How much fun have you been having lately?

In this episode:

00:28 - A question for you

01:29 - Why you need fun

02:27 - How to have more of it

03:56 - A tip to act on

04:39 - Who do you hang with?

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James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. Today, I've got a question for you. Are you having enough fun?

One thing I've noticed when I'm coaching people, especially at a high-level, is that when I do an onboarding diagnostic, I ask them to rate various aspects of their life from zero to 10. A common one that comes back with a low number is that they have fun or any kind of play or activity that's exciting. I think that's such a shame.

I know that it's very popular out there in the business world to champion seriousness, and workaholism, and grinding and hustling. But there is often not a discussion around balancing that out with fun. You know that I've been speaking about the importance of sleep several times on this podcast. I've even had a sleep expert come along and talk about that. We've done infographics on the topic.

The need for fun

But today I really want to challenge you to incorporate fun into your schedule. Why is it important? I'm pretty sure that if you have fun, you're going to be a nicer person to be around, you will be able to operate your business in a more effective way because it's exhilarating for you and you're recharged for it. You'll probably even live longer. I'm sure there's some science around that if I would look that up. There's a lot of quotes on the topic. "In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play." That was Friedrich Nietzsche.

So what am I talking about here? I'm talking about breaking up that boredom and stop being so serious. Do something that makes you smile.

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Have something that you look forward to that makes you laugh, that when your head touches that pillow at night, you're really dreaming and looking forward of this fun thing that's coming up, and when you wake up in the morning, you don't need an alarm clock, and you don't have a hangover feeling of overtiredness because you're excited about the thing that you're going to do today.

Make it routine

I actually build in fun to my daily routine. So how do we do this? We think about things that we would do. If we didn't have to work for example. If you just had every day to yourself, which is a great position that a lot of entrepreneurs can get to, and I've experienced a lot more time freedom over the last few years, what is it that you actually gravitate towards? What would you do if you weren't getting paid for and it didn't matter? I'll give you a couple of ideas.

You might be looking at things like PlayStation, surfing, cycling, going to the gym, visiting places, like theme parks or zoos; maybe you do skiing, or water sports, or mountain sports; boat trips, jet skis, maybe you like to go to the movies during the week. Imagine that, during the week between nine to five, going to the movies.

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19:20 - Quick summary

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James: James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. This is actually part three of our Website Tune-Up Series. I have my good friend and long-time website development partner and owner of RecommendWP.com, Dave Wooding.

Dave: Hey James! Thanks again for having me here. I appreciate it.

James: We've been having fun on this series. We've been helping people tune up their website. If we go back to the first episode, we were talking about what to do when your website is broken and how to even know if it's broken. We were talking about mobile-responsiveness, hosting, images, broken themes, Frankensteins, broken cores, all that good stuff. If you haven't listened to that episode, go back and have a listen to that episode just to make sure that your website is working properly.

Then in the second episode, we talked about going beyond the basics. How to actually add content properly using a schedule and an orderly sequence of having the correct page titles, and tags, categories, images, and headlines, and lists. That was just good basics. And then we sort of delved into how to connect things like autoresponders and membership solutions and making sure we pick the right solution. And you got the right person to help you hook it up. So they can all be automated. People can move seamlessly from your website to a membership solution and they can pay you, and if they no longer pay then it stops them having access. All of those good things. They're totally achievable, they're fully automatable, and you should be enjoying that.

Today, we're going into the supercharged stuff. In our Website Tune-Up Series, we're going to talk about what can we do now to take it up a notch. We'll have a look at some of the things that I'm doing with my website and that Dave's helping people with at a high level. Let's kick off with the first one, Dave, and that would have to be having your own custom design. Why is it important to have a custom design instead of just grabbing something off the shelf?

Why do you need to have your own custom design?

Dave: So custom design basically gives you full control over the look and feel of what you want to present out to the world. You can definitely get some good pre-done themes, get them customized a little bit to match what you want, but if you want to go the full route and you want to have for instance a site that's truly dedicated to a sales page that has a call to action or presents v...

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James: James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. This is the second episode in our Website Tune-Up Series with Dave Wooding from RecommendWP.com. Welcome Dave.

Dave: Hey James! Thanks for having me back. It's a pleasure.

James: Dave, in the first episode, we got some great comments where we were helping people tune up their broken website. We talked about checking for it to be working with a mobile phone, we tested the hosting, we had a look at how the design looks and if we've got a Frankenstein on our hands, we talked about broken themes, and speeding up sites, and making images the right size. All of these things that the team at RecommendWP.com specialize in.

Today, we're going to go beyond that. We assume now that we fixed up our website. We're going to talk about the next level of questions that you get asked all the time as a WordPress development specialist, and we'll see if we can hand out some tips here to help the person who has a website and maybe they're not aware of some of the things they could do to go beyond the basics. So are you ready for this one?

