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Simple Step | Put Your Mask on First
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When we’re not at our best, we can’t help others be at theirs, and that includes spouses, children, friends, employees, co-workers and anyone else we influence. In this week’s Simple Step, it’s time to stop the noise, put down the phone, and do some introspection. What are your struggles? Where is your bucket low and how do you find ways to get filled up so that what you pour out serves the world around you? How do you reframe how you see the time that focuses on you as being life-serving instead of self-serving?
If you’ve had experiences where taking the time to focus on yourself first resulted in being better for others, we’d love to hear them! Shoot us an email at podcast@uncommonwealth.com.
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Defining the Uncommon Life
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Everyone dreams about living an uncommon life, but how we define that dream is very different for each of us. And for most, it's a lifelong pursuit.
Introducing the Uncommon Life Project
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Welcome to the Uncommon Life Project podcast. We're going to introduce you to people who are living that life or enjoying the journey to get there. We're going to also give you some tools, tricks, and tips for starting or accelerating your own efforts to live an uncommon life, a life worth celebrating and savoring.
Meet the Hosts
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Please welcome your hosts, Brian Dewhurst and Philip Ramsey. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and children of all ages.
Podcast Evolution and New Additions
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This is the Uncommon Life Project podcast and I'm your host, Brian Dewhurst. And I know I normally don't intro us, but my co-host here today is Philip Ramsey. I don't even know how to shock. I'm in shock. I feel like we should slow clap somebody in. I don't know.
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Well, we're doing a lot of different things with the podcast this year. We brought in Aaron Kramer as a co-host and we're introducing Simple Steps and I want to do a better job of the old alley oop. I feel like you do a great job giving me the dunks on the podcast. So today I'm returning the favor. It's our favorite play in sports, the Hail Mary, the alley oop.
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That's where we're at. So today we have a simple step for
Self-Preservation and Helping Others
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you today. Phillip, tell our listeners what it is. Yeah, I think for me, it's just making sure that you're healthy before you try to help other people or trying to make sure, like this is the knowledge I always use. And this is the one that kind of like made me think about this a long time ago. I was taking a life guarding class, which we're in Iowa. So I'm not sure why this analogy was it, but I think it hit home for me. And they said, if you're ever saving somebody in the ocean,
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Again, we were in a pool, not even like a lake. And you come up to a coral reef and you're saving somebody, you always throw the victim in front of yourself and have them take the brunt of the, or take, yeah, the force of the reef instead of you. And like,
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Culturally and like my humanness doesn't like that's not natural for me, right? And then they say because if you get knocked out there's no way that that victim or the drowning Person is going to be saving right you're both gonna die and I think the same analogy goes for when you're on a plane Who are you supposed to put the mask on
Consequences of Neglecting Self-Care
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first yourself? Yes, but
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And I think they say that because that's just not human nature to do. And in doing so, I've seen a lot of people play this out where they don't stay in a healthy spot and they throw themselves in front of things or they keep saying yes to people and they never give their best to the people that really need it the most or even themselves. And so they go throughout life
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And they're almost this chameleon and they forget who they actually are. Instead of like, no, it's important that you stay healthy. You understand who you are and then you can help way more people. That's a simple step that I need to be hearing constantly.
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Totally agree, I've heard that analogy, you've used it so many times.
Philip's Self-Care Strategies
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So for our listeners, what is the action step of, I'm not healthy, what do I do first? Yeah, I think it could be...
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So much of just like stop the noise, put down the phone and like just sit in a quiet place for a second. If that's you like Brian and I are very different. Brian actually is very like he's not an E. He's an I introvert, not extrovert. I'm an extrovert, not an introvert. And so for Brian, it looks different than me.
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But for myself, I would say that I put a lot of reprieve with my wife and I. Like if, if she and I can just have time and it's just her and I, like I, it gives me a ton of life that might not be for everybody. And then also competition is a huge thing for me, teamwork. And I play ultimate frisbee every Wednesday night when it's nice out. And these guys are like, like counselors for me in that.
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I stay healthy and even my wife sacrifices some big things so I can go to ultimate frisbee and stay. I guess my tank filled, but so it's many different facets that I think and it's different for everybody, but for me it's.
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It's not even sometimes I know when I'm, my tank is low for using that analogy, but there's people around me that know what gives me life and they do a really good job of protecting that and letting me make sure that I am thriving so I can help other people. And then even the dumb analogy of ultimate Frisbee, when I come back, I like couldn't be happier to help with the kids more. And so my wife sees this,
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beneficial tank being filled up.
Health's Ripple Effect
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Absolutely. And then her tank gets filled up. And so the sacrifice that she makes, even for the business perspective of us or the sacrifice she has to make for the business, I do feel like she even sees the benefit of it. And so when you're healthy, other people around you can be healthy. And then maybe when you see other people around you, like not being healthy, you might want to be internally focused like, Hey, maybe I'm not healthy. You know, I don't know. So that's my simple step. Got it.
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Thanks for listening. All right. Do you want to bring us out or do you want me to? I'm trying to remember how you do it. You've been listening to the Uncommon Life Project Podcast. I've been your host, Brian Dewhurst.
Encouragement and Closing Remarks
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And I'm Philip Ramsey. Go be uncommon, everybody. Goodbye.
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That's all for this episode of The Uncommon Life Project, brought to you by Uncommon Wealth Partners. Be sure to visit uncommonwealth.com to learn more about our services. Don't miss an episode as we introduce you to inspiring people who are actively pursuing an uncommon life.