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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 everyone, so I've had a few messages being like I can't get back into the swing of things right now, how do I get back on it, how do I get back in, any advice on struggling for momentum and stuff like that. So I'm gonna go over a few quotes that I love, that I collected over the years from a few people that I like to read about. It's timeless wisdom this and hopefully it will get you to act today. The main thing from this podcast is once you've finished listening, you're gonna take an action today. Okay?
Speaker 1:So we'll start on a few ones. The Buddha said this two thousand six hundred years ago probably, health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. For sure, if you're healthy and you can live and you're content with what you have, then you protect yourself from a lot. Protect yourself from the desires to keep losing more weight, keep this keep that. You've got to wake up every day and be like, Yeah, I can try and train today, can try and work out, I can try and get my steps and I can actually do those things or I can try and move and track my calories and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:It's amazing. Jim Rohn says, Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. It's true. A healthy mind outside starts from the inside.
Speaker 1:Okay? And then here's a few things about today. Emily Dickinson says, Forever is composed of noes. That's true. And a real good author I love, Arnold Bennett from a hundred years ago, he wrote a book about this, How to Live on twenty four Hours a Day.
Speaker 1:And here's a few quotes from the book that I love. You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow. It is kept for you. So if you're squandering, if you feel up behind, then if you don't act now or today, you are squandering it because it's the only only time you can squander.
Speaker 1:So tomorrow is there. That's why a lot people are like I'll start Monday, start Monday. You're squandering the only time you ever have which is now or at least the only time you're guaranteed to have so take action now, it's the only thing you can do. And he says this, the chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in your life.
Speaker 1:So a new moment holds new opportunities, so even if you had a bad day yesterday or a bad morning, you can still with what's in front of you right now, you can take a different path. You might have had a bad morning where you've eaten maybe a donut and a cookie and you didn't want to do it or you've just snacked a lot and your calorie allowance has already gone or at lunchtime in work you've taken the pizza option and stuff like that and you think my day is ruined. It's not true. You can take many paths throughout the day so make sure you understand that. The supply of time is a daily miracle.
Speaker 1:You wake up in the morning and lo and behold, your purse is magically filled with twenty four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life. It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. So if you listen to this in the morning on your walk, you've got a day today, a new fresh day. This is how we meant to live from now to bedtime.
Speaker 1:You're not guaranteed anything more than that. You're not guaranteed till lunchtime unfortunately. Know what mean? I know it's a bit grim, but come on. If you want to take action and change the life direction you want to go, you've got to be doing stuff now.
Speaker 1:I mean, you don't have to immediately act now on something but you need to be like today I'm gonna do this and be this type of person blah blah blah. You have to start thinking that way because tomorrow is not guaranteed, Monday never comes, do you know what I mean? James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Comes. Quotes about another philosopher I love. He's called Montaigne, and he's a French philosopher.
Speaker 1:This is an interesting one. He says, a man, so a human, should not so much regard what he or she eats, but as to whom he or she eats with. So again, about food, you know, you can eat your cookie, you can have your fries, you can have your pizza. And if you're having it socially with your friends and family and your kids, it brings you together for a chance to chat and have a laugh, that's so much more powerful than saying I can't do any food with anyone anymore guys, I can't go out for food, I can't have you cook food for me, don't want to be sitting on the table, I've got my own meal prepped and I'll eat it on my own and stay away from you. So it is important when you do have social scenarios and you've got stuff coming up, it's not to worry too much about it but to see the benefit of having that social interaction with those people you actually care about.
Speaker 1:That's what life's about really isn't it, your human connection. So fat loss will come as your daily habits and all these things but having food that maybe isn't okay, it's not the best food to eat but it's tasty, you enjoy it, have a laugh, you have a few drinks if you want and happy days. That social element is super important. Another quote he's got to love. My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
Speaker 1:So worrying about the future all time, worrying, worrying, worrying, but most of them don't happen. This is a quote from a long time ago. Let us permit nature to take her own way. She better understands her own affairs than we. So you want to go the natural flow of things.
Speaker 1:So when you're going into a deficit and you're going to lose weight, everyone is different. Some people have water weight, mask fat loss for a while. Some people see fat loss and weight loss in the first week. Some of you may take six, seven, eight weeks but you feel better along the way. That is nature.
