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It's time for our monthly check in where we review our goals from last month and see what's coming up for the next.
Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? Juan and I on the first week of every month go over our progress from the previous month and where we are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings; what we didn't achieve in the previous monthly goals and how we will fix that for the month that comes. We hope you get some value from this series, showcasing our own methodology. What do you do differently and why?
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Timeline:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:03:41) Juan's November 2025 Recap
(00:06:42) Kyrin's November 2025 Recap
(00:10:05) Support Overview
(00:12:59) Juan's December 2025 Goals
(00:28:09) Kyrin's December 2025 Goals
(00:37:40) Fitness
(00:41:44) V4V
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We all can't be mortals capable of mistakes. The journey is not here to be agonized upon.
[00:00:09] Kyrin Down:
It's welcome to another round of the monthly goals. The last ones of the first quarter of this century 2025.
[00:00:18] Juan Granados:
I was,
[00:00:20] Kyrin Down:
I saw a joke the other day, which was like, oh, you know, like, dad, what was it like being born in the nineteen hundreds? It's like, fuck. That's true. We're part of that. We are part of that. For a long time, we're gonna we're the only generation that was, you know, a new new decade, new century, new millennium. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly right. It's not gonna be for another thousand years. So I I remember I actually remember the New Year celebrations of 2000. Of 2000? Yep. Yeah. That's a vivid memory.
[00:00:46] Juan Granados:
Kind of remember. Kind of remember. Yeah. We would have been eight years old for those who are wondering. I wasn't in Australia. That's why. Oh shit. Yeah. That's why I'm like, oh, what? I'm trying to remember it. Columbia memories. That was like a They're all in like, you know, how in Mexico, it's like a sepia type color or Yeah. Yeah. Like a darkish brown. Yeah. Russia is black and white. Maybe mom, if you're listening, put it in a comment, but I believe, like, for the tradition, I don't know if it's just South America, but in Colombia, definitely you have a tradition called the, I feel the name mom will put it in there, but it's to burn off the old man, basically.
And you would you make a stuffed old man made out of like a sheet paper and stuff like that. And then you put clothes on this particular man and you burn it. Yeah. Yeah. To kind of signify the tradition going from the old days. It was quite cool stuff stuff. We have a traditional candle lighting, thing that we're doing next week over at mom and dad's place as well. We've got a a couple of people. So, that's one thing actually that I Australia's got an interesting culture, and we've talked about a stronger culture in some ways than others. But, there's some of the other cultures of of the world that have these cool traditions that we just don't do that have interesting meanings to it. Yeah. Ritual wise, we'll get into the monthly goals shortly.
[00:01:56] Kyrin Down:
I was chatting with a Norwegian guy recently and we're trying to explain schoolies to him. He's like, Oh, yeah, we've got a version of that. It's called like Russ. And basically what they do is the kids, who are just about to graduate during their exams, it's a month long thing. They'll spend up by a bus between like 30 of them. And I'm talking like a proper. Like a school bus looking thing. Yeah. They deck it out with like paint, lights, LCD, you know, probably LSD as well. I don't know. And make it into kind of one of those chicken buses looking things. Yeah. Yeah. Guatemala. And then essentially like they'll drive that to like raves and where other busses are at and they party.
That sounds like. Cool. During their exams and then on their hats, they get pins if they do certain things. And he was saying like, crawling naked through a police station, having sex in a tree. He got one for teaching a sex ed class to like 13 year olds or something. And yeah, just a lot. But interesting. Yeah, that's cool. They do it for a month. A month, people. Forget a week of schoolies. This is a whole month long. Exactly. It's cool. Anyway, monthly goals. This is where Juan and I on the this being the Sunday November 30, right towards the end
[00:03:17] Juan Granados:
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[00:03:31] Kyrin Down:
Well, a little bit of thank you for supporters to the podcast. What's coming up for the next month and then finishing off with the fitness challenge. One typically goes first, so he will jump into how we went for November. Absolutely. So as I bring it up, I can kind of tell you default. All of them were achieved. I only had five for the month of
[00:03:50] Juan Granados:
November, and all of them were ticked off. The first one, I still haven't gotten it up, but I can remember it, was the basically hitting 300 kilometers of movement, for the month. That was very, very easy, actually.
[00:04:01] Kyrin Down:
But does that that how much running was three of that? About 140
[00:04:08] Juan Granados:
ish kilometers. I'll pull it up exactly. But yeah, 300 kilometers of movement overall. And that's inclusive of running, walking and just everyday movement. So I wouldn't say it was easy. Like I still was doing a lot of running as much running as I was doing probably in the previous month. Yeah. But it was easier to just, I was able to just walk and not be as focused in to the running. I'll let you say per se. I'll tell you exactly for the month so far, 226.3 kilometers and we're on the last day of the month. So 126 kilometers of, of running. Yeah. That's how the month, thirty one hours of total running as well. So roughly an hour a day, almost of running. It was cool. It was pretty like like one full day of running. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
So going through the rest of them, so you have 300 kilometers of movement, there was reviewing opportunities versus skill sets and time now I did this and I'll get into it in some because there's There's some interesting things I'm gonna reveal today because I've made I've made a mistake. I'm gonna I'm gonna share my my oopsies, in in this podcast so you wait for a moment in the next big month of December. Sure. To review opportunity for skill sets, testing the interview this month to clean up and automate even more information, which I did. I had had a few of those automation, interviews and automation as well out of it. I actually found to give you an idea when we used to do interviews, maybe two years ago, three years ago, it would have taken me maybe as much as the interview would have taken to record say an hour, an hour and a half, it would have been four x the amount to edit schedule, create all the things. It was almost one one to one ratio, as in I was able to edit schedule and create all the things I needed to in about the same time that it took to record. It was about an hour and a half to edit and all that. So I was like, Yep, this is, this is awesome.
In the last two as well, on my plane walk, it was, well the month just spend some time with no input, no music, no podcasts. Now it was interesting. I did do that. However, I reduced the amount of walks that I was doing because it's been so damn hot and I've also been quite busy. So this was easy to achieve, but I didn't do that much of it. So it's like a yes, but caveat. You know, last one was talking with my wife about our family philosophy and how we take the right actions on it. So yes, we had a conversation about it, the philosophy and kind of confirming what it is, but kind of like a half done. We didn't discuss the right actions on it and what it means, but you'll see it in December goals how I, because it can be, that was too loose, but there's a way to tighten up the ship and we'll see it in December goals. So, there you go the five for November. Sounds good. Nice. Nice. Very well done.
[00:06:37] Kyrin Down:
Good that you ticked off the well, sent me ticked off the, philosophy one. So intrigued about that. Cool. So I had 16, hitting two each for, each of my kinda, like, annual big goals, that sort of thing. I'll say in general, pretty happy. Pretty, pretty damn happy. Small things that I didn't do, create a decent personal Instagram, didn't do that, But at least I wasn't scrolling on Instagram.
[00:07:05] Juan Granados:
Okay, so that's a win
[00:07:08] Kyrin Down:
win. I'm, you know, I was meant to be at a total of 85,000 calories for the month, which was essentially like, you know, it's about it was about 2,700 per day, something like that. If I didn't eat at all today, I'd probably be under it. But I think I am gonna I don't care about it that much. Yeah, yeah. So I'm very close to it. I've been leaning down getting close to 75 s now. And I'm looking pretty lean, especially like in the evenings when you know, I eat. And, you know, I have have the just like carb hit. Well, fat hit and protein hit the same time.
Right as I'm like brushing my teeth. Look at my veins, man. I'm popping. Yeah, I'm Popeye over here. So yeah, I definitely am feeling pretty good and feeling pretty lean. And it's sustainable ish at the moment. So that's good. I did not renew my passport. Part of that was because I found out that they do the annual like, increase of passport fees, right at the end of the year. And so my little F. U. To the government is like, I'm going to pay right just before that. So you'll see that carry on to the next, did a tour of one of the potential apartments. That was good.
Bought a whole bunch of new gym clothes, and that was pretty good. Probably the ones that I didn't do well, be uncomfortably firm in my standards. I like really fucked that up. And then I made up for it by, it was essentially where it was like, and that was kind of like a bit of a loose goal in mind. But essentially, I did something which I wasn't very happy with myself about. And this was talking to a girl and I like a chickened out, essentially. And my my standards in that case were like, semi related to this experiment, approaching with directness.
And I didn't do that. I then saw her a couple of days later and made up for it. And so the the bad feeling I had of of being like, what the fuck am I doing? I fixed that. But, you know, I fucked it up. And I also, what was the other one? I did not do the overhaul backup of the systems of wallets. Everything else, I think I was pretty happy. Takes off? Okay.
