A Seven-Day Rhythm For Real Change

Most of us don’t need another hype speech. We need a repeatable way to live that doesn’t collapse the moment stress hits. That’s why I sat down with David Fullmer, entrepreneur, speaker, and author of Becoming Seven: The Superhuman Rhythm, to talk about the real work behind personal growth: extreme ownership, daily habits, and the decision to stop letting the past run the present.

David shares pieces of his story, from a difficult childhood and youth correctional programs to addiction, anger, and the hard resets that forced him to change. We get into why “victim mode” is so tempting, why blaming parents or betrayal becomes a lifelong crutch, and how forgiveness is less about excusing someone else and more about freeing your own mind. His examples, especially the way his mother modeled grace under pressure, put real weight behind the idea that you can refuse bitterness without pretending pain never happened.

Then we unpack the Becoming Seven framework, a simple seven-day rhythm designed to create lasting change without relying on motivation alone: Motivation Monday, Tracking Tuesday, Whisper Wednesday, Thankful Thursday, Forgiveness Friday, Satisfaction Saturday, and Supplication Sunday. We talk gratitude as a performance advantage, intuition as a skill you can practice, why high performers don’t cling to old stories, and why doing hard things on purpose is a direct path out of average.

If you want a practical mindset reset, a clearer purpose, and a weekly structure that makes self-improvement feel doable, press play now. Subscribe, share this with a friend who feels stuck, and leave a review with the day of the week you’re starting with first.

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Transcript

Cold Open And Welcome

SPEAKER_04 0:01

I never told no one that my whole life I've been holding back every time I load my gun up, so I can do for the star. I hear a voice like who do you think you are naked for?

SPEAKER_01 0:12

All right, everybody. Another day, another dollar, another one of my favorite episodes, my favorite podcasts. Because it's my own podcast. What if it did work with me? An amazing guest. Welcome back. Today's guest is someone who's transformed personal adversity into a powerful framework for personal growth and human potential. David Fulmer is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and creator of the Becoming Seven movement. After overcoming a difficult childhood, addiction, anger, and multiple youth correctional programs, David rebuilt his life and became a successful entrepreneur. Today he's on a mission to help millions of people break free from limiting beliefs and live with greater purpose, gratitude, forgiveness, and faith. His latest book, Becoming Seven. The superhuman rhythm introduces a practical seven-day framework with designed to help people create lasting change through intentional daily rhythms instead of relying on motivation alone. Man, people wait until people hear that. People, you know, David, they do believe that gurus are the way. Now, today we're going to dive into the principles behind becoming seven, discuss why so many people struggle to reach their potential and explore how anyone can begin creating a more meaningful, purpose-driven life. How's it going, David? Hello, how you doing, Omar?

Why Victim Stories Keep Us Stuck

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Brother, I gotta say, man, what I I love about you is because so many people love to play the victim. Everybody loves to play childhood trauma, is the reason why they're stuck, the reason why they have self-destructive patterns, their behavior. And whenever somebody wants to talk to me about, yeah, my childhood sucked, but you know what? It is what it is, but it's who created me. And at the end of the day, we're adults, man. Could you imagine? I'm 53. I I if I blamed everything on mommy and daddy from like over 30 years ago. But but why why why is it though that you believe that people carry that? Like it's their cross to bear, like it's it's their the it is is it just the way we're programmed these days, or uh is it just easier to be victims?

SPEAKER_03 2:38

Uh what it is is it's easy, right? It's it's it's hard to have the true conversation with yourself, look in the mirror and say, wait a minute, this is these things have happened for me and not to me. And once you make that shift, you realize that you you you learn to love yourself because we can't act out anything beyond our own belief of ourselves. If we mistreat people, it's because we mistreat ourselves. And so uh people who who dig into the past and can't forgive, they're they're they're not happy with themselves. And once once you take extreme ownership for your life and not look at everything as happened to you, and this is the reason, then you're never going to be on the road to change. You're never gonna be on the road to to finding true happiness, because true happiness is found within. It's not a circumstance, it's not a dollar amount, it's it's nothing but the true joy that comes from within your own heart, and it's in a reflection on how you treat others. And so it's it's just so easy to look at all the things because I did it. I mean, for years, I I moved almost like 29 times by the time I was 17, and I was so angry at my parents for so many years. And when I truly, you know, realized wow, my ability to make friends and to communicate is great. How did I acquire that? Well, that was from moving so many times. How did I deal with getting to know someone and then having that friend ripped out of my arms and never really having a real loving childhood friendship? And and after I realized like that law that life is about loss, it's about creation, and it's about losing and winning and and all the above. So anyway, and um, so so that that is one of the biggest, hardest things for people to bite off and understand. Look, you're never gonna move forward blaming others for whatever predicament you're in. And the minute you shift your lands and say, wait a minute, this very trench, this very low valley that I am in is the very building blocks for my future. And once you make that shift, then you can start thanking those that betrayed you. You can start thanking parents, aunties, uncles, grandparents who you feel weren't didn't show up for you or didn't do something they should have been because no one's perfect, right? And and so once you make that shift, it you realize it's on me. This life is on me. The time is ticking. I'm not getting any more younger, no one is, and it's time to act right now and move.

