How To Try and Handle Whirlwind Emotions Each Day
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 going to do today? This all matters because you've only ever had or will ever have the fantastic twenty four hours a day you're about to embark on. Hopefully this episode is going to give you some daily dose of wisdom that you can take action on today to improve your life.
Speaker 1:Remember, all it takes is one day at a time. Good morning, everyone. First of all, Weldon England for beating the German machine for the first time in ages in a competition like that two nil. Their next game is an 8PM Saturday, so, you know, good vibes all around. Well done.
Speaker 1:Moving on, moving on. I want to talk today about, so I've been journaling again and not journaling like doing the daily page again because I've got the turtle journal with me we've got more coming on the way obviously, but just the act of writing things out. I mean, use a digital journal now, it's called Roam Research and I sort of put on my thoughts. But the act of writing out, I don't know, helps massively. So you wake up, you're anxious, you've got things on your mind, you know, you plan your day, it asks you two stoic questions like, if you let your emotions enslave you today or, like, you know, take control, how will that turn out for you?
Speaker 1:And what would happen if you didn't let that happen? What if you had self discipline? And you know, you acted in accordance with your virtues and you're like, well, yeah, this will happen. And you map out two potentialities of the day. So you map out the first one where you're like, yeah, well, my emotions are quite all over the shop.
Speaker 1:I could, if I did let my emotions run my day, it would be a really bad day. But then envision, well, if I didn't and I had self control or the day be quite good because I got this to do that, to do this, to do that, do it. I'd be quite productive and then this and that. Just the act of literally playing out the fork that decision versus this decision, just helps it loads. And then you put down your one big thing and your little tasks and you reiterate your goals.
Speaker 1:Honestly, if you haven't done if you haven't been journaling or like writing down things lately, do that today. Okay? Get a piece of paper and just put down your schedule for the day, put down your one big thing and then ask yourself how will your day end up if you just let your emotions take control and how will your day end up if you had self control today and you stuck to your plan? And, you'll have a much better time on your day basically. And, the journals are gonna come soon, like two or three weeks and I think they'll be very very helpful.
Speaker 1:So obviously like that's the intention with this journal it's going to be a four on your desk when you wake up it's not for you to you know lose a mess about it's a daily thing, even in reflection as well. And on that note, like journaling, I think Ryan talks about this in the mental health workshops on Wednesdays, talks about the importance of journaling because he talks about, it's called chain analysis, right? And you start thinking like I feel terrible and you're like someone will ask you why do you feel terrible and you could be saying back I just don't know but if you actually did a chain analysis you'll end up figuring out what really tipped you over right So we all have something that triggers us or tips us over to feeling anxious, upset, and then it's a chain and things happen. Right? So always if you're feeling something in the back of your head and you're and you're you're feeling upset or whatever, do start writing down things down and trying to figure out precisely what triggered it because unless you know what's the cause, right, you're not gonna be able to like kind of fix it, you know I mean?
Speaker 1:And I think it's important because when your emotions are running wild, it's really, really hard. I think most people's, mental health well, this isn't gonna be a blanket statement, but a of a lot of people's mental health problems come down to, relationship problems or like not just, with your partners, but family as well. That strain, that emotional tug of war causes a huge amount of strain on the on the on the mind. And then when you're trying to compartmentalize things, you're trying to to do your work and then you're trying to do your fitness and your macros and you're trying to do your workout and it kind of like all mashes up and you just want to sit down and you just get know you get pulled into TikTok or Instagram or Facebook scroll feed to Twitter and you just feel worse right. And there's a few things if some of you are feeling in a rut that's definitely help and you should be doing them right.
Speaker 1:And the thing is so you start with a day with a journal, the morning journal, the morning daily page, okay then you go for a walk and on this walk, look you can listen to music for five ten minutes but don't waste your time go and listen to either an audiobook so think like a monk is a really really good audiobook to listen to on a walk, or listen to podcasts, obviously this one But there's other podcasts you can listen to to get your mind in the right place. Because you gotta remember, right, we live in a time when you can literally listen in the conversation between the best minds in the world. If you go back twenty years time, that just wasn't possible. You couldn't have access to these people. And also you go back to a hundred and thirty years and when most of us couldn't read, well as peasants couldn't read.
