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WaBi Overview – The Coin To Save The World

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WaBi wants to save peoples lives. With the movement of counterfeit goods at an extreme high, Anti-theft company Walimai is looking to provide a solution. By offering a tamper-free label and tracking products on blockchain technology, they may have found one.

What Is WaBi & How Does It Work?

WaBi focuses on the authentication of products, mainly food safety. It is designed by a company called Walimai, who actually has their own anti-counterfeit system that ties into the blockchain technology.

It does this by linking physical assets to digital ones on the blockchain. These assets consist of everyday goods like alcohol, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics, among other products. Walimai places tamper-proof QR labels on any shipped goods so customers can scan them and confirm if the product is counterfeit or not, while providing information on its history. Each RFID has a unique encrypted ID, a Dynamic Code, and stored Geographical Data. Then, the customer can buy that product with WaBi token. It is a simple but efficient and even necessary solution to the counterfeit goods epidemic.

In 2013, the OECD estimated over $461 billion USD in fake imported goods alone, with total imports in world trade hitting around 17.9 trillion USD. On top of this, the World Health Organization revealed that 64 percent of imported drugs in Africa are fake.

Because each product is (ideally) recorded into the immutable blockchain, WaBi can try to counter the usage of counterfeit goods with a device most people have: a smartphone. WaBi provides incentive by allowing users to engage in a loyalty program that rewards them as they scan-in purchases.

The Roadmap

WaBi has an extensive history, and a big plan for the future:

  • 2013: A group chooses RFID as the base technology for their solution. The team then chooses Walimai is the name for their company.
  • 2014: Business starts in Hangzhou, China. Founders celebrate but are poisoned by fake whiskey during their celebration. The company helps to turn around a top-5 infant formula producer from April to January of 2015. Walimai is called one of the most innovative companies at a Forum in Moscow.
  • 2015: Walimai in talks with the worldwide top producers of baby formula and alcohol. The company gains a grant from Jiaxing and incorporates themselves into the Zhejiang province in China.
  • 2016: RFID labels are revamped, iOS and Android apps created. Walimai opens on online shop with positive community reception.
  • 2017: Walimai builds a presence in physical shops. A pre-ICO is launched and finished in August. It reaches 100% of its goal. In December, Walimai allows consumers to start purchasing products through WaBi. Expansion into other baby stores commences.
  • 2018: Incorporate pharmaceutical products. Begin talks with Fortune 500 companies in food, alcohol, and pharmaceutical industries. Grow portfolio and redesign websites. Launch multiple master nodes, partner with influencers, and begin to incorporate WaBi into other payment systems.
  • 2019: Expand WaBi to other countries, partner with insurance companies.

The Team

The two founders are Alexander Busarov and Yaroslav Belinskiy. Alexander founded Early Bird consulting and worked at McKinsey & Company. Yaroslav has helped solve problems like pollution and food safety in China. Each is fast-moving and bright entrepreneurs with a ton of experience.

WaBi has a team of five experienced advisers behind it:

  • Mario F. Pazos: Worked as a Business Analyst at Microsoft, Senior Marketing Manager at Sony, Senior Vice President at Citi, and Vice President at MasterCard. Has an MBA from the University of Miami and over 13 years working as an investor.
  • Igor Livant: Worked as an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company, ran his own consulting firm and now works as VP for Investments at TELF AG, a commodity trading firm.
  • Long Chiu: 18 years of experience developing campaigns that connect consumers through brand affinity and loyalty programs.
  • Mark Zavadskiy: Senior position at global e-commerce company Alibaba. Former business journalist, and Bureau Chief and Correspondent at several multi-media companies in both Russia and Asia.
  • Bruno Mercier: Independent Board Member and Advisor to a number of PE/VC funds, start-ups and corporations. Formerly CEO of Sun Art Retail Group and Pernod Ricard China and Thailand.

Telegram: t.me/wabiico

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wabiico

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/WabiToken/

While the Reddit and Twitter platforms don’t receive much interaction from the team, the Telegram provides the most direct way of communication.

Currently, WaBi is only available on Binance and IDEX. It is still in very early stages, however. Chances are high it will hit places like Kraken and Bittrex as time goes on, as the idea here is solid and will likely pick up traction.

WaBi can only be purchased via Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Binance Coin. It cannot be mined or gained in some other way, at least for now.

Because WaBi Coin is an ERC-20 token, it can be stored in MyEtherWallet, IMTOKEN, METAMASK, and MIST, among others. Ledger and Trezor wallets will also support it.

What’s Next For Them

Walimai will continue to expand their products in different baby stores and other places that store formula. It will continue to make deals with big companies in the alcohol, pharmaceutical, and baby food industries while working to eventually provide their partners with insurance.

This innovative approach to counterfeit goods deserves more attention. While it is still early in development, the coin will likely pick up a following as it continues to rebrand and expand its product line.

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1. Study Your Own Self

As a student, it is all about studying! Well, this one goes for studying your own character. Knowing your talents as well as shortcomings will give you an insight into problem areas that are hindering with the process of personality development.

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Today, it is a world of competition. You will be left behind in the race if you lack in communication. This is not just limited to verbal communication. Expression of thoughts through writing can create a strong impact on the reader too.

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It is not just our tongue that talks. Our body also says out aloud. Keep a habit of holding your head high, shoulders pulled back and tummy in. Do not drag your feet while walking, rather, pick up your feet and take more confident steps. Control your body from swaying too much. Most importantly, don’t forget to wear a smile as it can make you look pleasant and eager to mingle!

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Your Basic Alaska-ness

Everywhere you look you see this GREEN! We were there only a few weeks ago, but I imagine that there are spots of fall color already. Summer is short and INTENSE!

It was about the light

The light shining through the pine needles was what caused me to snap this photo; it looks like fall, but was just golden light.

By the Pond

Just a peek over the reeds at Watson Pond

Nature’s Watercolor

Like every other photographer, I’m drawn to reflections. This one caught my eye at the Eagle River Nature Center in Alaska. I loved the contrast between the bits poking above the surface of the water and the watercolor swirls beneath.

Beach Yoga

20161014-mma_7230_melinda_andersonObserved practicing a one-legged standing pose (yes, he did have 2 legs)

Bed Head

Another apache plume for today- I love their inherent messiness!

