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How Seriously Do You ACTUALLY Take Your Dreams? (2092)

• Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros

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In today’s episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros ask the tough questions about what it truly means to commit. From early podcast memories and panic attacks in hotel rooms to turning down high-paying jobs and living with less to pursue more, they reveal what going all in really looks like. Whether you're building a business, improving your health, or chasing a personal goal, this episode is a wake-up call to match your behaviors with your biggest ambitions. No fluff, just real stories, real lessons, and real talk.

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Show notes:
(2:30) The interview that broke Kevin
(4:09) Kevin’s first panic attack
(7:33) Alan’s early struggles with communication
(10:18) Feeling alone in the mission
(13:08) Next Level Dreamliner: The planner, agenda, journal, and habit tracker to rule them all. Get a copy: https://a.co/d/9fPpxEt
(16:25) What going “all in” really means
(20:29) Sacrifice is the only shortcut
(24:32) Daily discipline vs wishful thinking
(26:30) If you don’t act, you don’t get
(27:59) Outro

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Kevin Palmieri:

I went back and listened to episode number 10 of this podcast it was called the Hyperconscious Podcast at the time and I said something very idiotic, slash, profound, and I was talking about how, when you set goals and you are really, really committed to those goals, I think it is potentially beneficial to look at them as life or death scenarios. We're going to talk about if that's dumb as shit or not.

Alan Lazaros:

I used to say this way back in those days chase your dreams as if your life depends on it, because it fucking does.

Kevin Palmieri:

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

Alan Lazaros:

And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.

Kevin Palmieri:

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Kevin Palmieri:

Welcome to Next Level University, next Level Nation today for episode number 2092. How seriously do you actually take your dreams? Very rare do you get two swears in the first like 40 seconds of the podcast. That's what you're gonna get today. Today's gonna be a hardcore episode. It is what it is. I went back and listened to episode number 10. Better than I thought honestly. Better than I thought what was I there? No, that's why. That's why it was better than I thought honestly. Better than I thought what?

Alan Lazaros:

was I there, no, so that's why. That's why it was better than I thought, because it was just me, baby me and my thoughts in the living room by the way, how funny is it for you to listen to yourself back then talking about how you gotta go all in and how committed you have to be, while you were taking naps on the yeah, taking naps smoking weed at that point I mean, this was episode 10, so this was 2017.

Kevin Palmieri:

Like there was not a lot of, there was not a lot of all in this, can you tell me?

Alan Lazaros:

this is very selfish of me, but I need please tell me one of the lines that was super hardcore about you just gotta fucking whatever and then, and then tell me your truth about what that kid was saying.

Kevin Palmieri:

The entire episode was how do you pick yourself back up after you fall on your face?

Alan Lazaros:

essentially, so this was after the justin ren.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yeah, this was the this was the I got my dream interview. Nine episodes in did it? We talked about it recently, but I I the audio quality was brutal and I couldn't use it. And then they ghosted me when I tried to try to do a redo of the interview. So I was like heartbroken. I was like convinced that this is the end of the road, and this episode was me talking myself through and talking everybody else through what it's like to take a massive L and then keep going. And it was just again. It was valuable. It was a valuable episode. It was.

Kevin Palmieri:

I'm certain there was value in this episode, but the thing I said was, when you set a goal, essentially you have to treat it like it is life or death, because I think that's the only way you're going to end up getting it Pretty hardcore. I didn't know what that meant at all, not even a little bit, but it sounded really good. Yeah, it sounded really good, and that was what I felt at the time. What did you think it meant? I thought it meant what we're doing today Is what I thought it meant it is. It is, this is life or death. What are we going to do? There's no way, 100%. You think I'm going to go get a fucking job. Not a chance, not a fucking chance, never job, not a chance, not a fucking chance, never, never that. This is what I thought it was.

Kevin Palmieri:

Alan and I went to florida. This was before we lived in florida, I believe, for the month. We went to florida. Then the day we got there, we went from the airport to the gym. I remember when we got there, we landed, I was like oh, my allergies are bad, my, my throat feels tight, my chest feels tight, I'm having trouble breathing.

