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Hello. Welcome back. Christmas crackers. Well, it's been a year, which is quite a long time, but I hope you are gearing up for a good six week challenge. Six weeks, six themes.
Speaker 1:For anyone listening to this podcast that's not part of the challenge, you might be able to play along, I don't know. It might not make sense to you, but there'll be some tasks you can follow on no doubt. But the good thing about the Christmas challenge is six themes, six weeks, which means we're gonna build upon each week and over the next six weeks you're gonna be focusing on things that maybe you haven't focused on specifically before, such as sleep, you know, such as person the personal development week, which is this week. We're starting off with a session tonight by Dean Leake, mindset expert, ex GB, team GB, mindset coach stripe. We're looking development and what the hell is that, what the hell is personal development.
Speaker 1:Spout, really, it's like kind of life development event, like where are we going? Where am I going with my life? What am I doing? What are my values? Like genuinely, like, these are not things you just sit on the couch and think about and write out and plan or or deeply go into.
Speaker 1:You have to actually go and engage with someone as well and take you through the process. Because it's like quite the what's the word? Like a job in process. It's like you're gonna get hit in the face a few times. You're gonna start thinking about things that might be uncomfortable because you're like, well, what the hell am I actually doing?
Speaker 1:What are my values? And one of your tasks today is to figure out what your values actually are and be honest with yourself about it. Because of the session tonight, Dean's gonna cover a lot of ground. There's a video to watch for discussion club on Wednesday night, which is a video by probably the godfather of, personal development called Jim Rohn, who was Tony Robbins' mentor. If you know the Tony Robbins guy, then the big tall guy from America, big smiling.
Speaker 1:And we're gonna and, you know, you're gonna listen to these things, all I want you to do really is to take notes. What pops in your brain when you're listening to these things? What are your values? A fig a way to figure out what your values or what values you admire is to what values in other people you admire, and do you have any of those yourself? You know, it's a famous Socrates way of looking at it.
Speaker 1:Like, oh, yes, Scotty. What are those things you made? How many of those do you have? I don't have any. Well, there we are then.
Speaker 1:So why do you think you should be, you know, spending time with people with those values that you admire, but you don't hold them yourself? How's it, but you sorted out, mate. You loser. You see what I mean? I'm not loser, but that word loser, just, you know, just just someone emailed me about it, actually, what what you mean by the word someone what you mean by the word loser.
Speaker 1:Just this phrase we use, isn't it? Just to, like, grow up a bit. Come on. Get on with things. It's a lighthearted phrase.
Speaker 1:Anyway, going off track here. This is gonna be short for a podcast because I just want you to take action right now. I want you to get this energy. I want you to feel a bit of joy about this challenge. Focus one day at a time, obviously.
Speaker 1:That's the only way we're gonna go through this challenge and make make the most of it. This the these things are both serious, but also want you to do it in a fun and very unserious way. You Being serious doesn't mean being like a really uptight of going do this this this and if it's not. Being serious about something also means you be light hearted. Being light hearted and being able to look at things with humor is a way to learn more about yourself for sure 100%.
Speaker 1:So if you say today, my one big thing today Scott and for you for some of you who haven't come across this the one big thing means what's one thing today that's going to move me towards my goal. It's like a real dent, right? Nothing small like clean dishes, clean the clean bedroom, put the bed together, you know, none of that small stuff. I'm thinking, well, one big thing today. Like, I don't want to do 10,000 steps today, Scott.
Speaker 1:I don't wanna do a workout today, Scott, but I'll do my macros today. I'm like, brilliant. That's your one big thing. Hit your macros today. If you can't do the walks, you can't do the workout, you can't do the personal development session tonight, this and this, just hit your macros.
Speaker 1:But some of you are like, oh, I don't want to hit my macros today. Just want to eat. I want to eat nice food, the meals I've already prepped, I don't want to track today, but I'm going to hit Dean Leek's personal development session tonight, pass my one big thing, and I go yeah, crack on, brilliant. And what happens when you do your one big thing, other things fall into place, it's just how it works. The big boulder gets moved and the other ones, the smaller ones, follow suit.
Speaker 1:So tonight's session, be there. If you can't be there, replay will be available. Think about your values. Think about you and mine others. Okay?
Speaker 1:I'm gonna watch a Jim Rohn video. I'm gonna email it out. I'm putting it on Facebook group. So please watch us about I can't remember how long it is. It's not that it's not that long.
