Igniting Your Inner Genius with Pete from Fire in the Belly

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And it's called Black P. Go check him out. Welcome

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to Crazy Fitness Guy Healthy Living Podcast,

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where we strive to motivate people who are on

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the autism spectrum to live healthy lifestyles.

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If you think this podcast is only for people

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who are autistic, then think again. Whether you

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are autistic or not, we have a mix of content

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from healthy living to everything in between

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that makes up a balanced and healthy life. Autism

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is our backbone and we strive to support the

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autism community by motivating, inspiring, and

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educating everyone about what autism is. Please

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welcome your host, Jimmy Clare, who is a motivational

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speaker, autism advocate, author, and founder

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of crazyfitnessguide .com. Welcome to another

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episode of Crazy Fitness Guide's Healthy Living

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Podcast. I got my friend Pete here today. He

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hosts the podcast, Fire in the Belly. And we're

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just going to have an interesting conversation.

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Welcome aboard. Awesome. Thank you very much,

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Jimmy. It's an absolute pleasure to be here.

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So thank you. Thank you for your time. So tell

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me a little about yourself. Oh, tell me about

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me. Wow. Lots. I'm literally a proud author of

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a new book called Be Hard to Be Rich. So listen

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to your inner genius. So that literally is...

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It couldn't be any fresher off the press. I think

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it arrived in yesterday and we launched next

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Thursday. So that's been great. I am a mentor,

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a speaker, a TEDx speaker, a father, an investor.

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So yeah, lots about me, really. But really where

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a lot of this all changed for me was about four

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years ago and just took a massive... turn in

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my life really i suppose and it really was just

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from a point of just being a bit lost and overwhelmed

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to where i am today i mean four years ago i certainly

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wouldn't have been coming on here having the

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opportunity to speak to yourself it would have

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been very different you know so a lot of things

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change and you know yourself generally it's uh

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sometimes you gotta decide you gotta make a decision

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to change and that's the stage i got to uh it

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didn't happen overnight and it took time but

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uh but like i sort of try and say in in the book

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there it's you know be heard to be rich is because

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you know quite often all the answers you need

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are within you and the reasons why you know we

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can inherit reasons why from other people but

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uh you've got to do it for you you know it doesn't

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matter what other people think at the end of

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the day uh it's down to you and you got to listen

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to yourself and and that's what i've done and

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that's what i help a lot of my mentees to do

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so um yeah that's a very quick based here in

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little old ireland and uh yeah so and i've got

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the fire in the belly podcast myself which is

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just talking about people's passions so similar

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to yourself jimmy really you know so how did

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you um so i have a question how did you uh so

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how did you get uh started with your uh tedx

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experience The next experience is a number of

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things happened that a local guy actually sort

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of took on the local license. And really, it

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was just sort of I've been sort of working with

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him and liaising with him in terms of actually

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other events he was running. So she's pretty

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much sitting in the background and just helping

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with the overall visioneering and the masterminding.

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So pulling together a bit of a plan and the opportunity

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came up from that to say, well, listen. you know,

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why not come in and, uh, listen, it's been a

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bit of a bucket list for me and I, I love a,

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a bucket list or a love list, whatever you want

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to call it. Um, you know, it's, uh, it's really

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just putting it out there. And so it was, it

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was awesome, you know, something there, a chance

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to put it out there and put it into the world.

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So it's great. But like anything, of course you

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get a taste for it and then you, you want to

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do more. And, um, so yeah, hopefully there's

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more coming up, but that's how the whole TEDx

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experience came about. Do you know what? It's

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great fun to stand on the spot. Um, it's a bit

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of a funny year because obviously there was no

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audience. So we were, it was all in a TV studio.

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Um, but it was great listening. It was, it was

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awesome to, to have it out there and to share.

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So yeah, no, it's been a really fun experience.

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So it's really good. I'm jealous because I'm,

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I really want to do one of those. And, and, uh,

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I have, I have, I'm basically down to the editing

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part. And I even submitted to TED Talk. I submitted

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to just other places to share it. And I'm still

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trying to get to the editing part because that's

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the part where I dislike. I was like, I've got

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to shave this off, got to shave this off, got

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to narrow it down. I was like, is it too long?

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Is it too short? I don't know. Well, there's

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a great book called, well, the TED Talk is one

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and then Talk Like Ted. So there's actually two

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books. And there's a great description in there

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saying you pick your idea, what you'd like to

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speak about, and then you divide it in half and

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then you divide it in half again. And that's

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roughly, you'll probably still have too much

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information. So that's, you know, people, they

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do that. They've got 10 minutes and they try

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and, you know, put in their whole life journey

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and a couple of resolutions and a few other things

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as well, right? you know so um 10 minutes is

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not long i mean mine came in i think it was 11

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minutes something um you know so it's it's but

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it's amazing how much you can talk about in 10

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minutes and vice versa it's amazing how much

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you don't have time to talk about as well so

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it's you've no time for space but listen some

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people turn up and wing it some people practice

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for a long time um you know i had a coach to

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to sort of help me as well because it's different

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it's not like a normal talk um you know so it's

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that's why i'm taking a bit of time and i'm lucky

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it's been put onto all the ted platforms and

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you know it's out there so uh yeah it's fun but

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sure listen it's it's another thing ticked off

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so you'll get there joey no time at all you know

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just keep being persistent about it you know

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definitely uh so how did you come up with the

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name fire in the belly for your podcast Super

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interesting. I mean, really, back in 2017, I

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got to the stage. I basically had as close to

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a breakdown as you can have. And I got to the

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stage of searching in my life, not knowing what

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it was all about. It was close to a midlife crisis,

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if you'd like to call it that, as anyone's ever

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had. And I kind of found myself, we had to shut

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down a company. So we'd laid off staff. I had

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young kids and just sitting there going, what's

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it all about? You know, conveniently at 37 and

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a half years of age. And, you know, I now look

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back at it as, you know, that sort of midlife

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crisis or midlife opportunity. And I was sort

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of saying, yeah, everything's great. And we've

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a couple of years paid off the mortgage and the

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kids are sort of growing up or they're, you know,

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babies and getting there. And just when you should

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have your story together was kind of the one

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time we're going, I don't know what I want. You

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know, we've literally just let go of a company.

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Kids are there and I'm having to do more, be

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more. I need to work harder. I need to earn more.

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And yet I couldn't work any harder. I mean, the

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stress levels were through the roof already.

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So you're saying, how do you do that? And I got

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to meet the likes of Grant Cardone and a few

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other people. And, you know, you look at them

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and you're saying, you're, you know, you're working

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similar hours to me, maybe more, maybe less.

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You know, you meet different people. And yet

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their outcomes are totally different. you know

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so saying it's not a case of you know my original

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mindset was i need to work more and then that's

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when i it was a case of going i actually i think

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my formula is wrong i need to change my formula

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and what happened basically over the following

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12 months is you know as we had twin girls just

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shortly after that as well you know as if i hadn't

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enough on my plate at that time and i had depression

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as well i talk about that openly i've had two

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bits of depression in my life and um I was pushing

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my twin girls up the road and I'm sitting here

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going, how is it that some people are, you know,

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they sort of get up in the morning and they go

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and turn on the TV and that's it. You know, and

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yet some people get up in the morning and go

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and reinvent the world. They speak on stage.

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They write a book. They, you know, be crazy fitness

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guy. They do whatever they do, right? You know,

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they really want to excel. They're hungry. They're

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thirsty for more and more and more. So it's like,

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what's the difference? And I was just rattling

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through my head and it's kind of going, I know

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my formula is wrong. So, I mean, how do they

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know? Do they go by gut instinct? Do they talk

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about intuition? Do they talk about this fire

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in the belly? Or do they talk about your passion

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or your desires? And this fire in the belly,

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it's like fire in the belly, that's a really

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kind of, it's a weird term. But what's that about?

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What does it actually mean? And that's exactly,

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I just started asking that question. I literally,

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I know the time and day that. The whole fire

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in the belly concept just dropped into my head,

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but I loved it straight away simply because I

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can talk to you and we're thousands of miles

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apart. And yet you'll know what I mean, right?

