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They break down how small daily habits build momentum, why most people quit in the middle, and how responsibility creates the structure needed for real growth. This conversation is a practical reminder that meaningful progress is built over time. Your future is not changed by one great day. It is changed by the standards you keep when the excitement wears off.

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Show notes:
(1:57) What 146 days of running reveals
(4:46) Why most potential stays unrealized
(7:10) How keystone habits improve your life
(14:10) Staying committed to the long game
(16:08) Consistency is the performance advantage
(19:35) Schedule the life you say you want
(23:57) Outro

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Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) Without necessity, nothing will ever change. (0:04) People don't just wake up one day and decide, I'm going to change my life. (0:07) There is usually some level of necessity, some level of pressure, some level of stress that forces you to do things you don't want to do.

Alan Lazaros

(0:15) I've done 146 days of my miles for mindset, and I posted a lesson recently of my mile times that I think will be wildly helpful. (0:26) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:29) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:31) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazaros. (0:34) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Alan Lazaros

(0:40) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:47) 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

(1:03) Self-improvement in your pocket, every day, from anywhere, completely free. (1:09) Welcome to Next Level University.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:15) Next Level Nation today for episode number 2,512, Force Yourself to Adapt. (1:22) Very simple for an episode title, but it is relatively complex, I think, in the grand scheme of things because adaptation takes time. (1:34) Hard to do.(1:35) Easy concept. (1:36) Simple concept, hard to do. (1:37) And it's spread out over time, right?(1:39) Can we share the screenshot? (1:44) Absolutely. (1:45) If we have time, team, throw it up on, I know this is a quick turnaround, but if we have time, throw it up on the screen.(1:52) Yes. (1:53) Alright, I'm going to let you go because this is your episode.

Alan Lazaros

(1:55) So, what you're seeing is a shot of my miletimes over the last 146 days. (2:06) And I posted this, and I literally said, I don't know if anyone will care, but if you're curious, boom, this is one of the most important posts I've ever done. (2:15) I'm going to read it.(2:16) I love how much our mind and body adapt when we force them to do hard things. (2:23) At month end, I decided to crunch some numbers and see how my hashtag miles for mindset times have been trending. (2:29) I suspected the slope of the trend line was down, but I wanted to confirm.(2:34) It was nice to see that my miletimes have been slowly decreasing over time. (2:38) My current PR is six minutes and 50 seconds, but my focus is more on the principle. (2:42) For anyone curious, hashtag miles for mindset is a simple concept.(2:46) I must run at least one mile per day while listening to something educational. (2:50) Lately, audiobooks? (2:54) Boring.(2:55) Valuable, but boring. (2:57) Just the truth. (2:59) Sometimes it's brutal.(3:01) Sometimes it's awesome. (3:02) Okay, depending on the book. (3:03) I started on March 8th, and I've done it every day since.(3:07) Today marks mile 146. (3:08) This is yesterday, which will be two days before this releases. (3:15) This was Thursday.(3:18) Last Thursday. (3:19) Okay. (3:20) At the beginning, a sub seven minute, this is the important part.(3:23) At the beginning, a sub seven minute mile would have been extremely difficult. (3:28) And now I feel like I can hit that pretty much whenever I want. (3:31) And while I doubt anyone cares about my miletimes, and nor should you, the principle applies to everyone.(3:38) And it works with everything, not just miletimes. (3:41) Almost everyone has the potential keyword to run a sub seven minute mile if they focus on consistent improvement over the long term. (3:49) But according to my research, I actually researched this, less than 1% of people globally ever will.(3:56) If nothing else, I hope this experiment I've been running, pun intended, inspires you to try something hard by choice. (4:02) And let's see what you're truly capable of with a little tortoise. (4:04) Hashtag be the tortoise.(4:06) Now here's the deal. (4:08) I do realize I have one client with an exceptionality who cannot run a sub seven minute mile. (4:14) With the exception of people with exceptionalities and extreme cases, almost everyone has the potential to run a sub seven minute mile.(4:26) You could do it if you trained, you could for sure. (4:29) You could get there. (4:30) And I don't want anyone to lock in on mile.(4:33) I don't care about the mile. (4:33) I don't care about running. (4:34) I don't know.(4:35) It's the principle. (4:35) It's the principle. (4:36) All of us have so much potential, but so few of us in this case, less than 1% will ever actually manifest that potential.(4:46) Why? (4:47) Because of the long term. (4:49) No one wants to run 146 days straight.(4:54) Dude, the number of times out of those 146 days where I didn't really want to run was at least half.

