Who Am I? Core Nature of "me" "my life" "I" etc

When you talk about your life, your talking about a sum of experiences, actions, choices, etc.  It all boils down to a collection of moments.  Your "whole life" is all of the moments you've been through.  Who you are now-a-days would be the more recent moments, as defined by some custom set of parameters.

These are all useful constructs.  Sure they're real, and true, but they only say who you are as a construct of a sum of smaller things.  You'll think of yourself one way, others will have it slightly different, probably with a lot of overlap.  The construct of "you" is essential and amazing and awesome.

However, it's not who you really are.  It's a construct.  And the problem is, you live moment-to-moment as if who you are is this construct.  That's where things get messy, because this construct is a sum of many, many moments, and it doesn't fit as a useful tool when it comes to managing your moment-to-moment life.

All that ever exists is the moment.  You are right here, right now.  No matter what you do, where you go, etc, you will always be right wherever you are, right in that moment.  The past is gone, and all you ever do is remember it in this moment, and the future isn't here yet, so all you ever do is predict it in this moment.

If all that exists is the moment, you cannot ever exist as a sum of moments.  You can only ACTUALLY exist as THIS moment.

So who are you?

You are the space in which this moment is happening.

You are like the raindrop reflecting the world.  You are the observer, the witness.  You see, touch, feel, think, experience it all, and that ever-changing experience is WHO YOU ARE.

Naming a cause always results in avoiding responsibility

This concept from "Be Here Now" is the core nature of my 2010-2011 discovery that I could witness a "troll thought" and choose a "productive thought", compare the two in terms of which is more helpful, and the resulting comparison is typically quite humorous.

The core nature of it is that you are the source of all value, and the context is decisive of the value.  The second you name an external cause to any value, you've now avoided responsibility of being at the source of it.  All values, good or bad, are simply whatever you say they are or view them as, and responsibility in this manner isn't "the truth", it's simply a context you can move to whenever an upset occurs.

CDC 5 Day 29

8a - 3:30p

09:00 - 10:00: Obj.2.1c (8/26)
10:00 - 11:00: Obj.2.1c (9/26)
11:00 - 12:00: Obj.Su.Lunch (2/4) -10mm
12:00 - 01:00: Obj.2.1c (10/26)
01:00 - 02:00: Obj.2.1c (11/26)
02:00 - 02:30: Break -5mm
02:30 - 03:30: WTDC

Next Steps

Today we finished editing the audio and made 2 strategic edits to the script to make the video faster paced and more hooking, especially by using a cliffhanger lead in to section 2.

Next up: Finish the VLP2 Slides Google Doc - this outlines the slides and should make use of all the pictures I had from previous videos that are being replaced by VLP2.

After that, just use copy and past from the doc into Animoto.  Would batch all the text slides together and complete those FIRST, INCLUDING editing them into the video.

Then, it should be easier to fill in the gaps with the photo slides since I'll know the exact lengths I need to fill with each.

Morning Insight - The Relationship Between NLP & Mindfulness

You will not achieve your "level up mindfulness" goal without aNLP.

Why?

You have to ENJOY THE SHIT OUT OF MINDFULNESS to achieve your goals.

I mean, it's gotta be one of your FAVORITE things.

Reprogramming allows you to ENJOY mindfulness.

Moving forward, your goal should be focused on making mindfulness so enjoyable that you actually end up doing it all the time just for fun.

And the only way to achieve this goal is with some serious aNLP.  Every negative with mindfulness needs to be reprogrammed 100x over, and every positive needs to be stretched and maximized.

You get the significance of mindfulness - it allows you to enjoy anything and push your limits - but you don't ACTUALLY enjoy doing it enough to get there.  So there's the logical next step.

I would rather spend the entire mediation reprogramming and talking to myself (and being lost in doing so) then spend it beating myself up.  Because even if the meditation didn't go so well, at least I enjoyed it, which will add to the snowball effect of enjoying mindfulness so much that I'm actually doing it all the time.

OBJECTIVE: MAKE MINDFULNESS SO FUN, I FIND THAT I'M NATURALLY DOING IT ALL THE TIME WITHOUT HAVING CONSCIOUSLY CHOSEN TO DO IT.

