Success In One Thing Is Actually Pretty Easy… (2250)

In today’s episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros drop the truth about why mastering one area is simple, but building real strength in health, wealth, and love takes a different kind of grit. They break down the hidden habits that hold people back, the excuses that feel safe, and the mindset shift that creates unstoppable momentum. This one is bold, clear, and meant to wake you up. Challenge your comfort. Press play and upgrade what success means.

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Show notes:
(3:10) Life during bodybuilding and strict priorities
(4:00) Why mastering one area is easier
(6:57) The reality of America’s health challenge
(8:46) What success actually means across life
(10:00) Ego and pretending not to care
(13:16) The full potential debate begins
(17:15) Defining success for yourself
(20:19) The real definition of success
(25:07) Outro

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Chapters

• 3:10 Life during bodybuilding and strict priorities
• 4:00 Why mastering one area is easier
• 6:57 The reality of America’s health challenge
• 8:46 What success actually means across life
• 10:00 Ego and pretending not to care
• 13:16 The full potential debate begins
• 17:15 Defining success for yourself
• 20:19 The real definition of success
• 25:07 Outro

Transcript

Speaker 1

(0:00) I woke up this morning and I was extremely frustrated that I just couldn't go to the gym. (0:06) And when I say couldn't go to the gym, I could have gone to the gym, but I prioritized other things. (0:10) And I had this moment where I was thinking to myself, if the only thing I wanted to be successful in was fitness, my life would probably be much, much easier than it is today.(0:21) Who wants to be healthier, wealthier, and more in love? (0:23) A better question is who doesn't want to be healthier, wealthier, and more in love? (0:27) Unfortunately, though, a lot of people end up very, very successful in one narrow area.(0:32) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:35) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:37) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.(0:40) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven, but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers. (0:46) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth. (0:53) 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.(1:09) Self-improvement, in your pocket, every day, from anywhere, completely free. (1:15) Welcome to Next Level University. (1:21) Next Level Nation today for episode number 2250.(1:25) Success in one thing is actually pretty easy. (1:30) Blanket statement, yes. (1:31) But I think back to the days where I was doing bodybuilding.(1:35) And let's just take genetics out of it. (1:37) Let's just take all of that out of it. (1:39) Take genetics out of it.(1:40) I'm not saying that I was ever going to be the best bodybuilder ever. (1:43) I was not. (1:44) I don't have the genetics for that.(1:45) I do have really good genetics, but not to that degree. (1:48) But let's just say it's success towards your maximum capability. (1:53) Let's say that.(1:54) Because I know a lot of people are going to say, well, your dad was on steroids. (1:58) That's factually correct. (2:00) Yes, he was at one point or another.(2:02) And he was a large individual. (2:03) Did I get some of those steroids in my blood? (2:06) Maybe I did.(2:06) I don't know. (2:07) I don't know how it works. (2:09) I seriously doubt that.(2:10) I don't know. (2:11) I mean, it's pretty coincidental that he was a very strong, giant human being. (2:16) And I know your doctor said the same thing to you.(2:18) I think you're lying. (2:19) But my doctor said to me, you have, well, I was a baby. (2:24) Kevin has the best muscle tone out of any baby I've ever encountered.(2:27) That is what my mother says. (2:29) Is your doctor Faber? (2:31) That lying bastard.(2:33) Where did you get? (2:35) I was born. (2:36) Where did I get born?(2:37) Worcester, UMass Memorial in Worcester. (2:39) I was born in Milford, Massachusetts. (2:41) But where did you, did you go to Tri River when you were a kid for your doctor?(2:47) My mother tells this story. (2:49) She says the nurses were like, is your husband a big guy? (2:53) Big, big guy.(2:55) Well, I was just really fat to be honest with you. (2:58) It's huge.

Speaker 2

(2:59) All babies.

Speaker 1

(2:59) I have a picture with a lot of chins going on.

Speaker 2

(3:01) All babies are. (3:02) Okay. (3:02) But that's neither here nor there.

