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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.
Good morning. Welcome back to the podcast where I just remind you to do what you already know what you need to do and get on with it. Stop whining and mourning and, oh, it's a tough morning or just you know exactly what to do. If you're not doing it, nothing's gonna change. As Jim Rohn says, if you if you want something to change, you gotta change.
Speaker 1:We all need this kick up the ass sometimes. We sometimes also need days where we do take the foot off the pedal and just, rest, but we often take way too many those days. And there was a good quote I read the other day, and I think it's bang on, it is. Sometimes a big problem has a small solution and people hate to hear this because they feel the big problem deserves a big solution. Your weight management problem is not to do with your body type blood or your unique metabolism or your unique, hormonal balance whilst those things play a role into what your calories should be and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:That big problem of weight management has got very small simple solutions. You know? Not moving enough, not getting the steps in, not getting the calorie intake down, not looking at weekends and seeing what the hell is going on. And you may say, well, simple. I'm not saying it's easy to do.
Speaker 1:I'm saying it's a simple solution. Execution is tougher. You know, the map is not the journey. The map looks nice and easy, isn't it? I just go from there to there.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're telling me you just go from there and up there. And then you see the actual reality of that up there in in in the journey you take, and it's the mountains. And there's valleys, there's freaking scorpions everywhere. Dragons flying over the Welsh mountains taking you out. Very different landscape.
Speaker 1:That doesn't mean it's still not a straightforward thing. You're still going here today. You know? We waste so much time on this. A lot of you are feeling overwhelmed, and I think speaking about overwhelm is important.
Speaker 1:Just want you to know if you're feeling overwhelmed, a lot of people are right now. I don't know if that helps them out, but a lot of people are feeling overwhelmed. A lot of people struggling with emotional eating. A lot of people are eating a lot of calories in the night. A lot of people are, you know, they're aware that they're doing it, they're beating themselves up sometimes about it.
Speaker 1:There's a there's a lot of people with financial problems on top of work problems on top of relationship problems and some on top of life problems. And I was saying this to someone, can't remember who I was, but life doesn't really give you a break like in sport, you know, it's not like, alright, half time, have a break. It's kinda just relentless, just keeps going. And I think you just gotta learn how you can de stress, you know, sleep is a big thing and the sleep and recovery this week's a big thing, I've spoken enough about the research on that, go and watch the seminar. But if you're feeling overwhelmed by stuff you have to break it down to small things.
Speaker 1:It's actually the only way. When it comes to my own overwhelm, I would say I often feel like I've stretched I often use the phrase I am stretching myself too thin, and then I think though that the actions I've taken to do that have been from an excitement place, a place of I'm excited about this, I think it's a good idea, I've got energy to put into it. And I feel like the overwhelm only kicks in when one, things don't go as planned, right? That's when I start thinking things, I may overwhelm myself, but when things are going great, I don't feel overwhelmed. So that's the interesting thing, like I feel brilliant, like I could do loads of stuff.
Speaker 1:I think it's going bad, feel overwhelmed. So maybe there's a link with things are not going our way, causing us to feel lower motivation, feel stress, feel like well this might not work out, and that stress itself is overwhelming sometimes. It's not that we can't handle what we're doing, it's that our view of it is quite negative sometimes, quite heavy. It's the heaviness of it that can pull you down. Right?
Speaker 1:And sometimes we do stretch ourselves too thin, don't get me wrong, there's a lot of times we do this. But we only really know what we're capable of when we do stretch ourselves too thin, when we do push ourselves. I think that's one of the only things to see what you're made out of. And sometimes you will fail on these things, and it's fine. And it's better to try, than to to kinda be like give up straight away.
Speaker 1:And there's many places in life this comes in. So it could be the you're trying. So for example, I know Jane won't mind me mentioning, but Jane works a very tough job managing in healthcare stuff like this. A lot of workload, also doing university stuff, also family life. There's a lot of stuff going on, a lot of responsibility.
Speaker 1:And from my perspective, you look at that person, you're like, you know, superhuman, you're doing a lot. And you speak to people like Jane or other people with similar positions, they say, yes, hello, I'm stressed out. It's like a lot at all. But if they were to look deeper into it, potentially this kind of doing this, doing this, doing this, pushing forward, helping people, you know, developing, there's a power in it that keeps you going no matter how hard it is. And on on the outside, when we think it's impossible for me to do it.
