Episode 299: Organizational Effectiveness in Action – Practices and Planning in Nutrition
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Last week's Purple Patch Podcast discussed how organizational effectiveness maximizes the talent and hard work of high performers.
Organizational effectiveness, which includes planning, organization, and prioritization, can help remove mental clutter, provide control, and ultimately lead to faster goal achievement.
However, it seems that only a small percentage of the show's listeners currently have a habitual practice to drive effectiveness and manage competing demands. Based on feedback we received from the audience, it seems that most people find it difficult to plan their nutrition and hydration effectively.
Whether you're an athlete striving to achieve optimal performance in sports or an individual looking to enhance your daily performance at work and in life, the nutrition aspect of your journey can be daunting. Figuring out when and how to fuel your body to meet life's demands and your athletic goals can be overwhelming. Knowing what, how, and when to eat may be challenging, especially for those who are always on the go and have multiple competing demands.
On this week's podcast, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon discusses how to improve your eating habits by applying organizational effectiveness. He breaks down the process to help you avoid common phrases like "Diet" and "Weight Loss", and explains how to educate yourself on the right nutrition for your body and how to plan your meals throughout the day.
Matt also shares resources that are available to you aimed at simplifying and customizing your nutrition and eating habits to fit your life, wherever it may take you.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 05:26 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
05:33 - 12:19 - Matt’s News-ings
12:27 - 44:52 - The Meat and Potatoes - Episode 299: Organizational Effectiveness in Action – Practices and Planning in Nutrition
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Full Transcript
Matt Dixon 00:00
Hi, I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life.
Matt Dixon 00:22
I think you look terrific, at least on the outside. But what's going on on the outside is not really what drives your performance. No matter what arena you're chasing better improvements in life, it's really important about what's going on inside. It's very difficult to understand what's going on with your physiology, especially across all of the aspects that drive our performance. Well, a tool that we leverage at Purple Patch is InsideTracker. By assessing your biometrics and combining it with the advice and expertise from the team of scientists and experts at InsideTracker, we get some really precise focus areas to filter out the stuff that will become distractions, and instead dial in the habits and the interventions that are going to help you perform across all aspects of longevity and performance. Things like your cognitive health, your strengths, inflammation, heart health, and everything that builds up to you becoming a high-performing machine. InsideTracker assesses it and gives you an action plan with simple actions that you can take so that you can go on and improve. And it's very, very simple. All you need to do is head to insidetracker.com/purplepatch, and use this special code Purple Patch Pro 20, that's Purple Patch Pro two zero, it gives you 20% off everything at the store. I leverage it with my athletes, and you can too. You don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete but what you do need to care about is improvement throughout 2024. And that's what we're here to help you with. All right, enjoy the show.
Matt Dixon 02:07
And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. And today, well, we're going off-site. You might just hear in the background waves crashing. If you're watching the show today, you're gonna get very jealous because, behind me, you see the crashing waves. Yes, I am in Hawaii. I'm here for our annual training camp, where we welcome a host of athletes and performance enthusiasts who come and congregate right off the holidays and get together to set their vision and path for their year of performance ahead. We've got most of the Purple Patch coaching team here we've got people from all walks of life elite amateur athletes for folks that are in their 70s looking to just try and improve the quality of their life for the next decades ahead. And the common thread is your 90 desire to improve. Now over this week, I'm going to record a couple of the shows. But today we're going to carry on from last week's show. And we're going to talk about operational effectiveness. Last week, we dedicated the show to something that I thought might not have initial curb appeal, if you want to call it that, which is sort of something that was sexy that was engaging, that was hooking and that's because the focus was on operational effectiveness. Now, it has a key role in ensuring high performers maximize their talents and their smarts, as well as of course the hard work that they put in. But the show itself ended up striking quite a nerve. In fact, following the episode I received a ton of feedback and additional questions. And seemingly staggeringly low percentage of listeners are currently adopting some form of habitual practice to help drive their effectiveness and also enable the management of all of the competing demands. Now this to me was good news. If you're one of the listeners that currently don't embrace the practice, then you have a great opportunity for growth over this year, but one of the aspects around the questions and the feedback we got highlighted to me a core area that it seems most of you guys are struggling with. And that's the practices and the planning in nutrition and hydration. It's very common, but it bubbled up. We were inundated with questions, and a lot of it was around getting the right planning around eating, and of course, hydration. And this is common. Now whether you're a training athlete seeking optimal sports performance, or you're simply seeking optimal daily performance in work and life. The nutrition part is a real pain in the behind logistically, tangibly, and of course, emotionally. And so it sparked an idea that I'm going to run with today as I sit here on the shores, sitting in a restaurant in which I got served last night a few fantastic meals. But I'm going to talk about nutrition. And I'm going to showcase organizational effectiveness in action. And I'm going to pay special attention to eating habits. And I hope by the end of the day, that it can be really helpful for you to go and implement. Now, before we get into this, and we dive into the, pardon the pun, the meat potatoes today, why don't we lean into some hot news? Yep, it is Matt's News-ings.
