How To Make Better Choices (2331)

What if the choices you make today are quietly shaping the life you will live for decades?

In this episode, Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros explain why most people stay stuck, not because they lack motivation, but because their daily decisions are out of alignment with their long-term goals. Drawing from years of coaching and thousands of conversations with high performers, they reveal how comfort, weak standards, and short-term thinking slowly undermine confidence and momentum.

You will learn how belief shapes behavior, why future-focused thinking matters, and how to build habits that compound across health, wealth, and relationships. Do not just listen. Recalibrate your standards and start living at the level your future self expects.

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Show notes:
(3:49) What makes a decision “good”
(5:18) Present self Vs. Future self thinking
(6:27) The success loop and belief system
(9:22) Investing in invisible habits
(12:09) Time perspective and long-term strategy
(15:40) Self-belief and sustainable growth
(18:39) Knowledge Vs. Real understanding
(20:33) Investing in your future self
(23:50) Outro

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Chapters

• 3:49 What makes a decision “good”
• 5:18 Present self Vs. Future self thinking
• 6:27 The success loop and belief system
• 9:22 Investing in invisible habits
• 12:09 Time perspective and long-term strategy
• 15:40 Self-belief and sustainable growth
• 18:39 Knowledge Vs. Real understanding
• 20:33 Investing in your future self
• 23:50 Outro

Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) As you know, I am in the process of moving, and I will tell you the physical aspect of the move is incredibly tiring, but the mental aspect that went into it to make sure I was making good decisions is probably more tiring, honestly.

Alan Lazaros

(0:14) You are, right now, the accumulated compound effect of all the choices you've made in your life, consciously or unconsciously, up to this point.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:23) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:26) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:27) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.(0:31) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven, but no-BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Alan Lazaros

(0:37) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:43) 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

(0:59) Self-improvement, in your pocket, every day, from anywhere, completely free. (1:06) Welcome to Next Level University.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:11) Next Level Nation today, for episode number 2,331, my goodness, I almost messed up the numbers, how to make better choices. (1:22) I did a story today on my Instagram story, and I was walking through the new place, and I said, one of the reasons we ended up going to the place that we went to is because it has a garage and I can charge my car. (1:39) And one of the big reasons is every week I'm going to a supercharger, I use Electrify America, probably twice a week, and it probably cost me like 70.(1:51) I don't get where you're driving, man. (1:53) I go to Danvers twice a week, son. (1:55) That's right.(1:56) That's 50, 40 miles a whack. (1:58) That's 160 miles. (2:00) That makes sense.(2:01) And I have to make sure- How long do you get on that thing? (2:03) What's the range? (2:04) In the cold- I'm not sure how to help you with that.(2:07) Hey, Alexa, stop it. (2:08) Excuse me, man. (2:08) We're in the middle of a conversation.(2:10) In the cold, it's atrocious. (2:12) Yeah, what do you get? (2:13) What are you thinking?(2:14) Like 200 miles? (2:15) Yeah, 200 miles. (2:16) In the cold.(2:17) In the summer, 285. (2:19) So whatever percentage that is. (2:22) Noted.(2:23) Also, because of the heat, I mean, I'm going to run the heat. (2:26) What are we doing here? (2:27) So every time you go from level one heat to level two heat, it's just taking battery.(2:33) Of course. (2:34) But don't of course me. (2:37) Heated seats up in that thing?(2:39) Of course. (2:39) Nice. (2:40) You got it cooking?(2:41) Always, baby. (2:42) Always, yeah. (2:43) Always.(2:44) Toast me up, baby. (2:46) Toast me up. (2:50) I, back in the day, would not have put nearly as much thought- Okay, the place we're moving to has better Wi-Fi.(2:58) Better Wi-Fi opportunities. (3:00) I am saving $170 per month on Wi-Fi. (3:07) $170 a month on Wi-Fi.(3:09) That's insane. (3:10) That's $2,000 a year. (3:11) That's insane.(3:12) I'm going to save probably $60 to $70 a month on charging. (3:19) And a bunch of other things based on- Okay. (3:23) We don't have time.(3:23) Sorry.

