My Journal

Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas

Slept at home again last night but I woke up far too early. Managed to complete all of my morning routine.

Horse bot has been doing rubbish, so have tinkered a little with it today.

Day 6 for my son post transplant and he’s been a little sick today. Hoping he begins to feel much better soon. 🤞

Another four world cup matches today, but because its end of group stage there are two sets of two matches that are played at the same time. The biggy for me is the England v Wales game tonight at 7 pm. Will go to the hospital to watch it with my wife and son.

Called one of my customers today to confirm some work I had planned to do for him.

One of my riding club customers has decided to leave us this morning, it’s a little sad as they’ve been a customer of ours for a good number of years, although it was kind of expected as our system was never really geared up for equestrian clubs nor was it something that we wanted to focus on. I’ve put a date in my calendar to clear out all of their contacts and memberships.

Then I spent a bit of time putting a formal proposal together for my potential walking club customer.

Afternoon I went to the hospital and we all watched the England v Wales game together. England won 3 – 0 so that’s great news. Top of the group and through to the last 16.

When I got back from hospital I tried a new TV show out on Netflix that my son had recommended and that had high IMDB ratings called Wednesday. I watch a full one but it’s not for me, it’s done well with great effects but I think it’s more geared up for teenagers/young adults.

Food Diary

Not doing any special diet while ever my son is recovering in hospital, so today I had 4 slices of cheese on toast with lashings of HP sauce. Two white slices and two brown as can be seen in todays photo.

Later I have a packet of cheese and onion crisps and a packet of cheesy quavers.

Ate rubbish again at the hospital, loads of packets of crisps, loads of biscuits and even some chocolate brownies and sweets.

In the SAVERS acronym R is for Reading

My goal today is to read just 10 minutes of a brand new book, The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

My starting point is location 197 of 2286 or 9% complete.

My ending point was location 251 of 2286 or 11% complete.

In the SAVERS acronym, S is for Scribing

My learnings from reading The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

Keynotes from the book today were:

A very motivational starting message from Anthony Robbins.

Also a very motivational intro by the author Darren Hardy.

My Core Journal

Here is my core journal, the part that I don’t expect to change too much on a day-to-day basis

What did you achieve yesterday?

Yesterday (Monday 28th) I:

Organize my book collection in calibre ✅
Do a blog post of the 7 levels of communication book that I read ✅

What would make today great?

2 to 3 tasks, see core journal – micro goals

My micro goals for today (Tuesday 29th) are:

Finish walking club proposal ✅
Reach out to my charge point customer ✅
Start work on my demo to my charge point customer
Do a pricing page on our Objitec website – in fact it needs a lot of improvements
Finish restore of my innovation website

Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas

Sleeping back at home last night, but went to bed far too late as found an interesting, 5-part, crime drama called Outcry on Sky Crime and stayed up to watch 1 and half episodes of it. Got up rather late and completed my morning routine.

Leaving horse bot as is again, small loss yesterday.

Day 5 for my son post transplant and so far he’s still doing Ok. 🤞

Another four world cup matches today.

I use the calibre program to manage my books, I spent quite a lot of time today getting my library of books I intend to read in order. I ranked them all by their Goodreads rating.

Food Diary

For breakfast I had what can be seen in today’s post photo. One of my favourite breakfast meals, strange I know, but I love it… 4 slices of toast with 4 poached eggs, the toast has lots of butter on it and then Bovril (yes, Bovril the drink!). I poach the eggs for exactly 5 minutes and then break the yolks as I put it on the toast. This was topped with two pork sausages that have been sliced lengthways and a little bit of HP brown sauce was added later to each egg. Plus, not to forget, a lot of pepper too.

Later I also had some Seabrooks cheese and onion crisps as a snack too. So still not a good day for a diet, but I’m going to wait until my son is well and back home again.

The diet went even worse for evening meal. I had a chicken and mushroom pot noodles, a packet of prawn and cocktail crisps and 6 biscuits!

In the SAVERS acronym R is for Reading

My goal today is to read just 5 minutes of a brand new book, The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

My starting point is location 1 of 2286 or 0% complete.

My ending point was location 197 of 2286 or 9% complete.

In the SAVERS acronym, S is for Scribing

My learnings from reading The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

Keynotes from the book today were:

Message from Anthony Robbins at the start of the book, I should probably add every book by Jim Rohn to my to read list.

My Core Journal

Here is my core journal, the part that I don’t expect to change too much on a day-to-day basis

What did you achieve yesterday?

Yesterday (Sunday 27th) I:

Read more and take notes in my new note taking tool LogSeq. ✅
Restore more of my Innovation-Creativity website. I restored about 4 pages, so a little closer to my goal ✅

What would make today great?

