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In this episode, Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about how having endless options—like bingeing Netflix, scrolling social media, or playing video games—can secretly hold you back. They share real-life stories about why it’s essential to focus on what matters and how staying disciplined can change your life. You’ll learn why small, consistent efforts matter, how accountability can keep you on track, and how to balance rest with progress. If you’ve ever felt stuck or distracted, this episode will inspire you to take back control of your time and energy. Tune in for simple, actionable tips to help you build the life you want—one step at a time!

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Show notes:
(2:28) Why endless options can overwhelm us
(7:34) The difference between discipline and self-discipline
(8:44) Average time spent Vs. Cost to personal growth
(12:29) How distractions impact imagination and productivity
(16:49) Meet like-minded people and jumpstart your journey to achieving your dreams while optimizing your life. Join Next Level Group Coaching.

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Kevin Palmieri

if you're more passionate about something that doesn't really exist or doesn't actually affect you. I love UFC. I do. I love UFC, but if I ever love UFC more than I love the rest of my life, I'm going to stop pouring into the rest of my life.

Alan Lazaros

It's a very dangerous game I had had had to invest more into my own personal development and my own career and my own business more into than I could. If you're more passionate about someone else's life or some show or some video game than you are about your own future, that is something that has to shift, and I'm saying that because I care and knowing that it's hard to do.

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Why endless options can overwhelm us

Kevin Palmieri

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, your love, your health and your wealth. Today for episode number 1892, episode number 1,892. How Too Many Options is Jeff and you? I cannot tell you how many times I will work a day and I'll get to the end of the day and I'll make my dinner, whatever it is, heat it up or cook it, and Taryn and I will connect and say, hey, you want to watch something while we eat? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what do you want to watch? I don't know. Let's just peruse Netflix for a short time and I'm sure we'll find something. And every time we don't find anything because there's too many damn choices on Netflix. Great problem to have this, is a privileged problem to have. But well, okay, let's just go over to Amazon Prime. There's even more things on Amazon Prime and for Amazon being Amazon, amazon Prime is horribly organized.

Alan Lazaros

Yeah, it's not a focal point. It's not a focal point.

Kevin Palmieri

Well, they should level that up. Yeah, they should.

Alan Lazaros

And then okay, well, you know what? Let me maybe say this hey, real quick, yeah, real quick, yeah. Just picture Amazon as a company, real quick, yeah. And now picture Netflix as a company, yeah, all right. What is Netflix's main focus Movies?

Kevin Palmieri

and television and original series.

Alan Lazaros

What do you think Amazon's main focus is Shipping products to people.

Kevin Palmieri

And technology, Technology stuff right.

Alan Lazaros

So that's why Well.

Kevin Palmieri

I don't care.

Alan Lazaros

You should seriously be way, way better at science, technology, engineering, mathematics, business and finance, even though I know that's not been a focus for you at all I would do it last I would do if the world was counting on me and that's all I'm gonna say they are well.

Kevin Palmieri

I know more about science, technology, engineering and mathematics than I ever have, even stem. I don't even know what that was. Now I do. That's a drastic improvement. That is zero to one's the hardest. First of all, really, I'm really good at mental math you know that yeah, that's true.

Alan Lazaros

Better than engineering, significantly better than me at mental math I don't know anything about engineering.

Kevin Palmieri

that's not true science. Design already evaporation, condensation, precipitation on my mind, this is just the water. That's not true Science. Design Ready, evaporation, condensation, precipitation on my mind, this is just the water cycle and it happens all the time. So I mean, I'm just going to flex that right here live. That's science as hell.

Alan Lazaros

right, this is good, this is fun. For those that are just listening.

Kevin Palmieri

Yeah, I know you don't, because I do, son. For those of you who are just listening, if you ever want to watch somebody lose respect for somebody else in real time, just watch that segment on youtube, because that just happened. The point we're talking about today is how many two, how too many options is jeffing you? Because alan had an example of this from a conversation that he had.

