Welcome to NPTEL course on groundwater hydrology and management. This is week 12, lecture 4. In the last lecture, we looked at one particular remote sensing data that can be used for understanding long-term, basically 20 years of groundwater approximation rates and across the world throughout the planet and at monthly intervals. So you see a lot of ions I'm using for this data because it has been a very useful data for a lot of regions. However, especially in India, there are some limitations on using it. So that is where we could look at beyond the data and merging the data to have a single cohesive data for groundwater management because not all data can be taken from remote sensing as we've seen the resolutions and the size. Similarly, you cannot take all from the observation data which has its own limitations. Measuring the deep groundwater aquifers is very expensive. You know, when to put a tape inside and measure, think about 300 meters, 400 meters groundwater touching. How do you put a reel? You don't have that reel which goes in touches the water and comes out. Remember, we talked about how to measure groundwater levels. Okay, so here in this part of the lecture series, we're looking at how do you collect these data and set it up in a final fine scale model and then run for your analysis. Okay, so we have looked at the key data that from the water balance, what data is available. And then we've looked at different vendors for the data as WRIS, aspect CWC, IMD, CGWB and other data centers. We've also looked at certain specific data that can be used for local scale like state agencies, SWID, PWD from Kamil Nadu, et cetera. And we have also looked at multiple stakeholder data from NGOs and publications. So the NGO and publication data is not peer reviewed, as I mentioned, and they're not going to be liable for any found finding, authoritative finding that comes out, which means it is not a government record. And also, when you cite it and use it in your research, you can use it. But some potentially someone may say it is not a government data, it is not a government record. Okay, so for that aspect, it is also important to find what government reports have. So initially, we have talked about CGWB as a government level, groundwater monitoring level agency. In today's lecture, we'll be looking at their reports. What do they do with the data? It can be so much done by collecting the data and running some analysis. So we can see how they prepare these reports and make it available for the public. Since this is the only agency in India that looks at groundwater, CGWB, the Central Agency, they do have a mandate to give annual reports. Sometimes the annual reports are not on the exact year and there is some delay. However, they do get the data and produce these kind of beautiful reports. It's a very in-depth report. It's a lot of data, a lot of techniques, methods, analysis done in the report. And we can go through the basics. So in today's lecture, I will showcase you how you could access these reports and what does it mean? What does it mean the differences? Okay, so when you see a report like this, it will be saying Paridabad or Delhi depending on where the report is released. So the place is not as important, but be careful. There are state Central Ground Water Board offices that do reports also. So you have an annual report for entire India and you have reports for West Bengal, Gujarat, Rajasthan alone. And both of them may be similar in terms of the content or may not be because of the in-depth state level agencies that may go. For example, this report would take all the water levels in Gujarat and make a trend analysis. Is the ground water going up or low? Whereas the Central Ground Water Board Gujarat report, just the Gujarat report may have extra data focusing on Gujarat because that cannot be done in the Central Indian report because it will be too much big volume. So they'll give you the initial findings and those who are interested can go to the state level agencies and collect the data and report. So it is a report which tells about the different methods on estimation of groundwater resources, including the groundwater level methods, the GEC methods, other methods that are widely used across India for understanding the groundwater levels and fluctuations. It also gives you the borehole lithologue data that they have collected. We have gone through in class what is the borehole, how do you collect data in a lithologue, etc. But what CGWP does is they also take it to their labs. They have a chemical lab with CPCW, CPCB, a Central Pollution Control Board, and they have other private agencies where they could test these values and get a record. So because they have monitoring wells and they have exploration wells where they did and assist the atrophic thickness permeability, hydraulic conductivity, etc. by taking samples and taking it to the labs. So this report can serve as a hydraulic conductivity database for your regions. Remember I used a Fleece and Cherry book for the entire planet. If you know the rock, if you know the soil type, you can assess the hydraulic conductivity, but it is a big range. There is a big range that Fleece and Cherry has given. Now, this Central Pollution Control Board data would be anywhere in between that range. So now you are fine tuning your range so that you could address these differences in your reports and research. So then what you do is you have groundwater level analysis. As I said, the key data that they collect on long term is the groundwater level. The other data may be one time collection, the exploration wells, rainfall is collected from IMD. So what CGWP collects is samples which are sent to lab and some properties are measured including the water quality. But most important, the frequency in which groundwater level is collected is highest in CGWP. The other data compared to other data that CGWP collects. So what do they do with the groundwater level? They analyze the annual recharge for a basin or for India or even for a state district boundaries. How much recharge has happened? So you know the pre-monsoon level, groundwater level before the monsoon and then after the monsoon it rises up. So that is being captured by the post-monsoon water levels. That is why they have seasonal groundwater levels, pre-monsoon, post-monsoon, winter and you have somewhere around spring you have one water level. So kind of seasonal and the season is enough to capture the recharge because pre-monsoon to post-monsoon is the recharge and from post-monsoon the water levels deplete with pre-monsoon. So if you have two years let's say 2012 and 2013, 2012 pre-monsoon which is August is taken as a lower level and then from there you have a high level in pre-monsoon we can take as May, pre-monsoon May 2012 and then August is the post-monsoon 2012. So now I can estimate the recharge but the discharge how the groundwater goes down, I have to go to the next year, next May. So from August 2012 to May 2013 how the water level comes down is the discharge. That is why you won't follow a calendar year for hydrology less than once. You only follow a hydrological calendar or water calendar. A water calendar is when you have rainfall the day one starts and then 365 days later you have all the seasons coming in. So normally in countries like western countries they have a water calendar and the water calendar starts in the month of the monsoon. So for example if it starts in June in Maharashtra we call June 1 as the calendar start or June 6 when the rainfall comes as a calendar start. So now you know how to estimate annual recharge which they do for you and the annual discharge is done and the same is done for every block. The smallest they do is block, the largest they do is for India. So if you do the block level estimation and you find that your recharge is more than the discharge then you are positive, net groundwater positive. However your discharge if it is lower than your recharge then you are net groundwater negative. So then we saw the percentages. If you're using 0 to 50% you're safe and those kind of things we saw 70-90% which is still net groundwater positive is critical. The over exploitation above 100 is over exploitation that is the concern and most regions in India are going through that phase because of higher pumping for groundwater for agriculture and higher pumping because of technological interface. They also do budgets, budgets on how many wells are