These apache plume seed heads weren’t really blowing in the wind, but they look that way to me.

Weedy Wabi-Sabi-ness

Perfect imperfection and impermanence!

Lost and Found

I was at the right place at the right time last week and was able to bring home this sweet bird nest that had fallen out of a tree at a friend’s house. Sadly, little egg shells were nearby. I intended to spend all of Mother’s Day morning in my garage studio photographing the nest (and beautiful Mother’s Day flowers from my daughter) using different lenses and backgrounds. However, rain and hail put a stop to the project after an hour.

Here are a couple lensbaby shots of the nest. More to come!

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Painted Butterfly

I had fun yesterday giving this butterfly a painted look with three textures and two different Topaz Impression filters. It somehow satisfies my childhood desire to be a painter.

Upcycled Cardinal

I’m back among the land of the living again! I haven’t quite returned to photography as yet, so today’s photo is a reworking of one I took last summer in Tucson. I played with it in Photoshop and added some textures to create a painterly look.

Company Came!

Yesterday we woke up to a couple inches of snow on the ground- which quickly became 4 or 5 inches at least, as it snowed steadily all day.  It is super cold, as it was during and after our last snowstorm, so snow is still on the ground- unlike in our first two winters here, when it all melted away by noon. We are experiencing a real winter in the Arizona high country!

Around noon, my husband spotted this hawk sitting quietly on one of the birdhouses. It was snowing lightly at the time, and the wind was blowing.  I’m not sure if he was just resting or was waiting for the birds that frequent the bird feeders in this part of the yard. I posted a shot of him on Facebook, and it was suggested he was either a Copper’s hawk or a Sharp-Shinned Hawk. I didn’t enter the debate (I have no confidence in this area), but I did read that even experienced birders have trouble telling them apart.

For the above image, I cloned out all the distracting branches and the rocks on the hill in the background, and then added a texture at low opacity to make the background less stark. Below is a more natural photo- with the branches and background clutter.  Both photos were taken through a bedroom window, and he was definitely aware of my presence!

Mammoth Mornings

It’s been over a month since we left Yellowstone, but I still am going through my photos. Here is a shot of the chapel with an elk grazing outside.

And below is a very early and very cold morning view of the Yellowstone Justice Center. Can you spot the elk in this photo? 🙂

Frozen Sunshine

We were out on a drive looking at majestic mountains and beautiful expansive views, and I was down on my knees in the snow, shooting icy weeds and wishing I had my macro lens.  No, that’s not a bokeh texture- that is sparkly snow!

Texture FX Fun

I love editing with textures, and the new Topaz program, Texture Effects, is giving me a whole new way of approaching the process.  You can start from scratch, making basic adjustments and then adding dust or scratches, lens leaks, vignettes, borders, and/or textures OR you can start with a filter preset and then adjust everything from there. There is a masking feature, which works well, except that you can’t use the bracket keys to control brush size (I usually choose to mask in Photoshop, because it’s easier for me).  You can upload your own textures into the program, as well as create your own presets, which you can choose to share with a community of other users of the program.  To be clear- it’s not just about textures- it’s other effects as well.  You might decide to not use a texture, but just other effects- or add your own textures in Photoshop afterward.  It’s a very flexible program! With that said, I will add that many members of the FB group devoted to this program have had technical issues with installing it and getting it to save their edits.  I have had no issues, thankfully.

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Just Listed, Just Sold in Olathe, KS: 15822 S Apache

Last weekend I listed this fabulous, meticulous 2 story in Olathe. It was in pristine condition and the sellers hired me because of my experience in staging homes and selling them quickly.

I consulted with these particular sellers last spring. Their daughter in Virginia found me online and told her mom to call me. After a one hour consultation, I sent them a punch list of items to complete before selling. They have been working on their house and completing their projects ever since. It really didn’t need much – primarily a little updating to come on the market so it looked better than the competition. We turned the home office back into the dining room and I brought in some accessories to dress the house up a bit and create the right lifestyle for our target market. Obviously it worked. Their home sold in 2 days for over asking price. The inspections have been completed as well as the appraisal. We are moving right along to closing.

When we received the contract, the sellers wanted to know about the buyer. “Where does she work?” She had a preapproval letter that stated she had gone through the loan process. What were my sellers thinking? They were wondering, “Does she work for Sprint?”  Before calling the other agent, I went to LinkedIn and searched her name. Thank God! I then called her agent to confirm. No, she didn’t work for Sprint.

Should sellers be concerned about whether or not their buyer might be getting laid off? It’s a big concern to most home sellers but it’s been my experience that if a buyer works for a company that has a lay-off history, that buyer will not be able to get preapproved for a home loan. That’s one of the biggest fears of mortgage companies – the buyers losing their jobs!

It’s also part of my fiduciary responsibility as a listing agent to make sure the buyer is preapproved with a lender who has a reputation for getting the job done. There are plenty of lenders I fear working with because at the 12th hour, they are known to pull the plug on the transaction and not make the loan. As an experienced agent, I have a list of good lenders and bad lenders and know who I can call to check on lenders I don’t know. Before accepting an offer, I need to be confident that it will close

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David Senescu is a musician who appeared as the wedding trumpet player in Star Trek Nemesis. As a background actor, he received no credit and was identified by the name tag of his costume which was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1]

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Candice and I reacted to the TTC strike this weekend by going for a “little walk down College” that ended up at Kensington Market, where I found a little shop called Model Citizen. Owner Julian Finkel sells hand-screenprinted T-shirts as well as screenprinted and appliqued waistcoasts, sportcoats, ties, and hats for men, and a few lines for women from other Toronto and Montreal designers. It’s a great little shop and Julian was great to talk to and I left with this shirt!

Model Citizen t-shirt

(Not the greatest picture but it’ll have to do.) The pink parts are bleached, and then the black is screenprinted over. I likes it. I’m kind of picky about t-shirts; Threadless isn’t really my thing, Urban Outfitters rips off too many independents, and after that I don’t really know where to look other than Etsy (which has some awesome shirts, but can be a bit inconvenient). Julian’s are a little pricy at around $40, but by the time you get a $25-30 shirt on etsy and ship it to Canada…

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I finally had to retire my old canvas bag which I picked up back in 2004. After a bunch of looking around, Ask Metafilter suggested a Tom Bihn cafe bag, which turned out to be about perfect. I got the medium, linked back there, but you can really see the details (and the color I got) in these pictures of the small size.

