Joseph Maynor

Yes. Music has inspired/ triggered me to contemplate throughout my the course of my entire life. Thoughts trigger emotions but emotions can also trigger thoughts.

2018 is the year that it all came together for me. Theory turned into practice.

Number a page 1 through 10. Try to write down a regret for each number.

That's true. There are pros and cons to everything, but some cons are bigger than others.

That's funny, I've never seen you on here.

Write a list numbered 1-50. Now, list all the reasons you think and feel the way you do. Try to get as close to 50 as possible. Take a couple of days to complete this. Just get 50 things down, don’t be too much of a perfectionist about this. The key is to analyze what you write at the end of the process to try to come up with a project to help you. But before we can formulate a project, we gotta see a little bit under the hood.

I just recently re-watched all the theory videos in the Life Purpose Course. Leo's Life Purpose Course is like Ramadan, it should be re-visited once per year. Every year you're gonna gain more knowledge about yourself and your Vision and projects. Life Purpose is something that really benefits from being re-visited from time to time. But the Life Purpose that I developed in Leo's Course is still the same! Life Purpose though is something that you're gonna spend the rest of your life working on because you gotta implement all of it! So, revisiting Leo's Life Purpose Course has been really beneficial to me. You're gonna create yourself into more and more of the person who's gonna bring your Vision into reality.

Morning routine is so important. It's good that you realize that. Same reason why breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Morning routine sets up your entire day. I've gotten in the habit of drinking an Ensure first thing in the morning which gives me a great boost. The Ensure is like a snack, it's not breakfast. I cook a full breakfast for myself. The Ensure is like an initial shot of fuel into my system when I first wake up. And I only drink one per day right after I I wake up.

I have a very definite Vision I am working to transform into reality. That requires that I work the Paradox of Organization vs. Freedom very carefully. Stuff doesn’t just get done on its own, I gotta create it. And for me to do that, I gotta systematically put the work in or it ain’t gonna get done, see. To me just sitting around and not working on my Vision is a mistake because I can see how that will adversely affect the remainder of my life. It’s not hard work when you love it.

I'm curious to hear your ideas.

For some reason I feel like I always need 8. I think some of it is my diet is not as clean as it should be.

I brainstormed by Daily Routine/ Schedule today because I'm in the process of really getting it top notch. I just wanted you to see the work I did on my whiteboard. These aren't in any order because I'm just brainstorming here.

In a way Enlightenment does reduce suffering because it makes you more accepting of reality as it is instead of always assuming reality should cater to you. That's precisely the way that Enlightenment minimizes suffering. It's not personal between you and reality.

Maya is clinging to certain linear beliefs about reality

No but it still sucks that any sentient being should suffer. To the extent that I can do something to mitigate any suffering that I have control over, I usually try to do that. Otherwise, I don;t really worry about it because it's not something that's at issue for me in the moment.

Is a Kundalini awakening like a psychedelic experience for people who don't do psychedelics? That's what it kinda sounds like to me. I think I may have had one Kundalini experience come to think about it if we define it that way. There was a time this summer where I was having all these insights when I first started moving into Coral that wasn't preceded by psychedelics, but it was an awakening experience nonetheless. It's almost like I did a psychedelic but I didn't do a psychedelic. That's where I realized that you don't really need psychedelics to precede every awakening experience. If you're ramped-up to have an awakening experience, you'll have it psychedelics or no psychedelics.

A perfect human being is you transforming your own Vision into reality perfectly.

I'm not surprised that I haven't even bothered to chime in on this debate.

Biggest obstacle? Learning how to use my cerebral nature in ways that help me instead of hinder me. Challenging situation? Getting off the Enlightenment theory and all my pet theories. That's hard because when you have a strong need to know your ideas are like your babies. How did I overcome this adversity? I started to realize the limitations of theory. I realized and saw that theory is like an over-perfect matrix that doesn't really quite apply to reality. How does this affect my life? Now one of my projects in my Projects Binder is "get off theory" almost with the same tone as if theory is an addiction. Also, I don't let theory and conceptual issues distract me and limit me as much anymore. What's the key lesson learned? You gotta be really careful with beliefs and theories -- they have pros but they also have cons. It's tricky to figure out how to interpret theory and best use theory in your life. This is basically what Conceptual Understanding Work as a branch of Personal Development Work addresses.

I think it's Do Nothing Meditation. That's my go-to form of meditation. I don't really use any other form of meditation. Today I meditated for 2 hours straight which is kinda unusual for me.

You're not always gonna get things that you like served up to you in life. Sometimes you're gonna get served up some real challenges. Paradoxically, you both want to and don't want to take reality personally.

I've always been a minimalist. I used to move around a lot, and because I've been by myself a lot in my life, I didn't really have anybody to help me move, so I sort of learned how to live with the bare minimal amount of stuff. If I need something, I can usually pick it up on the street when someone is getting rid of it like a dresser or desk or something. An then when I move out, I don't really give a shit about leaving stuff behind. I went to Athens Greece for 2 weeks with one overstuffed carry on backpack and the hotel receptionist in Athens laughed at me and said she would need like 2 suitcases minimum. So, yeah -- 2 weeks in Athens on a backpack! -- That's minimalism -- And I had everything I needed in there too -- I had to hit up a laundromat once or twice but that's no problem in most countries

Really? Is that how it works?

Oh cool! Thank you!

i like the idea of a subconscious programming course that Leo mentions in his Life Purpose Course.