70. A New Chapter

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,640 So the big question is this, how do young men like us who didn't listen to society, 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:14,400 who are on our own, how do we grow and improve ourselves so that we can live a better tomorrow? 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,120 That is the question and this show will give you the answers. 4 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:28,280 My name is James Radzinski, and welcome to The Ascent Momentum Show. 5 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:36,280 Welcome back. So this is the last episode I'm going to be recording before I go to Funnel Hacking Live. 6 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:45,280 So I leave tomorrow morning at 3.30 and I have to wake up at around like 2.00 I think. 7 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:51,280 So it's going to be an early morning, but I'll get through it. 8 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:57,280 I'm going to take a couple naps, a few in the car and then a few on the plane. 9 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:03,280 But I really think that this week will be a game changer. 10 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,280 I think that this week will be really good for me. 11 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:14,280 And for context for you guys, I haven't been keeping up with my podcast. 12 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:19,280 I'm going to Funnel Hacking Live, which is a business conference for entrepreneurs. 13 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,280 It's like a four day live event in person. 14 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,280 There's like 5,000 people in attendance. 15 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,280 So it'll be fun and it'll be awesome. 16 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:37,280 But in preparation for that, I actually finished reading Transurfing yesterday. 17 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,280 The book, Reality Transurfing. 18 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:44,280 The book that I've been reading for the past two months, I just finished. 19 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:51,280 Just in time to start The Lynch Pin, which is a book by Russell Brunson. 20 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:58,280 And the reason why I'm starting this book right now is because it's a fairly quick read. 21 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:04,280 I feel so I could read it before, I could read it within like a day or two. 22 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:11,280 And I only spent like 30 minutes on it so far and I already finished like 1 1⁄8 of it. 23 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,280 So it's not going to be that long of a read. 24 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:18,280 I'll probably be able to finish it on the plane if not at the hotel tomorrow. 25 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:27,280 But the reason why I'm reading it is because Russell Brunson wrote it and he is going to be teaching about that. 26 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:37,280 The Lynch Pin is basically one of his frameworks and it's an essential framework for structuring your business. 27 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:42,280 So that's why I'm studying it before so I can get some background information. 28 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:50,280 And I probably should have studied it like a lot earlier but this is how it happened. 29 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:55,280 But I want to talk about just life in general. 30 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:06,280 I don't know if it was just from me getting more and more better at meditation or transurfing, understanding it a lot more, 31 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,280 or just a combination of the two. 32 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:18,280 Because for the past couple months I've been reading transurfing for the second time through. 33 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:24,280 And now I'm actually applying a lot more of it in real life. 34 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:32,280 Because the first read through, it was really just me destroying all of my limiting beliefs and it was just destroying my worldview. 35 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,280 It was mostly just a read of, is this even true? 36 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,280 Instead of, okay I'm going to implement this. 37 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,280 I was mostly just reading if it was true or not. 38 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:49,280 But basically I see the functionality of my first time reading it as me actually believing it. 39 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,280 And then the second time through me actually knowing it. 40 00:03:52,280 --> 00:04:01,280 Like actually taking action and applying the principles and actually seeing them as real. 41 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:08,280 And actually putting them in my brain as knowledge and not just beliefs or information. 42 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,280 And that's what I've been doing. 43 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:17,280 Like I've been waking up, I've been a lot more present, falling coordination a lot more. 44 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:20,280 I've been doing a lot more things. 45 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:28,280 And I don't know if it was that, like it was probably just a combination of them all. 46 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:33,280 But over the past couple days I've just been looking at the world a lot differently. 47 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:40,280 And there are moments when I basically fall asleep and I lose my guard. 48 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:47,280 I lower my guard and then I start going into negative thoughts. 49 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:52,280 But those moments are fewer and farther between than they used to be. 50 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:57,280 And so I'm like, and I always catch them fairly quickly. 51 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:06,280 And I actually really like how I'm looking at the world now because before I kind of just felt trapped. 52 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:09,280 I didn't really know what to do. 53 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:13,280 Like I didn't know, I didn't even know how the world worked. 54 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:16,280 And I didn't know how I was going to achieve my goals. 55 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:19,280 And I didn't know if my goals were possible. 56 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:26,280 And I didn't really have as big of a vision as I do now. 57 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:34,280 For example, maybe like a year ago, I wouldn't have even known it was possible to become a millionaire. 58 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:37,280 Or at least for me. 59 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:41,280 Like obviously it was possible for others, but I don't know about me. 60 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:45,280 But now like my beliefs in my worldview is changing so much. 61 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:48,280 Now it's not, is it possible? 62 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:51,280 It's when is it going to happen? 63 00:05:51,280 --> 00:06:00,280 And I'm just like waiting for the mirror to go like start reflecting an image back. 64 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:03,280 Like because there's a delay period period. 65 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:13,280 And like I've been completely changing my mental outlook because now I realize just how important your thoughts are. 66 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:25,280 Because your thoughts first of all, when you kind of let your thoughts go free and you react to physical reality, 67 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:31,280 there's no real benefit for you to reacting to physical reality. 68 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:36,280 Like there's no benefit to react negatively to your world. 69 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:44,280 But there's an immense amount of benefit if you control your thoughts and send your image out first, 70 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:51,280 that you would like to send the image in your thoughts that you would like to see first. 71 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:54,280 And then let it stream into physical reality. 72 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:57,280 Like that actually has a benefit. 73 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:04,280 And then I also want to talk about energy because there's this one epiphany that I kind of came across. 