76. Just Start and Figure Things Out Along the Way

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,780 Shed your identity. So I want to explain what that means but first, hello everyone. 2 00:00:08,780 --> 00:00:12,680 If you're watching on YouTube, you can see my face cam. I bought a face cam 3 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:21,200 yesterday and it came this morning. Now I'm brand new to having a camera so I was 4 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:28,620 gonna have the like my camera image in front of me at all times but I didn't 5 00:00:28,620 --> 00:00:34,200 want to have to look at myself the whole time because I didn't want any like 6 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:39,280 thoughts to pop up in my mind like oh is my hair good or oh like whatever you 7 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:45,600 know and if you are watching on YouTube then you'll be able to see that my 8 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:52,760 background is terrible like you I'm in the basement so I basically record all 9 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:58,160 my episodes in the basement but that said I want to talk about shedding your 10 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:09,480 identity. So shedding your identity is the most valuable skill to have and what I 11 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:17,880 mean by that is when you have your identity you have an identity and it's 12 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:24,480 basically based off of the story you tell yourself. So it's how you perceive 13 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:29,360 yourself, the story you tell yourself, your consistencies like all of these 14 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:38,200 things is form forms your identity and I'm reading a book as you guys know called 15 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:46,520 the 10x is easier than 2x and I'm learning a lot from it especially one 16 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:53,160 thing that really struck to me is shedding your identity the the ability to 17 00:01:53,160 --> 00:02:00,280 shed your identity quickly and easily and adopt a brand new identity that's 18 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:06,120 like 10 times better than your current one or an identity that's associated 19 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:10,780 with a goal that's impossible like it's seemingly impossible for you to 20 00:02:10,780 --> 00:02:15,560 achieve the ability to shed your current identity and then take on that new 21 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:23,360 identity is one of the most valuable things to have as a person and he he 22 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:29,520 talks all about it he says that it is not easy it's actually really difficult 23 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:35,560 it's not difficult like manually difficult but mentally difficult because 24 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:40,160 when you have your current identity you're comfortable with it you're 25 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:45,280 comfortable with your surroundings your habits your actions your day-to-day life 26 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:51,040 you're comfortable with all of your current life and in order to take on this 27 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:57,240 brand new identity you have to completely get rid of all of your current 28 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,600 like comfort zone you basically have to leave your comfort zone which is one of 29 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:07,240 the scariest things to do as a human being no like leaving your comfort zone 30 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:12,720 is one of the hardest and scariest things to do mentally even though 31 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:18,600 physically there is no challenge it's just mental so that's the whole thing 32 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:25,560 when you if you have the capacity if you are able to shed your current identity 33 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:32,240 and then take on a brand new identity then you step outside your comfort zone 34 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,960 and then you're actually getting rid of 80% of your current habits actions 35 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:42,120 thoughts surroundings like people near you you're getting rid of 80% of that 36 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:51,160 stuff and you're going all in on the 20% new and this is actually exactly what 37 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:57,960 needs to be done in order to make 10x growth so I also want to talk about 38 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:03,760 atomic habits so I haven't read it I have not read atomic habits but pretty 39 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:13,120 much James Clear was a 10x he had the 10x mindset so he would basically drop 40 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:18,600 out all of his current things that he was doing or at least not drop it but at 41 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:25,600 least stop doing it himself personally he would outsource it and so when he was 42 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:34,280 writing his blog in like 2014 he would focus on he would always focus on the 43 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:39,960 blog now I don't remember the exact like dates and stuff of this story so I'm 44 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:46,200 just giving you averages around estimates so in 2014 he was working on his 45 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:51,840 blog and he was writing like 1500 words around and they were like very good 46 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:56,080 very every single time he would write like a better and better and he would do 47 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:04,120 this two times a week and then he decided that he wanted to make he wanted to 48 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:13,080 write a book and so what he did was he ended up going on or no he ended up 49 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:18,800 outsourcing like his day-to-day I'm not sure if he outsourced actually writing 50 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,960 those 1500 word things every like twice a week I'm not sure if he outsourced that 51 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:28,280 but he definitely outsourced like the majority of his business and got his 52 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:32,760 business up and running to where it's able to be fully functional without him 53 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:42,520 and so I assume that means he was able to send out those like news not 54 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:49,600 newsletters but those blog posts without him so pretty much he was able to 55 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:55,040 completely automate his business and that freed up all of his time to focus a 56 00:05:55,040 --> 00:06:02,440 hundred percent on writing his new book now it took I'm pretty sure it took him 57 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:10,120 three years because he was used to writing high-quality blog posts that 58 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:19,240 were around 1500 paid 1500 words more or less but the book that he was striving 59 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:28,560 to write was a high-quality book that is around 50,000 words at least 50,000 60 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:37,720 words was his his what he was achieved he was striving for and so he ended up 61 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,800 going all in on this book and then after three years he was able to publish it and 62 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:49,440 then once he published it he went all in on marketing and this achieved this 63 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:54,720 allowed him to achieve greatness because he sold like 20 million copies of the 64 00:06:54,720 --> 00:07:01,000 book and he was on the New York Times bestseller list for every single week of 65 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:09,320 the year and he pretty much sold like hey now he has the number one self-help 66 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:17,960 book ever like one of number one most sold self-help book ever so the moral 67 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:22,640 story is he was comfortable with writing blog posts and then he had this urge to 68 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:28,640 write a book so he got rid of all of his current stuff he automated everything so 69 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:34,560 he completely stopped focusing on the blog and then he focused a hundred percent 70 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:39,160 on the book and then once he was done with the book he focused a hundred percent 71 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:44,400 on selling the book so pretty much he had to get rid of all of his old habits 72 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:51,080 and then adopt the new habits so his identity was blogger and then he adopted 73 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:56,000 a new identity which was writer and then he adopted a new identity which was 74 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,480 New York Times bestseller like he's a marketer selling he's like a bookseller 75 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:08,400 so that's like I'm that I tell you the story because it kind of relates to 76 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:14,120 where I'm at right now so over the past couple months ever since especially 77 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:21,800 since school started I have been wanting to lower the time that I spent in the 78 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,640 gym because I'm focused I'm not focused on the gym that much anymore now for 79 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:31,440 context I've been going to the gym for a little over two years like two years in 80 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:39,080 a month and I for pretty much