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Momentum returns in the smallest moments. In this episode, Kevin and Alan share why people often overcorrect when they feel behind and overlook the simple adjustment that could restore momentum. Using first principles and constraint theory, they show how identifying the true bottleneck, whether it is a difficult conversation, sleep habit, work process, or daily inefficiency, can get you moving again.

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Show notes:
(2:48) Returning to first principles
(5:01) Identifying the real constraint
(7:46) How small changes compound over time
(12:26) Investing in time, energy, and execution
(14:26) Using sleep as a system audit
(16:19) The tiny tweak audit
(19:16) Finding more time through better systems
(21:48) Outro

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Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) I am willing to bet it is easier to get back on track than it was to fall off track in the first place.

Alan Lazaros

(0:08) You might be one small tweak away from being very consistent.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:12) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:15) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:17) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazaros.(0:20) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Alan Lazaros

(0:26) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:33) 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

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Kevin Palmieri

(0:55) Welcome to Next Level University. (1:01) Next Level Nation today for episode number 2495, it doesn't take much to get back on track. (1:07) I feel like I am on fire right now.(1:11) Feel on fire. (1:12) Nice. (1:13) You've heard, this is my one of my favorite things about the podcast is we talk so much.(1:18) We would do an episode every day. (1:19) So when I say like, hey, I'm riding the struggle bus, things are going great, but I feel like I'm living in mayhem and I'm not sleeping enough and I feel like I'm putting myself last. (1:26) Like I say that publicly, so we have a reference point.(1:30) Alan and I had a coaching call last week and we redialed in my system. (1:35) Oh, it's a good one. (1:35) It's a good one.(1:36) You know, the interesting thing, we didn't change that much. (1:39) I know, but the tiny tweak. (1:41) But that's the whole point of this episode.(1:43) We didn't rebuild everything.

Alan Lazaros

(1:46) One of the best systems I've ever co-created.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:48) I love that. (1:49) I would say created because I didn't have much to do with it. (1:51) One of the best systems I've ever created.(1:53) I'm doing more than I've ever done, but it doesn't feel like I'm doing more. (1:56) Like there is something to the fact that when you feel like you're off track, I think oftentimes we don't go back to the drawing board. (2:05) I'm as guilty of this as anybody.(2:07) Why not?

Alan Lazaros

(2:07) Because that's something I automatically do. (2:09) I burn it. (2:10) I'm like, you know what?(2:11) Break the Jenga tower down. (2:13) Let's read, redesign. (2:14) I go back to the drawing board regularly.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:16) I think we're afraid to like move the, like remove the stuff that's working. (2:20) How do I know why? (2:23) I don't know why I'm off track necessarily.(2:25) So I don't want to go back to the drawer. (2:26) I don't assume it's the drawing board. (2:28) I assume it's me going back to the previous episode where we're talking about operators.

Alan Lazaros

(2:34) It's one of my go-to's whenever things aren't working. (2:36) It's like, all right, let's just go back to the drawing board. (2:39) And I don't, I don't actually knock down the whole Jenga tower.(2:42) I think that's excessive. (2:43) I, but I do want to go back to first principles.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:48) What if it's this simple? (2:50) What if the reason you're not, what if the reason you don't feel like you're on track is just because you're not making measurable progress, but you're, it doesn't mean you're doing like terrible. (2:58) I was still doing all the right things.(3:04) Most of the right things.

Alan Lazaros

(3:05) Yeah, for sure.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:06) Not all the right things, but I'm still not doing all the right.

Alan Lazaros

(3:08) 90%, 85%.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:10) So it's not like, that's the thing. (3:11) We didn't knock the house down, rebuild it, repaint it. (3:14) Everything got, it was like, Hey, is this still serving based on the goals that you have?(3:20) No. (3:21) Okay. (3:21) Let's can that.(3:22) Is this more or less important than it used to be? (3:24) Okay. (3:24) Let's do more of that.(3:25) I don't, I don't know why. (3:27) I don't know why it's so hard to take a 30,000 foot view of what you're doing. (3:34) Me.(3:34) I don't know why. (3:35) I don't know if I have a good answer for that, but if you're out there and you resonate, I'm telling you that it's probably not as hard as you think to get back on track.

