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#AndyTalks 028 - You can go slower than you think
A ramble along my favourite canal again...
I talk about:
TRANSCRIPTION by @Drive2Riches
(A member of) The Fast Lane Forum talked about the power he sees in video logging. Gary Vaynerchuk does an excellent video logging series called the DailyVee. I certainly didn't set off doing these Snapchat stories to do a vlogging series myself. I've been using Snapchat because I think it's a brilliant app for being able to create your snippets of video that can then post to here there and everywhere.
I help people with online marketing or business stuff that... I have coffees with business owners and I have these conversations so I should record them and make them more available. By the way after a while you realize a lot of these conversations you're having, some of the common recurring themes are more mindset stuff than marketing "how to" stuff to do with AdWords or websites or stuff like that.
Anyway, I've been saving these Snapchat stories every evening to my camera roll and uploading them to Dropbox, publishing some of them on YouTube. My original plan -- still the plan -- is to build up a bank of content, shout out to Joshua who recommended I do that. Get a bank of content that's built up from which I can extract little videos and then also I've got a lot of b-roll.
(It's) Interesting for me to go back through some of those days, like last week or the week before and try and find little bits to pull out and then kind of watch and listen to the things I was doing that day, struggling with or something I had to overcome.
(It's) quite an interesting thing this feed looking potentially, maybe my kids when they get older they can follow along and see what Daddy was up to. Wow, maybe it goes as far forward as Grandchildren looking at these vlogs. That would be amazing wouldn't it?
This is making me think of legacy stuff, longer term, really long term now. You know, like in the film Superman, where he throws that thing out into the ice and then his Dad's there talking to him. He's never met his Dad or wasn't old enough or wasn't ready for those lessons or for those messages. Gosh, I'm getting a bit morbid now aren't I?
It reminds me of that saying, "when you're ready the teacher appears." Actually just means the teacher was there all along you just weren't ready to hear it.
It's the same as somebody just trying to get started in business and trying to come up with an idea, find some opportunity. It's the sort of mindset where you think "opportunity only knocks once and when it does I have to grab it with both hands." Actually, opportunity is (all) around, if you're listening for it, it's like a drum role on your door. It's a drum role.
[Watches ducks] Always cracks me up when they do that. [laughs] Ducks, so funny.
Shout out to Liam actually, when last week I was talking about my cash going out quick because I've got sub-contractors. How some of my clients are on 30 day terms so my cash flow is a bit screwed up at the minute. Liam snapped me back and said he knows; he knows that feeling; he's been there before. He also said "You can go slower than you think". That's great advice. It was pretty timely for me as well, just to slow it down; don't get too far ahead of myself.
Sometimes you make much better progress when you're not in a rush, just nice and calm. I remember that in my teens when I was doing sprint training, the lad I trained with he was a 10.6 100 meter runner, I was an 11.6 100 meter runner. There was nothing I could do. The harder I tried to keep up with him the slower I'll go because I'll be working against myself.
I used to race around the countryside on a motorbike, scraping my knee sliders here, there and everywhere. I actually had to change vehicles from a sports bike to a different style of bike just to slow me down and then I really enjoyed it. I saw, wow, there's a castle, I never saw that before I was always haring it past. The guys I hung around with at the time, we were all a bit nuts; we were all talking about "getting your knee down" all the time.
After couple little accidents where I broke my collar bone etc. I remember meeting up with another guy, an older guy, John, and he says, "Andy, are you smooth? Are you smooth?"
Smooth?? What was he on about? What he meant was effortless, did anyone even notice you coming past. Could you do a tricky run through the countryside and never touch your brakes? Well I didn't use my brakes in the countryside anyway. I didn't use my brakes. (As a) road rider engine braking is the way to go, I'll talk about that another time why. But for John the ultimate compliment for a bike rider would be to go through town and never put your foot down. Look far enough ahead to see the red light to see the traffic to know where to position yourself and trickle up to the lights, have them go green just as you're pulling up. Off again. Smooooth, smooooth.
