Cool. All righty. All righty. Deliver your game. Good day, everyone. It's great to be here. I hope you're all excited here for day one, Drupal Fest. That's what I like to call it. Let's get started. So, let me introduce you to the under seven lorikeets. Can anyone guess what game the lorikeets play? Any chance? Soccer? Basketball. I like it. No, actually, soccer. Well done. We'll get some prizes at the end. That's right. So, actually, they play mini-ruse soccer. So, they play a modified version of the game, obviously made for sort of six to nine-year-olds so they can learn the basics of the game. But can anyone tell me the rules of mini-ruse soccer? Obviously, the basics. Oh, you've got one here. What was that? No hands. You've obviously got to use your feet and someone else. You can use your head. You just can't use your arms, all right? So, the basics of the game got to score goals. But just like most of you, if I actually told you to break down all the rules of the game, you might have a little trouble. So, but that's my role. So, I'm the coach of the under seven lorikeets and I've been coaching them for the last six years. And my role is to teach them, obviously, the rules of the games, to, you know, work on their passing, their heading, kicking, et cetera, but also to make sure they have fun. And so, but you might be starting wondering, like, you know, how's this connected to the discussion today? But funny enough, it's no different to my roles and engagement lead running some large digital transformation projects into government. I work with Core Delta Digital and we work with large clients, mainly in the federal government space in Canberra, to deliver really complex digital transformation projects. Where often the rules of the game are unknown. So, it's my job, firstly, to understand the rules, to teach the rules of the game to my team and to get them working cohesively. So, I love being involved in kid sport, particularly because I get to hang out with my son, Declan, he's the one, he's the most enthusiastic one up there in the red boots. But it teaches, obviously teaches a lot about myself, but it also teaches us a lot about managing and motivating people, which is my area of expertise. So, today, the lorikeets are going to guide us through. As believe it or not, there's a lot they can teach us. A little bit about me. So, you already know that I'm head coach of the under seven lorikeets. Obviously, I work with Core Delta Digital. And my background actually spans communication, marketing, advertising space. So, I've delivered everything from large scale sort of global campaigns, national campaigns. And I've worked across the private, public and the not-for-profit sector over the years. All the way through with some sort of, you know, there's always been a connection with digital. And I've been recently with Core Delta Digital for just on 20 months, which is pretty cool. So, I don't prefer to be an agile expert or project manager, but I've delivered some pretty complex things during my career. And so, I hope to share some of those insights with you today. So, let's get into it. So, the delivery game. What is the delivery game? I thought we'll tackle this from a delivery management point of view, but if there's anyone here who's obviously not from that point of view, hopefully there's some people who don't understand the game as well, but to win at any game, first you need to understand the game. So, let's have a look at it. So, for me, the delivery game is all about the players, the people. And just like the Laura Keats, every one of them is special. They all have a little quirks. Some are shy. Some just can't sit still. And some of them are just too good for their own boots. So, who's in your team? Are they ready to play? Laura Keats, we have about seven to last the season. There's four in the field and there's three on the bench at any one time. And it means that we can sort of cover for the whole season. And the season runs through about your standard sort of digital website project, six to sort of nine months. And so, but one of the key things that it's important is to understand, not only understand who's playing, but that everyone has a role. So, let's take a look at the roles on any team and the team that you might be looking at. So, first, there's you. Once that works, there's you, the delivery lead or on a project. Then there's your team. So, you might be designers, developers, content experts. Again, depending on who's there. There's your product owner. Some sort of, you probably link into a project board or executive. And then there's also the competition that you're going to be up against throughout the project. So, that for us normally on a large sort of digital project, that's pretty much the makeup. And so, we're going to just break these groups down to see how they all interrelate. One of the things that I like to do, sort of often we think of our users when we do a deep dive on their challenges, their pain points and the things that they, you know, I suppose we're looking at the services that they're trying to consume. But I like to look at it as well as the delivery point of view. So, what are their objectives? Where do they interact with each other? And what are their frustrations and challenges that's going to be coming ahead? Because the cohesion of the team as a delivery point of view is probably the key thing that you want to, you know, that's primary or primary responsibility. So, let's look at you as a delivery lead. So, you've got your team wrangler, the organizer, the problem solver and the coach. You're also the shoulder to cry on. You'll also be probably where the finger points if things aren't going to plan. So, it's really important. You've got a positive outlook and then you're ready to go to bring the team together. You've also got your team. So, looking at your team, let's have a look and make sure, have you got enough players? Have you got the right players? Is everyone available? When we work obviously from an agency into a client, we're often working on multiple projects. So, a lot of the work we do is sort of jumping teams, jumping people or resources between projects and making sure we've got enough resources to deliver what we need for the clients.  So, you're going to make sure you've got the right team, but actually they're going to be available. You also need to sort of understand how you're going to connect with them. I'm a product owner and I've got a little warning here. Make sure your product owner is actually a person. And if they're not, you need to turn around and start having a conversation now. And what I mean by that from recent projects, particularly in government where sort of decision making is quite complex, it's not necessarily done by individuals, it's done by the system. That's why boards and et cetera are set up. Recent large scale project we were just working on, we had a project board as the product owner. And what that meant is just stifled decisions. And we got to a point essentially where I think we're up to our 27th revision of the visual design. We couldn't get a sign off. So we ended up sitting down with the CIO at that point and just said, this is not working. And we were able to convince them to basically shuffle the product owner out, which was essentially the senior executive on the board. And decisions were able to be made by that person. The board became more informed of the decisions rather than making the decisions. So if this is not the case on particularly large projects, make sure you have those conversations now because it will come up. And then you've got the executive. So again, looking at it from their lens, they're the key sponsors of the project, but they're looking at the whole organization. They're looking at your project in isolation. They're looking at multiple things across the organization. So you've got to understand their viewpoint as well. And also understand how they want to be engaged throughout the process. Some executive, you don't want to sign off the IA, for example. And that's always fun. And on most projects, they also want to sign off, you know, where's the homepage designed, for example. And it's like, so there's a lot of education that needs to happen there. But again, understanding that is really key. For me, this is a lot, when we work with our clients, there's a lot of trying to understand these that help sort of the product owner that we're working with in the organization actually understand this so we can actually help to smooth decisions as we go through the project. All right, well let's have a look at the competition. You're going to be up against in the project. I like to look at it. Now there's going to be players that are going to come on and off here. But here are some of the big, the sort of the key competitors are going to be up against. So let's look at resources, making sure you've got the right resources, I mentioned it before. Then there's a little thing called time, making sure you've got enough time to deliver all the things you need.  You've got the change that is going to, is going to happen across the organization. You've got a little friends called stakeholders. Those are those parents that sometimes are a bit intense on the sideline. Also want to put their boots on and come and play. So they want to watch. There's budget. There's expectations. Expectations every time. That's one of the biggest challenges of any delivery is managing your expectations. Not only of your team, your boss, but also those clients. Every time you promise to do something, if you don't do it, expectations is going to start scoring some goals. It's going to stop you from scoring yours. And the last one is motivation. Here's the last line of defence. One of the key things is keeping the motivation up. Not only of yourself. The team and trying to push through, to make sure your clients have the energy to keep going on most sort of digital projects. They're complex. They're hard and they're long. So keeping the enthusiasm up is really good. So yeah, there's lots more that's probably going to come up, come against you. But thinking like this just helps to sort of frame what you're going to be up against and also sets you up, your project up for success. So now we've sort of understand the players. Let's understand the game. So just like the lorikeets, understanding the game is a big part of, you know, the start of any season. But we like to frame or I like to frame any sort of start of any project by trying to understand the problem. And it's really important that you actually get a clear consensus of the problems that you're trying to solve with the project across all those stakeholders from the product owner, the executive and your team. So we're all working to the same thing. But this is a quote we often use. Again, the emphasis is on if you define the problem first, it's going to be much easier solving it along the way. The way we frame a lot of discovery phases, it doesn't matter if we have whatever stage we come into the project. It's really simple. This could be a matter of a two week process or a one week process, but it could also be as long as a three month engagement if you're just doing a discovery piece. Really important. This can be done in a workshop, for example. You know, you obviously need to do an audit of the current state. You need to define the vision for the future. And you also need to then prioritize and build a roadmap for where you're going to be or how you're going to get there. And that should inform whatever strategy. So we use this, we're doing an internet project at the moment for a private client in Canberra. We had a workshop that framed here. We did this in about two hours. We didn't really get to the defining the vision. So we'll do that. So this can be done over two workshops if you need, but it can also be a lengthy research piece as well. And remember, it's obviously throughout this process that it's a people game. So we always try and find ways to bring people together. That's why we do oranges at halftime with the kids. Otherwise they're off running around.  But we always try and do some social events. We actually do CrossFit during the week. We're just trying to find ways to connect on the people level. And you can do this with your clients as well. I think that's really important to make sure that you're sort of ready for the journey ahead. So... All right, let's look at number three. So goal setting on any project is really key. But it's not always about winning. And so for the Laura Keats, a good example. So under six, I think it's even until next year. So we don't actually count goals, even though they run around with it. They tell me how many goals I scored every game. So for me, I try and reset their goals onto passing and other things that we can focus on so that it gets them working together as a team.  