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A.

Physiological 
1. Not that good-looking
I am not that of an attractive type of man. I am dark in complexion, have curly hair, not having
perfect teeth, having dark scars, and acne. For about 18 years of my life, I don't even have a
selfie of my own for self-admiration. I also blamed my looks for not having an affair for several
years of effort and still counting. An average of 3 hours of sleep everyday gave me a blissful of
acne. I realized I need to change my mindset and my lifestyle. I am now caring for my hygiene
and lifestyle more than ever before, such as brushing my teeth every day, not touching the face
very often, taking a bath twice a day and keeping a tight sleep schedule for my body clock.
2. Out of shape
With my sedentary lifestyle and eating more than I should, I had gained an alcoholic belly even
though I never drink on a whole session. I become conscious on my recent weight gain. I learned
that diet affects 90% of my metabolism than exercise. I am cutting off now sugary drinks, and
cheat foods such as chocolates and chips. I will practice now intermittent fasting and keeping
track of my caloric intake. I don’t need to starve myself because it will trigger again a large
consumption of food.
3. Not that Physically fit
Same reasons above and I don’t have enough physical activity every day. I feel nauseous when I
started to have PE activities. To be ready for any emergency in everyday life or simply, being
physically fit, I need to exercise regularly and have a balanced diet.

B. Mental 
1. Unhealthy Critical Thinking
I tend to overthink and overcomplicate things. Instead of directing the solutions, I still find
myself scraping on the why's of the problem and argument.  Often, I request a bit of laziness to
overcome this. After hours of researching and writing intensively for the most comprehensive
answer in Engagement 1.2 I could come up to for 6 hours, I was shocked seeing the concise
answers of my classmates at 150 words as I sent my answer.  One of the specific points I would
point out is that I find the video confusing as the discussion of well-being was discussed socially,
without the mention of individual well-being as what I read from their answers. 
I have learned that this is unhealthy as it inefficiently spends too much time and effort. I will
now practice the 80/20 Principle and questioning more "what" than "why" to cure this. Knowing
that 80% of my work only produces 20% of my score, makes me focus more on the simple yet
fundamental tasks first. Questioning "what" to do accomplishes more than questioning "why"
since it involves direct and quick action.
2. Slightly forgetful
I tend to forgot some quick and long errands on my memory. My mind is boggling on work than
on my duties in the house. This makes me look like I don’t have common sense to do daily tasks.
My solution to this is writing a schedule for my work; and home, creating memory clues around,
and taking down notes even on small errands. A bit of meditating the mind might help for
clearing things up.
3. Visionary
I like to brainstorm and innovate things and ideas in the world. I have a vision to create my ideal
better future. But ideas are still ideas if there are no work done. I need to lift these ideas off the
ground. This also means I need to start by taking small steps first such as completing my studies
and planning a concrete plan towards my goals.
C. Psychological
1. Motivation porn
Motivation is not bad in these times of crisis and depression. But with other more important
things to do, motivational media still takes up too much time on my schedule. Instead of doing
chores and schoolwork, I procrastinate them by binging on motivational porn first. I was wrong
when I thought that I need motivation to not procrastinate. It was rather the abstinence of
temptation that works for me. Studies have shown that using up energy on resisting temptation
exhaust someone their energy to do more useful things, and this can be remedied by adding
schedule and layers of resistance to temptation such as locking cellphone on hard to reach
containers. I need to organize and schedule my tasks and rest time for the better.
2. Partly common sense
I am not going to the outside more than often, making me slightly ignorant on common sense of
things outside. Contrary to what I should and must be done, I preferred to know more the world
around me through reading and watching. Little did I know, there are things that cannot be
learned without practice. I need to improve my maturity and common sense by gaining wisdom
from practice, actual observation and exposure such as avoiding parking on driveways, even
without a sign, for others’ convenience.
3. Shiny object syndrome
Shiny object syndrome brought me wastage of time and resources from jumping one project to
the other without finishing the first. There are always multiple opportunities to learn and do from
but I must take into consideration my limited time, effort and resources. I must rather focus on
my strengths on my most interested and important skills to be an expert on it than putting time on
my mistakes and be a "Jack of all trades, master of none”. I also learned that money is a value to
value exchange, which means focusing on the subject of greater expertise gives more revenue
than taking up all the opportunities that I’m not even prepared for and have time to do those
successfully. For now, I must focus on my studies than on the other opportunities, so that I can
go to college successfully.

