Do This One Important Thing Today
Good morning you beautiful people, I am coming in from Cephalonia on the West Coast Of Greece, I drove all the way across from Athens to Nicopolis first, to where Epictetus set up a stoicism school, just wanted to be there in the area where he set it up to look at the same sea, did all the stuff. I just love it writing, journaling, reading his stuff in the same area. That's what I'm actually doing across Europe is whatever the area I'm in I'm reading about stuff that fascinates me. So in Athens I was reading about Socrates and Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Asim was Nicopolis reading about Epictetus and then the big naval battle between Augustus and Cleopatra and Mark Antony and then now I'm in Cephalonia I've been reading a bit of stuff here, there's a few historical things here but really it was a week to chill and just write some stuff, read a lot more books and there's a really good series called the Very Short Introduction series by Oxford University Press which is a brilliant series, short books, 100 and something pages, you could read it in a day really And all the topics you can think about is amazing.
Speaker 1:So if you want get into any topic, start there. And I'm sharing the journey with you as much as I can, making sure I am living in the moment first and foremost as my priority in one of these places I'm going, I'll share some historical stuff as I've been doing and that's the side you've seen in me a lot guys is like the stoicism philosophy all the books and all that side of me and I show a glimpse of another side to me on social media when I was in the Gobblazer a bod shot in the middle of the eyes. Showing the quads and some comments reply from members being like, oh, you know, just complimenting. Was amazing. I felt the full love of the turtle community we all we've all heard of on Instagram, this community of supportive people liking, commenting, praising people no matter what they're doing, you know, going through some tough times, wins, small wins, big wins, and it's so important.
Speaker 1:And I felt that love massively on Instagram. And I didn't do it for that. And I essentially just wanted to prove it. I didn't do it for the likes, right? But I'm telling you guys to eat better, to track your macros, to train, and you know, that is a big part of me.
Speaker 1:Like, I've been doing that since I was 16. I've been in martial arts, karate, I was once Irish karate champion guys, fought for Wales back in the day. And then, you know, rugby and training and a big part of me in, you know, thirteen years maybe, thirteen years of doing it. And you know, I think it's really really important that I'm not saying, do as I say nor as I do because I hate that mentality. Anyone can say the right stuff.
Speaker 1:Socrates hated from people back in ancient Athens. This is what Plato hated, Aristotle in life, the rhetoric, people being able to say all the right stuff, talk, talk, absolute nonsense. They can say every right thing and people believe them, fall for their lies and deception, but the actions of nothing is emptiness, complete emptiness beyond the words. That's the opposite of the person I wanna be, and that's the opposite. What Socrates wanted to be, he was like, these people are just talking to you.
Speaker 1:Their words mean nothing. They're not even living those ideals. They're literally talking nonsense to you. And the guy's like, no, no, this sounds amazing and using the words to persuade and all this stuff. Right?
Speaker 1:Right? And it's it's, you know, it's it's it's still there today. Like, a lot of people are saying to do this and do that. And you might that begs the question like, do you have to do what you say? And when it comes to a lifestyle where a turtle is, a method is a lifestyle, right?
Speaker 1:Of course you have to embody the lifestyle, of course turtle method should be me, as an embodiment of me, same as Ryan Louise, it should be us. We are the embodiment of what we are teaching or what we are trying to show. I'm not saying I have the answers to everything but I'm trying to, all of us, go on the right path, bring in expertise in there, we learn together, we have discourse. That's the important thing, that's what they did back in the day and that's what I realised in ancient Athens and in Nicopolis really was the fact that they're just normal people chatting ideas and they share them and that's what changed the world, changed many instances of the world Anyway, back to the social media stuff, so social media has got two sides to it. One side's completely toxic.
Speaker 1:You need to unfollow those people that are causing you mental turmoil and stuff and all that. Just unfollow them. The second side is the turtle method way. The turtle way. There's bound to be other communities on there, but that way of using social media, posting your journey, posting things that interest you, posting who you are, right?
Speaker 1:Don't let it overtake your life. Don't be living through social media. Live and you can share. Live show your progress, right, big or small. You've got 100 pounds to lose, 20 pounds to lose, one pound to lose.
Speaker 1:Post your journey, post your struggles, post your wins. Right? Be proud of who you are. Right? I'm proud of who I am.
Speaker 1:I'm the person I wanna be. I'll post the stuff that interests me. I've had you know, I've had, like, people back home, friends and stuff that have like unfollowed me and told me that I've unfollowed you mate. You're just posting too many shit about books. As if I care if you think I'm posting myself about books.
Speaker 1:Do you I mean? You think that I like unfollow me. I don't honestly doesn't bother me. That's fine. If that is not what you wanna see on social media, that's absolutely fine.
Speaker 1:What I wanna see in social media is different from other people, but I wanna see is things that make me think. I I wanna see things that make me wanna improve, make reminders in a sense. You know. I want go on social media, want to see wins from members. Follow the hashtags livelikelouise and the turtle one, there's a new one, turtlemethod guys, so make sure you hashtag that.
Speaker 1:Follow the hashtags, see people. I go on the turtle Instagram, see all the stories you guys share and re share it all, I see what you're doing, you're embodied in the lifestyle. It makes me want to be better as a person. Even though that's not been said in the public forum, I see it. And this is the important part.
Speaker 1:A lot of you are posting good stuff out there, your wins, your losses, everything. Look, you might not get all the likes, you might not go viral, you might not get loads of followers, right? But there's people looking, seeing and taking her in. Shout out to Philippa who joined on the fourteen day masterclass, fourteen day challenge, I still don't know what to call it. Masterclass or challenge, someone named it for me.
