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What's your goal? Do you want to reach and engage more people, or do you just like writing and want to exteriorize that? Are you aiming to help people by providing methods or teachings on how to solve problems or are you just sharing your vision with the internet? Both are fine! I'm just asking to understand a little further what's your goal. I think that how often is not so important as the topics you touch on because of SEO. People will find your content on google if they search and your blog ranks on the same keywords they searched. Meaning if I search "How to make apple pie" the blogs that first appear are the ones that best rank on Google for these keywords. Providing useful and how-to content in blog format is crucial because people don't often read blogs as entertainment nowadays. They can watch yt videos of "A day in my life" but not so much blogs. You can use tools like Moz to see what questions and problems people are facing in the topics you touch. Although, your goal might not be so focused on the reader and that's all right too! Anyway, here are some best practices to drive traffic Use SEO keyword research (i.e Moz or Google Keyword planner) as a guide to identifying topics to write about Note the importance of specific questions as a means for searching online. Optimize page titles, page headings, and body content for SEO. Create longer form evergreen content, that is, content that isn't time-dependent and won't get old Write short-form pieces about current trends and topics. Choose themes that are useful to people to help you become an authority and resource. Look at the performance of existing content to gauge what audience responds to and see if you can look at it from a different angle. Comment and engage with other people's blogs to generate awareness of your blog and goodwill from the other bloggers and their communities who may check out your blog or share your social posts. Create the best piece of content by far to answer the question you've identified (in keyword researchers) in as being in the mind of your target audience. Hope it helps!

@Raptorsin7 I’m kinda resistant to the idea of changing my method. But I’ll look into it, and the benefits it could bring. Definitely would like to hear @Salvijus take. I think too. At least for me it was really valuable.

@Raptorsin7 I meditate using Vipassana method. I learned it in a vipassana retreat and I had a monk teaching there. It was really nice to have great guidance tbh and I do understand what you mean regarding guru's grace. My teacher certainly had that. I miss it. But you say to have a teacher who guides permanently or just to teach once? I'll definitely check Isha Kriya. Thanks!

Doesn't kombucha have alcohol? It's really interesting your experiment. Care to share how you make it? I didn't quite get why it reduces your chocolate acne. If you could explain. Thank you!

That’s amazing! Congrats!

It works for now, but it might have serious consequences on the long run, specially if you’re using it so frequently. Look out for that. It’s imprudent not to.

This is surreal..

I stand exactly on the other side. I have the tendency to be people pleaser and find inner value in being useful to others. I used to be so detached from my wants and needs that sometimes I couldn’t even perceive what I really wanted let alone speak it. I guess that’s from the many years of suppressing those to fit. Something that helped me was speaking more directly and transparently indeed, even if I somehow felt that could hurt others. I do encounter people that have a unconscious tendency to push my people pleasness. I get stiff and back away. But if something makes me uncomfortable I force myself to say it. Before tho, I might do embarrassing things. I remember one time I peeled an apple for my sister’s bf bc he asked me to. “Barbara peel this apple for me. Sure” Lol

Writing this ^ took me 1 freaking hour. I'm constantly finding things to get distracted and postponing what I'm doing. I've been procrastinating with ecom related stuff like hell these last 2 months. And it makes me feel bad. But I just realized... why didn't I see this before... I'm backlashed as shit. Just like my last meditation retreat. I pushed it too much and then felt so much repulse for spiritual stuff. But the most important thing... I got over it!! I stopped my practice for a couple of months, but then I got back at it, I was stronger than ever and have a solid practice up until today. So I'll get over this low and be stronger! My plan is to identify what I gotta do, pick a small task at a time, and show up every day.

