Bit late posting this, but if you do end up doing a bootcamp, you’re going to have an amazing time!

My advice to get the absolute most out of it, do as many approaches as you feel mentally possible to do, because it means more feedback, and more useful advice applicable to you. In London on the 2nd day and 3rd day I started to churn them out very rapidly, but wish I did a couple more. But from the ones I did the feedback I got helped me so so much, and thats probably the advice ill give you

Dont end up like me wishing! Good luck

Pete

glad to hear that it was motivational for you!

looking forward to meet you in person some day!

Many years ago I was a flight attendant. Once, after our service in first class, I met this older gentleman. Very nice man; one of the positive ones David writes about. He said he was 82 and flew in B-24s in WWII. We had a super conversation up there in the galley and I finally came around to asking him where he was going/coming from. His face lit up with the question.

He said he was just coming back from Seattle. He had just had lunch out there with a 76 year old woman. I asked him, “You flew all the way out from Denver to Seattle just to have lunch with a 76 year old woman? She must be really special!” He replied, “I sure did and she sure is! It was great! I think I’m actually going to end up moving in with her, too!” I said, “Wow! That’s amazing. Congratulations!” “Where did you meet her, btw?” I asked. He chuckled a little bit, looked me straight in the eye and said, “The internet.”

Now that’s living.

I’ll never forget this man and the nice things he said about living in the moment… Thanks David and Rich for this post. It allowed me to bring back up a really fond and positive memory about how to live life.

Pardon me then about my depression lecture. When you said you were at my level, I thought that’s what you meant.

It actually sounds like you are further along in some ways than I am. I have only listened to David’s mastery series and read his blog. I am due for a boot camp and David, if you are listening, I would like to come to the next boot camp in LA. I’ll call you and work out the details, but throwing my hat in there now. My best connections have always come from meeting people through work or connecting with girls that had boyfriends. But that isn’t working out anymore and I’m working for myself now, so I don’t have work friends to hang out with. I got into this habit of getting to know someone before I started to lean into them romanitcally and to be honest it just isn’t working out. I get the concepts David talks about but I am a guy who will learn much better from a boot camp type of training.

Don’t worry about how long my responses get. I love to write and that includes voicing my opinion on a site like this.

As for motivating yourself for work, I don’t know if I can help too much. I’ve always been told that I am very lucky to have something to do that speaks to my very center of being because of how much I love doing it. My writing is part of what saved me from depression and anxiety years ago. I started by telling myself to write for twenty minutes every day even if it was just trivial drivel. I had the love for what I did but I didn’t have the discipline. So I sat down, no matter how stupid I felt and wrote in a journal. That activity slowly transformed into what I do today which is very substantial and rewarding and most importantly — it pays! But there is definately no guideline for a successful writing career other than hard work, determination, talent and support, traits that would make any endeavor successful in my books.

So if you have something you love doing, I would say focus on that even if it doesn’t look like it is going to pay off for a while. I had no idea where my writing career was going to lead but I never would have gotten as far as I have now without making a serious effort to be happy doing the work especially when no one was paying me for it.

Take care,
Mike