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Lifestyle Strength
We discuss ideas, principles, and tactics that help people improve their position in life. With a background in fitness, Lucas strives to empower others by sharing amazing stories of challenge, transformation, and growth.
Lifestyle Strength
Small Changes, Big Transformations Part 2
What if the secret to achieving your wellness goals isn't in the grand gestures but in the small, consistent steps you take every day? Join us as we unravel the complexities of setting and maintaining wellness goals, shedding light on the common trap of getting swept away by ambition only to stumble over the demands of time and effort. Explore how fitness, much like life, is a slow-learning process of dedication and patience. We share personal stories and insights on embracing flexibility and the joy found in everyday routines, highlighting the personal nature of every wellness journey.
Find out how routine can become your best ally, whether in business or fitness, by transforming mundane tasks into sources of joy and accomplishment. Hear the inspiring tale of a friend who infused fun into her fitness regime, proving that patience and experimentation can lead to genuine, long-term commitment. From the innovative path of a client who overcame mental health challenges through gaming, to the transformative power of consistent movement, learn how personalized approaches can lead to profound mental and physical benefits. Get ready to reframe how you view routine and discover the hidden joys in your wellness journey.
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and so being able to separate those and then essentially use that top goal as motivation, and that be it yeah, don't let it overshadow the everyday step, steps that are necessary, that you're going to have to continue to take right you have to be a very active participant in your own health and wellness right like, without action, there is no wellness right, right.
Speaker 1:And I've been you know I say victim to that. I've fallen weak in that before, where I I get really excited about this really big thing. It's really thing, big goal I want to accomplish he really does, guys, I do I get so excited about it?
Speaker 1:And so I build it up in my head, yeah, and then I start figuring out, okay, well, how can we get there? Yeah, and so I start making plans to get there and I take the first step, I might take the second step, and then I realize like, okay, this is going to take longer than I thought it was going to take. Uh-huh, it's going to take longer than I thought it was going to take. Let me go back and just start doing research. Let me go back and figure out what else I need to do. And then I find myself sidetracking from the next step I need to take and I'm just trying to figure out how can I shortcut to the top? What am I doing wrong? That's not getting me there in the speed that I'm expecting myself to get there.
Speaker 1:Right, I think we all do that. Yeah, for sure, and fitness might be the thing, and this is the theory that I've seen. Yeah, I think it's the thing that teaches us that more than anything else, and how wrong that thought process is. For sure, it's because you feel it. Yeah, and there is no cheating it, there is no cheat code towards it. Yeah, you have, you have to put in the work. You have to put in the work and you know people start at different places. Yeah, right, some people, you know, maybe they were raised with health conscious parents and so they grew up at a very young age healthy and they were in sports and it just looks easy to them, but they just grew up that way and that's where they started. Some people have really, really good genetics, right, and it seems like it's quicker for them, right, but for most people it's not Right, it's not quick and we weren't raised that way, right, we've had to learn it, we've had to struggle. Not quick and you.
Speaker 2:We weren't raised that way, right, we've had to learn it, we've had to struggle. Well, not only that, but even those people with the genetic benefits or the parents that were health conscious, these same people are still, uh, setting goals and they're still applying themselves as well. Um, it might just look different than where you personally are, and that's just that friendly reminder that what they're doing is none of your business. It's not your monkey, not your zoo. I love that. I love when people say that. I use it a lot Because, at the end of the day, health, wellness and fitness is you and it's your journey, and it's your goals, and it's your mountain, um, and it's your decision whether you're going to take those daily actions, um, and get to benefit from the evolution of change here, um, the podcast, you know we started out talking about that, this being one of them.
Speaker 2:Some things were, um, decisive and intentional, and then other things we organically let play out, and I think that's the same application that can be applied to health, wellness and fitness. Like, yes, there's some goals in mind, there's that mountaintop, there's these steps, but from day to day, that can really look different, and it's okay to be a little flexible when it comes to allowing the evolution of change to take place, like I said, having the guests not something that we initially talked about, but we organically let that take place and it was very beneficial. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I just I would agree with you yes, and I think the only way that we arrived to figuring out how that work is through the organics of it happening. Yes, and the only way for that to have happened is for us to have taken that first initial step yes, and then been willing to take another step yes, and then another step, without knowing exactly where the mountaintop was. Because guess what? Like as we do it, the mountaintop changes. It does no matter what. No matter if we get to the top and we're like, wow, we just accomplished this really big thing. Maybe we hit our goals. Big thing, maybe we hit our our goals.
