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You can't erase suffering. You can only remove attachment to the things that cause suffering.

7 per hour is 56 coffees per day. 56 coffees per day if you work 8 hours a day, 7 days a week is 20,384 coffees per year. That's 61,152 coffees sold in 3 years Even if I grant that you can sell 7 coffees an hour (unreasonable), how are you ending up with $16 per coffee? (Or an average order of $16 per customer, at least.) Even if you work 12 hours per day, every single day, that's 91,728 coffees sold in 3 years. That's still $11 per coffee. If somehow you never need to sleep or use the bathroom and you can work 24/7 without hiring any extra staff, that's 183,456 coffees sold in 3 years. That's still over $5 per coffee. Please show your math. Let's work backwards here.... If you want to earn $1,000,000 in 3 years ($333,333 per year).... If you can reasonably sell an artisan coffee for $3 (somewhere between Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks)... You gotta sell 111,111 coffees per year That's 304 coffees per day, every day of the year. Or 25 coffees per hour for an entire 12-hour day. Then realize that $333,333 is your gross profit, not including all of your expenses like raw ingredients, advertising, staff, permits and licences, taxes, and many other things. Then realize coffee is coffee, it's basically a commodity. Unless you absolutely nail it with the branding, you're just going to be some generic guy selling coffee in plain white cups on the corner. Your coffee is totally interchangeable for anyone else's. Car dealerships and churches will give you the stuff for free when you come in.

You're at the peak of Axie Infinity, like 6 months too late. Not sure how much longer it can go on for before the bubble bursts. Why not just invest in stablecoins or any number of altcoins that are paying 5%+ and also appreciating at a healthy percent per year?

Both. It's not as bad as roulette or something that's just dumb luck, but it's still gambling. You can have the right cards, play based on the correct statistics, and still get a bad beat. It's possible but probably not as glamorous as you'd expect. It's not going to WSOP tournaments in person and being on TV and winning big bucks. It's going to your local casino and fleecing money from gambling addicts and drunks. Or grinding 6 low-stakes tables online simultaneously for 8 hours straight. Bad idea. Professionals don't want to play other professionals, it's not a winning proposition. They want to play fish. You might be able to create a platform that bankrolls promising up-and-coming pro poker players, or you represent them almost like an agent. But if you're looking to create another Pokerstars or similar gambling platform, chances are you won't be able to make one better than what already exists. Pure stage orange. This isn't a life purpose or business idea that would give anything back to the world. Poker is a win-lose game. Someone wins, someone loses, plus the house takes a rake from both of you. In the US you have online gambling laws to contend with. Bringing poker to Africa seems like an evil thing to do. The most profitable solution would be to train a bunch of people in 3rd world countries who have a natural aptitude for math to play poker. Then basically put them in a sweatshop and force them to play Poker for 12 hours a day. Similar to Chinese World of Warcraft gold farmers. But that's also probably one of the most cruel things you could do.

Dissonance between these two paragraphs. You have plenty of ideas and hobbies, you're just worried that they aren't "acceptable" things to pursue. If you feel that the way to best try out different possible jobs to find your passion is by jumping job to job, then going to school and going all-in on a degree in only one subject is definitely not the way to go. If you spend 3 more years studying for a particular career and hate it, that's a lot of time and money down the brain.

What's the point of creating a piece of art that nobody will ever see or appreciate? Why make it a blog then? Why not just write your thoughts in a notebook?

Forced covid vaccines are the least of your worries when it comes to becoming a world-class athlete Are you already playing on a local or state-level team that's winning championships? Are you being recognized and scouted as a promising up-and-comer? If not, the chances that you'll ever get picked up by an English or Italian football team is slim to none. Start there.... make a name for yourself and start proving that you're the best. Covid isn't even going to be a concern in another year (hopefully.)

Yup. You can swing dangerously far to the left into violence and extremism, just like with the far right. I think to reach stage yellow of spiral dynamics, you need to realize that both sides have their own merits and value to offer, but on the other hand, they're both kinda fucked up as well.

Learn a programming language that can be used for either VR or web dev. First you need to see if you like programming or not. Because if not, you're going to hate either option.

.COM is and always will be the king of domains. .org is only better for nonprofits. If you ever want to sell a product or a service, or you're making a blog to earn ad revenue (why else would you make it) then a .com is better, don't get hung up on .org because that's what this website happens to be. No, you're going about it totally backwards. People don't come to your blog for a cool name, they come for quality content. Figure out what your blog is going to be about and then make a name, not the other way around. Conscious living, spiritually activated, etc all say very different things about the website. I think you should write at least 30 blog posts, at least 1,000+ words each, before you spend the money buying a domain and hosting. That way you can see if you're serious about blogging, or if you're just going to write 3 short posts and never come back.

