Freedomizing

Ok confession first, I love Yoga. Confession number two, I love the "Bikram" style yoga the most. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikram_Yoga However, the reason for this post is because of an epiphany I had just before sleep the other night. When you are in that class, and you warm up with breathing, six counts in six counts out, it is a noisy process, and kinda sounds likes waves. It is a meditative process for me, and I think for most Yoga goers as well. The epiphany I had was who you are when you are breathing, I've always been the land of the wave, when in fact if you assume you are the water of the wave it is much more in line with yoga spirituality, assuming you are also reading the Tao Te Ching, which references water quite often. The land is just an obstacle in your way. Depending on the wave, your life may be challenged at the time, chaos if the wave is crashing down, over rocks, different obstacles. As you calm, as you are able to meditate through you...

I listened to a podcast the other day that spoke of a gentleman that lost his vision at an adult age, this adult learned to listen to audio (book on tape style) at 6 times the speed. I was really proud of myself because I was listening to this particular podcast at 1.5X speed. Then when I heard that we (humans) can process language at up to 8 times the spoken word, and there was this dude that was listening at 6x I thought, well shoot! Challenge accepted! (I don't believe I will get to 6x by the way) I immediately went to 2X and have been listening to podcasts at that level for months now. I also found that Audible.com offers audiobooks read at 3X. Currently, I'm not there, but I am comfortable with what I consider to be very good comprehension at a 2.5X and training myself to get to the 3X. So what?! Well, time is money, if I can listen to a book on tape in 1/3 the time that my peers listen to the same book and we both get the same out of the book, I just p...

I recently put up a little bit of scratch up for a Tesla Model 3, which, by the way, goes against every logical freedomizing frugality physical activity essence I have ... However, allow me to go on a bit of a rant. Go back about 3 years, my first ride in a Tesla, a friend of mine took me down a major vein in our city, took his hands off the wheel feet off the pedals, and wallah! We drove down Broadway autonomously! I was impressed, but my friend at the time didn't trust it, and rightfully so it wasn't to be trusted at the time. Fast forward to about two weeks ago, Tesla updates their driving software for the nth time and very positive reviews. I reach out to my same friend, who happened to have taken a little road trip about 100 miles up turning roads that day, his comment, he didn't touch the steering wheel or the pedals at all! I had just finished a book Homo Deus, and was already completely freaking out about AI and algorithmic realities that are becoming our lives when...

A two letter word can destroy this title. A two letter word can destroy the concept, can destroy lives, destroy everything that matters to anyone. I've just had this epiphany, I've always been fascinated OF money of the concept, of the ability, how to, when why what where, it has always fascinating to me. The money its self is not fascinating. If you are fascinated BY money, then you are forever in its shadow. On the other hand, if you are fascinated OF money you are fascinated by the concept of the "thing" we call money. This fascination is coming to fruition for me as we develop new currency, new concepts of "things."  Bitcoin created many a monster in its wake, that is fascinating to me, it also degraded federally controlled monetary systems, that too is fascinating to me. It is and always should be the concept of worth that is fascinating not the "worth" its self. A dollar is a pretty printed piece of paper, gold is an element, a Bitcoin, well ...

Common sense says you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything. Or does it? How about the idea that if you put your mind to it AND convince other influencers around you of your success. The concept is based on the study done for elementary school aged kids where the teachers were given the names of the up and comers, thing is the list was random; kids nor teachers knew it but when tested at the end of the year the "random" kids were the "up and comers!" Surprised?! You shouldn't be. What this study should show you is the concept that you need to constantly be selling yourself and your team to your peers/customers/bosses everyone so they support your endeveours and pave the paths for success for you and your team.

6/27/17 Real Estate Events  Putting thoughts on paper and it starts with real estate. Here I am about to sell my property, hopefully; and one thing that I have learned is that utilizing a decorator or stager could potentially make a huge difference! And don't forget a new coat of paint!. For sale by owner has its upsides and downsides; significantly downsides from what I can tell. One of my thoughts was I was going to offer a 4% commission to the buyer's agent and see if I could get a bunch of buyer agents involved. The only thing that happened is that real estate agents called me nonstop asking for the listing, so I got fed up with it, and I called my realtor to have her take a look at that property. She helped humble me a little bit, and we'll see if the pricing is OK. Ideally, we can sell in this relatively tight market. Believe it or not, Colorado, for the higher-end home is really tough! So we're going to see what we can do about staging it in today my realt...

Precursor, I'm writing this with my phone at a stealership  while my "covered" oil gets changed. So grammar might be worse than normal! Egos are a necessary concept in capitalism, you must have a reasonable amount of Ego in order to believe in yourself to promote your services in trade for dollars. If we had no egos you would be quick to admitting there are plenty of people that can do exactly what you do better, faster, cheaper, fill in the blank. However our ego gives us the sales pitch necessary to grow, to chalange and to believe in ourselves that we indeed are the best with a fill in the blank with a qualifier. I had a coworker just the other day say that she is the best Rep the company has to offer, yet quantitatively I had statistics that proved her incorrect. Her response was simple and egotistical, an excuse followed by a qualifier. She believed due to ego that she indeed is the best Rep, and by her qualifiying statement because it was a immeasurable statement ...