RE: The Game of Life

So I was browsing through them informative blogs and i stumbled across this very interesting piece..the game of life!
Life, if seen in a gamer context can be translated into this!
Most guys will get this, its logical and make sense..girls? I'm not too sure about that

What do you girls think? any feedback on this?

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Life is a game. This is your strategy guide

Real life is the game that – literally – everyone is playing. But it can be tough. This is your guide.

Basics

You might not realise, but real life is a game of strategy. There are some fun mini-games – like dancing, driving, running, and sex – but the key to winning is simply managing your resources.
Most importantly, successful players put their time into the right things. Later in the game money comes into play, but your top priority should always be mastering where your time goes.

Childhood

Life begins when you’re assigned a random character and circumstances:

The first 15 years or so of life are just tutorial missions, which suck. There’s no way to skip these.

Young adult stage

As a young player, you’ll have lots of time and energy, but almost no experience. You’ll find most things – like the best jobs, possessions and partners – are locked until you get some.
This is the time to level up your skills quickly. You will never have so much time and energy again.
Now that you’re playing properly, your top priority is to assign your time as well as possible. Every single thing you do affects your state and your skills:

This may sound simple, but the problem is you won’t always know what tasks to choose, and your body won’t always obey your commands. Let’s break it down.

How to obey your own commands

Many players find that when they choose to do something – say “go to the gym” – their body ignores them completely.
This is not a bug. Everybody has a state, which you can’t see directly, but looks something like this:

If your state gets too low in one area, your body will disobey your own instructions until your needs are met. Try studying when you’re exhausted and hungry, and watch your concentration switch to Twitter.
Your willpower level is especially important. Willpower fades throughout the day, and is replenished slightly by eating, and completely by a good night’s sleep. When your willpower is low, you are only able to do things you really want to.
Every decision you have to make costs willpower, and decisions where you have to suppress an appealing option for a less appealing one (e.g. exercise instead of watch TV) require a lot of willpower.
There are various tricks to keep your behaviour in line:

1. Keep your state high. If you’re hungry, exhausted, or utterly deprived of fun, your willpower will collapse. Ensure you take consistently good care of yourself.
2. Don’t demand too much willpower from one day. Spread your most demanding tasks over multiple days, and mix them in with less demanding ones.
3. Attempt the most important tasks first. This makes other tasks more difficult, but makes your top task more likely.
4. Reduce the need to use willpower by reducing choices. If you’re trying to work on a computer that can access Facebook, you’ll need more willpower because you’re constantly choosing the hard task over the easy one. Eliminate such distractions.

A key part of playing the game is balancing your competing priorities with the state of your body. Just don’t leave yourself on autopilot, or you’ll never get anything done.

Choosing the right tasks

Choosing the right tasks at the right time is most of the game. Some tasks mostly affect your state, e.g.

Others mostly affect your skills:

You need to put time into things that ensure a healthy state – like food and sleep – to keep your willpower high. And then you need to develop your skills with what you have left.
Some skills are more valuable than others. Good ones can open up whole paths like a tech tree:

Others are dead ends:

Combinations of skills are the most effective. It’s very hard to max out one skill to be the best – in fact, that’s often impossible. But it’s much easier to get pretty decent at lots of related skills that amount to something bigger, e.g.

See how psychology just helped you become both rich and attractive? You should study that.

Where you live

Your environment has a constant impact on your stats, skills, and your chances of levelling up.
It’s possible to play the game well almost anywhere, but it’s a lot easier in certain places. If you’re female and in the wrong country, for example, you can’t unlock many achievements.
The odds of anyone being born in their optimal location are virtually zero, so research your options, and consider moving early. Location is a multiplier to all of your skills and states.

Finding a partner

Attraction is a complex mini-game in itself, but mostly a byproduct of how you’re already playing. If you have excellent state and high skills, you’re far more attractive already. A tired, irritable, unskilled player is not appealing, and probably shouldn’t be looking for a relationship.

Early in the game it can be common to reject and be rejected by other players. This is normal, but unfortunately it can drain your state, as most players don’t handle rejection or rejecting well. You’ll need to expend willpower to keep going, and willpower is replenished by sleep, so give it time.
80% of finding someone comes down to being your most attractive self, which – like so much in life – just means putting your time in the right places. If you’re exercising, socialising, well nourished and growing in your career, you will radiate attraction automatically. The remaining 20% is simply putting yourself in places where you can meet the right people.