Kevin Palmieri:

I think my allergies are bad and reminisce oh it's brutal and but what we do when we travel is we go to the gym and we were in really good shape at that point. That's one of my like favorite pictures ever. And we're working out and I think I got like three quarters of the way through the workout and and I was like, all right, man, I'm going to, I'm good. Like I don't feel good. My allergies are acting up like really bad. I don't know what's going on.

Kevin Palmieri:

We go back to the hotel and I had a panic attack. This is the first panic attack I ever had. I remember I texted my mom because I used to have really bad asthma when I was a kid, so I had an inhalerer, I had a nebulizer, I had really bad asthma. I had really bad, uh, pneumonia often when I was a baby and I texted my mom and I said I think I'm having like asthma attacks. I don't know what to do. And she said you gotta go to the hospital. And I was like I don't have fucking insurance, so I and I have no money so I cannot afford to go to the hospital, so that ain't it. So alan went to walgreens or cS and got me like a care package Walmart, I think.

Kevin Palmieri:

It was not the nicest area in the world.

Alan Lazaros:

It was like 1 am or something.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yeah, but I was like dude, I need Vicks Vaporub. Just get me Vicks Vaporub. I'm going to put it under my nose to prove to myself that I'm able to breathe. And I remember, just laying there, I also got a heart rate monitor. Heart rate, yeah, I was freaking out. I didn't know what the hell it was, and then so alan came back and I survived the night, quote, unquote. The next day you went somewhere and I was like dude, I can't go, I'm, I need to fucking stay here. I think I'm dying, man, I think you went to one of our no one of our mentors houses okay, at the time for what I don't remember.

Kevin Palmieri:

There was something going on interview. No, it wasn't an interview, because, oh, maybe it was you being interviewed on something I don't remember. There was something going on An interview? No, it wasn't an interview, because, oh, maybe it was you being interviewed on something, I don't know. It wasn't an interview for the podcast.

Alan Lazaros:

You remember that interview? There was a guy there who was really into Buddhism. You remember that guy? That was a strange time, dude. That was yeah for sure. I remember I got interviewed and he was just watching and he was about to go and he had never been interviewed before and I was young especially I look young now, but I looked even younger then and this mentor interviewed me live about fitness.

Alan Lazaros:

And back then I didn't know that I communicate terrible. I just said I was very, very engineer, without knowing I was engineer, like I had no concept that I was like. That was even back then when I didn't think, I didn't know that no one else thought in like engineering modalities, I don't even know how to explain it, but I just was fully me. Dude, some naive is good. And this guy was jawed to the floor, type of he. I remember him coming up to me going what the like? What are you? And I was like what do you mean? He's like I just watched that interview, like where did you learn all that? And then I went through what do you mean? That was back in the day when I had no fucking clue that I was any different than anyone else. Such an interesting thing.

Kevin Palmieri:

And you still were terrible, which is interesting. Like all things considered Bad at communicating.

Alan Lazaros:

I wasn't terrible in actual understanding.

Kevin Palmieri:

No, no, no. But it's interesting how, now, like you wouldn't even look twice at that, like the, you today wouldn't even look twice at that. You know today wouldn't even look twice at that. You know you wouldn't be impressed with that I would be impressed with the understanding probably yeah, yeah, yeah but not the delivery, definitely not.

Alan Lazaros:

Not the delivery. That was back when I didn't know that. How much transcoding matters.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yeah, I less communication. Communication is transcoding. And again, nothing against buddhism. I didn't mean that as the weird thing it. It was just a weird fucking time. In general, if you have Buddhist beliefs out there, you do your freaking thing, yeah.

Alan Lazaros:

I want to make sure that I explain why I said that.

Kevin Palmieri:

You are derailing my story horribly.

Alan Lazaros:

I know, I know I apologize, you are unique here. Anyone out there watching or listening you have to understand where you fall on the bell curve. I had no idea. I had no idea and it's obvious now. But, like IQ, eq, understanding, intelligence, I didn't know, I didn't fully understand where I fell on that bell curve, and it's so obvious in hindsight. So the lesson in that is you've got to understand where you fall on the bell curve. You have to, otherwise you'll never be able to actually communicate effectively to. Does that land? Does that make sense?

Kevin Palmieri:

Did you know? Did you know?

Alan Lazaros:

Did you know back then what Like what did you think of that?

