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kids and we're probably gonna keep going so U but
found out we're having number four, our first little boy,
and he shall be my namesake.
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looking forward to seeing and with that. First of all,
as a guy who loves you and is one of
your best friends, I am so amped for you because,
like I, having girls is awesome. We both have girl
like multiple daughters, and it is wonderful. They are their
own kind of wonderful. But also we're men, and doing
stuff with my son, like going hunting with my son
and seeing him get into the same stuff is that
I'm into has been unbelievable. So I'm very excited for
you to get to share that because I know your
girls they are into super girly stuff, and I know
that by your natural is not into those things. So
I'm just I'm amp for you, and I'm also curious
to see how this kid lives up to your name,
because you know, he's gonna come out with a rest intensity,
faced level twelve out of the womb. He probably won't
even cry because crying is weak. He's gonna come out
and just you know, look at the doctor with a riff.
Speaker 1: Either that or he'll come out with a giant smile
on his face like my wife and either is okay.
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Speaker 4: Anyways, I look forward to seeing how this child enters
the world. All right, So gee, today we're gonna tall
like this is tools and tactics. Man, we have not
had tools and texts for the past couple of weeks.
So thank you all for being patient with us. Life
was crazy, but we are glad to be back and
we're going to answer a question that people wouldn't Everybody
like this ge how to live motivated every day Because
we have a saying on this podcast called today matters.
And it's not something that we say because we think
it sounds cool. It's like a legit, Like when I
see I'm like, yeah, today really does matter.
Speaker 2: It's important. What are you talking about, man, It's just
a standard Wednesday, a standard Wednesday.
Speaker 1: What if you lived every day of your life motivated?
You know, people like motivation. I do too, so probably
why some of you listen to this podcast or why
you watch YouTube or listen to certain music. You like
the way it makes you feel, and you feel like
when you feel a certain way, you can do a
certain thing. And motivation is a form of energy. But
just like how some people think they have to, you know,
just drink caffeine or eat sugar to get motivated or
to feel like good, to feel energy in their body.
Some people have also learned that, you know, if I
exercise every day, if I drink lots of water, if
I eat high quality food, I don't need so much
of that stuff anymore. I have energy all day long
because I take care of myself. And in that same way,
there's a way to have the sort of spiritual or
deep emotional energy, which is motivation. It's like, man, motivation
hits you in a just in a different form of way.
It's not just exciting like it is excitement, but it's
more than that. And because the things that you listen
to the things that you watch when you get When
whatever motivates you motivates you, whether it is a YouTube
video or music, it starts to like hit you. And
it's more than just getting excited. It like hits your heart,
you know. It starts to connect with you in a
different way. And what I'm saying is in that same
way where you can eat right, be healthy, and you've
got energy all day long, there's a way to live
where you have this type of motivation all the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And because I mean what you're saying, and I
believe you said when we're warm up, is that motivation
is energy, right, And so it's like you can literally
energize yourself. And there's a key there's a key tool
that we're going to get into. We've talked about a
lot gie. You introduced it to me. I use it regularly.
It is incredibly powerful. I don't know that I've ever
heard anyone else say it. It's the zoom in zoom
out tool, which is like the tool for perspective. Can
you like this is really important to have for in
order to live motivate?
Speaker 1: Can you explain it is zoom in, zoom out, It's microscope,
telescope Okay, that's a different way of thinking about it.
Microscope telescope. Understand that different, you know, forms of visual enhancement.
Microscope telescope allow you to see different things. If you
hold a microscope up to the moon, it's not going
to do much for you. If you hold a telescope
up to you know, some whatever you put on a
petri dish not going to do much for you. There's
different ways to bring different thoughts, different ideas, different visuals
into focus. Okay, So it means I can be looking
at the same material, be in the same environment, but
where I microscope telescope, where I zoom in zoom out
my mind, I can look at different things. And so
that the way I use zoom in zoom out is
it's really more it's kind of related to timeframe orientation. Yeah,
zooming in is about being in the moment. Okay, Like
when I go hunting. Okay, like literally, when I go hunting,
I'm real zoomed in and it's a great time for me.
It's one of the things I love about hunting. It's
also one of the things I love about golf. It's
harder for me in golf because sometimes my thoughts get distracted.
But when I'm hunting, I'm not thinking about anything else.
