August 2, 2025 • 41 mins
It's time for our monthly check in where we review our goals from last month and see what's coming up for the next.
Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? Juan and I on the first week of every month go over our progress from the previous month and where we are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings; what we didn't achieve in the previous monthly goals and how we will fix that for the month that comes. We hope you get some value from this series, showcasing our own methodology. What do you do differently and why?
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(00:00:00) Intro
(00:00:55) Juan's July 2025 Recap
(00:05:57) Kyrin's July 2025 Recap
(00:09:42) Support Overview
(00:11:30) Juan's August 2025 Goals
(00:23:21) Kyrin's August 2025 Goals
(00:31:44) Fitness
(00:39:47) V4V:
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Welcome, mere mortalites, to another round of the mere mortals monthly goals as indeed
the start of the month where I, Kyrin, and Juan over here get together and we discuss our goals for the month. And we also talk about what happened in the previous month. Little chance to thank some supporters in the middle section, as well as
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right at the end talking about our fitness, how we've been going, anything of note or interest.
No need to faff around Juan. It is the August 3, by the way. Oh, yes. Yeah. And we do these usually on the first Sunday of the month
at a little bit earlier than our
musings and I release this on the Sunday and then I release our musings later in the midweek. Kind of give a break between the two. Correct. So that's just the order of things there. Juan, how was your July? July 2025. Mine, July was pretty easy actually. So I kinda called it out talking about the the month when I was doing. If you wanna go check that out, these monthly goals.
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July was just for me, annual goals begin on the August
onwards to the next August, just from a birthday perspective. One's birthday has just passed just a couple of days ago. Guess who forgot it? Me. I also kind of forgot it to be actually frank with you because
we're actually celebrating with the family today,
as opposed to on the Friday when it was. Sure. And so
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it was like, I didn't forget it in the sense of, oh, yeah. I do have my birthday today, but I got we're actually celebrating it on Sunday and then it was part and part like, oh, it is anyways. Yeah. Yeah. As you get older folks, I think the the age, everything else gets forgotten. Forgotten. But the July goals, I kept it easy. There was six goals. It was coming off the back of being back from Europe. From my perspective, there was one in the
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body, three in the mind and two in the soul sort of space,
establishing my fitness back to sanded.
Absolutely.
I would only say that I did get back to cardiovascular
endurance that I'm happy with
strength related. It's like I am back, but definitely not as strong as I was just pre Europe. And I don't know whether that's actually just muscular
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atrophy
CNS
specifics that I need to get back, unsure, but enough to say that I'm now doing like my next phase of training. So that's fine.
Setting up the new annual goals and monthly goals to come along with it. Absolutely.
Spend a good long time with that. I'll my only comment on this one is that as AI
has become more prevalent in my life and just using it, like, basically in everything. Mhmm. One thing I've found was
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I tried to
leverage it more in a lot of my personal things that I do
and the more I leverage it, the more I recognize
its faults or like it's what it's lacking. And I guess I would just say it's
it's very generalized and even with
super specificity
with eating it as much as I could from my perspective,
it was still really general. So what I can say still right now with a lot of the AIs
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is what it can't do is pick exactly what you want or need or really think you should, even if it's a just a guiding push.
I used it a lot to try and encourage me to think of what I wanted to do, but it wasn't as great as just me sitting for like half an hour and just thinking about, okay, cool, what's the next steps? So,
yeah, that's just like
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a thing I saw in terms of just establishing goals,
very much has to come from oneself and not
maybe get some influence from an AI tool or tools in general.
The other one was setting up my new ways of journaling. Absolutely been continuing that, been cleaning it up and like always, I added all these new points of doing my journaling and got to a point where it kind of through the month I was like, this is dumb. I'm not this question is kind of like repeatedly dumb. I'm not really leveraging it. And now it's through a
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good filtered view that I'm like, I'm happy with this. So that was really good as well.
Try out the new morning of your team with at least twenty days a month. And I reckon I would have hit
twenty nine days of the month in exactly the same time. So, you know, either the alarms are four in the morning or Mondays, 03:15,
and I've been loving it really good. Now it has helped really quite a bit that I've been sleeping really early basically every single night and I've just been winter here so it's dark, there's some circumstances at home that just means like all of us are sleeping earlier.
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So we, sorry, I say that 4AM
every morning or 03:15 in the morning on a Monday, right? And so you'd be thinking man your sleep quality has been pretty shit there. And I was like, no worries. No, I'm thinking, man, you must be depressed. You must hate your life.
Stick around for the fitness piece at the end because you will be surprised by the numbers. It's actually been amazing. Like unbelievably
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amazing. I think I can only make this work in winter, but you'll see why. Stick around to the fitness bit.
Then the,
the other two from the SOL, be kind to other strict on my standards.
I'll look at ticked it. Again, this was, again, a learning. Yes. You can write this as much as you can, but again, it's the practice and the habits of doing it that really I should be encouraging myself to do. I did do a daddy daughter podcast conversation as well. I shot it just straight on a phone as opposed to setting up all the recording stuff, but I didn't use the microphones as well for it. So
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didn't have the microphones on, however. And again, it's like what level of quality do I need it to be,
for what I needed? Because I actually recognize going back to the previous ones that I've been listening to, she's still too young where she'll just
push it away. Yeah. So
it's like she's not really speaking to her. Probably because she knows it's not even on. Probably. She's probably like that's not even there's not even like turned on. So that that I love your framing of that. Yeah. We use the microphones.
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So the microphones were there kinda like it was for my speeches at my wedding. Microphones were used, but they weren't turned on. Yep. Very good. But anyway, guys, that was the July. It was very easy. Excellent. Very laid back. In fact, I started cranking into loads of other things that I went to talk about right now in July in preparation for August. But we'll talk about August in a minute. Killer. Alright. So it's my ones where I had eight as usual.
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These were like two thirds of my month, I guess, because I arrived back in the tenth from from
Europe. And so
that was two thirds of the month. So I didn't make them super hard. But I think I ticked all of these off. To be honest. I don't think there's anything in here.
Okay. Technically,
I finished one one of these in the morning of the August 1. So, you know,
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don't crucify me for that. But,
yeah.
Lots of fun things. Don't establish a busy routine. I had plenty of time for,
catching up with friends, which was part of the second one, working through a list of fun activities. I went to a
ballet class
from indie, a girl I'd met in the gym
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a year ago.
And
who's at Queensland ballet and so I finally got around to one of her classes and in fact, I went to a couple more there.
So that was fun.
And might even be hint hint something in the next year's yearly goals.
We'll have to
maybe next week go through your yearly goals. I think I think that'll be fun.
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Create tablets for the crypto top indicators. Yep, done that. And that will also transfer something to next month. We'll see.
Edit and analyze the handstand travel video that is indeed up online. Now, if you want to see,
how I was doing what I was doing exercise wise during
my travels, it was just the first set of every workout.
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But so it wasn't even my best set. It was just the first set.
But if you look at it, there's a couple of like four to five second holds pretty one hand once one hand hold. Nice. Pretty consistently. Check it out. Also some days where you just go, oh, that's gross.
And
I then also have done my new smarter gym logs. I'm doing something out which I have never really done before, which is a
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like a half day. So this is a day where
it's meant to be in superposition.
If I do it, it's good. If I don't do it, it's also good. And so I've purposely put this day where it's like,
if I go so for example, after here, I'm going to go to Southbank and just hang out with Brendan.
In our hanging out, usually some handstands occur.
So I've said, Oh, if I can do
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half an hour of handstand actual training in that time, that would still be worth it, that would still perhaps be beneficial. And so I've got a day where it's it's planned, but it's not planned. And I've never done that before. We'll see if I can
either
do that mix of that spontaneity, which I'm not very great at of oh, yeah, I can do this the options available will I do you know, because it's not
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in the plan set in stone, but neither is it not
not set in stone. So
that that'll be interesting to see if I can actually
pull that up, utilize that in some shape or degree.
So that was good. Reaffirm your life purposes do a symbolic moving on. Actually didn't need to do that as much as I thought. So that's when you could maybe say I didn't do. But it was it was more just like the outcome was achieved anyways. Yeah. It was more kind of like moving on from an ex, for example, was was part of that
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full travel recollection since the journal. Yep, spent probably a couple of hours doing that. So that's the I guess the actual writing down of things, the innermost thoughts and stuff like that. And
even just a reminder for myself of some of the best
highlight moments of the of the trip.
Double day down and being more courageous with your loved ones. Yep. And then spend three hours trying out various agents bots. I did
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attempt that. And yeah, we'll talk about that more in the next section.
So we'll talk about that in a minute. Yeah.