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And it's nothing to do with race or gender or,

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you know, nationality or anything, right? It

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can be applied to anything. Some people may not

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know the term, some people may, but when you

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talk about a passion or a burning desire, they're

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like, oh yeah, I get that. You know, it doesn't

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matter who, what age group you talk to. And that's

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what I loved about it. It was completely, you

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know. non -denominatory and so it actually allowed

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people just to so need to talk and so i i was

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asking the questions for me really and and i

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started off with my own family and my brother

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-in -law and sat down and going what does fire

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in the belly mean to you and we ended up having

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like a two and a half hour conversation unintentionally

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it was just we got talking about it and like

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only for the fact i had to go and pick up the

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kids from school or from nursery you know we

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would have still been talking right but it From

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the very, very first conversation, I just knew

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straight away there was something about Fire

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in the Belly and it's unique to everyone. What

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does it for me, Jimmy, may not do it for you

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or vice versa. And that's okay. But when someone

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finds their Fire in the Belly or their passion,

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you know because their energy level is high.

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They're doing it, you know, even if they're not

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getting paid, they're doing it because they love

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it or they think there's something there or there's

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a passion and they want to share with the world.

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that's so common you know that people talk about

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that and you know you hit somebody's you know

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passion project if you like and they'll talk

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forever you know here's me for example i'll talk

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no problem you know so a bit of a long -winded

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version but that's kind of how fire in the belly

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came about and sounds better than my story of

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how crazy fitness guys got its name uh for uh

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i'll give you a secret um i'll tell you a funny

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story Maybe not really funny, but I was known

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as a different name when I was back then. But

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then it was infringing on someone else's trademark.

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I didn't know that at the time because you can't

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figure out any government website. I couldn't

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read it. I didn't know how to read it. I didn't

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know how to work it. Yeah, I infringed upon it

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by accident, and I can't say the name because

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I don't want to infringe upon it again. I think

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I let it loose on one podcast, and I hope it

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doesn't bite my knee butt. But yeah, and then

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I changed my name, and since no one had Crazy

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the energy to actually follow through with it,

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right? True. I just like your story better. Well,

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it's taken a long time to get to my story. There's

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a lot of pain. And even now, it's kind of weird

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because people go, well, what's my fire in the

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belly? And what I find through this process and

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even writing the book there and doing all that

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is actually, I love talking to people. I love

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finding out their passion. And it's such an amazing

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thing because we talk about it and saying, when's

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the last time you got to talk about you? for

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one hour two hours completely without judgment

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in an open space safe space you know and it's

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amazing actually the number of people that have

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never had a chance to do that it's really bizarre

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you know and it's generally people say well i

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maybe never have or it's been years or maybe

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if you have a counselor or something else but

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quite often even with a counselor right because

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we're looking at the past you know so it's very

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rare that you actually take this you know almost

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this sort of beach chair view of your life and

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you sit at 10 000 you know foot and look back

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and saying well this happened when i was young

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and here's where i am today and here's where

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i want to go in future and you know i i'm not

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there to judge them i don't know them so um but

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for some reason it just seems to actually you

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know light people up a bit you know because it

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is positive and we do say listen you know we

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pre -record but there is a high chance of it

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actually going you know out to the public um

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And for that reason, it just kind of fills a

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very unique space. And then for me, listening

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and actually asking those questions, it's quite

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key. And quite often people don't even realize

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the language they use or they don't realize that

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certain things they'll emphasize or certain things

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they'll... What's most common is actually, I

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call it the seven -year pattern. And it's so

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common there that people will do things in seven

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-year cycles. So they'll have a job. they'll

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you know they'll work hard at the job and then

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they'll get itchy feet and they'll want a new

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job but but it tends to run in seven year cycles

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and and for so many people you can actually plot

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it and you can see whether on the dip where they're

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on the peak of the cycle or where they're at

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you know and listen it's i mean you can read

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into that what you will but quite often it's

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just knowing where you're at and you know where

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you know where your options are etc you know

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it's it's it's key it's key for a lot of people

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you know so that's super interesting i must say

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i really enjoy it And when you speak, what are

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the topics that you speak about? So my background

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is I'm a property investor. So I started 20,

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21 years ago now buying property. A bit like

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Monopoly. It just kind of got a little bit out

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of hand. So that's the one thing. I've always

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had that in my background. And I'll save everyone

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the math. I'm 41. So I started when I was 20.

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And it just made sense, right? Because you bought

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the property, you took on a mortgage or a debt.

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And as long as the rent was greater than the

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cost of the debt, then that's fine, right? You

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just collect the rent and pay the mortgage. And

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that sort of went on, but that was always in

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the background. Well, fast forward 21 years now,

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and a lot of those properties that I bought 21

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years ago now have double, treble, quadruple

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in value. So that's done quite nice for me. Um,

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you know, so that's something, and, and I mean,

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that, that portfolio has grown, um, quite substantially.

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So that's been awesome. And I love, you know,

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that's essentially, I mentor a lot of people

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on not just property, but assets because an asset,

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I mean, this, this recording is an asset, right?

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You know, because we're talking here today, this

00:19:34.450 --> 00:19:37.730
recording can be used, um, put on a podcast.

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It could be put on a YouTube channel. But the

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point is it can always work while you're not

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working. So you can go to sleep and people anywhere

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in the world could watch this. And so that gives

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it an asset, gives it a value. So then what you

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do with it, then you could transcribe this podcast.

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You could take short clips. You could do, you

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know, basically our challenge is always to try

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and do more than 10 things with every podcast.

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And then you can do up to 99 things at least,

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if possibly more. you know it's actually doing

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that so monetizing and really sort of pulling

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value out of assets and property is no different

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you know an asset an asset can be that book that

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book is is an asset you know it's anything there

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that you can own but you don't necessarily need

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to turn up to run so you know because if you

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if you have a job you know the problem is always

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that if you don't turn up for work how long do

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you think you'll stay employed zero so Right.

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So, but where, you know, you put out your podcast

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show and, you know, if you sort of decide to

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lie in tomorrow morning and not get up, you know,

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that hasn't an effect on the podcast. I mean,

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long -term, yes, it's a problem, but short -term,

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you know, there is no difference. You can still

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listen to the shows. You can still do all that.

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So by becoming a asset -based person, so it talks

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about all about assets and liabilities, everything

00:21:00.029 --> 00:21:03.059
in your life is an asset or a liability. um so

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i do a lot with people there is actually helping

00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:07.980
them to actually build wealth on their side i

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also talk to people about um depression my own

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mental health and like say my own two two phases

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of depression in my life but i suppose really

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the fun part i like is as often as the the mentoring

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and you know the sort of the intuitive coaching

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quite often which is which is super fun and And

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that's kind of a version from the podcast show.

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But often I have a lot of shows that actually

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don't go to air because either it gets too emotional

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for people or it ends up that actually the story

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is much bigger than they've said. So I realized

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straight away, I was going, this is not just

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a podcast show. This is like, could be six shows.

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It could be a book. It could be, you know, a

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whole training program, you know, 50 different

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things. helping people to actually unwrap that,

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you know, and really sort of pull that through.

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And that's what I love to see. And then, you

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know, when you're working with people and helping

00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:05.700
them to find their passion. So that's just some

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of the things I do, let alone being a father

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and being generally just busy and being a podcast

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host and all the rest, you know, so busy life,

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but probably property is the one thing that always

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come back. So property and mentoring would be

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my main things. Most people would know me for

00:22:20.900 --> 00:22:26.019
the podcast. I know. how you feel about being

00:22:26.019 --> 00:22:29.900
very busy. The last few weeks have been, I took

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a hiatus break this week of creating new content

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because it is because I had so many different

00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:41.299
house showings at different times. I also had,

00:22:41.420 --> 00:22:46.940
I'm just going through, like I'm getting ready

00:22:46.940 --> 00:22:50.500
for a season two of my podcast. And I was like,

00:22:50.940 --> 00:22:56.119
I want to be fresh for season two. And I was

00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:58.720
like, I'm not making anything. And plus I had

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a test for college that landed on a Tuesday.

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And so I was like, wait, that goes right into

00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:07.519
my editing day. And I was like, no, I'm not doing

00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:10.480
it. I'm not rushing. I'm not going to go on Monday

00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:12.920
and edit the whole thing on Monday and get it

00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:16.700
out for this week. Because if I rush, I'm going

00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:20.539
to miss something. mess up the editing or something.

00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:22.259
It's not going to turn out the way I want it

00:23:22.259 --> 00:23:25.900
to. And I'm like, nope, I don't have a good feeling

00:23:25.900 --> 00:23:28.839
about this. I'm taking a break. It's like, everybody

00:23:28.839 --> 00:23:34.519
doesn't like him. I don't care. Stay with us.

