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@martin_malin As much as I appreciate the thought, I haven't even done the life purpose course fully yet so I think this is thinking too far ahead for where I am at. Great video though

@sky_dreamer Yeah it's a good way to start at least, getting out of the 9-5 hustle, you've got yourself a good gig there it seems. I think if I were to start something like that it would be a side business, which gets me out of the hustle of being told where I need to be at what time etc. My mate and I have been talking about starting our own carpentry business which would be cool, I love he idea of making things and selling them

@Pelin Thank you! I've been thinking a lot and I think I've found a happy medium. I will get a part time job. Which even if it isn't very good, it's some income and I will be working at a monetary net positive. However I will still have time to do things that I like and start doing other things that might be exciting for me. I think that's better than the all or nothing that I was thinking before. I'll still have time to do my personal work, as well as trying out other things that interest me. And you never know I may decide one day soon "Fuck it. I'm doing the life purpose course now"

@Natura Sonoris Bookmarked.

@kieranperez I get you my man. Sounds rough to be living in San Francisco, I hope you manage to get out of there soon. But you're right because I imagine your life purpose is what gets you through those mental breakdowns most of the time, right? It's cool to understand that there could be something that powerful to get you drive your life forward, I find I'm missing a lot of that myself personally.

@Pelin You're right, there is a part of me that is making all the excuses. And it's strange because I am focused on other personal development projects at the minute such as working towards getting up earlier every day, working through the 6 pillars of self esteem, building in meditation and journalling. But yeah the life purpose course is arguably more important than those, I think that once one of those is either done or second nature respectively, the life purpose course must come next.

@Revolutionary Think I had a friend that I really liked and was sick of being rejected by girls over and over again, so I found the masculinity video and I just kicked on from there, watched nearly every video

@Quanty @Soulbass Honestly that probably should go on another post, not helpful here

@TheAvatarState Thank you so much for this. I used to love this show but I never actually caught a lot of the shows episodes. And I certainly have never seen any Avatar while being involved with Actualized.org (apart from that chakras video you posted), I will definitely keep this in mind. I'd love to be able to watch this and relate it back to what I've learnt. If you have any more recommendations like this, I'd be happy to hear them

I imagine it will help yeah, I'm reading the book and taking it pretty seriously and I have to say, it does help to bring agency back to yourself for one thing I've noticed. It's been a weird one because I find that I can access thoughts that don't even really feel like my own, yet they are. In terms of neediness, it won't eliminate it but from what I've noticed, if you take the book seriously, it will really help you to be able to either act appropriately when feeling needy or be able to deal with it when you're feeling it. You're also much more likely to actually get what you're feeling needy about haha

@ajasatya No not really, I am a bit more of a creative without any developed creative talents apart from writing. I've written down a whole bunch of things that I enjoy doing and I realised a lot of them are things I can start doing immediately and possibly see where those take me. Essentially, if I were living by myself, I wouldn't find it as much of a problem because I can live on almost nothing. But I'm living with my mum and sister in a tiny little house and they are pretty detrimental to my growth. So I want to get out of here, but I can't do that unless I get a job. However, I'm struggling to find a job that I can enjoy. See the problem?

@kieranperez I have bought it and I tried to do it at university but I simply wasn't able to balance everything then. I definitely want to complete it, I just think it would be a good thing to do in my own house, on my own time, without having to have my mum and sister around. It definitely sounds like excuses, I don't know. It's weird, I want to prioritise leaving home but I refuse to do a job that is making me hate life to move out and then I'll go look for another job anyway

@zoey101 See that sounds great for a decent little job to gain some skills but it's nothing that excites me, I'm talking more about what @martin_malin is talking about. Although being in my early 20's, I'm not sure if I have the right to be that picky @martin_malin That is exactly what I've been looking for, something that I'd be into even if I weren't getting paid but everything that I can think of is stuff that won't earn me money now, which I want to do to move out and get my independent life going more. Once I'm there though, I want to be training to be life coach while getting some passive income streams going in my spare time.

@ThinAir I know that's what he says but h also says that the betrayal of your consciousness is self-esteem lowering, so I don't want to do that. However I am finding that I am actually being more aware of the action I must take

Hi All, I've been doing the sentence stems for the 6 pillars of self esteem for the past 2 weeks and I have decided that because my self esteem is very low in all six pillars that I will spend two months on each pillar doing the stems. However I am having trouble with applying anything that I am coming up with. I am currently doing "Living consciously" and I have found that my level of awareness of what I am doing has drastically increased, but I find it so hard to act upon my actual wants and desires and don't feel I can. Which then I go back to the sentence stems thinking that I'm not doing this right because I'm not living consciously. I really don't know what to do about it. Any input would be appreicated

@MarkusSweden If you want to try it then be my guest, I've laid out my opinion on it

@MarkusSweden No. I don't think so. Because when the West has intervened in those places, it's gotten worse. To be honest I'm all for isolationist policy, let them grow when they can and how they can. Otherwise you'll be stuck in a charity driven vicious cycle like Africa is in right now. And parts of Syria are now ISIS run, with rape camps for Yazidi girls. Just let them deal with their own problems, there is no need to meddle and make things worse

I don't like this kind of thinking. This is what keeps Africa poor, low-IQ etc. If Europeans can figure out how to build massive infrastructure, and raise their level of living. Then so can Africans, you just have to let them do it rather than meddling in their affairs all the time. Let the process play out

@John Lula Imagine

@Rinne I know right, I almost feel bad for asking

Well wax my nipples and call me a surfboard. Damn @tashawoodfall

I've tried meditating with my back straight and it's really uncomfortable but it did help me, I felt great afterwards. I don't feel it's increasing my awareness though, I can hear myself more when I don't sit up with my back straight

@Leo Gura Thanks Leo!

@Leo Gura Thank you for that Leo, that's very helpful. I read through the final part of the chapter again and realised I was placing too many expectations upon what I was writing. I was just concerned because I've been realising more and more that I subconsciously put myself in unconscious states on purpose when I don't feel like taking action on something that I actually want to do and achieve. So I wanted to clear that away. But I assume like you say that, the more conscious I become, the more I will be able to take action on those things anyway. Also forgive my ignorance but what does "!=" mean?

@K VIL That's not just one of the six pillars, that's actually a key component of one of the two foundations self esteem is based on :')