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#1835 - 3 Ways To Finish 2024 Strong!

• Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros

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Ever feel like you’re losing momentum as the year ends? Want to make Q4 your most vital yet? In today’s episode, Kevin and Alan share their top strategies to help you finish 2024 on a high note. They dive into how to stay focused, set boundaries, and get motivated by surrounding yourself with the right people. Plus, they share personal insights about how simple daily habits can drastically boost your consistency. Tune in for a blend of motivational insights and community-building reflections!

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Show notes:
(03:01) Q4 is just around the corner – what it means for success
(05:39) Tip 1: Measure what’s distracting you
(09:04) Tip 2: Get around someone on fire
(11:44) Tip 3: Proactively plan boundaries for the holidays

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Speaker 1

You can start setting breadcrumbs for hey, I know we usually go away for four days for Thanksgiving. I'm not going to be able to do it, not the whole thing. I have some stuff to do. I have some previous obligations. I can stay one night, whatever it is. If you start planning proactively, it's not as much resistance in the moment.

Speaker 2

The real reason we're more consistent than ever before is underneath the iceberg. So what you're seeing on the surface is always different than the motivation underneath, and I think it's really important to be able to. That's really what coaching, a lot of coaching comes down to is root cause diagnosis. Why are you more consistent than?

Speaker 1

ever. Welcome to Next Level University. I'm your host, kevin Palmieri, and I'm your co-host, alan Lazarus. At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Speaker 2

Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life love health and wealth.

Speaker 1

We bring you a new episode every single day on topics like confidence, self-belief, self-worth, self-awareness, relationships, boundaries, consistency, habits and defining your own unique version of success Self-improvement in your pocket every day, from anywhere, completely free. Welcome to Next Level University, next Level Nation. Welcome back to another episode of Next Level University where we help you level up your life, love, your health and your wealth. Today, for episode number 1835, we are on the theme of threes this week three ways to finish 2024 strong, what?

Speaker 2

did you just do for those listening?

Speaker 1

alan. Yeah, alan removed his microphone cover and then put it back on. It's a habit I hate and I've told him many times.

Speaker 2

But he's a rebel and he just does what he wants when you hear this yes, that's what that is I am unsheathing the microphone sheathing there is a movie oh my goodness, I don't.

Speaker 1

it's a comedy where he says something about removing it from its, its sheath, removing the sword from its sheath, removing the sword from its sheath.

Speaker 2

You know what I'm talking about. Megamind is a funny movie and in Megamind they all hold up churros, churros, churros and they say, unsheath your churro and they all unsheath them. It's a really funny scene.

Speaker 1

What a silly movie.

Speaker 2

I think that movie's hilarious, I do, I really do Well.

Q4 is just around the corner – what it means for success

Speaker 1

Most animated movies are silly. It's animated, right. Yeah yeah, most animated movies are silly, that movie is underrated, I think, because they're for kids. It was hilarious why are we doing this episode, kevin and I?

Speaker 2

sat down and we were talking about Q4 being in seven days and how we want to finish the year. Strong 2024 is three quarters over Wild. It is wild Especially from two people you and I, who, when I see a movie, was made in 2004, I think, yeah, that's pretty recent Within throwing distance yeah. That was 20 years ago, 20 years ago. So what we decided to do was okay, let's give. I said this is next level university, not complacency university. Let's rock and roll baby. We're going into Q4 strong.

Speaker 1

Alan says cringy stuff like that behind the scenes, you think, uh stuff, cringy stuff like that behind the scenes. You think that's cringy, I mean complacency. University doesn't necessarily flow off the tongue. You know what I mean. I think we could get more creative with it.

