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The 3 Types of People You Need in Your Life
Understanding the difference between closed and open mindsets can transform how we approach challenges and pursue our goals. A closed mindset holds us back through resistance to change and fear of failure, while an open mindset embraces growth and sees setbacks as valuable feedback.
• Closed mindset traits include blaming others, avoiding challenges, and seeing abilities as fixed
• Open mindset traits include embracing growth, viewing challenges as opportunities, and believing abilities can be developed
• Our mindset directly affects our weight loss journey, business growth, and personal development
• Failure should be reframed as feedback - a stepping stone rather than a reflection of self-worth
• Three essential relationship types everyone needs: mentors ahead of you, peers beside you, mentees behind you
• Building genuine connections requires intentional effort and willingness to invest in others
• Surrounding yourself with people who challenge and inspire you is crucial for personal growth
• Celebrating progress along the journey is just as important as celebrating final results
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Welcome back everybody to the Feed my Health podcast. I hope you're having a wonderful day. Today is actually Thursday and I don't typically record my podcast on a Thursday, but I was so inspired on my walk this morning about this particular topic that I had to share it. I'm also feeling incredibly good, energetic, and we are in the follicular phase, so that makes perfect sense. And also tomorrow we have my mother-in-law coming to stay for the weekend. She'll be here till Monday. So I really want to try and get as much done as I can ahead of time, because I like to be really present.
Speaker 1:At the moment I'm really working on. Whenever I'm doing something, I am being very much all in on that thing. I find that it helps me massively in terms of my stress levels. So if you are somebody who's kind of flitting about every which way and you feel quite overwhelmed and quite stressed, it's actually a really good little reminder for you to take a bit of stock of. Are you trying to do too many things at once and are you really all in on the thing that you're doing? So I'm totally digressing already, but I'm in a really great mood today and so I wanted to give you all of my energy and talk about something that I am incredibly passionate about. And it's so funny because if you'd have spoken to, you know, teenage Roz back at school, roz, you would have laughed your head off to think that here we are, I'm 39, and talking about this and being so proud of it.
Speaker 1:So that is a closed versus open mindset. Now, what do I mean by that? So there are two types of people, and you may recognize which one you are already. You may be very, very aware and self-aware, and that's amazing, but some people just don't really know and some people have never really thought about it. So I'll go through the different mindsets and the kind of personality, traits or behaviours of those types of mindsets, and maybe you can see yourself in them.
Speaker 1:So somebody who has a closed mindset is a person that is stuck in old habits and quite resistant to change. Now, excuse me, now, this person may or may not realise this, but what I tend to see when I come across somebody with a closed mindset who's resistant to change, is that they will typically blame others, or the system, or the government or the everything else, rather than taking ownership of the situation. So if I actually put this into my framework, into my coaching framework, for example. That could be somebody that comes into the coaching program and doesn't get the results or doesn't enjoy the process for whatever reason, and, rather than them saying or taking responsibility for that fact, they will blame it, they will blame others, they'll blame the system, they'll blame the structure, they'll blame everything else. And that's not to say that a person who does see fault or negatives or disagrees is wrong. What I'm saying is a very extreme thing. But taking any form of ownership of themselves in the situation, if that makes sense. So a person who is stuck in their ways, basically, and resistant to change I need to cough again. I'm very, very sorry.
Speaker 1:The other trait or behaviour is believes abilities and circumstances are fixed. So this is somebody who might feel like people who are really skilled or talented at something well, they're born with it, or it's easy for them or it comes naturally to them and believes that the ability of the person is fixed and people's situations are very fixed as well. Their circumstances are very fixed. Another is sees failure as a reflection of self-worth. Now, this is really difficult, because I actually think that this is something that a lot of people struggle with, whether you're in the closed or open mindset. This is a really challenging mindset to overcome, especially if in your life you have experienced failure. So another great weight loss example is if you are somebody that has tried lots of things, irrespective of those things, if you have failed at them, you will then believe that failure is inevitable and you will fear it because it doesn't make you feel great. So but then the dangerous thing is, if you have a closed mindset, you believe that that failure is a reflection of you. And that is a really challenging thing to overcome and it's something that I actually think that if you are that person, if you can learn to overcome that, work with yourself, work with a person to help you overcome that, it will open so many doors for you. It will feel like you have taken a rucksack of bricks off your back and placed them down for the first time. That feeling is like no other kind of like when you take your bra off at the end of the night, but on a massive level.
