The Last One of the Year
Good morning everybody. How are you? I know, I apologize, no podcast been this week. To be honest, I've just had enough of all of you. I'm joking, of course I haven't.
Speaker 1:But today is the last podcast of the year. It is. It's done for the year. So I just wanna thank you all for tuning in and listening. I am grateful to be part of many of your mornings.
Speaker 1:Hope for your help. Some resonate more than others, of course, because we do cover a wide variety of things. But if there's anything I've helped you do is to realize the magics in the daily moments, making the most of them. That's where we're at. If we can do that, try our best every day, so all we can do, I mean what else is it to do?
Speaker 1:But what I realise is and a superpower I believe I have is curiosity. So I don't know if it can be taught but if we can be curious and enthusiastic by the day, like curious as to, what's this taking to bring? Curious about learning. I'm upset guys, if you could see my YouTube recommended stuff, oh my god. I know pretty much every Roman battle has ever happened.
Speaker 1:I mean, YouTube knows me too well by now. I'm just curious about these things. Like, I'm getting curious by learning from the historical people first and then the history period around those people. And I've learned so much by looking back at history and seeing how events have all linked up. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1:So my advice over the next seven to ten days when you don't have to do any work, there's no pressure. For some of you, there's no pressure. The world is doing nothing. Is what what are you usually curious about? Like what is it that you're curious about?
Speaker 1:What were you curious about as a kid? And try and bring that curiosity back into your life because it changes everything. It's a superpower. Nobody can compete with curiosity and play. That make sense?
Speaker 1:Like how is someone to work with that? Yeah, because they're just curious all the time about it. They want to learn all the time. They want to do it. Like you've seen that train guy, I can't remember his name, Francis something, he posted a really really good video about people are like, oh he's faking loving his trains.
Speaker 1:And what he showed was a video of him growing up trying to fit in. So he loved trains and he's like, it's a bit weird. People think it's weird. He's trying to fit in. He changed his hair.
Speaker 1:He started being one of those like, what did he call it? Road men dressed like those guys, went out drinking, thought he was one of the boys. And it wasn't till COVID stopped everything in his tracks that he realized, you know what? His hair grew out again, and he thought, I'm gonna go back to what really brought me joy as a kid. I'm gonna go back to being curious about trains.
Speaker 1:I love them. And now look what's happened to his life. He's become a sensation basically, created a new life, train sporting. Some of you might be asked weird, but isn't the world a better place with people like Francis coming out and being super curious about what they've loved as a kid and all of us have got our own unique things? Wouldn't it be better if we all went down that route as opposed to alternate fit in and be boring, same chat, same job goals, same metrics of success?
Speaker 1:Or instead of casting these people as weird, that's what people do, are he's weird, are they weird? It's not weird, it's just you don't appreciate that person's curious and has loved going into that and you aren't, so don't call it weird because you're trying to put yourself in above that person, you're not above them, nobody's above anyone. Do mean? Guys, I'll tell you. I'm curious about Napoleon Bonaparte.
Speaker 1:You all know this, Steve Jobs. Yeah? These people, Marcus Aurelius, Stoics, Roman times, history in general, very curious about these things. Gosh, we're no. No, it's not weird actually because the human mind is a very curious machine.
Speaker 1:But we've all got different curiosities. So your job really, I want you to try and figure out next ten days or eight days, whatever, before the year ends is to try and go back to what you found really curious, what you loved and enjoyed as a kid and do it again. See if see what happens. See if it sparks that inner child in you again. Because that's essentially what we lose, isn't it, when we get adults.
Speaker 1:We get forced into basically jobs or mindsets or how we should be, and we have to all suppress that kind of inner kid in us. But we never lose it, because none of us think we're adults. None of us actually are adults in a sense because when we grow up, we're like, I can't believe I'm now nearly 30. I thought I was 18. And then you get a 45, you're like, how am I married with kids?
Speaker 1:You get a 60, like, how am I 60? Doesn't make sense. The mind is forever young. We have to keep it that way. We have to keep it that way.
Speaker 1:That's something I think is gonna be a vital lesson, and that's not a bad thing. I think people think they're kind of, like, quote unquote, grow up into God knows more. Obviously, you got, responsibilities and stuff. But guys, imagine not. I wanna know what you're all what you all love, what you're curious about.
