Latest / To Your Success! Podcast / Episode 56: We really messed up these 3 weeks
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- Christer: Welcome aboard. It's not forgiven that we still float. The last three months, no, that's wrong. The last three weeks. It feels like three months. It feels like three months, but it has been a really struggle for us. We almost lost our boat. We almost sunk. And we're going to talk about what happened today. Because three weeks ago we came to Greece, to Corfu. And when we entered our boat and turned on the... water tap. Yeah we only got the bad gas out of the taps. it smells so bad it's like rotten eggs. Yeah and it's unhealthy as well so we had bad water on board. That was the first thing. Yeah. Right. The second thing is that you fill the ventilation system with water. that's not the second thing. The second thing was that we needed to have chlorine in that water to make it work to try to clean it. Yeah. And then When we opened up the tap after having the chlorine in that water for some hours, that's when the... That's when you put on the shower and you forgot to put on the pump that takes the water out of the shower. So you fill the shower with like 100 liters of water. Was it not more than 100 I don't think it was more. then since there is a ventilation valve on there, then... you fill the ventilation with the air ventilation system with water as well. And I didn't know anything about it because I was sitting and just relaxing and then suddenly you said there is water coming out of the what you call it the ventilation there's water coming what's happening I was thinking I was wondering I didn't have that scenario in my head that we could think that way then I realized what it is okay anything is possible with me in the boat you know yeah but I'm learning So now we have... I was not trying to get this water heating system in the boat, so... Now we have water heater instead of air heater. Hopefully we fixed it, right? We got the water out. We got the water out by opening the entire system there. that was the second thing. And then... What was the next thing? We were, yeah, you were going to have a service on the engine. Yes, I was going to have, you know, and this boat is beautiful with a lot of teak. This is built when teak was really good. And I actually managed to spill half a liter of oil on the teak. that's everyone who has teak knows that that's a no go. That's bad. And it was used oil as well. So it was from the last oil change. Yeah. Okay. I got a video from you because I was doing the laundry and I got a video from you filming all the spots with the oil on the peak everywhere and I believe you swear several times. Yeah, I was angry at myself. I'm not going to do that again. It's OK. We are learning. yeah. And I think the biggest challenge is that this happened when it's. above 40 degrees Celsius inside the boat. It was so warm. was in the warmest. I mean, we are in Greece now. So if you look behind us, if you watch this on YouTube, you will see that we are anchored in a beautiful bay. It actually looks a little bit. I was surprised that there are so much mountains in Greece. So but it looks a little bit like Sweden and Norway, right? We're in a fjord and there are mountains around us. So it's really The water isn't even that clear here. So no, it's not. So we haven't had a morning bath. OK, so. three things. The fourth thing was the most serious one, think. Yeah. Yeah. Because we, we after almost a week, we, we left Corfu with some friends of us and we wanted to have a nice relaxing couple of days on anchor with them and they won was okay. But the second day you first of all, before this happened, before you discovered this, you, you wanted to to install solar panels and start doing that. So you drilled a hole through the wall in the boat. Yeah, I did. It's a beautiful wooden wall. It's Mahogany, right? 10 millimeter hole. So next to my side of the bed, there is a hole. Can you imagine how I had reacted like three years ago, four or five years ago? I would have been mad. And now it's it's done, right? It's nothing we can do. And you fixed it. I fixed it. So it's absolutely good now. But the good thing about starting to do the solar panel is that I took away a panel that behind the sofa in the boat and there I found a very serious leak. Very, very bad. That's when it all started. Yeah. That was like Sunday afternoon, six o'clock, I discovered that the boat could potentially sink. Right. And it would be like this big hole, a five to five centimeter hole in the boat, 30 centimeters under the water line. That means that you have thousands of liters pouring into the boat. Very fast. And it was already dripping. It was already dripping, right? But what we managed to do, I say I can fix anything with duct tape. We managed to fix it. I have some special grease that I put into the hole and then I just bandaged it. Greasing grease actually? Yeah. Sorry, that's how my brain works. I don't know what that means, but it's Antoine. yeah, I did. But yeah, so we fixed. But that means that the boat had to go up. We couldn't continue sailing. this was Sunday, everything was closed. And Monday morning we lifted. And then we had to go all the way back to the marina to get the boat lifted. But everything worked out. Right. And it was costly. It cost us more than 2000 euros to fix that. Just to get the boat lifted was like 1500 euros. To fix the thing itself was a few hundred euros. But it was really good. because we did all of this happen but then both me and you I think for a couple of years ago we would have been really frustrated and mad and would know how to handle this and what we did