January 3, 2025 • 42 mins
There is no better time than right now! We need to think about the value of the present moment and how important that is to all of us. It's time to get off the couch and get moving. Joining me today is children’s author Russ Rogers. Russ has written a new children’s book series called, The Today Series. Russell’s inspiration comes from being outdoors and experiencing life in the moment. He emphasizes that movement is not only physical but mental. Russ’ books are for parents wanting to make a change in their own lives and their children’s lives. His books are about connecting families, getting outside, moving, and doing things together.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're in a good place now. You are listening to
Perspectives with Ashley Burgess.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome back Live to Live Your True Life Perspectives, and
I'm your host, Ashley Burgess.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Today is the day.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There's really no better time than right now, and today
is the first time that you're going to experience what
And I find it very interesting when we really think
about the value of the present moment, the value of
the day, how important that is, and how much that
resonates with me, how much that resonates with my listeners
and my clients, and how important that is as a
valuable concept on our day to day life.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Joining me live in.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Studio today is Russ Rogers. Russ has written six books,
mostly kid and family friendly books to connect the family
with their children. He's an international speaker as well as
a motivator. Russ, great to have you here live on
Live your True Life Perspectives.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How are you doing today, Ashley.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'm doing amazing and it's been great to just talk
with you, you know, prior to the program, and I'm
excited to be with you today. Be excited to be
with you and your listeners, and I'm excited about this
conversation and it's a great way to you know, kind
of kick off our weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I love it, and I absolutely love your book series,
and you have six of them in total, and I
love how they're all titled today. For example, today, here
I Go Today, Great Adventures, Today, something New, Today, my
first and today baby Steps. Tell me about where did
this information knowledge muse start from?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
With you?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, you know, I was all my life, I was
basically you know, outdoors, right. We lived when my parents
were when I was six months old, they built a
house and it was kind of in you know the country,
and so all of my life and my upbringing and
everything was all outside, and you know, it kind of
just translated, you know into sports and activities and you know,
(02:00):
we would go on vacation, we'd do a lot of
stuff outside. And then I went into my adult life.
I went into personal training, and I started with you know,
working with kids one on one, and it was absolutely amazing.
So I would take these kids maybe through thirty minutes
or an hour of training. Some of them I would
have or maybe you know, one visit or maybe I
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have them for nine years and you know repeat, you know,
clients that would come to me of all ages, and
it was just an amazing opportunity to speak into somebody's life.
But you know, after twenty years of that and eight
years of collegiate softball coaching, COVID hit in twenty twenty,
and it you not only changed everybody's life, it changed
my life in the direction I was going. And so
(02:43):
during twenty twenty, when all the parks and the schools
and everything's shut down, I was like at a point
where I was like, all right, so what am I
going to do. I have another business, which is landscaping,
which I continue to do, but you know, it was
during this time I was really thinking like, all right,
what is the next step? And I didn't know what
that steff was. But soon thereafter, about a year later,
(03:03):
I was on a flight to New York and on
that flight I had this journal that had been carrying
with me for over a year, and I was on
this flight that I was like, it was like a
lightning bolt that came down and words just started coming out,
and I was just writing and writing and writing. And
the first word, Ashley, that I wrote in that journal
was the word move. And I drew a little rectangle
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around that word, and everything flowed from that point on,
and it was just pages upon pages upon pages that
led me into where I am today.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Oh that's powerful. I'm a big believer in journal writing.
I talked to my clients a lot on there. I
don't want to write a journal. I don't want to
do this. It's so painful, Mike, you don't understand you're
really going to get something out of it. And I
love the fact that you wrote the word move and
you know it put the rectangle around it, and this
started happening.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I do find it interesting because I don't think that
a lot of people understand the value of the moment.
I don't think they understand it. And so you know,
when you were writing this that start kind of also
champion and as well? Or have you always valued in
the moment or have you always found that gratitude or
always been in the present moment?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You know, most of my life I was in the
present moment, you know. And you know in that present
moment of writing. Uh, you know, even at that moment,
even when I was writing, it was fulfilling because it
was I was I was taken back to my childhood
and I was writing anything and everything that would come
to my mind, and I would I would write stories
(04:29):
about what I've seen. I live on the you know,
live on the beach, and so you know, I would
see the connectivity and the disconnectivity of family right on
the beach and family activity, and so I would I
would see all of this, and in living in that moment,
it was like I would take these these situations, and
I would take these experiences, and I would take these
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stories and I would put them down and and it
would just come to life. And it was amazing because
even when I was writing all this, I had no idea.
I had no idea where this was going to go.
But in that moment, you know, I was so enthralled
by what I was writing, and I began to share
with other people about what was happening. And I remember
(05:10):
talking to a grandmother and she was like, you know,
this is amazing, like what you're talking about, because this
takes me back to my childhood and memories that I
had with my parents and with my grandparents. And then
as I became a parent, it took me back to
that moment. Living in that moment seventy years later, you know,
(05:30):
it was really really cool. You know, the whole process,
but living in that moment, living in that time of
writing was it was just an experience that I had
never experienced before.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's very valuable, that's awesome. When did you write your
first book?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
So it basically, you know, it was all of these pages.
And then as I was going through these pages and
starting to read, I was like, wow, I don't know,
you know, because it was about a year year and
a half of writing. But even then when I was writing,
actually I was like, I didn't know it was going
to be a book. I had no idea. And then
when I started looking at this and started breaking it down,
(06:11):
I was like, you know what, I think I got
a book here. But then the way that I was
writing in these pages, I was like, maybe I have
more than one book. So I started dividing up everything
and I said, you know, I'm going to take this
concept and I'm going to put this idea into different books.
So I ended up breaking it down into five books
(06:31):
and deciding that this is going to be the first
five years of a kid's life. So book one is
for you know, infancy to one, and then one to
two and two to three and so forth, and so
so these pages that when you look through these pages,
you can see this child is you know, he's growing
older and he's now at these two and these three,
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and so the activities change. And so in that year
of twenty twenty one and twenty two, that's when it
was all coming together of how I really going to
design the way that this was going to look. And
instead of just launching one book, I decided to launch
all five books at one time. And it was It
was exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's really neat, and I like, yes, how you go
through the situation where you know you're at your first breath,
you're you're outside for the first time, to you know,
being on the trampoline or fishing with your family and
that sort of thing. It's very cool. And I like
the concept how this is all outside. This is all outdoors.
It's not like surrounded by video games or stuck inside.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
What have you liked that?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Absolutely? You know, you know that's the whole premise because
as I was looking back at my life, right and
as I expressed earlier in the show, it's like everything
was outside. And if you look at society today and
you look at like we have an entire think about this,
we have an entire month dedicated to mental wellness, right,
And it seems like Ashley, it seems like it's growing
(07:54):
and it's growing, and it's growing and people are spending
more time. But now we have a month that is
dead to mental wellness. And so one of the things
that I've seen as I've studied and I've looked, and
I've read and I've listened, you know, over the last
couple of years, you know, on mental illness and everything,
and what impacts us the most when we're going through
(08:15):
this is people are stuck indoors. They've made the choice
to be indoors, to watch video, to play video, to
watch TV, you know, to listen to their music, to
play on their phone and their devices. You know, it's
all these things that are indoors. Indoors are watching just television.
And so the greatest thing that we can do that's
going to impact our lives mentally is to get out
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and get vitamin D, to get out and move, to
breathe in fresh air. And let's say you live in
a city, go to a park, go to where there's
a lot of nature that's around, you know, and enjoy it.
Breathe it in and take it in. You know Bryant Park.
When I visit New York City, one of my favorite
parks is Bryant Park, right smack dawn. You know, their
Central Park it's massive, but Brian Park is is much smaller,
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but it's just beautiful. It's lined with trees, it's got
a nice walking path and a water feature in the front,
and you could just sit there and you can take
in some sunshine. And you know, there is so much
in our surroundings, no matter where you live, that we
can breathe in nature and take advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
That's neat and I totally agree with you. And it
is interesting because mental health and mental wellness is so
important and a lot of times I feel that people
take it for granted. You know, I have clients, you know,
when we start working together and eventually, you know, the
concept of them not being able to sleep, and those
types of things kind of emerge into session. And you know,
my first question is how you know? How often do
(09:37):
you work out? How often do you walk? How often
do you run? You know? And usually the response to
that is none, unless I'm being chased. You know, I'm like, well, okay,
so if I didn't run and I didn't work out
and I didn't do things, I would not be able
to sleep at all. And I think people don't realize
the value of the things that you don't need a
(09:59):
PS description four.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
That's right, that's right, you know. And you know, I
think about like in my life and what I do,
you know, the decision making, the choices that we have,
right we're going to choose if we're going to sit
on the couch and sit for three, four or five
hours and watch TV and just veg out, you know,
And we're all we all work every day and we
come home, we're tired and everything, but it really comes
(10:21):
down to a personal choice of what we're going to
do with our day, what we're going to do with
our time, and how we're going to spend it. And
you know, for me, it's like, you know, my my
slot from when I work out is typically from three
thirty in the afternoon to five thirty. I don't schedule meetings,
I don't schedule calls. That is my time that I'm
going to get a workout in. I am not an
(10:42):
early riser. I mean I am an early riser, but
I'm not an early riser to go work out. So
I've identified that in my life that is out. I'm
not a noon person where I'm going to go work out.