74 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:12,280 I don't know if it was today or I don't know, but I kind of just in passing came across this thought where 75 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:16,280 in Transurfing towards the end, he actually said, 76 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:23,280 you have to like direct your energy into a thought. 77 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:33,280 Like you have to direct your energy into something for it to become streamed into like streamlined into physical reality. 78 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,280 And this is what I was thinking about. 79 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:49,280 There are energy exercises in Transurfing like the fountain exercise where you imagine your energy going up and down your spine through your meridians 80 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:55,280 and then creating a fountain over and under your head enveloping you in a sphere of energy. 81 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:04,280 So that energy exercise me and my friend Franklin actually did like very consistently for like months. 82 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:09,280 And I can't speak for him, but I can speak for myself on this regard. 83 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:14,280 I was doing that exercise, but I wasn't directing my thoughts. 84 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,280 My thoughts were still like uncontrolled. 85 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:24,280 So I've kind of came to the epiphany that doing that energy exercise is not going to help you. 86 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:31,280 It may even hurt you if you don't control your thoughts because your thoughts. 87 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:46,280 Okay, so the way it works is you take in energy and then you program that energy through your thoughts and then you like release that those thoughts that programmed energy into the universe. 88 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:54,280 So if your thoughts are already negative, then you're going to be sending out negative energy. 89 00:08:54,280 --> 00:09:08,280 But if you increase your energy through doing those exercises and don't control your thoughts, then you're basically going to be sending out an increased expenditure of energy output. 90 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:15,280 So you're basically going to be sending out more and more energy outwards like negative energy. 91 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,280 So that may even be to your detriment. 92 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:29,280 So that's why the negative or the energy exercises you should focus on as a supplement to controlling your thoughts. 93 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:36,280 Controlling your thoughts should be your utmost priority and then you control and then you work on increasing your energy. 94 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:43,280 And that's a mistake that I made because I was increasing my energy through doing those exercises. 95 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:53,280 And to be honest, I don't even think that I really felt any more energy from using those exercises. 96 00:09:53,280 --> 00:10:03,280 But I wasn't controlling my thoughts and I was just kind of... that extra energy was probably being wasted. 97 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,280 But now what I'm doing is I'm actually controlling my thoughts a lot more. 98 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:16,280 Now I have this new perspective that when you clean up your thoughts, if you ask people, what's your thoughts like? 99 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:23,280 Are they random, scattered? Do they just have a mind of their own? Everyone will say yes. 100 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:37,280 And there's this thing that I... this conclusion I came to is a person's world layer is a reflection of their thoughts. 101 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:41,280 That's the principle of Transurfing, the mirror principle. 102 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:53,280 But you can actually see... you can actually take a peek inside of someone's thoughts, like their worldview, everything that's going on in their head. 103 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:58,280 You can actually take a peek inside of that simply by looking at their physical reality. 104 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:10,280 If their physical reality is exactly what they want and it's very orderly and they feel like they're in control of it, 105 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,280 then they're in control of their thoughts. 106 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:22,280 But if they feel like they're the victim of circumstance and they can't really get what they want, then they're not in control of their thoughts. 107 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:33,280 So if you simply just take control of your thoughts, then you'll be able to actually fix your physical reality. 108 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:40,280 That's another thing. So I found extreme benefit by visualizing my slide in meditation. 109 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:49,280 And I did it for like a few days and then I stopped for a few days because I wanted to focus on getting to focus 10. 110 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:55,280 But then I realized like it's actually beneficial, it's actually way better to visualize than not. 111 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,280 And so I went back into visualizing it. 112 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:11,280 But then for the past like one or two days, probably like two or probably past two days, I haven't been visualizing because I've literally been like asleep 113 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:22,280 or like passed out during my meditations because I've for yesterday, I believe it was no Friday and Saturday. 114 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:34,280 I did double episodes and yesterday I had a one to the gym and I did some like for the past like two or three days, 115 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,280 I have been getting to bed like 30 minutes late. 116 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:46,280 And for context, I go to bed at 630 like literally 630 every single day and it's very consistent. 117 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:57,280 And I went to bed at 7 for the past like three days because I was like up late editing the past couple episodes of the podcast. 118 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,280 And it actually messed me up. 119 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:07,280 Like it's actually so crazy how much 30 minutes of sleep affected me. 120 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:14,280 Like it didn't really, I could definitely tell like my energy levels were lower throughout the day. 121 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:22,280 But I could especially tell in my meditation because usually during my meditation, I'm like awake the whole time. 122 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:31,280 And it's just a matter of me getting like my body to be asleep, getting a matter of getting my body to fall asleep. 123 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:37,280 But the past couple days, I've literally just been asleep except for nighttime. 124 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:47,280 Like the morning and afternoon meditation sessions, I've been asleep like the whole time like until he calls you back. 125 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:57,280 So I'm like, well, it's a 30 minute meditation and I'm awake for the preparatory process. 126 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:09,280 But then once it's like a quiet period, then I fall asleep and then I wake back up like towards the last like 10 minutes, probably. 127 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:16,280 And so I'm like asleep in my meditations and it's not very optimal. 128 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:25,280 So I don't know what I'm going to do move forward because tomorrow I'm going to be waking up like extremely early. 129 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:30,280 But I will have like four hours on the plane to take a nap. 130 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:35,280 So that's going to be very good. 131 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:42,280 And there's also another thing like I am going I'm still a senior in high school. 132 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,280 So I'm still in school right now. 133 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:59,280 And this is going to be especially amazing experience because I'm still in school and I'm like getting over all these limiting beliefs of this like current worldview that's been placed upon me. 134 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:06,280 And I'm getting over all of these like this like worldview that is holding me back. 135 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:18,280 And the fact that I'm going to be in Florida on my own, well with my friend, but basically on my own in Florida during school. 