Hi everyone.  I have no neutral thoughts. Also I received a question this morning so I thought I would address that question also after the reading of the lesson and then maybe do a little commentary, bring in again a little bit maybe a paragraph or two from from chapter 15 which has a lot to talk about in terms of the Holy Instant and and private thoughts. So we'll see how that all ties together with our lesson of the day. So today's lesson I have no neutral thoughts. The idea for today is a beginning step in dispelling the belief that your thoughts have no effect. Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. There is no exception to this fact. Thoughts are not big or little, powerful or weak. They are merely true or false. Those that are true create their own likeness. Those that are false make theirs. So right away we're getting some great instructions on really what's going on in the mind, in consciousness and we could say that there's like a fog or a veil of thoughts which are private thoughts. They're just thoughts of the past and the future and they're thoughts of specifics.  Those are thoughts that are part of the light and so the whole point we're going into today is when you believe in this world then part of that belief system is the belief that my thoughts are just private little thoughts that I have in running through my consciousness and they have nothing to do with the world and most people would say yeah well I'm thinking one thing is one thing but actually acting on it is another thing or believing that it's real is another thing but actually what Jesus is going to teach us today is that you don't really have a context for your thoughts. So this is a great mind training lesson in thoughts. We've already been told that these thoughts don't mean anything in lesson seven and we've already been told in lesson 10 my thoughts do not mean anything so now we're going to take it a step further and realize that it's the beginning step in dispelling the belief that thoughts have no effect it's basically the belief that your mind is ineffectual when actually the mind is extremely powerful. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions. You can indeed multiply nothing but you will not extend it by doing so. So this is a beautiful paragraph basically a lot of times I've said over the years you know the world is nothing more than a motion picture of thoughts of ego thoughts it's a motion picture of private thoughts and so the real thoughts which are thoughts that we think with God you know my mind truly holds only what I think with God those real thoughts extend the truth they're they extend spirit that's what creation is it's spirit extending spirit is creation there's nothing to do with perception there's nothing to do with this world so he says you can indeed multiply nothing but you will not extend it by doing so this is really carrying on from what we've learned in the text that that what is real and true what comes from God is naturally extended God extended love and light and that was Christ and then Christ is pure spirit and Christ has extensions creations it's all a continuous line of creation spirit creates spirit creates spirit just like in the bible we talked in form of this this person family begat begat begat begat if you forever read the bible there's a lot of begats and this is Jesus teaching us well we tell you about spirit extend extend extend extend so you can indeed multiply nothing but you will not extend it by doing so one times zero is zero a million times zero is zero a trillion times zero is zero the ego is the zero so it doesn't matter if you multiply it by a trillion you have a trillion of nothing so you can indeed multiply nothing but you will not extend it by doing so only the thoughts of God can be extended that's that's a basic law of creation in heaven and that's something that's pushed out of awareness but it's it's coming back we're going to remember that if it's the last thing we do we will remember heaven and we will remember creation besides your recognizing that thoughts are never idle salvation requires that you also recognize that every thought you have brings either peace or war every thought you have brings either peace or war either love or fear a neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible there is such a temptation to dismiss fear thoughts as unimportant trivial and not worth bothering about that it is essential that you realize you recognize them all as equally destructive but equally unreal we will practice this idea in many forms before you really understand it so it's essential that we recognize all of these private thoughts as equally destructive but also equally unreal private thoughts are thoughts that you try to think on your own apart from the whole apart from apart from God and so when we look at this world it's not only a perceptual hallucination it's not only a world of projected images of private thoughts my thoughts are images I have made it's a projected world of these erroneous or unreal thoughts and that's what we're learning with this workbook lesson my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world oh that's good to know but also we just finished lesson 14 a couple days ago God did not create a meaningless world so God has nothing to do with this world so you don't have to be afraid of being punished by God because God doesn't even know of punishment you know punishment is an is an ego concept sin is an ego belief you can call it error if you want that's that is the ego it's an error that's already been corrected but you can't correct it if you hide it and you protect it if you push it out of awareness in the unconscious that's how you keep the ego you don't release the ego by keeping it out of awareness in applying the idea for today search your mind for a minute or so with eyes closed and actively seek not to overlook any quote little thought that may tend to elude the search this is quite difficult until you get used to it you will find that it is still hard for you not to make artificial distinctions every thought that occurs to you regardless of the qualities that you assign to it is a suitable subject for applying today's idea in the practice periods first repeat the idea to yourself and then as each one crosses your mind hold it in awareness while you tell yourself this thought about whatever an apple is a neutral thought this thought about my body is not a neutral thought this thought about my house is not a neutral thought this thought about my picture of Jesus back there is not a neutral thought it looks like the flower over there over here there we are this picture of this flower is not a neutral thought this bed is not a neutral thought you know you can you can let any thought that crosses your mind go through hold it in awareness for a moment and just tell yourself this thought about whatever the the thing person plays image situation object black hole galaxy aliens whatever whatever the thoughts are you know it's it's not a neutral thought as usual use today's idea whenever you are aware of a particular thought that arouses uneasiness the following form is suggested for this purpose this thought about what's filled in the blank this thought about my housemates is not a neutral thought because I have no neutral thoughts it's not about the weather is not a neutral thought because I have no neutral thoughts this thought about the the song that I heard on the radio or on the internet this morning is not a neutral thought because I have no neutral thoughts four or five practice periods are recommended if you find them relatively effortless if strain is experienced three will be enough the length of the exercise period should also be reduced if there is discomfort so again Jesus is is wanting us to to take it easy you know he's he's basically easing us in to this mind training we're only on lessons 16 now we're only on day 16 in the in the calendar year if you some of you are doing the lesson in conjunction with the calendar today today's January 16 so he's easing us in he's saying if if you do three practice periods with this and you start to feel just uncomfortable and a little bit of strain or stress in your mind stop there three is enough but if you feel pretty good then try four or five practice periods now you're starting to get a sense if you don't have any neutral thoughts that again we'll come back and and remind ourselves what Jesus just taught us that every thought we have either extends the truth or it multiplies illusion it either is a thought of light coming from the light and it's extending the light it's extending creation it's extending spirit or it's multiplying illusions so if you have a thought that doesn't come from God it it is just an attempt to multiply illusions you know we could talk about human beings or we could talk about men and women and children but but we know that there's like maybe like 7.8 billion human beings on planet earth i think it's growing a lot more than that it's growing every day but actually that's a good example of multiplying illusions that's example of multiplying the illusion or the thought of bodies 7.8 billion and and counting more more more on the way we're not in a population decline at this point you know it's it's still population growing even though the pandemic and all kinds of things have come it's still still growing and and Jesus is saying well let's just bring it back to the mind level whenever you're thinking private thoughts thinking thoughts of specifics thinking about specific things of the past that you remember or or specific things of the future that you project those are the private thoughts and those are multiplying illusions so we're getting closer to the mechanism what's going on in the mind what's going on in consciousness we've had a lot of great mystics and saints that have told us be still pray meditate silence your mind and we've tried different ones there's there's tm there's vipassana there's so many different techniques and kinds of meditation there's so many practices that are part of spiritual repetition rituals practices hail mary prayers and catholicism you know there's so much and now we have some great great great metaphysics where jesus is saying here try my workbook lesson out that'll be your form of meditation as you move through the day and i'm going to ease you into it and then as we move along you'll just go deeper and deeper in your mind training and you'll go deeper into the closeness of the light also we can start to realize that that whenever you think of anything you you have past considerations of it and there there are attached to whatever you think about uh preferences like if i use the word i used a little while ago apple you know it's not just an apple set apart from time and space and uh coming from an apple tree uh it's basically saying that if you believe anything specific for example an apple it's not neutral there are no neutral apples you you have subjective opinions and preferences about apples the kinds of apples that you like sweet ones or sour ones the kind that you like green apples