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#1379 - Are You Using Your Imagination To Your Advantage?

• Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros

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In this captivating episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros dive deep into the power of imagination and its role in shaping alternative realities. They explore the remarkable ability we possess to envision things that do not yet exist and how this can be harnessed to our advantage, propelling us toward achieving our dreams and goals.

Join Kevin and Alan in this inspiring episode as they illuminate the path toward harnessing the limitless power of imagination. Discover how you, too, can expand your horizons, transform your life, and become the architect of your own extraordinary future. After all, as they remind us, everything we now experience was once just someone else's imagination.

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Show notes:
[1:30] Imagining a negative outcome
[6:09] You imagine things long before they come true
[8:43] You can’t want an outcome without what’s required of you to achieve it
[11:52] The bigger the goal, the longer it’s going to take to manifest it
[14:58] Visualize and emotionalize
[19:06] Tarryn host of The Business Of Happiness podcast shares her wonderful experience with Kevin and the Next Level Podcast Solutions team
[19:48] When you experience things, they become l

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Speaker 1:

When you climb a mountain, it's not that hard to imagine what climbing another mountain is like. Everything's different, of course, but you know kind of what it's like. You've experienced it. You emotionalize it. There's parts of you that understand at a deep level what it's all about.

Speaker 2:

I could have looked at that photo overlooking Arizona and being like, oh, i don't know, like that's really high. But I look it up and I go, oh, i've already climbed a mountain that big. I can totally do that, awesome. And so hopefully you can consistently expose yourself to these things.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to Next Level University. I am your host, Kevin.

Speaker 2:

Paul Mary And I am your co-host, Alan.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

We bring you seven episodes per week to help you level up your life, your love, your health and your wealth, self-improvement in your pocket, every day, from anywhere, for free.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to Next Level University, next Level Nation. Welcome back to another special episode of Next Level University, where we teach you how to level up your life, your love, your health and your wealth. We hope you enjoyed our latest episode. It was episode number 1378. You don't want to be the best person in the room. We went very deep on standards Today for episode number 1379,. Happy Monday.

Speaker 1:

Are you using your imagination to your advantage? As I mentioned in the previous episode, one of my favorite quotes is your reality becomes the parts of your imagination that you hold on to and pour into the longest. But how does it happen where people end up with a reality that they do not desire? I believe it's because they're imagining a negative outcome. I've been thinking of this for a long.

Speaker 1:

This episode in a nutshell, but just the thought behind it, where we all know somebody who is always thinking about the worst case scenario. They're thinking about what could possibly go wrong, they're thinking about all the things that could go wrong, and they kind of live their life that way, and then maybe you lose touch with this person or maybe you're not friends with them anymore. Whatever it is. They exit your life And when you check in on them you say, oh interesting, that really sucks for that person that they're where they are today. I wonder if that's one of the reasons why I used to.

Speaker 1:

I did a post very early in the hyper-conscious days where I said if you put as much conscious effort into solving your problems as you did that you use posting your problems on social media, if you just took the effort that it took to post about your problems on social media and put it into real life, you probably wouldn't have as many problems to post about on social media.

Speaker 1:

And that kind of is this episode in a nutshell where are you using your imagination to your advantage or are you using your imagination to your disadvantage? So, as you know, i got a new car recently and I don't really like talking about it that much because I don't want it to make it seem like that's why I got it, so I could talk about it, and I don't. You know I have a weird thing with sounding arrogant. I don't want that to be the case, but the reason I ended up getting that car is because I went to Podfest, a large podcast festival. I was on one of the panels and the car I rented was BMW And I was like, oh my God, this is amazing. If only imagine, if only I could get one of these.

Speaker 2:

Ooh story time Go ahead. You and I are out in Colorado.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And we go to Hertz to get our rental car, the man behind the counter says free upgrade Mercedes. Yeah, of course. And then Kev and I drive to the venue or at that point with hotel motel, something like that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we actually stayed at a hotel, hotel. Yeah, we weren't even Airbnb or driving around trying to find it for the longest time, and then we went to the wrong one.

