In this episode of the Mere Mortals podcast, I dive into the key philosophies and learnings from my personal experiences in June 2024. From mastering the art of calmness during stressful times to embracing flexibility, effective communication, and the importance of quality family time, I share practical insights and actions to help you navigate life's challenges.
Join me as I discuss the power of consistency in fitness, the benefits of mindfulness, and the drive for continuous improvement. Tune in for relatable stories, famous quotes, and actionable advice to enhance your well-being and productivity.
(00:00) - Introduction
(00:40) - Mastering Calmness
(02:43) - Clear Communication
(05:12) - Embracing Flexibility
(07:16) - Quality Family Time
(09:28) - Simplifying Life
(11:12) - Shared Suffering
(13:20) - Practicing Mindfulness
(15:07) - Consistency in Fitness
(16:39) - Continuous Improvement
(18:50) - Conclusion
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Welcome back, me immortalized, to another edition of the me immortal podcast. Today, we once again have an effective philosophy episode, where it is me, 1, bringing you some learning, some thoughts, some ideas, some good stuff that's been happening over the month that has been. For me, this is June 2024 and really replying it. Now I've talked about it already on the podcast. I enjoy doing this. I already do it. I've been doing it for years in terms of reflecting back on the the month that was. And for me, it's just more about putting this together into something that's consumable by a lot more individuals, making it broader from an effective philosophy perspective and actions. So, you know, I enjoyed. If you do too, let me know. Comments, message, subscriptions, whatever it may be, but let's get into it. I've got 9 perhaps 10 little items that we wanna talk about. So we'll get into it. First 1, mastering the act, the art of calmness.
Calm. So that effective philosophy there is cultivating calmness and presence is essential for navigating life's challenges and maintaining the well-being. Quote their calm mind brings inner strength and self confidence, so that's very important for good health from the Dalai Lama. Now, the example there of the art of calmness is right at the start of the month, we unfortunately, came around to a memorial service that's for Karen's mom. We talked about it on the podcast before. And just finding moments of calm, not just that, but obviously that was cool about the the calmness that is needed in, I guess, times when, when things are very frantic. At least for me personally, I found that there was a sort of imbued calmness during that those particular moments for for the memorial service, you know, everything kind of stops and focusing on 1 particular thing. There's other aspects of my life where I guess calmness just comes quite naturally.
Usually that's for, you know, weekly training, gym training, but in other events, which either made it kid, reflective, so you just reflect on on life or things are happening. That's that's good from a calm perspective. But the the calmness, I guess, that I, I don't find myself doing very easily is in other, maybe perhaps more daily mundane tasks, maybe other items which just come at you quite rapidly and you just kinda deal with it tactically as opposed to the calmer strategic view of it all. In any case for me it was I mean, key call I was obviously attending the memorial, but throughout the month of June, I made it really much a habit of writing down every single day, you know, how I reflected from my calm perspective, and if I was at all frantic, why I was frantic. So some of the actions that I guess on that philosophy there is at least pract I'm I'm gonna say practicing meditation, but at least the the mindfulness, some sort of mindfulness exercise to improve the ability to be calm, and that might just be, like, for myself reflecting back at the end of the day or more specifically, the next day or the previous day around where I was calm and probably more importantly, where I wasn't, where I was frantic, and what I could do to actually improve that.
The second 1, I've got noted down here, speaking clearly, resolve conflicts. Clear and calm communication is key to resolving conflicts and misunderstandings, strengthening relationships. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that he has taken place, and that's from George Bernard Shaw. So he the example the example from the month was once again, it was actually on the same day and perhaps it was of the memorial and perhaps it was because there was a lot of tension and a lot of action going on. We had a a gigantic miscommunication with me and my partner. It was all about cushions. All about the goddamn cushions and, you know, part of me there's lots of variables involved here. I'm not gonna get into who was right, who was wrong, I was wrong. But the variables around the cushions and the shape and the price and what could be bought and what couldn't be bought and there was a lot of misunderstanding in what we were talking about and it wasn't until actually a few days later from the event that, you know, again, I recognized in my notes was, you know, I've had spoken clearly. I was very clear with my communication right up front on maybe the reasons why I didn't think that was the right cushion or my concerns around the cushion.