[00:09:32] Juan Granados:
Yeah. Would you say on that one on the approach, would you say that you neutralized it or you were just sort of like, it's negative because there was that faltering the step? Yeah. No, no, no. I'm very happy that I made up for it. I made up for it. So,
[00:09:45] Kyrin Down:
yeah, I would say I came out neutral. Neutral. But it wasn't like I did something good and then followed it up with something bad. I was like, I did something bad and then I followed it up with something good. So I don't know which is better. But yeah, it was
[00:09:59] Juan Granados:
a productive month. I feel like I got a lot done and yeah, happy, happy with progress. Okay, good. Just in terms of support or just general support, I call out, I guess. What what are you seeing? Have you been listening much more to the podcasting tip and notes? Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm
[00:10:14] Kyrin Down:
still in there. So we're we're talking about the Satoshi stream struggling with something. I saw a boostgram come in recently, so I think they fixed it up, even though I then I put it down to 1% of our splits, but still came through. So that's good. Yeah, I'm I'm spending a lot more time looking at, X four zero two. That's that's kind of my honing in thing at the moment. So and
[00:10:42] Juan Granados:
I remember Dave Jones. Did you talk about x four zero two yesterday at all? When you
[00:10:46] Kyrin Down:
I mentioned it, but nobody knew about it. No. No. No. One guy knew. Okay. That's cool. Okay. So we went to an AI meetup, which was actually part of the goals. Why don't I ticked it off on last last minute? That's right. Good. And yet, so for me, it's more looking at how you'd maybe do value for value outside of just the purely Bitcoin and doing it through the podcasting apps. But, yeah, I still I think things are just ticking along, to be honest. And that's the same for our support, I'd say. Really appreciate Cole, Peter, Late Bloom actor come to mind and some other streamers. But, yeah, I haven't done the full, I'll probably do that next month. The full calculations of how much came in and put up the new graph on the
[00:11:35] Juan Granados:
the, whenever, and I seldom do this, but I do check the audio streaming or, you know, people who are watching, it's actually predominantly from Valley for Value podcasting apps that we get most of our listens to. So, you know, the likes of your Spotify's and Apple podcast is very minor and our overarching, you know, overwhelming amount of people that listen to us via audio is via all of these different platforms. So it's interesting that, you know, it's still large in that space, But like you say, no, we haven't been putting as near as much effort as we were doing months and a year ago if you save into the value for value space. Makes sense that maybe some of that value doesn't get returned in that manner, but it comes in other ways, I guess. Yeah. Putting more of it. Absolutely. If you want your name called out, meremortalspodcast.com/support
[00:12:21] Kyrin Down:
and you can see it there. I actually see Cole riding in the chat here as well. He's providing some value by saying my December goal is to do one meditation, one breathwork session every day. Just got a new breath work app with lots of techniques to explore. Nice. Cool. I like it. Experimenting with breath work, I think is always valuable. I've, I've never
[00:12:40] Juan Granados:
I have fond memories of doing the Wim Hof stuff. Yeah. Yeah. At least it's easy to interesting. Like, it's seldom negative. I guess it's like you need to kinda come out of it again neutral like, okay, whatever. Or it was like, oh, cool. That was that was really sweet. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I don't yeah. Correct. You're not gonna you're not gonna go bad with of I don't think so. I don't think so. Alright. Well, let's look at December 2025 goals for us. So you're straight off that. My call out is I made a mistake, everyone. We are the immortals after all. So this morning I was actually reviewing my annual goals and the monthly goals. And I kind of went, went through my annual goals and my usual process. Again, review the annual goals. What percentage of progress have I made? What's the new monthly goals that will help me align to that? And I reviewed most of most of the annual goals and, I won't pull it up exactly. But I think I'll pull it up. Of the eight, nine, nine annual goals that I had, one, two, three, four.
I'll be the finished as in I've ticked it off and they could achieve what I wanted to do or the other two, I've kind of go pause. I don't wanna do any more work on that. Like, I've actually realized that whatever I was pursuing, that's not what I was after. So kinda leaves me with five goals, five annual goals. And in the mind space, we're gonna break it down to body, mind, and soul. There's no more. There's no mind that goes in the mind, which kind of contradicts where I'm sitting right now because I have some interesting things roaming in my mind of what I want to do into the new year. And I went, I think this is probably the first Late edition. Well, no, it's a bit of an opposite, which I've done. I did last year as well, but it was a bit of an observation where I think I messed up my old goals this time around. And I put a little note and we'll talk about in a moment of, I need to probably retrospect on, is it serving me the right way or the moment? Do I have to maybe pull back in the Allah Tim Ferris style? So Tim Ferris has called out to always in the sense of, I asked Tim directly, I asked him a question online, when I call, what's your views, plans, guides, like in five years, what are you looking to do? And he kind of shot back and was like, nah, I didn't think about that at all. Like I don't, I don't think about it from a five year plan. I think about it from my quarterly plan. It's just too many things, too many variables.
And now that I think about it, again, the really long term views of like, you know, eminent human being, I'm not that doesn't change because it's very long term and all the values kind of underpin that. But I'm a I'm a bit hesitant to almost say this, but maybe annual goals is a little bit too long. I almost need it to be quarterly because things evolve and change quickly at the moment. You know, family life moves quick, learning cycles of things with AI and the field things moving really, really quickly. I'm not gonna jump in and change it right now, but I am going to take this month to do a bit of a review on the annual goals and go, okay, what are those additional things I might wanna add as part of my annual goals and start maybe playing with the idea of a orderly cycle, if you will. It used to work really well years ago with with the way that I'd set it up because I did so many and then it allowed me to kind of do it by phases.
I almost I almost feel like I I stretch it too far. I made two little goals, which now some do either get accomplished or some just kind of go by the wayside. And now it leaves me a bit of like a no luck without things to do. So, here's a demonstration for everyone. Even if you've been doing things for a long time, things evolve, things change. And just while I could work for a twenty seventeen year old me, it might not work now for a 33 year old me. So you need to always, yeah, be aware. It might not work for forever. And this is the top point where I'm like, oh, I need to just review that and have a bit of a look to see what the reality of it is. It'll come up in our next episode on on mastery.
[00:16:17] Kyrin Down:
But the Norwegian guy who I also mentioned just previously, His name is Ulrich, Ulrich on hands. So he's the hand balancer. He taught my friend Brendan and got him to a pretty decent level. And he was just in Brisbane. So we caught up might even be catching up with him today again. And anyway, I was asking him like, hand balancing as a as a job. What do you think it's going to still exist around in like, five years, ten years time can if you're not able to do it yourself, let's say you're in your sixties. Can you teach the other people? And he was just like, man, I don't even think more than like, two months ahead for things like that. And didn't really answer the question, which I was trying to, I didn't particularly want to know about him, per se. I wanted to know more about his thoughts on it as a profession in general.
And maybe I didn't make that clear enough. So if I see him again, I'll try and press him again. But yeah, he was asking him about his like annual goals. His annual goals would be like, no. Yep. It's too far. Yeah. Yeah. It's not. And it's, look, there's an interesting dynamic. I don't know
[00:17:25] Juan Granados:
entirely in saying this, whether this is a, you know, if you have kids or you have something other responsibilities, you can't, you kind of have to have certain plans together to do certain things. But then in saying that there's just as many, I'm sure examples in the world where people who are just planning order at a time, couple of weeks at a time, whatever, and making it work really successfully. So I won't say it's because of that. I think it's just depends on the individual and nature. I chatted with our friend Joey yesterday. Yep. If he thinks more than like two seconds ahead, that's a that's a that's a surprise. That's the thing about, you know, why, why humans came out in evolution in the book master actually at the very beginning and Robert's talking about, you know, some people say opposable fingers and mirror neurons and a few other things. And, you know, one of the key aspects as well is our ability to predict for the future or to think ahead more than just the immediate animalistic thing that comes about.
So it sounds like Joey's starting to evolve into a human. So well done. Well done, Joseph, into a human ego. Also there was another guy as well that was hating on on us because we said that, humans are animals. And he said, no, they're not humans are animals. This is a stupid, stupid lie from, a new revealing information. Had a bit of a research and humans are in fact part of the kingdom Animalia, but we had different species. And he was having not not a he's like, oh, that's new. I wasn't taught in the past. We've been getting some funny comments in the book reviews. So, to the man who or to the individual to the individual who's a bit concerned that they're not an animal. I used to respond to all of these and now I just go like, ah, I'll just give you a like. Yep. I guess, December. So December 2025 goals. I've got five, once again. Okay. One, is a fun one. This is an interesting one for me at least, for the body.
Go to one, invest more time into the gym this month. So about forty five minute to sixty minute sessions. So there's less running. There's no running goals for December. I will predict that I'll be running maybe 50 kilometers if that for the whole month. So big reduction in running more into just general training aspect of that is probably in the running more just for the sheer, like, just doing it. There's parts that I've just wanted to do more weight training in itself. I've been doing run training maybe like three months straight or something like that with like a week off or maybe even longer. So probably a good time to pull back. It's really hot as well. Like I don't want to be running in Supreme heat. I'd I'd prefer to do more so during the winter. And I'll talk about it in a moment with another one, but it'll partner up with something else.
