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Max here with a continuation of some of my thoughts to the ether,

And well, yes, again, tonight, I’m at the club. It’s Saturday night, about 230am. And the club, it’s picked up and now has what I call my standard of decent movement for a January, but me, my brain, my thoughts, my emotions have all been internally stirring. I have just been pondering about how to make this a better year. I have many things that have been left undone, one of which is my taxes…. And Man, to be honest, I am 2 years behind. I’m telling you, I just really hate doing paperwork. And I am sure that my CPA is not happy with me, but by the same token, it’s all just money to him and I have no doubt that he will just comfortably wait until I am ready to bring him my completed paperwork. But yes, my taxes are on my mind as well as how do I stream line all that I am doing to attain the things on my “life experience list”?

I am doing another listen to Jack’s book. (it’s a long book, so I might still be listening to it since the last time I wrote) but So much of what he says just makes so much sense. The difficulty in his book though, is to be able to remember everything, and to put it all in the correct order and implement each item, thing, thought, or idea, not only in the correct order, but also at the appropriate time so as to create the exact outcome that I seek. And so things stirring in my head currently are that I MUST get organized. I must complete my house (this long term construction phase that I am stuck in does not let me feel organized), There is always dust everywhere and something to do. I must learn to keep organized my very tiny (2ftX3ft) business desk. Which the keyboard, telephone and scanner already take up over half of the room on the desk. But regardless, I need to become deeply organized, but as I listen to that book, I can’t help but to notice that I have been slacking on so many other things that are what will aid to ensure that I get my success to my millions.

For example, The fact that I need to be looking at my goals (life experience list) on a daily basis. And as Jack would say, I should read it out loud twice a day. He spilled a lot of statistics on people who kept and didn’t keep a goals list and Jack also gave a breakdown of their success rate of those attaining their goals by having a goals list and also those that frequently reviewed their goals on a daily basis. As it turns out, those that reviewed their goals daily had an extremely high rate of accomplishing their goals versus those that rarely or never reviewed their goals. Now how have I been doing on writing my goals and reviewing them?….. Well the fact is that I carry my goals in my backpack, and I take my backpack almost everywhere I go. But what I don’t do is to look at my goals daily. As a matter of fact, I have not looked at my goals in a while. Nor have I looked at them before bed or when I wake up in the morning. I tend to think that this is part of creating the proper mix. ie: When to review goals, when to write in the gratitude journal, when to write in the “small wins’ diary……. When to do each and everything in my life, to attain every goal on my list before I die. Wouldn’t it be cool to achieve everything on the list and then to create another list….the power of possibility.

This is all just part of the bigger mix…. When to sleep, when to do the weekly to do list, when to have time to personally work on things at my house, whether it be building my BBQ pit,  gardening, washing and folding clothes, cleaning, or helping my worker how to do certain projects. For example. I am currently needing to redo the drainage along one side of my house. And I now need to cement the area around the drainage pipe. It is not a lot of cement (maybe 20 bags or so of cement) but the bigger issue is that the cement, when laid, needs to be formed at a particular pitch and also made to look professional. It is very easy to make cement look bad. And my enigma doesn’t know how to lay cement, it is just something he has never done, and he also doesn’t know how to make cement forms. None of this is really difficult to do, and truth be told, the hardest part is picking up the bags of cement and mixing them in the barrel. (especially when you are hand mixing 20 bags of cement). But to lay cement in a particular form takes a small amount of skill and knowledge of how cement dries and coagulates. So for this particular project I MUST be there on hand when he pours the cement so I can form it into the desired pitch. I must also first make sure that the cement forms are done properly so that it holds the cement as it is laid. Again, doing this is not necessarily hard or difficult. But what it is for me….. Is time consuming and takes away from other things that I could be doing, like working on my taxes, making music, working with my 3D printer, reviewing my goals, starting that mentoring program, going to the gym, writing in the blog, skydiving, ensure that apartment #1 is finished, working on a plan to build the 12plex, and so much more.

So somehow I have got to figure out how to plan my time to get the most productivity, but more than that I have got to ensure that my productivity is put in the areas that give the biggest bang for my time. And the fact that is that I have not been reviewing my goals, means that somehow, I have probably been slacking on ensuring that I have my time allocated properly. For example, recently I remember coming home Monday morning after a long night of work at the club (Remember 90% of the time, I don’t sleep from Sunday thru Monday) so when I got home from work that day, I got my enigma started on his daily projects and although I kept moving thru the day, In the end, somewhere thru near the end of my day, I stopped to look at what I was doing and what I had accomplished, productivity output, and I noticed that I did almost nothing, literally! NOTHING. And that for me is just not acceptable. Especially when we are talking about health and longevity. Remember healthy doesn’t happen when you don’t sleep.

Now I don’t know if it has always been like that, because from what I can remember, I have had those Sundays thru Mondays where I was able to get things done. Now, maybe it is just wearing on me, maybe I am just starting to get too tired by being up in the morning by 8am every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. then to turn around and go to bed every Saturday and Sunday morning at 10am and then wake up that same Sunday at 3pm and not go to bed again until Monday night at 7,8,or 9pm. I think it’s just been wearing on me. But somehow I have got to push thru it and and find a way to come out better on the other side. If you ever meet me you will more than likely see something around my neck, its a dog tag that I made into a almost choker necklace and on it I have printed “Expect A Miracle”. It’s something that I must remember to do, no matter what I am doing in life.

Now back to this no sleep thing, this really is a big thing for me, because when I do sleep it is becoming less and less of comfortable sleep. I wake up more now than in the past. And if I combine lack of sleep with productivity, I am starting to see that I am losing sleep for nothing. Which means that I have gone past the point of worthy return. I even remember watching a Tom Bilyeu video, on how to attain the most from your day and make the most of your goals. And one of the things he did was to spend a significant amount of time on the importance of sleep. And for me, sleep is something that I want to get better at this year. And I don’t necessarily mean “get more” sleep, but instead I mean “get better” sleep.  I must find the proper balance between the amount of sleep I really need vs no sleep and pushing until I can’t push anymore. And Finally somewhere in that is the art of how to schedule my sleep to fit more of a natural rhythm of my body’s own internal clock.

So let see, sleep, time, organization, reviewing my goals DAILY, and now there is affirmations… I’ve come to notice, that I don’t need a whole lot of affirmations anymore, but I do need a few and I now just really get the inclination that what I really need more than a lot of affirmations is vision boards. Yes, vision boards. Like I need a lot of them, and everywhere. I literally have zero vision boards. I have attempted in the past to do a semi vision board, but I wasn’t quite sure if I felt it working and it took me a long time to put it together and I wasn’t ultimately completely happy with it. But I am just starting to feel like I need pictures of the house that I want, and all the other things that I want in my life, from people to the impact that I want to have in life, not only for myself but for those around me.

Again, these are just my thoughts to the ether.

Please, wish me luck.

Max