Ep.025 - Life Is Like Seasons: Stop Expecting Summer All Year

You’re not stuck… you’re just in the wrong season.

In this episode, we break down why most people feel lost, burnt out, or behind, and it’s not because they’re failing, it’s because they’re expecting constant growth, constant motivation, and constant results.

Life doesn’t work like that.

Just like sport and business, life move in cycles: Pre-season. In-season. Off-season.

The problem? Most people don’t know what season they’re in so they quit in pre-season, burn out in-season, and feel guilty in off-season.

This episode will change how you see progress, energy, and success.

If you’ve been:
- Feeling stuck
- Burnt out
- Questioning your direction
- Feel like quitting

You don’t need a new plan, you need to understand your season and structure accordingly. 

No excuses.
No limits.
Let’s go.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Welcome to Beyond Limits. This is episode 25. Yes, 25. This is the podcast where we push further, dive deeper, and we go beyond limits. My name is Casey. My name's Jordan. And yeah, Ep 25. Today we are going to talk about, I don't know, pretty cool topic, I reckon. Pretty pretty good topic in terms of understanding where you're at. It's going to be on about seasons. Periods and seasons of your life where you know, just like summer, winter, spring, autumn, different seasons, whether you're an athlete, whether you're a business owner, whether you're going through personal development, whatever it is, there's always different sort of seasons that you go through in life. So we kind of want to, you know, give you some actionable steps to kind of understand where you're at. A lot of people, a lot of people get stuck thinking that they should be in a different season, but it's about having that self-awareness and understanding that sometimes the results don't always come. So you might not be in the right, you might not be in the season you think you are. Yeah. So we'll kind of just talk on a few little things. It's going to be a nice short, sharp episode.

SPEAKER_00 1:32

Yeah. And it's a good one to talk about, bro. Like, and I think, especially in the self-development space, uh, Tony Robbins talks uh a lot about um pattern recognition, which can then be translated into seasons, what we're about to speak about. And just recognizing the patterns. Um if you look at what's going on now, we've got world wars going on, we've got economic breakdowns in the stock market, we've got a bunch of different things. But I think when you look back to uh what you just said in terms of seasons and how we talk about individual seasons, the what's happening now is not new, if that makes sense. Yep. These are all just trends, seasons, patterns. History repeats itself. It's all just over and over. So I think it's really good that you touched on um some work-ons because when when people don't understand what seasons they're in, they can be governed by fear uh instead of opportunity or instead of understanding where they are in regards to what's happening. And there's it's it's a it's a good thing to to really recognize where you are. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

Yeah, that's right. I think that's a great point. It's um a lot of people get stuck thinking that you know you should be making money all the time, you should be seeing that progress all the time, uh, but that's just being stuck in the wrong season. Like, you know, there's periods of time where that comes, we can call that summer. That's when you know all the the sun, the sun is shining, the rainbows are going. Uh, but then there's the periods of winter when you're sort of hustling and grinding and working your ass off, but you're not actually seeing those physical results that are coming through. Um, it's like the doom and gloom times, and that's where most people quit, I think, is the winter period. 100%. It's the point where people don't see the results, so they kind of go, Cool, whatever I'm doing's not working, and they actually stop and quit. Yeah, um, but that's the season where you've got to keep grinding and going hard, and then you see all the fruition come through into summer. But um safe. I think a really great analogy around seasons is sports. Yeah. You know, in sports, you've got different seasons that you go through, right? You're not always in peak season all year round. If you're in peak season, it's like sprinting. You can't sprint forever. It's about having an understanding that you have your seasons. You've got pre-season. Um, pre-season's the time for you know, building, putting all the hard work in. It's doing all the work where no one sees, which builds your character, discipline, and everything that does come to light when you are in the you know in your peak season. Um, you've got your season.

unknown 4:01

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 4:01

That's when everything comes to light, all the hard work that you've done starts to come to fruition, whether it's making the money, whether it's um, you know, all the all the accolades and achievements that that follow through from all the hard work in the preseason come to light. Um, that's what people see. And then you've got postseason, you know, you make the final series. That's what everyone wants to do. It's all the hard work really comes to light at that point. Yeah, um, and then you've got off-season as well. It's a time for the re rest and recovery, and it's the time to rejuvenate your kind of energy.

