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S2 Episode 7 - 5 ways to have more energy, motivation and live better starting today.
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Introduction and Personal Updates
00:00:01
Speaker
Hi everyone, welcome back to Working It Out. I'm Lewis, I'm an online coach. And I'm Ben, and I run a creative agency in Norwich. How are you, mate? I'm good, thank you, mate. Yeah, been ah been a good week, very, very busy as usual. um Some exciting news though on a personal, as well, personal family side. Might we be getting a dog. Oh yeah, yeah. but i wonder what We already talked about this a little bit, and I was like, what's happening? For the benefit of anyone listening. yeah um So that's exciting, so going through, the initial stage of that at the moment. So making sure that the garden is nice and safe and if you forget we get them you can't escape anywhere and all that sort of stuff. So yeah, that's something to look forward to hopefully in the next couple of weeks.
00:00:43
Speaker
um Do you know how long it takes after the like the initial life? So he's a rescue dog from Turkey, but he's already here. So his he had a change of circumstances between getting adopted and then getting to the country. So sadly, he doesn't have any home at the moment. it's like ah It was like a little scene in the movie he got here and there was no one waiting for him. Oh, bless him. So he's currently in foster in a foster home. um And I think basically as long as everything's OK, We just got to make sure like all his documentation is all good. um We should hopefully get him a week or so after that. So maybe a week on Monday. Nice. They've just got to organise some transport to get him kind of brought back down to us. Are you going to um work from home for a few days?
00:01:30
Speaker
Yeah, probably. I don't know yet how I'm going to make it work, but yeah. Between you and Heather. Yeah. So spend lots of time. The good thing is Heather's got most of the summer holidays off. Oh, that's good. Which is obviously coming up now. So yeah. That's good. There'll be lots of time where he's able to just be at home and settle in, but I'll take him out and battle me anyway. Yeah. Like we said anyway, is he allowed in the office? We can't feel out here. We'll find a way. Secretly. Yeah, but like we said the other day, like your mum's obviously got dogs. Yeah. and So you can just drop him there. Yeah. You quite often walk from your mum's. He's going to have some friends. Anyway, so. Yeah. Cool. Sounds exciting. Sounds good to me. Yeah. How about you? How's your week been? My week's been busy as well. I was at my mum's ah last week and then I helped her with the garden this week. I'm not used to doing the manual labour. Look at this. Got a big old cut on my farm like blister.
00:02:20
Speaker
Um, but that was nice. She cooked me a nice roast, which was a win. Yeah. Um, but yeah, been a busy week. Had some, uh, some, some new people join the team, which has been nice. Yeah. Chat to a lot of people this week. So it's been good. Looking forward to the weekend. I'm just going to chill. Are you doing anything? You went to tennis, didn't you last week? Week before, uh, week before. Yeah. Which was, that was a really good day out. Really hot. Yeah. Um, it was in Queens. Kind of like the warm-up event before Wimbledon um And yeah, it was really really nice day, but very very hot. You don't like the heat, do you? Not really. No, and you sort of want to dress up quite smart for something like that. And we were we ended up with these seats that weren't properly covered. So at midday we were just in full sunlight and it was just yeah, it wasn't particularly pleasant.
00:03:10
Speaker
Just waiting for the cloud covers is to come so we can get a little bit of relief from that But no, it's a really good day out. Did you get strawberries? No, they don't do them. They don't do strawberries. They don't even do strawberries. They did have some good food though nearby. There's some really good little independent places. I love that. For anybody who's near Queens, check out Gales. Shout out. Very good. Yeah, I'll give them a shout out. So yeah, no, it was a good day out. It's nice. It's nice. Yeah, just nice to do something a bit different. Cool. Are you doing anything this weekend? No, um mainly kind of just catching up on some life admin. Nice. And I don't know why, but I'll be probably watching some football. Same.
00:03:51
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for our sins. I don't know why. Why do we do it to ourselves? I said tonight before that I don't really watch England, but I've watched every game and it's been awful. Yeah. I just moaned about it. I'm literally that guy. I'll probably end up watching it. I'm catching up with a mate as well in the morning tomorrow, which I haven't seen for a little while. That'd be good.
