Beowulf's Journal - Golden Lover (2023)

January 11th 2023

Washout
First day of my washout :sleeping_bed: . My brain :brain: was nagging at me for 9 days of washout, now it seems far less decided. My last washout was 5 days and I had a feeling I still needed to do some processing :desktop_computer: . I’ll just go for the 9 days, it’s not like I’ll lose my results.

Fear
It seems obvious to me now that I actually avoid doing my responsibilities and do something else (like say, writing this post) because of my fears :ghost: . I fear being shown a fool for not being able to sell to my clients, I fear being seen as incompetent, I fear being scolded at by my superiors, etc. It makes me procrastinate and avoid what needs to actually be done. I need to tackle this head on by just doing it. :necktie: Ascension seems to have gradually reduced my fears and lead to a small increase in action-taking but there’s still a lot of work to do.

Next Habit: Work
I believe journaling :pen: has become a solid habit for me at this point. I need to make work a serious habit of mine. 4 hours of focused work :man_office_worker: per day. That’s my goal. No point working longer if you’re inefficient. I NEED to do a proper workflow for myself.

Thoughts
Lots of negative thoughts regarding my competence. I berate myself for not being able to be like the others who are far better at me. I doubt my ability to actually hit my target for this year. Lots of doubt and negativity. I’m saving up for my :orange_heart: Golden Heart Custom and it does have :heartbeat: LBFH in it. I wonder how that’d change me.

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January 12th 2023

Not Much To Report
Did not make any progress today in terms of my goals besides writing this journal entry :pen: . I realize I need to cut the root of my problem, spending too much time on social media :computer:. Not entirely sure what’s the best way to go about it. Complete abstinence? I think that’s Monk Mode. Also, I’m a little bit on the annoyed side today, so my recon is still subsiding. Don’t stress out, Beowulf :wolf: .

Lots of thoughts though :thought_balloon: . Lots of thinking :thinking: . So the self-introspection done today is worth something.

Private-ish Journal

  1. Nostalgia
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January 13th 2023

Again, Not Much Progress
Disappointing :frowning_face: . Not much was done and procrastination was pretty bad. However, I did make a commitment to not use social media and I did manage to curb using it for half a day. I must acknowledge my tiny wins whenever they come. Also, to relieve my anxiety and fear I’ve started writing a guide so that I can have more clarity in what I’m supposed to do in my work. Building pipelines :man_mechanic: and workflows :ocean: that will ease my confusion.

Thoughts on the Forum
Since I’ve been writing :pen: more on the forum, I realized it’s a good idea for me to spend time here. Why? Because I think my viewpoints here are necessary - as I’ve stated in my first post in this journal. I disagree with quite a few people’s views here and I think the lack of an alternative viewpoint will lead to an unfortunate echo chamber :card_file_box:. I’m also glad to read other’s viewpoints coming directly from the horse’s mouth :horse: , so I don’t get a misrepresentation of what they believe.

HS-01
I haven’t reported on this yet. I’ve noticed it gave me a cooling sensation in my arms on the first day I ran it and it does increase my exhaustion a fair bit, leading to me sleeping way more on the second and third day. I do think it heals me but it’s taking it’s time.

Update
Fixed the image from January 14th 2023 to January 13th 2023.

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January 14th 2023

Very Minor Progress
I took some baby steps today in terms of contacting my clients :man:. Unfortunately, I’m not sure if I’m incredibly unlucky but none of them picked up since they were all busy :upside_down_face:. I’m happy I actually bothered to do it. I’m starting to realize I have some kind of subconscious “block” in terms of just doing things I need to do. It’s a mixture of fear + anxiety. So now I finally understand what people mean when they say procrastination isn’t laziness - it’s a sign of something else inside, deep-rooted within you.

How to Move Forward
Past few days have been complete to near stagnancy in terms of progress. From my journaling, it either has something to do with :hospital: :ocean: HS-01, my washout or some unknown third factor. The effects of :hospital: :ocean: HS-01 are interesting, I can tell something is happening. The tiredness I feel is similar to when I ran :hospital: Paragon Complete. My intuition so far tells me there is no real interference. I will see if this is true. For the :sleeping_bed: washout, this is the 4th day. I’m okay with pushing it to 9 days, I’ve run SubliminalClub titles for years and never took longer than 5 days off. Honestly I should even consider extending it up to 2 weeks.