Speaker 2

Whatever, man you know what I mean next level university. Let's get to the next level in q4. So we want to help everyone get to the next level in q4 health, wealth, life and love. Yes, yes, all right. So we decided to have a little friendly competition. Yes, we each, before this recording, before we hit record, sat down with our notebooks, our dream liners I know you haven't gotten yours yet, so my dream liner in your notebook, I'm enraged. Well, and we wrote down the top three things pieces of advice, guidance that we would give to our listeners to implement immediately to make q4 the most successful quarter possible, to end the year strong. And then we were going to have a little friendly competition. If anyone likes mine better, reach out, dm me, instagram or facebook. We talked about how linkedin probably not instagram or facebook, preferably or whatsapp, if you have it. If you like mine better, if you like kevin's better, dm him and we'll see who gets more dms.

Speaker 1

How would we know? We could just lie about it. I had 200 dms yesterday, so I couldn't even handle the amount.

Speaker 2

I would know you're lying, because nine are better. How would you know? Maybe, I've been lying this whole time. We don't lie.

Speaker 1

I've been planning for this. I know I'm going to need a big lie eventually. Finally, I can use it.

Tip 1: Measure what’s distracting you

Speaker 2

Seven years I've been lying. If that's the case. If that's the case, okay, so we're going gonna do one at a time. Yeah, and everyone out there watching or listening to this pick three that you want to implement, or ignore us completely and don't do any of them if you don't like them. But yeah, let's rock mine are fringe.

Speaker 1

I think mine are fringe ones that I just I this was my thought. I can't just say the same shit we've been saying. It's got to be different. Okay, you want me to start?

Speaker 2

Yes, please.

Speaker 1

Okay, number one for me is measure what's distracting you, and the reason I say that is I feel like all of us have this thing, this miracle technology. That also is the most distracting thing of all time and ever since we were I think we were talking about this recently where there isn't, so, at least on the iPhone, open up your phone, go to settings, go to screen time and you'll have a daily average. You'll tell you if it's down from last week, you can change it If you click on daily average. It'll tell you if it's down from last week, you can change it. If you click on daily average, you can change it to day or week or whatever.

Speaker 1

I have been on my phone for two hours and 52 minutes today. One hour and one minute on Instagram, 16 on Facebook, 14 in photos, 12, and so on and so on. Not bad. That hour on social media was not scrolling, that was having conversations with people Awesome. As much as we are measuring the positive stuff that we aspire to, I think it would also benefit some of us. Maybe not all of us, but this would be something that would be really powerful for me to do. I probably won't do it, my freaking chair. I probably won't do it because I'm already tracking maybe too many things. But measuring what is distracting you, I think, is number one, and I would start with how often, or how many minutes you're on your phone per day average Strong very strong opener, strong opener.

Speaker 1

Let's see what you have.

Speaker 2

I calculated once that if you spend five minutes a day on Facebook five times a day, that's 25 minutes per day, and if you multiply that by 365 and then divide it by 60, which is the number of hours, you end up with 150 something hours which you divide by 16 hour days Cause, assuming you sleep eight, you end up, I think, nine and a half days straight on your on Facebook. It's a very scary metric.

Speaker 1

Right, it's a very scary metric. Do you think either doing it as an 8-hour day or a 24-hour day would be more powerful, Since that's how people quantify days, not 16 hours? You know what I mean. I always think about that when you say it.

Speaker 2

Yeah, probably, but I don't know why you think.

Speaker 1

I'm pooping on your stuff, no, no. It most likely would land better.

Speaker 2

It's hard for me, though, because what matters is 16-hour days, because if you are sleeping eight, it's more relevant. So, and let me finish, imagine you had a friend who spent nine and a half days straight, 16-hour days, scrolling, doing nothing else. That would seem like they're out of their mind, for lack of a better phrasing. But we're all doing that every single year. We just spread it out so you can't notice. That's the point. Hopefully that lands. Do you think that lands?

Speaker 1

I think it does, but if it, what is it? Nine and a half? What is it Nine and a half days?

Speaker 2

Nine and a half days, Nine and a half 16 hour days waking hours.