yellow apples do you like red apples uh do you like small apples do you like large apples you know whenever you think of an apple there's no neutral thoughts associated with that apple as well as anything else in the cosmos and we're not just talking about the the big things you know there are no neutral galaxies there are no neutral solar systems and then you could go down to the tiny tiny tiny level there are no neutral molecules there are no neutral electrons and protons there aren't any even neutral subatomic particles there's an opinion associated a preference with that you talk about subatomic particles some people go what's that or i don't want you i don't even want to know what that is but that's a preference too there nothing is neutral in the cosmos in all of time and space Einstein said it's all relatives that's another way of saying that there's gradations there's levels there's preferences involved it's all relatives time space motion gravity everything all the laws of physics are are all relative and everything in perception is relative it's it's a private world of projected from private thoughts and so when you say you like something in your private world of the ego you can say i like this i don't like this i prefer this i don't like that i want pleasure but i want to avoid pain mm same thing that's right leisure and pain are the same you both are are attempts from the ego to reinforce the body as reality and the spirit is reality body is not reality so you can see how deep this goes and you can also see it applies to everything you ever thought you did or anyone else ever did or that you will do or anyone else will do if it sounds profound yeah this is really profound we got jesus christ giving us teachings on the mind now and how to escape the ego some spiritual teachers say the mind is the problem jesus is saying well the mind has thoughts and those thoughts either extend the truth or they multiply illusion so the mind's not the problem it's which thought system am i going to invest in the holy spirit's thought system of love which is eternal the eternal nature of thoughts of light and love or the ego's belief system and thought system of attack and defense of lack of guilt shame grief pain death you know that's the choice and in the end we're also learning that thoughts are not powerful or weak because because if thoughts are real they obviously are are important because reality is important god is reality love is reality peace is reality this is important and then when we start to try to divide up the unreal thoughts into big and small powerful and weak good and bad right and wrong all those kind of things that were are just ego judgments in the end morality is just like a stepping stone concept to coming to a pure heart blessed are the pure heart for they shall see god pure of heart so so ethics and morality those are nice stepping stone ideas but they're very much on the human level and what we're doing with Jesus is we're saying let's let's go beyond the horizontal plane let's go vertical let's go in alignment with god so i did have a question that was written into me by my friend jeff in minnesota and basically jeff's question is how might we experience light episodes and i don't think we're at the point we're not quite at that point yet of the workbook where jesus is going to talk about light episodes but he's going to talk about these little like little surrounding light around the familiar objects that you typically perceive and then this is is an introduction or you might say it's a stepping stone towards the vision of christ and when jesus talks about seeing in the workbook later on he'll say i'm determined to see and above all else i'm determined to see uh or i'm determined to see things differently above all else i'm determined to see things differently that's seeing he's talking about vision he's talking about christ vision he's not talking about this seeing but this is not seeing at all later on he'll talk more about that the body's eyes were made not to see the body's ears were made not to hear listen the body was made by the ego and is part of a trick so don't think the five senses are going to be helpful ultimately to find the vision of christ but they can be used by the holy spirit and that's part of a miraculous way of perceiving where we still perceive a world but we we have this feeling in us that that we're just looking on something that's false and it's it's wonderful when we when we're in the miracle it's absolutely wonderful so how might we experience quote light episodes i'm pretty sure it would be a mistake to look for them but that we might come to expect them in a non-personalized nature the same as a miracle it feels uplifting knowing that the possibility represents a hole in the fabric of time and space that we can literally and directly see the light so that's beautiful that's what i was just talking about that that these are like the the the preludes these are the forerunners to spiritual vision to let that and i be single or when helen shuckman was first taking down a course in miracles she started to use a term jesus was using a term the spiritual lie which later on he said now go back and change the spiritual lie to the holy spirit but in the early writings that's what it was and and it is a forerunner of of light of having a we'll say a pure kind of temporary but pure light episode would would be revelation and revelatory experiences are seeing the great rays capital g capital r uh the the the abstract love and light of heaven that's like a direct but brief contact with god and temporaries word too temporary brief direct contact with god that's what a revelation is and miracles are just a way of seeing the false is false happily seeing the false as false because that's the key to starting to realize that you have no neutral thoughts all thoughts of this world and time and space that are judged positively or negatively are are definitely not neutral and and we could say that this is jesus's attempt to set to dispel the belief in idle thoughts uh somebody says how's your meditation going uh it's some good quiet points there but i had some idle thoughts drifting in and out of my mind and jesus is like there are no idle thoughts these these thoughts you're calling idle thoughts are are are making the cosmos that you're perceiving they're making the world that you're perceiving they're making the body they're making everything in form so there are no idle thoughts and yet when we go deeper into that and we see where jesus is taking us again i'm going to just go back a little bit to uh to chapter 15 you know for for some of you that are familiar with jesus's text and of course in miracles you know that he he uses chapter 15 to chapter 24 to talk about special relationships and say that that is the major block to the kingdom of heaven to remembering the kingdom of heaven remembering god is you have to see special relationships for what they are and realize that they don't have anything that you want because you want god and god didn't make the special relationships the ego is ingenious it invented special relationships to take the place of of of a direct connection with god because the ego you know is dispelled in the light perfect love casts out fear the bible tells us so the ego made all these special relationships but also in chapter 15 he talks about the holy instant which is jesus's way of talking about the present moment and you know how much i talk about the present moment and almost all mystics and saints talk about the present moment uh out the modern day ones the old timers the one centuries ago the present moment the present moment the present moment jesus calls it the holy instant and basically that's what uh this chapter 15 and i'm going to quote again is so important because it's going to talk about the holy instant and and private thoughts and i talked about this earlier but i i like to talk about simplicity this is from the fourth section in in chapter 15 the reason this course is simple is that the truth is simple complexity is of the ego and is nothing more than the ego's attempt to obscure the obvious you could live forever in the holy instant beginning now and reaching to eternity but for a very simple reason do not obscure the simplicity of this reason for if you do it will be only because you prefer not to recognize it and not to let it go the simple reason simply stated is this the holy instant is a time in which you receive and give perfect communication this means however that is the time in which your mind is open both to receive and give it is the recognition that all minds are in communication it therefore seeks to change nothing but merely to accept everything so in that first paragraph here that i'm quoting from section four there of chapter 15 basically he's teaching us that the present moment is our gateway to eternity and it's the present moment is the moment when you can give and receive perfect communication but this communication is coming to you from the light from spirit and this perfect communication is you could say telepathic it's it's getting in touch with the real thoughts in the mind it's not just being soothed by a few words you know you are loved i am with you always even till the end of time you know the thoughts of the bible that jesus spoke our beautiful thoughts before abraham was i am but to actually have a direct communication in which you perfectly give and receive communication you have to come to this quiet moment this present moment and the way that you approach it is is this lesson that we're doing today i have no neutral thoughts it's starting to to give up the idea that you can categorize the thoughts of consciousness the thoughts of of the ego that you can categorize objects and images into a hierarchy of illusions that you can make some more important than others all of the thoughts of the past all of the thoughts of the future are the same their attempts to multiply illusions because the past and the future don't exist the present moment is all that there is is and if you go through the course you go through the workbook and and the and the text and the manual you'll see jesus has lot to say about this you know the past is gone the future is but imagine these concerns are but defenses against present change of focus he's wanting us to focus and appreciate our real thoughts the thoughts that we think with god he will have workbook lessons that he will repeat over and over my mind holds only what i think with god he will repeat these over and over he's encouraging us to get in touch with our real thoughts he's encouraging us not to make distinctions between false thoughts because false is false illusion is illusion there aren't better illusions than worth worth illusions there there aren't bigger ones and smaller ones there aren't uh there there just is no range to falsity when he says the false is false he means all of it is false his first lesson in the workbook is nothing i see means anything and he means by nothing he means nothing no thing no thing at all nothing no thing i see means anything it's their