How's it going for each of us? It's yours truly, Dapoulis. Now guys, today in this video, I'm gonna be educating you guys on the best timeframe you should be using for your forex trading. Now guys, I see a lot of people till today and this issue isn't just peculiar to the new traders. I still see a lot of traders struggle with the timeframes they should be using for their trading. Now, the issue is, common issue is you might see a 30 minute timeframe set up and then maybe the 30 minute timeframe is telling you to buy and you have your one hour timeframe telling you to sell.  You don't know what to do. You know, should you stick with 30 minutes? Should you stick with the one hour timeframe? And this issue is actually very peculiar to the indicator based strategies, right? Because, you know, maybe moving average crossover or RSI or Stochastics of Magdi. It's a lot of confusion going on. So guys, in this video, I want to demystify all of that, right? What a lot of people don't know is there's a methodology behind these timeframes. I want to educate you guys how to use every single one of them and ultimately how to combine them to make the best trading decision possible. Once again, my name is Dapo Willis. I've been doing this for 11 years now. I know I look pretty young. I started trading when I was 17. But yeah, 11 years and I can tell you that the first two and a half years were a bit rocky. When I mean rocky, it was really, really bad, right? However, I mean, it's like everything you do in life. Once you do something long enough, you tend to get a better understanding of it. And I mean, what better thing to get an understanding of than forex trading, right? Because once you get a hang of it, it becomes your ATM machine. Just like how I use it every single week, week in, week out, and manage a lot of money for a lot of high-neighmore individuals. I manage millions and millions of dollars in the forex market because I know exactly what the market is going to do right before it does it. So once again, like I said, my name is Dapo Willis and let's jump into this video where I teach you guys the best timeframes you should be using for your trading. Now, let's go. All right, guys, so welcome back, right? So let's have a conversation, right? I want you guys to relax, sit back down, right? Let's have a conversation. Actually, before I jump into the nitty gritty of this video, just do me one little favor, just one little thing, right? I need you to smash the subscribe button right there.   I'm just joking, I'm joking. So smash the subscribe button right there. Now, the reason I want you guys to do that is I release videos roughly about every 10 days and I don't want you guys to miss out on opportunities, you know, information that can give you opportunities to make a lot of money in the market. So I'm gonna give you five seconds, okay? So one, smash it, two, three, right there, four, five. All right, guys, so let's jump into this. Now, I've actually taken a couple of notes down. When I was preparing for this video, I wanted it to be as comprehensive as possible. I didn't want to miss out on anything. Okay, so I have a couple of things I wanna discuss here.   Trust me, I've been doing it in 11 years and you see all those seminars, I went for every single one of them. That's how I got here, right? They just tell you, oh, this is my mentor, has this strategy and then when you open your computer, you're like, oh my God, like what am I gonna, like these things telling me to sell, what is so confusing, right? It's so confusing. So it took me a long time for me to be able to understand what timeframes I should be using for certain things. So guys, let me jump into the meat of this video. Like let's get into it. So everybody wants to know what timeframes should I be using for my internship? What timeframes should I be using for my analysis? What should I be doing with what? Bam, let's start number one, the monthly timeframe.    But I wanna tell you what you should be looking out for in every single timeframe and most importantly, how to use them to form the best trading position possible. So the very first one you want to start with, and this is exactly how I trade, is the monthly timeframe.  The candles are huge, they're big, like it literally takes a whole month, a whole-ass month for a monthly timeframe to form. Okay, we're talking about the best trading timeframes here, right? So it takes a whole month for a month. It's like, whack, like, what, like, Jesus, okay? Like, what am I gonna be doing now for a whole month? Now, the essence of the monthly timeframe is not for trading. The essence of the monthly timeframe is actually for analysis, okay? You're supposed to go on the monthly timeframe and identify the overall direction of the market. Now, guys, I must warn you as I'm giving you guys this information, I do have a group of students called the Forex Mastery students. I might not be able to divulge that much information, but I'll try my very best as much as I can because a lot of the information that I would like to divulge is quite proprietary information, right? And it's bigger. I don't want to come in in the comments of the video and be like, that's why are you always giving away the information we paid for free? Like, why are you always doing stuff like that? So I'm just gonna try, you know, and obviously just give you guys the best. But the monthly timeframe is actually for you to use to identify the overall direction of the market, okay? I'm gonna try and put screenshots here as much as possible. So what you wanna do is the very first thing you do when you open a chart is you wanna go on the monthly timeframe and identify the direction. The monthly timeframe is the Google Maps of Forex, okay? That's the first thing. So the idea is you wanna use the monthly to identify the overall direction and then you come on the weekly. Now, don't forget, let's just say hypothetically, hypothetically, I'm just thinking that's what you're writing. Hypothetically, the monthly is bearish. So let's take a pair. What pair is bearish at the moment? AUDUSD is bearish. I'm gonna jump on it soon and make some really good money. So the monthly timeframe is telling me that AUDUSD is bearish. So already I'm gonna note it down that AUDUSD is bearish. I will not be looking for buy anywhere anytime soon. Already the monthly is, this is in Father Maps because I used to do math in high school. It was called the almighty formula, right? So the monthly timeframe is what your Google Maps in that direction is the way you wanna go, okay? So once you're done with the monthly timeframe, you then wanna scale to the weekly timeframe. So on the weekly timeframe is where you come and actually plot your key levels, okay? So on the weekly timeframe is actually where you want to plot what they call major areas of support and resistance, okay? Don't plot them on the one hour, not a five minute, not a 10 minute, why? Because those lower timeframes, their support and resistance levels actually don't hold that much water. That's why you see you plot certain levels on the 30 minutes, 15 minute, one hour timeframe. And then when a major news event comes up, it just blows right through it because it's not concrete enough. But if a level can hold on a timeframe like a weekly and a monthly timeframe, that means many, many, many weeks of price action have actually taken place for that level to be solid. So best believe it is a solid, it's not just a level that happened between Monday and Wednesday, right? It's a level that took weeks, months to become solid. So best believe it is a major level. Now guys, monthly overall direction, weekly you want to identify your key levels and if there are any potential chat patterns So what do I mean by this? Simple. So on the weekly timeframe, you really want to be looking out for stuff like if there are any head and shoulders, if there are any double bottoms, if there are any, you know, because at the end of the day, think about it. On the monthly timeframe, identify the overall direction. You want your weekly timeframe to kind of like give you a chat pattern that is also telling the market to come down in the overall direction as a monthly timeframe. So what we're looking out for here is confluence, okay? Guys, once again, there's only so much I can share with you guys. Ideally, ideally I would advise you guys to go ahead and grab the Forex Mastery program because on there is where I actually explain this in detail, but like I said, I would explain to you guys as much as I can. The link is going to be down here below on the Forex Mastery program. I literally combine all these timeframes, okay? I do the analysis on the timeframes and then on the lower timeframes, I teach you guys how to execute the trades. This way you're right nine out of 10 times. So it's more like a confluence thing. So once again, the link is going to be around here somewhere. If you did, you understand any chance of becoming successful in this game, I advise you grab it. But enough of that, the links here or around here, but enough of that, let's jump into this. So we want the weekly timeframe, right? So the weekly timeframe also has to line up with the monthly timeframe as well. I'm getting somewhere with this. Now the daily timeframe, this is what you do on the daily timeframe. On the daily timeframe is exactly where you want to come and identify the most immediate trend within the overall trend.  