And then I got a shower of getting you know,
six hours from my first hour and then you know,
start started a day over. So I I typically from
three thirty to five, I'm walking, I'm riding you know,
a bike or a peloton. I'm getting in the garage,
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I'm working out, I'm getting outside. I'm playing smash ball
on the beach. I'm playing beach volleyball. Those are things
that I do. And it's not just one activity. It's
multiple activities that gives me that roundabout workout that I
need that round me out as a person. So I'm
using different body parts, I'm doing different movements. But it
is a choice.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It's true, and I agree with you. It's finding that
sweet spot.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And you know, we talk about you know, getting out
and working out and you know, doing activities that are
good for you, and it's finding that point. And for me,
you're right. I tried the you know, the five am
six am workout. No, not really cool. I'm not really
cool with that. It's not in the problem, it's not
my thing. Then you try later on in the morning
that puts everything in a bad position in your entire schedule.
And then I've tried the launch thing that doesn't work either.
(11:50):
So my thing is that I go to the I
go to the gym, or I work out late. I'm
I'm I'm the later person, so I'm around the seven
ish eightish, uh, you know, I kind of round out
the back end of the day. And that works for
me because he puts me in the right perspective. It
calms my brain, and it slows my brain down, and
(12:10):
it slows my brain down with where the rest of
your body should be. You shouldn't be on mock five
and fifty, you know, if you're like if it's nine
o'clock at night, I mean, because that's right, I mean,
what are you going to do? There's only so much
you could take, And then there's so many side effects
from pharmaceutical drugs, but a lot of side effects even
from other things, you know, And it's like you'd rather
wake up feeling not groggy, you know, and feeling awake
(12:32):
and feeling good instead of the other. And I think
a lot of times that becomes an issue if you
don't use that time to work out.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
You got you got to you have to make that time,
you know, and it's important that you you schedule that
in of when you feel like it's going to best
fit your day, you know. And kind of as we
were talking earlier, and like, you know, if you've got
somebody in your life, like you've got to have somebody
that's going to encourage you, somebody that's going to lift
you up and maybe work out with you, you know,
but it's it's going to be something that's going to
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enhance your lives. You know. If you're a single person,
you know, it's it's much easier. But a lot of
people struggle with that first movement of making that choice,
of making that decision of what I'm going to do.
And you know, you don't have to have a gym
a gym membership to work out. You can do it.
You can buy two hundred dollars worth of equipment and
do everything you have right in your own house, in
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your own garage, in your backyard. You know, you can
do that. But you know, gim worked for many, many
people and it's great, and it's it's nice because you
can get in, you can get out, you can be
around people if you want to be around people. You
can be secluded, you can you know, concern people off,
put on your headphones. But the most important thing is
is whatever it is, find that time, take that first
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step and make it happen for your life, because you
want to do it not only for yourself, but you
want to do it for your family, want to do
it for others. But it's most importantly for your own health.
It's for your own mental wellness, and it puts you
just in a great framework of mind to be more
productive and to be more active, and to be more social,
and to be more well and more clear, you know,
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in your life.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
That's totally true, Russ.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So when we were trying to be talking more about fitness,
will be talking more about a new commitment and our
you know, in our year forward, as well as movement
and how movement is actually medicine.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So stay tuned, don't change the channel. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We have lots more to talk about and Russell be
here live in the studio throughout the show liber True
Life Perspectives with your host me Ashley Burgess.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Will be back in. I'll be back in this time.
I'll be back this time. You know it.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Two shakes.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Turn it up and jump in the deep end on Perspectives.
Now Here's Ashley.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Welcome back live to Libertrue Life Perspectives and I'm your host,
Ashley Burgess. On today's show, we've been talking about today,
using today for the right things, really getting out there
and experiencing life IF and Russ Rogers, six time author
and speaker has been joining me. Russ, you know, right
before the break we were talking about, you know the
importance of fitness and finding that kind of that sweet spot,
(15:11):
and you know it's not one size fits all, but
it's trying to figure out what works best for you
and then trying to kind of champion yourself on a
daily basis.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Yeah, yeah, you know, you know people struggle all the
time right with making that decision. And you know, I
think when you look at it, it's like, you know,
people think, well, I got to get ten thousand steps
in today, right, but you're not doing any steps. Well,
don't feel like you've got to just all of a
sudden go from zero to one hundred.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
You can go from zero to ten and take those
first steps, but the most important thing is to take
the first step. And maybe it's a walk, maybe it's
a run. Maybe it's a bike, you know, maybe it's
push ups, sit ups, whatever, whatever it is. Maybe it's yoga,
maybe it's stretching. Right. I mean that's something that you know,
people struggle with all the time, is what do I do?
When do I do it? And how do I do it?
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And and and then really not compounding it by saying, oh,
you know, I see these people that are running on
the street and I got to be this, you know,
Olympic runner. No, you don't have to. You go at
your page. You do your thing. The most important thing
is to do your thing, and do it and do
it now. You know, we got the new year that's coming.
We still have about ten eleven days left of this year,
(16:20):
and we got christm send between. But it's never too
late to start right now.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You're so right. It is about now and it's not
about putting it off.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And that's the thing that I don't like about, you know,
the concept of resolutions. It's like, what do we resolve
to do something now and like think about it and
pontificate on it and I also agree to It's it's like,
does just do it now? Why put it off?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
You know, when I work with clients, whether it's you know,
they're going to start working out or they're going to
stop smoking or whatever. It's like, let's just try it
right now, you know. And it's like we try it
right now, we get in that moment right now. And
that's why I love the beauty of the concept of
everything that you've written so far, is that you know,
it's really about seeing it in the moment, because the
moment is really the only option we had to actually
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make true action. Yep.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yeah, you know. The thing about it is is like,
you know, when we think about like the New Year
and what happens whenever people, what do we do in January?
We make New Year's resolutions? Right, and how many And
I'm going to raise my hand when I say this,
how many will raise their hand and say I started
the New Year's resolution and I failed within the first
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sixty eights, right, I'm raising my hand to that. And
I basically actually I did it. I think I did
it twice in my life, maybe three times at the most.
And I don't think I ever made it past sixty
days whatever that was, right, And so it's like that
is not for me. And so when I was asked
in twenty twenty three. In December, I was asked this
question my friend Craig, and he said, what is your
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word for twenty twenty four? And immediately my response was
and in my head I didn't answer it. In my
immediately was I don't have a word. But then immediately
right after that, the word intentional came into play. And
I'm telling you what that word intent changed my life
and direction for twenty twenty four. I wake up every
single day and you talk about now, now is when
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your eyes open up? And I thought about that word intent,
and I'm telling you apply that word intentional in every
aspect of my life, and there's no room for procrastination
because when you're intentional, Yeah, you can be an intentional procrastinator,
but be intent about what you want to do and
what you want to accomplish in life. The moment your
eyes open, it's.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Now intention Like, how do you tell me more about
how you define intent?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Intention?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Intent is this is that when I am going to
be intentional, that means I'm going to not put anything off.
Let's say this, I want to hit a home run
out of the park when I wake up. Now, you
know posting and you know social media and everything was
always a challenge and it's still it's just time consuming
to do all that. So for me to get that
win right out of the gate, that gives me something
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that's going to set the tone for the rest of
my day. So I'm going to be intent and I'm
going to get that done out of the gate. You know,
whether you know you're a believer, you're a person of faith,
and you're gonna pray right out of the gate. You
want to get that motion going for your day. So
it's about now. So I'm going to be intentional about
paying bills. I'm going to be intentional about working out.
I'm going to be intentional about spending time with my family.
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I'm going to be intent about getting outside each and
every day. So I'm making that decision, and making that
decision right now very important.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And when we return and be talking more about intention,
we'll be talking more about the power of that, also
movement in medicine and just the concept of movement and
going outdoors, but also just making this upcoming year the
strongest yet.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
So stay seen.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
We got lots more to talk about literature life perspectives
with your host me Ashley Burgus, will be back in
I'll be back this time in two shakes.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
This is Jakebus and you're listening to Perspectives with Ashley Burgess.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Welcome back live to Literature Life Perspectives and I'm your host,
Ashley Burgess. We've been talking about intention, having the power
of intention to make changes in our life, and do
that today in joining me live in studio, Russ Rodgers
is here, six time author and speaker and motivator. You know, Russ,
right before the break we were talking about, you know,
instead of having this resolution, we have this solid intent.