Kevin Palmieri

(4:59) I believe it.

Alan Lazaros

(5:01) At least half. (5:01) I don't want to do it. (5:03) I just know it's worth it.(5:05) I know that everything in my life will improve. (5:07) My VO2 max, my cardiovascular health, my longevity, I look better, feel better. (5:13) My sex life's better.(5:14) Everything's better. (5:15) My performance is better. (5:16) My focus is better.(5:17) I look better. (5:18) My mitochondrial health is better. (5:21) My sleep is better.(5:24) Everything's better except for my right knee, playfully. (5:27) But everything's better. (5:29) Even the necessity to do mobility has come up.(5:31) Even the necessity to hydrate has come up. (5:40) One thing can change so much. (5:42) It can.(5:44) I have a couple decisions in my life I want to share that I think have changed my whole world. (5:48) Quitting drinking was one of them. (5:50) Changed my whole effing life.(5:53) Leaving my ex was one of them. (5:54) Best decision I ever made, hands down. (5:56) Going to WPI was one of them because I got around people that were geniuses and it helped me step up my game.(6:04) Dating, DMing Emilia Smith. (6:06) Best decision I've ever made other than leaving my ex. (6:11) This Miles for Mindset thing was a decision I made 146 days ago.(6:14) I'm going to do it forever, and it's one of the best choices I've ever made. (6:17) I've made a lot of really good choices and a lot of terrible ones. (6:21) The ones that I've made that are really good, it's almost like, and this is what I think I would like to do on this episode and I want to hear from you because the value of this show is not, hey, you should be more like me.(6:34) The value of this show is, hey, these principles work but no one explains them thoroughly and usually the people explaining them have ridiculous amounts of self-belief and grit already. (6:46) Dude, I'll run a mile every day for the rest of my life. (6:48) You'd have to chop my fucking arm off for me to miss my mile.(6:50) I still would run it. (6:51) I know I'm out of my mind. (6:52) I get it.(6:53) I get it. (6:54) People can still do it. (6:56) You can still do it.(6:57) You don't have to do a mile. (6:58) You can do anything. (6:59) You can pick anything you want.(7:01) Do something hard by choice every single day for the rest of your life and watch it change your whole fucking life. (7:10) It's called a keystone habit. (7:11) It ripples into everything.(7:12) Dude, if I tried to go back, I would notice a drastic decrease in the quality of myself and the quality of my life. (7:19) I just would. (7:20) I've even had to get better at time management because of it.(7:23) I've had to get better relationship because of it because I kept dipping out to do miles right in the middle of when I have to coordinate with her better. (7:30) She's like, well, I always walk Tucker. (7:31) Can you walk Tucker so I can run?(7:33) And then you can, you know, and we can swap. (7:35) I said, of course it forces you to become better. (7:38) And I, I just don't want to always yell on the mic at people, but these choices that you make to drink and fucking do stupid shit, they're just so bad.(7:49) They're not helping you. (7:53) They're really no one ever looks back at their life and go, yeah, I really wish I didn't focus so much on my cardiovascular health. (7:59) I really wish I hadn't slept so deeply.(8:02) I really wish I hadn't had magnificent time and meaningful conversations with my wife or husband. (8:07) I really, you know what I really wish I didn't read atomic habits that after I read atomic habits, my life just went off the fucking rails. (8:15) Like, dude, it's so true.(8:18) Like, listen, I know you're afraid to have a boring life. (8:20) I know you think my life is boring. (8:22) I have achieved so many of my dreams and you can too, but you can't, unless you get off your fucking ass and do something hard by choice.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:33) Well, and you're also not saying you have to go all the way to your end.