there, exploration, what are the maintenance costs for that and also what are the explorations they do, what are the signs they bring. All these research has a budget. So they discuss the budget and office details which means where do you go and collect data. For example these books may have historic data also which is reference inside the book you will not find it because of the volume as I said you don't find all the data. So what you do in those kind of scenarios is you go to the office, you approach the office and see if they give the data for you and the point is you need to liaise with them. You discuss with them by email or you go in person and say I would like to have this data what do you think about sharing the data with us and what is the sensitivities on the data where I could use where I cannot use these data. For example we don't know what the sensors are and it is better not to ask them why is it sensitive just ask if the data can be shared and then use the data. Not all data is available for public or academic reasons. So those office details are very important where you can go ask them about the different procedures. The scientists are very good we have different scientist levels in CGWB. I remember when I was student also I used to communicate with the CGWB office in Chennai in Besanagar and they were very very helpful. They would teach the concept etc because they are also always in research and they are happy to see people who like to work on groundwater as a student. So coming back all the other data that is available is water quality data from these groundwater reports which are also very very handy when it comes to understanding the groundwater change. So the groundwater reports are kept in this kind of an archive we will go through this and you could see that 2005-2006 there was a report 6778 89, 910, 1112, 1415, 167, 18, 19, 20. So all the reports are here except the 2021 okay maybe the COVID issues they were working on it and the data was not collected, sampled etc because of the travel restrictions but however we have all the data for the last 15 so years. And we'll be looking at the some of the reports and what they have in this coming session. So let me share the screen of how to find this link you can go to the link but I always teach you how to Google it because sometimes the link changes okay I cannot give you a link and expect it to be there for the next 5-10 years right. So I would support more on teaching you how to find it so that you can also check it later. Yeah so now my new tab is visible and what I put is cgwb groundwater report and I click okay so I type cgwb groundwater report in Google so that is what I type in Google and you get all these links. The first link is what is necessary so I'll just click annual reports and you can go to the board and I'll also show you that you can say let's say West Bengal. See you can have a region report okay I'll just click on this to show you that report also just one example then we'll go back to the national board okay so while this is downloading I'll start in the download you could see that see groundwater yearbook they call it as a yearbook and it is 2019-2020 West Bengal okay WB stands for West Bengal and AN is Andaman Nicobar Islands so what is this like every region has a regional office and that office is mandated to monitor groundwater in certain locations so this West Bengal office has to monitor West Bengal plus Andaman Nicobar Islands maybe the size of the state also plays a role right because Maharashtra is bigger much bigger than West Bengal size and I would assume that West Bengal you know office is as big as Maharashtra so they would put two states in one office okay so you could see here that the yearbook is done and then the eastern region headquarters as I said the whole headquarters is in Delhi whereas the region headquarters is in Kolkata all these you have you have a forward telling what it is and then a small budget of the groundwater water budget so the net annual rainfall net zone area cropping recharge stage stage of development is only 50 so this is the water budget okay how much water total recharge is 43.82 million cubic meter net groundwater availability is 39.64 billion cubic meter and the use is only 19.94 billion cubic meter which is approximately 50 50.29 okay so somewhere you see that the availability and the draft is still you know you get only 50% use in West Bengal so the critical blocks and the critical blocks etc as a state maybe 50% is small but when you go to certain locations there is more groundwater that is what this data is showing and then all the other for Andaman Nicobar also but again as I said let's focus on one national report and then you would kind of look at the state report for data as and when you need it okay so when you type it the first thing that comes is easy to be annual reports I'll take the latest one which is the 2019-2020 data and you could see that this report was done in 2021 so one year it takes for them to release the data okay so they collect data for 2019-2020 but it takes one year to make this report and then they release it okay so under this equation who did it those scientists I said the scientists starting from a C to G so scientist G is kind of a high level you know so but we have here the young scientists who are working on it very very helpful they will be if you go and approach them so executive summary and average abstract would be very helpful to look at these kind of reports because you can get through all of it in one go the first thing I would like to stop here is the budget what do they use the budget for how much in lakh rupees in lakhs okay so this is around lakhs okay so 275 hundred lakhs so that is approximately 275 crores okay so you have 275 crores spent on that year and then revised estimate expenditure so you see how much budget was given how much final grant was given and how much was used okay and then non-plan all these things building offices recoveries nhp is the national hydrology plan which is they are mapping the aquifers and size and all those kind of things so you could see how the the budgets are breaking up and how they are used and then some mandates about cgwb what are their objectives you can find everything so as I said please go through these reports before you approach the central component board because don't go to them and say you need data for this location they just say go to wri s website because now everything is online I remember when I was a student as I said there was no wri s website so the data sometimes was available on the central component board but the location was not available it will be like district this is the well so how do you map it so that was a difficulty and cgwb helped in those kind of locations but now everything is shared right so be careful be knowledgeable do your homework before you go there and ask for the right data organization setup how the hierarchy is set up all these things as I said there are scientists and then officers division managers etc which is again not needed for us and here is the regional officers so always go to the regional office it may not be called as directly cgwb Chandigarh it is north western region Chandigarh cgwb and what are they responsible for so there is a north western region in Chandigarh responsible for Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh and then there is a north western Himalayan region Jammu, Kashmir and Radhak which one I used to go they would take care of Tamil Nadu and Pukucherry Pondicherry is small so Pukucherry and Tamil Nadu would have been mixed together and then let's look at Nagpur goes with Mahashtra and Maharashtra includes Pune and Badra and Nagarway so you could you could see only some states are just by themselves okay Odisha for example and then there are engineering divisions you can go and see where the engineering divisions are kept state unit officers etc okay okay so they also give a forward on what are the managing what are they applying the data what are their manpower used for for example the national aquifer mapping plan is a big plan that they've been started and going through with a lot of budget where they map the aquifer boundaries in India so when you go to this report you can find those kind of methodologies how they do so for example when you go to WRIS website you see the boundaries but you don't see the method in which the data was collected and this is the report which gives you that information