Alan Lazaros

(3:24) No, you're good. (3:25) It's good stuff. (3:25) It's good stuff.(3:26) I love this. (3:27) You don't care. (3:27) No, I do.(3:28) I do. (3:29) I love that you're thinking this way. (3:31) There's a book Emily and I were listening to on our last road trip, and I honestly forget the name of it right now.(3:37) I do. (3:38) I asked her on our walk last night. (3:39) I said, what books are you reading?(3:39) That's always one of my go-tos. (3:41) And she said, you know that book that said, what is a good decision? (3:44) And we both were like, this is the best.(3:47) What is a good decision?

Kevin Palmieri

(3:49) Let's just start there. (3:51) A very, very nicely put, Jesus, connected to yesterday's episode, a goal that is in alignment with your, fuck, a choice that is in alignment with your goal. (4:03) That's my answer.(4:04) Yeah, that was a- Great decision.

Alan Lazaros

(4:07) That was brutal. (4:07) Three hard words right there.

Kevin Palmieri

(4:08) That was brutal. (4:08) That was one of the worst deliveries I've had. (4:10) It's been a long time since I messed up.(4:12) Yeah, that was, it's all good. (4:13) Except I forgot the outro three episodes in a row or something. (4:17) Something's going on.(4:19) I think you're moving. (4:20) I am.

Alan Lazaros

(4:20) That's probably what's going on. (4:23) What is a good decision? (4:24) You joked on the last episode, you said you had a friend who was spending $300 a month on weed and they had a goal to save money.(4:34) At least 300. (4:34) This is my point. (4:36) That is a destructive decision based on that goal.

Kevin Palmieri

(4:41) But would you say a good decision, a better choice is one that is more aligned with the goal? (4:47) Always. (4:48) That's my point.

Alan Lazaros

(4:48) You joked and said, well, I was spending a fair amount on weed too, but my goal was to get high. (4:53) So you were in alignment with your goal. (4:56) So there's a couple layers of this.(4:57) The first one is, what if you could do things that are good for your future and good for your present?

Kevin Palmieri

(5:04) As the one on this podcast who has said infinite times, that's physically impossible. (5:12) I would love to hear more about that. (5:15) It's physically impossible for them to be of equal.(5:18) Okay.

Alan Lazaros

(5:18) That's a good distinction. (5:19) So do you prioritize future self or present self? (5:23) This is everyone listening.(5:27) Mine is future. (5:28) And I get annoyed when people are at the tail end. (5:33) They're at retirement age and they're multimillionaires and they start talking about not having to sacrifice, but all they did was sacrifice for decades.(5:43) It's so hard for me because it's like someone in college is sitting down watching you going, so I don't have to study? (5:51) Oh, fuck yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:52) That's so much better. (5:53) This is the thought. (5:55) If you regret it so much, give the money away.(5:57) Yeah. (5:57) Give all the money away. (5:58) Give it away.

Alan Lazaros

(5:58) All the companies.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:00) Yeah, just give it away.

