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#1448 - If You’re Waiting For Motivation And Inspiration… Listen To This

• Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros

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You've probably heard it a thousand times - motivation and inspiration are vital to getting anything done. There will be periods of high energy and motivation and periods of low energy, which is crucial for maintaining balance. It's a natural cycle that allows us to recharge and avoid burnout. In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about challenging conventional wisdom and creating a designated space for action - a specific place and time that can trigger motivation and inspiration. They discuss the power of necessity and commitment. Sometimes, the task at hand might seem like a chore, but making a promise to someone else or, better yet, to yourself, can be the push you need to take action. They also touch on the significance of discipline and how it trumps motivation in the long run.

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Show notes:
[3:26] Finding motivation and inspiration
[10:26] Feeling uninspired at the beginning
[12:26] Giving your word
[20:18] Tim credits Alan's guidance and the Next Level Business Solutions for the transformative impact on his business
[23:02] Struggling with self-discipline 
[25:02] You need more than motivation and inspiration
[28:48] There are highs and lows
[35:29] Outro

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Speaker 1:

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 1447. One trait that sabotages Relationships today, rep. So number one thousand four hundred and forty eight.

Speaker 1:

If you're waiting for motivation and inspiration, listen to this. I did an episode very similar to this on podcast growth you last week, and the reason I did that episode is because I've heard many, many people say yeah, I took the week off because I wasn't motivated, or I took a few episodes off because I just wasn't feeling inspired. And If I've learned anything over this journey whether it's fitness, podcasting, being on podcast, coaching, business in general one of the things I have Learned and I've tried to practice is you're most likely not going to find motivation and inspiration until you start taking action. I Think for many of us, even if you hear the word motivation, what is that actually? It's a motive for action, so a reason for action. I understand the definition, but I Don't know. I think most people end up finding motivation, inspiration, once they start finding a little bit of momentum.

Speaker 1:

I remember, alan, when I, when I used to live in Uxbridge back in the day I would. I had this obsession with movies. I For a long time I would go on eBay every single week After I got my paycheck paycheck from the, I think, for the gas station and I would buy DVDs. I get like five or ten every week and get them shipped out Before the days of Amazon. And I remember one of my favorite movies was never back down. It's a movie about a mixed martial arts fighter who fights the popular guy at school, wins and then dates the beautiful girl at school.

Speaker 2:

One of those type. Makes sense why you liked it.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yeah, the opposite of what my high school career seemed like, but I love the mixed martial arts part. I was a big mixed martial arts fan. I was watching UFC at that point, I believe, and I remember I would have days. This is one of my things. I would get Chinese food from food works. You know where food works is and I would watch, never back down. And there were times when I literally would say you know what I'm done eating this Chinese food. I got to go to the gym. This movie is inspiring me, it's motivating me, but I was still watching the movie. It's not like I was sitting there saying I really hope I Start to feel inspired. I really hope I start to feel motivated. I was watching the movie for a completely different reason. I had Chinese food in front of me. I had my orange chicken, I had my pork fried rice and I probably had my crab rangoon and my egg rolls and I wanted to. I wanted to eat Chinese food and watch this movie. But I was so inspired, motivated by the movie and the fight scenes and the training scenes that it Got me going.

Speaker 1:

In podcast growth you. I said this. I Said One of the reasons I don't think I've been rapping as much is Because I haven't been as inspired or motivated to rap. And I said do you? Do you think If I scheduled every single week, if I had two hours on Saturday scheduled to rap, I'd rap more, even if I wasn't inspired or motivated? I'm sure, because once I sat down and started doing it, I might find a beat that makes me feel some type away. I might, I Might get into a flow, I might be going through something, but since I don't have the time set aside, it's most likely not gonna happen. I'm most likely not just gonna find inspiration I don't know or sit down and write something I watched yeah, I don't, I didn't say this on this podcast. It's hard when, when I have recorded in this exact situation, what I'm about to say is just not for the show.

