Making Growth Simple (2182)

How can small, consistent actions create massive growth? In today’s episode, Kevin and Alan break down how 0.1% daily improvements can transform your health, habits, mindset, and success. From journaling with intention to saving time with micro habits, they show how simple shifts compound into life-changing results. Discover why process goals beat results goals, how confidence is built through small steps, and why invisible progress eventually pays off big. Tune in today to start your journey of continuous improvement.

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Show notes:
(2:29) Journaling smarter for progress
(4:18) Small steps to build confidence
(5:15) Why “checking the box” fails
(8:00) Power of continuous improvement
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(18:03) Mindset that drives real success
(23:05) The habit that changes everything
(27:38) Outro

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Chapters

• 2:29 Journaling smarter for progress
• 4:18 Small steps to build confidence
• 5:15 Why “checking the box” fails
• 8:00 Power of continuous improvement
• 15:32 If you want to start, grow, scale, or monetize your podcast? Join our "The Next Level Podcast Accelerator"
• 18:03 Mindset that drives real success
• 23:05 The habit that changes everything
• 27:38 Outro

Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) Yesterday we did an episode I felt as if it was of zero value because we didn't do any micro any tactical takeaways or any strategy. (0:09) Today we're gonna do that or Alan and I are getting a divorce.

Alan Lazaros

(0:14) You and I, listener and Kev, are gonna get a little bit better today and this is gonna be tangible and you're gonna have things to take away from this episode.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:24) Welcome to Next Level I'm your host Kevin Palmieri and I'm your co-host Alan Lazarus. (0:32) At NLU we believe in a heart-driven but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Alan Lazaros

(0:39) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:45) 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

(1:01) Self-improvement in your pocket every day from anywhere completely free. (1:08) Welcome to Next Level University.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:13) Next Level Nation today for episode number 2182. (1:17) Making growth simple. (1:19) It could technically be what's it actually take to grow by one percent every day part two.(1:23) That's long. (1:24) Making growth simple is much shorter. (1:25) Okay we're gonna get right into it we're not messing around today.(1:29) Let's say I journal every day. (1:31) If you didn't listen to yesterday's episode you probably need to listen to it because it's going to make sense. (1:35) Let's say I journal every day.(1:37) Okay at one point me going from not journaling to journaling was probably a one percent improvement not even point one percent that's a one percent improvement. (1:46) Agreed. (1:46) How do I get one sorry point one percent better every day journaling?(1:51) Go.

Alan Lazaros

(1:53) You ask yourself a more challenging question. (1:56) Okay. (1:57) You think more deeply about your answers.(2:01) You write a little bit more. (2:04) The other piece of it too in this journal the top three gratitudes, top three most important tasks, most important win, most important improvement, next level lesson. (2:12) You can I want to share there's something called a try hard.(2:19) Look at a try hards get made fun of and it's unfortunate because for some reason I don't know if it's high school or culture or what it's cool apparently to not give a shit. (2:32) I think that's the worst strategy ever. (2:37) Everything you do every single day I hope your intention is to get a little bit better at it.(2:44) This episode I want to do a little better than last time. (2:48) Emily and I were interviewed earlier. (2:50) Shout out to Shada.(2:51) Bold beginnings with Shada. (2:52) We did a conscious couples podcast interview and it was an hour long and it was deep and we did get a little better and Emilia afterwards said believe it or not that was progress and I do think the episode was really strong. (3:05) I do.(3:06) I'm just always focused on that and so it's how I'm wired. (3:09) So one of the things that I'll say to make this tangible right out of the gate is how often are you asking the question how can I make this better? (3:16) Okay.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:17) This is what I would love to accomplish together if we can. (3:20) I want to get some labels. (3:25) Better.(3:26) Smarter. (3:28) Faster. (3:29) More intentional.(3:31) Stronger. (3:33) Let's come up with those. (3:35) More skilled.(3:37) More skilled.

Alan Lazaros

(3:39) Okay. (3:40) More confident.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:42) Okay.