the majority of those two years I was going 81 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:44,160 like every day like seven days a week like I was hardcore so I got a lot of 82 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:52,480 progress and then I just recently like maybe four months ago when I started 83 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,280 looking into business actually it wasn't even four months ago it's probably 84 00:08:56,280 --> 00:09:00,360 like three or two or three months ago when I started actually getting serious 85 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:05,520 about my business and actually lacking in dialing on dialing in on this new 20% 86 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:14,640 tasks 20% habits that I'm focusing on so I once school started I moved down from 87 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:20,360 seven days a week down to three four to five days a week and I also decreased 88 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:25,880 the time that I was spending there all like down to like 30 minutes maybe and 89 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:35,000 then just recently today is Tuesday and on Monday I actually went I switched my 90 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,960 routine again so I now I go straight to the gym straight after school so this 91 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:45,360 saves like probably at least that 20 minute worth of commuting to my house 92 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,600 and then back to the gym and then back to my house I can just go straight to the 93 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:53,000 gym and then back to my house so I saved like a decent amount of time doing that 94 00:09:53,000 --> 00:10:00,000 and now I'm trying to think because I've got this I've got my podcast and then 95 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:05,160 I've also got tiktoks that I started doing tiktoks and YouTube shorts and 96 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:09,560 especially now that I'm getting serious about the podcast because now that I have 97 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:15,320 the face cam I'm like let me let me actually tell you this when I first 98 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:21,840 started podcasting I started before I even started posting my episodes I was 99 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:29,840 recording on the Voice Memos app I did 14 episodes and then when I first when 100 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:34,440 I first recorded my first episode that I was actually gonna publish which was the 101 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:41,320 the Ascend Momentum trailer I recorded that on a voice recorder a little tiny 102 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:46,160 little voice quarter about this big and it's like the size of my thumb a little 103 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:52,880 bit bigger than the size of my thumb and the reason why I tell you this is because 104 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:57,200 I was recording on that thing which was by the way it was worse quality than the 105 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:01,920 Voice Memos app I don't know why I switched off of the Voice Memos app it 106 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:06,880 was dumb but I've recorded like 27 episodes on that crappy little voice 107 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:12,560 recorder and if you go back you could hear how bad quality it was and then on 108 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:19,160 episode 28 or actually probably around like a little before episode 28 so probably 109 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:25,040 around like 24 25 around there I was looking on Amazon for a microphone 110 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,240 to buy because I was starting to get serious and I wanted to get a new 111 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,600 microphone because I wanted my audio quality to actually be decent so I 112 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:39,120 looked up like best podcasting mic to buy for beginners or like budget or 113 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:43,280 something like that and there was like a hundred dollar microphone and I bought 114 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:48,440 it and then I told my dad and then he said cancel it and then I canceled it and 115 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,480 he gave me this microphone which is what I'm using right now and it's very nice 116 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:58,320 it's an extremely nice microphone and I don't know how much cost but he said it 117 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:06,120 would cost it's like higher quality than the one I was gonna buy so then I've been 118 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:13,160 using this for the past like 50 episodes and a little bit less than 50 119 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:19,200 episodes but one of the what I'm trying to say is that I was a little iffy about 120 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:26,360 even buying a microphone in the first place much less a face cam because when 121 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,480 I was thinking about a microphone I was like oh maybe I should get a face cam 122 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:34,640 also but then I didn't want to because I wasn't as serious anymore so then once 123 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:40,720 that flat fast forward literally a couple days ago probably like less than a 124 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:47,000 week ago I was at Funal Hacking Live and I saw it I was listening to the 125 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,680 speakers and there was one speaker that was I don't remember what they were 126 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:56,640 talking about but there was one speaker that said like get rid of your intro in 127 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:02,280 your in your videos and you have the first three seconds to hook their 128 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:08,720 attention so that's why I got rid of my long boring slow intro and then I always 129 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:16,240 start my videos with a hook like today's video was shed your identity and I'm 130 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,240 getting better and better at hooks I'm not even sure if that was a good hook 131 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,920 we'll see if you guys listen to it but I currently only have seven subscribers 132 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:28,560 so but seven subscribers I'm really happy about that because I think seven 133 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:34,480 people are actually watching every single episode so that's cool then that's a 134 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:39,280 side tangent but the point that I'm trying to say is before I didn't want to 135 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:43,160 even buy a microphone and then I bought a microphone and I didn't even want to 136 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:48,240 buy a face cam and then I heard the speaker talk about it and then this 137 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,520 idea popped in my head to buy a face cam because I'm starting to get serious 138 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,920 like I have to oh I think it was the speaker that was talking about YouTube 139 00:13:55,920 --> 00:14:01,240 like recording on YouTube videos and I realized that I was posting on YouTube 140 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:07,720 but it was I was doing everything badly because I was just posting the if you go 141 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:13,440 on my YouTube channel you'll see I was posting the videos it was like a 142 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:22,680 automatic audio to video converter and so it basically turned my like the audio 143 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:29,840 into it took my profile picture and then it placed like sound waves on it and so 144 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:35,280 basically you're just watching it was like a podcast kind of directly menu so 145 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:39,080 it was on YouTube but it was basically just for audio there was no like video 146 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,680 it was just a picture a flat static picture the whole time and so I posted 147 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:50,280 like 70 episodes like that zero subscribers and less than like 30 views 148 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:56,240 all on YouTube and another thing that I was doing wrong is on my on my normal 149 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:08,440 podcast directory I post a I have all of my videos or all my episodes post at 12 150 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:15,000 a.m. the exact time at 12 a.m. every single day because I schedule them but 151 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,640 there's a you have to click a button mainly on rss.com the software I used 152 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:26,400 to kind of spread my podcast across the internet you have to click a button to 153 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:32,440 manually upload it to YouTube and so that's why on YouTube my posting my 154 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:38,320 publishing is inconsistent on like some days it's like 6 p.m. that I post it 155 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:43,440 some days it's 3 p.m. some days it's like 6 a.m. it's all different so there's no 156 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:47,920 real consistency so that's another reason why I'm doing YouTube wrong so 157 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,800 that's why I made the decision to buy a face cam at funnel hacking live but I 158 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:57,720 didn't want to buy it until I got home so then I got home and I didn't buy it 159 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,960 yesterday I'd simply just