Alan Lazaros

(3:45) You've always said for you, the hardest part is knowing what to do. (3:51) Awareness. (3:52) Yeah.(3:52) Yeah. (3:54) I don't feel like that's it for me. (3:56) I know.(3:56) I don't feel like, I feel like, yeah, I always know what to do. (4:01) It's it's how do I do it? (4:03) How do I scale it?(4:04) How do I do it better? (4:05) How do I get other people to do it? (4:07) Right.(4:07) Delegate lead.

Kevin Palmieri

(4:11) But it's usually like really small that I had a call. (4:16) I had a call with a client today. (4:17) This, this is a very successful.(4:19) This person's a doctor, very successful. (4:24) And we're just, we've just been spinning our top, like on the call, we're just spinning our tires. (4:29) And I just kept asking like, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why?(4:31) And we get to a point where they have to have a conversation with somebody. (4:34) So they feel, they feel like they need permission from a certain somebody to do a certain thing. (4:38) Nice.(4:39) And I said, until we do that, none of this is going to, nothing's going to happen. (4:43) You will, you will feel like you made more progress by having that one conversation because seven options will now become feasible and reachable than almost anything else. (4:53) To me, it's crystal clear to see that.(4:57) But for her, it wasn't understandably.

Alan Lazaros

(5:00) Well, this goes back to, there's a couple of things that I want to jump off the page here. (5:08) One is first principles. (5:09) I'll go back to that in a second, but you just talked about root cause analysis based on constraint theory.(5:18) Constraint theory is you have a goal and there's an obstacle in the way you have to identify the constraint, the bottleneck, the limiting factor. (5:28) That's what you did. (5:29) The limiting factor.(5:32) And it's not what you think it is.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:33) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(5:34) And we did an episode a few weeks ago on this. (5:37) The limiting factor is she needs permission. (5:40) She, she needs either more courage or more permission.(5:43) She needs the courage to have a conversation with that person to get permission to actually do the thing because, and I think that maybe that's, is there any time when you feel stuck where you shouldn't go back to the drawing board? (6:02) I can't think of, I can't think of a time where you don't constantly do that.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:07) That wasn't the drawing board really. (6:10) I guess like it wasn't something she was already doing.

Alan Lazaros

(6:12) That was when I say drawing board, I think I mean like sit in front of a whiteboard and brainstorm.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:18) No, yeah, no, I think you should. (6:19) That's got to be the solution every time.

Alan Lazaros

(6:22) Right.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:23) Or have a conversation with somebody, bounce ideas off somebody.

Alan Lazaros

(6:25) I think that's helpful, which is the same thing. (6:27) Brainstorming.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:27) Yeah. (6:28) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(6:28) Brainstorming. (6:31) Is there ever a situation where you can get better without some form of brainstorming?

Kevin Palmieri

(6:39) If you're just told what to do.

Alan Lazaros

(6:41) Yeah. (6:41) Yeah. (6:42) That fair.(6:43) But the person who told you what to do is brainstorming.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:45) Well, they did all the brainstorming.

Alan Lazaros

(6:46) They did the brainstorming, which is again, the cognitive labor that no one sees. (6:49) I, I messaged a client, their homework, your three experiments to improve sleep. (6:56) So the biggest constraint to this individual is sleep prep meals.(7:02) So you can eat right after shutdown instead of right before bed, stay off your phone during workouts. (7:07) So, so one of the bottlenecks to him getting good sleep is his workouts. (7:10) Aren't as good.(7:12) He's like, how are you getting such good sleep? (7:14) I said, dude, I kick the shit out of my body every fucking day. (7:18) And if I haven't, I'll run a harder mile on purpose because I want to sleep like a baby, uh, lower rest between sets by 30 seconds.(7:27) He was taking too big of bread, uh, too big of rest between sets. (7:31) Those three tiny tweaks seem like not a big deal, but those three tiny tweaks might, I mean, it will, it will change his trajectory forever. (7:40) Even if he gets 10% better sleep, 10% better sleep every day for 365 days.(7:47) I mean, that's, it compounds like crazy.