unknown 4:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

And I'd say that's a really good way to break it down. I think it's very simple to for people. And if you're breaking it down into let's just say um a business, uh, if it's a business, you know, there's there's times where you've got to understand, are you in a growth period? Or are you in a sorry, are you in a building phase where everything else doesn't matter besides building that business? And understanding, you know, is that is that what you're here to do? Because I think it's yeah, that's the most important part, because if you're in a growth, if you're supposed to be in season or and you're taking the foot off the gas, that's where a lot of people get confused because it's like, well, if you're in season, you're playing hard. And then if you've if you're getting to a point where nothing's really working, you're burning out, you're getting tired, all this sort of stuff, it's uh you could be having to step back and go into a bit of a uh an off-season. Off season doesn't mean you stop doing what you're supposed to be doing, it just means you recalibrate. Yeah, you're thinking about all right, how do we move it another way? And um, I think it is really important. And if we look at it from a personal point of view in terms of season and we'll go into you've got like and you've got your expansion, you've got contraction as well. Let's talk about it from a a point of um this one's gonna be a bit deeper, I think. Like you always hear a lot of the time where people are like, oh, you're always overworking, or like, are you gonna you know, are you gonna get into relationships or do all this sort of stuff? I think when you sorry, I think when you understand what season you're in, like and it's and you're in and you've got a big priority on what you want to achieve, it's very easy for you to to block out what's not necessary, if that makes sense. Yep. And obviously if you're you know, you've just started a family, is it the best thing to be you know flying and trying to build a business from scratch? I would say no. But if you're in a position where you're trying to grow something hard, then you go hard. That makes sense. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Yeah, 100%. And I think also on off-season, it's also um a lot of people will be like uh the off-season I've slowed right down, and I'm not actually making any progress. It's still taking those being disciplined enough to keep it going and keep it tracking, but it's not actually weakness to slow down and rest and recover, it's freaking needed, yeah. And like we can relate that back to what we did at the end of last year, if you remember, we were freaking hustling, we were in like a reaction mode. Um, I reckon that was like a peak season for us. We were just freaking getting it done, not only in the podcast, but we had all these other things going on with for me, videography with business and work and all these other things, and so did you. And then we had took that time to kind of jump into an off-season where we actually sat back, rested, rejuvenated, but that gave us opportunity to strategize for the pre-season, which we've just gone through, and now I feel like we're in like a peak season now where we're sort of just nailing it, getting it on. We've got to perform, we've got to hit hit the target.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

100% and it's a really good point too, because I think we're we're in that hustle culture of not understanding the off-season, and we've been guilty of it too, where you know you want to push, push, push, push, and um, and not like we're we're not talking about balance because obviously I I think when you're striving for something, there is no such thing as balance, yeah. Um, but there is something as recovery, yeah, which is different. So, like you said, it's just it's the ability to actually step back and recalibrate, which is very important. Uh, in the hustle culture we have now, everyone you've thinks you've got to be 100 miles an hour every single day. Yeah, yeah. Um, and unfortunately, the human uh the human mind and the body doesn't operate that way. No. And I want to talk about two add in really quickly two different seasons, so seasons, and like this from Bedros Cullen, which is really cool, because really understand that as a human, regardless of people you look up to and high performance and all that sort of stuff, there's also two seasons called the winning season and the losing season. And uh the winning season is when you've done the uh the pre-season well and then you're in the play and you everything's clicking, everything's going well. And that's naturally gonna happen for everybody. You're always gonna go through winning seasons where you're signing heaps of clients, or you're whatever you're you're getting promoted at your job, or you're you're whatever it is, like you're you're doing so many great things. You've got to understand there can't be a winning season without a losing season. And the losing season where I find a lot of people get stuck or they give up or they quit is natural as well. You know, and that losing season can be the point where the leads aren't coming through, or you know, you're a bit off with the training, or you know, the your job's getting harder and harder and you're getting stuck. And you've got to understand that's natural too. Everybody goes through that. It's about when you are in the loot, when you're in the when you're in the winning season, how do you keep the momentum going? And when you're in the losing season, making sure you don't prolong the the losing season and how do you get out of it faster? Because it's gonna come, it comes for all of us, it comes for everybody, like no one's we're not perfect, like we've lost a lot. Um, but I think it's that's a really good part to to think about for seasons two. You're not always gonna be up. There's times where you're gonna fucking crash hard and go down, but how do you get yourself out of that faster? How do you recalibrate and keep moving forward? I think that's just a really cool point to touch on. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 10:05

