Hello and welcome to Run Pod, the place where runners unite.

Now, I'm Jenny Falconer here to guide you through another gathering of the Run Club of the podcast world.

And here's the thing, it doesn't matter who you are or how good you are at running.

There will definitely be an occasion at least once when you find it hard.

And perhaps because there are days when you just don't feel it.

So today on Run Pod, we have the perfect tonic to our struggle days.

This is an episode you might want to actually come back to on the dark days.

Have this one stored in your library so you can revert back whenever you need

some motivating for today i am joined by mr p m a himself yeah baby fysl abhala so nice to see you

so excited um thank you so much having me here yeah i'm really excited um excited. It's amazing. Let's get to it, Jenny.

You see, now this is it. Every time, I've known Faisal for years, a few years now. And every time you meet him, even if you're feeling really like, oh, I'm tired. He's like this. He's like this. Six in the morning. Yes, let's do this. It's called the drug of life. Yeah. Have you just always been like this? Yeah, I suppose.

I can definitely thank my parents for such a fantastic upbringing.

But it's a real simple fact of just choosing to be positive.

Don't get me wrong, and there's negative moments, and I'm not like this all the time.

But I choose positivity over everything, so it's easy.

I think there's something really nice about that, though. It's so refreshing. In this country,

we're notorious for always seeing a glass half empty. Well, you definitely have that glass half full

attitude. Yeah, 100% because it's easier to be negative. It's easier to fall into that, like,

repetitive circle of, oh, I'll do it tomorrow, I'll do it tomorrow I'll do it tomorrow positive

mental attitude is saying yes to pretty much everything in life with a positive spin it's eating

well it's training hard and it's thinking positively and And if you can combine those three, then you will

maintain a beautiful, balanced life. Now, obviously this is a running podcast and there is an element

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