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Profit in Peace 7: Day Three

Byjack

I didn’t do the powermoves yesterday. Dunno how I’m already so burned out.

Dunno how to find my power or center again.

This is very interesting for me, like the logistics portion for me.

Thoughts and questions today:

  • Alibaba is not a marketplace, its a directory of manufacturers
  • You can send them an RFQ and they can produce your product
  • Certification used to make something eco friendly
  • Click hearts on suppliers that look good > Favorites > Select all > Contact Supplier
  • High quality images
  • Talk about benefits not features
  • Use canva for images
  • Turn off on keywords that are not delivering, put more money into the keywords that are delivering
  • 20-30 per hour for sourcing agent
  • about 400 for each project

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Valorant 7: Embracing Death (and Improving Movement)

Byjack

I’ve been thinking about what small exercise I can do right now to level up my gameplay and progress in Valorant since I haven’t had much time to play or practice recently.

After meditating on it a little bit, I settled on something that I know has held me back in Valorant since I first started playing the game – the fear of death.

The fear of dying in the game:

  • Makes me stressed out, and not think clearly
  • Makes me shoot too fast without aiming
  • Makes me frustrated when I lose
  • Makes me exhausted after playing for a few games

I’ve decided to learn how to accept death in the game, and to understand it better overall.

For example, understanding the “time to death” from an intuitive sense (and knowing how to extend that time) could be a GAMECHANGER.

It will intuitively let me know:

  • When to peek
  • If I whiff, whether I should peek back, crouch down, or keep spraying
  • How much time do I have to aim before I get killed by the enemy
  • Stay focused even after dying a frustrating number of times

So I hopped into a couple of deathmatches and gave it a shot!

I started out just trying to predict when I would die, but dying stresses me out too much to tap into my intuition (you need to be relatively clear-headed to feel things intuitively). I focused then on saying “die” aloud every time I died or predicting when I died. This is taken from a sports exercise of intentionality (you vocalize what will happen, for example, if you are playing badminton, you say “hit” when you hit the birdie, and “miss” if you miss). This exercise is supposed to train your intuition and powers of prediction and anticipation.

Some takeaways:

  • Crouching can make most people miss if they are shooting at you.
  • The direction you run and bunny hop is very important, need to figure out the most evasive ways. Sometimes running directly at them has zero chance of success. I need to work on sometimes facing the side not just forward to be more evasive.
  • The timing of peeking is important, how they have been spraying bullets is important.
  • When you are running behind a wall, before you peek, you don’t need to bunnyhop, just run normally, feel out intuitively, the moment you should peek out
  • I should start just by shouting out dead, every time I actually die, then try to predict
  • I need to aim higher to knife to the head, I keep knifing the body.
  • What I should try next is to stay alive for as long as I can.
  • I should also focus on letting the shock and frustration from dying play out before going again so quickly.

 

My intuition also tells me that I should focus on what I’m missing or losing when I’m dying and focus on those feelings right after dying.

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Workpost 3: Pleasant Uncertainty

Byjack

Today I feel a bit like there is a lot of uncertainty. There is uncertainty with my coaching business and with my career as an AI consultant, but there are also lots of opportunities moving forward.

I want to strive to move forwards and not start to distract myself from the emotions via games and videos.

The first thing I want to tackle is sleep. That is my main priority today. I want to understand why I feel unfulfilled at night, like something wasn’t quite done.

My intuition tells me that I desire to create art. I don’t know why.

Perhaps my first step is to start working on art at 9:30 PM.

Before that I want to achieve something in Valorant, so I will need to do some gaming earlier in the day.

I also desire to work on myself more, I think it really helps to think about emotional development as work. When I think about it as vulnerability, it feels not productive. But when I think of it as emotional work, it takes on new meaning and purpose.

Ok so lets take a look at my two projects right now:

So for my AI Consulting plan, I want to stick to the plan, but the timeline has changed a bit.

I wanted this current goal (Be known, give preview of consulting) to finish by Feb 27th. That leaves 7 days to film, shoot, edit and get feedback.

UNIT ONE (ends 23rd): Shoot 3 videos

  • Spend total of 3 hours per video (9 hours total)

UNIT TWO (ends 24th): Write 2 LinkedIn posts

  • Spend total of 1.5 hrs per post (3 hrs total)

UNIT THREE (ends 26th): Get feedback, harden process

Looking at my goal for art coaching, I feel dissatisfied with my current structure on process for that. I feel I need to work on finding more ambitious and exciting goals at every step of the way (even if I have a lot of time to get there). I realized in order for the syllabus method to work, you need to have very ambitious exciting goal…then think about how to make it difficult to expect anything other than success.

So let’s revisit the master plan here.

Goal: Ramp up to an income of 8333 per month (100k per year) within one year

I want to choose a new goal…make 1500 per week in coaching.

