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S2 Ep 1 - We are Back!!! New Year Habits and the Spirit of Renewal
Ever wondered why some New Year's resolutions stick while others fizzle out by February? We're diving into the intricate world of resolutions, revealing the secrets behind successful goal-setting and why the younger crowd seems more inclined to embrace them than their older counterparts. This episode is packed with personal stories as we reflect on how New Year's celebrations shift as we age, and we share our own successes and stumbles in our quest to become healthier and dedicate more time to this podcast.
Get ready for some lighthearted banter as we tackle the hurdles of sticking to resolutions like eating healthier, exercising more, and even reducing alcohol intake. We debate the merits of "Dry March" and the challenges of completely quitting alcohol amidst social engagements. You'll hear strategies for maintaining motivation, such as setting smaller, realistic goals and having an accountability partner. Through humor and real-life anecdotes, we discuss the value of persistence and the power of incremental improvements in forming sustainable habits.
Finally, we venture into the world of cultural traditions, exploring unique New Year's rituals from around the globe. From Spain's grape-eating custom to the idea of pork consumption for prosperity in China, these traditions offer a fascinating glimpse into how different cultures welcome the New Year. We wrap up with a look at the transformative power of exercise on mental well-being and the importance of building a supportive community. Encouraging everyday conversations about mental health, we invite listeners to join us in fostering an environment of positivity and growth.
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Speaker 1:Here's your hosts, shane and Shiv. What is that? Yeah, that's my little Star Wars intro. Star Wars, I love it.
Speaker 3:You either love Star Wars or you love Trekkie. Yeah, I wonder if a real emotional entry in Star Wars is you love?
Speaker 1:Trekkie. Yeah, I wanted a real emotional entry and Star Wars is definitely always an emotional vibe. It's one of those really iconic you cannot like.
Speaker 3:Everyone knows it. Everyone knows it. Yeah, even if you don't like Star Wars, even if you don't like Star Wars.
Speaker 1:You know what it is. I know what that is. That's a Star Wars intro.
Speaker 3:Same with the Imperial Death March. Yes, exactly, that's the Star Wars intro. Same with the Imperial Death March. Yes, exactly. Well, hello Shev, welcome back to 2025. Yeah, 2025.
Speaker 1:Happy New Year everyone who's listening.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 1:We hope that you had a wonderful and safe New Year's. Absolutely Enjoy the fireworks, Shev.
Speaker 3:I was in bed before. No, actually we were working, yeah, we were working on New Year's, and the only thing we got from dispatch was oh, happy New Year, oh, yeah, so it was pretty dismal, to be honest.
Speaker 1:I mean, I suppose when you think about it, it is a normal kind of shift, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean that's what happens, I guess?
Speaker 1:But at the same time, new Year's doesn't really matter anymore. Let's be honest.
Speaker 3:When you get older, I feel yeah.
Speaker 1:I feel like when you're young it's like such a big thing. Now it is, it's just like Ah.
Speaker 3:Especially when you're 18 or 19, because you can go out, get drunk with friends, go away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember those days.
Speaker 3:It just means nothing. But anyway, it means nothing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Happy New Year To yeah happy new year to you, yeah you too. Yeah, how's your year started so far?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Not real good. Started with a bang.
Speaker 3:It really did start with a bang and not a good bang, not a good, not a big bang. No, no, no. If this is what the rest of the year is going to be like. God forbid, no, no, shiv no.
Speaker 1:We're changing mindsets here. No, we're changing mindsets and we'll get into that more a bit later because we have a really cool concept of an episode today, actually.
Speaker 3:Yes, we are. So what we're going to tackle today is we're going to tackle some superstitions and some statistics on New Year's, and New Year's… what do they call it? What do you call it? Resolutions? Yeah, resolutions, good job. New Year's resolutions?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to be doing an episode on New Year's resolutions since the beginning of the year, and it's a time where many people make New Year's resolutions. Let me ask you a question, Chef. You had any New Year's resolutions this time Not really 2025?
Speaker 3:I think the only one is honestly and this is the honest truth is probably maybe get to the gym a bit more get a little bit healthier. So that's a resolution for you, because get to the gym yeah, definitely get to the gym and yeah, do a bit more workout, a bit more exercise and, honestly, maybe pursue this podcast a little bit more as well.
Speaker 3:And I'd pretty well hope so well, I was going to say eventually push it along and, yeah, see where we see where this takes us yeah, I think we had an incredible 2024.
Speaker 1:We did. Obviously kicking off the podcast, and at the end of 2024, we released some merch, some shirts and some caps. Shout out to everyone who's bought one. We appreciate you, we love you so much, sharing the message that we're kind of wanting to put out there and that's inspire others to create a safe community and, as our slogan says, share every voice belongs, Every voice belongs.
Speaker 1:That's it. So trying to create a space where everyone can share what they're feeling, how they're getting through life, and then create tools that you know we can help each other.
Speaker 3:That's exactly right. So, yeah, just on that. Yeah, you know we can help each other, that's exactly right. So yeah, just on that. If you haven't bought a shirt or a hat or whatever else, jump on our website. Yeah, wwwleavealotonpodcastcomau. Check it out, get your merch, start representing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you hadn't bought a shirt before Christmas, you definitely were on Santa's naughty list. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And I think the Boxing Day code is just about to run out as well. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which is crazy because we're in.
Speaker 3:It finishes on the 9th.
Speaker 1:Mick was telling me no. Well, this episode will be out on.
Speaker 2:Oh, the 15th Later on that, don't worry about it. No, we need to cut that out, yeah.
Speaker 3:There we go.
Speaker 1:That sucks but yeah, we're going to obviously talk about New Year's resolutions, because that's quite a big one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, cool. I know you want to kick us off. I was going to say, let me hit you up with something.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's get on to it. If you were going to ask me, I don't have New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, thanks for asking I appreciate that. Well, you're a fun loving guy that just has everyday resolutions, oh yeah, so why would you have like a daily one?
Speaker 1:I have like many goals and many things that.
Speaker 3:I do. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1:But I think my wife and I have this really interesting concept. We don't do New Year's resolutions per se. We'll be saying like, oh, we're going to work out X amount of times or whatever. We have a word or a phrase for the year that we want to achieve. So, like, I hope I'm not going to get in trouble for saying this, but my wife's one for this year is being comfortable in the uncomfortable. Yeah, you're right, so that's such a. I mean, when I heard that, I know the reason why I share that is because I think it's such a beautiful thing, because I think, like, there's so many times we are faced with uncomfortable situations and it's learning to be okay and then how to deal with those to a point where we get comfortable in them.
Speaker 1:And that's not to say that we enjoy being in uncomfortable situations, but I think it's just being like well, I'm okay.
Speaker 3:I can.
