Another place where we find a buffer solution to try and maintain a consistent pH are in cells and particularly in the cytoplasm of cells. These are looking at a pH of around 7.2, so slightly lower than the pH of the blood but still nonetheless pretty close to what we would regard as neutral. The problem in cells of course is there are lots and lots of proteins and proteins have a three dimensional structure which affects their function and any changes in this three dimensional structure can actually inhibit the function of the proteins. So therefore and one of the things that can affect that well there's two main things that can affect that other than other chemicals and that is temperature, if the temperature gets too high or too low and also pH. So change in pH can affect proteins and therefore can affect their function. So again it's very important that any additional hydrogen ions or reduction in hydrogen ions are counted as quickly as possible and as effectively as possible so that the pH of the cytoplasm doesn't change too drastically and affect these proteins. Again biologists are probably aware of the fact that if the change is too significant the proteins may denature and once that happens they won't reform their original shape and therefore they become useless. This is a dihydrogen phosphate ion you can kind of tell by looking at it that it's anti-protech it can either gain or lose a proton and it's in equilibrium with the hydrogen phosphate or bifosphate ion and it's the buffer that we have or that we find in cells in the cytoplasm of cells. Once again the same thing happening what we want to do is use our Le Chatelier's principle to say if there is an increase in the concentration of H plus ions the system is going to shift in order to try and counter that bring it back down to bring it down it would have to shift to the left and therefore we'd also have a drop in the concentration of the hydrogen phosphate ion and an increase in the concentration of the dihydrogen phosphate ions. So you can see buffers are bringing together our understanding of acid-base reactions and blending it with what we've also been looking at in the first topic on equilibrium and acid reactions. So this is kind of a nice place to leave this module where we've got that application of both our understanding of acids and bases and equilibrium as we look forward to our next module which is an organic chemistry. Good luck with the acid-base reactions hopefully you can even find a couple more examples of buffers in natural systems that you can use to explain how they try and maintain a consistent pH and thanks for watching.


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olé bagai  256                                                  tienes  saus acre dà  very hot there are no trees around everything is just blank like you're just seeing only the soil that sand is the only thing you're seeing so you're not seeing anything that is going to give you hope and then to what's in it all you're seeing bones if they pack and say rest the only thing you're going to see is probably bones from animals and human beings that have died some people would just maybe like people who like plane would just put their hand like as if they are packing sand and then the next thing is bone the video screen hey see bono everybody will run you know it was just now i'm laughing but then it was very traumatizing like you see weird things only so after that we noticed that actually we were running in a circle so the driver explained to someone that there were security persons around policemen that's the anijia police so we are not supposed to pass them except they are not there so we have to wait until those policemen are out and then i think after a while those policemen started getting really close so the drivers left us they fled for their lives and then where they packed us was very hot so we sat there we were waiting for them to come back those security policemen didn't even come where we were but then we lost someone while struggling for water there was no water the drivers had already left so i think the man's heart failed he's not a young boy he's not he's not it should be like around 50 something so i think his heart failed or something i don't even know what to say happened to him but he was just lying down nobody had a clue that the man was already dead so when the drivers eventually came back they found that the guy was dead they just did their arab or muslim ritual just did something put their clothes then used sand to cover the man and that was all we left you know we all cried while living people were singing sorrowful songs and then after a while the police cut up with us what that part too was traumatizing for me because the drivers left again as usual they started running this time they were running and asking us to jump out of the hills they were running with their cars it's not like they are running they packed somewhere and left no this time they were running with their cars and they were asking us to jump off the car it was difficult for me to jump i'm not i don't know i'm slim but i wouldn't say i'm athletic so a lot of people were jumping out which was hard for me so but at some point i jumped i didn't sustain any injuries at then but then when i was running because of the nature of the place there are tons everywhere the tons kept piercing my my leg and everything no sandals we already lost our bags in the car i was just um running alongside people so the kind of race was people are running towards this direction as they are running they are running back people are running towards this you join these ones you know everybody is trying to escape but the security persons are already surrounded everywhere and then with armored cars i wouldn't have an idea if they were asked to shoot anyone but they were shooting kind of to threaten us to stay in one place but people were still running so the shooting continued in stop so why they were shooting at some point they are not shooting like randomly like maybe releasing bullets often but just once once once just like that so people a lot of people were running towards the direction i joined them anywhere they are running to as i joined them just like that but then at some point my sister has already left me i don't even know where they run to the guy that was supposed to be taking care of us also left so i just stood somewhere and then i said if these people are going to kill me let them just kill me i was crying like god i was crying seriously i i was saying just kill me let me if i just remember that moment i'm like god if i could survive that there is nothing that god can't save anyone from i was crying i was saying just shoot me just kill me let me just die what kind of suffering is this i was crying and then the guy stopped and then he was saying he was like giving me signal to come closer come closer so when i i got closer to them the man said enter this place i entered he gave me water that was the first thing he did so it was like don't worry don't worry no problem so when he said that don't worry don't worry no problem i just felt like okay then why is it that they are now chasing us is it like they want to save us is it like they want to help or anything so at some point they brought us together they were able to put in fact they they were able to gather as many people as possible to the extent that we filled this big truck was filled with people and then some hillocks too had to join in taking us to the playstation they brought books we started writing our names everyone write your name write your country write your name write your country everyone people were just writing their names and country we did the same so they brought us together and then they told us okay they are going to take us somewhere and then that's where we we sleep for the night and then the register us and return us to our country but before then a white man came to speak to us so the man asked us where we are traveling to and why are we traveling so so many people were saying me i was just looking so many people were saying there's some guy in my country and they are killing us in my country they're suffering in my country there is this in my country you know a lot of people were saying there are reasons for traveling he wasn't asking personally he was just asking the entire people who were there and then there were few minutes so majority of us had to cover our face so that we don't get captured but some people were really vocal like saying so many things before the man addressed us and told us that he's been to Nigeria several and then he's been to most of the african countries too that we have food a lot of us have good shelter particularly nigerians he kept hammering particularly nigerians there's good food in your country i've tasted this i've tested that you know he mentioned most of the meals and then he told us that there is no cost for this kind of traveling do you even know where you're going to do you know if it's worse where you're going to and all of that then they took us somewhere they put us together in a particular environment and a few few days later they came to tell us that we'll be living back to our country so there was rumor everywhere people were saying i pity people that will go back to Nigeria i just pity people that will go back to Nigeria the kind of suffering they will go and suffer police is already waiting for them or my brother called me or said that there is news that they are bringing back people that police is waiting for them they were arrested them because they traveled without documents so we're all scared and then we decided to run away majority of us so at night while the security guards were sleeping majority of us started jumping out of the fence and then somebody brought an idea to open the gate you know some kind of dubious act which is not actually good which wasn't good for us but because of the kind of rumor because of the kind of things we heard we joined everybody left you know we're still hiding it's not like you're leaving and you're just coming out to say i'm going no you're hiding from place to place hiding hiding until we got to a particular house um when we left we got to a particular house whoever six of us in a group now no longer i and those my three people they were with me those two sisters that guy the four of us were complete as are then and then one two of that guys joined us so the person that owned the house agreed to keep us in her house for that night and then i think her husband came back and asked to where she told the husband the husband brought a driver so none of us had an idea that we were sold so the man sold us to the driver none of us had an idea we just thought the man helped us you know that was the idea in my head like ah god bless this man who he finally helped us out of this place so the driver took us proceeded to somewhere they called nitel that was what they told us that that place is nitel so they hid us in their family house at first then um in that their family house we met their one of the sisters that had already gone to italy before they let it told us she can't speak english so she had to use diagram to express herself she gave a sign of water and then a ship on the water and then she told us how she was walking there she was washing clothes that's probably doing dry cleaning or something like i don't know what she was doing over there but me