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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, turtle meth heads. Right. First thing, straight in today with the words. So these are emails Steve Jobs sent to himself. Right?
Speaker 1:And now you know you're thinking, shit. Shut up, Steve Jobs. These are very important points. I want you all to take it seriously. And these I'm saying these as well to remind myself.
Speaker 1:You know, don't know what all of you are going through, but a lot of people going through a lot of shit right now, always the case anyway. It's not as if it's surprising that people get through tough times. You know, enjoy the good times because you go up and down all the time. And certainly, in my case, sometimes you start feeling overwhelmed and, you know, you have to say to yourself, well, I can't do everything at once, can I? So what can I just do next that's going to help the situation?
Speaker 1:Whether it's go for a walk, go for a gym session, going to read someone else, or just doing some small task, eventually, that progress will motivate you to do more, and you don't wanna essentially make things hard of yourself too. So if you think, like, think as a things clearly, and I've said this before, like, I never thought the Nike's just do it slogan was any good. I thought hell is terrible. But when you actually think about a slogan and real, just do it. You know what to do.
Speaker 1:Just do it. Like, oh, I feel so I feel so shit about myself. Well, have you been doing any walking recently in the sun? No? Well, just do it then and then see if it changes because it will.
Speaker 1:Oh, I feel terrible. I am not I'm just out eating out of control. Blah blah blah. Right? Are we starting to track and try and get some control of your eating habits or to trying to be aware of what's going on?
Speaker 1:No. Well, just do that then. You know, the the answers are obvious here. These things are simple to do, but they're simple not to do. That's the problem with them.
Speaker 1:Same with, a highfeet have drink more water. Most of us don't drink enough water. I'm not saying drink 10 liters a day, but, you know, do the basics, guys, and just do the basics because that's what matters. Anyway, before I crack on down the wrong path here, Steve Jobs. Subject title to himself, you can't plan to meet the people who will change your life.
Speaker 1:06/07/2005 11:46PM. Can't plan to meet the people who will change your life. I am invited to speak at Stanford's Business School once or twice a year and I always try and do it. Had accepted an invitation to speak one Thursday late afternoon. I wasn't feeling very well, and I had dinner later that evening with some very important customers up at a winery on Page Mill Road.
Speaker 1:The room for my talk wasn't large enough. And all the seats were full, so some of the students were sitting in the aisles. One of the professors asked them to clear the aisles in case a fire marshal should appear, and one girl who has been evicted quickly sat down in one of the four seats they had left vacant in the front row for me and whatever on on entourage I might be bringing. When I arrived alone and sat down in the front row, it didn't take me long to notice this really cute girl sitting next to me. I think she was stunned when it was me that got up to speak, and I knew something was up when I was staring her forgetting what I was talking about mid sentence.
Speaker 1:After my talk, stayed around to speak with some students and they stayed and she stayed too. But then she left. I didn't know who she was and I thought I might never see her again. So I wound up thinking things up and left too, and I caught up with her in the parking lot, I asked her if she would have dinner with me on Saturday. She said yes and gave me her phone number.
Speaker 1:As I was walking to my car I asked myself if this was the last day of my life, would I rather have dinner with an important customer or her? I raced back to her car just as she was about to drive off and asked her, how about dinner tonight? She said, yes. We were married eighteen months later. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It might have worked out if I had waited till Saturday night, and those customers might have given us a few more orders if I'd shown up. But who knows? Maybe she had a hot date Friday night and things would have turned out much differently. You can't plan to meet the people who will change your life. It just happens.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's random. Maybe it's fate. Either way, you can't plan for it, but you want to recognize it when it happens and have that courage and clarity of mind to grab onto it. Right? So important, it's not just about finding a wife or a husband or whatever, that's just about putting yourself in a scenario where you meet new people and things happen, whether it's a new business connection, someone has talked to you about a new job, new friends, someone you really connect to.