I figured that was as good an excuse as any to do a "What's In Your Bag" post. You can click the photo to see the annotations on Flickr, or see the list below the cut to see what's in there:

What's In My (new Tom Bihn) Bag

  • Magazine and/or book: Right now, this month's Good and Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which is systematically describing to me everything I'm finding in Toronto which I wasn't finding in Ottawa
  • My stainless-steel Onebottle from Grassroots
  • My big plasticy orange Fossil sunglasses
  • A couple moleskines (one of which is full of letters from coffeechica, hee <3)
  • House keys with turtle light, and caar keys
  • iPod nano and Sennheiser PX100 headphones
  • Orange nylon folding grocery bag
  • Business card holder with mine and nyxie's cards in it
  • Orange Jimi wallet (I like orange)
  • Binder clip full of the cards that don't fit in the Jimi
  • Rollerball pen
  • Camera, or there would be if I didn't have it in my hand
  • My phone, a boring old prepaid Razr
  • Gum for emergencies
  • Umbrella

Alright, meme time, what's in your bag?

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Wallet or wallet-like pouch (containing various ID, bank, and mass transit cards and money), cell phone, extra cell phone batteries, keys, sunglasses, hair clip, bandages, Nintendo DS and accessories, portable chopsticks, water bottle. This is actually a pretty small load!

Portable chopsticks! I had a set of those once. Now I have to find another!

(I suppose technically they're all portable but I know what you mean)

outer pouch: lighter, house keys + secureid fob, car keys.
side pouch: sigg bottle.
other side pouch: samsung blackjack.
underflap outside pouch: gum, little lint roller, fountain pen, sharpie, gel pen, moleskine, passport, travel tissue packet, little box of tiny origami papers, hearing aid storage pouch.
main pouch: wallet, bottle of ranitidine, bottle of , tylenol, bottle of darvocet (tylenol for daily use, darvocet for real pain), makeup bag (makeup, safety pins, nail nippers, breath strips), nintendo dslite (in case with accessories), creative:zen m 80g, frizz-ease hair creme, tissue, driving glasses.

my current bag is too big and encourages carrying too much stuff. it's cute and i like it but it's a bit unwieldy. plus i'm a sucker for cute messenger bags!

I know what you mean! I carried my Timbuk2 bag every day I'd need a chiropractor on call.

That reminds me: Under the washing directions on my new bag, it reads "Siquid mantica non capit, domi relinquendum est" -- if it doesn't fit in your bag, leave it behind!

What I have in my bag

Bunch of random stuff.
Book to read.
Another book to read in case the first runs out.
Some random electronics.
Way too many pens for no good reason.
Plus, unwisely, both of my name stamps: one for the government, one for the bank.

Re: What I have in my bag

Name stamps? Hanko? I guess I never really realized that they saw common use, and weren't just souvenirs for tourists.

Why unwisely?

I want to do a cool photo post like this but it'll never happen, so:

work laptop (thinkpad T43p, soon to be replaced by a T61)
work portable harddrive (which apparently is a Huge Security Risk)
reading/computer glasses (purple, slightly sparkly)
black wallet that is pink inside, probably my favourite material possession (this one)
two bic pens
pink lip gloss
red lip gloss
portable pack of kleenex
house keys
pair of black dangly earrings I wore to work yesterday and then removed because they were hurting my ears
red ipod nano engraved with "4A696D6D79206C6F7665732050616D6D79"
Nike+ connector doohickey for above ipod
armband for above ipod
dust, dirt, etc

the reading/computer glasses are in their black imitation alligator case

That's almost as long as your comment on nyxie's shoe post. And believe me, I've heard about the wallet :-)

who told you - they will be shot. unless it was me =/

nyxie of course! While pointing out the Coach wallet she wants. :-)

Okay, I can't shoot nyxie. She's too cute!

If I may extol the virtues of a Coach wallet - it holds up like no other wallet I've ever had. A year later and it still looks brand new. And I just love the details on it, like the plaid change pouch :)

Yeah, I go past the Coach store and go... 'I want that one, or maybe that one! Oooh pretty' like a dork. :p

Well YOU know what's in my bag, but for everyone else: I have two bags I carry, depending on the day and where I'm going. One is this one, which I carry when I'm not working. It usually contains:

- Black roots wallet
- House keys with turtle light (pink)
- Caar keys
- Small book map of Toronto, for those times I'm in a new neighbourhood and get lost
- Small red and pink change purse with TTC tokens in it
- cellphone
- Rainbow card holder with my business cards
- Hand sanitizer
- MAC lipgloss (pinkish)
- Philosophy lipgloss (sugar cookie)
- tampons and pantiliners
- various receipts and transit transfers I haven't thrown away yet

The other is this laptop bag, which I use when going to/from work, since my laptop comes with me. In that I have...

- Wallet
- Keys
- Cellphone
- change purse with TTC tokens
- White Macbook
- My client schedule book
- various bits of paperwork
- lip balm
- a fruit bar or granola bar
- pens and pencils
- tampons, pantiliners

In my purse:
cell phone (usually off)
checkbook (people told me it was a waste of space, I thought maybe they were right, left it at home, needed it 3 times in 2 days)
red silk change purse containing personal items
a receipt for a popsicle at a rest stop in New York *tosses*
burt's bees chapstick
Dr Pepper-flavored lip gloss
SPF chapstick
hair clips
$1.26 in change

in shoulder bag:
study manual of doom
box of flash cards
blank index cards
one of my few pens with a comfortable grip

I cannot believe you replaced your BlackBerry with RAZR!? :) Where is it, huh?

BlackBerry Freeware

Re: Where is your BB?

Haven't hade one for a year -- it was Mitel's, and it was my on-call pager so it's nice to be back to a plain old phone again.

I thought about getting another at FreshBooks (or an iPhone) but I don't want to be that connected.