Q4 CDC Day 42

5:00p - 7:15p

5-515 - meditation
515-530 - setup

05:30 - 06:00: Obj.Int.Setup (10.5/6)
06:00 - 07:00: Obj.2.1a (18.5/5)

SETUP EXTENDED -- To forever settle what "IT" is that you must "GET"

From now on, thou shalt live by the following realization.

If thou deviates, thou shalt review the following:

Want X Troll

This troll has started to become very dominant.

Reprogram: Want X says "I'm not into [OBJ]" without ever saying it.

It is "I'd rather do X" and this means that you end up LOWERING THE VALUE of the thing that you really want.

Do what you REALLY want, not what you want right now.  Break down the troll into it's parts.

Ex: I want soda -> I crave sugar and sweet vs. I crave pushing deeper into the task at hand.

Sugar & Sweet - enjoyable for a moment but distracting, will have to wash hands, spin my wheels for 5 minutes and end up too small to face challenges, will end up not really enjoying anything.

Pushing deeper into task - painful for a moment but quickly will become more enjoyable, ramp me up, make me feel exhilarated and enjoying everything.

On Sundays, the same often goes for Rust.  You could get on and it'll be fun for a second but kind of painful too and you wont be able to really enjoy anything.  You'll get moody, depressed, irrational, crazy, unskilled and when you die, angry, frustrated, and confused.

Getting into your work will not be fun for a second, but kind of satisfying too, and you'll start enjoying it along with everything else in your day.  You'll get solid and clarity, exhilerated, satisfied, rational and confident, skilled and when you progress, fulfilled, proud, comfortable, and clear.

From October 9, 2016:

"Want now" vs. "What I really want"

You can keep letting your mind ("IT") drive you around and lie to you.  You can let those imaginary squeezes and stretches in your chest make you feel like you need to do other things.  You can give in to these feelings and react to them

You will, of course, end up unhappy, defeated, not enjoying whatever it is they tell you to do, conflicted for the rest of the day, struggling, falling behind, hating life, feeling like you're getting no where... etc.

OR...

You can simply realize that the feelings are all made up.  Theres nothing going on stronger than the equivalent of you making a fist.  None of it's real and it'll be gone within seconds, at most a few minutes, of your thinking about it.

You can then push forth, embrace the pain and discipline, and grow fast back into a person who can work through great difficulties to achieve great things.

Because it's when you're tested that you have the REAL opportunities to achieve happiness.

When it's easy, you're not actually growing.  The tough spots are the real opportunities.

And of course, you will create happiness, deep pride and satisfaction with yourself, victorious, enjoying your work a lot more, getting ahead, and loving life.

YOU CAN DO IT EITHER WAY AND SINCE ALL YOU'RE REALLY DOING IS SITTING IN A CHAIR AND THINKING IT'S REALLY NOT ANY HARDER ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.

Are you going to choose the good way or the bad way?  Do you like creating good feelings or bad feelings?

Get serious, get focused, and make it happen.  You cannot let IT eat you alive.  You must fight, and NOW is the time to do so.

Q4 2016 PTC Day 24

05:30p - 6:15p -- The Return of Word
06:15p - 07:15 -- Obj:1.2 Hr 1/4

Video Slides

http://preview.themeforest.net/item/x-the-theme/full_screen_preview/5871901

Also note!!

It is CENTERED ON THIS PAGE.

You know, the way you want YOURS to be?  Maybe have a look at their code...???? lol

...

1. Music.

Motherfucker.  Of course it has some simple, discreet, yet charming and inspirational music.

Fortunately there's free music out there... where the fuck was it again?


2. Easy creation of slides will make the ACTUAL creation of all slides possible within 1-2 hours easily (at least to a PASSING level).... So all I need... is the software.  And I have 1-2 hours to find it, install it, and learn how to use it.

Started by googling:
easy, animated video slides

...Seems promising.  Animoto is on there... hmmm

3. Tested animoto.  It's legit as FUCK, full 1080 d/l and will fit right on into my videos.  I can time to the second, only prob seems to be a 40s max but i have to agree stalling for 40s would be WAAY boring.

