Life Is JUST A Series Of Problems To Solve (2148)

What if life isn’t about avoiding problems but solving the right ones? In today's episode, Kevin and Alan compare personal growth to leveling up in a video game. They share how identifying your biggest constraint, whether it’s sleep, money, or relationships, can unlock your next level. From relationship coaching breakthroughs to hard lessons learned through pain, you’ll walk away with a new way to look at life’s challenges. Simple, honest, and eye-opening.

Learn more about:
👥Join our Facebook community “Next Level Nation” - https://www.facebook.com/groups/459320958216700
📚Think deeper, grow faster. Join our “Next Level Book Club”  – Every Saturday –
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkcuiupjIqE9QlkptiKDQykRtKyFB5Jbhc

_____________________

NLU is not just a podcast; it’s a gateway to a wealth of resources designed to help you achieve your goals and dreams. From our Next Level Dreamliner to our Group Coaching, we offer a variety of tools and communities to support your personal development journey.

For more information, please check out our website at the link below. 👇

Website 💻  http://www.nextleveluniverse.com

_______________________

We love connecting with you guys! Reach out on Instagram, Facebook, or via email. We’re here to support you in your personal and professional development journey.

Instagram 📷
Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/neverquitkid/
Alan: https://www.instagram.com/alazaros88/

Facebook ✍
Alan: https://www.facebook.com/alan.lazaros
Kevin: https://www.facebook.com/kevin.palmieri.90/

Email 💬
Kevin@nextleveluniverse.com
Alan@nextleveluniverse.com

LinkedIn ✍
Kevin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-palmieri-5b7736160/
Alan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanlazarosllc/

_______________________

Show notes:
(2:51) What is “target the constraint”?
(4:06) Coaching through conscious love languages
(7:20) How awareness shifts growth
(10:27) At NLU, your success is our purpose. Join our Monthly Meet-up every first Thursday of the month for tools, insight, and the spark to move forward. https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/NzwOxCMxTDyRJg4CLJS1qg#/registration
(13:40) Hope Vs. Intention
(16:18) Money, freedom, and fulfillment
(19:53) Outro

🎙️ Hosted by Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros

Next Level University is a top-ranked daily podcast for dream chasers and self-improvement lovers. With over 2,100 episodes, we help you level up in life, love, health, and wealth one day at a time. Subscribe for real, honest, no-fluff growth every single day.

Chapters

• 2:51 What is “target the constraint”?
• 4:06 Coaching through conscious love languages
• 7:20 How awareness shifts growth
• 10:27 At NLU, your success is our purpose. Join our Monthly Meet-up every first Thursday of the month for tools, insight, and the spark to move forward.
• 13:40 Hope Vs. Intention
• 16:18 Money, freedom, and fulfillment
• 19:53 Outro

Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) One of my favorite analogies or examples of all time is the video game analogy. (0:05) You start on level one and when you figure out how to get by the boss and you figure out what this tool does and you figure out where to put it and how to do it, you get to go to level two. (0:15) And the same thing happens on level two and then three and four and five.(0:18) And I think at the end of the day, life is just a series of solving problems.

Alan Lazaros

(0:23) I've been watching a channel on YouTube called InfiniLean. (0:26) With all the love and respect, it's actually not great in my opinion, but the concepts are powerful. (0:31) There's something called Six Sigma, talks about three defects per million transactions, and there's something called the theory of constraints.(0:38) Targeting the constraint is what we're going to talk about today.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:40) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:43) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:45) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.(0:48) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven, but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Alan Lazaros

(0:54) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:01) We bring you a new episode every single day on topics like confidence, self-belief, self-worth, self-awareness, relationships, boundaries, consistency, habits, and defining your own unique version of success.

