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Are you really THAT much happier meditating for years? Are you really THAT much for filled putting in the years of effort of personal development? Need some opinions of people been doing it for a year or longer, and some motivation to keep going haha (well i'll never stop but still)

i have too much time sometimes. what are some useful things to do? i go gym, personal development, hangout with friends, meditate and study. and ideas? i hate wasting time

Of late, it seems that the society we live in is almost automated like a highly efficent machine. Almost a slot machine as such that it is rigged against you, as you insert more money into it, the owners of the slot machine get richer and richer, while the player loses all his money and then goes off to work to get more money to play the put more money into this slot machine, and this person feels like it has to play this game or he will end up miserable. Let me brake the system down to how basics. Here is the mediocre life 1.You are born into the world. 2. You are named, you identify yourself as this name that has been given to you. 3 . You begin to grasp an understanding of the world which you beleive is true, you are easily influenced 4. You are taken to a Pre-School where you interact with others like you. 5. Parents discpline you. 6.You start asking questions lots of them, we are given answers to them which we beleive without qestioning. 7. Our emotions conflict with what we have been taught. 8 . We are sent to Primary/Elementry school where we are discplined even more, where we are forced to attend by law or heavy punishment will occur.You learn to fear authority and acceptance of it. 9.Tests are introduced to us, you are tested constantly. 10.You are taken to secondary school/ high school which you a forced to attend by law. Here you are discplined and taught at a higher standard and higher exspectations You begin to question the system,you are quickly told you are wrong by everyone surrounding you and made beleive that you are is whata wrong. You are tested heavily and throughly and a huge emphasis on grades,you are punished if you receive bad grades, both by parents and school staff. 11. You finish your examinations thats get you "Points" which can get you into colleges and get certain courses in that college. 12. You get into a college and take a course you are interested in, or family members advised you to take. 13.You may or may not get a degree. 14. A job fair is hosted all sorta of corpartions a recruiting and they are lookimg for specfic kind people with certain skill sets. 15. You are employed you start your job,you have mixed feelings about your job you work for years to earn enough money to do what you desire. 16. You proabably have fallen in love and have a spouse/girlfriend/wife. 17 . You buy a mortgage for your house. 18 .You have children. 19 . You work, work,work to pay off mortgage 20 . Your kids to school, you tell the that their schooldays are the best days of there lives. You wan them to be better then yourslef seeing you are miserable/ mediocre.. 21. You kids get jobs. 22 . You retire 23. You enjoy retirement. 24. Your near death feeling unfullfilled and with regrets, without really knowing why. 25 . We die 26.????? Thats the life of the majority. Ive noticed this , and theres something very fishy going on to say the least. And I dont like it. Its like farming, but instead of killing the animal, they are using the animals as a labour force to make the farmers who the animals rich pricks who do little work. I dont want this to be me. I cant stop this system, so its all ready a " If you cant beat em, join em scenario" where in I cant beat the system, so to survive in the system I have to earn income which can only obtained by working with the system. ( Illegal shit will get you locked up for decades). Its corrupt! And everyone is unconcious of it! The thing is, How am I supposed to avoid like becoming the rest of the sheep?

You will find this interesting if you are looking for truth or explanations for the counter-intuitive world that we currently live in. The Venus Project is an organization started by futurist Jacques Fresco. It proposes a new economic system where money is no longer used to obtain the necessities of life. Poverty, religion, ignorance, crime, war, governments, police, prisons, laws, private property, social-inequality are eliminated and a new global human culture emerges based on a new set of values related to cooperation, resource management, environmental maintenance and restoration, scientific research, large scale automation, technological development, self-actualization, health and well-being for all people. Profit-seeking would be seen as a barbaric practice in the world they propose. I am not someone of an expert on this subject. How does the message of the Venus Project fit with what you know about self-actualization?

