1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: I'll get everyone. I hope you're greats Now if I'm 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: doing my maths right, well, I'm recording this on the 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: twenty third. I think most of you will hear this 4 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: on the twenty fourth Christmas Eve or at some stage 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,799 Speaker 1: from then on. Whenever you're hearing it, I hype you well, 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: Happy Holidays, Happy Christmas, whatever it is that you celebrate 7 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: what I've decided to do over this period time. Obviously, 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: I need a little bit of a break. I need 9 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: to jump in the hammock, the metaphoric hammock, put my 10 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: brain on a shelf for a week or two, recoup, recover, refresh, 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: replenish all the things that I talk about. So what 12 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: I've done is I've got a collection of let's call 13 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: it repurposed content. Some of it is from the U Projects, 14 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: some of it is from Life the podcast that I 15 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: did for two hundred episodes last year at Daily Podcast. 16 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: And I think it's kind of all apt and relevant 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: for the end of the year, the start of a 18 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: new year. And they're just short, bite sized chunks of info, 19 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: a little bit of education, a little bit of inspiration, 20 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 1: a little bit of reflection, a little bit of provocation. 21 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: Of course, because I'm me. But anyway, I hope you 22 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: enjoy I hope you have a good break. I hope 23 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 1: you find some downtime and maybe a little bit of 24 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: time to reflect about as I record anyway this year 25 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and what you might do be create, change, 26 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 1: learn in twenty twenty five. Anyway, it's always a pleasure. 27 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: I appreciate your loyalty as listeners. I appreciate your feedback, 28 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: positive and negative. I appreciate you being part of this 29 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: tribe that we've created over six years and one thousand 30 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: and seven hundred and something episodes. We're always learning here, 31 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: We're always trying to do our best. I'm always trying 32 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: to have great conversations. Sometimes to an extent, we're reinventing 33 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: the wheel. But you know, the same principles and the 34 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: same ideas and the same strategies and protocols to an extent, 35 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: are always going to be relevant. Think better, do better, 36 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: create better, self awareness, self regulation, self management, taking ownership 37 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: of what we do and what we don't do. And 38 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,679 Speaker 1: as always, next year twenty twenty five, I'm going to 39 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: be cheering you on. Without further ado, here we go. 40 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: So today I'm going to talk about a thing that 41 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: I've spoken about many times on the You project, I 42 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: haven't spoken about it for a little while. Is this 43 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: idea of having an internal sat nav? We all have? 44 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: This is a term I use. I don't know if 45 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: other people do. I'm sure they do somewhere, But for me, 46 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: my internal sat Nav, and I believe we all have 47 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: a version of this. My internal sat NAB is really 48 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: the kind of the combination of my values, my beliefs, 49 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: my dreams, the things that matter to me, and my 50 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: I guess intentions like who I want to be, how 51 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: I want to be, what I want to do, be, create, 52 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: how I want to live my life, the things that 53 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: matter to me. That is kind of that is what 54 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: makes up my internal sat nav. So for me, the 55 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: internal sat Nav is kind of that wisdom that knowing. 56 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: It's almost that higher level of consciousness that I think 57 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: inhabits all of us where we know that we should 58 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: do something or we shouldn't do something, even if we 59 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: don't intellectually in the moment know why, even if it's 60 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:41,839 Speaker 1: not really perhaps a logical conclusion that we've arrived at, 61 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: but rather it's a gut instinct. It's a deep seated 62 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: knowing it's something that we're aware of from a cellular 63 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: level up. So for me, when I talk about my 64 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: internal sat NAB, I'm often just really that's almost analogous 65 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: with me talking about my values, my values being the 66 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: things that matter to me. I believe that when we yes, 67 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: we need to use our brain, and we need to 68 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: use our intellect, and we need to be strategic, and 69 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: we need to make great decisions, and we need to 70 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 1: be very aware and practical with choices and behaviors and 71 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: actions and reactions. But I also think that sometimes we 72 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: need to be still in present and aware of what 73 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: is what do I know? What do I instinctively and 74 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 1: intuitively know? What is that deep down kind of awareness 75 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: or knowledge or truth that I am aware of that 76 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: I need to tap into. I mean, I don't know why, 77 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 1: but for example, for me, when I was young, I 78 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: had an awareness do not even know why I had 79 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: this awareness, but I had an awareness that boos and 80 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: drugs were not for me. Booze drugs and cigarettes. Now, 81 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: I know that seems like an obvious thing to say, 82 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: but I grew up in a place where virtually everybody drank. Eventually, 83 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: a lot lot of people smoked, especially at the time 84 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: when I grew up, more smoked than didn't, including both 85 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: of my parents. Both of my parents drank. Both of 86 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: my parents smoked daily on both accounts, and more and 87 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: more as I grew up, more and more people used drugs. 