okay so for example the flow chart is given data gap analysis the floor for aquifer maps and management plans are given so when they get the aquifer any any type of requirement research or or monitoring requirement they will go through these flow charts to first assess what is the data gap analysis generate data integration of data preparation of aquifer maps and then each aquifer once its map has a management plan so that has been made and then presentation at regional officers review by members review by central level expert committees where for example IIT professors would sit and go through and then finalization of aquifer maps and plans so it's a very scientifically well focused flow chart which tells where is the gap what data do we have to generate or or bring and then they do mapping okay so this is how much area has been mapped all these different plans and data on these will be there so these are the groundwater exploration as I said you see the big driller that comes in it drills inside takes samples at each and every depth that they want and then it says like 160 meters below groundwater level uh in in Vardha district Maharashtra yielded discharge of 46.5 465.6 liters per minute that's a lot of water so what they do is they they measure the yield also they measure the samples take the samples on what type of hydraulic conductivity is there those kind of things okay high discharge rocks etc and then how many rigs they did how many uh samples they collected this ring samples this deep drilling uh samples how many did they did they go and all these small um uh you know abbreviations are given normally in the text so if you go through the text for here it is dietary dietary dual rotatory down the whole methods every single method is actually captured and then they show where the total number of drills have been done so for example you would see six drills are done in Gujarat for sure because there is more data that is needed more depletion is going on so they would like to see more data to understand why the depletion is going on and then where they have the pumps to measure the yield discharge uh and here is the statewide well constructed in 2019-2020 as I said they do have wells but maybe it's not enough and all these wells most of them are open wells or dug wells okay and the parameters which go in the deep deep aquifers are very limited for example as here Gujarat you don't see any parameters and we know that Gujarat is facing a lot of groundwater issues Punjab for example has deep deep groundwater issues but there's no parameters right so here's where they do put some budgets for the next year to have more wells in for monitoring then in the district wise how many wells have been constructed those kind of things okay so I'll skip the wells now let's go to the data yes so here's where they have some high yielding aquifers they've identified build discharge and they also say if it is a EW or open well okay so these these are very interesting to understand why they have these selection and is it an exploratory well or observation well for example all these wells that you see here that they plan to put are either EW which is exploratory only one time they'll take a sample and take the yield or they have the open well open well is always they monitor so you see that there's a lot of exploration wells they want to put down rather than open wells and pysometers I would say that could be more adapted towards getting more data but let's see okay so here they have also measured some restivity on seeing how much resistance it is there for drilling and all these things they've constructed a 3d map which we have seen in class a fence diagram where they have the lithologs the bore logs and then they use a software to connect the lithology and only two layers they have identified lap clay and sand so as I said the exploratory wells are taken and these EW wells you can see EW there in the bracket are then linked to each other through lithography stratigraphy techniques and then this kind of fence diagrams are made to show how the the aquifer thickness are so again all these have been discussed in class so please go ahead and look at it and then they also talk about the water qualities analyzed and then how much of them have heavy metals those kind of things now we get into the data region-wise water sample analysis the region so here they break India into regions central region northern region southern region southeast region those kind of things and all these region what is included in the region is already given on the top in the book okay so some more data is collected on evapotranspiration rainfall you can see annual rainfall is there and then distribution of actual rainfall in 2019 which is basically taken from IMD records because it is government and then water supplies schemes etc etc so now we come to the groundwater monitoring number of wells in different ranges between august the number of stations and what is the depth of the well okay for example the total wells are around 15 000 and then how much of them are 0 to 2 meters below the ground those kind of different statistics they agree this is the important map which I would like to show the four maps the four seasons that they collect right so depth to water level pre monsoon depth to water level peak of monsoon and then depth to water level post monsoon so sometimes may august september I would say that is four months and then depth to water level january the the pre monsoon and post monsoon depends on the monsoon calendar and also depends on the need for data so here you see when you see the least water you see the least water in the pre monsoon season if you look closely you could see all of them are red or yellow which means the depth from the top to the water level is at least five to ten yellows is five to ten meters and red is greater than 40 meters okay so this is the pre monsoon let's put a calendar to this for Maharashtra this could be the main month and then you have august august is the peak of the monsoon season because June the monsoon starts it picks up in July and august would be the peak so you could see July august peak has influenced the good rainfall on the western that region so the water level is only two meters depth so here initially it was five to ten meters but now the water recharge has helped the water level to bring up however this region is getting not much help because the monsoon doesn't help in that particular month august then we have the post monsoon season where the some rainfall does go up not and you would see more green color happening here green color means the depth to the water level is two to five meters which is almost safe and then in January after the monsoon is done the post monsoon period is gone now the rubby season is there where crops are grown using the groundwater you see again the blocks are turning into yellow and then red eventually so the progression is yellow is kind of still safe but then from yellow to pink and red is really really concerning and that is where these water levels are going ahead okay so from here they've done all these recharge estimates a lot of data on mapping some particular exploitation studies are given in the book as I said you can take the Maharashtra book you'll get a full record of all the studies in the annual groundwater book we'll only take some snippets some studies from here and there okay so here they have done some artificial recharge structures AR which we also looked at in class they've taken photographs of some artificial recharge structures along Maharashtra percolation ponds subsurface barrier for arresting the flow check dams have been constructed and repost leaky dams everything that we discussed in class mostly are shown here okay and the gates of the dams how they release the water etc and then some events that they did for water groundwater news and authority will be showcased so most importantly the data is here the trends are analyzed at a national level okay and you can also see that you have this hard cat for honey which they want to double the farmers income by having more grain per water drop okay so this is kind of helping the farmers work with available water in a very conservative way okay so you could see that they have been having meetings a lot on this some discussions books released all these things are there so from here you can go to some more sophisticated books and and research outcomes okay so then meetings and where they talk a lot of these scientists give talks to public NGOs and other activities all these are captured again it does have a lot but my point is more importantly the data and where to access the data is given okay so the reports are very exhaustive one class I assume is not enough but I hope you could go through it and build some knowledge on it's not technical the technical terms are already discussed in class with us what you see here is very applied sense of these research that we did with this I will stop today's class thank you