Boosting Energy and Motivation
00:04:12
Speaker
So yeah, might do a workout together, which would be good. Oh, that'd be cool. Yeah. That'd be cool. Yeah. Cool. So this week, I think it'll be quite a bit, quite a snappy one. um We're going to go through five ways that you can have more energy, more motivation and live better. And you can start from, you can start from today. and So I don't know what made me think of this, but I was just thinking like a bit of practical sort of practical help. um Hopefully everyone that listened to this is already sort of ticking most of these boxes. But yeah, I just thought about some things that like, these are things that like a lot of people
00:04:49
Speaker
Um, like if they're struggling, then they tend to be missing some of these. So I think it's like some plates that we should try and spin. Um, so the main, like the the five things will be like exercise, passion, sleep, nutrition, and environment. So we'll skip through them a little bit. Um, I'm going to go backwards. I'm going to do environment first. Um, I know we've cooked about like work environment loads on this podcast. But it is, you know, really important. Like if you, you know, most people are going to spend 40, 45 hours a week if they're lucky. If they're lucky. Yeah, working. And if the work environment is awful, then that's a lot of time. and It's going to have like a negative, you know, reflection on the rest of your week. I know it's not as easy as being like, well, I'm just going to quit because most people have got, you know,
00:05:38
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Bills to pay, but um yeah, ah what do you think about like environment in terms of like work, home, people you spend time with? Yeah, I think it's i think it's huge. Having a place where you feel like you look forward to going to work, be it the actual physical environment itself, but also the people that you're going to encounter there is really important. It makes a big difference. ah you see lots of people talk about if you surround yourself with positive people you tend to be more positive and vice versa and I think also being around people that are quite motivated and want to achieve the same things I think that's one thing I've noticed since you know starting a business is it but if you go to more sort of events and you try and meet more people that are on a similar path you do come away feeling quite energized yeah where
00:06:22
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sometimes if you, you know, you talk to people who who aren't doing that or just maybe and doing something they don't enjoy, can sometimes feel like it sucks the fun out of, you know, the conversation. Yeah, sure you know what I mean? So um yeah, definitely surrounding yourself with with good people who are basically trying to achieve the same thing. People that are similar to you. yeah yeah yeah because that can be like friends as well can't it because sometimes like you've got some friends that like you don't see for years and you when you see them things are exactly the same but there's i've definitely had people that i've been close to and it's just like drifted apart and it's not like i guess it doesn't have to be negative but it's like you know we're constantly changing and maybe we just don't have things in common anymore yeah
00:07:01
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whatever they're focusing on is different to what you're focusing on, I guess, yeah. Yeah, that used to really bother me. I used to be like, oh, I need to stay friends with these people. But now I'm quite- You used to do colleges that, oh, I haven't spoken to them for three months or six months. Yeah. But then- Now I'm just like, no worries. There's a reason for it, yeah. Yeah. So yeah, like, I think, you know, again, like, I think if you spend time around, like, people that are not actually negative people but like speak in a negative way as well like you know we were talking about the election before this the amount of people just on instagram that i've seen like moaning about the election like it's cool like you didn't maybe you didn't get the result you wanted yeah but like
00:07:46
Speaker
You're the one that's literally putting like a post out or commenting about it. yeah I said the other day, I was like, look, if you've got time to get into massive arguments about politics on Instagram or Facebook, then maybe it's not the government's fault. Maybe it's yours. You're letting out some other anger and frustration. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's, you with regards to environment as well, there's a lot of things that you can do. little small things. Um, if you work with, you know, even a small team, you can do little things that just make it feel a bit of a nicer space, especially if you work in a small office, for example, just getting some little houseplants in there and having some tea and coffee facilities, whatever it might be, even just like some soft seating. this fun way Yeah. Just little things which make it feel less worky. Yeah. And you don't have to spend a fortune doing it. I think it goes quite a long way. Yeah. Your office is pretty nice to be fair.
