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Welcome to the Energetic Radio podcast. This episode is brought to you by
the school of play dotco, hosted by Dale Sibonham and Paul
Campbell. Each week, we'll bring to you tips, strategies, and ideas on
how you can bring more joy and happiness into your life, and those you share
with. Happy Monday, everybody. I tell
you what, episode 337 of energetic
radio. My name is Sal Silver. I'm joined by the one and only Paul Campbell.
Good day, mate. How are you? I'm excited, mate. Always. I'm gonna get to sit
down and do a podcast with you. And, also, this is rounding out our
4th podcast of the best of you series. Correct. And probably one
that I am really passionate about. I know you are as well, so I'm
excited to dive in. Love it. And I've, you know, I've missed it. We, we
had a road trip last week. We did. So we had a road trip up
to regional Victoria, through Bright, Mount Beauty,
Wodonga, Lake Hume. Worked with some beautiful schools and some beautiful kids. It
was an incredible time away. But it also meant that we had to record a
couple of pods in a row because we're on the road last week, and it's
yeah. I missed I missed I missed being in the bunker in the podcast studio
with you and, having the microphones out. So, yeah, looking forward to it. Just, we're
just in the car. We did, we did a lot of miles.
A lot of smooth FM people. When when we had reception, and I think
my playlist represents smooth FM anyway. Yeah. But no. Great
week. Such a it was so nice just to, I don't know, see
more of Victoria. Mhmm. I used to do a lot of regional stuff, but, obviously,
I think our work's more metro now. So, yeah, it was nice. And,
obviously, I grew up down sort of that way. And, we we stayed in
bright for a couple of nights, and it just reminded me when we were kids,
we used to go there and stay there for Easter. And, it obviously wasn't as
flash as it is now. Mhmm. But, yeah, no. It was just nice to go
back to those places and, yeah, see some country kids and
and schools and And and there was a common theme. Right? Like, we left every
school or every place we worked with, and we were high fiving each other. We're
on a high because the workshops and what we did ran so well.
And I think it was just a bit of an open, like that small country
town community. Right. And that's what we kept thinking about. It was like, man, why
are these kids so happy? Why are these human beings so content
and, you know, able to give themselves to others and be kind and be
generous and be courteous and those sorts of things. And yeah, I
think we put it down to that, that sense of community that they felt really
connected with their community. But then we unpacked it even further. They were outdoors a
heap more, you know, there was far less screen time, they're out doing things they
love, you know, bloody hell, every Wednesday they're up skiing up in Mount
Hotham. You know what I mean? The whole school packed up shop and they went
skiing for a day. So I just think the fact that they were doing things
they love in the community they were connected to, just brought about some really
cool little human beings Yeah. That were unreal to work with. So It did remind
me. I obviously I showed you my school report the other week. I went to
a Steiner school on a dairy farm, and I think the most we had
at one stage was 35 kids. And it just a lot of these
schools who went to reminded me of that where, you know, there might only be
2 classes and, you know, it's all about play. It's all about fun. It's
not about test scores and that plan. It's not not as serious.
You still get great results, but, you know, I think people are more relaxed. Yeah.
I just find a lot of these hustle and bustle in big schools. There's
not really much relaxing going on. Everyone's everyone's a bit tense.
Yeah. And and the other thing is that flexibility. Right?
Those massive schools in Melbourne, I've worked at one of them. They're just that yeah.
The lack of flexibility those little country schools we're working with were a bit more
relaxed. They'd be like, yeah, we'll make it work. You know what I mean? And,
and you wanna go for an hour and a half, go for an hour and
a half. You wanna go for 2 hours, man, this is working, keep it going
for 2 hours. As long as they're happy and they're engaged and they're getting some
amount of it, let's keep rolling with it. Right? So that the importance of when
something's going well, don't put a timeframe on it. You know what I mean? Let
let it flow. Yeah. And that was really cool thing to say. So shout out
to all those schools you worked with up there. Thanks, Avnish. It was brilliant. It
was brilliant time. I think, for me, my highlight, mate,
was the the flexible learning setting with Gonga. So painting the picture a
little bit for listeners. Students that, you know, have police suffered
severe trauma, school mainstream school isn't for
them, that they have a place to go.
