Speaker 1: I'll get a team. I hope you're great. So it's
Speaker 1: going to come as no surprise to you that I
Speaker 1: am fascinated with human potential. I'm fascinated with what's possible
Speaker 1: for us when we can do what we need to
Speaker 1: do to create the outcomes we want to create, whatever
Speaker 1: they are. I'm fascinated with our capacity to be able
Speaker 1: to waste our neate ability or optimize our ability, to
Speaker 1: be able to manage our mind and manage our choices,
Speaker 1: and manage our motions, and manage our behaviors and our
Speaker 1: resources and our physical energy, and our relationships and our
Speaker 1: choices and our life and our lifestyle, to be able
Speaker 1: to produce the thing that we want to produce, or
Speaker 1: create the outcomes that on planet US are desirable and
Speaker 1: I have personally. So this is a very selfish interest.
Speaker 1: But I've always been interested in how the person with
Speaker 1: not outstanding innate or natural abilities or attributes could outperform
Speaker 1: their natural talent or their natural predisposition to be good
Speaker 1: or not so good at something. And the reason I
Speaker 1: say selfish is because that is me. So I was,
Speaker 1: you know, I was the kid who didn't have great genetics,
Speaker 1: and surprisingly they didn't get better. My body got better,
Speaker 1: and my choices and my behaviors and lifestyle and nutrition
Speaker 1: and exercise got better, but my genetics didn't. Because I
Speaker 1: can't change them. I can influence them. But what you've
Speaker 1: got is what you've got for the most part. Yes,
Speaker 1: you can, as I said, influence how they operate. For
Speaker 1: one of a more fancy term, we call it epigenetics
Speaker 1: or genetic expression. But you know, I had what I had,
Speaker 1: and I had a certain amount or lack perhaps of
Speaker 1: sporting ability or creative talent or academic natural academic ability.
Speaker 1: I had certain social skills that and my social skills
Speaker 1: were not bad. They're probably better than the other things.
Speaker 1: My ability, my natural ability to communicate was probably better
Speaker 1: than average. But all of the other things, genetic, sporting ability,
Speaker 1: academic ability, you know, all that stuff that really matters
Speaker 1: when you're all were told, we're told, really matters. All
Speaker 1: that stuff for me was at the very best average,
Speaker 1: maybe lower than average. And so growing up with friends
Speaker 1: who were gifted, and friends who had natural abilities and
Speaker 1: talent and a natural predisposition for learning and for understanding
Speaker 1: the certain things that I did not have. And by
Speaker 1: the way, there was no hardship. There was no massive disadvantage.
Speaker 1: But for me, it meant that if I wanted to
Speaker 1: be as good as my friends at sport, you know,
Speaker 1: in particular, I was. I was all about Aussie Rules.
Speaker 1: I was all about Australian rules football. I loved it.
Speaker 1: And so if I wanted to make the team, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't get in on my natural ability. I wouldn't get
Speaker 1: in on my natural athletic prowess because they didn't have any.
Speaker 1: So I would need to do more work. I would
Speaker 1: need to train harder. I would need to consciously, you know,
Speaker 1: do things that other people would not need to do
Speaker 1: to get So somebody who might need to work at
Speaker 1: a three out of ten to get to a certain point,
Speaker 1: and that's great for them, by the way, there's no
Speaker 1: resentment in this. There's a little bit of jealousy. But
Speaker 1: for them to get to a certain level, whether three
Speaker 1: out of ten workload or effort or application, I would
Speaker 1: need to do it. I would need to give a
Speaker 1: seven or eight or nine out of ten effort to
Speaker 1: be able to create the same outcome. And so growing
Speaker 1: up being you know, the morbidly obese kid with not
Speaker 1: very good genetics who was a you know, at twelve
Speaker 1: thirteen years old, heavier than most adults. I was heavier
Speaker 1: than most of my teachers. I would suspect the kid
Speaker 1: who didn't ace the exams, the kid who didn't have
Speaker 1: the natural disposition to study, the kid who wasn't picked
Speaker 1: for all the sporting too. There's no self pid in here,
Speaker 1: by the way, this is just my life and where
Speaker 1: a lot of things, most things did not come easily
Speaker 1: or naturally. But and I've said this before, what I
Speaker 1: did love about all of that was in the middle
Speaker 1: of all of that stuff that I didn't have, what
Speaker 1: I did have was I had curiosity. I had hope.