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And I think intent is, hey, I really want to
do something. I believe in the process. I'm going to
put my all into it, and instead of waiting or
kicking the can down the road, I'm just going to
try to start it now and then I'm just going
to work day to day to try to continue with
that intention.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah. You know, the thing about it is is, you know,
everybody struggles with doing something and do it being consistent
about it, you know, and if you think about, you
know a word for twenty twenty five, consistency is a
great thing. But you know, being intentional for me, when
I when I when that question was posed to me
in December of twenty three. It it immediately changed the
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way that I was thinking, Ashley, like, I began to
immediately ponder about that word intentional. And then I started
really studying about the word intentional, and I thought about
my own life and I started breaking down, you know,
my days and how I am effective or not effective
in my days. And so when I started thinking about
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these things, I was like, wow, you know, I put
a lot of things off. I do a lot of
things that you know, I might do you know, next
week or the week after, or maybe it carries on
for a month, and it's like you're not getting anywhere,
you know. And so when you when you set these goals,
when you say I have aspirations, you know, to be
a better you, or maybe you want you know, to
you want to work on your insides, you want to
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work on your mind, and you're going to say, I'm
gonna I'm going to start reading. Well, okay, let's don't
try to read a whole book in one day. Let's
try to read a chapter a day or whatever. But
be intent about doing that to make yourself value like better, right,
you know. And so if you're if you're thinking about
well I need I'm not walking right now, I'm not exercising,
I'm not moving all right, Well, what am I going
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to do? I'm going to be intent that when I
wake up or in the afternoon, at lunch break, or
you know, maybe in the evening or at night, I'm
going to get out and I'm going to be intentional
about my day because it is going to make an
impact on every aspect of my life, your life when
you're intentional about it, and so that intentionality doesn't allow
you to procrastinate, It doesn't allow you to put things off.
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What it does, it puts you in the mindset, I'm
going to get it done, and I'm going to get
it done today. You know, I had a pile of papers,
you know, and you know, bills and stuff like that
from you know, my accounts that you know, I've got
to send bills out to some invoicing. And it's like, well,
I can spend eight hours and do all this at
one shot, or I can take thirty minutes a day
and do that and pretty soon that pile's gone. And
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that's exactly what I did. And so I was intentional
every day, I'm going to spend thirty minutes going through
this and in a short amount of I'm going to
have all that invoicing all done, you know, on the
paperwork and the bills and stuff like that. So be
intentional about what you want to accomplish.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That's so true.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Being intentional is so important because it does go a
long way to our personal value when we succeed, and
even small things in our life, it can be very valuable.
And one of the big things I think that a
lot of times we overlook is that, you know, being consistent,
even if it's like a small feet what we would
consider a small feet, the consistency of that actually raises
like your personal value a lot more than just look
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at one off and so really thinking about that, you know,
I want to, I want to kind of look at
the concept that you know, movement is medicine, like really
thinking about healthy movement and how that matters. Because we've
talked a little bit about working out and that sort
of thing. But you know, I wonder also like, you know,
incorporating that into your life and maybe just maybe giving
us a little bit of idea, you know, like if
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you could, like color, you know, a coloring book for
us and give us an image of what that looks
like in somebody's day to day life.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah, you know, when you think about movement, you know,
it really depends on kind of like what your what
your surroundings are, right, what do you have around you?
For me, I'm very very fortunate that I live, you know,
near the coast, so I have the benefit benefit of
having you know, sand and water and sun you know
that are that are right here, and so I can
take a walk on the beach, I can go play
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volleyball on the beach. But for those people that are
living more in a rural area or even a city
or whatever, it's like, well, how can I build my day?
What can I do? So first I'm going to identify
what time of the day is best for me. Am
I going to start my day? Am I going to
have a midday workout? Am I going to have an
evening workout? Identify that step of what is the best time,
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and then making sure that you don't pile anything else
into that time frame, that that that timeframe is yours,
it is for you, because if you don't build it
into your schedule because you think about it. We sleep
anywhere from six to nine hours a day. We work
eight to you know, twelve fourteen hours a day. You know,
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we eat, we take time to eat, we sit, we
watch TV. You know, so we we build these things
that are personal choices. So if we can do those things,
then we need to identify how the importance of movement
is in our life. And movement is more is just
as not more important, but just as important as those
things that I just said. We've got to have rest,
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we've got to have sleep, we've got to have food,
we got to have water, but we also have to
have movement in our lives. So you know, identifying that
time and making sure that we build it into our schedule,
just like we do everything else in our lives. And
then execution. We've got to execute it. And now not
only would do we you know, maybe we start with
three days a week and then we build up to that.
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I'm pretty much a seven day movement guy. I'm doing
some sort of movement, like we talked earlier in the program.
I'm seven days a week doing something in my body.
There is never a day where I am not out
and moving, even on rainy days. We had our walk
last month, and so I'm you know, it was a
rainy day. I'm out there, I'm geared up. Let's go.
We're gonna move and uh, you know, we're going to
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lean into this wind and we're going to make it happen.
And so you don't have to do that. You can
take steps up your stairs, you can walk in place,
you can do setups, you can do crunches, and then
you've got to execute it. And then that word that
we just talked about, consistency. Be consistent. If it's three
days a week, if it's five days a week, if
it's seven days a week. Move move, move, move, get
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the heart rate up, get the body moving, and do
it and be consistent about it.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
So true.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And you know the thing is too, is that it
just goes so far because what I find is, you know,
really just taking the intent. And that's what I love.
You know, Russ's messages about is today. So you know,
some of you might have said, man, I've been procrastinating,
you know for the last few days. You know, I've
been going to a bunch of events or I've been
doing this or that and i haven't been walking and whatever.
It's like I think, I think if you can't in
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that moment take the time to do it, and you know,
I know people that actually work out in their offices
and what have you as well, so that kind of
goes a long way. But actually moving and then I
think that it just changes your.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Mood, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I believe that it's like such a mood augmentation and
once you start really getting into it and you start
feeling it, you know, That's why people say exercising a
movement can be addictive, because it actually does make you feel.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Better, absolutely absolutely. I mean, I had a buddy, he
lives over in Australia, you know, and he was talking
about he was sharing with me several months ago. He says,
you know, I had this big project that I did
do and I was going to take ten hours and
he goes, I was so stressed out my wife. My
wife was feeling the stress of my stress and I
you know, was carrying over into her life. And he goes,
(27:41):
I was just like, you know, it had to do
you know, with producing you know, this movie segment. And
he was like, it was just so much on me,
so much pressure, and he goes, you know what, I decided,
I'm going to go take a walk, and he goes,
I went out for one hour and I walked and
I freed my mind up from that. I was not
thinking about what I had to accomplish. I was enjoying
(28:03):
my surroundings. I was enjoying the beauty around me, and
I was getting the fresh air. And he said, you
know what, I went back into that and he goes,
it only took me five hours to what I thought
was going to be a ten hour process. And he
said it I whifted it out like it was nothing,
and he goes, you know, So, when I think about this,
and I identify this with people, is that when you
think about what it does to get out and move,
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it to breathe in the fresh air and to get
that sunshine, you know, and get those steps in and
get the heart rate up, you think about your cardiovascuar
and what that's doing for you. You think about your
clarity of mind, that you're going to be able to
think more clearly, and the project that you have before you.
You think about production. You're going to be way more
productive in your day to day activities when you get
out and move. So when you take that time to
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do those things, it affects every aspect of your life.
And so it's really important that you make movement outside
one of the most important things that you can do,
because it's going to impact your life in a greater
way than you ever thought you'd imagine.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I also like your concept of the of the family
and kids involved too, because I think sometimes when we
obviously well all the time, it's it's a lot easier
to have kind of a group of people, you know,
whether you're related or not related, as you know, accountability
partners to some degree. And I feel like that's important
now even more than ever is. You know, in a
family dynamic is trying to get everybody to do kind
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of some some of these activities, and I think you
might actually, you know, that could really change the dynamic
of the family. It could also change the types of activities.
Like I even have some friends now that you know,
like most people, Oh it's got a happy hour. What
I don't do happy hour? I mean, I'm still working,
but you know, yeah, you know, it's like a lot
of times instead of that, we'll go take a walk,
or we'll go to the park, or will go you know,
(29:48):
walk this trail or what have you. And it's so
much more fun because you're taking you know, you're still
hanging out with your friends or still doing something, but
yet you're doing something that's way more positive and proactive.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Absolutely. You know, we were not made to be alone.
We were made to have people around us, you know,
and a lot of people choose to be alone, you know,
and that's okay, it's not the greatest, but it's okay.
We are made to be around people. We were made
to have social interaction with people. And you know, we
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have these community strides that it's a walk that we
do on the you know, one time a month, and
the importance of the community strides is to not only
get get out and walk two miles, but the idea
is to build community. It's about family, it's about bringing
people together. It's about not only exercising and moving, it's
about connecting with other people. It could be family members,
(30:42):
or it could be you know, colleagues, it could be somebody.
It could be your neighbor across the street that you
invite to walk with and to have that social interaction.
You know, a lot of us, you know, we live
in our homes. We don't even know the person across
the street or two houses over, we don't even know
who them because we had no social interaction with them,
you know, And so we're just designed to communicate. We're
designed to talk, we're designed to sing, we're designed to
(31:04):
build relationships. And so it's it's really important that when
you do that and you learn things about people and
you socialize, it lifts you up. Well, I mean, I
guess I could carry down, but we're going to go
from the positive. It could you know, it's it's there.