Speaker 1

That would would be 19 eight hour days, so that would be an entire.

Speaker 2

It would be almost three weeks of work, almost three full work weeks on your phone.

Speaker 1

Yeah, that for me is like what that would land with me.

Speaker 2

I should filter all my number stuff through. I won't do it.

Speaker 1

I don't think you should All right.

Speaker 2

For mine, because otherwise this episode is going to be an hour and a half long.

Speaker 1

It may already be Well there are worse things.

Speaker 2

All right. Number one Drum roll, freeze, Freeze, Drum roll, Kev. Get around one person who's on fire. I think that I asked a client this earlier. I said have you noticed an uptick? I coach a husband and a wife in business coaching too. Not even relationship coaching, typically it is. But I said has there been an uptick that you've noticed in your wife since the one-on-one coaching? He said definitely. He said group coaching was a huge uptick and then one-on-one coaching was an uptick too, and really what it comes down to.

Speaker 2

I was on the phone with a client from New Zealand and I asked her her five points at STAR it's draw a STAR who are the five people you spend the most time with? I said from zero to 10, how ignited are each of the people? And we added up and gave an average. I know you're laughing because I can't talk. It's the tail end of the day. We're here, we're doing it. She.

Speaker 2

I said you're not ignited and motivated because you're not around a bunch of people who are ignited and motivated. It's contagious. Motivation is contagious. Nobody wants to be the weakest link. No one wants to let the team down. No one wants to be the one hanging out while everyone else is working. It's really important to stay around ignited people, it's really important. So just get around one person who's on fire In Q4, get around one person who's on fire. You can sign up for group coaching. You can do one-on-one coaching. You can have a friend, a peer, an accountability partner. You can join a mastermind group, join one of our fitness accountability groups. Whatever you're going to do, get around at least one person who's on fire, who wants to crush it in Q4, because complacency breeds complacency and being motivated breeds more motivation.

Tip 3: Proactively plan boundaries for the holidays

Speaker 1

I dig that Next Level Nation is a great place and have the courage. Have the courage to ask someone. Have the courage Because somebody might be waiting to be asked, they might want to ask somebody, they just might not have the courage. So practice the courage, all right. Number two You're going to hear this one and you're going to say, damn, why didn't I think of that one? Or you might even have it, and this is the I probably do. This is the privilege of going first. Number two Proactively plan boundaries, at least in the United States. Prepare yourself for this, at least in the United States. Q4 is riddled with holidays Riddled Thanksgiving, christmas, new Year's, halloween.

Speaker 1

Halloween which I'll be's Halloween, halloween which I'll be celebrating. I'm going to dress up as a podcaster. I'm going to be dressed up as a successful podcaster. That's what I'm going to dress up, as this year. Let's see if you can find me.

Speaker 1

If you struggle with boundaries, start setting them now. Now, I'm not saying you don't go, but let's work. You can start setting breadcrumbs for hey, I know we usually go away for four days for Thanksgiving. I'm not going to be able to do it, not the whole thing. I have some stuff to do. I have some previous obligations. I can stay one night, whatever it is.

Speaker 1

If you start planning proactively, it's not as much resistance in the moment. We've talked about this before. There's discipline and design. When it comes to habits. There's discipline of okay, this sucks, but I'll do it. And there's design. Let's make things a little bit easier for you to do it. I think setting boundaries is the same thing. There's discipline of yeah, I know I should set a boundary and be courageous and do this. Then there's design. How can I breadcrumb my way there? That's my number two. Which do you think is more powerful, discipline or design? Probably design. Same. It makes discipline easier. Same. Less willpower Yep, but it. But it's harder to. It's harder to do proactively because there's no necessity. It's like I'll do it when I get closer, I'll do it when I go.

Speaker 2

Oh, it's now, it's Christmas, I'm in trouble well, when you, before you go somewhere, you can say I have to leave by 100%, you thought that I was going to have that one. I'm the worst at that.

