SNM119: When the Power Goes Out

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It's kind of the only time I can get enough quietness to give you the water they want. But tonight I'm recording a 30 at night. It's nearly pitch black out, and what's so strange is that on an island where print everything stops when the sun goes down, the background noise is still pretty loud. So there's a little bit of road noise. Not too many mean there's not concept cars going by, but there was the occasional motorcycle. I'll do my best to give you a great audio experience, but it just happens, right? Life happens and you can only do your best to adapt. But this morning it was so weird. I got up early to record. I missed a few days recently, so I you know, I have to stay a few days. I had to have time to edit each episode, and I came up this morning at 5 p.m. And there it's pitch black out. The sun doesn't rise to about six. And they were about 10 people eating a really large breakfast by the pool. And they were really, really loud, so I couldn't record. I've never seen that before. I don't know why they were up so early. I tried to ask my wife and she had no idea. She was also baffled by what anyone get up so early and went outside in the dark. But that's what was happening, so I couldn't record this morning. Now, today's episode is all about dealing with nature. Where I live, it's kind of on the edge. The power goes out pretty frequently. We have a generator here. Now that's all the reasons I live in this location. The last place I was living before had a generator, but it wasn't big enough to handle everything, so they would just turn on one of the lights and one fan in the house. You couldn't have the air conditioning God or Internet when the power went out. So now we have a little bit more endurance. But the power doesn't go out of the inner goes out sometimes. Just tonight I was working and then it went out for an hour. Now I have to Internet connections. That makes you think, Well, you're probably fine. Last week, both Internet connections and we even try to third order out for about three days. So sometimes these things happen, And how can we keep going for how we maintain our business? Steam our momentum and I've been through the last month a typhoon, a cyclone, a couple of tropical storms all these different events now, only one of the typhoon's was enough that I changed my behavior. Normally, I can pretty much ignore the Trop of weather, but the typhoon was landing right on top of our house. It was only a level once I wasn't too worried, but for an hour we did all go into the Children's bedroom and put a mattress in from the window and just endure that. So there was one hour was a little bit intense, but those typhoon is basically a hurricane, but it's spinning the other direction at once clockwise ones counterclockwise. That's actually the difference, and I can't remember which one's which. But otherwise they're exactly the same. It's only the difference of the spin. So in here, Typhoon, you can think hurricane and those ones you hear, like where they destroy the whole city. Those aren't level one to level 34 and five in love with three, that's We start getting nervous and little five, you gotta run for the hills. Little five is like a CE high as they go, so that's as bad as it can get. But what all these things happened, How do you keep going. And so I've had to develop some structures. I think you're very valuable. And for you, it might not be that the power goes out. Sometimes you're just in a situation where you can't work because of different reasons. You're not near your computer or maybe you're somewhere loud or all these everything's had happened until the first thing to keep with you is a notebook and a pen. I actually keep two notebooks with me all the time. I have a couple of the notebooks. I used my copyrighting training, but I have two primary work notebooks. The one I have in my lap right now. I'm sitting out on my deck. I have my podcasting notebook, every single episode of the podcast I block out in my notebook. Now, sometimes I have an article that I've saved in my iPad, and I use that as a reference. We're a topic. Sometimes when I want to talk about stuff, I see a really good article that has, like, a bullet point list or something. But most of the time I'm using my notebook, and so when the power was out, I can sit down and start blocking out and doing some planning. So what I like to do is plan out a lot of podcast episodes into the future. So right now I have fully outlined this episode of the next one of your online in my notebook what I want to talk about and then the two After that, I just have the titles, the rough titles. So after I finished recording the session, the next time I plan my notebook, I'll start writing out my next couple ideas for topics. Ah, lot of the ideas I have that I think that really great. I'll look back on my notebook two days later. I'm like, I hate that idea. I don't want to talk about that. I don't think it's a good podcast episode. Last week I put out probably three of the best episodes that I'll ever do in this podcast, all in a row last Thursday, Friday and then this Monday. So I did how to make $1000 a month how to make more than $1000 a month, and then my interview with George Harding, which I'm so proud of because he's so brilliant and been so successful. Building a podcast is getting 2.5 million downloads a month, one of the biggest podcast in the world. You can't get on this podcast anymore. I've been on it twice. Back when he was kind of up and coming, I would never be invited as a guest on it. These days I'm not nearly the level is looking for, and I totally get that. And that's okay, he released. But the 10 years building up one specific thing. He interviews generals. You basically have to have ah well published book through a large company or have a television show. So you have to be that level of celebrity to be worth his time because he's grown so big from when he started out interviewing friends to growing something massive with his weekly show on DDE. Having put together like content, I outlined those 1st 2 episode totally in my