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#1443 - Six Things That Will Set You Apart From 99% Of People
In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about the transformative power of consistent habits. They discuss why success is not just about hard work but also sculpting the right habits and monitoring your progress in health, wealth, and love. They share that daily habits can make or break our well-being and success, and enumerate habits you can start doing today. They also discuss how being disciplined and intentional about personal growth can be a game-changer, especially with small, consistent steps.
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Show notes:
[3:46] Training consistently
[11:27] We are distracted
[14:34] Track the number in your bank account
[15:27] Tim credits Alan's guidance and the Next Level Business Solutions for the transformative impact on his business
[16:10] Learn for 30-mins a day
[18:09] One intentional connection
[26:37] Focus on what's sustainable
[32:08] Outro
Next level nation. Welcome back to another episode of next level university, where we help you level up your life, your love, your health and your wealth. We hope you enjoyed our latest episode, episode number 1442 how to feel accomplished even when you don't get everything done. Today, for episode number 1443 six things that will set you apart from 99% of people. I want to give credit. There is an Instagram profile at grow with Kobe who did a post similar to what we're gonna talk about today and it was six things that will set you apart from people.
Speaker 1:But I don't do many of those things and I don't think I don't say many. There's things on that list that I don't do and obviously I'm not gonna say something that I don't do, because that would be very hypocritical of me. But the reason I wanted to do this episode. Alan asked me and I said I Can imagine that it's very hard to actually understand how much progress you're making when you don't feel like you're making any. So Alan and I are doing this episode right before group coaching and I am sleeping. I gotta keep it real.
Speaker 1:The the 430 PM blues hit me, so I am very, very tired all of a sudden. I don't know why this is really why I wanted to do the episode. I was in the car today after the gym. Right, imagine me in the car after the gym crush to work out and the conversation you and I were having the other day yeah, it's gonna be okay. The conversation you and I were having the other day was if you're trying to be the best you can in health, the best you can in wealth and the best you can in love, you're going to be very, very statistically rare.
Speaker 2:We need to call the elephant out in the room. Why are we so giggly? We?
Speaker 1:smoked pot.
Speaker 2:For the listeners whenever. Kevin gets really tired. Yeah, it's all funsies.
Speaker 1:It's hilarious and very very smartly smiling.
Speaker 1:Smarling? I think I don't. I like these episodes too, because I know I said at the beginning of the week I felt like I was too serious. Maybe in retrospect I will say after this episode I wish I was more serious, but probably not, because this is kind of our, this is our jam, this type of episode.
Speaker 1:The biggest difference between who you are today and who you want to be eventually is your habits. And if you can do six things every day and I don't want to say every day for the rest of your life, but if you could start doing them today and you could do them for the next two weeks, month, four months, six months, year a lock and change in that amount of time. So I did a video today. I I don't even think I posted it, I just did my phone waiting to be posted. But when I left the gym I said this is one of the reasons growth is so hard, because if you're trying to get better in health I just left the gym. I had a great workout. It was awesome, great.
Speaker 1:Statistically, how many people are actually training as consistently, as hard as I am and doing the mobility that comes with it and Trying to get enough sleep? Probably not. A lot of people doing all those things. On top of that, how many people also are trying to learn For X amount of time every single day and trying to have the most aligned intimate relationship possible and doing all the things that come with that? I said in this video Statistically, if you're trying to get better in all three arenas, it's gonna be way harder, you're gonna feel way lonelier and it's also gonna be much harder to understand You're actually making progress, because the progress is just way less so that you want to add anything before we give the six things.
Speaker 2:I do, yeah. So One of the things that I think is most powerful about this understanding and I I unpacked the math a lot in this week's episodes, but if you want to be one in a million, you have to be one in a hundred in these three areas. So health is physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. Wealth is how you make your money, how much you earn and where you invest it, and then love is your intimate relationship, family, extended family, friends, colleagues, clients, mentors, mentees. Now at NLU, we believe in holistic self-improvement, in your pocket, every day, from anywhere on the planet, completely free. So you obviously Want to improve holistically.
Speaker 2:If you're listening Otherwise you wouldn't be listening to us, you would choose another podcast but what I think is really powerful is you realize your value more when you realize how hard it is to do this and it it doesn't give us an excuse not to do it. We're not saying this because it's like oh well, now, now I have an excuse to only focus on health and let my wealth fall, or only focus on wealth and let my love fall. That's not what we're saying. What I am saying is you are one in a million if you can become One out of a hundred in all three of these areas, because it's the way the math works out is one in a hundred times one in a hundred times one in a hundred, so that's one in a million. How many people really are growing, learning, improving in all three areas Consistently over a long period of time? It's a lot lower than you think. It's a lower statistical Possibility, probability than you think.
