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Top 100 favorite albums as of March 2023 (full list under cut)
1. Radiohead - Amnesiac
2. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Bonus Edition)
3. Rina Sawayama - Sawayama (Deluxe Edition)
4. Black Dresses - Forget Your Own Face
5. 100 gecs - 10000 gecs
6. Laura Les - i just dont wanna name it anything with "beach" in the title
7. 100 gecs - 1000 gecs
8. Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal (Deluxe Edition)
9. Linkin Park - Meteora
10. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
11. System of a Down - Toxicity
12. Radiohead - Kid A
13. Toby Fox - UNDERTALE Soundtrack
14. Linkin Park - Reanimation
15. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade / Living with Ghosts (The 10th Anniversary Edition)
16. Radiohead - OK Computer
17. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
18. Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight (Deluxe Version)
19. 100 gecs - 100 gecs
20. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
21. Laura Les - hello kitty skates to the fuckin CEMETARY
22. Torres - Silver Tongue
23. Left At London - t.i.a.p.f.y.h.
24. Nirvana - Nevermind (Deluxe Edition)
25. food house, Gupi & Fraxiom - Food House
26. Chevelle - Wonder What's Next (Expanded Edition)
27. Tallah - Matriphagy
28. Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony
29. Motionless in White - Creatures (Deluxe Edition)
30. Limp Bizkit - Significant Other (Explicit Version)
31. Limp Bizkit - Three Dollar Bill, Y'all $
32. Ada Rook - UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU
33. Laura Jane Grace - Stay Alive
34. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
35. Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
36. BACKxWASH - HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING
37. Bayside - Interrobang
38. Black Dresses - Forever In Your Heart
39. Three Days Grace - One-X
40. Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
41. 100 gecs - Snake Eyes
42. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory EP
43. Kittie - Spit
44. BACKxWASH - I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES
45. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
46. Toby Fox - Deltarune Chapter 2 (Original Game Soundtrack)
47. Chongo - Mad Rat Monday
48. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
49. Motionless in White - Infamous (Deluxe Edition)
50. Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (Expanded Edition)
51. Talking Heads - Remain In Light (Deluxe Version)
52. My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
53. Spineshank - The Height of Callousness [Special Edition]
54. The Used - The Used
55. Linkin Park - Live in Texas
56. Baroness - Yellow & Green
57. Death Grips - The Money Store
58. Nirvana - In Utero - 20th Anniversary Remaster
59. Hozier - Wasteland, Baby!
60. Radiohead - In Rainbows
61. Bring Me the Horizon - There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret
62. Three Days Grace - Human
63. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
64. Limp Bizkit - The Unquestionable Truth (Pt. 1)
65. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (2018 Remaster)
66. Bring Me the Horizon - POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR
67. Bring Me the Horizon - That's The Spirit
68. Go! Child - Coffee And Ramen
69. Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
70. We Are The Union - Ordinary Life
71. Chevelle - This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
72. Evanescence - Fallen
73. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
74. Jamie Paige - Bittersweet
75. Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor
76. Nirvana - Bleach
77. For the Likes of You - Withered
78. Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season Cut Up!
79. Lena Raine - Celeste (Original Soundtrack)
80. Holy Grail - Ride The Void
81. Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny
82. a-ha - Scoundrel Days
83. Demon Hunter - Storm the Gates of Hell
84. Black Flag - Damaged
85. Masakazu Sugimori - Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney OST
86. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
87. Alexisonfire - Crisis
88. Various Artists - Queen of the Damned
89. Limp Bizkit - Still Sucks
90. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
91. Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
92. Architects - Holy Hell
93. Laura Les - REMIXES 2017
94. Linkin Park - Living Things
95. brian david gilbert - songs with videos without videos
96. Frost Children - SPIRAL
97. Parkway Drive - Horizons
98. Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra (Deluxe)
99. Various Artists - Phineas and Ferb
100. Vanilla Ice - Hard To Swallow
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What are some effective waya to become more productive?
what are some effective ways 2 be productive?
First things first, figure out what the problem actually is. Why are you struggling to be productive? Is it because you're a perfectionist and the idea of not doing the task perfectly stresses you out? Is it because you're lacking the motivation to do anything? Is it because you're struggling to concentrate, or because you're overwhelmed by the task, or because you don't know where to begin? There are tons of reasons why you might be struggling with productivity, and figuring out what the roadblocks you're encountering are can help you to find ways around them. Since I can't read your mind, I'm going to try and give advice that will work for most of the roadblocks you might encounter.
When it comes to big things, I recommend using the SMARTER & WOOP methods. SMARTER and WOOP are two tools that are really useful for behavior modification and other long-term goals you might have.
SMART(ER) is a tool to help you set the right goals for you. Too often, we set goals like “I’m going to start exercising” or “I’m going to quit going on my phone”. Those are great in theory, but without an action plan, it’s easy to not follow through.
SMARTER goals are ones that are:
Specific (simple, sensible, significant).
If your goal isn’t specific, you won’t be able to focus your efforts or feel motivated to achieve it.
Try to answer: what do I want to accomplish? Why is this goal important? Who is involved? Where is it located? Which resources or limits are involved?
Measurable (meaningful, motivating).
Having measurable goals is important because it allows you to track your progress and stay motivated by seeing how far you’ve come.
A measurable goal should be one that answers “how much”, “how many” and “how will I know when it’s accomplished”?
Achievable (agreed, attainable).
Your goal needs to be realistic in order for you to stay motivated and be successful. If you’re aiming too high, you’ll become demotivated quickly because it doesn’t feel like you’re making progress.
An achievable goal requires you to ask “how can I accomplish this goal” and “how realistic is this goal based on other constraints?”
Relevant (reasonable, realistic and resourced, results-based).
Relevant goals are ones that matter to you. Make sure that these goals are ones that are important to you, not ones that you think you should be pursuing.
A relevant goal is one that can answer “yes” to the following questions: “does this seem worthwhile?”, “is this the right time?”, “does this match my other efforts/needs?”, “is it applicable in my current socio-economic environment?”
Time bound (time-based, time limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive).
Every goal needs a target date so that you have a deadline you can focus on and work toward.
A time sensitive goal is one that answers “when?”, “what can I do six months from now?”, “what can I do six weeks from now?”, and “what can I do today?”
Evaluate
Every day, evaluate how you’re doing on your goals. Long term goals can be easily ignored if they’re not evaluated every day, and if you don’t evaluate how you’re doing on your goals regularly, you might miss the things that are preventing you from achieving them.
Readjust
If you find that your approach isn’t working, you may need to readjust your goals. That doesn’t mean that you’re failing at your goals or that you should quit; it just means you have to rethink the approach you’re taking. Maybe the goal isn’t as relevant to you as you thought it would be, or it’s not as realistic as you expected, or your timeline is too short. Identify which part of your SMARTER goal is tripping you up and readjust it.
The best goals are ones that include trying new things instead of quitting old ones. Quitting things is hard; learning something new is easier and more exciting. If you’re looking to quit something, replace it by establishing a new habit that takes its place. For example, “I’m going to stop going on my phone,” is hard, but “when I feel like going on my phone, I’ll read a book for ten minutes instead” might be easier to maintain.
After you’ve figured out your SMARTER goal, it’s time to WOOP. WOOP is something like the scientifically proven cousin of “manifesting”. Just visualizing our goals or positive thinking on its own can be counterproductive, because it fools our lizard brains into believing that we’ve already achieved the goal. By using the WOOP method, you can prevent that from happening and actually achieve what you want to achieve.
WOOP stands for:
Wish: Identify a wish that is challenging, yet attainable. This should be your SMARTER goal.
Outcome: Imagine the best outcome as a result of your wish (as vividly as possible). Really daydream about what your life would be like if you achieved your goal.
Ask yourself, what is the biggest benefit you could receive from achieving this goal?
Obstacle: Identify and imagine what obstacles will get in the way of your wish.
What might get in the way? Thoughts, feelings, beliefs, old behavior patterns, bad habits, social pressure… identify as many as you can, then prioritize their likely they are to happen and how significant they would be if they did happen.
Plan: Create an if-then plan to overcome the obstacles you identified- “if [obstacle occurs] then I will [plan A].” Do your best to pick the most effective path you can for each obstacle, and identify a few different plans in case your first plan doesn’t work.
For example, if you wanted to start exercising, your WOOP might look like this:
Wish: Go on a run 3x/week after school/work for a month.
Outcome: Better energy, confidence, and health.
Obstacle: Feeling tired and hungry at the end of the day…Not wanting to go.
Plan: Pack a snack for the end of the day, and put on gym clothes right when you get home.
Or if you wanted to stop watching TV and read more:
Wish: Watch only 5 episodes of TV per week, and read when I feel the urge to watch TV for a month.
Outcome: Learn a lot. Get smarter. Feel better. Enjoy the great ideas. Feel like I’m spending my time wisely.
Obstacle: Not feeling like it. Preferring to watch TV.
P: If I catch myself watching TV, then I turn it off and start reading a book instead.
The last thing you can do to increase the chances that you’ll achieve your goal is to get someone else involved. Either find a friend who’s setting the same goal that you are, or tell someone about your goal and ask them to help you achieve it by checking up on you. It can also be helpful to put money on the line- give money to a friend with the understanding that you’ll get it back on a set date if you’ve achieved your goal. If you really want to ensure that you reach your goal, tell your friend that if you fail, they should donate the money to a group or cause that you really hate.
For smaller, more day to day tasks:
Make a list of everything you need to do. Sort them into four categories- tasks that are Urgent & Important, tasks that are Not Urgent & Important tasks that are Not Important but Urgent, and tasks that are neither Urgent nor Important. Focus first on the tasks that are Urgent & Important. This can help you prioritize which things to work on first.
From there, take a look at each individual task and break it down into very small steps that you can't fuck up. These can be as small as "open laptop", "open Google Docs", "write name at top of the page", etc. If it helps, you can assign each one of these steps a point count, and then give yourself a treat once you collect enough points (10 points, 20 points, 50 points, and so on).
Once you have your list and have identified all of the steps, just do the first step. It can be daunting to start a big project or task; it's way easier to just do one thing. And once you do one thing, it feels easier to do just one more thing, and just one more thing, and so on until the task is complete.
Once you build up some momentum, I would recommend using the Pomodoro technique. Work for 20-25 minutes (or as long as you can really focus) and then take a 5-10 minute break. Stand up, get a drink, get a snack, watch a short TV episode or a YouTube video, look up that thing that was on your mind, whatever will give your brain a break. Then, set another 20-25 minute timer and get back to work. After three or four cycles of working and taking a short break, take a longer break.
A few other things that I think it's important to remember when it comes to productivity.
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. You don't need to finish things, and you don't need to do them perfectly. If it's a choice between doing something badly or not doing it at all, it's always better to do it badly.
You don't need to do things the way other people would do them- do it how it works for you. Sometimes that won't make sense to other people, but that's all right. The only person it has to work for is you. If bouncing back and forth between different tasks works better for you than focusing on one task until it's done, then bounce back and forth between tasks. That's okay.
It's okay to ask for help. If you have trouble doing things, that's okay- find someone who can assist you. Maybe you're bad at projects that don't have someone to be accountable to. Find a friend who will hold you accountable. Maybe you're bad at projects without deadlines. Set deadlines for yourself and get someone to make sure you meet them. Sometimes you don't need to work through your shortcomings- you just need to find a way around them.
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PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS AND PRODUCTIVITY: BEHAVIOURS ASSOCIATED
Story - The Ivy Lee Method:
By 1918, Charles M. Schwab was one of the richest men in the world. Schwab was the president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the largest shipbuilder, and the second-largest steel producer in America at the time. The famous inventor Thomas Edison once referred to Schwab as the “master hustler.” He was constantly seeking an edge over the competition. One day in 1918, in his quest to increase the efficiency of his team and discover better ways to get things done, Schwab arranged a meeting with a highly respected productivity consultant named Ivy Lee. Lee was a successful businessman in his own right and is widely remembered as a pioneer in the field of public relations.
As the story goes, Schwab brought Lee into his office and said, “Show me a way to get more things done.”
“Give me 15 minutes with each of your executives,” Lee replied.
“How much will it cost me,” Schwab asked.
“Nothing,” Lee said. “Unless it works. After three months, you can send me a check for whatever you feel it's worth to you.”