No, it's valid. I like it. And it's um again, that's why I mentioned before at the start was kind of people quit in that winter season, right? When things get tough, when things get hard, they don't see the progress. That's when people button off and and quit. Um, but the only time you fail is when you quit. 100%. Like as long as you keep going, you keep making steady progress, you keep putting in the actionable steps that's required to get to the position you want, as long as you continually do that, you'll never fail. Like you'll never lose. 100%, man. Um, but it's a way it's not always easy in the moment, right? Like it's difficult when you are going through that period because it's um you just feel like whatever you do, nothing's working, nothing's progressing. But I think a great tip in that is not always attaching yourself to the outcome or goal, yeah, but really like anchoring yourself into the process that's required to get to that action, or I mean to get to that goal. 100%, bro. Um so I think we'll touch on like a little five-step framework on just on how to acknowledge the seasons you're in, and then how to utilize each kind of season to be able to kind of progress and uh move forward the best that you can in those in those sessions. So, framework well, step one is acknowledging what season you're in. So, really um stepping back and understanding and asking yourself a few questions like do I feel do I feel refreshed or do I feel drained with doing whatever it is you're doing? Am I learning or am I executing? Am I building or cashing in? Do I feel pressure or am I reflecting? Um so a few little good questions to ask yourself to understand, you know, which season you're in. If you're learning and with low results, then that's like your pre-season. That's kind of you setting up, getting ready to take action and really reap the rewards. Um, if you've got high output and a lot of pressure, that's when you are in season. That's when you're actually putting through everything you've learned and putting putting it through. And then you've got low output but reflecting, that's your off-season, that's your time to recover, sit back, rejuvenate. I actually heard a really great quote and I freaking love this. It stuck with me. Denzel Washington, he's got he's got a great life philosophy. I don't know if you've seen any of his content. But he's a man, he's got some great wisdom that he shares. And he said, Life separated into three stages, in this case, three seasons. And he's like, first, you learn, second, you earn, third, you return, so you pay it all back. And I was like, dude, that's that's mad. I love that. That's mad. That's like what life is. It's you go through your learning phase, then you take your earning phase, and then you do your return phase, and you help others do the same. Awesome, bro. Um which is cool.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Yeah. Perfect, bro. And and that's the that's step one, recognizing where you are. Yep. Because uh a lot of the time, too, and this is just from an energy standpoint, if you're if you're at a different season and you're trying to be in another season, you're gonna lose a lot of energy. So if you're trying to if you're trying to build something really hard or something really big, but you haven't done the pre-season, that's gonna be a tough season. That uh that in season is gonna be tough. But if you've done a strong pre-season and then you're heading into season where you're building, same thing as well, is if you try to go back and you keep trying to learn and learn and learn, you'll limit it, you'll never execute. And then so like it's very important. So it's like, or if you're in a season and then you're trying to rest when you're actually in the peak, you're gonna kill your own momentum. Yeah, so it's uh that's it's it's very important to understand. And and Casey touched on it as well. You gotta understand when you're in that, whatever season you're in, once you've understood what it is, lean into it. If you're in if you are in season, you've done the research, you're building stuff, go fucking hard. Because there will you know exactly when to to to get on you when you're on off-season. That makes sense. Um, but yeah, that's great, great, um, great steps.

SPEAKER_01 14:02

That's perfect, bro. Well, that segue is perfectly into kind of step two. It's understanding the season rules. Yeah. So in this case, you've got pre-season, in-season, and off-season. Um, so pre-season rules is focus on reps, not results. Yeah. So again, that's detaching yourself from the the goal, the outcome, and really getting stuck into the process that drives that outcome. Um, fall in love with that, fall in love with the process. Say yes to growth and being patient. Beautiful. Um, a lot of people get stuck in that season where they feel like they're behind, they're not progressing, but really that's the learn phase. That's um when you're actually building the skill set, building the knowledge, whatever it is required to take you into the in-season. Uh, in-season rules is the you know, that's where you execute. Don't overthink, you've done all the learning. You obviously need to reflect whatever it is, but you just execute. Do, do, do, do, do, take action, take action, take action, take action. Yeah. Um, that's where you really need to sort of just double down, keep that momentum building. Um, and that's where, like, you know, that's where you get paid. Yeah. That's where the the results of everything you did through the learning phase or the preseason phase, that's where that all comes to light. Yeah. Um, then your off-season rules is you can rest without guilt. That's the time for reflection, that's the time to sit back, that's the time to recoup your energy, look at what happened through the peak season, what went well, what didn't go well, where do I need to adjust, what do I need to do? And then you go back around and the loop starts again, back into pre-season, learning from that phase, back into peak, and then it's just a recycled loop. 100%, bro.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