Alan Lazaros

(3:43) More competent. (3:45) Okay. (3:47) More self-belief.(3:50) More self-respect. (3:52) More self-discipline. (3:53) This is why it's so hard brother.(3:55) There's so many categories. (3:56) I know but this is good. (3:57) This is good.(3:57) This is good.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:58) Okay. (3:58) This is good because you can break all of these into their own little silos. (4:04) I was talking on a podcast today and I said I know how silly this sounds.(4:08) I understand. (4:09) I understand how silly this is going to sound. (4:11) If you're somebody who wants to build confidence and this won't resonate with a lot of people but if you're socially awkward and or anxious I'm sure this will.(4:18) Next time you're at the grocery store you're walking down the aisle there is nothing more awkward than walking down an aisle with somebody and you're like oh I'm gonna look at the rice cakes over there. (4:27) Make eye contact and hold eye contact for as long as you can but not for a sketchy amount of time because you might get beat down in the grocery store. (4:34) I don't want that for anybody.(4:36) Then your next 0.1 improvement is next time you do that you do that and you start a conversation with the person in the deli. (4:46) You start a conversation the person in the butcher shop. (4:48) Whatever.(4:49) And next time boom boom boom it becomes a foundation that you build on. (4:56) Nice. (4:56) So I think that's a really good way to look at it as okay you went from not journaling to journaling.(5:02) That's a massive improvement. (5:03) That's way more than 0.1 percent. (5:05) We'll say that's one percent.(5:06) Awesome. (5:07) But you're not going to be able to do one percent every time as we talked about. (5:12) One percent it gets heavy pretty quickly.(5:15) So next it really is you go from not doing the thing to doing the thing and checking the box to then realizing you never really get to just check the box ever again. (5:26) Yes. (5:27) That.(5:28) Does that land? (5:29) Yes. (5:30) Okay.

Alan Lazaros

(5:31) Your goal should never be just to check the box. (5:35) Well what about a bad day? (5:37) Dude you were the you were one of the people that helped me understand and I kind of knew this so I don't want to give you all the credit for this but I started exercising March 1st of 2022 every single day for a minimum of a half an hour and walking my dog counted.(5:55) What I think in hindsight you weren't able to see is that we would eventually be at an hour and it would be hardcore weight training most of the time. (6:04) I did see that. (6:06) I started off checking a smaller box and I but I keep making the box bigger and I think that's a good analogy.(6:16) Okay. (6:16) That's a good analogy. (6:17) Because honestly when we hit the year mark Ymir and I exercised every day for a full year people were probably thinking why aren't you guys in better shape?(6:25) First of all I love to eat. (6:26) Number two it's it's not as big of a and you know why? (6:30) Because people think if they exercised every day they'd be in amazing shape.(6:33) You wouldn't.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:35) Well that the problem is the way you think you would need to exercise in order to get the consistency would stop you from being consistent in the first place. (6:42) Wait wait go into that? (6:45) I think it's the it's all it is is you didn't go into this with like a new year's resolution mindset of I'm going to exercise every day for the rest of my life.(6:56) You started because you wanted to exercise longer than you had. (6:59) Yep. (7:00) Consecutively.(7:01) Four months. (7:02) And you knew going in that it's not about honestly almost nothing is going to happen in those four months. (7:07) Yeah for sure.(7:09) I don't think I think a lot. (7:10) I knew it would help but I didn't think I was going to suddenly be. (7:13) But I think you're doing a process related goal.(7:19) I'm going to exercise every day for as long as I live but whatever whatever the goal is. (7:23) When I think a lot of other people would have done a results based goal. (7:26) I'm exercising to lose weight.(7:28) I'm exercising to accomplish blank and I think that's where you get set up for failure.

