Awesome. Well, for me it's been, for me it's been a great learning opportunity.  Like most of you, I have to, you know, security is just a part of the job. There's no way to escape it. So I take every opportunity to dive a little bit further. So what I'm going to try to do today is just take a beginner's look at this whole spiffy thing. I remember when the project was announced, I didn't know what the hell they were talking about, but somehow it's found its way into things like Istio and I see it popping up in other systems. So like you all, I'm curious to why. So one thing that I did, I'm going to share my laptop in, there probably won't be a lot of slides. I'm just going to walk you through kind of a similar approach that I took for understanding things. Like most people, I just went to the spiffy website and it's a universal control plane for distributed systems or identity control plane for distributed systems. So in order to really understand that you have to kind of look at the whole package, like Spire is one good implementation where, you know, it gives you the full suite of things for trusting workloads, assigning their identity and doing all the things to give you a complete system. But I was always curious about like, how does it all work? So for me, I kept digging a little deeper. And the documentation is fabulous, by the way. So whoever is on the documentation team here, someone should give you a virtual high five. You've earned it. So clicking through here, one thing that has been a challenge, I've been doing this for about 15 years. And whether you're talking about minting SSL certificate and doing TLS mutual auth or some other form of authentication or credentials, it's been real hard to identify services in a way that scales well across multiple systems. And we've all tried it throughout our careers. But when spiffy came out, it seems very complex. And I'm pretty sure I may be oversimplifying things. But here's the thing that made it click for me. Once I really took the time to understand what is a spiffy ID, naming things as hard, but the way they've chosen to go about identifying the service. So we're going to get to a couple of things. One is, what is a service identity? How do you give one to a service? And then how do you use it throughout the system? Those are the three things that I'm most interested in as a beginner. So the spiffy ID is the thing that kind of made it click for me. One is I asked myself, can it really be this simple? Can it really be as simple as this string? Spiffy is the kind of URL, then there's this trust domain like example.org. And then the workload you're talking about, it could be your payments workload, it could be your API, or it could be a calculator app that does add functions. But either way, they've simplified this whole thing down to string. And this string has a lot of information that it communicates very succinctly. This can actually help you make work with different applications and different domains. You can have different service polls. You get the idea. So looking at this simple string is, I asked myself, like, what do I do with it? Wouldn't it be crazy if just any app could take this string and give it to another app and say, hey, trust me. This is who I want to be. That definitely doesn't work. You need to kind of earn your credentials. So how do we do that? How do we trust? And I may be getting some of the terms wrong, but it seems like bootstrapping, trust, and security is one of the hardest things to do because at some layer, you have to trust something or someone. And for us, we're going to choose to trust something. So we understand this string, but now we've got to figure out how to create them and hand them out to applications or workloads that deserve it. Now, if you're using Spire, and there's going to be plenty of talk throughout the rest of the day about Spire, they have a really good implementation of doing this by making sure only the right workload gets the right spiffy ID. But we're going to roll things by hand just so we can get a little bit deeper in details of how it would work. So just like most good projects, there's a lot of documentation about the details. So what most people do is when they think about Spiffy, you can embed them into a TLS certificate. If you use something like Istio and you're doing TLS mutual auth where app A wants to talk to app B, well app A can present its SSL certificate and have a Spiffy ID embedded in one of the subject alternative names. And that's cool because then proxies and other tools can extract that and decide to trust that you have that identity and let you do things. In this case though, I'm actually sitting behind a proxy that doesn't allow TLS mutual auth. Actually, I've made things a little bit harder for myself. I'm actually running inside of a serverless platform called Cloud Run. No Kubernetes, no VMs, none of the environmental things that I'm used to. If I was doing on some VMs, this would be a whole lot easier to solve, but I'm not. So I have to solve this problem in a slightly different way. I'm not going to be able to use X509 or TLS certificates for this. I'm actually going to have to use a Jot token. The nice thing is they actually have a specification of how to actually embed a Spiffy ID, which will remind people. We're talking about a string that's your identity, but we need to mint one only for the workload that's supposed to have it in a way that other workloads can trust. So with that, I'm going to use what they call a Svid or Secure Verifiable Identity Document, and you can use certificates or, in this case, a Jot token. We've all used them before. I'm going to show you how that works underneath the covers, but basically what we want to do is we want to create a Jot token, and if I go through their documentation, they have things about certain claims, and if you're not familiar with Jot tokens, basically I can put in who this particular token is for, who should be able to receive it, and also who's holding it, and that's going to be that Spiffy ID, and that Spiffy ID will be actually what we call the subject. So we're going to embed a Spiffy ID into one of these Jot tokens that we just can't go and give them to everyone. So who do we trust? I can't trust the workload. Damn sure not, I'm going to trust you, but maybe I can trust the cloud provider, and that's what I've done. I'm going to speed things up quite a bit here because we only have so much time, but basically I have a container running as an off service, but I've named it JWTSvid. That's the service, and the way it works is if I take a workload and give it a Google Jot token, what I can then do is map a set of Spiffy IDs to Google Cloud's service accounts. I'm going to show you how that works real quick. So first thing I'm going to do is I've deployed this service into the cloud. The thing I want to do now is I want to get a token from it, but in order to get a token, I have to prove my identity by getting something that this off service trusts. So I have a little command called get token, and what it does is it gets my GCP project. I get the URL of the cloud run service you can see here. So I know who to exchange this other token with, and then I'm just going to use the Google Cloud command line tool to generate an ID token. I'm going to impersonate this service called calculator. So basically what I'm doing here is I have a calculator app that can call a backend to add some numbers for me, but the ad service only wants to allow only a calculator to do it. Now what I don't want to do is rely on Google service accounts. The thing is those only work for things that understand how to verify them with Google, but you might want to run things on VM or on-prem. So this is where this whole Spiffy thing becomes super important. It's pretty portable across all the cloud providers. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to generate an ID token by calling the Google Cloud IAM service, and I'm mimicking what I would do in a deployed application. So once I get an ID token from there, I'm going to pass that ID token to the serverless off service and see what comes back. So we're just going to run this really quick called get token. And again, I'm getting the IAM token, ID token, and I'm going to use it to connect to the serverless application. And what that serverless application is going to do is going to mint me a token. Now when I call this command, everything is working, come on internet gods, move a little faster. You can see I'm impersonating this account and I'm getting back a token. So let's look at this token. Now what I'm about to show you is dangerous.  But for this example token, it's okay. I'm going to go to JWT.io and I'm going to post this token. Now be careful. There's a header, the actual drop token and the signature. These can be replayed if you do this with the live token to get access to resources. But this is for testing. So I'm not too worried. Here you can see the contents of the payload. I could verify this using the private key from this particular service. But you're seeing here that when I authenticate it, I got back this audience. That means I can actually pass it to the addition service. And then the issuer is my off-service running in my domain. And look, it gave it a subject back of Spiffy Hightower Labs calculator. Now one thing we're going to do is I'm going to show you how I actually made this work. Well, there's a couple of things.  So in my custom implementation that's minting Jot tokens, I also implemented a in-memory registry. And the way it works is I can actually send registry entries up to a in-memory database. So basically the registry basically says, for this given ID, this is a Google IAM service account ID, the audience should be x and the Spiffy ID should be y. That's how it works. So all I'm doing is saying, give me your service account. I have a mapping that maps this calculator IAM service account. You can see it's a unique ID. And I will find that unique ID in the registry. And if I don't, no tokens for you. So this is an easy way for me to map Jot tokens using something that I trust. So I verify the Jot token from Google, make sure it was issued by Google, verify the public key, and then extract the subject from the Google service account and mint a new token with those attributes like we see here. So great. We have that first part of the puzzle solved. We have a third party we trust, Google Cloud's IAM service. Now you have a token in your hand. And now you have an identity that others can trust as long as they trust my certificate. So quickly, we're going to move up really quickly here. We have a certificate. And how do I get the certificates? Well, if you know anything about Jot tokens, you know that that all service can also serve up the public keys that can be used to verify things, or you can embed that public key. So here I'm following the spiffy documentation saying that the use of this public key is for validating Jot Svids. And here's the public key that you can verify that this was signed by this off provider. Now one last thing you got to do here. So we set up the first two stages. Next thing we got to do here is figure out how do you use it? What's the purpose of having this identity if you're not going to use it for anything? When you think about service mission, all of the features you want to do and most security models, they're all hinged on IDs. Who are you? Then what can you do? And this is when we bring in something like Open Policy Agent. And this is the last component of the demo. So what we can do with Open Policy Agent, let's see if I can screen my screen down here. And what OPA allows us to do is basically do Auth Z for what we can do with this identity. So I know who you are, but what can you do? So if you look at this, I have a package for, this is a Rego file. Don't worry about the syntax now. Just know it's a way for me to communicate policies. I also having Open Policy Agent running as a serverless app. So here it is. It's running in a container in Cloud Run serverlessly.  So by default, I'm going to deny everything. But when you make a request, you can say, hey, from your application, so let's say you are the ad service, you would go off to the back end and say, hey, Open Policy Agent, here's some metadata about my request. I'm going to do something interesting here. I'm also going to pass the token. When I put the token into the request to Open Policy Agent, Open Policy Agent can verify that token. It can also decode that token, extract the header, the payload and the signature. The nice thing about this is I can use that information in the token, in that dot token with the spiff ID to make policy decisions. Do I allow you to add the numbers that you're requesting? So from my service, I need to put in some data. And what I'm going to do with my input data, I'm going to check for some matches. Is this a post request? Is it at the ad path? Is the audience for me, the addition service? Was it issued by the off service? And again, I should validate the private key here. And then also down here is, is this the calculator app for the Hightower Labs domain? If all of those things are true, then I'll respond either yes or no. And we're going to do the last piece here. I'm going to show you what it looks like. I'm going to use curl to do this so we can get a clear picture. Now I could have deployed all the apps to do this, but I want to give you a peek at how this works underneath the covers. So one thing we can do here is validate a request. So assuming that your app was presented with that dot token we saw earlier, what you would have to do inside of your application is you would have to craft the input data. Again, the method, the path, and the token. And then what I'm doing here is basically getting the URL to the open policy agent service. And then what I'm doing is I'm authenticating to the open policy agent service. I know that can be a bit confusing, but I'm not going to keep that thing wide open for various reasons. And then the next thing I'm going to do is pass in this request. So the way that request looks like on my file system is basically a post, the method, the path, and the token. I'm going to submit this and let's see what response we get. Then and we'll do a validate request. Again, I'm simulating the addition app, assuming that the calculator front end is calling it. So we'll run this now. And what should happen is I should get a response from the back end. So it's saying, hey, method is get or allow equals true. Method was get, path was add. And here's this token. So I know we're getting low on time, so I'm going to stop here. But basically this shows you full circle. One, we have a root of trust, in this case, Google Cloud IAM. We have a custom service that's minting Jot tokens by trusting service account tokens and mapping them to a registry ID and yielding back a Jot token that meets the Spiffy requirements. That token now can then be used with other systems that can also delegate off Z to back ends like open policy agent. I'm going to stop there, see if we have any questions. And hopefully that kind of explains this thing at a high level for you all. Hi, everyone. If you have any questions at this point, please feel free to put them in the chat window or raise your hand for Kelsey. Thank you so much, Kelsey, for doing this. There's one or two takeaways you'd like to leave folks with, personal learnings. Yeah. So I think for me, I can see, you know, I work at a cloud provider. I'm working at Google Cloud. And I think about the Spiffy ID actually taking off in a big way. We already supported in tools like Istio and our service mesh technologies. But I can imagine us adding maybe one day a Spiffy ID to go with those ID tokens.  