Meditation is an Exercise

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,220 So the big question is this, how do young men like us who didn't listen to society, 2 00:00:09,220 --> 00:00:17,120 who are on our own, how do we grow and improve ourselves so that we can live a better tomorrow? 3 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,160 That is a question and this show will give you the answers. 4 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:30,760 My name is James Radzinski and welcome to the Ascent Momentum Show. 5 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:32,760 Welcome, welcome, welcome. 6 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:34,560 Welcome back everyone. 7 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:36,960 Today is Monday. 8 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:45,080 My second week of school, but also the first day of us starting this new kayaking unit. 9 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:52,160 So we get to go in the pool and kayak basically during gym class. 10 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:56,200 It's really fun. 11 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:03,000 But today, like I said, today was the first day of it and it's a co-ed class. 12 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:09,360 And the way my school is structured, everyone goes in the field house and they kind of just 13 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:18,000 hang out in the field house during gym and the boys locker rooms are in the field house. 14 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:25,400 So the boys locker room are on one side of the field house and then the pool that we 15 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,800 swim in is on the other side of the field house. 16 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:35,200 So I have to walk all the way across the field house, shirtless and barefoot every single 17 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,080 day, twice a day. 18 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:41,080 Just to go to the pool and wants to go back to the locker room. 19 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:49,400 So I mean, I'm saying this as humbly as possible. 20 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,160 I am, I've been lifting for two years. 21 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,680 So I am a little jacked. 22 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:02,440 But I, I noticed that, oh, and I'm also tan. 23 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,120 I'm really tan right now. 24 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:12,440 And I have a six pack like my abs are cut out very, they're cut out pretty well and 25 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:13,960 they're very defined. 26 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,920 So all of that stuff combined. 27 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:20,480 That's just context. 28 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:25,560 And I noticed today that people treat you differently. 29 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:30,800 They definitely treat you differently when, if you don't have a shirt on, if you're jacked 30 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:41,920 and tan, because today, the, okay, so the first second I walked out of the locker room 31 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:45,040 when I was, I was shirtless and barefoot and that was my whole class. 32 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:46,800 I'd do it, but I went first. 33 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,760 I was like individual because none of my other classmates were done changing. 34 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:56,200 So I went first all the way across. 35 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:02,160 And the first person I saw literally just stared at my abs. 36 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,840 And then I kept walking because I didn't know that person. 37 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:12,680 And then I went out of the locker room and then one dude was super happy to see me, which 38 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:20,560 he normally is pretty happy to see me, but there was just a different vibe. 39 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:30,400 And then that was my friend and then I saw one of the teachers that I used to, used to 40 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:37,280 be my flag football coach and he usually is pretty nice to me, but today was like extra, 41 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:38,920 extra nice. 42 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:44,640 And then he was like walking me all the way across the field house and then he kind of 43 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,720 drifted off because he had to be somewhere. 44 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:55,000 And then I saw this one teacher, she was one of the gym teachers and I'd never talked to 45 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,240 her before, but she was like, good morning. 46 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:03,400 She was like very thrilled and excited, which I'd seen her before and she never said that 47 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:04,400 to me before. 48 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:10,720 I said, I've never even seen, I don't even know, it doesn't matter, but people definitely 49 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,600 treat you differently. 50 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:19,880 And honestly, I wasn't expecting it and I'm not sure how to think about it. 51 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:24,360 I'm not sure how I think about it, how I feel about it. 52 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:33,080 Because this is the first time that I've ever really been in a public area with friend, 53 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:35,440 like a lot of people, shirtless. 54 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:41,000 I've been in public shirtless, but this is the first time I've been shirtless. 55 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,560 Well, actually last year I was shirtless too, but it's not the same because I'm more jacked 56 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:51,960 now and I'm more tan. 57 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:56,000 And it's just, I don't know, I don't know how I feel about it. 58 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:03,680 I kind of like it, but it also kind of makes me, I don't know, I'll figure it out. 59 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,240 I might try and abuse it. 60 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,040 I don't know, dude. 61 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:17,480 I'm just saying things at this point, but that's something that is pretty exciting. 62 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,280 People are very friendly. 63 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:28,000 I'll let you guys know how it goes again tomorrow. 64 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,960 But I want to talk about something. 65 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:37,120 And this is something that I wrote in my journal last night and then my friend also turned, 66 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:42,640 it turns out he wrote it in his journal last night as well. 67 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,240 It's that we're not taking action in our business. 68 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,720 Yeah, we're podcasting, whatever. 69 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:54,920 It's not the big movers. 70 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:59,320 We're just studying and we're learning a lot. 71 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:07,040 And then he said, he walked up to me at the gym today, he said, we know too much. 72 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:08,040 And that's the problem. 73 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:13,440 We know so much, but we don't understand anything. 74 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:23,040 And then after we talked about how we're not taking action and how we're slacking, I went, 75 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:27,760 it was today's a sunny day, very sunny summer day. 76 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:34,880 And I went to the sun deck where people tan on the top of my gym. 77 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:45,480 I just sat there and contemplated and thought for maybe 10, 20 minutes about that. 78 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:50,520 Because I brought it to my attention last night, but I obviously forgot about it because 79 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:56,480 I didn't remember it until he brought it to my attention today. 80 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,840 And it's definitely true. 81 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:03,720 I'm not doing enough or I'm not even doing anything. 82 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,640 The only thing I'm doing is podcasting. 83 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:15,280 And to be honest, it's good, but it's not really, it's not going to make me money unless 84 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:20,200 I do something with it. 85 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:27,560 And we're in the business to make a lot of money, not to not make a lot of money, if 86 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,560 that makes sense. 