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Profit in Peace 3: Asking Questions
Byjack
I just had a realization. I was thinking about what I “should” be doing in the mornings with this new blog commitment. But I think that EXACTLY what I “should” be doing.
I want to spend my time asking questions. And if an action speaks to me, I will do it.
In fact, this was a major technique in Connection Theory that I forgot about. Connection Theory is about understanding is the pathway to change.
One technique for understanding is to ask many many questions. Very good, specific questions. Questions that beget more questions.
Through questioning, we begin to understand.
Another technique I used to do was to ask myself questions. Imagine myself older and wiser, and come up with questions to ask my current day self, and then answer those questions.
Anyway, I have to transition to work, so this will have to wait for now.
Knee Strength 5: Awesome Progress
Byjack
So I developed a new exercise in the middle of this week, but didn’t have the time to post about it.
To summarize the exercise which I will call the weighted knee spacer:
- Use ankle weights, weighted shoes, or in this case, bands to pull on foot down
- Do heel raises with the other foot to elevate the weighted foot
- Keep the weighted foot as level as possible
I’m thinking this exercise is really useful in any scenario where I feel the knee is getting caught or stuck, which seems to happen a lot when there is any sort of bending exercises.
What I want to work on next is getting a full bend in my right knee without pain.
So it has been a full month now and I have not stopped this challenge yet or restarted jujitsu, but I think that is ok. I want to keep this challenge going until I can actually achieve the goals set in my original goals.
As a reminder, the goals are:
- Lift up my knee and bend it feeling stable, comfortable and strong. Getting there for sure!
- Stand for 5 minutes while feeling comfortable. Pretty much achieved this one!
- Lay on either side feeling comfortable and relaxed. I don’t lay much on either side, just on my back these days, will have to revisit.
- Sit on my heels while feeling comfortable and relaxed. Not even close on this one, probably need a full range of motion bend in my knee to be comfortable first.
- Be able to jump feeling stable, comfortable, and strong. Part of the way there on this one! I feel pretty stable.
- Able to kick a roundhouse while feeling stable, comfortable and strong. Not there yet but an improvement from before.
The Four Types of Videos
Byjack
Video Poem
- Voice over
- Travel video footage
- Motivational
- Life theories
- Strong feeling, music, sound design
- FOCUS: Capture emotion, explain something profound
How To
- Specific technique or method
- Life hacks, tricks for learning, dealing with stress and emotions
- Short and to the point
- FOCUS: Teach something useful for life
Challenge Video
- Apply life theories to something very difficult
- Show progress and journey
- Show how I achieved what I achieved and what I learned
- FOCUS: Show a journey of pursuing the impossible through real techniques and theories
Conversation/Discussion/Reaction Video
- Adding to some sort of larger discussion
- Could be talking to people in the video about an issue, reacting to another video, or just addressing my viewers like in a live stream
- FOCUS: Discuss and argue ideas and points
Profit in Peace 13: Peace Disrupted Again
Byjack
My peace is disrupted, again. Today I have to get up even earlier and start preparation for work even earlier because I have to travel, and get on the plane for an early morning flight.
I am frustrated because of the complete stinginess in the finances, I have a lot of stress in terms of asking for a better setup such as traveling the day beforehand.
As a result, I didn’t sleep very well (if at all), and now feel tired and stressed.
I have a couple of things working in favor today though:
- Because I woke up at 4:30 for a flight that boards at 6:40, I do have some nice free time in the morning where I can spend on myself and reconnecting with myself
- I get to do my favorite thing of sleeping on the plane
Howling Winds in My Heart
I feel the howling winds
In my heart
The internal blizzard
Unforgiving
Being buried my a mountain
Of worry
The pain of the winds
In my ears
Today I did this. I felt much better afterwards, especially after the breaths. Those are really important as I discovered with the Bea Mackay and Wim Hoff methods. Saying the “I Love You” felt strange, especially since I’ve been feeling that I don’t like my face recently, just thinking I gained too much weight, but saying them I think I did feel the anxiety go away and I feel much more at peace, less stressed about work and everything.
In fact, I feel like going back to sleep.
Video Making: A Breakthrough
Byjack
I just made a breakthrough in making videos and/or content in general.
I have huge anxiety and feelings of being overwhelmed when I make content because I want things to be perfect the first time, yet the thought of making it perfect feels like an impossible task.
I end up not making anything at all.
The question becomes, it is better to make a lot of bad content? Or very few good content?
The idea is probably to strike a balance. You don’t want to make tons of bad content because there is no point in making content if it is all bad. But at the same time, it is impossible to make perfect content because until you make bad or mediocre content, you will never learn how to be good.
I have an idea of how exactly to strike that balance….with time boxing.
With time-boxing content creation, you address both concerns at the same time, making content good but also not taking forever to make it.
I remember reading Alex Hormozi’s book $100 Million Dollar Leads, I was struck by this conundrum as well. He talks about making a lot of content, but at the same time he talks about how it has to provide a lot of value. He talks about giving away value for free and the more you give away the more leads you get. But I wonder, how do you address the fact that it can take too long to make all that value to give away?
Time boxing answers this question too.
Here is my formula:
- Set an amount of time you want to spend making the content
- Come up with a plan (syllabus method) if needed
- Create the content, for video focus not on what words you are saying but the emotions behind the words, they are far more important
- Use the remaining time however you feel makes the most sense
- One option is to spend the entire time editing.
- Another option is to spend it doing more takes, or gathering more footage.
- Either option is totally fine and can be a mix of both.
My big realization is this: I thought that I wanted to make really good content and was just too lazy or stressed out to do it. That isn’t true. I want to make really good content, but good content comes at a hidden cost…time. I need to balance the quality of the work with the amount of time I am willing to spend on it. It cannot take an infinite amount of time because that would mean I am getting less reps in.
It is all fine a good to give away tons of free value, but it is better to give away tons of free value while requiring a low time cost from you.
Knee Strength 3: Recovery and Mobility Exercises
Byjack
Today is all about recovery.
Strength seems to be half pressure/work and half recovery and growth. And today is a recovery day.
I’m quite pleased that I have a recovery day because I really need to comfort and soothe my knee a lot and I like exploring ways to do that.
It’s also interesting that my exercises are completely different from the knees over toes guy. Maybe at some point, they will converge when my knees get stronger.
Recovery Exercises:
- Gentle knee spacer
- One leg is straight and extended
- The other leg is lifted up gently to the side and slowly relaxed so there is space created in the joint
- Foot scrape
- One leg straight, the other leg lifted up
- Relax and let the lifted leg gently fall and scrape on the ground
- Repeat with both legs in all directions
- Bonus lying down comfort
- Crossing legs
- Bending legs