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Today, I'm happy to be here with Danielle Gardner and some of you may recognize her from you know various her Facebook page Or the videos you may have seen of her online her website her Facebook page is called quiet marketing with Danielle Gardner Well, Danielle first. I just want to say hi to you. Thanks for being here. Thanks for doing this Hi George. Thank you. It's always really fun to catch up and and have a chat about things So thanks for inviting me into this. Yeah, so we're gonna talk about How do we? Respond to you know the the overwhelming times that we're in but just over overall the kinds of Entrepreneurs the kinds of business owners you work with Really are looking for a an alternative to the hustle and the grind of the mainstream business teachings I want to actually up before we get going I want to just share with people your your bio and then we'll kind of get it So Danielle Gardner specializes in helping sensitive women to clarify their message To market with quiet confidence and to grow their audience without having to spend so much time online Danny started her self-employment journey as an energy worker using the modalities of kinesiology Reconnective healing and Akashic records readings The evolution from energy work to business mentoring came about organically as clients started asking her for help With starting their own online holistic business and at this point she has helped many people to do that To you know get her get their business online to clarify their message to do their business to plan their business with a more what like you said she said quiet confidence and Connection to a more organic rhythm that is sustainable for them. So So Danny, I guess maybe the the first mess of the question I want to ask you is You pioneered or maybe you know kind of popularized among at least among our circles the idea of quiet marketing or Taking business in a more slower way and still be successful as you know, you show yourself and your clients show So what so what does that mean slower? Yeah, we'll start there. Yeah. Well, yeah, I'll start by sharing a little story It was about 2017 I always remember it was 2017 because it was our first The first place we rented in Spain and I was at a point where my business hadn't really taken off Yet, you know, I was I had clients, but it was sort of still really kind of early stages But I'd spent the last three or four years trying to make it work, you know trying to get lift off and Really hustling and being ever present everywhere on all different platforms all of the time And what happened this one day is I had started asking myself in the morning as part of my morning practice How can I bring more ease and joy into my day? And I was kind of getting stuck on that question and then I kind of became aware like yeah This is a few days in a row now, and I'm really this question's starting to irritate me actually so I went inside of my bed crossed my legs and You know close my eyes and With the intention of that tuning in okay soon as my eyes went down. I heard I'm lower and I was like What what they are like, I'm always been you know this high achiever reaching for the stars I mean lower is just not something I would ever ever ever think of doing No, and yet it was like in my own voice and so I was just like what happened there and After a few minutes, I just started to think okay. Well, what would it look like to aim lower and As I started to consider that So interesting these it was like a pool of joy a joyful feeling just started to rise up from my base and Like flood into my stomach basically and I was like oh My goodness like what is going on here? But it was like a very visceral experience and enough to really get my attention and I thought okay For those kind of two things to happen to hear that those two words and to have this feeling visually There must be something, you know, I need to pay attention to so I I Started to experiment with aiming lower and I think really the first thing I did is I let go of income goals I was you know, I kept having this like income goal and at the end of the month didn't get it Didn't get it didn't get it. I decided to let that go and that was pure joy and just focus on Building community and So what happened is over time like this is where my business actually took off by slowing down And what I realized is all kind of aiming lower But I it was like there was an evolution to those two words I realized that it was not it was not absolutely aiming lower I mean it was for someone like me because I was always aiming for the stars expecting things to happen quickly But it was the pace at which I expected things to happen That was the issue and so and then when I started to look around I thought that's most people's issue Right, it's the pace. It's not that we can't have big goals or whatever. It's the pace So then this whole idea of aiming slower arose, you know And I really believe that by slowing down by being very mindful by doing things properly We actually make more progress. Yeah. Yeah, that's a great story. Thank you for sharing the Origin story of that Yeah, and if I could just add my own kind of example of this Ironically, it was about my joyful productivity course When I was the last time I launched it I Was in the beginning the first couple days of sales I was discouraged because they weren't keeping pace with what I had set as a goal and I was you know, I guess I was in discourage and then I I also it's funny and I Also kind of had this thought and like well, you know Why don't we just let that go and then go for a really minimal number, you know Just really really super doable that and then I'm like, okay Yeah, go for that super then it's so easy then I'm pretty much already there, you know And and then I got happier about it and then I just continued you know, I continued my my launch process maybe from a better energy or whatever and What was funny was that it surpassed even the original goal now I'm not saying that that's what it should happen, but it was just such a funny example Maybe in your universe showing me that you know what it's okay. There's this dynamic that You know, like you're saying if we if we if we bring more joy into what we're doing Whatever the results are We have joy, you know, it's like great, but also we tend to be there tends to be a genius there You know within the joy and within the working at our pace so I want to I want you to talk about this a bit more to work at our pace and For the people who are saying well Could I you know working in my pace? I might be not doing as much as other people It's a possible to be doing things slower doing things less and still accomplish You know, well, I think a good business Yes, I think absolutely and I think the Biggest part of the problem is that we're seeing what other people are doing. That's the biggest problem left to our own devices You know our type of audiences. We're doing our soul work We we want to have this great experience while we're helping people and so left to our own devices If probably we're not for the internet and social media, although of course, there's absolute my my business wouldn't exist if they if they didn't exist so, you know, but We're influenced by that so We start to think that we should be going faster and we should be we should be we should be you know, so Like one of the things I love to do Or mention if I notice people they're looking at all this stuff. I might have tunnel vision has tunnel vision I don't know if we spoke about this last time George, but it's one of my favorite strategies You know because I know myself even when I see what other coaches are doing I can still keep treating it like Absolutely, yeah, maybe I should do that. Oh, you know, and it's well, I mean because we're we're tribal creatures I mean, it's natural for us to want to well stay in the tribe and When we see our peers or