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#1431 - One Of The Best Gratitude Perspective Shifts
When you close your eyes tonight, take a moment to reflect on everything you're grateful for. Now imagine, what if, upon waking up tomorrow, you found yourself left with only the things you expressed gratitude for today? In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about the essence of gratitude. They discuss how maintaining this balance of appreciation for present blessings while aspiring for more can be challenging. They also talk about the constant hard work to keep earning this gratitude, expressing appreciation regularly, not just on a particular day of the year.
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Show notes:
[1:42] Kevin shares how he celebrated their anniversary with his wife
[6:52] Show love or gratitude every day
[10:04] What do you have now that you only wished for before?
[17:24] Rebecca praises Alan's coaching and the effectiveness of the Peak Performance Tracker in keeping her consistent and moving toward her goals
[18:14] Kevin recalls a dinner that they weren't sure they could afford
[21:12] Showing gratitude through actions
[24:04] Kevin shares his work experience at a hospital
[29:08] Gratitude is an attitude you need to have
[33:37] Outro
Next level nation. Welcome back to another 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, episode number 1433 questions to ask yourself to get more clarity. Today for episode number 1431, one of the best gratitude perspective shifts, tara and I celebrated our one-year marriage anniversary Last weekend, even though technically it was two weekends ago. You and I were in Pittsburgh. We couldn't celebrate. Best wife award goes to my wife for Supporting me in my endeavors, especially during our one-year anniversary.
Speaker 1:But this past weekend we went out to a very nice winery and they have wonderful food there. I Was so sad you ever you don't go to a nice a lot of nice restaurants, but they change their menu every season and last time I went they had oh my goodness, I can't think of what it's called. It's fries that have gravy on them and cheese. I can't, I don't. I can't for some reason think of what it's called. Maybe it'll come to me, but I went and I was like that's what I'm gonna get for my cheat meal. Of course they don't have it. Last devastating news it was some of the worst news I've ever heard my life, I Was upset.
Speaker 2:I am a huge potato connoisseur, love potatoes.
Speaker 1:I cannot think of what they're called.
Speaker 2:Poutine, emilia, playfully it's. I don't know if it's an Irish thing or what. I'm very Irish but love potatoes. Same huge fan. Baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, scallop potatoes.
Speaker 1:You ever had potatoes? Ever had poutine? No, it's. It's potatoes fries with gravy and cheese on top. Yeah, sounds like, and sometimes they have pulled pork. This had short rib. Enough about my dinner, real cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had yaki. I don't know if it's spelling. Yeah, of course I've had yaki, isn't it? Potatoes like pasta? Yes, bomb Amazing, yeah, very good.
Speaker 1:You can get stuff, yaki, as well, depending on where you are in the world.
Speaker 2:So okay, yeah, I know a thing, sort of I am more foodie than you are, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're very low maintenance. So One of the conversations we had this was either at dinner or before is what was one of your one-year takeaways? So we've been married for one year, what's?
Speaker 2:one question.
Speaker 1:She's out of you. Yeah, taryn came up. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I have to give it to her and I said I Said babe, I think we've probably lost sight of how Good we are at saying gratitude is every night before bed. There's I said there's very few people who are as consistent as we are. We don't ever miss, and if we do, we catch up. So I can, I can say with confidence that we have said them. If you equated an average of One gratitude per night, we've said them every day for the last year. For sure, I'm a hundred percent certain. And I said I think that's a really, really good practice that we have, that we probably don't understand the importance of yet Because it's just normal. And then I said one of the don't you dare if you right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got it. I got it real quick. Don't you dare if, if you, this is both of our podcast, so it's my podcast. Go on. If you, if you were, yeah to stop for six months. Yeah you would notice it. Definitely, definitely. That's when you'd know the value. Unfortunately, we don't know the value of things often until after we stop them continue.
Speaker 1:I apologize no, no, you're good. One of our favorite thoughts is and we say this behind the scenes Alan and I have a conversation. Who'd like, hey, do you still do blank? And I'll say, oh no, I stopped doing that a while ago. It works so well I stopped it. Sometimes it happens. It's just you forget how well something is impacting your life or how positive it is, and you just stop doing it. So we kept talking about this and I said one of my favorite quotes babe, I don't know if you've ever heard me say this and I don't again. I don't know if this is my quote, if this is Alan's quote, if we saw this somewhere.
