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One of the Biggest Benefits To Consciously Creating Your Social Circle 150 150 admin

One of the Biggest Benefits To Consciously Creating Your Social Circle

One word – possibility.

Right now…there is something you don’t think is possible that someone else is very comfortable with.  It is a result you want that someone else thinks is very easy.  If you long for a relationship, there are literally men who have many relationships with many women and women who have relationships with many men.

If you struggle with money and earning it, there are people who think making $100,000 in a week is easy.

If you’re struggling socially, there are people who naturally attract people and they actual have a hard time being alone.

This contrast can really help if you don’t repel it.  If you invite that contrast in and ask it for help, then you might find it’s willing to help you.  You’ll also find it challenges you.  Things you do repetitively are conditioned, so you must condition new habits and new ways of thinking to match their results.

One of the best ways to do this is through immersion.  Find a way to immerse yourself in the solution.  It’s easier to condition new habits and new ways of thinking when they’re right in your face day after day.

Just a side note, take into account ‘the natural’ if you’re struggling in an area.  As in, a person who’s naturally a people person, or who just grew up making lots of money or a person who naturally has the results you want.  If you try to learn from them, many times they’ll leave things out when explaining how they do things.  The best people to learn from are people that have overcome a problem you’ve had.  They’ll relate to your point of view and be able to tell you the steps they took on how to get from your point of view and your results to their point of view and their results.  The natural never had your original point of view or anything like it.

You’ll know you’re there when what you thought was impossible doesn’t seem like that much of a big deal anymore.

Running Your Own Experiments 150 150 admin

Running Your Own Experiments

Many times you’ll get data or advice that conflicts.  Is this food healthy to eat?  Should I be doing this exercise?  What should I do with my money?

While it can definitely help to learn from others mistakes and listen to advice from others, understand that in many circumstances you aren’t that person.  There are loads of other things that come into play.  That’s why it’s helpful to run your own experiments.

I can remember doing this with juicing and juice feasting.  I watched many videos on it, and eventually I decided to find a juicer and start juicing myself.  Then I went on a 30 day trial.  To this day, I haven’t found better than when I was juice feasting.  I know I can’t do it forever, but it felt amazing and I had tons of energy and all joint pain disappeared.  I would later find out why those things happened.  I had lots of energy because all the energy that was normally used for digestion was used for other functions in my body including working to dissipate the inflammation in my joints.  So now, no one can tell me juice feasting is bad for me.  I’ve tried it and it was amazing.

Sometimes it irks me to talk to people who I can clearly tell are talking out of their ass.  They’ve not done any research…not run any experiments…just want to hear themselves talk and sound smart.

Don’t be that person.  Have something….SOMETHING to back up what you’re saying.  Your own experiments are powerful.  They make it hard for people talking out of their ass to come in and poke holes in your real-world experiments.

How to Recycle Plastic Water Bottles 150 150 admin

How to Recycle Plastic Water Bottles

I’ve been wanting to get into recycling, so I did today.  I found some great tips here with step by step instructions on how to to it.

 

 

 

 

I have lots of Dasani water bottles like this

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I took about 70+ or so bottles and made them look like this per the instructions linked above.  In that article it said to remove the plastic film around it, make sure the bottle is smashed to decrease the amount of space it takes up and leave the cap on.  No need to rinse it out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So I ended up with this

 

 

 

 

 

 

I called our local H-E-B and they have a recycle bin out front, so I put them in there (not the bag).  I have more bottles and plan to do the same thing.

It was a small gesture, but imagine if this could create ripples and inspire others to be less wasteful.  Imagine how much waste I’ll save if I can keep this habit up for decades and inspire others to keep this up for decades.  Every little bit counts.  I sat back and thought that my wastefulness has an effect on the environment.  Even a minuscule negative effect multiplied by millions and/or billions over time can be devastating.  Likewise a minuscule positive effect multiplied by millions and/or billions can have an overwhelmingly positive result.

I felt that if I can do my part…why not?

The Biggest Lesson From Monopoly 150 150 admin

The Biggest Lesson From Monopoly

After many failed attempts and losses at Scrabble, I’ve moved on to playing lots of games of Monopoly.  Before this recent stint, I hadn’t played in years.  In several ways the game Monopoly can parallel life in terms of investments.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to be proactive in making deals.  In the above video I’m allenx05 and the others are computer players.  You’ll see in the video at 3:38 “Dog” acquires Park Place (the blue square) for $350.  I know those two blue squares can really do damage if you own both, so I immediately make an offer to Dog at 4:05 to purchase Park Place for $500 ($150 more than what he paid for it).  He accepts…then I’m like…Whew!

