Validate Your Life

Thank the Google God, the Yahoo Yogi, and the Live Leader that this site exists.

It’s truly awesome and has answered many of my SEO questions.

I can’t get over how awesome this is. Namely for the following reasons:

1. Health. This SERIOUSLY has got to be one of the most aligning and emotionally healthy experiences possible. I mean talking with a coach is inspiring, and becoming a coach is empowering, but interacting and exchanging with the hub of coaches becoming coaches, coaching each other and it’s like 100% pure premium motivational energy in it’s raw form! All the law of attraction and intention weaved in to with the enthusiasm of other coaches and that nourishes your own enthusiasm and wow. Exponential growth. Rad. Gnarly to the nth degree.

2. Success Stories. This is the biggest reason why this forum looks so appealing. The success stories. I’ve perused it for an hour and already have found 2 real-awesome bona fide tricks that seemed to work for two coaches (the facebook advert one and a mailing list one) and everyone’s eager to share this techniques that helped them earn for free! This is awesome. After stumbling into scams and tons of misleading crap, this finally seems like exactly the type of good, clean, clear, business networking for earning and for success.

3. Moving Forward. Starting this ICA training was DEFINITELY a good move. From the internationality of all the coaches and networking and seeing all their success stories and the fact that they share their techniques within this forum is tremendously exciting.

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I like to swim upstream. What this means? Life is a circular mote flowing downstream. Life’s a gigantic circular mote. Most people float and surrender to the currents’ of life’s river. And the unaware people don’t pick up on the fact that it’s merely one gigantic circle they keep revolving in. I’ve surrendered. I’ve let life’s river take me, twirl me around, slosh me into addictions and fixations incredibly dangerous places, and spit me out on the bank of nowhere with Nothing. I’ve touched my shadow. I’ve done all the truly challenging, heroic, adventurous stuff in the circular river of life by surrendering. I understand now that surrender is a waste of time. Because life is a circular river. Once you understand the cyclical nature of life, you realize that to truly live you change your relationship with the flow of the current. You can’t change the current, but you can change your reactions to it! Focusing on the destination is about as intelligent as focusing on getting your toothpick at the end of a 5-course gourmet meal. To me, I understand life is the meal; life is the journey, not the destination. And I grow by swimming upstream. Swimming upstream does not mean fighting and experiencing toil and randomly jumping into dangerous situations in life; i’ve already done that. Sporadically jumping into the danger is the surrender. And I’ve done that so frequently it’s become bland; Swimming upstream is just the opposite. It resembles smoothly growing stronger and simpler and simultaneously more aware internally. Swimming upstream is how the intelligent aware people change because they know how you approach the journey, the circular river of life, is all that matters. So while many people “surrender” to the flow of life and preach the wonders of that magnificent “ease”, I’m going to be doing what I well and best and that’s swimming upstream and that means I’ll become a MUCH better swimmer than those who aimlessly surrender (as I have already done).

My future will consist of my past. Reconnecting with my past — people from my past, events from my past, past memories — will be moving forward. I’ve traveled the world. I’ve reached the end of life. But I did it too quickly. I skipped parts. I still have to finish my high school soccer and swimming and chemistry. There’s friends from elementary school I skipped over, relationships from college I sliced by to get to the finish. I have uncompleted work in the past and I’ve completed all the work in the future. Every time I move forward in life it will be because of successfully completing my work in the past. (Note: This is not everyone’s relationship with life. Most people do “new” things to move forward.) Their exist no “new” things for me. Ask someone who knows me well. It’s true. There exist no “new” things. I’ve done everything. The “newness” of life emerges in a shocking and galvanizing adventure from connecting with and completing those exciting joyful fragments of my past! The further into the future I’ve gone with my life, the more diluted and nihilistic my life became. Poignancy and meaning become instantly interjected into my life upon connecting with my past, however. My future is connecting with my past.

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Here’s a list of dog chemistry words to make you sound high-tech when discussing things in relation to dogs:

Theobromine. The substance (along with caffeine) in chocolate that makes dogs die if they eat too much of it. Leathal dose is 150mg/1kg of bodyweight but don’t push this (great site; uses questions http://www.dogtopics.com/165/7-questions-about-dogs-and-chocolate/)

Antibiotic. A drug that kills, slows, or impedes the growth of bacteria. Typically used in situations like an ear infection.