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    Did you delete any downvoted questions over time? – πάντα ῥεῖ Nov 8 '14 at 16:22
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    I do not have any deleted questions. The UITableView question linked in the original post was initially downvoted and deleted by the cleanup script. I had it reopened, it was at -2, I added additional information, and the question was reset back to 0. That was the only case where I ever had a question below 0. – JAL Nov 8 '14 at 16:23
  • The exact formula for the ban is a secret, no one knows except the SE folks. Yes, answers contribute towards lifting the question ban, all good posts count towards removing the ban. – Infinite Recursion Nov 8 '14 at 16:53
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    Given your lack of a negative question history, I would bet real money that you do have some deleted questions. I've never seen a question ban triggered on an account without any deleted questions and without any negatively score posts. Your account is almost 18 months old but your first question is only a little more than 13 months old. I'll be you have some old negatively scored questions in the 5 months between the 2 events you have forgotten about that are hurting you. – psubsee2003 Nov 8 '14 at 22:16
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    @psubsee2003 That was a pretty good guess. – Bill the Lizard Nov 8 '14 at 23:47
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    @psubsee2003 you were right after all. I had two negative questions that I completely forgot about. Thank you and Bill for the tips. – JAL Nov 9 '14 at 0:01
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    @psubsee2003 That might not be always the case. I am in a similar situation as the OP - I have a 19 month old account and it was dormant for 15 months, and the only question that was deleted manually was on March 18. Although the first question I asked after creating the account was also deleted by the system because of being declared a 'dead' question. – cst1992 Apr 13 '16 at 12:25
  • @cst1992 if you are actually questions banned, you likely have deleted content you forgotten about, just as the OP did in this case. It seems to take a lot more than what I see from your question history in your profile to trigger the ban. Now if you are just getting a warning about a potential ban, that is a different situation (it is much easier to trigger the warning). – psubsee2003 Apr 13 '16 at 12:35
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Zero-score questions do not apply at all to the question ban, as far as we know. There are a lot of accounts that have way more zero-score questions than you do that aren't banned, so any impact that they do have is negligible.

Just for reference, you do have two old, negatively-voted, deleted questions.

You may or may not want to revise those and try to get them undeleted. They might be worth salvaging, but undeleting them might also backfire if they get even more downvotes.

You're not banned any longer, so you did manage to dig your way out. You'll still need to be careful, since you're now right above the banning threshold. Keep doing what you've been doing recently to get out of the ban and you should be fine.

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    Thanks, I had forgotten about those questions. I may not want to fix the Java one, but the ESPN one I thought was reasonable. It doesn't matter anyways, that API is closing in December. Thanks for digging up those old questions. Guess I just tried to push the downvoted-into-oblivion stuff out of my mind. – JAL Nov 9 '14 at 0:03
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    They do affect the various bans and rate limits in one way: they count toward various thresholds that trigger more strict checks. So if you have, say, 20 questions and all but 1 is 0, then a theoretical check that kicked in at 20 questions would apply when otherwise it might not - meaning the (potentially quite strict) checks would then hinge entirely on the score of the one question that wasn't sitting at 0. Lotta folks find themselves blocked because a few questions get downvoted and a whole lot more are just boring. – Shog9 Nov 10 '14 at 3:58
  • @Shog9 I guess I belong in that category. I have a few -1/-2 questions and an equal number of +1/+2 questions, but most of mine are at 0. I have two deleted questions as far as I can remember, and one of them was a 'dead' question(my first one on creating an account). stackoverflow.com/users/4037019/… – cst1992 Apr 13 '16 at 12:30
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    You have four visible downvoted questions and a couple more deleted, @cst1992. Plus a bunch at 0. Work on the visible stuff. – Shog9 Apr 13 '16 at 14:37
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    Wouldn't the fact that zero score questions influence this ban disproportionately affect users of low traffic topics? – ouflak May 20 '16 at 6:50

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Which cheeses attract which mice?

Please refer to this disc board post to see the nature of the dilemma: aaronmil 20:10, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

This issue has been brought up and discussed before, and I know of two incomplete efforts (User:GoBecky/Sandbox and User:Draobyek). I'm of two minds on it... on one hand, obviously, I personally would find such a resource useful. However, I'm not sure that the Wiki is the place for it - at least not in the main namespace. I feel like it's part of the discovery process of the game, and is more suited to a walkthrough-style resource. Also, the data is already available here - as I was told when I was a newbie editor, the wiki isn't about spoonfeeding information. But I really am torn... particularly in places like Whisker Woods where there's a lot of overlap, it would be helpful to figure out where to go and with which cheese to get the mice you're after. So I don't know. --GoBecky 02:53, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
I personally have enjoyed your efforts, Becky, for quite a while and would like to suggests 2 improvements for your Lagoon table: both the Black Widow and the Nomad are attracted to Wicked. … A similar problem exists in the Grove b/c there has been quite some fiddling around from the Devs since the launch of MHv3 to the point that some doubt if the Lycan still exists in there and can be attracted to Moon. Anyway: as long as I know where to find such information it can stay on a users 'private' page and doesn't need to be implemented/transferred (in)to the main namespace like it was kinda easy with the Realm. ____m. 13:43, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Why thank you for your kind words, _m. -- that's enough to make an editrix blush! ;) Thanks too for the tips on my Lagoon table... the Nomad was just an oversight, and since I hadn't yet nabbed a Black Widow, I wasn't sure if it was Sb+ only. Good to know I should run across some while hunting my remaining 83 Silths, though! :D
camomiletea suggested (on the forum thread) that we put these tables in the Hunting Strategies/Cheese Usage portions of the relevant locations, which I can definitely get behind. Especially for Whisker, Burroughs, and Bristle, where you have a lot of overlap in mice in the varying locations. Thoughts? Presentation would definitely need to be sorted out. But I think it's a good resolution. --GoBecky 15:03, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Haha, those who work hard should be honoured! :))
I can definitely relate to camomiletea's suggestion as this is where it is situated on the above mentioned Realm article. I also agree that presentation is a priority here since legibility is of the essence.
On a sidenote: Race you to the Silth Century despite the fact that you are already 7 ahead of me! … ;]p … ____m. 15:48, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
I also very much like the Lagoon table on Becky's page. -- Ralphminer 16:44, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
I guess the reason this idea hasn't been put up is because we didn't have the data - what cheese attracts what mice, and had to try to find out and compile it. The link that Aaron put in the forum thread ( may be helpful, so we don't have to test each setup, but can use the submitted data on that site. Just spend some time to look up the location and cheese... Not sure if it's all reliable (especially some outliers that I noticed when I put in Gnarled in GGT - in 21287 catches 1 was Frog and 1 was Wiggler; I wouldn't count those :p ) but it seems helpful. -- camomiletea 01:14, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

I've been thinking about possible improvements to the page, and here's what I came up with:

  • Firstly, SB+ will be moved to Standard Cheese, which will be renamed Cheese (Standard). It should be classed as standard because it is almost always used in place of the other cheese such as Swiss, Brie, Gouda, etc.
  • Then comes the Special Cheese. This will be a section that will hold
  • Cheese (potions), and will include all cheese types that can be created using potions, and link to the various potion articles.
  • Cheese (crafted), which will link to Crafted cheese.
Handling of Standard Cheese

Handling of individual cheese pages. All standard cheese information will be merged into this page, except for SB+, which contains a ton of information. Most of it is duplicate information anyways. Redirects will point to the individual cheese which will have div tags.