Chance here just to thank everyone who has been supporting us this month. We do see the streamings coming in.
We do appreciate this is a value for value podcast.
So all of your
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contributions back to the show really do matter to us. And you can do this tons of different ways. Time, talent and treasure
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And,
leaving us some comments and good feedback liking, sharing, subscribing. All those things are great.
We want to hit your monthly goals as well. So join us in on the discord we discuss and even do some little sneak peek into previews of our of our goals down in there. Right. And
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written down goals as well. And you can see ones
semi awful formatting. I fixed it up. A lot of discussion this week of ones formats.
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Absolutely
despicable horrendous Excel format. Some improvement in it. That was in Excel, right? Yeah. Okay, very good. And
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And there's an explanation and a run through there of how one might be able to do that. So we're going to jump into our August goals and ones. This is going to be interesting for me as well because I one, I didn't actually read them even I just looked as obsessed with this shitty formatting.
But this is the new set of ones goals annual goals. So we're gonna get a sneak preview
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of what try and figure out what his annual goals are based on what these sets of goals are here. Correct. And it's becoming it's
sliding towards a more one to one pairing of monthly goals annual goals, maybe similar to what you have. Yep. Whereas in previous years, I've had 17 goals, 40 goals
and 30.
Some on it. I wonder, I'm not entirely sure. I'll talk about it in the annual goal section, but I'm not sure if the sliding towards more one to one pairing is good, bad, different, just,
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you know, maturity of doing goals, changes in life, uncertain.
He's realized the current method is the best. Is is is the optimal method. Maybe we all we all trend towards the optimal.
Yeah. So try and yeah. Try and figure this out. Normal side as you mentioned, I'm just gonna do put the screenshot of it. There's actually a secondary section that I don't put in there as well around how I'm going to do it and there's a little bit of details in there as well. I see that on the side. So that's, that's also There's some extra details in there.
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Now, okay, number one. So I've got three in the body space, three in the mind and two in the soul. First one, the
aerobic base and habit lock in. So following this new running plan, so look again, similar to kind of last year's around building the engine.
I put it here, it's just like starting slow. I I have been doing for the month of July, some running already, we're doing it with some friends. We've been doing it. I've been doing it on my own quite a bit. I think I'll talk about it in the fitness space at the end. Just some of that. I've got some stats I probably want to pull out, every time,
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but
purely is get back into the kilometers, just time. I talk about this with you. I don't think I've started on the podcast, but just it's
running not for the purpose of anything else around the time or kilometers or hours, but it's more just the
fun, the engaging. Well, if I'm going on treadmill, I'm generally listening to or watching something fun that I wanna watch. If I'm running outdoors, it's generally listening into an episode. And
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because of some shifts or the way that I train other areas,
I've got less time for podcasts or for informational things. And so that's starting to be now more like the only time I have for that. So I look forward to that as well even more. So again, just bringing back a lot more of I'll do it because it's there's there's some joy to it, there's some enjoyment, etcetera. It's been good. And really, I'm just trying to build the base at the moment, which is what this month is for. So
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but again, I've got my own sort of Monday through to Sunday schedule where I'll put, I wanna run this amount of kilometers and roughly this amount of minutes, that it's more really about, okay, I'm gonna do it Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, what does that look like? And then build in as part of my general training. However,
gym training is more of a priority and then secondary is just wherever I can fit the running, I'll fit the running. So that's the first one. The second one is a little bit different in terms of the strength goals. So I want to maintain
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four eighty kilograms plus across the squat, bent and deadlift. And I've said roughly that equates to me as like 135 kilograms bent, 160 kilograms
squat and 185
kilograms deadlift. Now, for me at least, they're not big numbers.
What I would refer to as like, I was kind of weak numbers, right?
Now I have said, I want to be doing them at three rep max while building that run volume. So again, it's a balance of I want to start building running volume, but keep that strength as I need. So I'm so clean, strong, but just injury free.
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Now I can tell you right now,
in my working sets, I am doing 135 for more than three reps. I'm squatting more than 160 for three reps and I'm working up at the moment that that that sort of wide deadlifts. Deadlifts
sometimes can get a little bit jittery on the on the back if I'm doing it too much. But this is not this is not hard for me. This is so it's can maintain that
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repeatedly
over the next month. There is body weight ratios that this comes into place. So there's just the beginning of this particular strength related goal. So this one's super easy. I've got,
I'll talk about it in the fitness space, but AI is heavily being used and, I'll give you some insights into that. One's using AI to enhance those numbers. Correct. Yeah, putting them up.
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The third one is to block sixty minutes on the last Friday of each month.
And this is what I'm calling a, what did I learn through my body this month?
If this partners up with something else that I'll talk about in a moment, but it's a
kind of noting down
let's just think like a self journaling aspect. It's in particular to training. Now
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I'm still murky on exactly how I'm gonna do this, but what I would probably want to do, I think I'm gonna keep it as a monthly, not as a more recurring basis, but I want to do maybe record some of my training through the month, not weekly. I feel like that's too much of a load. And for me and Morals in Motion,
do a keep the
keep it to a monthly cadence where I'll
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play back a lot of the videos of my training, maybe some highlights, maybe things that I'm doing
overlaid with all of these things about the month in terms of my learning set of things. So I've played around this in such various ways. I've done weekly
power lifting and weekly running and trying to talk about it. I feel like it's just slightly too
high frequency cadence for me, but monthly I think I can, I can make it work and make it a more
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watchable, listenable piece that's actually got some learning as opposed to just weekly? I don't think you uncover too much. I don't know if you know who Sam Tullock is.
Yeah, yeah. I know him. Big guy. So Sam for a long time. He's a big guy. Big guy. Exactly like Harry. His his way of documenting himself, I guess, is just a very raw, not live, although maybe he's done live. I'm not sure, but just
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forty, fifty, sixty minute videos of just him looking, going to the gym, gymming, doing his eating, very just like insight into someone's life. It just gets on, he's become really quite large for it. A vlog, right? Yeah. Very much like do you stay in this other vlog, but very
where some people think that maybe you have to cut it and edit it and do specific things.
There's none of that. It's just more of the insight into the human. So
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I'm doubling down on a little bit of that. So this is part content, but also part again, a lot of the things we do at the mere mortals is just kind of
demonstrating or just giving you a little insight into like what we do just in general life. So that's going to be an example of how I do it. So, and what I'm imagining that I'm going to do is I'll sit down, I'll have a kind of list of all the like learning things of whatever, have it as a bit of a document.
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I'll compile this video of a lot of clips and just literally, because you can do this on Premiere Pro, turn on the
video recording aspect as I'm watching the video playback and just talk through that very easy, very simple. So not, not a lot of effort to create maybe something that people will consume that at least again, I'll use.
Three in the mind, product ecosystem set up.
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Now I'll leave it to that, but there's some product ecosystem set up to be done,
which will be already has started in July. It's been pretty fun.
Published the first high signal piece for the mere mortals and I did, I did call the the calm mind. I wasn't sure if I call it calm mind or hyper objects.
Again, this links back to
lots of link backs, but links back to these little pieces I'm doing kind of on daily on learning different things. Hyperobjects
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came up as a piece from Timothy Morton from 2010. He kind of came up with it. I like the idea, connected with Calm Minds, did a podcast on it, was fun. Difficult though, it was difficult. In fact,
it really demonstrated to me that again, I'm
good
at talking up my ass and just talking in in a way that I'm not like ad hoc. I'll call it ad hoc. I'm good at ad hoc talking.
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I'm I'm not good at presenting. Really not good at presenting. So
a lot of what I'm going to be doing this year has a lot more prep presentation
and I wonder I'll see that maybe internally will develop into a better thing or maybe I'll kind of realize like, oh, fuck this. No way do I want to do that. We'll see. Yeah.
Map that, sorry, Dan's already done. Mapping the full podcast production process from recording to publishing, identifying the automation points, done that already, started to do some things. But in the process of doing that, then I started finding myself being like, oh, wait, there's an even better ways to process this just in like little tiny things
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and you might have noticed folks, but we're starting to put out maybe two, three videos
podcast per week on like a pretty consistent basis now. So Yeah. Now that now that we're both Yeah. But let's just see how that continues because we got we've got good consistency of like two book reviews going out. We've got these conversations, we've got monthly,
you know, goals. Cara might have another one coming out soon. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see. I'm not promising anything. I've got the, you know, the mere mortals and motion stuff that I want to get back to. I'm doing these high signal pieces. There's other stuff that I'm doing. So,
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it's good. There's lots of content. If you want to understand the mere mortals and hear a lot of what we talk about, more of it's coming.