Speaker 1:But once you're aligned with something, I feel like you can do a lot more than you than you think you can do. So it's important to make sure that you do like what you do and you find a purpose in it because that can make you push like, you know, 10 times harder. Like, if you love the work that you're doing, you're gonna include them in your life alongside looking after your family, alongside your job. If you hate the working out, imagine how hard that is to keep going. Just think about it for a second, I have now designed the worst workout for you.
Speaker 1:It's called burpee a thousand. You know, thousand burpees every day. And I'm gonna put your worst music on. Metallica heavy metal. And you gotta do this every day in the morning.
Speaker 1:And then you gotta go to work after it. And then the thing is, when you go to work, it's very tight to the end of the workout. Think about how horrible that is. You're like, oh my god, there's no way. I hate it.
Speaker 1:Now think about your favorite ever workout with your best friends. And you go to this workout, you enjoy it, the energy is amazing, the music is awesome, you love doing it, you're you're progressing, you feel oh, you feel awesome. Now after that workout, you go to work, you're a different person. Right? It's the same time as in you're working out for the same time.
Speaker 1:It's the same tightness of schedule where you're gonna go straight to work after it, but a completely different person. So I genuinely think it is a perspective thing about how much we can handle. And if you are taking on a lot of stuff you hate, then yes, that's very, very heavy, and I would suggest you need to try and resolve that because like the good old Steve Jobs says, you know, you gotta love what you do to push through because it's crazy some of the workload we're all doing. You think about what we're doing, what we're trying to achieve, what everything we're balancing, like, we're we're crazy. We're we're trying to do a lot here.
Speaker 1:And that's because, you know, maybe we we feel like we can do more. And I just want you all to know, we're all struggling together in this. But genuinely, we're all no one you know, there's some days of maybe there's some days of like euphoria where things click. I've had those days, it's like, oh, this is brilliant. This is launched.
Speaker 1:This is happening. That's gone well. I've had a good workout. I'm feeling fit. I've got no injuries.
Speaker 1:My macros are great today. See my friends later. You know those days? Those those days. Those days are there, but it's not possible to have those days all the time.
Speaker 1:And in the middle, you get the May days. The oh my god. The dry. The dry. It's tough, the pressure's there.
Speaker 1:And you get those days where you don't wanna show up sometimes. But if you get on those days you don't wanna show up too often, something's not right in your life. That's kind of how to look at it. And I bring this up as well because yeah, like dealing with overwhelm is one of the most important things we got to do. That's why doing work what you like is so important as I can't stress it enough, you've got to like what you're doing.
Speaker 1:You can't be turning up to work that you hate. Give it a go. Have a different have an optimistic mindset. If you still don't like it, it's time to switch it up. It might not be that you like Ryan's workouts are awesome.
Speaker 1:Turtle sweat and shreds are awesome. Your Arnie stuff's awesome. But sometimes you may go, it's it's all this on demand license is not for me. I need I need the classes in person. Fine.
Speaker 1:You do not have to be married to this the workouts here. You can go and do those workouts. Like, for me, what's been absolutely mind mind eye opening for me mind opening, could be a potential mind opening, you know, your eyes are connected right to your brain. I go jiu jitsu like five times a week. I genuinely love it, and I will want to spa at the end of the session with one of the coaches, I want to learn.
Speaker 1:I'm keen to learn, I'm keen to improve my fitness, I know it's a struggle, I get beat up all the time, I get choked out, you know, it's not going well sometimes, but I love turning up because I'm improving every single time. Find that for you in the exercise world. Now, macros nutrition world, How do we get that same optimistic view of eating well? Few insights from me recently. So I've I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1:I'm still trying to work it out whether it's the sweetener, whether it's the caffeine, with Pepsi Max or whatever. Something's causing me to urinate. It's a lot. I know this is whatever. Don't know if you didn't expect that, but, frequent urination.