forgot actually no I did buy it yesterday what am I 160 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:06,040 talking about I bought it yesterday but I didn't buy it on Sunday because I 161 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:11,360 forgot or no Sunday I got home late so I didn't even have time but yesterday I 162 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:18,240 bought it after the podcast I bought the face cam and I bought five more books 163 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:23,320 and I'll get into the books in a second so I bought the face cam just like that 164 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:30,320 just like click a button no mental stopping me no nothing so I bought the 165 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:36,960 face cam now I'm serious about YouTube so now my plan is to post my video post 166 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:42,360 my like post the video to YouTube schedule it to YouTube actually and then 167 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:50,840 Trent do on podcast so there's a feature to to convert video to audio so then 168 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:54,600 I'll convert video to audio and then edit that audio and then like edit how I 169 00:16:54,600 --> 00:17:00,200 normally do so that's huge because while I'm doing all of that I'm gonna 170 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,840 record my three tiktoks as well because I started doing tiktoks the other day 171 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:10,000 and if you guys see the video lessons there's I always have around three video 172 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:15,040 lessons so then that's three videos that I can record on tiktok and this is just 173 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:19,400 to build a following on tiktok and then hopefully have people click my link in 174 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:24,000 tiktok and then that will send them to my link tree and then hopefully they'll 175 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,240 click on the podcast and then they'll listen to the podcast so my tiktok is 176 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:33,880 purely to get more more reach essentially because I don't think that I 177 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:41,520 think I lost my our organic traffic for podcasting I think that they gave me 178 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:46,840 some organic traffic right off the bat just to get the ball rolling and then I 179 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:51,760 don't know if I get more organic track traffic for a little while because I 180 00:17:51,760 --> 00:18:00,360 haven't been getting much growth like my first month I started in like August like 181 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:07,960 late August so my first month I had like four subscribers and which is actually 182 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:14,240 a lot because I only had like a couple episodes post on in August so I had four 183 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:19,960 subscribers and my analytics actually is like a graph so it's it's like it went 184 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:24,760 up but then it kind of like plateaued a little bit so that's why I think that my 185 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:29,680 organic organic traffic which is basically traffic that the algorithm is 186 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:35,320 sending my way just because I'm doing what it wants I'm posting consistently so 187 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:41,040 I think that I ran out of that so I have to use other means and I have a few 188 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:47,880 plans so one plan is the tiktoks get people pull people from tiktok onto my 189 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:54,560 channel and then have them watch and hopefully become subscribers and then I 190 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:59,800 have another and when I say subscriber I'm I'm not monetized I'm just saying 191 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:06,200 like they follow my channel they and there's a stat on rss.com that they 192 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,240 give you it's called rolling average subscriber that's what I'm referring to 193 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:13,800 it's just like the average subscriber because you can't really tell how many 194 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:18,320 subs there's no real stat to tell you how much subscribers you have so it gives 195 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:23,720 you the average based off of how many people watch every single episode you 196 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:29,640 post within 24 hours of it post you and right now I have seven which I'm very 197 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:34,240 happy about because there's seven people listening to me every single day so 198 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:42,880 that's cool but what I'm trying to say is I have a few plans so right now is the 199 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:47,360 tiktok to get more organic traffic traffic for free simply just for me 200 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:52,960 providing content and then I have another plan which I may or may not start I 201 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:59,880 don't know how to even go about it but I may start posting ads or buying ads 202 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:03,600 right now I have like a hundred bucks in my bank account so I don't know if 203 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:10,120 that's a good idea I think I might just focus on organic traffic because I want 204 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:15,520 to save my money for memberships that I am paying for that are gonna charge me 205 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:21,520 like if I don't have enough money to pay for my RSS comm subscription then I 206 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:27,840 won't be able to my channel will probably disappear so that is essential 207 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,680 same with my podcast so I need to pay for that like there's some things that I 208 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:38,120 have to pay for so I'm I might not do paid ads but I was thinking about doing 209 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:43,600 it and then the other thing the other thing on my plan is I actually wrote 210 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:50,520 this yesterday in my notebook go on to other people's shows like be a guest on 211 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:56,400 other people's shows and this I want to go back to the identity thing it's 212 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:01,240 extremely hard because it's outside of your comfort zone but you have to take 213 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:06,400 on this new identity so right now my current identity is solo podcaster and 214 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,560 I've gotten very comfortable with it like if you go back to my first episode it 215 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:15,840 was out of my comfort zone like I was not wanting to do it I didn't want to do 216 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:20,480 it and it was uncomfortable for me so it's out of my comfort zone so it was 217 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:25,360 part of my 20% new things and it's good that I focused on a percent on it but 218 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:30,880 now I'm 76 episodes in and naturally I've become comfortable at it it's in it's 219 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:37,560 been pulled into my comfort zone so the next thing that I'm gonna focus on is 220 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:43,720 go on other people's podcasts be a guest on other people's podcast and if I can 221 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:52,360 find people's podcasts that are in the same niche or market as me I can hopefully 222 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:59,920 grab more organic audience grab more viewers from that if I do a good job on 223 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:07,000 that those episodes then I can they'll say like oh how can people find you and 224 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,960 then at the end I'll just be like I have a podcast ascend momentum and then 225 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,480 that's it that's literally all I'll do because that's the only thing I'm trying 226 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,520 to grow right now that's all I care about my podcast I want to grow my 227 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:25,280 podcast because I've got a few plans after the podcast so let's stay on the 228 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:30,440 topic of being a guest on other people's shows I don't even know how to go about 229 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:36,600 starting it but I'm not gonna worry about it till 24 days from now so let me 230 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:46,120 explain I wrote in my book in my journal I will be I will begin to be a guest I 231 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:52,120 will begin looking into being a guest speaker once I reach episode 100 there's 232 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:58,080 a few reasons one Seth Godin said he'll be a guest on anyone's podcast anyone's 233 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:02,720 show once they reach episode 100 because that shows they're in it for the 234 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:07,160 long run they're they're serious about it so I want to I want to portray myself 235 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:11,040 as being serious because I am serious about it and I want to prove it I want 236 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:15,320 people to see that I'm credible and I have actually been I'm in it for the 237 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:21,200 long run so that's one reason another reason is I want so right now I'm very 238 