At the 4:59 Sumo purchases the other blue square, Boardwalk.  It took me all of about 25 seconds to offer Sumo $550 for Boardwalk.  Those two moves were pretty much the biggest plays of the game.  You can see we’re about to close the book on the game at 19:30 when Dog lands and Park Place and then Sumo Lands on Boardwalk at 21:18. The high rents they have to pay when they land on the blue squares with houses and hotels built on them cripple them.

Being proactive about creating deals and offers is how you win at Monopoly…but take this idea and run.  You’re free to create all types of deals in real life for lots of things! Don’t let rejection get ya down.

The Biggest Thing To Watch Out For When Living Where You Grew Up 150 150 admin

The Biggest Thing To Watch Out For When Living Where You Grew Up

This is actually for the people who have lived in the same place for their whole lives, and also people who have moved back in after being away.

I know Gary V says a lot about moving back in with parents and having the humility to let go of the high lifestyles that are built on top of the jobs you hate.  Live cheap, save money.  Lord I agree with him so much.  You have so much more peace of mind if you can make that sacrifice and live cheaply while saving money.

HOWEVER, be careful.

Jim Rohn — ‘You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with .’

The one danger you have is that people you grew up with relate to you a certain way.  That energy is stronger than you realize.  If you’ve never left where you grew up…it’s almost like Neyo taking the blue pill.  You don’t know what you’re missing.

“Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is.  You have to see it for yourself.” (quote from the Matrix) 🙂

If you’ve left and came back to live with parents or family, you can easily find yourself back in old patterns you thought you’d left behind – especially in times of social distancing.  Take this from someone who is experiencing this right now.

Train your mind and create your own world.  Even if it has to solely be through your headphones.

There is a silver lining here though.  If you do come back after having experienced growth elsewhere, you’ll be able to see the forest for the trees.  You’ll recognize the dysfunction clear as day, and it might give you insight into what you’ve been resisting and what has been persisting.

Sometimes the Thing You Don’t Want to Do Is the Thing You Need To Do 150 150 admin

Sometimes the Thing You Don’t Want to Do Is the Thing You Need To Do

I know.  Sometimes you know you need to do this thing…whatever it is, but you don’t want to.  You know it’s beneficial for you and for everyone in every way to do this thing, but you still don’t want to.

I first heard this from a sponsor who I would talk to every morning in a food group I was in, so I have been here plenty of times.

Most of the times the answer here is to surrender to whatever process I’m going through.  My mind is telling me all the reasons not to do this thing, and I’m resisting it for whatever reason…maybe it’s unknown…maybe I’m not aware of the benefits of doing it yet, but if I can put down the resistance like a hot coal and surrender to the process, then things will change for the good of all.

 

The Counterintuitive Solution to “Poor Me” 150 150 admin

The Counterintuitive Solution to “Poor Me”

Sometimes there’s a life event or a series of life events that impact us in ways we perceive as negative which then might lead us to go into “poor me” thinking.

It’s where you’re feeling sorry for yourself and could lead to a big circle.  You keep looking at your life situation > you perceive it was negative > you feel powerless to change it how you want it> and feel even worse and the spiral downwards continues.

It feels like reality has violated your trust, and what happens when trust is eroded?  You might be hesitant to put yourself out there again to reality because they are afraid of being hurt again.

So then what happens?  Here is where you feel the need to contract.  You might feel like you need to isolate and protect yourself from reality’s trust violation.  You might feel like you need to hoard resources and information and keep to yourself, but the solution is counterintuitive.  The answer is to expand, get out of yourself and help others as much as you can.

What this will do is put your problems in perspective, and turn down the volume of your own problems.  When you’re in the midst of negative life situations, it can have a tendency to be right there in your face…taking up all your mental space.  You can easily compare and despair (comparing yourself to someone you perceive having a better life situation than you and feeling inferior/jealous/envious because of the comparison).  Helping someone seems to open the door to invite your own answers in.  You want / need coaching?  Coach someone else.  You want / need accountability?  Hold someone else accountable.  You need / want money?  Give money.

These counterintuitive solutions help you get back into flow with reality, and your relationship to this reality is of the utmost importance.

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