inventions everything was invented by the ego to blind us from the truth of i am to to blind us from the i am spirit recognition which is enlightenment so then he will move on into what we need to know in order to release these private thoughts he basically says uh how can you do this when you would prefer to have private thoughts and keep them that's the key word keep what can we put in place of keep how can you do this when you would prefer to have private thoughts and keep them let's try another word we want to release them we don't want to keep them we want to release them the only way you could do that would be to deny the perfect communication that makes the holy instant what it is you believe you can harbor thoughts you would not share and that salvation lies in keeping thoughts to yourself alone for in private thoughts known only to yourself you think that you find a way to keep what you would have alone and share what you would share and then you wonder why it is that you are not in full communication with those around you and with god who surrounds you all of you together so perception was made by the ego perception is selective and the ego is saying oh what a great world we have here you can pick and choose you have the ability to choose spiritual teachers have have been sharing the idea that god gave mankind or human beings free will yeah well god god gave christ free will in heaven but human beings are all part of a destined prearranged script that's already written that they're just part of a a projected script that actually is not long it's actually one instant it's what jesus calls the unholy instant all of time and space is contained in one instant go to the workbook lesson it's in the future we're not there yet we're only on lesson 16 but there's a workbook lesson only an instant does this world endure and he's going to talk about that little tiny instant the unholy instant and he's going to ask us basically to overlook it and reclaim our true identity where holy instant not where it's when now there's no where involved in in identity but there is a there is now because now is the gateway to eternity so as he goes on in that section again the final i'll just read paragraph nine the necessary condition for the holy instant does not require that you have no thoughts that are not pure but it does require that you have none that you would keep so that's a big distinction you don't have to to try to prepare for the holy instant say as soon as i have no impure thoughts then then i'll be ready for you jesus and jesus is like no i'm ready for you now and you don't have to reach a state where you don't have any impure thoughts but it does require that you have none that you would keep so whenever you see preferences and judgments and grievances arising that's the time to just in your mind quietly just to say holy spirit i give this to you i give all of my apple thoughts to you holy spirit that i may know my real thoughts i give all my tree thoughts all my snow thoughts to you holy spirit that i may know my real thoughts it is giving you the instant you would have it atonement would not be if there were no need for it you will not be able to accept the perfect communication as long as you would hide it from yourself you know the final stage of the stages of development of trust and the final characteristic of a teacher of god in the manual for teachers is open-mindedness for what you would hide is hidden from you in your practice then try only to be vigilant against deception and seek not to protect the thoughts you would keep to yourself let the holy spirit's purity shine them away and bring all your awareness to the readiness for purity he offers you thus will he make you ready to acknowledge that you are host to god and hostage to no one and no thing host to god and not a hostage to anyone and anything not a hostage to this world not a hostage to the ego not a hostage to the false beliefs of this world whoo here we go host to god doesn't that feel good today i'm going to be a host who are you hosting god oh yeah he'll be sparkling with that one i'm host to god today i am host to god and hostage to nothing i am not at the mercy of anything i am not a victim of anything i am not powerless to anything of the world whoa does that undo undo the perceptual world ego has no answer to that host to god oh the ego is not pleased with that idea because that is a welcoming in your heart to love to divine love to eternal love okay wow well that was a good one i have no neutral thoughts and we just kind of unpacked that one okay thank you all for joining me again if you want to write in questions please do in any way that you want through a course of miracles question list on our mailing list if you're part of our living miracles mailing list or yeah you can find my email address on the internet and just send me an email if you want that's what my friend jeff did today and i wish you all a joyful day in which you are having a very still moment uh in the present moment and just watching all the thoughts and saying no i have no neutral thoughts i'm not going to buy into that one today okay


How's it going guys? Welcome back to another JHR view and today we're gonna be looking at this sports mini mp3 player by Suobi and It's really interesting because this is supposed to be used when you're swimming or maybe you're like an you know jacuzzi or something and It's supposed to be able to maintain its quality. So that's actually really cool. I've never really Thought about using an mp3 player while swimming before but let's go ahead and look at the side right here If we zoom in real quick Shows that it comes with some headphones in here that look to be waterproof Comes with multiple different attachments a USB to charge it a USB extender cable and it shows that it works with PC and Mac which is cool says that this is 8 gigabytes Says it's submergeable waterproof mp3 player and headphones Has a clip as a multiple digital audio out formats compatible high-quality sound and low power consumption Shuffle function built-in 8 gigabyte memory built in rechargeable battery 15 hours of music playback and Mac and PC and if you want to look at the technicals you can go ahead and pause right here I'll go ahead and zoom in real quick for you guys Without further ado, let's go ahead and open this up and see how it sounds and works Kind of has a plastic encasing I didn't bend this back And it should just slide right out there we go So here's the mp3 player. I think it's stuck in there with some kind of Probably a twisty tie or something Let's go ahead and pop that up It's interesting how it is put in here. How does that open? Ah The open symbol with the arrow Looks as though there's some kind of little thing right here. Oh, it's the clip that's actually holding it on So if you pull that up Or maybe it's the other way. I'm not too sure Let's just it's made out of paper so we can rip it There we go. Just pull it off So this is what the mp3 player looks like Kind of like a little pod design looks like something you keep your AirPods and let's go ahead and zoom in on it real quick so it has a Play and pause four words backwards and then the volume up and down then on the back it has the Information and the brand name We have the headphone jack and then the charging port is Unknown at the moment Wondering where that is So I went ahead and pulled this out of the bag very interesting It charges as well through the headphone jacks you put in the headphone jack and then connect it through USB So you probably transferred data over this as well. I haven't seen something like this in a long time since like the iPod shuffle Pretty cool stuff Go ahead and set this down zoom back in on the box Let's go ahead and pull out the rest of the stuff in here right here We have the instruction booklet some accessories with the headphones and the little nubs for different shaped ears Extender so that you can make it longer and Then it says your referral is our greatest compliment. So There's that and it says warning The USB cable attached to your MP3 player is not water resistant Yeah, you want to make sure that's totally dry and that's not what inside before you connect that to your PC or Charging dock might get a little bit of a shock or fry it So, yeah, let's go ahead and load a song on here and see how it works and sounds All right So I went ahead and connected the MP3 player through on some new copyright music And let's go ahead and set that down and then unpackage these headphones. Well, that's interesting Look at this. These are shaped super interestingly. I guess these ridges help it to not let water in your ear when you're swimming That's really cool All right, let's go ahead and connect these and see how it all sounds All right, I'm just gonna plug that in And then let's see I'm assuming you turn it on by holding down to the play button got a red light as a Sample song on here. Let's go next see if my music showed up. Yep. My music that I put on here is actually working Headphones feel a little funny because they're going a lot deeper than they normally would primarily because it's so they don't get water in there They're not bad quality. They're pretty decent for just, you know Complementary headphones that come with it. And yeah, go back Forward Yeah, and it's working. Let's see if we can hear a little bit of actually Let's see how loud it goes and see if you guys can hear it. So, yeah It works as intended and it was really easy. I just went to YouTube to mp3 Plugged it in automatically popped up into a new window through the file in there and immediately it showed up and let me play it So works as intended, but I'm not gonna dunk this in water It is pretty good and I'm pretty sure that will work good in water I mean it says that it will and from just looking at it its visual dexterity and Where its seam lines are seem like it will be um pretty good I wouldn't bring it in water if you don't have the headphone jack plugged in there though because that's just a open wound But yeah, pretty cool, and I look forward to testing it out in my jacuzzi Huge shout out to my patreons. Thank you guys so much for your support You guys are awesome. If you enjoyed this video and found this interesting Don't forget to comment rate and subscribe. Feel free to check out my patreon I have a multitude of different tiers that you can do to help support the channel And as always, I'll see you in the next video


