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Prioritizing Good Stuff
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There is an abundance of 'good stuff' out there to do to improve your physical, mental, emotional, and more fitness pursuits. There are so many 'best practices' that it is often overwhelming for folks to prioritize and action ANY of them, let alone ALL of them. The result of this is usually not good...
In this episode we share some thoughts about how to prioritize the good stuff and not just have it be checking the box, adding more stress/less return, and some approaches we find helpful for ourselves and our clients.
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Introduction to TB12 Training and Wellness Practices
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Hello. Hello. All right. We're back this week. We took a week off. Yeah. Um, I was up in Boston getting some training with the TB12 Tom Brady Sports Institute muscle pliability. Vibrate. You got some vibrating rolling done to you. I did. I think you got your ankle improved, which was really cool. Yeah. Yeah. Um,
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I bring that up because it actually relates to what we're going to talk about today, which is sort of what, how do you prioritize all of these best practices? And I think that's a really important conversation to have because it can go a couple of ways. It can go like right on awesome. I'm learning, I'm doing new things like high fives. And then it can also slide backwards and say like,
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There's a million things that I can do and I'm not, and I'm doing one. Just totally overwhelmed into paralysis.
Impact of COVID on Fitness and Wellness
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Yeah. And I think we saw, I think we saw, I know we saw both of that during COVID. There were people who were kind of going to the far end of, what are you, what are you raising your eyes on? I was just picturing myself during COVID coaching a zoom class and then in the middle of it, flipping my sourdough. And I think I went like manic. I was that person until like it's doing the cold shower and then I crashed.
00:01:31
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Cannibal, you're a psychopath, you know that. Well, I'm a good example of the one extreme. Yes. Not ideal. The other extreme. Right. The other was, I'm just not going to do anything, you know, and that's not me. Don't even dare look at that. Um, no, but I mean, I think, and regardless of what people did or didn't do,
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I know for a fact and clients have shared this with me with like they they feel bad a little bit about like not maximizing their opportunity and all that stuff and so you know we're we have an insane amount of access to a
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wide, the widest spectrum of possible things that we can do. For example, mobility work, lymphatic system, strength and conditioning. And almost crazier now more than ever because the benefit, the one, you know, positive, one of the positives of this whole thing is like the world has become even
Choosing and Prioritizing Wellness Practices
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smaller. Like people, you can do a course now online that maybe you would have had to like make time for, travel to. And while that's good,
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It's also like, oh, previously I would have had to fly to this country, take time, be there in the present. I wasn't multitasking. Now it's like, oh, cool. I can like watch it on my computer while I'm doing this, that you squeeze it in. Yeah. I mean, I'm sort of conflicted on this and I haven't really spent too much time, but.
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accessibility is not always a good thing. And I think at a level that most can relate to where like, okay, maybe you don't have your own business and you're like, eh, what are you talking about?
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your kitchen table being your office. Right. Like the accessibility of things just as a general concept accessibility not always a good thing. You know because everything the lines become blurred. Lines become blurred and those boundaries that
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are super important physically, mentally, emotionally to uphold and to honor and to reinforce just tearing down. And so anyway, I think that's kind of where we're at. So I brought up the Tom Brady stuff because I experienced, quite frankly, the same thing that somebody who responded to an Instagram poll or a question I put up about, you know, what are some things you want to
Aligning Fitness Practices with Personal Interests
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hear about? And they were saying like, you know, basically,
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how to prioritize doing all these good things. And it comes from a good place, but like, you know, you can't, you don't possibly have, I mean, you could spend your entire day doing all of this stuff and you know, that's just obviously not. Well, and even if you, let's just say in some fantastical world, you didn't have a job and you didn't have any other responsibilities. I don't think it would be even good to spend your entire day doing all these things. Cause quite honestly, when the hell are you actually applying it? You're just,
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constantly like moving from one thing to the next you're never letting it really like you're never allowing yourself to practice it yeah so yeah so that was the question okay that's a good that's a good answer too because you know I like to speak in metaphors oh yes so see if we can stay with you on this one all right here we go so these these different practices okay we're gonna like for example like for example if you're interested in
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You know, your, your fitness, we'll just say strength and conditioning. You're like, Oh man, you know what? Like I've been doing whatever I've been doing for the past few years. I want to make a change. I follow this person and they're talking about a different modality or I'm interested in a different thing. Like maybe I want to do more sandbags. Maybe I want to do more strong man. Maybe I want to do more whatever it is. You want to focus on your fitness.
