62. Keep Moving Forward

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 So the big question is this, how do young men like us, who didn't listen to society, 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:14,000 who are on our own, how do we grow and improve ourselves so that we can live a better tomorrow? 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,000 That is the question in this show, we'll give you the answers. 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:31,000 My name is James Radsinski and welcome to the Ascend Momentum Show. 5 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Welcome back. 6 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:42,000 So I wanted to talk about something that had been weighing down on, 7 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:48,000 I think that's been weighing down on me and my friend for the past maybe month or two or I don't know how long, 8 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:58,000 but pretty much we started working on business maybe a few months ago. 9 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 And so like over summer, halfway through summer, we started working on business. 10 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:15,000 And ever since that, we've always said exactly what we're planning on doing and then what we have done. 11 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:21,000 We've always shared with each other our goals, plans and what we've done. 12 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:36,000 And I didn't think anything of it until recently and I actually made an episode called, 13 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Don't Tell People Your Plans where I kind of touched on this, but I think it goes a little bit further than I was expecting. 14 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:55,000 And pretty much when we were, before me and my friend met, 15 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:03,000 so we met in the towards the end of the school year last year, so maybe like four months ago, maybe five months ago. 16 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:18,000 And we, I think four months ago, but pretty much before we met, we were both on self improvement for a couple months at that time. 17 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:24,000 And we didn't really talk to other people about our, like what we were doing. 18 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Like we would just keep low and just keep quiet and act with humility and remain silent. 19 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:40,000 And then once we met, we were, we just shared everything with each other. 20 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:49,000 And I think that that was very damaging and very, what's the word? 21 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 I'm blanking on the word, but oh, destructive. 22 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:59,000 And it was very destructive because in Transurfing, the book that I've been studying, 23 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:08,000 he actually said that you shouldn't tell people that you're like, you shouldn't tell someone that you're going to acquire, 24 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,000 or that you're going to have something before you've acquired it yet. 25 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 It's best to remain silent and act with humility. 26 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:23,000 And that's what we were doing before, but then we just shared everything with each other and we didn't really notice. 27 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:30,000 We didn't really realize like what we were doing until recently when I brought it to our attention. 28 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,000 And then today I actually said that we shouldn't even talk about business at all. 29 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Like we shouldn't talk about our business ventures at all with each other. 30 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Now this may or may not be a good play, but my reasoning behind it is over the past month, 31 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:55,000 even like maybe more than a month, we haven't really done much for business. 32 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Like all we've done is make our podcast and that's it. 33 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 So we haven't really done much and we both knew it. 34 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:14,000 And we were just, and I kind of, the reasoning was I think that us like sharing everything with each other 35 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:22,000 is actually holding us back and it's kind of like a chain and it's actually preventing us from actually going out and doing stuff. 36 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:30,000 So I'll find out over the next coming days once I take more action and dissipate this excess potential 37 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:38,000 because I actually think that this may be affecting our business a lot. 38 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Because like I said, we haven't done anything and I definitely plan on doing stuff, 39 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:54,000 but I think that I'm still running excuses around because there's this one quote that I heard. 40 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:00,000 I don't remember the exact quote, but it went something along the lines of your time is like, 41 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,000 however you manage your time, it just shows your priorities. 42 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:12,000 So if you say you don't have enough time to do something, it just shows that you prioritize other things more. 43 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:31,000 And the past couple days, I have had like no time to do anything extra for my business because yesterday I spent like all day 44 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:44,000 in the afternoon studying, or not studying, but creating the review for Transurfing, which is one for my studies and two for the podcast. 45 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:55,000 And then after I was done with that, I pretty much just meditated and then did recorded an episode yesterday and then I went to bed. 46 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Like that's, I pretty much had no time. 47 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:09,000 And then I was thinking I'm prioritizing school because I have, I'm at school from eight o'clock until like 1130 or 1145. 48 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 So I'm at school for like four hours. 49 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,000 So I'm prioritizing school a lot. 50 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:20,000 But then again, that's not really, that's just an excuse. 51 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:33,000 And I'm not really sure how I can like rearrange my schedule to make it better because I really, lately on days when I'm going to the gym, 52 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,000 which I'm only, I'm going to the gym three days on and then two days off. 53 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,000 So I'm really not going to the gym that much anymore. 54 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,000 And when I'm at the gym, I'm not going long either. 55 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Like today I was at the gym for 30 minutes, but it's like when I get home from school, I eat. 56 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Okay, well, actually maybe that's the, maybe that's the thing I should change because I get home from school and then I spend an hour cooking and eating. 