August 22, 2024 • 7 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Do you
think you've got a decent work life balance? We're all
trying to struggle for it, all trying to strive for it.
And I look back at my parents and I don't
know if they had it that well when I was
a kid, but I think Dad later in life deafly
nailed it.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I feel like I have balance, but both of them
are too much, both the life and the work.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
So the balance is tipping over just in fullness, you're
just overflowing. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
I don't think that is balance though, Is that No?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Because that's a balance on the other that's like the
third parts of the balance equation. And it's not just two.
It's like what's the cup doing.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
It's not only the pendulum, it's the volume in the cup.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
It sure is what you have it. You're right, cupson.
My cup's overfalling, overflowing.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It's over full of But is it overall with work
or life?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Maybe a bit of both actually, to be honest to
That's why I know what you mean. So there's a
test you can do. These are five questions you should
ask yourself. Are you ready, yes, okay? What do you
think of when you're falling asleep at night?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was thinking about last night, genuinely, who our nible
signings were going to be, so that is class? Does work? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Work, yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I was thinking through script ideas for a video, so
then it's work.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Sometimes sometimes I think about nickble positions for my kids team.
So is that life?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I guess that's lovely, that's good a bit.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I'm thinking of very different types of positions.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
It's a attack of gold offens. What I get is goldf.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I honestly, yeah, I'm very bad at I try to.
I try to think about something that went really well
that day, and it's the last thing I want to
think about when when I fall asleep last night that
didn't happen. I think last night I was thinking about
how much I have to do, like tomorrow, like the
moneyt day, and I've got work enough to work, I've
got this, this, this, this is. I'll think about my
to do list and that's not a good way to
do things either.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
That's the answer.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
The answers you should be thinking about things are supposed
to be grateful for most commonly that's what you should
be doing. But most most commonly people think about work.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Sometimes I think of how proud I am of my kids.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yes, that's a grateful thing. That's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I'll think, oh, Mickey did so well on your speech today.
I'll reflect on things like that. Good.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
I like to take myself off into a rainforest. So
every night I said, I've got a white noise machine,
hang on, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I like to
think of myself under a tin roof, a tin roof,
and I think of like green fronds and a lake
with drips of water falling into it. So that's how
I try and create peacefulness in my mind.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Idea, I reckon, your CAP's not full enough of that's
what you're thinking all for? Wind that up? Brother?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
What do you want me to do edible kids?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I think, I think. I think it's a good way
to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay, how often are you late home from work because
you had to finish something urgent?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I this is an interesting one because what I do
is I create busyness, Because I both I curse busyness,
but I create it for myself as well. I like
to create an urge.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
And see right, Okay, something sad about people that like
to fill gaps in their already busy life. Yeah, that
called avoids, and I think I'm one too.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, I think we all are, yes, avoiding.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
What well, you know you need, you know you need
to rest, and you know you need to break. But
the moment you get when you.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Feel it same, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
To avoid in your and your empty cells.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
And they go on and I winge about it. I
winge up always in a hurry. But I'm the one
that created the mess.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
One of the worst things I do.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Like if we have a meeting that goes on over,
I'll just carrying on and I'll go back to my
days and I'll finish what I need to finish. That way,
when I leave here, I don't have to think about
it much after that, Like i'd always laugh at my
real job starts once the kids get home, so nothing
to worry about from it. But that then makes me
late leaving the building.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, and I can never do that anymore because there's
just a constant stream of Edmond just never in.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, I know I read this great thing.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I can't remember who the guy was He's one big
boss that might have been Google or one of those
big firms.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
And what he did.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He always said that Wednesday night was his date night.
And then when you come through with a problem at
four thirty, that's fine, I'll give you to all five
to five, but that's it and anything else we deal
with tomorrow. And he had the rule right through his
life and he prioritized his wife and he's got the
most amazing life balance. For the life of me. I
can't remember a company, but it's a really famous one.
But the big boss made that big thing. He's well
into his like sixty seventies now, and he's had that
one rule. Wednesday night is my wife night.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Wednesday. He never had a kid that played sport then,
because well may basketball or nipple on a Wednesday, and
then he would have had to have changed his date night.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
He refused to change his date night. That was yes,
he thought the structure of his family was based around
the relationship with his wife, and he pold that up
as one of his pillars, so it didn't matter.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
He was a tick grew I think it was.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Did he changed the date night to Thursday?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
No flexibility?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, Well, that's a movable that's that's I don't know
if that's a good way to be in life. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He seems a very successful man, but also he made
everyone awad, even people who worked with.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Life every day, that that was his priority. Everything had
to be done by that.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And that's only one day, one day week.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, the problem, that's fine, we can deal with it tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
So color every week that I like.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Okay, do you enjoy the majority of your work? Yes, honestly,
hend on heart, yes, yeah, yeah, okay. How often do
you check work emails on your phone?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Terrible?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Every single day, on multiple times a day.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
We had to work emails. But I get one and
I feel like, oh my god, I should reply to
that and straight away.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But it's not great because then people expect higher replies,
like they don't expect to reply from you for at
least a month.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Well, I wait for the third email. But do you
know what, there's nothing more than I gnaw. And it
shows the different types of people in this world produces
people that actually have an output of work and facilitators.