David’s Background And Rebuild

SPEAKER_03 5:34

Now, David, who was David Fulmer before becoming seven? You know what? I was just living my life, raising my kids. Um, like I said, I went to four different youth programs, as you mentioned, um, and multiple, multiple charges on my juvenile record. And I was a little wild one. Um, definitely had a major anger problem. Um I always like to say after drinking six beers, every beer after I got 10 pounds heavier and about an inch taller. So I got myself in a lot of trouble. I was diagnosed with little man's disease when I was like 17. Um, so um I always say that as a joke. And so I was I was angry until I I got back and I, you know, I got back into trying to get sober, and and fortunate for me, I had a dad and mom that, you know, taught me well. And my mom was an amazing mother of 13 children. And my dad was one of the first handful of employees for Stephen Covey, who wrote the the book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. So I had poured into my brain when I was like 13, 12, I used to cruise around my dad and he would listen to Jim Rome tapes. And I mean, he knew he knew who Tony Robbins was before Tony Robbins was a big deal. And so this this thought that a person's life is a product of the way that they actually think was instilled in me at a young age. So when I when I was starting in my late teens, like 1920, starting to realize, well, I don't want to be in jail for the rest of my life. I need to get my act together. Um that's when I really started studying uh the human behavior and mindset. And over a decade, two decades of doing business and and uh you know becoming a millionaire by the time I was 28. And then the the crash of 08 came and I lost everything. And it's just through that trial and error, I started to realize that that no matter what I do, I cannot, there's certain forces outside of my control. And I need to live this life because I could be gone tomorrow. And I need to live every day like it is an absolute gift. And when that switch hit, it was like I started really, really studying and studying and studying, listening to book after book and tracing stoicism all the way back to Mark, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca. And it just was so profound that that a person's joy and happiness is literally a decision. It rests on their shoulders, and that everyone has opportunity and it's all around them, and they just have to shift the way that they think.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

Now, was there a specific moment that made everything that changed everything that made you do that shift that made you pivot in your life?

SPEAKER_03 8:36

Um, I I would say I I would say a yes and no, because our lives are like a canvas. And when you build paint upon paint, you slowly see the the structure of the painting coming forward. Or if you if you've ever known a marble sculptor that starts on a piece of mar marble, they they simply chisel away the imperfections of the stone to find what's inside of it. And so that's that's an ever-changing process. But

A Mother’s Example Of Forgiveness

SPEAKER_03 9:08

one extreme um, you know, case where I it really clicked on me on forgiveness was my mom. Um my my parents were married for you know 30 years, and then my dad ended up having to move out due to some situation that some bad decisions that he had made. And I was so angry at him, and I just wanted to hold him so accountable. It was like I had I had to move back from Hawaii where I finally gotten sober and got my life in order. And then I was the oldest that wasn't married in my family at the time. And my mom had eight children to run it, raise at home, and my dad wasn't helping financially at all. And so I was just so angry that that he was kind of, I felt at the time skirting his responsibility. Really, he was under a lot of stress. You know, he just got divorced and was going through it. And I just wanted to just have him just be accountable. That was my my thing. Like, you gotta look what you're doing to me, look what you're doing to mom. And I remember I I I read and did some studying, and I realized that my mom could get 350 bucks per kid from child services. And but they would go after my dad, and if he didn't pay, there's a chance he'd put him in jail. But I didn't care. And so I came to my mom with a big plan, like I had it all figured out. I was like, mom, you don't have to work two jobs, sometimes three jobs. And she took me in her arms and told me how much she loved me. And just her grace towards my dad was like, you know, your dad's not in a good place right now. He'll eventually help. We need to, we need to be more patient with your father. And it's better that we work hard during these times than these little children that I have, your siblings have to go and visit a father in jail. And and my mind was just blown. Like I couldn't figure it out. And but that was a real, real grace and love that I felt that her basically saying, look, no one's perfect, and it's better that the family has harmony. You know, there's so many women that keep children from men in this world because they don't pay or they don't this, or maybe they're going through hard times or whatever. And it has such an adverse effect effect on the children. It doesn't really affect, I mean, it affects the father, but it affects the next generation so deeply. And I was just so grateful that I had a mom that at any any time my dad wanted to see the kids, he had a he had the opportunity to see them. And the his her her grace and and forgiveness in the way she treated my dad, it really subdued a lot of my anger and and realizing well, my mom's the happiest person I know. And she's look what she's going through. I mean, it was crazy. I couldn't figure it out. I was like, mom, you know, look at look at you. You know, you're working the graveyard shift, you got burn marks on your arm from working in a factory, you come home, get the kids to school, deal with mountains of laundry, then you go back and wait tables. And then the first person that needs help and service in our church, you're the first one to raise your hand. I just, you know, it's just like it blew me away. So my mom's my mom's example really taught me that I have no excuse to not be a good human being. And that really set me on a trajectory and changed my outlook on others' behavior because so many people listening to this allow the behavior and others around them to dictate their happiness.

