February 1, 2025 • 38 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?
Timeline:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:00:39) Juan's January 2025 Recap
(00:05:23) Kyrin's January 2025 Recap
(00:09:46) Support Overview
(00:13:46) Juan's February 2025 Goals
(00:21:37) Kyrin's February 2025 Goals
(00:30:23) Fitness
(00:36:45) V4V: Share your goals
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Welcome back Mere Mortalites to a wonderful edition of the monthly goals. It is a chance for us to have a bit of a conversation around what's been happening monthly from a perspective of goals or things that we're trying to achieve. We normally look back at the month of was also the month to come. You've got Juan here on this side. And Kyrin here on the other side. So we're gonna This is we're recording live on the 2nd February, Sunday, 8:45. A little bit delayed. My apologies. But we're here as usual and the goals will be for what happened in January, what's coming up in February and fitness. So one,
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you like to start give me a January recap. January goals.
So just to give you a bit of a recap, folks. 7, I had 7 goals, listed out. I didn't get 2 of them done. So let me just focus on those particular 2. One was the 2 kilo drop in body weight, starting point of the month of 90 kilos.
Now, it was gonna be an average view to this particular goal in any case, like I wasn't gonna say, I'm not setting it as done if I hit 88 kilos one day and I'll be like yeah I did it no I got down I think I mentioned like 89 I did get to 88.7
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something on one particular day which again it's not even 2 kilos however
this is even the funniest thing. I think I was averaging for a couple of days. It was at 89.1
or something like that. That would be like the average. And then I checked yesterday my weight to be like, okay, well it's 1st February, let's see what it was. That was 90. So I was like The whole Jesus. That was like no changes there. So again, look, it deviates back and forth depending on the day.
(01:38):
I did have some travel
with,
it was like really terrible eating,
but then not enough eating. So
again, you'll see how it kind of I've shifted the plan into the next monthly goals. So there's still very much the yang in an annual basis, but the let's say the focus of it is different. Let's see. Ultimately, what I want to achieve is the same, but you'll see what I mean. The other one though that I'll mark myself down as now was the booking all the flights
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for wedding and honeymoon. So wedding is all booked. The honeymoon aspect,
nah, not even close. There was just
a whole host of other adjacent things that we needed to sort out, which after having conversations is more priority just in terms of, hey, you need someone to go and custom make this or tailor that or get things ready. Okay,
that we kind of have to sort out first before the flights. We still have some wiggle room on that plus the bookings.
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But again, it's going to show up again in the next month as well. He's he's leaving his options open so he can come join me in Italy.
Yeah. That's what's happening. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe, you know, maybe I'll I'll make a surprise husky appearance at the, prior to or something like that. Well, that that's that's before. That's what I mean. Maybe I'll have to go well, true. I've already booked the flights. Damn. It's a pre pre wedding.
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I don't even know what to call it. The other ones,
which was all around sleeping. I did improve. Look, every day was pretty hit pretty well. Even though there was so short amount of sleep,
the efficiency or the effectiveness that I tried to get out of it was the best I could.
The running challenge, I think I hit,
let's say
probably
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13 of the 15 runs I wanted to do over the month, which I was like, maybe even more. So I was really happy with that.
And the 2 g p t agents created, in fact, one of them was for the mere mortals
and podcast. And I've lot of I've been using it religiously now for a lot of my things. So just to give you a quick idea for people listening at home, what I had done was in the past, I created heaps of prompts for various things I wanted to do. So I had a word document, I had multiple word documents where I was like, oh, if I wanna do this, copy this prompt, cool user, whatnot.
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And didn't really only click until recently. I was like, oh, why don't I just create a GPT agent that has all of those things all at once, but then it's also
feeding into everything that I'm creating or we're creating from a podcast perspective to learn,
like, the way we sound and the way we create things and whatnot. So, anyways, been using that and it's it's been
still a little tweak it every now and again, but it's been really good. And again, this is for back end subscriptions, that sort of thing, but it's become,
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very quick to implement. Nowadays, all I have to do is literally upload a transcript
and give it like a one line of what the episode was and it gives me
every single thing that you probably see the rest get generated.
So
descriptions, timelines,
not the images, but also if I wanna do like a blog, if I what where I clip it, where I wanna create the reels from, all that sort of stuff. So it's been really good. I really, really enjoyed doing it. There was another business one as well that we did as well.
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The applying the monthly plan for the mere mortals content creation, that went really good. That was really, really, really solid. I really enjoyed doing that. I found myself, I think over the month of January ended up creating way more things than I had in the past.
And I also got to see where I had to kind of push on things or move things around. That did help out a lot. I will do it in February,
with a different intent, I guess, let's just say.
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So there's a, I guess, the summary of of January. There's a lot, there's a lot going on in January. It felt like it went generally quick, man. Yeah, it was a lot on everyone I talked to
this, you know, usually the general consensus is
December is hectic. January is still busy, but it's not it's not like compared to December. Not monthly. Yeah.
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January was just heckers for me as well. December felt like it was quiet compared to January. Yeah. Yep. So this reflects kind of my goals as well. So I'd say I probably did like 60%.
I have 8. I'm actually just going to talk about the ones that I did do. Okay, because the ones that I didn't do a lot of them are transferring over to the next month. Okay. Yep.
So
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reread implement day bang old journal did book review on that more gym openers utilize could cute dog be actually did do that was going out
a little bit more. That was that was pretty fun. I had quite enjoyed doing all of that. It was good. I
saw some minor results from that as well, which was good. Prepare the house for an Aussie Day barbecue. I did. That was probably what took up most of my January.
(06:01):
The backyard was
a wreck and the patio everything. So I spent a lot of time on that.
And yeah, so it was usable in more light time. It was usable. We're able to run around. Yeah, yeah. And so one of the things that happened from that was
I probably overbought
food. That was just, that was just a lot of food around.
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And so
I've been
smashing it all out and like a lot of it's bread and meat and just heavy stuff.
And it's gonna go out of date and so eat it relatively quick. So this week, this week, I was eating a lot of it.
I touched on 80 kilos. So
once
once going down, I'm going up, I'm gonna be in the middle.
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That's not true. I'm not gonna stay around my my high 70s as usual.
So I did the podcast episode of the
of the crypto things. I didn't create the checklist.
I did my annual checkup, but I didn't go out and do the the one arm handstand day at the park and record a video and stuff.
Didn't do any of the Husky things. I did do all the translation.
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I've finished up with Portuguese for now. There's no more
I think learning going to be happening on my part of I've read the German side wanted.
It's getting to German time. I was thinking maybe like,
is there anything I can do with Spanish?
I don't want to talk with my brother's girlfriend who's Colombian in Spanish because it's just going to be the same problem that I have had with you.
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She speaks better English than my my Spanish.
And it's better to just default to the if it's someone that you see every day, and you don't want to have like,
starting conversations
with Yeah, so not going to do that.
I did initiate some DNA DNMs.
I have been putting off so that was good, but I still miss 1 or 2. And I did create the Morpheus podcast.
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So it was I'm happy enough with what I did this month. Morpheus podcast, have we gotten any feedback?
Feedback from anybody? I've started reaching out to some of the people actually in the in their
Discord to say like, Hey, do you mind actually watching
me? Give me some feedback. So I think it's also you know, it's just the first episode. So people could be like, is this guy gonna stay around?
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So maybe didn't even see it and I think so. Well, the thing I think it usually takes like 6 episodes, something like that. It's something about well, I know it's 6 episodes for the actual algorithms
of Apple and Spotify to actually give a damn about what you're releasing, similar with the stuff that we're doing now. So there's probably some,
human aspect of it as well. And if you see, like, 1 or 2, it's like, okay. But if you start seeing a few more, okay.
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They're probably putting in some sort of effort or there's enough meat in here that I can go and check out.
So I don't
ascribe to the
probably best practice of
drumming up a whole bunch of
hype before the podcast before releasing. There's not a lot of us. I like that. To be honest. Now that we do a disservice to ourselves and not doing this with the podcast. If you're listening at home, we there's a big part about hyping things if you're selling like especially products
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nowadays, or at least what I've seen,
I've had a couple of these people on the show, but people who sell hats
and apparel, a few different things, the initial, like, hype up and then getting people to come in and jump in and buy something,
like that's huge that's a big part of it. Now we're not selling anything but there is a part of us trying to get you to watch and then support us by supporting you with some value
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and look I guess we could be doing better than that we just don't know that's my side. That's okay. That's okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool.
