The #1 Skill We Need To Develop For A Successful 2026 (2349)

Hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros break down a hard truth. Most people are not struggling because they lack potential. They are struggling because they cannot sustain focus long enough to execute. After years of coaching high performers and building businesses under real pressure, they have seen the same pattern repeatedly. Attention control is one of the clearest predictors of long-term success.

If you feel pulled in multiple directions, distracted by constant noise, or busy without meaningful progress, this conversation will hit close to home. What you train your brain to focus on today quietly shapes who you become tomorrow. Guard your attention like your future depends on it. Because it does.

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Show notes:
(4:39) Why focus predicts long-term success
(10:44) Training your brain toward focus or distraction
(13:22) The five categories of the time use framework
(18:02) Competing forces for your attention in 2026
(21:21) Practical systems to eliminate distractions
(23:45) Outro

🎙️ Hosted by Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros

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Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) Attention is the new currency. (0:04) So everybody is literally designing everything they do to get your attention and keep your attention. (0:09) And if you don't know that, and you can't combat that, you are probably going to end up in a lot of trouble, unfortunately.(0:15) Yeah, that's exactly what I want to say. (0:18) What you pay attention to is dictating your entire future. (0:21) And the most important skill for success other than building self-belief is focus.(0:26) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:28) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:30) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.(0:33) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers. (0:40) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth. (0:46) 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.(1:02) Self-improvement, in your pocket, every day, from anywhere, completely free. (1:09) Welcome to Next Level University. (1:15) Next Level Nation, today for episode number 2,349, the number one skill we need to develop for a successful 2026.(1:25) If you're younger, you might not remember what life was like without social media, which is crazy to think. (1:33) It was the best and also different, and the worst, depending on what you're doing. (1:39) But I just remember because it was harder to get your message out there.(1:45) Yeah. (1:46) Pros and cons. (1:46) Pros and cons.(1:47) I remember the first picture I think I ever posted on social media was me flexing in the mirror. (1:54) That's on brand. (1:56) And dude, I remember- How old were you?(2:00) Early 20s, probably. (2:03) Well, you're late bloomer on the social media game. (2:05) Always.(2:06) You're a late adopter. (2:08) Never. (2:08) Fuck that.(2:11) Everybody else had it. (2:11) I was Lazo. (2:13) L-A-Z-O.(2:14) Everybody had it, and I was like, this is dumb. (2:17) Nobody cares what I'm doing. (2:19) You know?(2:21) Nobody cares what music I'm listening to. (2:22) Kev, clearly the entire world has adopted it. (2:26) That dude evidently sold Myspace for whatever it was, like $600 million, and just disappeared.(2:32) Tom from Myspace. (2:33) Yeah. (2:34) What a success story.(2:36) I think he just takes pictures now. (2:38) You know what else is a weird side tangent? (2:40) Craigslist guy.(2:41) Yeah. (2:42) Never sold it. (2:44) Just still looks like it's from 1997.(2:47) Yeah, it's true. (2:48) Yes. (2:48) He just was like, nope.

Alan Lazaros

(2:50) Still works.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:50) Didn't improve it that much. (2:51) Still works. (2:53) Yeah.(2:53) Those are anomalies, though. (2:55) Don't. (2:56) Yeah, yeah.(2:57) Don't do that. (2:57) He didn't expect that, man. (2:59) No way.(3:00) A lot of weird shit on Craigslist, too. (3:03) We won't dive down.

