Christopher Walch – SDWT

So how exactly was he able to become so wealthy? There is actually more to that than just Jeff Bezos main business Amazon. Even though it’s his main source of wealth Jeff Bezos also invested in a bunch of companies including Google, Twitter and Uber but he is also having a lot of real estate. I mean alone his 165,000-acre space he is using for Blue Origin his space company is just massive. He is a...

Today it’s about measuring and focusing on what really matters. Since it’s something that I seem to have recognised, that people including me often focus on stuff that does not really matter I thought this is a good book to go through. And John Doerr the author of the book is a multi BILLionaire and his work is also appreciated by Eric Schmidt aka the billion dollar coach! - This episode of the Se...

Today we are finishing up with the interview featuring Scott Young and Ultralearning. I have to say that there is not too much information in here related to ultralearning. Well there are some tricks and tips and also techniques but not a real blueprint. Maybe it’s my expectations. Still he is talking about a lot of relevant and important things in here. Definitely some value! - This episode of th...

Decision making is definitely a very very important part of having a business but also in life. Therefore I thought it would be really interesting to see what Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are doing to “ensure” that they are making good decisions. What I found is this article featuring Musk and Bezos, the scientific method (a decision making method) as well as the “2 type method” Bezos is using. I also...

Today it’s all about Jay Z and his (music) businesses. The whole plot of this story is that Jay Z decided to have his own label which was somehow extraordinary since every artist tried to get signed by a big label. He just made his own label. 50% of the label were then sold to another label that actually wanted to sign him (if I remember correctly) but it was eventually sold completely to the othe...

Since I found out that Halloween is pretty close this one is going to be about halloween. (the origin, where to buy the the most candy for the buck and some studies. I honestly didn’t know that halloween was or is that close! I especially liked the statistics by the NRF…really insightful! - This episode of the Self Development with Tactics / SDWT podcast is all about Halloween. - https://en.wikipe...

This is the last episode featuring this CBT or cognitive behavioral therapy article. It’s been an amazingly good article and also really really interesting one. Today we are talking about Aaron Beck and cognitive therapy (part of cbt) and the mechanisms of aaron becks “method” which include the cognitive triad, negative self schemas and cognitive distortions. In the end of the article we are also...

Today we are talking Neuralink Elon Musk’s company. They are producing and or working on technology implementation for humans and are testing them with lab rats. Which should make blind and or in general handicapped or disabled people do the particular action or thing again. So it’s incredible. But there are a bunch of problems. How should you implant it into the brain without - for 100% sure - da...

Today we are talking about Howard Schultz and how he was able to build Starbucks into a 100 billion dollar company. I didn’t actually know that Starbucks was worth that munch I thought like a few million maybe a billion but 100 billion… anyway he says that he is just a regular joe and that he was able to build the company with commitment. And it took him 3 decades so this has also something to say...

This is the second episode of cbt or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It’s just amazing this science and in my point of view it just makes sense that it is working. And it is working by what I have heard. I also want to believe in it working. But this time we are talking about the ABC Model by Albert Ellis. It illustrates how it comes that people are feeling bad and how it comes that people are feeli...

This is more or less a little rant. A rant about listening more and talking less. A rant about being empathetic, a rant about being human. Maybe. The point is that we need to listen more because it makes sense, because it’s important because there are some advantages attached to listening more than you are talking. I mean you can talk a lot  as well unless you are talking more than you are li...

Since this is something that I wanted to talk about for quite some while now, this is the episode I am talking about CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy which seems to represent one of the most efficient ways treat mental issues. Cognitive Behavioral  Therapy is just an umbrella term for a bunch of methods. Boiled down it’s all about the correlation between your thoughts (cognition) how we fe...

Today we are once again talking about Elon Musk but this time it’s not about Tesla or Spacex it’s about an old business he had with a colleague when he was in college!  They used to rent a 10 bedroom house…10. And they used it to throw parties. The thing is Elon was never drunk he always stayed clean to manage the whole party. The managed to get in around 500 people per party and charged them...

Today I am featuring - for the first time I guess - a GaryVee article. I have been talking about him and his content before and have also emphasised certain points or thought patterns that he established or brought into my life. The whole quality and quantity thing might be one of the best examples. I took his idea, his thought pattern because I believe in that. Quantity is not bad, quality is not...

This is the third episode featuring Marc Ecko and his book Unlabel and this time it’s all about imagination which is the last chapter or point if you will. Imagination should be categorised into 3 things: Vision for the future, Loyalty of Nostalgia and the last one is the Delta of Now. The delta of now refers to knowing where you are right now because you need to know where you are at this point o...

This is the second episode featuring Marc Ecko’s Unlabel. And this one is about keeping your promises, doing, being a human and knowledge. The thing is, making promises you can’t deliver on is not a good idea. It’s the case for person to person connections but also brand or company to consumer connections. Which already says something…we are all humans, when you are having a business you’ll probab...

Suddenly everyone is an expert, suddenly everyone knows stuff. A pretty interesting phenomenon. Today is a little bit of a chaotic episode. I am talking about various things as for example some of Seth Godin’s blog posts but also some random things that popped into my mind the last days or even that exact moment. I still hope that there is something to learn or just take for you in this particular...

Why is being authentic so important? Because people notice bullsh*t Marc Ecko the founder of complex and his book Unlabel this is what today’s episode is all about. At first we are talking about Marc Ecko himself, what he did and what he is doing right now in terms of business and whatnot. Then we are talking about the summary of his books which was about brand, authenticity and the Self as he cal...

This is for all the people that are feeling bad right this moment.  Today it’s all about feeling bad, alone and all those negative feelings you or someone might be feeling. The ted article provides some ted talks that should help you feel good again or maybe understand yourself or others more or better.  I deeply hope that you are feeling amazing soon. - This episode of the Self Developm...

Personal finances….money….debt, this is what we are going to talk about today!  Why this is important? Because we all have to handle money, we maybe have to deal with debt. Money is something we should be talking more about isn’t it? Anyway, this article provides 3 personal finances tips from debt to knowing your expenses and why it’s important. Overall I have to say that it’s a pretty good a...

Today we are talking mediation. Something that I wanted to talk about for so long!  I hope that I am able to cover a few things you are interested in. We are going to discuss meditation and it’s effects on mental health, the brain and other things like the safety of meditation (which I have never ever considered!) I have to point of that everything that I am saying is something that I read or...

How to grow and the fact that we are trading attention more than we have ever before. I especially like the first article but both are amazing! How to grow? It’s basically pretty easy and Seth Godin is providing more than enough examples. The one I like the most: Doing something different, changing something! But also the second one has an amazing question: Doing something for people that want to...

Bruce and the Spider by James Baldwin…. This is what this episode is about. It’s a short story about a king in Scotland, the king of Scotland. This is a story with a moral even if it isn’t going to be a “aha” moment when the plot comes but still an important moral. Not going to spoil the story here but please trust in yourself, trust in your process and keep trying. The win will come! It will come...

Trust in your process, move on doing whatever you are doing! Even though this article by the legendary Seth Godin started out to be about something else…at least this is what I felt. But it’s about trusting other and eventually also ourselves. There is a chart in this article and it shows that we trust family to 70% but marketer and also politicians to 2%…well this led Seth to talking about trusti...

It’s time for another quiz! YEAH. This has actually been a pretty good quiz. There are a bunch of crappy ones out-here as well! This is hopefully going to learn you a bunch of things around small businesses. Marketing, Finances and more. I thought it was pretty fun, maybe I am going to take some more quiz in the future…if I can find some. So if you want to learn more about small businesses and or...