Are you in the gap or the gain?
So in order to answer this question first, we got to explain a few things
so this is a concept that Dan Sullivan
created and I learned about it in the book called 10x is easier than 2x now as
You guys know I've only I'm only in my first read through on this book, so I'm not an expert and I
Am not extremely knowledgeable in it yet because I just read about the gap in the game this morning
But pretty much most people's default
mode is the gap and
What the gap is it's all about
comparing yourself or comparing your current relationships to ever changing
Standards that you've set or ever changing future goals or future strivings
so
basically if your goal is
to make
two million dollars in a year
then and
You're and you're in the gap if you're functioning in the gap and your goal is to make two million dollars in a year then you will
Essentially make a lot more. So let's say you make progress
Let's say you go for making ten thousand dollars a year to
900,000 dollars a year
And now you didn't achieve your goal
However, you did increase your income by a significant sum by an extremely large sum
But since you're in the gap then you will be saying oh, I didn't make my goal. I like I'm bad
I I'm in a terrible position. I suck like you'll pretty much be not happy about it
Even though you should be happy about making nine hundred thousand dollars
and
Then let's say another example is if you
Reach your goal if you make two million dollars then you you'll probably find some other
reason to be mad like maybe it took too long or maybe
Something I don't even know maybe you missed a few opportunities
So that's pretty much the gap and that's most people's default
Stand like standard mode of operating
Now what the gain is the gain?
Are let me explain this first
The gap in the gain are two different kind of mindsets when it comes to the world or kind of worldviews you could say and
They relate to the 10x
process
so first on recap
most people live in a 2 in the 2x and
it's basically where they're
Not really pushing too hard 80% of their actions are spent
doing things they're already used to things they're comfortable with and then
20% is doing new actions new uncomfortable things
Things you're maybe not good at yet
So that's the two that's the 2x and then the 10x is basically
When you're living in that 20% so instead of 20% of the actions being
Like new it becomes 80% of the actions becoming new
So you basically go all in on that 20%
like I like to think of the 20% is like the target for evolution and like target for self-improvement
You want to live in that 20% for the majority of your time and
the 10x allows for evolution and
massive improvement
So one example is when you are crawling as a baby and then you learn how to walk that's a 10x
That's a 10x jump is what?
Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy dr. Benjamin Hardy says
That's a 10x jump. So whenever you kind of evolve as a person or evolve as an entrepreneur or evolve as
Like a husband boyfriend or whatever it may be then that's a 10x jump
so if you go from a blog like a
Running a blog to becoming an author, which is what James Clear and dr. Hardy both did
Then that's a 10x jump
and then one of the examples that he told about is
Michelangelo he was famous
a sculptor or artist and he basically
wanted to learn how to sculpt a
sculpture and
He didn't know anything about anatomy and he needed to know anatomy in order to create the sculpture that he wanted and like
know how to create it so and
The only way to study it study anatomy it was to kind of study the dead and
And it was illegal to do that
So he had to do it like at nighttime in the dark and kind of sneak around
And then he studied and he became the most masterful
Anatomist or he became the most masterful at anatomy and that allowed him to create the sculpture called the Hercules and then eventually
Like the Hercules
was his first 10x jump and then he created another sculpture called the David and that was
Even more incredible than the Hercules and that was his next 10x jump and
And the David was like world famous. It was absolutely an astonishing sculpture
Versus the still good Hercules, but
What dr. Hardy says it's kind of like
Comparing fast food to fine dining. You can't really compare it
But that's pretty much the 10x and so let's go back to the gap in the game
The gap is what most people's default mode is and then the gain is
What is better?