And as someone who lives zoomed out all the time,
being zoomed in for a little bit of time for
a short season, it feels really good. And zoom in
is where like, hey, I'm not thinking about tomorrow, I'm
not thinking about next year. I'm not thinking about all
these big things. I'm locked in right now when I'm
zoom when I'm hunting, literally zoomed in, all I'm doing
is I'm thinking about right now and my eyes are
focused on what's around me. I use zoom in for
special moments, when I go on a date with my wife,
when I go on vacation, I have to tell myself
to zoom in because I've got so many other things
I'm thinking about, but what matters most, because again, that's
what zoom in zoom out is. It's this tool where
I'm saying I can direct my thoughts, I can direct
my focus, my awareness to hear because this is what matters.
I'm telling myself what matters the same way you select
a tool microscope, telescope. Microscope's not the correct tool to
look at the moon. I want to look at the
moon right now, let me get my telescope. Okay, that's
the way this works. When I go on a date,
I don't need to be thinking about my thirty year
plan and playing mental chess in my mind. Not the
right time. Okay. When I go on a date, I'm
thinking about my wife, how wonderful she is, how much
I love her, listening to what she has to say.
So I'm zoomed in in that moment. Zoom out is okay,
let me look at my entire life. Let me look
at today as it relates to everything in my life.
And that allows me in the same way where I
want to catch meaning, where I want to catch value
from a date when I zoom out. What I'm doing
is because sometimes like today sucks. You know, I always
say today's today. I always say today matters. But sometimes
in a moment, I'm really feeling like today's not so great,
really feeling like I just got kicked in the mouth.
And when I get kicked in the mouth, I'm not
going to zoom in on the pain. If you want
to make pain worse, zoom in on the pain. If
you want to see the purpose of pain, zoom out.
And so when I go through difficult things, and this
is part of this is something I've had to learn
to use. For someone who has chosen a life of adversity,
I have to have the ability to zoom out and
look way down the road and turn this pain into
purpose to see the meaning in this, to see where
I'm going. And when you zoom out, like when you
look at a moon through you know what you don't see.
You don't see your neighbor's house. You don't see unless
it goes right across the moon. You don't see airplanes
in the sky. You don't see all these other things.
You're just looking way out. You're looking way down the road.
This is all that matters to me. So what zoom in,
zoom out is is understanding. I can use different views, okay,
the ability to zoom in or zoom out. I can
use different views to focus on what I want to
focus on. And that is a choice. We talk about
this all the time. God is sovereign, man's responsible. I
get to choose my thoughts. I get to choose my attitude.
I get to choose what I think about. I get
to choose what I give meaning to. And if you
are letting life select your glasses for you, select your
lens for you. You're going to be frustrated at the
wrong times. You're going to be distracted when you need
to be focused. Zoom in zoom out is being intentional
about here's the lens that I want to use, and
it helps you get to where you want to go.
It is a setup for motivation, and that's really what
we're talking about today is how to be motivated every day.
You need to have this tool, and we're going to
talk about more than just zoom in zoom out. How
do I get motivated every day? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Now, gee, I want to. I want to highlight for
people and they because you used.
Speaker 2: I love how positive you are. It's one of the
things I appreciate about you.
Speaker 1: I choice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a choice. You use your zoom in
tool for such positive things. And you gave one example
of like, hey, I could be zoomed in because some
days suck. I think by default most people they don't
really have the zoom out tool. Like this is what
you hear when people Usually it comes from like a
near death experience or when somebody close to them dies.
That's when people kind of step back and go, like, man,
what does life really mean? They don't think about like
people get zoomed in by default to what, Oh I
don't I like my job sucks, my boss is a jerk.
I don't have enough money, man, I don't really want
to do this, like I don't I don't like this.
Speaker 2: I don't really feel like working out.
Speaker 4: Man, I really should lose some and this it's all.
It's all by default, just being sucked into moments and
not giving them any meaning.
Speaker 1: And it's you always got to get you just it's
just framing it correct correctly. That's a term that people use.
It's a psychology term, right framing. What's the what's the
right way to look at this? Okay, when I stand
in front of my ice bath this morning, you reframe. Okay.
If all I do is zoom in and look at
the water, it's like, man, this is terrible. I just
got to zoom out, Like you know, it's like on
your iPhone, go from one x two point five X.
Pull pull back, pull back just a little bit, get
some more of the picture in the frame. All I
gotta do is get, you know, three minutes past my
ice bath to see what's what's next? And what's next
is when I get out of here, I feel amazing. Right.
So it doesn't have to just be zoom out in
your life, but it's knowing, in any moment, how do
I need to feel? You know what I want to do?