Alan Lazaros

(1:17) Self-improvement in your pocket, every day, from anywhere, completely free.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:23) Welcome to Next Level University. (1:29) Next Level Nation today for episode number 2148, Life is Just a Series of Problems to Solve. (1:37) I get asked all the time on podcasts, why is self-awareness so important?(1:40) Why is personal development so important? (1:42) Why is learning so important? (1:43) Why is knowledge so important?(1:45) This is my new answer. (1:47) And Alan has used this many times. (1:49) If you've ever played a video game, and you get stuck on level one, you don't get to go to level two, and you don't get to go to level three, and you don't get to go to level four, unless you go online, and you find the cheat codes, or you find the walkthrough guide, and it says, you know that corner that looks like a dead end?(2:07) There's actually a ladder at the end of it. (2:09) You got to go down there. (2:10) That's how you get to the next level.(2:11) Oh shit, okay. (2:13) And then you go to level two, and it's worse. (2:17) And you don't know how to, maybe you don't know how to beat that.(2:20) But then like there are levels that are just easier. (2:23) It's just like jump over this person, walk backwards, jump back over them, jump, okay, climb the ladder, boom. (2:28) What game gets easier as you play it?(2:30) Well, I'm saying like the first five levels. (2:32) First five levels. (2:33) False.(2:33) First five. (2:34) Okay. (2:35) Three, first three minimum, right?(2:36) First three. (2:38) That's where you're just learning. (2:39) You're just learning about it.(2:40) But yeah, that is kind of my thought process for today's episode. (2:44) And it's based on something that Alan and I were talking about the other day. (2:46) We were talking about, he was talking about it.(2:48) I didn't even know what this meant like a year ago. (2:51) Target the constraint. (2:54) Cool.(2:55) What does that mean though?

Alan Lazaros

(2:58) I was on a relationship talks coaching session with Emilia and two individuals. (3:02) Shout out to you too if you're listening. (3:04) It was awesome.(3:06) These are new clients actually. (3:08) New old clients because we worked with them in past relationships. (3:12) But we were targeting the constraint.(3:14) What do we do? (3:15) We have something called the 25 conscious love languages. (3:18) And it's a worksheet where you go through, you do green, yellow, red for each one.(3:23) So deep conversations is one of the 25 conscious love languages. (3:29) Do you love having deep conversations with your partner? (3:31) That means it's green for you.(3:33) So what you're looking for is mismatches. (3:37) The reason why we do an assessment of the 25 conscious love languages is so that people can target the constraint. (3:44) Okay.(3:45) The relationship is trending in the wrong direction. (3:48) And they both know it. (3:50) They're having a baby.(3:52) They need it to trend in the right direction. (3:54) That would be very good for them and their child.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:57) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(3:57) Relationship talks coaching. (3:58) Boom. (3:59) I would love for everyone to be proactive.(4:01) Usually people come when they're in trouble. (4:03) Usually. (4:04) When do you go to the doctors when you're sick?(4:06) When do you get a therapist when you're struggling? (4:08) Right? (4:08) It is what it is.(4:09) When do you get a coach when you can't figure it out? (4:12) Okay. (4:13) So it's our job to listen to the female, listen to the male.(4:17) This is a heterosexual couple in this case. (4:19) And hear them both out. (4:20) Let them both express how they feel and what's going on.(4:24) And then my brain and Emilia's brain is both going. (4:26) Okay. (4:27) So Emilia and I both targeted different constraints.(4:29) Stop.

Kevin Palmieri

(4:31) Explain target the constraint. (4:32) What does that mean? (4:33) Simplest terms.

Alan Lazaros

(4:34) Word.

Kevin Palmieri

(4:36) Is it find the problem?

Alan Lazaros

(4:38) The root cause of the problem. (4:40) Find the root cause of the problem. (4:41) Diagnosing the root cause of the problem.(4:43) Okay. (4:43) Yeah. (4:44) Okay.(4:44) So for you, this is a good example. (4:46) Ah, I love when we do this. (4:47) Go ahead.(4:48) Yeah. (4:48) So you got an 80 sleep score last night. (4:51) Something like that.(4:52) You're doing much better today. (4:53) You've been feel much better. (4:54) Your sleep's been terrible these last few days.(4:57) Yeah. (4:57) And it's been affecting you. (4:58) Yes.(4:59) So your biggest constraint until now was getting good sleep, which you knew. (5:05) And that's why you told Taryn last night, if I don't get to bed by nine, I might die. (5:08) Playfully.(5:09) Yes. (5:10) So we're all targeting constraints all the time. (5:12) I'll give you one.(5:13) I can't find my fucking AirPods. (5:15) Ooh, dude. (5:16) Can't find them.(5:17) I have the AirPods. (5:19) I lost the goddamn case. (5:21) So I can't charge these things.(5:22) Right. (5:23) I used Amelia. (5:24) She has these big headphones that she used.(5:26) So I got to use hers. (5:27) She has the nicer ones. (5:28) The noise canceling is 10 times better.(5:30) Now I'm sitting there going, oh shit. (5:32) I think I need the new AirPods at some point. (5:35) Cause noise canceling for me helps me focus.(5:38) Unbelievable. (5:39) So I'm trying to take a win out of the loss. (5:41) I don't know when I'm going to get them, but I'm going to get them.(5:43) I'm going to look and see like two or three years out usually is when I jump because the tech is like that much better, you know, innovation. (5:52) But my point is, is one of my constraints. (5:54) This is a first world constraint.(5:55) It's a first world problem. (5:57) One of my constraints is I can't find my AirPods. (5:59) One of my other constraints, once I find my AirPods is they suck.(6:04) And by suck, it's relative to the new ones. (6:07) It's, I mean, AirPods were a revolutionary breakthrough at one point. (6:11) Bianca, I sold her my old ones.(6:12) Those suck even worse. (6:14) And for anyone out there who has AirPods, the mic is terrible.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:17) Oh yeah. (6:18) Don't do your phone calls. (6:19) You're a podcaster.(6:20) Do not record your podcast episodes in your AirPods. (6:22) Please don't do it. (6:23) Please don't do it.

