1.Rodman, let's talk about urgency and why you need it in your life

Rodman, let's talk about urgency and why you need it in your life. Let's cure that intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our longevity? That is the question, this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Rodman Podcast. roadman roadman thank you for joining me and welcome back to another roadman podcast roadman sometimes on the podcast you know when the podcast is every well five days a week it seems like every day because we don't count the weekend do we uh when it's five days a week at times you sit there and you go oh what will I talk about today and anyone who's being out for drinks with me at a dinner party, well now I'm a man who's rarely stuck for awards, but at times you're kind of gone, you know, Reuters talk about the Reuters block or creative block and you definitely get that from time to time, but I find if you put yourself in a positive environment around just taught provoking people that Reuters block just disappears and I cast on my mind back to my college days. I learned very little in the lectures, but I learned so much from being in an academic environment. And when I've been creating this roadman so much, and I'm probably going to talk to you every day about some reference to the roadman so much. QMIPLOADMANDSOMET.COM. Nice, nicely done, slipped in there. Now I won't even notice that. Because when I'm working on this summit at the moment, I'm getting to interview and talk with just these absolutely amazing inspirational people from every aspect of performance from sports scientists to and boil hackers and it's truly remarkable and I'm chatting with some people in how we engineer happiness. And that's what's kind of prompted today's discussion and I don't want to tell you who that speaker is. But actually, will I announce another speaker today? Will I announce another speaker? I will, sure why not. I wasn't planning on announcing another speaker for a little bit but I'm going to let you in on another speaker and he's one of the most controversial and in my mind one of the best writers of the last couple of decades His fame is, he almost needs no introduction. I was writing a bio for each of the guest speakers on the summit and I just wrote on this one, the one, the only, Tyler Hamilton. That's the bio. So yes, Tyler Hamilton will be joining us for the roadman so much where I'm gonna get to pick Tyler's brain and it'll be an honor and a privilege to get him back and pick the brain of somebody who I've spoke. I think I'm quite good at not being a fanboy on the podcast but Tyler is someone who was a bit of a fanboy when I interviewed him and just because I grew up, you know, idolizing this guy. So it was really cool and it was definitely, you know, a childhood dream of mine come true. I don't know if I ever dreamt of interviewing someone, but, you know, to get the chat with them and call them a friend, which is pretty cool. And we've become friends since that podcast episode. So that's amazing. Okay, but let us crack on. So I'm talking about the so much and how amazing it is 30 speakers, but you know what, there's a huge financial cost. There's a huge time cost for the podcast and the summit. Do I have fun that it's over on patreon.com. The link is in the bio. You know it by now it's patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore Walsh. I'm appealing to your better nature, to your generosity, to your sense of reciprocity, to please fund the podcast so it stays around. I'm gonna keep creating events like this because I promise you if you keep funding the podcast, I'm gonna pull out and blow your mind with the level we're gonna get to with this thing because I'm gonna keep scaling it up.