You know what you should do when you step into
the batter's box, both literally or figuratively in life. You know,
I want to zoom past maybe my last strikeout. I
want to bring into frame who I know that I am.
I want to bring into frame all of the preparation
that I've had coming into being in the batter's box.
I want to bring into frame a lot of the
great wisdom I've received from coaches, all the preparation that
I've prepared. Mind, I'm going to look at those things
as I step into the batter's box. And then as
I'm stepping into the batter's box, then I zoom in
completely to just one pitch, right, And so is this
ability to change frames as you need it. As I'm
walking into the batter's box, I'm thinking about, man, this
is this is my moment, this is who I'm supposed
to be. And then you step into the batter's box,
just like stepping up to your ball in the fairway.
Hopefully your ball's in the fairway. Just like stepping up
to your ball in the fairway, I don't see nothing
else except this swing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. A lot of people would call that.
Speaker 4: Being present is the kind of like pop culture hippie
version of for.
Speaker 2: Sure, but we're saying zoomed in.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: So the reason I wanted to explain that tool because
it's so important. I think, I think a lot of
people and we're going, this is literally this is a
it's technically three sets, but it's really a two step
process to live motivate every day. What we're hoping that
you take out of this is that you have a
higher awareness of motivation. I think some people look at
motivation like it's the weather. Like some days it blows
in you're like, man, I feel really motivated today, and
other days you're like, dude, I just can't get going,
and you just kind of go like, well, but I
guess today is just going to be sort of like
a blad day, and it's like, No.
Speaker 2: You need to be aware of your motivation and.
Speaker 4: Understand that the same way you eat food every day,
the same way that you should be you know. I
hope you read your Bible every day and you pray
every day. I hope you tell your wife and your
kids you love them every day. You need to look
at motivation like you have to be aware of your motivation.
Speaker 2: When you and I were.
Speaker 4: Prepping, we talked about this. There's so many things that
we talk to people about doing. If it's me, like
my time management practice of looking ahead at the day
and deciding how you're going to show up, and then
looking ahead at the month and the week, what am
I doing? I'm zooming out. I have like regular zoom outs.
You talk about it all Yeah, you talk about it
all the time whenever.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: With your daily declarations if you listen to I think
it's episode one seventy for where you give your daily declarations,
which is what you wrote for yourself. It is zooming
out and reminding yourself of everything that's true. And it's
not sexy, but man is it effective.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is. Awareness. It's the takeaway from
this episode of understanding. You need to be intentional about
your motivation. The same way. We were talking about principles
a bunch recently, and I'm sure we'll talk about that
more soon, but when with principles, like you see it
when you like, you have to have awareness for it, right,
because what's the revealer for principles? It's patterns. I got
to see what's happening here, see the patterns of your motivation, right, Like,
don't just say like, oh man, it's weird, like I've
just been tired today. Well what'd you do? You know?
Get a wood strap? Use our code? By the way,
who use our code for? Whoop? What's that supposed to do?
It is supposed to give you information that brings awareness.
Why are you feeling the way that you're feeling? Okay?
But then what do you do with that information? Why
it's not like well I guess I just know what happened. No,
now you can make better choices. Why don't you feel
great every day? Why don't you feel like stre motivated
every day? What if you got up and treated every
single day like it was the most important day of
your life? What if you treated And this is one
been one of my takeaways, like, I this is an
area I'm still learning an aspire to be great, And
I'm not being humble in that I don't think I'm
great in this area. But I've met people who are
who are very this is politicians or very influential and
very successful people. They have a good they do a
really good job of when you meet them and talk
to them, they make you feel like you're the most
important person. That's just that's not just some natural gift
that they have. They understand how to connect with people right.
And what they do is they zoom in in that moment,
they listen, they care, right, and so you can do
that with every single thing in your life. So let's
jump into it. You've got to be motivated every day.
How do we do it? How do I get motivated
every single day in my life? Well, let me give
you number one. Okay, the first step that you have
to do. Think, let me give you this different motivation,
this different definition of motivation. Motivation is the ability to
bring meaning to every single thing that you do. So
that's step one. Step one is connected every single day
to the thing that matters most in life. That's why
we're talking about zoom and zoom out. When we were prepping,
I use this example to Nick. This is one of
the things I love about Michael Jordan. And you'll see
this and people who aspire to greatness. You know what
people who've achieved greatness are they seem to be. These
people are just so motivated. I guess it's just, you know,
some genetic thing that they have for motivation. No, it's not.
