How long should you try getting healthier?
Good morning guys. But before I get started, very big question. So why do people wear sunglasses in the winter? Was walking up and down the street yesterday. Not like pacing like a maniac, right?
Speaker 1:I walked to the shop and back. Know, crazy exciting day. But people wear sunglasses. They've been seeing them for a while now. Sunglasses in winter.
Speaker 1:Why? Even in cloudy weather, sunglasses. I feel they're the same people as the people back in the villages who drive around Vauxhall Corso, the boombox, the big exhaust. I think they think people are gonna see them and they wanna look cool. That's my theory.
Speaker 1:So guys, if you wear sunglasses in the winter, you're basically a Vauxhall Corsa or the boombox. But anyway, let's get into today's lesson, today's class. I'm gonna go back to a few nuggets of wisdom I always go back to because they're the ones that changed my life, simple as. And I think you're gonna learn stoicism later which is great. But if you think about it, we can only take forward a few pieces of wisdom or ways of living at once, like maybe five things that can stick in your head.
Speaker 1:Like some of the stuff that sticks with people like Atomic Harbets, it says you don't rise to the levels of your goal. You don't rise to the like how big your goal is, you lower, you fall to the levels of your systems being there. So you can pick as many goals as you want up here up there but what are your day to day habits? That's kind of what you're looking at and it kind of make you rethink things, isn't it? But what really hit me with a guy called Jim Rohn was he had so many big hits with the stuff to me and things like stuff like, you know, don't say if I could I would, a lot of people say if I could do it for more time I would do it, say if I can I will because one day you won't be able to do what you think you can do now or what you can do?
Speaker 1:One day you might not be, well you're not gonna be the same age you are now in a few years and that might cause you not to be able to do something. You might not be able to run-in a few years. You might be able to do something different job. There's loads of things that can happen so if you can do it now, do it. Another one he says, don't wish it was easier, wish you were better.
Speaker 1:Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom. And then he says, either you run the day or the day runs you. That's so true. How many times when we don't get up with enough time in the morning and we don't plan our day out, do we does the day just run havoc on us?
Speaker 1:We feel like we're always chasing. How much better is it when you wake up a bit earlier and you get your steps and you feel like you've got a bit of a Got a nudge on the day, you're ahead of it, you feel better, you're going to the work day, you're ahead of the curve, you're not behind, you're not on the back foot. Little things so you run the day, the journal that's there for you, it's designed for you to use that to run the day. One of the exercises in there is to visualize what happens to your day if you let your emotions, if you become a slave your emotions. What that means is just let your emotions dictate everything.
Speaker 1:So you feel sad, happy, want a lot of joy, you just let it cause whirlwind and take you away from the task at hand. And this goes for even emotions such as happiness and joy and stuff. Sometimes we can hear maybe a piece of good news and then we can get over excited about it and all we can think about and if for three hours going on and on about it, when is something that maybe plans you're to do next weekend And your day is gone because you just think when that day will come, you'll enjoy it when it comes but now you've just let your day run away and your emotions have taken you. So it's important to understand what that means. Here's another one.
Speaker 1:If you don't like how things are change, you're not a tree. True. You're not a tree. I hope not anyway unless the trees are listening trees. I've got no issue with you guys.
Speaker 1:Honestly, don't hop. Don't like them at me too big, you big boys. But I like it saying like we're humans. You know, when the stoics say this, what's the difference between humans and animals? The difference is really humans are rational.
Speaker 1:Humans are rational. We can we can take a step back. Yeah? If we're if we're gonna be like animals, we're gonna be like sheep. We're just gonna follow everything.
Speaker 1:That's not being human. That's being a sheep. Yeah? There's another thing being like an animal, letting anger get you, fight in. Letting emotions run the day.
Speaker 1:That's what an animal would let happen. That means you're not being a human being according to the stoics and it makes sense to be a human being you must be rational and use the rationality you've been gifted and they were by nature, by the God, by the universe, who knows? We've been gifted rationality and other animals haven't. So use it, otherwise you're an animal essentially. Here's one of my favorites, yeah.
Speaker 1:How long should you try? How long should you try master macros? How long should you try and improve your health? How long should you try and train? Get it to your train.
Speaker 1:And Jim Rohn says, how long should you try until? Until, until, until, until, until. Until. How long do you give a baby to start to learn to walk? What's the answer to that question?
Speaker 1:Do you give it a month? Do give it three months? Six months? Maybe give it a year? Obviously not.