Alan Lazaros

And now here we are, now that I've really set the table for you, let's see if you can add some value to it yeah, I was on with a client and we were talking about how I essentially said one of the things that's really powerful for everyone, including myself. When I first started being an entrepreneur so I'm 26, 27 years old started a little company called Alan Lazarus LLC. What you'll never learn in school but desperately in all caps need to know. I wanted to bring personal development to the school systems with that tagline terrible.

Kevin Palmieri

Yeah, imagine Alan coming in them saying, tell us a little bit about what it is that you do, and you're at a school, talking to the principal and alan's like you know, I just I'm so passionate about self-improvement. My job is to teach all of your students all the shit that you're not teaching them. All right, uh, we're gonna think about it. We'll take a look at the budget, we'll talk to you in the future. No, you won't.

Alan Lazaros

No, you will not I don't know why no one likes me. Yeah, that didn't work at all, believe it or not. I got quite a few speeches, though you did. Yeah, yeah, I did. Okay, so canned that idea started a little podcast youtube channel kev podcast called conversations change lives. My first guest was kevin palieri, the one and only, and then he had me on twice. It was off to the races ever since then. Okay, that's neither here nor there, but in the early days of going from corporate. So it's kindergarten, middle school. No, no, kindergarten, elementary school middle school high school, high school, college.

Alan Lazaros

What I realized? That I didn't have as much self-discipline as I thought, because the difference between self-discipline and discipline I'm going somewhere with this, kev kev's like judging me right now self-discipline is you discipline yourself to do something that you know you should do when you're your own boss. Imagine right now that you're your own boss and you can do whatever you want whenever you want. However, in order to not be a massive failure, as being your own boss, you have so much work you have to do to actually build and grow and scale your passion to purpose and to profit. What I realized I bought this thing called a productivity journal. This is way back, kev.

Alan Lazaros

This is 10 years ago, man ago man okay and they said you will be 500 more productive if you can use this productivity journal, and they did deliver on that promise. It is true, it's excellent. However, the first thing was you you a lot similar to the dreamliner. You pick your top three most important projects for the day, most important tasks, and then you have to do them. It was really freaking hard to actually do them because I realized I don't have anyone holding me accountable. Now we have the team, we have each other, we have our well, I'm saying our wives I mean, it's not my wife yet, but you know what I'm saying. We have so much accountability. We have a fitness accountability group. We have payroll accountability. We have so much accountability, fitness accountability group, we have payroll accountability. We have so much accountability.

Alan Lazaros

But back then, it was just me versus me by myself. To your point about Netflix too many options. Well, I could start a YouTube channel or I could go on Instagram and post a fitness thing. I could get another photo shoot, I could. I could go to this school, I could. What schools do I? Too many options, freaking out, didn't know what to do, so I had to get organized.

Alan Lazaros

And so I was on with a client earlier and his top three priorities right now for Q4 are getting organized, routine and habit tracking, habits, routine consistency, organized. Okay, we looked it up literally today. Consistently organized. Okay, we looked it up literally today. And I type into google what is the average person's amount of time of television per day? Two hours 33 minutes. You can look this up right now and again. This is as of the recording of this. And then I went whoa, that's wild. Okay, and that's the average. That means some people are at five hours a day, okay. And then I looked up well, what about social media? What is the average amount of time someone spends per day on social media? Two hours, 30 minutes. So he and I sat down and we said, okay, if we want you to be dialed in, we want you to be your best self you versus you.

Alan Lazaros

We need you to eliminate the things that are causing that, are taking away time. And so this person got rid of Netflix on their phone because they would fall down the rabbit hole of Netflix on their phone. And it was the series, it was the TV shows. Netflix is going toward a TV series more than film. So Hollywood everyone in Hollywood kind of knows this it's much more TV series, much less film, which makes me very sad because I'm a film lover and there's still some people trying to hang on to film. That's why you're going to see a lot of trilogies Like Dune, part one, part two, part three. The reason why is because film is trying to compete with these TV series. Right, because people would rather do 45 minutes over and over and over again, like you're a TV guy? Well, I've told you it More than film.