Speaker 1:We explain many things in the body but water retention is one of those things we can't exactly pinpoint down on. So it's not something we can control, we've to leave it go. Nature, you take your way, I'll focus on taking my actions today and I know that by doing that the byproduct is I'll become this type of person eventually. I'll be that person today and physically, I'll represent that person over time. But, you know, there's no major rush because I will get there eventually, and I need to make sure I don't rush because I end up back in square one if I do rush.
Speaker 1:He who fears, he shall suffer already suffers what he fears. So, yeah, just again, worrying, worrying, worrying. I'm not losing weight quick enough. I need to lose weight by summer. Need to do this.
Speaker 1:Oh my god. How much time I got? You're worrying. You're worrying. You're causing a stress response.
Speaker 1:You're causing emotions. You're making it more likely that you're gonna turn to food. When actually you need to say, one day at a time, I will do the actions, simple actions, calories, protein, and steps each day, and I'll try my best. And some days won't hit this, some days I will. And the result of that will be x results by the time, and maybe I still won't be the weight I wanna be, but that's foolish also.
Speaker 1:I wanna be a hundred and fifty pounds, say. What does that number mean to you? It doesn't mean anything. You want the certain number that someone's told you you've had before, but it doesn't actually mean anything. You shouldn't chase those things.
Speaker 1:You need to as you're gradually losing weight, you need to evaluate, okay. If I go lower than this, I might need I might have a lower calorie maintenance in the future. So can I maintain this? Do you think I can maintain like 400 calories more than I'm on now for a long period of time? And if I push it too much, is that lifestyle good for me?
Speaker 1:For me, I accepted a long time ago, I got down to like 6%, seven percent body fat for a bodybuilding competition and I couldn't maintain that. It was really hard for me to get down to that, the amount of exercise, the amount of steps, amount of general cardio, calories and stuff and the high protein I had to eat wasn't a lifestyle I could lead because I want the social element, I want to say yes to plans on a whim, I want to be able to eat my favorite foods, I want to be able to drink when I want, I want to be able to do those things. So I decided a long time ago to accept that physique isn't the ones I've seen online, isn't the ones I admired, the super shredders, the abs out all the time and stuff like that, but I know that I'm healthy, I'm adding muscle, I'm getting fit, I'm strong, I'm eating a good amount of calories, I'm eating a good amount of protein and that's important to me. Okay, I don't have abs and washboard abs but the lifestyle I lead for me doesn't lead to that. For some people they can lead the lifestyle they lead like socially and all that and still have abs and it's like your fat distribution is different.
Speaker 1:It's one of those things you think do I need to push it more What is this going to take away from my lifestyle if I do push it more? It's an important thing because I would say social interaction and freedom is more important to me than, oh, I've got to say no to these things because I need to get abs. I need to stay away from temptation and I think that's not what I wanted to live. And a few more, one by Epictetus. Don't explain your philosophy.
Speaker 1:Embody it. This is important. A philosophy of one day at a time. Don't you go, yeah. Scott said one day at a time.
Speaker 1:I get what you mean. No. No. Do it today. Do it today.
Speaker 1:Now till bedtime. Get going. No messing about. Another one. How long are you gonna wait before you demand the best of yourself?
Speaker 1:If you can only act now and you can only waste time now, then surely you need a demand that you're gonna do something now and today. Small things, just track what you're eating, get more steps in, try and get more protein in, drink more water. It doesn't have to be world changing things today, but do small things today, something. That's how you build momentum and you keep going. You have to do small things to build momentum.
Speaker 1:If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid. It's quite a good one. Progress, ask questions guys, don't be worried about is this right and wrong. Also don't have fixed opinions based on other people's opinions. We don't really want to fix opinions 100%, but for sure science can make us nearly guarantee some things and I think that's the best option we have and we get proof of that so that's the best way to be.
Speaker 1:But don't come into this process thinking you know everything. There's always more to learn about yourself and how things work and I think that's the key to success as well. And no human is free who is not the master of her or himself. Self control, mindfulness. You don't have to be a master of yourself.
Speaker 1:You certainly have to be aware of yourself. You can only be aware moment to moment. Being aware today. So that's it guys. One day at a time, now till bedtime.
Speaker 1:Be aware of yourself today. Don't beat yourself up. You want to build momentum. You've got to start doing things. You've to act now.
Speaker 1:You can only waste time now. If this doesn't get you started on living now, don't know what will, but hopefully you take one action today at least. Come back tomorrow, you do another action, another action, and before you know it, by February, whatever, your momentum is building and you're feeling great. So have a good day, and I'll see you back tomorrow.