Journaling
Time passes by quickly and it has been 2 weeks since I started journaling :pen: . I’m honestly really happy with this, it feels like a small but meaningful habit I’ve formed this year. Forcing myself to run a journal entry before I go to bed everyday has been a major challenge that I have overcome :muscle:. It’s not as difficult as I thought it was and it’s actually enjoyable for me since I consider journaling to be an enjoyable activity. There are just 9 more major habits to go :eyes: .

Social Media
One “minor” habit I’d lack to tackle is my honestly chronic social media consumption :video_camera: . I consume hours upon hours of social media (Youtube, Twitter, Reddit, etc) every single day for :calendar: years now. I’ve sort of justified to myself that I’m learning things that benefit me but if I’m being frankly honest I don’t remember about 99% of the things I’ve consumed. I very rarely laugh at any funny videos I watch too, it’s just for the sake of keeping up to date on meaningless things. It’s a ridiculous :toilet: time-sink. If I had taken the time that I wasted on social media and used that on a useful skill instead, I’d honestly be an expert by now. I find social interaction of any kind to be so much more emotionally fulfilling than mindlessly browsing :iphone: social media.

So this I believe, is what will lead to a powerful domino effect on my life. If I can eliminate my hours of useless consumption and use that time for something productive, I will radically change the trajectory of my life.

My next habit is to eliminate all social media use six days a week. I will give myself one hour every week on a specifically chosen day to consume anything that is enjoyable for me. This will allow me to actually enjoy the content I am consuming and regain control of my time lost to these companies that thrive on my attention.

January 15th 2023

End of Reporting for :hospital: :ocean: HS-01
With the official response from Support, I will stop reporting on my use of :hospital: :ocean: HS-01. I will personally continue to use it see the effects and interactions I get with it and future morphic fields in the future but will not report on it here, on this forum.

Minor Progress
Went to a class today teaching my field. While I did not learn much, I’m glad I at least went there since I am very sluggish around work the past few days :sleeping_bed: . I’m getting disappointed in my lack of progress. Journaling :pen: here regularly is in a way a public reminder of my failure to follow my commitment, which is good. Makes me actually follow through eventually. I’m losing money every second I’m inactive. That’s the beauty and pain of a commission-based job.

Recon
My recon symptoms have actually been increasing since I’ve started my washout and hit a peak today on my 5th day :face_with_monocle: . It’s interesting, it must be because there’s a backlog of subliminal input that needed to be processed :brain:. I’m a bit more easily annoyed today and it shows.

Reducing Social Media :iphone:
I haven’t REALLY done this yet today. I have watched a couple of videos discussing the need to cut social media (ironic!) but not much reduction has occurred yet. Just cutting out a negative habit isn’t enough. I need to find a good way to actually replace it.

Mandarin Chinese :open_book:
So, here’s the plan. For short-time periods (a few seconds to a minute), I need to control my urge and focus at the task at hand :nerd_face:. For moderate-time periods, I will need to use apps like Hack Chinese to learn :open_book: Mandarin Chinese. For longer-time periods (say, an hour or two), I will need to switch it out for doing a course on Chinese called :world_map: Mandarin Blueprint. This way, I hit two birds :bird: with one stone and I’m able to hit two habits at once.

So starting tomorrow, I will start going for absolutely no social media especially Youtube.

Gonna move this to my journal so I don’t derail the thread.

Oh yeah, absolutely. You can see in my recent post here that I’m actually facing more recon during my washout. I’ve been listening to SubliminalClub’s subs since the time Emperor came out. I think it was 3 to 4 years ago? I haven’t took a washout longer than 5 days so it makes sense. I’m personally taking a longer washout now for 9 days, maybe 14 to process everything. I’d recommend you to do the same and extend your washout until your recon is 100% subsided.

Will check them out for sure :+1:

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January 16th 2023

Youtube
So how did my social media cold turkey :turkey: go? Not terrible, thankfully. I’ve noticed something. I will ALWAYS open my phone :iphone: and impulsively click on the Youtube app. If I’m on my laptop I always open a new tab and quickly type in “youtube” to go there. I always end up opening it, realized I’m opening Youtube and quickly close it. I managed to stave of Youtube for about 2/3 of the day but succumbed to it at night :night_with_stars: .

