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Sandwich tales, a great Australia start to Super Rugby Pacific, and the return of the Six Nations has Stan Sport commentator Sean Maloney excited, joining Brett McKay & Harry Jones in this week's milestone episode of The 8-9 Combo Rugby Podcast. In the 8-9 Combo's 50th guest episode and 100th overall, the guys compare Harry's sandwich in a pub in Limerick with Seanny's extraordinary SuperBowl smoked meat fare, and make everyone hungry, before celebrating the Australian teams start to 2025 to appropriate levels, contemplate Round 3 of the Six Nations and ponder which coach is under pressure now, should a few results go astray, and got through the latest scientific measure that is The Harry Index. Games of the Week: • Six Nations Rd.3: England v Scotland, Twickenham SAT • SRP Rd.2: Chiefs v Crusaders, Hamilton FRI • URC Rd.9 leftover: Bulls v Lions, Pretoria SAT • Top 14 Rd.17: Toulouse v Bayonne SAT • JRLO Wk.9: Kubota Spears v Shizuoka Blue Revs, Tokyo SAT • MLR Rd.1: Chicago Hounds v Utah Warriors, Chicago SAT #rugby #rugbypodcast #89Combo #SixNations #SuperRugbyPacific #UnitedRugbyChampionship #Top14 #JapanRugbyLeagueOne #MajorLeagueRugby Find us: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@8-9Combo?sub_confirmation=1 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1BcKhb24YOtwQhKc0S3sDm Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-8-9-combo-rugby-podcast/id1729575866 Social media: #89Combo Twitter: https://twitter.com/89combo BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/89combo.bsky.social Find Brett and Harry on both Twitter and on BlueSky: @BMcSport + @HaribaldiJones Music: "Stalling" by Topher Mohr & Alex Elena (via YouTube Creator Studio) Voiceovers by Chookman + Sean Maloney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to the Sorry to Interrupt podcast, Solo-dolo Seanny as Tom cried himself to sleep. Sean was nice enough to take it on alone and break down game 2 of Yankees Royals and layout his expectations for Game 3. Like, subscribe, and follow us on twitter @sorrysports

Sean Maloney and Andrew Mehrtens are joined by Lori Cramer as they talk Super W, Super Rugby Pacific and look back at the final round of the Six Nations. Seanny and Mehrts have some new jerseys on, the NSW refs sent in pies and Lori offers a player for the Weird Cat XV. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Au programme:Nouveautés: le Kiff of the week ! : l'artiste Mondingo avec StarlightNouveau talent : Seanny avec le titre "Be like that"Tune of the Month ! : Nouvelle chronique de la Zm ! Cosmic Gate & Diana Miro-Blame. c'est notrepépite du mois !C'est le meilleur du son electro-dance, jusqu'à 19h sur Mixx Fm 107.6 fm Charleroi. Rendez-vous à 18h --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mixxfmradio/message

Hello! Alex gets the real story behind the projects No Eyes and So So Death by talking to the person behind it allFeatures the songs "love lost but not forgotten" and "u never saw me as a human anyway so please stop pretending you fuck wit me and my crew"

Matt and Sean small-talk about nanotechnology, try to build bridges between brain-busting ideas and bored classroom kids, and discuss the show The Expanse and the film Nocturnal Animals (and why David Lynch is so confusingly fun to watch).

Au programme: le Kiff of the week c'est Brown: L'artiste Carolo débarque avec sondernier clip ! Interview: Brown feat.Prezah "My wayt" Nouveautés, le nouveaux talent dela semaine: Seanny avec le titre "Be like that" et tout ça accompagné du son electro-dance, jusqu'à 19h sur Mixx Fm 107.6 fm Charleroi --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mixxfmradio/message

Au programme: Nouveautés, le nouveaux talent de la semaine: Seanny avec le titre "Be like that"et le Kiff of the week c'est Brown: L'artiste Carolo débarque avec son dernier clip ! Interview:Brown feat.Prezah "My wayt" et tout ça accompagné du son electro-dance, jusqu'à 19h sur MixxFm 107.6 fm Charleroi --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mixxfmradio/message

Welcome to the That’s Tough Podcast! Today I am joined by my homies Seanny The GOAT, Jahmere, Young Will & Dub. We talked about the new year, Call of Duty, Kanye West, Young Thug, Future, Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert, sports, movies and even more!