Matt Dixon 05:33
Yes, folks, it is Matt's News-ings, and as I mentioned, and some of you guys can see, if you're watching the show today, it's very pretty here, it's sunny, there's very little wind, I am in Hawaii, it is our annual Purple Patch training camp. And it kicks off tomorrow. It's an immersive and empowering educational experience for a wonderful group of athletes and enthusiasts. Now, many of these folks that are joining are repeat offenders as I like to call them, they come back almost every year. We have about 50 to 60% of people that have gone to multiple camps. And then the other 40% to 50%. And newcomers are excited for the journey ahead. And many of them are Purple Patch athletes, but we also have a couple of podcast listeners here this year. Some of them are enthusiasts who just follow us on social media. But all of the participants are united already in a desire to improve, to depart this camp with a set of practices that are personalized to them, a wonderfully immersive experience where they're going to get challenged and uncomfortable, but also be successful, and most importantly, with a toolkit that they can go and implement when they go back home into their home environments, and go along their performance journey. Now, while I'm here, I intend to record a show that is around the hidden benefits of a training camp. Most people think about a training camp being very difficult, very hard training. But this is right at the start of the year here. And so we're going to challenge these people that are here. But we're also going to ensure that they come out progressed with some growth, and also with a better platform of readiness and tools that they can go and implement at home. So I want to dig into some of the hidden benefits because most people perceive these things as just being big club rings of hard work that's going to boost their fitness. And that's not really how I look at training camps. So that's for another show. But I want to ensure that you can have an insight into this. And you've probably got a little bit of FOMO as the Americans like to say fear of missing out. And I understand that. But the good news is that we do have a couple more camps over this year that are very, very similar. The first isn't April. It's in Napa, we host it at the Joel Gott Winery and Vineyards, a fantastic venue, with amazing bike riding, and wonderful meals, just as we have here. A very intimate setting, really fantastic. We're going to have five coaches at that camp, we're going to have about 15 athletes. So that's about a three-to-one athlete-to-coach ratio, very personalized, all levels of abilities. And then in South Carolina, we've got a similar setup, very near Greenville in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, a wonderful venue again, a hotel that we completely take over, wonderful meals, custom cook with all of the meals for us, a terrific experience. That's in early June. So we have Napa in April, and South Carolina in June. Those are the two other major camps that we have. And they're really fun. And they're fantastic, very personalized at all levels. Most importantly, one of the questions we always get, you don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete to attend these camps. We welcome people from all walks of life, we tailor it to your needs. And we make sure that you're going to come here to each of the camps and be challenged, but also be equipped to grow. And that's the most important thing. We want you to leave successful with a whole bunch of lessons, but some experiences that are forcing growth. And that's the most important thing. And so if you're interested, we're gonna leave our camp page in the show notes today, you can just go and click on those or you can head to Purplepatchfitness.com, head to the camp, and we've got our two other camps for the year that are there. You're welcome. We've got about four spots in Napa left and about five in South Carolina. So there is some opportunity for you guys to join us be great. You can spend the whole week with me, it'll be a lot of fun and of course productive in your lessons and journeys. And then one more thing before we get into the meat and potatoes that I think is important.