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with a little bit more intention. Okay. So maybe it's the fitness thing. And then maybe it's like, well, I've heard journaling or meditating are really good. I want to, I want to have a journal practice on a meditate and get into meditation. And I don't really want to do the app. I want to like learn it. I can take, okay.
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And then maybe it's, well, I also want to look at, you know, like my nutrition and my hydration and my micronutrients and my mineral balances and supplements and supplements because I've heard that, you know, magnesium and then this other stuff in my immune system. And then speaking about immune system, my gut health and microbiome, which also they're talking about lymphatic system. So I want to double down on that.
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Don't forget the breath work is a Wim Hof when you do breath work, which also means a cold shower. And it's like, holy shit. Like you're just like a walking in flesh Tim Ferriss book. Like that is, you know what I mean? That is one of the stuff where you're like, what do you do? What's the purpose of all of this? Anyway.
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So you have those, those inputs or those, those elements. Okay. And those are the ingredients for metaphor. Yeah. Those are the ingredients. Sand, lime, whatever we're making concrete. I was going to say, if you're making food, let's shock it. Cause you don't do that. So go on. Oh, there you go.
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Those are the inputs. So we're making concrete, right? You get the right balance of
Experimentation and Patience in Wellness
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ratio. You get the right ratio and balances of these raw materials. You mix them all together. You pour it. You measure it. You frame it. You box it in, right? You're not just going to pour this shit all over. You need a like a frame.
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And you smooth it out and you let it cure. Right. You have to let it cure. Right. And takes about whatever. We'll just say 30 days to cure. You can't be fucking around with it. George is going to die because cement does not take 30 days to cure, but go on. Are you sure? Yeah. Are you sure? Concrete? I'm pretty sure concrete doesn't take 30 days.
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Okay. Fact check me. All right. I can't wait. This is, this is going to be good. Yeah. Okay. All right. We'll end with a little wager. What's the plus or minus? What's my margin of error here? Are you saying exact? No, like I'm saying it's at least 20 days or less. 20 days. It's closer to like 15 or less. I don't even think. For what, quick treat? I'm talking about hand mixed concrete. Like if they were making a sidewalk. Yeah. So you're saying that a sidewalk is cordoned off for 30 days to cure. Is it concrete?
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Is this sidewalk concrete? Yeah. Really? Okay. We'll pause on that. So anyway, the point is... You just derailed me.
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Our listeners appreciate some banter. Someone's got to give you crap. And I guarantee you, George probably thought that as soon as you said 30 days, like, what's Bill talking about? Anyway, yes, this cement the concrete. It needs to make sure it has to be let alone and just set. Yes. And so I think one of the things that that and why I bring up the concrete is that
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You know, it does take like I see a lot of the fiddling and the experiment thing. And if you're running experiments with multiple variables and no control, it's invalid. You don't know what's happening. That's why things like the elimination diet can be or elimination diets are hard to do because it's like you got to just focus on one damn thing and then write it out. Yeah. And then write out and see. And so this stuff takes time. So I think in a minimum kind of looking at
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you know, with the important, the things that are really important to you, like why they're important. And some of the person asked like, what's the minimum effect of dose? It's like, I don't, nobody has any idea, but you got to kind of go with one thing, let it cure. What's funny about this is it does kind of tie back to that whole answer thing from our, from one of our previous podcasts, because letting it cure and kind of waiting and seeing and living with it and seeing how it goes,
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there isn't just this one answer. You have to do that experiment and nobody can tell you like how long that might take. You might pick up like meditation might be an amazing fit and you're like, wow, I love this. It's way easier for me to find the time for this than I thought. Like you might feel like it's really hard to find the time and I might feel like, man, that was like, that was no problem. So I think you do have to, you know,
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I may get a personal thing, but I think the other thing that we were saying is starting like where, so where do you start? So you have to pick one. Like, well, I just, well, no, I just, well, I just think like a good place, a good place to start is like, if you, if you're using this metaphor, like you have to open up one of the doors, right? They all kind of lead to the same place. I mean, I think you're, you're moving all these things in the same direction. They should all be going into the same,
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general direction, like better health, right? More awareness, like positive impact. So it doesn't necessarily matter if you start with, like there's not a wrong order is what I mean. So if you're like, I'm, you know, I think starting with something that really fascinates you, you're like, I'm genuinely interested in this because I guarantee that most people are probably not genuinely interested in all of
Balancing Discipline and Flexibility in Routines
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them. There's probably a couple of you're like, man,
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Like, I know that I should be doing this. I know this is good for me. Like, what's one that you're generally... Like, personally? Yeah. I know reading books is good for me. Tonight's our reading night. I know. Here's... I'm serious. Yeah? That's a great example because that's one that we're on two ends of the spectrum. You genuinely love to read. That's right. I do not. No, you don't.
