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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?
Timeline:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:00:56) Juan's August 2025 Recap
(00:08:17) Kyrin's August 2025 Recap
(00:15:10) Support Overview
(00:21:51) Juan's September 2025 Goals
(00:29:51) Kyrin's September 2025 Goals
(00:37:46) Fitness
(00:40:49) V4V
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Juan Granados:
We all care mere mortals Capable of mistakes The journey's not here to be agonized upon Welcome back, Mere Mortals You are back with your two favorite mere mortals. You got Juan here. And Kyrin here on the other side. It is the August 31 Yoo. 2025, and we're gonna be going through some monthly goals today. Again, we're gonna be looking back at the August goals, bang on the the last August, and then we'll look into the September goals. It'll also coincide with Karan's new annual goals as well. Next next month. Oh, the next month. I'm sorry. I keep messing this up. I always keep thinking it's September. It's October. So well, then get excited because this is the last monthly goals you'll be hearing from Karen of the old goals, and then we'll go into the new ones. You'll be seeing some of my new ones and the transitions going through there, which has been quite fun. And we'll talk a little bit about support and everything else in the middle and maybe some fitness as well at the end of it as well. So as usual, let's just get stuck straight into it.
I had so from my annual goals, I bring this up, so I wasn't prepared. I've now had eight goals sorry. I've got nine annual goals, and I've been trading at, like, eight monthly goals is kind of where I'm aiming for. So I had eight goals for the August period. And let me bring them up. Cool. So I had, I'll basically I'll just describe them. And if I did them or not, because there was one that I I ticked myself. It's nope. Did not do. The just the aerobic base and habit locking just in terms of running, absolutely. Put that in. I did over a 100 kilometers of running in August. So today's the last day, but I think it was a 105 kilometers of running. That was the air felt. So I can comparatively, a couple of months ago before when I was getting ready for the new to half marathon, and even maybe before that, doing a 100 kilometer months felt difficult and especially overloaded from a training perspective with my, like, general gym training. Now it hasn't felt as much, and I'm making some some shifts and changes, to my proportion of running. In fact, I predict that in my upcoming month, I think it's gonna be more like 60% running, 40% lifting, which is kind of ridiculous. Wow. The other one was maintaining the 480 kilogram, plus a curve squat suspension deadlift with, three rep range, like, supremely easy. This is totally fine, and I knew it was gonna be easy. I just wanted to be, like, back from Europe. Let's just make sure I can do these lifts. Was able to do them, and keeping them. So we'll see how that transitions over into the next month.
The one that I I just marked myself out as an I was blocking 60 on the my last Friday of the month, which would have been the Friday just gone. Now I was in Canberra. And what did I learn through my body this month? Didn't do it. Didn't do it. Like, just flat out did not. I need to reconsider I'll talk about it in the in the next month or so on how I do that. In my mind, what I pictured was just just kind of sitting with some music and doing I actually wanted to do it on paper to document just, okay, from my training, have I felt like the, weight load has been too much or the running load has been too much and maybe what some of the learnings and things like that. I just didn't prioritize it. Honestly, I if I had to rethink it when I was down in Canberra, I probably should have spent some more time in that. However, I actually spent a lot more time one drinking the two Lord of the Rings.
Two towers man it's got to be hooked okay the first one the fellowship of the ring slow sure slow I agree second one man I was like crazy so there's that so you know was doing other stuff that was I felt valuable. The other three in the mind, the product product ecosystem set up. Look, I did a lot of that. We've got all of our samples in in the house at the moment. We've had a lot of conversation. I've set up the website. So a lot of the infrastructure is set up. Okay. You should show me some other. I will. Yep. Let me show you. So anyways, that's that's a going well. Publishing the first high signal piece for the mere mortals. Now this was like a little gimme because a hollowed arm was ready when I made the You already recorded it. So it was like kinda good. But that one went out, and I I think it actually got some some good, traction on it, which is cool. So, obviously, we'll continue that.
Mapping the full podcast production process from recording to publishing, I did that really early on in the in the month as well, which is, good. So that that was fine. And then the last two, completing the four weekly stillness sessions, twenty to thirty minutes. Now I marked this down as a yes, but I'm gonna say it's like a half yes. And the reason I say is I did do that for weekly stillness sessions, twenty to thirty minutes, really easy. But I had one solo reflection written or spoken on who I'm becoming this year. I created a big template on, like, how to do it.
Again, I'm finding and I need to, like, retrospect on this. I reckon I'm spending quite a lot of time on, like, reflection and notes and note taking. And I go, I gotta be careful. I don't go venture into, like, I'm doing that an hour per day. Right? Or what's a better way to do it? In any case, I did start it. Like, I did I'm probably three quarters through this whole reflection of the notes that I did. But, again, I just didn't, like, carve out the particular time. So I'll finish that this month in September. In fact, I could probably do it today. We'll see what timing allows, but I'll give myself a three quarter yes. Last one of establishing a no digital policy between 06:30AM, 07:30AM, and 5PM to 06:30PM.
Yes. I established it. Did I break it? There was some times that I would break it, but I so this is my an interesting concept. So in my new daily journaling, these monthly goals are more overarching, kind of continual goals. But I've started doing over the last two months now a daily thing where I do like, what tiny habit do I want to try and and do? And those have been like, I wouldn't say goals, just tiny little actions that then load up to that. And yes, I haven't done exactly the fact of like between five, 06:30PM and 06:30 and 07:30AM. Like sometimes they'll be on digital. So default should be a no digital policy, but I've added in these.
I feel like it's a cool, cool way to try and stop yourself. I'll give you one here from my little tiny habits. Social media. So I do have my social media apps on my phone. Karen doesn't use them through the computer, but I made a pact with myself. If I go on any of my social media platforms moving forward, I have to get rid of one person that I follow. Like something, someone that I follow on my platform, I have to get rid of. And so again, that's kind of like the little behavior stop of being like before I open up just by default, you know, just whatever you're bored and just open it. I pause and I go, oh, and it did that. This isn't been a good one. So I'm like, oh, if I open this, I'm getting rid of someone. Okay. Then you get excited because you're like, Yeah. And like, honestly, at the beginning, it's been kind of cool. I'd be like, Oh, get rid of this. Like, I don't want this, but it's starting to get to a point like, well, I'll still do it. I guess we'll go on a daily, but I am thinking like, Oh, I've got to get rid of someone. I've got to get rid of someone that I'm following here to enable to do this. In any case, that's just to say that that no digital policy was like, yes, that's the default. Yes. It's happened. But I've done like little tiny micro habits to try and avoid it more, which I have directly seen on the usage of my phone as well decrease quite heavily because of that. Looks like oh. Anyways, that that was August. So lots of little good, successes, some stuff that I need to, like, refine just and this comes down to more the the note taking and whatnot. And again, if you're listening to this and you've watched us do a monthly goals now for like a long time and you maybe think like, oh, I wanna emulate or do something similar. I think my only recommendation I'll just pause and say is look at by look back what we were doing when we were 27 and 28, not what we're doing now. Because what we're doing now, I wouldn't recommend for someone like that's younger. That's not I wouldn't be I would more recommend it like just fuck like the note taking or the refining of that. Like just go hard and try and just achieve and pursue and and do things.
It feels a little bit now like I'm in this phase of like, okay, I'm writing, I'm summarizing, I'm conglomerating things I'm doing as opposed to maybe years ago when we were like, oh, event. I'm gonna go to like four events this month and I wanna experience this and I wanna do that as I think it's less so that different different stages of life. But anyways, that's Sure. That's August. That's August. Me more or less.
[00:08:05] Kyrin Down:
Stay stay around until the next month when I've, I've got some more perhaps younger goals. Right. Is maybe what you'd call them in comparison to the last couple of years. Youthful guys. You call it youthful. So my August 2025 overall I would say I did them but it's just because they weren't particularly hard as well at the same time. So you're starting to get to like the dregs of the annual goals, the ending. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much so, you know, don't establish a busy routine. Keep time for serendipity. That's like a non thing. I don't do something. So yeah, I did that. For example, I forgot to mention I went to the casino on on Thursday, which is a rare rarity for me. I don't go to that. That's not that's not family night. That's, that's a business night. That's a weeknight.
And, no, I actually went with my friend and played some blackjack.
[00:08:59] Juan Granados:
Yeah.