this time is and actually shows how much we have changed both of us because we instead of instead of being frustrated about it we just took into a hotel We ordered the honeymoon suite. So we had four nights in the honeymoon suite in a small, beautiful hotel. And we had a tower. Yeah, we had a tower. So it was just amazing. And in addition to that, we got the air conditioner because we had four days where someone else was taking care of the boat and we could just work inside the cool place. And it turned out it worked out to the best for us. It did. This is the lesson. This is so bad, it has to be really good. When things like this, when say when life gives us lemons, then we make limoncella or lemonade, depending on what you want. I prefer limoncella. You prefer limoncella. And that's an attitude thing. That is really important because if you let yourself be controlled by the circumstances, and the circumstances are created by the five physical senses, see, taste, right? If you let that control your emotional state, you will lose. You will only attract more of that, more of that, more of that. And Elin said one thing to me that I have reflected over is that I'm always prepared to fix the boat. So therefore I attract things as well. I don't say that the boat on purpose breaks down. But I think if it was quiet, you would. I would. Yeah, I would break something. The thing with finding that leak was that that was just by accident. I cannot say it was by accident. My intuition told me that maybe if I look behind that panel then I can draw the cable and the electricity from the solar panel to through there. And then I saw it. I didn't plan to look behind there because my plan was to go through the wall, not really a hole in the wall. But this intuition nudged me, right? And I'm so grateful for that. If I hadn't done that, then we potentially could have sunk. We would have woken up in the middle of the night to a water alarm. Because there is an alarm going off if there is a lot of water inside the boat. And that is a really bad situation. The worst thing that could happen is that this could happen next year we're crossing the Atlantic. That's 20-22 days at sea. It could happen mid-sea. Now we changed that through hull fitting and that valve. So we have a new one that made us discover another problem with the generator. Yeah. it's all these things, right? So we are sailing to Malta in a few days and then we will have a mechanic taking care of that. but it's we just I mean, it's so important. It is not what happens to you. It is how you deal with it. And everything just happens for a reason as well. So. I don't know if that bad water happened for a reason. I'm not going to feel bad water on the boat again. that was the start of this. In Corfu the tap water is full of salt and I didn't think when I filled the water tank so I used the wrong water. Because normally you have drinking water on the pier in the marina but it's not that in Corfu so I filled it with salt water. Well it's brackish water right? And then we had to empty that out. We filled it with new water, but that went bad, right? Now we have a really clean fresh water system. clean, yeah. And I think our skin and hair also is very clean after all the chlorine. But you remember there was another thing too. We got a leak on the tap in the kitchen where water was just pouring out because under the sink one of the tubes had been... worn out, right? One of these metal sponge tubes. them. Yeah. Actually, because we're recording this. This is about two weeks, three weeks, two, three weeks. Yeah. So then I read that from another guy said, when on a boat, never throw things away. It will always come to use. even your wife. Okay. You have to think about it. I'm not going to tell you what I thought there. So then I, of course, then I had an extra extra host like that. And then now I have three more because I went to a shop and bought more, right? Just to have it because it is one of these things that can be difficult to get. But the point is, you know, when it comes to mindset and it comes to what happens around you, you have to don't let your five physical senses control you. Right. If you want more money, you cannot let the bank account control you. If you want more sails, you cannot have all the no's control you because you get a lot if you are into sails, you know that you get more no's than yes. Yeah. And it's the same thing. You cannot let the weather control you. Of course, you have to deal with especially when we sail. Right. We have to deal with weather. Yes. Yeah. And sometimes you wonder why I'm so concerned about weather like now that we are crossing. We are we are next week. We are sailing. How much is it? 350 nautical miles about 450 miles open water. It's not like open-open because it's not that far away from land. But still, and then you wonder why do I check the weather forecast all the time? Because I want to learn how the weather develops, right? And I don't want to be affected because you know how shitty weather it can be. I know. Especially here. We've been out in the storm and that's not fun. But we manage that as well. But it's so important not to let what you see here taste, touch and smell. And to let that affect you emotionally. And stay calm. Stay neutral. Yeah, there's a storm coming. Let's have a cup of tea. why we share this with you? you know, last, it's Friday today when we record this on Monday, we had a workshop, had 100 people, almost 100 people attending a live workshop with us. And then we worked really hard. And then on Thursday we left. Right. And I was tired for three hours. And then I got full of energy and then I fixed something on the boat. He