Welcome to our New Forums!

Our forums have been upgraded and expanded!

Welcome to Our New Forums

  • Our forums have been upgraded! You can read about this HERE

Achieving your life goals and how comfortablity has become a drug

g666

New member
Joined
May 22, 2021
Messages
1
We always hear these great stories on podcasts and interviews about these millionaires and successful people; how they came from nothing, living in the hood or getting beaten and molested as a kid but at the end becoming really successful and great at life.

When we hear these stories we admire them from coming from such a bad place in life and making it so far in our society and it appears most of these successful people have a “sad story”. That is because that uncomfortable period in life is the most crucial.

We’re all too comfortable nowadays and most people have to hit rock bottom to change their day-to-day routine and behavior. It’s stepping out of that comfort zone that is going to make the difference in your life. People who have been exposed to this uncomfortable way of living have a jump start to the rest of us because they are more comfortable with the uncomfortable. Someone that comes from nothing has a tougher skin and is willing to take more risks to achieve their success.

You don’t have to be successful to feel good. You can just lit up a joint, play video games or scroll on your phone all day to escape reality or just get a quick dopamine rush and continue your normal behavior.

You don’t have any reason to be successful because you are already too comfortable.

Why meditate and practice yoga if you can just buy some drugs?
Why work on your side hustle or business if you can just watch Netflix all day?
Why go after that girl you like when you can just go to Pornhub and jerk off?

Self-determination-amotivation-extrinsic-intrinsic-motivation.png


The problem is that all these things are short-term pleasure. We get a quick rush out of these things and we can then return to our shitty lives. You are not entirely to blame though. The weed you buy now in the shops is 100x stronger than what it was in ancient times. It’s been weaponized to be more addictive and give you a stronger high. It’s the same with social media, there are lots of people that worked for facebook, Instagram, snapchat, youtube saying they made it addictive on purpose. They have teams of psychologist working over hours to make their platform more addictive, but the FDA isn’t regulating those type of drugs so it’s up to ourselves to control your online behavior. This is also why digital detox is a thing with high performers. Successful people are not consuming content on social media like the average joe and the most influential people in the world are not using social media despite what you might think. Some might create content on it but they are not consuming. Most of them will not admit it because that’s the thing that keeps their business alive but at the same time they fry our brains, making us more lazy and fucking up our attention span.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPwR1i-sWpo&ab_channel=GoodMorningAmericaGoodMorningAmericaGeverifieerd




To come back to this escape of reality, this lesson has been taught to us by the gods since way back.
In ancient Sparta a boy would be sent to the wilderness when they turned 12 years old with only a blanket and spear, the Assyrians would send away their boys when they turned 5 years for military training.

You could argue these practices are barbaric or wrong but this hard approach made these folks strong. This approach made the Spartan army of 300 men won the battle at Thermopylae against the millions of Zoroastrian soldiers from Persia and we should be glad they won because the world would look a lot worser if they didn’t.

The story of Icarus and Daedalus is also a reference to the shortcuts in life. Daedalus and his son Icarus were trapped in a maze on the island Crete. In the maze lived the minotaur, a monster half men, half bull and they had to slay the minotaur to escape the maze. Instead, Daedalus and Icarus made wings out of wax and feathers so they could fly out of the maze. But when Icarus fled too high, the wings melted and he crashed into the ocean and died.

This maze symbolizes your life and the minotaur symbolizes the inner conflict you have to face in your life. You can’t cheat the minotaur by building fake wings just like you can’t cheat your anxiety by smoking weed or just like you can’t escape reality by watching Netflix all day. It will eventually bite you in the ass and you will crash just like Icarus did.

The only way to better your life is by going after what you want and breaking the cycle of comfortability. Most of us are afraid to break this cycle because when we do things that are new to us we know we will suck, and we are afraid of rejection and failure thus we stay in the comfort zone.

Great change comes into 4 phases

Uninformed optimism --> informed pessimism --> failure --> success


This goes for literally everything.
The benefits of meditation, starting your own business, stopping a bad habit.
It all seems so great at the beginning but after actually starting and digging up information it’s way harder than you’d think it is. You just have to push through the hard part at the beginning to see success.

This was the same for me when I started meditating. I used to smoke a lot of weed to deal with some shit that happened in my life. I knew about the JoS back then but I didn’t want to work on myself at that time because I knew it would take a lot of effort and I didn’t have the balls to face reality.

Even when I eventually did start I had problems with simple void meditation and focusing and controlling my mind but I decided for myself I’d try and fail as many times as necessary until I got it right. And I just want to encourage you to do the same because good things are waiting for those that put in the work.

I felt the need to post this because things are, after a long period of time, going well for me business wise and I wish someone had told me this when I was younger. The gods help those who help themselves.

Don’t wait for something bad to happen. START NOW!!!!!

The war has to be fought on both sides, both spiritual as well as in the material world & I’m not talking about using violence but about outperforming the enemy business wise & taking back control over the world. Think about it, if we don’t do it the enemy will.
 
g666 said:
We always hear these great stories on podcasts and interviews about these millionaires and successful people; how they came from nothing, living in the hood or getting beaten and molested as a kid but at the end becoming really successful and great at life.

