97. Look Around

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,160 Look around you. 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:03,880 No seriously, look around you. 3 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,760 Look at all the people you are surrounded by. 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,400 I see every day, everywhere I look, 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,220 complacent, average, mediocre. 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:19,240 There's no greatness around me, no success. 7 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:20,400 You have to ask yourself, 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,400 do you really wanna end up in a situation they're in? 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:29,400 Do you really, do you really want to live a life like them? 10 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:34,400 Do you wanna have a nine to five job 11 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,560 and work your entire year just for one vacation? 12 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:44,720 Do you wanna waste your days doing nothing? 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,560 Just living for someone else. 14 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:49,000 Do you want all that? 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,480 No, no one wants that. 16 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,440 But the good news is now you're aware, 17 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:58,640 now we know that we don't want that. 18 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:00,160 Most people fall into the trap 19 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,800 and they don't know something else is possible. 20 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:03,720 They just do it. 21 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,280 They don't, most people aren't aware 22 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:07,920 that they can do something else. 23 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:09,280 Most people don't know how. 24 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:14,120 Most people just think that this is the only path for them. 25 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:19,760 But you gotta look around. 26 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:24,440 Just remind yourself, you are not gonna be like that. 27 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,040 You are not gonna end up in a similar situation like that. 28 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:29,640 I see it all the time. 29 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,080 In my day, I really struggle with it 30 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,200 because I see it everywhere I look 31 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,040 and I just, sometimes it really gets to me. 32 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,880 I just wanna throw a fit about how, 33 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,440 like there's no greatness around. 34 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:50,200 It's like, why is no one striving for anything around me? 35 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,640 But you gotta just keep it to yourself 36 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,200 because no one is gonna change. 37 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:58,880 Only they can change for themselves 38 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,640 and they're probably not gonna change. 39 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:06,640 So you gotta do it yourself and it's a path. 40 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:11,600 And this podcast is all about me documenting my journey, 41 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,240 getting there, because it's not easy 42 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,520 and I'm in the middle of it right now. 43 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,600 Right now I'm still a broke high school student. 44 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,160 I'm just at the beginning of my journey, I feel. 45 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,240 And I keep on looking around 46 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,160 and there's no one to look up to. 47 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,680 So that's why I go to books. 48 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:35,200 And if there's one thing that I learned, 49 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,000 how to escape this place, 50 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,440 the one best thing that I've learned is educate yourself. 51 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,080 If you can educate yourself on the right topics, 52 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,280 if you can learn from the right books, 53 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:52,280 then you will break free, you will live how you want to live. 54 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:57,280 For example, the first book that really brought me 55 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:04,400 some notion that there was more was called Unscripted 56 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,000 by MJ DeMarco. 57 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 And that book was basically all about how 58 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,080 it basically exposed the rat race 59 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,600 and it exposed how people think it's good 60 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,880 to trade your time for money 61 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,680 and people basically trade 40 years for a, 62 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:29,360 not even guaranteed, not even guaranteed retirement. 63 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:31,800 They trade 40 years of their life 64 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:36,800 and many years in school as well, trying to retire. 65 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,800 And it just exposes like the unfair trade 66 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:47,160 and the just all around stupidity of it. 67 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:51,240 And it also sheds light onto the right, 68 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,120 like a better path called the fast lane. 69 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,760 So most people are on either the slow lane 70 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,480 or the sidewalk. 71 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:04,480 The sidewalk is people who are basically spending more money 72 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,240 than they're earning, they're in debt most likely 73 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:13,240 and they're basically trying to live, 74 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,360 they're basically living above their means. 75 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:22,360 And they tend to be very, they're consumers 76 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,440 and they are, how do I say this? 77 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,560 They just look for dopamine and instant gratification. 78 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,680 They're all about instant gratification. 79 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,640 So if there's a new car, they get it 80 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,200 because they want to show it off 81 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,880 and it's just all about instant gratification. 82 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,160 So that's the sidewalk. 83 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,480 And then the slow lane is, 84 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:51,080 it's basically people who are saving all their money. 85 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:52,480 They're living frugally 86 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,000 and most people are in the slow lane I think. 87 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:58,280 I could be wrong though. 88 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:01,240 Most people that I'm surrounded by are in the slow lane. 89 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:06,240 So they're frugal and then they basically, 90 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,120 they still trade their time for money 91 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,760 except this time they don't have debt. 92 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:16,840 The sidewalk, they have this thing called parasitic debt. 93 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:21,680 It's basically where, I don't remember what it was. 94 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,520 To be honest, I haven't read that book in a while 95 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:28,520 but they have parasitic debt and then they're, 96 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:34,840 both the sidewalk and the slow lane have 40 years 97 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:37,680 or 50 years of indentured time 98 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,560 which is basically time you owe to the system 99 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,120 before you get your free time. 100 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:47,720 So the equation that basically the way their life works, 101 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,160 I'm just gonna focus on the slow lane right now. 102 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,560 The way their life works is they clock into their job 103 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,080 at eight, like 9 a.m. 104 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,280 and then they work all day until five 105 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:03,360 and then that's their indentured time from nine to five. 106 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,400 But since most people commute to work, 107 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,360 their indentured time is usually from eight until six. 108 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:16,680 And then they get two hours or three hours at night time 109 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:18,800 and that's their free time. 110 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,120 So they get three hours of free time every night. 