87 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:39,720 And then when I was in the shower, showering, I was thinking he's taking it, he's going 88 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,320 to start taking action soon. 89 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:47,280 So if I don't take action soon, I'm going to be left in the dust and he's going to surpass 90 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:53,480 me so far because I was making a lot of connections. 91 00:07:53,480 --> 00:08:01,000 Maybe I've been studying Transurfing for, I've been studying it for like five months. 92 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,840 He's been studying it for maybe three or four or two. 93 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,320 I don't know. 94 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,120 I wasn't even studying it all five months. 95 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,760 I bought Transurfing five months. 96 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:12,760 Excuse me. 97 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:24,440 Let me get some water. 98 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,320 He, I bought Transurfing five months ago and he probably bought it two or three months 99 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,320 ago. 100 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:40,240 But what I'm trying to say is that we're, we've just been studying, we've been implementing 101 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:45,000 some of the principles, but we haven't really been taking the big action. 102 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:50,440 And I remembered he reminded me that we did not know much. 103 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,080 We just knew a bunch. 104 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:59,360 But once we took action and did the cold approach to girls, that's when we really started to 105 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:00,720 understand things. 106 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:06,240 And that's when we started to change because we took action. 107 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,320 And then once he said that, I remembered a quote that I always repeat. 108 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:15,080 And it's when you hear something, you forget it. 109 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:19,560 When you see something, you remember it. 110 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:24,480 When you do something, you understand it. 111 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:30,880 So us doing cold approach really helped us understand Transurfing. 112 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:37,840 And we even know and we remember a lot about business, but we don't really understand business. 113 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:42,880 And it's not until we actually take action. 114 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,920 So that's where I'm at right now. 115 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:50,120 He knows what he needs to do to take action, but I don't. 116 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,360 I have no idea what I need to do. 117 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:58,440 I don't even know where to begin, which is crazy because a couple months, like one month 118 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:07,400 ago, I had so many ideas, but now I realize that I just need to take, let me just, let 119 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,680 me rewind for a second. 120 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:15,120 When I first got into business, I bought a mini journal, a mini notebook that could 121 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,800 fit in my pocket. 122 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:23,920 And when I was trying to figure out my business idea, I knew that I needed to give it some 123 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:25,760 serious thought. 124 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:33,320 So I bought that journal and I just went, I took it and went on a very long walk, probably 125 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:40,400 one or two hours, shirtless and barefoot around my park, all the way to the park and around 126 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,560 it. 127 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:47,840 And I would just sit at the bench and contemplate and write a bunch of stuff down. 128 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,280 So that's kind of the stage where I'm at right now. 129 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,960 What do I need to do moving forward? 130 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:55,360 What's the big? 131 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:01,160 What's the cold approach that I need to do relating to business? 132 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:07,720 What is the piece of action that I need to take that is on the same level of cold approach 133 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,600 relating to business? 134 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,760 And cold approach is, if you don't understand what that means, it's when you walk up to a 135 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:22,360 random girl and start a conversation and ask for their number or even just start a conversation. 136 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,280 It doesn't even matter if you ask for the number. 137 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,960 And that's, I've done it two times so far. 138 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,240 I've done it probably 10 times so far, but on two different days. 139 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:39,320 So basically only two times. 140 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:49,160 And I kind of remember, I remember my framework for expanding your comfort zone that I was 141 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:55,040 talking about a lot, like a week ago or two weeks ago. 142 00:11:55,040 --> 00:12:02,480 And it's, you have to do something uncomfortable five times until it becomes comfortable or 143 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:06,460 until it enters your comfort zone on five separate days. 144 00:12:06,460 --> 00:12:10,280 So you can't just do it five times in one day back to back. 145 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:16,120 You have to do it once a day for five days. 146 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:22,720 So I'm on day two for the cold approach. 147 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,640 So essentially I need to spend three more days and I'm probably only going to do that 148 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:37,000 on the weekends, depending on if we have time or not. 149 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:45,200 But I need to figure out what is that cold approach for business? 150 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:50,040 What is the business cold approach that I need to do? 151 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:54,880 And that's what I'm going to, I'm going to sit in a, I'm going to contemplate a lot tomorrow 152 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:59,200 and tonight during my meditations. 153 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:06,080 Tomorrow I'm probably going to skip my morning study session and maybe go on a walk, maybe 154 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:17,760 just, I don't know, I'll figure it out. 155 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:26,840 But today was honestly, today's a very good day because I was suspicious that people treat 156 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,280 you different when you're shirtless. 157 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:36,480 And my suspicions were confirmed because I started to be suspicious after that experience 158 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,760 at the pool, they're at school this morning. 159 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:47,400 And then on the way home from the gym, I was riding my bike with Franklin, my friend. 160 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,800 And I decided to, we are, he had a shirt off. 161 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:52,900 So he said, take your shirt off. 162 00:13:52,900 --> 00:13:54,440 So we did it. 163 00:13:54,440 --> 00:14:05,240 And so I biked home shirtless and every single person was like very friendly and said hi. 164 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:15,360 And I think it's definitely true. 165 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:20,280 So over the next couple of days, I'm going to try and figure out what it is that I need 166 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,400 to do to take action. 167 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:31,360 Just try and figure it out. 168 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:39,120 I have maybe 26 days until my birthday. 169 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:45,680 And that's what I've been telling myself over the past two months that I'm not going to 170 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:50,840 accept payments until my birthday. 171 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:51,840 Why not? 172 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:56,600 I'm not in an obstacle and I can go around it. 173 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:10,000 It's just, I don't know, I have to sit in a lot of thought about this. 174 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:19,960 But I'm really excited for the future because lately I've been really focusing on, I actually 175 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,560 had one second. 176 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,080 Okay. 177 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,080 I am awake. 178 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:32,520 Lately I've been really focusing on staying awake and staying present because that is the 179 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:39,660 whole, you can't do Transurfing unless you're awake. 