Alan Lazaros

(7:33) I think results based goals are good because a lot of times the process is built based on the goal. (7:40) However, I set this goal starting out with the process and then knowing that it would eventually get me to my results goal. (7:48) Right.(7:48) So and again that's a whole nother episode which we should do at some point. (7:51) I would love to do results versus process goals. (7:53) I do think people get those mixed up but back to the 0.1 improvement 1 improvement whatever it is it's called the aggregation of marginal gains. (8:00) Everyone can look this up the aggregation of gains. (8:04) It's a strategy. (8:05) It's also called continuous improvement.(8:08) There's something called a commitment to constant and never-ending improvement. (8:11) It's something I used to say with an exclamation point. (8:14) I used to say that all the time 10 years ago.(8:17) So that's the commitment a commitment to constant and never-ending improvement. (8:21) So right now if you're on YouTube you see that Kevin and I do not have the filters on our microphones. (8:26) It's because I've been watching the show on the big screen the big screen on a big screen at we have a home theater now 115 inches and I think that the microphone is often in our faces and I don't think that that's optimized for YouTube and I do think the future is more video than it is audio.(8:41) That's my truth. (8:42) Some people are doing just audio some people are doing video and audio why not do both. (8:47) But for everyone at every moment of every day as exhausting as this is going to sound there is always an opportunity to improve.(8:58) Brother it's very it needs to be a constant focus. (9:05) And it's hard to unpack and make it micro because there's nothing that it doesn't include.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:11) I think as long as we're remember because we said this is how we ended the episode kind of yesterday it was progress is invisible but the behaviors are not. (9:20) Yeah as long as we touch on behaviors I'm happy is that's because that's my goal is if I was listening to this podcast it was like no I yeah I want to grow by 0.1% every day but how do I know if I am? (9:31) What is the what is the mark what is the line of demarcation how do I know that I grew by 1.1% because if you think you are and you're not yeah you might be growing and that's great it's better than not growing but you're not utilizing this you're not using utilizing compounding to the degree you could. (9:49) So give me just tell me a couple from today that you've done. (9:54) Today not a kind of a honestly I slept in because I have been sick and I have been sleeping like shit honestly for me not getting up on five hours of sleep is a 0.1% approved. (10:07) Agreed there's one so you got extra sleep which is good for your brain and your body awesome.(10:11) Last night Taryn and I last two nights two nights in a row we have a bedtime meditation we've been doing.

Alan Lazaros

(10:17) Nice.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:17) So before we go to bed we have a little meditation we've been doing that is designed to help me sleep better.

Alan Lazaros

(10:21) Mm-hmm.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:23) I yeah it's interesting I am giving up my ghost energy drinks unfortunately getting heartburn like a moth out here.

Alan Lazaros

(10:33) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:33) You know they're too sweet. (10:35) Yep. (10:35) So I'm getting rid of those I went back to coffee.

Alan Lazaros

(10:36) I knew that would happen eventually.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:37) Yeah it's sad times it's sad times. (10:39) I went back to coffee I went back to coffee. (10:42) It was a sad day when I had to give up my monsters.

Alan Lazaros

(10:45) I've never have ever had a full cow monster.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:49) No.

Alan Lazaros

(10:49) Yeah I used to the white monsters when we would go to the theater we'd go see a movie and I would get. (10:55) The green ones? (10:56) Oh yeah.(10:56) Those are terrible. (10:57) I know.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:59) I remember. (10:59) Oh you mean terrible tasting? (11:00) The first time I drank that I threw up on the sidewalk.(11:04) On the I remember remember so Alan and I grew up in the same town Papageno's. (11:09) Yeah. (11:09) Next to CVS.(11:10) I lived right up the street. (11:12) My buddy and I walked to Papageno's we got Papageno's there's a CVS next door I got a the first time I ever had monster green can full cow drank it threw it up right on the sidewalk. (11:21) It was I was like this is the worst thing I've had in my entire life.(11:23) Then it became an acquired taste after that.

Alan Lazaros

(11:27) Exactly. (11:28) Exactly. (11:29) Gave up Domino's love Domino's.(11:31) That's a 0.1 percent improvement that's actually way more.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:33) Yeah that is that is a 0.10 that's a 10 improvement geez.

Alan Lazaros

(11:40) I Emilia went to Whole Foods yesterday and she got us two meals and it's chicken mashed potatoes dumpling it's awesome it's actually delicious sweet potato the whole nine. (11:49) They got great food. (11:50) They have great food and green beans I am at all times these are tiny examples these protein drinks 20 grams of protein 100 calories and 175 milligrams of caffeine.(12:04) What did you say? (12:05) In the cute cup. (12:06) You know in the yeah exactly in the cute cup the amount of water I drink per day the not using the pop filter I got a 94 sleep score last night unbelievable.(12:17) Oh remember how I at sometimes in the past would use NyQuil to try to sleep there's something called ZQuil that gets rid of all these stuff except for the we looked up what what were you at?

Kevin Palmieri

(12:28) If anybody hears that out of context there's they're gonna think there's a problem.