i just assumed she and then i told my sisters that means maybe she did house help walk over there so we had fun with them because they were nice people i didn't figure out if they were among the people who bought us but they were nice to us they gave us food that was the first place where i had to brush my teeth have my bath you know it was a good treatment for us so throughout the four days when their house they treated us nicely and then after a while the driver came back and then the driver told us that in few days he will come and take us this thing was already summing up to like three weeks already within the desert environment few days later he came again and then he said um oh yeah get ready you'll be leaving this night after a few hours he came back in the night and then they told us everyone to lie down inside the hillocks and then they sealed it so they took us from there took us to another garage then that garage they had a lot of drivers now it wasn't just him so he was i think he was looking around for passengers but didn't succeed that day so he told us to stay in a particular room don't come out so he comes back four days later he came back came back with food he didn't take us out of there after like two days he came back again came back with food so i told my brothers that the food is not safe he's enticing this guy has caged us here probably something go wrong let's leave this place so the the man and then the other guy that was with us said okay let's leave okay so if we leave now where will we go to i say me if i live like this i'll be walking down i would i want to see a policeman they should take me back to nigeria what kind of suffering is this one this place that we are they locked us for like for this not safe the um house is very enclosed that same breeze that was even blowing in the other place was still blowing and bringing sand so that i'm more comfortable here they said okay let's leave we left we met some drivers come come they served food eat don't worry we'll take you liby they are not even calling it libya they will tell you liby liby i'm like i'm not going to liby me nigeria no liby like their own is don't worry we'll help you anyway you want to go to that particular place you want to go to we'll help you get there but you can't go back so um i told my brother that these guys are actually saying that they want to help us go back to um to to go to libya but they can't help us go to nigeria my brother was like why did they need to go back to nigeria before we are going forward it's not backward you know after everything we spent a few hours with those guys no head way out i told them they are not even ready to take us to libya carry my bag and it was more like that stubbornness was actually what saved us because i don't even know what was their plan but i just told my brothers i'm not staying here one minute again i'm leaving so because i was stubborn they said hey if we leave you now who knows what will happen to you oh yeah let all of us keep going they joined me the drivers were offended they were like come back come back come back come back within answer we left until we met um these um um policemen so the one of the policemen just called us and then my brother said we are going to libya the man said ah you don't have like he was explaining to them my brother you don't have problem i will carry you to where your brothers are plenty um and then i figured out plenty Nigerians and then i i told my brother if there is a place where a lot of people are it's better than this place where it's just the six of us so they took us from there to where a lot of Nigerians are i met a lot of people i felt a bit comfortable there was no much space for the six of us but we just had to like manage in that place where they kept us and then we spent some days again there so um we were waiting for the drivers to come they didn't come and then after a few days um the drivers came so they started calling like they shared us into groups this driver take this one this driver take this one this driver take this one so then we were already approaching libya so they took us it wasn't now up to um two days we got to libya so when we got to libya um the i think it was the border they came the driver came down then asked us to he then asked us to pay a certain amount of money he asked everyone to bring a certain amount of money so that my brother helped us to pay us and then the um they took us from there after paying that money they took us from there they just proceeded into libya we got to sabah the driver called the driver called someone that particular person they called came around and the person told us that he is going to take this group somewhere so they took that particular group they were just taking people like in groups in different groups in different groups and then from that point um they took us to a particular man the man is ibu so when we got to his house the man looked at all of us was like the guys this is your room the girls this is your room so in that room where he said is for the girls i saw a lot of ladies even people that were younger than me were in that same room so i was like how did you guys get here what is going on you know we started talking a lot of beneath girls they were just saying ah welcome on this one i did welcome on this one you know jedi means new person you know they were just saying a lot of things and then at the end of the day i got um bonded to a particular lady that that really shared um her experience happened to be that she has not been able to pay her money so when i asked her she said 300 000 so we started getting information from the people within that if you are unable to pay your money you stay there so towards the evening of that same day like around um five p.m the man came to assemble all the new passengers all the new passengers come outside we came out he took us a particular hold asked all of us to sit on the floor we sat down he said we are welcome we answered me i was even feeling comfortable believing that this person is is from my place he's a nigerian so he should be nice you know so when he was about to tell us what libya was the first time was a gunshot in fact for like a few seconds i couldn't recover from the shock i had to hide behind our brush that the whole of us just held him the man said everybody oh yeah this way this way like he had to like scatter also that we don't get to communicate with each other he had big big boys in fact those big boys if if they handle one person i'm sure the person will not survive it so i was shaking and then the man said he just wants to let us know that we are in libya now and that now that you are here he's giving us just a few hours to give him his money he paid for us he bought us he was saying it's like you know when someone is actually practically trying to pass a message across to you with everything he's got inside the kind of anger i'm like i didn't offend this man before but the way he was saying he was like i'm just telling you that you have to pay this money within the space of susu and so as if you don't pay it for the girls ha you work and give me my money for the boys you die here so it is sounded somehow i just we just had to like beg him just allow us to discuss we are from the same family he said okay after a while then my brother said please give us your phone he's you are begging you are begging you are begging in tears if you're even asking for the phone he's not up to like they are not giving you to call they are giving you to just say i'm in libya please call me back you can't use their airtime to inform whoever you are informing sorry so um at the end of the day we were able to reach out to the people that invited us to france those unsaid they will send someone to come and pick us in few hours we should be patient we're there we're waiting after a while i came to call them my brothers your people they disturb me with call your people they discuss if they disturb me again with call eh now beat now go beat you you know we're hearing it from our own side and i was like is that all bros this person is talking to like this you know the fear was more we played there okay can we talk to bros so you have to plead for the to see a guy in that in fact you're not even allowed to see a guy is they don't give you room to see any guy so we're able to like talk to bros how far did they call he now asked for phone again to reach out to them so he was able to get to them again and then they sent someone across so i think the person who was supposed to bring the money was now pricing lower than the 300 i think the person was not saying 250 that was where the anger came from at the end of the day the man came with the money he paid one million for the four of us and then took us from that place to his house from his house we moved he's still within the yes still in libya so from that place to the sea coast and the sea coast was not very easy for me as well that's from his house to the sea coast was also very traumatizing and then at some point i even had an experience where i was sleeping in a room in that that particular room was mixed with both guys and ladies so there were these sudanese that they were they brought into the room to join us because initially it was with ghanians so the sudanese took a part of the room we took a part of the room and so in the night i was sleeping i covered myself because i have this habit of using rubber to cover myself from foot to head and then there was this guy that that i don't know among the sudanese he came proud to where i was what topped me i woke up i was like what the guy put his hand in his pocket brought out five dinner five dinner in in in the morning is five hundred naira nigerian naira was begging me like i could not wrap my head around it so i just screamed and then the gana guy woke up first and was like what is happening you know they started arguing amongst themselves and at the end of the day those sudanese they apologized on behalf of their brother that they were sorry about what happened probably he just thought something different in his mind before bringing it at their sorry so the whole thing was migrants abusing migrants security agencies abusing migrants the experience was was just too hard for me i had a case where someone was trying to communicate something to me that i should sit down in in the in the vehicle those long trucks i didn't understand him i don't know that gams means sit down i'm just new in the environment but this this man had an idea in his head that any language he speaks or whatever he says i should understand so the next thing was he i don't know what what he used in hitting me on my head i was bleeding and then somebody was saying sit down sit down that's what he's saying sit down so i sat down and then i noticed i was bleeding on that the lady was like oh sorry if i knew you were the one who was talking to i would have told you to sit down if you are sat down the guy will not hit you and then in most cases for them to say sit down they will have to shoot you know for you to sit down at least the the communication differences should have been understood by them but the case was different for them when they communicate you don't understand they become violent so it was really hard to go to the seacoast spend some time around the seacoast trying to cross had people die someone died while giving beds so hard cases of people dying a particular