1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,600 So the big question is this, how do young men like us who didn't listen to society 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:13,720 who are on our own, how do we grow and improve ourselves so that we can live a 3 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:20,520 better tomorrow? That is the question and this show will give you the answers. My 4 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:29,600 name is James Radzinski and welcome to the Ascend Momentum Show. Welcome back. 5 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:40,240 Alright, so first thing, today I just before this episode I actually went 6 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:47,080 through a meditation and if you guys haven't been keeping up with the past 7 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:55,120 couple episodes, I just started this thing called the Gateway Experience which 8 00:00:55,120 --> 00:01:03,800 is basically you listen to a CD and it's like you can get an MP3 or 9 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:08,080 whatever but I got the CD and you basically put headphones on and you 10 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,960 listen to it and it's like a guided meditation and it allows you to get 11 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:20,640 into deep meditation or it gives you the tools to get into deep meditation. So I've 12 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:27,240 been following that and so far I'm on, I started with Wave 1 and Wave 1 is one of 13 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:35,400 eight so there's eight waves in the whole thing and I bought Wave 1 and it 14 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:45,520 came a few days ago so I've had maybe four or five sessions with it and I've 15 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:52,680 there's three discs so three CDs came with Wave 1 and in each of those CDs 16 00:01:52,680 --> 00:02:00,560 there are two tracks so there's six different like six different meditation 17 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:06,360 sessions, six sessions and so far I've only gotten through the first two so the 18 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,880 first one which was like the introduction I did once and then the 19 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:17,800 second one I did all of the rest of the time and my rationale is the first one 20 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:26,360 was just an intro and it was teaching like the a few different exercises that 21 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:34,160 you would do throughout the Wave 1 but it only got into Focus 3 and the second 22 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,480 one was the introduction to Focus 10 which is what I really wanted to 23 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:44,160 get into and I felt that I was fairly comfortable getting into Focus 3 fairly 24 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:55,120 easily even without the CD's and so I've been focusing on that Focus 10 and 25 00:02:55,120 --> 00:03:01,800 it's the introduction to Focus 10 and it just takes you through first you do the 26 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:09,240 you do your energy conversion box which is basically a chest kind of thing that 27 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:15,280 you place all of your worries anxieties and fears and physical matter into and 28 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:21,720 then you say the gateway affirmation which starts I am more than my physical 29 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:27,040 body because I'm more than physical body or because I'm more than physical 30 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:32,280 matter or and I don't remember I didn't memorize it but you say that and then 31 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:39,520 after that you do your resonant tuning which is basically where you breathe in 32 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:47,680 with your eyes open and you imagine all of the energy flowing up your body up 33 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,000 into your head and then you hold your breath and run it around in your head 34 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:58,560 and then close your eyes and exhale with your mouth open and say a mantra so you 35 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:07,200 like sing or hum and you go oh like that and then you repeat and then after that 36 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:12,760 he takes you to Focus 3 which is basically you will he just counts up one 37 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:19,720 two three and then you get into Focus 3 and then after that you start with I 38 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:24,960 think after that you start with Focus 10 and basically the way you get into 39 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:32,680 Focus 10 is you go through all of the different like body parts and you just 40 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,360 relax them and just put them to sleep so you start with your jaw you put your 41 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,480 jaw to sleep and then you go to I don't remember the exact order but so make 42 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,200 basically you start with your jaw and then you go to your eyelids and then 43 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:52,480 your lips and then your cheeks and then like the top of your skull or something 44 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:58,600 like that and then like your forehead and I'm pretty sure that's it for the head 45 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:05,440 and then once you do that you imagine it all sinking in like that that that 46 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:12,040 feeling sinking into your brain and then your brain goes to sleep and then you 47 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:16,840 basically now that your brain knows what it feels like you transfer it to all of 48 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:23,600 the different body parts so you start with your feet with like your toes and 49 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:35,080 then you go up to your legs and then your hips and then your I don't remember 50 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:39,960 what's next I think it's like your abdomen like for the past few sessions 51 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,480 around this time where you're like putting your abdomen to sleep and like 52 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,640 chest I've like blanked out and I like I don't know if I fell asleep but they 53 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:56,040 say there's a thing called clicking out where you just you are still like awake 54 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:03,640 but you just don't have any like memory of that specific part so I kind of click 55 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:11,960 out around then and then eventually you but like your whole body is asleep but 56 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:17,200 I haven't been able to actually achieve focus 10 yet I don't think I've gotten 57 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:22,840 to the point where I'm like extremely relaxed but I'm pretty sure focus 10 is 58 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:30,160 where you're like in sleep paralysis but I've also heard that there's like 59 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:36,840 different levels to focus 10 kind of and like you can experience oh like focus 60 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:41,080 10 but not necessarily have sleep paralysis like I think I was looking at 61 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:47,080 online and someone said that you get sleep paralysis once you're in like a 62 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:55,160 very stable and strong steady focus 10 and so that just told me that I may have 63 00:06:55,160 --> 00:07:00,920 achieved focus 10 but it's kind of a weak focus 10 and after my session today 64 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,440 that was like the best I've ever done like that was the deepest I've ever 65 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:12,680 gotten so I I'm definitely gonna move on to the next disc which is called advanced 66 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:19,360 focus 10 and it basically I read the description of it and I think it just 67 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:26,520 adds in one more exercise which is your rebel which is like resonant energy 68 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:32,720 balloon I think it's called that resonant energy balloon I'm pretty sure 69 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:40,200 and I'm not sure exactly I remember reading about it in the CIA document and 70 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:48,200 a few other places but I I kind of forgot what it was and that's pretty much 71 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:57,200 what I'm at right now I switched the CD in my CD player to the second CD so I am 72 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:06,280 I think I'm done for now with the first CD possibly forever because I I can't see 73 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:13,840 myself going back because the more advanced I get like I'm pretty sure the 74 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:19,000 third CD has just a free flow focus 10 where it's just like a playground mode 75 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,720 where you can just do whatever you want and you