Speaker 1:I can handle this uncomfortable situation quite easily because I have tools and I have things that I've been able to work on in order to to get me through this. So that's yeah, her one is being comfortable in the uncomfortable. For me it's, um, I have two words it's happiness. Yep, two words it's happiness and it's adventure. Yeah, okay, so those are my two things for this year. Is I want to? I really I feel like this year is going to be an adventure for me in the most beautiful way, and then, I really want to work on my happiness and my joy this year so by you saying I'm a real happy-go-lucky guy.
Speaker 1:That kind of takes me off to a good start.
Speaker 3:Actually, I truly do mean that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Especially when you're an outside person looking in.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You say that you're always happy and you're always loving and fun. And then you got me where I'm just trying to sort my life out and it's like wow.
Speaker 1:Oh no, we're all there.
Speaker 3:Shev, we're all there, but it's all good it, because I'm trying to think positive and we'll be right, but I'm happy.
Speaker 1:That's one for me to say hey, good job, buddy, I'm doing well. Always got to throw in the near horn. I love it. That's awesome. Yeah, okay, kick us off.
Speaker 1:New Year's resolutions For those of you who do New Year's resolutions. That's great. I think they're really cool. I think every, uh, every single person needs something that they're working towards, and that's why I say, whether it's an actual goal, or it's like for me, where I say it's a word or a phrase for my wife, where we we're trying to achieve for this year, I think it's so important, um, because there's a wonderful thing where it says, um, it's actually. I think it might even be like a biblical verse where it says a man without vision perishes. It's actually, I think it might even be like a biblical verse where it says a man without vision perishes. Yeah, okay, so if you don't have something that you're working towards, it kind of makes life very meaningless. If that makes sense, yeah, yeah, of course. So a man without vision perishes. I feel like big thing. Vision boards, all these kind of things are so key when it comes to making like good, healthy, like goals for the year.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, because it's just like what are you working?
Speaker 1:towards. What's that saying? A vision seen or a vision written down is a vision… Lost? No, a vision written down is not a vision lost. A vision written down is a…. I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out, I'll find it.
Speaker 3:Anyway. Well, that's the big plan, anyway is to move forward and do what you said.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah, so Work towards something. So yeah, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 3:Let's get into it. So the first one I've got is women 80%. Sorry, this is silly New Year's resolutions are shared. It is, oh God, yeah right. So women 80% are more likely than men, which is 69% more likely to set goals for the new year. So women are obviously more driven compared to men. I don't know what the reason behind that is. Men maybe are probably I don't know probably less caring.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah. Kind of think that sometimes men just get into the strata of going well, it's life is either good so they don't want to change anything and they just carry on going maybe they had a good last year or whatever the case is or maybe they're just yeah, maybe, like you say, lazy, did you?
Speaker 3:so your missus is the one that come up with all the obviously not so much news resolutions.
Speaker 1:But she loves a vision board. Oh man, she loves a vision, yeah, okay, so so you're on the.
Speaker 3:You're probably in the 69 yeah yeah, like I say for me it's, it's I don't necessarily have a goal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, like we speak about like what we would love to achieve in the year and stuff like that. When we sit down at the end of every year, yep, we kind of my missus and I will have like a wrap-up of the year and then kind of what our aim for the next year is, and then obviously we come up with our phrases, yep, so we do have that. But yeah, I wouldn't necessarily say I feel like she is the driving force of that. Yeah, okay, yeah, she's really good, like that actually.
Speaker 3:Yeah right, yeah Well, just one other thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Before you rattle off, some stuff is New Year's resolutions are also more popular. Younger generations as well. Just to add on to the last stat that I've come up with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's like I said. I think the older we get, the more kind of just a routine we get, like life just becomes normal, like we even said, like New Year's becomes less of a thing the older we get.
Speaker 3:That's what I mean. Well, when you're younger, you go out, you get on the drink with the boys or the gals, or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Have lots of fun, go away.
Speaker 1:But when you get older it gets to the it's probably why, and when you're younger, you're a bit more like goal orientated, like you want to achieve things you want to do things like hey, I want to get this job this year, I want to, you know, study that course this year, or whatever the case is save this much money, blah, blah, blah, yeah, yeah, or make that sports team or whatever it is so yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:What do you got? What do you got written down?
Speaker 1:Oh well for me. So basically, some of the stats that I saw is that 95% of New Year's resolutions are fitness related.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. Everyone's looking forward to getting fit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3:That's one of mine is to clear my head, yeah yeah, mental health wise and get fit yeah, so Mental health-wise and get fit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so 95% of New Year's resolutions are fitness-related in some way or form. How's this, though, but after three months, only 10% of people think their resolution will last.
Speaker 3:It's funny you should say that, because I've got one of my stats here is like there's like within 88% of people who set a New Year's resolution within the first two weeks they fail them. So it's funny, you should set a new user resolution within the first two weeks, they fail them.
Speaker 2:So it's funny.
Speaker 3:You should say that because, yeah, I don't know what the reasoning behind it is. I think, yeah, you start a new year. You're like yep. I'm going to do this, this is going to be awesome, and then you go, ah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or something gets in the way. I think it's a dopamine hit of saying like yeah. I'm going to go out there and do it. In the beginning it's like you have all good intentions and then you kind of realise that it's going to be harder than you thought. Exactly, so a lot of people just go, oh well.
Speaker 3:I'm just going to give up. That is exactly why I reckon they need to commit. If they do commit, do small steps.
Speaker 2:Which we'll get into that later.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so what I roughly did is, when I started the gym about three months ago, I was like, yep, I'm just going to go two days a week, because I figured like two days is small. Do an hour at the gym, get my body into it, get used to it and then eventually, as I get better at it, I'll start kicking up the days and maybe, instead of doing an hour, do an hour and a half.
Speaker 3:So I always think that you need to start small Crawl before you walk, crawl before you know what I mean. So I always think that you need to start small crawl before you walk, crawl before you walk absolutely, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I thought I'd give you maybe a couple of reasons why people give up on New Year's resolutions. This is obviously a bit of research that's been done, yep. First reason going solo. So when you put out a goal, that's very much a solo orientated goal, so it's just you. For instance, fitness goal, yeah, yeah, if it's just you sometimes, uh, that's probably a big factor into why. Um, obviously that new year's resolution is on follow-through, because we have days where we get pumped and we go to the gym, like you say, for instance or we get days where we're like I'm just not feeling it.
Speaker 1:Today, so therefore I'm not going to go um and there's no accountability yeah, okay um. Also, the fear of failure sometimes sets in. So we're like, oh well, you know I'm not going to get there. Yep, um, and so if I'm not going to get there, why I continue doing this?
Speaker 1:yeah, of course, yep so yeah, so so going solo is a big one. Um, I always feel like having, even if it is a solo goal, for instance. So, for instance, like whether it's you with your gym, yep, but having someone you're accountable to, so, whether it's like hey like, for instance, like whether it's you with your gym but having someone you're accountable to. So whether it's like hey, like for instance, you're chatting to me and I go hey, did you go to gym?