So that's that aspect and then the two in the soul. So I want to complete four weekly stillness sessions. Now this links back obviously for that block I said about the sixty minutes on the Friday. There's just twenty, thirty minutes, no input and I'm talking about that is like, I say no input, but it's like me outputting something.
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I'm going to try,
I kind of flex between like, well, there's no input. Like what if I just have like quiet music playing so I can write kind of feel like that's a no input just because it doesn't stimulate my mind in the sense of listening to a podcast. So I know input, I think I might just shift it and say there's like a particular thirty minute song that I listen to when I want to just be like kind of focused and it's just background music basically.
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So might be doing that,
or wanted to be doing that. And then one solid reflection written or spoken on who I'm becoming this year, which I was doing this a lot and I do it a lot in my monthly summaries and annual summaries,
but this gets back a little bit more to AI.
I was using my daily notes to summarize into my monthly notes. And what I find is that either it hallucinates or it doesn't pick up enough detail that I
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would have thought would have been relevant to call out, part of that could be my daily notes. So I want to kind of do a solo reflection on really the month,
mapping it back to the year on the annual goals that I'm doing and then I'll let that maybe get feeded into the AI. So I'm trying to understand if more specifics, more customization helps or hinders. Mhmm. And and again, the tooling for using AI here is not I don't want it to generate all of the insights. It's
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the more I'm seeing it, I've got to
put the right inputs and insights for them to let it generate all these various other things that I want it to do.
Last one,
establishing a no digital policy. So between 06:30AM and 07:30AM
and 5PM to 06:30PM,
basically no digital policy. The only time, I'll let it slide, because I've I've put it out here, so I'm doing some work
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that's
non my direct current, like, day to day work, that is if I'm doing something for some of the other initiatives that I'm doing,
okay fine, but it really just means for me it's like phone down and more than often it's that morning time. Is that family time? Correct. Yeah. Yeah.
So,
or like friends' time or something else if I deem it to be so. So those are the August goals. So
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there is definitely one to one mapping into all the annual goals and I have this in my annual goals mapping I have a note that's basically like how many monthly goals have I done to meet the annual goals. Now it's kind of almost be meaningless because it'll be like one to one mapping so it'll always be 12.
So I
thought it was going to be like the smart thing where in the past,
I remember like maybe two years ago, I saw for the Me and Mortals podcast, I had done like 27 monthly goals in relation to improving it over a year and some had done like three. So I could see the difference I was putting,
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but I would like data for data sake. It was like, yes, but like who cares? In the end, it's the outcomes I care about, not how much it is that it took to actually do it. If I wanted to do it, then the outcome was met then. Sure. Cool. So it's one of those things where I'm like, I'm probably just gonna get rid of that. Yeah. That's just learnings of it. Yeah. Anyways, that's August. So Nice. I'm I'm excited. I'm excited for that. There's some good stuff in there. Brilliant. Okay. A lot of mine are kinda similar, to be honest. Okay.
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Because I think they were doing well. So the first two are exactly the same, except I
put one word different at the start just so it would look different.
So fight fight against establishing a busy routine, open time for serendipity
and keep working through the list of fun activities slash catch ups with friends. So in particular, those two was just,
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yeah, I'm using this moment to
do a whole bunch of things which I've had forever to do.
Take Butters for a swim.
We haven't we haven't taken him for a swim. His birthday is coming up in like a month or two.
So I want to do that. I've been meaning to go rock climbing at the bouldering at the gym, right next to my gym, bouldering gym right next to my, my actual actual gym.
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I've been thinking about doing that for two years, haven't done it. And so I'm gonna do
that those sorts of things.
It's, it's nice just having free time to organize these things. And I want to do kind of friend catch ups. I still haven't seen a couple of friends since I've been back all these sorts of things. So you hinted at or perhaps Karen's gonna start a new podcast. And I was thinking about that. Yep. And
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I
am actually going to fight against doing that. So I'm going to fight against doing anything related to it. So I was like, I could just do a little bit of the podcast artwork, perhaps or even just a
I don't know, like a little setup of perhaps the
routine that I would go through in the actual sections and stuff like this. Now,
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I'm gonna leave that aside.
So on to the financial, there's a minor security tweak,
So some wallet switches and tax recordings that I need to do
for just financial stuff, and in crypto things. So
want to and need to do that.
And that will just require probably
a
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full day, but a half day of solid attention so that I don't stop it up. That's not the type of thing you want to be doing quickly. So
yeah, do that.
I'm going to begin ramping up again, but reduce down if the pain returns for the handstand workout. Like I said, I'm kind of making,
it'll still be three
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planned sessions a week. And these are getting back to
close to two hours, just under two hours of actual handstand work. And
then
which is
an extra,
it's an extra twenty minutes than I was doing
compared to last month.
And I'm just gonna gradually keep increasing this until I think I'm hitting a point of
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I don't know it potentially getting over.
You always say there's no such thing as overtraining. But under
was under under recovering under recovering. So
whatever the one of those two is, I was obviously doing one of them before I left for Europe because
I feel so much better now and I'm getting better results again from from doing less work. So
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yeah, that's obviously something I need to keep in mind. And like I said, I've got that kind of half day, which I want to see if if that'll work for me or not.
Active morning energy despite the cold. So I've one thing I've been proud of is
that I have been getting up
early enough at some days, you know, 5AM
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on Saturdays for a run. It's fucking cold. And five I want to stay in the bed. It's dark outside. I'm not enjoying it. And even things like getting up and
I know part of me doesn't want to play with Butters in the morning and take them outside.
Part of me is just like, I
just want to stay inside. Like, I don't want to do anything. And I think I've done really well in avoiding that and not not being mopey and having a lazy start to the day. So I want to keep that going
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for this goal. So
the goal this one linked to was to travel was
learning Portugal,
so like either Portuguese, Spanish or
or German Aleman and
keep kind of like keeping the mix of those up,
which
largely
has not been working well. And I just saw the camera
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screwing up then which is not good news. So we'll get through this quickly. So bar with us if there's any more of those.
And the I want to keep that going. Sorry, I don't want to keep that going. I have no no interest of doing any Spanish, Portuguese, German
at the current time. So I've just
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wrote prior to his travel history in Asia books. So it's kind of related to those, that concept. But yeah, that goal is pretty much done and dusted for this year. So it's just going to be a filler.
Speak confidently confidently about my job slash lifestyle. One thing I've always kind of struggled with, and I want to have another
try that be a bit more
assertive with how I live when I explain to people in a in a kind of positive manner, how I live. And then finally try creating agents that notify me upon the trigger signals that I was talking about for the crypto. You were the actually inspiration for that because you were saying last month, oh, yeah, you could try doing that in terms of
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creating an agent that could do that. And that would actually be really useful. So I'm going to just spend some time
feeding it, inputting it things. I don't it's going to be hard because I don't have any direct access. I'd probably need to buy like a pro membership to get an API key to then be able to feed the data directly into it. Maybe I can find some
workaway rounds with
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publicly available data
to do that.
But I haven't tried that before. So we'll see we'll see if that will work or not. Yep. And those are my goals. Oh,
I'm I'm moving on. We're gonna I feel like AI is gonna be so it's a sort of thing we talk about for such a long time now. But,
so talking about the business side of things, I did start using a lot more agents or agentic usage of of things.
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And I think I had said to you a little bit earlier in the month, I wasn't sure exactly how well they worked. And I run into the first time I really used it, I was like, oh, what the hell? Like, it's giving me this issue. I retried it again with a couple more like prompts and ideas for it. And again, I'm doing here OpenAI specific that I tried
and just a little tweak of using it
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blew my, blew my mind away in terms of the possibility with it. It was
because I guess, like, what I didn't realize I could do,
which makes sense now I'm looking back at it is you can get it to go into something that requires like a password and surname and a few other prompts and needs to like a human,
but you can get it so that you go in and do that. So the agent goes and runs and asks you where you need to input your human stuff and it won't record that and then goes into its merry way doing everything that it needs to. Now it needs to be web based, can't be like local based. So for us,
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we don't, you know, run Adobe Photoshop,
web based. It's locally based. It doesn't work that way. But for low for website based things, you can do that.
And oh my god, it is magnificent.
In that it's slow
for for a tool, for a tech tool, especially the OpenAI one, but it annotates
as it goes along what it's doing. So you can learn just literally watching it doing and learning as it's yes, it attempts some dumb things, but but you can learn how it's trying to do certain things that you just don't know or didn't know what to do.
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And because some of it just runs with the laptop closed, it'll just run on its own sort of like database and servers.