180 00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:46,440 And the more awake you are, the more effectively you'll be able to take hold of your own destiny 181 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:51,560 and move forward. 182 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:58,120 So I was trying to figure out ways to stay awake longer and just practice techniques, 183 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:04,800 practices to practice, but nothing really came up. 184 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,680 I think that meditation is just the best way. 185 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:18,080 And I've been meditating, I think that I've hit a stump where I'm meditating, but I've 186 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:22,640 kind of plateaued because I'm not pushing myself while I'm meditating. 187 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:29,600 I'm kind of just getting through it half heartedly and I'm not really pushing myself 188 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,440 to stay vigilant the whole time. 189 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:36,720 I kind of am just sleeping through the meditation, if you will. 190 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:43,840 And I think that I definitely, I know that that's anti or that's not effective. 191 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:51,760 I know that is definitely not helping me at all and it's hurting me probably more. 192 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:59,840 So I had to make it a point moving forward to, I had to re, I think that I have to realign, 193 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:04,640 reframe, reshift my thoughts and opinions about meditation. 194 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:10,440 Because currently my, I'm thinking that meditation is kind of just an easy exercise and you just 195 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:14,680 do it and then it's based off completion. 196 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,560 And you kind of can just sleep through it and you get benefit. 197 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:27,920 But I need to change, shift that mindset to, it's kind of like working out. 198 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:38,360 If you just go to the gym and sit around and lift 10 pound weights and barely do any reps, 199 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:41,320 you're not going to get any benefit off that. 200 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,200 And that's kind of what I'm doing with meditation. 201 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:51,000 So I have to treat meditation as one of my exercises because I'm just treating it as 202 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,240 basically sleeping. 203 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:57,400 I'm just falling asleep and I'm getting distracted a lot and it's not helping my brain. 204 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:04,960 Because now that I'm saying that, now I'm saying that it's kind of giving me the notion 205 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:10,200 that meditation is basically to train your brain to stay more vigilant and stay more 206 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:11,200 alert. 207 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:18,800 And if you're just sleeping through that training session, well then you're, you're going to 208 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:23,320 get sleeper results. 209 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,680 So that's, that's probably what the title of this. 210 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:33,000 I want to go in depth about that because I just kind of discovered this. 211 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:45,640 Meditation is a, is a exercise, meditation is a training session. 212 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,880 Meditation is a training session, not a sleeping session. 213 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,560 So let's talk about that. 214 00:18:53,560 --> 00:19:05,960 Actually I've been meditating and I've been laying down and kind of flexing, doing just 215 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,520 random things. 216 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:14,400 And last night I actually even stopped meditating in the middle of it and went to go read a 217 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:15,840 book. 218 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,440 That is how bad it's gotten. 219 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,480 Would you stop working out? 220 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:26,440 Would you stop lifting weights and then just start reading a book halfway through? 221 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:32,760 Actually a lot of people do that with their phone, but let's not get into that. 222 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:40,480 So that's, that's kind of like, that's just not helping me. 223 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,840 But what I learned last night, I actually learned some stuff out of the book that I 224 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:44,840 read. 225 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,760 There's this book called, Are You Dreaming that I picked up a long time ago and I read 226 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:56,320 halfway through because I wanted to, I wanted to learn how to lucid dream. 227 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:03,640 But obviously since I only read half of it, I kind of gave up on that and moved on. 228 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:09,200 But I, I remember, I know that the next thing is lucid dreaming for trans surfing and that's 229 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:17,640 how you are able to understand outer intention and plus the techniques that you use to become 230 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:24,080 a lucid dreamer is just all mindfulness and that's all, that's trans surfing, staying 231 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,880 mindful and staying present. 232 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,560 So it kind of goes hand in hand. 233 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:41,920 But what I'm saying is that, what I'm saying is that when I read that book about Are You 234 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:48,760 Dreaming, I read the table contents and looked for something new and unique that would inspire 235 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:58,320 me and towards the end it was talking about my, it was like meditations and lucid dreaming 236 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:02,400 or something like that or mindfulness and lucid dreaming. 237 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:09,160 So I read that whole pair, that whole chapter last night and it talked about, there was 238 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:15,200 this concept that it brought up called the monkey brain and it's from Buddhism and it's 239 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:26,760 basically the monkey brain is kind of what most people's brains are like 99% of the population's 240 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:35,240 brains, 99% of people are controlled by their monkey brain and that's basically just us. 241 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:40,480 It's not us but it's just the brain that we listen to. 242 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:45,480 Every single time you try and clear your mind and then you lose focus, you fall asleep, 243 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,360 that's the monkey brain. 244 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:56,640 And I remember hearing about that concept in a podcast a long time ago and I think that 245 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:03,760 I remember there are three types of brain, three types of kind of modes in your brain, 246 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:09,600 the monkey brain and then two other modes, I forgot what they are. 247 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:17,200 But the monkey brain is basically what prevents you from living your life. 248 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:24,760 And it said that back in the day, the reason why we have monkey brains is because of ancient 249 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,640 times we needed to survive. 250 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:36,360 And someone who was asleep all day and kind of just went off instinct and the reason why 251 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:44,360 the monkey brain is is because it doles all of your senses. 252 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:48,040 So you can't, you don't notice your breathing right now. 253 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,680 Now you do. 254 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:55,440 But you don't notice your feet, your toes, your shoes touching your toes. 255 00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:02,880 You don't notice the gravity pulling down your, on your butt, in your chair or in your 256 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:04,880 feet. 257 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:12,160 You don't notice the coldness on your back or the warmth in your hands. 258 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,760 All the, all these senses, we don't notice. 259 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,680 We're just tuned out. 260 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:28,240 And that happened during ancient, ancient times when we just needed to survive. 