I love this story about Jordan and he talks about this,
and it's from his HBO special right where he.
Speaker 2: Took the last dance.
Speaker 1: Yeah I was nice, say thank you, thank you from
the last dance. He talks about this. This dude, you know,
late in his career, wouldn't let rookies beat him in
one set of suicide sprints. That's not just because he's
a crazy person, because he made sure everything mattered. When
he's on the court, he treats it like it matters.
And when he's in practice and he's just doing a
warm up, he says, nobody going to beat me in
this Why? Why? Because he has connected every little thing
to the thing that matters most. It's not being motivated.
Isn't just saying like, well, one day I'd like to
win a championship and let me just like meditate on
this moment of winning a championship. He zooms in, zooms out,
and he brings back. He takes all of that energy. Right.
This is what I've talked about, similar to purpose compression.
Take all of the value of your life, bring it
into this moment. It's what I did when I was
going through buds and seal training. I didn't even just say, like, well, man,
I got to I guess I gotta make it through
today to become a Navy Seal. I went further than that.
I said, everything that I know I'm supposed to do
in my life, greatness, God's plan for my life, all
of it is on the other side of this. And
that wasn't even I wasn't even putting myself in a
position because I knew it was possible, and it was
possible that I might not make it through seal training.
There were things that I couldn't control. But of the
things I could control, I said, everything in my life
is on the other side of this. And that's what
motivation is, is when you can bring meaning to something
when you feel like let me, let me use a
different analogy, and I'm just trying to put in layers
here to help people see this, hear it, feel and
understand it. One of the analogies I use for people
when they're talking about motivation or discipline. Like you don't
have a discipline problem, you have a purpose problem. Like
I say, if I told you you have to get
up and meet me for a marathon tomorrow morning at
four am, you'd probably be unexcited about that, unless that's
your profession. However, if I told you, if you don't,
if you do not meet me at four am tomorrow
to run a marathon, something terrible is going to happen
to your family, you would immediately become motivated. And you
would even if you're not a runner, if you don't
run it all in your life, you should probably change that,
by the way, But if you don't run it all
in your life, you would figure it out. You'd get
really motivated. Why because if I told you, if I
showed you a picture, if I told you your family's
held hostage and something, you know, like a scene out
of the Dark night right, you have to If you
don't do this, something terrible is going to happen. You
wouldn't be thinking like, man, I just got to get
motivated for this. No, you may become extremely motivated, immediately motivated.
Why because the meaning was clear, and so your ability
to get motivated is your ability to get clear on
why the thing matters. And so that's what the first
step of how to be motivated every day is. You
must connect every day to the thing that matters most.
That's what zoom in, zoom out is. It's taken today
and connecting it to your life. But let me let
me break it down an even smaller step. It's not
just connecting every day. It's connecting everything right, every little thing,
this next thing that I'm going to do right the
same way that I didn't seal training, this evolution, this
set of of doing logs, or this set of running
boats down the beach, this is where I choose my destiny.
And when you can feel that way in a moment,
you are unleashed. You are fully capable. Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, there's a big, a big assumption there is that
people actually know what matters most in their life. And
I think for people out there, I don't feel like
people give enough consideration to things like we want to
be like, man, I really want to know my purpose, God,
what's my purpose?
Speaker 2: I'm just not hearing anything.
Speaker 4: I guess I just and they're like they're ready to
move on because they didn't get it in five minutes.
Like when you really start to deeply consider and look
back and see where God's moved in your life, and
you sit there and you seek right with all your heart, asking,
you will find seeking, You will find knocking.
Speaker 2: The door will be open to you.
Speaker 4: Like that was not Jesus. That's pretty verbab, that's pretty
obvious what Jesus encouraging us to do. But when you
start to realize what matters most in your life, I'm
going to give an example of the guy who I
think was the most motivated human that we've ever had
an example of in the Bible of Paul. When you
know what matters most in your life, that's how you
can connect everything that you said. Because for example, I
have three businesses. Gee, I get through the bookkeeping for
all three of my businesses. What a blessing? Do I
love bookkeeping? No, it's actually one of the things that
I feel the least motivation about.
Speaker 1: But you know what I do.