Forex Mastery students don't kill me for this, but here it goes. Here it goes, right? So on the daily timeframe, this is what you should be looking out for. So if the monthly timeframe, like AUDUS is pointing downwards, right? And the weekly timeframe, we've plotted our key levels. On the daily timeframe, what you want to really do is, because on the monthly timeframe, we don't have trading opportunities. On the weekly timeframe, it's just massive candles. But the daily timeframe is where we now come and start to see the waves, the oscillation. So it is within these waves, we can now start looking for what trading opportunities. So ideally, the monthly should point downwards, the weekly should point downwards. The daily should also be pointing downwards in that same direction as well. Now once you have all three lined up, now guys, monthly are for analysis, not for trading, weekly for analysis, the daily also for analysis, then you then want, at this point now, you're like, okay, cool. This thing has told me what I need, right? It's like, it's going down. So this way, you can then scale to your four-hour timeframe and your one-hour timeframe. And what do you do? You should only be looking out for one thing, selling opportunities. Why? Because the overall timeframe has given you the direction. This way, you're not conflicted on if the 30 minutes is saying buy or sell, or if the one hour is telling you buy or like, you know, this, the monthly is the almighty guy in this game, right? If he says south, we're going south. The week, now, there's also a common question, like what if the daily, the monthly and the weekly are saying south, but the daily is saying, obviously it's trending to the upside. So what tends to happen is, there are very rare cases when that happens, but what is usually happening is, it's very possible that the overall trend is south. So you can say the overall bias for this market is bearish, but temporarily we're bullish. So what do you do at that point? You ideally want to wait for the daily to also line up with the overall time, with the bigger time, which is the weekly and the monthly. This way, you now know that, aha, we're ready to go. Then you scale to a full hour. Ideally, I like to execute my trades on a full hour and a one hour timeframe. Anything lower than a one hour timeframe, guys is pure gambling. That's the truth, because anything lower than one hour timeframe, you're subject to what they call market manipulation. There's more market manipulations that have, because think about it. This is where the algorithms trade. This is where the day traders that work in the big banks. So freaking people who went to like Oxford University, studied chemistry, studied physics, math.  They have more information about the market. And you have market makers that are driving up prices up and down the whole place. And you really cannot compete over time, okay? You might hit one or two, three, four, five winning trades. But that's why you find that overall, you're losing money because you cannot beat them consistently on a day to day basis. And if you're trading those smaller timeframes, most probably you're gonna be a day trader, right? So ideally, I like to execute my trades on timeframes whereby I know that it's almost impossible for the market makers to manipulate it. Timeframes that I know, for example, the four hour and one hour timeframe, timeframes that I know, that once a candle forms, timeframes that I know that once the four hour, I'll give you an example. If the four hour timeframe tells me, yo, daps, I have fulfilled your entry criteria. Once it gets, for those of you guys who wanna know how I enter my entry strategy, my exit strategy, how I use the four hour and the one hour, how I use everything to trade. Once again, the link to the Forex Mastery Program is gonna be down here, or my team always puts a link around here. I'm sorry, I just cannot give away all the information. But I will try my best, like I said earlier, right? So if a four hour timeframe, for example, tells me it fulfills my entry criteria and I see a candlestick, a four hour candlestick close that tells me, yo, daps, I've closed, I've fulfilled your criteria. I will feel a lot more confident jumping into that trade. Why? Because good luck trying to manipulate it for our candle, it's difficult. That guy gives you more concrete information than the 30 minute, the five minute, or the one minute candlestick would ever give you.  So ideally, like I said, you wanna start from the monthly. I'm gonna quickly recap this so I can let you guys go. So I'm gonna make this as brief as possible. Okay, so we start from the monthly. Overall direction is what we use the monthly for, okay? South, weekly, key levels, okay? Now your key levels, once again, there's a module on the Forex Mastery Program on module four. I talk about how to plot your key levels. You don't need any indicators to plot any key levels. Yes, all you need to do is look left. It's a systematic way to go about it once again, right? So once you watch the video, okay? Once you get the program, you watch the video and you look left, you plot those, you see those key levels, right? You find out that those key levels, the market always respects the key levels, right? Because they are plotted on a high timeframe. Don't get me wrong, you can have levels on your four hour on your one hour, but they're called temporary levels. We use a different color to apply these to eat them. So we have the major levels and the minor levels, right? So don't forget monthly, overall direction, weekly key levels. Those key levels will guide you so that you know where the market is most likely gonna find support and where the market is most likely gonna find resistance.  I was about to buy, oh sh, I need to stop showing my bank card out. I was literally on Gucci, I was about to buy some new fits. Anyways, so I can guarantee you that 99.9% of the time, if you plot your key levels properly on a weekly timeframe, the market will always respect it. So because the monthly can be telling us sell, right? The monthly can be telling us it's coming down. But those weekly key levels are there to guide you so that you know we're gonna go down into where, where do I exit? Where's the next bus stop? The weekly timeframe tells you the various bus stops as this market is going down or is going up. And trust me, when it gets to this level, the market does respect them. So we're doing monthly, now we're doing it weekly. And also on the weekly timeframe, there's also something I'd like to look up for. I'm just gonna quickly recap this if there are any chart patterns. So ideally, I'll give you an example. Let's say the monthly is flowing down. Now the weekly timeframe, ideally I would like to see, so monthly is flowing down, meaning that the whole game is bearish coming down. Ideally, I would also like to see a bearish chart pattern from on the weekly timeframe, like a head and shoulder. So a head and shoulder meaning that it's time for the market to start coming down, right? If you're new to this, to the Forex game and all that, you might need to learn this terminology because to be honest, your ability to make money in Forex depends on how much knowledge you have. And luckily for you guys, in the first module of the Forex Mastery program, it is literally an introduction into Forex before it starts getting advanced. When I say advanced, it gets really, really, really advanced. Right? So I would like to see a head and shoulder pattern form meaning bearish chart pattern. So monthly is down. I wanna see a bearish chart pattern coming also saying down as well. Obviously monthly also, weekly also has my key levels. The daily, I need it to be flowing down as well. Once everything is flowing like this, then I can come to a four hour. And once again, guys, because all the high timeframes are saying, telling us to go in one particular direction, once I go on a four hour or a one hour timeframe, my strategy, I will only be looking for what sell opportunities. Guys, I hope that I've been able to educate you guys. I hope I've been able to impact you guys so that you're not confused on what timeframes to be using for trading. As you can see, every single timeframe has its use. I don't advise you go below the one hour timeframe. I use the four hour and the one hour timeframe for my execution. And I would only execute the trades in the direction in which the big boss, which is the monthly timeframe, has told me to do so. Once again, guys, my name is Dapo Willis. I love you guys very much. If you haven't already subscribed, ensure to subscribe to this channel. And for those of you who haven't grabbed the Forex Mastery Program, I urge you guys to do so, not because I'm the one that put it together, but I'm literally getting messages every day. Students are passing their FTMO, they are my Forex fund. Traders are getting funded because they spend so little got the Forex Mastery Program and they are literally smashing it. I flew, I actually attended an event where a lot of Forex Mastery students were. And one guy actually took me outside to show me the car he had bought because he had taken the program very stress-free the way I like to trade in four minutes. It won't take you three minutes to analyze a market, right? Systematically from the monthly down so that once you do it, you know that once this setup is juicy and ripe, once my strategy tells me buy or sell on the lower timeframe, I am setting. This is exactly how you go about being correct nine out of 10 times.  Once again, ladies and gentlemen, it's Dapo Willis once again. Thank you very much for staying to the very end of this video. All the links you need are gonna be in the description down below. Once again, if you haven't already subscribed, I assure you do so and I'll catch you guys in my subsequent videos. Actually, is there anything else I have to say? Nothing for now. See you guys in my other videos. Take it easy and peace out. Bye.