Alan Lazaros

(3:04) We won't go down that.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:05) I don't think I've ever used it, actually. (3:07) I have definitely used it. (3:09) I don't know for what.(3:10) I don't think I've ever used it. (3:11) Oh, one of the jobs I got, my demolition job that I did for one day, got it on Craigslist. (3:15) Nice.(3:16) I used to, LinkedIn was my jam, so. (3:18) Anyways, Relentless Focus, go. (3:20) Okay.(3:21) The reason I brought up social media is back in the early days of social media, people just posted pictures of what they liked. (3:28) It was just pictures. (3:30) There was no videos.(3:31) So you would just scroll, and if you liked a picture of nature, you'd just see a bunch more of that, and it was awesome. (3:37) It wasn't as designed as it is today to keep your attention. (3:42) Everything is designed to keep your attention.(3:45) Everything is designed to distract you. (3:48) Everything is designed to steal your focus. (3:51) To the point where Netflix, and probably all streaming platforms at this point, are literally designing their movies, their series, and their original content as second screening.(4:05) So they know you're going to be looking at your phone while you watch shit. (4:09) That's how distracted we are. (4:10) Most people do.(4:12) Really? (4:13) Well, that's why they're doing it, right? (4:14) I can't remember the last time I was looking at my phone while watching a film.(4:17) The majority of people must be doing it. (4:19) That's why they're optimizing it that way. (4:20) Yeah, yeah, yeah.(4:20) So if there's no better suggestion, some of the biggest studios in the world are literally going in understanding we're not even going to have all your focus. (4:31) So we have to find a way for you to understand what's going on in the story without all of your focus, right? (4:36) So that's a really good indication.(4:39) I have this written in the upper left-hand part of my whiteboard. (4:41) Relentless focus, single tasking, doing one thing well at a time. (4:51) All right, here's what we'll do.(4:54) I've been coaching for 11 years, hundreds of people. (4:58) This is the thing that I look for. (5:02) If you can't stay focused, I don't think you can be very successful.(5:07) I think the level of success that you'll have in life is predicated on how well you can stay focused and for how long. (5:12) I would go to the gym with certain people in the past, and I remember being like, I'm never going to the gym with you again. (5:17) No, for sure.(5:18) That's the end. (5:18) You just can't. (5:19) You're counting the seconds till you can leave.(5:21) You're here to check the box. (5:22) I can't have it. (5:25) I can't have it.(5:26) I know you don't have goals, but I do, and they require focus. (5:34) Early on, you and I would go to the gym with a fitness influencer, and it's like if you spent a third as much time as you do on the fucking workout as you do getting the right footage, you'd be in way better shape, and then you wouldn't have to airbrush everything. (5:53) It always pissed me off.(5:54) It did. (5:55) It always has. (5:56) It always will.(5:57) I can't stand it, man. (5:58) These TVs in these gyms, what the fuck are we doing? (6:01) Are we here to watch TV?(6:02) What the fuck are we doing? (6:04) Seriously, it's so distracting, right? (6:06) They play music on mine, so it's just music videos of the music usually.(6:10) But still, it's distracting because it's movement in the background. (6:14) One of the gyms I used to go to called Impact Fitness in Auburn, Massachusetts. (6:17) I loved it because it was no movement on the TVs.(6:21) They had TVs of like Arnold or The Rock or whatever, but they didn't have movement in them. (6:26) I can't stand when there's movement out of the corner of your eye. (6:28) It's called sensory acuity, and it's very hard to stay focused when there's movement in the corner.(6:36) That's why I love empty gyms, too. (6:37) It's great to keep your focus. (6:40) That's the best.(6:43) There's no version of me not being hardcore on this episode, so just prepare yourself for that. (6:49) This came up because I told Kev I was on a podcast yesterday, pre-chat. (6:53) I actually enjoyed her thoroughly.(6:55) It's a podcast about having an organized life. (6:59) And somehow in the conversation, she's like, well, what do you do? (7:02) How do you organize yourself?(7:03) And I said, I told her, I break my day into thirds, morning, afternoon, and evening, from 11 to 8. (7:10) Now it's 12 to 8, Monday through Saturday, front-facing, podcasting, coaching, training, all that stuff. (7:15) And she was like, how old are you?(7:18) And I was like, 37. (7:19) She's like, oh, shit, I thought you were my son's age. (7:22) And I was like, oh, shit.(7:23) How old's your son? (7:24) She's like, 22. (7:25) I was like, okay, mm-hmm, yeah.(7:28) All right. (7:31) I guess that's a good thing, right? (7:32) But no, not at all.(7:35) Not as a business coach. (7:36) Not as a business coach. (7:37) It's not a good thing.(7:38) But at some point in the conversation, I ended up telling her that I, she's like, well, how many podcasts do you do? (7:43) And I said, well, I have one with Kev, my business partner, Next Level University. (7:50) I have Business Growth University, and then I have The Conscious Couple's podcast.(7:54) And I do about six a week, other shows. (8:00) And so I guess I'm averaging probably around 20, 15 to 20 a week. (8:06) And she was like, what?(8:08) I was like, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. (8:12) And she proceeded to say, I don't know, man, I can't stay focused like that for that long. (8:20) And I thought in my head, I didn't say this because she's awesome.(8:23) Like, she was really awesome. (8:24) I just, when it comes to success principles, you just know there's just certain things that you can't, like, in my head, I said, well, then you can't really win then. (8:34) At least not at a high level, right?(8:35) Because she's like, well, I can't really focus for more than a couple hours a day. (8:40) I remember thinking like, yeah, you're screwed. (8:42) You're screwed.(8:43) How many hours a day do you focus? (8:46) I'm not trying to be mean here. (8:47) Let's have a real fucking conversation.(8:49) How many hours a day, on average, do you stay fucking focused? (8:53) When I'm in the office. (8:55) Like 10?(8:55) The majority of the day, right? (8:58) I mean, well, at the gym, I don't pick my phone up ever. (9:02) Like my phone goes on the floor and I double tap my AirPods if I want to change the song or whatever.(9:07) So that's always... (9:09) You don't talk to Siri? (9:10) No, no.(9:12) It's pretty good. (9:13) You know what I mean? (9:14) I don't like talking to myself, to Siri.(9:18) And I have like certain playlists. (9:19) Like I have a gym playlist. (9:21) I have a feel something playlist.(9:22) Like I have certain playlists depending on... (9:25) Nostalgia playlist, depends. (9:26) And then when I'm in here, like you, I'll...(9:31) In an ideal world, I get back, I shower, I make my coffee, and then I'm sitting here at 8am, I have music or focus productivity music on YouTube, and then I'm just cranking. (9:43) But what I will tell you though, the more mayhem I'm dealing with, the harder it is to focus on one task at a time.

