When Does A Standard Become Your Identity? (2411)

Built through what you repeat. In today’s episode, Kevin and Alan get into what it really takes for a standard to stop feeling like effort and start becoming part of your identity. This is a grounded conversation about consistency, self-respect, discipline, and the psychology behind doing what needs to be done long after the excitement wears off. Drawing from years of coaching, daily podcasting, and personal challenges that tested their own standards in real time, they unpack why some habits fade, why others stick, and what separates public talk from private integrity.

If you have ever wondered why you keep falling off, or how to build the kind of self-belief that holds under pressure, this episode will give you a sharper framework without oversimplifying the work. Listen closely, then go build a life with no asterisk beside it.

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Show notes:
(2:04) The challenge that built the lesson
(5:23) Integrity over the immediate goal
(7:37) Why self-respect requires standards
(13:12) When consistency becomes non-negotiable
(19:31) The five-stage path to identity
(22:37) Outro

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Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) There are a list of questions that I struggle to answer, and one of those questions is, how are you guys so consistent? (0:08) And again, I'm not pumping our tires. (0:10) I'm not trying to, okay, look at how great we are.(0:12) It's not that. (0:13) What I always say is, what started as a standard eventually became our identity. (0:19) And now it is our identity that we just do stuff every day, whether we want to do it or not.(0:23) I don't necessarily know how you get there, but that's what we're going to talk about today. (0:27) How do you turn a standard into an identity?

Alan Lazaros

(0:29) I think everyone has something they do every day, whether it's brushing your teeth, showering, whatever it is for you. (0:38) There's a way to get there, but you have to start small and build.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:42) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:45) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:47) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.(0:50) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven, but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Alan Lazaros

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Kevin Palmieri

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Alan Lazaros

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Kevin Palmieri

(1:25) Welcome to Next Level University. (1:31) Next Level Nation today for episode number 2411, when does a standard become an identity or your identity? (1:38) Alan went for a run, I believe, his miles for mindset run.(1:42) And he sent me a, I don't know if you sent me an audio, you sent me a WhatsApp message and you wanted to do this episode. (1:48) So I'm just going to kick it to you. (1:49) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(1:50) So we did a 10 pound in 10 week challenge. (1:56) And every year Kevin and I, to put skin in the game, say, if we don't weigh in by X date, we don't get to podcast. (2:13) And it's maybe four weeks out.(2:20) So we started on February 1st. (2:23) We ended on April 11th. (2:24) It was a Saturday.(2:26) Next Level Live was that Saturday. (2:29) And probably for maybe three weeks out, I was like, oof, I still have a lot of pounds to go. (2:38) Maybe it was a little before that, but I started doing miles for mindset.(2:41) Why? (2:41) Burn more calories. (2:42) Awesome.(2:42) Great. (2:43) So I've run a mile a day every day for 43 days or something like that. (2:48) And I kept it going.(2:50) But my point of this is Next Level Live happens. (2:55) I have coaching calls after Next Level Live. (2:57) So Next Level Live ends at four.(2:59) My first coaching call is five to six, then six to seven. (3:02) I think I'm all the way to eight. (3:03) I didn't leave your place till almost nine and I get home and it's an hour and a half drive.(3:09) So it's like, I got to weigh in by midnight. (3:14) I step on the scale. (3:17) My goal weight is 201.(3:18) And I had fasted the whole goddamn day. (3:22) And I didn't drink any water all day. (3:24) Although I did hammer some water in the car on accident.(3:27) And then I realized, oh shit, I can't believe I drank water. (3:30) Oh no. (3:32) 201.4. And I was like, that's not but a thing. (3:39) We're going to be fine. (3:40) I still got another hour and a half. (3:41) Let's do this thing.(3:42) Throw on the sweatsuit. (3:43) I'm out there. (3:44) 60 minutes of exercise.(3:45) Did five miles in 60 minutes. (3:49) And the first, after the first 20 minutes, I'm sitting there going, I'm good. (3:52) I could go in and weigh in right now.(3:55) But I had a standard. (3:57) And at this point, Next Level Live was a lot coaching sessions. (4:03) This is the end of a long week for me.(4:05) This is like one of the longest weeks of my life, probably. (4:10) And it's 11 o'clock at night. (4:11) I passed the 20 minute mark.(4:13) I could easily go inside and weigh in and I'd be fine. (4:17) I could walk the rest of the way, get my 60 minutes in, go weigh in. (4:21) No problem.(4:22) Eat the donut that Taryn got me. (4:25) And I said, in my head, not a fucking chance. (4:33) No matter what happens, you're finishing this whole 60 minutes without stopping.(4:39) You're not going to stop running. (4:42) That's the standard. (4:44) I have been doing this a lot lately, but I think that this is the way I'm wired anyway.(4:49) I think everything of value is uphill. (4:54) So when I'm running, I purposely go uphill. (4:58) I want to make it harder, not easier.(5:00) And I'm very hard on myself. (5:02) It's all fine. (5:02) Cool.(5:03) My point of this is it's become a part of who I am. (5:07) I'm not going to stop at 20 minutes just because I hit the fucking goal. (5:11) Finish the fucking miles, you fucking pansy.(5:17) What was the goal?