Welcome back to my YouTube channel. My name is Daniel Rosell Daniels tech world the guy behind this YouTube channel and so today I want to make a video just a video blog Talking about backups because I never really expected or thought the backups would become something. I'd be making YouTube videos about and I never really planned to have a YouTube account I just kind of decided in the last few months while I was making these blogs and updating my github repository That I would join the video craze. I'm kind of doing it partially just to learn how it works But also I kind of hoping by just making these videos and showing these things I feel like I'm kind of just contributing to this ecosystem of knowledge. That's really helped me out over the past ten years, so that's basically The stuff I've been posting about backups my screencast how to do this how to do that what works what worked what doesn't work It's all really based. It's actually for documentation So I'm making a lot of a lot of it so that I can actually refer back to it refer back to my I've already referred back to my own Medium stuff github stuff YouTube videos the thing about backups is they are quite complicated or they can be they can be complicated But they're the kind of thing that if you set them up and you test them and I'll come on to that in a bit How extremely important it is to test your backups to do a test restore but once once you have that down You're basically good to go With one caveat your data tends to change So for example, I've just started creating these YouTube videos and that means that on a daily basis I can now easily be generating one gigabyte of data at least one gigabyte if I'm doing a podcast that could be 1.5 Mostly up to now. I've just been writing the odd infographic. So there's been a pretty dramatic change in the volume of data I create and as I'm not going to call myself a backup enthusiast And I'll explain why in a second but as a somebody that takes back up seriously That basically changes. I now have to think I have to think a little bit more in terms of storage Do I have enough capacity on my NAS my network attached storage to? To back up all this video data. How do I want to back up this the video wasn't putting up to YouTube? Do I want to back up the original files or can I get away with just downloading the downloads from YouTube? The downloads from YouTube if you are a youtuber they are compressed So you just noticed you might put up to 300 megabytes up to the clouds And you'll get down about 50 if you do if you go through the download as mp4 option So which do you need for for this use case for me? I'm happy just downloading the mp4s These are not amazing videos, although I'm trying to always make them better if I use a professional videographer I'd probably want to be downloading. I'm sure I'd want to be downloading both the pre-production footage The post-production footage all in original quality and maybe I take a back up of the compressed footage as well So basically your backup strategy If you have one It's kind of something in flux. It does take a bit of planning But it's the kind of thing that although it's a pain there. I've never spent as much time Uh thinking about backups as I have over the last few months It's just as I said, I thought this time Let's do something different instead of figuring out what backups I'll need for the next year or two Every time I figure out some piece I'm going to write it up on medium I'm going to put a video up on youtube and that way I'll have something for me to refer to And if there's anybody else that's wondering for example, how do I do a restore a clone zilla restore on the linux? Which is what I demonstrated yesterday They'll be able to check out my video and in that way as I said, I'll be kind of spreading spreading the backup knowledge so backups are something that I mean, I would say most people probably should have some kind of involvement to backups So I currently work for myself. I'm self-employed technology writer Um, so my backups are a mixture of you could say business backups and personal backup So I always try to keep the two things separate. Um, there's no strict Uh necessity at the moment for me, but down the road if you're looking at compliance You're looking at permissions. You can see what so it's a good idea Even if you're just a one person organization as a freelancer if you are backing your stuff I recommend for example, I have G suite for my business and I have G suite for myself I like to keep everything separate. I have two phone numbers um So I'm doing a mixture of business and personal backups You might just want to do personal backups if you're working in a large company So in a 500 person company or even just a smaller company Backups are not something you will ever have to think about you you have an it team But that's part of the fun of being a small business unit or a freelancer or an entrepreneur Or a youtuber is that you have to kind of think about this stuff yourself Look for resources yourself figure it out yourself. So I actually really enjoy that Um, okay my backup story. So as you said, I'm not a backup enthusiast I'm somebody that takes backup seriously back backups are not fun. There's no real enjoyment You know, maybe the odd time you didn't expect Your you figured out this new methodology to incrementally back up your web server and like yesterday I did restore and work perfectly. I mean, it's a little bit fun in a geeky way Um, but I wouldn't really describe myself or really anybody I think is a backup enthusiast um I've take I take backup seriously I've always my backup origin story and that sounds completely ridiculous saying this Um, I've been using linux for probably about uh, 10 years at this point a little bit more I think actually 12 years. I figured out the exact Month month and I've forgotten this My laptop broke down and I brought it to I had a friend and his brother was kind of you know, one of these technologically Geeky people. I guess I guess someone would probably call me that nowadays So I brought on my laptop and it was like a windows blue screen of death and he was like, well just use linux So I was like, okay, so that got me into linux I've been using linux ever since never really planned to be a linux person. I worked at startup companies that were Flexible enough to allow me to use linux so long as I had like the occasional windows access back in those days We used wine nowadays. There is uh, vmware and virtual box, but I've been lucky enough to actually never really have to use windows for like more than 10 years Um, I do use ms office and windows from time to time on the virtual machine if I need to But that's this is actually partially why I love the cloud and I'll come on to the cloud I love the cloud because cloud is os agnostic so you can Edit a google doc from linux just as well as you can edit it from windows or from mac if you get into uh Microsoft Word and Libre office you tend to get into more compatibility issues. So as a linux user my Dream for computers for many years and I don't think it's ever going to happen Is although actually was with dockers and containers This is kind of the reality is shifting a bit at the moment But my dream was always to just have like a really really simplistic um operating system. I'm looking at my computer here um And uh to have everything in the cloud do absolutely everything in the cloud to your operating system was miniscule There's a concept called thin computing. I figured this out recently I asked a question on quora to see if this Anybody had ever thought of this if it was a thing or whatever it's never really caught on But the the technical term is thin computing the idea that the local operating system is miniscule like bare bones As I said something really light and linux based and everything you do is in the cloud um So I've been using using linux for a long long time relatively speaking And the annoying thing about linux is as everybody who uses it knows it's kind of a little bit unstable Now there's reasons for that You can have it more stable. So I've gotten better over the years at just best practices for the biggest one In a nutshell what you should do if you're concerned about stability And you're using let's say something like Ubuntu is to stick to long term releases. Don't go for the new releases So by going lts long term support release to long term support release Um by not using too many third party apt sources. There's things you can do to make the computer sturdier Um, but particularly I mean I've evolved with linux. So in the course of