Speaker 1:

In In the documentary I told you about Louis Capaldi the musician. Did I talk about that on here? Okay, he Was recording his second studio album and he said the same things. I don't know what to write. I feel like I'm a terrible writer. I don't know what to do, but he kept going to the studio every day. That was his process. He goes to the studio, he listens to music, he tries to write stuff and he sees what happens. So that really is my thought for this episode.

Speaker 1:

Is there a place for motivation and inspiration? Absolutely 100%. I think it's probably further along momentum than we give credit for, and even that example of me not rapping as much Because I don't feel inspired. When I sit down and I do it I Usually get inspired and motivated. The fact is, I just haven't created the space to do that Often enough. And that right there is the action. Maybe the action for you, for motivation and inspiration, is to set the time to clear the space. Whatever it may be, I would just argue that there's probably some sort of action that would benefit us all for motivation and inspiration. I.

Speaker 2:

Actually think it's really empowering to Realize how little inspiration and motivation are sustainable. I Think we've all had those moments that Kevin's talking about, where we're watching a movie or listening to a song, or we see something on social media that pumps us up so much that we're like I'm gonna go to the gym. Hmm, I'm gonna go to the gym. I've done that countless times Some motivational video or something on YouTube and it's like that's it. I'm, let's go. It's rock. And I used to say as a fitness coach that you need to have a gym that's within 15 minutes from you. For those reasons and ideally it would be a 24-7 gym, because when the mood strikes, if, if there's uncertainty whether or not the gym is open, it's gonna affect you long term. But I actually think it's empowering to Understand that motivation and inspiration can help. But it's not a solution. It's not a sustainable solution, it's not gonna make you consistent, and Kevin and I try to talk about this. We're actually gonna do another episode similar To this concept later this week, but it's gonna be a different framework. But this idea, this idea that you're gonna want to do hard things, it's empowering, I think, to realize that that's not real.

Speaker 2:

I don't care if Kevin loves podcasting. He doesn't always want to podcast. He might want to podcast more than me, he might want to podcast more than you, but there are times when he does not want to podcast. Now what Does he go? Watch an inspiring movie? No, that's where self-discipline comes. So I think inspiration and motivation can be a great start, but I think that self-discipline never fails. Self-discipline is required, and there was this great quote that I heard many, many years ago, but I don't. I don't always go back to the main fundamentals, and I should more, but it's this idea that you don't feel your way into action. You act your way into feeling. The other day, the last thing I wanted to do was do mobility, and the second last thing I wanted to do was record, was listen to our episode where I had terrible audio quality.

Speaker 2:

Alright, so to bring the listeners behind the scenes, because that's what we do at NLEU we pull back the curtain, particularly on our own mistakes. My Windows 11 computer was creating a popping noise in the older episodes. Probably two months ago, if you were to look back 60 episodes, you'd hear a popping in my audio. We solved that problem by getting me a Zen book, which is Windows 10, and we got me a new mixer and the new mixer I use for both coaching calls and podcasts, and in coaching calls I use a lapel mic. If you were to listen to last week's episodes, you would hear that the audio quality is worse than the audio quality on this episode. Hopefully, hopefully. And the reason why is because my lapel mic on my old mixer I could turn it down all the way and it would be off. On this new mixer I turn it down all the way and you could still hear from the lapel mic, and my lapel mic was right next to the fan of my computer. So the audio quality from my side was not good for the last month or so.

Speaker 2:

And so the last two things on planet Earth that I wanted to do obviously that's an exaggeration, but I did not want to do mobility and I definitely didn't want to listen to our show because of the audio quality frustrating me so much. Now the production team put it through a filter. It's still more than good enough, but for my standards it's very difficult for me. And then on top of that there's all the feedback of what I should have said, could have said, wanted to say Listening to your own content is very challenging for anyone who has really high standards for themselves.

