Breach Your Mind
Explore life's depths and unlock the secrets of mental well-being on "Breach Your Mind." Join us as we navigate the intricacies of the human experience, offering insights, inspiration, and practical strategies for a fulfilling life. Get ready to breach the barriers of conventional thinking, embrace self-discovery, and nurture your mental health. Let's embark on a transformative journey together. Welcome to Breach Your Mind.
Breach Your Mind
Turning Struggles into Triumphs
Ever wondered how a simple walk around the lake can turn a rough day into a refreshing experience? Join me as I share a personal story of battling through a relentless headache by staying active, only to find unexpected joy and novelty in everyday moments. You'll hear a hilarious tale about a new recruit's first encounter with a dirt road, which serves as a humorous reminder of how our backgrounds shape our perceptions and comfort zones. And for a good laugh, don't miss my observation about my rarely-seen-in-sunlight legs, typically covered due to my hands-on lifestyle.
Pushing through pain and finding motivation can be incredibly challenging, but the rewards are worth it. Despite a headache and a rocky start, I managed to turn my morning around with a three-mile walk, falling short of my initial five-mile goal but gaining a sense of accomplishment and optimism. This episode emphasizes the therapeutic benefits of outdoor activities and the importance of perseverance. I'll leave you with a blend of humor, inspiration, and personal reflections to encourage you to push through your own tough moments and find joy in the simplest of things.
Team 1, stand by Copy Team 1 standing by Breach breach breach. Alright, so doing it again, and this time I turned the phone the right way, so when we render the video later, it'll be better. I think we're going to title this one today is just suck it up, because, honestly, it's not that great of a day for me. Went to bed last night with a headache and, uh, tried to get rid of it beforehand. That didn't happen, so woke up this morning it was worse. So that's what I've been battling all morning and decided, instead of just sitting around and trying to get rid of my headache, that you know what, instead I'm just going to get up and start doing some stuff, because I'm going to feel bad regardless, and I'm the kind of person that if I don't do anything throughout the day, I feel like I wasted the day. So I'm going to do my best not to waste my day. So I'm up and here's, hoping that just simply being outside and doing some things is going to help me feel better. So that's why we're calling this one Just Suck it Up, and it'll be another random thoughts day as we walk around the lake. Just a little quick note this will not be a five miler and there are more people out here, so we're ahead on a swivel. So we don't like an idiot Now I already like an idiot. So there's that Back in a few.
Speaker 1:You know, sometimes I forget and I think we all get subjected to it that we forget how interesting things can be because we're just so used to how things are. I think it goes for a lot of things in life, and an example of that that happened for me earlier this week has to do with someone I'm training. So you know we've talked before about how I'm in public safety and I am one of the trainers, and this person that I'm training is more of a city person, which is not a bad thing more of a city person, which it's not a bad thing. However, while we have cities here, we don't always work in the city. We have city first responders for that, and this individual had never driven on a dirt road. We are, like so many other places in our country that still has them. They're fewer now, but we still have them. He had never driven on them and his first day driving that's what he wanted to go, do Not because he thought it was fun or anything like that, he just saw it and was like, hey, let me go check this place out. So he did.
Speaker 1:He calls me while we're going down this dirt road because I'm in a vehicle directly behind him for other reasons that we may get into some other time. But he calls me and he is scared, absolute to death because it's a mixture of sand and clay and that mixture causes him to think that he can't control the front end of his vehicle. He said I'm turning the wheel and it's just not doing anything. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I laughed at him, told him he was doing fine, we kept going.
Speaker 1:Well, later in the day it's a thunderstorm. That happens, know. He decides he wants to drive down a dirt road again. Now, probably not the smartest thing, might have should have said something to him ahead of time. But he decides to drive down a dirt road for the second time in his life. But this time it's storming. And I don't mean like oh, it's raining, I mean like it it's storming. And I don't mean like oh, it's raining, I mean like it is like storming, like just the bottom has fallen out and he's driving down it.
Speaker 1:And he's driving this car on this wet dirt road like you would on the pavement, which, as long as it's hard, pack and not covered in water, it's fine. However, that wasn't the case. There were places where there was standing water on the dirt road and I had to call him and say hey, you know what? You might not want to drive fast through standing water Because you know you could suck water up in the intake, lock your motor up. You also may want to turn your traction control off, and that's for anybody that's driven on a dirt road. You understand it. But if you leave traction control on while you're driving on a dirt road, especially one that's extremely sandy or extremely wet, your car's not going to get the traction you need, you're going to spin and you're likely to get stuck a whole lot easier. So tell him that it goes fine what she tells me.