Alan Lazaros

(12:33) Oh okay. (12:35) When I ever the truth of the matter is whenever I felt like I was burning out and I would have a throat tickle or whatever I would do NyQuil. (12:47) Okay that's as far as we go that is what it is.(12:51) So there's something called ZQuil that we looked up and researched what is the chemical in NyQuil that helps you sleep. (12:59) It's unbelievable how well this works. (13:01) I believe that's why you got to be careful with it you can't rely on it.(13:04) We have melatonin we have sleeping pills and these are not sleeping pills it's magnesium it's a fucking supplement. (13:09) Okay I take magnesium. (13:10) Exactly nice.(13:12) You have to say everything fucking perfectly and and there's something called ZQuil that is just for people who want that to sleep every now and then. (13:21) Now we don't do it every day but every now and then when I need a good night's sleep I will hammer a shot of ZQuil and I don't give a fuck who knows it. (13:28) Now at the end of the day my point is at all times your brain looks for little innovative things and this is something I wanted to bring up too.(13:39) Dude if you save five minutes a day five times 365 divided by 60 is 30 hours. (13:47) If you can find a way everybody out there watching or listening if you take nothing else from this episode find a way to save five minutes a day. (13:56) You get 30 hours waking hours back.(14:00) So every time you save five minutes per day on a habit or so we the way we take our recycling out that we are optimizing the household. (14:11) I used the metaphor of I used to have a crappy shaver and now I have a nicer one saves me three minutes a day. (14:19) I did the numbers 18 hours that buying back time is so next level.(14:25) If you save five minutes every day with some little tweak new technology new tool whatever it is you literally get 30 hours per year back. (14:36) Now let's crunch if I live to 50 more years. (14:38) 150 right there.(14:40) Oh divided by eight that's 198 hour shifts just a lot of time a day. (14:45) That's a lot of time. (14:46) And I think that that's time effort money.(14:51) What's a 0.1 percent improvement in saving me time? (14:55) What's a 0.1 percent improvement in saving me effort? (14:58) What's a 0.1 percent improvement in saving me money?(15:02) What's a 0.1 percent improvement in my workout? (15:04) What's a 0.1 percent improvement in my habits? (15:07) What's a 0.1 percent improvement in my skills?(15:09) Dude effective communication is the hardest skill ever. (15:13) I lied. (15:14) Okay the most difficult skill of all time I think is leadership.(15:18) And I think effective communication is a sub-skill that is atrociously difficult underneath that skill. (15:23) Right now in real time you and I are having trouble articulating what we do and why we do it and how it works. (15:30) It's very difficult.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:33) Next level nation what is happening? (15:35) If you've thought to yourself I want to try coaching but you don't really know where to start group coaching would be a wonderful place for you. (15:43) That's really why we created it in the first place.(15:45) We start a new round every 90 days. (15:48) So if you're hearing this go to the website nextleveluniverse.com and we have the landing page where you can actually hold your spot right now. (15:56) Even if there's a group going on right now you can still lock your spot for the next one.(16:01) The biggest thing that we've seen is as we get closer and closer to the date unfortunately some people end up missing. (16:08) The group fills up and they can't do it and then they end up regretting that. (16:11) So please head over to the website the link will be in the show notes and we would love to see you there.(16:17) This is my thesis. (16:18) Simple simple hack this is where you start. (16:21) You start at the places where you have the most pain in your life because you by definition are going to try to improve them anyway.(16:27) Why are so many of mine connected to sleep? (16:31) Because my sleep has been garbage lately. (16:33) Garbage.(16:34) Taryn bought this knee pillow that you put between your knees. (16:38) I used that last night. (16:40) It didn't help because I slept like garbage but that's not because of that.(16:43) Because I sleep with my hands. (16:44) I like to sleep on my side with my hands between my knees but both of my hands go numb. (16:48) So I wake up in the middle of the night I can't feel my hands.

Alan Lazaros

(16:55) It's you wake up and it's just like no no. (16:59) Or you wake up with a calf cramp. (17:01) Never.(17:01) You've never had a calf cramp? (17:03) No. (17:04) Oh no.(17:06) It's the worst. (17:07) For anyone who has had a calf cramp next levelers reach out to me. (17:11) I see you.(17:12) It is fucking terrible.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:14) Never never have I ever. (17:16) That is my that is my thesis. (17:17) Start where you have the most struggle because that is the thing that you're naturally that's the thing you're probably naturally going to try to improve anyway and then you can cross it over.(17:27) Ghost energy drinks are I don't know 30 bucks for a 12 pack I think. (17:32) So what's that? (17:32) Two dollars and fifty cents?(17:34) I got you. (17:35) Something like that? (17:35) I've been loving the math lately man.(17:37) What do we got? (17:37) Two two dollars and fifty cents. (17:39) Two dollars and fifty cents.(17:40) I got market basket coffee probably gets me four servings three dollars and sixty nine cents.

