Dan Arnautu

@Equanimitize No problem, man. We also need to remember that our life has it's seasons too. There are seasons to gather knowledge and to plan, and seasons to take action. You just gotta be self-aware enough to know where you're at.

@saint_charming7 Interesting story. First, we need to know, what is your end goal? We can't help you to win the race if you don't know where the finish line is.

@Charlotte He says he has trouble getting the needed calories. Either he has a high intake and doesn't have the appetite to eat that much, or he has too little and doesn't know how to properly spread them out to make it easy.

For each area of mastery, there are gonna be about 10 critical skills to master, not just one. For example, as a photographer: Photo manipulation Lighting Photo editing Graphic design maybe Writing (if he's gonna be a travel blogger/photographer) Marketing Sales As a musician: Ear training Improvising Lyric writing Composition Harmony Musical Theory Audio editing, mixing, mastering Video editing, mixing, mastering Learning to work with samples Learning multiple instruments (if you are a film composer) Marketing Live performance Networking and People skills You are seriously underestimating the scope of the work. If your life purpose is music, you must master at least the top 3 skills from the usual 10 in your domain of mastery. That's why you have 60+ years ahead of you. So get to work.

@MM1988 What's the question?

@Gligorije Holding on to guilt prevents you from increasing your consciousness and is very counterproductive for you and for the people around you. It's actually the most unresourceful emotion to have, worse than apathy or depression. Learn to let go of it using Dr. Hawkin's letting go technique. You can find the book "Letting go" on Amazon. Get it, do technique and then come back in 5 months as a brand new human being.

@blaircooper Don't confuse breaking the body's limits with an everyday habit. Sure, it reveals who you are. But that's an insight, an aha moment. Once you get the message, you put the phone down. You don't keep calling every single day for the same message. Get the message, adjust your life accordingly and maybe plan another barrier-breaking period for the future. But don't go about doing it on a day to day basis. It will come back to bite you in the butt.

@Charlotte No diet is best. One year keto is best, another year paleo is best, another year vegan or carnivore is best and then the cycle repeats. It's just marketing. Don't get caught up in it. Every diet works. Some just work better with certain body types than with others. Also, substitute the word diet with nutrition. Diet is something you do once and then you yo-yo back to your previous condition. Proper nutrition is something that you integrate into your lifestyle and it doesn't change much after you set it properly. What calorie problem do you have specifically?

@shammy01 Nothing wrong with it, depending on the type of cardio. But it's no use in me telling you this because I feel you don't understand yet how cardio fits into a nutrition/health plan, and you will thus be spinning your wheels by not getting the results you want with cardio.

@Aquarius Dude, your profile picture is a game character and your name is 'Aquarius'. There's nothing wrong with that because this is just a forum but of course, people will think you are shady. What people think doesn't say anything about you though because they don't have all the info. For people you are just a random guy on the internet. I don't know your intentions, your values, your beliefs, your motivations, your appearance. What does the primal instinct say in these kinds of situations? It would rather assume you are shady than not, because that keeps me safe from danger.

@Anirban657 You don't need any book. Investors have no problem giving you money if your idea is good enough, has the potential to sell and if they see you have done your homework well beforehand.

@AceTrainerGreen Like Leo said, work smart not hard. I'll give you an example. Let's say you want to grow a business and you still live with your mom. How do you grow it faster? By working 120h a week on it while eating Mc Donald's and canned tuna? You could do that, or... you could learn a freelancing skill for 3 months day in and day out, you then get some gigs that pay 1000$ for 3 days of work per month. You use half of the money to delegate tasks in your business/hire people and you invest the other half into assets or further educations/coaching/mentoring that would exponentially grow your business. With this simple scheme, you just grew your potential to earning 10x as much for 1/2 of the time... This is what smart work looks like. And yes, 3 month is enough to learn a skill to the point of being able to charge 40$/h on freelancing websites.

@brugluiz Very simple. You accept the job anyway, and if it doesn't turn out good, you give the money back to him. You get lessons out of it, and the client doesn't lose anything. The worse situation would be to find out you could have charged double the price for your current level of skill.

@Viking Options include: A mobile or desktop game that provides just the right amount of stimulation and relaxation A fantasy book that keeps you connected to beauty, the magic of life and the hero's journey. Listening to music mindfully (doesn't require as much concentration as meditation, just sit back and take it in) Reading news Having a chat with a friend Commenting on forums, like I'm doing now Doing Tai Chi Picking up an instrument Doing visualizations/hypnosis/affirmations What's more relaxing than picturing your perfect life in your head at the end of the day?

