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Micro wisdom delivered to your ears every morning in voice notes ranging from 3 to 15 minutes long. Wisdom on how to live a healthier and more fulfilling life. Every podcast will ground you in the present moment to ensure you know what's important, the here and now.
Hello, everyone. Welcome to the podcast. Now the next twenty one days of podcast will be tailored around stoicism. Or there'll be other elements like studies and stuff coming in about around stoicism. This is day one of a lock day lock in, sorry, lock in challenge.
Speaker 1:Some of you might be honest, some of you not, but the podcast will help either way. So if you've been feeling behind, if you have been building momentum and you want to stabilize that, whatever it is, take the next twenty one days and really do the fundamentals and keep that thing going. Keep that fire burning or start the fire going. Once the fire starts going, it's easier to maintain than to start again. Right?
Speaker 1:So it's important that we start the fires in a lot of you and for some of you to keep it going. So the first thing on day one is that Epictetus would mention, first say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do. So if you wanna be a healthy person or someone who lives a healthy lifestyle and sorry, suck at this cough. You wanna be that person. You can decide today today to be that person.
Speaker 1:It's not like an illusionary thing in the future. Today, you can live healthy lifestyle. You can do it. You can be this person. You can hit your steps.
Speaker 1:You can track your calories. You can decatastrophe situations. You don't have to let things get to you. You don't have to let the emotions run your day. You know, you can be in control of these things.
Speaker 1:And this is important, because when you decide, okay, this is the person I'm gonna be, let's just do it day by day, one day at a time, and for twenty one days. You might think, oh, that doesn't make me the person that I claim to be. What does? You know what I mean? All we are is what we do day to day.
Speaker 1:A lot of us have habits that don't serve us, you know? Sometimes it's more powerful to remove blockers than to add things. Bruce Lee had a good quote about it. He he says he adds via subtraction. So addition via subtraction.
Speaker 1:What can you subtract? Sorry about the cough. What can you subtract that makes your day better? A lot of you is you can remove phone time, gives you more time to kind of process things better, go for walks, journal, read a book, whatever it is. You know, that's one thing you can do.
Speaker 1:Get out of your own way, essentially. But it's important on day one of this twenty one day lock day lock in that you have to say to yourself what you want to be, what type of person you want to be, and who are you becoming right now. Okay? Because if you hit your step count and you make sure you're not overeating on energy and you're trying to eat more protein, okay, and you're decatastrophizing situations, you're more in control of your emotions, you're becoming a rational human being who is striving for health, who becomes a beacon in other people's lives. You know, you've got to remember, a lot of us, in our own social circles, friends, family, children, you become an example for people when you lead a good life.
Speaker 1:You know? It really rubs off on people. You can really be that person in this circle, like no extra pressure. But by you becoming this person you've wanted to become health wise, it really does rub off on other people. And you don't need a perfect plan.
Speaker 1:You don't need permission. It's not about catching up. You're not behind. Okay. You're beginning.
Speaker 1:A lot of you sorry. Roy, you've done the process. You've done fat loss. You've maintained. You've gained a bit back.
Speaker 1:You've done fat loss. This isn't the same as yoyo cyclin. A lot of you have been through many previous challenges. A lot of you have been through a lot of education based stuff, and it's fine to have this edge this this knowledge built up. It's okay.
Speaker 1:You've got this knowledge built up. You know what you've to do and stuff. But actually, when it comes to it, the difference between the winners and the losers when it comes to, you know, success in life is they just do the fundamentals no matter what. Or they have some form of fallback that they do certain one or two fundamentals every day. That really is the difference.
Speaker 1:When you ask or see these courts about these grandmasters and experts and stuff, they always say the same thing. There's a book by Robert Green called Mastery and he said you gotta take ten thousand hours to be a master or something. Whether that's true or not, don't know. But if you just did the basics every day, like if you were to write 500 words a day for two years, would you become a better writer? Yes.
