In today’s episode I share a great story about how inside each of us there is just so much more potential. The key is to keep choosing environments that bring it out. It’s time to stop settling for comfort and realise that the clock is always ticking. Don’t leave it too late to discover all that you can achieve and offer to the world.
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Transcript
Well, Hey everybody.
Speaker:Jonathan Doyle with you.
Speaker:Welcome to the daily podcast.
Speaker:I'm pumped to be here.
Speaker:I'm looking forward to this one.
Speaker:I had a fantastic weekend, a T about that in a sick.
Speaker:You and I we're going to do some business today.
Speaker:We're going to sort some stuff out.
Speaker:I'm going to come back to one of my favorite themes.
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Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Welcome aboard.
Speaker:I had a great weekend.
Speaker:I, uh, I, I, I refuse to comply, you know, what I did is like first week back
Speaker:at school and everybody's got, that said feeling like, oh, it's back at school now.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:Nine weeks of the term to go.
Speaker:And I'm like, you know what?
Speaker:I ain't going to play.
Speaker:I am playing with that.
Speaker:So I jumped on Airbnb.
Speaker:Booked this fantastic house in this remote location on the coast and
Speaker:said, Hey, Karen, he likes surprises.
Speaker:Do you like expensive surprises?
Speaker:And I mean, what wife, what wife could seriously resist.
Speaker:Has been going, I've just booked a really cool coastal house for
Speaker:us and the kids for the weekend.
Speaker:So we took off.
Speaker:Found this amazing place and had a fantastic time spearfishing.
Speaker:I was just saying to the people on another podcast, I do that, uh, you
Speaker:know, where we were sort of spearfishing.
Speaker:There's a big island off the coast, which is a famous place for great
Speaker:white sharks congregating because there's huge amounts of seals.
Speaker:So you can imagine how confident and comfortable I felt.
Speaker:In a wetsuit looking like a very slow seal.
Speaker:Uh, boy.
Speaker:My son was like, don't worry, dad, we've got the spear.
Speaker:And I'm like, mate.
Speaker:Uh, I love your optimism.
Speaker:Love your courage.
Speaker:I think that that speed is going to do a lot against, uh, against
Speaker:a great white, but we survived.
Speaker:We're here.
Speaker:We're back.
Speaker:I made it back to the studio.
Speaker:But a really great weekend and, uh, you know, One of my business mentors
Speaker:was saying to me recently, just, just how much they build relaxation.
Speaker:Breaks into their life.
Speaker:You know, no matter how much, you know, how much the situation
Speaker:is, you can always find some way.
Speaker:To rest replenish recover.
Speaker:And in this busy world we live in, we often fall into the habit
Speaker:of telling ourselves as story.
Speaker:I can't do this.
Speaker:I can't have a break.
Speaker:I can't.
Speaker:Take out a gym membership.
Speaker:I can't watch this movie or go to the cinema or.
Speaker:Go and do this thing.
Speaker:That's restful and restorative for me.
Speaker:And, uh, the truth is that.
Speaker:Doing these things, taking these breaks gives us the energy, the, uh,
Speaker:the inspiration, the creativity to, to press on and keep doing things now.
Speaker:Today, all I want to talk to you about.
Speaker:It's a very simple idea.
Speaker:And I just want to say it like this.
Speaker:There.
Speaker:Is always more.
Speaker:And by that.
Speaker:It's a regular theme for me, my regular listeners know that there's
Speaker:a few big themes that I keep coming back to what I want to talk about.
Speaker:This one.
Speaker:I think that much of the time.
Speaker:We ended up in situations where we tell ourselves either consciously or so
Speaker:quickly that we're not conscious of it.
Speaker:That this is all we can do that.
Speaker:This is as far as we go, this is we're at our limit.
Speaker:We can't do any more.
Speaker:And of course for me, these things often come through.
Speaker:So, you know, the amount of training that I do, the amount of exercise that I do.
Speaker:And so last week, Uh, you know, I usually do about 400 K a week on the
Speaker:bike and I'm, and I'm on the bike.
Speaker:Tuesday rode pretty well.
Speaker:Wednesday felt pretty weird because I hadn't written a lot recently.
Speaker:Thursday, I get out there.
Speaker:And I'm just like, and I'm telling myself this story, and I remember halfway through
Speaker:the ride, I'm talking to one of the guys and I'm like, Aw, man, I'm gassed.
Speaker:You know, like I've been.
Speaker:I haven't written as much and I've been doing other stuff and
Speaker:traveling and have been doing a lot of running and different things.
Speaker:I haven't been riding much.
Speaker:And I was telling this story to him about.
Speaker:Fatigue.
Speaker:And often when you do that, It, depending on who you hang around, like they'll,
Speaker:they'll reinforce your story, right.
Speaker:They'll be like, oh, Hey man.
Speaker:I totally get it.
Speaker:You ever been, you ever had that happen to you?
Speaker:You get around somebody who's like, you're telling them your, your story.
Speaker:You have a little pity party.
Speaker:You haven't, that you ever had one of those, a pity party to start with a self
Speaker:pity and then the other person chimes in with a, you think you've got it bad.
Speaker:And next thing you know, you're all, uh, having a pity party.
Speaker:So, you know, the ride goes on and we've got this one guy that rides with us.
Speaker:Who's an absolute, just the, just the giant, like he's incredibly strong
Speaker:rider, racist, professionally overseas.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:We're getting towards the end of the ride and it's normally pretty social
Speaker:and this guy starts behaving badly.
Speaker:I'm going to just put it out there, but.
