Sunday, July 31, 2016

The War Begins...

Today marks the first Sunday in which I am following an organized schedule.

This is THE CORE NATURE of how discipline and consistency works.

Even if you try to disprove it and show a massive size person just "winging it", you'll notice that he's actually following an unscripted, unofficial, yet very disciplined and consistent schedule.

Like dumping energy into separating gluons and muons and they just form a new pair, or the more energy you dump into acceleration the more mass you gain as you approach the speed of light... the more "large size" behavior you dump into a being, the more organized, consistent, and disciplined they become.

So now that you are following the fundamental law of nature for how to be an entrepreneur -- like Brendan's realtor friend, he MUST follow a set schedule -- the war has officially began.

The ROARS vs. LEAF war of the entrepreneur.

I play both sides.  I win either way.  But there's a big win I'm after here.

Here's the battles:
-Who gets more of my time?
-Who gets more of my willpower and energy?
-Who progresses faster?
-ETC

Over time, as ROARS starts making money and proving itself, it'll make more and more progress down the battle field.  The war only ends when one side has been completely eliminated by the other.

Q3 PTC Day 22

11a - 7p

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GOAL: Have day organized by 11:20am.

11:30a-1:30p - ROARS
1:30p-2p - Lunch
2p-3p - Clean Room
3p-5p - ROARS
5p-6p - LEAF

11:30 - 1:30 ROARS WORK GOAL:
-FINISH VID1 100%

2 - 3 Clean room goal:
-Floors cleaned, rugs (including bathroom ones) vaccuumed.
-papers organized by priority of what i need to handle first, what last
-to do list made (dry cleaners plan, make dr appointment for ringworm, wash car, others listed in list...)

3 - 5 ROARS WORK GOAL:
-FINISH WEB1
-FINISH ALL JULY GOALS ON GOALS PAGE.

5 - 6 LEAF WORK GOAL:
-Steeplechase finished and ready for 1st thing Monday





Thursday, July 28, 2016

Sunday REQUIRED Structure

The following is required to get 100% or "R" status integrity for Sunday CDH.  

If you do not follow the below, the most integrity you can achieve is 50% (regardless of what you work on.  LEAF work, for instance, instead of ROARS, doesn't need to follow the below since you get 50% either way.)

Sunday Structure

  1. Morning Ritual as normal 7:30-8:30 -- but take Adderall AS SOON AS YOU WAKE UP.

  2. 8:30-9:00 Powerhour in garage.  Latest you can begin meditation is 9:15 to show up to work @ 9:30.  Any time after 9:30 you are late.  (like 6:30am LEAF goal vs. deadline @ 7:00)

    • If you are late by 5 minutes or more, you automatically get HALF integrity for Sunday CDH.

  3. Clock in by writing a post @ 9:00-9:30.  Same as LEAF "working on deals 630-7" structure - If you start late hussle up so you can get to the real work.  Roughly, quickly, and effectively outline your goals for the day and any structure you'd like to define.  In the future, we'll get better at being more organized in this area, but for now anything is better than nothing.

  4. Begin work -- and that's it!  I trust myself to take it from there.

Q3 PTC Day 19

Stop blaming and justifying.

I keep wanting to say this week has gone bad because

  • miles was @ LEAF 3 days
  • im being judged on my performance and they can suck my dick
  • month end
...on and on it goes.

IF YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOUR LARGEST SIZE WITH ZERO HOURS OF SLEEP, THEN YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU SET YOUR MIND TO.

THIS WEEK HAS GONE OFF THE RAILS BECAUSE YOU LET THAT HAPPEN.

You could have done whatever it took to take control of your mind, but instead you let it justify the pain away.

You let it shreak away from discomfort, pain.  You harbored the comfort zone.  You let yourself fall asleep at the wheel.

It's OKAY to fail!  I am confident in your abilities and the acceleration of your progress in 2016.  However the wheel will stop rolling and you'll lose it all if you let yourself believe that there's any good reasons at all that can justify your failures.  

If you can do your best with no sleep -- literally, the most insane pain, weakness, loss of ability to focus, etc -- then you can do anything!!!  THINK ABOUT IT.