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We'll be right back. Did you know Crazy Fitness

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00:24:38.269 --> 00:24:40.609
it brings up a great point because, I mean, knowing

00:24:40.609 --> 00:24:43.049
what you're good at or what you've time for is

00:24:43.049 --> 00:24:44.890
absolutely key. And this is something that took

00:24:44.890 --> 00:24:47.450
me a long time. And I was only diagnosed with

00:24:47.450 --> 00:24:50.410
dyslexia and ADHD. It was only about two years

00:24:50.410 --> 00:24:54.230
ago now. And you kind of go, you're 41. I mean,

00:24:54.250 --> 00:24:56.190
you were diagnosed at 39. It was like, yeah,

00:24:56.250 --> 00:24:58.930
because it was actually my niece got diagnosed.

00:24:58.930 --> 00:25:01.970
And then with my girls, I thought, well, if my

00:25:01.970 --> 00:25:04.670
niece has it and I know my sister, you know,

00:25:04.670 --> 00:25:06.769
and I would be very similar. So it's like, well,

00:25:06.890 --> 00:25:08.910
I'll get diagnosed. So then at least we know

00:25:08.910 --> 00:25:12.390
to look out for my daughters. And unintentionally

00:25:12.390 --> 00:25:14.529
that then, you know, I sort of go, right, well,

00:25:14.650 --> 00:25:17.910
I was diagnosed straight away and I hadn't expected

00:25:17.910 --> 00:25:20.650
the ADHD. The dyslexia, yes, the ADHD was a bit

00:25:20.650 --> 00:25:24.730
of a curveball. But so from that, you know, and

00:25:24.730 --> 00:25:26.750
even the assessor was saying, do you ever notice

00:25:26.750 --> 00:25:30.609
that, you know, there's times when you can be

00:25:30.609 --> 00:25:32.509
super creative or there's certain things that

00:25:32.509 --> 00:25:35.089
always slow you down. I would go to a meeting

00:25:35.089 --> 00:25:38.269
and I'd be very interactive. And then it would,

00:25:38.269 --> 00:25:39.769
you know, go to one hour meeting, but it would

00:25:39.769 --> 00:25:41.869
take me three hours to write up the notes from

00:25:41.869 --> 00:25:44.410
the meeting. And I would procrastinate on it

00:25:44.410 --> 00:25:46.069
and I would delay on it and I would do all this.

00:25:46.809 --> 00:25:49.269
And essentially what actually triggers and gives

00:25:49.269 --> 00:25:52.289
you that dyslexia diagnosis is that, you know,

00:25:52.309 --> 00:25:54.009
your reading and writing skills would be lower

00:25:54.009 --> 00:25:58.150
than average. But yet for me anyway, my creativity,

00:25:58.349 --> 00:26:02.980
my intuitive. And visualization were above average.

00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:06.160
So overall, I'm above average IQ. So it's not

00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:07.720
that I can't read and write. I'll just never

00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:11.440
read or write for pleasure or leisure. So when

00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.200
you know that, you know, and I was only afterwards.

00:26:15.299 --> 00:26:16.779
I saw there's so many things in my life I was

00:26:16.779 --> 00:26:18.380
doing. So I would chat to someone who's going,

00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:19.920
will you send me an email with that? Yeah, yeah,

00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:22.920
yeah. Three days later, I don't know. And suddenly

00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:26.119
it becomes like this mental burden. So really,

00:26:26.220 --> 00:26:27.859
since then, that's why I was saying with the

00:26:27.859 --> 00:26:30.579
podcast, I now have an editing team. And I go,

00:26:30.619 --> 00:26:33.140
guys, love doing the recording. There's a recording.

00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:36.819
Shout if you need anything yet. Happy days. You

00:26:36.819 --> 00:26:39.019
know, and because I know when it comes down to

00:26:39.019 --> 00:26:42.779
that detail, that's just not me. Whereas before

00:26:42.779 --> 00:26:44.279
I would have given myself a really hard time.

00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:45.940
It's like, oh, you're lazy. You're silly. You're,

00:26:45.940 --> 00:26:48.259
you know, you're not smart. You're this, you're

00:26:48.259 --> 00:26:50.299
that, the other. Whereas now I'm going, it's

00:26:50.299 --> 00:26:52.980
just not my thing. You know, let me be creative.

00:26:53.099 --> 00:26:56.279
Let me go intuitive. Let me, I mean, I'll doodle

00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:58.359
on, you know, anything the size of a wall and

00:26:58.359 --> 00:27:01.180
we'll map out somebody's hair brain idea and

00:27:01.180 --> 00:27:04.319
we'll go crazy but ask me to write a list or

00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:06.660
read a page out of a book it's kind of ironic

00:27:06.660 --> 00:27:09.740
because i run reading groups but um you know

00:27:09.740 --> 00:27:12.640
ask me to do that without duress or pleasure

00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:15.500
or or you know any sort of focus i won't do it

00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:17.740
you know my wife's completely different she can

00:27:17.740 --> 00:27:19.640
read a book from cover to cover she can then

00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:23.400
pick out which page it says x y or z i in the

00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:25.279
meantime would have made four cups of coffee

00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:28.259
walk the dog gone and spoke to the postman and

00:27:28.670 --> 00:27:30.130
probably gone into town and gone to the shop

00:27:30.130 --> 00:27:32.650
or something instead of sitting down and reading

00:27:32.650 --> 00:27:36.009
the book so knowing your pleasure or knowing

00:27:36.009 --> 00:27:37.950
your pleasures knowing your strengths i think

00:27:37.950 --> 00:27:40.190
there's so many people don't always do that you

00:27:40.190 --> 00:27:41.970
know so that's the point of listening to your

00:27:41.970 --> 00:27:44.789
inner genius what what lights you up what just

00:27:44.789 --> 00:27:48.009
isn't your thing and it's okay you know it's

00:27:48.009 --> 00:27:50.690
okay to say listen i'm i'm just not i'm maybe

00:27:50.690 --> 00:27:53.269
not a good listener or you know i'm just not

00:27:53.269 --> 00:27:55.490
somebody that's interested in history or i'm

00:27:55.490 --> 00:27:59.079
not interested in you know anything you know

00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:01.579
just engineering you know we're all different

00:28:01.579 --> 00:28:04.099
creatures and sometimes i do think we try and

00:28:04.099 --> 00:28:06.839
wear a lot of caps when actually if you just

00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:09.279
reclaimed that that's just not your thing and

00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:13.200
said yes but my thing is this and anything that's

00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:16.019
not my thing then i will find somebody else or

00:28:16.019 --> 00:28:18.779
i will earn enough money to go and pay somebody

00:28:18.779 --> 00:28:22.119
to do it or i will accept that i have to do it

00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:24.259
for a certain time to then ultimately give it

00:28:24.259 --> 00:28:27.069
away you know but instead how often do we fester

00:28:27.069 --> 00:28:29.130
with something and say oh well and we give ourselves

00:28:29.130 --> 00:28:31.569
a hard time you know my my sister's better at

00:28:31.569 --> 00:28:33.710
this or my dad did this or someone else did this

00:28:33.710 --> 00:28:36.890
okay they're not you but we do we hang on to

00:28:36.890 --> 00:28:39.009
it we give ourselves a hard time instead of just

00:28:39.009 --> 00:28:42.990
going it's just not me and that's okay and that's

00:28:42.990 --> 00:28:46.049
not who i am and that's okay with me i'm happy

00:28:46.049 --> 00:28:50.430
let it go move on and that for me you know it's

00:28:50.430 --> 00:28:53.460
been it's been huge I'm one of those people who

00:28:53.460 --> 00:28:58.900
can read a book to front to cover, but it depends

00:28:58.900 --> 00:29:02.579
on what the book I'm reading and what it's for.

00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:05.759
If it's for, if I have to read something for

00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:10.920
school, I get it done, but it's like, this is

00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:17.380
tormenting or this is, I'm like, I'm like, I

00:29:17.380 --> 00:29:20.160
give you an example. My English class back in,

00:29:22.140 --> 00:29:28.539
last semester. I did well in the class. It was

00:29:28.539 --> 00:29:31.220
just so much depressing stuff we were reading.

