Well, welcome everybody. Thank you for joining. My name is Boris Rensky. I'm a co-founder and chief marketing officer at Morantis. And today we're going to talk about OpenStack Co-Opetition, a view of it from within inside. We are kind of an active participant in the OpenStack ecosystem. I am on the OpenStack board. So a lot of you might be reading a lot of different press releases of kind of figuring out how OpenStack world works. And I wanted to give everybody kind of a view from inside. As a chief marketing officer, my job, Morantis, is actually to pretty much do exactly that. I continuously monitor the OpenStack ecosystem, how the different players kind of behave, what new offerings they push to the market. And try to figure out how we should adjust our strategy as a company. So I'd like to start with the definition of co-opetition. And just by kind of a view of hands, I was wondering how many of you actually know what that is. So raise your hand if you know what co-opetition is. Okay, so that's like five people out of what, 30? That's not very surprising, but I myself have learned the fact that such a term exists only after we started participating in the OpenStack ecosystem, which is a co-opetitive ecosystem so to speak. So I pulled up the definition of what it is. I want to read it out loud. So co-opetition takes place when companies that are in the same market work together in exploration of knowledge and research of new products at the same time that they compete for market share of their products and the exploitation of the knowledge created. So that's a very long and complicated mouthful and there's kind of an easier way to define it I think. So if you look at the OpenStack from the outside, if you look at the keynotes and things like that, OpenStack from the outside kind of looks like this, a big happy party of a bunch of people. And this is Jonathan Brice, the head of the OpenStack Foundation. But from the inside the picture is very different and it looks more like this, which is nothing like the picture before. And I wanted to kind of explain specifics of what that looks like during this presentation. So we'll look at three things really. We'll look at the territories that are being conquered in the OpenStack ecosystem. We'll look at the weapons that the different companies choose to use to conquer those territories. And I'll also give kind of a quick highlight of the key battles being currently fought. So territories being conquered, first part. And in talking about it, I specifically decided to choose kind of a metaphor of kind of an island with territories and small islands around it. And this right there, the big chunk is the biggest kind of most valuable treasure island territory that most companies are battling for. And I call it the OpenStack Distro Treasure Island. The guys that are battling for it are Redhead, Susie, Morantis, and Canonical. And the island actually has beach heads. Beach heads are the areas that are the easiest to attack and conquer to begin with. And there's three beach heads that I've identified. The first beach head is what I refer to as the services beach head. There's a training beach head. And then there's upstream influence beach head. And conquering those three beach heads is instrumental to ultimately taking control of the OpenStack Distribution Islands. Now in addition to the OpenStack Distro Island, you have kind of a small islands around it. And this is something that analysts nowadays like to refer to as the OpenStack products and solutions island. So let's try and quantify this. I can tell you right away that there is no accurate numbers with respect to the size of the market for any of those territories. But some of the analysts have started speculating. So the OpenStack Distro market, according to the report from the 451 group, the recent report, is 52 million in 2013, growing to 82 million in 2014. Again, those are ballparks. But as somebody who's participating in that market, they think that through the bottoms-up analysis, that's maybe somewhat accurate at this point. And the OpenStack products and solutions, all of the islands they are combined together, is roughly 31 million in 2013, growing to be 49 million next year. Now in creating this metaphor with the OpenStack Island being the big treasure islands, I think it's kind of a leap of faith when it comes to OpenStack. It's not for sure at this point that Distro is the treasure that you should be going after. And it is quite possible that this island will just end up being a desert and there's going to be absolutely no money to be made. While the small kind of products and solutions islands on the periphery will actually be the oasis, and this is where the guys will build great companies and create a lot of value. So going forward, I'd like to take a look at each of the beach heads in a little bit more detail. The first one is a services beach head. Why is it a beach head and why I think that it's important to conquer it? I think that the history so far has shown that with any early and particularly complex like OpenStack project, services is the first thing that companies start buying. And the reason why it's important to conquer this beach head early on is because in new markets it's impossible to just build a random hypothesis about how you're going to make money or what customers are going to ultimately buy. And by conquering the services beach head, you're actually able to harness the early adopters and get close to the customers and learn how the customers are actually using the software, then ultimately tailoring whatever goes into your offering, into your distro in a way that will be relevant to the customer. Another thing that it allows you to do early on because services again is something that customers pay for in the early days of the market evolution is you can build reputation. You get the opportunity to build reputation and get a lot of customer logos which is important if you're going after the big territory afterwards. I did a talk about a year ago at two summits ago when I talked about how to make money in OpenStack and I talked about how the market is going to be adopting OpenStack software. And I kind of threw out the hypothesis that up until the end of 2013 the primary buyers of OpenStack is going to be technology and infrastructure companies themselves and service providers and web 2.0 companies. And the thing that these companies tend to do is they don't like buying products because oftentimes or more often than not, rather, they have an enormous army of smart engineers already working for them and oftentimes they're able to build software, particularly infrastructure space, better than any outside vendor can. So they would just buy some services to help augment their binge. The 2014, I believe, is going to be the year where enterprise adoption, the traditional enterprise adoption of OpenStack is going to start happening. So let's take a look at who's attacking the services beachhead. So we, Marentis, we were the guys that kind of believed in this beachhead early on. And day one, we positioned ourselves as the services company for OpenStack. And I think that I can say with a certain degree of confidence that we were able to a large extent conquer this beachhead. We've done over 70 OpenStack deployments during the course of the last two and a half years. And we have roughly 370 OpenStack engineers on the bench doing OpenStack services. The guys that are attacking the beachhead that I think that we have conquered, as follows, Rackspace, they have a different business model. Their business model is not distro, their business model is about managed hosting effectively, building a cloud in your data center. But despite this go-to-market model, we do know that they actually do simply services. And in fact, there's press releases out there, and we know firsthand where, for instance, Rackspace has done some services for companies like Sony Entertainment that didn't have to do much with actually providing a managed hosting service. Ubuntu is another guy that, well, canonical rather, that we see in competitive tenders quite often. And they perform services tied to specifically the Ubuntu stack. And finally, now that Red Hat distribution is out and these guys are the credible players pushing forward, we do see them in competitive tenders quite a bit as well. And naturally, they do services for their stack. So let's talk about the training beachhead. This is a beachhead, and why is it important? So a lot of the companies in the OpenStack ecosystem today doing training, they really see training as a really revenue source. There's some companies that don't have any product strategy, and they just do training. They're just training companies. But the reality is that training is not just the revenue source. Training is the opportunity to actually indoctrinate the evolving ecosystem with your opinion. And let me kind of quantify or qualify that rather. The opinion can be a fairly loose term. It doesn't mean that my opinion, and this is what OpenStack configuration looks like. It can be a lot of different things. So our opinion in Rantis, for instance, is that OpenStack was originally envisioned as this