Flow State And The Superhuman Rhythm

SPEAKER_03 12:40

And, you know, a plane to the mainland, I live here in Hawaii, a plane to the mainland and a plane back, there's an hour difference. It's the same plane, same pilot, same fuel, same elevation, same everything, but it's an hour difference. And it's because of a headwind and a tailwind. And that's why I call my book the superhuman rhythm. Because when you're in a flow state, you're like water, you flow around the obstacles. You don't sit and bump into them, and you get you get a tailwind, and the rhythm in your life is so important. The vibration in your body, when you're so stressed about what other people are doing to you, it keeps you away from your game, it keeps you away from your goals and the things that you want to do in your life.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

You know what, though? What's amazing about that story about your mother is your father did all that personal development, the Tony Robbins, the Jim Roan, but your mom was full of grace. Your mom forgave, your mom was the true being of being of becoming Christian to be more Christ-like. And she took the high-I mean, yeah, a hundred percent. Like I mean, if you there's no, you know, yeah, it wasn't a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_03 13:55

I mean, Omar, it's like yeah, Omar, it's like it's like this, Omar. I mean, I remember she didn't have a day off for like three months, okay? And I'm bumping my Dr. Dre and my little Toyota Tacoma truck at that time, my little slam little Toyota, you know, young man. And I'm framing houses and helping mom financially. We're all kind of just helping together. And she had one day off. I was super excited. I was gonna go spend some time with the kids so mom could take the day off. And I'm passing our church house, and I look over, and my mom's in the dirt planting flowers. So she signed up for service for free. And on her day off, that she hasn't had in months, she's probably the last one in the whole congregation should have been there, but she's the only one that could have been there to show me true grace and sacrifice. And here she was spending her time digging holes in the dirt just to beautify the chapel with her children, showing them service. And it's like it's it's that kind of example that I want to be to humanity and to my my siblings. And another situation with my mom, um, I had just got locked up and they were sending me away to a wilderness program. So they had just taken me, they had taken me, put me into state's custody, right? Oh and and I'm I'm facing going away for a long time, and she got to visit me one last time before they shipped me off to this group home, and then later to this wilderness program. And I remember she came in the visiting room, and I started to make up all these excuses, like, oh mom, it wasn't me, and this and that, you know what I mean? And I'm I'm I'm railing off. And I and this beautiful woman um, you know, claps her hands to my face, looked deep into my eyes, into my soul, and she said, Oh, David, I don't I don't need to know. I know who you are. You have so much potential, and you're gonna change the world. When you get through all this, I promise you, and I want you to know that there's nothing that you could ever do that would not make me love you. And that that right there that sank into my soul, and that was enough in a moment turning point in my life. I'm like, you know what? My mom loves me, and and I have one person to go with that loves me. Because I felt, you know, I felt alone, really alone. And so that was that was a huge moment for me. So there any one of us, there's there's someone, and it sometimes it's God. And some some people have been through such trauma and so many heavy things in their life that it's so hard to let go. And that's why I teach it's so important on Forgiveness Friday to literally the freedom is in letting go. The freedom to live free and to be like water and be able to flow through life's challenges is is forgiveness and and grace. I mean, you don't always have to let people in your sphere of influence, but you can be you can wish what's best for them, and you can you can have love in your heart for all men. I know it's possible.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

You see, everything you just said, you you skipped ahead, brother. I was gonna ask you why is forgiveness Friday so important. But no, I I mean, but think about it. Because we're trust me, this book, very profound. Uh I I love it. That this you your mom, you're living through your mom with this. This is grace. This this is because you know what? How many of us just in general, don't you think we'd be all happier and we would find an easier path to success if we practice Forgiveness Friday?

SPEAKER_03 18:00

Oh, absolutely. If you if you were really to interview, and I've I've spent a lot of time with a lot of high-level humans, professional athletes, uh Fortune 500 CEOs, I can tell you they don't some of them are aggressive, but in their business style and very competitive. But one thing is very common among the tapestry of high-level superhumans. They don't hold on to stuff. Like they don't, they don't sit around and like pigeons and talk really bad about other people. They're constantly talking about solutions to problems. Where do we go from here to make it better? It's it's constant. They don't sit around and talk about the past all day long and wallow in the mire and sit in the mud. They're moving, they're constantly moving. It's it's it's the analogy you never drink. When you're when you're starving for water and you're hiking up in the mountains, are you gonna drink out of a puddle that's been sitting there for days on end collecting bacteria? No, you want a fresh spring that's ever running off of off of the glaciers. You want a water and a stream that's moving rapidly, that's been running, and that's where the clean water is. And it's the same thing with our our our our lives. So many people get hung up on what happened them them as a child or what this person did, and it it weighs them down physically, mentally, and emotionally so bad, you know, and then sometimes like, oh, I'll pray for that person. You know, they make comments like that, but deep down inside, could you literally could you get on your knees and thank God today for your betrayal? Because it takes a Judas to know Jesus. So the day of awakening is when you're almost just as excited because of the failures and the betrayals in your life, and under you're just as grateful to God as those as the blessings. Because your blessings and your happiness will never be full without going through all those things. So, how do I thank God? I'm I am so grateful for the obstacles in my life, even though they're hard, a lot tragic, very painful. I can live and say I'm so grateful for him because it it gave me an understanding of how beautiful joy and happiness is once you get through those obstacles.

SPEAKER_00 20:30

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

Amen, brother. No, I have to ask you on this one. What

Why Humans Ignore Their Potential

SPEAKER_01 20:39

inspired you to write Becoming Seven? Was it your mom?