Speaker 1

(3:03) Yeah, that's, that is nor here nor there. (3:05) I don't really understand that saying, but it is nor here nor there. (3:08) I thought about it today.(3:10) How fucking awesome would life be if all I had to worry about was just being jacked. (3:16) Now it might sound silly, but think about it. (3:19) This time right now I'm investing in this, that would go to meal prepping.(3:24) The four coaching calls I did today, that would go to mobility. (3:28) That would go to sauna. (3:31) That would go to whatever.(3:34) And the fact that I worked 14 hours yesterday and slept till seven and didn't have to, 630 and didn't have time to go to the gym today. (3:41) That wouldn't ever happen because everything, and here's the, this is the thing. (3:46) When I was bodybuilding and when I say that, I mean like doing competitions, everything revolved around when I was going to work out, when I was going to sleep, what I was going to eat, everything revolved around where is the closest gym.(3:58) And this is the hard thing about life. (4:00) You have to do that for health. (4:02) You have to do that for wealth and you have to do that for love.(4:04) And that is why success in one thing is just way easier than being a well-rounded human being. (4:08) Yeah, I have a client, shout out to you. (4:13) He listens pretty much every day actually.(4:17) And he is just killing it. (4:20) He works at a bank. (4:22) He works at a school part-time, part-time.(4:27) He tutors. (4:28) He was doing DoorDash or UberEats for a little while. (4:33) Just seven, six days a week, six days a week, picks up every Saturday that he can.(4:38) Killing it in wealth. (4:40) Just saving up for a home, investing tons of money, absolutely crushing it. (4:45) Shout out to you.(4:46) Hell yeah. (4:49) And a couple calls ago, I was like, so how's the fitness journey going? (4:56) And he's like, I knew, of course, of course.(5:02) And so I said, let's crunch some numbers as we do. (5:05) You have not gained or lost a pound in October, like in a month. (5:10) So we are basically coasting.(5:12) And for those of you who aren't in fitness, you either want to be building muscle mass or burning fat. (5:18) And if you're staying the same, you're pretty much just wasting time. (5:22) And again, don't take that too literally, but yeah, honestly.(5:27) And this is a success podcast. (5:33) And I think about this all the time. (5:35) And I've said this before.(5:36) I'll say it again. (5:37) If you're top 1% in health, top 1% in wealth, and top 1% in love, that's 1 over 100 times 1 over 100 times 1 over 100, which is one in a million. (5:46) Who doesn't want to be one in a million?(5:48) Great. (5:50) And it's not that hard. (5:51) I went in charge to the Tesla earlier today, and I did some people watching.(5:54) I didn't really much, but I could see them walking by. (5:57) And I just thought to myself, okay, interesting. (6:00) There's not a lot of in shape people.(6:03) And I'm not saying that to be unkind. (6:04) I'm not saying that to be disrespectful. (6:05) Let's just have a conversation.(6:07) Let's be honest for a second. (6:08) There's 350 million people who live in the United States. (6:12) 350 million.(6:13) It's 347. (6:14) I'm rounding up. (6:14) 350 million.(6:16) What's the percentage of people overweight? (6:19) I think it's 50%, I believe. (6:21) What percentage of the US population is considered overweight?(6:32) I don't know the number. (6:33) That's why I want to look it up. (6:34) Thank you for your patience, everybody.(6:36) 40.3% of US adults had obesity during August 2021 to August 2023. (6:44) If you include the broader category of quote-unquote overweight, whoa. (6:48) Estimates suggest that approximately 74% of US adults fall into that classification.(6:53) Now, based on this classification, Kevin and I think would be considered overweight. (6:58) I'm definitely overweight. (6:59) Yeah, because you weigh, what, 180 and you're 5'4"?

Speaker 2

(7:02) Yeah.

