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What If It Wasn’t Real
What If It Wasn’t Real
She used to message me and beg me to get on to play
I thought she needed me then
Loved spending time together
We would joke
And talk about life
Little things
These days she plays
Without me
It’s me who asks
And she reluctantly accepts
In the game, she’s all anger and frustration
She hates the game
She hates the teammates
She hates me
And she hates herself
She denied that she ever had fun with me today
Says she can’t remember the last time we played
That I annoy her
That we need to win if we play
That we just don’t work together
“I like small talk,” she says about her new friends
“We are too busy asking about favorite colors”
“For me to be mad”
I remember a time we asked each other our favorite colors
I wonder if it was less special than I thought
Or if her new friends are more special than me
Its doubt that destroys love
Not hate or anger
Doubt eating away at a foundation so strong
It promised forever
Today I worry
If I left
Would she even notice
Over the laughter
Of her new friends
This poem is about feeling like what you thought you both cherished, only you actually cherished. That there wasn’t a connection at the level that I originally thought.
If that is actually true, I don’t feel heartbroken. Only depressed. So incredibly disappointed that everything was not as special as I thought it was. It takes me back to my dark places, wondering if anyone could truly love me.
Part of me knows it’s more complicated than that. That there is still hope for us. Still hope for me.
Workpost 43: Resilience (17 Questions)
My questions:
- How to find a good business partner?
- How to live an entrepreneur/unemployed life?
- How to approach taxes as an entrepreneur?
- How to approach risk?
- How to build a support system?
- How to handle rejection?
- How to approach financial risk in a smart way?
- How to rebuild from nothing?
- How to deal with people looking down on you?
- How to get hired/search for a job?
- How to turn off work?
- How to minimize work effort/stress/inefficiency?
- How to process awkwardness?
- What are different selling methods?
- How to sell in a way that I feel myself?
- How to gain from/work with/ benefit from the American system?
- How can I be more resilient?
My intuitive answers to the questions:
How to find a good business partner?
- Write down what the ideal business is like
- Imagine all your favorite parts
- Imagine all the parts you need help with
- Write down your values
- Think about where a person like this (values + good in the areas you are weak + interest in your business area) would like to do/hangs out
- Ask close friends if they know someone like this
How to live an entrepreneur/unemployed life?
- They are different questions
- For the entrepreneur
- Without a company, you need to build a company around you
- Need to hire help/services to help automate different parts of life
- For the unemployed
- Now is the time to look for help
- Look into government assistance, help from family and friends
- To decide which one you are:
- Unemployed when you no longer have ability to make money
- If you have savings + some cashflow you are an entrepreneur
- If you have no savings and negative cashflow, you are unemployed
- You can be an entrepreneur and still work a job to increase your cashflow
How to approach taxes as an entrepreneur?
- Find a CPA that has experience working with entrepreneurs
How to approach risk?
- Risk is actually really simple
- Risk value = probability of success x value of success
- The higher the risk value, the more worth the risk, compare that with the resources the risk requires
How to build a support system?
- The easiest way are people who want to live in a similar world as you do
- People who’s goals align with yours
- The easiest way to ascertain this is just to ask people
- You can also try to go to places that are included in your vision for what type of world you want to live in
How to handle rejection?
- Repair the ways in which you rejected yourself
How to approach financial risk in a smart way?
- Get good at estimating risk value and investment
- If the risk value is $100,000, and the investment is $90,000 then the risk is likely worth it
- If the risk value is $100,000 and the investment is $10,000 then the risk is definitely worth it
How to rebuild from nothing?
- Know your strengths
- Know what people want
- Sell yourself
How to deal with people looking down on you?
- Repair the ways other people have looked down on your in the past
How to get hired/search for a job?
- Think about the jobs that will be easiest for you to get
- Based on the interviews and discussions, adjust closer to what makes you happy
How to turn off work?
- Create a viable plan for when pending work will be addressed
- Write down the plan and execute when you are ready
How to minimize work effort/stress/inefficiency?
- Focus on creating clarity at all times on what is expected and when
- Set boundaries around respect and time
- Make sure that the goals are specific and small enough to complete one at a time
How to process awkwardness?
- Find reasons why awkwardness is a good thing
What are different selling methods?
- Relationships sales – they like you
- Technical sales – they like the technology
- Pressure sales – they don’t want to say no
- Trust sales – they trust you
How to sell in a way that I feel myself?
- Trust sales + technical sales sounds most like me
How to gain from/work with/ benefit from the American system?
- Sell to the rich
- Hire people who are good at what they do
- Outsource tedious stuff to other countries or AI
How can I be more resilient?
- Spend time getting up when you fall
- Specifically focus time and effort on healing from painful experiences
The Beauty of Eternal Loneliness
The Beauty of Eternal Loneliness
When I met her
I felt whole
Her love
Insistant, constant
Made me feel safe
Made me feel free
Accepted
Made me want to feel
Devoted
But when the loneliness came back
I tried to lean
On her
And I leaned instead
On a wall of toothpicks
Left behind
When I fell
The toothpicks scattered around me
I’ve never felt more alone in my life
I tried to fill something missing in me
With her
So much
I forgot
No one is forever
We are alone
From the moment we draw our first
To the last
And when I tried to desperately fill
The loneliness with her
The loneliness that was a part of me
I also lost
The one person
Who was there
Before she came
After she leaves
The only one
Who can be alone together
With me
Me
There is no shame in loving hard, loving deeply. All love comes with sadness and a special sort of sadness that can be so unbearable we try to cover its beauty. But don’t be afraid. Love is the most beautiful emotion we feel.