so
When you're doing the 10x process when you're going 10x and you're operating in the gap
You're still you still may make some progress
But it's gonna be miserable like life is gonna be miserable and you're not really gonna
experience that much joy out of it and then eventually you'll kind of burn out
So you won't be able to make that much progress for very long
now the gain is all about
Being looking back at your past self and looking at all the progress that you made all the achievements that you've made and
the progress that you've made
Within the past day past month past week past month past year past decade like look back at all the
progress that you made in the past up until this point so look back at everything that all the wins and even all the failures and
Still interpret them as good because you learned something out of them when you're operating in the game
You're basically it's basically following coordinating intention
Except it's more of a hindsight thing is what I've come to understand so far
So coordinating intention is a trans surfing principle and
in trans surfing I
Learned about it in Rowdy trans serving by Vadim Zellin and coordinating intention is basically
interpreting everything
Every event that happens as positive as good now
This is actually
Because whenever you experience an event you're at a crossroads
So you're at a road when you're experiencing the event you're at a road and there's two options
you can either go left or you can go right and
depending on which way you choose it'll have a positive outcome or a negative outcome and
and
This is with any event in life
So literally anything when you stub your toe when you pass your test
when you
receive a check in the mail
literally any possible experience in life
your at a crossroads and
The way you choose the outcome is
By your attitude towards that so your relationship to that problem
so if you choose to express
satisfaction or joy and
Happiness then you'll take that positive route
Whereas if you express
dissatisfaction inks
disc discomfort
on ease like anger
At all that all the negative emotions
Then you'll take that negative route and then life will go down from there
And then you'll get another negative event and another and another
And that's pretty much what coordinating intention is it's to perceive all things that happen as good and
perceive everything that happens to you is it happens for you like everything happens for you in
the
It happens for you in your
Progress towards your goals. That's pretty much what
coordinating intention is coordination and
There's a lot of like pretty much everything that the 10x rule like the other 10x is easier than 2x is all about
It's all in Transurfing as well except he phrases it more scientifically and there's a lot more
actual science to back it up whereas in
Transurfing there's no real like scientific studies like he doesn't have a
Like at the end of a scientific book
They always have the studies and then like the sources that they use and all the like
Experiments and a lot all of those things
There's none of that in Transurfing
He basically says like how the world is and then says to test it and prove it for yourself
He basically writes down exactly in I'm talking about Transurfing right now Transurfing
He basically writes down everything
That he's learned of how the world works and then he says don't believe me just try it out yourself
Experiment and prove or disprove it for yourself
And I did that I proved it and it works because one of my favorite
one of the
highest things that has happened to me that proved the Transurfing principles work
this proved the
Visualization principle so I
Had never visualized anything before
visualizing Funnel Hockey live and
I didn't even know if it was possible. I was a skeptic of it because
Quite honestly my sister talked about visualizing and I didn't I didn't believe her that it was possible and
Then I read Transurfing and I learned about visualization and I tried it and I wanted to go to Funnel Hockey live
So I visualized it and I visualized it like every single day for a few weeks and then I kind of stopped and
And the one visualization like the one thing that I visualized was
me sitting in a seat at an angle looking up at the speaker at
Funnel Hockey live and this specific angle
I want to like bring some attention to because
When I was visualizing I didn't pay it any attention that I was looking at like this specific particular angle
It was just the most natural thing for me to visualize that
And so I visualized that from that angle every single time and
then literally on the first day
spoiler alert I went to Funnel Hockey live and on the first day day one of the event I
Literally we were just walking down and I completely had forgotten about my visualization to be honest
Even though it had come true already, but I forgot that I visualized for this because I stopped
Probably a few weeks before the actual event. I stopped visualizing a few weeks before
so
We walk around try and find seats we can't find any and then we find these seats we find two seats on the far left of
the event
like the furthest left row and
And so I was like, okay nice
we found seats pretty close to the front and we were just sitting there and
Talking to people around us kind of getting excited and then
Like it hit me
Probably we've been sitting there for 30 minutes and it hit me I
Looked up and that was the exact scene that I visualized
The exact scene I looked up at that exact angle
At the exact angle and I saw a speaker up there. I
Saw a speaker up there and then I like looked over to my friend sitting next to me and I was like this is crazy
I've this is the exact scene that I visualized like the exact scene the exact angle