The Ivy Lee Method:. . . . . . . . During his 15 minutes with each executive, Ivy Lee explained this simple set of daily routine steps for achieving peak productivity:
1. At the end of each workday, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow.
2. Do not write down more than six tasks.
3. Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance.
4. When you arrive tomorrow, concentrate only on the first task.
5. Work until the first task is finished before moving on to the second task.
6. Approach the rest of your list in the same fashion.
7. At the end of the day, move any unfinished items to a new list of six tasks for the following day.
8. Repeat this process every working day.
The strategy sounded simple, but Schwab and his executive team at Bethlehem Steel gave it a try. After three months, Schwab was so delighted with the progress his company had made that he called Lee into his office and wrote him a check for $25,000. A $25,000 check written in 1918 is the equivalent of a $400,000 check in 2015.
The Ivy Lee Method of prioritizing our to-do list seems stupidly simple. How could something this simple be worth so much?
A) It is simple enough to actually work: . . . . . . . . The primary critique of methods like this one is that they are too basic. They do not account for all of the complexities and nuances of life. What happens if an emergency pops up? What about using the latest technology to our fullest advantage? Sometimes, complexity is actually a weakness because it makes it harder to get back on track. Emergencies and unexpected distractions will arise. Ignoring them as much as possible, dealing with them when we must, and getting back to our prioritized to-do list as soon as possible is what brings productivity. The use of simple rules to guide complex behavior often serves the best results.
B) It forces us to make tough decisions: . . . . . . . . . There is nothing magical about Lee's number of six important tasks per day. It could just as easily be five tasks per day. However, there is something magical about imposing limits upon ourselves. Sometimes, the single best thing to do when we have too many ideas (or when we are overwhelmed by everything we need to get done) is to prune our ideas and trim away everything that is not absolutely necessary. Constraints can make us better. Lee's method is similar to Warren Buffett’s 25-5 Rule, which requires us to focus on just 5 critical tasks and ignore everything else. Basically, if we commit to nothing, we will be distracted by everything.
C) It removes the friction of starting: . . . . . . . . . The biggest hurdle to finishing most tasks is starting them. Lee's method forces us to decide on our first task the night before we go to work. If we decide the night before, we can start work immediately the next day, and not end up wasting time deciding what needs our attention. It is simple, but it works. In the beginning, getting started is just as important as succeeding at all.
Another tool that could be useful here is known as the Eisenhower Box (or Eisenhower Matrix) and it’s a simple decision-making tool. General Dwight Eisenhower had an incredible ability to sustain his productivity for weeks and months. And for that reason, it is no surprise that his methods for time management, task management, and productivity have been studied by many people. Before becoming the 34th President of the United States, Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army, served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II, and was responsible for planning and executing invasions of North Africa, France, and Germany.
D) It requires us to single-task: . . . . . . . . . Modern society loves multi-tasking. The myth of multi-tasking is that being busy is synonymous with being better. The exact opposite is true. Having fewer priorities leads to better work. World-class experts in nearly any field—athletes, artists, scientists, teachers, CEOs—have one characteristic that runs through all of them: focus. The reason is simple. We cannot be great at one task if we are constantly dividing our time ten different ways. Mastery requires focus and consistency. The bottom line? Do the most important thing first each day. It's the only productivity trick we need.
The Myth of Multitasking: Why Fewer Priorities Leads to Better Work
The word priority did not always mean what it does today. In his best-selling book, Essentialism (audiobook), Greg McKeown explains the surprising history of the word and how its meaning has shifted over time.
“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow, we would now be able to have multiple “first” things. People and companies routinely try to do just that. One leader told me of this experience in a company that talked of “Pri-1, Pri-2, Pri-3, Pri-4, and Pri-5.” This gave the impression of many things being the priority but actually meant nothing was.”
–Greg McKeown, Essentialism
Yes, we are capable of doing two things at the same time. It is possible, for example, to watch TV while cooking dinner or to answer an email while talking on the phone. What is impossible, however, is concentrating on two tasks at once. Multitasking forces our brain to switch back and forth very quickly from one task to another. This would not be a big deal if the human brain could transition seamlessly from one job to the next, but it cannot. Multitasking forces us to pay a mental price each time we interrupt one task and jump to another. In psychology terms, this mental price is called the switching cost. Switching cost is the disruption in performance that we experience when we switch our attention from one task to another.
For example, A 2003 study published in the International Journal of Information Management found that the typical person checks email once every five minutes and that, on average, it takes 64 seconds to resume the previous task after checking your email. In other words, because of email alone, we typically waste one out of every six minutes.
The myth of multitasking is that it will make us more effective. In reality, remarkable focus is what makes the difference. While we are on the subject, the word multitasking first appeared in 1965 IBM report talking about the capabilities of its latest computer.
Finding Your Anchor Task: . .. . . . . . . . Doing more things does not drive faster or better results. Doing better things drives better results. Even more accurately, doing one thing as best you can, drives better results. The power of choosing one priority is that it naturally guides our behavior by forcing us to organize our life around that responsibility. Our priority becomes an anchor task, the mainstay that holds the rest of our day in place. If things get crazy, there is no debate about what to do or not to do. We have already decided what is urgent and what is important.
Saying No to Being Busy: . . . . . . . . As a society, we have fallen into a trap of busyness and overwork. In many ways, we have mistaken all this activity to be something meaningful. The underlying thought seems to be, “Look how busy I am? If I am doing all this work, I must be doing something important.” And, by extension, “I must be important because I'm so busy.” The people who do the most valuable work have a remarkable willingness to say no to distractions and focus on their one thing.
Implementation Intentions: Mastering One Thing at a Time
Many people have multiple areas of life they would like to improve. The problem is, even if we are committed to working hard on our goals, our natural tendency is to revert back to our old habits at some point. Making a permanent lifestyle change is difficult.
The approach to mastering many areas of life is somewhat counterintuitive. If we want to master multiple habits and stick to them for good, then we need to figure out how to be consistent. How can we do that? Research has shown that we are 2x to 3x more likely to stick with our habits if we make a specific plan for when, where, and how we will perform the behaviour. For example, in one study scientists asked people to fill out this sentence: “During the next week, I will partake in at least 20 minutes of vigorous exercise on [DAY] at [TIME OF DAY] at/in [PLACE].”
Psychologists call these specific plans “implementation intentions” because they state when, where, and how we intend to implement a particular behavior. For example, implementation intentions have been found to increase the odds that people will start exercising, begin recycling, stick with studying, and even stop smoking. However (and this is crucial to understand) follow-up research has discovered that implementation intentions only work when we focus on one thing at a time.
When we begin practicing a new habit it requires a lot of conscious effort to remember to do it. After a while, however, the pattern of behavior becomes easier. Eventually, our new habit becomes a normal routine, and the process is more or less mindless and automatic. Automaticity is the ability to perform a behavior without thinking about each step, which allows the pattern to become automatic and habitual. But here is the thing: automaticity only occurs as the result of lots of repetition and practice. The more reps we put in, the more automatic a behavior becomes. The most important thing to note is that there is some “tipping point” at which new habits become more or less automatic. The time it takes to build a habit depends on many factors including how difficult the habit is, what our environment is like, our genetics, and more.
The counterintuitive insight from all of this research is that the best way to change our entire life is by not changing our entire life. Instead, it is best to focus on one specific habit, work on it until we master it, and make it an automatic part of our daily life. Then, repeat the process for the next habit. The way to master more things in the long run is to simply focus on one thing right now.
**Source Credits:
Too Much of a Good Thing by Amy N. Dalton and Stephen A. Spiller
How are habits formed by Phillippa Lally, Cornelia H. M. Van Jaarsveld, Henry W. W. Potts and Jane Wardle (2010)
Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Essentialism (audiobook) by Greg McKeown
The Time Trap by R. Alec Mackenzie and Mary Kay
Content Curated By: Dr Shoury Kuttappa
#human behavior#habits#motivation#procastination#consistency#deliberate practice#goal setting#productivity#better thinking#creativity#decision making#focus#mental toughness
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I’ve always had a complicated relationship with myself.
Whew, I hate that sentence. It feels cliche and like I’m being over dramatic. But I also hate that sentence because it is very true. I am the stereotype. I am a chubby, depressed, self-hating, 20-something who is writing a blog about how much she dislikes herself.
Cool, gal. Get on with it.
Okay, okay, okay. I genuinely have no expectations for this blog. I don’t think I’ll gain many followers or internet fame. That honestly seems overwhelming and terrible. I’m creating this for myself. I’m going to write blogs like diary entries. Very Judy Blume-esque, if you catch my vibes.
Are you there, Dead Wizard God? It’s me, Kate.
I’ve always had a complicated relationship with.... well everything. It’s how my parents raised me. They told me I was smart, but stupid. Caring, but selfish. Pretty, but fat.
Fat.
I was never the “skinny” girl. At my smallest as a teenager, I was a size 10 or 12 in pants. I was somewhere between 130-140 lbs. I played sports. I was muscular. My thighs and calves were thick. I always had a couple rolls in my stomach when I sat down.
Then, during college, I gained weight. Just like everyone else.
Then, I dropped out. My self-esteem didn’t take that hit very well. Being smart was the one thing I had always been confident I was. My mother put into words what I was thinking already, “I thought this would be the one thing you wouldn’t screw up.” #thanksmom
The next six years I put on a solid 150lbs. I was constantly depressed. I cycled through some very dangerous behaviors. I slept with stangers. Inviting a couple into my home. I drank too much. Finishing off whole bottles on my own. None of this is particularly special or unheard of. I’ve realized over the years that a good majority of people I know have gone through similar phases of self-hatred and harm.
My most serious form of self harm has always been with food. When I lived with my parents, I would sneak into the kitchen late at night, stealing pinches of shredded cheese or handfuls of chips. The point was to take as little as possible in the hope that my mother wouldn’t notice or would blame it on my younger brother. Even though I always suspected that she knew what I was doing. Then, in college, I would literally go to Taco Bell every night with the same girl friend and order 3 or 4 items, whether I was hungry or not. When I dropped out, I worked at a fast food place. Again, I was eating even when I wasn’t hungry. My late night fridge raids began again too, except now I was trying to avoid room mates finding me out.
At 24, I finally began to regain control. I had been released, not necessarily willingly, from an emotionally abusive co-dependent relationship. I was working at a job I didn’t hate. And I could apply for federal grant money. So I applied to college. And 3 years later, I’m sitting at that same job with a Bachelor’s degree sitting on my dresser at home. I start my dream first job in about 2 months. I have friends who actually give a shit about me. I’m doing.... okay.
I still have a very unhealthy relationship with food. I eat junk. I eat when I’m not even hungry. I eat to the point that my stomach hurts. I still hate myself. I hate the way I look. I hate that I can’t walk at a quick pace without sounding winded or climb a flight of stairs without needing a break at the top. I hate that I feel so goddamn self conscious when I’m getting naked with somebody. I hate that I wake up most days and don’t want to get out of bed.
Depression is a real cunt, folks.
I’ve “tried” too many times to count to whip myself into shape. It never works. Something always comes up as a perfectly good excuse to stop. Which is the point of this blog. What better way to attempt to keep myself accountable than to share everything on the internet? That’s how plenty of people have accomplished this. So sure, let’s give this a go.
Plus, I always found diary writing very therapeutic. It’s amazing how putting the words/thoughts out into a physical space makes you feel just a little lighter than you did before. Blog writing seems like it will work in much the same way.
This is me currently. I weigh 248lbs. I have consistently worn a size 20 pant and a 3x top for the last 4 years. My goal is pretty simple at face value: I want to be able to shop anywhere for clothes, not just the big girl stores/sections.
But there is also a deeper goal in mind. I would like to like myself most of the time. I would like to wake up most days and not feel like existing is just too hard. I would like to find a non-medicinal method of combating the constant invisible weight pushing down on me from my depression. I want to be an active person, not a sedentary one.
I’m about to embark on a new chapter in life. My adult life. I’m going to have a big kid job, with big kid responsibilities. And the first one is to start taking care of myself.
With as much self-love and care that I can muster,
Kate
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“I’ll resume healthy eating after my vacation… once the baby is born… after Dad gets out of the hospital… January 1… Monday.” While this kind of “pause-button mentality” seems reasonable, it could be ruining your health and fitness. Here’s why, and what to do about it.
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There’s a question that’s been finding its way to me a LOT lately — from Precision Nutrition Coaching clients, Certification students, ProCoaches.
“Why don’t your programs offer a ‘pause’ feature?”
