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Do you have any indication of what your audience looks like? Because I bet most are helped more by learning about marketing and getting off their fucking ass (like me) and Owen's teachings are fantastic for that. When you say this there will be people who will use your words to skip the hard things in life, such as starting their own brand, that's pure spiritual bypassing. You became financially independent a while ago but you're speaking to people who aren't there yet. Also your style of teaching doesn't allow for the drill Sargeant type of self help that Owen does, but that's what I need at this point in my life. So my point is people are going to use your criticism of Owen to do bypassing and fall back into the matrix. His matrix analogy is perfect, even if the truth is much more nuanced. Nuance doesn't make you rich. In another video Owen talks about creating more awareness and spiritual growth through working your fucking ass off and getting unimaginable amount of blowback. That's more what people need than armchair spirituality imo (not saying that's what you teach, just pointing to a trap I fell into that's very common in modern society). I do think you rightly pointed out this is for a specific type of person.

So you get microplastics in your system. Is this something to be concerned about? I chew a lot of gum and I just learned this.

Boldly assuming actualized members have friends 😂

You wrote a better title though 😁 I've watched this video in full 3 or 4 times now, words can describe the quality of this talk. It's the thickest Red Pill I've ever had in such a short time. @Leo Gura suggestion to share on your blog.

Yeah I just opened a thread for this lol

What happened?

Try it and let us know. Worst case scenario you didn't laugh.

I keep sharing these because they just get better and better. This one is absolutely fantastic!

I swear guys I'm starting an ASMR channel within the next 2 years after the business I'm working on rn. I think the videos are so fun to make and you can REALLY go big. Big ASMR Youtubers always make cool looking videos with nice aesthetics and they even do sponsored reads whispering.

Do you watch ASMR? If so, what benefits have you found? I tried some videos for sleep and it calms me down but doesn't make me fall asleep.

You beat me to it 😭

I posted this thread in the off-topic section and haven't made any serious comments on here because it was never supposed to be a serious thread. But out of some feeling of virtual responsibility let me clarify. Nobody suggested that fastfood is healthy or should be promoted, but I am a proponent of free choice and people have their vices. In fact, most of your favorite spiritual gurus and philosophers have their vices, this is well documented. And those are like superhumans, so normal humans have even more vices and there's nothing wrong with that, it's part of being alive in a free society. I don't think Actualized forums should be a place where we dogmatically push what we believe to be good for us, but instead it should have a wide variety of tastes and different aspects of the human condition. Therefor I believe we should be able to simultaneously discuss healthy lifestyles and our favorite burgers, or sex and abstinence, using or not using psychedelics etc. In a way these are paradoxes or contradictions, and they exist alongside each other, one no better than the other. That doesn't mean fastfood is good for you, we all know it's not, but there is no theoretical robot-person who lives the perfect actualized life with no vices, so these threads exist too. This to me is obvious and speaking it out is like discussing a piece of art, just doesn't work. But I did anyway lol.

I just had a whopper for the first time in years and damn that's a tasty burger. McDonald's tastes so much worse, why would you even go there?

I see people dating now that the weather is nice and I feel left out sometimes or lonely. But then at the same time life is so beautiful. Is solipsism OR aspergers a good excuse not to talk to girls? Because you can really observe people like trees or part of nature. And what if there is beauty in loneliness? Why does loneliness always have to be demonized? Also if solipsism then there is no cure for loneliness so might as well learn to live with it. Or is that just cope?

Thank you so much! Day 24: Was on short sleep yesterday then had another show last night. Got anxiety on the train so I bought a can of beer and some sweets to calm myself down. Unfortunately this one can turned into many and since alcohol is a depressant this just made my night heavy. Also got back to smoking cigarettes from there. Really struggling with addiction and I should focus more on mindfulness: Funny how addiction works, I would say it is part of "externalization". I do that in life, and the more I do it the worse my life gets. Blaming my problems on others, but also thinking that the reason I quit was because of nicotine patches. These are all externalizations which don't fix the underlying problem. More examples of externalization: calming anxiety with alcohol or candy or a mobile game, watching Youtube, putting success in the future, thinking money would solve all my problems. I'm not going to make a whole list now but you get the point. Externalization also leads to procrastination. If I go "if only I finished my website THEN I will get clients and money", that's a recipe for procrastination. Passive income: Watched this video this morning and it made me realize once more that wealth is not a higher income but having assets that cover your basic expenses. Charlie talks about having lots of cash in low risk investments such as bonds. In a practical sense it's way better to earn €3k pm passively than €30k active and spend it. Also having basic expenses covered would allow for more consciousness work than living a life where you spend lots of cash on lifestyle. Really interesting video that relates to wealth traps: Actions taken: Did another gig last night, met some new comedians there Filed an objection to my tax authority cause I got fined, sending letter today Registered domain name and started building simple website in Wordpress Next steps: Be mindful Finish the website asap so I have a funnel for people to actually hire me Start new Etsy PoD store

Anyone on ozempic / semaglutides for weight loss? Any noticeable side effects or concerns?