136 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:22,280 Like it's it just shows that you can escaped. 137 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:23,280 You can escape the rat race. 138 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:28,280 Like you can control you have the choice like you can control your own destiny. 139 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:38,280 Like when I was when me and my friend were first like thinking of doing this, we both like had no. 140 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,280 We didn't even think it was going to happen to be honest. 141 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:50,280 And even today, like even right now as I'm speaking, I still can't even think I can't even fathom of the idea. 142 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,280 Like it still does not feel real. 143 00:15:52,280 --> 00:16:00,280 Like to be honest, I am not excited simply because I don't know how to get excited because I can't even comprehend of the idea. 144 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:08,280 It's so far out of my worldview that I can't even get like I can't even comprehend it. 145 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:18,280 But tomorrow's episode like episode 71 seven through like 76. 146 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,280 I'm all going to be in Florida. 147 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,280 I'm going to be right now when I'm recording this episode. 148 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,280 It's the 25th of September. 149 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:33,280 I believe this episode goes live on the second of of October. 150 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:39,280 So that gives me five days. 151 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:44,280 I believe five days to five or six. 152 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:52,280 Okay, so for the next like five or six episodes, if I find the time like I'm going to try and find the time I'm bringing my microphone. 153 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,280 I'm going to use my friend's computer. 154 00:16:54,280 --> 00:17:04,280 I'm going to try and find the time to podcast because I have a priority system right now. 155 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:10,280 So in my current routine, I basically have no time to do anything else. 156 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:15,280 I basically have to do my routine and then I go to bed and I just repeat it. 157 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:18,280 Like I have no time to do anything else. 158 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:22,280 And that's my current routine with school and school only lasts like four hours. 159 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:27,280 But I assume fun lacking live will be probably like eight hours every day. 160 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:31,280 I assume it's going to be very long every single day. 161 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:42,280 And so I'm going to have to like prioritize certain things that I do every day and every morning in my routine. 162 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:47,280 I'm going to have to prioritize things and figure out what is number one. 163 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,280 And for me, number one is podcast. 164 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,280 Number two is meditation. 165 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,280 And then I'm probably only going to have enough time to podcast and meditate. 166 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:04,280 Like I really, as long as I get at least one session of meditation every day and then one podcast every day, 167 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:10,280 I'm going to be a happy camper because that will be enough to document the journey at Florida. 168 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:18,280 And that's like only two hours because it takes one hour to record 30 minutes to meditate. 169 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:25,280 I would meditate first and then record and then about 30 minutes to like edit. 170 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:31,280 But that's pretty much like the plan for Florida. 171 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:37,280 And to be honest, there's this one thing that I was thinking about because for the next, 172 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:43,280 it's probably going to be different during fun lacking life because there's going to be a lot of guest speakers, 173 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,280 not just talking about like business. 174 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:54,280 But my original, this is one of the things that I was struggling with early on in this show where whatever 175 00:18:54,280 --> 00:19:02,280 book I'm studying at that moment, like whatever book I'm reading at that time of recording will greatly affect 176 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,280 how the episode plays out. 177 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:12,280 And so my original, like this show is meant to be a self improvement show. 178 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:19,280 And I see entrepreneurship as a self improvement show, but I kind of feel a little iffy talking about business 179 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:27,280 because I'm not, I don't really know who my dream viewer is like my, I don't really know who I'm speaking. 180 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,280 I don't know who is listening to this. 181 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,280 I don't know where you guys are in your journeys. 182 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:36,280 So I'm not sure if business will be beneficial to talk about. 183 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,280 So that's kind of where I'm at with that. 184 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:47,280 But I think that it will be fine during fun lacking life because the speakers are going to talk a lot about mindset. 185 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:57,280 So I'm, I think I'm going to pick up a lot about that because I remember going to the five day your first funnel challenge. 186 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:02,280 And that challenge, there was like two guest speakers every day. 187 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,280 And they all talked about mindset. 188 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:06,280 It was just only mindset. 189 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,280 And that was amazing. 190 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:12,280 Like I learned so much just from that. 191 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:21,280 And so I assume that there's going to be 30 guest speakers and I believe that they're all going to be talked about mindset. 192 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:25,280 But that's like, that's where I'm at with that. 193 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:37,280 My one mistake that I made when I'm when I bought my ticket was I bought a checked bag, a carry on bag. 194 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:53,280 Yeah, I bought a checked bag and a carry on bag when I only needed just a checked bag because you get a free like carry on a free person item, which I'm going to be using as well. 195 00:20:53,280 --> 00:21:02,280 But honestly, back to what I was talking about how my current book influences what I talk about. 196 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:11,280 It's very evident and it may be evident in the upcoming days until I go back to like these worldview books. 197 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:18,280 I've been reading because I have been reading Transurfing for the past two months. 198 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:25,280 So I've had something to talk about for the past like 60 episodes, probably it was Ben. 199 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:29,280 I've had something to talk about Transurfing for the past 60 episodes. 200 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:38,280 I haven't really I like right now I'm just reading the linchpin and I just started it. 201 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,280 So I'm not really sure like what to talk about. 202 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,280 Actually, I'm just going to give a lesson on the linchpin. 203 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:51,280 So far, what he's saying is your business you have to have continuity. 204 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:58,280 You have to have reoccurring reoccurring payments because if you just have like single time purchases, 205 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:02,280 then you're not going to be able to scale your business. 