Speaker 2:I look around, kevin. You and I have been. I've been tracking habits now for eight years. I talk about that. I have these little black notebooks with little check marks of I used to do 18 things a day, which Made me probably feel like a lot more of a failure than I then would have been beneficial, and I coach clients now all the time, and habit tracking is a pillar of my coaching and, and what I really want to share with our listeners is, if you are Consistently doing these six things, you're already ahead of 99% of people, because it's very, very difficult to be consistent on one thing, never mind six things, and so Hopefully this is empowering not used as an excuse, but empowering to say Okay.
Speaker 2:And I say this to the NLU team all the time. I say don't forget. I know you all feel like you're burning down. I know you all feel overwhelmed. I know you all are wearing ten hats. I know some of you are mothers and you know You're. You're trying to do so much and succeed in so many different areas simultaneously, but just remember, every now and then you got to stop and ask yourself how many people track habits every day.
Speaker 2:One in a hundred, probably not one in a thousand, maybe not one in ten thousand, probably. But that alone, even if you just track habits, even if it's only three habits a day or six habits a day or nine habits a day, you're already in the serious minority and, kev, you can attest having tracked habits for five years now. It's a complete life changer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I Cannot imagine life without it. I cannot imagine life without it, and I try to tell people that all the time. Again, if I look at all impressive, it's just that a lot of the stuff I'm doing behind the scenes is just consistency, the consistency of doing the same things every single day for the last I won't say for the last six years, because it it's evolved and it's changed. I do, I do some things more, I do some things less. I did it just started some things I don't do, some things I used to. But you have habits. Whether you know it or not, you have habits.
Speaker 1:I don't think the I I need to build positive habits is in power, as empowering is saying I need. I Would benefit from turning some negative habits into more positive ones. You already have habits. It's not like you need to create habits. You have them. Just some of them are misguided. Currently there's a difference between a habit of stopping and getting a donut and a coffee every day and a habit of prepping meal prep. It's just, it's just a substitute habit. Now you have to build it, obviously Through the process, but I'm just. I'm just saying. I know that can seem very, very Hard slash, impossible at times to say I need to build any. What happened?
Speaker 2:We're really teasing the six here before we.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, if you're you're you listening to this? You're probably saying keep guys like, just do it. We don't actually have any this right, there's none right after this Kev.
Speaker 2:I Hope that the listeners know that I'm not picking on you when I say things like this, but why? Don't you pick on me then, when I first met you yeah, you didn't, not only didn't track habits, but, you were consistent in fitness, you consistently trained. But other than that I Would say it were were they say fairly directionless.
Speaker 2:That's fair fairly directionless. In comparison to you now I would say so. So, as someone who used to live day to day, paycheck to paycheck, week to week, kind of winging it, not even kind of winging it like super winging it what what would you share for someone about the benefits of tracking habits like sell us on it?
Speaker 1:You want me to sell you on it?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Imagine Never waking up again and not knowing exactly what you needed to do to move the needle on your most important goals. That it's a level of certainty that I didn't imagine I could ever have. I never wake up and say, wow, what should I do today? It never happens ever because I know. I know exactly what I should be. I have a list of 23 things on my. It's always up, so it's literally the first window I have up by the first tab. I have up Kevin, paul, mary, cfo P Performance tracker. So I Understand it can seem constricting, but I do believe the constriction is focus, because that's really what it's doing. It is constricting because it's focused. It's making you focus on the things that are most important, but the six habits which we're gonna get to here within the next 40, 45 to 50 minutes. If we figured out how long it would actually take you to do these, it's under, it's probably an hour and a half.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's just. It feels so overwhelming at first because and I'll share this briefly with a client- and then we're gonna give them.
Speaker 2:We are gonna give them a promise she just started tracking six habits and I audioed her. I talked about this on an episode earlier this week. I audioed her and I said listen, it's a big self-esteem hit at first because, whether it's because we live in a digital world with constant distraction and phones and rings and dings and beeps and booms and zips and zaps, we, we are essentially distracted. On average every three minutes is what the research shows. And back in our parents days and our parents parents days, emilia was actually just sharing some stuff about her grandfather. Back in their day they didn't have Twitter or Snapchat or Instagram or Facebook or I mean how many channels. I remember my, my grandma and grandpa.