Penicillin. (I was on the topic of Antibiotic, so wanted to add this).

DHPP

Bortapella

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April 2, 2009 — 8:50 AM

March 27, 2009
10:00 PM
Just woke up and DAMN. I’m angry. I’m FURIOUS. This is something I’m certain about. HEre’s the list of things that have made me furious..

1. kyle for cutting me off on phone call
2. Eric for making me panic about going up and then trivializing it by inviting everyone up on stage (even the audience non comedians)
3. Jack for being so confusing
4. Mary for not marrying me
5. The starcbucks northridge students for being so decieving, petty, naive, puerile and inconsiderate when they took my table and then the fuckers tried to make me think that I wasn’t sitting there before them?? preoposterous!!
6. I’m angry at how drawn otu jonathon is making the dog adoption thing like literally 5-6 calls per week MORE and voicemails i want to adopt henry A LOT about damn man it isn’t like a corporate merger.
7. i’m angry at ALL la women because maybe they’re just impossible to hook up wiht, maybe no one has sex with them, and I certainly feel like I am not capable nor deserve to
8. I’m FURIOUS FURIOUS at that jamba for making fill out another resume
9. I’m fucious at jamba, chateau marmont
10. I’m FUIOUS at that Miyagi’s dj for purposefully skipping my song WTF!
11. I’m angry and enraged at that sahara chick for purposefully distracting me with flirting and then eating half of MY damn sushi!
12. I’m fucious that I’m so broke and can’t make money.
13. I’m angry that I feel my life is going no where (no job, no money, just TONS of work and tons of projects like I’ve been in prison).
14. I’m angry I cant’ even geta job bagging groceries.
15. i’m angry at how I have to go to calabasas to sleep (which is kinda okay) but then I stay here for too long because going out means spending money that I dont’ have.
16. I’m angry at the lawyer people from mca in the resident lounge.
17. I’m angry that I don’t feel I deserve to USE the damn computer lab and gym that I”M paying for!!
18. I’m angry at how many websites I’ve made and how I haven’t profitted of ANY of them.
19. I’m angry at how much junk food crap I’ve eaten.
20. I’m enraged at all the legal shit that is omnipresnet in America (restrictions of open mics at cofee bean tea leaf); the legal stuff about posting my work etc
21. I’m angry that I dont’ feel capable of making money off my work Xmas carol recordings, vyl recoridngs, vyl books, websites, ALL that IMMENSE amount of work!!!!!!!!!!
22. i’m angry taht damn myth the fallen lords needs classic to run b/c I liked that game.
23. I’m angry that I don’t know if I should be focusing and pursuing math teaching, some kind of teaching, acting? (nah), COMEDY, working in cheapo restaurant place.
24. I’m Angry but more Panicked and nervous about not knowing what to do for rent!

I’m grateful for/happy about

1. getting to go up and do my bringer comedy set AND get a recording of it.
2. that I have access to trails and ocean if I get over my anger and go
3. that I ahve acces to food (even though I cant’ afford it)
4. eric and jack and rico are kind of cool.
5. that I did Do alllll of that outside work stuff (stripper club chateau, open mics, north hollywood explore etc).
6. I have a car, abike, a surfboard.
7. That I might adopt Henry!!
8. that I’m in cali
9. That I know i like the looks of australians
10. That atleast I’m getting in SOME miniscule form of auditons (explore talent ones and open mics)

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Buying in bulk solves three problems very vital problems in life. Buying in bulk boost finances, is healthy from a temporal-sentient point of view, and keeps our planet cleaner and less polluted. Oh, you don’t understand how did my mental-math? I’ll show my work:

1. Saving money. Anyway you cut it, whether it be bulk salmon or bulk soap, purchasing in bulk means less marketing costs for the individual items and a closer to wholesale price which means less expensive, and more mullah (that stays) for your pocket!
2. Saving Time. Buying bulk decreases the amount of times you have to go to the store and purchase refills. It’s a hassle to have to write “buy more hand soap” on a grocery list, what? maybe 6-7 times per year if you go through one of those every 1-2 months?! Well, with bulk, you write “buy more xyz” as little as once per year, and food items as infrequently as once per month! Most of my soaps, and cleaners (with the exception of bleach and ammonia, because I go through those quickly but they’re extremely cheap) I buy in huge large quantities and seriously, laundry detergent and dishwasher detergent (I wash a lot of my own dishes and ration out the laundry detergent well) for example, last me a year. That’s just a huge relief either way, to only have to worry about buying laundry detergent or dishwasher detergent ONCE a year (or more likely ONCE every two years)?! That’s awesome. We have 365 days per year. What are some other cool creative, successful things you could be doing with your time now that you don’t have to go to the grocery store for almost any kind of cleaning supply for the entire year?!! That’s just rad! Here’s a mini list of the items I buy in bulk
   • Handsoap (1x/year)
   • Dishwasher soap (1x/1-2year)
   • Laundry Detergent (1x/1-2year). Yes, the same thing of laundry detergent and soap has lasted me almost two years!
   • Toilet cleaner (1x/year)
   • Fish (1x/1-5month). (I freeze all my fish so you can easily buy a ton in bulk and freeze it for 5 months and if you get canned tuna, that can go for 6 mo. easily).
   • Vegetables (1x/month)
   • Cheese (2-4x/year). I’m dead serious. I freeze all the cheese and when I packet is gone in the fridge, just chuck one in the dairy bin from the freezer. You buy in bulk, you can buy cheese sooo infrequently but always have a ton.
   • Pasta (2x/year. I’m dead serious. You buy bulk pasta and even if you eat a lot of pasta, you only have to buy it twice per year!)
3. Saving the Environment. Buying in bulk is a direct enterprise in helping the environment because buying in bulk means less purchases which means less left over bottles and plastic wrappers simply because you’ll be purchasing less plastic bottles and plastic wrapper and marketing packaging, and less plastic containers. Read up on the HORRIFYING Pacific Trash Vortex to fully understand the global wide “too much trash” problem. Basically, we’re pumping so much plastic wrapper and bottle refuse into our ocean. Seriously. Seriously. How f$@ked up is that?! Couldn’t we re-use our bottles instead of litterally pumping them into our ocean water?! The disgusting physiological ramification of this is mini fish eat the mini shreds of plastic, bigger fish eat the mini fish, we eat the bigger fish and therefor consume plaste. Read up on the PTV, it’s nasty, very real, and very frigthening stuff; I’m becoming very interested at the very least informing myself of that problem and I donate toa charity that helps solve it. So, but buying in bulk, you purchase one huge one huge container that you can likely reuse and that saves the environment, the ocean, and our planet!
4. *Saving you from Disorganization. My little bonus perk idea. May not work for everyone, but truly works for me! This one seems like an odd ramification, but truly, I reuse over 50% of the bottles and containers I get that are “wrappers” typically discarded after opening something or using something for 1)organization, 2)environmenal safety and 3)cheaper. Some of the containers that contain products are as sturdy and useful as one you’d spend $14.99 on at the Container Store! True!. I’m an organizational freak so buying in bulk works toward this end, too!

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I think one thing going on in life is that I’m discovering what systems and methods work for me. And career is part of this.

This is a reference to

1. Organization systems — the literally dozen and dozens (over 50 easily) organizational system methods for emails, todos, phonecalls and life, and none of the systems work, but I’ve created one that works for me
2. Diets — Again, found what works best for me after an exhausting and disturbing trial of fallacious food products and things that don’t work. Again, for me personally, i’ve discovered simplest is best. I cook and make almost all my own food. Because 1) it’s one of the few things I can afford, 2)food you make tastes better and 3)it’s usually better for you because you avoid prepackaged crap and make more wholesome meals.
3. Exercise routines – when I go to the Gym I see people doing really stupid things with weights, really intelligent things, poor endurance programs, top-notch cardio circuits — the whole gamut. Each one works or doesn’t work for people.
4. Errands — I have to use lists. I have electronic organizers on my phone to get things done. To some people it would drive them insane having lists of things to remind them what to get or do when they go out, but for me it’s freedom and makes my life easier. Again, we have to honor our own system.