@undeather but don't you think that if you took it for 2 months or more your mind and body would get into the habit of eating less automatically? So then instead of a last resort it's more like a kickstart.

Day 23: If you're wondering why this journal is mostly about personal issues, it's because that's exactly what you'll run into. Businesses don't fail, people do (in business). A small online business like what I'm doing here is really quite simple, it's the human-ness that gets in the way. Had a FANTASTIC weekend where I did stand-up on Saturday and finally got to doing some work from Friday on. Last week I was so filled with rage and frustration, but I've identified why. Eating the Frog: This was the absolute MAIN reason for last week's frustrations. I did not eat the frog. Eating the frog means you do a hard thing first thing in the morning every day. In my case my finances. I did not do this so it built up in the back of my head. I cannot stress enough the importance of eating the frog. I denied my financial problems for years and look where it brought me. The only solution is to start eating the frog every day from now on. So new rule: eat frog for 1 hour, and work only 4 hours a day. So let's say I start my workday at 8AM, then I do my finances first, and only have to work until 12. Worst case scenario I work 6 x 4 = 24 hours that week, which is infinitely better than not doing anything and feeling horrible because of frog pile. In reality I end up working way past that 12 pm mark, but the point is I actually started. Flow: It's interesting to see how flow work. You start by eating the frog, and one thing leads to the next. Business is not about philosophizing or abstract thinking, it's about taking one action after the next. All I know is my end goal and my next step, and the next step after that becomes clear once I take action. Actions taken: Shot and edited 7 shorts in total and uploaded most to IG, YT and TikTok, getting more views than I expected. Filed tax return Next actions: Create a website for clients to book me Start a new Etsy store Record my journey of starting new Etsy store, upload series to YT

Oh shush you, how do we know YOU'RE not the computer, huh?

Lol, I just watched that episode 😁 But seriously my stomach is hard because I train but there's fat over it. I'm sure if I got on it I'd have a Sixpack.

Somebody in another thread said I have an orange shadow, what does this mean? Whats a spiral stage shadow?

I hated on his last video but this is absolutely fantastic! Main thing I got from this was to flow with life and make sure you get paid for living. Very inspiring, highly recommend you watch this. Owen is becoming a legendary speaker.

Meaning; you make the conscious decision to not jerk off and instead focus that sexual energy on other things like a creative project, reading etc. Some opinions I found interesting from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/yoga/comments/5di3ks/how_can_i_transmute_my_sexual_energy_to_better/ https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/ap8aj8/what_does_napoleon_hill_mean_by_the_mystery_of/ To be clear, I am NOT talking about creaming over Insta / Snap whatever, I don't do that, I'm sure that's bad for you. I'm talking about just jerking off, I don't even watch porn often. I'm also not talking about the bad alternative of self-shaming for falling back. So perhaps the question then: In your opinion, with NO self-shame attached and no dogma attached to it whatsoever, is it better to abstain from masturbation altogether? Assuming you're actively working on your LP. Maybe I should start a 30-day challenge again for myself and keep you guys posted, it definitely depends per each person. Edit: I say this now because I jerked off last night, but sometimes you have to tame the beast. I get so much boiled up passion / anger whatever it's called if I don't do it. So I'm unsure.

Day 18: Just read back what I posted here about the Tony Robbins seminar and it becomes clear to me why I'm dealing with this rage. I told myself I'd go out on the weekends to flirt and have sex but then I didn't go this past weekend because I didn't have any money. And that is true, I couldn't even have paid for a single drink, but I could have still gone. I also should visit comedy shows more often even when I don't have a spot because I simply cannot go this long without social contacts. Trap #41: Coffee I think caffeine definitely adds to the rage. God I'm just so fucking rageful lately, how would I even know which of the above is the actual reason? I doubt that coaching call I had on Friday did me any good. I was doing fine and this stirred up all sorts of old emotions and thoughts I thought I was over with no support to fall back on. So this coaching call really just made the world an uglier, more hostile place than it was before.