That would have resolved the conflict right on the spot. There wouldn't have been any any doubts or issues at that point. But looking back and I went, you know what? Yeah. Speaking clearly. Very, very, very important, piece. Very important philosophy to have. Again, clear and clear and calm communication is key, whether it's business, whether it's relationships. And you'll you'll find a lot of my philosophies and learnings here are definitely in the in the in the family, in the relationships, close relationships between me because they are the things that are really important. So, you know, actions, how to do how do you take on this effective philosophy? How do you how do you put it to practice? I would say taking a moment to to breathe my my nose hairs. Take a moment to breathe like, your thoughts before addressing conflicts, ensuring the communication is clear and calm. It's just taking the time, taking the moment.
I guess, kinda links into the first 1 around being a bit calmer. Whenever I'm I'm put into a position where I need to, I guess, pursue some effort and I'm becoming frantic, yes, I can get things done really quickly, but I also then pivot and tilt towards making a lot of mistakes and communication certainly is is 1 of them. That's that's the case there. The third point that I've got, embracing flexibility, adapt, and thrive. Adapt, folks. Flexibility and adaptability adaptability allow for better handling of unexpected situations and smoother transitions. Measure of intelligence is the ability to change, Albert Einstein.
So what was the example there now? I've got this note from 3rd June when my daughter really disrupted the day. Now, I did manage to find the the balance between the work and family and what was going on and finding time to play, but more importantly, help her calm down. She's going through the stage where I wouldn't say she's not too, but she's suddenly going through some bloody goddamn tantrums. Probably, you know, bring them earlier if you actually look into it. I think it's they they say, oh, you know, the terrible twos and the tantrums begin in 18 months. Damn. She's about to be 14 months, and she's throwing tantrums, some hardcore tantrums. So, someone send me a a lifeline here. But, yeah, just adapting and thriving. The the flexibility is so, so important whether you're a parent or not whether it be whether it be cut my workout short or do something different, lift lighter weights, not get enough sleep, shift meetings, move meetings, do work, have to move a podcast conversation, whatever it may be, you have to be able to adapt to be able to thrive, longer the days, at least for me, when that's just so cemented and well regimented that it doesn't need to be like that. If you if you are in that position, 1, fantastic, wonderful. Continue it if you can and do the things that you need to do. But if you aren't and you perhaps recognize that it's not gonna be the same anymore, I think embracing flexibility is gonna be just such a key piece. The action that I wrote down as well for myself, regularly, assessing my plans and be willing to adjust them as needed, maintaining a flexible approach to daily challenges, not even go to daily obstacles. Just just be ready to, you know, you set yourself an obstacle, a challenge, or a target to do something and embrace the flexibility that perhaps you can't do that, but it is important, make sure that it's thriving, you know, don't go and swap it out for doing some on social media because you can't go and do your work or something's equivalent.
Number 4, cherishing the quality time with family. This is super, super important. Valuing and prioritizing quality time with family fosters personal satisfaction and happiness. Family is not an important thing. It's everything. Michael j Fox. Look. 1 example I just came up, like, literally yesterday and today, there's a lot of posts I've been seeing on x and Instagram. No. X predominantly, where it's, you know, people asking, you know, what's more important than Bitcoin? What's more important than this? And I found myself commenting all the time, family. Family. Family. Family.
Specifically, my note on example for the month, on June 14th, spent a really fulfilling day with the family, including setting up some sim racing. And enjoying some, Indian food, getting them home projects done, and creating those memorable moments together. It is Obviously, even more so with with my daughter, but it is just so critically important that time flows through our hands like sand, and it goes fairly quick. If, once again, you don't have a a kid, perhaps do want a child someday, be prepared for time to just evaporate. Right? The the days are long, but the years are short, and the and really just cherishing the quality time with the family, with the moments that you make. And, look, some people don't have the option to be with them all all the time. Right? You wanna be a stay at home, parent. Maybe you you have to get, external support to be able to do your work or fulfill your duties or, you know, achieve other things. But even with the moments you do have, cherish them. Cherish them to the the maximum. And this has been a consistent learning, consistent call out in a lot of my monthly goals over the last couple of months. And for me, the actions to schedule regular family activities that promote that bonding and creating those those memories, right, the lasting memories.