Alan Lazaros

(6:00) If you regret it so much, it's brutal. (6:03) But here's my point. (6:04) You all have a present self and a future self.(6:06) And I always, I try, I don't always win, but I'm always trying to make sure my higher self wins. (6:12) My future self wins. (6:13) I believe the future self matters more than the present self.(6:17) I do. (6:17) And I know this based on psychology. (6:19) If you believe the past is brighter than the future, you are what's called nihilistic.(6:24) It's called hopeless and helpless. (6:26) You are screwed. (6:27) This is the success loop and doom loop.(6:29) I know that my camera's going nuts here. (6:31) All right. (6:31) Success loop.(6:33) I believe in myself. (6:35) So I invest, I believe in my own future. (6:38) So I invest in my future.(6:40) Therefore, my future gets brighter, which then makes me believe in my future even more, which then makes me invest even more in my future. (6:47) And I don't just mean invest money. (6:48) I mean, time, effort and money.(6:49) I mean, you're not going to go to the gym if you aren't, if you don't believe it's going to be worth it. (6:54) If you don't believe you can do it, if you don't believe you can get the results. (6:57) Belief is the epicenter of this whole thing.(6:59) And I think understanding is underneath that. (7:00) So how do you make better choices? (7:03) You start with the future versus the present.(7:08) Future self is going to be grateful we did this episode. (7:12) Present self would prefer to be somewhere else right now. (7:15) That's okay.(7:20) Now, does future self always have to win? (7:23) No. (7:25) We have 24 hours in a day.(7:27) If you sleep eight, you still have 16 left of those 16 hours. (7:30) 20% of it can be present self. (7:32) It can, you can 20%, three hours, three hours every day can be fully for present self if you want.(7:39) Now, if that's the case, you're not going to have level 10 goals. (7:42) You just won't, you can't be Michael Phelps and have 20% three hours just doing nothing constructive. (7:48) Okay.(7:48) What kind of, you've studied him. (7:50) How much R&R did he get? (7:51) What did he, what was his R&R routine?(7:53) Well, his R&R doesn't count because he was putting mayonnaise on his pizza to get enough calories. (7:59) Like this is, this is a freak of nature type of situation. (8:02) He R&R'd because that's his recovery and his R&R was ice baths and shit.(8:06) Like that's not R&R. (8:08) You know what I mean? (8:08) That's still future self.(8:09) Even his present self was future self. (8:11) No one wants mayonnaise on their pizza. (8:13) I'm willing to try it.(8:14) It sounds, I'm willing to try that for sure. (8:17) It sounds disgusting. (8:18) Not really just for the calories because otherwise he'd lose too much weight.(8:20) Right. (8:21) How many calories do you think he's burning a day?

Kevin Palmieri

(8:24) I look, I've seen so many numbers. (8:26) He burns 12,000. (8:26) I don't fucking know.(8:27) A lot.

Alan Lazaros

(8:28) No, not 12,000, but a lot.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:29) Yeah. (8:30) Yeah. (8:30) Probably 5,000, 6,000.

Alan Lazaros

(8:31) Yeah. (8:32) So he has to get the calories in one way or another. (8:34) Right.(8:34) So he would just find ways to do it because you know what it's like to try to eat 30,000 calories a day consistently. (8:40) It's fun at first and then it's.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:42) Yeah. (8:42) It's fun for a week.

Alan Lazaros

(8:44) Yeah. (8:45) Yeah. (8:45) But anyways, so what was I saying there?(8:48) Future self, present self. (8:49) Talk to me. (8:50) You used to be all present self and you were miserable and you had suicidal ideation.(8:54) And I do believe that part of the root cause is that you were always focused on the now. (8:59) If you prioritize your future with Taryn, that's better than just, Oh, I don't really care. (9:06) I hope it works out.(9:07) Just throw your hands up. (9:08) Like most of what you do in a marriage or a relationship is best for the future, not best for the now.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:17) I think it takes a lot of responsibility and the word that we've been using a lot. (9:22) I think it takes a lot of capacity to sit down and say, okay, the way it is right now is not the way it will be forever. (9:31) And it most likely is going to get worse if I don't make it better.(9:35) So I really have to lock in here and prioritize things that seem invisible currently. (9:43) Yep.

