I’ve been putting it off for longer than I should have but my old Samsung Galaxy needed to be replaced. It’s still working but is outdated and is having a difficult time taking a charge, which is never good.
I’ve been meaning to do it for a while now but kept putting it off. I don’t use my phone like younger people. I genuinely use it more as a phone, although I do use it to listen to music when I’m out and about sometimes and I also have Kindle books on there and a couple of very basic games which I haven’t played in forever. Like Pacman. LOL. I love Pacman. Grew up on Pacman, but haven’t played it in ages.
So I got almost the most basic Samsung Galaxy to replace it. One step up because the OS was newer.
Heck, over the last few years you don’t even have to pay for it cash. My credit is so good with my cellphone company that I don’t even have a limit and I can make payments no interest for 36 months. I’m not going to pay cash up front if I can spread it out of 36 months interest free.
It was pretty funny because they were confused because I went from a top of the line Galaxy to one step above entry level Galaxy. LOL.
I know I’ll upgrade once I move to Arizona, and I’ll get a little credit towards a new one. I’ll do that then, but right now, I don’t have any need for a high end phone. The one I got is plenty for now. It’s still a Galaxy it’s not a flip phone or anything. LOL.
So now I have to remember when I physically get the phone in a couple of days to go in and Un-Google my phone as much as possible. I despise that company. They’re just one massive, privacy invading marketing company. Samsung isn’t much better, that’s for sure. So I have to turn some of their BS off also.
I love the conveniences of the modern age, but there are plenty things I miss from the 80’s, I assure you. Overall people were kinder and more thoughtful with each other. Neighbors actually new each other.
But times change. Some for the better, some for the worse. It’s also how you frame it and work around the shortcomings. At least the cellphones are much smaller compared to the 80s (look up “Wallstreet Brick Phone” (Motorola DynaTAC) ) to get an idea.
I never had one but saw a few in my day. Certain things needed to change and evolve. Laptops were much heavier also.
11 02 26 (Listening Day 3)
PEACE: 5 Min
RoW: 1 Min
Financial Times today
I’ve been getting Financial Times for over 20 years now. Of course these days it’s not the physical paper it’ digital and much smaller than before, but still some excellent Financial News.
The reason why I bring it up today is that this is the first time in quite a while that the front page was all negative. All of a sudden it’s as though the financial world is crumbling. Truth is, there are some major cracks and I am thoroughly convinced it’ll get worse, but again, there will be opportunities. There always are.
“Bloodbath for credit investors” is the main frontpage article. Rising interest rates; AI; Energy prices; unrest; Asset shifting deepens sell-off …"
“Gen Z clashes rock Germany” It also goes into the riots in France, Spain, etc.
“Unrest hits French Banks” This talks about over $ 49 Billion Euros leaving French banks due to political uncertainty; France’s fragile economy and the riots.
But then there is a brief mention of a tourist boom in South America, especially Argentina, but the focus was on Latam Airlines and it’s increase in travel due to the Iran conflict and more Europeans going to South America because it’s insulated from all the happening going on in Europe, the Middle East and how Asian airlines aren’t a popular option because of the Middle East unrest.
I’ve had a theory for a very long time that you have to hunt for the true news. Headlines, front pages, etc are there to distract you and to sell you ideas. I pay attention to those also because it’s telling you where NOT to invest and possibly even short. Dig deep into an article or the newspaper, etc for the real stuff. And it will be brief.
It’s not one I would have thought of that’s for sure. I was quite shocked at how many modules I was taking out because of Reforged alone. Especially worthiness, but specifically concerning wealth. Certainly wasn’t expecting that one.
I knew PEACE was a settling title, but I thought it was uncovering also. Interesting thing with GLM is it goes in and builds, so to speak. So the stack is settling, uncovering, building.
Plus there is Romance in Reforged also. I have been wanting to gently work on that area also, so I was happy about that.
11 02 26 (Listening Day 3) After sleeping
PEACE:5 Min
RoW:1 Min
Still not recalling dreams.
