Q&A - Why you have to plan for joy

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 January 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Joy and progress do not just happen out of nowhere. They take planning, preparation, and steady, hard work. Today Ashleigh and Ben are here to remind you of the importance of this kind of commitment and use this Q&A session to really drill down and what can help you succeed in fitness and beyond. They talk about morning routines, mindfulness, intentionality and more! The ability to say no to some things can make all the difference in your long-term success, as will setting these horizon goals that you can slowly work towards. The discussion also covers attitude and how the enjoyment of difficulty can determine your success and capability later on. Ben talks about the importance of increasing testosterone and dopamine in a world that seems set on depleting your stores of these important parts of physiology. It is through these that we can remain motivated, committed and energetic; all the things we need to have lasting success.

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Timestamps

Learning to say no and focus on one thing rather than more than you can handle. [2:26]
Morning routines, gratitude and the feeling of being alive and committed. [09:50]
Intentional work towards a long-term goal instead of mindless action. [12:41]
Planning joy, starting your day in the right way and the difference this can make. [15:45]
How finding joy in difficult activities can define how successful you are subsequently. [20:49]
Increasing testosterone and dopamine for motivation and energy levels. [22:50]
Changing habits and making conscious decisions about our daily rituals. [29:01]
A special review from Keith about the podcast what he loves about it! [35:31]
Up-regulating and getting out of the more lethargic physical and mental states. [39:37]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the muscle intelligence podcast. I've got my great, amazing, wonderful, super smart, super fit. I'll add to the list.
0:27.8	Ash, it's great to have you back. You know, we had some holidays there and you get to enjoy time in Costa Rica, which I'd love to hear about.
0:33.4	You know, and as did I. I enjoyed some time down in South America and in North Carolina. Now I've got
0:38.2	2020 kind of jam packed with things that I love to do, which I'm so excited about. I've kind of had
0:43.1	this epiphany where there's only two things you can change in life. It's you can change the things
0:48.1	you do or the way you do them. And I'm really going to do change both. I'm going to really
0:52.2	upgrade my choices. The decisions I make have to be intentional and I have to want to do change both, right? I'm going to really upgrade my choices. The decisions I make
0:54.8	have to be intentional and I have to want to do them and things that I want to do, it makes it
0:59.0	really, really easy for me to do them really, really well. And I think that's one realization
1:02.6	that people need to have in life is, you know, don't make commitments that you don't want to keep
1:06.6	and don't make commitments that can't keep this concept of integrity that keeps, I keep bringing up.
1:11.0	And maybe that's the theme of my life from now until the day that I die is massive,
1:15.4	massive integrity.
1:16.4	And again, it's hard, especially when you're busy.
1:18.7	And the world is pulling your attention in so many different directions to actually be
1:22.8	a person that lives with integrity.
1:24.0	And that's why that's something that I'm going to attach myself to as much as I possibly can, you know, 100% if possible and never make a commitment that I don't want to keep.
1:33.4	I'm never make a commitment that I can't keep, certainly. And move heaven and earth to maintain
1:37.6	commitments because it's so hard, right? It's so hard to not. And again, I'm doing my best. I tend to be the type of person who says, you know, I want to help everybody.
1:46.0	I'm like, yes, I can help you.
1:48.0	But then it takes away from so many other great things that you're doing and you see my schedule.
1:52.0	Ash, it's like, I've done this.
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