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Hey there Currently I'm working on my studying routine. I start everyday at 7 pm, do half an hour of visualisation of my current goal (based on Maxwell Maltz's "The New Psycho-cybernetics"), and then from Sunday to Thursday study using pomodoro technique. I use "How to Study" vid by Leo. Please recommend me an inspiring biography of a great, lifelong student, preferably available at Audible.com. I've thought of Leonardo da Vinci biography by Walter Isaacson and book about him which is on Leo's book list. Which one to choose? Do you have any other ideas?

Well, hello there. It`s been a while and I didn`t really anything with stuff I promised to do. I didn`t finish my LPC, I went through only a couple of videos. But a question of me being passionate was quite inspiring to me- I mean it wasn`t a lot bcs i don`t even remember any particular insights, but the memory about thinking about passion is quite positive. The thing I`m currently working on is dealing with games addiction. Currently three weeks and feeling just in the middle of the process. I want to have nothing in common with video games in year 2018, get free of them. Instead of bad habit of playing, I`m introducing a powerful habit of learning (in May i`m writing "Matura" exam which determines in which university I can learn). I`ve watched "Overcoming addiction", "How to study" and "Bad habits". I don`t do any regular death contemplation or meditation, but anytime I feel the need to play i make an effort to stop for a while and think about my death. When not playing, i start to not accept myself, get frustrated, blame myself for not working on my diet, exercise routine and especially relationships. I want to be with sb, and I`m quite desperate which is vicious cycle and generates bad results. Today i tried to make giving love visualization, which i didn`t manage to finish, but i see it`s a good way to go. I make an effort to use the principle of patience- my main goal is to get free of games, and I`m willing to focus and discard other goals until i feel completely okay and comfortable with the change. PS: I know that the post isn`t about career, but i wanted to keep the continuity, and the title of the topic is still relevant

Hey there, I'm 18, from Poland. Bought Life Purpose Course 4 months ago. Currently at 60-ish video- its a-lot-of-questions assignement. I've got a goal for 16th January 2018 to do 300 hour(12 hours weekly) of Life Purpose work- vids, assignements, visualizations, affirmations, journaling. So far I,ve done 147 hours, where i should be around 200 hours- i missed 3,5 hours a week. My master values: 1) Passion 2) Learning 3) Consciousness 4) Authenticity 5) Spirituality 6) Excellence 7) Wisdom 8) Intimacy 9) Vigor 10) Bond/Gratitude (Top strengths in order: Curiosity, hope/optimism, love of learning, zest, honesty. And i didn't do daily master values review- was following it for around 2 weeks) My rough idea for life purpose: hammer self-help, fulfill curiosity, and when having decent knowledge and experience in the field- do coaching. And I feel a lot of struggle and indecisiveness right now. My gains in life purpose recently has been very poor. So i decided to become results-maker in November (i know it needs more time, but wanted this month to be a foundation): created a set of 12 mostly easy habits (cleaning, talking with family, journaling, 60 minutes of true life purpose course, affirmations etc. ) to get shit done. This gives me some gains, but i'm afraid it's just a way to run from real life purpose course. I'm addicted to gaming youtube. I spend 60-90 minutes everyday on this unconscious stuff. I'm proud of my affirmations habit. I'm doing it for 2 months. These are: "I am creator" "I am patient master" (doing it for 5 weeks or so). And i'm implementing daily 20-minutes do-nothing meditation- missed one day in 2 weeks. I'm expierencing quite a lot of true improvement- more consciousness, thinking about my life, willingness to change, my youtube addiction is weaker. I fear failure less, and accept myself more (weekly Leo's acceptance visualization). But i also feel i really lack in these categories: - no visualizing life purpose, targetting subconscious mind- i don't really see the value of life purpose, and It's hard for me to see myself being 100% sure and implementing my life purpose in 2/3/5 years - a lot of victimhood - lack of strategizing, long-term perspective - no patience - bad results-making - low consciousness ( -no care for health) Did you have similar struggles? What's the way out? Because i feel the only way to chane for better is emotional labor, holding my feet to the fire of reality. And that's a bullet hard to bite

@Nahm Health is foundational, for sure. But well, I`ve got an impression that are different ways to be energetic, for example a bold image of me succeding in my subconscious mind. Me not doing exercise and eating standard, which means unhealthy diet is clearly victimhood, no doubt about that. But there are other things in which I`m a victim, for example Youtube addiction or dabbling around different habits. A year ago or so I just came to the conclusion I want to do all habits and change everything at once and just discarded health habits for that moment just to have less things to choose from. That`s a good thing to reconsider this decision now, because I won`t go bad with improving my health (I know it wasn`t bad then either). It takes around a month to start to see some nice results from regular exercise, doesn`t it? I guess I will give it a try, maybe that`s a way out of this shenanigan- to put my time into exercising instead of youtube. And to feel more commited to the thing i will actually post my weekly plan. Unfortunately, during the next two weeks I will be out of home for 7 days- I hope I will be able to keep up with plan I will get

I`m 18

What the heck does "sticktuiveness" mean? I feel like it's "sticking" and "intuiviteness" in one word. Imo it's very important for Concept 31 to understand it clearly. Did you craft this word?