2.I'm gonna keep scaling it up

I'm gonna keep scaling it up. It's gonna be epic. You think Torty's Baker's from World Tour teams, the physiologist's and chefs and physios and all sorts is big. Wait, you see what's gonna happen down the line if you let's believe in the podcast and believe in me. So if you wanna support the podcast, please do so. Cost you a price of a beer once a month and in return you'll get access to the secret podcast as well, which is off the hook. So today's topic I wanna talk about, OriginC and this is something I contemplate every morning and anyone who's a regular listener to the podcast will have heard me speaking at length. Some may argue at nauseum about my morning routine and roughly to recap at my morning routine, I get up in the morning, I woke by old school, at alarm clock, not my phone, my phone is in a different room. Old school at alarm clock, get up, first thing I do, it's water with some at the moment, it's Himalayan sea salt and lemon. I down that, I do my red light therapy, I try and do my bit of meditation on front of the red light, then I'm into the cold, I do a three minute cold shower, and then I come out, make my coffee and I journal, journal for five, 10 minutes. What's on my mind, bit of a brain dump. In the journal I list gratitude and then I do a little bit of a brain dump on anything to tell my mind and I've specific headings in the journal and I may, it's beyond this podcast. I'm not gonna talk about my entire morning routine here. Maybe I will do one later in the week talking about because I would call it the tactics of my morning routine, but there's overarching principles of the morning routine that even if you do a different morning routine, you have to plug in and use somebody's principles like creating momentum, like changing state, and I can get into that deeper in other podcasts. But something I think about every single morning, it's urgency, it's this idea of wanting and Gary Kellar wrote about this in his brilliant book, if you have another chance to read it called The Wanting, and it's the idea of the big Archimedes lever. Remember Archimedes, the big lever that could move the world, give me a lever big enough and I'll move the world. What is the wanting? What's your lever that if you knocked it over, if you had it, every other problem in your life It ceased to be important. There ceased to have significance. So that's how I try and set out each day, not to be busy, but to figure out what that thing is, what's that one thing that'll knock down all the other dominoes and cast this chain reaction. And by living meaningfully and purposefully, what it does is for me, it creates, I don't know how to say this in a non-morbid way, but I think about the end. And I used to be fascinated by these debt-bed books where they interviewed people under debt-bed and asked them what they regretted, what they wished they'd do more of. Because I figured out such an easy way to hack the system of cheese, and figure out what we should do more of. And one thing, I remember, it stuck in my head, and it's this debt-bed exercise of, if you could pay crazy amounts of money to go back to certain days in your life, what those days be? So maybe you'd pay a million quid to go back to a day. What day would you go back to? And the answers were fascinating because they were always answers like walking my dog in the park, holding hands, walking down the street with my wife. Maybe if the cyclist is riding over the hills and listening to your favorite song. Nobody ever listed material possessions. Nobody ever said, yeah, I wish I got the new Ford Mustang car or that new Rolex was off the hook.

3.With that in mind, what I try and do each day in this gratitude part…

So with that in mind, what I try and do each day in this gratitude part or journaling part of my morning routine is I think about the end and I think about the end because I know that someday it will come and I too will be that dude on the death bed thinking about maybe I should have walked the dogs in the park more maybe I should have walked hand in hand with my girlfriend down the street maybe I should have rode over the hills listening to my favorite song and I don't want to have those regrets so by knowing that they're the experiences that people crave and it is experiences to people crave I can start to build these into my day. I can start to live in a purposeful way and achieve purposeful things because like this isn't a practice run. We don't get a run over and the idea that manana tomorrow, someday, someday never comes. So unless we start to live meaningfully right now, we're going to end up with those same debt bed regrets. And you know, by contemplating this and meditating on my own mortality and thinking about it, what it does for me is It creates urgency. It creates urgency to get stuff done today, to get actions done today. Those uncomfortable tasks, I'm gonna talk about this in other podcasts that I don't believe we're beings who should seek comfort, who should seek being indoors in cars, in cubicles, Netflix on the couch eating processed food. I think we need to seek out uncomfortable actions. We need to seek out uncomfortable conversations. We're meant to have these and overcome them. And by having these and overcome them, you create massive momentum. And by thinking about your own mortality and knowing that you need to have urgency to have these uncomfortable actions, to have these uncomfortable conversations, those very actions and conversations that you're avoiding, they may define the next chapter in your life, they may define your legacy. So once we know that these are important, let's go about creating this stuff. Let's go about living and creating in a meaningful way. Chase experiences over material possessions, roadmen. That's it for today's sort of bit of a stoic rant on the idea of stoicism of separating stuff into two categories, what we can control and what we can't. And so many of us at the moment could benefit from that because we spend so much of our valuable time and energy looking at how a vaccine is coming out, literally a magic pill where people are looking for a magic pill and we're stressing about when the magic pill might come. If the magic pill is going to work, the magic pill is only 70% effective. Instead of wasting your energy on that stuff, you can't control. Focus on creating a life that you can't control. Focus on your wanting, focus on living purposefully, focus on creating experiences. Roadman, that has been me. I'm going to chat to you all again tomorrow. Roadman, before you go, I've got an important announcement to make because over two days and the eighth and ninth of December, I'm gonna speak with 30 of the world's leading fitness experts. And I want you to join me, free of charge from the comfort of your own home. This is the first ever roadman virtual performance summit for aiming to bring together the best minds and fitness, and they're gonna share with me their secrets for biohacking your physiology, melting away body fat and smashing your cycling goals. Would you like to learn their secrets? It's easy. All you have to do is register for your free ticket over at www.roadmansummit.com forward slash free. That's www.roadmansummit.com forward slash free. The link is in the Boil.