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:27,480 comfortable with or I'm not very comfortable but I'm way better at a 239 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:32,800 podcast at being a podcaster and I go so far to say that I'm almost an expert I 240 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:39,320 don't know what expert status looks like or sounds like on a podcast but I wrote 241 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:44,680 down in my journal I will once I reach episode 100 I will be an expert 242 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:50,920 podcaster and I will begin to go be a guest on other people's shows that's 243 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:57,000 what I said so once I reach episode 100 I will begin to like promote myself to 244 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:04,160 other podcasts hosts and hopefully they'll invite me on to their show so 245 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:09,360 that's kind of a plan to get more organic traffic right now I'm just currently 246 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:16,000 my only organic source is the podcast and I've been doing it for 76 episodes and 247 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:21,240 it's I have seven subscribers so I'm not really gaining that much organic 248 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:26,360 traffic it's not too fast and then another method that I've begun the other 249 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:30,840 day which I haven't actually begun in real time because I scheduled the posts 250 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:37,800 for the fourth so tomorrow it will begin tomorrow is the first day that I'll be 251 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:43,280 posting my tiktoks so that's a second organic method and the reason why I'm 252 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:48,360 focusing on organic is because I simply don't have the funds to buy ads like I 253 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:54,640 don't have the funds to pay for traffic I don't have money I'm broke and so I 254 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,520 don't want to say that actually because that's a bad identity thing to say out 255 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:05,680 loud I'm actually abundant but that that's whatever so I don't have much 256 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,440 money right now at the moment so that's why I'm focusing on organic so I have to 257 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:15,160 figure out ways that I can do it for free and then the third and probably most 258 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:20,760 powerful way of getting traffic is to be a guest speaker on someone else's 259 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:25,480 podcast and this is for multiple reasons one they already have a follower base 260 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:33,360 built up so I'll already be tapping into a built up pond of viewers versus the 261 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,880 tiktok I'd have to build up my follower base the podcast I have to build up my 262 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:43,920 follower base to they're on the same platform there's a thing where people 263 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,120 don't want to leave their current platform like people ten youtubers 264 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:52,560 YouTube viewers tend to stay on YouTube like they don't want to go to 265 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:57,480 youtubers podcast per se or they don't want to go to their tiktok or their 266 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:04,000 Instagram like they tend to consumers tend to want to stay on their current 267 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,400 platform on the platform they're comfortable at and so that's why it'll 268 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:15,280 be tough to grab tiktok viewers over to my podcast it's possible but it's not 269 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:20,440 going to be the most efficient method and then so that's why it'll be the best 270 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:27,160 source for those two reasons is being a guest speaker and plus it'll greatly 271 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:32,680 expand my comfort zone because I am an introvert and I'm not very when I speak 272 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:38,400 I can get into the flow like I have gotten into the flow speaking with my 273 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:45,160 friends but I've never gotten into the flow speaking with a stranger and so it 274 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:49,600 will be interesting I don't know how it would even set up because I may have to 275 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:54,960 travel I don't I would prefer to travel but I don't have the funds I'd prefer I 276 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,120 don't know I I don't know if they would pay for it if I would have to pay for it 277 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:06,200 I don't know but that's like I really want I think that this is my next step and 278 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:12,040 that's like that's pretty much my current trajectory that I'm looking at for 279 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:17,440 that now let's talk about further along the road once I get more viewers so 280 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:22,080 right now I have seven subscribers we've established this I wrote down in my book 281 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:27,280 so let me give some context I went to funnel hacking live and the theme of 282 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:31,800 this year was the linchpin which is basically a reoccurring revenue model 283 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:37,640 so it's basically you build a membership site and you get people to pay you monthly 284 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:43,400 for it that's essentially what it is so right now I don't have a business I'm 285 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:48,240 just focusing on building my audience and I'm very glad that I'm building I'm 286 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:53,080 just focused on this because this was the first thing that I could do that like 287 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:57,520 right here right now that I could just get reps at or get reps and get better 288 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:04,280 and get better podcasting and that's what I'm doing right now and so what I want 289 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:08,160 to do I like the whole reason why I'm doing this is to set up a business and 290 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,280 so the business I'm gonna set up is a linchpin model it's gonna follow the 291 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:18,280 linchpin model and I don't even know what I want to do but all I know is that my 292 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:24,600 plan I wrote this down in my journal once I get 100 subscribers so 100 people 293 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:29,720 are watching me every single day or listening to me every single day once 294 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:37,200 I get that number then I will start to build a membership site and the way I'm 295 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:42,800 gonna do it is I'm gonna like send out a survey to my viewers that's basically 296 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,320 gonna be like an open-ended response so I'm gonna send out a survey to you guys 297 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:50,720 and then I'm going to be 298 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:56,240 reading all those responses and then building a membership site around it 299 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:04,560 because this is huge this will tell me exactly what you guys want and as a 300 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:10,240 result it'll tell me all of your problems that you're need solved and then 301 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:15,080 I'll be way better equipped with more intel Intel to better solve those 302 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,720 problems and then I'll be able to hit on all of the different things that you're 303 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:23,480 experiencing in the membership site so it'll have a higher quality experience 304 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:29,120 for you guys plus it'll be a better business model for me because the 305 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:34,160 customer will actually want it whereas if I was to just make a whole membership 306 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,680 site and it turns out no one even wants it well then that that would be bad for 307 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,760 both me and you guys so that's kind of where I'm at with that because once I 308 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,960 get a hundred subscribers I am going to start building the membership site and 309 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:54,640 then I'll promote it onto here because now I'll have audience congregated so 310 00:29:54,640 --> 00:30:00,120 once I get a hundred subscribers I send some of those people over to buy my 311 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,200 membership site and then I can serve them at a higher level serve them at a 312 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:09,200 higher level and then who knows maybe I'll do coaching again that was actually 313 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:15,440 my plan to do prior like went back I don't know what episode it was it was 314 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:20,120 probably like episode 46 or around for in the 40s I think I was talking about 315 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,760 that and so that I was talking about doing coaching which I actually think 316 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,640 that would be a good idea because it would be good off in the