Or the other way would be if you're in a serverless environment where you can't necessarily control ahead of time and maybe you don't want a pull model where your app is exchanging one token for another, you might be able to push things like into a secret. So if you're in the Kubernetes space, I would encourage you just to look at tools like Spire that does all of this for you with way more robustness. But I think there's going to be a world where if this thing takes off, I can see almost every tool being able to trust this identity. And it's actually a lot simpler than I thought before. So I'm hoping more systems integrate natively so we can all standardize on what a service ID actually means. Fantastic. Well, go ahead. Yeah, I was going to just say, I think people message you directly, privately. So I don't see those questions. I'll read one. So here's one. How do you know that I am token can receive the token for the off calculator? So when I deployed, I'm going to, I think I'm still sharing my screen, right? Yeah. So when I deployed this JWT off service, I had to do a few things. One is I said that when I deployed it, that it must not allow wide open authentication. So services off been deployed. So the first thing is I don't allow authentication by default. The next thing is that means you have to present me a Google Cloud IM ID token, right? You have to get that from the metadata service. Once you do that, I also have another thing that says I granted permissions to the calculator service account to be able to even invoke this JWT Svid service. So this is an IM policy where I have a binding that says if a caller were to present a job token signed by this service account, it can invoke this function. So if you don't have one of those IDs or service accounts or job tokens, then you're going to get rejected at the Google Cloud low balancer. It won't even let you make a request. So then when it flows to the auth application, I can also validate there. I can take that job token and use Google's public certificates to also validate it. And then once it's validated, I can then extract the ID because that's going to be in the subject field of the ID token. And then I have my own internal registry, right? And all I'm doing to add things to the registry are just all I'm doing here is just basically collecting enough data about the service account ID. And I'm just posting it again by authenticating to my off service. So checks and balances end to end. I think we've got time for maybe one more or two. Yeah, I think so. I don't see anything live here. Do you have, I think you had one more question there about architecture diagram? So let me go here. There's a couple. So service, so the architecture diagram, I think this turned out to be a pretty good demo. So I am going to publish this whole thing on GitHub. It's in a private repo now, but I'll add the architecture diagram and some of the trade-offs I'm making. And what you'll find in that GitHub repository, most of the code is already there. There's a custom Jose implementation of JWS and also all the keys. One thing I try to make it easy to do also is to make sure that this works in a real world. So if you ever have to validate these tokens across other systems, I do implement most of the standards so that you can actually verify these using the public keys that you can get from the off back in. We'll spit this one out here in a second. And so that'll be on GitHub soon and maybe I'll tweet out when it's done. So I'll just say, hey, my spiffy demos now on GitHub, you can go run it yourself. The next thing is the token issue is something we have to build ourselves. And if we're not on a managed cloud or on-prem Kubernetes offering. So if you're using Spire, it's going to do a good job of dealing with probably X509 certificate is TLS Mutual Office, probably the path you want to go. If you're on-prem with Kubernetes, just go get Spire and make certs that way. That would probably be much easier than what I'm doing here. Now I'm not sure Spire supports Jot tokens at the moment. So if you have a use case similar to mine, we're going to be going through a load balancer that won't be able to handle TLS Mutual off. The way to think about this is maybe something like ping identity or off zero, if they allow you to have some metadata where when you authenticate, typically what you can do is you can set custom fields using some kind of template that when you return back a response, they'll have a Jot token. So ideally, most of the standard tools for minting Jot tokens should work. You just got to make sure that those tools are configurable. Based on the original identity, whether it's basic auth or some other factor, then you can actually say, hey, based on that identity, here's what should be in these fields when I return a Jot token. So my guess is standard things will work. But if you're not using Jot, go check out Spire and do it. Oh, it turns out that Spire has support for both X509 and Jot. So I actually spent the whole night when I can adjust to use that. But look, I learned a whole bunch in the process. Spiffy the hard way. And so that would be along with you. Thank you very much, Kelsey. Yeah, we have time for one more question. Kelsey, which one in your answer first? All right. So, well, so the next one, I'll end with this one. How is multi cluster and Federation supported in this kind of use case? So I think this is what this whole thing is about. One thing that's nice about X509 in general, it does allow each of the servers to have a certificate signed by authority we trust. And we can trust lots of authorities. If you look at your, you know, your TLA certificate bundle for CAs on your file system, you'll see that there's a lot of bundles in it that you trust. What we're doing here with Spiffy is giving some, you know, very similar technique of using these federated trust models. This is what Jot tokens are already good at. This is what X509 certificates are already good at. So when you start thinking about multi cluster and Federation, what we're doing is we have this detached way of saying, here's a bunch of public keys inside of our clusters, give them to your app so they can actually trust things. And then when that Jot token shows up, you may not necessarily need to call out to another service. You can actually use your public key or something like open policy agent that is configured to be able to decode and verify these tokens. And that's going to give you that decentralized federated method. But again, the smart thing that they've done is just leverage existing things that already work in a federated and distributed manner. Great. Thank you, Kelsey. I think we're right on time, but we could take a short question if you want, or we can just send you these questions. Maybe you can give your responses and we can post in a doc in the community. Yes, I'll do that and I'll answer one more since we have one more minute or so. So can we use an app in one cloud to talk to an app in another cloud using Spiffy as a single trust provider? And I think that's where things get super interesting because in my off service, I could trust multiple identities, multiple back ends. This is something that Spire does really well. It gives you a universal way of saying, I trust all these things. So imagine if you're using Spire, Spire can be configured to trust Amazon's metadata service. So when you get your identity document from Amazon's metadata service, say you're running on a VM, you can exchange that or use that to get a different token or X509 certificate. And I can use a whole different trust model inside of GCP. But at the end of the day, you end up with these identity documents that are standardized that keep a common Spiffy ID. So maybe you're all in the same domain, even across multiple cloud providers. You can look at that domain to say, hey, we're all in the same app domain slash this is your app. I can trust you to do these things. So it really helps us to kind of normalize the differences between the different cloud providers and then have a standard thing that we can all rely on whether we're in multiple clouds or on-prem. I think it started to take off, hasn't it? Yeah, I mean, yeah, there's people that are already using this. You see this, it's a hidden thing. The bad thing about it, it just works. So this is why there's no hype train. That's why there's probably not a bunch of 10,000 people conferences. It just works so much that most people kind of take it for granted that this kind of complex problems being solved in a very clever and simple way. I think that's why most people may not talk about it, but guarantee you that it's there and I think it's actually taken off in a way that will become, I don't know, you may not ever realize it, but you should learn about Spiffy IDs. Great. Awesome, Kelsey. Definitely, thank you so much for your effort and time.


