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There’s A Thin Line Between Success And Failure (2027)

• Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros

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What if the key to unlocking your full potential is simply changing the way you think? In this episode, Kevin and Alan challenge the common notion that success is a result of luck or talent. Instead, they explore how your daily choices, mindset, and philosophies play a crucial role in shaping your future. Through powerful examples, they reveal how small, consistent actions can lead to big results, while neglecting the little things can cause your dreams to slip away.

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Show notes:
(2:27) How small habits lead to big failures
(7:31) The compound effect of daily choices
(12:27) Philosophy and decision-making paradigms
(15:01) Join Next Level Live: A virtual, immersive event for those committed to growth, meaningful relationships, and a life they love. https://www.nextleveluniverse.com/next-level-live/
(21:25) Success mindsets Vs. Failure mindsets
(24:54) Core principles for long-term success
(31:29) Outro

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Kevin Palmieri:

I'm sure you've heard this a bunch. Oftentimes, when I'm on other podcasts, people say, yeah, I'm just not consistent enough. And I always say that's not true. Humans are very consistent, just oftentimes consistent in the wrong direction. It's not about being more consistent, it's about being more positive in your consistency, and I think that little shift can make a world of difference because we are consistent. It's just not always consistent in the direction of our dreams.

Alan Lazaros:

You can always tell who I'm learning from based on the quotes. So lately I've been in a little bit of a Jim Rohn phase. You can look him up on YouTube. He's got some good speeches, but he says that failure is a few errors in judgment repeated every day. He also says that success is a few good decisions, repeated every single day. He says it's the set of the sail. It's not the wind and the rain and the sunshine and the water, it's the set of the sail, which is your own personal philosophy.

Kevin Palmieri:

Welcome to Next Level University. I'm your host, kevin Palmieri, and.

Alan Lazaros:

I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.

Kevin Palmieri:

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Kevin Palmieri:

Next Level University, next Level Nation. Today, for episode number 2,02727, there's a thin line between success and failure. I will never forget one night I was going to bed and I had, I had partaken in an edible and again, I am a proponent of cannabis when responsibly used, and it I always have really cool thoughts. It wasn't super cool thought that night. The thought was shit, tara, and I haven't checked in in a minute. That was layer one. It's like, all right, we can fix that.

Kevin Palmieri:

And I was like, oh, my god, this is how relationships fail. It's not always I don't know what the stats on this. It's not always a oh, you're the worst, screw you, I'm leaving. It's a little bit. Well, we skipped our check-in and this thing kind of, yeah, we'll sweep that under the carpet, that's flying under the radar, start to build a little bit of resentment, just a little bit, and then the next time something happens, that resentment's already there and it's like, oh, oh, okay, then screw you then. And then eventually you drift off and it gets worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. That's what we're talking about today. It's the same thing. It's like you don't just marry your dream person and then it works. There's constant shifts, there's constant readjustments, there's constant maintenance. What happens to a house? You don't have to renovate it every year, you don't have to renovate it every month, but if you make sure the lawn's cut, you do stuff little by little. Maintenance what happens if you don't maintain? It goes off the fucking rails our deck right now is going off the rails it's not, let's

Alan Lazaros:

just say, this winter, when I went out on the deck yeah questionable questionable questionable when, when we resell, we're gonna redo the deck. Obviously it is pretty far gone and we just kind of let it and then let it more me than her.

Kevin Palmieri:

She was on it. Yeah, it's my now. One day you're gonna come home, things gonna be on the fucking ground. You're going to come home and things are going to be on the fucking ground. You're going to say it used to be attached to the house. I don't know what happened. Years of non-maintenance happened. That's what happened and that's what we're talking about here today.

Alan Lazaros:

Neglect is the killer of our dreams Dream relationship, dream body, dream business, dream career, dream job, dream car, dream home. Neglect will kill all good things, Unfortunately. And what was?

Kevin Palmieri:

it. Oh sorry, no, go ahead. I remember we had a studio in Alan's mother's basement for a time back in the day and every time I was headed down there I would get coffee at duncan donuts every time every couple don't even time couple don't ease breakfast sandwiches.