fabric that would tie together a very diverse set of infrastructure vendors and overlay kind of a unifying control fabric over this diverse set of infrastructure components. And this is exactly what OpenStack was started for back when, particularly in all the part of it, when it was first created by NASA. Red Hat might, for instance, in doing their training have a different opinion that they'd like to indoctrinate the ecosystem on. And their opinion can be that having an unlimited number of configurations and being able to tie together all the different infrastructure components is impossible. So you have to limit the set of configuration options, so to speak, or set of choices that a customer gets to a more narrowly defined stack, which, of course, should be the Red Hat stack of components, such as it should be a rail. It should ideally be things like a glaster for storage, and it should be KVM for the hypervisor, which I'm not saying it's a bad approach. We'll see which one's better, the time will show. But ultimately, that's their opinion. And in their training, they will be indoctrinating that opinion to the ecosystem. And another proof point, I think, of why I believe training to be Beach Hat is, some of you may not know that, but we know Red Hat pretty intimately. And we know how they've kind of evolved to be the leader in Linux distribution space. And the thing that was absolutely paramount to their success is specifically around their training. They've introduced a very rigorous training program and certification program for Linux.  And then the CIS admins got hired all over the place, and they bring this knowledge to the customer, and the customer wanted Linux. They'd say, well, Red Hat are the guys to actually go to a full Linux. So let's look at who's attacking the training Beach Hat. The two guys that kind of started out on this, the first guy was a rack space. We've launched our training offering shortly after, and I would like to believe that between us and the rack space, we're kind of still controlling this Beach Hat for now. But Red Hat absolutely knows the value of winning this Beach Hat. And they're pounding just crazy to do whatever they can to conquer the Beach Hat, just throwing nuclear bombs. And everybody else at this point is also doing OpenStack training. Some of that is really byproduct of the OpenStack Foundation launching the training marketplace recently. But I think that a lot of the players that are kind of on the bottom right quadrant there are just doing training for the sake of training, not for the sake of actually indoctrinating the ecosystem with particular opinion. So third Beach Hat, upstream influence. So this is surprisingly not very well understood Beach Hat by a lot of the guys in the OpenStack ecosystem today. And I think I'd like to explain it by reading out loud a few quotes that I found enlightening about why winning the upstream influence Beach Hat is important. If you were going to buy a service contract for your open source software, would you prefer your service provider actually be the certifiable authority on that very software? This very one good question to think about. Second, in open source being the source of the source code matters most. Since open source developers essentially give away software for free, the key to monetization lies in being known as the source of the code. So let's take a look at some of the important kind of supporting historic facts. So let's see this thing works, wow, okay. So this right here is the list of contributors to the Linux kernel. The interesting thing that we can see right away is that Red Hat right there historically has always been the number one contributor to the Linux kernel because these guys know the importance of the upstream influence Beach Hat. Let's look at some of the more recent examples. This really here is a contributions to Hadoop. The guys that the leaders in Hadoop distributions today is Cloudera and Hortonworks and of course right there Cloudera Yahoo which technically is Hortonworks now and Hortonworks themselves are the key contributors of code to upstream Apache Hadoop. So I think that to just kind of list some concrete points of why it's important rather than use just historic facts and quotes. In participating upstream you're actually able to shape the roadmap of whatever product you're selling to the customer as a distribution. Moreover I think in order to be successful in the distro game you have to really, your whole organization has to really be wrapped around and believe that building software in open source way is the better way to do it, harnessing the knowledge and power of the ecosystem. In very pragmatic terms that means that if you have the upstream influence for the customer you can just land patches upstream faster. And most customers that buy distro rather than the product what they buy they don't just buy a piece of software from you. They see you as a gateway to the community. They expect you to be their advocate in the community and without the upstream influence there's no way that you can do it. So there's two ways to really kind of monetize open source and I'm going to go off on a little bit of a tangent still talking about the upstream influence beach head. But there is a way to do it where you are kind of the source of the code as we talked about in some of the quotes that I've listed. And then there is also kind of an open core model where the open source part is just the open core and then you have a bunch of value add proprietary solutions that you differentiate with. So the source of the source code is the Red Hat and Hortonworks model. The proprietary value either open core model is for instance a Cloudera model. But I think that it's particularly important that whoever wants to succeed in the distro game and open stack understands that there is no core, there is no open core model in open stack. I'm not the reason why because I think that in open stack at least today and from the virtue of what open stack is in general, open stack doesn't really have a core. So let me explain even deeper what I mean by that. So open stack, and I'm just going to talk about the compute part of open stack, kind of the nova stack of open stack, started out about three years ago just a small kind of set of projects.  And what they said, well, you know, cloud's great, but with cloud you actually need metering and billing. So I'm going to build some proprietary hooks to do billing and metering for open stack and that'll be my value add. So lo and behold, in just a little bit of time, open stack added a cylinder that is now the default metering project for open stack that is also now going into monitoring that has eradicated a lot of the value. So these guys that have built their proprietary solutions and weren't doing it as part of the kind of upstream community, they're pretty much toast. And let's move on. Another kind of set of value add components around open stack historically, around orchestration and configuration management. So some of you might not agree with me, but I believe that these guys are being threatened as well. What's happening right now, open stack is heat. Heat is the, started out as kind of the cloud formations project, but now it's the official orchestration engine for open stack. It doesn't just do provisioning of the infrastructure. It does, you can use it to actually do the open stack deployment. And some of the recent blueprints, such as a heat software blueprint, very much, I think, eat away at the value of things like even puppet and chef, a basic configuration management. So now we're going to get them to a better part. Every product or every vendor that's been trying to kind of monetize open stack, the one thing that they did is they said, okay, well, open stack is a cool product, but you need to be able to deploy it, and you need to be able to manage it. So what we're going to do is we're going to build our suite for deployment and management of open stack. So with that in mind, kind of a non-upstream initiatives have emerged. Some of them are proprietary deployment management engines. Some of them are open source, but none of them are really kind of a deep upstream. So what happens next? PEM, HP and RedHead, they being the smart upstream guys. They start project 3.0 in Tuscar. All these other deployment tools, long term, potentially toast. And this actually keeps going. So the recent big hype that has happened now is there's a lot of platform as a service vendors are saying we build out platform as a service. And what we're going to do is we're going to use open stack as one of the infrastructure as a service engines underneath. We actually wrote a blog about it. Hey, guys, that's maybe not the right way to, you might be threatened by upstream open stack. And we didn't know anything about this. But literally after we wrote the blog, two days later, BAM Project Solom, which is a native platform as a service for open stack. So there is no core in open stack, is my point. And by trying to build value at around rather than working upstream, you'll just waste a bunch of time and money and build kind of a proprietary island. So my kind of encouragement to everybody is instead