Welcome to my new podcast! I linked up with my homie Seanny The GOAT for episode one! This podcast will cover varying subjects from music to pop culture. I am just here to have a good time and talk about things either alone or with the homies! Feel free to discuss things with me on my other social media accounts. Thank you for taking the time to check out my podcast!

20year Manly Marlins player and coach Matt McGoldrick has just been signed as the First Grade Boss for 2020. Seanny catches up with him to see how the club can snap its 23year Premiership drought.

Seanny catches up with former Wallaby, Western Force and Waratahs Fullback Cameron Shepherd for a full Shute Shield finals preview. 'Shep' delivers as always with his big personality and unique insight into arguably the best Club Competition across the World.

Seanny checks in with Springboks Legend Bryan Habana to try and calculate how many tennis balls Roger Federer has hit in his life. Former Wallabies skip, James Horwill explains what's next in his world. Hugh Cahill talks through his night out with Open Championship winner Shane Lowry...and Karl Tenana rounds out the massive ep with a quality yarn of his own. It's enormous.

After a long, long wait, Seanny flies into his first ep with a bunch of headline guests. All Blacks legend Andrew Mehrtens, Wallabies scrumhalf Nick Phipps, Wallaroos Captain Grace Hamilton and World Rugby Commentator Rob Vickerman all join the party.Hit play and let the Debut rocket past.

On this week’s WICKED GOOD Stick To Wrestling podcast Johnny and Seanny have wrestling historian Seth Hanson as our guest. Seth knows his stuff, is a great guest, and an even better Twitter follow! This week we discuss the 1986 demise of World Class Championship Wrestling. Included in this conversation: –Did the Freebirds return to … Continue reading Episode 51: Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair….Black Bart → The post Episode 51: Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair….Black Bart appeared first on Stick To Wrestling with John McAdam and Sean Goodwin.

On this week’s WICKED GOOD Stick To Wrestling podcast Johnny and Seanny have Randy Smith as the guest. Randy has been a hardcore fan for 30 years and started reading the newsletters in the mid-80’s. He knows his wrestling, plus back in the day all of the crazy stuff happened in HIS hotel room. This … Continue reading Episode 50: Welcome To Viceland! → The post Episode 50: Welcome To Viceland! appeared first on Stick To Wrestling with John McAdam and Sean Goodwin.

–We Book STARRCADE ’82! –We Book WRESTLEMANIA Zero, April 1984! –Johnny and Seanny disagree on what the definition is of a Texas Death Match is. –What was the greatest Texas Death Match of all time? –Sean Goodwin claims he is banned in France. –The Bret Hart vs Tom McGee match- who cares and why? –Which … Continue reading Episode 45: This Mask Is The Only Thing Holding My Skull Together → The post Episode 45: This Mask Is The Only Thing Holding My Skull Together appeared first on Stick To Wrestling with John McAdam and Sean Goodwin.

This week Johnny and Seanny answer questions from you, the listeners! -What was the biggest riot each of us have ever witnessed? -Who do we think is the best manager of all time? -How would you guys have re-booked the WWF title situation in 1997 in order to avoid having to screw Bret Hart? -Who … Continue reading Episode 23: Viewer Mail → The post Episode 23: Viewer Mail appeared first on Stick To Wrestling with John McAdam and Sean Goodwin.

Kat and Joe dive into their Third Irish Wiskey with Tulamore Dew and bring along their friend Sean Alan to talk about his new project Seanny Dogg as well as future projects in the works. We all discuss this weeks movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Explore the Dark Past of Sea Monkeys. Finally we complain about Horrible Bosses.

On this episode, the boys come back strong with a breakdown of the first NFL games of the season. Segments include, Full Bodied News, Weekly Poll, Mt Rushmore, and It's Over Johnny.

