SNM135: Serve No Master Essential Skills – Swimming

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Welcome to serve no master podcast where you learn how to open new revenue streams and make money while you sleep. Presented live from a tropical island in the South Pacific by best selling author Jonathan Green. Now here's your host. Today's lesson is gonna be a little bit different again. The background noise might be different day because I'm on the road. I'm in a hotel. I'm still traveling. I'm actually gonna be traveling for lease another two weeks to this complicated journey.

And today's lesson is so important to me, and I actually can't believe I haven't talked about this sooner as an episode all by itself. My son started to learn swimming when he was six weeks old. I actually would have taken him or in earlier, but my wife wouldn't let me start before that. He loves the pool somebody. That is when there's only stone.

I get summer, but swimming to me is that it was important things you can teach her Children and people who don't teach their Children to swim. I actually really bothers me. And here's why. Why I went to college. University of Richmond. I've been telling college. Why not? Sure, it's different out. When I went to school, the boys lived on one side of late. The girls lived on the other and there's a lake in the middle. You know why I went to school or what? Terrible mistake.

It's probably why I had had so many problems learning how to talk to him later. Never wanted all guys high school that I went to a college. We lived across the lake from each other whole insanity. I never you know, to be really long time to learn how to socialize because of the way I was indoctrinated by school education. The first week in school, you know that you do all this stuff where you get to know the school like freshman come a week early.

You do all the freshmen indoctrination stuff. I fear what they call it. I'll call the doctor if that's what it is, isn't it? And on the last day, the boys all walk across to the girl's side of campus for the school chapel was, and you sign this paper promising you're not gonna cheat because there's one thing that stops you from cheating. It's saying that they won't in advance.

And the tradition waas that after we would sign the thing, we would walk back towards the guy said campus and all the guys would jump in the lake. Now I'm a pretty strong swimmer. I don't look like it. I look like a terrible swimmer. I get that all time, and I was stronger than that. I am right now. Right now. I don't swim very much. I spend more time paddling and doing others on the water.

So like raw swimming, I'm not as good as I used to Israel to raw swim like for an hour straight. Now that said that as I should probably Max my son, where I just man, I love the other stuff I do. I love surfing, a piling stuff, but I don't just get in the water and just swim for an hour anymore. But at the time, I was a pretty strong swimmer.

I said one of the moments when I'm strong swimmer and we jump off this bridge and the bridge. I'm also afraid of heights, so I jump off it. And probably about one out of three guys jumped. Not everyone jumps by any stretch of imagination. 1/3 jump, 2/3 Don't and I jumped in and I hit the water and the water was really cold. It was like swimming in a mountain lake, which I'd done before. I've done a lot of swimming and water. That's just about 36 degrees.

Okay, I've never saw more like 32 33. No thinks I'm not in the Polar Bear club, but definitely someone wanted 36 up four degrees. Definitely. I've swim in the ocean and whales in winter, man, it's cold. I would go to the beach and whales and swim, and no one else would be there because it's too cold for what else they like. April what he was talking about. I swim from April to October, where everyone else is spending from like June to August. That's it.

So I can swim. And I'm a good cold water swimmer. Not great. I jumped in the water. My first. I was like, Whoa, this is way colder. Thought was it was cold enough that it shocked me. And my first thought was, Man, you gotta be a good swimmer to be in that they definitely you don't have to be a good swimmer. And my year. What if there's a guy who had a birthmark on his face?

We all know we was was a big full of player is very distinctive guy. So every new Iwas and jumps in the water and last words he ever spoke were to one of my friends. He said I couldn't swim to save my life. Somehow he got caught up in the moment not knowing how to swim, and he jumped in the water next to one of my friends.

But probably would you know those guys that weighs like 1 10 or 1 20 Do you have a £220 full player who can't swim and he grabs my friend and they both go to the bottom of the lake and my friend nearly dies, too. Okay, And then we come up and all the girls are watching where the girls notices. The guy doesn't come back up because, of course, he was a handsome guy.

We're certainly no girls that would have noticed if I didn't come back up at the time, I'll tell you that. So one of the of course, there's always the student who was the summer lifeguard goes in. They find the guy, they pull him out too late, pull him out that doing the whole CPR thing like 10 feet away from me.

And I think they banned the jumping in the lake After that, you let me do it for 100 years, and it's like a lot of my life. Was was one of those moments. It changed my life. That was when I decided to learn to be an empty. I worked on animals for a year lot ambulance stories because I never wanted to feel helpless again. I never want to be a situation where someone was hurt.

I didn't help them, so this guy had drowned and I didn't actually know what. Two. D'oh! I had taken a CPR class when I was a Cub Scout, but I didn't remember it. That's one of the reasons I'm working. Even now, on my parenting emergency product was a big product. All about how to deal with all the different emergencies have so much work because there's so many things we don't think about his parents. And swimming for me is absolutely critical.