Alan Lazaros

(9:52) Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:53) Definitely. (9:54) Because it's like, I literally have a client right now that has my personal cell phone number that just texted me. (10:00) So I have two messages from them.(10:01) Now, I don't get bings, dings or anything like that, but I have notifications up because I want to make sure I know that that's there. (10:08) I don't want to miss it. (10:09) So I find, the more overwhelmed I get, the more I find myself checking my emails and checking my WhatsApp.(10:17) So I'm less, the more overwhelmed I get, I think the less focused I am. (10:21) My email... (10:22) My WhatsApp is fucking nuts.(10:24) It went from inbox zero to inbox seven within the 15 minutes it took me to post today. (10:31) Right. (10:31) And I was just like, uh, what is this change about my day calendar?(10:36) One of my events got rescheduled. (10:37) But at the end of the day, Kevin and I aren't just trying to talk about ourselves here. (10:42) Focus is a muscle you can build.(10:44) I remember you used to struggle with it a lot more than you do now. (10:47) It's a muscle you can build. (10:49) There's a dorsolateral prefrontal cortex that is willpower and the ability to focus.(10:54) It's, it's, you can build it. (10:56) You just have to practice it. (10:57) At all times, there's something called acquired ADD where at all times, 24 seven, 365, I'm not going to, I'm not going to sugarcoat this for anybody.(11:05) Like this is a success podcast. (11:07) I'm just going to keep saying that you are at all times, either training your brain to focus or training your brain to be distracted. (11:15) I went to the gym on a Monday night.(11:21) Yeah. (11:22) Monday night and school's off. (11:24) Apparently this whole week, I guess.(11:27) Cool. (11:28) Um, president's day was Monday and it was a madhouse in the gym at like 9 PM. (11:35) Normally the gym's like nice and empty in the evening.(11:37) Madhouse. (11:37) It was like teeny boppers everywhere. (11:41) And one dude was like jumping off the weights and like pounding his chest.(11:45) Dude, it was weird. (11:45) It was weird in there. (11:47) Um, and I remember thinking like, you guys like need to learn how to focus.(11:54) I feel like I'm going to be a pretty hardcore dad actually in hindsight. (11:58) Um, now that I'm in hindsight, no, in current site.

Alan Lazaros

(12:01) Yeah, yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:02) But I never thought that. (12:03) I never thought I was going to be. (12:06) You know, I thought I'd be like really conscientious, loving, warm father.(12:10) But I don't think, I don't think that's not conscientious, warm and loving. (12:14) I think that's trying to set somebody up for success.