After all, what’s the harm in letting clients/patients take a break from a nutrition and fitness plan when they’re:
leaving for vacation,
completely swamped at work,
pregnant, or just after delivery,
injured, or
caring for an ailing family member?
For a client, the thought process boils down to:
If I miss some workouts, eat the wrong things, skip the homework… I fail.
Aren’t I more likely to succeed if I take a break, just until I have the time to do it right?
This is what I call the ‘pause-button mentality’.
Now, don’t get me wrong.
I think it’s normal — even commendable — to want to do your best. To consider taking time to regroup and then resume (or start over) when life feels easier.
At the same time, this completely natural and well-meaning impulse is one of the fastest, surest, most reliable ways to sabotage your plans for improved nutrition, health, and fitness.
Here’s why — and what to do instead.
Starting fresh after you lose your way is a really comforting thought.
That’s probably why New Year’s resolutions are so popular, especially following the indulgence-fueled holiday season.
Give me that cheesecake. I’ll pick my diet back up on Monday!
In fact, we’ve learned in our nutrition coaching programs that the idea of a do-over is so alluring you don’t even need a mess-up for the pause-button mentality to take over.
Every January, we welcome a new group of clients. Every July, we take in the second, and final, group of the year.
In July, six months in, just knowing that there are new clients starting the program fresh in January makes some July clients “itch” for a new beginning, even though they’re already making progress, changing their bodies.
If only you’d let me start over, I’d really nail it this time!
But here’s the problem: The pause-button mentality only builds the skill of pausing.
Whether it’s tomorrow, Monday, next week, or even next year, hitting that imaginary pause button gives you some sense of relief.
It allows you a little respite from what can be a really tough slog.
(And the middle is always a tough slog, it doesn’t matter what kind of project you’re working on.)
This perceived relief is compounded by the illusion that if we “start fresh” later we can find the magical “right time” to begin.
Listen, I get it.
It can feel absurd to try to improve your eating and exercise habits while you’re in the midst of chronic stress / looking for a job / starting a new job / going on vacation / caring for aging parents / raising small children.
That’s probably why there are so many 21-day this and 90-day that. What adult has more than 90 days to go after their fitness goals with an all-out effort?
But what do these intense fitness sprints teach you?
The skill of getting fit within a very short (and completely non-representative) period of your life.
What don’t they teach you?
The skill of getting fit (or staying fit) in the midst of a normal, complicated, “how it really is” sort of life.
This is why the yo-yo diet thing has become such a phenomenon.
It’s not about willpower. It’s about skills.
In most fitness scenarios, you learn how to get fit under weird, tightly-controlled, white-knuckle life situations.
You build that one, solitary, non-transferrable skill — to slam the gas pedal down, drive the needle into the red, and squeal down the road for a little while, burning the rubber off your tires until you (quickly) run out of gas and crash.
What you don’t build is the ability to get fit under real-life conditions.
That’s why it doesn’t stick. Not because you suck.
But because the natural and predictable consequence of having a limited skill set is short-term progress followed immediately by long-term frustration.
What will be different next time?
I remember having lunch with a colleague who swore up and down that his low-carb diet plus daily running was the secret to staying in shape.
I had to follow up with a painful question: “Well, why aren’t you actually in shape?”
After a long pause: “Uhh, I’ve had a hard time sticking with it. We just had our second child. The holidays just ended. I just switched jobs.” He trailed off…
“But, once everything settles down, I’ll get with the program and get in shape again! I guess I’m just on a little break.”
This story illustrates the point perfectly.
Here’s someone who’s built his fitness on a house of cards. He knows only one thing: How to get in shape by following a very challenging program when the conditions are perfect.
And whenever life isn’t perfect, which is most of the time, he hits the pause button. He waits for a better time. (All the while losing the health and fitness he previously worked so hard for.)
That’s why, when our clients ask to press pause, we usually ask them:
“What will be different when you come back?”
Nine times out of 10, the honest answer is nothing. Nothing will be different.
Life is just… happening. And it’ll happen again in January, or after the baby is born, or after Mom gets better, or at any other arbitrary point you pick.
And what then?
I’ve wanted to press “pause” myself.
If you’ve ever felt like pressing pause, or you feel this way right now, it might help to know I’ve felt exactly the same way.
A few years back, my wife and I decided to renovate a home. During the reno, we lived in a tiny apartment above my in-laws’ garage. At the time I was also starting up Precision Nutrition.
Every day we’d wake up and get straight to work. At the end of the day, we’d drive 1 ½ hours to the new house to chip away at the reno. Then, late at night, we’d drive 1 ½ hours back and fall into bed. Repeat.
At first, I thought there was no way to exercise. My schedule was completely packed, I had nowhere to work out, and my eating was less than ideal.
But after a couple of weeks I realized that something was going to be better than nothing.
The renovations would continue. Running a business would only get more demanding. And we were planning to have our first child.
I realized I couldn’t wait. I couldn’t press pause. Because, if I didn’t continue, there’d never be that “perfect time” to hit play again.
I needed to find a way to squeeze in some kind of workout, however quick, easy, and unglamorous.
Let’s accept that life has no pause button.
The key lesson here is that, like it or not, the game of life keeps going.
There is no timeout.
There’s never going to be a moment when things are magically easier.
You can’t escape work, personal, and family demands. Nor can you escape the need for health and fitness in your life.
Here’s a thought experiment:
What if you tried to hit pause in other areas of your life?
Imagine you’re up for a big promotion at work. For the next two weeks, all you want to do is focus on mastering an upcoming presentation, and winning over your boss.
Trouble is, you’ve got two young children at home who tend to grasp, koala-like, onto your legs and demand your full attention.
Honey, you say to your spouse, I’m just gonna press pause on being a parent for now. I’ll be staying at a hotel. Don’t contact me.
I don’t know about you, but that would NOT go over well in my family.
You can’t really press pause — and you definitely can’t hit reset — on being a parent. (You’ve thought about it, though. I know you have.)
Just like you can’t stop showing up for work and expect not to get fired. Or “take a break” from being married and not wind up divorced.
Generally, when it comes to life, we know we’re not always going to be on our A Game. Sometimes we’re superstars. Most of the time we just do our best.
We muddle through. We keep going.
So why do we expect it to be any different with fitness?
In my case, above, I hired a coach and we came up with a simple workout program that met these criteria:
No more than 3x a week.
No more than 10 minutes per session.
Has to be done upon waking up, right next to the bed.
Requires no equipment.
I did that for about 6 months. Was it the Best Workout Ever? No! Did I end up, after 6 months, fitter than ever? Heck no!
But was it better than hitting the pause button and doing nothing? You bet!
See, perfectionism is not the point.
“Completing” a program, PN Coaching or any other, is not the point.
Being the “best” for a tiny window of time is not the point.
The point is to keep going. Sometimes awkwardly, sometimes incompetently, sometimes downright half-assed. But to keep going nonetheless.
As I often teach our new clients:
The “all or nothing” mentality rarely gets us “all”. It usually gets us “nothing”.
That’s when I propose a new mantra:
“Always something”.
Instead of pressing pause, adjust the dial.
Nowadays I like to think of my fitness and nutrition efforts as a dial.
There are times when I want to dial my efforts up, and times when I want to dial them down. But I never want to turn the dial off completely.
Here’s how this plays out in the context of my life.
Sometimes, say when I’m training for a track competition or concentrating on a particular goal, my fitness dial might be tuned to 9 or 10 out of 10.
Channel 10 means I work out every day. Every meal is planned and carefully considered. I think a lot about fitness. And not much about anything else.
Work, family, hobbies… they’re all in maintenance mode (with the permission of the people this affects, of course).
However, as I write this, my life involves the following:
Settling into a new home.
Conducting major home renovations.
Raising 4 children, one of them still a baby.
Running a growing business with nearly 100 team members.
So these days, the dial rarely goes past 3 or 4. I work out, maybe, three days a week. And most of my meals are just “good enough”.
(For the record, I’m totally cool with that. There is no guilt about having my dial set a little lower. What’s most important is that the dial is still set to “on”.)
The important lesson: There’s a big difference between tuning your dial to 3, 2, or even a 1, and turning the whole thing off.
And when you realize how doable — and effective — channels 3 and 2 and 1 can be, you see that there’s never a good reason to hit “pause”.
I get it. It’s easy to discount the lower channels. Especially when you’ve done more in the past. But remember your new mantra…
“Always something.”
Precision Nutrition Coaching graduate Susan Olding was dealing with a family crisis during the program: Her dad became ill and eventually passed away.
Susan could have given up when her dad was sick. Asked for a pause. And no one would have blamed her.
Instead, she challenged herself to embrace imperfection and do something every day:
Each day, I asked myself: If I can’t do what was asked of me, what can I do? What can I manage (physically, emotionally, mentally) now?
Then I went and did it.
Meanwhile, I also tried to add spontaneous activity into my days. I paced the hospital halls, parked at a distance and walked to the hospital door. I went for evening walks.
Anything to stay active.
I remember Susan telling me about the random sets of squats she did in the corner of her dad’s hospital room while he was resting.
Susan’s takeaway:
Perfection never happens in real life.
We’re always going to be doing the best we can with what we have.
And that’s okay.
We can still make progress toward our goals and still improve our health and our fitness – whatever’s going on in our lives.
That progress doesn’t happen if you “press pause” and wait for a better time.
It doesn’t happen if you say “I’ll squat again once the Dad situation resolves itself”. Or if you ask for a re-do next week, next month, next year.
“Fitness in the context of real human life”.
That’s one of our mottos here at Precision Nutrition.
It’s what I think we’re the best in the world at: Helping clients be healthy and fit in the context of their real lives.
Not while pretending to be someone they’re not. Not by signing up for a 12-week boot camp with daily workouts and restrictive diets.
But by living their own lives and practicing “always something”.
In my opinion, pressing pause is buying into an imaginary ideal: a “perfect” time when everything will fall into place; a beautiful, linear trajectory from total suckiness to apex awesomeness:
Asking for a restart because you don’t want to mess that line up is deluding yourself that somehow, next time will be easier. Next time will be perfect. No interruptions, no distractions… no… life.
Unfortunately, there is no perfect time.
We may have magical moments, of course. Short periods of time when things seem to “click” and come together.
But then the dog poops on the rug. Or the kid throws up on the couch. Or both… and then one or the other tracks it all through the house.
You keep pressing pause, and your progress looks like this.
Or, worse yet, you end up flatlining, stuck on a never-ending (maybe eternal) pause.
What to do next.
Fitness in the context of real human life is just like the rest of life.
We’re all just doing the best we can in challenging, complicated circumstances. We are all living messy, imperfect lives. We are all human.
If we can just keep moving forward, no matter what happens, no pause buttons, no do-overs, we win the game.
Here are a few strategies for getting out of the pause-button mentality and into a more realistic, effective, sustainable way of thinking.
1. Try the dial method.
Think of your fitness like a dial that goes from 1 – 10.
If you were to dial it up to “10”…
What would your workouts look like?
What would your nutrition look like?
What other actions/habits would you practice in that scenario?
If you were to dial it down to “1”…
What would your workouts look like?
What would your nutrition look like?
What other actions/habits would you practice in that scenario?
Giving thought to your life right now, where is your dial set?
Would you like to make any adjustments?
Could you move the dial up a channel, or even half a channel?
If so, what would that look like?
On the other hand…
Should you move the dial down a channel so you can stick with health and fitness even during a difficult time?
2. Aim for a little bit better.
An all-or-nothing approach usually doesn’t get us “all”. It usually gets us “nothing”.
You know what actually works?
Small improvements done consistently over time work — we have proof in the over 100,000 clients we’ve helped through Precision Nutrition Coaching method.
You might be trying to make a meal out of hospital cafeteria food, or gas station food, or airplane food. You might be spending hours awake with a newborn in the middle of the night, or stuck in yet another full-day meeting.
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3. Anticipate, strategize and plan.
Since we already know that stuff is going to go wrong, the best thing we can do is anticipate and make plans for how to deal when they do.
A simple way to do this is by answering two questions:
What’s likely to get in the way of what I hope to accomplish?
What is something I can do today to help me keep going when I face those obstacles?
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2016 (A Diary Entry Of Sorts)
2016 was wild. From the start. On January 1st, I woke up to screaming— yet another quarrel in my best friend’s on-again-off-again relationship. This was followed by a spontaneous trip to Boston filled with gay art and gay friends and other adventures in Portland. Still, amongst all the excitement and happy reconnections, I could feel my mental health begin to waver. I felt anxious every time I left my bedroom and depressed every time I didn’t. But I didn’t really give it much thought, because (on the outside) everything was fine.