SPEAKER_03 20:43

Um my mom inspired me on how to live with grace and forgiveness. That was my biggest thing. But I've always been really been into the the human mindset, and and I always would be curious why you could have like two siblings in a family and one's hyper successful and the other one's just a total deadbeat. And I'm like, dude. And and when I realized that human beings are the only one of God's creations that will willfully not perform at their peak abilities. Like we will literally bury our talents in the earth. A tree will always grow as tall and as deep as sunlight and water and can and and the conditions it's given. Ants, dogs, any creature, any animal, dolphins, fish, they will all multiply and replenish to their full capacity that that they're given of food, light, sunlight, all of it, right? And we who are some are the most powerful creatures on earth, we're the only ones that will say, you know what, I'm gonna sleep in today. You know what? I'm gonna sleep in today. You know what? No, I'm not gonna do my responsibility. You know what? I'm gonna be addicted to alcohol, I'm gonna choose to be addicted to drugs, I'm gonna choose to literally not live up to my potential. And that that when when that caught my mind, I was like, you know what? I I I really dived into this whole stoicism thing. And it was book after book. But the thing that was hard for me, Omar, is I would go to all these seminars and there was always four steps to this and five steps to that. And when I came across that more heart attacks happen on Monday morning from 8 a.m. to 12, not based on your ethnicity, your cholesterol level, your weight, none of that. It was simply Monday's here, I'm checking out. That's it. I don't and and what it was is they didn't have their why are you on the planet Earth? What are you doing with your life? Are you fulfilled? And they're not. And they're so stressed out and that they kill over because their hearts are hurting. And your heart is where your passion is, your heart is where your excitement for life and zest exists is in the heart and they kill over and die. And so when I found that out and I always had Whisper in the wind Wednesday for intuition and I I thought to myself what if the human experience was directly linked to each day of the week like religiously I always had the Sabbath day I had to go to church and I had all these things and then I was like wow and that's when it hit I realized it it and it does like every Thursday's Thanksgiving it's Thankful Thursday. And when is when are all of our when do we get bad news? When do they cram bills in the Senate down our throat? Always on Friday. When does everyone get fired? Omar Friday when's the bad news drop Friday why because you have a heightened state of a dopamine so what's the best day to you know what I can let this one go. What's the best day to forgive others? It's Friday and so so each day of the week as a culture for thousands of years these blood memories that we have that's been passed on by by average the average person alive today has 4,098 grandmas and grandpa's DNA inside of them. And they vibrated and they walked the earth and they suffered and they went through all these things and they've passed those those vibrations on to us and so once we realize wow you know I each day of the week it's so easy to remember once you have this simple intuition and this intention of each day of the week and you can mold it to your culture and your people and the way you grew up and your traditions and it's seven superhuman attributes tied to each day of the week you can't forget it. You leave it I have a 28 day kickstart guide anyone who goes through that 28 days will have an astronomical change in their life it's very simple. The book is a simple read I don't go get into the woods and it's not me to try to sound like I'm some deep philosopher the greatest one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived I believe is the greatest is the our Savior Jesus Christ. And he talked about chickens and goats and fishermen and it's so simple that we complicate everything. It just we we we overcomplicate oh this is just me this is the way I experience like no we're all in this together we're all suffering we all had crappy experiences when we're little we're all gonna go through chat tragedy we're all gonna lose a loved one and one of the best ways to become superhuman is to get ahead of the curve and to make sure that our daily vibration is on point. So the number seven because it's seven days correct yeah yeah you're you and I are locked in so as human beings we have brain tracks and they're passed on by our ancestors our brain tracks are Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday and it we're on a wheel and the average person has 6000 thoughts a day and 80% of them are negative. And and thought is you can't act out anything beyond your own belief. So whatever you think about yourself and others and you're constantly thinking negative and you don't catch yourself man you're just on this hamster wheel every day you're subconsciously having crappy days and crappy days and you can't get out of the mud it's it's because your subconscious vibration is very negative and it's time to get conscious about that and that's what tracking Tuesday is but but we've all experienced this weekly rhythm. We're already in it and we're so inundated with social media and blah news and the world's coming the world's always been coming to an end Omar it's always been coming to an end from the French Revolution to Rome this world has always been on the verge of total cataclysmic destruction. And if we are and it's tomorrow I'm gonna live today with good vibes good vibration today's tracking Tuesday I'm gonna make sure I'm tracking my thoughts I'm having a positive conversation with my friend we're building right now that's that's what I want to do whether it's tomorrow it's living with no fear and you're always going to have a little bit of worry there's a little joke my dad used to say don't tell me worry doesn't work I worry about a lot of things and it never happens how many times have you worried so bad about something and it was never even remotely as bad as you thought it was going to be right and then and then on the balance other size how many times have you gone into a partnership or a deal or a relationship and you just thought everything was going to be sunshines and rainbows and then next thing you know you're like well that fell short and oh my gosh and this and that and this and that. So it's it's learning to take the middle road and say yes things are tough okay I get that I'm gonna worry a little bit about that to protect myself but not so much that it affects me and my progression. And I'm not gonna get so overexcited about things that I don't realize you know things aren't always what they seem to be now David ultimately what problem does the book solve the book solves the problem um of getting to know yourself when if someone truly lives B7 I'm even 90 days in there's no way they're not going to look in the mirror and say I love you. I love you so much. Right? And the more someone loves themselves the more that someone and not in a negative way and not a lover of themselves but love themselves deeply to the point that they understand that their actions matter and the things that they do and think about matter to humanity. Once they recognize that and they truly have a love for themselves then they can start to reach out and love others in a way that they otherwise could not this book is the ultimate antidote it's the ultimate mess medicine for someone to be healed of negative thinking and to truly find themselves because that's the greatest battle anyone will ever face is themselves their own doubts their own bad habits their own bad thinking all those things come first before you can really have change and change the world perfect.