people we think are our peers doing things We're like, well, maybe then I should do that to keep pace with the tribe I guess but but yeah, so keep going like Tunnel vision how well how do you how do you do that? How do you? Yeah, because it's there's one thing to say it right but in a practical sense How do you actually have tunnel vision? So one of the very practical things that I did? Starting a few years ago is I actually I I Notice the posts that were coming up on Facebook that were triggering me, right and I was just made sure I am Unlike those pages even if I liked those people personally I am I did whatever I could to close myself off So then it was like hold on I'm a friend of it You know, I could see that there were these connections that there was still That's why things are still showing up So I did a lot to curate my news feed to really trim it down, you know so and honestly, I've got to say apart from yourself George and Sometimes tad I don't even see a lot of his stuff. I don't see what anyone else is doing and I love that You know, yeah, yeah, well yours is definitely a page people ought to follow if they want to continue Immersing themselves in this in these kinds of values and this kind of message that we can work at a sustainable joyful pace and accomplish a successful business have a successful business. So one of the things that You know You have done is to scale back on a lot of what you were doing and then work differently So tell us a bit about that what what do you advise so so, you know, like the typical advice for social media out there Like join lots of Facebook groups You know respond to as many people as you possibly can and the most Thoughtful way possible, which like how do how do I have so many hours in the day? But anyway, tell us I mean because you you had done some of that, but then you had Absolutely. Yeah, I mean and I guess Facebook groups were they really were very helpful for me They they really got me going. I actually don't quite know how I was getting clients before that I know I was but this is the thing when you you get the wrong type of tunnel vision from being in Facebook groups, right? Because what happens is you start to believe that if I'm not in this my business is going to shrivel up and die and That's what was happening to me. So yeah, I had been advised. Yeah, you know join these groups And I was like I when I got introduced to that world. I thought how interesting and you know I did the thing I joined the groups and I had a little spreadsheet and you know I worked out all the stuff and it probably was enjoyable for a time But then I really I guess, you know, just getting more and more in tune with my body and my Sensitivities and what it was telling me like I I knew those moments when I was like, gosh, I've got to go into the Facebook group And I've got to find something to comment on and it felt terrible, you know, and I like Danny What are you doing? Yeah, but then the you know, my belief was but if I don't stay here I'm going to drop through the internet. Um, you know, I'm not going to exist Yeah, and just be clear the these are the strategies about going into free Facebook groups Other people are facilitating and just trying to be helpful so that people might see you and then hire you all that stuff So so so yeah, so now you're you're really Tunnel vision with with your strategies and one of your strategies is So interesting, which is to kind of plan your business Three months at a time, right? Like that's one of the things that you're you know, you're actually putting a A course together on this and because you've been doing this and it's effective and helping your clients do this So tell us about that because usually we're you know, we thought we'll talk hot this annual plan and you know It's it's overwhelming and but yeah, tell us about this three-month idea Yeah, so it's something that I've been working with in various forms probably for the last two years or so and I've just refined it and refined it and Really it keeps me so grounded so It's a very simple process. Okay, it begins with this idea of Looking back right and I got that idea from Todd Herman. I should have never did his 90-day year Program or whatever but I had some I was in his launch sequence once and I got a few resources of him and this is when I was introduced to the owl and the whale brain and so it was Mind-blowing for me this idea that what most of us are doing. We're like with our perspective That's from where we are to where we're going and that's the our brain and it's kind of like I'm not there yet I need to do more You know, so it's all that not enough mess and the whale brain is from where you are to wait Look back to where you've been either in the past week or the past month or the past year And that was invaluable to me So that's how I start this process by looking back on the last three months looking at what came to fruition What did I learn? What do I feel good about what do I feel? Well, you know, I'm not sure about that I think want to change that and through that little reflection What emerges is naturally is like what's important moving forward and Then I have a simple thing where I go I've choose three projects to focus on for that quarter. So this is outside normal client work, right? So for example, you know An ongoing project I have is run a run a workshop, you know in like April May, June, okay So there's one project another one, you know, like from last month was to re redo my course That would that top probably took, you know, the most part, but it's just three projects and then Yeah, so three three projects for each month or for the three months. Well for the quarter. Yeah for the three months Yeah, you know, so so one project may take the duration In fact, they could all some of them could take the duration where some like overlapping. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah so And then what happens is if some opportunity comes in or some idea and This happens all the time to us, right instead of going, oh, yeah I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that. It's like, oh, hold on. Let's let's check in with the plan So I've got a weekly review process that keeps anchoring me back to the plan Like what is where where is it? Where am I at? And so this actually happened the other just last week George in your course. I Do your course about courses. I'm like, I know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna do a course for human design projectors, you know, because I've been asked about that blah blah blah I thought that's a fantastic idea. And then a few days later I checked in with my plan and I'm like, Danny, where on earth does it say that? Nowhere But what it did say is What I meant to be working on is a quiet marketing course and I and the other Components are actually feeding into that anyway. So that's that's actually gonna happen So I'm like, no, don't put something else on your plate here. All right. You've got these things and maybe Yeah, keep that in mind for the next three months. Maybe. Yeah, I like that a lot that it kind of is this middle ground between All right, stay focused, you know, three months is not too long and it's enough time also to get something done Of course. And so it's nice that you're like, okay. Yes, of course, there are good ideas We can always there's always the next three months after that and the next three months after that so it's a very nice pace to kind of plan and and get things done and one of the things that You know, you are part of this part of what you're teaching is kind of giving people Or giving our creations the the time and space to mature. So What does that mean? Yeah, oh my god So this started off as just like a really nice philosophical idea Like give give things space to breathe and now it's like a really legit business strategy for me So if I think back to the Facebook marketing days It was like get an idea put it out Put it out because in these groups that groups there was always an offer day, right? So you could promote something, right? So it was always like it was just like flick flick flick flick and okay You know, there can be some value in that and just experimenting and things like that but what I found is as I Kind of held on to things a little bit more and not have this energy of It's basically that fear of missing out energy like well if I don't post it today It's off the day and it's gonna be a whole week before anyone, you know, see