Everyone works out differently and everyone has their own unique style and approach. That must be respected. Respected not to “honor their individuality” but rather to honor your own. And to acknowledge the fact that because some person gets jacked doing one thing and is healthy doing xyz diet and is on top of their game with abc organizational system, does not mean that you’ll be jacked, healthy, and organized with their system.

Part of life is discovering how you work and what’s the best method and system and concourse of health and organization and exercise for you with your unique goals, dreams, fears, problems, and certainties, and then how to optimize interaction with others and co-existance with others despite these large differences.

An excerpt taken from Mark Twain’s Autobiography. I don’t think it’d be possible to experience a harsher or more bemusing critic than the iconic American wordsmith, Mark Twain himself.

Amongst. Wasn’t “among” good enough?

Next half-dozen Corrections. Have you failed to perceive that by taking the word “both” out of its proper place you have made foolishness of the sentence? And don’t you see that your smug “of which” has turned that sentence into reporter’s English? “Quite.” Why do you intrude that shopworn favorite of yours where there is nothing useful for it to do? Can’t you rest easy in your literary grave without it?

Next sentence. You have made no improvement in it. Did you change it merely to be changing something?

Second Paragraph. Now you have begun on my punctuation. Don’t you realize that you ought not to intrude your help in a delicate art like that, with your limitations? And do you think you have added just the right smear of polish to the closing clause of the sentence?

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A huge fan of the “rolling clothes” WITH RUBBERBAND (Huge tip), I kept all my clothes like that even while at home!! I actually just stopped recently keeping all my clothes and rubberbanded AT HOME, but will likely do that on a trip.

My biggest problem is the “what if the opportunity arises for xyz?” and xyz could be “wearing a suit”, looking sharp, that random sporting event that pops up, using a laptop need (bring laptop yeah/nae?)

I think one of the most outrageous “OVERPACKING” trips was a trip to Santa Barbara I took to see afriend, not knowing if i’d stay a night or a week, and knowing that we talked about surf I brought something like

• a laptop and bag
• a surfboard
• wetsuit
• suitcase with week’s worth of clothes
• swim bag and suit
• formal dress clothes (collared shirts, ties (hanign in car))

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INTERESTING day!! Was outside doing stuff nonstop for 10.5 hours basically. Woke up noon. immediately did 6 circuts, showerd, tie, jacket, etc. Then drove to Michael Zanuck Agency. cool as!! Met katherine she said a lot:
I shouldn’t squint during interviews
my glasses looked good
I looked thinner around the cheekbones than my 2006 picture
that my 2006 headshot didn’t look professiona (I said because of my shading/coloring lol)
that I should email them for representation (and I did) in commercials if offered and I did LOL

Realized all the movie posters up was like MY room (austin powers, music stuff, world mape etc. cool as!! Funny wild! lol!!).

Michael zanuck also looked REALLY cool. He looked a LOT like Alan Arkin haha!! Hawaiian shirt, the office was the size of my dad’s office which was interesting, so…pretty interesting stuff. cool!