didn't break anything. No, fixed it. Our freezer. Okay. But it is all that is what mindset is. You focus on the goal. You don't focus on what happens around you here and now. You don't let other people affect you. Right. I had a call with a prospect who got angry at me. And then I said, I don't think we shall work together. Right. Because you have to fix that. Of course we have a lot of clients that have this anger issue, me included. I have that so it's not difficult to change. So what's next? So by the way if you look behind us that's our dinghy. The dinghy is like a car when we are sailing. Her name is Minion. It's Minion. She has a new dress this year. when people say that we live, you live a dream life. We say no, we don't. live our goals. And we don't do it because it's easy. We do it because it's hard. And that is a challenge, right? When you start personal development, you know that to reach your goals you have to challenge yourself. You have to get out of the comfort zone, have to get into the fair zone and through that. And that is a challenge because when you first have started it and you have seen how fast it goes when you develop and how easy it is actually. We had a talk the other day here, you and me, about changing so much. Changing all the time like we do focusing on change. It's kind of hard sometimes. It is. Yeah, it can be quite exhausting to change all the time, but it's so fun. So the reward of it is it's it's totally worth it. Of course it it will be hard sometimes when you face your fears and you have to go through that fear barrier you have to so. But it's not hard. You have accepted the wrong idea there, my dear. When you say it's hard, you have accepted the wrong idea. It's not hard, it's just different. It's different, but sometimes we get exhausted. Of course. But then we try too hard. Yeah? Yeah. And then we chill out, we relax, right? We take a break like we are staying at Ankara at this place the whole weekend. Because the effortless way, the effortless way, you know, it's a principle that governs everything in physics, right? And I talked about that at the high-geo program on, I had yesterday, now on Wednesday. And it's like, how does a flower grow through concrete, a concrete floor? It follows the effortless way. It moves where it's easy. Right? doesn't. So we try, we try, and when it doesn't work, we try something else. You know, it follows the light because the light is its goal. really? can grow more. Yeah. So maybe they see light through, right? And that is what they follow. But then we should follow the light as well, not the darkness, right? Yeah, that's the goal all the time. The goal is to enjoy life. And for us, this is our life, right? And it's great to have you on board with us now. And we will record some episodes from the boat like this. we will. Travel around. Because for us, why we do it, we don't do it because it's easy, we do it because it's hard. But hard is not that it's difficult or exhausting. Hard is that it's challenging. So we challenge ourselves to become more. To become someone else. To become who we want to be in our goals. And that is the beauty of personal development. The challenge with personal development is that when you have first started... You cannot stop. You will never stop. You don't want to go back. Trust me. And especially when you see the results as well. When we started this story, this episode, when we talked about how would we have reacted a few years ago compared to how the reaction was now, then we can see the result of how we have developed, how we have been changing. Yeah, but when I found that leak, that underwater leak when saltwater was dripping into my boat, that's like, that's the scariest scenario you as a sailor. I was thinking and then I went back. I got scared. I got stressed out, but then we fixed it, right? But I didn't continue being that but the old me kicked in and that was a good learning, right? Get out of here. At the same time I could say, hey, stop that. Chill out. That's not you. It's not like a hose pouring water into the boat. We are not sinking. But it could be. It could potentially be. Because we couldn't check the damage, right? But that's the whole point. So... I highly recommend all of you to start on the journey of personal development because it's so fun. And one of the goals, I say that to all my clients, you I want you to have an I am statement. I am always feeling good. I am always in a good mood. I am always positive. Yeah, but that's another subject, right? Positive thinking. But you can say that this is so bad, it has to be really good. But the challenge between positive thinking and personal development is that positive thinking is that you say, this is good. this is good. this is good. And then you don't deal with it. Personal development is to deal with challenges. mean, life is about dealing with challenges and problems. All right. And I'm so grateful that we figured all this out before we were mid Atlantic. Yes. Which would have been more challenging, not disastrous, but more challenging. If shit hits the fan, we have a... We have Minion. We have Minion and we have a life raft. We will be okay. So thank you for joining us and thank you for sharing our life and we share our successes and our failures. These three weeks have been more failures than successes. But we learned from it. And this is what we learned from. And I just want to say if you want to work with us go to ChristoJohnson.com there is free learning there. There is free material. Reach out if you want to talk to us. And also check out the link in the bio. And feel free to subscribe. Because everything we do is to your success. Bye for now.