Welcome to Episode 98 of my podcast. The view from the crow's nest. And it kinda is. I'm still not entirely sure what it kind of is. But I think it is like Friday the 11th of September, 2020, although it's 130 in the morning on the 12th that I'm recording this, so I don't know when this is going to come up anyways. Suffice it to say that today has been another of those day or Today was a complete casino of a day, in the sense of the day just kind of disappear for me because everything just came unstuck. Everything just kind of seemed to go slightly wrong. So for example, the kids have broken a glass. We've got tiled floors here because we're in south of Italy, and the kids haven't broken glass in months. Today we broke two glasses in separate occasions. And, you know, I was trying to do one thing and then a glass breaks at a run in the other room so the glass. I was trying to do my Italian lesson and Leonardo does not want to put. We're trying to get him out of nappies, and he doesn't want to put on any underwear. So Simona and Mina went out and stayed here, which meant he was with me when I was doing my Italian lesson, which were not quite distracted and that was quite challenging and then later I had my personal training session, and I both kids here, and they were jumping all over me and that was challenging. Then later I had another tiny lesson with the same dude and another was back in because again meaner and Simona went out, but Leonardo wouldn't go on his underwear. Because he's still scared about the nappy so so the whole day, and on things but the whole day has been one of those kind of days where everything has been more challenging than on other days. So on one side, you know you can get annoyed about it as I did earlier because. On the other side, you look at it and you go hang on what's awesome about this, you know, It's easy. I read something today which is what splits into my mind. I read something today about don't think it was from Derek civils, who's an author and an entrepreneur who I really dig the guy says, and he said, in the thing that I read today he said, Don't think about silver medal. Think about bronze medal plan to be a bronze medalist, which on the surface you think well that's kind of bizarre don't really get what you're talking about. And his point was this, which I really liked because all of his points are kind of counter intuitive and that's kind of why I like them. So, he was saying that the, the silver medalist, they get really stressed because they almost won gold, and they're focusing on the person who beat them they're focusing on the situation or whatever it was that is better than what they have. And his point was, instead of being a silver medalist, you should focus on being a bronze medalist, and a bronze medalist is happy to be on the podium. They're happy because they beat, or they're better than or they were above the situation that is just below them. So, a silver medalist looks up, and a bronze medalist compares downwards and his point was, you'll be much happier if you compare downwards to if you compare up. So to put that into absolute practical use straightaway. My day was really frustrating because I was comparing upwards, I wanted to get stuff done. I wanted to blah blah blah and it's getting all these interruptions and, etc. Whereas when I reframing I look at it as comparing myself downward. What a wonderful day I had because I managed to put in two hours of Italian study towards you know getting my citizenship, I managed to put in an hour of exercise towards being healthy and able to enjoy my citizenship. I managed to put in some time with my son, playing around and whatever. And, you know, I managed to do all these things which, if I compare upwards would make me think. I didn't manage to. But if I compare downwards. I completely managed to against, you know, another reality let's say whereby I was at work for six or seven hours and I managed to do none of those things