That's and that's such a great way to well, we we just touched on it before, and you know, there's a lot of key points in there. Um, and we really double down on like if you you can see a lot of guys, like a lot of people struggle because you nailed it, it's reps, reps, reps, reps, reps. If you jump seasons and you haven't done the reps, you know, that's when you that's when you're gonna feel the most frustrated and stuck. Because you know, you're entering without doing the reps, or and then you're gonna be stuck in between seasons because then you can go back, forth, back, forth. Yeah, where it's like do a strong pre-season, then you're ready to play. Once you're ready to play, then it's repetition, push through. And I think um I want to really touch on the off-season just for a bit. Yeah, because I think everybody gets everybody's in information overload and stuck in the pre-season and the and the hustle mode. Off season, and I'll touch on a personal one because I struggled for years to accept an off-season. Yep. To be like, fuck, I'm not moving, so I'm like, yeah, I'm uh I'm not moving, so I'm not doing anything, I'm failing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna and I reckon from May last year, we're still getting a lot done. I made it a conscious choice to actually reflect a lot more. So when I was in New Zealand and went back for my nan's funeral and got to see my dad's grave and stuff like that, and it was a time to actually where I actually really just stopped. Like um still doing things, but I was like, do you know what? I'm gonna take some time. You know, I've been pushing it for the last four years, and bro, that was the biggest. And for the next couple of months, I was like recalibrating, thinking about I'm gonna execute things differently, and and stopped with like a lot of social media and all different things. Best thing I ever did. Um, and allowing myself to step back and and and um recalibrate and look in and look inward a lot more and just be like you know the world's gonna keep going. You know, do I feel happy with where I am? Am I energized? Am I draining exactly what you said? And then it's like it gave me another burst of energy to to re-enter the the on the uh the season again. Yeah, um, and I think for guys like that you've gotta you have to learn to not the word balance, but you have to learn to slow down when need be. Um I think balance when going for something big is unattainable, um, and that's just the way it is. Yeah, agreed. But rest recovery is important, they're two different things. Um so I really like that idea of the off-season. So I think we do speak to about we we do cater to a lot of high performers and entrepreneurs and stuff like that. And um, I think it's very important to really step back, recalibrate. Yep. Perfect.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

That makes sense. Yeah, fully agree. I'm the same. I know, like for me, getting away and surfing in the ocean, that's a small little way for me to recalibrate my kind of energy levels. Stepping away, taking that little moment just to be in nature, be in the water, surf some waves, and then come back, and then I just feel refreshed and rejuvenated. And it's um sometimes you feel guilty because you're like, man, I got my to-do list is so long, and then you go and step away for a day, half a day, or whatever. Um, and that's just a little reset that I have within sort of bigger time frame resets. Um, but step three and step four kind of will touch on them together. Um, it's about setting time frames for your seasons. So obviously, relating it back to like a sporting analogy, we'll just go to NRL, for example, rugby league. They're they basically work on yearly time frames. So you've got your pre-season at the start of the year, and then you've got your in-season throughout the middle of the year, then you've got your off-season at the back end of the year. Um, but you need to understand what it is you're trying to achieve and what you want to work towards, and then figure out the time frames that you need to put onto that. So there's times, you know, where you have your build season, your perform season, um, and your recovery season, but tailor that to whatever it is that you're trying to achieve, whether it's in a business, whether it's in sports, whether it's in your job, whatever it is that you're driving, your family, yeah, correct. Whatever it is, make sure you understand the time frames around that. And then the other thing, which is step four, is energy. You kind of touched on it before with going back to New Zealand and recuperating and um coming back with a whole lot of new energy, but you need to understand how to manage your energy. Um, because a lot of people go time management, but people forget about energy management. Yeah, nice. And you know, energy management is just as important, if not more important, than time management. Um, like if you have no energy, then you can't learn, build, earn, recoup, you know what I mean? So it's about controlling those two factors and understanding where you are. So self-awareness, and a word that I learned this week, which that's people probably know it, but I seen it pop up and it was, I'm gonna say, metacognition. Yeah, and I was like, what the hell does that even mean? I heard someone say it. So I started looking into it and I was like, dude, I love that word. Metacognition is thinking about thinking, it's self-awareness and it's understanding your ability to like retain information, it's um understanding your strengths and weaknesses and where you're at and your ability to um discern certain things within your own brain. So it's thinking about thinking. And I love that word because it's metacognition. Yeah, bro. Awesome.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