WHAT THAT MEANS IS, YOUR MENTALITY OF "omg these thoughts are non-stop, there's no WAY I can control them!!" IS TOTALLY, COMPLETELY, 100% WRONG.  

The only reasons you can't take control are in front of you if you'd care to get smart about them: 
  • You can't take control because you believe you can't.  
  • You can't take control because you're looking at it as an overwhelming task -- stop reacting, see passed the 1%, and think proactive instead of reactive, like "a 6 would start with what he CAN do and 1-up from there"
  • You can't take control because you're in panic mode; your head is spinning.  COME OFF IT. Then, from a fresh slate, ask: "how would one take TOTAL control from the point where I am currently at?"
  • You can't take control because instead of embracing that thought, laughing at it, and WANTING THE CHALLENGE, it was easier just to say "I can't do it" and accept that you failed.
You're not lost in some web.  You're not "in too deep".  You're not incapable.  If anything, you've PROVEN the opposite.

You know what to do.  Right now, failures are stacked, hard.  That cannot be allowed to continue.  One troll at a time, take them all down.  Take baby steps and untangle that web of lies misleading you down all the wrong paths.  There is only one way to win.  Start putting all these sabotaging thoughts into the garbage bin, and for god's sake, take out the fucking trash.  And have fun doing it... that's the key.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Q3 PTC Day 18

5p - 6:15p

A little talk has been said about the way you are running your shire.

Mental Mastery is about being aware continuously.  It is about stepping in whenever necessary.  It is about neural pathway progress being at the forefront of my desires.

It shouldn't be hard -- it's very easy to hear your thoughts.  If you're trying too hard, you're doing it wrong.  Do it smarter.  Do it more often.  Master your mind.

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So, on to recording!


Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Q3 PTC Day 17

4:45p - 7:00p

First up, review of sound checks

Sound Check Review:

Close, NO Additional dampener
The 6"-10" distance range, speaking lower and into the mic, sounds exceptionally good.

Close w/ Background dampener
May sound SLIGHTLY better than the one without the additional dampener, but hard to tell, more apparently if you get loud.

Far, NO Additional dampener
The 2' - 3' distance range, speaking louder, sounds like shit

Far, w/ Background dampener
Notably better than without the dampener, but still sounds like shit.

I was surprised how much better being close is.  Even if you can't express as much, the little variations in tone convey MORE WEIGHT than the larger variations when expressing more fully from a distance.  It's almost like it's more personal, more real, more powerful.  And the kicker is, it takes less effort.  It's like the try too hard syndrome struck again - just go up close and take it easy :).

Since there was virtually no difference with the background dampening, the good news here is I don't need to do that!

I still need to test laptop sound vs. computer sound to see how much a difference the computer makes.  Just start tmw by testing right off the computer and line that up with the laptop recordings from Monday.

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Next, I tested the Blue Yeti, curosty of Dave.

Various differences, playing with gain, pc vs. laptop, etc... all the same... it sounded pretty bad!

The lows just aren't there at all with the yeti.  The result is that while it may sound slightly crisper, it carries no weight.  Since the quality of my voice is in the lows, the yeti couldn't capture that quality and I sounded very flat.

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Other tips with recording:

-As far as getting the sound just right with the mini sound studio, you'll need to pick the right distance between 6"-12" from the microphone (it seems 8-10" is the sweet spot) and test it vs. how loud you are.  Both factors affect each other.  It should be loud enough to feel like it's ideally expressive, but quiet enough so it's not even close to bouncing off the walls, which is the biggest killer of quality when you don't have a sound room.

-ALWAYS NOTE WHAT VOLUME LEVEL THE MICROPHONE IS SET TO WHEN TESTING!!  It makes a huge difference, it's the same as "gain" dial on the mic, too much and it's all plosions.
--->WINNER = 85% volume on AT2020 (laptop)

Monday, July 25, 2016

Q3 PTC Day 16

5:30p - 7:00p.  Perfect.

Need to get the sound right.  The problem is, I want fully express myself, but in doing so I echo around the room.  Just gonna need to do it into the mic... and that means sound checks.

4 Sound checks done.

I feel like I need to be up close and quietier, but I need to do it in a way where there's more excitement.  play with this tmw.

