The Link Between Business and Fat Loss
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. 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. Good morning, I hope you're enjoying your morning, and I hope the sun's come out. Is it still do you know what? I'm pretty sure this time last year was boiling. This time is freezing.
Speaker 1:Like, whatever's happened to the world, is weird. Things are going on. I actually saw a video the other day, and this is off topic of this voice note of, like, the this, like, Canadian minister who said that there's, a galactic alien committee, and there's like, they're living amongst us. And, basically, the aliens are, like, happy with us living on this planet, but they're not they don't they're not happy with how we're dealing with it and we're ruining it. So this where they're gonna start stepping in or something like that.
Speaker 1:It's a genuine Canadian minister. Like, I don't believe in commit conspiracy theories, but there's some wild stuff about aliens coming out. I think Donald Trump is when he was president, he he mentioned the the FBI or CIA to release files about UFOs in, like, a hundred and eighty days. I think that's coming up soon as well. So we're in for a wild 2021.
Speaker 1:If loads of these stories come out from, like, the CIA and stuff, we've got I don't know what to believe anymore. Anyway. Anyway. So I came across this stat, like researching something the other day, and it was said that 65% of The UK working population want to start their own business. I got me thinking why do so many people want to start their own business?
Speaker 1:When you really think about it, starting your own business gives you freedom because you don't have to work for someone else. You don't have to work underneath someone. It can give you financial freedom, potentially more money, likelihood, maybe not, maybe less stable to start with, but time is more precious than money, isn't it? So you'll have more time, you can lead a lifestyle you want, you can spend more time with your kid, you can go travelling, whatever it is. But it got me thinking like so many people want this type of freedom from their work, but genuinely like if you can't, I know there's a lot of business people who disagree with this.
Speaker 1:But if you want to master like the business realm and to be free and get things, I think you can practice now by doing it with your body. If you can practice moderation and controlling urges and stuff with your body, and losing weight, gaining muscle, the consistency, it does transfer over to other parts of your life. And you'll see so many business people who have been successful will say training has been an essential part of their progress. Of course, there's loads of people doing business that didn't train or didn't do exercise. But more and more now, the benefits of exercise, the benefits of reducing our body weight to somewhere that's more comfortable for us, having that kind of control over our own body like no, like Donald says, who's in control, me or the Dorito?
Speaker 1:And if the Dorito is in control all the time, then when it comes to other parts of your life, the Doritos are gonna be in control there as well. So I do think that if you can manage to lose weight, gain muscle, kind of control and improve and build your body, that's going to transfer and it's going to enable you to do better things in your job and in business potentially. And, there's a quote that says, how you do one thing is how you do everything. I think something like that. And I think the way what it means and it's really true is like how you go about your attitude to this is how it's gonna be for most other things in your life.
Speaker 1:So if you think you can go and build something and you can do the consistency over time and you can take the hits and you can take the failures and you can keep going, but then when it comes to your own body looking after that, you keep giving up and you keep going back and you keep trying to do quick fixes and quick fat loss schemes. Then when it comes to the business sense, you're gonna look for get rich quick schemes, aren't you? It's gonna be the same type of story, just different context, get rich quick, you're not gonna put consistency in. And, it's just like the same old story, just in a different context. So I thought it was interesting that like so many of us want that and so many of us want to lose weight and so many of this, but then actually it's all the same thing.
Speaker 1:It's all the same thing. It's all these like small consistent steps over time. That's it. I mean, I listen to like advice now on these podcast business people that like, if you consistently do something for ten years, I promise you'd be successful. And when I was 18, was like, shut up, mate.
Speaker 1:I'm not waiting ten years to be successful in business. Know we didn't ten years to build something. I know I'm 28 and I look back at my age, you know, sounds like, well, yeah, it did take ten years. It took ages and it takes these consistent steps over time. And yes, some parts are tough, some parts are better.
Speaker 1:But when you look back, yes, it does take time, but it is those micro steps, micro micro decisions and really consistency. And Simon Sinek, this business leadership guy, he talks about the infinite game. He talks if you play at the infinite game, and you never you're not playing the game where you can win or lose, you can just keep going. You can't really lose, can you? Also a lot of these businesses are playing out, they're playing infinite games, like they've got so much cash.
Speaker 1:They just can't, they're not going to lose because they've got so much cash keep going. And really when it comes to weight loss, business, work, if we play the infinite game, we're like, you know, I'm not never gonna give up. I'm never gonna give up. And sometimes, know, we do need to give up on things because it's really not the best thing for us to do. And that's a separate conversation.
Speaker 1:But in general, if you've got a mindset, I'm in this for the long run-in this infinite game, I'm not going to give up, I'm going to be consistent, I'm to try and consistency doesn't mean every single day. That's what I like. Consistency doesn't mean you have to do something every single day for the rest of your life. But what it does mean is when you do fall off the wagon, which all of us will do, we get back on. We get back on within a day or two and we don't leave it too long before we get back into things.
Speaker 1:So it's always about readjusting. And there's a famous psychologist Maxwell Maltz, I think his name is. And he wrote the book Psychocybernetics. And he talks about the human goal set in mind, the way we set goals and hit them as a human being is we're kind of like a rocket where, you know, when a when a when a rocket or a missile gets sent and it goes from A to B, on the way to B, it's not going straight, perfect in line. It's always going too far left, too far right, but it always auto corrects back to go on the right path and then it hits the target.
Speaker 1:That's that's how he says that the human the brain works, and it's it's true with consistency. Like, you will go left. Yes, you will go right. But it's not about being straight all the way through. It's about coming back in as fast as we can.
Speaker 1:And over time, we'll get better at it. And this is a chart about maintenance, like maintenance is really that it's about, oh, I'm eating too less, oh, I'm eating too much, but I know what I need to be, so I'm gonna auto correct on the way, happy days. But that's it. Hope that little ramble helps. It is about consistency, but don't worry, it's not about being like a robot soldier every day for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1:Play the laws of averages. They do work in your favor. And once you know that and you can master that, then life is very, very much in your hands. So have a good day, and I'll speak to you all tomorrow. And that's it.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Galf Lehrer. Hopefully, you understood something I said. I hope that some wisdom kind of distilled through your mind. And I want you to now action it today. I don't want you to think about tomorrow.
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