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#1733 - Are Your Goals Specific Enough? - Freestyle Friday
What does being wealthy mean to you? Is it just about paying the bills, or is it more about your dreams and what you believe in? In this episode, Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros explore what wealth means. They question common ideas about money and its place in our lives. They talk about our tricky relationship with money and how being financially secure can affect different parts of life. Listen in to feel stronger and get helpful advice on how to step up your money game!
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Show notes:
(2:45) The power of small goals and the risks of undershooting life goals
(6:22) Wealth definitions
(8:12) Dream big, act small
(11:19) The key to financial goals
(15:13) Aligning money with personal values and the concept of earning vs. deserving
(18:18) Next Level Dreamliner: the planner, agenda, journal, and habit tracker to rule them all. Get a copy: https://a.co/d/f1FWAQA
(19:19) Money matters
(21:27) What does money represent?
(24:38) Eco-system and economy
(27:16) Reflections on changing your relationship with money and setting goals
(34:22) 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 yesterday's episode, episode number 1732. You never know who you're impacting Today. For episode number 1733, it is Freestyle Friday, one of my favorite days, because we can just kind of riff and see what happens. I want to turn my lights off for Freestyle Friday, one of my favorite days, because we can just kind of riff and see what happens. I want to turn my lights off for Freestyle Friday, but I haven't taken that leap yet. Maybe we'll see, but I know it's going to be dark. But I think it might be cool, but it might be too dark. Let's give it a shot. Maybe we'll give it a shot.
Speaker 2:We'll give it a shot. You want to do it too?
Speaker 1:Hold on, you're going to turn your lights off too. Yeah, man, nice. Wow, this is awesome For those listening. I'm sorry you can't see what we're doing, but for those watching oh, look at that. My goodness gracious, that's where it's at right there.
Speaker 2:One sec, I can't even see me. Hold on. Yeah, man, that's where it's at right there.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Thank you for your patience for those of you who are on the audio machine only All right, I was thinking of this yesterday, so last night. We're recording this on Thursday, no Wednesday. We did our group coaching session about wealth creation on Tuesday, so last night we were talking about wealth creation. We're talking about money how to level up your money, and you and I have been talking a lot recently about how setting small goals is the way to build belief. Almost small, embarrassing goals, like they should almost be embarrassingly easy. It's awesome. Do it, you'll build momentum, you'll build self-trust, you'll build self-love All that stuff Awesome Self-worth.
Speaker 1:I had a moment last night where I was looking in the chat because we said what does wealth mean to you and a lot of people and I'm not making this wrong for anybody who's listening from group coaching it was just something that I've been thinking about ever since I saw these answers. A I've been thinking about ever since I saw these answers, a lot of the answers around what was wealth to you was being able to comfortably pay my bills without worrying about where the next dollar is going to come from, and I love that. I think that's a great definition if that's what resonates with you. But this was one of those small instances where I don't think setting small goals is benefiting people. Because here's the thing this isn't like a one week or one month or one year goal. This is the accumulation of your life goal and if you shoot and you undershoot, you may never actually get to that level of quote unquote wealth. I've met a lot of people who say I don't really care that much about money, I don't think it's a coincidence that they don't have a ton of it. Yeah, and I don't know if they would ever get to their own unique definition of wealth. I'm not talking about my definition, I'm not talking about Allen's, I'm not talking about society's. I'm talking about their own unique definition.
Speaker 1:Because it's almost like if I, if somebody was to say well, I, what is your definition of fitness, of being in shape? They might say, well, I'd feel comfortable in a certain thing. I'd be. I feel comfortable in that dress, that bathing suit, those board shorts, that tank top, whatever it is. But if you undershoot that, if that's like if your goal is like a hundred percent of what you want and you undershoot it, you might end up regretting that. So that's been going on in my head since I was. I was since last night. I don't know what the answer is. I have no idea. I still think setting small micro goals is super important. I really do do. But if you were to say well, my goal for my relationship is just to have a loving partner, I feel like that's dangerous. It's almost like it's not specific enough.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What are your thoughts on that? Because my mind has been on this since last night and I was like that would be a really good episode. I had a little fear around it because, again, anytime we're talking about money, I do not want to put my money beliefs on anybody else. I have my own definition of wealth. Alan has his own definition of wealth. Everybody has their own. But if I was to shoot and miss my definition of wealth, I'm still going to be okay and have what I value and be able to do what I value when. If somebody said my definition of wealth is to have enough where I can do what I value when I want to, but it's not like a clear and specific thing and you undershoot, you might end up regretting that. So that's my ultimate thought.