the exact thing
is absolutely mind-blowing to me and so I
Believe in Transurfing now
I
Believe in a hundred percent like because I proved it for myself and everyone has to prove it for themselves
But I'm talking I want to talk about the 10x
You don't need to prove it because it's proved by science it backed by science
Which is why I like that
so you still should prove it for yourself because
Why why wouldn't you just do it? We've just followed the 10x process
so
I'm talking about
When you go 10x when you follow the 10x process you want to be operating in the gain and with the gain like I said is
essentially
coordinating intention
perceiving everything is positive except
Transurfing's coordinating intention is more like current so if I were to stub my toe right now
And I followed the coordinating intention principle then I would be happy about it. I would like rejoice I would be joyful
but
What you're what the
Gain is all about is kind of in hindsight. It's not really about present
It's kind of in hindsight. So whenever you look back at the progress that you made
So let's let's just use me as an example
today is October 5th when I'm recording this and
Excuse me today's October 5th and I started reading books
About a year and a month ago. So about 13 months ago and
the books that I was reading were
When I first started I
Didn't really know anything about
health diet
Fitness I had just I learned I knew a little bit about fitness, but I
didn't know about
Anything about worldview or mindset and
I didn't really have that clear of a mind. I was still on
Tic-Tac, I don't know if I was on Tic-Tac. I was definitely on YouTube. I
Still on YouTube. I was still playing video games
Just still doing a lot of the
Bad habits and so if I were to look at if I were to be in the game right now
Then I would look back and I'd see wow. I made so much progress
Not even a year ago. I was still playing video games
not even a year ago, I
Wasn't even taking cold showers not even a year ago. I didn't know anything about worldview
not even a year ago I
like literally less than
Three months less than three months ago. I had never
Recorded a single episode on a podcast. I didn't record a single podcast episode
Actually, maybe maybe three months ago was my first episode. I'm not sure. I'm not quite sure
Let's just say four months ago four months ago. I was I was just learning about business was just
Picking up my first books on business my first book that I read about business was
dot com secrets and
That is absolutely insane for me to think because I've learned so much on business
I've come so such a long way now
My goal or kind of like what I was striving for over summer
I was trying to move out before school started
That was my goal. I was trying to move out in like one or two months
now that didn't happen and spoil alert I'm two months into school and I'm still not moved out but
Doesn't matter because I came so far already I progressed so far and that's all about the gain
if I were in the gap then I would be mad because I didn't
Move out when I wanted to I haven't moved out yet. I'd be mad. I'd be
disappointed and I wouldn't see the joy or the I
Wouldn't see the actual improvement that I've made in
my current life
So that's pretty much what the gap in the gain are so
Let's go back. Are you in the gap or are you in the game?
So most like I said that most people's default mode is the gap and you want to be in the game
And so this is kind of what I think that I've been in the game a little bit because I
tend to always like look back at my progress and look be super excited and
And like I said about how it wasn't moving out how it didn't move out yet. I wasn't too like disappointed about that
I wasn't like pissed or anything. I just kind of realized that I made a lot of progress and kept on moving forward and
I have a feeling that there's gonna be a lot more progress to come because
Once I'm done with 10x is easier than 2x
I'm gonna be reading my first book about how to be an influencer or how to be like a social media
content creator and
I've this is episode 78. I think
So
episode 78 and I've never really read anything about how to podcast because last night I literally
Sometimes when I'm falling asleep, I
Kind of get this message in my head like I remember one time I got this message to
I don't remember I
Don't know but sometimes I just get simple messages
So last night I got when I was starting to fall asleep and it was I was like in my bed laying down
Had already down. I'm starting to fall asleep. I got this message in my head and it was like how to become a better podcaster and
So I was like, oh wow, that's important because I never looked that up and I'm a I'm 77 episodes in I've
practiced a lot. I've
Proved that I'm in it for the long game
Or actually, I don't know if I've proved it yet, but I've proved that I can stay consistent
I'm already in the top 1% of
Videos posted I'm already like doing all this but I
Haven't had any results like I still have six or seven subscribers
I I have like less than a thousand downloads and
Like all-time downloads
So I don't I'm not having that much results. So
But it makes sense because I have heard that the results don't come right away
and that's obviously why I'm in it for the long game, but I
I
I'm pretty much plateaued like my my graph is pretty much the same as it was when I first started
like first month or first week so
Kind of plateaued, but that's why I think it's important to be a better podcaster because another thing is a
huge part of the 10x process is
Operating on quality over quantity and right now for like I became conscious of this
Since I started reading the 10x is easier than 2x. I became conscious that I've been operating on quantity
Which is 2x?