111 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,200 But that doesn't, let's just ignore that 112 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,760 because people waste that anyways 113 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,680 and people don't really consider that free time anyways. 114 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:35,120 So basically they're working five days a week, 115 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,720 Monday through Friday and that's indentured time. 116 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:42,400 So they're basically trading five days a week 117 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,520 of indentured time for two days a week of free time. 118 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,960 So they're giving five days up 119 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,000 for two days back for free. 120 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,000 So they originally started with seven days 121 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,140 and then they gave up five of them and then kept their two. 122 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:02,680 And they do this for 40 years. 123 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,120 Like that sounds just insane to me. 124 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,280 That's a terrible return on investment, 125 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:12,840 terrible, just all around terrible, everything. 126 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:18,120 And so at this point in my life, when I read that book, 127 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,600 probably a little less than a year ago, 128 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:29,560 I definitely did not want to end up like everyone else, 129 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,400 but I didn't really put my finger to it. 130 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,960 I wasn't really conscious about what was going on. 131 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:38,600 I didn't really want to go to college, 132 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,480 but by what it seemed like I had to 133 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,280 and that was just the only path available. 134 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:46,520 That was the only path that I knew. 135 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,600 And then once I read the, 136 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,040 like I want you guys to pay attention to this. 137 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:57,040 The only path that I knew was what everyone else had done, 138 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:59,440 go to college and then work in nine to five 139 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:00,520 for the rest of my life. 140 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,920 That was the only path I knew. 141 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,960 So it makes sense that most people are mediocre 142 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,520 because that's the only path they know. 143 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,240 Most people don't read the right types of books, 144 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,360 like unscripted. 145 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,360 And so once I read unscripted, I was like, oh wow, 146 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:16,520 I'm not going to college. 147 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,120 Now I know that this path is available. 148 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,200 And then I read the millionaire fast lane, 149 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,360 which was a good book as well. 150 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:26,520 It's basically the same book, but shorter. 151 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:31,520 And I like, just reading that book, unscripted, 152 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:40,760 autumn already like completely shifted everything for me 153 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,520 and opened up a lot of new pathways 154 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,640 and a lot of new opportunities. 155 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,680 And it just brought me the awareness of this like possibilities. 156 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:53,880 So with that first lesson, 157 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:56,600 I learned that reading actually can change my life. 158 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:01,080 Reading can actually bring me new opportunities. 159 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,800 Reading can allow me to see new opportunities. 160 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,960 So then I kept on reading. 161 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,940 And then the next like big game changer book that I read 162 00:09:10,940 --> 00:09:15,940 was Rowdy Transurfing, steps one through five. 163 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,400 And I read that and then I instantly realized 164 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,360 that every single thing that I was doing, 165 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,280 like, okay, let me, let me get some context. 166 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,680 So I knew I wanted to go to business. 167 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:28,240 I knew I wanted to make a business, 168 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,320 but I didn't like know how to be successful. 169 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,000 Like I knew like, yeah, I had to make a business, 170 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,160 but I don't know how I actually have to, 171 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,760 I don't know how to actually go about life and be successful. 172 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:44,200 And so I learned about Transurfing. 173 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,120 And once I read that, I realized that pretty much 174 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,600 every single thing that I was doing on a day to day basis 175 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,600 through my thoughts was wrong. 176 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,820 And it was like not helping me get to my goal. 177 00:09:55,820 --> 00:09:58,000 So I like realized, oh wow, 178 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,400 I actually have to radically shift everything. 179 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,760 Like my worldview, my thought process, my mindset, 180 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,880 my attitude, everything I have to radically shift 181 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:09,820 my attention. 182 00:10:09,820 --> 00:10:12,360 And so it was not instant. 183 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,320 It's not, and I'm still working on it today. 184 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:18,860 Like even today, I want to talk about staying present. 185 00:10:18,860 --> 00:10:22,900 It's like being awake. 186 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:24,140 It's basically staying present. 187 00:10:24,140 --> 00:10:29,140 And it's, I learned about the best way to explain it 188 00:10:29,220 --> 00:10:32,180 in a book called Toof-D, The Priestess. 189 00:10:32,180 --> 00:10:36,200 And basically when you have your, 190 00:10:37,260 --> 00:10:39,940 so there's two screens, your inner screen 191 00:10:39,940 --> 00:10:40,860 and your outer screen. 192 00:10:40,860 --> 00:10:43,340 The outer screen is everything going on outside 193 00:10:43,340 --> 00:10:45,740 of your leg body. 194 00:10:45,740 --> 00:10:48,180 So this podcast that you're listening to 195 00:10:48,180 --> 00:10:50,020 is the outer screen. 196 00:10:50,020 --> 00:10:52,500 And then the inner screen is everything going on 197 00:10:52,500 --> 00:10:55,300 inside your body, inside your head, inside your mind. 198 00:10:56,220 --> 00:11:01,220 And so if you, you can be immersed in one or the other. 199 00:11:01,220 --> 00:11:04,300 You can be immersed in the outer screen. 200 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:08,300 So let's say you are completely immersed in this podcast 201 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:09,660 and you're not really paying attention 202 00:11:09,660 --> 00:11:10,780 to your inner screen at all. 203 00:11:10,780 --> 00:11:14,340 You're fully immersed in the outer screen. 204 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:16,680 Well then you are asleep. 205 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:18,340 And it's not good to be asleep. 206 00:11:19,860 --> 00:11:24,860 And don't worry because I'm asleep like a lot still. 207 00:11:25,740 --> 00:11:27,220 I'm still working on it. 208 00:11:27,220 --> 00:11:29,700 It's like a process. 209 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:32,580 So, and don't be yourself up over being asleep 210 00:11:32,580 --> 00:11:35,900 because I'd learned that lesson the bad way. 211 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:38,540 And I realized that it's a process. 212 00:11:38,540 --> 00:11:39,580 It's not gonna happen overnight. 213 00:11:39,580 --> 00:11:41,380 It's not gonna happen in one month. 