Speaker 2:I think it's a great conversation. I'm super pumped, just for everyone listening and or watching. I apologize, my voice is a little bit shot. I did 12 back to backs yesterday and I think today is 10, but I'm here and we're rocking.
Speaker 1:His voice is a little Haas.
Speaker 2:He's got a little.
Speaker 1:Haas voice tonight, little Haas.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So the first place I want to start here is where we started yesterday in the group coaching session, which is what is wealth? What is your own unique definition of wealth? What does wealth even mean to you? And we looked it up on Google. I have the slides up right now. Google's definition of wealth is an abundance of valuable possessions or money. Next Level University's definition of wealth Kevin and I co created this is the ability to acquire the things and lifestyle that you value most.
Speaker 2:Now, when you said that setting seemingly embarrassingly small goals is how you build belief and self worth, I do agree. But there's a macro and a micro, and so macro and microeconomics. I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole, but there's a reason why they're two different courses. I think that micro goals and micro inch pebbles and micro milestones and micro habits on the day-to-day basis are how you build self-worth through keeping the promises to yourself and setting and achieving small micro goals. I do think that's how you build self-belief and self-worth through keeping the promises to yourself and setting and achieving small micro goals. I do think that's how you build self-belief and self-worth. I do. But here's the problem, kev If you don't have any clarity whatsoever on your bigger macro dream. You're basically setting goals just to set goals in an aimless direction.
Speaker 2:And so I was on with a brand new client. Shout out to and she gave me permission to share this, by the way, shout out to Adina, and if I'm pronouncing that wrong I apologize, but anyways. So she said, you can share my stuff all the time. I said, technically I can't because I don't want my clients to think I'm going to share their stuff. So I appreciate you, but I'm not going to do that. So, anyways, first name's only Adina, you, but I'm not going to do that. So, anyways, first names, only Adina. What's happening? So I was on the phone with her and I said, listen, this is my coaching and I'll connect this back to wealth and to Kevin's point. I've been doing this for seven years and I've kind of figured out, finally, what I've been doing the whole time at a deeper level.
Speaker 2:This is the formula. All I'm really doing is you're telling me what you want to achieve and then I'm getting you to invest your time, effort and money in the right person's places, things and ideas. And it's like how am I doing that? Really? What determines where you invest your time, effort and money. It's what you focus on. Well, what determines what you focus on? What you measure. So as long as I can get you to measure the right shit consistently, you're going to naturally and inevitably eventually achieve your goals.
Speaker 2:Here's the problem. You can't determine what to measure until you first set the big goal, and so that's why I talk about goals and dreams. Dreams are pie in the sky. Dream statements that I do with my clients where it's like one sentence I want to be financially free. I'll give you one example of one of my clients. His name is Bradley, and I know that this is not super relatable, but he's in the finance industry and I just want to give an example because I think this will land. So his goal is a net worth of $75 million. Now, that goal is insanely high for most people, and I totally understand that, and I'm not making that wrong. But one thing that I find fascinating is that even if he hits one, one millionth of that goal, he's still got 750 000. You know what I mean? Is that not? Is that the correct numbers? 75 million divided by a million would be 75.