After spending six weeks at home (which I’ve decided is Too Long), I came back to NYU just in time for a snow storm. I woke up before sunrise that day. My friends and I shared a delightful morning taking pictures in the park and wandering through the village. There was something surreal about the emptiness of that day. The roads were shut down, all the cars were snowed over, most of the city was staying inside— leaving my friends and I free to run through the streets without a care in the world. The magic quickly faded. My anxiety convinced me that these friends who had been wonderful all day didn’t like me at all and didn’t want me around and so I decided to spend the night alone. This boy I had been crushing on had brought his girlfriend to campus that weekend and we were all supposed to meet her that night, but I couldn’t. And I was so worried everyone thought I just didn’t want to meet her… part of me didn’t want to meet her.
In February, I fell in love. Er, well, I came as close to love as I have in the past 19 years. I don’t really believe you can ~fall in love~ with someone who doesn’t love you back. But I certainly fell into something. After heated encounters, relentless cuddling, and Deep Meaningful Conversations, he decided to end things with a “just… this… no.” And when I asked for clarification he muddled things even further with a kiss. I remember being so upset that I couldn’t stop shaking. I remember sitting upright in my bed, where he left me, until the sun came up. I remember that cup of tea growing cold and old and moldy because I couldn’t bring myself to dump it out. And, somehow, that was the end of that story. As much as I tried to reach out and be a friend to this boy who clearly did not respect me, he shut me out time and time again. PLOT TWIST: All of this bullshit dug up a fuck ton of disruptive thought processes and destructive behaviors. So, in this time where I really needed the luv n support of my friends, I did a great deal to put those friendships in jeopardy. And because I didn’t have a solid support system, my mental health got worse. The cycle continues…
In March, I started my YouTube channel, which was a pivotal moment for me. This platform allowed me a space to process and share all of the things I was going through (in thinly veiled original songs). As a result, self-esteem was up and I was ~feelin’ good~. Then I went to PRAHA and became real close with my pals in jazz choir and got shitfaced for whole week. Happy Easter. Was really hoping to hook up with someone but that DIDNT HAPPEN lol. As the seasons changed, so did my mental health. March was warm, I was warm.
I TURNED 19!!! Holy heck. 19 is fun bc nothing happens except you’re like Not A Teenager but also Not Not A Teenager (liminalityyyyy) . My parents came down for my birthday and I accidentally spent 3x what I thought I was spending on Broadway tickets (Good One). A little while later, the whole crew took a trip to Coney Island which was magical even though I was little nauseous— corn dogs + cheese fries + rollercoaster = bad time. Saw the girl who inspired me to start my YouTube channel in concert and then chickened out afterward and didn’t attend the meet and greet. And just like that, the semester was over. All in all spring is still a little fuzzy for me. So much of it just felt like… aftermath? If that makes sense.
Although I did spend a fair amount of time back in Maine over the summer, Paris feels more important. I was only there for a month, but I learned so much, and wrote so much, and read so much, and saw so much, and ate so much, and connected with so many people, it’s hard to believe June wasn’t a year in and of itself. So so so grateful for that experience. Also just like— meet your fucking idols ok. Like if it turns out, they’re shit people then you probably shouldn’t be idolizing them anyway. And who knows? Maybe they’ll turn out to be just as wise, and funny, and heart-filled as you imagined.
OMG ALSO. I went to my first Pride(s) this summer (one in Portland and one in Paris) and LET ME TELL YOU. Pride is so important!!! For such a long time, I really was hesitant towards the idea of being radically queer. Especially as like a white, cis, dude living in a country that had just legalized same-sex marriage (which we all know is the be-all-end-all of LGBTQ+ rights), it was hard for me to see what the big deal was. But Orlando hit me really hard, and made me think really carefully about the kind of social environment I had been creating and the one I wanted to create. So yeah, I got so much funking queerer in 2016 and I couldn’t be ~prouder~.
This semester felt like a whirlwind, a waterfall, a sloppy chaos slapped onto my year like the rushed finale of a bad Shonda Rhimes soap. But that’s not what I want to remember about this year. In spite of heartbreaking elections, tumultuous drunken encounters, terrifying police activity, and a persistent mental-heath rollercoaster, I did (as Prophet Kylie Jenner predicted) realize a lot of things. I got to the root of my destructive romantic tendencies and my intense insecurities. I figured out some people are worth letting go. I discovered that waiting around for things to happen is precisely what has made me unhappy in the past. And I’ve just got to start asking for what I want in the future. On top of all that, I saw a great deal of my favorite bands and musicians this fall— each of which was incredible. And I made some really good friends (and maybe some not-just-friends, who knows???). So I’m really hopeful about the coming year. Although, on a large scale, there is a lot of progress to be made… it feels like I’m on my way to a lot of small, personal victories— which will have to do for now.
Lol I cannot believe how long that was. But then again, I can’t believe how long this year was. Peace n luv
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How to Make and Follow Through on New Year’s Resolutions
Hi everyone! Happy New Year’s Eve! Today I wanted to talk a little bit about setting New Year’s Resolutions and how to follow through on them, since I know a lot of you will be making them today.
88% of people who make New Year’s Resolutions fail at them, largely because they’re not setting goals that are achievable. But it doesn’t have to be that way! So I wanted to make a quick little post on how to choose goals that are achievable and how to get yourself to follow through on them.
There are two specific tools that are super helpful in increasing the likelihood that you’ll achieve your resolutions. You may have seen me talk about them on here before- they’re SMARTER and WOOP.
SMART(ER) is a tool to help you set the right goals for you. Too often, we set goals like “I’m going to start exercising” or “I’m going to quit going on my phone”. Those are great in theory, but without an action plan, it’s easy to not follow through.
SMARTER goals are ones that are:
Specific (simple, sensible, significant).
If your goal isn’t specific, you won’t be able to focus your efforts or feel motivated to achieve it.
Try to answer: what do I want to accomplish? Why is this goal important? Who is involved? Where is it located? Which resources or limits are involved?
Measurable (meaningful, motivating).
Having measurable goals is important because it allows you to track your progress and stay motivated by seeing how far you’ve come.
A measurable goal should be one that answers “how much”, “how many” and “how will I know when it’s accomplished”?
Achievable (agreed, attainable).
Your goal needs to be realistic in order for you to stay motivated and be successful. If you’re aiming too high, you’ll become demotivated quickly because it doesn’t feel like you’re making progress.
An achievable goal requires you to ask “how can I accomplish this goal” and “how realistic is this goal based on other constraints?”
Relevant (reasonable, realistic and resourced, results-based).
Relevant goals are ones that matter to you. Make sure that these goals are ones that are important to you, not ones that you think you should be pursuing.
A relevant goal is one that can answer “yes” to the following questions: “does this seem worthwhile?”, “is this the right time?”, “does this match my other efforts/needs?”, “is it applicable in my current socio-economic environment?”
Time bound (time-based, time limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive).
Every goal needs a target date so that you have a deadline you can focus on and work toward.
A time sensitive goal is one that answers “when?”, “what can I do six months from now?”, “what can I do six weeks from now?”, and “what can I do today?”
Evaluate
Every day, evaluate how you’re doing on your goals. Long term goals can be easily ignored if they’re not evaluated every day, and if you don’t evaluate how you’re doing on your goals regularly, you might miss the things that are preventing you from achieving them.
Readjust
If you find that your approach isn’t working, you may need to readjust your goals. That doesn’t mean that you’re failing at your goals or that you should quit; it just means you have to rethink the approach you’re taking. Maybe the goal isn’t as relevant to you as you thought it would be, or it’s not as realistic as you expected, or your timeline is too short. Identify which part of your SMARTER goal is tripping you up and readjust it.
The best goals are ones that include trying new things instead of quitting old ones. Quitting things is hard; learning something new is easier and more exciting. If you’re looking to quit something, replace it by establishing a new habit that takes its place. For example, “I’m going to stop going on my phone,” is hard, but “when I feel like going on my phone, I’ll read a book for ten minutes instead” might be easier to maintain.
After you’ve figured out your SMARTER goal, it’s time to WOOP. WOOP is something like the scientifically proven cousin of “manifesting”. Just visualizing our goals or positive thinking on its own can be counterproductive, because it fools our lizard brains into believing that we’ve already achieved the goal. By using the WOOP method, you can prevent that from happening and actually achieve what you want to achieve.
WOOP stands for:
Wish: Identify a wish that is challenging, yet attainable. This should be your SMARTER goal.
Outcome: Imagine the best outcome as a result of your wish (as vividly as possible). Really daydream about what your life would be like if you achieved your goal.
Ask yourself, what is the biggest benefit you could receive from achieving this goal?
Obstacle: Identify and imagine what obstacles will get in the way of your wish.
What might get in the way? Thoughts, feelings, beliefs, old behavior patterns, bad habits, social pressure... identify as many as you can, then prioritize their likely they are to happen and how significant they would be if they did happen.
Plan: Create an if-then plan to overcome the obstacles you identified- “if [obstacle occurs] then I will [plan A].” Do your best to pick the most effective path you can for each obstacle, and identify a few different plans in case your first plan doesn’t work.
For example, if you wanted to start exercising, your WOOP might look like this:
Wish: Go on a run 3x/week after school/work for a month.
Outcome: Better energy, confidence, and health.
Obstacle: Feeling tired and hungry at the end of the day…Not wanting to go.
Plan: Pack a snack for the end of the day, and put on gym clothes right when you get home.
Or if you wanted to stop watching TV and read more:
Wish: Watch only 5 episodes of TV per week, and read when I feel the urge to watch TV for a month.
Outcome: Learn a lot. Get smarter. Feel better. Enjoy the great ideas. Feel like I'm spending my time wisely.
Obstacle: Not feeling like it. Preferring to watch TV.
P: If I catch myself watching TV, then I turn it off and start reading a book instead.
The last thing you can do to increase the chances that you’ll achieve your New Year’s Resolution is to get someone else involved. Either find a friend who’s setting the same resolution that you are, or tell someone about your goal and ask them to help you achieve it by checking up on you. It can also be helpful to put money on the line- give money to a friend with the understanding that you’ll get it back on a set date if you’ve achieved your resolution. If you really want to ensure that you reach your goal, tell your friend that if you fail, they should donate the money to a group or cause that you really hate.
76% of participants who wrote down their goals, actions and provided weekly progress to a friend successfully achieved their goals, compared to that 88% of people who fail at their New Year’s Resolutions that I mentioned earlier. With just a few small changes to the way you approach setting resolutions, you can greatly increase the chances that you’ll be successful at them.
If you’re making resolutions this year, comment on this post or send in what your resolutions are and how you’re planning to achieve them!
#new years eve#new year's resolution#new year's resolutions#2021#resolutions#goals#goal setting#fitness goals#WOOP
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The Data Is In: EVERYONE IS BUYING BITCOIN. Proof! Evidence! Data!