214 00:11:41,380 --> 00:11:42,980 It's gonna take a long time. 215 00:11:42,980 --> 00:11:46,940 And then the inner screen is everything going on 216 00:11:46,940 --> 00:11:49,620 inside your head or inside your body. 217 00:11:49,620 --> 00:11:52,180 So if you're immersed in your own thought, 218 00:11:52,180 --> 00:11:55,660 if you're deep in thought, then you are asleep as well. 219 00:11:55,660 --> 00:11:58,380 And you're basically acting on autopilot. 220 00:12:00,940 --> 00:12:04,540 Either or it doesn't matter which screen you're immersed in. 221 00:12:04,540 --> 00:12:08,100 If you're immersed in one or the other, you're asleep. 222 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:10,660 Now, how do you wake up? 223 00:12:10,660 --> 00:12:15,660 Well, all you have to do is hold your attention on both. 224 00:12:16,300 --> 00:12:18,940 Like hold it in the middle of the two screens. 225 00:12:18,940 --> 00:12:22,820 So your like attention is focused on the outer screen 226 00:12:22,820 --> 00:12:24,780 as well as the inner screen. 227 00:12:24,780 --> 00:12:26,940 That's simply how you wake up. 228 00:12:26,940 --> 00:12:29,400 And so, Transurfing, one of the biggest things 229 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,860 that Transurfing made me realize is that 230 00:12:31,860 --> 00:12:34,140 I'm asleep most of the day. 231 00:12:34,140 --> 00:12:36,940 And so I have to be awake to be able to manage my reality. 232 00:12:38,100 --> 00:12:40,020 And that's one of the big things that I've been working on. 233 00:12:40,020 --> 00:12:43,780 Especially like lately, I think that I can't really tell 234 00:12:43,780 --> 00:12:48,460 because I still have the habit to wake up all the time. 235 00:12:48,460 --> 00:12:51,460 But lately I feel like I've been getting complacent 236 00:12:51,460 --> 00:12:52,300 with waking up. 237 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:56,060 And especially at school and at home, 238 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,360 I feel like I'm asleep most of the day 239 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:01,860 when I'm at school or home. 240 00:13:03,540 --> 00:13:06,100 And so, because I don't really wake up that often. 241 00:13:06,100 --> 00:13:11,100 And so I have to just basically get it back going again. 242 00:13:12,820 --> 00:13:14,500 Like today on my bike ride, 243 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:18,500 I remembered this one concept of tracking your attention. 244 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:20,060 And when you track your attention, 245 00:13:20,060 --> 00:13:24,060 you basically figure out, you basically like wake up. 246 00:13:24,060 --> 00:13:27,340 And then you hold, you stay awake 247 00:13:27,340 --> 00:13:30,020 until you fall asleep inevitably. 248 00:13:30,020 --> 00:13:32,500 And once you fall asleep and you catch yourself 249 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:35,820 that you fall asleep, so then you wake up again. 250 00:13:35,820 --> 00:13:38,300 Then you go back and track your attention 251 00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:40,460 and figure out what made you fall asleep. 252 00:13:41,740 --> 00:13:44,500 So it could be anything in the outer screen 253 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:45,460 or the inner screen. 254 00:13:46,940 --> 00:13:51,100 So I remembered about that concept of tracking your attention 255 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:53,740 in during my bike ride on the way home 256 00:13:53,740 --> 00:13:54,740 from the gym today. 257 00:13:55,860 --> 00:13:59,860 And I was biking and I was awake, I woke up. 258 00:13:59,860 --> 00:14:04,580 And I was at this stop sign and I like biked through it. 259 00:14:04,580 --> 00:14:06,740 And then I saw this car on the left 260 00:14:06,740 --> 00:14:08,340 who has stopped at the stop sign. 261 00:14:08,340 --> 00:14:10,060 And then I fell asleep. 262 00:14:10,060 --> 00:14:12,700 It was just an ordinary stop sign. 263 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:14,900 So I was just going, it was just ordinary. 264 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:17,940 Everything was ordinary, but I fell asleep from that car. 265 00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:21,100 And so I fell asleep and then probably like 266 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:25,260 half of a block later, which if you're not familiar 267 00:14:25,260 --> 00:14:27,380 with a city block, I realized that a lot of people 268 00:14:27,380 --> 00:14:28,900 don't know what a block is. 269 00:14:28,900 --> 00:14:33,780 It's basically like a row of houses 270 00:14:33,780 --> 00:14:37,060 that like one street or I don't, it's, 271 00:14:37,060 --> 00:14:42,060 imagine like maybe like a 10th of a mile. 272 00:14:44,020 --> 00:14:48,020 I think I'm not, I don't really know for sure. 273 00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:51,460 It's, it's a, okay, whatever. 274 00:14:51,460 --> 00:14:53,060 Let's not waste time on that. 275 00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:56,060 If you want to look up what a block is, just look it up. 276 00:14:56,060 --> 00:15:00,020 And so I was half of a block later biking. 277 00:15:00,020 --> 00:15:03,300 So maybe like 10 seconds later, I was, 278 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:04,820 I realized like, oh, I got to wake up. 279 00:15:04,820 --> 00:15:07,820 So I woke up and I was, and then I went back 280 00:15:07,820 --> 00:15:10,340 and figured out what I fell asleep by. 281 00:15:10,340 --> 00:15:11,220 And it was a car. 282 00:15:11,220 --> 00:15:14,020 So I was like, oh, I fell asleep by that car. 283 00:15:14,020 --> 00:15:16,300 So then I remembered, okay, next time I see a car, 284 00:15:16,300 --> 00:15:17,500 I'm going to wake up. 285 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:19,340 And that's basically how it works. 286 00:15:19,340 --> 00:15:21,900 When you figure out what caused you to fall asleep 287 00:15:21,900 --> 00:15:23,940 and then make sure that next time you see 288 00:15:23,940 --> 00:15:26,940 or experienced that or think about that, 289 00:15:26,940 --> 00:15:31,340 you have it trigger you to wake up instead of fall asleep. 290 00:15:31,340 --> 00:15:35,540 That's called reversing the habit of falling asleep. 291 00:15:35,540 --> 00:15:38,740 Most people have a habit of whenever something happens, 292 00:15:38,740 --> 00:15:39,820 you fall asleep. 293 00:15:39,820 --> 00:15:40,700 I include it. 294 00:15:40,700 --> 00:15:43,820 And I'm in the process of reversing it. 295 00:15:43,820 --> 00:15:46,740 So whenever something happens, you wake up. 296 00:15:46,740 --> 00:15:49,620 Like Vadom's on said, it doesn't matter as much 297 00:15:49,620 --> 00:15:54,380 if you fall asleep as you actually being in the habit 298 00:15:54,380 --> 00:15:55,220 of waking up. 299 00:15:55,220 --> 00:15:56,860 So it doesn't really matter how much time 300 00:15:56,860 --> 00:15:59,940 as you fall asleep, but what matters is that you have 301 00:15:59,940 --> 00:16:03,220 the habit to wake up over and over and over again, 302 00:16:03,220 --> 00:16:06,700 which is good because I think that I do have that habit 303 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:09,060 because I woke up like 10 seconds later. 304 00:16:09,060 --> 00:16:12,940 And then I fell asleep from something else 305 00:16:12,940 --> 00:16:15,580 a few seconds later and then woke back up. 306 00:16:15,580 --> 00:16:17,740 It's like this whole back and forth of falling asleep 307 00:16:17,740 --> 00:16:18,940 and then waking back up. 308 00:16:18,940 --> 00:16:20,300 And sometimes I get frustrated. 309 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:22,100 I'm like, I'm losing progress. 310 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:27,100 I'm backtracking, but you're still moving forward. 311 00:16:27,100 --> 00:16:28,860 You're still moving forward. 312 00:16:28,860 --> 00:16:30,540 They're one of my episodes. 313 00:16:31,380 --> 00:16:32,980 I don't remember which day it was, 314 00:16:32,980 --> 00:16:37,980 but I talked about this thing where on the road 315 00:16:38,660 --> 00:16:41,300 towards your path, it's got lots of, 316 00:16:41,300 --> 00:16:43,620 you're in a straight road towards your path, 317 00:16:43,620 --> 00:16:46,260 but it has lots of changes and altitudes. 318 00:16:46,260 --> 00:16:47,340 So lots of hills. 319 00:16:47,340 --> 00:16:49,940 There's a lots of ups and downs. 320 00:16:49,940 --> 00:16:54,280 Those ups and downs are still taking you towards your goal. 321 00:16:55,140 --> 00:16:56,860 The ups and downs included. 322 00:16:56,860 --> 00:17:00,860 Like the off days are still taking you towards your goal 323 00:17:00,860 --> 00:17:04,020 at the same rate as the good days. 324 00:17:04,020 --> 00:17:08,540 If anything, faster because that's the way gravity works 325 00:17:08,540 --> 00:17:11,540 according to the metaphor, but it's just a metaphor. 326 00:17:13,860 --> 00:17:18,860 So I'm in the works of tracking my attention 327 00:17:19,380 --> 00:17:21,300 because I read it in Transurfine. 328 00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:23,260 And like one of the biggest themes 329 00:17:23,260 --> 00:17:26,620 that I'm trying to bring to your attention is reading. 330 00:17:26,620 --> 00:17:29,300 Like learning the right types of books. 331 00:17:29,300 --> 00:17:32,940 The one of the first book that basically changed everything 332 00:17:32,940 --> 00:17:34,660 for me was Unscripted. 333 00:17:34,660 --> 00:17:37,340 And then the second book was Reality Transurfine. 334 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:44,100 And I'm like still reading a lot of books. 335 00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:46,140 Right now I'm reading a book called Die Wise, 336 00:17:46,140 --> 00:17:49,100 which was, I was very hype. 337 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:53,400 I was very excited to start reading for like over a month, 338 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,500 like maybe two months. 339 00:17:56,500 --> 00:17:59,820 And Gene Pascal Reiman really hyped it up a lot. 340 00:17:59,820 --> 00:18:03,540 And to be honest, I'm in the first like 80 pages. 