Speaker 2:

And so I'm sitting there and I don't feel like it at all. I'm not motivated, I'm not inspired. I'm in the gym and I'm like the last thing I want to do is sit on this yoga mat in this gym and do my mobility and listen to NLU, because it's too much feedback. I'm exhausted, it's eight o'clock at night and I just don't want to do it. Now, here's the interesting part of the story. I ended up doing it, I grinded it out and it was like a 30 minute episode two. So 30 minutes of mobility, me in the corner of this gym, and then I worked out for 45 minutes straight, put a set of timer. When I got home, you'd have thought that I had conquered the world. Emilia was like you are in such a good mood. I was in such a good mood because I finally, finally, finally did what I wanted to do, but didn't want to do.

Speaker 2:

And that's the irony. I want to work out, I want to do mobility, I want to review our show, I want to be a better speaker, I want XYZ, but I don't always do it. And I cannot stand it what I don't those broken promises you make to yourself every single day. They add up and you just don't want to go. You just don't want to do it. But afterwards you feel like a million bucks, you're inspired, you're motivated, you're happy, you're fulfilled, you're like over the moon. I was saying it and Dan said it was awesome. That's the way it works. I don't know why it's set up that way. I do from a neuroscientific standpoint but at the end of the day, you're going to feel good after, not during, definitely not before. We're going to feel good after we record these episodes. I'm excited. I was thinking of Chinese food.

Speaker 1:

Jeff myself. Now I'm thinking of Chinese. Oh, you're in trouble. He's inspired and motivated for Chinese food.

Speaker 2:

Inspiration and motivation. Work for easy stuff.

Speaker 1:

Self-discipline works for the hard stuff. Last week, you and I were recording and you said, hey, can you stay late tonight to record? And I said I can't. I gave Tyron my word. I was going to do something. That's something I've learned from suits as well. Another shout out to the suits they give each other their word often and your word is your bond. So that I was.

Speaker 1:

So I cleaned the coffee maker. I haven't been using the espresso, espresso, espresso, whatever it is espresso maker that Tyron got me for Christmas, because I've only been having my pre-workout in the morning and then that's it. I don't have any more caffeine because it was affecting my sleep. It was a whole thing. But Tyron said, hey, can you clean it for me so I can use it? And when we're in Belgium, somebody's going to come watch the cats and they know how to use it, so we want them to be able to use it too if they want coffee. And I didn't want to do it at all, but I knew the only way that I was going to do that is if I said, yeah, I'll give you. I said I'm not going to do it tonight. I can't do it tonight. Tonight's going to be a later night. I want to relax. I said what, if I give you my word, I'll do it tomorrow? And she said yeah, yeah, that's okay, I can wait another day Again.

Speaker 1:

It wasn't, I wasn't motivated or inspired to do it, but I did create something that would create a motive for action, a reason for doing. A reason for doing is necessity. There was necessity, so I put on some music and I went to town and I cleaned the coffee maker. Pain in the butt was an idea the week before that we have. So if you follow me on Instagram, you've seen the setup. We have a nice the coffee maker and then we have all these different syrup and there's a just, it's a really nice coffee making station, but in one of the drawers we have flavored syrup and one of them spilled out like the dark chocolate, just spilled all over the inside of this shelf, and Tara saw it.

Speaker 1:

She's like, hey, are you gonna clean that? First of all, she said did you see it? Is this the first time you've seen it? And I said, no, definitely not. Saw it last night. And she said why didn't you clean it last night? And I said I figured another day wouldn't hurt, honestly, and I thought it was dry. So I didn't think it was that big of a deal and honestly, I knew it was gonna be a giant pain in the ass and she's like, okay, okay. So I said I, I promise you I'll clean it tomorrow. I'll give you my word, give you my word, I'll clean it tomorrow it was terrible.

Speaker 1:

It sucked. It took me like an hour to clean out this thing. I had to clean all this stuff again. I understand these are first world problems, all things considered, but I wasn't motivated. I wasn't inspired. That might be the. The next level nugget is what could you create that would create motivation, some level of necessity, some level of promise to yourself or somebody else? I know we use that often, we use the commitment device, but I that's one of the best things in the world. I promise I'm gonna do this for Alan. I most likely do it.

Speaker 1:

Good, the skin in the game thing we, so we're actually doing an episode on that, so don't go too deep, okay.