You can just come back to it when it needs to prompt you and do things. And
it did something that I did not think it could do. Like, I just was like, oh, I don't think this is gonna happen. And it did really well. And I went, that's wild. There's really specifically, if people wanna know, I got it to go into Shopify. Well, I logged into Shopify and I basically said, Hey, I want this particular website to look like this other website from this brand. Here's the source code of that website and a few other details. And I went and modified the entire website on the backend of Shopify and delivered it. I went, Oh, wow.
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Some minor things for sure. Some minor things that were like, okay, it messed us up and it stuffed up in a couple of ways. But I was blown away that that was like my first true experience of using it in that way. I went,
this is bananas, like this is actually insane. So if you know you're using it, man, use it. Figure out ways to use it because it's gonna, it's gonna blow you away in so many ways.
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Let's talk fitness just quickly. Yeah, yeah. Thanks.
So I promise you, promise you guys, I was gonna talk about my sleep. So
my, I track sleep
daily, but I really recognize and look at it from a three month rolling perspective.
And to give you an idea, before I went on, the European holiday, my average was sitting at six point like two
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for my full sleep.
So from a, like, how much do I sleep perspective, it was saying that my three month sleeping average is around six point two hours. My three months deep sleep average was, like, point four. Like, it was dreadful, and my three month REM sleep was 1.17.
It was really bad. So now this new data that I'm looking at, yes, it includes Europe. So it was a big holiday and I got more sleep. But ever since being back, I've been getting really consistent seven to seven and a half hours sleep every night. I am going to bed much earlier than before. So like, duh, of course.
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I don't feel like I'm missing that much from not going to bed later apart from maybe some reading and just mindlessly
maybe like scrolling.
Yes. There's some just like chatting with my wife that we're not doing as much. But my new three month sleeping average is 6.82.
So it's almost up at seven hours,
deep sleeps up, so about like half an hour and the REM sleep's gone up heaps, one and a half hours and I was like, damn, this is cool. Like I'm actually directly seeing this start to like really pump up, which has been really nice.
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And fitness wise, I can tell you just because now that I've got a paid Strava account, that it makes for
getting my data really, really easy. I can just basically go and have a look at recap of July and I'll basically tell you this,
thirty days out of thirty days, I trained literally every single day, thirty six hours
of total training, 119.1
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kilometers of running and sort of 199
meters of incline. And I did
the longest run was an 11.1.
No that's last year my apologies, longest run was a 10 ks, no eight ks run, eight ks run because the 10 ks run was in August. So, yeah and it's actually if I look at it by percentage,
my running in terms of hours, it's 44% of the time and gymming is 43% of the time. I'm actually
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more runner. I was a gym lifter
in July. That's pretty insane. I wouldn't have thought that either. So just by the mirror's margin doing it. So like, yeah, my sleep's amazing. My trainers be good. My strength hasn't gone back to what it was beforehand, but I think it's more CNS than there's anything else, and I haven't put
specific, like, effort against it. But my training now that I'm doing a slightly different cycle, I'll talk about it from a in the mere mortals in motion till we get more detail into that. It's just been, like, insane. And I've been,
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really intentful in my training in that I don't listen to podcasts. A 100% of the time, I listen to the podcast for the first
10%,
and then I'll change into music, which usually I've been doing music for, like, the really hardcore training. Now I'm using it for 90% of my training and giving it more intensity and it's been
really good, like really, really good, like joy that I haven't experienced again in training in the gym for a while. So I'm like, fuck yeah. Bonus all around bonus around. It's going well. Cool. So your side? CNS is central nervous system as well for those who want to want to know the acronyms.
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Yeah. Look, sleep wise, I've been actually all over the shop. My my sleep's been
average at best, I would say it's just
part of that was probably the first time I'd say I've had a bit of jet lag.
I can't say I've ever really felt that before. But there was a couple of nights where I was just wired going like, and
I had a recent one as well because I have also been doing some running more than correct. More than expected.
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Did a random 10 ks for the first time and
I looked up, I think. Two years ago. No, I think it's close to four years. Wow.
2021
was I believe when I last did a 10 ks.
So that was
hard,
but I managed to get it done. I managed to get it done. And yeah, I'm very much the same in terms of running at the moment.
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I'm doing it. Unlike you listening to podcasts. I'm doing it purely for the social aspect. Yep. Coming out on Saturday morning. I just want to come out with you and Manchil,
a friend to
to jog and then Manchil is also doing these 10 ks's on Wednesdays from now on, which, yeah, I'd like to try and join him in as well, that kind of works with my routine. So
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I'd like to make that a kind of like a regular habit for a little bit. And
only if it's as as I said in my my yearly goals, only if it is not detracting from handstands at all.
So if I feel like it's taking away from that, then then I'll stop. And
for example, on Wednesday
I did
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two hours of calisthenics
plus,
you know, two hours of stretching before that plus the 10 kilometer run plus a ballet class
and plus a date and that night I was wrecked, got to bed who I am
slept terribly
considering how wrecked I was, which was the real annoying bit.
And I think I really felt it on not not on Thursday, funnily enough, but on Friday, I felt so drained. So so drained. So
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they are not recovering. Yeah. Under recovery man under recovery. Yeah, exactly. Although I am eating a lot of protein at the moment. I'm my eating is good. I've put on a couple of kilos
since since
Yeah, that's good. I did actually get a scan
randomly.
But
as in like, I was just talking with one of the PTs at the gym, which is like, Yeah, if you want to do a scan, like, you can come do it here. So
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thank you. Thank you to that PT. And
I
have certainly dropped a lot of muscle. I don't know where it's from though. Because I feel
I feel kind of looking at myself visually about the same. So maybe from my back and butt,
maybe my legs, perhaps that would kind of make sense to me because I was
training
legs, in
a actually using weights before I left for Europe. And then I was just doing, you know, one calisthenic session plus some running. So
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you don't put on weight with
with calisthenics. So like you don't really build that much muscle when you're doing calisthenics for your legs. It's just very high reps. It's all toning.
Maybe, maybe, maybe. I have decided I'm going to introduce deadlifts and squats into my once a week. For the first time. I think that's the first time in
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I'm gonna say six
years, I think. Maybe Yeah, six years when I prepared for squats to take your soul.
Yeah, probably.
That was fine. Squats is like another thing. I never really enjoyed squats. So if you include the dumbbell bench that I'm doing, I'd probably be like, if I could get 200,
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I'd be. Yeah, I know. Because I'm because I'm kind of trying to be doing like six, six to eight reps or something of
those for four sets. I think the inside of the annual girls minds, I think it's six times multiply that I want to keep on the body weight perspective. Okay. If you're looking body weight, that's roughly the number.
Okay. Well, for me it would be what?
Yeah. Two, two and a bit. Yeah. So again,
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people hitting like one and a half times and the all three of them, that's kind of okay. Two is like probably like a really good number. Two is like good number. Yeah. But I'm
uncommon. Yeah. One is what's so common. So how it works.
Look, honestly, some things in the back of my mind,
Afrin Mancha wants to do a marathon next year. That's that's kind of in the back of my mind.
I'd
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Only if I once again only if I can do it whilst
not having
whilst not sacrificing the handstands. That's still the correct the main thing.
I might very simple. My mind's exactly the same. Mine's like, I do want to do more running, but as long as it's not sacrificing
the joy of gym. Yeah, that's that's for me. Pretty much.
Which is what happened last time I got very fit
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for a period. But it it detrimental. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which was unfortunate. So
we'll see. We'll see if we can do that. The what is the hybrid athletes over here?
I wouldn't be called the hybrid. It's just me immortals training.
And I'll lose it just specific call out because there's one of the clips that I created around my, you know, my Olympics comment and whatever. There's a lot of people who hate it, made that comment last week about, you know, maybe we should do average Olympics like ten minutes of everyone running. Now a lot of people comment on that being like, no, I wouldn't watch that. Fucking is not to fucking watch, man. It wasn't to watch. If anyone would watch, why are you gonna watch every human on the fucking country? It was so dumb. I was like, if not, it doesn't make sense. You just see the averages, just get the results, not see it. It's about the data people. Fuck.
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Some people out there, you need your IQ check, man. We should do an IQ average check as well. I did, man. It's Probably all that that one I think is available in the census. So That is true. Oh, no. Sorry. No. It wouldn't be
IQ. No. They should. Movies should introduce it. That person should be on the lower end.
Alright. We'll leave it there, me more or less. Thank you very much for joining. This has been Monthly Girls. If you tune live, we do this on the month. So this is the August ones. Tune in obviously for the next week. I'll talk about my full annual goals and then maps of the monthly goals. Come and check out the end of the month, basically in September, because we'll be talking about Kyren's new goals as well, which should be coming up very soon as well.
