 Good morning everybody. Welcome. It is Tuesday morning. It is what is it? The 30th? Close to the end of the month. We're almost into April. Can you believe we went through 2020 and we're already this deep into 2021? It's craziness. It is craziness. Well, welcome everybody. Feel free to put your suggestions, comments, questions, remarks, whatever in that chat box. If you're not listening to this live and you haven't subscribed, you got to do so, man. You got to subscribe. Hit that big subscribe button and ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified every time I upload a video, every time I go live. I just want to welcome everybody. I do these live trainings. I guess they're trainings, a question and answers, whatever you want to call them. Just about every morning now. Loud and clear. Thank you so much, Paul, for letting me know so that you guys can, you know, start running, grow online businesses. I want to see more and more people do this. I fear for those people who don't use the internet. I really do because I think a lot of, in fact, I know a lot of jobs are going to be going away and you're going to be left in the dust. So, you know, if you don't get answers from me, get them from somebody because your job is in jeopardy. I don't care what you do. What's going on, James Brane? Good to see you, buddy. I don't care what you do. Technology is coming for your job. There's no stopping it. You know, I went into a fast-food place the other day, McDonald's, and I don't go very often, but I did go in there and they only had one cash register in there and they had one person behind it because everything else was just kiosk. They're doing away with human beings. Everything's getting... Oh, my phone's talking to me here. Everything is getting used up by technology and it makes sense because it saves a lot of money. So, I thought it would be fitting today that I talk about electronics, what kind of electronics I use, what kind that you guys could use. Let me switch my screen here a little bit. There we go. And I could let you know how I stay kind of organized. I mean, I'm not perfectly organized. I don't want to represent that, but I'm pretty organized and the way I've set things up, it makes me really easy to run my life. Now, you can go down the road of are you an Apple user or are you an Android user? I'm definitely Apple and I want to give you some good reasons for that. Now, let's see. When you started out, how much did you budget for technology? I didn't have any money. I'll be honest with you. I had a desktop computer that was a Dell and I bought that on credit and then I invested $100 on my credit card for some inventory. That was it. I didn't have it. If you have it, today will be a good day for you because I'm going to talk to you about a lot of different things that we do use that really helps our company run smooth, I guess you could say. And there's a lot of working parts. When I look back, that's a good question, but when I look back and I see what I did then and what I do now, it's like night and day different. It really is. James said, had another hard time finding today's live stream. I wonder why. The easiest thing to do, James, is just to go to my channel and it will show the upcoming live stream right there and you just click on it. That's what I do as far as the comments here. I just go to the channel and then I click on the upcoming live stream. That's the simplest way to do it. So yeah, I would suggest that. So why do I like Apple? So many reasons. I think I like Apple more for the fact that I know everything's going to work for a long time. That's my probably number one thing, is when I buy an Apple product, I know it's going to work for a long time. So I think your organization is good, but your discipline and habits allow you to run smoothly. Man, it's hard to be disciplined. I'm not kidding you guys. You know, my wife and I were working out yesterday. When I first met her, she didn't work out. She didn't do that stuff. She was like, I hate to admit it, she was 26 when we first met. And she's going to be 39 this year. So we've been together for a little while and we have a little bit of an age difference. But the thing is, we were talking about working out and how uncomfortable it was and how difficult it was. And it seems kind of appropriate because after we were talking about that, I saw somebody post online and basically it said, life is difficult. Life is really difficult. And you've got to quit expecting it to be easy. It's not going to be easy. So as soon as you realize it's difficult, as soon as we realize that it's difficult to work out, then you can do it and go, well, yeah, it doesn't feel good. It hurts. It's hard to do. So you do have to realize that this is the only way you're going to have success is that you're going to do hard things. You're going to do difficult things. Now today I'm talking about technology. So we're trying to make it a little easier, but it's still hard. Still hard. It's not easy. This is why I lose followers because they look at me and go, well, I want to be told it's easy. I want to be told I can make a million dollars and work three hours a week. You can't. You can't. There's nobody that does that. Show me one person. Show me one person that, and I'm not saying somebody who's built up a huge business and then they step back a little bit and, you know, reap the rewards of it. I'm talking about somebody who starts out and automatically can work three hours a week and make a million dollars a year. I don't, there is no person like that. They don't exist. Doesn't happen. How much of a learning curve was there switching from PC to Apple? You