Geoff Blades

Geoff Blades

This Is NOT For “Picking Up” Women

I just want to be clear.

This Masterclass is not for picking up women…

You can use it to pick up men too 🙂

But ultimately, it’s for…

Meeting Your Wonder Woman

How many of us would like to meet our most amazing woman?

That person in life who is our wonder woman.

What about just meeting any woman we’re attracted to?

Or a man? A new friend?

I saw a headline that on average American adults haven’t made a new friend in 5 years.

How many of us would like the confidence and skills to meet any person we want?

How Many Of Us Settle?

For less than our super man or wonder woman?

Or worse, unable to meet the super people we deserve, settle for being alone?

Building relationships can be hard, but the harder part can be getting started.

Just walking up to people we want to know can be a fear worse than death, public speaking.

How great would it be to meet who you want, especially a wonder woman?

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I Could Never Be “Normal” Again

Normal in our world is having never trained your mind.

I’d rather be dead.

Seriously, this is heaven.

That Mind Is Hell

Constantly thinking.

70,000 mostly redundant, shit thoughts.

Addicted to distraction.

Fear, of basically everything.

Uppers to get started. Booze, pills, drugs to shut it down.

Worry, FOMO, anxiously picking up devices every 8 seconds.

Constantly looking to the future, so desperately hoping it’s not worse, maybe better.

Vomiting opinions, thinking they are our own, not just programmed by someone else.

Thinking how you feel is based on your life and anything other than how you’re using your body and mind.

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De Blasio Will Thrash Trump…

Combating Trump

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

A bold prediction.

2 baker’s dozen Democrats throw their hat in the ring.

A crowded field of equally unremarkable, indistinguishable candidates.

They confuse the electorate.

They all offer the same solution.

The only way they stand out is tearing each other down.

The one left standing is already beat.

Trump easily finishes them.

It doesn’t matter who it is

It’s hardly a bold prediction.

It’s just straight up obvious.

Nothing is certain but you can be certain…

You don’t win this game making the same noise as everyone else.

And you certainly fail when you have zero skills of winning.

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“Focus Can’t Be Trained In 5 Minutes”

That’s right.

The mind is a muscle.

You wouldn’t expect to get strong doing 5 push-ups a day.

Nor doing 5 minutes of meditation, when the Dalai Lama does 5 hours!

Yet, what if you had a focus tool that you could use in 5 minutes?

That is easy.

Fun.

You can use it all day every day.

That makes you feel more calm.

Relaxed.

Alert.

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Yes! Bad Focus Is Our Phones Fault

This silly article blames our phones for ruining our lives.

Obviously, the way many of us use our devices is busted but it’s unfair to blame our poor phones.

They’re just doing their job.

Obviously We Have Focus Problems

Walk down the street it’s obvious.

Watch so-called friends / lovers in a restaurant on their devices, it’s obvious.

Obviously us adults are attached to our phones like a terrorist to an IED.

Kids are obviously raised on the distraction they provide.

Obviously they make our lives better in many ways.

Obviously, they waste our lives in many others.

Less Obvious: Stop Blaming

We blame guns for killing people.

Food for our ever growing waistlines.

Distractions on our lack of focus.

Near everything in the world for our lack of satisfaction.

But the only ones to blame are…

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Looking For Not Purpose

Many people are seeking more purpose.

It’s not just a buzzword of the era, but us humans have always been driven by a deeper sense of meaning.

A problem for many of us is that we don’t know where to look to find it.

And this leaves many of us stuck…

Looking In The Wrong Place

Purpose is one of those funny topics in our society.

Like sex, purpose is talked about all the time, but nobody ever teaches us how to get it.

How do you even know what it means?

Where do you find it?

Under that rock over there?

Shake the tree and more purpose / passion / meaning might fall out?

Maybe, but what’s for certain is where it’s not found.

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The Best Mother’s Day Gift…

Is an Ultimate Day.

The point of Ultimate Days is that you can celebrate every day, yet it’s even better on these special days.

Your ultimate day doesn’t have to be your wedding day.

