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Podcasts Mission Admissions Episode 14
The Power of Mindset and Mental Skills (Part 1 of 2)
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Jeremy Tiers: [00:00:00] Hey everybody. This is Jeremy Tiers from Tutor Collegiate Strategies, and you're about to check out the latest episode of the Mission Admissions Podcast, a show that's designed to help higher ed become better recruiters, communicators, marketers, and. Each week, I'll introduce you to an industry leader or difference maker who will share helpful advice, tips, and strategies that will help you grow professionally and personally.
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Hey everybody, it's Jeremy Tier [00:01:00] and this is episode 14 of the Mission Admissions podcast. We've got two episodes left in season one, and I've decided to do a special two part series on mindset, mental skills, and mental tough. , all of those things are topics that I've been asked about a lot over the last 12 months at conferences and during the meetings and workshops that I have as part of the staff training workshops that I do.
And I'm very fortunate to have two amazing guests who are gonna join me, who are experts on all of those subjects. And the first one today is Lindsay Wilson. Lindsay is a former professional athlete who is now a well known performance mindset coach. End speaker who teaches athletes, teams and organizations how to unlock their full potential through mental performance training.
Her work has been featured in espn, Huff Post and The New York Times. And a fun fact about Lindsay that I just learned was that in high school she was featured in an Oscar nominated documentary called The Heart of the Game. So welcome to the show, [00:02:00] Lindsay. Thanks, Jeremy. Thanks for having me. Lindsay. Why is mindset so important when it comes to our personal and professional?
Lindsey Wilson: Oh, that is a question that we could spend the entire podcast on, and I'm sure we will. Um, you know, I think so many of us, I think are, are really ill prepared for understanding how important. and how critical our mindset is in our everyday reality. And you know, we, we consciously want things to happen, right?
We wanna have a nice life, we wanna make money, we wanna have good relationships. Everybody wants good things in their life. And there's really this sort of invisible force behind all of that, which is our deep subconscious. And if we don't spend. Working on that, then the, the reality that we live in, um, doesn't actually shift that much.
Even though we're working really hard and trying really hard and wanting things, it's just really not enough to work hard and want things. You really have to work on this invisible driver. Yeah.
Jeremy Tiers: [00:03:00] And so why do you think a lot of people don't work or maybe don't spend as much time as they do in other areas on their mindset?
Lindsey Wilson: Well, I think there's two reasons. I think either they don't know about it. No one told 'em. You know, it's not like we, you know, I, I think schools are starting and, and or, you know, parenting has changed a lot. People are trying to instill. These ideas and emotional inte and all these things that are so critical really to lifelong happiness and success at a younger age.
But some people don't get that memo for whatever reason. Um, and I think the second thing is it's not so cut and dry what to do, You know, like everybody understands and, and. Can see the results pretty quickly. If they go to the gym and they start, you know, doing squats, your glutes are gonna get stronger, your hamstrings are gonna get stronger, you're gonna feel the difference.
You're gonna say, Oh, it's because of these squats. You know, the work on the mindset side is not so cut and dry. There's a, there's a lot of things you can do and I think the [00:04:00] confusion really, um, allows people to just get overwhelmed and be like, Well, I don't know where to start and so I'm not gonna do.
Jeremy Tiers: So when was the first time then?
I mean if you can remember back when, you just remember seeing this whole concept of, wow, look what mindset can do when I work on it for you.
Lindsey Wilson: Yeah. I really had sort of three very distinct, um, Experiences with mentors. And, uh, I remember each one specifically. Uh, I remember when I was 12 years old that I had a strength coach that would have us lie down at the end of practice or, um, workouts and do like visualization imagery, um, on recovery.
And I remember that very distinctly. I was 12 years old and I was like, Huh. It's interesting. Yeah. And uh, he had been actually been trained, he was an Olympia, former Olympian. He had been trained by Bill Bowerman who was really into this stuff, you know, in the seventies. And then I had a mentor when I was 16, a coach and mentor that specifically started teaching me about positive affirmations and subconscious programming and really, uh, how [00:05:00] our belief systems and our thoughts about what we're capable of and what we're worthy of, how that influences our everyday reality.
And in that, Our performance. I was a basketball player. I really wanted to play at the next level. And so I was very driven to, um, to do anything I could to improve that, uh, you know, ability. And so I remember that. And then when I was playing professionally, I started working with a hypnotist. And I remember the first time that he took me through, um, a self hypnosis and.
I remember crying afterwards and I remember thinking, this is what I've been missing. This is the, the deep work that, you know, I, I'd done as, you know, basketball player, I, I'd done a million hours in the gym. Like there was things I still could improve on the physical side, but that certainly was not the thing that was holding me back.
So those were my three sort of, when the student is ready, the teacher appears and they certainly did for me in my life.
Jeremy Tiers: So what, cuz of course I'm curious, as I'm sure the audience is, what did the hypnotist really unlock, Ben?
Lindsey Wilson: Well, I think, you know, a lot of, um, you know, I, I, I believe in the, [00:06:00] in the, in the saying that change happens slowly and then all at once.
And so a lot of times I think in, in my work and in the students that I, I, I certify other mindset coaches and in their work with their clients, you know, there's these aha moments, right? But I think almost more important than that is these moments when, uh, a coach or a mentor. Let's say a healer, if you wanna use that word, teaches you maybe even something that you already knew, which is, in those cases, your brain is entirely powerful and it can do anything that you want it to do.
And you know, you thought you were the problem, and it's true, but you're also the solution. I remember it's almost like it was less about what happened in that session and more about the awareness of like, Oh my God, I can do this. This is. This is what I needed and I now have this awareness that I'm not my thoughts, that these things are fixable, that there's hope.
And I think, um, that's a [00:07:00] big part of what I want my, again, my clients or even my coaching, uh, certification students to instill in their clients.
Jeremy Tiers: So is it the words then that are so powerful, Lindsay, not only with what that hypnotist did with you, but what you do right now with the people you partner with?
Or what do you feel like the difference is?
Lindsey Wilson: No, anybody who studied anything about leadership or parenting or coaching kind of knows what wor, I mean, there's, there's definitely i improvements you can do in words, you know, and, and, and how you improve and how you motivate people and how you inspire them and how you instill confidence in them.
Those are great, and those things work to a degree, but when people have really deep-seated beliefs that are blocking them, they really, you really need to go to another level and that level. Speaking to your subconscious with, um, deep breathing and imagery work and the use of metaphors and stories and, and journaling and, and mindfulness.
There's a lot of different tools that help us access that part of us, but it's not [00:08:00] happening when we're just, you know, going through our day and emptying the dishwasher and driving and working and doing our emails when there's so much noise around, we're not really connecting with that deep part of ourselves that allows us to then make those changes from the.
Jeremy Tiers: If someone then wants to improve their mindset, whether it's their negative, they wanna be more positive, whether it's their like, Okay, Lindsay, I like what you're saying, but like what you said a few minutes ago, I don't know where to start, so what am I supposed to do? Yeah. What are a couple of easy techniques?
Is it the breathing? Is it the, you know, lying down and doing visualization? Like what have you found? Works really well for most of us.
Lindsey Wilson: That's a hard question cuz it really depends on the person. I think. You know, any kind of breathing or meditation, I think guided is really important. Like guided visualization is really great, but for some people that's a really big jump to where they feel like.[00:09:00]
It's so hard for them and it's so uncomfortable and they feel so bad at it that it's really discouraging. But I do think that that's a really great option. You know, like anytime you are connecting with your breath and slowing down and, and sitting in that discomfort, I think especially with phones, it's really hard for people sometimes to just do nothing for a little while.
So that. Can be really a space for growth. I think journaling is a really good, um, way to separate yourself from your thoughts, but there's also some cognitive behavioral, uh, techniques, which is recognizing that whatever thought we have and, and you can do this, you know, um, in your everyday life. You know, like I said, emptying the dishwasher.
If, if I'm emptying the dishwasher and I have a. I can understand how that thought is manifesting a result in my life in that moment, I can say. Okay. Um, well, I have a thought that, um, a [00:10:00] lot of people have a lot of big challenges with time, right? They think they can't get in, there's too much to do, They're overwhelmed, and so they have this thought, right?
Maybe they're under the dishwasher, they're checking their email and they, and they're start, they're starting their day and they say, What I'm thinking right now, and this is a really common one, is I. Too much to do and not enough time, right? So like we can take that thought and we can play out and understand how that deep thought, which we've now brought to our conscious mind is playing out in our lives.
So we have this thought, I don't have enough time. Basically, that thought leads to an emotion and generally that emotion will be something like, I'm not motivated or I'm overwhelmed, which leads us to take action. or leads us to not take action, which is also an action, right? I'm overwhelmed, so I don't know where to start, so I'm gonna go check Instagram, or I'm gonna go grab another coffee or I'm gonna procrastinate, right?
So that's gonna lead to an action, which leads to the results of not getting anything done. So you've seen how that plays out, right? We have all done that on a, like a Monday morning, and we spend the whole day thinking about how much time we don't [00:11:00] have, and then the day's gone and we still have not gotten anything done.
We have all been there. Imagine you check that thought and you say, Okay, that thought is not me. It's not truth. It's not an absolute fact. It is simply a thought. So let me try to shift that thought to something that's going to serve me better. So you could shift it to something like, I have just enough time to get done.
What's important to me? Now, that thought generally leads to an emotion. Empowering, maybe decisive, maybe, Uh, motivated. Empowered, which leads you to actually getting something done. You know, you're like actually then getting stuff done, which leads to the result of having things done, which then reinforces our original thought that we can get things done because we're able to prioritize, we're able to decide what's important to us.
