Discipline Now, or Regret Later. Simple.
Welcome to the one day at a time podcast with your host and the future leader of The Republic Of Wales, Sveldfjer. Now this might be the only podcast in the world where you actually have to reduce the speed instead of increasing it. However, what I wanna get over to you is that the past is gone. The future doesn't exist. So if you wanna make the most of your life, you've gotta make the most of these moments every single day.
Speaker 1:And this podcast is gonna help you live a healthier, more fulfilled life, hopefully, giving you some wisdom to take away every single day. So I'm gonna shut up now so you can get on with listening to the next episode. Good morning, we are back in action everyone. Hope you're well and I hope you enjoy the following voice note which is gonna be about discipline. What is discipline?
Speaker 1:What is it? Is it the same as habits? No, it's not the same as habits but most of us have got really bad habits and the only antidote for a bad habit is discipline because you have to have the discipline to you basically your bad habits are like wires knotted up and every day you've got to, deploy discipline to unwrangle the knots and the wires and eventually those bad habits can be reformed into new, better habits. It does come from the grit of discipline, right? And this is the reality of what we're to do in this fitness journey.
Speaker 1:A lot of us, it could be amazing if we were all on a blank canvas and we had no habits and we're like, right, should we form some habits? Yeah, cool. Let's do some healthy habits. We have to actually untangle the bad ones. That is the challenge, right?
Speaker 1:So we need to be aware of our habits because they are automatic, right? So when it comes to this challenge, macros, everything, you know, we're giving you all the information you need. You don't need to eat special foods. You don't need to train seven days a week. You don't need to take fat loss pills.
Speaker 1:You don't need to do any of that stuff. You just need to have consistent self discipline every day. And it's a small stuff. It's like getting your steps in. Oh, you don't got time.
Speaker 1:Wake up earlier. That's where discipline starts. Wake up 06:00. Boom. Get up.
Speaker 1:I know some got kids and stuff. I get it. But, you know, I've know, and like I've said before, you're never gonna get more time. There isn't more time. There isn't more than 24 in a day, unfortunately, unless you change planets.
Speaker 1:So you do need to think, right, I need the discipline to maybe get up fifteen minutes earlier, get my walk in. A lot of us procrastinate. I think a lot of us underestimate the amount of hours we waste per week procrastinating. That moment we know we gotta do something and then the actual action of doing it, that moment in there, oh my god. The amount of times we're wasting our life away on our phones, just sitting there, not moving, napping another ten minutes.
Speaker 1:Look, has it ever been a good idea? You get say, no, you wanna wake up about half six. Your alarm goes off at 06:20. Right? That extra ten minutes of sleep you're gonna get if you let us snooze will gonna make you feel worse.
Speaker 1:We know this. We go back into a sleep and wake up like an hour later, wake up even more groggy. So we got to get used to the fact, just get up on the time, boom, up. Okay? And we got to understand that we have to unravel the bad habits in that day as well.
Speaker 1:So we need to look at the good habits we're gonna build and the bad habits we're gonna have to unravel and that comes from discipline of getting your steps in, tracking your macros. Look, you've got the technology. There is no excuse anymore. Like if I asked you twenty five years ago to track what you're eating, so we know where you're at. Oh my God, what a hard process.
Speaker 1:You have to write everything down on a piece of paper. Not every food label had the information. Now they're forced by a law to tell us the amount of calories and macros in foods. This didn't used to be the case. We didn't have like, that wasn't the case before.
Speaker 1:We've got it so easy now. We can just scan and search and add it in. There is no excuse for tracking what we eat. Right? And let's make it even easier with our app when it is automatic changes for you.
Speaker 1:You just got to put your data in. Right? So we're making it a lot easier to deploy this discipline you need. Okay? So we need to do that every day.
Speaker 1:And if you haven't done the discipline this week to to start your macros, do your dance session, get your steps in, you have to do it today. You have to start now. There is no other time to start. Just do it now. Do it today.
Speaker 1:What are you waiting for? Honestly, what are you waiting for? You need to get up. Get off your ass. Get up.
Speaker 1:Let's do it. It's the only way. And, like, if we split split there, and this is something that that Jim Rohn talks about a lot. He talks about the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. So you either go for a life of ease with momentary rewards.