I want to achieve this within the next 3 months.

UNIT ONE (1 month): Focus on my craft – become a coach I would hire for 1000 per month

  1. Create plans (10 days, ends March 2nd)
    1. Deeply understanding clients
    2. Creating extreme focus and presence in life and sessions
    3. Developing connections clients need
    4. Materials and exercises to create and track strategy
  2. Execute on plans (10 days, ends March 12th)
  3. Research and refinement (10 days, ends March 22nd)
    1. Interview other coaches
    2. Read books
    3. Further brainstorming

UNIT TWO (1 month): Build 100 hot leads – depends on having free stuff

  1. Random try posting (10 days, ends April 1st)
  2. Get feedback and do networking and outreach (10 days, ends April 11th)
  3. Turn warm leads into hot leads with offer (10 days, ends April 21st)

UNIT THREE (1 month): Meld and combine top level coaching with leads machine

  1. Talk about my clients achievements, use it to push their art (10 days, ends May 1st)
  2. Clients have voice on my platform to talk about concepts in my coaching (10 days, ends May 11th)
  3. Refine call for action to get warm leads to ask for my offer, then turn into hot leads (10 days, ends May 21st)

Okok, I finally have a good framework, but working on this framework makes me realize I really do need to work on free products in the meantime.

Goal: Create free products in 1 month

UNIT ONE (10 days, ends March 2nd): Complete research

  1. Transcribe and think, what is the million dollar problem or breakthrough?
  2. Collate results, come up with solutions
  3. Research competition

UNIT TWO (10 days, ends March 12th): Develop products

  1. Planning and gathering materials doing research
  2. Create products

UNIT THREE (10 days, ends March 22nd): Continue development

  1. Testing and creating more products

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Fitness Challenge

Byjack

In this challenge, I want fill out my body and get a lot more energy and health before my girlfriend visits me on July 15th.

This means that I have approximately 2 months in the challenge.

UNIT ONE: Baseline health: strong enough to exercise bulk and be normal health (21 days)

  • Week 1: Regen from tiring out (no matter how tired, wired or drained)
  • Week 2: Big appetite (increase hunger throughout day)
  • Week 3: Enjoyable rhythms (finding pleasing routines that further my goals in health, wealth and relationships)

UNIT TWO: Bulking and buildup: Gain 3 pounds of muscle (21 days)

  • Week 1: Try everything (bulking trial and errors)
  • Week 2: TBD
  • Week 3: TBD

UNIT THREE: Pushing myself, weight, strength, energy (21 days)

  • Week 1: Decrease resting heart rate
  • Week 2: Double strength
  • Week 3: TBD
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My Two Year Plan

Byjack

Here is my dream life:

  • Part time accountant: 2.2k-3.2k
  • Full time videographer: 4.3k-6.4k
  • Full time editor: 4.8k-6.9k
  • Apartment or down payment on house: 3k
  • Art studio 2k
  • Massage everyday: 1.7k-3.6k
  • Therapist 2 times a week: 2.8k
  • High end business coach: 4k
  • Eat out at a nice dinner 3 times per week: 1.2k
  • Fly first class to a destination with a plus one, with a nice airbnb every month: 5k
  • Organic high quality groceries: 1k
  • Nice quality clothes: 1k-2.3k

Total: 28.2k-41.4k

Per Year: 338.4k-496.8k

If I wanted to save 50%: 676.8k-993.6k

Before taxes that would be: 1.091M-1.601M

Meaning each month I would have to bring in: 90.1k-133.4k per month

I realize that this is more of an end goal. To get to the place I want to be right now, I don’t need to make enough to save 50%. That can come later. I highly suspect that having a great business coach, massages, and a therapist will enable me to double and triple my income.

So lets take another look at the numbers. What is the bare minimum I need to get into this lifestyle?

338.4k per year -> 531.8k before taxes

44.3k per month

If we were to operate on the Parrado Principal just for coaching:

  • 80% from group coaching: 355 group coaching clients | 20% from one on one: 6 one on one clients
  • 80% from art coaching: 425.4k | 20% from AI consulting 106.4k

Questions for myself:

  1. What should I focus on first?
  2. How do I divide what I want to do into steps?
  3. What should I focus on, AI or Art Coaching?
  4. Should I even do AI consulting?
  5. Should I try to find a partner for AI consulting? Should I wait until I find a partner to do anything?
  6. How do I want to legally set up my companies?
  7. How do I make my life easier?
  8. How do I market my businesses?
  9. What is something that I’m missing?
  10. How do I make my art coaching business succeed in a way that doesn’t destroy my peace?
  11. How do I maintain my AI expertise? How do I make progress without being overwhelmed and unfocused?
  12. What will make my life more fun while making big strides in my businesses?
  13. Is there something I can start succeeding at today?
  14. Am I aiming at the right goals? Are they too small? Too large?
  15. What can I do today to rapidly speed up my progress?
  16. If I wanted to make a lot of money, enough to live on in the next year, and I wanted to make this money in a month with my current skillset, what should I do?
  17. Is there a small shift I can make that will have a massive impact on my income/success?
  18. What should I be hiring someone else to do? What things will have a good return on my investment, make me money not lose money?
  19. What should I do today that will make me happier and more successful?