Kevin Palmieri:

I wasn't. Think of what. You weren't there. I wasn't there. I was dying. I think you were there for that one. No, no, I'm pretty sure I was dying. This was like the fucking peak of it. What did you think back in the day when you interviewed me? I thought you knew so much. I thought you knew so much, Okay. But I remember I said to Alan one time I was like I want to interview Alan Lazarus. Not all the books Alan Lazarus has read, Like the quotes, I don't want all the like. Tell me what you think, Not what John Maxwell thinks. I want to know what you think. Nice, but I always thought you knew a ton. Yeah for sure. Is that obvious?

Alan Lazaros:

to people.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yeah, I would say so. I wonder if it was more obvious then, because you didn't communicate? It well, so it was almost like I just assumed you knew everything and I didn't understand anything you were saying.

Alan Lazaros:

How interesting is that Right, and now I actually dumb it down on purpose.

Kevin Palmieri:

well, you want to make it land.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, you want to make I wonder if that's even useful, such an interesting conversation.

Kevin Palmieri:

Anyways, continue having an identity crisis so alan went and did this interview and I remember I got up and went to the bathroom and I had another panic attack in the bathroom. I was lying on the pretty nice hotel, all things considered. Our mentor paid for it, so we were very gracious because we couldn't afford it. I remember lying on the floor in the bathroom thinking and I'm serious I was like this is it, this is fucking it. I'm going to die right here all by myself in this crusty fucking hotel room.

Alan Lazaros:

And Alan's gone on.

Kevin Palmieri:

That is fire. And I was like this is, this is fucking terrible. That's what I thought I was talking about in episode number 10. And there was. I had a moment and again I was scared. I'm not saying like, oh yeah, fucking bring it. No, I was terrified. But I had a moment of like well, at least I'm doing my thing, at least I'm chasing my dreams. Like it could be it could be worse, it could be I could drop dead doing a job I don't like. Alan ended up getting back. I I laid in bed and watched all the james bond movies that day and they were just in your craig. No, no, this was, this was the old ones. This is pierce brosnan. Oh, yeah, I was watching pierce brosnan ones. Next next day we get up and we drive four or five hours south to do an interview with eddie panero and alan. I usually drive, I drive us everywhere when we travel. Alan drove because I was. I slept the whole ride. The kia, the kia, the red kia soul but it was.

Kevin Palmieri:

It was absolutely brutal and again it felt to me like it was life or death. At that point now, it wasn't because I ended up learning that it was anxiety and panic attacks and all that. That was the first time I'd ever experienced that. So that's what I thought I was talking about in episode 10. I was not very clearly because I couldn't grasp that concept, but I feel like that's a probably the best example I have of I don't know. There's something about like when I got sent to collections because I couldn't pay my car insurance. That's like something that never really goes away and at the time it's like unbelievably detrimental.

Kevin Palmieri:

It's like oh my God, I just fucked my credit up. That sucks it like it sucks. You know you're fighting that for years, like that's the type of stuff that you gotta. Yeah, it doesn't matter it's irrelevant that's the, that's the hard thing now again, this depends.

Kevin Palmieri:

this depends on the size of your goals. I'm not saying you gotta push all your chips in the center and say I'm all in, but that's what this means to me. How seriously do you take it when, when you have to choose between this or something else, do you choose your dreams? Do you take it when you have to choose between this or something else? Do you choose your dreams? Do you choose the mission? Do you choose the goals? That now makes way more sense to me. One of the reasons we have gotten here is just because we didn't stop, yeah, and I didn't realize how much that Matters Matters. Yeah, I didn't understand that. You remember that situation?

Alan Lazaros:

ship where you could tell she thought the podcast out of fucking nowhere.

Alan Lazaros:

You know that yeah, the podcast was like cute dude. In hindsight I've had some memories coming back. We've been doing a lot of reminiscing lately. Shout out to odette, by the way. She's a client and a listener and she gave us a feature the top 10 most embarrassing moments episode. She gave us a feature in her blog, thank you. Thank you, odette, appreciate that. She features us a lot. Man, hello, hello, hello, nlu listener. Thank you, as always, for listening to next level university. Real quick, I just want to jump in and let you know about the next level dreamliner. This is a journal that I use every single day. Achieve your dreams 90 days at a time. It breaks down your dreams into goals, milestones and daily habits. We hope you enjoy it. The link will be in the show notes. I was headed to Mohegan way back. This is during those times when you were in the situation ship and I was with my ex and we were going to Mohegan and uh, I'll never forget, we were driving there. I was driving and you had called me or some shit.