I didn't didn't faze me one way or the other quick touch up on the just on the support side of things. What have you been seeing from the value from value kind of model? Yeah, yeah. So I've
I'm still lagging behind on 1 or 2 episodes of the podcasting 2.0.
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In terms of,
I've
read I found out recently this this why I actually really enjoy
just
serendipity that you can kind of get with podcasts. So I was just going to
James Cridland's and Sam Sethi's both have been on the show before
the
their pod news, pod news podcast, the in the sum up episode that they do
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pod news weekly, I think it's called. And
I
look a lot of it's just like industry podcasting news, there was a time where I was more interested in that. I'm not as much now but I still will go and listen to like the final part of their episode where they will talk about themselves a little bit Tech Weekly, etc.
And yeah, I found out there's a like basically a podcast and 2.0 event hosted by Sam and
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in London in May. No way right before basically I'm gonna go there. So I was just like, well,
maybe Yeah, but you know, I was I was thinking I'll fly into Germany. I was looking up flights actually cheaper to fly into London. So I was like, okay, well,
I should just do that. You heard it here. First folks, it's gonna be in London in May.
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So so so
they're still doing lots of things. You know,
Sam Sethi himself is moving away from boostograms
that name to just super comments or comments, something like that on true fans. Okay, which is kind of the YouTube styling of it. Yeah. And he's always been more of a
aiming for the broad appeal rather than
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just the niche. Like he wants true fans for everyone, essentially.
And
I have set up all of our new podcasts just with Instagram support. So if anyone wants to, they can.
But I don't imagine you'll be pushing it on me more emotion. I probably won't be talking about it much on Morpheus.
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Other than just like a side listening thing again. I wonder and this is just a little drop and we can move on.
Like a little note. I wonder if psychologically or if just
by the mechanisms that are becoming available, people are opting in to
own more crypto, but in the way of using it via ETFs.
And
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so because they're doing that, and then
not having it available to be able to send
back and forth in a p two p way or support. I wonder it was I had a conversation with someone on the fly back, from Canberra, which kinda made me be like,
they're more interested in crypto,
but not in the way that they themselves own it in that in that way to be able to p2p send it to one another. So I was like, okay, that's kind of interesting. So it's like feeding the point of that. But it's like this very much people, more people owning, I guess, in that theoretical way. But they don't know. Yeah.
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Well, if you if you there are ways look out for your correct ETFs out there.
But but,
no, I'm actually kind of excited with the Morpheus one to
run the value for value model and not really be talking about the boostgrams and see
what I can do in terms of other methods
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of of support and in
contributions,
because that it's it's another open source community.
And so they're,
they'll be, I think, be more amenable to the message that I'm trying to give,
rather than
to like a general lay public, if it was just a
general specific. It is there. It's much more specific. Okay, good stuff. But yeah, everyone who's supporting the show over the over this last month, very much appreciated
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for us helps keeps the lights on these lights right here. This one and this one. I can't see them, but there's lights there. There's lights. You better believe there's lights and it is very much appreciated. So
keep that keep that up. Thank you very much. Great.
Let's talk about February. Every 2025 goes.
I have 5.
I did notice there was. Yep. I pulled it back. In fact, I had 4 And then I added one more that I sent across now. 5. Look, you heard from the previous month, I got 5 done out of 7. I can already see. So what I'm going to be talking about here for these particular goals, there's all these other things that need to get done this particular month that don't fit underneath a goal because I don't map to an annual goal or the previous things I already have scheduled.
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There's a lot of things going on in February that either just not here or I'm not can't talk about it just yet. So that's probably why a reduction. I'm like, yeah, I know. Oh, well, I need to just pull back on some of these, but those 5
are 2, on my let's face body, 2 in the mind, 1 in soul body. I wanna focus my so this is the white thing. I'm gonna focus my food intake,
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principally around what I'm training, so more protein, less carbs. This is, one of the things I guess I already this is what I would want to do to achieve that 2 KG drop
that I was aiming for in January.
What I'm putting my goal of more so here is look,
just really focus, but for me I train in the mornings
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and I'm not eating until way later on in the day. What I'm finding doing that is
overall, while the calories might be the right ones that I'm doing, I'm finding myself
not hungry, but not feeding myself correctly in the mornings,
then I delay it, it's not making me feel like great in the afternoon eating or attempting to eat all that food because then at that point, Mark, I can only eat so much now. And back back in the day, I might be able to, like, eat a ton load of food straight away. Now I have a
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big bowl of pastas to say, I'm like, oh, man. I'm full. I'm not gonna have another bowl of pasta even though it's what I could probably eat or need to eat for the calories that I need. So you bring them earlier. What are you planning on dropping? Do you have much fat to drop or you are you just gonna have to drop? I don't know. Muscle? No. There's definitely gonna be some fat to drop for sure.
But I think some of it is gonna be well What are you aiming for, like, 8 kilos reduction from Yeah. Eight kilos. Some of it might be a little bit of muscle. I think it's gonna have to be a little bit of muscle. Some of it's gonna be a little bit of muscle, to be honest with you. If you have that much fat to drop. I don't know if it'll be, well, good aim, but I guess this yeah. For me, I'm like, okay, let me change tack. Let me just focus
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my intake of food specifically around
where I needed, like, specific food intake more in the morning when I've just not been doing that. I've just been skipping the breakfast. So more priority in that. And not
definitely not carnival, but going much more heavy towards that is what I found especially when I was traveling,
last week is that oh man those days I was just like having carbs and pizza or whatever and there was just a lot of
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there's a lot of protein missing and for me the easiest one is just meat meat, get it in that way. There's other ways but for me I prefer that.
So yes, there's one. 2nd one, this is mapped to the running, embracing the longer running on the weekends. Don't stress about what gets missed. And I say don't stress about what gets missed because
they
are part of my mentality still, I wanna go and do a 10 kilometer run
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and also do some arm workout or do a little bit of back or do some of this,
where it's now starting to become half good about things 13 weeks till the half marathon. I had okay, I want to put like a good effort not just do it but do it in a good effort. What are you aiming for?
Like sub 2 sub 2 sub 2 sub 2 But if I'll Sub 2 hours. Sub 2 hours. I'm like, if I'm gonna put effort to do it,
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don't just do it and complete it and do it and put in some good effort towards it. I'm sorry. That's more from myself as a reminder of, look, it's gonna be long runs this week, this month, but also don't worry about what gets missed from a training perspective. Just be completely aware of that. I'm telling myself upfront. I'm gonna miss some of my lifting. That's okay.
The 2 aspects on the mind, now this was a big one, which is why I've just listed it as own and I didn't like know Dale's stuff. Aimed for 3 book reviews this month. 3 3 book reviews. 3 books reviews. So I'm almost almost done 48 Laws of Power, still going. And that book
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is heavy. I've stopped reading. I don't know if you've booked when you read 48 Laws of Power or if you ever read it. The little thing on the side. Yeah. I've stopped reading those things. I'm just like Oh, man. Man. That's good. Well, actually, which is interesting because I enjoyed that. I'll talk about it, I guess, when I'm doing the podcast.
But,
like,
with those side pieces, like it's basically you've got the normal text, and then you've got text on the edges of the book as well. And the edges, if I recall correctly, those were the actual examples of people doing it right? No, not examples. But it was the it was like fables, the fables, the quotes, the stories, which I'm assuming is the reference points that he was leveraging to create the text. Okay. That was that was being fruit. So, you know, in a lot of them, he seemed to relate a lot of the work to a lot of the kings and queens of
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1500, 1600, 1800, a lot of French stuff. And so there was a lot of,
descriptive things like stories or famous quotes or famous quips from around that era. One aspect though that I found is there's a lot of the fables
from which you've done a book review not too long ago. Oh, yeah. I see. And I was like, fuck, this is shit. I was just like, I don't want to read. I think I've read them like, I would have read like 12 of them. After that, I was like, I don't wanna read another one. I'm just gonna skip these things. I'm not not reading them at all.
