Luke’s $10k A Week Blog

The nice terrible thing about blogging is that you can make a commitment and not have to live up to it. What serious consequences will there be for me not updating three times per week for the past month? There are a few different ways I can choose to look at it…

Perspective #1: “I broke a PROMISE? Shame on me!”

Logically, this is correct. I committed to 3 times per week, and failed to continue AT ALL for over a month. A promise is a promise. If I can’t live up to a promise like this, what’s to say I wouldn’t live up to a more important promise? As a child, I was taught to keep promises — breaking them is a very bad habit to get into. I wholeheartedly disapprove of breaking commitments, and therefore must feel ashamed about this one.

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There’s a new Social Networking site where you have to pay to get in. It’s called Wowzza! It is for serious marketers only, so if you have marketing products and business opportunities to sell, it’s a great place to sell them. Great place to find people to JV with. I’ve already got 20+ friends there… Very active community.

In other news, Revolution decided to extend their $25 give-away for another month. The button on my side-bar there still works — you can go get your $25 now! (Ends on May 15th, unless they extend it again.) Be sure to refer all your friends once you’re in… obviously.

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I started this 10k Luke site shortly after watching T. Harv Eker, the “Millionaire Mind” guy. It really inspired me.

Before that, I read a little book (yay, public domain!) called The Science Of Getting Rich. It was very interesting… but at the same time, somewhat esoteric and mysterious. The Harv Eker video really drove it home for me though, and I highly recommend watching it.

Basically, the idea is that you have an inner “wealth thermometer”. You envision yourself at a particular level of wealth, and strongly resist anything that brings you either below or above this. It’s kind of like a subconscious thermostat.

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Blogging about yourself is easy. It encourages you to give personal opinions and open up about your feelings. Unfortunately, this means less time spent talking about facts that you know for certain, or that are useful for the readers. Furthermore, it can easily detract from your sense of authority. There’s a reason scientific papers don’t start out with “In my opinion…”

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Reading over at CogiNews, this article hit my eye.

In the modern vernacular, to say someone is “in denial” is to deliver a savage combination punch: one shot to the belly for the cheating or drinking or bad behavior, and another slap to the head for the cowardly self-deception of pretending it’s not a problem.

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Scientific American talks about how you can possibly train yourself to be more compassionate through meditation.

When engaged in compassionate meditation, the brain region known as the insula burst into action when the expert meditators heard the sound of a woman in distress. (The insula—a part of the limbic system—has been associated with the visceral feeling of emotion, a key part of empathizing with another’s emotional state.)

And when these experts heard the female screams or the sound of a baby laughing, their brains showed more activity than the novices in areas like the right temporal-parietal juncture, which plays a role in understanding another’s emotion.

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