CDC 6 Day 29

5p - 7p

05:00 - 06:00: Obj.2.1c (33/35.5)
06:00 - 07:00: Obj.2.1c(34/35.5)

PRODUCT VIDEOS: USE POWERPOINT.

Now that I know how to easily animate in powerpoint, and how to record according to timestamp...

WHY THE FUCK

Would I cut and paste 100 photo slides

When I can just render 1 powerpoint.  I can literally click through the animations AS I LISTEN to the recording to make the vast majority of the editing ON POWERPOINT, IN REAL TIME.

MUCH, MUCH FASTER, and it will even look more legit.

Yup, I just learned how to do animations and make videos in powerpoint.  Pretty awesome fucking night.  And you were gonna do it in FLASH, lol!

Choose Your Resistance and EMPOWER Your Meditation

By CHOOSING your resistance (or your "DO NOT WANT"), you go from having it guide you to being at the source of it.

You start by accepting and embracing your very diswanting itself.  Your resistance, your magnetic repulsion, your avoidance.  Get in touch with how much you don't want to meditate.  And choose that.

The repulsion is the way the repulsion is because the repulsion is the way the repulsion is.

AND

I choose the repulsion because I choose the repulsion.

Human beings never accept things for what they are.  We're constantly "deciding" - meaning, the considerations are what's ACTUALLY choosing - and thereby cutting off all other ways of being.

By accepting my repulsion, I can enjoy it and eliminate it as an issue, which then frees me up to meditate without a barrier being in my way.  It therefore empowers my meditation, simply by dis-empowering the racketing.

Meditated tonight with some of my last mintues before bedtime and feel quite good about it.

CDC 6 Day 28

9a - 3:30p

09:00 - 10:00: Obj.2.1c (29/31.5)
10:00 - 11:00: Obj.2.1c (30/31.5)
11:00 - 12:00: Obj.Su.Lunch (5/10)
12:00 - 01:30: Chores
01:30 - 02:30: Obj.2.1c (31/35.5)
02:30 - 03:30: Obj.2.1c (32/35.5)

CDC 6 Day 25

5p - 6:30p

05:30 - 06:30: Obj.2.1c (28/31.5)

ALL ANIMOTO SLIDES COMPLETED AND DOWNLOADED!

CDC 6 Day 24

5p - 630p

05:30 - 06:30: Obj.2.1c (27/31.5)

CDC 6 Day 22

6:30p - 7:30p

06:30 - 07:30: Obj.2.1c (26/31.5)

CDC 6 Day 21

1p - 8p


01:00 - 02:00: Obj.2.1c (20.5/25)
02:00 - 03:00: Obj.2.1c (21.5/25)
03:00 - 03:30: Break
03:30 - 04:30: Obj.2.1c (22.5/25)
04:30 - 06:00: Obj.2.1c (24/25)
06:00 - 07:00: Su.Lunch (4/10)
07:00 - 08:00: : Obj.2.1c (25/25)

CDC 6 Day 18

5p - 6p

05:00 - 06:00: Obj.2.1c (19.5/25)

First round of slides is created, downloaded, and ready to cut on Magix.

CDC 6 Day 17

5p - 6:30p

05:30 - 06:30: Obj.2.1c (18.5/25)

Where I left off - Slides Editing

Completed Scrolling to 30-40

Completed Typing to 20-30

LEFT OFF ON Growing, Completed Growing 30, Start by making Growing40

Still need to do Bold.

FRAME INTEGRITY & LANDMARK / AMANDA / ETC

"April 8 - 12 demonstrates that your relationships / sex COME AT THE COST of
frame integrity.  Even though Amanda was in town, you could have chosen
either frame > amanda, BOTH, or amanda > frame.  You said amanda over
frame.  Which is totally fine, and I am happy with that 33%.  This demonstrates
TRUE integrity of the frame."

To this end, I've had to wipe out the Landmark Thursday night NA's... BUT... that doesn't mean landmark is at the cost of the frame.

Instead, I simply have different bedtime integrity on Landmark Thursday's - on these nights, integrity is "IN BED (WITH INTENT TO SLEEP - NO INTIMACY ETC) BY 11:45PM?" - and that's IT - either I am or I am not.

That way, I'm not able to use Landmark as an excuse to be up all night, and I am guarenteed 4.5 hours for a smooth 3 sleep cycles.

And the added benefit is it actually helps my frame integrity out since I always hit this one.

So sometimes wiping out NA's actually ends up as an instant benefit.  Damn, look at that... true integrity is good.

CDC 6 Day 16

6:30p - 7:30p

06:30 - 07:30: Obj.2.1c (17.5/20)

Section 1 Photo Slides Produced!

CDC 6 Day 15

5p - 7:30p

06:00 - 07:15: Obj.2.1c (16.5/20)

All pictures converted to slides.