So I try and get them to spread out and pass and we really try and celebrate that, particularly for the parents as well. So I've got a little video here, which I thought I'd share, which was a bit of a proud moment for me when the team basically... So there's the four players on the field and they basically passed... we're able to pass it... each of them were able to pass it, which is cool. There's no audio, so... but... there's little Dylan, he passes it to Ante. He passes it out the wing. I think that's little Jake. And then I'm pretty sure... that's Lance, who misses the goal, but it was pretty cool anyway. So you get the gist. So it's like not celebrating the goal, but celebrating the other monuments and sometimes it's a matter of doing that. So when we look at from an organisational point of view or how your project fits in... and I suppose I'm referencing here larger sort of bigger digital transformation projects, they're... at a broader level, you know, you've got the organisational goals, you've got the project goals that sit in here. So if you take a government website as well, it's usually quite a large project on the scale of the sort of department. It could be a 12-month project, but it's also going to fit because majority of the services are delivered through the website in some way. It becomes a high priority project across there. So if we ladder them up, what we're really trying to do is make the connection between organisational goals, the project goals, you get your milestone goals, and then that's broken down into the sprints. But at every layer here, your organisational goals is pretty much where you're sitting. Your project goals is very much where your product owner is going to be sitting.  But connecting that story is really your job. And so it's really important that you have each of those perspectives in mind because when you're talking to an executive, you need to be able to have that conversation at this level. Your product owner is going to be concerned about decisions throughout the projects. So it's, again, a good perspective to keep in mind. Favorite quote of mine is exactly this. Every human interaction is a chance to engage and motivate. And I see that throughout a project. It's the little things you do, particularly at the team level, getting out of your seat rather than sending an email sometimes, picking up the phone and actually calling a client rather than sending another email. It's actually, I always make a big effort to do that. And particularly if you look at, say, a project and we look at a sprint cycle in our agency with most of the clients we're working with, we work obviously in an agile way using scrum. We use it working two-week sprints, which can be sometimes challenging working into government. But all I see is the touch points that we've got to interact with the clients. Obviously, your planning meeting, you've got your daily stand-ups, you've got your backlog grooming meeting with a product owner or sometimes that becomes a different type of meeting, but you've got your reviewer and retro. I think what agile gives you is a framework to ask lots of touch points to make sure that everyone's on track and to make sure you've got the right resources to deliver the sprint goals that you've set out. So we've got understanding of the players. We've got a kind of perspective on your project goals, but the favourite question I get asked at the start of any season is what field are we playing on? There's always one parent at the start of the season who gets lost, and so the start of the season for the Laura Keats but also for a project is always the messiest. So you've got to make sure everyone has the right tools and is ready to go. They have context of the project, they don't want time to turn up and they're ready to go for the first meeting. You'll have all of your team turning up to the first meeting ready to go, shin pads on, socks up, shirt tucked in ready to kick the first ball. That's little decks there. So let's go through some of the things that you might think about for just getting ready for that kickoff. I think the first is really the key of getting your project started off on the right foot. A lot of this stuff we actually do, because again we're working into a client, we do this in the background but this sort of prepares us so that we're all on the same page when we hit that first client meeting. Obviously make sure you set up the tools it's not rocket science, but making sure everyone has access. You'd be amazed about how many projects start and things aren't set up, folders aren't where they need to be, people don't have the right access to the tools they're going to be using through the project. Confirm the scope, make sure the team, the budget and the scope and the timings are all really clear. Oftentimes the contract will tell you one thing and then as soon as you go with the client to get things started things are starting to shuffle the minister wants the website launched next month, so it's like cool, let's do that. Again, you're going to be ready for that because you're going to be ready to have that conversation but the first reaction from the team is going to be how are we going to do that? It's like we don't have the resources, we don't have the time. It's like quite an attorney Robbins there and then the last one is to organize a kickoff meeting with the team and the product owner. One of the things we do again because we're working in we actually do an internal kickoff and you'll be surprised amount of agencies or teams that don't do this and that's really just to get everyone on the same page go through the scope, make sure everyone's really clear on their roles and what's expected of them through the project that's where people can obviously give them a chance to raise any concerns and might say I'm actually already overloaded, some of my team are here today, we're always working on multiple projects and so particularly our development team are often stretched across many projects as I'm sure so it's again good chance for you to understand what you're coming up against but some of the things you want to cover off in that kickoff meeting is obviously you want to bring the players together, you want to understand the context you want to confirm the project and this is some of these things you would want to go over with a product owner or the client but it's no different if you're working internally to a sort of an area and making sure that you actually define what success looks like and agree on the scope and timings and this sort of kickoff meeting can also happen, these questions can also be asked with all layers of business even the executive having an understanding of what this is may actually give you the insights to get things started so once you have all that, obviously you're ready to play so you're ready to play but what's the game plan every Friday night before Saturday morning's game and after I've at least had one beer I sit down and try and map out what we're going to do for the next, for the morning's game so I spent about 10-15 minutes to just map out some of the drills we're going to do with kids because if I rock up 8.30 in the morning with no plans, I end up having balls everywhere and kids jumping all over me which is fun but obviously doesn't get things started so at Core Delta we use a we use an agile approach to design thinking and human-centered design principles to sort of, to map into the various stages this to Discovery Alpha Beta Live which I'm sure most of you will be familiar with this can, you know, this this approach can span anything from a three month project all the way through to 12 months to longer the Discovery piece which I mentioned before can be done as short as two weeks but it also can be quite a lengthy one depending on the size of the project this also aligns for us, because again we work a lot of times with federal government clients we align it to the DTA standard if you haven't, I'm sure many of you are familiar with it but it's a good resource, it's got lots of great info on there and a lot of times our clients are actually leaning on us to tell them how to meet the standard that they're working to so again, it's good to have some tools it also helps to guide conversations with the executive we don't know how to do this and so these sort of things again help with that decision making process along the way the other thing every project needs and just because you're using agile it doesn't mean you don't need a roadmap really key that you have a roadmap, again you've got all these stakeholders to manage here's an example of one we did recently for the ACMA.gov.au which is recently launched again, this is a very level roadmap but I suppose the emphasis is making sure you've got a plan my dad always used to say if you failed a plan, you plan to fail and that's pretty much here you wouldn't climb a mountain without a map so make sure that you've got one and this just allows you to keep one step ahead of the team and that's really the point there so you've got the players, you understand the goals, you've got your methodology and you're ready to go but you also need to be ready for weather because on most large scale projects things can get a little frosty just like the 8.30 starts on Saturday mornings with lorikeets, in Canberra it gets about, can be down to like minus five so the kids by the time they're out there it could be zero so again it's making sure that they've got their beanies and they're ready to go sometimes the parents is texting and saying is the game still on, it's like the game is always on unless I tell you so rock up but the kids love it, it doesn't really matter the weather as long as they're motivated and they know the goal then they'll rock up with a smile on their face ready to go so I wanted to share just to sort of as we're going through I just wanted to share some good examples on the recent project that we just launched the ACMA.gov.au it's on the latest GovCBS platform and where a few things went wrong this was a large sort of 12 to 14 month project we managed the alpha beta and live part of the project and I was responsible for obviously all the design team so we went through a full UX we had our development team and we also did the content transformation as well so we had essentially two contracts running so we had the design and dev and then we also had the content which sort of overlapped and helped us get us to live but one of the things that went wrong and I mentioned around the product this was the project where we actually went through 27 different variations of the visual design a process that was supposed to take four weeks ended up taking 13 weeks and actually delayed delivery of the launch in the end by a couple of months and it was only when we did multiple workshops there wasn't too many things we didn't try we did mood boards we met with different stakeholders we got clarity on the brief we went back at various stages we presented but every time we went to the board things just went pear shaped and we couldn't get consensus and one of the things we learnt, well A we didn't have a clear product owner so we at the time there was no CIO which was probably part of the challenge so there wasn't a clear decision making path in the organisation to get this done the chair was never available the authority runs their sort of head of the organisation was the chair and she wasn't engaged through the process so at the time she would sit in the board room she wanted a change so we would only be seeing this every two to the board meetings at the time were two months every two weeks so in the end we sat down with the CIO, the new CIO we mapped a new process and we were able to get him to be and then inform the board and so we were able to find a different way to get around the decisions but it really called on all our relationships we built across the organisation to be able to have that sort of confident conversation with the organisation and in the end obviously we got the website launched it just launched end of October which was pretty cool and it's all going fairly well at the moment so a couple of lessons learned on that one and I'm supposed to wrap things up so for me relationships are key the game is all about the players so as a delivery lead or delivery manager understanding of the dynamics of the people that are happening across any project is really key being realistic I think it's all about managing expectations and making sure that each moment that you're talking to someone and you're trying to commit to something that you can actually do what you say staying constant contact flag concerns early and be honest but probably the heart of it is really communicate, communicate, communicate that's really the key and so after all that you should hopefully there's some insights in there that can help you set your project up for success but importantly as well you got to make sure you celebrate the win so at the end of every season we always do a sausage sizzle or something to get the team together so I encourage you to have a think about how you're going to celebrate or mark the occasion with your team it could be as simple as a morning tea or a coffee but make sure you're bringing the team together so I thought I'd close, there's no audio on this next video but it was a good example one of the kids was they scored a goal and they put it in for the Mini Roo's soccer player of the month cute little video so I'll play that and then we can get some questions Hey everyone, it's Tommy you're here from the Central Coast Mariners I've just been given the nominations for the Aldi Mini Roo Player of the Month for June and it's with great pleasure that I announced that Liam from Belmore Football Club is the winner for June so from everybody here at the Central Coast Mariners a big congratulations to you and look forward to hopefully seeing you in the Mariners kit in the future Cheers!