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Like, I I'm finding this more and more and it is a side piece, but I'm finding this more and more that while I understand that that's kind of like the root where a lot of the ideas which Robert Greene and all of other people create books from,
I enjoy absorbing it by an already analyzed
version of what they are as opposed to reading that Yeah. That's why you like Friday on holiday. Yeah. Honestly, like I was in reading some I was like, I get this but I prefer to read it and consume it in someone who's already analyzed and maybe broken it down into a few other stories of of practical life.
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That that's just me. But it was 3 book reviews, we'll see how we go.
And then the other one for the mind is just planning out the favorite content to pursue the fitness brand as well. So I haven't done that yet. So which I really want to do. And literally,
that is the only way if I don't plan it again, like I talked about in January, if I don't plan for it, there's no way I'm gonna do 3 book reviews, there's no way I'm gonna do any more fitness stuff, because I will just let other life come into play and not do it. So so it really worked really well in January. I'm gonna do it again in February so I can just plan that out and go forward. And the last one,
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I wrote this down. This is asked on February, folks, so you can hold me to it.
I've gotta book all the flights.
All of them? All of them. Oh, it's not End purchase clothes for the wedding. All of them. All of them are gonna be done on February. There is no You don't need to do that. Not gonna get that well. I do. There's there's a certain other reason I can't talk about on here, but
all my spending has to be done in February. All my spending has to be completed by February so I'm gonna maximize my spending. Tax man's coming up. It has to be done in February. I wish it was just Tax man.
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But yes and purchase clothes as well for the wedding as well. So that's gonna happen absolutely in February. So
pulling back a little bit on all the overall goals, I'm not listening to things about,
other self improvement things. There was a few other type of annual goals. I'm like, nah. You pull them away. There's some key focuses in February that's gonna get done. Sure. Okay. That's February for me. Sounds like it'll still be a busy month. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's gonna be
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Delicious. Delicious.
I didn't list this. Didn't list it. So I was like, I can't do it. But yesterday, which is technically 1st February. Correct? Yes. Yeah. 1st February, I did my, like,
turf games competition as well. I'll talk about that separately in the fitness Yeah. Space.
But I was gonna write it down and be like, do
what's the point? I just did it. Sorry. I was that would be fun. I'll talk about it in the fitness podcast that's to come. Yeah, I know what you mean. I've got my 8 here. Some of these are going to be very
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reminiscent of last month. So
number 1, keep the searching mindset despite travel plans is what I've noticed last year was when the searching mindset so in particular,
like keeping my eyes open
opportunities peeled
for meeting a lady. Oh, right. Okay. Despite already doing things where it's like, I'm not going to be here in 3 months, 4 months time, you know, it's going to throw a wrench in the work. So
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I
want to keep keep an open mindset,
despite
doing other things which are somewhat contradictory.
So organize other Q1 events. So these things related to like my birthday
traveling,
had a chat with Joey
with broad shoulders last last night was trying to organize go down see him
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That that fell through pretty quickly. How's he going? Yeah, he's good, man. He's good.
Why did he fall through? Just just because of when I'm basically I'm going to do like a family thing with my dad and my brother and we're going to see his side of the family. And I was going to try and organize something either before or after that.
It doesn't doesn't really work out with Joey's plans.
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The physical checklist of crypto speculation system. So I want to actually
write this out, print this off or something like that.
Have something so that I can tick it off, I think it'd be kind of fun. So I saw one the other day where
it was
people who I would consider
financial professionals,
although
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like a financial professional in the TradFi
world, and they were talking about ETFs and things like this, and
it got on to crypto.
And one of them, like half jokingly half seriously said,
doge was a blue chip meme. And I was like, that's one of the symptoms like take it off. I'd love to have tick that off right in the moment. So I want to do that.
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Really want to
what's that? Blue Chip meme? I don't think you can you never heard that before? No, no, I don't think you can attribute blue chip. No, you can't say that. That's that's ridiculous.
Record and analyze
a one arm handstand day at the park. So definitely got to do this. And do a skin checkup. So I did all like my blood results, all those sorts of things, but I didn't
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get time to get a skin checkup done. So it's been quite a few years since I've done that. Worth doing for those at home as well.
I'm going to have a chat with Hoskie.
The blueprint of the big brain bingo plan.
Yeah.
We'll see about that. I'm already starting to notice like, that's gonna be a lot of work. So
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it's more it's more fun than
if anything happens with that, that'd be that'd be funny, but probably not start travel planning. So this is going to be related to yes, flight. So I'll probably book 1 or 2, but
maybe just the first one probably.
I think I need to renew my passport. So I probably should get on top of that.
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And
begin reading a German book. So just
start trying to read one see if I've got
still any of level
in there. I'm
thinking that I probably don't have enough because the books that I've got
are adult books and not children books. They're not as simple as the Alchemist, for example.
So just jump into it and be like, oh, yeah, yeah, I don't want to I don't want to jump into it and be like, well, every every third word having to be hard. So
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you know, that that might alter and I'll start listening to some German podcasts again, perhaps doing
not Duolingo, but
something similar.
Bring back steeliness in places you're starting to slip. So this relates to character. So just a couple of things related to like health, sleeping,
eating,
even like fitness prep,
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just some stuff around the house. There's all sorts of things where I'm like, you're kind of slipping up there. Like you should
you were doing better 2 months ago. Try and try and bring that back.
And then the,
explore the Morpheus GitHub slash git book. I've been meaning to do that and get around to it. And I've got we're talking about playlists recently,
(25:52):
and I've got this massive playlist on
YouTube,
but it's kind of unfiltered
and some of these episodes go back years. Oh, just. Wow. Okay. And which I enjoy having. I enjoy having something so that it's there's always something I can go to
in those moments of weakness when you're like, there's nothing on. There's nothing here. Yeah. I've never felt I've never Yeah. Okay. You'd be in the minority. I'm always in a I'll tell you what, I'm in a constant state where
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this is like serious
constant state every almost I would say daily, weekly, where I'm like, holy crap. I've got 7 things I've gotta, like, watch. I'm gonna go see, like, I've gotta go watch them all. And the next week will even if I watch them all, next week, I'd be like, oh, my God, there's another like 5 I've got to go like go and catch up on. Okay. More that than the other. So that'd be very rare. So I think most people would be able to relate to
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going on to something like Netflix or YouTube and
just going there's a record there's record well, no, there's recommended things in front of them, but none of them are appealing to them. And so they just scroll
just trying to find something that appeals to them for
5, 10, 15 minutes and not having anything and then complaining. So so so yeah. So I think how could I guess I gotta like put out here my my weirdness.
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I only started using playlists last week. Yep. Probably after I was like, you know, because I found actually it was useful when I'm on the run on the treadmill.
If there's a couple of videos I want to watch I can put it on a playlist and then it'll just autoplay which is amazing I'll have to pick it up and like change it so that's one thing. I've never
ever
watched a recommended video like know when it's like finishes a video and it just goes to a recommended or, like, there's a side note. Never, never had ever done that.
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But that that one about, like, oh, yeah. Never like something to come. I'm always the opposite
in a bad way still where I'm like, oh my god. I've got to watch, like, this new one from Jordan Peterson. Oh, this one from Tim Ferriss. And this other one from other ones. And this other one from like, how do you know which ones to watch? If you don't have a playlist? Like you mentally keep a track? Yeah, I'll mentally keep a track of all of the ones. I'm like, I could tell you now. Maybe you're like 7 or 10 off top of mind right now. I've gotta watch those next. And then like these next ones come out and I'm like, oh, and it even gets to the point. I'm like, okay. They are weird. I have to watch this. Sometimes they come weird. The That way. I think there's a, like, there's a few from Leila, I'm losing, or Jordan, who I'll be like, oh, okay. If I watch them at 3 speed,
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I'll be able to finish both by this time. So I can watch these other 2 in the next thing and then it's like That's messed up. It's a completely other extreme.
Of of, content consumption for me.
Oh, man.