Speaker 1:This is years old. If you woke up tomorrow with only the things that you were grateful for you said that you were grateful for Yesterday what would you have? Or if you woke up tomorrow with only the things that you said you were grateful for today, what would you have? I think that's the actual question and I just think that's a really important frame. I Jeff the question, the whole question. Yeah, for those watching on YouTube, I'm trying to get Alan to stay a fist length away from the the microphone, because there's some mouth noises coming from his end hundred percent, and we're trying to improve. We're trying to get better every, every single day. Is that why you're smiling? Yeah, because I messed up the question that this entire episode was built around both.
Speaker 1:Yeah, both have been fun for me we used to do episodes every single year around Thanksgiving and and it would be along the same thoughts. Why do we put so much emphasis into being grateful for one day of the year? Imagine if we did that every year and if you think about that, a Lot of us put a ton of emphasis into Valentine's Day. Maybe we have a. I don't know if that's all over the place or if that's just the US. I don't know, but in the US Valentine's Day is a day where you celebrate your partner and many times it's from a masculine. The masculine energy Celebrates the feminine energy. Now, obviously, not all relationships are set up that way, but that's kind of the way it's been marketed. The man goes and buys something expensive for his partner who, in mainstream is, is the female, but I know it's not set up that way.
Speaker 1:I Used to have this thought where what if you just treated your partner great every single day? Wouldn't Valentine's Day just kind of be another day? That was always my, that was always one of my thoughts. It's at the point where I remember I had a partner who posted on social media one day. They said, yeah, I got flowers today, but my you know, kevin always treats me really well and I've always thought of that.
Speaker 1:If, if you're waiting on one day to get all of your love in, or all of your gratitude in, or all of your celebration in, or all of your Exercising, if you're waiting on one day to do a bunch of things, to celebrate something to its depth, you're probably not really serious about it. If you're only saying you're grateful for your family when you get to see them around the holidays, I Would argue there's another 64 days you could practice that gratitude. If you and I'm guilty this one for sure if you only Say you're grateful for a strong, capable body when you don't have it you're injured, you're probably not as grateful as you think because you're not practicing it as much I. I did whatever. Alan didn't pulled something in my back and now I'm Hobbling around and I'm thinking, wow, it was really nice to just run up and down the stairs or carry this heavy thing. I lost sight of definitely that gift, yeah so yeah, that's that's.
Speaker 1:The goal of this episode is to To talk about gratitude. Gratitude is the attitude.
Speaker 2:Emilia and I do gratitudes every evening, we do three and if we miss we do six. Then I think the longest we've ever gone is nine Because we missed a couple nights, like my goodness. So the reason why I interrupted Kevin earlier and talked about you don't know the value of something until you stop doing it or until you take it out of the equation. That's a big thing I've been doing a lot lately in my coaching you don't know the value of something until you take it out of the equation. So if you take away the gratitude game, which is just saying something you're grateful for about Taryn, taryn saying something she's grateful for about you from that day or in general or in general doesn't have to be from that day, every single night for the last year if you took that out, so what would have changed in your relationship?
Speaker 2:That's something to contemplate. And the reason why I mentioned this is because Emilia and I took like four months We've been together for almost four years now and there was like a four month, three or four month period where we stopped playing the gratitude game and I had a moment of massive humble pie and it was like, and I came to her and I said sweet, are we? We need to start the gratitude game up again.
Speaker 2:Because I don't think we're being very grateful. I don't think we're being as grateful. Gratitude there's so many Quotes about this gratitude is the attitude. An attitude of gratitude, you know Just, you're not grateful huh, I was gonna say, just those two quotes just just those two, just those two. I couldn't go over any more.
Speaker 1:Rollin X Grateful aspiration yeah, no.
Speaker 2:Those two just those two. I Want to come from this frame and I told Kevin this before this episode. It's it's easy to lose sight of the fact that a lot of what your life is right now was once a dream. I Want the listeners thinking of themselves, but I want to share my perspective, which is Right now. I'm recording a podcast with Kev Virtually in a beautiful half million dollar condo with great internet, in a nice shirt, having gotten a 92 sleep score, in a nice, beautiful bed, in a beautiful bedroom with an 83 inch TV.