something from me that kind of thing But I found that as I held on to the idea a bit more It just developed into a such a better idea So if I I started tonight, I was like, man, if I had have put it out already I hadn't even considered all these other things that maybe I don't really want to happen and this version is way better so yeah, now I I really enjoy allowing things to percolate and Even with you know, I had a I had a little mentorship start Recently and I remember there were just aspects of that that hadn't seemed to kind of land and I just take it with curiosity now. I'm like, yeah, I wonder about that bit. I wonder, you know like and I just trust that the That piece will land soon sometimes soon, you know, instead of rushing it through and One of the other things that I want to talk about touch on is this idea of organizing our time. Yeah, planning our time How do you look at? How do you how have you found it successful to plan your time? Now we talked about this three months, right? Yeah, this three month and for those who are curious how this three month planning will work You know, Danny's gonna have a course on that. So be sure to check out the you know Go to her website join your newsletter. I promise you you're gonna enjoy how she writes her newsletters If you like this kind of energy and this kind of about these kinds of values I think you'll enjoy it. So you can hear more about the three months planning course coming up But but and then you have this weekly review. So tell us more about Anything else about how we organize? Yeah. Yeah. So I think how I scheduled my week is Still a work in progress in many ways, but it's I'm so happy with where I've got it now. So What I do is well, first of all, I kind of theme my week. So Monday and now Tuesday are quiet desk dates So these are just like the days where I don't have any certainly don't have any clients Sometimes I might have a personal appointment or something like my own business development or whatever but no clients so then There's no where I need to be I can just focus on my projects and then Wednesday and Thursday are my client days and then Friday is Danny day And various things can happen on that day. I Generally not work, but sometimes if things of like not quite happened to plan I might do a few things like I do my weekly review on a Friday that come And then so what I'm doing at the moment is I I have a minimum of three co-working sessions That line up with the three projects. So it's like this co-working sessions for that that for that So I know what's going on in that regard and what's interesting. I was showing I was showing my own group this layout last week and one of the one of the members said But Danny, what if someone like what if what if a client wants to book in and you've already got these pre You know, she didn't know that I had defined client days yet, you know, and so, you know, what do you do then? So she felt anxious about Making like recurring appointments because whatever client wants to book in there and I'm like, look, um, I have predetermined session times for clients and that's it, you know So if if they can't fit into that They're they're not my ideal client really and if they need to reschedule then chances are there'll be an opening in one Of those predetermined times, you know, and she was like Like that was Wow Now I've got to say in the beginning and maybe you're a bit the same judge. I don't know But I was making myself very available, you know, I was Available, you know, probably six days a week and early in the morning and you know, so I was a bit all over the place But I just you know, I think it's really important to To start the way we mean to carry on You know, so if it doesn't give me joy to Be seeing a client at seven o'clock in the morning, which means I've probably got to get up at five then Yes, I'm not gonna I trust that the right people will come Yes Well, you know, that's the thing about having our own business You know, I was like We get to set the kind of schedule and way of working that Is sort of our ideal life and yes Um, we need to be reasonable about it But there is a lot of space there to be reasonable about it and be sustainable and so I like that you say, you know what? Wednesday, thursday, hey, there's two days as people can usually schedule something then if they really can't Hey, there's plenty of other providers that get you introduced them to it's like, you don't have to take everybody and Be accommodate everyone, right? So thank you for that.  What's your any other, you know words of encouragement? Well, probably what comes to mind is just I was reflecting on something a client had said the other day and Yeah, like she's she's finding her groove with things because she's not Looking at how it should be done This seems obvious in a way, but it's not I think most people have difficulty with marketing because They're looking at what should be done, you know, they're looking at the rules and they're not really Connecting with what feels true and right and what would be A genuine expression of them You know, they're someone's told them you need to do that and they're like and I did this too Okay, I've got to do that then, you know to be successful, but I don't know. I think that's probably my parting word. It's like How you can you really be like what if you could just be really you in the way you present your business and What would that look like?  Yeah, like you said like If we aren't giving ourselves that kind of pressure to follow other people's strategies If it doesn't feel true to us If we allow ourselves to to do like you said, what is most of you then that's where the genius Like each person's genius comes in. It's like, yes Thank you so much for the work that you do and the kinds of energy that you bring to your community and the world. So I hope um, you know those Watching have found this valuable and please do and connect with dany and the links Below the video or above where we are wherever it is Facebook page you're active there your website. Obviously you have a newsletter So and I think you're on instagram too And so anyway, we'll we'll put the links that you Choose to be active in and people can follow you there Great. Thank you so much George. It's been great having a chat. Thank you. Thanks


I have played pitch car, I want to say seven or eight times in my life at various points. Some single digit number of times, but for real, various degrees, right?   I'd say we played a fully realized pitch car. Like, yeah. So I don't think it gets bigger or better than that. Your wildest dreams. Yeah. You could buy multiple sets and make it even bigger. But it's like, what's the point then, right? This is the ideal sized pitch car. Yep. So pitch car is one of those previews, like relatively rare games. There's more now, but it kind of comes and goes in the in the tabletop gaming world, uh, dexterity games come and go in terms of popularity. But a very specific subset of dexterity games are the flicking games. I want to make a comment about flicking games in general while we're while we're here because we're not.  It's not that serious a game. But whenever I play flicking games, even as far back as like middle school times, a lot of people don't flick properly. As far as I'm concerned, I had a note in my notes that I wanted to bring that up and another related topic up before we got in a pitch car as far as I'm concerned, a valid flick means that you use your thumb and you pick one of your other four fingers. It doesn't matter which one. I don't really care, right? Middle fingers, the best one, but yeah, but you pick one of your other fingers and you press the nail of the finger against your thumb as hard as you want, right, but your finger doesn't move actually move forward because your thumb is holding it back. And then you release your thumb and your finger is all that pressure that you were applying to your thumb with your finger is released in one instant and your finger that is released hits the object that you are flicking for a mere instant and then it transfers, you know, power and momentum into it and then that object then moves and that is a flick.  That's not a valid flick, right?  