And that's just a really simple example, but you can see how that simple awareness of what [00:12:00] our thought. So important. We are not our thoughts. They are not fact. They feel like fact almost every single time, Almost every single thought you have throughout the day you think it's a fact. So, uh, analyzing or just fig, just knowing that you're not your thoughts and then being able to have the awareness to shift them is it's like a superpower.
It can change your relationships, it can change your financial situation. It can change your job, It can change. Recognizing that you have that power is like, it's mind blowing. It really shifts. It has the potential to. Everything, and it can be done in the simplest ways.
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It's just, it's human nature. Right. But when you start to realize, okay, but what about all the positive things that happen daily, weekly, in our lives? Why aren't we focused as much on those? Why are we focused more on the negative? And then you start to dig deep, and I had people help me do this when I was trying to figure out how do I get better with my mindset?
And [00:15:00] it's this unlock for me of like, are you just happy? Like, are you happy in your. Do you enjoy life? Do you enjoy your job? Do you feel like you're making a difference? Do you connect with your why? All of these things. And when I realized, wait. When I am happy. Right? Doesn't mean I'm not stressed, doesn't mean, you know.
Oh my gosh. I don't know if you know work life balance stuff I'm thinking about, but it just, I feel like it makes me with that mindset and that thought of being happy, a better dad, a better husband, a better friend, a better, and it was, it was just, it was somebody explaining that to me, Lindsay and I, I don't know why somebody explained it to me and gave me that unlock, but ever since that day, You know, for me, anytime I'm stressed, anytime I'm like exhausted from like a 17, 18 hour day cause I'm traveling.
I just think about the positive things and the, you know, gratitude for things I'm grateful for and it's like a complete shift.
Lindsey Wilson: Well, yeah, and, and that's, I think an example of like how simple these things can be. Everybody wants like these big, huge, and you know, we, we [00:16:00] teach a lot of different tools, but.
Uh, there's not that many that work, you know? And you don't really need that many. You just need like a couple in your toolbox. And I think understanding how the brain really works, which is that negativity bias, right? Like our brain does not wake up in the morning and think, you know, this, this is what I wanna speak to a basketball team, or really any sports team.
And I go, Okay, you wanna be the best basketball player you can be today, right? Your brain doesn't actually want. Your brain wants you to survive and it the best way for you to survive is for today to look a lot like yesterday. Now, as a basketball player or as a driven person trying to do anything good in the world, you don't wanna be the same as you were yesterday.
That's the whole point of practice. That's the whole point of pushing yourself. But there's a part of your brain that is like, Whoa, let's not get all crazy. Let's stay safe, Let's keep things comfortable, let's think, keep things status quo. And part of that is, is making sure you're scanning for danger, looking at the negative.[00:17:00]
That is how our brain operates. That's how it keeps us safe. And so there's a good side to that too. And you can kinda say, Thank you, brain, for keeping me safe. We're good. We don't have to see all the negative all the time. We can push ourselves, we can do risky things. I'm gonna have food tonight, hopefully, you know, I mean, for most people, they have shelter and they have food.
Not everybody, of course, right? But for a lot of people that're trying to push themselves, we really have to get back. And that's where the gratitude can come in of like, No, I'm safe, I'm warm, I'm, I'm okay. I can do, I can push myself and do these scary things that feel scary, but in fact, I'm. and my brain is, is, is not going to be necessarily supporting me in that in the beginning.
I have to just override that.
Jeremy Tiers: And so if I'm hearing you right, if somebody's listening to this and they're letting negativity and frustration really affect their day to day because it's just there so much in their subconscious, is it literally just reiterating to yourself [00:18:00] verbally or you know, imagining it in your brain?
You know, I don't know which one's more effecti. You know what? There are things right that I have to be grateful for or that I know have been working for me, or things that I've been having success of, and I just have to remind myself of those things. Or am I off base and it's something else?
Lindsey Wilson: No, I mean, like I said, I think there's, there's sort of like this little toolbox you can start building up, right?
And some things are gonna resonate more with other people than, or some people more than others. Um, but I think things like gratitude are great. I think the visualization, the breathing, the meditation, all that stuff is helpful. I do think journaling is a nice way, whether that's gratitude journal or just putting your thoughts down on paper because it's a very physical way of separating yourself from your.
You know, that, that is actionable, obviously. So that can create that distance that is sometimes hard to do in your own brain, but there's something about writing it down that you're like, Oh, it is, there it is. It's just a sentence. Right? It's [00:19:00] not me. So that can be really helpful. Um, you know, I, I think it's.
It's a lot like anything we do that, that has changed, right? Like you start lifting or working out it, it's hard at first. Your body does not wanna get off the couch. It's better to be on the couch and it's gonna really hurt running that first mile. But I, I think it's, it's those daily disciplines of being aware of your thoughts, recognizing that they are not, And then subtly shifting them.
I think sometimes it's also like to stay with the working out metaphor. It's like you don't go from the couch to running a marathon, right? And so when you're talking about mindset work, if you've never done it before, you're not gonna be positive. And, and, and frankly, being totally positive all the time is not the, the purpose.
The purpose is to pay attention to what your thoughts are creating in your life, and if they're creating what you want them to create. No change 'em. Right? But if you wanna shift [00:20:00] them, you shift them slowly. You don't go from the couch to a marathon, you go from the couch to walking to running a mile to running a 5k.
You know? And so slowly giving, cuz if once, if you go from, I'm just never gonna be negative again. I'm just gonna. Be positive all the time. There's also something called toxic positivity, right? Where you're just constantly trying to be positive and you're like, It's okay to be sad. It's okay to be mad.
It's okay to lose your shit on somebody. Like that is all okay. We want to be aware. That is number one first thing.
Jeremy Tiers: So is it understanding, again, to your point, it's a balance and it just has to be the balance that works for you. Is that what you talk to a lot of people about when you're helping them with their.
Lindsey Wilson: There's nothing wrong with having negative emotions. There's nothing wrong with having doubts. It's really about how we are awareness about 'em and, and not layering on. So for, for example, like a great example is, is an athlete going into a game? The purpose of thought work is not, so, they [00:21:00] don't feel nervous, right?
The purpose of thought work is for them to say, Okay, I'm feeling nervous. How can I shift? Will that, will that serve? . Right? And is there a way for me to shift my thoughts to get the results that I want? So in that same example, one of the very simple things that we teach is, do you know what the difference is between being nervous and being excited?
Zero. Right? The, the, the physical experience of being nervous and being excited is absolutely no different. How we interpret. Is really, really important. So again, the layering. If an athlete feels nervous and says, I'm not supposed to feel nervous, only only bad athletes or bad basketball players feel nervous, then we're we're, we're not in a good mental state.
If we feel nervous and say, That is my body getting ready to be excited to play? That's a very different experience and it's [00:22:00] all based on our perception, right? We're still gonna have butterflies, we're still gonna be whatever. There's no difference in that. We're just not adding this layer of interpretation that isn't serving us right?
Cuz there's like a layer of like almost shame or um, blame. Right? And so we can feel and we can experience everything and we should, as a human being. We're not trying to be happy all the time. We can feel sad. That's okay. That is a human experience. Nobody should be going through life without her feeling sad.
That's weird, right? And it's like, how are we aware of when we're in those situations and do we have the tools to get us
Jeremy Tiers: out? What do you think then makes somebody mentally tough? Lindsay?
Lindsey Wilson: I do think that it's the ability to, um, manage one's mind because, you know, I talked about pregame and the interpretation of nerves versus excitement.
Um, we also teach things in game, the ability to deal with mistakes, the ab, the ability to, to fail. You know, I mean, those are the, [00:23:00] and, and you know that resilience, right? To be able to come to practice, you know, you played, you, you coach, like the ability to come to practice after you miss a game winning shot, right?
Like, that sucks. There's no amount of mental preparation that's gonna make that not suck, right? Like there isn't. And so how do we have that mental toughness to, to. Not go down, like we call it the negative train of just like wallowing and self pity and like, Yeah, I'm gonna be pissed and I'm gonna be mad at myself and I'm gonna feel all the feelings and then I'm gonna have the mental fortitude, which is mental strength to say.
We're gonna keep going. We're gonna go to practice, and then we're gonna do this, we're gonna do this. And you know, this is a part of growth and that's like shifting that thought to like, I'm a terrible basketball player, to, this is a part of it. This is the ups and downs. And that's like a maturity thing.
That's a mental toughness thing, but it really comes down to being able to shift your thoughts.
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So how much of being mentally tough then do you. It ties in with self-awareness and accountability to your point, right? You make a mistake, you have a crappy game. You go, if you're listening to this to a college fair high school visit and you're talking with a student, you're like, That sucked. That was not what I was hoping, but I gotta go do another one in 30 minutes from now.
Is it trying to figure out, okay, I didn't do a good job preparing, I was unprepared. That's what I have to change, or, So again, self-awareness. You tell me, is that something that plays in, in that example? Yes.
Lindsey Wilson: But I would also add in, um, I think one of the biggest, um, barriers to growth is, is like the emotions that we put into it, right?
So for example, um, if you do miss that game, money shot or you screw up that, that interview or whatever, so many of us are so hard on our. That we cannot allow [00:26:00] ourselves to look objectively at what went well and what went wrong. I was just doing a podcast about this, on my podcast about like, I used to hate watching game film because I was so hard on myself that I was just like, I don't even wanna see it.
You know? And I would make myself. Cause I had a coach that I trusted and she told me through stuff, but like I hated it. And like that is not, if we really wanna get to a high level, we have to be able to look at ourselves like ego aside and be like, This went well, this didn't go well. Um, we teach our athletes something called critiquing versus criticizing.
The, the ability to critique yourself as if you're coaching yourself un emotionally and just say, Hey, yeah, this went well. I wasn't prepared. This, this, you know, didn't go well because of this. Then we're talking about improvement. If we're just feeling bad for no reason, just because we don't wanna look at.