Drill deeper into video games. At surface level they might not be your zone of genius or life purpose, but they are probably contained in it. Is it the artwork? Is it the storytelling? Is it the sense of awe and inspiration that they create? Could you combine drawing + video games and find an overlapping zone of genius between both? Creating pixel art or designing assets to be used in video games?

To play "Devil's Advocate" for a minute... sloth and laziness were required as a survival adaptation for most of human history. When you're a hunter-gatherer, there's a much bigger risk-to-reward ratio for getting all ambitious and running around to try out crazy new ideas that might not work. The safe thing to do is stick to what you know, and do the bare minimum to conserve energies (calories). Go out and get the minimum nuts and berries that you need for the day. Snag any injured animals or literal low-hanging fruit you see. Hunting healthy animals or climbing trees wastes precious energy, and risks life-threatening injuries (which is most injuries if there are no hospitals.) Look at other animals like lions... they sit around in the shade doing nothing for days at a time, and only go out to spend energy on killing something once they're hungry. Deer and other animals lazily meander and graze, only running if they need to escape a predator. Even animals like squirrels that have an instinct to stockpile for winter likely do the bare minimum they think they need to survive. The risk of doing too much just to have your food rot or be stolen by another animal makes it not worthwhile. Ambition is starvation. It used to be a last resort, one final try to avoid death when the slothful approach wasn't enough. Obviously we're in a very different time now with lots of abundance. You're 1000x more likely to die from obesity-related diabetes or heart disease than starvation in the 1st world. But I don't think that naturally makes laziness "disgusting". Even if you earn a million dollars per year, you're in some kind of comfort zone. You earn just enough money to get the comfort and security that you desire. What's to stop you from earning 2 or 10 million per year? Where is the cutoff between sloth and ambition? What % over baseline survival should we strive for? Where at the other end of the spectrum does over-ambition become equally self-destructive and disgusting, when people don't have time for family at night because they're so busy accomplishing big things. Especially when so many of those tasks that are important to us right now, will be meaningless and forgotten once we're dead.

In the Hero's Journey model, first the hero rejects the call, but the calls persist until they finally accept. So if you're having trouble deciphering multiple calls to action, you can filter out the ones that only come up once, and then die out. If your brain keeps coming back to the same thing over and over, or opportunities keep popping up in one area, that's a pretty good sign.

All of the old "black hat" SEO tactics like keyword stuffing, buying backlinks off people, etc have been fixed and will get your website blacklisted by Google. The only way to get free traffic to your website in 2021 is to provide real value to people for free. Answer the questions that they're searching for. Then upsell them coaching, a course, affiliate products, or whatever once they trust you. Income School on Youtube is about the only source I trust on this. (Full disclosure: I'm not affiliated with them, but I have paid for their $450 course and paid $250 per year to renew it for the past couple of years.) Even most SEO industry leaders like Neil Patel are super sketchy and giving bad info. Alternatively you've gotta pay to experiment with stuff like Facebook ads until you figure something out that provides more lifetime value than it costs to run the ads. Paid courses will help flatten the learning curve if you go that route.

80% of your traffic is going to come in through your blog posts You need to make your blog posts so they're answering questions that people would actually search. Eg. https://www.logoshealth.co/blog/intro-to-metabolic-typing-djl99 - eg. instead of just having the second header called Metabolic Typing, it should be something like "What is metabolic typing?" Type the question into Google and look at the "People Also Ask" and "Related Searches" sections and answer those too: What are the 3 metabolic types? What is metabolic typing test? What is the metabolic survey? How do you determine your metabolism type? It's also probably not a good sign that the #1 result is saying in bold that metabolic typing is a pseudoscience. Google will penalize you if it thinks you're spreading medical misinformation. It sucks because I can tell that you put a ton of work (or money) into those blog posts, but they aren't going to be generating even a fraction of the search traffic that they should be. "THE 6 FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES" -- of what? I assume "Of Health". But it doesn't say in the title, let alone even in the whole article itself. Are the 6 foundational principles of health a common idea that people will actually be searching for? Or how are people going to come across this post? "ALL STRESS SUMMATES" would probably be better titled "The X Types of Stress" and a bunch of other tweaks. "INTRO TO ORGANIC EATING" is 90% about organic farming, not organic eating "INTRO TO STOICISM" doesnt seem related to your niche enough to be writing an article about it. The keyword is also too competitive and your article isn't high enough quality to rank for it. "FUNCTIONAL EXERCISE" is too technical, it reads like a textbook or encyclopedia, and lacks info people will actually search for. Inner unit and outer unit don't come up in Google searches. People want to know what functional training or a functional workout is, what kind of equipments it uses, examples of exercises it includes, what are the 7 functional movements, whether you can do it every day or not. Man, it's brutal to see like 20,000 words written that are basically accomplishing nothing. Everything else on the site looks great, you've even got your own app it looks like. But none of that matters if nobody is seeing it. I would also like to see a larger "About Me" section though. Right now it's literally just 1 testimonial from a customer. Ideally I'd want to see it as its own dedicated page. Tell about your experience and education as a personal trainer, any related courses or education you have, your own fitness accomplishments in competitions or whatever else. Google has actual people that go through and review websites... part of what they're looking for is that you're actually a subject matter expert who is knowledgeable and trustworthy in your domain. Probably worth starting a Youtube channel too for this niche