Speaker 2:

It was like 2 AM. It was brutal It was.

Speaker 2:

But Kevin articulated for me so eloquently. He said this is different for me And I remember we were going out and getting food and you were like this is just different And I was like, ah, ok, cool, awesome, and I didn't feel very different. It was a nice car. But whatever And I'm not trying to lessen that, but for him, that experience helped you imagine a future where you're driving a car like that. And it was a Mercedes, right? Do you remember the model or make or anything?

Speaker 1:

It was a Mercedes GLE which is there. It's not an SUV, but it's not a car. It's kind of their crossover. I think it's a GLE. I don't remember the numbers, but it's a GLE.

Speaker 2:

OK, now fast forward and you are talking about. You bought that little car, the miniature car in your background, and Kevin was joking and bragging, he's like I bought my dream car. And then he said here it is right, here on YouTube It's like a little little model. And then you rented a car, a Mercedes, and you went to the drive-in which you imagine yourself in a car like that again For Taren's birthday, yeah, and you talked about the story about how people were like, dude, nice car.

Speaker 2:

And you were like, ah, it's not mine, it's a rental, and you hated that. So what you're really doing is imagining your future. And then you got some pain of like, ah, it's not mine, and all of this. And then fast forward, fast forward. Kevin and I are talking about this and I said, brother, if we were to get like five or 10 more clients like we could, we could afford that. We can achieve that dream, if you know if you're a game. And so go get 10 more clients and let's, let's do this thing and fast forward, fast forward, fast forward. Business expenses increased So it ended up being more than 10 clients.

Speaker 2:

But he, i remember you were ignited. I mean, you were going, you were killing it. And I remember thinking to myself like, okay, that's what we got to do. I pulled the right lever as a leader, and so we're growing, growing, growing, awesome, awesome, awesome. And you ended up getting a car actually better than the ones you rented. Is that fair? And the question, the philosophical question for our listeners is would you have manifested for lack of better phrasing, the outcomes necessary to create that, to get that BMW if you didn't have all of those experiences and imagine it in advance? No, no. And so the question becomes and I have this other quick story I want to share.

Speaker 2:

We have a team member who had a vision board of having a villa overlooking the ocean in Spain, and I remember having conversations. The cool thing about being a coach is you have the conversation and then you witness it happen months, sometimes years later. I can trace a lot of people's dreams that they accomplish and things they accomplish back to a conversation I've had with them. You know, i have one client who started a business that made $450,000 in a given week, and I remember talking to him about that two years prior, and that's why it's so fascinating.

Speaker 2:

It's like you're imagining things long before they come true. I think that's why it's so tricky. You know, i remember I was imagining being a men's physique fitness model when I was 220 pounds and I looked nothing like a fitness model, and then it took me two years to get to a point where I actually won a bodybuilding show, and that doesn't include the loss before that and all of the hard work and all that kind of stuff The parts of your imagination you hold onto the longest. Both good and bad do eventually manifest, assuming you're aligning your actions, your thoughts, your beliefs with those.

Speaker 1:

They kind of have to because at some point you're just going to let it leave your imagination if you don't think about it anymore. So it's almost like I mean, just as an example, if somebody's out there right now and they're saying I imagine my dream partner, it's going to be really hard for you to settle for somebody if you're continuing to imagine that person. It's always there in your brain, like it won't allow you to make a different decision. In a way It's always there. I remember telling you I'm not. I know it looks like I'm driving a certain car, but in my mind I'm not. I'm driving something else. It's already done in my mind. My imagination is very vivid where I can imagine what it's like to drive the car. Especially now that I've driven the car, that doubles the imagination, because now you're not imagining it, you're just reliving what you've already experienced.

Speaker 2:

Well, I think, when you're imagining something and then you experience it, it goes. I don't want to say it goes deeper.

Speaker 1:

It locks in.