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Hey, welcome back, everybody, to altcoin Daily. My name is Aaron. This video today, some of the best news that we have seen in a while. In fact, the first one, two, three, four stories alone are all about proof, evidence. We are seeing both whales and regular people buying Bitcoin in mass. And we have the data, we have the proof, we have the evidence to back this up. That’s what we’re going to focus on in the first five minutes. Also, stay tuned for some other pretty good news. We’re going to talk about everything today. There’s a heavy news day and we’ll get into it. So make sure everybody take two seconds like the video, support the channel because what I’m about to show you might blow your mind. These first four stories, multiple bitcoin exchanges have seen a massive surge in new users this month, actually both new users and buying in general. So in brief, five exchanges reported an uptick in new users crack and saw an 83 percent increase in users packs full doubled its signup rate. Many top bitcoin exchanges have seen this influx of new users since the pandemic lockdown started five exchanges, so a notable increase in both sign ups and trading volume, with some citing a doubling or in some cases a tripling of their usual rate of new signups. These exchanges are cracking open packs bitfinex packs full and Luhnow crack in recorded an 83 percent rise in signups and a further 300 percent increase in intermediate verifications. Similarly, peer to peer crypto exchanges like Paxil saw a 100 percent increase in new signups since the start of March. Bitcoin exchange Luhnow, too, has seen a 50 percent uptick in active users over the last four weeks, according to Marcus, the CEO of Luhnow. He told Decrypt while the current pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty across most, if not all industries. It’s reassuring to see that there remains confidence in cryptocurrencies. While many traders are on wavered as more and more people start to work from home, Bitcoin exchange of bitfinex saw a notable uptick in new users as well. They said Our data shows that within the second half of March, which is when strict lockdown policies have been imposed in many countries. We’ve seen a 30 percent increase in new accounts. This is exactly what you would want to see if cryptocurrency is the future. The exchanges are bleeding bitcoin according to market intelligence from Glass NOAD. The amount of bitcoin being withdrawn from exchanges is steadily increasing, according to our labels. Bitcoin exchange balances are the lowest they’ve been in eight months. Glass know’d tweeted out they do good work. Now let’s check in on the most popular retail exchange. Coinbase is also reporting record Bitcoin buying. The data is represented very nicely here in this screenshot. This is research. According to Coinbase, in the 48 hours during and immediately following the drop, coinbase saw record breaking numbers compared to the last 12 month averages. Coinbase saw a 5 x increase in cash and crypto deposits totaling 1.3 billion a 2x increase in new user sign ups, a 3x increase in trading users, a 6 x increase in total traded volume. But beyond just a rash, two things are clear. Customers of our retail brokerage were buyers during the drop and bitcoin was the clear favorite. Our customers typically by 60 percent more than they sell, but during the crash this jumped to sixty seven, taking advantage of market troughs and representing strong demand for crypto assets even during extreme volatility. This is just data, guys, you cannot argue with data, and the data is great for all bitcoin holders. There is a demand. People are buying. To go further. Somebody bought 1000 bitcoin on crack in exchange just an hour ago. So that’s six and a half million in Bitcoin. On one purchase and you can see the huge green candle right here. Clearly, Aweil don’t know who it is, but this is a 1000 bitcoin order that went through on crack. And so Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are the future and we are seeing that awareness and interest continues to increase by nans is set to acquire coin market cap. The deal could be worth as much as 400 million. So we’re pretty close to April Fool’s Day. Who knows if this is true or not. But the details are this by NANCE is in the final stage of talks to acquire a coin market cap. The crypto exchange is looking to pay as much as $400 million for the deal. Coin market cap is one of the most popular crypto data aggregators drawing 207 million visitors in the last six months. Finance, on the other hand, drew one hundred thirteen million visitors in the last six months. Coin market caps traffic is 80 percent more than by an ounce. And people familiar with the matter told the block that coin market caps ability to drive significant amounts of traffic is one of the major reasons for the acquisition. So does coin market cap own anything proprietary? I don’t think so. But coin market cap is the name brand. So it looks like finance is looking to acquire more traffic. In other news, be cash and be cash. V. They’re having as are going to force miners to move away from them because those two blockchains are not popular and unprofitable and they’re miners are going to go to bitcoin. That’s the story. I mean you can read the details yourself, but I just want you to know what’s going to happen. Be cash and BSB will trend towards zero. That’s my opinion and that’s what it’s looking like is going to happen based on people actually working with them and using them. These next two stories are really good for institutions and big players coming in. The space suit I’m talking about civil wallet now offers one million FDIC like insurance for cryptocurrency. So you know that normal banks have your money insured. Quarter million. Well, apparently there’s new wallets, civil wallet. It’s a multisig non-custodial wallet. That’s important. That’s good. Now says it has a one million dollar guarantee from coin cover. So their quote, they say this is the first time that both technical and non-technical users can feel safe about their holdings. Until now, people had to keep their coins in cold storage, but now they don’t have to worry about it as their holdings are insured up to one million, just like a bank account with the FDA. I see. So for me personally, I’m still keeping my coins on cold storage because, you know, I like that about the space. But many people aren’t going to do that. Many people prefer the safety of a bank, but still want to be able to hold cryptocurrency. Well, now we’re seeing more and more things like this come to light. This is good for the whole entire industry. And they have the multisig solutions I mentioned. So, you know, you don’t have to worry about, you know, your inheritance or your beneficiaries. Inheritance, civil wallet. Users must still abide by stringent new your customer requirements by supplying their government issued ID and subjecting and subjecting their visage to facial recognition software. OK. Users will be able to connect to their bank accounts and buy crypto without leaving the wallet as wallets containing higher amounts of cryptocurrency continue to grow in numbers and insurance policy could not have come at a better time. So this is very good for the industry to go along with that. Another separate story. Epiphanny launches institutional platform to connect exchange liquidity, so an institutional platform has just been launched. And if you check out these details, you will see, wow, this is a really good thing for the industry. Institutions will now be able to trade on every single crypto market simultaneously thanks to Global I-X. This is an API platform launched on March Thirty first by a San Francisco based firm, Epiphanny. The startup hired former executives of Google X Crack and an Alpha Point to promote the service. Global X works by integrating all the world’s exchanges into one platform available to institutional traders. The firm opens business accounts with as many exchanges as possible across the entire world, while presenting a unified interface for its clients. As Swami explained, the immediate reason for this is simple. It allows institutional traders to make large orders while well without depressing price at one specific exchange. So it provides global liquidity by distributing the orders across global markets. The traders tap into global crypto liquidity instead of just one crypto exchange. The core proposition of global X is increasing the bandwidth available for institutional trading desks, as Furman highlighted. Trading on multiple exchanges is complex. If you look at before, in order to execute these global strategies, an institutional investor would have to set up accounts on multiple exchanges globally in order to execute rapidly. They would need separate sets of API is two different exchanges on the front end, its equivalent of calling 17 different brokers to execute one trade and not through one interface. Global Acts also provides a function that few institutional trading desks can have on their own access to all local fiat to crypto markets. So you can see that this is just another on ramp for big institutional players and alone. Maybe this won’t be a big deal, but together with everything else we’ve seen building out in the past couple of years, this is exactly what I would think I would be seeing if cryptocurrency is the future. That’s it for me today, everybody. If you got value in this video, give it a like a lot of interesting stories today. Comment on one of the stories below. Whether it’s about big cash, whether it’s about bitcoin core, whether it’s about these institutional players or whether it’s about, you know, the data that shows that people are buying. Let’s have a discussion down below. I will be answering you.
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The Data Is In: EVERYONE IS BUYING BITCOIN. Proof! Evidence! Data!
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Hey, welcome back, everybody, to altcoin Daily. My name is Aaron. This video today, some of the best news that we have seen in a while. In fact, the first one, two, three, four stories alone are all about proof, evidence. We are seeing both whales and regular people buying Bitcoin in mass. And we have the data, we have the proof, we have the evidence to back this up. That’s what we’re going to focus on in the first five minutes. Also, stay tuned for some other pretty good news. We’re going to talk about everything today. There’s a heavy news day and we’ll get into it. So make sure everybody take two seconds like the video, support the channel because what I’m about to show you might blow your mind. These first four stories, multiple bitcoin exchanges have seen a massive surge in new users this month, actually both new users and buying in general. So in brief, five exchanges reported an uptick in new users crack and saw an 83 percent increase in users packs full doubled its signup rate. Many top bitcoin exchanges have seen this influx of new users since the pandemic lockdown started five exchanges, so a notable increase in both sign ups and trading volume, with some citing a doubling or in some cases a tripling of their usual rate of new signups. These exchanges are cracking open packs bitfinex packs full and Luhnow crack in recorded an 83 percent rise in signups and a further 300 percent increase in intermediate verifications. Similarly, peer to peer crypto exchanges like Paxil saw a 100 percent increase in new signups since the start of March. Bitcoin exchange Luhnow, too, has seen a 50 percent uptick in active users over the last four weeks, according to Marcus, the CEO of Luhnow. He told Decrypt while the current pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty across most, if not all industries. It’s reassuring to see that there remains confidence in cryptocurrencies. While many traders are on wavered as more and more people start to work from home, Bitcoin exchange of bitfinex saw a notable uptick in new users as well. They said Our data shows that within the second half of March, which is when strict lockdown policies have been imposed in many countries. We’ve seen a 30 percent increase in new accounts. This is exactly what you would want to see if cryptocurrency is the future. The exchanges are bleeding bitcoin according to market intelligence from Glass NOAD. The amount of bitcoin being withdrawn from exchanges is steadily increasing, according to our labels. Bitcoin exchange balances are the lowest they’ve been in eight months. Glass know’d tweeted out they do good work. Now let’s check in on the most popular retail exchange. Coinbase is also reporting record Bitcoin buying. The data is represented very nicely here in this screenshot. This is research. According to Coinbase, in the 48 hours during and immediately following the drop, coinbase saw record breaking numbers compared to the last 12 month averages. Coinbase saw a 5 x increase in cash and crypto deposits totaling 1.3 billion a 2x increase in new user sign ups, a 3x increase in trading users, a 6 x increase in total traded volume. But beyond just a rash, two things are clear. Customers of our retail brokerage were buyers during the drop and bitcoin was the clear favorite. Our customers typically by 60 percent more than they sell, but during the crash this jumped to sixty seven, taking advantage of market troughs and representing strong demand for crypto assets even during extreme volatility. This is just data, guys, you cannot argue with data, and the data is great for all bitcoin holders. There is a demand. People are buying. To go further. Somebody bought 1000 bitcoin on crack in exchange just an hour ago. So that’s six and a half million in Bitcoin. On one purchase and you can see the huge green candle right here. Clearly, Aweil don’t know who it is, but this is a 1000 bitcoin order that went through on crack. And so Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are the future and we are seeing that awareness and interest continues to increase by nans is set to acquire coin market cap. The deal could be worth as much as 400 million. So we’re pretty close to April Fool’s Day. Who knows if this is true or not. But the details are this by NANCE is in the final stage of talks to acquire a coin market cap. The crypto exchange is looking to pay as much as $400 million for the deal. Coin market cap is one of the most popular crypto data aggregators drawing 207 million visitors in the last six months. Finance, on the other hand, drew one hundred thirteen million visitors in the last six months. Coin market caps traffic is 80 percent more than by an ounce. And people familiar with the matter told the block that coin market caps ability to drive significant amounts of traffic is one of the major reasons for the acquisition. So does coin market cap own anything proprietary? I don’t think so. But coin market cap is the name brand. So it looks like finance is looking to acquire more traffic. In other news, be cash and be cash. V. They’re having as are going to force miners to move away from them because those two blockchains are not popular and unprofitable and they’re miners are going to go to bitcoin. That’s the story. I mean you can read the details yourself, but I just want you to know what’s going to happen. Be cash and BSB will trend towards zero. That’s my opinion and that’s what it’s looking like is going to happen based on people actually working with them and using them. These next two stories are really good for institutions and big players coming in. The space suit I’m talking about civil wallet now offers one million FDIC like insurance for cryptocurrency. So you know that normal banks have your money insured. Quarter million. Well, apparently there’s new wallets, civil wallet. It’s a multisig non-custodial wallet. That’s important. That’s good. Now says it has a one million dollar guarantee from coin cover. So their quote, they say this is the first time that both technical and non-technical users can feel safe about their holdings. Until now, people had to keep their coins in cold storage, but now they don’t have to worry about it as their holdings are insured up to one million, just like a bank account with the FDA. I see. So for me personally, I’m still keeping my coins on cold storage because, you know, I like that about the space. But many people aren’t going to do that. Many people prefer the safety of a bank, but still want to be able to hold cryptocurrency. Well, now we’re seeing more and more things like this come to light. This is good for the whole entire industry. And they have the multisig solutions I mentioned. So, you know, you don’t have to worry about, you know, your inheritance or your beneficiaries. Inheritance, civil wallet. Users must still abide by stringent new your customer requirements by supplying their government issued ID and subjecting and subjecting their visage to facial recognition software. OK. Users will be able to connect to their bank accounts and buy crypto without leaving the wallet as wallets containing higher amounts of cryptocurrency continue to grow in numbers and insurance policy could not have come at a better time. So this is very good for the industry to go along with that. Another separate story. Epiphanny launches institutional platform to connect exchange liquidity, so an institutional platform has just been launched. And if you check out these details, you will see, wow, this is a really good thing for the industry. Institutions will now be able to trade on every single crypto market simultaneously thanks to Global I-X. This is an API platform launched on March Thirty first by a San Francisco based firm, Epiphanny. The startup hired former executives of Google X Crack and an Alpha Point to promote the service. Global X works by integrating all the world’s exchanges into one platform available to institutional traders. The firm opens business accounts with as many exchanges as possible across the entire world, while presenting a unified interface for its clients. As Swami explained, the immediate reason for this is simple. It allows institutional traders to make large orders while well without depressing price at one specific exchange. So it provides global liquidity by distributing the orders across global markets. The traders tap into global crypto liquidity instead of just one crypto exchange. The core proposition of global X is increasing the bandwidth available for institutional trading desks, as Furman highlighted. Trading on multiple exchanges is complex. If you look at before, in order to execute these global strategies, an institutional investor would have to set up accounts on multiple exchanges globally in order to execute rapidly. They would need separate sets of API is two different exchanges on the front end, its equivalent of calling 17 different brokers to execute one trade and not through one interface. Global Acts also provides a function that few institutional trading desks can have on their own access to all local fiat to crypto markets. So you can see that this is just another on ramp for big institutional players and alone. Maybe this won’t be a big deal, but together with everything else we’ve seen building out in the past couple of years, this is exactly what I would think I would be seeing if cryptocurrency is the future. That’s it for me today, everybody. If you got value in this video, give it a like a lot of interesting stories today. Comment on one of the stories below. Whether it’s about big cash, whether it’s about bitcoin core, whether it’s about these institutional players or whether it’s about, you know, the data that shows that people are buying. Let’s have a discussion down below. I will be answering you.