know, that was a big thing, Paul, because I looked at it and my wife at the time had an iPhone and she had a Apple computer, excuse me, she didn't have an iPhone. She had an Apple computer and I was watching her and I looked at the operating system and I looked at how it works. I'm like, I don't want to do that. I mean, I like Windows. I don't want to do all that. That looks difficult to me. Once again, difficult things are good for you. And once I got into it, it was pretty darn easy. It wasn't hard at all and it did so many more things to me. So let me kind of give you an overview of what I use, okay? Right now, I'm broadcasting on a MacBook Pro. I bought in 2019 and the computer I had before that was Mac Air that I had bought in 2013. So for six years, I used the Air. It didn't really have any problems. The only problem with it was that I was running out of storage space, so I had issues like that, but it wasn't broken. It still worked. I still used it, but I bought this MacBook Pro. Now, I also have an iPhone right here, got an iPhone. Okay, there's, oh, there's a picture of the house, guys. You want to see what's going on with the house right there? There it is. There's our house right now. I just got some pictures from the project manager yesterday. But so I have this iPhone. This is an iPhone 11. Now, every two years, I will upgrade my phone every two years. Some people say, we don't need to and you could keep the old one probably, but I like all the new stuff. So I do that. I also use, and you will see it right here, this iPad right here. Okay, so I'm actually watching myself on the iPad right now as I talk. A little bit of a delay. You can see the, me holding up the phone right there. And I use this to talk to you guys so that I can put some notes in here. And I also use the Apple Watch. Okay. Now, here's the cool thing. If I put an appointment on my computer here, okay, or my iPad, or my watch, or my phone, it's on all of them. It's on all of them. Now, to some people, they go, well, of course, that's the way it works. I think that technology is amazing. I just think it's amazing. If I see a phone call coming in on my wristwatch here, I can actually hit the button and talk to my watch. Dick Tracy like, right? That's pretty cool stuff. But I can also say, well, I don't want to talk on my watch because the problem with talking on the watch is everybody around you can hear your phone conversation. So I may choose to pick up my phone. Okay. Now, I like all of these things because no matter what I do, it's automatically put in another spot. I like Apple also because of support. The support is amazing. It's funny because I had some reason I had to go into one of those Microsoft stores. I had some type of program on my Apple computer and had something to do with Microsoft. I can remember what it was. And the service was horrible. It was abysmal. I dealt with three different people. They were disorganized. They didn't know what to do. I mean, the whole vibe of the place was that of disorganization. And then the one person started complaining about working for them and what a crappy company they were to work for. And I was like, wow, I don't hear this when I go into an Apple store. When I go into an Apple store, they're really upbeat. They love it. They said that they could work the hours they want. They have tons of benefits. They're totally happy. And I think the attitude of employees for a company kind of give you a feel of what the company's like too. And the funny thing is I could take my Mac Air that was six years old and I could pull up Apple and they still helped me with support. They didn't go, oh, you're out of warranty. We can't help you. You need to buy a support package. They never did that. They just always helped me out. So I kind of like that too. So let's see. What else do we got here? Do you use any technology to speed up your processes like an expanded video card or updated router house looking hot? Thank you for the comfort of the house. Yeah, we do have, I guess it's a repeater for our Wi-Fi in the house. Now the Wi-Fi in our house is the highest level you can get. So it's the fastest Wi-Fi available that you can get to your home. And then we have an extender repeater, whatever you want to call it, in the mid part of the house to make sure that we have coverage throughout the house. The new house I'm sure we're going to have to do the same thing. We need that fast speed because I often download videos all day long and when I do that it's just required. Today, so you know, and I'm going to talk about some of the other equipment in just a second. I'll be finishing up my scripts. Tomorrow I'm going to be recording all day long. 12 to 13 videos will be have to be recorded to give them to my video editor so that I can stay up to speed. What do you think of Kartra customer service? I think it's pretty darn good. I'm pretty happy with it. I knew Andy Jenkins and I know his wife Sarah who run it now and well literally Sarah's a friend on Facebook so I could send her a message if I ever had a problem. I wouldn't do it. But the other guy in there and I can't remember his name that it runs Kartra. He's really helpful in the group. I could send him a direct message and he would answer me right back so I don't have any problems. None. Now I don't do that. I don't take advantage of that fact that I know these people. I usually use their support and put in a ticket and do all that kind of stuff. But I would say without question within 12 to 24 hours I have everything worked out and I think you know support is twofold. Support is for people who are brand new to something and they don't know how to use