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I'm really glad you guys stopped by. So let's cover our next episode. Alrighty, folks. Welcome back to SDYT the podcast. I'm Porter. I'm your host. And if this is your first time tuning into the podcast, welcome.

And if you are continuing to listen, Welcome back. Now, here at SD YT to podcast, we like to preach that values still hold value. But what does that even mean? What are values.

These can be anything, essentially, that allow you the opportunity to frame your perspective. Things that you think are important to you, things that you want to commit to in your life, to be able to dictate your behavior.

Self and post, usually. But experience from other people's perspectives, other people's upbringing, or other people's just really stories, even.

Could be caring, could be empathy, could be responsibility, positivity, intellect, intelligence, drive, all sorts of different things that are important to you, but these topics, these considerations, then are things that you put value into.

Which then in turn, at least ethically speaking, make them values. This particular episode of SDYT the podcast, we're going to talk about New Year's. But more importantly, the value that we all place in New Year's resolutions.

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Without further ado, I'm Porter. I'm your host, and this is SDYT the podcast. Alrighty, folks, New Year's Resolutions. Value systems, goal setting, all sorts of different topics we can tackle this from now on episode 9 of the podcast.

But if you think, like I do, especially after this past year, now almost 2, that we've been experiencing COVID as a pandemic worldwide, man, it's already the end of December. Now 20 21, this year flew by.

Let's break that down. First off, you're not wrong. Right? In fact, in the last 3 65 days. The Earth has traveled about 5 84000000 miles. To get around the sun, 5 84000000 miles. That's an insane distance at a ridiculous speed.

We're not talking spinning in circles, mind you. As a rotation, we're talking about a 1 revolution around the sun, 1 calendar year, 3 65, technically, in a quarter days, 584000000 miles around the sun, circumference.

Folks, that equates to about 1600000. 0 miles per day. In terms of velocity, that's screaming, 1600000. 0 miles per day. Okay. I get it. It's almost maybe too big a number or at least too fast a speed to be able to comprehend.

If you're driving down the highway, at, I don't know, 60, 70, 80 miles an hour, maybe a little bit faster. Take that and multiply it by a thousand. That's it. It's about 66000 miles per hour.

Kilometers, I'm sorry, my math only stretches so far. But 66000 miles per hour, Every hour of every day for 3 65 days 5 84000000 miles to get around the circumference of the sun, no wonder the year felt like it flew by.

But there's a big difference between velocity and your perception of time.

See, because if that's the case, if we were just moving that fast, then either Earth's magnetic core and gravitational pull or just centrifugal force, keeping us attached to the ground, we would feel like we're just moving potentially really fast, but it's relative.

Right?

So we don't notice it. To be outside the Earth, maybe you can identify that a little bit better or computationally technologically for sure. Right? But we're not, you don't, so your perception of time then is drastically different.

The days when you're in school, thinking about summer vacation, or running through sprinklers, jumping in piles of leaves, eating hot dogs at a baseball park, watching flowers grow in the spring or squirrels eat, and climb trees, walking through parks, listening to dogs, swimming at the beach, walking in the rain.

Generally, though, the things that you don't regularly enjoy doing, or that don't miss necessarily command your attention on a regular basis? For some reason, make time seem like they're going a lot slower. Time isn't slowing down.

You're just no longer paying attention to it. So then when you zone back in and your brain tunes back in to the present moment, Not a whole lot of time has actually passed. So here's what that means. I'm not a psychologist.

I am not a neuroscientist. I'm a regular dude with regular problems talking about regular things. However, Your brain is able to computationally figure out all sorts of different subconscious or conscious constructs, fictional or not.

That make you feel like, think like, you're in a different place and environment. Now when you're sleeping their dreams, when you're awake, they're daydreaming, it's kind of an original title, but but that's the gist.

And if we've got any neurologists, please feel free to call in, send an email, survival dad y t at gmail dot com.

Comment on this podcast episode, let me know your take on it. I'm pretty interested to hear about it, and then we can talk about it in future episodes, or at least address the top and then a little bit more clarity.

What we're talking about specifically New Year's resolutions, though, it has to come down to your perception first. Now here's why I say that.

If you're going to try to solve a math problem. You've gotta break it down, diagram a sentence, you've gotta figure out subject verb object. If you've gotta understand the complex problem or put together a puzzle you look at its pieces.

Right? Well, your perception of how time passes is going to dictate your likelihood of accomplishing your resolution. It's the same concept. See if you have a goal that you set for yourself. Whatever it happens to be.

Maybe 1 of your inspirations is zig zigler. Right? Maybe 1 of your aspirations is to be an astronaut. In either case, You're going to get into a point where your attention span is lost. How do you get through it?

How do you stick to a particular topic? Right. I know. Oh, Jimmy. Well, yeah, sure, man. Welcome back to the show. You called it a bit earlier than I was expecting, but that's alright. I'll have to talk to my secretary about that.