Things and we're just head in the sand, then we're not improving. And most people do the [00:27:00] latter, right? They just criticize themselves and feel sad or mad or whatever, and they don't take the time to step back and like ego aside, look at what could have gone better and also celebrate what went well.
Jeremy Tiers: How much self-reflection do you do?
Is that something you know, you do daily, weekly? I mean, do you do a lot of self-reflection?
Lindsey Wilson: Certainly like so for, for my business, We'll look, we'll have like debriefs on things. I used to do that after. I would do presentations a lot and you know, because you think you're gonna remember and it's like you got to be able to grow.
You gotta write down. I think for me, as I've gotten older and, and done, you know, my business, I am able to step back a little bit more and it's almost like more of like a curiosity. Um, I still get, I'm still hard on myself if something doesn't go wrong, Right. Or. You know, if, if someone wants to leave, leave a program or something like that, like I do, he, I feel my, my ego coming into it.
And I, I think I'm, [00:28:00] I'm not always good at putting that aside, but I, I feel like I'm more aware that it's happening, um, because it, it's a, it feels very, Self-indulgent almost to be like, just, I'm just gonna feel bad about this. Right? And sometimes you can do that as long as it, you don't stay there for too.
Jeremy Tiers: Well, that's the key. I think to your point, you don't stay there too long. Right. And there are, there are a lot of people who I talk with in the work that I do that just, they just refuse. It's almost like they can't see a lead at the end of the tunnel or a different way of thinking about things. And you know, to your point, I think it's just getting them to understand, Again, tell people all the time, you're gonna make mistakes.
We all make mistakes. I make mistakes all the time. But again, Are you learning? Okay, why am I making mistakes? Is it because I don't have the right habits? Is it because I wasn't prepared? Is it because I'm already psyching myself out before I even go do what I'm gonna do that this isn't gonna work? Oh my God, it didn't work last time.
There's no way it's gonna work this time. [00:29:00] And so I think just trying to figure those things out, hopefully, you know, will be helpful to people listening. How do you overcome, you talked about fear of failure. I mean, thoughts on how you help somebody overcome fear of failure? Lindsay, what? What helps you say, All right, I'm gonna screw stuff up, but like It's okay.
And here's why it's okay.
Lindsey Wilson: Well, I think a couple things. I think. Surrounding yourself by people that are also taking risks. And normalizing failure, I think is really, really important talking about it. Um, and then, like I said, bringing that lightness to it. So in, in many cases talk, I talk about curiosity or even humor because so often, like the vulnerability of talking about failure is, um, something people wanna avoid.
And so the more we talk about it, the more we normal. That there are for sure gonna be failures on the way to any type of success. I mean, people know that consciously. Again, these are talk, we're talking about the subconscious though, and like we want to avoid [00:30:00] it so much, so we have to keep reiterating. To our brain that this is a part of it.
And so I think bringing that curiosity is really, really important. Thinking and talking about it a lot are, is really, really important to what the people you love, the people that you're surrounded with. And then I think making sure that you have that support and, and a plan for when it does happen because there's no way that you're gonna get to where you wanna get, being clear about where you wanna get to that, that you're gonna get there without falling on your face.
And. If you can get that into your mind, it makes it sort of like one of my mindset coaches used to say, you know, if I miss shots in a game, you'd say, and again, this is how you we're gonna be interpreting, Right. If I'm gonna be missing these shots, one thought could be, I'm the worst basketball player in the world.
I just went, Oh, for 10. Right. Doesn't really serve me to, to think that way. Right. But that's, that's kind of a natural, and it feels true, right? When we're talking about our thoughts, that feels true. That feels like a fact. Just [00:31:00] like I don't have any time, feels like a. But I can also tell myself and have the discipline to tell myself something like, I only have so many shots.
I only have so many mis shots in me. That thought allows me to deal with that failure in that moment and gives me that lightness and relief to be able to continue, you know, trying my best basical. So little shifts like that of, again, paying attention to our thoughts and our interpretation of failure instead of, I'm the worst whatever in the world.
It's this is, this is on the path to work to getting to where I wanna go. This is part of it. So that interpretation is really, really
Jeremy Tiers: important. Lindsay, the last two things that we've been doing on every podcast are a signature question and fun rapid fire. So I'd like to know what one important piece of advice is that somebody's given you at some point in your life that is really stuck to this.
How,
Lindsey Wilson: man, you're putting me on the spot.
Jeremy Tiers: Um, what's the first thing
Lindsey Wilson: that came to mind? [00:32:00] Uh, common sense is not so common. , my grandmother said that, and I think that's true, but I also think of that like, you know, sometimes we, we make things like more complicated and more like crazy than they need to be. You know, like coming, coming back to the basics, coming back to like your core values and things that are like true to you, I think is, is always worth worthwhile.
Jeremy Tiers: Fun rapid fire. I'm gonna give you a bunch of things and I just want you to gimme some quick thoughts as soon as I finish with each one of them, okay? Okay. , you're starting a team today. Diana tei or Sue Bird?
Lindsey Wilson: Oh, probably, oh, that's a really tough one, but because I'm a point guard, I'd probably say Diana tei.
Jeremy Tiers: Hardest thing about being a professional athlete,
Lindsey Wilson: I think the psychological like level that you have to stay at is something that most people don't understand.
Jeremy Tiers: What's your favorite thing to do there in Seattle where you live? Hang out with my kids. [00:33:00] Funniest or funnest? I'll let you take it either way.
Interview you've done on your Mindset Coach Academy podcast.
Lindsey Wilson: Depends what you mean by fun. I just did one that was really hard, but I'm gonna go with that one. Cause that's one sticking outta my mind. Yeah, we talked about regret and. I disclosed some, a lot of personal stuff, and I went through this process that, but it was so, I guess, I guess fun.
It was fun slash rewarding. Also really hard ,
Jeremy Tiers: and you're, Yeah. Yeah. What's the best mom advice you got?
Lindsey Wilson: Oh, oh. Try to get some sleep. It's hard. Oh, I, no, I got a better one because this is, this is even harder is put your marriage first if you're married. Everybody says that. And it is so hard to do. And when my husband and I do, we're better for our kids.
So we're, we have to relearn this list lesson over and over again cause they're always pulling at us. But we get our dates, nights in and we, you know, do therapy and we spend time together and that's really, really important. And it's, it's so hard to fit it in, but
Jeremy Tiers: we. [00:34:00] Well be intentional with it, right? As somebody who exactly has been married 23 years.
I only have one and she's 13 years old. But to that point, my wife and I find time every single month to do something, even if it's something small with each other. Cuz to your point, it's super important. Yeah. Lindsay, if people wanna learn more, check out your podcast. Just learn more about the trainings, the certifications and things you do, where's the best place to go and, and either check that out or social media, where can they follow you?
Any of that.
Lindsey Wilson: Um, my podcast is the Mindset Coach Academy, so that's great for athletes and coaches and high performers. And I do, um, great interviews and, um, we do a mental Monday. So we talk a lot about, you know, little tips and tricks that you can implement in your life. Uh, from a mindset standpoint. My company is Positive Performance Training, and that's positive performance training.com.
And then on Instagram, I am at Lindsay Positive.
Jeremy Tiers: Well, I appreciate you being on and sharing that with us and we'll link that stuff in the podcast. A [00:35:00] reminder that part two of my special two part series on mindset, mental skills and mental toughness will be released in a couple of weeks from now on December 6th.
So I hope to see many of you back here then. Thanks for your time, Lindsey. Thank you.
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Планирам некој ден да напишам за ликот и делото на Che!
We meet once again, on the eve of the International Workers' Festival, to honour those compa#241;eros who have distinguished themselves by their efforts in the service of production for our country, in the service of the noble cause of the building of socialism, as vanguard workers in each of the different enterprises into which our Ministry is divided.
During the twelve months of the past year, we have had periodic talks with those compa#241;eros who, month by month by their dedication to their work, excelled among all the workers in our enterprises.
by his example, must make it vivid and palpable, communicate it, publish it, make his enthusiasm contagious, and see that his individual effort is transformed into a great, united, collective effort of all the workers; that the forces of the vanguard factories are transformed also into the great collective force of all the factories of the country, of all the centres of production; that they may simultaneously deepen the efficiency of the work and consciousness of our people, in order to obtain both the material abundance needed for the construction of socialism and the indestructible strength of consciousness of its sons, also needed for its defence.
During an entire year these two tasks have been completely fulfilled. Not without defects, not without more or less serious bungling, not without mistakes, quarrels, backward steps in order to get back on the road. But with unquenchable enthusiasm and complete dedication to our task, we have during the year of 1962 solidly constructed the basis of our society. We contributed, too, to the development of the revolutionary consciousness of the entire world when, confronted with the atomic menace of the Yankee invader, our entire people rose last October and gave an answer which without doubt will pass into history.
It was an example of how a people in revolution can confront great danger, even the menace of atomic destruction - a threat unknown to other societies in world history, and how with revolutionary consciousness and determination to win, and the militant solidarity of all the countries of the socialist camp and of all the world's free men, a small people, living at the gates of the most aggressive and powerful imperialist power on earth, can triumph, can maintain its sovereignty, and, most important, continue building its own society.
The central task assigned to us, compa#241;eros, in what might be called the trenches of production, is that of constantly continuing to construct, no matter what dangers threaten or what difficulties have to be overcome. And this task we are carrying out.
Each year that passes we do less badly at least; each year we learn from our own errors and the experience of other peoples. We are forging the basis of what will be in the future a powerful, autonomous, self-supporting industry in this country, which will have to rely on its great agricultural riches based on the fertile soil, favourable climate, and relatively low population density. . . .
You all know the immense number of illiterates we had in Cuba. We are all witnesses, and in some form participants in that battle, as heroic as any other battle, which we fought against the lack of culture, in this case illiteracy.
But illiteracy is only the extreme expression of a people's lack of culture. Whoever learns just to read and write has taken only the first step toward culture.