And obviously, we got worded up that it'd be a really tough
crowd, and it was. I'm
gonna chime in. Sorry for interrupting. That's why keep looking at me. I know. I
know. I've been getting in the arm like that. I can't wait to share this.
I've never seen society nervous before. I'll be honest with you. He's got
his he's got this fun shops down to Pat. He he can run a
crowd like no tomorrow, and he started doing our fun shop and he started with
his clapping activity that he gets off with, and just the look on his face
was like, holy shit, is he is this gonna work with this mob? And and
sure enough, 1 or 2 got off and moved to the back. And we're like
One left. It was so One left. There wasn't even in the room and I
was like, I'm losing them. I'm losing them. For the first time in my life,
I'm losing the crowd. But let's call it not a truth to truth.
You know what I mean? 3, 4 minutes later, that changed around.
Alright? And by 15, 20 minutes into the into the workshop,
we completely got them. And, yeah, I don't wanna chime, but you can go. No.
No. I just think, when you have you win
over students that probably haven't had the opportunity to play or be
kids or have fun, and give them that experience where they
can connect. They feel safe. They we had
people dance some of the kids were dancing and singing and, you know, completely
different than what we walked into. And that, for me, just shows the power of
play, but more importantly, when it's done well. Yeah. So for me, that
was, I left and I know you did as well. And
all the staff was so appreciative because they got to experience it
with the students as well, different voice, just the impact. Yeah. I
think we're gonna go back there again in turn 4, which is happen to that,
which is exciting. But, yeah, for me, it's, little things
like that that really reminds you why you do this.
That it works for peep it works for everyone, I feel, but, you know,
some some kids that haven't had the opportunity to be kids
or, you know, the joy of play and just
experimenting things. They've they've never had that. So to give it to them
at whatever age they were and allow them that time,
I I loved it, mate. Yeah. It was unreal. My highlight would have been Mount
Beauty Yep. For sure. Obviously, the first time I've really been let loose,
running running out on shots. And he did, everybody. He was very nervous as
well. Not gonna lie. And I threw him to the wolves. I said, you can
just start with the year 9 and tens. Yep. Traditionally, pretty tough crowd.
But, mate, you, yeah. I left off after about 30 minutes. I
didn't have to worry about it. I was like, nah. You got it. Yeah. He
was like, dominated. He was like a proud daddy. Like, oh, let my son go
the little apprentices of his stripes and off he goes. So,
nah. But for me, the the best thing about that school was,
just the kids and the way they wanted to give to others. You know what
I mean? Like when we're doing our pal messages, which we'll talk about a bit
later on this pod and explain a bit more detail, but I just never forget.
I had one, we had one girl in the, in the audience, and
she was writing her power message with her left hand because she had a broken
right hand. And I went and I crouched down in front of her and I
said, are you right handed? She said, yeah. And I said, are you writing this
power message? Who are you writing? She said, my mom. And her mom was actually
in the room. My mom was a teacher at the school. I haven't I haven't
heard this. Oh, you haven't heard this story? Oh, and, and yeah. And
she was sitting there writing a pal message with her left hand. Obviously, it was
incredibly average writing, right? But she was persevering and she was so intent
and engaged with writing it. And I looked over to her mom and I went
over to them like, do you know your daughter's writing your pal message with
her left hand? And her mom was literally tears in her eyes to how proud
she was. And I left the door and I was like, hi. I said, hey.
Immense respect for what you're doing. And she literally turned, she said, shows
you guys have just planted that seed and made me think about how much
I appreciate, you know, my mom and what she's done for me. And I didn't
wanna give up this opportunity to let her know that's how I feel. And she
was like, so thank you for, you know, providing this environment for me.
And I was just looking between the 2 going daughter to mom daughter to mom
going, oh, look what we look at what we've created. You know what I mean?