2 to 3 tasks, see core journal – micro goals

My micro goals for today (Monday 28th) are:

Organize my book collection in calibre ✅
Do a blog post of the 7 levels of communication book that I read
Finish walking club proposal

Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas

Slept well to say it was in a hospital room with filtered air. Completed a partial my morning routine.

Leaving horse bot as is, the smallest profit imaginable yesterday, a few pence. I’m not complaining about a profit though!

Day 4 for my son post transplant and so far he’s still doing Ok.

Another four world cup matches today.

Spent most of the day in the hospital either watching football or reading.

Food Diary

Cottage Pie, a two finger KitKat, 5 crackers with cheese, 2 slices of toast. Another poor food day!

In the SAVERS acronym R is for Reading

My goal today is to read 20 minutes of my new book that I’ve decided to read… The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

My starting point for today is location 1401 or 61% complete.

My ending point was 2305 out of 2305 or 100% complete. I finished it, not the best for me, felt too geared towards real estate sales

In the SAVERS acronym, S is for Scribing

My learnings from reading The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

Keynotes from the book today were:

Create a communication plan for the contacts in your CRM system. Rated the contacts A through to D, delete D’s.

When selling, in person or a phone call always beats email

Post success stories and status updates on a blog and/or social media. Post updates that are positive, funny or interesting.

My Core Journal

Here is my core journal, the part that I don’t expect to change too much on a day-to-day basis

What did you achieve yesterday?

Yesterday (Saturday 26th) I:

I spent a good chunk of the morning researching companies to buy shares in, I put buy orders in on about 30 stocks that should execute tomorrow.✅
I read quite a lot of The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals. However, I’m not convinced it’s much help for selling my software as a service products. Seems very geared up towards real estate. ✅

What would make today great?

2 to 3 tasks, see core journal – micro goals

My micro goals for today (Sunday 27th) are:

Read more and take notes in my new note taking tool LogSeq. ✅
Restore more of my Innovation-Creativity website. I restored about 4 pages, so a little closer to my goal ✅

Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas

A good nights sleep at home on my own again and got up early-ish and completed my morning routine.

Leaving horse bot as is for now, another small loss yesterday.

Day 3 for my son post transplant and so far he’s still doing Ok.

Another four world cup matches today.

Today I researched stocks to invest in and set buy orders to execute next week.

My turn to stay at the hospital today, will probably leave sometime late afternoon.

Food Diary

3 slices of toast, 3 fried eggs and two pork sausages.

Then another 2 sausages, then a pack of quavers and some mini cheddars.

For evening meal I had a vegetable cup-a-soup and a ham sandwich.

In the SAVERS acronym R is for Reading

My goal today is to read 20 minutes of my new book that I’ve decided to read… The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

My starting point for today is location 1239 or 54% complete.

My ending point for today was location 1401 or 61% complete.

In the SAVERS acronym, S is for Scribing

My learnings from reading The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

Keynotes from the book today were:

New book from The Seven levels book to add to my reading list The Go-Giver: A little story about a powerful business idea by Bob Burg and John David Mann GR: 4.34

My Core Journal

Here is my core journal, the part that I don’t expect to change too much on a day-to-day basis

What did you achieve yesterday?

Yesterday (Friday 25th) I:

Created some walking club posts ✅
Set up the demo booking system with walking club events ✅
Had a great demo ✅
Started work on a draft proposal ✅

What would make today great?

2 to 3 tasks, see core journal – micro goals

My micro goals for today (Saturday 26th) are:

Research some shares to purchase ✅ and place orders to execute next week.
Read and take notes in my new note taking tool LogSeq.
Restore more of my Innovation-Creativity website.

Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas

I had a pretty good nights sleep, even though I went to bed far too late last night, I think it was about 1:30 am. Got up at 8:45 am and completed my morning routine.

Leaving horse bot as is, it doesn’t do very well on the soft ground in the winter months.

Day 2 for my son and his new bone marrow and so far he’s doing Ok.

Another four world cup matches today with England v USA at 7pm, come on England!

I watched the Wales v Iran game. Wales lost 2 – 0 in the last minutes of the game. Looks like Wales might be going home

Today I prepared for my meeting with my potential walking club customer. Gave a demo to him, went well I think, although he will still have to get it by his committee members. After I wrote up a draft proposal that I will send to him next week.

Watched the England USA game in the hospital with my wife and son, turned out to be quite a boring game that ended 0 – 0.

While demoing our booking system to the potential walking club customer, I noticed that the make sure you complete your booking in 15 minutes text still appears even if you have used a gift card – this is wrong and needs fixing!