You're just bringing these things to what not because you don't want to put them on eBay because it's not stuff people would buy on eBay. Hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. All right, this is going to be different than my normal videos, but if you're a reseller, I encourage you to stick around because what I'm about to tell you could change your reselling business. Hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. Seriously, I did my first what not. And to be honest with you, I was telling my viewers, August, I'm going to do it in August. And I didn't do it until December. And I am sorry about that. I did not mean to tell a fib. My intentions were good, but oh my goodness, just life and all the things that I've been trying to do and building my YouTube channel. And I sell on eBay, Mercari and Poshmark. So, I mean, I'm busy. And I just never got around to really taking the time to learn the platform. So the other day, but before I get into that. Okay, fellow buddies, I have my third what not show tonight. It is going to be at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and I am bringing vintage Christmas to now, mostly vintage. And if you guys use my referral link down below, you can get $15 to shop when you join what not. So check that out down below and I hope to see you. Let me tell you what I'm going to talk about in this video. Okay, I'm going to tell you about my experience. Okay, and I went live two different ways. I've done it twice now. I went in a frontal view like this where I was showing the items and you could see me. And then I also did where the camera was panned down on my items and I did it that way. There are some differences and things you have to do differently. So we're going to talk about that. I'm going to tell you, was it successful? How did it go? I'm going to tell you things not to do. Things that I learned from doing my first two shows. What I underestimated and what surprised me the most and some key points to having a successful auction. I actually took notes. This is so not like me. Like I'm usually like, I'm going to tell you where I got it, what I paid for it and what it sold for. If you guys are new here, I do Bolo videos. I tell you about items to be on the lookout for. Items you can buy low hopefully and sell for a profit. So this is really different. But I know that people that watch me are resellers and I think you need to know about this platform. And one thing I forgot to do, okay? And what I did to remedy that. So I got lucky. But anyway, we are going to get started here with what surprised me the most. What surprised me the most is that I absolutely loved it. It was kind of like the first time I went to the Goodwill Benz. I was kind of like, I don't know what I think about this. And I went and I wasn't sure. And then I went back and then I went back. It took me a few times, but now I am obsessed in the Goodwill Benz. And if you guys want to see Goodwill Benz videos where I'm like digging through and I show you how I listed everything on eBay, definitely check out my Goodwill Benz video. But we're not here to talk about the Goodwill Benz. So that is what surprised me the most. I loved it. I loved the interaction with the audience. I loved showing the items, being live. I felt very comfortable. But you know, there are some, there's a learning curve, but it's not bad. It's not bad. Okay. So let's talk about my first show. So my first show was, I was talking to you guys like this and I was showing items and literally at 9 a.m. I said I'm going live today on whatnot because if I don't do it, I'm never going to do it. So I set up the thing on whatnot and I'm like, I have no clue what I'm doing. I sent my girl Rachel Strickland a few messages. If you're not following her on YouTube, it is a must. She's got some tutorials on whatnot that are great. She is also on whatnot and she is awesome. And she has awesome YouTube content and check out her whatnot, check out her YouTube and check out her Instagram. Rachel Strickland, her channel is her name. But if I did not have Rachel to help me through this, oh my goodness, I would have been a complete mess. And like I said, this was on a Friday and I did this unplanned. So I'm messaging her, knowing that she does Meals on Wheels on Friday and I'm like, oh my goodness, she's not going to get back with me. What am I going to do? I was kind of freaking out. And she still got back with me in between doing her Meals on Wheels. So, man, I just, Rachel, if you're watching, I appreciate you so much. Thank you so much for helping me. Okay, so the first one was front on. What I did is I set it up, okay? I gave myself two hours and I'm like, today I'm not going to plan what I'm going to bring. And in my mind, I kind of just wanted to do, I don't want to take photos. I don't want to take measurements. I don't want to do a description. I don't want to make it harder than it has to be because if I'm going to do that, like I can put it on a selling platform. I want this to be a quick process, but still very functional and good for my audience and good for me, if that makes sense. Plus, I more just wanted it to pull random items.  And I just started showing stuff. What I did is I set things up by weight class, all right? So I put 20 items at the three ounce, 20 items at the next weight class, which is four to seven ounces and so on and so forth. I kind of looked at what I had determined which weight classes they would be in and decided how many to do of each, all right? Is this a perfect system? No, could you run into problems? Yes, I would say put more than you need. So let's say one through 20 was three ounces. I may not use all of them.  Here's my note. It's kind of messy. This was when I actually did my second show and that way I knew which numbers were which weight class. So that was beside me. Okay. So I do have a referral link down below. You can click on that link and you will get a shopping credit. So definitely consider using my link. But if you want to be a seller on whatnot, I also have a separate link for that. If you click on that, I think it takes it to like a different area. It considers that I referred you and you may be more likely to get accepted quicker. That is what I have been told. Can I verify that? Also I can tell you in my experience, I used a code and I was accepted immediately. So I don't know, but I've got my seller link down there and then I've also got the buyer link down there. So I did a test stream and when I tried to turn off the test stream, it said that it was turned off, but it wasn't. So I had to go in, cancel the show and Rachel taught me how to clone my items. So I hit clone, but it didn't show me that it cloned. So I hit clone again and it cloned everything two times, which it ended up being okay, but I had double. So be careful you don't clone twice. And so I was mentioning kind of, I'm kind of all over the place here because I'm winging this, but I do have notes. So I numbered my items, let's say one through 100 and then put those in the different weight classes. What I then did, I had baggies ready to go. And I took a Sharpie. Now, if you guys do whatnot and you have a suggestion on a maybe more like economical way to do this because those plastic bags are pretty much toast. I guess I could cross them out and use them again, but that was the only logical thing I could think of is once I sell the item, I'm gonna put it in a bag. I'm gonna write who bought it on the bag. And that was a suggestion from one of you who came to my whatnot show, write the seller or the buyer on the bag. I also wrote the number on the bag. So if it was item one, it was one, and we'll say Rachel Strickland, and I just wrote it out. So all of my bags are there. My second option, what I did was choice. So I numbered my items one through 100 and I put number one, item one choice, item two choice and copy paste into the description. That's all I did, but it takes a while. It really does. If you do 100 items, you have to set it up for each one. So I numbered my area in front of me one through eight and I pulled out Christmas ornaments and I put them on one through eight and I let people bid and they got to pick which one they wanted. So then I grabbed my plastic bag. I write the item number on it, not the item number they picked. Be careful, don't do that. I did that a few times, but the item number that was on the actual what not screen. Okay. So one question that I had from Rachel Strickland and it's probably like one of those that it's so obvious once you do it. I'm like, if I have my camera facing down and it is recording my table so that the people can see the items and not see me, can I start the auction from my computer? Yes. So I had my phone facing down. I had my computer to the side and I hit start auction. You can also manually add an item. So I got to a weight class where I bundled some stuff together and it was in a weight class that I didn't have. So I hit add item and I just did it right then start auction. So you can also add items, but it is a little bit more of a delay and