Been a while figured I'd contribute something.

One of the most powerful changes I made in discovering the red pill was the ability to focus my efforts. You only have so many hours in a day, days in the week, etc. Your ability to focus your energy you have determines a huge amount of your success. There are plenty of people out in the world trying really hard but getting nowhere because they do not focus their energy on what counts. It's like firing a rifle you need to know what you're actually aiming for to land a hit. And from there it becomes a lot easier to improve yourself.

So there's an exercise I have that I give to the new guys I work with sometimes. This isn't specifically red pill stuff it can work for a lot of applications and dealing with all kinds of things. Sit down and write a long list of all the stuff you want. Take the time and actually sit down and write every single thing you can think of down. You can limit it to one arena if you want to. Like your professional life, marriage, etc.

Then go through that list and cross out everything that you want because it will satisfy your ego or make people like you.

Then cross out all the stuff that you want that is likely a result of addictive behaviors or as coping mechanisms you use to avoid reality.

The resulting list will be short and concise. Focused. The more you fracture and push away the ego, the more concise it'll be. That concise list will help you focus on what matters. I call that concise list that is free from exterior influences my internal truth. Now go find yours.

When you find it then you can see your target. When you can see your target you can work towards the tireless practice of hitting that bullseye so often that it's harder for you to miss the target than it is to hit it. And that's what actually being alive feels like.