Speaker 1

(7:04) If you go by the body mass index, I'm probably at troubling times. (7:09) So take that statistic with a grain of salt. (7:12) However, it doesn't take long to look around for anyone who does live in the US to go, oh, this is worse than it used to be.(7:21) This is different than it used to be. (7:23) You ever see that picture of a beach in the 70s versus now? (7:26) And again, it is what it is.(7:28) That's not my point. (7:29) My point is health, sleep, hydration, nutrition, training, mobility, breathwork, supplementation. (7:39) It is a full-time job.(7:41) I went on a podcast with one of our clients. (7:43) It's called Wits and Weights with Philip Pape. (7:46) Awesome.(7:48) Philip's good people. (7:48) I was audioing with him earlier on Instagram. (7:52) He is good people.(7:53) And he's an engineer too. (7:55) He went to RPI, went to WPI. (7:56) So we compete.(7:57) I'm kidding. (7:58) Philip, I know you listen. (7:59) What's up, man?(8:00) But his whole podcast is just about fitness. (8:04) And he has hundreds of episodes with, I think, dozens, if not hundreds of people. (8:09) And I was one of them.(8:10) And we were getting down the rabbit hole of fitness. (8:13) And I could talk about fitness for days with him. (8:16) And I said that to him earlier.(8:19) I could do probably a week-long retreat on just what it takes to be in great shape. (8:25) And I'm not even in great shape compared to what I want. (8:29) This is atrociously bad compared to what I want.(8:34) But I know what it takes. (8:36) And I miss the days when my whole world revolved around fitness. (8:39) But the point of this episode is, if you want to be successful, what does that mean to you?(8:46) What does success mean to you? (8:48) I had to decide early on, I don't want to be healthy and wealthy, but not in love. (8:53) I don't want to be in love and broke.(8:55) I don't want to be in love and wealthy, but not healthy. (8:59) I had some mentors that were wildly wealthy. (9:03) And I remember thinking, no, absolutely not.(9:06) I can't do that. (9:08) I won't end up like that. (9:10) You're so unhealthy.(9:13) And just calling a spade a spade, I get it. (9:16) I do. (9:17) It's a duality.(9:18) It's the power of the and. (9:19) I get that it's really difficult. (9:21) I do.(9:22) And I totally understand why people are overweight. (9:23) And I totally understand why people aren't healthy, wealthy, and in love. (9:28) And fuck that.(9:30) I want all three, baby. (9:31) At very least, go for all three. (9:34) And if you're at NLU, you believe that.(9:36) So what does success mean to you? (9:38) And what does success mean to you in each of those categories? (9:41) And how are you optimizing and orienting your life toward that?(9:45) This is an interesting, this is like an interesting place to go with the conversation. (9:49) I feel like people that have a lot of money that say they don't care about the other ones are very much living in ego. (9:59) Yeah, often.(10:00) You see somebody that's like very wealthy, but can't hold a relationship down to save their lives. (10:05) And they're very out of shape. (10:07) But they're like arrogant about it.(10:10) Like, I have enough, it doesn't matter. (10:11) I don't need, I don't need love. (10:12) I have money.(10:13) Or whatever. (10:14) It's like, that's the dumbest shit I've heard my entire life. (10:16) You're not going to snuggle with money at night.(10:18) I guess you can. (10:18) But a lot of germs on that shit. (10:22) Can you tell, go deeper on that?(10:26) Because I think that calling that out is really important. (10:29) Well, my thesis, or not, I don't have a thesis on this yet, or a hypothesis, I suppose I'm supposed to say, is what are we? (10:40) You're basically pretending not to care about it.(10:43) Those are your protectors. (10:44) Your ego is protecting you from the shame. (10:45) What's the fine line between, between actually caring and then not prioritizing?(10:50) I know a lot of people out there that I have met, that I have talked to, that say, I just don't care that much about money. (10:56) It's not my motivator. (10:58) Now, there's a difference between saying it's my motivator and I need enough to cover my basic human requirements as a human being.(11:05) But I've met a lot of people that say, I have everything I need. (11:07) I have a partner that loves me. (11:09) I have a strong, capable body.(11:10) I don't really care about money. (11:11) It's like, well, what is that? (11:12) Is that masking something?(11:14) I wonder. (11:15) Just like I think people who have a boatload of money that say the other things don't matter to them, I think they're masking. (11:20) But I don't know if it's that way across, across all of them.(11:23) I don't know. (11:25) Well, I'm, I'm weird in this, but I think orienting your life around reaching your full potential is health, wealth, and love. (11:31) I think is a by-product of that.(11:34) You're not going to reach your full potential. (11:36) You're not going to dedicate your life to reaching your full potential and then end up broke. (11:40) I mean, you could, but not long-term.(11:43) No, because when you become more and more capable, you have more and more skills and those skills are marketable. (11:48) So I, I don't know though, like there's a lot of people out there that are the best in the world at what they do that aren't that successful because the market doesn't pay for what they're the best in the world. (12:01) Give me an example.(12:02) Cause I don't agree. (12:03) And by the way, best in the world at what they do is not reaching their full potential. (12:08) That's reaching their full potential in one narrow fucking skill.(12:13) Oh, reaching potential as a human being, you're going to be healthy, wealthy, and in love as a by-product. (12:19) I do believe that. (12:19) Now you're not going to be the top of any industry.(12:22) Cornhole. (12:24) There are some hefty cornholers. (12:28) No, there are, there is, isn't there like a, I was in the gym once and I saw a cornhole on TV.(12:32) I was like, seriously? (12:33) Yeah, it's professional sport. (12:34) Yeah.(12:35) So what are you trying to say? (12:37) The best in the world at cornhole, you're making like $12,000 and they give you a Johnsonville brat on the way out. (12:43) What is that?(12:45) Johnsonville brat, like Johnsonville, the sausage company. (12:47) That's what sponsors those things. (12:49) I don't know.(12:50) So what all I'm saying is you can be, you can dedicate your life to being the best in the world at that. (12:54) Doesn't mean that's not reaching your full potential. (12:56) Well, getting good at cornhole is not reaching.(12:58) I understand that you're reaching your full potential is such a hard thing to measure real quick. (13:04) Yeah. (13:05) You and I imagine a world where you actually reach closer and closer and closer to your full potential for the rest of your life.