Speaker 3:today and you go.
Speaker 1:no, I'm like oh bro, you need to get on there.
Speaker 3:Like just having someone that, even if I'm not going with you per se or doing the goal with you, just to keep you accountable, oh it's bad.
Speaker 1:So it just yeah, yeah, yeah, 100, yeah, yeah, okay, um. The second one is uh, expectations are too high. Yeah, so we create this, this massive goal, this lofty goal um out there and it's like, oh well, um, it's unachievable in a way.
Speaker 3:Yeah okay and so so we expect too much we expect too much.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the expectation is too high and therefore, um, yeah, we go. Well, if I'm not going to get there, I'll continue to do it. I'm just going to drop that, yeah okay, there you go.
Speaker 3:What brings back to crawl before you walk? Just small doses small steps so you expect too much, obviously so yeah, another one.
Speaker 1:Obviously people give up too easily. I feel like we live in a mentality, in an age nowadays where people give up way too easily on things and that's on everything like relationships. You know goals, we set a job. Even Yep, like the job sector, is just ridiculous. At the moment. People are like they have an altercation at work and they're just like I'm out Cheers Guilty of it.
Speaker 3:Not going to lie to you and you know this because we've talked off air Guilty of it firsthand. Yeah, I just check out sometimes because it just seems so much easier just to check out and just go look, I'm done with it, yeah.
Speaker 1:Um then, actually, like what you said, just take accountability and just be like no, no, we're gonna sort this out yeah, yeah, and I feel like, you know, conflict was something that we have all over in every area of our lives, and I feel like when we are able to deal with conflict in a healthy way, that is such a defining moment because it makes every aspect of our life so good and so healthy. Yep, and so conflict management is such a big thing, such a big thing for us. You're getting distracted with people that are walking past.
Speaker 3:No, I know that bloke. Okay, I know that old man.
Speaker 1:Oh, hi old man.
Speaker 3:Sorry, I'm listening to. I swear to God I'm listening to you, but I was just like, wow, I know that bloke. Yeah, crazy, His name's Ron. Oh, hey, ron Shout. Okay, another one. Not enough time. This is obviously quite self-explanatory. Oh, yeah, yeah, like due to work or family commitments? Oh, just yeah last busy, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know how many times you say to someone you're like hey, how are you doing? And the first thing they say is yeah, really busy bro.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but at the same time I've learned that that's just a.
Speaker 1:Oh, a generic response, exactly I know what you're saying 100%.
Speaker 3:I find that's very generic, Like yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a very generic response, that's for sure.
Speaker 3:But yeah, 100% yeah. And sometimes life does get busy yeah, of course it does. Of course it does.
Speaker 1:But yeah. So sometimes that's a defining moment on why goals fail.
Speaker 3:Well, you know your first end, like with what yeah, yeah, just different stuff You've got going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that it's hard, it's hard yakka, so Hard yakka it is. It's like it is.
Speaker 3:It is hard yakka.
Speaker 1:Hard yakka.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so yeah, as I said, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah, time is a Time is a big one. I feel like we we also We've got really bad at managing our time. Um, as as people, yeah, yeah, um, we tend to prioritize the wrong things, yep, in life in order to, because we all know time's limited we only have 24 hours in a day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the case of saying, well, how can I make the most of those 24 hours? Um, and it's so. I feel like we get caught in this rat race of life sometimes, yeah, you know, even like a job, like I understand, like we need to pay for things. So don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that. But I feel like we spend more time doing our job, which doesn't bring us happiness most of the time. And if you do do a job that brings you happiness, man, I take my hat off to you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, lucky you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're. In a very small percentage of people I think yeah, but for the majority of people, who kind of just go to work to earn an income, I feel like our priorities are messed up. Because how much time do we put into that thing and we neglect the time that we should put into things that do make us happy, like our family, our loved ones, our friends. Maybe it's like you're a musician, for instance.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 1:And you don't get to spend as much time like gigging or playing or practicing or like honing that craft of like just enjoying it, yeah. So I really do take my hat off to people that like take that leap to go. Well, I'm going to focus more on the enjoyment side of things rather than just getting stuck in the race of life.
Speaker 3:Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, we're in that percentage, unfortunately, that we go to work and supply for our family.
Speaker 1:Hey, speak for yourself. I enjoy my job. Thank you very much. Yeah, shout out.
Speaker 3:Are you serious? You know what.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I am very privileged Okay fair enough, I am very privileged in getting to do what I do.
Speaker 3:I enjoy it to an extent because it is very easy for the money we make, yeah, and also… it is extremely easy.
Speaker 1:There are some really valuable people that we work with, that I feel like I've got to to really spend time with and hear their stories and hear, um, yeah, who they are, um as a person, and so, um, yeah, I, I appreciate that. I, like I said, I really feel like I'm in a very privileged state. I might not be really like sold out for my job in terms of like, yeah, you like sold out for my job in terms of like yeah, you need to get into mining, yeah, mining.
Speaker 3:I've been in it for 16 years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, at the same time, I feel like I'm very privileged.
Speaker 3:Yeah, fair enough, I've been in the mining industry for 16 years and, yeah, as I said, it gets to the point where you just like it becomes a job. Yeah, do you know what I mean? And it's just like you know. It's pretty easy work with what we do, but it's like I've got the aspiration and a big goal of going. You know what? Yes, it's a job. It's making me good money and I'm supporting the family, but at the end of the day, this is not who I am, and this is not where I want to be in, say, 10 years' time.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean, but anyway, that's it. Yeah, so that Time is a big one. Other one is we've just touched on it money.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:If you put a goal, that obviously is attached to monetary things. Well, yeah, sometimes you've got to make sure that you've got enough money to achieve that goal, so that's a big one. Next one is no plan, so I love.
Speaker 3:So what do you mean by no plan? Is that just like going into the new year?
Speaker 1:So you have a goal, but you don't know how to achieve it. Ah right, and that thing I was telling you, you've actually found it. So it says yeah, a dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan, and a plan backed by action makes your dreams come true. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:So let's let that sink in listeners.
Speaker 1:So yeah, okay, so, so let's, let's sink in. Yeah, so dream written down with a date becomes a goal, which is obviously what we're saying. We have goals for this year, so write it down and then put a date to it. If there is a specific date that you want, a goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. So write out how do you, how would you like to achieve that, and then write down the steps that you think would be the case to get there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then a plan backed by action becomes your dreams coming true. So if you want to achieve that goal, you know, put that plan into action.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:And then that means that you'll achieve that dream.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 1:So there's my little tidbit. Fun advice for Shane.
Speaker 3:That's good. Yeah, I like it. No, this is good.
Speaker 1:You're breaking it down, especially for layman's terms yeah people like myself, yeah, and then the other other few things is obviously lack of motivation, lack of self-belief, so we don't think we're going to do it, or we don't have the motivation to do it ourself. Yep, um, social situations, you know, whatever that might be. And then the last one is hey, we just might forget. And that's why I say if it's written down, you can't forget it yeah, cool.