Modern technique is advancing by giant steps. Very soon to be a qualified technician in this country will require a speaking knowledge of more than one language; and to read technical books will require knowledge of more than one language, to learn how to read the technical specifications and directions in whatever language, since the capitalists have produced a great deal in technology - and very good stuff - and we must know how to take advantage of all this knowledge.
Raising qualifications then is a cardinal task for the government and all the people and must not be neglected. Men and women, even when tired after work, must make the indispensable effort to study, even though for only an hour or half-hour a day, and try in this way to keep increasing their knowledge.
It is not important that in some few weeks or months the distance covered seems small. This is a task of years, and a task which must never end; a task also that is very difficult for a beginner, for a worker of a certain age who can barely read and write. But to the degree new knowledge is acquired, culture will cease to be a revolutionary duty, something more or less painful that must be done to fulfil a revolutionary obligation, and will become a need. And then it will cease to be an effort to continue the task of learning.
In this work tremendous efforts and a prodigious amount of society's goods have been consumed and will continue to be consumed. We believe culture and public health are services on which we can never spend enough for our people; and the more we can give, the better it will be for all. And so we will continue to give as much as possible.
But remember, the professors who teach the worker-students at the various levels of study are being kept out of production and therefore constitute a state expense which should be repaid to society by redoubled effort.
We must take up another red-hot problem, the new salary scale and the work norms, two closely related points we have been discussing for over a year.
I remember that on the eve of last May Day, in this same theatre, I asked pardon for not having finished this task. Today, in a certain sense, I should again ask pardon; but the task of organising the salary scales and work norms is very far advanced. And next month, by the middle of the month, pilot tests will begin in various industries, not only in our Ministry, but in all branches of the economy.
There we will be able to complete the methods for giving a single, salary qualification for the whole country, and a more equitable salary recompense. But there will have to be much firmness exercised in something that is still confused. The new salary scale, with the corresponding applied norms, does not necessarily signify a salary increase, far from it.
We have explained that in the first branch where this was set up, mining - and only in some of the mines - on account of the relatively low pay, the work norms and new salary scale meant substantial increases for the compa#241;eros there. But it will not be equally so in all branches.
There are some groups of workers who at present are being paid in accordance with the averages considered adequate now, and some others who receive more than the average.
We have also made clear that all those workers whose average salary is larger than the new salary decreed will continue to receive their full salary, but divided into two parts: one corresponding to his actual work plus a legal extra so as not to upset the budgets of such compa#241;eros, who won this higher salary over the years and under different circumstances, during the development of the capitalist process with all its consequently anarchic relations of production.
However, all new entrants in production will get the new salary scale, and one of the main points for measuring a rise in the scale will be the worker's qualifications. This means that all workers who are satisfactorily fulfilling the standards of quality and quantity over a period of time, but who cannot ascend automatically in the salary scale since they are not part of a new group with a different scale, will have the opportunity to raise their qualifications and enter a higher income group, raising their salaries in this way.
So, individual qualifications will always be taken into account in considering each individual's salary.
All this will be explained by the Minister of Labour; there will be preliminary discussions and a whole process of clarification, since this is a very complicated task in which the whole economy of the country is bound up.
In some cases, it will mean an increase in order to correct very low salaries; in others, salaries will remain the same, according to standards adopted from the new studies; in still others, they will remain the same - but these compa#241;eros will have a divided salary, although the basic amount will not be touched.
To finish this speech - a little long, a little tedious - I want to remind you, compa#241;eros, of the responsibility that we have, all, without exception.
Today we are here to salute our best workers, the vanguard workers. And we are saluting also delegations of workers who have come to visit us from all over the world. . . .
We are a showcase, a mirror into which all the peoples of America can look, and we must work to make our abilities greater every day, and our disabilities fewer.
We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary. They will learn also from our mistakes, from our errors, the compa#241;eros from America and the other countries of Asia and Africa who are fighting today for their independence. We must not cease to show a single one of our errors, not a single one of the vices of the past that we have not yet been able to resolve, nor a single one of the errors we have made in the socialist present.
We must be open, for this is our duty, because our duty reaches immense heights at this moment. And each of us is responsible to the peoples of the world for what the Cuban Revolution does and will do.
Our path is not simple; it is full of danger and difficulties. Imperialism is lying in wait at every bend of the road, hoping for a moment of weakness in order to launch itself against us; the reactionaries of all America are waiting to publish with joy even our own official acknowledgements of our errors.
Fundamentally they are trying to show America and the whole world that if a small country such as ours, without industries, without technological development, tries to make a revolution, it is bound to fail. And they use information and tricks, and also saboteurs and divisionists, to hold back our development.
We cannot allow ourselves one moment of weakness. Not now, when we are directly under the visual inspection of our guests, nor at any time; for in each minute of our country's life we are under the eager inspection of all the peoples of America, who see in us a new hope of salvation, a new hope of redeeming themselves from their chains.
Let us show them the realities of the road we have taken, compa#241;eros! Let us show them that not only are we capable of the dangerous task of confronting, almost unarmed at one time, the armed force of the oligarchy; of developing our popular armies by capturing arms from the enemy, of confronting them on the field of battle, and of catalysing the consciousness of the entire people of Cuba so as to convert them into a great vanguard army to destroy the dictatorship! Let us show that we are not only capable of preparing our whole people to stand as one, to launch our war cry, our defiant shout, which we all know; let us show also, compa#241;eros, that we are capable of triumphing in this long, tiring, terrible struggle, in which we are being obstructed in the building of socialism by an imperialist blockade.
In the face of all the dangers, the threats and aggressions, the blockades, the sabotage, all the divisionists, all those powers who try to restrain us, we must show once more our people's capacity to make their own history.
We must all be united, compa#241;eros, firm in our faith, firmer than ever today, though perhaps not so firm as we shall be tomorrow, to go forward always with our eyes on the future, with our feet on the ground, building each step, and making sure of each step we take, so that we will never give up one inch of what we have won, of what we have built, of what is ours: socialism!
Our Country or Death! We Shall Win!
Lidija Lord obavezno da napisis poke, samo ne mozis da otvoris eden poseben topik negde na drugo mesto nego ovde na politika. Za mene ova licnost e nekako misterija najgolema. Neznam mnogu za nego, ama se ucam taka da bi bilo super ako ti ke pomozis malku vo to zosto ko so mi zvuvi znajs dosta okolu negovata licnost.
Inace za to nadevanjeto deka ke ima vo Makedonija vakva licnost nekoj den, nikogas nema da se pojavi nigde to!
Lidija A da kazese malku poke Nukleus, da prosirese zosto i kako e Guevara = Stalin...ova ne ironicno cisto iformativno! Do nekoj stepen da postoese coek ko nego vo smisla so negovata celosna posvetenost vo to so vervase, posvetenost da se bori kon nepravdite, iako mozese ednostavno da si sedni i da si zivej ubav zivot, ne ke bese loso.
Che na mnogu bluzi, posteri vamu-tamu bese pricinita zosto mene me zainteresira ovoj coek tolku mnogu i zosto takov ogromen heroj status ma dobieno. I koga cita coek da ke najdi i od ednoto i od drugoto, za mnogu heroj pogolemi od Isus, za treti sosema sprotivno od heroj, nekoj so go podrzuvase cel kubanski sistem, kade so nasilstvo protiv tie so ne odea vo ist politicki pravec si bese ko so si bese.
Lidija Ne be Lord vo kakvo druzenje jas mislev negde tamu kaj opsetveni nauku ili tamu vo blizinata negde. Jas bas n ato mislev ako sakas da pisis topik za istoriski licnosti ama ne makedonski, kade bi gi stavile ama odberi si ti sega zasega. Ovde vo politika ke se izgubi so seto SDSM, VMRO muabetnje.
Kako sakas pisi si, ne mora da se macis za po nasi, iako mene i na mnogu drugi sigurno ke im e polesno na nasi, ama nas so ne intersira ke si prevedime, nema gajle belki. Ako nekoj drug misli inaku ke si kazi.
p.s Kazi mi nekoj dobra kniga, poobjektivna za nego.
Ej Kalimero,Guevara bil komunist ama do odreden period.Posle nuklearnata kriza na Kuba bil protiv komunizmot i imerijalizmot.Prvin procitaj nesto za nego pred da go sporedvis so diktatori,ok?
ehm, khm kh kh... ovoj ne go stavaj u stereotip na komunjar. Ne zasluzil.
p.s. ok sto znaes za che i zosto taka mislis za nego?
deni A sho mislite sho ke se deseshe ako balistichkite proektili na kuba od 62 padnaa vo racete na lugje kako che guevara ?
и уште којзнае што ќе беше поинаку.
deni ama i kuba ke ja nemase . za rusija neznam ali kuba ke potonese u karipskoto more .
deni u 62 godina USA imala total of 3000 nuklearni balisticki proektili u sporedba so 300 na rusite (vklucuvajki gi i tie na kuba ) . Sho izjavil che gevara ? , ako bea pod nasha kontrola ke gi ispukavme na pogolemite americki gradovi .
Po-idiotska izjava do den deneska nemalo od ovaa .
Svaka mu chast na Che guevara za negovite sfakjanja deka e potrebna svetska revolucia protiv kapitalizmot , ali ne so gerilska vojska.
concrete Koga sme kaj Kuba...ima li nekoj informacija kakov e toa sega sojuz na Kuba , Bolivija i koja li bese uste edna zemja od okolinata ...????
NINOCHKA I Venecuela. Trite zemji imaat trade dogovor i se anti-US :)i ekonomiite im se katastrofa.
На Че Гевара Кастро го направи херој со неговата наредба за ликвидација,обвини некои си таму Боливијци за предавството на Че Гевара, а таму отиде под лична наредба на Кастро,со цел да се прошири револуцијата низ цела Јужна Америка.
Ништо нема случајно во смртта на Че, човекот беше предаден од неговиот пријател Кастро,тој ја има смртта на Че на својата душа.
Че Гевара по убедување беше социјалист,прозападно ориентиран,затоа отиде во легендите,се најде на погрешно место во погрешно време.
Да не бидам погрешно разбран. Не сакам да го оспорам ликот и делото на ЧЕ,посебно не неговата цврста волја и убедување, туку само сакам да укажам дека тие идеи сега се застарени и на нив гледаат како со потсмев...Неговата волја,цврстина и издржливот денешната младина може да ги земат за пример и да ги практикуваат во други насоки.Вистина е дека за да направиш еден нов свет,прво мораш да го уништитиш стариот, а единствен начин да го направиш тоа е со револуција,со ликвидации, со рушење.Тие идеи денес не можат да се изведат во практика ни под точка разно.
Ako se zeme vo predvid izrekata -ednash komunist-zasekogash komunist- togash poveke od jasno e so kogo treba da se sporeduva Ernesto Che Gevara.Ili mozebi sakate da go sporedime so Luj 14ti?