Speaker 2:

It locks in. Yeah, exactly, it goes from a possibility to an opportunity kind of. I would say that it ignites more of you to try to achieve it, because it seems real.

Speaker 1:

That's the. I'm telling you. That's it because it actually seems real. It's like the thing that I imagined is actually real and I can touch it and feel it. Yeah, interesting. Now I know what it's like. I don't. I don't. This here's the thing I don't have to imagine what it's like. I know what it's like. And once you know what it's like, that's another layer. It's real now. It's not fake.

Speaker 2:

I remember dreaming about having a relationship like I do right now.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I remember dreaming about having a physique like I do right now. I remember dreaming about having a business like we have right now. Now There's certain things that are different than I thought. Oh right, but it's wild how, at one point, what I had written on a vision board is my reality now, and that's but.

Speaker 1:

To your point. There's a lot of stuff. That that's the interesting thing is, your imagination kind of only allows you to see The benefits often times, yeah, not what, what's required of you?

Speaker 2:

I used to say you can't want an outcome without what's required of you to achieve it and Kev's like no, no, no, you can want it.

Speaker 1:

I just I just did a video yesterday. Literally, you Have to put up with a strategy to get The desired result. You don't have to love it, you have to put up with it as far that was.

Speaker 2:

It's better, because most people have this. I was talking to a client earlier and He was talking about procrastination and how he's struggling with it, and I I said don't fall victim to all the stuff you hear on social media about. You have to love what you do. You do have to love what you do, but that's, that's only one fifth of the equation. Let me hear me out. Kevin and I love podcasting, but in order for us to be able to podcast, we have to do a plethora of other things that we don't want to do. And I said early in the journey It's 80 percent things you don't want to do. For the 20 percent of things that you really do want to do, and Then it becomes 79, 21, 78, 22. In other words, more percentage, more percentage, more percentage what you love, less percentage, less percentage, less percentage what you don't want to do. But it never gets to zero. None of us will ever.

Speaker 2:

I Have a cat in Who got surgery, who has a cone, and I was tying a cone Properly to try to make sure she couldn't lick her wound like I. I love having a cat. I don't want to do that right and and, but I do it because it's worth it. Taurel is worth it. Goals are the same way. I also want to share this briefly. When you plant a plant a seed, okay, what's the difference between a redwood tree And a and a birch tree? I know.

Speaker 3:

I know, kev, we're going down here.

Speaker 2:

Here's the thing, a Redwood tree in this analogy. Okay, remember when I bought my Subaru legacy, you showed me legacies and you said these would be a nice car and I love legacy. So I was like, oh my god, perfect, i want a legacy. And then I got the car. What? a couple weeks later or something.

Speaker 1:

I don't remember something like that. a couple weeks later, this was years ago.

Speaker 2:

So I don't, okay, that's a birch tree Or maybe a little bush, okay. So I plant a seed and it grows into a little plant and it only takes a month to grow. Your, your Mercedes, amg, gtr or whatever it is Sorry, i don't mean to keep lessening it or whatever it is. Um is like a redwood, it just takes longer to grow. Yeah, you can't get that thing in four weeks, Right? you plant the seed in your imagination and it has an incubation period. It has. You know, a human baby takes nine months to grow. You know, a redwood takes a hundred years to grow. And so having the most successful holistic, self-improvement company, that's a redwood That's going to take our lifetime. That's okay. It doesn't mean it's not possible. It's the same basic principle. Getting a Subaru legacy, i could do that next week. You see what I'm saying did that land?

Speaker 1:

Uh, I don't know if it landed. I understand what you're saying. What's the the point is just short-term and short-term and long-term the point is, is that Everyone.

Speaker 2:

Imagine McDonald's in in there for dinner tonight. You can manifest to that within a couple hours. You can't manifest an AMG GTR $250,000 car in a couple hours. It takes longer to grow that tree. You know what I mean, but it's the same basic principle of planting seeds and watering it and sunshine and rain.

