Rowman today, I want to give you an example of the power of mindset
Rowman today, I want to give you an example of the power of mindset. 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 chances? That is the question on this podcast, and give you the answers. My name is Anthony Welch, and welcome to the Rowman Podcast. Roadman welcome back to another Roadman cycling podcast. It's Monday and for me Monday always or at least I always aim for a productive Monday to set me up for the rest of the week. I batch a lot of tasks and I've had podcasts where I've specifically talked about batching. If you don't know what batching is it's super easy to understand. It's the best way to illustrated is using a laundry example. If every time you had a dirty article of clothing you decided to go to the washing machine, stick in, wash it up, powder, turn on the washing machine, get it out, dry it and then wear it again. This is a super inefficient use of time. So what most sensible, reasonable people will agree, we wait for laundry to build up until a certain critical mass has achieved and then we wash it all in one go. It's much more efficient use of your time. But yet a lot of us fail to do this very simple thing with tasks like work tasks, email, phone calls. We let we trickle them one hour to click loading all the way through the day, multiple days in a row. Really inefficient use of time. But anyway, Monday is the day where a lot of my batching tasks happen and today it went, I get a Monday right, it really set me up for the rest of the week to knock it out of the park. Something I've been working on there, I've noticed a real weakness when I don't have a Monday that calls exactly the plan when something pops up and it knocks me off my rhythm on a Monday. I feel like I'm on the back foot for the week. So I've been meditating a lot more since the turn of the new year and one of the things I'm working really hard on and meditating is this idea of starting again. So just because, let me give you an example to illustrate it, you could be in the gym and you've 65 minutes, 65 minutes or such a random amount of time for the gym. You've 60 minutes, gym session allocated and you're a half an hour into your gym session and you realize that you've done absolutely nothing. For whatever reason you've brought your phone up to the gym and you've been flicking through social media, you've I've been chatting with friends 30 minutes in. If you apply this principle of start again, there's no reason that the next 30 minutes can't be the very best 30 minutes you've ever spent in a gym in your entire life. There's no reason you can't walk out of there at the end of the 60 minutes and think, whoa, that was a game of two halves. I really turned that one around because this principle of start again means your current or your future actions, they've no attachments to your past actions. So if Monday goes bad, what I'm trying to do is just start again on Tuesday, make Tuesday a great day, just because Monday is not gone brilliant. It doesn't mean I have to let that poison the rest of my week. And that's something I'm working really hard on. Like I started about two, three weeks ago when it was just a principle I became aware of true meditation. Because often in meditation I find myself maybe distracted or taught creeping in and then When you start getting judgmental around the meditation, you think, okay, I have 15 minutes total meditation time and after wasting five minutes going on this random tangential, taught sequence, did not get me closer to my goal of switching off and meditating here. And you become judgmental around that. But just start again and make the last 10 minutes of that meditation practice the best 10 minutes you've ever had. That's something that's super powerful for me, this idea of starting again. I just wanted to randomly mention that because it is Monday before I dive into what I want to talk about for today because it's attached to that.
It's mindset and I just stumbled across a very powerful example of…
It's mindset and I just stumbled across a very powerful example of mindset today when I was reviewing clients. But before I get in and give you that example, I just want to remind you about Patreon because Patreon is how we fund this podcast. There's big companies out there and during Corona for us, we've seen this crazy redistribution of wealth and the richest people in the world just getting richer and richer and richer. Your Jeff Bezos, your Elon Musk getting richer and richer. And most of them are subscription based services. And we subscribe to a lot of them. We Netflix accounts, we've Spotify accounts, we've Amazon Prime accounts. But these big companies don't need your business. When you sign up to these big companies, it makes no difference to the founder's life. When you support small independent businesses like this podcast, you directly impact the the quality and consequences of the owner or host's life. Every time you buy me a point of beer, it puts a smile on my face. So there's a link down below, it's patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore watch. You can buy me the price of a point of beer once a month to just say, thanks for the hustle, thanks for the wisdom bombs. And I promise you that will put a smile on my face. Okay, Rod man, so I was giving you the background to me Monday and this idea of starting again, but what I really want to get into and talk about today, it's something I stumbled across today. Periodically, I go back and I review clients and I see what's working for clients, what's not working for clients. And I'll also look back on potential leads and see if there's a follow up that I can do with potential leads. Someone that said they might start coaching maybe six months down the line, but they haven't started yet. Can I pass that on to a sales person to bring them back in to our world? I only mentioned not because it's relevant to what I'm about