of trying to go with proprietary routes, go ahead and start working upstream. If you see a gap, if you see something value add, be the evangelist of it upstream and harness the points for actually evangelize it upstream and having been the first one. So let's take a quick look at the upstream kind of an influence beach head state of play. Red Hat, smart guys know how to do open source. So they are the first ones to kind of pound on the beach head. And arguably they've reached a fair amount of success. So if you measure by commits across all projects, Red Hat has been steady kind of a number one contributor to our open stacks since Folsom. But there's a bunch of guys that kind of continue pounding at the upstream influence beach head. Rackspace historically been number one. They've actually been displaced to now number three. They're slowly losing control of that beach head. Us, we were kind of challenged with the problem of having to educate an army of Russians of how to work upstream, which is a very alien thing for the Russian engineer to do. They tend to just kind of have their opinion about how things should be implemented and write code. And that's not how you develop it upstream. But we've been making steady progress. And actually we've moved since just the last release, we were number 16 in Grizzly. We came out number five across all commits, across all core open stack projects. HP, also fairly smart guys know how to do open source. We've been holding steady ground at number four. IBM actually been increasing their pace slowly. So they're moved from number six in Folsom to now number two in Havana. And finally, another company that actually seems to actually know the value of upstream influences in the ones, and they're steadily gaining Folsom, number 11, Grizzly, number seven, Havana, number six. There is ways, though, to measure upstream influence. It's not just about commits to core projects. There's a lot of initiatives happening. So if you look at, for example, who commits most documentation, the picture looks different than if you just measure across the projects. If you look at, for example, Stackforge, which is a sandbox for kind of new projects on open stack, or related projects, they're not guaranteed that they'll ever be adopted by the broader community, or be made into the integrated release, but still it's kind of like the innovation sandbox. So the picture is also very different. Redhead is number six.  And you can keep slicing and dicing it. So, for example, if you look by project, then in Nova, IBM is number one committer. If you look at Cinder, which is very core, HP is number one committer. If you look at Neutron, VMware is number one committer. So let's take a look at some of the islands as I'm about to close on the territory stock. Let's take a look at some of the islands that surround the Distra Treasure Island. There's an AWS Fidelity Island, Enterprise OpenStack Island, Managed Services Island, and then what I refer to as the OpenStack Appliance Island, and then there's a Complementary Product Island. And in each island, there is currently kind of a respective occupant that is sitting there and protecting their territory. Cloud scaling is the AWS Fidelity guys. Piston is the enterprise substitute to VMware and the enterprise type guys. Managed Services, this island is going to get crowded. So right now you have Rackspace and MetaCloud. But HP and IBM are starting to kind of get their game together. And I think that once that happens, they're just going to drop a nuclear bomb on this island. OpenStack Appliance Island versus Nebula and Morph Labs. And Complementary Product Island is just random value-ed technologies that try to piggyback or hold on to the momentum of OpenStack. And there's many companies there, but I think my subjective opinion that Ink Tank, who they're self storage, are the guys that actually probably benefited most and played it the wisest. And if you just look at the territory, I think that we are still kind of controlling the services beachhead. We're sharing the beachhead of training with Rackspace. And Red Hat's pounding hard, as I've said. And Red Hat's sitting kind of holding on very hard on the upstream influence beachhead. So look now at some of the weapons that companies use. Marketing NPR is the number one weapon. And marketing NPR is just kind of almost like a doping peel. So you have certain capabilities or certain strengths, and then you can swallow this pill. And you'll be stronger for a little while. So Red Hat, their positioning is that we own the upstream influence beachhead, and we'll do for OpenStack what we did for Linux. So hey, we're cool upstream, and we know how to do it. We've done it before. So we'll be the winners. Stick with us. Canonical, they are pimping the number one host OS for OpenStack. They are the most popular host OS, and they're pushing hard on that. Rackspace, their messages, we started OpenStack. Our messages, we are pure play OpenStack, and we don't have any kind of a portfolio product baggage around us. We just focus on OpenStack, so we're not going to push you to use KVM as a hypervisor or REL as a host OS necessarily. Cloud scaling, they're like, we have the opinion, and our opinion is that OpenStack should look like AWS. Piston, again, we started OpenStack, but we're fun. And then the two guys, IBM and HP, for understandable reason, we are IBM bitch, but the main thing is we are committed. And there's a lot of value in it, because for IBM, they don't need to prove to the customer that they are cool or they're a good partner. They already have all the customers, so they just need to prove to the customer that they are committed to this new technology. And the guys that have been buying IBM for the last 50 years, now that IBM brings this technology to them, they'll buy it from IBM. The same goes from HP. And I think that this is the excerpts from the opening statements, the opening descriptions of how companies position themselves coming into the summit. So you can look, this is the redhead description. So they're pimping the upstream influence beach head as far as we can. We are the top code committer opening line. And of course canonical, we are the most popular host operating system for OpenStack. Again, some of the headlines, IBM and HP, they're all focused about it. We are committed. We are committed. This is their message. Account control. So this is a weapon that few are privy to. Morent's cloud-stailing piston, we don't have account control. Guys like HP, IBM, redhead have account control. What does it mean?  I've never let you down, buy from me. The problem with account control is that it can sometimes be a double-edged sword.   And there's actually history that shows how this can be double-edged sword. And I think that the very good example of how that history plays out is redhead themselves. Because if you remember back to Unix Wars, the guys, the powerful giants, were really selling HP and IBM, which had their proprietary versions of Unix that were just tied to their expensive mainframes.  And then came redhead and said, well, we'll liberate Linux. You can have any kind of vendor. Now, you don't need the expensive mainframe. You're going to cut down the cost of computing by an order of magnitude. And ultimately, that worked for them. So another interesting weapon is partnerships. Partnerships can be viewed as a shield from account control to some extent.  And you can mitigate that with partnerships. So some examples. Mark Shuttleworth invested $1 million into Seth Storage. So one way to look at it is Mark Shuttleworth is a brilliant entrepreneur. And he believes that Seth Storage is a great, great product that's going to make a lot of money on the exit. The other way to look at it is he's basically saying, up yours to redhead, by saying that Canonical is best friends now with Seth. And Seth is better than Gluster. Another is Suzy Cloud 2.0, recent press release, specifically focusing on compatibility around Hyper-V. Again, very similar message. It can be interpreted as basically Suzy saying, well, redhead, they'll make you work with KVM. But we are all open. You can do Hyper-V and you can do VMware. Another one is a plum grid and redhead shake hands. So one way to look at it is, you know, plum grid has bought into the brilliance of the redhead open stack distribution. Another way to look at it, my pragmatic Russian way to look at it is maybe redhead is just kind of saying, up yours to VMware that is competing with them around virtualization technology. So all this fun and games aside, I think that the most important weapon that you can use is really kind of a focus on technology and focus on customer. You need to make stuff that is relevant to the customer and that stuff needs to work. And that's the bottom line. And the reason why I bring it up is because there's a lot of speculation where the best technology doesn't always win. That's kind of a common theme. Yeah, so we have a great technology, but these guys are really powerful. And they were able to outcompete us with partnerships and marketing and things like that. I think it's to some extent true, but I personally believe that good technology almost always wins. So in trying to use different weapons, it's important not to get distracted away and produce a lot of great partnerships and marketing, but build crap technology. So to close, I wanted to kind of highlight some of the interesting battles that are happening in the ecosystem. And so this is one battle that maybe some of you saw. And the point of the battle is as follows. Certain companies with cloud scaling kind of at the lead being the cheerleader believe that effectively Amazon has won the cloud wars. Most of the guys that have been indoctrinated into cloud were indoctrinated by Amazon. So instead of being antagonistic to Amazon, what OpenStack should do is really embrace everything Amazon. Embrace Amazon APIs, embrace Amazon implementation, become effectively an Amazon software that customers can use. The alternative kind of viewpoint is that API really doesn't matter. And that obsessing with somebody like Amazon could potentially drive the OpenStack community to miss some of the important things that are actually relevant to the customers.  