For me, as as an example, for maybe other, parents out there, it's the bath time. The bath time becomes really like sacrilege, you know, if you're gonna, impact my my time, with my daughter during that time, it's it's gonna have to be good. It's gonna be pretty damn urgent and important to do that and generally, it's between 5 o'clock to around 6:30, that's blocked out. I'm not putting it in my calendar. I hate these people who've been posting about, you know, oh, yeah. Put my calendar and I I put, you know, time everything down to 10 minutes, 15 minutes to do that. Fuck that. Go and do that if you're a parent. I I show me that you're doing that as a parent, the previous point about being, you know, flexible. I'll tell you, yeah, you're probably gonna be pretty disappointed with trying to do that. But for me at least, 5 o'clock and 6:30 generally generally, right, be flexible is a time when there's a real focus on the the family and for myself, my daughter and make this quality time through that point.
Number 5, simplify. Conquer stress, simplify your life. Simplifying routines and reducing tasks help manage stress and avoid feeling overwhelmed. It's not the load and that breaks you down. It's the way that you carry it from Lou Holtz. Yeah. Look, it's the the stress and and 1 of the call outs I made before was, sim racing. Right? So, earlier through the the month, I actually put my the sim racing together about really quite early, and I was finding that to utilize it was something that I was 1 looking forward to, but to help to reduce some of the stress. I guess there's some direct, aspects of it. And it was I kept it pretty simple. A couple of months beforehand, I really wanted to set up, you know, full gear, rig setup with chassis and what game and all this. And in the end, I end up just simplifying it quite a lot. You know, steering wheel, pedals, iRacing is a game of choice. Just go do that. Go go participate with it. And simplifying that may distress a lot. That's, prevalent, I guess, or the anxiety of doing it, you know, set up and whatnot. It's fairly quick to to set up. I don't have it permanently set up, and it simplifies it. So the more simple that you can set up things, the the better it can be. For me, again, action. Regularly decluttering the schedule by prioritizing essential tasks, eliminating eliminating the unnecessary ones. So this is just more removing things as opposed to adding things. I am a hoarder of doing things. I'd like to hoard the ability to go and read 17 different, types of books and go and watch 3 videos and do things multiple, all at the same time watching Formula 1 or something else. Gotta declutter. Gotta declutter the schedule again. Get rid of putting things at 3 minute intervals in the calendar. I don't have to do that right now nor am I optimizing for that. So it's just the the action there for for simplifying, life.
So the next 1 here, shared suffering halves the burden. Really important 1. Sharing suffering with others can take can half the burden, foster a sense of community and support. Shared joy is double the joy. Shared sorrow is half the sorrow sorrow. That's a Swedish proverb. Look, once again, the the memory of the call out there was the moral service, at the start of the the month. And just being there present, experiencing the loss of someone who I don't, and being able to share the moment with my loved ones, my parents, my partner, my daughter. It doesn't remove the suffering, but as sure as hell helps you carry that burden. And equally on the opposite side, there was a lot of of opportunities throughout this month, is that shared joy is double the joy. It's really a considerable difference between the times that I've been single or alone, and done really really cool things, and being together with someone, whether it's my partner, whether it is with family, with people that you care about, people that you love, and then you do something, man, the joy imbued in that is multiplied by levels that you perhaps don't know if you have not experienced it. So shared suffering, halves the burden.
On the inverse, shared joy is double the joy. And the action really is just opening up sometimes, specifically here at the bird, with trust of friends, key, trust of friends and family, all the time that you're struggling, at least for myself. Right? Because sharing some of that suffering can lead to at least some alleviation of the burden. Another example where this was prevalent, yesterday. My daughter was, losing it losing it. She, was really really upset going through a couple of tantrums. We had sort of migrating away from from breast milk. And that was hard. And 1 of the things that I did to try to alleviate some of the suffering that we're dealing was was calling my mom and dad on a Facebook messenger call out. And it didn't stop her. Didn't stop her. Usually, it does. Didn't even stop at this time. But it helped a little bit to just recognize couple of things. 1, at least I've shared it with someone. 2, I'm not unique. You know, my parents would have gone through this with me and probably I would have been an even bigger shit. So there's that as well.