Kevin Palmieri:

If it was in the morning, that right. There is a very okay the thin line between success and failure, and we're going to talk about this more in another episode this week. It'll'll be deeper. But that $5, that wasn't $5. We'll be kidding. A coffee was like $3. Donies were like $1.29 or something. I'm spending $10 every time I go through the drive-thru. Hypothetically, I could buy a book every time. I did that. That's the thin line between success and failure. If I only just do that, right. I'm not saying you can't be successful and have donuts, because if that's the life that we're living in, I don't want to live in it honestly. I want to be successful and be able to have donuts. But I think we think of yeah, you know, I remember that kid I went to high school with. He kind of went off the rails and got in a lot of trouble, went to jail a few times. Now he's not successful now he's not successful.

Alan Lazaros:

Started to hang out with the wrong people.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yeah, but it didn't happen overnight. It didn't happen overnight, and a lot of ending up in a place that you don't want to end up in is not that. It's not that polarizing, it's just a little bit. I'll hit snooze today, I'll skip the gym today, I'm going to have a drink today, I'm going to eat what I want today, and then eventually you do it long enough and then it starts to become a behavior, and then it starts to become a habit, and then it starts to become a trend. And then then, five years down the line, the the best example of this possibly is what's? What's a good example of this? Okay, a hundred calories a day. Let's say you need 2,000 calories to stay at maintenance. So that means you won't gain weight, you won't lose weight. If you eat 1,900 calories, you're going to lose like 500 times 4, 2,800. You'll probably lose like 0.8 pounds a month. Hypothetically, does that make sense? Yeah, nice work. No, no, no, because it's 3,000 calories, 3,500 per pound. So, yeah, you're going to lose 0.8.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, you'll lose 0.8.

Kevin Palmieri:

Nice work, 0.8. If you eat 100 over, not that much, that's two Oreos.

Alan Lazaros:

Okay, oh man, no two Oreos is 140, son Not any more than eight.

Kevin Palmieri:

I got low-fat ones.

Alan Lazaros:

Baby 50 per Low-fat Oreos, what are we?

Kevin Palmieri:

doing here man.

Alan Lazaros:

I'm dieting. I am proud of you.

Kevin Palmieri:

You're low today actually 177.3. Nice work, so okay. 100 calories, not that much. An apple An apple that's an egg and a half. I mean it's not hard to eat 100 calories more than you need. You're going to gain 0.8 pounds per month At the end of the year 10 pounds a year. 10 pounds a year, both ways. Same thing on the opposite end of the line. Okay, did that land at all? Strong work.

Alan Lazaros:

Was it? Yes, if you eat an extra 100 calories a day, you will gain 10 pounds at the end of that year. How wild is that? Super wild. That's the compound effect. This is my favorite topic ever. I'm so grateful we can talk about this. I remember when Emil and I first decided to exercise consistently every day. It's 30 minutes a day. Start small and I remember remember thinking that'll add up. I get to eat way more food. Now that was like a huge incentive for me. You know how much calories let's say 30, 30 minutes what do you, what do you burn in 30 minutes on average, are you talking about walking.

Alan Lazaros:

It depends who you are, too, depends your body comp and your height and all that stuff.

Kevin Palmieri:

The point is even if you say it's 100, say, hypothetically it's 100. Yeah, that's 10 pounds a year. Same thing we were talking about, assuming, I don't eat way more, which I do.

Alan Lazaros:

I'm in a bulk and a cut and bodybuilding, blah, blah, blah, and I've been trying to gain weight. Now I'm cutting and it's been going well so far. Is these little errors in judgment, I wonder too. And again, philosophy is probably the least sexy term ever.

Kevin Palmieri:

I think it's the most sexy term ever. You do, yeah, straight up. Huge fan of philosophy. I have a philosophy book above the toilet. Seriously, yeah, man, I've read like six pages of it, but it's fucking there, it's there, it's available to me.

Alan Lazaros:

Okay, when I say the word philosophy.

Kevin Palmieri:

What do you think of Thinking about stuff that seemingly does not matter or connect, but matters more than anything and connects to everything?