Money money money

Later in the game you’ll have to manage a new resource called ‘money’. Most players will find money increases throughout the early game, but that this actually introduces more problems, not less.

The most important rule of money is never to borrow it, except for things that earn you more back. For example, education or a mortgage can be worthwhile (but are not necessarily so, depending on the education or the mortgage). Borrowing to buy new shoes is not.
Depending on your financial ambitions, here are a few strategies to bear in mind:

1. Not fussed about money. The low-stress strategy: simply live within your means and save a little for a rainy day. Be sure to make the best of all the time you save though, or you’ll regret it.
2. Well off. Choose a career and environment carefully, and be prepared to move often to move up. You’ll need to invest heavily in matching skills, which will cost you time, and be careful not to abuse your state or you’ll burn out.
3. Mega rich. Start your own business. It’s almost impossible to get rich working for someone else. Riches do not come from work alone, they come from  owning things – assets – that pay back more than they cost, and your own company is a powerful asset you can create from scratch. Compound your winnings into more assets, and eventually they can remove your need to work at all.

Later life

Your options change as the game progresses. Marriage and children will reduce your time and energy, and introduce more random elements into the game (“Emergency diaper change!”). This makes it harder to develop yourself as quickly.
Older characters usually have more skills, resources and experience, unlocking quests that were previously impossible, like “owning a house”, or “writing a (good) novel”.

All players die after about 29,000 days, or 80 years. If your stats and skills are good, you might last a little longer. There is no cheat code to extend this.
At the start of the game, you had no control over who you were or your environment. By the end of the game that becomes true again. Your past decisions drastically shape where you end up, and if you’re happy, healthy, fulfilled – or not – in your final days there’s far less you can do about it.
That’s why your strategy is important. Because by the time most of us have figured life out, we’ve used up too much of the best parts.
Now you’d best get playing.

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Scientists Finally Show How Your Thoughts Can Cause Specific Molecular Changes To Your Genes

Did you know that altering the way you think, your perceptions your beliefs not only can change your outlook on life and emotions..but also changes your DNA? The changing and altering of human genes?

YES! Recent science studies have found this to be true..!

So change your perceptions and something deep inside you changes...that includes your DNA 

Check out this article that I have found:



With evidence growing that training the mind or inducing certain modes of consciousness can have positive health effects, researchers have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body. A new study by researchers in Wisconsin, Spain, and France reports the first evidence of specific molecular changes in the body following a period of intensive mindfulness practice.

The study investigated the effects of a day of intensive mindfulness practice in a group of experienced meditators, compared to a group of untrained control subjects who engaged in quiet non-meditative activities. After eight hours of mindfulness practice, the meditators showed a range of genetic and molecular differences, including altered levels of gene-regulating machinery and reduced levels of pro-inflammatory genes, which in turn correlated with faster physical recovery from a stressful situation.

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that shows rapid alterations in gene expression within subjects associated with mindfulness meditation practice,” says study author Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Most interestingly, the changes were observed in genes that are the current targets of anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs,” says Perla Kaliman, first author of the article and a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, Spain (IIBB-CSIC-IDIBAPS), where the molecular analyses were conducted.

The study was published in the Journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Mindfulness-based trainings have shown beneficial effects on inflammatory disorders in prior clinical studies and are endorsed by the American Heart Association as a preventative intervention. The new results provide a possible biological mechanism for therapeutic effects.

Gene Activity Can Change According To Perception

According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, gene activity can change on a daily basis. If the perception in your mind is reflected in the chemistry of your body, and if your nervous system reads and interprets the environment and then controls the blood’s chemistry, then you can literally change the fate of your cells by altering your thoughts.

In fact, Dr. Lipton’s research illustrates that by changing your perception, your mind can alter the activity of your genes and create over thirty thousand variations of products from each gene. He gives more detail by saying that the gene programs are contained within the nucleus of the cell, and you can rewrite those genetic programs through changing your blood chemistry.

In the simplest terms, this means that we need to change the way we think if we are to heal cancer. “The function of the mind is to create coherence between our beliefs and the reality we experience,” Dr. Lipton said. “What that means is that your mind will adjust the body’s biology and behavior to fit with your beliefs. If you’ve been told you’ll die in six months and your mind believes it, you most likely will die in six months. That’s called the nocebo effect, the result of a negative thought, which is the opposite of the placebo effect, where healing is mediated by a positive thought.”