Speaker 1:that's my bad but I was gonna. Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2:The point is is that, even if he hits one one thousandth of that goal, there you go. Um so, even if he hits one one thousandth of that goal, he's still in a good place.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but here's the problem Is he going to crumble his self-esteem and self-worth the whole way up when he's nowhere near his actual goal? So that's this weird duality. And so, kev, you have really high financial goals, which has required of you more than other people, but you've also learned more and grown more because of it. But it's also kind of crushed your self-worth to constantly be losing all the time. So what I'm trying to do is help people set the right macro direction not goal, but direction with a dream statement of something pretty pie in the sky, a little outside their comfort zone 100 grand a year, whatever it is, 10 grand a month, 5 grand a month, 2 grand a month and then set micro inch pebbles, micro daily habits and goals that are clear and obvious, almost embarrassingly small. So it's dream big, act really small.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I went to, so I had. Today was an interesting day for me. I had a couple things scheduled and they were all like misscheduled. Somebody no-showed me, so I had a lot of time to do back office work and then I'm figuring out. Okay, alan and I probably won't finish recording till seven.
Speaker 1:When I eat, within like three hours before bed, for some reason I can't sleep like I normally do. So I was like I'm gonna have lunch today. I very rarely eat lunch because we're usually done at six, but I'm going to have lunch. I had to run to the store to get stuff because I, tara and I have been traveling. It was a whole thing the specificity of my goals for saving money right now to reinvest in the business and the weight, the 10 pounds in 10 weeks I was looking at. I had Subway app pulled up, I had Chipotle app pulled up, I had Chipotle app pulled up, I had Taco Bell app pulled up and I literally created my orders. I was going to get two oven roasted turkey breast subs on footlong wheat and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:And I was going to get a barbacoa Four.
Speaker 1:G's per Probably provolone.
Speaker 2:You got to go provolone. That's my fave. Best stats, maybe double Double Chi. Of course you gotta get double.
Speaker 1:Chi. But I was gonna get two subs, or I was gonna get one really big burrito from Chipotle, or I was gonna get like a cheesy gordita crunch from Taco Bell and like five soft shell tacos. And I had it all done and I was like, well, you know, you get Subway. It was like $18. No, no, it was $14 for this one sub I wanted no, I'm not spending $14 on a sub and it was like $12 for the Chipotle. So I was like, well, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1:So, based on the goals of saving money and the goals of the 10 pounds in 10 week challenge, you know what I did? I went to the grocery store Nice and I bought eight cans of chicken Nice Canned chicken and I had some chicken sandwiches with relish and light mayonnaise and light. What is it? Low calorie cheddar cheese, sharp cheddar cheese. But if I didn't have the goal, you know how much easier it would be for me to. I would be on Taco Bell right now. Of course, get it here, bring it on over when I'm done, bring it on over.
Speaker 1:So I think that, yeah, you can have a goal that's too specific to the point where you obsess over it. But wealth is money is a very interesting thing, because I think one of the reasons people don't, one of the reasons people don't set a big goal when it comes to money, is because they think it's bad to do it. I think that's one. The second one is I think they have an agreement with themselves that they don't want to do what it'll take to accomplish it, and I'm all for that. We did an episode about that a while ago, where not everybody's supposed to be wealthy because not everybody wants to do the amount of work necessary to get from where they are to there. And honestly, I'm not talking down about that. I actually think that's really good that you have that level of self-awareness.
Speaker 1:But if that's not where you are and you're just thinking, well, I'd like enough just to get by, unless you accomplish 100% of the goal, you're not going to have enough to get by. Yeah, I know, and that the the weird, freaking thing when it comes to stuff like this. It's it's the year I said I wanted to make a hundred thousand dollars. I made like a hundred thousand dollars. It wasn't 105, it wasn't 110, it wasn't 92, it was like a hundred grand. I was 100 accurate in my goal, but if I wasn't, I wouldn't have again. I still would have been okay because it was a big, a big enough goal. But yeah, it's weird, I don't know. I've been thinking about that because I don't I truly don't know what I could say that would stand out and be valuable.