00:08:36
Speaker
Yeah, and and there was nothing expensive in there. And we just did little bits as we go, but just to try and make it feel. a little bit more sort of homely as opposed to office an office can feel very boring kind of yeah a bit sterile so yeah just some creative stuff on the walls some nice quotes of like stuff that we were passionate about all bits of artwork that we liked and then yeah just a few few little houseplants which we could try and keep alive but it gets pretty hot up there you should get the plastic ones i did think that yeah do you know speaking of offices actually and bad environments i don't know why i've just sort of this but um
00:09:09
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Nufffield Gym, shout out in a bad way. Have you been to the one, Barrett Street? Yeah. How, when did you go? I went as a on a guest pass probably about 10 years ago. Yeah. A couple of my friends who were members there. And yeah, I really enjoy it. It's probably one of the worst venues I've been to. It's the atmosphere was like, the I've never been so like unmotivated or workout in my life. I don't know, they might have changed it in that time. No, they haven't, mate. No, no, no. No, no. No, no. It was dark. The layout of the the equipment and everything was horrible. the The pool area or like, you know, the sort of spa area was not great either. Yeah. I didn't enjoy any of it. No. It was the same. It was the same. The thing is, I think they're really busy, but I think they just do loads of classes. Yeah.
00:09:55
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I think all the people go to the classes. yeah and It looked like there's like spin area and stuff looked all right, but the actual gym was literally like um office, like blue, that like like blue office carpet. Just looked really out outdated. Yeah. Yeah. And the machines are all old and yeah, just not very, young and then really bright lights. They've got like really bright lights in there now. You're like you're on an operating table. Yeah, it was miserable. And then I was like, we got a free week. It's like, it's literally like walking distance. Yeah, it's really close to you. So it could be like perfect. Yeah. And then yeah, the pool was cold, the jacuzzi next to the pool was cold. There was like one person in the pool, but then there was like 20 blokes in the, in the sauna.
00:10:42
Speaker
I do remember it seemed to be a place where there was some obviously some regulars, shall we say, yeah that always seemed apparently they were are they' were always here. Yeah. Yeah. I think what happens is loads of couples go and the guys sit in the sauna and the women do like Pilates and yoga. Okay. so it comes like a a gentle weird weird sort of thing yeah right but yeah bad environment did not want it doesn't make you want to train anyway yeah um yeah i didn't even finish my weeks past but similarly people have been to obviously where we go
00:11:16
Speaker
and said that there's no no no natural light. Yeah, someone said that to me at the end of the day. And it really bothers them. I'm kind of used to it, I guess. Yeah. I quite like the fact that they, I just thought it's quite cool. They've used a space that would otherwise yeah be pretty useless yeah to turn it into a gym. But some people go, Oh, I can't deal with this. No natural light. So yeah, I, someone, Who was that? Someone said it to me the other day. They were like, oh, there's no, they actually said it's better than pure where they were going. And then they were like, oh, I've never actually been to pure. And I was like, oh, cool. I mean, it's not the best gym in the world, but and I never even noticed there's no lateral line.
Nutrition and Healthy Eating
00:11:48
Speaker
I was in there the other day and the power went out and they evacuated everyone. That's annoying. It was a bit weird. Do you know what it used to be? No. Analogous. Oh yeah, I did actually. I did know that. yeah Someone I used to work with was Fuming because he thought it was still there and he went there and asked the gym. You'd be disappointed, wouldn't you? Yeah. yeah um Cool. Next category, nutrition. Okay. And this one is,
00:12:14
Speaker
you know It's an obvious one, but this is one that I always like, whenever I take a new client on, we we all know that they should like eat better and they'll feel better for eating better. But if you're not doing it, you kind of you don't realize until you do. yeah um And I still go like occasionally i' go through phases of eating. just bread or whatever like just bread and protein shakes for like a week because i'll be busy or something and then when i get back to eating properly like eating fruits and vegetables and stuff i've like oh yeah it does make a difference yeah feel cleansed yeah you like you do definitely feel better for eating better um but on the flip side it doesn't have to be perfect uh something i always say on like
00:12:55
Speaker
like if I have an inquiry call, I'll be like, I want you to eat better for like the rest of your life instead of eating perfect for like a few months. yeah It's trying to build those habits, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's one thing which I found straight away because I had this misconception that if you work with someone, you know, who was going to kind of coach you through like a fitness journey, that it would be really strict. And I thought I'm going to have to have some sort of sacrifice yeah ceremony where, you know, all the stuff I like gets thrown out and I don't have that again for a while. but is just about and it's about calorie tracking for me and knowing how much to have and how much to have. You eat healthy though, don't you? yeah Yeah, pretty healthy. I think when you're in a deficit, if you don't eat healthy, you're starving yeah because if you took all that the veggies out of what you eat, the calories, like