beginning 317 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:33,840 because then I can get some quick cash or I don't know if that's the right word 318 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:38,920 but I would charge like $50 an hour and then I could get like cash right now to 319 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,640 build up funds build up capital so I can invest in more and more and better 320 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:48,200 resources like I invested in this face cam I invested in some software and all 321 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,520 of this stuff I actually invest in books so I can educate myself so I can be a 322 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:57,400 better podcast so like that's I count books as an investment into my business 323 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:02,560 even though I don't think they're actually like legally allowed to be tax 324 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,760 write-offs I don't know anything about taxes yet but that's something I'm 325 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,160 definitely gonna be getting into in the future but I spent a lot of money on 326 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,560 books because I want to educate myself as I've been saying in the past couple 327 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:20,200 episodes whatever book I'm reading at the moment heavily influences the course 328 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,640 of the episode and right now I'm reading 10x is easier than 2x that's why I 329 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:30,360 spent the whole like beginning portion of this episode on identity because 330 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,000 that's what I learned in the 10x is easier than 2x it's fresh on my mind 331 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,680 plus when I teach it I strengthen my understanding and then I can teach you 332 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:43,600 guys what I'm learning along the way like that's the whole that's the whole 333 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:49,720 documenting of the journey so I'm investing a lot of books so I'm spending 334 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,680 a lot of money on books I'm spending a lot of money on my education which is 335 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:58,960 which is just books now let's talk about the books I said that I ordered my 336 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,520 face cam and five books the earlier and I said I was gonna talk about the books 337 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:10,920 later and now's the time so I want to explain there is this one website that 338 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:15,080 I've been obsessing over for the past like maybe month I don't know how long 339 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:20,640 it's been but it's been a while back when I don't remember what episode it was 340 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:26,400 but it was a long time ago I made an episode I don't remember what it was 341 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:32,380 titled but it was before the episode titled how a declassified CIA document 342 00:32:32,380 --> 00:32:36,920 changed my life it was before that episode so I found a website called and 343 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:42,240 you guys are probably very well versed in this story but I'm just gonna tell it 344 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,320 again because I haven't told in a while so I found a website called the most 345 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:51,600 beautiful world and on this website it was a reading list and the way I found 346 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,720 this website was I was researching Transurfing reality Transurfing which 347 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,760 is a book that I've been reading for the past six months seven months now I 348 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:05,600 think but I haven't read it in a few weeks I or I haven't read it in like a 349 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,480 week because I've read it twice and it's 750 pages long so I've read it twice 350 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,720 but I definitely plan on reading again it's the best book I've ever read alright 351 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:19,080 that's the summary so I found this website the most beautiful world and it 352 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,320 was a reading list called the ultimate reading list for human beings and I read 353 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:27,080 it it was like a blog post where it taught it wrote the article out just like 354 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:32,080 explaining stuff and then it gave the list the list of the books so I read the 355 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:36,520 article and it was talking about like this is the list like number one list 356 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,800 for human beings everyone should read this list and then it was talking about 357 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,600 all of the a lot of the stuff that I learned in Transurfing like you are a 358 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:49,640 god like you have you're a creator of your world like you get to choose all 359 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:54,920 all this stuff it was speaking in a language that I came fond of and I 360 00:33:54,920 --> 00:34:01,640 really appreciate that language because it's what I strive to learn more about 361 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:07,320 and then he said that before you read any book the first book you should read 362 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:12,000 is reality Transurfing so right then and there I knew this book this list was 363 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,520 very important because he's basically saying reality Transurfing is the 364 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:20,040 foundation to this reading list which by the way this reading list is the 365 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:24,840 ultimate reading list for human beings so if reality Transurfing is the 366 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:30,000 foundation that means Transurfing is the foundation to human life so we've 367 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:37,760 established that now then I went on to read it and the first maybe 50 hundred 368 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:42,480 books I had never even heard of before yet he said that they were the most 369 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:50,640 influential or the best books he's ever he's ever read that is insane all the 370 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,920 majority of the books on that list I'd never read before I'd never even heard 371 00:34:53,920 --> 00:35:00,160 of before so but then he was also talking about in the let's go back up to the 372 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:09,000 the blog post he was saying he said there's this reading method that is you 373 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,120 can it allows you to read a book a day depending on how much time you have but 374 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:16,840 you can read way more quick way quicker and more effectively and efficiently 375 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:22,240 using this reading method which is to get seven books at a time and then read 376 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:26,960 one until you lose focus and then switch to the next one and then read one 377 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,640 until you lose focus and then switch and then repeat and repeat and repeat and 378 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:35,200 interspersed with pushups every once in a while and then this reading method will 379 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:42,440 be way more effective for reading like way more books in a shorter amount of 380 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:51,040 time so I was extremely skeptical with that because I was not with that speed 381 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,440 now I wasn't skeptical of the speed I kind of am skeptical of the speed but 382 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,960 the reason why skeptical because I don't know how much information I'll retain 383 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:05,960 using that method because if you guys remember a while back when I first started 384 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:11,720 reading reality Transurfing for the second time I also wanted to read expert 385 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:16,960 secrets for the second time so I was reading expert secrets as well as 386 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,760 Transurfing so I was reading expert in the in the morning and then 387 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,800 Transurfing at night and then eventually I realized I wasn't retaining much 388 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,480 information on Transurfing so I read Transurfing in the morning and then 389 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,600 Expert at night and then I realized that I wasn't retaining much information on 390 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,440 Expert so then I just decided to go all in on Transurfing because I knew I 391 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:40,960 realized that it's not a good idea to read multiple books at the same time like 392 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:45,840 two books at the same time so you're not gonna retain as much and I had known of 393 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:51,000 this principle yet I wanted to read them both at the same time just to be able to 394 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:56,360 get them both at the same time I learned about this rule of thumb from a book 395 00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:01,280 called the four-hour work week where in like the you know how when there's like 396 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:05,800 