It's March 8th, 2025, and this is a vlog with me, Jerry Banfield. I think you'll enjoy hearing what I did today because I think it's awesome. I think everybody should keep a diary. We got up this morning and Laura and the kids decided they were going to go to the market with her parents. Today was my first day getting back to live streaming on Twitch again. I hadn't live streamed in only a couple of weeks this time, which is great. I went live on Twitch today for about two and a half hours. I filmed several crypto videos and several music videos, and it felt really good to do the live streams without the giveaways, to just show up and film my videos and talk with the people who are live on Twitch.
I'm filming this technically on March 9th right now, on Twitch, just hanging out with the people who are talking here. It's great. I was really happy to get back to live streaming on Twitch. It felt really good, and I'll definitely go live most days to film my videos going forward. I remember about a decade ago, before it was so easy to live stream, thinking how much I wished I could record my videos live while I was on Twitch. I've got it set up now, so it's really nice to do.
Ethiopian Food and a House Without Kids
I got my videos done today, and I'm excited because tonight we're going to a relaxing yoga event. I'll tell you about that in a minute. My wife got home from the market with the kids and brought some Ethiopian food. I asked her to pick it up at the market in St. Pete, because one of my favorite foods they have there is the vegan Ethiopian food. It has this bread that's almost like a thin slice of pizza, but more porous and rolled up, kind of like a fajita. I don't know how else to describe it other than that it's brown, like bread you can rip really easily. Then they have a bunch of different ways they cook lentils and beans, and they add steamed cabbage and potatoes and other things. It feels so good. So Laura brought that home from the market for me.
Madeline had a sleepover last night, and they met up at Yogurtology, while I was at home recording my videos on Twitch. Jack had a sleepover with Laura's sister and her daughter last night too. So Laura and I got to wake up without the kids in the house, and it was really nice. But when Jack got back, I started to feel this little sense of aggravation at first. I realized it was just so easy and relaxing not having any kids in the house. It's so much easier being an adult with no children to deal with. Now, I love my kids and I wanted them very much my whole life. At the same time, having that space where there are no kids and it's just Laura and me, versus the one kid coming back, it's like back to reality. But I wouldn't change anything. I'm very happy with it. Sometimes the things you love in your life can also be irritating, whether it's your job, your partner, your house, or whatever it is.
Harry Potter Monopoly and a Long Rest
Laura came home ready for a nap after having the whole morning with the kids. I hung out with the kids and got them food, and we tried to play Monopoly, but Madeline was in a fuss and having a hard time enjoying it. Then I drew a card that sent her to Dumbledore's office, which Jack had just bought, worth 200 house points. It's Harry Potter Monopoly. That put her out of the game, so thankfully it didn't take very long. She went to her room, and Jack finished me off in Monopoly as well. Then they went to sit on the couch and I took a little rest on the couch with them, and then rested with Laura for a while. Laura spent three hours in bed. I probably spent an hour and a half lying down myself.
After that I got up and there was a flurry of activity. I started uploading the videos I'd filmed on Twitch. While I'm on Twitch, I want to really crank out video after video, and then upload them when I'm off stream, because Twitch is a great time to film but I don't need to be uploading while I'm filming too. That's better done off stream. I'd rather just crank out recording all the videos on stream. So I got the videos uploaded, then went for my one-mile run. Any day where I don't have much physical activity going on is, in my experience, a great day to go for a one-mile run to get the heart rate up, get a good sweat going, and combine that with normal physical activity like walking the dog, moving around, and being active.
I also went to visit my mom at about 5:45 to have a bag of popcorn with her. That's about as late as I usually eat. So I went over there, had a bag of popcorn with my mom, and talked to her.
A Sound Bath Violin Yoga Night
Then at 6:25, Laura, the kids, and I got in the car to go to the Body Electric. They had a special event tonight where a yoga instructor partnered with a Florida Orchestra violinist to do a relaxing sound bath violin yoga. It's so beautiful. I went to the first one by myself and had a really great cry. I went to the second one with Laura, which was really relaxing. So I wanted to go with just Laura this time, but I asked the kids and they said they wanted to go, so we gave them the chance. It's $33 each, so it was $130 for us to go to this, but it has been well worth it in the past.