Alan Lazaros

(17:47) Nice.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:48) So what's 89 cents or something per serving? (17:53) 92. (17:54) So I'm saving a dollar 58.

Alan Lazaros

(17:59) Yep. (18:00) Something like that. (18:03) Just so people know if you were to look up the aggregation of marginal gains you would see that you can make your life 37 times better at the end of the year if you do a one improvement every day but in many areas so health wealth love skills career all this stuff but at the end of the day it's a mindset this is a mindset.(18:26) How real is that? (18:27) How real is it to get one percent better per day for a year? (18:32) If you if you are not already improvement oriented you could do it.(18:38) Okay a 15 year old if they really wanted to could probably do it because they're just not that improvement oriented yet. (18:45) There's not a lot of 15 year olds that are into the continuous improvement formula.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:50) Is it do they use that because the number is way more attractive than would it would it be 0.37?

Alan Lazaros

(18:59) But if you oh it'd be way lower yeah I'd have to do them.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:03) See that's what fucks me up I thought it's just don't you just move the decimal point no?

Alan Lazaros

(19:09) 37 times it'd be

Kevin Palmieri

(19:11) wouldn't it be a 37th you'd get 0.37 times better 0.37 right so that's a very very (19:18) underwhelming number but it well so I know I mean I just mean compared to of course if you said to (19:25) somebody hey I got these pills take them one a day take them for the you'd be 37 times better (19:33) fuck yeah I'm in take these pills same price same price you'll be 0.37 times better like you're not

Alan Lazaros

(19:42) even notice exactly why this is I'm so glad we're having this conversation man I know we got to go (19:47) in six minutes I think the reason people don't achieve their dreams is because the thing that's (19:55) right in front of us that is totally accessible and totally doable like foam rolling once a day (20:01) doing mobility once a day exercising once a day going for a walk once a day reading a book once (20:06) a day these simple things that are easy to do are also just as easy to completely neglect (20:12) it is not that hard to drink enough water every day it's not and everyone knows that (20:18) if if I could articulate the amount of times my brain has said Alan just do the simple thing (20:26) just do it just do the thing the majority of my consciousness is focused on this and (20:32) when you see a picture of me 10 years ago before that car accident I looked I wasn't (20:39) taking care of my health I looked like a completely different human being you can (20:42) see the transformation and I don't want to talk about me I want to talk about transformation in (20:47) general it's unbelievable how does an Olympic athlete win an Olympic gold medal it's every (20:54) single day in every way they can possibly find they try to get these little tiny micro improvements (21:00) and they accumulate over time and that's why it's so hard to do what we're trying to do which is be (21:06) healthy wealthy and in love because it's very hard to do this in multiple areas simultaneously (21:15) it's very very difficult to well because let's do this real quick health okay physical mental (21:21) emotional spiritual okay let's go physical sleep hydration nutrition training mobility (21:25) breathwork supplementation all these terms that I'm just throwing out there there's categories (21:30) and subcategories and sub sub subcategories so it is it does sound exhausting I understand (21:38) why people don't do it because the results are invisible I am right now finally in Kevin's eyes (21:45) somewhat jacked but for the last couple years I've been exercising every day to watch that (21:51) accumulate and I know that it reaches this sort of tipping point use the ice cube metaphor (21:56) not long ago where all of a sudden it's whoa I'm really feeling it I could run a 5k today (22:04) probably in 22 minutes and it wouldn't be that hard it's not because I'm good at running or (22:10) suddenly inherently gifted it's because I've been exercising every single day for three point (22:15) whatever years 3.5 years and we have someone on the team Brandon shout out to you brother (22:21) who's run a mile a day every day for more than a thousand days I think it's like 1040 (22:26) and he can run a sub six minute mile if he really wanted to but it's not like he's running (22:31) a sub six minute mile every day he's just getting a little bit better each day and I think that (22:36) that's just we we wildly it's called miles for mindset and here's the other thing too it compounds (22:43) miles for mindset so not only is he exercising his body but he's also getting into flow (22:48) he's getting outside in nature he's having runners high he's thinking of things he never (22:53) would have thought he's getting some solitude he's starting his day with a habit keeping a (22:57) promise to himself so he's building self-esteem and self-belief that that one habit compounds (23:05) into a whole different life I'll give you one more example this is the biggest cheat code I've ever (23:11) personally done quitting drinking I have not drank in over six years dude do you have any (23:18) idea how much money I've saved Emilia and I we go out to dinner we never order drinks dude we went (23:25) to Longhorn took my birth my my mom for her birthday out to Longhorn we got meals and extra (23:31) meals and extra extra meals I was like like 200 bucks I think I bought like 10 meals oh yeah none (23:41) of us drink my mom drinks but she doesn't with us and that one change compounds into everything (23:49) else so it's not just 0.1 percent improvements it's if you save five minutes today you save (23:55) five minutes potentially every day for the rest of your life and the compounding compounds and so