Matt Dixon 09:38
In today's show, I talked quite a lot about the value and role of nutrition and the very targeted approach that our friends at Fuelin delivered to it. And we are, in transparency partnered with Fuelin and you know that, and I love their app-based approach and the heavy education that they take. The most important thing is all of their recommendations that are personalized to your specific needs seamlessly integrate into the fabric of your training and your life down to the date. And that helps it become a tool for organizational effectiveness. So I felt like I just have to talk about this app, if I'm going to be talking about nutrition, they're wonderful. Well, when I finished writing and mapping out the podcast, I thought, you know what, I'm gonna ask these guys to step up, and and do something for you guys specific to this episode. And so I reached out to Jonathan, who's the co-founder, and Scott, the other co-founder, who's the lead nutritionist does a lot of the education there. And I said, Come on, boys dish it up. I need you to pardon the pun. But the listeners might want to have a little test drive, want to see what it's all about, and get involved. So I want you to do something special. You already do it for Purple Patch athletes, but I want you to do something special for the listeners of this particular episode because it's so empowering. So guess what, unsurprisingly, as they always do, they stepped up for me. And they didn't step up for me, they stepped up for you. And so what they've done is they've done a Fuelin special landing page for this particular episode. And it's got a very special offer on that landing page. Now, I'm not going to tell you what it is. But instead, I'm going to put it in the show notes. And if you want to go there, you can just click on the link and head there to this landing page. And they're going to deliver a special little test run drive and a bonus for you guys who want to get involved in it. Okay, and the links in the show notes, it's dedicated just for this episode. You do not need to be related whatsoever to Purple Patch to take advantage of this, we have a lot of listeners who are coached by other people we respect and absolutely embrace your craziness. At some stage maybe you'll come to us, but you do not need to be a Purple Patch athlete, we just want to help you guys get involved. We trust and have a lot of respect for their expertise. And so we wanted to connect you guys up. And so if you find this insight, helpful today, feel free to head to the show notes, click on the landing page, and we will be there with you all the way along there. Alright, with that, Barry, I think it's time. We're talking about nutrition and organizational effectiveness today. And so with that, it is ladies and gentlemen, the meat and potatoes.
Matt Dixon 12:27
All right, folks, it is the meat and potatoes. And we are going to be talking about organizational effectiveness today. We are going to do some deep diving into nutrition. But for us to get there, I need to tell you a little bit about my childhood. And I need to tell you a story about my annual summer holidays. It was a story that happened year after year. And so I thought we'd do a dig a little deep dive into this. If you don't know I grew up on the east side of London in Essex, a town called Southend. Now, you might not know Essex, but if you do, you will be aware of the very heavy stereotype Essex brings with it. And guess what that stereotype is mostly true. If you grew up on the Jersey Shore, you kind of know that stereotype. It's very, very similar. So if I said yes, I'm from London, it's a little bit like me saying, I'm from New York City, but I grew up on the Jersey Shore, including all of the stereotypes. Anyway, I grew up and every summer holiday, my family would always spend time a couple of weeks on the west side of England. So we had to go all the way from the east to the west, across London, because at the time the M 25, which is the circular highway that goes all the way around London, wasn't built yet. So instead, we had to circumnavigate the maze-like small roads of central London. What this would mean is that our journey would begin in the south end with a quick jaunt up the A127, which was known as the arterial road. Now, there's a whole story around the arterial road, which you aren't going to hear. But we would take about 45 minutes to get up there. We would then enter the small roads of London and it began the arduous trip of getting across that big city about 40 miles across. And every year was the same. About 10 minutes into a highly confident piece of driving by my father, followed by a few puffs, grunts, and then a request for my mum to reach under to the passenger seat and get out the Atlas Yes, the AA Atlas. With all of the road system in there, the entire UK road system, with a blow-up visual of the networks of roads in London, and within about what 10 minutes this would start to occur and about two hours later, invariably, we were fighting through the systems of roads desperately caught in one way systems, roundabouts, and dead ends. It was like a European Vacation all over again. It was masterful in its inefficiency and of course, It was highly frustrating. As a young kid, moaning, "When are we going to get there?" We haven't even started yet. Well, after three hours of turmoil, we would usually emerge, and then we would be on our way West. The family was once again surprised that my dad had managed to get lost yet again for another year, no more than about three blocks from where he worked for about 40 years. So it's no wonder that it used to take us two days to travel just over 300 miles to get to Cornwall. Goodness me, that was my annual pilgrimage. Now imagine, at that time, what would have happened if we had had access to a GPS, or if we knew London, like the back of our hands, imagine the efficiency gains, the lowering of the stress, the elevated sense of control and purpose. We would have just marched in, through the roads on the other side, and be on our way to a glorious vacation. This is operational effectiveness, really good planning, organization, and prioritization. What we lived as children was the antithesis, it was chaos, it was reactionary, it was frustrating. And of course, it didn't drive to effectiveness. And so if you remove in your life, using that analogy, mental clutter, and you can establish control, you can get to where you want to go much quicker than my childhood adventures.
