My Why w/Chepe Perez - Why Do Anything?

The speaker discusses why they choose to wear socks with sandals, citing comfort and protection for their sensitive feet. They also share a story about a friend who strongly disliked socks and sandals. The speaker then transitions to the broader topic of why people do certain things in life, such as waking up early or going to work. They highlight the positive results and consequences that come with these choices, emphasizing the importance of aligning personal "whys" with desired outcomes. What is going on my friends? How are we feeling today? Thank you for tuning in to My Why with Chepa Perez. Let's talk. So today's topic is why do anything? But first we start with our random question of the day. Do you wear socks with sandals and why? So here we go. Yes I do. Unfortunately I guess apparently to some people I am a sock with sandal type of guy. I don't know why. I think it's just comfort. You know I am a big shoe guy. Big protect my feet. I cannot step on a little pebble without crying about it. So my feet are very very sensitive. I feel like I need to protect them at all times. And at the same time it is comfortable. You know I feel like it's a little extra protection. You know you don't get those weird tan lines from the straps. You know the big old fat strap going across your that front part of your foot. Or if you like to do the toe separated sandals. What are those called? I don't know. Maybe they're still sandals. I don't know. But anyways I don't want any of that. I don't want those tan lines. I'm cool with a sock tan line because I'm gonna have one anyways by wearing shoes and my feet are safe. So quick story. I had a friend. He did not like socks and sandals. He actually despised it. And if you wore socks and sandals around him he will let you know. And while we were out on deployment he would not let me in his area. He said you cannot come in. Do not speak to me if you are wearing socks and sandals. Safe to say I figured out out there how serious this situation is to some people and how much they take it to heart about not wearing socks and sandals. So I do wear socks and sandals. I find comfort and stability in them and it's my thing. So that's why. I mean there's no other way. And if you do or don't more power to you right. It's all about what is your why. Alright so we're gonna go ahead and move into our topic of the day which is why do anything right. I mean it's it's a broad word, broad topic. Why wake up in the morning at a certain time right. Why get up and cook eggs instead of going to go buy something down the street at the local deli right. Or why eat cereal instead of those eggs right. Why are you wearing Nikes instead of Reeboks. So there's a many many why's right. It can lead into personal life, emotional life, mental life, work life. So it's a big and broad thing. So I like to talk about the results first. So let's talk about results. Why do anything? Why wake up at 7 a.m. every morning or wake up at a reasonable time every morning. It's a big battle right. Most of us we have jobs right. Maybe we have to go to work. Maybe we have to drop off our kids at school right. Maybe we just like to wake up and get a nice walk in. Walk the dog. The dog is bothering you. Licking your face. Yo I gotta go outside. And or I'm really hungry. So one of the two right. So those are easy why's. But in the end you can avoid those things. Why do you do it? Right. We know that the results of doing these things are positive. Right. If you do wake up and you do feed your dog and you do take them outside they won't potty in the bathroom right. They won't potty on your toilet. I mean I'm sorry. That'd be amazing. They won't potty on your couch right. And they're fed. You don't have to worry about them. How you doing. All right. Now why do you wake up at that certain time. Maybe you have to get to work right. Maybe the kids have to be at school. Let's look at the results of that. Your kids are on time right. They maybe they have a little bit of time to get some breakfast. It saves you a little bit more time and stress in the morning for having to figure out what we're cooking every single day right. Every single day for breakfast. Pop tarts get a little old. Sometimes we do want to toast them. Sometimes we don't. Maybe the edge of the waffle sticking out of the top of the toaster and it didn't toast very well. Are you going to turn it around and flip it and toast the bottom for your son or are you going to be like you know what he got it. So why. Why are we doing it right. So we got to be results driven. You want to feed your children. You want to make sure they're eating right in the morning right. You want to make sure they're staying awake at school. You want to make sure they understand the importance of that. That's easy. Now why do we go to work. That's also easy. We all need to make a living. We all need to make money and we all need to survive. Right. Unfortunately money does not buy happiness. But you know what money is a necessary part of our life and our society. And unfortunately you know there's no way around it. So that's an easy why. Now the things that are a little bit harder as to why do you treat your best friend the way you do. Why do you go out of your way to treat them comfort them. Maybe you are the one that they go to all the time. Hey I'm in trouble and you know I need someone to call who's going to be there. Well we are right. I mean that's my best friend. We've been through so many things together and maybe you trust them with all your life. But you know what. Sometimes their why isn't your why. Right. Their why for calling you may be a completely different why as to why you're saying yes. Right. You never know. There may or may not be an underlying motive. And I'm not saying think that everybody's right negative right. No one's trying to go after anybody I would assume. Right. But it's always there. You know we're all human. We all have our own problems and our own things to deal with in our own minds and