This is 100% an unhealthy addiction. Considering I’ve been doing this for the past… 7 years, this is no surprise. I’ve noticed how much more time I had when I cut out access to Youtube. My issue now is to find a way to curb this. I wonder if meditation would be the path to undoing this. Just using my :muscle: willpower doesn’t feel like it’s enough. Need to figure out a proper :chains: chain of habits.

Maybe

:pen: Journaling:running_man: Jogging:man_standing: Stretching:person_in_lotus_position: Meditation:iphone: No Social Media:computer: 4 hours of focused work:person_in_lotus_position: Spiritual Practice:open_book: Chinese:weight_lifting_man: Weightlifting:meat_on_bone: Diet:musical_keyboard: Piano

I could do several of these at the same time but I’ve realized focusing on just one thing at a time brings me more :bow_and_arrow: focused results. And this isn’t an exaggeration but I have tried implementing multiple major habits at the same and it always fails. So I’m not going to be stupid and do that again. I could add :banana: No PMO somewhere here too just for fun, though the P part of PMO is no longer an issue to me.

The Chain of Habits :chains:
Before I can achieve my goal of being :nerd_face: ultra-focused at my work, I need to handle my fundamentals that are holding me back. First thing I need to work on is my lack of :electric_plug: energy. I haven’t properly :running_man: exercised for an extended period of time since I was born. I’m always tired throughout the day and never feel like I can properly focus at anything. An extension of that would be :man_standing: stretching, since that relieves any tension that distracts me. I have terrible posture to the point it affects my breathing. Then once I have more energy and a relaxed body, I can finally start my :person_in_lotus_position: meditation practice. This allows me to build a sense of being in the present moment and I can build up my focus and concentration.

My ability to be in the present moment combined with my concentration will naturally kill of my use of :iphone: social media. This then frees up way more time in the day. Allowing me to have the energy, relaxation, focus and time to do my :computer: work. By finally being on time with my work, I can relieve my anxiety and fear to then tackle things like learning :open_book: Chinese, :weight_lifting_man: Weightlifting and my :person_in_lotus_position: spiritual practice.

If I can handle all of this within the next few months (hopefully under 3 months), I would have solidified all of my important habits and am able to rapidly :fast_forward: advance in every area of my life through the synergistic, self-compounding effects of every single habit I am doing every single day.

:sunflower: Absolutely beautiful.

True Sell or LBFH?
After much consideration, I’ve decided to revert back to an earlier idea of mine which is to go with a :necktie: Ascension + :speaking_head: True Sell custom. I’m deeply interested in going with a :necktie: Ascension + :heartbeat: LBFH custom but it does not make sense with my financial circumstance. I need to focus on selling, making money and building up my habits first and foremost. For the most part, the nature of my stack will not change THAT much but it is definitely a minor diversion from my original plan :world_map: . In the long-run, there is no real change. After my run with the :necktie: Ascension + :speaking_head: True Sell custom, I plan to go with an :crown: Emperor Black + :heartbeat: LBFH custom.

Habit 2 - :running_man: Running
My next habit to focus on will be :running_man: Running. My cardio is absolutely terrible at the moment, I sometimes breathe heavily after going up a flight of stairs. It also affects my ability to speak, I’m usually out of breath before I even finish my sentence :triumph:. It’s something that I’ve just accepted out of defeatism but dealing with it will give me dividends in all areas of my life. The energy and motivation it will give me WILL :superhero: transform me radically.

I plan to follow a C10K (Couch to 10K) plan. This will be the first but most important step of my fitness transformation. :weight_lifting_man: ‘seems’ too much of a mental block to do now and I don’t have the energy to :man_standing: stretch every morning. That’s why running will give me the :fire: ignition and :oil_drum: fuel necessary to pursue and internalize all of my other habits. Reading other people’s testimonials on the benefits they’ve gained from running is wide-ranging and inspiring - some that are pretty unexpected. I hope to gain plenty of benefits from this :muscle: .

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January 17th 2023

Start of my 3rd Cycle
Alright! I decided to end the :sleeping_bed: washout “early” (6 days instead of 9) because I really wanted to start running subliminals again. To be honest, I wished I went for a longer washout since I’m still feeling some recon. But that’s no problem, since I plan to take a nice long :sleeping_bed: washout after this cycle and go for my :tongue: Silver Tongue custom in my 4th Cycle.