Speaker 1:And then another one is for closed mindset is avoid challenges and stays in the comfort zone. This is another thing that massively holds people back, and it kind of is intertwined with the fear of failure and believing that it is a reflection of your self-worth and, again, something that if you took that step and you, like, sought out your comforts like I can't put it into words now, but if you step outside of your comfort zone let's put it in a simpler way it would massively transform your life. It, particularly if you're not happy with where you are and this is true of any area of your life, that's, your job, your relationships, your friendships, your friendships, your health, anything if you are not exactly where you want to be and it's because you're in your comfort zone. That comfort that we get from being in a comfort zone feels safe, it feels normal, it feels what we're used to, and so we think it's the right thing. And it couldn't be further from the truth, and that's the hardest thing is being brave enough to take that step.
Speaker 1:So then, when we flip it, when we think about an open mindset. So an open mindset is somebody who embraces growth and learning and, they believe, believes abilities can be developed with effort, and this is so important. So, going back to the whole thing about like people are born with talent or people have bodies naturally like this, they don't have to do any work From the closed mindset perspective. The open mindset perspective is that you believe that you can develop the skills, develop the abilities to essentially do and be whoever you want to be, and that you embrace the growth and the learning that comes with that, which is so exciting, I feel. The third is that they view failure as feedback and not defeat. Again, this is actually something that you have to practice and constantly remind yourself of, if that's not you and then seeks new challenges and adapts to change.
Speaker 1:So I am very much a person that is, that has an open mindset. That is not to say that there aren't little nuances in there, but the things that I struggle with. So I used to struggle with failure being feedback. That's something that I really didn't understand, and once I started to understand it, then I had to learn and practice actually feeling that way and also fear of failure as being a reflection of self-worth. That's something that I've definitely experienced myself, and you can see, then, that it's not a one size fits all kind of situation. Now there are going to be parts where that's intertwined, but I would say that I am 90% somebody with an open mind, and what I find really hilarious about this is back when I was at school going back to what I was saying at the beginning of the podcast about you know, future me would laugh at myself now is that I was so desperate to be out of education, and I think as well it it is.
Speaker 1:It does stem from when you're young, you don't really know what you're doing, where you're going in life. I think you're very, very lucky if you do, and although I dreamed of being a pop star from a really, really young age, I think even in my head I thought, well, this is a bit of a pie in the sky kind of a want, I didn't know at that time that there were places you could go to study music, places you could study pop music. I had no idea. So for me, all I saw was going to school every day, learning subjects, some of which I was marginally interested in, a lot that I wasn't interested in, and just wanting it to be over, and I think also like going into college. I was at college for four years and I was there and I would do whatever it took to get to the next step. I really did embrace college for that reason. It was basically a means to an end, like I wanted to get to university and I would do whatever I could to get there. So it did require me to be at college for four years and that was fine. But I think, coupled with that, I felt like I'm so over learning and I think as well, because I didn't enjoy a lot of the subjects massively, like I wasn't passionate about them. It makes me want to made me want to kind of have it over with.