Speaker 1:There's loads of opportunities to connect to more people, but you need to put yourself out there, and you don't know which situation you put yourself out to beforehand is the one, and sometimes it's the ones you at least expect. Now, I'm not saying turtle games, turtle forests are these things that are gonna potentially be life changing for you, but what I do know is having people in your life of like minded who are willing to support you and meeting them face to face is very, very powerful. So some of you right now are thinking, I don't know if I can go to turtle games. It sounds scary to me. Just remember, you can turn up and not do any games at all.
Speaker 1:You can just be there to socialize and meet other turtle members and meet new friends. And these new friends could change your life. There could be someone there that could it could be oh god. I don't know. Who knows?
Speaker 1:But put yourself out there. So if you are I've been on the fence recently about turtle games, it's time to take a leap and join it. It's gonna be an epic day. It's gonna be out of all of our comfort zones doing games in front of each other. That sounds a bit weird, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Not like a dirty kid. More like a 100 meter sprint for some of us. Maybe it's gonna be dodgeball. Maybe it's gonna be the winning bat on rounders. Who knows?
Speaker 1:The pressure's on, but it's gonna be fun. So some wise words there for Steve Jobs. And here's the last bit I wanna share with you from an email to himself again, ten to fifteen PM. Seems he's very late to me. The most important thing I've encountered to help me make the big choices is to remember that I'll be dead soon.
Speaker 1:I know it sounds a bit dramatic, but it's true. When And I remember this, I realise that all of the expectations, standards and restrictions of others and society mean nothing in the end. I realise that I have nothing to lose by following my heart and intuition, even if I embarrass myself or fail in the eyes of others, because I'll be dead soon. And I realise that I don't have forever to decide to find out what my intuition tells me. It's waiting out there for me.
Speaker 1:When I was 17, I read a quote that said something like, If you live each day as if it's your last, someday you'll most certainly be right. And since I was 17, I have looked at the mirror every morning and asked myself, if today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do today? And when the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something in my life. Another way to think about this is your life is a story. It's hard to see it that way when you're looking forward at 22, but imagine yourself as an old person looking back on your life.
Speaker 1:Your life will be a story. It'll be your story with highs and lows, its heroes and villains, its forks in the road for mean everything. And if you can't remember that your life is a story in the making, it will help you to make the important decisions. When you have to decide between taking the prestigious job that pays well or the offbeat job with no future that makes your heart sing, just imagine yourself looking back on your life in fifty years and you know what path is yours. You will give yourself the right advice.
Speaker 1:You will intuitively know something is part of your story or not. I'm 50 years old now and my story is ending in its third act. I can tell you with certainty that those times when I have followed my gut and heart and intuition have been the right ones. Stay hungry, stay foolish. Right?
Speaker 1:That's it for that. The important thing to realize here is, well, Steve Juddling, he had cancer. You know, he had cancer and he had pancreatic cancer. And on the same day, he thought his life was over three to six months, he was gone. But then they figured out that a biopsy, and it was a really rare form of cancer, and actually they were able to remove it.
Speaker 1:And then he was cancer free. You know, imagine the whirlwind of that forty eight hours. And maybe you have to come close to death maybe to see the truth of it. I don't know. My father passed away recently, of course.
Speaker 1:Girl younger than me in school, her father passed away and her friend's father passed away. And then someone a year older than me in my village, unfortunately, passed away in the last three days of a heart attack as well. And obviously, are speaking about it and they're shocked and everyone's saying same thing. You just never know. You just never know.
Speaker 1:We are to plan for retirement, but you just never know. There's a lot obviously plan, but don't think you're entitled to another forty, fifty years in this planet. You know, that's the thing to to really strike home. We think we got unlimited time. We don't.