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The Data Is In: EVERYONE IS BUYING BITCOIN. Proof! Evidence! Data!
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Hey, welcome back, everybody, to altcoin Daily. My name is Aaron. This video today, some of the best news that we have seen in a while. In fact, the first one, two, three, four stories alone are all about proof, evidence. We are seeing both whales and regular people buying Bitcoin in mass. And we have the data, we have the proof, we have the evidence to back this up. That’s what we’re going to focus on in the first five minutes. Also, stay tuned for some other pretty good news. We’re going to talk about everything today. There’s a heavy news day and we’ll get into it. So make sure everybody take two seconds like the video, support the channel because what I’m about to show you might blow your mind. These first four stories, multiple bitcoin exchanges have seen a massive surge in new users this month, actually both new users and buying in general. So in brief, five exchanges reported an uptick in new users crack and saw an 83 percent increase in users packs full doubled its signup rate. Many top bitcoin exchanges have seen this influx of new users since the pandemic lockdown started five exchanges, so a notable increase in both sign ups and trading volume, with some citing a doubling or in some cases a tripling of their usual rate of new signups. These exchanges are cracking open packs bitfinex packs full and Luhnow crack in recorded an 83 percent rise in signups and a further 300 percent increase in intermediate verifications. Similarly, peer to peer crypto exchanges like Paxil saw a 100 percent increase in new signups since the start of March. Bitcoin exchange Luhnow, too, has seen a 50 percent uptick in active users over the last four weeks, according to Marcus, the CEO of Luhnow. He told Decrypt while the current pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty across most, if not all industries. It’s reassuring to see that there remains confidence in cryptocurrencies. While many traders are on wavered as more and more people start to work from home, Bitcoin exchange of bitfinex saw a notable uptick in new users as well. They said Our data shows that within the second half of March, which is when strict lockdown policies have been imposed in many countries. We’ve seen a 30 percent increase in new accounts. This is exactly what you would want to see if cryptocurrency is the future. The exchanges are bleeding bitcoin according to market intelligence from Glass NOAD. The amount of bitcoin being withdrawn from exchanges is steadily increasing, according to our labels. Bitcoin exchange balances are the lowest they’ve been in eight months. Glass know’d tweeted out they do good work. Now let’s check in on the most popular retail exchange. Coinbase is also reporting record Bitcoin buying. The data is represented very nicely here in this screenshot. This is research. According to Coinbase, in the 48 hours during and immediately following the drop, coinbase saw record breaking numbers compared to the last 12 month averages. Coinbase saw a 5 x increase in cash and crypto deposits totaling 1.3 billion a 2x increase in new user sign ups, a 3x increase in trading users, a 6 x increase in total traded volume. But beyond just a rash, two things are clear. Customers of our retail brokerage were buyers during the drop and bitcoin was the clear favorite. Our customers typically by 60 percent more than they sell, but during the crash this jumped to sixty seven, taking advantage of market troughs and representing strong demand for crypto assets even during extreme volatility. This is just data, guys, you cannot argue with data, and the data is great for all bitcoin holders. There is a demand. People are buying. To go further. Somebody bought 1000 bitcoin on crack in exchange just an hour ago. So that’s six and a half million in Bitcoin. On one purchase and you can see the huge green candle right here. Clearly, Aweil don’t know who it is, but this is a 1000 bitcoin order that went through on crack. And so Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are the future and we are seeing that awareness and interest continues to increase by nans is set to acquire coin market cap. The deal could be worth as much as 400 million. So we’re pretty close to April Fool’s Day. Who knows if this is true or not. But the details are this by NANCE is in the final stage of talks to acquire a coin market cap. The crypto exchange is looking to pay as much as $400 million for the deal. Coin market cap is one of the most popular crypto data aggregators drawing 207 million visitors in the last six months. Finance, on the other hand, drew one hundred thirteen million visitors in the last six months. Coin market caps traffic is 80 percent more than by an ounce. And people familiar with the matter told the block that coin market caps ability to drive significant amounts of traffic is one of the major reasons for the acquisition. So does coin market cap own anything proprietary? I don’t think so. But coin market cap is the name brand. So it looks like finance is looking to acquire more traffic. In other news, be cash and be cash. V. They’re having as are going to force miners to move away from them because those two blockchains are not popular and unprofitable and they’re miners are going to go to bitcoin. That’s the story. I mean you can read the details yourself, but I just want you to know what’s going to happen. Be cash and BSB will trend towards zero. That’s my opinion and that’s what it’s looking like is going to happen based on people actually working with them and using them. These next two stories are really good for institutions and big players coming in. The space suit I’m talking about civil wallet now offers one million FDIC like insurance for cryptocurrency. So you know that normal banks have your money insured. Quarter million. Well, apparently there’s new wallets, civil wallet. It’s a multisig non-custodial wallet. That’s important. That’s good. Now says it has a one million dollar guarantee from coin cover. So their quote, they say this is the first time that both technical and non-technical users can feel safe about their holdings. Until now, people had to keep their coins in cold storage, but now they don’t have to worry about it as their holdings are insured up to one million, just like a bank account with the FDA. I see. So for me personally, I’m still keeping my coins on cold storage because, you know, I like that about the space. But many people aren’t going to do that. Many people prefer the safety of a bank, but still want to be able to hold cryptocurrency. Well, now we’re seeing more and more things like this come to light. This is good for the whole entire industry. And they have the multisig solutions I mentioned. So, you know, you don’t have to worry about, you know, your inheritance or your beneficiaries. Inheritance, civil wallet. Users must still abide by stringent new your customer requirements by supplying their government issued ID and subjecting and subjecting their visage to facial recognition software. OK. Users will be able to connect to their bank accounts and buy crypto without leaving the wallet as wallets containing higher amounts of cryptocurrency continue to grow in numbers and insurance policy could not have come at a better time. So this is very good for the industry to go along with that. Another separate story. Epiphanny launches institutional platform to connect exchange liquidity, so an institutional platform has just been launched. And if you check out these details, you will see, wow, this is a really good thing for the industry. Institutions will now be able to trade on every single crypto market simultaneously thanks to Global I-X. This is an API platform launched on March Thirty first by a San Francisco based firm, Epiphanny. The startup hired former executives of Google X Crack and an Alpha Point to promote the service. Global X works by integrating all the world’s exchanges into one platform available to institutional traders. The firm opens business accounts with as many exchanges as possible across the entire world, while presenting a unified interface for its clients. As Swami explained, the immediate reason for this is simple. It allows institutional traders to make large orders while well without depressing price at one specific exchange. So it provides global liquidity by distributing the orders across global markets. The traders tap into global crypto liquidity instead of just one crypto exchange. The core proposition of global X is increasing the bandwidth available for institutional trading desks, as Furman highlighted. Trading on multiple exchanges is complex. If you look at before, in order to execute these global strategies, an institutional investor would have to set up accounts on multiple exchanges globally in order to execute rapidly. They would need separate sets of API is two different exchanges on the front end, its equivalent of calling 17 different brokers to execute one trade and not through one interface. Global Acts also provides a function that few institutional trading desks can have on their own access to all local fiat to crypto markets. So you can see that this is just another on ramp for big institutional players and alone. Maybe this won’t be a big deal, but together with everything else we’ve seen building out in the past couple of years, this is exactly what I would think I would be seeing if cryptocurrency is the future. That’s it for me today, everybody. If you got value in this video, give it a like a lot of interesting stories today. Comment on one of the stories below. Whether it’s about big cash, whether it’s about bitcoin core, whether it’s about these institutional players or whether it’s about, you know, the data that shows that people are buying. Let’s have a discussion down below. I will be answering you.
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The Data Is In: EVERYONE IS BUYING BITCOIN. Proof! Evidence! Data!