Speaker 1: I didn't have much knowledge and didn't have much natural
Speaker 1: ability or talent, and I didn't have a high IQ.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't brilliant scholar. But what I was was
Speaker 1: I was really interested in getting better. And there was
Speaker 1: a lot of false starts, and there was a lot
Speaker 1: of peaks and troughs. But and for me, the door opened,
Speaker 1: as I won't bore you with the story, but for me,
Speaker 1: the door opened when it was always kind of cracked open,
Speaker 1: it was always slightly a jar, but it kind of
Speaker 1: the door blew open when I was fourteen, I lost
Speaker 1: a whole lot of weight, and I mean when I
Speaker 1: say a whole lot of weight, I mean like a
Speaker 1: lot of weight. And I went from being, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the fattest, if not the fattest kid in
Speaker 1: my school to definitely one of the fittest kids in
Speaker 1: my school, just because I did a lot of work
Speaker 1: I did. You know, I don't know what the other
Speaker 1: kids were doing, but I'm pretty sure that there was
Speaker 1: very few, if any kids in the entire school that
Speaker 1: were putting in the miles and the work and the
Speaker 1: effort and the energy that I was putting in to
Speaker 1: turn myself into a version of an athlete. And while
Speaker 1: that was fun, and going from you know, last to
Speaker 1: sometimes first in our compulsory cross country runs that we
Speaker 1: had at school, and going from not being seen to
Speaker 1: being somewhat more socially included, that was nice too. Being
Speaker 1: picked in the first you know, three or four or
Speaker 1: five for a sporting team instead of being picked last.
Speaker 1: All that stuff was good. And as a kid, of course,
Speaker 1: you want that. You want to be socially accepted, you
Speaker 1: want to be seen, you want to belong. You know,
Speaker 1: all the emotional and psychological and sociological ramifications of being
Speaker 1: left out and excluded. They are shit, indeed. But what
Speaker 1: really blew my mind when I had this kind of
Speaker 1: teenage transformation was not, well, look at my body. Now.
Speaker 1: I can run fast, I can jump higher, I can
Speaker 1: do push ups and chin ups, and I can you know,
Speaker 1: I can play a whole game and I'm not exhausted.
Speaker 1: All that was good, But what really kind of struck
Speaker 1: me was that when I applied myself despite my limitations,
Speaker 1: but when I would do everything that I could, everything
Speaker 1: that I could, some amazing shit happened. And while I
Speaker 1: couldn't I couldn't. I couldn't create better genetics or I
Speaker 1: couldn't be smarter. But I could get more knowledge. I
Speaker 1: could get more understanding. I could develop new skill. I
Speaker 1: could build my innate fitness and competence. I could build strength.
Speaker 1: I could improve strength consciously. I couldn't improve my natural
Speaker 1: kind of talent or ability, like I said, but I could.
Speaker 1: I could just get better through work. I could build
Speaker 1: insurance and endurance and speed and confidence and awareness and
Speaker 1: competence at a range of things because I was prepared
Speaker 1: to do the work that the others weren't prepared to do.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like I had some big I guess
Speaker 1: epiphany about work ethic at any stage or optimization of
Speaker 1: my own potential, but rather, over time it kind of
Speaker 1: dawned on me that, oh wow, if I can change
Speaker 1: my body, the thing that pretty much defined me in
Speaker 1: a massive way, I can go from being morbidly obese
Speaker 1: to being the opposite of morbidle EO. I can go
Speaker 1: from being one out of ten fit to for my
Speaker 1: own potential, nine or ten out of ten fit. I
Speaker 1: can go from not being able to do a single
Speaker 1: chin up because I couldn't even I was so heavy.