Speaker 1:So those are some of the things that has. Some of the research has shown that leads to not being able to achieve New Year's resolutions yeah, okay. So I think when we break it down to saying, okay, well, those are some of the things that lead to not achieving it, how can we then say, right, um, how can we achieve these goals?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah. Um, so my thing is what you were saying just before about how you said take like crawl before you walk, type of thing. Yeah, take a sit. My thing is is I've read a saying on this.
Speaker 3:This is new year's resolution what I've seen on a website yeah, yeah, and it's an actual statement and it says you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Yeah, that's good, which I really like that, because I'm putting it in perspective for me, because you know me, I always say crawl before you walk. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:But, that's great you don't have to see the whole staircase.
Speaker 3:Just take the first step, slow down, take the first step.
Speaker 1:That's what they often say when it comes to like starting to run a marathon Like they like break it down.
Speaker 3:Like you don't have to worry about it. Mick's laughing at me because he knows.
Speaker 1:You're taking the first step.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get on that stepper.
Speaker 3:Sorry, keep going, shane. Yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 1:So a few things that I want to touch on. When it comes to obviously, first of all, having a goal is important, whether it's actual goal or phrase, or something that you want to work towards. I feel like that is such a key thing into growth into this new year, yep. So I really do encourage if you haven't had time to think about it, Make time. If you haven't written down something, write it down, whether it's A phrase, a goal or a specific Something that you want to get out this year. Put it down on paper and so that you can have it written down. The second thing that I really want to say Is that I feel and this is something you and I were talking About before this yep the language that we use and I and I said this really nicely, so I'm going to say it like I said, the words we speak define our mindset yeah, yeah so if we saying that we can't achieve something, that is going to affect our mindset, into saying I can't achieve something, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I really do encourage people. If there is something that you're wanting to achieve and this goes through a whole lot of thing speak encouragement, speak positivity, speak life into that situation so that it can affect your mindset in a positive way. Yeah, yeah, everyone has a whole lot of stuff that rolls around in their head negative, positive and it's so easy to get caught up in the negative. Of course it is. It's so easy to say a negative comment because I feel like the world just makes it so easy for us to say a negative comment.
Speaker 3:And I feel that.
Speaker 1:That's why it is so important that we say positive things when it comes to ourselves, to our goals, to our mindset, because that is ultimately going to be what we think and what we believe.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the drama is, we always pick the negative stuff out. We never see when we've done good.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean. Like it's like other people, when they're people judging and stuff like that, they don't see the good in you. They always pick out the bad stuff. It's like on social media, you know like you always put the good stuff up and then put the bad stuff up. Yeah, Like do you get what I'm trying to? Say yeah, Like it's like when you do something good. It's like at work. When you do something good, no one wants to acknowledge it, but when you do something bad, a microscope's on you.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think that's wrong. I think we need to be changing that. We need to flip. We need to be flipping the script.
Speaker 1:A hundred percent, but I think that starts internally. Yeah right, Because I think as much as we're saying that I think we can also be a part of that negative thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah okay.
Speaker 1:So for me at work, for instance, when someone does something good, I love to let them know that they've done something good. Yeah okay, so I'm going to be the change in that, okay, do you understand what I'm saying?
Speaker 3:Yeah, of course I do, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I feel like that's what I'm saying to you. It starts and this is the one thing I'm going to say is when it comes to putting these plans into action it starts, and you've said it starts small it does yeah, and you and I were talking about this.
Speaker 1:There's something that they refer to as the one degree effect oh, yeah, yeah yeah, so we have a starting point right and you draw a line and that's the direction that you can go. Yep, when you want to make a change, okay, you shift that axis and you draw the line, and in the beginning it might be the smallest difference, and that's what they say one degree the further those lines get from each other the greater that distance becomes from those lines.
Speaker 1:So all it is, it's a one degree shift that we need in order to change the route of the path that we're on and that, in the future, will be so much bigger.
Speaker 3:It'll be such a bigger difference. It looks like it's bugger all at the start, but eventually it will pan out to be better.
Speaker 1:And that's why I think anyone will say to you always starts with the small things, small decisions to say something positive, to speak something positive, to think something positive. To speak something positive, to think something positive, to do something positive. It always takes one small difference to start accumulating and accumulating.
Speaker 2:Chain reaction. Chain reaction yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah 100% and that's a habit. Start Habit, start. You do something small repetitively enough times, it'll eventually become a habit where you're not even thinking about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, well, I was just saying. If the listeners haven't listened to it, there's Walsh's episode. He actually mentioned it. He changed the pattern. Yeah, changed the pattern, changed the pattern. So, yeah, obviously what relates to what you're saying is like change the pattern and yeah, be different. Yeah, If you're not happy with something which I was, mate, I'm going to throw my hand up straight away.
Speaker 1:I'm the first person that needs to really sort myself out and change patterns and stuff to become better. Yeah, and I do feel that I'm guilty of it. I do feel that it definitely is a mindset thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's why I say you've got to shift your mindset and to say okay, well, I don't like where I'm at at the moment, and so I'm going to start to put into place small little things in order to change that pattern.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, you know, so yeah.
Speaker 1:Walshie was really, really good in the fact that he acknowledged and this is another thing he took ownership of everything that happened. Yeah yeah, and I think that's what people need to do. A lot of people tend to say everything happens to me, rather than I am making everything happen.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I feel like that's such a wrong mindset. Take ownership, like we have control over how. We might not have control over every situation that happens to us, but we definitely do have control over every reaction we have and every situation. It can be a positive and negative luck reaction If we make it where it's like. It might not necessarily be a positive situation, but our reaction to it can be one of growth and can definitely be one of saying, well, hey, I can throw my hands up, I can shout, I can rant, I can rave, I can swear, I can throw toys or whatever. Or I could say what do I need to learn out of this and this is one thing I said to you before this is that it was Denzel Washington.
Speaker 3:He actually said he's got a lot of good stuff, he's got a lot of good stuff.
Speaker 2:He's got a lot of good stuff. He's an incredibly intelligent human.
Speaker 1:Honestly so so good I got. Oh man, he is an incredible person. His story is also amazing, anyway. Training day.
Speaker 3:Just quickly Training day. Oh my word, it's probably one of my favourite. He's awesome at that, yeah, anyway.
Speaker 1:He has a thing where he says Fail forwards, yeah, so, yeah, anyway. He has a thing where he says fail forwards, yeah, so it's like we're going to fail in life. Yeah, yeah, but fail forward, because in failing forward there's growth. And even the smallest amount of growth is a sign of success in life. Yeah, okay, so even when we think we're failing, we're actually succeeding. Yeah, okay, so even when we think we're failing, we're actually succeeding. Yeah, right, I mean, it's that whole. Who's the guy? Was it Isaac Newton who invented the light bulb?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, isaac Newton, Isaac Newton, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And have you obviously heard the story of Isaac Newton where he says he tried 900 and odd, whatever it is 900 ways before he eventually came up with tungsten, which is the filament in the light bulb.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the person said to him when he was being interviewed they're like dude, how the heck did you fail 900 times and not give up before finding the one? He says well, I don't see it as 900 ways. I failed. I see 900 ways. And not to make a light bulb 900 ways, not to light bulb, Not to make a light bulb Right yeah, so he was like I succeeded 909 times and not to do it right. Yeah right.