Action, Set Go!
My lack of action is incredibly apparent to me. I’ve been beating myself over it but that’s not how I’m going to progress. This is going to be a period where I have to swallow my (initally) slow progress so that I can achieve massive, transformational change in the future.

As I’ve stated before, I will be using my :chains: chain of habits as a way to rapidly regain control of my life. Smooth Silver (2023) is going to be the most foundational, important stage of my journey. It will clear all my limiting wealth beliefs, give me enough capital to start multiple businesses as well as improve my confidence, social skills and persuasive ability. It will transform me from a :boy: boy to a :man: man.

Running: Day 0
I’m sleeping late tonight but I plan to start :running_man: running early tomorrow morning at the gym. I’m not sure what counts as a habit being solidifed for this one, so I will say if I consistently run for 3 weeks I can move on to the next habit - :man_standing: stretching (18/1/2023 - 8/2/2023).

Let’s Do This!
I’m excited for the changes I’m going to undergo :muscle: . A year from now, I plan to be completely unrecognizable to present-day me - in a good way, of course! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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January 18th 2023

:iphone: App Blocker
Started implementing an app block on my :iphone: phone tonight. Limiting access to Youtube to 1 hour per day, down from several hours per day. Going :turkey: cold turkey is not going to cut it for now, so I’ll restrict myself instead. Hopefully things don’t go bad.

:running_man: Running: Still Day 0 :face_with_hand_over_mouth:
I’m a little too tired right now, so I’ll expand on this later :sleeping:.

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January 19th 2023

Emotionally Bad Day :upside_down_face:
Today was not a good day for me. Lots of anger, lots of regret, lots of sadness. Basically, I missed an opportunity to make money because I was avoiding work out of fear. Not only that but I seem to have what I would call :spider: Spidey-Sense” in which I have a tingling or anxious feeling that I should do something at that moment. If I don’t (based on my past experiences), I will regret it.

Lots of :angry: anger at people who were supposed to be emotionally supportive of me. Thankfully, I’m more under control this time and I cut off my interactions with them before it escalates even further. Then I resumed communications and end on a good note :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: . My anger can be described as a :cow: bull. I’m calm 95% of the time, very unaffected by what happens outside of me. But if you somehow manage to make me angry, I will let loose and let my anger all out on you. That’s a major flaw I have that I need to work on.

Injustice, unfairness, lack of empathy and betrayal are what tends to make me actually angry. I believe this has something to do with my :house: upbringing and :school: environment, since I constantly see this sort of thing around me and my lack of capability towards fixing it. It has trained me to constantly see the contradictions and find the truth in any situation so that I don’t fall into it - leading to me have a :thought_balloon: Socratic Dialogue with myself about everything, all the time. No truth is too sacred for me to argue with, no matter how taboo. My desire to support :family_woman_girl_girl:marginalized communities, to help others and to radically change systems are all a result of my childhood. So there is an upside to this.

:sun_with_face: On the Bright Side
First thing I realized was that my :spider: Spidey-Sense is actually real and should be taken seriously. I had an incident last year in which it clearly activated, “telling” me to avoid doing something that would :hole: ruin me. Now with this incident happening, I can safely say that this :brain: intuition of mine is actually quite strong at times and I should trust its judgement, which lead me to “changing” my future plans regarding my stack yet again (discussing this later down this post).

Then I realized, it’s not really a good idea to go with the opportunity in the first place - IF I take action on my current :railway_track: trajectory now. There was a silver lining here. It was a lesson that actually worked out in my favour. I had a :books: backlog of work that I still haven’t done. Taking this opportunity would just push this even further behind. Now of course, I have to acknowledge that if I had taken this opportunity AND finished the backlog earlier, that this would not be the case. Another lesson to be aware of.

Another thing to look up to is that I’m grateful for a genuinely sweet, kind, loving and understanding partner :love_letter: . I honestly think this woman is just perfect for me and it’s hard for me to just not appreciate having her everyday. This is probably like my 4th post talking about how much I love her haha. Also, it seems that I’m no longer really jealous of men flirting with her all the time. I just focus on other things and it no longer bothers me anymore, which is great! :smiley:

:running_man: Running Day: Yes, Still Day 0
Because of the incidents that happened today, I was just an emotional wreck and just took a complete :sleeping_bed: break. I relaxed and chilled out. Now, if this was in the past I would avoid mentioning that I failed to start this habit. I’d probably just stop journaling like I did back then because the lack of progress is just too embarassing and seems like I’m just an immature :boy: adult who can’t do anything. But I want everyone who has been reading this :blue_book: journal so far to know that stuff happens. It’s probably relatable too to a lot of people here who may feel the progress of people with crazy results on the forum seems out of reach for now. And it’s good to look back at this 1 year from now and see this being a rather amusing thing in hindsight :laughing: .

