Give yourself time to reset and kickstart, otherwise who will?
Good morning, everybody. Obviously, we're back with another voice note. And, last night, we did a kick start session with some members. Nice to see some new faces. Someone joined yesterday and joined the kickback set the kickstart session which is good to see.
Speaker 1:The overarching kind of, takeaway point from these kickstart sessions is sometimes we just need to give ourselves one hour at some point of the week, a day, whatever, to just start planning what we really want to do, like really think about it because we're just hovering about life, know, wumbling through. We don't really take a second to take a step back and go wait a second now, Let's just like do some structured planning for a second. Let's let's go through a plan. Let's write things down. Let's take our time.
Speaker 1:Let's not rush. I think if we can do that every six to eight weeks maybe, we can start really having some direction in their lives. And that's what we noticed on the kickstart session, you know, some people have been out of the loop, which have been member for over a year, six months, five months, you know, seven months, and it's like, you know, it's good to do kickstarts, I should get back into it. We all been there, we all drop off. But I think if we get used to the fact that we are going to drop off, and that's natural because you know, life smacks you in the face when you least expect it.
Speaker 1:But to have that ability to say, you know what, if I can just give myself one hour because we waste an hour every day on social media, we waste an hour every day watching shit TV, we waste an hour every day doing something, we think an hour planning is so long boring or whatever we might think about it, but actually we just waste our time anyway. So let's let's think about it. Some of you are listening now, watch the kickstart session replay or join the next one next Tuesday. Let's start thinking about where we're going, what direction we're going in. That's important because it's all about direction.
Speaker 1:Destination, we never really reach the destination. You know, we just go in the direction and we enjoy the ride. We're trying to be the person we want to be happy days. I think that's the important part. So yeah, just kind of summarize from that and you know what we do in a session is you want to pick you know if your goal is fat loss, maintenance or weight gain that's fine.
Speaker 1:But what's your performance goal? Think about this, what you want to do? Do want to gain strength? Do want run a five ks? Do you want to improve your flexibility, mobility?
Speaker 1:Do want to just be generally fitter, you know, fitness? Like what do you want to adapt for that's not just the scales. That's an important goal to pick because if we don't know what that is we can't pick the right sessions to adapt to become better at that. You want to be a better runner, running once a week is not going to do it for you. If you want to be stronger, you better believe you better do two or three strength sessions a week and track your weights and reps like we do now with a tracking spreadsheet and make sure you're doing progressive overload.
Speaker 1:Or you want to be generally healthy fit though, well you better start doing more walking, more general cardio workouts, maybe some running like general overall, getting your heart rate up. This doesn't just come at random. You have to actually think about it. That's why it's important to step back sometimes and do it. You with me?
Speaker 1:So we then moved on to non negotiables. Okay. What are your non negotiables? Because these are things you like, literally, it's an as I said, it's a non negotiable and if we can have a list of these, not too much too long of a list, but let's go through some now which are really, really useful like non negotiable 6,000 steps a day. Why 6,006 to 8,000 minimum a day.
Speaker 1:Why? Well, the research is clear. If you do less than this, your risk of cardiovascular disease goes up, your risk of mortality goes up by a decent amount, like, in relation to it. So let's at least get 6,000 steps a day, but how am I gonna fit it in? Well, look, you fit in you can you can fit in pretty much 6,000 steps and not really try too much.
Speaker 1:If you make sure that you don't park right next to someone you walk to, if you make sure you take the stairs, if you make sure that you go for a walk to shop, if you make sure in the morning you get up and you do a ten minute walk and then for lunchtime you try and get a ten or fifteen minute walk and after work you do a ten or fifteen minute walk. Know you think I can't fit that in. Try and walk between things, take phone calls whilst walking, like just try and move, don't sit down. Another non negotiable would be to come within 20 grams of your protein target every day. Should I, you know, you come to the end of the day and you go I got 40 grams of protein left, should I eat 40 grams of protein now?
Speaker 1:I'll try and get within 20 grams, let's think of it that way. Okay, So you have to eat 20 grams an hour. That might be one of those yogurts. Yes. 100%.
Speaker 1:The benefits of being in your protein range is, you know, massive really. You know, another one could be don't miss a workout twice in a row. How many times do we do that? Maybe just drink one liter of water day no matter what. Maybe it's a weigh yourself daily so you can get our weekly average.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's to use the macros up. Maybe your non negotiable is to write down a one big thing and get it done no matter what. We start thinking, we don't do know why non negotiables work? Spoke about this a lot in the last few weeks, few weeks. It's because there's no conflict in the mind.