Speaker 4: Whenever I have something like that, I sit back and
I go, Man, I'm a man of God. The purpose
of my life is to advance the Kingdom of God,
to bring men back to dominion, and to change the
perception or the mindset of what it means to be
a godly man. Like this is something that I've spent
a lot of time considering. It is why I'm on
the earth. Because I have that clarity. I understand. I
need to exemplify that. I can't just say like, hey, guys,
I think this is a good idea and not live
it out. Well, what kind of man of God has
his house is and in order? Not a very wise one,
not a guy who actually knows his father, because if
you know God, God is very ordly. So I sit
there and go, man, I need to have good books,
I need to be on top of all this stuff.
And so like that's a small thing that becomes a
big thing, because what do we like to say, how
you do anything is how you do everything. And recently
our brother James said that to me as I was
doing a terrible job putting on the golf course, and
it irritated me enough that I started focusing on my
putting and I parted the last two holes.
Speaker 2: So praise Lord. But listen to this from Paul.
Speaker 4: This to me is the ultimate connecting your small thing,
your small things, to the big thing that matters most.
This is his perspective and Titus one, one, three. This
is how he introduces himself and tells you everything about
how he sees his life. Paul is servant of God
and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith
of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth that
leads to Godliness.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty big thing.
Speaker 4: In the hope of eternal life, which God, who does
not lie, promised before the beginning of time. So he's saying, look,
God's had this great lot, this great plan that He's
had from the beginning of time. It was before he
created the earth, and which now at his appointed season
he is brought to light through the preaching and trusted
to me by the commandment.
Speaker 2: Of God, our Savior.
Speaker 4: This is how this guy gets up after getting stone
multiple times. He gets whipped, he gets treated. If you had,
if you had the true belief that God had given
you this secret of the fount from that he had
put in place from the foundation of the earth, how
much motivation would you have on a day to day
basis to go and do what you did. And people
be like, oh, well, that's good for Paul. Guys, wake up,
like we're still running in the same race that Paul
is this was not just something for him. There's people
out there that need what we have. There's a purpose
for your life. There's people that you've been called specifically
to serve. That God has created you, He's given you,
He's put you in the garden like Genesis two fifteen,
it's your patch to work it and keep it.
Speaker 2: If you don't realize that, you're going to struggle to have.
Speaker 4: Much much motivation because you're going to feel like it's
you know, you're going to default to, well, I'd like
to have an easier life. I'd like to be more comfortable.
I'd like to have enough money for retirement or whatever.
Stupid distraction. And I'm choosing those words very intentionally because
in the light of eternity, they are stupid, but they
are necessary. But they're they're in light of eternity, they
don't matter. And when you can actually realize what matters most,
it changes your entire way of operating and being and doing,
and it works in all areas.
Speaker 1: I hope that this episode will be something that people
will continually come back to, like, let this be a
reminder for you. You can come back and turn this episode
on whenever you need to, not just to feel motivated,
but to know how to get motivated, because you must
understand that motivation is a choice. And that sounds silly,
Like if you're feeling unmotivated, you're like, well, i'd like
to be motivated. I'm not. Right now, let me tell
you how motivation is a choice. Let's go right on
to step number two. Right. Step number two, right one
is connect motive, Connect every day to the things that
matter most in your life. Step two is generate momentum.
And so this is almost like an enhanced version. It's
taking the next step. It's zooming in on what step
number one is generate momentum. This is your ability to connect,
meaning to the tiniest of things. Okay, so zoom zoom
in and then zoom in again and zoom in again. Right,
take your whole life when you know what matters. Nick
hit that that's really the that's the key to this
is the foundation to it. But then keep zooming in
until like when I get up in the morning, I
do a set of push ups, and what I think
about that set of push ups is that this set
of push ups my destinies on the other side of this,
And that sounds silly. To say, like, man, my life
hinges on this set of push ups. But why because
I know on the other side of this push ups
is the next step and the next step and the
next step, and to get to where I'm supposed to
go in my life, my destiny is a journey of
one foot in front of the other, and all I
have to worry about is what is the next step.
So when you have gotten clear on your story, when
you know why you're doing what you're doing, that's where
you can say today matters, and whatever that next thing
is for you, this matters. This creates the motivation momentum
in my life. I do push ups in the morning
because it gets me started. I also like push ups.
Push ups isn't something I don't like. I like push ups, right,
but it is harder than just sitting there drinking my
coffee or being comfortable. It is an ounce of adversity
to do a set of push ups, but I like it,
and I say, you know what, this is how I
start my adversity in the mornings, right, I'm just going
to do some push ups and that creates a little
bit of momentum. And you could say, like, oh, it
doesn't matter it's the worst thing you could say in
your life. Just remove it from your vocabulary. If you
hang out with me, you'll get laser stare from me.