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So that's something that I probably wouldn't need with that. So what are you going to start with, a coloring book? My next thing was cooking. So I guess, what are you going to eat tonight, Beau? I just brought you this delicious shake, and you're heckling me.
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But like nutrition would be another one. Pizza. I don't think you're like fired up as much about nutrition. And I'm like super, I like really would enjoy learning more about it. So I think like making it like a win for yourself by leading with something that you're genuinely interested in. For sure.
00:12:06
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Learning about it and having it be something you're you're a skill that you're acquiring or I think the thing is yeah, and I agree I 100% agree with that, you know starting kind of getting some momentum in things you're like really interested in or You want and and if it's kind of one of those things and this goes into the notion of prioritization It's like there has to be some
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some stratification. And this person isn't combating this, but I know that I've gotten feedback from people about some things where it's like, well, it's all important. It's like, no. Yeah, living is important, right?
00:12:47
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Let's like break it down a little bit. And so that's where it's like, Hey, take check of where you're at. If you're feeling really good, you're happy with your workouts, you're rocking and rolling. That might not be the most important thing to start with. Like, like you're good there. Yeah. Maybe you add in one little thing. So for example, balance work, like I'm a big advocate, big opponent of balance work. Could be single leg stuff. Could be walking on a balance beam. Like, you know what I mean?
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Like, okay, maybe you do like five minutes with that versus if you're just like, look, I haven't worked out in two years. It's like, okay, yeah, we need to, we need to really work on that. So, you know, looking at what is mo what is important by what you're interested in. Also what you're kind of doing well, not, you know, and, and, you know, looking at the foundation. And I think when you, what happens to anybody who tries to do it all at once is the, the pitfall there is it becomes a checklist.
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Yeah. And now instead of genuinely being interested in learning about it or having that experience or mastering it, it's just like the alarm goes off. It's like, Oh my God. Okay. It's time to, time to do my morning flow. Okay. Is that over yet? Okay. That alarm now it's time to sit down. I'm going to close my eyes and meditate. Okay. That's over. And you're just kind of checking boxes and you're not actually one like you to your point with your metaphor. Like you're not letting it settle in or cure. Like if you had a great day,
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Was it the flow? Was it the meditation? You started them all at the same time. Like, I don't know. And you're not probably either being present with all them because there's just way too much going on. And I think it's really challenging for people. I was actually just talking with James about this and.
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There's some people who are really like, they thrive on being like, nope, I'm gonna like, you could call it like an air quotes like discipline, you know? And there's other people who are like, I'm not really sure about that. Like I am disciplined in some things, I know, but I really, I'm kind of also like a little bit of a rebel. Like I don't, you know what I mean? Like I don't want to be so bound
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have it be so rigid. And so rigid. So I talked to my sister last night about she's going to do the she's joining between the years online. And we were chatting about how it's kind of a nice that particular outlet is like a nice in between for people with their fitness. There's a structure that's not just like, you know, pick whatever today and you just have to like come up with it on your own. But it's also not rigid where it's like today is this day, this is what you're doing.