And if I was holding a serious competition, you know, it's no one's playing pitch cards seriously is not we weren't. But if I was having any serious competition at a flicking game, if someone did an invalid flick, as in not what I just described and, you know, they were capable, physically capable, I would try to like ten and get a fault and then a double fault. I'd be like, I would just say like, listen, you know, that was your one warning. If you if you ever do a non valid flick again in the tournament, you're just disqualified from the whole tournament. So you must do a valid true flick. Anything else is not a flick. Get out of here. Hey, so the second point around that that's in my notes, I guess we'll get this out of the way first before we review pitch car as a flicking game, because this also is not about pitch car. This is about all flicking games. I have found in my personal experience across all flicking games that the people who do not flick properly either do not want any instruction or assistance flicking. Like they will actively resist being given advice or help. And to even if given advice and help will never flick properly. Like they just never change what they're doing no matter what.  Just like there are games where they can be played fast, but a certain kind of person will bog it down. Pitch car and all flicking games I have found cause a significant percentage of the people who play them to get really, really frustrated, angry, heated, yelling, quitting the game. Even in a non serious who cares game. Yeah. Like even when everyone in the group is supportive and everyone's laughing and having a good time and no one cares who wins, I see people and the same thing happens in mini golf.  And I have seen this in every tabletop flicking game I have ever played like without exception. Not all dexterity games have this problem flicking games. If you have a friend who gets a little over frustrated if they're not doing well in a game, I advise you to not play flicking related games with them or sports in general. But I guess flicking games are a place where there's a lot of people who have that problem who might avoid sports, but don't quite internalize that a flicking game is also a sport. And thus they start playing it. They don't do well and rather than just shrugging it off like they might in a regular tabletop game, they get like unreasonably angry. OK, so pitch car is a flicking game where it's really straightforward as you build a racetrack like Hot Wheels, but only wider, right? And you have discs, just wooden discs, basically. And you take turns, you have a disc that's your car. And on your turn, you flick it. And your goal is to get around the racetrack first. It's a race, right? But everyone gets an equal number of flicks because you take turns in rotation. Right. So that's all there is to it, really. If you go off the track, however, which happens often. Yeah, basically what happens is you have to put your disc back where it started and then wait for, you know, your next turn. And you basically just didn't progress that turn, which that's the thing that bogs the game down. However, you could say, well, why don't you just, you know, put the disc where it left the track, but the person then loses their next turn. And it's like you could do that. But actually that would encourage people to just hit the thing really hard and leave the track somewhere really far away. So that that would actually give them more progress, right? Actually having to progress safely through all the parts of the track is what makes the game meaningful. If you could just otherwise it would just become flick the hardest the game and the track itself would lose all meaning and purpose. That's why you can't have that rule adjustment.  Correct. Now, you could it could flip over as long as it lands face up. You're all good. Now, one thing I did find the digging through some online chatter and the board game being forum is that most people who I feel like there are people who play pitch car once or twice at a convention and people are a pitch car people. And I have found reliably people are into pitch car will do something that it's I think it's a flaw in the game that the game does not have the like extremely precise rules to handle all the potential edge cases of a flicking on a ride. But the way to deal with that, if you play pitch car, this is one of those games where you should, regardless of exactly what the rules say, define upfront out loud with the group you're playing with exactly how the game will proceed in detail and pre make the calls you expect to be able to have to make based on the track and the people, even if those are not in the rules. This is the one case where I say you need to do that up front, not only to avoid the weird frustration problem, but also to avoid the debate mid game of whether or not a flick was OK. Yep. So the components in this game are honestly pretty A plus they you're going to make a pretty good course. And it's pretty obvious what makes a good obstacle or not. Like I'm really impressed with the physicality of this game. It's the kind of game. If I had a house, I would definitely own it because I have a New York apartment. I will definitely never own that the thing is, you know, you have to have to build a good course. You either need to a not have enough pieces that you can make something that won't work in which case anyone can build the course or B if you have lots and lots of pieces for lots and lots of fun, you need adult considered restraint to not make an impossible course. Yep, right. It's like you need to combine the difficult and fun, you know, aspects of the course, like little jumps or ramps or the loop, right, which is a whole expansion in and of itself, right? But like, don't put like the jumps in front of the loop. It's impossible, right? It's like there should just be a straightaway for the loop, right? Because otherwise, you're no one's ever going to be able to do the loop and it'll just be a frustrating, you know, mess and no one will win. You know, it's like you could build the bridge. It's like make the area around the bridge kind of easy because actually getting over the bridge isn't as easy as it looks, you know, but if you show the restraint, any of the obstacles individually, or at least in the correct orientations are conquerable, right?  So, you know, and I guess that is where this is a game to where that curation you described is very important designing the track. Not only is it super important and like that's going to determine if the game is fun or not, but designing the track is itself fun. Like I think half the fun of owning pitch car or playing pitch car is you're sometimes the one who sets up the track for everyone to play. Like it would be fun if you own this game to take turns who makes the track. People will have different styles and there's a lot of debate among pitch car people among around what makes a good track, what makes a poor track and how are you going to handle situations with the track like splits or deviates or does something crazy. But I think a real key there is you want to design a track that has relatively easy straightforward areas that are connecting what you would consider to be relatively discreet challenges. Mm hmm. Kind of like how good Mario Kart tracks are or good actual real world race tracks are like a race track has a long straightaway. A long straightaway in and of itself is not hard in a race car. It is somewhat. You mean you stood this the difficulty of you're trying to you know there is some challenge to it. Yeah. If you're you're putting on the maximum speed you're flooring it, but you have to hit the brakes at some point because the straightaway will end. And it's like how long do you floor it? When do you stop? That's the challenge of a straightaway. But that challenge is partly but it's not the same as the straightaway as the challenge of a complicated chicane with three turns that suddenly goes downhill. That's right. And arguably much of the challenge of the straightaway is defined by the chicane that's right after it or the corner that's right after it. Yeah. And this the components of this game do a really good job of giving you the tools you need to make an interesting and compelling course for the flicking. Like it's a fun game to play. I really enjoy it. I would play it again pretty much any time. Mm hmm. My only real complaint other than you know, it takes a long time to set up, a long time to tear down the components are a little fragile and you might not have the space or the people who will not freak out to play it is just that it's the kind of game if you want to enjoy it. I feel like you want to play it regularly in the same way that mini golf is the kind of game that's more fun if you play it regularly as opposed to just once a year. I think it's it's one of those things. I think mini golf can be fun if you play it regularly, but you would need more than one mini golf course, right? If you're playing at the same mini golf, like if you owned a mini golf or worked at one and you played that course every day and then you've got really good at it, it's like then it would have no right with pitch car, you can keep remixing the track through right all the time and that's what can keep it fresh as you play it repeatedly and build your skills. You know, but yeah, mini golf, you would need to go traveling around to different mini golfs, right? Even regular golf. You have to go to different golf courses playing the same regular golf course over and over. Some people do that, but it's like, I mean, that that's this. Those are the same people who play Counter Strike dust to only exactly, right? Another thing about pitch car is that, you know, you there are some if you make a long straightaway, you have to consider that if people are flicking properly, right, they're going to try to get as much power as they can. And the disk is wood.  