[00:09:00] Kyrin Down:
I it's fucking stressful, man. I, I, thankfully we had a, what do they call croupier who or the dealer who would ask me like, are you sure you want to do that? If I did something exceedingly
[00:09:16] Juan Granados:
stupid? I
[00:09:16] Kyrin Down:
said, like, double down on 18. And she's like, are you sure you want to do that? I feel like, yeah, double down was like, you're just like, I just want to bet twice as much, but don't give me an extra card. Yeah, very balls. Good. Okay. So keep working through list of fun activities with friends. I managed to get some of those done. Probably one of the bigger things was switching some wallets and just getting my wallet scenario. In particular, I'm talking online. We're talking crypto, Nelson. Crypto wallets. I just sorting that out a bit more. I feel like I have, but I also made a couple of just dumb errors recently. It wasn't related to security practices per se. It was more, the, the actual platforms themselves and my use of them. So, even though it's like my fault,
[00:10:14] Juan Granados:
they were designed in a way where it was also like. Yeah, your fault. But there was like some, some, some, some blame to be had there on the platforms.
[00:10:21] Kyrin Down:
Yeah. The, the what UI wasn't wasn't, I was up to standard, I guess. It was just harder. So yeah, I've actually had a lot of fun experimenting with some things. I put on a so my brother and I have a I've talked to I think about his gambling system before and how he ripped off the gambling companies. And we we still slightly do that away. Ripping off. So maybe a strong word we utilize to our advantage. Leverage their offers. They're really no leverage. And I did a I've taken it to a next level by then adding an extra step onto it with Polymarket. I'm actually first time I used a VPN ever. I don't know. Yeah, I don't think I've ever used it. I might have used one once before, but they just tend to fuck up everything else other than what you're using it for. So like if you use a VPN while using podcasts, for example, somebody can screw up a whole bunch of things. So sure, I tend to actually not use them, but I needed to use it because you can't use poly market in Australia.
Right. Gotcha. Highly illegal here. I'm talking about degenerate gambling and illegal stuff. Anyway, I had a lot of fun experimenting with things because I had a lot a lot more kind of free time and getting whole things ticked off of my my like to do list is getting pretty bare bones now. I'm noticing so, continuing on, begin ramping up, but reduce down if the pain returns. Well, I did really well with the handstands, but leg stuff and hemis, which I've never really had a problem with before a statin have been twinging. So that's, that's going to kind of continue on into next month where I'll need to just be careful and not not do the same old thing. I was like, just trying to do reps and stuff, even if it's not not 100% active morning energy despite the cold. This one definitely did well. You know, I went to the club on my own yesterday, even though it was cold and, I feel sunny. Thought of not. As in sunny.
[00:12:27] Juan Granados:
It was sunny. It was still cold. Seemed like there wasn't too many as much people there. I think there was a few people away on that particular morning. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Correct.
[00:12:35] Kyrin Down:
Prioritize travel history. Asia books. Yeah. You see, I've done like a couple of book reviews of that coming up, more centered around Singapore and and things like that. Speak confidently about my job slash lifestyle. I fucked that up on the very first day, I think of the month. But then from then on, I. Had proof of me better and then try creating an agent that notifies me upon trigger signals. Oh, yeah. How to go with that? Yeah. No, well, no. Well, I was trying to like link it to, an email and I could I think I was if I'd spent more time, I could have got something that would email me, but it was more it watching certain levels was the heart of it. As in like, I probably needed an API into a place like Glassnode or an online. Do they not have their own API? So you can do that. They do. But I think most of them you have to pay. Right. So, I ended up just finding a website which basically has everything I want on it. It so I can just do a visual check whenever I want. So that's and like easy. It's got like yeses or noes for certain levels and it's basically the all the things I was looking at before. Oh, that's cool. Okay.
That's, yeah, that's, that's pretty much all I wanted and needed. So best. The best work is my work. Yeah. The I did do well though for like the the mere Morpheus, you know, doing stuff which I'd, I'd wanted to do ages ago, such as downloading bulk
[00:14:09] Juan Granados:
videos
[00:14:11] Kyrin Down:
converted to audio. And doing that bulk was a very something I would have said, like, if I tried this three or four years ago, impossible. Like I would have had to learn how to code that myself. But I managed to do it, funnily enough, not through chat, but through the Morpheus API gateway, and managed to get, like an automatic system that did that really well. So I was pretty impressed with that. That was probably the first time I've had some a coding project actually work using using AI. So that was good. And yeah, just I had a lot of kind of like free ish time and I utilized it as well, which was good and just doing a lot of things. So yeah, a decent a decent August, if not
[00:15:02] Juan Granados:
for, like, an intense one. I feel like I got a bunch of stuff done. Not intense, but it was like the loss of things that you ticked off and you pursued. Yeah. Maybe a quick on the on the boost agreement side of things or just some support in general. Any any call outs, any trends that you're seeing? Have you still been listening to a lot of other V4V type podcasts or hearing what the boost program world is doing? Less so less so.
[00:15:25] Kyrin Down:
The yes, certainly my involvement with podcasting two point zero was diminished a lot compared to three years ago. Still listen to two point zero, the podcast, podcasting two point zero and select ones like I see Cole in the chat. I still listen to America Plus and a couple of others here and there, but I'm less less intensely involved with that. And yet I still it's moved away from boost to grams a bit at the moment. They're they're much sorry. The focus isn't on like the V for V aspect at the moment. It's more. I'm talking about podcasting 2.8. Yeah. Yeah. So they're more kind of looking at things like HLS video, for example, or people talk about video podcasts as in using them as a as a podcast, not as just like a YouTube channel or Spotify or whatever.
And, so that's taking a lot of attention. Bountains still doing pretty well, but they're connected with Nosta. You know, this it feels like it's just like a bit of a lull period in a certain respect and things are just getting built behind the scenes and something will capture my attention soon. In terms of our support, yeah, I do. I'll do an update shortly, maybe a couple of months time. Just another little bit of an update.
[00:16:54] Juan Granados:
Yeah. I don't know. Again, I double down on the on the idea again. When when the asset the asset value is is high, I feel like it's there's a reduced amount of, you know, spending or like psychological piece where it's like, I don't wanna spend or utilize this particular asset to send to people when it's worth so much. But at the same time, if it's stabilized for a long time at whatever price, take it to a price, and I think the value would be
[00:17:21] Kyrin Down:
remain constant for people to actually use it as transaction. Like Yeah. Yeah. There's there's there's a bit of that. I mean, if you go to this week in Bitcoin, so that's Chris Fisher's. He's, he's, he still gets those should be the people who value it the most highly. Yeah. And they'll still send through
[00:17:39] Juan Granados:
like 30,000 sats. 100,000. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point.
[00:17:43] Kyrin Down:
Yeah. I've yeah. I'd still say it's like there's probably an aspect to it, but that's maybe 5%.
[00:17:49] Juan Granados:
Well, maybe I'd say actually do they value it highly in the in a monetary sense or they value highly as the like
[00:17:55] Kyrin Down:
point to point transaction? No, definitely monetary. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Digital gold sort of aspect. But yeah. I also see Cole in the chat. You're saying my monthly goal is to win the jackpot with Kyren. Well. Jackpot? Yeah. I don't know what jackpot. I don't know. Am I offering the jackpot? I'm not sure. Oh, no. Actually, no, I do have a slight a small business proposition for Cole. I'm going to. Okay. It's a it's on my list here. Let's see. I would like to say. Hit up cockle call about box on selling. I'll give that a little a little hint for you there, Cole. So just look for a WhatsApp message from me shortly. I got
[00:18:32] Juan Granados:
a proposal for an extension of the podcast or maybe a different view of the podcast. So I actually really liked it from a guy I was flying with to Canberra with, and his I I wouldn't do this as a brand new thing. I could think about doing it, but I'll I'll share the concept because I I don't know if many people like, if this exists, actually, someone tell me. But he was like, oh, you know what'd be fun? Not just not interviewing the successful people, but interviewing their parents and just solely their parents and talking about more so on, like, as I was growing up, what are the things you did do and didn't do and how much of it was just, like, naturally the the kid, like, gifted and on how much was it of the the things that you did and, and, like, input, which I kinda get because, you know, you'll have the conversations with, like, coaches or you'll have conversations with, some parents, like, say, Tiger Woods' parents. You could get a clear view of, like, yeah, this dude was, like, sadistic on Tiger Woods. It's okay. So that's maybe one view, but what's what were Federer's parents like? Or what was Sandy Murray's parents like? Or whoever.