When we hear these stories we admire them from coming from such a bad place in life and making it so far in our society and it appears most of these successful people have a “sad story”. That is because that uncomfortable period in life is the most crucial.

We’re all too comfortable nowadays and most people have to hit rock bottom to change their day-to-day routine and behavior. It’s stepping out of that comfort zone that is going to make the difference in your life. People who have been exposed to this uncomfortable way of living have a jump start to the rest of us because they are more comfortable with the uncomfortable. Someone that comes from nothing has a tougher skin and is willing to take more risks to achieve their success.

You don’t have to be successful to feel good. You can just lit up a joint, play video games or scroll on your phone all day to escape reality or just get a quick dopamine rush and continue your normal behavior.

You don’t have any reason to be successful because you are already too comfortable.

Why meditate and practice yoga if you can just buy some drugs?
Why work on your side hustle or business if you can just watch Netflix all day?
Why go after that girl you like when you can just go to Pornhub and jerk off?

Self-determination-amotivation-extrinsic-intrinsic-motivation.png


The problem is that all these things are short-term pleasure. We get a quick rush out of these things and we can then return to our shitty lives. You are not entirely to blame though. The weed you buy now in the shops is 100x stronger than what it was in ancient times. It’s been weaponized to be more addictive and give you a stronger high. It’s the same with social media, there are lots of people that worked for facebook, Instagram, snapchat, youtube saying they made it addictive on purpose. They have teams of psychologist working over hours to make their platform more addictive, but the FDA isn’t regulating those type of drugs so it’s up to ourselves to control your online behavior. This is also why digital detox is a thing with high performers. Successful people are not consuming content on social media like the average joe and the most influential people in the world are not using social media despite what you might think. Some might create content on it but they are not consuming. Most of them will not admit it because that’s the thing that keeps their business alive but at the same time they fry our brains, making us more lazy and fucking up our attention span.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPwR1i-sWpo&ab_channel=GoodMorningAmericaGoodMorningAmericaGeverifieerd




To come back to this escape of reality, this lesson has been taught to us by the gods since way back.
In ancient Sparta a boy would be sent to the wilderness when they turned 12 years old with only a blanket and spear, the Assyrians would send away their boys when they turned 5 years for military training.

You could argue these practices are barbaric or wrong but this hard approach made these folks strong. This approach made the Spartan army of 300 men won the battle at Thermopylae against the millions of Zoroastrian soldiers from Persia and we should be glad they won because the world would look a lot worser if they didn’t.

The story of Icarus and Daedalus is also a reference to the shortcuts in life. Daedalus and his son Icarus were trapped in a maze on the island Crete. In the maze lived the minotaur, a monster half men, half bull and they had to slay the minotaur to escape the maze. Instead, Daedalus and Icarus made wings out of wax and feathers so they could fly out of the maze. But when Icarus fled too high, the wings melted and he crashed into the ocean and died.

This maze symbolizes your life and the minotaur symbolizes the inner conflict you have to face in your life. You can’t cheat the minotaur by building fake wings just like you can’t cheat your anxiety by smoking weed or just like you can’t escape reality by watching Netflix all day. It will eventually bite you in the ass and you will crash just like Icarus did.

The only way to better your life is by going after what you want and breaking the cycle of comfortability. Most of us are afraid to break this cycle because when we do things that are new to us we know we will suck, and we are afraid of rejection and failure thus we stay in the comfort zone.

Great change comes into 4 phases

Uninformed optimism --> informed pessimism --> failure --> success


This goes for literally everything.
The benefits of meditation, starting your own business, stopping a bad habit.
It all seems so great at the beginning but after actually starting and digging up information it’s way harder than you’d think it is. You just have to push through the hard part at the beginning to see success.

This was the same for me when I started meditating. I used to smoke a lot of weed to deal with some shit that happened in my life. I knew about the JoS back then but I didn’t want to work on myself at that time because I knew it would take a lot of effort and I didn’t have the balls to face reality.

Even when I eventually did start I had problems with simple void meditation and focusing and controlling my mind but I decided for myself I’d try and fail as many times as necessary until I got it right. And I just want to encourage you to do the same because good things are waiting for those that put in the work.

I felt the need to post this because things are, after a long period of time, going well for me business wise and I wish someone had told me this when I was younger. The gods help those who help themselves.

Don’t wait for something bad to happen. START NOW!!!!!

The war has to be fought on both sides, both spiritual as well as in the material world & I’m not talking about using violence but about outperforming the enemy business wise & taking back control over the world. Think about it, if we don’t do it the enemy will.

That was amazing. Thanks for this post. I needed to read this.
 
Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it. I hope I could inspire some of you to take action although I know a lot of people on this forum are already taking massive action. Remember: motivation is temporary, discipline and hard work is going to get the job done.
 

Al Jilwah: Chapter IV

"It is my desire that all my followers unite in a bond of unity, lest those who are without prevail against them." - Satan

Back
Top