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Hey, welcome back, everybody, to altcoin Daily. My name is Aaron. This video today, some of the best news that we have seen in a while. In fact, the first one, two, three, four stories alone are all about proof, evidence. We are seeing both whales and regular people buying Bitcoin in mass. And we have the data, we have the proof, we have the evidence to back this up. That’s what we’re going to focus on in the first five minutes. Also, stay tuned for some other pretty good news. We’re going to talk about everything today. There’s a heavy news day and we’ll get into it. So make sure everybody take two seconds like the video, support the channel because what I’m about to show you might blow your mind. These first four stories, multiple bitcoin exchanges have seen a massive surge in new users this month, actually both new users and buying in general. So in brief, five exchanges reported an uptick in new users crack and saw an 83 percent increase in users packs full doubled its signup rate. Many top bitcoin exchanges have seen this influx of new users since the pandemic lockdown started five exchanges, so a notable increase in both sign ups and trading volume, with some citing a doubling or in some cases a tripling of their usual rate of new signups. These exchanges are cracking open packs bitfinex packs full and Luhnow crack in recorded an 83 percent rise in signups and a further 300 percent increase in intermediate verifications. Similarly, peer to peer crypto exchanges like Paxil saw a 100 percent increase in new signups since the start of March. Bitcoin exchange Luhnow, too, has seen a 50 percent uptick in active users over the last four weeks, according to Marcus, the CEO of Luhnow. He told Decrypt while the current pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty across most, if not all industries. It’s reassuring to see that there remains confidence in cryptocurrencies. While many traders are on wavered as more and more people start to work from home, Bitcoin exchange of bitfinex saw a notable uptick in new users as well. They said Our data shows that within the second half of March, which is when strict lockdown policies have been imposed in many countries. We’ve seen a 30 percent increase in new accounts. This is exactly what you would want to see if cryptocurrency is the future. The exchanges are bleeding bitcoin according to market intelligence from Glass NOAD. The amount of bitcoin being withdrawn from exchanges is steadily increasing, according to our labels. Bitcoin exchange balances are the lowest they’ve been in eight months. Glass know’d tweeted out they do good work. Now let’s check in on the most popular retail exchange. Coinbase is also reporting record Bitcoin buying. The data is represented very nicely here in this screenshot. This is research. According to Coinbase, in the 48 hours during and immediately following the drop, coinbase saw record breaking numbers compared to the last 12 month averages. Coinbase saw a 5 x increase in cash and crypto deposits totaling 1.3 billion a 2x increase in new user sign ups, a 3x increase in trading users, a 6 x increase in total traded volume. But beyond just a rash, two things are clear. Customers of our retail brokerage were buyers during the drop and bitcoin was the clear favorite. Our customers typically by 60 percent more than they sell, but during the crash this jumped to sixty seven, taking advantage of market troughs and representing strong demand for crypto assets even during extreme volatility. This is just data, guys, you cannot argue with data, and the data is great for all bitcoin holders. There is a demand. People are buying. To go further. Somebody bought 1000 bitcoin on crack in exchange just an hour ago. So that’s six and a half million in Bitcoin. On one purchase and you can see the huge green candle right here. Clearly, Aweil don’t know who it is, but this is a 1000 bitcoin order that went through on crack. And so Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are the future and we are seeing that awareness and interest continues to increase by nans is set to acquire coin market cap. The deal could be worth as much as 400 million. So we’re pretty close to April Fool’s Day. Who knows if this is true or not. But the details are this by NANCE is in the final stage of talks to acquire a coin market cap. The crypto exchange is looking to pay as much as $400 million for the deal. Coin market cap is one of the most popular crypto data aggregators drawing 207 million visitors in the last six months. Finance, on the other hand, drew one hundred thirteen million visitors in the last six months. Coin market caps traffic is 80 percent more than by an ounce. And people familiar with the matter told the block that coin market caps ability to drive significant amounts of traffic is one of the major reasons for the acquisition. So does coin market cap own anything proprietary? I don’t think so. But coin market cap is the name brand. So it looks like finance is looking to acquire more traffic. In other news, be cash and be cash. V. They’re having as are going to force miners to move away from them because those two blockchains are not popular and unprofitable and they’re miners are going to go to bitcoin. That’s the story. I mean you can read the details yourself, but I just want you to know what’s going to happen. Be cash and BSB will trend towards zero. That’s my opinion and that’s what it’s looking like is going to happen based on people actually working with them and using them. These next two stories are really good for institutions and big players coming in. The space suit I’m talking about civil wallet now offers one million FDIC like insurance for cryptocurrency. So you know that normal banks have your money insured. Quarter million. Well, apparently there’s new wallets, civil wallet. It’s a multisig non-custodial wallet. That’s important. That’s good. Now says it has a one million dollar guarantee from coin cover. So their quote, they say this is the first time that both technical and non-technical users can feel safe about their holdings. Until now, people had to keep their coins in cold storage, but now they don’t have to worry about it as their holdings are insured up to one million, just like a bank account with the FDA. I see. So for me personally, I’m still keeping my coins on cold storage because, you know, I like that about the space. But many people aren’t going to do that. Many people prefer the safety of a bank, but still want to be able to hold cryptocurrency. Well, now we’re seeing more and more things like this come to light. This is good for the whole entire industry. And they have the multisig solutions I mentioned. So, you know, you don’t have to worry about, you know, your inheritance or your beneficiaries. Inheritance, civil wallet. Users must still abide by stringent new your customer requirements by supplying their government issued ID and subjecting and subjecting their visage to facial recognition software. OK. Users will be able to connect to their bank accounts and buy crypto without leaving the wallet as wallets containing higher amounts of cryptocurrency continue to grow in numbers and insurance policy could not have come at a better time. So this is very good for the industry to go along with that. Another separate story. Epiphanny launches institutional platform to connect exchange liquidity, so an institutional platform has just been launched. And if you check out these details, you will see, wow, this is a really good thing for the industry. Institutions will now be able to trade on every single crypto market simultaneously thanks to Global I-X. This is an API platform launched on March Thirty first by a San Francisco based firm, Epiphanny. The startup hired former executives of Google X Crack and an Alpha Point to promote the service. Global X works by integrating all the world’s exchanges into one platform available to institutional traders. The firm opens business accounts with as many exchanges as possible across the entire world, while presenting a unified interface for its clients. As Swami explained, the immediate reason for this is simple. It allows institutional traders to make large orders while well without depressing price at one specific exchange. So it provides global liquidity by distributing the orders across global markets. The traders tap into global crypto liquidity instead of just one crypto exchange. The core proposition of global X is increasing the bandwidth available for institutional trading desks, as Furman highlighted. Trading on multiple exchanges is complex. If you look at before, in order to execute these global strategies, an institutional investor would have to set up accounts on multiple exchanges globally in order to execute rapidly. They would need separate sets of API is two different exchanges on the front end, its equivalent of calling 17 different brokers to execute one trade and not through one interface. Global Acts also provides a function that few institutional trading desks can have on their own access to all local fiat to crypto markets. So you can see that this is just another on ramp for big institutional players and alone. Maybe this won’t be a big deal, but together with everything else we’ve seen building out in the past couple of years, this is exactly what I would think I would be seeing if cryptocurrency is the future. That’s it for me today, everybody. If you got value in this video, give it a like a lot of interesting stories today. Comment on one of the stories below. Whether it’s about big cash, whether it’s about bitcoin core, whether it’s about these institutional players or whether it’s about, you know, the data that shows that people are buying. Let’s have a discussion down below. I will be answering you.
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Why the “pause-button mentality” is ruining your health and fitness. ‘Getting a fresh start’ isn’t the magic bullet you thought it’d be.
“I’ll resume healthy eating after my vacation… once the baby is born… after Dad gets out of the hospital… January 1… Monday.” While this kind of “pause-button mentality” seems reasonable, it could be ruining your health and fitness. Here’s why, and what to do about it.
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There’s a question that’s been finding its way to me a LOT lately — from Precision Nutrition Coaching clients, Certification students, ProCoaches.
“Why don’t your programs offer a ‘pause’ feature?”
After all, what’s the harm in letting clients/patients take a break from a nutrition and fitness plan when they’re:
leaving for vacation,
completely swamped at work,
pregnant, or just after delivery,
injured, or
caring for an ailing family member?
For a client, the thought process boils down to:
If I miss some workouts, eat the wrong things, skip the homework… I fail.
Aren’t I more likely to succeed if I take a break, just until I have the time to do it right?
This is what I call the ‘pause-button mentality’.
Now, don’t get me wrong.
I think it’s normal — even commendable — to want to do your best. To consider taking time to regroup and then resume (or start over) when life feels easier.
At the same time, this completely natural and well-meaning impulse is one of the fastest, surest, most reliable ways to sabotage your plans for improved nutrition, health, and fitness.
Here’s why — and what to do instead.
Starting fresh after you lose your way is a really comforting thought.
That’s probably why New Year’s resolutions are so popular, especially following the indulgence-fueled holiday season.
Give me that cheesecake. I’ll pick my diet back up on Monday!
In fact, we’ve learned in our nutrition coaching programs that the idea of a do-over is so alluring you don’t even need a mess-up for the pause-button mentality to take over.
Every January, we welcome a new group of clients. Every July, we take in the second, and final, group of the year.
In July, six months in, just knowing that there are new clients starting the program fresh in January makes some July clients “itch” for a new beginning, even though they’re already making progress, changing their bodies.
If only you’d let me start over, I’d really nail it this time!
But here’s the problem: The pause-button mentality only builds the skill of pausing.
Whether it’s tomorrow, Monday, next week, or even next year, hitting that imaginary pause button gives you some sense of relief.
It allows you a little respite from what can be a really tough slog.
(And the middle is always a tough slog, it doesn’t matter what kind of project you’re working on.)
This perceived relief is compounded by the illusion that if we “start fresh” later we can find the magical “right time” to begin.
Listen, I get it.
It can feel absurd to try to improve your eating and exercise habits while you’re in the midst of chronic stress / looking for a job / starting a new job / going on vacation / caring for aging parents / raising small children.
That’s probably why there are so many 21-day this and 90-day that. What adult has more than 90 days to go after their fitness goals with an all-out effort?
But what do these intense fitness sprints teach you?
The skill of getting fit within a very short (and completely non-representative) period of your life.
What don’t they teach you?
The skill of getting fit (or staying fit) in the midst of a normal, complicated, “how it really is” sort of life.
This is why the yo-yo diet thing has become such a phenomenon.
It’s not about willpower. It’s about skills.
In most fitness scenarios, you learn how to get fit under weird, tightly-controlled, white-knuckle life situations.
You build that one, solitary, non-transferrable skill — to slam the gas pedal down, drive the needle into the red, and squeal down the road for a little while, burning the rubber off your tires until you (quickly) run out of gas and crash.
What you don’t build is the ability to get fit under real-life conditions.
That’s why it doesn’t stick. Not because you suck.
But because the natural and predictable consequence of having a limited skill set is short-term progress followed immediately by long-term frustration.
What will be different next time?
I remember having lunch with a colleague who swore up and down that his low-carb diet plus daily running was the secret to staying in shape.
I had to follow up with a painful question: “Well, why aren’t you actually in shape?”
After a long pause: “Uhh, I’ve had a hard time sticking with it. We just had our second child. The holidays just ended. I just switched jobs.” He trailed off…
“But, once everything settles down, I’ll get with the program and get in shape again! I guess I’m just on a little break.”
This story illustrates the point perfectly.
Here’s someone who’s built his fitness on a house of cards. He knows only one thing: How to get in shape by following a very challenging program when the conditions are perfect.
And whenever life isn’t perfect, which is most of the time, he hits the pause button. He waits for a better time. (All the while losing the health and fitness he previously worked so hard for.)
That’s why, when our clients ask to press pause, we usually ask them:
“What will be different when you come back?”
Nine times out of 10, the honest answer is nothing. Nothing will be different.
Life is just… happening. And it’ll happen again in January, or after the baby is born, or after Mom gets better, or at any other arbitrary point you pick.
And what then?
I’ve wanted to press “pause” myself.
If you’ve ever felt like pressing pause, or you feel this way right now, it might help to know I’ve felt exactly the same way.
A few years back, my wife and I decided to renovate a home. During the reno, we lived in a tiny apartment above my in-laws’ garage. At the time I was also starting up Precision Nutrition.
Every day we’d wake up and get straight to work. At the end of the day, we’d drive 1 ½ hours to the new house to chip away at the reno. Then, late at night, we’d drive 1 ½ hours back and fall into bed. Repeat.
At first, I thought there was no way to exercise. My schedule was completely packed, I had nowhere to work out, and my eating was less than ideal.
But after a couple of weeks I realized that something was going to be better than nothing.
The renovations would continue. Running a business would only get more demanding. And we were planning to have our first child.
I realized I couldn’t wait. I couldn’t press pause. Because, if I didn’t continue, there’d never be that “perfect time” to hit play again.
I needed to find a way to squeeze in some kind of workout, however quick, easy, and unglamorous.
Let’s accept that life has no pause button.
The key lesson here is that, like it or not, the game of life keeps going.
There is no timeout.
There’s never going to be a moment when things are magically easier.
You can’t escape work, personal, and family demands. Nor can you escape the need for health and fitness in your life.
Here’s a thought experiment:
What if you tried to hit pause in other areas of your life?
Imagine you’re up for a big promotion at work. For the next two weeks, all you want to do is focus on mastering an upcoming presentation, and winning over your boss.
Trouble is, you’ve got two young children at home who tend to grasp, koala-like, onto your legs and demand your full attention.
Honey, you say to your spouse, I’m just gonna press pause on being a parent for now. I’ll be staying at a hotel. Don’t contact me.
I don’t know about you, but that would NOT go over well in my family.
You can’t really press pause — and you definitely can’t hit reset — on being a parent. (You’ve thought about it, though. I know you have.)
Just like you can’t stop showing up for work and expect not to get fired. Or “take a break” from being married and not wind up divorced.
Generally, when it comes to life, we know we’re not always going to be on our A Game. Sometimes we’re superstars. Most of the time we just do our best.
We muddle through. We keep going.
So why do we expect it to be any different with fitness?
In my case, above, I hired a coach and we came up with a simple workout program that met these criteria:
No more than 3x a week.
No more than 10 minutes per session.
Has to be done upon waking up, right next to the bed.
Requires no equipment.
I did that for about 6 months. Was it the Best Workout Ever? No! Did I end up, after 6 months, fitter than ever? Heck no!
But was it better than hitting the pause button and doing nothing? You bet!
See, perfectionism is not the point.
“Completing” a program, PN Coaching or any other, is not the point.
Being the “best” for a tiny window of time is not the point.
The point is to keep going. Sometimes awkwardly, sometimes incompetently, sometimes downright half-assed. But to keep going nonetheless.
As I often teach our new clients:
The “all or nothing” mentality rarely gets us “all”. It usually gets us “nothing”.
That’s when I propose a new mantra:
“Always something”.
Instead of pressing pause, adjust the dial.
Nowadays I like to think of my fitness and nutrition efforts as a dial.
There are times when I want to dial my efforts up, and times when I want to dial them down. But I never want to turn the dial off completely.
Here’s how this plays out in the context of my life.
Sometimes, say when I’m training for a track competition or concentrating on a particular goal, my fitness dial might be tuned to 9 or 10 out of 10.
Channel 10 means I work out every day. Every meal is planned and carefully considered. I think a lot about fitness. And not much about anything else.
Work, family, hobbies… they’re all in maintenance mode (with the permission of the people this affects, of course).
However, as I write this, my life involves the following:
Settling into a new home.
Conducting major home renovations.
Raising 4 children, one of them still a baby.
Running a growing business with nearly 100 team members.
So these days, the dial rarely goes past 3 or 4. I work out, maybe, three days a week. And most of my meals are just “good enough”.
(For the record, I’m totally cool with that. There is no guilt about having my dial set a little lower. What’s most important is that the dial is still set to “on”.)