the time I've been using it It's actually become better and better But during the early days when I wasn't so good. I wasn't so familiar with the command line buggy-ness etc Um, I would like just linux would periodically break for me Like it could be something like swapping out a graphics card and the new driver breaks or the upgrade breaks it And this was like okay for like a year or two And then to start getting really annoying like you can kind of justify it justify it to yourself because you're thinking you're like Well, I guess I'm installing fresh so I can get rid of this stuff I didn't use and I can say each time it's like doing a spring clean of your operating system Um, so that rationale kind of was what got me mentally through a few years of using linux And of course every time it happened it happened at the worst possible time and everybody was like why don't you use windows? um so that kind of uh Self justification was fine when it really became a problem was when I started working for myself a couple of years ago And then you just be like I remember being in the middle. I had a bad SSD drive a couple of years ago and took me a while to figure out that the it wasn't actually the operating system the actual Drive itself was corrupted. It had bad sectors. So it kept breaking and I was like in the middle of work for clients I was like this cannot continue. I need to like figure out some solution um other hardest stories in my past include I remember I had a malware attack a couple years ago on my hosting So I just moved between two hosts, which is like the worst possible time this can happen My my hosting got I used to host with psych round my hosting got too big for their limits So I moved over to and I found a reseller host. Well, that's not a good experience. Um, but I remember moving over And it got I got attacked like right after the move, which apparently isn't just a coincidence When you're changing over dns records, you know, there is that's a vulnerable period. There's people scanning and re-scanning Uh doing surveillance on your network. So basically it happened then and I was like, well, I've left psych round So they don't have any backups. I remember I was on a backup plan for them and I've joined this new host And I assumed there was backups, but there were no backups So I was back up less and it was like this network of 10 WordPress websites It was horrible. Absolutely the worst possible thing that could happen And it's this Russian malware I wrote about on my blog called, uh, Baba Yaga It's this crazy Russian, uh, mal wordpress malware that basically I was looking through Um, just the websites and they were like just complete write-offs It got it got down and it got physically into the mysql databases I was looking through these wordpress sites and I could see there was like fake wordpress sites Fake wordpress files as in like they looked like part of the wordpress file structure They were actually part of the malware in the real wordpress files. They were corrupted I tried a few recovery solutions and basically nothing worked The worst part was that because this was just a basic shared hosting There was no isolation.  I basically had to just I think two websites were clean Hey websites were not clean Including my Daniel Rosso dot code on it all these, you know hundreds and hundreds of posts archives of all my writing work over the years and I had to I won't get into technical details here, but there was a way that I could Scrape out some data. I couldn't capture the plugins. I couldn't even capture the wordpress upload folders. I could just capture the Some export folder and import, but basically that was a complete Disaster now. I had actually taken a few backups of my own, but they were too out of date. So This what I would have done differently is before moving host I would have uh back up backed up my entire web infrastructure every single c-panel get a download just before you leave the old host um And you know so you can start with the new one and if anything Drastically happens you have a backup ideally if you're running a daily backup an incremental backup But at the very least just take a full backup um, so basically that's why I got into backups namely losing data Other stuff would be like accidental deletion like I've lost a couple of I had this great mp3 clip from when I was in journalism school I don't know exactly when that was lost. I think somewhere like rebuilding websites I forgot to copy over some mp3 Overwrote a previous backup. So there's a lot of stuff like this. I would say most people um You know if you're hosting websites for 10 years Or probably at some point you're going to either lose files or you're going to have a malware attack Or stuff happens basically And backups is what you want to do in order to prevent to mitigate the risk of stuff happening So let me just refer back to my notes over here um Okay, so there's a few other points about about backups. So the first the the kind of knock on to that point Why backups are great backups now having a really good backup system? So it's been like two years two and a half years I think actually since I last had to reinstall linux that means my system has been up for two years I have in that course Had to use backups. So not really backup snapshots technically time shifts is a linux command tool but basically I can't tell you how Much this has helped my productivity by being able to update my system play with my system I don't have to worry about breaking things because I've described in another video on my backup strategy I have two backup strategies just for this linux computer. One of them is time shift. That's like a it's like system restore windows You just create snapshots daily weekly monthly Um, and I can just in like two minutes roll back if uh, let's say you an upgrade it breaks the system So that's number one recovery method the other one which you haven't even had to use once Uh in the two and a half years has been clone zella. So clone zella, which I showed you yesterday is a disk imaging tool Uh, that means that it basically it's a really hard Hard tool by which I mean it's low level.  I put it onto my sorry. I don't put onto my NAS. I put it onto another Driving this computer and it's at the block level. So it's literally copying the data. It's like there's also a cronus true image Uh, semantic had a tool called nourishing ghost. I don't know if that's still in existence And there's a mac tool which I forget the name of but they're all the same thing disk imaging tools as opposed to backups and that's like my You know if it hits the fan backup. So if the restore points don't work, um, I'll be able to just Copy from the backup image onto the computer. So basically it means, um instead of taking I would call it like four steps forward and two steps back every 18 months in terms of using linux I can just take four steps forward Because I know that anything that's going to go wrong to my system. I roll back to a backup now Question is what two backups remember I said earlier in the video. I talked about that I think most people really need to back up and the reason have have some kind of backup strategy There's backup and there's disaster recovery dr dr basically means restoring a restore in simple terms recovery It's what happens when stuff goes wrong So a big part of backup planning and having a good backup approach is you want to always run a test restore and if you want to be really fancy about it, you want to have a run book run book is Your documentation like the stuff I described on medium describing exactly the steps you'll need to follow in order to restore The system when the as I said again the stuff hits the fan So, um What do people need to back up? So basically I wouldn't say every piece of data you own needs to be backed up I would say the pieces the pieces of data that you cannot afford to lose need to be backed up So if you order takeaway tonight from an Indian restaurant Um, and you get a pdf order of your copy in the email to be honest I would say unless that's expensive and you need to add it to your counting system That's not like critical data. That's data. You could probably live without in some cases You can't live without that data. You need to keep all financial records um What I what I backup basically is it's more I would say backup is more a mentality than a set of practices It's basically as soon as I create data. So I Install an app on my smartphone or I install a program on my Linux computer or I put a blog post on my website when I do that I am adding uploading images to wordpress