Then I drove to 1514 gower off hollywood freeway. Where I got the 2006 headhots was near the “Roscoes Chicken n’ Waffle House” haha!! Seriously the most peculiar combo of food, but hey I think it’s some kind of one of those weird landmark diner places haha! Anyways, I knew the headshot place was near the waffle-chicken house. I found the restaurant, checked it out and then walked up gower (and it was cool seeing the hollywood sign from there again. Last time I saw it, it was from the Graumann’s mall when I was locked out of the car after (never again) doing valet before meeting up with the acting friends at saddle ranch and walking around for 24 hours until could get car back haha) ) and saw that where the hollywood headshots place was, it was replaced and the building was up for lease LOL!! So that kind of disorientated me, so I walked around the blocks a few times, Called aunt sally, told her about life update — lifecoaching, acting on the backburner, etc. she was doing a kind of class tutoring thing — and I said I’d likely go out of the country if I didn’t have some work set up in 6 months, which is good! I haven’t had work in like 4-5 years!!! And I’ve been trying like crazy! Soo….yeah then I called matt and we talked about him coming out to cali and he said (this was astonishing) that he’d NEVER been out here! crazy!! The guy WORKS for an airline too! haha! We discussed seeing a dodgers game, going to new york, seeing the hollywood sign…everything I had just done basically haha. Anyways, strongly considering driving somewhere, but where (new york?). Then I drove a bit and called headshot places and felt a bit disorientated after not finding that one after it had gone. I think I found the hiking park area where you can climb to the top of the hollywood sign and by that time I was on the phone wiht Ron Finley who said he’d directed a lot of tv. I just looked him up and imdb shows him as “writer” for tales of the crypt (which he mentione,d and also mentioned sesame street haha!) so I don’t know if hte imdb credit is innacurate or if he really did/didn’t direct those shows, but whatever the guy sounded awesome, highly intelligent and was an awesome convo! He talked about using blue screens as backdrops for photography now!! I hadn’t realize they’re so high-tech for photos, for film I was aware of the massive technology, but that’s wild! He mentioend how he went to italy and wrote some books and was doing massive high-tech photography with different backdrops (like an actor backdrop of a rugged new york street) or some kind of white screen for lifecoaching and the various images I wanted to portray. Definitely professional ones lifecoaching and acting ( and maybe a comedy one). But he asked if i was doing one for eharmony LOL! Apparently people get professional photo touchups for eharmony haha!! Hysterical! Anyways we talked about the “steve jobs” turtleneck book which was DEFINITELY not me and I joked how he was kind of the preacherrole more than the computer guy and he said he was the wheeler dealer and I agreed saying wozniak was the computer guy and jobs the business hound. Anyways it was a COOL convo. So like older retired, NON-JERK (I meet a LOT of jerk director-people in the film/media business that had the mentality of “get out of my face, dont’ have time for you” or something. and I laugh now, that’s such a ridiculous attitidue!) So basically yeah, it was pretty refershing and awesome to talk with a cool director dude and hear all about these backdrops for photos and cool to talk to someone in a relaxed mode who had experience in the media/film world.

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Hello! I just feel angry, financially exploited, and a little upset because I spent $19 sending a 40z ipod through the UPS store and checked the same price and it would have been $4.00 with just general post office. It sold for $21.00 and I recieved $29.99 from the buyer for the entire exchange (including s&h). So despite my reaction to the shipping part, I definitely felt stoked to earn ANY kind of profit ($10 profit is great. > than nothing!) So I AM surprisingly rewarded about that, but have learned some lessons from this happenstance. So, I’m going to present the 5 lessons learned and would appreciate if someone could educate me on how to send things (packages etc) via post office. UPS/fedex etc are all SCAMS omg!! Huge ripoff!!

I have sold a few other things in ebay before, but this time proved to be a valuable learning experience.

1. Always Do it yourself. It’s always less expensive and in many ways more rewarding. If If would’ve printed off the tracking labels myself it would’ve cost much less.
2. Make sure the profit that you make is worth/commensurate/proportional to the value of amount of time put into earning that profit. I spend 5-6 hours and a good bit of energy selling the ipod item on ebay, communicating with the buyer, posting photos, creating a sell item, sending it, preparing the item for sale. Make sure the profit you will earn is with the effort and time put into making that profit! From a purely economic point of view. The value of the time put into (effort, time, energy, other things you could be doing with your time + the value of the item or service sold) should = (profit!).
3. I will be never using the UPS store again; Post Office shipping is MUCH less expensive!
4. The U.S. is too brash for me, I prefer the European sophisticated experience and ambiance (I’ve even heard americans remark are French are “nicer” and I asked if that met more kind and they said yes).
5. The different between the post office and UPS is that the post office is MUCH less expensive (I didn’t know that)!