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But, you know, Karen's new one's gonna come around, soon enough. A couple of months. Yeah. Again, monthly goals is just a chance for us to hook about what are we prioritizing? What are we doing? What are we focusing on? Gives you an insight. Maybe if you wanna take away some of those learnings around maybe how you can be doing it. Fantastic.
If you have questions, drop it in the comments, send through a bit of a script, do all the good things for now. I think we'll leave it there. The immortal ads be well. Juan, out.
Welcome, mere mortalites, to another round of the mere mortals monthly goals as indeed
the start of the month where I, Kyrin, and Juan over here get together and we discuss our goals for the month. And we also talk about what happened in the previous month. Little chance to thank some supporters in the middle section, as well as
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right at the end talking about our fitness, how we've been going, anything of note or interest.
No need to faff around Juan. It is the August 3, by the way. Oh, yes. Yeah. And we do these usually on the first Sunday of the month
at a little bit earlier than our
musings and I release this on the Sunday and then I release our musings later in the midweek. Kind of give a break between the two. Correct. So that's just the order of things there. Juan, how was your July? July 2025. Mine, July was pretty easy actually. So I kinda called it out talking about the the month when I was doing. If you wanna go check that out, these monthly goals.
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July was just for me, annual goals begin on the August
onwards to the next August, just from a birthday perspective. One's birthday has just passed just a couple of days ago. Guess who forgot it? Me. I also kind of forgot it to be actually frank with you because
we're actually celebrating with the family today,
as opposed to on the Friday when it was. Sure. And so
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it was like, I didn't forget it in the sense of, oh, yeah. I do have my birthday today, but I got we're actually celebrating it on Sunday and then it was part and part like, oh, it is anyways. Yeah. Yeah. As you get older folks, I think the the age, everything else gets forgotten. Forgotten. But the July goals, I kept it easy. There was six goals. It was coming off the back of being back from Europe. From my perspective, there was one in the
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body, three in the mind and two in the soul sort of space,
establishing my fitness back to sanded.
Absolutely.
I would only say that I did get back to cardiovascular
endurance that I'm happy with
strength related. It's like I am back, but definitely not as strong as I was just pre Europe. And I don't know whether that's actually just muscular
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atrophy
CNS
specifics that I need to get back, unsure, but enough to say that I'm now doing like my next phase of training. So that's fine.
Setting up the new annual goals and monthly goals to come along with it. Absolutely.
Spend a good long time with that. I'll my only comment on this one is that as AI
has become more prevalent in my life and just using it, like, basically in everything. Mhmm. One thing I've found was
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I tried to
leverage it more in a lot of my personal things that I do
and the more I leverage it, the more I recognize
its faults or like it's what it's lacking. And I guess I would just say it's
it's very generalized and even with
super specificity
with eating it as much as I could from my perspective,
it was still really general. So what I can say still right now with a lot of the AIs
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is what it can't do is pick exactly what you want or need or really think you should, even if it's a just a guiding push.
I used it a lot to try and encourage me to think of what I wanted to do, but it wasn't as great as just me sitting for like half an hour and just thinking about, okay, cool, what's the next steps? So,
yeah, that's just like
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a thing I saw in terms of just establishing goals,
very much has to come from oneself and not
maybe get some influence from an AI tool or tools in general.
The other one was setting up my new ways of journaling. Absolutely been continuing that, been cleaning it up and like always, I added all these new points of doing my journaling and got to a point where it kind of through the month I was like, this is dumb. I'm not this question is kind of like repeatedly dumb. I'm not really leveraging it. And now it's through a
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good filtered view that I'm like, I'm happy with this. So that was really good as well.
Try out the new morning of your team with at least twenty days a month. And I reckon I would have hit
twenty nine days of the month in exactly the same time. So, you know, either the alarms are four in the morning or Mondays, 03:15,
and I've been loving it really good. Now it has helped really quite a bit that I've been sleeping really early basically every single night and I've just been winter here so it's dark, there's some circumstances at home that just means like all of us are sleeping earlier.
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So we, sorry, I say that 4AM
every morning or 03:15 in the morning on a Monday, right? And so you'd be thinking man your sleep quality has been pretty shit there. And I was like, no worries. No, I'm thinking, man, you must be depressed. You must hate your life.
Stick around for the fitness piece at the end because you will be surprised by the numbers. It's actually been amazing. Like unbelievably
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amazing. I think I can only make this work in winter, but you'll see why. Stick around to the fitness bit.
Then the,
the other two from the SOL, be kind to other strict on my standards.
I'll look at ticked it. Again, this was, again, a learning. Yes. You can write this as much as you can, but again, it's the practice and the habits of doing it that really I should be encouraging myself to do. I did do a daddy daughter podcast conversation as well. I shot it just straight on a phone as opposed to setting up all the recording stuff, but I didn't use the microphones as well for it. So
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didn't have the microphones on, however. And again, it's like what level of quality do I need it to be,
for what I needed? Because I actually recognize going back to the previous ones that I've been listening to, she's still too young where she'll just
push it away. Yeah. So
it's like she's not really speaking to her. Probably because she knows it's not even on. Probably. She's probably like that's not even there's not even like turned on. So that that I love your framing of that. Yeah. We use the microphones.
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So the microphones were there kinda like it was for my speeches at my wedding. Microphones were used, but they weren't turned on. Yep. Very good. But anyway, guys, that was the July. It was very easy. Excellent. Very laid back. In fact, I started cranking into loads of other things that I went to talk about right now in July in preparation for August. But we'll talk about August in a minute. Killer. Alright. So it's my ones where I had eight as usual.
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These were like two thirds of my month, I guess, because I arrived back in the tenth from from
Europe. And so
that was two thirds of the month. So I didn't make them super hard. But I think I ticked all of these off. To be honest. I don't think there's anything in here.
Okay. Technically,
I finished one one of these in the morning of the August 1. So, you know,
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don't crucify me for that. But,
yeah.
Lots of fun things. Don't establish a busy routine. I had plenty of time for,
catching up with friends, which was part of the second one, working through a list of fun activities. I went to a
ballet class
from indie, a girl I'd met in the gym
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a year ago.
And
who's at Queensland ballet and so I finally got around to one of her classes and in fact, I went to a couple more there.
So that was fun.
And might even be hint hint something in the next year's yearly goals.
We'll have to
maybe next week go through your yearly goals. I think I think that'll be fun.
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Create tablets for the crypto top indicators. Yep, done that. And that will also transfer something to next month. We'll see.
Edit and analyze the handstand travel video that is indeed up online. Now, if you want to see,
how I was doing what I was doing exercise wise during
my travels, it was just the first set of every workout.
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But so it wasn't even my best set. It was just the first set.
But if you look at it, there's a couple of like four to five second holds pretty one hand once one hand hold. Nice. Pretty consistently. Check it out. Also some days where you just go, oh, that's gross.
And
I then also have done my new smarter gym logs. I'm doing something out which I have never really done before, which is a
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like a half day. So this is a day where
it's meant to be in superposition.
If I do it, it's good. If I don't do it, it's also good. And so I've purposely put this day where it's like,
if I go so for example, after here, I'm going to go to Southbank and just hang out with Brendan.
In our hanging out, usually some handstands occur.
So I've said, Oh, if I can do
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half an hour of handstand actual training in that time, that would still be worth it, that would still perhaps be beneficial. And so I've got a day where it's it's planned, but it's not planned. And I've never done that before. We'll see if I can
either
do that mix of that spontaneity, which I'm not very great at of oh, yeah, I can do this the options available will I do you know, because it's not
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in the plan set in stone, but neither is it not
not set in stone. So
that that'll be interesting to see if I can actually
pull that up, utilize that in some shape or degree.
So that was good. Reaffirm your life purposes do a symbolic moving on. Actually didn't need to do that as much as I thought. So that's when you could maybe say I didn't do. But it was it was more just like the outcome was achieved anyways. Yeah. It was more kind of like moving on from an ex, for example, was was part of that
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full travel recollection since the journal. Yep, spent probably a couple of hours doing that. So that's the I guess the actual writing down of things, the innermost thoughts and stuff like that. And
even just a reminder for myself of some of the best
highlight moments of the of the trip.
Double day down and being more courageous with your loved ones. Yep. And then spend three hours trying out various agents bots. I did
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attempt that. And yeah, we'll talk about that more in the next section.
So we'll talk about that in a minute. Yeah.
Chance here just to thank everyone who has been supporting us this month. We do see the streamings coming in.
We do appreciate this is a value for value podcast.
So all of your
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We want to hit your monthly goals as well. So join us in on the discord we discuss and even do some little sneak peek into previews of our of our goals down in there. Right. And
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semi awful formatting. I fixed it up. A lot of discussion this week of ones formats.