Speaker 2:I went to bed with Emilia last night. I remember at the beginning of our relationship, when we didn't live together. I remember how hard it was to find this place During the beginning of Kobe it. I Remember what it was like when we had to drive an hour to the studio. I remember when we weren't making any money and None of this would have been possible. Now you can't always think like that, because it, quite frankly, you need to think of the future and you need to benchmark up against what you're trying to do, and I need to be. Yes, I'm proud of how far we've come, but I also need to make sure we're stretching for more. But what I would say is every now and then you really do have to sit here and go. Let's do a gratitude stack. What are all the things that I'm taking for granted all the time?
Speaker 2:Emilia, the other night, what did she say? She said something along the lines of we're so blessed that we can just like flush a toilet. There are places in the world where you have to, like you, there's no plumbing, and I remember thinking that's such a good thought I Think I was actually on the toilet when she said that but Running water Every time. I'm convinced of this, and I don't know if this is your experience, kev. We drove to Pittsburgh awesome. Every time I travel, it's just a reminder of how much I love home. Yeah, see for me that I don't. It was fun and all, and I enjoyed spending time with you, but I missed home. Home is well set up, home is amazing, home is optimized, home is Peaceful, home is the best. We literally get to touch thousands of people's lives right now from our homes, and if we lose sight of that, if we're not grateful for that, we're not gonna earn it every single day. And we do, we earn it, we earn it, we earn it.
Speaker 2:I've been struggling to effectively communicate a lot lately and I don't think I'm a bad communicator, anything like that, but I do think that I'm reaching a new level of effective communication and I've got a lot of new awareness of what doesn't land. What does land blah, blah, blah. I had a moment earlier where I was in Emilia's office in between episodes. I'll go give her a kiss and I'll see little you know, tilly Kevin's wondering where I am. Tillies, our little kitten, and I'll go to the bathroom. I'll get a drink, whatever before in between episodes, and Emilia's like what's wrong? And I'm like, sweetheart, nothing's wrong, it's just Monday. This is heavy I'm. I'm having a hard time articulating what I want in a way that's gonna land. This is hard work.
Speaker 2:But then the other side of that coin is we speak into mics for a living. This is great. We're at home right now. I'm in a AC condo with 70 degree temperature, in a nice shirt, with everything I need. So you got to hold that duality and that would be my takeaway from this episode is don't forget that a lot of your life right now Was at one point just a dream. I remember being lonely. I remember not having Emilia. I remember not living with Emilia. I remember you and I being broke. I remember all that stuff. So I'm very, very grateful for this team, for this podcast, for the listeners. I'm very, very grateful for so much and I think that that that duality of gratitude but also earning it every day for me that's a powerful combo.
Speaker 1:Grateful ambition, grateful for what you have, hungry for what you do not have. That's how to juggle both of those at the same time. I think I don't know if I was as and I, when I say I don't know if I was, I genuinely am unsure because I cannot put myself back there but I don't know how Good I was at practicing gratitude when we were really struggling. I Mean we were doing episodes on it. So I'm sure it was top of mind and I'm sure I was practicing it. But it's hard when you're struggling. It's hard to, it's hard to be grateful unless you can have that perspective of how many of the problems I do I, how many of the problems that I have today are problems that I would have hoped for.
Speaker 1:Somebody asked me Is maybe like a year ago? They said hey, when you were broke in the entrepreneurial journey, where are you still ordering UFC? You were, you watching fights because pay per views are 75 bucks 75 bucks to order a UFC Pay-per-view card. And I said no, no, one of the reasons I love UFC and you hear me talk about it so much is because I didn't watch it for two years. I Didn't watch it. I couldn't afford to watch it. I'd watch the free ones, but I didn't follow it like I do today. I couldn't. I couldn't afford it. I couldn't afford $75 to watch a UFC. We didn't have the money. I couldn't pay rent, nevermind Watch UFC.
Speaker 1:That's one of the reasons I love it so much, as I'm grateful that I actually get to watch it and I don't have to Lose sleep over the fact that I don't know how I'm gonna pay for it. Even going out, this has been a wonderful perspective. Going out for dinner with Tara now was so much different than it was at the very beginning. At the very beginning, I would put it on a credit card and say I'll worry about this later and figure this out when that's when the time comes. Yeah, now it's, it's. It's different. I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful for that freedom.