it. And then it's also I guess for people who don't have a high level of technology. I don't use support much because I know how to use everything and it's not a problem for me. I don't have any question. I'll tell you most people go to support too quick. You can pretty much just go into Google and put Kartra integration strike and you're going to find an article. You're going to find a video on it. You don't need to use support. You can get instantaneous answers to your questions on most things. So I've covered the phone. I've covered the iPad. I've covered my laptop. Now I'm not going to kid you between all these things here. That's thousands of dollars. It's thousands of dollars. This laptop here I think was three or four thousand dollars and I know this was like twelve hundred dollars. This iPad here was six or seven hundred dollars. This watch is five hundred dollars. It's not cheap. Okay. It's not cheap. You don't have to go to this level in the beginning just because I'm telling you what I use doesn't mean you have to use it. Now I'm going to get into a little bit more technology. I also have this microphone right here which is a Rode NTSB and I use this for recording any type of audio stuff I do and it's got the nice armoid and all that. Let me get this out of the way. In addition to that when I'm doing videos I have lights okay up above me and I really can't show it to you but there's two strip lights. Oh I'm just knocking it off. Two strip lights that go across here. I have a round light right here. I forgot what it's called. A circle light. I don't know. Then I've got these newer lights and I don't mean like as a new. They're called N-E-W-R newer lights. I've got one, two, three, three, three of those going on now. So three, four, five, six different lights to light everything up so that it looks and then see it just looks normal. It doesn't look like I'm all lit up but if you were to walk in this room you'd say oh my god that room is really bright. The thing with filming videos is you've got to over light everything. Overlight it and it needs to be on the side of the front not behind you. Backlight is really bad. So if you're like in front of a window and the sunlight's behind you your face is gonna look terrible it just is. So that's some of the electronics I use. Let me check out some more of these questions here. What upgrades to new home are you looking at equipment wise for the other hardware? Where do you like to shop best buy Amazon or Fry? Fry went out of business. Fry closed every single store there is as of last month. They're done. You know I for my electronics you know if I'm buying lights and stuff like that there's a nice camera store that I go to. I bought my ring light that ring light that's what it's called. It's a couple ring lights. I bought my ring light and there I buy some stuff on Amazon. I'm a real comparison shopper. I mean I'm real comparison. I mean when I go into the grocery store I've got the grocery store app. I'm looking for the specials. I'm really a comparison shopper. I don't ever clip coupons. I just not a thing. I think it's a total waste of time to do stuff like that but if I've got an app for like bonds which is in California and it's got like you get double points on meat or you know you get three dollars off on any meat purchase I'm using it man I'm all over it. So I'm really big on that type of thing. I comparison shop whether it's this electronics from my office here. This microphone I actually drove down to Chula Vista and bought because it was the best deal and I wanted to talk to somebody about it and get their input on this microphone and I don't use this microphone for these lives. It doesn't seem to work as well but when I'm recording just clean audio like for one of my courses or something like that it's amazing for that. Let me get a little sip here of something. I got water and I got the tea. I am your big fan sir. Oh that's very nice. That is Sahil Khan and tell me where you're at. Sahil want to hear from you buddy where are you at? I am from India that was quick. I guess you were already typing that. I am from India and I went to online business India to USA. You can certainly do it. You can do it anywhere in the world. This is what amazes me. People are going to crappy jobs every day doing things they hate doing and they can make money online. I was sitting next to my wife last night and I got an alert on my phone that somebody bought something and it was $1,406 and I just looked at and I said is this amazing or what? I'm sitting here eating dinner and somebody just sent me $1,406 as I'm eating dinner. Now that's not the only sale I made yesterday but it was this one that I called out to her and I said this is kind of amazing that I can make money like this and I'm not doing anything. Now I'm not saying I didn't do anything because I worked and I had to work to get that product out there and marketing and blah, blah, blah, blah, but the point is once you have this stuff set up, once you have this technology set up, it all works for you. It interfaces for you which is pretty darn amazing. Let's see here. Do you use my Simon for comparison shopping? I do not. I don't know about my Simon and I guess I don't go overboard on it. I mean you can really go overboard on some of this shopping comparison but I just, I do my best. I do my best. I don't use any extra apps. I do, however, use a lot of apps and I'll give you an indication of this. Okay, let me see here. Excuse me. So this is one page of apps. That's another, that's another, that's another, that's another, that's another, that's another, and that's another, and that's another. So I have a few