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Hello, everyone. Welcome back. Hope you're on a nice little walk. Or if you're listening and you haven't woken up, get up. It's time to go.
Speaker 1:New day. So I was speaking to my jujitsu professor the other day, and he was saying to me he did a at the end of every class, he does kind of like a little speech, usually brings in some stoicism and stuff like that's really good. And he said something that was a quote by someone that changed my life called Jim Rohn. And he said, you either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment. And this is a Jim Rohn quote.
Speaker 1:So I said to him after that, hey, you said a Jim Rohn quote. He was like, yeah, Jim Rohn, you know? He's like, no. I know you heard of him. I was like, man, you need to listen to this guy.
Speaker 1:You know? I listened to him when I was 19, his seminars, and it did change my thinking. But I said one quote to him. I said, this is another quote for you by Jim Rohn. If you think trying is risky, wait until you get the bill for not trying.
Speaker 1:It's all risky, you know? And it's the same, you know? Or you think trying to, you know, start this health journey is risky. Oh, I don't have time. It's gonna wait till you get the bill for not doing any of this work in ten, twenty, thirty years' time.
Speaker 1:You know? There is a significant difference. So he was like, oh, man. You know what? I should never have stopped competing when I was became world champion.
Speaker 1:I stopped. And he went into explaining, like, if you think trying is risky, it triggered that thought in him. Okay? And he was like, oh, man. I was world champion, and things happened in the gym in in New York, and I I stopped competing.
Speaker 1:And I should've kept going. But I said, no, man. Look. Listen. Look.
Speaker 1:Look. You're in London right now running this gym, which is part of the biggest jujitsu brand in the world. How did you get here? And he shared his story, you know. And there's a there's a stoic, quote called Amofati.
Speaker 1:It basically means to love your faith or love the hand that is dealt for you. Now this is a quite radical way to think because some hands were dealt with are not nice or great. In his case, he was working in a gym with one of the with with the number one jiu jitsu athlete in the world, and, you know, he got treated badly. He was not seen as a partner. He was seen as an employee.
Speaker 1:He was it was looked down upon that he was taking private lessons to cover some money because he was living in New York, super expensive. And, yeah, it's kind of like a bullying atmosphere for him, and he said he's gonna wanna leave. And what they did was when he had the chat with them about leaving, instead of them thanking him for five years, someone there cancelled his sorry. Someone there cancelled his sponsorship. So you need a sponsorship to actually live and work in The US.
Speaker 1:So they canceled it there and then through their solicitor, which gave him two weeks to find another sponsor, and they knew full well it takes at least another four to six weeks to even process it. So within two weeks, you would you have to leave the country, say bye to the students, go back to Brazil. And then when he got back to Brazil, his old professor from his his hometown said, hey, man. In the in Abu Dhabi, they're looking for coaches. You should get in touch with them for you.
Speaker 1:Got in touch with them. He got on a Zoom. So like, I'm world champion of black belt and trained here in The US and all that. They were like, yep. Book your flights.
Speaker 1:You come in Abu Dhabi to coach our team. And then he went to Abu Dhabi. He was earning good money. He then left Abu Dhabi to go back to Brazil. And during that period, he had divorced.
Speaker 1:He had went through a divorce. But then when he got back to Brazil and started training in the HQ of the one that's in in London, the HQ in Sao Paulo, he met his now wife. And then that company opened a HQ in London and both of them together had started a new life in London. Right? So I shared on this because you can always think sometimes like, oh, man, I should have should've done this, should've done that.
Speaker 1:But sometimes the circumstances are not there. You know, you forget about how hard it was at that time and the decisions you have to make. So, yes, maybe if he had kept on competing and being world champion, maybe he would have had a really serious injury that meant he would never be able to compete to coach again. But the path he's gone down is to he has one of the paths to he's gonna be one of the best coaches in the world building an academy from scratch in London, changing many people's lives there. So, I was sharing with him.
Speaker 1:Like, he went through the store. He's like, no, man. You know? Like, you you are exactly where you need to be. You know?
Speaker 1:Love love your fate. It's a radical thing to think about, but the cards you've been dealt with, just take them as they go, you know, wishing for something different is is start of pain, you know, comparison, thief of joy type of thing, you know, you're comparing different paths in your life. But it's one of those things that helps people. So I was I I mentioned to him, listen. Here's a seminar collection to listen to.
Speaker 1:It's from 1981, and the people that listened to it went to the seminar would have probably paid thousands and thousands of dollars. Okay? But I was on YouTube for free. Thank you, Internet. And he he listened a few hours that night.
Speaker 1:Saw him next day. He's like, man, this guy's amazing. This is this stuff is amazing. It's amazing. And it is amazing.