get into focus 10 so if I want 76 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:29,400 to ever get back like once I get advanced and get to like focus 12 15 21 and 77 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:34,000 I want to go back to just experience focus 10 I just do the playground mode 78 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:39,280 the free flow I wouldn't necessarily go back to the first disc but who knows 79 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:45,040 things could change and I'm gonna keep all the discs just in case and I might 80 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,400 as well because I'll start a collection because it'll be cool to have 81 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:54,320 eventually once I get to that level I'll have like all eight packets and then 82 00:08:54,320 --> 00:09:05,680 that's like 24 CDs with like 48 different exercises and that'll be cool 83 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:13,800 and pretty much what I'm doing right now is I'm just doing two meditations a day 84 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,000 one in the morning and one at night and because that's basically what I've been 85 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:23,200 doing for the past couple months where I meditate after my cold shower after I'm 86 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:28,800 done cooking in the morning around like five because I wake up at four and I 87 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:43,040 meditate around five till 540 and then at nighttime I meditate around like 540 to 88 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:51,080 6 and then like I start around that time and then actually lately I've been 89 00:09:51,080 --> 00:10:00,160 starting at like 530 or 5 yeah 530 or 540 because these CDs are a little bit 90 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:04,160 longer than I used to meditate I used to only meditate for like 30 minutes at 91 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:10,000 nighttime and 40 minutes in the morning but now these CDs last a lot longer so 92 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:16,520 I have to allocate a little bit more time these CDs are like 45 minutes so far I 93 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:24,560 think and so I pretty much do it for the past couple days I've been doing only 94 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:30,520 one in the morning one at night but today I'm I added in one right before this 95 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:38,960 podcast and I'm gonna try and maintain that I'm gonna try and get home around 96 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:44,840 2 30 so that I can have a meditation session right before the podcast because 97 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:52,360 I definitely feel a lot better especially because that's three practice 98 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:58,640 sessions every day so I'll get better quicker but it's also like very good for 99 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:04,000 me like it's just really good especially if I do it right before the podcast it's 100 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,680 basically like priming my mind to be like extremely focused perfectly for this 101 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:16,920 podcast and that's pretty much where I'm at with the gateway process and honestly 102 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:23,400 I'm I'm really looking forward to it and I might even go ahead and buy wave 2 like 103 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:30,840 right now because wave 1 took about a week to get here and so I may or may not 104 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:37,280 be ready within a week but at least it'll be in my closet so I might go ahead 105 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:42,120 and buy wave 2 after this we'll see but that's pretty much where I'm at with that 106 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:47,960 and also I wanted to talk about something that I was trying to remember 107 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,480 yesterday so if you guys were listening to yesterday's episode it may have been 108 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:56,880 a little frustrating because I kept on saying that I'm trying to remember this 109 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:03,200 one thing to say and because for some context I was talking about something and 110 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:11,040 then I needed to I like sometimes throughout the episode I say let me get 111 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:17,880 some water if I lose my like if I finish my train of thought and then I don't 112 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:24,080 know what to say next so I like get some water and then try and think of what I 113 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:29,880 was gonna say so yesterday I did that and then instantly once I grabbed my 114 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:37,040 water I remember I thought of something really important to say and then when I 115 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:41,800 was drinking my water I forgot it and it slipped my mind and then I was kind of 116 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:46,720 left with nothing to say and then I said like there's something on the tip of my 117 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:51,000 tongue and then throughout that rest of the episode I wasn't able to remember it 118 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,440 but I kept on like reminding you guys that there was something that I wanted 119 00:12:54,440 --> 00:13:02,840 to say and the funny thing is literally one second after I clicked stop 120 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:08,600 recording like there's a button that says stop recording on my recording 121 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:13,600 software so literally one second after I finished recording yesterday's episode I 122 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:21,640 remembered what I was gonna say and so I instantly wrote it down so and I was 123 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:26,280 planning on telling it in today's episode and that's that's where I'm at 124 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:33,080 right now so the thing I wrote down is don't tell people your plans now let's 125 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:43,080 get into that for some context I have been like a lot throughout my life I've 126 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:48,280 been pretty goal-oriented kind of I I'm not actually I'm not really sure if I 127 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,680 have been but especially over the past couple years I've been pretty goal-oriented 128 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:58,760 like in when I first started going to the gym around two years ago I didn't 129 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:04,360 really tell people that I was going to the gym and also a little over two years 130 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:11,680 ago when I when I was going into sophomore year so freshman year actually 131 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:17,760 right for context I'm a senior right now and freshman year in high school I 132 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:27,760 I like I was into soccer so I was always playing soccer all my life and there was 133 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:33,160 it was a big deal to get on the high school team and so it and it was a very 134 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:37,960 competitive so a lot of people were really good and there was very limited 135 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:44,640 spots and there was a lot of people trying out as well so everyone like I 136 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:49,640 think everyone was training like that's what I just assumed and everyone was 137 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:57,040 training and on their own time especially and I didn't realize that very 138 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:02,880 much going into freshman year and then I got absolutely obliterated during tryouts 139 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:08,360 and I got cut and so I was like okay that like they're all training on their 140 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:14,840 own time outside of so I started like going on runs and just training my cardio 141 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:20,720 and then I but I wasn't telling anyone anything I was just I didn't even like 142 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:26,000 telling my parents and I didn't really like talking about it either I just did 143 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:31,400 it I never really talked about it and that's just kind of like was an 144 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:36,520 instinctual thing for me to do I didn't want to tell people my plans and then I 145 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:41,680 kind of ramped it up going into sophomore year trained a little bit more 146 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:47,800 and then I got cut again so then I realized that I needed to actually 147 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:55,360 practice my soccer skills so I started lifting and then I also started 148 00:15:55,360 --> 00:16:01,240 practicing my soccer skills as well so I got pretty good I got really good at 149 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:06,500 soccer because I was practicing like every day taking ice