Alan Lazaros:

Nice, well said. Okay, it's your belief system About life. What's the point, what's the purpose? This is going back To the hyperconscious days. Change the way you think. Change the way you think, change the way you act. Change the way you live. Remember.

Kevin Palmieri:

Of course I came up with it. Of course I remember.

Alan Lazaros:

Change the way you think. Yeah, change the way you act.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yeah, that's the second one. Change the way you live. That's the third one. Did you do that? Did I do that personally? Yeah, I'm working on it I'm working on.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, I would you think differently than?

Kevin Palmieri:

before. I think differently than before. I think very differently than before and also very much the same in ways that serve me. Hopefully.

Alan Lazaros:

That's the that's the goal do you remember the very first personal development book I ever bought?

Kevin Palmieri:

This was long before I'm talking, I was 21 years old, 20 years old yeah, this is the stuff that keeps me up at night. What was the first? I think it was the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Alan Lazaros:

That was the first one we read in book club Shit.

Kevin Palmieri:

Hold on it's blue. I never would have got that, John Maxwell.

Alan Lazaros:

How Successful People Think I, John Maxwell how successful people think I'm going to say this, and for anyone out there watching or listening I realize this is bias. You have complete control over what you say. Think, do, feel and believe. I was with a client recently. I said shh, thinking's the most important. Emilia always makes fun of me. She thinks I think math is the most important subject it is. She's like well, other things matter too, and I'm like, yeah, but not as much the point I'm making, though, just being playful here as an engineer, that's just my playful, nerdy engineering side. I think math is everything. It is what it is Now. Thinking is everything. Errors in thinking will ruin your life If you think more effectively. I mean I've said this a couple times lately lop an arm off, lop a leg off, a Kev doesn't matter, he's still Kevin.

Kevin Palmieri:

He's still, kevin. Why can't you lop something off of you?

Alan Lazaros:

Okay, lop an arm off, lop a leg off of me. I'm still Alan, that's true. Okay, now I'd have some identity challenges not as athletic challenges boom, boom, boom.

Alan Lazaros:

That would be very hard. I'm not saying and, but I would still be, alan, why? My brain? That's the one thing you cannot live without. You cannot live without your brain and that's why I'm so big on thinking errors and thinking compounded over time. I have a client who's 25, the things that we are talking about. He's going to win forever. I'm so convinced of it because we're just constantly refining his philosophy, constantly, constantly. That's what this podcast is. We're refining your philosophy. Contemplate kevin's point of view, alan's point of view. Okay, what about this? What are your thoughts? Social media, this, okay. What do you think about? Discipline? Yeah, no, meaningful life, fulfillment, happiness, thoughts. Philosophy is awesome, man. I'm a huge fan and I remember I said to you years and years and years ago these are back in the hyperconscious days. I said you know that in a way, we're modern day philosophers.

Kevin Palmieri:

I did, I do. I don't know if I did, but I do.

Alan Lazaros:

You remember me saying that Mm-hmm. Back then you said I don't know man.

Kevin Palmieri:

I don't think that's what I said.

Alan Lazaros:

What'd you say?

Kevin Palmieri:

I was like hell yeah, man, it's awesome. I don't think you said that. Good shit, bro, probably something like that. Probably good shit, bro, something like that.

Alan Lazaros:

What do you think you actually said?

Kevin Palmieri:

I probably said I never thought, I've never thought of it that way. Maybe I didn't know what philosophy was. I was probably like what is that? Even I have to look that up some sort of like, some sort of pipe fitter or something. What is that? What is that? Though, you know, I don't really know if I knew. I mean, I hadn't studied philosophy, I didn't know why does someone's philosophy matter. Why does somebody's philosophy matter? Why does somebody's philosophy matter?

Alan Lazaros:

oh man, I think it's forced kevin to teach things.

Kevin Palmieri:

I love it it dictates what you take responsibility for. It dictates your standards. It dictates what you believe about people. It dictates what you believe about the world. It dictates what you believe about yourself. It yeah, it is the essentially your philosophy is the glasses that you see everything through, and that's another thing like we could do an episode on at some point. I don't know if we would need a full episode, but the philosophy that will bring you to success versus the philosophy that will get you stuck.

