Starting Strong
Good morning, Octagoonies. It is day one. I this is my favorite day, day one of the challenge. Always a lot of hype in it. Are you feeling happy?
Speaker 1:So you get to improve yourself for the next ten weeks. So mad as are. You're actually in a position of privilege to be able to do it. I'm excited. I'm here to help you.
Speaker 1:Anyone that's new, welcome to the podcast. All I do in this podcast is I try and teach you some stuff from research studies, books, perspective, and what other members are saying, all this stuff, and I, I try and give it you in ten to fifteen minutes podcast episodes each day and ultimately to ground you on the fact that the only thing that matters is the day ahead. So if you can complete today, that means you can complete tomorrow and you can do it again for day three and day four. What happens is the problem we have is we think, oh, I gotta do this for, like, ten weeks. And it's, no, you don't.
Speaker 1:You gotta do it for today. And you wake up and you say, hi, again. Do know what I'm saying? So that's the purpose of this podcast, and I hope, like, all all the experts we're bringing in and I'll be doing all the seminars with them and stuff as well that I I'm gonna cut down the best for you. So if you are short on time and stuff, you can listen to these every day, be caught up and stuff.
Speaker 1:You won't be left behind on the challenge. I wanna make sure that everything's coming through this podcast for you in ten, fifteen minutes a day, and happy days. And I wanna thank as well Jackie for taking over the podcast last week with some amazing episodes of some of the coaches. And, yeah, I I I learned a lot, and I I I love hearing stories from my coaches and a bit longer as well. So some of you wanted to go on a long walk today, thirty minute episodes.
Speaker 1:It's nice to hear their stories and, really good questions. So thank you, Jackie, for taking over. And I'm sure we'll do something like that again through the challenge where we'll have people coming on, not just coaches, some of the members, some newbies, stuff come on for a chat, thirty minutes, and we can all learn from each other. But to get to the point of my podcast today, I'm not gonna try and tell you about the macros and everything now. There's gonna be videos in the group of how to use the macros app.
Speaker 1:There's the planning session to go through what you should be doing. But today is just about removing the anxiety of starting a new challenge or a new way of life. Like, it doesn't have to be difficult today. Remember that. You don't have to make today such a struggle.
Speaker 1:Right? We always do that. We're like, oh, I gotta track. Oh, I gotta work out. No.
Speaker 1:No. You get to track, you get to work out, you get to improve yourself. Think of tracking, right, it's an amazing thing that we're able to track not just the food item, like oh I ate a piece of oats today, piece of oat, I actually know the the the protein, carbs, fat, the calories of that food item, and I can do it with a scan on my phone. I think that's an amazing insight into what we're putting into our bodies. Don't you think?
Speaker 1:And you think that's an insane, and it doesn't it doesn't mean that we're being obsessive, like our body is the only place we have to live, so therefore do should we not make sure that we're eating good food and a good amount of calories, good good split of macros, of course, like you know how many liters of petrol you put in your car, no doubt how much oil is in there, unless you're my sister who nearly blows a car up all the time. But you and me, we all sometimes put more we we look after things that are materialistic, that don't even exist in in they're not alive like a car or a bag, Well, like a bag was alive, but, know, like all these things, more than those else. Just remember that. It's let's have the I get today to improve my health. I get today to track my macros using an app that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1:I get today to work out to improve my body, to make myself stronger. I get to be involved in a group of women, super women who are looking to improve their lives. And I get today to, you know, live a day where I'm not at war because here must have been a war for a millionaire every year. We're one of the lucky ones who aren't in the middle of war torn countries and stuff. You know, I I like going this extreme because it works for me and I hope it works for some of you, like we need some perspective.