My intuitive answers:

  1. What should I focus on first?
    • You want to focus on the fundamentals: sleep, meditation, food, emotional processing
    • The stronger the fundamentals are, the more you will be able to handle anything
  2. How do I divide what I want to do into steps?
    • Picture some of your immediate goals that make you feel excited, give you energy, make them small enough to understand, and work on meeting those goals first
  3. What should I focus on, AI or Art Coaching?
    • It depends on what you want to do, to create a large business, AI makes more sense
    • For creating a smaller business, focus on Art Coaching
  4. Should I even do AI consulting?
    • Yes of course, there is a really good business opportunity here
    • If you mean at the same time as Art coaching, the answer is it depends, you will have to pick a priority
  5. Should I try to find a partner for AI consulting? Should I wait until I find a partner to do anything?
    • No you shouldn’t wait, you can start by yourself
    • Yes, you should look for a partner while you are looking for clients, you are developing a network for both
  6. How do I want to legally set up my companies?
    • Depends on how easy it is to change, the benefits of separating them, etc.
  7. How do I make my life easier?
    • Stop doing everything alone, work with other people
  8. How do I market my businesses?
    • Ask other people for ideas
  9. What is something that I’m missing?
    • You are missing a business coach/mentor
  10. How do I make my art coaching business succeed in a way that doesn’t destroy my peace?
    • You write about your challenges and experiences, to approach the business like an opportunity for personal growth
  11. How do I maintain my AI expertise? How do I make progress without being overwhelmed and unfocused?
    • The best way is if you could connect the art coaching with AI and AI with art coaching, if you could find a way for them to be symbiotic, that would be the easiest way
    • The other way is to find a simple and easy way to make money from AI
  12. What will make my life more fun while making big strides in my businesses?
    • I think maybe posting about your process/journey on social media
    • Hosting events and meeting people
    • Speaking at events
    • Creating strong boundaries for doing other things unrelated to business
  13. Is there something I can start succeeding at today?
    • Yes, focus on the fundamentals, they are the most important part
  14. Am I aiming at the right goals? Are they too small? Too large?
    • I think you are focused on the right goals, but maybe it is too early to be thinking about timelines, just create a bunch of attainable goals and work through them with no timeline in mind
  15. What can I do today to rapidly speed up my progress?
    • Meditate
    • Sleep as much as possible
    • Find a mastermind
  16. If I wanted to make a lot of money, enough to live on in the next year, and I wanted to make this money in a month with my current skillset, what should I do?
    • Teaching people would probably be the best way, that is probably your strongest skillset at the moment
    • Probably not the best use of your time for your goals
  17. Is there a small shift I can make that will have a massive impact on my income/success?
    • Yes, write down goals and look at them everyday
  18. What should I be hiring someone else to do? What things will have a good return on my investment, make me money not lose money?
    • Finding a good video editor or social media manager
    • Marketing is key and you need to work with people to get good at it
  19. What should I do today that will make me happier and more successful?
    • Remember your mission(s) and focus on them

Core Wounds 8

Byjack

Today I wanted to look at the core wound of feeling like no one will truly understand me and or truly love me.

Sharing Circle

I was in the circle

Of kings they said

I didn’t want to be there

I was just too sad

But they opened up the space for me

To tell my story

Of how I fell in love with a girl

Who I felt others wouldn’t approve of

But I still loved

How I felt like things went wrong

But not because I broke them

But because life

Sometimes

Isn’t easy or simple

I cried

When I thought about it

Felt safe to feel it

Like the time when I was at the party

Solomon turned to me

And said

I know how that feels

And Tim asked me to

Channel it into the karaoke 

My pain my loss

I feel that pain now

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Valorant 39: Mind Training (PreGame)

Byjack

Today we are going back to the Valorant Challenge but from a different perspective.

I strongly felt that the one time when I didn’t feel stressed at all, but instead felt the timings of the enemy and where they could be, and how I could systematically take them apart, I was playing Valorant at a significantly higher level.

Some thoughts for today:

  • Closing eyes to mental reset
  • Playing music to hype up
  • Breathing and letting the energy carry the action

Most of all, I will endeavor to feel out the enemy’s position and figure out how I can take the map piece by piece with util, teamwork and aim diff.

I will create another post after the game to review how that went.