Speaker 1:Right? Or you go for a life of discipline. Right? It's harder, but the rewards are much bigger, but they're in the future. So we know that.
Speaker 1:Right? So are we gonna always go for those easy rewards like 99.9% of humans are doing? And we know most people aren't happy with their life, happy with where they're at. Guess why? They keep giving into these easy immediate rewards.
Speaker 1:So if we want a different if we really break it down really simply, if you want to have a different life to what you've had today versus other people you're gonna have to stop going for the easy rewards the easy instant rewards that's as simple as it gets if you were to refine the difference between people it is that. Yeah? Spending your money straight away and stuff when you get her in without thinking about it. Getting a takeaway when you're feeling one one slither of hunger on a weekend. Getting 10 drinks in all the time when you can have one or two or three.
Speaker 1:Just going to the extremes all the time. Right? That's the difference. You have to think about it. Like, what type of person you wanna be?
Speaker 1:Because otherwise, you're just gonna be falling into being the same person as everyone else. And guess what? That's not a good that's not a good way for us to go. It's not. And, I've been thinking about it.
Speaker 1:So I watched the video as well with admiral, this really famous admiral. You might have heard the speech where he says that, success for him starts off in the day when he does his bed. And there's a reason why military make the men do their bed, polish their shoes, iron their outfits, like, it all tidy, keep everything tidy and fresh. Right? Because that is the same discipline that's gonna be utilized when they're out in war with the guns and when they need to work as a team.
Speaker 1:Discipline is discipline. One bad fruit in a bowl will get the rest of them will start rotting. So if you've got no discipline in one part of your life but you want it in another, the chances are the no discipline on one side will creep into the other. Now that's quite uncomfortable to think, wow, we need to have discipline full time. Yeah, I think we do.
Speaker 1:I think we need to really think about who we want to be, what type of life we want. And if you're like, want discipline in my body and health, right, and then I'm not disciplined in work, they're not going to match up. And then one of them is going to contaminate the other. We want to be contaminating work with more discipline than the other way around. But the chances are the bad will contaminate the good.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So we're looking at overall change here, but we're looking at it in incremental steps. So if we do discipline on the small stuff every day, eventually build and build the big stuff. Now you're not gonna get instant results. That's never been promised, and it's never gonna happen.
Speaker 1:No one's ever had instant results. And stop being so, like what's the word I'm looking for? Yeah. Stop being so unreasonable with what you're expecting with your results. You are the accumulation of all the the the actions you've done over your life today.
Speaker 1:Whatever you are today is the accumulation of all your voluntary actions most of the time. Some people, you know, have got major life injuries that weren't default. Do know I mean? So stuff like that is different. But the majority of us, we are the accumulation of our habits and things we've decided to do, our voluntary actions.
Speaker 1:So for us to think we can reverse all that in a day, two days, three days, three weeks is just silly. And what it does is it puts an unreal expect unrealistic expectation. And then when you don't get results fast, you give up and quit. And then you go into a very cynical way of life. Oh, it's not for me.
Speaker 1:I'm not the type of person that can lose weight. That's your personal philosophy. You believe, nah, it's not for me. I can't lose weight. Oh, I've tried it.
Speaker 1:It's not for a trait. No. Life's not for me. But it's just an excuse. It's not the right.
Speaker 1:It's not you know it's not true. Everybody, every human being has a capacity to be healthy and fit and strong. So a natural state, this new world we live in has pushed us to the other side. Obesity is a new thing. It's been around for less than a hundred years.
Speaker 1:So we're dealing with something new, a new threat to humanity in a sense. Right? And we have to counter act it with discipline and our personal philosophy that, of course, our natural state is healthy, agile, being able to move, being able to walk. So it's in all of us to be able to get that, all of us. But we have to we have to want it.
Speaker 1:What do mean? We have to want to. We have to throw away our expectations of changing in in a month. Look at some members from our Octagon Challenge last year. If you would have asked them, oh, would you take the body of your dreams in one year?
Speaker 1:They go, damn right I would. They would have been like, oh, I'm not happy myself at all right now. A year is nothing better what I've been through in my life. One year to change everything. Yes, of course.
Speaker 1:But when it comes to actually starting a plan, you're like, oh, I want it done in a week, two weeks, I'm drop weight now. Well, it's not gonna happen that fast. You have to love the process and love the journey instead and just trust the process. I promise. I've seen it happen over and over.