Speaker 2:They used to watch their programs when they would babysit us and there was like five channels or something like when I was a little kid and they talked about back in their day, when they didn't even have TV and there was no distractions the newspaper didn't pop out at you, you know. And I just think that when we realize how hard it is for us to stay focused, it can be really alarming, but it's also super empowering. It's like taking a magnifying glass and really sort of honing the sunlight into. If you ever did Dentramental things to insects as a kid, or burnt holes and leaves I used to burn holes and leaves with a magnifying glass the same kid yeah, exactly, and that's what it is.
Speaker 2:But it also is gonna hurt at first, potentially, because you'll realize, oh wow, this idea I had of myself of, yeah, I can totally be consistent. You realize how hard it is to be consistent and that's the humility piece that I want everyone to have. I you know, I Thought I could write every day the idea.
Speaker 2:I have of myself is oh, I can totally write every day, yeah, no problem. It's like ridiculously difficult to write every day. I have so much respect for some of these authors. Oh my god, it's like. It's wildly difficult to write every day. Alarmingly Difficult. It bothers me to my core. You're not alone in this being difficult. But if you pick, what I will tell you is, if you do these six things and you do them consistently and they do become habits, they eventually get to the point where they're kind of automatic and, ironically, the other stuff falls.
Speaker 1:But this stuff never falls, and you know so let's, let's get into, let's get into them. So obviously, health, wealth and love is NLU. That's what we mean when we say holistic health physical, mental, emotional, spiritual wealth. How you make your money, the stuff you spend your money on, where you're investing your money, that and then love your Insimid, love your family, love your self, love the love of your friends, that. So, under wealth, track your finances and Learn for 30 minutes a day, track your finances, how much that, whatever. The easiest thing for you is you can write what the number in the bank account is today and you can write the number in the bank account tomorrow and then figure out what the difference is positive or negative Awesome. You can carry around a little notebook and every time you spend money, you write it down and you figure out how much money you spend there. You can do whatever works for you. It doesn't have to be cookie cutter, doesn't have to be what we suggest, doesn't have to be what we do. Honestly, it probably shouldn't be what we do.
Speaker 2:The, the thing that I would recommend, just having worked with so many clients on this, the most powerful and simplest what's called the the complexity, simplicity sweet spot I have found is looking and just tracking the number in your bank account. Okay, if you write down the number in your bank account, you can do it in Google sheets, if you want, and put the date and then just put the number in your bank account, or you can write it down physically in your journal. And we have a next-level Dreamliner, which is going to be a next-level journal agenda planner, whatever you want to use it for. And that's coming soon. It's gonna be a quarterly thing, that's at the beginning of 2024. But the point is is, whatever journal you have, whatever notebook you carry, whatever or Google sheets, whichever you prefer you just look at the number in your bank account and you write that number each day. That is gonna give you so much more awareness as to what's going out and what's coming in.
Speaker 1:Love it. So that's the first one. Second one learn for 30 minutes a day. What does that mean? You can read a book for 30 minutes a day. You can watch a YouTube video for 30 minutes a day. You can watch a couple TED Talks, audible, whatever. It may be A coaching call, if you had a coach and you worked with them every single day. Whatever you want to consider learning, it doesn't have to be directly connected to your area of expertise. Whatever, it's totally up to you. How does that lead to wealth? It helps you learn more about things and when you become more capable and you become more competent, you're more capable of making more money.
Speaker 2:I know you count.
Speaker 1:I know you. Yeah, You're into an episode every single day. You're doing your 30 minutes.
Speaker 2:Well, unless it's a 22 minute episode.
Speaker 1:Well, it depends you and I have not been doing 22. Usually we do not. Yeah, it'll almost always count Almost always, yeah, almost always.
Speaker 1:One track finance is to learn for 30 minutes per day, whatever that means for you. Okay, that's under wealth, under love. Play the gratitude game with your partner. So every night before you go to bed, every morning when you wake up, whatever you want your schedule to be, say one thing you're grateful for about your partner. Have them reciprocate. Alan and Amelia do three each. They do it at night before bed, tara and I do it at night before bed. I'm sure that's probably so you can kind of end the night. You know almost every night you're going to go to bed together. Every night you're going to go to bed. So that could be your habit to say okay before we go to bed. If I'm away or you're away, we can send audios, we can do a FaceTime, whatever it may be.