So I think that this one is probably mostly PR bullshit, but I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. The battle of host OS. So this one's kind of interesting. Naturally, Red Hat canonical Susie, they control Linux distribution. So what they say is that, well, you cannot have an OpenStack distribution if you don't have an underlying host OS distribution. And there's a whole bunch of reasons given to that effect. You need to be able to actually fix bugs in the host OS because host OS is what the OpenStack distribution runs on. And ideally, you shouldn't optimize the host OS to make OpenStack run better. And you should have the ability to support the entire stack. Now, there's a whole different camp of guys, and I think that kind of rackspaces the main cheerleader there. It says that, OK, well, host OS is just one component, but there's a lot of components on OpenStack. Host OS is not the only one. There's, for example, MySQL that Red Hat does not control. There's RabbitMQ, which Red Hat chose to substitute for something else for Cupid. And there's many deployments of OpenStack where people don't want, for example, your host OS. And the interesting thing that has happened is actually this kind of new whole theme is that no host OS is optimal for OpenStack. There should be a native cloud OS. So there's a peculiar project that has been invested in by Lou Murman, who is the president of Rackspace, called Core OS, that they're building just the new Linux distribution optimized just for cloud. And the idea is that I'm hoping that they're going to become the native OS for OpenStack.  The looming battle of Swift. So let me give you a little bit of context here. We'll see how this one plays out. But the context is as follows. So foundation right now is working really hard to define what is OpenStack Core. Nobody agrees on anything, pretty much. So the process is going very slowly. But the one thing that everybody agreed on at this point is that whatever is Core should have pluggable architecture. It should allow for different implementations to be substituted in. So for example, if you want storage and you want to have object storage, if you have SIF with S3 APIs, that should also have the right to be called OpenStack. Swift is Core, is mother of Core. There's a second project in OpenStack contributed by Rackspace. But the problem with Swift is not very pluggable. It's the entire implementation. So I think that there's going to be kind of a looming battle about Swift. And the idea is that there's valid arguments that guys like Rackspace and probably guys that are monetizing specifically Swift like SwiftStack will make that OpenStack is not just kind of an API layer, which I personally agree with. It should not just be an API layer. Swift is probably arguably the most solid production ready project on all of OpenStack. And it was there day one. And there's certain counterarguments that the opponents like, for instance, Ink Tank could likely make. And again, on the PR meter, I think that this is mostly kind of technology stuff. So this one, we highlighted a little bit. But I think that probably this very vivid battle right now, there's a whole bunch of guys that there's a whole bunch of deployment tools that have been built. And there are cool tools that do a lot of stuff. And then there is the blessed official OpenStack deployment program called TripleO Intascar. And this kind of looks like this, despite a lot of deployment tools that are out there in the market today, arguably, work better and have been deployed in production than TripleO Intascar is just a framework, but they are blessed. So the customers ultimately don't care so much if it's a blessed framework or it's that project or it's this project, they care about stuff working. But I agree that actually developing stuff under the auspices of a community rather than doing it in a silo is a better approach to ultimately getting a better product. So we'll see how this battle plays out. So final one. This is kind of a battle that not many of you are aware of, but I think that it's happening. And that's a foundation's battle for quality of all. And the general idea here is that the last thing that the OpenStack foundation wants is for there to be kind of one guy that is the default go-to guy for everything OpenStack. Because in their mind, it's going to look like this. And there's probably a personal, somewhat selfish aspect to that. Because if this was to happen, then this will be the foundation, and this will be this one guy. So they're doing a lot of interesting things to even the plane. I think the one thing that they did recently is the launch of the OpenStack marketplace. Effectively saying, here, come to the OpenStack foundation website and we'll list the Red Hat training. But we'll also have up-tier training and cloud-scaling training. And we are the guys to actually come and look at work with the best training provider is. So they're kind of taking away a little bit from the marketing momentum of some of the big guys, and evening the plane for the smaller guys. And I personally know that this trend will continue, and they'll continue pushing on it. And this is about it. So any questions? All right then. Question right there. Explain. Yeah, I can talk about it a little bit more. So foundation is right now trying to figure out the definition of core. So right now, there is kind of effectively three categories of projects in OpenStack. One is core projects. Two is integrated projects.  And there is no very concrete definition around each one of those levels. So it's very easy for somebody who just has a project on StackForge to say, well, we are an OpenStack related project. So you're integrated and we're related. What's the difference? And core integrated, again, the difference is vague. So foundation is trying to come up with a very definitive set of guidelines for which project can legally actually leverage the OpenStack trademark in a particular way. And they're working on these guidelines right now. And one of the things that everybody has agreed on is that whatever is core has to have pluggable architecture. You should be able to plug in various implementations. For example, Nova, you can use multiple hypervisors. Cinder, you can use multiple storage back ends. Quantum, you can use different networking solutions. But Swift is the entire thing. It's the API with implementations, the whole thing. So what should happen to Swift? Should Swift be dumped out of core? Should Swift be just reduced to just the API layer? That's kind of the battle. So any more questions? OK, then we're done. Thank you.


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Our next caller is Sir Haud from California. Hey, what's up Sir Haud? How can we help you? Hey guys, how's it going? Good, right.   