The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere This is an elaboration/review of the book by Pico Iyer. How do you slow down?  What do you mean by going nowhere? And how can we slow down with our busy business and family life? Sean says, ” I still have the same day I used to have before. But somehow it's different. Now, I have more time.” ---------- In this episode Sean talks about Part 1: The Passage To Nowhere Part 2: The Charting of StillnessPart 3: The Internet Sabbath To read it online: https://www.psychotactics.com/losing-momentum/   ---------- 4 am is the most difficult part of my day. And it's not for the reason you might be thinking. It's not difficult because it's so early in the morning. For me it's quite the opposite. For close to 20 years I've been rising at 4, sometimes a bit earlier, without the need of an alarm. The sound and feel of 4 am is embedded in my system and I instinctively know when to wake up. Which is where the problem begins. Within seconds of waking up, I'm completely awake I feel as though my brain is a train leaving the station, and I, as the train driver need to keep up. Five minutes later, I've walked out of the door, across to the office next door and I'm already at work. At this time of the day, and without the need of any coffee or tea, I can start to write a book, work on a presentation or take on the endless flow of e-mail. So how do I slow down? That was the question I asked myself as we slid into our December break. We're all so alert, so full of this persistent need to work, to learn, to keep going at high speed. How do we slow down without losing momentum? And if we were to slow down, where would we get the time to slow down? This last question seems to cut right to the core. That we have no time to do what's most important to us. Which is why I started first listening to, then reading a book I'd bought almost two years ago. Yes, the irony wasn't lost on me. It took two years to get to the book, but as December rolled along I listened to it once, then a second time, before getting a physical copy from the library. The name of the book? The Art of Stillness: Adventures In Going Nowhere. A book by writer, traveller, Pico Iyer. And let me tell you my short journey about going nowhere in a hurry. We'll look at three elements of the book, and it's a very tiny book, spanning just 74 pages. When listening to it on audio, I think I was done with listening to it in a few hours. Even so, less is more. That's the agenda of the book and the lesson I learned. Here are the three things we'll cover: – The Passage To Nowhere – The Charting of Stillness – The Internet Sabbath Part 1: The Passage To Nowhere Sitting still is a way of falling in love with the word and everything around it. That's an interesting thought, isn't it? And within three pages of “The Passage to Nowhere”, author Pico Iyer makes you want to slow down, but not just feel like you're getting off the motorway, but instead coming to a complete standstill. A stillness so unusual that if you close your eyes, you can hear the computer gurgle, feel the caress of the breeze, even your heartbeat seems so much louder. Iyer, despite the Indian sounding name, was born in Oxford, England in 1957 By the time he's twenty-nine, he's got an office on the 25th floor in midtown Manhattan; an apartment on Park Avenue and 20th Street and a job that most writers only dream about. He covers apartheid in South Africa, the People Power Revolution in the Philippines, the chaos that enveloped India during prime minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. He wrote extensively for Time Magazine and took long vacations in exotic parts of the globe. The very thought of going nowhere was an incredibly alien concept. And yet the constant excitement has a finite boundary If you listen closely enough to life, it speaks to you in a whisper. Pico Iyer found that he couldn't hear that whisper. He was racing about so much that he never had a chance to see where he was going, or truly enjoy what he was doing. He never had a chance to check if he was truly happy. Writers have a funny way of going to their core Some hit the bottle, others write endlessly. Iyer decided to retreat to Kyoto. Now I don't know if you've ever been to Kyoto, but it's one of the most amazing cities in the world. There is a richness in the palaces and temples of Tokyo that's hard to imagine, let alone replicate. Iyer decided to leave behind his dream life and spend a year in a small, single room on the backstreets of Kyoto. He craved a sense of stillness. In the early part of his book he talks about how not so long ago, our greatest luxury was access to information. There was no such thing as too many books because a book was savoured. Information was a slow drug. Today it's the freedom from information that we seek. The chance to be still is what Iyer calls the “ultimate prize”. “I'm not a member of any church, and I don't subscribe to any creed; I've never been a member of any meditation or yoga group,” say Iyer. And by the time I had hit this paragraph, it struck me that I was in a remarkably similar position; we all are, in fact. We're all rushing around, slightly overwhelmed at the amount of information we have to process and implement. We're not necessarily a member of