00:29:31.539 --> 00:29:34.559
I'm like, I don't even want to read this. I'm

00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:36.839
like, where did you find this? The most depressing

00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:40.220
section of the internet or what? Because even

00:29:40.220 --> 00:29:45.000
if I typed into Google a thousand different things,

00:29:45.140 --> 00:29:47.259
there's no way I could find all this depressing

00:29:47.259 --> 00:29:51.039
stuff myself. I was like, I wouldn't even want

00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:56.859
to go looking for it. It's amazing. I mean, it

00:29:56.859 --> 00:29:59.039
depends what you want to learn, right? And the

00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:02.660
reason why, you know, and before I had no interest

00:30:02.660 --> 00:30:06.200
in, you know, running a podcast, editing software,

00:30:06.339 --> 00:30:08.200
you know, it just didn't even come on my radar,

00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:11.240
but suddenly then it becomes relevant, you know,

00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:13.559
but even for me now running the podcast, I know

00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:15.839
it's for me, it's probably step three of 13,

00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:18.680
you know, so the podcast is good, but it's like,

00:30:18.990 --> 00:30:21.049
It's only it's leading to somewhere. It's not

00:30:21.049 --> 00:30:25.029
the end product, you know. So it's it's funny

00:30:25.029 --> 00:30:27.130
how you'll learn differently. And whereas before

00:30:27.130 --> 00:30:29.490
I wouldn't have shown an interest in that or,

00:30:29.609 --> 00:30:32.329
you know, I'm not a cover to cover person. You

00:30:32.329 --> 00:30:35.349
know, the likes of yourself who does actually

00:30:35.349 --> 00:30:37.670
read stuff, then, you know, sort of look down.

00:30:37.789 --> 00:30:40.269
Whereas I will, you know, I will actually sort

00:30:40.269 --> 00:30:42.829
of try it. I'm very kinesthetic. So very much,

00:30:42.869 --> 00:30:45.670
you know, trying by doing by, you know, giving

00:30:45.670 --> 00:30:49.240
it a go. Sometimes it works and sometimes it

00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:52.220
doesn't. That's okay. It's whatever's right,

00:30:52.299 --> 00:30:57.160
really. I was wondering, would you be willing

00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:01.299
to give me a little bit of insight of what it's

00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:07.579
like to live with ADHD? Sure, sure. It's interesting.

00:31:10.349 --> 00:31:13.230
So there's two types of the attention deficits.

00:31:13.390 --> 00:31:16.029
You have hyper disorder. So you have ADD, you

00:31:16.029 --> 00:31:20.829
have ADD, AD and ADHD. So the hyper bit is variable.

00:31:21.589 --> 00:31:24.410
And interestingly, even whenever they go through.

00:31:24.509 --> 00:31:26.730
So I had my assessment very late in life, really.

00:31:28.329 --> 00:31:30.910
I mean, probably best to take you back to when

00:31:30.910 --> 00:31:35.170
I was roughly around 12. And I had gone into,

00:31:35.289 --> 00:31:37.670
you know, your equivalent of high school, secondary

00:31:37.670 --> 00:31:42.559
school here. What was happening was, you know,

00:31:42.579 --> 00:31:46.299
I was very much square peg in round hole. And

00:31:46.299 --> 00:31:49.319
what tends to happen there when you can't either

00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:51.539
keep up or you're not necessarily fully understanding,

00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:55.140
quite often you will do potentially disguising

00:31:55.140 --> 00:31:58.259
behavior. Okay. And for me, that disguising behavior

00:31:58.259 --> 00:32:02.539
was causing trouble, bullying, just generally

00:32:02.539 --> 00:32:05.319
being a bit of a menace. The truth be told was

00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:07.980
that actually I couldn't necessarily either focus.

00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:11.900
or, you know, just the training or the sort of

00:32:11.900 --> 00:32:14.079
the learning program that suited everyone else

00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:17.160
didn't suit me. And I love it. I mean, there's

00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:20.140
different quotes. And one Jay Shetty talks about,

00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:21.740
which is an older quote, but he talks about,

00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:23.380
you know, why would you teach a fish to climb

00:32:23.380 --> 00:32:26.079
a tree, right? And that's kind of what it was

00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:30.460
for me. Now, some people will have ADHD or ADD

00:32:30.460 --> 00:32:34.880
at that young level. I don't know because I was

00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:38.339
never assessed at that age. what can tend to

00:32:38.339 --> 00:32:42.220
happen is that actually then the that will actually

00:32:42.220 --> 00:32:44.680
sort of wear not wear off but it becomes less

00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:47.480
prevalent when you become an adult you have another

00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:49.980
type where it's actually not that you know it

00:32:49.980 --> 00:32:52.859
doesn't occur that much as a younger person but

00:32:52.859 --> 00:32:56.180
actually becomes more recognizable as an older

00:32:56.180 --> 00:33:00.319
person so i i don't know i mean as i would suspect

00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.380
you know as a young person i certainly had dyslexia

00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:10.319
uh i suspect there was adhd in there too um what

00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:12.400
sort of happened through school is that i ended

00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:16.440
up i was more or less you know suicidal um simply

00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:20.119
because i was trying hard um and yet the school

00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:22.000
was saying i wasn't trying hard enough and i

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.599
wasn't focusing and i was causing trouble and

00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:26.680
you know i was saying well that was me trying

00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:29.720
my best you know and they're saying well you

00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.279
know all my report cards always said you know

00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:34.660
if he just focused or if he just tried he could

00:33:34.660 --> 00:33:36.920
do so much better you know show so much potential

00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:40.680
but there's always a but right and and you kind

00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:43.440
of eventually go do you know what i've tried

00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:46.220
hard i've tried focusing i've tried doing this

00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:48.460
i've tried doing that so do you know what i can't

00:33:48.460 --> 00:33:51.940
win so instead i'll just go the other way you

00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:54.769
know and that's that's through my that's why

00:33:54.769 --> 00:33:56.690
i now recognize i mean the schooling system that

00:33:56.690 --> 00:33:58.529
i went through a very good schooling system but

00:33:58.529 --> 00:34:00.750
it just wasn't for me i just wasn't the right

00:34:00.750 --> 00:34:04.769
fit for me um really through adults what would

00:34:04.769 --> 00:34:08.889
happen is i would mixture of massive procrastination

00:34:08.889 --> 00:34:12.730
massive procrastination so you know you put things

00:34:12.730 --> 00:34:16.269
off you you know without sounding obvious but

00:34:16.980 --> 00:34:20.039
great ideas but then you know you'd sort of not

00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:22.320
do certain things or if the certain tasks that

00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:25.659
were fairly menial um would then basically be

00:34:25.659 --> 00:34:28.199
like a huge speed bump that would slow you down

00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:30.800
and it wouldn't be until there was a lot of back

00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:33.659
pressure a lot of angst and worry and concern

00:34:33.659 --> 00:34:36.340
and then you know i used to talk about it about

00:34:36.340 --> 00:34:39.199
being you know so if i was an arsonist firefighter

00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:42.639
in that you know i would wait till something

00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:46.340
you know was sort of you know basically you're

00:34:46.340 --> 00:34:47.940
trying to do something and wait till it was getting

00:34:47.940 --> 00:34:49.900
really bad so i would set the building on fire

00:34:49.900 --> 00:34:52.880
metaphorically i would hasten that but i'd set

00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.340
the building on fire and then at the 11th hour

00:34:55.340 --> 00:34:57.639
i come and put the fire out and i was going look

00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:00.199
at me i put the fire out how good am i yep yep

00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:02.739
you know that's me sorted out all the problems

00:35:02.739 --> 00:35:05.820
and that's great until you realize going yeah

00:35:05.820 --> 00:35:08.179
you did and you did you know and that's where

00:35:08.179 --> 00:35:10.360
i'm most creative is at the 11th hour when the

00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:12.719
pressure's on pressure's pressure is for diamonds

00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:17.090
by the way but um you know but it's only when

00:35:17.090 --> 00:35:18.929
i look back it's kind of going you put the fire

00:35:18.929 --> 00:35:21.750
out but you also started the fire you know it's

00:35:21.750 --> 00:35:24.110
like this didn't need to be didn't need to be

00:35:24.110 --> 00:35:27.429
a huge big you know panic urgent crazy crazy

00:35:27.429 --> 00:35:31.289
task because it could have been done days ago

00:35:31.289 --> 00:35:34.409
weeks ago whatever it was and that's where adhd

00:35:34.409 --> 00:35:37.289
started to come in or else you know i say to

00:35:37.289 --> 00:35:40.389
people and now it's like i'm going some don't

00:35:40.389 --> 00:35:42.690
send me an email with any more than two paragraphs

00:35:42.690 --> 00:35:46.210
absolute maximum any more than two in fact sometimes