a one so they say a word or a sentence and then there's like a one on the top 397 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,760 right it's kind of like an exponent and then you know that that or it's like a 398 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:15,680 star or a cross you know to look at the bottom of the page to learn more about 399 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:20,640 what that is and then the author like writes like a side note at the bottom so 400 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:27,400 there was a side note that I read and it was basically 401 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:36,240 I'm blanking on his name the author of the four-hour work week he basically said 402 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:42,240 trust me I have been reading for or trust me when I say from someone who's 403 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:50,240 been reading strictly nonfiction books for like 15 years of his life he does 404 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:55,560 not recommend reading two nonfiction books at the same time so I knew that I 405 00:37:55,560 --> 00:38:00,760 followed it and then I decided not to and then I realized it was bad idea so 406 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,840 that's kind of why I have I'm skeptical over this seven reading method because 407 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:10,280 instead of two books it's seven books and you're constantly switching back and 408 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:15,480 forth I'm not sure if I'll even retain the information much less remember where 409 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,560 it came from like which book it came from which I'm sure I'll be able to 410 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:25,040 cipher through which book it came from but that's kind of what I'm skeptical 411 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:29,320 about but I decided I was gonna give it a try but first I wanted to finish 412 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,360 transurfing and then go to funnel hacking live and then read the linchpin 413 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:39,440 while I'm there and then go home and then read these books but I was aware of the 414 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:45,440 fact that I may decide that I wanted to continue reading or I wanted to read a 415 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:50,600 different book because the funnel hacking live was a huge monumental shift in my 416 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:56,040 life so and I knew it was gonna be so it may call me to read a different book and 417 00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:01,160 it did so I actually have two books on my list before I even start this these 418 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:05,760 seven books and right now the first one is the 10x is easier than 2x I'm about a 419 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:12,200 third of the way done excuse me I'm about a third of the way done with that 420 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:20,800 book and then the second book on my list is called create don't capture and I 421 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:26,200 haven't started that but it's a pretty small book let me get some water 422 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:41,920 all right so oh my gosh my voice excuse me this create don't capture I want to 423 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:47,240 read after that so these are the two books on my list right now not as much 424 00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:51,720 of a change as I was expecting which I'm grateful for because I really want to 425 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:56,280 get into these books and in fact I'm so excited to get into these books that I 426 00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:02,240 actually just ordered the first set of seven because if you remember you read 427 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:07,760 them in us in the exact order he gave you he listed them all out in the exact 428 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:12,920 order you should read them and then he also said read seven at a time so but 429 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:18,360 there are some that he said read after this certain one so but it's like rate 430 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:23,520 after it's like let's say this is not the actual order or the actual numbers but 431 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:29,120 for example the second book on the list he said read after the first book but 432 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:33,240 that wouldn't work because you're supposed to read them all in order using 433 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:37,400 seven at a time so you would get the first book and the second book at the 434 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,520 same time so that's why I moved the first one to the first set and then the 435 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:46,040 second one to the second set so I had to do a little organization but I ended up 436 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:53,720 with my list and I had a list of seven and I added in one book that is not on 437 00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:58,480 the reading list that I really wanted to read and it's called Toofty and it's 438 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:04,280 by Vadim Zan who's the author of Reality Transurfing and that's the next 439 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,160 book that I wanted to read from him because I've only read Reality 440 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:13,200 Transurfing parts one through five I haven't read his other three books so 441 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:20,480 that's why I bought that and now my the first set of seven books is Die Wise 442 00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:24,520 Dancing After The Music Stops 443 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:32,480 Come Of Age I think it's called Toofty 444 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:38,360 I don't even remember what they are I'll have to tell you guys in a 445 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:43,440 future episode because to be honest I completely forgot them all but those are 446 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:48,280 like the first three or four but I want to talk about Dancing After The Music 447 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:52,680 Stops that book I actually started to read the introduction a couple weeks 448 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:57,560 back and that actually changed I'm very grateful I did because that changed the 449 00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:02,840 course of events of my life again in that book in the introduction I've told 450 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:09,560 you guys this a few times on the episode he wrote a he inserted in the intro of 451 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:14,760 his book he inserted a declassified CIA document about time travel which was 452 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:19,560 crazy for me to see and I read it and it was I didn't make it didn't make any 453 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:24,320 sense to me so the next day I ended up like looking at that whole document I 454 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:31,840 printed it out read it all in a weekend and it was all about this meditation 455 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:40,200 method using Hemisync which Hemisync is a it's basically playing a noise in your 456 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,560 right ear and a slightly different frequency noise in your left ear and 457 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:51,640 then it your whole brain synchronizes and then creates a third noise which is 458 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,200 the difference of the two so let's say your right ear is 100 Hertz your left 459 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:59,720 year is a hundred four Hertz your whole brain will play a four Hertz frequency so 460 00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:06,560 it's kind of strange but I definitely think that it works because I've been 461 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:14,160 doing Hemisync for a few weeks now with three days three times a day two to three 462 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:18,080 times so in the beginning the first week I did two times a day and then I quickly 463 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:23,040 moved up to three times a day which they're like 30 30 to 45 minute meditation 464 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:29,560 tapes so that's like 30 minutes times three so like 90 minutes a day 90 to an hour and a half 465 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:39,240 or that's the same 90 to like two hours a day and then I do that three so I do a 466 00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:44,320 three times a day one in the morning one before the podcast one at night and then 467 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:48,120 when I went to funnel hacking live I was trying to stay consistent but I was only 468 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:54,560 able to do one or two times for the first couple days and then there's a few 469 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:58,280 days there's like two days that I didn't do it at all because there was no time 470 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,760 and then I was getting and then I got back consistent I got back to consistency 471 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:08,080 and now I'm doing it back to three times a day I did it yesterday and today so I'm 472 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:12,240 pretty much been doing it very consistently for the past two or three 473 00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:19,280 weeks I think and I'm definitely able to get in a much deeper meditation I'm 474 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:26,120 I'm definitely noticing a difference between now and before I even went to 