Alan Lazaros:

Let's do some, okay. You can also call this mindset. You can call this your belief system. It's your decision-making paradigm. That's a less common one, but seriously, how do you make decisions? How is it that one person, two people, can experience the same childhood and have completely different lives?

Kevin Palmieri:

Lots of things, but I think philosophies is one of them for sure, maybe the biggest one, maybe self-belief, I think, is the biggest. Yeah, the way you think.

Alan Lazaros:

I was telling this to a client yesterday Because we've been philosophizing a lot this client and I, because it used to be metrics and habits and goals and priorities and blah, blah, blah, and lately it's been aizing a lot this client and I, because it used to be metrics and habits and goals and priorities, and lately it's been a lot of this. It's been a lot of what are you missing? What might you be missing? What might I be missing? I learn a lot from my clients as well, and I said I want you to study human beings and study yourself in terms of their thinking. So what's?

Alan Lazaros:

a good example of this. When I first met Kev, I got to use Kev as an example. I got to use you as an example.

Kevin Palmieri:

Here's why Whatever man, it's all good.

Alan Lazaros:

Everybody knows you. Anyone who's listening knows you, so I can use you as an example. If you're ever wondering why I use Kevin as an example so much, it's because everyone has reference to you. People think I'm picking on you. I'm not picking on you, I'm trying to. No, no.

Kevin Palmieri:

If Alan was, I would put him down. It wouldn't. I know. I know what you're thinking. Alan's a lot taller than you. Trust me, it doesn't matter.

Alan Lazaros:

It just doesn't matter, it just doesn't matter.

Kevin Palmieri:

We're not the same when it comes to that Next Level Nation. We are very, very excited to announce that we are doing our first purely virtual Next Level Live. On April 5th 2025, from 10 am to 4 pm Eastern Standard Time, alan and myself will be live streaming from Worcester, massachusetts.

Alan Lazaros:

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Kevin Palmieri:

We have a global audience. Obviously, if you live somewhere else in the world, it's hard to come across the country or across the world for a one-day event.

Alan Lazaros:

So we wanted to sure it was accessible to everyone. You're not going to get to the next level of your life by default. You're going to get there by design. Join us, design that next level so real quick. I use you as a reference. When I first met you, I was trying to understand how you think and what you say. I'm trying to see beneath the iceberg, what people say and do. You can think about what their thinking is, what's their consciousness. I used to say six pack of the mind. I wish we could see people's minds. I wish we could see everybody's brain instead of their body. How ripped would Kevin be? My brain, yeah.

Kevin Palmieri:

Flexing on him.

Alan Lazaros:

Flexing on him, flexing on him. And then if you did, if you could walk out into the world and you could see everyone's brain instead of their body, how healthy would people be? What if you could see their belief instead of their body?

Kevin Palmieri:

What if you could see their?

Alan Lazaros:

fulfillment instead of their body. I'm willing to bet it would be the same no, no chance I think, so if that's the steve, jobs had a terrible body what are?

Kevin Palmieri:

you talking about I mean not necessarily like the same person, a person, but the same stats talk to me I don't know if I know how I think. Oftentimes the philosophies that get someone into trouble, those are the philosophies that you'd see. Philosophy dictates the behavior, right Agreed.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, agreed.

Kevin Palmieri:

So I feel like yeah, if you were to go to someone, okay, let's say you could see my brain and my body. My brain's ahead of my body, for sure right now. But my philosophy is fitness is my responsibility. If I'm not in shape, it's my fault. It's not McDonald's fault. It's not Domino's fault. I don't have to order it. I do order it because I like it, but I also have to have discipline.

Alan Lazaros:

I want to jump in for a second. Please, kevin, taking ownership for his own fitness, tells me he will win in fitness if you were blaming mcdonald's. That's a philosophy that cannot lead to success because, if it's, if it's mcdonald's fault, then there's nothing you can do about it yeah, so so whenever I meet somebody and maybe this is someone recently I was on a call and she said you are super intimidating.