I am making changes to the mysql database that serves that serves the wordpress content So basically every single day you're creating backups. So if you want to do backups 100% Get yourself the best possible coverage You need to be doing something like running a daily incremental backup of your phone A daily incremental backup of your hosting a daily incremental backup of your computer Now also difference a full backup is copying a to b in full An incremental backup, um every time it runs it tracks the changes to the file system So most and then you've got differential, which is the changes since the full ran incremental is every time It's an incremental incremental incremental differential is changes to from full to the current system so Most modern backup approaches you do not have to economize because they all tend to use incremental stuff If you don't have a system that uses incremental It's not ideal and you'd be surprised as to how common that is. So yesterday I was discussing um google for instance, so I use g-suite on my two accounts and every day you're uploading youtube videos You're sending emails you're adding calendar appointments. You're always creating data on your g-suite g-suite There are g-suite backup tools. Um, this one by backupify spanning Convults I think have one as well So there's a few of them But they all tend to only focus on a few things that because they're enterprise tools they're designed for um, you know A system administrator at a 500 person company and they they want to take a daily backup of all 500 users Now if you're one person, there is a lot of things in a google takeout. There is google my maps There is uh, youtube a massive one if you're an active youtuber that that's not included in any of those tools Now google have a thing called google takeout. It allows you to basically Um, it's like a grab it all tool, but it's not intended for backup Why is it not intended for backup? You can tell because it just spits out the full archive every single time When I did a google takeout today because I've got youtube videos. My archive has grown to uh, 55 gigabytes. That's really not efficient. I don't want to be downloading 60 gigabytes of data every single day and having to put that up to the cloud because I have a home internet connection But even if I didn't that would just not be efficient even from a cost standpoint So that's not an ideal backup situation the current situation And it's kind of crazy to think about it because how many people use google and g-suite on a daily basis, but um That's it. That's the situation we have to work with at the moment There are there is no tool my dream tool of google takeout. That's incremental what's changed from yesterday to today Okay, we'll pull in this data and we'll back it up now when you do backups You want to do backup in three two one? I've talked about this in pretty much all the videos Three two one means you have your primary data source like your youtube account and you want to take two backups Two backup copies. So it's primary plus two equal three two of those need to be on different storage media And one of them needs to be stored off-site different storage media means you don't want to take a backup of your phone again onto your phone because if you lose your phone you've lost your backup or your Hard dry fails you've lost your backup. So two different storage media and one of those should be off-site That means in different locations. So don't take a backup of your phone And just keep it in your home office because if your home office Cratches fire and your phone is charging you've lost the phone and you've lost the backup and you've lost your data So you want to keep always one backup off-site. That means physically different Um, some people will say the more physically different the better. So what if an asteroid at your city? Uh, or there was a flood in your neighborhood and your off-site backup is in your friend's house That could happen and his house is flooded too So there's a certain point where you start getting into very unlikely scenarios, but that's a general picture is three two one three primary plus two backups two different storage media one of them off-site um So that's covered why why backups back. I mean, it's not an exaggeration to say the backups Backups have changed a lot for me definitely change productivity. Um, I don't have things happen anymore like my computer An upgrade breaking my computer. I will always have at least two backup options Uh, and that alone has been like a game changer. Literally. I know it sounds like uh, it sounds a bit ridiculous But uh, has been a game changer. Okay, so point two um You don't have to pick and choose which data to keep So this is actually a point about off-site backup storage So it's become ludicrously cheap data in general storage is in a continual process of becoming cheaper Um, so I commonly recommend back plays b2 I have no affiliation to back plays at least at the moment And it's really really cheap cloud storage. So basically you can store like tens and hundreds of gigabytes Um up there in their cloud for like, you know, almost nothing for like cents or for most dollars Now how much is your data worth? How much are your wedding photos worth? How much are how much is your computer worth keeping that it's worth your time is worth money? And if that would save you from in a calamity from having to do a restore, it's worth it super super cheap Um, what else is cheap on-site storage? hard drives are pretty cheap Um, and if you actually want to do it like to pros they use something called lto tapes It's people don't think tapes are still in existence If you don't think that listen to the restore it all podcast my top Backup recommendation for today a really really interesting backup podcast They talk about tape a lot. So lto tapes are like these Mechanical tapes just physically write on to tape. They actually have a longer service life than hdd and std Bishrot is something you want to be concerned about with backups. It just means that basically um When you're archiving stuff Data doesn't just you can't just leave a hard drive on your desk and expect it to work Even if there is hard drive technology in 200 years, uh, it would probably have bad sectors And may have so many bad sectors that it would not be readable So, um, basically storage to grace over time now for on-site storage A solution to that is to use something like an nas like a sonology device And that will run a check and fix bad sectors and it will tell you if The hard drive is uh is failing or has failed And when you have something like raid raid is a system that you have a few different hard drives or ssds And it can survive different. There's different rage types You have some rate types where you can survive like three concurrent disk failures That means three drives can fail in a 10 drive array The r the array is connected. So the 10 drives are like kind of like put into one file system with lvm And if one or two of those fails You will still be able to have all the data.  So um stuff like raid and nas technology consumer nas technology Has meant that it's actually it is possible for your average joe like me to um to store Stuff for archive for a long time So that's kind of cool if you know how to do backup and you have you have the equipment you have an nas Um, you have you know a back plays account or amazon s3 glacier or wasabi for that matter These days you don't need to be economical about you know Oh, there's like high rise wedding photos and no rise wedding photos. I'll just take the low rise photos You don't need to just uh Six 10 gigabytes put that up to the clouds keep that on your hard drive. You may as well have the high rise photos um I actually wear glasses and I don't put them on for this youtube video because I need to see I'm in the frame and it's Distracting if I see myself With glasses, so I take them off So if I look a bit weird, that's the reason. Um Okay point four my handwriting here reduces stress. Uh, this is actually a big one. So I mean Doesn't need much elaboration.  