Matt Dixon 16:35
Now at Purple Patch, we have a tool that we talked about last week that establishes just that, and it's the Sunday special. It's a very simple process that ensures that you can plan for and manage all of the competing demands for your week ahead. And it begins with life. An example, you might have a dental appointment, perhaps you're picking kids up from school, or it's like football on the weekend or a dance recital on Sunday, and life flows. And all of us need to know what is ahead, and what is non-negotiable that we need to show up for first. And the best step for planning and organization is the start of that Sunday special. Then, as you emerge from the life side of it, you step on to prioritizing and organizing aspects of work. What are your priorities for the week? What are the key meetings, and the goals of those meetings? What are you looking to get out of them, rather than just having another meeting? What are you looking to achieve? Where do you need to be primed to show your very best to lift your game? And where can you take opportunities for maybe a little bit less, where you can take some time for yourself? And once you've gone through this phase, you're going to start to have some real clarity of the week ahead. What's the type of week it's going to be? Is it going to be busy and full on is it going to be just a regular week, or maybe a little bit of an opportunity to have a little downtime? And every single week, you need to know that as you go into the week. Because from having a life framework and a working framework, you have a global framework of what you're dealing with. Now for time-starved athletes and performance enthusiasts. With the time that is left, you now have an optimization challenge. How are you going to optimize your fitness, your eating habits, and your social life with the remaining blocks of time, there's a key method to the madness here, which we won't go into today. But the common stumbling block and the brain drain that typically impacts most people emerges from nutrition.
Matt Dixon 18:48
Let's break it down. Here are some common questions a performance-driven person faces every single week. Should I consume calories during my workouts? If so, which workouts? How about following the workouts? What should I consume? When? How much? How about the rest of my meals? What should they look like? When should I eat? What are the types of foods that I can consume in those meals? How about fasting? Should I integrate some of that for my health and performance? I'm not sure. hydration. I know it's important, but how much should I be drinking? When should I be drinking it? What about caffeine? Is that okay? Should I avoid it in the afternoon? Should I have it right when waking or should I wait an hour? What about if I get hungry in the afternoon? What should I do then? How about if I get drowsy and sleepy in the afternoon? What should I drink? I don't think it should be a drink - a coffee or a Coke. What about supplements? What should I take? I hear magnesium is great. Should I be doing that? What about creatine - all my buddies use it, should I be having that? I'm interested in growing and getting stronger. And what about glucose and insulin? I hear all about the CGMs goodness me, continuous glucose monitors, I know it's important. But how should I ensure that I'm adopting practices to keep it stable? The questions could go on. It is the murky, confusing world of nutrition and performance fueling. And it's all there, those questions every single week. It's no wonder that I leveraged out of my memory bank, my childhood vacations, because I feel like for all of us, going into any given week, that world of nutrition fueling, and hydration is like navigating those small roads have London. It's a blizzard of confusion. And so when I finish a bike class on a Tuesday morning, 7 to 8 am, and I meander across to the gourmet market Gus's, with my little cadre of friends and Purple Patch athletes, and we sit down and we grab a coffee, and we have breakfast, and they've got a bounty of offerings, overnight oats, different wraps, burritos, pastries, yogurts, or yogurts - thank you very much. I'm English - shakes. What should I eat, then? How much is enough? After that 60-minute hour of power on the bike? How do I know without bringing out some spreadsheet? Do I need to make in-time decisions? And what about if I finish a track session? And I'm off to work for the rest of the day. And I get to stop in Starbucks? What's the right type of breakfast that I'm going to get to bridge myself through? How much should I eat? The list goes on. And that's a part of organizational effectiveness, you need the education and understanding but you need to have some organizational effectiveness. Meal planning is a huge component, it isn't enough that you have to schedule life commitments, and work commitments, you need to integrate training, for performance-minded folks, the planning of meals is another big chore, just simply dialing in the right foods for your meals in the week, well add it to the list. It's a brain drain. And that's just getting started.