261 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:33,520 It's someone who isn't paying attention to any of their senses and is just focused on 262 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,800 one thing at a time. 263 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:40,840 That person is more likely to survive than someone else who is just in awe of all of 264 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:46,040 the senses and all of the feelings that they're experiencing at that moment all at the same 265 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,640 time. 266 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,640 So that's pretty much why the monkey brain is. 267 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:56,000 But now that we've built a world around us and we don't have to worry about survival, 268 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:02,160 we don't, like survival is not on our minds anymore. 269 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,640 It's simply just a fact that we're going to survive. 270 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:10,920 We're not going to get eaten by a lion or we're not going to get, we're not going to 271 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,600 starve to death. 272 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:20,920 I'm talking about my, I'm talking about just the average person. 273 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:28,280 And so since we don't have to, since we don't have to worry about survival as much as we 274 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:32,600 did back in the day, we get to worry about other things. 275 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:33,600 And that's the issue. 276 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,680 We switch our focus to the next thing to worry about. 277 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,520 And it's usually just made up by our minds. 278 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:43,640 That's just a problem that's made up by our minds that is not actually a real problem. 279 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:49,720 It's just our mind created it pretty much. 280 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,640 And that's the monkey brain. 281 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:58,040 But now, since we don't have to worry about survival, we can, we can wake up. 282 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:04,400 We can actually be present in the now, in the moment, and we can feel all of our senses. 283 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:09,720 And it's a lifelong journey to get to that point sometimes. 284 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,080 It'll take years of trainings, years of practice. 285 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:19,840 And I'm just beginning a couple of weeks ago, maybe a month ago, is when I decided to be 286 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,840 conscious and be awake. 287 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:28,040 And I'm still asleep more than half of the day. 288 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:37,160 So I know now that it's, it's a journey, it's a process and as of my knowledge now, the 289 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:46,120 only way to reduce your monkey brain and stay awake and vigilant most of the day is simply 290 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:59,000 through just pure dedication and pushing through just pure bulldoze through and just keep at 291 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,200 it. 292 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,560 I'm not sure if there's any practice or anything. 293 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:09,800 But now that I brought, now that it was brought to my attention, the meditation is an exercise 294 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:17,320 and not, and not a sleep, sleep. 295 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:26,480 Meditation is an exercise and not, not sleep time. 296 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,840 I think that that will help a lot with clearing the mind and staying more present, staying 297 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,560 more awake. 298 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:44,480 And what I did when I first started meditating is I did quantity over quality, but I'm, I 299 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,920 think that it's quality over quantity now. 300 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:56,680 I think that if you do 30 minutes of meditation, but you're asleep for over half of it, then 301 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:04,720 that's worse than five minutes of meditation when you are awake the entire time. 302 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:11,000 And that kind of, I kind of just connected a dot where when I first started meditating 303 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:20,560 maybe a year ago, I would do it during, it was either a year or two ago, one or two years 304 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,840 ago, I would do it after the gym. 305 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:30,040 I would be at the gym and I would meditate in the yoga studio after I was done stretching. 306 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,200 And I would do it for five to 10 minutes. 307 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:37,120 In the beginning it was like one minute and then I was just doing it for five to 10 minutes. 308 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,640 It was different every day. 309 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:47,520 Sometimes it was two minutes, but I remember that I would just focus the whole time. 310 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:55,560 And there was one time where I checked to see, I wanted to get a milestone or I wanted 311 00:27:55,560 --> 00:28:03,720 to quantify how focused I was and how clear my mind was. 312 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:08,760 So I set a timer for three minutes on my phone and I just started meditating and I counted 313 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:15,640 every single time my mind dozed off and wandered off and it was only three times. 314 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:22,000 So that was after a long time of meditating pretty consistently. 315 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:28,040 And then I kind of stopped meditating a little bit after that and then it wasn't until recently, 316 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:38,000 maybe a month ago or two months ago during summer when I started meditating again consistently 317 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,080 this time at my house. 318 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:49,760 But instead of doing the quality of low time, I decided that it would be better if I did 319 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,360 70 minutes a day. 320 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:57,920 So I did 30 minutes plus 10 minutes of breath work, which is kind of like meditation also 321 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,200 in the morning. 322 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:07,120 And then I did 30 minutes of meditation at the night time. 323 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:13,640 But now I don't think I definitely did get a lot of benefit, but I think that I'm plateauing 324 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,240 right now and I'm not really getting much benefit anymore. 325 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,440 So I think that it's quality over quantity. 326 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,800 So I don't know what I'm going to do exactly moving forward. 327 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:28,600 I don't know if I'm going to cut down my meditation and then just focus or if I'm just going to 328 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,240 make sure that I focus on this longer meditation. 329 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:39,600 I don't know, I'll have to see. 330 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:47,800 But I want to talk, I want to shift years again, and I want to talk about the neck exercise. 331 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:54,760 So my friend Alex, who is 30 years old and he's a bodybuilder, he told us about some 332 00:29:54,760 --> 00:30:03,600 exercises that he wished he knew about when he was 18, and one of the exercises was this 333 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,560 neck exercise that he told us about. 334 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,160 And he said that Mike Tyson does it. 335 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,760 And I know of Mike Tyson. 336 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,480 I don't really know. 337 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,080 I didn't even, I just heard the name. 338 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,280 That's all I knew about him, just his name. 339 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:25,080 But I knew that he was a popular person, a famous person, so he's definitely the real 340 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:26,080 deal. 341 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,040 So he said Mike Tyson does it. 342 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,720 So I ended up doing it, even though I don't even know who Mike Tyson is. 343 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:38,160 And then later on, he showed me a video of Mike Tyson doing that exercise. 344 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:45,680 And it's basically like a neck bridge, like a neck pushup, where you lay on your back 345 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:52,680 and you bend your knees, bend your legs to where they're kind of up, like your legs are 346 00:30:52,680 --> 00:31:00,360 up bent, not just laying flat, they're bent up, like your feet are facing on the ground, 347 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,360 like they are when you're standing. 