Butters

Did it thanks. Why does he at some point start listing every disease? I've never even thought about it. Yes sorry for the confusion. I meant to raise the energy up the spine, same way as you do with kundalini yoga. It really forces it. I've found this video somewhat helpful

How does that move the energy upwards?

Yes but Leo called men who are attracted to Trans women gay, so the discussion became about gender. I just don't see the lines being that clear.

Yes I will when I have the time.

This thread made Leo a big got 😂 But seriously, isn't the distinction between gay and straight historically tied to homophobia? So why use it so fanatically?

@Jowblob let me see if I can be honest here. If I had good income and the clients that I want, where would I live? Would I live at these retreats volunteering or would I stay at a nice apartment and build a social circle? I'd do the latter! So maybe you are right and I came up with the volunteering out of a reaction to not having money staying at hostels. So now what do I do? I don't think it's a bad idea though, as they offer a place to stay, an apprenticeship learning about their operations, and a sense of purpose and community. It motivates me more to apply for those positions than it does finding remote clients.

No. I am currently living as a digital nomad, so I have to pay for my stay. If I can live at a retreat, who is already my audience and the niche I wanna grow into, then that's great. Especially if there's extra time to work on other clients. So helping them with their tech is like an apprenticeship, while also saving on living cost. Yet still maybe you're right. How can I test if you're right?

Idk, maybe Butters is just a pervert 👀 But I'm definitely exploring these things, I have no idea what awaits me.

Yes interesting take, I guess you're right. I usually only listen to coffeezilla about these

From my experience at hostels in Europe, I find Americans to be the most kind and warm people. Much more so than the Europeans I meet. Also I highly doubt there is such a thing as European culture. As a Dutch I feel much more culturally aligned with Americans than with southern Europeans for example.

They look like nice people, don't you think? Like they look so friendly in the pictures.

So if you're a bi guy, you're straight? And if you're an impotent old man, you're gay?

Unserious Commitment: I am starting to realize that this negative thinking stuff is an endless game. From now on I will do my best to not identify with negative self-image thoughts. Instead I will go to neutral thoughts and unserious thoughts. Also started doing this visualization exercise where I'm in Bali living my dream life. It's simple and it works. But when I fall back into negative thinking, I will apply the above mentioned strategy.

I've been seeing a few of these videos, it's just sad. I don't understand how you could even do this. 3 hours of sleep every night, no off time, nothing!?

Lol

Manifesting: It's so fucking easy. Just get into a sleepy state, then imagine the end result. Then either nap or just get back up. You wake up in the desired state. Do this every night and morning. It's the basic Neville Goddard shit and it works. Gold just dropped 🪙 Nero = goat

Had a dream about a ladyboy last night, I won't go into detail because this is a family friendly place. I'm not gay. I've probably had some fucked up childhood experiences around sex which might explain the attraction but I'm not sexually attracted to men. I am sexually attracted to girls and women. But ladyboy / trans IF they look extremely feminine, lies into sort of a fetish category for me. For example, I've never watched gay porn. Never. And I've seen way more porn than I would like. So if I was gay wouldn't I watch gay porn? Doesn't make sense.