Alan Lazaros

(8:35) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:36) Like there's a, the spectrum is long and there's a lot of distance between where most people are and where Alan Lazarus is. (8:43) Start your walk. (8:44) Start with a walk.(8:44) That, that. (8:45) Start with a walk. (8:47) I did legs today.(8:48) And so Taryn sent me a meme recently when it was like, when your partner sends you an achievement in the gym, they've been working for, for like 10 years. (8:57) And you're like, Oh, that's cute. (8:59) Just because you don't contextually know, like, and I sent a picture today and she's like, what are you squatting?(9:04) And I sent her a picture. (9:05) I said 315. (9:06) And then I sent her a screenshot.(9:07) I said, for context, less than 1% of men on the planet will ever squat the amount of 100%. (9:14) And, but, but were you surprised when you read that? (9:18) Yes, because it is.(9:20) I, it looks like everybody's doing it. (9:23) Not even that for me. (9:24) It's not even a question.(9:25) My 315 is not great for me.

Alan Lazaros

(9:27) I was surprised less than one. (9:28) It said 0.5 to 1% of people. (9:30) Yeah.(9:30) It's pretty well. (9:31) Can ever run a sub seven minute mile did sub seven minute mile for runners is like terrible, but, but, but you've got to think, yeah, but three 15 squat for, I now are the body builders. (9:40) It's terrible.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:41) Yeah. (9:41) It's, it's like entry fee. (9:43) Not even, but you got to think right.(9:45) How many people there, there has to be a graph. (9:49) I don't know how we would ever create it. (9:51) The goal, the time it takes to accomplish the goal.(9:55) And then the degradation, what, what is the actual curve called? (9:58) Uh, I say law of diminishing returns when people quit. (10:03) No, when people quit, if you're going to show me a graph of time versus accomplishment, I say degradation, but I totally made that up.(10:12) I don't know what are you talking about? (10:14) You mean when someone stops doing the thing, if, if we said, okay, we're going to, we're going to graph, we're going to follow a hundred people and we're going to graph the amount of time they do the thing for, and then how likely they are to accomplish it, obviously. (10:27) And there's going to be a piece of it of like, if they're still doing it, I love when you do graphs, man, it's going to go down.

Alan Lazaros

(10:33) You should see Kev on YouTube.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:35) What is that?

Alan Lazaros

(10:35) Great. (10:36) What do you call that? (10:38) Like, what is the current go down once you stop altogether?

Kevin Palmieri

(10:40) Like what's the opposite of an exponential curve? (10:43) Just exponential.

Alan Lazaros

(10:44) Yeah. (10:44) It's a large diminishing return. (10:46) No.(10:46) Okay. (10:46) So it's not the law of diminishing returns. (10:47) Cause that's when you're still doing it, but you don't get as much of an uptake.(10:51) Yes. (10:51) Not that's like, it's harder to grow the company by the same percentage when the numbers get bigger.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:55) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(10:56) Um, I don't know. (10:58) I would probably be a degradation curve.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:00) Fuck. (11:00) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(11:00) You, so you're talking about if you get 1% better. (11:03) So I have a graphic, I'll, I'll send it to the team as well. (11:06) Throw it up on YouTube.(11:07) This is from a presentation. (11:10) James clear gives in atomic habits. (11:13) It's 1% improvement every day for a year versus 1% worse every day for a year.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:21) That's I not explaining it. (11:23) Well, that's not what I'm saying. (11:24) It's more like, fuck it's your point.(11:30) I think many people, not everybody, probably less than could run a seven minute mile. (11:36) Maybe could squat three 15. (11:39) I have no idea.(11:40) I've never looked it up. (11:41) I mean, how would you or not really? (11:43) Right.(11:43) I mean, I'm saying like, I'm on it. (11:46) I'm seeing from the potentiality. (11:50) It's 1%.(11:50) It's less than 1% of men will ever squat three 50.