206 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:06,280 And also when you want to sell, you're not going to be able to sell it for that much. 207 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:19,280 And one change that he made was he was originally doing webinars and having his like on the thank you page of the registration, 208 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:29,280 he would like send them to like buy a book or something just like a $37 to $99 offer. 209 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:41,280 And that would kind of recoup the ads advertisement spent and then whatever he sold on the webinar would just be profit. 210 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:52,280 But what they changed was on the second after the on the thank you page, they actually got the people to start their free trial. 211 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:57,280 So that sends them to create a free trial. 212 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,280 So that is gets them into their continuity like reoccurring payment subscription. 213 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:13,280 And then on the webinar, it's also an upsell into a big continuity package like reoccurring payment. 214 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:20,280 So that is kind of where I'm at with just chapter one of the book. 215 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:31,280 And again, I'm going to be reading the rest of the book over the following days and I'll be getting the lessons learned from Russell Brunson himself in person. 216 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:36,280 So that will actually be something I don't know. 217 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,280 Honestly, there's a few thoughts going through my head with that. 218 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:50,280 One thought is when I am sitting in class like in a lecture, I don't remember anything. 219 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:55,280 But then so I'm kind of thinking if I'm sitting in funnel I can live I'm not going to remember much. 220 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,280 But then again, there's two differences in class. 221 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,280 I don't want to be there funnel I can live I want to be there in class. 222 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:06,280 The teachers teach kind of they just say things. 223 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:13,280 But at funnel I can live they're going to be telling stories and stories is exactly how you like remember things. 224 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,280 So that's kind of that's what I'm thinking with that. 225 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:35,280 But I'm actually right now my current plan once I'm done with the lunchpin and once I'm done with being in the once I'm done with what what is funnel I can live once I'm done with funnel I can live when I get home. 226 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:58,280 My current plan is to dive into these 180 books. The ultimate reading list for human beings something that I've been talking about for probably the past like month and this reading list is something I really want to get into and that's my current plans right now. 227 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:27,280 But I have a suspicion that my plans may change after funnel I can live because I'm probably going to want to read more about business and I have a feeling that funnel I can live may completely shift my mindset again into going into business like learning more about business because right now I'm not doing anything for business other than podcasts and I'm not doing. 228 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:32,280 To be honest, I'm not really sure if I even have enough time to do anything for business. 229 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,280 But then again that is kind of just excuses. 230 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,280 Because I definitely have time throughout the day. 231 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:44,280 It's just I decide to prioritize different things for different reasons. 232 00:25:44,280 --> 00:26:04,280 So I could absolutely free up like a few hours every single day. For example, one change that I'm going to make right away when I get home from Florida is instead of biking all the way home after school to eat and then bike all the way back to the gym. 233 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,280 And then by comb. 234 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:12,280 I'm just going to go straight to the gym from school and then bike home and then eat. 235 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:24,280 That will be a change and that's definitely going to save probably like at least 30 minutes to my day just from the bike and from. 236 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:31,280 Yeah, just from the bike ride because that's like two less bike rides that I'd have to do. 237 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:36,280 Yeah, two less bike rides and it takes about like 15 minutes. 238 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:49,280 So yeah, it would save me 30 minutes. And then another thing is I like there's one thing that I've been thinking about a lot lately right now. 239 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:55,280 I feel as though going to the gym is like it's taken away from business. 240 00:26:55,280 --> 00:27:07,280 Even though I did like lower my gym time by a lot like I'm I used to go to the gym seven days a week and now I'm going to the gym four to five days a week. 241 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,280 I go to the gym three days on two days off. 242 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:19,280 But I stand I have like even cut down my gym time once I'm there to like literally like 25 minutes to 30 minutes. 243 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:31,280 And I still feel as though it's still taken away. So there's one thing that I had heard from my friend saw Hamza video. 244 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:39,280 One of my other friends actually not the one that I usually talk about one of my other friends told me about what Hamza said. 245 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:52,280 He said that when he was focusing on entrepreneurship, he was only going to the gym once a week just to maintain because he wanted to focus all his time on entrepreneurship. 246 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:58,280 And he was just going to the gym once to maintain and not not lose his muscle. 247 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:04,280 So like I heard that when he said that like a month or a few months ago. 248 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:11,280 And I was like no I'm not doing that I'm going to have it all but I'm not sure if you can actually do that. 249 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:15,280 So I don't know I've been trying to have it all. 250 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:25,280 But like I said I'm not doing anything for business except for podcasting which is very good that I'm podcasting. 251 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:34,280 I feel as though this will help me a lot but I don't know it's there's there's still like a lot that I could do. 252 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:39,280 But the thing is I'm not even sure if I magically freed up like five hours a day. 253 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:51,280 I'm not even sure what I would do like when I was first getting into this like a couple months ago after I read all of Russell Brunson's books. 254 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:58,280 I was like flowing with ideas I had so much ideas like if you look back in my notebook a couple months ago. 255 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:06,280 I was like writing idea after idea after idea and then now I don't even know like where I would start. 256 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:11,280 But I could if I just sat down for a few minutes I could like figure out where to start. 257 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:30,280 I could figure out like the most optimal way forward but the thing is I'm not even sure I'm not even sure if it would be the most optimal way forward because I like I've been one quote that I remember from 258 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:41,280 Transurfing is people who are not listening to their hearts are not makers and I'm saying maker with a capital M like that's the creator creative your world. 259 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:59,280 There are people who don't listen to their heart are not makers they are making mistakes and that's one of the one of the very impactful quotes that I heard and he said it towards the end of the book probably like the last chapter. 260 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:09,280 So that just shows like how important is to listen to your heart and I'm not really sure like how to listen. 261 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:14,280 No I'm just making excuses I just have to sit down and figure it out. 262 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:28,280 Figure out what to do moving forward and if you like if you guys have any product ideas or no not practically ideas if you guys have any like problems that you're experiencing. 