lady died trying to give birth because there were no professionals around and then people claimed that in their countries they were professionals they could help give birth they could help deliver you know it was it was a sad experience at the end of the day she died the baby died and i just told myself this this one is just a wasted time like wasted efforts you're trying to get out of trouble you get into more trouble and even family doesn't know where you are because you can't even call them i don't have access to any communication device i i can't reach anyone except maybe i'll have to pay someone to borrow his phone or have to you know this situation was even very difficult because a lot of people will not even give you their phones to make call they wouldn't even want you to buy the air time to make the call so it was a very difficult one until finally the security agencies came they arrested every one of us around that seacoast they arrested everyone in fact people try to escape some try to jump into the water you know people try to run but wherever you are they'll find you and they'll bring you back to the spot and then um they took us to a detention center gherian after a few days they also took us from there to Tripoli um terrig mata detention center so it was in terrig mata that the international organization for migration came visiting and then some UN agencies once once they come around they check on us whenever they are coming these um libyan agents and policemen they will ask us they will give us so many things you wouldn't even know if it is the UN guys that brought it but when they are gone they will lock us up back again when they come around do sports they will bring us out it's as if we are enjoying our lives when those guys are gone we'll go back to the prison they lock us up again and all of that so um iom came we all filled forms those who want to go back home because a lot of people said they are not going those ones that didn't go did uh what they call banami should pay um someone pays for you like someone will come around pay yes kind of build them um pay the money take you out of the prison and then you work for the person so i almost tried that but a particular lady she is from delta so she speaks my language and then she told me that if i pay this money first she used our language to tell me that is if you try this you just die and then if i remember that she told me that and if anyone comes to me to say i want to help you to live here um i would just tell them i'm not interested i want to go back to Nigeria


Family Theatre presents Betty Lynn, Jean Raymond and Mary Anderson. It presents Jean Raymond and Mary Anderson in the Prisoner of Zender. Thank you, Jean Baker. Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world. Family Theatre urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. For every warm-blooded lover of fictional adventure, Anthony hopes the Prisoner of Zender ranks high. The Court of Ruritania, the Villainy of Black Michael, the Dark Forest of Zender, and the unforgettable beauty of Princess Flavia all swim before us in the smoke that swirls from the pipe of the man who lived this adventure. But let Jean Raymond tell you of the Prisoner of Zender. My name is Rudolf Rassendil. My position in life is an enviable one. I'm a gentleman of leisure. And my social position is comfortable. I enjoy all the honors due to the brother of Lord Berlistan, head of the British Foreign Office. Many times he has offered me a poster's ambassador to this or that European court. But though my brother will never know why, the idea of being ambassador does not basal me. For I have been a king. You see, I'd been told that writing suits a lazy man, so I set out upon a journey through the kingdoms of central Europe, pausing here and there to make notes on the inhabitants, scenery and local customs. Now, several kingdoms had not been included in my itinerary. One of these was Ruritania, but nothing ever happens in Ruritania. However, rather than wait for my train, which had been delayed in Parva to the north, I took the first available passage. It was, of course, the golden arrow expressed to Ruritania. I was idly viewing the countryside when the door to my compartment slid open and a richly dressed woman entered. Oh, no, no conductor. I'd hope for a compartment to myself. Oh, forgive me. What is it, madam? No, you could not be the... He's hunting in the forests of Zender. Or perhaps... perhaps he is the hunting. What do you mean? Wait, who was it you took me for? Won't you stay and tell me, please? As quickly as she'd come, she was gone, fleeing along the passageway of the swaying rumbling car. Now, it wouldn't have been of my nature to trouble myself long over the words of my mysterious traveling companion, but her mention of the Zender forest recalled in my mind something I'd quite forgotten, that Zender is noted for its superb hunting. And so it was, I soon found myself propped against the trunk of a fallen tree. My cartridge case by my left hand, my rifle at my right, asleep in the forest of Zender. I was awakened at last by the voices of two men standing over me. You see, Colonel, I'm quite right about him. Yes, yes. Why, it's an amazing likeness. Shave him and he would be the king. She's awake, I'm sure of it. Yes, gentlemen, I'm awake. But who is it I resemble? May I ask your name, sir? Rudolf Rassenthal, traveler from England. This is Colonel Sapt, and I am called Fritz von Tallenheim. We are the service of the King of Ruritania. Tell me, Mr. Rassenthal, do you propose visiting our capital? If you'll allow me to say so, I seriously question the wisdom of it. Tell me, Colonel, of what crime a man is guilty, simply because he bears the features of the king? Well, Your Majesty, it strikes me that... Why, apart from being an offence, this offers a pleasant diversion. Tonight, this stranger and I will drink to our extraordinary resemblance to one another. I'm compelled to remind Your Majesty we dine sparingly tonight. That is the Colonel's tactful way of reminding me that I must not imbibe too freely before my coronation tomorrow. While you have my word, Colonel Sapt, a sober, somber king will receive the crown in Straussau tomorrow. Even you, Colonel, must admit a man does not meet his flesh and blood image every day. And tonight, we celebrate the event at my hunting lodge. His Highness, Your Majesty's brother badly set this wine before the king, and pray you drink to the love your brother bears you. Oh, good! We've not run out of toasts. My brother, Michael, though absent, provides us with yet another. Out with the cork, Joseph. If you, gentlemen, would allow me, I shall drink a toast to Black Michael. I drink alone. To Michael, a sly naïve has ever coveted his brother's throne. As ever coveted the Princess Flavia. As ever... Remember, tomorrow, Your Majesty, drink no more tonight. I, Colonel, tomorrow... I, I, fritz the... foreign nation. Wake up, wake up, man! Help us! We cannot revive the king. It's Michael's doing no doubt of that. The bottle Joseph brought for the king to drink his dear brother's health had been drugged by that same brother. Oh, fine. Fellow this Michael, does he consider himself a candidate for the throne? With half the army assembled in Straussau, and Michael at the head of it, he's a very likely candidate, indeed. Yes. Well, we must send for a doctor. There's none within ten miles. No. If the king be not crowned in Straussau today, he'll never be crowned. Rassendoll, as a man grows old, he believes in fate. Fate sent you here. Fate sends you now to Straussau. Well, I do look the part, and there's no denying. It is a splendid one. Will you do it? I'll do it. We've not much time. Philip, see that the king is locked in the cellar in one of the wine rooms at once. Of course, Colonel. Here, here. A rassendoll is the king's ring. Place it on your finger. Straussau are thronged with people. The balcony's filled with gaily dressed ladies and a torrent of roses fell upon the man who rode to the cathedral to be crowned king of Rorotania. Dately organ music filled the vaulted arches. As I walked up the great nave for the cathedral. And all seemed as in a dream. But through the seeming unreality, two faces stood out clearly.  He betrayed an unspoken question in his dark, treacherous eyes as he knelt to swear on dying loyalty to him. I, Michael, Duke of Straussau, do pledge to serve and protect with all loyalty and zeal the person of my liege, Lord, revered brother, crowned king of Rorotania. I further swear to render under. The danger, smoldering, and Michael's voice was soon lost to my ears before an hour. All my senses were under the spell of that other face. A fair and fragile face. A face perhaps divine. The face of Princess Flavia, who in her turn came to kneel before me. The chandra of the house of Effelbeg duplied all duty and homage unto my liege, Lord, revered cousin, crowned king Rorotania. I further swear to serve my liege with loyalty and zeal to render under him all duty. This was those cold and solemn words, dignified, perfunctory. Words. Then the crown was placed upon my head and I, Rudolph Rassendill, was king of Rorotania. Then we went through the streets to the palace. At my left, in the state coach road, the kings betrothed. Princess Flavia. Sire, did you notice Michael today? Yes. He wasn't enjoying himself, was he? He, uh, cupboards the crown and won something else that has yet does not belong to me, but which someday I hope to win. And now I'm sure of it. I must say, Colonel Sapt has instructed you very well in such a short time. You mean you... see through a pretence as feeble as the one you are employing. You think I'm unaware that my heart is a matter of state and my wooing-only expert state class? Well, you misjudge my motives, I... No, no, no. You need not feel compelled to make love to me. You should concentrate on the reception at the palace. After all, have you not enough responsibilities for one day? You must, you must take me back inside. The ball is in your arm, Sire. Well, first, you must catch your breath. I've never danced in my jogger so fast. You've never danced it with me? No, no, I don't think I ever have. Flavia, my dearest... Don't speak. I think I know. I knew at first with the coronation. You knew? Yes, and my heart responded. I was proud and happy for the first time. Oh, Flavia, dearest, I must tell you... I've been there a thousand parts, Sire. Cannot say. Confounded, Colonel. I assure you, Your Majesty, had it not been imperative that I interrupt when I did, an urgent matter has presented itself. Flavia. Of course, Your Majesty. I'll wait for you in the ballroom. What is this urgent matter of which you spoke? It's more than urgent. The king has disappeared. Disappeared? Yes. Although the lodge was thoroughly searched, he was not to be found. Well, surely he wouldn't have. However this message was delivered to me a moment ago is for you. Was he hunting or was he the hunted? Now my question is answered. But I can tell you where they've taken him. If you will come alone at half past eleven to the deserted summer house on the boulevard Elfberg. Your friend and traveling companion. Huh? I thought you had journeyed to Ruritania alone. So I did, but for a few seconds only I did have a traveling companion, a woman who acted very strangely. Where is this deserted summer house? At the end of that avenue of trees. But you're not going. It may be a trap. Colonel, we're playing against time. We must play high. We must force the game. Then too, every day I masquerade like this. I shall become a weaker man for every day. I shall be more in love with Flavia. Let me act now.  