Haha spoken like a true wagie. If you've got a job and get fired, 100% of your income is gone overnight. If you're split between a few things, you can lose one income stream and still have 75% coming in from other stuff. How is it a nightmare? I have multiple companies that just pay me passive income each month. The money just gets deposited into my bank account every month. It couldn't be easier. Hardest part is opening a spreadsheet once a month to enter amounts, just to keep a running tally for tax purposes.

It's becoming mainstream news now that Johnson & Johnson baby powder may contain asbestos. Not only that, but the company knew about it for decades and kept on selling it: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/ Now that the lawsuits are starting to pile up, they're considering passing on all the liability to a separate company and just bankrupting it, which would basically allow them to get off scott-free (aside from the irreversible damage to their brand): https://globalnews.ca/news/8038379/jj-baby-powder-bankruptcy-company/ Talk about the epitome of devilry. Makes you wonder how many other things we're putting on or in our body that are actually toxic or cancer causing. Especially products aimed at the youngest and most vulnerable among us. Petroleum jellies like Vaseline are literally made of petroleum byproducts called hydrocarbons, so almost analogous to rubbing gasoline or coal on your skin. But most people will still default to it over more natural products like coconut oil or beeswax. Although studies apparently haven't proven it, for some reason everybody has this idea that aluminum causes dementia. How did that become common knowledge among the average person? But we still put on deodorant containing aluminum and put our food and drinks in aluminum cans. If you look up aspartame, Wikipedia will tell you that it's basically completely safe and there's no association with cancer. Society is gaslighting us into accepting these toxic products. It's impossible as a consumer to know if something like aspartame is actually dangerous, or just a mass-hysteria among health nuts. We're always told to trust the science, but in this case, the science is usually bought and paid for by the same corporations that are selling the products. Bottom line: Don't trust companies with a profit motive to tell you if their products are actually safe or not. Apparently the FDA and other government agencies must also be bought off if they aren't catching this stuff, I can't think of any other explanation for it. So use your intuition... lean toward using more natural solutions whenever possible, and avoid stuff containing chemicals that you can't pronounce. More than anything, trust your body and listen to how it reacts to things. The worst part is that natural alternatives are few in number, not stocked in most stores, and tend to be significantly more expensive. Plus when it comes to food, most of us are so addicted to sugar and salt that it makes quitting unhealthy food a monumental task.

You might find the book The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau inspiring, it's got a few dozen startup stories in it. For my own story, I found what helped was breaking it down into little chunks like you mentioned, listing them all on a Trello board or something similar, trying to assign some level of priority, and just working through them one by one. Even something like "make a webpage" you can break down into.... buy a domain, sign up for hosting, connect domain to hosting, install Wordpress, create a home page, create an about page, etc etc etc. It's much easier to do small tasks that take 30 minutes at most, instead of sitting down in front of one giant task like "start a business". To move a mountain, just start with one little rock at a time.

You can find a non-spiritual life purpose with the course, I did. Just be aware if you find yourself being pulled in that direction, and try to avoid it. Don't even allow yourself to put spirituality as one of your top values or when filling out the other exercises. If you answer a question with spirituality or consciousness, force yourself to find a more practical answer instead. I found the same problem with business gurus selling courses. Everybody ends up making a business out of teaching other people how to start a business, instead of providing an actual product or service. Defaulting to spirituality in the LP course is the equivalent of this, it's just inadvertent laziness on the part of people doing the course. It's easier to just emulate Leo than find your true purpose. And doing spiritual stuff all day generally seems like it'd be less grindy on the surface than other options.

Easily Google-able, this is not a tech support forum. But really it's going to vary depending on which editing software you decide to use. Based on this post, I'm guessing you aren't even at the point of selecting a specific editing software yet. So first Google that.

