Successful People Make The Worst Decisions…about Their Health

You’ve built something real. Career, income, respect. But when it comes to your health, you keep finding reasons to wait. The CPA is busy. Your spouse needs you. You’ll start Monday. You’ll call this afternoon.

The problem isn’t time. It’s not stress. It’s that you’re smart enough to make your excuses sound reasonable  and that’s exactly why you’re stuck.

In this episode, Greg breaks down why high performers are often the worst at making decisions about their own bodies, and what it actually takes to stop justifying and start moving.

Transcript

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Yo yo guys, what is going on? It's your boy GB, man. I appreciate you guys for rocking with me another week on Becoming the Vision, where we talk about becoming the person that you need to be in order to have the life that you so desire. As always, man, I appreciate you guys' time and attention. Because uh without it, man, I wouldn't have a fucking show. If this is your first time, welcome. Um, yeah, welcome, man. I don't talk about macros. I don't talk about reps and sets and shit on this show because honestly, I like being very straightforward and getting to what you really need in order to help you change your life. And if I'm honest, you have all kind of chat GPTs and shit in your pocket. You have all the knowledge that can ever be known about nutrition and training in your pocket, and yet you still don't do the shit. So obviously, it's not about you needing a workout program and you needing a uh nutrition program. It is about you needing to change the way that you make decisions when it comes to your health. And um, which kind of leads to the title of the show is that you traditionally make very poor decisions when it comes to your health, which is why you are overweight, out of shape, unhealthy, generally lower self-confidence than you actually could have. Um and it's because you make really fucking poor decisions when it comes to your health. Those poor decisions are usually um in ways that you think you're being noble or you're being right. When I say noble, you'll look at it like if you have a wife and kids or if you have a husband and kids, it's like, well, I don't want to spend that much money on myself, and it's so you think you're being noble by not spending money on yourself because it would be selfish to spend money on yourself and take care of yourself. When in fact, it's a poor way to make a decision. Because think about this, guys. If um here, I'll back up, I'll do it like this. I have the privilege of talking to a lot of people each and every year, hundreds of people, um, and then thousands of people within the year, right? And people will traditionally make very poor decisions around uh the thought of improving themselves physically. But when I have these conversations, like they're either in person or on Zoom or whatever, people will tell me how their weight and their image is actually affecting them. People will tell me uh they have to change clothes multiple times before leaving the house. That makes them usually not even want to go anywhere. They become more reclusive because they're not as confident as they should be. Even when they do dress up and get out, like they don't necessarily want to be out for very long because they're very self-conscious about how they look, how they feel. Uh their energy is affected. They get home from a long day at work, they don't want to play with their kids. Some people are like, man, like, you know, having this weight is actually affecting my ability to want to have sex with my wife. It's affecting my ability to want to have sex with my husband with the lights on. Like all of this stuff that's like wrapped up in the way that they look and they feel, which is valid. And then when they have to make a decision when it comes to, okay, like if I were to change, how would this make me better? And when you realize that working out will probably make you a better spouse, a better mother, a better father, more clarity at work, probably to be able to either move up or uh excel in your career, what part of that is selfish? Right? This goes back to what I was talking about, how people think it's noble to not spend money on themselves, but it's actually it's actually the reverse. Because like you actually become a better person for those that are around you. And if you don't believe it, just go through the whole decision-making process on your own. Like, ask yourself, like, if I actually were to get in shape and I were to hit the number that I I have this in my head, like, or if I were to get abs and have shoulders like that are bulging and like this, you know, the veins in my arms, and I really did fucking look like a superhero. What would get better in my life? And people sometimes never think that far. The cool thing, like I said, guys, I have thousands of conversations every year with people that that claim that they want to change. And when it comes down to the making the decision to change, most people go back to the old decision-making process. The old