Shortly after eleven I went alone to keep the appointment. There was not even the call of a night bird as I made my way cautiously along the dark avenue of trees. Presently, a large object loomed out of the bloom. The summer house. Come inside and close the door. Heaven you're early. I could never learn to be punctual. It's a failing of mine.  I wrote that letter at Michael's orders. So I thought...  Now here's what you must do if you're to save your life and the king's. How can the life of the king concern you if you serve the king's brother? Colonel Sapt can tell you that Antoinette de Moban has reason enough not to want Michael Crown King and married to the princess Flavia. I love Michael. My motives are the motives of a woman in love. Where is the king?  I give you my word. They've taken the king to Michael's castle near Zender. Zender? Very well. Wait. If the castle is attacked, the king will be killed instantly. But tomorrow Michael departs for Zender. I'm going too. The room I will occupy is just above the moat that surrounds the castle. My window can be seen from the east bank. Be there tomorrow night. Wait for a signal. All right. What will the signal be? A candle passed back and forth before the window. Now hurry. Leave before they come. Next morning, Colonel Sapt announced to the court that the king and the small party would leave on a hunting excursion. I regret that we cannot amuse your majesty here. I would have offered you more entertainment, but I was foolish enough to think. Flavia, after last night, can you believe that I would willingly leave you for a moment, unless... Unless the hunting of wild boars were not more pressing than our horseback ride this afternoon?  Not like the man, the man that I've come to love.  No, Flavia. I go to join Michael. Michael? And... And when will you be back? Will it be soon? Shall not a man come back to the loveliest lady in all the world? No. A thousand Michaels shall not keep me from you. Her hunting party made its way to the forest of Zender. At nightfall, Michael's castle loomed like a phantom across the black stagnant waters of the moat. The night was cold. The wind pierced it. There it is. The signal. Ready, Recental? I'm ready. Lower the rope, Fritz. Yes, Colonel. We'll wait for you here in this spot. I'll not be long. Gently, I lowered myself into the water. With slow, silent strokes, I began to swim toward the walls of the castle. And toward the window at which the pale, ghastly light moved through and from. Reaching from the water, my fingers clutched at the ragged edges of stone for a handhold. Slowly, stone by stone, like an inch of the cold wall of the castle. Finally, I reached the casement of the window. Let me help you. Thank you. These moats are oddly enough damp. The king, what of him? He's very ill. Blind despair has made him pitiful to see. But more than that, his life is in grave danger. What does Michael intend doing with him? Unless he signs the abdication papers Michael has brought. He has not long to live. Where are they keeping him? In a dungeon down a flight of stairs at the end of the cross-hole. And how do they guard him? Two men are with him at all times. Two others rest in a room just above. There's very little advantage on our side, not even hope. I've found one in the castle whom we can trust. Good. His name is Paul. He has served me before. Is this sword and ship to be relied on? Paul is only a servant in the castle. And cannot use a sword, huh? Now, wait a minute. He can still be worth his hire. If tomorrow night, at a given time, he releases the rope holding the drawbridge. But an instant alarm will begin. Yes, but if I were near the dungeon at that time I could perhaps gain access and keep them from killing the king till our hunting party had stormed the castle. I know it's a desperate plan, but we must plan desperately. In all this, Michael must not be harmed. I've given you my word. He won't be. Of course, it means exile for him. Oh, can you not see that that is what I want? I can be with him. I can care for him. You will swim the moat again tomorrow night. Yes, sometime between one and two. Oh, good. If the king still lives, I'll place this candle in the window. This night was dark and stormy. Gusts of wind and spits of rain caught us as we waited for the signal that would tell us that the king was still alive. Finally, it appeared our plan was ready to be put into operation. I was held to mobile. Colonel Sapton and I have agreed upon the time of meeting as two o'clock. The Colonel and Fritz van Tollenheim will charge with our men the moment the drawbridge is lowered. And you mean what? I will endeavour to protect the king. Now. Now to work. The door bolt must be lifted carefully. Michael's room is just across the hall. Dungeon steps are to your left. Those stairs lead to the room where he's waiting. Remember, the time is two o'clock. Yes. You must not fail by an instant. I will tell him. The restless shadows played about the figure of Antoinette de Molbenin as she moved noiselessly up the staircase and out of sight. Making my own way toward the dungeon below I had no means of knowing. That is, she approached the door of that room upstairs and moved it open. She found Joseph bending over the body of a man he had just killed. Our ally, Paul. At your service, Madame. Joseph. What happened? Paul has met with an unfortunate accident, Madame. You have killed him. Only in order to serve you better, Madame. Was I not employed by His Highness Duke Michael to drug the king? And to that you were at cold-blooded murder. Only because whatever Paul's test tonight I, Joseph, can perform it so much more ably. Shall we discuss it downstairs? After you, Madame. Enter ahead of me. Be careful closing the door. The boat rattles. I've got noise we're heard. The castle is asleep. It is nearly two. Nearly two. Ah, two o'clock. And what happens at two o'clock? Michael's door. It just opened. It's crossing the hall. I'll hide over here. I'll say nothing, Madame, if you value His life. Antoinette. Whose voice was that? I heard a voice. No. I'm alone, Michael. Behind that tapestry. Yes, behind the tapestry. No. No, Michael. Michael is behind the screen in front of the Michael behind you. Michael. Oh, Michael. You and I. Don't let them come, why? Let them come. Some trick. I didn't. Antoinette's shriek had been heard through the castle and that the sound of it, the door of the dungeon, was thrown open. Michael's voice had reached the guard at the door. At the instant he turned to repeat the command, I sprang from the shadows, seized him by the neck and flew into the steps. I leapt into the dungeon, closing and bolting the door with what strength was left. A single torch lift the dungeon. The second guard had drawn his sword. I pulled the torch from the wall and hurled it through the hole in the floor. It sizzled in the water below and the room was plunged in darkness. Where are you? I can't see you. Then we evenly matched, my friend. For you two were invisible. We were thrust, buried in the darkness. Our sight was in our swords all over. Come down this darkness. What chance do you think you have, man? Neither of us can move very freely. Get me. But... a loud deafening crash was heard. We were still alive. Today I was ushered into the king's bedchamber. My life is yours, Rassendo. My thanks are all too meager. Your thanks are due to Antoinette de Montpellier, your highness. You see who cut the drawbridge ropes? Oh, here's your ring. I've tried not to dishonor it. To dishonor it? You have ennobled it. I want to keep you here with me and tell everyone what you've done, but you would have been my best and nearest friend. But Colonel Sap tells me the secret must be kept. He's right. I must go. My work here is done. You take with you the undying gratitude of a king. If I've served you...  Come, Rassendo. To the thanks the king has given you. May I add my gratitude as well? We've run a good course between us, Colonel. All right. Why do you stop? Are you not going with me to the courtyard? I'll wait for you here. In the music room is someone who has come to Zendr Castle to see you. Someone... open the door. Flighty. Rudolph. Oh, they told you? Yes, everything. Is it true you're returning to England? Yes, I must. The matter of state must be kept secret. My heart is a matter of state. I said that once. I thought it was true at the time. Flavia. I love you. I love you with all my heart and soul. Come with me. Come with me, Flavia. If love were all, I would follow you. If love were all, perhaps for some fate lets it be. But not for us. Allah binds me to my country and to my house. Oh, help me. Help me to do my duty. My love. My dearest. Help me. Help me. Your heart will always be in my heart. In the touch of your lips, always are mine. You must reign. And not weep for me. Oh, Rudolph. Rudolph. Burling past the window of my train, hid the countryside from view. But how often the smoke from my pipe recalls the vision of a fair and fragile face. A face of Flavia. Yes. My love. My love. My love. My love. Yes. I have been a king. And I have loved a queen. This is Betty Lennigan. You know, as I was listening to tonight's story, a new thought struck me. Many of us are tempted to say, if I can't have what I want, I don't want anything. But life isn't like that. Often we have to settle for the second best. And the strange and wonderful thing is that so many times, it turns out to be the first best. I guess it's just that God knows better than we what is really good for us. The person who prays regularly will understand that. The family that prays together each day will realize that God is always protecting them. Always binding them closer in a bond of unity and love. Yes. They will come to understand that the family that prays together stays together.  Gene Raymond and Mary Anderson in the Prisoner of Zender with Betty Linn as your hostess. Featured in our cast were Gene Bates, Francis X Bushman, Carol Dyrlenforth, High Aberbach, Robert Griffin, Howard Culver and Clayton Post. 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All right, you guys ready to get started?  