Speaker 1:Like, we've sat down and written out our goals of like, okay, how many like, how many people do we want listening to our podcast? How many guests do we want on our podcast? We set these goals for ourselves, but guess what? We talked about them before. As soon as you hit it, you're just going to set the next goal. You're going to set the next big thing which aims you, it orients you so that you can take those steps. But actually taking those steps allows you to discover the new things and the things that work and the things that don't work and how you can overcome the that, that daily monotony right right of of actually doing it and feeling like you're moving in the direction that you've set I was just gonna say that.
Speaker 2:You know, I think at the end of the day, that's the beauty of life. You know, there's no linear way. And another girlfriend, while talking to the one who was struggling for every couple weeks, she was trying to advise her and said what I have found that worked for me is is learning to really love working out, versus feeling like it's a monotonous chore or task that I need to do and, and I think going through life, if we can find the beauty in some of this and the reward in some of this daily stuff, we will be a lot happier. For sure you know what I mean and we'll be in a mental place where we're excited to pursue these things.
Speaker 1:It's the pursuit.
Speaker 2:It's the pursuit of it, and I don't know that we talk too much about excitement throughout all this, but I think that we all have an opportunity to use life and the beauty of it and to find the positive of it, and so that this journey and this next goal and this hill seems more rewarding than you would realize in that, in that those daily steps right versus again that monotonous chore, as my friend described it, and I was like, oh, I don't see it that way. I was like, oh, because I've been doing it long enough, you know, um, and, and have gotten to that place, and so the mental aspect is so important here.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you brought that up, because I actually have two perspectives on this now. Oh boy, and you just sparked the idea of the second.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So I've always tried to figure out how and part of this pertains to business, because business is a very monotonous thing the basic things usually get you the most reward. Yes, right, and fitness can be that that many ways. Fitness, if, if we're breaking it down, is it whether you call it consistency or monotony? The same basic exercises, compounded to make harder what makes you 80% of your results Right. Same with nutrition, same, you know, monotonous food group that once you find what works, doing more of that gets you more success and doing it better gets you more success. And so I would argue a point that sometimes we need to embrace some of that monotony. Sometimes that next evolutionary step is I haven't been consistent yet because we want it too fast, we want it too cheap, and so we just need to embrace part of that monotony.
Speaker 1:Yeah embrace part of that monotony, yeah, without expecting to see our life change, because we we've been going to the shiny object syndrome. We've been going through that like trying to take the shortcut, doing the fad, doing the quick fix, the band-aid, yeah, and it hasn't been working hasn't been working hasn't been working.
Speaker 1:So we need to do more of the monotonous, not fun stuff to start making some progress, to start actually climbing up that mountain right. And so that would be a counter to your point. Is that I think we need to embrace some of that monotony? Yeah, now I say that.
Speaker 2:But what if embracing that monotony for my example, for my friend's example, is what's led to that mental mind shift where now you actually enjoy those daily tasks right, and that's that catalyst. So I'm not that person because I very much enjoy working out and all the things, Not that person because I very much enjoy working out and all the things.
Speaker 1:But I know for my friend.
Speaker 2:she was definitely that person where she had to embrace the monotony of it, the boringness of it. She felt like it was a chore. She tells me she adds it to her calendar, like she adds it to her work calendar, and she won't do anything else within this time and this time and our time, and won't let herself do anything else until she's completed it, even if she has other tasks she needs to do. So that's like something that she has to do right.
Speaker 2:It's on her calendar, it's on her chore list, and then now she's come to the place where she's made it likable where she actually enjoys it.
Speaker 2:Okay, so it's not so much that she was combating that monotony, she just changed her perspective of the monotony, yes, and I think that's that mind shift that I would remind people uh, that's like we can get there again. It's that that evolution of change, and somebody might wake up one day and go actually, this isn't as bad as I thought walking for 30 minutes in the beautiful weather, and you know what I mean like it's't as bad as I thought walking for 30 minutes in the beautiful weather, and you know what I mean. Like it's something as simple as yeah.
Speaker 1:So how do we do that? Like what for her? What? What was it other than just, like you know, getting organized with making sure she put it on her calendar? Was it like, uh, she did it. She just forced herself to do it consistently for a certain amount of time until she realized the benefits did she? Was it like a moment where she was like aha, like that's right, good, right, you know what. What for her, do you know?
