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How To Switch Course 🗺️

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Habit changes and Brian’s coffee update.

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How to switch course.

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

One of the things that I’ve learned how to do through the years is how to be flexible, and how to switch course without feeling defeated. And that’s a really important thing to learn how to do, especially if you’re a business owner, if you’re an executive, you’re someone who’s in charge of getting things done and moving things and kind of charting course, on where you go next out.

I’ll give you an example, you know, in previous videos, we’ve discussed my experimentation’s with caffeine. So I grew up very young age, drinking coffee, and through the years became more and more of a coffee of a daily coffee drinker.

And that lasted all the way until, well, this would have been, would this have been earlier this year, well, this was early, earlier last year, in 2020, when out of nowhere, it just kind of it just kind of caught me that I’ve have never gone a long period of time without having coffee.

So I went through this whole experiment where I stopped drinking coffee altogether for a while. And besides the handful of days, that you got to deal with the, the all the withdrawals, all the headaches and everything else. And then you know, getting back, kind of get your energy balanced again. Once that was over, I felt a lot more mellow, in general, and very calm and I really liked it.

What I do is I started bringing coffee back on for like one day a week and like that one day having that be like the power data to get the last bit of done for the week and so forth and it worked out really well.

I’m not completely against caffeine, I’m not completely against coffee at all, what ended up happening is I have a business that I I work with that produced a healthy type of coffee, and it was meant to be a weight loss thing. And one of the things that I noticed as soon as I got off coffee is I gained about 10 pounds, just a change in metabolism, just a slight change.

It didn’t change anything else about my lifestyle, just stopped drinking coffee, and I gained weight. So I said, Well, I wonder if I can if I can lose some weight by drinking some healthy coffee.

So I went back and started drinking coffee on a daily basis again, and I handle it better than I used to. I think it’s probably the type of coffee that I’m drinking about more healthier style coffee that promotes weight loss and everything else. And I’ve been happy with it.

Well, I may go back one day to just drink in a couple week type of thing and see and see where that goes.

But right now I’m back back on the coffee wagon, I guess you could say more off the wagon, I don’t know which one it is. I say all that it is kind of wrap up that storyline for those of you who have been around a while. And to discuss that. You have to allow yourself the flexibility to move to go where you need to go and try things out and not necessarily commit to any one thing.

And this brings me to another story along the same lines and with the same thing of coffee. One of the things that I’ve done through the years is I’ve collected coffee cups, not that I have this intense collection.

But it’s one of those things that nowadays you can find a coffee cup about just about anything. And when when I traveled a lot, especially on business, I’d like to get a coffee cup that kind of represented that trip.

So I went on a trip that took me through the area with of Nevada where you got area 51 and everything. And there was a gift shop off to the side that had area 51 mugs. And so I grabbed one of those and that type of thing.

When I’m in Disneyland I like grabbing a grabbing a mug. And this was one that I saw there. That was just this giant Mickey head. It’s the old classic Mickey Mouse head and I said that’s a cool looking mug, I really liked the idea of that mug.

And I like having good size mugs because I like having a big cup of coffee in the morning. So I got this. And I brought it home and I was so excited to try it out and tried it out the first time and I’m like something’s off. It’s difficult to drink out of. I couldn’t quite figure it out. I’m like wow, what’s the deal here?

And the size is probably just me. So I tried it a couple more times. I’m like what is going on here but my wife tried it and everything else.

The problem is it this is a different style mug, it’s rounded on the sides. I don’t know if you could tell from here. It’s rounded like Mickey’s head and it has the general opening but the problem is is that the inside of the mug goes all the way around so the lip kind of curves here.

So when you’re drinking In it, it doesn’t flow like a regular mug, it’s difficult to kind of wrap your lips around to be able to keep the liquid going in the right direction when you’re dealing with something hot.

That makes it really difficult that being that it’s just an awkward thing to drink from. And I did my best to try and learn how to drink from this stupid thing. It would not but it still doesn’t work. In fact, I had, we had kind of had it put to the side and have a drink from it for a long time. I’m like, I really would like another good sized mug. And we were we were low, they needed to be washed.

And so I grabbed this one out, try it again, I’m sorry, it doesn’t work. I like the idea behind it. I bought it with the intention of using on a regular basis. But what it has now become is something that I’m going to put on the shelf to look at. I love to keep it, I want it for the utilitarian reason of drinking coffee from it. But hey, if I just have it is something to look at as a cool little memento. That’s fine, too.

It got to be flexible, this that this represents flexibility, things don’t always work out the way you want them to. And so Mickey is going to be with us and you’ll probably see him in the background once in a while.

And you’ll know that’s why I keep them he’s reminder that you got to be willing to move with the punches. Things are never going to work out exactly the way you want them to. But hopefully they end up working out even better than that. This was just a light idea tonight.

We go through some sometimes more heavier ideas, sometimes more detailed ideas. We deal with strategies, tactics and principles to help you with your business. Come on back again. And we’ll talk again We do this every night. And in between now and then, if you want some more, go check out my book nine ways to Amazon proof your business. It’s short, you get a free copy over at AmazonProofBook.com. We’ll be back tomorrow. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Caffeine, You & Your Business ☕

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Caffeine, you and your business.

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

Today I want to talk with you from a kind of a different setting, just trying something a little bit different being that the weather’s changed, our smoke in this area has calmed down. It’s currently September of 2020. And we’ve gone through quite a quite a hassle of probably good two, three weeks of really harsh smoke and wildfires. Nothing too close to here. We’ve been saved from that but it’s tough being outside, you know, hazardous, unhealthy and everything else.