It's all backed up On my trusty nas which is in that room over there and everything is backing up automatically to the cloud via Cloud sync which is a tool. So if you get a Synology nas and I'm not shielding for a Synology here Um, but you it comes with the software called dsm and that just allows you to Um, that's actually I think most of the value in the nas is cloud sync automatically just create sync jobs between Uh the cloud and the nas now, of course, you can do this yourself using stuff like our clone And the nas is just basically connects those drives onto the network. So okay final point And this is a big one So I want to I want to I want to give myself just a few minutes to explain it D risks the cloud Okay If I am a big cloud advocate I discuss that I think that you know, there are certain people that can't do stuff on the cloud But to be honest, it's actually uh diminishing in pool even the cia believe it or not the uh, you know A federal intelligence agency aws have been able and this is kind of mind blowing aws have been able to provide um Secure enough cloud infrastructure that they're able to use it. So that's you know for sharing I know there's different classifications of like, you know, I don't know a lot about the intelligence world I know there's different classifications. I don't know if that's like just top secret or classified or whatever, but bottom line uh intelligence agencies can Feel common enough that aws is secure enough well encrypted enough to feel confident storing their data However, there is a big point about sass now here is I advocate backing up sass software as a service that's stuff like sales force That's stuff like pipe drive. That's stuff like your erp That's stuff and that's on the business level on the consumer level. That's just that's stuff like to do it That's stuff like your g-suite. That is stuff like, you know, any any of these cloud services that you own Um, and there is a good reason for that. So basically most people don't take my word for it But most backup people Will recommend that these guys on restore at all have a good podcast about why to back up sass Spanning backupify now. They're selling it. They are vendors, but they will all advocate for it. Um But not not being a vendor just being a backup as I said enthusiast Um, I actually 100 endorse that I've been using sass for Probably 10 years probably most people have I remember using g-suite back when it back when it was called google apps And with sass you don't really own your data. You're giving your data over to somebody else Now the most common reason that people will say Oh, you don't need to back up sass is because they assume that the vendor the sass company is doing backups And that's probably the biggest one of the biggest myth Myth uh that are out there. Um, so there's a few things firstly. They may not be back They probably probably are backing up your data. Okay A few things a it may not be a Uh good enough backup. They may just be doing a full backup every three months You might you may require for for good backup protection good data protection at least let's say a weekly incremental backup Secondly, um, even if they do back up There was a famous case involving sales force that they talked about in the podcast recently You may not be able to actually get that restore that that backup They might be keeping that for their own disaster recovery planning that means sales force Do back up that say their data centers, but that backup they're keeping that for a situation in which like the whole Uh services degraded. There's been some update got into production and it's another one of these Stuff hit the fan situations. They need to just Restore the whole data center. They're not necessarily going to restore if you say our intern accidentally deleted two three hundred customer record They're going to say and I've seen this happen. By the way, I have seen this happen physically of all these situations I'm describing I have witnessed Um, they're going to say tough luck. Basically. Um, I have to give an example. Um, when I was like 15 16. I did this, uh exam a Spanish test and uh, this is another example why you should back up your cloud stuff and actually back up anything You don't want to lose. I did the Spanish test given by the Spanish cultural body back when I was living in Ireland called instituto terbantes and uh Now back then I had a different name Daniel Rose. So it's not been my lifelong name. I was born actually my late father's name Which was ocarol. So, uh, you know took the Spanish certification It was that nibel intermedio, which means the intermediate level And I went up to Dublin and I wrote the exam when I passed the exam when I got a certificate And the certificate isn't no one knows where that is. I did it when I was 16 there This isn't really critical. I'm sure it's not going to be helpful for my career for But recently I said Oh, you know, I should probably uh, I should probably get that certificate Let's see if I can write to instituto, instituto terbantes So I wrote to instituto terbantes and I said, hi, this is me I uh, did this exam 10 years ago and I've changed name since and here's all the legal documentation to show that I changed my name and I know I was in Dublin. Anyway To cut a long story short, uh I couldn't get access to the account. They were like Here's your hotmail address. So I tried to go into the hotmail back before I was using gmail And I couldn't recover the account. There was no way it was like Whatever the security questions were that I configured or something like that. I just couldn't get in There's no way I'm going to be able to retrieve that documentation ever Um, so that's another reason why there's stuff like accidental deletion You can be locked out of your account and you don't own your data, but that that's really the biggest one. So If you look in the terms of conditions of what your average sass company says, you might be surprised to see that it will say Backup is the customer's responsibility Um, something I have seen as well. That's really frustrating is testing out different crms. I was testing out crms Uh, a few weeks ago and no a few months ago And you know, I tried out one and I was like, yeah, that was nice. I like that Anyway, it expired Um, I disabled auto renewal because I was like trying it out I had maybe like one or 200 leads sitting there in the crm So it expired. So I write back to their their team and I was like, uh I've decided I want to continue paying for the crm. Uh, this is my account. It's expired But my data's gone and they're just like, oh, yeah, your data's gone. There's nothing we can do so um In many it it now it depends on the sass company, but uh, in some cases they do literally if the account's expired There's an automatic cram job on the and this could actually be done for compliance, believe it or not in some cases Uh, they just wipe the customer's data. So Any data that's important to you? Uh, sitting in the cloud in some kind of sass service. I Recommend keeping your own data. How do I do this? I'm I'm one of the few crazy people that literally every three months I will go through mail chimp To do this. I have about three mail chimp accounts. I will literally go through service by service by service every piece of data I'll actually manually write to quora To say hi quora. Can you please pull out a data export for me? And they'll do that and I'll add that to my cloud storage and that will come down to my nas to give me two backup So I literally Do this routine So that is in a nutshell The explanation for what I what you could call the backup may not have been doing backups for Probably 10 years as long as I've been using linux. No less less than that. I would say I was always tinkering with backups and I only really After these a couple of unfortunate events. I only started really saying this is it. I have to take it super seriously now So maybe let's let's cut down that 10 years till like three years But uh in any event enough that I've been able to yield Benefits of doing backups well Um documenting that's really important document and that's as I said my initiative here Is uh don't because you'll you'll forget this stuff so easily if you Figure out a way to back up your web hosting that works for you and it involves, uh, you know Bash scripts and whatever I guarantee you in nine months. You're not going to like remember You can remember what was ssh poor. What was the command? Where did I put that again? Was it incremental? You're not going to remember this stuff? So as you go along developing a backup strategy you also want to Document document document document. I don't use a word religiously, but uh methodically let's say document methodically um So yeah, that's basically all there is to say about backups. I think um Final thing to say sorry is that and your approach is evolving So as I said at the start of this I'm now doing video content and I'll probably just be thinking I used to probably should probably speak to a friend who's in the videographer and I'll say Hey, uh, let's call him David. Hey David.  