Subscribe
Share
Share
Embed
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. So today's task, I want you to do something called a mindstorm. So mindstorm is like a brainstorm, slightly different. So on a piece of paper, write down in the middle what your goal is. If it's lose fat, if it's to be healthier, my best self, if it's to like improve my confidence.
Speaker 1:And then coming out of that middle, you need to find 20 things you can do to get you close to that goal and you have to do 20. The reason you gotta do 20 is because five is easy, I wanna lose weight, I'll get my calorie deficit, I'll meal prep, I'll go and get my steps in, you know? Then it's asking real hard, you get an eight, nine, 10, you're like what? And eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. And that's what the magic is when you figure out, you get to 20 and then you look and you're like I've got all these things I can do towards this goal.
Speaker 1:Some are big, some are small, some are easy, some are hard, but you've got this like practical thing you can do. So that's your task today. Put your goal in the middle of a piece of paper, mind storm it. How can you get to that goal, right? And I've been, watching the video of Jim Rohn, the one for Wednesday.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna have a I'm do a I'm I'm sounding like a little bit of notes in this. I'm gonna go over it now on this podcast, for some people who wanna tend to watch it or just want a motivational boost essentially. But Jim Rohn will say, his mentor said to him, Jim, go and give me your list of goals. And he said, well, I don't have it on me. He's like, oh, is it on your car?
Speaker 1:And he's like, not my car. I don't have a list of goals. And Jim Rohn's mentor was like, well, if you don't have a list of goals, I can guess where you're at in your life right now. Basically, what are you doing? Where are your goals?
Speaker 1:Where are you going? Okay? So setting goals are one of the important things he mentions. And that's why with Turtle six week challenge, one day at a time, setting goals, we set these goals of just doing our best every day. We have an over you know, there's obviously overarching goals that say for example you want to get a promotion, start a business, build a business, sell a business, run a marathon, know, those things are like time things and you can look around and go, okay, and your plan, but it still comes back to today.
Speaker 1:So practically we need to have the plan and set those goals and then we come back to what do we do today to get as close to those goals, right? And he talks about this diseases of attitude and he talks about how people say, well, I had more time I'd do it. If I had the time that person has, I would do what they're doing. If I had the time that person has, I would have the same results as them. And he was like, there's no more time, you have all the time there is.
Speaker 1:And this again is, there's a book written in like 1920s by Arnold Bennett called How to Live on twenty four Hours a Day and he says the same thing, he's like you all have twenty four hours a day, some of you have got twenty four hours or let's say sixteen hours that are much more intense than others and we have to put that into consideration. But the point here isn't to compare like know Molly Mae was like whenever it's got the same twenty four hours a day, Everyone has twenty four hours in a day or sixteen hours in a day, whatever it is. Right? We have that. We can't extend the day.
Speaker 1:So instead of saying, well, you can do it. Therefore, I can do it. I don't think that's a practical way. What is practical is to go, I won't have more hours in a day, personally. If I want to do something I can't find more time, I must be I must make better value of the time I have.
Speaker 1:And if you're sitting there going I've just got a kid, I've got no time, that's very different to you versus me. So you'll say well I don't have time for this, don't have time for that, okay how can I maybe if I wake up half an hour, is that possible, don't know, okay the baby to bed at 7PM is that the right time to maybe do a workout? And let's have a think about it, let me think, let me mindstorm this thing. You're not going to get given three, four more hours a day, but you can perhaps find thirty minute chunk, fifteen minute chunk, ten minute chunk, optimise time management there. And then even also same time you've had every day, you are now utilizing that time better.
Speaker 1:That's what he's getting now. So don't wish for more time, wish for more efficiency essentially. He And says one of his quotes, and it's just so simple. For you for things to change, you got to change. Very basic, but so true.
Speaker 1:Well, I want things to change. Okay. Well, think what you gonna do about that? No. Nothing.
Speaker 1:I just hope things change. Well, when's that ever worked, guys? Come on. That's never worked. Oh, I wanna change.
Speaker 1:I wanna do this. I wanna do that. I wanna be fitter and healthier. I wanna lose weight. I wanna be strong.
Speaker 1:I wanna be lean. I wanna be my most confident self. Okay. What are you doing then? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Pretty much the same thing I've always done. You know, a silliness. So over the six weeks or whatever you're doing right now, how are you changing? That means that how you're changing, it changes your life. If you're hitting your protein target, calorie target, step target, if you become the person that does that day in day out on most of the days of the year, if you don't think that's gonna change you, you are mad, because that's gonna change you at your core.
Speaker 1:Are gonna be your weight to be managed better, you're eating enough protein, you're going to maintain muscle, you're more energy, and if deficit or maintenance, whatever, you're to get your steps in, it's going to improve your mental health. You audio can books in on a walk or you can walk in silence. Like that walking time, the extra time you're to have, you're to feel more active, feel better about yourself, you're have less lower back problems, stuff like this. You start feeling more energized every day. By the end of the year, you're like, this new me, this new habit I've built of this core of making sure that I'm having the right energy and hitting my protein, get my steps in, talent change.
Speaker 1:I don't know why, don't ask me how you're to change or what direction you're going go, I just know you're to be a better person in general energy wise and in your physique wise and in your mental health wise, give it a go. Another thing he says, and I've brought up his quotes on podcasts before because they were things that really changed my life when I was younger listening to him when I was like 20, 21, 22, just listening to all the seminars and stuff, right? And he says don't major in minor things, and major as in, like, you know, get a degree or whatever. Don't major in these minor things. Don't put all this massive effort in things that actually don't matter.