this story. So it was the start of lockdown. And it must have been a level five lockdown because the coffee shops were only the on takeaway. And I remember sitting just outside Dublin City Centre in a coffee shop. Sorry, just got takeaway coffee from a coffee shop. And I was sitting on the sidewalk because full pass because there was no availability of seats inside. And I had two calls to make, two calls to make with potential clients who would bow-rass to speak with me and they were both interested in starting coaching and they wanted to work personally with me. And I called the first client and got on great with him, chatted with him, he explained he worked in banking, he was 40 years old, he was single, you know he played a bit of golf, even talked about cars and you know what his lifestyle was like and we got on great and then it got time when he's like well how much does a coaching cost and I told him how much it was to work personally with me and he said, oh, I can't afford that. I know this is the way. I know this is going to bring me on, but I can't afford it. And I thought, you know, no problem. That's, you know, everyone has a different financial reality. That's not to be. And I offered them, you know, some other ways he could get started and get plugged into a ecosystem. He's like, I can't afford, honestly, or maybe come back to you six months down the line. That was call number one. Call number two in the exact same location. And I can remember, eating out a shitty plastic little dish, eating like a pasta dish and drinking my coffee on the side of the road and making this second call. And it was a guy who was about 10 years his junior also in the same industry, but he happened to be married and kids, chatted with him for a good oil and he had a different financial reality. He was more pressed for cash. He had more obligations. He was more money was more of a stressor for him, but He was super ambitious, equally as ambitious about a cycling as the last guy. And it just struck me that these two are so similar back-to-back phone calls.
Got to the point, because I could see where this was going, I was…
And I got to the point, because I could see where this was going, I was like, well, look, this guy is not going to sign up either, because it was too much for the last guy. I got to the point where we talked about the price from monthly coaching. And he said, you know what, I can't afford that. And then he paused and he taught, I need this. And he's like, give me until the end of the day, until I figure out how I can afford this. So I left it there. And he called me back later on that day. And he gave me, you know, I'm going to cancel this gym membership. I'm going to move this around. I don't need as expensive of a, as a bike, I was planning to get new wheels. I'm not going to get them. I can afford it. I've made it happen. Huge difference in mindset there. It seems really trivial, but from I can't afford this, to how can I afford this? It seems really, really small and inconsequential. But now we fast forward, what are we, January? Seven months? No, more than seven months. Brat since March, whatever the maths is on that, since it's beginning to March till mid-January now. And in that period of time, the client's number one, I chatted to him today. He's still without a coach, he's still not sure what his goals are. He said he's cycling roughly the same amount, but he hasn't progressed. He said he's tried a number of things, he's played around on some whiff training plans for a while, went on training our road for a while, got a coach for a little bit, a cheaper coach, and then he was basically back in the exact same position he was at the beginning of March. Now client number two, and I won't give you his name because he's still a client of mine, he's lost almost 35 kilograms in that period of time. He's gone from a parrothed equivalent to a cat forward to a parrothed equivalent to a cat one. We've mixed in all these little bio hacks to increase his productivity, to improve his sleep. He is like a different man. And it's all because of that small, seemingly inconsequential difference in mindset from, I can't afford this to hell can I afford this. So folks, if you've a target out there, if you're struggling with any problem in your life, instead of saying I can't do this and closing your mind to possibilities. Reframe the question, reframe the problem because there is a solution and say how can I achieve this, how can I solve this problem because then solutions will present themselves. Roadman, thanks for listening and I'm going to be back to you again tomorrow. Before you go anywhere, our first ever roadman summit had aired back in December. I brought to get her 30 experts and they shared with me their secrets on how to biohack your physiology, how to melt away body fat and smash your cycling goals, whatever that was. Since airing that back in December, I've just been in on days with my Instagram, DM's, Twitter direct messages, with requests to get access to this material. I had it locked up in the vault, but I've decided to open access to this material for you, the podcast listeners at the Roadman podcast. So to get access to this, it's a one-point payment of 47 euro and you're gonna have all the interviews, all those secrets forever. You're gonna have the videos and the MP trays. In there I've got interviews, world-tore mechanics, nutritionists, sports psychologists, bike fit experts and some of the legends at a sport like Tyler Hamilton and Pete Sten. Over 30 hours of content in this members area that I've created for you guys. So if you want to get access to that way to do it, it's to head on over to this URL www.roadmansomit.com forward slash 2021. I'll give you that again. It's www.roadmansomit.com forward slash 2021. That's numerical. The link to that is in the bio. Get it, check it out, learn it, take it in, because this is short to set you on the right path for 2021.