Handling of Special Cheese

For the Special Cheese section, each will hold a table that will have 3 columns, namely Cheese Name, In-game Description, and Used In. This way, it will be a summary page of where each cheese should be used. While it would be more logical to redirect all cheese names to this page, most players would be looking for the formula, thus all crafted cheese will continue to point to the respective cheese on the crafted cheese page, except for Ancient

Handling of Cheese created from potions

As for Potion created cheese, mainly RB and Gnarled, the information should be moved to Radioactive Blue and Gnarled, since both articles are closely related. As for Ancient, the issue has already been somewhat solved by redirecting to Ancient (disambiguation). Many articles now begin with the word Ancient, so that is one good solution. Alternatively, we could treat it the same as with RB and Gnarled, with a statement on the formula pointing to the crafted cheese page, as well as a link to the disambiguation page, since the majority of searches for Ancient should still be on the Cheese.

As there are a number of steps presented here, when replying please be clear which segment is being discussed, thanks :) Oh and if anyone wants to take the changes up once discussion is concluded (or I'm talking to myself), please go ahead. The steps required have been clearly listed here :D -- Grexx 17:17, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the Special Cheese - some cheese, namely Runic and Ancient would be hard to categorize into either (potions) or (crafted) because they can be created using both methods. Unless you mean to put them in twice in both categories? -- Camomiletea 17:24, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Oh right, totally missed out Runic as it wasn't listed under the current special cheese. Yes with regards to cheese that can be acquired in both ways, it will be listed as such, possibly with a note stating that it can be acquired by the other means. We'll see how it turns out visually and if it is really necessary, but this will be kept in mind. -- Grexx 17:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

I am in the midst of editing the Standard Cheese section, and noticed that Brie can also be converted using potions. However, it will remain solely under the standard cheese section as the definition of special cheese will be those that are specific to 1 or 2 locations. Therefore it will not be listed under the 'Cheese (potions)' section. Ultimately, Brie Alchemy Potions are more of an indirect gift of gold to players. -- Grexx 19:54, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Completed the conversion. I settled on merging the potions and crafted cheese into a single section under 'Cheese (Special)'. Let me know if there are any further improvements that can be made. Not sure how the images should be handled though. Quite useless to put it into its own column in the tables, and not very useful as a list at the bottom. -- Grexx 08:18, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Using this as a temporary holding area for existing images until the page is finished.

-- Grexx 20:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Aksmet's photobucket account is inactive. could anyone contact him? He has a lot of images on the MHwiki linked to him. --Victor.Songtalk 20:30, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Plan on reorganizing the way the cheese are laid out as currently it isn't really user friendly since players need to run through the whole long list of cheese before they can find the one they are looking for (especially for those near the bottom). It will be reorganized based on regions, similar to what is currently being used on the Crafted cheese article. Will be doing away with the specific cheese names and retaining region names instead, so that the article retains a broad overview of cheese usage and source for each region, while further details can be followed using existing links once players zoom in on a particular cheese.

Using a simple example, a new player with little idea about cheese would be unlikely to ever chance upon White Cheddar since he currently needs to read through 28 cheese names separated into 2 broad categories (30 lines/mini-sections). Once organized into regions, the maximum he would need to go through is 6 standard cheese and the 2 categories.

Let me know if there's any comments on this, if not I will be proceeding with it in due time. -- Grexx 16:53, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm all four paws for that, but speaking about White Cheddar - isn't it more related to Harbour then Town of Gnawia or Meadow? After all without going to the Harbour you can't really craft it. --Nux 17:39, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Yup, players need to reach a certain location or rank before they have access to a certain type of cheese, but that's not the main purpose of region sectioning. As with Crafted cheese, it is meant to highlight the areas where players can utilise the cheese found under that particular regional section, which is more helpful than just a list. So for example, if players so choose, they could hunt in the Town of Gnawnia with White Cheddar and avoid the red boxes in the Harbour, especially if they didn't use their gold wisely and are short of gold to buy the next trap. -- Grexx 15:09, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Redirects on cheese names

I'd like some feedback on cheese name redirects. At the moment, most if not all the crafted cheese names redirect to their respective Crafted cheese section, ie Moon, Crunchy etc. However that assumes everyone is looking for the crafting formula, which probably isn't the case. Do bear in mind that the previous iteration of the Cheese just had simple Cheese descriptions/usage information.

So what I'm wondering is, would it be better to now redirect to the respective Cheese section instead (ie, Cheese#Moon)? This way all cheese names will be standardized to point to this article, which will serve as a jumping point for the relevant search terms. The furthest a player will be is 2 jumps/links away from the required information, be it where the cheese is acquired, or where it is deployed, or what other related cheese there might be.

Let me know your thoughts on this. There's no rush to this, since players should be used to the current redirects, but I'd like to improve on the landing point of a redirect when possible. -- Grexx 18:22, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I am supportive of this change - this page gives a better description and context for the cheese than the current redirects to the crafting formulas. -- Ralphminer 23:23, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Completed the switch. This article is now a one-stop information page for all cheese. -- Grexx 03:32, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Vanilla Stilton

I haven't had a good look at the new content yet but one question that comes to mind is, while the cheese can be used in Jungle of Dread, is it even a remotely good idea to use it there? Now what brought this to mind is that the cheese description itself appears to recommend against usage in Jungle of Dread.

