Polite persistence: the only thing I was ever good at.

back home, same hometown, he lives here now. And he, yeah, let me sleep on his couch. A day or two in I met a really significant guy in nightlife in New York and then he got me a bunch of opportunities straight away. And then I'm like, hmm, interesting. And that started the whirlwind of basically six weeks. I got my cancer in my trip. So I can't see my flat home and then stayed for six weeks and met a ton of amazing people, got an opportunity to invest in a nightclub and got back to Australia after that. And it's like, what just happened? And I felt

really anxious and enclosed because I'm from a small city, a couple hundred thousand people lived in my whole life, big fish, small pond kind of situation. And yeah, I was like, oh shit, I think I need to move to New York. And that started the two year process of trying to figure out whether this was the right move unwinding a lot of my life in Australia, you know, housing, family, business, investments, dog, like all this stuff. It was a really, really big step.

But it felt like the right thing to do. And I didn't know why and I still kind of don't know why. But it feel but the things that have happened in the last few years since I made that move, the version of me from Australia, from that small city in Australia, we just think what the hell is happening. So, you know, the story is still unfolding.

But that's the general gist of the basic gist short version of what happened and how we got here. Well, I love hearing more of your story and two things stand out to me. How quickly your life can change when you kind of release that control and how one person can completely change the game for you. Yeah. So now you're here, you have a podcast, you're in your three of your podcast, you're in the middle of rebranding it. What's your mission with your show so our listeners can start to get a better feel for what you're so passionate about? For sure. So basically,

when I was in Australia, since probably 18, I had a big interest in business and a big interest in the mindset of business and trying to break really negative patterns as a child, right? And using the best known business and mindset books to start that process, like Think and Grow. The first book in this world I read was Richest Man in Babylon and then Think and Grow Rich and Seven Hand.

I've read many of the same books. Riches Man, all of that. I read them all. In the process of doing that, again, from a small city, there's not that many people that are thinking the same way I'm thinking. It's become a lot more prevalent now with the internet, with social media and the dissemination of ideas being a lot quicker. So a lot of people are catching up, but at the time, it was me and maybe one person. I just happened to start going down this path because I asked my uncle who I thought was very successful what to do. And he

gave me a couple of books. He gave me Richest Man in Babylon at 18, Think and Grow Rich at 18. And I read them both and I read a couple of investment books and that started the pathway. But I began to notice as I got a little bit older that the people that would spend a significant amount of time with me would begin to change the way they live their lives in really nice, positive ways to the point where I lived with a roommate when I was 23, 24.

He was just finishing teaching. He was watching me live my life on my own terms, running an event business, doing festivals, living a great life. And he was about to go into teaching. And we sat down and he was freaking out and we had this good conversation.

And he was like, I don't want to be a teacher. And I said to him, what do you want to do? He said, I want to, I think I want to go into like health, myotherapy. I'm like, well, stopping it. He's like, well, my friends are going to be, they're all getting houses now.

They're all working. I feel so far behind. And then I said, this one, one thing to him that I heard a while ago and this idea of like, if you were to look back at 80 on this moment and this decision, which decision would you prefer to have?

And which decision would make more sense looking back at 80? And he's like, my therapy, and I'm like, they're doing about some cost, just figure it out. And I, in my, in my mind, that's just a conversation I'm having. I'm probably cooking or, you know, it's not even a thing in his mind that started that was the spark for the next stage of his life.

And then funnily enough, when I'm in America, when I'm, when I'm doing this big trip, I get this voice note from him. We don't live with each other anymore at the time. And he's like, Hey man, I just want to say that conversation that we had changed my life.

And I just had the best week financially I've ever had doing what I love. And if not for you saying it, I wouldn't have done it. I still would have been a teacher. And I was like, Damn, that's crazy.

And here's at the root of that conversation is what do you really want to do with your life? And so many people never ask themselves that question. And perhaps they don't have someone else to check them and ask them that question. And oftentimes I believe we really know what it is we want to do, but we're so afraid to do it because what if it doesn't work out?