any meditation or yoga group and yet there's this obvious desire to slow down until Pico Iyer takes it one step lower. We need to be still; go nowhere. The chapter on “The Passage to Nowhere” clarifies the issue It's not about sitting at home and never going anywhere. Travelling opens up our minds, often makes us better, more interesting people. Stillness isn't about a location. You can sit in the middle of a Mumbai street, cars honking and be perfectly at peace, though admittedly the goal isn't about how far you travel but how alive you are. Stillness it seems is the ultimate adventure; one I'd been on, but certainly not on a daily basis. So as we slid into summer in this part of the world, I took my chance. In December, Auckland goes to sleep. Around the 20th of December, all the Christmas parties are done, kisses exchanged, and the city goes into hibernation. And it's not just Auckland. The entire country goes into an enforced vacation until mid, even late January. It was my chance to go on a trip I'd never gone before. I started to meditate I tried sitting in a Lotus position on the floor. I can do it quite easily as I sit on the floor most days at some point or the other. But I didn't feel comfortable sitting for long periods of time. My next try was sleeping on the floor, and despite the warmth of the season, I felt a bit chilly. So I climbed into bed, pulled the duvet over and that was my Goldilocks moment. I soon discovered that trips require a bit of planning. I scoured iTunes for suitable meditation music until I found the one that suited me best. I wanted to see what this trip to nowhere was all about. Stillness like anything in life requires momentum When I first tried to clear my mind, the momentum of the day cluttered it with thoughts of an even higher frequency. I might be sitting and doing nothing, and have no perceptible thought in my head. The moment I meditate, the thoughts, random thoughts burst through trying to shout over one another in an attempt to get my attention. But then the momentum dies down around the 30-minute mark. By the 45-minute mark, it becomes addictive, this meditation stuff. And that's what takes us to the second part of this review: The Charting of Stillness. In this section, he talks about his friend and songwriter, the late Leonard Cohen. He also talks about Matthieu Ricard, a Frenchman who was called “the happiest man in the world.” What made this Frenchman so euphoric? Let's find out in the next part. Part 2: The Charting of Stillness When you look at Matthieu Ricard, you don't see a molecular biologist. Because even if you and I have not a clue about what a molecular biologist looks like, Matthieu Ricard doesn't look the part. And that's because he's wearing the robes of a monk, and has this endearing smile. The University of Wisconsin was deeply interested in that smile They attached 256 electrodes to the skulls of hundreds of volunteers and put them all through a 3 ½ hour continuous functional MRI scan. The researchers were searching for positive emotions at first. In later experiments they looked at areas of compassion, the ability to control emotional responses and interestingly, the ability to process information. The subjects were similar in most respects, except some had engaged in ongoing stillness, while others had not. There was a marked difference between those who'd practiced the art of stillness vs those who hadn't Those who'd gone through stillness for about 10,000 hours had achieved a sense of happiness that was beyond any records in neurological records. Their happiness factor was literally, quite off the charts. And Matthieu Ricard explains that happiness is a muscle. That like a muscle it can be developed. His philosophy is based on how Buddhists explain the nature of the mind. And you don't have to be a Buddhist to understand the concepts of the blue sky. If there are clouds, there is blue sky behind them. All you need is patience to sit still and the blue shows up again. This blue sky analogy was interesting Don't get me wrong. A blue sky is, at least to me, the most boring kind of sky. I love clouds, all kinds of clouds. My niece Marsha are even members of the cloud appreciation society. So the analogy kind of bugs me, because I think all clouds, without exception, are incredibly stunning. Even so, the analogy of the blue sky is pretty solid. We lead a life based on our terms, travel places I want to go. Even our websites aren't built with some keywords in mind or driven by client's demands. We do the things that most interest us instead of being governed by what competition does. Still, there are clouds. Clouds of irritation, envy. They roll in quietly going from a nice, fluffy cumulus to a menacing cumulonimbus. Theoretically, I want them to put those 256 electrodes on my head and I want them to find happiness, compassion, no desire to react to emotional triggers and the ability to process information in an unusual way. It was a journey I was willing to take. As I meditate under that duvet, I start off all busy in my brain and then I get on the road to stillness. There are days when I don't quite feel like leaving the room and heading to work, it's that addictive; that cool. And yet there's the obvious objection, isn't there? Who has time to stand still, or lie