It's to lift you up. It's to be encouraging and
you can be an encouragement to other people. So it's
important when we have these activities, like for me, like
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you know, I go out and play beach volleyball, and
so what is it. It's interaction. You're having fun, it's competitive,
it's a great spirit, it's a great time, and you're
you know, you're having a great time with with people, right,
men and women, and you're just enjoying a physical activity,
but you're having social interaction as well.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
It's so true.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
It's so true, and I think embracing that and understanding that,
and you're right, some people do choose to be alone.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
That's their choice, that's what they want to do.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But I just feel like life is so much better
when you have people around and encouraging. You're right, It's like,
you know, it's great to really think about, you know,
encouragement and helping others because to me, it directly impacts us.
And it's like whatever's coming out of my mouth or
whatever I'm saying or doing, I'm either seeing or hearing
first before everybody sees or hears it, so you know
the impact that that has. And we're not always having
the perfect day of our lives. We're not always having
(32:13):
the best, you know, most positive day, but it's like
kind of you know, recalibrating. And that's another thing that
I love about your concept of these books too, is that,
you know, kind of we can actually look at today,
and I think everybody has things, no matter how old
or how young you are. I think if we look
at it from the perspective of being in the moment
(32:33):
and getting out of the you know, the same crap,
different day concept, I feel like we can actually look
at it from a different perspective and say, Okay, what.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Did I do today?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
What were some of the things that happened today, you
know that were different or what was something? Because I
think there's always something that happens every day. That's that's
not exactly like the day before. There's things that actually happen,
and maybe taking note of that could go a long
way as well.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Yeah, you know, I was just I was on a
zoom yesterday and this guy it's a you know, it's
a speech class and you know, you're you know, working
about talking and leading into the application and it set
X and all that kind of stuff. And he was
talking about as we're you know, we're here at the
end of the year, how he goes through and analyzes
all of his emails, all of his all of his postings,
(33:16):
all of his conversations. He's going back because it's all
written down through his calendar, and you know, it's analyzing
those days, you know, and we can take the good
and bad. And he's like, who are people in my
life that lifted me up? And who did I lift up?
But also identifying those people who do what that just
take time out of your life, that that are energy sappers, right,
(33:37):
they just they suck life out of you. And he goes,
you know, I choose to spend more time where I
want to be, with people who are investing in me.
And I am investing in them and building it up,
you know. And and you know I have a you know,
kind of a former friend. You know that I was
going through life, you know, here at the beach, and
you know, it's like this, this guy provides no value
(34:00):
you in my life. There's no value in my life whatsoever.
Just sucks time. And you know, my coach in college
at cal Poly he said this, He said, the five
most important words in life are to surround yourself with
good people. And if you want to be you, you
can develop elevate that, you know, and if you want to,
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if you want to, you know, be less than that,
then be around people who are not going to lift
you up but are going to tear you down, who
are going to take time out of your life, that
have no value whatsoever in your life. So surround yourself
with good people and you'll find that yourself will not
only be elevated, but you are going to elevate other
people that are around you.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
HM.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
That's very powerful and I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
And for everybody that's listening to the show, you know,
it's it is about surrounding yourself with good people and
really thinking about that. And I ask you right now
to kind And I'm not trying to say, let's judge
other people, but it's a good time to do an
inventory and really see that, because sometimes we can lose
sight of that. And when we lose sight of that,
what I've seen is that the more that we spend
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time with certain types of people, the more that our
life starts looking like that, or we start resembling some
of their characteristics. Because birds of a feather flock together.
And so when we return, we're gonna be talking really
kind of deep on how to make this upcoming year
the strongest year yet. And I think this is very
important because you know, there's all this stuff going on,
(35:24):
you know, all the stress, all the responsibilities, all this stuff,
but we really need to focus on really what's important
right now. And this is really gonna help you because
Russ is going to really put it in perspective for us,
and he's gonna give us the three steps to making
this the strongest year yet. So stay tuned. They'll change
the channel. We still got a lot more. So it's
very important. But I want to really think about this,
and if you want to get out of journal or
(35:45):
you want to maybe put some thoughts on your phone,
might be a good time as well, So stay tuned
Live your True Life Perspectives with your host me Ashley
Birds will be back in I'll be back this time
in two shakes.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Get in here. You're listening to Perspectives with Ashley Burgess.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Welcome back Live to Literature Life Perspectives and I'm your
host Ashley Burgess. Rush Rogers has been joining me live
six time author and speaker, motivator, and right now we're
going to talk about what I really am interested in
is Russ has come up with three steps to making
this year your strongest year yet. Russ looking forward to
hearing this and if y'all, if anybody listening wants to
(36:38):
take some notes or maybe put some on your phone,
it might be a good idea for motivation and to
really focus on what you want to attain this year.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Yeah, you know, Ashley, you know we're going back to
what we've talked about, you know in this segment, is
that the word intentional. And I really encourage people, you know,
going forward, not so much to look at a new
year's resolution, but let's look at it very very simply.
Let's look at one word, and what is one word
that you come up with you know, and don't don't
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spend a lot of time, just just ask the simple question,
what is the one word that is going to impact
my life going forward in twenty twenty five? And when
we think about priorities and we get that, you know
that being intentional in our life? What is it? What
is it that's going to cultivate intentionality in our lives?
Setting here's number one, setting clear priorities. What are clear
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priorities for yourself? Define what truly matters to you, your valuers, goals,
and your passions. So setting clear priorities. Number two practicing mindfulness,
staying present and being aware in every moment. You know,
when I think about practicing mindfulness and being present in
the moment, I think of this story. Like a couple
(37:52):
of several years ago. I was on the beach and
as I was playing smash ball, which is like ping
pong without a net and without a table. You know,
were just elevating the ball. But we're getting to work out.
This kid comes over and he says, hey, can I play?
So my friend Bob handed him his paddle. So this
kid and I ended up playing for about forty five minutes.
His parents and siblings were you know, behind him, about
(38:14):
thirty yards down by the water, and we ended up playing.
And simply put, I'm making this short sort because I
know we got a short amount of time. We walked over.
After forty five minutes, we walked over. We sat on
the sea wall. He's eight years old, and he looks
me in the eyes and he said, this is the
greatest day of my life. And I was like, wow,
being present, being mindful of the situation. This kid wanted
(38:36):
to play. My friend Bob gave him his paddle, and
we spent forty five minutes just hitting the ball back
and forth, having fun and laughing. And you know, I
was happy to be the one that was there and
that was present. My thought was, I wish this happened
with the kid. So I went to my house. I
grabbed a couple of old paddles, grabbed the ball, and
I brought it down to him and I said, hey,
take these, have fun on your vacation with your family.
(38:57):
Take it to your house, play in the backyard, being present,
being moment, being mindful of the situation that's there. And
then third, so we've got setting clear priorities, practicing mindfulness
and the last thing is creating boundaries, boundaries, establishing time
around your own time, your energy, and your attention to
detail of what you want to accomplish in your life.
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So you know, number one, setting clear priorities, Number two,
practicing mindfulness, number three, Creating boundaries so that you're not
wasting a lot of time. Don't waste a lot of time.
Be intentional about your day, be intentional about your week,
and you're going to find yourself being more motivated. You're
going to find yourself being more active, and you're going
to find yourself being more productive in your life each
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and every day.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Super powerful, rus super powerful. And where can people find you?
Speaker 4 (39:46):
So they can find me on Instagram at move Today
three sixty five, they can follow me, they can take
a look at my website at movedoday three sixty five
dot com, on Facebook for Russell Rogers or also on
LinkedIn Russell Rogers. And you know, I'm just so ecstatic
to be on your show and to share, you know,
about my books and share about the importance of getting
(40:07):
out and being active and moving and not being you know,
sedentary in our lifestyles.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Super powerful message. Russ have loved having you on the show.
I'm so glad you came on. I know that you're
going to have so many more books and speaking and
all that, so definitely want to have you on in
the future for sure.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Thank you so much. I appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Ashley Russ really gave some valuable information today and very helpful,
you know, really thinking about clear priorities, really practicing mindfulness,
being present in the moment, and creating those boundaries around
our time and energy. And this is very valuable information
and so really take some time to think about that,
take some time to analyze your current life situation. This
(40:47):
can be very powerful and so definitely check out Russ's
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Speaker 3 (41:16):
Click on that.
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Contact page and you can send me an email and
I will get back to you in a couple of days,
if not sooner. Russ, thank you so much again for
coming on the show.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
My pleasure. Thank you for opening the door for me
and it was a great conversation and I love being
able to share with all those people that are following you.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Powerful message and these books are amazing. And think about
it today. What are you going to do today? What
do you have in store today to do in your life?
What do you want to do today? You might as
well start because today is a day being mindful and
being present in the moment and using that time that
we have that we are being given. It is a present,
it is a gift. That's why they call it present moments.
To stay tuned. I hope that you've loved the show
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Family and friends.