Speaker 2:I often will text as well, and if you ever miss the next morning, you can text them Just one, two, three Boom, boom, boom from the previous day, three things you're grateful for about them that day. Simple, simple, simple.
Speaker 1:I like that.
Speaker 2:And I recommend doing one yeah.
Speaker 1:I was going to say Start with one. You can do as many as you want, whatever is sustainable. Start with what's sustainable. You can always add. It's hard to go backwards. Agreed, I think. Start with one and then build the three, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:And don't do more than three, because we tried that and it ended up at 1.25. It was long, too many. It's a 20-minute audio Too many.
Speaker 1:Too many, Okay. Second thing one intentional connection. So what do we mean by that? We were going to, Alan suggested doing quality time and he said, well, we have to do stuff that we're actually doing. And when we were in Pittsburgh, we weren't really doing quality time with our partners because we were away. But what we did do is we did a FaceTime every night, except one night, Tara, and fell asleep and I didn't do a FaceTime with her, but it was understood that that was the intention behind it. So, whatever an intentional connection for you is, we had for a while Tara and I were doing trying to make sure that we had like a five second kiss every day at some point throughout the day, Even if we're running around, whatever, it is just being intentional around. Okay, I want to make sure that my partner feels like what are you smiling about?
Speaker 2:I forget what movie it was, but you know, real quick, a little five second Frencher. Do you know what movie that's from? I don't. No, no, it sounds familiar but I don't remember.
Speaker 1:I think it's anger management. I think I haven't seen that in a long time, whatever you can do intentionally to connect with your partner, whatever that means to you.
Speaker 1:it does five second Frencher If that's what it is more power to you. So gratitude game, one intentional connection with your partner. If you're riding solo, if you're single and you don't have a partner, you could do gratitude game about your life and you could do make sure you're filling your own cup. What does that look like? Maybe it's 30 minutes of your favorite show, maybe it's taking a bath, maybe it's yoga before bed, whatever reading in bed, whatever filling your cup is, and then, under health, exercise for 30 minutes per day and weigh yourself. Exercise for 30 minutes per day. What does that mean? Going for walks, maybe it's cycling, maybe it's doing yoga, maybe it's weight training, maybe it's running. Whatever you would consider exercise.
Speaker 2:Again yogging. We don't have to be off at the top of the hour, by the way.
Speaker 1:What is yogging?
Speaker 2:We are prepared for the group coaching. Yeah, you know, we're good, I feel like you're trying to hammer things.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no. I'm just trying to keep it. I know if I let you go, we're going to be here all night. I'm just trying to keep us. What is yogging?
Speaker 2:Yogging is running for an extended period of time. Apparently, you just run for an extended period of time.
Speaker 1:It's just, you know, I know that. Now I thought it was a real thing. No, no, it's not a real thing You're just saying the J is a Y.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's from Anchorman.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So we're just going to you.
Speaker 1:Have any other references you'd like to use? No, no, no, okay, okay, exercise with 30 minutes per day and then weigh yourself. Would you suggest tracking the weight? Yeah, maybe not in the beginning, but eventually.
Speaker 2:I think if you are writing down your bank account number, I think you should write your weight next to it as well. I do. I think it's important At least that way. It never gets ahead of you and you can either have the pain up front or the pain later. We talked about that in the last episode the pain of discipline now or the pain of regret later. It's a Jim Rohn quote. It's very, very powerful and I'd much rather have the awareness along the way. That's why sometimes we I like the inner tube analogy. You're at the beach and you're on an inner tube and you doze off for 10 minutes and all of a sudden you're 2 miles down the beach.
Speaker 1:You think I'm falling asleep in the ocean, son?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it's like a lake, like a lake beach. You know. The point is is that you don't want to wake up 5, 10, 15 years down the road and go. What happened? Oh my God. That happened to us for sure, definitely yeah, it happened to me. I was like oh, whoa, whoa, definitely.
Speaker 1:This is not from a judgmental perspective, but I really want you to think. How many of the people in your life track their finances? How many of the people in your life learn for 30 minutes per day non-negotiable, it's on their mind, they're very intentional about it and they're seeking ways to learn more? How many play the gratitude game with their partner? How many have an intentional connection with their partner? How many exercise for 30 minutes per day? How many weigh themselves every single day?
