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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Passion, drive,
persistence, resilience, love
All qualities that shape anddefine us.
Join the Cyber Warrior as hehelps shape your path.
This is Walk With Me.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Welcome back to Walk
With Me.
I'm your host on this journey,the Cyber Warrior.
Now I want to apologize for notbringing out an episode last
week, first and foremost, mainlybecause I know there's a lot of
people that are trying to getthings from this show and they
feel that it has a lot to offerMaybe not many, but enough that
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it's important that I try tocontinuously put out content on
a consistent basis, especiallymy shows, because I know how
important it is to some people.
It's important to me too.
Unfortunately, last week, therewere a lot of moving pieces, a
lot of things going on, and Ijust didn't get to bring out an
episode.
For that I apologize.
I hope you did get to check outthe last two episodes that I
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did, though, on men's mentalhealth awareness.
I thought it was a veryimportant topic.
If you follow me on my socialmedia, I continue to talk about
it at the same time, that'd beTikTok, or even here on YouTube,
instagram.
I still continue to talk aboutmen's mental health because I
think it's something that wedon't talk about enough.
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Getting into this, I want toreally break down three
different topics, and theyreally go hand in hand.
It's mindset shift, strengthand change.
The reason these are soimportant is because of how I've
been doing things recently inmy own life.
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Mindset shift and this cameinto play for me.
I saw a quote for it today.
However, I didn't realize I wasdoing it.
To be completely honest, I talkabout it a lot without
realizing I'm talking about aquote just like this.
The quote goes when you replacewhy is this happening to me?
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With what is this trying toteach me, everything shifts.
It's very important that wethink about that and we think
about those words.
In today's day and age, there'sa lot of victim mentality of oh,
it's my fault, or everything'shappened to me, or it's
snowballs.
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When you get that negativity inyour head, it just keeps
compounding one after anotherafter another.
Part of it is for me, I believeit's what you put out into the
world, or what you believe, orjust the energy you surround
yourself with, is truly what'sgoing to happen.
If you believe all thesenegative thoughts, if you're
constantly thinking negatively,then that is what is going to
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come back to you.
A way around that is to shiftyour mindset, meaning what you
do is instead of why is thishappening to me?
What is this supposed to teachme.
Everything we do in life is alesson.
There is a lesson to be learnedfrom everything.
That may not mean a lot to somepeople, but the way I look at
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it is like this Whether that'sin my career, in my personal
life, in relationships with myfriends, with my family, with my
kids, it doesn't matter.
My goal is to learn fromeveryone any time I can, and I
learn from my own actions.
If I make a mistake or if Imake a decision and that
decision is the wrong one, I maynot have known it at the time,
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I may not have done enoughevaluation of the pros and cons
or the consequences of thataction.
When I do that now, I can learnfrom those mistakes.
I can learn from thosedecisions.
Maybe it was a good decision,maybe it was the right decision,
but something along the waywent wrong.
Or maybe the end goal wasn'twhat I thought it was going to
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be, maybe I thought it was justgoing to turn out differently.
Well, we learn from that, and welearn from all of those
decisions and all of thosechoices we make in life.
And so, you know, thinkingabout that it also gets me
thinking about, you know, changein general and Strength in our
comfort zones, because we havecome to a point with social
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media, with society, where a lotof us are complacent.
So we want to get a job andthen we just want to be able to
pay bills, and as long as wecould do that, we're happy and
there's nothing wrong with that.
I'm happy with being able tohave my bills paid.
That it does.
It makes me happy.
Now I always want more To beable to do more for my family,
but but I'm happy with that.
But what I'm not happy with ismy own mental health I'm not
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happy with as my own mindset,and so part of that shifting
mindset, part of that makingthings better, is also
Establishing that I need to getout of my comfort zone and I
need to change.
And let me explain.
So I was in the military for 13years Before they medically
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retired me because of my back,my neck and a bunch of other
issues.