Yeah. Knowledge of shit suffering, half's a burn, right? So that's the the the key call out there on that 1. Next 1, mindfulness. The key to a better life. This is it. The key. Mindfulness. Practicing mindfulness and finding finding moments to pause and reflect can enhance overall well-being and presence. Look. I did a phenomenal thing. I went on a long walk. That was on the 27th June. Talked about this with Kyra and podcast, so I'll keep it brief. Went for a massively long walk over the weeks before that. I've just been really jam packed with work, travels, doing things, thinking about things, trying to take actions, trying to be effective. And that was 1 of those moments where I slowed down. I wasn't efficient. I wasn't effective. I just walked. I was semi injured. Talked about this already on 1 of my legs.
And it was just the allowing that time to be mindful, to just let my mind wander that all of a sudden formulated this explosion of creativity, of ideas, which kind of continues to this day. I'm not saying that I'm not gonna call out. I think you have to do this every single day. At least, I don't necessarily say that or preach to myself. But I would say, definitely have to find some mindfulness, when you need it. And you know when you need it. Right? You feel a bit backed up, you feel a bit locked up, like you're tight, like you need to share, like you need to unwind, like you need to take a holiday, that feeling of I need to take a holiday, I need to go relax, I think that's the call out. And maybe just slightly before that, you go find mindfulness. Right? Key to a better life or at least unlocking yourself from the constant that you have. The action here around that was just incorporating more mindful practices, walking, meditating, if that's a thing, swimming in a non competitive, non speed related way.
Lastly, I've got here for you. 1, consistency is king fitness and beyond. So maintaining a consistent fitness routine contributes to physical health and mental clarity. Now success isn't always about greatness, it's about consistency. Consistency, hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. That's from The Rock, Dwayne Johnson. Can you spell? So, yeah, look, throughout June, regular workouts, regular training that was it's consistency. It's the ability to just do it in and out, in and out, day in, day out, week in, week out, year in, year round. At this point, it's probably been a decade plus for me. It's just consistency and the ability to just do it, to be present in some sort of training, even if it means I sleep a little bit less, but I'm getting it done in the morning and it's, you know, kinda wishy washy. Still, way better than not having done it at all. And the last 1 I wanna talk about today, the continuous improvement.
Never settle. Continuously, striving to improve and adapt to new situations lead to a personal growth and better outcomes. The only way to do great work is to love what you do, Steve Jobs. Very true, Steve. Very true. So really never settling, continuing to improve, I redid a book review. The book review that came out, previously from mine. Skipping my mind right now, which 1 it was. But I started doing it, I think it was about 15 minutes in. I just stopped it stopped it and I went, you know what, this wasn't that good, I can do better. It felt off, stopped, reconnected, making sure I huddled the right things, a lot and whatnot, went again, way better. Right? Way better. Now could I have put out that particular piece of content, and would maybe people have cared? Not really. Right? It's not like we get 100 of thousands of views and listens.
No. But, you know, at least for me, I went, I need to improve on that. I know I can do better. You can't just settle on mediocrity. And there's a certain level of quality where, you know, are you trying to go from 99% to 99.9 9%? 9.999.9999999%. Lots of nines, 100%. No. Right. Probably that level of energy is not needed unless someone right now tells me, yes, Juan go make supreme high quality book reviews and maybe I'll do it. But that's not the case. And so, you know, never settling it to a logical point. For me really it's just a regular review, progress of things I'm doing, the important stuff, and seeking ways to improve it. So for you, you know, it raises challenges. Again, obstacles as opportunities for growth. That is all of the key points I wanna talk about from my June learnings. The key call out, the effective philosophies that make this world goddamn better. Do any of those ring true to you?