Does that sound really weird to anybody? All right, so my name is Nathan Ingram. I'm from Birmingham, Alabama. Well, I'm away from here. I said, okay, if I slip in a y'all every now and then, you can take a part from me, I'll do it. I'm the lead organizer for Workhand Birmingham, which is in a couple of weeks, and we have the best hashtag of all. It's WPYALL, isn't that great? It's WPYALL.com. I'm the host at I-Themes Trainings. I do two, three live webinars a week. Most of them are free. It's like when you're working all year long, we're at training.ithemes.com. I've personally been a business owner working with clients since 1995. That's when I built and sold my first website. I've been doing this forever. I've worked with all kinds of clients, big and small, great and not so great. And I'm a business coach for WordPress freelancers as well. That's one of my favorite things that I've been doing for the last four years or so. So I used to start a talk like this with a slide that says I am not an expert. And then I found that quote by the physicist Dr. Neils Bohr, who said that an expert is a person who is found out by his own experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field. So by that definition, I am absolutely an expert. What I can offer you today is all the stupid stuff I've done wrong, and then you can avoid some of the mistakes that I've made, especially when it comes to personal productivity. So if you are, come here, this is your first word camp. First word camp. Awesome, let's give you guys a hand. Awesome. Actually, guys, if you guys like to see what is your first word camp, that's awesome, yeah. The chances, especially if it's your first word camp, of coming into a place like this and wondering, am I the only one that has the problems that I face? Am I the only one who struggles with the issues that I struggle with? And maybe you've already been moving around conversations in the breakfast area over here and people are using acronyms, you may be not quite sure what they mean. And everybody sounds a lot more intelligent than you. If that's been your experience so far, let me encourage you to say that's pretty normal. We all struggle with different areas and we all have strengths and weaknesses. We all face common challenges. In four years of coaching conversations, I've found very few unique issues. So let's just do a quick poll. How many of you guys had it all together in your client work? You never struggled with problem clients. Yeah? Have you totally got the pricing then figured out? How many of you are site creation processes bulletproof? How many of you have a consistent site creation process? Most people don't. You never struggle with isolation or feeling alone. You do know it. How many of your income is stable and it doesn't feel like this? Okay, see, we're all cut from the same fabric. You are in a community of friends. That is one of the great things about work camp. So by all means, do not eat lunch alone today. Find some people around you and just simply ask what do you do for a press? And start the conversation. You are in your own tribe here.  So here's what we're gonna talk about today. We're gonna spend a little bit of time talking about one of the common struggles that we all face is freelancers, which is personal productivity. How many of you work from home? Yeah, me too, and my kids are at home because we home educate our children and yikes, right? So it's a little challenging. Personal productivity is a common issue that most people struggle with when you're working with clients, especially if you're freelancing. So we're gonna spend some time talking about why it's a common struggle. We're gonna understand the problem. We're gonna develop a strategy to deal with the problem and I'm gonna offer you some suggestions for success. Does that sound okay? And in the middle of that, I'm gonna give you a tool that you can use that will hopefully amp up your personal productivity. All right? So that's what we're heading today and let's start off talking about the common struggle. The common struggle is strategy versus execution. So the first part of this talk today is gonna be putting some terminology into a struggle that I believe every freelance web developer faces. Oh, by the way, I'm gonna give you a link to all these slides to the end. Okay, so if you are scribbling furiously or typing furiously, it's okay. Just soak it in and I'll give you a link to everything. So we need to put a term to the struggle that we face because I'm of the opinion that if you give a name to your challenge, it's a lot easier to deal with it, right? If you can put a label on it and deal with it, it sort of puts it in the box a little better. So we need proficiency because we're in a technical space, right? If you're working with clients, depending on what kind of work you're doing, you need to know the HTML, you need to know the CSS, you need to know some PHP, you need to know some JavaScript or jQuery depending on what you're doing. I tell people, I'm the one up PHP for self-defense. I am not a developer, don't want to be a developer. It's that cynical that always gets me every time. It's always the wrong place. Maybe you need no typography or you need to know good principles of design or you need to know strategy on how to build a website. We all need proficiency on the execution, but we also need proficiency on the strategy side of our business, which means great internal documentation on your processes. And even if you're a one-person shop, you need a list of checklists for everything you do. It's got to get out of your head and onto paper because it's going to make you who are efficient, more effective, more profitable. It's also when you grow a lot easier to onboard somebody if you already have some checklists. You've got to figure out the strategy on that sort of stuff. The documents, the processes, the marketing, creation of new services, and then personal productivity. We need the execution. There's a lot of great talks this weekend on execution, but we also need the strategy. We need the what we do, but also the why and how we do it. Does that make sense? And those things are at a tension all the time, but both are critical. The problem is, you probably already understand the need for strategy.   I'm gonna assume that everybody here is a pretty smart person. We know we need the need for strategy to become more efficient, more effective, more profitable. The problem is, the doing of the strategy gets messy. How does your strategy look right now? If you had to draw a line that would visually represent your strategy, is it growing, doing better? Or does it look, or something like this right here?  You do pretty well sometimes, and then you get kind of hung up at the end, and then you go backwards a little ways, and forwards, and up and down, and then you have a problem applying and things go way backwards, and then this is a pretty common struggle. So why is it so hard to keep our strategy in focus? Why is it so difficult to do the strategy piece when we're busy with client work? Read a fantastic blog post, and you're like, that's awesome, I need to do that. Maybe it's a technical thing, maybe it's a strategy thing, or maybe you've read a book. I am a wonderful reader of books, like the first 25% I was in a nice company shelf. Anybody else do that? Like if you start a book, you're like, yeah, can I have this whole shelf of books I'm supposed to read? Or you find this amazing thing at work, you're gonna leave probably this weekend with a notebook full of ideas. How many of you were left, or were you last year, you left with like a major list of stuff to do, and how much effort did you actually get accomplished? So why is it that that happens? You got this great list of stuff that you know you need to do, but that list only seems to get longer and never seems to get shorter. Things are added, but very few things ever get marked off. So what are you gonna do with all the great ideas that you leave work here with this weekend? Great ideas that are never implemented. It's not that you wanna have great intentions about it, it's that life gets in the way, right? You get home and you've taken how many days off to be here. For me, it's a travel involved, I've been gone a few days, and during that time some customer demands came up, or some family issues got in the way, and all of a sudden it's three months later and you've done nothing, does that sound familiar? I know this because I live this, right? We are all cut from the same fabric. So I wanna put a word to this whole idea that's gonna help us to start working towards a solution, and that word is whirlwind. Whirlwind. Whirlwind is a great word because that looks like life in business, doesn't it? You've got a million emails and a million demands, a million things to do, and things you ought to do, and things you've supposed to have done already, and they're all swirling around you all at the same time, and sometimes it's hard to make heads or tails out of things, right? So let's spend a little bit of time understanding this whirlwind. The whirlwind is the energy and attention that's needed to run your business. The whirlwind is the urgent. The whirlwind are the 15 emails or clients that are waiting on you in the morning all with demands of things that have to be done by noon. The whirlwind is that customer call that happens right as you are just about to work on your own website for a change. The whirlwind is that one hour meeting with a client that stretches into three. Does all this sound familiar? So you come to your desk with the best intentions. It's gonna finally be a day where I work on my stuff for a change, and it lasts about 10 minutes because you opened your email and the whirlwind was waiting on you, and hours, and seminars, and webinars, and reading books, all full of excellent information that could really help my business, and I never implemented any of it at all. It was great stuff, but it ended up making no practical impact on my world, and it wasn't the author of the book's fault. It wasn't the presenter's fault. It's because when I got back to my desk, there were all those emails and all those phone calls and a hundred other things I had to do in that day. Or maybe I got fascinated by a new shining piece of technology that's been half a day working on something that really didn't move through art sticks in my business. I'm sure that if you would do that, that's a living. What's the problem with the whirlwind? We know that goals and strategy are important, but the whirlwind is the urgent. Franklin Company has this great statement, when urgency and importance clash, urgency wins every time, doesn't it? Strategy is important, those customer demands are urgent, and urgency wins every time. So what do we do? We say, oh, I'll get to it later, tomorrow, next week. Now here's the problem. Delaying strategy doesn't work because the whirlwind never goes away. What we never seem to realize is that I'll say I'll work on it tomorrow. I'll get to that next week. I'll do it next month when I finish this project. And what we don't realize is that tomorrow, next week, next month, the whirlwind is still gonna be waiting on us. The whirlwind never goes away.  It just is what it is. The whirlwind is actually pretty good. It's your business. It's your work that you have to do. I mean, if it weren't for the whirlwind, you couldn't pay your bills most likely. I mean, you can sort of tame the whirlwind down a little bit and make more sense out of it, but the whirlwind is the stuff that makes us money, generally speaking. It isn't bad, it just is what it is. It's a fact of life if you're running a business, if you're working with clients. So, we have to accept the whirlwind and consider it as we figure out how to move our businesses forward in the middle of the whirlwind. So, now we get into how to do with that. A strategy to deal with the whirlwind. We need a plan. We need a plan to accomplish our goals while the whirlwind is swirling around us.  Your challenge is not accomplishing your goals.  