Speaker 1: I couldn't even hold my body weight. I couldn't hold
Speaker 1: my own body weight for ten seconds. I couldn't hang
Speaker 1: off a a monkey bar or a tree or whatever,
Speaker 1: or a chinup bar. I don't think I even knew
Speaker 1: at a fucking chin up bar, A proper one was.
Speaker 1: At that stage, I couldn't even hold my body weight,
Speaker 1: and a year later I could do comfortably. I could
Speaker 1: do fifteen proper chins. And it's not like, well, that's
Speaker 1: because you know you've got better genetics now, No, that's
Speaker 1: because I just did things that created that change. And
Speaker 1: so I became really interested in how could I leverage
Speaker 1: my mediocrity. How could I didn't say it like this,
Speaker 1: but how could my mediocrity be the driving force behind
Speaker 1: my success? What a weird concept. And when I leaned
Speaker 1: into that, and I just owned that and I accepted that,
Speaker 1: and I went, all right, well, here's all the things
Speaker 1: you're not creat here's all the things you're not. And
Speaker 1: this is not self loathing. By the way. You might
Speaker 1: think I'm throwing myself under the bus or I'm being
Speaker 1: unnecessarily mean to me. I'm not. But I think what
Speaker 1: is really important is that we are It's hard because
Speaker 1: we live in our own subjective reality. I get that.
Speaker 1: But as objective as I can be about me, I
Speaker 1: know that there are some things that I have more
Speaker 1: natural ability out And I would say, you know, doing
Speaker 1: what I'm doing right now is it has been a
Speaker 1: skill that's been developed. But I also had a natural
Speaker 1: capacity to be able to communicate and think clearly and understand,
Speaker 1: to a certain extent, understand human beings and human behavior
Speaker 1: and human nature. And that's something that over time I
Speaker 1: have developed. So that's a certain kind of intelligence, of course,
Speaker 1: but kind of classroom intelligence and academic intelligence that wasn't innate.
Speaker 1: I really really, me and university we don't go together
Speaker 1: like peas in a pod. Me and University, We've really
Speaker 1: had to figure each other out. I've really had to
Speaker 1: learn to understand that culture and that language, and that
Speaker 1: operating system and paradigm that for me is not a
Speaker 1: natural fit. Research for me is not a natural fit.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of things that I have had
Speaker 1: to work harder than other people alongside me because I
Speaker 1: didn't have what they had. I had to train harder
Speaker 1: than people. I had to lift more than people, I
Speaker 1: had to do more miles than people. I had to
Speaker 1: ask more questions than people. I had to fail more
Speaker 1: times than other people. And all of those things are
Speaker 1: and this might sound a bit cliche, but all of
Speaker 1: those things, while they are uncomfortable and painful and undesirable,
Speaker 1: in the moment, they are fucking a superpower. They're a superpower,
Speaker 1: or they're a super resource because what they're doing is
Speaker 1: they're helping us become the thing that we need to
Speaker 1: be to be able to thrive, or the person that
Speaker 1: we need to be to be able to thrive and
Speaker 1: survive and navigate and negotiate and problem solve and adapt
Speaker 1: because life is messy and things are messy, and relationships
Speaker 1: are messy, and business and learning and you know, becoming successful,
Speaker 1: whatever that means for you, it's messy. It's not a
Speaker 1: three step process. And the thing that will work for
Speaker 1: you know, the thing that would work for my mates
Speaker 1: at school, they would do a certain thing, and that
Speaker 1: would work for them. I would do the same thing.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't work for me. And the way that I
Speaker 1: would do it, they might roll their eyes and go,
Speaker 1: why the fuck do you make that so hard? You
Speaker 1: go and definitely go on the long way, or maybe
Speaker 1: the wrong way. And for them that was true. And
Speaker 1: if they had have done it the way that I
Speaker 1: did it, it wouldn't have made sense because they weren't
Speaker 1: me and I wasn't them. And so I have spent
Speaker 1: my life in many ways trying to figure out not
Speaker 1: what is the best protocol, but what is the best
Speaker 1: protocol for me? What is the best protocol for me
Speaker 1: with my brain, with my cognitive capacity, What is the
Speaker 1: best work out for me with my genetics and my body.