your people are waiting on you to do that. So I recommend having some sort of plan, things in your store. Okay. What else I learned? Buy it now. I recommend that you have something in your buy it now. So I had these really cute dog magnets and I'm like, I'm just going to put these in the buy it now. They weigh like one ounce. Maybe somebody will want this as a stocking stuffer. But what did I do wrong? I didn't mention my buy it nows. So I was on primetime treasure hunters, what not last night and his wife was doing an auction on jewelry and she's so smart. She's like, and I have this item in the buy it now and this item in the buy it now. And I'm like, duh, you got to tell people what the item is in the buy it now. So show your buy it now items. That's one thing I learned. Let's see. What else did I want to talk about? Did I prefer one way or the other as far as being forward or having my items down? Not really. I am comfortable in front of the camera. So that was fun for me, but I was not comfortable. I was in my laundry room and the setup was not good. The setup for the second show was better. So if I do my next one forward like this, which I think I'm going to do vintage lingerie or vintage clothing, I'll probably hold the items up and I'll do it down here where I'm more comfortable in a chair and whatnot and whatnot. Okay. Sorry, bad joke. So I also have a ton of crafters items coming. I will do a preview of that haul on this channel before I go over to whatnot and do it because it is just incredible. I gave you guys a sneak peek in another video, but why am I bringing these things to whatnot? You're just bringing these things to whatnot because you don't want to put them on eBay because it's not stuff people would buy on eBay. No, no, that's not what I'm doing. No. Now, I will agree with you. I am bringing some of these items to whatnot because I have no interest in listing them on eBay. Why? Because I don't want to list these items on eBay because of a personal choice. So I used to be a full-time reseller, okay? And I did... No, I'm still a full-time reseller. I used to be a full-time clothing reseller. That's all I did. I would go into discount stores and I would buy things cheap and I would resell them. Clothing, clothing, clothing. That's all I did. About... I'm going to say four and a half years ago, right before I started this channel, I switched to hard goods. So now, when I think about clothing, I'm like... These behind me are all jeans. And when I tell you, it was kind of like a... I don't want to do clothing any more moment. It literally was. I have a whole walk-in closet full of New With Tags clothing. Most of it is Express brand and like Lane Bryant, stuff like that. Really great items that do sell. But I just...  Stuff I like listing. So if I list these pair of jeans, I'm going to have to measure the bottom, the inseam, the rise, across the waist. I don't want to do that. I don't want to do it anymore. I just lost interest. I got burnout.  Oh, geez. I started reselling in 2005. So I don't know. I can't figure out all the numbers. Too much thinking. Like 10 years I did clothing and I loved it. I absolutely loved it. So I'm not against the idea behind selling clothing. I know you can do it. I had a super successful clothing business and I just lost interest and I'm more excited about the hard goods. So, will these items and items in the closet be coming to whatnot? I don't know. I haven't really thought about that. If you guys would be interested in seeing new with tags items, let me know.  I don't know. So, I mean, nice stuff. I should... I've got these men's express button-down shirts that are like light pink and light purple. They're lovely, lovely Easter colors. And I have sold out of them multiple times because I kept buying them from the same discount store. And these are just items that I haven't got listed. Again, I quit clothes. And so they are great items, but, you know, you have to get a good value for your item to be able to resell it. And Express is not a super high-end brand where you're going to get a ton of money for it. If these say $88 on them, you know, depending on the style and the cut and what's trending, you might get 30, or I'm sorry, 15 with new with tags, 15 to 50 bucks. It really just depends on the style and what's trending. If it's not trending, you know, they're going to sit forever if you price them too high. I typically, these types of jeans I usually price in the 30 to $40 range, but I'm also a long-tail seller and willing to wait. I also run sales. I take best offer, but let's get back to what not. Sorry, I'm getting totally off base here. What I underestimated, we're going to get to that. One thing I forgot. I forgot the phone charger. I had everything set up.  Perfect setup.  And this is like an hour, maybe more into the show. And I'm like texting my husband and I'm like, can you bring me the phone charger? And thankfully he was still up. So he brought me down the phone charger plugged it in. Make sure your phone is plugged in because it will take your battery by going live. All right. So have a charger. Let's see. One thing that I recommend that you do not do is don't bring items that people are going to be disappointed in. Okay. I have purchased and been disappointed. I will say that. And I have been, I have purchased and been very, very happy. That is with any selling platform. The part I was disappointed about is when I got my items, the flaws and the issues, they weren't disclosed. It's one thing to sell something with a flaw. So let's say I have this ornament right here and I'm going to sell this ornament to you and it has a chip up here. That's not that big of a deal. That chip can be covered with yellow paint. That can be fixed. But if I sell this to you and I don't mention that chip, you're going to be disappointed when you get it. You may not be mad because you know you can fix it, but would you have preferred that I mentioned it? You may not have paid as much for this ornament if you knew that it was damaged. Clothing, another story. If I have these jeans and I'm going to sell them to you and they're stained, you need to tell your audience what they're bidding on. Show them that stain, okay? Because I can guarantee you they're probably not going to buy the item if it's got a big stain on it.  I ask myself, would I list this on eBay? Would I list this on Mercari? Would I list this on Poshmark? I want to bring good things to whatnot. Am I catering to the reseller? Not necessarily. Could somebody buy something from me and resell it? Yeah, they could. They most definitely could. But that's really not what I'm catering to. So I'm doing one-offs or small lots. I'm not bringing big bundles, okay? What did I underestimate? I underestimated the amount of time it was going to take me to ship.  And those ladies go live on each other's channels almost every day of the week. And when I tell you how many orders they're fulfilling in one show, but they do wholesale reseller lots, okay? So they're showing, like, however many items and you're bidding on them at a live auction, okay? And then they have to go and package all that stuff. Oh, my goodness. Like, I knew it was a lot, but until you, like, experience it and do it, oh, my goodness. So I sold 77 items at my what-not auction. 22 different people bought those.  So I took all of the ones with the same names and I put them on my floor. So they were already in piles ready for me to go. Now, one thing you guys, if you watch my channel, you know I love breakables. What on earth was I thinking? I had so many ornaments that were breakables. It's kind of funny looking back because I just went to my garage and I'm like, I have all these great ornaments. I'm just going to put them in a thing and I'm just going to show them. And I really didn't think about the shipping part of it. And I'm one of those that I'm over the top with my shipping. I'm very cautious. So I use probably more bubble wrap than I need. Sometimes I'll box in a box, but there were things that it was just unexpected how long it took. But then after I did my what-not shipments, I had like 50 shipments between, this is for Saturday and Sunday. I sold about 50 things on Poshmark, Mercari and eBay total. And I looked at how long that took me to ship and it took a long time also. So maybe I'm just a slow shipper. I don't know. But again, shout out to Donna Telebotilino and Auctions4U. Auctions4U is also on what-not. She is T Auctions4U. So definitely follow her and that's a four and a U. So I'll try to pop it up right here. So definitely follow T over there. Follow Rachel Strickland over there. Follow Primetime Treasure Hunter on what-not. Follow them all on YouTube also. They are incredible. And I can't say enough good things about all four of these people. Rachel Strickland, Dominic Primetime Treasure Hunter, Donna Telebotilino, T Auctions4U. I mean, all four of them have helped me tremendously in my reselling business. They are wonderful people. And again, I have been buying from Donna and T for probably three years. I think it's maybe even longer and always been happy. So check them out on YouTube as well. I'll link all four of them down below. So make sure you follow them. Okay. Let me see. Is there anything else I wanted to talk to you guys about? Mention the buy it now. Make sure you're organized. I think that is the number one thing.  