I guess he'd be probably like, I could help you deal with that. Like, you know, that seems like such because obviously he was saying it in the way that he would love to consume something like that. Yeah. Yeah. And I could see myself consuming something like that if it existed too, for sure. Maybe. But I kind of said to him, it would be very difficult to arrange that. Even if you like the parents might be even more keen to talk about their kids than getting the really high performer. But it's still the difficult thing to arrange and the difficult thing to, you know, going. And I would just be thinking more along the lines of like if you're really
[00:20:08] Kyrin Down:
you're throwing yourself into there with potentially wasting hours with people who are not good conversationalists. I don't I don't know if the the end product quality would be,
[00:20:22] Juan Granados:
a nice. Well, that's actually that's a that's a good point. You really? Depends what depends what the outcome, though, is because I wouldn't have thought at all that that's a conversation. Okay. Like, you you wouldn't be approaching as a conversation. That would be an interview Sure. As opposed to a conversation. I mean, you can even have really shitty interviews, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, like, you'd have to be and this is the bit where I was like, you have to be, like, really well honed on extracting from non like potentially people who don't really speak that well or can craft things together and really like helping them out along the way with it. Would you
[00:20:55] Kyrin Down:
if you were to do this, would you interview people who you had never
[00:21:00] Juan Granados:
seen nor heard speak before? So, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've done that before. Like, I've done that before. I've definitely, like, talked and interviewed people before on the podcast that I've never ever spoken to before, and it's like fresh first day. Yeah. But that was hard. And that would be But, like, you've never seen them talk as well. Correct. You don't even know if they can talk. Correct. Yep. Yep. Example, Peter. Peter Dodajah, who I, had on the podcast. There was no, like, there was nothing that I'd seen of him prior. It was just like who he was, what he looked like. That's it. Okay. So, but that was difficult. That was also very difficult. So, yeah. All right, let's jump into September. Sounds like a lot of work. Hey, look, I'm sharing it in the immortal lights. I will not be doing that anytime soon. Yeah. There's a lot of effort that I don't have the critical mass to pursue.
Right. To my September 2025 goals, I've got eight. Again, they map up to annual goals. And, again, you can go back to the annual goals if you wanna see how it kinda maps to it, silly. Easy. Three in the body. Volume, here we come from a running perspective. We're gonna hit a 150 kilometers of running this month. So it's topping it up. I've been doing so last month was really just the base of the working out. Now we're we're cranking it up. I I say a 150 kilometers of running. It's more. It's gonna be even more than that, but I'm just saying a 150 kilometers plus given, you know, a couple of days might not be, exist. So, yes, that's why it's gonna be my percentage of running is gonna increase in terms of hours and, like, doing it. And inversely, I'm going to move into more of a blood and guts, training to increase my intensity and keep my strength. For those who don't know, blood and guts is a terminology I believe that Dorian Yates himself created, or at least he has a program called Blood and Guts.
Previous to that is, Mike Mentzer and a few others from a bodybuilding perspective made, famous, let's just say. The whole principle is really, really high intensity, smaller amount of workout. So one of the learnings, I guess, I took I've taken away from so many years is unless you're on heavy gear and you can really get yourself on, like, the ability to recover quick, trying to do what I'm trying to do now, volume of running with that amount of training from a gym perspective, injury, you're gonna result in injury. And if I'm stepping up the running even more, I need to do things slightly different, you know, gym perspective, both for just like having the time to do this from an efficiency perspective and recovery. So this style of training, as an example, isn't you go in and you do four sets of eight or four sets of 12 or you might do five sets of five. That that that is a bite. Maybe you sounds like the normal training.
This is, for for let's say for a chest workout, you go in, you'd warm up for five minutes, ten minutes, whatever it may be, and then you do one warm up set of incline bench press, and then you do one hard as intense as possible workout of incline bench press, and that's it. Then you go and do, two heavy, flat dumbbell bench press. That's it. Then you go over and do one heavy cable fly. That's it. So it's just like one singular all out super intense set. I've tried this before in the past and it didn't feel as faint doesn't feel as fantastic from a pump perspective as, like, doing a lot more volume. I'm sure. But it did keep my strength at the same levels that I wanted it to. And right now, given I'm gonna put a little bit more focus on that volume of running, I'm like, I just wanna be able to just get in there, do the lifts and the training that I wanna do to that effect, and keep myself more injury free. So I'll try it out. I'm gonna try it out this month to see how it feels.
Yep. Yep. Nice. Recording the first in-depth body information. So I kind of mentioned it before. I wanna actually record it, so then put the time in, but I will find the time in September to actually do that, because it's actually recording it for a podcast, bit of information that I wanna share. So I wanna make your time to some of the learning. So even probably just what I said just then, I'll that's probably what it'll become, that I wanna put more thought into, you know, the top the intensity versus volume versus strength versus age versus the things that you do. It's probably been talked in the past in in various ways, but it'll just be my spin on it. So I wanna record that, and that'll take some time to put together.
The two on the mind space, I wanna decide the path of the current business opportunity. So, again, talked about we got all these samples and whatnot. Yep. We just gotta decide. Cool. Have we got the have we got what he needs? Have we got the time to do it? Does it make sense? Is the TAM actually gonna be something that, you know, we follow? Have you heard of a TAM before? Yeah. Total addressable month. So a lot of stuff. So it's reality's gonna hit this month. Are Are we pursuing it, or do we start looking for something separate? Fifth, five on fifth, complete the second content, and they get this the high signal stuff that I've talked about, and it's called the projection paradox. So I've got some deep deep notes. I've recorded me doing my writing on the side of of this already. I haven't done the full recording. I'll be talking about the projection paradox. Okay. And, again, I'll leave it at that. Obviously, go and find out as I release it in September, but it'll be like, I haven't yet recorded it, though.
Seven, the monthly solo practice. I wanna complete my template, that I created at the start of the month to help review. So I talked about this. I created this template for the monthly review that I wanna kinda do. I wanna complete that early on in September. And again, just to see, is it worthy for me to continue filling out? Because sometimes you don't wanna just get into the habit of just filling out things for that for the sake of it. You know, is it valuable? Am I even reflecting on it? Does it help me in any way? So my daily notes used to be really large, and then I've refined it down to like, okay. Well, this is the stuff that I actually care about and I'm using. The rest is like, it's fluffy and I gotta get get rid of the fluff. Mhmm. And the last one is determine how a family philosophy might be best consumed.
Now this is actually an interesting one because I I want to spend a decent amount of thought time being like, okay, I want to create a sort of family philosophy. How would I not just create that, but how will it be consumed by the family in the years to come? Okay. So not for other people. Correct. So so so so this would say this is the interesting one, and I'm taking it from the, J. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. So that book or story that he created was all his kids. Like, he was just like, I'm gonna write this story for my kids. I've got this idea. I'm gonna write it for my kids. The fact that it then became a book for people to go and buy and whatever was just a side bonus. Cool. That's what I'm just trying to play around with this philosophy thing of, like, okay. Alright. The family philosophy. Again, it's just purely for kids and family.
But one aspect of it is, well, how are we gonna consume it? Is it gonna be try to record it? This is what I've been able to sort of like try to do a really big recording, like really make lots of notes. And it's a personal recording for us. Do I write it down like it's text wise some way? Do I try to craft it into a book? And then that book is like, then they can consume and we can look at interpretive dance interpretive dance, you know, is it a play? Is it a song? You know, there's like all these mediums of how do you a story. So like, I don't know. That's what I want to if if you've done if anyone out the avenue started like researching it, but if anyone's done something like this before, let me know. Like, I'm starting from literal scratch on it.
My, like, first thing that comes to mind is just the like a book. Like, it would be cool just do a book for the family and really being like, yeah. Like, if if with no no idea behind it of this going being like, oh, it's beyond that. I just wanna have a book in my bookshelf. That's like our family philosophy. Yeah. Would I then be like, oh, yeah. But I could, I guess, generalize it and and be something that, you know, that can be consumed by others? I don't know. I had this thought in the past of doing, like, a, you know, the immortals maxims type book as well with all of the thoughts and things that we've done before. Yeah. So, you know, all that plays in in in someone actually said this to us or to me about our podcast being like, oh, you guys do you've done so many things, like, you should do a book like around that. I said, oh, we've talked about that before, but, you know, again, that's like so much effort that right now is just not sold on the cards for for our existing thing. But anyways, if you have done that before, you can help me out in that way by telling me. Otherwise, I'll be thinking and researching what's gonna be the better way that it both I can get it out of my brain, but also be consumed by
[00:29:23] Kyrin Down:
people in the future. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Cool. Yeah. That that sounds fun.
[00:29:27] Juan Granados:
But that one I'm looking forward to that one. I'm looking forward to that one, to be honest. It's, it's kind of like an extended, like, I don't know. I don't know. It would be it just sound fun. I feel like it'll be fun. Yeah. I just gotta put the right effort into the right place. Because if I start doing it as a video and I'll go, Oh, man, like this is just gonna be too much or whatever. I don't know. It'll be a workout.
[00:29:48] Kyrin Down:
Yeah. Workout. Give me a September. Yeah, let's do let's do it. So, once again, these all linked to my yearly goals, which are wrapping up at the end of this month. So a little some of these are just kind of like off topic or just stuff I wanted to do. So, arriving early to events and saying hi to people, I think it's been helpful to have the serendipity sort of thing of like going to things and, and doing that. But like, you know what? If I just gotten to some of these places like twenty minutes, fifteen, half an hour earlier, I could have said hi to other random people and made the use of the, the kind of serendipity slash, putting myself out there in like a kind of different way. So like, say I went to the casino half an hour earlier.
