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Hi! A couple of months ago, I found my Life Purpose in my career with Leo's help, and I've been motivated like never before. The only problem I'm feeling recently is that I'm so focused in this and the mastery process of my skills, that I'm having a hard time to socializing with other people. Most of my friends are just looking for short term fun and stuff like that, and activities I really can't relate to anymore. You guys experienced something similar?

Hey everyone. So I have a question, that I think this is the only place where I can get the appropriate tips and suggestions. Well then, I have been practicing meditation for three years now a journey filled with ups and downs. It was only last year that I stumble upon Actualized.org , and I can say that 2017 it was so far my best year of practice, Leo's videos really help me persist with this habit. Anyways, also with Leo's help I was able to find my LP, which I'm super motivated and working daily. But my LP doesn't involve meditation (as a main habit per se), and I'm thinking in actually decreasing the time of my meditation practice. I usually do one hour daily, now I'm thinking in switching to 20 minutes, so I can dedicate myself more in building my LP. So what you guys think? Is this normal, a responsible attitude or is just my ego messing with me and making excuses to meditate less? Thanks in advance!

@Joseph Maynor @cetus56 Yeah, definitely I guess is all about "creating that extra time to do so". By all means I don't want to regress in my meditation practice. Thanks for the wise words!

@HII awesome, thank you. I will look into it!

@star ark That's a great advice Star ark. I haven't think about this before, it can be effective. Thank you!

I've took a break off from meditation last year. I was really busy graduating from college and working, I started ignoring meditation and giving excuses to not meditate. It was a bad move, I ended up returning to the stress and anxiety levels that I used to experience before I started practicing. It turned out bad, my mental and physical health declined, and I was feeling like sh*t. The first thing I did once I had more free time, it was returning to my meditation habit. Now I'm back at it since June last year, and I hope I can maintain a daily meditation habit until my last day of life. Meditation is like going to the gym, its a mind work out, if you skip a couple of days its fine maybe you won't even feel very much, but in the long run its gonna suck. So in my point of view, it would be good if you just decrease a bit the daily time practice, to 10-20 minutes maybe. I'm sure once you have the motivation to do it for longer periods of time you will get back in your old shape. Wish you the best luck, hope I could be of any help!

@Huginn Awesome, yes I was thinking about this actually. What a coincidence I just started going to Yoga last week haha maybe there I can find like minded people. Thanks for the advice, I will try to connect some of my LP values with things I can do with other people. It will take a bit of brainstorming but I believe its possible. (:

Hey everyone! Huggin: Thanks for the wise words! LP sort does and it doesn't, my LP is to become an economist (I'm about to enter in grad school rn) so most of the stuff I'm dealing are very complex and I see that most people are not really interested in talking too much about this stuff. It also involves a lot of my time dedicated to studying which is a very lonely activity. So that's pretty much the basic challenge I'm facing right now (finding like minded people). But i agree totally with you, one thing I don't want is just to find new friends in this field to only be friends, it has to be something organic and meaningful to last, maybe by entering in grad school I will find people like that. In my life, in the past I made real good "friends" that are eventually gong away and stuff. I guess this is just a transitional phase maybe. Rawjudah: Thank you for the inspirational words, and the reminder of Leo's video on that topic. I will work on keeping my path to greatness. (:

I can really relate to this, I'm more inclined to introversion than extroversion. I experienced something similar with past relationships, and I ended up messing up because my partners could not understand this part of me, and the stuff I was working on. One of the things I learned from these past experiences, it was that I didn't communicate clearly to my ex-girlfriends what I was feeling and the kind of person I am, and in the end we would end up breaking up because of our differences. So, I think is important to practice communication, maybe she can get to know you better and you guys can make a deal (i.e: like an agreement of certain periods of the day where you be alone to do your activities). But, lastly I think is important to be flexible as well, maybe you should try sometimes to do her stuff and open up a bit to her extroversion (with baby steps) I believe you can find some positive aspects on this. Good luck and best wishes!

Thank you for the reply Spiral. Yes, that would be a great idea the pinned thread! Anyways, yes...I have been thinking about this, finding new friends, and stuff. But it's quite the challenge finding people around my age (I'm 24) working on their LP and/or self actualization. Lol, most of the people I know they are trying to become famous in social media or finding a relationship to lean on or getting a high paying 9-5 job. But I'm glad here in the forum people can resonate with me, I have a feeling that I can overcome this with some of the insights here!

Hi Leo and friends. My name is Omar Khodr, I'm 24 from Brazil. I have a suggestion for a video: I feel really curious when Leo talks about "working with your shadow side/self". I believe this topic, would be foundational for self actualization and spiritual work. How do we accept this side we all have? And how we don't let it control us in our worst moments? I would like to listen to Leo's point of view on this. Thanks! (:

Thanks Hardkill! I share the same opinion as you, although I have to admit it is a tricky thing to find that balance. I'm working on that constantly.