I've just been kind of
Wrapping out all of the episodes kind of just sending them out there. No
like
No real editing
No preparation. I kind of just come downstairs sit down hit record and start talking
Now yes, I have made a few tweaks and improvements like I got rid of my intro and
I
What else did I do? I started every episode with a hook
Like but that's like slight things. I haven't really improved the quality too much of my episodes
And so that's that's why I wrote down yesterday
I focused on quality over quantity because
There mr. Beast
Focused all on quality like he didn't post daily or at least I don't think now he
Maybe he didn't when he first started but right now. He's not posting daily. I haven't checked his
I used to watch him like when I was watching YouTube a long time ago probably like a year ago
But I haven't checked his channel and like prior year, but I remember that he was not posting daily
He'd probably post like once a week. Maybe once a month. I don't know and I remember hearing one of his things
And this was before I knew about 10x or anything like much self-improvement
I remember hearing him say like I spent like millions or thousands of dollars on this one episode
or this one video and
I decided to scrap the whole thing and just delete it
And I was thinking like that is crazy. He didn't even post
episode that he like
Spent a lot of money on he didn't even post it and now looking back at it on hindsight
It's because he focused he hyper focused on quality over con over
Quantity like he could have simply added another episode to his channel by posting that
But it may not have been up to his standards for quality
And so he scrapped it and knew that quality is way more important than quantity
Which brings me back to my podcast I've been recording an hour every single day for the past 70 days
Less than that, but I've been recording our episodes
for months now and
That's quantity. I haven't focused on quality at all like I said the only thing I did was cut out the intro
That's nothing
So and I to be honest
I forgot to look it up because it was last night when I said it and I wanted to get my podcast
finished
finished recording soon
because
I'm back on my sleep routine. So I want to talk about this this kind of a
this kind of a complete
topic switch but
Last okay, so probably like a week before I left for fun lacking life
I was going to bed at six o'clock six thirty every single day and
I was consistent every single day I go to bed at that time. I would never stay up late and
Then and I would also like cut out all my screens
everything probably like an hour before I even went to bed or even an hour and a half like a
decent amount of time before I even went to bed
Maybe even two hours. I'm not sure but
Pretty much I would do that and then I would every single night. I'd have the same exact experience
I would go to bed at six or six thirty and I'd wake up at nine forty five the same exact time every single day
I'd wake up
Go to the bathroom
Look at the clock and it was nine forty five on the dot every single day and then I'd go to bed and
That would have a night after night after night because I was consistent with going to bed at the same time waking up at the same time
945 exactly to go to the bathroom and then
I would always like wake up
Rape like ten minutes before my alarm
Which is perfect because then I could start my nighttime or my morning routine a little bit early and get a little bit more reading time
and
Then
Like probably a week leading up to fun and hacking live. I started
kind of spending a lot more time in the basement or kind of getting to
the basement later and
So I as a result I ended up not even leaving the basement until like 545 usually
I would leave at like 445 at the latest and
Then I lately I've been like or a week before fun and hacking live
I which was like two weeks ago. I would start going up at 545 6
around there
So as a result I didn't go to bed until like 7 and I only had one hour of off of screens
So that's bad because and as a result I
Didn't go to I didn't wake up at the same time. I woke up at like two instead
Which was way closer to
My waking times was harder to get to bed again, which I was always able to get to bed again, but it would mess up my
waking which as a result I would not wake up 10 minutes before I would wake up like right on the dot when my alarm goes off and
Then as a result I was more tired throughout the day and this actually impacted a lot one
There's two methods that I are two markers that I use to measure how
high quality or how much I'm sleeping and
The first one is by my reading how focused I am while I'm reading. So during this time when I was going about at 7 I
My focus for my reading was scattered. I had to reread a lot
I had to reread the sentence. I just read multiple times and it was slow as
As a result I didn't learn as much and
Then the second method that I used to measure my
How long I slept and how high quality it was is
my meditation
How focused I am during my meditation and during this time
My meditation was not to focus. I would click out or I would literally fall asleep the entire time
So it's basically a nap and so it's kind of a waste of not a waste of time because a nap is better than nothing
But it was I wasn't really
progressing that far in my meditations
and
Then during fun lacking live that week. I we were going to bed really late like
12 o'clock one night. I'm pretty sure we were like I didn't hit the pillow until like
12 10 or something like that like really late as the latest I'd stayed up all year
so