So the second one is I'm gonna be planning out and documenting, including that first episode. Do I I don't know. I'm gonna try if I created or it's just planning it, but, or the marathon prep. So big kudos to Nick Nicholas Bay. Nick Bay, unless you don't know, big runner guy and a training guy and used to be in the army of blah. But his team and him create like really cool clips of videos of preparation, preparing for I'm in pairing for the marathon, preparing for an ultra marathon to doing Leadville, all these various things. And I love the documentation style of, of ways, the video creation from the team. Fantastic. Now we don't have a team to do this with, but I do want to maybe create something like that, like a bit of a series towards our marathon. We're both going to be doing it. So, you know, part of that is just more thinking on the storyboarding of what I'm going to be doing. I really enjoyed doing the Taurean video that I did way back when that had a lot of time investment. So I want to kind of do a what's the medium time investment, but that I can put it together into an actual smart sort of series that I want to do. I would find that fun. I've been enjoying doing my Monday, new models in motion, solid things, and they're easy to to record. They're easy to record. Like, I don't have to really think much and it's easy to to kind of create. So in a similar sense, I wanna just think of it might be like an extended me models in motion type of style where it's just more about a particular part of training. So, again, something something that brings something that brings joy right to it. So, does that for a second one. There's other one. I'll be planning out the first quarter. So here's the why I'm putting this out. So planning out the 2026 for the me and mortal plans. So specifically, it's me and mortal plans, but I wanna through that be immortals podcast, use that as my liver to see, okay, can quarterly goal setting be a little bit better here? So one, I just wanna see what sort of time investment I'm gonna be putting into it. Two, I've got a template already for my just like calendar breakdown. What I wanna try and do is go, yep. I wanna aim to do that episode here. This episode there. Why is it the first quarter? There's something interesting happening in March that will then change again, life, and I can't really predict for it. So until then, it's just, I'm gonna be like, okay, cool. What can I schedule? What can I predict? What can I put together? It's my birthday. That's what it is. Exactly.
Which we've gotta figure out we're gonna do. So that'll be, coming out as well. And what I what I haven't said here, but it's the inverse, although I've mentioned that maybe in the discord or somewhere else, there's gonna be basically nothing coming out in the mere mortals podcast on my side beyond just this weekend conversations that we do. I might do a book review of mastery if I do finish it in time. Apart from that, the fun ones will be mastering be a model's emotion. But I'm not I'm not committing to anything. It's like if I do it, it's because I wanted to. If I don't do it, yep. Don't expect much things come in December. It's more of a quieter month as we lean into more relationships and catching up with people and etcetera. Yeah. Busy month. Yep. So lawsuit on Seoul, one setting us out an hour to reflect on my annual goals. So again, this is all coming into Unison.
Any improvements going into 2026. So review, check-in. Also wanna go and do I wanna add or do I wanna shift to quarterly or what do I wanna do? So just to start reviewing that to give you another guidance, you were talking about the the points for fitness. Pardon me the last couple of months is I'd be like, I kinda wanna get back into it. I've started doing some more rowing. I did a really fast two k row the other day, and I was like, you know what? It would be motivational beyond what I've been doing lately to put up a few targets to be like, oh, I should aim for for this, try and do that and try aim for this particular strength goal or this other thing or whatever. There's part of me that's starting to twist towards like, oh, that would be fun. That would be more engaging now.
Not sure if that continue, but we'll see. And the last one, so reviewing the family philosophy now for how it gets put into action and specifically, I'll be specific. It is for the eight years of three to four years old. So what I mean by that is I'll kinda wanna just think about it. I've got the philosophy down now in terms of what are the things that we care about and think about as a family. But the critical thing is you cannot have it just as a what we determined that we can't have it as a printout, you can't have it as a book, you can't just like extend it out as a manuscript or whatever. Because kids who are young, then I'm gonna pick it up by that way. Often it's hard if it's just like an image or something like that. It's not that motivational or action driven. But what I wanna put it into action is, okay, what does that look like in the group of three to four years old as an age group? What would that look like on a day to day basis to take the action? As an example, that might be I'm just pulling up my ass, but the one that's gonna be, with swimming might be okay. How about every Thursday afternoon, we make the commitment to go for half hour and go to a swimming pool and actually go and do a swim together no matter what what's going on. As I said, more of those precedents behind it.
Those aspects about like, I think this is not embedded in my mind yet. The one aspect of the family philosophy is obsession, obsession about life. So again, what does that translate to, to a three year old four year old kid? It might be if I see obsession or joy or some fascination about a particular thing, or my daughter leaning into that now by for her, obviously my own things, but for me, so an example for me would be, I'll I enjoy the, that documentation style of, of things. I like doing my editing like that. It's kind of fun. Cool. So then obsess over it, make, make more time, all that, and then take away time and other things. And so for me, taking away the time is, I don't think I've already spoken about it is making those like really high, review detailed podcasts where I'm talking about a particular thing. I did that. I spent a lot of time I created it. It was beneficial for me, but it barely got any uptick from anyone kind of listening. It's like, I went, okay, that's not as valuable. I'm gonna go and do some stuff that I'm more obsessed with. I'll find more joy in doing. So that's kind of the aspect of the family philosophy in action. But specifically it's gonna be like, okay, how does it apply to a three to four year old kid? Like, what does that actually look like? Because you can't, you know, very different to a 10 year old kid and having a conversation about how school went or something like that. Obviously, can't do that. But my daughter is starting to speak to a enough of a fluency that you can have a little bit of a conversation now, which is which is cool. So how does that going to involve over the next year? Sure. So, yeah, look, in December. So I've got Christmas parties and catch ups and loads of good stuff that doesn't appear on there because it's not part of Angga goals, but that will take up a lot of time.
[00:26:06] Kyrin Down:
I'm wondering what will happen if she gets obsessed with something that you're not,
[00:26:12] Juan Granados:
I would say great at yourself or as well? This is this is part of the, you know, the philosophy that we're trying to and I think I'll try to discover it's like, okay, what if she become I'll give you an example. I hate I like dancing myself, but I would say I hate like the know, typical dancing with, like, maybe pompoms or going to an event for, like well, I remember most as I did dancing back in the day, and we'd go sometimes to go watch. And I was just like, I don't I don't care for that type of dancing. Sure. If you got obsessed for whatever reason at that dancing, there's a principle. Right? Is it the I can say this right now, but it's obviously much harder to put into action is what what actions or what do I need to demonstrate to okay, cool. If you're obsessed with that link, cool. Let's put in the effort and whatever to help you out with that or be interested in that. Because one, yeah, one thing is saying it, The second is, yeah, something coming up where you you're not interested at all and it's like Yeah. I was thinking more what crossed through my mind was
[00:27:04] Kyrin Down:
drums. Sometimes I'll Skateboarding?
[00:27:07] Juan Granados:
Skateboarding. Like, for me, I don't really care about skateboarding. And she was like, oh, let's go. I'll really That's meditation. What if V gets really into my. Oh, that'd be easy. No, that'd be fine. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'll become a little bit better. I'll do not meditation, but I do the what a ten minute NSDRs, like pretty frequently, like non sleep depressed meditation. I think about ten minutes. Love it. I love doing that, especially when I'm tired, but I don't personally go and sit down for an hour. But if she were obsessed by it, dude, that that would that's an easy in. That's for sure. An easy I'm talking like a hard in would be, something that's in a in a morning where I don't go to the gym on a particular day because she wants to go see Sunrise on a mountain. Sure. Okay. That's takes away from, you know, how do I square that up? You know, where do I put the effort? Do I change my routine? So it's it's that type of review of life where I'm gonna go, okay, where where do I stretch, but also still keeping the things that I care about without being crazy and go to the gym at one in the morning or some crazy stuff. Sure. Sure.
[00:28:04] Kyrin Down:
Yeah. Alrighty. Alright. Let's do, let's think about That'd be fun. That'd be fun. Cool. Alright. My December 2025 goals, I've got 16 as I have been doing. Mhmm. Let's run through them quickly. Strive for a lack of doubt or dower. I just tried to put this in because I was like, I didn't really know how to phrase it, and I didn't want to make it like multiple lines in my phone. Essentially, I had this originally as like, I was being a bit more like playful, a couple of times with people and I was like, Oh, okay. Yeah, this is something I want to like strive and aim for a little bit more, just be a bit more playful, playful with conversations, especially at the start of them. Because now that I'm, I suppose, like, interacting with people more just in general, but also at the gym, I'm noticing like, oh, man, I'm having a lot of like, hey, how's your day going? Oh, what did you get up to this last week? They're just very monotonous.
[00:29:06] Juan Granados:
Very mundane. Very simple.
[00:29:08] Kyrin Down:
I find myself going like, I'm sure they're going at my response as well. It's not not like it's not like it's just it could be better. And I was I have set goals in the past of being like, Alright, I'm gonna be more playful can be more fun. I was thinking I'll say something off the wall every single time someone came in. You know, how's your day going? Oh, I'm feeling like a lion who's been out in the sun for five hours. Yeah. Shit like that. And I actually have some thoughts and I went, oh, you know what? I've got a better way of phrasing this, which I think, ties in with my whole idea or liking of paradox, which is you can have something which is, you know, one way you have something which is the other way, and they both actually equal the same thing or they're inverse or they're very similar, but they diverge.