Spiritual Retreats Business: When I think of my ultimate client in regards to the web dev stuff, I think of spiritual retreats. They are in a niche that aligns with me (spirituality, yoga) and the better ones are making serious money. I've cold emailed both instructors (spiritual entrepreneurs) and the big retreats. So far I've only been able to book a few exploratory calls with the instructors, and they're broke! So they feel the pain of chaos, which I can automate using AI, but they can't even afford to hire a part-time employee to fix it, and they'll reject my fairly priced invoice. This is NOT my audience. My audience is likely the big retreats. They could use a dedicated tech guy who also has an entrepreneurial mindset - to help them automate certain manual processes. These could be serious retainers, like $2K - $5K per month, when you assume my work could get them more sign-ups or retainers (retreats are expensive af). But there are several obstacles here: a) often times they are not aware of any pain b) when I cold email, I am not reaching the owner c) I have no experience doing this, I just think I know stuff, but truly I don't. I'm sort of naively assuming I know better how to run their business than they do, makes no sense The solution: the way I got that lead-gen proposal from the psychedelic retreat guy was by sending an open application. Bascially just sending my resume, a simple cover letter, offering my services as a tech guy freelance if they ever need it. Super open-ended and low pressure, but it worked. That was the only one I sent so it works at a 100% conversion rate so far lol. So yeah, just keep doing that, then let THEM contact me describing what they want. If they want SEO, which is not something I usually do, I'll probably say yes. It's a quick way to build up some clients on retainer. I learned to vibe code in like 2 months so I'll take on anything and just learn it. Umbrella Man: As I was walking from one hostel to the next it was pouring rain. There was a man selling umbrellas. All he had to do was yell "UNBRELLA" really loud and the product sells itself. I can learn a lot from umbrella man. He didn't 'try to sell' umbrellas. He was very confident that the product clearly solves a problem. What is my digital umbrella? Effortless Flow: Selling my ecom was effortless. I enjoyed running it but it died because of a lack of funds. Then I was on a walk one day and had this insight: I wanna travel, why not sell this? So I listed it on Flippa. Then a month later, as I was planning to travel, another insight to message this particular buyer with an offer. He accepted and I made $1300. That was easy, in flow, and didn't require a lot of effort. So when I'm doing a lot of effort, it's probably a bad sign. Might as well slow down and follow the rhythm. I gotta slow down and meditate way fucking more. The answers come from within, not from the illusions of the world. Don't Touch It: Stop touching the business when in low frequency. Just meditate, don't contaminate.