Speaker 1:It's a non negotiable thing. I'm gonna do it no matter what. There's not even a conflict as I shouldn't do it. So when we stop fighting, should I do it? Should I not?
Speaker 1:We just do. When you go to when you wake up in the morning, if you give yourself time to think about debating, are you gonna be enough ten, fifteen, twenty minutes? If there's no conflict, you wake up at that alarm, there's no thinking about it. The conflict disappears. Right?
Speaker 1:Therefore, the struggle disappears. Therefore, you just do it. The energy is unleashed to just get things done. Are you with me? Yes, you better be with me.
Speaker 1:Okay. And in terms of just for the turtle members as well, as a heads up. Pick one knowledge session coming up in the next few weeks, whether that's book club, whether that's mental health on Sunday, whether it's a mindset session, nutrition, whether it's a Friday night chat just to meet new members. Because look, a lot of new members came on last Friday, not not a lot, one new member came Friday. A lot of the the like older, not as in age members turned back up again last Friday is what I meant to say, and it was reengaging.
Speaker 1:Was nice to see nice to see new people in the kickstart session last night, and it'd be nice to see more new people on Friday. We've got two weeks, five days well, two weeks, four days to get into building momentum ready for Octagon two point o. This is good because we know what we're doing. We're we're priming ourselves. And you see the difference when you give yourself some time to plan, some time to execute, some time to do momentum, The journey ahead is decent amount of time, know you're gonna take it one day at a time but you know you've got plenty of time to execute.
Speaker 1:So like if when people go to January they're confused like headless chickens, oh should I do this and that extreme diet la la la la la, right? That's what they do. They don't know what they're doing, get frustrated, they're like in their own heads all the time. We've gone into Jan, chilled as. Hey, it's Jan, mate.
Speaker 1:You're all good, I'm just just walking, mumbling by. You know some people are running, rushing, we're just like no, no we're taking it easy. We slowly build and when it comes to the end of Jan when we're all in that good mindset, we've built up slowly, we're ready, we're preparing for war. I don't use that analogy, we're preparing for battle. Whatever you want to use, isn't it nice a feeling giving yourself time to prepare for something big is going to come up.
Speaker 1:I feel it's good, it's not rushed. So I mean putting ourselves in a good position. So I feel like we're on the right track, everybody. There's more information on Octagon 2 coming on Sunday, which is important. And there's gonna be let me find out.
Speaker 1:There's going to be a post for turtle members coming up soon. Okay, so I'm gonna finish with this. I'm gonna finish with about what, what, what do we mean by total health. Now what, is what I think we'd all should be focused on, total health. Right?
Speaker 1:This is where we this challenge coming up is what we we're bringing together everything to develop as a human being. Losing fat is good right, but who are you becoming? Are we losing fat at the detriment of our social life and mental health? The unfortunate fact is most people are. Are you losing fat at all costs right now?
Speaker 1:Honestly this means you're gonna end up doing desperate extreme diets. Right? And when you're in that state of desperation, fear, you want security, any person that turns up because, hello, if you take this pill you will lose 40 pounds in two days. I swear down, just give me £1,000 a month. And you go, yeah, please.
Speaker 1:And you just you pray anything. You do anything. You just wanna believe it's true and you do it and if it doesn't work, you're back to square one. That's the state you're in when you go into these extreme diets or thought processes. Right?
Speaker 1:So if you think about it, whatever you've doing, this is for non Turkmen or whatever. Whatever you've doing for the last five years or whatever hasn't been working. Right? Whatever you've been doing because if you're still trying to lose weight. And I mean, I don't mean this, weight loss journey, fat loss journey can take a while to get to where you want to be.
Speaker 1:So if you're slowly moving the right direction, great. What I mean by what's been doing last week hasn't worked is the extremes of losing 20 pounds fast, gaining 25 pounds, that doesn't work. Slow and steady gradual process, happy days. We'll get it, we'll get you gold, don't worry about it. Remember, who are you becoming?
Speaker 1:Are you becoming a selfish, self centered chicken and broccoli, I will never do any nice social things all but me me me me me person all to lose a bit of fat. You do are you doing that? Because if you're doing that, I'm telling you it's the wrong place to go. Wrong place to go. It's not good for your mental health.
Speaker 1:Okay, so in ten weeks of a challenge, really what can be possible? A lot can be possible. Physically, decent amount, no doubt. Last challenge, we did twelve weeks, but people lost a lot of weight. Sorry about that.
Speaker 1:But but mentally, everything can change in ten weeks. It's crazy. It's actually not what happened last time. Last challenge, we had a few people who were dyslexic who managed to read the first non fiction book ever. And now Billy Joe Davis is an avid reader.
