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You Aren’t Your Brain 🧠

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Day one of Brian’s trip down to California for Easter with his family.

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If you aren’t your brain.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I’m here in California having to speak a little quieter because other people were sleeping in this house. But I had a nice long trip down to visit family.

It’s been interesting because last night, I discussed how great I felt after getting back into doing some exercise. And starting later that night, something I had eaten or something else happened to where I started having issues. It was like getting hit with a two-by-four, I don’t know if I’m sick, I think it’s food poisoning.

Now we’re pretty sure, cuz both me and my wife tended to hit us at the same time, we think it was something odd that we ate. And so did not sleep well.

I had a horrible time today just trying to get ready to go so that we can be here in California. And it was just one of those things where it’s just really, really odd. But it all worked out.

In that process, I can tell that there were certain things I wanted to take care of, I wanted to handle, and I couldn’t do as easily you ever have that really thick brain fog.

It really hit me hard that I’m not my brain because I wouldn’t even be able to see that there was an issue, that my brain wasn’t processing things properly. My body was not processing things properly. It’s not me, it’s just the machine that I work through.

At least that’s how I view it and I don’t see any other way I could view it based on just my own experience, I’m sure in your experience, you could say the same thing.

If you just have enough perspective, you could see that if you have the ability to see something like your brain not functioning properly, then you must not be your brain, or there at least is a separate part of the brain that is functional.

Well, the other part is, is dysfunctional. So it’s just an interesting idea. Just toss it out there nothing too heavy today. As I said, not fully functioning right now. And my body’s not fully functioning but getting over it, whatever it is that I will go through and get over it. And look forward to seeing all my relatives and everything tomorrow and maybe doing something fun with the family. So go check out my book.

If you haven’t yet, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business, you can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com And that’s all I have for tonight. We’ll see you tomorrow. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Best Mood-Altering Activity 🚙

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Thoughts on traveling with family and exercise for better health.

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Best mood-altering activity.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

When I’m talking best mood-altering activity, I mean, a person could take that a whole lot of different ways. What I’m talking about is something to keep your mood up over a longer period of time.

It’s a simple thing and something that everyone always talks about. But I found ways that work out the best for me.

So why am I talking about this, this is a business show, we talk about business and the concepts that business owners deal with and so forth. But I wanted to bring this up because it does go back into the kind of personal journey that you go on as a business person.

So we’re getting ready to leave town. For those of you who watch or listen on a regular basis, you’ll notice that we tend to leave town we have services that watch over our home, and so forth, but we tend to leave town around the holidays, the different holidays of the year.

One of them can oftentimes be Easter, and so we go home and visit our family.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen them and so we they live down in California. It’s always a fun trip just to get in the car and get out of town, we’re very much a traveling family.

As things improve in business, we’ll probably be traveling even more because we really enjoy it. And I just noticed that my mood was really good from last night all the way through to today.

There’s a whole lot of things that go along with that eating right, and all that stuff’s good. But I added an element for those of you who listened or watched yesterday, I added a little element back to my routine, and we’ll see if I can keep it up.

But a little bit of exercise just a little bit, not a lot, just a little bit. Specifically, I mentioned yesterday, I do a high-intensity interval training. And it’s a very small amount.

So much, you’d say there’s no way that could possibly do it but it does certain types of exercise. If you exercise too much or wear yourself out, you’ll feel worse when you’re done than where you started.

It’ll affect you for days on end, this specific style of exercising, I really like because it doesn’t take too much out of me. It may feel a little sore, you know, within the first couple of hours. But after that feel great.

There are just the natural juices that start flowing, and you start feeling a whole lot better. There are a whole lot of things you could do out there to make you feel good immediately. But if you could make yourself feel I don’t want to say make yourself feel bad.

But in a sensible exercise I have not a moving person I like to sit still I don’t like to be active. I’m not a sports nut, when it comes to me actually doing the sports I’ve just never, it’s never appealed to me.

I was able to find something, an exercise that works for me that I can do that isn’t doesn’t take too much time. And at the same time gives me a real pep in my step so to speak. I really enjoy it and I forgot how good it feels just to do a little bit.

You could say it’s all in my head but one thing I’ve noticed is it’s literally 36 hours, about a pretty close to 36 hours. It’s like a day and a half if that’s if I’m doing my math, right. It’s about a day and a half. Before I start feeling it come off a little bit.

I know some people call it the runner’s high and stuff like that. But this is it’s something very specific and it’s something that I’m really happy with. So don’t run after those things that make you feel good right off the bat run after the things that give you kind of a sustainable, feel good. And I found those things tend to last.

I can be completely off and this could probably, you know, watch if I do it too often. It’ll probably kill me they’ll find out there’s something horribly wrong with it, but right now, it’s doing good. That’s where I’m at in my life.

I just thought I’d share it with you. So that’s all I have for tonight.

Go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business if you want to make yourself competition proof if you want to make it to where you stand out to where you don’t even have competition.

Go check out this book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business you can go purchase a copy or you can get a free one. Download it at AmazonProofBook.com. That’s all I have for tonight. You have a good one. We’ll be back tomorrow.

In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

TRICK YOURSELF skinny 🙄

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Thoughts on diet, nutrition and exercise for better health.

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Trick yourself skinny.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I’m going to reveal a secret of mine that isn’t that big of a secret. It isn’t something you haven’t heard before, but maybe you need to hear it again. Because I always need to hear it again and again and again.

That is the only progress that I’ve ever been able to make in my life. Specifically in the areas of health, in the areas of wealth creation, and building businesses, in all these different areas that don’t necessarily come naturally.