00:13:45
Speaker
you'd be eating nothing for the calories. yeah I think that's that's another thing where people go wrong with it. You see a lot of people like calorie track, but they'll eat like crisps and McFlurries. they're like So they're hitting the calorie target, but the food isn't actually filling them. They're starving. yeah yeah If it fits your macros, or they'll have like a 500 calorie costa. and then yeah characterrotic a meal deal and then they've got nothing for dinner. Yeah, I see that quite a lot. and But something that I think about, you see these podcasts all the time and Joe Rogan was like one of the ones that was like a huge podcast when they first started becoming popular. I guess it still is. I don't listen to it that much now, but um he's one of them that will just get
00:14:30
Speaker
the most random people on. Sensationalist stuff, isn't it? Yeah. And to be fair, I know we've like slated Steven Barlow off and here a little bit because Steven just believed Ed if in. No way. Joe will at least like... call people out a little bit but it's plausible he does get I suppose he is to gullible actually but um they'll get like these people in on there that are like doctors and stuff they massively contradict each other but occasionally have like a nutritionist on there and we were saying a minute ago like some of them just make you feel like
00:15:03
Speaker
it's impossible to eat properly. yeah Like she was going on about how she cultivates making little broccoli sprouts and grows them and eats them every day because your body's never going to get this type of like vitamin or mineral unless you do this. And she just like, yeah, it's just part of my day. I'm like, it's not realistic. I wouldn't even know what to order them. Like, it's not realistic for people. I think that can be a massive kind of turn off for a lot of people as well. Yeah. If they feel that there's all these barriers and they're trying to eat healthy, but they can't eat healthy because, oh, actually, that's not as healthy as you thought it would. I mean, it just becomes really complex for people, doesn't it? People's like perception of what healthy actually is is is way off, I think. Yeah. Like, spaghetti bolognese is actually pretty healthy. Like, the sauce is made of vegetables. Pretty balanced meal, yeah. Yeah, you can add extra vegetables in. you You've got your protein, you've got your carb.
00:15:53
Speaker
you know, a bit of cheese on there, you've got your fat as well. Like there's no problem there. yeah And I definitely get a lot of people, I'll make them like a example meal plan. They'll be like, oh wow, I like all these foods. This is all normal food. Yeah. And like, yeah. Yeah. I think having variation is really important as well. Yeah. If you end up on something where it just feels, I mean, i know I know people have lost huge amounts of weight, for example, by doing certain diets where they just have these particular shakes or whatever, but they are miserable on them. yeah they are they are react because i I know someone before who I worked with and they did a particular diet and it was
00:16:30
Speaker
Like just these sachets of just full of like mush. Yeah, and I mean they did lose weight in a pretty quick time But that's all they were having and yeah, they were just just look they didn't enjoy Social events or sitting down to food and that just looked horrible And they're like there are better ways of doing things. Are they still in shape? They are. Oh, that's good Yeah, but they yeah I think what they then did is they then work with somebody to try and then put things in place afterwards I mean they were coming from a very extreme position it sounds a little bit like obsessive yeah we were talking about someone who was you know I think I can't if i can remember how well they weighed now but it was over 20 okay 20 stone yes they have five stone or something long way to go yeah so you know they were starting from a quite a tough place yeah
00:17:21
Speaker
um and And maybe they needed something like that to just get them started, yeah probably also get some discipline in place. But then what they did, which was good, was they started to adopt healthy habits. Yeah, they got someone to help them. And if you can do that, and I think they had a a PT, and if you can do that and and put things in place, you're much more likely to obviously stick with it. and Otherwise, if you just finish that diet, you've they're just going to go back to eating normal food, you're probably going to put a lot of weight back on. so That's the problem with a lot of these like fad diets and stuff is, They do actually work like like they're fine. if you If you really want to do them, they work. But the problem comes when one, you might get sick of doing it. And then when you reach your goal, you don't know what to eat. yeah you know if you If I stopped eating carbs in six weeks time, I reach my goal weight and then I eat carbs again, I'm probably going to regain yeah because
00:18:12
Speaker
yeah The idea of a diet isn't to be going back to normal at the end. It's to know how to do things differently. Do you know what I mean? and I think that's the problem with diets in general. yeah People make a brief change yeah to the way they do things. And then they yeah they think, oh, okay, I've now achieved. I want to lose a particular amount. And then they don't know what to do next. And they so end up slipping back into yeah bad habits. Yeah. But then I kind of get it from the other side as well because
00:18:42
Speaker