SPEAKER_01 29:39

Now

The Becoming Seven Weekly Framework

SPEAKER_01 29:40

David walk us through the seven days brother okay well I told you about Monday everyone's having a hard day motivation Monday brother that's motivation Monday but as long as there's consistency though because you know everybody can do the affirmations and rah rah rah and and you read a book or listen to uh something and then not implement anything.

SPEAKER_03 30:04

So my I love the Monday motivation I I love all seven days by the way yeah well Monday motivation motivation Mondays it's like that's that's the day your charging station if you can think about it you're an electric vehicle and before you get out on the road of life you need to know where you're going and you need and and you're gonna have to stop every once in a while and fuel up and recharge the battery and recharging the battery is Monday. It's the day you listen to the talks you listen to the speeches it's a day you review your goals in depth you have your affirmations you meditate on what your life is going to look like there's all these different things and that's that's that's to get your your battery charged but then you still got to get out on the road because I know people that go from seminar to seminar to seminar to seminar and they literally do something for three days and then it's like they're looking for another seminar. It's like there is no it's the dopamine. Yeah no one's very dopamine and it's not good you know no one's coming to rescue them so so Motivation Monday really sets in place the why they're on the planet earth what they're looking to accomplish and then get get after it. And that's that's what Monday is it's a day to reflect on you know the past week all that and get really really stoked on their goals and what they want to do because you have to have goals you have to have something drawing you. And then we move on to Tuesday Tuesday's tracking Tuesday I told you about the thoughts but what's crazy is 90% of all of our thoughts are the same thoughts we had the day before the day before the day before the day before everyone's on a hamster wheel and they got about a hundred hamsters in their brain and 90% of them are just doing the same dang thing. They're thinking the same thing and doing the same thing and high level humans they eliminate the 87 800 80 uh 80% of those being negative thoughts and they have maybe around 20% and this is all documented high level humans and really high level like athletes and creators and guys like Elon Musk top top level earners I mean these guys have the ability to see what is possible they're always in a state of what is possible. They're never in a state of oh this isn't going to work out nothing they're always like okay if this doesn't work out there's it it's gonna show me a better way to do something else even better. You're failing constantly failing forward and once you realize true success is the is is is rested one true success is rested upon a hundred failures then you stop being hard on yourself and you understand well that's one way to not do it let's move and you really keep be fluid and and keep your body moving and that's tracking Tuesday is making sure it's it's like the day of the avatar for me I I have I have uh one mouth two ears and two eyes so I I watch what's going on more I listen more than I talk um even though today's tracking Tuesday and you're asking me to talk a whole bunch that's okay um but the the the the point of the matter is it's a day that I listen really carefully is how I'm showing up to others I track you know what what my finances are it's just it's a day to really take an accounting of myself and be the avatar step outside myself and listen really closely and watch very closely as well and I know Whisper Wednesday now Whisper Wednesday man that's a beautiful day if you were to interview Omar all airline pilots first responders FBI agents all these people whose lives rest upon their job they will tell you countless stories doctors hey did you ever make a decision on intuition where you just had a a hunch or a feeling oh just you might as well just post up get a pen and paper and start right taking notes but why is it why does it have to be just them and so whisper Wednesday is a day of of intuition it's a day where I get into an organic environment during that day put the phone aside go in the woods and just sit there in silence silence is so powerful and you let all this electronics and all this noise someone cannot truly find themselves when they're inundated with chaos and entertainment and their brain is just trying to keep up with downloading all the various different things that are coming at them. And so they don't take a time to exercise intuition and really listen to the spirit and listen to their heart. And so we we're we we're responsible for our families friends and our culture and our our communities but are we taking time to take our shoes off and just walk along the beach and just feel the dirt in our toes and go and sit next to a tree and and and just do nothing just listen it's powerful and it recharges your ability to listen to that whisper and that spirit that's inside you. Wow and thankful Thursday I I practice that definitely gratitude nothing can nothing can stop someone who has an attitude of gratitude. And so this is the dichotomy Omar and I an army of lions led by a sheep will always be defeated by an army of sheep led by a lion and the answer to that is attitude a person's attitude can go into a room into a family into a situation where everything looks glim and bleak and oh we're headed for a cliff and they say no we got this check this out there we've got this we've got that we have this resource we have this person we can talk to we have this I have air to breathe I'm healthy enough to stand up I can look up I can get up you know there's people who have who have had both their legs amputated they're that some of the happiest people I've ever met and they're out there surfing they're on a knee board carving waves where some people will never even just get in the ocean and try to surf. And it's because there's they're so grateful and their attitude is so much gratitude that that you're there when you're when you have this heightened state of gratitude