#388 - "MOMENTUM🌊, In LIFE.."

What if the smallest possible step could flip your whole day? That’s the spark behind this conversation, where a single cue from jiu-jitsu—keep moving—turns a frustrating slump into a surge of momentum you can actually feel. We zoom into the mechanics of motion: how constant movement on the mat translates to sharper focus, faster feedback loops, and better results in creative work, trading, and daily habits.

I share how the 1% better rule reached a milestone at day 100, and why that marker mattered more than I expected. The best roll I’ve had in training didn’t come from brute force; it came from continuous adjustment, patience, and presence. Those same principles helped fuel an early start, a profit in day trading, landing a new comedy job, deep study, a long rehearsal, and a string of finished podcasts—all without the burnout spiral that usually follows a forced grind. Instead of seeking giant wins, we break down how micro-actions reduce friction and compound into a flywheel of results.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, you’ll hear an honest look at slipping standards and the mindset shift that jump-starts a restart. Jiu-jitsu becomes more than a sport—it’s a balance tool and a metaphor engine. Stay active, improve position, conserve when needed, and explode with intent. These simple, durable principles help calm mental noise and convert scattered effort into focused progress across health, work, and creativity.

Take a breath, pick the smallest next action, and push the car out of neutral. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who needs a nudge today, and leave a quick rating or review to help more people find it. What’s your next 1% move?

Chapters

• 0:07 Defining Momentum
• 0:21 Eddie’s Advice On Constant Movement
• 0:51 Day 100 And The 1% Rule
• 2:12 Turning Small Wins Into Big Push
• 3:14 From Slump To Spark
• 4:16 Jiu‑Jitsu As Life’s Balance
• 5:14 Practice What You Preach

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:07

Momentum. You know, it's a funny thing because recently I have been uh slacking, not on purpose, but I just had a lot of different stuff going on. And um, shout out to Eddie. I had a uh great Eddie is a black belt at this place that I trained jujitsu at called Silverback Jiu Jitsu. And um, one of the last times that I rolled with him that I trained with him, he told me I have to always keep moving. And I always think that you can can and do apply jujitsu to your other aspects of life. And jujitsu really is the balance for me, but my point is this it's a lot harder to move something than to keep something moving. If a car is in neutral and you push it, it's a lot harder to start pushing it than to keep pushing it. So my point is I took Eddie's advice, applied it not just towards jujitsu yesterday, had the best round of jujitsu I ever had with him in my life. And today, I have this thing where I basically say that if you're just 1% better every single day in a hundred days, you'll be a better version of yourself. And I live by that. It's part of what I live by, right? And it's true too. But the thing is, is that today actually marks day 100. And I took what he said, and even though I already knew it, it was like instilling it, right? In the physical form when I was training yesterday, and I had constant movement. It was the best role that I ever had with him, best training I ever had with him, right? But when you'd apply that simple concept and philosophy that I already live by, just seeing it heard to me, I mean, hearing it heard to me and seeing it in the physical form, training jujitsu, made me it really just sparked another great physical imprint and memory as far as what I need to do more in life, which is create movement as in jujitsu, as in life. Momentum, it's a hell of a thing. And if you keep moving forward, if you don't have time to do a whole exercise, do a little bit of something. Because a little bit of something is a lot better than nothing and putting it off till tomorrow. And the more waves in the ocean that you can make, the more momentum that you can get, the better you're gonna be off. So today I've already exercised, I day traded, I made a profit, I got a new comedy job. I'm super pumped about that. I studied more comedy, uh, organized, rehearsed over an hour, and I'm just getting started. Today, I shot out of bed at 2 45 in the morning like I was a damn arrow. I just sprung out of bed. I was motivated, and it just hit me because today is day 100, and it's a physical mark as far as how I should be always. But man, I really needed it. I really needed it because I have not been doing good. I've been doing worse than bad, if that's even possible. And um, it's gonna be easier tomorrow. But tomorrow, you still got to push the envelope. It'll be easier now that I'm creating movement. It'll be easier now that I have momentum of such a great day today to make tomorrow even better. Because just like I said, your life, it's kind of like a car. It's a lot harder to push if it's in neutral. But once you start pushing it, everything gets easier. So, shout out to Eddie again. I really appreciate that. Not just what he says, but what others say, jujitsu in general, it really to me, it's always been my balance. It gets me out of my mind and I apply it towards my life, and it helps me stop thinking about comedy, start stop thinking about other things. And you have these great life lessons because when someone's attacking you or you're trying to learn something, or you're being strategic, and you combine it all together, that's jujitsu. Okay. And that's what I use to help calm my thoughts. And it make, and when I stop thinking about the other things and I come back to it, I don't just have a break from it mentally, but I can I can take what I learned and say, hey, I can use this, what I learned metaphor-wise in real life, I can apply it towards other things. And another thing that I always say that I always live by is always moving forward. But sometimes to hear something that you live by, have you ever heard of that phrase, like practice what you preach kind of a thing, you know? Don't be a hypocrite. To hear it said back to you, he said it in one way, but I thought of it, not just in the way that he said, but I thought about it in other ways, in the ways that I have been slacking. And it meant so much to me. Um, and I it just I'm I'm on fire. I'm doing great. I'm super pumped, I'm super motivated. And uh that being mentioned, I have to get off because I got more stuff to do. But this is number five podcast that I've caught up on and done today. So I'm gonna edit this, finish this, work on some more stuff with my organized list and get after it. Y'all have a beautiful day. I'm binge well done, check me out.