Speaker 1:Listen to it. Write notes. Okay? Get you one big thing done today. Take this journey seriously but also light hearted, okay, to recap.
Speaker 1:What's important about that is that when you will, and not maybe, when you will stuff your face with a massive bag of Maltesers or whatever the thing you love is, Right? We don't want you to be turning up the next day going, oh Scott, I'm so pathetic. I can't believe I do a wine. You've done it. It's over with.
Speaker 1:You've eaten a bag of Maltesers. Full stop. What are you doing today? Well I'm not gonna eat a bag of Maltesers today. Okay brilliant, crack on then.
Speaker 1:You know laugh for yourself, well I thought I had a bag of Maltesers, what are you doing? Yeah well sometimes we do, sometimes we emotionally eat, sometimes we have a really bad day and sometimes we stuff want our faces because it feels nice, it's pleasurable to eat a lot of food, all the foods we love. It's got nothing to do with our hunger, it's just pleasure, pure pleasure to distract ourselves from such a horrendous day or a feeling or whatever we don't want to think about so we stuff ourselves. Now obviously long term we want to reduce the stuffing of our faces with using food to cope because it doesn't actually work. It may work temporarily, sometimes it does work like the feeling of oh my god gonna sit on the couch with a cup of tea and biscuits when you're in a shit workday and you're coming up and it's raining outside and it's like on the window, you know, and you're sitting there with cup of tea and a biscuit dip in the ring going watching plebs on TV, groom you're the legend, you know?
Speaker 1:That's nice. And sometimes that's that's what's needed. But don't take it too far and say, well, that's what's needed every single time because that's not true. It doesn't work. What happens when you always eat based on pleasure to get rid of an emotion or to deal with something?
Speaker 1:You think, well, you mistake it for hunger to start with. You're not a hunger and craving. You you eat a chocolate bar. It doesn't satisfy you're hunger because you're not hungry. It doesn't satisfy the craving either because the craving, the desire to get out of this whatever position you're in, you keep eating, keep eating until you feel a bit beset or a bit like, oh, I I feel a bit bad now.
Speaker 1:And you stop eating, realize it didn't happen at all, now it's made you feel worse. So we gotta really look at it, and this is where it comes in that you are gonna be the scientist of your own life. And we speak about this. You are the scientist of your own life. You collect data objectively.
Speaker 1:You're not gonna judge yourself on these actions. You're not gonna judge yourself on your weight. You're not gonna judge yourself on this, this and this. We must first collect the evidence and the data about who you are, what you do, and then we can look at it and say hey look, that's what's happening. And you go yeah, that's what I should do next, well obviously we do this.
Speaker 1:There we are then fixed. But if you're unwilling to observe and collect data objectively, you are always going to be hindered by your own self judging and the judgement is like a wall. Like as soon as you judge an action, you put in a wall there and you no longer can see it and understand it. You're shutting her off as bad, as bad, bad, bad, off I go, and you'll never learn a thing. So that's why the nonjudgmental view, and this is this is this is this is advice, if I say this one more time, this is advice from the Buddhists, from the stoics.
Speaker 1:This is advice from the number one habits experts in the world, BJ Falk, advice from other habit experts, psychologists, CBT. Do you think that everyone talks and it's one of the four agreements I believe? Why do you think this is such an ancient way, ancient common sense thing? As still with us today we don't take seeds, why? Because it's the thing that works on understanding ourselves.
Speaker 1:If people, if this wasn't said across different cultures across different menu and years then it would be useful but it is there. Of course it's useful so please start there. Have some joy today. Have some fun. Enjoy the process.
Speaker 1:It's not all doom and gloom. Even if you are feeling most far like a loads of weight to lose, well great, great. You're starting off a journey which is in my opinion the best way to get healthy and lose weight is the turtle way, right? Or the philosophy of what we're doing here in a sense one day at a time. And we're looking at slow and steady, we're looking at the holistic view of things.
Speaker 1:You have to look at what it's not just about weight loss. It's about the mindset, this and this and this, and then they all get covered. So enjoy today. That's all I got to say. If you are having problems with the app blah blah blah blah blah, email me, scout dot tilde meth dot com.
Speaker 1:But enjoy yourself, and I'll see you on the the the Zoom later with mister Dean Leek. Please turn up with a smile. It is gonna be potentially a day that changes your life. We talk about this. Could be the day.
Speaker 1:Why not? Why not?