The important lesson: There’s a big difference between tuning your dial to 3, 2, or even a 1, and turning the whole thing off.
And when you realize how doable — and effective — channels 3 and 2 and 1 can be, you see that there’s never a good reason to hit “pause”.
I get it. It’s easy to discount the lower channels. Especially when you’ve done more in the past. But remember your new mantra…
“Always something.”
Precision Nutrition Coaching graduate Susan Olding was dealing with a family crisis during the program: Her dad became ill and eventually passed away.
Susan could have given up when her dad was sick. Asked for a pause. And no one would have blamed her.
Instead, she challenged herself to embrace imperfection and do something every day:
Each day, I asked myself: If I can’t do what was asked of me, what can I do? What can I manage (physically, emotionally, mentally) now?
Then I went and did it.
Meanwhile, I also tried to add spontaneous activity into my days. I paced the hospital halls, parked at a distance and walked to the hospital door. I went for evening walks.
Anything to stay active.
I remember Susan telling me about the random sets of squats she did in the corner of her dad’s hospital room while he was resting.
Susan’s takeaway:
Perfection never happens in real life.
We’re always going to be doing the best we can with what we have.
And that’s okay.
We can still make progress toward our goals and still improve our health and our fitness – whatever’s going on in our lives.
That progress doesn’t happen if you “press pause” and wait for a better time.
It doesn’t happen if you say “I’ll squat again once the Dad situation resolves itself”. Or if you ask for a re-do next week, next month, next year.
“Fitness in the context of real human life”.
That’s one of our mottos here at Precision Nutrition.
It’s what I think we’re the best in the world at: Helping clients be healthy and fit in the context of their real lives.
Not while pretending to be someone they’re not. Not by signing up for a 12-week boot camp with daily workouts and restrictive diets.
But by living their own lives and practicing “always something”.
In my opinion, pressing pause is buying into an imaginary ideal: a “perfect” time when everything will fall into place; a beautiful, linear trajectory from total suckiness to apex awesomeness:
Asking for a restart because you don’t want to mess that line up is deluding yourself that somehow, next time will be easier. Next time will be perfect. No interruptions, no distractions… no… life.
Unfortunately, there is no perfect time.
We may have magical moments, of course. Short periods of time when things seem to “click” and come together.
But then the dog poops on the rug. Or the kid throws up on the couch. Or both… and then one or the other tracks it all through the house.
You keep pressing pause, and your progress looks like this.
Or, worse yet, you end up flatlining, stuck on a never-ending (maybe eternal) pause.
What to do next.
Fitness in the context of real human life is just like the rest of life.
We’re all just doing the best we can in challenging, complicated circumstances. We are all living messy, imperfect lives. We are all human.
If we can just keep moving forward, no matter what happens, no pause buttons, no do-overs, we win the game.
Here are a few strategies for getting out of the pause-button mentality and into a more realistic, effective, sustainable way of thinking.
1. Try the dial method.
Think of your fitness like a dial that goes from 1 – 10.
If you were to dial it up to “10”…
What would your workouts look like?
What would your nutrition look like?
What other actions/habits would you practice in that scenario?
If you were to dial it down to “1”…
What would your workouts look like?
What would your nutrition look like?
What other actions/habits would you practice in that scenario?
Giving thought to your life right now, where is your dial set?
Would you like to make any adjustments?
Could you move the dial up a channel, or even half a channel?
If so, what would that look like?
On the other hand…
Should you move the dial down a channel so you can stick with health and fitness even during a difficult time?
2. Aim for a little bit better.
An all-or-nothing approach usually doesn’t get us “all”. It usually gets us “nothing”.
You know what actually works?
Small improvements done consistently over time work — we have proof in the over 100,000 clients we’ve helped through Precision Nutrition Coaching method.
You might be trying to make a meal out of hospital cafeteria food, or gas station food, or airplane food. You might be spending hours awake with a newborn in the middle of the night, or stuck in yet another full-day meeting.
These aren’t ideal scenarios, but they’re not necessarily hopeless either.
Look around. Get creative. See if you can find some small — maybe minuscule — improvements.
3. Anticipate, strategize and plan.
Since we already know that stuff is going to go wrong, the best thing we can do is anticipate and make plans for how to deal when they do.
A simple way to do this is by answering two questions:
What’s likely to get in the way of what I hope to accomplish?
What is something I can do today to help me keep going when I face those obstacles?
For some people, that might be a Sunday ritual where they prep food for the week so they won’t be scrambling for healthy meals on busy weeknights. For others, it might mean having a healthy meal-delivery service on speed dial.
Don’t be surprised and dismayed when things go haywire. They will at some point. Just arm yourself with the best tools and strategies so you can stay in the game when you’re thrown a curveball.
If you’re a coach, or you want to be…
Learning how to coach clients, patients, friends, or family members through healthy eating and lifestyle changes—in a way that helps them make consistent progress even when life gets complicated—is both an art and a science.
If you’d like to learn more about both, consider the Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certification. The next group kicks off shortly.
What’s it all about?
The Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certification is the world’s most respected nutrition education program. It gives you the knowledge, systems, and tools you need to really understand how food influences a person’s health and fitness. Plus the ability to turn that knowledge into a thriving coaching practice.
Developed over 15 years, and proven with over 100,000 clients and patients, the Level 1 curriculum stands alone as the authority on the science of nutrition and the art of coaching.
Whether you’re already mid-career, or just starting out, the Level 1 Certification is your springboard to a deeper understanding of nutrition, the authority to coach it, and the ability to turn what you know into results.
[Of course, if you’re already a student or graduate of the Level 1 Certification, check out our Level 2 Certification Master Class. It’s an exclusive, year-long mentorship designed for elite professionals looking to master the art of coaching and be part of the top 1% of health and fitness coaches in the world.]
Interested? Add your name to the presale list. You’ll save up to 33% and secure your spot 24 hours before everyone else.
We’ll be opening up spots in our next Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certification on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019.
If you want to find out more, we’ve set up the following presale list, which gives you two advantages.
Pay less than everyone else. We like to reward people who are eager to boost their credentials and are ready to commit to getting the education they need. So we’re offering a discount of up to 33% off the general price when you sign up for the presale list.
Sign up 24 hours before the general public and increase your chances of getting a spot. We only open the certification program twice per year. Due to high demand, spots in the program are limited and have historically sold out in a matter of hours. But when you sign up for the presale list, we’ll give you the opportunity to register a full 24 hours before anyone else.
If you’re ready for a deeper understanding of nutrition, the authority to coach it, and the ability to turn what you know into results… this is your chance to see what the world’s top professional nutrition coaching system can do for you.
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Go Up The Housing Price Curve To Find Better Value
For those of you insisting on buying a home at or near record highs like I did many years ago, this post is for you.
Back in 2004, I was looking to upgrade to a three bedroom, two bathroom condo in San Francisco. I had bought a two bedroom, two bathroom condo in early 2003 for $580,000, but had a twinge of regret that I didn’t buy a larger place for more money because prices kept on going up. It was my first place, so I had decided it was better to be conservative.
What I discovered in my search for a new home was that the $900,000 – $1,400,000 price point for three bedroom, two bathroom condos was an absolute buyer’s frenzy. Every single condo I observed went for 10% – 20% over asking due to multiple offers. After getting blown out of the water on several places, I decided to temporarily shelve my plans for a larger condo. It was too disheartening.
Better Value At Higher Prices
Then one rainy weekend during the winter of 2004, I stumbled across a single family house priced just above the frenzy zone at $1,550,000. Yes, it was on a busy street next to a busier street, but this was a three bedroom, two bathroom home with an in-law unit with its own bathroom. It also had a backyard and a little deck to boot.
I would never have imagined at that time being able to buy a single family home in a good area in San Francisco, so I never bothered looking. But there it was.
Unlike the condos in the $900,000 – $1,400,000 price point, there was no demand for this single family home at $1,550,000 despite having 50% more square footage and valuable land. The property had been sitting there for months.
So instead of trying to buy a $1,300,000 condo for $1,400,000 at $1,100/sqft, I decided to buy a $1,550,000 house for $1,525,000 at $720/sqft. I closed in early 2005. Who doesn’t like a 35% discount?
The house was being marketed by an out-of-town agent with a flimsy one-page flyer. She wasn’t doing a great job because she hadn’t connected to the San Francisco real estate network. The house wasn’t showing well because it hadn’t been cleaned or staged due to its existing owners still inhabiting the place and looking for a rent back.
Back in 2004, a 30-year fixed mortgage rate was closer to 6% and the median household income was about 30% less. With $1,400,000 at the top of the frenzy range, $1,500,000 was the absolute cap. Even the Bank of Mom & Dad had their limits.
What’s Going On Today
The typical San Francisco household buyer (not median income earner) now earns between $200,000 – $500,000 a year. As a result, the frenzy price range shifted from $900,000 – $1,400,000 to $1,200,000 – $1,900,000. Even more parents are helping out with the downpayment according to all the real estate agents I’ve spoken to.
But what I’ve discovered today is that once you break the $2,000,000 price point in San Francisco, the value you get skyrockets once again. To comfortably buy a $2,000,000 home requires at least a $400,000 down payment plus a $100,000 liquidity cushion. Having $500,000 to earmark into a single asset isn’t the easiest thing to do, even if you’re making a healthy $300,000 a year middle class income.
Although I’m not interested in buying property in San Francisco anymore, I still look online for fun every week because that’s what I’ve been doing since I first came here in 2001. There are always opportunities to be had or stories to be told.
In fact, the $2.2M house I put a lowball $1,950,000 offer in May, is back on the market because the potential buyer’s loan didn’t go through. Being on the market for over six months is unheard of in San Francisco. This fixer is being priced at $530/sqft ($688/sqft after putting $500K of remodeling work), while smaller homes in inferior locations still see good demand at $1,000/sqft in this location because they are priced under $2,000,000.
The large drop-off in demand at $2,000,000 was one of the reasons why I decided to hit the bid when a guy wanted to buy my previous house for $2,740,000 in 2017. It was so far above the $2,000,000 cap that I hoped to one day get because I had tried selling the house for $1,700,000 in 2012 with no takers.
My buyer had to take out a $2,000,000 first mortgage and a bridge loan in order to close the transaction. Without him, there would be no sale because there were no other interested parties after a month of looking.
With new fatherly duties, zero tolerance for wasting time, and a detailed strategy to re-invest my proceeds, I decided it was better to take some money off the table.
The end price was roughly $1,320/sqft vs my $720/sqft purchase. This was a great outcome because I held on. But there were about three years there where I might not have even been able to get my original purchase price if I needed to sell.
Your Buying Mission If You Choose To Accept
If you choose to buy property when prices are at all-time highs, not only should you implement my communications strategy to try and get up to 5% off fair market value and my spray n’ pray method since it’s so easy with electronic contracts, you should also spend time looking for stalefish properties at a price point one level higher than you are used to. It’s free to look, so you better.
Do your best to get out of the frenzy price point, where any dual income earning couple in your city can afford to buy. This is where you’ll get the least value. Since real estate is local, you’ll have to figure out what that price point is for yourself by either asking your realtor or putting a multiple on the typical homebuyer’s household income. For example, the frenzy zone for a typical $100,000 income earning household might be $300,000 – $500,000, based on a 3X – 5X multiple.
There are artificial price points which mentally, homebuyers have a difficult time crossing. These price points are generally $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, $1,000,000, $1,250,000, $1,500,000, $1,750,000, $2,000,000, $2,500,000, $3,000,000, $5,000,000 and so forth.
If you find a home you like which appears to be a much better value higher on the price curve, you must then make an educated guess as to whether the market will eventually move up and accept that price point in the future. Because if the market doesn’t eventually move up, you may face the same problem your seller had when you purchased the property.
Your goal is to anticipate what the future frenzy zone is and own that piece of property now. While you wait, you’ll have a grand old time getting more bang for your buck than everybody else.
I’ve decided to take my anticipation one level further by investing in the heartland of America. I predict over the next several decades, eager beavers from the coasts will realize that grinding it out in congested and expensive cities will no longer be appealing.
Yes, because we’re all lemmings, it’ll take time to see the change. But if you can invest in a long-term trend, I’m confident your wealth will be greater than those who don’t.
Related:
Buy Utility, Rent Luxury: The Real Estate Investing Rule To Follow
What If You End Up Buying A Home At The Top Of The Market
Readers, have you noticed you can get much better value at higher price points? If so, what price point is that?
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