Because I look at this guy who if you looked at me and him, you would sink super athlete pig. I don't look anything like an athlete. He will always understand me as an athlete. People always think that I'm jokers athlete people. I was massive. Think I'm way worse than I am. Okay, I'm not a great natural athlete, but I'm not horrible. I exercise almost every day. I love to be out there, but Yeah, I'm a little bit fat.

She looked at the two of us, and if you thought he was gonna die from drowning, you definitely think it would be me. And I watched this. I die in front of me where most horrible things ever seen. And a part of me blames his parents, right, teaching in a swim. And I say Part of me, most of me, it's an X. In my opinion, it's inexcusable a lot. Teacher kids how to swim because there's water everywhere.

You know, I understand people who grew up in the city. He grew up in an inner city environment where there's not a lot of pools around. But I know there's public pools everywhere. If you have to. You know what I'm saying? We're wives. He'll teach anyone to some for free. They're totally into it. I know that you can't even go to Harvard if you don't know. So make take swim test because they had a kid drown like six years seven years ago.

So the school goes, That's not happening again. You can come if you can't learn the skill. And for that reason, swimming's to me an essential skill. As a parent, I started teaching my daughter swim when she was around two years old. Okay, because you think I got three kids too, and she handed it like you wouldn't believe. And I was one time teaching her I would wait and to teach, right. I used to live in a large building like a large complex.

And so I would wait till everyone was done for the day. So I would teach her around sunset when the pool's empty and when they were out there. And she's howling and this guy outside, the only guys outside, outside on his porch, like on the fourth floor from players I've had. I don't know why he's outside. Okay, start shouting at me. She doesn't like it. What do you think you're doing?

You're a monster, and all I could think about was I tried to curse on my podcast, but about so I want to. This guy is trying to get between me and teaching my daughter and essential life skill. Now my daughter is probably the best room runner, for she's definitely best weather for age on her island, and she's an amazing swimmer, one of the things that I do everyone, So I'll grab her and throw it in the middle of the pool.

And if she's not expecting it, sometimes she doesn't like it at all. But then she swims to the middle. Here's why she's falling into a pool a few times. Okay, I would rather her learn the skill from surprise as well. So live kids swim, but they don't If they get sort of pull by surprise, they forget. And that's happened here before. So she's actually over the surprise faces. Well, my daughter's for now. She's a really strong swimmer. I don't worry about it at all.

I don't let her swim by herself. I've never let us from ourselves, but I know that she could an emergency very important to you. People who don't see people don't see swimming is essential skill. Don't treat it the same way, and that's why people drown. But I will not let that happen. I want my kids because it's so important to me. And I actually have other central skills I'm gonna talk about in some future episodes because I realised parenting is big part my life.

So my son, he loves showing my son. Can't someone use one? Now there are classes you can take. Unfortunately, they're very protective of their information, cause I wanted Thio teach my son. This thing is like survival swimming. They teach kids as young as like a couple months old. If they get thrown in the pool had a swim to the edge of the pool on their backs. Unfortunately, my kids don't have to do that. Rescue survival swimming because you can't find the information online.

You can learn a person because now that I'm a killer, but they throw like a three month baby in the middle of the baby swims to the edge. And I saw this thing online. I saw a headline My friend Todd's Kid to do was the coolest thing ever saw and all these people like you're a monster. How could you teach your kid to do that? Happy three kids, middle of pool and so many kids falling pulls all the time.

It's much better See what'll happen when you're there and you can rescue him, right? And you could actually take care of it. So it depends. How you see swimming determines how you react when you see one of those videos. If you see swimming is fun, then you think, What are you doing? You're doing the kid a metal pole. What? Your monster.

But when you think about the danger of a kid falling in a pool, and I've been in one of the scenarios when I was a little kid. I found the bullet almost died. My dad had a dive in and saying It could have been my mom. I hope it was my dad. If I tell the story wrong, I'm such a jerk.

But I fell into a pool my sister saw on screen where my parents jumped in and saved my life because I didn't know how to swim at a young age. So I see swimming in different way. I sense something is the survival school. I love something. It's entertainment, but it's a course. Go first because I've been around too much drowning stuff. I have, ah, saved I actually, a few years after that incident in college, I saved a woman's life from drowning. But I was intrigued.

She has two kids. I like living the pictures, those kids on Facebook, because I'm like, Wow, I did something right was almost ended Things I did in my life before I got married. So I have my own kids. My reaction to swimming and changing it from entertainment to an essential skill is the reason that lady and her Children are still around. Okay, so for me, swimming is not a joke. I love swimming, but at same level it's a coarse scale. So it's very important.