And, if I had to ask you, like, what's the opposite of something of having something? What's the opposite of that? Having nothing? So emptiness, right? You'd be like, okay, that's, that's the opposite of it. I actually don't think that's the case. And it's kind of like anti fragile. What's the opposite of fragile? You know, people would say robust, strong, sturdy. No, it's anti fragile. So what's the opposite of something? It's not something as in like a negative thing. And emptiness, I feel is like a neutral. So, and I something would maybe be like, what's the opposite of the sun?
You'd go like, oh, maybe it's empty space, but no, it's probably a black hole that's more the opposite of the sun. So anyway, this is a long way of explaining that I'm actually going to be striving for a lack of doubt. So instead of like trying to be more confident or trying to be more playful, I'm actually going to strive for not being dour and like mopey and not being, unconfident. I guess so that's and, I actually experimented with this yesterday, which was there's a girl in the gym and she had, I really like the the framing of the face when they've got like the two strings of hair. I don't know what that style is called, but I've noticed it a lot more in the last year ish. And I think it's going out of fashion, which is a shame. So I'm seeing less of it Anyway.
I was like, Oh, I should go up and just give her a compliment and not make it sexual or anything. Just be like, here's a here's a compliment. And the and that tying him with the directness of last last month. And when I was going to do it, I just I still felt like the hesitation, the fear, the and it was like, oh, man, why can't you just be more confident? Why can't you do it? And that was when I kind of flipped the switch and I was like, well, instead of like trying to get something that you don't have the confidence, why don't you just try and let go of something that you do have, which is the like the uncertainty, the doubt, the fear of rejection.
And that is what prompted me to actually go and do it. So I was like, alright, this is obviously working for me. I want to lean into that more. Okay, cool. 15 more to go. Sorry, Pete. I'll make these ones quicker. Go out three days per week on weekdays. I haven't been going out as much this this last month, just especially during the week. So going out and that implies I'll also be talking to people whilst out. Organize two events for friends group or like friends meeting up with them during this period, explore other potential meetup events that will also help me go out during weekdays. So that's tied in with that knuckle down on the remaining vfriends and base work. We've just got a whole bunch of things that I want to tick off on that backup wallets. But for real this time, I've been meaning. Yeah, I've been a bit slack with that.
Ulrich gave me some advice on one arm handstands, and so I'm going to experiment with some of the suggestions that he made. Cool. Book the breezy marathon with peeps. I'd like to actually book that in all to the Grow Strong Sheet, which is this sheet kind of like a little morning routine that I have of like, all right, this is the annual goals that I'm have. And this is kind of like a just a way to kick start the day. A little not motivation or framing for the day, I guess you'd call it. Figure out what you really want. I've talked with you about this yesterday, but there's just been it's come to my attention that some of my actions don't match exactly my goals. And so really nailing down what exactly it is that I'm, and so this is mostly related to, like the partner, for example, because I'm doing some things which are like more maximizing freedom, but it's not tying exactly with that. So spending some time think about that apartment research and kangaroo point renewing path passport. But for real this time, learn and practice interacting without intent.
This guy at the gym was telling me, his stories of how he's approaching women in a different manner. And, it's intrigued me. I'd like to try it for myself. So getting a bit more, I guess without intent implies without kind of the sexual intent or tension. Yeah. I want to see it. I want to see total of less than 93,000 calories, the set amount of 150 grams of protein per day. So a little bit more calories. Yeah. A little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just anticipating a couple of like splurge days of it's Christmas time, you know? And then last two were I've noticed I've been doing a lot of, not multitasking, but I'll get midway through a task which will remind me to do something else. I'll switch on to another tab and be doing that. And then eventually, like an hour later, come around to like, Oh, fuck, I was doing this originally and I didn't do that. So I guess like more rigorous in my task switching and making sure, like finish the task off completely and then go on to the new one. I've actually had a lot of success of, breaking up my, how how would you call it, my online profiles. So I've got a Brave browser which is dedicated just for the podcast, one which is just for AI, one which is for kind of like NFT art type stuff.
And it's been really good. I've actually enjoyed breaking that up. I find it quite useful. It was all in one big feed before, and it would just be like hitting everything with random macro shit. And then it's like an art thing and then it's AI. I was like, I couldn't separate it. So I've been good with that, but now it's actual task switching and finishing things. And then I've got a whole bunch of AI tasks related to agents, which I want to work through as well. So. Yeah. A whole bunch of stuff. Plenty on for December. Yeah. We'll see how much I get through that.
Especially I've noticed, for example, that I don't stretch in the mornings anymore. That's just been like the first thing I've kind of been cutting out to to make more time for
[00:36:30] Juan Granados:
doing other things, which I've noticed. Any differences around that?
[00:36:34] Kyrin Down:
Honestly, it was not being detrimental in any way. No, no. I don't think it's affected the actual, like, handstand performance or physical performance. It's more I have not been consuming much podcasts and learning per se. So like the ever the list is growing of to watch instead of shrinking.
[00:36:56] Juan Granados:
I'm like, I'm definitely at a point. The inflection point for me came and went long time ago where I follow enough podcasts that there's more than I have hours in every day of new stuff that comes out. So it's actually impossible for me to keep up with everything that's new. So I have to be
[00:37:13] Kyrin Down:
selective of the ones. Yeah, it's been good. It's making me a bit more selective and I'm going, okay, yeah, here's some stuff which
[00:37:20] Juan Granados:
I probably, you know, I'm just listening to this from entertainment rather than. I used to listen to things just because like those particular creative songs are cool. I'll just listen to everything that sort of comes out as maybe it'd be interesting, but definitely now I'm like, skip, skip, skip, skip. Okay, cool. I'll listen to that one. I'd say that's probably a more interesting one. Yep. Yep.
[00:37:37] Kyrin Down:
So yeah. Busy, busy month coming up. I'm looking forward to it. Fitness. Fitness. And I have been killing it. So I've actually gotten a whole bunch of points finally. Finally. So Handstand points. So yeah, biggest news was a ten second one arm handstand. That's been a goal for a long, long time. So finally ticking that off was pretty epic. I've also achieved some of the legs goals, which was my kind of focus for this quarter. So that was just, doing RDLs and Bulgarian split squats at a certain weight and for certain reps, which were replacing the old squat and deadlifts, which I had to do because I was just hurting myself trying to achieve them. So it wasn't good, man. It wasn't good.
Groin, little groin injury is, doing well. So all I've got actually for our original exercises in 2019 and 2020 got to do an L sit for sixty seconds and then all the rowing points. So this this next kind of three to four months I'm going to be working on the rowing and kind of like muscle ups slash doing calisthenics stuff. So like, yeah, 40 pull ups unbroken. So what I'm trying to get to doing. What is it? I think it's 60 dips unbroken, 80 push ups unbroken, the escort jump things, 100 of them. That's that's like the the main stuff I'm working on. So probably the fittest I've ever been. I'd say I'm
[00:39:22] Juan Granados:
at peak. Yep. We talked about this before around the couple of episodes ago, just in terms of fitness. Yeah. I might not be the strongest I'll the strongest I'll ever be was in the past. But when you kind of compare everything, you know, with other types of movements, it's like, oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Better overall than what you would just be previously. So now I agree. Sure. You know, all domains, things like the stats are increasing
[00:39:48] Kyrin Down:
broadly, even if some particular ones have decreased from like that's absolute max. Yeah. I don't think I'll ever be able to sprint as fast as perhaps I once could, but I could still run faster. I hope. Well, I hope that's what'll happen. The Brazilian marathon six months away. I'd like to get that four hour
[00:40:08] Juan Granados:
break that four hour. Yeah. I could see Karen doing that. I mean, you were on pace when you were doing the all the way through a three quarter marathon. Yeah. I was I was looking at that and
[00:40:17] Kyrin Down:
it took me about roughly four to five months to to get to that. So I do actually need to start running. So it's kind of like rowing and maybe I'll see if I can squeeze an extra run this month. It's already pretty busy. Probably not. Probably not. I think it'll just stay like five kilometers at SOS once a week. And I'll actually start running that this time.
[00:40:41] Juan Granados:
And then from next month onwards is when I'll if anything, I mean, it's not it's not part of my goals. But what I want to do a bit more speed work work this month. If anything, I just like to shorter distances and I've been, again, caveat here, we're not runners, but I have been finding some joy in running sub five minute per kilometre pace.
[00:41:00] Kyrin Down:
Sure. So so we're gonna, so for this month, you're reducing the running by what? I thought two thirds. Yeah. How how much are you going to try and keep that going up until June, which is what Brisbane Probably
[00:41:20] Juan Granados:
I'll probably do it for the month of December. Okay. And then starting of next year, I'll start ramping it back. Okay. But I'll have an interesting bump in the road in my running journey. Yes. In the next month. So as I say in the next year. So this would be like, I'm planning on beginning of from the January. I would like a bit of a ramp up to then a bit of a ramp down month and then another ramp up all the way through. So Sure. Yeah. Alright. I think we'll leave it there. I don't know if there's any comments or any questions at all. That me more or less thinking for sticking around. Again, monthly goals, if you're listening to this afterwards, feel free to drop in. Let me know in terms of yours. Discord, you can also do that as well. We also sent sent out our monthly goals a little bit advanced in there as well.