Okay. So the first show was kind of, it was a pop-up. I didn't advertise it. I put a little post on my Instagram right when I was going live. Did I still have a decent turnout? Did I still sell stuff? Yes. I think I sold 22 items on the first show. And again, it was a shorter show. It was just kind of like a hodgepodge of things. But I consider it successful for my first show. And if you came to either one of my shows, thank you so much. I appreciate you. I am Bolo Buddies on whatnot. Be sure to follow me.  Again, looking at... Okay, Bolo Buddies. These are part of my first whatnot auction. It's probably going to be Christmas themed. Most of these are ornaments and Christmas decor. Still have tons to go through. Just wanted to give you guys a small preview of what will definitely be there. I just adore this one. But I plan to do jewelry, vintage clothing. I'm going to branch out into a lot of different categories. So make sure you are following me. Thanks for watching. Vintage lingerie, vintage clothing, and a huge crafter's lot. Like three, four totes full of craft items. Just incredible. Why am I not putting the craft items on eBay? Because it will take me forever. Because I will try to look everything up. And I will make it way more difficult than it has to be. And I can bring it to whatnot. And I can show you guys that do jewelry and make stuff. What it is. I'm going to put it in my hands and show you the item. And you're going to decide the value. Okay. I don't, I just, it's too much.  I really enjoy putting toys. Now, do you guys want me to bring toys to whatnot? So it's something I'm thinking about. But this is definitely a platform that I am planning on branching out on. Um, if you're going to have a show, make sure you a lot enough time to get your shipping done. Okay. So that you're not like stressing about it. Last night I was up until I think 120 in the morning shipping. And I did have an elephant. It was in the wrong tote. I use my custom skew on eBay to find my items. And it says plush tote nine and I'm like digging through plush tote nine. And nope, didn't find it. So I went to eight and seven and six and five. And I looked through them all. And then I looked through nine again. And then I looked through eight again. And I kept looking through these totes. And I'm like, Courtney, why are you doing this? You know how to find an item that is lost. What you do is if you have it in the custom skew, you go in to the item that sold and you look at the date it sold. Okay. So it said, or I'm sorry, the date it was listed, not the date it sold. You look at the date it was listed.  And you find the things that you listed on that same date. And I'm nine times out of 10. This works. It is going to be in one of the totes that you listed on the same day. Now, I recently did a video where somebody bought something on what not for $20 and sold it for $997 on eBay. And I posted this in a Facebook group. And somebody said that I was teaching people to come and not bid up the items because they need to get the item for a low price to resell it. And I said, I don't agree. I don't even know if they watched the video. I said, this is simply a what sold video where I'm telling you where the person purchased the item. And actually, I think knowledge is power. So if I knew that that item was going to sell for $1,000 and I'm watching a what not auction that's selling that item, wouldn't I bid the item up higher? So wouldn't you get more for your item because you watched my video? So I think that this would help the seller. And I don't know. What do you guys think? Let's see another thing. They also asked if I share when people buy something on a platform like Mercari or Poshmark or eBay. And they resell it on eBay. And I said, absolutely. I share what you guys tell me if I'm sharing your bolos, I ask you where you got it, what you paid for it and what it sold for. I don't care where you got it. Like, I'm going to tell the audience where you got it. I've had people buy things on Mercari Super Cheap. I've said a hundred times. Mercari is a great place to source. Okay, maybe I haven't said it a hundred times. But I've mentioned it a lot that Mercari is a great place to source. A lot of times, same with Poshmark, a lot of times they're hobby sellers, people that really don't care about reselling. They're just trying to get rid of things in their home and they really don't look up comps. They just list the item and there's a good chance you could find something on one of those platforms to flip for sure 100%. If you're not on Poshmark and Mercari as a seller and you want to be a seller on those platforms, awesome.  I do have referral links down below for Mercari. If you use the link, it's my referral link to join. You'll get $10 when you join. And then if you sell $100 worth of stuff, you'll get another $20 and that is money to shop on the platform. Poshmark, you get $10 to shop on the platform. Again, those are my referral links so I get a little bonus too so I appreciate it if you guys use those referral links down in the description. I think that's it. Let me know if you have any questions. Again, sorry I was kind of all over the place. This is not my typical video. Somebody did ask me about my merch. This is my second sweatshirt. The other one you guys see me wear all the time. It's got my Bolo Buddies logo across the front. If you guys are interested in sweatshirts, t-shirts, all that stuff, I do have merch. No pressure to get merch. It's just the links down there if you want it. So with that being said, I purchased these items on what not from 360 Vintage and he makes his own jewelry and he also sells jewelry just that he buys. So let's get this out of here. And I have known Ron for a while through not personally like met him but just through Facebook and stuff for quite a while. All right, we are going to take a peek at what we've got here. So he actually made these. This is a floral silver plate spoon bracelet and it's silver plated. So it's actually a spoon. So really, really pretty little cuff and I got this for $2. So that is super cool. And he did a great job of everything being really organized. You can see that this was number six. So I can line it up here on my sheet and know that I paid $2 for this. Okay, this is number four. Okay, so this is my giveaway that I won and this is also another item that he made. It is a spoon ring. So you can see right there, it comes together and that's also a silver plate. So very, very cool. That was a freebie. This item is number 27. So let's look on our list. Sterling Silver Thong Sandal Necklace. I paid $3 for this and he did disclose that the chain has a tiny knot that he couldn't get out. So my husband can usually get stuff like that out. It might be a little more knotted now from shipment. Let me see here. Let's see if we can get this out of here. Okay, there we go. So you can see it right here. It's really tiny, but if you take a needle, I'm pretty sure you can get that out. So this is just really, really cute little sterling silver piece. You can see right there, it's Mark 925 and I got that for $3. So I will be listing that. Number 11 is a silver plate full wrap chunky spoon ring and he made this also. How cool is that? It wraps around right here and I paid $2 for that also. Silver plate, super cool. It makes really beautiful jewelry. Definitely check out his site. This one is number 16. Trying to find it here. Where is 16? Oh, two pair of silver plate stud earrings. He also made these. These are really, really cool. I love these. They're made out of silverware. So the top of silverware, like the ornate decorative part. How cool are these? Those neat. So I ended up paying $2 for both pair. I mean, that is fantastic. So super excited about those. Just really nice quality stuff. This one is number 21. It is a vintage sterling silver onyx thunderbird pendant and I did pay $3 for this one. You can see there. And on the back it is marked sterling and it looks like it has like a leaf hallmark. This item right here has two numbers stuck to it. I think the five came off something else. So number 20, let's see, 20 heavy sterling silver. South Carolina state flag pendant. I paid $5 for this. So this one, it's got the, I guess it says South Carolina. I don't know. But you can see this is what the back looks like. And I want to say it's marked down in this area, 925. So I did get that as well. Here is another cuff bracelet, $2. And these were all auction and I bid and this is what I won them for. So this was one of his earlier auctions. So this one was also $2. Again, just really pretty spoon that has been or I think it's a spoon that's been turned into a bracelet. This one I paid a lot of four pair of vintage earrings. I paid $3 for these. So let's take a peek here. This