I’m actually curious as to what’s going to come up soon. I’m certain it’s going to be something core. I’m just looking at these core issues more with curiosity and as a puzzle these days, instead of dread.
Purposefully I’ve been watching some documentaries on money and it’s known creation. One about metal currency (I already mentioned that one and watched it again) and one on paper money, which China was the first known.
Ultimately the known reasons why metal coins and paper money were created. I know there is a lot of information that my brain is processing just on that alone.
I’m also going to be watching The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson which is based on his book. It’s a four hour documentary that I really like and it’s really about the development of our financial system that’s used globally and the known reasons why.
I’ve also been watching my Forex charts sped up with just the hourly and the daily charts and challenging my subconscious to look for the rhythm and patterns of market activity. I started from 2008 with the hourly charts.
Right now the charts are “naked” which means absolutely no indicators. Then I’ll do the same with all my indicators. I’ve already have noticed a difference and am starting to see patterns set up in “real time” but it’s not real time because the speed is sped up drastically. A one hour candle only takes about a quarter of a second to be created. So it’s really sped up but it’s to catch the big patterns first.
I will do this exercise probably four times. One complete “round” from 2008 until current (which I’m currently doing), and then one with all my indicators. Then I’ll repeat. There is more to the exercise than one might imagine. That is the beauty of a good demo software. I can speed it up to where I feel it’s good and then I can slow it down to virtually real time.
11 02 26 (Listening Day 3) After Sleeping
PEACE:5 Min
RoW:1 Min
qOS Response about my upcoming stack of PEACE + REFORGED + Godlike Masculinity
I already knew it was going to be a good stack because I found responses about one with the other but not all 3 together. So this response goes into the synergy of all three in a stack and what to expect.
I will still be adding a custom I think around April of next year. But the core will still be this stack and I’ll be running this for a couple of years.
The important parts:
"Emperor Reforged is identity-level work across authority, body, voice, wealth and romance, reached by recognising what is already there rather than forging something new.Godlike Masculinity is its natural partner.It centres inner stillness, emotional command and a steady joy, and Emperor Reforged widens that stillness into leadership, money and intimacy.
PEACE is built to sit underneath performance and wealth titles. It gives a settled baseline that does not depend on the day going well, and effortless action, where the work stays as capable and the added strain drops away. It does not reduce drive."
“The outward push in this stack comes mainly from Emperor Reforged’s wealth and dating features and from Godlike Masculinity’s I Act, I Decide.”
“In the second month the change tends to move into your reactions. A pause may open between what happens and what you do about it”
This part was incredibly important towards my trading and why I realized I need to step back a little and not go full on with my trading for a bit. “As Emperor Reforged separates your self-worth from your net worth, ambition may feel different for a while. Let it recalibrate. Emperor Reforged aims at cleaner desire and keeps the ambition.”
I can’t be trading full on if this part needs to recalibrate. That’s just asking for trouble and I don’t need to add to my problems. So I’ll be trading lightly for the next few months. I’m fine with that. As long as I’m moving forwards instead of being stuck in this endless fight I’ve been in the last few years now since my partner passed away.
I also love the fact that I’ll be gently working on the romance part also. I need that. Therapy will help when the difficult subjects come up.
When I was really looking into REFORGED and how it works with PEACE and what it was working on I was amazed. I already had the GLM essence in the healing custom because I like GLM and know it is bringing things to the table that’s good for my healing and also my trading. But when I realized what all three were doing I realized that a lot of modules that I had to focus on specific areas was already being covered by one of the 3 if not a couple at the same time.
The custom I’m looking at now is more to do with adding areas those 3 aren’t working on. The main one is Essence:The Inner Edge. That is very specific to trading and the personal psychology of trading. Also the trading process itself. There is some work going on with REFORGED in this area, but it’s not specific enough.
Stonelike. I do think all 3 titles will help in this area, but this is very specific. Good for romance and trading. The overlap with trading and romance is actually quite funny to me. What works for one often helps the other.
