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I wrote the following post with some trepidation. To be honest, the idea of writing a 'Day in the Life of Me' article didn't really sit comfortably with me. Apart from seeming a little self-indulgent and wanky, I didn't really think it would be something that people would find hugely interesting. It came about because someone asked me (in a comment on this site) if I would do it and I said I'd think about it... not really intending to follow through (don't tell anyone). I thought the moment would pass and people would forget about it. Well, they didn't. I have since had a constant stream of comments and emails from people (over one hundred) who are interested to learn what a typical day in the life of me looks like. Okay, don't blame me. Here we go...
Tuesday November 25 (last week)
I guess I should start this little report by saying that there isn't a 'typical day' for me. So I'll write about this day; Tuesday, November 25, 2008. My alarm goes off at five forty and some bloke talking about European soccer yanks me out of my slumber and smashes me over the head with some game scores that I don't care about. My clock radio is tuned to SEN; the sports station that I work on and the volume is intentionally too loud. I heave my tired self from my nocturnal cocoon and amble towards the bathroom. I take an early morning slash (you wanted details), tidy up my whiskers and put my semi-conscious self into the shower. Nice. The hot water massages my foggy brain as I try to gain some clarity about the morning's radio gig; GOLD 104. "What am I talking about this morning?" I ask myself... that's right; I'm answering questions emailed to me from listeners. Easy.
5:50 am
By five fifty I'm dried, dressed and almost coherent. The fog is lifting. I walk into my (home) office and glance at my computer. Fifty seven new emails. I get about a thousand (genuine) emails each week. I also notice that we sold a bunch of books and DVD's over night. With every sale on the site, I am sent a report. Nice. Gotta pay Johnny somehow. I get myself a cup of tea and by five past six I'm in my car (beverage in hand) and on my way to the city; a twenty minute trip at that time of the day. The road is quiet and I surf radio stations trying to find some news. I consider turning my phone on. I decide not to. If it's on, it will ring. I choose to enjoy a little more solace.
6:30 am
I arrive at the station and walk into the studio. Grubby and Dee Dee (the hosts of the show) are there along with their producer, Miss Vicky. These guys are legends of Melbourne radio and it's always fun working with them; genuinely nice people. Next year will be my fifth year working on the station. We talk crap for a few minutes (while a song plays) and then we're into business. I do part one of my question-answer thing and then we head back into some more music. We chat (off air) a little more while another song plays and then we wrap up my second segment with a few laughs and a little education from Uncle Craig. Even though it's a relatively brief stint (about eight minutes), it's a great gig both personally and professionally. Personally because it's fun, they're great people and I enjoy it, and professionally, because I've learned a bunch along the way, developed my radio skills and built my 'brand'. The media has proven to be a great branding vehicle for me (as an educator, motivator, fitness bloke, etc.), for my business and also for this website. I leave the station at seven-ish, turn on my phone and listen to numerous messages.
7:28 am
I arrive at Harper's (my gym) at 7:28. I have a seven thirty appointment with a bloke I'll call Steve (for this post). While I do quite a bit of mentoring these days, I don't do any personal training. Except with Steve. We do a mix of the head stuff and the body stuff. I've been working with him for ten weeks and his body-fat has dropped from 33% to 22%. He's also gone from very high risk to moderate risk, changed his diet, changed his lifestyle and totally changed his thinking. He's a high-profile entrepreneur who realised that money ain't much value to him if he's dead. So I put the forty nine year-old through his paces and he does well. We lift weights, do a little cardio, talk shit (as blokes do) and then finish the session with a stretch. His flexibility is crap. I tell him. He knows. He's like a ceramic tile with hair on top. He's a blokey bloke (man's man) and enjoys the straight forward (no fluff) communication style. Fortunately for me; I'm no good at fluff.