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Also all of us you know on the podcast as
well and looking forward to hearing if you have some
thoughts on some upcoming shows and topics as well.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Stay tuned, live.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Your true life perspectives with me, your host, Ashley Burgess,
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Speaker 3 (42:12):
I'll be back this time. In three shakes,
You're in a good place now. You are listening to
Perspectives with Ashley Burgess.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome back Live to Live Your True Life Perspectives, and
I'm your host, Ashley Burgess.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Today is the day.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
There's really no better time than right now, and today
is the first time that you're going to experience what
And I find it very interesting when we really think
about the value of the present moment, the value of
the day, how important that is, and how much that
resonates with me, how much that resonates with my listeners
and my clients, and how important that is as a
valuable concept on our day to day life.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Joining me live in.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Studio today is Russ Rogers. Russ has written six books,
mostly kid and family friendly books to connect the family
with their children. He's an international speaker as well as
a motivator. Russ, great to have you here live on
Live your True Life Perspectives.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How are you doing today, Ashley.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'm doing amazing and it's been great to just talk
with you, you know, prior to the program, and I'm
excited to be with you today. Be excited to be
with you and your listeners, and I'm excited about this
conversation and it's a great way to you know, kind
of kick off our weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I love it, and I absolutely love your book series,
and you have six of them in total, and I
love how they're all titled today. For example, today, here
I Go Today, Great Adventures, Today, something New, Today, my
first and today baby Steps. Tell me about where did
this information knowledge muse start from?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
With you?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, you know, I was all my life, I was
basically you know, outdoors, right. We lived when my parents
were when I was six months old, they built a
house and it was kind of in you know the country,
and so all of my life and my upbringing and
everything was all outside, and you know, it kind of
just translated, you know into sports and activities and you know,
(02:00):
we would go on vacation, we'd do a lot of
stuff outside. And then I went into my adult life.
I went into personal training, and I started with you know,
working with kids one on one, and it was absolutely amazing.
So I would take these kids maybe through thirty minutes
or an hour of training. Some of them I would
have or maybe you know, one visit or maybe I
(02:20):
have them for nine years and you know repeat, you know,
clients that would come to me of all ages, and
it was just an amazing opportunity to speak into somebody's life.
But you know, after twenty years of that and eight
years of collegiate softball coaching, COVID hit in twenty twenty,
and it you not only changed everybody's life, it changed
my life in the direction I was going. And so
(02:43):
during twenty twenty, when all the parks and the schools
and everything's shut down, I was like at a point
where I was like, all right, so what am I
going to do. I have another business, which is landscaping,
which I continue to do, but you know, it was
during this time I was really thinking like, all right,
what is the next step? And I didn't know what
that steff was. But soon thereafter, about a year later,
(03:03):
I was on a flight to New York and on
that flight I had this journal that had been carrying
with me for over a year, and I was on
this flight that I was like, it was like a
lightning bolt that came down and words just started coming out,
and I was just writing and writing and writing. And
the first word, Ashley, that I wrote in that journal
was the word move. And I drew a little rectangle
(03:25):
around that word, and everything flowed from that point on,
and it was just pages upon pages upon pages that
led me into where I am today.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Oh that's powerful. I'm a big believer in journal writing.
I talked to my clients a lot on there. I
don't want to write a journal. I don't want to
do this. It's so painful, Mike, you don't understand you're
really going to get something out of it. And I
love the fact that you wrote the word move and
you know it put the rectangle around it, and this
started happening.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I do find it interesting because I don't think that
a lot of people understand the value of the moment.
I don't think they understand it. And so you know,
when you were writing this that start kind of also
champion and as well? Or have you always valued in
the moment or have you always found that gratitude or
always been in the present moment?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You know, most of my life I was in the
present moment, you know. And you know in that present
moment of writing. Uh, you know, even at that moment,
even when I was writing, it was fulfilling because it
was I was I was taken back to my childhood
and I was writing anything and everything that would come
to my mind, and I would I would write stories
(04:29):
about what I've seen. I live on the you know,
live on the beach, and so you know, I would
see the connectivity and the disconnectivity of family right on
the beach and family activity, and so I would I
would see all of this, and in living in that moment,
it was like I would take these these situations, and
I would take these experiences, and I would take these
(04:49):
stories and I would put them down and and it
would just come to life. And it was amazing because
even when I was writing all this, I had no idea.
I had no idea where this was going to go.
But in that moment, you know, I was so enthralled
by what I was writing, and I began to share
with other people about what was happening. And I remember
(05:10):
talking to a grandmother and she was like, you know,
this is amazing, like what you're talking about, because this
takes me back to my childhood and memories that I
had with my parents and with my grandparents. And then
as I became a parent, it took me back to
that moment. Living in that moment seventy years later, you know,
(05:30):
it was really really cool. You know, the whole process,
but living in that moment, living in that time of
writing was it was just an experience that I had
never experienced before.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's very valuable, that's awesome. When did you write your
first book?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
So it basically, you know, it was all of these pages.
And then as I was going through these pages and
starting to read, I was like, wow, I don't know,
you know, because it was about a year year and
a half of writing. But even then when I was writing,
actually I was like, I didn't know it was going
to be a book. I had no idea. And then
when I started looking at this and started breaking it down,
(06:11):
I was like, you know what, I think I got
a book here. But then the way that I was
writing in these pages, I was like, maybe I have
more than one book. So I started dividing up everything
and I said, you know, I'm going to take this
concept and I'm going to put this idea into different books.
So I ended up breaking it down into five books
(06:31):
and deciding that this is going to be the first
five years of a kid's life. So book one is
for you know, infancy to one, and then one to
two and two to three and so forth, and so
so these pages that when you look through these pages,
you can see this child is you know, he's growing
older and he's now at these two and these three,
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and so the activities change. And so in that year
of twenty twenty one and twenty two, that's when it
was all coming together of how I really going to
design the way that this was going to look. And
instead of just launching one book, I decided to launch
all five books at one time. And it was It
was exciting.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's really neat, and I like, yes, how you go
through the situation where you know you're at your first breath,
you're you're outside for the first time, to you know,
being on the trampoline or fishing with your family and
that sort of thing. It's very cool. And I like
the concept how this is all outside. This is all outdoors.
It's not like surrounded by video games or stuck inside.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
What have you liked that?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Absolutely? You know, you know that's the whole premise because
as I was looking back at my life, right and
as I expressed earlier in the show, it's like everything
was outside. And if you look at society today and
you look at like we have an entire think about this,
we have an entire month dedicated to mental wellness, right,
And it seems like Ashley, it seems like it's growing
(07:54):
and it's growing, and it's growing and people are spending
more time. But now we have a month that is
dead to mental wellness. And so one of the things
that I've seen as I've studied and I've looked, and
I've read and I've listened, you know, over the last
couple of years, you know, on mental illness and everything,
and what impacts us the most when we're going through
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this is people are stuck indoors. They've made the choice
to be indoors, to watch video, to play video, to
watch TV, you know, to listen to their music, to
play on their phone and their devices. You know, it's
all these things that are indoors. Indoors are watching just television.
And so the greatest thing that we can do that's
going to impact our lives mentally is to get out
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and get vitamin D, to get out and move, to
breathe in fresh air. And let's say you live in
a city, go to a park, go to where there's
a lot of nature that's around, you know, and enjoy it.
Breathe it in and take it in. You know Bryant Park.
When I visit New York City, one of my favorite
parks is Bryant Park, right smack dawn. You know, their
Central Park it's massive, but Brian Park is is much smaller,
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but it's just beautiful. It's lined with trees, it's got
a nice walking path and a water feature in the front,
and you could just sit there and you can take
in some sunshine. And you know, there is so much
in our surroundings, no matter where you live, that we
can breathe in nature and take advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
That's neat and I totally agree with you. And it
is interesting because mental health and mental wellness is so
important and a lot of times I feel that people
take it for granted. You know, I have clients, you know,
when we start working together and eventually, you know, the
concept of them not being able to sleep, and those
types of things kind of emerge into session. And you know,
my first question is how you know? How often do
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you work out? How often do you walk? How often
do you run? You know? And usually the response to
that is none, unless I'm being chased. You know, I'm like, well, okay,
so if I didn't run and I didn't work out
and I didn't do things, I would not be able
to sleep at all. And I think people don't realize
the value of the things that you don't need a
(09:59):
PS description four.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
That's right, that's right, you know. And you know, I
think about like in my life and what I do,
you know, the decision making, the choices that we have,
right we're going to choose if we're going to sit
on the couch and sit for three, four or five
hours and watch TV and just veg out, you know,
And we're all we all work every day and we
come home, we're tired and everything, but it really comes
(10:21):
down to a personal choice of what we're going to
do with our day, what we're going to do with
our time, and how we're going to spend it. And
you know, for me, it's like, you know, my my
slot from when I work out is typically from three
thirty in the afternoon to five thirty. I don't schedule meetings,
I don't schedule calls. That is my time that I'm
going to get a workout in. I am not an
(10:42):
early riser. I mean I am an early riser, but
I'm not an early riser to go work out. So
I've identified that in my life that is out. I'm
not a noon person where I'm going to go work out.