So, I'll highlight that was an awesome little moment for me that I just
stopped and smelled the roses. I mean, that's super cool. Oh, man. That's and you've
got it, like like you said, take that time and appreciate it. I think the
the one it wasn't it was on Monday, where we did the big
keynote, on South Wharf for 200, private
school year 11 leaders. And when I got them all to
do the pal message, and we'll talk about the pal message. So essentially, we
get students, adults, corporates, whoever, to write a message to
someone, tell them why they're proud of that person, what they admire about them, and
why they love them. And to look around when you had
over 200 year 11s in dead silence, all
riding, I I I've done this for 7, 8 years
now. I don't think I've ever witnessed something like that. And it was like,
you know, when you were saying that moment with at Mount Beauty when the year
11 was right, so the student was right with the left hand for a mom,
and you're like, wow, that's so special. Well, you know, what we
witnessed with all those student leaders from, obviously, they're the best of
the best from these private schools. So they're they're lovely kids, but
still to see that in action. Mate, it was insane. You could you could
hear a pin drop in the room with with 200 year 11 students, which is
normally a bit boisterous. You could hear a pin drop in the room. And I
know we like to give them space, right, but I couldn't help myself. I've sort
of floated around the room, and I'm and I'm just checking over some shoulders just
seeing what these kids are writing. And everything was dear mama, dear dad, and I'm
like, I'm so proud of you for this. And I just and I came back
to you after about 3 minutes here, and I came back to society and I'm
like, man, I'm choking back tears here. I'm literally choking back tears because I'm a
dad. I know it's weird when you become a parent too, you, something
happens inside you with your emotions. Like, I don't know.
They're heartened. Yeah. They're far Every front. But I get far
emotional especially in that soppy stuff that, you know, the tearjerkers and
just watching these, you know, 15, 16, 7 year old kids writing these letters to
their parents. Yeah. You know, as a dad myself, it just choked me
up. And I just pray that they went and gave them to their
parents. I'm sure most of them wouldn't. But then you talk to the teachers and
every teacher was like, man, this is incredible. Like, how's the feeling of the emotion
in this room at the moment even though it was dead silent? So, yeah, epic
week, man, epic week in the road. We impacted on so many people in a
really positive way. Yeah. It was bloody cool. And I think that's, you
know, a nice way that obviously today, for the 4th of the best of you
series, we're coming back to, you know, that self love appreciation,
loving the person you see in the mirror. Often it's it's
easier to say than actually do. And it's something like the other
3 episodes we've done that you actually really need to practice it. You've gotta be
intentional with it. And it's yeah. We're we're very
fortunate that we get to allow people the space in the sessions that we
run to see it, and we get to witness that. So, obviously,
if you're listening to this today, we it's it's on you, but we wanna set
you a challenge. And we've got 2 different ones, sorta, particularly
around the pal message because it's changed my life.
And I know, Campbell, you're doing it as well. Yeah. And
I've received hundreds of messages over the last 6, 7
years from when I started doing it and sharing it about the impact it's had
on people and people who received them and and sort of the the ripple effect
of what kindness is when you be open, honest, and vulnerable. But more
importantly, you let people know what they mean to you. Yeah. And because it's written
down, this is the best thing I love about it. You can read it. It
means a lot, but you can always come back to it. And that's the best
thing about it. Like, you don't understand the power of a
message like that to change your narrative, to rewire your thinking. If you're
down, then you can be up, and it can completely take you away from
the struggles or stresses of life. Yeah. It's great.
You know, you talk of we you're giving to others, but in essence, this
is given to yourself as well. Right? Like, it's a double edged sword. Bloody. It's
selfish. It is. Okay. Yeah. You can be seen as selfish. You know, you you've
got your folder in your phone called your treasure chest. Yep. And you keep some
of those messages in that treasure chest. I mean, you're feeling a bit blown a
bit down, you pull them out and you have a read. It's about I think
and because from, that Monday session and this was amazing. I think
2 you've read them. I think they were nearly 2 of the nicest message I've
ever received from 2 year 11 students. And I screenshot those, and I put them
in the treasure chest. I think there's nearly a 150 in there now. And
you scroll through them, and what if I was down or anything like that after
reading 3 of them, completely changed. Yeah. It is such
a good thing to do. And I'd recommend everybody. No. It doesn't have to be
a message, but Mhmm. If there's something that somebody's given you or sent you
or wrote about you, take a screenshot of this, create a folder
that is just full of that. Because anytime you go to ends, I don't share
this with anyone else, but that's for me. And it it's amazing what
it does. Just however my day is going, if it's not going that well, I
can open that up. I traditionally read them a lot when I'm flying on planes
because I get really lonely. Obviously not now, and you're tagging along,
which is fantastic because That's Ben and Robin. Yeah. We are. But, yeah. Traditionally, I'd
open it up there because you do feel really I I don't know. It's when
I'd feel my most lonely. Yeah. And I'd read it and I still feel lonely,
but I'd feel very lucky that I was able to do what I was doing
because of these people in my life. Yep. And I I just said I've started
off I flicked a few out over the last, you know, month or so.