Speaker 2:You tell the story of not being able to afford Christmas presents.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, there was a year I think it was the first year we dated where I Was not thinking of what do I want to buy Tara and what would be good for her, what are good gifts? I was literally looking at how much money I had left in my credit card and at that time it was probably. I probably had a hundred dollars available to me on my credit card, my discover card, and I Think I just tried to find like four or five things that were like 15 bucks a piece because I knew If I could, if I could seem very thoughtful. That's what I want. I want to be thoughtful, I want, I want this to be an experience. I just don't have a lot to work with here and again. My wife's amazing and she she does not care about money at all, so it's not cares about thoughtful more. Anyway, she cares about thoughtful more than anything, which I'm grateful for because that got me through the beginning. If I was with somebody who Was in it for the money, they wouldn't she would not have been here for very long. But yeah, it was that it was.
Speaker 1:I Couldn't afford. I couldn't afford groceries. I remember I couldn't afford groceries. I couldn't afford Christmas presents. I, you, I remember Alan and I we were. We had a dinner. This was Top Notch Live, I believe so 2019.
Speaker 2:Yeah, december of 2019. We had an event no no, january of 2019. January of 2019. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:We had an event and I used to say we co-hosted it. We co-hosted it, but we did most of the work. I want to take ownership for that, because we grinded our faces off and the team that was with us at the time grinded it. Everybody did really, really, really a lot of hard work. We did a rehearsal dinner or a rehearsal kind of, where we had dinner. Was this the night before or the night? No, no, this was the night before. Okay, yeah, yeah, this was the night before, so we're expected to pay.
Speaker 1:We had everybody out and Alan and I we went to the bathroom at the same time and I we peed and we were washing our hands and I was like, hey, man, and I'm serious, alan, I'm not kidding, I don't know if the credit card is going to go through. I'm serious, I don't know if we're going to be afford this dinner, brother, this is going to be $3, $4, $500. I have no idea if we're even going to be able to afford this. Luckily, it went through. But that's why now, when we have a rough Monday and we have to record seven episodes before I go somewhere or Alan goes somewhere, we're very busy during the week because we have client calls or I'm on a bunch of other shows. Those are good problems to have. Those are problems worth gratitude over, because they're a lot better than they were at the very beginning, so that really is.
Speaker 2:I don't remember that.
Speaker 1:You have to, you have to.
Speaker 2:But again, I think it drives me. It drives me to think of that.
Speaker 1:I don't know if it does for you it does Because we've earned.
Speaker 2:You ever hear that you might not like this quote, I don't know. But that whole thing of success, you can never own it. You can never own success, you can only have it by renting it, and the rent is due every day. I believe that so wholeheartedly. You're either growing or you're dying. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. There is no in between. You're either green and growing or slowly letting it slip, and I think gratitude matters more, not just the thought of it, but the action.
Speaker 2:For me, I would say I'm grateful more in my actions, and I know Emilia would attest to this. She said it on the conscious couples podcast. I, yes, I express gratitudes each evening with the three gratitudes, the gratitude game. We do it every single night and again, when we miss, we do six the night next night. Sometimes I text them to her instead. I don't. I want to be honest. I don't always hit every. Sometimes I fall asleep. She's not going to wake me up. Hey, you forgot to do gratitudes, right? Hey, I'm remote. Real quick, what are the three? Yeah, I'm remote, I'm going to need nine. I'm going to need nine of them, but I know she would attest to this too.
Speaker 2:I like to show gratitude in action more than anything. If you're grateful for your physique, if you're grateful for your health, show it by taking good care of it. If you're grateful for the team you have, or for the business partner you have, or for the intimate partner you have, you need to show it with your actions. I feel so strongly about that. If you're grateful for your business, you have to take really, really, really good care of it. I think that actions show what you're grateful for more than words.
Speaker 1:That's my, so that's one more layer, but it drives me to think about those days, go ahead, say, well, I have it up on my wall, don't ever forget the gas station and cleaning hospital toilets. That's where all this started. When I was at that point in my life I had no idea any of this was going to happen, and that was. I get nervous talking about stuff like that, especially on other podcasts, because I don't have as much time to explain. But I'm not saying those are bad. If you have those jobs, I'm not making fun of those, I'm not talking down to those, I just have a.
Speaker 1:I remember the season of life I was in when I had those. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was lost. I thought not going to college was the biggest mistake. Now I can laugh about it and say, ah, it worked out.
