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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. Good morning, everybody. So it seems to me that yesterday's podcast resonated. Yep. Self image.
Speaker 1:It's an important thing to look into, guys. What is the self image you have of yourself? You can get deeper than this. What is the self? I mean, not gonna do it.
Speaker 1:I'd love to. This stuff fascinates me, but, you know, cover for book club. We'll debate this stuff in book club where my self image will clash with your self image, and we'll all love our self images talk to each other. But actually, we're not even speaking to each other, so we're self image. And then when someone says you said something that's wrong, your self image gets hurt.
Speaker 1:And when your self image gets hurt, you get frustrated. And in the end, you hurt someone else's self image. And, really, it's a self image contest, and no one is directly speaking from one person to another. That's really how the world works actually, you know. Everyone's got a self image and it's pretty protected.
Speaker 1:Now there is a theory, and I'm gonna get into what I'm actually gonna speak about this podcast, but there is a theory that I read in a book, The Unfolding of Language, and it's a brilliant book. And he talks about the reason that our self image is so defensive is because language developed through the fact that we described everything through the physical world because that's all we could do, senses and everything. So we say, I've had a hard week or I'm in a bright mood, so being outside in the bright light felt nice. So to say I'm in a bright mood made sense. Right?
Speaker 1:Or I've had a hard week. Hard is like, it's tough. It's not great. I've had a hard week. It makes sense.
Speaker 1:Right? So we have to use the physical world to explain the inner world when we're trying to convey ideas. Now he says in this book that because security came from the physical world in terms of food, weapons, people, right, that equals security, which makes sense. The more weapons you have, the more food, the more people, more clothing, more resources, you're safer, you've got more security. Now, what we did, and he says every language has done this, we've taken the physical security inwardly into psychological security.
Speaker 1:So what we've done is we've mistakenly thought that we must accumulate the self, which makes us more secure. So we must accumulate more and more about ourselves, about a certain aspect of ourselves that becomes more secure. So we need more experiences of X, Y, Z of ourselves that then gives us security. This self image becomes basically a holding thing that we must keep adding to it, we must keep building the self image, we must build ourselves up or something like how we say. We build this self image up so much that any act of someone coming and attacking or taking it away from us makes us defensive, makes us react.
Speaker 1:But really, what the Eastern wisdom and Krishnamurti and all these other thinkers were saying is the only time we have peace in our lives is when the self image is not, because there's nothing there to be defensive, to be working from a center. Because if there's something is if you are thinking in terms of the self image and you're reacting to the world through your self image, you are reacting to the past. Because your self image is just your experiences, your thoughts, all that, like it says in the book yesterday. Yeah. Self image is a combination of memory experiences.
Speaker 1:So if you see in the world only through your self image, you're very limited to the world you see in. You're limited to how you view things, you're limited to being open minded and all this stuff. And you're also limited because if that self image is attacked, everything becomes revolved around it. So the Eastern wisdom, when we cover in the childish as well, they're talking about stuff like like Buddha said, suffering is part of living, but suffering is basically attachment. And attachment to our self image is a lot of the root cause of our problems.
Speaker 1:Wow. We're getting deep here guys. We're getting deep. I think it's true. So a lot of us are going to attachment to the self image and this is either a good or a bad one.
Speaker 1:So you could be attached to the fact that your self image is an anxious one and you've never been able to say something in public speaking before. You've never been able to say something without being embarrassed. You've never been able to wear x y z. And this attachment to that self image is the root of the problems. Because if we didn't have any of that self image, there wouldn't be these problems.
Speaker 1:Example, people's reputation is a big part of their self image. They must uphold their reputation. Anything that challenges their reputation becomes a source of anxiety and worry. If you were on a desert island on your own, you think about the worldly pressures and so on, this self image of yours would evaporate, would be gone. There'd be no one to be showing yourself up for, there'd be nobody to be trying to please, there'd be nobody to try and, like, there'd be no ladder to climb nothing.