baths and then the 150 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:12,240 summer going into junior year I was training hard I was lifting weights I 151 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:18,760 was exercising cardio and I was playing soccer as well and after all those like 152 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:24,760 training sessions I was like taking ice baths my nutrition was decent my sleep 153 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:31,120 was good and pretty much all around a very well-rounded athlete at this point 154 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:35,320 and I wasn't telling anyone any of this stuff I was just training on my own 155 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:43,720 keeping quiet keeping to myself and then I got injured right before tryouts so I 156 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:49,360 ended up not trying out that year and didn't play so I've never played in 157 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:56,960 high school soccer even to this day and I decided not to try out I decided to 158 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:02,160 stop playing soccer because I wanted to focus on entrepreneurship and self 159 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:08,360 improvement so that's why I'm not playing senior year either and to be honest I 160 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:15,360 wasn't practicing at all during summer so because it just wasn't on my like mind 161 00:17:15,360 --> 00:17:21,480 anymore I was focused on self-improvement now but with all that said even all my 162 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,640 self-improvement stuff like I wasn't telling people that I was reading and 163 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:28,560 when I did I regretted it like I regretted telling people that I read 164 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:34,960 books and I didn't tell I don't really tell people that I meditate and I didn't 165 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:41,360 tell so I've been waking up early since like freshman year I think and I never 166 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:46,800 really told anyone and I didn't really like to tell people people kind of just 167 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:53,040 found out naturally over time when I like slipped up inevitably and now 168 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:59,120 everyone knows that I wake up early but like I didn't choose I guess I did choose 169 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:04,640 but I didn't necessarily want it to happen like want everyone to know and so 170 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:09,960 that's the that's the whole thing I never told anyone what I was doing and I 171 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:19,680 never told anyone my goals or my plans and then once I met my friend who is 172 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:24,560 also on self-improvement Franklin we both started sharing with each other which 173 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:28,920 was good we both shared each other with each other a lot of the things we're 174 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:33,320 planning on doing and we shared each other our long-term goals and our short 175 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:38,220 term goals and all this stuff we shared everything and we got hype when we talked 176 00:18:38,220 --> 00:18:44,400 about our long-term goals like we got excited and then like a couple days ago 177 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:53,200 I became conscious of the fact that I'm sharing a lot now like even to other 178 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:58,320 people like I'm sharing the fact that I'm not going to college which is okay 179 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:05,600 but I wasn't doing that at all until a few weeks ago and then I'm also telling 180 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:10,200 them that I'm like going into business like I'm gonna make my own business and 181 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:17,720 I'm like I'm I told this other person that I'm moving to Hawaii like there's 182 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,800 this is just my goal it's not even manifested yet like it's not even real 183 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:26,680 yet and I'm just telling people this stuff and so I kind of came I became 184 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:31,920 conscious of it conscious of it the other day and I actually became 185 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:37,560 conscious of it during one of my meditations and not my meditation but 186 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:42,520 after my meditation or I think it was during my journaling and I wrote down 187 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:48,760 like stop telling people my plans and I got to go back to being secretive 188 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:55,120 because that is like that's all like don't just lay low and it's also applies 189 00:19:55,120 --> 00:20:00,240 in Transurfing so if you've never heard of Transurfing it's basically a 190 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:06,880 worldview and there's a book about it called reality Transurfing steps one 191 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:11,720 through five and there's actually a few books about it but though that's the one 192 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,600 I recommend because that's the only one I've read so far I plan on reading the 193 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:23,560 other ones eventually but now right now and that like the fact that you shouldn't 194 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:29,920 tell people your plans or your goal is also in Transurfing and that is like 195 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:34,040 one of the most important things like you should not tell people of your plans 196 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:39,520 and I was talking to my friend about that like my friend Franklin that we've 197 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:44,600 talked to each other about all the time and I we both realized like I was telling 198 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:49,560 him and then he was like oh yeah we got to stop doing that like I just realized 199 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:56,360 that and so I'm not even sure if I'm gonna be telling him my plans either 200 00:20:56,360 --> 00:21:01,080 anymore like I got to get back to being secretive because I've kind of like 201 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:06,600 stopped I've I'm still growing and improving a lot but I feel as though my 202 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:11,160 progress is halted because I'm telling people my stuff like I'm telling people 203 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,880 I gotta just lay low and work on my business because I'm not even gonna lie 204 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,640 I haven't worked on business in a long time and I now I kind of think that it's 205 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,160 because I told people I was working on business even though I'm not even doing 206 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:29,880 anything for business I'm literally only making a podcast and yeah that's good 207 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:36,600 but like come on you know like I'm slacking off and I got to just stop 208 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:41,680 time I gotta lock in be quiet and stop telling me people my plans and I was 209 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,880 telling my friend Franklin I was actually saying we got to play the fool we 210 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,160 got to be a fool now because that's what I was doing before like I would always 211 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,640 hide what I was doing and just act like I was like playing video games or doing 212 00:21:54,640 --> 00:22:00,000 something not like I was just acting like I wasn't doing anything like and 213 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:06,520 that's like playing the fool you present it present the fact that you're not 214 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,480 doing anything when in reality you're actually working your butt off and 215 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:16,480 making things happen behind the scenes and eventually once you actually achieve 216 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:21,120 that goal you'll be able to tell people that's pretty much like where I'm at 217 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:26,240 right now with that that's like one of the biggest things that I get a change 218 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,240 right now stop telling people my goal and I actually have started doing that 219 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:37,040 because people the people that I told that I'm graduating early are like 220 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:45,840 asking me today a few people asked me what am I gonna do after after school 221 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:50,200 like what am I gonna do second semester when I'm not there and I was just like I 222 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,040 don't know we'll just have to see even though I know exactly what I'm gonna do 223 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,440 well I don't know exactly what I'm gonna do but I could have at least said like 224 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,520 