Speaker 1:And it's uncomfortable to even hear this because it's not what we wanna hear. We wanna think that life is all nice, friendly, and it's gonna last forever, and our little problems aren't that bad, and we're gonna get a better, better life, you know? The truth is, it can slap you, it can punch you out of nowhere any given time. Now how do we actually take this advice on when it comes to health and fitness? I think for us to flourish in our lives, we must have a solid health base.
Speaker 1:There's no doubt about it. For you to be you know, if you think of it in terms of a car, if a car is a Ferrari, right, but it's got like the parts are worn out, the you've got the wrong fuel in it, it's the tires are just flat, it's got loads of extra things in the boot in the back and it just it's been let it's been neglected over winter out in the in the cold. You try and drive her. It's not gonna go smoothly. It's not gonna be driving to its full potential as it would be if it was looked after.
Speaker 1:And I know we're not cars, but our body is, in a sense, you can look at it very mechanical. Your heart is a mechanical pump. Right? Your muscles, your body fat, all a lot of the the the fuel you're putting in, are you putting excess fuel in? Are you putting too much wear and tear in the body?
Speaker 1:You can go the other way. You can train too much. Right? But then you can be too little and be idle and then rot away. So there's a lot of powerhouse to a certain cars and certain parts and things in the world.
Speaker 1:We think we're different from the world. We're not. We know intuitively deep down for something to flourish, we have to look after it. If you want your plant in the house to be the most beautiful plant it can be, you must feed it. You must look after it.
Speaker 1:You must give it the sunlight, all that type of stuff. You must be put in this right place. Right? Same with you. Are you in the right place?
Speaker 1:Are you putting the right information in your brain? Are you putting the right food in your brain? I often say foods are good and bad. The most important thing to remember if you are trying to lose weight is that you don't over consume calories. So get into a deficit, eat the foods you like, try and hit your macros.
Speaker 1:That's pretty much that job done. I know some people think it's pretty simple, but that's things fall in place. There's certain things you can do that everything else falls in place. Right? If you hit your macros with the food you like, whatever they may be, everything tends to fall in place because you've got a variety of foods.
Speaker 1:Your vitamins and minerals tend to be taken care of. You don't feel like you're neglecting any foods. You don't feel like you're missing out on life. A lot of things fall into place when you hit your macros and you eat the foods you like. And because it's so simple, people think there's no way because they're used to the magic bullet.
Speaker 1:Right? And there's the basics a plant needs. There's a basic a car needs. There's a basic a farm needs to do in the fields. There's this base, the things fall into place.
Speaker 1:And you gotta think about what you're feeding your mind as well. Now when I go on social media, I never come off of feeling better. It's a fact. It's got such a grip on the mind. It it is scary.
Speaker 1:And I'm doing a more conscious effort now to get off here. It does, you know how can I explain it? You get trapped in there. You get some nice videos, you laugh, and you think it's all gonna be like that, but then it's not. Then you get hit with a video or image you didn't wanna see, takes you down a downward spiral.
Speaker 1:You go through a range of emotions, just sit in there, and then you feel worse about yourself. And it feels like the life has been slightly sucked out of you. But if you start your morning without going on your phone for an hour, that life is still there for you to spend however you want. The golden hour, I would say that is. So we got a lot of fine tuning to make in our lives.
Speaker 1:We've got a lot of looking at ourselves objectively. We've got a lot to look at how do we want to spend the rest of our lives. You know, it's a very serious question you need to ask yourself. It's not about achieving more status and loads and loads of more money and, like, four or five houses and and it's not really about that. I mean, if you're propped about it.
Speaker 1:I'm fine enough. But it's not about accumulating more. It's about wanting less and making the most of what you actually have and being grateful for it. And you have to look after your body and your mind, of course, but you have to look after your body. It's the only thing only body you'll ever have, obviously.
Speaker 1:But you will regret it as you get older. If you don't look after it now, this is the the youngest you'll ever be again. So it's never gonna get easier from you the longer you dwell in it. So today, of course, it makes sense that you look at this like I get to do a walk. I get to work out.