one broke but it can be glued back together. It probably just got banged around in transit. But pretty cool little screw back there. That's probably an easy fix. It's got a little bit of yuck on it. So I don't know if I'll even mess with repairing that. And that happens with vintage jewelry. This one is a clip on. I don't think these are signed or anything. You know, super fancy. Here's the match clip on. So again, paid $3 for these. This one it's got it's like a leaf. This one says something right here. 12 carat gold filled. So it's like kind of I don't know like a shooting shooting pearls. They do need cleaned up but screw back and those are gold filled. So maybe have my husband look at those. See if he can get them cleaned up for me. I'm not much into cleaning stuff. I don't like cleaning stuff. I don't like fixing stuff. So that was $3. So that is everything I got. All right. So that was again 360 vintage. He is on Instagram. He is on eBay. He is on YouTube as well. TikTok and whatnot. So be sure to follow him. Okay. I have one more thing I want to show you here. Okay. So this came from auctions for you. And it came from her but it didn't come from her. I actually got two gifts. And I'm trying to remember who the shirt was from. Somebody had won a shirt and they already had one. So they sent it to me and it is we'll show you that in a minute. Auctions for you wishes you a Merry Christmas. They already had the other shirt. The original shirt from auctions for you. So she sent me the Christmas shirt. And that is awesome. And I want to say it was Barbara that gifted me this because she won it and already had a shirt. So that was from auctions for you. And then auctions for you T was having a special show where she was doing like a where you pick what you want. And Christopher won and his YouTube channel is I buy Chit and it's C H I T and he gifted this set to me. I got this necklace which is sterling silver. So this was super nice of him and he's like keep it, sell it, do whatever you want with it. And Christopher is just known to do that. He is super generous, super kind heart. And I was in the chat and he decided that he wanted to pass this along to me. So that was super, super sweet. And here is the other item and it is it's marked I can't it's nine to five Judith something I can't I don't have a loop or anything but right on the inside it says Judith something and it's nine to five. I don't know what I don't know what type of stone that is. I have no idea but just a pretty little ring. So thank you Christopher I really, really appreciate it. Really nice of you to do that for me. So those are the things that I wanted to share with you guys in this video and thanks for watching. Thanks for watching and comment below with any questions. I will do my best to help you and if I don't have an answer, I'll get Rachel Strickland Rachel sorry. All right. Thanks.


to understand that how a stock's market price approaches its intrinsic value. We have an example to consider, now for undervalued stock whose intrinsic value is greater than its current price or P0 this means that there is some discrepancy. Now for such stock the expected rate of capital gain needs certain assumptions like this discrepancy will never disappear, the P0 will tend upward at the rate of G forever. The discrepancy between V0 and P0 will grow also at the same rate. We can also see this discrepancy in our example where for the current year the discrepancy is equal to 2$ and that is the difference between V0 and P0 and for next year the discrepancy remains the same at least at 2 but the value is 2.08 so this discrepancy is also growing for the second year. This means that expected return will exceed the required rate of return or the K as the dividend yield is higher than it would be provided the present value of the stock or P0 or stock's current market price is equal to its intrinsic value. This means if we quantify our assumption then expected return is equal to D1 over P0 plus G we have D1 of 4$ and current stock price of 48$ we have growth rate of 4% the resulting answer is 12.3% so our expected rate of return has also been increased. Now identifying this undervalued stock can get an expected dividend that will be exceeding the required return by 30p basis point as we have seen our example. Now there is an alternative to this assumption and that says that the gap between P0 and V0 will be vanished by year end so the P0 will be equal to V0 this means that it will be equal to 52$ in our example if you see let's see the example expected return which is equal to P1 plus P0 P1 over P0 plus P1 minus P0 over P0 so we have two components here dividend yield and the capital gain yield this means that we have a 4 divided by 48 plus 52 minus 48 divided by 48 so when we sum up these two yields we have expected rate of return of 16.67% the stock in future expect to generate only fair rate of return means that many stock analysts then assume that P0 will approaches to V0 gradually over a certain period of time for example over a 5 year period the expected 1 year holding period return may be somewhere between 12.33% and the 16.67% that we have computed earlier.


This video is a little bit different because in this video We're talking about how to raise your vibrations or frequency in order to astral project lucid dream shift Or just generally have a better experience, you know raise your vibration improve your ability to manifest and do things and just Enhance your energy in general. So I just want to make this very clear at the beginning when I say raise your vibrations That's a term which a lot of people Well, not a lot of people but some people would be put off by because I think it's some new-agey thing some spiritual nonsense Really what I'm just referring to is just raising the bar in Several areas of your life with regard to your body and mind You know just like you when you go to the gym There's certain exercises that are more effective than others and if you do those exercises you'll have more Gains let's say more strength more muscle more more ability So when I say raising your vibrations, I really just mean improving yourself in Certain key areas and then when you do that it will have knock-on effect on things like lucid dreaming and other things You want to try so before we get into this affirmations and you know what you tell yourself is very important So go and comment saying I will raise my vibrations now or I am high vibration Because what this does is actually programs your subconscious mind to believe that you are raising your vibrations and you are becoming better Affirmations are incredibly powerful. This is why top athletes top CEOs Pretty much anyone who's high-performing and doing well at what they do will be using affirmations They'll be visualizing and they'll be doing things like this. So how can raising your vibrations actually help you to Do whatever you want to do lucid dream astral project shift manifest Well, you've got to think of yourself as almost like a tuning fork So when you are at a certain vibration or frequency you will then attract and influence other people or situations or things That are at the same frequency so a very easy example of this which Literally anyone can kind of verify for themselves is if you think of those people you might know who seem to attract Really positive experiences and people to them it almost seems like everything they touch turns to gold and things are just effortless for them I'm sure you know someone at least like this right and then you probably also know somebody who Constantly seems to be struggling with something. They're constantly the victim. They're always, you know Having bad experiences bad relationships bad a bad time at their job Financial trouble, you know, they all all of these things seem to go together and it's not a coincidence And it's certainly not random What it is is that when you're at a certain frequency you will like I said, you'll attract other things at that frequency And this has been said countless times throughout history in different ways, you know People will have said you attract what you think you what you focus on you get more of We are what we we become what we think about there's all kinds of quotes which are basically saying the same thing You will attract what you what you are, you know, your vibration your vibrational state is what you will attract So the good news is it's very easy to change this. Okay, so let's just get right into it now So how can you raise your vibration? The first one is something that even the most skeptical among us You know who you are Cannot refute. Okay, and that is meditation meditation has so many powerful benefits that have been documented Scientifically but also just by billions of people around the world throughout history meditation is so powerful that it's Included as one of the main tools in almost every Transformational growth program every coaching program high-level CEOs athletes, you know Really anyone who is trying to better themselves you will use meditation because it just works So if you don't