on daily life. So why. What is their why. And how does your why align with their why. If your why aligns saying you know what. If I were to help my best friend we'll call him Johnny. Right. I've known Johnny for X amount of years. Johnny's always been there for me. And I've always been there for him. And that why is because I need to keep that relationship with Johnny. Because if I'm ever in a situation like he is today. He's going to be there for me. Right. So that's the why. Right. Now if Johnny has been a little you know flaky. Great friend. Not nothing as a person. But you know what tends to not be there. You know the good hearted person that you are you may say you know what. It's OK. I look out for Johnny no matter what. This and that. But Johnny's why doesn't align with yours. Johnny's not looking out for you at all times. So your why is not Johnny's why. And when why's clash. I'm so sorry there on that one. It doesn't do well. Right. Because feelings get involved. Personal opinions. And then you know one thing leads to another. So if we look at the results before we do anything. Before we even eat a piece of chocolate. Am I on the right track to be at my goal weight. Summer's right around the corner. Do I need a summer bod. Do I want one. Who knows. I don't know. Right. So either way there has to be a why. Do I need to eat that fifth donut in the little packets. Right. I mean I'm not talking about five donuts out of a dozen at Krispy Kreme or anything. But you know you go to this market and you buy those little six pack of donuts and you say I'm going to eat three now. Three later maybe for lunch. Then you end up eating five of them. And you leave one. And then before you take off the car you just stuff the last one in your mouth. Not that I do that or anything. But I'm saying why. Why am I doing that. Right. So your why has to align. That doesn't make sense for me. That's not going to. That's not going to take me where I need to go. Have your why be result driven. If it's a positive result looking for. Make sure the why of what you're doing for the day results in the positive. If it's in a negative you looking for which which which is OK and or expecting. Just let it happen. But just make sure your why is results driven and the results that you want. Not nobody else's. All right. Now just as easy as results positive negative whatever it may be. We have consequences. Right. Let's kind of catch up to those references we had earlier. Kids. You send hungry angry cranky schools to schools to kids. Right. Right. Kids to school. They're not going to do well in school. You know they're not going to want to wake up early in the morning because they're probably not eating right throughout the rest of the day. I don't know. Maybe they just get used to not eating and then you know they don't eat all day till they get back home which is fine. But really it's not. You know their kids are growing. They need some energy. But they're just used to it. Right. Their grades are going to do are going to go down. They're going to be probably getting you know in trouble in school missing some recess time which is now leading to something further. When you sit out a recess you take out social time. And we all know how important social time is. Right. It sucks that a child is having trouble you know whether you know behaving or with some type of homework and then immediately they get it they get to put in solitary. Well you're staying in here because you did this. You know I know there's a lot of changes going on but sometimes even as parents are in schools in certain situations organizations that's the way it works. You get punished and you know you got to learn from decision. But that is that the right way. You know are we we got to look at to our why in the morning. Why did we not feed our kids. You know why are we waking up late you know to to take them to school that way. You know we are you know we're not making breakfast nor are they getting there in time to get breakfast from school. Right. And why is a teacher calling me saying that you know the grades are going down and this and that. So that's a consequence of of that one. And I'm just using examples that I brought up earlier. Now go to work. You don't have to go to work. No one's telling you if you go to work you will never be able to whatever. Right. No one's telling you like you go to work because we have to. I know it sucks but you really don't have to. You have to keep a roof over your head. You have to keep your family fed. Right. You have to keep your family clothed. So those are the things you have to do. But you don't have to go to work to do those things. You know I'm saying. So why do anything again. Why do it. Why wake up early. Why commit your time to a job that you may or may not like. Right. The consequences of staying at a bad job and doing it involving it in anything could be devastating mental physical emotional. Right. Things are to wear on you. Things start to become repetitive. You really don't understand what's going on. You know it is just a little bit of a cycle in a loop that we don't know how to get out of. Right. Those are negative consequences. And if we start waking up at 735 instead of 725 and then we'll be like well I'm going to wake up at 740 and then I'm going to do this and then I'm going to call out today and then you know what we're looking for new jobs or put on a flip on his head a little bit of a personal experience you know you put you dig yourself a little bit of a deep hole you know you kind of overextend yourself. Yeah you have some big motivations and this and that but you're not committing you know you're not fully committed and you're kind of just not doing it because it doesn't align with your why you're doing it because you have to you have to make money you have to pay the bills you have to feed your family your kids yourself right you have to go to the get the gas station I mean just to be able to you know move around in an efficient manner right. I mean that's those are the