I'm gonna keep recording my podcast like they don't know that I have a podcast 225 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:04,600 but I could have outed like I could have basically revealed that like there's a 226 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,200 lot of things I could have revealed but I chose not to I chose to be the secret 227 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:15,080 of fool and also another thing is yesterday some people were asking me 228 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,800 some other people were asking me about that because word spread and then they 229 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:24,960 were like what are you gonna do and I was like I don't know and then they're 230 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:29,480 like well are you gonna do business or what are you gonna do and I was like I 231 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,440 don't know if I knew I'd be doing it right now like that's me playing the 232 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:38,720 fool like that that's the new that's the old mindset that I have to put back on 233 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:44,600 because that's how you like grow and improve the fastest speak and I was 234 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:49,400 actually looking it up there's mixed studies about this I was looking up 235 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,760 should you tell people your goals and one of the things that I looked at they 236 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:58,040 said you're four times more likely to succeed but that they said if you tell 237 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,240 someone who you respect like someone who's like objectively better than you 238 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,520 who's like further along than you then you should tell them and they said you're 239 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:11,600 four times more likely to succeed because you value their opinion of you and 240 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:16,240 you respect them a lot and you don't want to let them down but then I looked at a 241 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:22,080 different thing and they said no don't tell anyone your goals until you achieve 242 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:28,840 them because you're gonna you're way less likely to succeed and so I think 243 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:35,120 that sure maybe tell someone who's better than you but I feel like it's just 244 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:39,880 better not to say just keep your mouth shut and that's something that I'm 245 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:44,480 pretty sure like since I started my podcast like I don't think I'm gonna 246 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:50,800 keep my mouth shut on the podcast because I'm documenting my journey 247 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:56,320 and it's different when you say it on a microphone like to a microphone basically 248 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:00,960 I'm right now I'm basically speaking to myself it's different when you are 249 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:05,600 speaking to yourself and you say it then if you say it to a person in real life 250 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:10,440 and you get that reaction because a lot of the times the reaction gives you like 251 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:16,000 gratification like right away and it's basically like oh I already 252 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:22,080 got rewarded for this even though I haven't achieved it yet so that's kind 253 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:28,880 of what I'm thinking about that right now so that's where I'm gonna be headed 254 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:54,400 moving forward now let me get some water so I've got a this weekend I think on 255 00:25:54,400 --> 00:26:01,880 Saturday so today is Thursday in a few days I won't I will have my second time 256 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:09,440 where I don't record an episode so the first time was a couple weeks ago I had 257 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:15,520 a weekend where I was out of town and I think I missed two episodes maybe and 258 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:23,040 then but I recorded beforehand so I missed two days of recording but this 259 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,040 weekend is another weekend where I'm gonna be out of town and I'm gonna miss 260 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:32,280 one day of recording but it shouldn't be too bad and I'm actually gonna bring 261 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:40,640 my headphones with me and the CD player and try and do the gateway experience in 262 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:48,600 the car and also actually kind of I want okay so the gateway experience the 263 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:54,920 meditation thing they said you can do it laying down or sitting up and I always 264 00:26:54,920 --> 00:27:01,560 do it laying down like on my tatami mat but I want to try it sitting up because 265 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:05,880 they said do it sitting up but if you do it sitting up then you have to have your 266 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:12,080 neck supported because you have to be able to like relax your neck completely 267 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:16,440 and if you relax your neck like right now if I relax my neck if I was sitting on 268 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:21,840 while I'm sitting on this chair then it would just like fall forward and it just 269 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:27,840 fall to the side my head would fall to the side but you have to get like a pillow 270 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:37,480 or some or some like support and I instantly thought of this like one of 271 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:46,560 the like the airplane pillow things which I might actually buy one of those so I 272 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:56,200 can try so I can use it in the car ride and also so that I can actually know I'm 273 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,600 not gonna do in the car ride because that's too much of a distracting 274 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:05,680 environment with like my family nearby but I'm gonna do it on the airplane for 275 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:13,160 sure and I'm gonna need like a pillow to support my neck on the airplane so 276 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,920 that's what I'm gonna do I might actually buy that right now after well 277 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:23,120 after this episode I'll buy wave 2 of the gateway experience as well as a pillow 278 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:29,400 to support my neck but that's pretty much where I'm at there and oh that is 279 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:35,000 another thing that I want to talk about last night during actually right after 280 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:42,760 I finish so my nighttime routine for context is I read my trans surfing 281 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:50,120 journal from the morning study while I'm icing my balls and then I journal for a 282 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:57,600 few minutes until I write everything I need to write down and then I put all 283 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:04,560 that stuff away and I meditate for like 45 minutes or however long the CD lasts 284 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:10,560 because I used to meditate just normal with no CD and I timed it I had like a 285 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:17,200 timer but now I'm meditating with a CD so I don't have a timer I just stopped the 286 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:25,840 meditation once they end it and I was gonna talk about the something that I 287 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:33,520 learned last night so I was going to bed actually after my meditation I put 288 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:40,760 everything away and then I was like laying on my bed sideways like actually 289 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:45,000 falling asleep so I was actually falling asleep and then this thought popped into 290 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:52,000 my head and it was the first thought about entrepreneurship and business that 291 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:59,040 I like strategic thought about business that I've had in like maybe months no not 292 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:06,960 months weeks because a few weeks ago I was reading I was actually reading 293 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:12,640 expert secrets and reality trans surfing at the same time I would study one in 294 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:17,320 the morning and one afternoon at night and then I realized that it would just 295 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:22,960 wasn't working out that well so I only I switched to full-time trans surfing and 296 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:30,240 stopped expert secrets and then I after that I kind of just stopped like thinking 297 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:36,920 business strategies and stopped really I slowly gradually started