Rigel

I am at a point in terms of skill where I can charge up to 70$ an hour for one on one teaching & I work on stuff I love at least everyday. It’s becoming easier & easier to get clients too. I think I’ll be officially financially afloat from it exclusively in the coming year or two & it feels fantastic. I don’t want to be bragging, I just felt grateful. I took the course almost a decade ago. I’ve been on the forum since 2018 & I bought the course before that for god’s sake! Plow through the doubt & resistance fam, this work really does work. And you, Leo, my good sir, are absolutely insane. I am only scratching the surface of your work.

I was amazed to realize how non obvious good running mechanics are out of the gate. Folks out there would benefit from studying gate & the architecture of the feet, knees & hips before just going out & doing it out of pain for the sake of cardio. Running feels fantastic when the mechanics are coherent. I Went out for a run this morning & I definitely felt better & sharper the whole day. I gain energy from short runs of 15ish minutes it’s amazing. Sneak in a few sprints here & there. Fantastic. I had a little nag in my shoulder upon waking. Gone. It’s greasing the whole system. Moving the blood & lymph. God I love running.

You guys keep amazing me when I get moments of clarity. I can only see your insights when I can see your insights even if you tell it to my face I won’t get it until I do.

Here’s a few things I am struggling with if anyone has an input go ahead I will read & enjoy it. I am bottle necked by the amount of students. There’s no doubt that I can teach & satisfy students enough for them to give me vast amounts of money(compared to my other jobs lol) but it’s only one hour a week per student & I don’t have enough to make it fully from teaching yet. Getting them is getting easier though. I am bottle necked by my mind always still. I am at a point with my playing where I will listen back to it & really like it. It sounds weird to say but I think I sound awesome. And still, I struggle to bring myself on stage. I have done it in the past but now it feels more serious. Which I know for a fact is incompatible with good playing. Good playing & serious don’t exist at the same time. I can feel my dirty mind getting in the way when I play a “serious performance “ like a live stream or actual show as opposed to singing to your mom(my mom) for example. No problem letting go & sounding great there. It’s fear. That’s really all it is but it so damn sticky! God had to make it a challenge or what?

Thanks mate! I can foresee the second stage of this where I am not so crippled by money that I can think of the spiritual impact of my art & that kind of fluffy goodness. Not that I don’t already do but not earning money really do be crippling, mate.

I am working on diversifying my operation at the moment. I would love to get more students as it has proven fun & lucrative but I can clearly see that gigging is where the most growth will happen. Therefore that’s where I need to go.

Oh you saw! I teach music. You should’ve seen my face when I charged 50$ to one of my students & she pulled out 20$ on top to tip me the other day lol. The formulation of my purpose has changed a lot throughout the years. So much so that I sort of gave up trying to formulate it. In one word I’d say inspiration but I’ve always felt dissatisfied with it. What I got from your course that really did it for me was the value assessment part. And it’s more than just the course too, it’s all your work really. I don’t have the wits to explain myself like you do but it’s an understatement to say that you had the biggest impact in my life so far shy of my parents lol. I love teaching & singing Elvis tunes with random folks & hearing “merci” with a glimmer in their eyes as I am leaving.😌 I hope my passion is seeping out of me & into them is the main thing I guess. I have more ambition than this but it feels great to earn my survival in a way that doesn’t suck like so many other jobs I had.

I don’t get how to tag you but thank you Leo!

You’re so funny Leo!😂

You missed what I said. Ask yourself what movement even is in the first place & notice that what you are saying is false.

You literally can’t help but move all the time. Try not moving for a few days & you die. It only makes sense that cardio would be beneficial to your cognitive function & it is. But it doesn’t need to make sense, it’s still true without all the rationalizations & reasoning for a mechanism.

That’s just what humans do. I haven’t met anyone yet who doesn’t believe in & try to convince people of their crap daily to some extent. I don’t believe you if you tell me you don’t do it. But I also think spiritual perspectives on health are on topic here. We die if we stop masturbating. This is very serious lol.

Standing meditation is underrated

Swiss ball meditation is clearly superior. /jk

I don’t see why both can’t exist at the same time.

Lab ain’t providing that authentic terroir. If in my closet besides a spray bottle of 70% iso counts as terroir. Your lab ain’t beating my flavours. Yee aah

In other words: fuck up & learn

Cool, use whatever you want. I missed the part where you ask us to change your mind:)

I am sure one of your reincarnations will be crazy enough to😝

I can’t speak on the remarkable but if I remember correctly it’s more of a specific use case device for notes only. iPad is a full computer so it depends on what you need but I can say that apple pencil feels great even without the paper like screen(never tried). I don’t know if you can put a keyboard on the remarkable but that’s something to consider.

They all have trade offs. I like apple notes more than obsidian. If you are a casual note taker you could do away with text edits but that’s kinda ugly. Apple notes is great especially if you own an iPad with pencil .

You sort of need it for the app to be any kind of useful no?

I remember giving it up because the phone version was pure trash & expensive. Maybe they fixed it it’s been a while.

You don’t need to lift weights per say although it’s great but moving & getting your heart rate up is absolutely essential for health. It’s disproportionately worth it. Walking will not increase your metabolic rate enough from my experience. It’s still great but insufficient.

Will understanding the biology make you trip & raise your consciousness? Are you suggesting we find a way to trigger those pathways through other means?