Kevin Palmieri

(7:50) When I look back, that's the thing. (7:52) It's small. (7:53) It's not in the moment.(7:55) How often is it by a new bed? (7:58) Yeah. (7:58) Not that often.(7:59) Not that often. (8:01) Yeah. (8:02) I know that's the point.(8:03) That's what I, that's the, the thesis of this episode for me. (8:07) It oftentimes we haven't done all in our control yet. (8:12) I mean, there was no such thing.(8:13) Well, you never have.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:14) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:14) But you know what I mean? (8:15) We haven't, we haven't exhausted the majority of our options yet. (8:19) I think naturally we jumped to the bigger thing.(8:21) It's like, well, you know, this bed, you know, this bed's a little, yeah, that's a mistake.

Alan Lazaros

(8:26) That's a mistake. (8:27) I try to go to the micron level when I was in Cognex automation. (8:33) We measured jet engine turbines to the micron level with a 3d.(8:38) I'm grateful for that. (8:39) Yeah, exactly. (8:40) And GE needed to be down to the micron.(8:46) I think that's a good metaphor. (8:47) I do that with life. (8:49) I said this email last night, we do Facebook memory of the day.(8:52) I keep saying that. (8:54) I said, have you ever looked back at the past and not been like wildly alarmed? (8:59) She said, never.(9:01) And I said, me neither. (9:02) Every time I look back at the, I said, I think that's a you and me thing. (9:05) I think other people look back at the past and they like, they're like, yeah, that was really good times.(9:09) And we have nostalgia too. (9:10) That's part of it. (9:11) But the majority of it is, are you kidding me?(9:14) You naive? (9:15) Oh my God. (9:16) You were ignorant.(9:18) When you look back at the past, there's gotta be just a dramatic amount of ignorance, right? (9:23) And, and what does that mean? (9:25) And she literally said to me last night, she's like, it's better than the alternative.(9:28) I said, I know. (9:29) Cause the alternative is, wow, I used to be in great shape. (9:31) Wow.(9:31) I used to be so smart. (9:32) Wow. (9:33) I used to be so dialed in.(9:35) There is, imagine you look back, can you imagine looking back 10 years ago and being like, wow, I really used to be dialed in fitness, man. (9:42) Yeah. (9:42) Yeah.(9:43) That's the only area. (9:44) And honestly, even lately, not as much for me because I'm more dialed in now. (9:48) My results are not there yet, but I see you, but that's it.(9:52) Everything else is like, whoa. (9:55) And I think that, let me make this land. (9:58) When you look back four years ago and you see, holy shit, I can't believe I thought that was productive.(10:05) And that should be the case. (10:06) If you look back four years ago and you aren't alarmed at how ineffective you were, you have not gotten that much better. (10:12) That is my truth.(10:13) That is the truth. (10:14) Not my truth. (10:15) Okay.(10:16) Now project that four years from now, there's a lot more to go. (10:21) I said this to a client. (10:22) I kid you not.(10:22) I was like, brother, lately, sometimes it pisses me off that you I'm up against this thing. (10:30) And I know you're listening by the way. (10:31) I love you, man.(10:33) It's like, it's almost like you think you can't get back more time. (10:38) I brother, I do a dunk tank. (10:42) I can't believe I used to shower every day for 20 minutes.(10:45) I still shower, relax everybody. (10:46) The point is, is like, I am dialed in at every second. (10:52) Now here's the thing.(10:53) And I'm going to say what I said to him, to all of you listening, you don't have to do what I'm doing. (10:58) You don't have to dunk tank. (11:00) That's not what I'm saying.(11:01) It's an example, but you have to find ways to maximize your time. (11:06) You have 24 hours a day, 365, just like the rest of us. (11:12) Don't don't hear my dunk tank and go F that we got a lot of wiggle room between you and me, brother.(11:18) I'm 30 fucking seven. (11:20) You're 26. (11:21) You got 11 years to get to where I am.(11:23) Do not fuck this up. (11:25) That's my truth. (11:27) And, and dude, if I could go back to me at 26 and coach me, are you kidding me?(11:34) Let's go now. (11:35) I also quality of life and fucking off. (11:38) I get it.(11:38) Okay. (11:38) I get it. (11:39) But if the goal is success, there is no limit to this.(11:43) There is if, if Michael Phelps can get a millisecond off his time, you can buy back some time. (11:49) One last example, real quick client last week. (11:54) I know you're listening to I'm like, get me, find me time.(11:59) This is one of my favorites. (12:00) Find me time. (12:02) Oh, I can't bullshit.(12:03) Find me time. (12:04) She said, well, there's this air fryer. (12:08) And I was like, okay, how much time is it going to save you per day?