Alan Lazaros

(9:43) That is it right there. (9:45) Well, I think that's what makes it hard. (9:47) They seem invisible, but they're not.(9:49) This is not rocket science. (9:51) Like if you drink alcohol regularly, you're going to get fatter and your relationship is going to be worse because you're going to say things you probably shouldn't have. (9:59) You're going to sleep like shit.(10:01) You're going to hydrate worse. (10:02) You're going to have worse will be worse. (10:05) Yeah.(10:05) Your life will be worse no matter what, but your present moment will be awesome. (10:09) Of course I've been drunk before. (10:12) It was a fucking blasty blast of, but the next day, uh, workouts worse.(10:19) Everything's worse. (10:20) Shouldn't have said that. (10:20) Shouldn't have done that.(10:21) Whatever. (10:21) Right. (10:22) And, and I just think it's a universal thing.(10:25) I really do. (10:26) I used to say this all the time. (10:28) If you invest every day, trying to make tomorrow better than today, eventually you wake up and your whole life will be awesome.(10:34) What if your worst day could be better than your best day? (10:37) What if your worst day 10 years from now was better than your wildest dreams?

Kevin Palmieri

(10:41) But that 10 give me, that's the way it works. (10:44) I know, but I think that's one of the big issues just in general is the bridge is so long.

Alan Lazaros

(10:50) Yeah. (10:51) Yeah. (10:51) Just in general.(10:52) And then people say, well, you only live once. (10:54) What if you die tomorrow? (10:55) Then you should change everything you're doing.(10:57) I wouldn't be on this podcast if that was the case. (10:59) Like you wouldn't, I do a fucking episode.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:03) Okay.

Alan Lazaros

(11:03) No, I'd be with my loved ones. (11:05) I would, I feel like I'd have to do this. (11:08) Okay.(11:08) Well that's another level. (11:09) I, I respect you. (11:10) I do.(11:10) I do. (11:11) But do you understand what I'm saying though? (11:12) Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.(11:13) People used to always say Yolo. (11:15) I remember I asked someone around a campfire, like, why do you smoke so many cigarettes, man? (11:18) And I was actually asking, I wasn't trying to be a dick.(11:21) He's like, well, I'm going to die eventually anyway. (11:23) And I remember thinking that's going to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. (11:26) So why not kill yourself faster?(11:28) Like your kids are going to want you around. (11:33) Yeah. (11:34) And it's like, so you're, why not just run in front of a car then?(11:37) I don't, obviously that's an extreme example, but the average life expectancy is 80. (11:44) If the average life expectancy was only 20, you and I wouldn't be here. (11:50) So we, I would have lived very differently.(11:52) I wouldn't have gone to college. (11:53) I wouldn't have tried in high school. (11:55) I'm not joking, dude.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:57) So you would have just, you would have done my life. (11:59) Well, you were playing the short game. (12:03) I didn't, I don't, I don't know what game I was playing, brother.

