Brainstorming
- Showing physically is better than writing. Writing is to support.
- This will be a business run for profit. That is how it will be sustainable and attract others to do the same. Treat it like a business, not a communal community. Shareholders, stakeholders, eventually a board probably.
- Raise funds with it first. I will have absolute control. Invest in me, and it will be profitable investment financially and personally. You will make a difference. I only want those on board that get that. That support the vision and will think about it, talk about it, promote it, help contribute quantum ripples of energy that will funnel to making it happen adn success.
- MVP â Home for us, vacation retreat glamping style, a tiny home, then build some cabins, barndominum.
Property
- Develop in phases. I can start small with just vacation spots to generate rev, then events, then retreats, trainings. Events - bigger events and higher more personal training/events
- Have budget for proposed space for lodge, dorms, tiny homes, then developing an owner area
- What would owners want, pick peopleâs brains? How much? The right to buy/sell, after 2 years. Build your own home. .25 acre, .5 acre, 1 acre.
- Standards for property what you do outside/ approved only.
Business
- Rev model - start with simple vacation retreats, events
- Hosted trainings, retreats, BH philosophy, work shops, etc, dinners, food experiences
- what living arrangements do we need, tiny homes, canvas, yurts, other unique experiences like that.
- start looking for a co-founder + interns?
- Build the Better Human School on 100 acre compound (based on BH philosophy below)
- Fully immerse yourself in a curriculum for the body and mind and come out the other side a Better Human, prepared for thriving in the 21st century
Group events centered around engaging conversations and helpful and open dialogue. You learn something about yourself, others, and life.
Past MMs (since I started tracking)
⢠How to stop telling yourself stories, how to change your stories, how you are your stories
Stories about it having to be perfect or you don't do it at all -> that's just fear and resistance. Nothing more, nothing less.
Deep Work
Flow state -> not feeling rushed. becoming immersed in what youâre doing. Having such deep concentration that you let go of everything else - you dont worry, think about the future or past, youâre in the NOW. is it any surprise that flow state partiptants report high levels of life happiness and meaning the more they get into the NOW. Buddha would be proud
⢠80/20 + examples
⌠Shallow work -> 80% of stuff that generates only 20% of your results
⌠Deep work -> 20% that generates 80% of your results ⪠maybe this is a deep conversation where you connect with someone and that leads to a new clent ⪠It could be writing a script, deep research, coding, editing, drawing, painting, etc. ⪠For me: When I build things in this state, I move the needle forward the most ⢠exapmles include;
The Better Human newsletter ⢠Adding new emails to Wild foods email list ⢠writing the CEO newsletter which generates me around $2k every time I send it. ⢠Spending a lot of time deep into researching keywords and coming up with title and outlines for articles/content - ⢠Building robust systems for my team ⢠Leading (though it doensât feel like it, this is actually a highly leveraged activity)
- Concentration â your goal is to weekly spend time there.
- You have to protect yourself to get into the FLOW/concentration state.
- thatâs why 3 hours is MIN
- Then within that period of time you do one thing at a time.
- Your value in life is directly connected to the time you spend in the concentrated state. The more time spent here the greater the outcome.
1st you have to start. Starting is hardest part. Just do the thing.
After starting you have to be in the frame of ONE THING AT A TIME and you have to stick to that until youâre done without bouncing around and getting distracted
You have to GO -> even if you dont have a clear end point, just go and pivot/adjust along the way. Thatâs the key. The more you spend in creating, learning, and going, the more momentium you build. At some point that quantum flywheel start spinnign without you and you can just ride the wave.
Success in modern economy is about ACTION - it's not perfect action, it's imperfect action. Almost all action is imperfect. Even action that works out.
few short tips
- Everything in life is made worse by complexity. Everything better is focused, simple, clean, pure, understood, not confusing.
- Stuff all around creates distraction, breeds lack of focus. is a mental weight.
- In business, simplicity is best. Go deep on your 20% that generates 80% of your results.
- Less things but at a deeper amount of quality, focus, iteration
- When it comes to a project, fully invested in that project to your max ability.
- What is your 80/20 figure it out for each thing?
Hey Tribling,
The last mastermind was epic. Time for round 2.
Topic: Goals and Change
đ Date: Wednesday, Dec 14
đ Location: Sapien Center - 2316 Morelos St Austin, TX 78702
đ Parking: driveway and plenty of street parking
đ¨ 6pm - 8 pm
Yes, you can always bring a friend.
