Written Sunday 4th September

I Woke up this morning with the intention of doing absolutely nothing. Good start for a Sunday. Thought to myself that I’d written 5 months worth of auto-responder content for our business automation service, it’s a crime for me not to be giving that to people who sign up to the Advantix email list. So I took a 40 page word doc of random nonsense that I wrote in Berlin and copied it into some seriously cool looking emails. Go to www.advantixgroup.com/start to see them.

I listened to a webinar with some internet marketing bloke called Jonathan who’s made about £598,384,472,495.85 in the last 30 days online. He did tell me the exact number but I can’t remember. Detect sarcasm. Jonathan inspired me to…

…Jazz up the Advantix Facebook page and learned how to do that whole thing where you see a certain thing if you haven’t liked it, then when you like it you see “inside”. Go to the Advantix page take a look, then ‘like’ it it to see. It’s not finished but it’s a start.

In doing all this, I set those auto-responders up so they actually got distributed over a 5 month period. There’s all sorts of awesome content in there it’s amazing!

As if that wasn’t enough, I tried to make an iPhone app but that didn’t go as well as my previous ventures today. I also cleaned everything in sight in my apartment!

Apparently having decided that I’m a full-blown Grade-A, 5-Star ass kicker, I thought it would be a tremendous idea to do the following…

Ride my Dad’s bike to Brighton where the gym is. 5.5miles. All the way along the seafront.

Did a 1k sprint.

Arm workouts for 40-minutes.

Rode the bike all the way to my Dad’s, despite the fact that half way home the heavens opened and started blowing what felt like 300mile an hour winds directly at me. I made it back without stopping.

I’ve learned something about aerodynamics tonight. I’m not. The whole thing took me 2hours 35minutes. This is in preparation for a swim from Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight back to the mainland on my own with no formal training or assistance.

The best bit? I broke every single rule in the productivity book. I had twitter open, I was pissing about looking at new cameras, chatting to people, doing all sorts but it didn’t seem to derail me. I think I know why…

I didn’t write any of it down. Not a single thing. I knew I needed to do all that stuff AT SOME POINT but no amount of sticking it on my to-do list was ever going to help. I remembered a tiny snippet of a Tony Robbins Audiobook where he said:

“Stop creating to-do lists and create a vision instead. Don’t worry about “forgetting things”. If the vision contains the things you need to “get done” it’ll get done. Besides, what’s more compelling? A list of shitty things to do or the vision of your ideal lifestyle.”

I thought he was off his fucking rocker. He wasn’t.

Have an awesome day today. There will never be another one like it!