263 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:33,280 That you think I could solve. 264 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:48,280 Email me James at a sentimental.com and if I see enough of enough people having the same problem then I would solve it and now this is assuming that this is me assuming that people are more people are actually listening to this show. 265 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:56,280 Which I haven't checked my analytics in a few weeks so I don't actually know how many people are listening to the show. 266 00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:01,280 So could be a lot could be a little could be no one. 267 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:08,280 But this is like this is another like this is what I'm talking about. 268 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:16,280 I don't know what to talk about right now and I haven't even I was just reading Transurfing yesterday and I don't know what to talk about. 269 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:22,280 Usually I would talk about exactly what I learned in the book today. 270 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:32,280 But I didn't read Transurfing. So I'm going to have to figure out some other source stream of information to talk about. 271 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:41,280 So I don't just have like terrible episodes where I'm just kind of mumbling along. 272 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:57,280 But I just figured out something to say this morning I actually went fishing with my dad and we went up to Lake Michigan and we were we were at this one part. 273 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:11,280 I think it's called Mentros Harbor or Mentros Bay or something like that. It's basically a harbor where a bunch of there's a marina right near it. 274 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:18,280 And we the first time I went fishing I've only been twice so far the first time and today. 275 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:28,280 But the first time we went we went to the same spot except the way that it is is it's kind of like a double sided. 276 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:34,280 Let me explain. So there's land on one side and then there's the lake and then there's land. 277 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,280 So there's kind of like this little island in the middle. 278 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:42,280 But we were on the outside. We were not on the island. 279 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:48,280 That's when we were on the outside. No fish and my dad decided that we should go on the inside this time. 280 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:53,280 And it was like a very windy day. It was pretty chilly. 281 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:59,280 I was wearing a sweatshirt and I was kind of shaking. I was shivering a little bit towards the end. 282 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:03,280 But all around us is pretty good experience. 283 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:16,280 And we were there was this one spot where I was sitting and I was sitting on this kind of like mini lighthouse where it was like a dock. 284 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:21,280 But it wasn't for ships. It was just a dock that extended out for the lighthouse. 285 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:32,280 And then the lighthouse was like it was on a foundation of cement that was like raised above the dock. 286 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:46,280 So I climbed up to that foundation of cement and I would just sit there and I mean I was fishing but I was I don't really consider what I was doing today fishing. 287 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:58,280 I was kind of just sitting there enjoying the the experience that the day I was sending out my the line but I wasn't really worried too much about a fish. 288 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:04,280 If if my line got a bite then I would obviously but I've never caught a fish even today. 289 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:15,280 I didn't catch a fish but I was sitting on the lighthouse and I was just looking out in the lake and the view was amazing. 290 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:25,280 So I could see the entire city on the right side and then I saw the entire lake and I couldn't see the other side of the lake because it's like Michigan and it's huge. 291 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:37,280 So I couldn't see the other side of the lake and the waves were very like they're crashing about they were even crashing like almost up to where I was. 292 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:50,280 So they were very like wild and rapid but I was looking out and where I was standing it was very cloudy and it was like storm clouds. 293 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:56,280 It was windy and it was kind of drizzling but it wasn't really raining that much. 294 00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:09,280 And then so I was sitting in this like darkness kind of just enjoying the views a very awesome view just watching this the waves crashing just sitting there. 295 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:22,280 And then I was looking out in the distance like towards the other side of the lake that I couldn't even see. It was like bright. 296 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:27,280 It was a very sunny on the other side so it was such an awesome thing. 297 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:37,280 It was so cool and I didn't have my phone because I don't bring my phone places so I didn't bring my phone with me but I would have taken a picture of that. 298 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:45,280 That would have been awesome. But I'm glad that I didn't bring my phone because it's I wouldn't have had the same experience. 299 00:35:45,280 --> 00:36:03,280 That's that's what I noticed when I have my phone. I'm not present and even if it's powered off but if it's in the proximity then I'm like subconsciously thinking about it and it's subconsciously affecting my thoughts and my actions. 300 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:15,280 But that's I want to I want to talk about meditation because meditation has been so valuable for me. 301 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:32,280 I was I was I've been meditating for the past like couple months very consistently multiple times a day and I was able to experience that thing today at the lighthouse at the lake. 302 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:40,280 And I was I was able to experience that and especially now that I have this new understanding of the world. 303 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:58,280 It just was a it was a surreal phenomenal experience because even when I was driving towards even when we were driving to that spot when we were on the car ride there I was like looking out and the world. 304 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:06,280 I just see the world so much more different even though I've been I've seen all of these places before I just looked at them differently. 305 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:19,280 They just seemed different when I like when I was going today and it just kind of goes to show that I am like moving towards my goals even though I can't really see them. 306 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:35,280 Even though I can't really see the changes and I am like definitely my worldview is definitely changing and like my lens on life is definitely changing because I was like in awe just looking around at the outskirts of the city. 307 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:49,280 It was pretty sure as Lakeshore Drive in Chicago and it's like amazing looking out at the beaches and all the green the grass the lake like all of that stuff. 308 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:55,280 It was at like seven in the morning seven thirty in the morning Monday morning. 309 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,280 There's few people out. 310 00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:00,280 It was awesome. 311 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:07,280 That's another thing just to completely shift the topic. 312 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:18,280 I want to talk about how most of my podcast I've been having a five episode like cushion. 313 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:29,280 I've episodes scheduled to have the time but right now for the past couple of days I've been having a seven episode cushion simply because I wanted to prepare for the funnel hacking live just in case I can't. 314 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,280 I can't upload for some reason or record. 315 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:44,280 And I actually think that I want to maintain a seven episode cushion because it's I feel like it would be a better experience for you guys. 316 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:58,280 Now let me explain when I was when I had the five episode cushion it would I would say like today's Monday but the episode wouldn't even like go live until like Sunday or something like that. 317 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,280 Or Saturday. 