So done with that, hopefully, fingers crossed, everything’s going to be taken care of from here on out with a with a more wetter weather and a lot cooler temperatures. So that makes it a lot tougher for fire to go crazy.

Let’s talk a little bit about caffeine though.

Because it has to do with a personal you know, we talk about a lot about principals strategies tactics here that help you in your business. And a whole lot of that is your own personal space.

And this is a tactic that you can use and it may it may border on a strategy also depending on how you use it. But I’ve grown up for a very long time as I mentioned on an earlier video, from a very early age drinking coffee, I was probably a boy.

I was probably eight or nine years old when I started drinking coffee. And not every single day but started you know, with a lot of cream and sugar in it. And you know, tastes like candy. You put enough of that stuff in it.

And then as I got older, you know, pretty much drinking black coffee.

And then….oh nice a wasp landed on my arm.

And then a little bit later, you know, switching to black coffee and then back to putting more cream but no sugar just using some type of sweetener in it. And I’ve done that for years and years lost a lost a bunch of weight.

A couple years back about three years back lost a bunch of weight, but I didn’t change my coffee regimen. If anything, I drink more coffee. And, but the ability to be able to lose weight and keep it off, encouraged me to say well, I wouldn’t mind trying other things because I wouldn’t think I’d be able to give up all these gave him a lot of carbs and stuff.

I wouldn’t think I’d be able to give up that stuff before I did. But afterwards, it really wasn’t that big of a deal. And it’s extremely easy not to go back.

So I saw a couple of videos online of people discussing giving up caffeine, and most of the time, it never really appealed to me because I as I got older, it didn’t really affect me. I drank it. And it didn’t really do much for me.

It’s like the only time I’d ever really noticed this if I didn’t drink it. But if I drank it, I just felt normal and then I was okay with that because I like having something warm to drink in the morning.

It was no big deal and that the taste didn’t bother me like it did when you when you first try it. And so it was one of those things where I didn’t need to give it up.

But I’ve said I wondered that someone was saying, you know, they’re more focused and they can they can do a lot more stuff now that they’re no longer hooked on coffee.

And I don’t think it’s that big of a deal.

Honestly, you go your entire life drinking coffee, it I don’t think it really makes that big of a deal.

In a lot of cases. I think a lot of the health hazards of coffee is overblown, in a lot of ways because I’ve known people that have gone their whole lives without having any issues. That or any that you can tell that came directly from coffee, so I’m not I’m not out there saying everyone should quit, but I tried it out. I tried quitting.

And that first those first handful of days, the withdrawals, just headaches, just horrible, horrible headaches and I don’t get headaches. I’m not a headache person I don’t get them very often very unusual.

I have to be extremely dehydrated or something like that. And this was one of those things. After that happened though, I just a couple things. I noticed a couple things I noticed one thing I noticed was that I wasn’t as thirsty. And I drink…oh, I don’t know how this would equate. I’ve got one of those shaker bottles. That’s about, I guess, 30 ounces, something like that. And I drank probably four or five of those a day pretty consistently.

After I gave up coffee, though, and alcohol, caffeine, I haven’t haven’t drank soda in a long time or anything like that. So I’ve stayed away from caffeine overall. And when I did when I did that, I noticed I was less thirsty.

Once I got over the initial being tired, I was fine. My energy level actually leveled out.

Whereas when I have caffeine you kind of when you’re drinking it, kind of have a little boost in the morning and it kind of slowly tapers off now I’m pretty more consistent in terms of energy. And then when I’m done at the end of the day, I’m done. It’s just it’s over.

And overall my mood and everything has been more stable. Just in general, I’m pretty level and when wacky things happen, that kind of test, your stability, your mood and so forth hasn’t affected me.

Hasen’t affected me, that it’s a lot easier to kind of step away from that and not let it overcome you and just handled things properly. That’s been probably the biggest, biggest advantage.

The other advantage is, which is a strange one is that now I can have caffeine every once in a while. Like I had a coffee this morning while I was meeting with some friends and had some had have a cup of coffee because the lady wouldn’t come back and refill, so, one cup, had just one cup of coffee.

It gives you quite a boost. Much more than I would have ever ever felt before would have noticed. And so it had a nice boost.

And so if I have a day where I just need to go power through the day, I’ll have a cup of coffee or a couple cups of coffee, and that’s a that’s a go go day. I do really well.

If I have too much though, the next day on dead, I have a really tough time your body wants more and more. I don’t get withdrawals or anything from just one come and I also I’ll drink, you know, a healthy energy drink and so forth.

I have some friends that promote a healthy energy drink. So I’ll drink one of those on occasion and that’s not as not as high a boost as coffee or anything but it’s more powerful because I’m not on it all the time.

It has a lot more umph to it, which is which is helpful when it’s needed. And I don’t think it’s that damaging if you do it just every once in a while as long as you don’t get hooked to it, and you can keep stable, and for me, that’s been the biggest pro, I haven’t seen a huge change in focus.

That hasn’t been a big difference for me because I’m not a very focused person. And it’s difficult for me to stay focused. And that’s been pretty consistent.

But other than that, everything’s going really good. So just an idea if you ever want to challenge yourself a little bit, and you’re a caffeine addict.

It’s not that big a deal. I really don’t think it’s that big of a deal. But if you’d like to give it a shot and see if you can actually handle it, give it a week or two and see what happens.

I’ve been doing it for I guess, a couple months now or something I gotta go back and look, I think it’s been a few months that I’ve been off of off of daily caffeine injections. So interesting idea.

Hey, if you’d like a more interesting ideas for you to be able to use in your business, go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

We’ll be back here tomorrow with another tip. Maybe we’ll do a few few of these from outside, who knows?

You have a great night. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.