Question is from Friens de Mamos. How would you go about curing a sugar addiction?  So there's two parts to this. One part is the physiological response that you have to sugar. And sugar is part of the sugar, salt, fat mix that creates hyper palatability. There's a lot of things that create hyper palatability. And that refers to just the hedonistic value of food to pleasure of eating food. And sugar is a part of that, right?  By the way, this applies to anything that you have a lot of enjoyment over. It could be sex, it could be gambling, it could be drugs and it could also be sugar. So there's the physiological effects. And when your body's used to something all the time physiologically when you remove it you may notice some withdrawal. Now sugar withdrawal, physiologically speaking, I'm gonna talk about the psychological piece too in a second, but physiologically speaking it's not like alcohol withdrawal or you know, other drug withdrawal where you get this pronounced, even caffeine withdrawals far worse physiologically speaking but you may notice that food just tastes more bland. That's the withdrawal physiologically. Your brain was used to sweetness. Now you eliminate it and now food just doesn't taste as good. That'll take you about a week to get rid of and that's not really the big problem though. That part right there is not that big of an issue. The bigger issue is the psychological piece. If you're using sugar as a way to make yourself feel better or to comfort yourself or as a way to distract yourself when you remove that you've lost your way of comforting yourself. You've lost your way of distracting yourself. Now you have to deal with whatever it was that you were trying to numb or whatever. And this is true for anything that you use. It wasn't the first part of that figuring out what those triggers are. Totally. Like when you feel the urge like what time it is during the day like what sparked that in terms of like what kind of feeling you have like if you've been depressed all day like is certain things like stressing you out like are you prone to then going and getting this sugar to kind of cope with that thing. But yeah, you have to find something else to replace that with and to be able to create a new healthier habit and then create barriers sort of around what your go-to is. So I like talking about this because this has been a lifelong struggle for myself. You're recovering. Yeah. A long time. So many mykenites. Recovering sugar addicts for sure. And this may or may not work for you but I'll give you some things that I've pieced together over decades of working on this myself and attempting and failing, attempting and failing and getting better and better and better at it. One thing I noticed for sure was once I started to avoid processed foods and this includes the healthy processed foods like protein bars. If it's got sugar alcohols and artificial sweeteners in it those are what is it? I think it's a hundred or a thousand times sweeter than regular sugar. That's still giving that perception of sweet. So it gives you that perception even more. Like this was even why it was so hard for me to get rid of like Diet Cokes was like that was like the kind of the last straw for me was like eliminating that because it still was giving me that feeling of like getting that much sugar even though I wasn't getting real sugar. So getting rid of all of that and I would say South Side a week it took me a little bit longer than a week. I'd say it took me about a solid month before like the taste of fruit came back.  Like they tasted bland for me for many, many years. I just I never even really cared for fruit because of that. And it wasn't until I eliminated all the processed sugars and artificial sweeteners out of the diet and consistently did that like really, really good for us at least a solid month. And then when I would start to have things like strawberries and bananas and blueberries I was so blown away by how amazing they tasted but they never tasted like that for me because of how much I was constantly eating sugar. So that was one thing that really helped. The second thing that helped a lot was actually doing like a ketogenic diet, a higher fat diet, lower carbohydrate. I noticed when and so, you know, keto would work probably well for this, carnivore would work really well for this. I've recommended like whole 30 to people before to get them going on this for a while, will help like with the whole foods. But a higher fat, lower carbohydrate intake seemed to kick some of the crazy cravings that I would get. What I would find if I had, let's say something that wasn't even like lots of sugar, just like a major car, a quick carb, like a oatmeal for breakfast. I'd have oatmeal and blueberries for breakfast. And man, two hours later, I would just be craving food more. And if I let that go longer than two or three hours, then the sweet and the bad would start to crave even harder. So switching to a breakfast like eggs and bacon and like maybe a fatty meat or, you know, butter in there, avocado, like having that for breakfast, I'd noticed not only satiated me but it also eliminated a lot of the cravings that I was having for the sweet. So those are just a couple of things and like anything else, I would wing myself off. I wouldn't go, if you're first evaluate how bad your sugar addiction is, are you eating 150 grams a day, 200, 300 grams a day? Like figure out where you're at and slowly start to scale out. And the way I would scale out is by first eliminating the processed foods, eliminating, because sugar fruit, not bad. And for me, that's what I'm always looking for. I'm looking for, you know, 90% or all of my sugar is coming from fruit now.  We've seen products be developed around this where they try to change the actual flavor of sweet and turn it into like a sour or bitter. Yeah, and so I was, it's interesting that I would love to see the success rate with that. But obviously, you know, that's something that you already have to agree to want to put in before then you grab your normal like snicker bar or whatever to kind of cope with. It's like, it eliminates the pleasure of it. Are you really gonna do that? Yeah, it requires you to stop, be aware enough to do something and then to then make the thing that is pleasurable to you not be pleasurable anymore. Which may work if it is, if it's a type of barrier. Yeah, if you're disciplined enough. Yeah, if it's a barrier for you and you take that extra step. You know, if you have to address both, if you have to address the physiological aspect of it, like we're talking about where, you know, food tastes bland. That one's not that hard to deal with when you take out the psychological piece. The psychological piece is the hard part. Why, what is it that this food is providing? Typically it's pleasure, it feels good. Okay, why am I seeking this pleasure? And perhaps you're addicted to good feelings, which is very, very common. All of us have dealt with this or most people have dealt with this. Or maybe you're just feeling bad about something and that's your way of distracting yourself. And so it does require a certain level of, you know, willingness to increase or improve that self-awareness. It's sometimes people try to fix a problem by still remaining unaware and just going on a strict diet of some type. And what that tends to lead to is you restrict binge type model, which just doesn't work. So that self-awareness piece is such an important part of working on any type of a, you know, I hate to use the word addiction because that's a clinical term, but anything that you feel has power over you that you wish didn't have that much power over you. Next.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question which says that using the transformation xy transforms to x-5 y plus 4, the first part of the question says find the image of point a with the coordinates minus 5, 3. Second part is find the image of the point b with the coordinates 3 minus 4 and the third part is what is the image of point b prime and the fourth part says what is the pre-image of the point c prime with the coordinates 2, 7. Now let us start with the solution of this question. We are given a transformation function that is xy transforms to x-5 y plus 4. Now in the first part of the question we need to find image of point a having coordinates minus 5, 3. We make use of given transformation function to find its image. It means any coordinate given by xy transforms to x-5 y plus 4. So here we have xy is equal to minus 5, 3 and if we put x is equal to minus 5 and y is equal to 3 in the given transformation we get minus 5, 3 transforms to minus 5, minus 5, 3 plus 4 that is we have substituted the value of x as minus 5 and the value of y as 3 which is equal to minus 5, minus 5 that is minus of 10, 3 plus 4 that is 7. So we say that minus 5, 3 transforms to minus 10, 7 Thus we say that image of point a with the coordinates minus 5, 3 is point a prime with the coordinates minus 10, 7. Now we move on to the second part of the question. Where we have to find the image of point b with the coordinates 3 minus 4 that is we are given point b with the coordinates 3 minus 4 and we have to find image at this point. So we put the value of x as 3 and the value of y as minus 4 in the given transformation rule that is xy transforms to x minus 5 by plus 4. So here we get 3 minus 4 transforms to 3 minus 5, minus 4 plus 4 and we get 3 minus 5 with minus 2, minus 4 plus 4 is 0. So we say that 3 minus 4 transforms to minus 2, 0. Thus we say that image of point b with the coordinates 3 minus 4 is given by the point b prime with the coordinates minus 2, 0. Now the third part of the question says what is the image of point b prime? Now here we have to find image of the point b prime. In the second part of the question we have found image of point b with the coordinates 3 minus 4 is given by the point b prime with the coordinates minus 2, 0. That is coordinates of point b prime are minus 2, 0. And now we shall find its image using the given transformation rule. So here we put the value of x as minus 2 and the value of y as 0 in this transformation rule and therefore we get xy that is minus 2, 0 transforms to x minus 5 that is minus 2 minus 5, y plus 4 that is 0 plus 4 which is equal to minus 7, 4. So we say that image of point b prime with the coordinates minus 2, 0 is given by the point b prime with the coordinates minus 7, 4. Now we move on to the fourth part of the question which says what is the free image of the point c prime with the coordinates 2, 7? That is here we are given a point c prime with the coordinates 2, 7 and we need to find its free image that is we need to find the coordinates of point c using this transformation rule. And in this transformation rule we see that the free image coordinates are given by xy and image coordinates are given by x minus 5, y plus 4. So we have image that is x minus 5, y plus 4 is equal to 2, 7 and we need to find free image that is point c with the coordinates xy. Now equating the x and y coordinates we get x minus 5 is equal to 2 and y plus 4 is equal to 7 which implies that Now adding 5 on both the sides we get x is equal to 2 plus 5 and here subtracting 4 from both the sides we get y is equal to 7 minus 4 which implies that x is equal to 2 plus 5 that is 7 and y is equal to 7 minus 4 that is 3. So we have coordinates xy as 7, 3 thus we say that free image of point c prime with the coordinates 2, 7 is given by the point c with the coordinates 7, 3 which is the required answer. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.