Speaker 1:So it is funny now how, how the tides have turned, and I do think that if anybody's listening, whether that is a child, a teenager, an adult if you are in a job or in a situation that you don't particularly like and you're not passionate about, I think that that really will have a massive bearing on how you show up every day, really, really, really massive. Like, if you wake up in the morning on a Monday and you really don't enjoy the week or not looking forward to the week or looking forward to the weekend, already that's a massive telltale sign that the thing that you're doing you're not loving and you're not passionate about, and you are well within your rights to find the thing that makes you tick like, makes you excited to get out of bed. Imagine that feeling on a Monday of being excited to go to work or to do the thing or to do the studying or to read the book or whatever. Once you can be in that situation, it's incredible and honestly, there is no amount of money that is worth to me personally. This is just all from my mindset, so just bear that in mind, but I don't think there's any amount of money that would be worth living a life like that where you are miserable and just desperate for the weekend, and I just think that's something to consider sometimes. But regardless, I'm digressing again.
Speaker 1:So let's talk a little bit about examples of each mindset and how they show up in daily life. And again, maybe you can see yourself in these. So someone who refuses to try things, new fitness habits versus someone who's willing to experiment and to adjust really, really, really critical, especially for coaching, because you need somebody who is open to trying new things and willing to be optimistic. Yes, you might have been to the gym and not seen any results, but you might also have not been following a program. You might have also not had somebody, day in, day out, helping you and guiding you to progress. So I think it's difficult if you have that closed mindset, but it will hinder you if you want to progress. So having somebody who is really open is incredibly beneficial to both coach and client A person who avoids difficult conversations versus someone who seeks solutions.
Speaker 1:Now, this is again where I struggle, because I don't particularly love a difficult conversation. I mean, I don't really know many people that do, to be honest, and I do think that there are certain elements of conversation, or topics of conversation rather, that people can handle better than others, and I think that is probably the case for me. Like, I really enjoy deep conversation, like deep level conversation about real life stuff. I'm not a fan of surface level conversations, whereas somebody might find a deep level conversation quite intrusive and they don't want to be vulnerable and they don't want to talk about things on a deeper level. And then, similarly, you know, when it comes to difficult conversations, maybe you need to have a difficult conversation with your boss or your friend or your spouse or your kids, but it makes you feel uncomfortable because you don't like confrontation, potentially, or you know you, you don't like how physiologically you respond and so that makes you feel embarrassed or whatever.
Speaker 1:And I'm also a very solution-based person, so I like to find the solutions in situations, and that's quite a masculine trait and it's a trait that sends me in very good step. But it also hinders me in other ways, because sometimes people just want to talk to you and vent to you for the sake of talking to you, inventing to you. They don't want a solution, whereas I'm somebody who's like right, my child is now outgrown. The naughty step what's the next solution? What can I learn? You know, I'm very much like what's the next thing? How can I refine this and how can I optimize things? So, again, there isn't a one-size-fits-all to this, but you can see how there's a, there's a definite crossover.
Speaker 1:And then another thing is how mindset affects weight loss, business and personal growth. So, thinking about where you are in your weight loss goals if you're, if that's something that you are focusing on where you are in your business or in your job and career, and also your personal growth, do you feel can you identify where your closed versus an open mindset might be holding you back just in your daily life? And so if you are somebody who has a closed mindset, you can actually shift your mindset to more of an open one for sure, like 100%, if, again, the difficulty is you have to be willing to do that. You have to identify that, oh, this closed mindset is not actually serving me or the people that I love around me, and so it's in my best interests to learn, or be open to learning about having an open mindset, and that in itself is a challenge. So it's identifying that, and if you can identify that, you're already like 10 steps ahead of most. But that would be the first thing.
Speaker 1:And as you go about your day, I would say, just challenge your own thoughts. You know, if you're having a conversation with somebody and your default response is no, I'm right, it's really helpful to reflect and be like well, what if I'm actually wrong? You know, what if I'm actually wrong? Who says like I know I always make this analogy all the time, but it's so true. Like who says that my way of filling the dishwasher is the right way? You know, just because I do it most doesn't mean I'm right, I could be right. But what if I'm wrong? You know, it's okay to just practice and play about questioning whether you're right or whether you're wrong, and getting used to just asking yourself that question, even if you know deep down you're right, is a really useful skill and a really useful tool.