Interested in hearing more? Do you want me to cut them down in different ways? Obviously, this is gonna be coming out during a time when we're not doing our shared conversations with Karan as he is traveling around the globe being globetrotter jelly. But for now, we're gonna leave it there. Please send through any comments or queries, a boostogram is always a big item that we call out as well to support. We send through some satoshi through all the apps out there that participate in that space, and with a message message attached or you can send some streaming streaming sets as well. For now, me immortal arts, I hope you have enjoyed, you're well wherever you are in the world, 1 out.
Welcome back, me immortalized, to another edition of the me immortal podcast. Today, we once again have an effective philosophy episode, where it is me, 1, bringing you some learning, some thoughts, some ideas, some good stuff that's been happening over the month that has been. For me, this is June 2024 and really replying it. Now I've talked about it already on the podcast. I enjoy doing this. I already do it. I've been doing it for years in terms of reflecting back on the the month that was. And for me, it's just more about putting this together into something that's consumable by a lot more individuals, making it broader from an effective philosophy perspective and actions. So, you know, I enjoyed. If you do too, let me know. Comments, message, subscriptions, whatever it may be, but let's get into it. I've got 9 perhaps 10 little items that we wanna talk about. So we'll get into it. First 1, mastering the act, the art of calmness.
Calm. So that effective philosophy there is cultivating calmness and presence is essential for navigating life's challenges and maintaining the well-being. Quote their calm mind brings inner strength and self confidence, so that's very important for good health from the Dalai Lama. Now, the example there of the art of calmness is right at the start of the month, we unfortunately, came around to a memorial service that's for Karen's mom. We talked about it on the podcast before. And just finding moments of calm, not just that, but obviously that was cool about the the calmness that is needed in, I guess, times when, when things are very frantic. At least for me personally, I found that there was a sort of imbued calmness during that those particular moments for for the memorial service, you know, everything kind of stops and focusing on 1 particular thing. There's other aspects of my life where I guess calmness just comes quite naturally.
Usually that's for, you know, weekly training, gym training, but in other events, which either made it kid, reflective, so you just reflect on on life or things are happening. That's that's good from a calm perspective. But the the calmness, I guess, that I, I don't find myself doing very easily is in other, maybe perhaps more daily mundane tasks, maybe other items which just come at you quite rapidly and you just kinda deal with it tactically as opposed to the calmer strategic view of it all. In any case for me it was I mean, key call I was obviously attending the memorial, but throughout the month of June, I made it really much a habit of writing down every single day, you know, how I reflected from my calm perspective, and if I was at all frantic, why I was frantic. So some of the actions that I guess on that philosophy there is at least pract I'm I'm gonna say practicing meditation, but at least the the mindfulness, some sort of mindfulness exercise to improve the ability to be calm, and that might just be, like, for myself reflecting back at the end of the day or more specifically, the next day or the previous day around where I was calm and probably more importantly, where I wasn't, where I was frantic, and what I could do to actually improve that.
The second 1, I've got noted down here, speaking clearly, resolve conflicts. Clear and calm communication is key to resolving conflicts and misunderstandings, strengthening relationships. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that he has taken place, and that's from George Bernard Shaw. So he the example the example from the month was once again, it was actually on the same day and perhaps it was of the memorial and perhaps it was because there was a lot of tension and a lot of action going on. We had a a gigantic miscommunication with me and my partner. It was all about cushions. All about the goddamn cushions and, you know, part of me there's lots of variables involved here. I'm not gonna get into who was right, who was wrong, I was wrong. But the variables around the cushions and the shape and the price and what could be bought and what couldn't be bought and there was a lot of misunderstanding in what we were talking about and it wasn't until actually a few days later from the event that, you know, again, I recognized in my notes was, you know, I've had spoken clearly. I was very clear with my communication right up front on maybe the reasons why I didn't think that was the right cushion or my concerns around the cushion.
That would have resolved the conflict right on the spot. There wouldn't have been any any doubts or issues at that point. But looking back and I went, you know what? Yeah. Speaking clearly. Very, very, very important, piece. Very important philosophy to have. Again, clear and clear and calm communication is key, whether it's business, whether it's relationships. And you'll you'll find a lot of my philosophies and learnings here are definitely in the in the in the family, in the relationships, close relationships between me because they are the things that are really important. So, you know, actions, how to do how do you take on this effective philosophy? How do you how do you put it to practice? I would say taking a moment to to breathe my my nose hairs. Take a moment to breathe like, your thoughts before addressing conflicts, ensuring the communication is clear and calm. It's just taking the time, taking the moment.