What if someone else judges me for doing it? What do you think is the biggest thing you've learned that stops people from pursuing their dream or their desires? Well, I mean, I can only speak for myself, but there's so many factors, right? There's the fear of judgment, which a lot of the times isn't grounded on much reality I found from my, again, personal experience. And generally, even when it does, when you do get negative responses from people in your life, it doesn't sting as much as you thought it would.

Because it eventually does come. Like, you don't get away from it. You were right. There will be people judging you. But once you've started building the momentum on something, you kind of go, ah, well, whatever, cool. Thanks for your feedback.

They're going to judge you anyway. Sometimes the feedback is useful, though. Sometimes the feedback is useful. So that's a big one. And I think, like I do have a lot of privilege in my situation, right? I'm very lucky. Granted, life wasn't perfect growing up. And that's probably a story for another day on the podcast. But there were a few things that happened that were super lucky that gave, that set me the foundation to allow me to get to this point where I'm at.

The first one was having family, being able to go to university five minutes from home. But I made a conscious choice. I made a choice. I finished high school and I said, I'm going to go into engineering. So I've got an engineering and business degree, which I don't use.

And I had a choice of moving to Melbourne, living out of home, being broke, or staying at home, which was comfortable. It was fine. It wasn't an amazing life, family dynamic, but it was, I put up with it. Stay home five minutes from university and save and invest that money. So I made that choice. That was the first one.

My dad had a business. He gave me a small like $150 a week while I was studying to just kick me down the line. I worked a bar job and put that money away. It's five round a year.

Five, it's 25 round a year. You know, by the- The compounds. The compounds, really compounds. That was one of the things. Second thing was, and again, my uncle giving me the richest man in Babylon book at 18, just as I start working, and there was one passage that changed everything in my life, which was pay yourself first. I learned that concept at 18, and it flipped everything I did financially from that point on.

It says, the book says, give yourself 10%, pay yourself 10% of whatever you earn, only to reinvest in yourself or opportunities. And that simple shift fundamentally changed. That changed everything from here. So then I was like, well, okay, it says 10%, but then in the book somewhere else, it says something about 30% if you have debts. I'm like, why don't I just put away 30% of everything I earn? So I did that. That was the second thing.

And then by the time I finished uni, I was a little hustler. I was like, you know, I'd work with festivals. I'd sell tickets. I'd like buy flip phones. I would work this bar job. I was a guest list promoter for a club. I just did a bunch of little things while studying. And then that led to an opportunity to open up a nightclub.

So I'm 22 with a nightclub in my, again, my small city. Not a crazy place where you can make millions of dollars, but it went pretty good for a number of years. And then by the time I finished uni, I'd saved 100 grand. Move out of home, live well below my means with some roommates, invested that money, bought a house. But my first house at 25 couldn't get a, couldn't get a loan because I had all these savings, but the bank wouldn't touch me because I didn't really have a job. And I didn't understand how to like

navigate the taxes and everything appropriately. So the second thing I was going to say is that holds people back is financial means. And that is a really tough one because people can get stuck in that loop for the rest of their life. That's why I say I'm super lucky. I were, things lined up in a way that were very, very lucky.

You also made smart choices. I, yeah, I did. I didn't know at the time, but it just made sense. I think I was a lot smarter when I was 18 than I am now. Now I'm like... I think it's owning your choices. Those were smart choices at a young age to reinvest your money into save and not live beyond your means.

It's funny though. When I had, it was a GFC, I'll never forget this story. This is etched into my brain. It was a GFC, so 2008, 2009. In Australia, it wasn't hit as bad as America. I go to my dad.

I'm so proud of myself. Like, dad, I've saved five grand and he looks at me and goes, you should spend it. You need to continue to build the economy. And I looked at him like, that sounds like bad advice.

Stimulate the economy. I'm like, that's a, that doesn't seem like good advice. And I didn't remember he said to me, five grand, it's nothing. And I remember like my gut was off on that response. And I was like, but it's the start.

