March 31, 2026 • 8 mins
One little thing a day CAN spark your mind and (seemingly) slow time down.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody after the show podcasts,
and we have an easy solution this morning. If you
feel like time just flies every day and you can't
keep up with it, I think about that because it's
like my dad, you know, always used to say that,
and because just calendar was always empty, but time just
kind of flew by every single day. And you know,
(00:21):
that's kind I don't want to say that's an old
people thing, because that's you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
But the more that feels true, the faster it goes true.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And so there's science behind that, although they debate some
parts of it, but you know, because there are some
people that believe it has to do with the brain
slowing down, which can happen after the age of sixty,
so your perception of some things can actually the fact
that your brain doesn't take as many snapshots for lack
of a better term, you know, can make time apparently,
(00:51):
you know, speed up. But they say that most of
that actually has very little to do with that, very
little to do with the you know, the brain itself aging.
It has to do with what you're actually doing with
your time. And I thought that this is pretty interesting
and it's got an easy solution to it, and it
has to do with routine, which because routine is muscle memory,
(01:16):
and muscle memory is automatic, you're not challenging the parts
of your brain that get excited and neurons start to
fire and pay closer attention because your body doesn't. Your
your body kind of coasts through the things that it's
used to course. So routine is important, you know, for
comfort zone. But you you should do something. They say, actually,
(01:37):
you should do at least one thing every day that's
a little bit, you know, different than normal. And what's
hilarious is Jodie is doing one of these right now
and it's one that I'm doing too.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It's the it's the whole sparkling water flavored water.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Thing that's not doing something, is it?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Well, it's change in his habits.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We didn't talk about it last night.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So it's the it's it's the igniting your brain. Basically,
it means it's it's another version of get out of
your comfort zone. If you do the same thing at
the same time every day, if your life is the
same circle, both in and outside of work for you,
and you don't ever do anything different than you always do,
then your mind is not going to And I know
that probably sounds pretty common sense, like yeah, and it's
(02:20):
It can be anything from start up a conversation with
a stranger, have a conversation with somebody you don't normally
talk to, get out of your house and go do
something that you know is different. It doesn't have to
be stressful, but you know, experience something different, try and
rest different, try a different coffee. It's it's what's crazy
about it to me, is it doesn't It's so ridiculously simple.
(02:42):
All it is is about doing something that causes your
senses to react that's different than what you would normally do.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And that was the sparkling water conversation.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
We had less to much because I was having a
cold sparkling water raspberry nectarine fla. It's Waterloo is the
brand that he bought me, because you know, he bought
a bunch of them, and I'm like, I like the
Bury one.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So he bought me that and I said, remember this.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I was like, you know what I do look forward
to drinking this at night. There's something different about it.
He's like, because it's new, it's you're discovering something new
and we don't get that. Every day we have our
favorite things and we like our routines and comforts. Yeah,
it's got to be a balance of that because nobody
wants chaos either.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh no, you don't want to do total chaos, but
doing one thing a day it's a little bit different
that you know, that keeps you, you know, fresh, or
try something different.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I'm glad that it's something as simple as you know,
trying a new sparkling water, because not every day we
don't want to learn, you know, photography, or every day
we don't.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I don't think, I don't think that there's anything complex.
It's all it is is brain stimulation. And if it's
something that you've not experienced before, then your brain actually
lights up. It pays attention, because that's all our childhood is.
Our childhood is an endless amount of new things every
single day, which is why the days seem to go
on forever. The brain is processing really hard all of
(04:03):
those things that it's you know, that's learning, that's new.
But you know, the the more experience that we are
at things and the more that we're used to and
we don't you know, have a lot of change, our
brain kind of adapts to that and time starts to
be by you.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know where that is getting me? Well, actually, the
the new stuff is getting me and keeping me thinking.
Is my pizza cooking?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Because I know we put a pizza dough recipe Murphy
Salmon Jody.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Dot com if that's the only one.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
But if you remember, right after we did that, like
two weeks later, I was like, I tried a different one.
In the past two or three months, I have tried
probably a half dozen ten different recipes. Wow, because it's like, Okay,
why did this one work? Why does this one not work?
That's how you learn trying to find oh, this one
looks good, let me try that one, and it keeps
you going that at some point I'll be able to
(04:50):
come up with my own.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Sure or whichever, whatever combination you like the best.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, I'm making pizzas over and over and over, which
are delicious, by the way. But it's a new recipe
each time. So it's a new.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Set of it is. But it's not an entire new set.
Now you're it's the the basics that you're doing are
still the prepping, the ouonie, right, you know, getting your
ingredients together. The flavor is essentially gonna be the same
unless you're trying something, you know. So I think what
you're talking about is absolutely correct. That you're you know,
it's the brain part. But I'm saying this is the
(05:23):
kinds of things like if you are if you're used
to drinking regular coffee and you get a peppermint mocha,
that's going to be something that goes right. That's you know,
that's different that you try, and so that's how our
mind stays you know, fresh. But Jody's right, it's all
about balance. Routine is a fantastic thing too, because we
don't in a state of chaos. But but it doesn't
(05:48):
take anything but for me, like this can of water
that I'm drinking right now, same thing the lacroix. I'm
just kind of mixing things up. I like that. It's
I don't know, this came out of the gamer focus
thing that you were talking about. It's kind of an
unscientific study right where they said that sparkling water was
you know, something that you know that that triggered.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
And triggered focus in gamers. It gave them better focus
for like if they were doing three hours of gaming,
it was they focused a better drinking like sparkling water.