to my business 298 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:43,240 like mindset kind of atrophy and then I mean which is natural I feel like 299 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,280 because that's what happened after I finished reading reality trans surfing 300 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:53,880 the first time and then so I'm not like very surprised that that happened but like 301 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:58,920 last night while I was going to bed I just had this like thought pop into my 302 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,720 head and it was the first time I'd thought about like a funnel and like the 303 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:08,280 copy I would write on it for a long time and I was thinking about this funnel 304 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:19,000 that I don't even let me think about what it was because it was basically oh it 305 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:24,000 was okay so I have this self-improvement guidebook that I wrote when I was first 306 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:30,200 getting into business and it was gonna be my squeeze magnet and I wrote like a 307 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:37,560 14 to 15 page long guidebook on basically six-step process on how to start 308 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:46,480 self-improvement and it just like was targeted towards people just getting 309 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:52,400 into into self-improvement and I don't think that I and I actually built a 310 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:57,880 whole funnel on it on click funnels and if you guys look up like self-improvement 311 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:03,080 guidebook.com you may or may not see it on that domain because I bought that 312 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,640 domain and set it up on click funnels but then I canceled the click funnels 313 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:14,360 account but as of today like when I'm recording on September 14th it is still 314 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:20,800 up but that may that may change because I did cancel the click funnels account 315 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:27,560 but on that it was basically like a squeeze page where you would I would 316 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:32,400 trade your like you would trade your email address for my guidebook so you 317 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:38,560 you'd basically get my guidebook if you gave me your email address and that was 318 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:45,280 basically me trying to build up a list so I can email people and like promote my 319 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:50,400 podcast promote like courses or some future products that I was gonna sell and 320 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:58,400 that was my plan I was gonna get people to get that like get as much name emails 321 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:03,320 on my list and then by the time I'm 18 I'll open my bank account and then start 322 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:08,840 selling like products and then I'll have an email list to email people to that 323 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:13,720 was actually my plan I didn't even go through with that but that's besides the 324 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:20,240 point I that thought that popped in my head is that guidebook that 14-page 325 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:26,640 long self-improvement guidebook is context so I had a thought to make a 326 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:34,120 funnel and it was basically the same funnel a squeeze page where I would get 327 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:40,440 your email for my guidebook so it was basically make that and then the copy 328 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,760 because the copy is what I was struggling with last time I made it and 329 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:50,480 the copy by the way is like the words on the screen that are trying to sell like 330 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:56,120 basically like the words like get now or are you sick and tired of this like 331 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:04,960 those the text on the screen is basically the copy and I was like I got in 332 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:11,600 like a I don't know if I should say epiphany or like an intuitive thought to 333 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:19,440 have copy and one of the most important things in your like funnel is your 334 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:24,560 market positioning and that's basically like what market like how you're 335 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:29,120 positioned in the market and who you're like advertising to who you're speaking 336 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:37,640 to through your copy and you can be positioned you can be speaking to one 337 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:45,160 of three people a diehard which is someone who has that so all three of 338 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:51,760 these people have your like opponents product so in my case my opponent is 339 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:59,480 like self-improvement videos on TikTok and YouTube and like the ones that are 340 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:06,560 edited and all that or even unedited self-improvement bit like any self- 341 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:14,320 improvement video that would be my comp competitor and basically there are three 342 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:21,560 different people one is the diehard now that person is like a diehard for 343 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:30,640 their that product so for me that person would be like an a person who is a fanatic 344 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:37,400 or addicted to the self-improvement videos on TikTok YouTube and all that 345 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:43,760 stuff so that is one of the person that you could market towards another person 346 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:50,280 is the satisfied so this is someone who is just satisfied for satisfied about 347 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:54,600 those you YouTube videos and TikToks they're just satisfied they're not really 348 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:59,040 necessarily looking for anything new and if they are they're just trying to 349 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:06,320 find something cheaper and then the third option is the frustrated and the 350 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:12,760 frustrated are people who are not happy with their current product so for me it 351 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:18,760 would be people who are not happy with the TikToks and the YouTube videos 352 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:24,440 they're not happy with that type of content or what they're receiving from 353 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:33,000 it basically like the addictive and like the mental destructive like the mind 354 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:39,600 destructive thing from that stuff and that is basically the three types of 355 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:46,840 customers my my issue my mistake is I usually was just advertising towards the 356 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:51,640 diehard and the diehard you're never gonna get you can only get the 357 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:56,840 satisfied if you have a cheaper price or some better 358 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:03,720 like option and so that just leaves one group the frustrated and those are the 359 00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:07,600 best those are who you want to market towards because those are people who are 360 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,840 basically looking to give you money like the second you say you have a 361 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:15,640 different option they're base basically gonna give you money and so that's what I 362 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:21,640 like have come to learn like and actually realize now and last night I got 363 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:28,120 that epiphany where I like the copy that I was gonna think to create was I don't 364 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,160 remember exactly I wrote it down because last night when I was about to fall asleep 365 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:39,040 I got that like intuitive thought and then I was like should I wake up and like 366 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:44,920 write this down or not and that I just ended up writing it down and so I wrote 367 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:50,000 it down and it's in my journal but I forgot exactly what it like what the 368 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:58,240 copy is but the come like the person who I'm targeting towards is someone who is 369 00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:06,040 frustrated with like the YouTube tiktoks and the YouTube shorts and like the 370 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:12,000 edited YouTube videos that are like addicting to watch all about self-improvement 371 