Speaker 1:Trust the process. Be honest with yourself. Don't lie about your intake. Just be completely honest. Do your best every day, and you will succeed.
Speaker 1:You do the small things every day. That's all it takes. Literally it. I don't think it's it's so simple. You don't need to read more books.
Speaker 1:You don't need to do more. You don't need to go to other fitness plans after this and go back and I'll go to Joe Wickes and go to this other girl and that person to find the secret sauce or the secret method. There is no secret method. This is the method one day at a time, track your nutrition, your macros and your calories, eat higher protein, get your steps in, do exercise you enjoy, and you will get to where you wanna go. That's it.
Speaker 1:That is it. And you will reap what you sow. It's an ancient term, old. You reap what you sow. Yes.
Speaker 1:You think you're gonna reap something later on if you're not sowing now? No. How was that? How was that? That doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 1:Does that make sense to you? You know farmer, farmer comes up to you and goes, ah, I really really hope for I was expecting a bunch of wheat to to claim, today. And you went, well, you did you sow? Did you do any work on that? Did you did you plant anything?
Speaker 1:No. No. No. Didn't plant anything, actually. Well, how would you expect to get it then, mate?
Speaker 1:How would you do you expect to get the wheat if you didn't plant it? Oh, don't know. I thought it'd just happen. No. It obviously not.
Speaker 1:Think of that as stupid that is. But we think that way. We always do. Or we we we expect to have a better job in the future somehow or better promotion or a better relationship, better friendships by just waiting around because we deserve it, because we are God's gift. We deserve no, we don't.
Speaker 1:You have to put the work in and then you can reap later on down the line. Does that make sense? Am I breaking through to you? Think about it. Put the work in now.
Speaker 1:And this time next year you'll be thanking yourself. You'll be like, my god, % yes. Oh, the small decisive actions I did every day. That's all it took. And here I am now.
Speaker 1:And I love this quote from a book I read, the art of worldly wisdom, I might have said it before but it's a similar concept it says, in prosperity prepare for adversity. It is both wiser and easier to collect winter stores in the summer. In prosperity favors are cheap and friends are many. So now it's summer, we're doing dance, we're dancing, we're loving it, we're moving, We're using a new app. We're capitalizing this as a time of prosperity for us during these challenges.
Speaker 1:Right? We're gonna build some new habits, get rid of the old ones. We're gonna make new community friends. We're building in prosperity right now. Build well, keep going.
Speaker 1:Four weeks, another four weeks and we do it. And then when times get cut tough, you know you've done it before. You put the work in, you've made a dent. And sometimes when it gets hard, you might go back one or two steps, you've gone forward 10. And that's how it works.
Speaker 1:And that's how it's always gonna work. So make sure you're making the most of this challenge. You've all paid for it. You're all your turk members. There's a lot of dance sessions on.
Speaker 1:Get them done. Watch the replays. Track your macros. Get all in. Don't procrastinate and you think, oh, I'll do it tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Just do it now. If you can do it now, do it now. That's it. Simple as. Simple way of living.
Speaker 1:If you can do it now, do it now. Let's see let's see where we end up at the end of the challenge guys let's do it. So today what's your one big thing discipline to achieve and let's go from there otherwise enjoy it in. And that is it for today's episode. So hopefully, you took something away from it.
Speaker 1:If you didn't, here's what we need to take away. Stop wasting time on social media. Stop wasting time gossiping. You've only got a day to live. Today's the only day you ever have.
Speaker 1:So if there's anything to take away from this podcast, even if you can't understand the word I say, even if you didn't resonate with the wisdom I try to deliver, this is a reminder of you daily to live one day at a time. Give your moments meaning today and don't be fooled by thinking you've got unlimited amount
Speaker 2:of days. But if you can make the
Speaker 1:most of today, I'm telling you, you'll have a fulfilled life. So enjoy your day and hopefully I'll see you back tomorrow. Do daily to live one day at a time. Give your moments meaning today and don't be fooled by thinking you've got unlimited amount of days.
Speaker 2:But if you can make the
Speaker 1:most of today, I'm telling you, you'll have a fulfilled life. So enjoy your day and hopefully I'll see you back tomorrow.