Speaker 1

I thought, yeah, there was a piece of me that thought you might have that. Yeah, because you don't like Q4, because of the holidays.

Speaker 2

I think it's hard. Yeah, there's two times where I think it's hard to stay productive Is the summer. July.

Speaker 1

Maybe I shouldn't put words in your mouth. No, it's okay. July and Feelings about.

Speaker 2

No, it's true, I don't mind that at all. Genuinely yeah, the holidays. I think a lot of people are off track. That's actually one of the reasons I think Q4 is so important, because if you can stay on track when most people aren't, you're going to have a whole head start and you're going to feel so fulfilled. Yeah, it's really powerful. If you can, if you can stay consistent when it's hard to stay consistent, that's the time to do it. It goes for fitness, that goes for business. It's really important, okay.

Speaker 1

Can I say something dumb real quick, of course, yeah, thank you for the permission.

Speaker 2

Yep.

Speaker 1

Do you think we'd be better off if they're just? I think we'd be better off if we didn't celebrate year to year. Isn't that just? Again, I understand it. You have to have the measurement, but you just do the same amount of work all year, every year.

Speaker 2

Yeah, you should. Mathematically, that would be the best.

Speaker 1

Yeah, of course it's just, it's wild to me. It's like, yeah, we had a really good year, let's celebrate it, and then now another year starts, and yeah, it's very arbitrary but the same with the thousand episodes when we get to 2000.

Speaker 2

It's it's an arbitrary number that we hold a lot more meaning to you said six figures.

Speaker 1

I want to be a six-figure earner. It's like well, there's not a lot of, there's not a big difference between 99 000 and 100 000 just 1000. Yeah, that's six figure, though something's. I'm gonna unlock something when I get there no, no, you're gonna unlock taxes. That's what you're gonna unlock, son that is 100 I.

Speaker 2

I would like to live in a world that 1001 and 9999 episodes of the same thing it's the same that is different, I think because it's personal to me and I didn't think we'd make it there well then, that makes it different. Yeah, it's more meaning. It's what you assign meaning to. That's a whole other episode. We should do an episode on that. What do you?

Speaker 1

assign meaning to and I love the holidays, so don't get me. Your lights are freaking out. I don't know why they're bright and not bright. It's weird. I love Christmas.

Speaker 2

Christmas is my favorite holiday Do you have your lights on right now. Yes, it's darker over there than it is. I have brighter lights than you, is that true? Oh, no, it's because my zen book has the brightness down. Cool, when you're on the 52 inch. Yeah, we'll continue all right, so your second one was what? Let's recap. First one, second one you know, what you know.

Speaker 1

It's bad when you have to. You're each doing three and you have to recap halfway through.

Speaker 2

It's all good, we got this. Hey, we're only 17 minutes in this could be worse.

Speaker 1

One measure what's distracting you? Two proactively plan boundaries Okay.

Speaker 2

My number one is get around one person who's on fire. At least one person who's on fire. Number two is start tracking one thing where you can see it daily, physically, where you can see it. Emilia and I have a whiteboard downstairs. We are 35, 36 as of last night Almost missed because it was her dad's birthday Almost missed. We are 36 days in a row out of 90,. 10 pm in the bedroom, 10 pm in the bedroom, which has made our sleep scores way better. I've been up way earlier Most days, not every day, most days, not today, but where you can see it daily. One of my clients has a whiteboard in the middle of her apartment and she always.

Speaker 2

I said how many days are left in Q3? She said seven. I think she said nine because it was nine two days ago and this was on Saturday. And I said good for you. How do you know that? She said it's on the waypoint. So nice. There's something about seeing the number every day that keeps you on track. No one wants to break the streak, and if you do it with your partner, your intimate partner, it's even better because you don't want to be the one to break the streak. It's like the Snapchat streak. You don't want to be the one to break the streak.

