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Hello Folks,\xa0\nThis is Jake J. Thomas bringing you another episode of Dialogic two days before the end of the year, going to be easing into 2019. What kinds of challenges will we face, what kinds of opportunities? Now is a time for reflecting about that. I said last podcast how good I feel about going into 2019. From being a dad to working with creatives, I really enjoy my life and love how I make a living. This whole industry is so interesting and it\u2019s a powerful time to be a creative. I look forward to making the most of it as much of the time as possible. Waves have been good, but I haven\u2019t been on it as I\u2019ve been sick and getting ready for the new year.\nFinally, I was able to do a full workout and broke into a really strong sweat. I ended up doing 60 minutes yesterday and today doing 720 pushups and 720 squats. I want to get to 1000 each but in 50 minutes and if I can do that every day as just a core of my fitness then I feel confident that I can be a force to reckon with in the years to come.\nI\u2019m on an interesting self-reflective kick, but I don\u2019t want to let it veer into narcissism. I\u2019m not doing this because I love the way I sound; it\u2019s a tool of self-reflection and improvement. I think that podcasts are going to be an increasingly important tool for businesses to share their stories with the public, so I think that this experience is critical in being able to help others. I\u2019m sharing some of the technical aspects of my podcast as a map or a challenge to you. Do a half-hour podcast a day with free form but limited to 30 minutes and then you play back that podcast and you write about what you hear what you think about what comes across as interesting and then you use that writing as the description in the YouTube video, for a blog post, as the podcast description. It\u2019s a way of being self-reflective: it\u2019s a way of learning to speak what you mean and to mean what you speak. The act of communicating in front of the public creates apprehension that can play tricks on you and cause glitches of consciousness because you\u2019re insecure about it. But with that feedback loop you can improve quickly.\xa0\nWhat are you working on for 2019?\xa0\nHalf an hour recording, half an hour listen/ write/ upload. In one-hour you create a video and audio podcasts but you also generate copy. You have a page long blog, a description for your podcast, 20 tweets, three Instagram captions, and maybe more. It\u2019s a very generative thing. When you set that as a goal for yourself you start to think about things in a different way, trying to make the connections stronger, finding the thing that you want to talk about because you know that you\u2019re going to have to talk about something. This kind of self-reflective activity can really be transformative both because it provides a space for reflection and because it inspires a shift in consciousness from passive to actively looking for subjects.\nIt also pushes you to come up with tactics for when you can\u2019t think of any content. There are categories that you can invent that you can always turn to and use for a day\u2019s content.\xa0\nThe reflective loop helps you to see what is working and what isn\u2019t. It pushes you to be honest about how you really are. It\u2019s one of the reasons why fitness is so important, because you can\u2019t really fake it. You\u2019ve either done the work or not. If you have done enough work, then your body is an amazing machine that can do more than you could imagine. That\u2019s reason enough to keep committed to a physical routine. It\u2019s like the runner\u2019s high: that moment of space that\u2019s created by the endorphins from running where you can focus your mental activity and reflect on your reality from a different perspective.\xa0\nIt\u2019s all about finding these practices that will generate movement and will encourage self-reflection and transformation. To use it to drive ourselves in a positive direction, to give ourselves momentum to endure any storms we might encounter.\n\n--- \n\nSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jake-j-thomas/support