I've said this before and Withthat, by about the time I was a
few years in To the end of mycontract, so so about the time
they're gonna start med boardingme, I got on a permanent
profile.
Wasn't a lot of doing anything.
I wasn't really allowed to domuch PT Because the fact that I
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had these injuries that included, you know, bulging discs,
degenerating discs, arthritisdegeneration, just everything
and so what I took from that isoh, now is my chance to be lazy,
right?
I retired from the army Overfive years ago, so in 2017, I
retired from the army.
Prior to that, I hadn't been toa gym in a few years because,
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well, I didn't have to because Iwas broken, so why go to a gym?
So I got really lazy, butreally complacent, and as things
have progressed over the yearsand things have gotten worse, it
has done more and more damageto my mental health, because now
it's hard to play with my kids,it's hard to do a whole lot on
a regular basis, so if I gooutside and I want to do yard
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work, I can't really do itunless I plan on being on the
couch for a few days, and so itmakes things worse because then
my wife has to pick up the slackwhere now I am not mobile.
So I decided to get out of mycomfort zone.
Last week one of the changesthat I made and I finally
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started going to a gym againfirst time in probably over
eight years, decided to go to agym huge step for me.
During that week I made anotherchange.
Now a lot of these may not seemlike much to people that listen
to this, but if you know me,you know it's a lot.
So the next change I made was Icut a lot of the energy drinks
out of my diet.
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It became something that I onlydrink in the morning and then,
once they're gone they're goneI'll buy them at the store in
the morning, either on my way toor on my way back from the gym,
and then, once they're gone,they're gone I drink water the
rest of the day.
And then this week I madeanother change.
Now I used to drink a lot.
I would drink every night.
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I've probably been doing thisfor about five years now.
It's not good now not to say Iwas getting drunk every night,
not to say that I was allowingit to control me, but Drinking
anywhere from five to six beersevery night, sometimes more,
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there's a huge detriment to yourhealth, and so, in a way, my
way to get regain control overmy mental health, over my
mindset, was to cut that out.
Also, that's not to say I'm notgonna drink.
I still have security, happyhour, and I I do enjoy a beer
now on then.
So that's what the weekends aregonna be for, and it's not to
overdo it, it's just to have afew and then enjoy the night.
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But I say all this because it'sout of my comfort zone, but
it's something I know I need todo for my physical and mental
health, and and so I want people, when they think about how they
live their lives, they decidewhether or not the choices they
make are Helping them in life,and whether that's helping them
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physically, helping themmentally, helping them
spiritually, or if it's adetriment.
Because if what we are doing isa detriment to ourselves, then
why are we doing it?
And I get it.
I'm the first one to say if I'mgoing to die, I'm a die happy
and I'm gonna do what I want,I'm gonna live my life.
But let's be honest if I can'tmove, how can I be happy?
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If I can't play with my kids,am I really happy?
And so we like to think that,oh yeah, this is making me happy
, but maybe it's just a vicethat we're using to get through
the fact that we're unhappy.
And if that's the case, then weneed to change the why we are
not happy right now.
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We need to do better and I'vebeen thinking about that a lot
because of what I deal with on adaily basis.
Because if I'm gonna go to thegym and I'm gonna work out, I
know I'm gonna be sore,especially just getting back
into it.
If I'm going to give upcaffeine, I know for a while I
might get headaches or migrainesand I'm gonna be tired, but
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after a while it loses thateffect.
If I'm gonna give up drinkingall every day and just save it
for weekends when I don't haveto work and things like that,
well then it's gonna be a changeand it's gonna be hard Now not
to say I was addicted to alcoholor anything like that, but
there's always a chance I couldslip into that just because of
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my genetics and because of whereI come from.
So I analyze all these thingsand I realize I have to do
better by myself for myself andfor my wife and for my kids and
for the people that I try tohelp.