57 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Like I spent a whole hour and most of the time it's like an hour and a half. 58 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:19,000 So like today I think it was an hour and 45 minutes that I spent cooking and eating lunch and dinner because I eat lunch and dinner at the same time. 59 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,000 So maybe I should cook. 60 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:36,000 I don't know, I'll figure, I'll figure something out because that is a big time, like consuming thing that is not really, 61 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:46,000 I think I could better manage my time and prioritize other things because I did want to have like an hour of, 62 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:53,000 I wanted to have my own home cooked meal, like warm meals. 63 00:07:53,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Sorry, I'm getting really distracted right now because I, my dad started the laundry and I don't know if you guys can hear it, 64 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:09,000 but I can hear it and it's really loud. So I'm going to pause and go turn it off. 65 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Sorry for that interruption. I really don't like having interruptions during my podcast and I was actually debating whether I should restart the whole podcast, 66 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 like because I'm only eight minutes in at this point. 67 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:30,000 But I think that it was not, I think that I'm just going to keep moving forward. 68 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:40,000 But like what I was saying is I'm not managing my time that well and it's also like, I don't really, I'm just at school, 69 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:49,000 I'm just sitting through school and it's just a waste of time, like usual, but lately I just know that it's not like, 70 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:58,000 it's not what I want to be doing, like it's not a good use of my time, but I'm just pushing through because, 71 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:06,000 I'll be completely honest with you. The only reason why I'm still in high school is because my parents are making me, 72 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:19,000 but that is, I mean, that's just the societal, societal conditioning that has been placed and I ask why and there's no response. 73 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:29,000 It's just when I, I'm just thinking that there's a lot of things that society has like deemed necessary, 74 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:38,000 but we don't question to think if it even is necessary at all. Like school, no one even knows why we're doing school. 75 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Like they say getting education get a job. Well, I'm not getting a job and I'm educating myself way more outside of school. 76 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:56,000 So what, why am I at school? Like there's no reason for me to be at school, but that's like, I don't know, 77 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:07,000 but I want to talk about this. So I found a couple days back, I actually found more documents on this gateway process 78 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:14,000 and like all of this stuff that I'm looking into right now, like this rabbit hole that I'm diving deep into. 79 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:23,000 And I found a Google size presentation. I believe I talked about it yesterday, but on like the first, 80 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:32,000 maybe on like the fourth side, it said there was like a telling the truth side and it was like a lie. 81 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:46,000 And the lie is that any like God from like religions or man, I don't even know what it said, but pretty much all religions are a lie. 82 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:56,000 And I agree because it's just a pendulum. And that's why I'm actually not Christian anymore. I grew up Christian and now I'm not. 83 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:11,000 And I stopped being Christian after I read Transurfing. And then on the fact or the truth, they said the only like way to discover the truth 84 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:21,000 or I don't even know what they said, but they pretty much said follow Buddhism because that's like the only religion that's like real. 85 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:32,000 And I don't know anything about Buddhism, but I am actually like very interested in it, even though I haven't researched it a lot. 86 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:41,000 But I am going to be reading Siddhartha the book in my humanities class. So that will be good. 87 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:52,000 But that probably won't I probably won't read that for a couple weeks or so. I don't know how long it'll take. 88 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:58,000 But that's that's pretty much where I'm at with that. But I'm going to be honest. 89 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Now I kind of seem fairly distracted. And I think that there's actually I want to talk about worrying about other people's kind of not. 90 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Opinions basically. So I'm in this like really bad state where I don't want to wear like aluminum deodorant like normal deodorant because it's bad for you. 91 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:37,000 And the deodorant that I have just does not work. And it's the native deodorant. 92 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:48,000 And I also use coconut oil with salt. But that doesn't work either. So I have a really bad B.O. when I'm at school and everyone knows it. 93 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:53,000 And I was worrying about like other people's opinions and it's just weighing me down. 94 00:12:53,000 --> 00:13:08,000 And then another thing is there's sometimes things happen where you don't want to never mind. 95 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:21,000 I'm not even going to talk about that. But I want to talk about I want to talk more about the meditation because today I meditated and I was actually like falling asleep during my meditation. 96 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:31,000 But I was able to like be awake for a decent amount of time. And this was the meditation that I did just before this. 97 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:49,000 But I want to say that I want to return back to the theme that I've been talking about over the like my entire podcast where you have a really high like peak in self improvement or like podcasting or whatever. 98 00:13:49,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Like your focus levels whatever high peak. And then it kind of goes down crashes down a little bit. And then it goes back up. But then the next time it goes back down. 99 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:11,000 That baseline is a little bit higher than it was before. And right now I think that I'm in the down part because over the past couple days I was peeking. 100 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Like I was talking about the there was in my podcast editing software like the audio editing software that I use. It has an option to remove silence. 101 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:41,000 And when I first started I had around 800 silences like 800 moments when I was silent during the episode. And then I got it down to like 500 and then 400 and then 300. 