Speaker 1:But at the time I thought I was screwed. I was lonely, single. I had no idea what I was going to do. So when I look at that it's like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, today's. So you have seven calls. What do you do? It's not that bad, that's great. That's a great problem to have. Do you think this is a question for you and you, if you're, whether you're watching or listening. Do you think we should do an episode at some point on? Are you the best partner you've ever been? Definitely I feel like that would be a good episode, definitely. My only fear is you and I are going to talk about ourselves a lot, in that I don't mean it to come from a selfish place, but I do believe that question Because I have a lot of questions that go with that you brought up a question that I had never thought of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't say it.
Speaker 2:I won't, I won't, I won't, don't worry. Kevin brought something up on the way to Pittsburgh that I had never thought of from that frame, and it was very, very powerful.
Speaker 1:So that's a good episode. Yeah, definitely. You want to do it tomorrow, we'll do it tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, tomorrow is in.
Speaker 1:Tomorrow is in the day after this one.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1:I didn't mean that sassily.
Speaker 2:I know. Okay Sounded kind of sassily, I don't. I want to encourage you to share the cleaning hospital toilets thing and all that more, because I know you don't want it to come off wrong because there's nothing you don't want people who are in that position to feel bad or make them feel even worse, but I don't think they will. I think they'll be inspired by how far you've come since then, and that will give them hope.
Speaker 1:I remember I went in, I went into. So this is what happened. I was working at the gas station and I said and it's timely that we're doing this, because Sunday, saturday and Sunday this week we're going to do our stories, so we'll talk more about we'll talk more about this stuff. But I was working at a gas station, I decided I wanted to be a personal trainer. I was studying to be a personal trainer and I went to my boss and I said hey, just a heads up, I'm going to get my personal training certificate. I'm not leaving right now, but I just want you to be aware of that way, when I do leave, you can fill the position. And then I got a call the next day at five o'clock in the morning. I got fired. They fired me the next day. They said you're done. Ah, pays to be a good person, clearly, son of a bitch. So I Wasn't certified as a personal trainer yet so I couldn't go get a personal training job.
Speaker 1:So I remember growing going on Craigslist. At this point I my only experience is working at a gas station, so I don't really have much experience. So I go on Craigslist. I find a hospital that's hiring what is considered a project person. That's the, the title, the job title. So I go in for an interview and the guy I the, the manager I guess he was my supervisor he was like the nicest dude, such a, such a good guy, and he said alright, so this is the position, you'll be stripping and waxing floors and it's third shift. I have a lot of understanding what third shift means, because my mom has worked third shifts pretty much my entire life, so I know what that looks like, I know what the schedule is, I know what the sleep schedule is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 11 to 7, 11 pm To 7 in the morning. So I Said I need the job and it's I think it's two dollars more an hour. Since I'm working overnight, I'm in. When do I start it? Very quickly, pivoted from you're gonna be stripping and waxing floors, which I really enjoyed doing. That was a really fun job. They would just we would be in Private sections of the hospital. There'd be nobody around, we would just strip and wax the floor, we could listen to music. It was easy. It wasn't. It wasn't easy, it was hard work, but it was very simple. Wasn't a super challenging thing to do? But that quickly translated, or transferred from stripping and waxing floors to okay, you're actually a housekeeper and you're gonna be cleaning beds, you're gonna be cleaning bathrooms, you're gonna be cleaning toilets, you're gonna be cleaning halls, sweeping, doing all that stuff. And I did not like that very much. I didn't like that.
Speaker 1:I remember the kid I worked with. His name was Adam, really cool, really cool guy. He Came to me one day and he's like hey, do you know the nurse on on floor? Two over, again, it the blonde one. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know her. He's like she's got a crush on you and I was like there's no way she has a crush on me. There is no possibility. Number one she's like six feet tall and she was beautiful, very beautiful, and I said there's no way this is gonna work, no way.
Speaker 1:Every time I always feel so weird going down there because I know I always feel like people are looking down on me. It was brutal. It was just such a really, really challenging time. Eventually I ended up getting a personal training job and that was a whole another effin nightmare, but it was a nightmare in the right direction. So that's my my time from the hospital. But we will go into our stories a little bit deeper when we do our Saturday and Sunday episodes. So my question for you we didn't do a next-level nugget last episode around here, jeffin, oh yeah, we're. Jeffer got the next level nugget. Yeah, the next level nugget from the last episode would be Sometimes questions are the most Positive thing to make you clear.