The logic for whether a location should be added can be found in one of the earliest specialized cheese, Radioactive Blue. It can be used in the Training Grounds to catch Lycan Mice, but is not listed as such since it is not the main purpose of the cheese.

Can someone please confirm if Vanilla Stilton is not just usable in Jungle of Dread, but actually useful there compared to a specific purpose that would most likely drain a hunter's stock of the cheese for limited returns. -- Grexx 03:34, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

I haven't done any real test runs in JoD with Vanilla Stilton, but I have been on a few hunts in the location with that cheese after being swept out of the cove. From my limited experience, Vanilla Stilton attracts Pigmy Swarm mice quite often, if not (almost) always. As such, I suppose a hunter wishing to catch Pigmy Swarm mice could legitimately use Vanilla Stilton in the Jungle and get good results if that is what he or she wished to do.
Now, whether this is a good strategy is another matter entirely. At the moment, it seems the reason for hunting the Pigmy Swarm mice is to gather Vanilla Beans for use in crafting Vanilla Stilton (or Vengeful Vanilla Stilton). Currently, Pigmy Swarm mice drop no more than one Vanilla Bean each. As such, a hunter using the 15 Vanilla Bean recipe could only hope to break even (and then only if they attracted and caught all 15 mice, each of them dropping a bean). With the Magic Essence recipe requiring 5 beans it is possible that a hunter could turn a Vanilla Bean profit using this strategy, but I have to wonder... Why not simple hunt with SB+? It's just as effective at attracting Pigmy Swarm mice, if not more so. Unless some discrepancy exists between the two in the likelihood of attracting a Sylvan mouse, I fail to see how Vanilla Stilton could be a "better" cheese for the area than Gouda or SB+.
Still, Vanilla Stilton does attract Pigmy Swarm mice quite well in the Jungle of Dread. If a hunter wished to hunt Pigmy Swarm mice for the pure sake of hunting Pigmy Swarm mice (or, perhaps, for purposes related to a tournament) then it is a viable strategy that would certainly work. It might not help them to progress in the game, but it will get them plenty of Pigmy Swarm mice if that's what they're after.
I suppose I should concede that I don't feel too strongly either away about including the JoD as a location for Vanilla Stilton. I simply added it earlier because someone on the forums requested the change to be made. If you feel it would be best to remove the location for now then I certainly won't object, but I'm not entirely opposed to its inclusion either. —MearsMan talk 04:18, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
As far as I heard the attraction rates are about (from high to low):
So to me it seems definitely worse mentioning as a strategy...
If it yields more Beans than with what the hunter started out with (the above mentioned profit) might be unclear for now (and we have to wait for pooflinger to give us an answer) but doesn't seem important to me in this regard. ____m. 23:35, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Lol that's a little confusing to me, especially since I haven't gone through the location yet. But I take it that in general, it isn't a useful cheese in JoD since with about 80% attraction rate, hunters will end up with a shortfall of the cheese overall for little value other than getting more of the same base ingredients. Sort of a merry-go-round. And sounds worse than using RB to catch Monster Mice.
Anyways I'll be removing it as a location until data actually shows it is useful there. As for suggestions on the forums, editors need to be aware that they are typically well intentioned but not always well thought over, so we need to exercise some discretion :) -- Grexx 17:52, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Geeez, I just realized my bad spelling mistake in my last comment: "worse" should of course have been "worth" … :s … *head<->desk* ____m. 14:50, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Gauntlet Cheese

What are other's thoughts on removing the word "Cheese" from the various Gauntlet Cheese names in this article (ex. Gauntlet Tier 3 instead of Gauntlet Cheese Tier 3)? When I checked my hunter's profile I noticed my bait was listed as "Gauntlet Tier 3" with the word "Cheese" removed from the name (I haven't checked but I'm assuming the same applies to all tiers), so it would be using a naming convention that appears in-game, plus it would keep with the style of the other cheeses in the article. Not to mention it would shorten the somewhat lengthy cheese names, arguably improving readability and reducing redundancy (I mean really, it's the cheese article. We know it's talking about cheese). I thought I'd check with the other editors before making the change though, as I suppose "Gauntlet Cheese Tier #" is the "official" name for the cheese and this could be seen as a controversial edit. —MearsMan talk 05:26, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Well another solution for that is to rename the column header from "Cheese" to "Gauntlet Cheese", and retain the Tier labelling. So the only words that appear in the columns would be Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 4 etc. Of course that's assuming they don't come out with different named cheese in the same location in future. In any case it would look fine to me both ways. I've tried out a preview without the word "cheese" and it fits nicely into a single line. -- Grexx 12:15, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Thoughts on adding Marketplace as a source for SB+, Maki and Moon since we're now able to buy these cheeses directly from other players? Also, what about adding Loot to SB+ (I know Black Widows drop it along with some of the Event Mice)? —MearsMan talk 23:17, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Adding Marketplace is a good idea.
As far as adding Loot for SB+, I don't think so. It's already mentioned in the summary before the table that these types of cheese can be found as loot. It's not a reliable way to obtain those types of cheese, which is why we didn't put it in when the article was created. I mean are you going to go hunt in the Meadow in order to obtain some Marble? How do you plan to hunt for Black Widow to obtain some SB+? ;)
One thing that I'm trying to remember, is Gouda dropped anywhere as loot? If it's not, we need to mention the exception in that paragraph ("except Gouda") -- camomiletea 23:32, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
You make a good point with your reasoning behind keeping Loot out. I overlooked the mention of loot drops in the summary before, but I now agree that it's a much better way of handling the matter. As far as Gouda goes, I can't think of anything that drops it either. I also checked the Loot article and there's no mention of it there (although of course that article could be out of date).
I'll go ahead and add the Marketplace source for now and wait to see if anyone else comments about the Gouda loot drop issue. —MearsMan talk 00:18, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
I checked articles linking to Gouda, and none of them were listing it as loot, so I added the exception. -- camomiletea 00:51, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Brie Alchemy

I don't have the pots to do all the research, but under Brie it mentions pots that use it in their process, and a few of the Gauntlet pots could probably stand to be added here. I'll do the research myself some time tomorrow if I remember/no one beats me to it. Aryst0krat 06:11, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Cheese is now available in the Meadow

Page could be updated with locations of Meadow cheeses -- Ralphminer 13:01, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