Speaker 1:Octagon, you're Octagoonies, you're on a journey, improving yourself, let's put a smile smile on your face. I think it's a quote to kind move said it, but the the most important decision you make every morning is the decision to be in a good mood. And I think we can do that. And then we say, today's gonna be a day. I'm gonna be in a good mood.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna be joyful. Whatever's thrown at me, I'm gonna take it in my stride. I'm not gonna react to everything. I'm not gonna be a slave to my emotions. I'm gonna respond appropriately, and I'm gonna set my plan out.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna execute it to the best of my abilities. I'll try my best today, and if I don't do everything, but I've tried my best, happy days. And I think that's the important and as Dean will talk about this and everything, the most important part of this journey is that we take things one day at a time, and we just try our best every day. And some days, our best is better than others. So today, you might feel strong and healthy and happy and motivated, and your best today is really good.
Speaker 1:You do your macros. You do the training. You do your steps. You listen to this podcast. You do the seminar.
Speaker 1:You're on top of the world. It might be that you might be on a different part of your cycle next week, and actually your best in those circumstances is you can barely go outside and walk because you're in a bit of pain, but actually you you did a bit of exercise, and you're still kind of trapped but you didn't. And that's your best for that day. Does that make sense? So it's not so much that we are doing better and better every day, if we just do our best every day, over the long run we transform.
Speaker 1:We transform. And a few important points now before I go and let you get on with your first day is we need to stop comparing ourselves. Cause if we compare ourselves what we're doing is we're making ourselves feel worse and when we feel worse we trigger the stress response and there's studies in this even in poor people. They looked at poverty health and they were like there's a link with poverty and health and the link is because of the stress response being turned on not because they are poor because there's a lot of people in India within communities who are very poor but they are joyful every day. It's not comparing themselves to Western world, right.
Speaker 1:However, in the Western world where you are amid plenty and this is what the study says, it's not so much being poor or poor as you say in England poor, it's being poor amid plenty and making that comparison so you feel worse. The feeling of being poor is the trigger. So with that in mind, let's not try and fall no. Let's not try and, like, actually do it ourselves. Let's try and make ourselves feel worse by scrolling social media endlessly.
Speaker 1:Unfollow people to make you feel worse even if they're inspirational. Right? Just unfollow them. Gonna make you feel worse. And the thing is this this is the question to ask yourself.
Speaker 1:If you feel worse by looking at someone else, you look at someone else go, oh, she's so much better than me. It's making me feel really, really bad. I'm, you know, I'm I'm really fucked about her, and I'm a terrible person compared to her. If we have got our viewpoint, doesn't that mean that we are technically, unless we're at bottom, we're actually we feel then we we have to be better than other people. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1:Because if we if we go that looking up then we must be having a looking down. There is no one better than us. There's no one better than each other. We're not nobody is better than anyone. None of the coaches are better than you.
Speaker 1:You're no better than the coaches. No one's better than anyone. In Turtleland, nobody's better than anyone. We all start whatever we're starting. We're all here to help each other out.
Speaker 1:The journey we're all on. No matter where we're starting, we all rise together. And it just so be it that some of the, you know, we've got experts who can help guide you in specific areas, but that doesn't mean they're a better person than you. Just because someone is able to lose weight and isn't a better, has got like a, you know, their health is improved is is better in the sense of their at a healthy weight when training, and you've started off, you've got a lot of weight to lose. Just because they're in a better position there doesn't mean they're better person, because you might be well ahead in other areas.
Speaker 1:So we then we start comparing us. It's just a it's a minefield. It's not good. So please today, don't compare yourself to others, especially within the community. If people are sharing their wins, let's celebrate the wins.
Speaker 1:Okay. If people are feeling down, let's not go, oh, I'm feeling good or go. If we all help each other, what's good for the hive is is that the quote? Is what's good for the hive is good for the bee or what's good for the bee is good for the hive? That's the one.
Speaker 1:And I feel that's where we should be the the the collective collectivist element we should have to turtle is we're not gonna leave anyone behind in this challenge. Okay? You've invested money into it, some turtle members here, but the people who knew you invested money, please don't waste it. Okay? You've spent this money.
Speaker 1:You might be going on holiday soon and stuff, that's fine. You still got plenty of time in the challenge, and you can listen back to the seminars anyway. Because the seminars you can listen to like a podcast, and most of the time spent will be listening to seminars if you're doing them. And you can listen to them on your holiday and still get all the knowledge into your head. So yeah, today is all about what is this compartment of today we've got.
