The cicada situation is out of control. Oh, good morning, Hank. It's Tuesday, so when we last visited the garden, it was mostly dirt, but now there are zucchini and sunflowers and these weird dragon-tongue beans. We've got eggplants and oregano, and most of all, we have tomatoes. We've got black cherry tomatoes, we've got red cherry tomatoes, we've got these weird guys, and we've also got a metric crap-ton of golden currants, which are tiny little tomatoes not much larger than a pea. Why did I get so many tomato plants that make tiny tomatoes? Because I want to eat 211 tomatoes in a single sitting. One... Two... Five... This is gonna take a while. I have picked the tomatoes. It took 34 minutes, and I am drenched in sweat. Let's go inside. Actually, you know what? Before we go, picking all of these tomatoes has made me want to eat a tomato, so I'm going to. Hold on. Mmm. Delicious. I'm gonna have another one. Mmm. New video title, How to Eat 213 Tomatoes in a Single Sitting. Okay, so the first thing you're gonna want to do is lay out your bountiful harvest and consider all of the time, energy, and sweat that went into the creation of this 900 calories of food. Then, give thanks to actual farm workers. And then count out exactly 211 tomatoes, because people on the internet are sticklers about that stuff. So today we're gonna make panzanella, which is essentially tomatoes with croutons. To make the croutons, you want to preheat the oven to 350 degrees, being careful not to look at your ghoulish reflection. Then take a pan, tear up some good bread, put in four-ish cloves of minced garlic, some olive oil, and then I think the technical term is you just sort of, hush it. And then once it's adequately hushed, put it in the oven and cook it for, I don't know, like 15 minutes. Then you're gonna want to chop up all of your non-golden current tomatoes, and boom. It was at this point that I realized that even 211 small tomatoes is still a lot of tomatoes.  Incidentally, you may not think you like tomatoes, I thought I hated them until my late 20s, but it turned out I had just never had a good one. Tomatoes are one of the very few foods where the good version is essentially like a different thing than the bad version. Another example would be the difference between actual lucky charms and knockoff lucky charms. Let's go back to the recipe. Right, so you want to put all your tomatoes in a large bowl, add some balsamic vinegar, less olive oil, then I just use some salt and pepper, and then hush. The secret to panzanella is the crunch of the croutons combined with the juiciness of the tomatoes, so it doesn't keep well once mixed. If you want leftovers, you need to keep them separate and then add them together as you go. So once your croutons are toasty, mix a handful with a handful of tomatoes, put some sliced basil on the top, and you've got yourself an excellent meal. I ate around 100 tomatoes at lunch, and then Sarah and I split the remaining tomatoes at dinner. Three great meals, and my skin did not even turn orange. Now I just gotta figure out what to do with those zucchini. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.


There's assumption when you're trying to put yourself out there to grow your business get clients that Your marketing needs to be Attractive Right your website should look polished look good if you show up on social media or video you should look good and Polished and not be hesitant like I'm I am being on video right now Meaning you should be editing your videos to take out all the ums and the ahs and the pauses and the boring parts and I'll tell you I Used to believe that when I started my business. I didn't know any better and of course this is sort of in the it's in the water that Showing up for your you know visibility and promotion and just your online presence should be attractive and When I did that in the early years of my business I started in 2009, so it's been about 14 years now when I when I did that I Did notice that I I attracted Ideal you know not ideal. I should say I attracted clients faster Okay, I attracted an audience faster by Leaning into the most attractive parts of myself the most charismatic parts of myself the most You know But the things that get people get people even that phrase you get people to engage with you you get people to do this or that is In short manipulative But that's how you think that's most of you probably think that's how marketing is supposed to be you do stuff consciously to attract influence charm Manipulate persuade people to then Work with you and then you could do your heart's work Then you could do your so once they've been charmed persuaded You know taking off the fence to work with you then you can be your authentic self, right? then you can take off the mask or to really settle into your spirituality and your your You know your humanness So in the first couple years of my business, that's what I did because that's like I said It's what is assumed to be marketing by everybody else and As I said, I did get some engagement faster, but then I had a crisis of conscience Around 2012 leading into 2020 2014 a couple of years where I just I just felt it was Not aligned with my soul to keep doing marketing the way that it is understood to be done and so I Started to change like I want I want to show up in my life Authentically no matter what it is that I'm doing I don't want to pretend anymore. I don't want to Manipulate any manipulate people anymore. I don't want to charm people anymore. I don't want to persuade people I don't want to be attractive to other people anymore. I want to Explore what is a higher voice a deeper voice? You know from my soul or from my source and I want to express that as truthfully as I can I want to do business in a way that grows My soul Even regardless of results, but I trust that if I go deep and really Show up with a heart of service on the one hand inner exploration and really showing the truth of my experience today and On the other hand Lean into my heart of service which includes of course getting to