00:35:46.210 --> 00:35:48.710
even want more than one paragraph i'm not reading

00:35:48.710 --> 00:35:51.530
it you know and it's like i don't mean to be

00:35:51.530 --> 00:35:54.769
rude but it's just it's just not my thing and

00:35:54.769 --> 00:35:57.150
it's kind of hard because even my wife would

00:35:57.150 --> 00:35:59.429
say oh can you read that or i sent you that link

00:35:59.429 --> 00:36:01.110
can you not just you know because you're not

00:36:01.110 --> 00:36:02.389
just going to read that and it's kind of going

00:36:02.389 --> 00:36:06.269
nope uh it's not that i can't but i won't sit

00:36:06.269 --> 00:36:09.650
still long enough i'm going through so there's

00:36:09.650 --> 00:36:11.510
different things like that which you know it's

00:36:11.510 --> 00:36:14.869
it's kind of flashy attention you know it's you

00:36:14.869 --> 00:36:16.809
know just different ideas different suggestions

00:36:16.809 --> 00:36:19.389
but then you know massive list of things you

00:36:19.389 --> 00:36:21.510
haven't done and that the problem is also that

00:36:21.510 --> 00:36:24.389
can then sit on your mind and go oh i failed

00:36:24.389 --> 00:36:26.329
this and i haven't done this and there's you

00:36:26.329 --> 00:36:29.210
know there's a world's full of things i haven't

00:36:29.210 --> 00:36:32.730
done um so you can then look at the medication

00:36:32.730 --> 00:36:36.230
route and i have gone on different types of medication

00:36:36.230 --> 00:36:39.039
i'm not on any any medication at the moment um

00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:41.800
so you have like rippling yeah i mean there's

00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:44.139
all basically which is the form of speed it's

00:36:44.139 --> 00:36:47.860
sort of microdosing forms um so there's different

00:36:47.860 --> 00:36:51.059
things for me it had a real impact on my sleep

00:36:51.059 --> 00:36:55.320
and i sleep up until pre -kids uh sleep was always

00:36:55.320 --> 00:36:59.940
a problem um just really you know really struggled

00:36:59.940 --> 00:37:02.719
uh very active i mean i sort of came awake at

00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:05.480
12 o 'clock at night and that was my creative

00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:08.800
time i came up with some amazing stuff the problem

00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:10.639
is then i wouldn't get to sleep till three four

00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:13.980
whatever and then i'd be up for work at seven

00:37:13.980 --> 00:37:17.059
so there's only so long you can do that before

00:37:17.059 --> 00:37:19.539
you know and i would sort of almost this this

00:37:19.539 --> 00:37:22.019
peaks and troughs of this hyper and then this

00:37:22.019 --> 00:37:24.139
crash hyper and crash hyper and crash that was

00:37:24.139 --> 00:37:27.599
very much me i was a high functioning and that's

00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:31.019
probably where the hyper bit comes in uh and

00:37:31.019 --> 00:37:33.159
you it's it's i mean it's like i think we're

00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:35.659
all on an autistic scale i think we're all there

00:37:35.659 --> 00:37:38.340
somewhere but it's almost as well in terms of

00:37:38.340 --> 00:37:41.099
almost a form of bipolar you know there's times

00:37:41.099 --> 00:37:43.420
when i'm much creative and very social and all

00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:45.320
the best and there's times when i'm not i just

00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:50.079
don't want to be so um again a really long answer

00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:53.039
to your question but sort of for me it's just

00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:56.260
understanding is when do i function best when

00:37:56.260 --> 00:37:58.699
is it a waste of time you know when am i sort

00:37:58.699 --> 00:38:00.320
of you know literally i'm banging my head off

00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:02.599
a wall it's completely just you're telling me

00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:03.860
something that's bouncing off and going straight

00:38:03.860 --> 00:38:08.039
back out again so you know really and that's

00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:09.820
that's been a huge thing over the last two years

00:38:09.820 --> 00:38:11.739
is getting my head around that and going you

00:38:11.739 --> 00:38:14.039
know what does it mean to be dyslexic dyslexic

00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:16.219
and that's that's why like writing the book it's

00:38:16.219 --> 00:38:18.360
kind of ironic i'm kind of going okay so and

00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:20.579
this is the first we've probably three more books

00:38:20.579 --> 00:38:22.300
coming out this year and i'm helping six other

00:38:22.300 --> 00:38:24.639
people write their book and you kind of go on

00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:28.219
how does that work with a dyslexic right So,

00:38:28.219 --> 00:38:30.619
well, as you know, now I have no problem with

00:38:30.619 --> 00:38:33.559
this hole in the front of my face. So you can

00:38:33.559 --> 00:38:35.739
talk and that's the thing. And the software is

00:38:35.739 --> 00:38:37.719
so good now that you can actually talk a book,

00:38:37.780 --> 00:38:40.039
you know, and you can talk your ideas and your

00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:43.199
structures. And I go crazy with, you know, whiteboard

00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:45.199
and static sheets on the wall and basically map

00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:47.800
it all out and then work with people that I need

00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:49.539
to, instead of giving myself a hard time and

00:38:49.539 --> 00:38:52.659
going, I need to sit with a typing printer and

00:38:52.659 --> 00:38:55.300
banging out all the keys and all the rest, you

00:38:55.300 --> 00:38:58.039
know, that's not going to happen. whereas i can

00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:00.300
say if i can get the structure right and i can

00:39:00.300 --> 00:39:03.039
get the content there i can then sit with somebody

00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:05.380
who does like the details so somebody that can

00:39:05.380 --> 00:39:06.880
edit the book and understand what a good book

00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.099
structure is and then i can work with an illustrator

00:39:09.099 --> 00:39:11.119
and i can send them my pretty pretty scratch

00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:12.559
drawings and they can turn it into something

00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:14.380
funky and then i can work with the illustrators

00:39:14.380 --> 00:39:17.159
and the and the book designers and do all that

00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:20.059
so one thing for me is just being the stuff that

00:39:20.059 --> 00:39:21.780
doesn't float my boat or maybe it does float

00:39:21.780 --> 00:39:23.739
my boat but i just know if you want this done

00:39:23.739 --> 00:39:27.280
don't ask me Because I will sit and I will redesign

00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:30.780
the logo 42 times and I'll still hate it. I'll

00:39:30.780 --> 00:39:32.920
think it's good, but I'll also hate it. Whereas

00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.159
I go, if I give it to you, I'll pay you and you'll

00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:39.260
come back with something. And now that I've found

00:39:39.260 --> 00:39:42.840
my power team, this is people I go to. So if

00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:44.480
I'm looking for a mentor, I go to this person.

00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:45.780
If I'm looking for someone to help me edit the

00:39:45.780 --> 00:39:47.679
book, it's this. If I'm looking for a book mentor,

00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:50.820
I go for this guy. If I go here, it's the illustrator.

00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:52.949
I go here, here, here. And that's the key thing

00:39:52.949 --> 00:39:54.489
of anything, right? Is finding your power team.

00:39:54.590 --> 00:39:58.590
So with ADHD, it's a case of going is knowing

00:39:58.590 --> 00:40:01.610
what you're good at and doing lots of it. And

00:40:01.610 --> 00:40:03.489
the stuff that you aren't good at, get the hell

00:40:03.489 --> 00:40:06.530
rid of it. You know, give it away, pay somebody,

00:40:06.690 --> 00:40:09.150
do somebody because otherwise it will just keep

00:40:09.150 --> 00:40:11.449
tripping you up. And the sooner you realize that

00:40:11.449 --> 00:40:13.429
instead of going, oh, I'm just not a good person

00:40:13.429 --> 00:40:17.530
because I can't design a logo. Okay. That's just

00:40:17.530 --> 00:40:19.409
not the way your brain works as opposed to going.

00:40:19.949 --> 00:40:21.889
I can do it in PowerPoint and then I'll jump

00:40:21.889 --> 00:40:24.369
onto Canva and then I'll ask the opinion of 50

00:40:24.369 --> 00:40:26.250
people on Facebook and I'll do this and I'll

00:40:26.250 --> 00:40:29.010
do this and do this. And you'll never be happy.

