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THE 2 DAY RULE

10:00·22 September 2020

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The 2 Day Rule is a rule i've used to ensure my actions are always calibrated towards my ultimate goal( Cycling pr otherwise). It's a valuable tool you can use to increase your productivity, happiness & success.

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Roll man, I want to talk to you about a rule that's changed my life

Roll man, I want to talk to you about a rule that's changed my life. I call it the two day rule. 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 and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Roll Man Podcast. Roadman, welcome back to another Roadman short form Roadman Boyz podcast. It's been a minute since I said that. I did explain this in a podcast during the Tour de France, but just in case you miss it. Often at the beginning of an episode you will hear me a little out of breath. That's not some crazy hiccup going on behind the camera here folks. I actually have a trampoline, a little mini trampoline and I use it for a little bit of a state change. Podcasts you obviously have to be a little bit high energy. No one wants to hear that going, hmm, today's podcast is brought to you, boy. Like, if you want that sort of dreary monotone, you'd go and you'd listen to the Rafa cyclone podcast. Oh, low blazer in today. Anyway, today, folks, I want to talk to you about a rule that I've used all true college. I use it for study. I use it to get started in my cycling career. I call it a two day rule. I'm going to explain to you just what that is in a second. It's very simple but very powerful. Before I do that, I'd like to tell you that we are sponsored by Patreon. We're sponsored by the listeners. So thank you very much for everyone who's donated over in Patreon and if you haven't yet made a contribution on Patreon, I would encourage you to do it at this point. The price of a beer once a month to pay me for my work and it just means this podcast continues. So if you have the time now, press pause, head on over to Patreon, make that small contribution and then come back and listen to my two day podcast. So there's a guy I love listening to, he's a motivational speaker but he's named a Jocko Wilick. A lot of you guys who are a consumer and social media will have seen this guy, he's an ex-navy CEO but he has one saying it's brilliant and I've mentioned at number of times in the podcast, it's discipline equals freedom. Like honestly, no one likes rules, but the opposite today's rules, I've seen it before in my own life and I've seen it in clients. And it's just a complete breakdown of progress. This is a rule that I've used successfully many, many times in my life. I continue to use this. I use that all through my studies, I use it in business. And it's something that I attribute a lot of my success to. You see, our brains, we're just programmed really poorly, as good as we are as independent thinking, problem solving. We do have something called shiny object syndrome. We're very easily distracted. The next thing that comes along always seems like it's more important. It always grabs our focus and grabs our attention. This is why social media is such a problem. And if anyone's had the time to check out that social dilemma documentary on Netflix, know what I'm talking about. They're using our brain's weaknesses against us to hook us back in with these open hook, close hook type setups where we feel the need to get closure on something that we feel like we need an endorph and hit from getting a notification, getting a like.

It's a really interesting documentary. It's work watching

It's a really interesting documentary. It's work watching. I think it just came out last week, but definitely work watching. So if we don't have reels in our life, what ends up happens is we end up becoming reactive. We end up responding to the stimulus around us. We end up living somebody else's to-do list essentially. I always like to call it email, somebody else's to-do list. So I use to-do, T-E-U-X, T-E-U-X as my to-do list. And it's brilliant because I just log on the morning and I see my list of things I need to do for today, my one big thing that I need to accomplish for today, that's the big thing that moves me forward. As opposed to logging in here email in the morning and getting somebody else's to-do list and getting pulled in a hundred different directions. So these rules make sure we're not reactive. They make sure that our current mood doesn't dictate our decisions and we don't just keep jumping from one shiny object to the next. If we haven't set a rules to live by, like Jocko Wilick said, discipline equals freedom. If we have this set of rules to live by, our current actions right now, we make sure that there are steps in the right direction moving towards what we want, whether that's a cycling goal, a relationship goal, a career goal. And we break those, the toys, the social media addiction have us. We break the toys, the advert toys and have us. And we unleash really this crazy power of productivity. And, you know, I'm all about like the tagline for his podcast. It's health, happiness, longevity. And so much of our happiness is tied up in this concept of progress. Tony Robbins, an amazing, amazing motivational speaker. And he speaks about the one true key to happiness is progress. We wanna feel like we're better this week than last week. This refers to all aspects of our life, whether that's finance, relationship, health, fitness, whatever it is. We wanna feel like we're better this week than last week, this month than last month. So this idea of progress is so linked to happiness. And using this two day rule, which I'm gonna tell you, I know I'm beating around the bush and building up this two day rule, But using this two day rule, it's a way to make sure we have progress, that we get out of that responsive mode and that we get into sort of an action taken mode. And look, when I look at this, I had some time to press pause a couple of years back and look around and see what was important to me and see the next step I wanted to go. And during that time, I took a lot of time out to study successful people, whether they be athletes, actors, novelists, authors, academics, whatever. And I look for common trends that link all these people up. And one of the common trends was they have a code, they have a system of rules that they follow that each day isn't, as we keep saying, reactive. So when I got started in cycling, this was something that I really practiced hard. And when I got started true college. This was something I practice really hard as well. So the two-day rule, it's really simple. You're never going to take off more than one day in a row. That's it. It's that simple. Our rules don't need to be crazy complicated. So you're never going to take off more than one day in a row. So for me in Saitland, I implement this nonstop. I take Monday as my rest day.