Yeah, I'm not I'm not weird. I'm not weird. You
influenced me to be weird. But the
the the thing with that is I want to prioritize
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AI episodes again. So I was actually going through last night and bumping some of these to the top of the playlist. So they were focusing on anything in particular? Are you generalizing the AI consumption? Are you going down the specific path? Or just
if I let's see, I can go on to it right now. And I'll like, is it like AI news?
Is it AI on the like, very specific tech? Is it is a reality?
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Is it more robotics? There's a couple of things at the top. So
obviously
Morpheus project updates, things like that.
So there's,
this lady I found, what was her name? Casey
Karen, I think. And PC Day Denver decentralized AI,
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Jason Tang inside virtuals, media, ARRISE gaming IP in the age of AI,
you know, something like Marc Andreessen on Lex Fridman. He's probably got some interesting insights.
There were some ones further down here as well. It's like, yeah, it's like a mix of kind of newsy type things. I posted in the Discord
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yesterday, a blog that I read, which I thought was kind of interesting. So
the history of chat gbt. So it's a bit of a broader it's a bit of a broader like view of everything. Everything. Yep. Yep. I would recommend people if you don't want to get like, if you don't mind going, deep into particular, I would recommend the Lex Fridman 7 hour
podcast episode with the Claude
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team. Yeah. That was, I think, really good. I think I've got that in here, but it's it's down the list. Maybe I'll bump it up. But see, this is the problem with that with these sort of things. It's and that's why I was asking you. That one, I could see in a few months, which is kind of almost become almost irrelevant apart from it a historical CAPTCHA Exactly. Because of how fast things change. So in any case. Yep.
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Yep. Yeah. So that's, that's all of my goals. Let's jump on to fitness
one
fitness stuff.
Yeah. So I guess I talked about it already. This is 2 two aspects for it right now. 1 is running. So already touched on the half marathon prep. So that's been going
pretty well. I was able to just do most of the things I wanted to do in January. In February, those kilometres are going up.
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I guess the only thing that was a slight wrench was a random competition that I did yesterday out of nowhere that I wasn't really planning for. So besides that, there's nothing else now. I think that's gonna get in the way for the prep. So that's going well.
Training one, like strength wise,
or just generally wise, I felt
let's just say
there hasn't been any new PRs or gains. But what has been gained
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is
probably the increase in mobility in a reduction in soreness. That's been really good. So I've been training, I may have been training the last month, 2 months, 3 months. But let's take it back all the way to 6 months, 7 months ago, I was training in the next day, I was really sore. I couldn't go and do a similar amount of work that I've done. Yesterday,
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the workout that I did was, you know, 2 plus hours long, like it was quite a huge amount of effort to be done. Today,
no soreness, like zero soreness. I could go, in fact, I'm planning to do a 10 ks run at some point once my daughter goes to sleep today. Totally fine. I'm like good to go. A little wobbly in the knees, but apart from that, not muscularly wise. For me, I think the big win is I'm keeping my strength and mobility as much as I need to, but with the added bonus now that my recovery has improved significantly. So I'm like, fuck yeah. That's really good. Because that I wasn't finding. I was having, you know, and when you find that it's like, oh, it starts to be a bit of a drag because you're too sore or you don't wanna do the lifts you wanna do because you're, you know, just trained a couple of days before. So for me, I'm like, oh, yeah, this is really nice.
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The good thing with you is you can combine things. So when you're running, for example, you remember you told me in the past that your biceps would hurt. And that's what stopped you from running. So essentially doing a bicep workout whilst running. In the so very very quickly in the competition yesterday, the
the work was one of the workouts was,
1.5 kilometers of rowing, running, 1.5 kilometers of running of rowing, running, and then finishing off and
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running. When I finished that not only was I
like like super tired and right from engine sort of work, my arms were pumped like absolutely pumping my triceps and biceps and if you actually look at the photos because I just was looking at them before of the event, at the beginning of it, like I just look normal, like, as I do not walking around. When I was finished, I was like pumped like I had like done a bicep workout. Really? Yeah. Plus sweatiest ball balls. In one in one piece. But it's only one it's only one guy. But on that training training is feeling good. Training feeling good. What about yours? Yeah, good. Good. Yeah, the
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I'm very much in the mode now of 4 days a week of 1 arm handstand. So Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.
And those are the days I can kind of lock in get a really good
warm
up, not need to rush,
everything's just really optimized to a tee for those days.
And then Wednesdays
and Saturdays or today will be Sunday instead.
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We'll do like a leg workout of some sort of usually like hip flexors or just straight up legs, calves,
hip thrust is all that sort of good stuff.
It feels like I'm
doing all this stuff now that
will show results in probably a year's time.
It's like, it's extremely frustrating in one sense in that. Is there any leading indicators that are telling you that? Yeah, I'm getting,
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you know, just some holds here and there where it's,
I'm floating, I'm definitely floating.
It's not
strong.
Really, like locked in like, sometimes
I'll be in the position, I can feel my shoulder going out.
I can kind of save it a bit by chucking my leg the other way. But you know, if I look at that,
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if I take a video when I take a video and do that, I'll know okay, you know, that's this is not what the pros are doing that they're just staying
locked in the shoulders in the correct position and their shoulders.
And that's and that's how it's meant to be it's like, you
want to make the adjustments from the lowest point possible. So it should be from your hand first, then into your elbow, then into your shoulder. And And then if you're trying to make adjustments with your hips and legs,
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you're fucked. Yeah, that's that's you can save it, but it's not going to look pretty and it's
going to be extremely taxing. And so. Yeah, that's a good point.
It is extremely taxing, man. Towards the end of like the 2 hours of so basically I do like 2 hours of handstands and then an hour or 40 minutes of
supplementary
chest, arms,
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obliques, whatever it is.
After those 2 hours,
I'll just be constantly
squeezing my hands and stuff because my wrists are on fire. And they've really had
2 hours of doing that. So yeah, it's it's good. It's great. In fact,
having a lot of fun doing it.
Realized I was getting some neck pain in my right neck has been troubling me for a bit.
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And I've realized I can basically just do a left arm on that day. Still basically do a full day's workout, just a bit extra on the left.
And
it'll give me like a day of healing, I guess, on the right. So
I'm able to work through it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm feeling I'm feeling really good. Feeling really good. Good.
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And maybe could get some points soon. I could probably do it.
Now ish if I, if I allowed myself to
count like,
pretty sloppy form as
a for like doing a flag and touching the ground with my foot and coming back up.
If I allowed like
myself to shift to the side, instead of staying rock solid and all coming from the obliques,
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I could technically tick something off. But
I'll allow like some poor form but not not not that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, if you're getting close already with that, it's feeling
good. I'm really happy with where I'm at. So yep, gonna do like a solid month probably take like a week off towards the end of March. So that'd be a solid 2 months maybe of training and then, yeah. The time off.
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There you go. Okay. Well, feeling good. There's the lead into February folks. That's been our monthly goals for January, how we went and February was to come. Yeah. Once again, if there's anything from you me and mortal lines that you wanna share in terms of monthly goals, how you do it, how you map it up to the annual goals, anything else in between, feel free to call it out. Yeah. Is there any comments or anything There is. To touch on? So we do have couple people, Patricia, Cole and Lucas in the chat. Luke said, Joe. Joe. And Cole says, Juan's for every goal is continue living, continue thinking, and make a spreadsheet of every thought ever. Absolutely.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My spreadsheet's It's a good way to end. A master masterful,
big long thing.
Beautiful. Was it good? Beautiful. No. I think I've talked about it. I have talked about it before, but I I my my spreadsheet,
saw that I reference it all the time for sure. Or when I need to reference it, I have found it's been a dream. It's been, like, really, really good. In fact, there was
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a 2 times now of use it where, 1, there was a comment around like, oh, what happened last Christmas? Not the not the Christmas going by, but the one beforehand.
And then something about my daughter in terms of, you know, when was the first time she did something. I was able to locate it really quickly and be able to
bring it up really quickly in my mind just by reading a few lines I was like cool this is brilliant this is really good. Nice.
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Anyways, we'll leave it there in Immortalized. Thank you very much for joining for those who are doing so live you can also do that on a monthly basis.