Alan Lazaros

(12:07) Game theory real quick. (12:09) So everyone out there, imagine this hypothetical scenario. (12:14) And this is hypothetical.(12:15) I know mortality is a thing. (12:17) You only have a week left. (12:18) Okay.(12:18) Now you have two weeks. (12:19) Now you have a month. (12:20) Now you have three months.(12:21) Now you have a year. (12:22) Now you have 10 years. (12:23) Now you have 50 years.(12:24) Every one of your decisions should shift. (12:28) Bronnie Ware wrote a book called the top five regrets of the dying. (12:31) And she worked with the terminally ill for eight years.(12:34) All of them had these patterns of regret. (12:36) One of them is I wish I had lived the life true to myself and not what others expected of me. (12:40) I have a client of mine, shout out to you, Gabby, who has overcome cancer.(12:45) And this was in the past. (12:47) We don't work together anymore, but we're still close. (12:49) And she said everything shifted after I found out I tackled it.(12:55) Now she's super future-oriented again. (12:57) I'm not expecting you to be super future-oriented. (13:00) If you have a terminal illness, there's someone else I'll keep anonymous who has a terminal illness and they're living very differently right now.(13:06) Totally understandable. (13:07) I had an ex whose father was dying with a terminal illness. (13:10) Like you're going to live very differently.(13:12) And you should, if you don't have a lot of time left, however, based on the statistics, based on the mathematical probability, based on how to make better choices, the truth is most likely your career will last another 30 years. (13:28) If you're 30, at least maybe more, you have time. (13:33) However, you can't guarantee it.(13:35) None of us can guarantee it. (13:37) When I got in that car accident at 26, that was the, that was the wake-up call. (13:40) It was okay, Alan.(13:42) Okay. (13:43) You regret the way you lived. (13:46) It's time to live a little different and it's time to be safer as well.(13:49) But the point that I'm making is if you have 80 years left, you should play a longer game. (13:54) You shouldn't rush and, and you should cherish more moments and you, you should invest more in the, in the future. (14:02) You should.(14:02) And, and I think that a lot of people are so uncertain about tomorrow that they just need to live today. (14:09) Last piece. (14:10) I know I'm not letting you talk on this one.(14:12) I apologize. (14:13) I had a friend growing up. (14:15) He said, well, if I don't eat these Oreos tonight, he was kind of joking, but also not.(14:21) If I don't eat these Oreos tonight, if I die tomorrow, I'll wish I had. (14:26) And I said, that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard. (14:29) That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.(14:31) Here's the truth. (14:32) That is unintelligent because what if you don't die tomorrow? (14:37) Now you're going to an Oreo is 90 calories per you're going to eat 4,000 calories of Oreos.(14:43) And then you're going to wake up tomorrow, still around, but now way fatter. (14:48) I'm being intense here, but that is the thing that I'm most passionate about is time perspective is so not taught in school. (14:54) I wish we learned this in school so desperately because in the mathematic modalities of thinking, if you live to 80 years old, everyone, we can think of, think of someone in their eighties.(15:07) I guarantee you, if you sat them down and they were honest, they would say, if I had known I was going to live this long, I would have made such different choices. (15:15) I wouldn't have smoked so many cigarettes. (15:18) I wouldn't have ruined my skin by they used to put baby oil on themselves and all kinds of stuff.(15:22) I would have taken better care of my health. (15:25) I would have exercised more. (15:26) I would have these vices that we do are a short-term win for a long-term loss.(15:31) And almost always people regret it almost always, even if they don't admit it.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:37) This is what I would say to all of that. (15:40) This is extra, extra, extra motivation to build self-belief because I don't, I don't think the issue is people don't think they're going to be here tomorrow. (15:50) I think the issue is people don't know how they're going to succeed in the long run.(15:55) And they don't think it's possible. (15:56) Yeah. (15:56) And they just don't invest it.(15:57) Yeah. (15:57) A hundred percent.

Alan Lazaros

(15:58) Well, how do we help people be more aware of what's possible long-term? (16:02) Because this was all possible regardless of whether or not you believed me nine years ago, none of this was, was at all outside of the realm of possibility. (16:10) Yeah.(16:11) But I just, I don't know. (16:12) I, as a matter of fact, what's possible is a hell of a lot more than this. (16:17) This is like child's play compared to what we could and should be doing in my honest opinion.(16:21) Yeah, but it would be different without you. (16:22) That's one. (16:23) Well, fair, but I hope so.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:24) You die tomorrow. (16:25) All the goals change. (16:28) All of them.(16:28) That makes sense. (16:29) And I think about it an unhealthy amount, more than you do for sure probably. (16:33) I'm being very safe, brother.(16:35) No, no. (16:35) Just in general. (16:37) Like let's say lightning decides to come down and strike, strike upon you.(16:43) I have a contingency for that. (16:44) With all the times I'm outside. (16:46) No, just inside.(16:47) You're taking a bath and a shower and a probably, you probably don't take baths. (16:51) Shower strikes down upon you. (16:53) I'm in my bath.

Alan Lazaros

(16:54) Yeah, in your bath.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:54) I'm in my bath.

Alan Lazaros

(16:55) No, but real talk. (16:57) You are the one who has to build this bridge because I, even as a kid was like, why are you doing that?

Kevin Palmieri

(17:04) The, the, the bridge would be this. (17:05) Every time Alan says 10, 15, 20, whatever years, break it down to the years that you believe. (17:10) That is the bridge.(17:12) That is the bridge.