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports car drip in 20 23 panini gold standard football hobby five or six box half case break number five picker team style Read off the list for names of our teams got adam elf falcons ravens commanders and the nas bucks berry y with the Niners and the dolphins brandon e vikings brandon s patriots kameron t saints charles l eagles christopher b with the bears uh David d has the cowboys chiefs diana d rams ethan b steelers george m jags gordon p browns texans jakef w packers james f lions j uh saint with the panthers and jets joe o uh broncos jth with the raiders matt s uh colts michael k bills nicolas s giants russell k seahawks tjw cardinals titans tod p with the uh bangles and shroy s with the chargers so good luck here everybody again let's get the next one sold out that is number six number six here we go number five let's see what we got see another one-on-one i feel like we're due for another one-on-one here we are we're sure starting off with juju brentz nice one there julius brentz 275 the starter in the colts secondary right now congrats indy uh dakota dak prescott to 49 for the cowboys uh first hit nick bosa two of ten nice one there the gold rush patch going to the niners congrats san fran very nice one there got a will levis newly minted to 399 congrats on that titans of course his jersey stuff would be more valuable seeing as he has no ink and panini products so that is good got a nick chubb 244 out 299 gold mine uh jersey nice one there congrats uh cleveland first auto is gonna be dj johnson to 199 for the panthers there you go carolina jaylen hyatt 72 of 99 going to the giants there is a little uh surface in perfection down there i'll send an empty box and wrapper what's up tony ross i i want nothing more than a ross i dowling auto my god do i need that that bosa was sweet man bosa was sweet right there sweet ouch all right here we go that is a jamar chase to 75 it's up william how you doing buddy i'm doing well man jamar chase we've got paris johnson jr to 30 on the rookie for the cardinals their first first rounder right there uh again guys here's your link to the next one nine to go gold standard number six dj shark that's nasty seven to ten on the logo patch for the panthers that's cool congrats on that carolina again he is uh that is a panthers card lines jersey uh jamir gibbs on the newly minted rookie jersey to 399 for the lions hey what's up tony appreciate that how you doing buddy so nice jaylen waddle 349 three-card patch for the dolphins for the fins on the gold rush patch we've got khalil shakir 140 or 174 out of 199 jersey auto for the bills good as gold and then rishi rice jumbo rookie jersey auto going to the chief's congrats kansas city nice one there again nine to go on number six breaking after this let's get that filled up single digits which is awesome so i appreciate y'all that is fantastic sam laporta is going to start us off to 75 to 75 neil picking up the jets in number seven thank you neil got mike will mike williams to five two of five there you go congrats on that one there's uh los angeles got malcom rodriguez goldmine jersey to 299 i think this is going to be a random that is newly minted cj shrouded anthony richardson assuming that's going to be a random i would be very surprised if it was not uh texans is gordon p and matt s with the colt so yeah that'll be a random right there so those two teams mother loon to attack by loa that is uh jerseys all the way around 299 to uh got a mackay blackman to 199 rookie auto for the vikings uh here i can drop you the link real quick uh uh saint god justin with the bills and seven michael s with the bucks and six had a couple more come in it looks like uh one two three four five six seven eight to go this is the next one right here eight to go gold standard third number six breaks next and tige spears to 199 rookie auto nice one there for the titans he looks good man he's getting more usage he's getting much more usage now he's like a a change of pace back which is good from henry that's what tennessee needs they need henry and they need like a one-cut speed guy to change up the pace smart honestly that is true collage can see to 30 nice one there Tampa uh number six is the next one this we're on number five right now yeah number six is the next one did i take six off the website accidentally yeah six is still up there that's the next one uh is a pacheco 299 for the chiefs initially i i i know what you mean tony trust me preach into the choir here james connor to 299 for the cardinals nice one arizona very solid very solid mr zay flowers newly minted to 399 for the ravens congrats baltimore we've got mr amon rott st brown to 299 that is going to the uh um lions thank you nice one here tyler scott nice patch on that one of 49 there's some schmack on it over there i'll get rid of that um we'll not get rid of it but i'll send you an empty box and wrap or you might be able to get uh get on that one let me just doc you sign everything get this guy out of here my god we need this guy out of here in trapezoid boxes screwing with me here and rishi rice rookie jumbo jersey to 149 for the chiefs nice one there kasey just sit down with the bills in six rory c with the browns in seven so thank you guys there do i that would be an issue uh tomorrow chase 299 yeah we had a lot of good stuff out of gold standard so far the case hits are sane dude jalen carter to 75 for the eagles 75 for the eagles is jalen carter we've got mr george kittle to 199 for the niners clayton tune to 399 for the cardinals nice one there congrats edezona uh josh jacobs to 299 gold rush for the raiders congrats raiders uh that is going to be redemption divana chain nice one there for the dolphins congrats miami take that on the redemption absolutely nothing wrong with that whatsoever michael wilson rookie jersey otter to 199 joe picking up the vends in six thank you joe one thing really quick here everybody we were down to seven to go in the next one now uh so bret you should be good to go in everything seven it should be seven through 10 now i think six the ravens got bought uh six to go on the next one six to go six to go breaks next gold standard number six all right last box of the break good luck everybody let's see what we've got let's see what we've got good luck tyler lacy well we got i guess jimmy g i picked that one i picked them both up so to 75 jimmy g and then like i was saying tyler lacy to 99 for the jags white gold david montgomery on the jersey card 299 for the lions nice one there detrait the trait brandon picking up the patriots in eight and nine thank you brandon i jalen carter to 399 for the eagles congrats philadelphia we've got josh jacob's to 299 for the raiders a darnel washington to 199 for the stealers on the rookie auto nice one there and then a ty j spears to 199 going to the titan second ty j spears of the break very nice very nice it's got a quick raid and we got to do between the uh texans and the qb dual uh texans texans all right everybody uh gonna roll the dice whatever team's on top after nine times we'll get the card so good luck guys one two three four five six seven eight and nine going to the cults one of the cults you got it yeah thanks sir very nice congrats uh indianapolis do a quick recap here we had jerseys of jaylon carter clayton tune zay flowers jamir gibbs will levis josh jacob's james connor josh jacob's amon rod st brown david montgomery at malcolm rod rigas two attack of i loa nick chubb george kiddle jaylon waddle dj shark nick bosa davon a chane darnel washington ty j spears we've got michael wilson dj johnson ty j spears mackay blackman gliel schakir tyler scott reshi rice reshi rice and jaylon hyatt i was going to do it for the break guys thanks again for the filp up next is number six


So yeah, I was just looking for almost like a scalp for anything because of the first trade, you know, I didn't really know where it was going to go. To be honest with you, I think it had a big move today. When you look at it open at 140 a 50, it ran up almost to 155. That was a big move. You know what I mean? Without the market, yeah. Yeah, I thought that too. And I was kind of, I hesitated a little bit to go into the second trade only because I had been out and I was on my way home. And so it was wet, like it was 153.80. And I said, you know what? I'll just do a little bit and see if I can get some out of it. And I did. So I was happy then to add on to the day, but the option was great. So what did you do with that one? What did you get? So this morning, I took one contract and I got out. So I made $330 on one option. So you quick got out when we got out of the day trade? Yes, I got out of both of them because you know what? Tomorrow's Thursday, tomorrow's, and look what the market did this afternoon just because the Fed said, oh, you know, I was like, why is it all of a sudden started going, everything was going down, like what's going on? And then I read that that I guess it was the Fed meeting this afternoon or the minutes. Yeah, somebody sent me the article, but then it's been again, I don't know where we're going to open tomorrow morning, but it seems like every single Thursday we rally. So it's really, I mean, you're right. So I have I have a confession to make. I had a really rough time right before this earning season. I was down and how am I like how much I could trade every day. And I kind of started this earning season. I identify a lot with what you've been saying in the room, because of the risk and everything. And so I've been managing my risk and I've had a really successful earning season. So I'm kind of back on track. So where did you get off track with the options or the day trades? Both, because I find that I have this awful habit of holding everything too long when I'm up. Really? Yeah, I do.  I don't swing for the fences anymore. So then you've been doing this all of now, the booking the profits July, August or when I started July. In fact, I started it. I just I threw out my old book and I started a new book on July the 13th. Because you were doing really good at the beginning of the year. I was. I was doing good up until St. Patrick's Day. We had a huge option. I think it was in BA. I made like $3,000. I was like sailing high. I was like, I was topped out of all. And then that month, you remember that month where that was a pandemic. Yes. And it seemed like things that should things that should be rallying were selling off and things that were should be selling off were rallying. So the gap downs. So it so it messed me up too. And and it really shook my confidence. So I just said to myself, new book, new earning season, I'm just I'm gonna I'm gonna lower my risk. I'm gonna manage my risk. What I found that I did was even even though I ascertain my risk and the beginning of a trade with the stop, like say it was $200, I would do all the 200 right away so that if we got stopped out, now I was really behind April because that now I if we happen to lose again, I now doubled my loss. Okay. So I found that what I have to have to do is I don't put as much in at the first go round. And if it happens to go to I don't make as much as I would have. But then again, I seem like I've been doing better that way. I don't lose. And then and then I can come back in on the second trade. So, okay, well, that's good. Yeah. But I definitely think things are following through like even the KSS. Look where that went. I mean, I got out of it before it went all the way down to 1930 something. But I mean, like, but again, I've gotten into more of a groove of getting out of the day trades quick. Because I think for a while there, I was wanting to hold some of them too. And then they were backing up. And you know, it's tough when you know something's going to go to a certain number. And it doesn't go there in the time that you want it to go there. Yeah.  