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Workpost 39: Making the Most of It
This morning I had a very slow start. Seems to be the same for a lot of days.
I really really focused on the idea that everything could be turned into an advantage. And today, I realized that the reason why I have slow starts is because my stomach burns, aches, and has gnawing empty pain. It is so bad, it is hard to focus and feel motivated to work.
The opportunity this morning is to devise some techniques to help with my stomach and be able to test it with the worst possible conditions. In other words, if the techniques work now, they will work anytime.
I tried this video first, and it was pretty helpful.
Then I tried this video which was helpful, but too boring to finish:
Finally, I tried drinking hot tea, which seemed to help some as well.’
And then, even though my stomach starting feeling better, I ran into another problem with avengance.
This problem was simple. Absolutely no motivation to do anything, being that I still felt tired and overwhelmed. Instead, I wanted to play games and watch tv shows.
I’m going to take the same approach here: use this as an opportunity to test out some new ideas with productivity.
So I have many many techniques in this area already, but I want to innovate further today in a different direction instead of meditation, letting go, focus, etc.
I want to look at why, even in my overwhelmed state, do I want to play Valorant and Fallout Shelter, and how I can fundamentally apply the same things to the things I want to do.
Things I Want To Do
- Consulting work
- Linkedin posts
- Coaching work
- Working out
Before I forget, here are some additional mindsets I can add the useful pile:
- Walking to vent stress, find peace, ask tough questions, get answers
- Workpost is to innovate something
Main Reasons Why I Want to Play Valorant
- Can work on a specific skill like aim, movement, gamesense
- Want to level up really quick and be a top player
- Inspired by demon1, tenz, oxy, and aspas – want to be the best as well
- Like working with a team, getting clutch plays off, good vibes
Main Reasons Why I Want to Play Fallout Shelter
- Get control of my vault
- Satisfaction in optimizing my vault
- Satisfaction in leveling people up, and getting new weapons
Why It Is difficult to get the same feeling with work?
- There is no specific simple skill to work on
- Nothing I want to level up in
- No one to inspire me
- No team to work with
- Don’t feel in complete ownership of the project
- In a hurry to get it done
What skills am I excited want to work on in terms of work?
- Faster problem solving skills
- Intuition + precise logic for accurate but rapid decision making
- Ability to think deeper with less effort
- Memory and recall with less energy
What do I want to level up in terms of rank?
- Money
- Intellect
- Thought leadership
- Communication and charisma
Who do I draw inspiration from?
- Elon Musk
- Alex Hormozi
- Khalid Sharara
How might I work off my team more?
- Showing off the results of my work
How might I feel more in control of my work?
- Understand that charisma, leadership are part of what I need to own and protect my work, just because there are other players involved doesn’t mean I don’t own it
Using all this information, I want to develop a unit of work, called a “game” or “match” to simulate what I do in Valorant. In Valorant you play a match with a clear objective, and you warm up before the game, and take breaks after the game.
Game Structure
Warmup: 15 minutes
Use to do list, practice one skill at a time:
- Faster problem solving/solution creation skills
- Intuition + precise logic for accurate but rapid decision making
- Ability to think deeper with less effort
- Memory and recall with less energy
Main game: 45 minutes
Fights:
Capture questions and answers.
Level up in:
- Money
- Intellect
- Thought leadership
- Communication and charisma
Result Calculation:
- How much do I think this work is worth?
- How difficult intellectually was this work from 1-10?
- What percentile do I place this work in terms of innovation?
- Gains in communication and charisma?
Art Coaching Day 2/21
I also figured out why I have troubling making a coaching website and why it felt so wrong. It had pricing and generic things on it.
I want my funnel to be an homage to my mission and vision, which is to foster the creation of more artistic masterpieces. So I want my website to have a feeling of magic, of the way Harry Potter felt when he was got his invitation letter to the Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. I want to remind myself of the feeling of reading children’s books. I want the website to be an homage to dreams, creating worlds, and fantasy.
I want my business cards to feel like a work of art, like a magical invitation.
