65: There Is No Tomorrow - The Right Time Is Always NOW

What if the only time you’ll ever have is now? We dig into a mindset shift that breaks the “I’ll start Monday” loop and replaces it with simple, repeatable actions you can do today. Drawing from Adam’s boxing past, hard-won weight loss, and a Rocky-fueled wake-up call, we unpack why waiting for perfect conditions is the fastest way to stall your health—and how doing nothing quietly makes everything worse.

Together, we dismantle the perfection trap that pushes busy people to go from zero to pro-level plans they can’t sustain. Instead, we map a staircase approach: move from 0% to 10%, hold it, then climb to 20%, 30%, and beyond. You’ll hear how to throttle effort through chaotic seasons without quitting, and how to surge when life steadies. The core principle is flexible consistency—progress that survives real life.

We get practical and specific. No gym? Walk after dinner or crush five minutes of push-ups and squats. No budget? Build meals with frozen vegetables, affordable proteins, and cheap fruit like bananas. No time? Add twenty minutes of sleep by cutting late scrolling. Hungry on the drive home? Skip the drive-thru and grab a rotisserie chicken and bagged salad. These micro-decisions are more than hacks—they’re votes for a new identity. Stack enough of them and your self-belief changes from “I can’t with this schedule” to “I take action even when life is messy.”

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Welcome & Purpose Of The Show

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Welcome to Live Transformed, the podcast from Transformed Health Initiative, where evidence-based truth meets real life transformation. Lead yourself, integrate health, value what matters, engage in the process. This is how you live transformed. And now here's your host, Adam Kelly.

