822. Simplify Success: Read More, Think Clearer, and Speak Better In Minutes Each Day

3, 2, 1. Let's get it. Welcome to another episode of what's your problem, the podcast where we explore the skills of communication, curiosity, creativity, continuous learning, and action and productive confrontation. To tackle. The universal problems. Of adversity, uncertainty and complacency. That way you'll be RFA. You'll be ready for anything. You can handle the adversity, embrace the uncertainty. and never settle again. I'm your host Marsh Buice if you've been here a time or 10 man, welcome back. And this is your first time here. I'm so happy to meet you. And I hope that you'll continue back. And today, man, we're going to dive into a topic. It's very, very close to my heart. It's the thing that actually. Saved my life. But also put me back on the path to success. And it's three things that, you know, we really don't think a lot about. And that's reading. Writing. And speaking. And these three skills are my ride or die. They are ultimately the pillars. That have supported me. Through thick and thin. Turning my dreams. Into a reality. And now they can do the same for you. No matter where you find yourself. In life's journey. Isn't that crazy to think. That the act of reading. Writing and speaking. Can change everything in your life. And it's so true. And I hope by the end of this episode, You'll begin to embrace these acts and the cadence. And the ideas that I'm going to bring to you. What's good about reading, writing and speaking, you can copy my cadence. Or you can begin to do your own. But I will say this. Just pick something and roll with it. It's going to have many, many evolutions. the way that I read, write, and speak. Have really changed. Putting a thumbnail on the speaking part I posted. Episode 6 34. The other day on my Instagram story. And it was a, it was a snippet from it. And the difference between episode 6 34. You know, episode eight, 900. Is drastically different. One was back in 2021. And two years later. The way that I deliver the message is different. And I was almost like when I posted it. I was like, I really don't know if I want people to listen to the old stuff. But the old stuff has gotten me to the new stuff. And so I think it's, it's really cool. That you can draw a parallel and hopefully you can distinguish a difference. The ideas are good. But the way that I deliver them. Are different. And. Again, I hope by the end of this episode, that you will see, you don't have to have a podcast to be able to read, write, and speak. I just use the podcast as a platform. To be able to get my ideas out there and the podcast. Actually helps make me accountable because I have another episode. I got to go back to the lab. I got to go back to the books. I got to go back to the pad, the legal pad. And then I got to go back to speaking. I share these things. And I try to do them every single day. So, let me break down these practices. Why they're more than just skills. They're actually daily rituals that you can align the universe in your favor. Universe is sitting there. Is Wu was that may sound. The universe is waiting for a command from you. But if you don't say nothing. The universe gives you nothing. You just get the scraps. But now through the act of reading, you can expand your mind to new ideas. You get out of the notion of a, know it all and become a no at all. I don't know at all, there's more, so much more out there. The act of writing. Actually. Contextualizes new thoughts. Exposes Me to a new narrative. And then the act of speaking. Is the thing, man, that sets the world in motion. If the world was spoken to existence, then I want to speak my world. The world that I want to see into existence. And I don't want to just lay there. And just get punched while I'm on the ground, because I'm not speaking it into existence. So the universe, as you do this, these practices, these rituals, this is why it's so sacred to me. I'm telling you I'm living proof. That as you do this. Not in a microwave mindset that it takes time, but you just keep doing this because it just helps you through the day. It's a nourishment. It's manna. And you do this. Telling you bro. You're going to DM me. And you're going to be like, I had no idea. It's it's so key. So let me unpack these a little bit. So that way you can get started on this unique journey for yourself because reading. Writing and speaking will take you to your dreams. And beyond. The dreams that you have are kept. Based on what you think that you can achieve. And I'm all about shattering that and going above and beyond. So the first part is, is the reading. I get it. Most people don't like to read. But the reason why you don't like to read is because you've conditioned yourself to not liking, to read. I don't like doing squats. I've conditioned myself. That I don't like doing squats. But I still do them. Because I do realize as I age, I'm 50 now, as I get older, I don't want to have TT legs. I don't want to be all wobbly and I don't want to be in a Walker. So the exchange rate it's worth the pain it's worth doing the damn squats three days a week.'cause I got to have those big, strong legs going into. Into the, into the next half of my life, man. And so this is what reading is for you. These are your squats, man. These are your air squads. But look, I didn't read my first book cover to cover until I was 25 years old. And ironically, it was because I was trying to find a career change. I was working at the casino as a supervisor. in surveillance. And I was like, dude, I got to get out of this fucking rat race and do something different. And I, the first book I read was by Charles Roth, the secret of closing sales. Cause I wasn't sure if I could do