Alan Lazaros

(6:24) Exactly. (6:24) So that's examples of targeting the constraint. (6:26) But back to the relationship talks coaching.(6:29) Emilia thinks the constraint for their relationship is psychological safety. (6:34) She thinks that they are now expressing things that weren't coming out until the relationship talks coaching session. (6:42) And she believes that once there's psychological safety, they'll be more vulnerable and then they'll be able to solve their challenges.(6:49) That's her theory. (6:51) My theory is they have love languages in conflict. (6:55) Okay.(6:55) And it's a lot of logistics because they used to work together and they used to be in the same office. (6:59) So they used to have a lot of deep conversations. (7:01) And now they're kind of passing like ships in the night.(7:04) They don't see each other that often anymore. (7:05) She used to work at that company. (7:07) She doesn't anymore.(7:07) So I think Emilia goes deeper and I go to the surface challenges typically and external internal. (7:15) And then we solve and then they flourish. (7:17) It's great.(7:17) But so they're going to do the conscious love languages worksheet. (7:20) They're going to figure out that certain things are red while the other person has green. (7:24) And those are what we call relationship mismatches.(7:26) And you have to identify those and work on those. (7:29) Emilia loves adventure a lot more than I do. (7:32) So last night we went in the woods in the rain and adventured.(7:35) It was fucking awesome. (7:36) I love fitness. (7:37) So I made sure to run.(7:39) So we do adventure racing. (7:41) We get in nature and we do fitness. (7:42) These are just examples of targeting constraints.(7:45) Emilia and I 24-7, 365 at all times are targeting constraints. (7:49) The moment you solve a problem, you get to a new level. (7:53) You have the opportunity to get to a new level, right?(7:56) Then you get to a new level and there's a new constraint. (7:59) And it's just that forever. (8:00) Forever.(8:01) Absolutely. (8:01) And everyone knows that. (8:02) I mean, you know it intuitively.(8:04) You might not know it in the theory of constraints, but you know it intuitively. (8:07) Like what's your biggest bottleneck right now? (8:09) Everyone out there watching or listening will go, well, I'm not really sleeping well.(8:13) Okay, solve it. (8:14) Once you solve that, there's going to be a new one. (8:16) Well, it's finances.(8:18) Ah, damn. (8:18) Okay. (8:18) And then you solve finances and all of a sudden it's like, you know, I'm kind of fucking shit.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:22) Well, it might not even, it might not even be that. (8:24) It might be okay. (8:25) My sleep sucks.(8:26) All right. (8:26) I'm going to focus on going to bed sooner. (8:27) Now the constraint is my relationships are suffering because of that.(8:32) Now I have to figure out how to. (8:34) And that's life, dude. (8:35) It is.(8:35) How depressing is that? (8:36) I don't, it's hard. (8:38) It's a hard realization.(8:39) But I also think that's why if you are, if you're into growth, if you're on this journey with us, for sure. (8:46) I want to ask you, what's your take on this stuff?