Speaker 3:So he sort of flipped the script a little bit. Yeah, right yeah.
Speaker 1:So he's like and that for me is like a key thing he failed forward, like he never gave up, and can you imagine what the world would be like if we didn't have something so small like light bulbs?
Speaker 3:you'd be living off candles exactly candles, dude, like the amish people oh, shout out to the amish people hey, they live crazy yeah fail forwards.
Speaker 1:That's my, uh, my, advice.
Speaker 2:If you're gonna if you're gonna go for something.
Speaker 1:I have a funny saying as well. Yeah, um, and I say it in jest, but, but yeah, I think there's partly some truth into it. It's like you know how you talk about setting a bar for yourself. Yep, so for me it's like we like you set the standard, you set the mark. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So for me, I go set the bar high so I can walk underneath it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, that's….
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I'm not going to jump the bar, I'm just going to walk underneath it.
Speaker 3:So you set… yeah, but.
Speaker 1:I love that. I'm like aim high because even if I get halfway, that's more than what I would get if I Well, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't know if this is right or not, but I always say I never have any goals or anything like that, because then that way I'm never disappointed.
Speaker 1:Oh no, that's a shocker, that's a shocker.
Speaker 3:But I know, I know I'm going to change it. You're doing all right, you're changing my mindset. It's all good. Good, I'm glad. I'm glad I do have to, and that's the honest truth. Just from what we've talked about, I just yeah something's got to give.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's in everywhere, dude, everywhere. And I think, like I said, it starts towards the goal or what you're trying to achieve, or even the mindset on how to get there. So it's attitude, it's making sure that you have a definitive plan on what you're thinking. So if, for instance let's just use your gym one as an example you want to go three times a week, I want to get fit.
Speaker 1:How do I get fit? Well, I go to gym. Okay, I can't just say I go to gym, that's to be more definitive. I'm going to go to gym three times a week, yep, wonderful. Well, I work this day, I work this day, I work this day. So I'm going to go on this day, and I'm going to go on this day and I'm on this day. So now you start breaking it down to small, little, bite-sized chunks where you go okay, cool, I might not be able to go for an hour. So, okay, cool, I'll start with half an hour and then I'll build up from there and I'll go more, more, more, yep.
Speaker 1:So you start making the goal achievable for yourself rather than saying well, I just want to get fit. Well, that's way in advance.
Speaker 2:That's exactly right Having a six-pack and you know, like what do they call them?
Speaker 3:Those Vs, the Vs yeah, that's later on.
Speaker 1:I know what you analogy with the stairs, like you don't. I might not need to see the whole stairs.
Speaker 3:I might not need to see just the starting step in front of me. Starting step, yeah, and that's why, like I said, yeah, that's what I thought. You know, I set myself a goal end of last year to go two days a week to the gym for an hour and then go.
Speaker 3:You know what, when I start get? When this becomes easy because, as you, the more often that you do something, it becomes easier and easier. And I figure that if I go in the hour, say two hours a week, then I can eventually go. You know what? This is getting easier. I'm going to start kicking it to three days. Yeah, or even if just still stay two days. This is like the end of Titanic, where the beans playing on the deck and they sink it.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, you're getting serious with me.
Speaker 3:That pisses me off too, because Rose there was a big enough, jack Frost could have got on that door, jack Dawson, he could have got on that door.
Speaker 1:I just thought you had another one in there, since now we're talking about titanic.
Speaker 3:That's what it reminds you of when the band starts playing. But yeah, so like, yeah, kick it up to three days eventually, and whatnot. So yeah, yeah. And then eventually it's going to get easier and then I'll go like, yeah, go for longer, yeah, yeah, that's it. That's not just the gym, that's about everyone as well. And I'm not like I'm trying to be serious because I know I don't always practice what I preach Wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, here we go.
Speaker 3:I don't always practice what I preach. But when you do something, you set a goal for yourself. The more you do it, the more it becomes easier. Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, any habit. Look at Mick's pearly whites he's loving it Any habit?
Speaker 1:Well, that's anything that you do a habit. If you do it more, it becomes easier to do. Yeah yeah, so, for instance, if you like to have a Pepsi Max.
Speaker 3:Yeah, two a day, I'll cut right back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, two a day. Is it getting easier?
Speaker 3:It is the longer you do it. Well, I drink a lot of water.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because I substitute that and anyone that knows me I used to drink like almost 10 cans of Pepsi a day. Yeah, so going from 10 cans of Pepsi a day, oh, bless you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get it son.
Speaker 3:I just learnt to talk the bullshit. Yeah, I learnt to talk the bullshit. We're talking.
Speaker 1:He still drinks Pepsi Max a day. Everyone.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I did. No, that was normal Pepsi.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And then obviously, like I felt starting to feel shit and I went to the GP and she's like what? You drink 10 cans of Pepsi a day.
Speaker 2:That's a shocker. Yeah, I love Pepsi.
Speaker 3:That's a shocker, and she's like how about you knock back to Pepsi Max and then start slowing down? Now I literally have one for lunch can of Pepsi Max and one for dinner and that is it. Yeah, and I feel deep down. Obviously I'm going to kick it eventually as well, but I feel deep down, going from 10 cans of full strength Pepsi to two cans of Pepsi Max a day. That's a goal that I've worked on myself, and the next goal is to kick it all together and not drink fizzy. That's my next goal. So it's like the start of Lithweapon 2. Oh no, you just stuffed it. Nah, you just. It's gone.
Speaker 1:Shiv's goal for 2025 no Pepsi Max.
Speaker 3:Exactly right. All Coke Zero, all.
Speaker 1:Coke Zero.
Speaker 3:Yeah, woo, so that's my fleet. When are you going back to the?
Speaker 1:gym.
Speaker 3:Shiv. Yeah, when am I going back to the gym?
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's hold you accountable. When are you going back to the gym?
Speaker 3:After I finish moving here, so after this weekend, okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm going to hold you to that. We're going to have Instagram footage. Instagram footage Of Shane going back.
Speaker 3:Make sure I've got that soundtrack when I walk in.
Speaker 1:When you you want that one, this one, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, open the door.
Speaker 1:Isn't this the opening to? What's that movie With the bone? It's one of the greatest Movies of all time. Man, what's it called? No idea. Oh man, we're going to have to get Mick to Caveman. Oh man.
Speaker 3:We're going to have to get Mick to Google that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Mick will Google it. A fact finder.