Small Sidenote
:necktie: Ascension ZP v2 is actually quite good for attraction. I don’t think it’s as good as a dedicated subliminal for it but I would say it’s pretty damn good. If you don’t need/want a dedicated seduction title, just go for this - you won’t regret it.

Stack Switching Again?
So speaking of my :spider: Spidey-Sense, I’ve come to the conclusion that I should trust it and go for my :orange_heart: Golden Heart custom after all. It’s been nagging at me for so long and I decided to follow my heart instead of my logic. However, instead of cutting out my :tongue: Silver Tongue custom, I’m going to repurpose it and replace :dollar: R.I.C.H with it. This way I satisfy my brain and my heart. So my new stack would be

  1. :bank: EOG ST1
  2. :tongue: Silver Tongue
  3. :orange_heart: Golden Heart

There is a risk here since I’m cutting out :dollar: R.I.C.H. I sorely need the initial capital to rapidly increase my income. I don’t even have much to start doing advertising. However, since I realize I can’t even capitalize on opportunities that come my way, I have removed it from my stack. No point if a guy gave you an opportunity to make :moneybag: money and you can’t even execute it without the :hammer_and_wrench: skills necessary in the first place.

If I take a look at it now, this is a :electric_plug: powerhouse stack. Destroying :cloud: wealth limits, exceptional :wine_glass: persuasive abilities and charm alongside :crown: masculine confidence + :heart: endless self-love spreading to those around me? The downsides can be tackled with by taking relentless action until I can build my initial capital. Then it’s :passenger_ship: smooth-sailing from there.

Alex Hormozi
Small sidenote, been watching this guy’s videos and man are they amazing. I plan to restrict my available Youtube time to just this guy since he really knows what he’s talking about.

:sun_with_face: PROGRESS!
Today’s a good day. Finally made some progress on my :running_man: running, I went out for work that I was really hesitant on doing. So far, so good!

:family_man_boy: A Father’s Advice
I’ve been watching some Youtube Shorts recently. This Youtuber (Sprouht) asks a bunch of random people about how old they are, how does it feel like to be at that age, what regrets they have in life, what age they would like to go back to and what piece of advice they would give to their younger selves. @Tobyone and @Malkuth, for some reason I feel like you guys would be interested in these videos :laughing: .

So today I asked my :man_bald: father those same questions. He gave me some insightful answers. He said he felt accomplished and content at his age (60s). He decided to segue this into a :speaking_head: conversation about maturity and age - how someone’s age doesn’t determine their maturity. Talked about the different levels of self-actualization in people, what those signs were and how to spot one at those different levels. I then recalled that a forum member here had reached that stage recently :shushing_face: Told me his regrets and to follow your intuition, not logic. And he then said in hindsight, his :heart: intuition made MORE sense than his :brain: logic. Him going with his logic had left him with a big regret in his life that he won’t forget. He then elaborated, that maybe this could have been his fate anyway and that nothing could be changed, to accept that this may be part of :church: God’s plan.

Good conversation, happy I had it :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: . There were elements of :necktie: Ascension in this conversation, I think. I wonder what answers I would give now and what answers I would give in the future.

:running_man: Running: Day 1! (W1/D1)
Finally went for a run today! I’m using the 10K Runner app on Android to track my progress. I have a goal of hitting a 10K run. I’m currently on Week 1/Day 1. According to the app, it will take 14 weeks. Considering my :leg: physical state today, I’d wager it’s closer to 16 weeks because of how bad my cardio is :joy: . Man, I love it though. That was a really good run even if it was only for 15 minutes. My abdomen and chest muscles were hurting, I was out of :tired_face: breath and everything. But I’m really happy I went for a run today. I honestly was scared of going to the :weight_lifting_man: gym and meet up with people from my past. Not that I have a bad relationship with them but it’s embarrassing since the last time I met them when I was actually working out.

