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Welcome to the disruptors club podcast. For those who know that life's too short to be chain to a desk who are ready to disrupt their ordinary start living life on their terms. My name's Andy, I'm the founder of the disruptors club. Let's dive in in today's TDC podcast.
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Hi there. Welcome to motivation Monday from disruptors club headquarters in not so sunny, Spain I'll have, you know, today it's been odd weather. It's been strange down here. We've had sand storms. We've had Gulf force winds. So if you were down here on your two weeks annual your leave, you would not be CHED, but it's right. Cause we live here now. We're based in space. We're all good. So welcome. How's your day been now? That's what we're gonna talk about in just a minute. How has your Monday been, even if you are, uh, listening to this on a Tuesday or Wednesday, think about how your last Monday was going. So the reason talking about this today is that a little calendar reminder flashed up today. One when I got outta bed and came to my computer and it said that my, my annual flight review was coming up basically every two years, as pilots as private pilots, we have to be checked out again by someone who's a bit more experienced than us to see if we're still capable of flying these things.
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So mine's coming up for renewal, which means that around two years ago, um, in the height of COVID, as it was all kicking off, I was having my, uh, my review. Now it was a bit weird because obviously people were isolating, they doing all sorts of things. Um, but at the time, uh, in Jersey where my aircraft was based, there was a chap who was a British airways, pilot, or east, the British airways, pilot X, RF, tornado pilot. Um, and he'd been furloughed through COVID cuz the airliners weren't flying, et cetera, et cetera. So he'd, uh, volunteered to do my checkout, which is a little bit scary when you've got someone that experienced sitting next to you. And basically what they do is they, they tell you up there, you, you plan a flight and you go off there and you, uh, you do your thing and they just make sure that everything's safe.
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But obviously Duncan had a bit of time on his hands. So he thought we'd go back to basics. Now in my airplane, we had, uh, global positioning systems, must aircraft do now. And we had autopilot and things like that. So when we are ever flying somewhere, we tend to decide where we're going. We put the root in, we plug it into the GPS. We get a nice pink or Magental line on the screen that either we can fly along or we can slave the autopilot to, and off we go. So it's really quite automated. Now don't get decided that we go back to basics. Now back to basics meant that we were gonna get the map out. We were gonna gonna draw some lines on a Papa and we were gonna do everything as we used to do when the dinosaurs run the earth, when I was learning to fly.
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So we planned a route. We drew lines, literally drew lines on a map with a pencil. And then we put markers in and we get the wind forecast and we work out how long it's gonna take us to get to our destination or our first Waypoint. And then we work back and we put marker lines in there. So it's really hands on back to basics flying, right? No purple lines on GPSs, no autopilot, um, needed. We're not having that today said we're turning all those off. So I was like, okay. So it was a little bit interesting, but we should be able to do this anyway. Cuz if we have full system failures in the aircraft, then we need to go back to basics anyway. So what we did is we planned it out and then we taxied out. Now when we're going anywhere in an aircraft, we need something to tell us what direction we're going in.
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So we don't have a GPS. We don't have all our systems. We've gotta compass a basic magnetic compass that stuck on the windshield frame on the inside. Every aircraft has them, right? And it's literally a compass in, um, a glass sort of Bo uh, bowl. Um, and it's got a, a compass ribbon on it. And it's basic as that it's as basic as it was way back in the day, the trouble with using a compass to navigate is that when you're getting bounced around a little bit in your airplane, it's kind of hard to read and it moves around quite a lot. Anyway. So what we have, we have an instrument called a direction indicator, which is based in gyroscopic, uh, systems and all that. Let's not go into that, but basically the di the direction indicator is a much more stable instrument to use for flying headings.
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So what we do is we use that instead of the compass. Now, just before we take off, what we have to do is we have to make sure that our direction indicator is aligned with our magnetic compass, the old fashioned compass that stuck on the winter. We do that because the compass is gored. Basically magnetic compass is as good as it gets, right? That's the thing that tells us the truth. If our direction indicator, uh, indicator fails, we've still got the compass. We can go back to it. So we, what we do is we align to the internal compass. So I've got this British airways captain sitting next to me, XRF one, a pilot, I'm a little bit nervous, right? We're doing the final checks before we taxi it onto the runway and take off. And I think I've done it all. It's great. Get a thumbs up.
