WEBVTT - #2127 How To Use More Of Your Potential - Harps 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.360 I get a gang, it's harps. Who us would it be? 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.960 Hope you're bloody terrific. Hope you're having a great day, 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:08.280 whether or not it's the middle or the start, or 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.160 wherever you're at in your day. I hope you having 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.040 a good one or you had a good one. And 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.279 life is good. So one of the things that you know, 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:20.080 most of you know that I am somewhat obsessed with 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.280 is our ability to optimize us, to get the most 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.479 out of us whatever it is that we have to 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.080 work with. I have been since I was a fat, 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.120 fourteen year old little kid with not much talent and 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.880 not much genetic potential on all of those things. Sorry 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.000 to bang on about that, that's just my life and 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:43.080 my story. But having been someone who's somewhat turned around 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.920 his life and his behaviors and habits and thinking and 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:51.559 sporting outcomes and later in life, academic outcomes and all 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:57.840 of those things, I've been really curious about. Not so 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:04.880 much what we have to work with, you know, talent, IQ, resources, time, genetics, 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.640 That is of interest. But what I'm more interested in 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:13.280 is what you and I as individuals, what we do 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:17.280 with what we have available to us. So some people 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.560 have a yearly membership to a gym that's got a 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.119 million bucks worth of equipment, but they don't go. So 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.280 the gym is not the problem. The resources are not 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.800 the problem. The equipment is not the problem. Knowledge is 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.160 not the problem. Having a program is not the problem. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.720 Quite often, the problem is that they don't go. And 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.839 if we don't operationalize what we have available to us, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.920 then we can't get great results. So I'm when I 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.240 meet people and I'm talking to them about where they 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.839 are and where they want to be. Like virtually everybody 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.960 comes to me my workshops or me as a you know, 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.720 every now and then one on one or reads a 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.280 post or listens to a podcast or reads a book 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.800 or whatever it is. It's because on some level they 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.200 want to do different or be different, or think different 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.600 or produce differently. That is, we all want to create 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:10.280 great outcomes. However, something that doesn't get spoken about a 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.840 lot broadly, I speak about it a bit. So for 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.679 some of you this might be a form of revision. 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.040 For some of you, it might be a reminder. For 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.880 some of you it might be hey, I've never really 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:26.600 heard this articulated in this way. Is our ability to 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.959 get the most out of what we have to work with. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:37.679 So some people can do or produce what would comparatively 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.720 be a seven or eight out of ten outcome, but 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.040 they're still only working at five out of ten, if 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.320 you know what I mean. Some people will produce a 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.240 six out of ten comparative outcome, but they're working at 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.120 ten for what they have to work with. So, for example, 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.000 I might run a marathon. I doubt it, but let's 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.200 let's say right now, Okay, I'll put on my axose 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.680 physiology had Let's say right now, I stopped doing all 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.560 the strength training. I'm pretty light at the moment. I'm 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.679 seventy eight kilos, which is very light for me. But 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.640 let's say I got down around seventy kilos in my 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.360 sixty year two year old body, and I trained great, 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.560 and I did all the things I wanted to do 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.600 to run a four hour marathon, which for me at 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.760 my age would be a pretty good outcome. Now, let's 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.160 say I did all of that and I ate well, 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:34.160 slept well, trained well, supplemented well, talking about supplements, not drags. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.160 I did all the right things, sleep all of it, 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.720 and I ended up running a four hour marathon. Now, 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.640 for me, with all the things I have to work with. So, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.440 in other words, what is possible for me? What is 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.000 my potential? What is me using nearly all of what 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.760 I've got? The four hour marathon for me might be 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.680 somewhere close to Craig Harper optimizing what he has to 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.600 work with. Somebody else could run a three and a 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.480 half foul marathon thirty minutes quicker than me, and they're 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.680 still running on sixty percent. They're not anywhere near close 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.160 to optimizing what they have to work with because they're 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.960 genetically gifted, they're younger than me, they've got better hormones 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:20.120 levels than me, and they're just way, way more predisposed 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.880 to running fast times than me. So it's not about 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.080 what am I doing compared to what are what are 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:31.279 others doing? It's not what are my results compared to 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:36.000 her results or his results. It's really about am I 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.240 doing whatever I can do to get where I want 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.160 to go? Or am I just telling myself a story 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.840 that I'm working optimally or I'm using my genetics or 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.240 my time, or my resources, or my brain or my 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:54.559 creativity or my energy optimally. So I think we quite 0:04:54.600 --> 0:05:00.960 often reach for something else, someone else power a potion, 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:06.240 a product, a book, a gizmo, a gadgets, some kind 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.800 of thing that will help us create the one the 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:14.880 result we want to create quicker. And maybe sometimes that 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:19.159 is not a terrible idea. But sometimes I think it's 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:25.039 just more about this sounds boring in old fashioned, but 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.840 digging deeper. It's about working harder. It's about opening our 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.560 mind to the possibility that the problem is not the program. 