I'm not going to take another rest day on Tuesday

I'm not going to take another rest day on Tuesday. I don't take my next rest day till Friday. Then I take Monday again. So my two rest days each week are Friday and Monday. What's the trend here? I don't take off two days in a row. I'll never take off a Friday and then a Saturday. Because I think we're in a culture where this phrase is just so prevalent. Just this one time. Just one more time. I'll spoil myself. I'll treat myself just tonight. And that's fine. But we never do two days in a row. That's our real. That's our new rule. We don't do it two days in a row. I'll spoil myself tonight, tomorrow, I'll cut myself the fuck on and I get back on the wagon. It's the two day rule. Implement this rule and watch the powerful effect that it has on your happiness and your mental health because all of a sudden you're going to be making progress. You're going to be moving forward in the things that are important to you. So obviously it starts out with the fine and what those things are important to you. Like for me, the example I've given here is cycling because it's so linked into my happiness. It's so linked into my health. It's so linked into my long term health goals. So for me, cycling is the thing, one of the things that I implement the two day rule on, never take more than one day off. I would encourage you to implement the two day rule in your own life. Drop me DM, screen capture this podcast, share it around, tag me in and let me know what you're implementing the two day reel in because I'll be fascinated to know and I promise you if you use it you're going to see real progress in a number of areas of your life. I would encourage everyone that's just being a soil-con podcast. I would encourage you definitely to get started and use this in your soil-con endeavors. We've just kicked off, as I mentioned in the last podcast, a 14-day challenge. I'll put the link in the boil to that down below. This is I wanted to just get into your hand, training plans to kickstart your fitness and You'll notice in this we implement the two day rule never more than two days off in a row So you'll take a Monday off you'll take a Wednesday off you can take a Friday off Which you'll never take two days in a row Folks this has been the roadman bites short form podcast. It's great to be back I'll get back into this regular cadence now with my short form on Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday And my long form on Wednesday Please join us for tomorrow's long form roadman podcast where I have Trek Sega freighter rider Alex Kirk dropping in to chat some shit talk to the Tour de France, talk about how he reckons Yumbo Visma messed up their tactics, it's a whopper. Also, I would encourage you before you head on off to jump on over to patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore Walsh, the link is in the bio and buy me a point of beer to celebrate the Tour de France. It's grand tour season, it's non stop, so please get a stop point of beer, help the roadman podcast keep rolling along guys thanks for your attention thanks for listening and stick that two-day reel into use. Chatty sound Rodman.

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Try Our Roadman 14 Day Challenge to Kickstart your Fitness - https://www.roadmancycling.com/14day

Support this podcast: www.patreon.com/anthony_walsh

All the bits & bobs I recommend are here www.roadmanresources.com

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Roll man, I want to talk to you about a rule that's changed my life

It's a really interesting documentary. It's work watching

I'm not going to take another rest day on Tuesday

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