102 00:14:41,000 --> 00:15:00,000 And then I actually started meditating before my podcast a couple days ago. And then I got it down to 211. And then it kind of went up a little bit up to like 255 and like 200 it stayed stable in the 200 for a few episodes. 103 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:12,000 And then actually yesterday I thought that yesterday's episode was like going to be way higher maybe in the 300s but yesterday's episode was actually like 199. 104 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:26,000 So I actually broke 200 for the first time. So that was really exciting. But today I'm definitely my focus is not as like clear and I'm kind of lower energy. 105 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:41,000 And I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe it's because I was I spent a lot of my free energy today worrying about like what other people were thinking and worrying about my B.O. and all that stuff. 106 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:57,000 And maybe it's that maybe it's something else I don't know but pretty much I'm also at the point where I am about to go to funnel hacking life. 107 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:12,000 So next week I'm actually not going to be at school all week because Monday the building is closed and Tuesday morning I'm leaving and then I don't get back until like Sunday afternoon. 108 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:28,000 So I'm going to be gone for like five or six days. I think five days but I bought an adapter for the MacBook because I don't have any like laptop or computer. 109 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:54,000 So I'm going to be borrowing my friends laptop and recording on there so I bought a adapter because he has a MacBook Air. I bought an adapter that I'm going to use to connect my microphone to to his computer and record on there because that's really I'm definitely going to be recording during funnel hacking life. 110 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:08,000 So actually in on the 26th of September is when I get there. But this episode is probably going to go live on the 24th I think. 111 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:26,000 So you guys probably won't even start hearing a funnel hacking live episode until like I want to say I don't even know if you guys will hear it when I'm there because beforehand I'm going to build up like a seven episode cushion right now I have a four to five episodes. 112 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:53,000 So once this episode goes like scheduled I'll have five episodes like scheduled and I'm going to build up seven. So this weekend I'm actually going to be doing I'm going to try and do two Transurfing principles episodes this weekend so I can have like an excess of episodes. 113 00:17:53,000 --> 00:18:22,000 So I'll have seven scheduled just in case I miss a day or just in case I actually can't even record at all. I'll be able to stay consistent because that would be like I'm the one thing that I like made I made a decision when I first started recording is I'm going to post every single day. 114 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:31,000 And if you miss a day, then I don't know how bad it would be but I don't want to find out I don't want to miss a single day. 115 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:39,000 And I actually I assume that it will be decently bad because the algorithm wants consistency every single day. 116 00:18:39,000 --> 00:19:00,000 And my friend when he first started podcasting he posted like two or three episodes over two or three days. So he was posting consistently every day. And then he actually missed one day and his analytics like dropped like he had a consistent growth. 117 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:15,000 And then the day that he missed absolutely nothing like he he like like his analytics dropped so much so I'm definitely going to maintain consistency because that's really that's really all there is to it. 118 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:32,000 If you want to if you want to succeed then you got to figure out how like what the algorithm wants and the algorithm wants consistency and like every single day or not even every day but it just wants consistency. 119 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:46,000 So that's what I'm actually doing. And it's actually it's actually funny because this is episode 62 so it's been like two months of me recording or me. 120 00:19:46,000 --> 00:20:08,000 Yeah actually two months of me recording plus 14 days because I didn't post 14 episodes beforehand. And two months ago like when I first started recording I was reading expert secrets and I've really came a long way to be honest. 121 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:29,000 It's all about growing every single day like every single day I know that I'm getting even closer like today on my bike ride home I was like I just reassured myself and just reminded myself remember that I'm pretty much guaranteed success like like I'm guaranteed success. 122 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:47,000 There's like nothing that can stop me because I am maintaining this schedule or not even this schedule but I'm maintaining like this drive to learn so much like just the simple fact that over the past year like I've been reading for one year now. 123 00:20:47,000 --> 00:21:10,000 And I've actually my life has absolutely changed so much because I'm reading and I'm just constantly learning more and more from books and it's only been one year and I've I'm already in so much better of a position and I'm going to maintain that I'm going to be always hungry to learn more and always want to learn more. 124 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:17,000 And that's that's like a guaranteeing me any success just that alone. 125 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:23,000 I mean not necessarily but that alone will get me all the knowledge in the mindset. 126 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:28,000 And then I'll know exactly what how to move forward and that's like exactly what I've seen. 127 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I remember when I was first starting my business I actually was going to get into the acne industry. 128 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,000 That original business idea. 129 00:21:40,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Actually my actual original business idea that I wanted to like go full forward with was basically creating another Airbnb or because I was at I remember I was at Hilton head with my family vacation and my only task there because I knew I wanted to make a business at that time. 130 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:09,000 My last task was to remain conscious and figure out what my business idea was. 131 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:29,000 And so it was towards the end it was like the last few days of vacation and I was walking home with from the beach with like my grandparents and they for context they actually rented out the house for us to stay in our entire family like 16 of us. 132 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:44,000 They rented out a house and like a vacation rental and my grandma was actually like complaining because the process was very like tedious and time consuming because she used an agent. 133 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:51,000 And so that like instantly lit up in my brain like oh that's an idea. 134 00:22:51,000 --> 00:23:03,000 And so I spent probably like a week once I got home like researching I remember I bought a journal that was like a leather journal that was pocket size so small. 