Alan Lazaros

(12:17) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:17) I wish somebody sat me down and said, Hey, you should really focus. (12:20) Yeah. (12:20) Like what a skill.(12:22) Wouldn't have the most important skill. (12:23) Like other than building self-belief, can you think of a more important skill to develop? (12:31) I don't know.(12:32) Not really because it's always, it's almost always behind the scenes by yourself when you're with somebody else. (12:39) I mean, yeah. (12:40) Then, then again, that's the whole other thing is like people checking their phone the whole time, but it's behind the scenes.(12:45) Nobody cares. (12:46) There's nobody there to police it. (12:48) I know.(12:48) And honestly, it feels good to not be focused in the moment. (12:53) It like feels good to fuck around, but it's, it's, that's the hard thing is the less you focus, the more you get the ping not to focus. (13:04) So you get that ping of like, my phone's right there.(13:06) I got to grab my phone. (13:07) I got to check my phone. (13:07) I got to check my phone in order to stop that.(13:10) You have to go through the resistance of rebuilding it to your point. (13:14) Right. (13:14) And that's hard.(13:15) I taught this to a client yesterday and I think it would be of tremendous value to everybody listening genuinely. (13:22) I didn't plan on this, but this is, so I got taught something called the four D's of time way back. (13:28) We've taught it several times in the show, but there's five.(13:34) I don't know if it was you or me that came up with the fifth one. (13:38) The first one is deep. (13:39) This is deep work where you are focused on only one thing at a time with zero distractions, AKA flow, getting into flow, getting into the zone.(13:47) Number two is directed. (13:48) This is anything you intended to do. (13:50) This includes peak performance, tracking most important tasks, calendar, et cetera, et cetera.(13:54) Like anything you had planned down when you are actually off and actually resting your brain body and your central nervous system. (14:01) So not scrolling, but actual downtime. (14:06) Then there's design.(14:07) When you're actively strategizing about how to work on your life rather than just doing tasks in your life, brainstorming strategy. (14:14) And I told him, I said, this call with me is design. (14:19) We're working on your life.(14:21) We're not actually doing anything. (14:23) Sometimes we'll do tasks like with me and my clients sometimes, but like for the most part, the calls are just me helping you work on your life instead of in your life. (14:30) Right.(14:30) Let's re we're all on a treadmill. (14:32) You're all on treadmills. (14:33) Everyone is.(14:35) Everyone's on a fucking treadmill. (14:37) At least you can build your own and make sure it's taking you somewhere great. (14:43) And like people like, well, I don't really want to do it.(14:45) Uh, where did we lose the, like, we have to work for a living. (14:54) The internet is where we lost it. (14:57) I think it was the internet mostly.(15:01) Oh shit. (15:02) I have to work for a living. (15:04) Yeah.(15:05) Yes. (15:06) Oh my. (15:06) You didn't know you didn't get the memo.(15:08) If you'd like to accumulate some level of success, yeah, it's going to require probably more, more work than you'd like, unfortunately, but it is what it is. (15:15) The fifth one is distracted. (15:17) And I wrote this, this is all the dumb shit and a wild waste of your potential.(15:22) This includes all silly and nonsensical distractions, especially social media, silly YouTube videos, et cetera, et cetera. (15:27) AKA all the dumb shit you do. (15:29) Like, um, again, well, what do you mean?(15:32) I like cat videos. (15:33) I don't give a shit. (15:34) I don't care what you like.(15:36) You can't watch cat videos all day and want results. (15:39) Watch it in your downtime. (15:41) That's what I'm saying.(15:42) You watch cat videos in your downtime, as long as you're not like scrolling the whole time through, but find a cat video, watch cat video.