Found a great site for small gifts for people in case you’re ever stuck what to but someone for a Birthday or for Christmas. They had a great looking pair of sports shorts that might be good for my Racketball and Squash too! Small Gifts – 300+ Small Gift Ideas

My turn to stay at the hospital again tomorrow night.

Food Diary

I had 4 slices of toast with a Bovril and 4 poached eggs, was very nice. Also had some cooked beef which was just Ok.

At the hospital I had quite a few sweets, jelly babies and others that my son doesn’t particularly like.

Crank two pints of lager and a couple of large glasses of wine, it is Friday!

In the SAVERS acronym R is for Reading

My goal today is to read 5 minutes of my new book that I’ve decided to read… The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

My starting point for today is location 1199 or 52% complete.

My ending point for today was location 1239 or 54% complete.

In the SAVERS acronym, S is for Scribing

My learnings from reading The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

Keynotes from the book today were:

Ask questions and you control the conversation. Think of FROG Family Recreation Occupation and Goals

Conversations build trust, trust creates sales Don’t use the words give me a referral, instead ask who do you know that ….

My Core Journal

Here is my core journal, the part that I don’t expect to change too much on a day-to-day basis

What did you achieve yesterday?

Yesterday (Thursday 24th) I:

Spent all day in the hospital with my son ✅
Learnt a lot about LogSeq note taking too, which I am very impressed with ✅

What would make today great?

2 to 3 tasks, see core journal – micro goals

My micro goals for today (Friday 25th) are:

Create walking club posts ✅
Set up the demo booking system with walking club events ✅
Have a great demo ✅
Create a draft proposal ✅
England beat USA in the world cup football match 😂 Got a draw, not too bad in terms of where we stand in the table!

Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas

Just an average night’s sleep last night in the hospital, I find the bed Ok, but the room is just far too warm for my liking. Due to being in the hospital I only partially completed my morning routine.

The new strategy for the horse bot didn’t work, another bad day, roll on spring and summer as I’m pretty sure the horse bot doesn’t like soft going.

It’s now officially day 1 for my son as transplant day, day 0 was yesterday, please work well, quickly, and without any complication.

Another four world cup matches today with some big-name teams playing later in the day, Portugal is playing Ghana at 4 pm and Brazil is playing Serbia at 7 pm.

In between watching football, I spent a lot of time today learning a new note-taking app that I found called logseq, seems pretty useful from what I’ve seen. Should be able to use if for my website publishing content. As a result, todays AI generated image is of someone notetaking.

Food Diary

I expect another bad day of eating due to the fact that I’m at the hospital. Some would argue I still have control!

I’ve lost track of the rubbish I have eaten today. Any hospital food that my son couldn’t finish, I kindly finished off for him!

In the SAVERS acronym R is for Reading

My goal today is to read 15 minutes of my new book that I’ve decided to read… The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

My starting point for today is location 1013 or 44% complete.

My ending point for today was location 1199 or 52% complete.

In the SAVERS acronym, S is for Scribing

My learnings from reading The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

Keynotes from the book today were:

There are 4 distinct behavioral styles of your client, use the following acronym:

D = Dominance (to the point, fast-paced, impatient, efficient – they want the bottom line)

I = Influence (like socializing, outgoing, friendly, life of the party)

S = Steadiness (dependable, like predictability and security, enjoy executing systems)

C = Compliance (perfectionists that expect people to comply with the rules, want order and process)

When selling you need to “Care like everyone is an S, Smile like everyone is an I, Prepare like everyone is a C, and Sell like everyone is a D”

When you call people, remember that you are helping them, you are focussing on their needs after each call rank yourself on a scale of 0 to 10 on how happy the person was to hear from you. Zero = they hung up on you, 10 = it was like speaking with your best friend. Give/get people what they need. Focus on what you can do for that person. The person who asks the questions controls the conversation.

My Core Journal

Here is my core journal, the part that I don’t expect to change too much on a day-to-day basis

What did you achieve yesterday?

Yesterday (Monday 21st) I:

Reached out to my potential customer to set up a meeting with him on Friday. ✅
Created a post for the website I’m demoing to him ✅

What would make today great?

2 to 3 tasks, see core journal – micro goals

My micro goals for today are:

Create some more walk posts
Check Andy has got events working correctly

Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas

Another great night’s sleep at home got up early and completed my morning routine.

AI horse gambling bot had another bad day, so I have adjusted the strategy for today, here’s hoping that it will result in a better day.

Had a catch-up call with my friend Dave who lives in Spain. He’s quite an expert in the field of psychology, you can check out his website here https://www.all-about-psychology.com/

Transplant day for my son today, he gets a new bone marrow. So fingers crossed everything goes well.