Speaker 1:The other thing that you can do is surround yourself with people who challenge and inspire you. This is so, so life-changing. I can't even tell you I can tell massively now how much better this isn't even proper English, but how much better this isn't even proper English, but how much better of a person I am now versus when I was in my 20s. I was really stuck in a world of my own creation, thinking that I was living the dream, you know, being able to stay at home with the kids and have this immaculate home and work in the evening and all the rest of it, and I was actually surrounded by people who didn't challenge me and didn't inspire me, and so I didn't feel challenged and I didn't feel inspired. And when, deep down, that is the core of who you are and you're not around people that are also that kind of a person, it can really drag you down, and I think the best way to describe how I felt at that time was imagine like a brick has been tied around my ankles and I've been thrown into the water and I'm just like literally trying to, you know, not drown, you know, scrambling to the surface and I'm always kind of 10 steps behind of myself, and that's how I felt. So, surrounding yourself with people who challenge and inspire you if you are somebody that wants to have more of an open mindset or has an open mindset but just identifies that they're not around the right people, it's just something to really prioritize.
Speaker 1:Another way to shift from close to an open mindset is to celebrate progress, not just your results. So this is something that I see a lot in our coaching program, and I think it's so incredible to celebrate results. I am not saying that you shouldn't, and it's something that I am a strong advocate for. If you aren't comfortable having your results celebrated by me, then you're not like Feed my Health isn't for you, because I can see that not celebrating yourself is such a negative trait of a woman. We really do throw ourselves at the bottom of the pile and to the point where it's so uncomfortable to celebrate ourselves that we just think, oh, I don't want to do it. You know, it's so important, it does so much for your motivation, it does so much for your self-worth, it's just one of the most positive things, and so celebrating progress and results is so important, but not just celebrating your results like your life, isn't just amazing, because you lose two stone everything that you do along the way to achieve that is what really is the win. So if you can celebrate that progress as you're going along the journey, that I feel is absolutely critical.
Speaker 1:And then reframing your failure as a stepping stone Now this was life changing for me. Every piece of failure, if you want to call it a failure, is not failure, it is feedback. So if something goes wrong, it isn't you failed, it's ah, what can I learn from this and how can I change direction or adjust course or do something differently next time? I made so many mistakes in my career, so many mistakes, and I didn't stop. Like it didn't stop me from wanting to move forward and progress it. I was actually really helpful because it made me go, ah, what shouldn't I do next time or what can I try differently. So important.
Speaker 1:It's also helped me to understand who I will tolerate in my life and who I won't tolerate in my life. And that's not just friends, that's also family members, and they can be and I'm sorry to say it, but family members. Just because they're your family, it doesn't give them the right to be in your pocket, tell you how you should live your life and you feel obligated to see them every flipping month or quarter or whatever it is that your routine is like. No, this is your life. You have one life and if you're spending it with people who bring you down, don't bring see the best in you, don't want the best for you. You got to get rid. I'm sorry, but you've got to get rid.
Speaker 1:Anyway, again, digressing, reframe, failure as a stepping stone. Now this is something that I think we can all kind of use straight away as a little bit of an audit of our lives. There are three types of people that you need in your life. I strongly believe this. So when you go like as I'm going through this, I want you to think like do you have this person? And if you don't have that person, are you open-minded enough to seek them out or to find them? So these people will help you grow, they will challenge you and they will keep you accountable.
