Archive | June, 2011

Living Congruently [Video]

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

 
To sacrifice everything for some thing you are fully committed to, is not a sacrifice, but an easy bargain. To take it to its full extent, it is to live congruently — congruent to your chosen hierarchy of values.

This is not easy. In fact, it is probably the most difficult thing one can do: what you actually want.

Funny how the world tells you to restrain yourself from the things you want, and to compromise, to give in, to surrender, to submit, to get along, to co-operate, to co-exist — to obey.

Obey government, obey school, obey your parents, obey your friends, obey your boss … obey “everyone”, but your self.

Yet your individual life is yours to live. This is never changing. You can die for someone or some thing, but you can’t live for them.

– Anthony Dream Johnson

Round 3: Drew Baye Renounces SPARTA

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

As fate would have it, Drew Baye has had to make decisions similar to my own as of late (regarding Erika Awakening and psycho/lunatic Vince Kelvin).

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And as of today, it appears Kezia Noble is next on my list thanks to her zealot like following of fan boys who can’t see past the boobs. Despite the dentata, I can’t envision her actually being worth a stand alone blog post though, so the Wikipedia link shall have to suffice.

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Anyway, check out Drew Baye’s renouncement of the SPARTA Personal Training Certification Program.

– Anthony Dream Johnson

This Woman Has No Idea What She is Talking About

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

 
This woman attempts to intelligently discuss the science of romantic love, yet can’t even distinguish between an unhealthy, dependent, drug-like addiction, and mature, romantic, reciprocal romantic love for an independent equal (autonomy and self-reliance being necessary components of mature romantic love).

This woman’s view of romantic love is the pinnacle of a reductionist view that is tantamount to saying “consciousness kills”. I find it abhorrent that this woman is considered as an “authority” on romantic love, but what else is new — the status quo is clueless, and the TED event puts any raving idiot on stage with a bunch of non-sense to spout off.

Putting a big projector screen behind someone does not grant validity to their ideas. Nice one-liner cliche’s though.

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If you want to learn something about romantic love, read this.

– Anthony Dream Johnson

Lessons in Event Architecture: Build Your Team Wisely, Fully, and Completely

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Event Architecture, Wealth

This could very easily be titled “Lessons in Entrepreneurship…”, because it’s application is that broad, but for the time being I will leave the title as is – and where I am most experienced.

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The purpose of this post is to define why and how to build your “team”, for an event, or any business for that matter.

 

Why is this necessary?

This is necessary because “build your team intelligently” (or wisely, or fill in the blank), is too vague, and not a complete instruction.

In fact, this will leave you clueless, lost, and with a poor team – eventually collapsing your event or business.

To make it complete you have to tackle the subject from both ends of the spectrum – negatively and positively.

A la, black and white reality.

 

How is this done?

It is done by A, being ruthless in your standards for who to let into your business/event, and therefore, your life. Your team will take up time out of your life, and before this happens, you…

Bill DeSimone’s Congruent Exercise [Full Video]

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

A pleasant change of topics on TDL — back to exercise we go. This time around we have Bill DeSimone, the champion of bio-mechanics as it applies to exercise (although the official disclaimer is that Bill is not formally educated on the subject).

Of course, I am not formally educated on event planning and hosting, and I seem to do OK at it. Similarly, I think Doug McGuff would be the first to say that 95% of the things he learned in medical school relating to nutrition are not only false, but the complete and total opposite of reality.

The list goes on and on. What else is new? The mainstream, conventional wisdom status-quo sucks — and Bill does a fantastic job of tackling it, and laying the foundation for a more effective (and infinitely safer) way to exercise in this presentation.

Watch Congruent Exercise now.

– Anthony Dream Johnson

And Another One Goes off the Deep End…

By Anthony Dream Johnson in The 21 Convention

This time it’s Vince Kelvin.

I had never met Vince before he spoke at The 21 Convention 2010 of Stockholm Sweden. I took a risk, and made out OK on it, because I ended up liking the enthusiasm Vince brought to the table on stage, and out meeting women. This guy really doesn’t stop, and I think there is value in that.

Vince was very adamant about speaking in Orlando that year. I did not have room on the roster. Even if I did, I had reservations about putting him side by side with guys like Mark Sisson, Doug McGuff, and Bill DeSimone. It would be difficult to connect the content at the very least, because of the way Vince expresses himself.

For 2011 Vince once again wanted to speak at the event, both in London and Orlando. He said he would help bring attendees to both events, so I said the hell with it, I’ll make it work, and put him on both speaking lists.

In London…

What Happened to Erika Awakening?

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Miscellaneous

Before reading this post, I will ever so subtly remind everyone that this is my personal blog, and per my third person disclaimer, always linked at the bottom of this site,

The opinions expressed here are entirely his own and do not necessarily reflect those of any organization, including those in which he may play a leadership role.

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This is old news, but I feel that it is the right time to address this issue thanks to an e-mail from one of her fans who also attended, briefly, T21C 2010 of Orlando Florida.

So it’s clear, Erika Awakening’s 2010 speech at The 21 Convention has not been released, and will not ever be released by The 21 Convention online. No preview video was ever made, nor will it be. She is however on the front DVD cover art, and her DVD is available to anyone who is interested in buying it. It has been available since day 1 of the 2010 DVD release for $19.99 plus shipping and handling.

If she asked, I would take the DVD…

The 21 Convention Official Cinematic Trailer Release

By Anthony Dream Johnson in The 21 Convention

Here’s what’s going on June 21st.

1. Official HD Cinematic Trailer Release (f**king epic)

2. 15 tickets to The 21 Convention 2012 [Europe] go on sale. Limited quantity. May sell out. Price increases regardless June 30th.

3. $50 discount on The 21 Convention 2011 of Orlando Florida, ends 11:59pm EST June 21st.

Special bonus: all new information on ticket pages, detailing the four pillars of the ideal man.

Click here for instant access.

I Want to Make this a Reality: You in?

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Miscellaneous

I wasn’t kidding about the bill board, and I will go through with this if there is support to do it. So here’s  the plan.

1. I get ten, 2 DVD sets of my 2010 21 Convention footage.

2. I sign them with the message on the bill board.

3. Ten people buy these DVD sets from me personally, for whatever the cost of the bill board is, divided by 10. I think I can get it for less than $1,000, so that will be about $100 a pop to cover shipping.

4. I ship you your limited edition “Liberty Pwnage” DVD set, signed by me personally.

5. I have this bill board posted (I think I can get pro artwork done for free on this project).

The end result will be the above bill board on a major highway in Florida for about a month straight.

If you’re 100% committed to owning this once in a lifetime DVD set, and supporting Ron Paul, e-mail me at dreampua–a-t-gmail.com and I’ll get the ball…

The One Item That Saves Me a Ton of Money Backpacking

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Miscellaneous, Reviews

This water bottle cost me $150 USD. I’ve had it since the fall of 2009. Since then it’s saved me 3 to 4 times it’s initial cost, because I never, ever buy bottled water anymore.

Whether I’m at home, or backpacking, or camping on an island … I always have sterile, safe, great tasting water (because I buy the easily replaceable carbon filters and pop one in every ~4 months, which cost about $7 a pop).

It works without fail. No matter how “ok”, or how dangerous the water is, I pour it into the bottle, pump it out, and presto — awesome water. You can even pee in it up to three times in a row, although I haven’t gotten past two yet.

Anyway, this thing really does save a crap ton of cash. It’s a little bulky, but it’s the single best investment I’ve ever made for traveling, because it saves me hundreds of dollars a year. Really, I watched my camera…