But, yeah, let's hear about it, man. What do you got? What do you got? Folks, by the way. Sorry, Jimmy, but This is Jimmy Mullen. He's our host on our sister's show. There's a video series called survival dad y t. It's on Facebook.

It's on YouTube, where the show, myself included, where where we talk about how survival takes communication. Right? And building relationships, sort of a not a niche market, I suppose, but but that's what the video series is about.

And and Jimmy's 1 of our on there for a little segment called Discussions from Dublin. But but Jimmy, welcome to the podcast, man. I'm sure you heard the majority of that, and obviously, we talked before you got here.

But but in this case well, let's let's just start here. Well, we're talking about perception of time and attention span. What's your take on all this?

What are you thinking? Alright, Porter. First, thank you for having me on the show mate. I think it's it's interesting because somebody's attention span is generally speaking going to be dictated based on their interest.

If they're interested in what it is, you have to say, maybe there's a story, maybe there's some sort of social currency, maybe there's some sort of empathy or or some sort of public discourse you can derive from this, a uniqueness may be, a particular value you might say.

People are more likely to pay attention, because they see what's in it for them, Right? We're talking about New Year's resolutions, it's a difficult topic because other people have to set those things for themselves.

If you set it for somebody and you say this is what your New Year's resolution might be, Well, now what's the likelihood of going to accomplish that?

Have you ever tried to teach a child why it's important for them to need to learn to write?

Especially, today as they've got a tablet or whatever else they can type on. There's a very real likelihood and, in that case, They're not going to see the value in learning to write, now are they.

So when reading becomes more difficult. Writing for sure. Yeah, I totally agree with you. As it applies to goal setting though, people of any age, how do you do you convey that?

How do you get through that? How do you either increase your attention span or build your interest to the point where you're willing to pay attention?

I think in my experience part, that means you've got to identify what it is your shortfalls are, what it is you want to accomplish, Find why it's important to you, what are your belief systems, maybe based on them, what values are important to you?

Maybe then you're better able to identify which particular actions you're able to take.

Would then give you the ability to accomplish whatever goals you set for yourself to get the intended outcomes, which is ultimately what you hoped to accomplish. Well, I couldn't have said it better myself, frankly.

I think that's a valid point. If you know what it is you want to accomplish, but you don't know what it is you have to offer to get it. It's going to be very difficult to have a dedicated plan to accomplish it.

So, while your brain is firing on all these different cylinders, so to speak, and coming up with all of these ways to distract you from things you're not actually interested in.

Your attention span, so to speak, is shortened. Because you are not, at that moment, possessing the stamina, the attention endurance, to focus on a particular topic, because you don't see the value.

Now, generically speaking, generically speaking, then you say, well, I may not need to know much about geometry I'm never going to mulch a lawn or need to know the area of a triangle. Maybe not.

But if you're able to identify shapes, pick apart problems into pieces, and compartmentalize, Make sense of things that you don't understand, more specifically, learn something because maybe what you enjoy is teaching somebody else.

Or trying to explain something to somebody else, because here's an example. You don't wanna pay for cleaning your apartment in college. You don't care for geometry but somebody else needs to pass, so you pay attention in geometry.

Because what it does is it allows you to barter your services, now as understanding geometric concepts, To tutor somebody in geometry, who then in turn doesn't have to pay you but cleans your kitchen once a week.

That's a fair agreement if both parties agree to it, sure. Why not? So you see there's value in that, in the material directly, maybe not. But conceptually, in the process potentially.

Sure. And there's all sorts of examples where you can barter knowledge for knowledge. There may not be a lot of examples, or justifications, for you building inherent value into something that you just don't care about.

You can't pretend. When something becomes fake, it's a lot more difficult to sustain. When something becomes ingenuine, it's a lot more difficult to maintain.

But by identifying what you stand for, what your values are, who you are as an individual, or who you want to be, and strive to embody, you're more likely to accomplish what things you find value.

Jimmy, Do you do you have anything you wanna add about this? Maybe even in your experience? I do as a matter of fact. You see there was a point in time in my life when I actually was not very good at reading. I struggled quite a bit.

To be able to make sense of some words and sentences and paragraphs, I'd finish a paragraph, For example, have to read it 3 or 4 times before I even understood what was in there, and it was only at best a wee just of what might have been.

So eventually over time I gave up trying to read and made sense of it through audiobooks or whatever else.

Till it came time where I can read, I am literate, right, but it came time to be able to teach then utter people, how to read and the importance behind it.

Until that point, I hadn't seen much value in it, so instead of getting myself a tutor, I realized that based on what I wanted to accomplish, I had the first, now that I'd found value, identify where my deficiencies were, and remediate them.

It's a lot harder to do as an adult. Than it might be as a child. Yet, in now establishing that as a goal, I have to find ways to accomplish that as well.