Kevin Palmieri

(24:01) it's unreal when we went to the bachelor party I had I got one of the rounds yeah I get around (24:06) for everybody $97 I was like what what huh how how is that even possible wild this is the first (24:17) time you've done that in a long time I could not tell you the last time outside of that I've paid (24:22) for a drink out in the real world like I have whiskey at home but those every all of my whiskey (24:26) has been gifted to me I've not bought it I won't buy a $50 bottle what are we doing here we have

Alan Lazaros

(24:32) one minute left what's your tangible takeaway wrap this in a bow and and that is that is a good example (24:41) just drinking a little bit less saves you a ton of money it also really good for your longevity

Kevin Palmieri

(24:45) and your health yeah my my mom has a tracker it's good my mom smoked for like 30 years she (24:51) quit smoking I don't know like seven years ago or five years ago something like that (24:55) she has a tracker it literally says you've been smoke-free for this amount of time you've saved (24:58) this much time you save this much money and I don't know what the number is obviously at the (25:02) top of my head but I'm sure it is what's alarming let's do it which let's say a pack a day I don't

Alan Lazaros

(25:09) know I don't know enough of the data I don't either let's let's call it 10 bucks a day okay (25:13) for how many years five let's just say five eighteen thousand two hundred fifty dollars

Kevin Palmieri

(25:22) that's insane and then let's just say five uh no not five minutes a day let's say 25 minutes a day

Alan Lazaros

(25:29) for five years 760 hours which is 95 eight hour shifts that's insane so how much money did that (25:41) make right if you if you're working obviously but again I think that the the thing that will (25:48) land here because I got to jump obviously to a coaching session is improvement is so doable (25:55) just remember it always feels invisible and it's always a pain in the ass always just accept that (26:04) there is no one who likes the Stairmaster but you still got to get on that fucking thing and I think

Kevin Palmieri

(26:09) that that's a good metaphor I do it feels like you're adding more rigidity into your life but (26:14) you're adding more success into your life later Hunter just doesn't it doesn't feel like it yet (26:17) and to wrap it up I think you said it very well it's a mindset it's an it's something that's (26:23) always on am I saying you're going to be as obsessed in a in a great way as Alan no no most (26:29) likely most of us will never be that obsessed to that degree but right now if you're always (26:35) thinking about what your plans are on Friday or your plans are on Saturday that's a mindset too (26:39) and that means you're being intentional about everything you do to get through the week (26:42) same thing if you're trying to save money you're very intentional on that if you're trying to make (26:46) sure you're a certain type of person around your partner you're you're intentional about that you (26:50) can be intentional as intentional about growth that is my thesis okay great episode man it was (26:55) a great episode Next Level Nation we don't have to do a part three that's awesome Next Level Nation (26:59) if you are trying to get 0.1 percent better every single day and you are journaling already or you (27:04) want to start journaling we have the Next Level Dreamliner literally five minutes a day it cannot (27:08) take much more than that and I think you will reap the benefits of that for sure this Saturday

Alan Lazaros

(27:12) we are starting a new book in book club we have read 23 books in book nice 23 books thinking in (27:20) by Annie Duke this book will help you I promise you make better choices for your future that's (27:26) what it's about we are doing one chapter per week this Saturday 12 30 p.m eastern standard time

Kevin Palmieri

(27:31) you will get better and I can attest I'm also listening to that book great book loving it (27:36) really really enjoying it so far cool as always we love you we appreciate you grateful for each and (27:41) every one of you and if you are as committed as you say you are to getting to the next level (27:44) make sure you tune in tomorrow because we will be here literally every single day to help you (27:48) keep reaching for your full potential Next Level Nation thanks for joining us for another episode (27:56) of Next Level University we love connecting with the Next Level family we mean it when we say

Alan Lazaros

(28:02) family if you ever need anything please reach out to us directly everything you need to get a hold (28:07) of us is in the show notes thank you again and we will talk to you tomorrow