Facilitators always email on a Friday afternoon to clear their desk.
Facilitators won't sorry, facilitators producers of work won't because they're
doing the work, get the stuff done. And facilitators so
(05:45):
often unload everything On a Friday.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Some people they are clearing their decks.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, which is I guess that way they have a
life balance. They get away for the weekend. All right,
how is your physical health?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Out of ten?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Our physical health can signal plenty of unconscious signs. We
are struggling our parents, and physical feelings could become affected.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Physical health is what your fitness.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
If you if you lingers, if your cough lingers, you
just can't.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Your health is terrible.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
According to my hair, it's only one factor. Yeah, the
superb for example, what about that rash?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
No, there's a rash that I have on my wrist.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh, I wasn't even I won't even seen that one. Yeah,
I was meaning the one on you in a thigh.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
That terrible, as I from, I'm allergic to my ife
I watch. I am having an allergic relation to my strap.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh so the fact even little things like this, listen
to this, I did not know this. If you found
that you have to wash your here a lot more
due to excess oil. Here contains the hormone cortisol. When
you're under pressure, that's what you start producing.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
So you're washing.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, you hear what or can't get into that that
ling lingering legally cough are the things there. Dedicate one
night a week for a couple of hours of uninterrupted
self care time. That's how you get it back, your
physical health and.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Mental health everything.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Just wash your here of people.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
No, no, but you do see people that are strung
out in the hairs like they look like.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
A greasy mess, greasy meat.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
This is why, because they're under stress. That's so there,
it is so yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So take at least a couple of one night a week,
a couple of hours just to do nothing else, just
your self care.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Stop looking at my hair, Jase, It's not that greasy.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It was great. The hat's really becoming me this ghost.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Get your days
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Started with Coasts Feel Good Breakfast, Tony Street, Jayson Reeves
and Sam Wallace.
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Do you
think you've got a decent work life balance? We're all
trying to struggle for it, all trying to strive for it.
And I look back at my parents and I don't
know if they had it that well when I was
a kid, but I think Dad later in life deafly
nailed it.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I feel like I have balance, but both of them
are too much, both the life and the work.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
So the balance is tipping over just in fullness, you're
just overflowing. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
I don't think that is balance though, Is that No?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Because that's a balance on the other that's like the
third parts of the balance equation. And it's not just two.
It's like what's the cup doing.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
It's not only the pendulum, it's the volume in the cup.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
It sure is what you have it. You're right, cupson.
My cup's overfalling, overflowing.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It's over full of But is it overall with work
or life?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Maybe a bit of both actually, to be honest to
That's why I know what you mean. So there's a
test you can do. These are five questions you should
ask yourself. Are you ready, yes, okay? What do you
think of when you're falling asleep at night?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was thinking about last night, genuinely, who our nible
signings were going to be, so that is class? Does work? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Work, yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I was thinking through script ideas for a video, so
then it's work.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Sometimes sometimes I think about nickble positions for my kids team.
So is that life?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I guess that's lovely, that's good a bit.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I'm thinking of very different types of positions.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
It's a attack of gold offens. What I get is goldf.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I honestly, yeah, I'm very bad at I try to.
I try to think about something that went really well
that day, and it's the last thing I want to
think about when when I fall asleep last night that
didn't happen. I think last night I was thinking about
how much I have to do, like tomorrow, like the
moneyt day, and I've got work enough to work, I've
got this, this, this, this is. I'll think about my
to do list and that's not a good way to
do things either.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
That's the answer.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
The answers you should be thinking about things are supposed
to be grateful for most commonly that's what you should
be doing. But most most commonly people think about work.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Sometimes I think of how proud I am of my kids.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yes, that's a grateful thing. That's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I'll think, oh, Mickey did so well on your speech today.