475 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:32,400 funnel hacking live because I'm much more relaxed in this state I haven't 476 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:37,600 achieved mind-awake body asleep which is like sleep paralysis I have not achieved 477 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:45,240 that yet but I am a lot more relaxed but there is one issue since I went to 478 00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:50,720 funnel hacking live my sleep was scattered because I stayed up to like 479 00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:55,600 12 o'clock one night because it lasted like all the way to like 11 30 stay up 480 00:44:55,600 --> 00:45:01,480 to like 12 one night and then 10 the other night like I was up late for a few 481 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:10,320 days in a row and then Sunday night I was up till like 8 30 maybe 8 o'clock and 482 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:19,720 then last night I was up till 7 usually I'm usually I go to bed at 6 30 and this 483 00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:24,960 definitely affected me because I'm right tonight I'm gonna go to bed at 6 30 my 484 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:34,800 normal time no matter what because this is extremely it okay so when I go to bed 485 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:42,080 that late even if it's 30 minutes late my meditation is a lot less focused let 486 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:47,920 me explain one my mind is not as like disciplined or focused because I'm just 487 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:54,680 tired and two I fall asleep sometimes or I space out way more often so like the 488 00:45:54,680 --> 00:46:00,920 up the the meditation that I had just before this like 10 like five minutes 489 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:05,600 before I recorded started recording this episode the meditation that I had I was 490 00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:10,520 probably asleep I don't know if I was asleep or just clicked out for the 491 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:17,360 majority of it like I remember finishing my finishing my preparatory 492 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:21,880 process and then I remember him calling us back like he literally I finished my 493 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:28,720 preparatory process started getting the focus 10 and then I it was time to get 494 00:46:28,720 --> 00:46:32,440 out and it like 30 minutes had passed even though it seemed like no time 495 00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:37,840 passed and I think it's because I'm tired like my mind is tired so that's why 496 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:42,560 I have to focus on my sleep because it's affecting my meditation and then my 497 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:46,840 meditation is what I'm really focused on like my meditation is extremely 498 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:53,120 important for me because for my development process because I want to get 499 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:57,760 to focus 12 so that I can one ask questions to my inner self because today 500 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:07,800 I had a lot of I had a lot of kind of tension I was I like my mind felt 501 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:12,320 oppressed a lot of the day and at the gym I was like why why am I feeling 502 00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:17,000 oppressed right now like why do I feel tense why does my heart feel tense and I 503 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,480 didn't have the answer so that's why I want to get to focus 12 so I can ask the 504 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:28,480 questions to my higher self and then get those higher frame of mind answers back 505 00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:35,280 another reason is when you're at focus 12 your visualization is much more 506 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:42,100 effective you're able to manifest things much better and it's also they 507 00:47:42,100 --> 00:47:46,720 found that non some non visualizers are actually able to visualize and I am a 508 00:47:46,720 --> 00:47:53,080 non-visualizer and so I'm I'm able I want to be able to visualize so I can one 509 00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:59,960 have more like one be able to actually feel it and see it and then two so it's 510 00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:05,480 more effective and I'm talking about my visualizing my goal which I explained in 511 00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:13,560 yesterday's episode my goal is to live in Hawaii and become a surfer and have 512 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:21,080 ten million dollars in annual recurring revenue every single year that's that's 513 00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:25,120 what I want my business to be ten mil every year I want to make ten mil every 514 00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:35,300 year and that's that's basically my goal but that's why I'm focusing a lot on 515 00:48:35,300 --> 00:48:42,720 meditation and this gateway process is extremely important it's extremely good 516 00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:49,400 it's extremely beneficial and quick side tangent I clicked back on to the tab 517 00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:53,440 because I had a different I had a new tab open that I was just looking at this 518 00:48:53,440 --> 00:49:02,400 whole time and because I on my normal tab it shows a big screen of me like just a 519 00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:06,080 screen of what you guys are seeing on YouTube right now and so I didn't want 520 00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:09,280 to like look at that because I didn't want to get distracted and so I clicked 521 00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:15,160 on a new tab and just so I could focus but I wanted to go back to my recording 522 00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:19,360 tab so I can see how much time it was and there's ten minutes left so that's 523 00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:23,960 around 435 is when I'm done so I'm going back to my new tab but that's a side note 524 00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:30,560 but let's talk let's review and this review is useful for you guys and me so 525 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:35,640 I can know what to write down so you guys can know what you learned shed your 526 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:43,680 identity like overcome that comfort zone and then another thing I was talking 527 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:51,920 about is just start like this I just told my dad cuz I was supposed to get a 528 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:56,440 curtain behind me and nail it to the ceiling so you guys wouldn't see the 529 00:49:56,440 --> 00:50:02,440 background but I didn't want to spend the time doing that today and I told my 530 00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:08,000 dad like my rule of thumb is just start and figure things out later that's and 531 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,560 so that's what I want you guys to know just start and figure things out later 532 00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:16,960 like that's why I just got this I started this podcast figure that figured 533 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:23,880 it out along the way and I don't even know where I was going with that but 534 00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:33,040 that's yeah but then I was also talking about meditation and reading and books 535 00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:39,160 it like educate yourself it's extremely important and meditate honestly 536 00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:45,760 meditation has been one of the highest level I would I don't know where to put 537 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:50,480 meditation and reading it doesn't even matter what what they are comparing each 538 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:55,440 other but I'm really looking forward to the future of my reading because I have 539 00:50:55,440 --> 00:51:03,520 been dialing in on reading this 10x is easier than 2x because I really want to 540 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:10,560 get through the 10x is easier than 2x and cat create don't capture so I can get 541 00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:14,520 into these books because I've been looking forward to these books for quite 542 00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:21,760 some time and I'm not gonna rush these current two books too much because they 543 00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:30,160 are extremely valuable and the last book on like my list won't even arrive like I 544 00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:36,280 bought two FD on Amazon and it won't even arrive for like 10 days I think so I 545 00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:41,320 have 10 days to finish 10x is easier than 2x as well as create don't capture and 546 00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:46,560 that's basically where I'm at with that I I believe that I'll be able to finish 547 00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:52,320 in 10 days pretty easily because create don't capture is a pretty thin book it's 548 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:57,400 probably like that big and it's like I think it's around 200 maybe less than 549 00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:03,920 200 pages and then 10x is easier than 2x is an average size book and it's like 550 00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:10,240 250 around pages but I'm already a hundred pages in so I'm a little I'm like 551 00:52:10,240 --> 00:52:15,120 almost halfway done like a third I'm definitely a third of the way done but I 552 00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:21,400 predict that the 10x book is gonna be a book that I go back to and reread and 553 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:26,280 kind of study just like I did to Transurfing because Transurfing is a 554 00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:32,680 