The Mindset Shift: There Is No Tomorrow

Perfection Trap And All-Or-Nothing Thinking

Flexible Effort: From 10% To 90%

Practical First Steps On Any Budget

Stack Small Wins And Take Action Today

Closing Challenge And Encouragement

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What is up, all of my Live Transform people? Thank you for once again joining another episode of the podcast. It's a beautiful day outside. We're supposed to be around 75 degrees here in Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Moore area. Super excited about that. Get to get outside, get my steps in, all that good stuff. So um, but first, we are going to drop a new podcast episode today. So I'm actually recording this, editing it, and delivering it all today, just due to, you know, schedule scheduling this week. So no matter what, we get the work done and do what needs to be done. And I hope you're doing the same in your life, wherever you're at, and whatever you're doing. So this isn't going to be a very long episode. I don't really feel like it needs a lot of in-depth discussion, just maybe something to give you something to think about if you fall into this category of people that I'm about to explain. So, what I want to talk about is actually let me give you a little bit of context here of why I thought this would be something good to discuss on this week's episode. So I grew up myself actually probably around 18, 19. So technically grown, but I was still a child. Um, I got really big into boxing training. Like it was fascinating to me. I love hitting the bag. I loved, I loved the difficulty of the training and the intensity and being able to defend myself and all these things that I was gaining from it. And during that time of my life, I was in the process of losing over 100 pounds. And a bunch of that came through my boxing training that I was doing. So running, jump roping, you know, high-intensity interval training, sparring. You know, I joined a boxing gym for a bit where I was training, and um, I got to the leanest place I'd ever been in my life during that process. So that was great there. But um, during that time, I became a huge fan of the Rocky franchise. You know, the Rocky movies, hey yo Andrew! I was a huge fan. I'm talking like I literally watched the movies all the time. Um, one thing I would do is I would train twice a day every day, like seven days a week. Yeah, it was crazy and I regret it now. But hey, I was getting after it. I was lonely, you know, I was by myself, lived by myself, and just fitness was something I could always just engulf myself in to deal with my problems, or actually to run away from my problems, but I digress there. So being huge into these Rocky movies on my second workout of the day was always stationary bike cardio in my apartment. So I'd go home after work, I'd already lifted that morning, go home in the evening, hop on the bike, and usually ride for about an hour at least. Sometimes I'd watch a whole movie during that time. And so the Rocky movies were ones that I would watch all the time. I even like literally have the soundtracks on my MP3 player that I would run to and train to. Like I was all for it. And uh, I believe it was Rocky III, I want to say. You have this scene, and now you see it like in memes and like motivational songs and YouTube videos and stuff like that. But it's when Apollo Creed he decides to take on Rocky and train him how to beat um uh Master T. I think that's what his name is, what we call him. But, anyways, the big black dude with the funny haircut who, you know, end up being the result of Mickey, their Rocky's trainer, his original trainer dying from a heart attack. Uh, and then Rocky basically gets his butt whooped because his head is not in the fight and he got too cocky. And then you have Apollo Creed, who Rocky had actually beat in the movie before. Um, maybe I'm thinking Rocky too. Guys, forgive me, it's been a while. But, anyways, he had beat Apollo Creed for the championship in one of the epic boxing battles ever recorded. And at this time, Apollo Creed says, Hey, I'm gonna help you out. You know, I'm gonna take you back to where I started, back to the grassroots, and get that hunger back, you know, get that eye of the tiger back so that you can go fight this monster because you've become this watered-down champion who has been given cherry pick fights to keep your championship, and you've lost that edge that you beat me with. So he takes them on, takes them to the hood, to his old, you know, original stomping grounds, his original boxing, you know, facility that he trained, boxing gym that he trained at. So they're sparring and stuff, and Rocky just doesn't have his head in it. Like he's he's living in doubt and shame and guilt and lack of confidence and all these different things, and probably having a little bit of trauma from getting his butt beat. And they're in the ring sparring, and Apollo's just letting them have it. And Rocky's just like just going through the motions, getting tagged, pop, pop, pop, pop, over and over and over again. And Apollo Creed finally loses it, and he's like, Man, what are you doing? Like, what why are you not why are you not trying? Basically, you know, why are what what what is going on here? This is serious. And Rocky's like, oh, tomorrow, tomorrow. I'll do better tomorrow. I'll do better tomorrow. I'll do better tomorrow. And Apollo Creed says, No, Rocky, there is no tomorrow. There is no tomorrow. And then it shows a clip of Rocky looking in the mirror, and he hears that echo of Apollo's voice in his head saying, There is no tomorrow. There is no tomorrow. And guys, there's a reason why that's being used in different motivational videos and things like that, because that is a huge perspective shift that so many of us can apply to our own health and fitness and lifestyle journeys that we're on. And that's the fact that there is no tomorrow. And that's what I want to talk about today. There is no tomorrow, okay? So many people waste year after year after year saying when things are right, when the time is right, when my money's right, when my schedule isn't as busy, when I'm not as stressed, when I'm not hurting as much, when this isn't happening, that isn't happening, after I've graduated, after I have my career set, after I've done these things, then I'm gonna take my health serious. And how many