And then I got a shower of getting you know,
six hours from my first hour and then you know,
start started a day over. So I I typically from
three thirty to five, I'm walking, I'm riding you know,
a bike or a peloton. I'm getting in the garage,
(11:04):
I'm working out, I'm getting outside. I'm playing smash ball
on the beach. I'm playing beach volleyball. Those are things
that I do. And it's not just one activity. It's
multiple activities that gives me that roundabout workout that I
need that round me out as a person. So I'm
using different body parts, I'm doing different movements. But it
is a choice.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It's true, and I agree with you. It's finding that
sweet spot.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And you know, we talk about you know, getting out
and working out and you know, doing activities that are
good for you, and it's finding that point. And for me,
you're right. I tried the you know, the five am
six am workout. No, not really cool. I'm not really
cool with that. It's not in the problem, it's not
my thing. Then you try later on in the morning
that puts everything in a bad position in your entire schedule.
And then I've tried the launch thing that doesn't work either.
(11:50):
So my thing is that I go to the I
go to the gym, or I work out late. I'm
I'm I'm the later person, so I'm around the seven
ish eightish, uh, you know, I kind of round out
the back end of the day. And that works for
me because he puts me in the right perspective. It
calms my brain, and it slows my brain down, and
(12:10):
it slows my brain down with where the rest of
your body should be. You shouldn't be on mock five
and fifty, you know, if you're like if it's nine
o'clock at night, I mean, because that's right, I mean,
what are you going to do? There's only so much
you could take, And then there's so many side effects
from pharmaceutical drugs, but a lot of side effects even
from other things, you know, And it's like you'd rather
wake up feeling not groggy, you know, and feeling awake
(12:32):
and feeling good instead of the other. And I think
a lot of times that becomes an issue if you
don't use that time to work out.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
You got you got to you have to make that time,
you know, and it's important that you you schedule that
in of when you feel like it's going to best
fit your day, you know. And kind of as we
were talking earlier, and like, you know, if you've got
somebody in your life, like you've got to have somebody
that's going to encourage you, somebody that's going to lift
you up and maybe work out with you, you know,
but it's it's going to be something that's going to
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enhance your lives. You know. If you're a single person,
you know, it's it's much easier. But a lot of
people struggle with that first movement of making that choice,
of making that decision of what I'm going to do.
And you know, you don't have to have a gym
a gym membership to work out. You can do it.
You can buy two hundred dollars worth of equipment and
do everything you have right in your own house, in
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your own garage, in your backyard. You know, you can
do that. But you know, gim worked for many, many
people and it's great, and it's it's nice because you
can get in, you can get out, you can be
around people if you want to be around people. You
can be secluded, you can you know, concern people off,
put on your headphones. But the most important thing is
is whatever it is, find that time, take that first
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step and make it happen for your life, because you
want to do it not only for yourself, but you
want to do it for your family, want to do
it for others. But it's most importantly for your own health.
It's for your own mental wellness, and it puts you
just in a great framework of mind to be more
productive and to be more active, and to be more social,
and to be more well and more clear, you know,
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in your life.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
That's totally true, Russ.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So when we were trying to be talking more about fitness,
will be talking more about a new commitment and our
you know, in our year forward, as well as movement
and how movement is actually medicine.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So stay tuned, don't change the channel. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We have lots more to talk about and Russell be
here live in the studio throughout the show liber True
Life Perspectives with your host me Ashley Burgess.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Will be back in. I'll be back in this time.
I'll be back this time. You know it.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Two shakes.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Turn it up and jump in the deep end on Perspectives.
Now Here's Ashley.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Welcome back live to Libertrue Life Perspectives and I'm your host,
Ashley Burgess. On today's show, we've been talking about today,
using today for the right things, really getting out there
and experiencing life IF and Russ Rogers, six time author
and speaker has been joining me. Russ, you know, right
before the break we were talking about, you know the
importance of fitness and finding that kind of that sweet spot,
(15:11):
and you know it's not one size fits all, but
it's trying to figure out what works best for you
and then trying to kind of champion yourself on a
daily basis.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Yeah, yeah, you know, you know people struggle all the
time right with making that decision. And you know, I
think when you look at it, it's like, you know,
people think, well, I got to get ten thousand steps
in today, right, but you're not doing any steps. Well,
don't feel like you've got to just all of a
sudden go from zero to one hundred.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
You can go from zero to ten and take those
first steps, but the most important thing is to take
the first step. And maybe it's a walk, maybe it's
a run. Maybe it's a bike, you know, maybe it's
push ups, sit ups, whatever, whatever it is. Maybe it's yoga,
maybe it's stretching. Right. I mean that's something that you know,
people struggle with all the time, is what do I do?
When do I do it? And how do I do it?
(15:59):
And and and then really not compounding it by saying, oh,
you know, I see these people that are running on
the street and I got to be this, you know,
Olympic runner. No, you don't have to. You go at
your page. You do your thing. The most important thing
is to do your thing, and do it and do
it now. You know, we got the new year that's coming.
We still have about ten eleven days left of this year,
(16:20):
and we got christm send between. But it's never too
late to start right now.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You're so right. It is about now and it's not
about putting it off.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
And that's the thing that I don't like about, you know,
the concept of resolutions. It's like, what do we resolve
to do something now and like think about it and
pontificate on it and I also agree to It's it's like,
does just do it now? Why put it off?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
You know, when I work with clients, whether it's you know,
they're going to start working out or they're going to
stop smoking or whatever. It's like, let's just try it
right now, you know. And it's like we try it
right now, we get in that moment right now. And
that's why I love the beauty of the concept of
everything that you've written so far, is that you know,
it's really about seeing it in the moment, because the
moment is really the only option we had to actually
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make true action. Yep.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yeah, you know. The thing about it is is like,
you know, when we think about like the New Year
and what happens whenever people, what do we do in January?
We make New Year's resolutions? Right, and how many And
I'm going to raise my hand when I say this,
how many will raise their hand and say I started
the New Year's resolution and I failed within the first
(17:25):
sixty eights, right, I'm raising my hand to that. And
I basically actually I did it. I think I did
it twice in my life, maybe three times at the most.
And I don't think I ever made it past sixty
days whatever that was, right, And so it's like that
is not for me. And so when I was asked
in twenty twenty three. In December, I was asked this
question my friend Craig, and he said, what is your
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word for twenty twenty four? And immediately my response was
and in my head I didn't answer it. In my
immediately was I don't have a word. But then immediately
right after that, the word intentional came into play. And
I'm telling you what that word intent changed my life
and direction for twenty twenty four. I wake up every
single day and you talk about now, now is when
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your eyes open up? And I thought about that word intent,
and I'm telling you apply that word intentional in every
aspect of my life, and there's no room for procrastination
because when you're intentional, Yeah, you can be an intentional procrastinator,
but be intent about what you want to do and
what you want to accomplish in life. The moment your
eyes open, it's.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Now intention Like, how do you tell me more about
how you define intent?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Intention?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Intent is this is that when I am going to
be intentional, that means I'm going to not put anything off.
Let's say this, I want to hit a home run
out of the park when I wake up. Now, you
know posting and you know social media and everything was
always a challenge and it's still it's just time consuming
to do all that. So for me to get that
win right out of the gate, that gives me something
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that's going to set the tone for the rest of
my day. So I'm going to be intent and I'm
going to get that done out of the gate. You know,
whether you know you're a believer, you're a person of faith,
and you're gonna pray right out of the gate. You
want to get that motion going for your day. So
it's about now. So I'm going to be intentional about
paying bills. I'm going to be intentional about working out.
I'm going to be intentional about spending time with my family.
(19:17):
I'm going to be intent about getting outside each and
every day. So I'm making that decision, and making that
decision right now very important.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And when we return and be talking more about intention,
we'll be talking more about the power of that, also
movement in medicine and just the concept of movement and
going outdoors, but also just making this upcoming year the
strongest yet.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
So stay seen.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
We got lots more to talk about literature life perspectives
with your host me Ashley Burgus, will be back in
I'll be back this time in two shakes.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
This is Jakebus and you're listening to Perspectives with Ashley Burgess.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Welcome back live to Literature Life Perspectives and I'm your host,
Ashley Burgess. We've been talking about intention, having the power
of intention to make changes in our life, and do
that today in joining me live in studio, Russ Rodgers
is here, six time author and speaker and motivator. You know, Russ,
right before the break we were talking about, you know,
instead of having this resolution, we have this solid intent.
(20:27):
And I think intent is, hey, I really want to
do something. I believe in the process. I'm going to
put my all into it, and instead of waiting or
kicking the can down the road, I'm just going to
try to start it now and then I'm just going
to work day to day to try to continue with
that intention.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah. You know, the thing about it is is, you know,
everybody struggles with doing something and do it being consistent
about it, you know, and if you think about, you
know a word for twenty twenty five, consistency is a
great thing. But you know, being intentional for me, when
I when I when that question was posed to me
in December of twenty three. It it immediately changed the
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way that I was thinking, Ashley, like, I began to
immediately ponder about that word intentional. And then I started
really studying about the word intentional, and I thought about
my own life and I started breaking down, you know,
my days and how I am effective or not effective
in my days. And so when I started thinking about
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these things, I was like, wow, you know, I put
a lot of things off. I do a lot of
things that you know, I might do you know, next
week or the week after, or maybe it carries on
for a month, and it's like you're not getting anywhere,
you know. And so when you when you set these goals,
when you say I have aspirations, you know, to be
a better you, or maybe you want you know, to
you want to work on your insides, you want to
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work on your mind, and you're going to say, I'm
gonna I'm going to start reading. Well, okay, let's don't
try to read a whole book in one day. Let's
try to read a chapter a day or whatever. But
be intent about doing that to make yourself value like better, right,
you know. And so if you're if you're thinking about
well I need I'm not walking right now, I'm not exercising,
I'm not moving all right, Well, what am I going
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to do? I'm going to be intent that when I
wake up or in the afternoon, at lunch break, or
you know, maybe in the evening or at night, I'm
going to get out and I'm going to be intentional
about my day because it is going to make an
impact on every aspect of my life, your life when
you're intentional about it, and so that intentionality doesn't allow
you to procrastinate, It doesn't allow you to put things off.
