It Is Really Up To You, Stop Messing Around
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 everybody, right then you better be on a nice lovely walk in nature If you're not, what are you doing? What are you doing? Get on your daily morning walk.
Speaker 1:It's essential part of your day. So many benefits. Not doing it is just why? That's what I'll ask you. Why?
Speaker 1:I know some people, kids and stuff like that, but just fit in a ten minute walk, anything, I think it's vital. Anyway, walk around over. Talk about now about like So when we look at our weight and measurements and stuff like that, we need to look at it objectively. Now, if you were to take a job out of university, you got paid $20 a year, right? Some people and men tend to do this more than women.
Speaker 1:They put their entire worth on their job and what they're worth and it's bad because you are not your job. But some people will be able to split and go, you know, that's how I'm paid for my job but obviously I'm a human being, I'm detaching myself just couldn't get paid that doesn't mean I'm a shit person or whatever and that's just my job misses me. We need to do the same when it comes to the scales. When you look at the scales in a number you have to be objective, you have to look at us as a set of numbers. You cannot put your self worth in a pair of numbers right.
Speaker 1:It's a choice for you to do that. It might be unsettling for some of you to hear that but it is you doing that, you are putting your opinion on the number, you're putting your worth on the number, you are looking at it in a certain way and then you say you are the way in is makes me feel bad because you're making, that's your choice. Right, there is a moment when you look at the number and there's a split second where you can decide to say that's just a number taken for data and oh my god I feel terrible, I'm fat, I hate myself, this is just I'm just terrible, that weight means I'm horrible ugly person right. That's a decision you're making and you can change it. If you think you can't change that, you can't change anything.
Speaker 1:That's your decision, you can change it first and foremost. So please try and be objective, Don't run away from these things. The more you run away from them scared of something the bigger the fear gets. So if you're scared of weighing yourself, scared of measuring yourself, scared of seeing maybe doing some PRs or whatever see where your strengths are. The more you run away from the bigger the fear gets.
Speaker 1:It gets bigger bigger bigger bigger in your head. Before long the imaginary huge fear in your brain is nothing it's literally in real life is minuscule. If you were Marcus Aurelius who looked at wine as a bit of old grapes and meat as a dead animal you look at what the scales are essentially what you're doing is you're putting two feet on something slightly raised off the floor that just reads off a few numbers on the screen. That's it. That's all it is.
Speaker 1:It's a piece of metal or plastic. That's it. For that to make you feel worthless is crazy so don't do it yourself. But it's useful information. It can be useful, it's very useful to track our measurements of weight, what we eat and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Hunter gatherers didn't know how much they weighed. They didn't know how much body fat percentage they were. They didn't know their measurements, then how many calories they were eating, right? But the difference between us and them is nature regulated them. They would only be able to hunt a certain amount of times, catch a certain amount of food which is high protein, high fat.
Speaker 1:They might have eaten once a day, go days of water, right. Nature was definitely regulating what they were able to do. We've now manipulated nature as humans, we have completely manipulated nature. We've manipulated our food intake. We've got foods that don't, they're not meant to be year round but they are.
Speaker 1:We've got mangoes in summer, in winter. We've got fruit from across the world all times of the year. We've got abundance of stuff. That's all one I can remember some talk it was like back in the day from sugarcane's for them to eat the equivalent of the sugar we get in a bottle of Coke or something like that they would have had to eat like eight sugarcane's which were like nearly a meter long. Well it was something ridiculous it's like that was just nature wouldn't have there was impossible.
Speaker 1:Nature in this natural state it was impossible for them to do that. By humans we have we have manipulated nature. Okay? So if you think you can walk through this world and just be intuitive you're mistaken, you're mistaken. This man made beast of a world is not good in many ways.
Speaker 1:The media manipulation, the advertising, pulling our fears, always doing everything is just pushing pulling us and this and that social media. When we look back at this era in two three hundred years we're gonna go wow they are they're rough they were just new to that digital world and wow how I don't know how they go through the mental pain they must have gone through. I think it's true. I think it's definitely true. And I think we think is all failures all down to us and stuff like that as well.
Speaker 1:And in many cases, the only thing we can do is bring the attitude to the day. The right attitude we've only thing you can control is your voluntary action today and the attitude you bring to the day. You can't control all the successes and stuff like that. It doesn't happen. But in this world, like it says in the book of life, we put so much emphasis on it's up to us the American dream, it's up to you and if you'd fail it's all on you and that's depressing for people and that's why suicide rates are flying up.
Speaker 1:Right? So understanding that the fact that this world we live in is in a sense highly artificial from its natural state means we need artificial means to fight back, doesn't it? In a sense like, well, you think you think that our ancient, our frontal cortex hasn't evolved for fifty thousand years. We've got the same hardwiring as people fifty thousand years ago in a world that is absolutely alien to them. If you were to take someone from fifty thousand years ago and plop them in the middle of London, right, they would think they wouldn't even know what to say.