At the root of a lot of this conversation is your intuition. Which I thought I would never listen to. So I don't know. It's funny. So when we spoke on the phone in preparation for our episode, you talked about your desire to operate at an elite level while maintaining optimal health and wellness over the long term.

To me, that is ultimately what I believe feeling well is. It's like sustainable success. Instead of going so hard to be at this like elite level and completely burning out. Is that what you would explain feeling? Well, we talked about this podcast feeling well and what it means to you. And what you kind of feel called to help others and learn about with your show.

Yeah. So basically, I mean, that was a very long story. The reason why I started the podcast, to wrap all of that up, I began to notice that I was how that I would impact people around me based on the things that I'd learned in a positive way. And the next step was, well, this is great. Can I do this scale? And then I thought, okay, well, I guess content is a formula to do that at scale, a way to do that at scale. And I, that was the time when like, TikTok dancers were a big thing. And I'm just like, you know, this is not really where I

want to take it. I was super into podcasts from say 2017. Tim Ferriss, although those guys had a meaningful impact in the way that I viewed the world. And yeah, I was like, well, okay, maybe podcasts is the most low risk medium that I can, I can approach this on where I'm going to get the least amount of judgment. Right. Because like sitting in front of a camera talking to somebody talking to a camera about your ideas and theories, very scary. It is being, being the catalyst for someone else to speak, not as bad. So that's

where the podcast started. I'm like, can I do this at scale? And thoroughly just enjoy the medium of conversation and think I have a proclivity to communicate to people. So that's where it began. Very simple. Whether I've achieved that goal yet, I don't think so, but I'm working on it.

You're so, you know, it's, it's a work in progress. It's always a work in progress. I don't know if I'll ever be done here, you know, just continues to grow. And that's so exciting. And you can't predict what's going to happen three years, five years, 10 years from now as you continue building it. Exactly. Well, just this idea, you were very clear on what your mission was when we were talking for this episode. And so I want to unpack it a little bit and what that looks like for you to maintain optimal peak wellbeing as you are like performing at such a

high level, doing so many different things at once and striving to become the best version of yourself. The more I see the Elon Musk's of the world and those absolutely elite level performers, I've begun to realize that I don't know if you can do it all, all the time. I think my, there's a foundation that you need to aim towards that gives you the best chance to do reasonably well, which is as much as much sleep as you can get, maintaining nutrition in a way that gives you energy, not taking away. Basically, it's honestly energy exchange being

able to put things into your day that are net positive energetically, as opposed to a net drain, and then using that extra energy towards something that you deem really important to you, that then also feeds you further energy. I think that's the core of this. And then there's a few, some people are really good at just locking in, knocking things out in a very, very sprint like window, and then other people chip away. And I'm more of a chip away kind of guy. I've just chipped away my whole life. Can I get up every day, move forward a little bit

better and be conscious of the things that take and give energy throughout the day? How structured are you in terms of like every night I go to bed exactly at this time, wake up at this time, read X amount of pages a day, do my morning meditations, like sunlight right when I wake up, you know, I eat this exact breakfast every day. How regimented are you?

I used to be really regimented. And I've begun to really let it go, funnily enough, because I think so I was aggressive on the morning routines before they were cool before they were cool. I've been all over this for a long time. Like in 2021, I was deep into the ice bath culture.

We started like me and my friends started an ice bath event on our beach before it was a thing. And I realized after a while that the prescriptions were not actually helping because if I didn't do them, I would fall apart. You know, it's like, oh, I haven't meditated today. So therefore my day will be bad. Oh, I haven't slept enough. So therefore my day will be bad. It's like this goes counter to the whole point. Yeah. You know, so now I'm granted I live in New York and I've my this is a season to I'm getting up and I'm getting straight into it.

I love I love it's all about seasons too. I think that's the core of it. There are seasons where I'm sprinting and like full send mode, like full speed ahead and there seems to I'm like, okay, I can kind of like I need to like taper off the gash just a little bit.