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And her point in that is when she feels like it's too structured or rigid, you know, you can fall into that of like beating yourself up about it. So like if every day I have to meditate, like every day I'm going to meditate. The day you miss meditating, now there's this like what it says about you. I failed. I didn't do it. Versus having it be a little more fluid and organic.
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You're not, like I think the rigidity of it can sometimes ruin it in terms of it being something I want to do and making it a have to and then you sort of
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have maybe not as healthy a relationship with that practice. Right. But again, and, and this is anecdotal to the extent that it's what I work with a lot of people on. It's a common theme. It's like, yeah, but I'm someone who does hard things. I don't want to be flighty. I don't want to be someone who when the going gets tough, abandoned something. And that is a, that is a like hand to hand combat thing with people where
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It's like if, let's just say you, you're, you're mourning a routine because that's what gets a lot of the attention is you wake up at five, you meditate for 10 to 20 minutes, do a cold shower, you journal, you take your supplements. Oh my God. I'm ready for bed again. Right. And you do that and that's your first, like, let's just say hour. Okay. That might be a bit on the heavy side, but that's a common thing for, for folks.
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you know, if you have a day where you don't do that, or you don't want to do that, you know, it's like, well, what does that say about me? Who am I now that because, you know, and I see both sides of it on sometimes it's like, right? Yeah, sometimes you need to kind of
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do what you don't want to do. Sometimes you got to do what you don't want to do. Other times you need to listen to yourself and that starts to not listening to yourself starts to erode trust. Forcing, forcing, you know, your, your own kind of thing also can come with a double edged sword of, um, resiliency is great and all, but there's also like burnout. Yeah. So it kind of,
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this goes back to the who, which we've talked about. So like, meditating and all those things are a what. And just if you do or don't do them, it doesn't necessarily mean anything about who you are, like, you know, it can enhance your who it can bring awareness to it. But the act of if I did or did not meditate today doesn't equal who I am as a human, I'm lazy, or I am
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you know, disciplined. Um, so I think that's an important thing for people to remember, but, um, well, I think there's an interesting thing too with, and this is where the discipline and we did a, we, I think we did a thing on discipline a while back and it's an ongoing conversation, but it's like, you're not disciplined just cause you did that. I'm sorry. You're not. I find that to be completely false.
00:18:35
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because checking boxes is absolutely anti-discipline. And if we're not... Well, it's discipline to checking boxes. Do you know what I'm saying? The discipline that's really valuable is the one that's about knowing yourself. I think what's really cool about looking at discipline is I want to be disciplined with
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making like choices for myself. So if today is the day I normally go swimming and I don't feel like I'm like, wow, something was really off, I'm exhausted. Me being disciplined with listening to myself, my body, that's a healthy thing. Being disciplined about just going swimming on Tuesdays at 9.15, what you're doing in that case is just reinforcing less connection with yourself, teaching yourself, hey, numb out, don't
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connect to yourself. And so that discipline is really only going to get you farther away from the goal. Yeah. I mean, I think that's, I think, I think there's, I don't think that you express discipline by the traditional ways of never missing something.
Learning Through Incremental Practice
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So let's just take the morning routine thing. You're doing a morning routine. I don't personally think you're disciplined.
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if you go one straight year doing it. I don't think so. So you stopped drinking for over a year. Is that discipline? So here's where I'll go with that. Yes. I think that's discipline. But discipline not being this pinnacle attribute to have. And so just with the morning routine thing,
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I think that you're truly disciplined if you miss a day and you get back to it because you choose to because you're able to accept where like you maybe fell off a little bit or just life happened or you knew yourself and it's like
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It doesn't unravel and now you're starting over or some right. There's no point to do it. Yeah, the street thing, you know, and and I think that when it like so for me in the drinking my goal is to never drink alcohol again, right? I could think I like I can't really think about a single time where I will would maybe Marcus or Olivia's wedding of a sip of champagne or something like maybe maybe that right, but like I'm choosing
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to do that. And so I've had this conversation with Vince actually where it's like, you know, you talk about control, we talk about control over things. It's like, yeah, I mean, it is an interesting question for me to ask myself. Like, do I really have control over it if I wholesale remove it? Because then it's gone.