Speaker 1:Now just a bit of a backstory again. Just going back into my 20s, I surrounded myself with people I thought I needed to have in my life. So you imagine you've got young children. You spend the majority of your time alone. There are also other women in the world with young children that's spending the majority of their days alone, and so you kind of come together like a little club and all of of a sudden you live in each other's pockets. You sit in play play groups with them, you go to soft play with them, you're drinking tea and having cake and all the rest of it, bitching about your husband and telling them what your little milo's got up to and how they've made their first burp or whatever, and you think in that moment that those people are the best thing since sliced bread, because they get you, they understand you, and that is so true for a lot of people. And if you are in that position where the people that you are with on a day-to-day basis, who are supporting you in that stage of life, are really bringing you up and you know singing from the same hymns, she and you know you feel absolutely incredible when you leave them. You must stay in that friendship circle as long as you can.
Speaker 1:Here's what happened with me. That started that way for a little bit. It started that way. I was so hopped up on the motivation of finding a person who was also into cleaning their house ridiculously, like, just had young kids the same age as mine and you know all the rest of it. And I thought this was amazing. You know, I'd found my person, I'd found my tribe, and then I realised over time that it was like a toxic situation firing a toxic situation. I don't know how best to kind of put this into words but I eventually found myself feeling bad about myself when I was with this person, comparing myself to this person, feeling like I wasn't living up to the standard of what they were achieving.
Speaker 1:And it's just all a me thing, but it's very relevant, it's also very important, and when I would leave the person, I'd feel just really rubbish. I'd feel really crap about myself a lot of the time and I would find myself going home and moaning about this person to mark and I would do that and it got more and more, more and more regular that I just like why am I doing this to myself? It's absolutely outrageous. I don't need to do this. I do not need to be in this situation.
Speaker 1:This person does not bring me joy. They don't kind of enhance my life in any way. In fact, they actually make it worse, and so I had to really cut ties with that person, and I've done it with a lot of people and I know that sounds really brutal, but life really really short and when you have three children and a business to run and a house to run and friends and family that are all over the world, you have to be really picky with who you spend your time with and what you do with those people, because I want to be able to be very present for the people that I care about and the friends I care about and my family and the people that really deserve my time, but I also deserve theirs, if that makes sense. So, going back to the three types of people you need in your life, so the first one and I think this one will be massively, massively overlooked by most people is a mentor or a coach, so someone who is ahead of you, someone who has already achieved what you want to achieve, provides guidance, provides experience and provides wisdom and helps you to see blind spots and avoid mistakes. Somebody who will see in you what you can't see in yourself. So important, so, so important. I can't tell you now, I mean on my hands now. I would say I've invested in about seven mentors in my life and I have learned masses of amounts from all of them. They've all raised up my standards, they've given me new skills. They have yeah, they've just it's been absolutely incredible and it was, it's been some of the best moments and experiences of my life. So you might not even know that this is even a thing, but if you aren't where you want to be in your life, but you want more for yourself, seeking out somebody that's already achieved what you want specifically is absolutely critical.
Speaker 1:The second one is peers, so people on your level, so those who share similar goals and challenges, those that offer support, motivation and accountability and those that keep you grounded and push you to be better. Now, this is critical and I can think off the top of my head straight away, several people in my life who are these people, and I also can recognize it in the community at Feed my Health. There are people in that community who are always there to offer support, that motivate, that hold others accountable, that really, really cheer people on, and those people are just absolute gold to me. Like I have so much respect for people that will do that for others, um, especially as I was at when I was at school, girls, particularly, were just absolute bitches, like they weren't, didn't have each other's back. It was always about competition and who could be better, and putting people down and and.
Speaker 1:And that's really why I wanted to create a community of women that like bring people up, support and don't see each other as a competition, don't see each other as a threat or a oh well, they're doing really well and I'm not doing as well, so therefore, I should just be feeling really bad about myself. Like no use that person as inspiration. Use that person to light you up, to go right, they've achieved X, I want to achieve Y. Off, we go Like that's the kind of tribe that I want to have, both personally and in my business, and I will continue to strive for that until the day I die, because I think that that is so incredibly important. So, having people on your level I'm not talking about friends, who, of course, you're going to have people in your life that aren't, that don't want the same things as you I fully get that but what you have to ask yourself is do those people support me in what I want? And I'm going to give you a really, a really great example of where I saw this not be the case just recently.