Hey there, I`m 18 yrs old Polish who has been following actualized.org for 1 year. I`ve got Leo`s course for around a week now. And i want to set a date/goal to do it fully, read most recommended books, do all assessments, watch all videos etc. by working on it 12 hours a week (15-20% of the time I fully manage myself during the school year). How long does it take to finish the course in that way? 500 hours? 1000 hours? Can you tell or at least guesstimate? And is it good to listen to "BIG BONUS!" when i`m just at the beginning? Thanks for your answers, David

Hey there. I know that the topic is related to meditation, but i didn't get any feedback when i added the topic on meditation/enlightement part of the forum and my question is also about goals and habits. I did do nothing mediation for 6 months. I missed days from time to time, my habit got more loose and loose and eventually it broke around 3 months ago. Now i want to set a better habit without any days without meditation. But inspired by "Meditation for beginners" video by Leo i made a commitment to reach 1 hour daily by the day when i become 18- its 23th June 2017. I feel like if i focus on meditating longer and longer rather than on meditating consistently i won't create good patterns. And here is my question to you: shall i try to reach the goal or rather follow mastery principles? Extra question: In my old habit i did meditation before school at weekdays and struggled a lot during weekends. Any advice to make it easier when i don't have solid morning routine at weekends set? Thanks for your attention

Thanks for your responses, i will follow mastery principles in my journey. If I'm going to reach my goal, it's the only way possible. And in fact, meditation can be easier than i thought. When i say myself to surrender (like in guided meditation by Leo) it feels much easier and less frustrating to meditate, and i feel the progress, my ego melts/evolves into something better. But still, consistency is my first priority. Thanks again, you're great

Hey there. I did do nothing mediation for 6 months. I missed days from time to time, my habit got more loose and loose and eventually it broke around 3 months ago. Now i want to set a better habit without any days without meditation. But inspired by "Meditation for beginners" video by Leo i made a commitment to reach 1 hour daily by the day when i become 18- its 23th June 2017. I feel like if i don't focus on meditating longer and longer and rather on meditating consistently i won't create good patterns. And here is my question to you: shall i try to reach the goal or rather follow mastery principles? Extra question: In my old habit i did meditation before school at weekdays and struggled a lot during weekends. Any advice to make it easier when i don't have solid morning routine at weekends set? Thanks for your attention

I thought about something like lying on bed with keeping attention, eyes open just to be awake. But your reply made me discover that it`s not fully emptiness, because that`s comfortable, lying position which interrupts the void. So thanks for wider understanding of the idea. Anyway, i`m not that experienced with meditiation, so i would prefer to do daily 30 minutes at morning+ 60-80 minutes after school rather than to try to do nothing for 4 hours or so and next day to destroy everything. I`ve never been interested in yoga, so could you me send some links or texts by which I can get to know about this? I don`t know what to start with. I won`t stop and give up easily. I guess I can see the trap of breaking streak and going in the negative spiral, but it is always good to be reminded. And I wish you best luck on journey . Isn`t this almost all about masturbation, or I`m missing something? I just found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFk8d66kW9k&ab_channel=AddictionExplained. Today (apart from morning 30 min Do Nothing) I`m going to do another 60-80 minutes of do nothing and then just lie on the bed keeping awareness. It must get me somewhere. Thank you all for replies. I didn`t really anticipate that many of them. After writing this post i`m going for 60-80 min meditation, wish me luck

Hello there people 5 days ago I`ve made a resolution to deal with my computer games addiction. It`s going not that bad, at least I`m not playing. But i think i`m not advancing- i`m compensating addiction mostly with watching chess channels on Youtube. I`ve watched Leo video about addictions, so today apart from daily meditation (30 minutes of Do Nothing Technique) i made 28 minutes of just lying on bed with almost no move, break for dinner and then 1h 20 min of something close to do nothing technique- I wasnt that strict with moving so i changed position a little few times. I got some emptiness experience. But then I wanked once and watched chess for over 2 hours- so back to bad pattern. Can i consider it as good day? Or that chess and masturbation just ruined everything? And is there some blank activity in which i can sustain for a longer time than meditation- something to feel emptiness but no so heavily? PS. If you got there thanks for interesting with my topic, i appreciate that

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The first time i can do it is for like 10 days at the first week of the February and then summer holidays- 2 months, so it`s quite a long time from. I will think about it, it needs some courage but even now i can feel that joy of unknown, discovery and feast for curiosity.