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This is pretty interesting man, I think maybe something could happen in 2012... The mayans hadnt failed in any of their "predictions" so far (they were awesome at mathematics and astrology)XD; But I dont certainly think the world will get to an end around that date, (we may destroy it before) But yeah, I like all those "apocaliptic" stuff, and I love laughing in the face of every guy who was quite sure the end was about to happend at 2000 http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif... Awww... I still can remember those laughts ROFL!
all this stuff is stupid. it's like in london at the tower they have some1 working there to tend to the ravens as it is a old myth that if they ever leave the tower or die london will fall.
there are thousands of these things many have already passed since the late 90's the world should of ended sevral times.
Oh, I thought it was ??/??/???
Seriously... not only is this a made up date that has no significance but the calendar and numbers themselves are man-made creations that we use to count the passage of time. Before man was here, there were no 2012's. If the world ends, it will be by man's hands alone.
If the world ends, it will be by man's hands alone.
I agree. December 2012 is when the Mayan calendar basically just runs out of numbers (if I remember correctly)...it doesn't mean the world will end when the calendar does. Also, there was a story about people's reactions on New Year's Eve of the year 1000...which was proven to be made up because there wasn't even a widely used calendar back then, and for all the people knew it could have been 995, or 1015, or 42 for that matter.
http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif get your hands off me you damn dirty apes!
Thank you lazy! so i am not completely crazy... http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif and i see that the spammer has even reached into my topic. i should feel honored?... or more like violated http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-mad.gif LEAVE SPAMMER! SHUN! SHUN! SHUNNNNNNNNN!
okay, according to my brother who researched the whole date and printed out a 12 page article on the subject, December 21, 2012 is the date in the future where i think the solar system will fall into a black hole in space and possibly end life as we know it. yay us.
actually, the solar system will only align itself with the center of the galaxy. also the sun's gravitational poles are supposed to invert? history channel told me that one. sounds a little farfetched to me.
Dr also at some time relitivly soon the magnetic poles of the earth are ment to switch.
wonder if we'll feel anything.....? oh, wont our compasses reverse?
suposadly and one theory is when it happens the atmosphear/ozone will weaken giving a high change of a meteor strike due to there being less resistance.
who wont have/attend an end of the world party?
but lazy 21 december 2012 but at what time zone?
I wont be happy if the world end's were will I get beer?
Which is why you really should consider joining the The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (http://www.venganza.org/).
Also note that we have graphs that prove pirates really were saints. Graphs are irrefutable proof. I mean, come on; you can't deny global warming got worse after pirates started disappearing!
But you're free not to join.
oh and i forgot to mention in earlier posts... my girlfriend's birthday is the 21st of December http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/blink.gif ... ZOINKS!
http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif Well, like we were saying...it would be December 21st at different times around the world, so we'd have to have an extended party.
EDIT:Why am I even taking this serious?
Why am I even taking this serious?
I could sit here and ppick holes in more religons but this should help proove a point.
What if that's the last date they did before they all died out and didn't finish the calendar?
LOL, history is filled with "what if"s... And the truth is we know nothing, there's no real way to know what happended back there, so talking about this in a little "philosophical way" we've always been sailing in the dark. And its not that bad XD, it actually brings a little emotion to life, I think life would be more boring if we would know our end will be "X" day "X" time etc.
As someone who is (in my opinion) logical, I have mixed feelings with it. On one side, the Mayans were pretty damn accurate...but on the other had, is this really possible?
Anyways, I believe in the Revelations and stuff and that stuff is really creepy.
I thought Y2K was going to end the world?
I don't think it will end but I always keep an open mind.
Meh, way to burst my bubble. But who else to think to randomly yell "Pikachu" than a Pokemon-obsessed ten-year-old?
Well the 12th of December 2012 IS my 21st so I will be partying.
I've already said they have to release it on the 22nd.
statement still stands all you need is a few kids to talk about pokemon in the many hours before midnight in the US.
i personally like charmander ... and hate how there are so many new one out now i gave up lol... wait WTF how did we get on this subject?
we never got on that subject you just assumed we had.
sorry ... i just made an A$$ out of U and ME A$$.U.ME... just incase you couldnt get it... lol jk!