Speaker 2:

The you gave Taryn your word. Your word means more to you. Keeping your word means more to you than the pain in the ass of cleaning out that drawer definitely I. I wanted to share this briefly. I have this in front of me. If you're on YouTube, you can see it. It's it's called a productivity planner, and I made the massive mistake eight years ago of buying a bunch of these. It wasn't a mistake, it was actually amazing, but it was wildly painful. And the reason it's painful is because it's broken down to help you become productive, and the promise was you will be at least 200% more productive and, by the way, I was way more than 200% more productive. And this is not a sales pitch for this productivity planner. This is not our planner, this is.

Speaker 2:

I don't even know if they sell these anymore, but here's what it has you do. It has you right down the date. There's a little inspiring quote in the top. Inspiration motivation says so. I'll just go to some random page. On page 46, the date is blank. I didn't use this one fully, aka wasted my money. Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I'll understand. Chinese mother. So motivational quote. Awesome, okay, great, very cool Kevin's like yeah nice, but that's not gonna get you to clean that goddamn drawer

Speaker 2:

so most important task of the day. If this was the only thing I did today, I would be satisfied. And then there's a blank. It says number one next to it and then it has a checkbox whether or not you get it done and it does these 25 minute increments okay.

Speaker 2:

Well, I had this idea of self eight years ago, and the idea of self was I am a self-disciplined person and honestly, I think, statistically speaking, I was, but not in certain things. Back then, I had a YouTube channel called real-life superheroes and it was this series that I was trying to record, and if you've never started a YouTube channel, it's, it's just massive uncertainty. You're putting yourself out there. You don't know if your audio is gonna be good. You've never video edited and if you have, you're not good at it. You know you have cameras and you have lights and you have. You don't know how to put them together and it's just awful. Everything about it is just terrible. That's why nlps is so powerful, because we'll just do all that for you if you start a podcast not necessarily YouTube channel, but it's just terrible, it's just so bad. Starting a YouTube channel is bad, really bad, and and so I had the lights and I had the whiteboard and I had that, my notebook, and I had what I was gonna say and I had my lapel mic and I had my director friend come and help me through all this equipment. And you know, I had this nice camera that I spent a lot of money on also, and it was just brutal, awful, and I remember how hard it was for me to edit it and to post it and to write the show notes in this case it's not show notes, it was YouTube notes and I just remember how hard it was for me to face the fact that I was so undisciplined. I'm holding up the productivity planner. I have a really bad experience with these. The reason why is because I couldn't do three things a day. Now I could do three things that are already habits a day. I could brush my teeth, I could record a podcast episode, I could do mobility, whatever it is, if there already habits. Mobility is probably a bad example of that. But you got to remember, kevin and I have done 1448 episodes prior to this. It's not hard for us to jump on the mics, but in the beginning it was just a whole day endeavor. It took all day to muster the setup and you know it was just awful and I think that's empowering.

Speaker 2:

I'm not trying to say don't start a podcast. I'm not trying to say don't start a YouTube channel. What I'm saying is the beginning. It takes so much more than being inspired and motivated.

Speaker 2:

If you are waiting on inspiration, you're waiting on motivation to do that ridiculously hard thing, you're never going to do it. You just have to bite the bullet and eat the mud or the junk or the frog or the shit, whatever it is that you want to eat. But at the end of the day, that first video on YouTube was the hardest, one of the hardest things I've ever done. And here I am now and we do videos every day YouTube and it's a habit now Every Monday. We record Marathon Monday for years now. If we make it look easy, do not get it twisted. The beginning was absolutely brutal and I had to face the cold, hard truth that I am not as disciplined as I thought. And if you can face that and you can love quotes and Chinese, you know proverbs and inspirational stuff on Instagram that's great. But I'm telling you, when it comes to building something real and starting something real, it takes so much more than motivation and inspiration.

