I got woken up at 4 in the morning to be told that the door was left wide open and the cat got out. An hour and 45 minutes of searching later, found her and brought her back home.
But from a paragon sleep perspective - this was a unique way to learn how much energy and vitality I have at 4am and how nice it was to go for such a long walk while it’s still dark!
Signed up for a marathon in May - this’ll definitely be new to me. I do a lot of sports, I’m a fast sprinter, but haven’t done long distance since high school. And in high school “long distance” was 10K.
Went for a run yesterday and tried to time a 5K run. Did it in 26.5 mins which is a 5:22 per km pace. If I can keep a pace under 5:30/km for the whole marathon, that’s a sub-4hr race, which is the goal. So my body is already there… I don’t need to get faster, all I need to do is train the endurance.
My mind adapted to the identity of a runner so quickly. I love it for personal and professional success. It’s something to obsess about that makes life and career better. Not worse. It has friendly competition, exercise, encourages sleep, nutrition, stretching, my brain feels amazing after a run, and…
It’s a very meditative experience. Not in a calming way. It’s meditative because you have to use all the meditation tools from The Mind Illuminated like checking in, introspective awareness, peripheral awareness, cultivating joy, labelling, and continual recommitments to diligence to go from
“this run hurts like hell I want to quit I want to die oh god why”
to
“recenter on the present, expand your awareness, what are the sensations that feel good right now? That’s just mind chatter. Diligently go back to the pace you were at 5 seconds ago before your mind started chattering about how hard it is and you’re tired.”
Just from that continual renewal (ha, ouroboros pun) of my attention and presence, I was able to keep up that race pace.
Full loop of Sanguine: Elixir - Dec 29 (with fiancée)
I think this still applies. The recommendation isn’t to run 3 min loops. Or 15. It’s start slow and find your sweet spot.
As usual when I have two goals… this journal will be about wealth/work. The other journal will be about fitness & health habits.
There’s a lot of crossover though as a marathon will help me train mindfulness, manage a peak state, sleep early, be fit and healthy, all of which makes me better at sales. Results from that boost in health posted here.
Reason for the new journal is that I feel very settled in my career, in a good way, and focusing on my career over everything in 2024 felt inauthentic. I’m not one to crave making 50K/mo or whatever, even though I have an agency that has gone way beyond that. Right now I’m making 15-20k/mo at my current work, it feels mostly on autopilot, and I want to sustain that and make it easier, enjoy it more, but have no desire to push to 30-40k income monthly at this time. I want, if anything, to get damn good at finances, investing, wealth management, with what I already have, rather than generate more and not know what to do with it.
Habits helping work
Thinking a LOT about content lately as I paid for some help to create my first few YT videos, but I think with that, I need to also think about the end goal, so that I can get really good at creating the content that will eventually help me turn that into a business, which will help me get profitable, which will help me spend more time on my own education/content business, which I can then niche down with.
Started thinking about this again the moment I woke up.
Content is a fascinating thing, in order to create it successfully, you have to define an identity, brand, story, area of expertise, level of expertise (beginner-amateur-enthusiast-experimentalist-expert-superexpert), etc.
How specific/general do I want to be? Self-Improvement? Men’s Improvement? Health (getting mildly more specific), Biohacking?
For who? Everyone? Men on the broad end? Men specifically looking for XYZ? Entrepreneurs/Salespeople/SMMA guys specifically looking for life & mindset & self-improvement stuff?
This exploration has been a really cool process.
I love this. The sentiment of focusing on the other things that matter and having a life that is fully enjoyed and self actualized.
I think feeling mostly on autopilot or that your performance is fully settled is a major part of this opening up. This is at the relatively new sales role your in? Is it mostly based off sales performance?
It is a wake up call for me that the work I’m doing may be too much hustle to get where I am month to month.
yes it’s at the new gig.
two things.
The sales confidence is nice to have, but never permanent, ad i’ll never rest on my laurels. It’s just a nice change of pace to feel at peace in that regard and focus on other things.