When I was overweight, I didn't want to not be able to eat, and I thought i had to i thought I'd never be able to eat nice food again. yeah So if someone said to me, oh, you can't ever go back to normal, I would be like, well, I'm not doing it then. yeah But what you don't realize is that you can still have some flexibility. I had to delete one ah one or two takeaways a week like now. yeah That wasn't explained to me. That's why I try and explain to people Yeah, like life will be fine life will be nice and it's almost what you stack it with so if you're You know if you get the diet in a good place or even if you just reduce You know the amount of takeaways you might have in a week from four to two even yeah, but then you add in some more steps Yeah, and you add in you know, we're gonna talk about some of the other stuff anyway, but
00:19:27
Speaker
you adopt some other good habits with it, and that makes a big difference, doesn't it? It doesn't always just have to be about the food side, which I think a lot of people focus on. Just getting a little bit more exercise in there is ah is a good way of sort of minimizing sort of minimizing what you then need to do on diet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. and Okay, so let's go on to exercise. That was another one of them. so touching like merging the two. Something that I do see a lot of people do as well is, and I know this isn't just about fat loss, but you see a lot of people that will do nothing about diet and just introduce exercise. So it'll be like, oh, I really want to get in shape. So I've started doing a couple of runs a week or I'm going to do a 5k like every day. But yeah the problem with this is it's really easy to eat back those calories yeah because you will reward yourself and normally it's without even noticing. So
00:20:16
Speaker
I would say that you know you're much much much less likely to get a result from exercise only opposed to diet only. But the good thing about exercise is, like you said, you get to eat a little bit more, um whether you're maintaining your weight or losing it. yeah
Exercise and Motivation
00:20:33
Speaker
You get to eat more, you get to have more flexibility, but obviously the health benefits. You know, you're going to be like healthier. You're going to feel better. You're going to sleep better. Um, and you're going to feel more motivated. Um, when people go through like a, you know, like a fitness journey, something that they, um, Oh, well, a lot of people miss out on is they'll get someone to write them a program or they'll download it and it will be like exactly the same weights, same reps, same workouts each week.
00:21:03
Speaker
And you are going to get bored of that. I think that you need that progression to stay excited, stay motivated. Yeah, I mean, it it keeps you having something to sort of look forward to and think, oh, I'm going to push myself and I'm going to learn a new exercise or whatever it might be. Having that variation is really key. Definitely found that. And I did used to just do the same stuff all the time. So that's that's definitely an important one. I think as well the feeling you get from exercise, the endorphins it releases, some people get that from food. So they'll eat food and eat they kind of get a really good feeling from that, but it doesn't usually last. yeah It's sort of, you get it as soon as you eat something and then most people feel a bit guilty afterwards, especially if it's something you know sugary or yeah high in fat. But with exercise, you get that feeling last longer, doesn't it? yeah You get that initial buzz when you're doing it, especially if you after you've done it for a little while. yeah
00:21:52
Speaker
Once you've got through the phase of, oh my God, this sucks. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Once you start actually getting to that routine and then actually throughout the day, just knowing that you've, especially if you go to the gym before you do other stuff, yeah I find it really sets you up well for the day. You feel like you've already ticked something off, achieved something that kind of feeling lasts quite a while. So it's definitely a positive. Definitely. Definitely agree. So exercise was a quick one. Like it's, it's obvious that, you know, we should all do a little bit and that can be something that's like, it can just be as simple as steps, just bringing your step count up. Um, you know especially if you work in an office job or you're you know you're not you're not very active.
The Importance of Sleep
00:22:27
Speaker
yeah and Cool, let's do sleep, okay? You are pretty good at this actually. you For someone that's so busy, do prioritise your sleep. Yeah, I managed to get quite a good amount of sleep in. Yeah, quite a lot of people in your position will burn the candle at both ends. Yeah, i I think I'm lucky as well that I don't struggle to get to sleep. I couldn't have had a stressful day or
00:22:52
Speaker
a relaxing day and i just kind of i don't think about it much so maybe that helps um i never get my own head about sleep i just always assume right i'm gonna go to bed now and in a few minutes honestly so thats that's positive yeah if i'm um if i've got stuff planned or i'm excited about something or if i'm nervous or like stressed i sleep worse like a kid before christmas yeah but sometimes like it's not even like I'll be thinking about something like, I don't know, it's just like an excitement in my head, but not even like, oh my god, I'm going on holiday. Yeah. It's like, oh, I need to do something or something might happen. And I can have that just before I go to sleep. But as soon as I'm then obviously ready, I'm just out. Yeah. So I'll almost be like, I can almost dream it. I can almost think about it in my sleep and then I'll wake up.
