The Golden One - December 16, 2023


My Christmas Plans For Optimal Health and Productivity

Topics
postal chaos
Hosted by
Marcus Follin
Mentioned
Jotuname Nutrition Dan Abnett Carl Jung Jung-maxing Assassin Skyrim
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Length

8 minutes

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163.26

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1,424

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107


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In this episode, I talk about the benefits of taking a break over the festive period, and how to make the most of it. I also share some of my plans for this Christmas, and why you should do the same.

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00:00:00.000 To be continued...
00:00:30.000 We'll be right back.
00:01:00.000 Greetings, my esteemed audience.
00:01:05.680 I'm checking in from a beautiful winter forest.
00:01:09.140 Now perhaps you hear it in the background, some snow falling from the trees and it's
00:01:12.880 actually raining a bit, so a bit warmer.
00:01:15.200 Hopefully the temperature cools down a bit over Christmas so we can maintain this nice
00:01:20.420 white landscape.
00:01:22.320 Either way, I thought to share my plans for this yuletide for this Christmas.
00:01:26.920 And in sharing said Christmas plans, I'm also sharing a valuable teaching when it comes
00:01:32.000 to health and productivity.
00:01:33.660 So I will use training examples to illustrate my point.
00:01:37.740 Back in the day when I was a young man.
00:01:40.640 Now I'm a venerable ancient, as I said, I'm 3,400 years old.
00:01:45.400 But in my younger years I literally had to force myself to rest from the gym.
00:01:51.080 Because of course I wanted to go to the gym, but I had to force myself because I knew that
00:01:55.480 sometimes you need to slow down and rest.
00:01:58.120 Otherwise you will train too much, maybe.
00:02:01.940 And you will train suboptimally.
00:02:03.380 Because the body itself, not necessarily the muscles, but the skeleton and ligaments, they
00:02:09.940 need a rest.
00:02:10.940 So you can take a deload week and that simply means that for a week you reduce all weights
00:02:15.500 in half, but you train as usual.
00:02:17.300 Or you can just take a rest week, not train at all.
00:02:21.160 You need to do this sometimes to recover the body so you can train hard in the time to come.
00:02:27.280 Now, when we're talking about productivity, perhaps you are an entrepreneur or a student
00:02:31.480 or whatever you do.
00:02:33.300 If you're interested in productivity, you can view your own work in a similar manner.
00:02:37.940 That you take a break from being productive so you can be more productive later on.
00:02:42.160 So on a personal note, I know I have a lot of things to do.
00:02:45.200 A lot of things to do, mainly with logistics in January.
00:02:48.820 So I will have a lot of work to do.
00:02:50.380 So what do I do?
00:02:51.940 Yes, I slow down.
00:02:53.060 I take it easy in December.
00:02:54.780 I rest up and, you know, forcing myself to not be as productive now.
00:02:58.940 So I will be hit by a rush of, a yearn to be productive in January.
00:03:03.500 I've done this many times before and I know it works really well for me that I build up
00:03:08.720 an energy.
00:03:09.300 I recharge myself so much so that when the time comes, usually in the beginning of January,
00:03:14.800 then I've done so much, so many non-productive things that I have charged up my motivation
00:03:20.760 to be productive and then I just unleash it and be, and yeah, I get a lot of things done.
00:03:26.420 So that is something you can keep in mind.
00:03:28.400 So if you ask my Christmas plans and I say that, yeah, I will try Age of Empires 4, because
00:03:33.640 of course I grew up with Age of Empires 2, Age of Mythology and Age of Empires 3, so
00:03:37.700 I want to try the fourth game.
00:03:39.500 I want to play some Assassin's Creed, some Skyrim.
00:03:42.020 I want to read The Siege of Terra, Dan Abnett's latest book.
00:03:45.840 All of these things.
00:03:46.800 You might ask at a first glance, how do these things, how do me playing Skyrim, how does
00:03:52.780 that help in achieving my goals, of imposing my will on the world and, yeah, again, achieving
00:03:58.620 my long-term goals?
00:03:59.980 It doesn't help in the short term, but I'm not playing a short-term game.
00:04:03.160 I'm playing a long-term game.
00:04:05.040 So I need to look out for myself in the long run, in looking out for myself.
00:04:08.980 I'm also looking out for my family, so you need to pace yourself in order to set a high
00:04:13.680 pace later on.
00:04:15.200 So that is how best I can explain, you know, gaming as a husband and father who is quite
00:04:22.100 productive otherwise, how can he then sit down to game?