THEME: TOPIC â Goals - Change -> The thing is always WHAT DO YOU DO which is exactly connected to HOW DO YOU THINK.
INTRO â Go around intro yourself, what you do, plug your business/website, then tell us 1 goal for 2023
TALK: named what?
Goal of this talk is to identify the things that help you get what you want in life.
I always go to first principles. Strip away everything and let go of all the assumptions, maybes, what ifs. What you have left that you know for sure, those are your first principles. Build from there.
- Pro poker player for a few years during poker boom
- took my bankroll adn started juice bar franchise (i was an la fitness gym rat at the time)
- A year later started a crossfit and MMA gym with 2 partners. 1 partner stole money then left. another sued me. I brought on another friend as a partner to replace them. after turing that into the biggest gym in the area with over 300+ members, i sold it to my then partner so i could move on. I knew i needed to do something else.
- I did a little bit of real estate marketing in Sarasota Fl. Some of that included being kinda scamed by this charasmatic guy that had a fake name and a rap sheet and it came out that he was mostly talk and wasnât doing anything in real estate.
- I then moved on. and made plans to drive to Texas.
- A couple weeks before as i planned my next thing I started toying around the idea of starting a food brand. It was an outcropping of my interest in bulletproof coffee, paleo/primal diet, and all things healthy and cooking and nutrition.
- Moved to Austin, started Wild Foods with our grass-fed non-denatured whey protein product. Did $500 in sales in that first month. Jan 2015. By end of 2015, we had done $500k in sales over a 15 sku product line.
- Grew that the hard ass bootstrapped way over the next three years to 4 million in revenue then sold half of it to a PE firm.
- Goal was to grow it then exit as a group.
- They failed. I lost control. The group fell apart and Wild was neglected. This lasted 2 years. I bought co back 4 months ago. Have already doubled sales and am now raising money again to grow again.
- Mindset on this is: i lost 2 years, company lost more than 80% of itâs revenue, THE PE group owed me half a million dollars. POOF GONE. Not to meniton the plan was to have a large mid-7 figure exit of which my family woudl be set for life. I literally started making plans to retire and write books and travel around.
- That all went up in air and i had to face the reality that i had to get back in the trenches and work my ass off again for the next 2-5 years. At first that was daunting.
- Then I realized how much i missed it, how much clarity there is in NEEDING TO DO SOMETHING and knowing exactly what to do. Beauitufl bliss. Insta-meaning. (see duality/meaning/struggle) meaning struggle duality
That is the foundation. Mindset â Thoughts â Controlling your mind â Self-mastery and extreme self-awareness
- I canât give you how to do that in a short talk. That is a multi-year process and itâs anyoneâs guess where you should start. So you focus on the basics - MIND, CHOICE, ABSOULTE OWNERSHIP, and CONSISTENCY AS YOU FLOW THROUGH TIME.
Foundational Truth #1: Everything is Thoguht and WHERE DO THOUGHTS EXIST and ONLY EXIST, inside your head.
- You are responsible for every single thing you think and by extension do. Every thought is a choice. And that is the ultimate MAXIMUM TRUTH of human existence that no one talks about.
- Call out a few people:
- If thoughts ONLY exist in your head, who is responsible for your thoughts?
- Can I think for you?
- If you let someone else think for you, who made that choice?
- Inescapable choice.
- To live is to choose, to die is a choice.
- You always and forever control only one thing yourself and the primary thing you control are CHOICES to the external world.
- Everything starts and ends in your mind, in your choices, in your responses.
- Everything youâve ever and will ever do or experience passes through your perception and is intrepretated by your mind through thought.
When you accept this Truth, you can get to work on WIELDING IT rather than letting it own and sabotage you.
Weilding Truth looks like this:
- Remove every ounce of victim mentalitiy or thinking. Zap it like that mosiquito zapper over there anytime those âpoor meâ thoughts start buzzing inside your mind.
- Take Absoulte Ownership. Whatever you have and donât ahve is your fault, for better and worse.
- Accept this as an inescapable LAW of your existence. Internalize it. Then let its immense power shift well you up as you start using that power to get shit done.
Cultivate a Growth mindset.
- Q: Can someone define a Fixed Mindset.
- Q: Can someone define a growth midnset.
- I grew up thinking i was âdumbâ or at least not what you would consider book smart. I never felt dumb, but my inability to peform in the constrains of the modern indoctrinatino system called public education labeled me as such.