348 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:11,200 And you just push down onto the ground with your neck and do like a bridge. 349 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,640 You basically lift your body up with your neck. 350 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,960 And in the beginning, I wasn't even able to do it with my neck at all. 351 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:23,160 I had to use my hands for support. 352 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:29,800 And I wasn't even able to do a rep, but now, so I had to do static holds in the beginning, 353 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:35,680 but now I can do 12 reps. 354 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:44,520 And it's been maybe a week of doing it, maybe a week and a couple of days. 355 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:50,240 It's been less than 10 days of doing it. 356 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,640 And I am already seeing some gains in my neck. 357 00:31:54,640 --> 00:32:02,440 My neck feels firmer when I touch it with my hands, but it also looks a little thicker. 358 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:03,440 And so I'm really excited. 359 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,240 I'm looking forward to the future because your neck is very important. 360 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:13,040 You don't want to have a weak neck for functionality and looks. 361 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:20,400 Now let me tell you another reason why I am focusing so much on the neck. 362 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:28,120 So there was this in my class last year towards the end of the year, this senior was shopping 363 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:39,280 on Facebook or Instagram for her roommate, for potential roommate for college. 364 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:45,560 And her friend who was a junior was helping and at that time I was a junior. 365 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:53,640 And so I was just sitting there listening to that conversation, minding my own business. 366 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:59,720 And the junior was saying they were scrolling through like pass, pass, pass. 367 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:05,240 And then she said, Oh, this guy's got a thick neck. 368 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:06,600 That's so hot. 369 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:15,280 And then I like started laughing and then she said, just a word of advice, guys with 370 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:20,520 thick, guys with strong buff necks are hot. 371 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,240 And so I just started, I just laughed it off. 372 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,840 And then after that, she's a girl. 373 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:33,200 So I took her advice because she's speaking for the ladies. 374 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:39,600 And so if the ladies think that if the ladies like a strong buff neck, well, then that's 375 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:40,600 what I got to get. 376 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:41,600 Right. 377 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:42,760 That was my thought process. 378 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:48,520 So I immediately added shrugs into my workout. 379 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,440 And yeah, my traps got built. 380 00:33:51,440 --> 00:34:01,080 But that was just when I was doing the shrug exercise, I didn't really see much gains on 381 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,680 the neck. 382 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,360 So then I was just like, okay, I just focused on the shrugs. 383 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:14,200 And then eventually a week ago, we were talking to Alex and he told us about the neck exercise. 384 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:19,400 So when he said there was a neck exercise, I was excited. 385 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:26,200 And so I just started doing it and I'm definitely getting benefits. 386 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:31,400 And I've been doing it every single day since one or two times a day in the morning and 387 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,120 at night times sometimes at night. 388 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,820 Every day in the morning guaranteed though. 389 00:34:37,820 --> 00:34:42,360 So that's one thing that I'm really looking forward to because my neck just feels, it 390 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,120 just feels tougher, feels stronger. 391 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:49,680 I look bigger now, even though I've barely gained any gains because it's only been a 392 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:54,000 week, but next month gains. 393 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,680 Two months gains. 394 00:34:55,680 --> 00:35:01,920 That's just going to get better and better from there. 395 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:06,000 So I want to talk to you guys about funnel hacking live. 396 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:14,280 Yesterday, it was resolved and I'm definitely going to funnel hacking live now. 397 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,720 And the funds are coming to me. 398 00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:22,680 So I'm definitely going to have enough money to do it. 399 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:30,160 And so far the plan is to buy like a very cheap plane ticket for 90 bucks each and just 400 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:36,840 have like a carry on bag and that's it, which will probably be a little bit more expensive 401 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,920 with a carry on bag. 402 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:47,080 And then we're going to go there on the 26th and then we're going to stay at the hotel 403 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,280 across the street. 404 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:55,320 It's a 15 minute walk from the place, the world center, the Marriott world center in 405 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,160 Orlando. 406 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,360 And so we're going to go out to the hotel across the street. 407 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:06,320 It's $90 a night instead of $350 a night at the world center. 408 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:13,240 And we're going to stay there and every day we're just going to walk to the conference. 409 00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:15,920 That's just going to be what we're going to do. 410 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:21,160 And then in the beginning on the first day, we'll probably walk 45 minutes to the nearest 411 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:26,920 grocery store, Publix and buy some food. 412 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:32,520 And I'm really excited because I want to walk barefoot and shirtless in the Florida sun. 413 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:38,120 It'll be in September, so won't be as hot, but it'll still be hot and sunny. 414 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:43,760 I suspect. 415 00:36:43,760 --> 00:37:01,000 So I'm really excited and then we're going to fly home on the 30th or the first. 416 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:06,400 So there's this thing that I've been trying to do for the past maybe four weeks, maybe 417 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:07,400 a month. 418 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:08,920 I don't know. 419 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:15,040 This over the past summer, I've been working on my feet. 420 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:21,680 So I've been going barefoot a lot and spreading out my toes. 421 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:26,480 But there's this also one more thing that I was working on and it's trying to get, be 422 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,600 able to point with my feet. 423 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:37,080 So hold your hands out, just flat on the table. 424 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:44,120 And then point, like bend all of your fingers except for your index finger. 425 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,160 You're able to do that, right? 426 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,080 You're able to point. 427 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:53,000 Now I want to be able to do that with my feet, with my toes. 428 00:37:53,000 --> 00:38:00,840 So I was working on trying to be able to bend each of my toes individually. 429 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:13,400 And I'm maybe four or five weeks in and I am only able to have my one toe flat at a time 430 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:18,640 if I push all the other toes on the ground. 431 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:27,080 So I can do the, I can point, but I have to hold all of my toes to the ground. 432 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:28,880 But it's still cool. 433 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:34,960 I'm not able to do it without holding the toes to the ground, but I'm able to do it 434 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:35,960 without my hands. 