still. To me, at least 30-45 minutes was an intrusion. While on vacation it's fine, because I truly do nothing, we're now back to work and that's a chunky 45 minutes out of the day. There's so much to do. How are we supposed to tackle yet another slice of the day slipping away for yet another activity? This takes us to the third part: The Secular Sabbath as it's called in the book, but which I've changed a bit to the “internet sabbath”. Part 3: The Internet Sabbath What happens if you don't check your e-mails one day? The elves come in, check your e-mails and your inbox is clear the next day, right? We know the price of not being on top of things. Pico Iyer takes time to talk about the sabbath, but he stresses he's not stepping foot into any religion. Instead he talks about a secular sabbath. About a day every week, when you completely free yourself of work. And incredibly, you get off checking stuff on the Internet. All this talk of meditation and taking time off gets some people a little upset Iyer talks about the time he was on a live radio show. The woman calling in was clearly upset. “It's all very well for a male travel writer in Santa Barbara to talk about taking the day off,” she said. “But what about me? I'm a moth trying to start a small business, and I don't have the luxury of meditating for two hours a day.” Two hours is clearly an exaggeration on the caller's part but the point is clear We don't have time to meditate and we don't have time to stop checking e-mails and the internet. Yet it's precisely the people who are most under pressure that need to give themselves a break. Iyer suggests the poor, overburdened mother could ask her husband, her mother or a friend to look after the kids for thirty minutes a day. That would bring back a touch of freshness and delight to share with her kids and her business. As you hear Iyer's words, it's still hard to accept that you can just walk away from the day I struggled with weekends. My 4 am wake up time doesn't respect weekends and until late 2015 I'd be at work on Saturday and Sunday. “I'm only here for a little while”, I'd say to myself, but I'd often be doing something or the other until 9 or 10 am. On the weekends I was supposedly spending 10 whole hours at work. Whether it was productive work or not is completely debatable and here's why. One weekend, my niece Keira came over and I was lying on the sofa. She said, “Seanny's always tired”. That was my moment of clarity. The weekends weren't helping me at all. So I stopped coming to work on the weekends. We have courses on Psychotactics and their Friday assignment is my Saturday. For many years I'd say, “I need to check the assignment on the day itself.” Instead, I just told clients that if they finished their assignment by my Friday evening, I'd check it. If not, I'd be back on Monday. I expected pushback from clients. To my surprise I got none. Many in Silicon Valley observe an Internet sabbath every week All devices are turned off from say, Friday night to Monday. Kevin Kelly, is a spokesperson for new technologies and the founding father of Wired Magazine. Kevin takes off on month-long trips without a computer so as to get rooted in the non virtual world. “I want to remember who I am”, he says. Even so, Kevin Kelly's methods seem a bit far fetched. Instead you can simply turn off your Internet connection for a day. My wife, Renuka and I go for a walk every day for an hour and a half. We try and get about 10,000-15,000 steps a day. On Sundays however, we don't take the “workday walking route” Instead we find another route and take a physical book or a diary in which to write or draw. I try and avoid the iPad or any kind of device that will get me back on the Internet. It's a constant challenge but it's completely invigorating. The simple act of putting the phone off and turning it on, 24 or even 48 hours later doesn't increase your workload by much. However, it does dramatically improve your ability to be more calm, more resilient in life. What's been the result of all of this meditation and calmness? Like Iyer, I stayed away from meditation for all these years. I convinced myself that my mind was blank enough when going for a walk or painting. And truly it was. But conscious meditation is different for me. It almost always brings a rush of thoughts; of things that need to be done. Renuka tells me I'm sleeping better and my breathing is less shallow. Instead of reacting to events, I seem to let them pass like clouds, expecting that blue sky will show up shortly. But easily the biggest change has been the morning train. Remember the train that starts in my brain and races out of the station at 4 am? Well, it doesn't do that any more. I now wake up, meditate and then go to work. I still have the same day I used to have before. But somehow it's different. Now, I have more time. Resistance seems like an overbearing force in our lives We want to achieve a lot, but as soon as we get started, resistance kicks in. But did you know there are ways around resistance? Resistance loves a loner. If you're working alone, you're just setting yourself for an encounter with resistance. Resistance loves to play the game of winner. We need to put resistance in second place. Here's how to go about the task of winning the resistance game.