Today though, I just decided to go no matter what. Turns out, on the very first day I went to the gym again I met up with one of them :joy:. It was a good conversation and there really was nothing to worry about. He did judge my lack of progress since he was like my gym bro but it wasn’t a big deal. Fears are really silly when you think about it :dizzy: .

I’m actually writing this after going there and I love stressing out how good it feels to run :joy:

:speaking_head: True Sell
This is my third consistent cycle of subliminals. I will replace :dollar: R.I.C.H with :speaking_head: True Sell tomorrow as I have explained in my previous post. I’m deeply interested in seeing my social skills develop as today was really awkward for me when I was talking to people with backgrounds I’m not used to :frowning_face: .

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You were very much right.

The videos are inspiring and your goals and efforts are inspiring too.

🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

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January 21st 2023

Pretty Happy :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Today I felt pretty good. I’m still feeling some of that high from my :running_man: run yesterday. My social interactions today had a stronger undercurrent of joy and I just physically feel good inside out. I find this a little strange, since I don’t think I felt this way the last time I tried to establish a running habit 8 months or so ago :thinking: . Maybe the running reduced unnoticed recon or it broke open a valve inside of me that needed to be released :ocean: . Needless to say, I have no idea what’s going on.

:running_man: Running: Day 2 (Rest)
I plan to run every other day to not push my body too much. So today has just been relaxing and man, my body feels tired and good. It’s like the sensations of when you have a really good yawn throughout your body :yawning_face: . Slept a lot too today, must be my body readjusting to the input.

:speaking_head: True Sell
So today I run my first loop of :speaking_head: True Sell. I’ve noticed an immediate improvement in my writing - it feels more fluid and flexible with more metaphors littered throughout. This was something I noticed in the main thread for :speaking_head: True Sell ZP too. A bunch of people writing way better but not noticing it.

In terms of social interaction, the small high I have from running yesterday translated into a lot of laughter into my conversations today - even if it was for no real reason at all :joy: . I’m definitely more charming, that’s something I’ve noticed. Been making a few clever jokes here and there. There was a girl who seemed interested me because of the way I spoke and slid into my DMs. I’m not really interested in anyone else since I have my :dancer: muse but it’s always good to make some new friends :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: .

:speaking_head: True Sell seems to be very congruent with my natural inclinations towards understanding others and pleasing their needs. I have been a self-described mediator and diplomat in the past, with a gift in explaining things simply. Recently, I believe that has degraded somewhat and I hope :speaking_head: True Sell will help in reclaiming those lost gifts :gift: .

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January 23rd 2023

新年快乐! :rabbit:
Happy Chinese New Year! Today has been a day of rest. Went out with the family to celebrate this, ate some good food and received my :red_gift_envelope: 红包 (red packet). For the most part, there is not much else to report on this except that I enjoyed my time!

Social Charm
:speaking_head: True Sell seems to be improving my charm in a noticeable manner though there is a lot of work that needs to be done. The lady from yesterday messaged me about how she’s celebrating the New Year and I had a short chat with her. She straight up asked me to do voice notes instead of messaging her since she likes my voice that much :laughing: . Apparently women in general seem to love my voice - though this only happens online. I don’t know why but I have never once had a woman compliment my voice in my day to day life, only through voice calls or voice notes :question: . Maybe my phone/laptop is distorting my actual voice to make it sound more suave than it actually is or is it because I talk differently online? Something to think about :thinking:

:running_man: Running: Day 3 (W1/D1)
After my dinner with my extended family, I went back home and prepared to go to the gym. I decided to re-do Week 1/Day 1 from the :running_woman: 10K Runner app since the last time I did this 2 days ago, I was not properly following instructions as I was gassed out. Today I properly followed everything, albeit at a lower speed than I’m used to. I used to be able to run at the 9 speed setting, now I have to downgrade it to 8. It was a good run and it really showed how physically weak I am in terms of cardio. Went back home, took a really nice shower and I feel good now. Grabbed some pizza :pizza: to reward myself and now I’m typing this journal entry.

Reconnecting
Wished some old and new friends Happy New Year :firecracker:. An old friend I haven’t talked to in a long time then told me he’s been going through some serious personal troubles over the past couple of months. I told him if he needs someone to talk to, I’ll be there for him. There’s a realization here where I should definitely keep up with my :frowning_woman: friends from time to time, since they may be going through any troubles.