Speaker 1:Because the truth of the matter is, why are you setting the goal? Are you setting the goal because you think you're okay with doing the amount of work necessary? Have you worked through all your relationships with money and your money blocks and your villainization of money and wealth, like that's something we got to work through? Do you really think and again, I'm not making this wrong, so please don't villainize me for this Do you really think you're comfortable with just enough to get by? If so, awesome. If not, that's something to work on. And what happens if you don't accomplish 100 of your goal? Are you, are you going to be okay with that? And if not, what's the like, what's the plan b?
Speaker 2:the thing that you said at top at the opening of this podcast episode was a lot of people say, well, I don't care about money and I have been there, but you better believe, the moment I didn't have enough to master my craft and to pour into myself and to buy books and to have time freedom, you better believe I cared about money real quick. So anyone who deludes themselves into saying they don't care about money, what you really mean by that myself included, saying they don't care about money, what you really mean by that myself included is I don't care about money in the way most other people do, but the thing that you really do value your family or fun, unique experiences or adventures or so, for example, I value this NLU team so deeply. I value the momentum that we have, I value time freedom, I value the ability to dictate my own schedule. I will do so much time and effort and invest so much into making sure that the NLU team doesn't have to cut their hours. Nlu team doesn't have to cut their hours to make sure that we are abundant, to make sure that I can keep coaching, to make sure that we can keep the momentum of podcasting, training, speaking, coaching and writing.
Speaker 2:So when I used to say I don't care about money, what I really meant is I don't care about money in terms of the things that most people flaunt with money. I don't actually care that much about cars. I don't actually care that much about cars. I don't really care that much about homes, but you better believe I care about having the best computer possible to make sure that I can be super uber productive. You better believe I care about going to get delicious food with Emilia on date night. You better believe that I care about having a gym membership and being able to go to the gym. We went when we were in South Carolina. We went to the gym and we spent 20 bucks 10 bucks per two different times at a YMCA. That was 40 bucks for two workouts. That's so unreasonable, right, and we wanted an anytime fitness. Trust me, I didn't start there. I was looking for something right. But it's either we're not going to weight train or we're going to spend this $10 each, and so it all comes down to values. You have to understand if you've ever said I don't care about money, that's you do care about something that money buys, something. You care about something that money enables and if you can reframe it around that and you can understand how to tie money, the earning of money. I say earn, not deserve, earn the work for money and you can design your life in a way where you are earning money in alignment to purchase back your own time or to go on fun, unique experiences with your family, or to make sure that you have a home that your family grows in, that is a good home base, that's safe in a good neighborhood like it. It really depends on what you value money is. It might as well be core values monetarily, uh, numbers, the numbers that you put to core values monetarily. Numbers, the numbers that you put to core values.
Speaker 2:As a matter of fact, I'm doing a blog right now. I'll go quick with this, but I was talking about money and we have this Venn diagram in book club that we talked about, where a lot of people have it's kind of like the passion into purpose, into profit. It's a little bit different. It's a Venn diagram three circles. The first circle is what fulfills you. The next circle is what fulfills you. The next circle is what you're really good at and then the next circle is what makes good money, and I think that a lot of us, myself included when I was young, went right to what makes good money and I forgot about what fulfills me and what I'm good at. And so I think, for me, I just forgot about what fulfills me. I think I was pretty good at what I was good at, but at the end of the day, you should start with what fulfills you and then learn how to get good at it and then learn how to make a living doing that, and in that order.
Speaker 2:But there's a section in the blog where I talk about, yes, michael Jordan reference. I said how much money would Michael Jordan make to play basketball 100 years ago? The NBA was created 74 years ago and the truth is very little, if any. And the reason isn't because he isn't good at basketball, it's because no one values it. Yet Now there's a huge global marketplace Kobe's shoes and Michael Jordan shoes, air Jordan, the whole thing, nike, all that. None of that existed 100 years ago. What people valued 100 years ago were horses and buggies and cars for the first time when with ford and all that.