Hey, I`m new to this forum, and I would like to share with you some thoughts about me and my six months of personal development. I`m 17 years old, living in middle-european country called Poland- life standards are kinda high here, we don`t have that great economy, but we aspire to western countries` level. I grew up on the countryside, in middle-class family, which has learned me quite a lot about life. In primary, secondary school i was one of the best students in whole school. My parents strongly believe that school education is important, so they allowed me to go with my 3 years older sister to city 140km from my living place, Poznan, to learn in good high school- maths, physics and IT on advanced level. Here in Poland you start school at the age of 16. I did quite good there, first 6 months my overall average of grades was B- (at the scale of 1 as F and 6 as A it was 4.76), and at the end of the first class it was B+ (5.25). I started to watch Leo`s videos two weeks before holidays, in fact my shitty relationship with girl from secondary school has ended then (we met as a couple like 2 times and rest of the time we were just talking at Skype). I really loved Actualized.org videos (until now it`s my only source of personal development information) , started my meditation practice- the "Do Nothing" technique. I made a strong resolve to reach one hour daily until 18th June. During free time, which i had a lot, i was watching Actualized.org videos- around 2-3 videos per day. I watched almost all the videos from "The foundations of actualization" playlist. I tried to reduce my computer games addiction with mediocre result (i restricted it really weakly, max 3 hours and around a month later 100 minutes per day). Meditation practice was going on, after 45 consecutive days went from 20 to 30 minutes. At 1st September school began. In the 15th of September i broke my meditation series which was 88 days. My meditation habit is kinda sticking to me right now, im grinding at 30 minutes per day (i do it mostly at morning) but i miss around 5 days per month from that moment which I`m not proud of. I also tried to deal with my games addiction. My biggest success was 46 days when i was watching Youtube videos about them only for 5-10 minutes a day and played nothing. I did sth to get my learning habit, but i didnt manage to keep it. And from September i`m singing in the choir, which takes me 3*2 hours in the week+ concerts (in December we had a lot of them, so i had like half of my standard free time, but it will be less next months). There is a big propability of me going in March to Taiwan with them for almost 2 weeks. I will be able to earn good money as the student from it in half a year or so. I`ve bought one book about personal book- "Mastery" by George Leonard, which i consider as very good book, but i feel like I`m just using 1% of knowledge of it. In two or three days i buy book list by Leo. I would like to buy Life Purpose course, have got around 1000$ savings from Christmas/Birthday etc. gifts, but my parents don`t want me to buy this, they consider this as a waste of money. Wages are like 4 or 5 times smaller than in USA so its kinda a lot of money- you can have smartphone for that. And i don`t have a bank account to do the transaction alone. My parents want me to earn half of the price of the course by my own work and then they will allow me. To sum up, i think my life changed in a big way from June, i view the world as a different place, but i think i could have done much more solid things, i`ve got a feeling that i wasted a lot of time, especially from the beginning of the school. It`s like hitting a wall with head to break it, but it doesn`t work. Ive got some observations: - my basic operation mode is victim mentality, which i see as big problem - my strong addictions are computer games and masturbation/porn - im not that bad on relationships, got one good friend, no girlfriend (I would like to have specific one) - havent got a life purpose - learning and most of my actions are externally motivated, everything beyond my personal development and maybe choir activity - I would like to start to exercise- calisthenics and some aerobic activities such as running or swimming - I`m slim but i would like to improve my diet (more energy, health and stuff) - I have lot of limiting beliefs - Most of my thoughts is negative/neutral, I`m not a positive thinker - I rate myself very critically - I dont have full vision of myself in 5-10 years - I`m bad at strategic thinking - I`m bad at results making - I haven`t travelled abroad and i would like to find out more about the world and travel a lot - My parents would like me to be really good at maths/physics/IT, win some hard competitions, which would me allow to go to good University of Technology. I`m good at these subjects, i have B grades at them but i don`t really know if it`s interesting/appealing enough to me to choose it as a life purpose. - Now i watch less Leo`s videos, and when i`m doing it i`m watching Results maker, Strategic thinking, victim ones or dreamkillers most of the time, because i`m convinced that these are the things which block me the most from further development. I`ve watched videos about these topics made by Leo. And now i`ve got some questions for you: 1) Do you consider this as a lot of improvement for a beginning? Or is it just nothing compared to what I should accomplish in that time? I would love to hear your opinion. 2) Which habit should i install first: No computer games, learning habit, health habit exercise/diet or something else? Or maybe i should put attention on meditation habit not to miss days and do it at the morning? I feel like my problem with these three habits is no strict deadline so i can wiggle a lot not to do it. And i have big problems which to go first. Or maybe to go with 2 or all at one moment? I`m really stuck in making that decision. PS. Feel free to ask me for sth, i will do my best to explain everything well. PS. 2 Big thanks to anyone who read this all PS. 3 My nick in English is Rachitic, so you can name me like that if you want