Kevin Palmieri

(5:18) What was the actual goal? (5:19) 201. (5:20) Yeah.(5:20) Yeah. (5:20) But was that the actual goal? (5:23) Like even in this, I'm going to, I have to shut my lights off.(5:25) So I did a slide back here in this, in this we're on the move in this actual situation, that was a micro goal. (5:32) The macro goal is to stay in integrity with your identity. (5:35) Right?(5:35) Exactly. (5:36) Nice job.

Alan Lazaros

(5:37) Nice job. (5:38) And so very rarely, you asked me one time, not long ago, kind of confrontingly, you're like, when was the last time you were just trying to survive? (5:51) Yeah.(5:51) It's an annoying question. (5:54) I think in some ways every day and in other ways, never, because I have enough water. (6:00) I have enough food.(6:01) I have a roof over my head, you know? (6:04) So we're, we're watching a, I know it feels like I'm all over the place right now, but trust me, this is getting there. (6:12) You ever seen SEAL Team, the show?

Kevin Palmieri

(6:16) Matt used to love that show. (6:18) 2017. (6:18) I've seen some of it, but not, I was never super into it.

Alan Lazaros

(6:21) Yeah. (6:23) DevGuru is SEAL Team 6. (6:24) It's, it's the most elite force on earth, apparently.(6:29) And again, Delta Force, SEAL Team 6, there's other ones, but this is like, basically I crunched the numbers, 0.04% of the US military ever becomes SEAL Team 6. (6:39) 0.004. Sorry. (6:41) 0.004. So four out of every hundred thousand people in the military. (6:49) So there's 1.3 million people in the US military, 0.004 of them, 0.004% ever become SEAL Team 6. (6:56) My point of this is I'm reading a book by someone who was on SEAL Team 6 and he's, he's, it's a biography. (7:04) It's an autobiography.(7:05) And some of the shit he's talking about is reckless and it's definitely intense. (7:10) And it's, it's really quite bad-ass in my opinion. (7:12) But when I'm reading the book, I don't, I identify with it.(7:17) Like I, I really identify with it. (7:19) It's like, I'm not going to stop. (7:21) My leg would have to be fucking cut off for me to stop right now.(7:25) And, and I just, I think that that's, it's a standard, it's an identity. (7:30) It's like, I think that's what real confidence is to the last episode. (7:33) So what's my point of this to rather than talk about me or SEAL Team 6.(7:37) My point is you're never going to feel good about yourself if you don't hold high standards and you're not going to hold high standards unless you have goals that require it. (7:46) And that comes from self-belief. (7:49) So this is what I audioed you.(7:51) I didn't audio it. (7:51) Yeah. (7:51) I typed it to you.(7:53) Yeah. (7:53) I audio you a lot lately, but I this belief, higher belief leads to higher goals, higher goals leads to higher necessity and higher necessity leads to higher standards and higher standards leads to a higher level of identity, a higher level of self-belief, a higher level of confidence, self-respect. (8:12) You can't get self-respect while letting yourself down every day.(8:17) My legs were burning. (8:20) Like that was the freaking weekend weekend ever. (8:23) Not ever, but it was definitely like, dude, I really, it crossed a point where it wasn't just, this is kind of bad-ass.(8:30) It crossed a point where it was like, this is pure suffering. (8:34) Like this is, this is suffering by choice. (8:37) And I do believe that you, you gain self-respect and self-trust and self-confidence and self-esteem when you do things like that, when no one's around, I don't need to tell anyone that fucking story.(8:51) I don't care. (8:52) I carry that in here. (8:54) And in here, I hate that I have to talk about it as a fucking podcaster.(8:58) I would much rather just do it when no one's around. (9:04) And I feel like that's something that we maybe have lost as we've gotten so fucking soft in the 21st century.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:11) Well, you don't have to, I mean, there's, there's ways around suffering now, right? (9:15) So there's more ways around suffering, which is not helping. (9:20) I agree.(9:20) But like, I don't know, it's always hard for me because I, what did I hear today? (9:26) Oh, I heard an Andy Frisilla thing. (9:29) And again, if you like him, awesome.(9:31) If that's your brand, good for you. (9:32) Like I'm not, it's not that, but it was like, if you, you value your family, if you really value your family, you get out there and fucking do it every day. (9:42) It's like, no, I understand what you're saying.(9:44) Brother, I understand what you're saying, but it's just like, you're making it too simple. (9:53) Of course, people value their family. (9:55) You have insane self-belief and you are trying to, you're trying to close the gap on self-belief by motivating people.(10:01) That's exactly what people are doing. (10:03) I had a breakthrough. (10:03) I was like, that's all that's happening.(10:05) Nice. (10:05) He doesn't, he thinks that that's what did it, that that's what did it. (10:10) And it's not, you just have insane self-belief.(10:14) You just have insane self-belief.