Speaker 1:He's in the stoicism. He absolutely loves it. He's gone on to start his own business. I'm not saying he started his business because of us, but the reading part knocks on the stoicism, the mental resilience, the positivity into life after you understand what's in your control and what's not in your control. Billy Joe's taken it by the horns, and now he's thriving.
Speaker 1:Okay? Inspiration. One member, Jackie, lost over a 100 pounds since joining Turtle. Just transformed her outlook on life, basically. You know what she's saying in the video is gonna be on the landing page?
Speaker 1:Sometimes you lose so much belief in yourself that you think, oh, fuck. It's not possible. But Jackie showing that she's lost a 100 pounds, building an amazing business build off. Luxury bags. Unreal.
Speaker 1:Check it out. Being able to do that, consulting as well, being this person who's happy, vibrant, helping others, always open helping. This type of person who she truly is came from doing a challenge that was only twelve weeks in length. Some members have quit their jobs, left, started new companies, build due to have building new found confidence. A lot of members have become best mates literally, they travel to see each other all the time, they've all together, spoke to each other.
Speaker 1:It's unreal. A lot of members have gone on and started on businesses. Love it, love to see it. Countless members have become runners, done virtual and in person marathons. Some members have found courage to face issues that they haven't dealt with or they that's happened in the past, gone to therapy because now they feel in a strong position to go and face something, have left jobs or left, you know, really tough family situations.
Speaker 1:Now this is a snippet guys. This is a small snippet of what people have achieved since Octagon the first one. And that happened after Octagon. It's been a while since we did the last one. You can't connect the dots looking forward.
Speaker 1:It's not possible, but you can connect them looking backwards. So the question you need to ask yourself is, do you want to be free from the conflict in your mind every day about what food to eat and what to do? Do you finally want your energy back to direct at more important matters in life such as our relationships with our partner, family, friends? And do you want to see what you're actually capable of if you put your mind to it for ten weeks with the right support, with the right experts behind you? And do you wanna finally be unshackled from diet culture?
Speaker 1:You know, free yourself from that nonsense. Okay? Because I think of these things because if you're so I'll cross view. It's up to you. It's up to you.
Speaker 1:Like, it's it's the support the support support we need on lifestyle change is important. We need the yes people in our lives, we need people in WhatsApp you can do it, we need that positive reinforcement. We need the real chats about you know what, you're catastrophizing. How about this? What's in your control?
Speaker 1:That's not in your control. Don't worry about it. Easier said than done. But slowly, you look at we look at habits, how they're formed, how to build new habits, what the environment impact on us. We chat, we learn from these experts, kind of like going to school, but actually school you wanted to go to all along.
Speaker 1:A school of lifestyle, a school of total health. A school where actually you learn to become a better human being in ten weeks as opposed to learning what two times 10 times three times four divided by whatever nonsense we've learned in school for no real reason. Think of it as a school, you're going back into school but it's a life, school of life. I can't say that because it's a business call it but can't point. So have a think about it guys, what you want to be doing?
Speaker 1:You want to develop as a total human being, not just to lose fat, not just to do X, we want a total development. And that starts with actually sitting down. Go on to this website 7asinthenumber7levelsdeep.com. So that's the number seven levels deep dot com. It will ask you what your primary goal is and they will ask you why is that important to you and you could say I want to lose 25 pounds and they'll say why is it important you want to lose 20 pounds and you say well I want to feel confident again and it'll ask you why you're feel confident again and it'll ask you seven times why.
Speaker 1:That final why is your main why, stick it everywhere. That's your ultimate why that you're gonna use for the journey. So that's your task. If you your one big thing today is to try and do no. Actually do your what your seven levels deep exercise, get your why out there in the fleshed out, understand it, stick it everywhere, start getting your head in the game, let's build momentum, it starts right now, get you walking, all these nice things, you know, tracking macros.
Speaker 1:If you're gonna do a workout today and you've written it down, do it. If not, don't miss twice. If you've already missed a workout this week, you're not missing another one, let's not fall into that trap. And yeah, understand your powerful reason why you want to do something. And I'm telling you these little things help with our direction.
Speaker 1:And that's what matters. We're going in the right direction. Even if it's slow like a turtle. And for everyone who thinks, Scott, it's a tortoise and a hermit. Let me tell you something I found out.
Speaker 1:Tortoise is actually part of the turtle branch. Tortoise is a type of turtle so shut up. But anyway, enjoy your day. Love chatting. Obviously, speak soon.