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.839 The problem is not the idea. The problem is not 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.480 the plan. The problem is the way or the level 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.560 that I am executing the plan that I am doing 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.440 the thing. And you've heard me talk many times about 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.440 rate of perceived exertion in a gym, which is essentially 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.920 how hard somebody thinks they are working. John, you just 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.200 did a said of this exercise on this weight for 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.640 this many reps. How hard do you think you were 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:03.640 working based on your absolute limit? Ten is your physiological capacity. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:08.080 That's all you could do, That's all that's humanly possible 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.039 for you. Where are you working at the moment, Oh, Craig, 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.520 I'm working at eight or nine. And there's someone who's 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.440 vastly experienced in this place, with both minds and bodies 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:22.359 and training and all of the physiological and sporting and 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.680 adaptive things that go around that I look at them, 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.359 I watch them and I know, like I absolutely know, 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.160 they're nowhere near an eight or nine. They're nowhere near 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.720 they're optimal. They're nowhere near their limit, their ceiling, their potential. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:37.680 Then when I come back and I say, let's have 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.120 a couple of minutes, John, Now what I want you 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.360 to do is the last time you did this week 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.120 for X reps. Now we're going to do the same way, 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:47.520 but I want you to do two X. I don't 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.720 want you to do ten. I want you to do twenty, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.400 and I want you to do it like your life 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.920 depends on it. So John comes back, and you've heard 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:57.760 me tele version of this, but it's just true. And 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.440 I've seen a version of this with my own eyes 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.200 in the real world, probably more than a hundred times, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.520 because I've asked people to do this many times. He 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.640 will come back. The guy that was working at ninety 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.920 percent allegedly doing ten reps, now he does twenty four 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.840 reps on the same way. Now he's working at ninety percent. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.800 Now he's getting close to his physiological capacity at that time. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:26.200 He wasn't before he was just telling himself a story. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.960 So there's the reality of what is possible for me, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.920 Where am I actually working in terms of my capacity 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:38.040 and my potential, and where do I think I'm at? 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.320 Where do I that's the perception performance gap is my story. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.080 I'll say that again, the exception performance gap. That is 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.680 where I think I'm at, how hard I think I'm working, 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:54.600 or how intelligently or how effectively or how productively I 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.920 think I'm working, and what the true story is. Now, 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.680 this is not about beating ourselves up. This is about realization. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:07.200 This is about understanding our own capacity. This is about 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:13.160 me knowing that I actually have much more potential than 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:18.320 I am currently using. Because you can't get more potential, 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.880 you can't get better genetics, you can't get more hours 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.200 in a day. You might free up some of your ours, 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.720 but we've all got fourteen hundred and forty minutes a day, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.680 twenty four hours a day, three hundred and sixty five 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:33.480 days for most years anyway, per year, all of those things, 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.960 all of those kind of old fashioned, boring metrics that 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.560 we talk about, right, But then there's what we do 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.439 in the fourteen hundred and forty minutes a day that's 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.680 how well we use those hours and minutes. That's how 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:51.520 well we use that time, those resources, those advisors, those books, 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:57.600 that information, that education, that capacity of one's body, what 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.720 we do with it. This is the thing. But I 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.920 guess the inhibiting or the limiting factor here quite often 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.320 is that the thing that we need to do to 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.280 optimize our genetics. Why did all mate John tell me 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.080 that ten was his limit nearly when he then went 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.800 and did twenty three or twenty four, Because twenty three 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:22.760 or twenty four is fucking hard. It's hard. We don't 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.520 like hard. And the truth is to optimize our genetics, 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.960 to optimize all the things that we talk about, right 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.360 might be just our brain potential, but to optimize that, 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.200 we've got to dig deep and do shit that's uncomfortable 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.360 and hard. That is how our capacity and our performance 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:46.240 both come closer together. So I know I'm not genetically gifted, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:51.000 and I know at sixty two, the likelihood, if we're 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:55.080 speaking typically across the board, most people are definitely not 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.320 getting better at sixty two. That's great. Guess what I'm 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.360 not most people. I'm a human. You're not most people. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.400 You're one person that's not saying I'm better. I'm definitely 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.560 not better. You're not better. We're just another bum on 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.120 the seat, when just another human in the room. But 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.400 here's the thing that you and I get to do. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.160 You and I get to choose how we will behave. 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.800 You and I get to choose what we will do 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.880 with what we've been given and what we have available. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.240 And what other people do or be or create or 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.760 don't do or get right or get wrong or fuck 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.160 up or winge about or can what they do called, 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:37.880 that's their business. But if you, like me, are truly 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:42.640 interested in improvement, you listen to me because most of 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.599 you anyway, you want improvement, you want learning, you want evolution, 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:51.240 you want development, you want less chaos, you want more calm, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.680 you want better results, you want better experiences. Guess what, 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.800 nobody's going to fucking create those or do those, or 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:04.000 them to you on a platter. So it comes down 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.400 to your capacity. It comes down to my capacity to 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.600 do the things at the level that produce the results 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:16.760 that you want. Conversely, you might say, as many do 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.320 are too hard cool, there's no judgment in that, there's 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:27.000 no criticism of that. Then set the bar lower. Learn 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.240 to be happy. Where you are, learn to be content 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.839 where you are there doesn't need to be striving or 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.800 there doesn't need to be necessarily any kind of linear growth. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.120 If that's and I mean that generally. If some people 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.760 it's like, oh where that's good, great, knock yourself out, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.040 you should stay there. If you're in the middle of that, 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:49.400 content and happy and relatively mentally, emotionally physically healthy, then 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.559 you are ahead of most people. Well done. If that's 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.560 not you again, not better or worse, just different. You 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.320 are you. I am me. I want to improve my 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.240 brain function as I head towards my sixty fifth year 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.319 and my seventies. I want to. I don't know if 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.400 I will, but that's my intention. What I definitely know 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.760 is I will not accidentally improve my cognitive capacity or 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.640 function by just doing life. So I need of the 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.720 fourteen hundred and forty minutes a day, and maybe I 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.360 need to spend ten twenty thirty minutes consciously doing something 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.760 which is essentially a version of training for my brain. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.880 I want my body to be as fit and strong 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.800 and functional and flexible and healthy as long as I 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.199 as long as it can be. That's what I want. 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.040 So then you go, well, craz cool. It's nice to 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.240 want that, but will you do the work, the hard work, 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:48.080 the uncomfortable work, that tapping into your potential work to 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.160 create it? Because everybody fucking wants it. Nobody wants to 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.400 live longer, shorter, I should say, Nobody wants to be 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.680 less healthy. Nobody wants to be weaker, nobody wants to 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:03.920 be more sick. Nobody wants to age. We're all going 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.240 to age chronologically, but the way that we age we 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:10.440 can manipulate. Right, So all of these things are Yeah, 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.600 there's all the nuts and bolts, and there's do this 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.719 and eat more of that and eat less of that, 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.040 and lift that and run there and jump on this, 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.280 and fucking that's the best program. And do you know 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.839 what it's about? How we do it? It's about Yes, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.880 there's the variability of genetics and what's best for me, Craig. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:28.560 If I want to get strong as the body weight 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.840 as the pilate is, is it going to a fucking 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.800 climbing gym? Is it old fashioned? Body building is a 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:39.959 power look, it depends it depends on you. It depends 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.120 on what you're going to keep doing, perhaps, and it 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.559 depends on what you need based on your individual goals 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:51.200 and your physiological capacity. So so much of this is 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:56.480 about our willingness to consistently do the thing that most 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:02.560 people won't consistently do. What won't most people do? They 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.320 won't train consistently, they will not work out consistently. And 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.120 maybe in your bubble where you live or in your group, 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.839 that's not true. That's cool that you are surrounded by 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:17.079 people who are atypical. If we go to any random area, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.080 we go to a supermarket or a shopping center, or 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:20.920 we go to the beach, or we go wherever, we 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.400 get one hundred random people from all walks of life, 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.560 all backgrounds, all ages, all ethnicities, all cultural whatever, all 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.400 religious kind of persuasions, all that. We just get one 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.480 hundred random humans and we put them in a room. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:39.360 There's probably less than ten people who consistently, methodically intelligently 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:44.960 train their body to get better. Probably not even five, right, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.400 so we're looking at a vast majority. But if you 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.880 said to all of those hundred people, would you like 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.760 your body to be in better shape, stronger, healthier, perhaps 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.880 a bit leaner, a bit more functional, less pain, you know, 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.240 better movement. Probably one hundred out of one hundred would 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.080 say I would like that. How many will do that? 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.880 Less than five? So the question is will you do that? 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:12.760 I want to run through some of the bullshit. I'm 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.840 going to say that some of the bullshit that we 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.600 tell ourselves or that we do that is an inhibiting 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:25.640 factor on the optimization of your potential. I've written these down. Obviously, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.920 everything I just said was freestyle, but I'm going to 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.680 unpack these a little bit. I want to try and 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:34.479 keep this to about a thirty minute extravaganza or thereabouts. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.800 So top of my list is stop waiting for the 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.960 perfect time. Some people have been waiting. You know, we 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:42.480 have this story. It's not a good time for me. 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:47.080 It's not the right time for me. You know, you'd 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.840 think someone was talking perhaps about I don't know, building 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.280 a house, where timing and money and councilor approvals and 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.840 again the times an issue. But so many times for people, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.920 so many times timing is a factor. But it's not 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:07.760 the reason and for me to grow or learn. Now, 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.760 perhaps I can't join a gym, or perhaps I can't 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.240 enroll in a program, or perhaps I can't build a business. 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.160 It's not a good It literally isn't a good time 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.120 or whatever the pursuit is doesn't need to have anything 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.040 to do with fitness or health. By the way, I 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.800 kind of default to that and probably too often. But 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:28.800 the point is, Okay, you are in a certain place, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:35.960 whether that's financially, commercially, pecially personally, physiologically, academically, emotionally, you're 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.840 in a certain place and you want to be somewhere else. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.840 And sometimes when we're at that starting line, we look 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.840 down the track at the terminus, the finish line, and 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.000 we go, ah fuck, and then we go it's not 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.520 a good time because we just get overwhelmed by the 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:54.240 totality of what's going to come. So what can we do? 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.960 That's a great question. What can I do? So what 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.480 if today I just did a really small thing that 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:06.040 wasn't majorly taxing, it wasn't majorly difficult or complicated, and 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.600 it didn't take a long time. What if you could 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.760 do something that would move the needle a little bit 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.800 to get you to where you want to go. Let's 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:22.840 say you want to what's something that's less craig and 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:27.520 more often more calm. I should say, because I always 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.520 kind of related to shit that I'm into, let's not 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:35.800 do that Let's say let's say you want to this 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.600 is more a block one, sorry ladies, well less ladies 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:40.439 restore cars. Let's say you've got an old car in 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.359 the garage and you want to restore that car. But 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.359 it's so fun to you're like, oh god, where do 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.960 we even start this? Like the engine, there's the gearbox, 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.800 there's there's the juco, there's the interior that's fucked, there's that. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:56.400 You know, there's so many things. There's so okay. Could 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.359 you go out in the garage and could you just 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.200 clean today? Could you just move all the ship that's 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.240 around there? Could you make the garage in which it lives. 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.720 Could you make that a more conducive environment to working 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.800 on the car. Could you spend an hour out there, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:14.720 get some of the dust off, throw some of the 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.320 shit out, just get it a little bit more presentable 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.919 so when you go in next time, your mind is 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.240 in that. But what if you just start chipping away 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.840 at one thing where you don't need to spend any 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:30.480 dough What if you just start creating a list about 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.400 the things that you need to do. And what if 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.280 after you've got the list, you kind of prioritize and 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.240 then if you do that, then maybe you create a timeline, 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.840 and then maybe you do kind of a cost kind 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.920 of assessment of what you know. And now you've started. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.840 You haven't actually rebuilt the gearbox, you haven't put in 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.440 a new motor or recondition, you haven't done anything mechanical, 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:55.159 but you've started the process. So stop waiting for the 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:59.160 perfect time, stop waiting for the planets to align. Number 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:03.240 two is, and this is tough, is sometimes we need 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.960 to step up when most people would give up. Some 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.000 people at the drop of a hat. It's a bit 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:14.639 unco comfortable, it's a bit inconvenient, it's a bit and okay, 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.359 no criticism in this, just observation. I've watched people who 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.000 are working at a one and a half out of ten. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.040 They're like, ah, hands in the air, too hard, too hard. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.159 Then I watch other people who are at fucking ate 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.000 in terms of discomfort, and they just fucking knuckle down. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.560 Now I'm not talking about being silly or reckless or 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.879 a hero. I'm just talking about the very practical reality 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.320 that there will come a point in the journey for you, 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:47.800 multiple points, multiple times, where the thing sucks, The thing 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.120 that you're doing sucks. You do want to do it. It 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.480 is not fun, it is not convenient. It is all 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.879 the shit that you don't want. But guess what, it's 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:03.000 also the shit that one progresses you and two changes you. Because, 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.080 as I've said to you many times, when you do 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.680 the shit that is hard, you change. Shit is still hard, 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.280 but over time you build a different relationship with the thing, 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.399 like with a dumbbell that you lift, and now the 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.000 thing that was hard eventually for you becomes easy, not 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:23.240 because it's less difficult, but because you're more capable. And 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:27.639 now that thing, as an experience is easier because you 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:34.879 are different. So difficult becomes easy, Heavy becomes light, complicated 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:41.280 becomes simple, Overwhelming becomes Tuesday, Right, it's just today. I'm 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:45.840 just doing this. Why. Well, because you've conditioned yourself. You've 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:50.919 built resilience and strength and adaptability and cognitive flexibility. You're 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:54.879 now a fucking weapon, and so now you'd do stuff 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.040 so much easier because when everyone else was given up, 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:02.000 you stepped up. When everyone else was given up, you 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:06.960 stepped up. Number three is a super duper simple. Create 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.960 a plan and execute the plan. Most people don't really 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:17.400 have a plan, And by a plan, I'm in structure, process, accountability, organization, 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:23.720 resource identification, all of these things where you're creating a strategic, logical, 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:28.119 well thought through plan that you can then execute, and 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:33.639 a plan that is built around critical thinking, resource optimization, 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:38.439 you optimization. It's not a thought or a feeling or 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:40.880 a vague goal in the back of your head. If 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:44.719 it isn't written down in some way, if there isn't 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:48.040 a strategy wrapped around it, if there isn't a timeline, 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:52.359 if there isn't an accountability process, if there aren't if 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:58.440 there isn't a clear path created logically not emotionally created logically, 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:01.199 then you don't really have a plan. You have an 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:04.560 idea in the back of your head. And so many people, 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.240 as I've said to you, wake up at fifty or 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:12.840 sixty and they're in a place metaphorically, literally, physically, financially, relationally, 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.160 they're in a place in inverted commas that they don't 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:18.080 want to be and they say something like this wasn't 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:21.080 my plan, And then I say, can I see the plan? 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:23.680 And they look at me bewildered because they had no plan. 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:26.679 They didn't really have a plan, They just had an 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:31.000 idea of what would happen. They had an idea of 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:34.159 how things would turn out. They had an idea of 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:36.640 how they would be and their life would be when 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:38.600 they turned this age or when they got to this 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:45.800 stage of their life. We do not accidentally succeed. Let 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:48.080 me resay that I think there are times where people 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:51.040 stumble into something fucking amazing and brilliant. I think those 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:55.440 times are the exception. So let's not rely on that possibility. 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:59.760 Let's just say that most people won't accidentally get where 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:02.720 they want to be, will strategically get where we want 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:05.199 to be. Number four on my list of eight is 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:13.919 don't call excuses reasons. Don't rationalize your laziness or your fear, 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:21.160 or your avoidance or your lack of willingness to do 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:26.879 the work. Don't try to justify that into some legitimate reason. Now, Also, 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:29.760 you don't need to beat yourself up. But the truth is, 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.080 most of the times, not all of the times, but 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:35.399 most of the times when I didn't achieve it an 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:38.359 outcome that I could have. But I'm not talking about 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:41.840 something that was unattainable. But most of the times when 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:44.439 I didn't achieve the outcome that I set out to 0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:48.159 something which was within my capacity. The problem was me. 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:52.560 The problem was I got lazy. The problem was I 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:56.040 got distracted. The problem was I made excuses. The problem 0:23:56.160 --> 0:24:00.159 was I rationalized bad behavior. I justified doing things that 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:03.159 were inconsistent with who I wanted to be, where I 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:05.920 wanted to go, and the outcomes that I wanted to produce. 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:11.480 And this is a big part of the I need 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:13.960 to own up, not in a self loathing way and 0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:16.359