$44 for 30 days.  Make sure you cancel.

The Return of Word

Let's talk framework for a second...

My consistent discipline is getting worse and worse.

My goal was to be doing a morning ritual EVERY DAY at this point.

I'm supposed to be solid as fuck right now.

The power hour shouldn't be this thing you come into where you need to "re-establish" the context every morning... which then falls apart soon after starting.

And I certainly shouldn't be dealing with days like today and yesterday where my content (1 up hour by hour) is being flooded with trolls to the point that I'm barely pulling in "4"'s.

With a weak frame, context can only be so strong, and it buckles under pressure.  And as context goes, content flows into the new shape that the context has broken down into.

STRONG DISCIPLINE REQUIRES A STRONG FRAME.

You've read it a 100x -- you can't be an entrepreneur if you can't even start your day powerfully -- and this is all the proof you need.

More importantly, this is why being completely unreasonable to following through with "your word" is so important.

And it's a DIRECT correlation.  50% integrity of showing up to ROARS and I feel lucky if I get 1 of 2 hours in.  My goal becomes to "really" get started by 6.

Is it a coincidence that I also happen to be doing a morning ritual 50% of the time, and tracking size between 7a-10a and 1p-3p 50% of the time?

Easy to justify things with meetings, month end, deals, blah, blah, blah.  Harder to deny that hard 50% #'s across the board probably are causing each other.

The morning ritual sets the frame, but it doesn't complete it, it just sets it up.  It's completed by the 15/10/5 meditations, the 5 times you log your size, the clock in at 5, and the push to complete whichever of the 19 objectives you choose within the budgeted time frame.

Now that you see the significance of word again, it's time to get this back into your head:

YOU HAVE NO CHOICE.  YOU ALREADY CHOSE.

Your word MUST be followed as soon as you realize that following it is in question.  There are NO EXCEPTIONS.  It's not that I expect perfect integrity, but it IS that I expect an attempt to follow NO MATTER WHAT if you're in a situation where you are aware of it.

You shouldn't have any problem doing this.  You're legit.  You embrace pain and suffering.  You're willing to lose sleep and get super stressed out to follow through on discipline.  You just lost your way when it comes to what giving your word means (as defined by Landmark) and why it's important.

Time to come back to the path.  Without your word, the path disappears under the overgrowth of the jungle.  With solid word, it's like a perfectly paved road.  It is time to commit again.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FRAME FIRST.  THEN -- AND ONLY THEN -- DOES EVERYTHING ELSE COME INTO PLAY.

There's a reason that Sundays are WAAAY better now.  It's the framed structure you setup.

So just going to say it...

If you don't do your morning ritual you are warping your WHOLE DAY.  And there's NO WAY to fix it.  If you do everything else perfect, the frame will be pretty good... maybe 90, 95% good... but it'll still be warped.  YOU MUST START YOUR DAY WITH A SOLID FRAME, THE SAME WAY YOU WOULDN'T SKIP ON FOLLOWING THE SUNDAY STRUCTURE.

Get it on the ptc main page

Consistency = frame

Mindfulness = context

1up intensity = content


Must have all 3, content is most urgent in the moment as its where the rubber hits the road, but it only works in the right context, and if the frame starts getting bent so will everything inside it

Ex.  1upping a frustration and focusing more intensely on failure instead of embracing it will cause a burnout, bad calls, and slower dialing and more mistakes.

Ex. Missing a ritual leads to unorganized power hour, weaker mindfulness, and less 1upping.

Ex. Not 1upping leads to calling slower even if youre mindful.  Like being mindful of things that are helpful in the long term like embracing emotions but not in the now (hitting call stat goals)

Biggest Opportunity Ever, In the Blindspot?