As a result I was literally falling asleep during the entire meditation not good and
My focus was not as good and
Then when I came home from like the night that I I went to bed when I was home. I went to bed at like eight
so then I woke up at four and
I was getting back to my normal routine, but I was still falling asleep. That was Monday
Falling asleep during all of my
meditations
Not really focusing that much in my reading and then on Tuesday
Same thing fell asleep at seven and
Then I realized that I needed to fix this so Wednesday. I fell asleep at 6 30 last night
I was in bed at 6 10 6 15
so that's huge and I'm still I'd still kind of fell asleep during these
Meditations, but I'm catching up. I think that I'm catching up on my sleep because it takes a little bit of time to catch up and
then I'll be able to
Get back to my meditations pretty much
I'm still meditating three times a day, but I'm not focused and I'm basically like falling asleep during it
So it's not very effective
But that's pretty much
Why sleep is extremely important and I don't remember what I was gonna tie this back to
10x I was talking about the 10x and I was saying that
I
Don't even know but pretty much this is why your nighttime routine is so essential because
That's why I'm getting that's why
I'm I didn't look up how to pop how to be a better
Pockaster that's why I didn't look it up yet because I'm gonna look it up after
While I'm editing the podcast like because I have to sit here for like 30 minutes to wait for it to
Upload and edit and all that stuff
So that that's what I'm gonna be looking up how to podcast better
Because that's extremely important how to podcast better and then also I'm gonna be learning how to be a better content creator and influencer
In once I'm done with 10x decision 2x, which I'm over halfway done with this book so far
I'll probably be done within the week. So Sunday. I'll be done by and I'll work on the
Content or it's called create create. Don't
or
Create don't capture
and
That will that book is only like 150 pages long and it's small small. It's a small book
So I'll probably finish that in one or two days
So and then on Monday is when to FD the priestess comes
So I'm gonna get I'm gonna be getting back into the Transurfing mindset because when I read Transurfing the first time I
Didn't really do much to retain the information in my head. So literally like
Took me prior a day or a week for me to just completely get off the wavelength of Transurfing now
Today I am doing different because I stopped reading Transurfing the second time through
Because the first time through after I finished I kind of forgot like pretty much everything
Which was evident because I was reading in the second time through and it was basically like I was reading it for the first time ever because I
Was relearning all this stuff which I didn't remember learning in the first place
But I'm doing it different because I read it probably like a week ago and then for the I
Am working on the Transurfing review and
What that is is on my channel. There is Transurfing principles episodes 1 through 8
So throughout my channel like throughout my channel history. I've posted episodes called Transurfing principles
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and
That's basically me like reviewing what I learned and recapping what I learned in that section of the book usually like one or two weeks of
studying
Like the past one or two weeks of studying I would recap in an episode and I'm due for episode 9 soon
And that's pretty much what I'm doing to retain all this information in my head at nighttime during my journaling while I see my balls and
I'm done journaling and I still have like minutes left on my icing session. I
go through my
Transurfing journal and I write out the review so I'm basically rewriting a bunch of this stuff
So I'm I'm still trying to retain all this information
plus
The first time I read it. I didn't really read anything related to Transurfing
Right after or at least like a month or two after took me like a month or two to go back to Transurfing
So I forgot pretty much everything and
so instead what I'm doing is I'm retaining through the review plus I am
Going to be reading Toofty the priestess which is all about Transurfing as well
It's basically another it's it's another book that that I'm zone wrote about Transurfing except I'm pretty sure the point of it is it
I
Actually don't really know pretty much all I know is that it's about a
Priestess like a fictional character. He made up or maybe not fictional. I'm not sure a
character that
basically tells you
What to do in Transurfing or something like that?
so that's pretty much what I'm
Gonna be getting back into the Transurfing mindset
But that's gonna be one of the seven books I'm reading and that book doesn't train. Uh, Toofty doesn't come until Monday and today is
Thursday today's Thursday, so I've got Friday Saturday Sunday Monday
I got four days to finish 10x's easier than 2x and create don't capture
But if I don't finish them no big deal
I'll just extend it and not worry about Toofty in a little bit and
And Toofty is one of seven books. I'm gonna be reading and I have all the books
Dancing after the music stops die wise come of age
a sent on humanity
Journey out of bodies Toofty and the Egypt Egypt code
So those are all the seven books. I'm gonna be reading next and if you guys haven't heard
I'm using the reading method where you read all seven at once
So basically you pick up one read instantly lose focus and then switch to the next reading to lose focus and then repeat