know my audience and Feeling the compassion for what they want so that that naturally leads me into offering what they want which sells, right? This the simplest tip I have for you on how to make more money and how to get more clients is to sell What sells so many of us sell what don't sell Okay, you sell what sells and how do you sell what sells you lean into your compassion For the people who whose attention you have starting with your friends your colleagues that you know their referrals or whatever So and then you sell what they want you to sell Simple as that because you have the true compassion, you know, you no longer have to pretend to say well I don't care about this thing. No, I do care about this thing because I care about them Right, but so this is all about Doing business from the heart truly so marketing again I haven't mentioned this in this video, but marketing is essentially content and offers those two things are you are you doing those two things? Some of you are doing those two things and some of you might not be in now You can lean into more of one or the other content and offers. That's marketing. Okay? content is Where people get to know you for free before they work with you for payment Okay, and sure people can you don't have to do content if you you if your service is so Extraordinary that you just get all your clients to word of mouth. You have plenty of clients who word of mouth That's not true for me. Well now now now it is but for most of my years in business That wasn't true my service was pretty good. I think your service is pretty good too, but it's not so extraordinary Right, your service is not so extraordinary that you just get have a waiting list of people a few people are really extraordinary And they have that most of us by definition By definition, most of us are average. You think you're extraordinary. You're actually average probably I'm average I'm average in my field now now so many years into it and so much practice 14 years into it full-time Practicing a lot full-time business 14 years now. I can say I'm probably Now I'm probably lying to myself I'm probably above average in certain ways now and so some of my services and some of my courses Do are so extraordinary that they do get regular word of mouth and I do have enough, you know clients that way, you know Courts course participants that way, but Most of my years wasn't like that and probably most of you watching this you are a wonderful person and You provide a service that you believe is very good But it's not extraordinary. It's not so extraordinary that you have just a waiting list of people just by word of mouth So that that means guess what you have to lean into content. That's how you grow your reach So that people get interested in working with you and then they buy your service. That's pretty good it's worth it it's worth buying and Some of the people who work with you might start telling some other friends But you don't have enough word of mouth yet to have just a waiting list of people So that's why you need both content and offers so in the in the realm of content as I started talking about this We don't have to be we don't have to try to be attractive and in fact from for my marketing And I let me finish telling the story when I first tried to be attractive and all that and I attracted some people I noticed that they didn't stay long They didn't stay with me throughout my transitions throughout my ups and downs when I was finding myself and and then Remerging as a as a more authentic presence that is more aligned with who I really am instead of pretending instead of posturing instead of trying to be charismatic and and making sure that I was doing certain things to you know, I Had to try to do certain things that didn't feel me so those people didn't stay and instead once I came through my transition of like Let me Show up as authentically as I can today And here's the important part without attachment to results. Can you do that? It's hard Well, this is age old wisdom right without attachment to results is How we can truly be authentic because if you're saying well, I'm gonna show up on this video and people better like it And this better be this many likes or then you're immediately not authentic You're immediately posturing and saying well, I got it I got to perform so that I get these likes because that's what I'm really after that's really the That's really the goal rather than the goal being Expression of truth and service to the other If that is the goal and that's my goal here Without attachment to the business results, I don't know how many people are gonna see this I don't know how many people are gonna like it, but did I after these 20 minutes Feel more alive Because I allowed I practiced again what the voice of my soul is my energy signature and Did I again lean into the compassion I have for the audience and the yearning to be one with the audience in in heartfelt service and love and If that happened in these 20 minutes then my life Then my living of those 20 minutes was worthwhile, wasn't it? But if I'm showing up performing Trying to be something trying to get likes trying to grow my email list trying to make sales All of that means to an end means to an end stuff makes life not worthwhile It makes life Inauthentic and so when I started to do marketing do content from a much more authentic place What happened was I noticed That people that I now was drawing people to me who were really Sensing a deeper connection Beyond the surface level stuff that is Unattractive or attractive and actually I'll tell you the truth. I was purposely sometimes I purposely still am Try to be unattractive not not that I'm performing to be unattractive, but I I'm Almost like testing my audience to say if I if I make this mistake that is Coming out of me naturally right now But I or or I noticed what comes out of me and it's a mistake or it's something unattractive And I don't mind and I just continue with that authentic expression I don't judge myself and I just continue that way. I Notice that the