Today I accomplished the following things:
- Bought masterpiececoaching.org
- Ordered samples of premium business card samples from Jukebox
Tomorrow I really want to design and put together my website asap using a template on wordpress.
Workpost 66: Mixed Feelings
Today I feel tired. Coming off of a early morning and a workout, watching a lot of Valorant, I’m in a position where I still feel a bit tired. I’m excited to update my blog, but I’m not so sure about the marketing call.
I really hope to make money off of my passion and find success in the AI space finally and I hope today’s session will help with that.
I feel strongly that I want to preserve boundaries with this coach because I feel he doesn’t respect boundaries for some reason.
I feel nervous and uncomfortable with the call. For some reason I feel he has a bit of a temper and is not good at listening.
But I can protect myself, I am his client and I have a bit of a temper too if it comes down to it.
I’ll take my time and be as clear and direct as possible with him.
My main issue is that I feel uncomfortable disagreeing with him. I feel unsafe. When processing it, I decided to be very clear about what he is saying and then say my views/opinions.
I’m having trouble getting work done today. I’m going to focus on the taoist productivity – work until I feel empty. Also, I want to leave the apartment to feel more productive.
Workpost 7: New AI Consulting Plan
Okok. After working on my AI Consulting Plan for a few days, something is really fucking clear to me (excuse my French).
I need more than 10 days to make a name for myself. I am going to need 3 months. Videos are the absolute best way to make a name for myself. However, videos take absolutely forever to create.
So let us give us enough time to make them.
Goal: Be known, give preview of consulting
UNIT ONE (1 month): Build a crowd who will engage with anything I put out
- Shoot 3 simple videos
- Shoot 3 complex videos
- Write 6 LinkedIn posts
- Involve people every step of the way
UNIT TWO (1 month): Get people to start reaching out to me with AI questions
- Create reaction videos to comments
- Create videos based off on comments
UNIT THREE 1 month): Get big enough following to invite famous people on my videos
- Figure out the platform I can get big on
- Post on it consistantly
BONUS (1 day): Look for automation/outsourcing, try to make as low effort as possible
Ok let’s dive in deeper.
UNIT ONE (1 month ends March 22nd)
- Planning and setting up artifacts for videos (10 days ends March 2nd)
- Executing, shooting and editing (10 days ends March 12th)
- Feedback and editing for bigger videos (10 days ends March 22nd)
And even deeper….
UNIT ONE | Part 1 Planning and setting up artifacts for videos (10 days ends March 2nd)
- Create plans for each of the videos (4 days ends Feb 25th)
- What videos I want to shoot (already done)
- What those videos will look like in the intro (partly done)
- What clips I need
- What research I need
- Who I need to talk to
- When I need it by – figure out shooting schedule
- How to break down each of the ideas into smaller content
- Figure out how to shoot each video (3 days ends Feb 28th)
- Break down as much of the video as I can
- If needed, come up with an imaginary best case scenario story just to know what shots I need
- Solidify shooting schedule
- Reach out to the people I need to reach out to
- Shoot preliminary non-essential parts of video (3 days ends March 2nd)
- Shoot any part that I can that don’t require other people
- Essentially get started with filming
Workpost 37: Fundamental Systems
Today I feel tired. My kidneys ache. They feel bloated and stagnated. My stomach feels slow. My head iches on the top. My eyes are dry. I feel burning inflammation up my back and spine. My skin is flaking on my face.
These past few days have felt exhausting, extremely stressful, and demoralizing. Last night, I asked myself the question, how do I get out of this.
I didn’t know the answer then, but my answer today during my walk was to take my stress seriously.
And just now, I had a realization that I have the systems developed to do extraordinary things. I just need to utilize them and follow their principals.
