hey hey family how are you doing hope you are charging doing great I'm just
gonna plug one little fella in here gonna plug a little microphone in should
make us sound just a little bit better but we are about to chat through
something exciting I'm live you're live thought I'd bring you out outside today
lovely day out here today and I am out at just on the shore of the lake here
beautiful spot very very beautiful spot what do you what have you guys been
doing for your Saturday I've been I've been busy today I've been working on our
air B&B house we put all the kitchen down you might have see or put all the
carpet and lino down this week you might have seen that so that's kind of
exciting and that meant we had to reassemble the whole house and get it
all spick-and-span in time for our guests at two o'clock which it did sweet
and now I'm off to the dump with a load of junk I've been getting rid of all
sorts of stuff from the house that is no longer needed which is cool so I hope
you guys are doing awesome let me know what's been happening I
hey I have just been loving this week seeing all your disciplines seeing all
the disciplines that you guys are engaged in absolutely fantastic we are
going to launch in for a quick live today and you guys did a vote on three
options did you want to hear about an epic historic adventure or did you want
to hear about a significant military mishap or did you want to hear about
some political insanity the topic that we're looking on is strategy we have the
strategic planner up at the moment and so I'm sure that you are enjoying the
strategic planner you might even have other ideas or you might even have other
systems of how you do your strategic planning and I'm excited to be in the
stage now where we're actually pulling out your dreams and starting to pull out
things that are really really significant to you and just about to
it's just about to lose my lose my little setup here there we go I've got a
little that should do the trick so I'm watching something and it looks like
possible that my phone might pop off the tripod if it does that hang on I've got
I've got a little system here let me let me take a moment here to spin this
around and I know that this will work for sure
all right okay that's gonna that's gonna do the trick okay sweet so we're talking
about strategy you guys voted for for option B which is a military mishap on
a massive scale so we're gonna talk about that in a moment but this theme of
strategy is so exciting I love doing strategic planning and I guess I'm
really passionate about seeing people succeed and I've got announcements coming up as
well this week I'm gonna put an announcement out that I think is gonna
add huge value got a really really exciting bonus for you guys so keep your
eyes and ears open this week I'm gonna put out a really significant notice but
I do want to say I have been loving watching everyone's disciplines you guys
are crushing it just amazing to see that amazing you'll see how you're all really
going after your dreams love it okay strategy is so important and let's see
let's just see that right now war is an amazing context isn't it well it's just
such a phenomenal context to watch strategy at play man there's not many
contexts where strategy puts there's so much on the line with getting your
strategy just right or if you get your strategy just wrong and also one of the
things that war highlights with strategy is that your strategy better be flexible
because there's a good chance that your strategy could fail you know at any
moment your strategy it could fail and what are you gonna do if it does fail
and also one of the things that war highlights is that you can have a
strategy that might fail for a battle and the battle might be lost but
The war is still ongoing and so you might lose a battle but you haven't lost the war
which is really great you know especially after our our focus on failure that failure you know
it can be a massive moment but really at the end of the day failure is just feedback and giving us
the opportunity to start again even more intelligently. Right we are going to go
go back in time we're going back all the way back to world war one and we're going to go to
a battle called the battle of the dun okay this was a battle between the allied forces and the
germans on the french border and here in the battle of the dun which raged for so long during world
war one four it's estimated that around 425 000 lives were lost in the battle of the dun that is
a lot of dudes to die and half a nearly half a million people died in the battle of the dun so
you can imagine that that was a really really sore spot i mean what an absolute massacre and of that
it was the french that lost the greatest number so the french got absolutely
pommeled on that battle in the french of the battle of the dun in the sense of the number
of casualties that they took ultimately uh you know france came on top and germany was defeated
but the casualty rate was just enormous so nearly half a million people lost the french take you
know wearing the brunt of that uh of the casualties on that right on their own border and so as they
came out of world war one they decided man this cannot happen again and so they started to develop
a strategy as a counter you know as a okay if this ever happens with the germans again we're
going to have a strategy in place that's going to stop this um we're not going to we're not going
to suffer a battle like we lost like we did in in the dun and so they came up with this concept
called the maginot line um and with the maginot line it was huge it went from the alps out all
the way to the channel so it's like nine over 900 miles like 925 miles was the i'm sorry it's
actually it's exactly it was 943 miles the maginot line it wasn't specifically a wall
but it was a line of fortresses heavily fortified fortresses it took them from 1929 to 1936 to build
it they spent seven billion francs so that if you just calculate in in our modern terms the the
amount that they spent was just insane so one of the places that it ended it ended near the
uh the ardun forest right so there's this was really you know forested area the ardun forest
awareness kind of came to an end near the ardun forest the reason it came to an end near the ardun
forest is that no one thought that it would be possible to get any type of troops through such
such hard terrain it was really difficult terrain to move an army through move troops through
fast forward now we are in may 1940 and just before just before may uh just a little bit
earlier before may the germans moved into the rhineland now the rhineland was out of bounds
for any military activity for the germans as uh based on the treaty of versailles which was signed
at the end of world war one now the rhineland is right on the border of belgium belgium and france
had been allies for a long time but when belgium saw that germany was breaking the treaty of
versailles and france wasn't willing to do anything about it at that point and britain wasn't willing
to do anything about it at that point uh king leopold iii who was the king of belgium at that
time he's like oh my gosh like where are my allies the allies they're not backing me up and so this
long-standing historic allegiance and alliance between belgium and france king leopold iii said