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Speaker 1

If there was gonna be one, it would be this one. My lights are nuts. Oh, they're freaking out. It looks like you are in some sort of rave right now I don't get it.

Speaker 1

It's strange. Okay, oh, if I judge, I apologize. Punch you in your throat is okay? Yeah, that's okay. No, I'm going to tell you why. Number three find a digital companion. This is what I mean by that. Okay, yeah, no, I know, I think I'm judging myself. Okay, remember, alan and I were in Find and I were in find a pen pal, find a pen pal. Alan and I were in pittsburgh nope, yes, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, giving a speech, right?

Speaker 1

oh yeah we were at an airbnb and I was like dude, I need to show you this guy I've been following. Yeah, he is the most jacked and he's like 21 years old and he has a really good personality. He seems like a good dude and he's just making content and he's just famous AF. He just blew up. His name is Sam Sulik and Alan was like all right, man, show him. And he's like wow, this guy is jacked, super jacked, super in in his, in his comments on YouTube.

Speaker 1

There are so many people who say I've been following your journey every day and I've never been more consistent in the gym. That is not a coincidence. He posts a new video every day, so you feel like you are part of something, you feel like you have a digital companion and I think you're more likely to be consistent Genuinely, because even I have that where he's bulking, so he uploads, he lifts every day and he uploads a video every day. He's a day behind, so whatever he's doing today will get posted tomorrow and he's done this for however many years I don't know a couple years at least. Nice, right now he's bulking, so he's he's working on putting on muscle and getting stronger. I'm going to start bulking. The videos just hit differently when you're doing the same thing he's doing. It's interesting, it's weird. There's something psychological about it. I don't know what it is, I'm not that smart, but digital companion.

Speaker 2

It's very similar to having a person on fire. Those are the very same 100%, so keep that in mind when you choose Kev's over mine. This digital companion is the exact same as get around one person who's on fire, because, I mentioned, you can do it digitally.

Speaker 1

Yeah, but they're not a companion. Mine's a digital companion.

Speaker 2

It's the exact same thing.

Speaker 1

It was a risk we didn't tell each other these before we did them.

Speaker 2

There's always a thing underneath a thing underneath a thing. So let's say there's a result. I've been going to the gym a lot more, okay, well, why? Because I set a goal to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks or whatever Hypothetically Okay, well why? Because Kevin and I haven't been consistent lately. Okay why? Because we've been really focused on business. Okay, what is the thing that's making you go to the gym more? It's the fact that Kevin and I decided to do something together and then held ourselves accountable with the podcast community, with the next explanation and the real reason we're more consistent than ever before is underneath the iceberg. So what you're seeing on the surface is always different than the motivation underneath it, and I think it's really important to be able to. That's really what coaching a lot of coaching comes down to is root cause diagnosis. Why are you more consistent than ever?

Speaker 2

Oh, you used to be listening to NLU. I've noticed a huge uptick in my clients. I said this not 20 minutes ago, I said this to a client. Also, start listening to Pray Drive first thing in the am. It's a book I recommend. Also, try to hit NLU too, maybe on your way to work or something. I always see huge uptick in motivation when clients listen to NLU. Having your coach in your pocket every day is a noticeable game changer, for sure. It is so noticeable I can always tell when someone's not listening to NLU. It's almost. We had a listener I did a call with recently. She said I'm part of the family next to my and she said I feel like I already know you. I said that's exactly, that's all. That's exactly it. That's a digital companion. Hopefully we're a digital companion for people. Hopefully we help people be more consistent, more inspired and more motivated, more educated more. That's the goal, right 100%.

Speaker 2

Okay, last one, number three, Decide on your top three most important priorities for Q4. Did this with a client earlier, not an hour ago.

Speaker 1

The reason I was laughing when you said not 20 minutes ago is because we've been recording for 24.