Speaker 2:That would be my next level nugget from the last episode. We may miss, but we will make up for it. We got it. My next level nugget from the last episode was oh yeah three questions. There's. There's something. There's something to learn about yourself every time you're pissed off or frustrated.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. My next level nugget for this episode would be even if gratitude is not the Most likely thing, it's not the thing that's directly in front of you, it's not the easiest thing to focus on. That's probably a Suggestion that it's the most important thing, because if Focusing on the things that you were grateful for was easy, we would all do it. So if you're struggling right now, that's the time you need to focus on gratitude. It's, I guess what I'm trying to say is it's far easier to focus on gratitude when you have a million things to be grateful for, but when you feel like you don't have anything to be grateful for, that is the time to search for that, because there's got to be something there. No matter how dark it is, there's.
Speaker 2:There's probably something there, and you would find it if you looked really, really, really hard the analogy that I would have for my next level nugget, is If you want to be in shape, you got to exercise consistently, not just once. If you want to be in a great relationship, you have to be humble consistently, not just once. Gratitude is the same way whether you're in a great mood or a bad mood, you still got to go to the gym If you want to be in shape. In this case, gratitude is an attitude that you need to have always, and the last piece would be show it in your actions more than just your words. People who are entitled, in my opinion, are people who are not grateful. They've lost sight and we've all been guilty of this but they've lost sight of how good they have it. They lost sight of the hard times, and I think that I think that you can overcome that with gratitude.
Speaker 1:I dig it Same. Do you also dig it? I do. Good, sir, you dig it as well. Definitely Awesome Next level nation, as we have been mentioning for the last couple weeks, several weeks, I don't know. Time goes by so fast yet so slow.
Speaker 1:Other times Alan is doing free calls with the amazing NLU community. So all you have to do is click the link in the show notes and you'll be on a zoom call with Alan and you can bring up something you're going through in your relationship. You can bring questions, you can bring feedback, you can bring whatever you want, or you can just get on there and say, hey, what is it like to be less funny than Kev? You could say that you don't have to. I'm not telling you you should or that you must or it's a requirement, but if that's the question that you had on your own, you could bring that for Alan and Alan would laugh and answer it and that would be that.
Speaker 1:So his link will be in the show notes. Again, I know I always make a joke when we do this one because it's just a good time to joke, but the reason we get to do this, and we're so grateful we get to do this, is because we have an amazing community and if you, whether you're watching or listening, you are part of that amazing community. Anything we can do to give back, we always want to do and we've been trying to meet the community since the very beginning and that is what got us here.
Speaker 2:What's up, brother? My answer to that question is that it's absolutely devastating. I can imagine it affects me daily. It keeps me up at night.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can imagine, I just that's what my every day.
Speaker 2:I wake up. How do I be as funny as Kevin? That is my life's purpose.
Speaker 1:I feel that you've made progress. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Very little. Shout out to Brianna. One of our listeners did book a session with me. We talked on Thursday, I believe, and I said how long have you been listening to the show? She's like, oh, I love it. It's been like a week. I was like, oh, she's like, yeah, I think I struggle with self confidence. I'm like I don't think so. I seriously doubt it. You literally booked on my calendar within a week, you know, and she immediately was like yeah, I just I want to quit my job. I don't like my job, I want a new career. It's just awesome. So shout out to Brianna if you're listening. Shout out to you. We have book club every single week, 126 weeks in a row of club, 126 weeks in a row, row in a row.
Speaker 1:Here they are just standing in a row.
Speaker 2:Big one, small one, some as big as your head. Jim Quick wrote a book called Limitless. It's all about your brain and it's meta learning, which is learning how to learn. It has been such an aligned book thus far. We are reading chapter three, so chapter three will be reviewed on this Saturday. The link to register will be in the show notes. We hope to see you there. And Brandon says this. Brandon says book club is like free coaching from all amazing minds all over the world. So not only are we learning from Jim Quick, but we're learning from each other. So I hope you join us tomorrow for episode number 1432.
Speaker 1:We are going to do what we talked about here. Are you the best partner you've ever been? I think that is a really powerful at least it's a possibility for a very powerful episode, and we'll have some questions and prompts and all that happy jazz, and what I would say is it's not selfish to think you are. It's actually a really good representation of growth. So we're going to talk about that tomorrow. As always, we love you, we appreciate you, grateful for each and every one of you, and at NLU we do not have fans, we have family. We will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Stay grateful. Next level nation.
Speaker 1:Boom.