I just find, like, it it really strengthens your connection with them as well. Like,
even though you're not looking at them, you're not actually talking to them physically, but
you flick them a pal message, and what you get in return and just that
little love that's created between the 2 of you and that little bond. Yeah. I
think it really does wonders for strengthening connections within your friendship group, within your family.
So definitely give it a go. So, so just to recap, Sadie, what what we
what are we asking people to do? What's the challenge? Yep. So we're gonna if
you I'd talk a bit more about it, in my TED talk. So if you
just go on YouTube, tell me Dale Sullivan TED talk, you can,
yeah, you get a bit more of an idea of also what we do, I
suppose. But, where you sit down and you pick somebody
somebody in your life and you write, this is how I did it anyway. G'day,
whoever. Please don't feel like you have to reply. There's just a few things I'd
like to say. And then you write a paragraph of why you're proud of them.
You write a paragraph of what you admire and about them, and then you write
a paragraph of what you love about them, and you send it to them. And
I always say that, it is very scary. And from me
writing that first one to actually sending it nearly took a month because pack of
me dacks. I was petrified. I was sending this to one of my grown male
friends. I'd never shared anything like this before. And, but
eventually, when you get that courage and you send it, it yeah. I it
made me feel like the lucky one each time I got to sit down and
write it about that person because it's only take people for granted, but how often
do you reflect on how lucky it is that actually you have that person in
your life? But then it's the best thing about it is, Canva, that it's not
because it's a special occasion or a birthday or, you know, they've achieved something. It's
just because. It's a random message just out of the blue for no
reason. Yeah. And that's that's so powerful. That it's not like, you know,
when we're away, it was your birthday, man, and happy birthday. You were that
busy getting the so many messages. And that's not saying that's not a nice thing.
It was a I loved it. But you got so many
that it like, it's all sort of blend into 1. Whereas if you got
one today, randomly, it means so much more. It impacts a
bit it impacts a bit greater than that. Why I feel the the random
nature of it. And particularly when we do these in our corporate sessions or
teacher sessions, and I get them to do it on their phone. And I say,
if you're brave enough, send it now. And you see people, like, crying or
people's phone ringing, like, are you alright? Are you alright? And for me, that's when
you're like, people should be this should be the narrative we're using, not
checking in to see if something's wrong. Like, what's wrong? Why'd you send that? More
importantly, why don't we send that more? And you had one of those from your
beauty. Right? We did the staff session and, you know, burly burly fella Yeah.
At the back on the staff there, and he got his phone out and he
obviously sent a power message to one of his friends. And then a few days
later, he wrote you an email and just said, yeah, it was like, mate, thank
you so much. What I've got in return and it's re kicked off our relationship
and it's rekindled us together and we're now bonded again. And, yeah, how
appreciative he was for that moment. But it took someone like you and I to
plant that seed with him to do that. And now they're off and running. Right.
So here's that for our listeners out there, here's that seed, like, literally
to be brave, pick up your phone, you know, at some stage, have a think
about it, start with 1 person, and flick them a text
message, you know, with with that sort of format of, you know, why are you
proud of them, what you admire about them and why you love them, be
vulnerable and flick it off and be that catalyst. I think it was in,
session 2 of this series about relationships we're talking about. Are you gonna be the
catalyst in your friendship group to create that culture of
love and sharing a vulnerability and to really strengthen bonds? Do
it, you know, and there you go. We're linking those 2 together, be that that
catalyst that starts it, but someone's gotta be vulnerable first. Yep. But I
promise you it'll flow. It'll flow on from there. You know what I mean? We'll
kick start it off. So I love that. And obviously talking about, you
know, we love talking about being proud of yourself and we come back to it
a fair bit. Like when you're proud of yourself, you really do find that's when
you're happiest. And so what do you do to make yourself proud?
