Identity Change & Personal Growth - Ollie Marchon | Modern Wisdom Podcast 371

It's the same in any sort of area of life, right? Whether it's your training or any kind of area in what you're trying to do. It's those sets of reps and it's the boring stuff that compounds over time that's gonna give you the desired outcome, and most people just can't create order around those few things. They can create order around one or two areas of their life, but as soon as you've got to create order around the kitchen, around training, around work, around family, around social occasions, something falls apart. It's the people that have the ability to do those four or five things that then people think, "Oh, they've got all their (censored) together." They've just spent a bit of time trying to create that order, find what works, iterate on the process. When it does work, just allow compounding interest, take care of things. When it doesn't work, try and improve it. (wind blows)

Olie Marchon, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Chris. Good to be back.

Very good to have you back, man. How's the last year been for you? Talk to me.

Eventful, as I'm sure it has been for many people. Um, but good fun. I think a lot's gone on. Um, has it been a year since we- it's probably been longer than a year since we spoke, I think.

Yeah, a year and two months.

Yeah, so lot's changed. Um, my second son has arrived, so Enzo is now in this world. He's actually one years old tomorrow, which has (laughs) flown by. Um, so learning to become a parent. I think we spoke, we touched on sort of parenting last time, um, when I was on. But yeah, learning to parent two kids has been fun, uh, challenging, um, big change-

How much harder is two versus one?

I'm sure many people that have got two will, will understand. It, it's y- y- you can't even compare it, to be honest. Because particularly-

It's not just twice as hard, it's more than twice as hard.

No. It, it's, it's far more than twice as hard because there's, you, you just can't, you c- a- any sort of plan or, or structure that you try and implement, even, you know, with anything, just goes out the window because th- these are babies we're talking about. So there is no, it's just sort of, there's no self-regulation for them. It just, things happen and, and you've (laughs) just gotta deal with it. So yeah, things like b- being on time leaving the house, feeding, nappies, sleep, all that kinda stuff goes out the window. Um, I mentioned last time I was on that I'm very fortunate that my wife is very good at this sort of thing, so she makes things a lot easier. But yeah, that's, that's been a, a really good, um, challenge. Um, I still think it's probably one area of my life that I don't take as naturally to, um, but it's something that, you know, I, I really enjoy the, um, yeah, I really enjoy the challenge. Uh, other things. Gyms are back open, which is, uh, a big part of, of what we do at Marchon, obviously with our, with our facility, so that's been cool. Um, we've had some growth in areas of the business due to what w- kind of what went on w- when the gym was closed, um, in the online space and kind of awareness, and the community's grown a lot more. What we kind of offer our community is, has grown. That's come with some personnel change as well, so the team's grown. People have kind of been and gone and, and others have kind of joined and, and I guess, taken us to, um, another level because we've got more hands on deck. Um, what else?