Otherwise, believe it then. Stick around if you're watching this live as well. We're gonna be talking about mastery in a moment for me, Andrew. Otherwise, be well wherever you are in the world. Why not? Turn out. Goodbye.
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[00:00:09] Kyrin Down:
It's welcome to another round of the monthly goals. The last ones of the first quarter of this century 2025.
[00:00:18] Juan Granados:
I was,
[00:00:20] Kyrin Down:
I saw a joke the other day, which was like, oh, you know, like, dad, what was it like being born in the nineteen hundreds? It's like, fuck. That's true. We're part of that. We are part of that. For a long time, we're gonna we're the only generation that was, you know, a new new decade, new century, new millennium. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly right. It's not gonna be for another thousand years. So I I remember I actually remember the New Year celebrations of 2000. Of 2000? Yep. Yeah. That's a vivid memory.
[00:00:46] Juan Granados:
Kind of remember. Kind of remember. Yeah. We would have been eight years old for those who are wondering. I wasn't in Australia. That's why. Oh shit. Yeah. That's why I'm like, oh, what? I'm trying to remember it. Columbia memories. That was like a They're all in like, you know, how in Mexico, it's like a sepia type color or Yeah. Yeah. Like a darkish brown. Yeah. Russia is black and white. Maybe mom, if you're listening, put it in a comment, but I believe, like, for the tradition, I don't know if it's just South America, but in Colombia, definitely you have a tradition called the, I feel the name mom will put it in there, but it's to burn off the old man, basically.
And you would you make a stuffed old man made out of like a sheet paper and stuff like that. And then you put clothes on this particular man and you burn it. Yeah. Yeah. To kind of signify the tradition going from the old days. It was quite cool stuff stuff. We have a traditional candle lighting, thing that we're doing next week over at mom and dad's place as well. We've got a a couple of people. So, that's one thing actually that I Australia's got an interesting culture, and we've talked about a stronger culture in some ways than others. But, there's some of the other cultures of of the world that have these cool traditions that we just don't do that have interesting meanings to it. Yeah. Ritual wise, we'll get into the monthly goals shortly.
[00:01:56] Kyrin Down:
I was chatting with a Norwegian guy recently and we're trying to explain schoolies to him. He's like, Oh, yeah, we've got a version of that. It's called like Russ. And basically what they do is the kids, who are just about to graduate during their exams, it's a month long thing. They'll spend up by a bus between like 30 of them. And I'm talking like a proper. Like a school bus looking thing. Yeah. They deck it out with like paint, lights, LCD, you know, probably LSD as well. I don't know. And make it into kind of one of those chicken buses looking things. Yeah. Yeah. Guatemala. And then essentially like they'll drive that to like raves and where other busses are at and they party.
That sounds like. Cool. During their exams and then on their hats, they get pins if they do certain things. And he was saying like, crawling naked through a police station, having sex in a tree. He got one for teaching a sex ed class to like 13 year olds or something. And yeah, just a lot. But interesting. Yeah, that's cool. They do it for a month. A month, people. Forget a week of schoolies. This is a whole month long. Exactly. It's cool. Anyway, monthly goals. This is where Juan and I on the this being the Sunday November 30, right towards the end
[00:03:17] Juan Granados:
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[00:03:31] Kyrin Down:
Well, a little bit of thank you for supporters to the podcast. What's coming up for the next month and then finishing off with the fitness challenge. One typically goes first, so he will jump into how we went for November. Absolutely. So as I bring it up, I can kind of tell you default. All of them were achieved. I only had five for the month of
[00:03:50] Juan Granados:
November, and all of them were ticked off. The first one, I still haven't gotten it up, but I can remember it, was the basically hitting 300 kilometers of movement, for the month. That was very, very easy, actually.
[00:04:01] Kyrin Down:
But does that that how much running was three of that? About 140
[00:04:08] Juan Granados:
ish kilometers. I'll pull it up exactly. But yeah, 300 kilometers of movement overall. And that's inclusive of running, walking and just everyday movement. So I wouldn't say it was easy. Like I still was doing a lot of running as much running as I was doing probably in the previous month. Yeah. But it was easier to just, I was able to just walk and not be as focused in to the running. I'll let you say per se. I'll tell you exactly for the month so far, 226.3 kilometers and we're on the last day of the month. So 126 kilometers of, of running. Yeah. That's how the month, thirty one hours of total running as well. So roughly an hour a day, almost of running. It was cool. It was pretty like like one full day of running. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
So going through the rest of them, so you have 300 kilometers of movement, there was reviewing opportunities versus skill sets and time now I did this and I'll get into it in some because there's There's some interesting things I'm gonna reveal today because I've made I've made a mistake. I'm gonna I'm gonna share my my oopsies, in in this podcast so you wait for a moment in the next big month of December. Sure. To review opportunity for skill sets, testing the interview this month to clean up and automate even more information, which I did. I had had a few of those automation, interviews and automation as well out of it. I actually found to give you an idea when we used to do interviews, maybe two years ago, three years ago, it would have taken me maybe as much as the interview would have taken to record say an hour, an hour and a half, it would have been four x the amount to edit schedule, create all the things. It was almost one one to one ratio, as in I was able to edit schedule and create all the things I needed to in about the same time that it took to record. It was about an hour and a half to edit and all that. So I was like, Yep, this is, this is awesome.
In the last two as well, on my plane walk, it was, well the month just spend some time with no input, no music, no podcasts. Now it was interesting. I did do that. However, I reduced the amount of walks that I was doing because it's been so damn hot and I've also been quite busy. So this was easy to achieve, but I didn't do that much of it. So it's like a yes, but caveat. You know, last one was talking with my wife about our family philosophy and how we take the right actions on it. So yes, we had a conversation about it, the philosophy and kind of confirming what it is, but kind of like a half done. We didn't discuss the right actions on it and what it means, but you'll see it in December goals how I, because it can be, that was too loose, but there's a way to tighten up the ship and we'll see it in December goals. So, there you go the five for November. Sounds good. Nice. Nice. Very well done.
[00:06:37] Kyrin Down:
Good that you ticked off the well, sent me ticked off the, philosophy one. So intrigued about that. Cool. So I had 16, hitting two each for, each of my kinda, like, annual big goals, that sort of thing. I'll say in general, pretty happy. Pretty, pretty damn happy. Small things that I didn't do, create a decent personal Instagram, didn't do that, But at least I wasn't scrolling on Instagram.
[00:07:05] Juan Granados:
Okay, so that's a win
[00:07:08] Kyrin Down:
win. I'm, you know, I was meant to be at a total of 85,000 calories for the month, which was essentially like, you know, it's about it was about 2,700 per day, something like that. If I didn't eat at all today, I'd probably be under it. But I think I am gonna I don't care about it that much. Yeah, yeah. So I'm very close to it. I've been leaning down getting close to 75 s now. And I'm looking pretty lean, especially like in the evenings when you know, I eat. And, you know, I have have the just like carb hit. Well, fat hit and protein hit the same time.
Right as I'm like brushing my teeth. Look at my veins, man. I'm popping. Yeah, I'm Popeye over here. So yeah, I definitely am feeling pretty good and feeling pretty lean. And it's sustainable ish at the moment. So that's good. I did not renew my passport. Part of that was because I found out that they do the annual like, increase of passport fees, right at the end of the year. And so my little F. U. To the government is like, I'm going to pay right just before that. So you'll see that carry on to the next, did a tour of one of the potential apartments. That was good.
Bought a whole bunch of new gym clothes, and that was pretty good. Probably the ones that I didn't do well, be uncomfortably firm in my standards. I like really fucked that up. And then I made up for it by, it was essentially where it was like, and that was kind of like a bit of a loose goal in mind. But essentially, I did something which I wasn't very happy with myself about. And this was talking to a girl and I like a chickened out, essentially. And my my standards in that case were like, semi related to this experiment, approaching with directness.
And I didn't do that. I then saw her a couple of days later and made up for it. And so the the bad feeling I had of of being like, what the fuck am I doing? I fixed that. But, you know, I fucked it up. And I also, what was the other one? I did not do the overhaul backup of the systems of wallets. Everything else, I think I was pretty happy. Takes off? Okay.