CDC 6 Day 14

9a - 4:15p

09:00 - 10:00: Obj.2.1c (11/20)
10:00 - 11:00: Obj.2.1c (12/20)
11:00 - 11:30: Break - 5MM
11:30 - 12:30: Obj.2.1c (13/20)
12:30 - 01:30: Obj.2.1c (14/20)
01:30 - 02:30: Obj.Su.Lunch (3/10) - 10MM
02:30 - 03:00: Shopping
03:00 - 04:15: Obj.2.1c (15.25/20)
04:15 - 05:30: Chores
05:30 - 05:45: Meditation
05:45 - 06:30: Erica Training Assembly & Read Mindfulness Book
...rust?
08:00 - 09:00: LARP

Video Editing: Up Next

• WHENEVER THERE IS SILENCE: Record the 1 missing sentence, edit it in.
• Edit all pictures into 1080p slide-ready pix
• Edit first 10 picture slides to FIND OUT IF THEY REQUIRE EXTRA SECONDS DUE TO THE EFFECTS ANIMOTO USES ON THEM!!
• Finish slides.
• Full listen through & edit where needed.
• Add music?

The 5 Second Mindfulness Game

Cultivating "The Moment" once again...

The fun thing about mindfulness that I got last time I was really into it was this ability to know whether I'd been lost in thought or generally aware of my thoughts, and for how long.

It'd be like "op!  I was just gone for 2 minutes on that thought." *then become aware of everything my mind was doing for 30 seconds* ; then be in and out for a couple mins ; then "op!  I was just gone for 10 minutes there"

That was the game, that was how I knew I was heavy into mindfulness.  That could run for several hours and once or twice it ran through pretty much the entire work day.

A new possibility here is that every time I have a "catch" - basically, any time I experience one of those uncommon moments of awareness - maybe count to 5 to experience 5 full seconds of awareness, and then catch the next thought thereafter to keep it going - then play the game of "how long can I keep it going?"  Soon thereafter, you'll get lost in thought again, and once your next moment occurs, mentally note how long you were awake last time, and then count to 5 again and continue the cycle.  

Part of this possibility is that it is forever and unjudging - Just have it be a game you always play, where there's no judging right or wrong, no goal of trying to achieve some kind of thing where you make yourself wrong when you dont do it, etc... it's just "The 5 Second Mindfulness Game"

CDC 6 Day 11

5p-5:15p; 6:30p - 10p

06:30 - 07:30: Obj.Taxes (1/1)

CDC 6 Day 10

5-6p

05:00 - 06:00: Obj.Int.Setup

TRUE INTEGRITY & "N/A"s

Now that I have true commitment, and Landmark's definition of true integrity, it's time to start evaluating things in terms of real integrity.

CDH: "Consistent Discipline Hour": 1 Hr minimum of ROARS work on M-Th and 5 Hr minimum on Sundays.  This applies to every day during the challenge, whether it was a planned day off or not, regardless of emergencies, illness, etc.  There are no reasons.

What about being rational?  Simple - the goal is NOT 100%.  The goal is 70%.  If you have true commitment, then I'm pretty sure your life isn't going to get in the way sooo much that 70% is hard to achieve.

What about vacations?  A whole week just wipes out my integrity??  Sure - simply split up the challenge.  EX: CDC 7.1 & CDC 7.2 during Q3.  Or plan them inbetween challenges.

What about the snowboarding season??  Well, if you're only going for 4 Sundays, set an integrity goal that reflects that, and remember to set aside extra gap room for the Mondays that you're going to be recovering from all the snowboarding.  Frankly, 40% integrity as the goal is OKAY.

INTEGRITY IS NOT ABOUT "GOOD" OR "BAD".  IT IS SIMPLY A MATTER OF SOLIDITY.  IF YOU WANT 40% SOLIDITY, THERE'S NOTHING GOOD OR BAD ABOUT THAT - 40% IS 40% BECAUSE 40% IS 40%.

From here on out, there shall be NO MORE "NA"s in my integrity sheets (Size, CDH, Frame Discipline, etc) unless it's a sheet that specifically is dedicated to my true commitment integrity itself... and even then, those days should be cut from the challenge, not "NA".

This way, when I look at the percentage of CDH achievement over 90 days, I don't have to ask "How many days of the total challenge does the percentage actually apply to, though?"  It will simply be, "Of all business days in the quarter, CDH was achieved the exact percentage it says right there."  No further questions required.  

You look at the whole object of CDH and you get an exact percentage of how solid it really is, no reasoning or baggage to sort through, no audit required, just a clean and simple look at the real integrity of the thing.

CDC 6 Day 6 & 7

8:15a - 5:30p

08:30 - 09:00: Day setup / meditation
09:00 - 10:00: Landmark Group Leader Call
10:00 - 11:00: Landmark Group 7 text, fooling around, etc
11:00 - 12:00: Obj.2.1c (7.5/15)
12:00 - 01:00: Obj.2.1c (8.5/15)
01:00 - 01:30: Break
01:30 - 02:30: Chores
02:30 - 03:00: Obj.Taxes (0.5/1) - NEED DOC IN OFFICE!
03:00 - 04:00: Obj.2.1c (9.5/15)
04:00 - 05:00: Obj.Su.Lunch (2/10)
05:00 - 05:30: Obj.2.1c (10/15)

Slide Editing: TYPES OF SLIDES

ISSUE!  I accidently added a "new type" of text that didn't exist - "rising" (this already existed as "scrolling").  This was also caused by confusing "growing" with "bold".