Speaker 1:You couldn't even read what these people were thinking. You couldn't read the classics and the stoics and all that stuff, couldn't even get the ideas in your head. So you got to remember we are very fortunate today that we can, that there's some people in this world, some men and women have dedicated their entire life to writing a book or coming up with some kind of theory or some breakthrough. They put into a book, it's like 200 pages or whatever it is, and you can listen or digest that on a walk in the morning, right, without doing the work they had to go through for decades, right, the big struggle. So you have to remind yourself of this because if you don't, you're gonna just wumble through life thinking, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1:And that, you know, you are at you are at no advantage versus people that can't read. There's some people across in the world that just literally can't read. And if you're not taking advantage of listening to these people and reading all this amazing works they've done, you're no better than someone that literally can't read. What's the point having the fantastic amazing ability to read and listen through technology if you're not going to utilise it on a daily basis? Trust me you need to start, like this has to be a morning routine.
Speaker 1:So you do your journal, you go for your walk or whatever. Ideally you get a workout in, okay, because you want to get that out of the way. So the cognitive load, I always talk about this, but you want to reduce cognitive load throughout the day and you want to reduce your worry about I gotta work out later, gotta work out later. Just find thirty minutes to a live workout, strength work or whatever, try and fit her in, right? Then you got obviously, you've got the morning is done, the journey, the walk, the workout, that's just the trio, the golden trio.
Speaker 1:If you can do that every day, the chances are your life is going to drastically improve because if you think about it, so those three things every day going to compound, you're going to start feeling fit, you're going start feeling top of things, you're be learning every day and you've got the day ahead and this is the thing just because you've won the morning doesn't mean you slack off for the rest of the day this is a very very common thing to happen where you go, oh I've done a lot now, oh I could just, no no what you want to do is you want to make sure that in the middle of the day you have some kind of break obviously to recoup, recharge, but you still want to get that one big thing done, the separate value, that was that one big thing today. You might want to have one big thing for work, you might want a one big thing for fitness which could be the workout and one big thing for you know your nutrition or whatever and you know you get them done and you're on top of things and you do this day to day and watch things change.
Speaker 1:But this is the thing, this system that I've been thinking about you are your emotions are all over the shop and it's a struggle, the act of journaling pulls out the stress of your mind onto a piece of paper. Okay, that's what that does. You pull the stress away, you've kind of cleared your mind. That's what happens. You cleared your mind, put on a piece of paper, you've done a plan for the day, you feel instantly better.
Speaker 1:You then go for a walk and put some new ideas in your mind, right? Whatever that is, you get ideas, you start thinking about things, it's good, you get fresh egg and your steps in, okay, boom, you come back, just get your workout done, the endorphins are going up, boom, boom, boom, shower you're ready for a good day of work. The thing is if you did two pomodoro's, so the pomodoro technique is twenty five minutes on and five minutes off and you do this four times then you get a break. Well how do I just do 20 so when you do a Pomodoro twenty five minutes, you literally only do that task. You don't look at phone.
Speaker 1:You look at nothing else on your computer. If you're gonna do one task, do it for twenty five minutes. If you did two to three Pomodoros a day, you're doing more than 95% of people because most people are in shallow work. They don't actually do work all day they're just like one email chat this whatsapp that facebook. The work is shallow work and it's never deep work and it's never work that's punchy.
Speaker 1:So that's my just advice for your day to day is the journal is the walk is the workout and get a few Pomodoros in that hit your one big thing and you just do that daily and happy days and hopefully if you are in emotional, whirlwind that that morning connection does help. Connection does help. But it's Wednesday. The week isn't over, and there's no need to think about tomorrow or Saturday when England playing semifinal no. Quarterfinal.
Speaker 1:Just think about what your one big thing is today. Write down what your tasks are. Go for your walk, get your workout in and you will have had a very very successful day being much more successful than most people on this planet. So I'll leave you with that guys, I hope you have a good day, enjoy yourself remember to live one day at a time that's all you can do and I'm looking at my coins now so I was feeling a bit down a few days ago and I got my coins out I'm just gonna read them to you now. I got here, I don't know if I'm saying that right, but you can get through anything one day at a time.
Speaker 1:Great reminder. Here's another reminder. I looked up, Memento Mori. You could leave life right now. Right?
Speaker 1:Of course you could. So make them all so today. Life isn't forever. Then you've got the obstacle is the way, the impediment to action advances action what stands in the way becomes the way. If you've got things you need to hit you need to get done just get them done that is the way.
Speaker 1:And then you've got Amur Fatih, which is to love your fate. Okay. Whatever happens to you, deal with it, get on with it, complaining isn't gonna help, just do it. And then we've got the four cardinal virtues. You've got justice, which is doing the right thing.
Speaker 1:We've got wisdom, which is trying to live rationally and what, you know, obviously living, to the best of our abilities. Courage, we need our symptoms and temperance and moderation. So there we go, guys. Enjoy your day. Have those virtues and I'll speak to And that's it.
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