decision-making process is you say shit like, Hey Greg, can I text you this afternoon? I I think it sounds great. Uh, I just need to think about it. Can I text you back this afternoon? Hey, can I call you back tomorrow? Hey, can I start after this vacation? Hey, can I start after the kids get after school? Hey, I mean out of school, hey, can I I you know my schedule is really crazy right now. I don't know if I'm gonna be able to make it, but like all these things that come up, and those are the decisions that you continuously keep making up that make you stay stuck, and this is why I said earlier, or I think I said earlier, is that nothing changes if nothing changes. If you keep deciding, like in that in that frame or that matrix, and using those words, you will forever fucking stay stuck all the time, you know. Like it's like people are looking for a magic bullet or a magic pill, and in that world in health and fitness, guys, it does not fucking exist. It doesn't exist. You're going to have to eat right, you're gonna have to train, you're going to have to like lock in, and you're gonna have to make a decision that you're not going to fucking go back. I'm going to make a decision that I have purchased a gym membership. I've been paying 20 to 30 to 40 to $50 a month for fucking years, and nothing has changed. I am still overweight, I am still out of shape, my confidence is still low, and nothing is getting better. Right? The other frame that people need to change when it comes to making poor decisions around their health is you will not tell yourself the raw and unfiltered truth, which is why I do this podcast to help challenge how you think. I will have people look me dead in my eyes and tell me, nah, my my confidence is good. I don't struggle with no confidence, right? Okay, no, no, no. My I mean my energy is straight. Like, so I have I have great energy and I have great confidence. And I will look people and I'll go, okay, then why bother to change? Why don't you just stay the same? Well, no, because I want to lose the weight. But why though? That doesn't make any fucking sense. Because like if you are really that energetic and your confidence is through the roof, and you're 250 pounds, 270 pounds, a woman that's 230 pounds, 205 pounds, whatever, and you fucking feel all that, you feel great and ecstatic and you're perfect, then why bother to change? Why even try to lose the weight if you feel so fucking amazing? And people just say things, right? Because they don't want to, and it's not, it's not me. It's more so their ego will not allow them to tell themselves that you know what? My energy does fucking suck. I do feel like like I'm dragging ass every single day. And like caveat to that, guys, most people are so used to feeling like shit that you don't even know what feeling good feels like. Like you don't know what it feels like to feel energetic and alert and less have less, I mean, have less brain fog and be able to make decisions and like you don't know what that feels like because you felt like shit for so long. And the thing that most people will not do, which is a poor decision-making process, is they will not just be raw. Like you have to tell yourself, guys, like the only reason most people change is because they're raw with themselves. Like people will go their whole life smoking cigarettes, and then they're like, oh, it's so hard to quit, so hard to quit. And then doctor's like, hey, you have this disease, and all of a sudden, or you like, yeah, you have this disease, all of a sudden people can fucking quit, right? Or, you know, like they're struggling with their health and their weight for so long, and they're like, hey, your doctor's like, you're gonna have a fucking stroke if you don't change, and then all of a sudden they change. And so what is that? It's the like they started making different decisions. They're like, oh, I can't do that shit anymore, right? And they were raw. They're like, dude, if I don't change, I'm going to die. That's a very raw conversation with yourself. And I know I'm rambling a little bit, guys, but the gist of what I'm trying to get you to do is to understand that if you were going to change your life, you cannot keep making the same decisions. And uh, last part is that one of the reasons that um I I've posted a lot about how I have conversations with people, and most people don't realize that, and I don't know if I've said it on here, but most people don't realize that I've had 20,000 plus of the same conversation, like legit, 20,000 conversations of the same conversation. So I know what what people are gonna say, when they're gonna say it, and why they're gonna say it before they even think to say it because I know the pattern. And I know when people are going to give me some sort of an excuse slash reason on why they can't do it. And the hardest thing for me, because I used to get so mad back in the day. I used to get so mad when people would say, Well, let me think about it. Well, you know, I'm gonna call you tomorrow. Is that okay? Like, I used to get so angry because I'm like, why don't these people just get it?