Speaker 2:

It just takes longer. And so The the bigger your goal is, the rarer the outcome, the the more challenging the The goal, the size of the goal, the longer it's going to take to manifest it. And I think, i think people would believe in themselves more If they understood time perspective, and I'll be brief about this. But Your dream car is possible. It just might not be possible next week, whereas getting subway or McDonald's is possible tonight, because it's a smaller Goal, but it's the same manifestation Principle. Yeah well, the reason, one of the reasons we were going to do.

Speaker 1:

This episode is because You created a formula, the manifestation equation, and I was like hey man, what do you? what are your thoughts on adding visual, emotional, emotionalization and visualization?

Speaker 2:

It was visualize and emotionalize Because I think that's where we all start, because I think you visualize the car and then, when you got in it, you emotionalize the car.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and then it's real. This is the thing. It's almost like we did an episode recently and my intention for the listeners, my intention for this episode, is to make this a very hyper-conscious episode. So I'm accomplishing my intention. This makes me happy. We did an episode recently on your reality.

Speaker 1:

Changing your reality is not as hard as you think, or something like that. Here's what happens, if it's only in my imagination. Again, i know we're using cars, whatever yours is, the house on the beach, the job of your dreams, the career of your dreams, the partner, whatever the body, the bank account, whatever it is. When it, when you first get a little hint of it, it becomes realer. Seeing. For most people, seeing is believing. I would argue that experiencing is creating, in a way. That's why I like when Tara and I went, so we went to Colorado to get married, and when we were out there the day after we got married, we I took her out to like a very, very nice dinner And it's like I'm imagining what that will be like. Just like as a regular occurrence. That would be cool to go spend that kind of money on a dinner whenever I want. Like that's interesting. That'd be really cool. That when I do that. It helps me lock it in. Now that's locked, i've done it.

Speaker 1:

When you've done something, when you climb a mountain, it's not that hard to imagine what climbing another mountain is like. Everything's different, of course, but you know kind of what is what it's like. You've experienced it. You emotionalize it. There's parts of you that understand at a deep level what it's all about, that, that even I went to get my car inspected today and I was like thanks so much, man, i appreciate it. He's like I should be thanking you. Like bringing a brand new car first, one of the more you know. A brand new car is perfect. It makes my job easy. It's like, that's weird. It's like but that's the kind of energy I get now with that car. I could see why people get arrogant when they get nice things, because you definitely get treated differently, for sure.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1:

But it's not me, it's the car. It's like okay.

Speaker 2:

But that's humility. Thank you so much. That's humility. It's not you, it's the car, And you have to know that right There's.

Speaker 1:

We're losing enough behind the scenes on a daily basis to keep that humility. But that really is my next level lesson, my tangible takeaway I think it would benefit us all to figure out how much does emotionalizing and visualizing something actually help you. Because here's the thing I remember you told me this one day, alan You're like, hey, man, this like journaling thing you're doing probably can it. You're like it's probably not. You don't need to be like visualizing by writing down every day Like you're beyond that. And I was like, yeah, no, i agree, i don't really think this is doing much.

Speaker 1:

But that's when I started watching these mansion tours And for me it's just like it unlocks a piece of me that is these are all possibilities. These are all possibilities that I didn't really believe were possibilities until I exposed myself to them more and more. The more you surround yourself with something, the more it becomes you, and the more you become it. The more you surround yourself with something, the more possible it becomes Very hyper conscious. I love it, man. I love it. I feel like you and I are in my living room in New Hampshire six years ago.

Speaker 2:

That's what this episode feels like I remember walking into that living room and to my left was Natella on the table. I'm kidding, i'm surprised. Yeah, i think I did see actually Natella out, but honestly. And then there was a cork board with a little piece of paper and a tack in it that said $70 million. That was my goal, that was your goal. Kevin's vision board was basically blank pieces of paper.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, who did blank?

Speaker 2:

pieces of paper on a cork board with what looked like was drawn in crayon A couple of numbers. No, it was awesome.