Speaker 1:Jim Rohn is kind of the father of personal development. Tony Robbins, if some of you have heard of him, was his disciple, basically. And it is to do with Korea and stuff, but it's it applies to every part of your life. Okay? So I would suggest a lot of you go and listen to those seminars.
Speaker 1:But a few things in those seminars that I love and they've they've been with me all my life. And when I was listening to these seminars when I was 19, 20, driving to Bristol for work and back and forth, sorry, 2021, really made me realize it's up to me, you know, personal responsibility. Anyway, one of the things he says is is don't major in minor things. Don't spend major time on the minor things. It's part of the philosophy of PowerPal.
Speaker 1:Why are you spending so much time thinking you need to track other things that actually don't make a difference to your goal or because you should do it, because I want to do it? Time is the most press precious asset we have. You can't get more time back. You can't get more time in a day. I have only had more time.
Speaker 1:There is no more time. Okay. There's no more time. You got we've we've got we have to make use of what we have, and some people have more spare time or free time, obviously. Can't compare someone with four kids, nurse, sorry, and all this stuff and someone who's 21 years old.
Speaker 1:Obviously, it's different, you know? But in regards to how we view things, we're not we we don't have this time to throw away young stuff. We can't do these things. We have to spend our time on the things that move the needle, the things that actually matter. And when it comes to your health, as we know, it's calories, it's getting to a deficit, it's your protein intake, it's your step count.
Speaker 1:If you can spend your time on those three things, you won't have to worry and spend all the time wasting on the minor things that you've always worried about. Okay? And he sees this as something called massive action. And he sees massive action broken down into consistent small things. So this is massive action.
Speaker 1:I'm radically changing how I approach this thing. I'm taking massive action on three main things, and I'm gonna focus day to day on them. They're small things day to day, but compound over time. Okay? Then he talks about, in this part of the sermon, he says, the language of failure in people, how they speak.
Speaker 1:And they speak in this sense, he says, I'll try it for a few days. I'll try it for thirty days. No. It's not enough. I'll try it.
Speaker 1:I'll try it. You've got to immerse yourself in it, and you've got to try and do it until it sticks, until it until it makes sense for you. Like a baby walking, they keep trying until it happens. They then start walking, these little babies. When it comes to your health, you know, a lot of people comment, I haven't lost weight.
Speaker 1:How many days has it been for? Come on. Four days. When did we say four days was the answer? Why why why are you four days?
Speaker 1:How are we thinking in such immature terms when it comes to health with which everything should change in three or four days? Even a few weeks? Yes, psychologically, you're gonna feel better in a few weeks. Yes, you might see fat loss in a few weeks and feel different, but don't expect such radical changes in a few weeks when it's taken years and years to get where you are today. So this is the language he says of failure is to accept is to view things like this.
Speaker 1:You know? And he talks about how you need a game plan, and these game plans can take years to come into fruition. When you think of the Olympic Games, okay, these athletes, they have a four year game plan. They they need a peak in performance on the Olympic year, and that means they cannot peak every single year. Because if they try and peak performance every single year, they might burn out.
Speaker 1:So they start working on things that maybe are weaknesses. They realize, you know, this competition coming up this year is not the Olympics. I'm not gonna peak for this, but I'm gonna go and do it. I'm gonna see if I've approved of my weaknesses. So they say, nutrition or training, we need to adapt.
Speaker 1:We need to build it up and build it back down, build it up and take breaks, and they gotta do these things. They have a full on game plan for this. And then they peak for the Olympics. When COVID happened, this was disaster for many athletes because they planned for four years to compete at that time. And then when that time wasn't possible, they'd lost the structure of the plan.
Speaker 1:Does that make sense? So when Olympic athletes are thinking in four year cycles, long time, we're obviously not Olympic athletes. When it comes to health, we think in obviously, we're thinking most of our lives. When it comes to fat loss, weight management and stuff, we also need to think through the seasons. We need to think wintertime might be more difficult for me.
Speaker 1:Don't know. Maybe summertime. You know? How am I handling those? When I'm ill, game plan for when I'm ill, game plan for when I'm injured, game plan, all these things.
Speaker 1:And you have to do the best you can doing those things, but it's a long term thing. You losing fat is a long term thing. It might in in a sense of, like, it's not a few weeks. Some of you, if you've got fifty pounds to lose, it's gonna take you roughly a year to lose it. You think that's a long time.
Speaker 1:Not really. A one year game plan? No problem. Then you got the maintenance game plan. You know, you've got these different segments.
Speaker 1:You don't this doesn't stop. You evolve. And also 50 pounds, okay, in one year. How many years have you been trying to lose that? How many years have you been trying to lose weight?
Speaker 1:Five years? Ten years? Fifteen years? Some people all of their lives have been trying to lose weight. Come on.