Most of us have grand plans to succeed Yet, the moment we start there are a million distractions in our way. Chaos lurches around in our doorway and there seems to be no way out. At Psychotactics, we had managed to get around most of the chaos but then I was in charge of mentoring my niece. As she moved from Year 6 to Year 7, it seemed like we were hit by an okinami of chaos. What did we do to find our way out? How did we manage to avoid the madness that we had no control over? Find out in this article. ================== In this episode Sean talks about Part 1: Part 1: Non-negotiable items Part 2: Part 2: Just say no Part 3: The power of drills Right click here and ‘save as’ to download this episode to your computer. ================== How To Get Things Done In The Midst Of Unending Chaos “J’ai beaucoup de devoirs aujourd’hui.” That’s French for “I have lots of homework today”. And it’s what my niece Marsha informs me almost daily, when I pick her up from school. Three years ago, my wife Renuka and I started mentoring my niece, Marsha While school work is never easy to cope with, there was always time to beef up on spellings, learn about clouds, earth’s subduction zones and the wondrous mysteries of solar system. Then Marsha moved to year seven (what you’d call seventh grade) and we were suddenly swamped with homework. English, social studies, maths, even that little bit of French came rushing at us from out of nowhere. It seems so maddening when every day you’re thrown deep into yet another onslaught of homework. This is the kind of chaos that hits us as we go through our business lives We have every intention to learn more, do more and yet we find ourselves in this spin cycle that we don’t understand. At this point, it’s important to pull back and notice that nothing else had changed in our lives. The Psychotactics newsletter still went out on time; The Three Month Vacation podcast rolled out on schedule. Every post at the membership site at 5000bc, and the Article Writing Course went out just as planned. But in Marsha’s world such order didn’t exist. The homework seemed to pull us away from what we believed to be important. Somehow, something had to change. In this series we look at how to achieve the seemingly impossible To break free from gravity, we have to have a strategy that enables us to forge forward even under trying conditions. The three things that we’re going to look at are seemingly pedestrian, but it’s something we’ve had to use ourselves—for our business and now for Marsha. They are: – Non-negotiable items – Just say no – Drills Part 1: Non-negotiable items I just finished conducting the Article Writing Course On that course you have 25 participants all headed towards one goal: to be able to write articles that are far superior to what you’d see on the internet. And to do so in under 2 hours. At the end of the course, I ask every one of the participants to relate their experiences as they went through the course. And that’s when you hear the stories you’ve never heard before. Stories of how one of them almost lost a child—and still finished her homework Or the story about how one person had been working until 2 am, then sat down to write an article at about 3 am, so that they could meet the deadline for the day. Every one of these stories starts off in an almost identical manner. In their world, article writing was all about struggle, about frustration and chaos. And then, 12 weeks later, every single one of the participants who’ve made it to the end point can write an outstanding article, complete in almost every respect. And do so within that two-hour period. Some of them were taking days, one even took four weeks to write an article and yet at the end of the course those very same people were achieving the seemingly impossible in under two hours. Not surprisingly, you do the same In the early part of the 20th century, 1912 to be precise, tooth decay was a massive problem. People simply didn’t brush their teeth. They do so now, twice a day. In the USA, the Boy Scout handbook from the mid-1950’s had a section on personal hygiene. It stated that ideally a boy should bathe twice a week and shampoo his hair once a week. What we’re doing today, all of us is achieving the seemingly impossible. We’re engaged in time-wasting activities; activities that were considered unimportant for almost of all human history. Our modern lives have made it easier to brush and shower, but you know the reason why we do what we do. We’ve made it non-negotiable Marsha’s reading, spelling, and solar system learning became terribly negotiable. The homework rushed in, took control of the evening and soon the important elements were swept away. And it’s not a lot different from what happens in our own lives. We start off wanting to achieve precise goals, but suddenly a client dumps a truckload of work. And we’re off scampering. The reason why the graduates of the Article Writing Course can write in under two hours is because they drew their line in the sand. They realised their assignments were non-negotiable. And that meant they got their reward in just 12 weeks. At Psychotactics, we too have to make a few of our activities non-negotiable. Renuka and I went for a walk as we almost always do every morning We lead super-busy lives, and it does get a bit cramped when we’re about to go on vacation. That’s because we need to queue all the newsletters for the time we’re away. This applies to our membership site at 5000bc, Psychotactics, and the podcast. But not just for the time we’re away but also for at least a few weeks until we get back. The vacation adds a dimension of chaos that’s abnormal Yet we manage it quite well and do so every three months before we go on vacation. We had to take a similar sort of learning and apply it to Marsha as well. We had to make spellings, reading and learning about subduction zones non-negotiable. Making something non-negotiable implies just one thing You carve out a piece of time, and you put up a force field. Every other activity goes around that time. The