Alan Lazaros

(8:49) Because you never consciously, you started the hyperconscious podcast and I partnered with you. (8:55) Hyperconscious was because you were on autopilot. (8:58) Can you try to explain what you used to think?(9:00) Because I've always said things like you get paid in proportion to the difficulty of the problems you solve that never lands for anybody. (9:07) So that is true. (9:08) The bigger the problem, the bigger people pay to solve it based on who's good at what they do and the supply and demand.(9:14) It's a whole fucking thing. (9:15) But for you back in the day, what did you think about this? (9:18) Like, did you think life was supposed to be problemless?

Kevin Palmieri

(9:22) I don't think I thought it was supposed to be problemless. (9:24) I think it was more. (9:28) I think I thought I was accidentally going to learn the things I needed in order to skip levels.(9:34) Because I would see somebody who was so far ahead of me and it was like they. (9:39) What did they do to get there?

Alan Lazaros

(9:41) Yeah, very little in some cases.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:43) In some cases, but in other cases it was a lot. (9:46) It was, it was, they're at level 20 and I'm at level four. (9:49) How the fuck do they get 16 levels ahead?(9:52) Like, what did that actually, what did that actually look like? (9:55) And what was the day to day on that? (9:57) And again, some of it is luck.(9:59) I know someone I know was working with a real estate agent who got very lucky when they started real estate and things were just not that hard. (10:07) And the person cannot put a deal together to save their life anymore because the market has changed.

Alan Lazaros

(10:12) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:12) You're like, all right, that's probably not the person you should be being mentored by because they don't know the fuck they're talking about. (10:18) I don't, I don't know.

Alan Lazaros

(10:20) You never get mentored by someone who was only successful in the good times.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:24) Yeah, they rode the wave. (10:26) They rode the wave.

Alan Lazaros

(10:27) Yeah. (10:29) NLU listener, what is happening? (10:31) I just wanted to jump in here and let you know, if you want to get to the next level faster, we have a free virtual monthly meetup at the first Thursday of every month.(10:40) You can connect with like-minded people and become a bigger part of this amazing global community. (10:45) The link to register will be in the show notes.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:49) I don't know. (10:50) I assumed eventually as a, okay, cool. (10:54) This is, this is what I thought.(10:55) As a byproduct of living, I would learn the lessons to get to the next level.

Alan Lazaros

(11:00) And that's just- Okay, what do you believe now?

Kevin Palmieri

(11:02) That I had it backwards. (11:04) I had it backwards. (11:05) Right.(11:06) I'm not going to get to the next level unless I intentionally figure out what is the bottleneck? (11:13) What is the constraint? (11:14) And then how do I work on that?(11:16) This is why, I'm telling you, I'm convinced, this is why pain- Yeah. (11:22) I won't say it's a requirement, but it is the level of necessity that many of us need because it is a, I don't, I don't think it's always- You don't think it's a requirement? (11:33) I think it's a requirement for big change, not small change.(11:37) That's what I would say. (11:39) Discomfort is required for change. (11:42) Discomfort and pain are two different things, son.

Alan Lazaros

(11:44) They're two different labels, but they're on the same spectrum. (11:48) Discomfort is like a three on the pain scale and pain is like a 10.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:52) Fair, fair. (11:53) Yes, I think it's a necessity. (11:55) I think it's a requirement.(11:56) The reason why is it literally highlights what the constraint is. (12:00) Oh my goodness, I hit rock bottom and I couldn't pay my bills. (12:04) What's the constraint?(12:04) I don't have enough money. (12:05) Okay, it's looking you right in the eyes and now there's two ways to go. (12:10) We say, well, I'll never have enough money.(12:13) Unfortunately, if that's the attitude, it's most likely never going to change. (12:17) Or, okay, for the first time ever, I can see that I'm making less money than I thought. (12:23) I'm spending way more money than I thought and I haven't made the best financial decisions.(12:27) How do I fix that one problem? (12:30) I learned the most about money. (12:32) I'm probably learning more about money now than I ever have, but I learned the most about sales when I was broke.(12:40) I learned the most about relationships after heartbreak.

Alan Lazaros

(12:43) Yeah, I was actually going to ask you this. (12:45) I know we don't have a ton of time, but I don't need experience to learn something. (12:50) I've come to realize a lot of people do.(12:51) They're experiential learners. (12:53) You're one of those people. (12:54) For sure.(12:55) You need to experience it. (12:56) You said you needed to drive in the car before you bought it or whatever. (13:00) Dude, I don't need that whatsoever.(13:02) I have no idea why. (13:03) I think it might be prefrontal cortex neuroscience stuff. (13:06) For me, I don't need to walk in the home to believe I can manifest the home.(13:13) For me, it's all an equation. (13:15) It's all math.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:15) I know based on knowing you, but that's not my experience for sure.