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:17,720 so I was thinking of creating my funnel with the copy speaking towards that 372 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:27,920 frustrated person and then having the what's it called having like buying ads 373 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:36,480 on YouTube that would show up on the search list when someone searches for 374 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:43,040 like an unedited full-length YouTube video on self-improvement so that would 375 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:47,960 basically be my customer even though I'm not sure if that would even be my 376 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:53,520 customer because I would still like die-hards and satisfied would still click 377 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:58,320 on that because there are people who are die-hard and satisfied on those types of 378 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:03,840 videos so I don't know I don't know like exactly where I would put the ads 379 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:10,560 towards but that's kind of just something that is on my mind right now that 380 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:17,400 kind of came up last night but I'm I don't have any intention on acting on it 381 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:24,480 right now at the moment right now I'm just focused on podcasts and 382 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:34,160 meditation the gateway process and that's also one thing right now would be a 383 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:38,880 prime time to act because right now everyone just thinks that I am only 384 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:45,240 working on my podcast well not everyone like my family only like the only thing 385 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:48,840 they think I'm doing is my podcast so that is what I'm talking about about 386 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:55,920 being secretive if they like only thing I'm doing my podcast then I can be down 387 00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,480 here like a little bit longer every day or a little bit longer once a week and 388 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:06,440 then crank out that extra work that needs to be done then I can actually be 389 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:14,200 secretive and actually work towards my goal without any social things inhibiting 390 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:22,360 me or any like mental blocks or any like expectations from others like basically 391 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:30,440 that so that's all about working secretive I really think that it's huge 392 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:47,280 let me get some water so I want to talk about the gateway process a little bit 393 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:54,440 more and for some context I've been talk I've been reading a lot about it and 394 00:40:54,440 --> 00:41:00,240 there's actually a few PDFs like from a few from the CIA and then one from a 395 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:05,000 few I think they're all from the CIA actually maybe there's one from the 396 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,360 Monroe Institute and then one from this one guy who went to the Monroe Institute 397 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:14,560 like though went to the actual retreat retreat at the Monroe Institute so I've 398 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:19,240 read all the ones from the CIA like all the mainstream ones from the CIA and 399 00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:26,880 then the one from the Monroe Institute the four-page long one I read and then 400 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:32,040 there's another one that I found the other day which is basically like my 401 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:39,120 experience at the Monroe Institute and it was basically a block like kind of 402 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:43,400 like an article written by a guy about his experience at the Monroe Institute 403 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,240 and it was very interesting reading about it because first of all like the 404 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:53,240 context he gave I don't really feel comfortable sharing some of the 405 00:41:53,240 --> 00:42:01,280 specifics right now at the moment but there are some awesome things like for 406 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:06,880 example one of the things is a bunch of the Monroe Institute graduates are able 407 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:11,800 to get out of body consistently and so they all on Tuesday nights they get out 408 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:17,560 of body and then meet up at the Monroe Institute in front and kind of just 409 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:22,360 hang out like while they're out of their bodies like they're literally in their 410 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:30,120 so their souls are all hanging out so that's cool and there's some other stuff 411 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:36,640 that is very interesting that he was saying but I want to talk about how he 412 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:42,680 actually went to the he actually went to their retreat like right now I'm just 413 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:48,160 doing their at-home training course they're at-home like like at-home 414 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:57,600 practice course and they like he that that guy actually went to their retreat 415 00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:06,360 because they hold a retreat at the Monroe Institute with a couple like I 416 00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:16,120 think he said there's 12 or 24 people at a time and they honestly like it sounded 417 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:24,360 really cool they basically all fly in or drive in and it's just like a very chill 418 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:29,320 experience where they're all just like hanging out having a good time and then 419 00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:40,680 they like there's I think he said there's like I'd have to check but there's 420 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:48,600 like four or six or three sessions a day where they would just meditate and the 421 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:54,160 the place they meditated in is they all have their own individual booth like they 422 00:43:54,160 --> 00:44:00,160 had their own booth which was cool and it was just like a bed headphones and like 423 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:08,000 a dial to adjust the volume and also there are speakers like they could choose 424 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:13,400 between using the headphones or using the speakers and they and then there was 425 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:24,920 also a like high-tech control panel in the other room where the actual trainers 426 00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:30,800 would be sitting and feeding them their like noises and then they would also 427 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:35,360 speak in into their microphones and speak to them while they're in the 428 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:41,120 meditation and train them and so I just thought it was a very cool like vibe and 429 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:46,760 then there was actually this one woman who he met there who was able to get out 430 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:52,840 of body who is able to do all kinds of things like all kinds of awesome things 431 00:44:52,840 --> 00:45:04,280 and then she and then once they all left the guy the guy who is like wrote this 432 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:10,400 story he was he actually didn't he said he was thinking to himself that he 433 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:15,080 actually didn't get that much out of that week because he didn't grow that much 434 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:22,600 as much as he was hoping because he was kind of trying too hard but then he 435 00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:28,560 actually like started this smell and mind you they were set like they were all at 436 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:34,560 their own homes at this point he smelled like this ladies perfume and then he 437 00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:40,760 called her and asked her if she had visited him out of body and she said 438 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:48,320 yes so basically she visited him out of body but he was able to sense that like 439 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:53,760 and he wrote down that he actually did get a lot of that week because his like 440 00:45:53,760 --> 00:46:00,280 perception to settle these in the energy field like subtle energies like that 441 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:05,920 he's able to actually perceive many different things than that he wasn't 442 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:11,280 before like if that woman had visited him before then he probably wouldn't have 443 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:18,560 noticed because he wouldn't have been so perceptible to that energy and like this 444 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:25,080 stuff may sound weird and crazy but honestly I kind of feel weird saying it 445 