It was a really good day. I made $200 today. And if you were talking about that in the room, $200 and five days a week, that's a thousand bucks. That's a good week, you know? So I've been having a really good earning season. Well, that's good. So then you didn't do the test list because they were expensive. Right. Right. And I even started my op. So kind of today, I kind of revamped my option. So I just did the one. I did the target. I didn't do any called yesterday. Okay. And so today I did the target made $330 and I'm out. I'm out. Okay. Okay. What about the Disney's? Did you do those? I did the Disney. I did the Disney last week. And I think I did well with that. Yep. I did well with the Disney. But you know, I only take one contract. And the thing was before I got off track, I was starting to take two and I was trying to hold one and like get out. And I just kind of, I just, you know, less is more. I just have to like go back to like kind of square one. And I have to take the emotion out of it. Like, like, in a way, we're similar like that. We're like, when we're, we have a motion, we're like, oh, let's stop. You know, and that's what happened with the cues last week. You knew it was going, you know, and then all of a sudden boom, and something happened in a flip. Do you remember that day? Yeah, definitely. But the ones now this week, even the apple and the cues, they, they were positive trades. Yes. But they, I'm not going out, but they weren't as much as I thought they were going to be, which is interesting. I took that apple too. And it wasn't, you know, I kind of, but it was positive. But I'm like, you know what, this is not going the way that I think I'm talking about the four sixties. I don't know if you were still in those. No, no, I didn't, I didn't take, I, I kind of just stepped away. And I, I'm like, today was my first day of like, okay, and like, I'm just trying to be really easy does it with everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So you've been, I wasn't at a target today. I just hope that, you know, I was up 110% return investment. So I thought today's a really good place to get out. And it never looked back. So that was, that was a really good way to start with my back with the options today. Well, I think that it's higher, but then again, you don't know what the market's going to do tomorrow, the numbers. So if the market collapses tomorrow, then target won't move tomorrow, even though I called it out for next Friday, it's right too stressful then to hold something when you're up more than 100% a day or two till it goes back around, you know. Yeah. Yeah, it is. And so even, you know, I kind of have this plan that if I'm up anywhere between $15, $100, I'll get out because $100 for the day is good. And I can, you know, so, so we'll see. So, so the options I'm going, but the day trades, I'm very happy about so far in the, now I've been, I've been averaging 100 to 200 risk. That's been my up. And so, so far this earning season, I've made almost $1,400. That's great. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. And we still have one more week left in August. Yeah. And we have some good, I was looking ahead and we have some good things next week. BBBY is next week. There's, there's some really good ones. Good ones. So I didn't even look at what was out tomorrow. I forget. Oh, I love. So tonight we have NVIDIA. Oh, that's right. SNAPS, SNPS. Do we sometimes do that one? And LB. LB, I think we do. Okay. Okay. I'll look for those. And in the morning is BABA. Oh, that's the one. That's the one that was tomorrow. And DJ. Yeah, BABA. We had a good one last week. And that was a surprise. Yeah.  So I assumed that you've been doing good. I didn't know you had, we were holding the issue off. Well, I knew, I knew what my issue was. Yeah. I was going so hot and heavy and, you know, far and yeah. And so I knew what my problem was. I mean, it's definitely hard sometimes. So when I look at that Tessa, which was a great push up there into the one day, and then when it gapped up 100 points the next day, you say, and I knew it was going to gap up. I said it. I knew it was going to gap up. And, but you can't look back and say, you're, you're almost, you're better off getting out with the profit because you know that you have the money that holding it too long and then losing it versus the one and 10 times that it'll do like what Tesla did, which was gap up 100 points.  Now, BA is kind of let us down all of a sudden. But now here's Tesla picking back up because we were going, we were going longer Tesla in the beginning of, I just remember that day trade. It was 325 and we held it all day and I made $2,000 on a day trade. So I mean, you know, so you can understand we're so expensive now though. Yeah, I know it is. I know it's gotten too expensive now to do as a day trade. Although it's going to split. So who knows what's going to happen then. I think it's still going to be expensive then to be honest, but we'll see. We'll see what it, what it does. But BA hasn't been doing anything right. So I'm just, I don't even look at it anymore to be honest with you. Actually, I, I, I peak every once in a while and it's gone down to 169 and it just seems like it won't break that area. Yeah. You know, yeah. I don't even tell me what it does until it falls. You were left out about Altar. Remember last year we did Altar. I know it was the same thing. We're expected more out of that and it didn't work. I think it's what, it's interesting now that we're doing some of these multiple strikes or they're on my watch list like you can feel when it's played out. You can just tell when it is like we're in this Tesla now, like again, this is either going to pop up to that number or it's, or it's done. Like you can just kind of tell like and sometimes you do and you say, I think that it says one more move in it, but if you do it three times and then three trades work and the last one fails, then you know, lay off of it, you know, right, right. And that's the way it was with BA because we did a couple of puts in BA in the last couple and it didn't do anything. Yeah. So quickly before you go, what's been going on in New York there where you are? So we're opening the gyms on the 24th. But you have to wear a mask. Yeah. I mean, you know me, I do bar centric and that's considered a dance studio. We all have our own six feet space. You don't, as soon as you get your space, you don't have to wear a mask. And I love going because I found it when I was doing it home online. I just wasn't, I would leave the room, the kids would call me. So yeah, but, but I have to also tell you something. So my, my, my second oldest son is he's got his own little account. He's doing trades and he doesn't want any of my help. And I said, you know, yeah. So he told me he made a lot in the discovery channel because of the shark week. Oh my God. That's adorable. So you don't, you don't, you don't tell him like Target or anything like you didn't tell him.  He goes, Oh, they've gone up so much. So, but you know, I could tell that my, my mother always says, unsolicited advice is criticism. Oh my God. Well, he'll go through his, he'll take his hits and then he'll, he might ask you for advice at some point. Maybe. And I actually met somebody, my nephew got married last week because I was in, don't forget I was in New Jersey, which was safe to go. And so my sister-in-law, my sister comes up and she goes, I hear you trade stocks. So I'm probably going to give her your name. Oh, that's so cute. What does she live in New Jersey? She lives in Cream Ridge, which is kind of, it's a very rural area in Central Jersey. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Give her my number. What's interesting, like, I mean, I think I've been trading more this year than ever before because I'm home all the time. Yeah.  I mean, you know, everything, but it's like, I, when you went out to the dentist that day, I was looking at Tesla in the morning. I remember in the morning when you said it was hitting 1560, then it was going to go. And I'm like, Oh, it hit 1560. I saw it too. Yeah. Yeah. And the one day that I leave, but it's tough to go out. So I really, it's better not to go out quite frankly, because going out is so bad. I know. I worry about you, but you know, when you're living somewhere, it doesn't sometimes seem as bad, but up here in Western New York, we're good. We're really good. So all your businesses are open. Everything's normal. Yeah, we have indoor dining. I can go to church. We just, we just have to wear a mask and indoor dining is you have to wear the mask. And then once you get at your table, then you take it off. So, you know, um, yeah. So, so, and you know, it's a shame because we feel like, you know, that, that any wrong move and Cuomo is going to put the rules back on. Like, it's just such an article yesterday. I don't know where it was in Bloomberg or some, some where it was posted on that somebody said they're, they're, they're prepping people for a second wave in New York.  We never got out of this first nonsense. I mean, everybody here is like trapped. I'm trapped and everything's trashed. That's what I feel. I mean, it's, it's just bad. And I feel so bad. I was just there at Christmas time. And thank God I was, you know, walking the streets, there was no room to walk on the streets, all the look, the lights and, and we lost our Lord and Taylor up here. They closed. So, yeah, yeah. But I'm glad I could train and I'm glad I kind of got myself back on track. So, I mean, once it gets to be to the point, I think where you feel like it's not a big deal, then you can take more risk. So like, if you're, if you're nervous about it, then it's too, then maybe it's not, if you're nervous about it, like it could take another six months to get, to get your risk up again. But I personally don't do the get out and hold half. Like I just, I'm either all in or I'm out or I take it or I do it. I know some people like to do that. But for me, it's the same thing with the day trades. I just prefer like, because I feel like I'm thinking about it. If I'm in something, if I'm, if I'm, if I'm holding it, I'm thinking about it anyway. So I may as well, if whether I'm in it with half the size of a full size, like if it's on my mind and I have to look at the charter, but it's, it's in my head, then I'm just in it. So once I'm out of it, I don't want to think about it anymore. And that's how I look at it. Like for the day. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why I kind of, I, I hesitated a little about going in for a sec, the sec, the third trade on target, because I did, but because I was out. So I didn't take it exactly when you said, and that always kind of makes me a little nervous, but it really never went down to stop. Yeah. Never went down. Yeah. Never went down. So that's why I, I scalped it. Yeah. It's the same thing with KSS. Like I looked back at that then later and I saw what it did, but it wasn't like, I would have been more pissed if I had gotten stopped. And then where we got out was a low of the day. I never wrote 20. Do you know what I mean? Like, yes. So it's like, you know what I mean? Yeah. So it's been good. And hopefully tomorrow, you know, we'll have Baba and, you know, it'll, it'll be good to us again. Yeah. We'll see what happens. Well, I'm glad you're doing good, Jack. I'm glad your family's staying. Yes. Thank you, Melissa. Yes. And you know, it's kind of, it's a little bit kind of embarrassing to be back in that spot. But then, but then everything you were saying in the room the last two days about the size of the risk and all, and, and that's, and, and I had to learn that. And I think I have learned that. I know. I think it's, everybody goes through that period where you almost get like a little bit, I don't want to say greedy, but you feel like you can do no wrong. I know what I'm doing. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. I think you're doing great.  Yes, he is. He is. He is. So thank you, Melissa, for everything. So I said hi. I will. And I'll see you in the room tomorrow. All right. Take care. All right. Bye.