Sundays and Vaping

On sundays, i need to have an alarm, perhaps at 8am, and i need to do a ritual as soon as i get out of bed that inclydes the power hour review and meditation.  I also need an agenda made during the prior week, due by 7pm on Thursday, for an outline of my sunday schedule.

On vaping, i need to use my training.  These are small feelings compared to real pain.  I need to actually do what ive been trained to do and embrace them and the pain.

Sarah is in 2-3 weeks.  I cant be coffing up a storm and trying to hide the vape from her parents.  Ive been meaning to quit from months.  Its time to just do it already.

As far as herbs go, having them on fri / sat will always reduce your size on sunday.  Since the point of retime is to charge up for sunday, this works completely against you.

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Q3 PTC Day 15

The whole approach of Sunday is wrong.

Frankly, at this point I'd rather have my alarm go off @ 430am on sunday and have to work on 3 hours of sleep than wake up whenever I want and risk the whole thing failing.

It's 1:30pm.  I woke up at 8:30am.  That is 5 hours of nothingness.  The blanket analogy holds up here.  I didn't want to start, felt too small to begin, so I didn't do anything.

And the morning ritual failed.

It's not that I can't handle work on Sundays.  I've done this a dozen times.

It's not that I can't do a morning ritual.  Last week I did one every day WITHOUT snoozing.

I think it's a lack of discipline and structure on Sundays.  On week days, I have to constantly race the clock, and not snoozing is essential to getting a workout done on time and getting to work early enough to have a nice power hour.

On Sundays, I can get started whenever I want, so I get started as late as possible.  I don't have to follow a schedule, so I don't.

I don't have time for this.  My next 2 Sundays are already booked to parents and Sarah.  After that, I have to hussle to get as much done as I can before Thanksgiving and Christmas.  And then I have to make more serious decisions like do I sacrifice some skiing or some ROARS.

And at the end of the day, a big missing component to ROARS is that I am not organized enough to be able to work for myself.  Think of Brendan's Realtor friend.  He is very disciplined and organized without a boss.  I will need to be that way too if I am to have any chance of succeeding as an entrepreneur.

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Q3 PTC Day 12

6:15p - 7:15p

Re familiarized myself with the web editor, created an aweber list, got the opt in working (to a degree) on the site.

Cool beans.

With the extreme resistance I had coming into ROARS today I'm actually quite impressed.  It pays dividends to be size 5+ during the day.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Q3 PTC Day 11

I'm late.  Running after work + making a steak was a bit much.

6:45pm - 7:45pm

website work time.

UPDATE:
Next time please START by rebooting the server.  Thanks!

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QUOTED FROM LAST TIME
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Help on "Error Establishing Database"
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-error-establishing-a-database-connection-in-wordpress/

Also, how I setup my database:
http://entrepreneurisback.blogspot.com/2015/10/day-28.html

Checked:
ALL WP SITES ARE DOWN -- so it's a database problem, not a single site permission or username / pass setup.

BOTH SITE AND WP-ADMIN ARE DOWN -- again, database at large problem, not some corruption.

THE URL AND THE IP BOTH SHOW THE SAME PROBLEM -- it's not a domain name problem.

Let's look at the facts: I haven't used the site in 6 months.

MOST LIKELY IT'S AN AWS PROBLEM.

It COULD be the wordpress unique key is broken, but probably not.  Updating wordpress is always optional, for the most part.  And some of my sites dont have shit for plugins so that not it.

MOST LIKELY:
1. The aws security key is out-dated or not working or the "key-pair" isn't working (likely).
2. I setup a db with aws that I forgot about and is not running (unlikely).
3. Some other aws connectivity problem (IP inactive, some routing thing, etc)
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SEARCHED
::"Error establishing a database connection" aws wordpress ec2

"Have you verify that mysql is running on your instance and try to connect to the mysql from within your instance?"

--> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-find-out-if-mysql-is-running-on-linux/

yup.. looks like mysql is NOT running.  Really should've been the first thing you checked.

lol

possible that it just cant connect on account of me having no idea what the password is and just hitting enter on a blank pass... but i would've expected a diff error in that case:



Tried another "ping" code and same thing.  Looks to be offline.