Kevin Palmieri

Each episode has the whole, it has the thing, it has the story arc and then you start a new one. But I also I also have to be very, very disciplined where when I finish, I go to bed at 10. If Tara and I start watching at 9.15, we might not even get one done. Might just be like all right, we'll finish that until it happened happened last night. We did an episode and then we watched like 10 minutes of the next one. I was like, alright, now it's time, it's time for bed now.

Alan Lazaros

So we'll do it nice the thing that's happening there is they're ending on cliffhangers. So they. And then Netflix what three seconds, seconds to go to the next one, something like that. Remember when you used to have to actually click to go to the next one? So for anyone out there watching or listening to this, who have, who has been addicted to a show everyone think of a show you've been addicted to. For me, friends, I was addicted to friends. I had to, I had to stop. Emilia went away for one freaking week and I ended up watching friends over and over and over again. I, I was so freaking addicted and again, I'm probably dramatizing it, but ultimately I had to cut it off. Done, no more Friends, because I can't do anything in moderation, all right. So for anyone out there who's been addicted to a TV show, here's the problem You're sinking a lot of time and effort into something that is not actually building your future.

Alan Lazaros

Last piece Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. What happens and we've done episodes about manifesting what happens in manifesting is you have your imagination, you imagine something in your mind. Kevin imagines the podcast. Then Kevin emotionalizes the podcast and says okay, hyperconscious podcast, this is my podcast, I'm going to do this thing, I'm going to do it. Let's do it, I believe I can do it, let's go, it'll be worth it. And then I kind of believe I can do it. And then it's mental Okay, strategize. Okay, I got to Google it. What do I need? Okay, I need a microphone, I need a laptop, I need equipment. Then you do it. You actually take action physically, you take the action. Now you manifested the hyperconscious podcast.

Alan Lazaros

Strong work in film and I love film and TV series. So this is not me being, you know, self-righteous here. I love it. Now, the problem is you don't have to imagine anything. If you watch Harry Potter, which I prefer to watch than to read it I've read some of the books I would much rather watch the movies. That's my truth. And for any book lovers of Harry Potter out there Amy, I know you're upset with me right now I would much rather watch it. Here's the problem with watching it. I don't have to imagine anything. It's all given to you Sound, sight, imagination, all done. You don't have to imagine anything. This is why people who love the books, like my ex-girlfriend Courtney she loved the books didn't like the movies as much. People who didn't read the books loved the movies more, because what happens is, when you read the books, you imagine in your mind what JK Rowling is saying, and then you watch the movies and go. That's not what I imagined, whereas if you don't have that reference point, you love them. So here's my point.

Alan Lazaros

When you watch film or TV series on Netflix, which all of us are guilty of doing too much real talk, all of us, all of us. There's a reason it's the most successful company in almost history, okay, is you are mentally and emotionally feeling what the characters are going through and growing through and you are getting the mental thought processes. The problem is you're not actually growing in the real world. You're watching and simulating. People build lives and go on the hero's journey and become victim, villain, hero, guide and accomplish these things. But then, when you're done with the netflix series, you didn't accomplish anything same with video games. I I also was addicted to video games when I was a kid.

Alan Lazaros

I didn't call it addiction, but I loved video games. Your character in the virtual world is getting better. For the world of warcraft people out there, most famous game in history I have a client, christy, shout out to you world of warcraft. You're building a character. She had a mage and you're building this amazing character in a video game, but you're not building your character. Now are there some benefits? Yes, you can learn from film. Yes, you can learn from TV series. Yes, you can learn from video games and, yes, your brain will get more powerful, particularly if you're doing video games professionally or competitively. However, your real life, your character in your real life isn't being worked on. So if you are doing two and a half hours of TV and two and a half hours of social media per day, you are in serious trouble. That's five hours a day that you're not working on yourself and you're not working on your real life. And I'm going to call a spade a spade. You need to work on that, and I do too.

Kevin Palmieri

And and I do too. What if I'm working 12 hours the rest of the day on myself? He's doing the math right now. He's like is that even humanly possible? That's 17 hours. Then I sleep for seven, then you're probably you're dialed in. You know, quick 12 is that even doable?