Hi, time for the mini lecture. And I'm gonna talk about the DeMorgan laws. So here's a nice little program that I've written and essentially what we're gonna tell people if they're between 1865, they don't get a discount. Everyone else gets a discount of 5%. So it's a discount for either young people or really old people. And there's nothing new in here at all, by the way. We're gonna ask them to enter their age. And if the age is greater than or equal to 18 and less than or equal to 65, that means they're between 1865 inclusive and tough luck, they don't get a discount. Otherwise, they get a 5% discount. And let's compile that and run it. So if somebody is, let's say 70 years old, they get a 5% discount. If they're 17, they get a 5% discount. If they're 42 years old, they don't get a discount. Again, absolutely nothing new here. Philosophically, a lot of people say, you know, I would really like to say that good news first rather than the bad news. So I want to reverse the sense of this test. Let's save this under different versions here so that you can see how this is going. So what I'm going to say, if it is not the case that the age is greater than eight, equal to 18, age less than 65, then they get the 5% discount. Otherwise, they don't get the discount. Now, this is a really artificial example, but there are some cases where the code reads a lot better if you do it one way than the other way. And let's compile that and we've run it. If somebody's 70, they get the discount. If they're 42, they don't. Now, here comes the problem. This is really weird to read. If it is not the case that the age is between 18 and 65, no, that's not the way we think in English. What we'd like to do is we would like to say, the opposite of this, and we want the opposite test of that. So the two conditions that we want are really if the age is less than 18, they get a discount. Age greater than 65, which is the opposite of less than or equal, then they'll get a discount. Now, here comes the tricky part. Do I want to leave this and in here? And the answer is no, I don't. Think about it. Can a person be less than 18 and greater than 65 at the same time? No, they can't. We have to change this and to an or to make it work. Now, we have the same thing. If the age is less than 18 or it's greater than 65, they get a discount, otherwise they don't. And let's save this as discount two. And when we compile it, I have one extra parenthesis, which certainly does not help. If they're 70, they get the discount. If they're 42, they don't get a discount. And if they're 17, they do get the discount. So in general, we need to know how to change expressions from positive to negative. So for example, so essentially if I have not condition one and condition two, that works out to the same as saying the opposite of condition one or the opposite of condition two. And again, we can use this example. Our first condition is age greater than or equal to 18 and age greater than or equal to 65. The opposite of that whole thing is going to be not age greater than or equal to 18 or it's not the case that the age is less than or equal to 65. Well, what's the opposite of greater than or equal? Less than. If something's not greater than or equal, it must be less than. If something's not less than or equal, it must be greater than. So this is one of the De Morgan laws. The opposite of this compound condition with an and is the opposite of the first condition or the opposite of the second condition. The other De Morgan law is as follows. What if I want the opposite of condition one or condition two? That works out to not condition one and not condition two. What you do is the not goes into each condition and the or changes to an and. If I'm doing the change with an and and changes to an or. Let's do an example of this. I want the not day equals three or day is four. Those are my two conditions. I think my first condition and may get a negative condition. My second condition, I take the opposite of that and I change the or to an and and that works out too. Day is not equal to three and the day is not equal to four. So those are the De Morgan laws. Lines two and six are the De Morgan laws. I am not going to go into a proof of why that works. I absolutely will not do that. You can do it by writing out a whole bunch of truth tables and I'm sure you can find some references that do it but I don't want to go into that at this point tonight. Now again, if you want to write it this way with a not on the whole compound condition, that's perfectly okay. You don't have to use the De Morgan laws but sometimes it makes things easier to read. This is a lot easier to read than that is. This one you have to sort of contort the English language to figure out what the heck that you're really talking about.  And I guess I'll give you one more little feature here. I've got to write a program real quick here to make this happen. So let me pause the recording. Okay, here's the program. We're going to ask for a number of items sold and the number of customers. Make the English correct here. And if your grammar is not correct, I'm really not going to take off points for that but I just sort of, I like to have my grammar correct if at all possible. So we've given a number of items sold and a number of customers. If the average number of items per customer as an integer is bigger than seven, then it's a good day for sales, otherwise it's not. So I'm asking for the integer, number of items sold, number of people. And if the items sold divided by number of people here in the seven, then it's a good sales day. Otherwise sales today were sort of meh. And so we had a hundred items sold and there were nine customers. That's a good sales day. If we have a hundred people, a hundred items sold, excuse me. And there were 45 people. That's not a great sales day. Now here comes a problem. What happens if I say the number of those 100 and there were 10 customers but I accidentally drop off the one and I type it as zero. Boom. We get a runtime error because we're trying to divide by zero. 100 divided by zero is not a good thing to do. Now I'm gonna do something here. I'm going to check to see if the number of people is greater than zero and the items sold divided by the number of people is greater than seven, then it's a good sales day. Otherwise sales today were sort of meh. So if I have, again, 120 items with let's say, oh, 11 people, good sales day. And now if I say 120 and I accidentally put in a zero here, huh, wait a minute, how come that worked? This, here's the question some people ask. They say, well, wait a minute. Yeah, you tested this, but how come it didn't do the division anyway? And the answer is because of something called short circuit. Let's just take a look back at our truth table for and. We have condition A and condition B and we want to say A and B. So here we have true and true is true. True and false is false. False and true is false and false. Here's what we're taking advantage of. If I know that condition A is false, does it really matter what B is? Even if B is true, I still end up with false because they're not both true. If B is false, I still end up with false. So the moment I see condition A is false, do I really need to even look at B to figure out if it's true or not? No, I can cut things short. As soon as I know that I'm going to get a false answer, there's no need to go any further. Now, if the first condition is true, then the second condition makes a difference. I have to make sure that I have a B is true, otherwise it's false. But when I have a false, the decision is already made. Whatever B is, is totally irrelevant. Java takes advantage of this. Let's say the number of people is equal to zero. That means this is false. Because it's false, I know that this whole thing has to be false because, again, this second condition doesn't matter. The moment this first one is false, they can't both be false. They can't both be true, which means I never have to even look at this condition and the division never happens. So let me put a comment in here. When N people is zero, the first condition is false. That means the whole compound condition has to be false no matter what the second condition works out to. So I can totally ignore second condition and never do it at all. And that's why it worked okay when I put in a zero. Zero is not greater than zero. Java will never even look at that. This short circuits, the evaluation has also called early exit. I think I've seen it referred to that way. Now, so the number of people is seven, then that's true, which means I now have to do this division to figure out whether my result will be true or false. And in fact, again, let's say I have 80 items sold and seven customers, it's a good sales day. So this is early exit. Now, you put about early exit for the or condition. Well, let's look at the truth table for or I have and because I'm a little bit lazy tonight, I'm gonna copy this and paste it and change this to an or. In this case, when I have or, when the first condition is true, the second one doesn't matter. As soon as the first one is true, I don't care whether the second one is true or false, so they're both gonna be true. I don't have to evaluate condition B when A is true with an or. With an and when the first condition is false, I can do an early exit. So be aware that Java does early exit or short circuit evaluation because you can sometimes use it to your advantage to avoid runtime errors. It's not ultra important that you know about this, but it's nice to know. And that is a rather short, but oh, oh my goodness. Looks like I will have to do a mini lecture tomorrow. Yeah, what the heck? I'll do a mini lecture tomorrow because I just realized I forgot to talk about Boolean methods and Boolean variables. I was gonna do those tonight, but let's do those tomorrow because it's getting late and I'm probably going to be generating really bad code if I start doing something original right now. That's it for tonight. See y'all whenever.