That dynamic points to a three-party system: there’s the part of you that swears it doesn’t want to die (the conscious mind), trumped by the part that believes you will (the doctor’s prognosis mediated by the subconscious mind), which then throws into gear the chemical reaction (mediated by the brain’s chemistry) to make sure the body conforms to the dominant belief. 

(Neuroscience has recognized that the subconscious controls 95 percent of our lives.)

Now what about the part that doesn’t want to die–the conscious mind? Isn’t it impacting the body’s chemistry as well? Dr. Lipton said that it comes down to how the subconscious mind, which contains our deepest beliefs, has been programmed. It is these beliefs that ultimately cast the deciding vote.

“It’s a complex situation,” said Dr. Lipton. People have been programmed to believe that they’re victims and that they have no control. We’re programmed from the start with our mother and father’s beliefs. So, for instance, when we got sick, we were told by our parents that we had to go to the doctor because the doctor is the authority concerning our health. We all got the message throughout childhood that doctors were the authority on health and that we were victims of bodily forces beyond our ability to control. The joke, however, is that people often get better while on the way to the doctor. That’s when the innate ability for self-healing kicks in, another example of the placebo effect.

Mindfulness Practice Specifically Affects Regulatory Pathways

The results of Davidson’s study show a down-regulation of genes that have been implicated in inflammation. The affected genes include the pro-inflammatory genes RIPK2 and COX2 as well as several histone deacetylase (HDAC) genes, which regulate the activity of other genes epigenetically by removing a type of chemical tag. What’s more, the extent to which some of those genes were downregulated was associated with faster cortisol recovery to a social stress test involving an impromptu speech and tasks requiring mental calculations performed in front of an audience and video camera.

Biologists have suspected for years that some kind of epigenetic inheritance occurs at the cellular level. The different kinds of cells in our bodies provide an example. Skin cells and brain cells have different forms and functions, despite having exactly the same DNA. There must be mechanisms–other than DNA–that make sure skin cells stay skin cells when they divide.
Perhaps surprisingly, the researchers say, there was no difference in the tested genes between the two groups of people at the start of the study. The observed effects were seen only in the meditators following mindfulness practice. In addition, several other DNA-modifying genes showed no differences between groups, suggesting that the mindfulness practice specifically affected certain regulatory pathways.

The key result is that meditators experienced genetic changes following mindfulness practice that were not seen in the non-meditating group after other quiet activities — an outcome providing proof of principle that mindfulness practice can lead to epigenetic alterations of the genome.
Previous studies in rodents and in people have shown dynamic epigenetic responses to physical stimuli such as stress, diet, or exercise within just a few hours.

“Our genes are quite dynamic in their expression and these results suggest that the calmness of our mind can actually have a potential influence on their expression,” Davidson says.
“The regulation of HDACs and inflammatory pathways may represent some of the mechanisms underlying the therapeutic potential of mindfulness-based interventions,” Kaliman says. “Our findings set the foundation for future studies to further assess meditation strategies for the treatment of chronic inflammatory conditions.”

Subconscious Beliefs Are Key

Too many positive thinkers know that thinking good thoughts–and reciting affirmations for hours on end–doesn’t always bring about the results that feel-good books promise.

Dr. Lipton didn’t argue this point, because positive thoughts come from the conscious mind, while contradictory negative thoughts are usually programmed in the more powerful subconscious mind.

“The major problem is that people are aware of their conscious beliefs and behaviors, but not of subconscious beliefs and behaviors. Most people don’t even acknowledge that their subconscious mind is at play, when the fact is that the subconscious mind is a million times more powerful than the conscious mind and that we operate 95 to 99 percent of our lives from subconscious programs.
“Your subconscious beliefs are working either for you or against you, but the truth is that you are not controlling your life, because your subconscious mind supersedes all conscious control. So when you are trying to heal from a conscious level–citing affirmations and telling yourself you’re healthy–there may be an invisible subconscious program that’s sabotaging you.”

The power of the subconscious mind is elegantly revealed in people expressing multiple personalities. While occupying the mind-set of one personality, the individual may be severely allergic to strawberries. Then, in experiencing the mind-set of another personality, he or she eats them without consequence.

The new science of epigenetics promises that every person on the planet has the opportunity to become who they really are, complete with unimaginable power and the ability to operate from, and go for, the highest possibilities, including healing our bodies and our culture and living in peace.

Article sources:
wisc.edu
brucelipton.com
ts-si.org

Source: preventdisease.com

Stop Procastinating! - follow the 2 minute rule!