435 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:37,200 So that's cool. 436 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:44,280 That's just a side note. 437 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,720 So back to the business thing. 438 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:57,880 In my class business incubator, we were, my teacher asked, is anyone doing anything? 439 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:03,440 Has anyone done anything already entrepreneurial? 440 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:10,120 And so I raised my hand thinking that he was just taking a poll, taking a survey, but then 441 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,720 he said, well, tell me about it. 442 00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:14,600 So I didn't, I didn't expect that. 443 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:19,760 So I kind of just said building funnels for people. 444 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:24,920 I was caught off guard, but then the next, there was another girl that raised her hand 445 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,600 and he asked her about it as well. 446 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:37,280 And she started a t-shirt line and the website is up and running, but she hasn't made any 447 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,280 sales yet. 448 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,720 So she is probably my dream customer. 449 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:46,640 And I'm definitely going to talk to her cause she's also, she's into my classes, my business 450 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,800 incubator class and my humanities class. 451 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,960 And I actually sit right next to her in humanities. 452 00:39:52,960 --> 00:40:00,160 So I'm definitely going to talk to her tomorrow about that and try and, try and work with her 453 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:12,160 and figure out how to get that t-shirt selling. 454 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:17,320 I'm actually, I just, I'm really excited to talk to her about that because I think that, 455 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,840 that I could help her a lot. 456 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,560 I definitely know that I can help her a lot cause I'll build her a movement and help her 457 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:31,920 build a funnel that will sell. 458 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:42,440 So coming up in two weeks, probably nine days, eight days, I'm going out of town for like 459 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,120 four days. 460 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:50,000 So I'm going to have to pre-record four more episodes. 461 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:56,840 So I'm going to have to be nine episodes ahead so they can all be posted while I'm gone. 462 00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:02,080 Cause I like to keep the five episode cushion even though I never use it. 463 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:08,040 And this could be a good use of it, but I still want to pre-record some more episodes. 464 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:13,840 So next weekend I'm probably going to have to do double episodes. 465 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:20,960 And over the next multiple days I'll probably end up doing double episodes. 466 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,960 Cause I'll be going to Ohio to visit my family. 467 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,280 It's going to be like the whole weekend. 468 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:31,280 It'll be Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 469 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,840 We leave on Friday, get back on Monday. 470 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:41,440 So I'll be able to, I won't be able to record Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, so that's three 471 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:45,520 days, but I will be able to record on Monday. 472 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,400 So that's, that's the situation. 473 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:58,560 And that is next week, or not next weekend, in two weekends. 474 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:07,080 So I want to tell you guys about this one thing that my abs, my top two abs poke out 475 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:14,200 further than my chest does, which from the side it looks really weird, in my opinion. 476 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:15,800 Other people don't think it looks weird. 477 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:20,720 They think it looks fine, but I think it looks weird and I don't like it. 478 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:26,440 From the front it looks fine, but from the side it just looks weird. 479 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:30,560 And so I was trying to do a, trying to fix it. 480 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:38,320 And some of the things that I've done is this breath work, you breathe through a straw, breathe 481 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:43,320 in through the straw, through your mouth. 482 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,760 In a small, the whole point is to have a precision breath. 483 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:53,320 So you have, you put the straw at the tip of your lips and you wrap your lips around the 484 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,240 straw to get a precise breath. 485 00:42:55,240 --> 00:43:01,760 And then you breathe in and then hold it for the same amount of time you breathe in. 486 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,200 So like four or five seconds. 487 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:11,240 And then you exhale for the same amount of time, four or five seconds. 488 00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:17,120 And then you hold it, hold that the bottom of the exhale for four or five seconds. 489 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,240 So you're kind of making a square. 490 00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:25,160 You're breathing in for five seconds, holding that for five seconds, breathing out for 491 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,840 five, exhaling I should say for five seconds. 492 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:35,720 And then holding that for five seconds. 493 00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:41,560 And then what I added is on the, after the exhale, the five second exhale, and then on 494 00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:45,440 that breath, that holding in part at the bottom of the exhale. 495 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,040 So you have no oxygen and you're just holding it. 496 00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:51,400 I do the vacuum. 497 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:58,000 So it's basically where you're sucking your stomach and kind of just make a big hole in 498 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:03,080 your stomach through sucking it in. 499 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:07,040 And so I added that to my routine. 500 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:11,440 And that definitely helped a lot, I think it's also helping make my abs more defined 501 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:18,200 because one month ago, yeah, I had, I had visible abs, but now my abs just look so much 502 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:23,760 better and so much more appealing even though my abs did look good a month ago. 503 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,360 They just look way better. 504 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,520 It's actually so crazy. 505 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:34,920 And it's simply just from that breathing exercise and probably the vacuuming also. 506 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:40,420 And then there's also another thing, but I'm going to give you a story real quick. 507 00:44:40,420 --> 00:44:49,880 So I'm pretty sure my theory of how I dis, how I pushed my abs out essentially because 508 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,760 my abs are out or sticking out further than my chest. 509 00:44:53,760 --> 00:45:02,000 My theory of how that happened is I would always lay in chairs, like lean back in chairs 510 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,080 and that chair would just push jam into my back. 511 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:12,520 And that's just how I sat all throughout elementary school and middle school, eight hours a day, 512 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,440 every day. 513 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:20,680 And so my theory is that over time it just pushed it in and it's actually like you can 514 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:28,680 see if you see from the side when I do a vacuum, you can see that my rib cage is poked out. 515 00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,160 So I'm pretty sure that it's not just my abs. 516 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:37,480 I'm pretty sure I pushed my rib cage in through all that time and then the rib cage pushed 517 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,720 my abs out. 518 00:45:39,720 --> 00:45:47,640 So my theory is that if I just push in the opposite direction, it will just reverse. 519 00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:53,560 And so that's what I've been doing by just laying flat on my stomach. 