Now, here's a foundational principle. Without a plan, the whirlwind always wins. It always wins. Urgency and importance, right? I've got to have a plan or the whirlwind is gonna win. And you see this happen, right? You seem to have it. You have great intentions, but you get sidetracked. So, we've got to have some sort of plan. So, I'm gonna suggest to you a very simple plan that I think can actually help you get some traction in this issue. It's gonna start with a, it's basically three phases. There's an initial planning. There's a weekly planning and a weekly execution. Now, this is doable, I promise. I've been doing this for years and this approach has transformed my personal productivity. Transformed. I tell people, when they're first starting a freelance business, there are three important things you need to pay attention to. Number one, you wanna systematize everything you do, get it as down to as much of a process as you possibly can. Number two, you wanna build recurring revenue as quickly as possible. Number three, you've got to get a handle on personal productivity. Because there are only a few things about your business and working with clients that you can control and how you spend your time as one of them. We need a plan. So, we need to start off with some initial planning, then there's a weekly planning and a weekly execution. Let's talk about the first step here, which is this first planning meeting and I'm gonna give you a tool to make that look a bit easier. The initial planning meeting is a meeting that you have with yourself where you stop everything, you unplug, yes, that is possible, and you go somewhere that you enjoy. Coffee shop, your back deck, your favorite cafe down the street. Some stimulating environment, whether it's quiet or noisy, whatever works for you, turn off all screens because what happens when you open a screen? Ding, ding, email, text message, client, whirlwind, whirlwind, right? This is what happens. The screens are the key to the whirlwind mostly. So, we turn all that stuff off. I'm gonna schedule this as a priority. I'm gonna suggest something very radical in a conference like this and that is get a piece of paper and a pen because analog works for this sort of thing. I'm gonna give you a tool in just a minute you can download that you can print out and take a pen or a pencil. Pen, for those of you who are very self-confident, the pencil is like I'm gonna erase stuff so I need a pencil. Whatever works for you, and unplug and focus on this stuff. This needs to be on your calendar with a couple of reminders so you remember to do it because urgency and importance, urgency wins every time. So you have to schedule this and make it as urgent as any other bit of client work that you're doing because you are your most important client. True? You are the most important client. And if you're worried about, well, I can't serve my client as well if I take this kind of off to work on my business, that's a fallacy that so many folks have. If you're not around in a year because you didn't do the strategy part of your business well, who's gonna take care of your clients then? Taking care of your business is one of the most important things you can do to serve your clients well. So it's gotta be on the calendar with a reminder, two hours unplugged as a priority. Now in those two hours you're gonna do two tasks. Two hours, two tasks. Identify the issues that you need to change in your business. And plan some action items, can you do that? Two hours, two tasks. One of the main things I need to do to grow my business and plan some action items to actually accomplish those. Identifying the issues. What are the changes that I need to make and which are gonna bring the most immediate results? Remember, I'm gonna give you all these slides so don't worry about scribbling things down. Two hours, two tasks. Identify the issues. What do I need to change and what are gonna bring the most immediate results and pick the top three? Why the top three? Because I need to figure out the three most important things that are gonna make immediate impact in your business because when you're trying to establish a habit, momentum is everything. So you want small wins. Things you can do quickly that will radically make a difference in your business. Does that make sense? Identify your top three. Immediate impact builds momentum and you're gonna need that kind of momentum because you are fighting an uphill battle. You are swimming upstream. Ever seen those videos of the crazy reporters standing out in the hurricanes? What are those people thinking? And they're standing, this is you and the whirlwind and you've got to think, I'm gonna be walking directly into that wind so I need some momentum. I need some wins at the very beginning to get this thing started. Now by the way, the three things that you pick out right here are probably not going to be things that you enjoy doing because you would have done them already, right? So just keep that in mind.   You're gonna break those goals into three goals into action items. They're gonna take you about two to four hours to complete. So when you figure out this is a thing I need to do. I need to have, for example, a contract in my business. How many of you have great contracts? How many of you have the, yeah, yeah, yeah, how many should you have, right? Okay, so I need to improve my internal documentation. I need a better proposal template. I need, whatever it is, I need to learn what the world of Gutenberg is and I'm gonna break those things into two to four hour action items and there's a reason for that that I'll get to in a minute. Now, unless this starts to dissolve into lots of details, let me give you a tool. You can go to NathanAgrim.com slash W-C-V-O-S, that's the hashtag for today. That's also the link on my website where you can download my advanced goal worksheets. Advanced is my coaching service for freelancers and it's a tool that we use, NathanAgrim.com slash W-C-V-O-S, and let me pull those up on the screen because I'm gonna show you what that looks like. Okay, now this is the part where I get to try to control that screen while standing over here with a teeny tiny mouse and I'm not sure how this is gonna work, okay. So how many of you have heard before the term smart goals? Okay, smart goals, I think it's the best way to go plan to set your goals. Now I do it a little different because I take the smart goal and I turn it into a declaration and I'll tell you why it doesn't matter. So smart is an acronym. It stands for specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and tied down. Those are five characteristics that make up a good goal. A good goal, for example, isn't, I need to make more money in my business next year. A good goal is I need to raise my first quarter earnings by 10%. That's a smart goal. There's a big difference there. So this is a tool that you're gonna use when you identify the three-count issues. You're gonna put them into this smart goal template. If you do this, I promise the goal will be much easier to execute. So the S in smart goal stands for specific and you're gonna ask yourself, what do I really want to accomplish? These are questions that answer the who, what, when, where and how. I'm gonna give you an example of this in just a second. Measurable means how do I know I'm making progress? Add in some things about how much and how many. Attainable, is this a goal I can actually achieve? What are the obstacles? Am I gonna overcome those? And what are my next steps? Attainable, the R stands for relevant. And this is maybe the most important point. This is where a lot of goal setting falls off and it's why is this goal important? Why am I doing this to begin with? The R in smart goals, the relevancy piece, is whirlwind repellent. Because this is gonna help you remember, this is why I'm going through the hassle of doing this to begin with. The T is time down, what is it going to be accomplished? Okay, here's an example. I need to create a social media service to create managed social properties and content for my clients. That's pretty specific, right? Do what, where, when, how? Yeah, okay, so in this example, our goal is I need to build a social media service. Because I need to do more than just build websites. I need to do some other stuff to get some recurring revenue coming into my business. Does that make sense? It's a pretty good goal, if you can do that. That's your thing, awesome. So that's specific, the A, the M, sorry, measurable. Well, how do I know I'm making progress? I'm gonna start with Facebook, I'm gonna big move to Instagram and Pinterest. The attainable, yes, the attainable, I need to understand Facebook better, develop a template for social marketing, determine the best platform for management. It's attainable and I can do these things. There's a few first actions listed. Relevant, why am I doing this to begin with? Because I need to offer more than just web creation services. And adding a social media management service is the key to building recurring revenue. By the way, all this is in the download. Time now, I'll have this service ready to go by April 30th. Now, here's the thing about this particular worksheet. It is the declaration. What you're gonna do is take the elements of the sort goal and turn it into a statement that you're gonna put on your computer, on your whiteboard, so it's staring at you all the time. And it's pretty easy to do. I will, and you combine the specific and measurable elements by this time, because or so that, the relevance. Here's how it would look. I will create a social media management service for my clients using Facebook by April 30th, because it's a key to building recurring revenue in my business.  And when the whirlwind comes up, you look at that thing and you remember, no, I've got to spend the two hours working on this and I've scheduled because I've got to build my recurring revenue, does that make sense? You put the so that right in front of you and that helps to put the whirlwind in perspective. Now, giving you another worksheet, we're not gonna spend time on this really because of time here. There's also a goal manager. And it's in this one that you actually start the flesh to go out. It's in that two hour planning meeting that you're gonna be doing these worksheets for each of the goals if you wanna follow this method. So you pull your goal in. This is a declaration from the previous worksheet. And you start jotting down some things. What is some of the stuff I need to do? I need to understand Facebook conversion. All the stuff that I need to do is go resourcing some information I need to actually accomplish this goal. Start making some notes. I use a competitor that offers it for this much in this certain setup theme. And then you start listing some action items. Two to four hour action items in a list and your secret here is you're gonna do one of these every week. One to two of these every week. All right, so you mark off some next actions. Does that make sense? This is normally a 45 minute talk, but I have to do it in 30. So I'm gonna blow past this if you wanna talk on the outside after. Okay, so that's the tool. And you can download that, NathanIngram.com, W-C-V-O-S. So that's your initial planning. Two hours, two tasks. Two hours, two tasks. I've got my goals laid out. I've got some action items laid out. Now we're gonna do a weekly planning session. This is where most people fall off the wagon. They get excited, they do the initial thing. They got all this stuff to do, but they don't take time each week to plan the time to execute. They just think they can go straight to executing. It's a mistake. Don't avoid this. Take a half hour before the week starts and plan your week. Yes, it is possible to plan your week even if you're a freelance web developer who is constantly barraged by client requests. It is possible to plan your week. So before the week starts, for me, it's always Friday afternoon. Friday afternoon is a CEO time for me. That's when I spend the time working on my business and I'm planning the next week.  