My turn to stay overnight in the hospital this evening.

Another four world cup matches today will try and fit work in between. Some great football today with a bit of a surprise result of Japan beating Germany 2 – 1. Canada played exceptionally too and only just lost 1 -0 to the second-best team in the world at the moment, Belgium. I lived in Canada for 8 years and have Canadian Citizenship, so Canada is my second team after England!

Was pleased to find out today that my Spotify subscription now also includes audiobooks, which will be great for car journeys back and forth to school when my son gets through his bone marrow transplant. Speaking of which, he had all his cells transplanted today. They came from some wonderful German lady, that’s about as much as we know. For some reason, it all stays anonymous. We can contact her in two years’ time, assuming all is a success.

Bit jumpy I know but back to Spotify, I need to remind myself to try Case 63 audio series that is getting some good reviews and has appeared on Spotify this week I think as part of this new audiobook release.

Today’s post image is an AI-generated image, got to love new technology! Although, I’m not sure the text written in the journal makes much sense! Was very impressed with some of the AI stuff I managed to find and play with today. Found some that generated images and stuff to help you with writer’s block when writing articles.

One of my favorite sports which I have played most of my life is squash, so I got it to draw me a cartoon of someone playing squash, this was the result:

cartoon of a squash player

When goal setting:

Set a specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound goal.
Make a detailed plan of action with small, achievable steps.
Hold yourself accountable by setting deadlines and tracking your progress.
Celebrate your accomplishments along the way.
Adjust your goals as needed to stay on track.

Food Diary

I had chili con carne for lunch, but with no rice, so relatively low in carbohydrates. I spoiled it immediately afterward though with a bag of cheesy quaver crisps and a chocolate ice cream!

Another bad day for food, I’ve eaten far too much, once again. I followed the chili with noodles and chicken. Then I finished my son’s hospital chili and rice and had all of his treacle sponge pudding and custard.

Later I even ate a lemon cake and caramel shortbread! Feel absolutely stuffed.

In the SAVERS acronym R is for Reading

My goal today is to read 15 minutes of my new book that I’ve decided to read… The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

My starting point for today is location 785 or 34% complete.

My ending point was location 1013 or 44% complete.

In the SAVERS acronym, S is for Scribing

My learnings from reading The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

Keynotes from the book today were:

The book does seem kind of more related to real estate agent sales, although I guess some of it might cross over into software as a service sales.

It says when meeting people or prospects to use the acronym FROG

F = Family

R = Recreation

O = Occupation

G = Goals

Discuss the above with them to get them talking and interested.

Write about your successes. Who did you help? What was the problem you solved for them? What would have happened if you weren’t involved? How did you help them solve the problem? What was the specific result? What did they say so you know you did well? Get a testimonial

My Core Journal

Here is my core journal, the part that I don’t expect to change too much on a day-to-day basis

What did you achieve yesterday?

Yesterday (Monday 21st) I:

Achieved very little:

Well, I at least sorted the walking club’s photos, got an avatar set up as a placement photo, and sized appropriately using the gimp photo editing software.
I managed to set up an event too.

What would make today great?

2 to 3 tasks, see core journal – micro goals

My micro goals for today are:

Create some walk posts
Reach out to my walking club potential customer. ✅
Get events working correctly
Make a zero one anyway though for demo purposes

Morning Routine And General Diary

Had a great nights sleep at home last night, got up quite late though and then completed my morning routine.

Had a catch up call with my business partner Steve first thing in the morning. Nothing much of importance to discuss though.

AI horse gambling made another small loss, I think we’re going to have to start logging the going as the soft ground I don’t think works well for us.

My son has a slight virus so they’re pumping him with yet more drugs to hopefully get rid of it. His bone marrow transplant is planned for tomorrow.

There are four world cup matches on today and I really have some work to catch up on, it’s going to be difficult to watch them all!

Food Diary

I made the cottage pie in the post’s photo above and had a quite large portion with gravy for lunch. Boxed the rest of it up to take into the hospital later for my wife and son.

I also had half a hospital pizza as a snack, it was only small though!

And a pack of mini-cheddars and some quavers.

Finishing the night off with some cheese on crackers, so another poor day of eating. I continue to blame the hospital visits.

In the SAVERS acronym R is for Reading

My goal today is to read 10 minutes of my new book that I’ve decided to read… The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

My starting point for today is location 703 or 30% complete.

My ending point for today was location 785 or 34% complete.

In the SAVERS acronym, S is for Scribing

My learnings from reading The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

Keynotes from the book today were:

One I’ve read about before, the old… What would you want someone at your funeral to say about you? Work your goals back from there.