(In this thread you can answer questions about Leo's Video: 3 Step Formula to Be Ruthlessly Effective At Anything. Thanks in advance for anyone that participates. You are all welcome.) So here are some questions: Let's say I stumble upon three potential techniques for my specific intention x. Presumably, I would have to try out all of them out to test which one works best for me. What would be an adequate time period to make such a decision? Can I judge the effectiveness of a technique over a day, a week or a month? What would be some simple and clear-to-evaluate criteria for judging the effectiveness of a technique? Are high-yield techniques universally effective or do they differ from person to person? (My opinion: They do differ. Yet, at the very heart of it, those principles that work underneath are ones that always worked. But also, the human psyche (and body) is complex and responds better to some "treatments" than others.) Can a technique that worked very well for you at one point stop working after you have done it for a long period of time? If you're currently in the habit of using a highly effective technique every day (and have committed yourself to doing so for 6 to 12 months) but find a better technique in the midst of it should you start using the new one (even if that destroys momentum) or should you stay and finish what you have committed yourself to do in the first place?

https://youtu.be/GcNGtZPPSS8 The theory behind the video gave me a new holistic perspective on actualization which I found to be very inspiring. Did you find the visualization exercise to be helpful? Searching memory and experience for a tangible feeling of love is fundamentally different for everyone as the word, love, is only a symbol. Once we have located and visualized this moment of love, Leo instructs us to propagate this feeling onto different facets of our life. I'm interested to learn what form this propagation, this giving love to the self, takes for other people during the visualization. I'm not asking about what the word love means to you, but rather how it is you project it upon your existence in the moment of a meditative visualization. Is it a visual manifestation? Or maybe a worded rationalization that each part of you is ok?

I'm new here. What's this about?

EFT technique and sedona.

2 hours max. Not gonna spend whole day reading books.

I struggle with routines. Glad yours is working out.

What's the difference between approaches that let you dig up the root cause of a negative limiting belief and just doing straight on affirmations or visualizations? I think I have an insidious fear of rejection that makes me extremely calculative when I'm interacting with other people. I always plan what to say and how to say it. I'm never authentic. I'm always aware of what I shouldn't say. I'm not familiar with tackling the root cause of a limiting belief. I believe(pun not intended) it's about digging up an event in your past and changing your stance on it(reframing). I'm not sure how that process goes. What should I do in my situation? How should I deal with other beliefs that I find they have a root cause? If you can recommend resources I would like that as well.

What's your strategy to relief stress and keep the motivation at the same time ? I think that resistance and fear of the future are the main causes to get stuck on growth and also increases our stress with we are note prepared for changes. So how to embrace changes with more motivation and less fear ?

So as you can see from the title,my problem is that I can't differentiate between Judgement and Opinion.Now,I watched Leos video on Judgement,and I realize that judging positive or negative can backfire on you in various different ways.First comes judgement of a certain thing or person then comes opinion,right?.And lately I tried to do the exercise where I try to notice myself judging and now I came to the point in which I ask myself what is an opinion.I realize that I should just experience things not as good or bad,but rather just that they are.Doesn't opinion come out of judgement?These are the question that make my wonder and because of which I can't move on out of this judgement part. Thank you for taking your time and reading this,kind regards

I've been doing personnel development for a while now. A problem I've been warned about was feeling that I am better than others around me. This is my problem, I do feel that I'm better than almost everyone around me. Can someone help?

I have been doing personal development work for about a year and a half. I learn about the many benefits self-mastery and a strong ego to help create the life you desire. I also learn a lot about transcending the ego. To me these seem like polar opposites. According to the IPEC Energetic Self Perception Chart, stages of self transcendence are beyond self mastery. My questions are: Would it be best to let go of self transcendence for now to pursue self mastery ? Does moving toward one, move you further away from the other? Do you need to build self mastery before you can transcend the ego? Do you need to first build a strong ego to create external success while the ego is transcended? I'm so stuck on what to believe. Lets bounce some ideas off of each other. Thanks!