It was probably due to repetitive, um, exercising and a little bit overdoing it. So I decided to, uh, take a break for a few weeks and, uh, just do some light training and, uh, swap lifting with some cardio. And a few weeks later, maybe I'll recovers and I can get back to my, uh, actual lifting. So two weeks, two weeks passed by, I'm doing a cardio. I'm not lifting. And, uh, I didn't feel like I was getting better. And the more I put cardio, the more I started doing cardio, it became this kind of like I got stuck in this situation where I'm doing more and more cardio and less and less lifting. And, um, my appetite started dropping as well because I wasn't lifting as much. So I wasn't sending those, uh, build muscle signals. And, uh, so I got stuck in this situation where I'm doing a little more cardio, less lifting, and, uh, because of, uh, my injuries. So I went within this route for a couple months and now I have, I'm a little bit better on the hip, but shoulders still bothering me. So I started including some lifts in my routine. And, uh, surprisingly I can do any leg movements, like any leg training, uh, really well, the hip doesn't bother me, but the shoulder actually bothers me on my presses and any overhead movement is, uh, out of the charts. I just can't do it. So I'm doing very little lifting. Like maybe two days a week, I do a really good leg session. But the rest of the week is mostly light, uh, weightlifting, light, uh, arms, and maybe some, uh, deadlifts and, uh, carries. And since I'm, uh, not as active as in anymore, I still am doing a little bit of cardio and I'm doing a little bit of hit as well, because I want to, uh, I want to use, uh, the hits ability to, uh, maintain some muscle mass, because that's what research research shows. And, but also I'm stuck in this low calorie, uh, ish, uh, situation. And I'm trying to reverse out of it, but I'm kind of happy with how I look right now, although I've lost, uh, like more than enough, uh, muscle mass. I kind of, I'm, I'm okay with how I'm looking with this, uh, right now. But I'm trying, I feel like my calories are really low for someone, um, as active as I am, uh, especially with cardio, but I'm afraid to bump it up because I'm not lifting as much. I'm not sending those muscle building signals and I'm afraid that any additional calories that I'm going to put in are going to be converted to, uh, fat instead of building muscle. So my question is, um, how, how would you guys, uh, plan your, uh, diets and your trainings in situations like this? And if you want to learn more on, um, like what exercises I can do and can't, uh, feel free to ask. And, uh, I just didn't talk maybe to go into those details. Yeah.   Now there's two things you could do. You could either go to the mechanic and they can address why that's happening or you could stop turning left. Okay. So the, the choice that you've made is to stop turning left. You're basically saying, here's what's hurting. I'm going to stop doing that and I'm just going to do other stuff. And then maybe it'll get better on its own. It won't. The problem is you're not addressing the root cause. I really don't care about anything else that you're doing. If you can't figure out why your shoulder is hurting and why your lower back is hurting. And it sounds like you've done nothing specific to rehab those areas. You've done no specific mobility work. Don't worry about exercises to build your shoulders and to develop your body. If you can't address the root cause, none of those matter anyway. It really doesn't matter. So I could help and kind of try to assess here through this call. I noticed I could kind of see you on video. It looks like you're pointing to the front of your shoulder when you talk about front shoulder pain. Is it in the front of your shoulder? Yeah, it's the, it's the front of the rotator cuff here. The point where it connects to the upper chest, but it also shoots down to the elbow a little here in like this corner. Yeah. And that also prevents me from doing heavy bicep work. That's not a rotator cuff that you probably have bicep tendon. Yeah, bicep tendon inflammation. The bicep tendon runs over the front of the shoulder. And it sounds like you have a little bit of AC joint pain. It's where the collarbone kind of, there's that end joint there where the shoulder is. So you could do some stretches and stuff for the bicep. That'll help alleviate the pain in the short term. But in the long term, you probably need to work on what's called scapular mobility, retraction and stability. You're probably lacking some of that. And I would focus primarily on shoulder mobility movements, hip mobility movements, maybe spine mobility movements, maybe some stuff for the ankles. That should be your primary focus. In fact, I would do, that's all I would focus on for a little while before trying to figure out what exercises to do to develop those areas. I would, I would drop one of those, those days or limit, I would cut back on my cardio sessions and I would do mobility work and the mobility work would, I would live in the 90 90s and all the variations and then handcuffed with rotation, wall circles, Justin loves zone one stuff, everything that this is why, I mean, you were an example of why we wrote maps prime and prime pro was to help people address this. And here's the deal. Like the idea, I get why you're doing cardio because you want to kind of combat the, you know, the lack of movement you're doing and calorie burn. But let me tell you a 50 minute mobility session focused on the hips and shoulders where you literally spend 45 minutes, it could be very intense. You'll be sweating. You'll burn plenty of calories while you're also addressing the root cause of where this pain is coming from. So, and nothing's going to get you back to lifting weights sooner than that. And when you're, when you have maps prime, for example, so in there we do like a zone one test, which would be addressing the shoulder area. We also have strength exercises to support that, you know, that go with it. So you have the mobility work that you do to address it. And then as you start to progress and feel better, there's specific exercises that we take clients like yourself that are going through this to help strengthen that new range of motion that you've probably regained back from doing all the mobility work. But yeah, you know, like Sal said, right now you're just avoiding the things and they probably feel better because you've stopped doing it. Inflammation comes down, but you, you still didn't address the root cause of what's going on. Yeah, because we just build on top of that and then you're going to get stronger in other areas. But eventually that's going to get exposed and it's going to set you back. And so I guess why we kind of are just all honing in on that is because it's a big signal for you to really focus on that and get your shoulder to function optimally again, because that's what we want to build upon. That's what we want to get stronger and supported because then when we go back to actually lifting weights, you're going to feel that difference too. It's going to be a performance enhancement. Not it's not this huge regression you're going through. And I think that's like the psychological challenge a lot of people face when, you know, they go through like these types of exercises. Like think of it more as a performance enhancement.  Yeah, do you? Okay. So do you have maps prime? That's absolutely. Actually, that's funny. You brought it up because I do have maps prime and maps prime pro and before my injury, I had, I was doing like at least 10 minutes before each session, I do my priming and post priming after the session and I had done those evaluations on the three zones and I did not find any mobility issues like I can extend overhead my shoulder and do the wall circles very well. Like, not perfectly, but at least there's no lack of motion and same with the hip, but it's just that after I got hurt, I wasn't able to even do those movements because of the pain. And that's why I'm struggling right now because I don't know, because I thought it was a mobility issue, but I was doing all of those before it happened. Yeah, no, no, no, Serhat, it is a mobility issue. The signs, the red flag is the pain, right? So you're doing normal traditional exercises and it hurts. Now, mobility doesn't just mean range of motion. It means how you're moving and how muscles are connecting. In fact, some of the people that I've trained in my entire life with the worst pain issues had incredible ranges of motion. They just had lack of control and lack of stability. So here's what I want you to do. You have maps prime, here's what I want you to do. Get it in the form so I can see some of this movement. Yeah, your workouts are gonna be the fortification sessions in maps prime. So there's fortification sessions in maps prime which are actually correctional exercise-based workouts. So that's your workouts. Do those and then the priming movements, I want you to do those three times a day and I want you to slow them down. Don't worry about, oh, does it, you know, my, no, focus on the connection. Slow them down, connect to every single centimeter of movement. Now, and play within your edges, within your limits. What that means is, if you're doing a priming, yeah, if you're doing a priming movement and you notice that, oh, that's about as far as I could go, don't modify the movement, stop right there and then slowly try to increase or improve upon that over time. But three times a day, I would do 10 minutes of those movements and then your workouts for now or fortification sessions, slow everything down. It's all about connection and feel. Don't worry about anything else, connection and feel and over time you should be able to solve some of these problems. If you do a good job of finding those end ranges before the pain, you're gonna notice that the more frequently you apply these, like you're gonna be able to move that a bit further. So the pain itself will start sort of dissipating at certain angles. And so you just gotta be very gradual with this approach. So that way you can progress forward. By the way, this is sometimes very hard to do on your own. One of our challenges when we created our Maps Prime and Prime Pro programs was exactly that people have a tough time assessing themselves, especially if they don't have a background in how to assess. And sometimes what a professional will see is so subtle that you would never notice yourself. So this makes it very challenging. Adam gave great advice. He said get in our forum, post some of these movements, post videos, there's physical therapists and trainers, there's us in there, we can help. And then here's the other thing, this is like if you really, really, really just wanna get this fixed. We have partnered with a company that offers physical therapy in your home and it's totally covered by insurance. It's you go to getluna.com. So if you have health insurance, you can have a therapist who specializes in working with athletes and movement and correctional exercise. Come to your home for like five sessions. The real diagnosis. And they'll diagnose you right in front of them because I've definitely worked with people where they show me a video, I'm like, man, I can't really tell, I gotta get in front of this person and I have to walk around them while they're moving and the movement changes are so subtle that I wouldn't have been able to notice otherwise let alone somebody who has an untrained eye or somebody who's not a professional in that space. So that would be the other resort.  