So what did you do? Well, the first thing I did was identify which topics I wanted to read about, because if I didn't want to read about a topic, I wasn't going to work on reading better.

Now was I? I suppose not. Right. And so I found topics that I enjoyed learning things about.

Once I did that, it was easier to stay engaged in the material for the same reasons you've already stated. Your retention span lasts a bit longer, or you stand a chance at lasting it a bit longer, I suppose.

With topics that you're interested in. So I found books I was interested in with those particular topics. And once I did that, I started reading the books, I started slowing down quite a bit.

I started looking at exactly what it was and the paragraphs that kept tripping me up and I realized It was my want, my desire to get through with the page, and as I got through it, I didn't comprehend it.

I had to slow down. And did it work? It did. Once I started to slow down, I started to make my way through the letters, to sound out words.

And it sounds trivial, I understand this, but once I sounded out the words, out loud are in my head. I was then better able to make sense of the sentence.

Digest the sentence? Go to the next 1. Now, I had a series of 2 sentences. That then I could put together to understand what was actually happening. And that was effective for you then?

Well, of course it was. As I was better able to make sense of these sentences, I was understanding paragraphs a bit better. It's not that I couldn't read my way through them, it's that I couldn't remember what I read.

Well, that sounds a little bit more like a short term memory thing, not really reading. Right. But in either case, you're not a doctor or a parter. So at this particular point in time, I'm attributing this to a reading problem.

Okay. Alright. Fair enough. So you identified a goal as the point. You identified where your deficiencies were and how to do that, but what does that actually have to do?

Remember we were talking about perception of time? Right, well, before I knew it, what was taking me so much time to be able to read and get through a book because I had to read its multiple times.

Before I knew what hours would pass as I was reading through these books, I was losing track of my day. You see I've often heard the time flies when you're having fun.

But I suppose that shifts a bit, if you change the focus from having fun to being busy, and being busy then only really applies when you're doing something that occupies your time.

Much I suppose not unlike sleeping. Yeah. I'm a little confused with that. I I don't wanna I don't wanna mislead you.

But let's let's talk about actively doing things. Right? The point is, time is going to fly when you're doing things that you're more passionate about that you enjoy things that where you're while you're true to yourself so to speak.

Right? We have this we have this Irish blessing. Why it's made a rain fall soft upon your fields. Made a wind fall soft upon your back. Well, it talks about, madose that love us love us.

And madose that hate us? My god turned their ankles so we'll recognize them by their limping. Okay. Okay. Alright. What does what does it mean exactly? Essentially, what it means is that there's good fortune be upon you if I like you.

And if I don't, I'd rather be able to see you coming. Because I want to plan for it. I want to try to identify ways to either avoid you or deal with you. But the only way that happens if I'm better prepared for it.

And in this particular opportunity, We were talking about enjoyment, and I enjoyed that quite a lot. See, another thing that I also enjoyed, though, Actually worked pretty well for me over the years.

Has been identifying things that make me remind me of certain things, right, like pneumatic devices maybe? Right? Like demonic devices. I'm sure there's a lot of other things that Like a memory palace, maybe even.

That's something else. Sure, Char. Like a memory pulse, right, things that you can attribute to help you remember things. Because if that's the case, you need a wider vocabulary.

You need a wide array, a broader array of topics, images, concepts, frameworks, all throughout school doesn't matter to you, Whether it's math, whether it's reading, which you can get quite a lot from reading.

Reading comprehension, especially fiction, non fiction, whatever? Encyclopedias, marketing books, business books, political books, history books, other people's speeches, it makes no difference.

Textbooks to a starting degree, And is you able to digest those things you build a broader array of things you can try to remember?

If you're able to do that, You're much more likely to be able to attribute simple concepts and images into more complex ones and start them in what's now becoming your memory palace.

So as you walk through your living room, or into the kitchen, or into the bedroom, or wherever you might be in this palace, however many bedrooms you might have, You're more likely to remember these things, which in turn allows you to build your working memory, increase your reading comprehension.

I see where you're going.

I understand what you're doing here, and I really appreciate the tieback. But how do you do those things if if we're going to tie that into, say, in this case, a New Year's resolution, since that's really what we're discussing here.

Parter New Year's resolution encompasses 2 things. A task. And to Parpoise. I'm sure these are 2 things you're quite familiar with based on our years of talking to each other.

Well, sure. Yeah. We we have the same sort of conceptual framework in the military. Basically, it's not always a guarantee, I guess, but it's the hope you know, for every task you also get told a purpose. Yeah.

Sure. It's just easier to comprehend, and it gives people some buy in or the likelihood for people to incorporate buy in and maintain motivation and drive, all right in the likelihood that something's actually going to succeed then.

Yeah. Yeah. I suppose that's Yeah. Right. So then how was this any different you might ask?