I remember doing that going through town on my big BMW GS. Sports bikes (overtaking me fast)... the past me ... I used to be like that! (Loud) exhaust, attention seeking. Look at me! Yeah! They would all pull up to the lights, I'd bimble up and take off just as it went green and I'd be ahead of them and they'd go -- rrrrr -- all the way through town. So they were barreling up to these lights and all it meant was they waited at the red light longer than me. Personally, I kind of worked out I like being on a motor bike for riding it, not for sitting at traffic lights. So what's the point of getting there early and waiting for thirty seconds?
I changed my goals. Instead of trying to get my knee down, I was trying to be smooth. I was trying never to put my foot down. I was trying to go as slow as I could and enjoy it. How slow could I go without stopping? Oh wow, that was a good game. I think it's a good game in business as well.
So, all you young guns, you can all rush off. I'll meet you at the traffic light. I'll beat you anyway.
(It's easy to) go fast, just do that [twists accelerator]. You can come a cropper mind. Get yourself into situations you didn't see coming as well and too fast for yourself.
(I talked) about Dennis Berkamp when he was playing for Arsenal being a man amongst boys because time slowed down when he got the ball.
Enough rambling my hands are cold holding the phone. I'm not going to do this with gloves, that would be a bit bizarre. I'm going to go get myself a coffee now.
That's a lot of school uniforms to iron. Dammit.
I've got a quick question. I know I can ramble, oh my goodness I do know that. Is that helping you? Maybe things would be better if I did a Q&A? If you sent me questions and I answered questions and rambled but I had a purpose for it? Let me know. There's my just sort of rambling and musing. Does that help you? Are you interested in it anyway and do you have any specific questions? I'll be using Periscope and Facebook Live soon enough to go deep into AdWords and online marketing and I want to keep adding value on Snapchat. I don't have many followers so I can answer questions you've got for me. Later on I might not be able to, so make the most of it now; ask me questions. Also yeah, let me know, am I rambling too much?
A ramble along my favourite canal again...
I talk about:
- Vlogging and legacy (@Mike Kavanagh really got me thinking in his thread ... thanks Mike).
- Riding motor bikes too fast.
- How changing my goal to "being smooth" helped.
- How someone advised me recently that you can go slower than you think.
TRANSCRIPTION by @Drive2Riches
(A member of) The Fast Lane Forum talked about the power he sees in video logging. Gary Vaynerchuk does an excellent video logging series called the DailyVee. I certainly didn't set off doing these Snapchat stories to do a vlogging series myself. I've been using Snapchat because I think it's a brilliant app for being able to create your snippets of video that can then post to here there and everywhere.
I help people with online marketing or business stuff that... I have coffees with business owners and I have these conversations so I should record them and make them more available. By the way after a while you realize a lot of these conversations you're having, some of the common recurring themes are more mindset stuff than marketing "how to" stuff to do with AdWords or websites or stuff like that.
Anyway, I've been saving these Snapchat stories every evening to my camera roll and uploading them to Dropbox, publishing some of them on YouTube. My original plan -- still the plan -- is to build up a bank of content, shout out to Joshua who recommended I do that. Get a bank of content that's built up from which I can extract little videos and then also I've got a lot of b-roll.
(It's) Interesting for me to go back through some of those days, like last week or the week before and try and find little bits to pull out and then kind of watch and listen to the things I was doing that day, struggling with or something I had to overcome.
(It's) quite an interesting thing this feed looking potentially, maybe my kids when they get older they can follow along and see what Daddy was up to. Wow, maybe it goes as far forward as Grandchildren looking at these vlogs. That would be amazing wouldn't it?
This is making me think of legacy stuff, longer term, really long term now. You know, like in the film Superman, where he throws that thing out into the ice and then his Dad's there talking to him. He's never met his Dad or wasn't old enough or wasn't ready for those lessons or for those messages. Gosh, I'm getting a bit morbid now aren't I?
It reminds me of that saying, "when you're ready the teacher appears." Actually just means the teacher was there all along you just weren't ready to hear it.