341 00:18:04,460 --> 00:18:05,340 And yeah, it's good. 342 00:18:05,340 --> 00:18:06,860 It's brought a lot of things to my attention, 343 00:18:06,860 --> 00:18:09,220 but I don't think I'm at the right stage of my life 344 00:18:09,220 --> 00:18:11,060 to actually read it. 345 00:18:11,060 --> 00:18:12,660 But I'm still gonna finish it. 346 00:18:14,060 --> 00:18:16,380 But I don't feel like I'm getting too much out of it 347 00:18:16,380 --> 00:18:20,580 simply because I don't really, 348 00:18:20,580 --> 00:18:25,580 I don't see it affecting my current situation that much, 349 00:18:26,820 --> 00:18:31,580 which I could drastically change throughout the book 350 00:18:31,580 --> 00:18:35,900 because I feel like he's giving a lot of like introductory, 351 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:39,020 or not introductory, but laying out a foundation 352 00:18:39,020 --> 00:18:39,900 for this book. 353 00:18:42,180 --> 00:18:44,580 And one of the books that I do wanna read in the future, 354 00:18:44,580 --> 00:18:48,460 which I feel may be another game changer for me, 355 00:18:48,460 --> 00:18:53,460 is called The Laws of Success in 16 Lessons. 356 00:18:53,580 --> 00:18:56,340 And basically I talked about it, 357 00:18:56,340 --> 00:18:58,220 I think yesterday's episode. 358 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:01,620 And it's basically a book by Napoleon Hill. 359 00:19:01,620 --> 00:19:06,620 So Napoleon Hill was commissioned, 360 00:19:07,460 --> 00:19:09,180 I don't think he was like paid, 361 00:19:09,180 --> 00:19:13,140 but basically Andrew Carnegie, 362 00:19:13,140 --> 00:19:16,660 the richest man in the world at the time. 363 00:19:16,660 --> 00:19:21,660 This was like 80 years ago maybe. 364 00:19:22,300 --> 00:19:26,180 Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world, 365 00:19:26,180 --> 00:19:29,180 he basically told Napoleon Hill to study 366 00:19:29,180 --> 00:19:32,340 all of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world. 367 00:19:33,780 --> 00:19:35,380 And that's what he did. 368 00:19:35,380 --> 00:19:37,900 And Andrew Carnegie gave him all the connections. 369 00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:41,660 So Napoleon Hill studied greats, 370 00:19:41,660 --> 00:19:45,020 like Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, 371 00:19:45,020 --> 00:19:47,860 and a lot of other people that I don't know, 372 00:19:47,860 --> 00:19:51,260 that are that I didn't bother to read all their names. 373 00:19:51,260 --> 00:19:56,260 Because, and then he studied them for 29 years 374 00:19:57,420 --> 00:20:00,820 and figured out like the secrets, all the secrets, 375 00:20:00,820 --> 00:20:03,940 all the things that all the successful people are doing. 376 00:20:03,940 --> 00:20:05,780 And basically trying to figure out like, 377 00:20:05,780 --> 00:20:07,860 what are the successful people doing 378 00:20:07,860 --> 00:20:12,420 that the normal average citizen is not doing? 379 00:20:12,420 --> 00:20:16,620 And he compiled it all into a book 380 00:20:16,620 --> 00:20:19,260 called The Laws of Success in 16 Lessons. 381 00:20:19,260 --> 00:20:22,900 This was after 29 years of studying 382 00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:27,900 the most successful people in history, 383 00:20:28,620 --> 00:20:31,340 like ever, most successful people ever. 384 00:20:32,700 --> 00:20:37,340 And so he, after 29 years wrote in a book, 385 00:20:37,340 --> 00:20:38,940 Laws of Success in 16 Lessons, 386 00:20:38,940 --> 00:20:41,980 and Henry Ford got a hold of that book. 387 00:20:41,980 --> 00:20:44,900 And like saw that it was way too powerful. 388 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:47,300 He was like, oh, this book is way too powerful. 389 00:20:47,300 --> 00:20:48,180 You have to take it down. 390 00:20:48,180 --> 00:20:50,940 You cannot release this publicly. 391 00:20:50,940 --> 00:20:53,180 And so they took it down 392 00:20:53,180 --> 00:20:54,940 and then he had to edit it down. 393 00:20:54,940 --> 00:20:57,780 Like basically water the book down, water it down. 394 00:20:57,780 --> 00:21:00,460 And then he became another book, 395 00:21:00,460 --> 00:21:03,180 which I don't know what it was called. 396 00:21:03,180 --> 00:21:05,940 And then he edited it down even more. 397 00:21:05,940 --> 00:21:10,180 And that like even super watered down book 398 00:21:10,180 --> 00:21:13,900 was called Thinking Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. 399 00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:17,780 And it was like the number one bestselling. 400 00:21:17,780 --> 00:21:21,340 It's like one of the most bestselling self-help books ever. 401 00:21:25,220 --> 00:21:29,460 And Thinking Grow Rich is missing a secret. 402 00:21:29,460 --> 00:21:32,180 I saw a video, Kevin Trudeau was saying 403 00:21:32,180 --> 00:21:34,540 that Thinking Grow Rich was missing a secret. 404 00:21:34,540 --> 00:21:37,020 That's why most people don't see success manifesting 405 00:21:37,020 --> 00:21:37,860 and all this stuff. 406 00:21:37,860 --> 00:21:42,420 And I feel like the secret is in Laws of Success 407 00:21:42,420 --> 00:21:46,300 and 16 Lessons because Henry Ford didn't want it to go public. 408 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:51,220 And I was looking it up and there is like a, 409 00:21:51,220 --> 00:21:54,980 there is a book for like $17 on Amazon that says 410 00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:58,740 it's unabridged and it's like got everything in it. 411 00:21:58,740 --> 00:22:02,260 So that I definitely want to read. 412 00:22:02,260 --> 00:22:05,380 It's like 500 pages long, but the issue is 413 00:22:05,380 --> 00:22:07,260 I'm kind of in this situation where 414 00:22:07,260 --> 00:22:09,500 to the past couple of months I've been obsessing 415 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:12,700 over these seven books that I bought 416 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:14,940 and I've only read one of them so far 417 00:22:14,940 --> 00:22:17,740 and I'm in the middle of Die Wise, the second one. 418 00:22:17,740 --> 00:22:19,300 So I got to finish all of these books 419 00:22:19,300 --> 00:22:21,220 which are probably going to take 420 00:22:21,220 --> 00:22:24,340 probably the rest of the school year, like two months maybe. 421 00:22:26,740 --> 00:22:30,900 Because they're long, like a set of humanity, 422 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:35,300 come of age, Die Wise and the Egypt code 423 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:39,540 are like 300 to 500 pages long. 424 00:22:39,540 --> 00:22:41,100 So they're very long. 425 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:43,940 Journeys out of the bodies and Toofty the Priestess 426 00:22:43,940 --> 00:22:45,700 are both fairly short. 427 00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:47,340 So I'll be able to finish those quickly, 428 00:22:47,340 --> 00:22:50,380 but those other books are going to take a while. 429 00:22:52,860 --> 00:22:57,780 So basically the moral of today's episode so far is 430 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:02,580 what are people, what are average people 431 00:23:02,580 --> 00:23:04,100 that we're surrounded by? 432 00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:05,100 What are they not doing? 433 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:07,500 They're not reading the right types of books. 434 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:10,900 They're not learning how successful people become great. 435 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:12,700 So that's what you got to figure out. 436 00:23:13,820 --> 00:23:17,500 And I've listed three great books so far, 437 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:19,980 two that I've already read and one that I feel 438 00:23:19,980 --> 00:23:22,340 the very strong desire to read. 439 00:23:24,980 --> 00:23:27,460 And that's like the beginning of everything. 440 00:23:27,460 --> 00:23:31,900 And I want to talk about spirituality, 441 00:23:31,900 --> 00:23:33,340 but first let me check. 442 00:23:33,340 --> 00:23:34,180 All right. 443 00:23:38,980 --> 00:23:40,220 Okay, before I say that, 444 00:23:40,220 --> 00:23:42,020 I wrote some notes down for this episode 445 00:23:42,020 --> 00:23:43,220 and I just read them. 446 00:23:43,220 --> 00:23:45,820 I got through all of them except for one thing 447 00:23:45,820 --> 00:23:47,700 before these things I want to talk about. 448 00:23:49,900 --> 00:23:53,580 Figure out where you're lacking and fix it. 449 00:23:54,820 --> 00:23:59,820 That's something that is a very big skill to have. 450 00:23:59,820 --> 00:24:03,820 One of the things when I was first getting into self-improvement, 451 00:24:03,820 --> 00:24:07,820 I realized I didn't want to do a lot of this stuff. 452 00:24:07,820 --> 00:24:11,300 There was, what? 453 00:24:12,300 --> 00:24:16,300 Especially with business, I didn't want to, 454 00:24:17,420 --> 00:24:19,580 there was a lot of things I was too lazy to do. 455 00:24:21,220 --> 00:24:23,620 And so I was like, oh, I'm lazy. 456 00:24:23,620 --> 00:24:24,860 How do I fix this? 457 00:24:24,860 --> 00:24:25,700 Why am I lazy? 458 00:24:25,700 --> 00:24:27,100 I don't have discipline. 459 00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:28,940 Well, how do I get discipline? 460 00:24:28,940 --> 00:24:31,460 And I read in a book called The Unplugged Alpha, 461 00:24:31,460 --> 00:24:33,700 he said that taking cold showers 462 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:35,940 is the simplest way to build your discipline. 463 00:24:36,940 --> 00:24:39,260 So I started taking a cold shower. 464 00:24:39,260 --> 00:24:41,500 I only take cold showers now. 465 00:24:41,500 --> 00:24:45,620 So now to fix the lack of discipline, 466 00:24:45,620 --> 00:24:48,300 I only take cold showers and that's it. 467 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:50,700 Like I don't switch it to hot halfway through 468 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:54,300 like I used to do like a year ago. 469 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:59,300 I used to do that, but now I, for the past couple months, 470 00:25:00,260 --> 00:25:03,300 I've only taken cold showers the whole time. 471 00:25:04,860 --> 00:25:06,220 So that's something you got, 472 00:25:06,220 --> 00:25:08,500 like one of the biggest tips I have, 473 00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:10,100 figure out where you're lacking. 474 00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:12,900 Like what are you lacking? 