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Ok, well at least read this one first and then decide if you’re game enough to step into nkdness 

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Hey. How’s it going? Honestly, how does it feel like it is going? I know for me there is an aching inside that remains unnourished. A little quiver of hope that there is more to come, a deeper, more beautiful connection to be made, something that feels closer, warmer and more caring. I would say that I am painfully hollow when it comes to the accepted notion of careers, selling my time for a living and joining in with the devaluation of human potential that permeates most of what I see before me in the big old wide world.This is my first step. Somewhere down the track I will polish up my writing, for now enjoy it in its rawest, rarest form. It hasn’t been out of the box in a couple of decades and still enjoys alliteration, simple word play and would like to remember more about how punctuation really works.

I know for sure there will be something useful for you inside here, it is just a matter of me getting it out in some sort of coherent order. We are gonna start with the physical, as it appears to be the soundest way to solidify a good foundation. I will get you through turning your body into a capable tool, irregardless of how you want it to look, it will end up a more efficient vehicle for exploring your life. Linking your mind into the same goal structure as your body; simple ways to make sure you think as elegantly as you will be moving. As we shape and polish a good baseline combination we can start exploring potential add-ons; the things that will take whatever abstract beauty you perceive to be the real you and link it to functional a capability unique to what you want out of your life. These add-ons will come to the surface as we go a little deeper into the what-for and why-hell-not of life.

I am a little sketchy on claiming to have all the answers. I will though state right now that I have most of them haphazardly jumbled, inter-linked by lines and hasty doodles waiting patiently for me to pull a cord and open myself up like a paper lantern of intricate detail. I hope that someone joins me for the journey because I can only honestly state that I believe this process will have worth for you.

Here is to innate honesty, rabbit holes that become bright doorways and the realisation that a magical life is available to everyone willing to learn how to make it function in their favour.

Getting your shit together and other useful strategies for LIFE

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Outlining where this is going – The Journeys Map

Ok, time is short and content is full, good job I am patient. The following is an outline of where the blog will be travelling, the break down of topics and the squirly bits that will tie everything together, eventually.

There have now been self-development books, courses and other paraphernalia for more than enough time for us to be scientifically capable of measuring an overall improvement in the world, Right? So what the bloody hell has gone wrong? Why does it appear to be more about learning to marketeer than it does to ensure a new base line is drawn? A basic understanding and capacity that everyone should of had access to by now, should be lifted up to look at the world from, a new simple, a new evolution? Why then is there such a lackluster community drive? Who is out there doing a better job of dumbing down and enraging the majority into idiocy while the information continues to spew out of every new source like it is the first time, neatly avoiding the fact that much of the work is re-hashed into deeper convolution for the beneft of purpetuation of the industry. How do the two sides of this sit together and not resent the position, you’re selling hope but disguising it in BS to make sure that you get yours first?

Introducing:

INCEP

Intial Concept Educational Programming.

This is not new information, kind of. This is where you should be able to be by now. These are the basic elements of fluid self-mastery that wil provide a sound base for all future desires.

Over the coming undefined period of time, as and when, when the mood takes, its a lifetime of work but i’d like it out soon. I will drill down to the basic structure of what must be done in order to achieve the very minimum of where the fuck you should be by now. This may sound like an abrasive accusation, that is nice, you roll with that. In part I think I am alot closer to where you are right now than where this journey will ultimately take us and in all honesty that is probably the difference between what has transpired within an industry at the forefront of scientific-but-not-allowed-to-be-a-science and my approach here. I can see the lure of monetising knowledge as a sort of proof of life but I am far more tempted towards the idea of a world where the basic understanding enjoyed by everyone allows, encourages and supports a capacity for more. More scientific advancement, more hummanitarian capability, more exploration of the deep oceans and the vastness of our universe, more works of beauty being created by more people, more understanding, tolerance (but less at the same time!), more authentic transparency, not the faux choice you are sold by governments and corporations but a true understanding and involvment that brokers intimate transparency between all things.

So here I am going to throw down the four basics, the four basics states of being that show to yourself, and by proxy the remainder of the global species, an inherent undestanding and capability to pursue and enjoy an exellent life. I will break down into as simple as I can the things you must be able to apply for yourself and to yourself, in order to become, well yourself? Along the way I will try not to get too engrossed into the information and confuse your shit. Ultimately we will get to a good place.

In my opinion these are the four elements we must have under control in order to progress any further without a snap-back effect of having left something unfinished to trip us up later on down the track.

FAT LOSS – Your understanding and mastery of input/output

BODY CONDITIONING – Your readiness to interact effectively with everything life offers you

MINDSET – A two pronged necessity you will have under control through successful applicaton of the first two items on this list and ready for where it can take you next 

ENERGY FLOW – If you still harbour doubts as to the all invasive existence and requirement of as-yet-unmeasurable-energy, tough. Deal with it, it is as real and vital as the air you breathe and it is just as easy to control its inspiration and expiration.