Um, you know, or I'll google and I'll find a reddit thread or I'll find a core thread And uh, it's evolving so as the as the volume of data you produce changes as if you go from hosting on reseller hosting to vvp VPS I'm getting confused with vpc all these acronyms are in my head To reseller to dedicated you're going to have to change your scripts. You're so basically it's not something that's static So I recommend reviewing your backup strategy. Let's say two times a year and again, I'm not qualified. I'm not a I'm not a it professional that can make these recommendations for a business. I'm just recommending other Uh other amateurs in general in general terms about how you should approach backup, especially other freelancers um most I will say one final thing and that's that I know a lot of freelancers who similar to me and this is again what I started doing my own backups is that you lose clips Lose you can lose clips quite easily if you write for websites and those websites go offline. Um You know, it's pretty common. You'll lose your clips. So, um So basically keep your eyes on another video about that how I back up my writing and so even if you just just a Freelance writer and you might think I don't really need to bother with backups I would say actually I think that's wrong if your laptop is really important to you If if you happen to be using linux look at my methodologies timeshift clone zilla If you're doing windows is actually pretty hard to go wrong with the clone zilla backup but you can use a softer backup too and You can back up your writing back that up to your computer Then you back up your computer and then you put those on google drive You've got one copy off site in the cloud and you've got one local copy and just get into the habit of every time you publish an article On some other person's website you go back up. So as I said backups like a mentality Okay, copy that pdf down to my computer Put that up to the cloud if you want to be smart about it create a sync job You need or that's another you need automation for backups if it's going to work You don't want to rely you want to rely on the least possible extent to anything working manually because When you're lying on a beach in six months Uh, you're not really going to care about backups and backups are things that it's best to just do well Test well and then leave them run run for themselves and you can get on with your life And that's the biggest advantage of backup is that it allows you to use the cloud fearlessly de-risks the cloud Prevents your worrying from stuff like breaking your computer and as much as it can be a bit, you know Annoying and tedious to figure out your backup strategy once you have a good one in place You're actually the benefits of crew. So I think it's one of those What's the word i'm looking for long long tail of returns Long tail of benefits kind of things that it's worth that little bit of time And you'll actually be yielding the benefits for years to come Thanks guys. Hope this video has been interesting engaging on some level for people And if you ever want to get in touch I welcome Correspondents, whatever you want to call it. My website is danielrosilwith2ls.co.l Or you can just drop me an email and you don't have to use that weird domain for that So you can just you can just drop an email to contact at danielrosilwith2ls again.com. Thanks for watching


What's up, freedom? My name is Zesty Mike, so today I got asked a question about daily vlogging.  Come on now. So today I got asked a question about daily vlogging and how I keep up with it, how I'm able to actually edit it quickly and not spend my whole entire day editing and try and figure out the most efficient way to vlog. Well, I've been vlogging for maybe five years roughly. I've been vlogging on this channel for a year now, so I've had some time to kind of perfect my vlogging technique and make it as easy and strenuously as possible. Is that a word? Strenuously? I doubt it. But anyways, guys, here's the question. So I'm trying out daily vlogging. I've made templates, but how do you store the footage and rendering, exporting, and keeping the final video than deleting the raw footage? Should I be reusing the same timeline with the new footage? Help, please. So guys, here is what I do. When I did, I went ahead and built a template for my vlog channel. So here you have my edited vlog for today. You can see I have the color correction layer, my intro with intro music and outro, so on and so forth. Over here I have three folders. I have all the stuff that make up the vlog, my vlog clips, which are all the stuff that I record throughout the day, and my music that I use royalty-free for whatever I need it. Let's say I started out a new day and I'm ready to edit a new day. So what I'll do is go to vlog clips, click delete. Now I only have my color correction layer, my outro and my intro. So now we're going to go ahead and import in my new vlog footage. So we're going to go to my YouTube folder, go to the vlogs, and here is today. I set up my camera so it makes a new folder every single day. A lot of Canon cameras have this option. A lot of other cameras might as well. And it just helps you organize a little bit more and helps divide it up when you're doing daily vlogs. So click import folder, and it's going to import all your clips in here. So here's what I do. Highlight all your clips, go to the top, drag it in, click control, and that means it's going to push everything down. Let go, and we're going to click delete to snap it all down. So now once it's all snapped together, you can see all the clips are there. We have the outro, we have the intro, and so on and so forth. Here at the beginning we have an empty slot because I like to do one funny little clip beforehand. So what I'll do is once I'm finished editing, I'll actually drag the funniest part in here to keep it kind of entertaining throughout. So now what I will do is simply watch the video and cut out all the bad parts that I don't want, and then drag out the color correction so it drags over top of all of it. And now it's time for the outro. So the outro is pre-built. I have my last video, my Freedom Tip video, and Brittany's channel. So to change this, it's actually really simple. What you do is right click the last video, click reveal and project, and it's going to open it up over here. Right click, click replace footage, and then go to where you store your video files. So here are all my vlogs. I keep this on an external hard drive. So I'll click this, and now here, as you can see, it updates already. Now it's done, or at least that part is. So basically guys, the idea with this is whenever you're setting up your templates, whether it's daily vlogs or daily videos or whatever, you just kind of replace the files on the timeline and change it so it updates on your template without ever having to re-sync stuff up and replace everything. And it just makes for a lot faster edit, and it saves that strenuous time of resizing stuff, scaling it down, moving it around. And then lastly, I export the video. Now I have a separate vlog hard drive where I keep all my daily vlogs. You could do this with your game videos or vlogs or whatever you want. And then I'm going to go ahead and click queue to open up the media encoder and run that so it finishes out and renders it in there. So as for the actual vlog clips, I don't keep them forever. I just keep them backed up for a few days and if I need to redo something or change something, I'll do it. And then I also cut out the good clips that I might need to keep for future videos or whatever. I save those in like a funny folder. But as far as the rest of stuff, I'll delete those. But I only keep the ones that I really think will benefit me in the future. But anyways, that is my main template workflow when I'm doing my daily vlogs. I know this is kind of long and drug out, but this is what I go through to do my daily video. And I do this with the game videos. I do this with freedom videos. I do this with everything because it just makes things so much easier because as you can see, that took me five minutes to edit. Now, obviously I need to go through and watch and cut out the dull parts, which will take maybe another half hour or so. But a half hour to edit a video is not bad at all. So anyways, guys, I hope this helped. If you have other questions like this, feel free to ask in the comments below and I will try my best to answer it. I don't know everything, but what I do know, I'll be more than happy to share with you guys. So anyways, guys, that's it and we will see you next time. See ya.