Speaker 1:And that's really what the philosophy is here with the calories and protein steps. It's like, they're the major things. The minor things you're caring about putting so much effort in and so much perfectionism in doesn't do anything for you. It's making things harder for you. And we look at this on grand scheme of your life, why don't you apply this to everywhere?
Speaker 1:Why do you care so much about, maybe, well, went over my carbs, but my calories are fine. Oh my god, I'm so stressed about it. It doesn't matter, you're within your calorie diet. Right? I did two workouts this week, not three.
Speaker 1:You did two workouts, three like look, in the grand scheme doing two, three, two, two, three, two, two. That will matter really. If you ate at least two workouts a week, the strength, resistance, trains workout, you know you're gonna get a lot of benefits there. Don't try and squeeze out things that don't bring back much And you have to figure out what those things are. So what are the minor things you're spending major time and effort on in all parts of your life, in your health, in your fitness, in your work, in your relationships, okay?
Speaker 1:And then figure out what the minor things are and just get rid, don't put any more effort into them. And this is the same as the law, the power law, the law of the vital fear with the Pareto's law. Pareto's principle is the same thing. And he talks in about winters and it's very obviously on tune you're going into winter. He talks about life is like the seasons, the winter.
Speaker 1:You have economic winters, you've got heartbreak winter, you've got social winters, you've got work winters, you've got all those types of winters. Doesn't that mean outside winter, but we all go through winters. Okay? And he says a really good quote I love. He says, You can't get rid of January by turning off the calendar.
Speaker 1:Right? You can't get rid of your shit times by burning your head in the sand. Right? You can't just you know wish it away. He says you need to deal with the winters.
Speaker 1:That's one of the most important skills you can develop is dealing with winters, all parts of winters, and because the winters lead into a strong spring. He says, What comes after day and night? The Storwick said about this, What comes after day and night? We've got the plan, we've these things that are there always. The seasons have been there always.
Speaker 1:So after winter there's spring all the time. It's always darkest before the dawn as they say, it's another way of looking at things, it's like when things are getting tough and things are horrible there is bound to be a spring coming, right, There's bound to be out of that, you know, the light at the end of the saddle, whatever phrase resonates with you, there's something there. But if you turn a winter and you become you turn it to self pity, you turn it into catastrophizing, you turn it into, know, what's it called now? Oh my god, what's the word I'm looking for? Catastrophizing.
Speaker 1:Self sabotage. Self sabotage. Self sabotage. Oh well, I'm gonna throw the week away about a bad Monday. I'm gonna throw the day away about a bad morning.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna throw the I'm gonna throw oh, at the end of the year, no point is gone. And then your winter has gone from where you could have just been kind of maintained and hold and just like bed with it. You turned it into its own catastrophe from your own doing. So deed with the winters, that's the key to the success in the spring. And in the spring, you wanna plant your seeds, he says.
Speaker 1:And love it, you plant your seeds in the spring and you gotta look after them from spring to harvest because the weeds will come in and try and take them away. 100% the weeds will come in whether that's people, negative people, whether it's things taken away from your time, the kind of bad, really bad habits coming in, those types of weeds that come in to ruin your planted seeds, you need to protect from the weeds because they will grow and it will take over. So you need to prevent it, every garden needs to be looked after, needs to be in order. And that's kind of why you're saying, well, from spring to the the harvest or to the winter, you need to be protective of what you've managed to plant. So you've done the winter, you've gone through the shift, you come out Jan, Feb, March, you're going you see, you feel good, you're planting stuff, you're planting seeds, you're getting ready for it, you're feeling good, you haven't catastrophized, you've held, you're in a really good position, and then what happens is we're in a really good position to make the most of what we've done, and then we self sabotage.
Speaker 1:We let the weeds come in and take over. And that's what he's talking about there. So can we have a good winter or as good as the winter as we can going into a spring, and can we maintain the spring? Can we maintain that garden? Okay?
Speaker 1:So and then he finished off, and I'll finish with this as well. Was brilliant. Jim Rohn's mentor said to him, Jimmy, give me a list of why things aren't going well for you and why you're not living to your full potential. Okay? And Jim Braun was after ages listing all the stuff, know, the government, the taxes, and I've got the best this and the best that and the best that.
Speaker 1:And then his mentor went, Jim, I've got a big problem. He said, well, because you're not on that list. Where it is sometimes quite a sad thing to realise, but it is true. Everyone's going through their own stuff and their own shit. We have to a light to ourselves, and then if we can do that, we can be a light to other people, we can help other people through their tough times as well, but we can't rely on others because they go through their stuff and it's not possible.
Speaker 1:It's too much to handle for most people. Gambling themselves is what's helping other people. So make sure you realize that the problem where in your life now where you want be in your health fitness stuff is you, and not to take on the bad way just means that the solution is also you which is brilliant, and now you've got time to work on that which is also brilliant. And he finishes off with a stoic quote, it's not what happens, it's what you do that changes everything. You know, it's not what happens, it's not what your not the events that disturb you, your opinion about the events.
Speaker 1:You can only do something about your attitude towards things. Okay? That's where your power is. You can only really power you can only really have any willpower on that. I mean you can there's nothing else in your control essentially, the control is that I get to have this attitude today, I can start there and nothing's gonna stop me trying my best today to get my steps in, to track my macros, you know, to maybe do a workout, go for my walk, to do good work, to like knock on social media get sucked into the hellhole of the feeds, and like that's something you know, me wanting to do the eyes in my control, and sometimes I don't succeed in all of those things, but every day I wake up with a desire, I'll try my best.
Speaker 1:And that's what you're going do today. Go and try your best, and I'll speak to you soon.