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Good morning everybody. So today's topic is is doing the same thing every day boring? Should we be doing the same thing every day? Why are we doing the same thing every day on this, like, health and fitness journey of ours? And the real question is to what is wrong with doing the basics every day?
Speaker 1:I think we've been, adapted to needing new things all the time. Now Robert Sapolsky speaks about this in his latest podcasts he's doing around the circuits, talks about how the reward system has to reset very fast. So what you think what was a good reward today becomes entitled tomorrow, which becomes not enough the day after. That's how it has evolved and it's not, it's really not, serving us basically because it's causing us to like need more, want more, this isn't enough. The way to counteract this is simple really is see every day as his own life, each day at his time, each day in his own silo, each day in his own segment.
Speaker 1:Because if you think about, okay, if I've got today until if I got till midnight today, what would I do today for it to be a good day for me and my health and my body and my mindset? Right? It doesn't matter if you did this yesterday because yesterday's its own thing. It doesn't matter if you're gonna do it tomorrow because tomorrow's its own thing. So I say to myself, well, of course, I wanna eat well today.
Speaker 1:Of course, I wanna not over consume my energy. Of course, I wanna hit my protein target. Right? Of course, I wanna get my steps in for my mental health. Of course, if it's if my body is is is recovered and I feel good, of course, I wanna do some form of training or some form of martial arts or something.
Speaker 1:Obviously, I wanna do those things. If I'm doing them every day, should I not do them at all because they do because I'm doing them daily? You know, we have to think, like, it's a bit of a silly thing to think about. Like, should I brush my teeth every day? It's boring.
Speaker 1:Should I mix it up? Should I brush should I not brush them today? Should I do something else tomorrow? Should I do this and this? You can see how this gets silly in other other factors of our lives.
Speaker 1:We do the we do the basics. We brush our teeth. You know, you have a shower. You do these things and you think well of course I gotta start my day off with a shower and brush my teeth because it sets me up for a nice day because my mouth is clean, my body's clean, I feel good. Right?
Speaker 1:So you think obviously the shower's benefit is for that day in a specific. Right? That shower today isn't benefiting me next week. Right? But if we do it every day, obviously, those the momentum builds and it starts being the thing that builds up over time.
Speaker 1:You start feeling good. Your teeth get better over time. You know all that type of stuff, clean your mouth. You see where I'm going with this? And when it comes to our health obviously we've got long term goals for our health, right, but if we can see it as well, if I do a shower in the morning it's good, sets me up.
Speaker 1:If we see eating and walking and training in the same way, well, me walking today isn't necessarily impacting me next week. I mean walking in seven days, you know, but it's what builds from the basics. The small things are the big things. These are the things that change your life. Not like some big fancy plan.
Speaker 1:Nothing like that. What really changes your life is turning up every day for yourself. Simple as possible. Right? And when you start turning up for yourself every day that does become the new normal for you like this new sense of focus, this new sense of energy, this new sense of I'm on top of things, I'm on I'm feeling I'm in control.
Speaker 1:That's really the important factors here because we really aren't doing this fitness thing just to lose weight like if you've done the seven levels deep you know that's not the case. The case is that you wanna optimize your life. You wanna self actualize whatever we wanna call it. We wanna, you know, live your potential. You can't live your potential unless you've got the base of health as simple as possible.
Speaker 1:You've got nothing without it. Absolutely nothing. You can have the best job, best you can have loads of money in your bank account, you can have the best outfit, you can have the best jewelry, you can have the best car, you know all that stuff and you're on your base of health. You've crumbled, there's nothing to work from. The base of health is way more important than the base of the other things.
Speaker 1:Right? So you think, well, it's boring, it's not. Well, who said it was exciting every day to look after our health? Aeronautics doesn't have to be exciting. What are you comparing this to?
Speaker 1:Are you comparing a Monday of just work, getting your steps and stuff like that to a weekend at Glastonbury? Obviously not as exciting but it's a weekend at Glastonbury would that be exciting if it was every day? Obviously not. You'd get used to it, get bored and you go normal. Everything will get adapted to, right?
Speaker 1:So you need to accept from right now that this health, looking after your health isn't the exciting thing. Now can we make it better? Can we give ourselves challenges? Can we change your perspective on stuff? Obviously that's where the power lies.
Speaker 1:If I say to myself, I can't be asked to go for a walk, it's boring. But if I go on a walk with a podcast it's a different walk. If I go on a walk with no music and I actually look up and look around at my surroundings and I fucking smile at people walking past and, you know, you you have a sense of community around you. You go for a walk through a park and you notice if dogs are playing, it's like little things and you think, oh, no. Don't wanna do it.