I also realized I’m not sure if I’m really that empathetic. Empathetic as in, to emotionally connect with others. I wasn’t really sure how to best cheer someone up at that instance when they revealed something personal. That needs some work.

Accomplished :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
So far so good! I’m at the beginning stages of establishing my second habit in my :chains: Chain of Habits. It seems smooth-sailing from now.

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Future Plans for :bank: Ecstasy of Gold
Okay, now that I’ve switched out :dollar: R.I.C.H with :speaking_head: True Sell, a realization came over me. My stack now feels oddly unbalanced. :bank: EOG ST1 and :dollar: R.I.C.H basically balanced each other, now that one of them is gone it feels a lot more lacking. I need more wealth manifestations. In the next cycle, I am strongly considering going for :bank: EOG ST3 to increase my wealth manifestations, focus and discipline so that I can build up some :moneybag: hefty initial capital to move forward with my plans. Once I have built up a certain predetermined amount, I will switch back to :bank: EOG ST1 and run it for another 9 to 12 cycles. A minor but necessary diversion.

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January 23rd 2023

Attraction

She seems really interested in me, been messaging me a lot. Even triple texted me :iphone: . Talked about how much she loves my voice and everything. She’s very attractive and cute. I obviously find the interest quite flattering but I don’t know how to not set the wrong expectations with her. Does she think I’m into her? Do I have to ignore her messages? Hopefully she’ll get bored of me so she can move on to someone else :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: . I’m only interested in keeping my current relationship and I don’t want to ruin it for somebody else :grinning: . I suspect :necktie: Ascension increased her attraction towards me today, hence the increase in advances.

Oh and I told my :couple_with_heart_woman_man: lover about this and she got upset. I’m pretty upfront and I tell her if any girls have been adding my contact number. She’s not too happy I added her number :sweat_smile:. I’m only interested in having a :open_book: Chinese speaking partner which is why I added her in the first place. Need to figure out a way so that I can learn my Chinese in peace :laughing: .

:running_man: Running: Day 4 (Rest)
:sleeping_bed: Slept a lot today. Pretty exhausted. Even after all that I’m still quite sleepy :sleeping: . My body is adapting to the fact that I’m finally using it now, which is a great sign. I plan to :running_man: run tomorrow morning, as I’ve been doing at night for the past couple of days.

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January 24th 2023

Attracting More Ladies :eyes:
So another girl randomly hits me up on a social media app today :iphone: . English isn’t her native language but it’s really obvious she likes me and wants to start a conversation with me. She’s sending :heart: hearts and all. She’s also incredibly attractive. I’m again, flattered but now I feel this is starting to get kind of annoying since I don’t know how to explain this to my partner without making her upset haha.

I explained it to her and she’s upset again :laughing: . It’s usually not serious and she’ll get over it in a few hours. I’m proud of being honest about this and I showed her some screenshots so she doesn’t worry. I of course enjoy the attention (and humble bragging about it!) but I don’t like making my girl feel insecure. Maybe I should give her :dancer: Seductress so she feels more confident in her skin :thinking: . My girl is really attractive and wonderful in her own right and guys hit on her all the time - I used to get upset too in the past about this so I get why she feels this way. Oh well not much I can do for now :man_shrugging:

:running_man: Running: Day 5 (W1/D2)
My third run has been completely exhausting. I didn’t even manage to completely finish the run and had to stop early since I had to walk back home. I was walking back like the Hunchback of Notre Dame :joy: . Feels great to push myself though and I feel like I could have pushed harder if I wanted to. I had to get back a little early though since my girl wants to hangout with me.

:thinking: Odd Feelings
So it’s been a couple of hours since my last sub-topic on this journal entry. I was reminded of a track Saint made way back and I thought it was :world_map: Into Distant Worlds. I ended up accidently listening to it for about 20 or 30 seconds. I also haphazardly increased the volume and found it weird that there was no sound until I realized that this is an ultrasonic and I’m an idiot :joy: . Now there’s a weird “tension” in my body, not in the physical way. More like the feeling of something raw that you shouldn’t listen to. Might be the combination of the fact that I’m on a ZP v2 stack and I listened to something from 2 to 3 years-ish ago at this point.