520 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:58,720 And then that, what that does is it basically pushes on the opposite direction and tries 521 00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:01,600 to flatten my abs. 522 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:05,800 And I think that helps as well. 523 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:09,080 I only do it for maybe less than five minutes a day. 524 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:10,080 I don't really time it. 525 00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,080 I just do it. 526 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:16,800 I set a timer for 10 minutes and then do my breath work and then maybe halfway through 527 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:22,320 I stop the breath work and lay on my stomach and still do the breath work. 528 00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:28,200 I still try and do it just with not with the straw because it's since you're laying on 529 00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:34,920 your stomach is actually difficult to breathe through your stomach because you're basically 530 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,560 your whole body weight is pushing against the stomach. 531 00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:43,480 So you have to, it's just like your stomach is pushing your whole body up. 532 00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:48,640 And I think that helps a lot with your core strength as well. 533 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,560 It's a lot of resistance. 534 00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,560 Let me get some water. 535 00:46:53,560 --> 00:47:20,080 So things are right now for the past couple of weeks. 536 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,360 I haven't really took in any action in business. 537 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:29,400 And that's what I was hinting on earlier today, earlier in this podcast. 538 00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:38,440 And if I keep moving forward like this, well, I'm going to be in exactly the same situation 539 00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:46,720 that I am right now in the next, in a month, in two months, I'll be in the same exact situation. 540 00:47:46,720 --> 00:47:56,640 But if I actually wake up and take conscious action and start to walk forward and actually 541 00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:00,560 work towards my goals, then it'll be different. 542 00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:09,560 And I will actually be closer to my goals and actually start to make some money. 543 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,360 But that's also another thing. 544 00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,000 Money cannot be the goal. 545 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,680 Your goal cannot be money. 546 00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:22,920 Because then it's just money is elusive. 547 00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:30,920 This is a simple concept that I learned first in the millionaire fast lane where you can't 548 00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:32,240 try and chase money. 549 00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:38,120 It's kind of like if you tried to chase a cat, if you just chase the cat around, it'll 550 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,680 keep running away from you. 551 00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:48,400 But if you lure it to you by giving it what it wants, which is food, then it will come 552 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:49,400 towards you. 553 00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,760 So money is kind of like that as well. 554 00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,880 If you just try and chase it around, it'll always, it'll be elusive and it'll always 555 00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,040 run away from you and you will never get it. 556 00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:09,360 But if you give it what it wants and you provide value to people, then money will come to you 557 00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:10,640 in abundance. 558 00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:14,320 And that's a basic business principle. 559 00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,080 Don't chase money. 560 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:22,320 But it's also a transurfing thing that I have learned. 561 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,380 And it's money cannot be the goal. 562 00:49:25,380 --> 00:49:32,360 Because if you focus on money, you don't actually want money. 563 00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,280 You want what money can get. 564 00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,200 So you don't want a thousand. 565 00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:43,800 If you just had a million dollars right now, okay, it is only valuable because of what it 566 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:49,440 can do, of what you can trade for it. 567 00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:59,000 If no one else, if you were the only person left in the world and you had a billion dollars, 568 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:03,200 well that's worthless. 569 00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:08,320 So you could have a billion dollars or you could have a billion dollars worth of goods, 570 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,240 you could have all of the food that you ever need. 571 00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:15,760 You could have private islands and you'll be the last one on earth. 572 00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:20,000 Would you rather have a billion dollars or a private island with all the food you could 573 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,000 ever need? 574 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,720 Well I would choose the latter. 575 00:50:25,720 --> 00:50:28,120 And that's simply because we don't care about the money. 576 00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,360 We just care about what it can get. 577 00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:35,160 Money only matters because we can trade it for what we want. 578 00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:40,200 And that's what a lot of people do, including myself. 579 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:47,920 They think that they don't really know what they want, but they know that money can get 580 00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:48,920 it. 581 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:55,000 So they just skip the step of figuring out what they want and go straight for the money. 582 00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,160 Because the money can help them achieve anything. 583 00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:58,320 And let's say they do get the money. 584 00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,200 They don't even know what to do with it. 585 00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:05,800 And so they just keep working and try to find more and more money. 586 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:11,920 But if you figure out what you want, then you'll know what you want. 587 00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:13,000 That's what I did. 588 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,360 But then I was thinking, oh, but money will help me get it. 589 00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,460 So I'm going to focus on money. 590 00:51:19,460 --> 00:51:24,320 But that's still the same thing as the first person that didn't even focus on what they 591 00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,000 wanted. 592 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:30,560 So then the third option is to know what you want and then just focus on moving towards 593 00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,440 that object that you want. 594 00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:39,520 And money will just be a byproduct of that comes towards you. 595 00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:45,760 It'll just be an attribute to you creating the path towards your goal. 596 00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:52,160 So it'll just come to you on the way to your goal, on the way to while you're on your journey 597 00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,840 towards that goal. 598 00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,040 I actually experienced that a little bit last night. 599 00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:02,200 I don't really want to touch too much on it, but there was a savings account that I wasn't 600 00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:05,160 going to have access to for a long time. 601 00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:10,000 But I've been putting money into it all my life. 602 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:19,520 And last night, because I was moving towards my goal and not focus on the money, I just 603 00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:23,720 suddenly got access to that savings account. 604 00:52:23,720 --> 00:52:25,760 So that's huge. 605 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:30,200 That kind of represents what I'm trying to say. 606 00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:36,320 Not directly, but I think moments like that will happen as well. 607 00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:41,000 But I also, one of my goals is to make a successful business. 608 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:47,920 Yeah, I want the money that it will make, but I also just want to make a successful business. 