As a business owner, you likely have a lot on your plate. With endless tasks, responsibilities, and deadlines to meet, it can be difficult to find the time and energy to prioritize your health and wellness.
However, maintaining a healthy lifestyle is crucial for long-term success in your personal and professional life. Creating healthy habits improves your physical health and boosts your mental clarity, productivity, and overall well-being.
In this episode, I recap my interview with Zac Mason on Episode 66: How Staying Fit and Healthy Can Boost Your Business with Zac Mason and delve deeper into the importance of creating healthy habits and how they impact your success as a business owner.
Business owners are constantly faced with challenges, setbacks, and uncertainty. To thrive in such an environment, it’s crucial to create healthy habits to navigate these obstacles and keep pushing forward.
By the end of this episode, you’ll better understand how taking care of your health can help you become a better business owner and be equipped with practical tools to make it a priority in your busy schedule. So, join me as we explore the fascinating link between health and business success and discover how you can thrive in both areas.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…
- What is the optimal amount of steps to do each day? (01:28)
- Quantity of food vs. quality of food (03:02)
- The importance of letting go of expectations (04:30)
- How behaviors changes over time (05:40)
- Can building muscle help you lose weight? (08:22)
- An app that can help you keep track of your fitness (09:28)
QUOTES
- “Let go of your expectations and get things done.” -Carl Taylor
RESOURCES
Episode 66: How Staying Fit and Healthy Can Boost Your Business with Zac Mason
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TRANSCRIPTION
Carl Taylor (00:00):
Debrief with lessons and takeaways from my interview with Zac Mason.
Carl Taylor (00:17):
Hey, you’re listening to another episode of entrepreneurs rising. I’m your host, Carl Taylor. And today we’re going to talk about some takeaways and some lessons that I took from my interview with Zac Mason. Now, if you haven’t heard the full interview, I encourage you to go back and listen to that interview. Or, you know, if you’re just super busy, and you don’t want to do that, but I still do encourage you do make some time later. This is going to be a nice little summary of some of the key things that I personally took away. It’s definitely not the entire episode, there is so much gold in there, which is why I do encourage you listen to the full episode. But these are some of my takeaways.
Carl Taylor (00:51):
And so basically, my conversation with Zac was around health and moving on body and in particular, talking about your metabolic deficits a big part of what what Zac’s frameworks and processes work to when people want to lose weight that ultimately, you need to consume more energy than you’re putting in your body if you if losing weight is an objective that you have. Now, the reason we were talking about this, as business owners, it’s very easy to get busy and say our business is the reason why we’re not healthy fit or losing weight. And that’s why I really wanted to have this conversation around health with people like Zac. So here’s some of my big takeaways.
Carl Taylor (01:28):
The first one was that movement is often the simplest way that we can make a change. Zac said that 8000 steps, and I asked him, I said all, most people say talk about 10,000 steps, why 8000? I really liked what he had to say. He said, You’re 8000 steps, because most of us are doing around 4000 steps. And I’ve actually been tracking if if you don’t know how many steps you’re doing a new have an iPhone and you keep it in your pocket, most of the time you go into your health app, it will tell you on average, how many steps have you been doing, and he was right, I was doing on average around 4000 steps. And if you can take 4000 steps and turn that into 8000, what you’ve done is you’ve effectively doubled your energy output, you’ve doubled how much energy you’re consuming. Whereas you kind of get diminishing returns. If you’re currently at 8000. And you go to 10,000, you’ve only really increased by 20%, as opposed to doubling your output. And so he says like once you get past 10,000 steps, you kind of start to move into this diminishing returns because it’s not making the same level of impact as it would be to go from 4000 to 8000. So I really liked that.
Carl Taylor (02:30):
And I think that’s, you know, it’s something to also consider in our business world, where are those diminishing returns to sometimes we’re focused on something with big impacts in the beginning. And then once you start to keep trying to tweak it, it’s really diminishing returns. So then the the thing I took from there was okay, well once you’re kind of at around the 8000 steps, Mark, if you’re not getting the results that you want, and you got to continue to understand the context for Zac is a lot of it is around losing weight. So if you’re not trying to lose weight, keep that in mind when we’re talking about this. But if you hit 8000 steps, you’re not getting the results of losing weight, then the next thing to do is look at your diet.
Carl Taylor (03:07):
So he actually doesn’t start with diet Interesting enough, it’s like getting that movement up first, then once we’ve kind of got movement up and they’re not seeing any results, now we start to look at the diet. And you’re one of the things that were around diet that I liked was talking about the quantity of food from a calorie point of view, versus quality of food. And so you know, if you want to be one of those people who just I want to eat anything I want, he’s like, Well, you can do that, you just got to focus on the calorie input. And that’s a different conversation to the quality of food, because he said, you know, a white potato versus a sweet potato calorie wise actually have the same input, which I didn’t know that and to be fair, I haven’t got to double check that but I trust what he says there. And yet, I know most other people I’ve worked with have been like don’t eat white potato, eat sweet potato, it’s better for you. I can’t remember all the science of why I’m not an expert in this area. But I do know that typically, it seemed that sweet potato is better. I don’t know whether it’s nutritionally or it’s better carb or whatever reason. It’s like that’s the better one to have. Yet, he was saying that if you’ve purely looking on the calorie input and calorie output of your of your day, that you could eat that white potato, if you love it, you just got to make sure that you’re expending the energy. Again, we’re not talking about quality of food here. We’re just it’s really interesting to see the different approaches you can take and understand that that quantity side of it when you’re trying to get this metabolic deficit.