Exciting new research published in the Annals of Vertebral Subluxation Research shows that you may find relief from anxiety and depression through chiropractic care.
Recent research presented in the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health - Chiropractic, reveals that chiropractic care may play an important role in managing neurological disorders such as seizures.
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I would normally tell you at the first of the month how much weight I loss for the previous month, but I don't have access to a scale while I'm up here in Washington State, at least not one where I can get naked.
My guess is that I haven't lost much weight in the past five days since I've been up here.
But I'm doing better the past couple of days in controlling my urges to eat. I've managed to stick to a bag of jerky each of the two days all day long as I worked on my rental property. Though, in evenings my folks tend to spoil me with food galore.
Right now, I just finished up another day of cleaning and painting and my feet are tired.
A fresh coat of paint will make any house look ten times better. I did a lot of cleaning too, the floors, the bathroom, the kitchen, and the refrigerator. Installed new locks, put in new carpet. My previous renters had been in there for 22 years; there was a lot of "muck" to clean up. I hope I don't have to repeat this everytime renters move out, at least not to this degree.
Tonight, we're supposed to head out to this mexican joint in town for drinks and appetizers. I'm really hungry.


This is one of the great Philippine legend stories for kids. Once upon a time, there was a little girl living with her mom in a small thatched hut in a deserted hamlet. Her father had passed away when she was still young. So her mom and she had to work very hard to make ends meet.
One day, the mother fell ill. She told her daughter, "My dear daughter, call a doctor for me!" The little girl quickly left home with worries filling up her heart. Suddenly, she came across a snowy-haired old man. He asked her, "Why are you so much in hurry?" "I am looking for a doctor. My mother is very sick!" she cried. Also, read The Legend Of The Rose.
It was bitterly cold outside, while the girl was only wearing a thin layer of clothes. She kept on walking and it was not until her feet felt worn that she reached the banyan tree. In front of her was a bush with a beautiful daisy. She picked it up and cherished it in her hands.
All of a sudden, the old man's voice echoed in her ears, "Each petal represents a day your mother continues to live." She looked down on the flower and counted, "One, Two, Three… Twenty! Oh, no! There are only twenty days left for my mother!" You may also like to read, The Legend Of Ylang-Ylang.
Ever since then, every year during the autumn, the flowers with many thin glossy petals blossom created a picturesque scenery. They are called the Chrysanthemum, the symbol of piety. Also, read The Legend Of Pineapple.


