Christmas Special - Life Hacks, Biggest Lessons & Best Resolutions - #881

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
What's happening, people? Welcome back to the show. It is a Christmas special. I'm back on my old couch in Newcastle upon Tyne with Jonny and Yusef and George to catch up on what they've learned and their best hacks and New Year's resolutions for 2025 I kind of wanted to actually collect some of the highest value New Year's resolutions that we've all ever done. I kind of figured when you do New Year's resolutions, you're sort of coming up with them on your own and sort of trying to deconstruct what you think that you want. There's not really any reason that you can't just steal other people's, especially if they say, I still do this 10 years later, this resolution that I did in 2015 has stuck with me the whole time. And yeah, there's some good stuff in here. And it's so nice to be back with the boys. Obviously Christmas time is a bit of a reflective period. So I hope this really spurs you on to come up with some good ideas for your own annual review and the planning process as you enter the New Year. Try and take a little bit of time if you can this week to downregulate Unplug, obviously after having listened to this episode. But there's no episode on Thursday, so you can take that day off. Anyway, but now ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Jonny, Yusef and George.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. It is a Christmas special. For those of you who have only joined the show over the last year or the last few years, might not recognize this room, and it is my old living room in Newcastle, Pontine, where we first started the show, joined by Jonny Yusef from Propane Fitness, and George Mack stopping off en route from Glasgow to Manchester, of course. This is a Life Hacks, Lessons from 2024, and Best New Year's Resolutions episode. So if you haven't seen these, we'll go around in a circle, coming up with whatever we've discovered over the last year, and then the rest of us will rip it apart or say that it's good. And maybe there'll be some ideas for you, for what you can implement going into the new year. Also, if you haven't done a new year's review, the exact template that I use and have crafted very delicately over the last decade or so is available right now for free at chriswellex.com/review. That's tradition. Something else which is tradition, is you getting hot potato and going first.

**Jonny Watson** (2:27)
I got the potato.

**Chris Williamson** (2:28)
A festive potato for you.

**Jonny Watson** (2:30)
Festive potato.

**Chris Williamson** (2:30)
Jonathan Watson. What have you got for us?

**Jonny Watson** (2:32)
Is it life hacks first?

**Chris Williamson** (2:33)
It is.

**Jonny Watson** (2:34)
So my life hack is a ninja creamy.

**Chris Williamson** (2:41)
So happy you said that.

**Jonny Watson** (2:42)
No, really?

**Chris Williamson** (2:42)
I've got.

**Jonny Watson** (2:43)
I thought you, have you?

**Chris Williamson** (2:43)
I've got one.

**Jonny Watson** (2:45)
Yusef's been thinking about getting one. I think hasn't got one yet.

**George Mack** (2:48)
What's a ninja creamy?

**Jonny Watson** (2:49)
Do you know what one is?

**George Mack** (2:51)
Educate me.

**Jonny Watson** (2:54)
It's, what I use it for is making ice cream from a protein shake.

**Yusef** (3:00)
It's brilliant.

**Jonny Watson** (3:02)
So like skimmed milk, what do you use it for? The same thing or berries? I imagine you have berries in yours.

**Chris Williamson** (3:10)
Actually, no. Mine has been low sugar, high protein ice cream made with the exact protein powder that I want. So pretty much the same thing that you're doing.

**Jonny Watson** (3:22)
Yeah. Do you put topping in it?

**Chris Williamson** (3:25)
So I've encountered a problem with that, which is when you have to make up the mixture and then put it in the freezer for it to freeze. The issue is the viscosity of the liquid when you put it in the freezer versus the viscosity of the liquid when it becomes ice cream is different. So if you put chocolate chips in, they'll just sink to the bottom and create a layer. What's your solution?

**Jonny Watson** (3:44)
Well, you put them on after you've... So you cream it and then you...

**Chris Williamson** (3:49)
You what?

**George Mack** (3:49)
Sorry, I'm just writing instructions. You do what?

**Jonny Watson** (3:53)
I don't see a pen, George. Doesn't look like you're making notes. It looks like you're trying to make fun of me, George. Go on. You cream it. Cream it. And then once it's creamy, there's a mix in button. Oh, have you not encountered that? If you've seen it, that's not for me.