00:40:29.710 --> 00:40:32.650
Yet, when you find your passion, you'll sit and

00:40:32.650 --> 00:40:34.690
you'll talk and you'll be the smartest person

00:40:34.690 --> 00:40:36.170
in the room. You find your niche, your niche,

00:40:36.329 --> 00:40:40.070
and really it's just find your niche, your niche,

00:40:40.230 --> 00:40:42.429
and basically drill on that, drill on that, as

00:40:42.429 --> 00:40:44.909
opposed to trying to be, you know, master of

00:40:44.909 --> 00:40:47.750
everything and actually you end up master of

00:40:47.750 --> 00:40:50.860
none, you know. And I remember the saying that

00:40:50.860 --> 00:40:52.719
we end up with them being, be the master of one

00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:56.539
thing, you know, and be, if you can reclaim,

00:40:56.760 --> 00:40:59.300
you know, become a quitter, become a quitter,

00:40:59.300 --> 00:41:01.460
quit doing the stuff that just doesn't do it

00:41:01.460 --> 00:41:03.559
for you. If you're not good at it, fine, let

00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:06.480
it go. You know, people panic and say, oh, then,

00:41:06.619 --> 00:41:09.219
you know, then I'll only be this. It's like,

00:41:09.260 --> 00:41:11.900
yeah, but be that, be the best person at that

00:41:11.900 --> 00:41:16.619
in the world. You know, so that's a very long

00:41:16.619 --> 00:41:18.860
answer, but I hope that explains ADHD a little

00:41:18.860 --> 00:41:23.530
bit. Well, I can totally relate to some of the

00:41:23.530 --> 00:41:28.889
procrastination. I think one of the things I

00:41:28.889 --> 00:41:32.610
procrastinate on, and I can totally admit it,

00:41:32.670 --> 00:41:39.369
because at the beginning of each year, I don't

00:41:39.369 --> 00:41:42.730
set any New Year's resolutions. I just set goals

00:41:42.730 --> 00:41:46.409
throughout the year because I like to give myself

00:41:46.409 --> 00:41:51.360
just something to shoot for. And so I got a lot

00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:54.159
accomplished already, but there's this one daunting

00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:58.159
task that I'm not looking forward to doing. And

00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:03.039
I get to everything else because it's like, oh,

00:42:03.179 --> 00:42:08.900
like I'm willing to, I'm organizing, I have a

00:42:08.900 --> 00:42:11.360
lot of different profiles, not even just social

00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:14.420
media profile. Well, I mean that too, but I'm

00:42:14.420 --> 00:42:18.250
on different sites with different profiles. different

00:42:18.250 --> 00:42:23.650
bios, et cetera. And I'm putting them all in

00:42:23.650 --> 00:42:27.650
an organized space in one of my tools called

00:42:27.650 --> 00:42:31.769
Notion because I forgot to update one of the

00:42:31.769 --> 00:42:37.489
profiles. And I keep on losing track of where

00:42:37.489 --> 00:42:41.429
I am on the web because it's like, I'm on here,

00:42:41.550 --> 00:42:45.610
right? And it's like, oh, well, I'm out of...

00:42:45.929 --> 00:42:49.550
let's say 10 profiles, I miss one. And so I got

00:42:49.550 --> 00:42:53.530
like nine out of 10, which is fine, but it is

00:42:53.530 --> 00:42:57.090
like, this gotta be a better way to make sure

00:42:57.090 --> 00:43:01.989
I have a consistent buyer across my presence

00:43:01.989 --> 00:43:07.630
on the web. So that's fine. But the problem of

00:43:07.630 --> 00:43:12.510
one of the things I need to get to is transferring

00:43:12.510 --> 00:43:18.150
all my Google photos to Shutterfly because Google

00:43:18.150 --> 00:43:24.750
is going to be basically just dinging free storage

00:43:24.750 --> 00:43:27.929
users. They're not giving out unlimited space

00:43:27.929 --> 00:43:30.949
in Google Photos anymore, and they don't give

00:43:30.949 --> 00:43:33.269
a reason why they're doing that. I think they

00:43:33.269 --> 00:43:36.230
did something that they don't want to admit,

00:43:36.329 --> 00:43:40.610
and it's going to come out later, but I don't

00:43:40.610 --> 00:43:44.599
have any proof. Out of all the years, you offer

00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:47.440
free unlimited photos to Google Photos, and then

00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:50.400
you just change on a dime. Something's a little

00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:56.000
fishy. So I had to basically transfer all of

00:43:56.000 --> 00:44:00.139
those. And I tried downloading all the photos

00:44:00.139 --> 00:44:03.039
so I could just upload it all at once to the

00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:06.440
Shutterfly. But they don't take that format that

00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:09.639
Google exports it out of. So I had to go through

00:44:09.639 --> 00:44:13.559
one by one by one by one, select each one and

00:44:13.559 --> 00:44:16.380
just transfer it over. And even the computers

00:44:16.380 --> 00:44:18.960
doing all the work, I basically had to select

00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:22.420
each and every photo. And it's like, this is

00:44:22.420 --> 00:44:27.760
absolutely terrible. And I have many different

00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:32.820
Google accounts. And so the other one I'm okay

00:44:32.820 --> 00:44:38.329
with because, uh of doing because i didn't have

00:44:38.329 --> 00:44:40.590
that many photos in there but for my own account

00:44:40.590 --> 00:44:46.369
i've had since like 2013 and i'm using google

00:44:46.369 --> 00:44:49.869
photos and it's like oh this is gonna absolutely

00:44:49.869 --> 00:44:55.670
suck and i had that i had the mindset of that

00:44:55.670 --> 00:45:00.110
project because yeah I have better things to

00:45:00.110 --> 00:45:03.590
do in my life, podcasting, speaking on different

00:45:03.590 --> 00:45:08.630
other podcasts. I don't want to do it. And I

00:45:08.630 --> 00:45:13.030
was like, and like Google gave me these tools

00:45:13.030 --> 00:45:15.590
and it's like, oh yeah, here, you just transfer

00:45:15.590 --> 00:45:17.710
it here. And it's like, yay, but your transfer

00:45:17.710 --> 00:45:21.230
thing doesn't give me the right format. And it's

00:45:21.230 --> 00:45:23.690
like, thanks a lot. And it was like, it was like

00:45:23.690 --> 00:45:25.789
a billion dollar company just can't give me the

00:45:25.789 --> 00:45:29.559
right tool. Just like. Here, just transfer. Done.

00:45:31.539 --> 00:45:33.719
Can't get anything easy. And then, like, I start

00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:38.099
Googling stuff. And, yep, there's not an easy

00:45:38.099 --> 00:45:43.619
way to do it. And I can't pay anyone because

00:45:43.619 --> 00:45:46.320
I don't think anybody else would want to do it

00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:52.480
either. It's like that, you know, Eat .Frog.

00:45:52.539 --> 00:45:55.329
You ever read it, Brian Tracy? it's stuff like

00:45:55.329 --> 00:45:58.449
that which just holds you back it's just you

00:45:58.449 --> 00:46:01.070
know it's but yet you'll then find a piece of

00:46:01.070 --> 00:46:02.710
software you'll sit down and do it and you'll

00:46:02.710 --> 00:46:05.650
have it done in a fraction of the time that actually

00:46:05.650 --> 00:46:08.909
compared to the time thinking about it worrying

00:46:08.909 --> 00:46:11.710
about it being annoyed about it all the rest

00:46:11.710 --> 00:46:14.550
you know it's um and that's the point of eat

00:46:14.550 --> 00:46:17.010
that frog is almost go and listen you know the

00:46:17.010 --> 00:46:19.590
things that are slowing you down either you don't

00:46:19.590 --> 00:46:20.949
you don't get to do the fun stuff till you've

00:46:20.949 --> 00:46:25.030
done that stuff or you know yeah the amount of

00:46:25.030 --> 00:46:27.349
energy and saying no different to life how often

00:46:27.349 --> 00:46:31.190
do we do stuff just because you know we put off

00:46:31.190 --> 00:46:33.590
i mean that's the one thing for me i say to people

00:46:33.590 --> 00:46:38.170
is you know like being normal or being okay is

00:46:38.170 --> 00:46:41.969
almost a curse because it's not bad enough to

00:46:41.969 --> 00:46:44.889
change it but it's not good enough to say that

00:46:44.889 --> 00:46:47.469
yeah i'm really happy with this do you know it's

00:46:47.469 --> 00:46:49.369
kind of going well how was your day yeah it was

00:46:49.369 --> 00:46:52.110
good so it could have been better but it's not

00:46:52.110 --> 00:46:54.340
bad enough to actually you know, do something

00:46:54.340 --> 00:46:57.800
different tomorrow. And that, that is like, that's

00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:00.679
like having, you know, a job for life or whatever.

00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:02.440
That is kind of going, if I don't turn up, I

00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:04.280
have to keep turning up to keep getting paid.