Speaker 3:God bless Mick God bless. Mick, he is like the wheel on the unicycle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I can't remember the hey. He's like the stick in the paddle pop and the Paddle Pop Without him mate, we've got nothing Like seriously, yeah, Me and you. The way I see it, we were like the Fred Flintstone car and then Mick come in and he was the tyres. We were actually you know what I mean. That's what I reckon.
Speaker 2:God bless Mick, he does a lot for this podcast.
Speaker 3:I might not show it sometimes, but I do appreciate it. That's awesome. Shout out to Mick. Well, I might not show it sometimes but I do appreciate it.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. Yeah, you do Shout out to Mick. Well done, thank you. You guys are all right.
Speaker 3:Thank you, anyway, I was just going to let you know.
Speaker 1:Bring us home to land, Shiv. Bring us home to land.
Speaker 3:So I got two things for you. Yeah, so I got roughly what examples of people set for themselves. Okay, like a minute.
Speaker 1:Do we need a backing track for this?
Speaker 3:No, no, no, not really. So some examples people do set for themselves. Obviously, we've already touched on it several times eating healthier and exercising, saving money, which we've already touched on, buying a house, quitting smoking Okay, that Quit, and smoking Okay, that's another big one that people love. Yeah, smoking and drinking, I would say Well it's not so much 100% drinking, but cutting back on drinking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cutting back on their drinking.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because I mean, let's be real, quitting drinking altogether is just silly. No one does that. What?
Speaker 1:are you talking?
Speaker 3:about.
Speaker 1:I love having a beer.
Speaker 3:There's lots of people out there that don't drink, oh yeah, and my hat goes off to them, but I can't do that. Oh well, that's fine.
Speaker 1:But don't say it's silly Cutting back.
Speaker 3:Yeah, cutting back on their drinking.
Speaker 1:I reckon there's nothing wrong with no alcohol.
Speaker 3:Oh no, neither do I, I just can't do it. I just what's that dry July when my kids start behaving themselves.
Speaker 1:Well, maybe, if you do it, they will stop behaving themselves. Absolutely not, I reckon Actually. That's a challenge. I give you dry July as a challenge, actually.
Speaker 3:Dry July. Yeah, I, usually I'll tell you a story, a quick story. So usually once a year and this is God's honest usually once a year I take six weeks off the drink.
Speaker 1:So then, why did you just say that it was such a bad thing?
Speaker 3:No, what I'm saying is a hard thing, because I love having a good beer, I love going to the pub, I'm going to see, but to quit drinking altogether and not drink alcohol at all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no. So when is your six weeks going to start?
Speaker 3:I usually pick it around the middle of the year when it's winter time. So dry July, yeah, because it's too cold.
Speaker 1:You're not sacrificing anything, then Not really.
Speaker 3:No, just not drinking beer?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're just doing it because it's like it's too cold, so you're going to have warm stuff instead.
Speaker 3:I actually no, I'll tell you why I am. Yeah, no, like it's hang on. So I do do it because I feel that if I do do it, I after six weeks Do you know what I mean? Look, Okay, because I know of friends of mine that drink all the time and their doctors are like man, your liver's out of control. So that's why this is about three years ago, four years ago, I started going. You know what? I'm just going to take six weeks off the drink, okay, just so I can feel better.
Speaker 1:Okay, so then my challenge to you is your six weeks starts earlier than winter starts earlier than winter.
Speaker 3:Okay, the only reason I choose winter is because I love having a beer in summer.
Speaker 1:I know that's what I'm saying, so to me you're not sacrificing anything, then Not really, except for my health.
Speaker 3:I'm making my health better.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So sacrifice something, rather by testing yourself and saying, well, I'll do it in summer, because then you'll drink less in winter anyway.
Speaker 3:Yeah, probably. So why not do it in a time when I tell you what the test would be is over Christmas.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's not try and reinvent the wheel so quickly.
Speaker 2:I'm going to.
Speaker 1:I reckon. What do you reckon about? Let's give him a challenge to go in. I was going to say February, march.
Speaker 3:March is probably not a bad idea, because I was meant to go to Knotfest, but I think I'm keen on that. So March, I've got nothing.
Speaker 1:What do you reckon? Yeah, I reckon we should do March, march, okay, march Starting in March. First of March, shiv, no more drinking.
Speaker 3:So that means, if I, for some miracle reason I end up going to Notfest.
Speaker 1:No drinking, sober bro. Oh, that's no drinking. You're driving, you can drink water. Yeah, I'll even say you know what? For that period, you can have a few Pepsi Maxes.
Speaker 3:Oh, that sucks yes. Yeah, I'll do it. You'll do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, of course I will you heard it here, folks, you got hit with the dopamine effect there In your head. You just went oh my goodness, this is such a good idea. You don't realize how hard that situation is. I reckon.
Speaker 3:Chef on dry March.
Speaker 2:Dry.
Speaker 3:March. So what are we doing? Just a whole month of March? Well, you said six weeks. Well, yeah, I do six weeks, which is a bit longer than March.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it'll take you to mid-April.
Speaker 3:Okay, but I'm not.
Speaker 1:Anzac Day is all mine Well it depends on six weeks, two up and drinking.
Speaker 3:We're going to start with two up man, two up and drinking Wednesday Wednesday. Wednesday Wednesday.
Speaker 2:Wednesday, wednesday yeah.
Speaker 3:Because I think the listeners is just a bit of fun. Yeah, same with the pole. Yeah oh, I kicked your ass in the pole too.
Speaker 1:What was the pole Viral milk Ah.
Speaker 3:No, it's a bit of fun. It's a bit of fun. Yeah, it's a bit of fun.
Speaker 1:You can keep asking Santa drinks milk, santa doesn't drink beer. But when you say people are Santa, they're going to drink beer.
Speaker 3:Don't tell that people Kids are probably listening.
Speaker 1:No, no, santa's real he swears his fat ass down the chimney.
Speaker 3:But Santa drinks milk, maybe in South Africa.
Speaker 1:No, all over the world, Every freaking Santa story you know, except for the Aussies. Yeah, you just change stuff.
Speaker 3:What do they drink in Ireland? They drink in Ireland Probably milk. No, yeah, exactly Mick. They drink Guinness or Kilkenny, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's always raining and cold over in Ireland too, so I guarantee you, if you had to Google now, what Santa drinks first thing will be milk.
Speaker 3:Get onto that, get onto it. Google, mick will Google it. Well, mick's doing that.
Speaker 1:What does Santa drink on Christmas? It might be eggnog as well.
Speaker 3:Eggnog is an English thing. Let's see, it's so thick, it's like yogurt.
Speaker 1:I don't like eggnog. Let's see what is it Mick.
Speaker 3:What have we got?
Speaker 1:What is it, Mick? Santa Claus is often depicted drinking milk on Christmas Eve. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3:It varies from region and culture. Thank you very much. Here in Australia, santa is often depicted drinking a cold beer. Yes, there we go, because it's summer.