sales or not. So I said, well, let me read this book, read the book. And I was ecstatic. I don't even remember what I read. I was just ecstatic that I read a book cover to cover, but that is the thing. That triggered me into getting into sales. Had I not read that book? Bro. I go to the casino, no shade on anybody who works at the casino. It just, that that season ended for me. And I still run into people that I've worked with. 26 years ago at the casino. And they're still there. It's because they haven't enlightened themselves. To something different again, if that is your career choice. Cool. But I guarantee you there's more that you could actually leverage those skills. To something more because the casino. Is a toxic environment. It really is. And those who have worked in the casino or are working in the casino altogether. Now let's not our heads. So look, you don't have to read a book cover to cover. I do read some books cover to cover. But I actually do more so random reading and the random reading is a primer for me. In the mornings, because my mornings are really, really compressed. I'm recording this just before I go to work. Is you, those of you who are watching on video, I'm dressed for work? A lot of times I jump home with just a t-shirt, but today I'm dressed because as soon as I hit the off button, Then I got to go to work. And so, you know, the, the reading is, is the primer for my compressed days. And so the 15 minutes of brand and reading. It, what it's going to do is it's going to get you primed. It's going to enlighten you, but you don't have to spend. Six hours like Warren, Buffett's sitting in the chair all day. He's a billionaire. He can do that. Me and you can't. But the act of reading. Is going to actually expand your mind, man. It's the pathway to the world's knowledge. There's so much out there. And reading just 15 minutes, 10 to 15 minutes, whatever you want to do. It's it's a way to slow down. Our fast paced minds. And expand our attention spans. That have been ended. By bite-sized content. Shorts, tick tock. dude you have like. Two seconds. To land an impact you on to the next thing. And we've become so add that we're just like skin. Out. If we have to be there in any place for 10 to 15 minutes, this is the ritual man that you got to start with because you got to train yourself 10 or 15 minutes, whether it be you're on the treadmill. And reading that. And I'm going to tell you this, I do a lot of audio content, but I'm telling you, I'll also want you to read as well, physically read because it exposes you to the knowledge. It slows the world down for just a few minutes. And also it exposed you to big words because I don't want you to be, middle-aged sounding out a big fucking word in front of people. That's embarrassing. So. I don't want you to do that. So there's some caveats to the random reading, to. And there's not huge and cumbersome or anything like that. You're going to find some sparks, man that you're going to end up. Finding other pockets of time and reading in the gaps where you're sitting there, your, your son is at soccer practice. And you can whip out your phone and your Kindle and you can knock out another chapter becomes a little bit of a competitive nature on that. So the way that I do the random reading. Um, is, and I've talked a lot of other in, through other episodes about this is. Is is you take just 10 to 15 minutes, go to the table of contents, find a chapter find a random book every day is a new book. Find a random book off the shelf or go to the bookstore. Our go to the library, check out seven books for the week. And. Read one chapter out of each one of those fine go to the table of contents. Find the chapter that most resonates with you. That just like peaks, your curiosity are as aligned with just what you were thinking about. You're going to be amazed at that. And then you read that one chapter. Boom, close the book. If you want to read more great. If you don't want to read more fine, if it applies to you. Great. And you're just looking for something that I read from meaning. That's what I do, something that means to me, which rolls me into my second point of the writing writing is so cathartic. I did a whole episode a few episodes ago. I don't know what the number is because I forgot to look it up before I got on here, but just go back a few episodes on how cathartic writing is writing. Man is my sanctuary. It is the place that nobody can get in. Nobody. And this is the time that I sit down and I, and I trick my mind by saying one page many times over the years, it is evolved to three or four pages. I set my timer for 20 minutes and I write whatever works for you. Start with one page, just fill one page. Now I get DMD all the time. Marsh, I don't know what to write about before I go to that. I like to use a legal pad versus a journal. I do have a journal. It's more intimate for me. The thing I don't like about a journal is slows me down because I have to hold that other side open while I write. And I don't like that. I don't like having to reposition a book. So I prefer a legal pad. Whatever works for you. If you want to use a three subject notebook, if you want to use a leather bound journal, doesn't matter to me, whatever, whatever gets get, get your rocks off. Go right ahead. I use a legal pad because there's no sides to it. So it doesn't interfere and I'm not having to move the thing around. And I'll also use a cover that not only protects the legal pad when I'm moving around, but also serves as a table. So that way I can set it down on my lap and begin to write, I can roll with it. Sometimes I'm sitting in the car and I write, sometimes I'm sitting on my desk and I write, and then it's always in the morning, I set that time aside