Speaker 1:If you think of how many people just do one of those things okay, how many people do two? How many people do three? How many people do four? How many people do five? You might be the only person that does six. That's awesome. That means you're making way more progress than you realize. But it just doesn't seem like it because it takes all of. Let's just say it takes an hour, but let's say it takes an hour and a half, because in the 30 minutes of exercise and the 30 minutes of learning, you're doing it together. Say you're going to have it stacked, you know what? I'm going to walk and I'll listen to NLU. Cool, that's 30 minutes.
Speaker 1:And in the rest of the stuff, tracking finances probably not going to be super hard. It doesn't take long to log into the bank account, see the number, write it down Cool. This is what it was compared to yesterday. Intentional connection five minutes Weigh yourself that's a minute. Gratitude game that's a minute. It won't take you a tremendous amount of time to do it. And I think we also have that belief that it can't be this easy In terms of it can't be this simple. Let's do these things. It's challenging to do, but if you do them for a long enough period of time, then you elevate the way you track your finances. Then it just gets a little bit more challenging. Slash valuable Then maybe you do 45 minutes of exercise, maybe you do two gratitudes, maybe you weigh yourself and you track your calories, or weigh yourself and drink X amount of water. This is a really good foundation to build habits on further down the future.
Speaker 2:Amy L on the team gave me permission to share this and celebrate her. She used to deal with chronic illnesses. She struggled. She used to call her body a broken piece of garbage and when I first presented the 30 minutes of exercise per day, she said there's no way. And now she's coming up on a year, a year without a single miss.
Speaker 2:It's wild. And so if you're out there like there's no way I could do this, just start small and try, and you might be pleasantly surprised, because one day turns to two, two turns to three, three turns to four. Now she's almost a full year of exercising 30 minutes a day, and some of the days when she wasn't feeling well, it was just 30 minutes of yoga, it was 30 minutes of whatever, whatever body movement she wanted to do. So it's not necessarily hardcore weight training or hardcore HIIT training. It's some form of moving your body for 30 minutes a day. And don't over complicate it. Keep it simple and it will have an effect on your self-esteem. That's the biggest thing I notice with clients. Their self-esteem goes up, so much, in fact, that sometimes some of them get arrogant, you know, and that's much better than not believing in yourself and then eventually life humbles you. So I'm not trying to call anyone out, but the point is is some people's self-esteem goes so high that it actually gets the best of them, and that's happened to me many times as well.
Speaker 1:I told you before this. I said when I was in Vermont I was super excited to work out. I enjoyed it. I was away but I still wanted to do the stuff. I still wanted to exercise and I learned every day. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2:It's become harder for you to miss than harder for you to hit In the beginning it was so hard for you to do these things, and now it's actually hard for you not to do these things.
Speaker 1:Because it's more intentional. I have to be intentional with taking a day off now Because, okay, my back's bothering me. I'm going to take a day off or I'm going to go walk instead of lifting, right, it depends. I told Tara and I said I'm super excited to work out in Belgium. I've never I have actually I worked out in London only once or twice. I didn't work out a ton in London, but I wanted to. It was important for me to at least go to the gym once while I was there. I want to hold the identity of the person that I think I am, so I'm very excited.
Speaker 2:Keeping the promises you make to yourself. It helps you feel good about yourself and if you feel good about yourself, everything's going to succeed at a higher level. If people felt better about themselves not ego, but from a place of earning it through habits, I mean it's just, it's the. I think it's the most important thing, other than self-belief is the humility to start small and keep the promises to yourself so that you have higher self-esteem. And I always say that you're not going to achieve your dreams without self-esteem. Think about the people who achieve their dreams. They have ridiculously high self-esteem, sometimes to a detriment, but it's because they're. They're earning it, usually behind the scenes, when no one's watching.
Speaker 1:That's my next love nugget these six things. It doesn't have to be. You do not have to come out of the gate and conquer everything right away. It's not going to happen overnight. Focus on what's sustainable in the beginning, because what's sustainable now is something that eventually might be easy. It's not. It's not going to be as hard. It's as hard as it is now forever.
Speaker 2:My goodness, how hard was it in the beginning versus now.
Speaker 1:It was very, very humbling in the beginning because it wasn't top of mind, it wasn't intentional, it was let me look and see what I'm supposed to do. Ah yeah, I'm supposed to post on social. Yep, I'm supposed to do this. Now I know. I don't even have to look at my list anymore. I know all the things. So, yeah, it's way.