I've never talked to, I think, a random person in the casino before. So how would I go about doing that? What would the interaction be like? Yeah, could be good. Could be could be bad. I wouldn't know until I start. Yep. Okay. I want to start doing doing that. Just making a bit more of an effort. I've got this whole list of things that I still want to try and do in terms of like catch ups with people or well, where did I put it? Yeah. So there was like, meeting up with the girl after so so so and introducing her to Butters. She's from the gym. This month I've got a whole bunch of stuff. It's it's mostly like just making sure I make the use of the things I'm doing. I went to Comic Con, going to Cirque du Soleil, want to do a tour of a Bitcoin mining facility here in Brisbane.
Flying a drone with my brother, which we've had like months and never actually used, all these sorts of things where it's like, all right, yep, just try and make the most use out of that time if you're if you're going to do it. Sure. And make sure you actually do them as well. I've had this in the list for a while and I think it's worth doing just catching up on, Andreas Antonopoulos's Patreon this month. I'll, I'll do that bulk hitters videos in this month and then get caught up on that because he's really good in terms of security as well as like the broader, especially Bitcoin, scene.
Maybe I don't know if his patron still going. It's it's been she's like a year since I've tuned in. And, it's the problem with it is I just I just dislike patron. This this is just the actual surface. I'm I'm getting the delivery mechanism of of the video audio. I just don't like it. It's, it reminds me of my last goal here of something I'm trying to solve because, piss me off. So I can only do this for one month and I've got to binge it. Spent two hours on one arm handstand research and form comparisons. I saw this video. It's so funny because it's like I feel like I had watched all the one arm handstand stuff I could on YouTube and I, you know, I was looking up like specific search terms, all these people, and I was getting to the point where I'm like, all right, I've just made that into now generic handstand videos. They're not even specialized people talking about here's, you know, a form check for a one arm handstand.
The problem with that is, there is a whole wealth of information, but a lot of us trapped on Instagram. And this is where one arm hamster and people really because it's because it's kind of like a showy thing. It's a circusy type thing. Most if you if you want to call them like one arm hit instead influences, I think, that's where they post stuff. That's where that's their kind of platform which doesn't have good search mechanisms. So, I'm going to spend a bit of time. I think what I need to do is find the people who, post on there. It's like a one hundred one hundred and ten coach, for example, find their Instagram and then just fucking go through through their material. Yeah.
Which is so for example, like, Ulrich Ulrich on hands. He he coached Brendan. He's I saw this video of him talking about like a one arm understand flag and just like a tiny comparison of like his hips were over this way and then did it slightly differently and it's like it makes a world of difference. Now that's the kind of level where I'm at now where I'm like, Okay, I need to if my hips are slightly off like this, I need to reconfigure or do something a bit different. So those are the kind of form checks. It's getting to the point where it's like, Yeah, maybe I do need to I want to really get to like another level. Maybe a coach is or like an intermittent coach, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Get send them a video once every two months. Yeah. Not like consistent, but just like one off to like help propel. Yeah. And Ulrich's going to be in Brisbane.
So I might try and do that sort of thing where it's like, hey, man, I'll be like a couple of $100 or something if you spend two or three hours with me on one day and we just go through my, my training and my videos and stuff. So yeah, maybe something like that as well. But just research to the start, getting on to I think this is the spirituality thing. I just want to do a little draft of a kind of like an affirmation sheet. I used to do this in the past This slightly hinting at goals for next month as well, but a draft on on something like that of just giving me a bit more focus and direction, which was what this goal was, around.
The next one, this was related to like the travel languages. All that's done now. So I've just got this chores work list. Chores work list. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, cleaning and vacuuming my car. There's this outside area which needs a whole clean up. There's this tree which just needs all these branches. Yeah. Completing off the chores list. You can do that, man. Just just try and get that all done in September. So October, I don't have to worry about that. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much, this one. No porn for the whole month. Yeah. I have noticed over the past, especially last couple of months, it's starting to creep back in.
Cut that one out. Yeah. And then the get the me and Morpheus up to date with the weekly updates. They post these updates in the Twitter spaces. They've got these weekly updates, weekly maintainer updates for the Morpheus.
[00:36:31] Juan Granados:
Like text or like videos? No, no,
[00:36:34] Kyrin Down:
no. Spaces, Twitter spaces. Yeah. Audio.
[00:36:36] Juan Granados:
Oh, gotcha. Okay.
[00:36:38] Kyrin Down:
And once again, I hate it on there because it's, you know, it's, it's unformatted. The audio levels are fucked. There's five minutes at the start where there's silence and, you know, you can't play Twitter on your phone with the spaces unless you've got the app downloaded. And you mentioned I don't like having the app on my phone. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So, I'm going to put that all in the mere Morpheus podcast. I've got all the audios now. Now it's just about actually posting it in there. So I'm just straight up like taking that audio and this is for myself. I'm going to put it all in the in the podcast form and then listen to it.
So yeah, I can't. Yeah, yeah. It's for myself. And then if other people get value from that, enjoy it. That's, that's nice and handy. Gotcha. That is purely for myself. And maybe I should do the same with Andreas's downbeat all of his shit, rip it off, put it into a podcast just so I can listen to it. You'll get hit with copyright for sure for that.
[00:37:35] Juan Granados:
Or maybe if especially if he's charging for the material. Maybe. Yes. Probably.
[00:37:40] Kyrin Down:
I don't know. We'll see. We'll find out. So, yeah, that's that's our monthly goals. Fitness. Is there anything worth bringing up? Is
[00:37:49] Juan Granados:
the. No, I'm going to talk about it already. But yeah, roughly roughly the running running is more than and lifting at the moment just by pure hours. Which is kind of crazy again for me to think about. Again, ever since I've come back from Europe, it's continued to go up. In fact, probably because it's the August 31, I can give you a direct look at what the stats actually look like. So let me pull it up to it. So I got some details. I got some points this year, I think right at the start of the year. But I haven't
[00:38:17] Kyrin Down:
because I've just been focusing on the one arm handstand and trying to get that to see some progress. I haven't really achieved any points, I think for like six months or something. And this is my, my fitness challenge where I was, the whole worksheet of just goals to try and tick off, that will be making a comeback, more of a comeback this next year. Nice. Nice. I'll give you,
[00:38:45] Juan Granados:
overall this month, 54 activities, ran 112 kilometers, and I've done 22 gym sessions as well. So overall, actually, now looking back this this month, I just was actually a little bit more gym than I did running in terms of hours and whatnot. So that's kind of nice. But that'll definitely change. I've been at four workouts a week at the moment
[00:39:09] Kyrin Down:
since coming back from overseas and I think from not next week, but the one after that, I'm going to up it to five. Okay. Five or five a week. It's getting heavy crap. Memorials will leave you there. I don't know if there's any notes, comments. There is. Yeah. Cole said V for V needs to expand with different monies. The only podcast getting boost now Bitcoin podcast. That's that's probably about what I've roughly seen as well. The it's makes sense. You there's still just a big hurdle of getting people onto a wallet. Yeah. And sending and things like that. It's getting close to the stage where that's getting abstracted away a lot.
Not, not just not particularly with podcasting and being able to do that, but in general, I've seen a lot more things where it's like click into this and this integration into here and it's like, oh, okay. Two years ago, three years ago, one more five years ago, I mean, I'm still doing this to manually trying to do it. It was very hard and it's still hard ish, but it's leaps and bounds better. Yeah. And what it used to be for sure. You can actually, you know, a lot of them use it'll like, say, connect your your MetaMask or your crypto wallet. And then do you want to use just a debit card instead or a credit card? And
[00:40:30] Juan Granados:
that certainly makes things a lot easier. Yeah. No, no, it does. It does. And I think it's just the on ramp becoming easier. But, again, yeah, to Cole's point, I think it's at the moment, that stream of value is going purely on the pure Bitcoin conversations or podcasts out there. Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah. Anything else they've
[00:40:49] Kyrin Down:
Not those comments. So for those who are tuning in, and you're really interested in goals, we do these every month. Stay tuned for probably like three episodes time. I'm going to do my annual goals, which will be a episode all about like, the kind of the level up. What in general do you want to focus on? How do you set them up? How do you know if you've done well the previous year versus this year? Things like that. And then of course, we'll be doing October goals in a month's time. So
[00:41:20] Juan Granados:
woo. Yep. We'll leave it there. Memorialized. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for those who are being doing it live. Again, we go live with the monthly goals and in the ensuing, musing slash me and drinks that we do on Sunday mornings. Yep. So we'll leave it there for now. Memorialized be well. Juan. Out. Karen out. Good. Goodbye.
