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If enlightenment is a dial, like Leo said, then is Leo just the guy with the least brain fog? Is this a good way to see it? If not, why not?

If everybody thought like you nobody would ever suggest anything to anyone.

I think most of your audience is in YouTube so perhaps make an episode promoting the course? Or even shorts on your main channel why not, you can always delete them later. Also you can update your channel banner and post status on yt. And send emails to your list maybe? But if you really want to build hype around it you create an affiliate program and get influencers in similar space to promote it to their following, as long as there's audience overlap. Your videos have reached perhaps 200k souls? Maybe more. Are you looking for ways to reach those people?

Interesting, thanks for sharing! Day 29: Been yoyo'ing between doing the work and procrastinating. This is how mediocre people start a business. Exceptional people are consistent no matter what. So how do I become consistent no matter what? That's the real question. I start a project, then I work on that for a bit, then when things get difficult I 'dry quit' and just abandon the project and nothing gets done. Why does this happen? Because of EMOTION. No matter how important it is I work on the project, if my emotion comes up and tells me to procrastinate, I will do it and BACKWARDS RATIONALIZE. Emotion > Backwards Rationalize The contents of the backwards rationalization is completely irrelevant. Perhaps we can even say that thoughts and the contents of my thoughts are kind of irrelevant. So ask myself a different question: what can I do to boost my emotional state continually? NLP exercises like this one are really good for me. I should do these every morning to get myself in the right place emotionally. The human brain works associative, that's why life is so tricky. The brain is always solving problems, so I have to make sure I ask it the right questions. 8-step cycle of brain thoughts: "I am working to make $10K pm and travel to Bali soon" Holding thought of Bali, of ideal self in mind *bill arrives* OMFG BILL ARRIVES!? ME NO HAVE MONEY FOR BILL! 10 billion neurons firing at once, horrible scenarios flashing through mind at lightning speed Now I'm in reactive mode, now I'm starting to think that life is LIVING ME instead of me living my life (being lived) Now I will retract. Now I will lay on the couch watching Youtube. Now I will spend my last money instead of saving it. Now I will not wake up on time. Now I will not do any work. Now I will not look at my finances After some time, go back to step 1 Of course I cannot stop bills from arriving but I should be able to change how I react to setbacks or disappointing impulses. There is absolutely no problem with a setback, since these often are opportunities. The problem is with the ego solidifying the current reality and current state of mind. I don't know how to better express that, but that's the actual problem. I am one creative thought away from solving the problem. Entrepreneurship is just solving small problems one at a time, and having solved a problem is the payoff. Not the money. Money is fake, money will be spent, money is relative. The payoff is the satisfaction of having solved the problems today to the best of my ability. So how do I break the 8-step cycle once and for all? First of all let's not judge it. The subconscious mind has but one task: to protect me from danger. Because my dad was always poor, my subconscious brain will get me to emulate my dad's behavior from when I was young when I'm under pressure, and I do that emulating by doing his behavior; laying on the couch and 'being broke' (which is also a thought, and I'm one thought away from 'being rich'). This emulation behavior happens because things get tough and scary, so my system wants to go back to comfort (which isn't actual comfort, just trauma). Now, what tool does the subconscious mind use to TRICK ME into this trauma-comfort behavior? EMOTION! There will be an emotion so damn strong that repels me from doing the correct work and steer me towards procrastinating. So how do I make sure this trauma-emotion doesn't trick me? I think the only way is by pumping my state daily through videos and exercises like the one above, all while understanding how the mind works like I wrote here. Btw you guys might think I'm talking after some teaching but the cool thing is: these are genuine insights I've had into my own thinking mind. I've heard this as theory in the past, but noticing it is really cool. I will now also make a schedule like Deya in this video. Because if I can control my emotions, then I can work according to a schedule Final note: if you're reading this and you're like "why is this guy being such a bitch with all this internal conflict", you must know that when I started my first business ventures in my early 20s, I was completely unconscious and it was kind of easy to go off that motivation, but these issues were always there. I've had successes in business and life, but now, in this period of massive turmoil and huge financial stress, I'm looking to identify and fix these deep rooted financial issues once and for all.

This is a fun thread. @VictorB02 I am absolutely jealous of you for going to Bali but you inspired me to have that on my goals list again. Been in 2013 and I've heard a lot has changed but still paradise to me.

Because brain and fog are inside the dream?

But do you know how the self help seminar business works? I personally don't but I can image it has way higher overheads than we imagine. I find it plausible he makes most of his money with wealthy clients. Back of the room selling is common practice, I've seen very high integrity speakers do it. If the product truly helps people... That's just the business model.

Don't exclude your own life trajectory from that. Makes no sense.

That is absolutely brilliant.

First Santa, now this!? 😭

That's how I feel. And it's still better to market a good product than not contributing anything to society at all. Plus starting a business gives you valuable life experience and is a great way of doing personal development.

God 😉

@Leo Gura when I was in my mid 20s I ran some marketing schemes that I saw as unethical and it lead to internal conflict and I quit that business. I could have made so much money then. But now I feel old enough to do it properly and make my millions. So if that is what you're warning about to younger guys then fair enough. I assumed Owen followers are older though cause RSD is a long ass time ago. @VictorB02 I've also lived in Indonesia while I was doing internet marketing.

If you've ever had a period in your life where you only followed magical LoA type of content, you'd notice that your real world problems are still there and not fixed by spirituality. So why would Leo's cookie be better? No magical cookie, unfortunately.

Yeah but very few alternatives. The benefit of having financial freedom outweighs this cost imo, the challenge is then to remain conscious in your business journey. The alternative for most people will be to sit at home and do nothing, just mental mastirbation and half assing spirituality. It's not like actualized members are super enlightened and learning marketing will corrupt them. Learning what owen talks about is a massive step up for most, not down.

What does that have to do with it?

This is wonderful and only takes 5 minutes

Yes please! I was hoping for this one instead of the alien stuff.

You live in Vegas.

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?