The fix is pretty simple.  replace all rising with growing.  replace all current "growing" with bold.  Animoto also added a "clean slate" style that might come in handy if some of the bolds are too strong.. but probably better just to replace them with a growing, scrolling, or typing.

SCROLLING, typing, GROWING, and BOLD.  There is no rising.  And there IS a bold

Crossing out script to make slides fit

So, the trick here is EVERY SLIDE needs to START with the text matching the audio.  It's kind of like the first sentence of the paragraph being the most important sentence as it describes the paragraph.  If you don't start with these matching, it's awkward, because the slide shows text right away that isn't reflecting the audio yet.

QUICK FIX: Anywhere there is currently cross-out text to start a slide, move that text to the slide above it.

Timing Slides

Works really well as long as they can be 95% good.  If you need 100% perfection you have to do slides 1 by 1... but that takes FOREVER... so for VLP2, timing is great.

EVEN WHEN THERE'S NO CROSS OUTS!  This slows things down slightly because you have to fine tune the exact positions of the slides more, but it's really easy editing... you're literally just adjusting slide positions slightly and adding fades.

If anything, simply round DOWN when you time slides.  Black space is always okay with this editing style.

Final Editing

You'll want to make sure the starts of sentences are capitalized, etc, so you can literally get all slides created on Animoto within an hour.

I would literally do a full listen through and clean up the text as you go, that way you can see if the words on the slides are matching what I'm actually saying.

CDC 6 Day 5

5p - 7p

06:00 - 07:00: Obj.2.1c (6.5/10)


BEFORE TIMING OUT ANY MORE SLIDES, EDIT THE FIRST 5 MIN IN TO MAKE SURE THE METHODOLOGY IS ON POINT!!!!!

CDC 6 Day 4

5p - 6:30p

05:30 - 06:30: Obj.2.1c (5.5/15)

+2 Int.Setup - Re-acquire Lost Training

Put 2 more hours here to get back lost training.

Go through phone memos, gmail, this blog, and any written docs.

PRIMARILY use the LABELS aNLP, mindfulness, meditation, discipline, etc (Why?  EX: http://entrepreneurisback.blogspot.com/2017/05/next-steps-for-mental-mastery-anlp.html)

This involves really thinking about the concepts, not breezing over.  There are things like bob and weave mechanics, truely wanting pain & being in touch with why, etc that are missing.

Deleting emails instead of sending to cut out DISTRACTIONS

Standard JUSTIFICATIONS / TROLLS that were well known and have slipped back into hiding, controlling me from my blind spots.

Get a sense of how to win the size game again, and if / why you really want that.  The effort illusion is real.

CDC 6 Day 3

5p - 7p

06:00 - 07:00: Obj.2.1c (4.5/15)

Just pulled 5 hrs from Obj.2.5 - salesletter for CFI... seeing as im essentially doing the sales letter in this vid now...

CDC 6 Day 2

5p - 7p

06:00 - 07:00: Obj.2.1c (3.5/10)

Why 30m Meditation Per Day?

Switching to a "30 min per day" commitment is much more flexible and fitting, allowing me to give it my true commitment.

But why give true commitment - an unreasonable, unforgiving level of dedication - to a seemingly silly exercise?

Meditation & Landmark go hand-in-hand.  Mindfulness, enlightened by the insights of Landmark, allow you to live in the real world and escape your own stories and meaning making mechanisms.  

Now the 2018 goal of 3min-per-hour-average of mindfulness has a purpose - it means I am constantly coming off it and generating the "nothingness" from which I can engage in whatever possibilities I want.

If the power of landmark is nothing, mindfulness is the tool that allows you to generate that power.  It puts the power of landmark in your hands over and over again every day.  From there, you can actually achieve things like your "deal-work goals", once the possibility / "how" is figured out.

It's also worth noting that in the past, I was so inconsistent with mindfulness it literally was a waste of time.  Looking at the 10 weeks of Q1, counting for NAs, I actually averaged 15.5% frame integrity on my meditations.  15%!!!  At that rate, mental mastery is a hopeless pipe dream of despair.

Now that I'm truely committed - and expect to see #'s in the 90's - I can resume the path of mental mastery.  When you work out daily, you BUILD muscle - when you meditate daily, you BUILD your mind.  

Why 30m meditation per day?  Because the most important thing I can build is my mind, and mediation is a sure fire way of doing it.

CDC 6 Day 1

10a - 5p

Starting with Q2 Setup

10:00 - 12:00: Obj.Int.Setup (2/2)
12:00 - 01:00: Obj.Su.Lunch (1/10)
01:00 - 02:30: Rust
02:30 - 04:00: Obj.2.1c (1.5/10)
04:00 - 04:30: Break
04:30 - 05:30: Obj.2.1c (2.5/10)



things to work on:
true commitment to meditations (and what needs to happen to make it not get forgotten / missed, like schedule changes.)

Goals:
-Get videos 2-5 done
-Get web infrastructure setup for videos 1-5
-Get salesletters & primary web content done.

Objective: Be ready for launch between weeks 4-8 of Q3