We all care mere mortals Capable of mistakes The journey's not here to be agonized upon Welcome back, Mere Mortals You are back with your two favorite mere mortals. You got Juan here. And Kyrin here on the other side. It is the August 31 Yoo. 2025, and we're gonna be going through some monthly goals today. Again, we're gonna be looking back at the August goals, bang on the the last August, and then we'll look into the September goals. It'll also coincide with Karan's new annual goals as well. Next next month. Oh, the next month. I'm sorry. I keep messing this up. I always keep thinking it's September. It's October. So well, then get excited because this is the last monthly goals you'll be hearing from Karen of the old goals, and then we'll go into the new ones. You'll be seeing some of my new ones and the transitions going through there, which has been quite fun. And we'll talk a little bit about support and everything else in the middle and maybe some fitness as well at the end of it as well. So as usual, let's just get stuck straight into it.
I had so from my annual goals, I bring this up, so I wasn't prepared. I've now had eight goals sorry. I've got nine annual goals, and I've been trading at, like, eight monthly goals is kind of where I'm aiming for. So I had eight goals for the August period. And let me bring them up. Cool. So I had, I'll basically I'll just describe them. And if I did them or not, because there was one that I I ticked myself. It's nope. Did not do. The just the aerobic base and habit locking just in terms of running, absolutely. Put that in. I did over a 100 kilometers of running in August. So today's the last day, but I think it was a 105 kilometers of running. That was the air felt. So I can comparatively, a couple of months ago before when I was getting ready for the new to half marathon, and even maybe before that, doing a 100 kilometer months felt difficult and especially overloaded from a training perspective with my, like, general gym training. Now it hasn't felt as much, and I'm making some some shifts and changes, to my proportion of running. In fact, I predict that in my upcoming month, I think it's gonna be more like 60% running, 40% lifting, which is kind of ridiculous. Wow. The other one was maintaining the 480 kilogram, plus a curve squat suspension deadlift with, three rep range, like, supremely easy. This is totally fine, and I knew it was gonna be easy. I just wanted to be, like, back from Europe. Let's just make sure I can do these lifts. Was able to do them, and keeping them. So we'll see how that transitions over into the next month.
The one that I I just marked myself out as an I was blocking 60 on the my last Friday of the month, which would have been the Friday just gone. Now I was in Canberra. And what did I learn through my body this month? Didn't do it. Didn't do it. Like, just flat out did not. I need to reconsider I'll talk about it in the in the next month or so on how I do that. In my mind, what I pictured was just just kind of sitting with some music and doing I actually wanted to do it on paper to document just, okay, from my training, have I felt like the, weight load has been too much or the running load has been too much and maybe what some of the learnings and things like that. I just didn't prioritize it. Honestly, I if I had to rethink it when I was down in Canberra, I probably should have spent some more time in that. However, I actually spent a lot more time one drinking the two Lord of the Rings.
Two towers man it's got to be hooked okay the first one the fellowship of the ring slow sure slow I agree second one man I was like crazy so there's that so you know was doing other stuff that was I felt valuable. The other three in the mind, the product product ecosystem set up. Look, I did a lot of that. We've got all of our samples in in the house at the moment. We've had a lot of conversation. I've set up the website. So a lot of the infrastructure is set up. Okay. You should show me some other. I will. Yep. Let me show you. So anyways, that's that's a going well. Publishing the first high signal piece for the mere mortals. Now this was like a little gimme because a hollowed arm was ready when I made the You already recorded it. So it was like kinda good. But that one went out, and I I think it actually got some some good, traction on it, which is cool. So, obviously, we'll continue that.
Mapping the full podcast production process from recording to publishing, I did that really early on in the in the month as well, which is, good. So that that was fine. And then the last two, completing the four weekly stillness sessions, twenty to thirty minutes. Now I marked this down as a yes, but I'm gonna say it's like a half yes. And the reason I say is I did do that for weekly stillness sessions, twenty to thirty minutes, really easy. But I had one solo reflection written or spoken on who I'm becoming this year. I created a big template on, like, how to do it.
Again, I'm finding and I need to, like, retrospect on this. I reckon I'm spending quite a lot of time on, like, reflection and notes and note taking. And I go, I gotta be careful. I don't go venture into, like, I'm doing that an hour per day. Right? Or what's a better way to do it? In any case, I did start it. Like, I did I'm probably three quarters through this whole reflection of the notes that I did. But, again, I just didn't, like, carve out the particular time. So I'll finish that this month in September. In fact, I could probably do it today. We'll see what timing allows, but I'll give myself a three quarter yes. Last one of establishing a no digital policy between 06:30AM, 07:30AM, and 5PM to 06:30PM.
Yes. I established it. Did I break it? There was some times that I would break it, but I so this is my an interesting concept. So in my new daily journaling, these monthly goals are more overarching, kind of continual goals. But I've started doing over the last two months now a daily thing where I do like, what tiny habit do I want to try and and do? And those have been like, I wouldn't say goals, just tiny little actions that then load up to that. And yes, I haven't done exactly the fact of like between five, 06:30PM and 06:30 and 07:30AM. Like sometimes they'll be on digital. So default should be a no digital policy, but I've added in these.
I feel like it's a cool, cool way to try and stop yourself. I'll give you one here from my little tiny habits. Social media. So I do have my social media apps on my phone. Karen doesn't use them through the computer, but I made a pact with myself. If I go on any of my social media platforms moving forward, I have to get rid of one person that I follow. Like something, someone that I follow on my platform, I have to get rid of. And so again, that's kind of like the little behavior stop of being like before I open up just by default, you know, just whatever you're bored and just open it. I pause and I go, oh, and it did that. This isn't been a good one. So I'm like, oh, if I open this, I'm getting rid of someone. Okay. Then you get excited because you're like, Yeah. And like, honestly, at the beginning, it's been kind of cool. I'd be like, Oh, get rid of this. Like, I don't want this, but it's starting to get to a point like, well, I'll still do it. I guess we'll go on a daily, but I am thinking like, Oh, I've got to get rid of someone. I've got to get rid of someone that I'm following here to enable to do this. In any case, that's just to say that that no digital policy was like, yes, that's the default. Yes. It's happened. But I've done like little tiny micro habits to try and avoid it more, which I have directly seen on the usage of my phone as well decrease quite heavily because of that. Looks like oh. Anyways, that that was August. So lots of little good, successes, some stuff that I need to, like, refine just and this comes down to more the the note taking and whatnot. And again, if you're listening to this and you've watched us do a monthly goals now for like a long time and you maybe think like, oh, I wanna emulate or do something similar. I think my only recommendation I'll just pause and say is look at by look back what we were doing when we were 27 and 28, not what we're doing now. Because what we're doing now, I wouldn't recommend for someone like that's younger. That's not I wouldn't be I would more recommend it like just fuck like the note taking or the refining of that. Like just go hard and try and just achieve and pursue and and do things.
It feels a little bit now like I'm in this phase of like, okay, I'm writing, I'm summarizing, I'm conglomerating things I'm doing as opposed to maybe years ago when we were like, oh, event. I'm gonna go to like four events this month and I wanna experience this and I wanna do that as I think it's less so that different different stages of life. But anyways, that's Sure. That's August. That's August. Me more or less.
[00:08:05] Kyrin Down:
Stay stay around until the next month when I've, I've got some more perhaps younger goals. Right. Is maybe what you'd call them in comparison to the last couple of years. Youthful guys. You call it youthful. So my August 2025 overall I would say I did them but it's just because they weren't particularly hard as well at the same time. So you're starting to get to like the dregs of the annual goals, the ending. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much so, you know, don't establish a busy routine. Keep time for serendipity. That's like a non thing. I don't do something. So yeah, I did that. For example, I forgot to mention I went to the casino on on Thursday, which is a rare rarity for me. I don't go to that. That's not that's not family night. That's, that's a business night. That's a weeknight.
And, no, I actually went with my friend and played some blackjack.
[00:08:59] Juan Granados:
Yeah.
[00:09:00] Kyrin Down:
I it's fucking stressful, man. I, I, thankfully we had a, what do they call croupier who or the dealer who would ask me like, are you sure you want to do that? If I did something exceedingly
[00:09:16] Juan Granados:
stupid? I
[00:09:16] Kyrin Down:
said, like, double down on 18. And she's like, are you sure you want to do that? I feel like, yeah, double down was like, you're just like, I just want to bet twice as much, but don't give me an extra card. Yeah, very balls. Good. Okay. So keep working through list of fun activities with friends. I managed to get some of those done. Probably one of the bigger things was switching some wallets and just getting my wallet scenario. In particular, I'm talking online. We're talking crypto, Nelson. Crypto wallets. I just sorting that out a bit more. I feel like I have, but I also made a couple of just dumb errors recently. It wasn't related to security practices per se. It was more, the, the actual platforms themselves and my use of them. So, even though it's like my fault,
[00:10:14] Juan Granados:
they were designed in a way where it was also like. Yeah, your fault. But there was like some, some, some, some blame to be had there on the platforms.