I guess, kinda links into the first 1 around being a bit calmer. Whenever I'm I'm put into a position where I need to, I guess, pursue some effort and I'm becoming frantic, yes, I can get things done really quickly, but I also then pivot and tilt towards making a lot of mistakes and communication certainly is is 1 of them. That's that's the case there. The third point that I've got, embracing flexibility, adapt, and thrive. Adapt, folks. Flexibility and adaptability adaptability allow for better handling of unexpected situations and smoother transitions. Measure of intelligence is the ability to change, Albert Einstein.
So what was the example there now? I've got this note from 3rd June when my daughter really disrupted the day. Now, I did manage to find the the balance between the work and family and what was going on and finding time to play, but more importantly, help her calm down. She's going through the stage where I wouldn't say she's not too, but she's suddenly going through some bloody goddamn tantrums. Probably, you know, bring them earlier if you actually look into it. I think it's they they say, oh, you know, the terrible twos and the tantrums begin in 18 months. Damn. She's about to be 14 months, and she's throwing tantrums, some hardcore tantrums. So, someone send me a a lifeline here. But, yeah, just adapting and thriving. The the flexibility is so, so important whether you're a parent or not whether it be whether it be cut my workout short or do something different, lift lighter weights, not get enough sleep, shift meetings, move meetings, do work, have to move a podcast conversation, whatever it may be, you have to be able to adapt to be able to thrive, longer the days, at least for me, when that's just so cemented and well regimented that it doesn't need to be like that. If you if you are in that position, 1, fantastic, wonderful. Continue it if you can and do the things that you need to do. But if you aren't and you perhaps recognize that it's not gonna be the same anymore, I think embracing flexibility is gonna be just such a key piece. The action that I wrote down as well for myself, regularly, assessing my plans and be willing to adjust them as needed, maintaining a flexible approach to daily challenges, not even go to daily obstacles. Just just be ready to, you know, you set yourself an obstacle, a challenge, or a target to do something and embrace the flexibility that perhaps you can't do that, but it is important, make sure that it's thriving, you know, don't go and swap it out for doing some on social media because you can't go and do your work or something's equivalent.
Number 4, cherishing the quality time with family. This is super, super important. Valuing and prioritizing quality time with family fosters personal satisfaction and happiness. Family is not an important thing. It's everything. Michael j Fox. Look. 1 example I just came up, like, literally yesterday and today, there's a lot of posts I've been seeing on x and Instagram. No. X predominantly, where it's, you know, people asking, you know, what's more important than Bitcoin? What's more important than this? And I found myself commenting all the time, family. Family. Family. Family.
Specifically, my note on example for the month, on June 14th, spent a really fulfilling day with the family, including setting up some sim racing. And enjoying some, Indian food, getting them home projects done, and creating those memorable moments together. It is Obviously, even more so with with my daughter, but it is just so critically important that time flows through our hands like sand, and it goes fairly quick. If, once again, you don't have a a kid, perhaps do want a child someday, be prepared for time to just evaporate. Right? The the days are long, but the years are short, and the and really just cherishing the quality time with the family, with the moments that you make. And, look, some people don't have the option to be with them all all the time. Right? You wanna be a stay at home, parent. Maybe you you have to get, external support to be able to do your work or fulfill your duties or, you know, achieve other things. But even with the moments you do have, cherish them. Cherish them to the the maximum. And this has been a consistent learning, consistent call out in a lot of my monthly goals over the last couple of months. And for me, the actions to schedule regular family activities that promote that bonding and creating those those memories, right, the lasting memories.