135 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:10,000 And I remember I just went on a walk to Berry Park. 136 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:27,000 I probably shouldn't have said that name but I went on a walk to my local park and I remember I was just like sitting there just contemplating trying to figure out like this business. 137 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:40,000 And then it kind of like I went into like do market research I researched all the different markets and then I actually like tried to figure out how I would go about creating it. 138 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:48,000 And then I read a dot com well I actually had read dot com secrets already at this time. 139 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Like mostly. 140 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:55,000 And so I kind of had this feeling that I wouldn't be able to make a funnel with this business. 141 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:01,000 So I'm pretty sure I slowly just started to kind of dismiss that business. 142 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:16,000 I don't remember the exact like process that happened but then I was like learning more and more about funnels and I'm pretty sure I was reading like dot com secrets expert secrets traffic secrets. 143 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,000 The emith revisited four hour work week. 144 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Like all these books I was reading and then I came to this other idea. 145 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:34,000 And this is the idea that actually like propelled me forward into actually filing my business my LLC. 146 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:46,000 So in this business was going to be called stop acne and it was pretty much just going to be like teaching people how to stop acne. 147 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Like using natural methods and originally it was going to be just like an affiliate link with other people's products. 148 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:05,000 And then I changed it to not even using products at all but focusing on stopping acne through self improvement. 149 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:10,000 And then I just realized that that's kind of dumb but oh no I didn't realize that yet. 150 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:22,000 So I actually filed this. I went on Zen business and created an account and actually like filed that business name through them. 151 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:28,000 And then a couple days later I realized that this is pretty much just a self improvement business. 152 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:33,000 So I'm just going to change the name and focus on self improvement. 153 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:49,000 And then I quickly went on to Zen business and like emailed the customer support to change the name because luckily they didn't file the actual business yet. 154 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,000 So I told them to change the name to a Zen momentum. 155 00:25:53,000 --> 00:26:02,000 And I'm going to be honest I completely like I remember like looking back at my brainstorming like sheet. 156 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:09,000 I used chat AI or what is it called chat chat GBT. 157 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,000 I use that to come up with the name. 158 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:19,000 And I'm going to be honest for like the first week it did not it did not stick a Zen momentum. 159 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:31,000 And but then over time it kind of started to like resonate with me and I actually have come to like it like the name. 160 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:37,000 But that's pretty much like how that my business came about. 161 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:47,000 And I'm like I'm telling you this because one of the things that I was going by was anything is better than nothing. 162 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:52,000 Like when I first made my business I just knew the direction that I wanted to move towards. 163 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000 So I kind of just started moving towards it. 164 00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:01,000 And my first like couple steps and I'm sure even now I'm making steps are in like the wrong direction. 165 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,000 But it's like in the correct it's in the correct direction. 166 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000 But it may be the wrong coordinates. 167 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000 So imagine a compass. 168 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Imagine my my destination is just like northeast exactly northeast. 169 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,000 And I was moving like north. 170 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:27,000 I was kind of going in the general direction but I wasn't going the right way. 171 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:32,000 But anything is better than nothing because I was in fact getting closer to my goal. 172 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,000 It's just not the most efficient route forward. 173 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,000 And then eventually I honed in and like went closer. 174 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,000 I'm turning closer and closer towards northeast. 175 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,000 So that's pretty much like my thought process at that time. 176 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:51,000 And for the past like honestly ever since I started my podcast. 177 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:58,000 I haven't really done much for business other than podcasting like over the past 62 days. 178 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:04,000 Like the only thing I've really been doing is podcasting like realistically. 179 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,000 And that's I believe that that's got to change soon. 180 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:16,000 But it's also like there's this one thing that's this thought that's been looming over my head lately. 181 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:26,000 It's I feel as though this may just be my own expectations or or it may be real. 182 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:40,000 But I feel as though my my mom is my mom especially is kind of expecting a lot from me because right now she's making me stay in school. 183 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:45,000 But then she's also asking me like she's not asking like this often. 184 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:51,000 And just a few times she's asked me this which is why I think that this might be my own perspective on things. 185 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,000 But she's been like oh when are you going to start making money? 186 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:59,000 That's when that's what I really that's what I really want to know. 187 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:06,000 So it's kind of like I feel as though people expect too much of me. 188 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:13,000 And that's one of the reasons why I actually think it's best to just keep quiet and not tell anyone your plans. 