Matt Dixon 22:14
All the while you're trying to navigate that, while you're bombarded with conflicting information from the media, the influencers, even friends. Here's the next magic diet, super supplements quick fixes for energy and performance, the super supplement that Johnny Pro swears by, although he doesn't understand the mechanisms he's just paid to tell you, they're good. And then human performance experts dive into three hours worth of podcast shows around the potency of a certain supplement that's going to change your brain health and life, all with the convenience that they just happen to sell it on their online store. And here we are, ladies and gentlemen, here we are. When I reflected, it's no surprise that so many of you guys reached out to highlight the brain drain that eating, fueling, and nutrition, have on your life every single week. And so I think it's important if we put operational effectiveness into action, we must do so as a part of our planning, or the Sunday special, that practice. And so yes, you plan your life commitments - when you've got the dentist, Johnny's baseball practice, whatever it might be, you plan your work prioritization, your meetings, and all of the aspects around that, you integrate your training, but you also want to spend a little bit of time planning and getting control over your eating habits. Really, important.
Matt Dixon 23:56
And so there are two pathways I'm going to outline today. You might consider either one of these pathways to help you drive effectiveness in this area, meal planning, is important. But you also will help by doing this, and the other components as well. So I think this is a great organizational framework. Now, before I break these down, let's establish what helps people globally. The first in any arena, if you want to help yourself, the first thing you want to build is knowledge. People are successful when they understand themselves and their needs. That's how you're going to be successful. Understand you and what you need. What are your targets, what are your core practices that you need to do to build success? So knowledge is number one. Number two is when you get very, very clear about priorities. So prioritization, what am I going to put my energy and focus into and perhaps just as important, no more important, what am I not going to do there? And I think that's going to be important and particularly important in nutrition. You're going to aim to filter the noise and distractions, and instead build on a foundation of practices and habits, that will get you most of the way there. And so what I'm looking to do today is to remove some of the complication, the quest for perfection, or simply put, adding anything else. I don't want to do that. So if you can develop the knowledge of what's right for you, and the core practices that are going to help, you're going to be 90% of the way there. The final component that makes people successful is releasing the shackles, with priorities and knowledge, you're on your way. But also realizing that we shouldn't be chasing perfection here. And so with this in mind, when we're thinking about nutrition, I can't stand as a coach, highly specific meal plans. For example, goodness me, I've hired the world's best nutrition coach. And what they're asking me to do today, Tuesday is, I am going to eat eight ounces of grilled salmon, I'm going to have exactly three cups of broccoli, I'm going to have one cup of brown rice, two glasses of water. And if I don't get that in, then I am a failure. This is just so restrictive. It creates a cage of nutritional practices, it doesn't have any leeway. And ultimately, that's not what life is. Because if you've got your PDF meal plan, and you're comparing it to the menu at the restaurant, and there is an overlap, you're going to feel like a failure, it's going to extract the joy of eating. And so instead, the third component, you need knowledge, you need a filter, so you need prioritization. And then finally, you need guidelines, simple targets that can be applied in any market, any restaurant, or when you're opening up your refrigerator or pantry, you want guidelines and targets specific to you. When we align those three components of a Venn diagram, people are empowered, they have control and they have a framework of this is how I'm going to approach my eating. And that is the GPS to navigate the blizzard of the world that is nutrition. And goodness me when I went on vacation, I wished that I had that GPS. And so if you know yourself, you don't overcomplicate, and then you have the framework and guide, it's empowering.
