2554: Your Guide to Personal Freedom: Spartan Style by Roger Lawson on Self Discipline & Resiliency

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2554: In "Your Guide to Personal Freedom: Spartan Style," Roger Lawson II draws inspiration from the film "300" to explore the transformative power of living with a definitive purpose. He uses historical Spartan resilience as a metaphor for personal growth, urging readers to find their "why," cross their point of no return, and defy convention to achieve true personal freedom. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://roglawfitness.com/your-guide-to-personal-freedom-spartan-style/ Quotes to ponder: "Find your why, create a strategy to pay it off, and start plugging away - and keep plugging away." "Why am I here? Why do I want to do this?" "If not now, then when? If not you, then who?" Episode references: "300" movie: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/300/umc.cmc.5vjx5opa0msewnaidhpn7qk85 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily, episode 2554. Your Guide to Personal Freedom, Spartan Style by
0:07.4	Roger Lawson of Rajlawfitness.com. And I'm Dr. Neil Malik, your host and narrator.
0:14.1	Hey there, happy middle of the week Wednesday and welcome back to Optimal Health Daily, where I
0:18.9	simply read to you from the best health and fitness blogs
0:21.6	for free. And on Fridays, I answer your questions. You can send one in at oldipodcast.com
0:29.2	or just send an email to health at oldepodcast.com. Now, today's Wednesday, and like I do every Wednesday, I like to share a little
0:40.7	bit of inspiration with you. So with that, here we go. Quote, yesterday, I was clever, so I wanted to change
0:48.8	the world. Today, I am wise, so I am changing myself.
0:54.8	Rumi.
1:00.7	All right, and with that, let's get right to today's post and start optimizing your life.
1:11.3	Your Guide to Personal Freedom, Spartan style by Roger Lawson of Rajlawfitness.com.
1:14.7	Are you living a life worth remembering?
1:20.3	Put another way, which do you remember more, what you had for lunch two years ago,
1:23.4	or the inspiring speech you heard ten years ago?
1:27.4	The lunch was so mundane that it could have happened last week, and you would remember just as much, meaning nothing.
1:31.4	But the speech, oh, the speech, it moved you. It challenged you to think about things in a different way.
1:38.7	It forced you out of your comfort zone and into action. But most importantly, it changed you, and from that moment on,
1:46.3	you would never be the same again. Well, that moment came to me during the film, 300. As much of a fan as I am
1:54.3	for an unabashed man movie, this one connected to me on such an emotional level that it's difficult
2:00.5	to put into words.
2:02.1	Thankfully, I managed to power through that difficulty and distill a few lessons that will help
2:07.3	take you from where you are to where you want to be.
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