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Q: Future timeago method in PHP or JavaScript/jQuery I was browsing for STO and web for this, but coudn't find anything for this.
I'm looking for a method/function to print out a readable future timeago, like:

*

*In 3 hours from now

*In 1 year from now
I'm storing dates in the future into my datetime column in my table and I need it to predict how much time is left when it's published, etc.
Is there anything like this done already? If so - please help.
This is my current timeago in PHP:
(I also have a localized version of this method for Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian language)
public static function time_elapsed($ptime) {
    $etime = time() - $ptime;

    if ($etime < 1) {
        return '0 seconds';
    }

    $a = array(12 * 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 => 'year',
        30 * 24 * 60 * 60 => 'month',
        24 * 60 * 60 => 'day',
        60 * 60 => 'hour',
        60 => 'min',
        1 => 'sec'
    );

    foreach ($a as $secs => $str) {
        $d = $etime / $secs;
        if ($d >= 1) {
            $r = round($d);
            return $r . ' ' . $str . ($r > 1 ? 's' : '') . ' ago';
        }
    }
}

A: Try this if i understood what you want correctly:
function time_elapsed($ptime) {
    $etime = $ptime - time();

    if ($etime < 1) {
        return '0 seconds';
    }

    $a = array(12 * 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 => 'year',
        30 * 24 * 60 * 60 => 'month',
        24 * 60 * 60 => 'day',
        60 * 60 => 'hour',
        60 => 'min',
        1 => 'sec'
    );

    foreach ($a as $secs => $text) {
        $d = $etime / $secs;
        if ($d >= 1) {
            $r = round($d);
            return "In " . $r . ' ' . $text . ($r > 1 ? 's' : '') . ' from now';
        }
    }
}

$time_elapsed = time_elapsed(time() + 36000); // prints In 10 hours from now
var_dump($time_elapsed);

A: I'd recommend using http://momentjs.com/.  It has the functionality you're looking for.  See http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/from/
Example:
<script>
var my_date = moment('2014-07-07');
$("#date").val(start.from(my_date) + " from now"); // "in 5 days from now"
</script>

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Defensive Pistol Barrel Length & Ammo Selection
Our recent review of the Sig P365 X-Macro Comp suddenly raised questions of if a 3.1" barrel is enough. The question arises because, aside from specialty "micro" loads, 9mm ammunition is generally loaded to perform properly from a 4" barrel as per SAAMI (Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturer's Institute) specifications. For defensive ammunition that means the hollow point is engineered to open properly when it hits the target within a certain velocity range.
If a hollow point hits at too high of a speed it risks ripping itself apart. Too low of a speed (such as from a shorter barrel) and there won't be enough force to properly open the hollow point. The intent of a hollow point of course is to open upon impact, slowing the projectile down by increasing surface area (greater damage) and expending energy IN the target rather than passing through the target. It's a win-win for the user. Deliver energy to the target, cause more damage than the original diameter of the bullet would otherwise do, and minimize the risk of harming an innocent bystander behind the target. All of that requires speed.
Each projectile has a window, or range, of speed within which it will perform as intended. Recently some projectile developers have made great advancements in projectile design to help hollow points open properly at lower speeds. These are being used in loads labeled "micro" or "sub-compact" etc. The irony of so much sudden interest in this science is that the Sig P365 3.1" 9mm barrel is nothing new. Less than ten years ago when single-stack 9mm pistols were popular (S&W Shield, Walther PPS, etc.) most of those pistols only have a 3" barrel.
The Sig P365 3.1" barrel top, 3.7" P365 XL barrel middle, and a standard 4" barrel bottom.
So What's The Stink About? The Sig P365XL has a 3.7" barrel, the standard P365 a 3.1" barrel. The new P365 X-Macro Comp uses the slide length of the P365 XL but shorter barrel of the P365 in order to use the slide as an integrated compensator. The question then arose that if we're going to have the longer slide (bigger gun) of a P365XL, but only the barrel of a P365 what are we giving up? Generally those who accept a shorter barrel are doing so to have a smaller, lighter, easier-to-carry pistol, but at the expense of lost sight radius, projectile velocity, and less energy on target.
Is the Difference That Big? That's the question we wanted to answer. Of course we aren't the first to wonder, nor the first to test, but our test should help shed some light. We gathered up A Sig P365 XL, Sig P365 X-Macro Comp, and our fancy P320 X-Carry Build with a 3.9" barrel to use as a control. Our control gun has an aftermarket barrel as it was built from parts, but the P365 XL and P365 X-Macro Comp are factory barrels. We then selected four different defensive loads of different projectile weights. Defensive ammunition is where muzzle energy is truly important. Different companies and projectile weights because one load may prove more sensitive than another to barrel-length.
Footage of our test can be seen in the video below:
Ammunition Selected: The loads ranged in projectile weight from 50gr to 135gr, and with advertised velocities from unlisted to 2040fps! Since we do not know what the intended velocity for ideal performance is, we must assume that the advertised velocity is the intended velocity. Throughout this test velocity and projectile weight were used to calculate energy. We focus on energy because delivering energy is the whole point of firing a shot.
Sierra Ammunition does not have a velocity listed on their box or website.
Liberty Civil Defense 50gr +p has an advertised velocity of 2,040 feet per second. The projectile is intended to fragment into a starburst pattern as we have seen it do in ballistics gel. The "+p" overpressure combined with a lightweight projectile is how this round develops such incredible speed. Energy is a factor of velocity and projectile weight, the Civil Defense round is certainly leaning heavily on speed to do it's job. For more information about what "+p" means and its application see our article HERE. Results from our test are below.
$37.99 (10% Discount with code "GBGuns10") direct from Liberty Ammunition
$30.59 from GrabaGun
Possibly in Stock at Palmetto State Armory
Other Calibers available at Primary Arms
$27.54 at Sportsman's Guide
Lower Prices around the web HERE
Liberty Ammunition Civil Defense Test Results
The P365 X-Macro Comp generated 98% of the advertised energy. We may not know the exact performance parameters for the projectile, but 98% sounds good to me.
Winchester Silvertip 115gr is a load that both in weight and velocity is more akin to standard range ammunition. It's a relatively-affordable hollow point with no special claims other than a "time-proven design". On one hand "time-proven" doesn't promise modern design, but "proven" is something we don't get to hear much about when it comes to defensive handgun ammunition use.
Winchester Silvertip Test Results
$19.32 from Palmetto State Armory
$19.99 from Primary Arms
Possibly lower around the web HERE
The closest we got to the advertised energy was 88% with the P365 X-Macro Comp producing just 81%. It appears this load was intended for longer barrels.
Sierra Outdoor Master 124gr has no advertised velocity to base our results on. No performance promises are on the box or even on the company website other than "uniform expansion". We selected this load as it is both common and affordable
The wonder of auto-scaling charts make the P365 X-Macro Comp appear to have significantly less energy, but mathematically it's only a 4% difference. Can it be trusted? We don't know since we don't know what the intended energy was.
$22 from Brownell's
Available for less elsewhere around the web
Hornady Critical Duty 135gr is a famous load, known for its touted barrier penetration abilities. This is the non +p version, but advertising retains the same performance as the round intended for duty use.
The P365 XL managed again to best the intended energy. The shorter P365 X-Macro Comp yielded 96% of the intended energy. This to me seems close enough.
$26.99 on sale at Palmetto State Armory
Conclusion: Is a 3.1" barrel enough? That depends on your ammunition selection. We also noted that our 3.9" barrel did not perform as expected (should have had the highest energy of the three guns tested). The manufacturer has been contacted and will investigate.
The Liberty Civil Defense load certain out-performed the others in energy, proving once again that speed is important. If you don't have barrel length to create it selecting a higher-pressure, lighter-projectile is the way to go.
P365 XL
365 X-Macro
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Rapid Covid testing across England will help identify symptomless carriers
Tens of thousands are unwittingly spreading coronavirus – lateral flow devices will confirm infection in under 30 minutes
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A healthcare worker processes a lateral flow test for Covid-19. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images
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Sun 10 Jan 2021 01.30 EST
Rapid testing to find symptomless carriers of Covid-19 is to be launched in England this week. The aim of the programme is to identify some of the tens of thousands of infected people who are unwittingly spreading the virus across the country.
The dramatic escalation of the programme – which uses detectors known as lateral flow devices – comes as Covid death rates have continued to soar and hospitals have reported alarming numbers of patients needing intensive care.
On Saturday it was revealed a further 1,035 Covid deaths had occurred in the UK, bringing the nation's total to 80,868. In addition, the daily number of those testing positive increased by 59,937.
Under the new, expanded testing scheme, local authorities will be encouraged to identify more positive cases of Covid and ensure those who are infected isolate. The use of lateral flow devices, which can confirm if a person is infected in under 30 minutes, will allow quick detection of infected individuals at test centres.
Lateral-flow devices are accurate at pinpointing infected individuals but have been criticised for generating large numbers of false negatives. Nevertheless, many experts have welcomed the expansion of the testing programme, which 131 local authorities have already agreed to implement. Professor Adam Finn, of Bristol University, described the expanded programme as a vitally important measure. "Added to the measures already in place, this provides an important new tool to help to reduce the rapid rise in cases that is paralysing in our country," he added.
Professor Lawrence Young of Warwick Medical School agreed. "This is good news. Testing individuals during the current lockdown will help to restrict the spread of infection as long as we ensure folk who test positive appropriately isolate and their contacts are traced and also isolate."
Other scientists were more cautious. "Here, In Liverpool, a trial using lateral flow tests had a good uptake: 25% of the population were tested and 900 cases identified," said Tom Wingfield, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. "However, an interim report later showed this testing missed 60% of cases and provided no clear evidence the strategy led to a reduction of cases.
In addition, the strategy appears to have been implemented without any public consultation to discuss its potential benefits and pitfalls and that is pertinent given the programme's vast expense."
Other analysts noted that the Liverpool experiment also indicated that only people who could afford to self-isolate tended to put themselves forward for tests. Those who could not afford to isolate or take time off work – such as self-employed workers – were more likely to avoid it. Take up will therefore by high in affluent areas but not so in poorer districts.