00:47:04.460 --> 00:47:06.480
I have to keep getting paid to keep paying the

00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:07.980
mortgage. I have to have the mortgage so that

00:47:07.980 --> 00:47:10.719
we can live in this house. So then I can be warm

00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:13.119
and dry. Then I can go to work. And that goes

00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:15.760
round and round and round, you know, and that's

00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:18.139
the real, yeah, it's crazy. Right. You know,

00:47:18.139 --> 00:47:20.380
and you just, when you look at it there and saying,

00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:23.789
unless you can find a way of, basically working

00:47:23.789 --> 00:47:26.030
or earning money while you sleep you will always

00:47:26.030 --> 00:47:29.849
work you know and that is the thing of going

00:47:29.849 --> 00:47:32.429
you know how do you do that whether it is write

00:47:32.429 --> 00:47:36.849
a book do a podcast you know get sponsored do

00:47:36.849 --> 00:47:39.610
you know something online work with clients do

00:47:39.610 --> 00:47:41.869
something get a second job get it you know any

00:47:41.869 --> 00:47:44.710
of those things get retrained you know until

00:47:44.710 --> 00:47:46.829
you do that you will always exchange time for

00:47:46.829 --> 00:47:49.650
money and your future is predictable you know

00:47:49.650 --> 00:47:52.320
you'll get a job you'll get a a promotion you

00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:54.179
get another promotion you'll move companies you'll

00:47:54.179 --> 00:47:55.800
do this you do this you get a bigger house bigger

00:47:55.800 --> 00:47:58.860
house kids grow up kids leave get a smaller house

00:47:58.860 --> 00:48:03.079
smaller house smaller car swan around for a while

00:48:03.079 --> 00:48:08.380
and die you know so what are you gonna do you

00:48:08.380 --> 00:48:09.900
know what if what if you tried something different

00:48:09.900 --> 00:48:12.860
what if you you know start a podcast what if

00:48:12.860 --> 00:48:16.559
you you know tried something different so i get

00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:18.980
it listen i mean the stuff there that you know

00:48:18.980 --> 00:48:21.989
does trip us all up You know, and my only encouragement

00:48:21.989 --> 00:48:25.230
would be to anyone is going, be really honest

00:48:25.230 --> 00:48:26.750
with yourself. Are you actually going to do it?

00:48:27.690 --> 00:48:29.570
You know, because if you sort of go, yeah, well,

00:48:29.769 --> 00:48:31.429
if I have time and all that, I was going, honestly,

00:48:31.590 --> 00:48:34.889
will you ever have time? I, years ago, I bought

00:48:34.889 --> 00:48:37.989
a music collection, like tens of thousands of

00:48:37.989 --> 00:48:40.869
songs and all the rest. And, you know, long before

00:48:40.869 --> 00:48:43.949
Apple, Apple, iTunes and all this carry on, you

00:48:43.949 --> 00:48:46.630
know. And I was going to catalog and I was going

00:48:46.630 --> 00:48:48.429
to do this. And then eventually I got a stage

00:48:48.429 --> 00:48:51.210
like, you know what? you know and they'd call

00:48:51.210 --> 00:48:53.210
it it's like almost like buyer's remorse so you

00:48:53.210 --> 00:48:54.989
buy it but yet you keep committing to it because

00:48:54.989 --> 00:48:57.730
you spent the money so you don't you don't want

00:48:57.730 --> 00:48:59.110
to let go of it because then that would then

00:48:59.110 --> 00:49:01.010
admit that you bought the wrong thing or you've

00:49:01.010 --> 00:49:04.269
done the wrong thing and you know and so the

00:49:04.269 --> 00:49:05.989
hamster wheel keeps going you know if it was

00:49:05.989 --> 00:49:07.949
a fresh decision you know which is saying would

00:49:07.949 --> 00:49:10.389
i keep doing this if i had to rebuy this would

00:49:10.389 --> 00:49:13.309
i buy it now it's like hell no okay just because

00:49:13.309 --> 00:49:14.690
you bought it once doesn't mean you're committed

00:49:14.690 --> 00:49:17.280
to it for life you know so how often do we do

00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:19.139
that we do we won't let go of something because

00:49:19.139 --> 00:49:22.360
it's going well i don't know what else i would

00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:24.659
do if i'm not doing this i i don't know i'll

00:49:24.659 --> 00:49:27.820
keep doing it or you know but nobody else has

00:49:27.820 --> 00:49:29.619
told me or i don't know how all the software

00:49:29.619 --> 00:49:33.159
works or you know i don't know do you know and

00:49:33.159 --> 00:49:37.159
that's the thing we sort of get so hung up on

00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:39.690
on you know really sort of other things I mean,

00:49:39.690 --> 00:49:41.909
of course, Google Photo, they loved that you

00:49:41.909 --> 00:49:43.909
were committed to them for so long, you know,

00:49:43.909 --> 00:49:45.369
and they're not going to make it easy for you

00:49:45.369 --> 00:49:50.449
to leave, you know. They should. Well, yeah,

00:49:50.489 --> 00:49:52.010
I mean, but, you know, at the end of the day,

00:49:52.050 --> 00:49:54.190
you are the product. You know, people forget

00:49:54.190 --> 00:49:57.250
that. You know, Facebook, you know, where's the

00:49:57.250 --> 00:49:59.710
product? You are the product. You know, that's

00:49:59.710 --> 00:50:01.510
the weird thing. It's like a huge dining plate

00:50:01.510 --> 00:50:04.250
and you are dinner. You know, advertisers are

00:50:04.250 --> 00:50:06.949
circling trying to decide who will pay the most

00:50:06.949 --> 00:50:10.239
to get in front of you. You know, none of us

00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:12.320
pay to get onto Facebook or Google or any of

00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:14.940
those. You know, so it's just being very, you

00:50:14.940 --> 00:50:16.900
know, realizing that, saying someone's paying.

00:50:17.539 --> 00:50:20.579
There's data houses, there's servers whirring

00:50:20.579 --> 00:50:24.260
away somewhere. So, you know, it just depends

00:50:24.260 --> 00:50:28.719
where you sit with it, really. And I think eventually

00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:34.579
I'm going to, I think I'm going to get to the

00:50:34.579 --> 00:50:38.329
project, do that project eventually. I'm just

00:50:38.329 --> 00:50:41.570
finishing up my school semester, and I'm not

00:50:41.570 --> 00:50:46.869
making excuses, but I had a test this week and

00:50:46.869 --> 00:50:51.130
a paper due all in one week, and I'm just focusing

00:50:51.130 --> 00:50:55.050
on the paper, and I'm like, you know, as long

00:50:55.050 --> 00:50:57.909
as I get my other stuff done, and I'm still getting

00:50:57.909 --> 00:51:01.530
all my other stuff done, work -related podcasting

00:51:01.530 --> 00:51:06.840
and blogging and just writing on my new... on

00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:09.400
the project I've been working on. And I was like,

00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:12.840
as long as I'm getting all to that, not really

00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:15.699
being lazy, I just, I don't have time for the

00:51:15.699 --> 00:51:19.500
other project at the moment. And it's like, I

00:51:19.500 --> 00:51:21.239
don't even think I'm even on the hamster wheel.

00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:27.260
I just think I'm on the wheel of, I'm on the,

00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:31.500
I'm on the, I'm basically on the wheel of a never

00:51:31.500 --> 00:51:34.179
ending, I'm on a wheel that just goes anywhere.

00:51:36.429 --> 00:51:40.989
and anything around anything but do the actual

00:51:40.989 --> 00:51:45.070
thing yeah that's that's a that's a sort of mechanism

00:51:45.070 --> 00:51:49.510
i recognize like i'm so busy yeah okay you know

00:51:49.510 --> 00:51:51.449
it's like i'm doing i'm busy doing anything but

00:51:51.449 --> 00:51:54.429
this it's like well okay how quickly could you

00:51:54.429 --> 00:51:57.710
have that done no listen i get it i do get it

00:51:57.710 --> 00:51:59.610
you know let's not i don't know i'm being slightly

00:51:59.610 --> 00:52:03.340
facetious but you know there's there's a reason

00:52:03.340 --> 00:52:04.840
they say if you want something done ask a busy

00:52:04.840 --> 00:52:07.260
person you know because stuff does get done you

00:52:07.260 --> 00:52:11.099
run out of time whereas you know if if time is

00:52:11.099 --> 00:52:14.179
your own and i recognize that because the way

00:52:14.179 --> 00:52:17.119
i work quite specifically is more podcast show

00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:19.219
i let people pick their time you know they come

00:52:19.219 --> 00:52:21.840
on it's all the logistics are sorted out for

00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:25.039
me um you know i say to people don't phone me

00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:27.340
don't send me a long email If you want me, let's

00:52:27.340 --> 00:52:29.519
jump on a Zoom call. You can record it. So, cause

00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:32.579
don't expect me to send you notes. And that works.

00:52:32.820 --> 00:52:35.199
So I have to almost commit myself to sitting

00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:37.900
in front of people, to doing actions. Otherwise

00:52:37.900 --> 00:52:40.280
it just doesn't get done. Me left to my own devices.