00:23:43
Speaker
um So I go through phases. I am a very light sleeper though, so things wake me up. I'm currently shattered because I've had the worst sleep. night like I you off here. Our neighbour decided to do some DIY at midnight last night and drilled into our bedroom wall. like against our bedroom wall so that was that was nice and then um I don't know what's happened to our kitchen door but it won't shut properly anymore so in the middle of the night the dog will come flying through onto the bed so yeah it's been bad can't complain can't complain too much um but sleep is something that people will
00:24:25
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definitely be like, oh, I can go without sleep. Or think that five hours is enough, for example. That will that will take its toll on you. 100%. And there's been like studies where people think that they've got used to having a small amount of sleep. And and and but you you know people will go, oh, I don't need much sleep. Oh, survival, three hours. Yeah, I've had enough. But they've done studies where They'll get someone, they'll they'll make sure they get eight hours of sleep for like four months or what, probably not four months, for amount of time. yeah Make them do some tests and then they'll give them just five and they'll give them enough time to feel like they've got used to it. They perform much worse on those tests. yeah
00:25:08
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It's just the truth. um There are like a few people that can actually function on a small amount of sleep, but chances are it's not you because they are very limited as much as you'd like them to be. I don't know about you, but the amount of people that I've worked with or that I know that have been like, oh, I couldn't really sleep last night. So like, you know, I got up and had a cup of coffee in the night. checkbox my ah na i remember they oh This guy that gave us a lift to the yeah the airport when I went on holiday, it's like my mum's friend. he um He's a nice guy, but he was like, oh, I couldn't really sleep. So I got up at like one, had a cup of coffee and just dozed on the on the chair. I'm like, that's horrible I would be so, that like my anxiety was like,
00:25:59
Speaker
that had ruined my day. yeah You can't have a coffee in the middle of the night. You'd feel gross, wouldn't you, after that? um My old manager used to like wake up in the night and have a coffee. I work with someone who used to get up at three in the morning and had breakfast at three in the morning. Why? They didn't need to be at work till half seven. Did he do anything? Just like a routine. That's weird. Yeah. Yeah. That's another thing as well, caffeine. like if you're one of them in people that can have caffeine and it doesn't affect you and you can just sleep it is affecting you like your sleep quality is worse even if you fall asleep um but yeah i like sleep so so important i think that if everyone got eight hours sleep it would transform the way you feel transform the world yeah and it would it would transform the decisions you make yeah so like
00:26:49
Speaker
If you want to eat better, if you want to do more exercise, if you want to be a nicer person, if you want to look better, if you could get eight or nine hours sleep a night, it would transform it. you know It's not easy for everyone. But um yeah, important. 100%. Especially if you're um one of those people that scrolls on your phone watching Reels, which is me. Getting distracted.
00:27:14
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I don't know if we cut off there. Hopefully we didn't. Hopefully it looks like it paused then, but it's all good, it's all good. Cool.
Finding Passion and Purpose
00:27:23
Speaker
Last one, passion. I think it's important for everyone to have a passion because we all know someone that's there mainly a guy that's like dead inside in their 50s and doesn't really care about anything apart from like... The fire's gone out. Yeah, like Kansas Stella and England on TV. Yeah, a lot of them come out at this time of year, don't they? Yeah. When it when England won.
00:27:48
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's really important to find some sort of purpose, I think. So, even if it's not a passion as such, but having something that you look forward to getting up for in the morning, I think is really, really important. Some people get it from their family, some people get it from their jobs. yeah it could be it could be anything really dog but yeah pets but if you don't have that then i sound a bit morbid doesn't it what are you living for yeah it's true it's existing aren't you not really living you're just existing especially if you're just like grinding out the nine to five
00:28:19
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You see this all the time and it is a shame. It's like people that grind up the nine to five and then sit on the sofa all weekend. Yeah. They don't really enjoy any of it. It's just a break between shifts. Yeah. If you had loads of spare time, is there a hobby that you'd like to do? Putting you on the spot here. Cause I'm terrible with this question.