For example, if you're going to set a New Year's resolution, and you don't know why it is you're going to do what you're going to do or you don't know what you're going to do but you know why you want to do it because everybody else is setting these new year's resolutions.

For example, r, maybe you don't know to why.

But you understand you want to lose weight. It just so happens to be a convenient time to try to do it because it's an easier way to measure the timing. The calendar's already built for you? Yeah.

Sure. So then, I guess, the benchmarks are easier to put there. The programming's easier. Meso cycles, macrocycles, whatever you want to accomplish in it. Partor, I don't know what you're talking about. The part is, there's a calendar.

It's broken into months and weeks and days, fire y'all ready. So if you want to say you want to lose a couple of pounds or a couple of kilos, in any case depending on where you're at? Per week, per month, you can?

Sure. Well, that's what I'm part of the part is, It's an easier way to measure your benchmarks. It really comes down to clarity and the ability to measure the time. It's a time driven thing. Man, I am so glad to hear you say that.

That's exactly where I was hoping to take this conversation. But first, before we get the time driven and ways to set goals for yourself with an increased likelihood of accomplishing, in this case, a new year's resolution.

Or any goal for that matter. I'm here with Jimmy Mullen, host of discussions from Dublin on survival dad YT, the video series. I'm Porter. I'm your host, and if you're just tuning in, that's what you've missed out on so far.

But for right now, Jimmy, let's take a quick break, man. We're gonna hear a word, quick commercial break, and then we'll come back, and we'll pick it up with goal setting tips and tricks.

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Where values still hold value. Again, I'm Porter, and I've got Jimmy Mullen here, host of Survival Ad y t's video series segment discussions from Dublin, and we are talking about New Year's resolution specifically where we left off.

Before that commercial break, we're talking about goal setting, Partrik, right quick, I want to jump in, cut off your train of thought really quick.

You know how it is I've been telling you, I've got quite a bit of books here that I've been reading from, some of my segments, some on a few others, and whoever phone calls and whatnot.

Yeah, I remember. Well, I have a book here I wanted to cover. It actually fits quite well with everything we're trying to cover, is called How to Tank like Leonardo DaVinci?

Okay. Curious to see where this is gonna go, but it sounds interesting. Right, I appreciate the vote to confidence there. But in setting goals first, you got to ask yourself the questions, but more specifically the right ones.

What is it you're trying to accomplish? Now here he says in his book, and the author is I'm not entirely sure. His name is Michael Galb, So if you're listening to Mike, thank you for writing the book.

But then here, He talks about curiosity as a virtue of Leonardo DaVinci. He says Some people like to muse on the philosophical conundrum, what is the meaning of life?

But more practical philosophers ask, How can I make my life meaningful? Whoa. Okay. Alright. I'm with you, but I don't understand what it has to do with goal setting.

I like the reframing and context. Partly are a wee bit amorta? Do you know that? Okay. Well, fine. I guess I can't help that, but Help me out here. What are you talking about?

Right. Here's the thing. If you're doing something because other people are doing it, as opposed to because you want to, or if you're doing something that you want to be doing, but you don't know why you want to.

Maybe first, it has to start with asking the right questions so you can get the right answer or the more appropriate 1 at least.

Reframe the question, see if you still get a similar answer. Because if demanding of life is defined, by making your life more meaningful.

And that's the entire part? Well, now you've got a wide array of things that you can do. Doing sure that's the case. There's another example here that I think makes quite a bit of sense outside of asking the right questions.

And, reviewingly, anardo DaVinci's notebook. There's a quote in here I can't actually find at the moment who said it, but But not important, the quote is, he says first, there are questions about the construction of certain machines.

Than under the influence of archimedes. Questions about the first principles of dynamics. Finally, questions which had never been asked before. About winds, clouds? The age of the art? Generation, and a human heart.

You see, because all of these things help simplify a complex problem, it's not until you're able to simplify it in a way that you're able to comprehend, or any way that other people are willing to listen to you?

Are you more likely to come up with clarity of a goal in order to address the issue?

And then you take it 1 piece at a time. So there's so many different things that it's going to take in order to accomplish. Any particular resolution successfully.

But just because you're computer literate are globally aware or written language literate. Does not mean that you are mentally literate. And if your brain is doing all of these things, it's such a quick and rapid pace.

But you're not able to articulate it to yourself and set these goals that you want to accomplish. How is it possible then you're able to accomplish a goal that your brain has stopped processing and focusing on.

Regardless of your attention span, microseconds ago. Or had to totally focus on far microseconds. Before your attention span drove you somewhere else, Right.

I suppose that is why it's that is why it's important then to be able to clarify a question in better frame it so that you can understand it, and put it into a context that's important to you.

Find your own style, so to speak. So to speak? Part to that's an expression, I don't fully understand either, but we'll talk about that until later tonight.

Jimmy, who's interviewing Humu Man? Like, Yeah. Okay. We can cover it again later. That's fine, but I got I got a couple questions for you, man.