00:21:27
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And so where does that where is that line? And of course, it depends with the context. Well, of course, of course, of course. But the point I think with this stuff, because not that we're going down a rabbit hole, but like, you know, I think discipline is contextual. I think it's it's it has to go hand in hand with like,
00:21:48
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honoring yourself and not just being an absolute objective. Um, and I think there's certainly value to, when you, when you look at discipline, a discipline as like a noun, you know, like that's kind of interesting. Like this is a discipline. So like for me that, that like says something about like learning, like a discipline for me is like, this is an opportunity for me to learn.
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So if it becomes a route thing that you're just doing it and it's totally void of like that connection, then you're probably no longer learning from it. Yeah. And so now it's just back to that. So kind of going backwards with. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. A discipline is a school of knowledge. And so being, looking at those things, lymph, mobility, nutrition, whatever it might be, learning about them.
00:22:41
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and learning about them by doing them. It's like the meditation, we were just only talking about this with the meditation course and it's like there's two billion people reading about meditation and a million meditating. Well someone who's taking it was laughing because she was admitting she's read all about meditation. She just doesn't do it. So I think it's interesting just
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Like personally like our own experience because I think it's important like we have not mastered anything Yes, we've not mastered anything, but I mean we struggle with this I will say today I felt like I had a call with Richard and we're he does you know helps me with some Coaching think it's healthy to have a coach. It's not your
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And like today this last week I really was like acknowledging how much progress I've made with some things And I think that's attributed to many disciplines or things I've learned but it's been a very slow process because yeah, so one of the things we were talking about is Learning something new like
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once like how do you know that it's time to add something else in well i'm kind of now realizing like yeah the swimming for me was something that i was i really had to learn at the beginning of the summer yeah and i was super engaged and there was this like fulfilling piece of it i was like learning and by no means am i i mean i'm still in the slower lane sure but i don't have to think about the mechanics anymore so much i've like learned i've gotten a lot better
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There's nothing wrong with continuing to swim. I will still swim but For me, I'm like seeing some signs of like hmm. Okay, like I might need something else now. I'm ready for something else, right?
00:24:36
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And that means engaging in something else that I'm going to learn at and try to, again, not master, but can engage with. So for people wondering like, where do I start and how do I know when it's time to add another one in? That's like a helpful thing. I think when you do connect to yourself and you can, you are familiar with learning about yourself, you sort of will start to see some science. Like, yeah, I think I'm like good with this. I'm really,
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Well, I think you can, you can advance to, to like, you know, different layers and different levels of it. Like, and I think that, um, as it relates to discipline too, there's forms of discipline, there's levels of discipline. And at the beginning when you're learning something, yeah, you know what, you might need to like, be more consistent, you know, like I'm not, I'm going back and forth if I'm going to say this phrase, but you know,
00:25:27
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You need to grab yourself and sometimes go. You need to just put your big boy pants on, your big girl pants on and go. You can't be in the beginning stages, you have to be committed. No, because the other thing is when you're doing something new or unknown or whatever,
00:25:47
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Yeah, you kind of do need to have that habit form. Yeah. Um, and, and you can also in doing that, learn like, like I struggle in this spot. I'm going to keep doing it. Maybe the quality is not good. So the one, the other thing I was going to say about that, those that kind of gets the other point is what I was saying with everything's kind of leading to the same place relative like to maybe like, let's just say health or awareness or getting to know yourself better. So.
00:26:17
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I feel like some of these things I've been working on have all little by little approaching different pieces at a time led me to when I look back now, it's like, wow, I've made a lot of progress. But it wasn't all at the same time. It was introducing. But just like when you do take a second to take some inventory, kind of stop and say like, oh, wow, like, yeah, you know what, I did start with
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the fitness side. And then I introduced some nutrition. And like, now I'm seeing like all those things should be sort of like exponentially adding to your progress. But it's cool to see that like, yeah, one at a time, like they will propel you
Selecting New Skills Without Added Stress
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forward. So then it's like, okay, now it's now I'm ready to add reading. Are you?
