think a lot of women should take this to heart

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That applies to everyone w/ regards to developing an attitude of gratitude & appreciation for what you have vs. wanting more more more - yourself included, sly. If you truly enjoyed what you have, you wouldn't have the time to allow thoughts about relationships and jobs you don't have to bother you any - you'd be far too busy smiling at the things you do have & can enjoy in life.. and once you get to that state, others take notice of your positivity, and you attract ever more into your life - whether people/friends/relationships, or money/jobs/opportunities, or experiences, or things etc.

Might sound cheesy and cliche, but it's working oh-so-well for me. Over the last few years I've gone from the deepest darkest depths of suicidal depression to schmoozing with members of the 0.1% & being offered more and more job opportunities, hanging with & learning from some very intelligent and beautiful people etc. The changes in myself and my life aren't unlike Bradley Cooper's character in the movie "Limitless." A part of that can be attributed to enjoying what I have to the absolute fullest & not wanting more at all.

You reached the nirvana in budhism, the extinction of craving.

But not everyone can reach that, you said it, it's a 0.1% thing.

Perhaps I have, and for it I'm going to make the rest of my life the best of my life. Sure, I'll drive a nicer vehicle someday and have some newer toys and maybe even buy my own home - but otherwise my lifestyle won't change much as my monetary wealth increases. I intend to do good things with money in the future, charity, philanthropy - that sort of thing.

I call BS that not everyone can reach that. We're all created with the same potential regardless of whether we're smart or not, rich or poor etc. I never said any such thing about it being a 0.1% thing. I said I'm schmoozing with the 0.1%, as in terms of being around some of the (financially) wealthiest people. The owners of the place I work at are all multimillionaires (there are MANY millionaires in Vancouver, especially considering that the average house now costs far in excess of $1M) & one of them is on the fast track to becoming a Billionaire. That's what I meant by schmoozing with the 0.1%, not that I'm now within some secret special club of the happiest 0.1% of people on the planet.

Further, anyone willing to do what they need to to get what they want can do exactly as I've done. I have kept no secrets about it. I've been sharing on the forums for the last year and a half or so exactly how I've managed to minimize my ASD and other symptoms via diet, natural medicine, supplements & probiotics in order to optimize my brain functions and life in general. We are 110 Trillion cells, 10 Trillion human cells & 100 Trillion mostly bacterial cells - most of which are in the gut. Balance the symbiotic makeup of bacteria that we are = balance yourself = function at the highest level possible. Anyone reading this is free to pm me if they'd care to read the details of what I've managed to do and how I've managed to do it - and you're more than welcome to do it for yourself. Any one of us can do anything, all that's required are the resources and the process. I can offer the knowledge of both, all you have to do is follow through with the actions. Health is wealth and you are what you eat, after all.

You're right, it is cheesy and cliche. Nobody wants to hear you brag about your imaginary life, so just drop the act already, will you?

As for the original point of this thread: look, we all start out having unreal aspirations and ambitions. From the time when we're kids, we keep hearing from our parents that "we're special" and that "we can do accomplish anything we want". It's not true though.

Eventually we grow up, we stop being kids, some of us become men and others become women. And for us men, society very quickly sees to it that our delusions of grandeur are beaten out of our heads. For women that's not the case, society indulges and allows them to maintain their delusions... until a certain point at least.

Excuse me?

I'm not "bragging about my imaginary life." I'm simply stating the way that my life has changed from what it was to what it is now. Matter of fact, not imagination. There is no act. I'm happier, healthier, wealthier. I have a job. I'm earning my way. I kiteboard when I can. I spend as much time at the most beautiful beach ever as I can. I do other side jobs to earn money. I've been working on a charity fundraiser party for the past several weeks - it's a Pride party at the bar I work at to raise money for a youth homeless shelter in Vancouver where 40% of homeless kids age 16-24 identify as LGBT & that's a primary reason for their homelessness. I've gone from being incapable of functioning in daily life & society to trying to make the absolute most I can manage to squeeze out of every day. It simply is what it is. I'm not bragging or embellishing. I say it like it is because I've been where many of you are now & have managed to successfully treat my symptoms over the past couple years or so in order to work myself into the position in life that I'm at now. I'm not special. I'm not a unique snowflake. (and all that other Fight Club monologue stuff.) I'm just like many of you, only I've figured out how to turn my brain on to get it to function at it's highest and serve me working towards my goals in life vs. hinder me. I've also been extremely transparent about everything I've done along the way and have offered to share it with anyone who'd care to read and learn it - yourself and anyone reading this included. You're more than welcome to try what I've done and see if you have similar results. Or do as you've always done and get as you've always got - it's your life and your call. But don't go trying to cut me down or insult me for working hard on myself and my life and achieving goals. That's uncalled for & flat out rude.

You know why you can't accomplish anything you want to? It's because you don't think you can. That's it, that's all. Like the classic Henry Ford quote says: "Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right." And IMO your thoughts and beliefs are such because you're depressed, and chances are likely that you're depressed because you haven't yet learned how to deal with the biochemical causes of your depression as I've done for myself. That's my take on it. You're free (or imprisoned within your own mind) to think whatever you like about it.

OR you could be your own Master vs. subordinate slave & get out there and take life on.. kick ass, take names, have fun, make money, change the world in your own way.. do whatever you have the potential to do - anything you want to - a n y t h i n g. Plenty of men out there have done it before, real live ones, not just fictional characters.. and plenty of men are out there doing it right at this very moment. But instead of seeing these guys achieve their goals on sports fields, or on the nightly news.. gtfo there and be the hero of your own movie. Live a life's story worth telling. Make your mark. Leave a legacy. That's what I'm doing now & will do for the rest of my days - only bigger and better, bit by bit, day by day.. I'm WAY further ahead now than I was a few short years ago, I can't even imagine where life will take me a few short years from now! ..but I'm gonna find out.

Not everyone even wants to reach it. I certainly don't.

Oh, I thought you were referring to like-minded people.

Well, befriending rich people does have its perks to be honest, my brother's friend is rich and thanks to that my brother got his first job (he worked in his company) and helped him to get the second job.

Sounds like Goldfish probably doesn't have parents that qualify as being "rich". Judging by the big fuss he seems to make over those types of people.(i.e. low-level millionaires)

Nope, my parents certainly aren't rich. Very lower-middle class. Typical working class blue collar father & stay at home mother while growing up.

I don't make a fuss over them. I talk to them with the same respect I talk to anyone else with, whether a friend, coworker, business person, homeless person etc. I do, however, acknowledge that associating & networking with successful people is good for one's own success. So, yeah, it's a good thing to know these guys.. one job led to the next already, which has led to increased job responsibilities and opportunities, and may lead to another job opportunity in the future.