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Why don't they understand that like if they got stronger, if they lost this weight, they would, man, their life would fucking improve. They become a better father, a better mother, a better husband, a better wife. Like, their sex would go through the roof, they'd have energy, they'd have clarity, they like the life would fucking change.

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And now when people say it or when they're leading up to say it because I know when it's coming, is I just feel bad for them. I feel bad for them. I don't try to change their mind because one of the other things that I realized a long time ago in my career is that I can't change your mind. By you listening to this podcast, I can't necessarily change your mind. I might be able to plant a seed and then maybe one day you might have the epiphany that, damn, Greg was right. But in the moment in that conversation, I can't change anybody's mind. I can't make you desire to better your own life. And I can't tell you that the the things that you're saying are fucking excuses. Because you know they are. The way that you reframe this, guys, is if your kid came to you and they're constantly failing a class, what are you gonna tell them? And they're like, Oh, I'm studying, dad, I'm studying, like I just can't, right? You're gonna tell them, well, either they need to study harder or they need to get a fucking tutor. That's what you tell them. You wouldn't accept any type of fucking excuse coming out of their brain, I mean out of their mouth. Like you wouldn't do it. That is how you sound when you say anything other than how do I get started? And guys, this isn't, of course, I believe that transcend, like, I believe my program is the best program on the planet. It's gonna change your life. But I'm just talking in general, right? This isn't me like trying to get you to sign up for my program in general. It's to get you to understand that like the reason that you won't change your life is because you don't take that, you don't keep that same energy when it comes to like how I just gave you the analogy of your kids' grades and you your your grades are your body, and you do the same shit. I'm gonna pay 15 to 20 dollars, and I'm gonna go, you know, I'm gonna try this on my own, I'm gonna go to this gym and I'm gonna really do it this time, and you've done that like six times. If your kid kept doing that and kept failing, you would look at them like they're stupid. Like you'd be like, What? What are you doing? No, we're not doing this again, right? You would be so angry, but you're showing them how you keep failing. Like, you're showing them because how many times have you talked about I'm really gonna I'm gonna eat right this time and I'm gonna get I'm gonna lose this weight, and you don't do the shit. Like, what do you think? How do you think that reflects to them? They're watching, they're never gonna say it, right? But they know, like, dude, dude. But you know what I mean? Like, come on. Why should I listen to you? That's what they're really thinking. They'll never say the shit, right? But that's what they're thinking, because all humans think that. Guys, overall, I wanted to talk to you guys about this today is because I mean the reason I wanted to talk to you about this is because I do care. Like, I want you to, I want you to feel healthier. I want you to feel stronger. I want you to fucking feel great when you get out of your fucking hundred thousand dollar car, right? Like, I don't want you to waddle your ass out of it, which is what a lot of people tend to do, right? You buy the car, you buy the clothes, you got the hair, you got the purses, you got the wallets, you got the shoes, you got all this shit, men and women, right? But then you can barely walk up a flight of stairs, and you're embarrassed, you just won't say it. And so you try to buy things around you to make yourself feel better. But like the thing that you're walking around in, you won't spend the money on. Last thing, I know this. I said this was the last thing, right? Um, the other reason that I get sad, I I don't get offended because when I tell people the price, like our some of our programs go up to 15k per year, right? And that's not all of them, right? But when I tell people the price of the program and they go, oh, that's too expensive. Let's say I told you it was $500, right? Oh, that's so expensive. When people say that something is expensive, right? And this is like again, it doesn't matter the amount of money you make because I talk to really successful people and they still won't spend money on themselves, right? And that's a subject for a whole nother day. But the main gist is that you don't value yourself enough to actually change your fucking life, right? Like, I don't get offended when somebody says, well, your program's too expensive. Because all everybody listening to this, myself included, have all purchased things that we at one time in our life we could not afford, but we got them anyway because we really wanted it. So we just did it anyway, right? And then we're like quant consequences be damned. Right? Like, I'll figure it out on the other end, right? But when it when it comes to your your fucking life, like the body that you live in, that you walk around in, that like allows you to like have the confidence and have the clarity to be able to execute at a fucking high level, or for most people, it it doesn't, that you will not invest. And the number never matters, guys. It matters what you attach it to, it matters what you attach it to, right? Because um I I drive a Range Rover, right? If I offered this car to you for a thousand dollars and I just said it was a thousand dollars, most of you would ask me what's wrong with the pro like, what's wrong with the car? Like, why are you giving it to me for a thousand dollars? There's something wrong. But if I said it was just a thousand dollars, people would break their fucking neck, find a credit card, do whatever they needed to do to get because to you it would be the deal of a lifetime and you need to make sure that you get it done. But if I attach that $1,000 to your life and I said this program is a thousand dollars to have more energy, to have more confidence, to have more focus, to have more clarity, to be a better husband, to be a better wife, to be a better father, to be a better mother, to probably make more money, to being able to fucking live life because you're not self-conscious every time you go out, like it's going to literally improve your walk of life. You will say that it's too expensive, and you're not telling me that the program is too expensive, you're saying that you're not worth it because the thousand dollars for that car is worth it. It has a high enough worth in your mind that you're willing to exchange a thousand dollars for it. With your health, you ain't worth it, dog. I feel you're worth it, you don't feel you're worth it. And if you're ever going to change your life, you have to start feeling like you're fucking worth it. I love you guys to life. Until next time, peace.