Alan Lazaros

(17:13) But you said that every people do believe like the average life expectancy is 80. (17:17) How many people do you believe will live to 80? (17:19) Like how many average do they believe that they'll live there?

Kevin Palmieri

(17:22) Yeah. (17:22) Yeah. (17:22) But believing you're going to live to a certain age and becoming successful are two very different things.(17:29) There's quality of life and there's quantity of life.

Alan Lazaros

(17:32) But quantity of life gives you the time to make the choices. (17:37) And that's what we're talking about.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:38) Yes.

Alan Lazaros

(17:39) Yes. (17:39) To be successful. (17:40) Like, okay.(17:42) Are there people that aren't sold on that idea yet? (17:45) Like making better choices leads to more success.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:47) A hundred percent of the time. (17:48) Yeah. (17:49) No, I think that's, it's just, it's you and I had this conversation.(17:52) We were going to, at some point we'll do an episode on it, but it's, there's literally two keys to success. (18:00) Yay. (18:01) Find the right thing.(18:03) Knowledge. (18:04) Do the right thing. (18:05) Nice.(18:08) Then do that again and just keep doing that forever. (18:11) But even with all the knowledge, you can Google how to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks. (18:18) It'll most likely say you're going to create a 500 calorie deficit or it'll be 3,500 calories that equates to a pound in the grand scheme of things.(18:26) Do that for 10 weeks. (18:27) You'll probably lose, but you'll probably have to check in five weeks because your metabolism is going to slow a little bit. (18:31) You might have to drop it to 550 calories, blah, blah, blah.(18:35) Awesome. (18:36) And doing that, not easy. (18:38) Not easy.

Alan Lazaros

(18:39) And when you just said that, that's all true. (18:43) And I was looking for anything I could poke at because I care about accurate thinking. (18:48) There's a difference between knowledge and understanding.(18:52) You can Google it and get the knowledge, but do you actually understand it well enough to implement it and then to adjust along the way? (19:03) I think that's a different episode. (19:05) But I do agree with you.(19:06) If we wrote a book right now, the first one would be, here are the things to learn, knowledge. (19:12) And then chapter one, here are the things you need to learn to be successful. (19:17) Chapter two, here are the things you need to do to be successful.(19:21) And here's how you actually do them consistently and sustainably. (19:24) Chapter three, see chapter one and two. (19:26) That's it.(19:27) But it takes a lifetime to understand yourself, others, and the world. (19:33) Because this game is so complex. (19:35) There's 8 billion people on this earth now.(19:37) It's not like it used to be, man. (19:39) You're not competing with the people down the street. (19:41) I was on a podcast.(19:43) I got so sad earlier this week. (19:44) I was like, this dude can't win no matter what he does. (19:47) And I got so sad because I wanted to help him.(19:49) And the old me would have tried. (19:51) And the new me is like, Alan, you can't. (19:53) Just move on.(19:54) His life is his own responsibility. (19:56) He can't win. (19:56) It is what it is.(19:58) It makes me sad. (20:00) And luckily, I took that sadness and poured it into personal development and helping our community and helping the world become a better place. (20:07) But ultimately, success principles apply to all of us.(20:13) Everyone can get better tomorrow than they can today. (20:16) But not everyone can be level 10 successful. (20:18) Not everyone can be Michael Jordan.(20:20) Not everyone can be Michael Phelps or Serena Williams or Taylor Swift or whatever. (20:24) But if you believe in making better choices, you will then make better choices and then get better results, which will then make you make better choices. (20:33) However, the doom loop is, I don't believe in myself, so then I don't invest in myself, so then I don't get results.(20:41) Therefore, I believe even less. (20:43) And the problem is, when you're in the success loop and you're like, more belief leads to more action, more action leads to more results, and then more results lead to more belief. (20:49) What happens when you fail?(20:50) What happens when we bomb that speech and you lose the belief? (20:53) Now you go over to the doom loop, and now it's, I don't believe in myself as much, so now I don't invest as much, so now I get worse results, which makes me believe. (21:01) That's what I'm trying to do, is keep people in the success loop, which is more belief, more action, more results.(21:07) More belief, more action, more results. (21:09) More belief, more action, more results. (21:11) But then when they fail, little less belief, little less action, little less results.(21:18) Little less belief, little less action. (21:21) And you see how it goes all the way down to the ground? (21:23) And then hopefully you hit rock bottom and bounce off that shit, and then get a coach, or something, right?(21:29) Or a therapist, or a trainer, or whatever. (21:30) I have someone, shout out to Heather, she just got a personal trainer for 12 weeks, and good for you. (21:35) Hell yeah.(21:36) That's awesome.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:38) Well, that's a great choice. (21:40) That's a great choice. (21:41) It really is.(21:43) Assuming it's a good trainer. (21:44) Yeah. (21:44) Well, honestly though, it's a great choice regardless, because you're going to learn what a good trainer or a bad trainer is.(21:50) How do you and I know what a good trainer is, versus a bad trainer? (21:53) Well, I've worked with world-class coaches. (21:58) I've had world-class fitness coaches.(22:00) I've never actually had a bad fitness coach. (22:02) I've seen my friends, though, have a bad fitness coach. (22:05) And I said, hey, that ain't it.(22:08) I got a guy for you. (22:09) He was going to lose without you. (22:10) Yes.(22:11) He was going to lose. (22:11) Without the other person. (22:13) But without you calling that out.(22:15) Yeah. (22:15) We had a mutual friend. (22:17) You want to know how I know?(22:19) Because you lost. (22:21) And I knew, but couldn't get through to you. (22:23) Okay.(22:25) The 10-pound in 10-week challenge has already started. (22:27) What do we do, though? (22:28) What if somebody wants to join the next little fitness accountability group?(22:30) You can still join the group. (22:32) We just won't have it tracked for you. (22:35) We just won't have your before.(22:36) But everybody's going to be cranking. (22:38) Everybody is going to be on it.