The Lazy Genius is another module that’ll be in the custom. That’s essentially the Pareto Principle (aka the 80/20 rule). That’s to help streamline my entire trading process.
Off Grid is very important to me. I need to truly take time off and enjoy it. I often will have a guilty feeling about taking time off. I rarely fully enjoy a movie. Etc.
Endgame Drive is needed for more immediate results. I genuinely feel the three titles will help in this area naturally over time, but how long. Endgame Drive is about overcoming perfectionism. Is does a little more than that, but that’s it’s focus and one I need.
Art of Trust is one I am really looking at with extreme interest. From the description "Aims to deepen your ability to trust your instincts [needed in trading] … This works best in customs that focus on personal growth [hello, that’s what I’m working on LOL] … utilize this module to improve confidence in high-stakes decisions [that is almost daily trading life as an intraday trader, especially in volatile markets which I know we are heading into].
And also I’ll have Essence:The Perfect Unyielding, which is the essence of GLM along with Emperor Reforged core and New Wealth Experience core.
PEACE will come in with my name embedded custom on the side. This was a very good work around because I will take out PEACE and use my name embedded Summertime from time to time to focus more outward. Summertime will help in Romance also, but also just being more social.
So all of this is working on the same exact areas I have been focusing on. It just goes about the work differently and I think it’s a better fit and also gives me more options and flexibility. But this will essentially be my stack for the next couple of years.
“Ask yourself, if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.”
~ Unknown
Odd that the quote goes to an unknown.
I can absolutely say that what I’m doing today is getting me closer to my goals. I’ve been very consistent with these subs and have been doing work on getting them to work on me.
Tonight, I watched the first episode of The Ascent of Money titled Dreams of Avarice. I must say, more than one pattern has already been exposed while watching these finance documentaries lately.
I’m also seeing patterns while watching my Forex charts sped up also that I never saw before. Very different than candlestick patterns. Movements in various waves, made to look different but very revealing also.
I’ll see if I’m correct when I run the charts again with all my moving averages. But it’s very interesting to me, and I’ll also see if it truly pans out and I can sense movements in other Forex markets.
I will say this though, patience is key. I still need to develop more patience, but it has already significantly improved. I just need to figure out how to lightly test my patience and then build upon it.
Over time PEACE will certainly help, but adding REFORGED to the mix will help even more.
RoW so far. We already know the first day was off the charts. LOL. It’s calmed sense then but I think it’s PEACE that is calming it. That’s not a bad thing at all, so don’t take it as such. It seems to be tempering the initial massive energy to where it is much more stable and manageable now.
I do have a very serious interest in finance as a base knowledge and then markets to where that knowledge is applied. That makes sense to me and has for a very long time. The recurring question from my subconscious is “how and where can I see this in the markets?” I open up my charts and then I see AND sense finance moving markets along with reactions from market participants.
I’m really looking to expand upon this and test it. But so far that is what my mind is breaking down and implementing. It’s actually very interesting to watch and experience.
The next week alone will be interesting to see the differences with my thinking and approach to the markets. I have a ton of financial documentaries to watch and also trading videos and I have this drive to watch them and break them down into the markets.
I also forgot to mention, I still have the interesting sensations in my brain, just not as intense as it was the first couple of days. So there is definite growth and expansion going on inside my brain.
Ouch. I guess I needed it. Already got my new phone today and am charging it up and then will switch out the old phone later tonight.
Man, all I have to say is I will be absolutely glad when this election is over. I go on to Youtube to watch some videos I have saved and on the right hand side is a ton of election videos.
I haven’t even watched any but they are just shoving it down our throats. I have an app that can block the right hand side where they suggest videos and I’ll have to tick the box so I don’t get those suggestions for a couple of days. I’ll also block the comment section for a while also.
Even financial news is heavily focused on the elections right now also and have been mostly focused on that for the last couple of days. Politics absolutely have an effect on the markets and I get it. But my second most unfavorite (yeah, I use that made up word ) financial news site, CNBC, leans so far one way I call them the Leaning Tower of Financial News. I don’t want ONE agenda constantly shoved down my throat. But I go to them for the simple stock market indexes and honestly to keep tabs on their slant on politics to keep a gauge on popular opinions (the sheep).