00:52:40.820 --> 00:52:42.639
Good luck with that. It might get done straight

00:52:42.639 --> 00:52:45.280
away or it might never get done, you know, and

00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:48.039
toss a coin as to which it's going to be. And

00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:49.860
I don't do it out of maliciousness. You know,

00:52:49.860 --> 00:52:51.659
some people say, why can't you just do this and

00:52:51.659 --> 00:52:54.590
this? You know, but that's like trying to. you

00:52:54.590 --> 00:52:56.510
know have an educated discussion with a two -year

00:52:56.510 --> 00:52:58.670
-old you know why are they being irrational well

00:52:58.670 --> 00:53:00.250
i don't know because they're two years old right

00:53:00.250 --> 00:53:02.570
okay well that's sometimes a bit like with my

00:53:02.570 --> 00:53:04.929
brain it's like why can't you just do this it's

00:53:04.929 --> 00:53:07.929
like because there's something so important it

00:53:07.929 --> 00:53:11.150
has to be done over there i was like really yeah

00:53:11.150 --> 00:53:15.030
it's really important so so i i kind of call

00:53:15.030 --> 00:53:17.730
myself out a lot i have to uh and that's why

00:53:17.730 --> 00:53:20.190
i surround myself either with you know commit

00:53:20.190 --> 00:53:22.449
myself either through time or through resources

00:53:22.449 --> 00:53:25.980
or through something else uh unknown like i mean

00:53:25.980 --> 00:53:29.500
and it's so weird because you know i have a um

00:53:29.500 --> 00:53:32.400
i have a bookkeeper and i have a pa and i have

00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:34.300
an accountant and i have all these people that

00:53:34.300 --> 00:53:35.960
are doing it for me i used to do it all myself

00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:39.860
and yet now that all these people do it for me

00:53:39.860 --> 00:53:42.320
i actually make more money by them doing it for

00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:45.079
me because they do it better quicker faster you

00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:47.800
know and they actually end up means that they

00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:51.139
find you they sort of save me money uh and then

00:53:51.139 --> 00:53:53.340
actually can commit more and you know get me

00:53:53.340 --> 00:53:56.800
more organized so knowing that if you want something

00:53:56.800 --> 00:53:58.420
organized i'm not your person if you want to

00:53:58.420 --> 00:54:00.239
come up with a new creative idea and something

00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:02.920
you know really sort of map out a new book or

00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:05.340
a new business program or whatever or really

00:54:05.340 --> 00:54:07.460
sort of do some intuitive work then i'm your

00:54:07.460 --> 00:54:10.400
guy but knowing when to get into the room and

00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:12.179
get out of the room that's that's the one key

00:54:12.179 --> 00:54:15.019
thing which i think to be honest not many people

00:54:15.019 --> 00:54:17.500
know that not people many learn how they learn

00:54:17.500 --> 00:54:21.719
you know um i i will listen to books like crazy

00:54:22.059 --> 00:54:25.079
I listen like mad, you know, listen to the one

00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:27.679
and a half times speed. Uh, that's my thing,

00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:30.519
you know, sit me down to read a book unless I'm

00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:33.219
in a reading group, I'm not reading it, you know?

00:54:33.460 --> 00:54:36.500
So, uh, how often do you know that people work,

00:54:36.559 --> 00:54:38.440
they work best at nighttime, they work best in

00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:42.360
the daytime that, you know, they can, you know,

00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:44.059
put themselves in the study groups to do whatever.

00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:46.000
Instead, we just try and do what we're always

00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:47.940
used to do. That school said we should do this,

00:54:47.940 --> 00:54:50.789
this or this, or. my teacher or something else

00:54:50.789 --> 00:54:52.590
said, this is the way to study. And you just

00:54:52.590 --> 00:54:54.869
inherit it. And you, when you don't do it that

00:54:54.869 --> 00:54:57.670
way, you sort of call yourself all sorts of names

00:54:57.670 --> 00:55:00.550
in your head. You know, whereas going, okay,

00:55:00.710 --> 00:55:03.329
what's, let's look at my success pattern here.

00:55:03.389 --> 00:55:05.250
What has worked for me? What do I do? And what

00:55:05.250 --> 00:55:07.550
do I not do? Ask your family, what am I good

00:55:07.550 --> 00:55:09.949
at? What am I not good at? You know, be real,

00:55:10.010 --> 00:55:13.570
very real with yourself. Where's my forte? You

00:55:13.570 --> 00:55:15.170
know, you'll do podcasts, you'll do all these

00:55:15.170 --> 00:55:17.289
things, but yet there's certain things left undone.

00:55:18.190 --> 00:55:20.969
And that's okay. You don't need to feel hard

00:55:20.969 --> 00:55:24.110
about it. Just say, well, okay, that's me. I

00:55:24.110 --> 00:55:26.150
just think the reason I haven't gone to is because

00:55:26.150 --> 00:55:32.090
it's not on my high priority to -do list. I think

00:55:32.090 --> 00:55:39.889
it's because since I'm managing everything else,

00:55:39.989 --> 00:55:46.449
I'm just... I also think I'm... I think I...

00:55:46.889 --> 00:55:49.389
And I did get a lot of everything else done.

00:55:49.550 --> 00:55:54.190
I just don't feel like that. I feel like it's

00:55:54.190 --> 00:56:01.969
another project for... I think it's an ongoing

00:56:01.969 --> 00:56:08.170
project that I can just wait for one more month

00:56:08.170 --> 00:56:13.590
when my school's over. My school's over, I think,

00:56:13.630 --> 00:56:18.630
early May. And it's like, well, okay, I waited

00:56:18.630 --> 00:56:24.469
this long. And I was like, I definitely know

00:56:24.469 --> 00:56:27.110
I'm going to do it because I don't leave stuff

00:56:27.110 --> 00:56:32.789
just undone. And I just think I kind of just

00:56:32.789 --> 00:56:37.489
having a buildup moment of, A, now I have, since

00:56:37.489 --> 00:56:41.309
I don't have class, now I have an extra hour.

00:56:43.050 --> 00:56:47.909
15 minutes I believe or 35 minutes and so I think

00:56:47.909 --> 00:56:52.489
that would be better for me because I got it

00:56:52.489 --> 00:56:54.769
is that and then I have physical therapy and

00:56:54.769 --> 00:56:58.829
be nice to physical therapy just done so uh but

00:56:58.829 --> 00:57:03.389
yeah this I think I'm gonna get there uh who

00:57:03.389 --> 00:57:04.949
knows maybe the next time when I talk to you

00:57:04.949 --> 00:57:11.130
let's be done yeah and sometimes we also need

00:57:11.130 --> 00:57:13.239
to just call bull on ourselves too you know so

00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:15.699
it depends you know sometimes we are busy but

00:57:15.699 --> 00:57:20.539
quite often we are good at calling excuses you

00:57:20.539 --> 00:57:23.980
know so it's just being real real with all of

00:57:23.980 --> 00:57:29.079
ourselves you know and listen I'm I'm not throwing

00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:30.960
any stones because there's certain things that

00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:32.980
I'm just not I'm not good at but what I'm trying

00:57:32.980 --> 00:57:35.739
to do is just let go of the stuff that's just

00:57:35.739 --> 00:57:38.420
not me you know and just not your thing and that's

00:57:38.420 --> 00:57:42.730
okay and before we wrap up Where can people find

00:57:42.730 --> 00:57:46.469
you? Super simple. So most of my stuff there

00:57:46.469 --> 00:57:49.550
is all through mightypete .com. So mighty, M

00:57:49.550 --> 00:57:53.349
-I -G -H -T -Y, P -E -T -E. So that's where you

00:57:53.349 --> 00:57:56.309
can find the Facebook link. My book is available,

00:57:56.389 --> 00:57:59.510
well, as of next week, it will be on Amazon globally.

00:58:00.690 --> 00:58:04.829
So that is Be Heard to Be Rich or Listen to Your

00:58:04.829 --> 00:58:09.130
Inner Genius. But, yeah, we'll have a link on

00:58:09.130 --> 00:58:11.510
the website. I'm on all the usual social media

00:58:11.510 --> 00:58:14.449
channels and all that, and the podcast links,

00:58:14.570 --> 00:58:17.469
et cetera, are available on 25 platforms. So

00:58:17.469 --> 00:58:20.349
Fire in the Belly, super simple. So it's Fire

00:58:20.349 --> 00:58:21.969
in the Belly is the podcast, and Mighty Pete

00:58:21.969 --> 00:58:25.730
is where all my training, education, books, and

00:58:25.730 --> 00:58:28.590
everything else are. So thank you. Thanks for

00:58:28.590 --> 00:58:30.690
being a guest, and hopefully we can have you

00:58:30.690 --> 00:58:33.869
back. Super. Thank you very much. I really appreciate

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