Speaker 1:No, I know, but it's summer, but traditionally it's milk. Yeah, fair enough. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no that's cool and that's why I liked doing that poll with you, because that was a bit of fun and the listeners actually got involved, which I thought was pretty cool. So this thing that I'm doing for March, I think this will be cool. It'll be a bit of fun. You have to drive March.
Speaker 1:You have to drive March. You have to drive March.
Speaker 3:I ain't driving to Sydney, but anyway.
Speaker 1:Anyway, that's your challenge. To finish off, yes, finish it off.
Speaker 3:We've got some superstitions for you.
Speaker 1:Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. I feel like we need something for this.
Speaker 3:Which I think we've got about one, two, three, we've got four, four superstitions.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's go. Superstitions, I like this. This is the one I was talking about.
Speaker 3:Yes, chariots. Oh, this is so in the Philippines this one comes from. So in the Philippines they reckon opening doors and windows just before midnight hits to let out the old year and let the new one in. That's a tradition for the Philippines.
Speaker 1:So they see it as like a spirit. New Year's as a spirit. Yeah, it must be.
Speaker 3:That's what Google didn't come up with. And they reckon yeah, you let all the old, crappy, new last year out, if it was crappy, and then let the good one in.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Another one here is Like why most Americans associate New Year's Eve With bite sized snacks and champagne. In Spain, the tradition is eating 12 grapes at midnight.
Speaker 1:Is that Chantal at work Was the one who said In Spain, the tradition is eating 12 grapes at midnight? Oh, is that Chantal at work was the one?
Speaker 3:who said did you bring? Apparently you have to eat them under the table as well. Oh, I didn't know about the table, because when I Googled it and did a bit of research on it, it didn't say anything about under the table.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she was like. You got to eat 12 grapes, because there's one for every month of the year.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it says here, yeah, so in ritual that dates back to the 1880s.
Speaker 1:Okay, one for every month. Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's believed that if you finish your grapes one for each month, which? Is what you said before clock strikes 12.01,. You'll have good luck. Oh interesting.
Speaker 1:That's what is believed in Spain. Okay, so it's a Spanish tradition, okay.
Speaker 3:There you go. Well, yeah, that's what I'll do. It goes back to 1880s.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Chantel. There we go. We just figured that out.
Speaker 3:Oh God lover.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So this is a very traditional one that I see and obviously you see and everyone sees all the time.
Speaker 1:So kissing, kissing, yeah, new Year's kiss when?
Speaker 3:does this, it says here by grabbing someone. I don't know exactly where it came from Anyone, Anyone.
Speaker 1:Anyway, if I didn't say here Could get people in a bit of trouble, for this?
Speaker 3:No, not really it's all acceptable nowadays.
Speaker 1:No, we're not condoning that, you just grab someone.
Speaker 3:You can go wherever you like.
Speaker 1:Consensual is always key please.
Speaker 3:So this actually, when I Googled it and all that sort of Did a little bit of research on it, it actually doesn't have a place, but it says Like where it comes from.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:But it says here According to a book that was written Like an encyclopedia, the first encounter Of the new year Determines how you will spend the next 365 days when you kiss that person At midnight. So what it's saying is start off on a good foot in the next year.
Speaker 1:Ah, okay, do you know what I mean, like that's the superstition behind it. Okay, okay. So New Year's. So here Mick's found this. New Year's Eve kiss is tradition and involves sharing a kiss at midnight to symbolize hope, love and renewal. There you go, yep, yep, the tone for the year's relationship, and that it can bring good luck and strengthen existing relationships.
Speaker 3:Yeah, maybe me and you should have a kiss, not a chance. Not in a million years will you and I ever do that.
Speaker 1:That's awesome.
Speaker 3:That's pretty much what I had written here.
Speaker 1:Okay, in other words, but, yeah, that's pretty much.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the next 365 days it will bring good luck, okay, so yeah, the next 365 days it will bring good luck, and the last one that I had that I did was I'm just trying to find here. It doesn't. Oh, this is China. Sorry this is from China.
Speaker 1:So several cultures. They have a different New Year's though, don't they? Oh it's weird, they have Chinese New Year's.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it's Chinese New Year's.
Speaker 1:Are you talking about Chinese New Year's yet? No, no, this is like… On New Year's, on New Year's, okay.
Speaker 2:According to the website.
Speaker 3:Okay, but they do have Chinese New Year which is like March or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like March. March 29th of Jan. Chinese New Year. Okay, 29th of.
Speaker 3:Jan, you can tell I'm Chinese. I had no idea, mate, you said… Then Now it says here, several cultures partake in this. Okay, but the pig right is meant to be a symbolic meaning for Chinese people, and what it's meant to do is it's associated with fortune and prosperity. So what they are saying is, according to Reader's Digest, right. I'm a big fan of Reader's Digest, by the way, too. It's good stories.
Speaker 1:I used to read the jokes in there.
Speaker 3:I think yeah my nan gives them to me. She's done reading them. So what they're saying is because in China the pig is associated with fortune and prosperity. What it is is meant to fill your new year with wealth and help you move forward into the new year. If you eat it at 12 o'clock on the dot.
Speaker 1:Is that why they say bring home the bacon?
Speaker 3:It must be. That's oh wow, that'd be an interesting thing, because I actually don't know that.
Speaker 1:But that's, I'm going to say yes it is Because that's got to do with wealth. Pigs got to do with wealth.
Speaker 3:Yeah, pigs got to do with wealth. Yeah well, that's what the Chinese people believe.
Speaker 1:Interesting yeah.
Speaker 3:Chinese people believe it's. Yeah, carries fortune and prosperity. What is?
Speaker 1:the oh snake, the next Chinese New Year. So 29th of Jan this year, yep Is Chinese New Year Is the year of Wood snake.
Speaker 3:Yeah right. See I don't understand Any of that. Like the star signs, I don't get any of that.
Speaker 1:It's got nothing to do With star signs, bro.
Speaker 3:Nah, but there's Chinese as well.
Speaker 1:I'm so sorry To all our Chinese listeners.
Speaker 3:Nah, but I don't get it. I'm not bagging about, I just don't understand. I don't understand, yeah.
Speaker 1:So it says Year of the wood snake Emphasizes wisdom, strategy and growth. You should get on this, bro. Yeah, but I don't believe Aligning with the characteristic Traits of these signs. The Chinese Lunar New Year 2025 Occurs in the month of January, and it will be the year Of the wood snake, yeah.
Speaker 3:So yeah, star signs as well. That's a Chinese thing. I don't understand any of that.
Speaker 1:I don't know if star signs Is a Chinese thing. Yeah, bro, you are just out to offend every listener today. No, I swear to God.
Speaker 3:I'm not. No, I swear to God, I'm not. I'm just saying I don't understand, I don't see.
Speaker 1:How would you like to offend Aussies today? What?