Speaker 1:It'll be ridiculous. You give it until it does it. How long until a baby rides a bike? Your kid runs a bike? Until he can ride a bike?
Speaker 1:How long until you were able to read and write, until you were able to read and write. Yeah, it doesn't stop when we get older. We do things until we can do it. How long your job, how long did it take for you to learn it until you did. Everything isn't until we do.
Speaker 1:We just keep going until it happens. We've been able to do humans are amazing. We can literally do anything. And, you know, some people the until is sooner. Some people it takes way longer for that until to happen.
Speaker 1:But it doesn't mean it'll never happen. It just means you've got to keep going and some people have got to work a little bit longer and a little bit harder, but that's just the luck of the draw as being born. Some people get it faster than others. Right? That's but that's it.
Speaker 1:You can't change that. I love it. How long until you learn, until you try and train properly, until you master it. And this week I've noticed people's motivation pick up because they're starting to see the total volume from last week and this week and they're starting to understand, I see it, now we're tracking again and my total volume's gone up. I understand motivation is now coming from understanding the concept of training and we have to learn by doing.
Speaker 1:We knew this, we knew that if you just put your numbers in the tracking sheet and turn up some to the seminars actually saw the numbers go up, that's when the until will happen. Week one everyone's like, oh, workouts are slow, I don't know if I can do it. Emails in being like, yeah, I don't know if this work is for me. You haven't waited until the until happened, until you understood why you were doing it. And the people that don't wait for that will push through to that, they miss out on so much.
Speaker 1:They miss just so much understanding and learning because they're not willing to go to the until but they have all their lives for everything they've learned. But now as an adult, getting there's no patience. Everything's rushed, you need everything now, now, now, now understanding everything we've learned of poor working. Even speak like literally write, reading and writing. Before 1871 when the first free schools went up in The UK, most of the working class couldn't read and write guys.
Speaker 1:That's only one hundred and forty years ago. Only one hundred and forty years ago. They debated whether to even let people of the working class learn to read and write because books were sacred knowledge to them. The upper classes didn't even know if they wanted it to happen. The only reason they decided to let the working class start to read and write because it would be beneficial to the industrial revolution for them to be able to be highly higher skilled so they could do jobs, harder, be more useful for these people.
Speaker 1:So we take it for granted the fact that we can just read and write and we can do things, we can go on the internet, browse the web. Some people who are too late to the web, older people can't even browse the web. We did things until lunch. This is the last time saying this point. This is very important because of the macros game everything.
Speaker 1:We're gonna keep going until we get it. Yeah. That's it. No excuses. No excuses.
Speaker 1:You know what a tree you can change, can do it until. Jim Rohn, thank you very much. Okay. If you're not willing to risk the unusual you will have to settle for the ordinary. Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.
Speaker 1:I love it. Same as your poem equipment. You've all got the same equipment as every other human being, two arms, two legs, two eyes, two feet, two hands, a brain, two ears. Formal education will make you living. Self education will make you a fortune.
Speaker 1:And I don't just mean fortune by money. Fortune is in skills. Fortune is in vision. Fortune as in knowledge. So many self educated people.
Speaker 1:Self education is a drive, you need a drive to be self educated. You read more books after school than you did in school. You don't really know the classics in school, you don't learn the stuff you learn now but they're the things that change your life not To Kill a Mockingbird even though it's decent on Mice and Men. Yeah. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day.
Speaker 1:Very simple macros, steps, drinking your water, doing your workouts, listening to some wisdom every day, potentially reading something every day. That's it. Doing your one big thing every day. You understand that doing your one big thing every day, it puts you ahead of 99% of people because they do zero one big things every day. They do nothing.
Speaker 1:They do shallow tasks that don't do anything. One big thing is better than 10 shallow pointless tasks. Do you know what I'm saying? Do you know what I'm saying? Pointless is like the shallow work.
Speaker 1:One big thing, what's things that move the needle? Move it every day. Okay, motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going. If you really wanna do something you'll find a way, if you don't you'll find an excuse. That's true.
Speaker 1:A lot of people have got many excuses but nobody is coming to save you. One of the most direct and honest sayings, nobody is coming to save you. You were born into this world on your own and unfortunately you'll go on your own. No one's gonna come and save you, everyone's thinking of their own lives. Ryan Holiday did a post the other day saying, stop worrying about imposter syndrome, everybody's thinking of themselves.
Speaker 1:So true. Everyone has imposter syndrome. We all think, I can do it? Am I meant to be doing this? Back in the day, all these like, you hero worship people, you think people are huge and amazing and all these things and you can't do it.