Alan Lazaros

(10:15) And he also builds it though.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:17) The grit helps you build it. (10:19) It's part of the equation. (10:21) I mean, again, for somebody who owns a fitness company, he's not in that great of shape.(10:26) No, I actually was alarmed.

Alan Lazaros

(10:28) I think it's alarming.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:29) I don't know. (10:31) Yeah, you, yes. (10:32) And I think it's very easy to like, get so used to talking the talk that you don't have to walk.(10:39) You don't think you have to walk the walk because you can talk so well.

Alan Lazaros

(10:42) You and I went and saw Eric Thomas live and I respect Eric. (10:46) I mean, obviously came from very humble beginnings. (10:49) Like he has a powerful story, read his books, listen to many speeches.(10:53) He's got the, when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe and you'll be successful. (10:58) Like I remember when he was on stage at Brendan Burchard, I thought this to myself. (11:02) I said, if he was yelling into the microphone, like do it, whatever he was aggressively, sort of like me with right there.(11:10) But it's like, then why are you out of shape? (11:12) Like he was wildly out of shape. (11:14) Yeah, for sure.(11:14) Kind of fat on stage. (11:15) It's like, I'm not, listen, I'm not fat shaming, but don't act like you're level 10 standard and step on stage like that. (11:24) It's a lot of it is horseshit.(11:26) Honestly, that I don't even want to talk about it. (11:29) That's when you know, I think you are really legit when you wish you didn't have to talk about it. (11:36) Like the more legit quote unquote, I've gotten the less I want to fucking talk about this.(11:42) I don't even want to talk about this. (11:44) I would rather just do that when no one's around and never talk about it. (11:48) I just know that I can't lead.(11:49) If I don't have the higher standards, like leadership is who has the highest standards, period. (11:55) That's what it is in a given thing. (11:58) So whoever has the higher standards in running at the runners club, you're the fucking, you're the leader.(12:03) If you have the higher standards in, you know, uh, being a mom or a dad, you're the leader at homeschool group. (12:10) Like the, and the standards you can't see. (12:15) When does it cross?(12:16) When does it go from a standard to an identity? (12:18) I think it does a little bit every day. (12:20) I don't think there's any one moment.(12:22) I do think there's a tipping point. (12:24) There's a tipping point where it becomes a part of who you are. (12:27) Like, I think it would be harder for you to not do this episode than it would to do it because it's a part of your identity now, but it wasn't that way in the beginning.(12:36) If we were a weekend, yeah, it would've been like, Oh yeah, we can skip one.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:40) That's why it's so hard to explain because it literally is. (12:44) And again, I don't, I'm not, this isn't meant to be motivating. (12:48) I'm not trying to motivate.(12:49) This is just, this is how I see it. (12:51) I know in, you know, in a video game where it's like, pick your response. (12:56) A, B, C, D.(12:58) Like somebody walks up to you and you can say, fuck you, let's fight. (13:01) Or Hey, let's get a beer or whatever. (13:02) There's four choices.

Alan Lazaros

(13:03) Yeah. (13:04) It's a weird video game. (13:05) It's a very strange video game.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:07) That's my, that's my kind of video game for your point. (13:09) Grand theft auto type video game. (13:12) Nice.(13:12) In, in the menu for me, there is no skip episode option. (13:17) It doesn't, it just doesn't. (13:18) So it's not even like, how are you so consistent?(13:21) I, I don't, it's not an option to not be. (13:24) Okay. (13:24) Why not?(13:25) When was it? (13:27) When we started saying on the microphones, on video, on camera, we're never going to miss an episode that works for you. (13:34) Oh, for sure.(13:35) I think that works for me. (13:37) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(13:37) But it works for most people. (13:38) Agreed. (13:38) Agreed.(13:39) You'll hold yourself more accountable under public scrutiny than yourself. (13:42) For sure. (13:43) I don't feel like that resonates for me.(13:45) Like for me, it's like BGU. (13:46) I missed a few. (13:49) I, I would never miss this show because I decided I wouldn't.(13:57) And with BGU, I wasn't certain it would be around forever. (13:59) So I didn't, you know, it's just, and that, how the fuck am I supposed to explain that? (14:05) I don't even, I didn't even know that it just didn't.(14:08) BGU for me was like, I don't know about this. (14:12) This isn't, this doesn't feel optimal to me. (14:16) I don't think anyone even cares.(14:17) I'm like Bob Ross on this remarkable, I don't think it's bad.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:21) It's not about that for you.

Alan Lazaros

(14:23) I interviewed people and, and my favorite interview was with Emilia. (14:26) It's still up. (14:27) So if you want to check it out, you can, but like I interviewed Michael Burritt and Lauren Johnson and I was like, no, I don't want to grill people on the mic.(14:35) Like Lauren was like, Jesus Christ, man, fucking chill out. (14:38) You know? (14:38) And it's like, no, I want to know the real answer.(14:40) I know you're a seven figure business owner, but what are you actually doing? (14:44) And by the way, are you really like, and again, I like Lauren Johnson a lot. (14:49) I know she is.(14:49) It's just people don't drill into the details because the details are, are lower their perception.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:57) Or you don't know how to explain it. (14:58) Yeah. (14:59) Or they don't.(14:59) I think it's mostly the first one. (15:01) Well, yeah. (15:01) But in this case, I don't fucking know.(15:03) I don't have an answer. (15:03) I don't have a great answer. (15:05) I just would regret it.(15:08) If we missed the episode, it would literally seem like everything I've done for the last nine years was a giant fucking waste of time. (15:14) That's, that's the truth. (15:16) I would regret it tremendously and I would never fucking let myself live it down.(15:22) Yeah. (15:23) And there's always an asterisk. (15:25) You know why I haven't taken steroids?(15:28) I would love to take steroids. (15:29) Are you kidding me? (15:30) Because there's always an asterisk of, you're in really good shape.(15:35) Thank you so much. (15:36) I happen to be blasting trend on the side, but thank you. (15:39) I appreciate it.(15:40) Dude, I can't, I don't want the asterisk. (15:43) And well, yeah, we made X amount of dollars, but we got, and we got a small investment from 17 different companies. (15:50) We actually don't even, we don't even own the company.(15:52) Somebody else does, but we show up every day. (15:55) I can't have it. (15:56) Can't have the asterisk.