high tier book and I kind of see that 10x is easier than 2x is a high tier book 555 00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,720 maybe not as high as Transurfing but definitely up there and I definitely 556 00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:42,360 feel like it's extremely valuable because it's simply just there's a lot 557 00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:47,280 more stories in it I feel like Transurfing doesn't have too many stories 558 00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:53,400 it's kind of just like telling you a lot of things actually I don't know I don't 559 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,280 think there's much stories in Transurfing except for in the beginning 560 00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:03,000 like the intro the preface or the foreword actually is just the story of 561 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:08,000 how he learned it like that was like the only story that is in the whole book 562 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:16,720 really but I'm really I'm really excited for the future my plans are organic 563 00:53:16,720 --> 00:53:25,320 traffic focus on organic traffic and I am focusing on this taking in this new 564 00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:31,120 identity of a podcaster because I was thinking this morning while I was 565 00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:38,240 reading the 10x book I my okay so I have my 10x goal which is surf become a 566 00:53:38,240 --> 00:53:46,680 surfer in Hawaii and have be in the 2 comma club X 2 comma club X which is 567 00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:51,720 ten million dollars a year I don't know if it's actually a year but my goal is 568 00:53:51,720 --> 00:53:57,240 ten million a year and that's my identity like that's that that's the new 569 00:53:57,240 --> 00:54:04,160 10x goal that I'm trying to achieve but another thing that I was thinking about 570 00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:09,600 was podcasting like right now because there was he was talking about Mr. 571 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:15,120 Beasts and his like up and coming and how Mr. Beast just from the beginning he 572 00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:20,440 was he was determined to become the number one youtuber in the world like the 573 00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:26,160 number one youtuber and spoiler alert he became the number one youtuber in the 574 00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:31,400 world but he was like that he came his identity like just 575 00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,880 you tubing you tubing is that the right word in 576 00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:40,240 you tubing I don't even know but he was focused and he was also talking about 577 00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:45,880 quality over quantity now right now I'm focusing on quantity I'm doing one hour 578 00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:51,720 every single day episodes but they may or may not be high quality but I figured 579 00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:58,440 that the more and more practice I get the more and more reps I get the higher 580 00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:03,040 the quality will get because I'll get better and better and better but then I 581 00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:10,160 was also thinking that I haven't really land anything out now I kind of just 582 00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:15,240 figure things out along the way and as a result there's a lot of time spent of me 583 00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:21,400 kind of just not really talking or kind of talking like stupid or not stupidly 584 00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:28,240 but me talking not really let not very audibly if that makes sense and that's 585 00:55:28,240 --> 00:55:32,200 simply just I'm trying to figure out of something to say next the next topic to 586 00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:38,320 say but I feel like one surefire way to increase the quality is to just jot down 587 00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:41,120 and I've talked about this before but I never really did it I did it in the 588 00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:51,520 beginning but I quickly stopped maybe jot down a few extremely lengthy concepts 589 00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:56,120 so maybe if I want to talk about mindset that would be one concept but I could 590 00:55:56,120 --> 00:56:01,400 get into very big length and depth on it and then maybe there would be another 591 00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:07,120 like maybe there would be two or three or four words jotted down so that I can 592 00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:13,480 like go to them and talk at length for like 25 minutes 30 minutes each and then 593 00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,680 that will allow me to have higher quality because I'll have something to say 594 00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:25,120 all the time so that's another thing but I'm not I'm not too sure because I know 595 00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:30,200 that I definitely know that I'm getting better like if you compare this episode 596 00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:36,720 to episode 10 or episode 20 you will be able to tell the difference even like 597 00:56:36,720 --> 00:56:42,120 okay so episode 30 was using the same microphone so it would not be fair to 598 00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:45,880 compare this episode to episode 15 because I wasn't using this microphone 599 00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:54,880 but this episode to episode 30 I haven't listened to episode 30 but I think that 600 00:56:54,880 --> 00:57:01,440 I'm definitely a lot better because it's been like 40 like 45 days since is 45 601 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:06,720 more hours of practice so that's another thing and another way to increase my 602 00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:12,520 quality of episodes is to just be more of an expert if you guys could tell what 603 00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:20,800 in the beginning of my of my show I wasn't too good or confident or knowledgeable 604 00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:26,000 at speaking about trans surfing but towards the end of when I actually 605 00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,960 stopped or towards the end of when I finished reading at the second time I 606 00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,480 was extremely knowledgeable and I was like way more of an expert at 607 00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:38,240 trans surfing than I was before so that's another way to increase the quality 608 00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:44,600 get way more knowledgeable at something and so that's why it's extremely high 609 00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:49,400 valuable to study trans surfing but I want to study a lot of other stuff and 610 00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:55,120 get more diverse knowledge base and so that's why I I have a feeling that if 611 00:57:55,120 --> 00:58:01,600 this seven reading method will work effectively then I'm definitely gonna be 612 00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:08,040 having a very high boost in my like quality of episodes because I'll be 613 00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:11,920 learning a lot of different things I'll learn I'll be learning from seven 614 00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:15,760 different books there's one books about there's one book about Egypt there's 615 00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:20,680 another book about trans surfing there's another book about dying wise another 616 00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:25,520 book about dancing after them like dancing after the music stop I don't 617 00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,720 even know what it's about but I think it's like your spiritual guidebook to 618 00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:34,560 life so like all of these books will give me a bunch of different things to 619 00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:41,800 focus on or not focus on but a lot of different kind of what's the word it 620 00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:45,680 will give me a lot of different things to talk about and things to learn because 621 00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:49,040 I'll be picking up a lot of different things I'll be reading seven books at a 622 00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:53,840 time so I'll read one book until I lose focus I'll pick up a few things there and 623 00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:57,120 then switch a few things there a few things there a few things there and I'll 624 00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:02,720 just keep going back and back and back so that's like that's like I'm really 625 00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:08,080 excited to start doing that seven method on reading list I really hope I know I'm 626 00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:14,600 skeptical but I really hope that it ends up good and it ends up working out but 627 00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:20,400 the last thing I want to talk about is do not focus on the tactics I find 628 00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:26,560 myself all the time kind of wasting a lot of time figuring out how to set 629 00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:33,600 things up because yesterday I wasted a lot of time trying to set up a AI video 630 00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:41,080 editing software so I can edit my tiktoks and that wasted literally like 40 631 00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:46,440 minutes of my day so focus on the strategies like I said earlier just 632 00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:53,920 start and figure it out along the way so to wrap things up don't forget to 633 00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:58,280 download your favorite 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