to write one page, trick your mind into saying just one page. Now I get DMD all the time, back to my original. Point, what do I write about. I get DMD all the time about that. So here are a few things that I would encourage you to write about. Number one, the passage that you just wrote, that 15 minutes that you just set aside for the random reading. write What those words meant to you interpret it. Now, sometimes when you're in a funk, you may have to borrow someone else's voice until you get your own. So the act of taking segments of what you read about and writing that into your journal or legal pad is cool. But also I want to give you another challenge is don't write all that word for word, write what you need to word for word, but then interpret it. What does it mean to you? Because what's important is, is that not that you parrot it. But that you parrot it, you write it and then you conceptualize it. This is why I say writing and not typing typing. You're going to self-censor. Writing. Forces you to contextualize it forces you to pick up the pen and think, and look around and then put it into words because you're not just going to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A lot of times, if you record it initially, And you ma make that you're writing for the day. Which I'm gonna get to in a minute then you'll kind of ramble a little bit, a lot of the messages that I go back to listen to do kind of ramble, which brings me to my second point of the voice memo. Uh, app go to your voice memo app, keep it open all day long, capture anything that you read. Uh, anything that just randomness all through the day, you're not going to remember five minutes later, so captured in the moment. Plus you can capture the emotions that surround that. And this gives you a catalog of content to go back to every single morning. So what did you read about. Okay. What did you just come across in a magazine from a podcast, from YouTube video, from a conversation. I record takeaways from conversations that I have with my daughter on the way to school, because I'm like, bro, I get that. And then what I do is I have a catalog of content. I've got 3000 voice memos that I've left to myself and I go back in the mornings and I find something. If I didn't get anything in the random reading, then I go back to the voice memo app, and I still can check the box because I can write my one page. On something that sticks to my soul from one of my voice memos. The third thing that you can write about is the wilt. W I L T w I L T wilt what I learned today? If it's something that's a takeaway, that's an aha moment right. About that. And then lastly, Speaking. Can't stress this enough. It's not enough to read. It's not enough to write. You must be able to communicate this. You can't connect with a higher purpose until you learn to communicate that you got to speak it. You do. Do you do? And so it's taking the things that you read and it's taking the things that you write about it, what they mean to you. And then it's communicating that with the world. You must, this is going, it's not enough to do it for a job interview. You got to do this all the time. And the more you do this. The more you practice communication, the more efficient you are at being able to do it again, go back to some of my earlier episodes. They're drastically different. Good. Meaning. I just didn't deliver it well, but that's all I had at the time. And hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. Of episodes later. I've gotten better at it. And guess what? I'm a listen to episode eight 20. Two years from now. I'll be rocking on. I don't know. Uh, where does that come to seven? So I'm episode 1500. And I'm gonna go back to this episode and be like, I bet day, it sounded like it was a masterpiece. 800 episodes later, I'm going to go back and listen to it and be like, Like. That wasn't that good? That's what communication is for you. You gotta practice this thing. You can't connect. Unless you're able to communicate. So the communication aspect of it is taking what you read, it's taking what you wrote, what it means to you from your soul. And then sharing that now, where do I share that? If you want to start a podcast? Podcasts. Great DME. I'll be glad to help you set that up. If you want to do it more so in, in a blog and a static post. Great fine, write that that's cool. But I'm going to go one step further. I'm. Going to take you into uncomfortable land. Those of you who are shy on the camera. Because you can't be shy in the world and being able to make an impact and be able to get out of your funk. And get to a high level. You got. To look the world. And I, and you got to communicate your message without stumbling. This is what you got to do, but it takes practice. Takes. Takes practice. Luckily I'm in sales. So I have a lot of practice doing this. I deliver messages all day long. I tell stories all day long. I build stories. I have confrontation. I have negotiation. So I'm practicing all day long. That has become my adjacent possible. So when I was at the lowest point in my life and was demoted and suicidal, I started a podcast because I needed a way to communicate with myself once again, to get my myself back on track. This is why I say it's so powerful. This is why it's so intimate to me that I want to share with you of why the power of communication is so key because I am living proof that in the darkest. Most desperate moments, you can pull yourself out of the ditch, but you must read, write and you must communicate. So, how do you communicate better? Go to your stories wherever you like to hang out Facebook, Instagram, whatever. Go to those stories and begin delivering daily content based on what you read, just a few minutes of what it meant to you. Now there's a couple of different things you can do. You can. Uh, position it where it's only to your best friends. So you can pick best friends that are in your private group that won't, you know, talk about you, but I'm going to tell you this because I'm all about confrontation to. Because that's one of the five CS. Wide open. Don't censor it with close friends only. I'll give you 30 days after that wide open to the world, share it with the world. Communicate that with the world. The more you do this, the better you're going to get at it. Go back again. Go back to October. Uh, fourth, third. 