apps, right? I got a few apps but they're super helpful. Let's see here. Paul says, do the overhead lights provide a lot of fill lighting as they full spectrum lighting? I really hate the fluorescent lighting. Do you think fluorescent lighting affects video quality? Yeah, I don't like fluorescent lighting. These, I can't remember what they're called. They're like these strip lights and I don't know if I could get a picture of these to show you guys. I guess it would be helpful if I did. Let me just take a picture of these. I can't really do it. Let me see if this helps you out. And you can kind of see what I'm using here. I'm going to send these to my computer if I can find it. I'm not able to send it but I could probably just show you the picture. So this is what that light above my head looks like. You can kind of see that there, picture of my house next to it. So that's what I have above my head. And let me see if I can get another picture of these other lights here guys. This may be helpful to you if you're trying to figure this out. This is a picture of the ring light. Excuse me. My throat is always tough in the morning. That's a picture of the ring light and the newer light and that newer light that went to square one you see right there. I've got those surrounding me right now. So back to the electronics thing. The reason I also like Apple is there's so many other things that help and enhance my life. Like this watch here is my fitness tracker. I set it for 700 calories a day and I have to get to that 700 calories every single day. I just have to do it. It's a requirement for me. Now sometimes I'll look at it and I'm like I need 110 calories more and I go grab the dog and go for a walk around a couple blocks or I'll jump on the stationary bike and I can sync my workout on here like it has an activity thing on here and I can pick you know indoor cycle outdoor walk functional strength training whatever I want and I hit that and then it calculates all the calories. So it's not just business. It's not always just business and social. I like that too. It does a lot of social things for me. So I'm pretty set up. I know nothing about Android. I know that about four years ago I was like you know what I'm going to give me one of Samsung smartphones. I think that's going to be fine and I had that thing for about three weeks and I called up Verizon and I said I can't do this. I need to go back to Apple. I hate this thing. I hate this thing. I really do and they were like well you can't because you have to wait two years. I was like why? And they said well because you can't upgrade it would cost you like a thousand dollars to go back to Apple. I said take my thousand dollars. I'm going back to Apple. I'm not going to put up with this for two years. I'm not doing it. See I love the links you have below that you show the product you use. Thanks for your research. Yeah I do and I do try to put that below guys. So in this video like right now there's no description. It won't be until I end the video. When I end the video there are links to pretty much a lot of the stuff I use in my office so that you guys can click on it and go use this stuff too and get good results from it. Do you have any questions about electronics or how I use this stuff? And I didn't get into like my online stuff because I did that the other day when I talked about file storage. But all these things also sync like my Dropbox syncs with my phone so you know it makes it really easy to pull up any files I need or anything like that. It keeps my phone real clean because I can send it to the cloud real quick and same thing with my iPad, same thing with my MacBook Pro. And the other thing about these is they just don't break. They don't break. You know we talk about support and getting support. The best thing about support is having a product or having a service that you don't need support but it's not an issue okay. And I get some support tickets but they're pretty rare. I got one yesterday that was pretty interesting and where is the guy that sent me the support ticket yesterday? James I believe was his name and he sent me two support tickets. He's asking about the price of one of my courses and he says how many months till it ends? Of course I gotta let him know it doesn't end you know as long as you're a member you gotta pay. And do you have any reviews online I can read that are not related to your company which makes no sense why he's buying for my company but he says can you be found on the BBB? Better Business Bureau. I used to think the Better Business Bureau was worthwhile and as I grew up I found out it's one of the biggest scams in the world. The way the Better Business Bureau works is if you want a good rating you pay the fee. You pay to be a member and you're going to get yourself a good rating okay. And if you don't pay the fee they allow whatever bad stuff they can to happen to you because you're not a member you haven't you haven't paid your protection money that's how the Better Business Bureau works. And he says sorry but I've lost thousands on gurus no offense just trying to be safe with my money sir and this is from James and I understand that there's there's a lot of ripoffs out there. However I also had somebody buy one of my courses the other day and said oh my gosh I bought your course I know I'm going to make a lot of money and I said no no no buying my course does not make you a lot of money do not think that buying my course will give you the tools you need to make money but you're going to have to work and I told her I said my course is not going to make you anyone not a dime it's your effort that's going to make you money and