Speaker 1:

And it still is brutal, transparently. It's just brutal in different ways. I love podcasting. I love each and every one of you listening, but I'd rather be sleeping right now. For sure, I'm not really inspired or motivated at the beginning of the day. But somebody asked me on a podcast. I said what are you, how did you say, inspire and motivated the whole time? I didn't, we didn't, we didn't. That's not real. I know that I could probably give a really good, powerful, inspirational, motivational answer to that of every day. I woke up and the second my feet hit the floor, I understood how lucky I was to be alive. And that just hasn't been my experience. That just hasn't. That hasn't been my experience.

Speaker 2:

Maybe that is a little bit of BS.

Speaker 1:

No, I'm sure there's people who hold that. I'm sure that, yeah, no, I'm sure there's people who hold that. I'm just trying to live more and more in the truth of I would hate to give advice to someone. One of the things I say is remember you're why. If you need inspiration and motivation and you're struggling, remember you're why. Why did you start this in the first place? Because, if maybe you've lost sight of that, that's possible. That's possible. Put yourself under a little extra pressure.

Speaker 2:

I think it is possible to have your feet hit the floor and feel grateful for your life like fairly consistently, definitely not every day. I think that the people who say that that's every day are full of it. I genuinely maybe I don't know. There's no way. There's no way that you're going to wake up every day and your feet hit the floor and you're going to crush it. There's no way. There's no. I've coached a lot of people, kevin. I think that that's it's motivational, it's inspirational and I think that in a motivational, inspirational video it can be useful.

Speaker 2:

But I think, when it comes to the way people actually live. I have one close friend of mine who has one a very, very successful, inspirational, motivational YouTube channel and he doesn't wake up every day inspired Hell. No, no way I coached him, no way you. As a matter of fact, he struggles just as much as you do to get shit done. It's just it's just not really motivational and inspirational to do that. So I think those videos can be dangerous. It's here's what I would say. It's not the whole spectrum. It doesn't mean some people aren't more grateful than others. It doesn't mean that you can't wake up grateful for your life. I just want it to be as clear as possible. I've never met someone who doesn't struggle with this self discipline thing.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't know. I yeah different strokes for different folks, but I always just try to keep it. I try to keep it as real as I can and just say look I I can't tell you how to stay motivated, inspired all the time. I don't know. I don't know what the I don't know what the formula is. We do it or we're very consistent. I will not say I'm more motivated or inspired than your average person. I will say I'm more, I'm committed and more consistent. But I don't know if that's a product of motivation and inspiration. A lot of its necessity, a lot of it is I don't want to miss, because we've never we haven't missed since we said we weren't going to miss. That's a big part of it. That's a big piece of it.

Speaker 2:

So just what would you say to younger Kev? I know we got to jump, but what would you say to six year ago Kev, at the beginning, with when we used to listen to all this motivational stuff and and we've really NLU, isn't that?

Speaker 2:

We're not like remember we used to do motivation Monday and I think we have motivation and inspiration in the show, but it's not really that. It. We're a different vibration. For lack of better phrasing, what would you say to Kevin back then that used to listen to some of that stuff? Oh, man.

Speaker 1:

I would probably just say well, let's see if this can be motivational and inspirational. It's going to be my goal. I put a lot of pressure on myself. The determining factor for how successful you are six years from today is not going to be how inspired and motivated you were regularly. It would be how often you were disciplined. When you were not is probably what I would say. Well said, clip it Right. There is a teaser clip.

Speaker 2:

That's really good. It doesn't motivation and inspiration are part of the equation. Yeah, yeah. But it's not the whole equation. You can't rely on it. Yeah, you can't rely on it. You really can't rely on it because it's almost like.

Speaker 1:

it's almost like relying on luck. Here's the thing, and this is it's very hard to make this land, but it's almost like I'll say you and I have said this before like fitness kind of sucks. Doing everything it required to get in really good shape and stay in shape and all that it kind of sucks. And there'll be people who say like, no, it's awesome. I love all that. Maybe you do, maybe you do. I don't.