When everything's quiet in the house, kids are going to bed. I do the planning of the week then. Or some people I'm coaching do it early Monday morning. But the point is, before you hit the chair Monday morning in your office, you got the week planned. Because without the plan, the growing is always going to win. It's always going to win. I promise you. You're going to try to do this without the plan and the growing is going to win. And you'll remember, that guy in Boston said, the work was going to win if I don't have a plan. Because it does, it just does. So take that 30 minutes, plan time to execute at least one action and then pull everything together to make it so that when views sit down to accomplish that, you've got everything you need to do it. Here's how my weekly planning typically looks. I divide each day into three blocks. My family usually gets one of those. Family's a big priority for me. My family usually gets one of these. So there's morning, afternoon, evening. And the thing about us freelancers, we're pretty flexible, right? We can kind of do stuff as we want to do it. And so weekly planning looks something like this. Yes, I plan time for the whirlwind. Mondays are all about the whirlwind. Because for whatever reason, the wind blows stronger during the weekends, right? And you can end there's like 87 emails and you're in box on Monday morning. So Monday's all about the whirlwind and this is just a four example. And this week, my family, it's the most nice generally. Tuesday, I'm gonna spend some time in the afternoon working on a project that I don't need to get finished. So that's project time. During project time, I don't look at email. I don't answer my phone. I am turned off. So, whirlwind morning, project in the afternoon, family gets to the evening. Same thing for Wednesday. Oh, Thursday morning, my kid's got some stuff that maybe she wants me to be part of. So I'm gonna go to whatever this trip is that her class is doing on Thursday morning. Well, that means I'm gonna be working that night, probably. My family always gets one of the blocks. Now, sometimes if I'm on a big project, I'm working morning, afternoon, evening for a few days in a row to knock it out. You know how that goes, right? This approach lets you say, wait a minute, I owe my family three blocks. So I'm gonna pay that back either by taking a couple afternoons off or a whole day, whatever it is. It's sort of, life is really good about reminding me how much debt I have in the blocks here, right? And so Friday, afternoons strategy time, whirlwind in the morning, family in the evening. That makes sense? I mean, this is very simple. It's not simple, it's not gonna work. The personal productivity. It's gotta be simple. The whirlwind can be contained. Good productivity habits and being deliberate about your time, scheduling calls and emails. Don't ever be, well, that's an absolute statement. I would encourage you to rarely be available on demand by either email or phone because your client will start to monopolize your time. Schedule those calls. Don't respond to emails right away. I mean, unless the site is down, which is very rare, during the weekly execution, that's what you saw on Friday, the red block, the strategy block. Two to four hours, I'm gonna schedule that time and I'm gonna execute one or two of those two to four-hour action items that we talked about. I got four hours on Friday afternoon. I'm gonna do either two two-hour things or one four-hour thing that afternoon. And I don't want anything to erupt it. I don't schedule client meetings on the two-hour Friday afternoons. I don't want it to happen. That's my time. It's my CEO time. It's strategy time for my business. How many times have you ever put off your own work because the client had it and you get demand? We do it, right? But you are your most important client. So don't over schedule that time. Whatever time of the week that you block off is your strategy time, that's yours, and don't violate it. Again, the server's down, okay, right, but that's a greater, right? Usually it's because, I mean, am I right here? It's a lot easier to do work for a client than it is to do our own strategy work. Right? So having it on the calendar schedule helps you get it. Now, one more thing. What do you do when you run out of action items? You do another immediate, another initial planning phase. So after you've picked and accomplished those top three goals, that's probably gonna take you about 12 weeks to do. For the next quarter, you come back in and do it again. You pick three more, you plan it out. So you get in the cycle. There's a great book called The 12-Week Year, if you can actually finish that one. If you've never read it, I would encourage you to get it. It's all about planning your year in quarterly chunks. It's wonderful. Now, we're almost out of time here. I've got two final suggestions to leave you with. You will always, always, always have more goals than you have time, so prioritize well. Like I said earlier, focus on immediate impact to build momentum. There's a psychology to this. Small wins keep you going. And moving forward in the whirlwind takes a lot of small wins and momentum to begin with. So immediate impact. There's a great study that Franklin Cuffy did under this whole concept of the law of diminishing returns. How many of you have heard that phrase before? Law of diminishing returns. Here's what they found in a corporate environment. If a team had two to three clearly defined goals, they would accomplish two to three goals with excellence. If a team had four to 10, they would accomplish one to two. If they had 11 to 20 goals, they'd accomplish zero. Think about it. Looks like you're eating a pizza. If you're trying to eat two to three pizzas, you might be able to do that in your family today. If you've got more pizzas, you're gonna eat less and less. There's only so many bites a day you can take, right? It's the same sort of thing. So most of us go into this thing with gangbusters saying I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna get productive, it's all gonna work, and we have so many goals and then all of a sudden we get nothing done. One or two, three goals at the most at a time and you'll accomplish that many. That means that sometimes good ideas, I might even say great ideas, have to be put on a shelf because they do not bring the most immediate impact. If that's okay, get to live this year. The second pro tip I would give you is taming the whirlwind takes time. You gotta give yourself a break. It's a break quote that is attributed to G.K. Chesterton, I'm not sure if it's true or if he actually said it. He's one of those people that people attribute every quote to. I don't know, but anything worth doing is worth doing badly at first and I love that. You're gonna mess up on this and it's okay. The whirlwind is a strong and powerful force that you've been contending with the wrong way for a long time and it's gonna take you some time to develop some new habits, that's okay. It's worth doing, so it's worth doing badly at first. So just stick with it because the whirlwind never, ever, ever goes away. When urgency and importance clash, urgency wins every time, so you gotta keep and execute that strategy to accomplish your goals in the middle of the whirlwind. Now wrapping up, in six months from now, if you did this and you went through two quarterly cycles, if you did this for six months, how much would your business change? How much would change, really, think about it. What could you get done? How much would you grow? How many problems would you solve? How much better would your business systems be? And then as a result of that, how much better would your life be? If you have less stress, because your business was going better, your income was stabilizing, you started keeping problem clients in check, how much better would your life be? Probably better. My name is Nathan Ingram. You can find me at training.ikings.com and there is the link for today. We have five minutes for questions and we have questions right there. I think there's a very scary microphone that they want you to say. Talk pretty much. The number of questions is reminding me of this analogy I use, which is moving footballs down the field. If you're trying to move one football down the field, you give one down the field. If you're trying to manage 10 footballs, you don't get anything down the field. Exactly. Yeah, let's go. How many hours of... Yeah, they want to mix with the recording, sorry. The question for the recording is, how many hours do I usually work in a week? It depends on the week, honestly. I typically work 40 to 50 hours a week. That's pretty long. What would you suggest for people that are working full-time jobs and also trying to do freelance work or just work on the side? As I find that to be my biggest obstacle. And at what point should I consider transitioning from my full-time job that's not work or just related to being a full-time freelance worker? Oh, it's such a great question. How many other people struggle with that same issue right now? Look around the room, look around. This is a common question, it's a common struggle. So look at it, do you guys even have lunch together? Seriously. Okay, so the question is, how do you balance a full-time job and freelancing? It's tough, man. You have a very understanding family. If you have a family, you have a very understanding family that's on board with that mission of transition. How do you do it? Build recurring revenue as quickly as possible. That's a broken record for me. Because what will happen, the more recurring revenue you have, that revenue comes in every month no matter what. WordPress maintenance contracts are the best, fastest way to do that. Every single project you want, you want to have website management attached to that. That's 50, 75, 100, 150, whatever you can charge a month, that's what it ought to be. And what will start to happen is you'll be able to start replacing a portion of your paycheck with that recurring revenue. For a few years now, I've paid myself exclusively about the recurring revenue. Everything else is great. So that's the goal. Build recurring revenue as quickly as possible. Build a good, strong client base with lots of referrals coming in. That's what your emphasis needs to be. That's a very short answer to a very complicated question about what you had to talk more about after. Yes. Hey there, I'm Laura Rebelle, a musician and Nashville and also a speaker for tomorrow. I just wanted to take a second to do a shameless plug for my talk tomorrow because we're going to go over exactly a lot of that and also some of the checklist of processes you talked about and then share exact processes and things to stay really efficient with the client work. So some of these questions we're getting into, we're going to talk about there as well tomorrow. Awesome. What time is that tomorrow? I'm not sure what time is. But it's how running a WordPress design agency allowed me to follow my dreams of becoming a musician? Two 10, two 10 tomorrow. Definitely. So you guys check that one out. Other questions? I think we have a minute or two left. One minute exactly. Okay, we're done. Thank you guys. I'll be outside tomorrow. If you guys want to listen to me.