Matt Dixon 27:43
Alright, so we can remove this guesswork, the mind fog, the confusion, as well as a lot of the negative emotion that often comes with eating. So I promised you two pathways. The first is we're going to call pathway number one, the basics. And the first step of the basics is mindset. So if you want to get control of your eating and your daily practices, you want to first establish a mindset. It's very, very simple. It doesn't matter where you are on the spectrum of athletic performance or engagement. If you're just caring about daily energy, or you're a quest for a world champion, you are going to succeed if you approach your eating habits, as fueling the body, for your daily activities and performance. And so I want you to destroy standpoint, any mindset that is anchored around words or phrases such as diet, weight loss, race weight, eating plan, regime, it's not about that. It's about fueling your performance lifestyle. The stuff that we put in our bodies is the gasoline to fuel our performance anywhere on the spectrum. And that's important. So if you want to be successful, and you want to establish control over your eating, the very first step is establishing a positive mindset. Super. Step number two, learn to upskill yourself. You cannot make smart decisions without understanding a few things. Number one is the role of fueling your body during and following exercise. Now we've done a lot of episodes on this, you should head back and listen to a couple of the episodes that we've done from Scott Tindal at Fuelin, and we'll add them to the show notes, but the role of fueling your body during and following exercise, that's very important. The second is to understand the three macronutrients and their roles in the body. Okay, I've heard of fat, carbohydrate, and protein, but why is it important to me? What does it do to my body? You need to understand that. It's critical, we won't dive into it today but it's important because that's going to help build your filter and make smart decisions. You then should go on a journey to get some personal guidelines around how many calories you require, a rough guide on how these calories are made up between carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. And this is important. Now, the building block of all of our meals is protein. So I'll give you a little bit of an insight today, give or take, it doesn't matter, young, old, really athletic or less athletic, consuming about a gram of protein, for every pound of body weight you weigh over the day is a really good thing. And every human benefits from front loading that earlier in the day, a very protein-heavy breakfast, that's one example. But we want to understand the rough guidelines of what you should be doing for yourself. That's a key component of upskilling yourself. You need to understand then finally, the two types of meals and snacks that you might consume. The first is a meal that promotes general health. And so that's very heavy in protein, tons of vegetables, good oils, and then a lower focus on high-quality, complex carbohydrates. So your bread, your quinoas, rice, things like that, it has a lower focus on the health-driven meal, great. The second type of meal that we have is a meal that is designed to fuel exercise and life. And that is once again heavy in protein. But the second component that we build those meals around is high-quality, complex carbohydrates. And then we have a supporting role of our veggies and oils. You see how it's meals that are comprised of all three of the macronutrients. So, high-quality carbohydrates, and proteins, are always the centerpiece, and your good oils, but it's how much of an emphasis we put on each plate. Health, there's a lower focus on high-quality, complex carbohydrates, and fueling life or exercise, and there's a higher emphasis on carbohydrates. So you need to understand that a little bit. And then when you've done that, you can move to step three. And that's to start to understand, okay, under that banner, what are the meals that I'm going to be consuming? And what are my go-to’s? And build out for yourself, and you can always reach out to us for advice or help with what these look like, but what are my go-to, two or three options that I have post-workout or exercise fueling? What do I love? What are the things that are good for me? Okay, great. Those are the things that I can have two or three of them, it doesn't mean that you're restricted, but they're your kind of go-to great. What's my go-to very protein, heavy breakfast, maybe two choices. Okay, that's two great choices. So for me, it's quite often oatmeal with some protein powder, a bunch of Greek yogurt in there, a little bit of honey, some berries, and fruits, great. But I also really liked some eggs and avocado, a tortilla or maybe a side of toast and some fruit. Great. So those are the kinds of breakfasts that I love to go towards. And that helps me avoid the sugary pastries that are low-yield. Okay, what's my go-to lunch, give yourself two to three