Or the day you won the lottery.

Every day you can party like it’s your birthday when you’re living Ultimate Days.

Make Mother’s Day Ultimate, Again

Mother’s Day is a perfect Ultimate Day.

Being an ultimate mother.

Being ultimate for your mother.

Giving her the gift of being ultimate for her ultimate Mother’s Day.

Here’s the full intro track from the Ultimate Days Masterclass:

Of Course Young Workers Are Miserable

Of course they are.

Older workers are miserable too.

Most workers are miserable.

Some two-thirds of us are consistently surveyed as disengaged in our jobs.

Gen Z or Lost Generation?

This is 2019, not 1919.

Back then the so-called Lost Generation surely had worse jobs, including taking bullets in a world war.

Perhaps they were just as miserable…

Yet 100 years later we’re still so downtrodden?

We Suck Like Our Jobs

Many jobs suck…

But at least we have more choice than ever about the work we do.

The bigger problem for many of us isn’t that our jobs suck.

It’s that we suck at how we look at them!

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Are You Living Ultimate Days?

Yes!

Now, we’re getting crazy… good.

Here we’re not just focused on living your ultimate life but…

Are You Living Your Ultimate Day?

Are you thinking your best?

Feeling your best?

Absorbed in your best actions?

Is today pretty good or…

Are You Living Your Ultimate Day?

If not, when do you plan on living it?

Next year?

When you reach that goal?

Get that thing?

Feel like you’ve finally, what…

Made it?

The only time we ever experience is now.

Period.

Full stop.

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No One Lays On Their Death Bed Regretting…

They didn’t spend more time on social media.

More time reading the news.

More time watching TV.

More time surfing the web.

They Imprisoned Us

They know our minds are built for distraction.

Like Facebook they’ve built their honeypots to keep us trapped.

But we can break free.

We Say Time Is Precious

But how much of our lives do we piss away.

Thinking about shit we can’t control.

Worried about the future. Thinking about the past.

Living in a different time, a different place, how many of us are living here today?

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Search For Intelligent Life

A beautiful Nordic alien recently told me she was sent here in search of intelligent life.

“So far I’m yet to find it,” she said. 

“Ha, what do you mean?” 

“Well, I’ve been reading your news and watching your TV and it’s obvious there’s no intelligent species here.” 

Ouch

“Have you kept up with the Kardashians?” she asked.

“And your entertainment?” 

“What about it?” I asked.

Looking at me with her hypnotic blue eyes she asked, “What type of intelligent species entertains itself with murder and mayhem?”

“Your politicians? They are your leaders?” 

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Would You Rather Be Dead or Public Speak?

Do you know it’s true?

Apparently we have a greater fear of public speaking than death…

It was once pretty close to that for me.

I can’t say that if you held a gun to my head and made me choose, I’d eat a bullet.

But public speaking, and even having a public website, was once a near-death experience.

What About You?

How comfortable are you speaking in public?

Not just this formal thing we call “public speaking,” but how comfortable are you standing and speaking to a group?

Even socially, do you need the lubricant just to feel more at ease?

In business, do you hold yourself back in meetings or other forums because it’s uncomfortable for you?

Or perhaps worse, diminish your credibility by doing it poorly?

You Know What’s So Bizarre In All This?

We’ve been speaking in public most of our lives!

And that’s the crux of this public speaking dilemma.

Because we see public speaking as a “special-type” of speaking, we think it requires all sorts of unnatural ways of doing it.

Suddenly we can’t just speak the way we always do.

We need a script. To memorize it. Practice over and over. Imagine the audience naked…

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We’re Free! 4 Hours A Week

Tim Ferris had it backwards.

It’s not the four hour workweek…

It’s that on average we have 4 hours free every week…

Freedom Isn’t Free

I’m wary of basic ideas and random surveys but it neatly makes my point…

How many of us feel like we have enough “free” time?

In these blessed modern times, how many of us are living the time of our lives?

How many of us have enough time to do the things we want?