[00:10:21] Kyrin Down:
Yeah. The, the what UI wasn't wasn't, I was up to standard, I guess. It was just harder. So yeah, I've actually had a lot of fun experimenting with some things. I put on a so my brother and I have a I've talked to I think about his gambling system before and how he ripped off the gambling companies. And we we still slightly do that away. Ripping off. So maybe a strong word we utilize to our advantage. Leverage their offers. They're really no leverage. And I did a I've taken it to a next level by then adding an extra step onto it with Polymarket. I'm actually first time I used a VPN ever. I don't know. Yeah, I don't think I've ever used it. I might have used one once before, but they just tend to fuck up everything else other than what you're using it for. So like if you use a VPN while using podcasts, for example, somebody can screw up a whole bunch of things. So sure, I tend to actually not use them, but I needed to use it because you can't use poly market in Australia.
Right. Gotcha. Highly illegal here. I'm talking about degenerate gambling and illegal stuff. Anyway, I had a lot of fun experimenting with things because I had a lot a lot more kind of free time and getting whole things ticked off of my my like to do list is getting pretty bare bones now. I'm noticing so, continuing on, begin ramping up, but reduce down if the pain returns. Well, I did really well with the handstands, but leg stuff and hemis, which I've never really had a problem with before a statin have been twinging. So that's, that's going to kind of continue on into next month where I'll need to just be careful and not not do the same old thing. I was like, just trying to do reps and stuff, even if it's not not 100% active morning energy despite the cold. This one definitely did well. You know, I went to the club on my own yesterday, even though it was cold and, I feel sunny. Thought of not. As in sunny.
[00:12:27] Juan Granados:
It was sunny. It was still cold. Seemed like there wasn't too many as much people there. I think there was a few people away on that particular morning. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Correct.
[00:12:35] Kyrin Down:
Prioritize travel history. Asia books. Yeah. You see, I've done like a couple of book reviews of that coming up, more centered around Singapore and and things like that. Speak confidently about my job slash lifestyle. I fucked that up on the very first day, I think of the month. But then from then on, I. Had proof of me better and then try creating an agent that notifies me upon trigger signals. Oh, yeah. How to go with that? Yeah. No, well, no. Well, I was trying to like link it to, an email and I could I think I was if I'd spent more time, I could have got something that would email me, but it was more it watching certain levels was the heart of it. As in like, I probably needed an API into a place like Glassnode or an online. Do they not have their own API? So you can do that. They do. But I think most of them you have to pay. Right. So, I ended up just finding a website which basically has everything I want on it. It so I can just do a visual check whenever I want. So that's and like easy. It's got like yeses or noes for certain levels and it's basically the all the things I was looking at before. Oh, that's cool. Okay.
That's, yeah, that's, that's pretty much all I wanted and needed. So best. The best work is my work. Yeah. The I did do well though for like the the mere Morpheus, you know, doing stuff which I'd, I'd wanted to do ages ago, such as downloading bulk
[00:14:09] Juan Granados:
videos
[00:14:11] Kyrin Down:
converted to audio. And doing that bulk was a very something I would have said, like, if I tried this three or four years ago, impossible. Like I would have had to learn how to code that myself. But I managed to do it, funnily enough, not through chat, but through the Morpheus API gateway, and managed to get, like an automatic system that did that really well. So I was pretty impressed with that. That was probably the first time I've had some a coding project actually work using using AI. So that was good. And yeah, just I had a lot of kind of like free ish time and I utilized it as well, which was good and just doing a lot of things. So yeah, a decent a decent August, if not
[00:15:02] Juan Granados:
for, like, an intense one. I feel like I got a bunch of stuff done. Not intense, but it was like the loss of things that you ticked off and you pursued. Yeah. Maybe a quick on the on the boost agreement side of things or just some support in general. Any any call outs, any trends that you're seeing? Have you still been listening to a lot of other V4V type podcasts or hearing what the boost program world is doing? Less so less so.
[00:15:25] Kyrin Down:
The yes, certainly my involvement with podcasting two point zero was diminished a lot compared to three years ago. Still listen to two point zero, the podcast, podcasting two point zero and select ones like I see Cole in the chat. I still listen to America Plus and a couple of others here and there, but I'm less less intensely involved with that. And yet I still it's moved away from boost to grams a bit at the moment. They're they're much sorry. The focus isn't on like the V for V aspect at the moment. It's more. I'm talking about podcasting 2.8. Yeah. Yeah. So they're more kind of looking at things like HLS video, for example, or people talk about video podcasts as in using them as a as a podcast, not as just like a YouTube channel or Spotify or whatever.
And, so that's taking a lot of attention. Bountains still doing pretty well, but they're connected with Nosta. You know, this it feels like it's just like a bit of a lull period in a certain respect and things are just getting built behind the scenes and something will capture my attention soon. In terms of our support, yeah, I do. I'll do an update shortly, maybe a couple of months time. Just another little bit of an update.
[00:16:54] Juan Granados:
Yeah. I don't know. Again, I double down on the on the idea again. When when the asset the asset value is is high, I feel like it's there's a reduced amount of, you know, spending or like psychological piece where it's like, I don't wanna spend or utilize this particular asset to send to people when it's worth so much. But at the same time, if it's stabilized for a long time at whatever price, take it to a price, and I think the value would be
[00:17:21] Kyrin Down:
remain constant for people to actually use it as transaction. Like Yeah. Yeah. There's there's there's a bit of that. I mean, if you go to this week in Bitcoin, so that's Chris Fisher's. He's, he's, he still gets those should be the people who value it the most highly. Yeah. And they'll still send through
[00:17:39] Juan Granados:
like 30,000 sats. 100,000. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point.
[00:17:43] Kyrin Down:
Yeah. I've yeah. I'd still say it's like there's probably an aspect to it, but that's maybe 5%.
[00:17:49] Juan Granados:
Well, maybe I'd say actually do they value it highly in the in a monetary sense or they value highly as the like
[00:17:55] Kyrin Down:
point to point transaction? No, definitely monetary. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Digital gold sort of aspect. But yeah. I also see Cole in the chat. You're saying my monthly goal is to win the jackpot with Kyren. Well. Jackpot? Yeah. I don't know what jackpot. I don't know. Am I offering the jackpot? I'm not sure. Oh, no. Actually, no, I do have a slight a small business proposition for Cole. I'm going to. Okay. It's a it's on my list here. Let's see. I would like to say. Hit up cockle call about box on selling. I'll give that a little a little hint for you there, Cole. So just look for a WhatsApp message from me shortly. I got
[00:18:32] Juan Granados:
a proposal for an extension of the podcast or maybe a different view of the podcast. So I actually really liked it from a guy I was flying with to Canberra with, and his I I wouldn't do this as a brand new thing. I could think about doing it, but I'll I'll share the concept because I I don't know if many people like, if this exists, actually, someone tell me. But he was like, oh, you know what'd be fun? Not just not interviewing the successful people, but interviewing their parents and just solely their parents and talking about more so on, like, as I was growing up, what are the things you did do and didn't do and how much of it was just, like, naturally the the kid, like, gifted and on how much was it of the the things that you did and, and, like, input, which I kinda get because, you know, you'll have the conversations with, like, coaches or you'll have conversations with, some parents, like, say, Tiger Woods' parents. You could get a clear view of, like, yeah, this dude was, like, sadistic on Tiger Woods. It's okay. So that's maybe one view, but what's what were Federer's parents like? Or what was Sandy Murray's parents like? Or whoever.