times does that end up being a repetitive cycle, year after year after year, that leads to people never actually taking action? Or maybe they take action for a while, but they say, you know what, I can this this life is just too much. I'm a little bit overwhelmed, you know, this is new to me, and they haven't given the time to really grow their skill set when it comes to their health lifestyle. And so they're like, you know what, later on after things settle down, I know that I'll be able to do this because I can't do it under the currents, current circumstances. And again, that becomes a crutch and an excuse for so many people, including myself, for many, many years, to stay inactive and not take accountability and start doing what is needed to be done to accomplish what you know that you need to be accomplishing. And you can apply this to everything, even outside of health and fitness. That's what I love about the gym and health and fitness and nutrition and discipline and all these things, because everything that you learn by holding yourself accountable, doing the hard things, staying consistent, staying with the mundane, never giving up, you can apply it to every other area of your life. And it can help you excel in all other areas of your life. And like I said, so many people have this excuse in their head that when X, then Y. You know, when this is right, then I will do it. And I promise you guys, if you live by that mentality, you will die by that mentality, okay? Because the truth is, there is no tomorrow, okay? There is no guarantee that your current circumstances are gonna get any better or are gonna change in any way that's gonna put you in a better position later on down the road than you're in right now. Matter of fact, as time goes on, if we're not doing anything, we're getting weaker, we're getting sicker, our relationships are suffering more, our dedication to our career is suffering more, our character is suffering more. So many things will continue to get worse. They're not going to inherently get better. Okay, there's an old phrase that if you want to have a terrible lawn, just do nothing. Okay. Doing nothing is never a solution to make things better. Doing nothing always makes things worse. Okay, if you don't do anything to your yard, your yard is gonna look like crap because the nice yards are the ones that are taken care of on a regular basis. If you don't do anything for your house, your house will fall apart, the building will fall apart if you're not maintaining things. If you're not maintaining your car and doing what's required, getting the work done on it to maintain it, your car will fall apart if you do nothing. Okay, so we need to have a mentality shift here where we go from things will get better by doing nothing, to if I do nothing, things will never get better. Okay? Let that sink in, guys. Let me repeat that. If I do nothing, nothing is going to get better. Just reframe that a little bit. If I wait for things to get better, nothing will get better. Okay? Take that to heart. Things are not gonna magically improve just because some time goes by. Because even if you solve this one problem that you feel is in your way from taking action today, tomorrow is gonna come with its own host of problems. As the Messiah said in the scriptures, worry about today because tomorrow comes with its own stress, its own difficulties, its own problems. Focus on the now. What can you control right now? What can you do right now? Because tomorrow, number one, is not promised. And every day that we're doing nothing, we only can get worse by default. We have to actually take action. And I feel like a reason why a lot of people feel this way, that when everything is perfect, when everything is better, when this problem is solved, when this is no longer an issue, it's gonna be easier. I feel like there's good intentions there because most likely the reason why someone feels that way is because they've tried to do something before. And maybe the timing was really terrible. Okay, there are some circumstances in which timing just really is the problem. Don't let me don't take this as a blanket statement that, hey, you just got a cancer diagnosis. If you're not working out three times lifting, then you know what are you even doing? Okay, I'm not saying that there's not circumstances that happen in life that do prevent us from doing something, but most of us are blessed that overall on a day-to-day basis, we're not actually dealing with those types of circumstances, we're dealing with the normal stresses and day-to-day life stuff that most people are having to deal with, including the people that are doing things for their health. But if we've gone so many times into this all or nothing, 100% foot on the gas mentality of I've got to be perfect, I've got to do all these things, people get burnt out, and then they realize, well, actually, they don't realize this. What they should realize is that, hey, maybe I'm not going about this the right way. Maybe I'm being too strict, maybe I'm I'm putting too much on my plate, too many new responsibilities, and not giving myself the time to build up confidence and build up capability and build certain skills and habits that are going to make the more disciplined things easier when I get to that point. But most people just go from doing absolute nothing to trying to be 100% perfect in all aspects. They go from, you know, being sedentary, only getting 2,000 steps a day to they're gonna go running every day for cardio and they're gonna go lift five days a week, and they're gonna cut out all processed food and all sugar and all grains, and they're gonna make sure they sleep at least eight hours every single night. And then they realize I can't sustain this. This isn't even possible. And the fact is, nobody's sustaining a lifestyle like that. Unless you're a paid athlete and all you have to do all day is just work on your craft. If you have a family, if you have a job, if you have responsibility, the people that I'm actually talking to, then you don't have that luxury to do everything perfectly, nor is it required or necessary. It's a lot of wasted energy there because perfection is a myth. You're not gonna be perfect, and your plan shouldn't be set up to be perfect because it is, if it is, it's set up to fail because perfection is a myth. So I get why people do this because