Speaker 1:But Steve Jobs says it, the world is made from people no smarter than you or are you anyone. And when you realize that you can shape the world. That's what changed his mind. He was like, this world is built by Bolzos. It's just built by people who took took the risk, took had the guts to do something, put themselves out there.
Speaker 1:They managed to create something, and now some people rely on it and it's kind of become what we do as humans. But he says, no, it's not that person wasn't clever and you just had the guts. And when you realize that, you stop putting all these people in a pedestal above you. Look, you can be inspired by people but don't put people in a pedestal above you hero worship. Silly.
Speaker 1:Inspi inspiration, yes. Hero worship, no. This is the thing when people hero worship celebrities, TV stars, influencers of Love Island. Yeah? You're putting these people above you, no they're not above you at all.
Speaker 1:Just people who went on TV. Think if you think about it, it's just people in a different place in the world like 7,000,000,000 other people. But the only difference is there's a little camera crew there with a little device and you can see it through a glass. Do you know what I mean? What's so special about that?
Speaker 1:Why are those people put up there and you put yourself down there? Think about it, stupid. No bearing you. Watch out. It isn't what the Okay this is a good one I love this.
Speaker 1:These things have been subconscious in my mind when I was a young girl reading all this. It isn't what the book costs, it's what it will cost you if you don't read it. Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons or the wind but you can change yourself.
Speaker 1:That is something you are in charge of. Failure is not a single cataclysmic, I can't even say it guys, I know the word. I just got a silly Russian accent. Can't say these English words. Event.
Speaker 1:You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment repeated every day. Success is the opposite, few things done well every day. Work hard on yourself when you're doing your job. Oh my god, I listened to this on a car on a way to work one day and I said, you know what, You're right, Jimmy.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna work way harder on myself than I do my job. This job. It's about as baffles me with people. Yeah. I see it on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 1:People are like, yeah. Yeah. I can't do that. I've been working so many hours. I'm I'm I'm just working god and silly hours.
Speaker 1:And I think when you're gonna take a stand? I get it. I've been in I've worked in scenarios where the boss expects you to do longer hours. They expect you to do this. Work to that.
Speaker 1:Work to that. There's got to be a point where you take a stand because if you're not going to take a stand who's going to take a stand for you? Who's going to take a stand and give you, you're going say listen this is just too much, need that, can't be working these overtime hours with no extra pay, Can't be doing it, got to work to what I'm paid and that's it, I'm sorry. But work's always going to be there, mental health is important. When's that stand going to happen?
Speaker 1:You have to take it, you have to have the guts to take it. End of the day, bosses will take advantage of everyone until the worker eventually stands up for themselves and says, no. No. No. I'm not doing these over hours anymore.
Speaker 1:I'm not doing it. I can't do it. Mental health, I need it. I can't do it. Boss, Okay, fine.
Speaker 1:No problem. Sorry. They won't care. It'll pass by. So please, all of you who are working ungodly hours, some of you who are even business owners, right, there's no there is no virtue in working to the bone.
Speaker 1:It doesn't need to happen, not in today's technologically advanced world where you can automate things and you've got your work on your phone, you can gather people to do some tasks for you. Like there's ways to give yourself a bit more time back for your health Cause if you can focus on your health and your health is there, you can then focus on other things. Once your health is gone, all you want back is your health. That is the problem. Again what I'm saying, when you're ill all you want to be is not ill.
Speaker 1:If you're not healthy, all you wanna be is healthy. But when you're healthy, the world opens up to you, Maslow's hierarchy of needs. This is when you got the security there and everything you can start thinking of self actualization. But you got to watch out, is there on a house of cards? Is your security and your health on a house of cards gets blown away?
Speaker 1:Then your self actualization is gone, your dreams of being this person, successful business is gone because you've just let the foundations crumble underneath you because you thought that would just always be there without looking after it and it's a ridiculous way to think about things. Ridiculous. I went to the doctor for blood tests and she said you know what, you know I gotta check a few more things other than that all good. Goes, we don't see men between the ages of 25 and 55. I'm a GP, we don't see them, never come in.
Speaker 1:That blows my mind, don't see them. Men don't think they need to go to doctor, don't even think they need to go to get a health checkup. Most of the men are suffering, men die like seven or eight years earlier than women on average. Men are just not looking after their health, drinking away and I guess taken away from them. And then you live a miserable life when you're not healthy.