already meditate, it's very easy to start All you need to do is just set a timer for five minutes every morning Just go put the timer on and just kind of focus on your breath for those five minutes Try not to focus on anything else And then if you do focus on if you do find yourself thinking about other things just bring your attention back to the breath That's one way of meditating. There's obviously hundreds of ways that you can try number two is another thing which is very hard to Disprove or dis or not believe and that is that you will be the average of the five people you spend the most time with So this has been said in many different circles in business in personal growth in really any area of your life You will be you will absorb and become like the five people you spend the most time with so if you're spending your time with five people Who are very negative They're not, you know, they're under achieving. They are unhealthy. They complain about things. They gossip Then you will become exactly like that if you're not already in the same way if you hang around five hyper successful, you know Healthy wealthy positive people then you will also become like that. It's just one of those rules You just I don't know how it works, but you just Well, I don't know how it works actually, but it just is one of those things that is very easy to prove If you look at any social group any friendship group They will all be very similar in terms of their health their ability their achievements their Financial situation and their mindset they will be very similar and of course you'll have exceptions But as a rule of thumb people will sort of group themselves with the people who will like them But you can use that to your advantage and you can actually let's say if you are not how you want to be You can decide to go and pick out five people who you do want to be like and then just Try and spend more time with them try and hang around with them, you know Try and be more like them number three is a very easy and simple one And that is just to set the intention just decide that you actually want to raise your vibrations And that you want to change it's as simple as that number four is to sleep better Okay, so sleep has been described as our main superpower without sleep we would literally die and with with sleep with good sleep you can basically improve and heal from almost anything It's very beneficial for Anything you can imagine and most people Like the vast majority people are not getting enough sleep and they're not getting enough quality sleep So what I would suggest you do is to pick up a sleep tracker like this. This is an aura ring. Let me just So this is an aura ring. And as you can see it doesn't look very different to Your typical ring, but it's tracking my sleep.  It's been about one or two years now but there are people who seem to be getting sick all the time lately for reasons which I Clearly know but I can't explain on this video So Yeah, it tells you if you're getting sick It's useful track to sleep and then it kind of gives you tips on how to improve your sleep Number five and this is kind of again quite a general one But there's so much detail here I just can't go into it all on this video and that is to get a snapshot of who you are as a person as a soul as an ego and you know like your personality traits your history your astrology your numerology and your archetype now What I would say is don't focus on any one area here because these are just kind of data points What you want to do is collect as many of these data points as you can you want to get a snapshot of your your Vitamin levels your astrology your archetype your numerology your birth chart and All of these things when you put them together and take a step back Then you can take a look at yourself and see ah, this is a pattern I can recognize or you know this area needs a bit of work and So I'm gonna list and leave a list of free and some paid tools in the description most of them actually are free especially like the moon reading the numerology the astrology thing and a few personality tests you can get Most of them free if you click in the links and I really encourage you to do them because for a very small amount of money I think in total it'll be like 30 dollars for you know, most of these paid versions as well as the free ones You will get a very clear snapshot of you as a person and it will show you exactly How you tick basically so very interesting to know and number seven and this is not the last one because I'm going to go on to Kind of signs of a high vibration and warnings as well But number seven is something that Tony Robbins talks a lot about and that is to reframe or change your reaction and There's different ways of explaining this basically your reaction or your reaction of state is how you respond to things Without really thinking about it and without deciding. It's kind of like a default response And what you'll find is that most people when they have something stressful happen Their default response will be to either panic or to get angry and Then sort of in between that you'll have people who will just freeze or they'll kind of just give up and not do anything and Of course these three responses none of them help you literally none of those responses help you and None of them actually help you solve the problem. They all kind of make it worse. So you have to ask yourself Why do I react in that way? If the reaction I'm you know giving the reaction I'm having doesn't help me in any way It literally makes things worse So just take decide now to step in and say I'm going to change how I react to things I'm going to change my default states and Refrain my emotional state easier said than done, of course now if you want to learn more about that check out Tony Robbins work He's done a number of like courses about this So how can you raise your vibration in the morning? The reason I say the morning is because in the morning our brainwaves are in a certain frequency where we absorb ideas more easily So this is one of the key reasons why you should not look at your phone first thing in the morning Especially social media because you're going to be absorbing things that you don't want to absorb So make sure that when you first wake up you meditate you write your dreams down or you record your dreams in a like an audio transcription app I made another video about that and of course don't look at your phone other than the app that I just told you to use So don't look at social media specifically So what are some signs of a high vibration signs that you're on the right track?  So the first one is that good experiences good things Seem to keep happening to you or they keep happening around you. You keep getting Attracted or invited to things maybe people message you or you just get opportunities that you You know that most people don't get this is a good sign Another one is that in the same way people are drawn to you People will reach out and get in touch with you or people maybe even in public like You're walking around or you're browsing a shop and someone will literally come up to you and start conversation with you You'll attract people in a certain way and people who kind of resonate on the same level as you will It's almost like they can just see you that you stick out compared to everyone else because your vibration is high And people can see this, you know, but you can see this in your eyes people can see this in your energy and just the way you interact with the world and That will actually attract people who will like that towards you and then another sign is that your default state kind of the The default emotional reaction that you have to things is very positive So if something happens your first reaction without even thinking is is a positive one You don't freak out. You don't panic. You don't get angry. You just kind of observe what's happening And then you ask yourself questions, you know, how can I fix this if it's a problem? How can I solve this? Why is this happening? Why am I you know why if you are if you do react ask yourself Why am I reacting in that way and then try and identify like the root cause of that reaction? Could be an insecurity. It could be a belief Could be anything literally, but there's always a reason there's always something which causes it So yeah, those are some signs of a high vibration This is a topic as you can as you can tell which I don't normally Share on this channel. So this channel is like I said mostly focus on lucid dreaming and astral projection and a bit of shifting my other channel astral HQ is where I talk much more about spirituality consciousness reality and All of the metaphysical Complex and I would say more important topics so please go and check out my other channel astral HQ if you haven't already and Leave a comment now just saying I will raise my vibrations if you didn't do this before You know when I first said it it was about 10 minutes ago Then try and do it now because affirmations are really important and they will help you to change your subconscious beliefs