Speaker 2

That's why I laughed you said not 20 minutes ago is because we've been recording for 24. That's why I laughed close, not 30 minutes. So his top three most important priorities I think we all have a top three micro and a top three macro. His top three micro for q4 only specifically for q4 is number one teaching. Number two, number two, real estate. Number three, family, in that order. Mine for Q4 are podcasting, training and coaching. But for the macro there, ceo, husband, father and CEO a bunch fall underneath that. I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole.

Speaker 2

But, ultimately, what are your top three most important priorities, just for Q4? Decide them in advance. Also, put them somewhere you can see them daily. I have podcasting, training and coaching on my whiteboard in my office right there. I can see it every single day, so every time I feel lost or directionless or bored, I immediately go back to the target.

Speaker 1

If you could only pick one out of the list, what would it be Coaching? Oh no, sorry, out of our list. Sorry, sorry, out of our list. He was ready for that, not the vodka.

Speaker 2

No, it wasn't All six of these. Yeah, if you could pick just one To give away, it's got to be getting around someone on fire. It's got to be getting around someone who you feel almost like you, almost like you can't keep up. You can, so it can't be too far ahead, but it needs to be super motivated. It needs to be someone who motivates you. Living with and being with Amelia is very motivating because she's always on. She's always not I don't want this to sound wrong, it's not always, but she's always getting after it and I I don't. She's building a lot in her career and her fitness, in life and family. She's always building and get around someone who's building a bigger, better, brighter future and and it will make you feel uncomfortable, but in a in a motivating way.

Speaker 1

I think that's probably. I think that creates the opportunity for all the other ones to happen. Agreed, the proactively planned boundaries, I mean that's really only X amount of things. Let's say there's three holidays you have to plan for, and if you're not in the US, I don't know. I don't know what other holidays there are around that time in different parts of the world, but I would say I would agree with that Without you and I we wouldn't be nearly as like.

Speaker 2

let me say this as accurately as I can. I would still be very motivated, but it is motivating having a team of motivated people. It's very motivating. We have group coaching. We have fitness accountability. Now we have each other. I have Amelia. I'm surrounded by people who are building, and so it's much easier to stay motivated, even though it's uncomfortable sometimes. I would say it's more comfortable for me. So I don't know if I can authentically say that, but I would say I can see why it would be easy to get complacent if you're not around people who are building.

Speaker 1

I am definitely more consistent with fitness because I'm leading, quote, unquote, the accountability group Reading, for that's a gentle, a light term. That's my thing to make sure I post every day.

Speaker 2

I know we got to jump, but I was. It was Saturday. Emilia and I were supposed to walk. We have a whole schedule and I pivot sometimes because I'm feeling it. I was in the next level fitness accountability group and it was on fire. There was a bunch of people in there, Picture, picture, picture, motivated, motivated, motivated. And I was. I said, sweetheart, what are your thoughts on going to the gym before we go to your parents tonight? And she said well, I'm going to walk, Cause X, Y, Z. I said I'm going to, I'm going to go, I got to, I got to lift, I got, I got to lift. Today, I need, I need to lift. And I, I crushed all day and it was just me and these two other dudes. Empty gym. You know when the gym is so empty that the automatic lights shut off in certain sections of the gym.

Speaker 1

My gym does not have automatic lights because they're not about that efficiency F the world, they say I don't know.

Speaker 2

Well, it was just awesome. And the Next Level Fitness Accountability Group is the reason why I probably wouldn't have lifted on Saturday. I would not have lifted on Saturday without that group to my current alignment.

Speaker 1

FOMO is good if it brings you, if it's fear of missing out of alignment or fear of missing out of results.

Speaker 2

It's a good one. Right there I say some stuff. Fomo is good. If it's fear of missing out on alignment, that's fine, or results.