We continue today with the manual for teachers. Number 11, how is peace possible in this world? This is a question everyone must ask. Certainly peace seems to be impossible here. Yet the Word of God promises other things that seem impossible, as well as this. His Word has promised peace. It has also promised that there is no death, that resurrection must occur, and that rebirth is man's inheritance. The world you see cannot be the world God loves, and yet His Word assures us that He loves the world. God's Word has promised that peace is possible here, and what He promises can hardly be impossible. But it is true that the world must be looked at differently if His promises are to be accepted. What the world is is but a fact. You cannot choose what this should be, but you can choose how you would see it. Indeed, you must choose this. Again, we come to the question of judgment. This time, ask yourself whether your judgment or the Word of God is more likely to be true. For they say different things about the world, and things so opposite that it is pointless to try to reconcile them. God offers the world salvation. Your judgment would condemn it. God says there is no death.  God's Word assures you that He loves the world. Your judgment says it is unlovable. Who is right? For one of you is wrong. It must be so. The text explains that the Holy Spirit is the answer to all problems you have made. These problems are not real, but that is meaningless to those who believe in them. And everyone believes in what he made, for it was made by his believing it. Into this strange and paradoxical situation, one without meaning and devoid of sense, yet out of which no way seems possible, God has sent His judgment to answer yours. Gently, His judgment substitutes for yours. And through this substitution is the ununderstandable made understandable. How is peace possible in this world? In your judgment, it is not possible and can never be possible. But in the judgment of God, which is reflected here, is only peace. Peace is impossible to those who look on war. Peace is inevitable to those who offer peace. How easily, then, is your judgment of the world escaped? It is not the world that makes peace seem possible. It is the world you see that is impossible. Yet has God's judgment on this distorted world redeemed it and made it fit to welcome peace? And peace descends on it in joyous answer. Peace now belongs here because a thought of God has entered.  The earth bows down before its gracious presence and it leans down in answer to raise it up again. Now is the question different. It is no longer can peace be possible in this world but instead is not it impossible that peace be absent here? How many teachers of God are needed to save the world? The answer to this question is one.  This one, sanctified and redeemed, becomes the self who is the Son of God. He who is always Holy Spirit now no longer sees himself as a body or even as in a body. Therefore he is limitless. And being limitless, his thoughts are joined with God's forever and ever. His perception of himself is based upon God's judgment, not his own. Thus does he share God's will and bring his thoughts to still deluded minds. He is forever one because he is as God created him. He has accepted Christ and he is saved. Thus does the Son of Man become the Son of God. It is not really a change. It is a change of mind. Nothing external alters but everything internal now reflects only the love of God. God can no longer be feared for the mind sees no cause for punishment. God's teachers appear to be many for that is what is the world's need. Yet being joined in one purpose and one they share with God, how could they be separate from each other? What does it matter if they then appear in many forms? Their minds are one. Their joining is complete. And God works through them now as one for that is what they are. Why is the illusion of many necessary? Only because reality is not understandable to the deluded. Only very few can hear God's voice at all and even they cannot communicate his messages directly through the Spirit which gave them. They need a medium through which communication becomes possible to those who do not realize that they are Spirit. A body they can see, a voice they understand and listen to without the fear that truth would encounter in them. Do not forget that truth can come only where it is welcomed without fear. So do God's teachers need a body for their unity could not be recognized directly. Yet what makes God's teachers is their recognition of the proper purpose of the body. As they advance in their profession they become more and more certain that the body's function is but to let God's voice speak through it to human ears. And these ears will carry to the mind of the hearer messages that are not of this world and the mind will understand because of their source. From this understanding will come the recognition in this new teacher of God of what the body's purpose really is. The only use there really is for it. This lesson is enough to let the thought of unity come in and what is one is recognized as one. The teachers of God appear to share the illusion of separation but because of what they use the body for they do not believe in the illusion despite appearances. The central lesson is always this, that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use it for sin or for attack which is the same as sin and you will see it as sinful. Because it is sinful it is weak and being weak it suffers and it dies. Use it to bring the Word of God to those who have it not and the body becomes holy.  When its usefulness is done it is laid by and that is all. The mind makes this decision as it makes all decisions that are responsible for the body's condition. Yet the teacher of God does not make this decision alone. To do that would be to give the body another purpose from the one that keeps it holy. God's voice will tell him when he has fulfilled his role just as it tells him what his function is. He does not suffer either in going or remaining. Sickness is now impossible to him. Oneness and sickness cannot coexist. God's teachers choose to look on dreams awhile. It is a conscious choice for they have learned that all choices are made consciously with full awareness of their consequences. The dream says otherwise but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are? Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God's teachers. They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. Yet they are not deceived by what they see. They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. Unity alone is not a thing of dreams. And it is this God's teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming, and yet surely theirs. What is the real meaning of sacrifice? Although in truth the term sacrifice is altogether meaningless, it does have a meaning in the world. Like all things in the world its meaning is temporary and will ultimately fade into the nothingness from which it came when there is no more use for it. Now its real meaning is a lesson. Like all lessons it is an illusion, for in reality there is nothing to learn. Yet this illusion must be replaced by a corrective device, another illusion that replaces the first so both can finally disappear. The first illusion which must be displaced before another thought system can take hold is that it is the sacrifice to give up the things of this world. What could this be but an illusion since this world itself is nothing more than that? It takes great learning both to realize and to accept the fact that the world has nothing to give. What can this sacrifice of nothing mean? It cannot mean that you have less because of it. There is no sacrifice in the world's terms that does not involve the body. Think a while about what the world calls sacrifice. Power, fame, money, physical pleasure, who is the quote hero to whom all these things belong? Could they mean anything except to a body? Yet a body cannot evaluate. By seeking after such things the mind associates itself with the body obscuring its identity and losing sight of what it really is. Once this confusion has occurred it becomes impossible for the mind to understand that all the quote pleasures of the world are nothing.  Now has the mind condemned itself to seek without finding, to be forever dissatisfied and discontented, to know not what it really wants to find. Who can escape this self-condemnation? Only through God's word could this be possible. For self-condemnation is a decision about identity and no one doubts what he believes he is. He can doubt all things, but never this. God's teachers can have no regret on giving up the pleasures of the world. Is it a sacrifice to give up pain? Does an adult resent the giving up of children's toys? Does one whose vision has already glimpsed the face of Christ look back with longing on a slaughterhouse? No one who has escaped the world and all its ills looks back on it with condemnation. Yet he must rejoice that he is free of all the sacrifices values would demand of him. To them he sacrifices all his peace. To them he sacrifices all his freedom. And to possess them he must sacrifice his hope of heaven and remembrance of his father's love. Who in his sane mind chooses nothing as a substitute for everything? What is the real meaning of sacrifice? It is the cost of believing in illusions. It is the price that must be paid for the denial of truth. There is no pleasure of the world that does not demand this. For otherwise the pleasure would be seen as pain and no one asks for pain if he recognizes it. It is the idea of sacrifice that makes him blind. He does not see what he is asking for. And so he seeks it in a thousand ways and in a thousand places each time believing it is there. And each time disappointed in the end. Seek but do not find remains this world's stern decree. And no one who pursues the world's goals can do otherwise. You may believe this course requires sacrifice of all you really hold dear. In one sense this is true for you hold dear the things that crucify God's son. And it is the course's aim to set him free. But do not be mistaken about what sacrifice means. It always means the giving up of what you want. And what, O Teacher of God, is it that you want? You have been called by God and you have answered. Would you now sacrifice that call? Few have heard it as yet and they can but turn to you. There is no other hope in all the world that they can trust. There is no other voice in all the world that echoes God's.  And if they stay you will remain with them. Do not forget that sacrifice is total. There are no half sacrifices. You cannot give up heaven partially.  The Word of God has no exceptions. It is this that makes it holy and beyond the world. It is its holiness that points to God. It is its holiness that makes you safe. It is denied if you attack any brother for anything. For it is here the split with God occurs. A split that is impossible. A split that cannot happen. Yet a split in which you surely will believe because you have set up a situation that is impossible. And in this situation the impossible can seem to happen. It seems to happen at the quote sacrifice of truth. Teacher of God do not forget the meaning of sacrifice and remember what each decision you make must mean in terms of cost. Decide for God and everything is given you at no cost at all. Decide against him and you choose nothing at the expense of the awareness of everything. What would you teach? Remember only what you would learn. For it is here that your concern should be. Atonement is for you. Your learning claims it and your learning gives it. The world contains it not. But learn this course and it is yours. God holds out his word to you for he has need of teachers. What other way is there to save his son?