Speaker 1:So I was out at a social event and I was with I'm not going to name names and in fact I'm actually going to really try and mask the identity of these people completely. So I was with two people who live in close proximity to each other and one of them was really, really into their health and their fitness and they were talking about their past experience with working on their health and fitness and the other person, who lives in close proximity to them, rolled their eyes and started sort of belittling what they had done, and I was was really annoyed about it. Didn't say anything, of course, but I was really annoyed about it because I just thought, you know, that says more about you than the person trying to improve their life. But I think that when you live in close proximity with somebody to the degree that they did, it's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's it's.
Speaker 1:To not have that same level of support and like have that cheerleader in that person is so incredibly sad and it makes me feel like, well, what else aren't they supporting you with? And this is the thing. So I'm not saying that you're all of your friends and everybody that's closest to you has to have the same beliefs, has to have the same interests and has to have the same goals. Quite honestly, most people don't, right, most people don't. But those people that you are with, they need to be your cheerleaders regardless. They need to support you regardless. They don't need to understand what you're doing, they just need to have your back. And that is really really critical.
Speaker 1:And I just want to say, I just want to point out as well, just on a complete side note, when people who are in a fat loss phase and want to lose weight go out for dinner, a lot of the time they will struggle with staying true to their decisions that they made prior to going out. So let's say, for example, you want to lose weight, it's really important to you, and so you decide ahead of time, right on the the menu I'm going to have the grilled chicken, the salad, the potatoes and I'm going to have a glass of wine. And then you get there and you are peer pressured into a whole bottle of wine, a side of fries, a starter and a dessert. Okay, now just remember that it's just as much your responsibility to stay true to what you want as it is for your peers to support what you're doing. So just remember that when you're next going out for food and you find yourself not sticking to what you decided about, or you feel peer pressured, think about who are these peers that are pressuring me. Are they really pressuring me, or do they not have the same goals as me and so they are eating in a way that aligns with their goals? I just want you to just reflect on that for a second. Okay, but anyway digressing.
Speaker 1:The third point. The third person, rather, that you need to have in your life is a mentee, or somebody who is actually behind you. So this is a person who wants to achieve what you have. So this is somebody who wants to have or has similar goals, who has similar challenges, but is behind you, okay. So this is somebody that you can teach, somebody that you can support. This is somebody that you can teach, somebody that you can support, and somebody who you can therefore reinforce your own knowledge, your own experience and your own growth, and somebody who reminds you of how far you have come.
Speaker 1:So again, in the feed my health community, there will be people who are a couple of steps ahead of others, and those people have a powerful responsibility and role in that they can teach the people that are behind them, that can support them. They can reinforce what they've learned to help people to progress. It can be people in your life. Maybe you've got a friend who also wants to lose weight and you're 10 steps ahead of them, and so you want to teach them and support them and, you know, help them grow. And that's so important, and I always say this to my kids. Actually, you know, if you can, we've got we've got different skills and different passions in our family, for sure, and so I always try to encourage the kids to teach the other kid the thing that they're really good at and really passionate and really skilled in to the other child who potentially struggles with this. But you know specifically subjects at school that you you know they're a mandatory, like math, science, whatever. If we have a child that's really good at math, for example, it's really beneficial for that child to teach the child that's struggling because it reinforces the information. So really, really valuable.