- I developed a fixed mindset around math. and probably school in general.
- I do remmeber writing a story about a wizard, on a journey and him challenging a weary traveler to solve math problems to proceed on their way. Teacher said it was very creative. i felt proud of that story.
- When i got into business, I learned how ot use a spreadsheet for everything and how most people try to plan things in thier head instead of putting it down on paper or a SS. Big mistake.
- Over the years I realized i can do literally anything. Every thing is an analysis of time, effort, sacriface, trade offs.
- I used to think some people were better or smarter in certain areas, but then i saw under the hood. Most people are in the right place and just go get it. Some people rise above the rest and they get outsized results, but they are still taking advantage of opporuntiy and doing it. A lot of randommness, variance, luck is invovled in the process, at least when were talking about massive results compared to average or even GOOD results.
That is the core mindset. We all need to be working here on a daily basis.
Next up is how your mindset and your resulting thoughts translate into daily actions.
This is where tactical modalities come into play. Iâm going to highlight the few I think are the most impactful:
FOCUS
- In a world defined by unlimited information and distraction, winning requires focus.
- You are not only competiting with every new potential genius born every second, but as the world comes online, with every kid with an internet connection that has unlimited time to build skills and create things.
- If your work can be done by AI or by a low-paid kid in a third-world country, you will be replaced.
- The strategy is to use the very things that might replace you to automate as much of your work as possible so you can focus on higher-order creative endeavors. Thatâs where the real value comes from. UNIQUE KNOWLEDGE applied.
- THE CIRCLE GRAPHIC on whiteboard â The key to focus is this picture: MORE ENERGY into fewer things.
The best way to implement focus is a DEEP WORK routine that gets you into flow as often as possible
FLOW - Deep Work
Can anyone define flow?
âControl of consciousness determines the quality of life.â Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.â
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
How to get into flow?
- Itâs as simple as turning your phone off and staying with your work until you get it done + working on the things yu have resistance to, that challenge you.
- I think a big part of our meanign crisis is most peopleâs inability to do hard things that matter that put them in the flow state.
- Hunter gatheer men would hunt. Their survival and their loved ones survival was dependent upon success. Highly important and ahrd activity that required deep focus. Iâd imagine most hunter gather men felt exicted each morning as they went out to âwork.â I feel the same each morning.
- Survival was hard. It put us into deeply focused flow states regurarly, and it created meaning in our lives.
Routine
- Consistent routine of environment
- Routine of your work
- managing focus, energy, distractions
Summary
- That everything is your responsibility. if you want to accomplish something, itâs up to you and you alone.
- When you fully accept this, you let go of all the shame, guilt, comparison bullshit. Itâs just you and your thoughts and your actions and TIME.
- A tip here is to figure out those things you avoid, that you have resistance to. Those are your weaknesses, your bottlenecks.
- They are often where results are found.
Find flow state through a deep work routine and keep it consistent
Visualize your goals with crystal clarity and thinking about them all the time.
Learn / Go â The success loop - Thought to action to result to thoguht to action to result⌠forever.
Group Discussion (30 min)
- Anyone want to offer up something they struggle with, a mindset pattern they know they need to fix? we can workshop it.
- Logan, share with me your daily routine. Letâs get a glimpse
- X share with me your daily routine. Chris, when youâre doing focused work, where are you at, what does that look like?
- X name: tell me something about focus, what are you good at and what do you struggle with?
- X when do you feel your most prodcutive?
- X whatâs a growth mindset you have?
- X Whatâs a fixed mindset you have?
Break off session
- Find someone youâve never met outside of the center. Introduce yourselves and parter up.
- We are going to do a two questions for 3 minutes each.
- Question 1: What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?
- Question 2: Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common.
- Now, One person from every group raise your hand, keep it up.
- Now connect that hand to another hand near you - FIND A HAND.
- Then swap for 1 more question. 5 mins
- 6 minutes to each discuss:
- Question 4: On a scale of 1-10, rate your life right now in quality. Then explain what things are missing to increase that number.
á Program Ideas
- MWF then eventually daily
- each training target under 30 mins to complete
- Includes exercises, challenges, workouts for each pillar of program - can always be completed alone as well as in a group setting or with a partner
- You can follow along and do the trainings yourself, join a class or school, hire a coach, or do it with a partner
- Immersive live trainings (2-day, 7-day, 30-day, 3-month, 6-month, 12-month)
- Retreats available
- Join a class locally