For me, as as an example, for maybe other, parents out there, it's the bath time. The bath time becomes really like sacrilege, you know, if you're gonna, impact my my time, with my daughter during that time, it's it's gonna have to be good. It's gonna be pretty damn urgent and important to do that and generally, it's between 5 o'clock to around 6:30, that's blocked out. I'm not putting it in my calendar. I hate these people who've been posting about, you know, oh, yeah. Put my calendar and I I put, you know, time everything down to 10 minutes, 15 minutes to do that. Fuck that. Go and do that if you're a parent. I I show me that you're doing that as a parent, the previous point about being, you know, flexible. I'll tell you, yeah, you're probably gonna be pretty disappointed with trying to do that. But for me at least, 5 o'clock and 6:30 generally generally, right, be flexible is a time when there's a real focus on the the family and for myself, my daughter and make this quality time through that point.
Number 5, simplify. Conquer stress, simplify your life. Simplifying routines and reducing tasks help manage stress and avoid feeling overwhelmed. It's not the load and that breaks you down. It's the way that you carry it from Lou Holtz. Yeah. Look, it's the the stress and and 1 of the call outs I made before was, sim racing. Right? So, earlier through the the month, I actually put my the sim racing together about really quite early, and I was finding that to utilize it was something that I was 1 looking forward to, but to help to reduce some of the stress. I guess there's some direct, aspects of it. And it was I kept it pretty simple. A couple of months beforehand, I really wanted to set up, you know, full gear, rig setup with chassis and what game and all this. And in the end, I end up just simplifying it quite a lot. You know, steering wheel, pedals, iRacing is a game of choice. Just go do that. Go go participate with it. And simplifying that may distress a lot. That's, prevalent, I guess, or the anxiety of doing it, you know, set up and whatnot. It's fairly quick to to set up. I don't have it permanently set up, and it simplifies it. So the more simple that you can set up things, the the better it can be. For me, again, action. Regularly decluttering the schedule by prioritizing essential tasks, eliminating eliminating the unnecessary ones. So this is just more removing things as opposed to adding things. I am a hoarder of doing things. I'd like to hoard the ability to go and read 17 different, types of books and go and watch 3 videos and do things multiple, all at the same time watching Formula 1 or something else. Gotta declutter. Gotta declutter the schedule again. Get rid of putting things at 3 minute intervals in the calendar. I don't have to do that right now nor am I optimizing for that. So it's just the the action there for for simplifying, life.
So the next 1 here, shared suffering halves the burden. Really important 1. Sharing suffering with others can take can half the burden, foster a sense of community and support. Shared joy is double the joy. Shared sorrow is half the sorrow sorrow. That's a Swedish proverb. Look, once again, the the memory of the call out there was the moral service, at the start of the the month. And just being there present, experiencing the loss of someone who I don't, and being able to share the moment with my loved ones, my parents, my partner, my daughter. It doesn't remove the suffering, but as sure as hell helps you carry that burden. And equally on the opposite side, there was a lot of of opportunities throughout this month, is that shared joy is double the joy. It's really a considerable difference between the times that I've been single or alone, and done really really cool things, and being together with someone, whether it's my partner, whether it is with family, with people that you care about, people that you love, and then you do something, man, the joy imbued in that is multiplied by levels that you perhaps don't know if you have not experienced it. So shared suffering, halves the burden.
On the inverse, shared joy is double the joy. And the action really is just opening up sometimes, specifically here at the bird, with trust of friends, key, trust of friends and family, all the time that you're struggling, at least for myself. Right? Because sharing some of that suffering can lead to at least some alleviation of the burden. Another example where this was prevalent, yesterday. My daughter was, losing it losing it. She, was really really upset going through a couple of tantrums. We had sort of migrating away from from breast milk. And that was hard. And 1 of the things that I did to try to alleviate some of the suffering that we're dealing was was calling my mom and dad on a Facebook messenger call out. And it didn't stop her. Didn't stop her. Usually, it does. Didn't even stop at this time. But it helped a little bit to just recognize couple of things. 1, at least I've shared it with someone. 2, I'm not unique. You know, my parents would have gone through this with me and probably I would have been an even bigger shit. So there's that as well.