I've done it before, because I used to be the person that think if I can't be 100% in on something, if I can't be executing to the highest degree, then it's not worth me even doing yet. I'll do it when I can execute at 100%. But let me take the take the uh veil off of your eyes and be real with you right now. You're never gonna be able to be 100% on, you're never gonna be 100% perfect. Okay? Life is real, responsibilities are real, problems are real, difficulties are real. And if we're only waiting until we can be 100% on before we take action, we will never take action. We will never take action. But if you can realize if I'm at 0% today and I can go to 10% this week, I'm already winning. Things are gonna be changing and improving. And then guess what? When I've been able to maintain that 10% to where it's no longer I'm forcing it, now I can bump that up to 20%. Maintain that, I can bump it up to 30%, 40%, 50%, maintain that, and you guys see where I'm going with this. Eventually you get to the realistic 80 to 90% on, but you're not going from zero, so you're not forcing something. So now it can actually fit into your life regardless of what your life circumstances look like. And we have the ability to be flexible as humans to where some seasons maybe we're 60 to 70% on. You know, maybe it's the holiday season, maybe it's you know, vacation time, maybe it's you got a real big life stress or a big life change that's happening, but you can still be 60% on without overdoing yourself. And then some seasons you may be able to be 90, even 95% on. We're like, hey, life is predictable right now, everything's moving smooth, I'm gonna truly capitalize and I'm gonna lock in and go as hard as I possibly can until the point where I can't anymore because of life circumstances, and now I can dial back down to that 60%, but I'm still progressing and not regressing, even though it's at a different rate than when I'm able to be 90 to 95% on. So if you were to do that, just imagine the difference it's gonna make in your journey and in your progress. But as long as you're telling yourself, I need to wait until this, this, and this, you're never gonna actually do it. The chances of you actually doing it are very small. Let me reframe that. So focus on what you can control today and what you can implement today. Stop telling yourself I'm gonna wait till Monday, because you won't. You won't do it. Stop telling yourself, oh, when it gets closer to spring or summer, then I'm gonna because you won't. You'll be sitting there after summer, depressed, upset, lied to yourself again, failed yourself again, and just perpetuating this loser cycle and mentality that we cannot afford to live in anymore. Look, I know what it feels like to be frustrated with your health, trust me. To feel like you're doing everything right, but nothing seems to be sticking. That's why our coaching isn't about perfection. It's about building a system that works even when life gets messy. At Transform Health Initiative, we help busy adults rebuild their health, rewire their habits, and redefine their identity without shame, without overwhelm, and without starting over every Monday. If you're tired of trying to do it all on your own, we're here when you're ready. All right, back to the episode. So find what you can actually apply now, regardless of your circumstances. If you're if money is the issue and you can't afford a gym membership, or you can't afford to work with a professional like myself or one of our coaches here, or any coach anywhere, what can you do? Guess what? Going and walking around the neighborhood is free. Getting down and doing some push-ups and some body weight squats is free. It costs you nothing. Okay? If it's about, oh, I can't afford all organic food and the perfect whole foods and all this name brand stuff, then don't. Get you some frozen vegetables. They're cheap, highly nutritious. Get you some protein sources. It doesn't have to be the leanest. If you can't afford the leanest, it's fine. You can work your calories another way. Get you some, you know, uh frozen fruit or keep some fresh fruit, things like bananas that are extremely cheap. They're almost free. There's ways that you can work nutrition that's not limited by your income. If it's you know, you need you you know you need more sleep, but you don't have time to get more sleep. Well, can you add 20 minutes this week and and have the discipline to make it happen? Stop the scrolling a little sooner. There's so many ways that you can actually progress right now that doesn't require a lot of things. If time is the issue, I just don't have time to go work out three times a week for an hour. I don't have time to go do 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity as the CDC recommends or the the Heart Health Association recommends. Well, do you have five minutes of your day to do as many push-ups and body weight squats as you possibly can within that five minutes? Because guess what? That's gonna be a thousand times better than doing nothing and waiting. Do you have 10 minutes after dinner where you can go and get a fast-paced walk so you can knock out a bunch of steps in a quick amount of time? Can you get up five, ten minutes earlier? Can you go to bed five, ten minutes later, and instead of sitting there scrolling or sitting there watching the new Netflix episode, get up and move around. You see what I'm saying? There's so many different ways that we can incorporate things starting today, no matter what our what our structure looks like. And then as things do smooth out in life and we get a little bit more structure, we get a little bit more disciplined, then we can always do more. Okay? You can always do more later. But if you're waiting to do anything until later, the chances of you ever doing anything are very small. If you start doing something today and you build that consistency of what can I do today, each day that comes that goes by, what can I do today to get a little bit better or to keep a certain standard that I've set. When things do get better, it's gonna be a thousand times easier to just progress a little bit more than to start at nothing or to start at baseline. You're literally setting yourself up for success in the future. So, my goal and mission as a health coach is to help people see that their biggest limitation is not their circumstances, it's not