Alan Lazaros:

I said, oh, I'm, and I don't need to be sorry, that's the wrong frame. This is who I am, I'm just being me. So thank you for letting me know and let's have a business breakthrough session, but anyways. So whenever I meet someone, you can see their philosophy and you can see into the future of what that will bring, and we all know this right, okay, let's say you met a 13 year old, tomorrow you would be able to see their philosophy, their current trajectory, their current thinking and go, uh, oh well, if they're 13, I mean I'd probably be like yeah, you'll figure it out yeah, but okay, if they don't change xyz, can you give me an example of someone where you heard their thinking and went oh, row, row.

Alan Lazaros:

I mean that that time when you saw that I was delusional, fitness wise, that was yeah, but that's.

Kevin Palmieri:

We've talked about that give me another one. Somebody. I was on a podcast recently and they were. It was like oh, the reason you're able to do so much is because you guys have a team Like you. Probably. It's probably like super easy for you and I was like definitely easier, but don't over-swing here. I mean, we still do seven episodes a week and I coach 50-something podcasters.

Alan Lazaros:

So let's go beneath the surface. What does that mean about that person's philosophy? And this is not Kevin trying to pick on anyone.

Kevin Palmieri:

I don't even remember who this person was and no, I'm not trying to pick on him, but in live time I was like because I said this is what happened. They were like how do you do all that? I said this is what happened. They were like how do you do all that? And I was like, well, I appreciate that. I said we have a wonderful team that nobody ever sees because the vast majority of them are behind the scenes, and I think that was like all I got out and they were like oh, that makes total sense. That's why you're able to do it all. That's one of the reasons we're able to do it.

Alan Lazaros:

That's one of the iceberg.

Kevin Palmieri:

But it's. I mean I said there's two of us. Alan works essentially seven days a week, I work six days a week. We do an episode every day. We have 100 and something clients between the two of us.

Alan Lazaros:

There's a lot going on.

Kevin Palmieri:

We both have families small families right now but households to take care of. You know, I still do my stuff around the house, alan does his stuff around the house. It's not like we just show up podcast and then go sit on our golden thrones. That's not the way it works. Oh, it doesn't for you. Yeah, no, it does. That's what I've been doing. I've just been lying to you. To me, it's just a suggestion that that person thinks that the reason they're not successful is because they don't have enough time yet.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, okay, okay. What does that mean? This is my favorite thing in the world. This is why coaching is so fun for me, because all I'm doing is helping people reprogram themselves for success.

Kevin Palmieri:

It means they're most likely not maximizing their time yet.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, and if their, if their story to themselves is that they don't have enough time and that when they get more time then they'll be more successful, that's a losing game. We don't have any you. You and I have less time than that person, by fault for sure I would have to imagine yeah, I would have to imagine that it's what you do with the time but that's a philosophy, right.

Kevin Palmieri:

It goes both ways too, though, because so that's. The other thing is when you have a high awareness in something. So again, for me I'll say fitness slash podcasting For you out there, whether you're watching or listening, it might be something completely different, but you can help people avoid failure Through the wrong philosophy. So what I'm telling podcasters all the time is yeah, I know you want to do your show, like Barstool does, but they have a ton of money. It's not the same. We're not playing the same game. You're an indie director. You're not going to make Jaws right now. That's not how you're going to win. You're going to make the Blair Witch Project. That's the movie you're going to make Good reference. I appreciate that very much.

Alan Lazaros:

For the younger people. I don't know if they'll know what you're talking about. I don't know if you're going to know either of those movies, and that's my apologies, because I don't know.

Kevin Palmieri:

Alan knows more movies than I do, but you're going to make a local, low-budget thing and that's how you're going to win. You're not going to make Avatar. That's not what you're. There's a thin line between you getting to where they are and you spending two years grinding and then realizing oh shit, I'm not Barstool. Yet you're not going to be, just like we're not going to be. I don't want to be Barstool, we're not going to be Barstool, we're doing it in our own unique way. There's a thin line there, too, between an empowering thought and a disempowering thought. There's a thin line between everything realistically Constructive and deconstructive or destructive, toxic and helpful, like there's a thin line between all polarities.