Dave: I am. Let's go.

James: Let's start with one of the most basic things of all. We've got this website. It works on a mobile. It loads well. The images are good. It's not broken. It's all working fine. Let's think about websites here. The whole point of a website is it's where your content lives. Content is an overused term these days. I put out a whole course on it called OwnTheRacecourse, teaching people to put stuff on their own website. We know we can go there and we start with our first post. We can add some text and paste it.

I guess one step even before that, why is content important for a website?

Why is content important?

Dave: Yeah. Well you know, if you're selling anything, you've got to have information on your site that describes what you do, what you provide, what value you're offering. I think of content, it's not just the text that you have, the words there, but also the images, videos, any kind of download information. That type of stuff is important to be on your site so that people who do come to your site get an idea of what you offer and you've got it there or it's readily available. It's kind of a no-brainer. It would be like, if you didn't have content, it would be like having a shopping store, you open the door and there's nothing in there.

James: It seems like a lot of people do run websites with limited content. So the first thing is you should have a schedule to add content on...

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James: James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. In fact today, I have a very special guest, someone who I've been friends with online for a decade now. Welcome my good friend, Dave Wooding.

Dave: James, thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.

James: Now you're not known for doing podcasts that often. So I consider it a huge privilege that you're coming to share your genius with us in this Website Tune-Up Series. This is a three-part series. The goal of this is to approach this from the perspective of where we need to be with our website.

In this series, we're going to cover some of the things that people often come to your service with your services called RecommendWP. It's a website development company that I used to own actually. A great team, and you took it over, and they're doing great work. They've built thousands of websites.

So we're going to cover some of the things that people come to you with that's broken. That will be the first episode. The second episode, we're going to go beyond basics. We're going to look at how you can start getting better results from your website. And the third part will be the website supercharge. This is the advanced ninja level, black belt type stuff that you really want to be getting going with your website to extract the best from it.

So that's what we've got in store for this three-part series. Dave, are you ready to get down to business?

Dave: Yes, I am.

James: OK. So when we had a look at all of the support queries and the types of jobs that the team over at RecommendWP have been doing, one of the things that's been coming up a lot is people are presenting non-mobile friendly websites to you and asking for help. So let's first of cover, why is it so important that our website works on mobile?

Why have a mobile-friendly website?

Dave: Yeah. Mobile is probably the biggest issue we see for people that just show up and need to get facts. And really it's because most people nowadays are viewing your website on a mobile device. So if your site is not showing up properly, it's not rendering, or anything like that, it's definitely an issue. Also, if you want to have advertising where you send people to your site or even SEO, having a site that's mobile-friendly is very important.

James: Right. So what can we do to check if our site works on a mobile?

Where to check if your site is mobile-friendly

Dave: Well the easy thing of course is simply load it up on your phone and hopefully it's obvious.

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07:43 - Is it possible for parents?

11:05 - Well-structured days

13:08 - A vote for Netflix and gaming

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James: James Schramko here, welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. Today, we're going to be talking about the perfect day formula, with Craig Ballantyne. Welcome to the call.

Craig: Hey, James, good to speak with you again.

James: You know, we did an audio podcast many, many years ago when you were running around with a fit body, and I assume you still have a fit body.

Craig: Yeah. It's an older one.

James: You started this movement called turbulence training, and I think the whole idea was that you could do exercise in short impact bursts and you didn't really need a lot of equipment, which is pretty mind-blowing, when you think about it.

Craig: Yeah, it's a lot different from the way most people think, but as you know, James, it's all about thinking different in order to get ahead.

James: Yeah, and you've gone on and you've had a lot of success in your own business, you are now the chief editor of Early To Rise, you've been doing that for a while, and influencing a lot of people with your thoughts, especially around wealth and health, and those type of topics, and you've now just published a book, and I think a kit, called The Perfect Day Formula, and that's what we're going to talk about today.

Craig: Yeah, it's going to be good.

Why the book?

James: So why did you decide to do a book?

Craig: Well, it's something that I've been working on for a long time, so it's funny, we were just speaking about how quickly you read through it, but the book that I actually submitted to my editor was 300 pages, and then he sent me back something that was 110, so he really cut out a ton of stuff.

I spent way too long working on it, but it's really a combination of everything that I've learned and applied to my life, everything that has helped me become more productive and successful, and everything that I see a lot of people struggling with. And what I wanted to do was show people how to get more out of their day, how to overcome that feeling of anxiety that they have at the end of a day when they feel like a day has disappeared from them without getting ahead. And so we've really focused it on that and put together these 3 little secrets that are in the book, that help you with your morning, your afternoon and your evening so that you just really can live the life of your dreams, which I believe most people can.

James: Right. And you believe that most people aren't at the moment?

Craig: Oh, I think a lot of people have a lot of frustrations with what's going on right now.