00:28:42
Speaker
There's plenty of things I'd like to do more of. Yeah. So I'd do more, probably more sports and activities. so Probably play football more. Yeah. um That's something I'd probably yeah like to like to get more involved with. I'll be able to commit to more. I'd like to just be able to do a few more things like just like do a bit more cooking at home. Sometimes I don't get back till quite late. So either my partner's cooked for me or I end up just sort of like reheating something from before. And I think to myself, oh, if I just had another hour, I would actually look forward to just cooking something from scratch and enjoying doing that.
00:29:18
Speaker
which I used to kind of do a bit more during lockdown and stuff like that. Do you know what? I'm not a massive cooking fan to be fair. No? No. I think I'm a bit impatient. Yeah. Yeah. You have to overcome that. Yeah. I think it's just because she can enough do the oven or for me, I'm like, yeah I don't know. It's terrible really. well that's the thing makes me sound like so now i at it though and i go That's just lost time. Yeah. That's really bad. But I look at a lot of things as just lost time. Yeah. I saw, I was catching up with a mate the other day and he was saying about how when he gets home from work, he just looks forward to his downtime. He's just having a drink and playing like Zelda. Yeah.
00:29:59
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Turning on
Balancing Leisure and Productivity
00:30:00
Speaker
you know games console. I'm just zoning out I couldn't and I said I can't even imagine doing that now I know that would be so alien to me to think I've got some free time I'm gonna do something that's not productive just sort of just kind of vegging out like that. I just yeah So I've never been diagnosed, but I I think that I might have like ADHD a bit Can you get it a bit? Whatever? Yeah, but and That's what I blame that on. like Because my brain is like, maybe I'm just obsessed with like videos and reels and stuff, but like I find it difficult to sit and zone out. We talked about, I've probably mentioned this about 10 times, I've got a PlayStation, but I can't play it.
00:30:44
Speaker
Yeah, I've got an Xbox. there's nothing for the you I just watch things on it. I don't know. I've got nothing. I quite often like, if I go into the city, I'll go into game and be like, yeah, I'll get myself something. Look at everything. I can't see me sitting down and playing this. Well, before, a day off used to be. When I worked in retail, a day off was get up, do the bare minimum, and then maybe if I was going to the gym at that point, I'd have got a gym session in, then I'd come home and it was like the afternoon to have some food and play FIFA, for example. And then I'd go into work and be like, oh, I had a really nice day off. I achieved absolutely nothing really. And that was just normal. Now I just, yeah, I couldn't imagine that. I know. But maybe we're the problem, you know? Maybe.
00:31:28
Speaker
i don't want to I don't want to sit here and think that that's healthy because I'm the exact same. Yeah, no, it's probably not actually. Being able just to switch off and do that is probably a good thing. Cause I always say, like, you know, we were just saying a minute ago, like people that, you know, have the nine to five and then they sit at home on the sofa for all weekend. Maybe they're the lucky ones. Yeah. The only difference is once the football season starts up again, I will dedicate some more time. Yeah. That is one thing I can do. Yeah. I always make allowances. for Yeah. I can sit and watch the football. And when the new grand theft auto o comes out, you'll be on that. yeah I just keep thinking I bought this PlayStation. I've got to wait like three years for this game. I reckon I'll play that.
00:32:06
Speaker
i just don't have the i don't have thought I don't want to get good at stuff anymore either. and They all look really hard. yeah you know like Kids kidss got hours to spend. Did you used to play online people as well? Not really. A bit. Do you don't remember when lab Call of Duty became like popular? It was like Modern Warfare or whatever. I played a bit. I was i was like, Five out of ten good. Right, okay. But it just got ridiculous, didn't it? I never played. Didn't you? No, I never played. Oh, mate. It got ridiculous.