It is very hard to sit thereand motivate others to sit there
and help, try to influenceothers to better their mental
health, better their physicalhealth and better their
spiritual health if I am doingsomething that is negative to my
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own.
So that's where the mind shiftcomes in, that's where the
change comes in, that's wheregetting out of your comfort zone
all plays a factor, and when wethink about changing our
mindset.
Now I'm taking why is thishappening to me?
Why is my body breaking down?
Why have I put on 20 pounds?
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Why am I missing games?
Why am I so tired?
Why this, why that?
And turning into?
What can I learn from thisexperience?
What can I learn from thesedecisions?
What can I learn from thechoices that I have made?
I've learned, I've learned thatI have to do better for myself
physically, to then improvemyself mentally, which then
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allows myself to go and take anintrospective look and do better
spiritually, because that'swhat it's all about, is how I
look at my wellbeing, because Ican't help others if I can't
help myself.
If I'm depressed, if I'manxious, if I'm having panic
attacks, if I'm doing anythinglike that, I can't help my
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family.
So now I'm taking everythingthat happens and I've decided
that, even though I knew what Iwas doing wrong and didn't want
to change it, and still blamethe situation on outside sources
and outside reasons of oh, itwas the army, it's this, it's
that.
It's the third.
Now I have decided to take backcontrol, because that's really
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what we need to do in our livesis take back control.
We control our lives, wecontrol our outcomes, we control
our emotions.
We control all these things.
When you give up that control,you become a victim, you end up
in a comfort zone, you refusechange and you become weak.
But once you regain thatcontrol, once you learn to
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positively express your emotionsI don't mean positive emotions,
I just mean in the right wayexpress your negative emotions
In the right way make changes toyour life that will allow you
to dig yourself out of thatnegative hole and realize you
can learn from all of yourdecisions in life.
You can learn from all oflife's experiences.
You can learn from everybody.
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I want you to get out of yourcomfort zone, because it is when
we get out of our comfort zonethat we truly find success.
It is when we truly learn andgrow.
You can't grow while you'recomfortable.
I mean you can grow sideways,but not up, and the goal in life
is to constantly level up.
The goal in life is toconstantly be doing better and
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be happy about who you are andwhat you're doing with your life
.
So live life.
Live life to the fullest.
But just make sure that whenyou're doing that and in the
process of doing that, you areaccepting the fact that at times
you are going to have to changeand, as the acknowledgement of
that is the acknowledgement ofwhat you're doing and who you
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are and what you're about, thatprovides that strength.
Because you're not going to getstrength from sitting idle.
You're just like anything inlife.
You're not going to getstrength from being immobile,
from not expressing yourself,from not having emotion, from
not any of this.
No, no, no.
We get strength from everythingwe do, from the motion, from
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being mobile, from thinking,from evaluating, from learning,
from everything, fromunderstanding that change is
inevitable and you have toaccept that change.
You have to be willing toaccept it, you have to be
willing to be better, you haveto be willing to do better, and
that will help you both mentallyand physically and spiritually.
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So three, not both, that'llhelp you in three ways.
But I felt that this episode Ireally wanted to stress that
because it is very important toour success in life and it is
very important to how we feelabout ourselves and how we treat
our families.
So with that, I hope you getsomething from this, and I have
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another bit of wisdom for you,and it's another quote.
What can I say?
I love quotes you all know that, and normally sometimes I'll
read from a book or somethinglike that.
But what I wanted to take todayto say is we expect things to
get easier and that's just notthe case.
The reality of it is, life isnever going to get easier.
You just get stronger.
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As you conquer obstacles, asyou get out of your comfort zone
, as you challenge yourself, asyou change, you will get
stronger.
You will get strongerphysically, you will get
stronger mentally and you willget stronger spiritually because
at all facets of it, you shouldbe taking a look at yourself,
at what means something to you.
You should be looking at allfacets of life and it'll happen
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for you.
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So this has been anotheramazing episode of Walk With Me,
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I'll see you all soon.