I'm just this is a topic I'm passionate about. I don't mean to sound abrasive, but this is it's something I think that's pretty exciting, because I hear people talk about setting these goals and resolutions every year.

And within a few days of New Year's, maybe even for a Christmas gift the year prior gym memberships go up.

And within a few weeks of New Year's gym memberships died out. Right. I I think the same thing happens all over the world as these new year's things continue. Right, only though might I add if the luxury of discontinuing such a goal.

Exists. And more often than not, it's not an articulation of competency or laziness or complacency maybe. It's more an articulation of the luxury of being able to take the time to accomplish a goal whenever you like.

Or the luxury of being able to take the time to focus on a goal that doctor really is imparting to you for your survival. You see?

Often times there's issues in the world, in people's lifestyles, where the opportunity to focus on things, to get away and get out of their situation is not as feasible because the only thing they have to mental effort, to exert, time to exert, capability given their lifestyles to exert is how to get out of their lifestyles and current situations.

Because they are in dire need of improvement, people with no water in their villages running their otherwise, people with no food. Children with no parents, parents with missing children, craving in some cases starving in others.

To dream about how things might be, give themselves hope, pray, religion may be spiritualism. All of these things are possible as well. But to a set of goal, intentionally or actually unrealistic.

There luxury of comfort many people may not have the opportunity to experience. Okay. Alright. Well, I don't mean to make light of that. But I'm not even entirely sure how to address that. So So what do we do about that?

That sort of broadens this conversation to quite a bit different direction. Let's corral that a little bit. I'd like to sit here for a minute there. That's an important distinction. I don't think I've ever really considered.

If we're talking about values based leadership on this podcast, and redefining what it means to be wealthy, through focusing on values, and entrusting future generations with these concepts and these sort of strategies for managing a mindset, and what it means to be successful and wealthy and increasing appreciation through a values based experience.

Whether or not you have it on your own, this is just another outlet and medium for it, but if that's what we're talking about. I think this is an important topic to discuss.

The luxury of not accomplishing your goals. Moreover, the luxury of setting goals that you don't need to accomplish, to the point where, in a matter of weeks, you write it off is not important. Could you imagine? Staffing.

Actually being hungry, to the point where you don't have I'll be sure there's aspirations and hope for a better quality of life or food or different maybe meals that your family cooked or as a child that you smelled but never tasted.

Whereas an adult haven't eaten in decades because you haven't been able to get home or haven't been home.

You decided to leave you were forced from home refugees, all sorts of different situations that you just miss, the water is not the same, so the baked goods taste different. But you can't go home.

The quality of grain, the soil composition, the nitrogen, chemical balances in the soil even are different. The ingredients aren't available, but it was all you had growing up, and now you get moved from your country to a different 1.

A lot can change in a day. Exponentially more can change in a year. How fast time has gone? To have the luxury to take things for granted in any given year.

Then compare that to how slow time must go when you don't have that luxury. So you compensate. Right? You compensate. You play games with your friends, you tell stories, you find ways to make up for it.

Is it ideal? No, but it could be. At least in that moment, because that's what it takes to give you hope and make you happy and bring you joy, to you, your friends, your neighborhood, your village, your family, whatever.

And that's okay too. In fact, that's admirable and it's difficult. But we'll table that for another episode for the time being.

We're talking about New Year's resolutions and goal setting. And Jimmy here, brought up for our listeners, as a quick reminder, Jimmy here brought up, well, what if you look at it like you have the luxury to not accomplish your goals?

Not the necessity of accomplishing them. See, we use that in at least in my experience.

In most developing countries, I suppose a bit differently than developed ones. I'm not saying this is a blanket statement or generic, just based on people that I've met traveling, the greater preponderance in these 2 categories.

There's a different perspective. Right? So of needing to accomplish your goals. So in And Jimmy correct me if your experience has been different, please, or anybody else listening, feel free.

But in developed countries needing to accomplish a goal, like, as a necessity, needing to accomplish a goal, we consider drive ambition through initiative and other like like buzzword y things that that make you a good, whatever, entrepreneur, boss leader, professional, student, whatever.

Right? In developing countries, of varying scales here, of the people that I've met in my travels that reside in how you might qualify a country as developing, I've met people that say, No.

The need to accomplish a goal is primarily because of survival, it's cold I need shoes. I'm hungry. Right? Now these are sort of more extreme cases. It could be as simple as, like, this is all I know.

You know? It snows. I've got thin clothes that don't insulate very well. I'm cold, but it's okay. I'll survive. My goals and my aspirations that I want to achieve, though, are still different than the ones I need to.

What I need to do is bring my dad lunch today because we live 3 miles away from home and he walks, but he has to carry all of these goods to sell in the market, so I walk to bring him his food, and then I walk home.