Alan Lazaros:

At the end of the day, All I can ever think of when you say barstool is Emilia was a barstool smoke show back in the day. That's all I can think about now.

Kevin Palmieri:

She knows what's up. She was there, Not there there.

Alan Lazaros:

But Well, they pick. I mean, I think she just got, she was out and got a photo Out and about. Yeah, out and about.

Kevin Palmieri:

What a weird side tangent.

Alan Lazaros:

For sure what Kev just did unpacking the thinking. There are indicators and you can coach yourself. So anyone out there watching or listening where are your errors in thinking? The very first book I ever recommended to Kev I'll never forget this was your Erroneous Zones by Wayne Dyer, and the reason why is because, quite frankly, he had a lot of errors in thinking and I wouldn't recommend that book now to Kevin. But I do think the idea of identifying your errors in thinking is really important, like where am I off? Where am I off? Okay, is that actually going to work? We're always trying to figure out where we're off, always.

Kevin Palmieri:

It's not fun. I know I joke about this all the time.

Alan Lazaros:

I very I'm serious, I thought that book was about sex. I thought it was your erogenous. I'm not even kidding, I thought it was your erogenous zones why would I recommend that to you, man that's that was the maybe.

Kevin Palmieri:

That was the stage I was in that I need to learn. It's like, okay, I'll pick this up.

Alan Lazaros:

I'll pick this up and he's like who the hell is this guy? Yeah, what the hell are we talking about here? It's all about errors and thinking. So how do I, how do we wrap this in a bow? I know we got to jump in 11 minutes. Um, how successful. People think, yeah, let's each give a couple give a give a couple philosophies. I've been writing down my philosophies lately, just for myself, of principles instead of philosophies. I call them principles. Principles are kind of like things that I think are true. What?

Kevin Palmieri:

do you say?

Alan Lazaros:

you go first. Well, I can just give the ones that are in my notes. Let's do it. Yeah, number one figuring out what not to do is far more important than figuring out what to do. I think that's where you got to start, like, who do I need to stop hanging out with ASAP, fucking Rocky. Number two everything is a formula, even if you are certain, even if you are not certain what it is yet. I think I did this with voice to text, sorry, are not certain what it is yet. I think I did this with voice to text, sorry, everybody. Everything is a formula, even if you are not certain what it is yet.

Alan Lazaros:

That's one thing that I really want to make. Land, there is a way. There's very little where there isn't a way to do it. You just don't know the way yet, like, this iphone was always possible, we just didn't know how to do it. Yet I wonder if that's yeah, hopefully that lands, airplanes were always doable, we just didn't know how to do it. Yet I wonder if that's, yeah, hopefully that lands, airplanes were always doable, we just didn't know. As a human species, how to do it.

Kevin Palmieri:

yet Were they, though, like back in the very, very early days, when there was no materials to fly with?

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, they were. The materials were available. We just didn't know how to mine them or how to.

Kevin Palmieri:

That's fair.

Alan Lazaros:

All the things that have been invented in the last 10 years. We always could have done them, but, but, to your point, we weren't in a place where we were ready for it yet right right right, right. So before that the internet couldn't be before electricity right okay, yeah, the electric car couldn't be before any car.

Kevin Palmieri:

So then, technically speaking, technically speaking and I hate to be this guy, I don't like to be this guy, I don't want to be this guy Right, but technically speaking, it can't happen before the thing that precedes it happens. Yeah.

Alan Lazaros:

However, the thing that precedes it happening can happen way sooner.

Kevin Palmieri:

That's fair.

Alan Lazaros:

Meaning the iPhone was always possible in the long term. However, it wasn't possible in that moment, which I think is a good metaphor for everyone's life. Right now, your dreams are possible. They're just not possible tomorrow.

Kevin Palmieri:

Imagine Caveman Dave finding electricity.

Alan Lazaros:

Somehow Caveman Dave, caveman Dave.

Kevin Palmieri:

That'd be wild.

Alan Lazaros:

No man. Okay, number three. It is remarkable what human beings. For sure it's crazy, it's all things weird.