Speaker 1:

I don't love all that it takes and the odds of somebody loving hard exercise, tracking calories, weighing themselves, drinking enough water, getting enough sleep, taking the right micronutrients, supplements, all of that stuff. I just feel like the odds are super rare that somebody would love all those things. Are there people out there that do? Yes, I'm willing to bet there are. Just like I. Like getting punched in the face. That's a rare thing, probably. I don't.

Speaker 1:

It doesn't really bother me that much as compared to other people, but it's almost that thought of, unless you're only doing things that you're motivated to do and inspired to do. But I don't know what that would be for somebody forever. I don't know. I don't know what it possibly. I'm not always motivated or inspired to have deep, deep, challenging conversations with Aaron. I don't always want to do that, but I know it'll be worth it and I know it's what's best. That's more of a discipline thing or a courage thing.

Speaker 1:

So I just I always think from that frame of maybe you're blessed to the point where you love every single thing that's required to get in really good shape. Maybe you are, I don't know. I don't know people out there that are more motivated by that and they love that stuff more than I do. I don't know, but I find it very hard to believe that you could have one inspiration or motivation point that keeps you going for life, purely because of the law, familiarity, we all, we forget. All right, have you? I mean, you haven't yet, but my back is good now. I've kind of forgotten about it.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I know I'm lifting heavy. My back is pretty good. I'm already losing some of my humility around it. I said to Emilia earlier she's like, how's your back? I said, oh, really good, but I don't want to lose my humility. I want to keep my humility along the way, and I think that's another episode, but we're going to talk about it. It's challenging.

Speaker 1:

This is a challenging thing Again you want to watch motivational, inspirational videos. I'm all for Alan Love's inspirational movies. He watches them on the reg, listens to motivational stuff every morning. So it's not that it's more of the. If that's not working, it's not a buy. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the content you're consuming. Last thing there was somebody in Alan and I's life one time where we had somebody at our live. We did a live podcast and this person did a presentation and it was very motivational and inspirational. And this person that we know. She said I am going to run, I'm going to start running and I'm going to start exercising every single day. I'm so motivated, I'm so inspired. I think that lasted a couple of days and then it petered off. The reason is because motivation and inspiration are fleeting, just like happiness is. You're not always going to be happy. It's not. It's not, I don't know if it's humanly possible.

Speaker 2:

It's not even biochemically good for you. You need to have there's been a lot of science underneath. You need to have oscillation. You can't just be up all the time.

Speaker 1:

That makes sense.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, there's highs and lows, there's ebbs and flows. It's not like you can even uppers in drugs. You can't just take uppers, otherwise you're eventually you'll have to have crashes. They talk about that People who do a lot of drugs. They there's the really big crashes and you have to modulate and oscillate. So I just I don't want people looking on social media at the inspiration and motivation and thinking that that's the whole picture. Yeah, I listened to inspirational. I have one video called Ode to Excellence that I've listened to every day for eight years, every single day, and it's so motivational and it's so inspiring and it's about discipline. But that's not going to do it. That's not it. That's one part of the equation.

Speaker 1:

That has helped. It also requires motivation and inspiration for you to do that every morning.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, discipline, it takes discipline. I don't want to listen to it every morning, no way.

Speaker 1:

So it's almost like in order to do the thing that creates the motivation and inspiration, you have to have discipline to do it in the first place. That's a good point, or something. That's why I started with. I was watching a movie and I got inspired. I didn't plan on it, but the action of me picking that if I was watching whatever the hell else I would have been watching Friday the 13th I probably wouldn't have been inspired to go work out.

Speaker 2:

I probably would have been.

Speaker 1:

Inspired to hide under the covers understandably.

Speaker 2:

Last thing I promised yeah, okay, this is it. I love inspiring movies. I love it. I love. I went and saw Jurassic Park 3D 30th anniversary on Friday with Emilia. Date night was the best, okay, and I do consider that an inspiration. I really do. Okay, superhero movies better example Iron man or Captain America super inspiring, but remember, I have to remember their movies. I want that to land. I can be inspired by Captain America and Iron man all day, but I have to remember their fictional characters and their fictional movies. I can't. I can be inspired by a movie, but I can't think the movie's real. Do you see what I mean? That I think that social media can be inspiring and motivating, but you can't think it's real. If you think it's real, you're going to compare your life to it. I can't compare to Brad Pitt and Troy, when even Brad Pitt isn't Brad Pitt and Troy.

