The Power of Thoughts And Words

Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.

Once again, welcome back to the daily podcast.

Do apologize, friends.

It has been a little while.

Hasn't it.

I know some of you just clicked on the link to open the podcast and like this

guy where's he been, it has been a while.

Hasn't it?

I have been a little before I tell you what I've been doing.

I just want you to imagine the greatest.

Short motivational podcast you've ever heard.

Cause I just recorded it.

With the wrong microphone turned on.

So after about 10 minutes recording.

I went to check the playback.

And it sounded like I was recording inside a cave.

Under a box.

It was terrible.

Oh boy.

So let's see what I can do second time around, uh, where have I been?

Look, I don't know how to answer that.

I think.

Like all of us Cove has had a lot of ramifications and, you know, before

COVID hit, I was traveling so much and just really enjoying that life.

And I was in the U S every few weeks.

And.

I was great.

And it's been a big shift.

And so like some of you listening, it's been a real journey of rediscovering.

Oh, am I going to do, what am I here to do?

And I realize more and more that no matter what happens, what I want to

do is just encourage people and trying to help and serve and motivate people.

It's what I, it's what I need in my life.

It's what I need people to do for me.

And I wanted to just keep doing it.

I went to sleep last night and I thought.

It's been another good day.

I did plenty of stuff.

But I thought have I, have I actually done enough for people today?

I think we all got to be careful of becoming self-referential right.

Like we're sort of living our lives and it's such a self-referential

culture that we live in.

So look, I'm back.

I want to try and serve you guys as much as I possibly can.

Just with little useful daily insights.

I think many of you does.

I have a quick listen in the morning and hopefully this sets you up.

You know, for a good start to the day, I'm using an app at the moment called mindset.

And I often just have this thing ready to go.

So when I'm up in the morning at 4:00 AM,

I don't give my mind too long.

To have its way with me.

By nature.

I tend to be more of a melancholic personality and if I let my brain

just dictate the start of the day, it's never going to be that good.

So hopefully I can serve some of that purpose for you guys.

And just keep bringing you that daily motivation.

Look, make sure you check out the Calendly link.

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don't know how much traveling I'm going to be able to do this year.

So I am going to do a lot more coaching.

Um, just, uh, There's just an opportunity for me to coach more people.

And to, just to help you guys, wherever you feel, stuck, business

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So.

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Uh, what have I been doing?

I.

I've been, I've been reading David Goggins, new book, which is dangerous.

Uh, some of you would now often say David Goggins is my only hero.

Uh, he's just this fascinating African-American guy who, um,

former special forces operative.

And then.

Kind of got into the unhinged stuff that I'm doing these days

ultra-marathons and that sort of stuff.

And yesterday I did a 35 kilometer training run and I was

listening to his latest book.

And, uh, boy, I just, I went out, I think on Monday and I did

30 K and I did 35 K yesterday.

And this Saturday in like 36 hours time, I guess I have a 310

kilometer ride, 310 kilometers.

So look, if I, if I can do it in time, I'll jump on Instagram and

I'll reopen an Instagram account.

I haven't used a lot of social media for a while, but I'll try and take

some photos of this 310 K ride.

And I just say to people, look, it's relative.

These are the things that I do that keep me feeling connected and alive and.

Motivated.

I like to have things in front of me, but it's relative.

So my 310 K might be, you know, for you, it might be doing a 10 K run or a

ride a Monday, Monday, even be physical.

It might just be some project or something you've been avoiding doing.

You know, in David Goggins new book, he does this thing called

the Moab two 20 to 220 mile run.

For my metric listeners, that's 400 kilometers.

It's a 400 kilometer run.

You have to complete 110 hours.

So yeah, I'm doing 310 K on Saturday, but I'm doing that in a bike.

He did 400 K running.

C a relativity is what matters is it all of us adjust engaged in interesting things

that help us to live fully and encourage and bless other people earlier today

on this theme, I just finished watching a great movie called the Al PennEast.