475 00:25:14,060 --> 00:25:16,860 And that's something that another thing that I figured 476 00:25:16,860 --> 00:25:18,620 that I was lacking after I read Transurfing 477 00:25:18,620 --> 00:25:20,980 was my worldview was holding me back. 478 00:25:20,980 --> 00:25:23,180 My thoughts were holding me back. 479 00:25:23,180 --> 00:25:24,980 So I tried to figure out like, 480 00:25:24,980 --> 00:25:28,180 how do I radically change this? 481 00:25:29,940 --> 00:25:33,260 Well, first of all, I learned Transurfing 482 00:25:33,260 --> 00:25:36,940 and I learned of it and then I learned it and I studied it, 483 00:25:37,820 --> 00:25:40,220 which I plan on studying it again in the future, 484 00:25:41,340 --> 00:25:45,380 in the near far future, in a few months 485 00:25:45,380 --> 00:25:47,900 after I read Laws of Success. 486 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:52,900 But you gotta like study, 487 00:25:53,660 --> 00:25:57,340 one of the things is study the right types of books. 488 00:25:58,180 --> 00:26:02,980 Transurfing, I learned of Transurfing, 489 00:26:02,980 --> 00:26:04,100 I read it the first time, 490 00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:05,260 and then there was so many things 491 00:26:05,260 --> 00:26:06,780 that I wasn't taking action on 492 00:26:06,780 --> 00:26:07,980 and I just simply forgot. 493 00:26:07,980 --> 00:26:10,340 So I re-read it and I started taking action 494 00:26:10,340 --> 00:26:12,060 on a lot of different things. 495 00:26:14,740 --> 00:26:17,820 And that is where I was lacking, my worldview 496 00:26:17,820 --> 00:26:19,860 and my spirituality. 497 00:26:19,860 --> 00:26:24,700 I was like still in this mediocre thought process. 498 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:28,380 My mind was still mediocre average. 499 00:26:28,380 --> 00:26:31,460 And so I realized, oh, I don't have spirituality, 500 00:26:31,460 --> 00:26:35,060 so I need to work on that 501 00:26:35,060 --> 00:26:36,700 and figure out what that even is. 502 00:26:36,700 --> 00:26:38,380 So that's why I got into these seven books 503 00:26:38,380 --> 00:26:40,100 because I feel like these are gonna help me 504 00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:42,420 with my worldview and my spirituality, 505 00:26:42,420 --> 00:26:44,780 like my soul and all that stuff. 506 00:26:44,780 --> 00:26:48,620 And then another thing is the gateway process. 507 00:26:48,620 --> 00:26:49,760 So meditation. 508 00:26:51,380 --> 00:26:53,220 This is like taking action. 509 00:26:54,180 --> 00:26:57,060 I meditated or summer, just normal. 510 00:26:57,060 --> 00:26:59,780 And then I got into the gateway process, 511 00:26:59,780 --> 00:27:02,100 the gateway experience over a month ago. 512 00:27:03,780 --> 00:27:06,540 And if you guys been listening to these past couple episodes, 513 00:27:06,540 --> 00:27:09,780 I have had some, I've just started to have some success. 514 00:27:09,780 --> 00:27:12,820 I've had three unique experiences 515 00:27:12,820 --> 00:27:15,420 where two of them were, 516 00:27:15,420 --> 00:27:18,180 like one of them was a flash of light 517 00:27:18,180 --> 00:27:19,780 and then another one was a flash of light 518 00:27:19,780 --> 00:27:22,260 with like three dark figures on the bottom. 519 00:27:23,460 --> 00:27:25,900 And then, and all this stuff was during my meditation. 520 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:28,460 So I can, I'm like, I have my eyes closed. 521 00:27:28,460 --> 00:27:30,660 I'm in a pitch black room 522 00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:33,540 and I'm laying down on my back 523 00:27:33,540 --> 00:27:35,780 and I'm meditating with the gateway experience. 524 00:27:37,980 --> 00:27:40,500 And so the flash of light. 525 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:44,100 And then the third one was a piece of paper 526 00:27:44,100 --> 00:27:47,380 with text written on it, which was really strange. 527 00:27:47,380 --> 00:27:51,180 So those are the, that's like me starting to get some, 528 00:27:51,180 --> 00:27:56,180 some results, but I've had a lot of results before 529 00:27:56,380 --> 00:27:58,220 with doing the inner work. 530 00:27:58,220 --> 00:28:01,740 You, another thing is figure out where you're lacking. 531 00:28:01,740 --> 00:28:04,660 Like for me, one of the things where I was lacking was, 532 00:28:04,660 --> 00:28:07,500 I would have a lot of lost over girls. 533 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:09,420 And so what I did was I just started, 534 00:28:09,420 --> 00:28:11,060 I realized like that's where I'm lacking. 535 00:28:11,060 --> 00:28:12,060 That's an issue. 536 00:28:12,060 --> 00:28:13,780 I got to fix that. 537 00:28:13,780 --> 00:28:16,140 And so every single time during my meditation, 538 00:28:16,140 --> 00:28:20,740 I put girls into the energy conversion box, 539 00:28:20,740 --> 00:28:23,620 which is a box you place like things, 540 00:28:23,620 --> 00:28:25,860 that thoughts that are popping up in your head 541 00:28:25,860 --> 00:28:29,900 that you don't want to, that like need to get gone. 542 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:31,700 Like that you need to get rid of. 543 00:28:32,740 --> 00:28:34,740 And then I also stayed in my affirmation. 544 00:28:34,740 --> 00:28:38,300 I'm a man with high standards when it comes to women. 545 00:28:38,300 --> 00:28:42,620 And so slowly, but surely I still have issues today, 546 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:47,220 but it's not nearly as bad as it was like a month ago 547 00:28:47,220 --> 00:28:49,420 or a week ago even. 548 00:28:49,420 --> 00:28:52,580 And every single day I keep on doing it more and more 549 00:28:52,580 --> 00:28:56,260 and it's getting better and better and better. 550 00:28:56,260 --> 00:29:00,020 So that's another place where I figured out 551 00:29:00,020 --> 00:29:02,260 where I was lacking and I started to fix it. 552 00:29:03,460 --> 00:29:07,820 And right now, where am I lacking right now? 553 00:29:07,820 --> 00:29:11,820 I'm lacking in my viewer count. 554 00:29:11,820 --> 00:29:16,460 So I realized that I am not, 555 00:29:16,460 --> 00:29:19,100 one of the things for marketing, 556 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:22,500 one of the lessons that I learned in expert secrets is 557 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:24,700 if you build something great, no one's gonna come 558 00:29:24,700 --> 00:29:28,500 unless you like show it to them. 559 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:32,820 So there's a quote from Field of Dreams. 560 00:29:32,820 --> 00:29:37,820 It's like, if you build it, we will come or something like that. 561 00:29:39,340 --> 00:29:41,540 Basically saying that if you build something great, 562 00:29:41,540 --> 00:29:43,180 people will come and see it. 563 00:29:44,060 --> 00:29:45,860 But that's not true in the real world 564 00:29:45,860 --> 00:29:47,780 because you have to build something great 565 00:29:47,780 --> 00:29:48,780 and then market it. 566 00:29:48,780 --> 00:29:51,580 You have to actually get people to know about it. 567 00:29:51,580 --> 00:29:55,420 And I've been doing a little bit of marketing 568 00:29:55,420 --> 00:29:59,940 just on recording TikToks, three TikToks 569 00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:01,260 and three shorts every day. 570 00:30:01,260 --> 00:30:06,260 So for the past like maybe two weeks. 571 00:30:09,660 --> 00:30:14,660 And it's definitely helping, 572 00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:18,180 it's not helping the podcast. 573 00:30:18,180 --> 00:30:22,380 I don't think I've had many people come from my TikTok 574 00:30:22,380 --> 00:30:26,020 and start listening because I'm still at around six 575 00:30:26,020 --> 00:30:31,140 to seven viewers on my podcast. 576 00:30:32,020 --> 00:30:34,580 But I'm slowly but surely gaining a lot of followers. 577 00:30:34,580 --> 00:30:36,380 So yesterday I had like 10 followers 578 00:30:36,380 --> 00:30:40,580 and now I have 15 followers on my TikTok. 579 00:30:41,780 --> 00:30:43,900 So that's like the only marketing that I'm doing, 580 00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:47,300 but I realized a couple of weeks ago 581 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:50,940 that I needed to be a guest on podcasts 582 00:30:50,940 --> 00:30:55,580 because one of the things is people don't, 583 00:30:55,580 --> 00:30:58,500 people tend to want to stay on their own platform. 584 00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:01,540 So if you are watching something on TikTok, 585 00:31:01,540 --> 00:31:03,860 you don't wanna leave TikTok. 586 00:31:03,860 --> 00:31:05,460 And if you're watching something on YouTube, 587 00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:07,820 you don't wanna leave YouTube. 588 00:31:07,820 --> 00:31:10,220 So they tend to wanna stay on their platform. 589 00:31:10,220 --> 00:31:14,540 So basically marketing my podcast on TikTok 590 00:31:14,540 --> 00:31:18,180 is inefficient simply because I don't have the audience, 591 00:31:18,180 --> 00:31:23,180 but also because even though I could gain an audience, 592 00:31:23,180 --> 00:31:26,340 just one viral video or like just over time 593 00:31:26,340 --> 00:31:29,540 of consistent posting, I'll gain followers like I have then. 594 00:31:29,540 --> 00:31:34,540 But people, it's much more efficient to meet people 595 00:31:35,220 --> 00:31:36,740 where they're already at. 596 00:31:36,740 --> 00:31:41,740 And that's to go on to a show and become a guest speaker. 597 00:31:41,740 --> 00:31:43,620 And so last night I wrote down in my journal, 598 00:31:43,620 --> 00:31:48,620 I need, like my next, like 20% my next 10x jump 599 00:31:49,300 --> 00:31:50,780 is being a guest speaker. 600 00:31:50,780 --> 00:31:54,420 And I declared that I was gonna do that a couple of weeks ago, 601 00:31:54,420 --> 00:31:58,340 but I was, I'm not gonna lie, I'm very nervous. 602 00:31:58,340 --> 00:32:02,100 Like I'm, I know that this is something 603 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:06,500 that needs to be done to, like this is the next stage 604 00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:07,500 for my podcast. 605 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:10,700 Like right around now, I'm on like episode 97. 606 00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:13,900 So I've built a name for myself 607 00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:15,620 or at least I've built some credibility. 608 00:32:15,620 --> 00:32:19,660 I've proved that I'm here for the long run. 609 00:32:19,660 --> 00:32:22,660 I've proved that I'm actually serious about this. 610 00:32:22,660 --> 00:32:27,660 And so I, but I still don't have many listeners, 611 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:33,860 which is why I need to be a guest on a show 612 00:32:33,860 --> 00:32:37,020 that has at least a couple hundred listeners 613 00:32:37,020 --> 00:32:39,440 or honestly, I'll be a guest on any show 614 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,300 that's in my market. 