Alan Lazaros

(15:47) There you go.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:48) You're good. (15:50) Well, the problem is, yeah. (15:55) Is that like your thing?(15:56) You know, watch cat videos. (15:57) That's your thing. (15:57) But usually, usually that's escaping your life.(16:01) This is the way I see it is you can design a life you love. (16:05) That also requires effort. (16:07) You don't love every second.(16:08) You can design a life that is meaningful that, or you can escape one that kind of sucks. (16:17) One of my clients is on vacation. (16:18) I know you're listening, brother.(16:19) And I said, brother, you're designing a life that's meaningful that you love. (16:24) So for you, you can't wait to get back to real life. (16:28) The people that you're vacationing with, this is their escaping the life they don't like.(16:33) And one of the people in particular, and again, I know you're listening, hates her job. (16:38) Right. (16:39) And maybe hates a strong word, dislikes strongly.(16:43) Yeah. (16:43) Hates her job. (16:46) And it's like what I want to share with everybody here at Relentless Focus.(16:55) This is something we all have to do. (16:59) You're not alone in your struggles with this. (17:02) We all got to move it in the right direction because again, it is going in the opposite direction by default.(17:08) That's why it's not going to stay the same because you know how much money companies put into figuring out how to get your attention. (17:16) You know, one put a hundred grand in per year just to market their YouTube channel, right? (17:24) Oh yeah.(17:25) Right. (17:26) I know. (17:26) I know many.(17:28) I know off the top of my head. (17:30) I know people that I know somebody that's putting in $15,000 a month to ads to get your attention. (17:36) Yeah.(17:37) And that's like, I'm talking, you know how much money Netflix probably puts into this? (17:41) Billion. (17:41) I'm sure it's billions, millions for sure.(17:43) But maybe billions. (17:44) Everything, dude. (17:44) They're producing so much.(17:46) But it's all, it's all reverse engineered. (17:49) Yep. (17:49) And now they have three seconds before you go to the next show.(17:52) You can't even watch the credits anymore. (17:53) It's wild. (17:54) So they're, it's going to get faster and faster and faster and faster.(17:58) And it's going to, it's always going to rely more on your attention, your attention, your attention. (18:02) The problem is nobody, nobody is there to save you from this. (18:09) Take back your brain.(18:10) Yeah. (18:11) Take back your mind. (18:12) Take back.(18:13) Dude, a lot of this stuff isn't even real. (18:15) There's, I, there was an ad for a vehicle that Emily and I might get. (18:20) And I was like, this isn't even real.(18:22) I chat GPT. (18:23) I did cross research and I was like, this is a fake ad. (18:26) This isn't even real.(18:28) You can't even buy this. (18:29) There is no new model. (18:30) This is, this was all fabricated.(18:32) And I was like, oh my God, what a waste of my fucking time. (18:34) That's wild. (18:35) Yeah, dude.(18:36) It was not even real. (18:37) Was it all AI? (18:38) Yeah.(18:40) Yeah. (18:41) I mean, if I saw an ad for avatar four is coming out earlier than you think, and it's like next month, I would click on it for sure. (18:50) A hundred percent.(18:51) I love those movies, but that's how they get you. (18:55) It's like, they know you, they know what you like. (18:58) Of course.(19:01) Everybody listen to this every day. (19:04) I know I'm trying to get your attention. (19:06) Here's the deal.(19:07) We will do good things with it. (19:09) We're going to do good stuff with it. (19:10) We promise.(19:11) We'll get you in the gym, get you exercising. (19:14) That's a good place to start for focus. (19:16) Dude, weight training is world-class at building focus.(19:19) As long as you don't pick your phone up though. (19:21) Yeah, true. (19:22) But dude, like when you're under heavy weight, you have to focus.(19:25) You are so screwed if you don't. (19:27) You know how many people I see that like are on their phone? (19:30) There are people in my gym that are on their phones during their sets.(19:34) Like they're doing like leg extensions or whatever. (19:36) And they're like on their phones while they're doing it. (19:38) Come on.(19:39) It's an issue. (19:39) I swear. (19:41) Also, they just built a brand new crunch.(19:45) Brand new. (19:46) Nice. (19:47) Like five minutes from my house.(19:48) That's sick. (19:50) 10 bucks a month. (19:51) You sure it's a real ad?(19:53) It is vetted. (19:54) I talk to real people in the real world. (19:57) Yeah, you've seen the real building?

Alan Lazaros

(19:59) Is there a real building? (20:00) Did you touch it?