D. Spiritual 
1. Karma
 Whatever we put out there in the universe, it will be back to us. Even if it’s something
insignificant. Even if we think it’s so small. Everything will be coming back to us. Karma is not
cruel. It is a true sense of justice, and is fair. That’s why I need to examine my actions and be
discerning, as often as possible. That way, I will only do things that are for our highest good and
doesn’t have to reap the harvest of bad karmas in the future.
2. Illusion of Time
We are so tied down with the concept of time... Wishing we could do something to make it faster
or slower. But the only thing that exist is the now. The future or past, when they are being
experienced by us, it becomes the now. The most beautiful gift that I have is the “present”. The
essence of time is making the most of what I have to be happy and I must be grateful for the
moment rather than wasting time on what might have been and what could have been.
3. Higher entities
We are not alone; we are never alone. Even if in the surface it seems like we absolutely have no
one, there are metaphysical beings that are always watching us and loving us from the other side.
These beings could be our God, spirit guide, guardian angels, spirit animal, or just loved ones
that already pass away. In order to give back, I must give thanks and have faith on those who
watches me.
E. Social 
1. Being too nice
After that recent friendzone haunted me for weeks, I realized I need to change almost all the
aspects and principles of my life. Before this, I haven’t gotten out of any friend zones for several
years. I am sick to surrender because I have invested so much time, effort and resources —the
sunk cost fallacy. After the haunting, I searched for empirical solutions rather than advices. I
read over dozens of female psychological studies for the truth and I found out that I was a fool
all along. I realized to be sick of the platitudes that “the one” will come in the future as long as I
wait. It makes me also realize that I’m too predictable, nice, giving, and boring guy to them and I
was a victim of the Hollywood that romanticizes the neediness of the pursuing actor. From what
I’ve learned and the story of my academically outstanding and conservative friend who had
fallen into the trap of an addicted boyfriend who used her for his thesis completion, girls
unconsciously falls for jerky boys. Women’s instinct and psychological states are hard wired on
getting high of emotional roller-coaster and oscillating states. This is their nature and always will
be as long as there are emotional roller-coaster of literature and media that gets them high. We
can’t change the latter but we can play along. I need to improve first on my life and focus on
more important aspect of my life in order to increase my value and worth. I need not to be a
carpet to them and see them on a pedestal but rather I must look like/present a challenge for them
to pursue. I’ll increase my charisma and confidence on every social interaction in order to
increase my social value. I’ll set my boundaries and availability for increasing my intrigue to
them. I’ll have this mindset and principle that there are plenty of them and can get anyone I want
to have a dominant and unshakeable stature that appeals them.
2. Agreeable
At first, being agreeable is a nice thing to me as I’ll please to everyone and it prevented me from
doing arrogant things. I’m always accepting requests and agreements until the day that I learned
that I can’t appeal to anyone with my words. No matter how I will explain to everybody, there
will always be some people that disagree with me. I must accept that everyone has their own
opinion and rights and I’ll just respect it even it doesn’t align with my terms. I must learn to say
“no” for my rights and also gain control of any situation. In order to have a strong principled and
willed persona, I must stop agreeing with everyone and be true to my principles no matter what.
3. Introverted
I score low on my extraversion, which means I’m introverted. I still want to socialize but I can
get easily tired of it. In order to recharge, I need to be alone. I find that the challenges and
realities of life makes extroversion a necessary upgrade for me. I need influence to be a leader in
order to fulfill my visions, increase my social value for potential relationships, be a good
speaker, have effective collaboration and improve my status in my career. I’ll start to build my
charisma and confidence by speaking every day to people even those who I don’t know such as
girls that are out of my league.
F. Economic 
1.  Unhealthy Frugality 
I am thrifty in my own ways but I sometimes exceed. Me and my friend always only buy the
cheapest food from the outside than spending it inside the canteen such as a Php10 street fried
chicken. But I learned now that I need to take care of my health first than my pocket. More will
be spent if there is something wrong in my health. I must rather invest on a healthy diet since
health is wealth.
2. Minimalism
Spending on unnecessary things is not just a waste of money but also a waste of time and effort. I
have learned that poor people are still going to be poor even if they win the lottery. They buy all
the things that they can dream and they didn’t even know that maintenance of these things costs
more than the purchase, effort, and resources after some time. Many rich people also suffer from
depression as they realized that the thing, they worked so hard for a long time doesn’t fulfill
them. I’ll do what makes me happy, which is solely focusing on my creative and innovative
work. I decided to have a lifestyle that requires the minimum possessions and I will let go of all
my possession, except for those that creates revenue/purpose in my work. The outside world is
already free for me to enjoy and be fulfilled.
3. Leveraging
But, the only way to get rich is not only doing hard work. Time is more important than money.
Time can never be replaced. Leveraging is achieving much more with the same effort.
It is imperative to stop doing everything by self and just leverage other people’s work. If I am
overloaded with work, I’ll leverage someone to do a part of it. This investment may seem to be a
large liability at first but it will gain a compounded revenue over time and it’ll save me a lot of
time. It’ll free up my time to concentrate on things with the highest priority and highest returns.
Investing is just an important part of leveraging.

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