We got there and got all four spots together. I saw lots of people I know, both from yoga and from Alcoholics Anonymous. Then I was wondering who was going to fall asleep. The first position she put us in was a fold, which I couldn't get comfortable in very easily, but Madeline and Laura got comfortable pretty fast. As for Jack, who's six, I'd told him beforehand, this is a lay-down yoga, are you sure you want to go? He did pretty good. He was quiet almost all the time, although he started whispering to himself during the very end of it. He rolled around a lot and knocked his blocks over a few times. But Madeline fell asleep right next to him, so he wasn't that loud. Laura got very relaxed. This was the least I was able to relax in any of these sessions, because I was paying attention to Jack, but it was still very relaxing. The music was beautiful, and we were all very relaxed going home. Madeline was a little cranky because she had fallen all the way asleep and then we woke her up to go back home, but we got her into bed and Jack into bed.
I washed the sheets for them today. I washed through all three of our twin beds today, every bed except Laura's. When I got home I took the dog for a walk.
Why I'm Keeping My Life Simple With Crypto
On that walk I was thinking again about a potential another Jerry Banfield token, but I remembered that my specialty, what I'm world-class at, is cranking out a lot of content quickly. I'm not very good at running a business. I don't want to run a business. I don't want to deal with a token. I didn't even want to deal with the little meme coin I created. So I'm reminding myself to keep my life simple.
I listened to a video that popped up in my YouTube For You feed. It was cool because it had a lot of interesting ideas about quantum physics and everything, and I like to get out there and think some new thoughts. It was called "The Strangest Idea in Science That No One Really Dies," and it's by Cool Worlds. I put it on double speed. I also listened to the rest of the interview the Personal DAO founder did with James Allen and Aaron Bremser, and I listened to a video about OpenChat.
I started to get a little resentful, thinking these projects should be giving me more money. I've done a lot to pump their ICP projects up. With the Personal DAO founder, a year ago I would have just covered his project and done an interview with him for free, no problem. But since then, I've gotten ripped off by projects going to zero that lied and ruined everything for investors. I've pumped up projects by a huge amount of money and they gave me nothing in most cases, or very little of the tokens for my contribution. I feel like I'm devaluing myself doing that. I'd rather make videos that get the most views and carry my message to the most people possible. Usually when I do a video about a specific coin like OpenChat or Decide AI, those videos don't do as well as a more general video in terms of getting views. And views equal people paying $300 to talk with me, paying one to ten ICP to join my OpenChat communities, watching a bunch of other videos, and getting my other channels monetized.
So I got a little resentful on the walk. At the same time, part of me feels like I should just let the founder of Personal DAO do a free interview on my channel. But why? You have to pay for everything else. Some crypto exchange isn't going to list his token for free because they like him. And he already did an interview, maybe for free, with James Allen and Bobby O, or Coin Nation, so the ICP community has already heard about it. So I told him that if he wants to do an interview with me, it's 100 ICP or 33,000 of the DAO tokens after the SNS launches. He said he'd get back to me after he has time to do his other interviews and think about it. But I know I'd rather just say no to anything I'm not very interested in.
Hell Yes or No
What I've learned in life is that ideally you want life to be hell yes or no. Like, I really want to do this, or absolutely not. What often ruins things is a lot of lukewarm yeses. Oh, okay, I guess I should do this. Or, I ought to, or, I kind of like it. If you want your life filled with lukewarm crap you don't really want to do, then say yes to a bunch of stuff you weren't really interested in. A lot of times when I hear people say they're busy, what I think is, you're not busy, you just don't know how to say yes to the right things and say no to everything else. So I'm intending to make sure my life is filled with things I really want to do. If you want to hear more of how I think about these decisions, I share a lot of it in my YouTube Coaching playlist.
For example, I really want to go to the dentist every four or five months to get my teeth cleaned, because I love having clean teeth. So I love going to the dentist and not having to get all my teeth pulled. My father-in-law just got all his teeth pulled. My dad is dead, so he hasn't needed teeth in 11 years at this point, and his teeth were doing pretty bad before that. My mom needs to have all her teeth pulled. I want to keep my teeth clean. So even things like going to the dentist, I really want to do, and I'm passionate about it. I go every four months to keep my teeth nice and clean. That's my lesson for today.