Not sure if I should go for a washout but I think the technology is so weak that it’s not worth it. I also only listened to it for like 20 seconds, which is not enough to cause significant or any changes at all probably compared to now. Next time @Beowulf, check before you listen to something from SubliminalClub :laughing: .

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January 25th 2023

Lamentations on the Speed of Progress
I’m making decent progress on the habits I’ve outlined here but not at a rate that I’m happy with :thinking: . I’m essentially thinking of rushing all the habits I’ve outlined at the beginning of my journal. I always like to think that if I just do all the habits at the same time, I could progress 10 times faster :fast_forward: . This is likely just recon and I shouldn’t fall into self-sabotage here. I always like to look at other people and compare myself to them, which is harmful. Everyone tends to show the best parts of themselves anyway, so it’s something to keep in mind :thought_balloon: .

Assuming each habit takes an average of roughly :calendar: 25 days to crystalize and there are 11 major habits remaining, it would take:-
25 x 11 = 275 days

That’s roughly 9 months. Which is well within 12 months in a year. Though, I could do several habits at once to speed up my rate of progress. Would love to cut all of this down to 3 months if possible :thinking: . I’m feeling like I can do that now, as :necktie: Ascension has given me the push I need to do so. I’m a little too comfortable with my rate of progress, I could push myself just a little bit more if I need to.

So, let’s try adding a parallel habit to work on. This is how it’ll look like.

  1. :running_man: Running | :running_shirt_with_sash: Bodyweight Exercises
  2. :man_standing: Stretching | :sleeping_bed: Sleeping 8 Hours
  3. :person_in_lotus_position: Meditation | :iphone: No Social Media
  4. :computer: 4 Hours of Focused Work | :person_in_lotus_position: Spiritual Practice
  5. :open_book: Chinese | :weight_lifting_man: Weightlifting
  6. :meat_on_bone: Diet | :musical_keyboard: Piano

25 x 6 = 150 days
That’s exactly 5 months. It’s around twice as fast and I’ve added an extra habit.

:running_shirt_with_sash: Modified OPM Workout: Day 0
So I think going with bodyweight exercises is a great idea. It would give me a good foundation to go into :weight_lifting_man: weightlifting later on. So, I need to figure out what exactly I’m going to do here.

I’m attracted to the One Punch Man workout. It’s basically a workout from the anime One Punch man where the main character does 100 push-ups, 100 squats, 100 sit-ups and a 10km run everyday.

I’m already working on a :running_man: running habit, so this looks good. Though I don’t like the idea of artificially limiting/pushing myself to 100 reps and it also lacks a pull movement. What I’ll do instead is go for progressive overload (is that the right term?) and do:-

  1. Push-ups
  2. Squats
  3. Planks (instead of Sit-Ups)
  4. Pull-ups
  5. Running (Already started)

every other day. A little silly to do it every day, I won’t have enough time to recover.

I’ll keep doing this until I finally hit my :weight_lifting_man: Weightlifting habit, then I’ll drop or modify it to fit into my new routine. I’ll start this habit either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Need some time to prepare for it.

:running_man: Running: Day 6 (Rest)
Slept a lot today. There a very minor soreness in my legs. I could definitely see me pushing myself tomorrow.

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January 26th 2023

:tv: Relaxation
Started watching shows on :computer: Netflix again, I haven’t done this in months. I usually just watch Youtube videos, since it’s a lot more convenient. I feel that it’s not a bad idea to replace my hours of Youtube with an episode of a Netflix show at the end of the day. For today though, I basically binge watched every episode of Inside Job :joy: . Love the show and it sucks that it’s apparently been cancelled by Netflix for Season 2. Hopefully it gets picked up by another network.

I also had a :cold_sweat: minor cold the night before until this afternoon. I’m much better now so I decided to still go for the run tonight.

:running_man: Running: Day 7 (W1/D2)
Turns out I made a silly mistake in terms of the speed setting and should have adjusted it to km/h, not mph. I haven’t been to the :muscle: gym for so long that I didn’t realize I’m running way faster than what I usually do. So today I walked at 4km/h for the warm-up, 5km/h for the walk and 8km/h for the run. I’m sweaty but I definitely did not push myself to the max today. I think it’s a bad idea to go at max intensity this early on, I’ll burn out. Better to go at 70% intensity for a year than 120% intensity for a month :laughing: .

1/3 of the way there. Just another 14 days and I can move on to :man_standing: Stretching.

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