Speaker 3:

Hi there, this is Dr Taryn McCarthy and I am the host of the business of happiness podcast, which would not be in existence were it not for the one and only Kevin Palmieri. He helped me put it together with his great expertise, and every week his whole team works tirelessly to get these podcasts uploaded to Buzzsprout and to deliver my content to my audience. I am so grateful. I couldn't say enough about him, please. If this is something you're considering, i highly recommend him.

Speaker 2:

And what I want to share with everyone. I had a client who reached out to me recently and he said he was at the top of the mountain. I think he was in Arizona Yeah, arizona And it was a picture of him on the top of the mountain and I forget the name of the mountain. But this is, to your point, about once you experienced something. Now you have like a better understanding of it all and how to do it. And he was like thank you so much, and it was a very kind message.

Speaker 2:

I'm probably messing it up, but it was something along the lines of like I never would have been able to do this prior to coaching with you And I was like holy crap, awesome. I didn't realize I had that big of an impact on fitness. I knew I've had a big impact, but fitness wise, that's awesome And so, anyways, i love messages like that. And then I remember thinking like Emilia and I climb mountains pretty, pretty regularly. Now regularly We've climbed five mountains, but now we're mountain climbers, right. And I remember thinking like I wonder, so I looked it up I forget the name of the mountain, but I looked it up 2700 feet And I was like, oh, no problem, awesome, But that's because I just did one that was 32.

Speaker 2:

Right, and so once you experience these things, they become less daunting. That's my point. I could have looked at that photo overlooking Arizona and being like, oh, i don't know, like that's really high. But I look it up and I go, oh, i've already climbed a mountain that big. I can totally do that, awesome. And so hopefully you can consistently expose yourself to these things. So maybe your dream car is $100,000. Maybe get one that's getting one rent one that's 30,000 or something or whatever, if that's going to help. I don't know if I am the person to talk to about emotional eyes and visualize, because I always get what I call impressions. All of a sudden I'll be folding laundry and I'll just see myself at 40 and I'll just see myself at 50.

Speaker 2:

I'll see myself at 60. I don't know where that comes from And it's not like I can visually see exactly what I look like, but I get these this feeling of like, oh yeah, that's going to be awesome, cool, that's fascinating, and I don't know if the vision piece has ever been a big challenge, and I want to bring the listeners behind the scenes. One of the reasons I think vision did come naturally is because I had a lot of traumas in my childhood And I think the only way to escape the trauma was to go into the future. For me, like when the past is painful and the present is painful, i think the mind goes into the future, and that's at least an explanation that I think lands for me. And so maybe you're out there and that resonates. But for me, i think I always was living more in the future because my past and my present had a lot of pain, and so I think I was just practicing that from a young age, not realizing that that was different, and I since have some clients that are visionaries that very much have similar experiences. But if you don't, if that doesn't come naturally, if you're not getting impressions and you're not future oriented, and that's okay, but practice it for sure, particularly the visualization. That's why you came up with it.

Speaker 2:

I had a whole equation for manifestation, but you were like, where's the visualization, emotionalization? And I you came up with that one. There's 10 steps in this and we'll put it in the show notes. We'll put a link in the show notes to the asset. It's a pretty intense asset. So if you have any questions, let me know. But Kevin's the one who came up with step two, which is visualize and emotionalize.

Speaker 1:

I have a thought right now What I would like to do at some point in our career and most likely this will be a me thing more than you. I would love to host a free retreat for the NLU community where we rent out like a mansion compound and we're going to lose money on this, but I think it would be worth it for the experience for the guests, and we maybe fly people out. I don't know. I would love to know somebody's belief in themselves before they attend versus after. I think it does something. I really, really, really think it does something.

Speaker 1:

Now, obviously, you have to believe that you're capable of achieving a result similar and you can't get an ego on it, like, oh, these people flew me out, like because that throws it off, but I am mad. I mean, i don't know, i really do. We did an episode recently on seeing as believing, like, how do you see it in advance? I think this is how you rent it. The best, one of the best things I ever did was rent that car for Taren's birthday. That changed me.