Yeah, like get myself back. Yeah, equilibrium. And all about regulating your nervous system and fueling yourself with things that energize you as opposed to deplete you. Yeah. One other thing that we had talked about you use this term polite persistence. Yeah.

unpack that for us. How do you define that? I think that's honestly like this is a book idea that's been forming in my head for about a few years now and I will do it at some point. I've got the domain. It's already in the works. It's in mentally it's in the work.

This is the first time I've actually talked about this. Listen up. Look out. But the theory the theory behind this is that everything in my life, I've never been, I've never been an elite operator in anything. I was an average sports player.

I was an average student. I was everything has always been average in my life. But the only thing that wasn't average was once I committed to something, I just chipped away at it. Chipped away, chipped away. And I would this little cheerful disposition.

Okay, all right, we're going to try again. All right, we're going to try again. And I found that I could get eventually maybe not at the speed of other people. Eventually I could get most of the things that I wanted out of my life.

Just from that, that attitude of chipping away. And then what's developed is a mindset of being able to chip away and being able to try again and find another pathway. And if that doesn't work, find another pathway, but not get so caught up in it that you are burning yourself into the ground by needing to have this thing happen right this second.

Or exactly how you thought it was going to happen, but maybe finding other routes going through other doors and windows that you didn't even realize existed originally that you, I think it's once you begin down a path, you won't know if you need to pivot until after you start walking that path. And I talk about how people stay so long at the fork in the road because they're so afraid to pick the wrong path. But you wouldn't know until you start down the right path or start down the path. And once you start down it, then you can turn

via left or right. And you just keep moving forward is essentially what you're saying. I really like Jeff Bezos has an idea that they use at Amazon. I read his letters to the shareholders and something that really two things, the 80 year old thing was Jeff Bezos. And then the, this one was really, really useful for the decision making framework of how to approach exactly what we're saying. One way and two way doors. Have you ever heard of this? Now, basically the idea is if a decision you're looking at a decision in front of you

and the decision has minimal long-term consequences to make, don't think about just make it because you can always walk back straight. You can be like, Oh, this was wrong. Back we go. It's fine. That's a two way door. If the decision has a very, very significant long-term consequence, it's considered a one way door. And they're the times when you have to really stop and deliberate think about why you're doing it. Think about the risks and then only then if you still think it's a right call, take that leap because coming back is very, very difficult. Give an example of something

with a severe long-term consequence. Having children. I don't have kids yet, but that would be an example. Having children with the wrong person, getting married to the wrong person. That unwinding is not easy at all. Perfect example. Moving house, moving countries is not really a one way door because again, you can go back, but maybe going into business with something, signing a contract for a business, basically anything that has probably a long-term commitment with a difficult unwinding is a one way door. You have a business. You wipe your whole CRM and move to something else. That's a one way door. That's going to take a lot of unwinding.

Fire a CEO. That's a one way door. You can't come back from that unless you've Steve Jobs, but it took a while. Those are probably some examples, but most things are two way doors. So this is the idea, right? If most things are two way doors, then you're benefited by being quick on the decision making, getting the information back, and then adjusting. A thousand percent. We spend way too much time weighing the outcome of a decision, like the two way door that you're talking about, that walk through the door, find out for yourself. You could have already had that information. Once you make a decision, sometimes

there is this feeling that if I've made the wrong decision, therefore I am not good or worthy. That's the core of why people get so stuck. It's also this like I failed because I made the wrong decision and that can be a heavy weight to carry, but I think a lot of life is picking something and making it the right decision. Instead of waiting to see if it was a good decision, what can you do to make that a really good decision? Yeah. Does that resonate?

Yeah, for sure. I mean, and then the other thing is you just got to pick good things to do at your time. There's only so many hours in the day, right? One of the things you've learned from having all these like elite performers on your show, is it that you would say they all are really quick to make decisions?

No, I have noticed something though that's been popped up a few times. Maybe that's a second book, but there's probably, there probably is a book about this, but I've begun to notice, especially on the content creator front, people who have a big following in whatever niche they're in, they have them as a human, right? Let's just say Jack.