It's the same as somebody just trying to get started in business and trying to come up with an idea, find some opportunity. It's the sort of mindset where you think "opportunity only knocks once and when it does I have to grab it with both hands." Actually, opportunity is (all) around, if you're listening for it, it's like a drum role on your door. It's a drum role.
[Watches ducks] Always cracks me up when they do that. [laughs] Ducks, so funny.
Shout out to Liam actually, when last week I was talking about my cash going out quick because I've got sub-contractors. How some of my clients are on 30 day terms so my cash flow is a bit screwed up at the minute. Liam snapped me back and said he knows; he knows that feeling; he's been there before. He also said "You can go slower than you think". That's great advice. It was pretty timely for me as well, just to slow it down; don't get too far ahead of myself.
Sometimes you make much better progress when you're not in a rush, just nice and calm. I remember that in my teens when I was doing sprint training, the lad I trained with he was a 10.6 100 meter runner, I was an 11.6 100 meter runner. There was nothing I could do. The harder I tried to keep up with him the slower I'll go because I'll be working against myself.
I used to race around the countryside on a motorbike, scraping my knee sliders here, there and everywhere. I actually had to change vehicles from a sports bike to a different style of bike just to slow me down and then I really enjoyed it. I saw, wow, there's a castle, I never saw that before I was always haring it past. The guys I hung around with at the time, we were all a bit nuts; we were all talking about "getting your knee down" all the time.
After couple little accidents where I broke my collar bone etc. I remember meeting up with another guy, an older guy, John, and he says, "Andy, are you smooth? Are you smooth?"
Smooth?? What was he on about? What he meant was effortless, did anyone even notice you coming past. Could you do a tricky run through the countryside and never touch your brakes? Well I didn't use my brakes in the countryside anyway. I didn't use my brakes. (As a) road rider engine braking is the way to go, I'll talk about that another time why. But for John the ultimate compliment for a bike rider would be to go through town and never put your foot down. Look far enough ahead to see the red light to see the traffic to know where to position yourself and trickle up to the lights, have them go green just as you're pulling up. Off again. Smooooth, smooooth.
I remember doing that going through town on my big BMW GS. Sports bikes (overtaking me fast)... the past me ... I used to be like that! (Loud) exhaust, attention seeking. Look at me! Yeah! They would all pull up to the lights, I'd bimble up and take off just as it went green and I'd be ahead of them and they'd go -- rrrrr -- all the way through town. So they were barreling up to these lights and all it meant was they waited at the red light longer than me. Personally, I kind of worked out I like being on a motor bike for riding it, not for sitting at traffic lights. So what's the point of getting there early and waiting for thirty seconds?
I changed my goals. Instead of trying to get my knee down, I was trying to be smooth. I was trying never to put my foot down. I was trying to go as slow as I could and enjoy it. How slow could I go without stopping? Oh wow, that was a good game. I think it's a good game in business as well.
So, all you young guns, you can all rush off. I'll meet you at the traffic light. I'll beat you anyway.
(It's easy to) go fast, just do that [twists accelerator]. You can come a cropper mind. Get yourself into situations you didn't see coming as well and too fast for yourself.
(I talked) about Dennis Berkamp when he was playing for Arsenal being a man amongst boys because time slowed down when he got the ball.
Enough rambling my hands are cold holding the phone. I'm not going to do this with gloves, that would be a bit bizarre. I'm going to go get myself a coffee now.
That's a lot of school uniforms to iron. Dammit.
I've got a quick question. I know I can ramble, oh my goodness I do know that. Is that helping you? Maybe things would be better if I did a Q&A? If you sent me questions and I answered questions and rambled but I had a purpose for it? Let me know. There's my just sort of rambling and musing. Does that help you? Are you interested in it anyway and do you have any specific questions? I'll be using Periscope and Facebook Live soon enough to go deep into AdWords and online marketing and I want to keep adding value on Snapchat. I don't have many followers so I can answer questions you've got for me. Later on I might not be able to, so make the most of it now; ask me questions. Also yeah, let me know, am I rambling too much?
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