These are things you need to accomplish, but aren't they the same as goals? Short term, sure. But goals nonetheless, right? And so the need to accomplish a goal is viewed differently.

But now, more zoomed out through the lens of, say, a New Year's resolution, it's taken in a little bit more of a lighter context, generally speaking, but it's all the same principle.

Part, I couldn't have said it better. I agree entirely.

I think when you're talking about New Year's resolutions, there has to be a clarity of a goal, and like you talk about this individual brain is down launch, 3 miles away, 6 mile round trip, whatever the case is, if whatever frequency during the week, because his dad has to provide for his family and sell things at the market?

Still a goal. Roger could set that at the start of a year and say, Well, every day, I'm going to do this 7 days a week for the next 52. That makes it to New Year's resolution, doesn't it?

Because you're trying to change something? Yeah. Like you're going to change something, right? Like I want to ensure that he has lunch every day and last year he didn't. For whatever number of reasons, sure, that could be a resolution.

I want to lose 10 pounds this year. I want to lose 10 pounds this month. I want to save a hundred dollars this week, each week, every week. I want to save a hundred dollars this year. I want to pay off my debt.

I want to do these things. All of these resolutions, great grand proclamations. At the start of every new year. Resolutions, at a strategic level of defense or politics or governance, might be for sweeping reforms.

Right? So it's more of a great change. But if that's all it is, and there's no framework supporting it, would it ever pass legislation in a particular congress or parliament? Probably not? How do you finance that? Change?

How do you sustain that change to the benefits outweigh the risks with that change, is there a need or a demand for that change? The framework gets sort of debated through arbitration or whatever, and legislated eventually, hopefully.

To what you might call a new resolution, so a new year's resolution on an individual basis should carry the same gravity, but what that means in scale for some individual compared to some countries, drastically different in implication, sure.

But if you think about it in those terms, it's easier. At least the process.

Maybe even just take more seriously, I don't know. But Jimmy, what do you think? We were talking about goal setting earlier. I think we got a little bit distracted there, but we're talking about goal setting like New Year's resolutions.

Right? What are you what are your thoughts? What do you got? Or it well, I couldn't remember where I heard it part about. There's an acronym that's called smart, to be able to set your goals.

Alright. It means something's got to be specific so you specify. Right? I want to behind your car. Okay. What kind of car? What make model what year? Specific. Right. Okay.

It's got to be measurable. So maybe you've got I don't know. Where is to identify how you're going to finance that? Or it's gonna cost you I'll say in US dollars, 20000 dollars to buy your new car. Our used car, whatever but new to you.

By 20000. So over the next year, how do you break down 44000 for easy numbers, let's say 2000 a month. Over that 2000 a month, that means basically 500 dollars a week, are you able to do a hundred dollars a day?

For the next year, that's 20000 dollars. Basically. So it's measurable, you see? There's ways to address your benchmarks and identify that you're getting closer to getting your specific goal But is it attainable?

Are there vehicles for sale? Is it something that you're able to do? Black and white. More importantly, though is it realistic, that's the r in smart, in this case.

Is it realistic? It may be attainable. Right? I've heard you discuss before. I think we've even talked about it, maybe I have it all to remember, but risk tolerance and risk threshold is the same sort of comparison.

Where your tolerance is? What you're willing to do? Or your threshold is, what you're able to do. What's attainable in this case for a goal set? We're setting a goal. As more, the willingness, it's the tolerance, is it attainable.

If everything were ideal, Money is no object time does not matter, is it ideal and attainable. Realistic is the threshold, what are you actually able to do? Can you set aside 100 dollars a day for the next 3 65.

I am now realizing my math is drastically off. Either way to principles the same in this example. Debitis particular make model year vehicle. Set and aside this much money per day for the next 12 months to buy it, in cash paid off.

But is it time driven? That's the t. At what timing intervals do you intend to make this occur? Financially. Or maybe in the next 3 months, I'm going to look at a dealership.

Over the next 3 months after that and going to refine which 1 I prefer. What type of vehicle I like? Maybe you do that first and end the dealership, it's whatever. Private seller, residential, whatever.

The next 3 months, you're going to ensure that the finances on track you find a garage, a maintenance mechanic, whoever You want to look at the vehicle, compare rights, issues, repair costs, whatever.

Elastron once you finally designed a vehicle, it's time driven as well. You see, if you're able to come up with a specific measurable, attainable realistic and time driven goal, you're more likely to accomplish it as well.

And if you're not doing that for your new year's resolutions, you're less likely to accomplish those.

Okay. I see what you're saying. I'm with you. But Is that really all there is? Does setting a goal in accomplishing it? Because it sounds like that's how you set a goal. At least it makes the most sense as a framework to set a goal.

But is that really indicative of being able to accomplish it? Part, I don't think so. I think there's a rough balance, maybe, between the amount of stress you're willing to take on to accomplish it?