Speaker 1:Come on. It's it's it's one of those things that, when you actually face the fact we've been trying to deal with these things all of our lives. We have a man who's got a grip on it because we're trying things for three days, seven days, fourteen days. We're trying complicated stuff. We're trying things that you need to be part of that certain system, Slimming World and stuff.
Speaker 1:You have to eat the foods they have or weight watcher points and all. I gotta do the point system. And if you're not if you're if you're outside of that, ah, what happens? You know, you see, you're you're stuck in these little loops with these things, and it it doesn't work that way. And on the other side of this is also not to look at people who are ripped with abs, okay, shredded on social media and think they've mastered it because there's a lot of people who are very rich, and Jim Rohn mentions this.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of people who are very rich, but they're actually very poor. They've got no time. They're stressed out. So they've got this one asset, which is money, but the time asset is low, which is the key one, but also they don't enjoy life. This cough, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Jim Rohn, get rid of his cough, please. So they've got this thing. And in terms of when it comes to health and fitness, you might see people in shape with abs, but they might be in shape, but they might be trapped. What I mean by trapped is they are trapped by the foods they think they need to eat only.
Speaker 1:They can't socialize and go out and have a meal out of their plan. You know, one of the members mentioned this last week, taking meal plans meals out, taking weighing skills to restaurants, only eating salads, stressing out every single day. One minuscule pound of water weight goes on, panic. You know, they're in shape, but they're in jail. A jail of their own making.
Speaker 1:How is that successful? How is that success? That's not success. Okay. Physically, you look great.
Speaker 1:Well done. But psychologically, inside, turmoil, unhappy, anxiety, maybe leads to depression. They get ill or injured. Oh my god. Everything's based on their physical appearance.
Speaker 1:They get injured and they can't train. Wow. Imagine what happens to their mindset. Or if they're ill, imagine what they think and how they feel. So these are all things to consider that we're on this journey.
Speaker 1:The inner world must be free. The inner world has to break free from this conditioning of diet culture. This conditioning of weight watchers, slimming will have put on people for many, many years. This conditioning of all of these things. You have to break free from this whilst going through the process.
Speaker 1:If you said to me, Scott, I've I've lost 10 pounds. I've only eaten chicken and broccoli because I don't think I should eat anything else. I've worked out six days a week, done cardio all the time. I feel great. My I feel I feel like I'm on track.
Speaker 1:I'll be like, listen. I mean, you feel great now doing that, but deep down, how how how, flexible are you right now? What if your husband or wife or party select this and we're going off for food tonight celebrating something like, you know, crazy. I don't know. Some I've I've beaten this illness for a long time.
Speaker 1:We're going off for my favorite restaurant. Could you go and do an eat there with them celebrating? No. I'll be thinking about a meeting. It's not success, man.
Speaker 1:That's not success. You know, I see in a sense, I see ultimate failure. You go and do something, and in the end, you you're you're trapped by your own doing. That's not success, guys. So on this journey, remember this.
Speaker 1:Remember this. You hit you're you've got a few targets, obviously. We have to abide by the laws of physics. Okay? For us to lose fat, we need the body to be in a deficit.
Speaker 1:Yes. That is a slight limitation on us day to day, but you can eat more and less day to day. You don't have to stick to every day. You know, life comes in the way, blah blah blah. Protein is for the benefit of it.
Speaker 1:Okay? A sense of feeling, oh, this is trapping me. It's like this higher protein intake is gonna help me maintain my muscle mass, make me healthier. And is it harder? Yeah.
Speaker 1:It means you have to make some choices that are different. But once you get into into a swing of it, you find a way to get high your protein diet, and this becomes easy. That's it. And, obviously, steps, wanna try and hit a certain amount. But there's no limitations in the sense of you can't eat that food, you can't eat that food.
Speaker 1:There's no limitations in you have to go to the gym five days a week, you have to find one hour a day to train, and you have to do cardio afterwards, and you have to do ab work. You know, you heard you saw six you need six hours minimum a week to put into this. There's none of that limitations. You know? And I think it's important that you are able to track and go, do know what?
Speaker 1:Today, I did have an Oreo ice cream sandwich. Today, I did have a McDonald's double cheeseburger with fries. Still within my calories. Yeah. The food choice, I mean, could I eat more nutritious meal?
Speaker 1:Obviously, but it doesn't hurt me. It's not making me feel trapped. I don't feel like, oh my god. I'm an idiot. I'm able to eat that, and it just rolls off my back.
Speaker 1:What's the phrase? Like, water off a duck's back. Is that a phrase? Just no problem. No problem.
Speaker 1:Get me the Oreo icing sandwich every day. No problem for me. I'll eat it every day. No problem to my mindset. I'm a free man.
Speaker 1:And the same goal for you guys. So hopefully this was maybe insightful. I don't know. Let me know. But have a good day, guys, and I'll be back on the podcast on Monday.