Hey survivors and frivers, in this video I am going to be talking about what attracted you to the narcissist. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. If you are interested in one-on-one coaching, you can email me at Narx5erCoaching at gmail.com. Check out the Narx5 merchandise store where you can purchase your own Narx5er t-shirt or mug and support the channel. The link to the Narx5 merchandise store is in the video description. What attracted you to the narcissist? When you first met the narcissist, you felt an intense attraction towards them like you had never experienced before. It didn't take long until you started to wonder if this person is your soulmate. You couldn't imagine spending your life without them, but that does not mean that this person was your soulmate or that you were supposed to be spending your life with them. Narcissists generally have no life of their own. They have no features or qualities of their own. They have no personality traits or characteristics of their own. Their patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving are all based off of some past experience where it was learned from someone else. They have nothing unique of their own. When the narcissist met you, they were attracted to you too. It wasn't an act. They really did feel an intense attraction towards you. In that moment you were perfect. Everything they could have wanted and more. They were so attracted to you and had this ideal perception of you in their minds that they wanted to steal some of your personality traits or characteristics. They could see that you were being noticed. You were getting attention and admiration just by being you and having those personality traits or characteristics. Narcissists want attention and admiration. It's a part of their narcissistic supply and since they have no unique personality traits or characteristics of their own and it's all just stolen from someone else before you, it's nothing for them to take on your personality traits or characteristics. As if they were their own, the person you saw at the beginning of the relationship was a mix of other people who they once had an ideal perception of. As they began to get to know you, they then talk on your personality traits or characteristics. There are two personalities of the narcissist. One is the false self who picks whatever they like from other people and then uses them as their own to attract a new source. The other personality is their true self. The person who abuses and manipulates you. Their real true self does not exist anymore. They chose to develop narcissistic traits and tendencies as a coping mechanism and a defence mechanism. This was originally an adaptation to a real or perceived hostile environment but then the narcissism began to take over their real true self, their true character and personality and now they can't even access their true selves anymore. Even if they wanted to, that's why I said in another video that the best you will ever get from them is an illusion. They spent so much of their time and energy on narcissistic behaviors as a coping mechanism and a defence mechanism that now they don't even know who they are anymore. I don't think they really care about not having a real character or personality. All they care about is what the outside world sees and what it can get them but they understand that they need some form of character or personality to appear normal in the world and if they do not appear normal or if they do not have a attractive character or personality they will not be able to attract a source of supply so they pick different things from other people. You may have noticed that they took some things from you they will change their physical appearance the way they look, the way they dress hair and makeup if the narcissist is a woman if you like a certain type of music suddenly they will start listening to that if you like any hobbies or interests they will start taking an interest in the same things any likes or interests which you have will soon become their likes and interests they will even start walking or talking in the way that you do going to the same places talking to the same people as you it will feel as though this person is studying everything about you and then taking whatever they believe will work for them if you don't pick up on it you will begin to find this person very attractive this person is imitating you so it's going to feel very familiar but if you do pick up on them acting or behaving like you do it will feel awkward and uncomfortable I remember with ex-Narsis they would suddenly start talking like me or listening to the same music that I like they would even try to copy celebrities that I was attracted to Narsis have low self-worth and low self-esteem they are very insecure so they don't have much confidence or belief in their own worth or abilities they might act arrogant or grandiose but deep down they feel worthless and insignificant they don't believe that being who they really are will attract anyone to them or get them anywhere in life so they stop working on the qualities, talents or traits of their real true selves and focus their time and energy on the false self which is used to attract unsuspecting victims it's really sad because anyone who they do attract isn't even interested in them they are just interested in the false self that they are displaying which is just personality traits and characteristics stolen from other people whether it's from a previous relationship or a celebrity that their previous relationship partner was attracted to their real true selves become lost and the people who know their real true selves are the very people that they want nothing to do with they want people to validate their false selves and their illusions so if you are in a relationship with a narcissist and you've been with them long enough to know the real person behind the mask if you keep trying to reach their real true selves or telling them that you're not interested in their false selves at some point they will leave you and find someone else someone who will value their false selves of course this new person will be just as empty and fakers of the narcissist they will then steal the personality traits or characteristics of the new source so that they can be more attractive to them and if the new source is a narcissist it's highly likely that they will be doing the same thing narcissists are empty fake people they have no personality traits or characteristics of their own they have to steal them from other people and this is exactly what they will do at the beginning of the relationship this is what attracted you to them they mirrored your personality traits and characteristics they appealed to your own ideals and your likes and interests they studied you just as they've studied other people before you they also studied people in movies or TV shows so they know exactly what to say how to say it when to say it it doesn't mean that they're really about any of that they have just watched the movie or the TV show so they know how to act or behave narcissists are like actors they are acting to fool you into believing that they are something that they're not all of their time and energy goes into playing a part rather than being anything for real as I said earlier the best you will ever get from them is an illusion they don't put the work into making something a reality they don't even have the self-belief or the capabilities at the beginning of the relationship they act so happy and full of energy you could easily mistake them for high vibrational people but the difference is they cannot sustain this way of being for long periods of time the longer you spend around them the more likely you are to see the real angry bit of person behind the mask they have had years of practice at mirroring and reflecting back what you want to see they've had more experience at that than actually manifesting anything in reality so it's almost second nature for them to orchestrate an illusion they know how to plan or coordinate the elements of a situation to produce the desired effect or the desired reaction from you remember they have had years of practice at doing this it's like a dance for them they have learned how to compose a sequence of steps and moves to arrange the choreography if they actually put all of this time and energy into something positive or making something work there could actually be something for real but because they don't self-reflect and they haven't done any work within they don't have the belief or confidence to want to make something work for real they believe that they are not meant to be loved they also not interested in people who are interested in them their false selves are interested in people who are interested in them but once they have figured them out once they know what they are really about that will soon change the narcissist false selves may be interested in people who are interested in them but their true selves, the narcissist will attack anyone who shows an interest in them as they believe that they are not meant to be loved for more information on this topic please check out my video trying to explain to the narcissist the narcissist studies everything that you like everything that interests you they study your personality traits and characteristics and then they reflect this back to you initially this is done to attract you to them but then they start to realize that your qualities can never be theirs your likes and interests are your likes and interests and not really theirs but at the same time they wish they could be like you they wish they could be about what you're really about so it becomes a competition where they are constantly trying to prove themselves to you you might look at them and think that they're a better version of you than you are or they're more into your likes and interests than you are but if you take a step back and really look at what they're displaying to you it comes off as very exaggerated while everything about you is minimized so that's how you know it's not real and it's just based off their own insecurities which they are then trying to project onto you they develop these false characters which are based off of your personality traits and characteristics your likes and interests and whenever you're around them they quickly jump into character this is designed to fool you and appeal to your own ideals but it's also because they feel worthless and insignificant when they are around you they don't believe that their qualities, talents and traits could ever compare to yours so when you're around they abandon what they're really about and try to hijack your character and personality even when you're not around they could still be in character and using it to attract someone else but sometimes they will get triggered by something you've said or done and then they can't help but react and then expose themselves to conclude on this video what attracted you to the narcissist their mirroring of you of your personality traits and characteristics copying your likes and interests appealing to your own ideals how do you know when it's real? pay attention to any red flags if it's real it won't feel as though the person is acting it won't seem so forced or exaggerated they will be able to sustain this character for a long period of time if it's really them narcissists also set self-imposed limitations or restrictions in the beginning to avoid giving themselves away so if you are with a narcissist there will be certain parts of the conversation where they will change the subject or there will be certain things that they cannot do it's designed to manage the risk of revealing who they really are or what they're really about I hope this video has helped to explain what attracted you to the narcissist thank you for watching please like, comment, share and subscribe if you would like to donate my PayPal link is in the video description for coaching inquiries please email NarcisfiveCoaching at gmail.com check out the Narcisfive image that I store the link is in the video description we have Narcisfive t-shirts and mugs that are now available to order thank you for watching please remember to share the videos and I will talk to you soon


