WEBVTT - #2134 The Science Of Motivation - Harps & Tiff 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:05.520 Great champs and Taps, Well, Taps and Tiff, it's both 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.000 of us. We're sliding in towards Easter chocolate, a bounds, 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:14.040 hopping bunnies, eggs. TIFFs just raised both her index fingers 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:22.680 in a kind of celebration chocolat. I reckon, like people 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.160 are chocolate people or they're not. There's not really anyone 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:30.440 in the middle, like I'm not. I mean, wow, yeah, 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:32.800 I can eat it, but I don't enjoy it, Like 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.559 it's nice, but then I go eyah, I'd rather I 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:41.199 don't know chicken breast, but I know it just doesn't. 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.760 I'm like, are you generally savory or sweet? Sweet? Right? 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.840 Sweet chocolate? Yes? Yes? 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.920 Yes? What do you reckon? The split is? You know, 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.640 most people either they love like a fucking lasagna or 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.880 a roast chicken with veggies and salt, or spag bowl 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:04.119 or you know, tie takeaway, like most I think dudes 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:08.679 are more that and maybe ladies are I mean all 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.319 of it, but like if they had to pick one 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.000 or the other, it might be sweets. 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.920 Do you reckon when it's even when it's savory, it's 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:20.600 carbs and salt, like carbs and salt versus shot. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.640 except for harps is really go with chicken bresh right now. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:30.200 And have no no fat, the fat fuck that lives 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.960 not that far below the surface, A little one who's 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:39.160 fucking beating his chest these fists against the fucking chest cavity. 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:45.199 He's like, give me cake, you can't, but he's he's 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:50.840 more like, gimme lasagna. But I used to inhale pastor 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:56.040 when I was a kid, which the significant substantiveness of me, 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:01.840 the totality of me. Yeah, but then then I kind 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:06.320 of tried not to be one hundred kilos and at 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:12.519 ten and yeah then but over time, yeah, I still 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.720 like if I took a big gobful of lasagna, I 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.240 would laugh it, but then I would feel terrible, not 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.120 emotionally mentally, just physically feel terrible. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.320 Yeah, I'm not part sea pasta and like even rice 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.560 pasta and rice and like savory carbs, and I reckon. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.200 I don't know, maybe it's a learned behavior where I go, like, 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:36.680 I all my naughty foods are going to be shock 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.120 of that, they're going to be the best, They're going 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.200 to be something that makes me like and I will 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.720 forego stuff that I call savory junk and so I 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:49.360 eat really nutritiously with my real food, and then I 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.720 try and pack everything into just pure bliss, pure bliss 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.280 and east What a great time of. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:03:01.240 Year, huh. I reckon, like on a practical level, Like 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.200 everyone talks about optimal this and optimal that. Yeah cool, 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:09.600 most people can't do optimal potentially forever, right, I reckon 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:15.960 really if most people ate eighty percent clean, like I'm 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:20.080 in real clean, like healthy, no bullshit, no bad food, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:25.920 nothing processed, no no significant sugar or no overload of 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.280 you know, starch, and just really healthy, clean food. But 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:34.280 twenty I'd rather ten, but maybe fifteen ten percent of 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.320 the time, eat whatever the fuck you want, but make 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.400 sure that your total junk calories for the week don't 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.600 exceed fifteen percent of your overall calories. You know. So 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:50.040 if you have two thousand calories a day, I would say, 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.640 let's that three hundred. If you had three hundred calories 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:57.680 a day of something that's not great, that's fifteen percent? 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:58.200 Is it? 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:04.160 Seven and a half? Can? Hell? No, yeah, three hundred calories. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.640 Fuck my brain's not working out and had lunch. Yeah 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.200 it's fine, it's fine. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:12.080 To get through this calculation. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.960 Let's start the show. Again, yeah, I think that's And 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.400 again everyone, this is not advice. I'm not a dietitian, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.680 but just having worked with literally thousands of people, and 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.640 it's always a big part of it, but nearly everyone, 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.159 A big part of it is food. You know, we 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.160 can train great, but if you eat shit, you can't 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.720 be optimal or close to optimal. And yeah, so I 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.640 don't mind the od I've told you recently because I'm 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.880 skinny as fark, I've started having the odd pie and 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:47.400 I couldn't be happier like people like you had a pie, yes, 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.480 Judge mcjudge, I did, and I nearly eight three of 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:57.440 my fingers shoveling that bitch in. It was so good now. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.760 But the thing is, have I pie like I don't 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.080 have six. In the old days, when I was twenty four, 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:09.000 I would have had six or three. Three really, so 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.760 I have one. I feel good. But the funny thing 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.880 is when I ate a bit of junk like that, 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.120 which is kind of high salt, kind of high fat, 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.600 a fair bit of starch because of the pastry, I 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.480 will eat that. If I ate that like I had 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.840 one the other day. I don't know, I told you 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.600 I was walking down Hampton Street and I accidentally ate 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.400 an onion pie and I went into the bakery to 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.000 buy an apple right and they fucking sucked me in. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:42.640 So I ended up against my will with an onion pie. 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:43.839 They always do that. 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.240 Oh, I know, they're so manipulative, and then poor vulnerable 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:52.360 people like me accidentally eat fucking onion pies. Anyway, I 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.279 ate that at about twelve thirty good, like a little 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.000 but you know what I do because I don't want 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.760 people to see me, because you know that would they 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:03.440 would be bad. So I sneak around off Hampton Street 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.279 up to a side street that's got one of those 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.320 little chairs that they was, you know, bench seats, and 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.479 I sit there and I fucking scout the area like 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:16.279 an elite military operative. I do a reki, make sure 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.960 no one's within three hundred meters, could only take me 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.159 two hundred and fifty meters of walking to eat that. 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.520 I look around, do w reki, and I'm like, and 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.040 go take it out of the brain brown paper bag 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:30.240 like a fucking widow. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.000 So good, and then you tell everyone on your podcast, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.040 and now all of Australia knows. Anyway, you didn't know 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:37.760 it anywhere. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.680 But I would have one a month, you know, but 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.080 I think you could have something like that. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.880 One of my one of my mates, who is a 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.240 nutrition it's one of the favorite little I guess catchphrases 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.279 or bits of simple advice that I loved that she 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.320 said was count nutrients, not calories. Did you talk about 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.919 creeping out? But you know how many people have a 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:05.240 bad meal like binge on sugar or junk and then think, well, 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.839 I won't have I'll restrict now, and it's like, nah, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.200 like what does your body And especially as you get older, 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.000 I think it's more about energy. What does my body need? 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.160 And because I ate a thousand calories of Easter eggs 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.280 at lunchtime, what did they have? And how can I 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.680 get as much of that in still for the day? 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:29.840 Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I think so. I Mean, funny thing 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.120 is when you look at like the pie gets not 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.640 generally the ones I get like once a week or 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.880 fortnite I get. And by the way, everyone's going to 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:39.560 roll their eyes and go at least if you have 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:40.560 a pie, have a good one. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:40.680 Now. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.480 These are the shittest pies in the world. They're fucking 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.200 four and twenty traveler pies from seven to eleven, right, 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.360 and I'm like just wrapped in plastic full of salads 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:56.240 against the pie. So I'm making myself sterile and also 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.520 all the other things that go with that, which is great, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.200 but I need to be virile. I guess cusban in 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:13.480 the racks ince the late nineties. So that's right. Oh fuck, 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.680 I was going to say something else. I can't. It 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:20.400 would have been real good though, like that promo that 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:24.520 I showed you a gold Yeah, I might talk about 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.000 that anyway. My long winded point was going to be 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.920 the pie that I have has less calories than the 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:36.280 chicken salad wrap that I buy sometimes. Yeah, so it's like, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.480 but it's yeah, I'm not on any level pretending this 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.400 is a good idea anyone. I'm not suggesting it's healthy. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.920 Let's be clear. What I'm saying is a little smidge 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.520 of junk every now and then, as long as it's not, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.960 you know, it's the exception, not the rule. I don't think. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.680 In fact, I'm pretty sure it ain't a big issue. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.360 Now I need to announce one thing or Melissa and 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.120 also that Denise Faness will punch me in the face, 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.600 and that is that I'm terrible at promoting my shit. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:11.439 But anyway, doctor Denise and I are doing a program together. Everybody. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.760 Denise has been on the show many times. She's a geneticist, 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.520 she's an next size physiologist. She's a legit, straight up 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.800 scientist and researcher. She's also a mum and a wife, 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.840 and an entrepreneur and just a really really fucking good teacher. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.120 Like she has a way of teaching stuff that can 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.280 be complicated and confusing and overwhelming that is relevant to 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.800 all of us, but teach it in a way where like, 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.680 oh that makes sense to me, and I think I 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.040 do the same, or I try to do the same. Anyway, 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.600 we're both doing a program on June thirteen, twelve, Sorry, 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.360 Friday night thirteen is the Saturday. Fourteen is Sunday. We're 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.040 kicking off around six thirty or seven or something on 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:58.640 the Friday. We're finishing about fourish on the Sunday. It's 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.839 in Malula Bar. It's on the Sunshine Coast. If you're 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.120 looking for a super duper cheap bargain, this is not it. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.560 It's not expensive, I don't think, but it's also not 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:12.480 you know, your twenty nine dollars workshop lots and lots 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:16.079 of content. We've only got fifty spaces. We're just starting small. 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:20.000 We want to see what happens and if you want 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.480 to find out more about that. By the way, where 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.840 it's at the mantra, like the event, which is great 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.719 because it's fifty meters away from the water. So we're 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.000 going to have breaks over the weekend, of course, and 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.559 in those breaks you can there's there's a fair bit 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.320 of free time. So I'm not a big fan of 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.439 programs that start at seven am and finished seven pm 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.360 and you get bombarded with twelve hours of information. So 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.160 there's lots of teaching and lots of information, but not 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.480 to the point where it's cognitive overload anyway. Like I said, 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:55.199 it's at the mantra, Denise and myself, it's all around. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.600 What's it around, It's around you, optimizing you. So we're 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.800 looking at mind stuff, brain stuff, nutrition stuff. She's also 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:11.000 a nutritionist course. She is sleep cellular health, DNA, the 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:15.840 role of DNA slash genetics in the way that you 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.920 live and the way that you know everything from longevity 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.720 to health span to day to day stuff. I'm going 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.960 to be talking about optimization from a mind point of view. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.480 So not brain as much mind point of view, and 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.040 also from a physiology point of view, how to be strong, 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.480 how to be functional, and how to have a body 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.400 that is younger in inverted commas than your chronology. Ie, 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.680 my body is sixty two years old on a calendar, 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.160 and at the risk of sounding like a dickhead, I 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:50.000 would suggest somewhere closer to forty years old operationally or functionally, 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.960 or what we call bioage or physiological age or functional age. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.520 And that's not because I'm lucky or I have brilliant genetics. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.719 That's because I do the things that that result. We're 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.480 going to be talking about all of that and more. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:05.560 If you want to find out about it, go to 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.040 my website, just the homepage. There's a big banner there. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.640 Click on that sales pitch over. You're welcome. Take a breath. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.160 Sorry about that, but a few of you might be interested. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.719 If I'll give you a discount, I'll give you ten 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.560 percent off if you want to come so fight. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:21.920 Thank you so much. I just want to say, for 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.120 someone who's just come back from an event, a multi 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.920 day event lot similar theme to that, but in something 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.720 that interests me, there is something magical about being in 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.520 the room, and I came back from the second of 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.160 those events this year, and when I am gonna have 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.520 that in my budget every year to be in the 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.720 room for multi day events in things that interest me. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.440 So when people when you're looking at the cost of something, 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.720 it is I just think it's so beneficial because there's 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.719 there's the relationships and the conversations and the energy and 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.800 the be around people like you that make stuff happen 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.280 that doesn't happen when you just do a course or 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.880 see a doctor or listen to a podcast. So there's 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:03.760 my take on that. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.720 Wow. Thanks, I'll slip you some day later. But it 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.880 is I mean, and I don't just mean for what 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.840 we're doing, but if you go somewhere like you were 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.600 at a speaker's event, right, and so you've got other 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.640 people who do what you do, want to do what 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.720 you do, and you support each other, you encourage each other, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.560 you're kind of there for a similar reason. And generally 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.640 out of our stuff that like we've done everything from 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.319 half day events to four day retreats and everything in between. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.240 And invariably what happens, especially with things that go over 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.280 a few days, is people make friends and they just 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.559 you know, I know people who came to something one 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.760 off ten years ago that I ran, and they've still 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.040 got a circle of two or three or four friends 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:50.080 from that day and they stay in touch, either in 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:54.280 person or online. And yeah, so it's a range of 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.839 reasons things like this. I mean, you'd be the judge 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.839 of mine. I'm not sure, but the things like this 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:06.760 can be really in a legitimate, literal way performance enhancing, 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:12.360 can enhance my performance. Speaking of such things, I wanted 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.920 to chat to you about something today, and we're just 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.560 going to circle around this everybody and talk about it 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:25.479 because people get confused and the role that this particular 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:33.320 topic or this particular construct plays in performance. And as 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.160 we said, human optimization puts simply you getting the most 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.680 out of you, or you moving from where you are 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:41.960 to where you want to be in terms of your 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:47.480 goals and intentions and plans, and that is motivation. So 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.080 some of you who followed me forever will be a 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.480 bit sick of this, so maybe turn off, or maybe 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:56.120 call it a refresher. We might open a few new doors. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:15:00.520 But growing up I was always kind of taught and 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.840 told and trained, especially when you're coming to things like 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:08.840 self improvement, you know personal health, health, you know, self empowerment, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.280 all that that motivation is key. In other words, motivation 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.400 with the number, because without motivation, you're not going to 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.280 do the stuff for blah blah blah. Well I'm challenging 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:23.640 that because because it's still possible to be proactive and 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.160 productive and effective and to get shit done when you 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:31.080 don't feel motivated. So I'm defining for this chat. Motivation 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.960 can be defined in a few ways. In an academic sense, generally, 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:42.080 motivation is analogous to reason or driver. So what is 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:46.120 your reason? What is your motivation for joining a Jim Craig, 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.240 What is the reason? What is the driver? So we're 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.680 not talking about it in that sense, although this kind 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.240 of bumps into it, But we're talking about motivation. When 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.640 the average person is talking about their level of motivation 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.600 or health, motivated or demotivated, they are They're talking about 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.800 how they feel. They're talking about their emotions. They're talking 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:13.280 about their level of focus. They're talking about how excited 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.680 they are in the moment to do the thing that 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.800 they are. I'm pumped, I'm motivated, I'm inspired, I'm excited. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.800 Now let me start with then I'll shut up TIF. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.160 Let me start with motivation. That the emotional state or 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.359 the psychological state or the heightened state of being motivated 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.280 is great. It's great. And there are some days where 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.840 I feel super motivated and pumped and excited. There are 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.920 some day, you know, like I'm a nine out of ten, 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.920 some days where I'm a seven, and some days when 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.440 I'm a two, And that does make me good, bad, weird, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.880 That makes me human. So the challenge for those of 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:55.720 you who kind of understand what I just said and 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.240 have some familiarity with what I just said, the challenge 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.440 is not for us to be a nine or a 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.439 seven or an eight every day, because we're just going 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.760 to be what we're going to be. But it's for 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.840 us to try to be proactive and productive and effective 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.520 and to keep doing what we need to do. In 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.160 Craig terms, when we can't be fucked. Oh I can't 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.560 be fucked today. I didn't sleep well, I'm tired, out 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.800 of blue with my boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, I can't 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:28.000 be cool. That's all normal. So the problem is that 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.000 people get motivated, then they make decisions and take action 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.480 and start to get results. Because they're motivated, they are 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.080 in the zone. They went away for a weekend, they 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.680 came back pumped up, and from the weekend until the Friday, 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.840 they're in the zone. And then Saturday comes and it's 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.760 someone's birthday, so you go, oh, just whatever, I'll compromise 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.440 a bit today. And then two weeks later they're not motivated. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.639 That feeling that they had has gone, and the behaviors 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.560 are starting to fall away, the choices are now become irrelevant, 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:59.879 and now we're back to groundhog Day. So the question 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.919 for this podcast is how do I stay productive and 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.439 proactive and effective, in other words, doing the work that 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.440 I need to do when I don't feel inspired or motivated. 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.760 And so we're going to unpack that a little bit. 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.480 Even when I'm working with elite athletes or anyone who 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.639 just wants to get where they want to get with 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.760 their body or their habits or their finances or their 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.000 career or their study or their spiritual journey or whatever 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.440 it is, remember I'm not the answer. I'm just I'm 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.760 kind of the coach on the support system. In a way, 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.080 I say to them, I don't care how motivated you are. 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.679 If you're motivated, great, If you're not motivated, also fine. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.240 I care what you do when you would have typically 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.960 given up in the past, Like in the past. Let's 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.120 say we're talking about losing weight. Well, and again, this 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:00.199 ain't about losing weight. This is about a goal. But 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.800 for so many people when it comes to some change 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.200 they want to make with their body. If I'm talking 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:10.800 to someone tomorrow morning at the cafe about this, they 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.280 say to me, how do I this? Or I want 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.439 to do that? Or if they're being honest, most people 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:17.840 have tried to do a version of that ten to 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:22.320 fifty times already. So they've started and stopped, started and stopped, 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.200 started and stopped. So we need to analyze the stopping bit. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.280 Why do you keep stopping? Because you've got a gym membership, 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.960 you've got a program. You know that eating that stuff 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.080 over there is bad. You know that eating that stuff 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.080 over there is better. It's not a knowledge issue. You 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.560 don't have all the knowledge, but you have enough knowledge 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:45.600 to move the needle and to create to create some 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.879 real change. And I think so we'll launch into that 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.920 from there. So what are your thoughts around this cookie? 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.760 But just been writing down a bunch of words and 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.320 because I'm like, I'm thinking about the concept of what 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:03.080 is motivation? What create motivation? The fact that it is 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:08.200 a response usually usually to an external thing, idea or thought, 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:12.800 or reaction to something. I wrote down the word momentum, 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:18.640 I wrote down environment, accountability, and process. So just kind 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.760 of thinking like what are all of the components that 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:23.800 come into it, and then how do we create a 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:28.400 system that allows us to use motivation in a way 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.960 that works for us, Like it's a tool I think 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:35.080 for me? Yes, those two the concept that I said 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.560 before of going well at least twice a year, I'm 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.520 going to invest in industry events that are multi day. 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:46.040 That is purely the number one reason is the level 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:51.080 of motivation that I have for a quite an extended 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.320 period of time where I take action after that and 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.800 I embed learnings and I build relationships and I uncover 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:02.359 and discover and create opportunity is huge. So that's me 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:04.960 going well two times a year. I'm going to have 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:08.120 a big injection of motivation that's not going to last 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:10.560 all year. It's going to be a temporary thing. And 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:15.240 off the back of that, how do I get and 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:19.600 maintain momentum? What do I put in place to create 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:25.320 accountability outside of just the response to the motivation, the feeling, 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.520 and what environment do I need to create that makes 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:31.520 all of that happen? 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:35.639 So clever I wrote all of that, I wrote system, 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.800 So I'm writing that. I think this is going to 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:44.160 be the title for the show. What's your post motivation strategy? Right? 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:48.240 Put up your hands if you think you're going to 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:53.400 be perpetually motivated and or inspired? No one, Right, put 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:55.760 up your hand. If you'd like to be really consistent 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:59.440 with the work that you need to do, everyone, right, 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:03.359 those things don't go together. So it's having that, you know, like, 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.879 I know I'm gonna I know I'm going to be 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:13.560 in motivational troughs and inspirational and focus and attitude and 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.000 all of that. And because I'm not weak or broken, 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:20.719 I'm humans. So what works? And so that which you're suggesting, 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:27.400 like to build a system slash process, slash program whatever, 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:35.720 that is essentially a protocol for accountability. What will keep 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.159 me doing the thing that I need to do? What 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.479 will keep me accountable? What will make me It's like 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:44.480 you and I were talking before we went live. I said, 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:46.280 I hate it because I have to do ten thousand 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:48.560 steps a day. Why do I have to? Because that's 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:51.840 my rule, right, do I does the world end? If 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:53.960 I don't, of course not. But I know that when 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:58.720 for me, when I have clearly defined non negotiables that 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.280 I do not I hope i'll do, or I want 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:03.560 to do, or I intend to do, but I'll fucking 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:07.000 do every day. And people will go, oh, well, if 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:09.199 you can't have one day off, there's something wrong with you. 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:11.360 We did, and I get all of that right. If 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.520 for some reason I literally could not humanly do them, 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:17.280 I wouldn't do them and I wouldn't beat myself up. 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:19.560 But if I can do it, I'll do it. And 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:22.119 this is the difference between I want to do something 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:24.840 and I want to create an outcome. And I am fully, 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:30.280 fucking totally committed to this behavior. And if it's fun 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:32.000 or not done matter, if it's easy or not done, 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:36.119 the matter convenient inconvenient doesn't matter, Fast or slow doesn't matter, 0:23:36.920 --> 0:23:42.119 because so many of us spend our lives almost changing, 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:46.679 and then we wake up and we're fifty or whatever 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:49.840 we are, and we go, oh, fuck, this was my plan. 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:52.400 And of course you've heard me say, may I see 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:55.119 the plan? And they've got no fucking plan. They've just 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:57.560 got an idea. Of how they thought things would work out. 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:00.320