Check in with yourself today
Hey guys, Octagoonies. It's week six now. So you're on the de load week if you've been sticking on track, if you're still catching up happy days, but we've done half the challenge. 50% is now complete. We are now into the last 50.
Speaker 1:Still a long time to go, still a lot to play for and thanks everyone posting their, wins and stuff like that's amazing to see and we can start seeing now like you know we don't do these changes to do them temporarily but we can see that the next five weeks we've got the power of the community behind us. You know we've got these workers going, we've this calendar going, we've got a schedule going. If you're feeling stuck in a rut a bit, if you're feeling a bit bored or whatever, try different workouts. That's something to mix it up. It's deload week, you can do the deload workouts but if you like to know more, I feel a bit unmotivated.
Speaker 1:Have you tried the boxing? Give it a go. Have you tried sweat and shred? Have you tried the dance? Right?
Speaker 1:Have you tried the yoga? Have you tried the virtual run? You know, try them. Now's the time to try them and you know what's gonna happen if you don't like them, you just don't like it. So this time is typically when people run out of steam if you've been going hard and that's why we're doing a deload.
Speaker 1:But is not the time, but just because we're slowing down doesn't mean we're not progressing. It's actually vital that we go slower sometimes. So some of you might be like, you know what, I wouldn't mind going to maintenance for a week or I might don't mind going over my macros for a week and that's absolutely fine as well. Self awareness is key here. So I don't want you all to think you have to keep pushing through and you're exhausted, you have to listen to your own body as the you know we've heard that so many times listen you know what does it mean listen to our own body?
Speaker 1:Like am I listening to my own body? I had an in my mouth, my throat, a canker so it's called and it's not infectious. It typically arises from acidic spicy food, something irritated or stress. Right? I wouldn't say I'm stressed as a me thinking of myself, what am I stressed?
Speaker 1:I wouldn't say I am stressed the typical sense but I probably am. Because I had another ulcer when I went and it's still I know it smells bad. Know something's happening and am I listening to that or am I ignoring it and I'm saying well I'm not stressed in the conventional sense but what does stress mean? It means that I'm out of balance. So if we actually look at the definition of stress is the knocking us out of this homeostasis, like this balanced state that's causing stress in the body.
Speaker 1:And am I in balance right now with everything? Probably not. Right, so I look at myself and I go working too many long hours on the computer, not getting as enough steps in as I would like, trying to do too much, trying to organize too many things at the same time. Using to you know, not prioritize my training as much as I like. You know, do the training, I do the three workouts a week.
Speaker 1:There's no tight schedule on it, which I would like to improve. There's a feeling that I'm not making the most of my training. That's another thing in the back of my head. There's understanding was meal prepping. I felt great but since I have an ulcer, so I've been able to eat foods like I'm meal prepped.
Speaker 1:Knowing that I'm not having the nutrient dense foods that I was capable of eating, you know. But even before the ulcer, at them trying to analyse, can we think looking back now there must be more things causing the imbalance. You know, I went to that retreat to try and sort it out and I felt peace, was lovely but I had the LCA at the place, so I wasn't best. But you know I need to listen to that. I can't just shrug it off and I got to look at it and I got to make changes which I'm doing you know.
Speaker 1:Take an hour or two a day out in the day, in the daylight, do something about it, work hard on myself and doing my job, give myself that time. You know, I've noticed my reading, the books I want to read has gone down because you know reading Tiny Harbors and the Stoicism book, but my morning reading is not there as much anymore because I got to wake up, do the workout, do turtle radio then basically getting to work because it's like nearly nine. And another thing that should bring me stillness yeah. So that's me listening to my body that's what it means and I got to take action and I was pointless. Know I can mourn about it but am I gonna do anything about it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't want be that person. I don't want be that person that says complaints does stuff, but never does that follow through. If you mourn about stuff but don't take action then look that's the problem. You got to actually take action. If you are complaining about something, it's fine to complain guys.