participants on the Article Writing Course didn’t have two or three extra hours each day (they have to do other things on top of just writing). Their results are a direct determination to make their performance non-negotiable, even through sickness, late nights and disruptive clients. Life doesn’t give us time on a platter. The people who believe they will have time in the future are living in la-la land. Life doesn’t care squat for your goals. You have to snatch a chunk of time from your very busy day and then put a force field around it. You’re reading this article not because I have to write it. You listen to the podcast that takes up almost a whole day of production. It’s not like I have eight days a week, and neither will you. You have to make some things non-negotiable. And you have to do it right now. And one of the best ways to get anything done is to say no. Saying no to some things and yes to others is what makes you progress. So how do we say no? And what do we need to reject? This takes us to part two. Part 2: Just say no “Seanny is always tired when we come over for playdates”. That was a random, but a bone-chilling comment from my niece, Keira. She would have been just six-years-old at a time, and every month or so we have playdates for Keira and Marsha. At one such playdate, Keira made the “Seanny is tired” comment. Until that moment it hadn’t occurred to me that a six-year-old would notice After all, Keira and Marsha were always running around and playing. Why would they need me to participate? I simply used that downtime to lie on the sofa and get back my breath. But then come the statement and to this day it ricochets somewhere in my brain. It was at that point I decided to say no. We all realise there’s nothing new in the concept of “saying no.” We’ve heard it a million times before. We use it a lot when we’ve had enough. And we say no. However, that’s not the lesson we need to learn. What we really need to understand is that we have to endlessly keep the “no” re-negotiations open. This year, for instance, we announced we’d announced an info-products course It was the start of the year, and among the various courses and products, it seemed plausible to have a series of classes where you learn about information products. Where you learn what it takes to create an outstanding information product right from the start, though the construction and finish. And yet as April set in, and the Article Writing Course putting a fair bit of pressure on me, we decided to pull the plug on the information products course. We said no. Historically we’ve said no to very lucrative offers, some of them our own You’ve already heard how we said no to affiliates; how we’ve barely done any joint ventures (probably three in sixteen years); how we’ve not gone down the path of speaking at dozens of events, travelling all the time; trying to make our book bestsellers, etc. Like some chef in a tiny little restaurant on the wrong side of the world, we’ve beavered on our own creations, content to say no to everything else. A similar theme applies when we look at Psychotactics You’re likely to have heard of the Protégé Program. We started it as an annual program back in 2006. Then in 2007 and 2008 we had it yet again. Each time we took on just 15 clients, but together they earned us close to half a million dollars. Would you have walked away from such a lucrative option? Most people wouldn’t have, but we decided the program was too intense for the clients. They weren’t implementing the learning as deeply as they should. And so we said no. But this series you’re reading about, wasn’t about Psychotactics, was it? Yes, Renuka and I face a lot of decisions and we say no at a fairly regular clip. However, this series was about Marsha’s sudden burst of homework. Like any of you, she was faced with this weird situation. It’s not like she could pick and choose what she could say no to. And so we had to make those decisions for her. She gets a lot of maths games as part of her assignment She loves playing those games endlessly and yes we know, her maths improves. But even at the risk of hearing back from the teacher, we let Marsha play the games for a short while; then she has to stop. Take for example the recent assignment about the solar system. She had to find 50 facts about the solar system, then write them down on a sheet of paper. If she took just 2 minutes per fact, it would take almost two hours. We decided to say no We’d find the facts; we’d give it to her. She’d write it down. We said no to the mundane manner in which the homework was doled out and the time saved can be used to learn something more valuable. The reason for chaos in business is simply the inability to say no When Keira made her “Seanny is always tired” statement, I couldn’t continue to let things stand as they were. I had to refuse to work on weekends. I had to take a nap every afternoon. The volume and range of the work I was taking on required a ton of energy and if I wasn’t rested enough it wasn’t Keira alone who was disappointed. My clients would find inconsistency in my work. And worst of all, I had to look at this tired face in the mirror. You’re going to have to do this too You’re going to have to say no to a lot of those newsletters that are full of fluff. Unsubscribe from newsletters that just keep pummelling you with how rich you’ll be, or how you’ll get 10,000 clients overnight. That’s crap. Life doesn’t work that way, and neither does business. Your business takes years before it can get the momentum it needs. When you start out, you’re not even clear which direction you’re headed in, until several tax returns have ticked by and you start to forge your mission in life. When Renuka and I go for our walk, we do so to listen to keep fit We exercise and listen to podcasts and audio books. But on Fridays we talk about the things that go on our stop-doing list. Things we need to say no to, both in Marsha’s world and our own. We sit down and make a list of the core things we want to achieve. We made the weekends and afternoons