There we go. That's uh that's the word that's the word of the day, metacognition. No, but that's bro, it's it's uh it's like you said, it's uh um it's it's such a key thing to uh it ties back to what you said, you know, thinking about thinking, um, there's a lot of things going on at the moment too with the a lot of people are stuck in the thinking phase and not the action phase. So that's where you've got to understand the season. Because uh I saw like it was a really good quote as well where it's like people are addicted to people are addicted to um people are addicted to learning, allergic to action. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, you've got to understand that it's like most of the time people know enough, yeah, and then it's execution. So don't get stuck in this uh a season for too long as well. Like you said, understand the seasons, and you know, we live in a world we're flooded with information, so it's like you know, once you've some people know enough and it's then it's time to go, go time. Um I'm not Sure, and and in terms of one thing I wanted to notice to say as well is um yeah once you've identified that season go hard. Like really rip into it. Um and I think it's you've got to understand yourself really well too. Um, you know, whenever you're in your season, have the ability to remove what's not necessary and also you know, just understand it's not gonna last forever. That's a great point. And I wanted to touch on something really clean too. Like if we talk about where we are as a as a as a race, um, and we talk about the it's gonna go a bit left field, but it's gonna make sense where you talk about there's a difference. There's obviously single, you're building a business, there's family men, there's all this family women, all this sort of stuff. If you're alone and you're worried about like what the family man has, but you've also got a business, take that as a win. You've got f all the energy in the world to go into a season to build yourself however you want, if that makes sense. You're not actually at a loss, you're at a position in life where you can pour every bit of ounce of energy into yourself, and the rest comes, and vice versa. You know, I was having a chat to to friends and family about you know their family and stuff like that, and they still have they still have drive to want to to build more. And I would say, but you're in a you're in a position of you're in the off-season now where it's time to you know sit back a little bit and enjoy the family time, which they understand, but they're still trying to get into the other seasons. Does that make sense? Yeah, and that's that's that's that's the best breakdown. You know, I work with single women, single men, single women, they're like, Oh, but I want I want that. Yeah, like, yeah, but this is your time. You've got unlimited energy and to do you. Yep. Vice versa. I'm like, bro, this is your time to to to reap the rewards and the benefits of working really hard and having a family unit. You know, you're in the off season. But that's a good way to break it down. It's like, don't look to someone else's season, really look at what your season is and actually look at the benefits and strengths you have in your season. Yep. If that makes sense. Yep, that's perfect. That's step five. Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

So that's actually step five. So it's actually season misalignment, so it's consistently reminding yourself which season you're in. So don't try and, you know, if you're in the preseason, don't try and scale and build, it's going to create burnout. Or if you're in a phase where you are burning out, you're doing too much, maybe you've been in a season for too long. Yeah. So it's about understanding and reminding yourself regularly which season you're currently in and which actions you should be taking because of where you're at at that particular time. Um, perfect.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