00:27:14
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I don't know. So are you going to learn a new skill? Yeah. So we talked about that today. What are you going to learn? Well, there's a couple of things. I have to give it some thought. So one of our friends, our friends, yours and mine gave me a gift certificate some months ago that I have not used up yet. Tim? Yeah. Oh, nice. Yeah. Other option is rock climbing. Not as exciting for you. That's cool.
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But yeah, so but like the point to in that, which I think is relevant to this was one of our constraints was
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It can't add stress to my life. So now it fits. So I think that's the challenge, right? Oh yeah, I'm gonna add this new skill, but I have to get to the place. It's an hour to get there. I have to fit it into my day. It's like, well, now we're missing the point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, and I think that's what the, that's the essence of the question. That's the whole point of this is like, you know, if it's, if it's overwhelming and like, there's all of these things I want to do, but then not doing them and all of that. I think I'm going to work on staring at a wall for an hour. I think you've mastered that. I think that's good. Check that out.
00:28:19
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Yeah, so I think that was good. Yeah, that's helpful for people and You know what I I think there's a lot of Up what's really nice about some of those things nutrition breathing meditation. I mean You can like have an overlap there if you were to if you were to give somebody mm-hmm
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one thing to do, blind, totally blind. One thing to do. You don't know Joe Blow out there to improve their, to add into their health, fitness, wellness, routine or regimen, regardless. You have, you know, nothing about them. Is there like a, just panacea thing you would recommend to all?
00:29:10
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I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of answers. I think for me... Yeah, in your opinion. Yeah, one of the things I think that's helped me a ton is the breathing. Not a breath work practice where you sit and do fire breath or meditate with your breathing. Really just cultivating awareness around breathing. So that could be in a workout. It could be sitting in your car and taking 10 breaths. But I think it really is a unique tool.
00:29:40
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Even like, okay, you're gonna sit down to eat, you're gonna take five breaths before you eat, like you've worked with people on that. So if you could apply that to anything, like I just, like I think the breathing helps people, it's a thing everybody can do that can connect to their body. If I said like, do 10 bicep croaks, I want you to feel your bicep. Not everybody knows how to do that. Maybe you know what I mean, like that's not what I'm saying, but anything else is a little bit, there is skill involved, breathing,
00:30:08
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you could kind of just say, Hey, I want you to try this and you don't have to necessarily teach them on how to breathe. So that would be why I would say that. Yeah. And it's, it's, it's low hanging fruit. Anything else gets a little bit like, well, where are you at now? What are you doing now? You know, do you like it? That doesn't really have, um, most people don't have like an association with it. Like if you said to me, my recommendation is for someone to pick up a book for 30 minutes. I do have a,
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response to that, like naturally, like, ugh, like it kind of stresses me out. I don't love to breathe. You don't think there's a response of like breathing. I fucking breathe all the time. What are you talking about? But I don't think people have like an opinion about their breathing. Like I don't like breathing. Do you know what I mean? Like it's, there's no, there's no emotion attached to it. They're like, oh, okay, sure. I breathe. I'll try it. Yeah. Um, it's kind of tough to argue, not argue, but it's kind of tough to, you know, yeah, have something that's not that,
00:31:09
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And I mean, I think that has presented in all of our things. But we do have a meditation course coming this weekend, which we are not teaching, but there are still, it's a small group, there are spots.
The Vector Project and Personal Growth Initiatives
00:31:26
Speaker
And that's the, like, that is something I'm really looking forward to revisiting because we've had some experience, but I think it was, it was a little, probably both that particular
00:31:40
Speaker
way of kind of I don't really feel like that tripped me up honestly like like I had no I was fairly sterile with the you know Maharaji being all I just mean there wasn't a lot of
00:31:56
Speaker
Like one of the things about this course is talking about real life, kind of how to make it a little bit more. So did you fall out of a meditation practice because you felt like you were doing it wrong because of how it was framed? Yeah, a little bit. A little bit of like, I felt like there wasn't enough education around like the how-to and like allowing you some like, hey, like the woman who's teaching it, who's the co-owner of the place, the spring meditation,
00:32:26
Speaker
was talking to us about how she sits when she meditates because she realizes that like if she has to be uncomfortable when she meditates, just like we say with the gym, you're going to eventually start to reject that meditation practice. And I'm like, Oh, I never thought they had told us don't lay down. Right. So I think there's some things that make it a little bit more user friendly that this course will teach. But the practice I'm looking forward to experimenting and learning, applying some of the stuff I'm sure we already learned.