You go to that website, getluna.com and your insurance covers it. But other than that, Seerhad, we'll put you in the forum, post some videos and let's see what we can figure out there. Awesome, thank you so much guys. And one last thing, I don't know if we have any more time, but how would you approach calorie increase at this situation? Yeah, right now, right now, with what we're doing with correctional exercise, I would keep them at maintenance and maybe a slight surplus, but I wouldn't worry about body composition changes just yet. Let's focus on fixing the root cause of the pain because if we can't figure that out, you'll never be able to do all the other stuff you wanna do. So we gotta really focus on that first. Amazing. Okay. I really, really appreciate it. Thank you so much. And I also wanna thank you on behalf of everyone who listens to Mind Pump because you guys are throwing some badass information out there that nobody else is doing. Thank you so much. Really appreciate you guys. That's true. I agree with you. Thank you. Thanks, dude. Thanks, man. Thank you, brother. Yeah, you know, this really highlights a challenge that we all talked about when we created those programs. Well, this is why I asked him to go in the forum and I know in Prime Pro, I did this because I know that when I would teach, and I used to do some of this stuff like in a class setting, even with people me sitting in front of them doing the movement, when they do it and they think they're doing it the way they're not... They're mirroring you, but the intention isn't there. Totally not there. And so a lot of people, they'll do these tasks and they'll be like, oh yeah, I passed zone one, two and three.  I know you did.  And they're being genuine. They're being sincere. Yeah, I mean, okay, I struggle with zone one. I still do not have a pass on zone one. And I have good shoulder mobility and can do Indian clubs and May swings and do a lot of things that we talk about on the show, but still can't pass that test because there's areas to improve there. So I think a lot of people think just because they can do it, they can go through the wall circle, but they don't realize they pushed their body four inches to the left when they do that. Like you're actually not performing. You have to be in your body, yeah. Which is a really hard thing to teach. It really comes intrinsically. You've figured that out through feeling your way through these things and you have to know how to do that. And so it does take quite a bit of coaching and extra cues to keep you on track. Here's a silly example. This is not related to him, but just a silly example. I would do, let's say, a cable row with a client. And the form from the outside looks pretty damn good. Even to a trainer looks pretty damn good. And then after the set, they'd say, I felt a little pressure in my lower back. And this is what I would do. I'd say, okay, let's do another set.  That's all they would do. The form actually wouldn't even change. They would just brace their midsection as if someone was gonna poke them. And all of a sudden, no pain or no pressure in the low back. This is what we're talking about when we talk about intention. Now I did mention, getluna.com because sometimes you're just, you're not an expert. This is not your field of expertise. The issues can be so subtle and you can literally be stuck in a situation where you're like, I think I'm doing everything.  Stop guessing.  You don't have to worry about it ever again. You really figure it out after about five or 10 sessions and then the problem solved. Otherwise, it could end up being one of those chronic issues where you're just like, well, I guess I can never overhead press or I guess squats are just out of the question for me, which you don't wanna be in that position.


Well hello everybody and welcome back to plan with me. Today we're gonna be working on Monday May 1 through Sunday May 7. As always let's take a look back at last week. Last week was kind of nuts you guys. Um in my regular work you know work we are moving our shop space so really we have been moving all week and then Friday was kind of the last push for the move so yeah that was kind of intense. Also as you guys know I'm a big NASCAR fan and Dale Jr is my favorite driver but unfortunately he announced I believe it was on Tuesday I put it in here junior announcement that he is no longer going to be racing full-time after this season which is really sad but I totally understand where he's coming from. He's had a lot of issues in the past. He was not able to race his full season last year because he has had several concussions as many drivers do and you know he didn't know if he'd be able to walk right again and all of that like it was bad but I mean he's fine now but I totally get where he's coming from it's just sad to see him leave a little bit earlier than you know a normal race car career but I feel like we're still gonna see him even if he's not going to be in a race car so anyway that's my junior situation um okay so as you can see by the bottom here um this is all like Churchill is the mortgage company that I am going with and oh my god they need like all the documentation you guys um today is actually Sunday I'm filming right now and I need to do more documents tonight like just when you think you have uploaded like every single document you could ever think of they're like oh we need this and we need this and we need this I'm like oh my gosh so anyway that happened and then on Saturday I had a really great time I went to the Minnesota planner meetup and thank you to Krista for this cute little sticker um I'll show the little sampler this is from design pandemonium um Krista partnered with them to make a little sampler which is cute I'll leave the design pandemonium um link down below if you guys are interested um but yeah I love this and then you know Krista was wearing a purple shirt so I was like Krista you're going into my planner so anyway so let's get into this week and speaking of my meetup I actually had a wonderful time as always but we typically like every couple of meetups will do like a swap table so I brought a few things um unfortunately I had already just done like a huge like d-stache on my instagram page if you guys follow me there so I felt kind of bad but it was fine um but someone or several people had brought like a lot of washi samples which I am a huge fan of washi samples you guys because they may not want like a full roll of like say you know like Halloween like scary little eyeballs or something like this like a multicolored like cheetah print or whatever but anyway I found some great things and I know I'll end up using them so what I really wanted to do this week is use one of the washi samples that I got it's a really pretty orange and it's got kind of like a I don't know it's not a white background but it's like kind of like a gray background and then also there was this full roll of washi which is like a gold white and orange so I figured I'd go with like an orange theme because and I think I'm just realizing this so I did a purple theme here and this is kind of an orange theme too but whatever we're just gonna go with it y'all so we've got some things going on this week and I'm not sure if I want to use that I don't know like I need to figure out what I want to do for this um actually tomorrow I think I'm gonna go in at 6 a.m. I mean I know that sounds a little bit crazy but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go in super early um since the move has been happening I need to get the office and like my boss's like situation set up um Friday I was there till four o'clock which I leave at three every day and I still hadn't like set everything up unfortunately so I need to get that done and you know just moving and I haven't even set up like anything on my um my desk I got like the cleaning done so I was able to like dust off like my desk and dust off his desk and all of that stuff but beyond that I haven't done anything so I gotta get computer set up and phone set up and apparently there is wi-fi there now which is good but oh you guys I feel like moving an office is