SELK 75

Well, happy Saturday, everybody. JC and Jefferson are here for a little morning livestream. Well, morning where I am, I am in outside of Minneapolis. m. Central standard time here. But whatever time it is where you are, no matter how you are doing, congratulations on taking a little bit of time to be where you are with what you have. And to honor that, this Saturday morning livestream has a weird name. Selk 75 or 75 Selk. It is named in comparison to a popular lifestyle challenge called 75 Hard.

75 hard invites you to do a lot of things with strict rigor every single day for 75 days. And if at any time you fail at doing any of these things, you have to start over. So it's a world of negative consequence, negative punishment. You do something bad, something bad happens to you. If we look at sports psychology, negative punishment normally isn't a very powerful way of helping you be better or to get better. So selk 75. Good morning. Job of joy. Selk 75 is balancing that out. Rather than 75 hard, it's 75 soft, easy, light, and kind.

Speak wonder. It seems like it is snowy everywhere except Minnesota. We got a little dusting, but Jefferson left. Jefferson's like, I'm done with the live stream. Yeah, we haven't had. It's chilly here. Like, we're finally below zero, but we haven't gotten the snow that everyone else on the planet has apparently been getting. So selk 75 rather than 75 hard, it's 75 soft, easy, light, and kind. I always kind of feel almost like I'm an alien, almost like I'm living on a different planet. Because whenever I raise up something like 75 selk, everyone goes, that's.

That's weird. And I go, is it? Whenever I hear someone talk about 75 hard, they're always like, the world needs. The world's too light on themselves. The world's too easy. The world. The world's too soft. Like, everyone's. Like, everyone's lazy, everyone's weak. Everyone's, you know, doesn't. Doesn't push themselves. I've never met that person. I've never met the person who doesn't kick themselves as if they are not good enough. Am I the only one, like, think about. Think about the way that we talk about wellness and fitness and health.

It's the only industry that words like push and kick and grind and kill that these are. That these are good words. How are we supposed to thank our fitness instructor? Oh, you kicked my b*** today. Wow, you really killed me. Thanks for pushing me. If we said that to any other person in our lives, it wouldn't be received with the amount of positivity that it is in the world of wellness. So I proudly try to stand on the other side of the spectrum now, I will say, I don't stand on the other side of the spectrum saying, hey, all you have to do is be soft, easy, light, and kind to yourselves, and everything will be fine.

Oh, gosh, no, I don't think life's that easy. But there's somewhere in the middle. Somewhere in the middle of everything and nothing. There's somewhere in the middle of being, hey, I'm great and I'm awful. Somewhere in the middle of pushing yourself and learning how to give yourself some grace that life exists. Here's my thought this morning. So it's said that we exist, you know, let me rewind. We exist with a beautiful nervous system. And this nervous system has kind of two parts, our sympathetic nervous system and our parasympathetic nervous system.

Our sympathetic nervous system is our. Is our fight and our flight. Right. The ability of us to stay safe, to stay alive. And then we have our parasympathetic, which helps us rest and digest, which helps us stay alive. Before we started industrializing this planet, our resting state was 90% rest, digest, and 10% fight flight. In other words, we ate when we were hungry, we slept when we were tired. We ran away from the bear when the bear looked angry. We lived in a space of, what do I need to be well, to be nourished?

And in the moment of danger, that's when we went and we fought or we ran. Now, it's said in 2024 that we exist more in the opposite that we live. 90% fight flight, and 10% rest, digest. I think about your wrist, even think about this live stream. m. m. Eastern time zone, folk. And you go up, I need to log on. I need to do the thing. Here's the. Here's the time that I'm supposed to. Now we may go 90% fight flight. Wow. We need to fix that. And I go, I don't know. We are resilient people. Like every other species on this planet, we know how to survive and we know how to find joy amidst every single stage of existence.

90 ten a long time ago, 1090 today, we live in a world where we're taught that it's do it this way or do it that way. And I think it's messier than that, I say. Selk, 75. Learn how to speak soft, learn how to take it easy, learn how to move lightly, and learn how to practice kindness. Yeah, for others, but mostly for yourselves. Not because I think these are the four ways to unlock all of life's goodness, but that these are four very, very important ingredients within a balanced existence of surviving this life.

So we can find joy, so we can make memories, so we can go into the basement with our Jack Russell terrier and do a live stream with some people who you consider to be really good friends, even though you've never met him in person. Where can you find some of that messy middle balance this weekend? Where do you need to push and kick and fight? Where is life going to be hard? And the cool thing is you've already trained to do hard things. You've been a human on this planet, and where can you practice a little bit of selk?

Where can you speak soft? Where can you move lightly? Where can you take it easy? Where can you practice some kindness? We need all of it. So, Jopa, speak wonderful. Take it easy this weekend and maybe kick your b*** a little bit, too, because you can. And sometimes you need to. We'll talk to you later.