00:04:25.300 How is this possible?
00:04:26.580 Well, that is the explanation, that you use that time to build up a motivation in you
00:04:31.580 to train harder.
00:04:32.500 No, not train harder, work harder.
00:04:34.080 So I'm using the same example here.
00:04:36.700 Training or working, it's the same thing.
00:04:38.460 So if you haven't trained for a week and you're really into the gym or whatever it
00:04:43.460 might be, it might be jiu-jitsu, you might be bitten by the jiu-jitsu bug, so you really
00:04:48.920 feel like training jiu-jitsu all the time and you haven't trained for a while and then you
00:04:51.940 have that journey to get back to it and that will make you train with more enthusiasm.
00:04:57.540 Same thing in the gym and now in this particular example we have productivity when it comes to
00:05:02.020 a business or whatever it might be.
00:05:04.300 And so that is my plan, to force myself to not be productive.
00:05:08.180 So be with the family, be with the girls, read fiction books, so not my usual books I've
00:05:14.860 read over the last two years.
00:05:16.440 So I'm taking a break from all of that, just relaxing a bit more.
00:05:19.520 And then come January, I believe at least, I haven't decided yet, but I believe I will
00:05:23.600 start Jung-maxing, so reading the works of Carl Jung.
00:05:27.780 Maybe I will start planning my own next book.
00:05:30.600 Who knows?
00:05:31.120 We will see.
00:05:31.740 But the main point here is that taking it easy so I can work harder later on.
00:05:36.620 And yeah, try it yourself if you are in that position.
00:05:39.200 And also do try to, if you are on X a lot and you consume a lot of black pills, try to
00:05:46.960 take a break from that too.
00:05:48.580 You know, if you want to participate in the metapolitical game for a long time, you need
00:05:52.860 to pace yourself as well.
00:05:54.020 You can't constantly bombard your mind with the West is Falling imagery.
00:06:00.640 So yeah, take a break from it as well and then you can get back to it during next year.
00:06:04.520 Now, lastly, for anyone who has ordered something at legiogloria.com, first and foremost, I salute
00:06:09.840 you for supporting my beloved company.
00:06:11.920 This is a prototype, by the way, for a wool scarf.
00:06:14.420 We'll be out next year.
00:06:15.380 Great stuff, great stuff indeed.
00:06:17.340 I also salute you for placing an order of some good stuff because the products, they hold
00:06:22.920 the highest quality, I'm very proud to say.
00:06:25.540 So I salute you.
00:06:27.120 Now, heads up though, in Christmas time, during the entire December and early January actually,
00:06:33.820 the postal system is completely mugged by the sheer volume of orders.
00:06:39.200 So if your package doesn't arrive in time for Christmas, there isn't really much I can
00:06:44.160 do on my part.
00:06:45.180 I don't send the packages out myself, so I can't sign the books either.
00:06:49.200 And you will get a tracking when the order has been sent out.
00:06:55.240 So, but yeah, expect some delays, expect some postal chaos, some logistical chaos.
00:07:00.000 Because I've been through this a few times before, so I know that December is quite chaotic
00:07:04.800 indeed.
00:07:05.560 So do keep that in mind.
00:07:07.440 And of course, I am the customer support on both Jotuname Nutrition and Lig.
00:07:10.740 And now, of course, I am the customer support on Lig.
00:07:15.180 Jotuname Nutrition.
00:07:17.000 I like to interact with the customers myself.
00:07:21.240 Give me a few days over Christmas.
00:07:23.660 I might be a bit slower to respond to some emails because I want to, as I said, take it
00:07:28.020 a bit easier.
00:07:28.620 But yeah, I'll get back to all emails as soon as possible anyway.
00:07:33.240 After Christmas, that is.
00:07:35.380 So, good stuff, good stuff.
00:07:36.920 I hope you'll also have a harmonious and peaceful Christmas.
00:07:39.800 I hope I will have it.
00:07:41.220 You never know, but I hope for it at least.
00:07:43.300 Now, in terms of productivity, I will make, of course, the monthly podcast episode.
00:07:47.480 It will be about the cult of Mithras.
00:07:49.480 So that will be nice to make.
00:07:51.680 So that will be my productivity for the end of the month.
00:07:56.100 And if you aren't already subscribed to the podcast, do so.
00:07:59.400 Check it out.
00:07:59.860 I go a bit more in depth in my discussions.
00:08:04.260 So I pick a topic, elaborate on it.
00:08:06.260 And then I, in the beginning of each episode, I talk a bit about training, biohacking, some
00:08:10.980 updates, some politics, everything like that.
00:08:14.560 So do check it out.
00:08:15.620 Link in the description box below.
00:08:17.360 Now, thank you for watching and thank you for your support.
00:08:20.020 XOXO.
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