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thanks guys, non-alcoholic wine is a great idea, i'm going to use that! I'm going to look carefully at the labels as I hear some of them are just glorified cherry juice, but does anyone know if there's any unhealthy ingredients to look out for? Presumably in alcoholic wine, there's no bad ingredients per se, it's the process that makes it unhealthy because it turns the grape into alcohol? Hopefully non alcoholic wine is just the same minus the alcohol.

I don't like alcohol and don't drink at all in order to maximise my health. I don't currently cook with wine, but I love the taste of wed wine in food. Red wine vinegar is just not the same. I was thinking about starting to use red wine in dishes, because whenever I try someone else's cooking, I love the flavour, but I don't really want to start if it's gonna be unhealthy. From my understanding, the alcohol doens't completely burn off, unless cooked for many hours. and i'm not sure if there's also other things beside the alcohol that make these drinks bad? thank you

Going for walks, and listenign to music are good, but if I finish working on my business or finish working on personal development stuff at 5pm, but i'm not gonna listen to music or go for a walk for 7 hours until I go to bed. What other things can I do to relax and recharge? Things that I can do each night, kind of like a hobby that allows me to relax and recharge? When I think of things like introspecting, visualising, reading - these are all just acitivites that are still using my brain, i don't feel like they allow me to relax and recharge, they just feel like more of what i've been doing all day. And things like gym and cooking, I do these things, but I don't really consider this my 'free time'. thank you

thanks, but I guess what i'm asking is: if I spend all day taking notes on self improvement videos, introspecting, removing limitng beliefs etc, can i then do something like visualisaiotn or read a self improvement book in the evening, or would this just be more of what i've been doing all day?

I understand that we shouldn't work more than 40 hours a week in careers. I'm currently not in a career, so I have all day everyday to work on personal development. Question 1: Is it any different for personal development or should I still not work on personal development for more than 40 hours a week? Question 2: If i've spent a lot of the day working on personal devleopment, reading books, introspecting, removing limiting beliefs etc, and then in the evening i spend my free time visioning, is this just more personal development and therefore causing me to be overworked? thanks

I'm not talking about books like '7 habits of highly effective people' that give you generic principles around making results happen, i'm looking for a book that is specifically about generating tangible results each day, becoming a great executor and how to best do that thank you

@nhoktinvt I literally have no idea what you mean

@nhoktinvt thank you for the reply i appreciate it. So if someone had a few weaknesses, let's say their biggest weakness was that they were addicted to heroin, and then they had a minor addiciton to gambling, and they also had a slight problem with splurging all their money. In this sense, their weakest spot would be the thing that creates the most destructive behaviour and that makes them the most psychologically weak, in this example it would be their heroin addiction. That would be where they concentrate all their forces, to remove that first? Even though it might be the most challenging to remove, they attack that first because that's the thing that makes their mind the most weak?

@Leo Gura I was hoping you could elaborate on something. In the 7 Pillars of strategic thinking video, pillar 4 is concentration of force: hitting the enemy where they're weakest, find our own weak spots, find the areas where we have the most leverage. Question: Does finding our 'weak spots' mean targeting the areas that are going to make the biggest difference in our lives? For example, building a business and leaving a full time job is something that will make the biggest difference in my life. Question 2: Or does finding our 'weak spots' mean targeting the areas where we're weakest? Question 3: Or does finding out 'weak spots' mean targeting the areas where it's easiest for us to generate results relative to the work put in, like high-leverage activities The reason I wanted to check this is because, all these areas that make the biggest difference in our lives like building a business etc, are typically the areas where the enemy (our own mind) is strongest rather than weakest? e.g more resistance, limiting beliefs, and these are typically the areas that require more discipline and work ethic etc? thank you

i get salt with lower heavy metal content, do you know if wood or glass is better?

Looking to buy a new salt and pepper grinder, i've heard it's best for the grinding function to be cermaic, but i'm just wondering about the body of the grinder, would a wooden or a glass grinder be better in terms of less heavy metals and other pollutants? thank you

@HMD thank you I appreciate it!

@Leo Gura thank you I appreciate the reply I definitely think that’s true, as I’m starting a business at home and on days where I’m really busy, i'm focused on other things so I don't really think about masturbating at all Out of interest, like with music, do you think it would work to temprarily quit masturbation for like two weeks or a month? I can foresee that permanent no-fap would be a mistake and probably lead to a lot a lot of frustration, sexual repression, shame etc, but i'm wondering if quitting it for 2 weeks or a month and then going back to it would lessen the addiction, and allow me to use it in a healthy way?

There's two things I want to cut down on: listening to music, and masturbation: I don't have a particualrly strong addiction to either, I don't spend a ton of time on them each day but I find that they can be a crutch for me at times for procrastinating on work etc, so I want to remove that dependency I sometimes have with them. I find it easy to remove addictions by going cold turkey like I did with youtube, but I'm not interested in no-fap whatsoever, and I also don't want to go cold turkey with music. Personally I don't know any other way to remove an addiction besides cold turkey Like if i was trying to reduce eating chocolate cake, it wouldn't work for me to say "I can eat x amount a day but I have to wail til 6pm to eat it". I'd just spend the day thinking about when i get to eat chocolate cake at 6pm. In summary: I don't want to go cold turkey, so i'm looking for a way to reduce them, but without it feeling like i'm restricting myself and making me want to do them more Would appreciate your input thank you

wow that's amazing, thank you I appreciate the reply! Presumably you change the water every day?