Happy New Year Everyone!

But how do we start the new year again? Most of us have a long list of resolutions and promises that we make and hope that after the stroke of midnight on Dec 31st, something magical will happen and we still change..
It's like being a new chance to life again, and having a pen to write yet another 365 page of a brand new empty book!

Now, everyone aspires to do something great and achieve awesome wonders - that includes me!
So thus, I have been scouting the net and stumbled upon a great article that can help boost that!

Here is something practical that we can all follow:

How to Stop Procrastinating by Using the “2-Minute Rule”
by James Clear

Recently, I’ve been following a simple rule that is helping me crush procrastination and making it easier for me to stick to good habits at the same time.
I want to share it with you today so that you can try it out and see how it works in your life.
The best part? It’s a simple strategy that couldn’t be easier to use.
Here’s what you need to know…

 How to Stop Procrastinating With the “2–Minute Rule”

I call this little strategy the “2–Minute Rule” and the goal is to make it easier for you to get started on the things you should be doing.
Here’s the deal…
Most of the tasks that you procrastinate on aren’t actually difficult to do — you have the talent and skills to accomplish them — you just avoid starting them for one reason or another.
The 2–Minute Rule overcomes procrastination and laziness by making it so easy to start taking action that you can’t say no.
There are two parts to the 2–Minute Rule…

Part 1 — If it takes less than two minutes, then do it now.

Part I comes from David Allen’s bestselling book, Getting Things Done.
It’s surprising how many things we put off that we could get done in two minutes or less. For example, washing your dishes immediately after your meal, tossing the laundry in the washing machine, taking out the garbage, cleaning up clutter, sending that email, and so on.
If a task takes less than two minutes to complete, then follow the rule and do it right now.

Part 2 — When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do.

Can all of your goals be accomplished in less than two minutes? Obviously not.
But, every goal can be started in 2 minutes or less. And that’s the purpose behind this little rule.

Sounds easy enough? It only takes 2 minutes to move into a better quality life that you can be proud of:)

Stop comparing with others!! You are you!

Another interesting enriching article..stop comparing yourself and find your self worth!
a great read!

Sometimes all we do in life is compare with others..
If you've ever felt not quite good enough, you might appreciate this.
Why do I keep comparing with others?
Why am I jealous?
Why can;t I do things the way I should do?
Why can't i be like them?

This explanations heals...take time to read :)
credits to the artist..your awesome! 

The "Now" - Coming out from the comfort zones and relization to change unto greatness

Whoa!!
Talking about finding things in the most unexpected places
I think I have finally found meaning and a very very sharp perspective of my life
I can totoally relate to this stuff that I have found..this article blew my mind!
And here I was looking for "travel tips" when I stumbled upon http://www.mavericktraveler.com
and gave me a sense of perspective of "now". 
Please read this article, all credits goes to him!

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Several months ago, I met up with an old friend. Like many of the great men with which I consider myself lucky to cross paths in life, I met him overseas — in Brazil. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that he was also traveling alone, brazenly grabbing the things that he wanted, whether they were fine women or crazy adventures, all while running a successful passive-income business on the side.

So, when I returned back to the States several months ago, he was one of the very few people whom I notified of my arrival. He’s one of the few guys in the world I can fully relate with and trust; an interesting and cool guy who’s always either hustling 18 hours per day, planning, building and launching a new business or looking for adventures in the most random corners of the globe. (I have other friends, but I’ve long learned that a one-sided conversation where I tell them my countless adventures and they just keep nodding isn’t a fun way to spend an evening.)

The plan was to have a couple of beers and reminisce about our old times. We met up and immediately began talking about where it all began: Brazil. After that, he told me about his recent two month trip to Colombia’s Caribbean coast. I told him about my European adventures, and what a fantastic time I had living in The Baltics this past summer. He was enthusiastic, asking me lots of questions and even making a few mental notes about going to Europe in the near future.