88 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: And it wasn't that I ever had some terrible experience 89 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: or some incredible encounter or some light bulb moment, But 90 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 1: I always knew, and I had an instinctive kind of 91 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 1: I guess understanding that if I personally this is what 92 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: I think, if I ever opened the door on drugs 93 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: or booze, I think it could have fucked up my 94 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: life because I'm pretty manic, I'm pretty I can have 95 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 1: an addictive personality. And even though I didn't intellectually process 96 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: it like that, I feel like if I had ever 97 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: opened that door, it would have been trouble, all kinds 98 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: of trouble for me. So when I think about coming 99 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: back to you know, what are my values? My values 100 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: are kind of they're the platform, I guess, or the 101 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: basis for my internal sat NAV. So for me, it's 102 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 1: things like which sounds a bit naff, doesn't it, But 103 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: it's true kind of service learning, helping others empowering others 104 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: health physical, mental, emotional health, being of value to other 105 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: people using my potential, being a lifelong learner, unlearning shit 106 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: that I need to unlearn, but not wasting what I've 107 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: been given. I feel like I've never been I was, 108 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: never am not the person who is hugely talented. I 109 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: didn't have incredible potential. I was not a brilliant student 110 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 1: or academic. I was not genetically gifted. But what I was, 111 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: or what I am is I'm quite driven. So I've 112 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:48,159 Speaker 1: always been excited about human potential. I've always been excited 113 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: about possibilities. I've always been excited about what I could do, be, create, change, learn, 114 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: unlearn if I got out of my own way. So 115 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: your internal that NAB is for you, it is hopefully 116 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: it's going to be the platform from where you make 117 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: a lot of the big decisions in your life. For 118 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: me and for most people that I've really kind of 119 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: observed around this, when we have a life, and by 120 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: that I mean the choices that we make, the decisions 121 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: sorry the paths that we choose, the actions that we 122 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: lean into, the relationships that we build, the words that 123 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: we use when we have a life, which is consistent 124 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: with and reflective of our internal sat nab, that intelligence, 125 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: that wisdom. We tend to live experientially in a more 126 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: aligned place. And what that means is if I could 127 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: It sounds a bit weird and creepy, but if I 128 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: could watch you, if I could observe you do life, 129 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: If I could observe you do relationships and business and 130 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: work and interactions and you know, self management. And so 131 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: if I could watch you, I would have a really 132 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: good idea of who you were, how you are, and 133 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: what your values are. Now, if you were living in alignment, 134 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: I could watch you without even talking to you, and 135 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: I could accurately predict what your values are because how 136 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: you live, what you do, choices, actions, behaviors, how you 137 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: treat others, conversations, words, all of those things would be 138 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: reflective of what matters most to you, your values. So 139 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: what are your values? What are the things that for 140 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,119 Speaker 1: you really matter? So I think one of the great 141 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 1: exercises that we can do is to hit the pause button, 142 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: either metaphorically or literally, you know, find a quiet place, 143 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: turn off the phone, turn off the computer, get away 144 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: from the noise, get in nature, get by yourself somewhere. 145 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter as long as you have the ability 146 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: to be present and aware of the focus and to 147 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: think about your current operating system. We all have a 148 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: current operating system with your life, with your business, with 149 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: your health, with your marriage, with your career, with all 150 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: of the things that are the components of your operating 151 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: system on planet you, and as much as possible objectively 152 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: have a look at all of that stuff and say, 153 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: does that stuff align with who I want to be 154 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 1: and how I want to be? Is the way that 155 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 1: I do life reflective of my values, my internal sat nav. 156 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: Is the way that I do food and fitness and health. 157 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: Is that reflective of who I want to be and 158 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: how I want to be? Is the way that I 159 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: treat others? Is the way that I manage money, and 160 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,559 Speaker 1: so on and so on, And that gives us it's 161 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: almost like doing a stock take on our life. And 162 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: when we can get that clarity, I mean, it's hard 163 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: to get clarity. That's the other thing, because it's very 164 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: hard to be objective about the thing that you're in 165 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,719 Speaker 1: the middle of, right because it's your life, Like very 166 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: it's impossible for you to be objective about you because 167 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: you're you. Possible for me to be objective about me, 168 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: because I am me, of course, and that's a silly 169 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: thing to say. But what we're trying to do is 170 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: we're trying to find a little bit of space between 171 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 1: the groundhog daaness of what we do every day and 172 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: how we are every day and how we think every day, 173 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,959 Speaker 1: trying to get a bit of space between that and 174 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: us in the moment and say, Okay, what's going great, 175 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: what's not going great? What's that internal wisdom that, what's 176 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: that intuition, what's that internal sat nav saying to me? 177 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: What's going great? What's not going great? And what do 178 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: I need to change? Right, We're going to take a 179 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be back. I'm going to ask you 180 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: a question when we're going to wind up. Alright, we're back, 181 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: We're back, We're back. Lots to think about today. I 182 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 1: hope that resonated for you. I think sometimes, of course, 183 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: it's really important that we are logical and rational and 184 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: strategic and practical creatures because we live in a world 185 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: that requires that. But on a deeper level in terms 186 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: of deep satisfaction and happiness and joy and the absence 187 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: of anxiety and being the calm and the chaos, sometimes 188 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: the question that we need to ask ourselves, and this 189 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: is my question for you today, is what really matters 190 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 1: to me? What really matters to me, like really really 191 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: really matters to me when I get through all the bullshit, 192 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: what really matters to me? And is my life evidence 193 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 1: of those things that really matter? Am I living in alignment? 194 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: Love your guards, have a great day, see tomorrow.