#1991 Design & Life Experience - Geoff Jowett

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How do I get the most out of me? How do I get the most out of my genetics and my skill and my potential and my resources. How do I optimize me? And what does that mean for me? So, how do you when it comes to you managing you? Because you've changed your operating system, You've changed your paradigm completely.

doesn't happen. Right, So last week, bit of a it's not a bogy thing I made. I had to get the ears drained, ladies and gentlemen. It turns out I got narrow ear canals from surfing. That's a thing if you've ever surfed a lot. But I'd put off going to the doctor for a while, harps, because I moved out here in the rural areas. So asie, Jeff, this is a dead set, you know, for a smart blake does dumb things at times, or a bit of a back end, a compliment and a self there, but let's

move on. But what I did, I did a bit of a diy job on unblocking the years and lo and be old made it fucking worse. Don't stick cotton buds in your ears. It's like this gym and it in there. We all know it. But I thought I was I thought I was better. I thought I could a guy for it, and I thought I could just get the angles right and hot water and this at motherfucking board. Next minute I'm underwater and the head's about to explode. And so I'd put off going to the

doctor because I'd moved. I didn't have a new die that of bloody, I'm going to fill out the form Spanish inquisition, et cetera. Are we go? Love turns out lovely drained it boom, Happy days, rock and roll. So that was a big part of why I was a bit flat. And one of my dogs, Lucy bless her, the Scottish terrier full Moon. I think she thought it was daylight or there were lots of rabbits around that she could see at night, so she thought she'd go up to eight Fagan's Road and let them know what

was going on at midnight. And so had a bit of all that going on to I'm having a week. I was going to recharge. I was getting that way anyway, and you just call it right. So me back in those days of vision, pt, body trim whatever, I literally thought, this is so it's madness. It's just madness. I thought I could never take a week off, like you've got to work a whole because you've got no life. I

say business as a vehicle to build your life. It's not your life, but so many times it becomes your life, and it too. You are identity theft, I call it because it steals your identity and and but I just call it. And every every single plan of mine and speaking jobs that I had, I moved and whatnot. Everyone's got massive respect legend mate, like they take lessons and learnings out of that. If I'm not rocking up my best, I'm not rocking up. It's real fucking simple life. Well,

I was thinking about this this morning making a coffee. Harps. Think about your thread astare to your lovely head of hair that you've got at nearly sixty. And I was thinking about this as well. I was thinking that life can be absolutely beautiful magic if we do not if we do not break a few a few rules. If you say you're going to do something, even if it's in passing, you fucking do it. Doesn't have to be a contract, doesn't need to be written in blood, but

you do it. You don't break some absolute rules, and life gets better and better and better and better. You never compromise your integrity. You're playing to an audience of one yourself. If you say you're going to do it, you do it. If you're not at your best, you don't do it. You put your hand up and your life gets better and better. But you start to compromise that kind of what you said sort of but not really or what not, life gets really hard, really fast.

And your business might still be growing, and then it gets even harder because it's not built right. And one of the keys on that for me is so the self managing monitoring thing is all about awareness and how you're tracking and where you're at and for me, what are we in may I've been at it for a bit. It's a time for a week off anyway, recharge and now brand new, and that's great, but like you've got to do that because you if you rock up underdone

like you're not doing anyone any favors. And I'm sort of not really defined by anything. But if I was to be defined by something, it'd be being at my best. When I commit to doing something that's critical, right, the rest takes care of itself. Like the better I am today, the better my life tomorrow. Not the shitter today the better tomorrow. It's contradiction in terms, right, So we've got to be better where we are. It's like building a

house into a village each brick. If you do it really well, which I assume you should or would, then the wall will be good, the house will be good, the village you'll be meant. But if you're good frustrated that you've got to build houses to get the village done, the old thing is going to fucking fall down on you, like brick by brick, without a doubt, as silly as it sounds, but we forget that in the relentless pursuit of more destination addiction.

totally different. So I can serve my energy to deliver optimally to that platform at that time.

I don't want to hand one more person of fucking dumbbell and I'm done.

next door. Bless him. When the bloody wind blows all the shitty beads or whatever they are, the pedals or they blow into his joint, they start cropping up and they're a pest. And Alan said, make no pressure. But if you want to look, I know you love all that stuff made. I'll get rid of them. I'm having the week off. Boom down. I went anyway, So hi Achriever syndrome one O one went down to cut out three inverted commas trees, weeds whatever they are, with my

trusty axe and Lucy by my side. And next minute of dead set cut down after Bilanglo State Forest. I've got to send you a photo, fucker now made. It's like high achieve syndrome one O one and on. But here's the thing, right, Yeah it was, and I was, yeah, oh you're a funny fuck.

do it. I'm doing you know, I enjoy that stuff. Lucy gets to run around. It gives me a glimpse of what life was probably like hundreds of years ago, with your working dog by your side and bloody bliss. It's joy, it's gratitude, it's everything. But my brain is totally consumed in that project, in that task, and that this is what I've come to believe right that gives me deep meaning and purpose in my life at that moment.

