I have switched over to 100% meal replacement shakes and I might never switch back to food.

I’m writing this because i want to get all my thoughts in one place about it and i know that many great creators who read this want to be able to dedicate more of themselves to their creativity instead of house work and chewing interesting things.

I’m pumped about technology and still I’m a late adopter. I like things to work well and be effective for what I need.

Alcohol and food are more costly, so I might do them sometimes to have some fun with people.

The cost of food

here are some things i’ve noticed i can cut out…

✁ Mood fluctuations

✁ Cooking

✁ Cleaning

✁ Shopping

✁ Food waste

✁ Eating animal products

✁ Thinking about nutrition ( including counting calories, balancing macros )

✁ Making food choices

✁ Meal breaks

✁ Listening to cravings

✁ Energy spikes

✁ Diet regret

If my family joined me in this journey, we could cut out…

✁ dishwasher (hand washing is easy)

✁ stove

✁ refrigerator

✁ airfryer

✁ microwave

✁ pantry

✁ pans, dishes, etc

Probably saving me about 90 min a day of time that I can put into stuff that’s more fulfilling than eating.

Probably reducing my depression and anxiety by 70% ( i have other tools that help me with a lot of dep+anx)

The cost of shakes

2000 calories per day is $53 / week for Huel. I get a box of powder and mix it with water. I started with Soylent ($69 / week… nice) they had supply chain issues, so i switched to Huel.

Shakes cost me the short pleasure of chewing something interesting. My sense of smell is intense. I’m noticing my cravings and my temptation to destabilize my body system. Those cravings were probably always there.

The powder travels well, but if I don’t plan it out, i’ll be back to eating food – which i did during Christmas and Wildfire evacuations. Lack of sleep + no shakes leads me to eating a little yucky.

The health

I’m trying to live a long life and an enjoyable life.

It seems to be healing my foot and eye things I’ve been dealing with for a long time. I am working to lose weight, so the calorie counting is really simple.

My major blood markers are better than before according to my doctor. I’ll probably get more tests done and improve my tracking of health.

What else i consume

I asked chatGPT to help me pick supplements. Right now, I’m eating Magnesium, Vitamins D and K, Omega 3 capsules, Zinc, Resveratrol

Coffee and water. I try to drink one cup of water for every cup of Huel. A lot of pee, but keeps me feeling good.

A probiotic is recommended, so i might start doing a 1/2 cup of raw sauerkraut every day.

The logic

Shakes may not be the perfect food. I feel they are better than I was eating before nutritionally.

I was careful about my diet. Mostly eating lean meat, legumes, veggies and grains. Trying to avoid things that contain sugar and high glycemic index. or more than 12g of sat fat per day. Tried to avoid high sodium foods. I had high blood sugar (pre diabetic), blood pressure, and blood cholesterol at one point.

I would still have one or two days of wildness. So, i might have a bunch

Having rules is way easier for me than trying to have will power. I don’t want will power. I want to live long and well.

I am a little suspicious about this tack. My general doctor said it’s probably okay. Nobody’s really recommending it – not even the shake companies (probably to prevent liability). I’m going to keep monitoring stuff and see where it goes.

The major stated downsides to the nutrition of it seem to be

• getting dependent on shakes (who cares?)
• each individual has different needs, so it isn’t perfectly balanced ( am i still better off than I would be without it?)

Pretty great!

No-food-management saves me time and energy. Consistency and reduction of food waste saves me money. Mood stabilization and mindless consumption saves me energy and makes me a more dependable person.

I’ve done a lot of teaching juggling. Someone asked on facebook about teaching a group of 7yos. Here’s my answer.

The main focus with teaching is to reduce anxiety so that students can access their bodies. Make sure that everything they do is a success. You could teach a class with juggling knives, depending on how you teach it.

Many people try to teach by getting very cognitive and telling where to place feet and arm position and stuff. I find it’s way faster to show them what to do. Refine technique much later

If the group is small, give individual attention. If the group is big, don’t worry about them learning much. Make continuous activities – even obstacle courses – that keep it playful and they understand what you expect of them

responding to a question from facebook…

I keep seeing subway and train videos where the other passengers seem intent on not paying ANY attention to what’s happening a few feet away😂 Is this a recent trend? I don’t remember it being so severe before 2010.What fuels it? It’s as though “if I give you my attention I’m losing something.” Thoughts?

Yeah, if I’m on a train and someone does a show for money, I can 1️⃣watch them and pay, 2️⃣watch them and feel guilty for not paying, 3️⃣or ignore them and do the thing I was planning to do. 

At a party, paying attention is also paying. If an attendee feels they know what is enjoyable for them, why would they take the risk of doing something else. They might feel guilty if they don’t smile or clap, 

so there’s an unsolicited transaction going on. 

Even in a stage show, we as performers, have the responsibility to  deliver big time. Audiences are taking a risk on us. They could easily go off into their own minds to their comfort zones and enjoy themselves a little bit. Let’s disturb them, and open the door to something better. So they can enjoy themselves a lot!

You could use this format to ask for a testimonial…

“

Thank you! You’re the best! If we could get the right quote I could use it could be a total game-changer for me!

I remember you saying something about how much you liked my shoes… 

Would it be possible for you to sign off on this quote : “Jimmy’s style is wonderful from the tips of his feet to the way he talks”

I know you’re busy. I’m really grateful for any testimonial from you.

“ 

remember, this is a game you’re giving the person. Make it fun. Amplify the reward if you can. Tell them why and how it will change your life…

Everything is FUN

☝️ how to make it a fun game

9 Mistakes of Performer Websites: 2024!

https://youtu.be/IYgVIt32w4I

Hosts / emcees are often obstaclized by trying to do the wrong stuff. The problem is that they…

• are striving to make things go smoothly.
• try to appear “professional”
• mimic what they think they’ve seen other hosts do.

If the goal is to make the host look good, the best outcome will be the host will look not terrible. If the goal is to make the experience great for the audience, the host may be almost invisible.

In many situations, i will throw everything under the bus in order to maintain a good relationship with the audience. They need to trust me to lead them forward. If I tell them that the next thing coming up is awesome, they must be right along with me. When I tell them they had a good time, that is a ridiculous thing to tell people. They must 100% be psychically connected to me.

One of my trademark lines from Boobietrap was “This is what fun feels like!” It was true and I needed to say it so that people would recognize it. I could only say it once we were all completely connected and on the same page.

Hope is crucial if we want to make a change. If there’s hope that things can be better, there’s motivation to make the sacrifices necessary. Hope makes us want to invest.

Wishing is the opposite of hope. Wishes are a list of things that are impossible or things that only come from magic. Hopes are things that come from us doing something.

Once we blow out a candle on a cake, our wishing is done. We can check it off the list. When we hope for something, we are just beginning to look at how to make it possible.

Wishing comes from a scarcity mindset. The only way we can get what we want is by throwing a penny in a fountain, or breaking a turkey bone. We have nothing to work with. Hoping comes from abundance. We recognize the assets we already have. Eg: “we have this great team and this winning spirit. I think we can achieve everything we want!”

Hope comes from a gratitude inventory and desire. Wishes come from complaining and resigning.

Take action : listen to your daily speech. Anything you wish was different, turn it into hope, or skip it.

We can only do one thing at a time. The game is finding that important thing.

I have a bunch of people tell me the weird creative things they’re working on in the background. I ask them why. They say that it’s just a little thing that they’re doing because it’s creative and fun or exploratory.

The issue is, there’s no background project. If it’s taking up time, it’s taking up now.

I have this fantasy that if i stay up late doing something, it gives me extra hours. Logically, if I sleep instead, i can wake up rested and ready to pursue my main thing – my mission / my higher purpose. If i stay up, I miss out on the crucial work that i can do (sleep counts as work).

We keep coming back to finding a mission and sticking with it. Sometimes working on a bunch of creative projects is helpful to a mission. 99% of the time, there’s just one next thing to do.

Take Action: make a file for ideas. Write down all the ideas for side-quests and keep them there. don’t do them, just store the thoughts for later.

There’s a book : The Self-made Billionaire Effect. It talks about one of the superpowers of successful people is their ability to be motivated by the big picture; yet do the dumb, small work that’s in front of them.

This is a constant balancing act for all humans.

1. Make the mission big enough so that it matters.
2. Let the imagining go, so that we can complete the crucial next step.

In the book, they call this stage focus. It’s the ability to keep attention on the stuff that’s right here right now.

If we, as freelancers, don’t have stage focus, we get into dreaming. When the dreams don’t pay off, we get disappointed. When we get disappointed, we often start side projects / passion projects / procrastination type stuff.

Instead of trying to immediately call the president when we decide to be president, maybe we do some research to see how to be senator.

Stage focus is a great skill.

Working on the next thing is also different from working on busy work. Cleaning my desk can feel very rewarding and comfy when work feels daunting. Stage focus is humble work. It’s also courageous. There’s pressure. There’s effort. There’s discomfort.

We build the skill. Our ability to do stage focus is limitless.

Take Action : think of a simple thing that will have a big impact on your career. Write it down, complete it, put a check mark next to it.