189 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:23,000 Like I shouldn't have told my honestly I think that it was good that I told my parents my plan because not necessarily my plan. 190 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:39,000 But I told my parents about my like business because that allowed me to have some like leverage and say in me like saving a lot of time and getting out of school early and graduating early. 191 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:50,000 But then it's also like it's it's kind of like a not I don't know if it's like a burden but it's just like something looming over my head. 192 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:58,000 But then it's all it's like I don't really know how to explain this. 193 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:08,000 I don't really know what I was getting at right now but I think that when. 194 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,000 I'm going to I'm actually just going to get some water right now. 195 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:30,000 Use this take this advantage of my brain just melting down. 196 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:40,000 It's when I build my business and I had people like asking me progress updates. 197 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:46,000 It's almost as if I'm doing it for them and I'm doing it for like. 198 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,000 Okay no this is what I was getting at I remember so. 199 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:59,000 My I felt as though I've been like burdened with people having expectations over me. 200 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:12,000 And I felt as though I was for a moment an instant flash I was like how can like they expect so much of me when I'm getting spread so thin when I'm going to school. 201 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:25,000 And then I'm also going to I'm also an entrepreneurship like or I'm also working on my business and I'm going to the gym and I'm doing all of this stuff like I'm also focusing on my spiritual. 202 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:34,000 My meditation all of this stuff like I'm spread so thin how can someone expect so much of me to succeed in everything. 203 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,000 But then it's also like. 204 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,000 For an instant that thought popped in my head. 205 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:49,000 But then instantly I shut it down and I was like no this is exactly like what successful men do like this is what men do. 206 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:59,000 We get everything we have it all we win at everything we win it all like you get everything by doing this. 207 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:12,000 And that's why I was reassuring myself that I like when I was biking home today I knew that I was on the right path there's this one turn that I took that I always take every day. 208 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:32,000 But on this day specifically I was like oh my gosh I'm like I'm guaranteed success like there's nothing that can stop me because even it like as long as I keep moving forward as long as I keep pushing forward I'm guaranteed success. 209 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:52,000 And I'm like incrementally improving everything like slowly but surely like I'm still improving my health like I cut out all of this stuff like like seed oils and estrogenics like I cut out a lot of this stuff. 210 00:32:52,000 --> 00:33:02,000 And so it's simply just a matter of time of waiting for it to actually exit my body and then I'll take that process will take a few years I've heard. 211 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:10,000 And then so that's like a passive thing but I'm still like also improving my health through like my diet and exercise and all this. 212 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:23,000 And then I'm also improving my like physique through the gym I'm still lifting consistently even though I'm not lifting as much as I was before but I am still lifting a decent amount. 213 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:39,000 So I'm still improving in that area and then I'm also improving my like my health which through my breath my breathing I'm working on that every morning I'm improving my balance working on that every morning and this morning I actually had a breakthrough where 214 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:44,000 my balance was extremely good like best it's ever been. 215 00:33:44,000 --> 00:34:02,000 And then I'm also working on my like my mental like my clarity of mind and also I'm going down this really deep rabbit hole of discovering the truth through meditation and this gateway experience discovering that there's more. 216 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:22,000 And there's a book called Seven Resident Colors not a book but like a PDF online and I'm actually planning on printing that out I was going to print it out today but and I did actually but I printed it in the wrong type of paper and it kind of screwed up the whole system. 217 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:34,000 So I grabbed the piece of paper pieces of paper and then quickly bailed because I didn't want I don't know for some reason I felt extremely guilty even though there's nothing to be guilty about. 218 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,000 And then I went. 219 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,000 Okay. 220 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,000 I'm like focusing my spiritual my stuff. 221 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:48,000 And then I'm also going down or I'm also studying a lot of Transurfing. 222 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:59,000 So one I'm improving like my academics through that sense but also I'm just completely overhauling my worldview. 223 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:11,000 And I'm podcasting so I'm improving my speech like there are so many things that I'm improving on I've gotten to the point in my self improvement journey where I can actually focus on so many things at once. 224 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:40,000 And I'm not sure if this is actually the best because I was actually remember hearing this video of Hamza one time a long time ago said that you when you're focusing 100% on something you kind of got to cut out other things and then only focus on this one thing for example when you're focusing on business you got to cut out like everything else and only focus on business like you're probably only going to go to the gym like once a while. 225 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:44,000 And I'm not going to go to the gym like once a week to maintain. 226 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:57,000 But I've like cut out a lot of other things but I've gotten to the point where all of these things are just little pieces in my daily routine and I feel as though. 227 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:15,000 It's not the best but I think that I'm definitely doing the right things because all of these things are actually moving me towards my goals because my goal is to be a surfer in Hawaii and balance you need a good balance for a surfer. 228 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:36,000 And like all these other things will help me become a surfer in some way or another especially the podcast like the podcast is is just honestly the podcast has done so much for me and I haven't even gotten the actual benefits like the actual benefits that I was doing it for the first place. 229 00:36:36,000 --> 00:37:05,000 So the reason why I was doing the podcast in the first place was because I wanted to be financially free like I'm going to be honest like that is why that was my original my original reasoning for starting a podcast because there is two as as what I have remembered there's only two like guaranteed wealth statements that Russell Brunson made in any of it. 230 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000 Books. 