Speaker 2

(13:15) Okay.

Speaker 1

(13:16) Don't you think you're going to end up healthier, wealthier, and more in love as a by-product of that? (13:21) That is absolutely incorrect. (13:23) You're wrong.

Speaker 2

(13:24) And this is a great conversation.

Speaker 1

(13:25) You're leaving out the fact that all of those things take skills. (13:28) All of them. (13:30) It takes skills to reach your full potential.(13:32) Yeah, but it doesn't take skills necessarily. (13:34) You're assuming that full potential is- You don't know what reaching full potential actually means. (13:39) Nobody's ever done it.(13:39) So no, I don't. (13:41) And that's a fact. (13:43) And hey- Who's gotten closest?(13:44) You're wrong.

Speaker 2

(13:44) Who's gotten closest?

Speaker 1

(13:45) If you think there is a- That I agree with. (13:48) No one has reached. (13:49) It's an infinite game.(13:50) It's an asymptote. (13:51) You get closer and closer and closer, but you never fully get there. (13:54) Who's the closest to reaching their full potential, in your opinion?(13:57) Maybe The Rock. (14:00) Okay, how many skills has he developed? (14:01) He's healthy, wealthy, and in love.(14:04) Yeah, but see, this is always hard because I feel like you have a built-in fucking- It's like, if you want to reach your full potential, in order to reach your full potential, you're going to have to learn all the skills that you don't have in order to. (14:14) So then, therefore, it would be covered. (14:18) I'm glad we're doing this.(14:19) I'm not. (14:21) That's okay. (14:22) The Rock is healthier, wealthier, and more in love than 99.9% of all people. (14:27) I don't know about in love. (14:28) I don't know if I believe it. (14:30) And healthier?(14:31) I definitely don't believe. (14:32) Okay. (14:33) All right.(14:34) You know what I mean? (14:35) All right. (14:36) He looks- He looks healthier.(14:37) He looks healthy. (14:38) The amount of things coursing through the veins of that man- We're going to use a different example. (14:42) I know everyone hates it when I use that.(14:44) I don't care. (14:45) Tom Brady. (14:46) He's reaching his full potential.(14:48) Now, I don't care if you like the man. (14:50) That's not what this is about. (14:52) He's healthy, wealthy, and potentially in love.

Speaker 2

(14:54) I don't know if he's in love.

Speaker 1

(14:55) He's two or three times divorced. (14:58) No. (14:58) Two.(14:59) Not three. (15:00) I'm not defending Tom. (15:02) The point I'm making is- But how do you know he's not reaching his potential in a very narrow area?(15:10) I'm not. (15:11) How could you possibly become the best version of yourself every single day and not end up healthy, wealthy, and in love? (15:16) I am right about this.(15:17) No, because in theory, the people closest to the top would also be the most in love. (15:23) No, because the top is not an example of reaching your full holistic potential. (15:29) So then- Not- That's a narrow area.

Speaker 2

(15:31) Do you have any good examples?

Speaker 1

(15:32) The top of every industry is being- Yeah. (15:35) You have any good examples? (15:36) I don't know if I have one.(15:38) Emilia? (15:39) Give me someone public. (15:42) Chris Hemsworth.(15:44) He does pretty well for himself. (15:45) Interesting. (15:46) He's stud for sure.(15:47) Jacked. (15:48) Yeah. (15:48) He's healthy, wealthy, and in love.(15:50) Natural? (15:52) Okay. (15:53) Everyone we talk about Kevin is like, healthy, I don't know, steroids.(15:58) Yeah. (15:59) He was Thor, right? (16:01) Oh, yeah.(16:03) You think they found someone and they're like, no, he's in good enough shape to be Thor. (16:08) Absolutely not. (16:08) No.(16:09) They were like, hey, we need to gain 50 pounds of muscle. (16:12) The first movie. (16:13) And here's how.(16:14) Came out in 2011. (16:17) Thor. (16:17) With Natalie Portman.(16:19) So my childhood crush, Natalie Portman and Thor. (16:21) Chris Hemsworth. (16:22) And before this, my, as a little kid, I saw Brad Pitt and Troy.(16:27) And I was like, yeah, I'm gonna make that happen. (16:29) And then I saw Thor. (16:31) It was cool to show Emilia.(16:33) We watched it not long ago. (16:35) Jacked. (16:35) Now, in the first film, no bullshit.(16:39) Not that lean. (16:40) Huge. (16:41) Fucking huge.(16:43) Not that lean. (16:44) Totally doable naturally. (16:45) Since he's kind of a freak of nature.(16:47) The other movies. (16:49) I don't think so. (16:49) They, they, yeah.(16:50) Yeah. (16:50) I'll never forget watching Superman walk out of the water in his jeans. (16:55) And I was like, oh my God.(16:56) Which one? (16:57) Henry Cavill. (16:58) Henry Cavill.(16:58) Are you kidding me, man? (17:01) How the hell am I supposed to compete with that? (17:03) You're not.(17:04) That's why he's Superman. (17:05) I would understand. (17:06) If my wife left me for Superman, I would be like, honestly, I get it.(17:09) I do. (17:09) I get it. (17:10) Best of luck.(17:11) Getting flown around in the sky. (17:12) Like I got nothing to offer compared to that.

Speaker 2

(17:14) All right.

Speaker 1

(17:15) So I think this is a really good conversation because. (17:19) What does success mean to you? (17:20) That's exactly what it comes down to.(17:22) For me, success to me is reaching your full potential. (17:25) But what does that even mean? (17:26) I know.(17:26) We got to do another episode on that.

Speaker 2

(17:28) Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1

(17:28) I think we should do a part two on that. (17:29) Because people say it all the time. (17:32) No one has ever defined it.(17:34) No. (17:35) I've never heard it defined. (17:37) It's just a term everyone throws around.(17:39) But everything is. (17:40) How many times has somebody asked you like. (17:42) About happiness versus fulfillment versus joy versus it's like.(17:46) Well, I don't know. (17:47) Has anybody ever defined what fulfillment actually is in a meaningful understanding way that you can actually practice in life? (17:54) I actually want this podcast to do that more.(17:57) Even even success like you and I real quick. (18:00) I know we got to jump here in a minute. (18:01) What does success mean like the definition?(18:04) Because this is the problem with life. (18:06) Everyone says words, but everyone has a different meaning of what the word is. (18:09) I learned a new word the other day.(18:10) What was it? (18:12) Formidable. (18:13) Oh, I know what that is, I think.(18:15) Able to be conquered. (18:17) Formidable. (18:19) Unable to be conquered.(18:20) No, I think that would be like unformidable. (18:23) No, you're inaccurate, I believe. (18:26) And again, this isn't a fucking vocab test.(18:28) It always is. (18:29) Formidable is you are something to be reckoned with. (18:33) A formidable competitor is someone who like good luck.(18:36) Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense or capable is formidable. (18:42) So there's a docuseries on Netflix called Chimp Empire. (18:46) It's based on Jane Goodall's work.(18:48) They partnered with the Jane Goodall Institute. (18:50) It has been actually kind of awesome. (18:52) But anyways, there's a formidable alpha male quote unquote in the and I was just like, what is formidable mean?(18:59) I looked it up. (18:59) Anyways, what's my point of this? (19:01) Oh, we all say words.(19:04) And we all communicate with words. (19:06) But if I say the word success, every listener has a different understanding of. (19:13) For sure.(19:13) And they all picture something different. (19:16) What's yours? (19:17) So difficult.(19:18) What's mine? (19:18) Maximizing your potential. (19:20) Yeah, that's the one that's unique to me.(19:22) That's what I consider success is orienting my life around meaning and reaching my full potential holistically. (19:28) But that's not what I think the word success means externally. (19:31) The word success means and I defined it in my masterclass for everybody.(19:38) I think this is the actual definition. (19:40) Don't quote me on that, though. (19:41) Everyone look it up.(19:43) Success is the ability to create the outcomes in life you want. (19:51) The ability to consistently create the outcomes in life you want. (19:55) That's what I would define success as in general.(19:58) Now let's define success for ourselves, which for me, it's reaching my full potential, which I think that's the outcome I want. (20:06) But I think as a byproduct of that, I will be healthy, wealthy, and in love. (20:09) Good.(20:09) The accomplishment of an aim or purpose is the dictionary definition. (20:13) So essentially, but what it's saying is you hit the target. (20:16) But the target's different for every human being.

Speaker 2

(20:19) Right, right, right. (20:19) That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1

(20:19) Yeah. (20:20) There's no suggestion of what the target actually is, right? (20:26) It's like fast.(20:27) Compared to what? (20:28) Compared to what? (20:29) Slow.(20:30) Compared to something slow. (20:31) Well, what's slow? (20:32) Well, it's something that's not fast.(20:35) It's compared to something that's not moving. (20:37) Oh, okay. (20:37) Interesting.(20:38) For me, I don't know if I have a good definition. (20:41) Very honestly, I'm the most successful I've ever been. (20:45) For me, it's the capability to control health, wealth, and love.(20:52) I feel very in control of my relationship. (20:56) Now, does that mean I'm the best at it? (20:57) No, I'm not saying that.(20:58) I have many things that I have to work on. (21:00) But I feel like I'm in control of being able to work on those. (21:03) A lot of people have a sense of control based on delusion though.(21:06) I'm sure I've been there.

Speaker 2

(21:08) Yeah.

Speaker 1

(21:08) Yeah, but when you get humbled enough times of like... (21:12) I'm riding high a little bit. (21:14) We've had a lot of successes lately.(21:16) And I'm over a little bit. (21:17) I'm probably at like a six right now. (21:19) Six out of 10.

Speaker 2

(21:20) I don't think so.

Speaker 1

(21:21) I am. (21:22) I'm telling you, I am. (21:23) I'm certain.(21:24) Really? (21:24) Does it show externally? (21:26) I feel really...(21:26) Things have been just working. (21:28) You haven't thrown any zingers my way or anything?

Speaker 2

(21:30) No, no, I don't need to.