It's a documentary about the life of a young guy called mark Andre.

LaClaire who's a very famous mountain climber solo free climate climbs.

The most outrageous peaks with just nothing except his hands.

of thing, the kind of thing where you sneeze or there's a mosquito on your ear.

I guess it wouldn't be many mosquitoes at that height, but you get the point, you

gone, you full and, uh, there's a scene at the end where his mother's talking and

she sort of says that one of the things she hopes that his life teaches is that.

Andre, Ella, Claire show us that pressing through these barriers

and you know, self-imposed limits.

Really open up life.

To be quite a remarkable experience.

I really do want to encourage all of us that this, these little steps

that we take, these little steps of.

Of growth and challenge.

That can be so important.

Now I want to jump into today's quote.

I like this one.

Some, a lady called Betty ed.

She says this, if we understood.

The power of our thoughts, we would guide them more closely if we understood

the awesome power of our words.

We would prefer silence to almost anything negative in our thoughts

and words, we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts.

We can always replace negative with positive.

So.

In the previous version of this podcast, the one that I

recorded in the cave under a box.

I talked a lot about this and now sort of like, oh, I've got to do it all again.

So maybe I can just streamline it.

I think when it comes to the power of our thinking and our speaking, most of

us tend to fall in one or two categories.

Some of us.

I think that it's really irrelevant.

It doesn't matter so much.

And some of us think that there's enormous power in them.

I mean, I don't want to create a, an artificial dichotomy, but

I think we do all tend to come down one side of the other.

I think for many years, I kind of thought.

I guess what I'm getting at is the extreme end of this is that we create

reality with our thinking, right?

And the extreme of that extreme is there's no objective reality.

That's just a perception.

And I don't think that's true.

I don't think we magically just create reality itself.

But I think we probably have a lot more power over our experience through our

thinking and speaking than we may realize.

You know, thoughts are mysterious thing half the time

we know where they come from.

All of us.

Just thinking can just emerge.

Right.

Teresa of Avila, a mystic from the 15th century once said, uh, you can't stop the

bird from flying over your head, but you can stop it from nesting in your hair.

I always liked that, you know, like we can't always control the

first thought that comes into our head, but we can control whether

we allow it to set up residence.

So I am an increasing believer in this idea that we can control the content

of our thinking directed more, be more vigilant about what we think.

And then of course, how we speak.

This is not easy to do.

If it was easy to do, everybody would feel great all the time.

And.

Be speaking so positively all the time that doesn't tend to be the reality.

So I want to encourage us all today to remember that.

And she says here in our thoughts and words, we create our own

weaknesses and our own strengths.

I mean, how do you feel if you're constantly putting yourself down, how

do you tend to feel if your internal dialogue is constantly self-critical.

Is it possible that, you know, some of us have also been raised

to believe that if we think and say positive things about ourselves,

then that's prideful or arrogant.

I think if you had to bet, I think if you had to take a gamble, I'd

go with more confidence than less.

I'm not asking us to tip over into narcissism, but I'm saying that if we

tend to be more positive and happy, you know, thinking and speaking, we tend

to just do life better and be more of a blessing to the people around us.

So friends that is the concept for today.

Pay some attention to the thinking that's in your head.

There's a three-step process.

I came across recently in a book called telling yourself the truth.

By ah, the authors here, I can see them on my bookshelf.

It's Backus and champion.

And in that book, they're kind of like the first step is to catch yourself in

the act of thinking what you are thinking.

Second is to evaluate whether it's real or destructive or helpful.

And the third step is to replace it definitely with something that is helpful.

So look at that three step process.

What are you thinking?

Is it true?

Is it helping and then replace it with something that is, this is the burden.

This is the journey of life.

This is the real moment by moment thing that we are all doing.

We're all on this journey.

We just got to get conscious.

We got to get switched on to really be aware of how this

stuff's playing out in real time.

All right.

That's it for me today.

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