Sales Letter to Myself #35: How to NOT Feel Down
Facebook post written on February 15, 2022
original: Facebook post written on February 15, 2022: https://www.facebook.com/mike.ying.personal/posts/pfbid0tGUtadmYK1uDDRVQUQwhT4sZFL5R8rKJqFFgNMtQfYR7nqjwRxRY4K1G4npNXMyrl
How to NOT Feel Down
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
"Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world." - Albert Einstein
Insanity compounds.
Negative feedback loop.
Negative flywheel.
Negative snowball.
Sam Ovens says that life is more about managing your downsides than your upsides.
Warren Buffett's rule number 1 is 'to never lose money' and not 'to always earn money'.
Life is more about worrying less and making everything simple.
When you feel down and you don't do anything about it, and then you repeat the pattern, you are compounding insanity. (no, this doesn't make sense)
Insanity has a compounding negative interest.
(No, I'm too lazy to make a financial math analogy.)
It's super easy to feel down then spiral into feeling super down.
Fortunately, it's also super easy to break that spiral pattern and just get rid of feeling down.
IF you do something about it.
Obviously you are super lazy and you probably won't do anything about it.
But that's why you are writing this post.
You get the clarity and the solution by writing then convince yourself to take action with your half-baked copywriting skills.
Everybody feels down sometimes.
Why do you feel down sometimes?
If we take the psychoanalyst approach, you have ego patterns from your childhood that protected you as a child but are harming you as an adult.
Just understanding these patterns could dissolve the ego and get rid of feeling down.
But that's very difficult in practice.
Let's brainstorm about all the things you can do right now to not feel down.
The thing that can help you the most is probably Eckhart Tolle's approach: raising your awareness.
Recently your cousin Tim told you that it's about your thoughts dominating but not governing. (It was in French so the meaning got lost in translation.)
He is right.
The main problem with feeling down is that we amplify everything with thoughts.
When we feel our body, we feel our true feelings, which got completely distorted and amplified by our thoughts.
Spirituality is the foundation of everything.
You can solve any problem by starting from spirituality.
Raising your awareness makes you aware (duh), makes you the master in control of yourself, and get rid of useless thoughts and belief patterns.
Yesterday morning you felt a bit down, then you meditated for 20 minutes, then you felt peaceful and not down.
You can also improve your physical health.
Starting with nutrition.
You are deficient in vitamin D, omega 3, fiber, magnesium, iron, zinc, and potassium.
Come on bro, go buy vitamin D supplements.
Eat more salmon, eat more veggies, and take your zinc supplements.
Then exercising.
Keep up the tango trainings 2-3 times per week.
Go to the gym at least 2 times per week.
Start doing Movement Flow at least 2 times per week.
Now the pattern interrupt approach you got from Tony Robbins.
In an interview with Tim Ferris, Tony Robbins says that if he has a bad day, he will change his physiology: go for a walk, go for a run, take a cold shower, or whatever.
The body changes the mind.
Mood follows action.
Motion creates emotion.
Very easy to implement.
You are already doing this with naps, going to the gym, and meditations.
Actually just going outside and get hit by the cold 40 km/h wind for 30 seconds could do the trick.
And now the Tiny Habits approach by BJ Fogg.
Feel good, be motivated, take a tiny action, then reward yourself and celebrate. Do this a lot of times. It creates great success spirals.
And now The Gap and The Gain by Dan Sullivan: be in the gain.
And now, feel good. Read your sales letter to yourself #21 again.
We haven't got to the root cause of the problem but actually you don't have to.
Bad patterns can dissolve by simply being aware of how useless they are.
Raise your awareness and implement all the things above.
Yes, it's bad to have multiple CTA's but you did it anyway.
Implement one new thing every day.