have to now that we don't have to go into work the treating the people treating people bad the getting angry on the road getting angry for a stubbed toe we don't have to do those things so why do anything it's probably result and consequence driven if we didn't get that in our heads prior to do anything and it's easy to say hindsight is 20 20 I get it I mean yeah let's look back. And I understand if it would have been this I you know I would have done differently but you know what time is time once that precious time goes by and whatever you did in that time it's gone we can never get it back and it happened and whether you did something positive or negative with that exact moment in your life that is you up to you and that is your why of the moment why are you doing anything at the moment that you're doing it whether it's positive or negative right let's think about the consequences. And also focus on the results right now one last thing is just doing nothing you can easily do nothing again why do anything could amount to I'm going to do absolutely nothing and that's fine now what are the consequences to that maybe you don't have such a good social life maybe you do have a family and you know what maybe you're not caring for them right you know that can lead down a dog long rabbit hole that you know we won't get into right maybe you had a great job maybe you had a great job and you know what maybe you're not caring for them right you know that can lead down a dog long rabbit hole that you know we won't get into right maybe you had a great job and you know what maybe you're not caring for them right you know that can lead down a dog long rabbit hole that you know we won't get into right maybe you had a great job and you know what maybe you're not caring for them right you know that can lead down a dog long rabbit hole that you know we won't get into right maybe you had a great job and you just you know you're usually I just don't want to do it why you know there you go I'm not I'm you know you got a great opportunity and you just you know what I'm not going to take it I'm just comfortable where I'm at you know whatever and that's fine maybe you're fine with whatever situation you're in but you know think of the consequences of saying no think of the consequences of not doing anything you know it's tough to say why do anything that's kind of like oh my goodness but if we ask ourselves why do anything right why do anything now here we go all right my final thoughts on this is and I kind of got a little bit ahead of myself not a problem here I think it was a little bit of a decent conversation why do anything why do we wake up in the morning why do we shave our legs and shave our armpits and why do we shave our head I know my why I don't got many hairs up there right so might as well just take the rest out why do we work out why do we not work out why do we eat the foods we eat why do we not eat the foods we eat right even on the phone I'm not saying it's healthy or not just just saying food we know why do we drink what we drink so if we are focused on the results focus on the consequences prior to making your decision why do anything does this align with my why does this align with where I want to be tomorrow right because you are here today and you're now and does that align with what you want to be tomorrow referencing those doughnuts again that don't take that too much to heart somebody told me speaking for a friend and you're stuffing doughnuts in your mouth that usually doesn't align with my why or my friends why speaking for a friend but you know I don't look at the consequences the consequences not going to hurt me right now I'm gonna be tomorrow might hurt me in a couple days maybe I get a stomachache hopefully I do for not learning right so it is what it is so if we keep that in the back of our heads with anything we do whether it's saying hello to somebody but with the greeting of the day you can just say hello without a smile or you can say hello with a big old smile on your face and they're gonna be like man why is this person so happy or you can just say nothing avoid them look down look away completely fine now does your why align with theirs your why is I don't like to be around people that's fine completely fine the result of that or the consequence of that is you know you you miss out on an opportunity to engage with the other human being that morning right or that evening or that afternoon whenever it is right but the result could be a better conversation an opportunity open up for you right somebody that you've never met before someone that may look at and dress completely different in you you never know what they're going to say in the similarities that you may have right and that all comes from the result of why you do what you do why do anything why greet why not greet why be on time why not to be on time why to eat healthy why not to eat healthy why to care about money why not to care about money and why to try to be a better person right and you don't have to be that's exactly fine as long as it aligns with your why there is nothing and nobody that can tell you anything right so there it is topic of the day one more time why do anything results and consequence driven and all right here we go so thank you again that is all the time we have for today may the rest of your day be awesome and full of purpose like always please be safe and we will chat soon much love and again tune in to my why with Checker Perez where I just spill out everything I have in the top of my head I will start creating as many of these as I can I love talking I love writing and if I even I do it by myself right now and if I can invite some other guests in whether it be friends family or people I don't know maybe somebody I just walked by and smiled at him and said hello and we struck up a conversation I don't know right so thank you again I appreciate you stay safe much love be good to yourself be good to people and always thank you for tuning in to my why with Checker Perez