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Approjet production.

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A team glenes are here walking back to the building

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in Humans Project podcast. I want

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to talk a little bit this morning to kick off our week

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about the importance of looking

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after your body. And

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I'm talking your physical health, but let's

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tie that into our mental health as well, because

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it's a definite correlation. I

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know, years ago when I was up

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in Townsville, I worked in a battalion

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where I was responsible myself in a couple

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of mates, for running the physical

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training for one of the companies. The

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four companies in a battalion, so we had

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about one hundred to one hundred and fifty soldiers

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that we were responsible for making sure

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that they were physically fit enough

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to do their job, physically

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fit enough to go to war effectively.

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And when we deployed, we noticed

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definitely the people that were

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physically in good shape. And

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I'm not talking being an athlete here,

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I'm just talking about people who turned up regularly

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to physical training, who looked after themselves

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more than they didn't. Because the army is a place where

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people drink heavy, they party heavy, but they do

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their job as well. But you still have a few

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people that just don't quite toe

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the line and spend a lot of time on what they

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call chits, which is like a medical

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exemption to get away with not doing

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certain work or certain physical things.

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Some of these are legit, but a lot of them are not. And

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we notice a correlation between those who

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were physically well and physically

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healthy and their mental strength when it came to deployments,

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because deployments are tough. You're away

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from your family, you're away from

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your lifestyle. You don't have the capacity

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to just do all the things that you get to do in your

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home. You're at war. And so of

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course, even if you've never been to war, I'm sure you understand

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the intensity of that and how hard

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that can be. So working

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in the physical field, and had to

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mate Solca and to mat Willow, Kyle

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Williams and Dave Tolson who helped run

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these and we noticed the correlation when we

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went outfield. And I was

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listening recently to a guy talking about

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the fact that when you are

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well physically well, you have thousands of problems.

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There's all the stuff going on in life, in business and

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so on, And think about yourself right now,

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all the challenges in your life, if you're in

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business or if you're in a leadership role. What are all the

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challenges that you have in your personal relationship

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at home? There's all of these things.

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But then he says, when you become unwell,

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when you become sick, you only

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have one problem, and that is to

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get healthy. Because when you're sick, you

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can't do anything else. And unfortunately,

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for a lot of us, we're not motivated

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or inspired enough to look after our physical

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health until something

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goes wrong. Because I promise you this, if

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you end up in hospital or your health

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is really poor, all of those other

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problems go away. It's

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actually a privilege to have all

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of those other problems, and you lose

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that privilege when you lose your physical

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health and to some capacity,

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your mental health as well. So this isn't

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encouragement to you to start to

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look after your body, to start to find

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reasons to do the best that you can by yourself

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on a daily basis, not becoming

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an athlete, not becoming obsessed

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into one two three hours a day of gym.

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I know a lot of us don't have time for that. When

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I don't train as much as I should, I

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make sure that my diet is pretty on point. Now

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I eat whatever I want, but I don't overeat

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and that's what allows me to stay pretty

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active. And I'm fairly active anyway. But

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it's really really important to understand

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that my physical health means a lot to me. And

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if you don't have time to look after it now, you're

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going to have to find time to be sick later. And

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that, to me was a real inspiration to

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even think about that, and I want

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to share that with you today, and I hope

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at some level this inspires you to

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start to do the right thing by yourself, by

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the people around you, by the

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business or the leadership, you know, people that

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look up to you for those roles. Look

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after yourself and find ways to be in the physical

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best shape that you can. Don't abuse your body

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with alcohol, with food that's

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not good for you. If you're not exercising as

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well, you don't get to

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look after yourself in one area

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and not the others, or you don't get to look after

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yourself in none of those areas and expect things to

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go well. So here's a little place

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for you to kick off. You're a wake.

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As long as your body is healthy.

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You have thousands of problems, but

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in the moment, your body gets sick. You have

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one problem. That's really

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true.

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Yeah, yeah, that's true.

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That's why I mean, first of all,

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before like tackling everything or

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how to build up your life and how to whatever

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do, make sure your body stays healthy.

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If the body is not healthy, you don't need to go about

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anything else. So respect,

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take care and love your

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body. Nourish your body,

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and nourish yourself in such a

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way that you understand it's

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something right now, very very precious to

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have. Okay, this is number

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one.

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