Teacher Children that scale. It's for important if you don't have time to learn because we always end up in situations where something happened. You know, we end up on a cruise or near a lake or river, and there's always something right, and you never know when it's gonna happen. What if there's a flood? You never know when it's gonna happen. That comes up enough that it's worth learning too important.

And as your training, Children things, ever discovering all these new tools unfortunately, missed the boat on a couple of them. There's this thing you could do with a kid where you get like a circle, like a donut of air, like a floatie right. We think of the flu, but you get one that's the size of just a kid's neck, and then the kids bodies in the water and can swim.

We didn't get one of those for my son because I don't kind of discover that technology to is too big. We got some. We have some really cool things that all post links to the stuff we use is, well, we have this thing called drink the name there. If you look him up, there's a couple of things called backsplashes and paddlers for kids unfortunately there, for they expect you to teach your kid to swim when they're like three or four.

So almost of the swimming tools are too big a McMann. My daughter doesn't need this at all. These storm training, she's She could swim in her own. No problem. She could swim, probably for our laps without getting too tired. She gets I'm just back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. She also can climb out of the pool when the water is too low. Where we live, it's really hot. The water gets slowed if it rains, the water higher the pool.

So sometimes it's like two inches of water until you're at the edge of the pool. And sometimes it's like a bullet or foot and 1/2 1 of the things that I made her learn how to do was when she was tired to climb up by herself. I taught her to go swim to where there's the drain on the side of the pool and stick her foot in that hole and then climb out.

So because what happens if he falls into swim to the edge and she's still too tired, she needs you to get out of the pool. That's a survival school. Everyone saw me teacher, I think. What are you doing? And remember, she used to scream, and now she loves swimming. She's a really good swimmer because of the way I see it there. It was really hard. Teacher swim, the real struggles. We waited too long, in my opinion.

That's why would my son we started six week instead of two years ago. I learned my lesson. Start around the gate. When you see swimming this way for your Children for yourself, you start to think about the other steps a lot of people teacher could distribute and how to get out of the pool. We're going. Is that especially so?

She's singing, and the other thing you do is you can teach your kid you got a pool and then the climb along the sides till we get to the stairs as well. But what happens if they're too tired to go to climb all the way around the pool. So I wanted to have multiple ways of getting out very important to me, trying to teach that to my son. But he always wants jump in.

He can't swim what we're getting next for his age now that he's won because the powers and slashers are too big and they were great. We actually got one, and it's amazing, but it's too big firm, and we looked at trying to resize it, and it didn't quite work. It's basically like to arm floaties on the sides. And then there's, Ah, Chef, the front your chest has a band of floating this as well. Life. It's made out of life, Jack.

Instead of thing you inflate with air, but he doesn't know how to keep his face out of the water properly because he's at that age. He doesn't realize you can't really know water and try to teach him. That may just just, um, you know, he's a baby waiting and do so what we need and what I'm actually picking up this week in America is a thing called a friend's swim trainer.

I haven't used one yet, but the reviews look amazing on Amazon, so almost a link, but its in between these different levels. It's for his age. I think you can actually started six months with it or something, so I'm gonna trick it out and probably for the next child as well. I want to do better teaching the kids. So I I actually feel like my son to be much stronger, stronger than he is. It's my fault.

I don't think I I you know, I didn't have a teach rescue, assuming because there's no videos or training online and it's kind of limiting. So I did read a bunch of books, the one in laws, other stuff. But I just wanted to be an amazing swimmer as fast as possible. He's always trying to crawl into the pool is birthday party. Last week, he tried to call the pool like five or six times. He wants to be the water all the time.

He loves swimming so much. I love eggs. I left for me to so this essential skill. There's really cool tools out there to help you, and there's a couple of things along the way. You can take lessons at the Y. I really recommended. It's something I want you to think about. I know it's a little bit off topic, but really serving a master for me. And I had a big talk with some of this other day goes all your to your messages too wide for me.

It's about helping two people to have amazing lives. And a big part of that is passing on your amazing life to your Children. A big part of that is being prepared for certain types of emergencies. Now, I'm not into survivalism, not thinking there's gonna be a zombie apocalypse. But I do know that things happen because I've been around in my life, several drowning incidents. The first time I couldn't do anything. The second time I could. I don't want you to have to go through that.

Just nothing worse and something bad happened to your kids. So it doesn't matter what race you are. Doesn't matter where you live. It doesn't matter all of those things where I live. I live on the island. Huge numbers of people. There's a whole island nation. Most of the country can't swim. He will go to the beach and they don't they never go more than 10 feet into the water and confirm that for ages.