Speaker 3:would you like to say They've got bad attitudes? No, I'm joking, no, but all I'm saying is that I don't understand that tradition that they have. I've never got the star sign. You're not Chinese, no, I know, but yeah.
Speaker 1:It's not Star Sign, it's Chinese New Year.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know, but they also got the Star Sign as well, didn't they?
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, Again you stop offending people.
Speaker 3:I'm not offending people. The Chinese didn't come up with Star Signs. No, I thought they did.
Speaker 1:Was it the Greeks who came up with them? Oh, it was the Chinese. You're all good. You're all good. I'm so sorry to everyone who listened to you. It'll be fine, please excuse Shev and his ignorance.
Speaker 3:No, that'll be fine, it's all good fun. I mean, you know it's a joke, don't take offense to it. No, I mean we've got to be careful. Nowadays, everyone takes offense to everything. It sounds like we're at the Melbourne Cup. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 1:I reckon I'm going to use that as an effect for you to stop talking.
Speaker 3:What's that? No, that's why people love it. Yeah, it's all good. Yeah, I know you've got to be careful what you say, but yeah, please do. But I'm not offending anyone.
Speaker 1:Well, we hope not.
Speaker 3:Wow Anyway, people just need to relax People.
Speaker 2:Let's not get offended. Yeah, so I'm going to bring this into land.
Speaker 1:Yeah okay. Okay, obviously, beginning of the year we're super stoked. Yeah, we've got some goals individually that we've written down. We've given Shev a new goal today of no drinking in March, dry March, which we'll monitor, and half of April it's going to be six weeks we're going to monitor that Six weeks, so we're going to mark that on our socials as well, for everyone.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's fine, let's do it, I'm clean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it'll be good. Obviously want to challenge you with and that's getting back into your gym.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely Until next week. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And the only reason I want to say that is for people who don't like gym that's perfectly fine, but the research out there, when it comes to healthy lifestyles, when it comes to doing any form of exercise, it releases obviously what we call dopamine. We all know what dopamine is.
Speaker 1:It's the happy chemical in our brain Yep. So when we exercise in any form, whether that be just going for a walk, a run, whether some people that go to gym for an hour, or CrossFit for me is what my form of activity is. I also play soccer, yep, but obviously releases a chemical, dopamine, which is the happy thing, so that automatically makes us happy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:How many times have you said off to gym? You walk out and you're like yeah, I feel good.
Speaker 3:I still do, yeah, yeah, I still do it does feel good and I love like. If you would ask me six or eight months ago, I'd be like, oh, let's go to the gym.
Speaker 2:I'd be like no chance in hell yeah.
Speaker 3:But now that I've actually started going, I'm like, you know, it actually makes you feel good, you feel refreshed, yeah, yeah, it feels good after leaving the gym. It's good, it's great.
Speaker 1:So I very much encourage people. If you don't like gym or whatever, just do some form of exercise. Walk or run or whatever you will feel healthier, you will feel better and you will feel happier because chemically that is how your brain works, yeah of course, whether you believe it or not, it's science, sorry to tell you, um.
Speaker 1:So get out there, do something fun, do something entertaining and exercising, get the muscles moving and you'll feel better for it, healthier and, yeah, happier. So, yep, um, yeah, let's just land it with one last thing. Yeah, say, um, I'm really looking forward to 2025. I know we shouldn't say the date, because people tell us that it should be. What is it? Like a lineal, like don't give any form of date, but yeah, yeah, it can be anytime. What is it? Oh, don't worry about it, you missed the boat. So I'm really looking forward to this year. We've got some incredible guests lined up already, which I'm not looking forward to this year.
Speaker 2:We've got some incredible guests lined up already which I'm not going to give anything away.
Speaker 1:But what I can say is to everyone who joined us in 2024 and to anyone who is joining us for 2025, season two, we're really, really excited about Live Alive on podcast and where we're going this year. The guests that we have on are bigger, better, not to say that I guess we had last year were smaller no, we're just moving forward.
Speaker 1:But yeah, they just um, we're really excited with just where we're going with this podcast. Yep, um, and to anyone who hasn't reached out or has reached out to us, we appreciate you, um, we love you and we are here for the journey, of course. Um, shev said in the beginning uh, we're trying to create a community. If you have the opportunity to go out and support us, get our shirts, our caps and our… Key rings, key rings and stickers, stickers. Stickers are a good thing, I like stickers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, a few of the boys have got them on their hard hats at work, which is cool so you can check that out, wwwleavealotonpodcastcomau, and then you can reach out as well. Shane, too, make sure you reach out to our socials as Facebook, leave A Lot On Podcast and then like, obviously, our.
Speaker 1:Instagram as well. Yeah, so check them out as well, yeah, and if you know someone who needs to hear this podcast, please share it. Give it to them. We're all out to obviously make the world a happier, safer place where we can all just feel like we are part of something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and believe you me from first hand, this is talking about me and Shane. We've been down that road, so yeah, speak up.
Speaker 1:Community is vital 100%. Yeah. So, like I said in my episode, we obviously work on the phrase Ubuntu which means, which means I am, because you are, yes, good job.
Speaker 3:Well done, shit I am because you are See, I told you I got it right.
Speaker 1:No man is an island I'm about as sharp as a bowling ball, but I got it right. No man is an island. Oh man, a shop is a bowling ball, but I got it right. So, yeah, we're creating that sense of community where we can bounce off each other and iron sharpens iron. There's another one which I like, which one Iron sharpens iron.
Speaker 3:It sounds German Okay.
Speaker 1:Oh, my word, I'm just going to end this podcast before you say something else.
Speaker 3:No, it's all right. We end this podcast before you say something else. No, it's all right. We love culture.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we love culture, anyway, anyway, thank you so much for everyone.
Speaker 3:If you haven't checked, we're on YouTube, yeah, we've just done a live stream, which is great. I hope we look good.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean, I look good, but yeah, there's a lot of work to do in the Corkwell department, that's for sure. Anyway, I'm going, I'm hungry, I'm going to go to bed. We've got night shift tonight.
Speaker 1:To everyone. Thank you so much for joining us for another episode, the first one of 2025, season two. Leave a like on the podcast. As always, enjoy the week. We will see you in two weeks' time for the next episode. And in the meantime, hey, why not have a conversation with a friend, of course, see if anyone needs anything. I love the concept of are you okay? Day.
Speaker 3:Yes, so do I, I feel like that should be every day, honestly. Oh, it should be, it should go without saying. So speak up if you're having dramas and talk to a friend.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and obviously for the last, well, first time in 2025.
Speaker 3:Yep, thanks for joining us. Again Thanks for joining us and let's leave a light on Too easy.
Speaker 1:Stay safe, stay safe.
Speaker 2:Hey, thanks for listening. We hope you managed to gain some insight from today's episode. Jump onto our socials and reach out, and until next time, wherever you are, let's leave a light on.