231 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:18,000 One of them is if you post daily on your show for an entire year you will never have to worry about money again. 232 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:41,000 And then the other was if you if you create go live on a webinar if you do a live one of the webinar once a week for an entire year straight then you will never have to worry about money again so those were the two guaranteed wealth statements that he made. 233 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:49,000 And so right now I'm only doing one of them. 234 00:37:49,000 --> 00:38:05,000 And but that's like that was my original reasoning and if you go back to my earlier episodes I actually like straight up admitted that that's why I'm like started the podcast like I'm trying to like verify that this is actually a true statement. 235 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:16,000 And so that's why I've actually started doing the podcast but but I've actually realized that podcasting is so valuable for self improvement. 236 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:25,000 Like I haven't even gotten the actual benefits that I was originally seeking for which was the money the wealth and the freedom. 237 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:36,000 But I've gotten so much more like even before the actual money comes like because I was aware of the fact that it may even take a whole year. 238 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:41,000 I think I assume that it'll take less than a year because the journey to get there. 239 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:48,000 But it may take a whole year to get to that point of never having to worry about money again. 240 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:55,000 And so I assumed like that it could take the whole year and I was prepared to do that. 241 00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:13,000 But I like the value that I've gotten out of this was my speech has gotten so much better like you guys can actually go and listen to the trailer like listen to this the season one trailer for the momentum show. 242 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:21,000 That was terrible and that was my 15th episode like that was after 14 days of consistent practice. 243 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000 So that wasn't even my worst. 244 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:31,000 My worst it will it has not been like my worst is offline on my phone in my voice memos app. 245 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:36,000 That's my worst but my trailer is really bad. 246 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:59,000 And you can see like my growth my progress I started to find my voice and I think that I have found my voice because I'm able like I'm so much more confident to talk about this stuff because I remember in the beginning I would actually like talk quietly and be quiet like this because I didn't want like my family to hear me speaking. 247 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:08,000 But now I'm like calm and comfortable speaking pretty loudly and I don't even think about like my parents. 248 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:20,000 Well obviously now I am because I've brought it up but like most of the time I'm not even thinking about like hearing people or I'm not worried about other people hearing what I'm saying right now. 249 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:49,000 But and I've like I've gotten so much more confident in that sense and then also I found my voice because I'm actually able to talk about stuff for like an hour straight and like I was talking about this on a couple episodes back I don't know which episode but I was actually saying how I used to watch Hamza videos and I would be in awe because he was speaking for like an hour and a half straight like no pauses no interruptions unless he was getting water. 250 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,000 And I was like wow how can he do that like I could never do that. 251 00:40:53,000 --> 00:41:09,000 But now just from sixty two episodes of practice more than a little bit more than that but from like sixty to seventy episodes of practice just like sixty to seventy days of consistent practice. 252 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:17,000 I've gotten so much better like I'm actually so happy with my progress and that's another reason like podcasting. 253 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:40,000 Even I haven't even gotten the monetary benefits yet but I've gotten so much from it and it's also like very obvious in my speech on the day to day like when I'm speaking in class I'm able to kind of get in that flow where I can just spew words out like before like before I started podcasting. 254 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:49,000 I remember I used to have to like basically script out my entire words before I would say something and then I would end up like stumbling and then it would just not be good. 255 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:58,000 But now I can kind of just wing it and then just like clear my mind and then things will come out and it's usually the right thing. 256 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:11,000 So but usually like before I podcast if I if I just winged it like the wrong thing would come out most of the time and I end up going on this weird tangent or I would like try and save myself some I don't even know. 257 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,000 But like that's the thing. 258 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:25,000 I'm so happy with like this progress and it's all like as long as you're on this journey of constant consistent improvement. 259 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:35,000 You'll get there and there are dark times like I don't know if I'll come across more dark times anymore. 260 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:54,000 But I remember when I was like getting over these bad habits and then when I was like first learning about Transurfing especially in Transurfing I went through this like dark period where it was like I was so overwhelmed with this new worldview that I didn't. 261 00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:04,000 I was like at this crossroads where I like didn't want to move forward and keep going towards the truth. 262 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:10,000 But then I also knew that I had to and so I like forced myself to go towards the truth. 263 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:39,000 I was like a pretty dark hour in my life because I just got like extremely I'm pretty sure I was like extremely had a negative outlook on just like my environment because I was awakened of this new information and this new worldview and I realized that literally everything I've been like I knew growing up was a lie. 264 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:46,000 And like my entire worldview shattered like everything I came to know and believe shattered. 265 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:56,000 But then it was also like once I went over that like ditch then it was like a lot better and now I'm able to. 266 00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:02,000 I'm able to like I haven't had a dark hour in a while. 267 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:13,000 But I kind of have like slight dark hours like the other day I was actually like in this the existential crisis. 