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Absolutely
despicable horrendous Excel format. Some improvement in it. That was in Excel, right? Yeah. Okay, very good. And
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And there's an explanation and a run through there of how one might be able to do that. So we're going to jump into our August goals and ones. This is going to be interesting for me as well because I one, I didn't actually read them even I just looked as obsessed with this shitty formatting.
But this is the new set of ones goals annual goals. So we're gonna get a sneak preview
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of what try and figure out what his annual goals are based on what these sets of goals are here. Correct. And it's becoming it's
sliding towards a more one to one pairing of monthly goals annual goals, maybe similar to what you have. Yep. Whereas in previous years, I've had 17 goals, 40 goals
and 30.
Some on it. I wonder, I'm not entirely sure. I'll talk about it in the annual goal section, but I'm not sure if the sliding towards more one to one pairing is good, bad, different, just,
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you know, maturity of doing goals, changes in life, uncertain.
He's realized the current method is the best. Is is is the optimal method. Maybe we all we all trend towards the optimal.
Yeah. So try and yeah. Try and figure this out. Normal side as you mentioned, I'm just gonna do put the screenshot of it. There's actually a secondary section that I don't put in there as well around how I'm going to do it and there's a little bit of details in there as well. I see that on the side. So that's, that's also There's some extra details in there.
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Now, okay, number one. So I've got three in the body space, three in the mind and two in the soul. First one, the
aerobic base and habit lock in. So following this new running plan, so look again, similar to kind of last year's around building the engine.
I put it here, it's just like starting slow. I I have been doing for the month of July, some running already, we're doing it with some friends. We've been doing it. I've been doing it on my own quite a bit. I think I'll talk about it in the fitness space at the end. Just some of that. I've got some stats I probably want to pull out, every time,
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but
purely is get back into the kilometers, just time. I talk about this with you. I don't think I've started on the podcast, but just it's
running not for the purpose of anything else around the time or kilometers or hours, but it's more just the
fun, the engaging. Well, if I'm going on treadmill, I'm generally listening to or watching something fun that I wanna watch. If I'm running outdoors, it's generally listening into an episode. And
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because of some shifts or the way that I train other areas,
I've got less time for podcasts or for informational things. And so that's starting to be now more like the only time I have for that. So I look forward to that as well even more. So again, just bringing back a lot more of I'll do it because it's there's there's some joy to it, there's some enjoyment, etcetera. It's been good. And really, I'm just trying to build the base at the moment, which is what this month is for. So
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but again, I've got my own sort of Monday through to Sunday schedule where I'll put, I wanna run this amount of kilometers and roughly this amount of minutes, that it's more really about, okay, I'm gonna do it Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, what does that look like? And then build in as part of my general training. However,
gym training is more of a priority and then secondary is just wherever I can fit the running, I'll fit the running. So that's the first one. The second one is a little bit different in terms of the strength goals. So I want to maintain
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four eighty kilograms plus across the squat, bent and deadlift. And I've said roughly that equates to me as like 135 kilograms bent, 160 kilograms
squat and 185
kilograms deadlift. Now, for me at least, they're not big numbers.
What I would refer to as like, I was kind of weak numbers, right?
Now I have said, I want to be doing them at three rep max while building that run volume. So again, it's a balance of I want to start building running volume, but keep that strength as I need. So I'm so clean, strong, but just injury free.
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Now I can tell you right now,
in my working sets, I am doing 135 for more than three reps. I'm squatting more than 160 for three reps and I'm working up at the moment that that that sort of wide deadlifts. Deadlifts
sometimes can get a little bit jittery on the on the back if I'm doing it too much. But this is not this is not hard for me. This is so it's can maintain that
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repeatedly
over the next month. There is body weight ratios that this comes into place. So there's just the beginning of this particular strength related goal. So this one's super easy. I've got,
I'll talk about it in the fitness space, but AI is heavily being used and, I'll give you some insights into that. One's using AI to enhance those numbers. Correct. Yeah, putting them up.
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The third one is to block sixty minutes on the last Friday of each month.
And this is what I'm calling a, what did I learn through my body this month?
If this partners up with something else that I'll talk about in a moment, but it's a
kind of noting down
let's just think like a self journaling aspect. It's in particular to training. Now
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I'm still murky on exactly how I'm gonna do this, but what I would probably want to do, I think I'm gonna keep it as a monthly, not as a more recurring basis, but I want to do maybe record some of my training through the month, not weekly. I feel like that's too much of a load. And for me and Morals in Motion,
do a keep the
keep it to a monthly cadence where I'll
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play back a lot of the videos of my training, maybe some highlights, maybe things that I'm doing
overlaid with all of these things about the month in terms of my learning set of things. So I've played around this in such various ways. I've done weekly
power lifting and weekly running and trying to talk about it. I feel like it's just slightly too
high frequency cadence for me, but monthly I think I can, I can make it work and make it a more
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watchable, listenable piece that's actually got some learning as opposed to just weekly? I don't think you uncover too much. I don't know if you know who Sam Tullock is.
Yeah, yeah. I know him. Big guy. So Sam for a long time. He's a big guy. Big guy. Exactly like Harry. His his way of documenting himself, I guess, is just a very raw, not live, although maybe he's done live. I'm not sure, but just
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forty, fifty, sixty minute videos of just him looking, going to the gym, gymming, doing his eating, very just like insight into someone's life. It just gets on, he's become really quite large for it. A vlog, right? Yeah. Very much like do you stay in this other vlog, but very
where some people think that maybe you have to cut it and edit it and do specific things.
There's none of that. It's just more of the insight into the human. So
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I'm doubling down on a little bit of that. So this is part content, but also part again, a lot of the things we do at the mere mortals is just kind of
demonstrating or just giving you a little insight into like what we do just in general life. So that's going to be an example of how I do it. So, and what I'm imagining that I'm going to do is I'll sit down, I'll have a kind of list of all the like learning things of whatever, have it as a bit of a document.
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I'll compile this video of a lot of clips and just literally, because you can do this on Premiere Pro, turn on the
video recording aspect as I'm watching the video playback and just talk through that very easy, very simple. So not, not a lot of effort to create maybe something that people will consume that at least again, I'll use.
Three in the mind, product ecosystem set up.
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Now I'll leave it to that, but there's some product ecosystem set up to be done,
which will be already has started in July. It's been pretty fun.
Published the first high signal piece for the mere mortals and I did, I did call the the calm mind. I wasn't sure if I call it calm mind or hyper objects.
Again, this links back to
lots of link backs, but links back to these little pieces I'm doing kind of on daily on learning different things. Hyperobjects
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came up as a piece from Timothy Morton from 2010. He kind of came up with it. I like the idea, connected with Calm Minds, did a podcast on it, was fun. Difficult though, it was difficult. In fact,
it really demonstrated to me that again, I'm
good
at talking up my ass and just talking in in a way that I'm not like ad hoc. I'll call it ad hoc. I'm good at ad hoc talking.
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I'm I'm not good at presenting. Really not good at presenting. So
a lot of what I'm going to be doing this year has a lot more prep presentation
and I wonder I'll see that maybe internally will develop into a better thing or maybe I'll kind of realize like, oh, fuck this. No way do I want to do that. We'll see. Yeah.
Map that, sorry, Dan's already done. Mapping the full podcast production process from recording to publishing, identifying the automation points, done that already, started to do some things. But in the process of doing that, then I started finding myself being like, oh, wait, there's an even better ways to process this just in like little tiny things
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and you might have noticed folks, but we're starting to put out maybe two, three videos
podcast per week on like a pretty consistent basis now. So Yeah. Now that now that we're both Yeah. But let's just see how that continues because we got we've got good consistency of like two book reviews going out. We've got these conversations, we've got monthly,
you know, goals. Cara might have another one coming out soon. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see. I'm not promising anything. I've got the, you know, the mere mortals and motion stuff that I want to get back to. I'm doing these high signal pieces. There's other stuff that I'm doing. So,
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it's good. There's lots of content. If you want to understand the mere mortals and hear a lot of what we talk about, more of it's coming.
So that's that aspect and then the two in the soul. So I want to complete four weekly stillness sessions. Now this links back obviously for that block I said about the sixty minutes on the Friday. There's just twenty, thirty minutes, no input and I'm talking about that is like, I say no input, but it's like me outputting something.
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I'm going to try,
I kind of flex between like, well, there's no input. Like what if I just have like quiet music playing so I can write kind of feel like that's a no input just because it doesn't stimulate my mind in the sense of listening to a podcast. So I know input, I think I might just shift it and say there's like a particular thirty minute song that I listen to when I want to just be like kind of focused and it's just background music basically.