I guess he'd be probably like, I could help you deal with that. Like, you know, that seems like such because obviously he was saying it in the way that he would love to consume something like that. Yeah. Yeah. And I could see myself consuming something like that if it existed too, for sure. Maybe. But I kind of said to him, it would be very difficult to arrange that. Even if you like the parents might be even more keen to talk about their kids than getting the really high performer. But it's still the difficult thing to arrange and the difficult thing to, you know, going. And I would just be thinking more along the lines of like if you're really
[00:20:08] Kyrin Down:
you're throwing yourself into there with potentially wasting hours with people who are not good conversationalists. I don't I don't know if the the end product quality would be,
[00:20:22] Juan Granados:
a nice. Well, that's actually that's a that's a good point. You really? Depends what depends what the outcome, though, is because I wouldn't have thought at all that that's a conversation. Okay. Like, you you wouldn't be approaching as a conversation. That would be an interview Sure. As opposed to a conversation. I mean, you can even have really shitty interviews, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, like, you'd have to be and this is the bit where I was like, you have to be, like, really well honed on extracting from non like potentially people who don't really speak that well or can craft things together and really like helping them out along the way with it. Would you
[00:20:55] Kyrin Down:
if you were to do this, would you interview people who you had never
[00:21:00] Juan Granados:
seen nor heard speak before? So, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've done that before. Like, I've done that before. I've definitely, like, talked and interviewed people before on the podcast that I've never ever spoken to before, and it's like fresh first day. Yeah. But that was hard. And that would be But, like, you've never seen them talk as well. Correct. You don't even know if they can talk. Correct. Yep. Yep. Example, Peter. Peter Dodajah, who I, had on the podcast. There was no, like, there was nothing that I'd seen of him prior. It was just like who he was, what he looked like. That's it. Okay. So, but that was difficult. That was also very difficult. So, yeah. All right, let's jump into September. Sounds like a lot of work. Hey, look, I'm sharing it in the immortal lights. I will not be doing that anytime soon. Yeah. There's a lot of effort that I don't have the critical mass to pursue.
Right. To my September 2025 goals, I've got eight. Again, they map up to annual goals. And, again, you can go back to the annual goals if you wanna see how it kinda maps to it, silly. Easy. Three in the body. Volume, here we come from a running perspective. We're gonna hit a 150 kilometers of running this month. So it's topping it up. I've been doing so last month was really just the base of the working out. Now we're we're cranking it up. I I say a 150 kilometers of running. It's more. It's gonna be even more than that, but I'm just saying a 150 kilometers plus given, you know, a couple of days might not be, exist. So, yes, that's why it's gonna be my percentage of running is gonna increase in terms of hours and, like, doing it. And inversely, I'm going to move into more of a blood and guts, training to increase my intensity and keep my strength. For those who don't know, blood and guts is a terminology I believe that Dorian Yates himself created, or at least he has a program called Blood and Guts.
Previous to that is, Mike Mentzer and a few others from a bodybuilding perspective made, famous, let's just say. The whole principle is really, really high intensity, smaller amount of workout. So one of the learnings, I guess, I took I've taken away from so many years is unless you're on heavy gear and you can really get yourself on, like, the ability to recover quick, trying to do what I'm trying to do now, volume of running with that amount of training from a gym perspective, injury, you're gonna result in injury. And if I'm stepping up the running even more, I need to do things slightly different, you know, gym perspective, both for just like having the time to do this from an efficiency perspective and recovery. So this style of training, as an example, isn't you go in and you do four sets of eight or four sets of 12 or you might do five sets of five. That that that is a bite. Maybe you sounds like the normal training.
This is, for for let's say for a chest workout, you go in, you'd warm up for five minutes, ten minutes, whatever it may be, and then you do one warm up set of incline bench press, and then you do one hard as intense as possible workout of incline bench press, and that's it. Then you go and do, two heavy, flat dumbbell bench press. That's it. Then you go over and do one heavy cable fly. That's it. So it's just like one singular all out super intense set. I've tried this before in the past and it didn't feel as faint doesn't feel as fantastic from a pump perspective as, like, doing a lot more volume. I'm sure. But it did keep my strength at the same levels that I wanted it to. And right now, given I'm gonna put a little bit more focus on that volume of running, I'm like, I just wanna be able to just get in there, do the lifts and the training that I wanna do to that effect, and keep myself more injury free. So I'll try it out. I'm gonna try it out this month to see how it feels.
Yep. Yep. Nice. Recording the first in-depth body information. So I kind of mentioned it before. I wanna actually record it, so then put the time in, but I will find the time in September to actually do that, because it's actually recording it for a podcast, bit of information that I wanna share. So I wanna make your time to some of the learning. So even probably just what I said just then, I'll that's probably what it'll become, that I wanna put more thought into, you know, the top the intensity versus volume versus strength versus age versus the things that you do. It's probably been talked in the past in in various ways, but it'll just be my spin on it. So I wanna record that, and that'll take some time to put together.
The two on the mind space, I wanna decide the path of the current business opportunity. So, again, talked about we got all these samples and whatnot. Yep. We just gotta decide. Cool. Have we got the have we got what he needs? Have we got the time to do it? Does it make sense? Is the TAM actually gonna be something that, you know, we follow? Have you heard of a TAM before? Yeah. Total addressable month. So a lot of stuff. So it's reality's gonna hit this month. Are Are we pursuing it, or do we start looking for something separate? Fifth, five on fifth, complete the second content, and they get this the high signal stuff that I've talked about, and it's called the projection paradox. So I've got some deep deep notes. I've recorded me doing my writing on the side of of this already. I haven't done the full recording. I'll be talking about the projection paradox. Okay. And, again, I'll leave it at that. Obviously, go and find out as I release it in September, but it'll be like, I haven't yet recorded it, though.
Seven, the monthly solo practice. I wanna complete my template, that I created at the start of the month to help review. So I talked about this. I created this template for the monthly review that I wanna kinda do. I wanna complete that early on in September. And again, just to see, is it worthy for me to continue filling out? Because sometimes you don't wanna just get into the habit of just filling out things for that for the sake of it. You know, is it valuable? Am I even reflecting on it? Does it help me in any way? So my daily notes used to be really large, and then I've refined it down to like, okay. Well, this is the stuff that I actually care about and I'm using. The rest is like, it's fluffy and I gotta get get rid of the fluff. Mhmm. And the last one is determine how a family philosophy might be best consumed.
Now this is actually an interesting one because I I want to spend a decent amount of thought time being like, okay, I want to create a sort of family philosophy. How would I not just create that, but how will it be consumed by the family in the years to come? Okay. So not for other people. Correct. So so so so this would say this is the interesting one, and I'm taking it from the, J. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. So that book or story that he created was all his kids. Like, he was just like, I'm gonna write this story for my kids. I've got this idea. I'm gonna write it for my kids. The fact that it then became a book for people to go and buy and whatever was just a side bonus. Cool. That's what I'm just trying to play around with this philosophy thing of, like, okay. Alright. The family philosophy. Again, it's just purely for kids and family.
But one aspect of it is, well, how are we gonna consume it? Is it gonna be try to record it? This is what I've been able to sort of like try to do a really big recording, like really make lots of notes. And it's a personal recording for us. Do I write it down like it's text wise some way? Do I try to craft it into a book? And then that book is like, then they can consume and we can look at interpretive dance interpretive dance, you know, is it a play? Is it a song? You know, there's like all these mediums of how do you a story. So like, I don't know. That's what I want to if if you've done if anyone out the avenue started like researching it, but if anyone's done something like this before, let me know. Like, I'm starting from literal scratch on it.
My, like, first thing that comes to mind is just the like a book. Like, it would be cool just do a book for the family and really being like, yeah. Like, if if with no no idea behind it of this going being like, oh, it's beyond that. I just wanna have a book in my bookshelf. That's like our family philosophy. Yeah. Would I then be like, oh, yeah. But I could, I guess, generalize it and and be something that, you know, that can be consumed by others? I don't know. I had this thought in the past of doing, like, a, you know, the immortals maxims type book as well with all of the thoughts and things that we've done before. Yeah. So, you know, all that plays in in in someone actually said this to us or to me about our podcast being like, oh, you guys do you've done so many things, like, you should do a book like around that. I said, oh, we've talked about that before, but, you know, again, that's like so much effort that right now is just not sold on the cards for for our existing thing. But anyways, if you have done that before, you can help me out in that way by telling me. Otherwise, I'll be thinking and researching what's gonna be the better way that it both I can get it out of my brain, but also be consumed by
[00:29:23] Kyrin Down:
people in the future. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Cool. Yeah. That that sounds fun.
[00:29:27] Juan Granados:
But that one I'm looking forward to that one. I'm looking forward to that one, to be honest. It's, it's kind of like an extended, like, I don't know. I don't know. It would be it just sound fun. I feel like it'll be fun. Yeah. I just gotta put the right effort into the right place. Because if I start doing it as a video and I'll go, Oh, man, like this is just gonna be too much or whatever. I don't know. It'll be a workout.
[00:29:48] Kyrin Down:
Yeah. Workout. Give me a September. Yeah, let's do let's do it. So, once again, these all linked to my yearly goals, which are wrapping up at the end of this month. So a little some of these are just kind of like off topic or just stuff I wanted to do. So, arriving early to events and saying hi to people, I think it's been helpful to have the serendipity sort of thing of like going to things and, and doing that. But like, you know what? If I just gotten to some of these places like twenty minutes, fifteen, half an hour earlier, I could have said hi to other random people and made the use of the, the kind of serendipity slash, putting myself out there in like a kind of different way. So like, say I went to the casino half an hour earlier.