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We take off and we're heading over out of Jersey, across the water, into mainland France. Now France was locked down so we couldn't land, but we were pretending we were going to airports and we were doing way points and things like that. Basically doing a flight around France and back to Jersey. So my first Waypoint was about 12 minutes flying time away. It was a little coastal town called Carre. Now I've been to Carre a lot via boat, lovely little Harbor. You go over on boat from Jersey. You have lunch, you have a few Venus. Somebody brings you back on a boat. Fantastic. So we use that as our first Waypoint for our navigation exercise. So we took off weather was a little bit marginal. We were in and outta cloud, but I thought, well, it's not a problem. We've got instrument, ratings got things like that, but we are flying visually.
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We are literally using waypoints the ground. And we're looking at our map to find out where we are. It really is this basic. When you learn to fly, it's fabulous. It's fantastic way to fly. However, 12 minutes into the flight, I should have been over overhead Cartright and I look down outta the window and Carre wasn't there. There was just the coast of France and no car tray. And I thought, ah, number one, this is fairly embarrassing because I've got this senior captain sitting next to me. Number two, it made me think just how much I've been relying on the systems. Duncan looked at me and he said, you know, what's the problem is I said, I, I kind of get it. I glanced down at my direction indicator. And it was reading completely differently to my compass. Now, when that happens, I'm gonna be, of course.
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And I was, of course I knew something was wrong. I thought what's going on. And then I realized I was going in the wrong direction. Now the point of this today, my Monday motivation is I think this correlates to life, because if you are one of those people that has a Monday that you hate, or even a Sunday night thinking about Monday, that you hate, you have the Monday morning blues, worse than anything in the world. I know you feel because I used to be there. I remember sitting years ago when I was in the day job in my little home spare office kind of thing. And I was staring at the blank wall, thinking this Sunday night thinking I've gotta go to work tomorrow. And I really don't want to go in there anymore. And I used to think to myself, is this all there is for people like me, is this all we have to do go through life, work our way up the crappy career ladder until we tie and probably die.
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And I was desolate. The problem was, I didn't know what was wrong. Now, going back to my story about the direction indicator and the compass, I believe knowing what I know now is that each and every one of us has an internal compass. And that compass is there to guide us to who we should be to our purpose, to why we put on this earth to what will fulfill us. But the problem is, as we grow older and we fall into routine, we follow a different direction. We follow a direction indicator because it's an indicator of what we should be doing. We should be conforming. We should be having a career. We should be having the house, the car, the 2.3 kids, whatever it is. And we go off track. I, and I now know that going back to that Sunday night, when I had my head in my hands, I'd lost my way.
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I wasn't following my internal compass. In fact, I didn't even know what that looked like. I didn't know what my purpose was. I do. Now. My purpose now in life is to help other people break out and live their life on their terms. Because as I say, in a disruptors club, life is too short to be chained to a desk. But at the time I didn't know this. I just knew something was wrong. So if you are feeling like at that today, if you've got the Monday morning blues, if you're back from work and you're just thinking that was another hellish Monday, and I don't wanna do that anymore, it can be overwhelming to think, what do I need to change? And how do I do it? What we need to do is we need to make one small change. If I was one degree out from my direction indicator to my compass over time, the void is huge.
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But all I need to do is tweak that direction, indicator to the right one notch, one degree. And I'm coming back to where I should be going to where the compass is taking me. So what do I mean by that? In terms of what you can do you today find some space, some mind space where you can sit and go, what is it that I really didn't like? Because we can call Monday. All we like, we can say it's Monday. I just hate Mondays, but that's not really fair on Mondays. Cuz I love Mondays. I've had a great day. I've been out working. I've been playing paddle tennis. I've been coffees. Mondays are great. It's not Monday's fault, but there's something in our life that is off. Now that could be your job. It might not be, you might love your job. It could be the people you are around.