On that note @azriel I feel like while NR/Mogul and all the other scripting has been a guiding-light experience for me, showing me purpose and next steps as they relate to wealth (which WAS a guiding light of purpose)… I now feel like the wealth scripting inside NR is only related to wealth, which is no longer “everything.”
Now my stack just feels like it’ll help me complete items on a to-do list. Run, sell, eat, sleep. The essentials of a healthy and wealthy life, sure.
Feeling like a rediscovery of purpose is in order, especially considering this
Tagging and asking members who have ran one or both… @prioritas @simon @invictus @AlexanderGraves what would you say about running RoS at this stage of my life to answer some of the deep questions.
RoS vs Genesis, specifically for discovering your internal world. Thoughts?
F it.
I ran a 3m40s loop of RoS
Do you have a base salary? Or is that 15K+ off sales commission. What is the amount of sales you need on average to earn that.
I do 20-30K a month and average $200K in sales a month and it’s takes 15-30 sales to get there depending on the size of the packaged
4K/mo + another 4-5K on autopilot from the commission I get on client renewals. Then 5K+ in income from a 7% commission on new sales
What’s your stack gonna be like?
One of my favorite stacks ever, where I felt like I had purpose and self-knowledge/discovery blowing out the wazoo, was RoS AND Genesis
wow, you went hard.
I just listened to RoS, going to maintain NR/LE custom + EMPFIT1, and do RoS once a week @ 3 mins for a bit till I gauge how I react.
Solved
Solved
Solved
Not only have I
I even mapped out
Best of all it’s not business, it’s not wealth, it’s not sales, it’s not generalized self improvement. Let’s just say that it’s something that resonates with my soul. Oh and it’s not subliminals LOL.
I’ve gone through my life and looked at some key challenges I’ve faced, micro-stories within my macro story, that I can clearly relate and share as individual pieces of valuable long form content pretty easily.
and it’s only been 6 fucking hours
To be perfectly frank with you, that was broken down into
I didn’t even get wet, I just stood there for a couple of minutes writing everything down on my phone and then said F it, turned off the water, and went to my laptop to type.
RoS has me EXHAUSTED
Went to my fiancee’s place at 7pm to hang out with her and she was just like “you look so down” but I was just exhausted and then we went to her place and I literally just napped half-awake until it was time to go. Was tired since the moment I woke up yesterday morning. I was also tired today but not as bad. microlooped 1m each of EF1 and NR/LE last night
I also want to make some slight adjustments to the NR/LE custom.
Add in dominion. Maybe take our Khronos Key. It needs a bit more push and action and wealth manifestation to enhance what’s in the cores of NR/LE.
What makes you actually want to start a youtube channel and have you posted a video yet?
I coached for a well known program so I made a lot of video content coaching on concepts related to SMMA. People LOVED them. So I’m familiar with making video content. And I sell for offers that already have a solid YT presence - so I’m very familiar with it from a marketing conversions sense. But I haven’t made YouTube videos for this specifically because the goal is to create videos about self improvement and especially digital health through a brand I called “Digital Health Hacker.”
I started the DHH brand about 4 years ago, right after coming back from a long meditation retreat, and releazing 1) i had value to give the world and 2) i needed to get my business life in order. I have been talking about digital health and writing about it since WAY before it was “cool” like it is now. Used to coach a couple of people on it. Wrote articles on it. Ran a morning routine facilitation company which heavily emphasized it. Was providing a lot of value for people for sure but I was super new to business - I had no idea how to monetize everything.
So then I decided I needed to drop the “philanthropic” side of business and get into SMMA until i made enough money to actually be able to focus on digital health hacker. I needed one-minded, singular focus on the most important thing in my life that would make everything else possible - and that was getting to the point where I had some capital, experience, and skills as fast as possible.
So I’ll be honest I forgot about that, to a certain extent, because it was 3 or 4 years ago that I had made that promise to myself that once I had the capital to not focus purely on work and career, I’d go into mission and impact through the digital health hacker project… it was listening to a loop of RoS that reminded me. That’s how I was able to get that clarity so quickly - it wasn’t a new idea, it was an unsuppression of my dreams.