High tension person = constantly squeezing muscles -> just relax muscles 100x a day = Lower tension

Know when to high tension and when to low tension.

same goes with

MENTAL BLOCKS

that "ahhhhrrg" in the mind.  That intense frown.  There's a squeezing that happens in the mind whenever i have a feeling.  my feelings themselves are mental squeezing.

and if i just learned that i didn't need to have those -- that i could let them go as they occured -- it could possibly free up over 50% of lost willpower i burn up all the time doing this.

just like squeezing the muscles, the mind has squeezes associated with feelings (resistance, pain, aggrevation etc) and if i learn i can just let those go instead of holding the squeeze, i would not have nearly as hard of a time moving forward.

Possibly the biggest opportunity yet.

Comes down the crazy tennis teacher telling me that im a high strung person.

The answer is not the solution.  This is an idea who's time is near.

Opportunities Vs. Trolls

Over-thinking "troll"... or is it an opportunity?

I am in a great STATE OF MIND today and it has a lot to do with just calling blind and having fun with it.

Playful, charming, entertaining, yet serious and authoritative as well.  Good balance.  Just following "Old Betsy".

So... here's the thing.

Over-thinking has been a huge problem forever.  In the problem lies great opportunity.

Do we call it a troll?

Are distractions really trolls?

Is being "too comfortable" really a troll?

I'd say these are "obstacles" in which lay the opportunities to become a size 5+ average worker.

So, maybe a rebrand here.  Maybe an obstacles and opportunities guide.  Maybe a rebrand on the whole thing, so it's the same concept converted into a more applicable, useful, positive, and empowering form.

This may be an idea who's time has come.

Frustration / Pain / Gut-Clenching / Reaction Trolls

Reprogram:
It's not that X is intensely painful/hard/frustrating/gut-clencing/etc.  The reaction is what actually creates that.  Observe your reaction or get lost to complaining.

Is it better to focus on observing,  absorbing, gaining control, and the humor of the difference... or is it better to complain about how much it hurts / frustrates you / stresses you out?

Do you like creating escalating amounts of pain for yourself?...
Or do you prefer laughing and feeling deeply empowered?

Just wondering.  It's okay if you're into making yourself unhappy too, that's one way to live your life I guess.

Fatigue as the day wear on -- TROLL

Re-program:
It's not that I can't or that it's too hard -- it's just easier and default to think it is.  If it was really that hard after 5-8 hours, how was I able to achieve size 5 on zero hours of sleep?

It's not that this isn't true.  Of course it's true, we all gotta sleep eventually.

It's that it lies about what you are capable of.  It makes me think I don't have the same ability to hit a 5 late in the day as I do in the beginning of the day, when in truth, given decent sleep and good health, I have nearly the same ability at both times, sometimes even better late in the day.

30 hours in is a different story... however, even then I've proven I'm capable of performing quite well and pulling off 4.5 - 5 without too much trouble.  If my life depended on it, I could pull a 5.5 after being awake for 30 hours.

So there's always more to pull from deep down.  Think the marine under fire analogy.  And the idea that I can't after 5-6 hours of work, or even 8-10, is just not true -- the reality is, my limiting belief is preventing me from thinking smarter, going after the 99%, bursting through my walls, and riding that wave.

REPROGRAMMING MENTALITY: Incredible Instant Results

This title is confusing.  It's essentially referring to size 6+ paradigm of reprogramming every thought into the most objective and useful thought in the moment as they happen.
EX: When I first discovered that I could go 95% positive (back in '09-'11, whenever that was)
SEE: http://entrepreneurisback.blogspot.com/2016/08/q3-ptc-day-31.html (the birth of active NLP)

This morning I fully got back into the mentality of REPROGRAMMING EVERYTHING and to look at any and all feelings of RESISTANCE as a good feeling, not a bad one, that is literally the to opportunity to 1 up...

...and that the reason to be a 5 is because all these feelings can be looked at as good or bad, so why suffer all day by automatically and unconsciously choosing the bad feelings by default all day when you can simply get mindful and discipline yourself to choose the good feelings...

...and the reprogrammings themselves, like 'this isn't hard, this is just TRICKY'...

It's like an EASY size 6.  No problem sounding amazing on the phone.  Multitasking non stop.  Pushing the margins down as slim as they can get and doing so easily.

That's 2 hours now at size 6, conservatively estimated.  That's a huge jump from the size 4 I've had going on recently, and it's not because of more effort, it's because of a simple change in my understanding of things.