she said well I've got a good work ethic so that's not going to be a problem that's fine all I do guys is I give you information you have to implement it you know if you go through and read everything I've ever written if you watch every single video I've ever done your income will not increase one dime not one dime you don't hear that do you it's just the truth you have to do things you have to work all I do is provide you the information it's like me handing you a hammer and a saw and you're going oh great I've got a house now no you don't you've got to use those tools if you don't use those tools they don't make any difference if I tell you about all these electronics here you go out buy all the electronics I've got and you go away I'm not rich yet well no there's these are just tools these are just tools now when I record tomorrow in addition to these things I have a DSLR mirrorless mirrorless camera you can look that up in fact I think I have a link in the description they're expensive they go from the you know the 600s into the thousands of dollars but it's a great camera for me recording my videos so I use that and then on top of that I use an external microphone I use a lavalier sign house or microphone it's like 650 dollars because I'm telling you about these and because these things are expensive that that doesn't prevent you from doing any of this you could use your iPhone period and if you want a microphone you can get a wired one which I have that in the description also see here I thank god my son is heavy into computers I think you mean my son so he could help me when I get the blue screen of death a son currently working on computational neuroscience I don't know what that is Verizon now has a program for 25 dollars a month technicians will repair any of your cell phones computers iPads etc wow I didn't know that that's pretty cool but I gotta tell you I never have any repairs nothing I buy the protection on this in case I break it or lose it or something like that so I do have the monthly protection I don't know what that is 8 bucks 10 bucks I think we worry too much about that stuff I want all my electronics totally protected because I can't afford to go down I cannot afford to go down when I got this MacBook Pro it died it died about a year after I got it I had no idea why it just died and I went right over to my Mac Air that I had had for years that I bought in 2013 and I was back and running because I had to actually ship it out I couldn't take it to a location at the time so I had to ship out my MacBook scary scary you know what it's like to put your entire business in a box and to ship it away I mean that's scary stuff guys that's I love that I can respect you for being both honest and great servant leader entrepreneur coach well I appreciate that it's very kind of you know I'm just telling you the fact you know I'm just that's it the fact but I will tell you this the fact is that in 2009 I started selling online and to this day I've got money in the bank which is nice I don't have any bills no car payments none of that stuff and I'm building a beautiful home and the reason I tell you this is not to brag I tell you this because you can do the same thing I'm no different than you were we're saying we're just two human beings got arms and legs and a mouth and eyes and all these things and some of some others don't even have that and and they're successful online but the point is anybody can do this stuff and I share with you all these things I'm using in case you're interested maybe you want to use it maybe you know maybe you say hey JR uses that maybe I'll use it but you know what you can do all this with Android too this is just my preference this is just me sharing with you what I do doesn't mean you got to do it you could do your own thing you can do your thing that's okay the things I will tell you that you do have to do is number one you're not going to want to hear this exercise if you're not exercising and you're listening to me you're not listening you've got to exercise guys you've got to I don't want to do it my wife doesn't want to do it my son is crazy he does want to do it he's one of those guys that let me say if I can pull him up I'll give you an example of what my son is right now let's see here Patrick but that's the first thing you got to do over and above all of the electronics and courses and all those things you have to exercise required all right so that is my son he likes to exercise okay I don't necessarily want to exercise he likes to exercise he's 20 what will he be this year I think 20 this is terrible 24 27 he'll be 27 next month he'll be 27 years old actually a few days April 8th but the point is you got to exercise that's that's over and above every single thing else you do exercise why is that because if you're not healthy you can't do anything I'm telling you to do you cannot do anything I'm telling you to do if you're not healthy which means you have to exercise now up to about the age of 25 I'm just arbitrarily picking a number maybe you don't have to exercise maybe up to the age of 25 you stay pretty healthy but I'm going to tell you after that you start to decline you're going to decline some at 30 you're going to decline more at 40 you're going to decline more at 50 and it's 60 and 70 and 80 and if you're not exercising you can't do anything I'm telling you if you're not healthy you won't feel like doing anything I'm telling you if you feel good and you feel healthy and you're strong then the next thing you got to do is have a good work ethic motivation wears off motivation wears off motivation is when you feel like doing stuff you're motivated to do stuff