which taught people about how to meet strangers, social skills, the health benefits of being social, your value in society etc. It was a 2 hour event, the instructor talked for an hour or so on the topic, then we did some social experiments with other people in the room. At the end they offered people a free 45min 1on1 session for after the event, so I signed up why not. Before my scheduled free session, I had to fill out an assessment form, which basically lets the instructor know whether or not I'm willing to pay them money for their training that they sell for $300/hr. Later on the instructor called me to go over my answers, then eventually cancelled my free session because he knows I probably won't pay him for training. Anyways, the whole point of this thread, is that it was a free event, and the people who run it have a business that sells you on how to become more social, meet more people, dating, etc. The thing that I find a bit ridiculous in my opinion is how they sell you on becoming more social. They tell you there's many health benefits to being social, and that those who isolate themselves and are lonely "have a 50% higher chance of dying in the next 7 years" according to ONE study?? I attached their e-book they sent me below, and some of the health benefits they claim are: live longer, heal faster, less pain, reduce risk of type 2 diabetes, less likely of stroke, beat cancer, etc. And I don't mean to bash them, they're running a business cool, and I definitely had points in my life where I isolated myself heavily from family or any human, and I felt a bit down because of it. But are these "health benefits" really true? Or is it for those who are less spiritually developed? I mean they have a business so of course they're going to sell you on being social, which is why I'm a bit skeptical on these "health benefits." Thoughts? The Magic Pill the health benefits of talking to strangers.pdf

Would be interesting to see

So I get free meals every shift at work in a vegan restaurant, and I usually eat the same thing everyday. Which one would be healthier to eat everyday along with a bowl of veggies & rice? Tempeh Cubes (Soy) or Beyond Meat (Processed)? I believe the tempeh is organic, but its made with soy. Leo's video says to avoid soy, but I know processed foods aren't good either. If you had to choose, which would be the healthier option? Or should I just switch it up between the two everyday

What is your opinion on multivitamins? Are they only for certain people who follow a certain diet, or no one at all? Are they harmful to your health in any way? There's a handful of articles on Google that say things along the lines of "It doesn't work" "It's harmful," but then there's the articles that hold a neutral position on multivitamins. I just bought a pack of 250 vitamins which will last me almost a year. Should I finish it off and never buy them again, or just stop taking them?

@JayFueel Potentially, with certain limitations. Almost all business is structured like a pyramid scheme, and there are definitely many businesses out there that are Stage Green oriented. But in my opinion, when it comes to business and execution, there seems to be a back and forth between Stage Orange and Green as if they’re constantly juggling the two. A business won’t be able to sustain itself if they focus entirely on their Green values. When it comes to MLM it most likely would be the same. I don’t know what company you’re talking about, but based on this post alone it sounds like the average MLM company. They often talk about helping others, “We’re in the business of succeeding by helping others reach success!” Something along those lines. But in the backend, in my experience its all manipulation and for selfish reasons. Also, just because the CEO appears to be Green, doesn’t mean everyone else in the business is Green as well. The way he markets the business and values could attract other Green people, but rarely is it ever the case where everyone would be Green. It would usually be a mix between Orange, Blue, Green, then Orange recruits his orange friends, and they recruit there Orange friends and next thing you know its like 60% Orange people for example. No fees to start? Then where is the money coming from? Selling products? There’s a cap to how much you can make? What do you mean by that and why does that make it better?

@Good-boy @pluto Glad I made this post. Didn’t know what synthetic multivitamins were and how much garbage they put in there. Now I’m stuck with enough to last me a year. Definitely going to switch to organic multivitamins. But for the time being, is it better to take these Centrum multivitamins or just not take them at all while waiting to get my hands on some organic multivitamins?

Part of me wants to pursue it for the sake of finding truth, part of me just does it for material purposes. “Maybe this yoga/meditation will help me control my emotions to talk to girls, or take the leap to start a business.” Maybe I need to take a step back, and continue to pursue my lower survival needs. Although at times I feel like this is not something to ignore. I’m still 23. Advice?

@Nahm I feel that Leo has already answered this whole entire thread with his simple and straightforward answer. My questions and concerns are usually based on what he talks about in his videos and he basically confirmed my ideas on this topic. It honestly is quite pricey, definitely way more than a monthly gym membership. And no not in the trump towers lol. I just sent them an email asking for a potential discount and still waiting for a response. And since its so difficult for me to decide whether or not I want to continue my practice, the yoga studio’s response to my email will determine my decision. So basically the universe will decide if I should meet a girl there, and decide if I should continue my spiritual practice