interspersed with push-ups every once while and that is a reading method that Jean Pascal Reiman, I think is his name
He the author of the Dancing After the music stops
He basically
recommended using that reading method and you'll be able to read a book a day
So I don't know I'm barely able to read a book a week. So if I can read a
book quicker than a week using this reading method because I assume
Reading a book a day with that method you have to be reading like a lot of hours
But I'm only gonna be reading like one hour every day. So if I can read it quicker than a book a week
Then it'll definitely be worth it. And if I can retain it, then it'll definitely be worth it
If I can't retain it, I'm not gonna do it anymore
But if I can retain it and I can read it quicker, then I'm a hundred percent gonna be doing it
That's why I'm practicing on these books because I don't want to practice on a business book and not retain it
But that's pretty much where I'm at with the next stage
Let me get some water
And
So going back to the 10x process
Focusing on quality over quantity. I'm not really sure
kind of what to do because
Obviously right now I'm focusing on quantity
But I want to maintain this level of quantity
But I also want to improve my quality
So let me explain
the whole like kind of the reason why I'm
podcasting like the original reason why I started podcasting was because in
Expert secrets Russell Brunson said
If you post on your show every single day for an entire year
You'll never have to worry about money again
So if you post
365 episodes on your podcast within a year like in a year
Every single day daily uploads
Then you'll never have to worry about money again. So pretty much I want to prove that as fact
That's pretty much why I started the podcast
However, I'm doing one hour a day which I'm not sure if he intended on long-form videos every single day like an hour a day like I'm doing
Maybe he intended like 10 minutes a day
But I'm doing an hour a day and so far it's working out fine like I have an hour every day
I have the exact time that I need to record and edit and post
But
One hour every day is a lot of quantity a lot of quantity
and so I
Need to be focusing on quality because the only thing that I'm focusing on quality is pure reps like
Just getting the reps in and always improving just by pure practice
So that's why I need to focus on quality and I don't even know where to go. Oh, excuse me. I gotta get some water. I got hiccups. I
Don't even know where to start
That's just I'm just gonna look up
How to be a better podcaster I'm simply you're just gonna start with that simple Google search and then
See where it takes me and I'll start implementing in tomorrow's episode
Which is also I'm excited to read the book create don't capture
Because I'm pretty sure it's gonna talk about how to be better influencer because with that said I
also ever since
Funal lacking life on the first day
they
talked about
They talked all about shorts and like posting daily on tiktok and
posting short form videos
So I started doing that because I originally started doing I didn't post ever but I started recording shorts
Probably like the first six episodes of me podcasting
But I realized that it was too much for me to handle at the time because I didn't have a positive feedback loop on
podcast yet
But during final hacking live now that I have a positive feedback loop on podcasting I'm
Doing three shorts every day. So I'm posting three tiktoks and three YouTube shorts every single day and
The first and I scheduled them for the future
so they match up with my
Current episode release like the podcast because I do three daily lessons in every single podcast
today's three daily lessons are
the gain versus
the gap the gap versus the gain and then it's also
What else was there?
focus on quality over quantity and
Sleep is extremely important, but I'm pretty sure there's another one
So those the actual lessons that I write down may be different because I also have 19 minutes left to talk
But that's that's right now. I'm posting three every three tiktoks every single day and I
Started that I
Started recording them at fun lacking live. So probably like a week ago
Less than a week ago actually
No
More than a week ago. I
Don't even know I forgot I
I started recording them a little over a week ago and the first ones published
Yesterday I want to say and so the first two because yesterday is when I checked them after after yesterday's episode
I checked the two that published yesterday. I post three times a day one at six in the morning one at
12
in
afternoon
I'm the one at six in the afternoon but
The time zones kind of messed up because I scheduled the first ones in
Florida so that's like one our head
So the first couple ones are at like five instead of 12 or instead of six, but it doesn't really matter
I'm gonna go back to six and
The first two
shorts
Or tiktoks, I don't know but the first two got 50 views each around there around 50 views each and one of them
Got two likes so that's awesome. That's already more
Views than I got like in the past
probably 20
Now past like 10
Podcasts that I've recorded so and the reason why I'm doing this is to get more
Viewers more organic traffic onto my podcast like that's the whole point of doing tiktoks
Plus it's another
Extremely good method to find my voice and become a more effective and efficient speaker
because one of the extremely great benefits of podcasting that I still
Think is the most valuable piece to becoming a podcaster is
Is you be you improve your speaking so much?