Speaker 1

(21:31) Usually, when you get cocky, you start shitting on the kid. (21:33) No, never. (21:34) Well, yes, I have for sure.(21:36) No, never in my past. (21:37) Many times. (21:38) I don't think...(21:39) I think for me now, it's like I'm willing to take a shot. (21:42) Like, fuck it, let's take this shot. (21:44) Fuck it.(21:44) We'll take a shot. (21:45) It's the best, isn't it? (21:46) But yes, the capability to consistently and replicably get outcomes in health, wealth, and love.(21:54) I think to me, that is success. (21:56) Feeling in control because for most of my life, I didn't. (21:58) For everyone out there watching or listening, it will do you so much good to define it for yourself.(22:04) Because if we're all aiming at a target and you don't know what the target is, there's a quote from a film we watched recently. (22:11) I'm gonna forget the film, but it was this. (22:14) It was...(22:15) Ah, it's called The Ten Rings. (22:17) It's a Marvel movie. (22:19) Something like that.(22:20) Shang-Chi, The Ten Rings or something. (22:22) But in the quote, they said, if you don't have a target... (22:28) No, you can't hit a target you don't have.(22:31) Emilia sent it to me. (22:32) Bear with me. (22:32) Hold space for two seconds.

Speaker 2

(22:33) I'm bearing, I'm bearing.

Speaker 1

(22:34) I had a very profound quote that I said to my wife yesterday. (22:37) I said, you have to be very careful as a sponge, because sponges don't get to decide what they absorb. (22:41) And she was like, holy shit.(22:42) And I said, yeah, I'm wise. (22:43) That's good stuff. (22:45) But humans can't.(22:47) That wasn't the point. (22:48) You told me to hold space. (22:49) And they also kind of can't.(22:51) Because if you're in the wrong environment, it will get in. (22:53) That's right. (22:54) I'm on it.(22:55) It's coming. (22:57) I just... (22:58) I ran out of space to hold.(23:00) I know. (23:03) We WhatsApp a lot, Emilia and I. (23:06) I believe it.(23:07) Here it is. (23:08) Nice. (23:10) She actually made it into a digital asset for Evolve Ventures.(23:13) If you aim at nothing, you hit nothing. (23:18) Hold on. (23:19) Yeah, I know, I know.(23:20) It didn't do it. (23:22) If you aim at nothing, you hit nothing. (23:25) Meaning, you won't accomplish shit.(23:29) Look, if you're on YouTube, she made a little target. (23:33) That's the whole quote? (23:34) You couldn't remember that fucking quote?(23:38) I was close. (23:40) You were all close. (23:41) I was close.(23:42) I said, if you don't have a target, something like that. (23:44) If you aim at nothing, you hit nothing. (23:47) Meaning, if you don't have goals, you're not going to accomplish anything.(23:51) Fair. (23:51) All right. (23:51) So if you have goals and you're out there and you want to be more successful in life, we have a master class coming up.(23:57) What is it about? (23:58) Ah, yes. (23:59) Yes, yes, yes.(24:00) And I will say, coming to these will definitely motivate you and help you understand and get on track. (24:11) The master class is on... (24:15) Cut me down the rabbit hole here.(24:17) Five something business things. (24:20) So thank you for everyone who voted. (24:22) Business one with seven votes.(24:25) And the top five fundamentals of business you must understand to be successful long term. (24:33) The key word there is long term. (24:36) I do not care if you're successful for a year.(24:40) I don't. (24:41) I don't care at all if you're successful this year. (24:43) I care about you being successful at life forever.(24:46) Forever. (24:47) More and more and more success. (24:49) Two keywords.(24:49) Success and long term. (24:52) Okay, cool. (24:53) And then we have a private Facebook group called Next Level Nation for like-minded individuals who want to get to the next level in life, love, health, and wealth.(24:59) We'll have the link below. (25:00) We would love to have you if you are interested. (25:02) And be nice.(25:03) Don't be a dick. (25:04) We like nice people. (25:05) Just like you like nice people, I'm sure.(25:07) All right, cool. (25:07) As always, we love you. (25:08) We appreciate you.(25:09) Grateful for each and every one of you. (25:10) And if you are as committed as you say you are to getting to the next level in all things, make sure you tune in tomorrow because we will be here every single day to help you get there. (25:17) Keep reaching for your full potential.(25:20) Next Level Nation. (25:22) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. (25:26) We love connecting with the Next Level family.(25:28) We mean it when we say family. (25:30) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (25:34) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.(25:37) Thank you again, and we will talk to you tomorrow.