318 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:16,280 So if you guys are listening live like well like whenever it's released then it would be hard harder to keep up with that when is five days but seven days. 319 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:23,280 I can say it's Monday and then you guys will be listening on Monday if you're listening right when it's released. 320 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:32,280 So you'll listen on Monday and then you'll just have an understanding that it's one week in advance. 321 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:43,280 So I think that I'm going to maintain a seven episode cushion because five episodes is fine. 322 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:49,280 It's good but I feel like it's unnecessarily confusing. 323 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:53,280 Seven episodes would be better. 324 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,280 But meditation. 325 00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:00,280 I have still not been able to get a breakthrough in my meditation. 326 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,280 I'm just waiting for the day to come where I have a breakthrough. 327 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:13,280 And honestly I haven't even been really reading much about the gateway experience recently because I haven't really had. 328 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:23,280 I haven't been at school in like since like a couple days and I usually read it during school because I what else is there to do at school. 329 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:24,280 Nothing. 330 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:31,280 So I usually read about it at school but I haven't read about it in a little bit. 331 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,280 So maybe I don't know. 332 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:42,280 I think I have enough knowledge to achieve focus 10 because right now that's my goal focus 10 because then once I get focused 10. 333 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,280 I can move on to focus 12. 334 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:53,280 And that's what I really want to get to focus 12 and 15 so I can manifest and visualize. 335 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,280 And I assume it's simply just practice. 336 00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:04,280 You just got to keep getting at it because there was this one woman that I talked about that I read about on Reddit. 337 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:09,280 She was she is a Buddhist and she had been meditating consistently for 14 years. 338 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:15,280 She was probably only able to get focus 12 once without the gateway tapes. 339 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:30,280 And then once she got the gateway tapes she was able to achieve like the she was able to complete the whole course and get like focus 27 or whatever the last focus level is within like three months. 340 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:40,280 So she had a very strong foundation so that allowed her to actually like move on to the higher focus levels. 341 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,280 So I assume that it's simply just creating a very strong foundation and that's what I'm doing. 342 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:59,280 But I've actually I've been focusing on the wave one which is focus 10 but for the past like day or so for the past like three or four meditations. 343 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,280 I've been doing the introduction to focus 12. 344 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:12,280 For some reason I just wanted to change things up even though focus 10 the intro or the free flow focus 10 is more than enough. 345 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:16,280 And it's probably more optimal to do that anyways. 346 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,280 So yeah, I'll probably just go back to that. 347 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:32,280 And there's one thing that I was thinking about doing because I only did the like the introduction, the first tape on the whole set like wave one, the first tape. 348 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:39,280 I've only done that once and but all the rest I've done multiple times. 349 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:51,280 And so I'm and also when I first did number one, I was a brand new beginner at the gateway tapes and now I've been doing the tapes for almost two weeks now. 350 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:57,280 Tomorrow will be two weeks into the gateway tapes. 351 00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:06,280 And so I'll have a lot more experience so I think that I might actually completely restart. 352 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:12,280 Yeah, I'm actually going to do that tonight during my nighttime meditation session. 353 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:16,280 I'm going to restart the tapes completely. 354 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:22,280 I start at number one, the introduction, which doesn't even get to focus 10. 355 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:29,280 It just gets to focus three and it's like the they basically introduce you to Hemisync. 356 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:46,280 So I'm going to do that tonight because I want to actually restart it now with the better knowledge because I feel like I was kind of just rushing through it originally because I wanted to just get focus 10 over with and then get to focus 12. 357 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,280 But it obviously it obviously takes a little bit more work than that. 358 00:43:50,280 --> 00:44:06,280 So I'm going to restart it and a plus it'll be a benefit because I want I'm definitely going to be giving the headphones and the CD player to my friend a few times this week to let him use it because he's never used it before. 359 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,280 And I feel like he would like it a lot. 360 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:19,280 So I'm definitely going to be letting him borrow that, especially since he's going to be letting me borrow his computer for like an hour and a half every day. 361 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:31,280 Hopefully we haven't like set up schedules yet, but I'm definitely going to be prioritizing that like that's my biggest priority getting that done. 362 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:40,280 But man, this episode has been like the first episode in like a long time that I haven't really had anything to talk about. 363 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:49,280 So I guess this is part of the journey, like having dry spells, like not really knowing what to talk about. 364 00:44:49,280 --> 00:45:01,280 But I'm going to have to figure out a solution to this quickly because I assume that I'm going to have so much to talk about over the following week, like over the next five days. 365 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:12,280 But for the time being like today, and I don't want it to get back to this when I get back from Florida. 366 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:19,280 So it's kind of just like me just talking about random stuff. 367 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:26,280 You know, I'm just going to explain some Transurfing because when in doubt, go back to Transurfing. 368 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:35,280 Then reality Transurfing, that is the probably the most foundational book that I've ever read. 369 00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:55,280 It basically explains the way the world works and how to like how to kind of maneuver yourself in that in the environment of the world and maneuver yourself in such a way to where you can actually gain more control than you otherwise. 370 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,280 Would not have had. 371 00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:06,280 And I just learned about Transurfing six months ago. 372 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:13,280 And it's absolutely changed my life. Only six months. I'm only 18. I have my entire life ahead of me. 373 00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:32,280 And I'm definitely going to be reading about it a lot more in the future, especially because the first book that I'm going to be reading when I get back, my current plan is the my current plan for when I get back, I'm going to be reading a book called Dancing After the Music Stops. 374 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,280 Now I'm going to be reading seven books at once, but that's a whole thing. 375 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:50,280 But one of the books is going to be called Dancing After the Music Stops. And in that book, it's a guy who actually discovered, he read that entire reading list that I was talking about. 376 00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:57,280 It was actually the person who compiled that reading list, the 180 books, the ultimate reading list for human beings. 