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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, Welcome back to the podcast. Now you're either on your walk, sleeping, just woke up, whatever it is, let's get some enthusiasm into our day, please. I was gonna read some stoic quotes on this podcast thinking it might resonate but do we really need more information or more quotes or do we just need like just an instant, like a realization right now that our entire day, the success of this day hinges on the fact that we focus on what's in our control which is our voluntary actions and nothing else. Now if you would to confine your power into knowing that you can only do what you can do voluntarily, like I can't go and lose two pounds today, you know, it's not in the realm of possibility.
Speaker 1:I can't go and change my entire career today. I can't go and do this. But what I can do is I can take control of my voluntary actions, I can go for my walk, I can eat the best food possible for my macros, I can be aware of the temptations around me and be aware of how they pull me in. I can have a cool calm mind, I can think it's not things that disturb me but my opinion and I can be very aware of like these impressions that hit me day to day. What we mean by impressions is anything that hits the senses, so anything that you see, anything that you hear, anything that you touch, anything you smell, those things that hit your senses essentially give you a suggestion, don't they?
Speaker 1:Like oof, smell a lush bread, how's your boy you eat that meat? And you go, I see where you came from and I will let you flower and die. I will let you flower and die. I'm not gonna touch you, I'm not gonna condemn you, I'm not gonna try and make you worse or bad, I'm not gonna wish you away. I just see the impression and I can watch the impression take its course and it will leave me alone.
Speaker 1:So that's really all we can do, we don't need more information, more quotes and more recent studies. It's up to you. It's your life. I mean I can't come over there and tell you and be there next year but like the realisation that right now is the only time you can actually do something about your life is very powerful. You can plan all you want guys.
Speaker 1:You can make the biggest to do list of your life. You can plan next week and do this and do that. Get your fancy crayons out and colors and plan this and plan that. And I'm not saying this is in a derogatory way against people that have a car like Celine, there's those calendars and all that and they can take them off as accountability. I mean, like, the people who are procrastinating over planning, right, who are always thinking I'll do this and this and this, buy a new journal, buy a new notepad, buy a new got your new pen and your table and it just sits there.
Speaker 1:What's the point? What is the point? Take action. You know? There's there's nothing more left to do.
Speaker 1:You don't even need knowledge of anything but to take action and be active person today, not to eat to fullness, just eat to like 80% fullness and you know you're pretty much there. We really do confuse this whole nutrition business up. We add all these different layers to it, getting to the point now where the layers are so complicated where now we're walking around with looking continuous glucose monitors spiked into the back of our arm, eating artificial brownies or muffins to tell us our blood glucose response to certain foods which changes all the time so it's a relevant data to tracking like 100 metrics with to tracking SNR. We're really just getting bogged down in metrics and really that doesn't actually matter in life. It doesn't.
Speaker 1:What are we doing? Why are we adding more confusion to our lives when it comes to health and fitness? Surely the aim of health fitness and wellness is to be free, To be free, happy and healthy. Surely that is the mission. Is there always a mission to be the slave to the metrics and slave to the gym, slave to look in a certain way, slave to a certain way?
Speaker 1:Yeah, slave to being the best all the time. Surely not. I mean, I don't know. You ask you ask answer this yourself. What is the purpose of wellness for you?
Speaker 1:Me? I'm not trying to be a slave to this. I don't wanna wake up going, oh my god. I gotta do a workout. Gotta look at my nutrition.
Speaker 1:I've gotta track my blood glucose today. I gotta make sure they don't spike my blood glucose over this because that's really bad for me. I gotta make sure I don't eat any sugar today. Gotta make sure my saturated fat is low. I gotta make sure I only have two eggs, if I have three I'll die, I gotta make sure that I don't have any of those pesky e numbers, anything I have, I gotta make sure I don't have this and that.
Speaker 1:We're looking at all these things all the time, overwhelmed and that's just nutrition. Imagine the the advertising we see every day. You imagine all the information overwhelm, all the all the shit people talk, all of that. WhatsApp's going off all day, bam, bam, bam, bam, Facebook, everything. Your brain hasn't evolved to deal with this.
Speaker 1:Right? It just hasn't. It's still working off the brain of 50,000 years ago. Sorry. 50,000 years old.
Speaker 1:50,000 years ago. The frontal cortex developed. I mean, it could have evolved slightly better. It's a small time in evolution. But really our brains aren't all ready for this.
Speaker 1:So why make it worse for ourselves? It's still in the sand. It's kind of similar to going on Instagram feeling shit about ourselves but we keep scrolling and comparing. It's painful but it's like a weird thing. It's like a form of self harm and we keep going about this and then we're just sitting on the couch, hour goes by, two hour goes by and then we say we don't have time.
Speaker 1:We're lying. Liar. And yeah it just sucks us into a life of consumerism. Just just stay on that your device, compare yourself, feel shit about yourself, and then buy this product, then buy this product, buy this product. How the world goes round.
Speaker 1:So my message, my podcast is short today. No one is coming to save you. Get up today, put some oomph into your actions and only focus on what you're gonna be voluntarily trying to do with your actions. That's the only thing in your power. Realize this and you will will get strength as Marcus Riale says.
Speaker 1:And if you can do that every day, happy days. You were literally doing your best. You're doing all you can do and guess what? When you do all you can do and you put yourself out there, you let go of control of everything else, things happen, opportunities pop up, things start moving. You can call us all you want, you know, the secret and putting yourself in the universe and vibrations and all that's all out whatever.
Speaker 1:But what all it is is that you're actually putting some motion into your life, you're putting yourself out there, you're genuinely trying, you don't have to be trying your 100% best all the time, you're trying in the region of 80 to a 100%, you're giving it a whack, shit starts moving because of effort, because of the work you're putting in. Guess what, shit happens, good things happen to people that put work in most of the time. You might not get everything you want, that's not the point, that's not how life works. It never works the way you think it works and the dots never connect how you think. Like we spoke about in Forest, in the Dean Leek personal development station with Jackie, you can only connect the dots looking backwards not forwards, famous Steve Jobs quote, and it's very true.
Speaker 1:So what dots are you connecting? Are you taking action? Are you being passive again today? You can only act now, right now, this present moment's on behalf. It is, think about it, you can't act tomorrow, tomorrow's today again.
Speaker 1:Well I'm off guys, take some action. I'm gonna take some action, I'm take some big action. Start it off with a walk then I'm gonna hit some work, I'm gonna drink a coffee and get straight into work. I'm not gonna procrastinate. I'm gonna use the Pomodoro technique, twenty five minutes of work, five minutes break, no distractions in twenty five minutes of work, only one task you're allowed to do.
Speaker 1:For instance, repeat three or four of them. You do more work in that than you'll ever done in a day. Gonna limit screen time. I'm gonna go for a walk when I feel frustrated. I'm not gonna I'm trying not get sucked into gossip or some dead chat on WhatsApp groups and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:I'm trying not to get my brain distracted. I'm gonna try and catch myself from catastrophizing situations, take a bird's eye view of things, view from above and realize this little minor thing is absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. So let me zoom out and cut there out right now because it means nothing in the long term, so don't let it rob me of whatever. The only thing I actually have is valuable is my present moment, is my time. And I'll have a good day.
Speaker 1:And I'll see you all back here tomorrow with a bit of oomph. Have a good one. Write down your one big thing in the app if it helps. Get that done today. Put some effort into it.
Speaker 1:Guarantee you feel momentum. You feel better ways off. Bye.