Speaker 2:

It changed me. Well, you got to trust that intuition then. Yeah, it changed me, that's never landed for me, but I do see how that could be powerful for you.

Speaker 1:

I think it's an emotionally driven thing, just like when you went to the Brennan Burchardt event.

Speaker 2:

you came back different, i'm certain. I know so much, in fact, that I was deeply insecure.

Speaker 1:

I was a little bit of a dingo. I was a little bit of a dingo, but if you're an emotionally driven human, you're already emotionalizing. How can we take that to a positive? Because I'm an emotionally driven human. For me, experiences change me. My wife and I are going to Belgium. One of the reasons I mean we were having conversations of where to go I was like Europe will change me more than Hawaii or something I will identify as a different human. That's almost kind of what it is. It's like the more stamps on your passport you get, the more traveled you are, the more experiences you have, the more you believe in the experiences that you want to create.

Speaker 2:

I think So a very hyper-conscious episode. We did it, And then the question becomes why is it that certain people don't seem to need that?

Speaker 1:

That would be what I'm contemplating. You've already imagined it. I think you're always imagining it, but you didn't know you were emotionalizing your dream relationship. You do it, i think it's just less or different.

Speaker 2:

I wasn't until after a conversation we had, where it was you, me, tiff and Amy D And I remember I had a really hard time with that conversation because you basically said it's so interesting how not confident you are in this arena.

Speaker 2:

And then you said, i know why? because you've never succeeded. And that's true. I feel like and that goes back to our episode that we did earlier this week which is your deepest pain is either getting along with others or manifesting, achieving, achieving And for me I had never succeeded really in the relationship arena. And now I have so much confidence because Emilie and I are, i mean, seriously. I never thought it was possible. We've never fought. I didn't even think that was possible, and that's more because of her than me. Quite frankly, she's more emotionally regulated than I am. There have been a few times where I was close, but I didn't even think that was humanly possible, so of course I didn't. Oh, that's why people don't, because they don't think it's possible.

Speaker 2:

Possible for them Can you visualize something that you don't think is possible? Not clearly, i don't think, because I couldn't imagine this. You know, i never imagined this. This is beyond my imagination. Genuinely, is that how you feel with this life?

Speaker 1:

With this life? Yeah, probably not. I mean not too. A lot of it locks in like a lot of it. For me the law of familiarity is I can't believe we've done 1400 episodes. That blows my mind. It doesn't make any sense to me. That's weird, i don't get it. But a lot of this stuff has Kind of locked in. But like getting you know one thing, that One thing I don't have yet, like getting paid and flown out for a podcast speech, like that's my imagination but I don't know, seems far out. It hasn't happened.

Speaker 2:

We can make that happen.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but notice how I said podcast speech.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, no, no, we're gonna make that happen. I know.

Speaker 1:

I know, but I don't. I know it's possible And I have all those beliefs, but it just is a very foreign thought.

Speaker 2:

Well, hopefully not for long, you know, that'd be good.

Speaker 1:

I'm glad we did this.

Speaker 2:

I had a moment right there where it's like I couldn't even have imagined this, because I didn't think it was possible.

Speaker 1:

I think that's really good for you to Yeah, i think it's good for you to see that perspective, because I think a lot of us deal with that when it comes to success.

Speaker 2:

And because I couldn't imagine it, it kind of wasn't possible, it doesn't exist, until I started to like Try to.

Speaker 1:

It doesn't exist until you imagine it does.

Speaker 3:

Or experience it. Or experience it, but like the cell phone.