Speaker 1:So you've got a mentor, a coach, a peer, and you've got a mentee. So, just to clarify, a mentor or coach is someone that's ahead of you. A peer is a person that's on your level and a mentee is someone who is behind you, wants the same goal, and then how to attract and maintain these relationships. Be intentional about seeking out mentors and peers. I think a lot of women specifically struggle with the idea of asking for help, and a lot of men also think that they don't need the instruction manual to put the Ikea flat pack together. So you can see that we are kind of like our own worst enemies when it comes to this. But I can tell you now, the biggest mistake that I ever made was not asking for help and thinking that I could do it on my own and it was my duty to. It was the worst mistake that I have ever made, and you can tell that I value mentorship and coaching so much because I've spent so much money on it, like I have invested so much money into these things because I know how far ahead it progresses me in my life. So be intentional about seeking out mentors and seeking out peers. Invest in others and build genuine connections. If you are in a community like the Feed, my Health community, it's really important that you invest in the people that are there and you build genuine connections with them so important, which is why I like to have events and photo shoots and things like that, because if you can help others and invest in others and build genuine connections, not only will it, you know, solidify you and where you're at and progress you forward, but it will also help somebody else, and that's an incredible thing. And then stay open to feedback and open to growth.
Speaker 1:I literally seek out opportunities to learn. Yesterday, I delegated a task to my husband that I didn't really want to do, so me and my daughter had gone to the gym in the morning, which is in the town, about 20 minutes from where we live, and I also had to take her back to the same town that afternoon to get her teeth pulled out. I really didn't enjoy being in the car for that long. I find it such a waste of time. Even though I'm like listening to podcasts or listening to music, I would rather just get on with my day. So I actually delegated and I asked my husband if he would mind taking Ava to the orthodontist, which is great, so I managed to free up some time. Um, and then I had another thing that cancelled, so I again had a bit more time back and rather than thinking, oh, I could just sit on the sofa and do nothing. I was like, right, what, what? What can I learn? Like? What can I go on? What course can I go and implement what? What thing can I implement that I've just learned? What book can I pick up to do research?
Speaker 1:I'm always thinking about the next thing that I can learn, and a lot of people would see that as a little bit obsessive or whatever they want to see it as it doesn't matter, because it's my life and it serves me and it makes me happy and it helps my passion grow and it helps me to help other people. So the fact that I am seeking out opportunities to learn just makes it so funny for me to think about when I was a kid, just wanting education and learning to be over. So I think that you know we do go through phases in life. We have slightly different kind of nuances within those things and you know traits that sort of marry over to the different mindsets. That's okay, but you will probably definitely know, um which mindset you are in right now and I think that we're all humans, we're all individuals and that's what makes us so amazing and so incredible, and I don't think there's any right or wrong mindset. I just think you know what's helping you and you know what's hindering you. And if you identify an area of your life that is being hindered you're not happy with, then have a right and a responsibility to make make a change. And if you're not really sure what that looks like or how to go about it or what the next steps are, seek out those three people, um. So yeah, that's kind of what I wanted to share with you today. A little bit of a heavy hitting one potentially I'm not sure, I don't know um, but just something that I'm so interested in and so passionate about, and just you can just tell what goes through my head when I'm going for my walks in the morning. It would be much simpler sometimes if I thought about monkeys clanging symbols together, but we are who we are at the end of the day. So I hope you enjoyed this episode.
Speaker 1:I'm really looking forward to catching you up again in next week's. I'm actually going to do a bit of a Q&A. I think we've not done a Q&A for a while, so I'll pop a question box up on my stories next week. You can ask me whatever you want, like. It doesn't have to be fitness health. It doesn't have to be anything related to anything that I do as a job. It can be literally anything.
Speaker 1:If you're struggling with anything in an area of your life, drop me. Drop me a question and I will answer it. If you'd like me to keep it anonymous, just let me know. Um, I don't often share the names of people that ask me questions anyway, so it's very unlikely that you will be exposed, um, so yeah, that was. That was the randomest thing that I ever said. Um, however, that's what I think I want to do for next week, unless I get some bright spark of an idea on on another walk. So, with all that being said, I hope you're having a wonderful day wherever you are in the world, and please remember to keep feeling your health.