Speaker 1:And she posts every day a macro dashboard and like a diary entry of the day how it went, right? And I know for a fact people have had so much from it might have 10 likes, 15 likes, 21 likes, likes isn't the determining factor whether that post has helped or not People are reading, digesting and it's changing their behaviour for the better and people come on the radio and sometimes say it. So Philippa, look, you might think that some people are, there's a lot of people reading and it's improving them, it's helping them. Same for all of you. This is what it needs to be.
Speaker 1:The turtle social media, total Facebook group, all this stuff. Right? There's enough negativity in the world. Your boss is already telling you jobs. You're doing terribly your job.
Speaker 1:You're waking up to email saying it's not good enough. You're having arguments with people. Listen. Are your family members saying this? Everything's negative.
Speaker 1:Right? It pulls us down. It pulls us down. There needs to be an outlet for us where it's not negative. I'm not talking about toxic positivity either.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying just be just talk and talk and talk about like just overly positive without any substance, right? That's what people do. Overly positive, any substance. Like if someone if you need to leave a comment, you know, praise people for opening up and sharing, right? But be genuine as well.
Speaker 1:But in a positive way. That's the best way. This genuine positive without it being fake. And that's what I see through the turtle Instagram. And I see some posts as well, like commenting and all that.
Speaker 1:So it's so good to see people chatting and Louise opens up as well and all that stuff. So it's important really that we keep that going as a culture of Turtle. And I just wanted to share that because I experienced the amazing side of it. I just posted in love with Gaffordo, know, and that's maybe to win. And so guys, that's your task today really is to message someone from the community.
Speaker 1:Message someone whether it's from a challenge, a membership, whatever, it doesn't have to be a Turtle member. Message someone today that has posted something that's helped you in the past. Just say, look, you all mentioned on the podcast today to reach out, and I just wanted to say, posted it. It was months ago, six months ago, but I remember it. Something you said sparked something in me and made me do a better decision, made me do this and that.
Speaker 1:Okay? And just send them my message. Because sometimes all we need is a little praise. A little praise can go a long way, a huge way in fact. We are starved of praise, absolutely starved of it.
Speaker 1:And a bit of praise can transform a day, transform a life. And if you can help people in that way, think about it, it's so easy to do, it's so easy to give praise, it's so easy to take ten, fifteen seconds of your time to leave a valid comment or to like something by someone or just to say, look, keep going, you're doing amazing or just to comment on the reports you see on Facebook, someone saying they're struggling, give you 2p. These things, these little boosts we can give to each other, rise all of us up as a collective. We have to see this as a collective thing, not individual. Whilst we're all individually responsible for our own lives, the collective nature of the membership, of the method raises us all.
Speaker 1:That's the truth of it, right? Yeah, hopefully that makes sense guys. Don't know if it makes sense, but I want to thank you all for being such nice, nice people and it doesn't go unnoticed by me and the Turtle coaches. So keep it up, that's the culture we want. And I want to shout out Lucy Kim, I hope the foot gets better.
Speaker 1:Sue, I'm so sorry to you what happened. You did say you had an amazing day and the people were so nice, like Harriet came off and didn't finish the course to help you and Rob was willing to drive up and down the country to help Gayed Hospital and again, this is the culture. The culture you're all building together is phenomenal. That's not the normal life, guys. That's not the normal world out there.
Speaker 1:People are out there, dog eat dog world they call it, right? Why do we have to live in a dog eat dog world? Let's not live in a dog eat dog world, let's live in a turtle hell turtle world. And just that, that's amazing. At least you hope it gets better.
Speaker 1:All of you for doing that obstacle course, looked amazing. It looked amazing. I'm so glad you're all doing stuff outside of any events we have to put on as well. Not that I'd like to put pressure off us, but just shows that it is a lifestyle for you all and you're all like bonding together and if anyone is in the community that's new and all that, we'll be doing a newbie evening radio session soon just to get chatting to you all, get to know you all and making sure that you're all connected in WhatsApp groups because look, everyone that you see on the membership that's out there doing an obstacle course together that looks like they've been best mates for life Some of them have met for months Some of them have seen each other a few times It can happen quickly, you can bond quickly with people and a girl can look sometimes intimidating, right? Because it's like, oh, how do I break in?
Speaker 1:People are very inclusive and it's like if you feel like you're left out or you feel like you're out of the loop you can message me directly and I can make sure I can do a Whatsapp group post again, get people into groups, I can do a turtle evening session, get people into groups that way There's something I can do and there's loads of awesome members out there as well I can push you to, not push you to, like introduce you to, that can help facilitate you getting integrated. Okay, so that's the important part. So turtle integration, turtle help, turtle world, give someone a bit of praise today. Happy days guys, I'm going to join my day by the pool learning to snorkel and then I'm going to go to the sea to snorkel. I can swim with a snorkel guys, I can swim, I'm struggling to tread water.
Speaker 1:If anyone's getting tips on treading water, like even all the tips yesterday in the pool with my friend, he's like, I think you just sink. I'm like, I think I just sink. You're telling me I'm doing exactly what you're doing. Sinking, just completely sinking. So I don't know what to do about this.
Speaker 1:If anyone's got any tips on someone who struggles to tread water has eventually done it, let me know and maybe a miracle might happen here that I will tread water for the first time without sinking. But have a good day, your one big thing is to send a bit of praise to someone, let me know how it goes and I'll speak to you all soon.