Alan Lazaros:

And she was like we'll just call him back tomorrow. And I tried to explain. She's like not tonight, though, don't worry about it. I said no, he doesn't call me for no reason. This is my business partner and in hindsight it's so obvious she didn't take us seriously. Yeah, and whatever. I should have known that. But I remember thinking like no, I have to call him back. This is my business partner and I tried to explain. It now makes sense why.

Alan Lazaros:

It sounded probably I don't know if delusional is the right word, but I said I would die for this Like I'm going to call him back now. So I'm going to do that and you can kindly fuck off. I obviously didn't say that, but like it's, do you not understand what I'm doing? I remember having that feeling Like you don't understand what this is. This is not a joke. This is not a side. This isn't some fun YouTube channel that I'm trying out. Like this is my livelihood and I back when you don't have results. It's so hard to convince people that you're serious. It's so hard.

Alan Lazaros:

Now I'm on a podcast. I was on a podcast earlier and I said, yeah, we, you know, ended up surpassing. We do an episode a day. We've been doing an episode a day, every day for probably five, five or six years. And he's like what? I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we just did. I think it's 2090. And he's like what the fuck? I was like, oh, so that's just what we didn't have back in the day. For sure. This dude just knows now Like we don't Dude. Back in the day I didn't understand that.

Alan Lazaros:

I'm just as serious now as I was back then.

Kevin Palmieri:

It's about what you've done, not what you're gonna do. That's it. That's the dumbest shit ever, dude, straight up. It makes sense to me, logically, though it's already done in here. Well, yeah, but nobody knows that. Ugh.

Alan Lazaros:

Nobody knows. I don't need you to believe in me now. I needed it back then, for fuck's sake. Obviously I'm being playful, but anyone out there who is a dream chaser you do need a level of commitment that is that is going to appear crazy you do, I feel like.

Kevin Palmieri:

I feel like I could do a better job. I'm not saying it's a disservice, but I feel like that's what needs to come out when I'm talking to people about this.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, because it's like you and I have been ride or die from the get for sure dude that was. It was never an option there was no alternative. There was no plan b, there was no it's it's not like.

Kevin Palmieri:

Uh, I don't feel like it. My plan b was vp of sales for a. Mine was not that huge tech company. My mind was christmas bonuses.

Alan Lazaros:

I. I was broke as a joke, saying no to that. Half million a year, that's a lot, it is a lot, and I know the answer is no, all in. I'm talking all in there is no other option.

Kevin Palmieri:

I think it's. I think it's something that is very easy to say and it's much harder, it's much, much, much harder to do. And either I know a lot of people that are like all in way more than the statistical average, that still it's like you gotta, you gotta be more all in than you are. I know, oh, you're going out to lunch what's the scene with the?

Alan Lazaros:

you gotta do more than that.

Kevin Palmieri:

You gotta do more than that. Forgetting sarah marshall.

Alan Lazaros:

Forgetting sarah marshall, he's like, do less, do less well, you can't do nothing.

Kevin Palmieri:

You gotta do more than that. You do more than that. That is the hard thing. I think that is the hard thing I was. I was looking back at old notes from a coaching session I had, and this was in 2020. Yeah, 2020. And the person I said where do you want to be? What's the goal? What are we trying to do here? And they said eventually I want to have a seven-figure business, I want to have houses here, here, here and here. And I was like now, when I'm looking back, no, you don't, no, you don't.

Kevin Palmieri:

You never wanted that yeah you never wanted that, and again understandable.

Alan Lazaros:

You thought you wanted, that thought I needed, we need to talk about it. Let's talk about it. I dude the amount of coaching sessions that I've been on where someone tells me that they want to build a seven a seven figure business, which is basically just saying a million dollar business.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yep, that is like very common well for me, yeah, but everybody says they want. How many people want abs? Everybody wants abs. It's not that it it doesn't matter.