I think you called this a drive buffer? Maybe an ambition even. Distressed you're willing to take on to see it through. How hard do you have to work to accomplish?

Get in the money so that you can set it aside every day. Or every week or every month, because you're going to have to work to do it, it's not going to come to you. Sure. Yeah. Alright. Still I feel it's a plow mic.

You still have like job to do? What average case is? So now, the amount of stress then that you're willing to put in and take and absorb and manage and handle and deal with on a regular frequent consistent basis?

On top of how efficiently you're still able to balance it, able to function, able to effectively carry out your duties. To get that money, maybe, or to get that vehicle.

CC importantly, I think it's a delicate balance between being able to set your goals effectively. And then put in the effort to see the goals come true. With consistent work, it's possible. So you think that's all there is to it then.

Be able to set the goals, find ways to accomplish them, the actions, to see it through. What if that's not enough? There's not a foolproof way to do this, no orders not, partner. Not the guaranteed way to accomplish the goals, no.

There is a little bit of mental fortitude. Resistance as well. Maybe you need a support network in place first. Maybe you build a support network as you call. But at the end of the day, you've got to see value in what you're doing.

A value in why you made that a goal for yourself? So really if you're going to plan to start the New Year's resolution at the New Year, maybe you should plan to plan for that New Year's resolution the year prior.

Okay. So now we're talking about 2 different resolutions every year? Of course. What point are you going to try to differentiate between?

What are you worried about in the present and what you're worried about in the future then? And if you're not planning for the future? Well then what are they doing? You don't give yourself something to chase, you're going to stagnate.

Every motor engine that sets still and doesn't move? Brakes? Every body that sits still and stays sedentary falls apart gets diseases? Every piece of equipment you've got that you don't move and don't touch rust, eventually.

Everything breaks down. You say there's a scientific principle, essentially. It says, energy is not created nor to start, merely changed from 1 to the next. Ice cannot stay ice for long, it's going to melt.

Still does not stay still, eventually, it will rust. Following to the ground, be absorbed. Eventually, reconstituted if dug up again later. Carbon from bones as bodies are buried becomes oilfuels whatever, Eventually, it gets processed.

It evaporates to a degree. It rains again. Falls back to the ground and sinks till it's brought up again. That's very real, real possibility. The metals we're using now The minerals we're digging up now?

A result of things out of people I'd used before? Right. They didn't know what was coming in the future. But in this particular case, I'm riotly happy they decided to have goals set for themselves then.

Their future, my past enables me to succeed in my present. I wouldn't charge change that for another year. No. I suppose I would need it, Jimmy.

I suppose I would neither. Balance and out stress, stressors, especially with what you're able to handle and manage, and the ability to set goals, especially at the start of a new year, it is easier to measure.

It's done for you. Almost more of a transition, a tradition at this point. But New Year's resolutions, that's a whole different perspective that I hadn't really considered the luxury to give up on your goals.

The luxury to not stay committed to something you want to accomplish. The luxury to set goals on things that are not based on survival.

And then to stop doing it, after a few days, a few weeks, a few months. I think that's easy to do, but it's still an inch thing perspective I hadn't considered before, Jimmy, I appreciate you bringing that up, man.

Partor, it's not a problem. Jimmy, let's take a quick break real quick on that note. We'll come back here for a few minutes. We'll wrap this up, and and we'll go from there. I really appreciate it, folks.

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Alrighty, folks. Welcome back to SD YT, the podcast. Again, I'm Porter. I'm your host. I'm here with Jimmy Mullen, host of Survival Dad YTs. Video series segment discussions from Dublin.

We are talking about New Year's resolutions, goal setting, all sorts of cool perspectives that I hadn't even considered before, as far as goals are concerned, I thought it was pretty straightforward, but Jimmy, I appreciate your take on that.

The luxury of being able to quit, for example, the luxury of being able to set goals that aren't based in survival. That was Man, that was crazy.

That was pretty cool. But I again, so if you're just tuning into the podcast, that's what we've been discussing, but welcome to the episode. If you're a continuing listener or if you've been here this entire episode, welcome back.

Let's let's get back into this for a little bit. Wrap this up real quick. Jimmy, you still there, man. Part, I'm still here. Yes. Not a problem. I I was just considering a part we hadn't discussed yet.

Okay. Yeah, what's that? Spot to be 20 22022. Partner. After all of this time, did you spend traveling around the sun? What is it? That you are expecting to be able to accomplish or that you want to set as a resolution, you know what?

Before we even get to that, what are some resolutions that you've set for yourself? That you've given up on? Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Well, I'll tell you 1.

I wanted to be a hundred and 85 pounds. This was probably 2, maybe 3 years ago. I wanted to be a hundred and 85 pounds. By the end of that year, and I wasn't. I wasn't able to accomplish that particular goal. What happened?