377 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:03,280 He compiled it. He said Transurfing is the foundation to that reading list and the foundation to life. 378 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:15,280 I bought his book. I read the introduction. And I actually read the Table of Consents and he has an entire chapter dedicated to reality Transurfing. 379 00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,280 So I'm going to be reading more about it in that book. 380 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:31,280 And plus another, okay, this is actually huge because I was actually worried that I was going to kind of, all of my Transurfing knowledge and mindset and worldview was going to atrophy. 381 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:39,280 Because when I first read Transurfing, the first time through after I finished, I kind of just forgot about it slowly but surely. 382 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:47,280 And like my actions definitely affected, were definitely going back to my old habits. 383 00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:55,280 But I just kind of switched to business books and I didn't really think about Transurfing at all or read about it anymore. 384 00:47:55,280 --> 00:48:17,280 But what I'm trying to, when I, my current plan of the books I'm going to read in the future, when I get back from Florida are, I said I was going to have seven books because there's a reading method that the guy who wrote Dancing After Music stops who also compiled the reading list. 385 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:26,280 He said that if you pick up seven books at once, read one until you lose focus and then switch to the next and then repeat that. 386 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:30,280 And then interspersed with pushups every once in a while. 387 00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:36,280 And you can like read a book a day using that method. 388 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:42,280 So apparently that method is extremely efficient at reading books. 389 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:52,280 So I'm definitely going to be trying that out and I actually have, I already have the first two books in that seven books set. 390 00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,280 One is called Dancing After Music stops which I just talked about. 391 00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,280 Another is called Die Wise. 392 00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,280 But I already bought those two. They're already here. 393 00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:04,280 But there's five more that I'm going to be reading. 394 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:17,280 And one of them is called Toofty the Priestess. And it was basically, it's another book by Vadim Zellin about Transurfing. 395 00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:33,280 And it's my friend, Rhett, listened to the audiobook and he's basically saying that he basically said that it's like how to actually apply it and how Vadim Zellin would actually go about applying that Transurfing technique in real life. 396 00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:51,280 So I'm definitely going to be still learning more about Transurfing, especially because it's going to be in Toofty the Priestess, an entire book dedicated to Transurfing by Vadim Zellin, the person who actually coined the term. 397 00:49:51,280 --> 00:50:03,280 But also, or the person who's the author of the book, Reality Transurfing, but also in Dancing After Music stops, there's a chapter about it. 398 00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:06,280 So he's probably been referencing it throughout the book. 399 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,280 And in the second set of seven. 400 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:21,280 So the way it's going to work is I'm going to get seven books and then, like, as books are finished, as I finished books, because they're probably not all going to get finished at the same time. 401 00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:24,280 As I finished books, I'm just going to replace them with a new one. 402 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:42,280 And what I'm thinking of doing is when I finish Toofty, I'm going to replace it with It-Foot, which is basically like the prequel to Toofty. 403 00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,280 So that's another Transurfing. 404 00:50:44,280 --> 00:51:00,280 And then eventually, depending on where I'm at, I'm going to replace It-Foot with... depending if I actually feel I want it or not, I'm going to replace It-Foot with the 78 days of Transurfing. 405 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,280 And I'm pretty sure that would be all of his books. 406 00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,280 There might be another one that I'm missing, but... 407 00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:18,280 Because currently, I've only read one of his books, but there are like three other books. Toofty, It-Foot, and then 78 days, Beginner's Guide or something like that. 408 00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:22,280 And I've only read one of his books twice and it's changed my life. 409 00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,280 So it just makes sense to read the rest of his books. 410 00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:28,280 And I assume... like, Mike... 411 00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,280 Alright, so let me explain this. 412 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,280 There's something that I discovered. 413 00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:44,280 For the first, like, year of me reading... or no, let's say first six months of me reading, I was really just reading about mainstream stuff. 414 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:51,280 Even... no, even like the first year, like my entire time reading, I've only been reading mainstream. 415 00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:53,280 Like, classic books. 416 00:51:53,280 --> 00:52:00,280 Like, How to Win Friends, Influence Others, Way to Superior Man's Breath, The Oxygen Manage. 417 00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:07,280 All these books are just... like, they're good books, but they're just normal, basic books that most people read. 418 00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:17,280 But one of the reasons why I'm so excited about this reading list is because these books I've never even heard of before, and they're not mainstream. 419 00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:24,280 They're like... they're definitely kind of esoteric, I think. 420 00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:29,280 Now, I've never heard of them before, so that's not to say that they are not mainstream. 421 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:37,280 But they're not, like, classic books that I've seen on anyone's reading list. 422 00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:41,280 Like, Hamza's reading list, MJ DeMarco's reading list. 423 00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:47,280 All these reading lists that I followed when I first... 424 00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:51,280 Because when I first started getting into reading, I would follow other people's reading lists. 425 00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:59,280 So I had a basic idea of many different books that are kind of common amongst all of these people. 426 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:11,280 And this ultimate reading list, like, has the first hundred books, none of them are, like, common. 427 00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:15,280 But, like, the last, like, 80 books, a lot of them are common. 428 00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:23,280 So, like, the way the Spirit Man is in that, like, 48 Laws of Power, I read half of that. 429 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,280 I didn't really like it, but that's in the ultimate reading list. 430 00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:33,280 So I'm gonna, like, read the first hundred books, for sure, because those I feel are the most valuable. 431 00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:42,280 And then the last, like, 80 books, I feel I'm gonna read, but not... like, they're not... maybe not. 432 00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:46,280 I don't want to make a whole plan for 180 books, because that's a lot of books. 433 00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:51,280 I've only read, like, maybe 30 books so far. I've only been reading for a year. 434 00:53:51,280 --> 00:54:00,280 But with this new reading method of... this reading method of reading a book a day, then... I don't know. 435 00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:05,280 Maybe we'll see how... we'll see. 436 00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:14,280 Especially because in December, literally, when I get back from Florida, it'll be October. 437 00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,280 So October, November, December. 438 00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:23,280 Literally, like, two and a half months, and I'm graduated. I'm done with school. 