Maybe that’s why I slept in today?
It’s Election Day. I already voted. Now what happens is out of my hands and I don’t want to hear about the minutia for the next week . It seems to take longer and longer each cycle to get all the votes counted. It’s absurd and a sign that the system is broken.
C’est la vie.
I’m going to enjoy my dinner and watch some more documentaries.
I’m currently reading The Ascent of Money, which I started about halfway through my first Reforged cycle I didn’t know Saint said that about the wealth scripting, but it makes sense.
The Ecstasy of Gold copy inspired me to collect a bunch of books on the more “abstract” side of money: history of money, history of debt, philosophy of money, etc., which I was planning to read once I started EoG.
Very interesting. I have to say, I was quite shocked that there was that much wealth scripting in it until I read the copy and then read posts about it.
How do you like Reforged so far?
I just started this cycle (PEACE + RoW) so I won’t be getting to Reforged until the middle of January (my cycles are 10 weeks because my week only has 3 listening days).
I forgot to mention this earlier. No clue why, but I still am not recalling my dreams. Being this long is quite unusual for me.
That and the fact that I slept for nine hours today, which is very unusual for me, tells me that I’m working on some core issues. I’m assuming financial since I’m running RoW, but we’ll see.
I won’t mention names but I found it incredibly interesting that one news source claimed “Stock Futures Tumbled Because Democrats …” then another one said the EXACT OPPOSITE.
I looked earlier when I read the “tumbled part” and DOW was slightly up and NASDAQ and S&P were down less than half a percent, which is far from “tumbling”.
I frankly don’t even know if I’m going to read any news until after the next election cycle two years from now. I already know what this next two years is going to be like and it’s not going to be pretty. Stalemate City and incredibly ugly politics.
The political stalemate will cause some interesting trading days, that I’m sure of. Reminds me of the song “Stuck In The Middle With You” … Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right …
I like it. I just finished my first cycle (15 listening days across 2 months).
There’s a sense in which it’s kind of “quiet” in the beginning, which Saint/qOS have said, but it’s made me super aware of the areas where I’m looking for people’s approval and I have noticed more thinking about wealth.
I was actually re-reading the copy a couple days ago (which I need to do more often, because it made it “hit” harder), and it’s just a very solid, well-rounded title. I ran GLM for a while before (and continued for the first Reforged cycle) and they seem to build on each other well in terms of calmness and centeredness.
I’m looking forward to running Reforged along with GLM. I’ll also have my name embedded PEACE and that is one heck of a stack. I’m curious to see how Reforged will feel since I’ve been running PEACE.
Here is a very interesting quote from Saint (from his personal journal) about the new Adaptive scripting and how to experiment with it to get better results.
11 04 26 (Rest Day 2 of 2) After Dinner (not sure what that has to do with anything )
Received my name embedded Reforged + GLM (core)
Only took 2 business days also (no rush). I’m not running this until almost mid January but I have it now and don’t have to worry about forgetting to have it made because we have the Holiday Season rush coming up and I’m sure there’s still quite a bit of orders right around New Year also.
So to be clear it is the REFORGED (core) + GLM (core) so they are the full titles together. My Trading Custom only has the essence of GLM which is “Essence:A Perfect Unyielding”.
So if I need more GLM for a round, then I use this name embedded custom.
For my Trading Custom I decided I’m going to have my full name, not just my first and middle like I’ve been doing.
I mentioned that I’ve changed my trading custom and also realized that I really don’t need the healing custom because of the “Trifecta” titles I’ll be running (PEACE + REFORGED (both Saint Titles) + GLM) covers all the areas I need.
I also decided I’m going to do my own version of the Trading Custom in Stages. I think it will only be two stages, possibly 3 later down the road). The whole point of this is when I analyzed everything I thought it would be much better to have less in stage 1 so the core areas are focused on. That way it builds a solid foundation and doesn’t dilute my work.