Yeah. Knowledge of shit suffering, half's a burn, right? So that's the the the key call out there on that 1. Next 1, mindfulness. The key to a better life. This is it. The key. Mindfulness. Practicing mindfulness and finding finding moments to pause and reflect can enhance overall well-being and presence. Look. I did a phenomenal thing. I went on a long walk. That was on the 27th June. Talked about this with Kyra and podcast, so I'll keep it brief. Went for a massively long walk over the weeks before that. I've just been really jam packed with work, travels, doing things, thinking about things, trying to take actions, trying to be effective. And that was 1 of those moments where I slowed down. I wasn't efficient. I wasn't effective. I just walked. I was semi injured. Talked about this already on 1 of my legs.
And it was just the allowing that time to be mindful, to just let my mind wander that all of a sudden formulated this explosion of creativity, of ideas, which kind of continues to this day. I'm not saying that I'm not gonna call out. I think you have to do this every single day. At least, I don't necessarily say that or preach to myself. But I would say, definitely have to find some mindfulness, when you need it. And you know when you need it. Right? You feel a bit backed up, you feel a bit locked up, like you're tight, like you need to share, like you need to unwind, like you need to take a holiday, that feeling of I need to take a holiday, I need to go relax, I think that's the call out. And maybe just slightly before that, you go find mindfulness. Right? Key to a better life or at least unlocking yourself from the constant that you have. The action here around that was just incorporating more mindful practices, walking, meditating, if that's a thing, swimming in a non competitive, non speed related way.
Lastly, I've got here for you. 1, consistency is king fitness and beyond. So maintaining a consistent fitness routine contributes to physical health and mental clarity. Now success isn't always about greatness, it's about consistency. Consistency, hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. That's from The Rock, Dwayne Johnson. Can you spell? So, yeah, look, throughout June, regular workouts, regular training that was it's consistency. It's the ability to just do it in and out, in and out, day in, day out, week in, week out, year in, year round. At this point, it's probably been a decade plus for me. It's just consistency and the ability to just do it, to be present in some sort of training, even if it means I sleep a little bit less, but I'm getting it done in the morning and it's, you know, kinda wishy washy. Still, way better than not having done it at all. And the last 1 I wanna talk about today, the continuous improvement.
Never settle. Continuously, striving to improve and adapt to new situations lead to a personal growth and better outcomes. The only way to do great work is to love what you do, Steve Jobs. Very true, Steve. Very true. So really never settling, continuing to improve, I redid a book review. The book review that came out, previously from mine. Skipping my mind right now, which 1 it was. But I started doing it, I think it was about 15 minutes in. I just stopped it stopped it and I went, you know what, this wasn't that good, I can do better. It felt off, stopped, reconnected, making sure I huddled the right things, a lot and whatnot, went again, way better. Right? Way better. Now could I have put out that particular piece of content, and would maybe people have cared? Not really. Right? It's not like we get 100 of thousands of views and listens.
No. But, you know, at least for me, I went, I need to improve on that. I know I can do better. You can't just settle on mediocrity. And there's a certain level of quality where, you know, are you trying to go from 99% to 99.9 9%? 9.999.9999999%. Lots of nines, 100%. No. Right. Probably that level of energy is not needed unless someone right now tells me, yes, Juan go make supreme high quality book reviews and maybe I'll do it. But that's not the case. And so, you know, never settling it to a logical point. For me really it's just a regular review, progress of things I'm doing, the important stuff, and seeking ways to improve it. So for you, you know, it raises challenges. Again, obstacles as opportunities for growth. That is all of the key points I wanna talk about from my June learnings. The key call out, the effective philosophies that make this world goddamn better. Do any of those ring true to you?
Interested in hearing more? Do you want me to cut them down in different ways? Obviously, this is gonna be coming out during a time when we're not doing our shared conversations with Karan as he is traveling around the globe being globetrotter jelly. But for now, we're gonna leave it there. Please send through any comments or queries, a boostogram is always a big item that we call out as well to support. We send through some satoshi through all the apps out there that participate in that space, and with a message message attached or you can send some streaming streaming sets as well. For now, me immortal arts, I hope you have enjoyed, you're well wherever you are in the world, 1 out.
Introduction
Mastering Calmness
Clear Communication
Embracing Flexibility
Quality Family Time
Simplifying Life
Shared Suffering
Practicing Mindfulness
Consistency in Fitness
Continuous Improvement
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