Speaker:Behaving badly is how I describe it.
Speaker:Like breaking etiquette and just riding faster and faster and faster.
Speaker:And everybody's like, oh, this is about to go sideways.
Speaker:But, you know what.
Speaker:At that moment, I was like, oh, this is hard.
Speaker:This is this, this is that.
Speaker:And then once it kicked off, I'm like, there's something in me.
Speaker:That's like a ha.
Speaker:I'm like, oh, it's on.
Speaker:And I lit up and for the next sort of 10, 15 minutes of this ride.
Speaker:And it's a pretty long time.
Speaker:Like my max heart rate, theoretically at this age should be one 70.
Speaker:I was sitting on 180 6 for an extended period of time.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:That's.
Speaker:At a, at my age now, I don't want an email.
Speaker:Some cardiologists telling me I'm setting a bad example.
Speaker:People are, all I can say to your friends is consult with your own healthcare
Speaker:professional, but I'm like, I've got a theoretical heart rate maximum of one
Speaker:70, and they're all sitting at 180 6.
Speaker:And just loving it, like absolutely wrecked and.
Speaker:Just trying to destroy everybody.
Speaker:Uh, gosh, you can hear my voice.
Speaker:Some of you going, Jonathan, you S so unhinged at like, this is not healthy.
Speaker:But what I do want to say.
Speaker:Is what I learned for the a hundred thousands time in
Speaker:that experience was this.
Speaker:You're always telling yourself a story.
Speaker:What was my story?
Speaker:I'm so tired.
Speaker:I haven't written so much, but when the, when the conditions are right and
Speaker:I was tested, I was like, oh, hang on.
Speaker:Hang on there's something in the basement.
Speaker:I haven't found there.
Speaker:It is, bring it out.
Speaker:And I went out it and.
Speaker:I want to say to every single one of you listening today, there is always
Speaker:more, I become a disciple over the last few years of a lot of that evolutionary
Speaker:psychology, evolutionary biology.
Speaker:You know, I heard a great speaker say a week or so ago that your brain.
Speaker:You know, it exists to help you survive.
Speaker:It doesn't exist to make you happy.
Speaker:You ever heard that your brain, our brains have only evolved
Speaker:for one single purpose survival.
Speaker:You could argue maybe reproduction as well, but you know, survival and,
Speaker:and, and it wants you to survive.
Speaker:So you can reproduce.
Speaker:I mean, at the most basic evolutionary biological level, that's, what's going on.
Speaker:So your brain isn't interested in peak performance or, or, you know, making
Speaker:you happy or taking you in a new level of existence and performance, because
Speaker:it just wants to keep your life.
Speaker:And it evolved that way.
Speaker:Of course, as I've said, a thousand times, because for most of our
Speaker:history, there were, everything was trying to eat us and kill us.
Speaker:So our brain was really good at helping us survive.
Speaker:But as you know, you've been paying attention.
Speaker:There's not too many saber tooth tigers in your neighborhood anymore.
Speaker:So the threats that we have a rarely, rarely existential threats, right?
Speaker:The threats that we face are like, you know, stress, and can we do this?
Speaker:And can we do that?
Speaker:And what's gonna happen with this relationship and this person,
Speaker:this is part of my career.
Speaker:So, what I want to really say to you is what this cycling thing taught me
Speaker:last week is there is always more.
Speaker:You know, go and read that book.
Speaker:The comfort myth.
Speaker:I read that a few months ago and I've been talking a lot about it that go read it.
Speaker:Jump on Amazon.
Speaker:Goodbye.
Speaker:The comfort myth.
Speaker:And you can do this deep dive into how powerfully we have evolved for comfort.
Speaker:But there's so much more than just comfort, right?
Speaker:I mean, look around you.
Speaker:You just see so many people, you know, just addicted to social media, addicted
Speaker:to all sorts of different things that keep them stuck in exactly the same place.
Speaker:If you want different results, you have to do different things.
Speaker:If you want different results, you have to do different things.
Speaker:And those different things are going to be often challenging and difficult.
Speaker:You know, I I'm, I'm no snake oil salesman.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:I'm no, I know I'm not sitting here.
Speaker:I've never been the kind of person.
Speaker:In this podcast that sort of said, Hey, you know, this is easy.
Speaker:You just write some goals down and think some positive affirmations.
Speaker:You're going to get the, you're not, you're going to have to do hard things.
Speaker:And for me as a coach, that's often what I do is I help people get the
Speaker:energy and the leverage and the understanding to do the hard things
Speaker:that really shift them forward.
Speaker:So I want to say to you today then is.
Speaker:There's always more.
Speaker:Whenever you are achieving at the moment, there is always more, there is more
Speaker:to do be have experienced, contribute.
Speaker:It's in you it's there.
Speaker:Do not take it to your grave.
Speaker:My good friend do not allow it to die with you.
Speaker:I bring that stuff out while you have time.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:My time down the coast, I was just looking at my kids and it's a
Speaker:beautiful season for us, but I'm like,
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:You know, there's only so many years left.
Speaker:There's only so many more podcasts I get to do.
Speaker:I'm not podcasting for eternity.
Speaker:So I want to bring more to the podcast.
Speaker:Maybe being more energy on.
Speaker:Reach more people I want to do more for you.
Speaker:Because there is always more.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:I hope that's helpful.
Speaker:That's encouraging for you.
Speaker:So, um, that's it.
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Speaker:All right.
Speaker:God bless everybody.
Speaker:My name's Jonathan Doyle.
Speaker:This has been the daily podcast.
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