all your problems are lighter all the future looks brighter all the past is is less bad as as we assumed it is all with an attitude of gratitude. It's the most pure one of the most purest forms of dopamine that we can push through our blood is gratitude. And and the one thing that I mean most of us should practice since we're Christians forgiveness Friday just in anger yeah so yeah so you're you have a heightened state of dopamine you're already high on gratitude then you go into Friday it's the weekend and that's the hardest attribute to acquire is forgiveness we as a people are so quick to judge because when we're judging others our problems and our weaknesses look really small we're talking about the neighbor the neighbor's wife cheating on him and gossiping at a party oh we we look like that's not me right and so it being judgmental and not forgiving and being angry at others that have done stuff to us is such a gnarly drug and you can get so high on it and all it does is take you away from your own personal accountability. But the minute you let all that stuff go you have no crutch you have no excuse 100% extreme ownership oh crap I've got to be Dave Fulmer I can't blame my parents I can't blame this business partner that screwed me over did he screw me over because I'm better now than I was in 2016 when that happened did he do things that were nefarious and cost me millions of dollars yes he did but I'm way better now than if I would have stayed with that guy right everything everything happens for a reason brother you yeah you did the unction you know exactly so you once you realize that you're like wow I once once we like I said before once we realize we need a Judas to find Jesus it's like holy smokes thank you I don't have to hang out with you anymore but you you're calling your enemy and you thought they hated me i've I've sent messages like I mean just crazy things have happened in my life where I'm like message people that thought I didn't want to have anything to do with them and hated them and I message them just hey I just want to tell you how much I love you. Thank you so much for the experience that we had it's made me a better person. I want you to know I forgive you and I want you to move on that I have no hard feelings towards you. Wow and you just try it with one two three and once you start gathering those things up and get rid of them it's like when I was in my wilderness program if you cursed so we would hike almost eight miles a day it was brutal you had to make your own pack and out of out of a string a seatbelt cord and a tarp. They didn't give us even hiking packs we had to design our own packs and this one kid had a total potty mouth and he was dropping f-bombs all over all the counselors and when you're hiking and you swear you have to pick up a rock softball size rock and put it in your pack while you hike and I'll never forget this kid he's got about 20 rocks in his pack he was gonna break them they weren't gonna break him big ego and I'll never forget we're coming up this ridge and this kid just literally fell over with his pack and just wept I'd never heard a kid cry like that he cried for two hours no one could even move him and he just wept and wept and wept and I was like wow and I liken that to not letting things go you're just putting a rock in your own personal backpack and you're walking around life all heavy and weighted down and you're not you're not getting to the heights that you could get otherwise and so we think so much that we're holding others accountable by by withholding our forgiveness and it's just not true. We're just injuring ourselves so that's forgiveness Friday what a day amazing I love this and satisfaction Saturday satisfaction saturday Omar no one on their deathbed wishes they spent more time at the office okay why is it that all these billionaires right before they die they're looking up all the philanthropy they can do well I'm gonna give to this cause and that cause and they leave billions trillions of dollars have been left behind by very wealthy men who in the last days of their life reflected on their life and said I need to have an impact before I go right and how many how many sad scenarios where a man was a very very wealthy man and there were one or two people in that hospital room and so satisfaction Saturday is really making sure that you're having fun with the ones that you love and realize that there's only there there the three M's of of resources money number one we make money so that we can have moments so that in the end we have memories and I don't know if you've heard the old phrase oh that guy has FU money well I spin it around it's called love you money the more money that we make Omar the more money you make the more impact you can have the more memories the more trips with the family and the cousins the more family reunions the more moments that you can have I always often say I'm getting a Lincoln Continental a drop top Lincoln Continental it's not because I want the Continental it's because I want to feel what it's like to put my three sons in that car and drive around the island with the top down and laugh and joke and never forget the memory of cruising down the highway together listening to our reggae jams and just being with my sons because that means that if I don't work hard I won't have those moments I've traveled the world with my family on surf trips um Bali, Indonesia, um Australia, Costa Rica, Tahiti, Fiji, like all these places we've gone on surf trips, it's only for one reason it's because I've been able to work hard and figure things out enough that I can have that lifestyle. But I don't have that lifestyle to say oh I have a bunch of money no I've got countless photos and memories of these joyful moments. So it's key that we understand that the reason we want to work so hard is so that we can stack these memories of these beautiful moments so that on our deathbed we can look back with the least amount of regret and say, wow what a ride and that hospital room is packed with people saying Remember that remember that remember that remember that And everyone's laughing with joy. That's Satisfaction Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 44:05

And then one that your mom would hold dear, Supplication Sunday.