notebook. So I have a really deep outline of the $1000 a month episode and the more than 1000 our month episode. I wrote those without any electronics. Just my pen in my notebook and that's really what you could do is a lot of outlining your ideas with my other notebook. I write down a lot more business structures if you're a member of one of my coaching groups. I did a webinar last week where I showed a couple of my mind maps. No, actually, my mom's I showed a couple of my graphs that show flows of traffic like how someone buys a book and then they see this email. Then they see this offer structure of a business. I write those out of my notebook all the time, So every time I'm working on a new product, I write it down in my other notebook. So when the power goes out, I can sit down with that notebook and I think about some ideas. I say What's really especially what places I get Stuck is coming up with a really good ways to beef up the value of an offer. That's what I spent a lot of time outlining. I think What could I do to really increase the value to the audiences product and part of that I actually outlined my idea? Waas. It goes back to something I saw recently, so if you really follow me, I know some people really, really do. I recently added to start here page to my website about a month ago. I've been thinking about for years of pressure a lot longer, a lot sooner, but it kinda gives a place. We will start each topic now. My start here, Paige needs to eight other pages. So I kind of say, What do you really want to learn about? What are the topics most interested in? And right now, they just lied to all the Block Post episodes on those topics, which is OK, but I'm making custom pages, and I realized that as much as I have content, that kind of dances around how to make $1000 a month, and that's what I want People be able to do that. That's the first thing that I want to teach people that I didn't codify into clear enough way. So I thought about creating something that would really beef up the value of words to profit, but also that I could just give away and I wanted to make a page has a lot of material, so I've actually recorded to podcast episodes. I recorded a 45 minute training video, and I've written 200 block post. So it's a five part series with different types of content that all go in a row to really walking through, building a business that if you stick with it the 1st 1 to make 1000 or $2000 I don't think sure that there's a dogfight now. Gore's because I'm outside at night. There's like five dogs fighting each other. So get I'm adapting to what happens. I'm adapting environment. So building out that plan I wrote that all out of my notebook before I did anything with the website. With anything online, I wrote out all my ideas and my map. So I find outlining the notebooks very useful. Yes, I do a lot of my method on the computer. I do a lot of stuff I've had, but I really find a lot of value in structuring things in a notebook. So it's worth having some tools you can use when the power goes out. Because guess what, your pens never run out of batteries. You're you can always use your notebook. These tools are very useful, and I keep them with me all the time. I know that as someone who's like futuristic. You expect me to take all my notes and outlined everything I do in my phone, but I don't for certain tasks. I really like to use my notebook. I would never write a podcast outline in my computer. I can't even imagine doing that. The thought of having, um, Alan run that way, even though I eventually have to generate show notes. The download A. Pdf to come in this episode. It's just not how I approach. It's just not how I want to do things. So my mind. Once I develop a system, that's what I d'oh. The second thing you could do the second tool when the power was out or when you're away from your main office, you could still work is using your phone. You can record video and audio with your phone. You can take notes. There are so many different tools now. It depends of the units working out. If your phone is working in front of Internet than you could do a lot of cool things, you could write block posts. You could do live stream you can use your phone is a total business tool. Now my phone where I live where I'm so remote. If the Internet's out to the house and the inner talked to my phone. However, when I was in Thailand last month or a couple months ago, now it's been a couple months. I was able to just crank out videos and upload them straight from my phone because the Internet, their infrastructure so strong when you're in the capital in Bangkok, just the cellphone. Internet's faster than most people at home in America. They have a really great infrastructure. One of the advantages of smaller country geographically is that they could be more agile with technology change for America to do it. Infrastructure change. It's huge because we have hundreds of millions of people. The country is so massive, we can't even build a working train light right now. But for smaller countries, you could make really big changes very quickly. I was recent talking to someone from Lithuania, and he said, Our whole country has high speed in it. Free on why, if I have what hasn't free no password, no log and nothing, there was a lot of country that they conclude quickly, adapt like some cities do. Some cities have really raining at some don't. But that's one of the advantages of really great infrastructure. So you might be able to use your phone Internet at upload videos, right block post. Draw those things. But if you can't, you can still accomplish a lot. You could still record videos they're going to use later. You can still make notes. You can still create outlines you can still use. My lapping tools are a lot of things you could do with your phone that it could become a really, really powerful tool. Most of us we either see the phone as something we just used to call people, and that's it. It's just a communication device. And then a lot of people we just have, like thousands of APS, and we see our phone as an entertainment console. It's very hard to shift your mindset when you have something that's