Speaker 1:It's fine to have a vent. But please do be like pragmatic and do something about it afterwards. So that's me. And I want you all to today, tune into yourself. Have a sit down five-ten minutes, no music, no meditation apps, nothing.
Speaker 1:Just sit down with yourself. Maybe you want a journal, you want to write whatever you want and you can burn after it doesn't matter. Maybe when you sit down and just bring them five-ten minutes. How are you feeling? Where is balance?
Speaker 1:What does balance mean to you? Do you need balance right now? What's stressing you out? What you want to achieve? What does the next five weeks look for you?
Speaker 1:What success look like to you at the end of the five weeks? Is it superficial success because society's telling me or is this something I really want? You know, have time and, I implore you all to brain dump today. Write it out, put it the app, whatever you want to do, have a brain dump and yeah, it's time to listen in to the body today. Week six, it is time I'm telling you because it's a lot.
Speaker 1:We've been smashing it guys. We've been smashing it and you've all been smashing and it's great to see. But yeah, that's all I wanted to say today this morning. I don't really think that it's wise to not take this as a deload if you've been doing five weeks. If you've done five weeks of anything, take this week as a deload.
Speaker 1:I don't think it's wise to push through because you either do it yourself upfront or your body will do it for you. And when your body does it for you takes ages come back. If you do yourself it's a week you're back on and the week after. Simple as that. And that's it for today guys.
Speaker 1:This is one of the shortest voicemails I've done in a while. Feels weird, they all used to be this length and I used to keep chatting didn't I? They all keep chatting. But yeah happy days but I did think like, what's my ulcers due to the pears I'm eating? Because I'm loving pears these days, these specific pears.
Speaker 1:Pasa Cassan, like on the Pasa Cassan pears from France, guys amazing, get them. It's like, it's the pears I'm gonna really kick off but it's not. I've had a few pairs since it's been mine. I thought I'd share that with you guys, thought I'd experiment with the pairs, see what's going. But, but that's it really.
Speaker 1:I just want to quickly remind you of, know Tiny Harbets is three step process to figuring out why you're not doing something as well. This is time again, reflection day, brain dump, let's have a look. You may be not doing everything you want to do all this stuff and you go well am I motivated? That's not the first thing to ask. The first thing to ask is, is there a prompt for me to do this behavior?
Speaker 1:The best prompt is an anchor prompt, brushing my teeth, anchor habit. Second is like a push notification on the phone. Third is someone telling you that's not reliable. Is there a prompt for you to do the behavior you want to do? Is it is it there?
Speaker 1:If it's not, add the prompt because you don't do anything unless there's a prompt. If it is there, do you have the ability to do it? Like, are you getting prompted to track your macros in the morning when you're driving on your way to work? Wrong time prompt, not gonna work. Are your prompts really tactically placed?
Speaker 1:Times prompts are vital, yeah. We need the time, so we need the ability to do the behaviour, you know, is it easy to do? Do you have the time in that moment of prompt to do it? Then we look at motivation. Is there motivation to do this behavior?
Speaker 1:It's the third thing to look at. So when you do a troubleshooting, again, this day is to do art is to look at ourselves, check-in on ourselves, troubleshoot. Are there prompts for you to do the behavior? And if there's not that's the first step you want to do. And that's it.
Speaker 1:Build your link Can I speak a lot? Build your list of anchor habits, they'll probably be 20 to 30, add your desired behavior to those anchors and celebrate when you do them with a yes, come on, whales for life. Or you just do it, you know, internal smile. And that emotion behind that new habit is gonna hardwire in fast as opposed to waiting twenty one to sixty six days. And that's it.
Speaker 1:So this is your prompt. This end of this voice note is your prompt to crack a smile, to track your macros, get your one big thing done, to go for that walk, to do that work, or whatever it is, this is your prompt right now. Go and do it and enjoy your day, and I'll speak to you tomorrow. I'm not on Turtle Radio this week, guys. Dean is on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Speaker 1:Ryan is covering Tuesday, Thursday. See you on Book Club, but I see you on the voice notes every day, obviously. So have a good day. Speak to you all soon.