I don't know. I think I said it for myself and then worked life, maybe both, just sort of seemed to get in the way. I couldn't figure out how to get it back, and I lost my routine. I lost the, I don't know, drive, I guess.

I didn't quite know how to get through that and recover it. Right? Well, shouldn't you have had some sort of a support network in place? Isn't that what you just said? Yeah. Yeah. I guess I thought I did.

Well, I didn't. I didn't. No party didn't. So you go to take ownership for your decisions, successes and failures. Okay, yeah, sure, but there's an extreme to end, right? Like, Not not everything is actually my fault.

I can't dictate. I'm active duty. Right? So I can't dictate. How my work schedule goes, I just have to do it. It's a 24 7 round the clock 3 65 kind of thing. Parter, it's 20 fourseventhree 65 round o'clock kind of thing.

But if you're not able to manage your life, And you have other people doing it for you? Then you have no business setting goals for yourself either? Just take the goals they set for you, and you're guaranteed to accomplish those.

Yeah. Yeah. I suppose so. I suppose so, Jimmy, what are some resolutions as you said for yourself that you maybe haven't accomplished just yet. Partner, here's the thing.

You had mentioned earlier, in the span of 365 days, our 1 calendar year. DRx travels 5 84000000 miles around the circumference of the song. That means by my calculations, I've traveled somewhere around the extent of 10420000000 miles.

True space with 0 astronautical training. 1 of the things that I had set for myself as a goal, which think maybe I still may be able to accomplish, but I had given up hope on at 1 point in time.

Just to be able to travel through space? And it didn't occur. But to tell you made that point earlier, I suppose I have been the whole time, so really.

I'm still doing pretty good. Man. Yeah. I suppose positivity is a pretty good virtue too. Oh, Chardas. Okay. Alright. Listen, Jimmy, I appreciate it, parted White. I didn't say I was done talking yet.

You can be done all your life. Here's the thing. We got to talk about it. 20 22 is common, What are your resolutions now? For this next year, right, for the next year? What does your new year's resolutions?

You know, I think at this point, personally, I really just want to maintain what I have and get some stability in my life partner. That's not going to work? We already discussed this. It's got to be specific.

Well, then I guess it's a good thing I have a few days to make it more specific. At least I've got a direction. Sure. Sure. And from where I am, I like to get off the limerick, but Doesn't matter how at least I've got the direction.

Right? Okay. Alright, I get it. I'm gonna have to do some research and figure this out, but seeing as you're so keen on bullying me into this answer, Jimmy.

What are you expecting then as a resolution for 20 22? Porter, here's the thing. I enjoy doing discussions from Double, and I enjoy these video series that you've got going on.

But it seems like your attentions are a bit split right now. Weren't a podcast. I think you mentioned you got some sort of real estate thing, your active duty, this video series, all of it's great fun.

I think for 20 22, my resolution is going to be to try to help you get advertising, work your brand, turn it into something that's more beneficial for you, for all of us potentially, anybody else that comes to work on the team as well?

Agagers, programmers, managers, whatever the case. Yes. How exactly it might help and I don't know. I think we'll have talk to each other a bit more as the months and days go by to better specify how it's going to occur.

But if there's Generational wealth you're talking about or family planning or heritage, legacy's critical thought, or maybe if you're just a company that Valious people would drive ambition and some creativity?

Why would you not put a note on this show? Numbers are growing every day, comments or commenting emails are happening.

Values do still hold value. And unless I'm mistaken, every company has them. Supporter, I suppose, my resolution for 20 22, It's to take as much of the days as I am able.

To help you get this particular podcast SD YT in survival dot YT video series, to be a better, more qualifiable degree of successful, Pame me that's really sweet, man.

I appreciate that. Now I feel a little bit shallow in mind. Well, shallow's relative, I suppose. Troy feet can be deep to a 2 foot man. Alright, well folks, I'm gonna wrap this up.

Jimmy, I appreciate you stopping in, man. It was a great conversation. I really enjoyed it, and there was a lot of perspectives I hadn't considered before. I gotta tell you, man, when we talk, it's always a great time.

Thanks for coming in. Part not a problem. Thanks for inviting me back, man. And next time, I'll try to give you a bit of a heads up, and I'll try not to be running so many times. Sorry for that. It's not a problem, man.

But we'll catch you next time. Focusing on the problem. Partner, thank you, listeners, thank you, coming in and listening to my perspective, and please turn into business from Dublin on survival to add YT to video series.

It would be up on YouTube, be up on Facebook, we'll have some clips on TikTok, hopefully I can get back on our soon. And up on Instagram as well. Partor will catch you later, man. Jim, he will see you later, but all right.

Folks, that was great. I think we had a pretty good talk. Like Jimmy said, don't forget to check out other episodes of this podcast. SDYT the podcast. That's Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, Anchor, Spotify.

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To SDYT the podcast, I'm Porter, I'm your host, and that was episode 9.