Then in stage 2 I can add more enhancements and focus more on certain areas that need the focus.
Essence: The Inner Edge (Psychology part of RICH Trader ONLY)
Essence:A Perfect Unyielding (GLM Condensed)
Synergy: The Golden One (Wealth Engine)
Endgame Drive (Productivity (works to eliminate Perfectionism))
Synergy:Wisdom of The Ages (Enhancement. The “Sage” portion)
Gentleman’s Speech (Skills)
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Gentleman’s Speech seems out of place but I figure that will take some time. It comes in handy for Romance, as far as the type of partner I want to attract, but also I will need this later when I get to the investing stage and need to collaborate with Real Estate Agents, attorneys, and the negotiation process.
Trading solo and not being a manager for years, has had a detrimental affect on my speech, especially word selection.
When I feel enough of those modules have been integrated, then I can add modules that go into further depths. Modules such as New Market Weaver; Off Grid; The Lazy Genius, etc. I figure why dilute what I really need to focus on.
I’ve been really silly about “affording” these customs. I have done incredibly well on keeping a tight budget, and for good reason, but I have more money set aside than part of me thinks. It’s actually quite odd but there is a part of me that has become consumed by a scarcity mindset. It actually makes sense because of all the traumatic loss I’ve had and then actual financial loss. But the scarcity mindset is silly nonetheless.
11 05 26 (Listening Day 4) Before Bed
PEACE: 7 Min
RoW: 3 Min
It’s very interesting, I immediately felt RoW but then I realized I just came off of 2 consecutive rest days.
Right after listening to the stack I pulled up my Forex Backtesting Software and ran my charts for about 10 minutes and then I got this ping to stop the charts. I did and just sat there and looked at the charts. It was as though my mind had to take it all in and digest it.
So after about five minutes I turned off my charts and had this interesting urge, out of nowhere, to go to the Mises Institute website. “What’s that?” you might ask. It’s a website dedicated to Ludwig von Mises who was a famous Austrian Economist (there were a few).
Funny thing is, I haven’t been on that website in quite a while and even though I’ve been watching quite a bit of Finance Documentaries lately, he’s not one that comes up very often at all. John Maynard Keynes of course pops up quite a bit, and every once in awhile so does Friedrich Hayek (another Austrian Economist). So I don’t exactly know why Mises popped up.
I also watched another financial documentary “Bigger Than Enron” which I haven’t seen in probably a decade. That was more about the accounting scandals that hid Enron’s fictional financials and was the prelude to the Internet Stock Bubble Burst of 2000ish.
Then my head started tingling again. I actually haven’t had that for over a day. So my brain is processing something.
If you are interested in the Internet Stock collapse of the 2000’s look up Monopoly dot com edition. It was all of the biggest internet companies, most of which are completely vanished or just shells of what they were back then. AOL was massive back then. I’ll see someone with an AOL email address every once in a while and I’ll just crack up laughing to myself. Just about everyone in the late 90’s to early 2000’s had an AOL email address. It even co-starred in the movie “You Got Mail” with Tom Hanks.
AOL was so huge and profitable they merged with Time Warner and it was the biggest merger in history at that time.
Here is an interesting stock certificate:
Will I have dreams tonight? We’ll see. I’m not worried about it, I’m just very curious. It just tells me that my mind is working on something big. So I just give it a ton more information to work through.
11 05 26 (Listening Day 4) Before Bed
PEACE:7 Min
RoW:3 Min
EPIPHANY!
I purchased an audiobook on Audible (Amazon) titled “The History of Money”. Yeah, I’m on a roll. LOL. Less than a couple of minutes into the first lesson is when my epiphany happened and this is a doozy.
The instructor (quite good actually) was talking about the 4 Key Functions Of Money. The epiphany was the very first key function of money:
Acts as a measure of value
Truly think about this for a moment. What is another word for value? Worth! Think Self Worth aka self-esteem.