And we are we've been conditioned or definitely I read and heard and you know it's you've got to find your overarching purpose. I call bullsh on that, because we don't live in an overarching world. We live in now. And what I've come to believe is that when we learn how to find deep meaning and purpose in now with what we're doing by way of tasks and projects, that is the catalyst to give to build a purposeful life, a purpose driven life, not seeking purpose into the future,

but finding it where you are. And it's in doing those things that I get in this incredibly deep sense of purpose and meaning in my life. And I get goosebumps when I talk about it, which to me says it's a profound truth. I believe that. And because you're so in it, you're not defined by it. It's not any nothing, no one, It just you are so consumed in it. And then you walk and then like you

come and I'm sweating bullets or sweating coat bottles. You go down there with like gloves on burnies, two jumpers, whatever, twenty minutes it shirts off. I'm sweating bullets and I come up a few hours later, I'm walking up through the paddocks and one of my horses he tripped over a heel. I'm laughing at him, like fuck' good on you for I'm like just laughing looking he didn't fall over,

but he just tripped and just was funny. And then I look over and there's Lucy full throttle, little Scottish terrier coming up because she I've been down there for three hours. She realized I left. She She's coming up full speed. She's low wheel based, the Scottish terrier full and she went to go under the bottom railing of the fence and clipped the head and it was like she was fine, but it was like in rugby league it's the HIA, the head injury assessment, so on there

like Lucy's off to the HIA. I'm just laughing at my own jokes. It's probably why I'm a recluse, keep myself amused and over in a chuckle. And the horse tripped over and she hit her head and it's just there. Good's there. And I've been chopping down trees at most people go, oh fuck that No one's paying me spot the irony, folks, right, that's where the juice and the magic is. And something that I really short change myself when in my twenties and thirties because I was told

to outsource all the low in the low dollar producing work. Sure, when you're scaling a business and you're the CEO, you're not planning the dunnies five times a day. Obviously captainN omnious,

but to a point not your fault. If you outsource all of the manual tasks, you short change yourself on life and joy and purpose in the now because I because I get burnt out like I did the week before, laugh, when I'm doing too much thinking from across fifty businesses a week which I am strategically, like, my brain just breaks, it breaks. I couldn't turn off my head by the end of that week, Like I just need, like I need a week off throwing the blocked ears and whatnot.

And it was tying of arrest. But like the thing is, you've got to do this stuff, and then you optimize yourself to be more effective in the high dollar producing work, but just all high dollar producing use of your time. In my humble opinion, is not what optimizes you. So I do a few bit now. If I was chopping down trees every day, it'll be horrible, But once every few months it's very, very rewarding.

because I mean and one of the other. Here's my next long winded question. Like we talk so much in mental health now about the importance of connection and the importance of having other people around us and feeling loved and valued and belonging. It almost seems like that doesn't apply to you.

It's a really interesting one because whatever you know, that word or anything of that ilk right, it changes everything because you know, there's nothing more lonely than being around people that you don't gel, that you're not aligned with. That's where your loneliness is. If you're not aligned, you got to be an alignment. The majority of people are in ahead thinking about yesterday and tomorrow and problems and what if scenario is right, there's no connection there anyway.

So for me, you've got For me, it's got to be people who are aligned and are comfortable in themselves and that they're not like paralyzed by head noise and whatnot. And then that's great. But for me, I don't feel lonely because it's it's hard to talk about because it's it just gets there's so much bullshit in that sort of energy frequency spiritual world. Like I never really go into it because I just call bullshit on a lot of you know, people's behaviors that wax lyrical about it.

But like you, I look at the animals. I just look at there's a lot. There's a life force and energy to life, and you're connected to that. Now, part of that are humans and human experiences, but that's part of it, it's not all of it. It's not all of it. And you know there's such there's an energy to this life human experience, and the more conscious I believe you become, you feel that you're a part of that, and there's a oneness to it that I don't. Yeah,

it's different. I don't like social interactions, parties and all that and everyone. That would drain the fuck out of me. I'd need to sleep for a week now. Like it's just different. It's like I can't it's fully understand it or explain it. But I like talking to people like yourself and known for a long time and that nothing approved and we have a chatting But I don't have a craving or a whole like avoid in my life for shitloads of people, if that makes any sense at all.

What I do know about animals right is that I just love the beauty and the magic of life without humans over with, you know, fucking it up and over complicating it. So animals are always present and grateful, you know, and you get what you're in your environment, So I stack the deck. They're always present, they're always grateful, and you know a lot of humans are generally not present and not grateful, right, So I'm not shiit Kenny humans

being one of them. But you know, we're defective products. If we were to corollas, we wouldn't have come off the production line me as well, all of us, right we are, We've got these I believe the human condition at this point in our evolution, like it's like we've got this big brain, this f one engine, we haven't learned how to drive it properly. That's what I believe me. You're doing the PhD, so you know a lot more

about it than I would. But I believe our brains are like we've got to learn how to turn them on and off. And people haven't been taught. And I had to teach myself. Right, like you said, at the start, I was float as attacked thought, but this boat's depresses is going to be shit? Should we rain check? Next minute? We're on right. So that's you've got to learn how to turn it on, turn it off, up, down, Hi, go up and down the gears as needed, on demand.

