I'll get everyone. I hope you're greats Now if I'm doing my maths right, well, I'm recording this on the twenty third. I think most of you will hear this on the twenty fourth Christmas Eve or at some stage from then on. Whenever you're hearing it, I hype you well, Happy Holidays, Happy Christmas, whatever it is that you celebrate what I've decided to do over this period time. Obviously,
I need a little bit of a break. I need to jump in the hammock, the metaphoric hammock, put my brain on a shelf for a week or two, recoup, recover, refresh, replenish all the things that I talk about. So what I've done is I've got a collection of let's call it repurposed content. Some of it is from the U Projects, some of it is from Life the podcast that I did for two hundred episodes last year at Daily Podcast. And I think it's kind of all apt and relevant for the end of the year, the start of a
new year. And they're just short, bite sized chunks of info, a little bit of education, a little bit of inspiration, a little bit of reflection, a little bit of provocation. Of course, because I'm me. But anyway, I hope you enjoy I hope you have a good break. I hope you find some downtime and maybe a little bit of time to reflect about as I record anyway this year twenty twenty four and what you might do be create, change, learn in twenty twenty five. Anyway, it's always a pleasure.
I appreciate your loyalty as listeners. I appreciate your feedback, positive and negative. I appreciate you being part of this tribe that we've created over six years and one thousand and seven hundred and something episodes. We're always learning here, We're always trying to do our best. I'm always trying to have great conversations. Sometimes to an extent, we're reinventing the wheel. But you know, the same principles and the same ideas and the same strategies and protocols to an extent,
are always going to be relevant. Think better, do better, create better, self awareness, self regulation, self management, taking ownership of what we do and what we don't do. And as always, next year twenty twenty five, I'm going to be cheering you on. Without further ado, here we go. So today I'm going to talk about a thing that I've spoken about many times on the You project, I haven't spoken about it for a little while. Is this idea of having an internal sat nav? We all have?
This is a term I use. I don't know if other people do. I'm sure they do somewhere, But for me, my internal sat Nav, and I believe we all have a version of this. My internal sat NAB is really the kind of the combination of my values, my beliefs, my dreams, the things that matter to me, and my I guess intentions like who I want to be, how I want to be, what I want to do, be, create, how I want to live my life, the things that matter to me. That is kind of that is what
makes up my internal sat nav. So for me, the internal sat Nav is kind of that wisdom that knowing. It's almost that higher level of consciousness that I think inhabits all of us where we know that we should do something or we shouldn't do something, even if we don't intellectually in the moment know why, even if it's not really perhaps a logical conclusion that we've arrived at, but rather it's a gut instinct. It's a deep seated knowing it's something that we're aware of from a cellular
level up. So for me, when I talk about my internal sat NAB, I'm often just really that's almost analogous with me talking about my values, my values being the things that matter to me. I believe that when we yes, we need to use our brain, and we need to use our intellect, and we need to be strategic, and we need to make great decisions, and we need to be very aware and practical with choices and behaviors and
actions and reactions. But I also think that sometimes we need to be still in present and aware of what is what do I know? What do I instinctively and intuitively know? What is that deep down kind of awareness or knowledge or truth that I am aware of that I need to tap into. I mean, I don't know why, but for example, for me, when I was young, I had an awareness do not even know why I had this awareness, but I had an awareness that boos and
drugs were not for me. Booze drugs and cigarettes. Now, I know that seems like an obvious thing to say, but I grew up in a place where virtually everybody drank. Eventually, a lot lot of people smoked, especially at the time when I grew up, more smoked than didn't, including both of my parents. Both of my parents drank. Both of my parents smoked daily on both accounts, and more and more as I grew up, more and more people used drugs.
