hey everybody zane here welcome to this video so this is the first video in a series i'm doing
called five cheat codes for life how to hack the matrix so i figured since we are talking about the
matrix here we would start with cheat code number zero so the first cheat code for life is surround
yourself with people who are already ahead of you i'm sure we can all look back on our lives and
remember the times when things were not going well perhaps you know you were in a rut or something
like that but i would bet that you were hanging out with the wrong people or you were having
issues with the people in your family circle and i bet we can also you can also look back
on your life and see the times where things were going well where you had periods of serendipity
and you probably had a good friend group you probably had good situations going on with family
and there's also that saying which you've probably heard of which is you are the result of the five
people closest to you and i think there's a lot of merit to that uh saying in that phrase
and so i think there's it's something to look at and i think it's i've found in my life that it's
been very helpful for me in every i'm 28 now in every career that i've done i've always had a
mentor i've gone out and consciously sought to get a mentor in my first career which was web
development and design i had a mentor a professor who became a mentor and he really helped me get
my foot in the door and where i was and start my career the second thing i did was crypto and i am
currently also doing still doing crypto and i have a mentor i had a friend who kind of just already
was in the space who randomly entered into my circle and were great friends but we're also he's
also somebody who i look up to in terms of my uh crypto uh sort of side of my life the third thing
i did in my life was reiki and energy healing and i had somebody who mentored me into that my reiki
master became my sort of energy therapy mentor and now the thing that i'm doing is primarily outside
of crypto is tarot and it's interesting because with reading tarot cards i don't have a physical
mentor like i don't have a person in my circle that i go to but i do have digital mentors i do
have content creators who i think are masters at tara who i watch and who were really instrumental
in helping me kind of develop my skills in tarot and so for you it's like especially as we're
kind of dealing with these um you know we're in kind of difficult times right now over the last
18 months it's kind of been hard to physically surround yourself with certain people because
of just everything that's been going on so for you it's like what you can do now is seek out
really high quality influencers and digital content and creators who are genuinely here to
help people and to help spread a positive message so cheat code number zero surround yourself with
people who are already ahead of you and naturally you will meet them there so cheat code number one
stop trading your hours for dollars this is a hard one let me explain so if you're currently working
in a nine to five job or you have a you know any sort of salary job any sort of wage pay hourly job
anything like that the reality is that you have immediately put a cap on your earning potential
this is not the case if you are self-employed so if the reality is that if you work for somebody
if you want to get a wage increase or get a higher paying salary you have to ask for that you have to
present a case to somebody that you should be paid more than you currently are and on top of that
the person you're argue making that argument to also has to go to someone else they have to go to
someone up higher in the organization and so this immediately puts a limit on your earning potential
based on where you are if you're self-employed you can earn unlimited money there is no cap
on how much money you can earn and this is coming from somebody who used to work in
uh you know higher education i used to have a desk job i use i've had multiple jobs in my life
come from humble beginnings and the thing is most people find themselves in that situation it's part
of this sort of matrix if you will that we all find ourselves in and it's really about changing
your thoughts towards the value that we all bring into this lifetime and so just really think about
that think about you know what you're doing right now the amount of energy and the effort that
you're putting in and if you can maybe put that energy towards something else on another level if
you think about all of the super wealthy people in this lifetime you think about you know jeff bezos
oprah winfrey mark zuckerberg folks like that who are billionaires who've achieved that
level of status they're not working for anybody okay there's nobody above those people and more
importantly they've found a solution to a problem or they have in the case of oprah for example she
has played to her natural talents which is interviewing and finding really good gifts
finding really good guests and allowing her gifts to sort of come out the other folks have found
solutions in technology and they're rewarded and compensated for that so
the point being is if you can if there's something that you wake up thinking about every single day
and you have some sort of driving passion you have some sort of burning passion the biggest advice
that i can give you for this cheat code is to start a side hustle do something on the side you
may need to do this while you're working you may need to do this you know while you're you you're
dealing with other life stuff but eventually small wins build up to big wins over time
another thing is and i can't give financial advice i'm not a financial advisor this is not financial
advice is any sort of extra money you have on top of a savings like you already have a savings
but if you have extra money throw that into an investment vehicle or throw it into a side hustle
and it can really help get you break you free from this matrix right so stop trading your hours for
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thanks for taking time to watch this and let's get back number two don't make assumptions
and be careful of expectations this is kind of a buy one get one free sort of two in one situation
and i felt like i had to put them together because in my experience they're so closely
linked this is also inspired by the book the four agreements by don miguel ruiz and
so i would definitely recommend checking that out if you haven't read that it's an amazing book
and one of the agreements in that book one of the four agreements is
never make assumptions and what i can tell you is that you can save yourself a lot of pain by just
not making assumptions about other people and also about the reality around you and so the
the reality is that um in this lifetime we are creators we make things not only physically but