people who stay are much more likely to keep staying and If and when they decide to work with me in my courses or in my programs they're much more likely to stay as well and It and to engage and to be grateful for the opportunity to work with me. In other words, there are much more ideal clients So That is why I Talk about marketing in the way I do authentic marketing is I'm trying to create an Alternative to the mainstream where it's all about Being persuasive being attractive Performing getting likes getting attachment to business results Which I believe is not healthy for the soul. It's not healthy for the soul's expression, certainly because the soul says The soul says I wish for every moment in this life to be meaningful To be deeply meaningful. I don't know if I'm gonna live past today. None of us do So may today and the actions I do today not be so I can get in the new clients, but may the actions today be of such a Connection with the soul which means with the divine however you define that the divine source letting that Spirit live through you as much as possible, which is about Experiencing of this life The meaningfulness of this life and the connection to the others in this life The other souls in this life is in as much service and love as possible if that can be how we do our content The interesting part of it is that it's so unique and so connected to the soul that I I believe that You know without being attached to results Happens to have a benefit to to authentic business as well But the problem is we cannot be attached to the timeline the way of authentic marketing by definition if it is not attached to business results It means you cannot be attached to the timeline of well, I made these five videos and how come I didn't get a client yet You you just became attached again to the business result and to the timeline of it Which means you're going to if you're going to be attached you're not going to express your soul You're not going to be deeply connected to the divine spirit working through you can't The divine spirit doesn't say well make five videos and then you'll get three clients. That's how the funnel works Oh this funnel and that you know the generation system. You're supposed to do this and just look at that can't you're immediately unattached and Misaligned from what the divine spirit wants to work through you However, we did define the divine spirit the higher self the most authentic Meaningful way of you living life and in the most way in the way that is most likely to fulfill you deeply You're you're misaligned from that immediately when you're attached to the results so in other words, I Don't think about attractiveness or unattractiveness And so when I when I am unattractive and I noticed that in the mainstream way of all that's unattractive the irony of this I just bought a new shirt So this shirt is probably more attractive than if you look at my previous videos my other shirts and my other ways of being and whatever It's like and I'm always I'm always still practicing. What does it mean to be real? without performing for results Because I want to be real with my soul and with my heart of service. That's what I want to be real for And so when I notice, ah, this is unattractive in the mainstream sense. I don't judge I practice try not to judge it so that I can allow Allow the natural expression of Okay, this is you know before I started this video. I said may I be May I be connected to the expression of my soul and may I be in my heart of service to the other and If I can do that and I always have to keep coming back coming back coming back to it because again After this video and I go interact with other people There is the societal conditioning you're supposed to perform and be this way so that we can be happy You're right so that you could you could be be appropriate to be you know And I'm not saying you shouldn't be appropriate in society, but I'm saying when it comes to your content though When your content is is is is about your soul's expression Then you really can be inappropriate You know when you're with friends and family you should you know to be as appropriate as you need to be obviously But when you're on video when you're writing when you're creating content that is when I really encourage you to be in as unattractive as you as you Naturally need to be or are To be as inappropriate as you naturally in your soul's expression are Because the irony of it is that's what makes content unique Everybody else is trying to be appropriate for society to be attractive to what it what is attractive? What is your face need to be looked like to be attractive? I don't know What is what do you need to wear to be attractive now at this point in my business where I feel like I Represent a community of people who are then I feel like I do need to be I dress a little bit more appropriately and things like that but in my expressions though I still I still aim to be as Natural to the flow of Tao as possible The spirit and the soul working through me as possible So content and offers right like you right now you might say George That's all sounds good, but I need my I need more clients right now. How do I get more clients authentically? Right. I said I could said if you if you lean into the the authentic content You're much more likely to draw real people that are gonna stay with you and on the other hand You need to make offers and you need to sell Not just what you feel like selling because you're just within your own self Remember, it's always this dance between being fully in yourself your highest self your deepest self But also at the same time being deeply in service to humanity being deeply in service to the other You can't just be in service to self. You have to be service to other as well Okay, and that that intersection is authentic marketing and so the offer part the content is as in yourself as possible Meaning your higher deeper connection with your with your with your highest and deepest self content the offers is as Highest and deepest connection with the other