[00:09:32] Juan Granados:
Yeah. Would you say on that one on the approach, would you say that you neutralized it or you were just sort of like, it's negative because there was that faltering the step? Yeah. No, no, no. I'm very happy that I made up for it. I made up for it. So,
[00:09:45] Kyrin Down:
yeah, I would say I came out neutral. Neutral. But it wasn't like I did something good and then followed it up with something bad. I was like, I did something bad and then I followed it up with something good. So I don't know which is better. But yeah, it was
[00:09:59] Juan Granados:
a productive month. I feel like I got a lot done and yeah, happy, happy with progress. Okay, good. Just in terms of support or just general support, I call out, I guess. What what are you seeing? Have you been listening much more to the podcasting tip and notes? Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm
[00:10:14] Kyrin Down:
still in there. So we're we're talking about the Satoshi stream struggling with something. I saw a boostgram come in recently, so I think they fixed it up, even though I then I put it down to 1% of our splits, but still came through. So that's good. Yeah, I'm I'm spending a lot more time looking at, X four zero two. That's that's kind of my honing in thing at the moment. So and
[00:10:42] Juan Granados:
I remember Dave Jones. Did you talk about x four zero two yesterday at all? When you
[00:10:46] Kyrin Down:
I mentioned it, but nobody knew about it. No. No. No. One guy knew. Okay. That's cool. Okay. So we went to an AI meetup, which was actually part of the goals. Why don't I ticked it off on last last minute? That's right. Good. And yet, so for me, it's more looking at how you'd maybe do value for value outside of just the purely Bitcoin and doing it through the podcasting apps. But, yeah, I still I think things are just ticking along, to be honest. And that's the same for our support, I'd say. Really appreciate Cole, Peter, Late Bloom actor come to mind and some other streamers. But, yeah, I haven't done the full, I'll probably do that next month. The full calculations of how much came in and put up the new graph on the
[00:11:35] Juan Granados:
the, whenever, and I seldom do this, but I do check the audio streaming or, you know, people who are watching, it's actually predominantly from Valley for Value podcasting apps that we get most of our listens to. So, you know, the likes of your Spotify's and Apple podcast is very minor and our overarching, you know, overwhelming amount of people that listen to us via audio is via all of these different platforms. So it's interesting that, you know, it's still large in that space, But like you say, no, we haven't been putting as near as much effort as we were doing months and a year ago if you save into the value for value space. Makes sense that maybe some of that value doesn't get returned in that manner, but it comes in other ways, I guess. Yeah. Putting more of it. Absolutely. If you want your name called out, meremortalspodcast.com/support
[00:12:21] Kyrin Down:
and you can see it there. I actually see Cole riding in the chat here as well. He's providing some value by saying my December goal is to do one meditation, one breathwork session every day. Just got a new breath work app with lots of techniques to explore. Nice. Cool. I like it. Experimenting with breath work, I think is always valuable. I've, I've never
[00:12:40] Juan Granados:
I have fond memories of doing the Wim Hof stuff. Yeah. Yeah. At least it's easy to interesting. Like, it's seldom negative. I guess it's like you need to kinda come out of it again neutral like, okay, whatever. Or it was like, oh, cool. That was that was really sweet. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I don't yeah. Correct. You're not gonna you're not gonna go bad with of I don't think so. I don't think so. Alright. Well, let's look at December 2025 goals for us. So you're straight off that. My call out is I made a mistake, everyone. We are the immortals after all. So this morning I was actually reviewing my annual goals and the monthly goals. And I kind of went, went through my annual goals and my usual process. Again, review the annual goals. What percentage of progress have I made? What's the new monthly goals that will help me align to that? And I reviewed most of most of the annual goals and, I won't pull it up exactly. But I think I'll pull it up. Of the eight, nine, nine annual goals that I had, one, two, three, four.
I'll be the finished as in I've ticked it off and they could achieve what I wanted to do or the other two, I've kind of go pause. I don't wanna do any more work on that. Like, I've actually realized that whatever I was pursuing, that's not what I was after. So kinda leaves me with five goals, five annual goals. And in the mind space, we're gonna break it down to body, mind, and soul. There's no more. There's no mind that goes in the mind, which kind of contradicts where I'm sitting right now because I have some interesting things roaming in my mind of what I want to do into the new year. And I went, I think this is probably the first Late edition. Well, no, it's a bit of an opposite, which I've done. I did last year as well, but it was a bit of an observation where I think I messed up my old goals this time around. And I put a little note and we'll talk about in a moment of, I need to probably retrospect on, is it serving me the right way or the moment? Do I have to maybe pull back in the Allah Tim Ferris style? So Tim Ferris has called out to always in the sense of, I asked Tim directly, I asked him a question online, when I call, what's your views, plans, guides, like in five years, what are you looking to do? And he kind of shot back and was like, nah, I didn't think about that at all. Like I don't, I don't think about it from a five year plan. I think about it from my quarterly plan. It's just too many things, too many variables.
And now that I think about it, again, the really long term views of like, you know, eminent human being, I'm not that doesn't change because it's very long term and all the values kind of underpin that. But I'm a I'm a bit hesitant to almost say this, but maybe annual goals is a little bit too long. I almost need it to be quarterly because things evolve and change quickly at the moment. You know, family life moves quick, learning cycles of things with AI and the field things moving really, really quickly. I'm not gonna jump in and change it right now, but I am going to take this month to do a bit of a review on the annual goals and go, okay, what are those additional things I might wanna add as part of my annual goals and start maybe playing with the idea of a orderly cycle, if you will. It used to work really well years ago with with the way that I'd set it up because I did so many and then it allowed me to kind of do it by phases.
I almost I almost feel like I I stretch it too far. I made two little goals, which now some do either get accomplished or some just kind of go by the wayside. And now it leaves me a bit of like a no luck without things to do. So, here's a demonstration for everyone. Even if you've been doing things for a long time, things evolve, things change. And just while I could work for a twenty seventeen year old me, it might not work now for a 33 year old me. So you need to always, yeah, be aware. It might not work for forever. And this is the top point where I'm like, oh, I need to just review that and have a bit of a look to see what the reality of it is. It'll come up in our next episode on on mastery.
[00:16:17] Kyrin Down:
But the Norwegian guy who I also mentioned just previously, His name is Ulrich, Ulrich on hands. So he's the hand balancer. He taught my friend Brendan and got him to a pretty decent level. And he was just in Brisbane. So we caught up might even be catching up with him today again. And anyway, I was asking him like, hand balancing as a as a job. What do you think it's going to still exist around in like, five years, ten years time can if you're not able to do it yourself, let's say you're in your sixties. Can you teach the other people? And he was just like, man, I don't even think more than like, two months ahead for things like that. And didn't really answer the question, which I was trying to, I didn't particularly want to know about him, per se. I wanted to know more about his thoughts on it as a profession in general.
And maybe I didn't make that clear enough. So if I see him again, I'll try and press him again. But yeah, he was asking him about his like annual goals. His annual goals would be like, no. Yep. It's too far. Yeah. Yeah. It's not. And it's, look, there's an interesting dynamic. I don't know
[00:17:25] Juan Granados:
entirely in saying this, whether this is a, you know, if you have kids or you have something other responsibilities, you can't, you kind of have to have certain plans together to do certain things. But then in saying that there's just as many, I'm sure examples in the world where people who are just planning order at a time, couple of weeks at a time, whatever, and making it work really successfully. So I won't say it's because of that. I think it's just depends on the individual and nature. I chatted with our friend Joey yesterday. Yep. If he thinks more than like two seconds ahead, that's a that's a that's a surprise. That's the thing about, you know, why, why humans came out in evolution in the book master actually at the very beginning and Robert's talking about, you know, some people say opposable fingers and mirror neurons and a few other things. And, you know, one of the key aspects as well is our ability to predict for the future or to think ahead more than just the immediate animalistic thing that comes about.
So it sounds like Joey's starting to evolve into a human. So well done. Well done, Joseph, into a human ego. Also there was another guy as well that was hating on on us because we said that, humans are animals. And he said, no, they're not humans are animals. This is a stupid, stupid lie from, a new revealing information. Had a bit of a research and humans are in fact part of the kingdom Animalia, but we had different species. And he was having not not a he's like, oh, that's new. I wasn't taught in the past. We've been getting some funny comments in the book reviews. So, to the man who or to the individual to the individual who's a bit concerned that they're not an animal. I used to respond to all of these and now I just go like, ah, I'll just give you a like. Yep. I guess, December. So December 2025 goals. I've got five, once again. Okay. One, is a fun one. This is an interesting one for me at least, for the body.
Go to one, invest more time into the gym this month. So about forty five minute to sixty minute sessions. So there's less running. There's no running goals for December. I will predict that I'll be running maybe 50 kilometers if that for the whole month. So big reduction in running more into just general training aspect of that is probably in the running more just for the sheer, like, just doing it. There's parts that I've just wanted to do more weight training in itself. I've been doing run training maybe like three months straight or something like that with like a week off or maybe even longer. So probably a good time to pull back. It's really hot as well. Like I don't want to be running in Supreme heat. I'd I'd prefer to do more so during the winter. And I'll talk about it in a moment with another one, but it'll partner up with something else.