What do you think is most important ? Creativity to find new paths or discipline to improve what already exists in terms of skills and knowledge.

Hello Actualized community So I've been telling myself I've been meditating for almost a whole year now daily. However, I'm not sure I'm doing it right - "There's no way of doing meditation wrong, as long as you are present with what is rising in you in the Now, you are meditating" - Yes I think I realize, its just that I feel that I'm not getting anything out of my meditations anymore. What I've been doing is sitting for 20 minutes each day. Things I attempt are counting breaths, strong sitting, mindfulness, do nothing and inquiry meditations. However, I don't feel that I've had any major insights or revelations in understanding myself... I just sort of sit there. Some little things I've noticed however is that when I'm doing do nothing for example, sometimes when I notice a thought, I cut it dead. Other times I realize moments later that I've been lost in thought for a few minutes. I never feel that I'm watching the thought moment by moment. Any advice on this? Another thing is that I feel I am becoming identified this "philosophy" (even though I know it shouldn't be) of "trying to become enlightened". I took some questions like: 'Where do thoughts come from?' 'Who is the perceiver of thoughts?' 'Who am I?' to the Buddhist teacher that comes in to take meditation classes at uni. His advice was to ask those questions of myself when I'm "meta". I don't really understand this either - I felt something once you could describe potentially as meta although I can't get back there. I feel I intellectually ask these questions because I want to make myself look further along this journey than I actually am. So my question on this is how do I truly understand these questions? I don't feel my meditations are helping me to understand. I just don't know and its starting to frustrate me that after all this time I don't feel that I'm improving. Any advice? Thanks for reading

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The 12 Top Time Management Tips First, let’s take a bird’s eye view of these tips. Then think of them as rules that you'll follow every single day to become a master of productivity. Set daily goals Focus on high-return tasks Batch similar tasks Get rid of non-essentials Delegate what you can Work with your natural rhythms Get the worst out of the way first Set a target Set a deadline Set a timer Eliminate distractions Learn to work faster By using these time management tips to set rules for yourself and making a commitment to stick to them every day, you can increase your own productivity exponentially. You’ll be less stressed, have more time for yourself and your family, and grow your profits all at the same time. Sound too good to be true? Well, no one is a superhero and follows these rules all the time. But, if you focus on at least one of these tactics each day, they’ll soon become habits that come naturally to you. It’s not impossible and the payoff is worth the effort. How to Implement the Time Management Tips for Productivity Now, starting at the top, try implementing each of these behavioral tips one at a time. Gradually add an extra one to follow every day, or as frequently as you can manage. 1. Set daily goals Each night, set your goals for the next day. If you don’t have time in the evening or at the end of the work day, set your goals first thing in the morning – before you do anything else. If you have goals set, you’ll know exactly what you need to do and won’t have to waste time thinking about what to do next. 2. Focus on High Return Tasks The most productive people follow the Pareto Principle as the guide for all their actions. If you haven’t heard of it, this principle states that 20% of the actions you take provide 80% of the results. The return on your time investment for all your other tasks is minimal in comparison. Try looking back at the past month and think about which types of tasks you did that had the biggest benefits for yourself and your business. You might be pleasantly surprised at how few of your actions really make an impact. As you plan your day and make your to-do list, focus on the tasks that will accomplish the most. 3. Batch similar tasks When you switch back and forth between different types of tasks, you have to keep readjusting your mind and your focus to the type of task on hand. Instead, do all your emailing at one time, in the morning and in the afternoon. Make all your phone calls at another time. Set your meetings for one block of time in the day. You’ll be able to get more done simply by keeping your mind in a certain “mode” of behavior.

Masters of time management have some simple tactics they follow that prevent them from wasting precious hours and minutes. They’re able to cut through the mind chatter and be remarkable productive, getting far more done than you could imagine in your wildest dreams.

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I started my Journaling journey today and I hope it takes me far into understanding the rational process of self development. My goal is to achieve maximum potential and explore infinite possibilities within onself