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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.
Oh, hello, turtle heads. Right then. It is, June 15. So this is a recent new fresh podcast we use today. I'm boiling, but I'm sweating my head off in this warehouse.
Speaker 1:It's either too cold or it's boiling classic. I wonder how many of you right now are still holding on to some perfectionism mindset, like you're either on or off plan. You think of it, it's ridiculous. How can you be on or off life? It's always on essentially.
Speaker 1:Some days are good, some days are bad, some days are epic, but overall we decide who we wanna be and we have the values, right? We go, right, I wanna be this person. I wanna I wanna be moderate when we're eating. I wanna I wanna be I wanna be active. I wanna live a long and healthy life.
Speaker 1:I wanna be a good person, fit mentally, blah blah blah. Right. So what do I have to do today to be the person I wanna be? That's all you gotta ask yourself every day. And the closer and you get closer and closer and closer.
Speaker 1:Some days you're the opposite of the person you wanna be. Some days you're on the couch with a hangover thinking oh my god what am I doing? It's like those are fine, it's part of the journey man. It's part of it all. So just to back up my point, I've never been a fan of perfectionism, it wrecks me.
Speaker 1:Perfectionism in business, perfectionism in getting a certain page perfect, getting a certain app detail perfect, getting a certain wording perfect, or getting a certain color perfect, la la la la. Just like, it's so much. It's way too much. And it's a contradiction because if you ask me do I love Steve Jobs? Say yeah.
Speaker 1:And do you think he was perfectionist? Well yeah he was. You know he was probably one of the one of the worst ones in terms of perfectionism but he did change over the years and let go of stuff and then he hired other people to do the right thing. So he didn't really become a perfectionist in the end. He became trustworthy of others yeah obviously had his insight and and and what's it called, insight and experience, but he let go of trying to be perfect and control everything.
Speaker 1:And that's when everything went better for him. It'll be better for you as well if you stop trying to be perfect. Now here's the research, gonna back us up. You've all heard perfection is the enemy of progress. You probably heard it a million times, probably in one year or the other but it's true.
Speaker 1:There's a difference between wanting to get things done right. So we want to get things right, we want to be perfect. There's a difference between trying to appear perfect and to be perfect, okay. So the research is clear on this. Perfectionism is a risk factor for eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.
Speaker 1:And it's also related to a less well known eating issue called orthorexia. Orthorexia is an unhealthy fixation on eating a perfect diet, usually one that is deemed clean or healthy by a rigid set of rules. Now if you've listened to these podcasts for a while you know I am not a clean eating fan. What do you mean by clean eating? You just mean like chicken and veg, right?
Speaker 1:So you're all you're thinking about is eating clean foods and you're to be perfect. Well, could be orthorexia. Okay? So the study SNEW study looked into it. They looked at two traits of perfectionism.
Speaker 1:Okay? They had one it was one called trait perfectionism, a stable way of thinking, acting, and being that causes a person to demand perfection from themselves and others. The second one is perfectionistic self presentation. The need to appear perfect to others. This can go so far as not admitting to anything that might make you look less than perfect, okay?
Speaker 1:So it's totally possible to have both. They recruited a 177 consistent gym goers. That's a group that has a higher risk of orthorexia than the general population. And two questionnaires, six week apart, la la la la la, personalities etymitis. What the study found was this: Trait perfectionism was more strongly correlated with orthorexia.
Speaker 1:It seems that wanting to be perfect is a better prediction better predictor of orthorexia than wanting to appear perfect. Because of this the researchers concluded that helping people avoid orthorexia is more likely about addressing the need to be perfect versus the need for others to see them as perfect. So we don't want to be living this clean eating perfect foods lifestyle. It's not doing us any favors. Perfectionism doesn't do you favor in work, it doesn't do you favor in your friendships, in your relationships, in your eating, in your gym workouts, absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1:And you can some people walk around as if it's virtue signaling the perfectionism. Oh, I can't do anything until it's perfect. That's not a good thing, mate. You know I mean? Why why are you walking around as if that's a good thing?
Speaker 1:It's a terrible thing. Right? There's a book I spoke about before in the startup book called lean lean startup. You build your MVP, a minimal viable product. You build the base, the core, and you launch it.
Speaker 1:You get feedback, and you reiterate, and you keep going, and you keep going. Because you found out so many companies are waiting to launch the perfect Apple product, and then when he launched it flopped and it wasted so much money. And you're all sitting there today probably thinking, oh, I'm not gonna start anything because I don't have the perfect no. I don't have the perfect nutrition plan yet. I don't have the perfect food in the house.
Speaker 1:I don't have the perfect worker plan. I don't have the perfect weather. I don't have the perfect gym kit. It's like all these like silly stuff that pop into our head. And yeah, a lot of people are on a bit of a lull from challenges and stuff, but who look.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna knock on your door saying, hey. New challenge today. Let's get cracking. You have to start thinking, right. Look at all of these resources I got.
Speaker 1:I got all these on demand workouts. I got all I've got an app that's state of the art. I can track my macros. I can take control of that. I can look at my eating habits.