well you guys aren't backing me up right now i've got germany right on my doorstep so that he broke
the alliance with france and went to a place of neutrality uh so now boom we're into may 1940
and then in may germany starts their massive uh they just unleash invasions all over the place
they just start going right we're gonna take the world and the germans just unleashed blitzkrieg
their epic strategy uh so they attacked uh they attacked belgium they took belgium in no time
shortly after they took belgium france rushed into belgium to you know to help cover the lines
the idea of the maginot line is that it would stop the germans attacking directly on the french
border it would funnel them up force them to attack into the belgium area and that worked okay
force the germans
not to really take that a couple of attacks on on the
along the imaginary line, but in general the the bulk of the the German army was funneled up towards
Belgium and
the issue was that
here's where strategy has to be really flexible because a long-standing treaty alliance that
Belgium and France had had was broken and they were supposed to be fighting together and up until months before
then then just months before the massive invasion Belgium King Leopold III broke the
Alliance which left France's strategy
really really vulnerable
It also made
Belgium a sitting duck for the Germans so that was a massive win for Germany because boom they just crushed Belgium in no time
At all the French rushed in but they didn't have time to get set up. So
The Germans ended up just crushing the French. So effectively what happened is
This Maginot line, which was 943 miles in one way
It kind of worked in funneling the Germans up there
But there was this weakness to the Maginot line
Which is the Ardennes forest and the French just assumed actually they'd been warned earlier by Winston Churchill
Who said look the Ardennes forest is vulnerable. You don't have anything there
You need to protect the Ardennes forest. Look at that
the Germans could come through there and
To be honest, there was a bit of arrogance there with the French guys
And this is really really important for us is don't let's be really careful that we're not arrogant that our strategy is gonna work
Cuz there's a good chance that your strategy
Could fail and man have I I've seen strategies fail lots of times
And so we've just got to be quick on our feet to go. Okay that failed
That's not working and I see in my own life as well areas
Where God's really moving and it seems like he's breathing on that and other areas where all of a sudden it seems like oh that's
Kind of like really dying off what's happening?
so you've got to be quick on your feet to adjust your strategy as you go, especially in
War and anyway, what happened is the Germans they were like, oh my gosh the Ardennes forest. This is our moment. So they they had
Another dynamic to their strategy, which France wasn't thinking about is that the Germans had developed some new technology
Now that could be a game changer for you
What if you had new technology? What if you had a new skill? What if you had a new resource?
What if you had some new information?
What if you had some new technique or strategy that you could incorporate and into your strategy just to spice it up?
You know that enable you to do things a little bit differently a little bit smarter, you know work smarter rather than harder
What is there for you that's available for your strategy?
So anyway, what happened is the Germans developed these panzer tanks, which were probably the best tanks ever used in in World War two
They were amazing. You know, they sent three panzer divisions and they went through the Ardennes forest
Which basically like here's the here's the area where it's a bit of a fail for France in one ways. They built the Maginot line
943 miles
7 billion francs six years of hard work in
Unfortunately, the Germans what they did is they just drove around it. Oh
My gosh, oh my gosh, they didn't think about that. They just drove around it
They went straight through the Ardennes forest and as a result boom, they crushed they crushed France
They went straight through French the Germans had some crazy epic
Strategies and tactics going on as well just to confuse France and they airdropped
Because they had paratroopers dropping all over the place. They had paratroopers dropping everywhere and there's like, oh my gosh
They're dropping thousands and thousands and thousands of paratroopers all over the place as well
Just to add to the blitzkrieg and add to the chaos
But one of the things that they did as well as they dropped thousands and thousands and thousands of dummies
They weren't even real people. They were just dropping dummies in a lot of places these dummy paratroopers
They're just throwing them out of the plains by the thousands to think to just to trick the French and to trick the Allies
They're thinking. Oh my gosh
They're attacking over here when really they just chucked a whole lot of cotton and stuff
You know stuff cotton balls out
Out the window and so it really confused the Allies and end up dividing forces and ultimately it only took six weeks for the Germans
to conquer Belgium
France the Netherlands and
Somewhere else as well and they also here's another thing that the Germans did
The Germans had an ally the Germans had an ally in the Italians now
Here's that this is a possible option for you and your strategies. What help can you get? What alliances can you get?
What opportunities are there for you to partner with someone to help you?
Could you get someone to act as a consultant?
Could you get someone to help provide a skill that you didn't have a resource that you don't have?
What could you beg borrow or acquire or hire? What could you be doing? That could be a real game-changer
Today, I just I just got my firewood dropped off. I used to spend like
Weeks working on my firewood like actually sometimes I used to some I've spent in the past months
working on firewood not having
days off not having
Evenings off just working like a slave on my firewood and you know it actually cost me quite a bit too
So I got a higher a log splitter. I've got a buy fuel. I've got to borrow a truck or hire a truck
I've got to get a trailer
I've got to get
You know fuel and oil for my chainsaw which goes through a lot and fuel and oil for a log splitter which goes through a
Lot and fuel for a truck and it goes through a lot so you end up spending hundreds of dollars on that anyway
I just got someone to drop my firewood off today. It cost me 750 bucks, and it didn't like oh my gosh
There was zero pain in it and actually
Saved me weeks and weeks and in that time I instead of taking time off to go and cut firewood
I was able to go and make money and so as a result boom
I got someone else to do my firewood, and I was able to make more money
Where are the opportunities for you and your will to get some extra assistance get some extra help bring some more bang to your strategy?
Massive love to you guys
I can't wait to really just really see you succeed
And I'm looking forward this week as well to giving you an announcement on some other
On a real awesome bonus for you
I think it's going to add huge value to all of your lives loving the journey. We'll see you soon
Have a great Saturday evening. See ya