Speaker 1:

It didn't exist until somebody imagined it, like, imagine if you could talk on the phone without being connected to the wall. That'd be wild, huh. I mean, obviously that was a cordless phone, not a cell phone, but Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Last thing, promise. I used to do this in my speeches back when my speeches were brutal. I used to say the car was imagined when there was only horses, the airplane was imagined when there was only cars And the spaceship was imagined when there was only airplanes. What else could we imagine now? And I, you know, used to think that that was good. But it is. It is Cool Because it's like, yeah, at one point, all of those, they were always possible. They were always possible. We just Didn't know how Yet. Yet You know. So I'm a possibility guy. Yes, we will go to Mars. Yes, there will be walking talking robots. Yes, ai is coming. Yes, there will be self-driving cars. Yes, there will be flying cars. I don't overwhelm anyone, but those are all happening And that's okay. It's gonna be awesome. But my question for all of you, next level lesson what are you imagining? What are you imagining for your own future that could manifest if you actually just Just suspended your fears and believed in it?

Speaker 1:

How long until flying cars? Flying cars Yeah. I've seen some data that they're gonna be way too loud, based on the fact that I would say 25 years, probably 20.

Speaker 2:

But self-driving cars within 5, for sure.

Speaker 1:

I'm gonna hit. Can I hit you with a bet? A bet you over 20 flying cars.

Speaker 2:

We'll do 25. Do you think over 25? Yeah, alright, $100 bet, $100 bet.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, i'll see you in 2048, son, give me that hundo. Sounds good. No, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 2:

What's the line of demarcation in terms of how much of the population needs to have a flying car for there to be quote-unquote flying cars? Right, it's gotta be viable.

Speaker 1:

It's gotta be a viable form of air travel.

Speaker 2:

Okay, fair, you heard it here first listeners Hundo, If I win the hundo, I'll donate it to next level.

Speaker 1:

It'll happen within 25, for sure, because in 25 years we're gonna have to be pumping a lot of money into our charity foundation, of course, so that hundo will go directly there? Okay, of course it will. Next level nation, thank you for sitting with us through this hyper-conscious episode. I'm glad it was hyper-conscious because that was the intention. If you want more deep conversations, if you want to be surrounded by people who have deep conversations, please join our private Facebook group, next Level Nation. You belong there, you are welcome there And you could be yourself there, and unfortunately, there are not many places where we can all say that. So Next Level Nation will always be one of them.

Speaker 2:

If you are out there and you have imagined your own podcast one day, if that is an imagining, an imagining, something you have visualized and emotionalized, i have a perfect way that you can learn more about it. It's called Podcast Growth University. It is officially celebrating its one-year mark, podcast Growth University, with your one and only host, kevin Paul-Mary.

Speaker 2:

That's me has done 52 episodes in a row, a full year of episodes. So this is a one-year anniversary. We also have a podcast production agency called Next Level Podcast Solutions that you hear about all the time. I am a client. Next Level Podcast Solutions produces the Conscious Couples podcast, which is my other podcast with my beautiful girlfriend Emilia. If you want to start a podcast, you are one call with Kevin. Away from manifesting that And, trust me, it is probably much smaller of a mountain than you think to start. So face your fear, get it started. The best time to plant a tree is right now. 20 years ago, yeah, the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is right now.

Speaker 1:

I got to make you know. The quote's got to be right. So here's that thing to say. Alan said the best time to plant a tree is now. So he's like. Well, no, 20 years ago. And then 100 years, 100 years would be the best, probably, for sure, or?

Speaker 1:

it's something like that Depending on the tree Redwood birch tree, you never know. Tomorrow for episode number 1,000, 380 for some reason I was looking right at it but I couldn't figure it out are your weaknesses getting weaker? I'm pretty excited and intrigued to do an episode on that. We are going to talk about. The stuff that you're naturally drawn to is usually the stuff you get really good at, but when you get good at it, you usually don't work on the stuff that you need to strengthen. So we're going to dive into that tomorrow. As always, we love you, we appreciate you, grateful for each and every one of you, and at NLU we do it out of fans. We have family. We'll talk to you all tomorrow.

Speaker 2:

Keep imagining Next level nation.

Speaker 1:

Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. We love connecting with the next level family.

Speaker 2:

We mean it when we say family. If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.

Speaker 1:

Thank you again and we will talk to you tomorrow.

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