Q&A: Setting priorities - and getting groceries - during quarantine

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

Expert, Ben, 40, Pakulski, Alternative Health, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Intelligence, Biohacking, Mi, Intelligent, Mi40, Nutrition, Diet, Hormones, Muscle, Exercise

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

For this episode of the Muscle Intelligence Podcast, Ashleigh and Ben dig deeper into living your best life during the quarantine. We talk about keeping your sights set on priorities, shopping and stocking up and finding the time to work on projects that you really care about. Ben muses about a day that recently went awry and why that might have happened before the conversation turns to evolving as a person through natural phases in life and the habits that allow these important changes to occur easily. Focus is always something that is emphasized on the show and today is no different; being able to say no, remain steadfastly locked in on your objective and ignoring everything else can bring you so many rewards in this current crisis and after! Ben and Ashleigh share their current food shopping habits and why a fully stocked freezer is something to get really excited about before the conversation turns to industry and supporting local businesses so they do not get completely bulldozed by huge corporations. The last parts of today's Q&A chat are spent talking about constant movement during a regular daily routine, fasting while in quarantine and the benefits of allowing your body to get hungry!

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Timestamps

The importance of anchors and helping others for staying on top of our priorities. [1:04]
Becoming a new person and transforming habits to suit your current needs. [4:15]
Ben's experiences integrating physical aspirations into a different phase. [7:10]
Saying no, focussing and leaving enough space for what is most important. [12:06]
Different shopping and grocery habits during the quarantine. [16:19]
The emphasis that the COVID-19 crisis is placing on what is essential in our lives. [19:50]
Supporting local businesses instead of huge corporations as things shift. [22:54]
Ben's weekend yoga course and the disappointment of not completing it. [26:03]
Unconscious movement and the ways that we burn calories during the day. [30:26]
Longer fasting periods while at home during the quarantine. [34:30]
The magic of hunger and playing with the fire until it is your friend. [39:59]
Exciting news about Ashleigh's new recipe book! [41:30]
The process of writing and Ben's hopes for finding a mentor for a project. [45:49]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Everybody, welcome the Muslim Intelligence Podcasts Q&A version. I'm sitting here with The Amazing.
0:22.2	Ashley Van Hatton, how are you? I am well. How are you, Ben?
0:25.3	Well. You're here. You're here. You've got a smile on your face. I mean, that's, you need to set the bar
0:31.7	realistically. I think it's important for people to know that I have shitty days too. And today hasn't been a shitty day, but yesterday it was interesting.
0:39.3	And then I went out at night, I think it was the first time I left my house,
0:42.3	to realize that it was a full moon.
0:44.3	I was like, why did somebody tell me this?
0:47.3	And I really-
0:48.3	The whole world was affect dudes as much as they affect women.
0:50.3	I thought that was just, I don't know, but I haven't been that stressed out in years, and I don't even know why.
0:56.3	It was just this feeling of like, I felt like people were throwing shit at me and like I was responding.
1:02.3	I don't know.
1:02.6	It was just not one of those days.
1:04.5	But it was great.
1:05.5	I think that the issue, to be honest, if I'm being honest with myself, is just as you said before the call, is I didn't
1:10.9	have my anchors. So I didn't train. I didn't do my Transcendental meditation. I didn't my T.M.
1:16.7	I didn't go for my walk because I was so deep in digging out of the shit that I just didn't
1:22.6	have my anchors. And I'm sure if I would have done my anchors, I probably would have felt better, been more productive, and, you know, ultimately not had a day that was a little bit less than optimal.
1:32.2	But back on track, good walk.
1:34.3	Wait, wait, wait.
1:34.9	I do think, I do think it's worth, you said it's good for there is just because you have your anchors and you're
1:46.2	aware of them and you have your priorities and you're aware of them and your focus and you have
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