Kevin Palmieri

(20:00) I have not touched it, but I have driven by it multiple times. (20:03) You go up to the building. (20:04) Someone's like, what are you doing?(20:05) Like you hugging the wall, man? (20:07) No, no, I'm making sure this is real. (20:08) I'm going to go.(20:09) I'm going to go sign up. (20:11) But that's the thing. (20:12) It has gotten too.(20:13) It's too out of hand, man. (20:14) The activity is not enough anymore because the behavior is lack of focus. (20:19) The activity doesn't solve for that anymore because you're watching.(20:22) If you work out with a bunch of people that are on their phones in between, you're most likely going to do the same thing. (20:26) What's the best way you've built focus? (20:28) For me, it's weight training.(20:29) For sure. (20:30) Just like forcing yourself to go in with a routine and like stay focused on just weight training and put your AirPods in with your noise canceling and don't do anything else. (20:40) Emilia and I literally do sign language.(20:42) We don't even talk. (20:45) So weight training, I think it's my best one. (20:47) Like if you start training with weights, your focus will get really good.(20:49) It's like, okay, I'm going to do 12 reps. (20:51) And then you focus on getting those 12 reps and you focus on the muscle group, the target muscle group. (20:56) I feel like when I started doing weight training, I feel like my focus improved a ton.(21:01) Honestly, I think the thing that might have helped me the most was driving long distances. (21:08) Honestly, well, because you're not off. (21:09) I'm kidding.(21:10) No. (21:10) Well, you can't, you can't look at your phone. (21:12) Can't.(21:13) You really can't. (21:13) There's nothing like you can listen to music and you're obviously not super focused, but you're not distracted. (21:18) Because pretty soon that's not going to be a thing.(21:20) I know that's fair. (21:22) I would say getting rid of your phone. (21:25) So like if I'm in the office, if I really want to be productive, I'll leave my phone out in the fucking living room.(21:29) Nice. (21:30) My phone's not even here. (21:31) Nice.(21:32) And I have, I can iMessage on my laptop. (21:35) That's always closed. (21:36) I never have that open.(21:37) I don't text almost ever from my laptop because I don't want it to be a habit. (21:40) Yeah. (21:41) But you get up there.(21:42) I have WhatsApp there for sure, but that's no bing downstairs without it. (21:46) No bings, no dings. (21:47) Yeah.(21:47) Like that's all. (21:48) It's always open, but I can't see it. (21:50) So I would say get rid of the thing.(21:53) Just get rid of the trigger. (21:55) The trigger is most likely the cell phone for most of us. (21:57) Get rid of it.(21:58) Go without your phone for five minutes, then 10 minutes, then 15 minutes. (22:01) As dumb as that might sound. (22:02) No, no, it's great.(22:03) Start there. (22:04) Start there. (22:04) We leave our phones upstairs.(22:06) Yeah. (22:07) My phone doesn't... (22:07) When I go down, both of our phones stay up here and we have the whole evening.(22:11) My phone does not come into the bedroom. (22:12) That's my rule. (22:13) I don't want it.(22:14) I don't want it. (22:15) All right. (22:15) This is something you have to practice forever.(22:17) It's only going to get worse. (22:18) Practice this every day. (22:19) Like seriously.(22:20) Yes. (22:20) We have to have more willpower because people are going to continue doing this. (22:23) It's not going to stop.(22:24) It's not going to get easier. (22:25) It's going to get harder. (22:25) So we have to get better.(22:27) If you are trying to work on fitness, we've been talking a lot about fitness. (22:30) We have the Next Level Fitness Accountability Group. (22:32) We'd love to have you in there.(22:33) It's totally free. (22:34) It's a WhatsApp group. (22:35) Alan and I are leading it.(22:36) We're in there every day. (22:37) Amy's in there every day. (22:38) A ton of people are in there every day.(22:40) So if you're looking for an environment, a community where getting to the next level in fitness is not only like allowed but rewarded and there's motivation and inspiration there every day, we'd love to have you. (22:53) So reach out to Alan and or myself. (22:55) And everybody who's in that WhatsApp group.(22:57) I think we have 55, 56 people. (22:59) Turn off your WhatsApp notifications. (23:01) Please don't have those vibrating.(23:03) That's one thing we didn't say. (23:04) We should have said that. (23:05) I know we'd mentioned it, but turn off all your notifications.(23:09) And then have a habit tracker where it's batch email or batch messages or batch WhatsApp. (23:15) If I was, if I had this thing, this would be going off right now. (23:18) If you and I had vibration, it would have gone off six times in this.(23:21) For sure. (23:22) Right. (23:23) And that's a great privilege to have.(23:24) We're very sought after. (23:25) I'm grateful. (23:25) We have a big community.(23:26) Awesome. (23:27) Turn off notifications, if nothing else, to stay focused. (23:30) All right.(23:31) One-on-one coaching. (23:32) I will help you with relentless focus more than any other coach. (23:35) I am.(23:35) I will say that. (23:37) Promise that. (23:38) That is what my whole freaking coaching program is built on.(23:41) Essentials only. (23:42) Stay fucking focused. (23:44) That is it.(23:45) All right, cool. (23:45) As always, we love you. (23:46) We appreciate you.(23:47) Grateful for each and every one of you. (23:48) 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 every single day to help you get there. (23:55) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential.(23:57) Next Level Nation. (23:59) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. (24:03) We love connecting with the Next Level family.(24:06) We mean it when we say family. (24:08) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (24:11) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.(24:15) Thank you again, and we will talk to you tomorrow.