Speaker 1

Whatever, Right, Whatever. But I think that's when people talk about motivation. That's a big piece of it. It's like you're in a group and everybody's talking about what they're doing. You're like, ah dang, I want to do that. I'm going to do that. Awesome, I'm going to go do something I wouldn't do. It's almost like I'm going to go do something that I already do at a somewhat high percentage, but this is actually going to push me over that percentage a little bit higher, Because you go to the gym. Let's say you go to the gym 60% of the time. Walk gym. What is the percentage? You think 50-50.

Speaker 2

We're trying to hit every other day. It used to be two-thirds. We used to try to do two-thirds, Jim. Yeah, weight training. So lately it's been every other day. I'm trying to give my body some recovery time understandable.

Speaker 1

Hopefully this will make that 55, whatever I did this week.

Speaker 2

Well, yeah, I think, yeah, I think, three times last week numbers still wouldn't be 50, but it's definitely more than it would be.

Speaker 2

Yes, it's like being on a sports team. When you're on a sports team, no one, you just are more motivated. That's what group coaching is built around is shout out to brandon. He's been on the team for five years. He I said, when were you the most on point? And he said back when I was playing football for college. And I said well, let me. And we broke it down. You had a team, you had coaches, you had games every sunday. You had your friends and family. Some of your friends and family wanted you know, didn't believe in you. Some of them did. There was practices, there was structure, there was accountability. I mean group coaching was built out of that conversation with brandon because he was the most motivated he'd ever been, and that's what group coaching was built on you know, before we go.

Speaker 1

You know how we always talk about how we lived in Florida for a year. A year, a month, yeah, for a year, no, that was. I saw a picture there's a picture of me in the gym and I was very, very, very, very, very, very in shape. But I also remember because that's when I had panic attacks that's not when we lived there. That's when we went to Arizona for a Brendan Burchard event. That was in 2018. I didn't know. That was the first year after I left my job. We get after it.

Speaker 2

Yeah, man.

Speaker 1

We get after it.

Speaker 2

We've been very ignited for a very long amount of time. That's wild, I would say. Looking back, that's very clear. That's why, when we did the meetup on consistency, kevin and I opened it saying we aren't good at everything, but we're really good at this. We are consistent, af for sure, at least on the right things.

Speaker 1

We have a lot of the hacks too. Accountability necessity, peak performance partners. Community A lot Community discipline, design. There's a lot. We have a lot of the things for sure, and that's shout out to each and every one of you for keeping us accountable. Anything in closing? Good sir.

Speaker 2

No, I like that a lot. I think that was great. Anything in closing, get around at least one person that makes you feel a little uncomfortable by the way they perform. They don't make you feel uncomfortable because they're toxic, that's not what I'm saying. They make you feel uncomfortable because they're ahead of you. I remember when I used to live with Matt and Kev they were Matt is so much stronger than us and that I would be a little uncomfortable when my you know, his warm-up would be my max. But that was good for me. It was, it was. It was good for me, and maybe that's not always true for everybody, but I think it's going to be good to get. That's why I said just one person. Don't get around all, don't surround yourself where you're behind in everything. Just pick one person who makes you feel a little uncomfortable at the ego level and I think you'd be surprised, with assuming they're not toxic that it'll inspire the hell out of you.

Speaker 1

I used to work out with Matt every day. It was awesome.

Speaker 2

Yeah, that'll do it. It was awesome Game changer.

Speaker 1

Yeah, it was awesome. It was awesome. The schedule was a little bit more free back then. You know what I'm saying. And well, actually, no, it was yes, and I didn't care about sleep, so I would go to bed at midnight and get up at four and it was like oh, why am I so tired? Why is it so hard for me to focus or hold the thought in my brain for more than 15 minutes? Don't know, can't figure it out. That's why, all right, if you I almost just hammered my water all over the desk. It's three quarters full. It it's a big one too.

Speaker 1

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Speaker 2

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Outro

Speaker 1

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Speaker 2

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Speaker 1

Thank you again and we will talk to you tomorrow. You.

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