Alan Lazaros

because you still have to do laundry. You still have, I mean, who else is working on themselves for 12 hours? Well, here's what I would say, but you're not reaching your potential. Yeah, that's for sure. You're not maximizing your potential. Well, I'm all for r&r. You need r&r, of course, but r&r shouldn't be the goal. R&r is a necessity toward your goals and dreams, and that's my perspective.

Kevin Palmieri

I'm just I'm curious to know what the what are the in that. When they said that, what are the people doing for the other?

Alan Lazaros

hours of the day. I seriously doubt they're working on themselves, both personally and professionally, for the other 12 hours. I would concur with that, because that's just tv and that's social media. What about video games? What about pornography? What about alcohol? What about drugs? What about distractions? What about right? So I'm not even going to sugarcoat it. The people who are going to succeed and be the most fulfilled are the people who eliminate vices the most.

Kevin Palmieri

If you think about it from the perspective of if you care more about something that isn't real. So I love UFC, huge fan. I watch UFC once a week. Do I watch it a lot? I mean, yeah, I'm binge-watching UFC, but there's a lot. I mean, yeah, I'm binge watching UFC, right, but there's a lot that goes into that. I grind my face off throughout the week. I work Saturdays at least a half day, usually longer, so there's a lot that goes into that. I get extra sleep on Sunday to make up for it. Sunday's date day with Taryn, if you care more about football. Sunday's date day with Taryn If you care more about football. Or it was always Game of Thrones for me. I didn't understand it.

Alan Lazaros

It was, oh, Sunday night Game of Thrones Okay, good, hey, this is good because you're an outsider in this this is good.

Kevin Palmieri

I'm an outsider to that, but I love UFC more than I've never met somebody who likes fighting as much as I do this isn't you being condescending?

Alan Lazaros

This isn't you?

Kevin Palmieri

being condescending. This isn't you being self-righteous.

Alan Lazaros

This is you. No, it's very important because, as someone who I actually never really got super into Game of Thrones, but we are in the minority with that because Game of Thrones was everybody's favorite part of the week for a long time, there, that was one of the most I think it was the most famous TV series in history.

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Kevin Palmieri

Is that true? I don't know. I genuinely don't know. I genuinely don't know it. In the first place, we start a new round every 90 days. So if you're hearing this, go to the website nextleveluniversecom, and we have the landing page where you can actually hold your spot right now. Even if there's a group going on right now, you can still lock your spot for the next one. The biggest thing that we've seen is, as we get closer and closer to the date, unfortunately, some people end up missing. The group fills up and they can't do it, and then they end up regretting that. So please head over to the website. The link will be in the show notes and we would love to see you there.

Alan Lazaros

Kevin and I were talking earlier, and me and this client were talking earlier about when we were kids. There was only, like I remember, when I was a kid, you'd stay home from school and you had to watch Blue's Clues because nothing was on. You remember what channel Nickelodeon was? I don't. I loved Nickelodeon. I think it was 47, I believe, Nice.

Kevin Palmieri

I don't know why I remember that.

Alan Lazaros

Tiny little TV. Yeah Right, tiny little TVs, these big TVs, but the screen was tiny.

Kevin Palmieri

They weighed about 300 pounds. Yeah, no matter how big it was it could be 17 inches or 47, 600 pounds, doesn't matter, same thing.

Alan Lazaros

And then you had, you know, kev apparently had what's referred to allegedly.

Kevin Palmieri

Allegedly, I had what is called a black box that gave you all the channels, allegedly For free. For free. Yeah, it was. I don't know, somehow it hacked the mean. This was like 1994, no, like 1994, 1995, 1996, I don't know how. That was even a thing, I don't know. I thought that was just like in movies.