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:31,600 like but I'm starting to actually believe this stuff and I'm gonna prove it 446 00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:36,600 over the following weeks and months because I'm doing the training and I'm 447 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:41,040 gonna be consistent at it I have been for the past couple days now I haven't 448 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:48,320 even achieved the first like real state of expanded awareness yet but I'll get 449 00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:52,600 there it just takes time like you wouldn't you wouldn't expect to get jacked 450 00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:58,280 in the gym like within a week like that's just not how it it just takes time 451 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:03,440 and consistency and practice and that's it I feel like that's the same with the 452 00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:09,280 meditation with the gateway process like you're not gonna be able to get out of 453 00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:15,560 body consistently after a week of practice it just takes time and practice 454 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:22,680 and consistency and I am gonna have all of those because I added it to my routine 455 00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:27,320 and I do it two times a day and I'm gonna try and get three times a day 456 00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:34,040 because I feel like the morning and nighttime are kind of hindered because 457 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:40,440 I'm like tired I'm still a little like tired in the morning and then I'm also 458 00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:46,520 tired at night because I'm about to go to bed so sometimes I fall asleep and so 459 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:51,720 that's why I want to do it add another one before the podcast for many reasons 460 00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:58,760 for one of that reasons of the tiredness but also because if I can get 461 00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:04,280 the meditation and get that focus level during the podcast then it's gonna be so 462 00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:09,120 much better and I actually feel like this episode was a lot better and actually 463 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:14,400 yesterday over the past couple days I was talking about how for context if you 464 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:19,840 haven't heard on my podcast editing software there's this one option to 465 00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:27,960 remove the silence like remove all of the silences and it when I first started 466 00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:34,640 recording like on episode 15 is when I first started using that software I was 467 00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:42,560 getting like 800 to a thousand silences I'm pretty sure and then I think it's 468 00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:47,120 around there but I was getting a lot of silences and then recently I was getting 469 00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:52,760 like below 500 and then I wouldn't have the marker of below 500 is like a very 470 00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:58,800 good episode and then I've gotten better and then below 400 is a good episode like 471 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:04,560 in the 300 range and then I never broke 300 like I was never able to get below 472 00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:12,080 300 silences and then yesterday's episode I got 299 silences so that's my 473 00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:17,160 record and I actually think that maybe this episode will be better like maybe 474 00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:22,120 I'll get even less silences in this episode because I think that this episode 475 00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:31,160 was a lot better simply because I have a lot more focus so because I just got 476 00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:36,760 done with that 45 minute deep meditation session so my mind is very clear and I'm 477 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:42,320 very I have a lot of clarity and my focus levels are higher and so it's I'm 478 00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:47,640 like able to get into the zone a lot easier a lot easier so I don't know 479 00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:54,160 only time will tell in like 11 minutes once I'm done with this episode I'll be 480 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:58,360 able to well actually it's gonna take a little bit longer actually yeah around 481 00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:04,960 around like 15 minutes I'll be able to see how much silences have been in this 482 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:10,120 episode so that'll be interesting to see but I want I want I have one more 483 00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:15,520 thing to talk about so a couple days ago I think yesterday actually was my first 484 00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:23,320 one either yesterday or two days ago but yeah I think it was yesterday but the 485 00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:27,720 over the past couple weeks I've been trying to improve my breathing and I 486 00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:34,360 never was able to consistently improve because well I at the time I didn't know 487 00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:38,280 and then a couple days ago I became conscious of the fact that I wasn't 488 00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:43,320 consistent and so what do I do when I want to get consistent I add it to my 489 00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:49,360 routine like that's what I've done with everything and then I so I decided to add 490 00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:56,360 to improving exercises in my morning routine and I basically my though 491 00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:04,560 easiest okay here's one thing for context successful people know how to like 492 00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:11,560 make things as easy as possible and so I know that I'm not gonna be able I'm not 493 00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:21,080 gonna stick with getting myself to do the hard breathing exercises like right 494 00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:25,960 away and so I know that I have to build a positive feedback loop like I have to 495 00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:31,920 get some results before so I just decided to do the easiest breathing 496 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:39,800 exercise in my opinion which was the only one that I was willing to do and it is a 497 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,480 nose on blocking exercise which basically you breathe in and out normally 498 00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,800 and then on the exhale you hold your breath so you have nothing in you and 499 00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,800 then you start walking and count your steps and then once you have a strong 500 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:56,000 desire to breathe then you breathe in through your nose and try and control it 501 00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:02,600 as like trying calm and control your breath instantly and get it under control 502 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:10,160 and that's basically the breathing exercise that I chose to do and so I 503 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:14,640 decided to add it to my routine and I wanted to get a walk in because you're 504 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:21,520 supposed to do it while walking so I decided to add it into my routine after 505 00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:29,360 my shower so I wake up get a glass of water and then shower and then and then I 506 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:34,400 decided to add in a walk and by the way I wake up at 4 so I'm done in the shower 507 00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:41,640 around like 4 25 so around like 4 30 I'm walking around my block at 4 30 a.m. and 508 00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:47,840 it's actually a very cool vibe there's no cars out and there's no people out I'm 509 00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:54,440 just out alone and I live in the city but I'm kind of like in the suburb a 510 00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:58,440 little bit it's like a mix between the city and a suburb the town is called 511 00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:04,120 Oak Park if you are interested it's in Illinois and it's right outside of 512 00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:10,360 Chicago and if you go on Google Earth you'll be able to see the vibe but I live 513 00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:19,360 there and that's basically like very cool because there's like animals that 514 00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:25,280 roam just like city animals like there's a bunch of bunnies this morning I 515 00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:29,680 probably saw like 20 rabbits or I don't know if rabbits and bunnies are the same 516 00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:37,800 but I saw like 20 bunnies like walking around at 4 30 in the morning and that 517 00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:44,320 was