New Beginning Starts Today
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. So 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. Hello, I'm back. Sorry, no voice note yesterday. Basically what happened is, in the night yesterday, well, in the evening, my stomach just like expanded beyond belief. I mean, it it had its own gravitational pull, believe.
Speaker 1:It got so big and painful that I thought, you know, it's just bloating from food. Tried to sleep, didn't sleep a wink. Didn't sleep. I think maybe I got an hour, woke up still in pain, had a shower, kind of helped. Then I went and tried to sleep again, kind of couldn't get back to sleep, slowly over the day got better.
Speaker 1:Tried to make myself, you know, two details go sick to see if I would see if I had food poisoning or something. But anyway, I just couldn't function, was unbelievable and there's this like out of action and I don't know what caused it. But here's what I didn't do, I didn't catastrophize, I didn't make things worse, I didn't sulk about it really, I just thought this is inconvenient, that sucks, I probably can't train today but I'll try and go for a walk which I did. I didn't like going eat loads of shit because I felt sorry for myself, I just you know dealt with it. But it's interesting what caused it, what caused such discomfort that it basically immobilized me.
Speaker 1:So it's interesting. Think that's why we should really be, I didn't really eat anything out of the out of the blue as well. Like I did meal prep my chicken and I did eat a lot of chicken in like those chicken breasts where I didn't really cut it up into many squares quite big chunks and I don't really I'm not known for my chewing. So like these little things you learn about yourself maybe was just like eating too much chicken and not chewing it enough I don't know but this is this is what a lot of people I know a lot of you suffer for all my BS and all that stuff. It is like knowing what these triggers are because like if I don't find out now what that is or don't like I'm not aware next time and that happens again there's another day another day and there's a fool if we keep doing it.
Speaker 1:So on my cautionary tale I suggest that if you do have discomforts and eating it's normal sometimes to eat and then actually be bloated a bit that's very normal because eating you know things go in your stomach. But if you get like pain and stuff like it really is something you need to figure out so start writing down the foods you're eating obviously tracking MyFitnessPal but any new foods write it down and then like you know you can reduce them out and see what happens. But yeah I am back in action feeling better. But it's Thursday today so when she's the last day book club for Man's Search for Meaning which is obviously a phenomenal book that all of you should have read, if not Atomic Harbet is coming up which means we're gonna talk about identity change. Yes big change, you don't do something temporarily on turtle membership, you are changing your identity and I don't mean you're changing your personality, don't mean you have to change who your friends are and your family and your background.
Speaker 1:I mean, what is the story you're telling yourself? Like what is the story right now? Think about it. What's the story you're telling yourself about you? Are you saying that you're weak, you don't deserve success, you don't deserve to be strong, you're never going to be a runner, you're always been weak.
Speaker 1:Look, every single person, right, the successful, most of them have been just the typical person and they put the work in. I know you don't want to hear it because you all want to think, no you all, I'm not accusing you all but most people want to think these people are highly gifted, they're just one off people, one in a million, one in a billion, there's no way I could be that person. Well you could have, you could have. A classic example is David Gorgens, I know Emma Baines loves him, if you look up David Gorgens who was in the Navy Seals and stuff who's now like an ultra endurance run now he's a crazy motivational kind of guy, he'll tell you straight to get off your ass, he's a lot more strict and aggressive than I am. But when you look at him, when he was like at his rock bottom, he was massively overweight, lazy, worked a job he hated, just couldn't move, had no drive in him.
Speaker 1:How can someone who had no drive, lazy, late twenties, I think it was or mid twenties, just like like vault of a victim mentality turn into one of the hardest men on earth? Like, how does that happen? Was he born that way? Obviously not, because in his prime years of 20 in his twenties in terms of strength and endurance and stamina, he wasn't like how was he? So the conclusion is in most of the time it is it is cultivated, it's created, it's we put in the work to become that person and the identity change takes work, of course.
Speaker 1:But if you really want to be serious about becoming a healthy person, becoming a strong person, becoming someone inspirational to your family and friends and kids, then this starts with your habits for one, but it starts with accepting that your identity has to change and you have to stop thinking like, oh, well, I'll do this for a bit and then I'll do that for a bit and I'll back back to myself. There is no back to yourself. That's that self is past the stead. It's gone. The only the only thing that's real is you today.
Speaker 1:So you can be anything you want today. Anything you'd be athlete today, then you're an athlete and you. But that's the only thing that matters, what you do today. And then that's the reality. It doesn't matter where you've been before.
Speaker 1:Look at David Goggins. It doesn't matter. He's decided from every day onwards, he's gonna be this badass. There's no excuses, no victim mentality, you're gonna smash his workout, he's gonna do the best he can and he did that every day and he become that person. And you can too.
Speaker 1:So if you haven't bought Atomic Harbets yet, please buy it because we're starting off the next book club. It was the book that changed people's lives in the octagon challenge which is about one year ago. It's a book you should read multiple times and habit is something we need to master because, your habits work, they're working for you or they're like working against you. Like it's always there's no like, well, I'll I'll try. It's there's not it's not like you can say, oh, well, if I I'm just gonna try later on down the line.
Speaker 1:The habits you've gone now will probably negatively impact impacting you. There's always, like, it's either negative or positive. There's hardly any anything that's kind of like gonna keep you in the same line. You're either gonna go slowly down or we're gonna go slowly up. And it compounds and it compounds and it compounds and it compounds and in two years, three years, four years, five years, you literally will be like, oh my god, who was I here five years ago?
Speaker 1:Like who the hell was I? I can only recognize that person in a good way, in a good way. But what can you do today? That's the question. Who are you gonna be today?
Speaker 1:Who are you gonna be today? You're be lazy. You're have a victim mentality. Are you gonna hate everything? Or are you gonna take the day?
Speaker 1:I was gonna say by the horns, by the balls, maybe. Is that better by the horns, by the balls? Who know? Who cares? You're taking the day today, right?
Speaker 1:And you're going to be the person you today you're going to be the person you wish you would be, right? So think of the person you wish you would be. That's the person you'd be today, high energy or like enthusiasm. You're going to be curious, you're going to have a curiosity, you're going to learn something new, you're going to be in a good mood, you're going to be you're going to respond not react to things. You're not going to blame anyone.
Speaker 1:And then you're gonna follow the four rules, which is you're gonna be impeccable with your word today. You're not gonna take anything personally today because some people they might be on a bad day lashing out to you. Don't worry, don't take it personally. Don't make any assumptions and always do your best, which you're gonna be doing today and report back how today goes. But make today a, what's the word?
Speaker 1:Like a like, you know, like a land I can't even think of the word. Make today like that top end day. Like, this is where you want to be. So make that the day today, that top top day you wanna be. And, that's the the I found the word guys.
Speaker 1:I found it. Don't panic. The benchmark. Make today the benchmark day for the rest of your life. And that's it.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Galf Lier. 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.
Speaker 1:I don't want you to think about leaving a review on this podcast. I don't want 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.