If you start saying saying like, oh, it's not a
big deal, because it's a really big deal. That's why
you're not where you are where. It's why you're not
where you want to be in your life because you
keep saying it's not a big deal. It's a really
big deal. That little set of push ups, it's a
really big deal. Let me tell you. It's the power
of your words. It's the power of your thoughts. Think
about this. You know what is motivation again, It's the
ability to give meaning to these little things every time
you say, every time you say or you think it's
not a big deal, you're killing your motivation ability, like
the ability to generate motivation and momentum in your life.
It is a skill set. It's a skill that I
spend a lot of time refining because I know how
great motivation can be for you. What if you could
create it out of thin air. You can create it
out of thin air when you can say this really matters,
So connect the meaning because when you're saying it doesn't matter.
You are dividing yourself. Well, sometimes it does matter, sometimes
it doesn't. So quit saying in your life this doesn't matter,
because it does. You're saying. When you say it doesn't matter,
you're saying like, oh well, I'll just maybe next time.
That is the worst thing you could say in your
life is push it to next time, push it to later.
You've got to get motivated right now. Connect the meaning
to the moment, because one thing leads to the next,
leads to the next. Momentum is one of the most
powerful things that you you want to change your business.
Get momentum in your business. It's hard to get, but
get it. Get momentum in your marriage, get momentum in
your life, get momentum in your fitness. And it all
starts with the next thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so good, Gee, last thing I want to touch
on before we wrap up here. Momentum eliminates distraction.
Speaker 4: You gave the example of if you're driving one hundred
and thirty miles per hour in your car, you're not
looking at what the side streets are because you're just
zipping by them. And one of the things I've I
was saying to you is as I think one of
the biggest distractions is just apathy, and that comes in
the form of like just joking around you.
Speaker 2: And I like a joke. I probably like one. I
like jokes more than you.
Speaker 4: But what I was saying is as we've as I've
continued to grow and mature, and as I've gotten clear
on why God's put me on the earth, I find
that jokes are a lot less useful because you get
real serious about your purpose when you understand why you're there.
And I think it's we talk about it all the time,
and we're going to continue to talk about it because
I think you can be distracted to death. You can
be distracted by sports scores, by jokes, by stupid memes
like your sister I was actually she texts she had
something go viral on TikTok and it was the stupidest thing.
And yet your sisters put out so many things that
are meaningful, like hey, here's some real information that can
help change your life. And what we have is we
have people that want to rot their teeth with candy
but don't want to eat some good like steak and
vegetables for their proverbial mentality.
Speaker 1: I said to you, jokes in humor to me, are
like ketchup. I like Ketchup. Now I don't need ketchup.
Ketchup doesn't make me any better. But I do like
a little bit of ketchup from time to time. But
what if ketchup was the entree. That's disgusting. Right, Don't
let these things be a distraction in your life, and
also understand that you don't need them. They're a nice
to have. Humor is great, it's nice. Levity makes things
taste better, that's all good. Don't make it the main thing.
Let's wrap up here on point number three, right, so
it's connect every day to the things that matter most
in your life. That's step one. Step two generate momentum,
and then step three. The final step is defend your momentum.
Like when you have momentum in business, when you have
minimum in your life, you have momentum in your health,
when you have momentum spiritually, you'll realize how hard, how
hard it was to get to that point. When you
get in really good shape, when you have a great diet,
whatever it is, wherever your momentum is at, when you
finally get that thing, you'll realize how valuable it actually
is and in the same way that we talk about
one of the things to get past fear is to
understand what your fear is costing you. Well, understand what
your lack of momentum has cost you, how many how much?
How much time have you wasted? Stop starting in life right.
Once you have speed, then you want to maintain it. Man,
I'm going really fast. I want to keep going where
I'm going. When you're going one hundred and thirty miles
down the hot one hundred thirty miles an hour down
the highway, you're not reading the street science, You're just
really focused on what's locked in. So realize, I want
to keep going this fast in my life. I want
to stay motivated all the time. So you won't be
so quick to like take an exit or slow down
or stop, because you realize, this is what I've fought
so hard for. When motivation didn't just come from watching
a YouTube video, but when you learned how to build
and create, create momentum, build your motivation. When you've learned
how to do that, you realize I don't ever want
to stop this again.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for listening.
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