Have Fun with Frustration
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 gonna do today that's all the 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 gonna give you some daily dose of wisdom that you can take action on today to improve your life. And remember, all it takes is one day at a time.
Speaker 1:Good morning everyone for all you Welsh people and if you ever want to learn Welsh means good morning let me know if you need if you want to learn Welsh I do it on the side. Okay so what I'm talk about today, page nine of Be Water My Friend by Seanan Lee. If you're reading it for book club well done awesome thank you. If you're not, I'll try and share some of the main lessons anyway. So this is a passage from a book very, very important and I truly believe in.
Speaker 1:People have to grow through skillful frustrations. Otherwise, they have no incentive to develop their own means and ways of coping with the world. So try to look upon frustration as your teacher or dare I say your friend. Try to listen to what it has to say to you and about you and about your capacity. Right.
Speaker 1:This is so true right. When I try and build like an IKEA furniture, right, I think I could do it without the instructions. I get so frustrated I wanna destroy it, I don't. And I'll go back to the manual and then I'll just read it and I'll be like, makes more sense. It's the same with this challenge.
Speaker 1:If you do feel frustrated about stuff and it's all coming on top of you and you're feeling all frustration, go to the wiki page, it's got everything you need to know. But next step is macros. If you're getting frustrated with macros, macros is just a game of number three numbers, protein, carbs, and fat. Just got to hit it like a game of Tetris, I don't know if that kind of works but we're going with it. We're going with Tetris.
Speaker 1:You got to hit your protein, carbs and fat target and just have a play about it, eat foods. Obviously go for nutritious foods when possible but to start with just play see if you can eat there right and you might get frustrated you might not come close in the first few days but then you tweak and then you tweak and tweak and tweak and then before you know where you're still eating basically the foods you really like and you've just made a few tweaks and now you're hitting your macros happy days. It is like literally that simple if you put it down like that. But what we do is we don't learn the basics, we don't read the instructions. We just dive straight in.
Speaker 1:We get frustrated. We go into the valley of despair which I'll cover in another voice notes and then we go, do know what this is not for me you can't do it. But it's so simple that when it does click people always say oh my god it's so easy. Right? So that's important and I touched upon there having a laugh with it, having fun with it and this comes from a physicist, he won a Nobel Prize, his name is Richard Feynman and he is like an extraordinary man.
Speaker 1:He's not alive right now, passed away in the 80s but he said right, so this is an award winning Nobel Prize physicist. He worked on the Manhattan Project on the, atomic bomb and people like, you know, how are you so how are such a genius? Like, how would you do it? And he was like, I never take it seriously. I'm always having a play.
Speaker 1:I'm just playing with stuff. I'm playing with this. I'm playing with that. And things happen. When I'm playing with something, I'm having fun.
Speaker 1:I can do it all the time. I keep going. And nothing was ever too serious for him. He's like, this is serious. Even though what he was doing was unbelievably serious in terms of what he was able to achieve with his with his with his life and his lectures and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:He still was playing day in, out. Right? So the lesson today is this macro game, this, you know, do martial arts tonight, have a laugh. Don't take it so seriously. If you suck at martial arts today, you might be a bit better tomorrow.
Speaker 1:You might suck less tomorrow. That's the beauty of it. If you suck at macros today, you'll suck a bit less tomorrow. That's what we all suck to everything we started with unless you were born with natural talent. But then you know what happens with people who are born with natural talent and stuff?
Speaker 1:They think that's gonna push them through and then they go down. Bye bye. They think that will push them through but it doesn't. So have a laugh today, do your macros, have a laugh with your training, have a smile on your face. If you're feeling a bit down, pop some tunes on, make yourself feel a bit better with your favorite tunes, go for a walk, honestly go for a walk.
Speaker 1:I'm doing a video on an importance in walking soon. And tonight, I want you all to have a smile on your face. I want you to put your Cobra Kai, your headband on, Omiyagi Do, whoever you wanna support. We're gonna kick some ass tonight. We're gonna learn how to kick people in the nuts.
Speaker 1:We're gonna learn how to properly defend ourselves which is a serious matter but if we play with it we're gonna learn more and if we learn more that's the ultimate achievement of this challenge is to learn more and basically you become more when you learn more happy days. So I'll leave you in that, Remember it's one day at a time so let's not get ahead of ourselves we only got martial arts tonight right. There's a live worker this morning with Ryan Louise do that as well have a laugh. That's all you got to do today hit your macros, what's your one big thing, what's your OBT today get that out of the way. Your days of success pressure off happy days and that's what we do every day and before you know it a challenge is over and you look back and you go woah I can't believe I did that in six weeks that's insane and that's exactly what you're gonna feel like if you stick to the one day at a time philosophy.
Speaker 1:You that's the important thing. So I'll leave you with that chaps, and, I'll see you tonight in the dojo. No mercy. And that's it. Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Scott Fleer.
Speaker 1:Hopefully, you understood something I said. 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.
Speaker 1:I don't you to think about going to another website. 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.
