Speaker 1: 0:01

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Train for a Great Life. I'm going to share an interaction I had recently that was interesting to me, a little sad in a way, but also I think there's a positive spin on it going forward and I think I can give something actionable as well. So when someone joins so actually if you're a member, you may recall, I created a tool called the Train for a Great Life Calculator, so it's again you can link back to an episode where I talk about this I don't want to go on and on about that to do that assessment now and use their habits and use their baseline of strength and VO2 max now, so that they can see measurable increases in this stuff when they do it again, you know, six months or a year from now. I sent that out and I had someone write me back with a fairly decent life expectancy and the message that I don't want to live that long, though, and I sparked my curiosity. I asked why not? And the answer I got back was that life sucks and the world is an ugly place, and my response to that was that I'm going to do my best to help change that perspective, and it's going to start with getting really fit, yeah, that. So let's unpack that there.

Speaker 1: 1:34

People don't just arrive at that. Obviously, there's, you know, perhaps been some experiences more recently that have led to that, and maybe it's just a moment, you know, maybe that person doesn't feel this way all the time. I also had a moment, actually this morning where I I was kind of going over this idea of recording this and where I wanted to go with it and I looked at my five month old son, calvin, and he, we don't start that way. Okay, we don't start with, um, you know, a negative, perhaps jaded view on things. We learn that and we can unlearn it as well. Okay, uh, it doesn't often happen on its own. You have to maybe go through certain things or do certain exercises, whatever. Again, train for a great life Reps Okay, we're talking reps in different areas of life to get your mind in a good spot where you have a life that you enjoy.

Speaker 1: 2:40

Okay, I'm going to use my other son as an example. Leonardo, he just turned four. Okay, um, I'm gonna use my other son as an example, leonardo, he just turned four. He has his moments, you know, but he's a, he's a happy kid, and multiple times a week he'll just say like, hey, dad, I love you, and it just makes me smile, and then he's he'll say I love the whole world. It's completely the opposite of this. This other sentiment, right, and like, where does that come from? Well, I mean, I hope that Lace and I are doing a good job parenting him and you know he's, he's at an age where they're, you know, life is fun and interactions are largely positive and there's no responsibility or or like anything like that. Um so, but so that makes me happy again, it's the message here is we don't start that way. Okay, ideally, I mean, I think we start kind of like carte blanche, blank, blank slate, right, um in in a lot of ways and and were shaped by experience. Um so with this I got a couple of things Um, um.

Speaker 1: 3:52

So I'm going to tease a couple of things that I'm going to talk about. One I'm going to actually just devote an entire episode to next week, perhaps the week after. It's an exercise that I'm going to do with my group, my habit coaching group, the Momentum Project, and it's called a focus wheel, so I'm going to dig into that. Another one upcoming is, if you listen to the recording with John Wells, he was one of the first guys I had on whereby where we went long form.

Speaker 1: 4:22

Um, he recently did a thing called diesel day and I just talked to him about him this morning and I said we're coming back on this podcast and you're going to talk about this thing. It's an incredible exercise that he flew out to Colorado to do, and the main message that he came back with and I'm going to let him unpack the whole thing and you're going to hear about it and it's pretty awesome is don't believe your own bullshit. Okay, and, like I said, we don't just have this thought of, like you know, I say don't believe your own bullshit, and all of a sudden, you're like okay, I won't believe my own bullshit, it doesn't happen that way. Okay, you have to go through things that start to rewire your brain, okay, so that's that's kind of what we're talking about here. It can be done, um, and I, I, that's that's what we're trying to do here.

Speaker 1: 5:23

Right, I'm trying to go a little bit deeper. It's not I'm not coaching air squats on this, on this podcast. I'm trying to go a little deeper. So, um, that's what we're going to get into over the next couple. Uh, surprise, surprise, we're going back into mindset. Love it, see you.