Speaker 1:Later he goes home and talks to his significant other and tells her about it and she is also from a more rural area and she just kind of laughs at him. But to me that was something that I found funny for the simple fact of, you know, I grew up driving on dirt roads, so it was no big deal, but for someone in the city, you know, it was a huge deal, it was a huge experience, it was something new, it was refreshing to see how it affected him and it just, you know, it's a real good reminder about how we take some of the things around us for granted simply because we're used to it. You know things that to us it's just every day, so it's not really that big of a deal, but for others it's a really big deal and kind of refreshing and sobering all at the same time. It just dawned on me that, out of everything out here, to include the sun, my legs are the brightest thing out here.
Speaker 1:I never usually wear shorts, never usually wear shorts. Just, I'm always doing something. I'm either working in the yard, working at the wood shop, or doing something you know auto mechanic wise. I'm always doing something where I feel it necessary to wear something to protect my legs. And, uh, so, that being the case, my legs very rarely see sunlight, like even when I'm on the boat fishing, typically wearing long pants. And that's because I hate sunscreen. I hate having to put it on, I hate having to reapply it, I hate the way it feels, I hate the way it smells. I hate sunscreen, so I don't like putting it on. So I wear pants. That keeps my pasty white legs from getting burnt. And yet today, when I decided you know what, let's go for a walk, I chose to wear shorts and they are bright, like I'm wearing white socks. I don't know that you can tell the difference between the two. No, I'm not going to prove it, I don't care who asks. So, yeah, there's that. Yeah, didn't realize it until I finished Well, just about finished that first lap.
Speaker 1:That damn geese, same two geese. Yeah, you remember. If you watched the last one, you remember Same two geese are still out here. I think they remember me. They're down in the water now because they want this, just saying, make an impact. I also didn't want to have to fight geese in front of everybody or run from them.
Speaker 1:What is it about a goose? They get so intimidating at the moments like, not me, I'm not a, I'll spin that little neck, but what about? Geese is so intimidating? They'd be glad they went down in that water. Oh wait, that's not the geese, those are the ducks that were with them. The geese are lying in wait by the bench. Them, the geese are lying in wait by the bench.
Speaker 1:Let's see how this goes. Man, I'm not gonna say much, but we're coming up on them. They're just lying in wait. That guy, he's cool. We don't mind that guy. These two, these two are not so great, so we're gonna see how this goes.
Speaker 1:Oh, here's shit, here we go. Yep, look at him. Ain't even did nothing. Ain't even did nothing. Just why? Why, bro? I don't get it. So, from looking at the analytics, there's not a whole lot of people that watched this last one. And that's fine as long as it reaches the one that needs to be reached. But if you'll remember, for those of you that did, our pace was like 18-something the last time. Our pace was like 18-something the last time, and our pace currently is 17.24. So, according to all of the technology that I've got, right now, we are on a 17-minute, 24-second pace to walk a mile.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that's good. Again, I still haven't done the research into it. I know that while I'm trying to talk, I'm sure you can hear it I do have to focus on breathing a little bit, but either way, my hair moving, getting some physical activity in, which is good. So, yeah, there's that. Anyone else ever get a mental block Like I? Have All of these ideas, things I want to do for the podcast, things I want to do For my personal life, things I want to do For the home. Yet, for the life of me, I am at a block to where I can't think of how to get any of it done. And I've been trying. I know I'm not the only one, so that's where'm at.
Speaker 1:That last clip was not intended to be so short. There was somebody coming and, yeah, we don't record when people are coming, especially now that I figured out that I need to hold my phone a different way in order to record and get a good quality video. And it's not some little tiny square. I think there's somebody behind me. They're back there somewhere. I just saw you. Yeah, nope, I know I'm not going crazy.
Speaker 1:Either way, I'm having a mental block on how to get these things done and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it. So if anybody has any ideas, let me know, because I'm kind of struggling on that. None of it is imperative, none of it has to happen, but it's stuff that I want to happen. I realize what happened. Now there's people on the other side of the lake. I called out the corner of my eye. Yeah, all right. So there you go.
Speaker 1:We uh not got three miles today. Wasn't the five miles that we had done before. However, despite having a, we got up and we sucked it up and we got it done. So, if nothing else, I've at least done that. My headache has gone away a little bit, so that's a good thing. I feel like I may be able to do a couple more things that are proactive today, and so, yeah, started out as a rough morning, could still be a rough day, but getting things done and, uh, hey, a little outdoor, a little outdoor medicine kind of helped out a little bit too. So there you go, till next time, guys. Bye.