as possible because your money doesn't come from yourself and your exploration of yourself Your money comes from other people deciding to pay you so your your offers must be selling what they want you to sell and You said why don't feel like selling what they want me to sell well That means you don't have enough compassion for the other person you've been too much into your own passion It's this dance between passion and compassion. And so when it comes to the offers, you know The passion draws the audience, but the offers gets them to buy the compassion gets them to buy I lean into what my what you want, right? I'm always asking you. What do you want me to sell? What do you want me to offer? I will offer it because I care about what you care about If I care about you then that means I care about what you care about I mean if I'm truly in service to humanity that means I'm not just in my own thing and so Enamored with my own expression in my truly in service to humanity then I care about humanity about you So I talk to you and I find out what you care about what what you're What you're struggling with and what you're yearning for and I'm saying let me lean into that compassion for you Based on my ability to serve that Let me lean into that and let me love you in that way that you understand because otherwise if I'm loving you in the way You don't understand. I'm not loving you So I hope this is helpful and I have a lot more course videos about this kind of thing and I hope you watch it This is getting too long. So I'll I'll end it here. I hope this is helpful again. The message is Lean into your heart and your soul and your content that means Even if it's unattractive and inappropriate or whatever society deems to be Lean into more of you and when you're in your offers lean into more of your compassion For the audience that you have even if it starts with three friends and two colleagues lean into your compassion for them What they want and and provide that out of your heart of compassion and then they'll buy So I hope this is helpful. Thanks for watching


This video is called the greatest common factor. This video has four examples in it and in all four examples we're going to look at finding the greatest common factor for the polynomial. It's important to remember the greatest common factor is simply you're trying to factor out or think of dividing out things that are in all of the terms. So in this case we want to see what can I take out of here, here, and here to make my problem or my polynomial simpler. So think of it as division or think of it as factoring. Think of it as taking things out but the key is that what you take out comes out of each term. There are many ways to solve problems like this. You just have to find one that works for you. I'll show you a couple of different ways as we go through these videos. And keep in mind in problems like this we've got numbers. So we want to see what comes out of the 4, 12, and 8 and we also have letters. We want to see how many x's we can pull out as well. Let's start with 4x to the third. 4 can be broken down to 2 and 2 and x to the third can be x, x, and x. 12 can be broken down to 2, 2 and 3. 2 times 2 is 4, 4 times 3 is 12, and x squared is x and x. The negative 8 will have a negative and the negative 8 is 2, 2 and 2. 2 times 2 is 4, 4 times 2 is 8, and this case just has 1x. So then what you're doing is to see what do all three terms have in common that we can pull out. I see all three terms have a 2 so I can pull out a 2. All three terms have an x so I can pull out an x. Oh and I see all three terms have another set of 2's so another 2 can come out. I don't think there's anything in all three lists that can come out. So 2 times x times 2 is 4x. So 4x will be your greatest common factor. So that's one way to solve this problem. Another way you could solve this problem is simply ask yourself what number can divide out of 4, 12, and 8? And hopefully you can recognize that you can divide a 4 out evenly from all of those terms. So we'll take out a 4. And then remember that x to the third is really x, x, and x. x squared you have 2 of them and then negative 8x you only have 1. There's an x in all three lists so you can take out a 4x. So matter what method you choose it really doesn't matter as long as there's one that you understand. Let's try another problem. This one 4b to the third minus 2b squared minus 6b. Again there's three terms and we want to see what can come out of all three. We'll have to look at the numbers 4, 2, and 6 and also at the letters. b to the third, b squared, and b. It helps me a lot. b to the third to write it out, b squared to write it out, and b to write it out. And then the method I like to use is just ask myself what can divide out or factor out a 4, 2, and 6? If you guessed a 2 you got it right because these will all divide out evenly. So I can take out a 2. How many b's can I take out? I have 1b, 1b, 1b. Can I pull out a b again? I can't because if I tried to do that I'd find I could pull out a b from here, a b from here, but I don't have any more from this chunk to take out so I can't take any more. So 2b would be my greatest common factor. Let's try another example. This one only has two terms, a 5b to the fifth and a 10b to the third. So what I like to do is start, v to the fifth, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 v's, and v to the third, there's three of them, and then ask what number, what's the biggest number that could divide out from a 5 and a 10 evenly? Well it'd be a 5. So I'm going to take out a 5 and then figure out how many v's I can take out. 1 pair, 2 pairs, and a third pair. So, oops, excuse me, so that would, whoa, that would be 5v to the third. One more. 3t squared minus 18. Well this one, notice, 3t squared has a number and a variable, but 18 only has a number. So, when I pull out my t's, this group doesn't have any to come out, so there's nothing I can do there, but notice, the biggest number that can divide out evenly from a 3 and an 18 is a 3. So my greatest common factor is 3.