Speaker 1:It was way harder in the beginning because it wasn't intentional. Now it's harder not to do because I've been doing them for so long and I you start to have the conversation with yourself that I mean, all I got to do is post on social media. It's not that hard. What's that going to take me three minutes? It's not that big of a deal. You then you sell yourself on the other way.
Speaker 1:I want to weigh myself. It's right there, it's right next to I. I wake up every morning, I walk into the bathroom, ip, and then I jump on the scale and then I remember it and then I write it down when I get home from the gym. It's not that I don't want to break that, I want the numbers. I want to know that. So the only thing I would say is just try to frame it as empowering. Again, if it seems constricting, it's because it's focused. And if you think of focus, focus is constricting. Alan was talking about the magnifying glass. Why does the light through a magnifying glass burn? Because it's so constricted, it's so focused. So if it does feel constricting, it's because it's very focused, and maybe that's something relatively new to you. I know it was for me when I started tracking habits. What's your next level nation? What's your next level nugget son.
Speaker 2:My next level nation.
Speaker 1:What's your next level?
Speaker 2:nugget is bad habits are easy to create and hard to destroy. Really good habits are hard to create, easy to break. So you're not alone in the struggle of this. I've coached so many people. Everyone struggles with certain habits. Everyone has some really good habits and they always hit those. Everybody and everybody struggles with some habits. For me, it's writing is. Writing consistently is the one I'm working on right now. It is so alarmingly difficult. I've been working on that one for a long time. But there's other things I do. No problem, every single day, no problem. So just understand, you're not alone in the struggle of this. There's not a person I've ever met who doesn't struggle with certain habits.
Speaker 1:Strong work, the next level of nation, if you are looking to build stronger habits, and one of those habits, maybe, is surrounding yourself with more like-minded people. Our 12th round of group coaching starts on October 3rd 2023 at 6pm Eastern time. We will be taking 10 people. It is bi-weekly calls with Alan and I. There's a WhatsApp group you get access to Optimal for free. It's part of the program and we will help you create your habits and you'll start very, very sustainably and you'll prove to yourself that you can do it. And as you prove to yourself that you can do it, you'll get more habits.
Speaker 1:Is everything going to change in 90 days? No, not everything, but you will come out of there more confident, for sure. You will have more self-belief, you'll have more self-esteem and you will have proven to yourself that maybe you are more capable than you've given yourself credit for. If you are interested, we'll have the link in the show notes. With the discount code, it ends up being $96.60 per month. I have never seen a group coaching program as affordable as ours. We want it to be affordable, so it's accessible. Please join if you have been interested and have not been able to join a previous group.
Speaker 2:The value of that program, the amount of time, effort, blood, sweat and tears that Kevin and I Jesse as well have poured into making that program as good as humanly possible. It's insane how cheap it is. I don't mean cheap in a negative, it's not worth it way. I mean it's so affordable. I hope that you give it a shot. I really hope you give it a shot. If you have any questions about the program, we can send you the Instagram handles of people that have been through the program so that you can talk to them about what their experience was. Just reach out there's a promo code, email Kevin or myself and say I'm interested and we'll get you whatever you need to know. Also, we have, as Kevin already mentioned, an app called Optimal. It's a habit tracking app. The link will be in the show notes. You click that there'll be a welcome video.
Speaker 2:It's how you track habits. If you don't want to track habits in your notebook physically, you can use this habit tracker. I use this habit tracker every single day. It's really simple. It's green, yellow or red. Green means you did it, yellow means you kind of did it, red means you didn't do it. Then there's most important win, most important improvement. So each day you can improve and look at what you're successful at and what you need to improve for the next day. Simple, simple, simple. Start with three habits, eventually jump to six and everything you need to know will be at the link in the show notes.
Speaker 1:Tomorrow for episode number 1,444,. We talked about money today a little bit One of the best possible uses for your money. I was on a podcast today about money and financial stuff and it was very, very interesting. That was one of the questions I got asked at the end what is a piece of financial advice you'd give to the audience? That is where I came up with the thought behind this episode. Make sure you tune in tomorrow. As always, we love you, we appreciate you, grateful for each and every one of you. At NLU, we learn of fans. We have family. We will talk to you all tomorrow. Track them habits.
Speaker 2:We'll see you tomorrow on YouTube.
