Transforming Mindsets and Unlocking Potential with Will Polston, Performance Coach & Author

Marathon, running, and that often links into kind of physical and sort of well-being.

Just wondering, what do you do for your wellbeing? And then also, how do you fit it in?

Yeah, good question.

So I think of the foundations.

So we can do all of the mindset work and we can come up with all the strategies and we can do all this stuff, but there are some foundational pieces.

Are you eating good quality foods? Are you well hydrated? Are you getting good quality sleep? Are you doing some form of exercise or movement or whatever that looks like? And are you doing some form of mindfulness? There's sort of five things.

Am I perfect with those things? Absolutely not.

Do I notice a difference in my physical energy, my mental energy when I'm doing those things appropriately? Absolutely.

I've kind of learned over the years that for me personally, even if I'm eating well 80% of the time and I'm exercising four or five times a week and I'm meditating every day, most days, I even know that I need about half a day of rest a week.

Rest meaning watching Netflix, chilling, doing something, whatever that might be.

I know that every three months I need about a five day break.

I know that every six months I probably need a week off with the level of intensity of how I choose to work for me to operate at my best, not just to survive, but for me to really operate at the level that I know that I'm capable of operating at.

So yeah, that's...

So how do I fit it in? I'm very intentional in my time.

So I like to exercise first thing in the morning.

I meditate before I get out of bed.

I use meal prep.

So literally when we finish this episode, I'm going to be going into the kitchen and getting one of my meal prepped food out.

So I don't have to then have the...

the thing of thinking, oh, I'm really hungry, but all I need to do is have something convenient.

So I go to the vending machine and I'm buying crisps and chocolate bars.

So I try and make life as easy as possible for me so that I don't need to make difficult or not difficult decisions, but I don't need to make decisions where I'm more likely to make an emotional decision when there's a situation that requires me to do it.

So yeah, there's a few things.

And normally, even water.

So I have jugs of water that sit on my desk and I just pour water all day long into the glasses just so that I'm getting more water.