439 00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:26,280 Because I'm graduating early for a semester. 440 00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:31,280 So I already have a half day, but I'm also in two and a half months, I'm out of school. 441 00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:35,280 I have so much more time. 442 00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:39,280 And if I can get, like, a lot of books in... 443 00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:47,280 I mean, honestly, what I've been doing for the past year of me just getting so much books in and reading so much books 444 00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,280 has absolutely changed my life. 445 00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:54,280 And I haven't really done much. 446 00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:58,280 Like, just reading Transurfing twice changed my life. 447 00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,280 Even though I haven't really done much. 448 00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:07,280 Just reading The Secrets Trilogy once by Russell Brunson changed my life. 449 00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:15,280 Even though I haven't even done much. Like, all I've done so far, the only thing that I actually took action on consistently... 450 00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:20,280 Like, I've taken action on... I built funnels before. I've built some stuff. 451 00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:28,280 Like, I actually went in... Reading those books caused me to expand my comfort zone because I wanted to build funnels for others. 452 00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:34,280 So I went through that whole comfort zone challenge of going into businesses. 453 00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,280 So that, like, helped that change my life as well. 454 00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:42,280 But the biggest thing that's changed my life is this podcast. 455 00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:46,280 I haven't made a single penny off of this podcast. 456 00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:49,280 And it's changed my life. 457 00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:57,280 If you record 70 episodes, once one episode every single day, for 70 days... 458 00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,280 Like, even less than 70 days. 459 00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:05,280 Even on, like, day 50 or 40 or 30, I knew that... 460 00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:11,280 I knew how valuable it was because I'm actually starting to find my voice. 461 00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:20,280 And I haven't had really anything much of value to speak on for this past hour. 462 00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:27,280 Yet I was able to fill up the time with a lot of different tidbits of knowledge and a lot of different things. 463 00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:31,280 That is simply because I've practiced 70 times. 464 00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,280 I practiced 70 times. 465 00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:38,280 And it also helps reading. 466 00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,280 Like, learning a lot. 467 00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:50,280 Like, I probably would not have had nearly as much success with this podcast on a personal level as I have had if I didn't read as well. 468 00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:59,280 Because all of these episodes, like, there's eight episodes simply dedicated to one book, Transurfing. 469 00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:03,280 I've recorded eight episodes dedicated to Transurfing. 470 00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,280 That's a lot. 471 00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:13,280 And a lot of episodes, like, I'm pretty sure, like, probably 80% of my episodes I've talked about Transurfing. 472 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,280 Maybe even more. 473 00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:19,280 And so that book is amazing. 474 00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:23,280 Like, if you guys have not even bought it, what are you doing? 475 00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,280 You gotta go buy it right now. 476 00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:30,280 I actually want to tell you a story about how one of my friends... 477 00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:35,280 He actually is a junior. 478 00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,280 So I'm a senior, he's a junior. 479 00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,280 And he has been... 480 00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:43,280 It's evident that he's been on self-improvement for quite some time. 481 00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,280 Maybe like a few months, maybe a year. 482 00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:46,280 I don't know. 483 00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,280 I don't know his story, but it's evident that he's been on self-improvement. 484 00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:56,280 And I am ahead of him, but I am a year older than him. 485 00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,280 So let me explain. 486 00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:00,280 He... 487 00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:07,280 Okay, so actually, I'm ahead of him in current time, but he's actually ahead of me. 488 00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,280 So when I was... 489 00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:14,280 Let's compare me to him at the same age. 490 00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:16,280 So let's trans... 491 00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:23,280 Let's teleport me back one year ago today, and then compare that person to him. 492 00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:26,280 He has read a bunch of books already. 493 00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,280 And he just started transurfing. 494 00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:33,280 I didn't start transurfing until like six months ago. 495 00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,280 So I wouldn't have started transurfing for another six months. 496 00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,280 But he is six months ahead of me on that. 497 00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:47,280 So he is definitely going to have a lot of progress because he started reading transurfing a couple days ago. 498 00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:53,280 And I can already tell that many things are changing in him. 499 00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:58,280 He is definitely changing as a person, and it's very good. 500 00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:06,280 Because one of his friends that I don't really know, but I saw him, but my friend Franklin knows him. 501 00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:12,280 And he came up to us and came up to Franklin and said like, hey, what's up the other day? 502 00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,280 And then it would have been awkward if he didn't say hi to me. 503 00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,280 So he was like, hello. 504 00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,280 And then I'm just going to say it's George. 505 00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:27,280 George is the person's name of the person who's on self improvement who's ahead of me, but not really. 506 00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:28,280 That I was just talking about. 507 00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:32,280 And he was like, hey George brainwasher. 508 00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:36,280 So that is the fact that he said that. 509 00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:46,280 It's just extremely evident that I'm really excited for like that just shows how valuable transurfing is. 510 00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:49,280 Because I've just told George about transurfing. 511 00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:51,280 That's it. 512 00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,280 And I don't know. 513 00:59:53,280 --> 01:00:06,280 So take that story with what you will because I basically forced George to, I basically went on Amazon for him and then had him purchase it with me standing in front of him. 514 01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,280 So if I could do that with you, I would. 515 01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:11,280 So just get transurfing. 516 01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:19,280 Alright, so to wrap things up, don't forget to download your favorite episodes and subscribe to the Ascend Momentum show. 517 01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:45,280 But before you guys leave, make sure to look up at the sky.