purely for entertainment to shifting to the business mindset. Now my computer that I do all my work on, I often times see an ad for a game, for example. I like to play those civilization games. I haven't played me, I say I like to play. I haven't played one in like three or four years, but I used to enjoy them on a previous computer. When I think about putting a game of my computer, now go that space on my hard drive that I could use to record more videos and my computer If it's on and working, I see it totally is a tool side for me. I don't mix games and business for any games I want to play. I only plan the PlayStation and I don't do work on the PlayStation, so my mind is very able to delineate those things. So my phone, it's a little bit harder because it's very hard to have your phone. That's totally business. You have a game on your phone when you're bored. You played at a bus stop waiting for a meeting. We text people. We get you set so it's a little harder. But it's good to have a group of APS that you can use for business for the different things you do. In fact, I could run the majority my business to my phone. I have a go to weapon. A rabbi could run my coaching calls. I have Skype on my phone. I have Basically I can access the back into my website. Probably there will be a little bit hard because of some complicated setups, so I couldn't do everything as far as building my website. But I could certainly write block posts. No problem to my phone. There's a lot of things you can do right now. I'm outside sitting on my porch. All I have is my little road microphone, my little road lapel microphone and my phone, and I record those episodes. All I need to record a podcast episode so you can do a lot of your ideas with your notebook, and you could actually create content quite easily with your phone. I really like creating audio content. Actually, the challenges just it's I can't even explain it because there's so few people on my island. There's more people in most city blocks in America than there are in the entire island. And yet somehow there's whatever I'm recording. Someone always walks by shouting. Since I've started this recording, at least six or seven people walk by shouting, I would try and edit them all out, but it just happens. So that's one of my big challenges and you know it's the price of living in paradise. Look at me complaining off. I live on the beach in paradise. It's a little bit too loud, but I want to give you a great user experience. I have another daughter, and there's the second dog fight of the night. This is why I recorded 5 a.m. There's not as many dogfights, but like I said, those people were right outside on my porch, just being so loud. But when you were, the power's out of your limited look to the other tools you have. You can also use the audio recorder. I actually have loads, they said, with those Olympus pocket recorders have been through probably 10 generations of those. When I was in college, I had when you put little tapes into record stuff, if you have a camcorder or if you just have a point and click camera, you can even shoot videos on those. Almost all of those now could shoot high enough quality video to look great on YouTube. So thinking outside the box one of the great things what I what I like about when the power goes out is that it gets quiet it's actually finally quiet. I live with the power's out. There's not enough Wow, 1/3 dogfight all in the course of this 25 minute episode the short podcast episode. But you can have a really great recorder and record audio. Whatever you want to force your phone could do that as well. And for me, I don't mind map on my phone because the screen's too small, but you can certainly do that on. And I've had I actually used iPad Mini. Basically, my wife and my daughter have taken over the I've had a full size one the way that I have. So the iPad Mini and my iPad mini. It's like five or six years old. There has been any reason updated in that time. It has the simple mind mapping program I like, and I've actually mind maps of my biggest products on it. Some of the biggest crocs have ever released were originally my mapped on that simple I've had. So sometimes it helps to look at things in a different way, and two little bit think outside the box and remember, Hey, I don't need the power on, And even if all my battery's got. I can still get things done. Planning and outlining is very, very valuable having a structure and an idea for what you're gonna do for the rest of the month. Having idea for the products, you're gonna work on our outlining the books that you want to write very, very valuable. And on a core level, I'm just a big fan of notebooks or so that much value from that as a talked about in the past. And I have a whole downloadable. Pdf What you could also print off if you want to get go to copyrighting. And if you want to start getting paid big money to write sales letters and write commercials and have fun doing that, get a bunch of old books or old ads, and I've got, like, 1000 pages of ads you can download in a pdf on the copy page. Help you out. If you want to learn cop writing without spending any money or buying, of course, get a notebook and you just copying letter after letter into it. And if you want to become a writer, if you're hitting a wall with your writing style or creativity, you show you're not a good enough writer. Take a really great book and copied by hand. You can definitely take. There's some really great authors that you could use. Um, Hemingway is worth copy of my hand because he really mastered the art of writing eloquently. But for the common man, that's what he really developed. Books before him were really targeted fancy people, so the language was much more flowery and sentences really long pay master the art of writing well that everyone could read. That's kind of what Hemingway did. That's why people are in Thomas, every American author. I'm not a big fan of like Old Man to see for the book. I don't really enjoy it. Maybe I just missed it. But his writing style, Aiken say. And it certainly worked cause he kind of changed the way America others right in the last 100 years. So