Babush we on hello friends welcome back to another episode here on the channel I hope you're doing great and as always for anyone new to the channel My name is Lee also known as Osiris in today's episode We are continuing on with our VGC series 10 preparation in the run-up to the Official rules dropping on the 1st of August when we can jump on to the switch and play all of our content on there Which will be great But for the meantime we do have showdown We've got to be thankful for that and we've already covered quite a few of the new big Pokemon We're going to continue that trend into this week We covered Zashian, Xernius, Kyogre and Shadow Rider Calyrex last week and they're all a lot of fun And I hope you did enjoy them and got something out of those Poker Pists were always provided and the same goes for this episode today as we cover Ice Rider Calyrex But before we get into today's episode I've got a bit of an announcement to make obviously we won weeklies on the switch Little practice tournaments friendlies and it helps everyone kind of get in the the flow of the new series New circuit new rule sets etc. We had our series 10 one on Friday just last week And we had an amazing turnout. There's like over 340 of you entered the tournament and I think 144 players played on the evening, which was incredible. We streamed it over on Twitch I'll be doing the same again this week, but probably over on YouTube here right here on the channel So if you'd like to take part in it The it is now live So I'll throw up the code on the screen so you can enter that if you like But the other bonus is there's a big thank you to everyone for supporting the circuits that we do I'm pulling up a prize for the first place winner of a copy of either Brilliant Pearl or shining diamond or whichever way around they are shining pearl brilliant diamond I think it's the way so the winner of the tournament this Friday Will receive a copy of that the only thing that I would ask you to do is because we'd like to start collating all of the Team data and just for the top and top players, you know the top 16 We'd like to have that kind of graphic so we can post it out It's nice for the players have done very well And it's also nice for the community to see how the meta game is shaping up as we go through So there is a form as well all the information is linked down in the description There is a post on our community section of the channel as well if you want to check out that details All you need to do for the team information is to provide the six Pokemon that you're playing in your in-game name and a few other Details and then we can contact you if you are successful About winning and getting a copy of the new game when it does come out So it will be the pre-order, but it's just a little something to say Thank you and at the same time you can get some nice series 10 practice in as well So and getting on to today's episode obviously we are playing the ice rider calorax one of my favorites Like I've already mentioned, but the team kind of consists of the Mimikyu I feel like it's one of the better trick room set as in this format I think poor you going to the minute struggles against the the kind of popularity of Mianchiao for one you can't intimidate it There's not very many things that are faster than it have the opportunity to burn it to give you that room And dust globs really is hampered so hard by a bunch of stuff. Urshifu Shadow rider calorax and a bunch of other things so Mimikyu with the disguise gives you that little bit of a buffer where you can kind of take an attack not get knocked out and then Also have the room to kind of take maybe that additional tack if you want this Mimikyu The only thing that I would make you aware of where you I didn't feel it was worth going the distance for this Calculation was banded Urshifu you cannot well you can calc the wicked blow But again, you're gonna be so invested it in just defense and HP Are you gonna have no kind of offensive pressure on the field and sometimes Mimikyu can provide that offensive pressure, especially with shadow sneak They can easily To hit kill if not one hit kill some cases a shadow rider calorax and put pressure on other You know ghost weak Pokemon as well play rough a very nice option Willow wasps great for slung things like groud on down in particular and other physical threats But it does have a bit of a conflict with taboo finny which we'll get on to in a little bit But the mental herb allows you to take that taunt from things like tornadoes other things that are carrying it and just get that Guaranteed trick room up which is so imperative to get there the team kind of working It doesn't rely on it all the time But it really does appreciate the trick room being set up next Pokemon star of the show is the ice rider calorax We've given the weakness policy It gives you that kind of with the defenses that this Pokemon has, you know base 150 base 130 and 100 HP It's ridiculous makes sense the weakness policy something that we haven't really seen too much of since dynamics went away and for good reason But there's one Pokemon in the format that you feel like it can benefit from it probably is the ice rider calorax and Once you get that weakness policy boost and you can take advantage your glacial lance and you can start that snowball with the With its ability that it's got to the chill in there and obviously the unnerve combined their trick room on here as well Because it gives you a secondary trick room Pokemon Which is quite nice especially late game if you've lost some in the queue early game And you still got the incineroar around to allow some like fake out pressure and get that trick room up And then we move on to the incineroar went for a bit more of a specially defensive one in this team I think it's paid off quite a bit you're gonna be taking a lot more special attacking Damage with incineroar then you would not be and you've got the nice switch ins in this team to stuff like me and chairs close Combat in things like tepuk finish and the mimic you as well It can kind of either resist that or completely immune to it by its ghost typing So and incineroar amazing. I don't really want to change it too much I think it's very standard, but it does a job and one of the reasons why it's so high on the use of stats Is because it can do these jobs so well and the board positioning with parting shot Repositioning things like that or really really key snarls great for slon opposing teams down flablets You're gonna need for that fire type attack for opposing steals and things like that Especially sell a steal that can be a little bit problematic for this particular team But we'll get to that one again in a moment. We'll move on to the cartana Cartana are great Pokemon in this format in my opinion. I think with the assault vest as well It gives you so much room to kind of Punish other teams that aren't kind of prepared for cartana You can deal with lander is incarnate a lot better with this Pokemon Especially when you have it combined with cartana type of finny both hit it for very good damage Lander is going to be forced into using earth power as well, which you can kind of Use to your advantage because they can't sludge bomb you and you've got big attacks to hit them with you Know the leaf blade and you also outspeed them naturally and not in a tailwind or a trick room environment So caught on I'm very good Obviously gives you a nice way to hit things like shadow rudder Calorax as well before me and show can get its Close combat off and night slash quite a nice option to have on this team in general Then we'll move on to tap a finny and honestly, I haven't played much tap a finny this format But the games I played with this team so far tap a finny's felt really good And it's been doing amazing work, especially against those Kyogre teams You've really got to watch out for stuff like Serena and then those games But I mean outside of that once you can remove that threat Then tap a finny can do an amazing job, especially with calm mind in this format without dynamax It really does come to life in that that firewater grass call between the incinero cartana They compliment each other so well We've seen this three do so well in so many different formats but the cartana gives you a steel type and whereas the really boom doesn't and You get a little bit more speed with the cartana than what we're a little boom kind of offers But yeah tap a finny just amazing left over said just for recovery could go with a berry if you wanted like wiki berry or something like that Citrus berry But I found that the leftovers are probably more beneficial because you're sitting on the field a little longer than what those berries would kind of get you Anyway, but it's down a personal preference And then we wrap up with good old standard Reggie a lecky So I found with the team originally I had lander is incarnate on here for Ground type give us a little bit of coverage elsewhere But I found the team really struggling against seller stealer and I went through options like zaptos But I was not really convinced about any of those and I think the thing that Reggie a lecky does is it pairs well with cartana So it gives the team an entirely different mod where you can elect your web and then cartana can like just Come in and clean things up, you know with that speed Reduction there so there is that combination in particular Reggie a lecky also helps out Type of finny with that speed control as well And in general it's going to be one of the best things that we can probably utilize to clear away things problem Pokemon like seller stealer that do cause the team quite a few issues the poker paste down below We'll jump in now. We'll have a couple of games with the team And hopefully this hasn't been too long an intro, but looking forward to hopefully showcasing the team in it Doing some work in this format. Obviously it doesn't always go that way But you're gonna have teams that are are giving you hard times But it's just about kind of working around those so we go zaschen Reggie a lecky lander is incarnate really boom at type of finny and incinerone I think we need intimidate for the zaschen for for sure It helps against the the really boom as well And I think if we can get a trick room up wearing a great spot, you know against this team in