Are You a Hot Head or a Cool Head?
Welcome to the one day at a time podcast where we forget about yesterday. We don't worry about tomorrow. It's what are we going to do today? This all matters because you've only ever had or will ever have the fantastic twenty four hours a day you're about to embark on. So hopefully this episode is going to give you some daily dose of wisdom that you can take action on today to improve your life.
Speaker 1:Remember, all it takes is one day at a time. Good morning, It's Monday. It's been a big weekend. The sun's been shining, but you know what you need today? A cool head.
Speaker 1:You need to keep your composure and calm because if you went out on the weekend and you feel like you're a failure, you feel like things have gone wrong, you maybe had more drinks, know, you wait this morning then you're a fan of it. Listen, the stress response is typically more damaging than the stressor itself. So for example, you just having a few extra drinks in the weekend or whatever, causing you to put like a few pounds on of water weight, that's nowhere near as damaging as always turning on your stress response. Response. Your stress response is like, think of car tyres, you just always like accelerate the flat out, wearing them out, turning the corner rapidly, all this kind of aggressive up in spike.
Speaker 1:It can be more damaging definitely than the stressor itself. And I'm gonna, she won't mind me saying this, but Michelle is from a turtle membership. Look, Michelle, you do this frequently where you stress out about your weight and it's not going up because you're gaining fat, you look much better now than you did before visibly leaner, more muscle mass. But then every time your weight isn't going down to like you know the low weight you did when you were on in a deficit, it causes you to have a big stress response, which is a % more damaging than what actually happened, which is bit of more water because you're training and your protein's high eating carbs. It's kind of like smoking, like people who smoke, they can't see the damage it's doing because it's so slow and it's like you can't see it but then it just creeps up in you one day.
Speaker 1:That's what stress is like. If you go back and read books from a hundred years ago, fifty years ago, they all talk about people going to the doctors from stomach ulcers and stress and stress was killing them and a lot of illnesses were due to stress. And it's true, it's true, it's like smoking. We have to control it. Sometimes you can't help but stress a bit but you can't let it run away from you.
Speaker 1:It's such an important thing. And I'm gonna keep saying it intermittently on this podcast because reading up about stress and you should all if you are interested in this, read why zebras don't get ulcers by Robert Sapolsky. But chronic stress can you know, makes us hungrier. It's like it got this guy is terrible. Anyway, I've got another poem for you, which is based on this kind of concept right, it's based on having a cool head and being able to maintain your composure because it's all about compartmentalization, you can't let you know your stress or your weight impact then your relationships with your friends and work and productivity and other parts of your life you can't let it leak over you have to compartmentalize things until you know okay that's that that's that, and keeping a cool head is important to you.
Speaker 1:So this poem for a Monday morning for you guys okay. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowance for the doubting too, if you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise. If you can dream, and dreams your master, if you can think, and make thoughts your aim, if you can meet triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same, if you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken, twisted by knaves and make of trap for fools, or watch the things you give your life to broken, and stoop and build them up with worn out tools. If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss, and lose and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss. If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there's nothing in you except the will which says to them, hold on.
Speaker 1:If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue or walk with kings nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, if all men count with you but none too much, if you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in there, and which is more, you be a man, my son. Okay? Just gonna break that down a bit for you guys if you didn't get it. And the first one's probably the most thing, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, right? If you can trust yourself when people are doubting you, if you can make allowance for their doubting too, it's fine, they can doubt me, it's fine, okay, good.
Speaker 1:If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, you know, what's the rush, slow and steady turtle, or being lied, don't deal in lies, right, people lie about you fine, whatever. I'm being hated, don't give way to hate and people hate you don't hate back. Know don't look too good to two eyes you know you're in the middle whatever okay, Like there's a lot of things here about keeping in the middle of the middle path, like having a cool head. That's where the that's where we got to live guys. Like I said before, this is what all the ancient texts have been saying is live in a moderate way.
Speaker 1:They've all thought about this a lot more than we have and they've been giving us the lessons for thousands of years. There's a reason why all of this came back hundreds of years ago and people were like, wow, this they just knew, they were just so ahead of us. They were so much more advanced on living than we are today that we must take what they're saying seriously. But we don't because we think it's too old, it's too far, it's too long ago. But let me tell you something.
Speaker 1:Humans have been around for about two hundred thousand years, homo sapiens, Right? Greece, ancient Greece and Rome was about two thousand years ago. So in terms of the scale percentage wise, it's like 1% back in our timeline we were Romans. That's literally nothing. On the cosmic scale, that's like last month.
Speaker 1:Right? So they are literally they were literally the same as us. Our frontal cortex, the part about decision making also at the front of open, that hasn't changed in fifty thousand years. We just weren't probably able to write stuff down then but if we would, I'd imagine the same old lesson be coming up over and over and over and over. So keep a cool head, be moderate, don't let you know the extremes of the good extremes or the bad extremes pull you because both can just like pull you back and forth and destroy you.
Speaker 1:So today, what I want you to think about is weekend's gone, keep your composure, get back on the plan, do what you can today. If it's, you know, if you feel overwhelmed, if you feel like, you know, lot of you like might, I hate myself. Like, don't no. Look, listen. There's no point crying about the weekend now.
Speaker 1:What can you do today? You know, the things you should be doing today to make yourself feel better. Let's get like a checklist going. Get it go and drink some water right now, get some water in you, go for a walk. If you haven't gone for a walk, it's so easy to do, but it's easy not to do.
Speaker 1:But the benefits of walking, especially in good weather early in the morning is incredible. Right? Plan when you can do workout this week. If you don't work out today that's fine, plan it I'm going to work out tomorrow at 7PM blah, I'm going work out on Wednesday 7AM, I'm to work out on Friday here, get it in three workouts, try and fit them in right? Track your macros.
Speaker 1:Right? Whatever you're eating today, even if it's shit, track it because you at least know where you're at. When you don't know where you're at, it's always in the back of your mind eating away at you like, oh, I don't know where I'm at. Oh my god. And it just it just annoys you and it pulls you down.
Speaker 1:But that's all you gotta do today. Just do it. Right? And you'll be back on track in no time. It's all about momentum.
Speaker 1:It's a game of momentum. It's not a game of achieving huge goals and blah blah blah. It's a game of can we keep building small bits of momentum every day, every task of the day. And then if we can keep momentum going, it'll keep it keep us going. The bigger the momentum we build, the more it propels us forward.
Speaker 1:But sometimes we've got to start back from scratch. And if that's today, so be it. Let's get on with it. Only focus on today. It's the only day you need to focus on.
Speaker 1:Tomorrow's gonna come, don't worry about it. And enjoy yourself, obviously. Enjoy your day. Hopefully, it's nice weather today. Think it's like 29 degrees or something like that.
Speaker 1:Deals gonna be hot, so sun cream, obviously, as well, and they don't get burned. But one day at a time. And that's it. Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Galf Lier. Hopefully, you understood something I said.
Speaker 1:I hope that some wisdom kind of distilled through into your mind, and I want you to now action it today. I don't want you to think about tomorrow. I don't want you to think about yesterday. I don't want you to think about leaving a review on this podcast. I don't want you to think about going to another website.
Speaker 1:What I want you to do is as soon as this podcast ends, you will take action and make the most of today. Ground yourself today. Follow the one day at a time philosophy and your life will change.