You know we gossip sometimes to see if that person is on our team, but you know gossip and drama and chaos are rarely sufficient to sustain genuine connection between humans. It's not a connection you want to have anyway. Keep an eye on that stuff eh.


Good morning, everyone, Basel Chapman here with the 9 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network Market Update. We're looking at the Dow futures down 97 points at 34,039. Not a big deal if you're looking at this little conglomeration of bars that we've seen for one, two, three, four, five, six, six sessions above the pink nine-period moving average. It still hasn't turned green. We're going to be watching this closely. To get to this leg seat and not the 200-period moving average in this environment right now is quite admirable, but it's not really the big takeoff that says now you're going to go fly to the moon. I think this is just a balance. I'm cheating as a balance for subscribers to an opening call. Looking at the E-mini. When you're looking at the E-mini down 24, 40 to 76, it's just been sideways. Look at this. 200-period moving average pops above it on the 9th of October, and ever since then almost every single session has touched it, either used as a propellant zone or a magnet zone, and then 43, 76, 40, I'll tell you right now, 43, 64 is that line. You've got to hold that today. Looking at the QQQ, I'll go to the futures in Q. The futures are down 126,000 to 15,162, and that implies that the nine-period moving average has been tagged and it's green. That's going to be very important. If it's a stay green or do we slide into the under 15,000, it's going to be tough because by the end, by about quarter past two this afternoon, if the Dow is still down more than 60 or 70 points and the S&P is down, say, 16 and the Nasdaq, the NQ is down over 100, that's going to invite a very poor close. But if they improve, maybe we get a little bit better close today, RTY, which is the Russell 2000, not acting well, it's down almost 10 at 1746 in the futures. Now, this is going to be interesting because gold is holding well, it's up four and a half. It's in this little triangle. You can see right here in the Dady chart. The Dady chart still needs a lot of work to improve, but the Dady is really good and it says that the 1956 area is going to be a very strong resistance. That's being the line, the 200-period moving average that repelled it every single time it got there. If you're looking at, I didn't even do silver, I'll do silver right now. Silver's holding quite nicely, up five cents. Let's go to bonds real quickly. Bonds are down sharply, they're down one and a half points. That is terrible, that's because the retail numbers were quite strong and crude oil is holding in there down to seven cents.  Kickoff should be a great show as always and great program here at TFNM. Check out most of the four Dady music.


What is the right size of a task when we are analyzing our list of tasks to see what we want to potentially eliminate or automate or delegate? And if we can't do any of that, then appreciate. So the EDA process EADA is how I, well, how I recommend figuring out how to do less in your work and life and still have as good or better results and certainly more spaciousness so that you can add more meaningful things to your time. So thank you Antonia for giving a couple suggestions. One is, you know, one is sending an email to a client is relatively small, unless of course that email requires you to create a document or some other project that it's not really sending an email anymore, right? But let's just say we're sending an email to update our client on a project. That's, that's relatively right size project. You could say, well, can I eliminate this? Well, no, probably not. The client needs an update. Can I automate this? Maybe, because there's probably some way of automating it like you can somehow somehow update it. I mean, one example is if you share a Google document with a client and you add a comment to the Google document, they will receive a notification. So that's kind of an update. That's kind of an automation of sorts. There's other ways. But can we can we can we delegate it if we can't automate it? Maybe, maybe someone on your team should be sending the update. Maybe. And then finally, if we can't do it, we have to appreciate. But another example Antonia brought up is like a client proposal. Creating client proposal can take many hours. So that's a great example that where it's not a task anymore, but it's a project. The project loosely defined is a set of tasks that are grouped together into what's called a project. And of course, it's holographic, meaning every task can be said to be a project of tiny, tiny actions. And every project you could say is could be considered to be a giant task. Right. So, but the key for using the ETA process is to break down every project into its component tasks or actions as much as possible. So for example, with client proposal and Antonia or anyone else, if you want to unmute to share your example, what does it mean for you? What is what are this? What are some of the sub tasks of a client proposal? Antonia, yeah. I mean, yeah, just thinking about it now, if I break it down, there's generally the first bit, which is kind of just like planning, like just doing a bit of research and understanding a little bit more about the client, a little bit more about the context, reading over any material that you might have gotten. And then there's actually kind of, in my case, it's planning out the process. I usually do a lot of kind of more design thinking projects. And so there's usually a pretty strong process behind it. So thinking out all the different steps in that process, there's figuring out pricing, there's finding images, there's fixing the, because I usually do mine in slides as per proposal. So it's making them look attractive as well. That's usually the last, there's editing. So yeah, if I break it down, there's quite a few. That's really good. I mean, actually, it's really great.  I just wrote down a few of these, these tasks. So you got research of the client, which we run through the EDA process, we can't eliminate it, you have to actually know something about the client to make a good proposal.  Or certainly delegation, do you need to be the one doing the Google research or whatever database you guys use, do you need to be one doing it, maybe not, maybe pay a fiver, right, that's what I would do. I would say fiver, F-I-V-E-R-R, for those of you who don't know it's a website for hiring freelancers quickly. Just the other day, for example, I was trying to put a spreadsheet together. I'm like, okay, there's a formula that's a little bit more complicated than what I know. So I paid someone on Fiver in Pakistan, $10. The basic gig was $5, but I'll pay you $10. And they came up with a really nice formula, like it was more complicated than I would have known, to do something. I'm like, $10? You know, and in Pakistan, that's like a really good hourly fee, that's like the hourly fee, $10 in Pakistan is the hourly fee of a senior corporate engineer, senior software engineer gets $10 US in Pakistan per hour. I'm paying that guy a good rate, self-determination, right? And anyway, so research is another good one.  And they're like, yes, I'm happy to do an hour or two hours of research on this company organization, you know, if it's public research. Process planning is probably where, I mean, that's that your strong suit, Antonio, so literally it's probably where you add the most value and you probably should delegate it. But you could probably automate in some way. Let's talk about that. So process planning. I mean, Antonio, you probably have some kind of template for client proposal. There we go. So that in a sense is kind of automating it to some degree, because you're automating it for your future self. Pricing, you probably have some template or spreadsheet. Maybe that can help you and that's part of the automation process. Finding images, right? That can certainly be something that a freelancer could do, although you might say our freelancers don't do a great job of it, or you might need to train someone. When it comes to automating, when it comes to the ETA process, when you're doing the automation or delegation, right, automation and delegation, productivity experts say that you should be willing to spend something like 10 to 30 times, how much time it would take you to do to figure out the automation or delegate or figure out the automation means, you know, figuring it out, programming something to do it, or delegation means training someone, spending the 10, if it takes something, if it takes you 10 minutes to do something, you should be willing to spend 100 to 300 minutes to train someone well to do it. Why?  So that's an example of finding images. You're like, oh, I do a much better job finding images. Sure. But if you have a team member or an assistant, you could say, let me train you. I find the images you find are not quite what I'm looking for. Let me show you what I'm looking for. Let me show you why that's not the right fit and why this is a better fit. You're, oh, you're using this database. Let me show you. So that's an example. Making slides, something you probably do really fast, but again, maybe an assistant could do it, the Fiverr could do it, at least the first draft of it, right? And then you could kind of put your finishing touches editing, same thing, you know. So that's an example of where I'm really thank you, Antonio, for for giving us that example, because that is really, you could probably, if you're willing, again, to carve out the time to 10 to 30 X of any task to say, but this is an investment in my future proposals that'll make it quicker. Now, it might only take you five times to automate or delegate, but you know, it'll be worth it. So I hope this is helpful. And yeah, looking forward to the continuing conversation. And thanks, Antonio, for mentioning that the Eda process of eliminate automate delegate appreciate is a really good team tool as well. Yeah, absolutely.  But when you're doing it with somebody else, like you have a coach, or for like a, like a business friend. You have to do it with each other. And if you have a team that's like, All right, folks, let's do this as a team. What can we absolutely eliminate, you know, let's try, you know, let's, and so thank you. Or what can we automate does anyone know how to do this, what can we delegate this, who should be doing this or maybe we should outsource this. So yeah, thanks.