By gettting you top notch, all-over-it in these four areas of life everything else will become radically changed.  After that you can decide how much deeper you want to go into things but this is the BASIC THAT EVERYBODY IN THIS DAY AND AGE SHOULD BE HITTING ON A DAILY BASIS AND NO EXCUSES HAVE ANY VALIDITY. PUT ASIDE ALL YOUR PISSWEAK EXCUSES, GIVE YOURSELF A SMILE AND A WINK AND DECIDE THAT IT IS TIME YOU GAVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO BE AWESOMELY BASIC. There is a great chance you will not be doing anyting as tough as changing the entire world, so lighten up, the challenge here is not a big one. It is the most basic, it is one you can share with your kids if you have them, your friends if they’re not overly racist closed-off twats, random folk you meet in queses places who seem interested and yet terrified of speaking to strangers. Or just keep it to you and your mirror, a journal to prove to yourself you can choose more and the life you are able to lead by getting your shit together and becoming ok with the basics.

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For-existential – Five things to consider when Forex trading

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As part of my attempts to produce on income for myself and the family I have spent much of the last twelve months engaged in the pursuit of riches online with Forex trading.

With the recent comotion around #Grexit I am once again faced with re-building an account that has once again snapped back in my face. It is a painful thing to lose money you needed, money you had mentally prepared to remove from an online account into circulation for your own ends. The flavour of this pain is different every time. 

The first (and still the largest) was outright debilitating shock, I literally ceased to function at any reasonable level for a while, indeed I stayed away from trading for about four weeks while I processed moving from a position of elation and even a touch of pride in myself (the mechanics of which I will cross another time) to the utter dismay of seeing an entire years income vanish in a matter of days while what I had foreseen and intended to trade took place, only with me disfunctionally on the opposite side of the trade. Had I but waited patiently and gotten some sleep I would of taken a years income and turned it into actual debt-free existence.

This loss has had a profound effect on my trading. In many ways it has matured my approach not just with this but across the board. For the first time in my life I have begun to value self-discipline; what was once shunned as too restrictive, the antagonist to free-spirited ideals, an emissary of ‘the Man’ suddenly registered as the defining characteristic of sucessfully finding my inner capabilites and getting to spend some quality time with them. In fact there is a hint of sadness now as I look back and see all the times in my life so far that the lack of discipline has self-sabotaged things that appeared to be vibrant, meaningful contributions to my life and yet finished up rather dull examples of ordinary.

Through improving self-discipline (note to self: finish ‘4 Hour Chef’ by @tferriss 4hourchef and explore meta-learning principles for self-discipline) I have built from nothing into what would be considered an excellent percentage return. This process was casual, enjoyable and to some extent effortless. Now four times since I have built my account only to hit a similar figure value and come unstuck, make poor choices, lose discipline and lose in a large, rapid, chunk that which had taken several weeks to construct. Self-discipline need only falter for a moment it seems for a world to come crashing down.

It seems this should of been emphasised during  school education (although my own functioning grey matter would probably of found some way to by-pass its absorption no doubt, arse of a thing). Self-discipline is merely a tool to be employed to achieve something. It really is quite simple and yet it has taken 35 years to impress upon me, I would like to find this hightly unfair but I really dont have the time to spend feeling sorry for myself.

Self-discipline is by far the number one tool you must have when engaging with the game of finance, all else becomes moot should you fail at this task. It could well be the most vital tool for anyone, everyone and all those others too.

Number two on the list when exploring money making with markets is simplicty. Specifically being media shy, news ignorant and technical indicator light. Excessive amounts of noise from all these sources dilute the rythmn with which the charts do and do not flow. Their tempo and gracefulness foretell direction, determination and expectation. Often times news will appear to confuse itself between the chicken and the egg with banal stories thrown around as sound reasoning as a chart grows tiresome of its trending movement and issues a desire for change. Through simplicity you will create an income for yourself because the times when it is clear as day what is happening are frequent enough that even a small hand will achieve great things.

The magic number three leads us to, well the magic. Ones own power of thought creation and capacity to believe the reality of those thoughts before they are as yet physically measurable. A whole series, or at least one very in-depth tome of a post will undoubtably follow in the coming weeks regarding my own mechanical disassembly of the manifestation process, suffice to say it pains me to see so many people out there monetising something that should be open source, especially as these same individuals claim Love and Humanity as bedrocks of their beliefs. Surely a world further ahead and more creatively competent is preferable to personal profiteering. Ask yourself; then write down concisely, the level of income per year that is the bare minimum you would accept surving on. Make sure this figure is grouded enough that you can actually picture yourself doing something mundane while having this much (anyone can imagine sitting in a flash car and cruising on a private jet with millions, the skill is in walking the dog and making a sandwich as a truly wealthy individual through and through). Then take this number and chunk it to monthly, weekly and daily amounts; you now have a baseline.

If you ever have a position that in a day unexpectedly delivers a week or months requirement, take it. Take it and take a week off. This is the fourth factor of Forex. Know when to separate from your account. Know that when you are given a grace you must grab it and walk away. It is a signpost, a red flag of trouble around the corner, the crest of the wave is going to clean you up from behind. This is the moment that will show you how greedy you are. Greed is good. Greed is bad. There are no absolutes except in hindsight and you should absolutely of taken that trade and taken a week off to freshen up.

Five. Finally. Patience. You have a target, you have your baseline. Now is the time to accept that getting eighty percent of the way there will undoubtedly appear to be both slow and painful. Once there though, a feat that can be achieved through the resilient diligence of patient practice; remembering that much like in physical training where each repitition of each exercise should be approached as practice for the next repitition, each time you observe an opportunity the time should be taken to know what it is you intend to do with this trade, the in, the out, the fall back, the why, the what might be happening if this does go wrong and how that can be traded. Learn to repeat yourself and with each repitition become better.

Your destination is only a few simple repititions away.