particular We need to watch out for the intimidate cycling But really I don't like this value like my opponent doesn't have too much that they can hit The the calyrex they asked right at with we need to watch out for reggie a lecky zaschen But we can get around that with and incinerone, you know fake out of our own and then just trick room And I think we want calyrex and then our last pokemon kind of tempted to bring tapu finny in all honesty I feel like it does a good job against the majority of stuff Cortana is the other option that we could go for here because it does do well against things like incinerone But the fact is incinerone for my poor my opponent's team could cause us a few issues as well So I think for that Tapu finny probably be the best suited for this one DC my opponent lead off with that reggie a lecky and zaschen So I think what we'll do is we'll go for the trick room We will just go for a fake out likely to see a vault switch onto the mimic you here Which is fine Because the next turn what we could potentially do is try and get a willow wasp off Into the zaschen obviously there's a bit of a conflict here with the tapu finny and switching that in But the the nice thing about incinerone is it does have good good decent ish synergy with them with shout out right a Carracks where we could switch it in this next turn here. It's unlikely that my opponent goes for a flare blitz into the incinerone It's unlikely that we see a behemoth blade into the incinerone So I think for that fact we can willow wasp and then switch into the calyrex here It stops our misty terrain going up and we can we can yeah, okay So the finny coming in suspecting maybe the willow wasp in it and a nice little U-turn there but it does activate our weakness policy Which is which is pretty big for us and now we have the the player where we can go for the incinerone here and Like we've got the option where we can high horsepower the zaschen But do they protect and just bring an incinerone that's that's the other that's the other thing. Yeah You know, but we'll get good damage if they don't protect Okay, well That's fine Um, I think we have to fake out. Hmm. Do we just fake out?  It's just you always worry about these speed ties, you know with with pokemon So we will get the uh high horsepower off We do pick up the knockout and we get another boost Which is pretty nice putting us back to plus two and get rid of the intimidate from my opponent's side of the field Um, we still got one turn a trick room got to watch out for that Of course, I think um one of the things that we we should be aware of I think is trying to switch in mimic you here Um, it'd be nice to have a mimic you like out on the field in all honesty The other thing we could potentially do is just parting shot onto the finny It's just risky if we see a double protect here. That's that's not ideal, you know Double protect it means we don't get a parting shot off whereas if we go mimic you high horsepower we kind of cover most bases here So we'll see the protect coming out Yeah, they're not going to protect are they just going to muddy water. Okay. Well, it does miss us which is good um Now see we could try and get I think what we'll do is get incinerone onto the field We'll just protect here and then we've got the fake out trick room next turn Which makes this a lot easier to kind of pilot when you've got two options a trick room in your team between the mimic you and that ice rider calyrex Um, and you do miss some I guess there is the the the argument that you want to try Yeah, this isn't too good. This isn't so good. Um Now the behemoth blade going to come out and do some nasty damage to us But we could potentially just go flare blitz I don't know if I want to give the calyrex up here. The substitute does complicate things Behemoth blade will take us down. I'd imagine um Hmm Do we bring in? Do we do we do we The thing is the calyrex has got such a target on its back right now, you know Let's bring in the finny I don't really want to lose calyrex just for free. They behemoth blade that'll do yeah a massive chunk of damage Muddy water gonna do but we get rid of the Get rid of the sub which is the big thing for us here. Um Now I think we'll have to suck mimic you The problem is if they go for the substitute again here, which is which is bad But you can kind of see them probably going for behemoth blade or the sacred sword into insinual I think we should have been a bit more careful rather than gone. Yeah, because yeah, they're going for it They're doing the smart thing. Okay. We'll try and trick room um I'm on muddy water because I should break the sub on the zaschin Yeah, so zaschin still a problem and like obviously this this stage of the game. We need to try and either get Incineral like if we can break this sub that's I can't even break it Okay on the muddy water from there misses. Okay, so I think what we're gonna do is get calyrex in And muddy water again And hopefully that breaks it because we want to try and get them down to minus one before we get calyrex back onto the field Even if that means like losing an incineral Yeah behemoth blade that's fine muddy water. We miss that's not ideal and now we're not going to be able to get them down to minus one um Yeah, not good, but you can see finny here is stacking that health backup we'll go for Incineral back in See if they proc our berry that would be nice Uh, it's too much. It's too much Get the accuracy drop again. Okay, that helps us out a bunch um Yeah, the problem is that we it's not looking like we're going to be able to get our Trick room up.  Um And do we just calm mind? I think let's try and calm mind. Will we survive?  So um Well, that's worked out pretty well, and I think here we have to probably protect go moonblast um Because I think disaster and protect here yeah And they dazzle dazzle dazzle dazzle we moonblast And maybe I always part is enough now It depends what's in the back for my opponent like what is their last pokemon because we could just glaze your lance and um muddy water But they're berry I think so it's better to high horsepower and just muddy water. Yeah, right. You're lucky.  That's not ideal because then they get there. Yeah, okay Not ideal, but at the same time we're still well. We are in a bad spot Bad bad spot because we get the regi are lecky, but then the zastrian is going to be able to come in out of trick room And pretty much just uh beat us out. I mean If we can get enough health Back Yeah, we can't do it now not with a light screen from the tap of finny. That's just too much It's too much We can muddy water again But I mean the accuracies are the only thing that are going to save us here because we need to get nearer to like 80 odd percent Can we take the right one? We take it down. Okay. Um Yeah, we're gonna be oh, yeah, the zastrian got too much health The zastrians got far too much health for us to um to take it down the only thing we could try and do is Stole out this light screen I don't think we're gonna be able to do that No, hmm, and they're gonna be able to take us down in two hits Unless you get an accuracy drop Unless we get an accuracy drop on the zastrian. Do we Nah, that's it. That's it. Good game to my opponent. Good game. Okay. Not off to the best of starts, but at the same time um It's the team kind of functioned well You can see where it struggles a little bit against the zastrian But again, I'm not too worried about that loss because this is the first stage of this team All this information is like super good for us going through and we're gonna go up against another zastrian team So we'll go with the incineroar mimikyu again. I think we go calorex again because it's it's very good And maybe we change things up here a bit. Um We could potentially ah do we do we two grass types makes it difficult for Finney whereas the katana feels like it would come in and do a job against um Oh, actually no Katana is gonna be good here, but again, I don't know I think I think we got finney over the katana. Okay, so We'll go trick room Do we switch to calorex straight away because that puts us in a great spot At the only thing that would worry me. I think slightly here would be the substitute from the from the zastrian We'll pull in the calorex and they fake out Ooh, they close combat. Okay. Well, that's that works out Really really good for us because now we got the opportunity to burn the zastrian just got glacial lance Uh, and there that'd be minus two. I don't think the behemoth blade would then be able to take us down Okay, well, we see that finney come in. We do get rid of the rillaboon, which is nice Um, obviously the willow is not really something that we can utilize now because of the misty terrain, but that's fine um We can get Incineroar on the field and we can go for that high horse power Which should be enough now with that plus one attack to take down the zastrian whether or not we see protect there But I think the thing is with zastrian. Yeah, we do get it. Okay. So this yeah I mean if it's and this isn't any disrespect to my opponent But we saw how well zastrian was kind of protected in that first game that we played in how difficult it was for us to kind of deal with Whereas in these situations If the zastrians kind of left open in in certain situations You can really kind of pick it off quite early and take advantage of that p2 arachnid eveltole Pincerchin vulcarona and age slash. Hmm It seems like it's going to be Really awkward to play against right. We've got incineroar tapu finney p2 and eveltole. Okay Got to watch out for eerie impulse as well, you know, um and snarl from the opposing eveltole Did we just let the trick room go up? I mean we could do we could just fake out eveltole and calm mind This is quite passive. I think from my opponent. Oh, they go and try attack. Okay I think they're gonna try and snarl us for sure. I think what we'll do is we'll um potting shot out on the p2 and just protect And we'll see what they got for The eveltole right now is going to be in a bit of a tricky spot. So it's likely they may I mean We could potentially just moon blast into there as well But like I say, we'll probably see that that snarl come out. Which is which makes sense. Try attack again. Okay Um, and we'll just get that Drop there and well regi alecki coming in now Mixing so much easier and I think what we'll do is we'll voltage. Oh, okay Okay, well good game to uh, jackson, right? We've got infinity groud on playing eveltole volcarona in sineral really boom tapo finney and stack attack up next It's a pretty similar one to our last one. Let's see how we can approach it I think it's sineral going to be very useful here Uh, the trick room is going to be a little bit awkward for us Of course with the stack attacker makes things a little bit more complicated I do like katana here to be honest, but I also like calorex as well because even with the Even with the stack attacker calorex can still do some work, especially if the trick room does go up Let's go tapo finney. Let's go calorex And let's go katana here Okay, so this is not a bad lead from us Uh, eveltole probably going to snarl volcarona could quiver dance I'd rather prevent the quiver dance and I'd rather get a calm mind boost Just to give us a little bit of security against the potential