don't think of the power out or whether or traveling as these limitations, you can continue to run your business and make things happen. I keep my candle to me all the time. In fact, my Kimble use it so much that it's about to die. I have to buy a new Kindle next month. When I'm in America, I'm actually gonna buy replacement. Wanna have? I don't need a more fancy one. I need the exact same one. I might even get a down model. Get a lesser model because this has some features that I don't use. But it's another great device where I can do a lot of research. Now the great thing about the kendo with a three G because I travel so much is that wherever you go in the world, I can download books. It does have the ability to grab Internet in every single country, and that's pretty cool. But I'm very rarely in that situation where because I'm not jumping country country. So this is some of the ways that when the power goes out, you can continue to build and grow your business. I really recommend. And even if you don't have the power, what it still helps to sometimes work away from the computer spending so much time in front of computer can cause you to lose focus. I have problems with my eyes. I wear special computer glasses and I still if I'm at the computer too long my eyes will start to hurt. So I want to spend as much time as I can away from the computer while working. And these are great ways to accomplish stuff. If you're doing a lot of networking or doing a lot of connecting, you can do phone calls without being near the computer you could become. Somebody's a lot of phone calls. One of the people I work with, he even first computer. He has a headset on like a 30 foot wire, so he's always walking. But he's on the phone. That's how he does his health stuff as well. I just want to play some seeds and your head today to realize that these little things that could become a block don't have to be. What happens to me more from the power going out is a direct going out and some of the air it goes out. I can't get anything done that can't do what I wanted to do today. That's what I hate. Once I want to finish something in the day. I hate when I can't. It's hard for me to shift gears, but sometimes we have to. You can't do anything power without Internet goes out, it's just life. And when that happens, for example, I'll start working on outline or I can write a book. I'm the middle of editing, re editing and finalizing a book. I know I'm supposed to come out like to once I've just been so distracted. The book's been 70% done, it's been written. I'm only 7% through the final edit that far along the path if I just could have three days was the only thing. I was working a lot. I could put the book out this weekend, but again, there's so many projects, things coming in. But whenever I get distracted, wherever the power was out, I go back to reading that book. I like to put in about an hour a day. So the slow getting closer and closer I'll be done probably by the end of the month. But we can have projects that we shift to you. Okay, this is when the inner goes out. I work on this. I work on slide design or I write I block out ideas or work on my mind maps. I don't always need to be logged on my website and doing that part. So finding tests you can do there don't require everything that could be very helpful so you can adapt to change in life with the power was out of the inner goes out. I'm with the lighting or your battery dies or all of these different things. You don't something about a business just like I talk about avoiding having a single financial point of failure. One of my friends, one of actually original mentors, was so successful, and now he's in a whole lot of trouble because this whole business depend on at one point of failure that I was always worried about get a single source of customers. He was getting huge number of customers, but in that particular source, the place he was getting, his customers went out of business. That source disappeared, and now his business is basically gone. And just like that can happen. We have a single point of failure for your business. I want you to have multiple ways to work so that you don't have a single point of failure. Do you work in my laptop died. I wouldn't go out of business. I would still be able to work. Obviously, I have my old laptop my wife uses. You know, I would hate to go back to because it's so slow and it's like 10 years old. It's six or seven years old, was quite old. I changed a lot, changed computers, like every three years. I don't change all the time, But even if that didn't work, I could still use my phone or my. I've had to do a lot of my work, have the ability to get a lot of things done using other pieces, technology or adapting. And so I want you to always think, Do I have points that are single point of failure if the owner goes out for a day, so I go out of business. If I was powerful day, do I get a business now? If the owner goes out for a week, you obviously got to do something this it's hard to overcome that big of a thing. When both my inner channels were out last week, I started looking at plane flights. I said off the air doesn't go back. Come back in three days, I'm gonna have to fly to another part of the country and I'll just go away for a week, come back. Hopefully everything will be fine because it can't have no in. And I can't be unreachable in unable to check email and communicate with you. Guys are unable to upload podcast episodes. Nobody wants that. I want to upload these and record. There's just so much you want to listen to them. So it's important. So I can't go flying for too long, but two or three days I can endure. I don't like what happens very much. I do get a couple of Scott measure. Okay, where've you been wearing? Answer my questions and there I was, and sorry I was in Typhoon Apologize, but don't happen. We have pretty frequent iPhones here, so sometimes we have to adapt to those things. So these airways that you continue thriving and growing your business even when the power goes out. Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Serve No Master. 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