Alan Lazaros

(13:18) So here's the problem. (13:22) You see the conundrum in that? (13:24) People have to experience something in order to have the necessity to go learn in order to achieve it.(13:33) You're basically stumbling upon your entire life then.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:36) Well, it starts with a goal. (13:38) Going back to the goal, it starts with a goal. (13:40) Let's say it starts with a goal and you say, I want to be financially free.(13:44) It's like, okay, cool. (13:45) That's a good start at a goal. (13:47) Not necessarily specific enough.(13:48) It's not necessarily time bound enough. (13:50) But what are you going to have to do? (13:53) Well, you're gonna have to learn.

Alan Lazaros

(13:54) When we interviewed Steve Rider and the infinity pool overlooking the mountain and all that, you experienced something that you never thought you'd experience, right? (14:03) And for me, did you notice any shift in me? (14:06) No.(14:07) Okay. (14:07) So for me, nothing changed. (14:09) That was already part of the game plan.(14:11) For you, you changed completely. (14:13) You transformed completely. (14:14) How do people get that without being dragged to Scottsdale, for lack of better phrasing?

Kevin Palmieri

(14:20) I don't know if I have a good answer for that. (14:23) Because I don't know. (14:23) I couldn't tell you.(14:25) I couldn't tell you. (14:27) The fact that like, again, this isn't a flex, but this is the way I think. (14:33) My car is nicer than I never expected to.(14:35) I wanted to have a nice car. (14:38) My car is far nicer than any car I ever thought I was going to get. (14:41) Now I know I can get a nicer car.

Alan Lazaros

(14:44) Yeah, that's so interesting.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:45) So I don't know. (14:46) I have no idea. (14:47) So the AMG GTR was just like a hope?(14:49) It was a dream. (14:51) Dream car. (14:53) Yeah.(14:53) I didn't intend it. (14:54) You set a... (14:56) You can't intend if you don't have the information.(15:00) What's the difference between intention and hope?

Alan Lazaros

(15:03) Yeah. (15:04) I think it's awareness. (15:05) When people say they set intentions, I don't think they actually intend on it.(15:09) I think they're like hoping still.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:11) Well, I think it's like a stronger, more well-directed hope.

Alan Lazaros

(15:15) Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:16) That's why manifestation is fucking so dangerous.

Alan Lazaros

(15:18) It's so dangerous. (15:19) Yeah. (15:20) I have a manifestation equation with 10 steps.(15:22) I put one in there. (15:24) I put one in there.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:24) Yeah, you did. (15:25) That was strong.

Alan Lazaros

(15:26) Of course, it's the visualization slash emotionalization. (15:29) I'm telling you. (15:31) I'm telling you.(15:32) Experiencing. (15:32) It's basically you saying, hey, you got to experience, at least in your imagination, what it's going to be like.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:37) I am willing to bet if you said, Kev, we're going to pay for you to live anywhere for a month. (15:44) Any house you want for a month. (15:46) Awesome.(15:46) And I picked like a house that inspired me and blew my mind. (15:52) I would get used to the experience of living there and it would become more possible immediately. (15:57) Not in terms of, I'm not going to have the money to buy the house tomorrow.(16:00) I'm not saying that.

Alan Lazaros

(16:02) It would become more.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:03) It would open up. (16:04) It would pull you more, right?

Alan Lazaros

(16:05) It would pull you. (16:06) It would pull me more. (16:07) Yeah, that's so interesting.(16:09) And we can talk about this another time, obviously. (16:11) But I have the pull without the experience.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:15) I think that's rare. (16:16) I agree. (16:17) I think that's rare.(16:18) You hear this saying money doesn't buy happiness, but everybody wants to find out for themselves. (16:21) Again, money buys things and things can lead to happiness. (16:23) It's not going to bring you fulfillment.

Alan Lazaros

(16:25) Money does buy freedom. (16:27) Yes, it does. (16:27) Let me rephrase, because if you're in the wrong country, that's not true.(16:30) That's fair. (16:31) It can buy financial freedom, which will help you feel fulfilled.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:35) It buys opportunity. (16:36) It buys opportunity. (16:37) Absolutely.(16:38) And what you do with that opportunity is up to you. (16:39) You could, if you made a million dollars and then you could invest in your education, you could learn more about the thing you want to be the best at. (16:46) And that would be more fulfilling to you.(16:47) That's a really good circle.

