Speaker 1: I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment for
Speaker 1: this week. We are going to shake things up. The
Speaker 1: inspiration for the day's little chat came from spring, because
Speaker 1: spring is such a season of change. And there's so
Speaker 1: many cliche quotes out there, but one that is oh
Speaker 1: so true and I've used many many times is if
Speaker 1: you do the same thing over and over again and
Speaker 1: you expect a different result, that's the definition of insanity.
Speaker 1: And I think in a fitness space, or a weight
Speaker 1: loss space, or a transformation space, too many of us
Speaker 1: do this. We just go round and round in circles,
Speaker 1: doing the same thing month in month out, year in
Speaker 1: year out, and we might get okay results at the
Speaker 1: very beginning of that new phase, but eventually we plateau
Speaker 1: or we get bored, and we stop and we go backwards.
Speaker 1: So the reason I thought i'd bring it up today
Speaker 1: is spring is the perfect time to shake things up.
Speaker 1: So it might be you've been procrastinating, you've been telling
Speaker 1: yourself that you're going to start eating better, eating cleaner,
Speaker 1: eating leaner, whatever it might be. It might be you're
Speaker 1: going to start walking, you're going to start running, you're
Speaker 1: going to join the gym, whatever, it might be, but
Speaker 1: you need to shake something up in your life. If
Speaker 1: you've been suffering from anxiety or stress, and you've been
Speaker 1: telling yourself you would benefit from better sleep or implementing
Speaker 1: some kind of mindfulness practice into your routine, this is
Speaker 1: the week you're going to do that. You're going to
Speaker 1: shake something up, either from a mental health, a training perspective,
Speaker 1: a nutrition perspective, a sleep perspective. And I'm not going
Speaker 1: to tell you what that is. That has to be
Speaker 1: a personal choice. Something you've been telling yourself you're going
Speaker 1: to do for a while hour you know it's something
Speaker 1: you need to do, and you keep putting it off,
Speaker 1: or you've been doing the same thing over and over
Speaker 1: again and it's ticking a box, but it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: getting the results that you want. You're going to shake
Speaker 1: things up, So what do you need to do. You
Speaker 1: need to choose something and it's not just going to
Speaker 1: be a thought bubble that pops out of your head
Speaker 1: as quickly as it pops in. You're going to get
Speaker 1: a piece of paper. You're going to write it down,
Speaker 1: my spring shakeup, and you're going to write down on
Speaker 1: that piece of paper what you're going to do and
Speaker 1: it's not just going to say walking. You need to
Speaker 1: be specific, You need to put some parameters around it.
Speaker 1: You need to make yourself accountable. So can't just sit there.
Speaker 1: You're going to write down I will walk thirty minutes
Speaker 1: per day minimum, five times per week. Or I am
Speaker 1: going to buy fresh fruit and vegetables every Saturday morning
Speaker 1: from the market. Or it might be I'm going to
Speaker 1: practice mindfulness for five minutes twice a week before I
Speaker 1: go to bed. It doesn't matter how big an undertaking
Speaker 1: it is. It doesn't matter what facet of your life
Speaker 1: of your wellness it covers. But it has to be
Speaker 1: personal to you, and it has to be something that
Speaker 1: you know isn't working in that space at the moment
Speaker 1: you're going to write it down, You're going to put
Speaker 1: it somewhere where you see it every single day, maybe
Speaker 1: on the mirror of your bathroom, or on the fridge,
Speaker 1: or on the top of your laptop, whatever it might be,
Speaker 1: so you're looking at it day in day out until
Speaker 1: you start to get that habit going. Because spring is
Speaker 1: going to be the season of change. My homework to
Speaker 1: all of our wood Life listeners for this week, for
Speaker 1: my little motivational moment is pick this thing that you're
Speaker 1: going to shake up, whatever it might be, and you
Speaker 1: are going to stick to it for the whole month
Speaker 1: of September. Not the whole season of spring. We're going
Speaker 1: to baby step you in the right direction, but for
Speaker 1: the next month till the end of September, that is
Speaker 1: going to be the thing that you focus on. B