a whole lot more difficult than moving a house because at least you know where all your stuff is and a lot of times when you're moving an office other people pack up stuff and you're like wait where's that and where's that and where's that like I don't know all right and I think you know what I think I will leave at three o'clock tomorrow I've got some stuff to do I was thinking about leaving at like 3 30 I have an oil change at four but I think I'm gonna leave at three um I've got to mail out some prizes I did an Instagram giveaway for the new erin kondren hardbound notebooks and everybody got back to me but one so I'm actually filming this a little bit later in the day on sunday so I gave everybody 24 hours to get back to me and only one person declined to get back to me oh darn it I messed this up um so I have to randomly select a new winner which is fine that happens whatevs and uh so yeah but there's actually a like mailbox I think it's like a mailbox etc or something like across the parking lot from the oil change place so I think I'm gonna do that while my oil change is going on you know two birds one stone right so that makes my life a little bit easier and makes me not procrastinate and sometimes I procrastinate on sending out those packages which I love to do like the next day but sometimes I'm just like oh the last thing I'm gonna go do is stand on a long line of people you know what I mean so you're in my room so that is that and then I have my oil change at four but I have to do my packages so let's do packages all right let's take a look see all right it's when I mail the prizes like honestly I really have no idea what time I'm leaving work that day so whatever that can just be covered up I don't really I don't really care all right and then I have my oil change which hopefully won't last too incredibly long but you know you never know you guys you just never know all right and I've got these stickers I like cut them up a long time ago they're these are from Adriana Piper and I'm gonna put this little guy on a little sheep here but I don't know I love these these are like these little like auto maintenance stickers I had like a different organizing system so I ended up cutting up a bunch of like full sheets of stickers a long time ago I'm actually like revamping the way I'm doing all of my like loose sticker storage obviously you guys have seen like my Christiane designs binders and things like that and like how I store like my coffee break planner stickers but I'm trying to like revamp some things so I think that's gonna be happening sooner rather than later but I will actually show you guys once all of the items like get back um I've ordered a few things but it'll it'll be a little bit that's probably gonna be about a month before I actually tell you guys all my secrets all right and this sheet is actually from design pandemonium that's this little sheet that I showed um that my planner friend Krista gave me so that's exciting and then my oil change appointments at 4 p.m so I'm just gonna write that in here because it's kind of like a a cluster down there right now come on come on there we go it's not gonna take me till 6 p.m but I just got a lot of I got a lot of crap to do that to you guys all right I've got my plan with me we'll put that in a little bit later um I've got my dog's medication on Monday so let me find those stickers I like put everything off camera over here today sometimes I'll just pile it up and throw it on the planner but I don't know I don't like it I don't like the way that looks that I'm editing so let's see here let's grab a Doyle head which these are my favorite and unfortunately this sticker shop is no longer around so if you make stickers and you want to make me some Doyle stickers let me know I can I'll pay you for them they're so cute um but unfortunately she closed she did like custom dog head stickers and cat head stickers for lots of different people um she had like some stock images of like you know just like a golden retriever and like things like that too but um you know Doyle was a little interesting so randomly found her but unfortunately she closed up shop which is sad Doyle head just reminds me to do his monthly medication if you guys have been watching my channel for a little while you know that Doyle gets medication every single day but um this is just a reminder to do his her monthly stuff all right I think I'm just gonna cover up where it says May 1 I don't really care I understand that it's May 1 it's fine um let me see here all right what else do I have going on this week I don't know if I have anything specific going on during the day oh you know what I do have um yeah I do have yeah okay let's talk about that I do have yeah so on Monday like I was saying before I'm gonna be setting up the office so I'm gonna put a little thing in here because honestly I am not going to wear anything exciting tomorrow to work I am gonna be wearing like a t-shirt and yoga pants because I'm just gonna get dusty and gross again um which is fine but I don't want to get like you know like your nice dress pants and dress shoes like gross and I'm just gonna write in um setup office with like one of these little guys from adriana piper but I need to find another I need to find some I need to find some I'm gonna do this I'm gonna use a little pencil because like legit all my pens all my pencils like everything is still like in the bags I actually used like a bunch of my own like personal reusable bags and uh yeah it's just insanity we'll do that just remind myself office so that's what's happening pretty much all day tomorrow and hopefully that internet was set up over the weekend um so I wasn't there for that thankfully I don't want to be there for that um so yeah all right so the duration of the week I don't know what's going on like you know like during the week um I have my videos so let's put some videos in so for this week we've got some fun videos coming up obviously this is the plan with me you guys know that and then on Wednesday my favorites will be up from April and I've got some cool things in there to share I've got I think I've got a couple coupon codes maybe and that one I'm not yeah I'm pretty sure I do so stay tuned and then Friday I am actually planning on doing a trip next year and I thought financial Friday would be kind of a cool thing to share like what my plans are and where I'm going to be going and how I'm factoring that into my budget it's actually like a work related plan so um like work like YouTube kind of work so um you won't see that out of my like monthly budgets or anything but I'm gonna be doing a little bit of like a budgeting and allocating monies in my LLC for that so just wanted to talk about you know when you know something's coming up you can kind of guesstimate how much it's gonna be obviously the final numbers are gonna be a little bit closer to your actual travel day or when you start booking you know airfare and hotel and things like that but I have a vague idea of how much it was costing this past year so anyway um I'm gonna go over that on Friday so I thought that would be kind of a cool time and fun things to do and you guys yell at me all the time because I forget to put in my coffee break planner stickers my trash cans so yeah I actually just ordered another sheet of these because I'm like out of some of the colors I'm totally out of the greens but oh well and I probably don't need like a work over here but I'm just gonna I'm just gonna put it in and I don't think anything is like crazy happening at my office this week but that's what I say now right it'll it'll hit the fan at some point because that's what happens at work you know all right oh Friday's Cinco de Mayo never knew that or I knew that but you know I have some things to do on Saturday I have been putting off doing some not major adulting things but things I said I would do and then I just like haven't done them because I've been slacking so anyway I am like legit painting all Saturday I have the paint it's been here for several months and I just haven't freaking done it so um it's actually not the new house but it is my parents bedroom that I don't I don't stay in their room but it's my parents bedroom and yeah I just need to do it so I need to throw the paint cans in my car not like throw them okay like I'm going to place them gently in my car and I need to take them back to minards and just get the cans like shook up again before I start painting and then I want to look at the actual um like brushes and stuff that I have I just want to make sure that I have like what I'm looking for why is this washy so okay well I guess I guess the washy wants to be all the way down to the bottom wow it's like tearing up the paper this is like extremely sticky washy okay well what whatever um honestly I'll probably be doing it all night long anyways yeah I just need to buckle down and freaking paint you know I just I just I gotta do it I gotta do it so I'll take it back to the um to minards and they will be able to mix it all back up for me so it's like properly mixed and ready to rock and yeah so all right I think I'm gonna use one of these and one of these oh my gosh seriously come on