Speaker 1:So we were like, well, it's just very basic that I'm writing 500 words a day. But someone might come with a complicated plan. Well, you have to read five chapters of Shakespeare, two chapters of who else? Robert Greene, and then you've got to find the ideas as similar, you go right, like, you know, it's a complex plan. You don't do the complex plan.
Speaker 1:It's like, how do I that? For two days, it's gone. So all we're left with is what are the fundamentals we can do. So that's all my reminder for you guys is today. You're not behind.
Speaker 1:You're beginning, and the beginning is a new day every day. You're gonna decide today who you are becoming, look at your actions, where do you actually wanna go. Be serious about this. It's your life. Be serious about where you wanna go.
Speaker 1:Health is the main thing. Putting your time into your health is one of the best investments you can make, and it doesn't have to be a lot of time either, which is great news for us. Right? You don't need a perfect plan. You don't need to eat perfectly today.
Speaker 1:Nothing. You just got to start. Get the momentum going. Get that fire back today. A lot of you let the fire go out.
Speaker 1:Sorry. And it's fine sometimes if fire goes out. We learn to put the fire back, and sometimes we put the fire back quite quicker than before. But you don't wanna let the fire go out. You can let it dim a bit sometimes.
Speaker 1:You can pull back sometimes, but don't let it die out. Keep doing the fundamentals no matter what. You know, we look at our phones every day. We brush our teeth twice a day. You should.
Speaker 1:You know, you have a shower every day, twice a day. You go to work every day or you drop your kids off a nursery and school every day. There's a lot of things we do every day no matter how we feel. Okay? And health needs to be one of them, and it doesn't have to be a big thing that we do.
Speaker 1:It's just this. This energy management and movement steps. Yes. I know sometimes when you're really ill and you're you're terrible, going outside is the last thing you wanna do. But when have you ever been on a walk and felt worse after a walk?
Speaker 1:You know, it's very rare, actually. And that's what I wanna do with the next twenty one days is reignite the fires inside you all, Get chatting on the radio this morning, Wednesday, Friday. Q and A with doctor Paul Rimmer, PhD, knows inside out these topics, get those myths and theories out and see see what the truth is from an expert that's gonna give you no bullshit and just start reigniting these fires. And that's my lesson for you today. Today, we all get going.
Speaker 1:Even look. If you listen to this podcast, you're not even involved in this, and you don't even know what clicking at all these apps. Like, you don't have no clue. Clue. Whatever you're doing, what is your job?
Speaker 1:Like, ignite a fire today. That's the task. And the fire starts with a small thing. So as Epictetus says, I'm gonna finish with this. First, say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.
Speaker 1:And all we gotta do is focus on today because another quote by him is, some things are up to us and some things are not. And unfortunately for us, our goals, our end result isn't necessarily up to us directly, but our attitude each day is up to us. So we have to give faith, and this is true. We've got faith in this. It's a power of nature.
Speaker 1:You put the right attitude in something, it's gonna pay off in the future. We don't know exactly when. We don't know exactly when. That's not the point. But it's gonna pay off in the future in ways you can't maybe imagine right now either.
Speaker 1:And that's the beauty of it. We can actually focus on our attitude today. That's the only thing in your control. Because you could say, Scott, my attitude today, I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna smash my steps. And unfortunately, some of you might walk out and you could break foot and you can't get the steps in.
Speaker 1:You think I failed now. It wasn't a failure. Your attitude's right. You know, that's an extreme example, obviously. But there are forces out there that sometimes, especially over the next twenty one days, it's gonna be difficult for us to do things.
Speaker 1:We're gonna try and overcome them. Sometimes you might not, and it's not a failure for that to happen. It's just some things are up to us and some things are not. And this and being able to distinguish between the both is one of the most powerful things you can do, One of the most powerful lessons in stoicism that's helped so many people. You know?
Speaker 1:So that's it for today. Happy days. Start that fire, and I'll speak to you soon.