Alan Lazaros

(11:54) Can more people run a sub seven minute mile globally then can squat 315 pounds.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:00) I mean, this is just all fucking quackery at this point.

Alan Lazaros

(12:03) Of course. (12:04) And we know that. (12:07) Yes.(12:07) I think it's very likely that more people globally can run a sub seven minute mile than can squat through 15. (12:12) So according to chat, GPT three 15 is rarer.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:16) And I think one of the reasons it's rarer is it probably takes longer.

Alan Lazaros

(12:24) Wrong. (12:25) It's rarer because more people value running. (12:30) You think definitely not.(12:32) It's not close. (12:33) Not even close. (12:34) People don't value being strong.(12:36) Not brother. (12:38) You value being strong to an alarming extent, like way more than anyone I've ever met, except for, yeah, more than anyone I've ever met. (12:46) Really?(12:47) Yes, for sure. (12:49) What's sad? (12:49) I care about it to a detriment.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:50) It's not even that strong. (12:52) What's a sad pound for pound.

Alan Lazaros

(12:54) That was your thing. (12:55) Pound for pound. (12:56) I'm the strongest.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:57) Yeah. (12:57) But the thing is, I also have impeccable form on everything I do. (13:01) I get caught.(13:02) People come up to me in the gym all the time. (13:04) You do have good form. (13:05) You definitely shit for sure.(13:06) You have the best form.

Alan Lazaros

(13:07) You have great form. (13:07) I'll give you that for sure. (13:08) But dude, like you, I've never cared about being strong as much as you.(13:11) That's why I'm not as strong as you. (13:12) It's one of the reasons. (13:13) One of the reasons.(13:14) Yeah. (13:14) But you could be, you could be.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:18) Yeah. (13:19) But in time change everything. (13:21) But I think that's the piece.(13:23) I think that's. (13:23) So all I'm saying is if, if there was a graph of the amount of time somebody did and how many people quit in that given time, it would just go. (13:31) Oh yeah, of course.

Alan Lazaros

(13:33) So you're talking about who who, who, so out of all the people on earth, 8.3 billion, how many of them ever sign up for a marathon? (13:39) How many of them, what percentage of them actually finish? (13:43) What percentage of them finish in less than two hours?(13:46) Like that, that, but even earlier, how many people actually start running?

Kevin Palmieri

(13:50) Like, yeah, I'm not saying you go from a gym goer to somebody who's consistently lifting weights to deciding to do through. (13:56) I'm saying you start working out in high school. (13:59) You actually work out long enough to get to the point where you're like, Oh, I really want to work on my legs.(14:02) And then eventually you get to the point where it's like, okay, I'm going to learn how to squat. (14:05) And then eventually it's like, I want to squat 350.