Speaker 1:You do it. Look into that stuff. That's where you bring stillness back in your day. And you go, I haven't eaten the same food every day. So most of humanity over time have eaten the same food.
Speaker 1:Whatever is locally there which is the same, they've eaten the same foods. Yeah we want some variety of course and but having variety is is a luxury. It is like if I have loads of variety in my food all the time each day really it is you can't really meal prep, well you can but it's been more expensive. You're using more mind power because you're like mixing it up all the time. And sometimes we don't need food to be this super pleasurable thing all the time.
Speaker 1:Like even though we have food with family, we have food eating out, it's a social thing, it's a big part of our lives, it doesn't have to be like that all the time you eat. Sometimes you can eat just purely for fuel, you can eat for the nutrition, you can eat for what's gonna make you feel, what's gonna make you do. Right? And sometimes that's boring but looking at it, ah, is boring taste wise which lasts flipping thirty seconds versus what else you're gonna get from that. If you look at what you're gonna get from the boring eating or like I'm gonna eat these foods and they're not the most exciting, I hit my macros, what you're getting out of that is far more exciting than the taste of food for thirty seconds.
Speaker 1:Think about it. Oh wow, I ate some and the retasted nice. Alright cool, what percentage of your day was that? I don't know mate, like 0.0001%? Alright great, so how do you feel now after you know, yeah I wanna spend two hours preparing it and you know I've been thinking about it all day and it's alright.
Speaker 1:So you spent all your time and energy or a lot of your energy the day for 0.9001%. Once it's done, you've spent two, three hours. You've been worrying about it, you've worrying sick about it, you've thinking of the weekend, you've been spending all this food money to get all the food and the ingredients, you've got a lot of stuff being away, all of that for a for nice taste for a yeah. Alright. Great.
Speaker 1:That for me looks silly. I mean, up to you. You can you can obviously cook and enjoy it and this is what you wanna do, but don't feel ashamed or shy away from the basics and the simpleness of what we gotta do. It's easy to not do these things. It's easy to do them really day to day.
Speaker 1:If you could focus day to day you're gonna have a better life. Please don't think about these things in the matter if it's boring. You can it's it's boring if you wanted to be boring, yes. But I don't think looking after our health is boring. I don't think giving yourself a base of health for the years you got after is boring.
Speaker 1:I don't think being a good example to your kids, you people around you is boring. I don't think having a clear mind and a calm mind is boring. I don't think having energy or at least more energy is boring. I don't think saving mental energy and saving money is boring. I don't think getting big bigger, stronger muscles is boring.
Speaker 1:None of that's boring. If that's boring, what the hell is fun for you guys? What is good for you in your life? What is the good stuff? God.
Speaker 1:There's social media. Social media's ruining no brains. If you were if you were lived alone in the middle of a village on your own or you had limited people there, let me tell you something, and you've got no TV and no no social media, that walk in your day would be delightful. You'd love going for a walk. Can't wait to get out.
Speaker 1:Can't wait to move around, look around, see what people are doing. Let's have a walk. You can wait to kind of just have the simple stuff done. You can wait to do that. You can wait to go and see how strong you can get in the gym if it's a workout or some kind of challenge for the day.
Speaker 1:You wouldn't be able to wait to do it. You'd love doing it. That's what's left to do. But I just wanna leave you on today. Don't worry about being boring.
Speaker 1:Do the basics, guys. Think of things in silos. Today is its own day. I don't care if yesterday you did your steps, you did your macros, you did your training. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:Okay that's good, it's done. Today's its own day, give today the same base as the other days. Don't say oh well hey today your mate yesterday has already had these things today so you're not gonna have it. You go, no. No.
Speaker 1:I deserve it as well. I shall have the good things too. No. No. I've done it on the other days.
Speaker 1:Yeah. But the other days aren't meat. Okay. It's like going to a bunch of kids. You've five kids.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I've had all four kids, but the fifth kid, look, is boring. I've given them all food. It's boring. No no food for you.
Speaker 1:And he goes, oh, what have I done? Yeah. This is boring. Like, I've done it four times. We I've walked all four kids.
Speaker 1:We've taken them to the gym exercise, but you you're the fifth one. Can't be bothered. Gotta mix it up. Stay home. Do nothing.
Speaker 1:But I am not them. You know? You go, don't care. This is stupid. Each day as they come, one day at a time, get on with things.
Speaker 1:See you back here tomorrow.