8:45 am
After my session with Steve I head home - I do most of my work (writing, consulting, planning) from my home office these days. I walk through the door at eight forty five and head straight for the kitchen. I prepare my breakfast (oat brits, bran, muesli) and walk upstairs to my office. I eat and read emails at the same time. A multi-tasking male. My emails are a typically strange mix; people who want my advice, people who want to work with me or for me, people who want me to do something for them (for free), people who want to share their story, people who have a business 'proposal' for me, people thanking me for helping them in some way, the occasional person telling me what an opinionated dickhead I am and of course, a range of legitimate business emails from people or organisations I'm working with. I also take a look at the comments on my site from the day's post. I reply to a bunch of them and then focus my energy elsewhere. Over the last two years I have endeavoured to reply to (almost) every comment. I felt it was an important part of the 'relationship building' process with my readers and that if someone could make the effort, so could I. Don't know how long I can keep up the personal replies... we'll see. Just before nine thirty I get a call from Adam (my Director of Nutrition) who wants to run a few ideas by me and ask me for some advice. We chat for ten minutes and make a time for a face to face catch up. He's a new addition to my team and is doing a great job at developing the nutritional arm of me-dot-com.
9.30 am
At nine thirty I make a call to a company that I'm doing a presentation for in the next few weeks. Bossy Johnny has instructed me to call Sally (yep, an alias) to discuss my upcoming gig; this is a standard thing for me to do before I work with a company. Sally tells me about her organisation, the crowd I'll be speaking to, the size of the audience, the topic they want me to speak on, what the dress code is and their desired outcomes from my presentation. I ask a few relevant questions, crack a few lame jokes and tell her I look forward to meeting her in person and working with her team. She seems happy. I make that point because some conference organisers are stress heads and are hard to please. At about ten o'clock I get a call from Johnny to inform me that he has just picked up a new speaking gig for me; a one hour keynote in February in Sydney. Giddyup. Good work Johnny. He also informs me that the new promotional DVD that our media guy is putting together is nearly ready. It's a four minute show-reel of me speaking and the Bald Man says it looks great. I get a little excited. I wanna see it.
11.00 am
After an hour and a bit of answering emails and comments, planning radio shows, talking on the phone and starting to write my next post (How we React), I have an appointment; a mentoring session via Skype. I am working with a girl who lives in Canada. It's a forty five minute session and while I can't be specific about her session, I can say that we're working through a few challenges in her world and she's doing great. I've been mentoring her fortnightly since August but we're about to move to monthly sessions. Then to quarterly sessions and after that she'll contact me (okay Johnny) if, and when, she needs to chat. Mentoring only works when people are ready to do the work and she's doing great because she's stopped over-thinking and started doing.
Midday
My mentoring session is done and I've just spent (another) ten minutes on the phone speaking to Johnny about what else I need to get done today. He reminds me that we need to finalise details for our two-day RYL program (which we've now done by the way), informs me of some meetings that he and I have in the next few days and tells me not to forget our client Christmas party this coming Saturday (last Saturday now). It's now midday and I need to be in the car in twenty minutes because I have another radio gig at one o'clock. This time it's a one hour health/fitness gig on SEN (Sports Entertainment Network) here in Melbourne (1116AM). The host is Mark Doran and we spend an hour talking health and sport, while also chatting with a constant stream of talk-back callers. The hour flies and before I know it, I'm done.
2:05 pm
It's now five past two and I'm back in the car heading for a two thirty late lunch with Johnny and Mikey. I turn on my phone and I have nine new messages (in the last hour). I listen to them and return a couple of calls. One of them is from a guy who wants to co-write a book with me; I call him back and we have an impromptu meeting which proves to be productive. In between returning calls, Becky (my producer from channel Ten) rings me to talk about next week's show. We chat about a few ideas and decide that my next segment will be focused on 'Surviving the Christmas Cheer'. I am doing this segment (live) tomorrow morning and it will be on at about 10:45 here in Australia.
2:30 pm
Johnny, Mikey (my business partner in the gym) and I eat lunch together most days and we have a 25/75 rule; 25% of the time spent talking business and 75% spent talking shit and laughing. We mostly adhere to the rule and today proves to be no exception. We hang out for an hour or so, deal with a few business matters, eat some food and laugh a lot. I inhale a chicken and vegetable stir-fry. And nearly three of my fingers. Hunger will do that. I also have an English breakfast tea (excitement machine that I am). Mikey updates me on the goings on at our gym, we discuss a few issues and make a few decisions. Three thirty arrives and I'm back in the trusty steed and heading home.
To be continued...
*If you're bored shitless, let me know and I'll shelve part two!
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