Alan Lazaros

(14:07) Let's do this. (14:08) This is awesome. (14:10) How does someone stay in the long game?(14:13) Because I was thinking about this earlier. (14:15) I was in the shower earlier and I just had shower thoughts. (14:18) And one of them was, I should really change my lighting.(14:20) My lighting's terrible. (14:22) And I was thinking about it. (14:23) I was like 11 years.(14:25) And you figured that out now because our last group coaching session, I have one lamp over here and I don't like these big lights. (14:32) I don't like to put them on because I'm coaching all day. (14:34) I don't want to, it bugs my eyes out.(14:36) And I'm like, I should really have like low lighting. (14:38) That's actually decent for when I don't want the big bright ones on. (14:42) And I'm just sitting there going, Helen, 11 years.(14:46) And it took you that long to figure that like, that's not rocket science. (14:49) Like why didn't that pop up earlier? (14:51) And now that's thought it's going to, I'm not going to do it right away.(14:54) You think I'm gonna be on Amazon today, buying some lamp. (14:57) Like there's my point of this is like, just start walking. (15:01) And then you'll be like, oh, maybe I want to jog a little.(15:03) And then you'll be like, you know what? (15:04) I think I could fucking run. (15:06) And then you're like, okay, I did a mile.(15:08) Nice. (15:08) And then you're going to be like, well, let me time it. (15:10) Okay.(15:10) 11, 11 minutes. (15:12) Nice. (15:12) Oh, and then, oh, 10.(15:13) Oh, nine. (15:14) Oh, like you just can't stop. (15:17) That's the thing.(15:18) You can't fucking stop, dude. (15:22) That's such a cheat code. (15:23) You think you and I are going to podcast, podcast, my goodness, podcast for nine years and not get better.(15:32) You have something going on with your video that we like worked on today.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:37) Can't figure it out.

Alan Lazaros

(15:37) Can't figure it out. (15:38) Dude.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:39) We do an episode every day. (15:40) Figure it out. (15:41) There are very few things that have eluded us for as long as I can't figure it out.

Alan Lazaros

(15:47) Ever since you got a Mac, right? (15:48) It's just started happening. (15:50) So, so here's the deal.(15:51) And now we haven't put, I want to make this clear because I don't want to make us look bad because it's not true. (15:56) We haven't put immense effort into very little fix.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:00) We already have a fix.

Alan Lazaros

(16:01) It's just, we're not, we're waiting on it.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:02) Exactly.

Alan Lazaros

(16:03) So take this with a grain of salt, but here's the thing. (16:08) I said this in my speech seven or eight years ago in fitness. (16:13) I said, all of you could be fit.(16:22) We could all go to the gym tomorrow for nine hours and it wouldn't do anything. (16:27) Work our ass off all day. (16:29) Nine hour day.(16:30) It wouldn't do anything. (16:31) Split that nine hours into 18 half hours and create a habit for 18 days straight and start a streak. (16:37) That might change your whole life.(16:39) Dude, I think, and I keep coming back and forth on this because obviously self-belief and time management, all these other things. (16:46) If you can't be consistent, you cannot fucking win. (16:49) You can't, you can't win.(16:52) Like there are no world-class actors who did it for three weeks. (16:56) There's none. (16:57) You're not zero.(16:58) There's zero incredible actors who did it for three weeks. (17:01) Christian Bale was like eight when he started or seven. (17:06) Like, I just don't know, like solve the consistency problem.(17:12) Like what's the one thing that changes everything? (17:15) That's it. (17:17) You might not be the smartest.(17:19) You might not be the strongest. (17:19) You might not be the most gritty. (17:21) You might not be the most gifted.(17:23) If you can be consistent, you can beat 95% of people, 99% of people.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:28) I agree with that.