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It could be your environment or maybe it's a habits that you have that you want 'em to break. So what we need to do without becoming overwhelmed is step back and go. What is it that I don't like and break it down. Because if it's only one of those things, if it's your job, you can change your job or you can leave your job and build an online business and do what we do and live life on our terms. We don't answer to anybody. It's not to say we're irresponsible people. We've just taken the view that life's too short to be chained to a desk, but you may love your job. It may be the people that are around you that bring you down, change your people. Now I'm not saying gun, um, walk away from your family, divorce, your life, whatever it may be.
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Um, talking about people who circles, you can leave or join better circles where people are more aligned with you to inspire and motivate you to be the best person to follow your internal compass. If it's your environment, if it's where you live, think about how you can change that. How can you move? Or how can you make that environment better? These things seem big, but they're all doable. Or if it's habits that you have that are not serving, you think about how you can change them one at a time because you can do this. That's how I did it. When I realized that I didn't wanna be employment anymore. And it's not because I was lazy. I, I love working and I love building my business. But when I realized I didn't wanna be a slave to the system anymore, I knew I had a lot to do.
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I already had a side hustle going on with my brand and marketing business, which was really just a free job. But I knew I had to make a shift. And I knew that that one shift was to build that business up to a point that I could afford to leave my job. It was the job that was bringing me down. It wasn't the people, it wasn't the environment, it was being slaved to the system. It was being chained to that desk. And so that's what I did. I focused my time on building up that business until I could afford to leave my full-time job. The income was nowhere near the salary I was on, but it didn't matter because I worked out my numbers and I knew what I needed to leave that job. And I just focused on building that thing up day after the hours and time that I could afford I put into doing that.
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And I think it only took me about six months to do it where I could go into the boss and say, I'm leaving. It was a bit more dramatic than that, but we'll talk about that on another podcast. The point of it is what I want you to do. If you've got the Monday blues, if you've got the Monday blues on a Tuesday or a, we stop and find that space where you can clear your mind and think, what is it? That's not serving me in my life. What do I have to change? And start by making one degree shifts. Remember the direction indicator back to the compass. One degree shifts may be all. You need to send you on that path. Now a lot of people say, I don't know what my purpose is. And I get that because when we're overwhelmed and we're in the system, we often can't see the wood for the trees.
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But if you can start making a shift to where you get more clarity in your life that will serve you, that will serve you at a level you've never had before. Because right now, more than ever ju we're still in COVID aren't we I'm not. I was gonna say, you know, during COVID, we're still there. We're still at the tail end. We've got things going on in the world. We're overwhelmed with data. We're overwhelmed with anxiety. We need to find the space to be around the people as well. Going back to the people who will inspire and motivate you to make that shift in your life. It doesn't and have to be to build a business. I build a disruptors club to help people live their dream. That could be keeping your job or being in a career for life. But living the dream life you want to have.
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I build the disruptors club to find help people find the mindset they need to make shifts. And that's what it's all about. When I first started doing this, I was also, when I was doing my, uh, I had my freelance business. I was also coaching people. One to one, people were saying, Andy, how do you do it? How do you go out? Then build your business. And I was loving it and I was doing it. But my dilemma, my dilemma was that I could only serve one person at a time. Don't get me wrong. I love my one-to-one coaching now, but I could only serve one person at a time. And my mission, my reason for being my compass was telling me that I helped to help as many people as I possibly could break free and live life on their terms for the time they've got left on this earth.
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It doesn't matter how it feels right now. Things are up in the air. We've got wars going on. As, as, as we, you know, record this, we've got, COVID still in the air. We've got things going on, but we have to take life by the horns and make it the best we can. And that's why I created that thing. And when I found my calling for that, my life changed incredibly incredibly. I now I now love Mondays. I just said that to you. You know, we live life on our terms and that's what I want for everybody else, whatever that looks like. So I will finish my saying, take a step back and think about what it is. That's not serving you in your life. You may be listen to this guy. My life's great. And I, if you are fantastic, absolutely fantastic. But if you're not, if you have the Monday blues, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, blues waiting for Friday blues, step back and think, what is it that's not serving me. And how can I make one shift on my direction indicator towards my internal compass. Hey, thanks for listening. I really appreciated. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and if you are ready to disrupt, your ordinary can start living life on your terms and head on over to the disruptors club.com where you can join us today.