00:32:55
Speaker
But to look at it with that, like wanting to dig in a little bit, learn, make it my own, you know, not feel also like I think I'm in a different place where it's not like I have to do this. It's and I want to. Right. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it as well.
00:33:17
Speaker
And the vector projects, you guys have your event in, I can't believe that's in like two weeks. Next weekend, not this weekend. Next weekend. Yeah. Yeah. That's going to be really cool. That's been a cool group. I've really enjoyed that. I've really enjoyed that group. Yeah. Um, some will be doing it remotely and those, there's a handful that are local.
00:33:40
Speaker
Yeah, handful. I mean, I think more than half are local. So that'll be cool. We'll have a great day. But that's been a really neat group. Are you going to do another vector project? So for people that don't know, the vector project was aimed at having an event that you're training for. Yeah.
00:34:00
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but not only training the physical thing, like for people who, for example, like train for a marathon, they pick a marathon program online. These are the things you're going to do. This is what you're going to follow. Yeah. What's lacking in that is like the whole, why, yeah. Why are you doing this? I mean, you asked me that with the half iron man, and I really liked that enhanced the whole experience and made it because I hadn't,
00:34:26
Speaker
And I think that that's something in line with all of these best practices, like, like remembering and honoring and finding and celebrating why you're doing something. And that was the whole thing with the, with the vector project was to have there be something that you're going to actually train for. It's going to be challenging, but you're going to pick up a couple tools along the way to learn about yourself and do it. So I think I'll do, I think I'll do another one. I'm undecided about a New Year's Eve event.
00:34:55
Speaker
Okay. So maybe if you're interested in New Year's Eve event, if you, if you're still somehow miraculously listening to this and, and interested in a
00:35:07
Speaker
very long in-person event a very long day or two in-person event challenging challenging won't we with some indoor outdoor elements with some like atmospherics not like you know me you know yelling and screaming which i think people get but then let me know because i'm i'm kicking the idea because you're on the fence right i'm on the fence i don't i'm not selling this i don't
00:35:36
Speaker
I'm not going to do it on my own. Right. You know what I mean? Right. And I'm not going to just do it with you. And you're not going to do it. So if you're interested in doing something over the new year, closing this thing up and kicking off the new year with a bang, then let me know. And if you're serious, don't waste my time and tell me you're interested and you're not. And then decide not to go because you're going to go to
00:36:00
Speaker
Well, nobody's going to a party, so... Yeah, but I get a lot of like, I'm interested, I'd like to learn more, and it's like, do me a favor, and this might sound like an asshole, but don't waste my
Conclusion and Future Programs
00:36:10
Speaker
fucking time. Yeah. Because I don't like that. So if you are serious about wanting to do something over New Year's Eve... Reach out. Then reach out. Other than that...
00:36:24
Speaker
we're starting some programs in person at the gym this, uh, this fall or this winter. And some might be, you know, we can see like people who are not here who want to benefit from some of them for specialty groups. So like we are doing a cycling cause there's a huge cycling population and off season's great time with the tools we have here really to train them women's groups and teen stuff.
00:36:52
Speaker
If you haven't done online, it's an awesome tool, so be sure that you at least do the free trial. And I will say this again, though. The trial does not have everything that the membership does. And by the way, you have to watch the two-minute welcome video to unlock the programming. So don't text us and say, why can't I get this?
00:37:11
Speaker
And it's like, if you don't have the time to watch that two minutes, then wait until you do wait until you do. Right. And yeah. So nice. Yeah. Alrighty. See you next week.