But, then something happened. We ran out of things to say about our past travels. We ran out of things to say about our future travels. Right there, in a split second, he did something completely unexpected: he switched to the present. He began talking about things that he was doing now. I fully expected that our whole evening would be spent talking about that night in Rio, or that night in Belo Horizonte, or that night in São Paulo, but as far as he was concerned, the past was firmly in the past. He was now busy living a new chapter in his life, and that chapter was right now and right here in New York, not inside the samba clubs of Brazil or the salsa clubs of Colombia.
Living in the present isn’t a bad thing, but what caught me completely off guard was my complete unpreparedness for the topic at hand. I felt like a high school student who got caught in surprise pop quiz. I felt ambushed. I didn’t know how to react. Truth is, I didn’t have any plans for the present. I didn’t know what I was going to do. In fact, that was probably one of the reasons why I really came out to meet him; maybe I was seeking some kind of guidance, some kind of support, someone to point me in the right direction. And here he was, a guy who always got shit done, a guy who always had all the answers.

I was searching for answers to my own emptiness and lack of direction (living in the past was the most obvious hint that I didn’t have anything better in the present). I was still mentally in that glorious old world and didn’t know how to adjust to this new one. Maybe I didn’t want to adjust at all. After all, in that other world I was free from planning concrete goals; I could eat, drink, and flirt with gorgeous women all day, every day. It was truly a carefree life. But in this world, I needed to get serious. I needed to set direction for the future. I needed to create my own reality. But where do I start? How do I bootstrap myself out of the past and into the present?

The breakthrough came to me one evening while I debated whether to go for a run or not. Running, as far as I’m concerned, is a boring, monotonous activity, but it’s also the easiest and most effective way to engage in a vigorous physical exercise, especially given today’s sedentary lifestyles. There were many times in the past where I made all kinds of excuses, but something about that particular evening was different. It suddenly hit me like a ball of lightning that I’m a healthy young man with two legs and two arms. I’m not sick. I don’t have a fever. I don’t have bad knees. I don’t have a heart 
condition. I don’t have a lung condition. Physically, I have everything I need to be able to run any distance I wanted. The only thing that was holding me back was laziness (which was my way of saying that my time was better spent sitting on the couch and watching a mindless TV sitcom than investing in my own mind and body). Maybe when I’m 80 years old with bad knees, I wouldn’t be able to physically run anymore, but now as a perfectly healthy young man, not being able to take advantage of what I possessed hit me as the most illogical thing in the world. I went out and ran the longest distance in many years.

That evening sparked a revolution in my mind, forcing me to scrutinize and reexamine my thought processes and actions. An image popped into my head; I began to see myself as a nation which was blessed with countless natural resources, but didn’t have any form of government nor a well functioning economy to convert those resources into wealth. Imagine a country that has within its borders all the major raw materials: oil, wheat, sugar, copper, silver, cocoa, ore, diamonds but doesn’t have the machinery to turn those resources into goods or doesn’t even bother to trade these commodities with other nation. I realized that everything I needed was already in my possession, and that all I now had to do was begin extracting, harvesting, processing, marketing and exporting them.

I had everything: experience, health, intelligence, intimate knowledge of various subjects, but yet I was still looking outward for some magical potion that could somehow fill an obscure void and give me that little push into the right direction. That’s why I began seeking salvation and guidance from someone else, namely my friend. But how could my friend ever help? How could he give an answer to such an open-ended question as to what to do with my life? He was just another guy, a guy just like myself, who only differed from me in his unstoppable tenacity to implement his raw ideas into money-generating assets. We were like two countries with the exact same resources, except his country had a stable government and a robust economy and mine didn’t. He had guts, I didn’t.

Next, came the second part of the puzzle: how to stop looking for some opaque, nebulous, open-ended salvation from others, and instead be more concrete with what I need and how I should go about getting those needs satisfied. (The part about being more concrete with my needs made me immediately remember a couple of one-itis’es in my youth when I idolized women without being forward with what I really wanted: hardcore, monkey sex.)

Since people are inherently egoistic, I quickly realized that in order to get what I wanted, I need to give them something that they wanted in return. Successful people are successful precisely because they spend their time on things that yield them the maximum possible return. Doing lots of things for free would bankrupt them quickly. (I doubt my friend would meet me again if only to reminisce about some distant past that’s no longer relevant.)
The key to getting what you want is figuring out how to use what you already have in ways that are beneficial to someone else (who, in turn, has what you need). The important point is that you can only begin bartering with others once you’ve done a complete inventory of your present stock. It’s only after you know the true value of your own raw materials, will you be able to trade them profitably with other parties.