00:32:37
Speaker
It was like it was like having to like i had you had to practice ah otherwise it was just unplayable. right okay So like if you didn't play every night, you might as well not play because you'll get like every time you spawned, yeah you were dead. right so like I know some people from school who didn't particularly do well at school but they absolutely lost. It's ridiculous and I'm sure it's still the same. yeah He loses a lot of hours in it. He just drove me mad. I don't want that. I can't be bothered to get that good at anything. I just want to know how to play it and just butter mash and hopefully yeah switch it off. i've but I have played a few a few bits on on on it since I've had it, but nothing takes my fact. I've got Gran Turismo just sitting there.
00:33:22
Speaker
and not played it. No. But in terms of hobbies, ah there's stuff that I'd love to try, but it's all like, I'd love to like, I'd love to like do a track day. Yeah. That'd be really cool. Yeah. Like if someone had, or if I could like, I don't know. Do it properly and have like someone take you out and tell you how to, yeah. Yeah. But how do you make that hobby? Like it's just a oneend of one, off I'd have to like buy a car, wouldn't I? And then you've got a trailer. It's like, this is a yeah. That's something I'd love to try. It's difficult to just be like, oh, get a hobby. Yeah. Um, I used to play a bit of guitar. Yeah. I'm not musical. No, I play bass. Okay. I saw your brother the other day. Did you? Yeah. Yeah. Cause he did something musical. He, I think he had a guitar with him. Yeah. He was walking. He didn't recognize me. Yeah. So he's very, yeah. He's, he's very musical and like obsessed with music. Creative in a different way. Yeah. Yeah. That's his passion.
00:34:19
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Cool. Okay. I think we've pretty much done it, mate. I don't know if that was a good one or not. Hopefully it was. I think it was pretty useful.
Evaluating Personal Well-being
00:34:27
Speaker
um Make sure you eat right. Make sure you exercise. Try and get some good sleep and have a passion. To be fair, right, if you aren't particularly happy right now, to write write some stuff down, write these down and ask yourself, are you doing the bare minimum of these. And one of them is probably out of sync. Yeah. Yeah. Environment and race chips going on. Sometimes it's quite a good way of doing is actually, is to write them all down and score them. Yeah. Where would you, how would you score them out of 10, for example, right now? Should we do them now? Let's do ours. Oh, okay. You put them on the spot now. Okay. Okay. So environment. Eight. Yeah. I'm probably going to get the same. I could probably see more people in person.
00:35:10
Speaker
Yeah. That would probably, that would probably be useful for me. Yeah. It's borderline probably maybe even a nine for me. Yeah. I'm going to go like eight. Okay. Nutrition. Nine. Okay. I'm going to go for the last week or two. I'm actually going to go like 7.5. Okay. I'm honest. Yeah. Or maybe I'm not being as high. Maybe I'm gonna be seven. I'm gonna go seven. Okay. I was like, my mum's, I've eaten a bit of rubbish over the last couple of weeks. Yeah. But my sevens are pretty like, that's as low as it'll ever go. Yeah. Probably being quite harsh on yourself there. Yeah. Fair. I'm being fair. Yep. Sleep. Eight. Okay, I'm gonna go like five for me. I can't remember last time I had a good night's sleep.
00:35:57
Speaker
Last night was and it was a bit warm last night, I found. But yeah overall, I've had a pretty good week sleepwise. so Passion. 10. Oh, laa yeah and felt ready I really doing what I enjoy and yeah, just want to get it done. And that's probably why time feels like it goes so quickly. Yeah. Nothing feels like it drags at the moment because everything I'm doing, I'm kind of putting 110% into and just want to just keep doing it. I just want more time to do it basically. So I think I've got to give that one a 10. Love that. I'm going to go nine because I'd never give out a 10.
00:36:32
Speaker
I was going to say, yeah. You made me look bad now. You're a glass half empty man, aren't you? I tried not to be. That's my natural personality, but I'm trying not to be. And then exercise. I'm not doing as much as I'd like to be and was, but I'm sort of getting over an injury. For that one I'd probably say I'm basing on the last couple of weeks. Your steps have been good. Yeah. They're well up. Seven and a half to eight. Yeah. For that one. Yeah, the only thing I'm feeling a little bit is just a little bit more fatigue this week. But then I have. Change of sessions. Yeah, and drop the calories down. True. Probably a little bit more. New lowest again. Yeah. So you can't have it both ways. Both looks good as well, mate. Thanks. They did. Getting there. Cool. Let's call it. Have a great week and everyone.
00:37:18
Speaker
Yeah, we will speak to you next week. Have an awesome awesome week