Stick around. We'll be doing some musing straight after this. So Correct. All scams. Post post a new link. Right. Memorialize, thank you very much. Be well wherever you are in the world. 1 out. Bye.
Bye.
Welcome back Mere Mortalites to a wonderful edition of the monthly goals. It is a chance for us to have a bit of a conversation around what's been happening monthly from a perspective of goals or things that we're trying to achieve. We normally look back at the month of was also the month to come. You've got Juan here on this side. And Kyrin here on the other side. So we're gonna This is we're recording live on the 2nd February, Sunday, 8:45. A little bit delayed. My apologies. But we're here as usual and the goals will be for what happened in January, what's coming up in February and fitness. So one,
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you like to start give me a January recap. January goals.
So just to give you a bit of a recap, folks. 7, I had 7 goals, listed out. I didn't get 2 of them done. So let me just focus on those particular 2. One was the 2 kilo drop in body weight, starting point of the month of 90 kilos.
Now, it was gonna be an average view to this particular goal in any case, like I wasn't gonna say, I'm not setting it as done if I hit 88 kilos one day and I'll be like yeah I did it no I got down I think I mentioned like 89 I did get to 88.7
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something on one particular day which again it's not even 2 kilos however
this is even the funniest thing. I think I was averaging for a couple of days. It was at 89.1
or something like that. That would be like the average. And then I checked yesterday my weight to be like, okay, well it's 1st February, let's see what it was. That was 90. So I was like The whole Jesus. That was like no changes there. So again, look, it deviates back and forth depending on the day.
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I did have some travel
with,
it was like really terrible eating,
but then not enough eating. So
again, you'll see how it kind of I've shifted the plan into the next monthly goals. So there's still very much the yang in an annual basis, but the let's say the focus of it is different. Let's see. Ultimately, what I want to achieve is the same, but you'll see what I mean. The other one though that I'll mark myself down as now was the booking all the flights
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for wedding and honeymoon. So wedding is all booked. The honeymoon aspect,
nah, not even close. There was just
a whole host of other adjacent things that we needed to sort out, which after having conversations is more priority just in terms of, hey, you need someone to go and custom make this or tailor that or get things ready. Okay,
that we kind of have to sort out first before the flights. We still have some wiggle room on that plus the bookings.
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But again, it's going to show up again in the next month as well. He's he's leaving his options open so he can come join me in Italy.
Yeah. That's what's happening. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe, you know, maybe I'll I'll make a surprise husky appearance at the, prior to or something like that. Well, that that's that's before. That's what I mean. Maybe I'll have to go well, true. I've already booked the flights. Damn. It's a pre pre wedding.
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I don't even know what to call it. The other ones,
which was all around sleeping. I did improve. Look, every day was pretty hit pretty well. Even though there was so short amount of sleep,
the efficiency or the effectiveness that I tried to get out of it was the best I could.
The running challenge, I think I hit,
let's say
probably
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13 of the 15 runs I wanted to do over the month, which I was like, maybe even more. So I was really happy with that.
And the 2 g p t agents created, in fact, one of them was for the mere mortals
and podcast. And I've lot of I've been using it religiously now for a lot of my things. So just to give you a quick idea for people listening at home, what I had done was in the past, I created heaps of prompts for various things I wanted to do. So I had a word document, I had multiple word documents where I was like, oh, if I wanna do this, copy this prompt, cool user, whatnot.
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And didn't really only click until recently. I was like, oh, why don't I just create a GPT agent that has all of those things all at once, but then it's also
feeding into everything that I'm creating or we're creating from a podcast perspective to learn,
like, the way we sound and the way we create things and whatnot. So, anyways, been using that and it's it's been
still a little tweak it every now and again, but it's been really good. And again, this is for back end subscriptions, that sort of thing, but it's become,
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very quick to implement. Nowadays, all I have to do is literally upload a transcript
and give it like a one line of what the episode was and it gives me
every single thing that you probably see the rest get generated.
So
descriptions, timelines,
not the images, but also if I wanna do like a blog, if I what where I clip it, where I wanna create the reels from, all that sort of stuff. So it's been really good. I really, really enjoyed doing it. There was another business one as well that we did as well.
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The applying the monthly plan for the mere mortals content creation, that went really good. That was really, really, really solid. I really enjoyed doing that. I found myself, I think over the month of January ended up creating way more things than I had in the past.
And I also got to see where I had to kind of push on things or move things around. That did help out a lot. I will do it in February,
with a different intent, I guess, let's just say.
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So there's a, I guess, the summary of of January. There's a lot, there's a lot going on in January. It felt like it went generally quick, man. Yeah, it was a lot on everyone I talked to
this, you know, usually the general consensus is
December is hectic. January is still busy, but it's not it's not like compared to December. Not monthly. Yeah.
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January was just heckers for me as well. December felt like it was quiet compared to January. Yeah. Yep. So this reflects kind of my goals as well. So I'd say I probably did like 60%.
I have 8. I'm actually just going to talk about the ones that I did do. Okay, because the ones that I didn't do a lot of them are transferring over to the next month. Okay. Yep.
So
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reread implement day bang old journal did book review on that more gym openers utilize could cute dog be actually did do that was going out
a little bit more. That was that was pretty fun. I had quite enjoyed doing all of that. It was good. I
saw some minor results from that as well, which was good. Prepare the house for an Aussie Day barbecue. I did. That was probably what took up most of my January.
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The backyard was
a wreck and the patio everything. So I spent a lot of time on that.
And yeah, so it was usable in more light time. It was usable. We're able to run around. Yeah, yeah. And so one of the things that happened from that was
I probably overbought
food. That was just, that was just a lot of food around.
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And so
I've been
smashing it all out and like a lot of it's bread and meat and just heavy stuff.
And it's gonna go out of date and so eat it relatively quick. So this week, this week, I was eating a lot of it.
I touched on 80 kilos. So
once
once going down, I'm going up, I'm gonna be in the middle.
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That's not true. I'm not gonna stay around my my high 70s as usual.
So I did the podcast episode of the
of the crypto things. I didn't create the checklist.
I did my annual checkup, but I didn't go out and do the the one arm handstand day at the park and record a video and stuff.
Didn't do any of the Husky things. I did do all the translation.
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I've finished up with Portuguese for now. There's no more
I think learning going to be happening on my part of I've read the German side wanted.
It's getting to German time. I was thinking maybe like,
is there anything I can do with Spanish?
I don't want to talk with my brother's girlfriend who's Colombian in Spanish because it's just going to be the same problem that I have had with you.
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She speaks better English than my my Spanish.
And it's better to just default to the if it's someone that you see every day, and you don't want to have like,
starting conversations
with Yeah, so not going to do that.
I did initiate some DNA DNMs.
I have been putting off so that was good, but I still miss 1 or 2. And I did create the Morpheus podcast.
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So it was I'm happy enough with what I did this month. Morpheus podcast, have we gotten any feedback?
Feedback from anybody? I've started reaching out to some of the people actually in the in their
Discord to say like, Hey, do you mind actually watching
me? Give me some feedback. So I think it's also you know, it's just the first episode. So people could be like, is this guy gonna stay around?
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So maybe didn't even see it and I think so. Well, the thing I think it usually takes like 6 episodes, something like that. It's something about well, I know it's 6 episodes for the actual algorithms
of Apple and Spotify to actually give a damn about what you're releasing, similar with the stuff that we're doing now. So there's probably some,
human aspect of it as well. And if you see, like, 1 or 2, it's like, okay. But if you start seeing a few more, okay.
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They're probably putting in some sort of effort or there's enough meat in here that I can go and check out.
So I don't
ascribe to the
probably best practice of
drumming up a whole bunch of
hype before the podcast before releasing. There's not a lot of us. I like that. To be honest. Now that we do a disservice to ourselves and not doing this with the podcast. If you're listening at home, we there's a big part about hyping things if you're selling like especially products
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nowadays, or at least what I've seen,
I've had a couple of these people on the show, but people who sell hats
and apparel, a few different things, the initial, like, hype up and then getting people to come in and jump in and buy something,
like that's huge that's a big part of it. Now we're not selling anything but there is a part of us trying to get you to watch and then support us by supporting you with some value
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and look I guess we could be doing better than that we just don't know that's my side. That's okay. That's okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool.
I didn't didn't faze me one way or the other quick touch up on the just on the support side of things. What have you been seeing from the value from value kind of model? Yeah, yeah. So I've
I'm still lagging behind on 1 or 2 episodes of the podcasting 2.0.
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In terms of,
I've
read I found out recently this this why I actually really enjoy
just
serendipity that you can kind of get with podcasts. So I was just going to
James Cridland's and Sam Sethi's both have been on the show before
the
their pod news, pod news podcast, the in the sum up episode that they do
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pod news weekly, I think it's called. And
I
look a lot of it's just like industry podcasting news, there was a time where I was more interested in that. I'm not as much now but I still will go and listen to like the final part of their episode where they will talk about themselves a little bit Tech Weekly, etc.
And yeah, I found out there's a like basically a podcast and 2.0 event hosted by Sam and
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in London in May. No way right before basically I'm gonna go there. So I was just like, well,
maybe Yeah, but you know, I was I was thinking I'll fly into Germany. I was looking up flights actually cheaper to fly into London. So I was like, okay, well,
I should just do that. You heard it here. First folks, it's gonna be in London in May.
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So so so
they're still doing lots of things. You know,
Sam Sethi himself is moving away from boostograms
that name to just super comments or comments, something like that on true fans. Okay, which is kind of the YouTube styling of it. Yeah. And he's always been more of a
aiming for the broad appeal rather than
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just the niche. Like he wants true fans for everyone, essentially.
And
I have set up all of our new podcasts just with Instagram support. So if anyone wants to, they can.
But I don't imagine you'll be pushing it on me more emotion. I probably won't be talking about it much on Morpheus.
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Other than just like a side listening thing again. I wonder and this is just a little drop and we can move on.
Like a little note. I wonder if psychologically or if just
by the mechanisms that are becoming available, people are opting in to
own more crypto, but in the way of using it via ETFs.
And
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so because they're doing that, and then
not having it available to be able to send
back and forth in a p two p way or support. I wonder it was I had a conversation with someone on the fly back, from Canberra, which kinda made me be like,
they're more interested in crypto,
but not in the way that they themselves own it in that in that way to be able to p2p send it to one another. So I was like, okay, that's kind of interesting. So it's like feeding the point of that. But it's like this very much people, more people owning, I guess, in that theoretical way. But they don't know. Yeah.
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Well, if you if you there are ways look out for your correct ETFs out there.
But but,
no, I'm actually kind of excited with the Morpheus one to
run the value for value model and not really be talking about the boostgrams and see
what I can do in terms of other methods
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of of support and in
contributions,
because that it's it's another open source community.
And so they're,
they'll be, I think, be more amenable to the message that I'm trying to give,
rather than
to like a general lay public, if it was just a
general specific. It is there. It's much more specific. Okay, good stuff. But yeah, everyone who's supporting the show over the over this last month, very much appreciated
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for us helps keeps the lights on these lights right here. This one and this one. I can't see them, but there's lights there. There's lights. You better believe there's lights and it is very much appreciated. So
keep that keep that up. Thank you very much. Great.
Let's talk about February. Every 2025 goes.
I have 5.
I did notice there was. Yep. I pulled it back. In fact, I had 4 And then I added one more that I sent across now. 5. Look, you heard from the previous month, I got 5 done out of 7. I can already see. So what I'm going to be talking about here for these particular goals, there's all these other things that need to get done this particular month that don't fit underneath a goal because I don't map to an annual goal or the previous things I already have scheduled.
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There's a lot of things going on in February that either just not here or I'm not can't talk about it just yet. So that's probably why a reduction. I'm like, yeah, I know. Oh, well, I need to just pull back on some of these, but those 5
are 2, on my let's face body, 2 in the mind, 1 in soul body. I wanna focus my so this is the white thing. I'm gonna focus my food intake,
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principally around what I'm training, so more protein, less carbs. This is, one of the things I guess I already this is what I would want to do to achieve that 2 KG drop
that I was aiming for in January.
What I'm putting my goal of more so here is look,
just really focus, but for me I train in the mornings
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and I'm not eating until way later on in the day. What I'm finding doing that is
overall, while the calories might be the right ones that I'm doing, I'm finding myself
not hungry, but not feeding myself correctly in the mornings,
then I delay it, it's not making me feel like great in the afternoon eating or attempting to eat all that food because then at that point, Mark, I can only eat so much now. And back back in the day, I might be able to, like, eat a ton load of food straight away. Now I have a
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big bowl of pastas to say, I'm like, oh, man. I'm full. I'm not gonna have another bowl of pasta even though it's what I could probably eat or need to eat for the calories that I need. So you bring them earlier. What are you planning on dropping? Do you have much fat to drop or you are you just gonna have to drop? I don't know. Muscle? No. There's definitely gonna be some fat to drop for sure.
But I think some of it is gonna be well What are you aiming for, like, 8 kilos reduction from Yeah. Eight kilos. Some of it might be a little bit of muscle. I think it's gonna have to be a little bit of muscle. Some of it's gonna be a little bit of muscle, to be honest with you. If you have that much fat to drop. I don't know if it'll be, well, good aim, but I guess this yeah. For me, I'm like, okay, let me change tack. Let me just focus
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my intake of food specifically around
where I needed, like, specific food intake more in the morning when I've just not been doing that. I've just been skipping the breakfast. So more priority in that. And not
definitely not carnival, but going much more heavy towards that is what I found especially when I was traveling,
last week is that oh man those days I was just like having carbs and pizza or whatever and there was just a lot of
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there's a lot of protein missing and for me the easiest one is just meat meat, get it in that way. There's other ways but for me I prefer that.
So yes, there's one. 2nd one, this is mapped to the running, embracing the longer running on the weekends. Don't stress about what gets missed. And I say don't stress about what gets missed because
they
are part of my mentality still, I wanna go and do a 10 kilometer run
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and also do some arm workout or do a little bit of back or do some of this,
where it's now starting to become half good about things 13 weeks till the half marathon. I had okay, I want to put like a good effort not just do it but do it in a good effort. What are you aiming for?
Like sub 2 sub 2 sub 2 sub 2 But if I'll Sub 2 hours. Sub 2 hours. I'm like, if I'm gonna put effort to do it,
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don't just do it and complete it and do it and put in some good effort towards it. I'm sorry. That's more from myself as a reminder of, look, it's gonna be long runs this week, this month, but also don't worry about what gets missed from a training perspective. Just be completely aware of that. I'm telling myself upfront. I'm gonna miss some of my lifting. That's okay.
The 2 aspects on the mind, now this was a big one, which is why I've just listed it as own and I didn't like know Dale's stuff. Aimed for 3 book reviews this month. 3 3 book reviews. 3 books reviews. So I'm almost almost done 48 Laws of Power, still going. And that book
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is heavy. I've stopped reading. I don't know if you've booked when you read 48 Laws of Power or if you ever read it. The little thing on the side. Yeah. I've stopped reading those things. I'm just like Oh, man. Man. That's good. Well, actually, which is interesting because I enjoyed that. I'll talk about it, I guess, when I'm doing the podcast.
But,
like,
with those side pieces, like it's basically you've got the normal text, and then you've got text on the edges of the book as well. And the edges, if I recall correctly, those were the actual examples of people doing it right? No, not examples. But it was the it was like fables, the fables, the quotes, the stories, which I'm assuming is the reference points that he was leveraging to create the text. Okay. That was that was being fruit. So, you know, in a lot of them, he seemed to relate a lot of the work to a lot of the kings and queens of
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1500, 1600, 1800, a lot of French stuff. And so there was a lot of,
descriptive things like stories or famous quotes or famous quips from around that era. One aspect though that I found is there's a lot of the fables
from which you've done a book review not too long ago. Oh, yeah. I see. And I was like, fuck, this is shit. I was just like, I don't want to read. I think I've read them like, I would have read like 12 of them. After that, I was like, I don't wanna read another one. I'm just gonna skip these things. I'm not not reading them at all.
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Like, I I'm finding this more and more and it is a side piece, but I'm finding this more and more that while I understand that that's kind of like the root where a lot of the ideas which Robert Greene and all of other people create books from,
I enjoy absorbing it by an already analyzed
version of what they are as opposed to reading that Yeah. That's why you like Friday on holiday. Yeah. Honestly, like I was in reading some I was like, I get this but I prefer to read it and consume it in someone who's already analyzed and maybe broken it down into a few other stories of of practical life.
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That that's just me. But it was 3 book reviews, we'll see how we go.
And then the other one for the mind is just planning out the favorite content to pursue the fitness brand as well. So I haven't done that yet. So which I really want to do. And literally,
that is the only way if I don't plan it again, like I talked about in January, if I don't plan for it, there's no way I'm gonna do 3 book reviews, there's no way I'm gonna do any more fitness stuff, because I will just let other life come into play and not do it. So so it really worked really well in January. I'm gonna do it again in February so I can just plan that out and go forward. And the last one,
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I wrote this down. This is asked on February, folks, so you can hold me to it.
I've gotta book all the flights.
All of them? All of them. Oh, it's not End purchase clothes for the wedding. All of them. All of them are gonna be done on February. There is no You don't need to do that. Not gonna get that well. I do. There's there's a certain other reason I can't talk about on here, but
all my spending has to be done in February. All my spending has to be completed by February so I'm gonna maximize my spending. Tax man's coming up. It has to be done in February. I wish it was just Tax man.
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But yes and purchase clothes as well for the wedding as well. So that's gonna happen absolutely in February. So
pulling back a little bit on all the overall goals, I'm not listening to things about,
other self improvement things. There was a few other type of annual goals. I'm like, nah. You pull them away. There's some key focuses in February that's gonna get done. Sure. Okay. That's February for me. Sounds like it'll still be a busy month. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's gonna be
(21:13):
Delicious. Delicious.
I didn't list this. Didn't list it. So I was like, I can't do it. But yesterday, which is technically 1st February. Correct? Yes. Yeah. 1st February, I did my, like,
turf games competition as well. I'll talk about that separately in the fitness Yeah. Space.
But I was gonna write it down and be like, do
what's the point? I just did it. Sorry. I was that would be fun. I'll talk about it in the fitness podcast that's to come. Yeah, I know what you mean. I've got my 8 here. Some of these are going to be very
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reminiscent of last month. So
number 1, keep the searching mindset despite travel plans is what I've noticed last year was when the searching mindset so in particular,
like keeping my eyes open
opportunities peeled
for meeting a lady. Oh, right. Okay. Despite already doing things where it's like, I'm not going to be here in 3 months, 4 months time, you know, it's going to throw a wrench in the work. So
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I
want to keep keep an open mindset,
despite
doing other things which are somewhat contradictory.
So organize other Q1 events. So these things related to like my birthday
traveling,
had a chat with Joey
with broad shoulders last last night was trying to organize go down see him
(22:28):
That that fell through pretty quickly. How's he going? Yeah, he's good, man. He's good.
Why did he fall through? Just just because of when I'm basically I'm going to do like a family thing with my dad and my brother and we're going to see his side of the family. And I was going to try and organize something either before or after that.
It doesn't doesn't really work out with Joey's plans.
(22:49):
The physical checklist of crypto speculation system. So I want to actually
write this out, print this off or something like that.
Have something so that I can tick it off, I think it'd be kind of fun. So I saw one the other day where
it was
people who I would consider
financial professionals,
although
(23:10):
like a financial professional in the TradFi
world, and they were talking about ETFs and things like this, and
it got on to crypto.
And one of them, like half jokingly half seriously said,
doge was a blue chip meme. And I was like, that's one of the symptoms like take it off. I'd love to have tick that off right in the moment. So I want to do that.
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Really want to
what's that? Blue Chip meme? I don't think you can you never heard that before? No, no, I don't think you can attribute blue chip. No, you can't say that. That's that's ridiculous.
Record and analyze
a one arm handstand day at the park. So definitely got to do this. And do a skin checkup. So I did all like my blood results, all those sorts of things, but I didn't
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get time to get a skin checkup done. So it's been quite a few years since I've done that. Worth doing for those at home as well.
I'm going to have a chat with Hoskie.
The blueprint of the big brain bingo plan.
Yeah.
We'll see about that. I'm already starting to notice like, that's gonna be a lot of work. So
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it's more it's more fun than
if anything happens with that, that'd be that'd be funny, but probably not start travel planning. So this is going to be related to yes, flight. So I'll probably book 1 or 2, but
maybe just the first one probably.
I think I need to renew my passport. So I probably should get on top of that.
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And
begin reading a German book. So just
start trying to read one see if I've got
still any of level
in there. I'm
thinking that I probably don't have enough because the books that I've got
are adult books and not children books. They're not as simple as the Alchemist, for example.
So just jump into it and be like, oh, yeah, yeah, I don't want to I don't want to jump into it and be like, well, every every third word having to be hard. So
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you know, that that might alter and I'll start listening to some German podcasts again, perhaps doing
not Duolingo, but
something similar.
Bring back steeliness in places you're starting to slip. So this relates to character. So just a couple of things related to like health, sleeping,
eating,
even like fitness prep,
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just some stuff around the house. There's all sorts of things where I'm like, you're kind of slipping up there. Like you should
you were doing better 2 months ago. Try and try and bring that back.
And then the,
explore the Morpheus GitHub slash git book. I've been meaning to do that and get around to it. And I've got we're talking about playlists recently,
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and I've got this massive playlist on
YouTube,
but it's kind of unfiltered
and some of these episodes go back years. Oh, just. Wow. Okay. And which I enjoy having. I enjoy having something so that it's there's always something I can go to
in those moments of weakness when you're like, there's nothing on. There's nothing here. Yeah. I've never felt I've never Yeah. Okay. You'd be in the minority. I'm always in a I'll tell you what, I'm in a constant state where
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this is like serious
constant state every almost I would say daily, weekly, where I'm like, holy crap. I've got 7 things I've gotta, like, watch. I'm gonna go see, like, I've gotta go watch them all. And the next week will even if I watch them all, next week, I'd be like, oh, my God, there's another like 5 I've got to go like go and catch up on. Okay. More that than the other. So that'd be very rare. So I think most people would be able to relate to
(26:44):
going on to something like Netflix or YouTube and
just going there's a record there's record well, no, there's recommended things in front of them, but none of them are appealing to them. And so they just scroll
just trying to find something that appeals to them for
5, 10, 15 minutes and not having anything and then complaining. So so so yeah. So I think how could I guess I gotta like put out here my my weirdness.
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I only started using playlists last week. Yep. Probably after I was like, you know, because I found actually it was useful when I'm on the run on the treadmill.
If there's a couple of videos I want to watch I can put it on a playlist and then it'll just autoplay which is amazing I'll have to pick it up and like change it so that's one thing. I've never
ever
watched a recommended video like know when it's like finishes a video and it just goes to a recommended or, like, there's a side note. Never, never had ever done that.
(27:32):
But that that one about, like, oh, yeah. Never like something to come. I'm always the opposite
in a bad way still where I'm like, oh my god. I've got to watch, like, this new one from Jordan Peterson. Oh, this one from Tim Ferriss. And this other one from other ones. And this other one from like, how do you know which ones to watch? If you don't have a playlist? Like you mentally keep a track? Yeah, I'll mentally keep a track of all of the ones. I'm like, I could tell you now. Maybe you're like 7 or 10 off top of mind right now. I've gotta watch those next. And then like these next ones come out and I'm like, oh, and it even gets to the point. I'm like, okay. They are weird. I have to watch this. Sometimes they come weird. The That way. I think there's a, like, there's a few from Leila, I'm losing, or Jordan, who I'll be like, oh, okay. If I watch them at 3 speed,
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I'll be able to finish both by this time. So I can watch these other 2 in the next thing and then it's like That's messed up. It's a completely other extreme.
Of of, content consumption for me.
Oh, man.
Yeah, I'm not I'm not weird. I'm not weird. You
influenced me to be weird. But the
the the thing with that is I want to prioritize
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AI episodes again. So I was actually going through last night and bumping some of these to the top of the playlist. So they were focusing on anything in particular? Are you generalizing the AI consumption? Are you going down the specific path? Or just
if I let's see, I can go on to it right now. And I'll like, is it like AI news?
Is it AI on the like, very specific tech? Is it is a reality?
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Is it more robotics? There's a couple of things at the top. So
obviously
Morpheus project updates, things like that.
So there's,
this lady I found, what was her name? Casey
Karen, I think. And PC Day Denver decentralized AI,
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Jason Tang inside virtuals, media, ARRISE gaming IP in the age of AI,
you know, something like Marc Andreessen on Lex Fridman. He's probably got some interesting insights.
There were some ones further down here as well. It's like, yeah, it's like a mix of kind of newsy type things. I posted in the Discord
(29:39):
yesterday, a blog that I read, which I thought was kind of interesting. So
the history of chat gbt. So it's a bit of a broader it's a bit of a broader like view of everything. Everything. Yep. Yep. I would recommend people if you don't want to get like, if you don't mind going, deep into particular, I would recommend the Lex Fridman 7 hour
podcast episode with the Claude
(30:02):
team. Yeah. That was, I think, really good. I think I've got that in here, but it's it's down the list. Maybe I'll bump it up. But see, this is the problem with that with these sort of things. It's and that's why I was asking you. That one, I could see in a few months, which is kind of almost become almost irrelevant apart from it a historical CAPTCHA Exactly. Because of how fast things change. So in any case. Yep.
(30:22):
Yep. Yeah. So that's, that's all of my goals. Let's jump on to fitness
one
fitness stuff.
Yeah. So I guess I talked about it already. This is 2 two aspects for it right now. 1 is running. So already touched on the half marathon prep. So that's been going
pretty well. I was able to just do most of the things I wanted to do in January. In February, those kilometres are going up.
(30:44):
I guess the only thing that was a slight wrench was a random competition that I did yesterday out of nowhere that I wasn't really planning for. So besides that, there's nothing else now. I think that's gonna get in the way for the prep. So that's going well.
Training one, like strength wise,
or just generally wise, I felt
let's just say
there hasn't been any new PRs or gains. But what has been gained
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is
probably the increase in mobility in a reduction in soreness. That's been really good. So I've been training, I may have been training the last month, 2 months, 3 months. But let's take it back all the way to 6 months, 7 months ago, I was training in the next day, I was really sore. I couldn't go and do a similar amount of work that I've done. Yesterday,
(31:31):
the workout that I did was, you know, 2 plus hours long, like it was quite a huge amount of effort to be done. Today,
no soreness, like zero soreness. I could go, in fact, I'm planning to do a 10 ks run at some point once my daughter goes to sleep today. Totally fine. I'm like good to go. A little wobbly in the knees, but apart from that, not muscularly wise. For me, I think the big win is I'm keeping my strength and mobility as much as I need to, but with the added bonus now that my recovery has improved significantly. So I'm like, fuck yeah. That's really good. Because that I wasn't finding. I was having, you know, and when you find that it's like, oh, it starts to be a bit of a drag because you're too sore or you don't wanna do the lifts you wanna do because you're, you know, just trained a couple of days before. So for me, I'm like, oh, yeah, this is really nice.
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The good thing with you is you can combine things. So when you're running, for example, you remember you told me in the past that your biceps would hurt. And that's what stopped you from running. So essentially doing a bicep workout whilst running. In the so very very quickly in the competition yesterday, the
the work was one of the workouts was,
1.5 kilometers of rowing, running, 1.5 kilometers of running of rowing, running, and then finishing off and
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running. When I finished that not only was I
like like super tired and right from engine sort of work, my arms were pumped like absolutely pumping my triceps and biceps and if you actually look at the photos because I just was looking at them before of the event, at the beginning of it, like I just look normal, like, as I do not walking around. When I was finished, I was like pumped like I had like done a bicep workout. Really? Yeah. Plus sweatiest ball balls. In one in one piece. But it's only one it's only one guy. But on that training training is feeling good. Training feeling good. What about yours? Yeah, good. Good. Yeah, the
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I'm very much in the mode now of 4 days a week of 1 arm handstand. So Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.
And those are the days I can kind of lock in get a really good
warm
up, not need to rush,
everything's just really optimized to a tee for those days.
And then Wednesdays
and Saturdays or today will be Sunday instead.
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We'll do like a leg workout of some sort of usually like hip flexors or just straight up legs, calves,
hip thrust is all that sort of good stuff.
It feels like I'm
doing all this stuff now that
will show results in probably a year's time.
It's like, it's extremely frustrating in one sense in that. Is there any leading indicators that are telling you that? Yeah, I'm getting,
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you know, just some holds here and there where it's,
I'm floating, I'm definitely floating.
It's not
strong.
Really, like locked in like, sometimes
I'll be in the position, I can feel my shoulder going out.
I can kind of save it a bit by chucking my leg the other way. But you know, if I look at that,
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if I take a video when I take a video and do that, I'll know okay, you know, that's this is not what the pros are doing that they're just staying
locked in the shoulders in the correct position and their shoulders.
And that's and that's how it's meant to be it's like, you
want to make the adjustments from the lowest point possible. So it should be from your hand first, then into your elbow, then into your shoulder. And And then if you're trying to make adjustments with your hips and legs,
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you're fucked. Yeah, that's that's you can save it, but it's not going to look pretty and it's
going to be extremely taxing. And so. Yeah, that's a good point.
It is extremely taxing, man. Towards the end of like the 2 hours of so basically I do like 2 hours of handstands and then an hour or 40 minutes of
supplementary
chest, arms,
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obliques, whatever it is.
After those 2 hours,
I'll just be constantly
squeezing my hands and stuff because my wrists are on fire. And they've really had
2 hours of doing that. So yeah, it's it's good. It's great. In fact,
having a lot of fun doing it.
Realized I was getting some neck pain in my right neck has been troubling me for a bit.
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And I've realized I can basically just do a left arm on that day. Still basically do a full day's workout, just a bit extra on the left.
And
it'll give me like a day of healing, I guess, on the right. So
I'm able to work through it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm feeling I'm feeling really good. Feeling really good. Good.
(35:53):
And maybe could get some points soon. I could probably do it.
Now ish if I, if I allowed myself to
count like,
pretty sloppy form as
a for like doing a flag and touching the ground with my foot and coming back up.
If I allowed like
myself to shift to the side, instead of staying rock solid and all coming from the obliques,
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I could technically tick something off. But
I'll allow like some poor form but not not not that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, if you're getting close already with that, it's feeling
good. I'm really happy with where I'm at. So yep, gonna do like a solid month probably take like a week off towards the end of March. So that'd be a solid 2 months maybe of training and then, yeah. The time off.
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There you go. Okay. Well, feeling good. There's the lead into February folks. That's been our monthly goals for January, how we went and February was to come. Yeah. Once again, if there's anything from you me and mortal lines that you wanna share in terms of monthly goals, how you do it, how you map it up to the annual goals, anything else in between, feel free to call it out. Yeah. Is there any comments or anything There is. To touch on? So we do have couple people, Patricia, Cole and Lucas in the chat. Luke said, Joe. Joe. And Cole says, Juan's for every goal is continue living, continue thinking, and make a spreadsheet of every thought ever. Absolutely.
(37:16):
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My spreadsheet's It's a good way to end. A master masterful,
big long thing.
Beautiful. Was it good? Beautiful. No. I think I've talked about it. I have talked about it before, but I I my my spreadsheet,
saw that I reference it all the time for sure. Or when I need to reference it, I have found it's been a dream. It's been, like, really, really good. In fact, there was
(37:38):
a 2 times now of use it where, 1, there was a comment around like, oh, what happened last Christmas? Not the not the Christmas going by, but the one beforehand.
And then something about my daughter in terms of, you know, when was the first time she did something. I was able to locate it really quickly and be able to
bring it up really quickly in my mind just by reading a few lines I was like cool this is brilliant this is really good. Nice.
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Anyways, we'll leave it there in Immortalized. Thank you very much for joining for those who are doing so live you can also do that on a monthly basis.
Stick around. We'll be doing some musing straight after this. So Correct. All scams. Post post a new link. Right. Memorialize, thank you very much. Be well wherever you are in the world. 1 out. Bye.
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