That's a man, it's great to think like for everyone listening, really think about that. Think about where you are. Um and also be think about where you are and think about the the possibility of where you are. Um and you know, there's you like and also be you know, be grateful for where you are. Yeah. That's another one I think. Like be grateful for what season you're in. Like we always the like comparison's the thief of joy. You know, when you look at someone else's season, you you don't really realize how good your season might be right now. You know what I mean? Like society will always say to you've got to be in a relationship or you've got to do this. But realistically, that actually adds your it means you can go hard, really fucking hard without that, you know, without extra energy, without emotion, well, all that sort of stuff. So really look at that. The rest comes. The rest comes. And then for the other guys, you know, and women that have got something really great going on, you know, that want to be in the other season. Yeah, it's like, you know, you've got a you you've got something really great happening as well, you know, the family unit, all that sort of stuff, you know, enjoy that. There is no better time than the present. Yeah, you know, that's there is no better time. Um and remember, you're probably gonna look back and go, fuck, I wish I was still in that season. Like in the um, if that makes sense what I'm saying, but yeah, really understand the seasons you're in, guys, and and um that will help. That's why I think a lot of people get confused or burnt out or frustrated because they're trying to be in a different season they're in. You know, for the guys that are learning and you're in the preseason, enjoy the process. Because once that season kicks in, there is no slowing down. But just enjoy that time learning and and developing and building and understand that's that's one of the most important pre-season. Like if you go back to a sport analogy, if your team doesn't prepare or you don't prepare, you're gonna get flogged by the teams that don't have. Yeah, especially when it's game day. Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 26:42

You haven't prepared to show up. Yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

What season you in, man?

SPEAKER_01 26:47

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

It's a bit of both.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Yeah, it depends. I've got um, I don't know, we spoke about it a bit earlier, but it's kind of I got a few things kind of working at the moment. So I'm in a building phase for some things, which is like a pre-season, and then I feel like I'm in a um a peak season for some some other things too. So kind of in different phases with different things, um, which is cool. Yeah, like it's okay to have multiple um multiple seasons, but if I would say overall in life right now, I'm in a preseason. Nice, bro. I'm in a pre-season, I'm doing a lot of learning, growing, um, a lot of setting up for what's about to happen. Nice, bro. Because I can see what's about to happen, but again, you kind of can't just I use the analogy a lot to people that want to like sprint, and it's it's like your car. You don't just wake up, you don't just wake up and you're driving 100k straight away, right? You gotta wake up, uh you've got to turn it on, you've got to let it warm up a little bit, then you click it over, and then you just sort of start off in gear one all the way to gear four or to gear five. Um, it's like your human body too, right? You can't just expect to start something and be in fifth gear cruising at 100 K straight away. You've kind of got to build up that speed of momentum to get to there. So um, for me, that's the preseason phase. How about yourself? Where are you? I'm in season. Where are you at right now? I'm in season, bro. You're in season? Yeah, yeah, nice.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

No, it's just everything has been a combination of where I'm at now, and um in terms of you know, the last 15 years have led me to the point of where my businesses are. You know, we're in five, four and a half years into modern mentality and SchmidtCon. Um, and yeah, we're in season. And I I do think this season's uh that we're looking at time frames and tracking. Um the plans and goals I have for scalability across both is I'm gonna be in season for a few years. Um and I love that challenge.

SPEAKER_01 28:44

That's good.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

And it ties back to sacrifice too, you know what we're saying. It's like what what have I had to stop to be in season um to push all the energy into that? And you know, and it's you know, for a lot of people that are in season and they think they're missing out or whatever, or they're not doing the right thing, it's like you know, you've got to do what's right by you. Um and it doesn't mean that you're mean to people or you do other things, but whatever season you're in, you've got to go all into that season. So I've understood what matters in this season, and you know, that's gonna come at the cost of potentially being single for a while, or do you know what I mean? Or um you know, missing out on things. But it's that's just the cost to to play a great game and to that's right. That's the cost to be good at what you do, um, is to to sacrifice the things that you want. Uh the things I think it comes down to need and want. You know, there's things that if you if you need something, it's probably not good. Where if you want, you know, you know, everything that I want to build in this is all a want. Yeah, I'm okay if it doesn't happen, but you know, I know who I am now, but all that sort of stuff. But yeah, I think it's when you understand exactly what season you're in to to really be a part of that season. Yeah. We keep saying season, but I don't know if that makes sense. But I'm definitely in um, you know, I've learned I learned the game, I trained hard, I'm playing in execution mode. Now I'm in execution mode, bro. So yeah, that this could go for a long time. Nice. That's good, that's great. Um, same with the podcast, bro. We're in we're in season.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

That's what I mean. In season, that's why I'm in I'm in season and pre-season with a few different things too. So yeah, I think you're in season, bro. Yeah, well I think you're in season. For some things, 100%. That's right. But yeah, no, it's exciting. Like it's yeah. Yep in the game. We always go back to that.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