Alan Lazaros

But that, no, we had that, yeah, allegedly so I didn't have that, so I only had what 70 channels or whatever right. And we actually, when my stepdad left, we actually canceled cable and but anyways. So when I had cable I would stay home from school and I remember I would call my buddy nick, because he stayed home from school too, and it would be like what are you watching, man? And he'd say nothing and I'd say you watch a blues clues too. And he's like, yeah, man, all right, nice, we are here to watch Blue's Clues. Yeah, it gets you. So the parents out there, apparently the big one now is I'm not going to remember it, damn, there's a really big one now that all parents will recognize.

Kevin Palmieri

I don't know.

Alan Lazaros

The point is too many options. We're overwhelmed. We're all overwhelmed, and me and this client. Earlier he said remember when summers felt like the longest thing ever it's like summer school break Okay, I'm home. Summers felt like a full and this is a full-ass summer. Time flies now and he's convinced and I agree with him it's because we're constantly fucking distracted we are constantly distracted.

Alan Lazaros

Dude, we're not bored that often anymore. You know how hard it is to be bored. There's so much to do all the time. Social media who said this? Who this? Oh, netflix new series, but there's two, yep what is there a? Thousand a hundred thousand times more stimulation than there was when we were kids yeah, I mean just the phone alone.

Kevin Palmieri

I I just remember when I first got a phone you could kinda go on the internet, but you really couldn't. Nothing was optimized for cell phones.

Kevin Palmieri

So it was like you could kinda do it, but it was more of a flex than anything. It's like, yeah, I'll go on. Right, I could go on right now and check it out. Like, no, you can't. You can get there, but you're not going to learn anything because you have to like scroll 75 swipes to the right. It wasn't even a swipe, you had to hit the arrow. Actually, weird, weird times. So we were, we were going down this, this route. Here there are okay, this is the best example I can give.

Kevin Palmieri

I know people out there that are more willing to post about their football team, whether they win or lose, than talking about their business on social media. That is a talking about their own business. They'll post five times on a Sunday about their football team and they won't post about their business. That is a dangerous game. That's what I'm saying about this. If you're more passionate about something that doesn't really exist or doesn't actually affect you, your football team winning or losing might make you feel good, it doesn't matter. It's not going to help you be more successful, unless you're betting on them.

Alan Lazaros

No, it's not. This is important. I'm so grateful you're saying this.

Kevin Palmieri

Well, that's I. I love UFC. I do, I love UFC, but if I ever love UFC more than I love the rest of my life, I'm going to, I'm, I'm going to stop pouring into the rest of my life. It's a very dangerous.

Alan Lazaros

Imagine if Kevin poured more of his attention into his intentionality and attention intention into ufc than he did next level university. We would not be able to be successful. And for anyone who is watching or listening to this, thank you for being here, because here's the deal. What you put your attention on is is dictating your future. What you put your attention on is dictating your future. What you put your attention on dictates how you feel and what you do, and the person's place is things and ideas that you invest in. So you are here to get 1% better per day. Why are we worthy of your time and attention? Because we're trying to help you build a bigger, better, brighter future. You're building yourself right now. You're not.

Alan Lazaros

Think about someone who watches football versus nothing against football. Let me use something else. Picture someone who's watching a netflix show insert show here. I watch friends. We'll use me. Okay, me listening to nlu for a half an hour versus watching friends for a half an hour. Friends will be more fun, of course it will be. It'll be funnier, it'll be more fun. Of course it will be. It'll be funnier, it'll be more fun. However, it doesn't help me build my future at all. They never work on that show. You're not a Friends fan Anyone who's a Friends fan out there.

Alan Lazaros

Well, nobody does, though, that's my point On almost any TV show. I know, I know, but I'm just saying.

Kevin Palmieri

Maybe, if you haven't seen, friends likely like whatever show you watch, except they actually somehow work even less like they don't work at all.

Alan Lazaros

They just go to the same coffee shop that affects your mentality because the people who create that show are working and grinding and getting it done. So nlu for a half an hour versus Friends for a half an hour that will change your entire existence. It really will. I quit Friends for a reason. I adore Friends. I love that show. I've got every freaking episode memorized. Seriously Now and that's probably an exaggeration but there's not one Friends episode you could put on Kev where I wouldn't go. Yep, that's the one with Got it. I know that episode Okay. So that's one of my favorites, just like you with parks and rec or whatever it is. Here's my point I had had had to invest more into my own personal development and my own career and my own business, more into than than I could. If you're more passionate about someone else's life or some show or some video game than you are about your own future, that is something that has to shift, and I'm saying that because I care and knowing that it's hard to do.