"I Can't Do It" Troll

Think Ron Burgandy asking Brick if he actually loves the lamp...

Reprogram: Can you actually not do it or are you just saying that? 

...

But in all seriousness, when is the last time you ACTUALLY couldn't do something you were saying "I CANT DO IT" to?  Oh that's right... fucking never.  So that means that you saying you "can't do it" is literally the same as saying "I GIVE UP".

Wouldn't it be better to stop reacting, and proact for a second and 99% that shit?

"This (LARGE SIZE CONCEPT HERE) is Hard Stuff" Troll

Mental Mastery...  Reprogramming Every Time...  Intensity Game...
"These are hard" TROLL.

Reprogram: They are tricky, not hard.

Long version of reprogram: Stop being a caveman and apply some intelligence -- the actual tasks themselves are EASY.

"This are advanced, sophisticated, complex, dynamic animals.  But that doesn't make them hard.  That makes them tricky.

You didn't learn how to snowboard the way you can now in one day, or even a dozen.  But the snowboarding itself is NOT hard!  You just need to know where to put the weight and how many degrees to lean back and how many to which side.  Once you know that, it's actually the easiest thing ever... you simply bend you knees and lean back!!

Saying this is hard is just a cop out -- wouldn't it be more helpful to try to figure it out intelligently than bark at it like an idiot?

Maybe come off it, go clear for a sec, and start with something you know is easy, get serious, and then do a small 1up from there... or whatever it is.  Serious.  Don't just say 'this is hard' and go all caveman on it"

Troll "Not enough time left"

Troll: "There's only 10 minutes left... why work on editing now?  No point really."

Reprogram: "Exactly, there's only 10 minutes left.  So what are you complaining about?  10 minutes is too much??? This makes no sense.  I have a code to follow and 10 minutes is all it takes to complete that code!!"

:)

:)

Doesn't reprogramming and finding opportunities like this... that compared to the troll are HILARIOUS... just make you extremely happy?

Q3 PTC Day 31

6p - 7:15p

Today was a self-help / conceptual day.  Needed an hour to figure out why I was unhappy... and I figured out what was going so terribly wrong with my size and motivation at LEAF... somehow, I lost my grasp on the concept of reprogramming which I am RELIANT on for getting to size 5.

This is why it's important to actually review the large packet once a week.  Maybe time to make a fresh copy to bring home for Sunday reviews.  But maybe not... these are tricky concepts, and *actually reprogramming* trolls is very new to me, it was lost years ago and just recently discovered in the last 2-3 months... so not weird that I'd lose it.

And "Mental Mastery" is BRAND new, so if you don't think you're losing it, think again... you probably are.

Why Am I Here?

Happiness.  Derived from my sentient being maintaining majority and default control over my human being.

Because happiness comes from engagement in the things that create it.  Like killing it, loving what you do, winning, mastering the art, creating, etc.

It's no different from the joy you get when you "dial in" on a video game or when you "dial in" to rapid multitasking and jamming through a ton of super high quality calls and feel like you can handle anything badass style.

These are the kinds of feelings that make happiness.  Engagement, "enjoy".  And those come CONSISTENTLY when I follow my code of discipline, my predetermined choices.

What is Failing, why is the "wheel" stopping?

Once again, trolls have gone "off the radar" and even when caught, ARE NOT BEING REPROGRAMMED!!

You have to be very passionate about reprogramming.  You have to really, REALLY want it.  That's what drives you to push your limits until it's painful -- so you can create the pain that makes the trolls that  you can then re-program.

But if you're not even willing to re-program the basics, like nicotine, fear of calling, etc... or even call them trolls... then the wheel will stop, your size will shrink, and you will be unhappy.

You need to be writing down trolls, blog posting about them, expressing excitment and engagement in the reprograms / opportunities that replace them, and pursuing the deep neural pathway building of those new programmings.  Seriously.  If you're not 100% COMMITTED to writing them down and studying them, DO NOT ANSWER "YES" when asked in the morning, "can you actually reprogram the vast majority of trolls?", because that's what it takes to do it.