And Jack has these fees and concerns and is unsure and is approaching life timidly and weakly. And then there's Jack Black, right? I have whatever. I don't know. You know what I mean? And this is, this is a, this is their social media persona. This is the person that they post as they are. And this, this is, this is, I've noticed with content creators, but it doesn't apply only to content creators. The concept, I think, is really solid. And that concept is that they then have this person outside of themselves that they are trying to live up

to. That person goes to the gym every morning. That person looks great. That person is confident. That person works hard. That person is charming. All of these characteristics that they don't have, this character has. And in the process of building this brand, the brand of the person, they begin to aspire to be that person, but that is the person within them. And that idea is really, really powerful. Just creating the best version of yourself as an external person and saying to yourself, what would this person do in this situation right now and begin to just take

the steps closer to being that person? That is you. You're almost designing the next level you based on who you are posting as and showing up for on your personal brand on social media. And then you start to become more like that individual.

Exactly. It's really fascinating because I've heard it over and over again now. So that would probably be the main thing that's come from the podcast. Do you feel like you've noticed when you've met some of those people in person, they appear different than they appear on their social page or they've already kind of become that version of themselves?

I think it's a spectrum, right? I think we're fallible humans. We're some days better than others. But if you have a North Star that you're working towards, of a version of a person that you want to be and you're thinking in that framework when you're making your decisions, over time you just get a little bit better, a little bit closer to that version. Especially when you're consistently showcasing you becoming that person.

You're kind of telling the world, this is who I am. This is what I'm about. Here's what matters to me. Here's how I live my life. Here's how I design my days. Yeah. I do want to separate the idea of it having to be a social media presence.

I think the concept is the same, sitting down, thinking about who is this person that I want to be and how do they operate and how do they think and really mapping that out doesn't have to be content. Content is just an easy way. It's just a natural way that I've noticed at progressing, but the concept is much, much deeper than that. It's what is the best version of, what would the best version of myself do in this situation? And then how can I try my best every day to become as close to that person as possible? Again, another one, David Goggins and Goggins.

Perfect example. He says it himself in all of his stuff. He created, I've listened to a bunch of his stuff, but basically he created Goggins out of the deepest, darkest hell that David Goggins was in. And it's the same over and over again. Look at, I don't know if you're religious, but like Christianity, Jesus, same deal. He's, you've got this whole religion of two billion people now that are looking at the ideals of this one person and the whole New Testament is basically try your best to live up to the ideas of this man who was only on earth for three years.

This is how he operated. This is what, this is what we think is the best way to be a human. Therefore you're not going to get there every single day, but you're going to try your best. And if you fail, try again tomorrow because you're forgiven. So maybe there's a, there you go.

The politely persistent component, bringing this all together is the forgiveness to yourself to try again tomorrow with an ideal of your ideal person, your ideal persona, your ideal outcome and just being cheerful and happy and open to letting things play out how they need to play out.

But every day you step up and you forgive yourself for the mistakes from the day before and you try again. Do you think you're a generally optimistic person? Um, ironically no. Because you have this cheery demeanor and you talk about just keep chipping away, keep showing up, keep doing your best, forgive yourself.

It's very easy to say it and it's much harder to do it. Look at the version of who I want to become and there's this quote from Jim Cathcart who's written, I think, tons of books on personal development. He gave a TED talk on this and it was how would the quote is how would the person I'd like to be do the thing that I'm about to do?

Exactly. Exactly the same concept. Yeah. So good. Yeah. And to just keep repeating that over and over and brush your shoulders off, get back up, do it again. But hold that vision of the identity that you'd like to step into.

Yeah, that's right. And so one thing you've also been using to help you do that is you've been using AI to help get the most out of your days. Talk to our listeners about some of the AI tools, tips and tricks that you have that they could be implementing.

So I think the speed of AI is, I'm by no means one of these cracked out people. There's some crazy people doing some wild stuff. I haven't invested enough time into it to be at that level. Do you have like 10 virtualists, 10 AI assistants right now working for you while we're recording? No, I haven't really gotten there yet. But what I'm, there's a few things that I'm looking at now. It's the first one is just reframing every task that I need to do in my day of, can I speed this up or do this better? Incorporating AI and just having

that in the back of your mind, like not putting a crazy amount of stress like everything's going to end. It's like, relax. It's a tool. When you understand what AI actually is, it's basically and it's basically an algorithm that predicts the next word. And that's all it is.