Carl Taylor (04:32):
One of the other things we talked about that I thought was really useful. I shared my own experience of struggling, you know, for me, it’s like I want to do the work. I want to do it in the morning. And typically if I don’t get it done in the morning, it just doesn’t happen. And I really like what he had to say that he says, you know, letting go of expectations. Because if I’m so caught up with the rule in my head that it has to be done in the morning, and then I didn’t get it done in the morning. Then psychologically I’ve already failed. And therefore I don’t try to reattempt it until the following day. Whereas if I let go of that expectation, and the only thing is I have to get it done. Like, did I do it? Or did I not? Then I might be just about to get into bed and I could like, Well, I haven’t done it, how about I’m gonna do it right now. Right? Like, it’s a different mindset of like, it’s just how I ticked off the box, did I do it today, or not, as opposed to Did I do it at this specific time, which then creates all these extra pressures and challenges that can get in the way. And then when you don’t do it, you can start to feel like a failure and, and it can derail that motivation.
Carl Taylor (05:30):
So I thought that was really insightful and something that I’ve definitely taken on board since the conversation with Zac. And that kind of leads, I guess, into the role of behaviors. You know, Zac, in particular, he works with business owners and men typically, who have their past 30, some of them are significantly past 30, some of them are more like me, where we’re just kind of, in the beginnings of our I don’t know how old I am, I think I’m mid mid 30s, or late 30s. Now I’ve lost track. But he makes a good point, you know, it’s often easy to go well, since I hit 30, you know, my body has changed. And yes, there’s some truth to that. But also, the biggest thing that’s changed is our behaviors. You know, when you’re a teenager and you’re going to school, and you’re riding bikes into it, like you, you are active, you are moving, you’re probably naturally easily doing 10,000 or more steps in a day. And then in your 20s, you might have still been going out with friends, you might have been catching buses, you might have been walking around places around the city. And so again, your activity is higher than in your 30s, you might be more of a homebody, you might be hanging out with the kids, but you’re kind of being a bit of a homebody or sitting in front of the TV. And so it’s easy to go, my body’s changed, when actually a big portion of what’s probably happened is what your daily activity looks like, your behaviors have changed.
Carl Taylor (06:45):
So, you know, I think the first thing there to look at is go and if you’ve had that conversation with yourself, well, since hitting 30, or simply that 35, or 40, or whatever age, you might have said, you know, my body’s changed, actually go well hold on, if there was a period in my life where, you know, I had a certain body type, or there was something you were doing performance wise, maybe it was at the gym, you could do certain things. Ask yourself, how have your behaviors changed from that time, not just how is your body changed? Yes, we have to acknowledge there are hormonal changes, there are different things that happen in our bodies. But our behaviors have possibly changed. And I love what I like about that statement, too, is it’s true in business, you know, if you’re not getting the results in your business that maybe you once did, I would also encourage you to look back, or how are your behaviors today different to how they were, you know, I know, for me, early in my business career, I hustled I worked damn hard, I would stay out late at night working. Because it was fun. And it was the challenge and I needed to whereas you know, these days, I don’t do that I don’t put in those kinds of hours. And I’m grateful that I get these great results. But there are still times when maybe I need to go back to that and I need to go Hold on, do I need to bring some of those behaviors back in to to replicate those results, if I’m not seeing them in my life and my business and finance whatever you’re doing, right.
Carl Taylor (08:02):
So similarly, you know, like, if you saw fast compounding, and you’re investing, and you were doing dollar cost averaging, if you stop dollar cost averaging, you change your behavior, you’re gonna see a change in your returns. So it’s a really just insightful idea of thinking about how our behaviors changed when we’re looking at our current results versus maybe past results. And then a final thing, two final things that I wanted to just take away quick and easy one, a reminder that building muscle will help you lose weight. This is something that I learned when I went through my big fitness phase back in 2019, purely by building more muscle. It means that when you’re standing still and doing nothing, even if you’re not getting 8000 steps, you’re burning more energy, because the muscles require that energy, if that’s not something you already knew. It blew my mind the first time I understood it. And it absolutely just you know, if you focus on building some more muscle, you will naturally lose weight if you keep your consumption of food similar in in from a calorie point of view, at least. So that’s really interesting. And I encourage it, you know, I know a lot of women in particular are scared to build muscle.
Carl Taylor (09:09):
You know, you don’t have to go crazy and become a bodybuilder. And as men, you know, it’s always a good idea, especially once were hit 35 My understanding is your testosterone starts to change, like it makes sense. And one of the best things you can do to continue to build testosterone, push something heavy, build some muscle, do something that really strange you is one of the best things you can do to increase those testosterone levels. So and then the final thing I wanted to share that I’ve used this app, but I don’t use it religiously, I think it’s a worthwhile thing to take away. So if you haven’t listened to the episode, here’s a little secret, My Fitness Pal, it’s an app. If you don’t already have it. It’s a really easy way to keep track of the food you’re eating. Not necessarily to look just at the foods but so you can keep an eye on how much calorie like energy intake Are you taking in to then compare that to your energy output through your your steps or any other activities you might be doing.
Carl Taylor (09:55):
So that’s just a quick summary of some of my biggest takeaways. It’s, as I said, not all of the takeaways There’s so much gold in the episode. So please go back and listen to the full episode. If you want to just read the show notes from the full episode, you can also do that over at rising.show rising.show notes where you find the show notes for this episode, all our interviews, transcripts, all that stuff is there you can also contact me through there to ask questions, suggest people to interview or, you know, just share your thoughts. Love to do that. If you got value out of today’s episode, please share it on your socials or privately with a friend. And as always, if you’re enjoying the show overall, and you’ve been listening for a while, please rate us in your preferred podcasting app. We’d love to get a rating and maybe even a little comment review would be amazing too. All right, well until the next episode, keep up the journey
Outro (10:42):
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