Speaker 1:This kind of inward problem, you know, this vortex of nonsense about ourselves that we worry about, I would be gone because there's no relationship to compare it to. You you would just be. You would just be on the island living. You would be moving around and you'd be, you know, if that's what the world was. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1:Anyway, something to think about. A few quotes from this book that I've been reading, The Pocket Oracle. I thought they were they were really on point for us on this journey of health. So I've got three of them to explain, and then I'm gonna leave you go and get your one big thing done, which is one big task today, whether that's hitting your protein target, hitting your calories, hitting your steps. Maybe it's all three.
Speaker 1:Maybe you got a workout to do. I don't know. Something. Get your momentum going. Okay.
Speaker 1:Those who think things through a more secure. What's done swiftly will be swiftly undone, but that's but what's to last an eternity must take an eternity. A truly deep mind achieves eternity. What's worth a lot costs a lot. The most precious of metals is the slowest to melt and the heaviest.
Speaker 1:Brilliant. What's worth a lot costs a lot. What's worth a lot is our health. Without our health, we don't even have a base to have good relationships from or to be able to improve or maintain our relationships, to go and see people, your friends, your family, whatever. You're going to have that base.
Speaker 1:It costs a lot. Does it cost a lot, though? Maybe it does cost a lot of time to stick to be healthy. Right? But in reality, the cost is minuscule to what you get back.
Speaker 1:And the profits from putting time into your health are so much that you cannot fathom it. Okay? Because you only realize how much you lose when you've lost your health. If you're injured, if you're ill, if you're in hospital, if you can't move, you've got injury, you can't walk, you realise wow, yeah, it is very costly to lose this and I don't realize it. And I don't wanna be that person.
Speaker 1:So you pick a few pains. You pick the there is you know, Jim Rohn said you pick two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. So I said again, Jim Rohn said you either choose the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Now I'd argue the pain of discipline doesn't have to be pain at all sometimes because if you look at the bigger picture, going for a walk, doing exercise, eating well, that shouldn't be any pain when you think of the benefit you're getting from it. You should be smiling from year to year.
Speaker 1:And in Welsh, we say, or glisty glist about these things because you get a chance to really improve your health, which means you can have a better life. So, yeah, think about that. What's what's done swiftly will be swiftly undone. Lose weight swiftly. I mean, if you're gonna lose 30 pounds in a month, it's gonna be swiftly undone.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you. If you're gonna add muscle through anabolic steroids swiftly, it's gonna be swiftly undone. Let me tell you. You know, there's all these things that will be swiftly undone. Millionaire, lottery winners swiftly made rich, but 80 end up bankrupt.
Speaker 1:That's nuts, ain't it? Seventy or eighty percent. So what's swiftly done is swiftly undone. Just remember that. Next one.
Speaker 1:Bide your time. Okay. It indicates a great heart and profound patience. Don't be too hasty or too vehement. That's even what that means.
Speaker 1:First master yourself, and then you master others. You must journey through the tracks of time to the center of opportunity. I love that. Like this guy's writing is amazing there. You must journey through the tracks of time to the center of opportunity.
Speaker 1:It takes time to get opportunity. Seneca also said, lack is when preparation meets opportunity. Preparation takes time. Opportunity can come anytime. Boom.
Speaker 1:Right? Prudent delay, moderation in your delay, being moderate, allows success to ripen and secrets to mature. Time's crutch is more effective than Hercules is club. That's right. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1:This is a translation as well about using Berlin Spanish. Time's crutch is more effective than Hercules's club. So Hercules's club, all powerful, know, you know, you could how can we say maybe Thanos's infinity gauntlet? Time's crutch is more effective than I don't know. What about here?
Speaker 1:Where we go? Iron Man suit. No. That's not the same as that. We'll stick with Hercules.
Speaker 1:God himself punishes not with a rod but at the opportune moment. Again, time used there as a punishment, so powerful. A great saying. It is a great one. Are you ready for this?
Speaker 1:Time and I against any other two. So basically me and time, tag team, versus any other two, will win. Fortune rewards patients with a truly great prize. Fortune rewards patients with a truly great prize. Patience in healthy actions, you'll be rewarded greatly for this.
Speaker 1:Even in ways you don't even think about. You you it'll be it would impact every area of life so much as transformative, that you won't you won't be able to connect adults unless you look back. You know, the self confidence you're gonna get, the freedom from food, the less stressful stuff, the vibes essentially you give off are gonna be so powerful. The friendships you make, the people you speak to, you know, the way the people see you, the way you see yourself, all of this. You can't fathom the difference that has in your life.