Speaker 2:So so you can't. You can't say I don't care about money. The truth is, money enables you to live a certain lifestyle and if you can tie money to the thing that you do truly value, because none of us value money for money. All of us value money for possessions or for materials, or for cars, or for fun, unique experiences or for movies. I've rented more movies. I rent movies all the time. I rented a movie last night, right. So you better believe that if I said I don't care about money, I do care about movies, I say I don't care about money, I do care about movies. I say I don't care about money, I do care about this house and having the AC on because I'm sweating right now with our HVAC down. You better believe I care about having landscapers with our condo complex and me not being on the lawnmower, not because I'm above it, but because F that.
Speaker 1:And the pets and the pets right when Fudge broke his hip.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was when I took For those of you who don't know.
Speaker 1:I have two kitties, Fudge and Ace, and Fudge had some sort of genetic thing where he had hip dysplasia or something. They don't really know. But I came home from the gym one day and he was dragging his leg and I told Taryn I was like he broke his hip. I can tell by the way he's he broke his hip, I think. I'm pretty sure his hip is dislocated. And we have pet insurance, which shout out to my wife, Shout out to Taryn, because that was her idea.
Speaker 1:I had no idea that was even a thing. I believe it cost $6,000. And I had to pay that bill. I put that $6,000 on my credit card when that happened and we got 90% of that back because of pet insurance. But what if I couldn't put that money on the credit card? What if I didn't have that ability to do that? You would have found a way. Well, I'm sure, but just as an example, I think that's a really good understanding. What does money mean to you? What does money represent? Does it represent freedom? Does it represent opportunity? Does it represent doing the things that only you want to do? Does it represent taking care of those around you? Does it represent safety? Does it represent certainty. I am a very certainty-driven human and money to me means certainty. It just means, and freedom, it's certainty and freedom for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but certainty's a real Certainty's the Well, yeah, I think they're equal. They're equal. I just don't want someone. Yeah, I don't want to. Oh, I got a flat tire. It's going to be like 100 bucks to fix. I don't know what to do. I just want to say, yeah, fix that, please, please, fix that. Yeah, I need that fixed Because I've been in the past where I couldn't do that. I remember those days. I remember what that was like. I remember that. I remember all that. The first car I ever bought that I financed. I didn't have a cosigner.
Speaker 2:My interest rate was 21% on a car Oof Might as well be a credit card.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a $7,000 car and I ended up spending whatever it was $10,000 or $11,000, I think I don't know the numbers off the top of my head. You know why? Because I didn't have any money. I didn't have any money, I couldn't put any money down, I didn't have any credit, I didn't have any credit history. Like. I don't ever want to be there again.
Speaker 1:We all have, and I think this is why it's so hard to talk about money, because my story with money is different than Alan's. It's very similar in many ways. It's very different in many ways. For you out there watching or listening, it's also very different. So when I say, I know exactly what I want my house to look like, I know exactly what I want to have in it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, that's because for the longest time, I didn't live at places where I wanted to live. That's my journey.
Speaker 1:Somebody might say, well, that's too much Kev, that's gluttonous or that's wasteful or whatever it is. Maybe it is, maybe it is, maybe it is gluttonous for me to want more than I need, maybe it is. But what I, what I will say, is I am willing to work for it and I think that you get points for that, and that's that's what I want, that's what is true to me, that's what, based on the relationship I have with money that I want right now. Will that change? Probably, it's changed a lot already In many different ways, right. So I don't know. But for you out there, your relationship with money is only going to change to the degree that you're willing to face it and then work on it as much as it's going to suck.
Speaker 2:I really want to break this down. I know we got to jump. This is hopefully going to. There's a reason and again, kev always playfully makes fun of me when I talk about the economy. So everyone knows about an ecosystem. They all know about the birds and the bees and you know the bird poops on the grass, the flowers and the trees.
Speaker 2:Yeah, birds and the bees, and the flowers and trees, bird poops on the grass. The cow eats the grass. The cow eventually feeds humans. Humans till the grass, whatever, you know what I'm saying. It's an ecosystem. Cool, all right. I'm not nature. I don't know the nature stuff, but I do know that it all works together and I used to study biology. And the trees feed the grass, the grass feeds the trees, the rain, sunshine, all that stuff, and it's an ecosystem. Spiders eat the bugs, right, and then the birds eat the spiders and the birds poop on the grass, which the grass grows. You get it. The cow eats the grass, you get it.