615 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:43,300 I just need to get myself out there 616 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:48,300 and do a very good episode with them. 617 00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:52,740 And then only promote my show if they ask, 618 00:32:52,740 --> 00:32:57,220 like where if, cause I know that I used to watch, 619 00:32:57,220 --> 00:32:59,180 I used to listen to a lot of podcasts 620 00:32:59,180 --> 00:33:02,420 and I used to listen to Dyer of a CEO 621 00:33:02,420 --> 00:33:04,700 and I'm pretty sure in Dyer of a CEO, 622 00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:09,700 he would always, he would always interview a guest 623 00:33:10,460 --> 00:33:13,060 and then let them talk like the whole time. 624 00:33:13,060 --> 00:33:16,020 And then at the end, he's like, 625 00:33:16,020 --> 00:33:20,660 so if the viewers are interested in getting in touch with you 626 00:33:20,660 --> 00:33:22,780 or not getting in touch, but like interested 627 00:33:22,780 --> 00:33:27,100 in seeing your work, where can they go find you? 628 00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:30,020 And then they would say where they can find them. 629 00:33:30,020 --> 00:33:33,340 Like their TikTok or Instagram or YouTube or whatever it is, 630 00:33:35,460 --> 00:33:37,340 which that's what I would do 631 00:33:37,340 --> 00:33:40,020 if the host actually asks that, 632 00:33:40,020 --> 00:33:42,740 which if the host doesn't, it's still a win 633 00:33:42,740 --> 00:33:45,100 because I'm getting myself out there 634 00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:48,260 because if people just look up my name, 635 00:33:48,260 --> 00:33:50,500 just James Rides and see, 636 00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:53,220 if they just look up my name, then that's a win 637 00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:59,300 cause that's more and more people just looking up my name. 638 00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:00,980 It's just anything. 639 00:34:00,980 --> 00:34:03,900 So anything is a win. 640 00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:07,580 And I know that the next step is being a guest 641 00:34:07,580 --> 00:34:11,020 and to be honest, I'm really nervous and I don't, 642 00:34:11,020 --> 00:34:15,860 there's a lot of like negative thoughts going in my head. 643 00:34:15,860 --> 00:34:20,020 Like, oh, I don't deserve, or I'm not like good enough yet. 644 00:34:20,020 --> 00:34:23,820 I don't want to ruin their episode or all this stuff, 645 00:34:23,820 --> 00:34:27,060 but I know that this is all just negative stuff. 646 00:34:27,060 --> 00:34:29,260 And I have to do it anyways. 647 00:34:29,260 --> 00:34:31,420 Like that's what courage is. 648 00:34:31,420 --> 00:34:33,420 Feeling fear, but doing it anyways. 649 00:34:33,420 --> 00:34:44,940 So like just do it even though you're still afraid. 650 00:34:44,940 --> 00:34:49,660 And I feel like this, a couple months ago, 651 00:34:49,660 --> 00:34:52,100 I was really into expanding my comfort zone, 652 00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:55,860 but I haven't really done it much since school started. 653 00:34:55,860 --> 00:34:59,980 For the past two months, I haven't really done it too much. 654 00:34:59,980 --> 00:35:02,220 And this is definitely gonna expand my comfort zone. 655 00:35:02,220 --> 00:35:07,540 Like I'm really, like I don't, I'm nervous about that. 656 00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:13,940 And to be honest, I don't like, 657 00:35:13,940 --> 00:35:16,220 I don't really know how it would even work. 658 00:35:16,220 --> 00:35:20,020 I know that there's like platforms where I can sign up 659 00:35:20,020 --> 00:35:22,540 and people will be able to find me, 660 00:35:22,540 --> 00:35:24,420 but I don't even know anything about it. 661 00:35:24,420 --> 00:35:28,500 It's just all unknown, which I keep reminding myself that 662 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:31,340 when I first started even business, 663 00:35:31,340 --> 00:35:34,700 I didn't even know how to build, how to register in LLC. 664 00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:37,980 I didn't even know where to even start. 665 00:35:37,980 --> 00:35:40,100 I didn't know any of like the tactics. 666 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:43,260 I didn't know how to even do anything. 667 00:35:43,260 --> 00:35:45,780 But then I just figured things out one by one. 668 00:35:45,780 --> 00:35:48,980 And then now I can do all of that. 669 00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:50,660 Like even when I started the podcast, 670 00:35:50,660 --> 00:35:55,540 I recorded 14 episodes too scared to even post, 671 00:35:55,540 --> 00:35:58,820 but I also didn't even know how to even create a channel. 672 00:35:58,820 --> 00:36:01,020 So then I had to figure it out and I figured it out. 673 00:36:01,020 --> 00:36:03,620 Now I know that I can do it again. 674 00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:07,380 And it was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. 675 00:36:07,380 --> 00:36:12,180 So the same thing with this podcast and being a guest speaker. 676 00:36:12,180 --> 00:36:14,060 It's always going to happen. 677 00:36:14,060 --> 00:36:17,380 And I feel like that's another reason why 678 00:36:17,380 --> 00:36:19,820 if a millionaire had to start from scratch 679 00:36:19,820 --> 00:36:23,700 and they were basically like racing someone 680 00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:28,380 who was an average person to like an average person 681 00:36:28,380 --> 00:36:31,140 and a millionaire started from scratch each 682 00:36:31,140 --> 00:36:36,220 and they both had to, they both raced to become a millionaire. 683 00:36:36,220 --> 00:36:38,540 The millionaire would win because they already know 684 00:36:38,540 --> 00:36:40,660 like the process, they already know a lot of the stuff. 685 00:36:40,660 --> 00:36:43,900 And they already know like the mindset. 686 00:36:43,900 --> 00:36:45,900 Like one of the mindsets that I'm developing 687 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:50,100 is being conscious of the, what I just said, 688 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:52,340 how if you don't know something, 689 00:36:52,340 --> 00:36:53,860 well, of course you're not going to know it. 690 00:36:53,860 --> 00:36:55,340 You've never done it before. 691 00:36:55,340 --> 00:36:59,060 So now you're conscious that you just do it anyways. 692 00:36:59,060 --> 00:37:01,780 Like when I first started, I was too scared to even 693 00:37:03,420 --> 00:37:04,980 register my LLC. 694 00:37:06,460 --> 00:37:09,860 Cause I was so, it was so much of the fear of the unknown. 695 00:37:09,860 --> 00:37:11,700 I didn't even know what was going on. 696 00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:15,220 I had to spend like three days journaling, 697 00:37:15,220 --> 00:37:18,100 doing like fear exercises, 698 00:37:18,100 --> 00:37:26,100 showing me that the rewards outweighed the negatives. 699 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:29,420 And it was like a process. 700 00:37:29,420 --> 00:37:32,140 So in the beginning, I was really bad at it. 701 00:37:32,140 --> 00:37:34,180 But then over time, I was better and better and better. 702 00:37:34,180 --> 00:37:38,300 Now I'm still bad, but I'm getting better. 703 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:39,700 And it's all just growth. 704 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:40,540 It's all a process. 705 00:37:40,540 --> 00:37:45,220 Like so self-improvement is one thing, 706 00:37:45,220 --> 00:37:49,660 but then entrepreneurship is like the epitome, 707 00:37:49,660 --> 00:37:52,820 or it's like the most, what's the word? 708 00:37:52,820 --> 00:37:55,820 There's a word for it, but it's basically like the most, 709 00:37:57,220 --> 00:38:00,260 it's like the truest form of self-improvement, 710 00:38:01,540 --> 00:38:03,140 purest form of self-improvement. 711 00:38:03,140 --> 00:38:05,980 And I believe that because there, 712 00:38:05,980 --> 00:38:07,500 one of the things when I was, 713 00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:09,420 one of the things that pushed me over the edge 714 00:38:09,420 --> 00:38:12,580 to start entrepreneurship and actually start my business 715 00:38:12,580 --> 00:38:15,220 was something that Hamza said. 716 00:38:15,220 --> 00:38:21,220 He basically said that when he grew more as a man, 717 00:38:21,220 --> 00:38:23,340 like when he started his business 718 00:38:23,340 --> 00:38:24,860 and started working on entrepreneurship, 719 00:38:24,860 --> 00:38:27,460 that's when he actually grew as a masculine. 720 00:38:27,460 --> 00:38:30,340 That's when he actually grew as masculinity. 721 00:38:30,340 --> 00:38:33,420 Like he became a man, like way more of a man 722 00:38:33,420 --> 00:38:37,740 when he worked on his business, because of his business. 723 00:38:37,740 --> 00:38:42,740 And it's all about growing and improving. 724 00:38:42,980 --> 00:38:46,060 So just working on business is still self-improvement. 725 00:38:48,060 --> 00:38:49,620 So let me get some water. 726 00:38:49,620 --> 00:38:54,620 So yesterday, I, 727 00:39:06,180 --> 00:39:08,640 yesterday, which was the 21st of October, 728 00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:14,740 I changed my show description 729 00:39:14,740 --> 00:39:22,740 my show description to something different than it was before. When I first started the 730 00:39:22,740 --> 00:39:31,980 show, I wrote a show description, which was fine. And once I recorded episode 96, and I 731 00:39:31,980 --> 00:39:41,300 believe episode 89 had just posted that morning. So then I switched the show description and 732 00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:47,380 I checked on Apple Podcasts to see if it switched on there. And it didn't, which I predicted 733 00:39:47,380 --> 00:39:55,020 that it may switch once I post another video. And I posted another video this morning, and 734 00:39:55,020 --> 00:40:01,460 I haven't checked Apple Podcasts yet. But pretty much I want to make sure that I'm documenting 735 00:40:01,460 --> 00:40:08,540 everything, or at least most things. And that's one of the things I changed, the show description. 