Kevin Palmieri

It's not easy because, to your point, it is more. Watching TV is awesome. I remember Alan and I were walking out of the studio back in the day when we had a studio and I was like, dude, smoking weed. Watching porn is like the best. That's why it's so hard to not do. It's like that's why it's so detrimental. It's so easy to do and it's just there's no resistance and it's the best and that's why it's so easy to do and important not to overdo I think this sorry, take it easy.

Kevin Palmieri

The stuff that we overdo tends to be the stuff that's easy to do. You ever met somebody who reads too many self-improvement?

Alan Lazaros

books you Other than you.

Kevin Palmieri

No, Never in my life you ever met somebody who well, no, that's blanket statement. You ever met somebody who exercises too much? Yeah, you can get into the weeds with certain people and replace addictions with other addictions. I'm not comfortable blanket statementing it, but you get the idea of where I was trying to go very last piece.

Alan Lazaros

Promise, please, you and I imagine, anyone out there watching or listening imagine watching pornography versus setting up a wonderful day with your partner and then having making love. One of them is building toward a relationship, toward a bigger, better, brighter future. It's building your life in your future and, by the way, which one's more meaningful every time, every time that's. I think that's a good metaphor for life. I quit porn years and years and years ago ago. I know that you did as well. I never considered it a huge problem. Emilia and I made that decision together and that's awesome, but it's a great metaphor, for one of them is never meaningful. No one feels like great about themselves after that. I never felt good about myself after after watching porn Never. I always feel good about myself after making love and having a wonderful day with Emilia. I always so.

Alan Lazaros

One of them is everyone has a choice. Tv shows are great, but it's never going to create a meaningful life. And this person shout out to him, said I need to can Netflix. I got to can Netflix. His whole life is more meaningful now and his future self will thank him for that. And all of us are in that same boat, particularly now in the 21st century. I mean, a lot of things are great. We have conveniences no one in their right minds had in the past. We also have more distractions than any time in human history, and that is becoming a serious mental health problem.

Kevin Palmieri

I like to earn my R&R. I like to earn it Now again, I know that's not for everybody, but that's the way I liked it. When I work a long week, ufc feels better. It just does. It just feels better. It feels like, okay, I'm really going to enjoy this because I've grinded my face off to get here and this is my heavy R&R for the week. But yeah, and this is my heavy R&R for the week, but yeah, I would say, just check what direction it's moving in and try to make sure it's moving in the right direction.

Kevin Palmieri

If you're getting at some point we did an episode recently at some point it goes from rest and recovery to reckless recovery. You probably don't need eight hours of R&R a day. Most likely, most likely you don't need eight hours of R&R a day. So let's just try to move it in the right direction, because this is the other thing too. When you have the right amount of R&R and the right amount of effort towards goals and achievement and accomplishment and fulfillment and impact all those things the quality of your R&R gets better. That's another thing. That's a piece of it where I remember when we were early in this journey, I didn't buy UFC for a year because we didn't have any money.

Kevin Palmieri

I couldn't buy UFC. I couldn't afford it. Now I feel relatively guilt-free. Depends on the week and the month when I'm ordering UFC, because I worked really hard this week and again, this is a fine line, too right. I'm not going to go out and buy a Ferrari. I put my head to the grindstone this week. I'm going to go buy a $400,000 car because I think I earned it Again. You can take all of this too far, but at least for me, all I'm saying is I feel better.

Rest, recovery, and reckless indulgence

Kevin Palmieri

I feel like it's more constructive when it's actually necessary, that I used to take naps just to take naps. I didn't need them. I took naps because I needed a nap. There's a big difference between taking a nap because that's just what you do and then taking a nap saying you know what? I've worked really hard. I didn't get enough sleep last night. I know it's gonna be detrimental if I don't get enough sleep. Let me just find a way to get an hour nap if it feels better, because it feels like it's actually constructive versus destructive. So that's the last thing I would say. Quickly, quick wrap up. You have anything quickly pleasure versus meaningful.