Speaker 1:I get to look after my health, and we've spoke about this many times. The get to attitude is much better than I have to attitude. The have to attitude is like, I have to work out. But let me tell you, I chop your legs off. You wish you could go and do another run.
Speaker 1:So extreme. I'll chop your legs off if you wanna see. But, you know I mean? When you've got a blocked nose, all you want is an unblocked nose. When you can't when you can't swallow because you tonsillitis, all you wanna do is your mouth to be able to swallow nice, delicious food again.
Speaker 1:When you had COVID and can smell food or whatever if you had one of them, all you wanna do is you're gonna smell food and taste food again. You know, you take the base away from us, and all we want is the base. Everything else is a superficial add on that we add on ourselves that we don't actually need, what we think we want. But what do we really want? I don't know.
Speaker 1:Question it. Look into it. So today, which is a slogan from Nike, which I didn't think is great, like, you know, the just do it slogan. Just do it. And you know what it is?
Speaker 1:When it comes to your health and you wanna lose weight, use the app. You've got the power of advanced techno you have got literally so much power in that app. It makes it easy to lose it. There's never been an easier time to lose weight when it comes to this world of technology. You've got a smart virtual coach making tweaks for you every week.
Speaker 1:You don't even have to worry about, am I on the right path or not? It will literally tell you and change it if you if you're not. All you gotta do is track what you're eating, you know, sync your steps up, off you go. Nothing else is easy. Bam.
Speaker 1:Bam. Bam. Think about it. Just do that, and you lose weight. There's there's loads of research on this.
Speaker 1:Like, people who who track six out of seven out of ten days, weave them without wanting to lose weight, just tracking for awareness, lose weight, okay, in research. So you don't even have to be consciously wanting to lose weight. If you track and you're aware, you understand where you're going wrong, and then you can tweak it from there. Simple as. Right?
Speaker 1:If you wanna be a better runner, you guess what you gotta do today or tomorrow or the next three days. You gotta be able go running. Better go running. If you wanna improve your back, got lower back pain. Well, sitting down isn't gonna help us there.
Speaker 1:You need a set walk in. You need to do ten minutes of mobility a day. Look into the McGill big three. YouTube, m c g I l l big three, and do that ten minutes every morning. We can lower back and get walking.
Speaker 1:Walking really does help standing up more. If your mental health is taking a downward spiral, guess what you gotta do? Check your screen time and reduce it because that's one of the main things that's gonna make you feel shit. And once you've once that's reduced and you're still feeling shit, what might be something else? Are you getting enough steps in?
Speaker 1:Are you doing exercise? No? Try that then. Okay. You've got steps and you're exercising.
Speaker 1:You're not on your phone as much. Right? K. Maybe it's the food you eat. Maybe there are some foods that make you feel sluggish.
Speaker 1:Have you tried improving your macros and you do that? Then, you know, most cases, you can feel better. If not again, it might be someone else. It might be the work you hate. It might be a relationship you're stuck in that you hate.
Speaker 1:It might be that you have some there's something really nagging you in the family or friends you need to sort out. Eventually, you'll get to the source of it. But all along the way, you make sure you just do it for the simple health things that we know works. So all I want you to do today is just do it. Write it down as your one big thing.
Speaker 1:If you're new to that, it's just one thing you should do today that gets you a step closer to where you wanna be. Not like a a to do list, the superficial, you know, like, clean the dishes. That's not gonna that's not one big thing. That's not gonna do for me. You know, put my sheets on the bed.
Speaker 1:No. One big thing, 10,000 steps. One big thing, track my macros honestly. One big thing, do that workout. One big thing, do that tax return.
Speaker 1:One big thing, do that email to a very important person in work that takes might take me two hours to draft my shoes. Big thing. Just get one big thing listed down. Get that done today. Build some progress.
Speaker 1:Just do it, and I'll speak to you all soon.