Speaker 1:It would actually blow their mind so much that they would just freak out and faint. Right? So we need tools to fight back. And guess what we got some tools, we got some tools coming for you. Some tools we got.
Speaker 1:We've got the ability to track your food in seconds as opposed to being clueless about all the sugar fat and the high calories in foods we're eating. We can fight back by being aware of what they're doing. We can be aware of these food companies. Yes. It tastes amazing, but don't you dare trick me, my mate.
Speaker 1:That cereal unbelievably nice. Oh, a bowl of cereal. One serving size. Let me have a look what one serving serving size looks like in a bowl. Wow.
Speaker 1:If I can drop. You can put a serving size of cereal in a bowl, you'll be shocked how small it is. So we have to fight back. We have to use tools, self awareness. We have to do it.
Speaker 1:And food sense. Right? When it comes to training, we've built gyms. We have to go outside of the way, we build gyms, we've got equipment, we can help, we can do that, which is great. We've got online communities, we've got the support networks.
Speaker 1:We didn't really have that back in the day, but we can use that for the good. Social media is bad in a sense in most cases, but it's also great in the sense that we know we got Zoom, can help each other online, we do need to be in person all the time. Right? So that's a benefit. So we need to look at how we can use the tools we've built to fight back and not think that it's just gonna happen because this world, right, this world is designed to exploit you.
Speaker 1:Consumerism, right, I'm not saying capitalism is just evil because it's not there's a lot of benefits to capitalism but consumerism making us consume more and more and more all time right. That's the world we live in shiny object syndrome always new things pushed and pulled with marketing, all emotions everywhere. We have to defend ourselves. How do we do it? How do we do it?
Speaker 1:We got the tools now, so you've set up the tools. It's all about doing your best every day. That's it. That's all you can do. Bring the art to it every day.
Speaker 1:Today, what are you gonna do today? Right? Are you gonna complain? Oh, don't wanna work out. Well, you get to work out.
Speaker 1:You get to work out. It's not you don't. You get to. You're lucky to be able to go to the gym and work out. Oh, I don't wanna try.
Speaker 1:You get to track. You get to track with ease and control your nutrition once and for all. I just feel tired. We all feel tired. Tired.
Speaker 1:We're fine. You can get energy by moving paradoxically. This is how it is. You can get energy by moving. So move.
Speaker 1:Go for a walk. Fresh air. Yeah, it's up to you. You can you can decide. Oh, it's uncomfortable, uncomfortable to know but it is up to you ultimately is up to you to take to do your best every day.
Speaker 1:Right? Maybe you don't end up where you wanna be. Maybe you don't become a celebrity, a movie star, you know, sports player, the number one business person in the world. Maybe we don't. But do we give up?
Speaker 1:Do we stop working on our just because we're never gonna be the best? Obviously not, how ridiculous is our, think about how ridiculous that is. So you're gonna stop, you're not gonna work on something, working yourself just because you're not gonna be the best. Of course that's not what we do. We'll never be the best maybe, most chance that we won't But it shouldn't stop us trying our absolute best today and making the most of today.
Speaker 1:Today is the only day you ever have. I will say this over and over and over and over. Today is the only day you actually ever have. Time cannot be spent in advance. It is only spent moment to moment and it goes forever, literally gone.
Speaker 1:Ta da. Like ten seconds ago, bye bye, gone. So you're on your walk listening to this, plan your day out. What are you gonna do today? What's your plan today?
Speaker 1:Are you gonna go to the gym? Are you gonna just do it? Are you gonna spend time withering, complaining? Are you gonna waste your time gossiping the beloved island and spending your mental energy in there? When actually that's exactly what people want you to do, just stuck in this vortex of shit that just drains your energy and time.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying don't spend leisurely time doing it but think about where your mental energy is going, where your energy is flowing. You really want to start your own business okay well your you better start flowing to your first two hours of your day being prioritizing, trying to work that out. You wanna go for a promotion? How are you gonna get there? What are gonna do?
Speaker 1:Complain about not being promoted, or you're gonna actually realize what you needed to get done? Or you wanna you wanna you wanna save more money? Well, stop spending on shit then. Plan out. Where you can where you spend your finances?
Speaker 1:Where's the holes? Send your data to do your expenses. Check what's going on. This shit has to be done strategically and purposefully, otherwise it's never gonna get done. It doesn't just magically happen.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, overnight success is a myth. It's a myth. So you decide how today's gonna go. Wherever. Do what you want.
Speaker 1:But know that it is up to you today to make the most of it and you can make the most of it and if you add those up over time you will have the life you want, if not you'll be disappointed and just to quote Jim Rohn again you either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment. You either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment. Up to you Enjoy your day. Speak to you tomorrow. And that is it for today's episode.
Speaker 1:So hopefully you took something away from it. 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.
Speaker 1:Today's the only day you ever have. 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 of days but if you can make the 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. Your daily to Give your moments meaning today and don't be fooled by thinking you've got unlimited amount of days But if you can make the 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.