Speaker 1:And it's causing me it's causing my work disruption to me in my work, disruption in my sleep. It's like, okay. I need to cut out the Pepsi Max. Cut it out. I really, really like it, but I'm cutting her out because I want to feel and want I to sleep and I want to not be aggravated throughout the day.
Speaker 1:I don't know exactly if it's a petrolux or not. Could be the caffeine, cut the caffeine down as well. And now I'm waking up, I'm like I'm having one coffee a day instead of three or four, and I'm having no Pepsi Max, I'm drinking water, and I think I'm drinking water. Do you know why? Because that's not gonna give me any irritation.
Speaker 1:That's not gonna make me wanna pee all the time. Well, you know, excess water can. And I'm now doing it for the sake of feeling still and comfortable and energetic and being able to perform in my work and in the gym and stuff like that. So the when it comes from that angle, it's so much easier. So for some of you, you might have a takeaway this week on the weekend, or you might have certain foods or certain snacks or like a Greggs on the way to work or whatever, and you realize after you don't feel good.
Speaker 1:It makes you bloated. It makes you it doesn't make you feel light. It makes you feel heavy. And then you realize I don't wanna feel heavy anymore because I wanna feel good there when I'm working. I wanna feel good in my workouts.
Speaker 1:Wanna feel good when I'm socially seeing my friends. I wanna feel good day to day, but I wanna be light on my feet. And you think, I don't wanna eat that food now. You're not saying it's good or bad, it's just that might not resonate with you. I'm not gonna have that McDonald's every Thursday night anymore.
Speaker 1:It's just not doing anything for me. I wake up the next day, I've got a bit of pain in my stomach. I'm not gonna have that heavy Indian because I wake up the next day like I've hit by a bus. That's why I don't have Indian anymore. Like every time I'm Indian, I wake up the next day and boom, I feel horrendous, sore heavy on the stomach, just not worth it.
Speaker 1:And this is not to say, oh, that's what's worth. I still have the foods I like. And there's some foods I like that I'm gonna cut down on because it just aggravates me. But that's just for me. It's different for you.
Speaker 1:So please find the things you like because it makes it overwhelm easier. That's my message today. And I've given you examples of training and nutrition wise, but this goes for anything. It goes for anything. And you have to you have to put the effort in you, especially with your work stuff.
Speaker 1:Example here, Amy Nev, was given a lot of workload with her work in university. She's like, well, don't know what to do. He's given me this in this class, do I just can't handle it. Or like, we can't handle it, but it's a lot. I was like, well, have you got asked told him about this overwhelm?
Speaker 1:He's like, no. I don't know. I was like, well, the first step is to have that difficult conversation. Like, hey. This is too much for me.
Speaker 1:We we shouldn't be putting all this on me because I need to perform my best. And then the solution happens, and then it happens. It's very simple, the solution to these things. So if your work is overwhelming you, the first protocol is in you. Sometimes you might say, Scott, my boss is a norm, and it's not happening.
Speaker 1:But really have a sit down conversation. I need this and things need to change because it's too much, with your partner or whatever. There's there's these things you gotta do to reduce overwhelm. You gotta confront them. I hope this podcast been helpful.
Speaker 1:I don't know if if it has been really. Just wanted to share my thoughts and other people's thoughts so far. And if you feel like you're spreading yourself too thin, take today to just breathe, cut down some of your to do list, focus on a one big thing for your health, one big thing for your work. Just focus on those, get them done as a laser focus on those two. Then go for a walk, have a water, sit on a bench, and I love a bench, sit on a bench and realise, yeah, the world isn't collapsing, that I'm not doing everything right now.
Speaker 1:The world isn't collapsing, and my life isn't over because I'm not always trying to solve this problem out right now. There is a time where you can just relax, and even though you know you are gonna be stepping into some carnage here and there with your work, When you sit on that bench or go for your walk, nothing can touch you, as long as you've got on your phone. And those moments really make you realize, well, I'm really putting a lot of this on myself, and I really could simplify it with, like, really direct actions. And you know what, you can only do what you can do. You can do your best and that's it.
Speaker 1:If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. But it is up to you to do the effort, it is up to you to pull that pressure off yourself. So please do that today. Have a good day, and I'll be seeing you guys wait. No.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, discussion club tonight. And if you go? Wow. See you tonight.