Kevin Palmieri:

You ever been driving down the road? And just imagine that somebody had to pave that road. Every road you've ever driven on, ever for the last, however many years old you are, somebody paved that shit.

Alan Lazaros:

That's fucking crazy to me. Yeah, I have a mutual client, kevin and I both coach him and he's doing very, very well and he builds barns and barn dominiums and houses. There's a lot going on behind the scenes that makes everything happen and it's really cool when you coach people and you see the behind the scenes, it's really cool. That's one of my favorite things. I get to learn about All kinds of businesses from all over the world. Again, just learning awesome, okay. Number three focusing on solving a problem upstream can improve something downstream by a huge exponential multiple. What's an example of that? You solve one problem can improve something downstream by a huge exponential multiple. What's an example of that? Solve one problem. Okay, a gratitude game. Stay grateful every night for Emilia. Say it before bed. Potentially, make sure you don't get divorced 20 years from now. Again, it's an extreme version, but it's a good example.

Kevin Palmieri:

What about you? One of mine would be, man, I don't know. Probably isn't there like a penny saved, a penny earned? I think mine would be like a dime saved is a dollar eventually, if you know what to do with it. All right, that's a new one for me.

Alan Lazaros:

I love it man, that's a new one for me.

Kevin Palmieri:

What's the other one, my philosophy? One of my philosophies is add more value than anybody else and you'll most likely get further ahead than anybody else In the long run. In the micro not at all. In the micro you might actually get taken advantage of. But if you micro, you might actually get taken advantage of. But if you then, when you get taken advantage of, you realize what, how that happened, and then now you're less likely to be taken advantage of. And because I've definitely worked with clients who was like I feel like I'm getting taken advantage of here, but there's a lot of lessons that now you have clients.

Alan Lazaros:

You learned so much through that and now you have clients that don't take advantage of you, and you know how to add even more value, yeah it really is.

Kevin Palmieri:

Third one is very much in alignment with that. I now am saying yes to stuff based on what I will learn, as opposed to what I will get, and that's freaking weird. That's awesome. Now, can you always do that? I don't know. If you're broke, you'd probably say yes to stuff because you're going to get something. In the short term I think that's helpful, but in the long run, what you're going to learn is probably the most valuable thing ever of all time.

Alan Lazaros:

Nice.

Kevin Palmieri:

All right, cool, last call Ding ding ding, ding Ding ding. That's last call for next level live 2025. Tomorrow, 10 am Eastern Standard Time. Alan, myself and Amy live virtually in Zoom all day. Event tickets are only $47 and with your purchase you will get access to the replay. So even if you can't make it live or you have to hop in and hop out, you'll still be able to watch it. We'd love to have you. I can tell you with certainty that this is the best thing we have ever put together. This is the most powerful content we will have ever presented, and there was a lot of work that went into this and there was a lot of intention that went into this and we're excited to deliver it. And for 47 bucks. I can't promise much in life, genuinely, but I can promise you will get your money's worth with anything that you do with NLU. I mean, that is one of our philosophies Give more than we get. That is the way we are wired.

Alan Lazaros:

This event is no different, so link will be in the show notes clients, customers, building a brand, building a business life, eight years of our philosophies and how we think, success, failure all the above condensed into one six hours of a day, personal development, all the very best in one, and you can pop in and out. You can keep your mic and camera off if you want. It's totally virtual. You're going to get the entire replay, so if you miss anything, that's okay. We know people are busy on Saturdays. That was the biggest objection. It wasn't the 47 bucks, it was the. I can't spend six hours on a Saturday. I get it. You can pop in and out and we hope to see you there.

Kevin Palmieri:

Next time we'll do it on a Wednesday and you can call out as always we love you, we appreciate you, grateful for each and every one of you. At NLU, we don't have fans, we have family. We will talk to you all tomorrow.

Alan Lazaros:

Keep it Next Level, 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:

We mean it when we say family. If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. Everything you need to get a hold of us is in the show notes.

Kevin Palmieri:

Thank you again and we will talk to you tomorrow.

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