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So might be doing that,
or wanted to be doing that. And then one solid reflection written or spoken on who I'm becoming this year, which I was doing this a lot and I do it a lot in my monthly summaries and annual summaries,
but this gets back a little bit more to AI.
I was using my daily notes to summarize into my monthly notes. And what I find is that either it hallucinates or it doesn't pick up enough detail that I
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would have thought would have been relevant to call out, part of that could be my daily notes. So I want to kind of do a solo reflection on really the month,
mapping it back to the year on the annual goals that I'm doing and then I'll let that maybe get feeded into the AI. So I'm trying to understand if more specifics, more customization helps or hinders. Mhmm. And and again, the tooling for using AI here is not I don't want it to generate all of the insights. It's
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the more I'm seeing it, I've got to
put the right inputs and insights for them to let it generate all these various other things that I want it to do.
Last one,
establishing a no digital policy. So between 06:30AM and 07:30AM
and 5PM to 06:30PM,
basically no digital policy. The only time, I'll let it slide, because I've I've put it out here, so I'm doing some work
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that's
non my direct current, like, day to day work, that is if I'm doing something for some of the other initiatives that I'm doing,
okay fine, but it really just means for me it's like phone down and more than often it's that morning time. Is that family time? Correct. Yeah. Yeah.
So,
or like friends' time or something else if I deem it to be so. So those are the August goals. So
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there is definitely one to one mapping into all the annual goals and I have this in my annual goals mapping I have a note that's basically like how many monthly goals have I done to meet the annual goals. Now it's kind of almost be meaningless because it'll be like one to one mapping so it'll always be 12.
So I
thought it was going to be like the smart thing where in the past,
I remember like maybe two years ago, I saw for the Me and Mortals podcast, I had done like 27 monthly goals in relation to improving it over a year and some had done like three. So I could see the difference I was putting,
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but I would like data for data sake. It was like, yes, but like who cares? In the end, it's the outcomes I care about, not how much it is that it took to actually do it. If I wanted to do it, then the outcome was met then. Sure. Cool. So it's one of those things where I'm like, I'm probably just gonna get rid of that. Yeah. That's just learnings of it. Yeah. Anyways, that's August. So Nice. I'm I'm excited. I'm excited for that. There's some good stuff in there. Brilliant. Okay. A lot of mine are kinda similar, to be honest. Okay.
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Because I think they were doing well. So the first two are exactly the same, except I
put one word different at the start just so it would look different.
So fight fight against establishing a busy routine, open time for serendipity
and keep working through the list of fun activities slash catch ups with friends. So in particular, those two was just,
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yeah, I'm using this moment to
do a whole bunch of things which I've had forever to do.
Take Butters for a swim.
We haven't we haven't taken him for a swim. His birthday is coming up in like a month or two.
So I want to do that. I've been meaning to go rock climbing at the bouldering at the gym, right next to my gym, bouldering gym right next to my, my actual actual gym.
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I've been thinking about doing that for two years, haven't done it. And so I'm gonna do
that those sorts of things.
It's, it's nice just having free time to organize these things. And I want to do kind of friend catch ups. I still haven't seen a couple of friends since I've been back all these sorts of things. So you hinted at or perhaps Karen's gonna start a new podcast. And I was thinking about that. Yep. And
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I
am actually going to fight against doing that. So I'm going to fight against doing anything related to it. So I was like, I could just do a little bit of the podcast artwork, perhaps or even just a
I don't know, like a little setup of perhaps the
routine that I would go through in the actual sections and stuff like this. Now,
(24:54):
I'm gonna leave that aside.
So on to the financial, there's a minor security tweak,
So some wallet switches and tax recordings that I need to do
for just financial stuff, and in crypto things. So
want to and need to do that.
And that will just require probably
a
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full day, but a half day of solid attention so that I don't stop it up. That's not the type of thing you want to be doing quickly. So
yeah, do that.
I'm going to begin ramping up again, but reduce down if the pain returns for the handstand workout. Like I said, I'm kind of making,
it'll still be three
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planned sessions a week. And these are getting back to
close to two hours, just under two hours of actual handstand work. And
then
which is
an extra,
it's an extra twenty minutes than I was doing
compared to last month.
And I'm just gonna gradually keep increasing this until I think I'm hitting a point of
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I don't know it potentially getting over.
You always say there's no such thing as overtraining. But under
was under under recovering under recovering. So
whatever the one of those two is, I was obviously doing one of them before I left for Europe because
I feel so much better now and I'm getting better results again from from doing less work. So
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yeah, that's obviously something I need to keep in mind. And like I said, I've got that kind of half day, which I want to see if if that'll work for me or not.
Active morning energy despite the cold. So I've one thing I've been proud of is
that I have been getting up
early enough at some days, you know, 5AM
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on Saturdays for a run. It's fucking cold. And five I want to stay in the bed. It's dark outside. I'm not enjoying it. And even things like getting up and
I know part of me doesn't want to play with Butters in the morning and take them outside.
Part of me is just like, I
just want to stay inside. Like, I don't want to do anything. And I think I've done really well in avoiding that and not not being mopey and having a lazy start to the day. So I want to keep that going
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for this goal. So
the goal this one linked to was to travel was
learning Portugal,
so like either Portuguese, Spanish or
or German Aleman and
keep kind of like keeping the mix of those up,
which
largely
has not been working well. And I just saw the camera
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screwing up then which is not good news. So we'll get through this quickly. So bar with us if there's any more of those.
And the I want to keep that going. Sorry, I don't want to keep that going. I have no no interest of doing any Spanish, Portuguese, German
at the current time. So I've just
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wrote prior to his travel history in Asia books. So it's kind of related to those, that concept. But yeah, that goal is pretty much done and dusted for this year. So it's just going to be a filler.
Speak confidently confidently about my job slash lifestyle. One thing I've always kind of struggled with, and I want to have another
try that be a bit more
assertive with how I live when I explain to people in a in a kind of positive manner, how I live. And then finally try creating agents that notify me upon the trigger signals that I was talking about for the crypto. You were the actually inspiration for that because you were saying last month, oh, yeah, you could try doing that in terms of
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creating an agent that could do that. And that would actually be really useful. So I'm going to just spend some time
feeding it, inputting it things. I don't it's going to be hard because I don't have any direct access. I'd probably need to buy like a pro membership to get an API key to then be able to feed the data directly into it. Maybe I can find some
workaway rounds with
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publicly available data
to do that.
But I haven't tried that before. So we'll see we'll see if that will work or not. Yep. And those are my goals. Oh,
I'm I'm moving on. We're gonna I feel like AI is gonna be so it's a sort of thing we talk about for such a long time now. But,
so talking about the business side of things, I did start using a lot more agents or agentic usage of of things.
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And I think I had said to you a little bit earlier in the month, I wasn't sure exactly how well they worked. And I run into the first time I really used it, I was like, oh, what the hell? Like, it's giving me this issue. I retried it again with a couple more like prompts and ideas for it. And again, I'm doing here OpenAI specific that I tried
and just a little tweak of using it
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blew my, blew my mind away in terms of the possibility with it. It was
because I guess, like, what I didn't realize I could do,
which makes sense now I'm looking back at it is you can get it to go into something that requires like a password and surname and a few other prompts and needs to like a human,
but you can get it so that you go in and do that. So the agent goes and runs and asks you where you need to input your human stuff and it won't record that and then goes into its merry way doing everything that it needs to. Now it needs to be web based, can't be like local based. So for us,
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we don't, you know, run Adobe Photoshop,
web based. It's locally based. It doesn't work that way. But for low for website based things, you can do that.
And oh my god, it is magnificent.
In that it's slow
for for a tool, for a tech tool, especially the OpenAI one, but it annotates
as it goes along what it's doing. So you can learn just literally watching it doing and learning as it's yes, it attempts some dumb things, but but you can learn how it's trying to do certain things that you just don't know or didn't know what to do.
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And because some of it just runs with the laptop closed, it'll just run on its own sort of like database and servers.
You can just come back to it when it needs to prompt you and do things. And
it did something that I did not think it could do. Like, I just was like, oh, I don't think this is gonna happen. And it did really well. And I went, that's wild. There's really specifically, if people wanna know, I got it to go into Shopify. Well, I logged into Shopify and I basically said, Hey, I want this particular website to look like this other website from this brand. Here's the source code of that website and a few other details. And I went and modified the entire website on the backend of Shopify and delivered it. I went, Oh, wow.