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What it does, it puts you in the mindset, I'm
going to get it done, and I'm going to get
it done today. You know, I had a pile of papers,
you know, and you know, bills and stuff like that
from you know, my accounts that you know, I've got
to send bills out to some invoicing. And it's like, well,
I can spend eight hours and do all this at
one shot, or I can take thirty minutes a day
and do that and pretty soon that pile's gone. And
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that's exactly what I did. And so I was intentional
every day, I'm going to spend thirty minutes going through
this and in a short amount of I'm going to
have all that invoicing all done, you know, on the
paperwork and the bills and stuff like that. So be
intentional about what you want to accomplish.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That's so true.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Being intentional is so important because it does go a
long way to our personal value when we succeed, and
even small things in our life, it can be very valuable.
And one of the big things I think that a
lot of times we overlook is that, you know, being consistent,
even if it's like a small feet what we would
consider a small feet, the consistency of that actually raises
like your personal value a lot more than just look
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at one off and so really thinking about that, you know,
I want to, I want to kind of look at
the concept that you know, movement is medicine, like really
thinking about healthy movement and how that matters. Because we've
talked a little bit about working out and that sort
of thing. But you know, I wonder also like, you know,
incorporating that into your life and maybe just maybe giving
us a little bit of idea, you know, like if
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you could, like color, you know, a coloring book for
us and give us an image of what that looks
like in somebody's day to day life.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah, you know, when you think about movement, you know,
it really depends on kind of like what your what
your surroundings are, right, what do you have around you?
For me, I'm very very fortunate that I live, you know,
near the coast, so I have the benefit benefit of
having you know, sand and water and sun you know
that are that are right here, and so I can
take a walk on the beach, I can go play
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volleyball on the beach. But for those people that are
living more in a rural area or even a city
or whatever, it's like, well, how can I build my day?
What can I do? So first I'm going to identify
what time of the day is best for me. Am
I going to start my day? Am I going to
have a midday workout? Am I going to have an
evening workout? Identify that step of what is the best time,
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and then making sure that you don't pile anything else
into that time frame, that that that timeframe is yours,
it is for you, because if you don't build it
into your schedule because you think about it. We sleep
anywhere from six to nine hours a day. We work
eight to you know, twelve fourteen hours a day. You know,
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we eat, we take time to eat, we sit, we
watch TV. You know, so we we build these things
that are personal choices. So if we can do those things,
then we need to identify how the importance of movement
is in our life. And movement is more is just
as not more important, but just as important as those
things that I just said. We've got to have rest,
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we've got to have sleep, we've got to have food,
we got to have water, but we also have to
have movement in our lives. So you know, identifying that
time and making sure that we build it into our schedule,
just like we do everything else in our lives. And
then execution. We've got to execute it. And now not
only would do we you know, maybe we start with
three days a week and then we build up to that.
(25:46):
I'm pretty much a seven day movement guy. I'm doing
some sort of movement, like we talked earlier in the program.
I'm seven days a week doing something in my body.
There is never a day where I am not out
and moving, even on rainy days. We had our walk
last month, and so I'm you know, it was a
rainy day. I'm out there, I'm geared up. Let's go.
We're gonna move and uh, you know, we're going to
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lean into this wind and we're going to make it happen.
And so you don't have to do that. You can
take steps up your stairs, you can walk in place,
you can do setups, you can do crunches, and then
you've got to execute it. And then that word that
we just talked about, consistency. Be consistent. If it's three
days a week, if it's five days a week, if
it's seven days a week. Move move, move, move, get
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the heart rate up, get the body moving, and do
it and be consistent about it.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
So true.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And you know the thing is too, is that it
just goes so far because what I find is, you know,
really just taking the intent. And that's what I love.
You know, Russ's messages about is today. So you know,
some of you might have said, man, I've been procrastinating,
you know for the last few days. You know, I've
been going to a bunch of events or I've been
doing this or that and i haven't been walking and whatever.
It's like I think, I think if you can't in
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that moment take the time to do it, and you know,
I know people that actually work out in their offices
and what have you as well, so that kind of
goes a long way. But actually moving and then I
think that it just changes your.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Mood, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I believe that it's like such a mood augmentation and
once you start really getting into it and you start
feeling it, you know, That's why people say exercising a
movement can be addictive, because it actually does make you feel.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Better, absolutely absolutely. I mean, I had a buddy, he
lives over in Australia, you know, and he was talking
about he was sharing with me several months ago. He says,
you know, I had this big project that I did
do and I was going to take ten hours and
he goes, I was so stressed out my wife. My
wife was feeling the stress of my stress and I
you know, was carrying over into her life. And he goes,
(27:41):
I was just like, you know, it had to do
you know, with producing you know, this movie segment. And
he was like, it was just so much on me,
so much pressure, and he goes, you know what, I decided,
I'm going to go take a walk, and he goes,
I went out for one hour and I walked and
I freed my mind up from that. I was not
thinking about what I had to accomplish. I was enjoying
(28:03):
my surroundings. I was enjoying the beauty around me, and
I was getting the fresh air. And he said, you
know what, I went back into that and he goes,
it only took me five hours to what I thought
was going to be a ten hour process. And he
said it I whifted it out like it was nothing,
and he goes, you know, So, when I think about this,
and I identify this with people, is that when you
think about what it does to get out and move,
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it to breathe in the fresh air and to get
that sunshine, you know, and get those steps in and
get the heart rate up, you think about your cardiovascuar
and what that's doing for you. You think about your
clarity of mind, that you're going to be able to
think more clearly, and the project that you have before you.
You think about production. You're going to be way more
productive in your day to day activities when you get
out and move. So when you take that time to
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do those things, it affects every aspect of your life.
And so it's really important that you make movement outside
one of the most important things that you can do,
because it's going to impact your life in a greater
way than you ever thought you'd imagine.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I also like your concept of the of the family
and kids involved too, because I think sometimes when we
obviously well all the time, it's it's a lot easier
to have kind of a group of people, you know,
whether you're related or not related, as you know, accountability
partners to some degree. And I feel like that's important
now even more than ever is. You know, in a
family dynamic is trying to get everybody to do kind
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of some some of these activities, and I think you
might actually, you know, that could really change the dynamic
of the family. It could also change the types of activities.
Like I even have some friends now that you know,
like most people, Oh it's got a happy hour. What
I don't do happy hour? I mean, I'm still working,
but you know, yeah, you know, it's like a lot
of times instead of that, we'll go take a walk,
or we'll go to the park, or will go you know,
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walk this trail or what have you. And it's so
much more fun because you're taking you know, you're still
hanging out with your friends or still doing something, but
yet you're doing something that's way more positive and proactive.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Absolutely. You know, we were not made to be alone.
We were made to have people around us, you know,
and a lot of people choose to be alone, you know,
and that's okay, it's not the greatest, but it's okay.
We are made to be around people. We were made
to have social interaction with people. And you know, we
(30:21):
have these community strides that it's a walk that we
do on the you know, one time a month, and
the importance of the community strides is to not only
get get out and walk two miles, but the idea
is to build community. It's about family, it's about bringing
people together. It's about not only exercising and moving, it's
about connecting with other people. It could be family members,
(30:42):
or it could be you know, colleagues, it could be somebody.
It could be your neighbor across the street that you
invite to walk with and to have that social interaction.
You know, a lot of us, you know, we live
in our homes. We don't even know the person across
the street or two houses over, we don't even know
who them because we had no social interaction with them,
you know, And so we're just designed to communicate. We're
designed to talk, we're designed to sing, we're designed to
(31:04):
build relationships. And so it's it's really important that when
you do that and you learn things about people and
you socialize, it lifts you up. Well, I mean, I
guess I could carry down, but we're going to go
from the positive. It could you know, it's it's there.
It's to lift you up. It's to be encouraging and
you can be an encouragement to other people. So it's
important when we have these activities, like for me, like
(31:26):
you know, I go out and play beach volleyball, and
so what is it. It's interaction. You're having fun, it's competitive,
it's a great spirit, it's a great time, and you're
you know, you're having a great time with with people, right,
men and women, and you're just enjoying a physical activity,
but you're having social interaction as well.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
It's so true.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
It's so true, and I think embracing that and understanding that,
and you're right, some people do choose to be alone.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
That's their choice, that's what they want to do.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But I just feel like life is so much better
when you have people around and encouraging. You're right, It's like,
you know, it's great to really think about, you know,
encouragement and helping others because to me, it directly impacts us.