Armed with this understanding, I began to view myself as an efficient factory with two assembly lines: assembly line of my “outputs” (things that I’m able to synthesize and “sell”: my knowledge, experience, intelligence, skills, etc) and assembly line of my “inputs” (things that I’m “buying”: what I need/want/desire from others). Essentially, I realized that my success lay in seeing and presenting myself as a flexible microeconomic unit which could efficiently generate output while simultaneously processing input, instead of some insolvent opaque matter that only sought very abstract things like the meaning of life and salvation from everyone it interacted with. I even visualized myself being composed off various gears, like the ones you find inside a mechanical watch. The gears are constantly turning, with one gear spinning another, and so on.

Whereas before I was like a land blessed with natural resources but with no government and no functioning economy, now I was an efficiently running factory, producing things that can be used to get what I want from others.
I ultimately realized that no one — not my good friend, not my parents, not the bartender, not my boss, not some cute girl, not even The Pope — had The Answer. I was asking the wrong questions. Everyone, after all, is simply trying to get by with what they have. Nobody has the answers to very abstract questions like the meaning of life. Construct a more specific question — the more specific, the better — and now finding someone with the answer is a much simpler task.

It all made sense. At the core, life is based on inter-human barter. I sell, he buys. I buy, she sells.

As time went on, I began to observe my environment in a completely new way, as though I was suddenly graced with x-ray vision. I began to see and feel the intricacies of each situation, no matter how simple or complex. I started noticing that certain people always magically get what they want, no matter where they are and what they are doing. But I’ve also noticed other people who are always stagnant, lost, confused, and forever struggling, as though the answers to their problems lie outside their realm; for, they are always seeking something, be it understanding, support, salvation, sympathy, empathy, compassion, or pity from someone else. If they only knew the right place to look.

Looking for stars

A poem about a person who is trapped into a situation where he feels helpless and hold on to the stars to guide him - towards his destiny

Everything,
Everything seem to be taken away from me,
I am like a fool,
Believing everybody that tells me what I should do,

I am without a father,
Looking up towards others who are kind,
I see them as a guiding star,
Someone who would light the path and show me the way,

I was happy to walk on,
Though the burden felt so heavy,
I am glad I have someone that I could carry,
To help them as they helped me walk the lighted way,

But,
When the buden became so heavy,
Until to the point I couldnt carry,
I smiled as I told the star that It's to heavy,
Instead I got a disapproving frown and a rebuke, 

Where was the smiling star that shown the way?
Did I do something wrong?
A disgrace? 
Where was the sweet sweet assuring voice that I held on to? 

Suddenly the burden has been lifted back to the star,
and I felt so light! 
But the star left me shining no more,
It is dark and gloomy now 

The Star...
It had turn its back on me 
and the road to leading towards my destiny
was the star's destiny instead,

So, goodbye loving star,
You have left me in the dark and cold,
I thought I had somewhere to go,
But you have led me into despair instead of gold,

I am left alone,
Crying in the corner,
You have broken my heart,
And I sit there waiting for another star to come guide the way

What a fool I am,
Don't I know that the stars that guide my way,
Are merely shining the way towards their own goals,
and care nothing of me and my "what will be"? 




but why; oh why,
Why just can't I see?
The star I seek 
Is already within me

MC

Lesson C: C O N F I D E N C E

You know...I think after so long I have finally stumbled across something 
The key to conduct and run a business is not what products  or services you have
I have found that in the beginning I have just scratched my head to figure out a ingenious need of the people, to see what kind of amazing product or wonderful service that I could wow my potential future clients...
And I thought to myself "This is what is needed to rocket up in the business world! - Imma a Genius!"

BUT...after much self-searching and sitting under the feet of Jesus, the only thing that is needed...to start anything, business or whatever is this. The big "C"

CONFIDENCE

Without this "C", life ain't nothing. You gotta catch life by the "balls". Keep Life surprised at all times! 

In a way,  life is like a girl that is waiting to be impressed by the guy. Life is like the crowd of people that you are eagerly awaiting to pitch your presentation to. Life is like the feeling of when the guy who fucked with you and was caught by surprised when you gathered the courage to plant that bombshell punch across his face.It's the spontaneous feeling when you just jump into a bull fight - just to get a rush of feelings!

Yay - I have gotten this, and this is a stage when I will have to do anything and anything to grow and gain the confidence..even if I dont feel "safe" or "comfortable" about it. 
NOW hear this out carefully. What I had just mention doesn't mean crazy un-calculated risk. It's not the crazy risk of standing in front of the train and expect to laugh about it later and not to get crushed and smashed in. Understand this. YOU WILL DIE. Do it seasonably and with common sense
and you will live! 
My gawd, 

YOU WILL LIVE!