- It may be too early to say, but I’m not really feeling any recon from this one.
Thing is that unless I miss my guess, DRP should cause recon.
I think that the key here is going to be to gradually increase my listening time until I get a little recon then hold at that level until it stops.
I might go with six minutes for next week.
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- I asked myself a question right after I got up this afternoon.
“What can I do to move one of my goals forward RIGHT NOW”. I initially thought that everything was outside of my control so “nothing”.
Then I asked “what IS under my control right now?”.
The answer was that I could clean up the section of the bedroom right beside my side of the bed. It took a few minutes, but it’s no longer a rat’s nest.
Little thing though it is, I have moved the needle on one of my goals.
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Kaizen FTW!
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I know what FTW means. What is Kaizen?
Continuous and incremental improvement. If you haven’t read it yet, “One Small Step Can Change Your Life” by Robert Maurer is a gem.
Kaizen is what brought the Japanese auto industry to being one of the most effective and profitable.
Maurer applied Kaizen to helping his psychology and coaching clients.
He starts with the smallest possible changes they can do and builds from there. Such as starting with a single push-up. Or cleaning the side of the bed in your case.
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Ah, ok, that’s a great concept. I had the wrong meaning for FTW too.
Just bought it on Audible. I’ll start listening during my shift tonight.
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For The Win lol
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Yeah, I was thinking something that ends in “the world”.
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I suppose that if I choose to think of it this way, what I did this morning could be the beginning of a sense of momentum. That’s what I’m looking for.
I think that if I get things rolling in the right direction and keep pushing it, it’ll become easier and bigger and bigger things will start to go how I want them to. It’s a matter of taking control of what I can and allowing myself to feel that sense of control growing. The more I have that SENSE of control in my life, the easier it’ll be for me to actually take control of it.
That’s how to fight my hesitancy to “go for it” on various things too. I just have to find something small and seemingly easy to seize and do it.
I suppose at this point it doesn’t really matter if it works or not, though I’m sure that it would be better if it did. Even if it doesn’t, it could kind of build the habit and show me that there are not massive negative consequences for trying to seize the day.
I’m already thinking of what I can do tomorrow to move the needle forward a little on at least one of my goals. -
Just finished my loops of DR2 and RICH. Capped it at five minutes again.
I’m really not convinced that I’m getting the most out of this, but I’m planning on making this the centerpiece of my stack all year, so I suppose I can afford to ease into it. -
Interesting mental thing happened.
I need more money coming in. I know this, and I think about it a lot.
This evening after my loops, I started thinking about it differently. Or more accurately, correcting how I worded it.
I went from “we need more money coming in” to “how do I get more money coming in?” to “how am I getting more money coming in?”.
I know that the mind will always chew on a question until it comes up with an answer, and I know that it’s better to ask as if this is something that I’m already doing.
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- This is interesting. I usually spend the last couple of hours at work listening to music. This morning I had no urge to play any of the ones that remind me of exes and whatnot. You know, give me that melancholy “bittersweet” feeling. Like the one I played a few days ago and didn’t feel anything.
I don’t have like, a revulsion to playing them, but there’s a very subtle feeling of “don’t do that”.
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- I woke up feeling a little stressed today and was thinking about all of the problems that I have that need to be dealt with in the near future and how they might interact with each other to cause a much bigger problem.
I don’t know if it’s recon or just regular life stress.
All in all it’s not too bad.
I’m still asking “how am I getting more money coming in?”.
So far I don’t have any inspired flashes of a solution, but I know that if I keep asking my subconscious in that way, it’ll chew through it until it finds one.
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I’ve been trying something similar. “What can I do today to make an extra dollar?”
Priming my brain for ideas
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I feel ya. At the moment I haven’t had any inspired ideas on new directions to go. I’m toward the top end for my job field though.
I could take a supervisor position with another company, but for the most part that would be a pay cut.
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- Once again I got up and spent the first few hours after I got up cleaning a section of the bedroom. This time it was the desk. Which was piled about two feet high with various forms of debris.
The room already looks much better.
This just when I was thinking that I don’t feel this program doing anything.
I’ve been sitting here looking at those sections of the room for quite a long time and not doing anything about it. These last two days, it’s been the most natural thing in the world to get up and do something about it.
It’s the one thing in my goals list that I can directly do something about right now, so I just do it.
I love Emperor for that.
I had something like this happen before on DE 1. This time there is less of a sense that the subliminal is pushing me to do it. Just feels like what I should be doing.
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Something has shifted today. I woke up feeling stressed, but at some point, I think it was when I got done with my cleaning task for the day, I went into “let’s do this” mode.
I don’t know how to describe it exactly, kind of a wave of enthusiasm hitting and actually seeing myself following through on the self improvement stuff and the life improvement measures and getting results.
This is Emperor executing harder and faster than it ever has before. -
I’m figuring out little things I can do to improve myself and meet my goals.
One of them is to read five pages of some self improvement themed book as soon as I wake up instead of dinking around with my phone right off the bat. Another is to use at least an hour of my boring ass work time to listen to an audio book with a similar theme.
These are both easy things to do, and they will have the effect of kind of keeping me immersed in the theme of improvement all the time. -
I randomly ran into this video https://youtu.be/0ruvCL9atE0?si=moy5zPOj38VqorB1
While trying to kill boredom at work. He makes some great points and it was very useful to me.
One thing that is pointed out in there is something I realize that I really need to work on.
That is keeping my word. Not so much to others, which I do a pretty good job at, but to myself.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve resolved to do something good, like the stuff above, only to have it fall by the wayside in pretty short order. That makes my subconscious lose belief in me, and not be on board for making changes, manifesting, or anything else. I am going to need to do some major work on rebuilding that self belief and credibility.
I have also ordered the book, and it’s going to be the first I read through in the mornings.
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- I got up and cleaned another small section of the bedroom today. I’m getting some real momentum on this one.
I was pretty skeptical about the five minute loop thing, but so far it seems to be working just fine. At least as far as the Emperor and Purity Without effects go.
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- The productivity kick on New Emperor is way the hell above what I was getting on Khan or AM.
It feels perfectly natural for me to go at a mess that I’ve been mentally complaining about for months or years, but didn’t do anything about because I didn’t want to put in the effort.
It doesn’t seem like it’s going to be hard, and when I start doing it, it isn’t.
Three days in a row, and it doesn’t seem like a chore to keep it going.
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- I think I put my finger on at least one thing that DRP is doing. I am integrating things that came to my attention consciously on DR on a deeper level. In other words, I became aware of a lot of negative stuff going on under the surface on DR.
That helped me deal with it some, but awareness of a psychological issue doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s completely gone until the solution is absorbed and ingrained by the subconscious.
That didn’t fully happen on DR.
I think that it’s happening now.
Great Journey so far, and I’m only a week in.
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- Happy New Year! May 2024 find us all much further down the road to being the people we want to be living the lives we want to live.
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