My first, my wife, she didn't just want me there to teach you how to swim as well. She still says that she's not a swim, but she's actually pretty good side right now. How can you surf in all the time and not be a pretty consumer? Right. But when you see it as a entertainment or as a fun, as opposed to a survival skill, you approach it differently. So please think about the importance of swimming if you're like me.

If you have younger Children, teach them how to swim. If you don't ask him yourself, please learn. It's such a critical skill. Think about how many, just like a 1,000,000,000 pools in America. There's lakes and rivers everywhere. There's flooding all the time. I've been in multiple floods. I'm in a lot of natural disasters. I've actually been in every natural disaster except for an asteroid attack and volcano. I've been in Cyclone, hurricane, typhoon, massive earthquake, mold of a massive earthquake. It was just a 6.7.

I've also been in eight. I've been in what else? Oh, no, I haven't been in a civil war. That's a natural after having been in that one either. But all the things on the list for this is active God. Tornado? Yes. Massive lightning strikes. Yes, I can remember all the ones on the list, but I went to the list one time, and I've been near all near or in all of, So you can't predict what's gonna happen in the world around.

You know, everyone talks that they're, you know, they're natural disasters like the whole world's gonna flood. I don't know if that's gonna happen, but I've been in multiple floods. You never know when stuff is gonna happen, and this is one of those critical skills. So please, I know ironically, yesterday's lesson was too long. So this lesson's gonna short because it's a real simple message. Take the time to research storming technology. Depending on your age of any new kids age. It's a really useful skill worth living.

And let's say there is a zombie apocalypse. You're being chased, you get to a river. If you consume across, you live if you can't die. So just in case there's a zombie apocalypse as well, you'll be ready for that scenario. So you have. There's two good reasons to learn important, essential skill. And in case there's a zombie apocalypse, it could save your life.

If there's one thing I know that zombies can't swim, they have to walk along the bottom of the league or the bottom of the river. And that's much slower than swimming across. Think about the things in your life. Think about these kind of skills that are more than just fun. But we don't think about all the time. There's a couple of essential skills are we talking about in the future? I have a little list of what I'm thinking about working on things to talk about it.

I'll give those ideas now in the future and the future. Lessons going. Talk about first day. We're gonna talk about forming an LFC. Understand that for protecting you financially or talk about sewing, map skills and gardening. These are kind of the primary skills. I think of the essential skills I looked at my a lot of survivalism skills. Their autumn are a bit too much, but the ability to do these different things is really important sewing. I don't actually so pretty good sewer.

I can't sew a dress, but I can definitely got a cut on your arm. Also that close. We're both gonna regret it, But if you have to do that's what why? It's more important, actually, for injury selling. I think it's important skill, but these are little skills that kids don't learn anymore. I actually and I cannot use a song machine I tried to learn as a kid. Charlemagne is an adult as well, so that part of suing I can't do. I'm only good and sewing.

But sometimes you just gotta fix something. You and your work in your pants break down so I don't go down and ruin that lesson advance. We're gonna cover some essential skills in future lessons that I think are important for survival, that I think important for being ready for a different scenarios. Being the handle. Certain things are very important and being able to swimming, having your Children able to swim her texts, you from disaster.

When I was living in London every couple of weeks, you hear about someone getting drunk and going in the water. Same in Florida. People get drunk and swim, and I I've never I'm not a drunk summer. I don't drink it, sir. I can't believe people. D'oh, do one or the other. Fine, but you want your Children to be strong reviews. You want to be a strong swimmer because you never know what's coming away and there's tons of videos and lessons and tools.

You can use the matter your age. Sematary kids, if you can teach your kids a service early is a couple of weeks old. Do it because I don't want you to go through what I went through and I don't want to go through with this guy's parents went through his parents. This is almost 20 years ago now, 18 years ago. I'm now exactly double the age I was when I watched this happen. His parents probably never recovered. I would never recover.

I don't think I could recover something happen to my kids. And if it was my fault because I didn't prepare them for a serial, how could you not teach your kid to swim in and send him to a school to giant lake in the middle? I don't know. I don't want that to happen to you. I don't want that to happen anywhere else. So this is kind of a more serious lesson because it's too important.

We got a couple of other some central skills we'll talk about in the future, right business and a little bit taking care stuff. This is the most critical one because it's the one that I saw happen, and I'll never forget it. I'll never forget how I felt in that moment. I'll never forget how I felt the moment for five years later when I saved a woman's life because I had taken a new approach to swimming and I got to my auntie course and stuff.

So think about those things. And please, if there's one thing you d'oh picture against to swim, Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Serve No Master. Make sure you subscribe, so you never miss another episode. We'll be back tomorrow with more tips and tactics on how to escape that rat race Hit over to serve no master dot com forward slash podcasts.

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