You always, yeah, always see. Yeah, it's it's well the thing and the key to life for people, like when you're you you know, you've got to do what you you've got to do what's right by you. You know, and then everyone, everyone will always think, oh, that's selfish, but it doesn't mean you're selfish to people. It means you're selfish for you know your time and what you allow and you know what you give, like and that's that's gotta be done. Yeah. If you're in a season of fucking pure if you're in the season, yeah, you know, unfortunately, you gotta be in the season. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Yeah, that's right. And it's like I know you mentioned sacrifice a few times before, but I always think about the word sacrifice and what does it really mean. But it's like sacrifices trading something of greater value for lesser value. But when you actually make sacrifices, like building your future and your family's future, to you know, to me, doing that, it's not actually a sacrifice to let go of golf or surfing or something like that. Like, yeah, that stuff's really great to do, but I'm when people say, Oh, I'm sacrificing going to have a game of golf to go and build a future for my family, it's like, is that really a sacrifice? No, no, it's just yeah, okay, that's uh something you really want to go and do. But you know, at the end of the day, build for this, you can go and do that as much as you freaking like later on. 100%, bro.

SPEAKER_00 31:55

And and you nailed it. It's like, well, you look, we're in two different dynamics too. Like if you look at I get asked all the time, bro. I got asked on the weekend, I get asked by my aunties, it's like, oh, when are you gonna settle down? Like when you're like when are you when are you gonna get married and like all your cousins have kids, and like when are you gonna, you know, when are you gonna find a nice lady or something like that? It's like it's not that I don't want those things, I just don't need them, like right now. And that's the clear part. It's I'm not anti of that, it's just not the time. Like where, you know, I've it's one of those things where I did trial that and you know, it is what it is. But what you just said, it's like I'm never gonna get this time again. Like, and you know, my mentors have cleared that, like as a as a young, energetic, you know, single man, it's not about you know, obviously going out there and doing heaps of shit. It's about I'm never gonna what I mean is I'm never gonna have this much focus and time to really build a future for for what I want in the future, yeah, if that makes sense. Yeah. Because, you know, I I can I can be selfish because I don't have anyone like that I've got an answer to or to you know, but I think that ties all the way back to understanding what season you're in.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

Yeah, you know exactly which season you're in, and you know what it's time for, and you know what it's not time for. So um that's probably the biggest takeaway is the first thing is acknowledge where you are, understand what kind of season you're in, and then playing the right game suited to that season. Perfect. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

And and um just quickly to what you said, the off seasons, so like we we'll go back to that, it's so important. Like, how many times have you you know you've gone to go on holiday or you've gone to go somewhere that's supposed to be relaxing, and because you're in the wrong season, you don't even relax, like and you're away. Like that's like that's the thing too. It's like you know, you might go away and you're still stressed because you're like, fuck, I've got so much I need to do because you're in season. It's like it's pretty funny, but if that makes sense, like yeah, yeah. Where you want to get to that off season going, fuck I've had a crack, like this is mad, and then you're just like like I'm on I'm off season now. I'm like, I'm off season, I'm off season now. It's like do you know what I mean? Like hundred percent. And I think a lot of people get stuck in that where they'll be like they'll go on elaborate holidays and do things and they come back and they're even worse because it's like you're in you've you're in the wrong season, brother. Like that's a great point. Really sit in it because like people are like, Oh, I'm working like a dog, I'm going hard. It's like this is your season, bro. Like, don't take your foot off the gas, go fucking up.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

Yeah, the flywheel effect, eh? Once that wheel, you once you get that tourney, man, you want to keep that thing going and going and going. Yeah, bro. But yeah, that's um that was a great short, quick chat on seasons. How good?

SPEAKER_00 34:43

No, well, it's good, bro. Like, I think it's important. Like, listen to the steps, Casey just um like pointed out. Identify, understand, and be grateful. Um, be grateful in the process. You hear about it all the time. Enjoy the process. You know, these seasons uh they come and go, and they're gonna keep coming and going. And look at the season, what's going on right now around the world, that's a completely different season. That's just uh that's a trend that's been going on for history. But look at your internal seasons because your internal seasons won't match what's going on there, and when you try and marry them up to what's going on there, that's when you're gonna get confused, lost, upset, control things you can't. Um yeah. Nice.

SPEAKER_01 35:28

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