choices in there. And then finally, your meals. And at the start of every week, people tend to be more successful if they plan their meals. It doesn't need to be rigid. Life is not a spreadsheet, you might get invited out to dinner. But the more that you can do the planning of the week ahead with whoever the important constituents of your life are, the more likely it is that you're going to take the guesswork out that you've got a framework and you can be organized. And it sits under the banner of what's appropriate for you. So remember, the purpose of today's show is not to tell you how to eat necessarily, but it's how to organize your eating. So having two to three choices and the plan of your week ahead. Goodness me, it removes the brain drain, it gives you control and it gives you a runway of operational effectiveness. Now I would invite you to keep it simple so that you can stay on schedule, even adding it into a calendar, a little planning tool that you might have if it helps you. And this is helpful for people that often tend to forget to eat in the morning or skip out after a workout and head straight to the office just because of time and they don't fuel afterward. And suddenly they realize it is several hours too late and they go, goodness me I'm starving, adding it to the calendars can be very, very helpful. Alright, so this is a really simple tool. But remember, we talked about what's successful, you need to ensure that you learn, you think about fueling first mindset, you learn what's appropriate for you, and then you put it into action as a part of your Sunday special. These are my go-to options. And here is how I'm going to consume my evening meal every week, and put it in the calendar. It sounds rigid, but it's going to be liberating.
Matt Dixon 35:36
All right, what about pathway number two, where this is where you can lean into expertise? So we're going to call this the partnership route. Really, helpful. This is fundamentally why I love working with the team at Fuelin their whole program, inclusive of their approach, their education, their planning, and all of the tools that they use for planning, remove the guesswork for you. They personalize it to your needs. And of course, they take into account your physiology, your goals, and what your day of life looks like. And this isn't woo-woo. Okay, these guys are some of Elizabeth, Scott, and the team, the whole team is great there. They are some of the world's most respected nutritionists, they understand all the latest research around health, longevity, and sports performance, but they develop their recommendations around three main aspects. And it sounds very Purple Patchy, and that's because that's why we've partnered with them. Number one is simplicity. And I love that in the depth of knowledge and research, they produce simplicity. It's like an Apple product, they have effectiveness, and what they're going to deliver you is effective to your needs. And finally flexibility. So that I can leave the bike class, walk into Gus's market, and say, goodness me, here's the menu, pull open my app. Great. This is what I should be consuming, based on what's been delivered to me in the market on the menu, whatever it might be. And I love that flexibility. So that is why it's so empowering. It delivers so much control, there's flexibility but at the same time, there's effectiveness. And that's very, very difficult to nail down. So the majority of Purple Patch athletes who do decide to partner with Fuelin don't just do it for the nutritional advice, yes, that's great, that's world-class, but really, the tool is the thing that leverages organizational effectiveness. They are empowered to know that eating the right thing for them at the right time and meshes with their life structure and training framework. And so it's the right nutrition at the right time, and that's great, with a high degree of flexibility. And the fact that the app synchronizes directly with your training calendar, that it takes you into account your goals and your needs, boom, that is the GPS that I wish I had as I navigated the streets of London as a kid on my way to Cornwall. And so that's part of the reason and I think the big reason that it's so important. But we have to realize that in this world we inhabit. It's not static. Nutrition is an emerging science. And we get bombarded with information. So how on earth do we, as consumers care about our health and our performance? How can we filter out what we read what we see what we hear? Who's to be trusted? How can we believe what we're told? So I see Scott and the team at Fuelin as our shepherds who are helping us in the same way as I try and do it with Purple Patch athletes, filter the distractions, and ensure that you're working on the things that are going to help you. Because ultimately, anyone's performance at any level is about practice development and habit creation. And the building blocks should be designed around things that are helping you develop autonomy, not to have you overcomplicate