They think the carbon nation did something to their focus
and improved it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, and you know one of those that, uh, it's
because it's easy for me to get into a comfort routine. Also,
but you know, Jody's really good at this. It's just
a pushing it set. Let's just go do something. And
I was like, well, what do you want to what
do you want to go do? Let's just go, just
go see and just go. And it's true, it always
winds up being something. You know, that's that's different. It's
(06:45):
a conversation. It's it's a whatever. And and I like
that now and it gives me something to look forward to. Also.
Now I don't know that it's slowed time down you
had for me. I mean, but that's the that's the goal.
If it you know, if it can.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's a really sweet thought.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And something that you said, something that you said really
triggered something in me. You said, that's what happens to
children all day long. Everything is new, and so it's
fantastic and their brains are just on fire and sponges
and then they remember those things forever and they have
all the time in the world because they actually do
ahead of them.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
But you know, that's something that my uncle Terry used
to say.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
He's the person in our family that all the kids
just love being around him.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And he's funny, and.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
He really he talks to children, not at them, you
know what I mean. He was when I was a
little girl, if I arrived at our you know, a
big family gathering, I would make a bee line to
Uncle Terry and his you know, the grandchildren and the
family now are all the same, you know, And he
once told me, well, everything is new to a child.
(07:47):
You got to show them everything. And he's he's that
kind of person who's always teaching children. You always learn
something when you're around him, and especially children, because he
realizes that everything is new to a child, so show them.
Take the time to show them the flower or the
way the flag is blowing and what that means, or
just a million things. And so you're right, if we
(08:08):
don't have new things to spark our brain, our brain's
just sitting there doing the manual sort of.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And it doesn't have to be anything, like I said,
fancy at all. I kind of landed on food because
I love food, but it can be something that Sam,
I think you've done before. You take a different route
to work, you know, just for the heck of it.
So you know, that's again seeing something you know different.
It is a change of different music, yep, exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, which you can totally do any day.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You can your control of all of that, right, So okay, cool,
Well I feel excited to experience new things today, but.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Time will slow down.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Maybe maybe maybe I should try one of those Waterloo
Raspberry things.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah, it seems to be inspiring A lot missed any
part of the show. Get it All on the Murphy
Salmon Jody podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody after the show podcasts,
and we have an easy solution this morning. If you
feel like time just flies every day and you can't
keep up with it, I think about that because it's
like my dad, you know, always used to say that,
and because just calendar was always empty, but time just
kind of flew by every single day. And you know,
(00:21):
that's kind I don't want to say that's an old
people thing, because that's you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
But the more that feels true, the faster it goes true.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And so there's science behind that, although they debate some
parts of it, but you know, because there are some
people that believe it has to do with the brain
slowing down, which can happen after the age of sixty,
so your perception of some things can actually the fact
that your brain doesn't take as many snapshots for lack
of a better term, you know, can make time apparently,
(00:51):
you know, speed up. But they say that most of
that actually has very little to do with that, very
little to do with the you know, the brain itself aging.
It has to do with what you're actually doing with
your time. And I thought that this is pretty interesting
and it's got an easy solution to it, and it
has to do with routine, which because routine is muscle memory,
(01:16):
and muscle memory is automatic, you're not challenging the parts
of your brain that get excited and neurons start to
fire and pay closer attention because your body doesn't. Your
your body kind of coasts through the things that it's
used to course. So routine is important, you know, for
comfort zone. But you you should do something. They say, actually,
(01:37):
you should do at least one thing every day that's
a little bit, you know, different than normal. And what's
hilarious is Jodie is doing one of these right now
and it's one that I'm doing too.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It's the it's the whole sparkling water flavored water.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Thing that's not doing something, is it?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Well, it's change in his habits.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We didn't talk about it last night.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So it's the it's it's the igniting your brain. Basically,
it means it's it's another version of get out of
your comfort zone. If you do the same thing at
the same time every day, if your life is the
same circle, both in and outside of work for you,
and you don't ever do anything different than you always do,
then your mind is not going to And I know
that probably sounds pretty common sense, like yeah, and it's
(02:20):
It can be anything from start up a conversation with
a stranger, have a conversation with somebody you don't normally
talk to, get out of your house and go do
something that you know is different. It doesn't have to
be stressful, but you know, experience something different, try and
rest different, try a different coffee. It's it's what's crazy
about it to me, is it doesn't It's so ridiculously simple.
(02:42):
All it is is about doing something that causes your
senses to react that's different than what you would normally do.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And that was the sparkling water conversation.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
We had less to much because I was having a
cold sparkling water raspberry nectarine fla. It's Waterloo is the
brand that he bought me, because you know, he bought
a bunch of them, and I'm like, I like the
Bury one.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So he bought me that and I said, remember this.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I was like, you know what I do look forward
to drinking this at night. There's something different about it.