736 00:40:08,540 --> 00:40:13,180 And now I think that it's a lot better. And I wrote, I copied and pasted the old one and 737 00:40:13,180 --> 00:40:21,780 the new one in a Google Doc and took screenshots so I can document it like on paper as well. 738 00:40:21,780 --> 00:40:26,660 And another thing that I plan on changing is the trailer, because if you guys have listened 739 00:40:26,660 --> 00:40:33,980 to the season trailer for this show, it is terrible. It's like two minutes, I'm like, 740 00:40:33,980 --> 00:40:39,660 welcome everyone. And I didn't even know how to speak. And that was still when I had that 741 00:40:39,660 --> 00:40:47,060 voice recorder, so it sounded terrible. And I definitely plan on changing the trailer 742 00:40:47,060 --> 00:40:54,020 and adding a new one in. So I want to let you guys know about that. And I did record 743 00:40:54,020 --> 00:41:00,580 a new one yesterday, but it kind of sucks. I was pretty much what I said was, are you 744 00:41:00,580 --> 00:41:09,860 a part of the 1%? Neither am I. Do you want to learn how the 1% made it? So do I. And 745 00:41:09,860 --> 00:41:18,740 then basically follow my journey from going from a broke high school student to the 1%. 746 00:41:18,740 --> 00:41:28,740 And I liked it when I recorded it. But it rhymed and it sounded dumb. So I didn't, I'm 747 00:41:28,740 --> 00:41:35,340 not posting that just because I don't like the rhyming and it kind of sounds dumb. But 748 00:41:35,340 --> 00:41:42,500 I like like that idea of basically saying that I'm, I don't really know what I'm doing. 749 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:47,940 Because that's one thing that I see a lot in my books, how people say that it's not 750 00:41:47,940 --> 00:41:53,900 good to be the person teaching something that you're not actually like, it's not good to 751 00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:59,340 make money off of something that you don't do yourself or something that, how do I say 752 00:41:59,340 --> 00:42:07,140 this? It's not good to make money off of teaching people how to do that or how to make money. 753 00:42:07,140 --> 00:42:17,020 Wait, I'm having a hard time saying this. When I was reading the millionaire fast lane, 754 00:42:17,020 --> 00:42:22,780 he would always basically bash on like those gurus that were making most of their money 755 00:42:22,780 --> 00:42:28,780 by teaching people how to make money. So they weren't actually using their own strategies. 756 00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:37,420 And so I'm conscious of the fact that I'm making, eventually I'd be making money off 757 00:42:37,420 --> 00:42:44,740 of teaching people stuff. But I think that it's different because I'm documenting it 758 00:42:44,740 --> 00:42:50,500 and I'm teaching you as I go along. But I am conscious of in the past, I may have sounded 759 00:42:50,500 --> 00:42:57,620 like I knew all this stuff, which I want to make clear that I don't, I'm just figuring 760 00:42:57,620 --> 00:43:07,900 things out along the way. Like I just started, I'm still like, very new to all this stuff, 761 00:43:07,900 --> 00:43:13,860 even Transurfing, even all like mindset and world view, I'm very new to this stuff. Self 762 00:43:13,860 --> 00:43:19,100 improvement, I'm very new to. So I'm just documenting. And that's what I wanted to make 763 00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:24,900 clear in the trailer that I don't know what I'm talking about either. But I'm just trying 764 00:43:24,900 --> 00:43:29,140 to figure things out along the way. And I want to prove that you can escape even though 765 00:43:29,140 --> 00:43:35,780 you don't know anything. So I want to, I want to keep that like honesty and I want to keep 766 00:43:35,780 --> 00:43:43,700 that like vibe to prove that you can still like free yourself even though you don't know 767 00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:53,660 much. And just all that. 768 00:43:53,660 --> 00:44:03,620 So the three business books that really helped me kind of start business were Dotcom Secrets, 769 00:44:03,620 --> 00:44:10,100 Expert Secrets, and Traffic Secrets, Russell Bronson's books, as well as the four hour 770 00:44:10,100 --> 00:44:21,580 work week. And honestly, Dotcom Secrets was Dotcom and Expert were both of my most impactful 771 00:44:21,580 --> 00:44:27,580 because they really taught me how to structure my business and how to position myself as 772 00:44:27,580 --> 00:44:35,620 an expert. Even though I wasn't really applying it right away, it's very nice to have that 773 00:44:35,620 --> 00:44:40,180 knowledge because, let me explain this, I wasn't really planning on applying it right 774 00:44:40,180 --> 00:44:47,100 away. But now that I have like, I'm in this better situation. So the only thing that I 775 00:44:47,100 --> 00:44:52,900 really applied from those two books was to record a podcast. I've been applying that 776 00:44:52,900 --> 00:44:59,340 and then once I get to the situation where my right now my target number is 100 followers, 777 00:44:59,340 --> 00:45:04,500 100 people listening to every single one of my episodes daily. So once I get to that 778 00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:09,060 number, I'm going to create a lead magnet, which is basically like a free gift that I 779 00:45:09,060 --> 00:45:15,700 send to people. And all they have to do is give me their email address. And like, the 780 00:45:15,700 --> 00:45:21,660 only reason why I would know to do that is because I read it in the book. So that's why 781 00:45:21,660 --> 00:45:28,100 I think that it's so good. Like one of the things I heard from Hamza was even it's still 782 00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:34,900 good not it's still good to read books, even if you don't plan on applying them right away, 783 00:45:34,900 --> 00:45:40,220 because it like changes your brain chemistry and it changes like your decisions. So then 784 00:45:40,220 --> 00:45:45,340 you'll be more likely to apply in the future, which I 100% agree with. Even if you don't 785 00:45:45,340 --> 00:45:51,340 plan on applying anything in that book, as long as it's a good book and beneficial, then 786 00:45:51,340 --> 00:45:57,980 it's 100% worth reading, which is another thing like die wise. Like I said, I don't, 787 00:45:57,980 --> 00:46:04,540 it's not really, I don't see it as really benefiting me too much right now. Not at least 788 00:46:04,540 --> 00:46:11,300 not as much as like laws of success will. But I still think it's beneficial to read 789 00:46:11,300 --> 00:46:16,780 just because it will change my brain chemistry and it will change like my ideas on things 790 00:46:16,780 --> 00:46:24,180 and it will change my perspective. So that is like that. And I have this whole like plan 791 00:46:24,180 --> 00:46:30,300 in my head of once I reach certain points, then I'll do this. So like I said, once I 792 00:46:30,300 --> 00:46:40,460 get 100 followers on the show, I'll send everyone to a basically promote a lead magnet, which 793 00:46:40,460 --> 00:46:48,260 is which they're going to you guys would give me your email address, which I to be honest, 794 00:46:48,260 --> 00:46:53,180 I don't. Yes, the email address will come in use later, but at the moment, the email 795 00:46:53,180 --> 00:46:58,860 address will not help me too much. What will is on the second page. Once I give you the 796 00:46:58,860 --> 00:47:03,860 lead, the email address, there's gonna be two steps. It's gonna be step one is fill 797 00:47:03,860 --> 00:47:11,900 out this form. And then it's just gonna be a form asking you guys what would be like 798 00:47:11,900 --> 00:47:16,780 what what you guys will essentially would be me getting information from you guys on 799 00:47:16,780 --> 00:47:23,860 how to build a course that you guys would like or membership site. And then the second 800 00:47:23,860 --> 00:47:32,500 step would be like check your email for the email about the actual item that you guys 801 00:47:32,500 --> 00:47:39,860 wanted the free lead magnet. And like the whole purpose of that campaign would simply 802 00:47:39,860 --> 00:47:46,300 be to get people to tell me ideas on a course to make. And then I would make that course 803 00:47:46,300 --> 00:47:52,540 and then sell it. That's like that's like my business plan right now. So if you guys 804 00:47:52,540 --> 00:47:58,220 are interested in seeing my like progress or my documenting my journey on that aspect, 805 00:47:58,220 --> 00:48:02,780 that's my plan. I haven't even taken action on any of that simply because I don't have 806 00:48:02,780 --> 00:48:09,740 100 followers yet, which I feel like 100 followers will be fairly easy to obtain once I start 807 00:48:09,740 --> 00:48:18,700 being a guest. Because another thing I read about yesterday was it's a waiting game. Like 808 00:48:18,700 --> 00:48:22,980 early on in the podcast, you know that it's a waiting game. Like I'm just sitting here 809 00:48:22,980 --> 00:48:27,740 waiting for something to happen. But nothing's ever going to happen. And like you remember 810 00:48:27,740 --> 00:48:31,620 that filled the dreams quote, if you build it, we will come know that's not true in real 811 00:48:31,620 --> 00:48:38,540 life. Nothing's gonna happen. Like it's going to take forever if you want to organically 812 00:48:38,540 --> 00:48:46,780 like truly naturally get traffic and build your show just from like search results. Just 813 00:48:46,780 --> 00:48:53,580 people accidentally coming across your show. And so that's why I got to start doing stuff. 814 00:48:53,580 --> 00:48:57,660 I got to actually start putting myself out there because right now I'm kind of in like 815 00:48:57,660 --> 00:49:03,140 my corner my own box and I haven't really put myself out there. I've just been posting 816 00:49:03,140 --> 00:49:08,540 my own content. And I haven't really been appearing into other people's content, which 817 00:49:08,540 --> 00:49:15,260 other people already have traffic congregated, they already have viewers congregated. So then 818 00:49:15,260 --> 00:49:20,220 if I can put myself out there onto that content, then maybe I'll grab a portion of those viewers 819 00:49:20,220 --> 00:49:28,020 and, and then start listening to this show. And so that's another thing a lot of people 820 00:49:28,020 --> 00:49:37,260 I included like to start channels, YouTube channels, podcasts with the like wanting to 821 00:49:37,260 --> 00:49:43,060 make money. Like I remember when I used to play video games, I had a YouTube channel 822 00:49:43,060 --> 00:49:49,300 like every other kid my age at that time had a YouTube channel about like playing that 823 00:49:49,300 --> 00:49:57,940 video game. And I would post like those dumb, terribly edited YouTube videos about like 824 00:49:57,940 --> 00:50:05,380 my video game. And I wanted to make money off of it. That's like all I cared about. 