Another Excuse Newsletter

Welcome back to the Another Excuse Newsletter. It isn’t just another excuse, but a reason to start that thing you’ve been putting off.

What to expect this week:
👓Perspective - S&ME 500
🔨 Tool - Descript
🍿Consume - How to Stay Poor Forever
📖Concept - Rogerian Rhetoric

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Latest Podcast Episode

In this week’s episode, I chat with Harvi Singh. The Operations Manager at Notto Pasta Bar, here in London. It's a fantastic pasta restaurant, and he was part of setting up their first location.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Self-belief and what drives it
• Mentorship and how to find mentors
• What food is all about
• Horror stories
• Being the idiot in the room
• Getting started
• How tough the restaurant business is

You can check out the episode here.

Perspective

S&ME 500

Many successful people attribute their success to investing in themselves.

We’re constantly looking for the next way to make a quick buck, and the most surefire way to make more money is to acquire more skills.

The skills and lessons you learn are the only things that can’t be taken away from you.

Let’s put that into perspective.

Say you’re earning minimum wage in the US - $7.25 an hour or around $15K a year.

It’s going to be really tough for you to save up for retirement on that salary, so the only option is to earn more.

There are night courses or certifications that can automatically increase your minimum wage by just completing it.

There are many different courses in any profession, but that’s the important part. You’ve got to take control and pick a direction.

If you’re into helping people and nursing there’s a short course for that.

Interested in teaching, do a TEFL course.

Interested in sports do a coaching certification.

Many of these courses can start at $200 and possibly double your income on completion.

Investing $200 in the S&P 500 compounds at about 8% and you’re not going to double your money in years.

Think about it.

Don’t hesitate to invest in yourself.

You deserve it.

Tool

Descript

Descript is an AI-assisted video and podcast editor.

I don’t have a subscription with them, but after looking into them more to write this, I think I might just pull the trigger.

I’ll focus on the podcast features, but they also have some video-only tools that can be helpful.

What it does:

• Transcription

• Filler word removal


• Overdub


• AI Green Screen

• AI Eye Contact

• Studio Sound

• Stock Library

I have access to some of these features with the current tools I use, but not all of them.

The ones that stand out to me are the AI green screen, filler word removal, and overdub.

The videos of my podcast aren’t exciting, because I don’t have the time to edit the videos.

I assume AI green screen can do this and help you edit your videos to make them more entertaining.

Overdubbing is also impressive. If you mess up a word or two in your podcast, you can just type in the correct word in the editor. The AI will be trained on your voice and it will sound like you’re saying the word.

And I used to spend a lot of time on filler word removal and to be honest, I gave up.

If this can remove all of the Ums and Ahs, that would save me a lot of time.

The two paid plans are $12 and $24 a month and they vary on how much you can use each tool.

I’m considering it.

What do you think?

Consume (Read / Watch / Listen)

How to Stay Poor Forever

Alex Hormozi has delivered this information on a few platforms, but when I saw it on LinkedIn I decided to share it with you.

This post is a simple, great reminder of all the excuses and stories we tell ourselves about not getting started.

I love referring back to it, and I hope you will too.

Here it is:

How to stay poor forever:

- Start tomorrow.
- Read books. Do Nothing.
- Take advice from poor people on how to get rich.
- Pick a spouse who makes you feel guilty about working.
- Fail once, quit forever.
- Blame your circumstances.
- Blame other people.
- Expect the government to save you.
- Value the opinions of others over your own.
- Complain.
- Think the world is fair.
- Avoid discomfort.
- Tolerate mediocrity.
- Make promises. Break promises.
- Wait for perfect conditions.
- Prioritize looking rich over being rich.
- Avoid working on what matters most.
- Stay busy. Accomplish nothing.
- Say you're going to do something. Don't do it.
- Do what the 99% do. Expect to be the 1%.
- Do "your best" rather than "whatever it takes".
- Talk more. Do less.
- Start something new today. Start something new tomorrow. Repeat.
- Make mistake. Repeat mistake.
- Find something that works. Stop doing it.
- Assume you're always right.
- Always take it personally. Then, get emotional.
- Increase your income. Increase your expenses even more.
- Stay undecided.
- Compare yourself to people poorer than yourself to feel better.
- Do what everyone else is doing. Expect to get something different.
- Do things to make everyone else happy.
- Value entertainment over education.
- Show up late, or not at all.
- Never prepare.
- See someone make a mistake. Do the same thing.
- Think that someone has to lose money for you to make money.
- Believe what people say more than what they do.

Here’s the LinkedIn post and the video version.

Concept

Rogerian Rhetoric

Rogerian Rhetoric is a way to communicate.

It’s named after the guy who came up with it, psychologist Carl Rogers.

The point of it is to create a mutual understanding between those trying to communicate.

The goal is to seek solutions and find common ground, not win an argument.

How does it work?

It’s basically all about acknowledging the listener’s perspective. This shows that you understand them and empathize with them.

Then you introduce your perspective, focusing on the shared concerns and interests.

This creates a positive atmosphere for dialogue.

By showing that you're listening to them and understanding your point of view, you’re more likely to actually reach a conclusion.

Often we find ourselves focusing on getting our point across and not listening to the opposing argument.

No progress is made and those involved could end up upset.

If you’re debating, try this out.

You might be surprised at what happens.

Let me know if you do!

Thanks for Reading

Now start something!

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