Alan Lazaros:

This never lands for me. If I wanted abs, I would just go get abs.

Kevin Palmieri:

I well, again you're. You got to take yourself out of it. Everybody wants the, everybody wants the shiny result, everybody wants that. Everybody wants the seven figure business, whatever, whatever it is. But that's the thing is like. I remember the conversation was okay, cool, number one, stop. That's the thing is like. I remember the conversation was okay, cool, number one, stop. You have to stop going out to fucking lunch with your friends on thursday. What are we 100? What are we doing here? I'm coaching you on a thursday at lunchtime, me? I'm coaching you to make money for the business, to grow the business. What me? And I'm not successful at all at this point. What makes you think you could just go to lunch on a thursday when I'm ahead of you? That there's no way. Yeah, did you say that? No?

Alan Lazaros:

fuck no no, I thought it, dude. If you start for anyone out there watching or listening, if you get a coach, make sure that they are strong, like a strong enough person to tell you the truth. You need the truth. You do need the truth. I was do need the truth.

Alan Lazaros:

I was on a coaching session earlier and this person's goal is to button up my finances and get a great, aligned job. Okay, awesome, there's the goal I got you, but I'm going to have to tell you a lot of shit you don't want to hear. We went through all of her expenses and we highlighted at least seven that could be lowered, and this is someone who's fairly buttoned up. Like listen, you don't need Netflix, disney plus and YouTube premium and Amazon prime. You don't like. Why do Kevin and I have a multi million dollar business and we don't like? It's it's.

Alan Lazaros:

I'm not upset upset with anyone. I just don't know where we went wrong, like we've gone wrong somewhere by not realizing sacrifice is a part of the fucking equation. I lived with my mother at 28 years old after being a one percent global fucking earner, dude. That's why we're here today. I know I drove a fucking 2009 subaru while making well over six figures in my own coaching practice. I made well over six figures in my own coaching practice driving a 2009. Like I don't. I just don't understand. Like sacrifice is the only way to success period. There is no exception.

Kevin Palmieri:

Well, okay okay, imagine this somebody says they actually they want something they don't actually want. Their behaviors are not going to be in alignment with the actual result behaviors in alignment is what matters.

Alan Lazaros:

Wanting is the first step, 100, everything after that, yeah, yeah, behavior, that's so some people think.

Kevin Palmieri:

So some people think about it, some people talk about it, some people act about it, some people do it, some people are it and I think again, there's a lot of people in the first three buckets of that. And I'm not even making like, understandably, I know.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri:

I was looking at this recently and I said this to someone because this is really good data for me. I was looking at this recently and I said this to someone because this is really good data for me. I said out of the thousand podcasts I've been on, 40% of them probably are no longer alive. Yeah, just gone completely, yeah, forever. Some of my, some of the episodes I did, didn't even get released because their podcast died before then. And again you're testing out the water is all good.

Kevin Palmieri:

I'm not making that wrong, but how many of them said they wanted to be the next bar stool or whatever? A lot of them probably did mindset, method and motivation.

Alan Lazaros:

I'm not motivated. Well, you better get motivated quick, because I did some research. There's 137,000 new online businesses per fucking day. You, you are, you can't. I never understood and again, I'm not trying to be mean you can't like want to start an online business and then that, okay, I still want to like go to lunch and I still want to enjoy myself. That's not. That's like wanting to be in the nba but not wanting to go to practice no, it's.

Kevin Palmieri:

That's the thing is. It's not because the nba has requirements to get into starting a business, as easy as shit. You pay your state 500 bucks or whatever it is yeah, you get yourself an llc.

Alan Lazaros:

You're off the same minds, the mindset should be the same.

Kevin Palmieri:

I I know, when the barrier to entry lowers, the failure rate increases, increases, and I that's. I think it's just human nature. I think it always will be. It always will be.

Alan Lazaros:

I care, and I I care so much about our listeners' success that I want and I said this in the meetup yesterday and I know we got to jump I said this is how I opened it Listen, kevin's not here. I'm kidding. That's not how I opened it. I said listen, I don't really care about anything, except for one thing You're all here by consent. You don't have to be here. This is private. Okay, I'm here for one thing to help you reach your potential. I don't give a shit about anything else. I'm going to offend you, I'm going to trigger you and just trust, please, please.