Manifesting $1000 /day Slept at what is probably the worst hostel ever. The bunk beds are so bad that you feel every movement from the guy beneath you. This is a terrible design flaw and made it so I couldn't sleep the whole night. This is what you get for trying to save a few bucks. I am going back to the old hostel immidiately. I literally saved €5 for this horrible experience. And I'm still burning through €30 - €40 per day while staying at hostels while I want to be in SEA spending 4 times less and staying at private rooms. I have very little confidence and security around money, so that's why this continues to manifest. The only solution is to hold that financial confidence, that state of abunance, evne in the face of challenge and contradicting evidence. The solution is to be present thoughout. I did a somewhat effective self-hypnosis in bed last night, even though of course it got disturbed constantly. It went something like: "every breath my body relaxes more and my thoughts are more abundant". The old way is just a rollercoaster. Yesterday morning felt great, the weather was amazing, I went on walks to think about Bangkok, and I worked from the hostel. It was a wonderful morning. But then at some point I started eating bad foods, became slightly annoyed with some things and some people, all the way down to this horrible experience at this other hostel. Why always this rollercoaster? It was actually very stable back home, when I had stable and predictable living situation, although being quickly annoyed is not new. Perhaps I had learned to fake being emotionally stable, by socially isolating and not challenging myself. In this contained and controlled envvoirment, I was emotionally stable. So we can say that I am reactive. Why? I guess being emotionally reactive is something from childhood, and so is financial instabiltiy. But that is the old, I am interested in the new. Saying it comes from childhood can only lead to me blaming my dad, which is the opposite of being a responsible and emotionally mature adult. So that is the wrong direction. But I absolutely manifest every payment myself, I just know that because I feel it. So I wanna get into the state that I was in when I effortlessly manifested money. I've been in that state many times. The thing about that state is that it's completely unrelated to my actual finances. I've had literally €5 in my bank account but I just KNEW that money was coming, sometimes even WITHOUT the source, and because I was so CONFIDENT, of course it came easily and effortlessly. And I was still in that state until I started to travel. Then when I got sick after drinking at the hostel, that's when I went to a low point of panic about finances, and I haven't fully gotten back into that flow yet. Of course that is absolutely normal because my living situation, the place where I sleep, is now uncertain and dependent upon my internal state of confidence around finances and security. That is new to me. At home I always had that security of my house, and it was always quiet there. I didn't have to put myself into some special state to just function. Now I have to constantly mentally filter out noise, for example, which I hate. People talking on the phone, music in the background, that sort of thing. I hate not having a private room. I've had private rooms in Porto though, and that one was actually very lovely. So do I just constantly have to put myself into this state of abundance? Because when I was truly in there and manifesting money effortlessly, I wasn't trying. But maybe I was running off the fumes of Q4 sales in my Etsy shop, could that be it? So the external (Etsy sales) gave me the confidence to make some more money (sell my ecom store + SaaS). But now I have to do that with no jumpstart. So I gotta manifest from scratch, but also do it quickly - manifest money within days or hours, not weeks or months. Think abou this some more, it's a contradicting statement: when I am stable, I'm not motivated enough to take risks. When I take risks, I am unstable and this reduces my state. Can you see the mind game here? This is externalizing at it's finest! Stop externalizing and start internalizing success. At this moment, $1000 /day feels like a truly abundant number. From now on, I am going to live at $1000 /day income internally. Through meditation, visualization etc. When I feel that I am not at $1000 /day frequency I will go back into relaxation and back into the $1000 /day state. Do I believe that $1000 /day is possible? Absolutely. Is it possible today? Yes! And every day. It is not a big deal. Lastly I must realize that the physical plane is nothing but an effect, a result. Hell, it's even just a dream that I dreamt up some time ago. There's nothing 'real' about it. Stop reacting to a result, because then you start to create in reaction to, instead of from the state you're trying to manifest. Celebrating wins: Let's not forget to celebrate my wins. Sold a woven blanket on Etsy yesterday - the one PoD product I am most passionate about and has a high margin! Sold a vibe-coded SaaS for $500 last month on Flippa Sold my ecom store for $1300 in December, also on Flippa My brand new Etsy store has 85 sales in total, almost all started during Q4 Got a deal going with a guy who owns this psychedelic healing retreat. I will do lead gen for him and receive a commission per sign-up. It's basically my first client in the spiritual niche Did a sales call with another spiritual entrepreneur last month and he was interested, but did not agree to the $750 price point I am fully equipped to sell more of my SaaS assets this month at better price points, along with custom development deals. The SaaS portfolio is a nice way to show some skills. Vision: It's not rocket science. Last year I was doing Shopify print-on-demand selling t-shirts with Facebook ads. This was my favorite business ever, but I couldn't sustain it cause you have a few bad days in a row, no financial buffer, you're dead. So I figured I need to make other income first; sell my SaaS or other website services for cash, then re-invest that cash into e-com. E-com needs but one thing: cash. Cash buys you influencers, cash buys you ads. With no cash you're out there manually posting on Instagram, you might as well spend that time landing a $1000 web dev client and invest that money back into ecom. That was and still is my logic. Of course slowly the web dev stuff takes shape on its own, just not sure what that would look like. But in a sense I can do magic. I can email certain types of businesses with some custom AI tool for their customers to use. For me that's simple to vibe code, but to that business it's amazing magic. Just haven't found this system yet. Boom! Just had an idea: simple breath-work app for coaches. With their logo, they own the code, sell for $500 each. The only problem is coaches are broke and often don't understand business, so I'd have to still niche down somehow. What about only for coaches who are already on Youtube making breathwork videos? Bingo. They can either give the app for free to their subscribers in exchange for email, or make it a micro-saas for like $2.99 per month. Edit: lol, I still like this idea. I've never done a mobile app so let's skip that entirely. Instead I could build a web app, in the form of an online learning program. Like some online program to learn pranayama breathwork, or other breathwork, but not with a teacher in the video, just interactive elements you use to count your breath and stuff like that. Can build that whole platform out, it's really not that much work, and sell that directly to existing coaches and spiritual influencers. Worst case I learn a ton about breathwork 😂

Pigeons are pretty gangster. I often see them with missing feet or legs and they simply don't care. Just doing more pigeon stuff.

What do you mean? When you see an attractive woman you either look or you don't, there's no vetting process.

That's literally half the women in their 30s and 40s who are into spirituality and yoga. The other half is crazy.

Yes I'm game, share! Can I just use the same profile though? It's maybe 2 weeks old. But if it's close to what's shared here above, I think I got enough to go with and just AI the pictures with my face as suggested.

I had fear or flying, really blew that up in my head. Flew for the first time in 8 years this month and it was not bad. Now I'm looking forward to my next flight 🙂