and that's great that you have that every now and then that won't make you successful what's going to make you successful is self-discipline and hard work okay motivation goes out the window when you don't feel like doing something when you don't feel like it then you aren't going to do it okay your motivation is gone you can't keep motivation all the time but you can keep work ethic you can say this is the kinds of things I'm going to do every day no matter how I feel no matter how I feel I'm going to go work hard I'm going to do these every day this is what I'm going to do so every morning I come in here and I talk to you guys how long will I do it I don't know I don't know I feel like it's helping some people now and that's what I want to do is I want to help you guys out as long as it's helping you as long as you respond back and you say hey I like that I got something out of that I'll probably keep doing it as soon as I don't hear that that I'm going to be off and do something else I can do that now which is nice let's see here James Breen says be patient your Apple computer will eventually die or your Apple won't upgrade I love all my all in one Apple wouldn't upgrade now it's parked in the attic okay that's cool you know to each their own right James I love the fact that both the lives and pre-recorded are providing so much value but like you always say take action action's it man you know it's like I always hear these people like they'll say jr I got this great idea for this product or this app this website or whatever but they'll say what do you think of it and I'll say I don't know try it oh I don't know man I don't want to try it unless I'm sure it's going to work really you're never going to be an entrepreneur because you've got to try things all the time that don't work I was looking at some my ad yesterday and some of them were terrible they're terrible and some of them are crushing it so I know certain things aren't going to work I try all kinds of things all the time but the few that do work make me enough money to make up for all the things that don't work that's the way it is if you can't handle things not working out you'll never make it as an entrepreneur you need to go get a job you need to just go get a job and you're going to have frustrations there too so you really there's there's no running from frustrations this it doesn't exist you're going to have frustrations uh see motivation is temporary and being inspired with a mission and purpose gets your feet on the floor who dares wins very nice Paul very well said um and I'll leave you with this guys motivation is not success success is motivation and let me let me explain it to you this way if you go and you do nothing and you wait for motivation it's rarely going to show up but if you go and try 10 things and eight of those things fail but two of them are wildly successful how do you feel now about those successful things you feel motivated don't you because success is the key to motivation if you try a whole lot of things if you use the work ethic and try a whole lot of things you'll get some successes and those are the things that will motivate you to keep going uh when I first started my survival food company I found one person one person that agreed to sell my food on their website I thought I was a hero and it it motivated me to call more and more businesses it motivated me to email more businesses and say hey sell my products on your website um that one guy did now here's a funny story about that one guy he never built a website he never sold any of my products but the thought that I had somebody that would sell my products motivated me it was like gosh I got somebody to do it I bet I could get more and I just kept going and kept going kept going kept going um and that's basically where motivation comes from motivation comes from success I can look back on successes and I say that motivates me you know uh yesterday I got to 120 push ups which was great and I do those just so you understand they aren't straight straight I do 40 seconds 40 seconds 40 seconds and I think the first one I did like 42 and then I did 38 and then I did 40 and that totaled 120 and man was I motivated afterwards during I was not motivated during I was in pain during I wanted to quit during I didn't like it I was uncomfortable but afterwards I was motivated after I had done something motivation will often come after you do something not prior to doing it work ethics going to make you try things and when you try things and you succeed that's going to motivate you to do it again or do more of it so I just want to kind of leave you with that today see Paul says have a plus week a head gang got a bounce dreams without actions stay dreams they do uh hey if you like this training guys do me a favor put the chat section you like it uh put in there any comments you have if you have suggestions for other subjects you want me to talk about uh put that in the chat section if you're watching this and it's not live you caught me a week later you caught me a day later make sure you subscribe below and bring the bell turn on all bell notifications so you're notified every time I do a video every time I go live if you think this video can help somebody else please share with them take the link at the top copy it send it to somebody and say hey I think this could help you out um that would be really really nice if you did that let me put a little comment in here I love each and every one of you guys period thanks for being here I really appreciate your attention period okay so I'll put my comment in there you guys have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow