How Often Should You Re-Design Your Life? (2215)

How often should you hit reset on your life? In this episode, Kevin and Alan reveal why success isn’t something that just happens, it’s something you design. They challenge you to stop living on autopilot and start building a life that evolves with purpose, consistency, and clarity. From daily habits to decade-long goals, you’ll hear the truth about growth, pain, and why waiting to change could cost you everything. Success doesn’t show up by chance, it’s built by choice. Press play and start designing your next level today.

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Show notes:
(3:24) Redesigning goals from daily to lifetime
(7:16) Simple daily reflection for growth
(10:20) Why constant learning keeps you relevant
(14:17) The pain and purpose of redesigning
(19:04) Course-correct before it’s too late
(22:21) Look back, plan forward, grow intentionally
(26:33) Outro

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Chapters

• 3:24 Redesigning goals from daily to lifetime
• 7:16 Simple daily reflection for growth
• 10:20 Why constant learning keeps you relevant
• 14:17 The pain and purpose of redesigning
• 19:04 Course-correct before it’s too late
• 22:21 Look back, plan forward, grow intentionally
• 26:33 Outro

Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) This thought process came from our 20th round of group coaching, because we were talking about how at the beginning of group coaching, the Next Level Podcast Accelerator, you set goals and you are going to change your goals and you're going to redesign your life, quote unquote, many times within the 12 weeks we're together. (0:18) Success does not happen by default. (0:22) Success happens by design.(0:24) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:27) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:29) 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

(0:38) 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.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:07) Welcome to Next Level University. (1:13) Next Level Nation today for episode number 2,215. (1:18) How often should you redesign your life?(1:23) It's heavy. (1:24) That's a heavy way to start. (1:26) That is a heavy, heavy, heavy way to start an episode.(1:28) You thought I had more to say after that? (1:30) I expected more out of you. (1:31) I thought I did too.(1:33) I was like, nope. (1:34) I expected more. (1:35) I thought it was dramatic pause.(1:37) It was a dramatic pause onto the episode and here we are together. (1:41) How often should you redesign your life from your perspective? (1:45) Okay.

Alan Lazaros

(1:48) You're not going to like this. (1:50) Okay. (1:51) It's a great way to start a conversation.(1:52) I might like it. (1:54) Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, quarters, years, decades, lifetime.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:59) Yep. (2:00) Words, all words. (2:01) Yep.

Alan Lazaros

(2:02) I've heard all words. (2:03) That actually goes from the second all the way to the lifetime. (2:06) It's in order.(2:08) I've spent serious time memorizing that. (2:11) So I need you to be more impressed.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:12) That is fair. (2:13) I've just heard you say it so many times for me. (2:15) It's like, get to the fucking point.

Alan Lazaros

(2:16) Yeah. (2:16) Okay. (2:16) Gotcha.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:17) You know, you'll flex your memory or you want to add value here?

Alan Lazaros

(2:20) Mostly the first one. (2:22) No, I do think that in real time, second on second, you have to be adaptive, but it all has to roll up to your lifetime goals. (2:33) And, but you should do a redesign a little bit each day.(2:37) A little bit each week, a little bit each month, and definitely at minimum every quarter. (2:43) And certainly at the beginning and end of every year. (2:45) I do think, again, these are arbitrary moments like December 31st versus January 1st are not really that different, but the way the human brain works, they're very different because you have to compartmentalize something.(2:57) It's, oh, well, it's the new year. (2:59) It's a fresh start. (3:00) You've got to capitalize on that.(3:01) I also don't, I don't think you should just like, don't wait for weeks to start a goal because it's not the new year yet. (3:07) I think that's when it gets wonky, but the macro answer is you should redesign your life second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour in real time toward your weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual goals. (3:24) And those annual goals should hopefully lead to a decade that you want.(3:29) And then the decade should lead to the life you want. (3:31) So you've talked to me about this before. (3:33) I think zero to 10 is basically just learning basic functions of social skills.(3:39) I think 10 to 20 is basically when you should be just failing and learning and dating and figuring out life. (3:48) I think 20 to 30 is when you make your career mistakes. (3:52) That's when you need to take a lot of shots in your career and just, just fuck it all up and learn as much as possible.(3:57) Get a ton of mentors. (3:58) If you don't have mentors in your twenties, I think you're fucked. (4:01) Like you need to have mentors in your twenties.(4:03) I didn't have many. (4:04) Coaches and mentors. (4:05) Yeah.(4:05) Which and, and what were you? (4:07) I'm kidding. (4:08) You were going to be.(4:08) I was going to be fucked for sure. (4:09) You were going to be Jeffed. (4:10) Yep.(4:11) And then in your thirties, it's all about building. (4:13) You just build, build, build, build, build. (4:16) Everything I do and don't do is building towards something.(4:18) And then forties, fifties, and sixties are just, just unreal amounts of this, particularly forties. (4:25) I feel like forties is when most people just crush it in their careers. (4:29) That's when they make or break their careers.(4:31) And then fifties, basically you have all the credibility because you've already accomplished so much and earned your stripes, so to speak. (4:37) And the whole world sees you as more valuable than you really are. (4:40) Cause you have kids and you're married.(4:41) You have all the like markers of success. (4:43) And then your sixties is all about scale and giving back. (4:47) And then beyond that, it's basically.(4:49) Use your wealth to try to help the world. (4:51) At least that's the way I think it should be. (4:54) Um, we've talked about this in the past, but yeah, if you don't.(4:59) And this is why this is such a wonky conversation, because if you don't know what you want for your life, you pretty much can't.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:06) Uh, I I've been kind of running that system since I was a little kid. (5:10) I'm way more, I think I'm way more reactive. (5:12) My answer would have been as often as necessary.(5:16) Which when is it necessary?

Alan Lazaros

(5:19) When shit feels wrong. (5:22) When brother, brother shit was wrong. (5:25) When it didn't feel wrong in the past.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:27) So that's predicated on. (5:29) I know, but if you came to me and said, you should be, you should be redesigning your life. (5:33) Every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every week, every month, every quarter, every year, every decade, I would be like, dude, you can politely get fucked.(5:43) Oh yeah. (5:43) No. (5:44) Okay.(5:44) Real quick. (5:45) No, I'm, I'm waiting for the new Eminem album to drop. (5:47) That's what I'm doing this way.(5:48) Are you kidding me? (5:50) Well, there's no, no, at the time. (5:51) You're more focused on Eminem's career than your own.(5:53) At the time I was for sure, baby. (5:55) That's so detrimental.

Alan Lazaros

(5:56) And that new CD dropped. (5:58) This is a success podcast. (5:58) So now I get to say this.(6:00) That's the dumbest shit ever.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:01) I was on my way to Walmart. (6:02) I won the first copy, baby. (6:03) Come on.(6:04) Give it here. (6:05) For sure. (6:06) For sure.(6:07) If you focused more on your career than Eminem's career, you'd probably be successful. (6:11) I would have been more than I was for sure at the time. (6:15) For sure.(6:16) I, so I think of it, uh, this, this is a good way to look at it. (6:18) Most important win, most important improvement. (6:20) What is that?(6:21) Daily redesign. (6:22) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(6:23) Awesome. (6:23) Okay.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:23) Yeah. (6:25) Uh, whether you do it on Friday, whether you do it on Saturday, when you do it on Sunday, whether you do it on the following Monday, a week review. (6:32) Let me look back at the previous week.(6:33) That's weekly. (6:34) Cool. (6:35) So monthly, monthly calendar review.(6:38) Okay, cool. (6:39) Did that monthly bank account review? (6:41) Did that monthly exercise, whatever.(6:43) So I think you can, I think most people speaking to myself are way more proactive. (6:49) I think you can be reactive by starting on a simple task of most important win, most important improvement. (6:56) What did I do today really well?(6:59) That's something that we don't necessarily need to completely redesign. (7:03) Maybe we just improve it. (7:04) Most important improvement is literally like, what is something that I need to redesign?(7:09) Because it is just not working. (7:10) And then bada bing, bada boom. (7:12) I think that's a really good, easy way that's less overwhelming to look at it.

Alan Lazaros

(7:18) Yeah. (7:19) Day, week, month, quarter, year. (7:23) I think that's really good.(7:25) If you were to just do those and the intensity depends on the individual. (7:32) So I told you earlier, I needed extra time because we ended Q3 and I don't feel like I've locked in the new software upgrades and software upgrades is a thing I reference for any new listeners. (7:46) There's a metaphor I always use of the iPhone gets better and better and better.(7:49) My car, I have a smart car. (7:50) It updates overnight. (7:51) Like these, these technologies are updating.(7:53) I updated Windows 11 earlier, right? (7:56) These are, well, you can do that with your brain too. (7:58) Like if you're operating, if you're operating system is the same as it was back in 1995, you're in some serious trouble.(8:04) Imagine using a Windows 95 computer right now. (8:07) Vista. (8:08) Was that Vista in 1998?(8:10) Windows Vista. (8:11) They had a good looking UI. (8:12) Real piece of shit though.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:14) I remember just Oregon Trail and gerbils. (8:17) You know it. (8:18) I remember Oregon Trail died of many things.(8:22) So those were Macs. (8:22) Those are the Mac books that we, not Mac books. (8:24) I don't remember.(8:25) That's it. (8:26) I just remember that was like, yeah, my first, I was like, oh, this is wild shit. (8:31) I watched something.(8:32) Yeah. (8:33) I watched something last night. (8:34) This will make a ton of sense to you.(8:36) It's a channel where this person, I don't know who it is. (8:40) It's a faceless channel. (8:41) They train AI components to do things.(8:47) So it was a soccer game between two AI players. (8:51) You get penalized when you do something wrong and you get rewarded when you do something right. (8:55) And it was the wild, and they do thousands and thousands and thousands of rounds.(9:00) So they get a little bit better each time. (9:02) It was fucking mind blowing. (9:04) Just mind blowing to me to watch this.

Alan Lazaros

(9:06) It's called machine learning. (9:08) And Emilia has a pedicure robot that you put your hand in.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:17) Yes.

Alan Lazaros

(9:18) And it does your nails and it learns her hand. (9:24) So the first time was bad. (9:25) I mean, it was like, you know, you pull her hand out.(9:27) It looks like fucking seventh grader did her nails or seven year old. (9:32) And now it's way better. (9:34) Machine learning is what that's called.(9:36) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:36) And well, it's wild to watch it like in the first. (9:40) So the first portion of it, they're just like squares that can't move.

Alan Lazaros

(9:45) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:46) Nice. (9:46) And then they learn a little bit. (9:47) It's like, well, this is forward.(9:48) This is backward. (9:49) This is OK, cool. (9:49) Nice.(9:50) Then they multiply the speed by like 500. (9:51) And then the 500th one, like they're able to go towards the ball.

Alan Lazaros

(9:55) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:55) And then they know like they can kick the ball.

Alan Lazaros

(9:57) Can you see the compound effect curve as this is happening?

Kevin Palmieri

(9:59) Yeah, for sure. (10:00) And then they're so good at the end where it's like. (10:02) Unbelievable.

Alan Lazaros

(10:03) Yeah, it's unbelievable. (10:03) So real quick for all our listeners about success and personal development and achieving your goals and dreams. (10:10) I want to take what Kevin said and instill the fear in you.(10:14) No, but I do think instilling some fear will get you off your ass if you're out there. (10:20) Machines are learning faster than humans. (10:23) So if you don't start learning every day, you're in serious trouble.(10:27) And most professions will be robotics. (10:30) I was in industrial automation in corporate. (10:32) That's why I did so well.(10:34) You would walk into these manufacturing facilities and you'd see pictures on the walls of the 70s, 80s and 90s, and it was thousands of workers. (10:40) And now it's just one floor manager and all robotics. (10:44) And I happen to sell the machine vision, the eyes of the robotics.(10:48) And so I did very well, of course, because I'm a sales engineer doing that. (10:53) But I remember literally the better I did, the less jobs there were. (10:56) That's never going to stop.(10:58) Now those people can go get other jobs. (11:00) There will always be things you can do to create value in the world, right? (11:03) 21 years ago, podcasting didn't even exist.(11:05) Now there's however many podcasters. (11:07) So it's not like you have to worry about not having things to do. (11:11) What you do have to worry about is not being intelligent, not being work hardworking and not being prudent and diligent.(11:18) And like if you can't focus, a machine will eventually replace you. (11:24) And if you don't know that you won't do anything about it. (11:26) And by the time you do know that it's too fucking late.(11:29) And that's why I'm saying this. (11:32) I'm not trying to be a dick. (11:32) You really do need to know that.(11:36) You have to. (11:37) You can't. (11:40) The 21st century is wild.(11:43) I send you all these historic tech stuff. (11:45) It's wild. (11:46) That's right.(11:47) And did I send you the one of the very first drawing on a screen in the 60s? (11:52) And it was just this atrocious.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:54) I have a few from you that I haven't read yet or watched yet. (11:57) So I don't know.

Alan Lazaros

(11:58) Not a big deal. (11:59) I'm behind.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:00) I'm behind on life.

Alan Lazaros

(12:01) I'm behind on life right now. (12:03) We can't talk about it on the show if you don't watch him.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:05) That's fair.

Alan Lazaros

(12:06) No, it's okay. (12:07) I'm kidding. (12:07) But this is something I've been thinking about ever since I was a little kid, which is just the history of technology, right?(12:16) At one point, the bow and arrow was the best we had. (12:18) And now, I mean, you basically, if you don't know tech, you're going to fall behind. (12:24) And I use this too as a reference.(12:27) And I'll get back to redesign. (12:29) But I remember when, and again, I used to not share this, because I didn't want to come off pretentious. (12:33) But I went to one of the best tech schools on planet Earth.(12:36) And it was very clear to me. (12:38) I still hung out with my high school friends, my college friends. (12:40) And I introduced my high school friends to my college friends.(12:43) And it was very interesting to watch them interact. (12:48) Because all my college friends were like, they knew finance pretty well. (12:53) They knew mathematics very well.(12:54) They're all engineers. (12:56) They knew it was weird. (12:57) I remember the very first, my friend, we were in his Toyota Camry.(13:01) And the very first time a phone was used for a GPS. (13:06) I remember that. (13:07) And I was like, dude, this is fucking awesome.(13:09) Eventually, every phone is going to have this. (13:11) And he's like, yeah. (13:12) And we would talk about it, right?(13:13) I would literally drink with these guys. (13:16) And we would just debate the global economy and debate. (13:19) I wanted to get from their brain everything I could.(13:22) And this is the real reason. (13:24) If you don't really know how the world works, and you don't know how you work, you don't know how human beings work, you basically can't win at the game of life. (13:33) You're like a seven-year-old who doesn't know anything.(13:37) And a seven-year-old who doesn't know anything can't really succeed at anything. (13:40) You don't know how to buy a home. (13:41) You don't know how to invest money.(13:42) You don't know how to make money. (13:43) You don't know how to build a company. (13:45) You don't know how to lead.(13:46) You don't know how to podcast. (13:48) You don't know how to communicate effectively. (13:50) I'm basically looking for everywhere I suck so I can constantly update my skills, metaskills, subskills, and software.(13:56) Back to the redesign piece, I really do mean it. (13:58) Every second of every day, just like the iPhone, you need to be contemplating how to get better. (14:04) When I say need to be, you don't have to do anything.(14:06) If you want a terrible life, you don't have to do this.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:10) That's the thing too. (14:11) It's hard to do it. (14:12) Redesigning is hard because it kind of sucks.(14:17) But the opposite sucks way worse. (14:20) I think the interesting thing about it is some of the redesigns you have are massive. (14:26) You go from I am the type of person that does this to I am no longer.(14:30) And that is just painful. (14:33) Those are painful redesigns. (14:36) Some of the other ones are...

Alan Lazaros

(14:38) I like the little ones.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:39) I like the little ones too. (14:41) The whole makeover thing, I think I'm for that sometimes, but I like the little ones. (14:45) I like the little ones too because it doesn't shake my snow globe as much.(14:49) We used to do calls at 8 a.m. And then we were like, honestly, it's not optimal anymore. (14:54) Because Alan's working later than I am. (14:56) But I get up and my morning is like my sacred time to do back office work.(15:01) And I'm in the office and I want to get stuff done. (15:03) So it was like, all right, we're going to move to 9. (15:05) That was just a little redesign.(15:06) And then 9 went to 10. (15:08) And then 10 went to 11.

Alan Lazaros

(15:10) The real reason behind that too is people are working. (15:13) And a lot of my clients have full-time jobs, multiple jobs sometimes. (15:17) And they can't do a coaching session until after they're done with their work.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:21) Because they're building their careers. (15:24) And at the time, that was a challenging redesign. (15:28) And now it's amazing.(15:29) And we're going to end up redesigning something else based on that. (15:32) And just repeat that forever.

Alan Lazaros

(15:33) You and I never talk about this anymore because we're becoming ignorant to some of the stuff that in the beginning was really, really powerful. (15:43) Someone said this to me recently. (15:44) I know we got to jump soon.(15:46) Who was I on with? (15:48) I was on with a client earlier. (15:49) He's in finance.(15:51) And he says, Alan, you wouldn't believe the number of people that have just terrible financial advisors. (15:56) And they just don't want to change. (15:59) Because they like them or whatever.(16:01) If your financial advisor isn't getting back to you, fucking fire that person. (16:06) There's so many people that are amazing at this that would get back to you. (16:10) If you have a financial advisor who doesn't get back to you, that's a really bad idea to continue working with them.(16:18) Who are you paying for? (16:18) Yeah, and I have someone who I can recommend and or work with me. (16:22) Because as a coach, I'm not going to invest your money for you.(16:25) But I can certainly teach you finance. (16:27) It's not that complicated. (16:30) But what was my point of that?(16:31) He said, yeah, people are afraid to change. (16:33) That's the main bottleneck. (16:34) Because I asked him, I said, well, what's the main pain point that you're solving?(16:37) He said financial uncertainty. (16:38) I said, OK, well, we got to go deeper than that. (16:40) OK, so what are the three things under that?(16:42) It's like, OK, they don't want to change anything. (16:46) I understand. (16:46) Change equals uncertainty.(16:47) I understand. (16:48) But if you don't change, you're eventually going to have only uncertainty.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:51) Because the whole world is progressing while you're not. (16:54) It has to be worth it. (16:55) It's always that conversation of, I could call my internet provider right now and I could save 30 bucks a month.(16:59) That's fucking it's not worth it. (17:01) Well, if it was 300 bucks a month, it would be worth it.

Alan Lazaros

(17:04) Which is which is why the internet provider doesn't jack the price up by 100 bucks.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:08) Well, because they slowly creep it up on you, you know, because they know they're going to get a lot of calls. (17:12) There's a new gym. (17:13) So, oh, I haven't told you this.(17:15) They are building a state of the art crunch fitness. (17:20) Fuck yeah. (17:21) Three minutes, maybe two minutes further than my current gym.(17:26) Worth it? (17:27) Probably. (17:28) Of course.(17:29) Probably. (17:30) But no, there's that part of me like I got to go in and I got to jump through the fucking hoops of canceling my membership. (17:36) And they're going to be like, OK, we need one pint of blood.(17:41) We're going to need to cancel your gym membership.

Alan Lazaros

(17:43) You know what? (17:44) Fuck it, I'm going to cancel my credit card. (17:46) That's it.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:47) Honestly, I will if I have to.

Alan Lazaros

(17:48) You got a whole Bank of America. (17:49) So fuck that.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:51) Yeah, that's true. (17:51) That's even worse. (17:52) I don't know what's worse.(17:53) Bank of America or the gym. (17:54) It's definitely Bank of America. (17:56) We'll we'll just wait until we get a new bank.(17:58) This episode is sponsored by Bank of America, the America's bank. (18:02) Of all the banks. (18:03) I don't care.(18:04) I've used in my entire life. (18:06) I do not understand how they're even in business.

Alan Lazaros

(18:08) It's atrocious. (18:09) I don't I don't know how some people are even successful. (18:13) It's mind blowing.(18:14) It is. (18:14) If a financial advisor doesn't like return your phone calls. (18:19) Well, it's hard because it's successful.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:22) If you've never had one before, you don't know. (18:25) Imagine your first time getting a massage. (18:27) It's like, I think it was good.(18:29) Yeah, it was. (18:30) They like rubbed my shoulder and I feel rejuvenated. (18:34) And then you go get another one.(18:36) And you go get one. (18:37) It was like, holy shit, that's what it was supposed to be like. (18:39) Yeah.(18:39) Oh, it wasn't like that at all. (18:41) This is why it's all relative.

Alan Lazaros

(18:43) This is why travel, I think, is of value. (18:46) When I traveled south, I appreciated my home more. (18:49) Genuinely.(18:51) I think everything's relative, but that's the thing. (18:53) You don't know. (18:53) You don't know what a good night's sleep is until you have a really good night's sleep and then do it long enough to actually see the difference.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:59) It's really, I think to your point, that's why you have to do it proactively. (19:04) Because you don't. (19:06) If you wait to redesign until the signs are like obvious.(19:11) I'm not saying it's too late because it's never really too. (19:14) It's never too late to get better, right? (19:17) It's like you can always get better and you can always redesign.(19:19) Obviously, it's better to do it sooner. (19:21) But if the Titanic. (19:25) Great example.(19:27) If they redesign sooner, they wouldn't hit the fucking iceberg.

Alan Lazaros

(19:34) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:34) It was too late. (19:35) They did it. (19:36) They course corrected as fast as they could.(19:38) They did everything they could. (19:39) Unfortunately. (19:39) Smell ice, Kenya.(19:40) You can smell ice, Kenya. (19:42) Unfortunately, it was too late. (19:43) And I think back then, it's really hard to be as proactive as you can be today.(19:47) Obviously, right? (19:48) There's guys standing out of the crows and looking like, yeah, no, I don't see it. (19:52) Yeah, it's good.(19:53) Like 12 degrees out like that. (19:55) That must have been a rough gig. (19:57) Well, I guarantee you that all ships after that.

Alan Lazaros

(20:03) Made some level of improvement based on that. (20:05) That is unfortunately where most improvement happens. (20:07) That's why I'm such a pro frustration.(20:09) Overwhelmed. (20:10) We're going to do an episode on that next. (20:12) But redesign usually comes as a massive as at pain creates necessity to redesign.(20:18) Yep. (20:19) Unfortunately. (20:20) Yeah.(20:21) And if you avoid pain, you also avoid innovation and improvement and growth. (20:26) You can't grow without pain. (20:28) You just can't.(20:29) You cannot. (20:29) You can deal with the pain today of change or you can deal with the pain in the future of not changing. (20:38) It's the people who like love growth and they're still in that phase of like growth is awesome.(20:43) For me, it's just it's less worse than the alternative.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:47) We should grow up is terrible. (20:49) We should do it on that. (20:50) It's way better than not growing.(20:51) We should do an episode on that. (20:52) I would love to, because I think that is, it's just better than the alternative. (20:56) It definitely is.(20:57) But I want to talk about how one, you start doing it. (21:00) You'd like are the biggest proponent of it.

Alan Lazaros

(21:02) Yeah, yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:03) Everything's about growth. (21:04) And then one day you wake up and it's like, hmm, interesting. (21:08) This is kind of sucks.(21:10) Yeah. (21:10) Less, but more. (21:13) Yeah.(21:14) Forever. (21:15) All right. (21:15) Is this going to suck forever?(21:16) Wrap this with a bow so we can get out of here.

Alan Lazaros

(21:18) Yeah. (21:18) So redesign, I think every once a day, most important win, most important improvement, some sort of a, before you go to bed, like how did the fucking day go? (21:26) Okay.(21:26) Then it's week. (21:28) Sunday is a good day, I think. (21:30) Sunday or Saturday.(21:31) Probably Sunday. (21:32) Start the week off right, right? (21:33) That's why the calendar starts on Sunday.(21:35) Okay. (21:35) I think every month you got to, the end of every month, you got to just say, okay, interesting. (21:44) And then this is the most important piece.(21:46) We didn't say until this moment, when you're redesigning the day, the week, the month, you also need to think about the next month. (21:55) So when I ended Q3 six days ago or whatever it is, seven days ago, I also planned Q4. (22:05) So like the year ends, you look at the previous year and then plan the next year high level.(22:11) Then when the quarter ends, you look at the previous quarter, see how you did plan the next quarter. (22:19) Same with the month, the week and the day. (22:21) So use these as look back.(22:25) And this is why I don't like the present thing. (22:27) Be present all the time. (22:28) That's a no.(22:29) You need to look back and plan forward. (22:34) It's not a great strategy. (22:35) It's definitely not a great strategy.(22:36) It's one third of the equation.

Kevin Palmieri

(22:38) If you're a yoga teacher, it works well. (22:40) If you're a yoga teacher, you tell people to be present. (22:42) You're already here.(22:43) You're already here. (22:44) You know, when you're doing yoga, you probably shouldn't be worried about the fucking garage. (22:47) You know, do the fucking yoga.

Alan Lazaros

(22:48) How the hell are you going to market and brand your yoga practice?

Kevin Palmieri

(22:51) No, no, no. (22:52) I'm saying, I'm saying. (22:53) Only when you're in the moment of doing it.(22:54) You come over to KP yoga stude, right? (22:58) You're in, you're in downward facing dog. (23:01) Yeah.(23:01) And I say nothing but this moment matters. (23:03) Yeah. (23:03) Awesome.(23:04) Now, when you leave, you better get your shit together. (23:07) But in this moment, while you're sledding all over my hardwood floor, you don't have to worry about anything. (23:13) I got you.(23:14) Okay. (23:16) What's your wrap up? (23:19) Uh, what is my wrap up?(23:20) Someone who was a naturally born planner. (23:22) Yeah, I've been planning my whole life. (23:24) It's wild to think of.(23:26) That's a joke. (23:31) Uh, probably the, the old adage that we've been saying for many years, you cannot avoid feedback. (23:37) You either get it little by little along the way, or you get it all at once at the end.(23:41) That.

Alan Lazaros

(23:42) I just had a moment I want to share with our listeners. (23:44) Is it about Kevin's jokes that are really funny? (23:50) Are him sarcastically saying things I actually say?(23:53) Yes. (23:54) Usually about me. (23:56) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(23:57) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(23:57) How interesting. (23:58) I just connected that now.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:00) That's so sad.

Alan Lazaros

(24:01) Damn.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:04) We're all right with it now though, right? (24:05) Of course. (24:06) Yeah, we're good.

Alan Lazaros

(24:07) We're good. (24:07) I just don't think I realized how. (24:11) How.(24:12) Well, I think that is actually a joke for most people. (24:14) I actually have been doing that my entire life.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:18) If we could rebrand this, it would be the genius and the joker. (24:21) That would be the, that would be the podcast. (24:23) Would love that.(24:24) It's never going to be next level. (24:25) We've come too far, but what a good name that would have been. (24:28) If I could have done that instead of hyperconscious, I don't know.(24:31) Things would have been different for sure. (24:33) And also think about how different I would be because I would assume every episode has to be funny. (24:38) Everything would be different.(24:39) That's the whole butterfly effect. (24:41) If we change the name of the podcast.

Alan Lazaros

(24:42) Seems for you the brand changes the way you operate within it. (24:45) For me, the way I operate changes the brand. (24:47) Well, I know.(24:48) It's inside out instead of outside in. (24:50) We're, we're opposite. (24:52) That makes sense.(24:52) You and I are opposite people.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:54) Yeah. (24:54) You want your brand to be a byproduct of you, not the other way around. (24:57) Well, when I started this, I just wanted to smoke pot and have deep conversations.(25:02) Well, you obviously have redesigned a few times. (25:06) That's yeah. (25:07) Yeah.(25:08) So when I, when I change, everything changes, but it's a whole thing. (25:12) All right. (25:12) We're going to go.(25:13) Did you already do the meetup? (25:14) This? (25:15) Yeah.(25:15) You already did the meetup, right? (25:16) Yeah. (25:16) So for October, we're done.(25:18) Okay. (25:19) We have one on, I actually just picked it. (25:21) So we have a link.(25:22) Let me pull it up for you. (25:24) While Alan pulls it up, if you're looking for a group of like-minded people, next all the nation, our private Facebook group, we'll have the link in the show notes.

Alan Lazaros

(25:35) The masterclass monthly masterclass. (25:38) Oh yeah. (25:38) I said, meet up my bed.(25:39) How dare you is on the, so we did a vote in our sub community and WhatsApp private community. (25:47) And the three things that we voted for were productivity, leadership, or business. (25:52) Most of the votes were productivity, which was exciting for me since I love it.(25:57) The five major productivity fundamentals, you must in all caps, master to achieve your dreams.

Kevin Palmieri

(26:04) Nice.

Alan Lazaros

(26:05) Yeah. (26:05) This remarkable right here, showing it on YouTube. (26:08) I'm going to be screen sharing and coaching live in real time on productivity fundamentals.(26:14) So join us. (26:15) If that sounds exciting to you, definitely come. (26:17) If that sounds terrible to you, please don't.(26:20) Stay home for that one. (26:21) I really don't want, I don't want to be a rapper at a country concert getting fruit thrown at me. (26:25) So if you're not interested in productivity, just don't, just don't come.(26:28) But if you are, please, please, please do. (26:30) It's going to be, it's going to be awesome. (26:31) The last one was great.(26:32) Boom. (26:32) All right, cool.

Kevin Palmieri

(26:33) As always, we love you. (26:34) We appreciate you grateful for each and every one of you. (26:36) And if you are as committed as you say you are to getting to the next level, make sure you tune in tomorrow because we'll be here to help you get there.(26:42) Keep reaching for your full potential. (26:44) Next level nation. (26:45) Thanks for joining us for another episode of next level university.(26:49) We love connecting with the next level family.

Alan Lazaros

(26:52) We mean it when we say family. (26:54) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (26:57) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.(27:01) Thank you again.

Kevin Palmieri

(27:02) And we will talk to you tomorrow.