Mindfulness isn't particularly weak right now.  It's just being fueled by weakness.  Being mindful and a victim at the same time isn't going to get you anywhere.  You need to program much harder.  That's why you're stalling.

Remember the time you discovered reprogramming trolls?

Back in '09 or 2010 or whenever... when you FIRST saw the power of catching a troll and figuring out how to think of the SAME EXACT THING in a different way... and you put it to the test... that's when you first became positive 90% of the time, all your thoughts started being positive naturally, and you hit "size 6" for the first time while making video slides for Mastery.

It all happened very fast.  I realized every time I thought that my thought was either helping me or hurting me, and any thought that could be "non-helpful" was quickly turned on it's head and replaced with a "helpful" spin on the same theme.  And doing this every time wasn't just EASY, it was incredibly REWARDING.

Eventually, I lost it.  The effort illusion always creeps back in.  At the time, I took "vacations" that were the death of me.  I don't know what happened, but I do know this.

THIS IS THE RENAISSANCE.

And this is an idea that will be reborn permanently.  It's not going away like art and science of the roman ages to the dark ages.  It's going to boom into a whole new world, like the renaissance of the 1600s and 1700s.  This is the core fundamental root of how NLP is one of the big 3.  Active NLP.  NLP that says, get serious, get to pain, love the pain, find the troll, and reprogram the thought.

Active NLP.

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 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.

End of Challenge Trolls

This is another set of trolls needing to be re-wired.

I failed the final Sunday.  In the moment, I felt as if I had a choice and really did not want so I did not choose.

I didn't have a choice, and the fact that I forgot this shows a deeper, genuine failure rooted in my subconscious.

There's a lot of talk about how going easy at the end is helpful:

• Makes the stats less difficult to beat since it lowers the averages, so I'll do better next time.
• Most of the challenge is already locked in so the averages won't change much anyways.
• Good job, you got to the end!

These trolls don't just threaten me in the last week -- they threaten my start to the next challenge, and, by not reprogramming theses NEURAL PATHWAYS now while it's still the end of the challenge, it almost guarentees they will come back causing more failure of word and integrity at the end of the next challenge.

Here's the truth and the reprogram -- REWIRE THIS NEURAL PATHWAY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE THIS WEEK WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!

• Makes me smaller and makes my averages smaller than they should be, so there's less of a challenge to rise to next time, helping me stay small over the long term, preventing the goals I am trying to achieve.  This is why fast progress doesn't happen for me.
• De-values the challenge and the averages so they don't matter at the start of the next challenge.
• You need to push through to that finish line as fast as possible to grow as much as possible.

THIS GOES AGAINST LITERALLY EVERYTHING THAT I AM TRYING TO DO.  IT'S SAYING THAT SINCE YOU'RE NEAR THE END, YOU NO LONGER NEED TO EMBRACE PAIN AND SUFFERING.  IT'S SAYING RAMPING DOWN MAKES SENSE.  IT'S SAYING BEING SMALL IS GOOD AND RELAXING.  IT'S SAYING ALL STRESS IS DISTRESS.  

IT IS AN INSANE TROLL THAT COMES UP SUBCONSCIOUSLY AND AUTOMATICALLY AT THE END OF EVERY CHALLENGE ALL THE TIME, EVEN THOUGH IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ERADICATED 5 YEARS AGO.  REPROGRAM A STRONG FINISH INTO YOUR BRAIN -- YOU CLEARLY NEVER LEARNED WHY A STRONG FINISH IS IMPORTANT, SO FIGURE THAT OUT!!!!!!!

What are the reasons for a strong finish?  What does it do for you?

Q2 PTC Day 57

MONDAY = SUNDAY (Since it's Memorial Day Weekend)

12p - 9p.  I know, ran too late... but i took my vit a at 9am and I have been getting to sleep later and waking up earlier, so like, whatever.

ROARS Work:

THE VIDEO NEVER REALLY WORKED THAT GREAT.

Think about it.

The test was done to people who were already sold and it was done in an EMAIL format.

They probably skipped RIGHT OVER all the stuff they'd already seen on my website and went right to the juicy stuff.

