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Workpost 52: Logistics Done
So the groundwork is essentially laid for a lot of things.
I plan on investing $600 into the AI coaching business.
60% of revenue will go to my living expenses
10% will go business expenses
30% will be held in a high yield savings account for taxes
I plan on investing $5000 for the creation of the funnel for my art coaching business. It is already set aside for that purpose.
When I get to the 3 month mark (and I run my businesses full time) I will dip into the savings I have set aside in my emergency fund.
To make things simple, I just decided to funnel all business expenses through my AI coaching account. I will keep my coaching income a separate account.
Core Beliefs 4
Today I will write a poem about the core beliefs on emotions pushing other people away and the I am bad core belief.
I Told My Mom I Was Sorry
I was feeling defensive
She made me feel
Uncomfortable
Like the stress she felt
Was being put on me
I lashed out accordingly
Hours later, I felt regret
I didn’t think it was her fault
She didn’t even fight back as hard
As she usually does
I wanted to be cold
And hard
But instead, I felt my emotions
And told her
I was sorry
That I didn’t mean anything I said
My mom is not good at apologizing
She finds it uncomfortable
But she looked at me
And told me
I know
Love and Hate
Love and Hate
Sometimes I hate her so much
I want to break everything in my house
Smash it to pieces
Hit her so hard
I can feel some sort of relief
In my heart
So angry
That she refuses to give me
The girl I’m so in love with
Instead
She makes herself hard to love
She thinks she is taking back control
That this is what confident people do
That she will somehow stop the pain
If she ruins everything first
She’s afraid
That she will disappoint me
She doesn’t know
That she was enough
That even in my anger
All I wanted
Was to get her back
That I love her
And I chose her for a reason
She doesn’t know
All her pushing me away
Makes me so angry
Makes me so sad
Scared
Tired
Tired of being forced to ask myself again
If she is worth it
Tired of feeling doubt
When I already know
That she is the one
Creating Excitement in Productivity
I’ve been seeking excitement in my life for some time now. The excitement of walking up to random people to ask for them to vote for my non-profit, jumping off something high for parkour, or talking to a pretty girl on the street.
All those things felt like they had an element of risk but felt extreemly freeing and rewarding.
I wanted to know how to get more of this in my life and I stumbled upon a way to bring it into the more mundane parts of life, and if I can bring it into the mundane, perhaps I can bring it everywhere.
I realized that this can be used in any area where I have the desire to act but feel too afraid and that this could be any type of fear, not just social fear. For example, I’ve been feeling a lot of anxiety recently with feeling overwhelmed by things. For example, I feel overwhelmed at the thought of taking out the dishes, going to the gym, doing a duolingo test or playing an online chess match against a real person.
Using the formula that I developed with talking to women (but no longer use since I have a girlfriend), here are the steps:
- Imagine that I am going for it, and that I can imagine myself doing so within the next few seconds
- Imagine the fullest extent of “going for it”, how would truly committing look like, how would feeling effortless and free look like
- Let the fear/excitement build up in your chest as you start to breathe
- Let the energy carry the action – you don’t have to act if it feels wrong, but let the energy flow through your breathing and let it move you
- Continue to breathe through the experience to stay connected to yourself
These steps can bring a feeling of aliveness and control over life. I should know, I used it to write this very post and shoot the video below.
Health Checkup 10/25/2021
I feel worried about posting about this topic since it can be kind of gross.
However, I feel that physical health is one of the most important things to understand in life as it controls your energy levels, affects your mental strength, and dramatically affects your physical attractiveness or beauty.
Tracking and problem solving my health issues will not only help me but may provide inspiration for others.
Digestion
Symptoms: bloating, gas, diarrhea, distended belly, sensitivity to cold, stress, and exhaustion
Brainstorm:
- Raw ginger – seems to add an overall boost to blood flow (yang qi) and stomach circulation
- Farmhouse Culture Gut Shots – tastes absolutely disgusting, feels like it may actually help
- Unlocking/moving/stretching hips – ever since my knee injury, my hips are tight and contribute to the blockage in my stomach
- Stomach massage – helps smooth out the knots and blockage points
- Increase overall circulation – qi gong, running and cardio all help increase overall circulation and remove blockages overall
- Activate digestion while eating – eat slower and smell food more
- Eat less – to 70% fullness
Current Focus:
I need to improve my baseline before going after a specific treatment plan. The baseline will focus on two basic areas: overall circulation, reducing strain. The goals need to be very small so they are easy to maintain.
