I really outta sell this list... I've slept in cars, in hallways... been homeless... lived in three flats at once being carted around in Limosines, working 72 hours straight (oh, wait... i still do that...) to learn the following... 

The following comes from my blood. And real tears. 

I remember once running into the surf at night in san diego... crying and screaming at god, "Why have you taken everything from me!!!?"

It's these most extreme lessons that make you change ... umm... or die. So here goes.

1. Take every energy and distill it down to pure energy. Use it.

Any idea why I work at starbucks in santa monica? Every three minutes a gorgeous girl walks through the doors. She is generally from the mid west. She is generally an aspiring actress or model. And she is generally about as sophisticated as my first Holland Lop Eared Rabbit. BUT that's not important. Gorgeous people stoke the fire of your 2nd chakra. Yes, they make you horny. Randy for you Brittons.

Use that energy. DO NOT have sex... even with yourself. =)

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Store that energy and reproduce WORK. reproduce Art. Why do you think VanGogh Surrounded himself with beautiful 16 year olds (In France... it's totally ok)? And NEVER had sex with them? It's called a muse.

2. Enjoy Physical Hunger. Stay Hungry

This is a huge point in my discussion on HOW TO LOOSE WEIGHT LOSS Mantra... Hunger is hunger is hunger. Hunger energy starts as food hunger. Then, if you leave the hunger alone, it intensifies and turns into a hunger for more complex nourishment. It turns into hunger for shelter... the kind with a 5 car garage. It turns into hunger for a seven zero bank account. 

Then when left alone to intensify even more, it turns into hunger for true love, joy, and passion... You stay with this hunger long enough, it will turn into hunger for knowledge, truth, and anthropology.

If you think this is a stretch, you've just not been hungry for long enough. But you can identify with the opposite. When you are full, all you want to do is sleep. Stay hungry.

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3. Be the Laziest Person in Your Friend Circle.

I'm not saying to be lazy. I'm saying to surround yourself with people who are Vietnamese. I once spoke with a master gambler. I asked him if he is ahead after decades of playing poker. He answered, if you sit down and you can't tell who the sucker is, it is you. 

In this case, be the sucker. Surround yourself with people who work three jobs and pay their own way through a full course load of their graduate degree. You'll get a symbiotic charge from them. use the "success mob" mentality to ... well... succeed.

4. Cut the baggage. I mean it.

If you have friends, from #3 above, who are lazy.. Cut Them Off. Don't talk to them. Don't even think about them. Yes, this sounds cut throat. But, look at the outcome. If I have a friend bleeding to death in a snowy mountain. I'm going to leave that friend. Find reinforcement, then come back and help this beloved person.

If you let yourself stay in the same nature as your lazy, beer drinking, time wasting, goal free friend, eventually, you will both be old and poor. Then, when his health fails, you will not have the money to help him. You will have been there for him when he didn't need you.

Journey through the mountain yourself. Strengthen your own financial position. Do this while you are still young. Do this when your friends don't need your altruism.

This goes for girlfriends, boyfriends, and even family. Notice I didn't say spouses or children. A commitment is a commitment. But you may have to ask them for some space. In warrior cultures... the warrior left his family for months on end to win the bread.

5. Read the News. Look for Patterns!

When I first jumped into the work force, I left my monastery for the dot com because I heard that the Inter-Web could be the next big revolution. Nobody else said that about anything else. I jumped in.  

Sure. Conventional wisdom is that if everyone is moving into an industry or going for the same job, your chances are slim to none. Conventional wisdom says that you should do something practical. Conventional wisdom told all the Gold Rushers to San Francisco in '76 that they were stupid and fools for jeaphordizing their families.

But conventional wisdom leads to safe lower middle class lives. 

Sure, most people went bust in SF. But if you're flexible... you can follow the tide and make all your competitors become your customers. One miner named Levi did just that. Levi Strause.

6. Read Industry Journals. Read Blogs. Join Twitter

Now for the zoom in. Subscribe to the blogs and Tweeples at Twitter in your industry. In the web industry, I already know that Facebook is on it's way down. See my post at http://journik.tumblr.com ... Everyone on Twitter is chattering about the death of Facebook due to it's new ToS.

I know what's going to happen before 99.99999% of the population know's what's going to happen. Besides. I'm a daoist. I see patterns from a broader perspective. But for most 98% is good enough to make you very successful.

7. Learn to Make Rock Soup

Do you think I talk about the yin-yang, pentagram, iChing, etc for mental mastrabation reasons? Each system describes a system where that is the minimal number of parts needed to come to life. If you cannot design websites and you want a web business, You're going to need to marry a web builder. DO NOT PAY HIM much or anything. Make rock soup. Offer him more than money out of nothing. Use thin air... Who knows the definition of "chi?"

Then if you need a face to rep your company or service and your's just isn't going to cut it, once again, make rock soup. Hire a really congenial, charismatic, and brilliant girl to rep you. But, don't pay her. Make her a partner. Sure you may have to cover minimal expenses but you must all be on the same team. Build families not mercenaries.

If you need more partners... keep adding partners but make sure that you keep the number to a minimum and that you triple your market reach with each partner. So if you have two partners, you should be able to make 900% more money together. If not, it's not worth the hassles.

Hell, if you can't figure out how to motivate and incentivise partners into joining you and working with you for no money... How the hell do you expect to get customers to pay you to work with you?

8. Carry a Vial of Mercury with You

In my martial arts clan, it is customary or acceptable to carry a vial of mercury with you. If you fail at a task you drink it. Failure = Death. Mercury makes success look like a cake walk. 

9. STUDY

Read every single book, newsletter, twitter, blog by Harvard Business School Press.

10. Do what you enjoy. Do what you love. 

You've heard #10 before. Most of you don't have anything you are really passionate about. I know who you are. If you don't think you have a fiery passion. Then do what I did. Go away. Starve yourself. Travel. Get hungry. Blow your entire savings. I ate Valencia Oranges in Valencia Spain for three days straight sleeping on the beach while I waited to liquidate my 401k. Then I blew that too. 

Push youself to the limit then go beyond that limit. In extreme pressure comes extreme clarity. Take away everything you take for granted and you will see what is truly precious to you.

11. Time Travel

Do not think that you are running toward a goal. That leaves too many variable. Meditate that you have already reached you goal. Meditate that you have successfully reversed time. Meditate that you are simply shooting forward in time to the same successful place you left behind. When you get there, you will see yourself wake up from your meditation thinking you had the most beautiful exciting dream.

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12. Wake up Early. Rise with the sun!

Most people don't understand that different hours of the day have different energies. Across all cultures, 3-4 pm is for siesta. This is when people slow down. In every culture, 5-7 am is the creative "sprouting" hour. In Taoist Alchemy, this is called the Hour of the Rabbit. Rabbits have sex all the time. They mate constantly. There is no cooincidence that this is when all men have an erection.

At this point, you take the creative energy in your body and create work. Create products, goods, services. Create results. 

Biologically, with the sunrise rapidly push forward more and more lumens, you'll have a jolt of vitamin D as well. If you wake up at 8am and open the blinds... you'll have a Vitamin D and Light SHOCK! This shock disturbs your energy and concentration. Wake up as the sun does. Dance with the sun.

13. Breathe

Keep your breath at an even slow level. Your mental focus and power follows your breath. Keep breathing inspite of any and all issues and conflicts. You'll pull through just fine.

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