their relationships, it's not their time, it's not their physical ailments, it's our mind. It's our mentality, it's how we see ourselves and what we can actually accomplish and achieve. This is coming from somebody who has been morbidly obese more than one time in my life. This is coming from someone who has had two spine surgeries that had me 90-95% bedridden for three years. This is not coming from somebody who's never experienced life and is just a 20-year-old personal trainer who is telling people how they need to be spending their time while I don't have any relatability to their circumstances. This is coming from somebody who is married, coming from somebody who has multiple children, one of them with autism. This is coming from somebody who is running a business. This is coming from somebody who has hobbies and dreams and goals and things that they like to do as well. I like to play a little video games here and there. I like to watch a movie here and there. I like to play with my kids, I like to go do things. This isn't coming from somebody who has it all together and whose life is perfect. And I'm like, hey, what is your excuse? You've got no excuse. You just need to get after it. That's not me, guys. I'm like you. I'm just a regular person who happens to have a love and passion and nerdy obsession with all things health and fitness and nutrition, and want to be able to provide an opportunity for people to experience the same benefit me and my life and the people around me have experienced from what I've learned and studied in and have practiced. So that when I say if I can do it, you can do it, I mean that. And your sers, your circumstances may be completely worse than mine. I totally get that. I train, I lift four to five times per week. I get in 10,000 plus steps per day. This is being in pain. This is why working full-time. This is why having a family full-time. I'm not saying that's what you should be doing. If the most you can do is just a few bodyweight squats and walk a thousand steps per day, then do that. Why would you not do that because you can't do more? Think how much sense that makes. That's like somebody who, somebody who is who is very, very financially unfortunate and all they can afford is like oatmeal for a meal every day because it's cheap, easy to make, all that stuff. But because that's all they can afford, they say, you know what, because I can't have more than this, I'm just not going to eat anything at all. I'm not going to eat any of the oatmeal because I can't have, I can't afford to have eggs with it. Like what? You're going to starve to death and die because you can't afford more when you at least have enough to do something with now? That would sound silly in that context, but this is the same context. Don't keep putting off what you can do now, hoping for a future hypothetical situation in which it's going to be easier to do more. Because I promise you, I don't care how perfect your life is, how much money you're making, how much time you have, transforming your health and taking care of your health is never going to be easy. It's not designed to be easy. Easy is what's killing us. Easy is what's have uh is what has us trapped in the situations that we're in right now. Easy is what has allowed us to waste 10, 20, 30, 40 years of our life trashing ourselves, treating ourselves like a trash can and like a bump in the road that doesn't move. And now we're forced to try to undo this or try to make it better. So we don't have tomorrow, guys. We have right now. That's all you will ever have. The past is gone, it doesn't exist anymore. The future hasn't existed, and it may never exist. Right now is the only thing. So even what I just said five seconds ago doesn't exist anymore. Right now. And right now. And right now. You see? All we have is now. What can you do right now? Could you be pacing back and forth while you're listening to this? Could you skip the drive-thru that you're about to stop at while you're driving home listening to this episode and run by the store and grab a rotisserie chicken instead? And a bag of salad. And you're gonna spend a lot less money. Spend the same amount of time. You don't have to prep, you don't have to cook, but you have a healthy meal that you chose. You have a win immediately that you chose. It's that simple, guys. An immediate win. And then you stack wins on top of that win. So you stop and get that rotisserie chicken and bag of lettuce, and you go home and you actually eat it. And then you say, you know what, instead of spending the next four and a half hours watching my favorite show, I'm gonna cut that time down, set myself a good bedtime, and go to bed on time so I can get a great night's sleep. That's another win. That's two wins that you can do right now on your way home from work while you're listening to this episode rather than making your situation worse because you couldn't go to the gym today. You see what I'm saying? Just trying to help, guys. I love you. I want the best for you. I want to see you succeed. And if you don't know what to do, you're not sure how to structure things, if this is overwhelming and it just still seems like it's too much, I totally get it. And I would love to help you. So you're welcome to reach out. We do online coaching, we do in-person training. We do it all, guys, and we're just here to help. So, with that being said, I said this would be short. It's under 30 minutes. So I didn't lie. But I hope this is helpful for you, and I hope you actually do something with it and not just let it be a good theory or good information that you're hearing, like all the other episodes, all the other podcasts that we listen to, and you actually apply this right now. What is one thing that you can do within the next five minutes that's going to have a positive impact on your health versus a negative impact on your health? Drink a glass of water, easy win. Get you a few steps in, easy win. Sit down on the ground and do some stretching, easy win. Knock out some body weight exercises, easy wins. Those wins compile and they become massive victories. So that's it, guys. I love you. In the meantime and between time, do something good for yourself, something good for your health, something good for those that you care about. And whatever you do, make sure you win on purpose and live transformed. We will talk at you next time.