And it's like whatever's coming out of my mouth or
whatever I'm saying or doing, I'm either seeing or hearing
first before everybody sees or hears it, so you know
the impact that that has. And we're not always having
the perfect day of our lives. We're not always having
(32:13):
the best, you know, most positive day, but it's like
kind of you know, recalibrating. And that's another thing that
I love about your concept of these books too, is that,
you know, kind of we can actually look at today,
and I think everybody has things, no matter how old
or how young you are. I think if we look
at it from the perspective of being in the moment
(32:33):
and getting out of the you know, the same crap,
different day concept, I feel like we can actually look
at it from a different perspective and say, Okay, what.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Did I do today?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
What were some of the things that happened today, you
know that were different or what was something? Because I
think there's always something that happens every day. That's that's
not exactly like the day before. There's things that actually happen,
and maybe taking note of that could go a long
way as well.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Yeah, you know, I was just I was on a
zoom yesterday and this guy it's a you know, it's
a speech class and you know, you're you know, working
about talking and leading into the application and it set
X and all that kind of stuff. And he was
talking about as we're you know, we're here at the
end of the year, how he goes through and analyzes
all of his emails, all of his all of his postings,
(33:16):
all of his conversations. He's going back because it's all
written down through his calendar, and you know, it's analyzing
those days, you know, and we can take the good
and bad. And he's like, who are people in my
life that lifted me up? And who did I lift up?
But also identifying those people who do what that just
take time out of your life, that that are energy sappers, right,
(33:37):
they just they suck life out of you. And he goes,
you know, I choose to spend more time where I
want to be, with people who are investing in me.
And I am investing in them and building it up,
you know. And and you know I have a you know,
kind of a former friend. You know that I was
going through life, you know, here at the beach, and
you know, it's like this, this guy provides no value
(34:00):
you in my life. There's no value in my life whatsoever.
Just sucks time. And you know, my coach in college
at cal Poly he said this, He said, the five
most important words in life are to surround yourself with
good people. And if you want to be you, you
can develop elevate that, you know, and if you want to,
(34:21):
if you want to, you know, be less than that,
then be around people who are not going to lift
you up but are going to tear you down, who
are going to take time out of your life, that
have no value whatsoever in your life. So surround yourself
with good people and you'll find that yourself will not
only be elevated, but you are going to elevate other
people that are around you.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
HM.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
That's very powerful and I love that.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
And for everybody that's listening to the show, you know,
it's it is about surrounding yourself with good people and
really thinking about that. And I ask you right now
to kind And I'm not trying to say, let's judge
other people, but it's a good time to do an
inventory and really see that, because sometimes we can lose
sight of that. And when we lose sight of that,
what I've seen is that the more that we spend
(35:03):
time with certain types of people, the more that our
life starts looking like that, or we start resembling some
of their characteristics. Because birds of a feather flock together.
And so when we return, we're gonna be talking really
kind of deep on how to make this upcoming year
the strongest year yet. And I think this is very
important because you know, there's all this stuff going on,
(35:24):
you know, all the stress, all the responsibilities, all this stuff,
but we really need to focus on really what's important
right now. And this is really gonna help you because
Russ is going to really put it in perspective for us,
and he's gonna give us the three steps to making
this the strongest year yet. So stay tuned. They'll change
the channel. We still got a lot more. So it's
very important. But I want to really think about this,
and if you want to get out of journal or
(35:45):
you want to maybe put some thoughts on your phone,
might be a good time as well, So stay tuned
Live your True Life Perspectives with your host me Ashley
Birds will be back in I'll be back this time
in two shakes.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Get in here. You're listening to Perspectives with Ashley Burgess.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Welcome back Live to Literature Life Perspectives and I'm your
host Ashley Burgess. Rush Rogers has been joining me live
six time author and speaker, motivator, and right now we're
going to talk about what I really am interested in
is Russ has come up with three steps to making
this year your strongest year yet. Russ looking forward to
hearing this and if y'all, if anybody listening wants to
(36:38):
take some notes or maybe put some on your phone,
it might be a good idea for motivation and to
really focus on what you want to attain this year.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Yeah, you know, Ashley, you know we're going back to
what we've talked about, you know in this segment, is
that the word intentional. And I really encourage people, you know,
going forward, not so much to look at a new
year's resolution, but let's look at it very very simply.
Let's look at one word, and what is one word
that you come up with you know, and don't don't
(37:06):
spend a lot of time, just just ask the simple question,
what is the one word that is going to impact
my life going forward in twenty twenty five? And when
we think about priorities and we get that, you know
that being intentional in our life? What is it? What
is it that's going to cultivate intentionality in our lives?
Setting here's number one, setting clear priorities. What are clear
(37:29):
priorities for yourself? Define what truly matters to you, your valuers, goals,
and your passions. So setting clear priorities. Number two practicing mindfulness,
staying present and being aware in every moment. You know,
when I think about practicing mindfulness and being present in
the moment, I think of this story. Like a couple
(37:52):
of several years ago. I was on the beach and
as I was playing smash ball, which is like ping
pong without a net and without a table. You know,
were just elevating the ball. But we're getting to work out.
This kid comes over and he says, hey, can I play?
So my friend Bob handed him his paddle. So this
kid and I ended up playing for about forty five minutes.
His parents and siblings were you know, behind him, about
(38:14):
thirty yards down by the water, and we ended up playing.
And simply put, I'm making this short sort because I
know we got a short amount of time. We walked over.
After forty five minutes, we walked over. We sat on
the sea wall. He's eight years old, and he looks
me in the eyes and he said, this is the
greatest day of my life. And I was like, wow,
being present, being mindful of the situation. This kid wanted
(38:36):
to play. My friend Bob gave him his paddle, and
we spent forty five minutes just hitting the ball back
and forth, having fun and laughing. And you know, I
was happy to be the one that was there and
that was present. My thought was, I wish this happened
with the kid. So I went to my house. I
grabbed a couple of old paddles, grabbed the ball, and
I brought it down to him and I said, hey,
take these, have fun on your vacation with your family.
(38:57):
Take it to your house, play in the backyard, being present,
being moment, being mindful of the situation that's there. And
then third, so we've got setting clear priorities, practicing mindfulness
and the last thing is creating boundaries, boundaries, establishing time
around your own time, your energy, and your attention to
detail of what you want to accomplish in your life.
(39:19):
So you know, number one, setting clear priorities, Number two,
practicing mindfulness, number three, Creating boundaries so that you're not
wasting a lot of time. Don't waste a lot of time.
Be intentional about your day, be intentional about your week,
and you're going to find yourself being more motivated. You're
going to find yourself being more active, and you're going
to find yourself being more productive in your life each
(39:39):
and every day.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Super powerful, rus super powerful. And where can people find you?
Speaker 4 (39:46):
So they can find me on Instagram at move Today
three sixty five, they can follow me, they can take
a look at my website at movedoday three sixty five
dot com, on Facebook for Russell Rogers or also on
LinkedIn Russell Rogers. And you know, I'm just so ecstatic
to be on your show and to share, you know,
about my books and share about the importance of getting
(40:07):
out and being active and moving and not being you know,
sedentary in our lifestyles.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Super powerful message. Russ have loved having you on the show.
I'm so glad you came on. I know that you're
going to have so many more books and speaking and
all that, so definitely want to have you on in
the future for sure.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Thank you so much. I appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Ashley Russ really gave some valuable information today and very helpful,
you know, really thinking about clear priorities, really practicing mindfulness,
being present in the moment, and creating those boundaries around
our time and energy. And this is very valuable information
and so really take some time to think about that,
take some time to analyze your current life situation. This
(40:47):
can be very powerful and so definitely check out Russ's
social media. If you're listening to the podcast after the
radio show, everything will be you know in the text
below in the podcast, and you can listen to podcast
wherever podcasts are speakers, Stitcher, Apple, iTunes, iHeartRadio, everywhere that
a podcast is you can find Libertrue Life Perspectives. Also,
(41:09):
if you have any questions, comments, or want to just
send out an email, go to Ashleyburgs dot com Ashleyberges
dot com.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Click on that.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Contact page and you can send me an email and
I will get back to you in a couple of days,
if not sooner. Russ, thank you so much again for
coming on the show.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
My pleasure. Thank you for opening the door for me
and it was a great conversation and I love being
able to share with all those people that are following you.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Powerful message and these books are amazing. And think about
it today. What are you going to do today? What
do you have in store today to do in your life?
What do you want to do today? You might as
well start because today is a day being mindful and
being present in the moment and using that time that
we have that we are being given. It is a present,
it is a gift. That's why they call it present moments.
To stay tuned. I hope that you've loved the show
(41:57):
and share it with.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
Family and friends.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Also all of us you know on the podcast as
well and looking forward to hearing if you have some
thoughts on some upcoming shows and topics as well.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Stay tuned, live.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Your true life perspectives with me, your host, Ashley Burgess,
will be back in I'll be back this time, you
know it.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
I'll be back this time. In three shakes,
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