gigadrain coming out from the volcarona that we could potentially see Um, okay, so we're probably going to see a snarl again. Um Hmm, I mean we snarl ourselves And we can just muddy water Because the accuracy drops are going to be Okay, struggle bug Weakening us beyond belief Get the accuracy there and we get A minus one on the volcarona, but that's not too bad. Um, we're minus two already so I think what we'll try and do is we'll potting shot out into eveltole and I mean, we just go for another muddy water at this point because I don't really want to switch Oof that accuracy coming in clutch there I just feel like in this situation like tapo finney's a better switch out to Incineroar And what we can try and do is get a trick room up Um, although Is it a great idea to do that? You know, there's the minus one special attack Uh, we could just glaze your lance Um And switch into incineroar or we could calm mind at the same time And I don't think that's a bad idea because it puts us on just to Um, and the the thing is here Oh Let's have a corona gone last. Oh, it's roaring us. Okay. That's fine. Um gets its berry We get a calm mind boost So We can stop the trick room, which is probably not a bad idea at the moment and just go for Another muddy water. Oh, we could yeah, I think just another muddy water Yeah Because any accuracy drops and that's one of the frustrating things about tapo finney I think the accuracy drops that you can kind of apply on to your opponent make it So annoying to deal with like so annoying. Um I think now we're potting shot out into the eval tall and we'll just go for another muddy water And if they go for the trick room, then they go for it but Missing let's see other drawback with muddy water. You don't always hit Which makes it sometimes a little bit more difficult to deal with now We can get caught on our end. We can stop pressure.  We'll get incinero onto the field Um, oh, that's that's awkward because we want to reset these drops on tapo finney And they're gonna body press again. Oh, no, they're protecting. Okay. So I think Um Do they want to prevent the trick room probably not the not right now I think that the the issue is for us It's a high horsepower is not going to get the stack attacker but a body press Probably won't either, you know, have they got I think we could just glace your lance and just go for it go for the fake out and then It's not going to do anything to the stacks, but it gets rid of the volcarona and then the next turn If we lose incinero Not ideal, but we get tapo finney back in we still got high horsepower. We still got muddy water So we can take advantage of And cinero coming in we'll get rid of that attack drop. Um Yeah, and we've got to double protect here to get around the fake out Which could open the door for them to trick room Which would be bad, which would be really bad. No, but they're durable. Okay. So I think um Do we double up into incy? muddy water because I think yeah, I think Come on Muddy water. We need you to hit. We need you to hit muddy water. Come on Just this one time One time we do get our weakness policy boost. So that does help us with that snarl So there's a bit of a double edge sword for my opponent And now we can go for the high horsepower into the stacker We can just go for a moon blast into eval tall hope that the eval tall is not weakness policy And then that should kind of clean it up from there And then I think we'll have one more game of the team see how it's gone. Dark pulse comes out Does do a nice fat chunk of damage. No flinch and um We get the plus three, but the dark pulse gonna be Yeah, do you go dark pulse? You've probably got snarl here to be honest Just because you know it'll take down. Yeah makes more sense to um Let's go glaze your lance and let's just go moon blast because we can just moon blast moon blast moon blast Moon blast moon blast. I don't know if oblivion wing. Are they going to be able to uh out damage us? I don't know If they go oblivion wing. Yeah, they go for it. So we'll get The calm mind boost. They can't take away a special defense boost. That's a problem. Um And now they kind of forced to go for the snarl here. Okay. Okay. Okay. They don't they're just trying to stack these oblivion wing boost um And that puts us neutral. So we'll get a nice chunk of uh moon blast damage off here because we have got no drops anymore Yeah, and one more of those will do the job and that should be game against Evelta and then please type of finish kind of had a good Go of it in this game. Good game to my opponent So we've got really boom ditto another pokemon that's Popping up all over the shop very good in this format because of that imposter ability Give it a scarf and it's good to go if something sets up on the opposing side of the field A grim snarl with the screen zashing Reggie a lecky and ush of you. We'll go on cindero calorex and our last pokemon. Who's it gonna be? tapu finny Good old reliable tapu finny. Let's have a look It is the water. It is the water one. So that's fine. Um, okay. Well, we can trick room And and and go for a freak out into ush foo. That's what we like to do break a potential sash there Um, oh spirit break coming out. Okay. I was kind of expecting maybe taunt, but that's fine also Um the grim snarl in a bit of an awkward spot now But we could see screens come up um, it's a nice Parting shop play for us to get tapu finny onto the field, isn't it? Um, and I think we just play rough and get finny out You could see a reflect here Oh detect One of the spirit break going for that. Okay. I think we can start stacking up. Uh, um Carmines at this point But I feel like urshifu probably switches out So we could potentially get calorex onto the field Um Or what we do is play a rough grim snarl and just calm mind. Yeah, it's better and then we're not We're not sacrificing. Okay. It's fine Get some nice damage there onto that grim snarl and we got a nice switch into incinero here um We could protect We could also just moon blast the grim snarl and get rid of it I think it's probably a better play get rid of that disruption while we've got the opportunity to We are kind of opening the door for that zashian to get a Substitute up which would not be ideal. Um But we can at least neutralize its attack boost there's a reflect gone up. So that's fine Um, it will help a bunch. Yeah, that's not that's not helpful. But Zashian's just an absolute monster. I mean you could in theory like you could honestly, um Hmm, this is Oh, it's not super tricky because they protect the osha foo here They probably double protect here. Honestly. Um, so we could get mimiki back onto the field And I think we just cover bases by going for that moonblast into osha foo I think they double protect though. Yeah, still at the trick room turns Yeah, that makes sense Get a bit of health back Um Now This is where they get their um Think we trick room Because I think you've got to attack The fit well do you attack the finny here? That's the thing because we could get a trick room back up and all honesty um Oh, we could we could pull a switch back to incineroar and just moonblast the osha foo here I just don't feel like we'll take the attack in that in that situation So this is why I want to protect because I think a behemoth blade. Yeah, it takes us down Surgeon strikes probably gets mimiki Yeah But it gives us an extra turn to get that recovery back that health back Get incineroar out onto the field Um and kind of switch now And moonblast the osha foo Okay, they're going for incineroar themselves, which is fine We'll get calerex in They protect out imagine Yes, but all this time like finny's just stacking this health back, which is exactly what we want it to do And we can go back into Incineroar now if we want But I think we trick room and I think at this point we moonblast again Yeah, that's fine. Are they gonna double up into calerex Yeah That's a shame. Okay, so it's just down to incineroar and finny against this asashin and ditto Can't happen. Oh, I think we can do this, you know, I think we can do this because I think we just fake out and I think we just We could calm mind Hmm Yeah, I think we do calm mind because they I think they'll be locked into flablets Yeah Yeah, and then this next time we flablets their asashin through muddy water as well at the same time because I think they behemoth blade though but then again I think the biggest problem here is is the incineroar which they may go for a sacred sword into Uh, I'll be good if they sacred sword and we've missed an opportunity, but I'm gonna go with this. Yeah But we will get a berry proct, which is always nice And then it makes it difficult for my opponent to deal with the combination and oh, it doesn't really that is a Fat asashin behind that reflect Can we take a behemoth blade? I don't think we can I really don't think we can but we can get Oh Okay, well we might be able to do this if we can take down this Oh, we can't take it down. We can't I don't think we can do this now. We need to protect I'm gonna be very close because the the incineroar gonna take down itself And yeah, the reflect was huge in this last one this last one here And I don't think we're gonna be able to take a behemoth blade. We need like that Another we need like minus one. I think to take another another one Oh Can we do it struggle we can do it? Yeah Struggle that's what you get for ditto it ran out of pp So it worked out in the end. Wow. I didn't expect that Over the top, but it's always nice to get those wins. Isn't it? It's always nice to get those wins I was fully expecting us to finish on a loss, which I never really wanted us to but at the same time It's nice to get the big old wins. So this wraps up the team as I say, it's down in the description below friends I hope you've enjoyed today's episode and the battles and seeing the team and like I say Hopefully it's inspired some ideas to get your own Ice rider calyrex team going if it is a poke one that you like and you want to try out This one is a little bit different But you can see there's some different cores here that we've not really seen so much From our coverage and perspective, especially cartona incinero type of finny I know we still got the incinero in there But you need intimidate in this format without it you're really really putting yourself at a disadvantage And you know, there are other intimidators if you don't like incinero But the the tools that incinero has got available to it Really make it surpass pretty much every other intimidator in the format in my opinion at least But hopefully for those that you want to see as something a little bit different in today's episode Hopefully this is it and I hope you have a lot of fun with it. So on that note, have a great rest of your day Thank you so much as always for tuning in and I'll catch you all for another episode very soon So until then friends, take care and bye. Bye


