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I won't judge them for who they are if that's what you mean, as for a sexual relationship I personally wouldn't be into that, that's not attractive to me. There's nothing wrong with it, but I wouldn't want that for me personally. Friends, yes, sexual intimate relationship, no.

Honestly I think postures are the last thing you should be focusing on. Just sit as comfortably as you can but not so comfortable you're falling asleep.

Google docs on my phone and my memos (galaxy s7) on my phone for both Journaling and strategizing. I absolutely love google docs, cause I can access it on my regular computer and my phone anytime I need to add, look over, write insights, start a new plan or structure at anytime.

- How You Sabotage Yourself - How You Go Unconscious - How You Get Distracted - How Your Fears Hold You Back - How Your Identity Hold You Back - How Your Premises and Beliefs Hold You Back - How You Fail To See The Big Picture - How You Fail To See True Value - How You Fail To Understand The Importance of Patience and Implementation - Not Being Able To Recognize What's True and Not True - Not Understanding How You Work - Not Having A Life Purpose - Not Knowing How To Build Structures and Strategize Effectively for Internal and External Environments - Looking Externally Instead of Internally For Solutions - Asking Others For Solutions Instead of Finding Out For Yourself - Not Deeply Contemplating and Strategizing - Not Understanding Deep Concepts Like Enlightenment - Not Being Able To Recognize Patterns Within Oneself and Outside Oneself - Not Understanding The Difference In Emotion and Logical Thinking - Not Understanding The Difference In Awareness and Thinking - Not Meditating - Not Understanding How You Learn - Not Being Able To Focus and Contemplate Something For Long Periods of Time - Not Being Able To Get An Idea of How You Feel - Not Understanding How Identity Is Created These are just some of the things you need to become more aware of, thanks for the post, I haven't really contemplated this topic yet.

I've been meditating for about a year and a half, only missing a day here and there except for the last 11 months straight I haven't missed and only recently started hitting my plateaus, in the begining there's a lot of insight and a lot of growth but as of late its been very slow going, and its sometime even still hard for me to sit down which I'm still working on but, I'm gonna keep on going here.

Meditation Enlightenment Life Purpose Learning/Education Slow Deliberate Mindful Action Contemplation Being Top Ten Values (I added) This is from his Lifestyle Minimalism video.

It's not absurdity if your trying to aggrandize yourself.

Yeah some people can't laugh at the absurdity of their own thoughts and ego.

You just gotta pick one for now, pick your favorite word, and over time you'll start to put each meaning in their place the more you define what these words mean for you, this is why Leo says just pick one to get started, the 30 day challenge is gonna help a lot with this and even after the challenge. Add "/" if you really have a tough time. Dive into each words and feel around with them over the 30 challenge.

Challenge the voice, don't just let it take over. "It's not real, Okay, that may be true BUT can I deny it won't help?" "Its not you, okay its not you right now but it can be you, in order to change you have to be not you or you'll never grow." "You've never experienced anything like that, yes okay that's true, but can I allow myself to be open to the idea that I could?" Be very logical with it, challenge them, don't let them take over.

You can do both, but be sure to make that your intention. things change over time as you grow and expand in your consciousness, it's good to re-evaluate when things don't feel right (which is what you're doing right now.) it's okay to be using all these techniques, but just make sure you have set proper intentions for them, if not your mind will have a hard time focusing on what's important or --the intention-- and you will continue to be frustrated.

I think you're stressing over the structures too much, go back to your intentions you set for meditation (in your case relaxing) because it's clear your techniques are not serving your intentions whatever your true intentions may be, understand that and you'll find your answer or breakthrough.

"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."

@mystic This is good, your slowly realizing how asleep you actually are, and realizing how much you're triggered by the external environment. This is where understanding of awareness and using things like meditation allowing you to detach and not get sucked into the content of thoughts and building this muscle of being able to re-focus your mind to the present moment among other things, Leo has a video on understanding awareness and also a mindfulness meditation video and a bonus I'll mention is "how your mind distorts reality" the more you gain awareness about how you go unconscious the easier it is to be mindful.