(12:10) She said about five minutes. (12:11) And I said, let me crunch the math 30 hours a year. (12:14) How much do you make per hour?(12:16) She said, at least 20. (12:17) I said, that's $608. (12:18) I said, unless that air fryer is more than $608, you go fucking buy it now.(12:24) Here's the truth. (12:26) Here's the truth that there's three types of ways to spend money. (12:31) Number one is needless, useless shit.(12:34) You do not need much of anything other than food, water, and shelter. (12:38) Okay. (12:38) There's needs food, water, and shelter.(12:40) That's bucket one. (12:41) Okay. (12:41) Number two is bullshit.(12:43) You want that is everything else basically, other than food, water, and shelter. (12:48) Those are the two buckets. (12:49) Okay.(12:49) The third bucket is the most important and this is the one that everyone freaking neglects. (12:53) And it drives me nuts investments. (12:56) The difference between the want bucket and the investment bucket is that the investment bucket buys you back time and money.(13:04) I have a multimillionaire client. (13:06) I have another millionaire client. (13:07) I have probably six millionaire clients at this point.(13:10) Every single one of them is focused on the third bucket. (13:14) You buy back five minutes a day. (13:16) That's 30.8 or hours per year. (13:20) You in one shot, you just bought yourself back 30 hours. (13:24) I literally calculated this brother, a client earlier. (13:29) He was taking 90 seconds, I believe, between sets.(13:33) I said, brother, let me show you the math. (13:37) 30. (13:39) Imagine he does four times a week workouts.(13:42) I calculated it's 40 hours, 41.2 hours per year by cutting his workout in between sets by 30 seconds. (13:52) 40. (13:53) I said, you just bought yourself a 40 hour work week by just limiting your going from 90 to 60.(14:01) He bought himself 41.2 hours per year. (14:05) Dude, which by the way, if you make 20 bucks an hour, you made 800 bucks with those 30 seconds. (14:12) Listen, I didn't make the rules.(14:13) I know this sounds nuts. (14:15) You are wasting so much time. (14:18) So am I.(14:18) There is no one, I mean no one I have ever met who is not wasting so much time.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:26) It doesn't take much to get back on track is what we're talking about here today. (14:31) Episode number 2,495. (14:33) Welcome back to NLU radio.(14:35) Here we are. (14:37) But to your point, I mean, talking about the sleep thing, right? (14:42) It was like three small things, three.(14:45) When I, I haven't been sleeping well cause I've, I'm an asshole and I've been staying up later than I should for sure. (14:51) And by later than I mean, like I've been going to bed at 10 and getting up at six, not going to bed at nine. (14:55) Like I should be, I'm in bed at nine.(14:57) But when I, when I was like trying to figure it out, it was like, all right, is it caffeine? (15:02) So I went, I stopped. (15:03) I do not drink caffeine past 12.(15:05) That's my gym. (15:06) No caffeine. (15:06) Yeah, that helps a little bit.(15:08) Cool. (15:08) And then it was, I feel like it's probably a little bit too hot. (15:12) Let me, let me turn the temperature down.(15:13) Okay. (15:13) 68 is the temperature. (15:14) Cool.(15:14) Awesome. (15:15) Sound machine. (15:16) Yeah, that's good.(15:17) Cool. (15:18) Earplugs. (15:19) That helps.(15:19) Cool. (15:20) Eye mask. (15:20) That helps.(15:21) Cool. (15:22) Then it was, I wake Taryn up because I toss and turn. (15:28) I fight in my sleep, my twitch.(15:29) So we bought separate beds, split down the middle. (15:31) Cool. (15:32) That helps a ton.(15:33) That helps a ton. (15:33) Then it was, if I eat meals and you and I had a conversation about this recently, if I eat within two hours of trying to go to sleep, it fucks my entire night sleep up. (15:43) None of those are massive.(15:45) The bed is the bed is obviously, but that's different. (15:47) Like that's, I'm not saying that's what anybody else. (15:49) And that's the one that's going to get talked about.(15:52) Well, yeah, because that's the one that sounds the best. (15:54) Exactly. (15:56) The earplugs.(15:57) I, when I went down to take care of Mima, when my mom was in the hospital, she's like, what if I wake you up? (16:02) Cause you're not gonna wake me up. (16:03) I have earplugs.(16:04) Which is you have, you sleep with earplugs. (16:06) And I say, yeah, we'll come out in the morning. (16:07) I'll be on the couch.(16:08) I'll have my, my eye mask on and I'll have my earplugs. (16:10) I won't hear you. (16:11) You're going to be fine.(16:12) And it was, she was thought I was nuts. (16:14) It's like, yeah, no, it is. (16:14) I mean, I am a little bit nuts with that.(16:16) I'm sure. (16:16) But like, it helps. (16:17) That helps a ton.(16:18) That's super helpful.