Speaker 2:Okay, what we need to understand that I don't actually think most people ever are taught, unfortunately and this is next level university, so we're here to learn is the economy works the same way. That's actually where it comes from. Ecosystem and economy are the same thing. It's just with money, and so I really want to make this as tangible as possible. So let's imagine I have a client and they pay me for a session. I promise them that they will make more money long term with what I teach them than they invest in me, so I get paid. That means NLU grows. When NLU grows, all the team can get paid more. When all the team gets paid more, now all their families are better off, and when all their families are better off, they spend money. So it's a win-win, win-win, win-win, win-win, win-win, win-win scenario where not only does the client make more money over time by becoming more productive, more intelligent, more aware, more capable, more self-belief, more self-worth, but now I'm more capable because I practice my craft. Now I'm a better coach. Then NLU grows, so you and I can sustain our lifestyles, which then frees up our time because we're paying the team more. Then the team now frees up our time more, so we can do more coaching and help more people for more money. And now NLU grows. And when NLU grows, now all of our families do better and now we inspire. Through that, it's this whole ecosystem that's actually a win-win-win.
Speaker 2:And so most people villainize money because there's a lot of people out there that are snakes, and if you're not a snake, you don't have to villainize money. Money is a good thing. We have a charity right. Money is personal power. Money is the ability to to invest in the values that you value, and the problem is a lot of people invest in things that are not of real value. They they invest in things that harm others.
Speaker 2:It's a win-lose situation, whereas with nlu I try really hard to co-create a company with you. That's a win-win-win-win-win. It's a win for the community, it's a win for the client. It's a win-win. It's a win for the community, it's a win for the client, it's a win for NLU, it's a win for the business owners, you and I. It's a win for the team, it's a win for the world. And if any of those aren't true, then it's not aligned. And, trust me, there have been many opportunities that we have absolutely put money, left, money on the table, where that just wasn't a win-win-win-win-win-win-win, and so I just hope that people realize that you might not value money in the traditional sense you probably don't but you do value what money will enable and empower you to do. And if you can reframe that, not just in theory but in practice, I think everything in your life can change.
Speaker 1:I wrote a song once and one of the lines in it was money doesn't make you. It makes you more of who you are, and I think that's true. I've met some amazing people that have a lot of money, that do amazing things, and you wouldn't even know that they had money unless you went to their house or they told you which they never would. I've met some other people who have very little money, that pretend they have a lot of money and they're shysters for sure, and I've met both ends of the spectrum.
Speaker 2:I've met great people who don't have much money at all and are great people, and I've met people who have a lot of money who aren't great people, but it's not because of money, and you've met a lot of people with tons of money that are that are great people, yeah, and you've met people with no money that aren't great people yeah, money isn't the problem, every single individuals, right, it's.
Speaker 2:It's the axe analogy that you and I used to talk about. It's. It can build a house or it can kill someone, right? So it's not.
Speaker 1:Don't blame the tool, blame the wielder of the tool, the wielder of the tool. The wielder of the tool Always a touchy subject, so shout out to anybody who sat through this and had those moments of discomfort. We talk about this a lot in group coaching and with clients, and that's one of the things I get asked all the time is like how do you guys make money? So I talk about money all the time, but I'm telling you, my relationship with money has become more positive. I won't say it's. I have a perfect relationship with money. I think it's the best it's ever been and I think I'm leveraging in the right way.
Speaker 1:But a lot of that was the understanding of okay, well, where does all this come from? Where does all of this relationship come from? Where does all this trauma come from? So that would be my. My takeaway for this episode is, just like everything, the reason you feel, the way you feel about money is not based on what happened today or yesterday. It's probably based on the way you were raised, the traumas and triggers and tribulations that you had, the experiences, the lack, the abundance, the scarcity, whatever it is, and then it's just a matter of unconditioning that through awareness and then the practice of that awareness. What is your takeaway, sir? In?