So the second one is I'm gonna be planning out and documenting, including that first episode. Do I I don't know. I'm gonna try if I created or it's just planning it, but, or the marathon prep. So big kudos to Nick Nicholas Bay. Nick Bay, unless you don't know, big runner guy and a training guy and used to be in the army of blah. But his team and him create like really cool clips of videos of preparation, preparing for I'm in pairing for the marathon, preparing for an ultra marathon to doing Leadville, all these various things. And I love the documentation style of, of ways, the video creation from the team. Fantastic. Now we don't have a team to do this with, but I do want to maybe create something like that, like a bit of a series towards our marathon. We're both going to be doing it. So, you know, part of that is just more thinking on the storyboarding of what I'm going to be doing. I really enjoyed doing the Taurean video that I did way back when that had a lot of time investment. So I want to kind of do a what's the medium time investment, but that I can put it together into an actual smart sort of series that I want to do. I would find that fun. I've been enjoying doing my Monday, new models in motion, solid things, and they're easy to to record. They're easy to record. Like, I don't have to really think much and it's easy to to kind of create. So in a similar sense, I wanna just think of it might be like an extended me models in motion type of style where it's just more about a particular part of training. So, again, something something that brings something that brings joy right to it. So, does that for a second one. There's other one. I'll be planning out the first quarter. So here's the why I'm putting this out. So planning out the 2026 for the me and mortal plans. So specifically, it's me and mortal plans, but I wanna through that be immortals podcast, use that as my liver to see, okay, can quarterly goal setting be a little bit better here? So one, I just wanna see what sort of time investment I'm gonna be putting into it. Two, I've got a template already for my just like calendar breakdown. What I wanna try and do is go, yep. I wanna aim to do that episode here. This episode there. Why is it the first quarter? There's something interesting happening in March that will then change again, life, and I can't really predict for it. So until then, it's just, I'm gonna be like, okay, cool. What can I schedule? What can I predict? What can I put together? It's my birthday. That's what it is. Exactly.
Which we've gotta figure out we're gonna do. So that'll be, coming out as well. And what I what I haven't said here, but it's the inverse, although I've mentioned that maybe in the discord or somewhere else, there's gonna be basically nothing coming out in the mere mortals podcast on my side beyond just this weekend conversations that we do. I might do a book review of mastery if I do finish it in time. Apart from that, the fun ones will be mastering be a model's emotion. But I'm not I'm not committing to anything. It's like if I do it, it's because I wanted to. If I don't do it, yep. Don't expect much things come in December. It's more of a quieter month as we lean into more relationships and catching up with people and etcetera. Yeah. Busy month. Yep. So lawsuit on Seoul, one setting us out an hour to reflect on my annual goals. So again, this is all coming into Unison.
Any improvements going into 2026. So review, check-in. Also wanna go and do I wanna add or do I wanna shift to quarterly or what do I wanna do? So just to start reviewing that to give you another guidance, you were talking about the the points for fitness. Pardon me the last couple of months is I'd be like, I kinda wanna get back into it. I've started doing some more rowing. I did a really fast two k row the other day, and I was like, you know what? It would be motivational beyond what I've been doing lately to put up a few targets to be like, oh, I should aim for for this, try and do that and try aim for this particular strength goal or this other thing or whatever. There's part of me that's starting to twist towards like, oh, that would be fun. That would be more engaging now.
Not sure if that continue, but we'll see. And the last one, so reviewing the family philosophy now for how it gets put into action and specifically, I'll be specific. It is for the eight years of three to four years old. So what I mean by that is I'll kinda wanna just think about it. I've got the philosophy down now in terms of what are the things that we care about and think about as a family. But the critical thing is you cannot have it just as a what we determined that we can't have it as a printout, you can't have it as a book, you can't just like extend it out as a manuscript or whatever. Because kids who are young, then I'm gonna pick it up by that way. Often it's hard if it's just like an image or something like that. It's not that motivational or action driven. But what I wanna put it into action is, okay, what does that look like in the group of three to four years old as an age group? What would that look like on a day to day basis to take the action? As an example, that might be I'm just pulling up my ass, but the one that's gonna be, with swimming might be okay. How about every Thursday afternoon, we make the commitment to go for half hour and go to a swimming pool and actually go and do a swim together no matter what what's going on. As I said, more of those precedents behind it.
Those aspects about like, I think this is not embedded in my mind yet. The one aspect of the family philosophy is obsession, obsession about life. So again, what does that translate to, to a three year old four year old kid? It might be if I see obsession or joy or some fascination about a particular thing, or my daughter leaning into that now by for her, obviously my own things, but for me, so an example for me would be, I'll I enjoy the, that documentation style of, of things. I like doing my editing like that. It's kind of fun. Cool. So then obsess over it, make, make more time, all that, and then take away time and other things. And so for me, taking away the time is, I don't think I've already spoken about it is making those like really high, review detailed podcasts where I'm talking about a particular thing. I did that. I spent a lot of time I created it. It was beneficial for me, but it barely got any uptick from anyone kind of listening. It's like, I went, okay, that's not as valuable. I'm gonna go and do some stuff that I'm more obsessed with. I'll find more joy in doing. So that's kind of the aspect of the family philosophy in action. But specifically it's gonna be like, okay, how does it apply to a three to four year old kid? Like, what does that actually look like? Because you can't, you know, very different to a 10 year old kid and having a conversation about how school went or something like that. Obviously, can't do that. But my daughter is starting to speak to a enough of a fluency that you can have a little bit of a conversation now, which is which is cool. So how does that going to involve over the next year? Sure. So, yeah, look, in December. So I've got Christmas parties and catch ups and loads of good stuff that doesn't appear on there because it's not part of Angga goals, but that will take up a lot of time.
[00:26:06] Kyrin Down:
I'm wondering what will happen if she gets obsessed with something that you're not,
[00:26:12] Juan Granados:
I would say great at yourself or as well? This is this is part of the, you know, the philosophy that we're trying to and I think I'll try to discover it's like, okay, what if she become I'll give you an example. I hate I like dancing myself, but I would say I hate like the know, typical dancing with, like, maybe pompoms or going to an event for, like well, I remember most as I did dancing back in the day, and we'd go sometimes to go watch. And I was just like, I don't I don't care for that type of dancing. Sure. If you got obsessed for whatever reason at that dancing, there's a principle. Right? Is it the I can say this right now, but it's obviously much harder to put into action is what what actions or what do I need to demonstrate to okay, cool. If you're obsessed with that link, cool. Let's put in the effort and whatever to help you out with that or be interested in that. Because one, yeah, one thing is saying it, The second is, yeah, something coming up where you you're not interested at all and it's like Yeah. I was thinking more what crossed through my mind was
[00:27:04] Kyrin Down:
drums. Sometimes I'll Skateboarding?
[00:27:07] Juan Granados:
Skateboarding. Like, for me, I don't really care about skateboarding. And she was like, oh, let's go. I'll really That's meditation. What if V gets really into my. Oh, that'd be easy. No, that'd be fine. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'll become a little bit better. I'll do not meditation, but I do the what a ten minute NSDRs, like pretty frequently, like non sleep depressed meditation. I think about ten minutes. Love it. I love doing that, especially when I'm tired, but I don't personally go and sit down for an hour. But if she were obsessed by it, dude, that that would that's an easy in. That's for sure. An easy I'm talking like a hard in would be, something that's in a in a morning where I don't go to the gym on a particular day because she wants to go see Sunrise on a mountain. Sure. Okay. That's takes away from, you know, how do I square that up? You know, where do I put the effort? Do I change my routine? So it's it's that type of review of life where I'm gonna go, okay, where where do I stretch, but also still keeping the things that I care about without being crazy and go to the gym at one in the morning or some crazy stuff. Sure. Sure.
[00:28:04] Kyrin Down:
Yeah. Alrighty. Alright. Let's do, let's think about That'd be fun. That'd be fun. Cool. Alright. My December 2025 goals, I've got 16 as I have been doing. Mhmm. Let's run through them quickly. Strive for a lack of doubt or dower. I just tried to put this in because I was like, I didn't really know how to phrase it, and I didn't want to make it like multiple lines in my phone. Essentially, I had this originally as like, I was being a bit more like playful, a couple of times with people and I was like, Oh, okay. Yeah, this is something I want to like strive and aim for a little bit more, just be a bit more playful, playful with conversations, especially at the start of them. Because now that I'm, I suppose, like, interacting with people more just in general, but also at the gym, I'm noticing like, oh, man, I'm having a lot of like, hey, how's your day going? Oh, what did you get up to this last week? They're just very monotonous.
[00:29:06] Juan Granados:
Very mundane. Very simple.
[00:29:08] Kyrin Down:
I find myself going like, I'm sure they're going at my response as well. It's not not like it's not like it's just it could be better. And I was I have set goals in the past of being like, Alright, I'm gonna be more playful can be more fun. I was thinking I'll say something off the wall every single time someone came in. You know, how's your day going? Oh, I'm feeling like a lion who's been out in the sun for five hours. Yeah. Shit like that. And I actually have some thoughts and I went, oh, you know what? I've got a better way of phrasing this, which I think, ties in with my whole idea or liking of paradox, which is you can have something which is, you know, one way you have something which is the other way, and they both actually equal the same thing or they're inverse or they're very similar, but they diverge.
And, if I had to ask you, like, what's the opposite of something of having something? What's the opposite of that? Having nothing? So emptiness, right? You'd be like, okay, that's, that's the opposite of it. I actually don't think that's the case. And it's kind of like anti fragile. What's the opposite of fragile? You know, people would say robust, strong, sturdy. No, it's anti fragile. So what's the opposite of something? It's not something as in like a negative thing. And emptiness, I feel is like a neutral. So, and I something would maybe be like, what's the opposite of the sun?
