Roman today I want to talk about a habit I'm trying to build this year
Roman today I want to talk about a habit I'm trying to build this year. Let's cue that intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness, and our long-chevages? That is the question on this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Roman podcast. Robyn, welcome back to another Robeman Cycling Podcast. It's another short form Robeman Boys Podcast and I'm excited to get into this topic. I want to talk to you about a habit I'm trying to build this year. Before I jump in and give you all the juicy details on what the habit is, why I arrived at it and how I'm going and about building it, let me remind you about Patreon. Guys, Patreon's how we fund the podcast Patreon is the reason you're able to listen this now, cover server costs, the covers equipment costs and covers time and expenses of getting this thing up and out to the people. So far, Patreon, it's taken along, it's taken along, but I really want to stick it on steroids for 2021 and really just dedicate more and more time to this podcast. Fast forward 12 months, I would love to be full time on this podcast, going so deep on the podcast, bringing featureland episodes every day of the week instead of the roadman boys. But the only way I'm going to get there is generating revenue through the podcast. Patreon is the way we do it. Patreon is the way you can make a small contribution. So if you head on over to patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore Walsh, it'll take you about two minutes to sign up even if you don't have a patreon account. You sign up and you can buy me the price of a beer once a month to say thanks for the content, thanks for the laughs and to support the podcast going forward. It'll stick a smile on my face and it'll mean the world to me. So the link is in the bio for that. But today I wanna talk to you about a habit that I'm trying to build in 2021. It still feels weird saying 2021. I nearly had to fact check myself there. And I was like, 2020, 2021. No, it's 2021. It's definitely 2021. It feels like we need a mulligan, a do-over on 2020 that it was just such a waste of time for so many people. But I haven't said that. I don't really feel like personally It was a waste of time for me. We launched a roadmap podcast and got a bunch of productive stuff done. So I definitely wouldn't use my mulligan on that. I'll save my mulligan for some other year. I'll save it for a COVID 2023, a little bit further down the road. One thing that the lockdown, I'm still in lockdown here in Ireland, so we've got the five kilometer radius and all that. All that jazz going on. But one thing that the lockdown has served for me is like a magnifying glass to figure out what's important without that constant, shiny object syndrome. You know, this like, oh, a new pizza place open in town. I have to go and check that out and constantly getting dragged, you know, social obligations that are kind of voluntary, but borderline compulsory because people turn their nose up if you don't go with them.
We don't have any of those distractions
We don't have any of those distractions. So we can put the magnifying glass on it and see what's important and look at what our core and habits are and which habits are important to me that I've been neglecting a little. And have an honest look at your life, Map out your day, map out your week, map it out in blocks of time. And you'll be surprised that like the, when you measure anything, when you analyze anything, it's just such an eye-opening experience. You can do it with calories. If you stick it into my fitness party, it'll be like, oh my God, I'm eating that many calories of bread, I'm eating that many calories of biscuits. And it's like, boom, mind blown. And it helps you change your behavior. Similarly, when you map out your day like this, you're gonna go, what? I was four hours watching Netflix today, what a waste of time. So you'll start to see which reoccordant habits aren't serving you, which ones aren't helpful at moving you towards your goal. Unless your goal is to finish 14 seasons of sopranos, sitting down and watching four hours of sopranos, isn't serving you and moving you towards your goal. Like you can't look back in six months time and go, ah, how come I don't, I didn't get to my ideal body weight. How come my threshold hasn't got to this figure? I don't have a six pack if your habits don't align with those goals. So have an honest look at it, sit down, map out your day and blocks the time and do it over the course of a week and see where you're allocating your time. But also if you do happen to look at it and go, oh my God, I am wasting a lot of time in my day, give yourself a break. Like we're in a fucking pandemic. So don't judge yourself on these bad habits too much, but just work to acknowledge them and work to improve them. There's almost as annoying as the I have a perfect life narrative that's perpetrated across a lot of social media platforms is the of the most productive day in the world. Narrative that's gone a lot across a lot of social platforms. Like, it might seem like when you tune into the podcast that I always have this super productive day, but I fucking don't. Like, I have habits that are not serving me the same way you do. I have periods where my diet goes to shit. I have periods where I just can't get going, will work. But what I try to do is just identify these and improve upon them. So for me, one habit that I know I'm not doing enough of, because I recently just mapped out all my weeks and mapped out, sorry, wrapped out all my days and mapped it into a week. And I've seen that I'm just not reading and writing for fun enough anymore. And for me, a lot of this is I've become consumed with creation. And because of that, I've actually started neglecting the source of creation, which is inspiration in the form of books and writing. And I still read a lot, but it's not always reading for fun. It's reading for a defined business end or a productivity end, but reading for fun just with no outcome goal. That's brilliant. And that's what I love to do.
That's something I want to spend more time on
So that's something I want to spend more time on. Like I just started reading the Wolf Wall Street book. Like it's pure trash like it's like the movie it's gas like he's throwing midgets at their boards like it's a laugh a minute It's something that I enjoy it's something that sparks that creative side of me. It's something gives me inspiration for podcast Content it's something that gives me inspiration for YouTube videos and because of that. It's a war-t royal adventure for me so What you'll notice is is there rarely it's really a fork in the road where you stop the una positive habit. Like if you think about diet, there's not a fork in the road where you just go, fuck this diet. I've decided I want to be fat. It's normally just you sort of drift down a road of a mission and neglect and then you arrive at a destination or a set of habits which you never really intended. So my message in this podcast today if I do have one among the sort of meandering stream of consciousness, it's to use the quiet time you have and not frame it as something bad but frame it as a positive and a time that you can reflect and see what habits are serving you and see which ones aren't and then in a non-judgmental way just get back on track. That's today's podcast, World Men, chat to you tomorrow. Hey everybody, it's Anthony again. Really quick, I want to invite you to join arguably the best thing I've ever put out inside the roadman community. It's a challenge. It's a challenge called a 14 day kickster challenge. So regardless of where your fitness is at right now, this is going to be the catalyst for making you faster and making you the leaner. I've created this challenge to take the guesswork out of everything. It's 14 days of training plans regardless of what your level is. There's the master's beginner advanced, there's meal plans, shopping list and even a video course holding your hand and talking you true at all. So what I recommend you do right now is just stop everything, press pause on this audio and go to roadmansoycling.com forward slash 14 day or check out the link in the bio that's roadmancycling.com slash 14 day. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you Hey everybody, it's Anthony again. Really quick, I want to invite you to join arguably the best thing I've ever put out inside the roadman community. It's a challenge. It's a challenge called a 14 day kickstart challenge. So regardless of where your fitness is at right now, this is going to be the catalyst for making you faster and making you leaner. I've created this challenge to take the guesswork out of everything. It's 14 days of training plans regardless of what your level is. There's Masters, Beginner, Advanced. There's meal plans, shopping list and even a video course holding your hand and talking you true at all. So what I recommend you do right now is just stop everything, press pause on this audio and go to roadmansoycling.com forward slash 14 day or check out the link in the bio. That's roadmansoycling.com slash 14 day.