A portfolio is just a way to prove that you can deliver the goods that you're promising to people. With spiritual stuff, there probably isn't going to be scientific measurements you can take to judge results. It will be hazy stuff like feelings of wellbeing and how happy people are, which is subjective. So I think the best way is probably just to offer free or massively-discounted coaching to a lot of people to gather a large number of testimonials. Written testimonials are good, but if you can get someone to record a 1-2 minute video explaining how you helped them, that's way better. A Youtube channel is also a portfolio of sorts. People get to know you and trust you, then they're far more likely to buy your paid services when you offer them later.

Yes it's possible to have more than one medium. But you have to master them one at a time. Spend at least 6 months mastering just Youtube videos, just podcasting, etc before adding something else. If you try to take on multiple new mediums at once, you'll spread yourself too thin

If you had to decide between doing what you love for $20k a year and needing a roommate, basically living in poverty and barely getting by, or working a $100k job, it'd be a much harder decision. For perspective, median income in the US is $31,000. That means half of people make less than that. In most of the world, people have it even worse. Doing what you love for $70k is a no-brainer. That's upper-middle-class, especially if you've got a partner who makes the same. Most people go to school for 4 years just to work a job they hate and won't ever end up making that much. Like honestly, what are you really going to spend an extra $100k/year on? Making $70k a year sitting in an air-conditioned room, doing what you love, living a comfortable life, waking up excited every day. VS earning $200k year working your ass off in the heat of summer and covered in bugs in the bush, or freezing in winter, exposing yourself to cancer-causing chemicals every day, being away from loved ones for weeks or months at a time. It's an obvious choice.

If you want/need to start making money right away, you might have to start off with something less creatively satisfying like designing logos and graphics for people on Fiverr or Upwork. Maybe designing custom characters for people to use as profile pics, drawing Twitch emotes, stuff like that. I started a webcomic last year, and honestly it's hard to get noticed or grow. As a writer it's easy for me to get stuff to rank in Google, because search engines are built on words. But there is no way for people to randomly find your art in Google. Doing comics and art stuff is a lot more about "networking" type stuff, basically just posting your comics all over. Post them to Reddit every day in appropriate subreddits. Upload them all to Tapas, Webtoon, and similar sites. Open a DeviantArt and any kind of similar site, post lots of your art and make it obvious that your work is for sale, you do commissions, etc. It's going to be a grind just to get noticed and build some kind of a following. You also NEED a website of your own... don't just trust other platforms. Try to funnel people to your own site, collect email addresses of your fans (even if you don't know what you'll use them for yet.) Look at the websites of your favorite webcomics and see what kind of stuff they've got on there, and try to copy it. Nowadays setting up a website is fairly easy... just buy a domain, get a host like Bluehost or HostGator, install Wordpress on your site and there are already free themes available for creating a comic-focused website. Just watch a few Youtube tutorials and you can probably do it in an afternoon. That's about all I could find about it. There are very few guides about how to grow and build an audience as an artist, and like no high-quality comprehensive paid courses. And personally, I just drew about 50 comics and gave up anyway. But if you're super passionate about it, and want to keep drawing for years before you start getting paid, it could still work. Don't overthink it and try to specifically use spiral dynamics in your marketing or appeal to a specific customer base. Your art will naturally be at a certain spiral dynamics level that attracts people at that same level, and turns away people who aren't. You have time to try as many things as possible and see what works. Just throw as many ideas out into the universe as you can, and see if any pick up traction. Make shounin manga, shoujo manga, senin manga. Do them all and see what works. Don't worry about how to provide value or think that your art needs some loftier purpose. You don't need to convey political messages or spiral dynamics. Entertainment and aesthetics in themselves contribute value. You need to do absolutely everything yourself at first. In my opinion, for at least the year. You need to create all your own processes and master them yourself before you try to delegate them to someone else. If you don't know how advertising works, how will you know if the person you're hiring is good or bad at advertising, or whether what they're doing will actually benefit you or not? Even stuff that you understand, trying to delegate it before you have a good process in place will just lead to tons of misunderstanding and problems. You also don't want to delegate stuff like the actual drawing. That's the area that you're the master on and want to focus on. No one will ever work on your project as hard as you do. Yes, this is how almost any business or meaningful project is started. You should expect to put your entire life and all your spare time into it for at least the first year or two. When you work that hard at something, you also have to realize that it's going to become not-fun any more at some point. Even if it's your life purpose, you'll have days that you hate it. You're creating a job for yourself and there will be long stretches where it feels tedious and boring. But you have to push through and keep doing it if you've got some larger vision in mind.

How long has the feeling of not caring about anything gone on for? Has it been for years straight, or do you go through periods where you get motivated to do stuff for a while, and then slip back into not caring? Do you feel like you could be depressed, or are you happy with a life of not striving and just think you've got drastically different priorities than most people?