non-negotiable to work and dedicated it to rest. We take three months off because we said no to endless work. It’s all about re-negotiating the things we have to do, but constantly battling what we need to drop. Which is why when Keira comes over for her playdates, I’m no longer sprawled on the sofa I’m running the girls ragged. I’m not exhausted like I always was. And to really get things done, find a way to use Friday to your advantage. Make Friday your say no day. Work out the things you’ve done and what you need to drop. If you can, find a friend to go on a walk with, if not every day, at least on Friday. Just say no. Chaos understands. He’ll be back on Monday, but you’ve won the battle for the weekend at least. This takes us to our third part: Drills Part 3: Drills When we think of talent, we think of something inborn. We assume that one person may be talented in one area because of genetics. This assumption, however, right or wonderful, is pointless when you stop and think about how the brain works. The brain is a pattern-seeking device If you think of talent as something inborn, then good luck to you. It means that you can never be talented in anything else but what you were born with. I, on the other hand, have this aversion to inborn talent. And it’s one thing to say something; it’s quite another to prove the point. We started mentoring Marsha because she was struggling with her studies at school She’s a bright girl, and I’ve known her since she was three, but it was clear that she needed help. But while I love maths, languages, and science, there were two fronts to work on: confidence and knowledge. So we set about going through drills. Day in and day out we’d learn about clouds. We learned about cumulus, cirrocumulus, roll clouds, cumulonimbus, cap clouds, mammatus, and one of our favorites—clouds that look like space ships, lenticularis, and clouds that look like waves on the ocean: Kelvin-Helmholtz (yup, that’s a weird name for a cloud). We rolled out drills for everything Clouds, then countries and capitals. At the age of nine, Marsha knew 150 countries and 150 capitals, but not randomly. She worked her way from Iceland, all across Europe, then across Russia and the Middle East, down to Africa, up to Asia and so on. Every country in order from left to right. And she’d spit it out so quickly that if you followed her list with a sheet of paper, you’d find it almost impossible to keep up with her. So how does this apply to getting things done? Without drills, your brain doesn’t have the chance to learn a lot. Take the upcoming headline course, for example. In a short period of eight weeks, a client has to go from struggling with headlines to be astoundingly good. But what does astoundingly good mean? It means that the client can write dozens, even hundreds of headlines if needed. Every headline is genuinely curious and not click bait. But at the same time, every client (without exception) should become an auditor. They should be able to look at any headline, across any industry and be able to fix the erroneous headlines in a minute or two. This level of ability calls for drills With Marsha, we had drills for her “times tables”. Renuka would sit down and write over a hundred tables-based questions in a day. In a week, Marsha was going through over 500 questions, in a month over 2000. Do you think her ability to calculate figures in her head improved? When you look at the cartooning course, the headlines course, the Article Writing Course—they all have drills If you’ve done the course, you know how the drills are anything but boring. They’re hard work, but they’re not boring. And yet, when you’re called on to execute the exercises, you do so almost flawlessly. One of the biggest reasons why I see people struggling is because they don’t have the ability to run at high speed. If you’re going to run a business, no one needs to tell you about the importance of drills The drills take a lot of effort, but they are only necessary for a short time. Marsha and I started learning a few countries a day in December and by Easter, barely three months later, she knew the countries and capitals in sequence. At Psychotactics, we’ve done well for a simple reason. We keep to the drills and add skills as we go along, and that’s really how you become smarter. But smarts are just the icing on the cake. What drills really do is help you quickly go through your day. You learn the skill, you implement it Talent is a reduction of errors. The fewer errors you make, the more talented you become. Instead of battling with headlines all day long, you get an outstanding headline done in a few minutes. Struggling with writing an article over a four week period? Drills help you reduce those errors to a point where you can write an engaging, complete article in under two hours. When we look at what we’re good at doing it’s because we learned a drill To get things done, you can’t believe in magic. You have to run the same sequence over and over until it’s not something you think about any more. It’s just something you can do with the minimum amount of energy. In 5000bc there’s a Taking Action forum. If you track the actions of those who report back every day, you’ll notice a vast improvement over time. What they’re doing is reducing errors They’re following the pattern of the brain. It’s down to drills. Engaging drills that help you learn and execute faster than you’ve ever done before. Marsha knows about clouds, geology, science and yes, countries She may appear smarter than you and in some ways that may be true. But how did she do it? You know the answer. Summary When I pick up Marsha from school she always has a big grin on her face. And yes, she’ll tease me by saying: “J’ai beaucoup de devoirs aujourd’hui.” I know that’s my signal for chaos. I also know that we can tame that chaos by using the three core elements: 1) We make some things non-negotiable. 2) Say no, no matter how enticing the distractions. 3) Drills. Drills make us amazingly fluent at our skills

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