SPEAKER_03 44:10

Well, I'll tell you what, coming from a Christian family growing up, what was Sunday? And that was one of the things that got me on all the days of the week. I'm like, dude, what happened all the other days of the week? Why am I always pushed to go to church on Sunday? You know, you guys, I'm not getting really pushed like this on any other day of the week for any other reason, other than to go to school and go get a job or whatever, right? But so I've been in I've been in jiu-jitsu for 15 years. I have my brown belt, and I'm about a year and a half away from getting my black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And it is really, really hard. It's not a sport you just get into. You have to dedicate your life to it. And if someone to ask you, what's the greatest lesson you've taught, it wouldn't be that I can I can wrestle because I can wrestle. I I'm fine, I can wrestle for 20 minutes and be totally okay. Um, but that's not what I would tell you. And I most black belts would tell you the same thing is it's taught me humility. Okay. When you've been having someone around your throat thousands of times, Omar, I've had to tap. We've all seen the UFC. What happens when someone gives up? They tap out. They tap out, right? And so supplication Sunday is to submit to a higher power. It's to get on your knees and say, God, I can't do this without you. It's getting in those intricate places in our lives that we need guidance and recognizing that there's a spirit, that there's something greater than us, and we need to submit to it. We need to supplicate to a higher power, to a God that loves us, and that's supplication Sunday, because a man will always stand tallest on his knees. And so I want to make sure that I'm I'm recognizing God, this is your earth. You created me, you are our all-powerful. I am but a steward, I am of of thy will, and I am yet a just a tool here on earth for this short time. Guide me. Or the conversation is God, I can't do this without you. I need help. Tapping out to your problems. I promise, if you ask God for answers, they'll come. They're not always in the way that we want them, but I know that there's a great comfort in having a relationship with our higher power.

SPEAKER_01 46:30

Amen, brother. Now,

Why People Settle For Average

SPEAKER_01 46:32

David, you talk about becoming the best version of yourself. What does that actually look like?

SPEAKER_03 46:39

Well, they they say about six percent of the population will actually live to their at least 80% of their potential. Okay. The greatest ideas and the greatest talented humans that ever ever lived are sitting in cemeteries across this world of people who are just like listening to this radio show today and never go truly after their dreams. Okay. As a young kid, you grow up and your dreams are massive, right? When you're five, six, seven, eight years old, the world is your oyster. Everything is possible. I can dream big, I can do this. And their parents, after telling them 10,000 times, don't do that, stop that, don't touch that. Now it might be because they're running in the street or they're gonna touch a stove or they're driving grabbing too much candy at the grocery store. But we have to understand that we have brain tracks in our in our heads. And so we we never truly go after our dreams. So being the the the best version of yourself is figuring out what you are talented at, what you're good at, what you're enjoying, and actually do that in your life. That is the greatest thing you can do is find out what you really enjoy and do that full-time, part-time. It doesn't matter as long as you're living in that dream, because every single human being has an amazing talent and multiple talents. And being the best version of yourself is recognizing that talent, refining it, get good at it, and watch how it blesses others' lives. And that's truly being the best version of yourself. David, then why do so many people just settle then for average? Because we're we're we're in this matrix, Omar. I I try to say like we're given all this noise. And the matrix itself is like it it allows us, it'll it gives us such a clear, simple path to be lazy, right? They teach you hard, don't do anything hard. You don't want to do anything painful. Oh my gosh, that was painful. You're experiencing pain, you need to get on Xanax, you need to get on head medication, you need to go see a therapist. They're now finding out. I mean, right now you your therapists have therapists. I mean, it's getting ridiculous. Everybody needs therapy. It's like everyone wants to talk to someone like like everyone doesn't have the same dang problems. We all got the same problems. No one wants to wake up in the morning, it sucks. No one wants to go and get into the gym, it sucks. No one wants to watch what they eat, it sucks because there's so many different wonderful restaurants out there. Why would I want to take care of my weight when I can just splurge? So people are just inundated with what's easy. We've lived in the greatest country in the face of the earth. And now we're like Rome, where we're like getting to a point, it's like we don't want to do anything hard. You go back a hundred years, man. You had to take a wagon and a 200 years back. You had to take a wagon 12 hours to go find trouble. I gotta find a tavern where I can get drunk and be with some ladies. Oh, that's gonna take 13 hours on a wagon. I got a lot of time to think about my decision. Getting there. You know, now it's like, dude, you want to sin? You wanna you wanna be lazy? It's like you could sit at home, collect a government check, sit on your cell phone on Instagram, live vicariously through someone else and never chase your dream because you're so comfortable. Are you happy? No, and so the matrix has made it so easy to just be mundane and normal. You're not normal, my fellow humans. You are made to be great, you are made to be a creator, you are made to do hard things, you are made to overcome obstacles. And when you face that dragon and you're like, I'm gonna do hard things, what is the what is the hardest thing that I need to do? And I know I should do it, and I know it's just dang hard, and you face that first. And even if it's 1% better, I don't care if you if you're sick and you've set a goal to go to the gym every day and you're sick, go to the gym, sit in the parking lot, or go in the gym, walk in the gym and sit there and sweat in a sweatsuit. You know, I I had shoulder surgery and I made a commit myself. I'm going to jujitsu. I couldn't train. So I started going to the jujitsu gym and I would just literally sit there in my ghee and smell the mats. I might not, but I'm still there. I might not be training, but we do these things that are hard and we face the hard things, and society's constantly telling us how to be comfortable, be comfortable. But yet you've got Marcus Aurelius, one of the greatest stoic philosophers, sleeping on a stone-cold floor, and he was the ruler of the world, and he wanted to know what his lowliest subject, the lowest, the poorest person in his kingdom felt like. So he would sleep on the floor. And at the time, if if the Senate knew what he was doing, they probably would have got rid of him and had him killed. You know? And so it's so easy for people to just fall into the mudaine and get out of a state of creativity because 80% of what they're thinking is native, and it's just like, oh, I can't do this. So they've got to break the brain track, they've got to dig into themselves and say, you know what? I can be great. I can do this. And it's just it starts slow, it doesn't happen overnight, but once it gets momentum and you get in a true rhythm, that's why B7 is so powerful. Is once you know the intention of that day and you leave you live it four four times each day, which is 28 days, my goodness, you are just you just you you'd be blown away on the opportunities to thank people on Thursday. You'd be blown away by the inspiration you get from being in a quiet place for hours and just sitting there listening to birds. When do when do leaves open up and take in moisture and dew? Do you know that leaves only wake up and their pores open up to the sounds of songbirds in the morning? Every morning. When do the melody of birds happen? Early in the morning, because the dew, the the light moisture on the leaves, and that takes in the moisture of the day because that beautiful rhythm, that beautiful song of birds in the morning. But yet, how many of us human beings just hit the snooze button again and again? I'm gonna sleep this one off. I'm tired. I'm tired, dude. I take naps, Omar. I'm gonna sleep in the next life. I don't have time to sleep. I take naps, little five-hour, six-hour naps. And other than that, I'm on full throttle. I'm hitting the whoop section. Let's go, fourth gear. I'm ready.