You know what I mean? Like, what are you what are you what are your
thoughts process right now? Like, what am I proud of for myself? So we've said,
you know, we talked about writing a palm message to somebody else. Alright? Oh, I
see where you go. Yeah. I know. Yes. You're right. Yeah. You know, we talked
about writing a power message to somebody else, but there's here's the next
challenge. Write a power message to yourself. Oh, bad. And I'm not gonna say Have
you done this? I haven't yet. No. I haven't already done this. I haven't yet.
I promise you I'll do it because because you've been vulnerable and you've led by
example. And I won't steal his thunder, but we're at Ballarat Grammar, a
few weeks ago, and we we always throw the floor out to the questions at
the end. And there was a psychologist in the room and she threw a
question back to Dan. What was that question, Dan? She obviously was really
impacted by the session and loved it. And she said, have you ever done a
PEL message to yourself? And I went,
wow. I said, that's the best question I've ever received? And
my response was no. I haven't. I hadn't even thought about it. And so so
we drove home that night, and, I put the kids to bed, and
I came out to the office, and I wrote myself a power message.
I found it really hard at the start Mhmm. But then I found
it so amazing. And it was a
really nice experience. So the next morning I got up and
I sent, a tech an email. I sent my pal
message to myself and I said, dear, thank you for the best
question ever. Bang. And I just sent him my pal message and,
it was such a yeah. Like, she was so blown away by it
and we had really nice conversation afterwards. And I remember you coming
in and, I was buzzing. I was like, mate, you should You were.
Yeah. And you read it and you go, oh, mate. If that's amazing. If you
feel I think people would get a lot from this. Mhmm. Would you if
you feel comfortable, you should share it. And I thought about it. I thought,
nah. Stuff it. You know what? I'm I'm really happy in my own skin, and
and so I shared it on on social media. And I shared
it, yeah, on different platforms and so forth like that. And it
was really nice, the response and and and where it's come from. And obviously,
I'll I'll read it out today, because I am
proud of it and I'm proud that I did it. I'm proud that I shared
it. On Friday, just gone. We we did a big keynote in
Sorrento at the the Conti, for big group of principals. And,
they wanted a new keynote because obviously, I've done quite a few for principal
federations around Australia now. And, normally, I get people to finish with the
pal message, but I I flipped it around and got them to
do a pal message about themselves.
And that was really powerful. Yeah. Because in in those roles,
especially as principals, any in in many roles, right, in life in general, we
give ourselves to others so much. We are always thinking about other people.
And it's very rare or seldom that we actually stop and
go, right. Let's give myself a bit of self love here. Let's let's toot my
own horn. And you don't have to tell the world you're doing it. Like, I
mean, like, we're we're asking listeners now to write a power message to a to
a mate or a family member. And we're also really challenging you to write a
power message to yourself. You don't need to share it. You don't need to share
it like I did. Don't don't don't do that. So don't write it with that
intent because that'll freak you out a lot more. But just process
it and write it to yourself just so you can actually sit back now and
go, man, you know what? I've achieved this. I've done this. I've never given up
here. Yep. This is this is what I'm proud of myself for, and
it will put a spring in your step. Oh, do you. I really will. Be
your own be your own cheer squad. Be your own best friend. Because it's
very easy to write a power message for somebody else. Trust
me, I've done a lot of them, and I know you have too. Yep. Doing
this one took a bit, but by the end, I actually felt
better than probably what I did for any of the other ones I've sent. Wow.
That's awesome. So let me I'll read it out to you. Okay? So I so
dear Dale, I'm so proud of the person you are and the energy
you have to put into trying to be the best dad and husband you can
be. I know this role as a father to 2 young boys hasn't come as
easy as most things to you. But I am so proud of how you are
trying to improve and be the best version of yourself for your family.
I admire how hard you have worked to in the past 8 years,
especially when you had the courage to leave your secure full time job at Cedar
and Cricket Australia. This was such a brave thing to do as you were starting
something, that had never been done before, but you believed in it and
ever and have every day since. I admire your talks impact on
thousands of people of all ages in 25 countries around the world that you have
spoken to. The number of people you have helped is incredible, and I greatly admire
that. Finally, I love you for who you are. When you look in
the mirror, I'm sort of joking up video, mate. I know. When you look
in the mirror, you see a person who shows up with a smile on his
face and gives it it is all. Your energy is infectious and it is something
that I love about you. Keeping the person you are for not only yourself, but
for your family as they are proud of the person you are. Love,
Dale. Holy shit, man. I'm choking up.