I've never talked to, I think, a random person in the casino before. So how would I go about doing that? What would the interaction be like? Yeah, could be good. Could be could be bad. I wouldn't know until I start. Yep. Okay. I want to start doing doing that. Just making a bit more of an effort. I've got this whole list of things that I still want to try and do in terms of like catch ups with people or well, where did I put it? Yeah. So there was like, meeting up with the girl after so so so and introducing her to Butters. She's from the gym. This month I've got a whole bunch of stuff. It's it's mostly like just making sure I make the use of the things I'm doing. I went to Comic Con, going to Cirque du Soleil, want to do a tour of a Bitcoin mining facility here in Brisbane.
Flying a drone with my brother, which we've had like months and never actually used, all these sorts of things where it's like, all right, yep, just try and make the most use out of that time if you're if you're going to do it. Sure. And make sure you actually do them as well. I've had this in the list for a while and I think it's worth doing just catching up on, Andreas Antonopoulos's Patreon this month. I'll, I'll do that bulk hitters videos in this month and then get caught up on that because he's really good in terms of security as well as like the broader, especially Bitcoin, scene.
Maybe I don't know if his patron still going. It's it's been she's like a year since I've tuned in. And, it's the problem with it is I just I just dislike patron. This this is just the actual surface. I'm I'm getting the delivery mechanism of of the video audio. I just don't like it. It's, it reminds me of my last goal here of something I'm trying to solve because, piss me off. So I can only do this for one month and I've got to binge it. Spent two hours on one arm handstand research and form comparisons. I saw this video. It's so funny because it's like I feel like I had watched all the one arm handstand stuff I could on YouTube and I, you know, I was looking up like specific search terms, all these people, and I was getting to the point where I'm like, all right, I've just made that into now generic handstand videos. They're not even specialized people talking about here's, you know, a form check for a one arm handstand.
The problem with that is, there is a whole wealth of information, but a lot of us trapped on Instagram. And this is where one arm hamster and people really because it's because it's kind of like a showy thing. It's a circusy type thing. Most if you if you want to call them like one arm hit instead influences, I think, that's where they post stuff. That's where that's their kind of platform which doesn't have good search mechanisms. So, I'm going to spend a bit of time. I think what I need to do is find the people who, post on there. It's like a one hundred one hundred and ten coach, for example, find their Instagram and then just fucking go through through their material. Yeah.
Which is so for example, like, Ulrich Ulrich on hands. He he coached Brendan. He's I saw this video of him talking about like a one arm understand flag and just like a tiny comparison of like his hips were over this way and then did it slightly differently and it's like it makes a world of difference. Now that's the kind of level where I'm at now where I'm like, Okay, I need to if my hips are slightly off like this, I need to reconfigure or do something a bit different. So those are the kind of form checks. It's getting to the point where it's like, Yeah, maybe I do need to I want to really get to like another level. Maybe a coach is or like an intermittent coach, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Get send them a video once every two months. Yeah. Not like consistent, but just like one off to like help propel. Yeah. And Ulrich's going to be in Brisbane.
So I might try and do that sort of thing where it's like, hey, man, I'll be like a couple of $100 or something if you spend two or three hours with me on one day and we just go through my, my training and my videos and stuff. So yeah, maybe something like that as well. But just research to the start, getting on to I think this is the spirituality thing. I just want to do a little draft of a kind of like an affirmation sheet. I used to do this in the past This slightly hinting at goals for next month as well, but a draft on on something like that of just giving me a bit more focus and direction, which was what this goal was, around.
The next one, this was related to like the travel languages. All that's done now. So I've just got this chores work list. Chores work list. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, cleaning and vacuuming my car. There's this outside area which needs a whole clean up. There's this tree which just needs all these branches. Yeah. Completing off the chores list. You can do that, man. Just just try and get that all done in September. So October, I don't have to worry about that. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much, this one. No porn for the whole month. Yeah. I have noticed over the past, especially last couple of months, it's starting to creep back in.
Cut that one out. Yeah. And then the get the me and Morpheus up to date with the weekly updates. They post these updates in the Twitter spaces. They've got these weekly updates, weekly maintainer updates for the Morpheus.
[00:36:31] Juan Granados:
Like text or like videos? No, no,
[00:36:34] Kyrin Down:
no. Spaces, Twitter spaces. Yeah. Audio.
[00:36:36] Juan Granados:
Oh, gotcha. Okay.
[00:36:38] Kyrin Down:
And once again, I hate it on there because it's, you know, it's, it's unformatted. The audio levels are fucked. There's five minutes at the start where there's silence and, you know, you can't play Twitter on your phone with the spaces unless you've got the app downloaded. And you mentioned I don't like having the app on my phone. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So, I'm going to put that all in the mere Morpheus podcast. I've got all the audios now. Now it's just about actually posting it in there. So I'm just straight up like taking that audio and this is for myself. I'm going to put it all in the in the podcast form and then listen to it.
So yeah, I can't. Yeah, yeah. It's for myself. And then if other people get value from that, enjoy it. That's, that's nice and handy. Gotcha. That is purely for myself. And maybe I should do the same with Andreas's downbeat all of his shit, rip it off, put it into a podcast just so I can listen to it. You'll get hit with copyright for sure for that.
[00:37:35] Juan Granados:
Or maybe if especially if he's charging for the material. Maybe. Yes. Probably.
[00:37:40] Kyrin Down:
I don't know. We'll see. We'll find out. So, yeah, that's that's our monthly goals. Fitness. Is there anything worth bringing up? Is
[00:37:49] Juan Granados:
the. No, I'm going to talk about it already. But yeah, roughly roughly the running running is more than and lifting at the moment just by pure hours. Which is kind of crazy again for me to think about. Again, ever since I've come back from Europe, it's continued to go up. In fact, probably because it's the August 31, I can give you a direct look at what the stats actually look like. So let me pull it up to it. So I got some details. I got some points this year, I think right at the start of the year. But I haven't
[00:38:17] Kyrin Down:
because I've just been focusing on the one arm handstand and trying to get that to see some progress. I haven't really achieved any points, I think for like six months or something. And this is my, my fitness challenge where I was, the whole worksheet of just goals to try and tick off, that will be making a comeback, more of a comeback this next year. Nice. Nice. I'll give you,
[00:38:45] Juan Granados:
overall this month, 54 activities, ran 112 kilometers, and I've done 22 gym sessions as well. So overall, actually, now looking back this this month, I just was actually a little bit more gym than I did running in terms of hours and whatnot. So that's kind of nice. But that'll definitely change. I've been at four workouts a week at the moment
[00:39:09] Kyrin Down:
since coming back from overseas and I think from not next week, but the one after that, I'm going to up it to five. Okay. Five or five a week. It's getting heavy crap. Memorials will leave you there. I don't know if there's any notes, comments. There is. Yeah. Cole said V for V needs to expand with different monies. The only podcast getting boost now Bitcoin podcast. That's that's probably about what I've roughly seen as well. The it's makes sense. You there's still just a big hurdle of getting people onto a wallet. Yeah. And sending and things like that. It's getting close to the stage where that's getting abstracted away a lot.
Not, not just not particularly with podcasting and being able to do that, but in general, I've seen a lot more things where it's like click into this and this integration into here and it's like, oh, okay. Two years ago, three years ago, one more five years ago, I mean, I'm still doing this to manually trying to do it. It was very hard and it's still hard ish, but it's leaps and bounds better. Yeah. And what it used to be for sure. You can actually, you know, a lot of them use it'll like, say, connect your your MetaMask or your crypto wallet. And then do you want to use just a debit card instead or a credit card? And
[00:40:30] Juan Granados:
that certainly makes things a lot easier. Yeah. No, no, it does. It does. And I think it's just the on ramp becoming easier. But, again, yeah, to Cole's point, I think it's at the moment, that stream of value is going purely on the pure Bitcoin conversations or podcasts out there. Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah. Anything else they've
[00:40:49] Kyrin Down:
Not those comments. So for those who are tuning in, and you're really interested in goals, we do these every month. Stay tuned for probably like three episodes time. I'm going to do my annual goals, which will be a episode all about like, the kind of the level up. What in general do you want to focus on? How do you set them up? How do you know if you've done well the previous year versus this year? Things like that. And then of course, we'll be doing October goals in a month's time. So
[00:41:20] Juan Granados:
woo. Yep. We'll leave it there. Memorialized. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for those who are being doing it live. Again, we go live with the monthly goals and in the ensuing, musing slash me and drinks that we do on Sunday mornings. Yep. So we'll leave it there for now. Memorialized be well. Juan. Out. Karen out. Good. Goodbye.
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