3 Levels Of Time Freedom

In this track from my Masterclass on Surviving Our Sewer Society, I walk through three levels of freeing your time:

Level 1: Is all the time management stuff. How, specifically, do you become so good with your time that you “make more” of it?

Level 2: Four sewer traps that steal our time—Thinking. Feeling. Distraction. Staying so busy to avoid thinking about our lives…

Level 3: The Five Levels of Being Human… The real goal of freeing your time is so you can focus on higher level topics.

Time Is All

No matter how you look at it, all we have is time.

And every second, right now, and now right now, we are stuck in the time prison or freeing the time of our lives.

Here’s how:

Surviving Our Sewer Society :)

What is our sewer society?

Well, it’s that much of what our society shovels us, stinks.

Career advice. Life advice. Financial advice. Certainly, the crap our society shovels into our minds…

And, yes, of course I’m playing around a bit here. 🙂

There are so many amazing things about our modern lives…

Yet, I’m Also Deadly Serious

Many people are dying every day from opioid, obesity, and other “diseases” of the mind.

So many of us are dying of boredom in jobs we hate.

Financially, so many of us live in lack, even many rich people dying every day with insecurity.

What about our time?

How many of us feel we are living the time of our lives?

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Go For What You Truly Want (Even If You Don’t Know What It Is)

What do you truly want?

What is the most amazing life you can imagine?

Are you going for it?

What holds you back?

How Do You Leap Forward?

I don’t know why this became my life.

But I do know exactly how.

I really liked my job at Goldman but I felt there was something I needed to keep exploring.

From where I started in life Wall Street was a huge leap, but my brain wouldn’t let me rest there.

I needed to keep leaping.

Into The Unknown

If I know the answer I’m already bored.

Stepping back and asking my question—What Do I Want?—I had no idea where it would lead me.

It was easy to stay in a job I liked and make good money, but if you don’t leap into the unknown what might you not find?

Who might you not become?

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What Rajs, Hedge Fund Scammers, And College Scammers All Need

That headline is my longest ever…

Coz that’s what I think Raj’s sentence should have been—longer.

The guy has the gall to come out of prison and still claim to be innocent in handing off insider secrets to the other Raj.

But that’s only the short of it.

The Long Is How Many Were Doing It

I don’t blame Raj and all the hedge fund scammers.

Like Lance Armstrong and the sport of cycling, to win a highly competitive game, you expect some to cheat.

Especially when the upside is so high, and the downside is so low.

Make billions of dollars with a tiny risk of getting caught and serving a short sentence?

Everyone on the inside knows this is how some of the biggest got big.

Maybe it wasn’t overtly “insider,” but their edge was non-public information.

College Scamming Is The Same

“Cheating” is a squishy definition.

Obviously you can donate a lot of money and get your kid into a school.

And of course there’s more than one organized racket out there.

Yet, where does the fine line of helping your kid do better in school end, and cheating begin?

Having a tutor is very reasonable, yet something poorer kids can’t afford. Nor a college admissions advisor.

Let alone the many who “brainstorm ideas” or “edit,” let alone straight up write your kid’s admission essays for them…

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This Goat Should Run In 2020

Combating Trump

I saw in Vermont they elected this goat, Lincoln, as Mayor.

Unclear by his name if he’s a Democrat but he certainly has a much better chance than most the 2020 candidates.

I enjoy a fun fight and I’m really looking forward to the Democratic primaries.

It’s going to be hilarious to watch them try to out-PC, out-left each other.

And, then, when they figure that’s a losing strategy…

Eat Each Other 

They’ll start off all nice like their anti-bullying bullying, but soon the field will descend into attack politics.

Like Bernie and Hillary, they’re all playing nice until they’re not.

Recognizing they fail by playing Mr. / Mrs. / Non-binary Good Guys / Gals / Them they’ll start chewing away at each other.

I’m thinking at least we wouldn’t have to listen to the goat poorly attack his rivals.

The only thing it would eat is the stage and perhaps gnaw away at a pant-leg here and there.

And certainly Lincoln might also have a chance against Trump.

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