things, not to be shackled, but to empower you to just make smart decisions. Now, I realize here as I'm doing this show, Goodness me. I'm starting to sound a little salesy, but I'm not outlining today, as that is my mission. Fuelin isn't my company. Okay, I'm not an investor in Fuelin. But I do see their role as your performance filter around this subject. And it's very important, and they're going to help you make smart decisions. And that's going to foster bold improvements, not just in how you're eating and how you're feeling and your body composition, but how you organize your life. And I think that's empowering. And so through this lens, I think that you might benefit from employing a broader perspective and using the utility of the program for your health in life. Alrighty. And so, the good news about these guys, by the way, Fuelin is not crazily expensive. I think the program starts at about $1 a day, I haven't even looked up the prices, but it's about $1 a day for you to get all of that. And I think it's helpful. So I can tell you where to learn more, you can head to Purplepatchfitness.com/fueling, you have the page there. But remember, in this episode, I asked the team, and they offered to do something very special. So we have a landing page, it's in the show notes, head there. I recommend that you go and see what the team at Fuelin will do for you. Check it out, you don't need to be a Purple Patch athlete whatsoever to leverage their expertise and program.
Matt Dixon 40:57
Alright, guys. So I hope that helps. That is organizational effectiveness in action through the lens of nutrition. Now, before we leave, I'm going to give you one more quick analogy on why I'll make this recommendation. I know a lot of friends who know a reasonable amount about strength training. Now these folks could just head to the gym, they could go and get a membership, or they could even do their workout at home. And they could put together a pretty well-balanced and effective strength program for themselves. But they don't. They work with personal training. They decide to engage a personal trainer and a coach. Now, it isn't just each of these because I asked my friends, there are four or five of them, And I said you guys will know a lot about strength, and yet you still employ a personal trainer to help you Why do you do that? Your answers were unanimous. It's not because they just enjoy the expertise and the guidance of someone. And it's not just because they love the accountability. And the fact that they don't need to put the thought into it. But it's the fact that once or twice a week personal training sessions provide the tent peg in their week. So imagine the blustery conditions that are out there. They realize that having that commitment, and that once weekly in-person session, it creates organization, it creates a framework within their time-starved life. In other words, they know themselves. And if they didn't have that accountability, they may or may not execute something so important to their health and performance. So this is a key component here. We all do well with organizing. And so if for you eating, nutrition, and fueling is a pain point, a drain on your brain, it takes up mental capacity. And then you're not just going to benefit from having some expertise and recommendations. But you're going to benefit from having an organizational framework that can liberate you. And that is organizational effectiveness and action. All right, guys, I need to get inside. I'm feeling the sun on my face. I'm probably getting red, particularly this nose. But I'll tell you what, have a super week. I'll speak to you next time. Take care.
Matt Dixon 43:20
Guys, thanks so much for joining. And thank you for listening, I hope that you enjoyed the new format. You can never miss an episode by simply subscribing. Head to the Purple Patch channel on YouTube, and you will find it there and you can subscribe. Of course, I'd like to ask you, if you will subscribe also share it with your friends. And it's really helpful if you leave a nice positive review in the comments. Now any questions you have, let me know, feel free to add a comment and I will try my best to respond and support you on your performance journey. And, as we commence this video podcast experience, if you have any feedback at all, as mentioned earlier in the show, we would love your help in helping us to improve, simply email us at info@Purplepatchfitness.com or leave it in the comments of the show at the Purple Patch page and we will get you dialed in. We'd love constructive feedback. We are in a growth mindset as we like to call it. And so feel free to share with your friends, but as I said, Let's build this together. Let's make it something special. It's really fun. We're trying hard to make it a special experience and we want to welcome you into the Purple Patch community. With that. I hope you have a great week. Stay healthy, have fun, keep smiling, doing whatever you do. Take care.
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