I'll reflect on things like that. Good.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
I like to take myself off into a rainforest. So
every night I said, I've got a white noise machine,
hang on, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I like to
think of myself under a tin roof, a tin roof,
and I think of like green fronds and a lake
with drips of water falling into it. So that's how
I try and create peacefulness in my mind.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Idea, I reckon, your CAP's not full enough of that's
what you're thinking all for? Wind that up? Brother?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
What do you want me to do edible kids?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I think, I think. I think it's a good way
to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Okay, how often are you late home from work because
you had to finish something urgent?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I this is an interesting one because what I do
is I create busyness, Because I both I curse busyness,
but I create it for myself as well. I like
to create an urge.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
And see right, Okay, something sad about people that like
to fill gaps in their already busy life. Yeah, that
called avoids, and I think I'm one too.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, I think we all are, yes, avoiding.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
What well, you know you need, you know you need
to rest, and you know you need to break. But
the moment you get when you.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Feel it same, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
To avoid in your and your empty cells.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
And they go on and I winge about it. I
winge up always in a hurry. But I'm the one
that created the mess.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
One of the worst things I do.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Like if we have a meeting that goes on over,
I'll just carrying on and I'll go back to my
days and I'll finish what I need to finish. That way,
when I leave here, I don't have to think about
it much after that, Like i'd always laugh at my
real job starts once the kids get home, so nothing
to worry about from it. But that then makes me
late leaving the building.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, and I can never do that anymore because there's
just a constant stream of Edmond just never in.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, I know I read this great thing.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I can't remember who the guy was He's one big
boss that might have been Google or one of those
big firms.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
And what he did.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He always said that Wednesday night was his date night.
And then when you come through with a problem at
four thirty, that's fine, I'll give you to all five
to five, but that's it and anything else we deal
with tomorrow. And he had the rule right through his
life and he prioritized his wife and he's got the
most amazing life balance. For the life of me. I
can't remember a company, but it's a really famous one.
But the big boss made that big thing. He's well
into his like sixty seventies now, and he's had that
one rule. Wednesday night is my wife night.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Wednesday. He never had a kid that played sport then,
because well may basketball or nipple on a Wednesday, and
then he would have had to have changed his date night.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
He refused to change his date night. That was yes,
he thought the structure of his family was based around
the relationship with his wife, and he pold that up
as one of his pillars, so it didn't matter.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
He was a tick grew I think it was.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Did he changed the date night to Thursday?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
No flexibility?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, Well, that's a movable that's that's I don't know
if that's a good way to be in life. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He seems a very successful man, but also he made
everyone awad, even people who worked with.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Life every day, that that was his priority. Everything had
to be done by that.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And that's only one day, one day week.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, the problem, that's fine, we can deal with it tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
So color every week that I like.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Okay, do you enjoy the majority of your work? Yes, honestly,
hend on heart, yes, yeah, yeah, okay. How often do
you check work emails on your phone?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Terrible?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Every single day, on multiple times a day.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
We had to work emails. But I get one and
I feel like, oh my god, I should reply to
that and straight away.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But it's not great because then people expect higher replies,
like they don't expect to reply from you for at
least a month.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Well, I wait for the third email. But do you
know what, there's nothing more than I gnaw. And it
shows the different types of people in this world produces
people that actually have an output of work and facilitators.
Facilitators always email on a Friday afternoon to clear their desk.
Facilitators won't sorry, facilitators producers of work won't because they're
doing the work, get the stuff done. And facilitators so
(05:45):
often unload everything On a Friday.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Some people they are clearing their decks.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, which is I guess that way they have a
life balance. They get away for the weekend. All right,
how is your physical health?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Out of ten?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Our physical health can signal plenty of unconscious signs. We
are struggling our parents, and physical feelings could become affected.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Physical health is what your fitness.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
If you if you lingers, if your cough lingers, you
just can't.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Your health is terrible.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
According to my hair, it's only one factor. Yeah, the
superb for example, what about that rash?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
No, there's a rash that I have on my wrist.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh, I wasn't even I won't even seen that one. Yeah,
I was meaning the one on you in a thigh.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
That terrible, as I from, I'm allergic to my ife
I watch. I am having an allergic relation to my strap.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh so the fact even little things like this, listen
to this, I did not know this. If you found
that you have to wash your here a lot more
due to excess oil. Here contains the hormone cortisol. When
you're under pressure, that's what you start producing.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
So you're washing.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, you hear what or can't get into that that
ling lingering legally cough are the things there. Dedicate one
night a week for a couple of hours of uninterrupted
self care time. That's how you get it back, your
physical health and.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Mental health everything.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Just wash your here of people.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
No, no, but you do see people that are strung
out in the hairs like they look like.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
A greasy mess, greasy meat.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
This is why, because they're under stress. That's so there,
it is so yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So take at least a couple of one night a week,
a couple of hours just to do nothing else, just
your self care.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Stop looking at my hair, Jase, It's not that greasy.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
It was great. The hat's really becoming me this ghost.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Get your days
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Started with Coasts Feel Good Breakfast, Tony Street, Jayson Reeves
and Sam Wallace.
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