I meant that's beautiful. I'm gonna give you a moment here because,
yeah, it's a super emotional little moan the bunker.
I didn't expect No. No. That's only the second time I've read it out loud.
Obviously, I read it out loud on Friday. But,
yeah, I think, like, it choked me up at the start because, yeah, I've really
struggled being a dad. Like, I I've personally yeah. I've found
it really hard. I'm loving it, but I've found it really hard. So I think
that as well, like, not just celebrating all the things
that you've probably done really well. Mhmm. Like, for me, that's the biggest
challenge I'm going through. And the only one for me that means
anything. The others mean something, but nowhere near as much as that.
Yes. I think that's I started reading that then, and it got me. I was
trying to hold on. But then, I was cooked. Anyway Oh, that's
it. So you don't need to for listeners out there. Like, you can obviously tell
there's a lot of emotion here. It's a really powerful thing to do,
and don't do it with the intention to sharing it. I I didn't do that
originally with intending to share it with anybody besides the the
lovely lady that sent me the question. But, yeah, it's a
it's a really powerful thing to do. That's beautiful, man. And please know that you're
not alone. Like, there's so I know I know there's so many parents that they're
listening to this, and I'm one of them as well. And that's the only thing
that really means the world to us. Right? And I feel so many pains
of guilt so often that I'm not doing the best job as a parent. Even
though the outside was looking in, we go, man, you're doing an epic job
and we're doing a good job. But yeah, there's so many pains of guilt that
you can do better and be there for the more and, you know, have a
longer fuse and those sorts of things and play with them more often and and
etcetera, etcetera. I know. So yeah. So please know you're not alone in that.
And I know you're doing a phenomenal job, and it's not bloody easy. I mean,
2 kids under 3 is tough, and there's many people been through it. But we're
proud of the fact that you're here. Right? You're showing up every shop, every single
freaking day for them. And you work your backside off to provide for them and
etcetera, etcetera. So I'm really proud of you for for doing that.
You were bloody vulnerable when you post it and you were just vulnerable again sharing
this, you know, we I found that harder than when thousands of people listening. So
I found thank you. I appreciate those words. I found that harder then. I I
don't know why. I think reading something out loud. And that's what always
challenge people when we do the pal message in our sessions.
Give it to the personal, read it out to them because it yeah. It means
so much more, those words. Yeah. Like, you know, just well, I I was
not expecting that then. No. But I I struggle to finish reading that. Yeah. Yeah.
Beautiful. And whoever you send it to, they'll love it. They'll appreciate it. You know
what I mean? So, yeah, challenge number 1 for today listeners,
is to write a power message to someone who you care about. Yeah. And
then also try and write a power message to yourself. Yeah. And if and what
we always say as well, if that just writing the message is,
you know, it's it's too hard, send an image as
well. Alright? So if you're gonna obviously do this via text or
messenger or WhatsApp or whatever you whatever you use, there's so many avenues these
days, write the message, but then send a picture
first. So the picture is a delivery tool to break down the
vulnerability and the barriers because it's not just words. Yeah. I love that.
So that would be my advice. Yep. Obviously, you can't do that to
yourself, but, be honest and open and get that
down because we're very good at being able to tell other people what we love
about them, why admire them, why we're proud of them, but you need to be
able to say that about yourself. Yeah. It doesn't come easy, but I think the
best things in life don't come easy. And, you know, when you actually allow that
space to get it done, as you can tell. Yeah. It's
I I don't think I've cried once on this podcast before, and that was episode
150 when I I did it with my dad. Yeah. And there you go. 2nd
time. 3 up and 37 episodes. No. I
love that, mate. And we think about everything we've talking about the last 4 weeks
now, you know, being the best version of yourself. So, you know, stop
and smell the roses, be present, be mindful, you know, try
and find gratitude as much as can in life. And it does need to be,
I'm grateful for my house. I'm grateful for this. It's a little snippets that life
throws at you. Work on your relationships, you know? So if you're out there and
you're and you've listening, you're like, I've I've tried to work a little bit harder
on my relationships, especially those who care about me the most. And I've tried to
get those connections up and firing. You know, I've tried to incorporate a little bit
of play in my life and get it give you a bit more time for
me and and be a little bit selfish for me and and make sure that
I'm living the life that's true to me so I can give myself to others.