Alan Lazaros

(16:19) Those tiny tweaks compound brother. (16:21) Tiny tweaks. (16:22) What are the things, what's a couple of things and we got to go.(16:26) What's a couple of things that you can't believe you didn't do sooner. (16:29) What a great list that would be. (16:30) Earplugs would be one of them for sure.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:32) Robot vacuums. (16:33) A hundred percent.

Alan Lazaros

(16:34) Nice.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:35) And if you're out there and you're like, well, yeah, it costs a lot of money. (16:38) Yes. (16:38) Some of them do.(16:39) And, but there's cheaper ones too. (16:41) Yep. (16:41) Go buy one.(16:42) That's not, that's kind of shitty. (16:43) Run it three times instead of once. (16:45) It'll save you time.(16:46) That's a good list to run through for everyone.

Alan Lazaros

(16:48) What should we call that? (16:50) A regret audit or like tiny tweak audit. (16:54) Keeping it positive over here.(16:55) If you, if you could look back, one example of this would be, I went back to regular headphones after my AirPods weren't charging once. (17:06) And it was like, oh my goodness, this is so much, noise canceling on the AirPods is so good. (17:14) It's so good.(17:16) Why? (17:16) You get into flow more. (17:17) Oh, no distractions.(17:19) Unbelievable. (17:20) I love them. (17:22) We could easily, I think if we actually took time, we could come up with a hundred each over the last nine years.(17:28) We're not going to do this, but like, I just want to, for the example, like write down all the little tweaks, maybe pull up a picture of you 10 years ago and write down everything that's different. (17:40) It's going to be a ton of these little things. (17:43) Here's the thing that I've found fascinating.(17:45) Don't you think Amazon by now would be like, ah, maybe one day shipping is the best we can do. (17:49) They're eventually going to get to one hour. (17:52) Eventually people like, how are you going to do that?(17:54) I don't know yet, but at one point today, shipping was impossible. (17:59) One day shipping. (18:00) It depends where you are.(18:01) I know. (18:01) Okay. (18:02) But there's going to be drones.(18:03) There's going to be, it's a whole thing. (18:05) Okay. (18:05) Sci-fi movies are not just science fiction.(18:07) They're, they're science based and they're going to happen. (18:10) Most of them, not all of them. (18:12) And not the ones that we'll see to be continued.(18:15) The point that I'm making though is there is no limit. (18:18) Okay. (18:19) The four minute mile.(18:21) Now people are running that for an entire marathon. (18:23) Like, what are we doing? (18:24) I don't know if it's four minutes, but what's the, what's the, what's the fastest marathon?

Kevin Palmieri

(18:28) Under two hours, I believe.

Alan Lazaros

(18:29) Okay.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:30) Which means you punch the numbers on this. (18:32) Yeah. (18:32) I think they're running like 10 to 12 miles an hour the whole time or something.(18:35) I don't know. (18:36) I don't remember. (18:36) You'd have to look at it.