just super cool and then I also saw one coyote like I saw a coyote which was 518 00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:50,520 awesome I was just walking around vibing and then I saw a coyote also enjoying 519 00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:55,960 himself like vibing and the funniest thing he was walking on the sidewalk like 520 00:53:55,960 --> 00:54:01,320 civilized and I was like oh that's cool he's walking on the sidewalk and then he 521 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:07,200 did something like that I like laughed at he wanted to cross the street so he 522 00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:13,320 like looked both ways and then he crossed on the crosswalk and I was like 523 00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:19,440 that is one civilized coyote so that was that was something pretty cool that 524 00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:23,880 happened this morning and I think there's gonna be a lot to come with that 525 00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:28,520 kind of thing because I'm adding that I added that to my routine my morning 526 00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:34,440 routine so I'm gonna be going on a walk every single morning it's like a 10-minute 527 00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:39,920 walk it I record I timed it the first time I went yesterday and it was like I 528 00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:43,320 think it was like less than eight minutes it was like seven minutes and 529 00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:49,280 30 seconds and basically I just go on a walk and do I try to get eight sets of 530 00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:55,320 that nose and blocking exercise so I basically just hold my breath walk into 531 00:54:55,320 --> 00:55:00,840 like can't until I need to breathe and then I breathe control my breath and then 532 00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:06,600 I rest for like a couple seconds and then I hold my breath again and I've only 533 00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:13,520 gone like twice and so I'm I don't have like the timings correct yet but over 534 00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:19,680 time I'll be able to see like exactly the spot like the location so once I pass 535 00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:25,360 like a certain bush or once I get to a certain house I start the exercise so 536 00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:29,400 I'll be able to like make it more effective and optimal to the point where 537 00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:36,240 I can actually get eight eight sets in with like equal amounts of rest in 538 00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:40,560 between all of them but that will just happen I mean I could figure it out like 539 00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:46,200 right now but I'll just figure it out over over the days because the days will 540 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:54,920 pass and I'll like as the days pass I get more and more experience in progress so 541 00:55:54,920 --> 00:56:00,040 that's and I actually definitely feel like my breath has gotten a lot better 542 00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:05,920 and my breathing has gotten a lot more effective now my bolt score has not 543 00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:09,760 necessarily reflected that this morning I think I got 11 seconds but it's 544 00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:15,680 definitely gonna improve now that I have consistent consistency in the practice 545 00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:22,600 but now I want to talk about one last thing so there's this energy exercise so 546 00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:28,440 I've been practicing my energy improving my energy over the past couple weeks with 547 00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:36,160 this meditation that I'm doing trying to get into focus 10 and like you do the 548 00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,720 resident breathing where you imagine all of your energy flowing up and then you 549 00:56:39,720 --> 00:56:45,680 and then on the exhale you imagine it all going out out your feet so naturally 550 00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:51,800 I've gotten a lot like I'm able to feel my energy in my hands a lot better now 551 00:56:51,800 --> 00:57:00,800 so that said I've been practicing this one thing and yesterday I was doing this 552 00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:10,200 where I I activate my fountains where it's basically you activate your energy 553 00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:14,320 flowing up and down your body creating a fountain shape and then it's like a 554 00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:22,800 sphere of energy around you and then I imagine that fountain that sphere 555 00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:28,520 widening and so I imagine it widening and engulfing everyone and all of my 556 00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:33,800 surroundings in it and then once it's big I pop it and then with that what I 557 00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:39,640 imagine that happening is all the energy flowing on everyone else and that 558 00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:44,200 actually works like first of all I kind of sense that my energy levels are 559 00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:47,960 slightly higher now like just because I've been practicing a little bit more 560 00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:53,080 and they'll get higher and higher every single day every passing day but also 561 00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:57,280 people treat you so much better like subconsciously they realize that there's 562 00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:02,640 a lot of energy coming from you but they don't really know this consciously but 563 00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:06,840 they just treat you a lot better and I've definitely experienced that like 564 00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:12,560 yesterday when I was doing this at the in the auditorium and I had my like even 565 00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,960 while I was walking around I had my energy around and people were like saying 566 00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:21,840 hi like people who I was kind of familiar familiar with were even saying 567 00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:26,040 hi and saying my name like that was like an awesome experience and there's also 568 00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:33,440 one thing that I heard where like the goal is to have everyone in your town 569 00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:38,200 know your name like that would be awesome if everyone knew your name like as 570 00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,760 you were walking by everyone knew your name but to be able to do that you have 571 00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:46,680 to know everyone else's name which is also awesome you just say hey John hey 572 00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:51,560 Joe hey Bob hey like that'd be so cool like and then everyone just says hi to 573 00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:56,360 you and that's kind of like what I'm experiencing at school I've built up 574 00:58:56,360 --> 00:59:01,920 like like a lot of people know me and I know a lot of people now I'm that 575 00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:06,320 doesn't necessarily mean that I'm like hanging out with a lot of people I don't 576 00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:12,960 hang out with anyone except for my friend Franklin but it's just cool to be 577 00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:17,040 friendly with and it's also very rewarding like a lot of people it's 578 00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:22,000 very like nice and makes me feel happy and it makes other people feel happy 579 00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:29,560 especially when you just say hi to them in the hallways so that's that's pretty 580 00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:37,680 much it for the episode and honestly I'm like time is flown I'm on episode 58 I 581 00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:42,760 remember when I was first starting a cup I was trying on like episode 20 or 582 00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:47,840 something and I was doing the math and I was like oh I'm gonna get to like episode 583 00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:52,640 I'll be on like episode 65 or something I don't remember the actual number but 584 00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:58,040 I'll be on like episode 65 when we're at funnel hacking live and I'm already on 585 00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:07,040 episode 58 funnel hacking live is on like we're leaving on the 26th and that is in 586 01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:18,120 12 days as of recording and I believe like seven days no six days after once 587 01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:26,600 that's posted I think on the 26th so it's gonna it's it's a long where I've 588 01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:33,920 like we've we've gone a long way but to wrap things up don't forget to download 589 01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:39,320 your favorite episodes and subscribe to the ascend momentum show but before you 590 01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:59,120 guys leave make sure to remember the Eagles