Speaker 1:So guys take that seriously, stop messing about with it. You cannot change your destination overnight but you can change your direction overnight. Yes Jimmy. You don't get paid for the hour, you get paid for the value you bring to the hour. Don't just read the easy stuff.
Speaker 1:You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. Skillful frustrations are key. Skillful frustrations, Shannon Lee in Bruce Lee's book. Bruce Lee talked about the skillful frustrations stretching the mind. And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:When we do challenges, we're stretching the mind. Ah, Scott, I don't understand all this stuff. Macros and the training or stoicism, it's really a can't, it's confusing. You feel like your brain is trying to feel like it's too much. That's great.
Speaker 1:You get to that point, you stretch the brain, you have a bit of a rest, you settle back down. Then you start thinking, wow, okay, your brain doesn't go back to normal. It's been bit stretched now, bit more knowledge, bit more subconscious thing. Yeah. Jackie Gilbert messaged me saying she's only just clicked about the one day at a time and how to live, let yesterday go and focus on today.
Speaker 1:Just clicked after a year of saying it. These things take time, we stretch the brain here, then we stretch it there, we stretch it here with knowledge and training and macros and we learn in and it's frustrating but it's exactly what we need. And then we let it go back and then boom, all of a sudden we get it one day out of nowhere just pops in but it's not out of nowhere, the subconscious mind has managed to work it in. Right? The greatest copywriter of all time Gary Bensavania used to take a problem with him to bed.
Speaker 1:Get a problem? No, wasn't his wife. That's a terrible joke. So he used to take a problem, yeah, so it could be I think of the angle for this other piece, la la la. And you take a problem and sleep on it, wake up next day, let his subconscious mind work on it and boom, he wakes up, he's got ideas.
Speaker 1:His subconscious mind has worked on it. Yeah, and it takes time, you master that. A lot of people in creativity do that as well. But I think it's important that we understand that, especially when we do challenges because it can be frustrating. We feel we're behind but that's the point.
Speaker 1:We should be feeling we're slightly behind sometimes. If we're feeling on top of all time great, some people are. But the thing is when we feel a bit behind we're pressured, time restraints, it's good to feel it, it's exhilarating. We're pushing ourselves to be better people, not just sitting there doing nothing. Scrolling Instagram, doing nothing, working a job or caring, learning to take over our lives.
Speaker 1:Am I getting through? Who knows? A few more guys, discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Okay. Days are expensive.
Speaker 1:When you spend a day you have one less day to spend so make sure you spend each one wisely. Give whatever you're doing or whoever you were the gift of your attention, get off your phone. Okay. Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. Brilliant.
Speaker 1:You cannot make progress without making decisions. No one else makes us angry. We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. And your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out. I'm gonna finish that.
Speaker 1:Your personal philosophy, what is it? My personal philosophy comes from the stoics. I can only control one thing and that's my that's my attitude towards things, my action towards things. I can't control the result but I can control my attitude and action towards the tasks I got at hand. That's my personal philosophy.
Speaker 1:Makes it easy for me. It's up to me. It's up to me to go on task with a good attitude. It's up to me with attitude towards tasks. If I can go with a good attitude and giving myself the best shot of being the best person I can be doing the tasks the best way I can be, being the best person having a conversation.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna have an attitude where I'm gonna meet a friend and I can't wait to see what I can learn. So I'm meet a friend, I'm tired. So let's change the personal philosophy and then no one else is to blame, it's all on us guys, stop, we can't be victims, we can't. What is the end result from victim blaming? What is the end result?
Speaker 1:There isn't any, just keep victim blaming, it's like a drug, you keep taking it, you feel a bit better, keep taking it, you feel better, victim, victim, hating, hating, hating. Nothing comes from it. So you have to really radical change you. And tonight, we got stoicism coming back. So please tune in, listen.
Speaker 1:It's one of the best philosophies out there. Changed my life for sure. It's definitely been influenced. It's definitely influenced Jim Rohn. I think Jim Rohn's the first person I hear had mentioned the stoics.
Speaker 1:That's why I've gone into him, I think. But anyway, I hope that was useful, why it's not a bit of a spread. But, yeah, on Wednesdays, I'll just be doing some kind of going over some of my favorite people and sharing some of the best quotes and seeing if any of them hit. Like Jackie Gilbert took out a year, something hit and helped to get you know, understand that could be few. It could be one quote.
Speaker 1:It could be a way I say one thing. It could be the reinforcement of a 10 times, 20 times, hundred times, whatever it is until it clicks. No. Until tomorrow. I'll see you soon.