It's a discipline in your mind, not being a slave to your mind. Right, the mind or the monkey brain. It's going to do all sorts of stuff if you let it, if you don't know how to reset it. And like some of that stuff, chopping down trees, time with the animals and whatnot. That's my medicine, that's my drug. Like the other night I was I ride horses at night now in the arena and there's no one there.

It's heaven. There's two little birds that sleep in one of the grooming bays, right up on a ledge and the mate. It melts my heart. These animals, the magic, the beauty and the peace of life when it's silent and you're just a part of it and they're comfortable with you around. The little birds don't even leave when I'm right near him. Now it's great. And one of the horses I was putting back in the stable and

she dropped a carrot on the ground. It was pitched black in this table and I am there like her head's down at my hip and we're both sort of on the ground almost looking for this carrot in the dark. It was just beautiful and this horse is massive. But there's such a connection bond love that there's you just this trust bond that you build with the animals over to that you've got to earn. You can't buy, you can't fake, you can't fast track, you can't intellectualize the

trust the consistent. I love that, and I love that in people as well, of course. But in getting back to your question, apologies for the long winded synopsis, but it's sort of I was. I'd hang out with anyone back in the day, probably part of it, so I would have a drink too, right, And it was kind I was probably had a relationship with alcohols as much as I did with all the people around me at

that point in time. And when you stop drinking, well, it's quite a confronting thing because you don't have a lot in common with a lot of your old piss had mates too, So a lot of the socializing that's done is when we're inebriated, and when you're not drink, when you don't drink, well, you don't really just want to sit around and talk shit. You want to live. You want to live, you want to feel, you want

to experience, you want to be. You just don't want to sit around and talk shit full of piss because you're sober.

absolute free for all, and it's just the best. It's a sea of white and you know, all these different things. But I think also for twenty years I was going to the opening of an envelope and like a butterfly dot com and all of what you said, right, So I've probably I've probably done ten lifetimes of it as well, so eating out of the China doll and otto every night like it was bloody cheap takeaway. I've just done it to death. I'm not shit canning it. I just

did so much of it for so bloody long. But life to me is about experiences, new experiences. I want to turn the page. I want to experience more, right. I love going out, getting collecting kindling, starting a fire, splitting a log, sitting here it's on now, the fire that Lucy's asleep behind me, the other dog somewhere. Like new experiences. I don't just want to keep reading the same fucking chapter that was the shit out of me. And with the business stuff as well, like entrepreneurs listening

people in business. For me, I find like about a five years of you know, you're super fied up about it, then you're start to get a bit bored. Now it might be longer. And if you've got a hobby and a life you know alongside it, which I never did. But it don't sort of beat yourself up that you want to do something new if you're strategic about how you engineer that. We're here to experience life. We're not here to be a slaver or a prisoner to one

chapter of it. And when you're not defined by your balance sheet and your car and all that, it opens you up to so many possibilities. And I believe you have more financial commercial success in the long term if you stay the course on that path.

bit of that myself, right. There was a lot of ego and bullshit and insecurity and self doubt and love me, like me, want me to prove of me. There's fair bit of that gone on on my journey, by the way as well. How do we turn that down? And how do we like that's? That's almost an addiction in itself. What are your thoughts around that.

We live in a world where you know, social media is prolific and technology is great, but you want to use technology, not be used by it. And one of the real solutions to this as well is limiting your data windows and exposure so that you've actually got some time just heaven forbid, sitting in front of the fire or something, not just scrolling social media and just binging

more data, comparing and what not. By default on social media, it's impossible not to compare when you're scrolling through social media all the time. So limiting data or having data windows of exposure and being vigilant with that, disciplining yourself so that you've got time to be where you are, not in your head or on a screen, that's key. And the reality is again like if you haven't felt what's at the end of that road, it's hard to just trust what I'm saying. It's maybe it's impossible, I

don't know, but there's just nothing. There's no joy at the end of that. There's disease of more. It's like a drug addict needing more drugs to get the same hit. You just need more money, more this, more that, more cars to get the same hit. I tried, but so breaking free from that is you know, it's probably why I am quite reclusive these days, because it's it's sad. It's sad. I just know there's no joy and love and connection and depth to that road and really finding

yourself on that road. I was so lost for so long. I didn't know where to start. That's why I need to get hammered so hard. That have the reset, and I'm grateful for that. But like if you can break if a person can break free from that, then the potential is limitless because you avoid all the traps moving forward, all the trappings of success, because you know where you're going and who you are.

won't be done for those reasons at all. But the point is is that the goal, the absolute gold, as you've said before, threw me, not from me. It just hits the back of my head. When I'm an hour into doing those tasks, it's like I'm in this deep state of being and things are just obvious. Everything gets really obvious because there's no head noise, and I know what to do next.