I’ve had to resort to this one thing, and it has to do with tricking yourself, how do you trick yourself to be skinny?

How do you trick yourself to be healthy?

How do you trick yourself to make more money?

How do you trick yourself to do any of those things?

I’ve only found one thing that is relatively foolproof. The problem is how do you get how do you put everything in place to make that one thing work. But if you understand that one thing, you at least have a direction, you have a strategy you could work with, I haven’t found anything else that works.

That one thing is the development of a habit. A lot of people say that and it’s a really nice, you know, juicy piece, and there’s all these books about it and everything else now.

But some of the books that have come out in the last 20 or so years, I think really pin the nail on the donkey. It’s very, very close.

Many of them have pieces of it and if you read enough of them, you’ll eventually get something that’ll work for you. But I’m not saying you need to go out and read books if you can just get this one concept.

Concept, I’ve talked about it before I first read it in a book called The Slight Edge, which is a short book and it’s a good one. Let me see, do I have it right here.

This isn’t a review for that book, so we’ll talk about that book another time.

The basic idea is if you can take one tiny little step, as the smallest possible measurable step in the direction of, let’s say health if you can take one tiny little step on a daily basis, until the point to where it becomes natural to where you don’t have to think about it.

It should take a very small effort to begin with but if it has zero effort over the long run, you’ve created a habit, it takes even more effort to want to stop it not want to stop it.

You may want to stop it but it’s easier not to it’s easier just to do it. I’ve talked about this before, this is how I started doing daily podcasts, okay, it just became something that I do.

It’s something that I feel uncomfortable if I haven’t done unless I’m in a very like I’ve said before about the only scenario is if I’m in a very different location with different scenario happen, if I’m sleep deprived, anything like that, I might mess, it might mess with my habit.

But otherwise, I have to almost intentionally not do it, in order to not do it, I have to intentionally turn it off because it’s become such a big part of what I do.

This has happened with bootload the food that I eat. The problem is a lot of these things can swing back in the other direction, if you allow them to slowly inch their way back, you can build a habit backwards.

But if you intentionally build a habit forwards in a very, in the least willful way possible in something that takes the least amount of effort possible. If you can do that, then you can change your life.

It’s not going to happen overnight. It happens over time.

It’s this very subtle, subtle, subtle, subtle, subtle, subtle change. But what ends up happening is you look back six months, you look back a year, and all of a sudden you’ve come somewhere, you’ve done something that you wouldn’t have been able to do.

You can see it going forward into the future relatively easily. Okay, there’s a whole bunch of nuances to this. There’s a whole bunch of details that really make a big difference in getting it going, to getting the habit started, to make sure you stick to it in that in that first period of time.

A lot of people say, Oh, it’s an idea years ago that 21 days can create any habit it’s not exactly true. For one thing, I have it can start can be picked up a lot sooner, or a habit can take a whole lot longer to build it and it really does depend.

There hasn’t been any that I’ve seen direct science saying what the difference is, but habit becomes a very physical thing in your mind, they say it’s actual tracks that get put into your brain. And until that’s installed, it’s going to it’s not going to be second nature, it’s not going to be easy.

This is the plan, make it easy.

One of the big things that I’ve fought for years and years and years is the concept of accountability. Having an accountability partner or having somebody that you’re accountable to or having a mentor that you check in with on a regular basis.

These things just bristled, bristled the independent means, I don’t want to be dependent on anybody else. But that accountability, if you can see it as a necessary temporary crutch in order to build a positive habit, in order to switch a habit process, or it means you could technically even take away a habit this way.

You kind of have to replace it with something. If you are developing a positive lifestyle, then having accountability short term is really really, really important thing.

Especially if you’re not able to do it without it, which is more common than not when it comes to those most difficult habits that you’re looking to build. So just a couple ideas, the accountability for tonight.

I’m here to tell you, I’m going to start exercising a little more.

In fact, right now, as soon as I’m done here, I’m going to go get on my bike, and I’m going to exercise and it doesn’t matter if I even do anything. I’m going to sit on that bike so that I get used to sitting on it.

If I do that every night, I will work out once in a while. And that working out once a while is a lot better than not working out at all.

One of the things that I had lost a lot of weight initially was doing high intensity interval training, which is really scary, disgusting word, phrase, I never liked the word intensity or anything like that.

It just never did anything for me.

But this specific style of exercise, you only do three or four times a week. And it has a lot of benefits at least for my body type or whatever my situation is I really enjoy it and helps helps me mentally helps out with the mental fog quite a bit and the ADHD, if you have any of that going on what whether you believe in it or not.

It’s whatever that is, in people’s minds, I’ve got it. And it, it’s a lot easier for me to stick with something and concentrate if I burn off a lot of that extra energy.

So hopefully that’s helpful to you.

That’s all I have for tonight, a little slice of life but business is life. And if you’re a business owner, if you own a business, it’s one of those things that you wait, I can’t ignore the personal life issues that go along with owning a business, because that’s so much of what your business is made out of.

I was working with a client earlier today and talking to a lot of the staff. And so many of the issues, go back to that business owner, and nothing’s going to change in the business till that person does. But you can’t force it either.

So you kind of have to ease it along as best you can. And you wait, you wait for good things to happen, hopefully. So if you’re going if you’re looking to make some changes in your business, change some things up here, trick yourself into being whatever you want yourself to be and you can you can get there for sure.

Go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com You just download it.

It’s easy AmazonProofBook.com. That’s all I have for tonight. You have a good one. We’ll be back tomorrow.

In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.