You'd go like, oh, maybe it's empty space, but no, it's probably a black hole that's more the opposite of the sun. So anyway, this is a long way of explaining that I'm actually going to be striving for a lack of doubt. So instead of like trying to be more confident or trying to be more playful, I'm actually going to strive for not being dour and like mopey and not being, unconfident. I guess so that's and, I actually experimented with this yesterday, which was there's a girl in the gym and she had, I really like the the framing of the face when they've got like the two strings of hair. I don't know what that style is called, but I've noticed it a lot more in the last year ish. And I think it's going out of fashion, which is a shame. So I'm seeing less of it Anyway.
I was like, Oh, I should go up and just give her a compliment and not make it sexual or anything. Just be like, here's a here's a compliment. And the and that tying him with the directness of last last month. And when I was going to do it, I just I still felt like the hesitation, the fear, the and it was like, oh, man, why can't you just be more confident? Why can't you do it? And that was when I kind of flipped the switch and I was like, well, instead of like trying to get something that you don't have the confidence, why don't you just try and let go of something that you do have, which is the like the uncertainty, the doubt, the fear of rejection.
And that is what prompted me to actually go and do it. So I was like, alright, this is obviously working for me. I want to lean into that more. Okay, cool. 15 more to go. Sorry, Pete. I'll make these ones quicker. Go out three days per week on weekdays. I haven't been going out as much this this last month, just especially during the week. So going out and that implies I'll also be talking to people whilst out. Organize two events for friends group or like friends meeting up with them during this period, explore other potential meetup events that will also help me go out during weekdays. So that's tied in with that knuckle down on the remaining vfriends and base work. We've just got a whole bunch of things that I want to tick off on that backup wallets. But for real this time, I've been meaning. Yeah, I've been a bit slack with that.
Ulrich gave me some advice on one arm handstands, and so I'm going to experiment with some of the suggestions that he made. Cool. Book the breezy marathon with peeps. I'd like to actually book that in all to the Grow Strong Sheet, which is this sheet kind of like a little morning routine that I have of like, all right, this is the annual goals that I'm have. And this is kind of like a just a way to kick start the day. A little not motivation or framing for the day, I guess you'd call it. Figure out what you really want. I've talked with you about this yesterday, but there's just been it's come to my attention that some of my actions don't match exactly my goals. And so really nailing down what exactly it is that I'm, and so this is mostly related to, like the partner, for example, because I'm doing some things which are like more maximizing freedom, but it's not tying exactly with that. So spending some time think about that apartment research and kangaroo point renewing path passport. But for real this time, learn and practice interacting without intent.
This guy at the gym was telling me, his stories of how he's approaching women in a different manner. And, it's intrigued me. I'd like to try it for myself. So getting a bit more, I guess without intent implies without kind of the sexual intent or tension. Yeah. I want to see it. I want to see total of less than 93,000 calories, the set amount of 150 grams of protein per day. So a little bit more calories. Yeah. A little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just anticipating a couple of like splurge days of it's Christmas time, you know? And then last two were I've noticed I've been doing a lot of, not multitasking, but I'll get midway through a task which will remind me to do something else. I'll switch on to another tab and be doing that. And then eventually, like an hour later, come around to like, Oh, fuck, I was doing this originally and I didn't do that. So I guess like more rigorous in my task switching and making sure, like finish the task off completely and then go on to the new one. I've actually had a lot of success of, breaking up my, how how would you call it, my online profiles. So I've got a Brave browser which is dedicated just for the podcast, one which is just for AI, one which is for kind of like NFT art type stuff.
And it's been really good. I've actually enjoyed breaking that up. I find it quite useful. It was all in one big feed before, and it would just be like hitting everything with random macro shit. And then it's like an art thing and then it's AI. I was like, I couldn't separate it. So I've been good with that, but now it's actual task switching and finishing things. And then I've got a whole bunch of AI tasks related to agents, which I want to work through as well. So. Yeah. A whole bunch of stuff. Plenty on for December. Yeah. We'll see how much I get through that.
Especially I've noticed, for example, that I don't stretch in the mornings anymore. That's just been like the first thing I've kind of been cutting out to to make more time for
[00:36:30] Juan Granados:
doing other things, which I've noticed. Any differences around that?
[00:36:34] Kyrin Down:
Honestly, it was not being detrimental in any way. No, no. I don't think it's affected the actual, like, handstand performance or physical performance. It's more I have not been consuming much podcasts and learning per se. So like the ever the list is growing of to watch instead of shrinking.
[00:36:56] Juan Granados:
I'm like, I'm definitely at a point. The inflection point for me came and went long time ago where I follow enough podcasts that there's more than I have hours in every day of new stuff that comes out. So it's actually impossible for me to keep up with everything that's new. So I have to be
[00:37:13] Kyrin Down:
selective of the ones. Yeah, it's been good. It's making me a bit more selective and I'm going, okay, yeah, here's some stuff which
[00:37:20] Juan Granados:
I probably, you know, I'm just listening to this from entertainment rather than. I used to listen to things just because like those particular creative songs are cool. I'll just listen to everything that sort of comes out as maybe it'd be interesting, but definitely now I'm like, skip, skip, skip, skip. Okay, cool. I'll listen to that one. I'd say that's probably a more interesting one. Yep. Yep.
[00:37:37] Kyrin Down:
So yeah. Busy, busy month coming up. I'm looking forward to it. Fitness. Fitness. And I have been killing it. So I've actually gotten a whole bunch of points finally. Finally. So Handstand points. So yeah, biggest news was a ten second one arm handstand. That's been a goal for a long, long time. So finally ticking that off was pretty epic. I've also achieved some of the legs goals, which was my kind of focus for this quarter. So that was just, doing RDLs and Bulgarian split squats at a certain weight and for certain reps, which were replacing the old squat and deadlifts, which I had to do because I was just hurting myself trying to achieve them. So it wasn't good, man. It wasn't good.
Groin, little groin injury is, doing well. So all I've got actually for our original exercises in 2019 and 2020 got to do an L sit for sixty seconds and then all the rowing points. So this this next kind of three to four months I'm going to be working on the rowing and kind of like muscle ups slash doing calisthenics stuff. So like, yeah, 40 pull ups unbroken. So what I'm trying to get to doing. What is it? I think it's 60 dips unbroken, 80 push ups unbroken, the escort jump things, 100 of them. That's that's like the the main stuff I'm working on. So probably the fittest I've ever been. I'd say I'm
[00:39:22] Juan Granados:
at peak. Yep. We talked about this before around the couple of episodes ago, just in terms of fitness. Yeah. I might not be the strongest I'll the strongest I'll ever be was in the past. But when you kind of compare everything, you know, with other types of movements, it's like, oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Better overall than what you would just be previously. So now I agree. Sure. You know, all domains, things like the stats are increasing
[00:39:48] Kyrin Down:
broadly, even if some particular ones have decreased from like that's absolute max. Yeah. I don't think I'll ever be able to sprint as fast as perhaps I once could, but I could still run faster. I hope. Well, I hope that's what'll happen. The Brazilian marathon six months away. I'd like to get that four hour
[00:40:08] Juan Granados:
break that four hour. Yeah. I could see Karen doing that. I mean, you were on pace when you were doing the all the way through a three quarter marathon. Yeah. I was I was looking at that and
[00:40:17] Kyrin Down:
it took me about roughly four to five months to to get to that. So I do actually need to start running. So it's kind of like rowing and maybe I'll see if I can squeeze an extra run this month. It's already pretty busy. Probably not. Probably not. I think it'll just stay like five kilometers at SOS once a week. And I'll actually start running that this time.
[00:40:41] Juan Granados:
And then from next month onwards is when I'll if anything, I mean, it's not it's not part of my goals. But what I want to do a bit more speed work work this month. If anything, I just like to shorter distances and I've been, again, caveat here, we're not runners, but I have been finding some joy in running sub five minute per kilometre pace.
[00:41:00] Kyrin Down:
Sure. So so we're gonna, so for this month, you're reducing the running by what? I thought two thirds. Yeah. How how much are you going to try and keep that going up until June, which is what Brisbane Probably
[00:41:20] Juan Granados:
I'll probably do it for the month of December. Okay. And then starting of next year, I'll start ramping it back. Okay. But I'll have an interesting bump in the road in my running journey. Yes. In the next month. So as I say in the next year. So this would be like, I'm planning on beginning of from the January. I would like a bit of a ramp up to then a bit of a ramp down month and then another ramp up all the way through. So Sure. Yeah. Alright. I think we'll leave it there. I don't know if there's any comments or any questions at all. That me more or less thinking for sticking around. Again, monthly goals, if you're listening to this afterwards, feel free to drop in. Let me know in terms of yours. Discord, you can also do that as well. We also sent sent out our monthly goals a little bit advanced in there as well.
Otherwise, believe it then. Stick around if you're watching this live as well. We're gonna be talking about mastery in a moment for me, Andrew. Otherwise, be well wherever you are in the world. Why not? Turn out. Goodbye.
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