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The Scandalous State of our Healthcare System. Why the Time is Now to Finally Make Healthcare a Right and Not a Privilege.
By Paul Y. Song, MD – Physician, Board Member of Physicians for a National Health Program and Co-Chair for Campaign for a Healthy California. and PDA Advisory Board Member | Huff Post
Last week, Senator Kamala Harris boldly announced that she would co-sponsor Senator Bernie Sanders' upcoming Medicare-for-all legislation and Senator Elizabeth Warren just agreed to do so as well. As the dust settles after yet another failed GOP attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it is vitally important for everyone to understand why simply preserving the ACA is not good enough.
By now, many of us are aware that despite spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as any industrialized nation, we still have a healthcare system where 29 million Americans are uninsured, tens of thousands of people die each year simply because they lack coverage, and medical illness remains the top cause of bankruptcy.
Even more shocking however, is the 30+ million insured Americans who continue to have such high out-of-pocket costs and deductibles relative to their incomes that they are considered underinsured. Due to this dynamic, one out of three people with insurance will delay seeking care, leading to more advanced disease and poorer outcomes.
Because the ACA was largely written by the private insurance and pharmaceutical industries, it did not regulate insurance rates or address skyrocketing/unaffordable drug prices. As a result, a 2017 Kaiser Family Foundation study revealed that 37% of insured Americans reported difficulty paying their monthly premiums, up from 27% two years ago. For 2018, individuals who purchase coverage without subsidies are expected to get walloped once again with double digit increases in their premiums. And according to a recent study by Prescription Justice, 45 million Americans did not fill their prescriptions last year because they could not afford to.
Staggering healthcare obligations are also having a negative impact on US business competitiveness. Prior to the bailout, General Motors spent more on healthcare than it did on steel to make cars. Each year, escalating premiums consume more and more of company budgets that could otherwise be used for capital improvements, R&D, and higher wages. With no end in sight, large employers report that health plans will cost more than $14,000 per employee in 2018. And a recent Kaiser Family Foundation studyfound that companies are shifting more and more of these costs to their employees. Despite stagnant wages, workers' contributions towards their employer sponsored health insurance premiums rose 83 percent from 2005 to 2015, and the amount employees had to pay for deductibles increased 255 percent from 2006 to 2015. All of this leads to far less take home pay and disposable income. Money that could otherwise be used to help families and our economy is instead going into the pockets of insurance and pharmaceutical executives.
And while the Medicaid expansion was transformative in increasing coverage to many of our poorest disadvantaged communities, very low reimbursements have hindered the ability of these patients to find providers willing to treat them in a timely fashion. This lack of access has had a detrimental effect as many curable diseases are often caught too late.
Meanwhile, despite contributing over $12 billion in taxes each year, undocumented immigrants have been mostly excluded from all federal health programs, leading to more uncompensated care. Hospitals have then used this as an excuse to grossly inflate basic costs of good and services leading to higher liabilities that are passed onto all of us one way or another.
In 1972, the late Shirely Chisholm wrote:
"We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available to only those who could afford it. This is the real reason the American healthcare system is in such a scandalous state."
Sadly, these words continue to ring true over four decades later, but the time is now to finally fix our broken and immoral healthcare system.
Instead of making drastic inhumane cuts or throwing more money after incremental changes that maintain a broken status quo, we must demand bold action to establish a Medicare-for-all program where we no longer treat healthcare as a commodity.
It is the only comprehensive solution that can adequately address all of the significant issues listed above by removing the gross inefficiencies of a bloated fragmented system while controlling costs of premiums, pharmaceuticals, medical procedures, and medical devices through bulk purchasing and fair cost controls. At the same time, it will strengthen and enhance the current Medicare system by greatly expanding the risk pool with younger and healthier individuals.
Establishing Medicare-for-all is no doubt a daunting and complicated task, but not an impossible one. Every other industrialized country in the world covers all of their people at a much lower cost with better health outcomes.
We can too, but it will take serious time, effort, and commitment coupled with real political will.
Representative John Conyers has introduced HR 676 for the past 14 years, but for the first time has 118 sponsors. Along with Senator Sanders' much anticipated Medicare-for-all bill, this will put forward a solid framework from which we can begin to finally have a serious discussion and earnest attempt to bring about the the type of healthcare system we truly deserve, but are just not getting.
Critics will say that we cannot afford this right now. They will point to an earlier Urban Institute study estimating the cost of such a plan at $32 trillion over 10 years. The reality is that we already spent $3.4 trillion on healthcare in 2016, and this is projected to increase an average of 5.6% per year per decade and cost $49 trillion over the next 10 years without addressing any of the serious problems discussed. And besides taxpayers are already paying for two-thirds of every dollar spent on healthcare.
Support of Medicare-for-all is at an all-time high and what we cannot afford is to continue the same status quo. We must demand that the rest of our legislators follow Senator Harris' lead and put their constituents' health security before corporate interests once and for all.
I intend to co-sponsor the Medicare for All bill because it's just the right thing to do.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 30, 2017
THANK YOU SENATOR HARRIS!
I'm cosponsoring @BernieSanders' #MedicareforAll bill so we can give everyone access to high quality health care. https://t.co/OUc79zPPVl
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) September 7, 2017
THANK YOU SENATOR WARREN!


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