Alan Lazaros

(18:37) All right. (18:37) So hold on. (18:37) So, two hours even?(18:39) Under two hours.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:42) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(18:42) Under two hours. (18:43) So 120 minutes. (18:45) Hour and 58 maybe?(18:46) Divided by 26.2. So four minute and 58, 4.58. So four and a half minute miles on average.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:55) The men's record is one minute and 59, one hour, 59 minutes, 30 seconds.

Alan Lazaros

(19:01) All right. (19:01) Hold on. (19:02) 59.5 plus 60. (19:06) I'm going to crunch the numbers on this. (19:08) And then you divide that by 26.2 miles, correct? (19:12) Okay.(19:13) So that means an average pace of 4.56. Four minutes and what's 0.56? (19:21) So 60 times 0.56. You're looking at 33. (19:24) So four hour, four minutes, 33 seconds.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:27) Yes.

Alan Lazaros

(19:29) For an entire marathon. (19:30) Yeah. (19:31) 13.16 miles per hour. (19:33) Okay.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:34) Eric, hook it. (19:36) Go to your local gym, turn the treadmill as high as it goes, and then run that for two hours.

Alan Lazaros

(19:43) Honestly, I think that's not high enough. (19:45) What did it go up to 12? (19:46) Dude, I ran a 650 and I was dying.(19:51) And at 650, they run two miles in that time. (19:54) And I'm 6'2". (19:56) Like this is not...(19:57) And I've run a mile every day. (19:59) So here's my point. (20:00) At one point, no one had ever broken a four minute mile.(20:03) Now there are people doing that for 26 miles straight. (20:08) Not four minutes. (20:09) It's technically four and a half, which is a big difference.(20:11) From four and a half to four minutes is a big difference. (20:13) So I need to be accurate. (20:14) But you guys get what I'm trying to say.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:16) They thought the five minute mile was impossible.

Alan Lazaros

(20:18) Exactly. (20:19) And then they thought the four minute was impossible. (20:20) Now they do think the three minutes impossible.(20:22) We'll see. (20:23) But my point is, there is no limit. (20:26) Put it this way.(20:27) If someone's doing that, you can buy me back some time. (20:32) You can get me some time back. (20:34) And I hope that that's what lands for everybody is like.(20:37) There is no... (20:38) I think people say like, ah, I'm stretching this as far as it can go. (20:41) No, you're not.(20:42) No, you're not. (20:43) Not a chance. (20:44) Maybe in this moment.(20:47) Maybe you've done all you can do today. (20:50) But there's no way you can't delegate something, automate something, tweak something, buy back time, find a way to get back time. (20:58) Maybe it's not buyback time.(20:59) Maybe you don't have the money. (21:01) We had an air fryer that was, we used to crank the knob of the thing with a wrench to get it to work. (21:07) And I was like, okay, sweetheart, we're done with this.(21:09) We both don't like to waste. (21:11) We don't want to waste money or anything. (21:14) And we got a new air fryer.(21:17) This thing has saved us so much time. (21:21) It's not even funny. (21:23) It's very important for everybody to realize.(21:25) I have another person who video edits.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:27) We got to go. (21:27) We got to go. (21:28) We got to go.(21:29) We got to call.

Alan Lazaros

(21:30) Okay. (21:31) I have the wrong thing on my timer. (21:35) My timer says we still have two minutes.(21:37) We have one minute. (21:37) Okay.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:38) One minute less than we broke 28 seconds.

Alan Lazaros

(21:39) Speaking of time.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:40) Yeah. (21:40) Speaking of time. (21:41) All right.(21:41) Automate. (21:42) Small shifts, automate, tiny shifts, all that happy jazz. (21:44) Alan's coaching, Next Level Podcast Accelerator, Next Level Fitness Accountability Group, all that stuff.(21:48) As always, we love you, appreciate you, grateful for each and every one of you. (21:50) 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. (21:56) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential.(21:59) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. (22:03) We love connecting with the Next Level family.

Alan Lazaros

(22:05) We mean it when we say family. (22:07) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (22:11) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.

Kevin Palmieri

(22:14) Thank you again, and we will talk to you tomorrow.