Speaker 1:Okay, I've got twenty four hours, okay, it's 6AM whatever time you listen to 7AM, right, okay. Try to get my steps in, so maybe go for a ten or fifteen minute walk in the morning, When am I gonna do my workout? What workout am I doing today? Okay, I'm doing the strength workout. Am I gonna do it live with Scott in the morning or am I gonna do it in the evening 6PM?
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm gonna do it in the morning. I'm committing, I'm doing it. Okay, it's done. The first thing you eat today make sure you say to yourself I'm gonna track this, don't let it go away. Okay so you've eaten something go right let me just and you go up the packages over there, get the package, let's not be debating, oh should I get the package, let's just do it today.
Speaker 1:Let's just track it. No complaints. No mourning. Happy and joyful. Let's track to see what happens.
Speaker 1:If you don't let the day run away that way, essentially, you're always gonna be in a sense of control of the day because you're controlling your voluntary actions in the moment. You're controlling your kind of attitude in the moment. And I think that's the magic really is is if you can do that today and start off today well, tomorrow you're gonna feel a bit more momentum, residue from the day before, but you don't have to you could start you could have a terrible day today, and tomorrow you could pick up and have a perfect day. So the days don't necessarily have to link, but they do they do kind of push on. The momentum does push you, and the momentum eventually keeps going and going.
Speaker 1:And then towards the end, you've got this huge amount of momentum you've built up, pushing you every day to keep going. Okay? So positive attitude, you get to track, you get to train or you don't have to or you have to, you get to do it, you get to do this challenge, you get to be in a position to improve your total health, which is amazing. Okay? You're in a very fortunate position to do so.
Speaker 1:All of us are to do this, and I'm very fortunate to be able to try and help as many of you as possible. I love it, and I hopefully we can help you all, on this journey. And I just want you to enjoy today and see macros as a game of Tetris. It doesn't have to be serious, guys. Like like, you know, you don't have to be like oh this is sore, this what should I do.
Speaker 1:Just eat the food you want and try and fit them into your macros like a game and if you get if you lose the game of Tetris today you can play again tomorrow, but you never really lose because you replay, okay, and you get better and better and better. It's really that. It doesn't have to be complicated. It doesn't have to be overwhelming. It doesn't have to be this huge titanic battle in your mind.
Speaker 1:You know, you don't have to turn a craving into a massive wall zone in the brain. You can just observe it and accept that you've got a craving and act on it and go for a walk or whatever because it will overblow. It'll blow over and it'll go. Okay? So we don't have to always be fighting today.
Speaker 1:Does that make sense to you? If you're fighting, oh, I gotta do this, go. Don't fight. I get to do this, and I'm doing it. Happy days.
Speaker 1:Smile on my face. Like Ryan Williams says in the podcast with Jackie, you know, actually if we do force a smile, you know, do it now, force a smile. If you're walking past someone, they're gonna think you're crazy, but just say Scott Salamy's crazy guy, you're Welsh guy, just say look smile, right, and you keep smiling, yeah can you tell I'm smiling because my voice has changed a bit, I'm smiling. Basically if you keep smiling for a bit your brain thinks you're happy and then you'll release endorphins and then you're halfway. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1:So basically, if we do this all day, guys, we just put our thumbs by our lip and we just walk around smiling and we're gonna be about our day. But in seriousness, you know, put a smile on your face and you can have a better day, you can decide to be ful today. You can. And on a final note, guys, and I hope this podcast has made you excited to get on with your day and smash it. The journey is the most important part.
Speaker 1:You hear this all the time. This journey, journey, journey, not the end destination. You've heard her a thousand times. The reason is the it's the person you become on this journey over the next ten weeks, not the end result that's gonna change your life. So no no matter you know, we'd look back at people in Octagon 1.