I think Eben Pagan could bring some new insight into this --> https://www.youtube.com/user/EbenPaganMedia/videos I think a big part is get done what you know has to get done each day without question ie your "ritual", the stuff you know is gonna grow you, Get that done first (habits) the biggest priorities and the biggest opportunities with some time management structures that Eben Pagan talks about, He talks about a "success ritual" a "Prioritization System" and "Ultra Successful Time Managment System" are some videos to start looking at. This video is actually very helpful and incredibly insightful I just came across

I'm trying to resolve this same issue, I think its looking at the big picture each day, also anything that is outside what you "should" be doing should be considered comfort unless this other thing fits in with your intentions or goals in some form but even this can create excuses so.. Hope others can shed some more light on this as I also try to figure this out.

This video is a very good place for you to start, master your emotions. You're not gonna be able to change your patterns if you aren't aware of them happening in the moment.

It's amazing to me how something as simple as going up and talking to a girl your curious about can be blown out into many extremes. being creepy, being weird, who gives a fuck? If someone told me I was weird for talking to girls I was curious about is that really weird? I think it's more weird to allow yourself to miss the opportunity and the chance to build something with this person. If you're gonna let weird stop you then just follow the rest of the sheep, do what's normal and see how far that takes you. It's just the big issue and what Leo was talking about was people take this to huge extremes, breaking hearts left and right, proving their superiority with hotter girls, better asses, better tits, emotionally using women, lying to women, manipulating women, bragging to others about their experiences and many many other things including how fulfilled in the end you will be from doing this for a long time. Leo means just have a fucking heart and doing it a little more ethically. Give a shit a little about how this might effect these women. If you want multiple women, be polyamorous, have a little more consciousness about how this might emotionally hurt these women if they were to know what you were up to. You can approach girls! Just be aware of what you're doing, why you're doing it and what you ultimately want from this and actually give a shit about the other person in the end.

I personally prefer to chase the intangibles, if I can get those I believe everything else will fall in line.

Yeah you could 100% do that, just know that Leo has already done that, he's already created an amazing structure for everything you need to know and how to stay on this journey including 12 book reviews. Also just know that the investment in yourself isn't the hard part at all, the hard part is you putting in the work to get the results you want, if you have no problems creating structures and putting in lots of reading time then by all means go for it. But if you want to cut that time in half, save up some money and invest in yourself, honestly you should be using both resources. for me in the grand scheme of things, 249$ isn't a lot of money compared to the information he has given. It's honestly nothing compared to having everything you need to know about life purpose in one place. Some can't see the value, in fact most don't even know how to translate that value in the real world, which Leo also shows you how to do.

And that's the struggle. Failing and messing up or "falling into traps" are just a part of life, but you learn a lot from it, failure is the best teacher. We're all gonna fall into a lot of traps, even when we're being aware of the traps and that's okay. Your fear of falling into traps is actually trapping you paradoxically, so be mindful of that, there's actually no traps in the reality, this is what people are really getting "stuck" on, we're all gonna stumble a lot, but as long as we persevere we'll find our way eventually.

Yeah.. but you could also consider it a place to go for people who are really lost and need some guidance.

Final day 7: I would have posted this yesterday but I literally just came home after work and slept til I had to go to work again although I did have some insights they were just progresses of what I've been having insights about so far but anyway, Well, I learned a lot about addictions, although it's still hard for me to step away from YouTube and other distractions, I'm becoming more conscious and aware of how these things are affecting the quality of my life. I feel like I'm on the right track towards my intentions, this posting has been an interesting experience for me giving me new ideas and insights into how I should be growing myself. I hope @Argue hasn't went too far off It's been an experience and look forward to more challenges! til next time.