Alan Lazaros

(17:29) I'm not even a like, dude, I don't even care about running. (17:32) I'm a weight trainer who also runs. (17:34) And now I'm like a decent runner for no other reason than I just did it for 146 days.(17:39) I didn't even try that hard, dude. (17:41) I'm not like pushing myself to the limit off. (17:43) And I did once, the 650, I was like, I'm going to run.(17:46) I think I said like a seven. (17:48) And then I was like, I'm going to go for it. (17:50) And I ended up with a 650.(17:51) I think I said 715. (17:52) The point is though, is like, I'm not, I'm not running marathons. (17:55) I'm not, I'm not in run clubs.(17:57) I'm not running with anyone other than Emilia occasionally. (18:01) Like I just decided I'm going to do this because Brandon did it for a thousand days. (18:04) And I was like, that's awesome.(18:06) And I was like, I'm going to do it forever. (18:07) And well, first it was, I'm going to do it. (18:09) And then I did it for a while.(18:10) I was like, I feel better. (18:11) I look better. (18:12) Things are better.(18:13) My mindset's right. (18:14) I'm in my warrior. (18:16) This is good.(18:17) I think I'm gonna do this for the rest of my life. (18:19) Yeah. (18:19) And then here I am 146 days later.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:22) And now I'm running very quickly. (18:24) I saw that go through in the next level of fitness accountability group. (18:26) And I was like, fuck.(18:28) And then I, you know what? (18:29) I started running two days later. (18:30) I've been, I've been extremely spotty.(18:32) I got to figure out where to put it in my schedule. (18:34) Like that's a whole fucking thing. (18:35) Those are excuses.(18:36) Uh, remember yoga with Oh yeah. (18:40) There, this is a great study of humans. (18:43) Go find anything on YouTube.(18:46) That is a 30 day challenge. (18:48) Watch how the first video has a million views. (18:50) And then the second one has 900,000.(18:52) And then the third one has, and then go to the end and it's either going to be extremely low or a bunch of people just skip to the end. (18:59) It might actually be higher than the first video.

Alan Lazaros

(19:00) It's not because people went, but the middle will always be less. (19:03) That's a principle always because the middle blows. (19:06) It is the worst.(19:07) Yeah. (19:08) That's, that's the point of this. (19:10) The Cybertruck thing real quick.(19:12) When I said it and I decided to do it, I was like, cool. (19:15) The day we test drove it, which was eight months ago, nine months ago. (19:19) I was like, fuck yeah.(19:20) That was an awesome day. (19:21) And then the day we got it, everything in between blue.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:24) I think that's, and then it's like, okay, cool. (19:27) Now you have to like make enough money to afford that. (19:29) So now it's just going to suck for however long.(19:32) Pretty much. (19:34) You know what I mean?

Alan Lazaros

(19:35) Yeah. (19:36) That's life. (19:38) I had a client yesterday.(19:39) He said to me, I know we got to go. (19:40) He said, yeah, but what? (19:43) Cause we were talking about him and the couple aren't adventuring enough.(19:45) They're, they're, they're grinding and they're not, they're not enjoying their summer. (19:49) And it's like, yo schedule it. (19:51) You got to schedule it.(19:52) And the guy in a relationship, if you're listening, brother, you, you know, I'm talking about obviously he's like, yeah, but, but when you adventure, like, I don't want to have to worry about time. (20:02) I said, brother, you got two kids. (20:06) Like that's over, man.(20:08) That's over. (20:09) Anyone who says that shit is needs to grow up. (20:14) You want to not worry about time.(20:17) That's not real. (20:19) I don't want to worry about money. (20:20) I don't want to worry about time.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:21) You want to be successful.

Alan Lazaros

(20:22) It's not that's what I meant. (20:24) But honestly, even if you, okay, fine. (20:27) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:27) If you want to be irresponsible and be a child again, I mean, you can fuck off and just do whatever you want and be late for everything. (20:33) Like you can do it. (20:34) It's not, I would advise it.(20:36) If you, if you want to be healthy, wealthy, and in love.

Alan Lazaros

(20:39) Yes. (20:40) You need to care about where you invest your time more than anybody, you know, unless you don't want to be as healthy, wealthy, and in love as you can be. (20:48) In which case again, you're not listening to this, but yeah, no, that's true.(20:51) But dude, like when he said that he knew he was like, Oh shit. (20:56) Cause it's like, brother, me too. (20:58) When I was seven, can you imagine?(21:00) Ah, Kev, I, I love being the CEO. (21:03) I'm we're doing great. (21:05) I just, Hey, from now on, man, I'm just not going to fucking worry about time.(21:09) I'm not interested in doing a calendar anymore. (21:11) I wish wait for me to call you and just show up to the mic. (21:15) Call me on my, my home phone.(21:16) Dude, it's time to grow up. (21:18) That's it.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:18) I wish, I wish that. (21:20) I mean, I resent having to do like, I resent it, but you accept it, but it is part. (21:26) Yeah.(21:26) And it's like, there are certain things. (21:28) Do you resent all of your success?