we also create worlds and we create stories in our minds and oftentimes this happens when for example
somebody doesn't respond to your text right away or you haven't heard from somebody in a while or
your children went out and they're not home yet and in your mind you're going through all of the
disaster scenarios you're creating a world well actually what you're doing is making an assumption
you never know what someone else is going through and so whether that's the friend or the sibling or
the person you haven't heard back from in a while you never know what they may be dealing with in
this moment and so you can really release yourself from any sort of suffering not all suffering but a
lot of suffering by just not making assumptions same is true for the example where the ch the
chil that your child's not home yet um you're making an assumption that something happened
but you know 10 minutes later they walk in the door and there they are right and so
just take a look at that really think about your interactions on a daily basis and ask yourself and
am i making an assumption about what this person's doing the other one is expectations and this is a
really challenging one at least i found in my life i like to use personal examples so
in my life actually in november last november 2020 i sold my home and
i had an expectation i had an attachment to an expectation that the house would sell
at a certain time and also that the house would sell for a lot more than it actually did
and it caused me a lot of pain i was suffering at that time because i was so attached to making a
big profit on this house now i turned a profit and i sold it for more than i bought it for
but in the moment it didn't feel good for me it felt like i failed and that's because i was
expecting that other people would value my home at the same level that i valued my home
and i could have easily and i did get myself out of it but i could have easily stopped to the pain
and the suffering by just dropping the attachment to the expectation of when the home would sell
or how much it would sell for and so it's a bit it's been a big lesson in my life and i wanted
to pass that on to you so cheat code number three you can't be neutral on a moving train
so that is actually the title of a book by a historian named howard zinn
and he does sort of alternative history the stuff you don't learn in k through 12. it's been a long
time since i've read the book but the book isn't as important to me as the title in fact i don't
remember much from it and i'm sure it's a great book but this title to me is powerful and to me
this idea of how you can't be neutral on a moving train really speaks to if you don't have
your heart 100 into something you're really doing yourself a disservice and i came to understand
that i started feeling this way in 2019 in my when i was in my web development career
and at some point along the road i started to lose interest i started to not enjoy what i was doing
and this was a struggle for me because i came into web development as an incredibly passionate
person this was something that i loved to do i had gotten my degree in this field and i was
pretty skilled and had some nice projects and accomplishments under my belt at where i worked
and it i remember very um prominently it was like as as i just as i started getting into the sort of
business side i'm tongue-tied as i started getting into sort of the business side of the field
i started to not like it and i remember very prominently i was in this meeting with a bunch of
other people and i kind of looked around the table and of course everybody was older than me because
i was like 26 at that time and i asked myself is this really where i want to be in 20 years
and i went home and i kept asking myself that question and for me the answer was no it was not
and it really got me thinking about this idea of how you can't be neutral on a moving train and
it really solidified one of my goals as an adult that i've always had which is to always follow
my passions and as joseph campbell said to always follow my bliss and i couldn't do that if i didn't
have my heart in if i did if i my heart wasn't into what i was doing anymore and so it was an
important lesson for me and every time i followed my passion every time i followed my bliss
it's worked out for me so cheat code number three you can't be neutral on a moving train cheat code
number four there are no wrong answers i think a lot of us get hung up on this one
so somewhere along our path probably when we were young probably from our parents we
were told that we had to act a certain way or we had to do a certain thing or be a certain
person and if we didn't do that we were not being productive members of society we were not being
what is expected of us and the truth is that that is just a mental construct that is just a symbol
and everything around us really are just symbols and who's to say that one symbol is right
and one symbol is wrong so i would just say ask yourself that question
and as you go deeper on this idea that there are no wrong answers
you'll come to the understanding that the majority of people in our society are afraid of failure
and i think we approach failure in the wrong way
in our present where we are as a society right now as a collective
failure is really an opportunity for you to step into your the truest version of yourself
because perfectionism
i don't want to say it doesn't exist because you could view each and every
one of us as perfect just as we are but perfectionist tendencies will hold us back
and so failure gives you exposes your weakness it shows you where you need to improve
it shows you what you can do to be a better you not better in the sense better in the sense that
somebody else is somebody else's version of what better is but your version of better and you can
really choose to view failure as an opportunity to grow or you can and you can choose it as
to view it as a blessing in disguise or you can look at failure and stay where you are
and the last thing i will say on this idea that there are no wrong answers at the end of the day
all roads lead to the same path and there is no straight line from point a to point b
the path is always windy and windy and treacherous in fact
the people who you meet along the path often times present tests for us to either pass or fail
and if we fail we get back up and we are given another test
and so when you think about it that way there's really no wrong way to approach anything
you just have to be your sacred self and realize that every misstep is an opportunity
for you to step into your the truest version of yourself so this concludes my five cheat codes
for life how to hack the matrix series let me know what you think about this i really
appreciate you watching and i really enjoyed doing it so i will see you in another video take care