Speaker 1:We don't necessarily say she changed her life because she lost 61.5 pounds. We say she changed her life because the person she became in Octagon one, even if she gained a bit of weight back and put it off again, which is normal, better weight, I'm not talking I'm not talking you or your binge eating. It's always the person we could become. The numbers at the end of Octa I don't remember what numbers people lost Octagon. Right?
Speaker 1:I remember all the stuff, but I remember the what people they became, and I see them today. I see the people they've become today. I just can't remember what what can't remember what weights we're using or, what, you know, what the macros were or their pounds lost. It's the person you become. Okay?
Speaker 1:It's the person you become. So don't worry too much about the end goal. Only thing in your power is your today, the voluntary actions you have today and we will become the people we're proud of over the next ten weeks won't we? Because there is a small all success is a small is is just small actions every day repeated. Simple.
Speaker 1:That's the same as failures. Failure is the same thing the other way. Small things going wrong every day building up la la la. Okay? And a few quotes for you because that's one you Jim Rohn that I'm gonna leave you with.
Speaker 1:Jim Moron says, I know some of you are busy working. He says, and it's an important one that's changed my life and my perspective, is to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. Right? Some of us are killing ourselves in work, and I get it. We gotta earn money.
Speaker 1:We gotta be it's stressful. I'm working every day. I love it. I love doing it. However, some of us working and we think, you know, that extra hour in work is gonna make all the difference, but thing is, that extra hour for your health is huge.
Speaker 1:Just spending fifteen minutes doing one of the guided meditations we've got or that thirty minute run, that twenty minute workout, that can do a world of difference to your day and when you're working it's nothing, it's minuscule what you get done and are you just rereading the same email, doing shallow work, stuff that doesn't matter. Some people obviously it's work where you have to be doing action, right, but a lot of us we can maybe give us a bit of slack from work and put that into ourselves for the time being, for the next ten weeks at least. Let's work harder on ourselves over the next ten weeks than we do on our job, and also say do a bad job. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying let's try and prioritize ourselves for once.
Speaker 1:And this is the final thing I read leave with you about Jim Rohn. A lot of you here got kids, partners, whatever. He says he says to his wife, yeah, Jim Rohn, he says, I look after my I will look after me for you, and I want you to look after yourself for me. If we can look after ourselves and be healthy and happy and fit and optimistic for the days, okay, we are gonna be a better people for the peep the people that we love in our lives. Because you want you're not gonna be the person you wanna be if you're always putting work first or other people first.
Speaker 1:Okay? It's important to look at a collective to look at as a collective, but we must look after ourselves as well. And if we can be your full, vibrant, happy, fulfilled selves, we're gonna that's a knock on effect to all the family. You know, so many people on the turtle membership, right, who have changed their lives and it's onto their partners and their friends and they got friends. It knocks on.
Speaker 1:We we become that beacon within the group. The people are feeling down. We can be those people that help people around us, wanna change their life for the better. We can be those people, all of us. And there's loads of who are joining today because you've seen people like Ali and Emma and Sarah and Celine and all these people who've Lucy, know, there's so many to count, they've seen these people and gone, oh my god, remember her years ago, she looks she's completely different now, radiator, that's amazing.
Speaker 1:So we all we all can be that person to the people close to our lives, and especially kids. They look at what you do, they see what you do and how you act, know, they see that. And if you they wanna see someone looking after themselves, being healthy, they're gonna wanna be healthy, right? It's it's it's classic. So if we're doing it for us, we're doing it for our family, our kids, our friends.
Speaker 1:That is it. And I'm gonna leave you with that. But to finish, let's zoom in again. Next twenty four hours, next day, whatever hours you go after day, it's all the matters. What are you gonna do today?
Speaker 1:Don't worry about tomorrow. Don't worry about yesterday. Get things done today, and I promise you, you're gonna go to bed tonight with a smile on your face as long as you don't have a phone before bed. So, guys, enjoy the day. Let me know how it goes.
Speaker 1:What a day. What a time. Octagon two, we're trying to fit this into our lives. Let's go. Smash the day, enjoy yourself, and I'm sure I'll speak to you soon.