2017 when Ole Marsh started the old podcast, go back to the oldest episode. And listen to how janky it was versus the episode that you're listening to. Now, it's going to be different. It's going to be different. That's progression. And that's what I want for you. So as we wrap up, man, let me leave you with three takeaways because I want this to be a work in podcast. That you can incorporate this into your daily life. Number one. You got to see these practices as, as daily rituals. These are, this is sacred ground. So carve out a little time, get up a little earlier and segment a little time. 10 10 minutes, random reading. I'd say 15, but 10 minutes at random reading. 20 minutes to write a page, but you can position these times, however you want to. So 15 minutes of random reading. 20 minutes. Of writing one page that's 35 minutes. And then another five minutes to communicate. It's 40 minutes and the communication aspect, man, you can, if you're pressed for time, you got 40 minutes in. Hey, I got to get off to work. Then communicate that message while you're, uh, well, let me not say that. Why are you going down the road? Once you get to a parking space. Then open up your phone, share it on your stories. And be sure and tag me in it. Cause I want to, I want to cheer you on, I want to hear how you're doing, man, and guess what? You're going to get better at it. Number two, seek progress, not perfection. I do retakes. I do, I do edits on my podcasts, but I do not, not ship because I didn't sound like the guy who's been doing this for 20 years. This is for you, man. It's not for anybody else. So do it for yourself, but the better you do this and you expose yourself to the world. It's going to open up connections. It's going to create new opportunities for you, and it's going to increase your confidence. Number three. Open yourself up to the magic of coincidence. This is truly magical. Do this. Make this a daily ritual. Do this every single day. Don't worry about the perfection focus on the progress, and you're going to see coincidence his lineup. You're going to read something and write about it and share it with the world. And throughout the day. The universe you take one step universe takes two. The universe is going to put something right across your path. That directly correlates to what you just wrote about, and you're gonna be like, holy fuck. I just wrote about that. Dude I'll have random conversations with people on like, Oh, my God. I just wrote about this today and because I wrote about it. And I spoke it. Now, when I speak to that person, I can communicate it better.'cause I just contextualized it. Efficiently. All right. Now saying that got great news. That I want to share with you if you need help. With the aspect. Of reading. Writing and speaking. I'm opening up registration. For cohort. Of like-minded individuals who want to read more. write better. And speak. Clearly inefficiently. This is the keys to success. Those three things. So it's a membership program. It's going to be only for 90 days after 90 days. You're going to be on your own. You don't need me anymore. If you want to re-enroll for the next one. Fine. And I've made it super affordable. It's $99 a month and it's for three months. So for $300, you get two every single week. Sit with me and a group of other like-minded individuals. And we're going to work on the aspects of the things that have worked for me. We're going to work on how to read better and takeaways, how to grasp these things, how to write it. And we're going to share our writings and we're going to bounce these ideas off. I'm telling you, man, you've. And then you're going to start connecting. With other people, because we're going to be communicating. And so I'm excited to bring this to you. And like I said, I've made it super affordable. I'm segmenting an hour. Uh, every week for the next 90 days that we can all get together and make this happen. So I hope that you'll see this as a great investment. And like I said, after 90 days, man, you're on your own. Uh, you should be on your own. I just want to get the flywheel going there. I want to get the sparks rolling after that, bro. You got the wings take flight from there. All right. So if you're interested in that and you want to sign up DME, I'll send you the link we'll get you registered for it. And, uh, I'll let you know when the, uh, when the date cracks open, once we, uh, once we build a force up. So I'm looking for, it's going to be a small class. Really? My initial thoughts is probably no more than 25 to 30 people. And as I don't want it to be so large that we can't get to a large portion of you guys. So we're going to keep it small and again, cause it's 90 days. If you miss the first 90 days, no problem. We'll come back around for another cycle the next time around. And this is just a way because I want to share. What's worked for me and saved my life and put me on a pathway to success and a hope that the same thing works for you and beyond. All right, let's get out of here. If I can help you with anything, please let me know. Keep it simple. Keep it moving. Never settle. Stay tough. Peace.