Like when I first started my speaking was terrible and I remember saying
that I
remember I don't I'm not sure if I said it in the first episodes when I was
Posting them but definitely in the episodes that I had no intention on posting like I recorded 14 episodes that I had no intention on posting
on voice memos app on my phone and I remember saying like yeah, I suck at
Podcasting I suck at speaking but I'm gonna keep it up because this is an extremely valuable
Like practice. This is extremely valuable practice for me to get better at speaking and I'm glad I did because
Now I don't suck so much at speaking
I still have a long way to go to where I want to be
but I'm so much better off than where I was before especially like in school and like in public social situations
I'm so much more clear at my speaking and I'm able to kind of talk
From like the flow or kind of like talk from nothing
because I remember when I used to
Raise my hand to speak in class
I used to have to like pretty much quickly memorize what I was gonna say or kind of come up with
With how I was gonna say beforehand, but now I can like get cold-called and literally just say just start talking
So that's a huge benefit to podcasting which I think is way more valuable than the monetary gain
And I haven't even gotten a monetary gain yet
Which I'm sure my opinions will change once I get the monetary gain, but
That's and that's he also talked about that last night. I was so excited to start the crate on capture
I was right before I like
Started my meditation and I was putting away my ice pack and been away my journal. I read like the
back
Summary and I read like one of the first one of the chapters and
One of the chapters in that book is finding your voice and I read like a part of it
and he said the most beneficial or the most impactful the
Best part to being a content creator is finding your voice your purpose and your passion and your calling
Like that's the best part finding your voice
Which I'm I think I found my voice and
I'm still getting better and better every day
And that's I definitely agree like so far. That's the best part now
I haven't gotten any of the monetary gain yet, so I can't really speak
But the best part that I've gotten so far is finding my voice
Again, I think I found my voice
But maybe in the future once I get more better at this once I'm on like episode 200
Maybe I'll look back and be like yeah, you did not find your voice. I don't know
That's something that only Tom will tell
But I'm really looking forward to
But I want to I wanted I want to point that out
We're just talking about the gap in the game and I went off again about talking about my past and how much I've improved
Yeah, I'm still realizing that I've got a long way to go and I'm still realizing that I
Have a lot of improvement to make
That is the game
That's what the game is all about looking at your past and seeing all the progress they made
Like I was just reminiscing on the episodes that I didn't even publish. I didn't even publish them and
Like they were recorded 80 days ago more than 80 days ago and I'm reminiscing on how much I've improved
Like that's the game. That's the mindset you need to have
Which I think is completely different to what I interpreted from
Dr. Hardy's speech he spoke at funnel hacking live and
He spoke at funnel hacking live and
He was talking about
Most people create their present based off the past
But what you should do is create your present based off the future and I interpreted that as
You shouldn't look at your past
and interpret your past at all like you shouldn't
Think fondly or negatively of your past at all and I remember walking
With my friend talking after that and I was and we were both talking about the past and I was like
I don't even know if I
like destroyed the I don't even know if I broke that law or broke that
The 10x rule or the 10x process. I don't even know if that was like
Destructive I don't even know if that was destructive
And neither did he because neither of us read the book yet, but now I'm realizing that that was actually beneficial
That's the game you should be looking at how far you've come and
Realizing that that was good like you've actually come a long way
So I'm really I'm excited about the future and this is what you guys got to get to you guys got to get to the point
To where you're excited for the future
You're looking forward to all the future progress and the future improvements that you've made
So I want to talk about do it now
back when I
Read or back when I was getting into business. I
Join this five-day challenge called your first funnel challenge by click funnels
and I remember one of the speakers talked about
How
Do it now she basically like that was her whole speech. It was like the inspirational speech and
it was so important that I actually wrote down do it now on a piece of paper and
Wrote on my desk and I still have it there to this day. I don't really look at it that often but I
Needed something to talk about and I looked over at it and I want to talk about do it now because
one of the
things that I realized at funnel hacking live is
all of the
presenters all of there's like two types of presenters there's a
Content like tactical strategic speaker where they're just teaching you things and they can have like inspiration
Sprinkled in but mainly they're teaching and then there's a different type of speaker which is inspirational and
And these inspirational speakers pretty much they all all of their things that they've said like
Tim shields is just a giver
I don't even know any other ones just give her just stuck with me but
pretty much
All of these motivational speakers they all stem from something and it's just do it
or
Just start and
Don't stop like that's pretty much all this all
They're focused on teaching you they all have different like manifestations of
Saying it like Tim shield is just giver just basically means just do it anyway slay the fear and
Then others have different versions of saying it but essentially just start
Like start and don't stop literally just start start now do it now and don't stop
when and I'm a big fan of
Making things as easily as possible for you
I feel like you should be able to achieve anything you want as easy as possible
You should be able to achieve things fairly easily which is why I make a lot of systems
Which I learned I
Didn't realize that they were called systems, but I learned what systems were just from looking into James clear
I never read his book atomic habits, but I do know that in atomic habits. He talks about making systems
So I make a lot of systems in my day to make things easy
Like I do the same thing every single day
And I make sure that those things that I'm doing every day are helping me move towards my goals
Helping me improve a lot
like I meditate I read I
Work out I
Podcasts like I do every every single thing that I do I do every day and
When I podcast when I started when I read that
Excerpt from expert secrets of if you post on your show every single day
for an entire year
You'll never have to worry about money again. I wanted to do that, but I was I
Was paralyzed in inaction because I was so scared I was so nervous and
So I knew that I just needed to start. I just needed to start doesn't matter if I I
Just needed to build the habit of
Doing it every single day. So what I did was I
I
Didn't want to post it because I was too scared to post
So I got on my voicemail zap and every single day
I just hit record and talked for like five ten minutes and then ended it
I did that for 14 days and I was like, okay. I built up my confidence. I need to and it's now or never
I need to
Start posting start recording for real so that I made my channel
And then the next day on day 15. I recorded the trailer
The second trailer actually recorded because the first trailer I recorded was on the voice memos app
but the second trailer I recorded and the one that was published is on
My channel and that's because I on the fifth on the 15th day
I was just like, okay. I just need to move to the next step
I've done 14 days of this now. It's time to now. It's time to move on now
It's time to actually be serious about this and start
so I started and
Then I also wanted to make make it easier. I wanted to make it easy as well
So what I did was I wanted to schedule the videos for five days in advance
Or at least I didn't know how
There is two reasons why I scheduled videos so when I recorded that trailer I
Scheduled it
For the next Monday which happened to be five days in advance five days in the future
And I did this for two reasons one I was too scared to post it right away
I wanted I wanted to just kind of schedule it and then let it go like leave it and not have to worry about it
posting
Under my knowledge. I just had to set it in motion and not have it like
Instantly materialize
Because I was too scared like I said, so that's one way I made it easy on me by having it have a future problem
And then in the future, I just will let it happen
and
then I
Another reason why is because I wanted to have a cushion just in case I missed a day or
five days now on hindsight I didn't need a cushion at all because I
There was only like three times when I missed
Uploads and that was when I went to my Ohio to visit my grandparents
one weekend and then I went to
Michigan to visit my sister one weekend and then I went to funnel hacking live one week and
On funnel hacking live. I'd only missed two days
So on hindsight I didn't really need that much
but it's nice because
It's the peace of mind and that's a way to make it easy because
It's way I was telling my friend about this because my friend doesn't have any scheduled. He kind of just has it
Uh posted the next day or the next day. So he's basically forced to every single day he
Operates under necessity not want so that is a big thing in 10x is easier than 2x
operate under want not necessity
Because when you're operating under want then it's abundance your abundance mindset
But when you're operating under need it's scarcity mindset
There's other different things why but pretty much
He needs to record every day because he doesn't have that cushion. He doesn't have that upload schedule
whereas I want to up to record every day because I've
freed up my
Kind of necessity by having a five-day schedule tomorrow if I don't want to if I don't want to record
I don't have to record
Which makes me want to record like it's this weird reverse psychology and
That's extremely important make things as easy as possible, but also get yourself in that one team mindset
Like you should want to do things like I want to record every single day
and actually I've like
This is where I was when I was going to the gym. I wanted to go to the gym every single day
I would go seven days a week. It's crazy
true story though and
Then on days when I didn't go to the gym. I would feel like crap
Like I wanted to go to the gym so bad
But now it's different
Like I want to go to the gym, but not every day because now I want to record every day
Which I I can go to gym every day and record every day, but I want to have that extra time. I
Want to focus on business a lot more, but that's a different story
Great, so I'm getting to the point where I'm in that seven days a week for podcasting now
So I want to record seven days a week. I don't need to go to the gym seven days a week
I don't need to record seven days a week, but I want to and that's such a that's a big change
That's a big game changer operate under want and not need that's like a big premise to
The 10x is easier than 2x
Be a want or not a neater the majority of people operate underneath and as a result you have to justify your needs because
When you need something and you receive that you're basically taking it away from someone else whereas if you want something
You create that so you're not creating you're not taking it from anyone else. You're creating your own wealth
That's the difference between wealth and money
wealth you can create like you can
get some tools and some polish and
Restore a beat-up car and
Create wealth out of thin air now you've created like you turned a
$500 rust bucket into a
$20,000
Like a $20,000 what's the word that I'm looking for?
Antique car or something like that. So now you've created wealth out of thin air
That's the difference because money you it's like money is a finite game wealth is an infinite game
That's that's a needing is a finite game
Wanting is an infinite game you can infinitely expand the rules of the game like that's the difference
wanters
Want to play the game to continue the game needers
play the game
I'm that like that those are the concepts in the 10x is easier than 2x that I'm still kind of wrapping my head around
but it all goes along with Transurfing which is why it's so great, but
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