- Circulation – eat ginger every morning, run around the block once every morning (minimum 5 min)
- Reducing strain – focus on eating as little as possible, meditate once in the morning and night (minimum 5 min)
Hair
Symptoms: thin hair (but seems to be thickening), itchy scalp, hair falling out, dandruff
Very strange that my hair is thickening but falling out at the same time. Pretty sure my massage is working but the new hair growing in is so thin it falls out easily.
Brainstorm:
- Vigorous scalp massage – increase blood flow and already thicken hair a great deal
- Wash hair – more often, with cold water and apple cider vinegar if possible to reduce inflammation and increase circulation
- Oil/fatty acids – use huge amounts of conditioner and castor oil to thicken hair and prevent breaking and falling out
Current Focus:
I need to cleanse and increase circulation
- Wash hair every day with cold water and apple cider vinegar, need to use lots of conditioner to counter the stripping effect of washing your hair too much
Knee (injury)
Symptoms: afraid to put pressure or impact, no feeling at surgery area, pain
Brainstorm:
- More movement – motion is lotion to the joints
- Increased muscle mass around the joint – muscle is needed to support the joint
- Gua sha – need to tear up the scar tissue around the area and increase blood flow
- Warmup/loosen hips – hips are too tight reducing range of motion
Current focus:
I need more circulation
- Gua sha (or graston) for at least 5 min per day
Posture and Alignment
Symptoms: jutting forward head, misaligned hips, shoulders rounded forward
Brainstorm:
- Cobra yoga pose – let the hips relax into better balance
- Wall posture exercises – strengthen back muscles
- Foam roller stretch – stretch chest muscles
- Practice standing/walking – try to establish perfect alignment
- Move joints more – joints are where everything attaches, moving the joints mean more relaxed and fluid movement
Current focus:
I need to see a chiropractor and also just slightly improve posture while doing things bad for posture (computer, phone):
- Find a chiropractor within my health insurance
- Focus on finding a comfortable way to look at the phone with head back (put your phone on your knees)
Vision
Symptoms: dry eyes, headaches (happens not very often), worsening vision
Brainstorm:
- Relax into looking farther – stretches eye muscles
- Move vision more – gets the eye muscles to work a little more
- Do more active sports – forces your eyes to focus on things moving and far away
- Blink more – resets the eyes
Current Focus:
I want to just relax my eyes more when looking at far away things, rather than trying to move closer.
Profit in Peace 15: Workplace Reflections
I had quite a stressful workday as I expected but I wanted to jot down a couple of reflections today:
- Reminding myself of my boundaries (time, respect, honesty, empathy, and possibility) really helped
- It also helped to note down what I cannot control before every major meeting (usually something related to how someone felt about me)
- I noticed that keeping pace with my todo list was helpful:
- Keep all tasks that come to mind in my todo list (use it as a mental trashcan to throw all my worries)
- Reorder todo list to whatever I am working on right now (move something to the top if I am currently working on it)
- Do tasks immediately if they are low-effort
- Do sweeps (try to do everything on the todo list)
- Focus also helped
- Close as many tabs as possible
- Focus on one thing at a time
I was thinking about how to transition from work to Valorant more effectively since I usually start to feel dead and I end up watching youtube and ordering food and that kind of makes it hard for me to stay sharp when gaming and I end up feeling even more stressed and awful.
I think cleaning is a really good transition point. Cleaning reduces stress and is a great way to transition slowly…if I’m worried that there will still be a call coming in and I might have to go back to work, cleaning makes it easy to go back to work without feeling like I am not ready to transition to the next thing. In fact, if I clean, even if I go back to work, I will still be more ready to game after the work is done because my space is now clean.
I also like the idea of a mental dump to write down everything you are thinking about at the end of the day so that you can pick it up at any point today or tomorrow or the day after.
Finally, I like to look at the schedule for the next day and mentally prepare for it to know what you can do today to give you a lot of spaciousness tomorrow.