Systems in place:
- Daily walk to ponder questions I am stressed about
- Daily workpost to grow myself, plan for greatness
- Clean space to deal with stress, clean place = clean mind
- Meal prep strategy for healthy cheap meals with little stress – fridge containers, tacos, lettuce wraps
- Whiteboards to write strategies
- Off computer working systems (working while walking, running errands, working out, eating out)
- Todo list strategy – focus on one thing at a time, prioritize
- Clean after working hours to transition, decompress
- Crawling to get cardio in small space
- Walking backwards and tibialus for knee
- Hanging for shoulders and posture
- Working out after and before meals for better absorption, muscle growth, and recovery
- Journaling to ask myself questions at night
- Walking with no effort
I have absolutely everything I need to build a life where I can do almost anything I want, achieve anything I want.
Right now, I want to focus on two things: recovery and priming
Priming are stuff like cleaning, wiping off my whiteboards, clearing out tabs, filling markers, mealprep, todo list grooming
Recovery means lots of sleep, rest, hydration, and exercise. Specifically paying attention to anytime I want to game to see if I feel stressed or uncomfortable, taking a break when that happens.
To top off this post, I want to attach something that I want to erase from my whiteboard, but want to save forever:

Reasons Why I’m Ready
- I’ve developed very deep and powerful life theories (flow, connection) → these theories can give anyone direction in darkness, I forget them but they come back when I need them
- When faced with pain I’ve always come out stronger (ACL) → pain is the greatest teacher
- I’ve proven that I can complete hard challenges (knee, sova) → I can achieve the challenges I set my mind to
- I can solve problems few people can solve (triage, nikola) → normal rules don’t apply
- I’m deeply attuned to emotions (coaching, art, philosophy) → makes it much easier to connect with people
- I used to walk up to girls on the street → Nothing is something I can’t handle. There is nothing that I can’t ask for
- No matter how badly I fail there are people who still love me
- The point is not to get there, be productive or succeed, the point is to find a meaningful problem, problems we want to solve → we will never have no problems but we can choose which problems we want to contend with
- Happiness doesn’t come from acing the past but seizing the now → its never too late to be happyIt’s near too late to fix it with a degree in engineering and parents who don’t mess with me
- I have lots of assets and saving and a degree in engineering and parents and a sister all with money saved
Workpost 85: Health Challenge
I’ve decided to start on my health challenge today. What does that mean?
- An emphasis on taking care of my mental and physical health above all
- Creating boundaries and emotionally processing any pushback around not making my health a priority
- Certain goals:
- Jiujitsu for 2+ hours every day
- Boxing on the days I can go
- Cooking all of my meals
- Bedtime at midnight
- Reduced or elimination of all processed sugars
- Work comes after health, and is designed to be rejuvenating instead of draining
This health challenge will run from today until the 15th – the day when I travel home. Then I will work on adjusting and finding a new routine.
Today, I want to ponder two things:
- What do I want to post as a video explaining what I’m doing with my youtube challenge?
- How will I support myself healthwise while working to make it rejuvenating?
Youtube Video
- “It’s over. I failed”
- “Welcome back to the 21 day youtuber challenge, my name is Jack you are watching episode 17.”
- “In this challenge, I was supposed to post a video every day for 21 days, and it’s safe to say I failed.”
- “I haven’t posted for multiple days in a row, the last episode actually shot multiple days before I released it because it took so long to edit”
- “The reason is simple, it took 6 to 8 hours to create every video from the ideation, to the shooting, to the editing and that just isn’t sustainable”
- “If I think of the ideal pyramid of life, it looks something like this” (Health, work, youtube)
- “But recently it’s felt upside down”
- “So what’s next? I still want to do the challenge – posting the rest of the 21 videos exploring what I like to make videos about. After all, I have so many more ideas to try out”
- “But I’m not going to release them every day anymore”
- “Here are 10 things I can focus on now that I’m not releasing videos at such a frantic pace”
- “But in those little moments when I have time, I will keep making videos for this series, and hopefully it’ll be magical”
Working Plan
- Focus on only one thing at a time
- Process emotions around rushing or being in a hurry
- Create an appropriately prioritized to do list
- Take a lot of notes when taking a break so I can pick off where I left off
- Timed meditation and off screen time for stronger focus