Alan Lazaros

(15:57) I love that. (15:58) I do. (15:59) And when does a habit become a part of your identity?(16:04) I think it does a little bit each day and then it crosses a chasm where it's like, this is not. (16:11) So it starts out as, this is what I do. (16:15) This is what I'm going to do.(16:16) And here's a goal. (16:17) And this is what I'm going to do to achieve it. (16:19) Boom.(16:19) Starts there. (16:20) Then it's like, Oh, this miles. (16:22) I'll do miles for mindset.(16:23) Cause this is new ish. (16:25) Okay. (16:26) Brandon, shout out to you, brother.(16:27) He saw someone did miles for mindset. (16:29) He did it for Brandon, did it for like over a thousand days. (16:32) I'm certain of that.(16:33) And I thought it was the coolest idea ever. (16:35) I thought it was the best idea ever. (16:37) Like you get your mind, right?(16:38) You get the runner's high. (16:39) You're focused. (16:40) You're alone.(16:41) Like it's, it's, it's good. (16:43) It's good stuff. (16:44) I don't know if I'm going to do it or not forever yet, but I'm getting there.(16:48) You can only have so many goddamn streaks, seriously. (16:50) But anyways, so 42 days in you start out, I'm going to try this out. (16:55) I got to lose weight, 10 pounds in 10 weeks.(16:57) I'm, I'm fucking behind. (16:59) Let's burn some extra calories so I can keep eating. (17:01) Cause I hate dieting.(17:02) Okay. (17:03) I'd rather work out more than, than eat less. (17:06) You'd rather eat less and work out less.(17:08) That's, that's tense.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:09) Not really, but it's just easier. (17:13) It just takes less time to eat less. (17:16) Yeah.(17:16) You said that I shoot myself in the foot and then I said that to Amy after, after you left that night to go do cardio, I was literally like Alan and Amy was dying. (17:25) I took an edible after. (17:27) I was like, Amy, you want an edible?(17:28) She's like, no, no, I'm good. (17:28) I was like, I'm going to take one. (17:29) Don't mind.(17:30) And after you left, I was like, Alan Lazarus is the only person in the world that will literally shoot himself in the foot in front of you and then celebrate how well he stitched it up. (17:39) Like that is Alan Lazarus in a nutshell.

Alan Lazaros

(17:44) But anyways, so work smart, not hard. (17:47) No wonder I don't like that. (17:49) It's like, yo, work hard is my identity.(17:52) What the fuck are we doing here? (17:53) But anyways, so you start out, boom, you start doing it. (17:56) Okay.(17:56) Miles for mindset, doing it, doing it, doing it. (17:59) All of a sudden it goes from something you did to achieve a goal to this is becoming a streak. (18:06) I'm onto something here.(18:07) I'm feeling good. (18:08) This is the best I've ever felt. (18:09) Okay.(18:10) I'm going to keep doing it. (18:11) I'm going to keep doing it. (18:11) And then it's like, oh, this is becoming a new standard.(18:16) And then it's, and there's, there's nuances. (18:19) It's like, well, I started out trying to beat my time every time. (18:22) And then it's like, that's not sustainable.(18:25) My knee hurts. (18:26) This is brutal. (18:26) I'm not going to run a seven minute mile every time.(18:28) I'm not going to beat my PR every day. (18:30) Right? (18:31) So, so, okay.(18:32) Easy days, hard days, periodization. (18:33) And then it's like, you know what? (18:34) Let's just keep it to the mindset.(18:36) Do a 10 minute mile for fuck's sake. (18:37) You don't have to, you don't have to crush it every day. (18:39) And then every now and then it's like, let's see what I can do today was seven 30, but like eventually it becomes a part of who you are.(18:48) And then, and eventually it reaches a point where it's harder not to do it than it is to do it. (18:52) I think same, right. (18:56) And you got to get to that fucking point.(18:58) You got to, because at least with certain things, you don't have to do that with everything. (19:02) You can't do that with everything.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:03) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(19:05) But streaks are very, very powerful. (19:07) We've all had a Snapchat streak where it's like all the days in a row. (19:11) It's useless and stupid to have a Snapchat streak.(19:13) That's my truth. (19:14) It is, it is genuinely dumb. (19:16) However, you can leverage that on yourself with things that are actually constructive and it's not useless if it's your intimate partner, by the way.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:25) You just text them.

Alan Lazaros

(19:26) Yeah, exactly. (19:26) I don't know why you'd be on Snapchat with them, but it's hard.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:31) This is a hard thing because, so it's belief. (19:35) We got to hop in a minute. (19:36) I know, but let's wrap it up.(19:37) Belief goal, standard identity that the four stages from your perspective, you miss necessity.