And because pitch car is a dexterity game and thus it is a sport just like Jungle Speed, where you can break your finger. Right. It's like you are like if there's a long straightaway or the loop, it's like the way to conquer those is indeed with power, like as much power as you can get is only going to help you get through those. I got to say the finger hurting problem. I think partly a factor there is that we're all around 40 now because when I was in middle school and high school and I played a lot of flicking games like we play a lot of games that involve flicking like just various like I don't want to I don't have names for the games you play at a lunch table. We'd flake each other. We'd play a flaking with a punch for punch. Flicking did not hurt me at any point in my life until I was 40. And now I think it's because I think it's because I was flicking at the lunch table. It was like a cardboard trying. It was a piece of paper folding. Oh, no, we were playing with marbles.  I'm just saying, but I got the piece of wood and you're trying to flick it as hard as you can. Right. A marble, you're never trying to flick it as hard as you can. You're trying to flick it straight. Sometimes with it with a break, some power, but not necessarily as hard as, you know, I think it's not supposed to flick with the thumb up in this. There's a different technique, but we're not talking about marbles. We could do a show on marbles. Yeah, I think you'd be bet it would be cool. I think it wouldn't be feasible, but it'd be cool if someone can make a pitch card where the things you flicked right were somehow softer on the finger, but there was less friction.  I think you could open up pitch car itself to a broader audience, which would help the people we have encountered who get frustrated because they can't flick.  You hold like hot wheels. Right.  So what if instead, you know, you have your one way, all your woods and irons and golf, if there were four devices with different powers and configurations and every turn in pitch car, you pick a device and use it instead of flicking. That would be a way to introduce a little bit of an ego shield and reduce the surprising barrier to entry that knowing how to flick seems to be. Yeah, it removes the necessary, you know, necessity of learning a technique, right? You have a device that does the flicking for you. All you have to do is hold the device near the car, aim it, set its power and push a button. Right. But I mean, you could also achieve that by playing pitch car on like TTS or something where it's like basically, you know, you just as a physics engine, you have a disk object in the 3D world and you just apply a force at an angle and push the flick button and it will flick the object and the physics engine will guide it and not the real world physics. So it's not exactly the same, but, you know, it's probably most of the fun, I imagine. Yeah. So pitch car, I would say in terms of any wrapping up the review, if you are the kind of person who hosts gaming events or shows up to gaming events as the one who brought the game and you're like curating pitch car experiences for other people or what there's a lot of people.  If you got kids, if I had pitch cars, the kid, this would have been one of my favorite toys. Yeah, it's like it's a big event sort of showcase kind of deal, right? A convention is something like that where you can set up the pitch car and organize it, right? It takes effort to make it happen. But it's, you know, it's worth it if you're going to do that. But it's like just having a pitch car on the shelf with all your other board games. It's like maybe if you don't have any expansion is the little one. It's like maybe. But is it really going to get pulled out? It's like, I don't I don't really see it happening, right? Which I would say people waiting for you to set up the track. It's like, you know, yep. Meanwhile, when we were at our thing, our friend Matt, we just like I went off somewhere and I come back and the pool table is covered in like an F1 quality pitch car track. And I'm like, what's going on here? Yeah. And it's like, well, I guess that's going to happen now because someone went through the effort to make it happen. If not for that person, it doesn't, you know, that would have just sat on the shelf there. Right. At no point would someone have said, let's set up the pitch car, right? But someone independently set up the pitch car. There it is. And they said, I have prepared for you the pitch car. It is here now. Let us play at the appointed time, right? And that and so it was.


People have chewed coca leaves for at least 8,000 years as a mild stimulant without any evidence of addiction. But when certain components are isolated and concentrated into cocaine, we've got a problem. The same may be true of sugar. People don't tend to binge on bananas. It's perhaps the reason we're more likely to supersize soda than sweet potatoes, while we're less likely to overeat this kind of corn compared to that kind of corn. The overconsumption of sugar-sweetened diets has often been compared to drug addiction, though this parallel was based until very recently, more on anecdotal evidence than on solid scientific grounds. But now we have PET scans, imaging technology that can measure brain activity. It all started with this publication showing decreased dopamine sensitivity in obese individuals, and the heavier they were, the less responsive they appeared to become. We see the same thing in cocaine addicts and alcoholics. This would suggest that a reduction in dopamine receptors is associated with addictive behavior, irrespective of whether it's due to food or to addictive drugs as seen in substance abusers. Dopamine is considered the neurotransmitter primarily involved in the pleasure and reward center of our brain, helping to motivate our dry for things like food, water, and sex, all necessary for the perpetuation of our species. It was healthy and adaptive for our primate brains to drive us to eat that banana when there wasn't much food around, but now that fruit is in loop form. This adaptation has become a dangerous liability. The original Coca-Cola formulation actually included coca leaf, but now perhaps its sugar content may be the addictive stand-in.


186 million euros are at venue that has been built in Manchester has given the public the first chance to look inside. The factory is 76 million euros over budget and is not due to open properly until 2022, three years behind schedule. Although it is still a building site, audiences were allowed in for one weekend to see a special installation featuring dozens of glowing tents. The Manchester International Festival will run the factory and promises that it would redraw the UK's cultural map. The 7,000 capacity factory will provide a permanent home for the festival who bosses promise that it would attract 850,000 people a year to the city and bring in 1.1 billion euros to the economy over a decade. The building has been beset by delays and rising budgets with a number of changes to its design and it would have to prove it's worth. When it does open fully next year, the factory will host theatre, music, opera and exhibitions from major national and international names. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.