We seeks people who can heal us, compliment us and challenge us. It is the best thing in the world to seek out such people. Finding other people can be the most rewarding experience ever.
However, when we feel lonely, it reminds us to ask ourselves the question:
- How do I feel? Let the answer come to you.
- What would make you happy? What if you gave yourself permission to fail?
If we worry too much about losing someone:
- We feel the feelings
- A reminder that we are always alone
- We let our frustration out in a way that feels good (running, hitting something)
- Creating art that feels good
- Focus on the present, that is all that exists
We should never be afraid to love. But we should be afraid of trying to replace ourselves with them.
Workspace 22: Relax
I had a slower start to the day. I started the day on my phone, waking up a bit early because my new retainer is bothering me when I sleep.
I watched some Valorant, talked to my girlfriend, and now I have a flight in about 3 hours. I want to leave in about 2 hours. I still have to take out the trash, eat up some more food and load the dishwasher.
I did a bit of a workout and I found out a couple of things that help with regaining energy, and gathering chi:
- Butt-clenched breathing: sounds a bit weird but it works. Lie down, clench the sphincter muscle (what you use to hold in poop) breath in. Then relax and breathe out. Repeat.
- Tummy circles: put the left hand over your stomach, then your right hand over that. Make circles over your stomach in the clockwise direction. Do it lightly. Then put your hands in the same area in your back and repeat.
- Extremity exercises: this can be any exercise that works your extremities. For example, doing a dead hang and focusing on clenching really hard with your hands but leaving everything else relaxed, or doing heel raises with the tips of your toes super engaged with everything else relaxed.
- Meditation: lie down close your eyes and walk down a staircase while counting to 10. Imagine the smell of wet stone, always puts me in a meditative state really quick for some reason.
Anyway goals for today. Just relax! I want to get all the chores sorted out and just spend the rest of my time relaxing.
A Willingness to Endure Pain
It is extremely hard to be yourself all the time. There will always be things that you want to avoid, that you are afraid of. Specifically, things that you don’t like about yourself.
Control gives the illusion of happiness. The fear of loss of control is like all fear and uncomfortable feelings. It is not something that needs a solution or be avoided. You don’t solve the lack of control by being more controlling. You don’t solve fear by avoiding your fear.
Emotions are meant to be reacted to, and the solution is meant to come to you, not something to be forced into existence. The most healthy way to process painful emotions is through physicality, expression and meditation:
- Physicality – punching, running, yelling, screaming, crying and sort of physical release
- Expression – writing, talking, recording a video diary
- Meditation – letting the emotions come and go
I used to write that you should follow what you feel. Sometimes, you don’t KNOW how you feel. That’s ok. Clarity is about patience. The patience to wait for the answers to come, to be able to sit in the pain for long enough to see the truth.
And at the end of the day, clarity will bring an understanding of not just how we feel, why we feel it, but what we truly want. That is truly being ourselves, following what we want in the moment. Embracing that is the key to true happiness, confidence, and feeling truly alive.
Workpost 12: Deep Journaling
I was doing some deep journaling in the form of questions and answers, where I would ask all the questions I have, feel deep in my heart what answer is coming to me, and then asking more questions about those answers.
For example, I will ask myself, what do I do about the anxiety with art? The answer that I feel come up intuitively is to create art which then poses the question, what do I do with art? Then I have the answer, use art to create richness in your life.
I was doing this exercise because I realized at this point in my life, I am so confused on what will happen next and what direction I want to go for my coaching, my career, and my relationship that the best way to serve myself is to get some clarity about what I am feeling and what I want. The faster you make decisions, the faster you progress. I felt that having clarity would make it much easier to make faster decisions.
I had quite a few revelations from this exercise I wanted to note down a few of the most important ones:
- I will achieve what I want in the field of AI not by working with others and creating a startup but rather by involving others into my creative process. Remember the energy of anything is possible. Solve difficult problems in practical ways and help people dream again. Change the world for the better.
- The long distance relationship does not meet the physical needs of closeness. I will need to dance more to keep in touch with the physical. I want to use emails and video chats to keep connected with my girlfriend on a spiritual level.
- I’ve lost a bit of my focus with coaching where it has become too much about the client. Coaching is not just about helping people create amazing beautiful art, but also to create a space of my design. Aka a space where connection theory and flow theory rule.
- Use your fear of not having enough money to fuel art that creates more wealth than money can buy (not about the value of the art, but the experience about having stories, music, and paintings so beautiful I may as well be rich).
One more note I wanted to make…I had a new idea with coaching a few days ago. I always wanted to create video clips of my coaching in order to show social media, but I was thinking recently, I can create clips that can be used to share something a package that can be used to motivate my clients (clips of songs created during the session, major breakthroughs etc.)