Alan Lazaros

(19:45) If you believe, if you had to pick five, so goal it's belief first. (19:49) Yeah. (19:49) Belief then goal.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:50) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(19:51) Then necessity, then necessity, then standard, then identity. (19:55) Identity is the last part. (19:57) I hope if nothing else lands, identity takes the most time.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:01) Well, and it's the one that stays with you forever.

Alan Lazaros

(20:04) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:05) Well, no. (20:05) If you let it.

Alan Lazaros

(20:06) No. (20:06) If you let it. (20:07) But it will feed your belief and it rinses and repeats.(20:10) But like, I'm a bodybuilder. (20:12) Yeah, but you fucking didn't feel that way for a while because I was a fucking idiot. (20:19) That's like, does Alan agree?

Kevin Palmieri

(20:22) Yes. (20:23) But level one belief. (20:25) I would.(20:26) It's because I had a negative experience. (20:28) That identity created a negative experience and then I disavowed the identity. (20:32) I know.

Alan Lazaros

(20:33) Level one belief leads to level one goal. (20:36) Level one goal leads to level one necessity. (20:39) Level one necessity leads to level one standard.(20:41) Level one standard leads to level one identity. (20:44) Level one identity, now you need level two belief. (20:47) And then it rinses and repeats.(20:48) So you go from one to two to three and you get to level 10. (20:51) And level 10 is when you are just either yelling into a microphone, deluding yourself, or actually behind the scenes. (21:00) Like I, dude, I honestly thought I was soft as puppy shit.(21:03) I'm not joking. (21:04) I had no idea. (21:05) Dude, when we were in high school, I didn't think I was hardcore.(21:09) I didn't have any idea. (21:11) And I don't even consider myself that hardcore now. (21:14) I just after coaching a lot of people, I realized like, oh, okay, I'm like pretty intense.(21:19) Holy shit. (21:20) Yeah, I would say so. (21:21) Yeah.(21:21) But I didn't know. (21:22) I mean, I asked you once, who's more intense, me or Michael Burt? (21:24) You're like, you by far.(21:26) And I was like, are you fucking kidding me? (21:27) That dude's like pretty intense. (21:28) Is he not?

Kevin Palmieri

(21:29) Right? (21:30) So. (21:31) In different ways.(21:33) In different ways. (21:34) When you see somebody hit the mitts, you learn a lot about someone, you know? (21:38) You see somebody hit the mitts, you're not as intense.(21:41) You're either not as intense as I thought, or you're way more intense than I thought. (21:45) When I saw Emilia kicking, kicking, hitting, and doing elbows and knees, I was like, oh, that's a whole, that's a whole different level. (21:53) That's a, that is a, did nothing for me.

Alan Lazaros

(21:55) That is a weapon over there. (21:57) And she's amazing. (21:58) That's not, but like.(21:59) Yeah, yeah. (21:59) That intensity piece, we should do an episode at some point about that. (22:03) The warrior inside, the warrior within, she is a warrior within, like, no, like unbelievable intensity.(22:10) And I want to talk about the next level warrior inside of each person.

Kevin Palmieri

(22:14) We will do it.

Alan Lazaros

(22:14) You need it. (22:14) You need it. (22:15) If you don't have it, you're in some trouble.(22:17) You can't be successful without, without a warrior within.

Kevin Palmieri

(22:19) That is my thesis. (22:21) You also can't be successful if you cannot do things in the right amount of time. (22:24) So we have to hop because we have to do another episode before Alan gets in his next coaching call.(22:27) If you're looking for a coach, Alan is your guy. (22:29) He does a lot of coaching, like more than anybody ever of all time. (22:32) So he can help you more than most likely anybody of all time.(22:35) Next level nation, private Facebook group, all that happy jazz. (22:37) We love you. (22:38) We appreciate you grateful for each and every one of you.(22:39) 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. (22:45) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential. (22:48) Next level nation.(22:49) Thanks for joining us for another episode of next level university. (22:54) We love connecting with the next level family.

Alan Lazaros

(22:56) We mean it when we say family. (22:58) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (23:02) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.(23:05) Thank you again.

Kevin Palmieri

(23:06) And we will talk to you tomorrow.