What’s the connection? I’m being very serious here. Think of poor neighborhoods. Think of menial jobs. It’s not always 100% but close enough, people often have low self-esteem. Low self-worth. Aka low self-value.
It is a little more complicated sometimes but even with me, when I truly had money issues, yeah I was trying to deal with the trauma of my partner instantly dying in a car wreck. But it lead to depression and then I collapsed on myself and ended up having very low self-esteem.
Other short periods of my personal life where I had money issues, I had low self-esteem because something happened. A very common issue of people having spending problems (I mean serious spending problems) is due to low self-esteem.
I was raised in poverty and sure enough, I saw all kinds of low self-esteem. Sure, if you think about it, on the surface one would think that your self-worth goes to crap if you don’t have money, and that’s true. But often the real cause of poverty is low-self esteem.
I’ve seen it countless times. Hell I lived in it. I absolutely never connected the two. Like I said, it’s very easy to automatically think the cause of low self-esteem is poverty. I’m saying it’s the opposite in most cases, it’s actually the cause of poverty more often than not.
11 05 26 (Listening Day 4) After sleep
PEACE: 7 Min
RoW:3 Min
I finally recall a couple of dreams
This is interesting AND confusing at the same time. I recall two dreams and they both seemed to be dreams of me healing something about me and how that part of me relates to money, and then it was integrated into my psyche.
That’s confusing because I’m running PEACE w Synergy:Harmonic Conflux + RoW. Neither are healing titles. Could it be from RICH Trader being run before? Or other subs I’ve run? Or is my mind just completely taking charge and doing some healing on its own?
So is that considered healing or just understanding and then integrating? I think I’ll ask qOS because I’m incredibly curious now.
"The Revelation of Wealth, among other things, is designed to reveal how you sabotage and why, while unveiling the true essence of wealth acquisition, and not what you’ve been told — from others, from society, and the lies you tell yourself.
And once those issues are brought to light, by taking conscious action to resolve them, you’ll find that all wealth-related matters in your life will skyrocket toward the better, as you operate from a more enlightened, holistic worldview of all things related to money."
To me, that’s “healing” but it could also be thought of as learning and then integrating.
So if this is the case, if this is what I’ve been doing lately, then it makes sense. My sleep may be at a deeper level lately and for some reason I just don’t recall them until a couple of dreams today.
My theory is that if I keep listening to these deeper financial documentaries, and even courses, than more of money and finance will make sense on a deep level.
Money has always intrigued and confused me for a very long time. I’ve genuinely have asked friends, colleagues, family, etc. “What is money? I mean truly what is it? How did it even come about? And why does so much of our world revolve around it?”
Those are much deeper questions than people first think. At first, most people laugh almost in pity. Then when that start to try to explain it, they go to how it’s used. But there comes a point where everyone starts to get it and then they get confused AF and then quickly changed the subject.
In dark city the protagonist of the movie comes back to consciousness at the wrong time and witnesses something strange. Then he starts to question everything about their lives. Shell Beach. He asks a couple of people and everyone loves Shell Beach, but no one remembers the last time they went or how to get there.
Money sort of reminds me of Shell Beach. We know what money does (sort of, and that’s being revealed in more depth to me) but no one really knows why. Heck only about 10% of financial transactions actually involve physical money now (bills & coins) so it’s not even really a “piece of paper with dead Presidents on them” (US Money), it’s often just digits in cyberspace.
But money is built on trust and … getting closer, but I’m digger much deeper. Also the financial systems and my just watching charts, revisiting market theory etc is something else I’m digging into.
So I’ll be running this title just this round and then I’ll move on to my “Trifecta Stack” and then will run my upcoming Trader Custom. At some point around that time I’ll look at running RoW yet again for one round.
) financial news site, CNBC, leans so far one way I call them the Leaning Tower of Financial News. I don’t want ONE agenda constantly shoved down my throat. But I go to them for the simple stock market indexes and honestly to keep tabs on their slant on politics to keep a gauge on popular opinions (the sheep).
I didn’t know Saint said that about the wealth scripting, but it makes sense.