825 00:50:05,380 --> 00:50:10,500 But that's the issue. I think it's fine to want to make money off of the podcast as long 826 00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:15,700 as that's not like your only goal. But if you want to make money, you have to actually 827 00:50:15,700 --> 00:50:19,540 know the business side of things. Like you have to actually know how to do it business 828 00:50:19,540 --> 00:50:25,500 like like how to actually succeed business in business, which is why I'm so grateful 829 00:50:25,500 --> 00:50:30,980 that I actually read books and learned about all this stuff because I would not have made 830 00:50:30,980 --> 00:50:36,580 it this far if I was just on money, if I just wanted to do money. And also I wouldn't have 831 00:50:36,580 --> 00:50:43,180 made it this far if I just wanted money, but also didn't know the knowledge. So it's one 832 00:50:43,180 --> 00:50:49,180 thing to only have money on your mind, but it's another thing to have money on your mind, 833 00:50:49,180 --> 00:50:54,620 but also know how it works like know the business side of things. You'll see a lot more success 834 00:50:54,620 --> 00:51:01,060 if you you'll be more likely to gain success if you know how the business side works. But 835 00:51:01,060 --> 00:51:06,540 even that is still probably not enough, you still have to have a bigger reason, which for 836 00:51:06,540 --> 00:51:14,580 me is the self improvement side of things. Like I haven't had any like true moments where 837 00:51:14,580 --> 00:51:19,700 I feel like I changed anyone's life. So I don't really know. Like I see all the time 838 00:51:19,700 --> 00:51:26,100 in these business books where successful entrepreneurs say that they were originally in it for the 839 00:51:26,100 --> 00:51:31,500 money, but then they changed because they're like, Oh, I changed this person's life. So 840 00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:38,540 now I'm in it for the people like I'm people entrepreneurs are all about the, the change 841 00:51:38,540 --> 00:51:44,500 that they'll make in people's lives, which I haven't really seen any, like I don't see 842 00:51:44,500 --> 00:51:51,220 that I've changed anyone's lives yet. So I can't really relate on that. So right now, 843 00:51:51,220 --> 00:51:58,100 to be honest, like the only things that I'm doing this for is to document the journey 844 00:51:58,100 --> 00:52:04,220 as well as the self improvement side of things, like showing people my results, they're not 845 00:52:04,220 --> 00:52:10,540 results, but showing people my transformation and making it clear that they that you guys 846 00:52:10,540 --> 00:52:20,100 can get it yourselves. And then the money side is also a big benefit as well, which 847 00:52:20,100 --> 00:52:24,460 it's, I think it's apparent that I'm not 100% in it for the money because I would not have 848 00:52:24,460 --> 00:52:33,020 made it to episode 97 if I was. And so it's all like the business side of things going 849 00:52:33,020 --> 00:52:39,580 back to my old YouTube channel, like I would post one of my biggest issues was I didn't 850 00:52:39,580 --> 00:52:44,740 know how to actually gain success. So I would post when I wanted to, which was like once 851 00:52:44,740 --> 00:52:57,580 every couple months. And they were like trash videos. And then even like my old TikTok, 852 00:52:57,580 --> 00:53:06,540 when I during the lockdown during the quarantine, I had a TikTok channel that I started posting 853 00:53:06,540 --> 00:53:13,140 on. And my first video, I was like, Oh, this is going to go viral. It did not. And then 854 00:53:13,140 --> 00:53:16,860 the next video is like, Oh, this is going to go viral. I all I wanted was for it to go 855 00:53:16,860 --> 00:53:27,420 viral. And those are the wrong reasons because if you're in it just for things to go viral, 856 00:53:27,420 --> 00:53:32,900 then you're not going to make it very far. And one of the things yesterday that I read 857 00:53:32,900 --> 00:53:41,860 in like how beginner mistake mistakes for podcasting, one of the beginner mistakes is 858 00:53:41,860 --> 00:53:48,820 to constantly check your analytics. And I learned I learned about that last night. And then 859 00:53:48,820 --> 00:53:54,060 this more or just before starting to record this episode, I was like, Oh, I remembered 860 00:53:54,060 --> 00:53:59,020 it. I was conscious of checking your analytics too much. And I had checked my analytics every 861 00:53:59,020 --> 00:54:03,340 single day this week. And I was like, Oh, I want to check my analytics though. And I did 862 00:54:03,340 --> 00:54:11,620 it anyways. So that's another fail. So it's like, Oh, there's a lot of little things that 863 00:54:11,620 --> 00:54:20,860 I fail about fail on throughout the day. But like to be honest, the analytics side, it's 864 00:54:20,860 --> 00:54:31,260 not too bad because I know that yes, I'm hoping for a like, I'm hoping to have a lot of people 865 00:54:31,260 --> 00:54:38,140 like that one day I had 57 downloads in one day, which by the way, I spiked up to 57 866 00:54:38,140 --> 00:54:43,940 for one day. And then I went back down to my normal six to seven downloads per day. 867 00:54:43,940 --> 00:54:49,740 So I'm like, I'm obviously I'm hoping for a lot of downloads in one day, but I already 868 00:54:49,740 --> 00:55:02,900 I can like, know I know that it's like not very like likely to happen. And then I also 869 00:55:02,900 --> 00:55:11,620 checked my TikTok analytics, which I'm still hoping for a video that's more than 200 views. 870 00:55:11,620 --> 00:55:18,580 Because all of my videos except for one have gotten more than 200 views. The the one right 871 00:55:18,580 --> 00:55:25,340 now is at 179. So every single one of my videos has gotten more than 200 views, which is good. 872 00:55:25,340 --> 00:55:34,460 Like it's way better than my YouTube, my YouTube channel. On the YouTube podcast, they pretty 873 00:55:34,460 --> 00:55:40,860 much all of them have like zero views. But the shorts have like, most of them have like 874 00:55:40,860 --> 00:55:49,140 zero and some have like 50 some have there's like one that has 150. That's it. So the YouTube 875 00:55:49,140 --> 00:55:56,660 side of things is not very good. But my TikTok is being very successful at the moment. 200 876 00:55:56,660 --> 00:56:03,940 around 200 views per episode or per TikTok and post three per day. And I've probably got 877 00:56:03,940 --> 00:56:15,180 like almost 200 likes total, which is very good, I think. And then I also have 15 followers. 878 00:56:15,180 --> 00:56:22,460 And I've gotten quite a few comments. So it's like all those little wins, you got to keep 879 00:56:22,460 --> 00:56:28,140 adding up like one of the things that got me through the early days of podcasting, until 880 00:56:28,140 --> 00:56:39,580 I actually created my positive feedback loop was the little wins. Excuse me. And I remember 881 00:56:39,580 --> 00:56:48,420 I would create like, let me give me one second. I would create, oh my gosh, let me get some 882 00:56:48,420 --> 00:57:03,260 water. I got a dry throat. All right, so I would create like little goals for little 883 00:57:03,260 --> 00:57:10,300 wins that to achieve. Like my first one was like episode 10. That was double digits. And 884 00:57:10,300 --> 00:57:19,300 then my second one was episode 21, which meant that I was in the top 1%. And then my third 885 00:57:19,300 --> 00:57:26,220 one was like episode 50. And then I kind of stopped the wins until for lacking life. And 886 00:57:26,220 --> 00:57:33,860 I told the story, someone said that episode 100 is like the big milestone. So then I realized 887 00:57:33,860 --> 00:57:39,180 I was only like 30 episodes or 40 episodes away. So that's that's my next goal. And I'm 888 00:57:39,180 --> 00:57:45,740 on episode 97. So in three days, I'll have recorded 100 episodes, but then it won't be 889 00:57:45,740 --> 00:57:53,740 until like nine days, or 10 days until episode 100 actually publishes and posts. So episode 890 00:57:53,740 --> 00:58:03,420 100 is like my next big goal. And it's all about those little big wins. Like for the 891 00:58:03,420 --> 00:58:09,740 TikTok, one of my goals was to like get more followers, which was an arbitrary, I think 892 00:58:09,740 --> 00:58:13,820 that's right word, is like an arbitrary goal. So it wasn't really that good of a goal. But 893 00:58:13,820 --> 00:58:18,500 right now, just saying this and reminding myself of the big goals, the big win or the 894 00:58:18,500 --> 00:58:28,220 little wins. My next goal is 20 followers on TikTok. And then 250 likes. So that's like 895 00:58:28,220 --> 00:58:36,380 my next big goal or my little goal, big or little win. So basically gamify it. Like one 896 00:58:36,380 --> 00:58:42,940 of the things I learned from Hamza is gamify yourself improvement. Like basically treat 897 00:58:42,940 --> 00:58:48,620 it like milestones or achievements, which I never really did in real life. But I found 898 00:58:48,620 --> 00:58:53,740 it very useful in like podcasting because there's actual analytics and there's actual 899 00:58:53,740 --> 00:59:05,260 like markers that you can use. So for my podcast after saying all this, my next little win 900 00:59:05,260 --> 00:59:14,900 is 10 rolling average subscribers. Right now I have six. So double digits, rolling average 901 00:59:14,900 --> 00:59:23,500 subscribers. And that's, that's pretty much where I'm at with all that. Sorry, my voice 902 00:59:23,500 --> 00:59:29,940 is kind of going out right now. I have no idea why. Hopefully it's not like serious. 903 00:59:29,940 --> 00:59:37,620 Um, this past week has been very good. Next week is going to be even better. Hopefully 904 00:59:37,620 --> 00:59:43,620 I'm going to, or I'm definitely going to start getting double episode days in because I have 905 00:59:43,620 --> 00:59:49,820 to prepare for my vacation next month, which I'm not going to be recording at all during 906 00:59:49,820 --> 00:59:55,460 that week because I want to take the entire rest, but I still want to post daily. So next 907 00:59:55,460 --> 01:00:03,580 week I'm going to be posting double episodes, but that's it for the episode. So follow for 908 01:00:03,580 --> 01:00:26,340 more if you're interested. Have a good day.