Leading with the salesy stuff, especially in a video where its hard to skip to the meat, just leads to the thinking, "There's no steak here, just another sleep sales thingy."

Instead, deliever a sneak peak at the secret first.  Give them the steak.  Then, once they've had a bite and are thinking about more, sell them on how amazing the steak is.

And the beauty of that is they can go ahead and opt-in any time they are ready to eat the steak.  That's how it should be designed.

So, here's how the video is being re-structured on website (see it on google doc):

1. The beginning will be like the UNDER 3 MIN version they can find on youtube.
2. To learn more, get my free guide by giving your email.
3. THEN SALES #1 HERE MOVED FROM BEFORE: If your tired of x, sick of y, z... then you NEED to hear about this breakthrough.
4. It is my most valuable piece of work, it explains how to cure insomnia and includes 3 q's dr's cant ans...
5. Even I didn't get it.  Even sleep experts dont get it.  Then I had an EPIPHANY.  And now its a works every time method.
6. You're preventing your own sleep.  That's why nothing working for you.
7. THEN SALES #2 HERE MOVED HERE: It's always been the same old thing... of course you do want... but you've tried so much, you dunno who or what to believe anymore.
8. Fortunately, this "Dark Age" @ end.  There's been a new breakthrough in the insomnia world. --> to END OF VIDEO.

Pricing Thoughts

For the How to Cure Insomnia Video Series, I am thinking anywhere from $47 - $65 -- and saying this is discounted from $79.95 - 89.95.  I have testing to know it sells well in this range and the market is in this range.  70+ seems like too much -- ppl on the fence aren't going to pay it, if they do they'll want a refund once they see how short the content is.  under 39.95 i believe would devalue it to the point where a lot of people think this can't actually be any different than everything else, and i imagine just about anyone who would pay 20-40 for this will find a way to pay 40-60 for it.

Anyways, at the end of the day, it'll require price point testing.  $80-140 might be the hot spot for all I know, or it might end up getting 2% sales at 60 but 12% sales at 30.   I will need to test all these points for that reason, but to do that, I will need a lot of traffic.  So worry more about it then.

Mentality Work: ACTUALLY Doing It is all you are missing!

Your tools on the daily review, page 2 are FAR MORE THAN WHAT I NEED TO BE A 5.

SO LONG AS...

YOU ARE UNREASONABLE ABOUT CONSISTENTLY USING ALL OF THOSE TOOLS!!!!

If you actually FULLY EMBRACED AND UPHELD the goal of "Mental Mastery", you'd be a 5+.

If you actually FULLY EMBRACED AND UPHELD the goal of "Keep on top of the pulse of intensity" you'd be a 5+.

If you actually FULLY EMBRACED AND UPHELD the goal of "Kicking trolls whenever they arise", you'd be a 5+.

etc.

These tools are more than good enough.  You don't need any more info, you're not missing any secrets.  It comes down to your willingness to consistently uphold these tools throughout the day.  To treat all predetermined choices as your word, where you are unreasonable about following them, and to actually just do it consistently all day.  So that you are unreasonable about doing everything with the intensity game / mindfulness game because that's how you do anything.

Like actually having enough mental mastery to keep observing your mind several times an hour so you could keep in control of what kind of thoughts are occurring.

Like actually being on top of your sense of intensity to stay in the 1-up game 50 minutes at a time every hour.

Like actually having 90%+ positive thoughts because of how frequently you are catching and how effectively you replace them with more helpful thoughts, causing you to keep laughing at how much better the replacements are than the originals.

In the morning, you should ask "Am I serious enough, focused enough, and motivated enough to be a 5 today?"

If the answer is no, focus on turning a 3-3.5 day into a 4-4.5 day and talk about bringing the lower end of the average up so that my overall average is good.

If the answer is yes, focus on FULLY EMBRACING AND UPHOLDING those tools so that it's not "what you can pull off" but instead it's "Holding onto as much as you can, letting as little slip away as possible."  Because there's no reason you can't do all those things.  So you either have the willingness to do them or not.  Don't be reasonable.

You're either going for a 5, or your not.  Make a choice, don't just try to see what you can pull off.