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Some minor things for sure. Some minor things that were like, okay, it messed us up and it stuffed up in a couple of ways. But I was blown away that that was like my first true experience of using it in that way. I went,
this is bananas, like this is actually insane. So if you know you're using it, man, use it. Figure out ways to use it because it's gonna, it's gonna blow you away in so many ways.
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Let's talk fitness just quickly. Yeah, yeah. Thanks.
So I promise you, promise you guys, I was gonna talk about my sleep. So
my, I track sleep
daily, but I really recognize and look at it from a three month rolling perspective.
And to give you an idea, before I went on, the European holiday, my average was sitting at six point like two
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for my full sleep.
So from a, like, how much do I sleep perspective, it was saying that my three month sleeping average is around six point two hours. My three months deep sleep average was, like, point four. Like, it was dreadful, and my three month REM sleep was 1.17.
It was really bad. So now this new data that I'm looking at, yes, it includes Europe. So it was a big holiday and I got more sleep. But ever since being back, I've been getting really consistent seven to seven and a half hours sleep every night. I am going to bed much earlier than before. So like, duh, of course.
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I don't feel like I'm missing that much from not going to bed later apart from maybe some reading and just mindlessly
maybe like scrolling.
Yes. There's some just like chatting with my wife that we're not doing as much. But my new three month sleeping average is 6.82.
So it's almost up at seven hours,
deep sleeps up, so about like half an hour and the REM sleep's gone up heaps, one and a half hours and I was like, damn, this is cool. Like I'm actually directly seeing this start to like really pump up, which has been really nice.
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And fitness wise, I can tell you just because now that I've got a paid Strava account, that it makes for
getting my data really, really easy. I can just basically go and have a look at recap of July and I'll basically tell you this,
thirty days out of thirty days, I trained literally every single day, thirty six hours
of total training, 119.1
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kilometers of running and sort of 199
meters of incline. And I did
the longest run was an 11.1.
No that's last year my apologies, longest run was a 10 ks, no eight ks run, eight ks run because the 10 ks run was in August. So, yeah and it's actually if I look at it by percentage,
my running in terms of hours, it's 44% of the time and gymming is 43% of the time. I'm actually
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more runner. I was a gym lifter
in July. That's pretty insane. I wouldn't have thought that either. So just by the mirror's margin doing it. So like, yeah, my sleep's amazing. My trainers be good. My strength hasn't gone back to what it was beforehand, but I think it's more CNS than there's anything else, and I haven't put
specific, like, effort against it. But my training now that I'm doing a slightly different cycle, I'll talk about it from a in the mere mortals in motion till we get more detail into that. It's just been, like, insane. And I've been,
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really intentful in my training in that I don't listen to podcasts. A 100% of the time, I listen to the podcast for the first
10%,
and then I'll change into music, which usually I've been doing music for, like, the really hardcore training. Now I'm using it for 90% of my training and giving it more intensity and it's been
really good, like really, really good, like joy that I haven't experienced again in training in the gym for a while. So I'm like, fuck yeah. Bonus all around bonus around. It's going well. Cool. So your side? CNS is central nervous system as well for those who want to want to know the acronyms.
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Yeah. Look, sleep wise, I've been actually all over the shop. My my sleep's been
average at best, I would say it's just
part of that was probably the first time I'd say I've had a bit of jet lag.
I can't say I've ever really felt that before. But there was a couple of nights where I was just wired going like, and
I had a recent one as well because I have also been doing some running more than correct. More than expected.
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Did a random 10 ks for the first time and
I looked up, I think. Two years ago. No, I think it's close to four years. Wow.
2021
was I believe when I last did a 10 ks.
So that was
hard,
but I managed to get it done. I managed to get it done. And yeah, I'm very much the same in terms of running at the moment.
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I'm doing it. Unlike you listening to podcasts. I'm doing it purely for the social aspect. Yep. Coming out on Saturday morning. I just want to come out with you and Manchil,
a friend to
to jog and then Manchil is also doing these 10 ks's on Wednesdays from now on, which, yeah, I'd like to try and join him in as well, that kind of works with my routine. So
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I'd like to make that a kind of like a regular habit for a little bit. And
only if it's as as I said in my my yearly goals, only if it is not detracting from handstands at all.
So if I feel like it's taking away from that, then then I'll stop. And
for example, on Wednesday
I did
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two hours of calisthenics
plus,
you know, two hours of stretching before that plus the 10 kilometer run plus a ballet class
and plus a date and that night I was wrecked, got to bed who I am
slept terribly
considering how wrecked I was, which was the real annoying bit.
And I think I really felt it on not not on Thursday, funnily enough, but on Friday, I felt so drained. So so drained. So
(36:53):
they are not recovering. Yeah. Under recovery man under recovery. Yeah, exactly. Although I am eating a lot of protein at the moment. I'm my eating is good. I've put on a couple of kilos
since since
Yeah, that's good. I did actually get a scan
randomly.
But
as in like, I was just talking with one of the PTs at the gym, which is like, Yeah, if you want to do a scan, like, you can come do it here. So
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thank you. Thank you to that PT. And
I
have certainly dropped a lot of muscle. I don't know where it's from though. Because I feel
I feel kind of looking at myself visually about the same. So maybe from my back and butt,
maybe my legs, perhaps that would kind of make sense to me because I was
training
legs, in
a actually using weights before I left for Europe. And then I was just doing, you know, one calisthenic session plus some running. So
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you don't put on weight with
with calisthenics. So like you don't really build that much muscle when you're doing calisthenics for your legs. It's just very high reps. It's all toning.
Maybe, maybe, maybe. I have decided I'm going to introduce deadlifts and squats into my once a week. For the first time. I think that's the first time in
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I'm gonna say six
years, I think. Maybe Yeah, six years when I prepared for squats to take your soul.
Yeah, probably.
That was fine. Squats is like another thing. I never really enjoyed squats. So if you include the dumbbell bench that I'm doing, I'd probably be like, if I could get 200,
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I'd be. Yeah, I know. Because I'm because I'm kind of trying to be doing like six, six to eight reps or something of
those for four sets. I think the inside of the annual girls minds, I think it's six times multiply that I want to keep on the body weight perspective. Okay. If you're looking body weight, that's roughly the number.
Okay. Well, for me it would be what?
Yeah. Two, two and a bit. Yeah. So again,
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people hitting like one and a half times and the all three of them, that's kind of okay. Two is like probably like a really good number. Two is like good number. Yeah. But I'm
uncommon. Yeah. One is what's so common. So how it works.
Look, honestly, some things in the back of my mind,
Afrin Mancha wants to do a marathon next year. That's that's kind of in the back of my mind.
I'd
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Only if I once again only if I can do it whilst
not having
whilst not sacrificing the handstands. That's still the correct the main thing.
I might very simple. My mind's exactly the same. Mine's like, I do want to do more running, but as long as it's not sacrificing
the joy of gym. Yeah, that's that's for me. Pretty much.
Which is what happened last time I got very fit
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for a period. But it it detrimental. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which was unfortunate. So
we'll see. We'll see if we can do that. The what is the hybrid athletes over here?
I wouldn't be called the hybrid. It's just me immortals training.
And I'll lose it just specific call out because there's one of the clips that I created around my, you know, my Olympics comment and whatever. There's a lot of people who hate it, made that comment last week about, you know, maybe we should do average Olympics like ten minutes of everyone running. Now a lot of people comment on that being like, no, I wouldn't watch that. Fucking is not to fucking watch, man. It wasn't to watch. If anyone would watch, why are you gonna watch every human on the fucking country? It was so dumb. I was like, if not, it doesn't make sense. You just see the averages, just get the results, not see it. It's about the data people. Fuck.
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Some people out there, you need your IQ check, man. We should do an IQ average check as well. I did, man. It's Probably all that that one I think is available in the census. So That is true. Oh, no. Sorry. No. It wouldn't be
IQ. No. They should. Movies should introduce it. That person should be on the lower end.
Alright. We'll leave it there, me more or less. Thank you very much for joining. This has been Monthly Girls. If you tune live, we do this on the month. So this is the August ones. Tune in obviously for the next week. I'll talk about my full annual goals and then maps of the monthly goals. Come and check out the end of the month, basically in September, because we'll be talking about Kyren's new goals as well, which should be coming up very soon as well.
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But, you know, Karen's new one's gonna come around, soon enough. A couple of months. Yeah. Again, monthly goals is just a chance for us to hook about what are we prioritizing? What are we doing? What are we focusing on? Gives you an insight. Maybe if you wanna take away some of those learnings around maybe how you can be doing it. Fantastic.
If you have questions, drop it in the comments, send through a bit of a script, do all the good things for now. I think we'll leave it there. The immortal ads be well. Juan, out.
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