Alan Lazaros

(16:49) Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:49) It's awesome. (16:49) If you think buying a $300,000 car is going to fix your problems, it will not. (16:55) It's going to create more problems.(16:56) You know how much an oil change is in a $300,000 car?

Alan Lazaros

(16:59) I think it's like thousands of dollars. (17:01) I had a freaking, so annoyed when you told me about the freaking mats in the BMW. (17:07) 750 bucks for fucking car mats.(17:10) You know what I mean? (17:10) Oh yeah, got them for free. (17:12) Got them for free though.(17:12) No, this time.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:14) The first time you didn't. (17:15) Oh, it wasn't. (17:15) No, it was like 300 bucks.(17:17) Still. (17:19) They're laser cut, custom fitted. (17:21) Oh, give us shit, man.(17:22) Helps the resale value.

Alan Lazaros

(17:24) All right, fair.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:24) Helps the resale value. (17:25) All right, what's your 22nd next level lesson before we get out of here?

Alan Lazaros

(17:35) Try to find a way to experience a little taste of what it is that you want to achieve.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:41) Okay.

Alan Lazaros

(17:42) Yeah. (17:43) Because I think that will help you have more of a pull than just a push. (17:47) I don't think you can just push yourself to your dreams.(17:52) I think you need to have pull and push.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:54) Mine would be every time you highlight a problem, we have to work on highlighting a solution. (18:04) I mean, I feel like a lot of us know where the constraints are, but maybe we don't. (18:08) Maybe we don't.(18:09) I don't know. (18:10) Targeting the constraints is not easy, man.

Alan Lazaros

(18:12) It's root cause analysis. (18:13) It's not easy. (18:14) I mean, they pay people a lot of money.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:16) That's what consultants do. (18:17) Let's say you're not starting at the root cause. (18:19) Then, yeah, you're at the root cause, but let's start at the top branch that we can see and then we can work from there.(18:24) That's better than nothing.

Alan Lazaros

(18:26) That's my favorite work in the world. (18:28) I'll analyze your entire existence and give you the root cause of what's holding you back.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:31) Trust me. (18:31) I know.

Alan Lazaros

(18:32) I get it all the time. (18:33) Right. (18:33) There's always a constraint and I'm always poking at your constraints for lack of phrasing.(18:38) I tell Kev, I'm sorry to be such a pain in the ass. (18:39) And I said this, if you don't want to be really, really, really, really, really successful, you don't have to listen to a word I say. (18:44) But dude, in 12 months, five years, 10 years from now, I'm going to be in a certain position and I want you to be with me, but you're not going to be unless you, like if you don't do X, you're not going to get Y.(18:58) It's not my opinion.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:00) And we have different constraints. (19:01) That's the other thing. (19:02) Yeah.(19:02) In business, we might have similar ones based on the business, but in life, we have, you know, so that's another important thing too. (19:10) All right. (19:10) Cool.(19:11) All right. (19:11) Next Level Nation, if you are looking for an amazing group of next level humans who are focused and hyper-focused on getting to that next level and that next level and that next level, we have a private Facebook group. (19:20) We'll have the link in the show notes for you.

Alan Lazaros

(19:22) Book Club, we're reading Willpower by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney. (19:27) Book Club might as well be free group coaching. (19:30) I promise, promise, promise you, you are going to think more deeply.(19:34) You are going to learn so much. (19:36) It's basically a brainstorming session about how to improve your life. (19:41) And I promise you, your life will improve if you come there.(19:44) Come with an open mind. (19:45) Come knowing that it's going to be intense. (19:48) And the registration link will be in the show notes.(19:50) And if you are not ready for feedback, do not come.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:53) As always, we love you. (19:54) We appreciate you. (19:55) Grateful for each and every one of you.(19:57) And if you are as focused as you say you are getting to the next level, join us tomorrow because we will be here every single day to help you get there. (20:06) Keep reaching for your full potential. (20:09) Next Level Nation.(20:12) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. (20:16) We love connecting with the Next Level family.

Alan Lazaros

(20:19) We mean it when we say family. (20:21) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (20:24) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:27) Thank you again and we will talk to you tomorrow.