He's like, because it's new, it's you're discovering something new
and we don't get that. Every day we have our
favorite things and we like our routines and comforts. Yeah,
it's got to be a balance of that because nobody
wants chaos either.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh no, you don't want to do total chaos, but
doing one thing a day it's a little bit different
that you know, that keeps you, you know, fresh, or
try something different.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I'm glad that it's something as simple as you know,
trying a new sparkling water, because not every day we
don't want to learn, you know, photography, or every day
we don't.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I don't think, I don't think that there's anything complex.
It's all it is is brain stimulation. And if it's
something that you've not experienced before, then your brain actually
lights up. It pays attention, because that's all our childhood is.
Our childhood is an endless amount of new things every
single day, which is why the days seem to go
on forever. The brain is processing really hard all of
(04:03):
those things that it's you know, that's learning, that's new.
But you know, the the more experience that we are
at things and the more that we're used to and
we don't you know, have a lot of change, our
brain kind of adapts to that and time starts to
be by you.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know where that is getting me? Well, actually, the
the new stuff is getting me and keeping me thinking.
Is my pizza cooking?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Because I know we put a pizza dough recipe Murphy
Salmon Jody.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Dot com if that's the only one.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
But if you remember, right after we did that, like
two weeks later, I was like, I tried a different one.
In the past two or three months, I have tried
probably a half dozen ten different recipes. Wow, because it's like, Okay,
why did this one work? Why does this one not work?
That's how you learn trying to find oh, this one
looks good, let me try that one, and it keeps
you going that at some point I'll be able to
(04:50):
come up with my own.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Sure or whichever, whatever combination you like the best.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, I'm making pizzas over and over and over, which
are delicious, by the way. But it's a new recipe
each time. So it's a new.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Set of it is. But it's not an entire new set.
Now you're it's the the basics that you're doing are
still the prepping, the ouonie, right, you know, getting your
ingredients together. The flavor is essentially gonna be the same
unless you're trying something, you know. So I think what
you're talking about is absolutely correct. That you're you know,
it's the brain part. But I'm saying this is the
(05:23):
kinds of things like if you are if you're used
to drinking regular coffee and you get a peppermint mocha,
that's going to be something that goes right. That's you know,
that's different that you try, and so that's how our
mind stays you know, fresh. But Jody's right, it's all
about balance. Routine is a fantastic thing too, because we
don't in a state of chaos. But but it doesn't
(05:48):
take anything but for me, like this can of water
that I'm drinking right now, same thing the lacroix. I'm
just kind of mixing things up. I like that. It's
I don't know, this came out of the gamer focus
thing that you were talking about. It's kind of an
unscientific study right where they said that sparkling water was
you know, something that you know that that triggered.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
And triggered focus in gamers. It gave them better focus
for like if they were doing three hours of gaming,
it was they focused a better drinking like sparkling water.
They think the carbon nation did something to their focus
and improved it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, and you know one of those that, uh, it's
because it's easy for me to get into a comfort routine. Also,
but you know, Jody's really good at this. It's just
a pushing it set. Let's just go do something. And
I was like, well, what do you want to what
do you want to go do? Let's just go, just
go see and just go. And it's true, it always
winds up being something. You know, that's that's different. It's
(06:45):
a conversation. It's it's a whatever. And and I like
that now and it gives me something to look forward to. Also.
Now I don't know that it's slowed time down you
had for me. I mean, but that's the that's the goal.
If it you know, if it can.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's a really sweet thought.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And something that you said, something that you said really
triggered something in me. You said, that's what happens to
children all day long. Everything is new, and so it's
fantastic and their brains are just on fire and sponges
and then they remember those things forever and they have
all the time in the world because they actually do
ahead of them.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
But you know, that's something that my uncle Terry used
to say.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
He's the person in our family that all the kids
just love being around him.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And he's funny, and.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
He really he talks to children, not at them, you
know what I mean. He was when I was a
little girl, if I arrived at our you know, a
big family gathering, I would make a bee line to
Uncle Terry and his you know, the grandchildren and the
family now are all the same, you know, And he
once told me, well, everything is new to a child.
(07:47):
You got to show them everything. And he's he's that
kind of person who's always teaching children. You always learn
something when you're around him, and especially children, because he
realizes that everything is new to a child, so show them.
Take the time to show them the flower or the
way the flag is blowing and what that means, or
just a million things. And so you're right, if we
(08:08):
don't have new things to spark our brain, our brain's
just sitting there doing the manual sort of.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And it doesn't have to be anything, like I said,
fancy at all. I kind of landed on food because
I love food, but it can be something that Sam,
I think you've done before. You take a different route
to work, you know, just for the heck of it.
So you know, that's again seeing something you know different.
It is a change of different music, yep, exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, which you can totally do any day.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You can your control of all of that, right, So okay, cool,
Well I feel excited to experience new things today, but.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Time will slow down.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Maybe maybe maybe I should try one of those Waterloo
Raspberry things.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah, it seems to be inspiring A lot missed any
part of the show. Get it All on the Murphy
Salmon Jody podcast.
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