Speaker 2:I'm not sure, but when we were all talking today in a group about it, she insinuated that she had had found a way to enjoy it. And you know what, now that I think about it, we have had conversations where she was like I found influencers and fitness individuals that I liked, their music with their circuits. I found that I liked maybe, plyometrics more. I found that I liked this versus this, this, and so just that journey of, even within the fitness world, there's so many complexities of being able to work out and get healthy that she, she had to do some searching. You know, even if it was the music.
Speaker 2:Another big thing is she doesn't like going to gyms, so they turned one, their, her and her husband turned one of their rooms into a workout room and she, now that she has found what she enjoys doing workout wise, she equipped that space because now she's comfortable in that space, she plays the music she wants to or she follows videos of girls that and influencers that she does enjoy working out to, and she likes their music, she likes their approach. I know that I have some clients that they appreciate a more factual, analytical approach like tell me how kinesiology works, tell me the benefits. And then there's other people who are like I want to be able to shut off my mind and just cycle and you tell me on my Peloton what to do yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So I think navigating, that has has been for her the biggest thing yeah um and again, guys I scoot back to she didn't get there in one step.
Speaker 1:This has been a very long process to get there yeah, but that she had the willingness to try for sure, and that was maybe her first step was saying, hey, I need to figure out how to like this.
Speaker 1:Yes, I need to figure out how to enjoy this yes I think a lot of people miss that because they think they have to do something yes I think they have to lift weight, so they think they have to run right and do cardio, and it's like those are the two that get propped up the most right. There's so many other facets in ways, especially today, like with all the resources that we have, there's really no excuse to not figure out. You know, what's an activity that I just enjoy doing. I've had clients over the years where you know they I don't know if I would say they enjoyed lifting weights, but they tolerated lifting weights and part of that was because of their relationship with me. So they had that accountability, they had the willingness to show up because, well, they were paying for it. They committed to me and they committed to themselves and you know we worked on those things together for them. So that helped immensely.
Speaker 1:But they didn't just love, you know, lifting weights like a bodybuilder or a powerlifter would right. What they did love, what they discovered, they loved. They were gamers. They both loved to play games, video games and board games alike. That was a big part of their relationship together. So these particular clients were a couple, couple, a couple and they messaged me one day. They said, hey, we have. Uh, what was the? The xbox thing with the camera. Do you know I'm talking about connect. Is that what it's called?
Speaker 1:I don't know kinetic I'm not. It might be. It was like the Wii oh okay, but Xbox is the next generation of it and they found a game that tracked their movement that they could play. It was like it was an exercise dance game, yes, so they could play it together and compete with each other. And so something that they loved to do as a couple, which was just game together and compete with each other, they found a way to relate it into their something that mattered, yes, on a deeper level, which is like their health, and they're very aware of this at that time right they had to search for it.
Speaker 1:They had to go out and and try it. Yes and lo and behold, they discovered this thing that I never would have thought of.
Speaker 2:Oh man, like I'm makes me think I have a client and that's the thing she. You know. A different element aside from, maybe, the person who just sees it as a chore and just doesn't want to work out is the person that is in a mental position where they're depressed and they're fatigued and they're overwhelmed and they're anxious, and I have a client and she's that person and she knows she's that person and she's worked on it for years.
Speaker 2:She's changed medications, she's tried this, she's tried that and finally, her and her husband. They also like to game, as was more her husband than her, but she tries to be very involved, which led her to going I will get these wii games that make me physically get up, and so she found games that work for her, even if she don't, she's only doing it for short bursts of time that she actually enjoys. That has gotten her physically up and active and the beauty of it we've talked about this in previous episodes is not only is she physically moving, which is awesome, but that's giving her that dopamine, oxytocin and guess what? Now her depression is going down and it's. She could do it five minutes a day and she's slowly increased, you know, over time and or depending how she feels that day, someday she doesn't do it, but the idea is she, and again it goes back to she had to try.
Speaker 2:She had to be in a place where she said I am done, I'm done with this. I know I can't put myself in a gym. I know I can't put myself in a gym. I know I can't put myself in this environment or do xyz that somebody else is asking me to do, but what can I do and how can I make it enjoyable and how can I make this beneficial? And now you look at her. I mean, I'm always so, uh, I'm so proud, like you know, getting to be a part of that journey with my clients and just see their mental shifts, not just their physical, but the mental shift where they actually enjoy something that I've always loved. Right, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And they love it in a different way because they're doing different things to get there, but also they love it because it's helping them.
Speaker 1:As it is, yeah.
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