Speaker 2:the wise words of an early mentor and kevin and I don't associate with some of the mentors we've had in our past. What we do Associate with this man, his name is evan carmichael. In the wise words of evan carmichael he said money can't be number one, but it definitely can't be number 10, and that's the thing. It shouldn't necessarily be number one, and if it is, that's okay, too okay. But if it's not number one, that's fine. It's not number one for me either, but it better not be number 10. You got to value it enough to actually earn it and to put in the work to earn it, and that's a compound effect that can change your whole world I would say it's.
Speaker 1:It's probably like a number two for me, but you also, that's the thing is, you have to be way more disciplined. You have to be. It's. It's like, uh, pardon the crude analogy, but if sex is the thing that you value more than anything else, you're probably going to take more risks than other people when it comes to sex yeah right it's.
Speaker 1:If it's something you fitness, if fitness is something you value way more than anything else, you're probably going to be more reckless around fitness. You spending 40 is probably unheard of for some people. Yeah, like, why would you spend 40 for two workouts because it's something I value so tremendously in?
Speaker 2:hindsight, just because I have to be super, super honest in all things the always uh, it actually we went back and it closed, so it was actually only 20, but we were gonna do 40. I just realized that in hindsight. Um, so we ended up spending 20, but at the end of the day we were planning on doing 40. They just closed. Everything closes super early in the south.
Speaker 1:That was so weird it's like that in scotland everything closed at like 5 pm.
Speaker 2:Dude it was like what are we doing? It's nine o'clock here, and in new england everything's open till midnight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah you know, so very interesting. Yeah, all right, we're gonna hop on out of here. Shout out to anybody who has recently purchased the next level dreamliner. We had a bunch sold last week, so shout out to anybody who purchased that. If you have not yet and you're interested, we are working on a 2.0 version. I don't know alan would know better than I. Shout out to the products team, lizzie and everybody working on that. I don't know when. When exactly that's coming out q3.
Speaker 1:You can either wait sometime in q3 okay, so maybe if you want to wait for that to come out, but if you are looking to get your q3 and your q4 dreamliners, now would be the time to do it. We'll have the link in the show notes and uh, yeah, as always, we're focused on improving everything as we go, little by by little.
Speaker 2:My coaching has three buckets People that come to my coaching program. They fall into one of these three buckets. The first one is someone who is super successful but not fulfilled, like Kevin before he transformed his life and started the podcast. Like me before my car accident. You're successful in your career, but your career is no longer aligned with who you are. Your business is no longer aligned with who you are. So you, you want to reinvent yourself and you want to reinvent your career. So you're successful financially, but you're not fulfilled.
Speaker 2:That's bucket one.
Speaker 2:Been there. Bucket two is you are fulfilled, like Kevin and I early in the podcast game super fulfilled, loving what we're doing, loving who we are, character over everything, but we're not successful yet and we're struggling to grow our business, and we've been there as well. And then the last bucket is bucket three, which is where I think we all hope to get, which is you are super successful, but you're also fulfilled and you really want to get to a point where not only is your career and business aligned with who you are, but you just want your life to be an amplified version of what it already is, and so, if that trajectory resonates with you, those are the three types of people that I coach and my goal is to get you from bucket one to bucket two or from bucket two to bucket three, and if you're in bucket three, basically let's just amplify everything that you do and grow and scale the things that make the biggest difference together and track the right stuff. So reach out if you're in any one of those three buckets and if that resonates.
Speaker 1:And, as always, if this episode spoke to you in any way, shape or form and you were willing to sit through the potential discomfort that came with it, please leave us a review and subscribe. On whatever platform you are listening to us on Maybe it's YouTube Shout out to the amazing YouTube community we're building. Or whatever podcast platform you are listening to us on, maybe it's YouTube Shout out to the amazing YouTube community we're building, or whatever podcast platform you are listening on. 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. We will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Stay aligned with your values. Next level nation.