Speaker 2:

It's a green screen and it's not real you know, and it's very dangerous to compare to things that aren't real. They're not attainable because they're not real and I just hope that that lands in a new way, because movies can inspire you and motivate you all day, but you can't believe that you're going to feel that way all the time. Even the actor didn't want to do that scene.

Speaker 1:

I could be an actor, of course.

Speaker 2:

Maybe one day you will.

Speaker 1:

You think?

Speaker 2:

Who's going to play you in the movie Me Perfect?

Speaker 1:

Older me.

Speaker 2:

They're going to need some serious makeup man.

Speaker 1:

I think Brad Pitt could. I don't know if he'd do full justice, but I don't know Brad Pitt, I don't know. I don't know who I look like. Who do I look like? We'll say that for another day. I think that's probably not important. Tom Cruise could play you because he's never going to get any older ever. Yeah, yeah, he's just inspiration and motivation only.

Speaker 2:

No, he talks about it.

Speaker 1:

He talks about how he loves movies, but how hard it is Well, I'll reach out to him to see if he'll play you. Sounds good, man, I'll let you know. Next, Love Nation. If you don't follow us on social media and you want to send me who would play me in a movie, my handle is at Never Quit Kid. Please be nice. If you do send people over, Alan's is at Alazarus88, Alaz A-R-O-S 88, and then Alan Lazarus Kevin Palmary on Facebook. If you want to connect on social media, please. We post every day. We're on our stories every day and we don't always batch our DMs every day, but if you reach out and say, hey, listen, NLU and the rock should play you, Kev, you will forever be my favorite, For sure.

Speaker 2:

Well, he's not as jacked as you are.

Speaker 1:

He's fair and honestly, that's he's going to have to really start working out. He could start working out a little harder now if you wanted. Yeah, if you want to live a little bit harder now.

Speaker 2:

If you resonated with the productivity planner thing that I talked about earlier, every single person, I believe, is either more disciplined than I thought or less disciplined than they thought. For me, I was far less disciplined than I thought you might be. On the other end of that, we have an app called Optimal that will help you track habits, and it's either going to be easier than you thought or harder than you thought, depending on your self concept. Either way, it's going to help you with build real self-discipline. So maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised and go okay, three habits, I'm crushing it. Awesome, killing it. Let's bump to six.

Speaker 2:

Maybe you're struggling with three and you just have to work through that and start realizing. You know what? Maybe I have lost some of my humility and maybe this is the humble pie that I need to transform my life and we're going to talk about that in another episode. So Optimal, click the link in the show notes. No matter what, it's going to be good for you. It's either going to make you believe in yourself more or it's going to give you the humble pie you need. Give it a shot.

Speaker 1:

Give it a shot Tomorrow for episode number 1000. Hold on, I've jeff the whole thing. I was way too far down. 1449, three things required for transformation. Alan has coached how many hours 3,000 hours.

Speaker 2:

I surpassed 4500 recently 4500 hours.

Speaker 1:

That's a long bit of hours. You've coached many people and he came to me one day and he said Kev, three things that matter, Three things that are required for transformation.

Speaker 2:

I had no idea Early in my coaching I had no idea these were required.

Speaker 1:

Don't say it, I won't. Don't you dare say them.

Speaker 2:

I was blown away by this and it's changed the way that I view myself and it's changed the way I view people.

Speaker 1:

So if you want to find out, tune in tomorrow for episode number 1449. As always, we love you, we appreciate you, grateful for each and every one of you. And at NLU we don't have fans, we have family. If anybody knows the rock, please let me know so we can connect with them. We'll talk to you all tomorrow.

Speaker 2:

Stay motivated and inspired and, most importantly, disciplined Next time on Nation.

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