And now they're all wrapping up. And if you've if you've been out there and
you've been putting little incremental steps towards achieving the best
version of yourself over the last 4 weeks, and you've been trying to put into
practice what we've been preaching just incrementally over the last few
weeks, then sit back now and be bloody proud of yourself for that. Boom. Be
bloody proud of yourself for that and have a little bit of reflection time and
go, holy shit. Like, yeah. I've actually tried
to be a bit more present. I've actually tried to to think about things I'm
grateful for a little more often. I've I've reached out to a couple of
people. I've treated people a little bit kinder or, you know, really shown a bit
more love to those people who love me so much. Be really proud of yourself
because that's incremental change that will stay with you forever now because you've
put in your repertoire and you've put in your routine. And, yeah, that's that's a
great reflection to have and and be proud of that. And if you haven't started,
bloody start now. You know what I mean? Like, it's No one's gonna do it
for you. No. No. That's fine. You've you're accountable for your own mental health. And
I see. I I think it's by John Ram or something. I've got this quote
from, Ashmanual. They've done a lot of presenting with. It's very easy to do.
It's also very easy not to do. Yes. You know, but no one's gonna do
this for you. No. And that's like anything in life, mate. Like, you can wait,
you can wait, you can blame others. Time's now. Life's short. You
don't know what's on around the corner. Don't buy green bananas.
Hey. Don't buy green bananas, you can't eat them. And if you like eating
green bananas, you're a sicko. Yeah. Buy right ones. Enjoy life. Don't put
things off. I'm pretty sure my missus tells you to buy green bananas.
Bloody hell, Mel. You're a sicko. I mean, you don't have to say those
bananas? Those bananas sit in that fruit bloody bowl for ages and then she makes
banana cake out of them. So When they're brown. Yeah. When they're brown. I'll have
them in yellow and eat them because you don't like bananas anywhere. We buy bananas
in our house just so they end up in banana bread. Do you eat you
don't eat banana bread, don't? Don't eat it. No. You don't like bananas? No. I
don't like bananas. People think I'm crazy. Oh, do. Yes. Yeah. I know. It's the
world's wonder fruit, isn't it? I wish I liked them, but I don't know why.
Peter Siddle. Mate, he changed his Korean career just eating 16 bananas a day.
Oh, you smell me. I can smell that. It's awesome. I
love it. I love ladies and gentlemen, the the last this
is the part 4 or 4 of the best of you series. We've really
loved it. It's been a great way to kick back off the energetic radio podcast.
You know, I've loved to come back on board and and starting off with these
these sort of things, and just try to put some little
incremental changes in your life to become the best version of yourself. Nobody
needs to know you're doing it. You know, you don't have to announce it to
the world. But you know, you're doing it and that'll make you proud of yourself
for making those steps. And I know that when we're doing these pods, I
think it not forces us, but it encourages us to do it as well. Yeah.
You know what I mean? I want you to do a Pell message to yourself.
Sounds accepted. Next podcast. Yep. I think we're gonna get a few ask me to
read it out. I think we need to get some guests on it. I think
it'd be a nice, obviously, one of your good friends is gonna come on. Yep.
I think it'd be a nice way to start it. I'd I would like to
be in the room. I'm already nervous, but I can't I can't ask these people
to do it if I'm not gonna if I'm not gonna if I'm gonna be
vulnerable myself, and that's for sure. So, challenge accepted. So
Beautiful. Appreciate you, mate. All listeners out there, thank you for the
ongoing support. We love it. The message is coming in. You know,
that's the other thing. I think we're we get some not power messages. We get
some messages back from doing these pods right, and it's freaking awesome. That's gross. They're
stored in my phone as well, and I'm loving it. So all listeners out
there, thanks for the support. Keep putting little one foot in front of the other.
Yeah. Love each other. Love yourself. Yeah. And have an awesome week.
Bye. Love you, guys. Take care.