Alan Lazaros

(22:40) You won't be in the 10-pound in 10-week challenge, but you'll still be in the accountability group where you can post your workouts.

Kevin Palmieri

(22:45) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(22:45) You can be in your own challenge.

Kevin Palmieri

(22:47) You can be in your own challenge. (22:48) All right. (22:48) Reach out to us directly, as many of you have been doing.(22:51) Shout out to all of you. (22:52) And then if you're looking for coaching, we talked a lot about coaching. (22:54) One of the best choices you can make for your future is working with somebody who can help you reverse engineer it.(22:59) I believe deeply Alan is that. (23:01) So we will have Alan's stuff in the show notes as well.

Alan Lazaros

(23:04) I will prioritize your future self over any version of your current self. (23:09) I will be the only person in your life who cares more about your next level than your current level, more about your success than your feelings, more about your future than your present. (23:18) Genuinely, it's how I'm wired.(23:20) I don't really care that much about your present. (23:22) Like, everyone else loves you for who you are now. (23:25) I want to see you win and succeed and reach your full potential.(23:28) I have it written right over here. (23:29) Last thing. (23:29) Goal one, invest in reaching my full potential.(23:32) Goal two, coach others on how to reach their full potential. (23:35) Goal three, see goals one and two. (23:37) I have that written on my whiteboard.(23:38) Goal three is my favorite. (23:39) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(23:44) Wake up. (23:45) Go back to sleep. (23:46) Wake up again.(23:48) There it is. (23:49) All right. (23:50) As always, we love you.(23:51) We appreciate you. (23:51) Grateful for each and every one of you. (23:53) If you are as committed as you say you are to getting to the next level, make sure you tune in tomorrow because we will be here every single day to help you get there.(23:59) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential. (24:02) Next simulation. (24:03) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University.(24:08) We love connecting with the Next Level family.

Alan Lazaros

(24:10) We mean it when we say family. (24:12) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (24:16) Everything you need to get a hold of us is in the show notes.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:19) Thank you again, and we will talk to you tomorrow.