You know what I love about all of you, all of you keep asking me questions about meditation and how to do it. So I want to show you that meditation can be fun and interesting. So let's do this thing. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewire Excel where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health. And what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community, try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So yeah, I'm always telling you guys, meditate, meditate, meditate, meditate, meditate, right? And the specific form of meditation that I practice and that I teach is mindfulness meditation. So I put up a poll over on my community tab saying, hey, I'm thinking about doing like little meditation tips over on Instagram. A lot of you said yes. A lot of you say you don't use Instagram. So check it out. Here's just me. This is just me real quick. But with my channel, I prefer to provide you with tools rather than making videos about those tools. What I mean by it, I might tell you to journal and then I might provide you with some resources or give you some ideas for journaling, but I'm not going to make an entire video on journaling, right? My mom is going to start doing some of that stuff on her channel. But when it comes to meditation, I would rather give you tips to kind of just teach you like, hey, meditation isn't what you think it is. Go download an app. But a lot of you have asked me. So some of you on the poll said you don't use Instagram, so you prefer if I did it here. So this is going to be a test. This is going to be a test for all of you. All right. I'm going to teach you a meditation, which is going to be kind of fun. I've wanted to do this for a long time. But if this video bombs, I'm just going to do it on my Instagram. So make sure you go follow me and I'm just going to be giving you tips. But this is a loving kindness meditation. All right. This is a meditation that's going to help you with depression, with anxiety as long as you practice it, but it's also going to help you have more empathy towards others. It's going to help you not react to people in the same way that you usually would. And it's something that somebody like me with anger issues has needed to do and it's been a great meditation for me. So something I always say, which you'll probably understand by the end of this meditation is, I don't like everybody, but I love everybody. All right. So there's a big difference. So even though some people, you know, question my motives on my channel and everything like that, like I know my motives on my channel. I know what I'm trying to do. I know that I don't have any, you know, malicious intent, you know, whatever it is, no matter what people think or say about me. And this meditation is one of the reasons why. So sure, there's a lot of, you know, people out there who I don't like, who I don't get along with, whatever, but I still wish the best for them. All right. So with this meditation, we're going to be using YouTubers and you're going to see what I mean in a minute. So what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to take this meditation, turn it into an audio file. So if you want to download it, anybody at the $5 tier up over on Patreon, I'm going to keep doing these and upload them over on Patreon. I think that's a cool little thing I can do for Patreon. Since I'm going to do some of these videos. All right. Sorry, my head. It just, all right. Anyways, so pause this video. If you have to lay down, sit down. When I teach meditation, I don't want it to be too formal or anything like that. I've just found that it scares people away. So if you want to sit, if you want to lay down, pause the video, just get comfortable.  All right. Pause the video if you have to come back. All right. But anyways, for me, I'm going to be sitting. So let's get started. All right. So start by taking a deep breath in. As you exhale, gently close your eyes and inhale in and exhale. So right now, just bring some awareness to your body. Just notice maybe your feet connecting to the ground or the way your hands are rested on your lap or the way you're sitting on your chair or laying down. Just bring awareness to what your body feels like right now in this moment. So what we're going to do with this meditation is we're going to bring different YouTubers to mind and we're going to send them kind thoughts. So the first YouTuber I want you to bring to mind is a YouTuber who you just absolutely love.  Maybe that's just because they made you laugh or smile or they inspired you. Bring this YouTuber to mind.  May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. Just go ahead and repeat that in your head. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. And as you're repeating these thoughts and sending them out. Just imagine that the YouTuber is actually receiving these messages as you're sending them. And every time you repeat the message, they get happier and happier and notice in your body how it feels as they begin to get happier as you send these thoughts. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. Now I want you to bring a YouTuber to mind. You're kind of indifferent about. You watch their videos. You don't love them.  You watch their videos sometimes or maybe they just pop up on your feed. You don't really have any strong feelings either way towards them. And what we're going to do is do the same thing and send them these kind thoughts. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. And again, as you're repeating these thoughts of loving kindness in your head. Imagine this YouTuber who you're indifferent about receiving them, getting happier and happier every time you send these thoughts out. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. And now we're going to bring to mind a YouTuber. Who you don't particularly like. This one may be a little bit more difficult. It's often hard to send thoughts of loving kindness to someone that we don't like. So as we go through this, if you notice that your mind starts judging or going through stories or remembering something bad they did. Just try to return back to the present moment. And repeat the phrases. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. And may you be loved. And imagine this YouTuber who you don't particularly like. It's starting to feel a little bit kinder and generous as they get happier as you send these thoughts. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. It's many of us struggle with self love and send these same thoughts to ourselves. And see how that feels. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I be free from harm. May I be loved. And just notice what it's like to send yourself some kindness. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I be free from harm. May I be loved. And now just sit and bring your attention back to your body. Just notice how you feel in this moment. Notice if you feel tense. Or if you feel relaxed. You feel warm and open. You feel cold. Just notice how your body feels in this moment. All right. And we'll end this meditation by taking a deep inhale in and gently open your eyes as you exhale. How does that feel? I feel great. And hopefully right now you're like oh dang. No wonder why this dude Chris keeps telling us to meditate. Right. So yeah this is a loving kindness meditation. This is legit the best meditation you can do. Just analyzing what I'm not supposed to analyze here is that it helps to transition these thoughts of loving kindness for someone I like to someone that maybe I don't like too much. Right. Because we're all humans. We're all people. We're all going through our own struggles. You know what I mean. And some of you might have the experience where when I show kindness to someone who I don't necessarily like sometimes that makes them a little bit nicer as well. Now we can't expect that but sometimes that is a result but either way when we hold on to anger or resentments or whoever it is toward whoever it is right. It hurts us more than it hurts them. So that's why we need to learn to start trying to send these kind thoughts but most importantly I know a lot of you struggle with self love. We need to send these thoughts to ourselves as well. All right. So let me know down in the comments below how you felt after doing this meditation. And if you would like if you would like please be tame. I hope you I hope you will be after this nice meditation. Tell me the first YouTuber you thought of when I asked you a YouTuber that you love that you smile every time they upload you get excited you get inspired whatever it is. Let me know who that YouTuber is. I do not want to hear about who the last YouTuber was. All right. But again anybody over on Patreon at the $5 tier up I'm turning this into an MP3 download it on your phone do this meditation anytime you would like and again based on the engagement I get on this video if this video does well I'll do more if not I'm just only doing it on my Instagram so make sure you're following me on there. All right. Anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon you are all amazing and if you would like to become a patron and get access to meditations exclusive videos other perks you can click the top on that patreon icon right there. All right. Thanks so much for watching a little bit kinder today and I'll see you next time.


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