268 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,000 I don't even know what that means but I think it's the right word that fits here. 269 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:22,000 And I was basically like questioning why am I still in school. 270 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:32,000 There's no reason why I can think of that I should be in school. I'm choosing exactly what I get like I get exactly what I choose. 271 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:40,000 Like right now I'm choosing to stay in school and there's it's obvious that I still have so much inner work to do. 272 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,000 And that's also another thing the inner work. 273 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:56,000 I hadn't like realized how important inner work was because I was just focusing on the external work for pretty much like the first year. 274 00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:04,000 So I started lifting like two years ago and for an entire year I was actually more than that for like a year and a half. 275 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:08,000 I wasn't focused on the inner work until like six months ago. 276 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:18,000 And even then when I first got Transurfing I was I don't think I actually knew that this was inner work. 277 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:25,000 So it like I haven't actually started locking in on this inner work until maybe three months back. 278 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:26,000 I don't know. 279 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:34,000 But that's the thing that's that this inner work is so valuable and I don't even know how to describe the inner work. 280 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:40,000 I'm pretty my best description is anything that's going on in your head. 281 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:49,000 So when you go to the gym you're doing external work on your like appearance and just your health in general. 282 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:58,000 But inner work is all about like your mental your mindset your worldview all of this stuff. 283 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:02,000 And it goes deep inner work goes deep. 284 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:14,000 I think that this is the longer more long term thing because there was this one quote that I heard a while back ago that I kind of dismissed right away. 285 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:31,000 And now it just popped back in my head where it was I don't know how the quote exactly went but it went something along the lines of your physical body is like your body is a depreciating asset. 286 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,000 And your mind is an appreciating asset. 287 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:43,000 So and then it said like invest your time as you see best fit or something like that. 288 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:52,000 And so I was thinking that yeah my body is a depreciating asset but that's not until I'm like old. 289 00:46:52,000 --> 00:47:02,000 So right now I am just going to focus on my body because it is appreciating right now because I'm going to the gym. 290 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:12,000 But then but now I'm realizing that yes folks on the body but also don't ignore the mind the mind is so important. 291 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:18,000 And I've gone like I'm going down this massive rabbit hole that I don't know how deep it goes. 292 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:27,000 And it started with Transurfing and then it's moved on to meditation and it's gotten to the gateway process. 293 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:39,000 And I know that I know that the gateway process will help me discover the truth and like see the truth for myself. 294 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:57,000 And then I also know that there's so when I was reading the Transurfing again this morning and I was actually I was reminded of the one reoccurrent re re incarnations 295 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:09,000 but also there was this one thing that he wrote towards the end of the book in the chapter called dances. Wait no it was the dreams of the gods that chapter. 296 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:18,000 And then he was talking about this that chapter he mentioned a lot of different authors, scientists like people who wrote books. 297 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:30,000 But there was one guy in particular that I was really interested in that he actually said if you search his name up online you can see his stuff and you can like he has a bunch of things. 298 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:47,000 But let me explain so basically he has this like school where it's basically like he has a bunch of kids who have extra like supernatural abilities where they can basically see just as well as they can see with their eyes open with their eyes closed. 299 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:52,000 So they can see with their eyes closed just as well as they can with their eyes open. 300 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:59,000 And then they can also see extremely far distances as clearly as it was would be in a telescope. 301 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:16,000 They can do like a bunch of different things and it's like this whole school that he developed and he actually developed this like these exercises that any normal person can do and develop these abilities for themselves. 302 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:27,000 Now I didn't even look at the name. I forgot what the name was and I didn't even look it up because I was planning on looking it up at school but I didn't write it down and I forgot. 303 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:40,000 So if I remember after this episode I'm going to while this episode is editing I'm going to go upstairs and because I wrote down his name on my transfer from journal. 304 00:49:40,000 --> 00:50:09,000 But I'm going to go upstairs and check his name and then come back downstairs and look up his name and then email it to my school email because then I'll remember to look look into it tomorrow because I think that that could be another like rabbit hole that I could go down because I've been going down like this deep rabbit hole of like worldview. 305 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:26,000 Meditating all of this stuff. And if there's anything that will help me I think it's the gateway experience. Like I think the gateway experience is like the biggest right now because when you have the unity of the heart and mind. 306 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:47,000 I'm talking in transfer in terms right now unity of the heart and mind basically realizes your thought like whenever you have unity of heart and mind your thoughts energy is realized like right away pretty much not right away but that's like the most powerful for realizing your thoughts. 307 00:50:47,000 --> 00:51:02,000 And the gateway process literally unifies your heart and mind like that's what they created those sounds for those sounds are called hemisync and it's hemisync or hemispheric synchronization and it's basically. 308 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,000 So let me explain this first. 309 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:17,000 You have two hemispheres in your brain you have a left hemisphere and a right hemisphere like your brain is split into two. The left side is the mind in transfer in terms and it's basically. 310 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:28,000 It's functioning is to basically use language mathematics logical thought reasoning like all that stuff. 