609 00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:55,240 And I know I can do that because I know a lot about business, but I also have this very 610 00:52:55,240 --> 00:53:07,000 essential trait, which is an insatiable, insatiable desire to learn more insatiable need to learn 611 00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:08,160 more. 612 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:13,520 I don't even know what insatiable means, but I think I read that in one of my business 613 00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:22,280 books and I basically said develop an insatiable need to learn more. 614 00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:27,600 And then I wrote down a note, develop this. 615 00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:32,440 That was maybe, that was a while ago. 616 00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:36,840 And I kind of already had it developed because I'd been reading books a lot, but I didn't 617 00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,680 really have it developed for business. 618 00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:45,240 And so I developed it and now I want to learn everything there is to do with business, even 619 00:53:45,240 --> 00:53:49,320 though I'm not even focusing on business right now, I'm focusing on transfer fee. 620 00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,840 So it's kind of not direct. 621 00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:58,160 I don't know. 622 00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:04,800 So I want to keep talking about how meditation is an exercise and not sleep time. 623 00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,640 It's not something to just get through. 624 00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,680 Meditation is an exercise. 625 00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:15,840 Those words have a lot of value, have a lot of meaning. 626 00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:21,240 If you let them, if you let them. 627 00:54:21,240 --> 00:54:26,200 So I'm not sure if I should do, if I should cut down. 628 00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:32,240 I might research a little bit after, I might try and figure out what the Buddhists, what 629 00:54:32,240 --> 00:54:40,560 the monks, what all these, what all of these meant possible mentors and people who already 630 00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:46,360 okay, actually switching notes, there's this book that Russell Brunson wrote. 631 00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:50,360 It's an ebook called the marketing secrets black book. 632 00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:56,760 And I emailed the PDF to myself, my school email, because it was blocked on my school 633 00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:57,920 Chromebook. 634 00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,840 The funnel to get it was blocked on the school Chromebook. 635 00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:03,960 The website was blocked. 636 00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:11,960 So I just emailed it, I emailed the link to the ebook to myself and so I could be able 637 00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:18,960 to read it during class, which I suspect is fine because I already gave him two of my 638 00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:24,120 emails and I read all of his newsletters and marketing stuff. 639 00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:25,880 So I don't think he'll mind. 640 00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:37,840 But what I'm, the whole reason I'm saying this is because today I read a part of one 641 00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:41,120 of the chapters and they're all standalone chapters. 642 00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:46,440 So you can just read one and then think about it. 643 00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:53,280 And it was about, I don't remember what the chapter was called, but it's basically he 644 00:55:53,280 --> 00:56:01,040 told a story about how when he started wrestling, he was terrible. 645 00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:05,440 And by the way, for context, he went on to become an all American, which means that he 646 00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:09,200 is basically the best wrestler in the country. 647 00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:14,560 Essentially, that's what it meant. 648 00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:19,520 And in the beginning, he sucked and that he said that he was very bad. 649 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:26,120 So he decided to find someone to be his mentor. 650 00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:31,800 So he chose this one person and he decided to do everything they did. 651 00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:38,260 So he went on runs, but he noticed that he cut corners. 652 00:56:38,260 --> 00:56:43,400 He kind of slowed down on his runs, kind of slacked off a little bit. 653 00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:48,840 And so Russell just assumed, oh, since he's successful and he's talented, he can do that. 654 00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:50,080 He can slack. 655 00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:59,960 And then during the next meet, during the next wrestling match, he watched his mentor 656 00:56:59,960 --> 00:57:05,840 get absolutely destroyed like he was a little girl. 657 00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:10,080 And he was just pinned so easily. 658 00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:17,600 And so what that taught Russell was that if you want something, if you want, or what that 659 00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:21,160 taught Russell was that he chose the wrong mentor. 660 00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:31,200 And if he wants something, his mentor should be someone who has already achieved it. 661 00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:38,760 So he chose a new mentor who was a three time state champion that went to his school and 662 00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:42,360 he did everything that person, that mentor did. 663 00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:48,000 And then two years later, Russell went on to become a state champion and then one year 664 00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:52,840 after that, all American. 665 00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:59,880 And his, the whole lesson learned is if you want something, copy. 666 00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:06,600 If you want something, if you want to achieve something, copy everything that, or let me 667 00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:07,600 rephrase. 668 00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:14,480 If you want something, and then you want to achieve something, find somebody who has already 669 00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:21,200 achieved that thing and just copy everything that they do. 670 00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:23,560 That's there's two points. 671 00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:25,680 Find someone who's already achieved that. 672 00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:26,680 That's the first point. 673 00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:34,200 And then the second point is to copy them exactly how they do it and copy everything they do, 674 00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:39,480 their work ethic, their mindset, everything. 675 00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:46,320 And so he said that it's a, it's kind of a like a law of nature. 676 00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:49,960 If you do that, then eventually you will succeed. 677 00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:53,920 It's just impossible otherwise. 678 00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:57,640 And I'm trying to figure out, I'm trying to remember what I'm trying to connect this 679 00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:04,600 to because I said something a little bit back, a little bit further back and that brought 680 00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:08,360 up this story. 681 00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:11,840 Oh yeah. 682 00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:16,880 I was, I think I was talking about how I was going to study right after this recording. 683 00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:23,880 I was going to figure out the, what the monks do and what the Buddhists do for their meditation 684 00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,400 and to clear their minds. 685 00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:32,480 And the reason why I chose that is because it satisfies both desire, both, it satisfies 686 00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,080 the first thing. 687 00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,360 They already have achieved a clear mind. 688 00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:43,120 What I'm trying to, I want something and that thing is a clear mind and vigilant mind, conscious 689 00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:44,880 awareness. 690 00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:52,040 So I'm trying to find someone who's already achieved that who is like the Buddha, monks, 691 00:59:52,040 --> 01:00:00,640 all those people and then once I figure out what they are doing, I just have to copy it 692 01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,160 and then I'll get it. 693 01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:03,840 So it's just as simple as that. 694 01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:12,320 And that's what I plan on doing it right after this while this episode is editing and uploading. 695 01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:19,440 So to wrap things up, don't forget to download, download your favorite episodes and subscribe 696 01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:22,360 to the Ascend Momentum Show. 697 01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:48,960 But before you guys leave, make sure to remember the Eagles.