Fast Mind Shifts Plus Next Steps

SPEAKER_01 53:59

David, what's one mind shift?

SPEAKER_00 54:01

Set shift that can change someone's life instantaneously like that.

SPEAKER_02 54:09

Oh, I mean, there's so many, but I I we've we've talked about it, and I I would say the thought of what's possible, gratitude. To never allow yourself to think I can't get through this.

SPEAKER_03 54:26

There's so many people that are stuck right now, Omar. They're they're stuck in a job they don't like, they've got they have to do this, they think they have to do that. That you don't have to do anything, you choose. And so that that that extreme ownership and learning to be grateful with what you do have, it'll it allows you to open up the state of creativity. Gratitude creates openness to the mind and actually helps you with creativity. You can't be in a state of creativity when you're negative.

SPEAKER_01 55:01

Amen, brother. What's one thing people need to stop doing immediately to stop just living this mediocre life? Two things.

SPEAKER_02 55:11

I'm gonna give you two. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 55:13

Awesome. I'll take them.

SPEAKER_03 55:15

Okay. Tell people, tell less people about your dreams unless they want your your ultimate success. I'm talking about your real baddies, your real close people. Um my grandpa used to say, you're you'll know you're successful when you're just as happy about someone else's success as your own. Okay. And believe it or not, when you go around bragging about all the things you're gonna do in your life, you get addicted to just talking about what you're doing, and people are like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that negative energy rubs off on you. So don't go around telling it, telling everybody your dreams. Don't throw your ideas, don't, don't cast your pearls before swines. Okay. Keep your cards close to your chest and work really, really, really hard and believe in those dreams and only tell those people that you know would be absolutely extremely joyful and happy when you accomplish them. Because you are gonna accomplish them. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 56:13

That's that's that's a real, real, real huge one.

SPEAKER_00 56:20

So no, David, if someone listening feels stuck, overwhelmed, unsure where to begin, what's the very first step they should take right now?

SPEAKER_03 56:34

First step they should take right now is go to my Instagram and follow, follow me on Instagram, and I will send them a free digital copy of my book. If they go to David Fulmer Official, that's D-A-V-I-D, F-U-L-L-M-E-R official, David Fulmer Official, and they message me there and and and hit a follow. I'm gonna send them a digital copy of my book. Please just read the book, go through the steps outlined in the book. This is very simple, and it will be your road to absolute extreme accountability and success in your life.

SPEAKER_01 57:14

Amazing, brother. You've been living in service. Now, how do we find the physical copy of Becoming Seven, the soup, the superhuman rhythm?

SPEAKER_03 57:24

So you can go to the website, which is davidfulmer.com. You can go to my Instagram handle I just gave you, and it's the same on TikTok, David FulmerOfficial. Um, Instagram again, David FulmerOfficial, and then DavidFulmer.com. You can there's a link there to Amazon, but it's on Amazon Becoming Seven, the superhuman rhythm. Um, you can ship it over, and then yeah, it's it's it's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 57:50

So yeah, brother Mahalo.

SPEAKER_03 57:55

I know you're aloha, my friend.

SPEAKER_01 57:58

Let's go. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 57:59

You

Where To Get The Book

SPEAKER_03 58:00

like my shell neck because I know this is just audio, but you like my shell necklace.

SPEAKER_01 58:04

Brother, I thought that's what used to we're talking about vibration and talking about reggae. Brother, we're we're kindred spirits, man. People need to listen to more reggae and change their vibrations. Thank you for the time. Thank you for the opportunity. I know it's early there, and I know you're gonna crush today, just like you crush every day, because every day's a gift. Thank you for the time. Thank you for the opportunity, brother. Yay, thank you, Omar. Aloha, buddy.