Kevin Palmieri:

All I care about is one thing fucking meetups have gone off the rails since I left helping you yeah, helping you reach your potential.

Alan Lazaros:

I I said I will be respectful, but that is why we're here. And if you don't want to be here for me helping you actually reach the potential, your potential, by telling you the truth of what I've actually learned then you can leave and that's okay. Like we can't all just just be so uh fluffy with each other all the time. Like I'm so glad that you're starting to be more you, because behind the scenes, you you've always been this way you're so much more committed than anyone else knows and so much more committed than our laughs and jokes indicate.

Kevin Palmieri:

But I but I also understand that it's. It's a fine line of. I want to make sure I bridge line of. I want to make sure I bridge the gap. I want to make sure I bridge the gap because the truth is I mean that is the thing is I do want it more. Yeah, I want this more than I than anybody could possibly know, slash anybody I've ever personally met, other than like five people. Like I want this more than anything.

Kevin Palmieri:

Nice, I don't wake up in the morning because I want to. I didn't get out of bed today at six to go to the gym because I want it. It's just necessary. It's just what it takes. It is what it is. It feels like Groundhog Day. It is what it is.

Kevin Palmieri:

But that's what I signed up for. You're going to have to make your own agreement with yourself to do that level of whatever that personal level is. Again, it's not, it's not necessarily gonna be the same thing. I could not tell you I get up at six every day. I couldn't tell you the last time I didn't get up at six. Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, doesn't matter. Every day I get up at six. It's just. That's just what I do now. I don't like it, not that I enjoy it, but that my belief is that is what it'll take, and to me it is. It's outside of Taryn. This is the thing. This is, like Taryn's, the most important person. This is the most important thing, and there's very little else. For a reason, for a reason. All right, what's your next level lesson before we get out of here? This was a great episode, man. This was a great episode. I enjoyed this very much.

Alan Lazaros:

My next level lesson is you have to sacrifice the now to get to the greater there. Stop stop avoiding that. Like dude. You know how many times I sit myself down in my own head and I say, alan, stop avoiding it. Like, do the hard shit, don't. There's no shortcut, there's no fucking cheat code, there's no work. A little smarter. Like, just go. What are we doing? The stop looking for the quick fix. They're half the books I download. It's like I have to return them because they might as well be. Here's a quick fix. That isn't real. There is no quick fix. Do yourself a favor. Your future self will thank you. Stop looking for the quick fix. This podcast is not a quick fix. If you don't listen every day, it won't do shit for you. If you don't listen every day, it won't do shit for you.

Kevin Palmieri:

Mine would be if you are more focused or more intentional or more pulled or pushed towards things that aren't your goals, you're going to get really good at those things and you're going to get results in those things, but you're not going to get results in goals. That, because it just doesn't work that way. If your goal is to have the best relationship possible and you spend half of your time doing fantasy football shit, your relationship's not gonna be that good. There's this nice and you're, but you're gonna know way more than I do about fantasy football because I don't put any time into that. But that's not the result you want. That's not the result you said you wanted. You said you wanted an amazing relationship. Now it doesn't have to be a hundred percent zero, but but that right, that's that's. I can't say.

Kevin Palmieri:

One of my goals is to save money and then spend money on dumb shit. Nice, it just doesn't. It doesn't add up. All right, cool, if you're looking for a daily dose of maybe a gentle kick in the ass, or inspiration or motivation, depending on the day, we'll have our. No, no, that's not it. We'll have our private Facebook group Next. Motivation, depending on the day We'll have our. No, no, that's not it. We'll have our private Facebook group.

Alan Lazaros:

Next Level Nation in the show notes.

Kevin Palmieri:

We'd love to have you in there. I think I might have a booger on this one Next Level Dreamliner every single day.

Alan Lazaros:

Top three gratitudes, top three most important tasks, most important win, most important improvement and your next level lesson Get better every single day. Achieve your dreams 90 days at a time. This will make you more productive. I notice when I don't do it. It will make you more productive. It's called the Dreamliner, the Next Level Dreamliner. It's going to help you get to your dreams.

Kevin Palmieri:

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.

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.

Alan Lazaros:

Level family. 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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