Money-making years I want my life to be full of value to provide, full of purpose, full of energy, full of abundance. The way I see it, money is a barrier to a value-focused life. Money is finite, a trade coin for either time or skills that are not so aligned with the value provider I want to be. But essential to walk around the material world. Many people are stuck in a job that is meaningless to them. Work only to pay the bills. Are stuck in an endless cycle that imprisons them. I don't want that for me. Many people have a job that fulfills them, that they feel a strong passion for, but are not free to walk away whenever. Suddenly their life depends on their passion. As better as it sounds, I don't want that for me. I don't want a cycle. I want to be a value provider to humanity, and I believe I can't do that as long as I'm worried about the paycheck. It could easily corrupt my motives if I was in need of money. In the future, I don't want to use my position as a recognized value provider to extract more money out of a deal. I want to be free from any preoccupation that the finitude of money carries. With that said, I want to clarify that I don't think that money is the root of all evil, or whatever. Money-making is a skill (or a set of skills) that can be mastered just like any other. Cultivating that skill is gaining the treat of self-reliance, discipline, strategic thinking, resourcefulness, and others — integrating orange meme and the eminent manifestation of masculine principles fundamental for balanced growth. Spiral dynamics helps me understand this well, and have a deep comprehension of the need to compartmentalize life in order to reach further. So, the way I see it is in order to be able to not worry about money during my life, I have to 1. make money in an early period of life and then invest it in something steady and safe, 2. produce assets that run passively and 3. reduce my expenses as much as possible. 1. For the first step, I committed myself to learn the skill of money-making for the next 3 years. I also did the math to see how much money I need to Build a house (50k to 70k — my boyfriend and I are building it ourselves, paying each other half of it) Invest it and earn interests of 5-12%/anually to make 700-1k€/monthly to cover expenses (some groceries, gas, travel, miscellaneous). So, I need to learn the money-making skills. What are they? In the past few months, I've built an e-commerce brand, so one that's one great focus of mine. In the next 6 months, I will read a book about a money-related topic every week. The list is not complete yet, suggestions are accepted, but so far, I have: Rich Dad, Poor Dad (✓) The Boron Letters The Millionaire Fastlane No BS Direct Marketing .Ogilvy on Advertising Efficiency — Wallstreet Journal Scientific Advertising This book will teach you how to write better Predictably Irrational .Crushing It! Cashvertising The copywriter's handbook The Ultimate Salesletter It will be a total of 24 books (minimum). These books are about some of the money-making skills I need to learn: Marketing, direct response marketing, money and investments, time management, copywriting, sales, discipline, etc. I also plan to find someone in the e-commerce business that is doing well and hopefully work for them for free and learn with them. I will do this by connecting with the most people possible, via Reddit, facebook groups, discord/telegram chats, e-commerce forums, and other platforms I can find. I'll ask them to teach me and offer to work for them. 2. The brand that I built will be an asset as soon as I outsource. During these three years, I will be attentive to these types of opportunities that arise. So far, I don't have many plans here. 3. For this, I plan to not pay any mortgage by building a house myself, paying it upfront. We will also build a vertical farming system (more practical and space-saving) in a greenhouse that will provide us with most of the food we need for the whole year. Vegetarians, so no problem there. Although we would still need to buy some groceries, the point of this is to have the most healthy vegetables, with no sketchy pesticides and fertilizers and the fewest living expenses. Food and shelter are the biggest ones that are possible to overcome, and as you can tell, I'm not looking forward to the material life. It is also an idea to move to Sri Lanka for a couple of years, as soon as this pandemic calms down. The reason is that I love Sri Lanka, want to live abroad for some time, and would be aligned with the spending less thing. The purpose of sharing this is not to advise or show a path. I simply wish to share this for the sake of community and maybe accountability (for me). This is a 3-5 years long plan. It will most certainly change since perception is limited and if perception changes, perspective widens. I will be sharing here book reviews type of things, insights regarding this journey, moods, etc. All this life planning sometimes feels unnecessary to me. Life unfolds beautifully, these types of plans are an attempt to control its ways. But the thing is, I want to be free and be able to rely on and provide for myself, without leaning on nobody. I know I would be ok if I expected nothing, simply making the best out of what life brings, not having so many goals and wishes. But I feel it's vital to integrate the orange meme and grow gracefully from it. But even with these plans and goals in mind, I still wish to honor the chaos and uncertainty of life and be grateful for whatever unfolds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bzQYKm3xTA