What is the best way to figure out how to get mysql running??  I don't even remember installing it.

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Working on this one now:

"For me just restarting the mysqld service worked. There was a hitch though, as soon as I executed sudo service mysqld restart the MySql service stopped but didn't start. sudo services mysqld start gave a MySQL Deamon Failed to Start Error. I spent a lot of time trying to start the service but I guess the real culprit was the httpd service. I stopped the httpd service sudo service httpd stop. Now execute sudo service mysqld restart and bingo the wordpress site was back online(remember to start the httpd service). This sounds kind of lame but it worked, from what I figured out the MySQL DB stops for a number of reasons looking at the log and figuring out the actual reason is the only thing that works for me."

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"I got the same error for my website, I just rebooted my instance and voila, problem solved.
My case:
I am using amazon free tier, and some bot requested my website and due to the high number of connections, the sql database could not serve the load. I have hence installed the load balancer too :) Hope it helps
"
more on mysql errors and reasons for going offline:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7315382/error-establishing-a-database-connection-amazon-ec2-after-moving-my-wordpress

... so anyways... it sounds like THERE'S A LOG I CAN REVIEW.

but, prob a timeout thing.

first i will try rebooting the instance.  if that doesn't work, i'll start with the unix commands to restart mysql... but it sounds like that can cause problems i dont want.

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HaHA!!  Rebooting the instance got the website back up and running.

Well no shit.  I feel like I'm using a computer for the first time calling geeksquad and they say "well have you tried restarting the computer?"  and I'm like... what?  I can do that?  and they're like "sir... have you never turned off your computer?  seriously?"


Monday, July 18, 2016

Q3 PTC Day 9

Last week was Eric's Cadence challenge.

I spent hours on it including last Sunday.

Reason for this is I feel this will save me over a hundred hours of time moving forward, make work easier, and grant me more freedom to work on ROARS.

Today, I did take 3 of video 1.

Got the thumbs up from Dave.

Now I need to do it a little more over the top and with more sound dampening... video 1 has to be PERFECT audio wise since it's the hook

-morning ritual
-3 meditations.
-CDH
-Size 5

Good day.

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Q3 2016 PTC BEGINS

3:30p - 8:30p

It's always hard, going from vacation to a new challenge.  And today has definitely been hard.

Let today be a testament to the downsides of smoking weed.  It is so disabling for me it's on a whole 'nother level of being disturbing.

That being said, I have probably the best "how to achieve" list ever.  The power thinking system has reached a new peak, the prior random ideals have been combined with the progression of Q2 to make an organized, clear path to achieving my goals.

My motivation, however, is lacking.  Should it lack tomorrow, the time for anger and empowerment is here and it needs to be hit harder than ever.

Also, starting tomorrow, weed and alcohol on a non-friday or mid-saturday are NOT ALLOWED.  This is not my word however incredibly important to remain firmly committed to.  If not, word shall be implemented upon them.

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Roars needs a lot of work.  I need to get this first video finished SOON... I need the website functioning... and once those are done, I need a sense of what I am trying to achieve and I need to redefine the goals.  The goals set now (see goals page link, top right) are really just placeholders.

My vision for ROARS is weak and that is detrimental to everything.

Tomorrow morning, here's the plan:

KNOW BEYOND ANY DOUBT THAT BIG SIZE TODAY IS ESSENTIAL SO THAT I WILL BE EFFECTIVE @ ROARS AT THE END OF THE DAY.  I MUST START GETTING BACK INTO ROARS SO I CAN REALLY GET THIS CHALLENGE OFF THE GROUND.

Start with a powerful morning ritual.  Planks, pushups, and situps.  DO NOT HESITATE.  Being successful at this leads to success @ work.

Follow up with a powerful power hour, then fight to reprogram the trolls and fix my broken, broken mind.  lol... it's SO broken right now!  And I need to take on these trolls one by one and really get this brain of mine churning out 90% positivity FAST.  I need mental mastery.

Now... NO smoking tonight.  Calling Sarah will be the way to end this one, I need to break this addictive mentality ASAP.