I noticed the recent edits regarding RB, Gnarled and Wicked Gnarly being dropped as loot. I would agree with ericb that it should be mentioned. Missing in this list is Limelight. Not sure if it also needs mentioning with SB+ in the Standard cheese section. ____m. 07:41, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

The reason they are not included is mentioned in the intro section: "While some cheese are directly available as loot from mice, it is neither consistent nor in useful amounts, hence their exclusion here." The idea is that if you want to collect the cheese in a useful amount, you would not be sitting around waiting for a Black Widow to come by and give it to you. It's not consistent (Black Widows are rare), and the amounts are insignificant. Same with BBB dropping Limelight. For one, you actually have to be using Limelight already to get him, two the mouse is hard to catch and again amount is not significant. The only cheese that is listed as loot are those varieties that are only obtainable from loot, e.g. Gilded, Rockforth, and for those the drop is (or was) more or less consistent, and you can obtain sizable amounts. We can change the policy; I'm just trying to explain the reasoning why it was setup this way from the start. If we do this, we'll need to update the introductory sections too, to get rid of those sentences. -- camomiletea 04:34, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your answer. I understand the issue at hand and will ponder about it. Will let you know what I think would be best. ____m. 12:05, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Missing Images

Looks like tinypic just deleted a bunch of images; I noticed it here first (for example, Cherry Cheese), but there are probably many other tinypic images throughout the wiki that no longer have valid content, for which we'll need new URLs hosted on some other location. -- ericb talkcontr 04:12, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Clarification needs clarification

Current wording: "The market price of cheese stolen tends to match the amount of gold typically stolen by that breed of mice. Mice are capable of stealing any of the "standard" cheeses listed below except SUPER|brie+, but do not generally steal any of the "special" cheeses listed below, with the known exceptions of Moon cheese, White Cheddar, and Mozzarella." The way this sounds is that mice do steal Moon, White Cheddar and Mozarella (but generally don't steal the rest of the special cheese), when the opposite was meant, I'm sure. -- camomiletea 20:00, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

I vaguely remember people complaining about Moon being stolen when it first came out, and considering the exception list I wouldn't be surprised if those cheese are indeed steal-able. I would hope that the other special cheeses cannot be stolen. --Hyperchao 01:27, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
Moon, White Cheddar, and Mozzarella can be stolen, other special cheeses cannot. aaronmil 05:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)


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A few months ago I talked about how excited I was to be moving to South Korea. I was looking for a positive life change, going to a place where I could be creative and save money and travel. You may also remember I mentioned that I was kinda wary of it. I tried convincing myself it was just nerves and that it was okay to be afraid. I really should have just listened to my gut. Always listen to your gut.

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Long story short… I hated the job. I felt I couldn’t keep up, I was told I didn’t have the right personality, I broke down a few times, I was given more responsibilities than I could possibly handle during my working hours… the list could go on and on. It wasn’t just one thing, but a series of little and big things that began to pile onto one another until I decided I just couldn’t do it.

Breaking a contract in Korea can be difficult and incredibly scary. Your visa is tied to whomever you work for, so by putting in my 60 days notice (as per the contract), I was essentially severing myself from my current visa in 60 days time.  Two months may seem like a healthy chunk of time, especially in comparison to the standard 2 weeks notice of home, but it goes by extremely quickly. However, it’s plenty of time to find another job, there’s a plethora here in Seoul… right? Well, a week later I was told I’d actually be leaving in 30 days. A bit more of a time crunch.

My boss was perfectly in the right in cutting that time. I agreed to it because I even stated in my resignation letter that a mutually agreed upon date of an earlier dismissal would be okay. 30 days is the legal requirement an employer must give you in Korea. At first I was like, hey, freedom! And then reality sunk in. I had a month to find not only a new job, but a new place to live. In a country where I spoke a handful of sentences of the language and I’d only been a resident of for four months.

When you are to end your visa in Korea, especially an E2 (for foreign language teachers), you have three options:

  1. Get another job that requires an E2 visa and just do an E2-E2 visa transfer.
  2. Pack your bags and skedaddle, if you want to come back to work you need to go through the full process again.
  3. Switch to a D10 visa, which is a job seeker’s visa and allows you six months in the country to find work.

An E2-E2 and E2-D10 transfer have different sets of documents you need and fees. However, you won’t need to get a new CRC and apostille or anything. That’s the plus. When you find a job again you can just easily transfer from a D10 to an E2 (or E7 if you’re lucky).

In order to do option 1 or 3, you need this magical piece of paper called a Letter of Release. This paper is your key to getting another job in Korea because it means your employer releases you from your visa with them and will allow you to get a new one. Without this letter you cannot do that. Some Immigration Officers will let you get a D10 without a LOR (because employers are infamous for not granting them because they’re angry you’re leaving, and they’re under no legal obligation to do so), but it honestly depends on who you get.

The best way to get a Letter of Release is to be as professional, kind, and suck-upish as possible. It depends on your school really, some will outright say they will give you one (like mine did), others you’ll have to sweet talk. Some will never mention it and you’ll have to squeeze the mere thought of it from their angry angry brains. Provided they agree, you will get your letter on your final day of work. Make sure you find your supervisor and have them give it to you. Stick around until they relinquish it if necessary. Thankfully mine was fine and dandy, I was wished luck and I was sent on my way. Not everyone is so lucky, but if you want to stay in Korea, the LOR is your golden ticket. Make sure you get it.

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If you are planning to break contract, here are some important things to consider and remember:

  1.  Don’t feel bad. A LOT of people do it for a LOT of reasons. You have your own.
  2.  Record EVERY meeting you have with your supervisors. It’s legal to audio record people here without their knowledge and it will help you should you need to make a case against your employer for whatever reason. But be sure that you ALSO speak during the recording. You need to be part of the recorded conversation.
  3. In your resignation letter include the date 60 days from the day you give them the letter, this is the final day you will work. Make sure it’s there and have a copy of the letter at home. Again, just in case. And make sure your supervisor TAKES the letter.
  4. Do not sign ANYTHING until you understand every part of it. Have questions? LOFT (Legal Office for Foreign Teachers) is a great resource for foreign teachers.
  5. It is ILLEGAL for your employer to demand money back because you quit. This includes airline tickets (unless you quit before 6 months AND it is stipulated in the contract that you have to pay it back under those specific conditions), future recruiting fee to get a replacement, etc. I didn’t know this until after I agreed to pay back my plane ticket, and it didn’t say in my contract that I’d have to. It’s not allowed. At all. It’s against immigration law.  Article 20 (Prohibition of Predetermination of Nonobservance) No employer shall enter into a contract by which a penalty or indemnity for possible damages incurred from breach of a labor contract is predetermined. However, remember that Letter of Release? You have to pick and choose your battles. I could have made a fuss, told them it was illegal and I wouldn’t do it, but then I could have kissed my LOR goodbye. Maybe not, maybe they would have backed down with a threat to report them to the Labor Board (Open 09:00-18:00 M-F, Dial 1350). I’ll never know, and I was too afraid to try, especially after the fact (I would have had little-to-no case because I agreed to pay it. Womp womp).