Speaker 1:It's gonna take time and fortune and will reward patience in this regard. Remember that. So true. Last one, diligent and intelligent. Diligence carries out quickly what intelligence decides upon slowly.
Speaker 1:Fools love haste since they never see any difficulty. They act without reflecting. In contrast, the wise are often too unhurried for scrutiny gives rise to reflection. The ineffectiveness caused by delay can ruin the accuracy of any judgment. Promptness is the mother of good fortune.
Speaker 1:He who left nothing until tomorrow achieved many great things. On Augusta on Augustus Motto, make haste slowly. Festina lente. We've actually still got some of these coins left, coins that we did for our, I think, like, three or four years ago. So if anyone wants one of these, you can get through anything one day at a time, which means make haste slowly, let me know.
Speaker 1:What does this actually mean? So if you look at this, right, he or she who left nothing until tomorrow achieved many things. You've only got from now until bedtime. That's your life repeated each day. Okay?
Speaker 1:That's all your life is made out of, really. So if you don't leave things till tomorrow, which we often do, how many how much more out of life are you gonna get is the question. And also it's to balance it against Augustus, the first Roman emperor, he got a lot done. Basically the famous saying about he turned Rome into a city of bricks, into a city of marble. And he'll he had a saying, make haste slowly.
Speaker 1:So what this means is it's a it's a contradiction or it's like a paradox a bit, where it's like you make haste, so, you know, you're you've got some force behind your action. You're not rushing, you're going for it, you're doing it slowly. So it's kind of like day to day, we're not leaving anything behind. We're not leaving any stone unturned. So we're not leaving anything until tomorrow.
Speaker 1:So we're making haste here. We've only got until bedtime tonight. But we're also realizing over time with patience, it's gonna deliver. So not everything can change today, but if we make the most of today, over time, wow, things are gonna start changing massively. So we make haste, but we're slowly.
Speaker 1:Does that make sense? I love it. Honestly, I love it. It's all good. Because, obviously, Augustus, you think of his terms, he was wanting to change Rome, wanting to use the Roman emperor.
Speaker 1:He had so many things he wanted to do. But, you know, Augustus, you can't do it all today because you've to plan all this out. Okay. But what can we do until bedtime today? Let's focus on doing our best, and we'll make haste here, but we deploy patience.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to wake up tomorrow expecting Rome to be completely changed tomorrow. But what I will expect is from today till we wake up till we go to bed, we'll do everything we can. We won't leave something till tomorrow if it can be done today. Now I would add in there is a bit more to this in terms of understanding that some things can be left till tomorrow. We can relax a bit.
Speaker 1:We're not Roman emperors, even though I think I am. I'm joking, don't. Emperor of Wales one day maybe he's there. No, don't want be emperors, guys. Everyone's the same.
Speaker 1:Out with the royals. The ineffectiveness caused by delay can ruin the act of future. So he's talking here about some people okay. So you've got intelligence action. Sometimes, you know, it's gut feeling.
Speaker 1:You act on there with good information. You go for it. And sometimes, something can actually make it worse. So this is really about understanding yourself, obviously. But, yeah, I hope you enjoy these, like, nuggets of wisdom from the sixteen hundreds.
Speaker 1:I really do enjoy them. There's so much truth to them. And if we do take them seriously, I think it can really make a difference to our days. You know, that that alone can change your day. Someone whoever leaves nothing till tomorrow achieves many great things.
Speaker 1:Don't leave your health till tomorrow, guys. Your health is today. Even if you know where you want to be with your body fat percentage, you can do healthy behaviours today, which means you're a healthy person because you do it today. And as a side effect of being a healthy person for many days in a row or multiple days as many can tie together, The side effect of that, the byproduct is, yes, you will have less body fat in your body, less your muscles will be stronger, yes, you will look leaner, yes, you'll have better blood work when you get tested and everything with your boy boob. Yes, that will happen over time.
Speaker 1:But you must make it slowly. Remember, Maybe you all need a coin. But, anyway, have a good day, guys, and