@Seed Very normal. Just set a fixed bedtime and wake up time (which I assume you should have already) if it becomes an issue. This will solve it.

@Mezanti Read the book "No More Mr. Nice Guy". It's written by a guy that dedicated his whole career to this. There is also "The Assertiveness Workbook", which is an amazingly good book imo. Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Experts have already solved the problem and developed systems to get over this issue. Just get the two books and do the techniques and exercises. Good luck.

@Inliytened1 Yes, it can definitely do that. Had more than three from what I remember, each one very memorable. The best way of describing it is being hit by "disarming beauty". No matter how constricted your body or mind feels, when it hits, it makes you drop your guard like an armor just falling off a knight. At least that is how it feels to me. The bliss and ecstasy are implicit.

@Simke I'm gonna provide a word of caution, as I've been doing this work for over 4 years now. You might be better of starting with a book, deriving actionable steps (after you have finished reading it), starting to take action on them and then moving on to another book. The biggest trap I've fallen into is reading lots of books, feeling all smart and fancy, but still having a shitty life because I wasn't taking enough action. The ratio should be 10% reading, 90% implementing. You can go the other way though (reading 40 books at once, like I do now), but be prepared for a massive backlash that comes with the radical increase in openmindedness and knowledge. After your first book, you will feel good. After your 50th, you will feel like you know nothing anymore. LIke all you've ever grown up with was a lie and you might discover that you need to redraw your life from scratch at that point. It leaves you totally paralyzed. That's the critical point where you should not give up. Only at the 100th book onward will you start to gain some clarity again and get a feel for the road. So the path looks like this. 1st book - You feel good cuz you're learning something new and feel like you're making progress. 50th book - "All my life was a lie. Wtf. I don't know anything anymore. I know nothing. Nobody knows anything. What is next?" 100th book - Ooooh, ok. I'm starting to see patterns. I'm starting to get in touch with my own intuition and I can see concepts repeating and interconnecting. It's starting to feel like a dance, and I have to keep up the rhythm. Everything starts to be more clear and my confidence is increasing. I'm over the hurdle.

It might be that you are just more at ease than most people and thus you don't expend as much energy. As a wise guru said, what your body needs is restfulness, not sleep. I've read Matthew Walker's book ("Why We Sleep"), and in the book, he effectively bombards you with scientific studies on every page, including one where getting 6h of sleep instead of 8 for just a week fucks your entire bodily system in many different ways. For example, decreasing the hormone that makes you feel full and increasing the one that triggers hunger and cravings for carbs. Of course, do take into consideration that most people here on the forum do not fit the general population because they work on themselves and are not as neurotic. So, if you are an outlier, it's definitely possible that 6 hours might be just fine with your body. Personal and spiritual work can decrease sleep quota quite a lot. I still need my 8h though, for now.

What challenges are you talking about specifically?

@Unceremoniously Sting (Shape of my heart / Wheel within a wheel) Nightwish (the album "Endless Forms Most Beautiful") ---> Especially the song "The Greatest Show On Earth" from start to finish. It's an epitome of Turquoise. Haken (Bound by Gravity) Tool (46 and 2) Devin Townsend

Do you know some methods to get over a cold really fast? Some people say rest, some people say continue your activities as to trick the body into thinking it's healthy etc. What is your experience?

Thanks, Leo. Real useful input. Gonna try them out. I tried David Hawkin's letting go technique on cold symptoms and my desire to get better. The technique coupled with 2 nights of proper sleep made it go away. I never got over a cold that fast before. I avoided any medication aside from nasal spray so I could go to sleep otherwise I couldn't breathe properly.

@Baotrader That's a projection. Eckhart Tolle sat for two years on a bench and he never knew when the next paycheck will come. And you can hear him personally saying that he never worried about it. Just because you worry when you have little money, it doesn't mean that everyone does.

I remember when I read "The 48 Laws of Power". Very sneaky and manipulative. I couldn't even read the whole "Art of Seduction". It was so sleazy and manipulative that it made me sick to my stomach and had to stop halfway through the book. I decided to give him another chance with his new book, "The Laws of Human Nature". Here, he is dissecting the bad in human nature and gives us ways to become more empathetic, to understand another's point of view, to understand our own shadow etc. He tries to make us understand human behavior and how to act more consciously. Glad he is starting to move up. He is not going to the root as much as actualized.org videos, but it's still a breath of fresh air imo. What do you think?