Speaker 1:Well, I wanna know. I want you to tell me. And I'm sure we'll have some fascinating stuff. Like, some people might love poetry. I've come back and loved poetry again.
Speaker 1:I've actually wrote another poem. Let me see if I can okay. Let me say this. I wrote this poem just, for a laugh, know, so I enjoy doing it. Distilling the history of Wales, okay, into a poem and a bit of a mindset about the Welsh so you can understand a bit more.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna give this poem, I'm gonna show you what I'm curious about, the history, the people, how we become who we are, nations, all this stuff and dissect it into a poem. And I want you to do it the same, whatever it is, same thing. Okay, you go. Are you ready? This is your last poem of 2021 and it's got nothing to do with health and fitness or stoicism but it's got everything to do with wheels.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's go. After fighting against English hands it's a miracle the Welsh language still stands. Kids who spoke it were whipped and slapped, so they learned to become inept. The land of dragons, daffodils and songs you say, you find both sport you find them spoken about at a local cafe. Money is spoken about like the devil in Wales out with that language of greed and sales.
Speaker 1:Neither money nor power do these people want. It's against their nature to be affront. Deep in the mines many men worked and died, the pits consumed all but their pride. But onwards to the new world many went looking for a new life and cheap rent. Both they found on the soil of this land new industries sprouted from their hand.
Speaker 1:The working men of Wales changed it all. They answer this new world's restless call. New mines, new steel, new iron, new means. The world was transformed from their very genes. One third of the signatories of independence were of Welsh descent.
Speaker 1:There's no doubt they made a massive dent. The fight against oppression moved from Wales to New York. The final fight between the Celts and the Saxons was about to talk. Freedom and liberty won this round. A Welshman named Richard Price gave his sound.
Speaker 1:His pamphlet on Liberty was read far and wide. It said it was what turned the tide. A new fire in the belly of the rebelling nation, all from a Welshman in a distant station. A Naiden Bairvan, a man of worth, the NHS thanks him for its birth. His fights with Churchill were nothing legendary, but day to day he kept his Mary.
Speaker 1:Men like him are easy to find, but the final stand we need to keep in mind. Six hundred years ago we lost our independence right after Owein Glyndur's ascendance. The last prince we had of Welsh blood, his death put out the rising thud. Wales means foreigner, how strange. It's the Anglo Saxons that came to change.
Speaker 1:Pushed to the corner cut off like strays, Cornwall, Wales and the Old North lose ways. But it's not the modern English we hate. I've taken one on a date. Wales just wants freedom again, but who knows as to when. England needs to let go of its colonizing mindset and stop seeing us as a threat.
Speaker 1:Four nations of equals is all is our task. Is that such a hard bloody ask? The land of dragons, daffodils, songs. A land are a land where freedom belongs. The Welsh are annoyingly proud.
Speaker 1:I must admit this myself. But is this a sin by itself? Proud of the history the people have overcome and being told we're nothing but dumb. So all we ask is fairness for all. Will England answer this honorable call?
Speaker 1:Guys, what do think of that? I loved writing that. That's kind of condensed history. What what I mean by the new land, that means United States Of America. A lot of them moved out there for a new world.
Speaker 1:But anyway, I love doing it. Do what you love guys, do what you love. But I've done nothing else to say. Just want you all to have an amazing Christmas time. You know, keep it touching, might not have say whatever you want, but please take time to rest.
Speaker 1:Hope you stay safe from the old Omnicron wave. And in the new year, we got so much to look forward to if you're staying along with Turtle. We've got at the end of the month of Jan, we've got of course Octagon two point zero. We've got Ryan and Louise coming back and you know, Ryan being back doing training, Louise just coming back in spirit and doing some q and a's and stuff, no doubt. So we've got the big family are coming back with a new addition of course, the little baby boy.
Speaker 1:But we'll all be back to full strength in Jan. So rest up, we've got some big plans for 2022, a lot of in person events, a lot of stuff beyond health fitness as well, lot more personal development stuff like I mentioned before. More, you know, book club, bringing in authors more. We're gonna all develop as better humans again and again and again. We keep going.
Speaker 1:So 2022 is the year we all peak guys, I think we peak forever then. But adios. Let me know if you got any feedback or the bad for the podcast as well going into 2022. Do you wanna see some long form stuff, interviews, or do you wanna keep it going Monday to Friday? Short episodes.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, love you all. Appreciate you listening, and I'll be back in 2022.