Alan Lazaros

(21:30) No, only the stuff that's required for it.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:34) I talk about travel and how travel, like how cool travel is. (21:37) I don't enjoy it that much.

Alan Lazaros

(21:39) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:40) It's like, it's fun. (21:41) Yeah. (21:41) This week was one of the hardest weeks I've ever had because I didn't sleep.(21:46) In the beginning of the week, I'm Jeff. (21:48) This week was fucking terrible. (21:50) Next week I'm traveling again.(21:51) Well, it is what it is. (21:52) Like, what are you going to do? (21:53) It is what it is.(21:54) All right. (21:55) Um, anything you want to say before we go, we got to go.

Alan Lazaros

(21:56) So we can, I got to say this, this is a different episode for another time, but there's a team member of ours. (22:02) Yeah. (22:02) I'm going to use Amy, Amy Linnaeus.(22:04) She has two children and I've never once heard her or Chris, her husband. (22:11) These are, this is the OG conscious couple. (22:13) We, we coached them.(22:13) They were the first, uh, seven years ago. (22:15) Six or seven years ago. (22:17) I actually just got Chris as a client too.(22:18) So I'm excited. (22:19) But, uh, if her peak performance, not, not RTC, but anyways, I said this to Amy, I gave this to her. (22:26) I said, I am so impressed with you and Chris.(22:28) And I just want to give you this. (22:29) I don't think anyone else will. (22:30) I've never heard you to complain about your kids.(22:34) You chose to have children and, or it might've been a mistake. (22:37) So maybe it wasn't a choice, but don't complain. (22:41) Having kids is probably really hard.(22:43) I'm with you. (22:43) I gotcha. (22:44) And she said, Chris and I have made a choice.(22:47) We are grateful for our children. (22:49) I was told I wouldn't be able to have kids. (22:51) So I'm so grateful for them.(22:53) She said, I can't stand it when parents blame their kids for not achieving their dreams. (22:59) And I saw that growing up all the time. (23:01) It's like, well, when I had kids having kids sucks, I had kids.(23:05) And then, and then I let myself go. (23:07) It's like, why are you overweight? (23:08) Well, it's like, stop using your kids as an excuse.(23:11) My point of this whole thing is to what you're saying is you can't want the upside and not the downside. (23:16) You can't want to have children and a magnificent family and not clean poopy diapers. (23:20) There is no, I just don't get that.(23:23) Maybe we do an episode another time on that, but you can't have the upside without the downside in anything. (23:28) And I think that's what maturity is, is accepting both. (23:32) All right.

Kevin Palmieri

(23:33) I agree. (23:34) We'll do that for sure. (23:34) Poopy diapers.(23:35) Also, if you're looking for a coaching, you want to get to the next level. (23:38) You want that extra kick in the butt. (23:39) You want necessity.(23:40) That is what coaching will do for you. (23:41) Reach out to Alan. (23:42) And if you want to be around other people who are focused on getting fit, whatever that means to them, next level fitness accountability group.(23:47) We are in there literally every single day. (23:49) There's posts. (23:50) I post in there every day.(23:50) Alan posts in there every day. (23:51) There's a bunch of people. (23:52) Amy posts in there every day.(23:54) Bianca's in there every day. (23:54) There's a bunch of people in there every day. (23:55) So join.(23:56) We'd love to have you as always. (23:57) We love you. (23:58) Appreciate you.(23:58) Grateful for each and every one of you. (23:59) 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 day to help you get there.

Alan Lazaros

(24:06) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:08) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. (24:12) We love connecting with the next level family.

Alan Lazaros

(24:15) We mean it when we say family. (24:17) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (24:20) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.(24:24) Thank you again and we will talk to you tomorrow.