Hey there and welcome to this reading for April 2019. This is Christy Martin with Art of Awakening and this is the first of, we're just kicking off a whole month of daily uploads for the month of April and this is in celebration of reaching a thousand subscribers last month. I just am so grateful to all of you who have subscribed. I'm grateful for every single like and share and comment. Love your comments. Also thank you so much to those who have worked with me and purchased sessions or also purchased my animal awareness deck. I really, really appreciate that support and moving forward here. So this is a general reading for the month of April, asking for highest and best insight and guidance for Highest Miss Good for the month of April. Anybody who is drawn to this, I really, I'm going to show you the decks first. I'm using the Mermaid's Adolphin's deck from Durian Virtue as well as my Old Spirit of Animal Awareness deck. The reason I'm choosing these decks, I had actually recorded this reading for April earlier and I think the reading was valid but it just didn't, there was something that didn't feel right and I think it was because I was using a couple decks that had a lot of masculine energy and it was just like too much. It was just like I felt overwhelmed at the whole time and I feel like, I feel like right now the masculine is really coming forward, coming forward for healing, starting like this is divine masculine I'm talking about, which is super different than the patriarchal energy that we've been coming out of and it's really a beautiful thing but with going into Aries season, we're in Aries season right now going into an Aries full moon, just a lot of that kind of proactive, very masculine for a lot of fire and I'm feeling like there's a lot of people that I've been connected with that have been feeling kind of overwhelmed. I'm feeling a little bit overwhelmed right now and just feels like there's a lot of, self-care would be a super good thing and this is just sort of an energy update on my part for April, really keep an eye on self-care. You know if you feel like things are going too fast, take some deep breaths, you know go into meditation, it's okay to you know just step back a little bit, suspend some alone time, journal, you know because this looks like it could be a very busy month and that you know in a good way. I mean I'm feeling like there's a lot of opportunities that can open up a lot of like if you've been stuck in any kind of area of your life, it could be projects or relationships or whatever, this this may be the month where it really starts to free up and you know there's a lot of creative energy going on that you can tap into but all that kind of creative energy can get sort of exhausting so do not neglect the self-care this month, very very important and if you can pull water into the mix somehow make sure you keep yourself hydrated, baths, maybe go swimming, maybe sit by some water, listen to the water flowing, it could be a very soothing thing to help with all the busyness. All right so coming up first positive energy, all right so this is really really really important for this month again with all this kind of there's a certain amount of volatility or just action and creative potential it's it's really easy, hi Jazz it's my dog, really easy to to to really again get overwhelmed so staying positive, surrounding yourself with positive people, situations of whiteness activity and that includes your thoughts like if you feel yourself there's there's my dog Jasmine drinking she's bringing some water into the mix so thank you Jasmine. So like if you feel yourself like getting up tight like just really stay aware of your mental and emotional the climate that you've created for yourself or what's coming up for you mentally and emotionally and stay very very aware because you can direct that energy if you notice that things are getting down that you're getting stressed out redirect yourself you know either do what you need to do to take care of yourself or redirect your thoughts like if you start getting the I can't thoughts or the you know the victim kind of mentality turn that around you're not a victim an officer victims like unless we choose to be right so you know choose to empower yourself and you can choose who you hang out with we can't always choose that right we can choose how we respond to them and but we can also choose to proactively you know sometimes we can't choose to avoid those people that we feel are not supporting us and spend time with people who are all right so next card to come up is salmon again bringing that water in really important this energy right now is like I see salmon as a real ascension creature I see it as really you know when a salmon does the salmon run moving up the stream in the spring that is usually in the spring time moving up to spawn right they have a goal in mind they are very very focused okay so this is a really good time though you're going to get the most out of this month if you take a little time to get very very clear on your ideals what's important to you and your goals you know what you desire in your life and make sure that those are aligned because it's really easy to have goals that are not really ours are not really aligned but whatever we keep in mind that's what we're going to create in our life so if you know be and here's again this positive energy and being very aware of your thoughts you it's easy to put goals down on paper but if we start worrying around those goals then that sort of hijacks the goal the worries hijack the goal so the worry becomes in effect the goal because that's what you're centering your your your focus on right so really be clear on where is your focus and is it staying positive and if you do that then the action because this is a really good month for taking action keeping aware of the goal keeping it positive keeping it aligned then your actions are going to follow through and it's going to help create the conditions the results that you desire that's manifestation okay so this is a really good kickoff month this year for manifesting what you want not that it's necessarily going to all manifest this month but you can be setting the seeds it's a good seed planting time and really moving into the new moon especially setting intentions all right so speaking of that next card is morning affirmations let's pull this up here a little bit make sure you can see all right morning affirmations all right so again this really ties in with the goals with the setting the the the positive energy you know this may be a good time this month to spend some time every morning if you don't have a morning ritual good month to start one morning ritual is really important to make sure that you're you know keep yourself just a little alignment practice every morning to help stay on track with your goals on track with your positive energy and if you don't have a lot of time in the morning just make a little ritual it could be a five minute ritual it could even be a two minute ritual it could just be something that you say to yourself while you're brushing your teeth whatever it is but it's really important to set that day off you know in a way that's positive in a way that's going to help you to reach your goals to achieve your goals to to stay on track with what you want which you know because we do we are the creators we are there our own artists we are the artists of our own lives and if you want your life to be a thing of beauty then it's really we have to stay aware part of being an artist is really being aware at all times of what's happening what's happening around us what's happening um on the on the paper or whatever however we're creating um you know I there's art goes way beyond just the creative arts it's you know the healing arts anything that you do can be art last card here at home look at all the water look at all the water I love it blue whale all right so whales like okay it's a couple things that are coming forward one is really going deep and this is really sitting the stage so what happens in this month is it can be foundational it can be foundational to like a new life that you want to lead a new project I'm really feeling like um you know this can be like the seeds that we're planting now these roots are going to really go deep or there's the potential for that anyway um so whatever seeds you plant now they have the potential for really going deep and that can go either way if you're staying in that positive energy you're doing your morning affirmations if you're staying um you know staying on purpose knowing your purpose you know you know knowing your intentions knowing who you are setting your goals and and staying focused then those roots can be very very strong that you know those seeds that you sow this month you know they're going to grow real strong and they're going to really grow into something beautiful over the next few months and years but if you allow the negative energy to come forward this month there's there's a lot of powerful manifestation energy this month you know you're going to get those weeds coming up and it's um you know not that they can never be pulled out but they may be kind of tenacious weeds right so we want to immediately really keep it positive this month um and then the other thing coming up with whale is communication so this is a little bit of the whale's telling us a little bit about how we want to make sure that we are speaking our truth and really paying attention to this is very much throat chakra thing right um really pay attention to your body and your emotions and your thoughts but especially your body and your emotions I'm getting and honor them whatever that's coming through for you um you know if you've been the kind of person that like kind of clamps down on the emotions or doesn't you know honor them or just feel the figures you can like this is really I'm speaking to really strong people here right really strong people who can take it and who are able to kind of handle stuff just sometimes it's like we we push through situations because we're survivors but this is really this energy right now is asking us to like step out of the survivor mode and into the thriving okay because a survivor or just like it's good to be survivor right but I think we are starting to get the point where we can start transgressing that and because what the survivor mentality tells us is that things are hard right and if we step out of the survivor I can handle this and into I can really take charge of this there's a big difference there okay from I can handle it and you know that's just kind of taking on this energy and bearing this burden right into oh well you know even if things are challenging even if we've got backup alarms going when we're making a video we can actually kind of roll with that and turn it into a positive so really stepping into your power this month and part of that is communicating first of all to yourself what's really going on here you know this is not like pushing things under the rug this is taking them out and looking at them but this is also being communication in a way that is powerful but like powerful and strong but like not like whales are very communal and they're very supportive of each other so supportive communication so you can this may be invitation to speak out about your boundaries but be careful like not to do it in a way that is antagonistic right just be true to yourself and things will go just fine all right so just trust things are going to go just fine just stay stay in that positive energy bring the water in if you need it and have a lovely month thanks so much for joining me and I'll catch you again tomorrow