I hadn’t landed quite in a “Hagwon horror story,” but I wasn’t in a place where people were happy to work (I was the 9th staff member to leave since March if that gives you any indication). So I made the choice to leave. With that has brought both relief and a new set of stresses, but ultimately I am proud of myself for being brave enough to break contract.

Thankfully I was able to find a cheap and clean place to live in a nice area and after working on my budget, I will be good to be on a D10 for awhile to think about what my next step will be. I did have another job lined up but… let’s just say that was an actual horror story and will have to wait for another post.

For now I am going to concentrate on writing and seeing if my immediate future will be in Korea or if it’s time to move on and call this a bust. I honestly have no idea, we’ll see which way the wind blows.

Please note that I won’t talk about which school I was at in this or any future post because Korea has pretty hardcore defamation laws, however if you have questions, I am happy to answer. You can comment below or contact me at NERDVENTURISTS(at)GMAIL(dot)COM.

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  1. Wow!!! So much of this was over my head, but super informative at the same time. Thanks for sharing with us- I’m sorry that it wasn’t quite what you hoped- but I’m going to throw out the cliche’ – when one door closes…. Life is big time just about learning through experiences and it sounds like you learned SO much from this experience to help you figure out what path will be a better one for ya! I can’t wait to see where your journey takes you!

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What’s creating drag in your life?

Do you ever feel like no matter how hard you work, or how much you strive to do better, you’re just having a hard time getting forward movement?

The wheels are certainly spinning. The engine’s running and everything seems in order. But if you’re honest, you’re not making the gains you want.

And now your shoes are smoking and wearing down from all that effort.

You’re getting some drag.

In the aerodynamic world, drag is an element that resists and fights the force of flight. Thanks to gravity, staying on the ground is the default state.

Taking flight requires the pilot to have significant skills in overcoming that drag and knowing how to work with it to get past it.

I think there is also probably a lot of math involved in flying.

Three things can create friction and drag in your own journey. See how many are true for you.

Your reluctance to process the past.

You may have suffered terrible abuse, trauma or fractured relationships.

Pain in your past can definitely create drag, or stop you outright, if you don’t take the time to process the events and try to derive some meaning from them.

It won’t fix the past, but processing that pain can help you understand how it’s affected you.

Please know that painful events take a significant amount of your time, energy and commitment to deal with. Healing doesn’t just happen, and certainly not without your permission.

The good news is you can use your past as fuel to push back against the forces resisting your flight.

But did you know your past successes can also create drag? It’s easy to rely on what you’ve always done, what’s always worked for you.

For many of us, when presented with a challenge, we immediately spring into action with what’s gotten us results before. I like to call this “doing a ‘File, Save As…'”

But no two challenges are exactly alike. A new challenge may require that you develop the humility to learn new skills, especially if you want to grow and push past that experience.

Relying on what you’ve always done may have you doing doughnuts on the runway, or it may just keep you grounded.

Your reliance on comforting distractions.

We have a bajillion ways to put something off or escape our anxieties right at our fingertips. We don’t even have to try hard to find a rabbit trail.

We spend so much time on things that aren’t terrible, really. They make us feel good and maybe they help us learn something. Yet they offer no real path toward our goals.

It’s great to be informed about the world, but if reading the news takes time away from writing that article for your blog, maybe not. It’s cool to watch what’s trending on Netflix, but four episodes in and it’s after midnight, well, now you’ve lost the chance to get your good sleep on.

And we all now know the total drag social media can be. Have you ever tried to scroll through a piece of paper? Yeah, you might be on your phone too much.

But distractions go beyond the obvious things, like news, Netflix and social media.

Seemingly worthy efforts can get us to look at something else that’s bright and shiny.

In his book, “Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done,” Jon Acuff refers to these as noble obstacles, “a virtuous-sounding reason for not working toward a finish.”

  • Spending all your time designing business cards, brochures and a website for your new business instead of getting leads and referrals.
  • Devouring books and podcasts on how to write books and podcasts instead of actually, you know, writing books and podcasts.
  • Creating a beautiful, perfectly-row-spaced project planning spreadsheet with a trendy font (and that prints perfectly in .8 margins) instead of starting the first task in the project.
  • Browsing Psychology Today profiles ad nauseum looking for a therapist instead of actually calling one (just throwing that out there).

These are distractions at their very finest because they produce something tangible, and convince us that we’re moving forward.

You’re focusing too much on yourself.

Therapy can become narcissistic if you let it.

Obviously in therapy the goal is to improve yourself and change things about your life. It’s exciting to discover what’s been holding you back. And it’s fun to watch other people realize their a-ha moment, where just a little bit of their life now makes more sense.

But there’s a point where too much focus on you means you’re missing things about others. Your experiences may make you uniquely qualified to help someone around you, right now, even in your wounded state.

Serving others in your family, at your job, or in your community takes you outside yourself a little bit and creates connection.

You don’t have to build someone an entire house. You can serve others in all kinds of small ways.

  • Offer an ear to a stressed out coworker.
  • Volunteer for just one event at your church.
  • Ask your barista how their day is going so far.
  • Pack a lunch for your spouse before they head out for work so they don’t have to (I’m going to hear about this one).

Taking time for others as you’re working through your own struggles can give you a new perspective. And in order to grow and change, you have to keep challenging your perspectives.

Moving forward can sometimes feel impossible when you see the size of the machine you’re trying to get off the ground.

Don’t be afraid to tackle the areas that may be keeping you from getting off the runway.

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