Also, who would need your services today? Find them

Whatever you have to do, do it now, it’s all about urgency.

When writing letters or emails use you and always try and avoid I, me, and my.

My Core Journal

Here is my core journal, the part that I don’t expect to change too much on a day-to-day basis

What did you achieve yesterday?

Yesterday (Monday 21st) I:

Achieved very little:

Watched quite a lot of football
And got distressed again over my poorly son.
Ate a lot!

What would make today great?

2 to 3 tasks, see core journal – micro goals

My micro goals for today are:

Got the committee walking club pictures in order
Set up an event and some members in the demo booking system that I can link to and use as part of my demo proposal
Create some past walk posts.

costco noodles with fiery chicken nuggets

Morning Routine And General Diary

Slept back at home today so was able to fully complete my morning routine.

Amazon shopping order came first thing. It’s not as good as Tesco was, you don’t really know what they’ve missed out and it’s quite expensive for what you get. Might get my brother to do a Lidl shop for us next week!

AI horse gambling made a small loss.

Three world-cup football matches are on today, starting with my team England v Iran at 1pm. Work will have to be fit in-between those matches!

Watched the football from hospital, was another bad day for my son and another distressing day for my wife and I.

England had a great 6 – 2 win which was an excellent start to their world cup campaign. Just wish my son was well and that I could go watch them play in the pub with friends! Priority is for him to get well though!

Food Diary

Pack of mini cheddars, a pack of quavers and a chicken and mushroom pot noodles and one tomato, two slices of cucumber. Followed by two slices of white toast with butter and three ginger nuts biscuits (cookies)! Not a great start!

Evening I had some microwave noodles from Costco with fiery hot chicken nuggets, also from Costco and displayed in the posts picture above.

In the SAVERS acronym R is for Reading

My goal today is to read 10 minutes of my new book that I’ve decided to read… The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

My starting point for today is location 586 or 25% complete.

My ending point for today was location 703 or 30% complete.

In the SAVERS acronym, S is for Scribing

My learnings from reading The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

Book says to stop advertising and it’s all about focus. Look for opportunities to connect people.

My Core Journal

Here is my core journal, the part that I don’t expect to change too much on a day-to-day basis

What did you achieve yesterday?

Yesterday I:

Watched the first world cup football match and achieved little else as my son was really poorly.

What would make today great?

2 to 3 tasks, see core journal – micro goals

My goal for today is to:

Got the committee walking club pictures in order
Set up an event and some members in the demo booking system that I can link to and use as part of my demo proposal

Morning Routine And General Diary

Well to say that I slept on a pull-down bed in the hospital last night I didn’t have too bad a night’s sleep! The only slight problem I had was the room was a little too warm for my liking. The morning routine has gone to pot today, I’ve only done the most essential bits of it, like showering and brushing my teeth. Back to a normal routine when I’m back at home.

AI horse gambling made a very slight profit yesterday, just less than a quid, so not enough to recover from its big loss the day before.

A large relatively strong coffee as per the picture today in my portable hospital office.

My plan today is to watch the first world cup game between Qatar and Ecuador and maybe read a little, nothing much more while watching over my son who is about to start his fifth day of chemotherapy.

Was the worst day possible for my son, was very distressing to watch him. He had a lot of pain from a bloated stomach and was generally very sick all day. Hoping he has a better day tomorrow.

Food Diary

Another poor day of eating sue to spending all day in hospital. I remember having a vegetable cup-a-soup, lots of biscuits (cookies), and a ham sandwich, I also ate all of my sons hospital food as he was too sick to eat it. The hospital food included chips and chicken nuggets, followed by sticky toffee pudding and then for dinner I had macaroni chesses with chips, followed by rice pudding.

In the SAVERS acronym R is for Reading

My goal today is to read 30 minutes of my new book that I’ve decided to read… The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

My starting point for today is location 373 of 2305 or 16% complete.

My ending point for today was location 586 or 25% complete.

In the SAVERS acronym, S is for Scribing

My learnings from reading The 7 Levels of Communication: Go from relationships to referrals.

Selling is all about building relationships and that personal touch.

They also mentioned the acronym LIFE…

L = Learn

I = Implement

F = Fail

E = Evaluate

My Core Journal

Here is my core journal, the part that I don’t expect to change too much on a day-to-day basis

What did you achieve yesterday?

Yesterday I:

Finished my summary of the Miracle Morning book
Visited my son in the hospital

What would make today great?

2 to 3 tasks, see core journal – micro goals

My goal for today is to:

Read
Watch the first world cup match