How to find a solid product/market: Market criteria: Passionate People in this market identify with it Has a problem/pain High-income people This criterion is pretty straightforward, but here are a couple of examples: Neck pain work from home market Women with knee pain market Example #1: People who have neck pain and work from home. Is it niched? yeah. Do they have a problem? yeah. So why not choose this market? Simple: No passion. Not something they identify with. When it comes to building a brand resonation is huge. This market doesn't identify with the fact that they work from home. It's not something they would put in their IG bio. Building a brand and a story around a market that lacks passion and identity will be tough. Example #2: Women with knee pain market Is it niched? yeahhh kinda? Do they have a problem? yeah. So why not this market either? The same concepts apply to this example, but the main difference here is this: often when people want to niche down they take a route that isn't necessarily helpful. They begin with a problem: Knee pain > Then they begin choosing characteristics that narrow down their audience without adding any benefit. Demographics usually won't make a difference unless it's something they identify with. Instead, choose a passionate, concrete niche. Of course, people make tons of money in the markets I said I wouldn't choose, so there is an opportunity, but is it the best opportunity? Now how would I go about finding a market I would go after? Take a notebook out and literally just think of all the things people are passionate about. I promise you can think of at least 50. If you really can't think of 50 you can use google and search for passions. Research what problems these groups of people face. Talk to people in the market and ask about their issues (youtube, google, reddit, watch interviews.) Find what these people are already buying to solve their issues. After step 3, you begin to plan how you'll create a better business than people who are already successfully selling that product. Do their ads suck? how about their offer? branding? site? Find the opportunity. Improve everything. Be a better business than the business that's doing well. If you find a business that sucks and is making a killing, you've potentially struck a goldmine. Find the market. Find the problems. Find what they're already buying to solve that problem. Improve everything that competitors are doing. Find your own edge in your ads, content, brand, etc. (via: ecom cowboy twitter) BTW: The title of this journal has a spelling mistake. I meant "How to not be a broke hippie" If someone knows how to change this, pls help

I think you have a great opportunity here to show otherwise and how deeper levels of conscience bring up different solutions to unruliness.

You want to promote evolution within the forum but you're doing so by creating a fear-based and strict environment. I won't say it won't work. But you'll have a micro tyranny going. And like all the tyrannies it will implode. I don't know if you're doing compartmentalization and feel the need to apply blue rules here, but this just shows a lack of real-world experience managing communities. You were criticizing Daniel for being utopian and elitist, and I believe that's why you do all that pickup vids on your youtube, but what are you trying to do here then? Make it congruent.

@Danioover9000 Hm thats interesting. Correlation established. What other people do you know to back your theory?

@Danioover9000 Ahah yes, I’m following that.

@spinderella I'm glad for you. If it fits any purpose, I was a bit behind relative to my partner when I met him. But the will to learn and explore is what matters!

@spinderella It's normal that new relationships need adaptation and when you're with someone there is a whole other individual you have to consider when making decisions that might affect them. It's hard! Ahah The way I see it it's a tradeoff. You get new great things, you lose some other great things. And at the beginning that might be weird. I don't know what things specifically you have to "lose", that's something you both have to figure out. It's different for everybody. But be in peace with that tradeoff. I'm telling you this because you referred that you can be a little avoidantly attached. And the point I want to get across is that I believe you would benefit from talking through boundaries with your partner. Like, where does he stand regarding this for example: Then you can both adjust where you feel comfortable, whether that means acting accordingly in the relationship or following different paths. Contemplate for a moment if what you want is being with him, John (sorry for calling him John), with all of what he stands for and represents, or with someone that is compatible and shares the same life goals and visions as you, that is reliable and honest and treats you well? Because I'm sure there are a lot of people like that, but there's only one John

Why do you get worried? What I sense is that you feel 5-MeO would blatantly show you things you don't want to see. Your concern is your answer. Why would it be so bad to end this relationship? Just asking, not suggesting.

@Jakuchu True! But that's not what I meant. I meant evolution is done by changing structural patterns of behavior, even if that looks very different for everyone. And because reality is highly fractal, you get different systems similar in nature. So every path, that steams from proper principles does lead to enlightenment.

Meanwhile a mathematician “How do they live like that, never understanding how math is everywhere! Symmetry, estimation, probabilities, universal nature patterns! We live in a blind world!” Ahah although we take great interest on these matters other people might be busy understanding other equally deep and foundational topics of Human Existence. I don’t think evolution is done by everyone starting to contemplate human consciousness and reality. Is done by people realizing the depth of existence, which can steam from many places, from pottery to medicine to math. And yet, every path takes to enlightenment isn’t that so?

@Danioover9000 Ahah I meant Bret Weinstein darkhorse podcast! This is how misinformation is spread kids

Second tier memes are not so much about content. The way I see it content can only take you so far and green is just great for that. So some of your questions have no possible answer because it will simply look different for everyone, as everyone is different, and different things make sense for different people. If you take something from my comment is that second tier relationships are custom made. Of course tho, I would say that everything is experienced at a very deep level, and a constant search for systemic pattern as foundation rise as a guide, to ultimately understand or better perceive how everything is intertwined. At least that’s my perception of it.

@Judy2 I was making a joke. Ahah I think OP should do whatever he feels like doing, regardless of what others do or think. There’s no happiness path, other than follow one’s heart, and that looks differently for everyone one, isn’t that so?

@Ulax @LastThursday

Who, me? Aren’t we talking about you? ?