And it wasn't that I ever had some terrible experience or some incredible encounter or some light bulb moment, But I always knew, and I had an instinctive kind of I guess understanding that if I personally this is what I think, if I ever opened the door on drugs or booze, I think it could have fucked up my life because I'm pretty manic, I'm pretty I can have
an addictive personality. And even though I didn't intellectually process it like that, I feel like if I had ever opened that door, it would have been trouble, all kinds of trouble for me. So when I think about coming back to you know, what are my values? My values are kind of they're the platform, I guess, or the
basis for my internal sat NAV. So for me, it's things like which sounds a bit naff, doesn't it, But it's true kind of service learning, helping others empowering others health physical, mental, emotional health, being of value to other people using my potential, being a lifelong learner, unlearning shit that I need to unlearn, but not wasting what I've been given. I feel like I've never been I was, never am not the person who is hugely talented. I
didn't have incredible potential. I was not a brilliant student or academic. I was not genetically gifted. But what I was, or what I am is I'm quite driven. So I've always been excited about human potential. I've always been excited about possibilities. I've always been excited about what I could do, be, create, change, learn, unlearn if I got out of my own way. So your internal that NAB is for you, it is hopefully it's going to be the platform from where you make
a lot of the big decisions in your life. For me and for most people that I've really kind of observed around this, when we have a life, and by that I mean the choices that we make, the decisions sorry the paths that we choose, the actions that we lean into, the relationships that we build, the words that we use when we have a life, which is consistent with and reflective of our internal sat nab, that intelligence, that wisdom. We tend to live experientially in a more
aligned place. And what that means is if I could It sounds a bit weird and creepy, but if I could watch you, if I could observe you do life, If I could observe you do relationships and business and work and interactions and you know, self management. And so if I could watch you, I would have a really good idea of who you were, how you are, and
what your values are. Now, if you were living in alignment, I could watch you without even talking to you, and I could accurately predict what your values are because how you live, what you do, choices, actions, behaviors, how you treat others, conversations, words, all of those things would be reflective of what matters most to you, your values. So what are your values? What are the things that for
you really matter? So I think one of the great exercises that we can do is to hit the pause button, either metaphorically or literally, you know, find a quiet place, turn off the phone, turn off the computer, get away from the noise, get in nature, get by yourself somewhere. It doesn't matter as long as you have the ability to be present and aware of the focus and to
think about your current operating system. We all have a current operating system with your life, with your business, with your health, with your marriage, with your career, with all of the things that are the components of your operating system on planet you, and as much as possible objectively have a look at all of that stuff and say, does that stuff align with who I want to be and how I want to be? Is the way that I do life reflective of my values, my internal sat nav.
Is the way that I do food and fitness and health. Is that reflective of who I want to be and how I want to be? Is the way that I treat others? Is the way that I manage money, and so on and so on, And that gives us it's almost like doing a stock take on our life. And when we can get that clarity, I mean, it's hard
to get clarity. That's the other thing, because it's very hard to be objective about the thing that you're in the middle of, right because it's your life, Like very it's impossible for you to be objective about you because you're you. Possible for me to be objective about me, because I am me, of course, and that's a silly
thing to say. But what we're trying to do is we're trying to find a little bit of space between the groundhog daaness of what we do every day and how we are every day and how we think every day, trying to get a bit of space between that and us in the moment and say, Okay, what's going great, what's not going great? What's that internal wisdom that, what's that intuition, what's that internal sat nav saying to me? What's going great? What's not going great? And what do
I need to change? Right, We're going to take a quick break. We'll be back. I'm going to ask you a question when we're going to wind up. Alright, we're back, We're back, We're back. Lots to think about today. I hope that resonated for you. I think sometimes, of course, it's really important that we are logical and rational and strategic and practical creatures because we live in a world
that requires that. But on a deeper level in terms of deep satisfaction and happiness and joy and the absence of anxiety and being the calm and the chaos, sometimes the question that we need to ask ourselves, and this is my question for you today, is what really matters to me? What really matters to me, like really really really matters to me when I get through all the bullshit, what really matters to me? And is my life evidence of those things that really matter? Am I living in alignment?
Love your guards, have a great day, see tomorrow.