Speaker 1:Everything I've learned from the stoicism, the book clubs, and everything, I know that on the back back of my head. And you still you still might be frozen by it. But you think you break it down day by day tight compartments, like, alright. I have to do work today. That's the only day I can actually be the person I wanna be.
Speaker 1:I can be the person I wanna be tomorrow, but I can't do anything about that today, can I? Because it's tomorrow. Well, then tomorrow's gonna be today, if that makes sense. So when we break it down, all of us listening, we're here for health, guys. I don't care about shredded abs.
Speaker 1:Don't care about it. Great. If you wanna do it, crack on. No one's gonna be doing that for the rest of their lives. The Al Swashenigg's new Netflix documentary, Watch It.
Speaker 1:It's amazing. Obviously, he was a bodybuilding star, but he's now he's still working out. 75 years old. Why? Because it's it's part of he's like he's like eating to him.
Speaker 1:It's his healthy diet. This is it's it's good for him. He exercises. And the good news is there's so much research out there, what is a healthy lifestyle? And it's not hard to achieve.
Speaker 1:It is walking seven to 8,000 steps a day as a minimum. It is strength training two to three times a week or doing some form of resistance training using bands, even body weight or a lightweight. It's not smoking, know, it's not it's not drinking to oblivion. It's trying to get a higher protein diet and eating a decent amount of food so you can actually fuel your days. It's not about running away from carbs, it's about embracing carbs as a fuel source and understanding they're great for us when we want the energy.
Speaker 1:Right? It's about having the right mindset, not letting your daily energy dissipate into the shit of the day. Oh my god. I spent this hour just gossiping. I now feel knackered.
Speaker 1:How many of us have done that? How many of you have spoke to someone about absolute pure crap and felt knackered after that? And you think, god. My energy just went on absolute pointless things. So we wanna say no to those types of things.
Speaker 1:We wanna walk away from things that can we wanna walk away from drama. Right? I know I'm listing a decent amount of things, but they're really simple to do. So if you're worrying about, oh my god, I'm not making progress, just go for a walk and track your macros with honesty today. 80% of the things are done there.
Speaker 1:Yes. Okay. You wanna have bigger glutes. You wanna go to the gym. You wanna feel athletic, la la la.
Speaker 1:But you might be in a part of your life now in this time. You're knackered. The work is overriding you, you've got loads of planning to do, la la la, and you feel do you know what? Doing three to four or five workouts a week right now is so hard. I can't fit it in, and because I'm trying to fit it in, I can't fit it in.
Speaker 1:I'm stressing out about it even more, and it's causing me stress response, which is way worse to me than actually missing one workout. So you might say, Scott, you're right. Why am I worrying about workouts all the time? I'll just go for walks in the sun, put sunglasses on, put an audiobook on, walk a dog, whatever. Go for a walk, make sure you eat in moderation, use the app to help you achieve that.
Speaker 1:If you did that day in day out as an average for your life, healthy, happy days. And then you you will feel maybe better to do start a training block soon. You know, we're gonna do a challenge soon and all the stuff that you all love. The counterline challenge is to keep our base going. Your base has to be there, guys.
Speaker 1:You have to have a base no matter what. And the base is easy if you just remove all the shit you add to it. So, yeah, I feel like I'm telling you off. I feel like I like I'm a teacher getting, like, angry students. Yeah.
Speaker 1:No. I'm not. I'm not. I'm I'm taking this advice myself as well. You know, I've, my training has been decent, but I haven't been I would have loved to have started a new strength program, but I couldn't get into four workouts a week consistently.
Speaker 1:And I tried, I just couldn't do it. A lot of other factors come into play. I said, you know what, I'm trying to fit this worker program in, and it's not working for me. So when I go to the gym, I'm just gonna do a mix of stuff. I am gonna I still track my my big lifts, like bench press squats and all that, so I know when my weight I did is easy to do on the app.
Speaker 1:I'll then do maybe fifteen hundred minute run or an assault bike because I'm gonna get my sweat going and I just leave the gym feeling great. You always leave the gym or you always leave a walk or training better than you started it, right? We all know this. So if you really are stuck in a rut, right, and you really really are stuck in a rut, feel terrible, probably one of the easiest things you can do that gives you a massive boost is to have a sweaty workout. I'm not saying strength training, and I'm saying run for thirty minutes or go on your bike for forty minutes, Stairmaster for thirty five minutes, or do some bike sprints with walks, or do some sprints and running sprints, walk, sprints, walk.
Speaker 1:Like, do twenty five to forty minutes of kind of that type of training, you get sweat on, the dopamine is rushing through the brain and you feel awesome. That might what you need to kick start. That might be the energy booster you need. I don't know. Maybe not.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's just a walk that can do it and you have to track your macros so you don't feel like you're bloated and all that all the time. But please do take from this. Don't be perfectionist. It's not good. It's a big part of our culture.
Speaker 1:And please don't don't think you have to be perfect in anything. You're you're not perfect, I? You're not perfect, I'm not perfect, no one's perfect, and that's the beauty of it. So have a good day, guys. I'll speak to you all tomorrow.