It's literally all it is. And by pulling in the corpus of human experience and knowledge, it gets really good at predicting what the next word is. And by certain weighings of the model and prioritizing certain things and I deprioritizing other things, it gets better again.

So all your giving your whole existence and fear to basically a thing that's predicting the next word and nothing more, they get really good at predicting the next word. And that's great. And it's very useful. But that's what it is. At the end of the day, it's a tool. And I think these tools for the people who embrace them and make the most out of them and use them appropriately, but don't rely on them as the only source of truth will do really well.

And would you exponentially better than those who don't? So that's the core. So use it as a tool. It's a tool. It's a very useful tool that I think is going to get it's going to shift the paradigm of a lot of things. But you've got time. Chip away at it.

Again, a little bit every day. Are we just are we talking about like chat, GPT, Claude? What are we everything? So I just wanted to frame the foundation before we went further. But with that in mind, what things every every task can it be done a little bit better with AI? And just try one pick one, improve it a little bit. But the biggest thing that I've found recently has had a very, very significant impact is two things. There's an app that I found called whisper flow. It's an audio dictation app that's really solid.

It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. So the form the form factor is shifting from typing to voice and voice is much quicker. So then typing so you can get a lot more done. So a lot of the coders these days, they're just talking. That's all they do they talk, and they look at code, they talk and they look at code, and that's the process. So you can apply that to your own life. And I've been doing this myself. I have a problem. All I do is I get this app.

I can have it on my computer, press a button. I can have my phone, press a button. You just mind up chat. Everything about the problem that you have at this moment. And the critical next step is you say, now that you've understood what I've what I've said about this problem, interview me extensively to get as much much further context and understanding about this problem before we move forward.

And then it will give you 20 30 questions back right maybe maybe more. Normally you look like, oh, ages. But if you voice the text, if you're just voice noting this whole thing using the AI dictator to like pull it together. And then you're using the AI to process the information. You can begin to get to really, really good outcomes really quickly that are super dialed in. So then you just voice the text back and you just keep going interview me. Is there any other questions? Are there any other questions? And eventually you get to a point where the tool will go, you know, I think I've got the information

we can start now like great. And then you start and then you iterate. That would be the biggest unlock that I've used recently. And then does it help you find a solution to the problem? Or is it just helping you understand it solves it? It can solve the with more context, it can solve the problem. But the challenge is giving it the right amount of context. And recurrence concept called recursive learning with AI tools improve on themselves with feedback loops, you're just creating the feedback loop and you're giving it enough context in a fast way to allow the best outcome to occur. Give you an example.

I had an issue with a purchase I made an investment I made. And the person I was buying it off was being a little shady. And it felt off. So I just dumped so much information into this so much context emails screenshots, context, context, context into this chat thread in half an hour.

And I got a four page legal document output that I sent to that person that business PDF in about half a not much work. And it was so detailed and so contextually solid that they instantly were like, okay, we're good. It saved me $700 in fees and waiting three months for a product and a bunch of other things that were going on. Just off the back of giving the tool context and going, how do we work through this? Interview me and then spit an output out. And I read through the output, of course. And then and then I made a couple

changes and was done incredible. It'd be like a week, two weeks of work and stress and stress. And you're just constantly working through it. You're finding solutions. I think what has kept people stuck for so many years, they've been so focused on a perceived problem instead of a solution. Yeah. And with AI, there really is no reason not to take action towards something not to make a plan towards something not to look at what it would look like to start a business or fix a problem that you're having because you have someone to help you workshop it at all times. Yeah. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah. It's an exciting part of

being in 2026. Yeah. Yeah. That and the looming existential destruction. Oh my gosh. Well, Adam, I have a book coming out this fall and it's titled Send It. Become the one who turns vision into velocity. And so for a while, send it for me meant being in full build mode, turning all of my ideas into reality and like how quickly could I go and do that? And I was honestly borderline burnout. And so now send it to me means something a little bit different in this chapter. It's still listening to what I want to do, but it's building sustainably. And

I'm curious what sending it means to you. So in Australia, we use the term send it. Okay. What does it mean there? Basically means we're about to get fucked up. Like the boys are heading out. We're going to send it. Yes. We're literally about to send it. Yeah. So yeah, that's what sending it means. Oh my gosh. I love that.