I’m beginning to see how the working world works. How people invent products that are completely useless, copying various competitor brands, when always the simplest (and cheapest) is always the best. The simple best cheapest products stand out on a store shelf. Example: I went to go pick up dog shampoo. I knew the only thing I need for my awesome dog is 2 bowls (1 for food, 1 for water), huge bag of food, a deshedding brush, and doggie shampoo. SCREW all of those mini expensive toy, chemical, brushy, foofy, petty products; they’re ALL scams to make money! And the store-brand (generic) bottle of doggy shampoo is like “glistening” on the shelf, it’s by Far the best one!! Largest quantity, cheapest price, vanilla cent, does the EXACT same thing as all the other “designer” (designer dog shampoo OMG!! ffs!) shiny coat, oiled, good dermatologically, etc. The simplest, cheapest, and minimal items are ALWAYS the best. It’s so easy to get lost and confused in the world of “brand”. Of buying something not for it’s purpose nor utility but it’s brand. Such a concept is utterly ridiculous to me now! Now, don’t get me wrong their are some brands that I use because I invest a lot of time into a certain resource; namely Apple brand computers and mabye Shell gas just because of good experiences from those stations, but other than that, NOTHING else really should be brand-bought! Even food, beverages, household items I always go to the cheapest bulk, “generic” label brands 1)because I don’t have the option of affording another kind and 2)because it’s Liberating!! To know that I didn’t waste money on a packaging configuration of brand letters!! The intent with providing a solid brand is to ensure consistency and reliability, but you know what? The generic simplest naturalist product (be it strawberries or shampoo) is almost always the best, especially if it’s something you need that isn’t an everyday thing.

So as I passed these rows and rows and rows of trinketty ridiculous pet items, all your canus lupus needs to be happy is good, fun exercise outdoors, social play time with other animals (including homo sapiens), food, water, and staying clean/bathed! But I thought to myself, I could’ve been one of those people that invented a product and went through the HELL of branding and patenting paperwork and approvals, just to get my mini row of 10 or so identical invention items up on the shelf…NEXT TO 2-10 other types of competitor inventions that emerge with their own marketing advertising, labeling, twist angle just to make money! So I feel galvanized having chosen to just take a deep breath, pass by all that superfluous shit, grab the simplest, cheapest product, and not clutter my life with items that have little bearing on a person. I purchase items for utility (or if it’s an investment, to sell later, but that’s a different strategy); that makes me feel resourceful!

Purchasing the generic brand encourages creativity and modularity. This may sound ridiculously complex and unnecessarily over-scrutinized, but it’s undeniably true! When I purchase generic “no-brand” cereal or vegetables, or rice, for example, I find it joyful to then resourcefully plugin interesting recipes to make that “bland no brand” extremely tasty or resourceful and exciting. It makes you feel self-sufficient to make things, construct things you need (if possible) instead of going to go purchase them. The experience of self-sufficiency of creating what you need if you have the necessary components (some things items like basic food ingredients feel good to purchase) to just make the tool or implement feels extremely rewarding, soothing, and confidence-boosting!

we talked about the like design of our diploma, thomas being a doctor, my awesome NLP stuff I loved, That felt like a REAL conversation. A great and valuable and meaningful conversation, too! Because we talked about something obscure (a lot of my conversations are like my reciting some blog post or future blog post sometimes haha!) the diplomas, thomas being a doctor — stuff that basically only we could have a conversation a bout, so that made it more fun and rewarding and meaningful too. On that topic, what exactly is qualifications for a “good, rewarding, GREAT phone convo”? Well, I’ve give this lot of thought. I think the best phone conversations are ones that are unique and highly-specific and maybe even obscure to the people in the conversation. In otherwords, highly relevant somewhat subjective phone calls! Now, I love universals — universal truths, universal math, universal language, those solid everywhere you go truths, I love! But in phone calls I’ve spent a lot of time telling, kind of broadcasting, almost to people the same update or current event of my life or inspirational idea. That’s GREAT to do for a seminar or for a motivational lifecoaching session because if it what you say is inspiring and great and motivational then more people should hear it! Great!! But for a casual phone conversation…sure it’s great to share the inspirational snippet great! But ultimately, I could broadcast an inspirational snippet in a blog or hopefully when I get actual lifecoaching phone sessions going, so for a casual conversation, strangely I feel the most rewarded when we discuss something highly specific and relevant to each other!

I just had a great, great convo with my brother James and we talked about the text-font-design of our college diplomas as well as our younger brother’s career path! haha! A very bizarre thing to examine but it was a topic — a conversational topic — that only could really exist from the relationship that exists between my brother and I.

For the longest time I erroneously thought the best phone conversation was me broadcast some inspirational lesson or message, and YES, that DOES have a place, if I’m in rapport with an audience or a person who’s interested at that time in hearing and experiencing a motivational message, but if it’s just a casual conversation, broadcasting a huge motivational message kind of just has a neutral effect and isn’t as uplifting as a highly specific person-to-person relevant conversation!! That was very surprising to me!

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