Alan Lazaros

Building it. It's a percentage. The purpose of life, I believe, if you want to be fulfilled, is to do all you can with all you have, and that requires R&R. But if R&R is the goal, it will eventually become meaningless. And we've all been there, I've been there. It's like, oh, I really am letting it ride. I like I feel terrible about myself. Everyone's been binge watched a show, of course for too long, and then felt awful about themselves after. That can be. You can break that cycle.

Alan Lazaros

One episode a day, keep it there if you do any more than that, it's most likely going to start going off the rails. And, by the way, you are not alone in this. Human beings have addictive. People say, oh, I have an addictive personality. All human beings dopamine. You can research this. All human beings are designed to be addicted. You just need to be addicted to the right things and if you choose the right things, you can really. You can really have quite a meaningful life, and a lot of these shows that you're watching are with people that are addicted to productivity deep one today.

Kevin Palmieri

It's good stuff. I'm gonna I actually I'm gonna cancel the rest of my day and I'm gonna fire off about 12 episodes back to back. Nice, just 700 mg of caffeine, just so I can get through it. I gotta do my dream liner today. I still haven't done it, so I gotta do that. I'll find a way to fit that in there, hopefully, in between. No, I'm just kidding. All right, next Level Nation.

Kevin Palmieri

If you want to make sure you're getting a little bit closer to the next level, every single day, seven days a week, no matter where you are on the planet, totally free, always make sure you are subscribed on whatever platform you are listening on be YouTube, probably Spotify in the near future, because we'll be getting on there soon for video. But I know kind of what we were talking about today. It's easy to wake up and then just fall down the rabbit hole of social media or Netflix or whatever, whatever it is. Maybe the little gentle NLU just dropped episode number or whatever it is here's the title will be a gentle kick in the butt for you to say all right, let me, let me, let me do this first. Let me let me dedicate 20 to 30 minutes of my own self-improvement, and when you are subscribed or you follow the podcast, you will get those notifications.

Alan Lazaros

So please do so if you want to continue growing if you care more about having a meaningful life than you do about going from pleasure to pleasure to pleasure and just feeling really good in the moment. Because we all have a choice. We can feel good in the moment and watch a Friends episode, or we can build toward a bigger, better, better future, work on ourselves and feel good about ourselves. I'd rather feel good about myself than feel good in a moment, and if that's you reach out. A coach will help you have accountability. When I was at the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey, I struggled with self-discipline so much I had to get that productivity planner just to dial in. I will help you hold yourself accountable. It's not just you being accountable to you because you let yourself down all the time. It's human nature. We all let ourselves down when no one's watching. Let me come and help you stay accountable to you, this person I mentioned earlier. He's really progressed a lot since having me in his corner and holding him accountable.

Alan Lazaros

I have commitment devices with several clients where they are just way more accountable. When you're paying, you're going to pay attention and you're not going to want to waste the money. You're going to do more for yourself. And if I help you in your career and your business. You'll make the money back. Maybe not right away, but over time. You definitely will. You definitely will. So please reach out. The link will be in the show notes.

Kevin Palmieri

What you may not do for yourself, you may do for the dollar. Potentially For sure, especially if you're somebody who values money. You're not going to waste that money. You wouldn't buy $150 worth of groceries and then throw them in the trash.

Alan Lazaros

No, never You'd fight to keep them 100%.

Outro

Kevin Palmieri

All right. Next Level Nation. 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.

Alan Lazaros

Stay accountable. Next Level Nation.

Kevin Palmieri

Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. We love connecting with the Next Level family.

Alan Lazaros

Family, we mean it when we say family. If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly.

Kevin Palmieri

Everything you need to get a hold of us is in the show notes. Thank you again and we will talk to you tomorrow.

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Alan Lazaros

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Kevin Palmieri

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