311 00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:49,000 And then the right side is the heart in transfer in terms and it's functioning functionality is emotions like artistic endeavors creativity all this stuff and in transfer in terms that actually has access to the alternative space so that so that's the side that gets like intuitive thoughts and clairvoyance and all that stuff. 312 00:51:49,000 --> 00:52:03,000 And then it's actually the left side controls your right side of your body so it's kind of like an X so the left side controls the right side of your body and then the right side of your mind controls the left side of your body. 313 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:09,000 I don't know why it's like that but that's how it is and that's what they have discovered. 314 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:32,000 And so it's actually like the gateway process in the gateway process manual they were actually talking about how we've became a right handed dominant society like the majority of people are right handed and they theorize that it's because we live in a system in a society where it is like. 315 00:52:32,000 --> 00:53:01,000 Controlled by systems of left mind dominated thinking for example schooling basically is all about mathematics science language like all of this stuff left mind thinking like we don't really have much systems that we go through on a day to day that are like creativity and all of this right minded thinking so as a result we 316 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:16,000 became a left minded dominant thinking society and these it's not just school it's like religions political like all like there's a bunch of other stuff that they mentioned but schooling is the first thing that came to mind. 317 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:32,000 And then so as a result we have the majority of people are right handed and that is interesting because the left side is dominant but. 318 00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:47,000 Hemisync basically plays one noise in the left ear and then one noise in the right ear but they're at a slightly different like hurts like slightly different volumes. 319 00:53:47,000 --> 00:54:05,000 So let's say the one noise in the left ear is 100 Hertz and then the other noise in the right ear is 105 Hertz. So then your whole mind basically like synchronizes and then creates a third tone that's the difference of the two. 320 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:27,000 So the whole mind will become like synchronized and then create a tone that is five Hertz. So it's pretty interesting because it basically synchronizes your whole mind and they were talking about how it unifies your whole mind and then in 321 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:38,000 transforming terms that basically is the unification of the heart and mind which allows for your thought energy to become manifested. 322 00:54:38,000 --> 00:55:04,000 And this is why I actually like my original I was planning on getting to focus 10 and then getting wave to which has focused 12 in it for the Gateway experience and I was gonna like start to manifest things and visualize things in focus 12. 323 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:22,000 So I was gonna wait until focus 12 to do it. But then I realized that I can just practice my focus 10 with man manifestation because once you're in focus 10 which is like the first focus of it's like the first stage of meditation in the Gateway experience. 324 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:41,000 And once you're in that you're already like way more your heart and mind are way more synchronized and aligned than normal consciousness. And so any like visualization that you do and any thinking that you do is going to be way more powerful. 325 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:57,000 And that's basically what I have been doing because I've gotten to the last tape on wave one which the last tape is basically free flow 10 or focus 10 free flow or something like that. 326 00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:12,000 And it's basically like where they just play the sounds and there's no real structure to it you basically get to choose exactly what you want to do. And that's that's what I was gonna do. 327 00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:35,000 I was just gonna focus on that free flow tape and just practice with that. But I realized that the more and better and better I get at focus 10. I can still practice my visualizations and I was working on it last night and or yesterday actually and then today I was going to do it again and I also did it this morning 328 00:56:35,000 --> 00:57:01,000 but today right before this podcast I went into the meditation and like I said earlier I was like falling asleep like I was a I was pretty tired and I was like asleep for a lot of the podcast or not the meditation and that like kind of foiled my plans but I was still able to get some 329 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:27,000 some visualization and I found that I kind of like was relying on I think that one of the things that is holding me back is I was kind of using the gateway tapes as a crutch and let me explain so when I was doing normal meditation I knew that I had to be extremely focused because it was all up to me like I didn't have headphones on. 330 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:37,000 I was just sitting there in my own thoughts and I was extremely focused on my breath and realigning my thoughts back to the consciousness. 331 00:57:37,000 --> 00:58:05,000 But when I think I got too comfortable with the gateway tapes and I kind of like especially today I kind of like fell asleep on them or because I was like I realized that I would even when I got to focus 10 and my mind was clearly awake and I started I would start visualizing my target slide 332 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:21,000 and then after like a few moments my mind would just fall asleep and then I would start thinking about some random things and then I wouldn't realize that I was doing this until probably like a couple minutes later. 333 00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:40,000 So and I think that's just because my mind was lazy and I wasn't like attentive to what was going on and I wasn't really focusing on I wasn't focusing on concentrating and that's something I'm definitely going to do because I'm going to have another meditation session in like an hour. 334 00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:54,000 So in an hour from now I'm about to go to bed after this podcast and I'll have another meditation session so I'll definitely fix that during that. 335 00:58:54,000 --> 00:59:16,000 So I might try and come up with an alternative meal because earlier in this podcast I was talking about my meat like how I was spending like an hour and a half every day cooking and eating lunch and dinner and that was like taking a lot of my day away. 336 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:35,000 So I might come up with another meal that I could cook like in the morning that I could like keep in the fridge or something and bring with me during the day and eat it after school right before the gym. 337 00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:43,000 So I don't know I might come up with that because I know my friend makes chicken and potatoes and that stores well. 338 00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:50,000 I might do that. I don't know we'll see but that's pretty much the end of the episode. 339 00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:58,000 So to wrap things up don't forget to download your favorite episodes and subscribe to the Ascend Momentum show. 340 00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:14,000 But before you guys leave make sure to remember the Eagles.