Hey Chris here from IELTS Advantage and here are five things that you can do to instantly improve your IELTS essays. So normally it takes a very long time to help someone go from say a band six to a band seven but these are five things that I've helped students with that instantly will improve the level of your essays. So let's start. Okay so number one is improve your grammar by identifying your main weaknesses or your common errors. So grammar is 25% of your total mark. It's really really really important. If you are making lots and lots of grammar mistakes it's impossible for you to really get a seven or above. You need to produce something called error-free sentences and if you're hoping to get a seven or above more than 50% of your sentences need to be error-free. So what I see when I'm working with my students is normally they'll have one or two areas of grammar where they consistently make mistakes in those areas. So that could be something like punctuation or articles or verb-subject agreement or tenses or one of the many many other areas of grammar. So let's say that you have a problem with prepositions and articles. They're in every single sentence. So if you are making mistakes in every single sentence you're going to get a six or below for grammar and that's going to make it pretty much impossible for you to get a seven or above. So what you need to do is you need to identify what your common grammar errors are and then work to improve those areas of grammar and you can do that by showing your work to a teacher, by showing it to someone who is a high level user of English or you might have a friend who is really good at English or is a native English speaker. Show them your essay and say can you tell me the area of grammar that I need to work on the most. Fix that area and you will eliminate sort of 70 to 90% of your mistakes. So the second way to instantly improve your essays is simplify your vocabulary. So this might sound counterintuitive because what most people think is it's an English test they're testing my vocabulary so the more advanced vocabulary that I use the higher my score is going to be and that is true to a certain extent. They are testing your range of vocabulary but at the same time they are testing the accuracy of your vocabulary. So what happens if you try and use lots of words that you don't know how to use you're going to make mistakes that is going to lower the accuracy of your vocabulary and again if you're making lots and lots of mistakes similar to grammar it's impossible for you to get a seven or above. So a really good analogy is weightlifting. If I go to the gym I can lift 50 kilograms no problem but if I try and lift 150 kilograms I'm going to fail. My muscles are going to fail. Same way with vocabulary. I would love for you to be using the most amazing high level band nine words and get a really high score but you're incapable of doing that at the moment. You should be improving your vocabulary all the time and trying to improve the range but when you are in that test you should use the vocabulary that you currently have and focus on accuracy. The alternative is to try and use lots of words that you don't really know how to use yet. You are guaranteed to get a low score because you're going to make lots and lots of mistakes. So improve your vocabulary long term work on it every single day but for now simplify your vocabulary only use the words you're a hundred percent sure about reduce the number of mistakes and you are going to improve your score for vocabulary. The third thing you can do to instantly improve your essays is to plan. So the thing that students always say to me when I suggest planning is what am I going to do? How am I going to do this? I don't have time timing is a big issue for them but the number one thing that I see when I am talking to a successful IELTS student and when I say to them what was the number one thing that changed everything for you in terms of improving your IELTS writing task to performance they will always say planning and again it sounds counterintuitive if you spend time on planning that means less time writing you're going to run out of time you won't get everything done and you will fail but it actually saves you a huge amount of time. Let me again give you an analogy so imagine you are going on holiday and you are in a strange city would it be a waste of time if you were going from your hotel to a museum to type the name of the hotel into google maps and then just follow google maps to the museum or would it be better just to start walking around and try and find it yourself which is going to take you more time of course it's going to take you more time if you just run around and you don't really know where you're going planning is like a google map for your essay by thinking about the question planning out your answer using a structure trying to think of ideas and planning everything out before you start writing you are investing that time in the same way that investing time into typing the address into google maps is saving you time that means that you are totally focused on your writing at the writing stage you don't have to think of ideas or structure or explanations or examples because you've done all of that thinking and it's there in plan form so that you won't get lost when you're writing your essay how many times have you completely messed up your essay because you start writing because you haven't planned it and then you get lost and then you have to go back and you just lose track of time and you lose track you lose your your coherent thought and you just can't get everything done in 40 minutes plan everything first and then write and you'll be able to get everything done on time so the fourth thing you can do to instantly improve your essays and this is a big one which is focus just on clearly answering the question put yourself in the examiner shoes he or she is looking at your script which thing that do you think that they want to see do you think that they want to see that you've used a lot of high level vocabulary incorrectly use some tips and tricks or memorized essays or fancy structures or fancy grammar and fixed phrases that you've memorized or do you think that they want to see whether you have understood the question and clearly answered the question using clear English you might again not believe me because it sounds counterintuitive because you think the examiners are looking for fancy things and therefore you're going to show off and you're going to go online and find some video that says learn these five top tricks to get a high score if those worked then everybody would get a high score the average score worldwide is banned 5.5 those things simply do not work we have I think 12 examiners or x examiners working for IELTS Advantage and we talk about this all the time if all students did was just have this mindset shift from stop showing off and using tricks to just clearly answer the question then they would be able to eliminate 95% of the things that lead to a low score so put yourself in the examiner's shoes give have some sympathy for the examiner all they want to know is did you understand the question and can you write clearly in English so help them do that by focusing on those things so the fifth thing is focus on what's important and ignore everything else so there are lots of important things that you need to focus on but what students do mostly is focus on things that really do not matter you wouldn't believe the number of emails that we get from students who say should I use a pen in the test or should I use a pencil it's like it doesn't matter 90% of the questions we get about writing tasks too are types of questions like that like should I use a pen or a pencil it doesn't matter if you don't know how to write an introduction or a main body paragraph or conclusion or understand the question or generate ideas it doesn't matter if you have the fanciest pen in the world or you know write with your finger it really really really doesn't matter so now you know these five things that will instantly improve your IELTS writing but I want to give you a bonus tip recently I made a video showing you how to transform a band six essay into a band eight essay so go and watch this video now and you will see these five things in practice you will see the effect of changing these five things and improving these five things the effect that this has on your band score so go and check that video out and I'll see you in the next video