So you would, you would, you know, would you use that term ever in your business? You're just going to keep it to going out and getting fucked up. I mean, that's it's it's too in send it. It's too ingrained ingrained. Yeah. It's honestly when you're about to go when you're about to take a risk, you say send it. So maybe you you're going out and getting fucked up is taking a big risk.

I guess so. I don't know. I mean, I didn't drink anymore, but that's how long have you been sober? It's like four years in October. So I think I'm going to throw a party and get really drunk. Yeah. I've got these four years and just title it. Send it. Send it.

I just inspired you. Oh my gosh. I love. Well, is there anything else we didn't cover? Anything that you're excited that's coming up for you that you'd like to share? Yeah. I mean, the podcast where about 150 episodes in I'm rebranding into it was very broad. It was is called that one time without a met. Well, the pillars were to begin with health, wealth, and wisdom, but it was packaged in a really, really unorganized way. And after after learning about how the podcast game works, I'm doing a full rebrand and focusing on the health and

wellness and mindset elements of the content. So I'm super excited about that. I'm going through the motions of doing the rebrand, trying to use AI as much as possible, getting stuck. It's not that easy. You're chipping away. And then the imposter syndrome comes in and all the things we talked about today. I'm going through it right now, but I'm super excited about that rebrand getting the podcast relaunched. Where can our listeners find you? On Instagram is meet Wally. Just search Adam Metwally. There's not that many Adam Metwallys out there and TikTok, YouTube, that one time with Adam Metwally. Any final quote like that you live by that you'd like to

leave? Oh, man. I feel like I'm in my lock in era. I'm really liking this whole lock in culture that's developing. Because I've had a lot of like, I, this is a whole other story, but I realized I was pretty ADHD and I didn't think I was. I just thought I was distractible. But then after talking to a few people and seeing a psychologist, ADHD. And so my ability to lock in is very, it's not great. Okay. But saying lock in has funnily enough helped you.

Force me, force my like bucking Bronco brain to just focus. I was going to ask you what tools do you use to lock in? Just telling yourself it's time. A few things. Yeah, I've got quite a few things. So Pomodoro timer is really useful because there's, which is 25 minutes on five minutes off. Because it's a discrete moment of time that allows my brain to go, oh, I don't have to get through this whole four day job. I just have to get through the next 25 minutes and then I can reward myself with something. So that's a really useful one.

And time blocking and reward. Yeah, pretty much. And then the second one that has been super useful is like, if I have a task that I'm finding is really just not getting done, I wake up coffee straight into it. Just like, don't even give myself the moment to hesitate. No morning routine. None of this crap. Just lock in.

Lock in Sunday. Get it done. Get it done. And then I've, you notice like, you'll do that first hour and then the momentum's there and then you can spend the rest of the day on it. But if you, the moment you give yourself like an inkling of time to dick around, you're done.

That procrastination. It's heavy. It's done for the day. So there are probably two main things that I've really been focusing on and that's where the morning routine going out the window has been going out the window. But I have those tools, you know, meditated every day for 10 years. I've done it. So I know a lot of it's probably ingrained.

And then I can always go back to it when I need to. But I have noticed that my nervous system is like starting to, my shoulders are starting to get tired. It's like, okay, it's time to give myself a bit more because I've been going pretty hard.

But again, we spoke about the start seasons. Season. Well, thank you so much for coming on today. Thank you for having me. It was a wonderful and very fun conversation. And I'm excited to see what you do with your rebrand and what your life looks like as you keep chipping away. So thank you. Thank you.