there we go and it's not gonna be orange I'm just using orange this week so that's that's what's happening and actually I don't like the way this looks I want to center this a little bit more let's see if I can oh oh all right let's see let's see if this will work yeah okay I like that better sometimes you'll just gotta mess with your stickers paint the master bedroom all right I might not get it all done on Saturday but I'm gonna try to get the bulk of it completed on Saturday because I've got a prime and paint and I've got to move some furniture around you know and that's okay if I don't get it all done this Saturday I can do some of it next weekend as well but Sunday I have to film and I've got NASCAR all right so we're all right I got my NASCAR stickers over here here we go there's a teledega that's at one o'clock oh did that geez Emily criminy see the coffee break planner stickers are nice because they're matte removable stickers so that kind of came off like like butter so it didn't like rip up a man rip up all my pages you know what else am I doing okay I have to do laundry so I think in the middle of painting I'll actually do the laundry no no no no no okay let's try something different so last week I actually actually it's still currently this week I guess but I did my laundry on Friday and let me tell you guys like I felt so much more productive that I got everything done like on Friday night versus on Saturday so I think I'm gonna do the laundry like when I get home I think I think that's gonna happen I kind of liked that made me feel like so much better versus I feel like if you do it on Saturday mornings like it just lasts like all damn day and I just doesn't doesn't seem like a good idea you know all right and then I have to film so I'm gonna use a couple of these different ones all right so it's filming day whoops come on come on I know you're cut there it is these are kind of they're not like vinyl but they're like uh I don't know maybe they are vinyl they're they're really nice but you have to use a permanent marker on these from design pandemonium but sometimes it's hard to like lift off like the first little corner but that's okay very similar to like the christian design stickers very very similar all right so that's kind of filming day up above here so that's good and then I'll edit and stuff down here um sometime this week and I think maybe oh you know what I have to film either Monday or Tuesday this week I think it might actually be Tuesday because my April favorites are not going to get done today unfortunately so um let me put that in so film April's fave video that'll happen right over here and I'll get that edited and everything I just I don't have time today with the things that I want to accomplish and the things that I want to do so maybe Wednesday I'll sort the washy situation I really want to get rid of some stuff as you guys know I am moving and I don't want to take certain things with me that I don't really want or need or whatever I don't know like I just it seems like a really good time to declutter so I'm gonna sort washy and I think with some of them that I really like but I might not want a full roll what I'll end up doing is like like these little washy samples that I got I think I'll make like a thicker sampled for myself to keep and then I'll give away the remaining roll of it because I don't know it just doesn't it doesn't seem like I need that much washy you know like I only use like so much in a week I don't know and I like to mix it up I don't want to use the same thing every single week not that there's anything wrong with that but that's just you know not my style I just want to like you know keep using stuff I guess I don't know oh also I want to show this to you guys so I actually got this from Amazon and these are super funny it's the iAdulted stickers for grown-ups um so when I saw the book I was like oh this is super cute and I like you know looked at the dimensions online thinking that the stickers were gonna be like you know about this size no they're like full-fledged like when you go to the doctor and you get like a shot or you get your blood drawn like that's how big these are but I kind of still like them I don't know they're funny I thought these were hilarious like I admitted I was wrong I made a sensible choice like these are super hilarious I called my elderly relative I did my taxes like these are funny so I don't know if I'll ever use them in my planner because they're just a little bit too big but I just thought these were funny so I'll leave the Amazon link below for you guys if you're interested in this because I just I don't know I thought it was funny and then also on Amazon I got this it wasn't the same shipment but it was the same order um people have asked me before like what kind of hand cream I use not that my hands are like in really good shape because I touch paper all day so they're kind of jacked but um anytime I do like I call these like hand videos and then I call like my other videos like face videos I use this it's the hands of hope for by philosophy it's the hand and cuticle cream this one's the four ounce this is really difficult to find a Sephora no longer carries this particular product even though they carry philosophy stuff and then also Ulta does not carry them either they only carry like the small one which I think is like only one ounce or maybe even two I think it might be one ounce and for the value of the cost of the item this is way better in value and it feels nice on your hands it's not super greasy and I literally put this on like right before I film and it doesn't like get the pages gross so I actually bought two because they're so hard to find but Amazon had them so I'll leave a link below if you guys are interested also speaking of links um I always put my pens that I use um down below as well this is the paper made inkjoy gel pen um I use the five and the seven and then this is the pilot ultra fine point permanent which I love so I use both of them um I kind of like intermix them I think yeah this spread I only used the um permanent marker however on my last spread I used you know some of the gel pen as well which I love it's great and also um there is a link below with a unique clickable link which takes you to the Aaron Condron website this is an Aaron Condron planner the new planners are actually coming out very very soon the presale is happening on the 4th but since I signed up for a specific kind of email notification a long long time ago I think like back in January I can actually shop tomorrow on May 1st and um order my stuff there so there's like a pre presale but unfortunately if you haven't signed up for those emails you don't apply for that but there is a presale on the 4th and then um I think that they're gonna start shipping them in the middle of May I think um and that's for the new life planners the 2018 versions there's a lot of different things that are happening with the Aaron Condron life planner tons of different varieties I'm really excited to see them I've been watching a lot of the ladies that have already gotten their Aaron Condrons to you know like for promotion or whatever to kind of like show online what you know the new features are and do a walkthrough and stuff I haven't 100% decided on what I want but I'm pretty clear on what I think I want but I want to look at all the different varieties before um I will be doing a 12 month calendar so I will be doing December not December but January 1 through December 31 so I won't be in my new planner until then but as soon as I get my new planner I will show you guys so you can see the differences and things like that and then decide if you want to buy one um however if you're interested in buying a new planner or even like they've got like new sticker books and like new fun things um feel free to click the link down below what will happen if it's your first time signing up for the Aaron Condron you'll put in all of your information you'll get a couple of different emails from Aaron Condron and one of them will actually have a $10 off coupon code that's unique to you so it's going to be like letters and numbers and things so when you get that you apply it to your balance and your cart and then you get $10 off of your first purchase it doesn't have to be a planner it can be anything and then also what will happen when your item ships then I get a $10 off coupon code to use for like hauls and giveaways like the giveaway I just did with all those hardbound notebooks uh that is because I was able to give all those away because of referral credits from a lot of you guys so thank you so much and that just you know helps my channel and I love to give back to you guys as well and you know show you you know what I'm using and how I'm using it and all that kind of stuff too so anyway I am gonna go for now thank you so much for watching today I hope you guys are doing wonderful and I will see you all in my Wednesday video which will be my April faves and Friday will be a fun different little financial Friday so if you like the video feel free to give it a thumbs up feel free to subscribe if you haven't already and I will see you all in my next video bye guys