Speaker 1: What is the best kind of relationships for me, not
Speaker 1: for the average or other person. What's the best kind
Speaker 1: of career for me, what will work for me. I'm
Speaker 1: not lazy. I want to work, but maybe having a
Speaker 1: nine to five job won't work for me. And so
Speaker 1: not only not only learning how to leverage off my
Speaker 1: own mediocrity, and not only learning how to optimize what
Speaker 1: I do have to work with, but also understanding who
Speaker 1: I am in the middle of all of the things
Speaker 1: that I am, not all of the people that I am.
Speaker 1: What will work for most people might not work for you.
Speaker 1: It might not work for you. There are lots of
Speaker 1: things that a lot of people do a lot of
Speaker 1: and they are not bad things or good things. They're
Speaker 1: just things. And clearly that works for them, not always,
Speaker 1: but in general terms. But there are a lot of
Speaker 1: things that a lot of people do that for me
Speaker 1: don't interest me, they don't stimulate me, they don't grow me.
Speaker 1: And that doesn't on any level mean that I'm better
Speaker 1: or worse than them. That just means that I am
Speaker 1: not them. And so I have always been very excited.
Speaker 1: I'm still excited. You know, I'm sixty one. You know
Speaker 1: that most of you know that I'm sixty one, and
Speaker 1: I'm excited about what I'm going to do, be create
Speaker 1: learn and unlearn, do be, create, learn and unlearn over
Speaker 1: the next four years. I'm excited to see what's happening
Speaker 1: when I'm sixty five. I'm interested in getting better. I'm
Speaker 1: not interested in hanging on by the skin of my
Speaker 1: teeth and trying to, you know, decline at a minimum.
Speaker 1: I'm actually at a minimal rate. I'm actually interested in
Speaker 1: getting better. I'm interested in getting cognitively, emotionally, mentally, socially,
Speaker 1: and maybe even physically better. I don't know if all
Speaker 1: of those things are possible. I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: know that if I don't try, they're definitely not possible.
Speaker 1: They're definitely not possible. And so I've got some questions
Speaker 1: for you that I ask myself about leveraging, optimizing what
Speaker 1: I do have to work with. And so these are
Speaker 1: Craig coaching questions. For Craig. This is literally what I
Speaker 1: ask me. And this is not this is not you know,
Speaker 1: pseudo self help fluff. And some of these might work
Speaker 1: for you, they might not, They might be relevant, they
Speaker 1: might not, But this is what I ask myself. So
Speaker 1: Number one is what do I need to get better at?
Speaker 1: And that's just a really simple question. And you can
Speaker 1: preface that with in relation to communication, what do I
Speaker 1: need to get better at in relation to optimizing my genetics?
Speaker 1: What do I need to get better at in relation
Speaker 1: to using my time effectively? What do I need to
Speaker 1: get better at in relation to the way that I
Speaker 1: connect with this person? What do I need to get
Speaker 1: better at in relation to being a great problem solver,
Speaker 1: a great leader, a great manager, a great coach? What
Speaker 1: do I need to get better at in relation to
Speaker 1: being a better managed manager of money? Right? These are
Speaker 1: and so we can't get better at the things that
Speaker 1: we can't acknowledge or we can't identify. I believe, and
Speaker 1: you've heard me say this. I believe a lot of
Speaker 1: us just fucking go through life unconsciously, and we kind
Speaker 1: of hope that at the end of twenty five it'll
Speaker 1: be better than the end of twenty four where we're
Speaker 1: at now. But we don't really have a concrete plan.
Speaker 1: We haven't really identified our weaknesses, we haven't really leaned
Speaker 1: into our strengths. We haven't really put our current operating
Speaker 1: system up on the metaphoric hoist and walked around and
Speaker 1: had a good look at that operating system and said,
Speaker 1: what am I doing? That's currently fucking stupid. What am
Speaker 1: I currently doing? That's a form of self sabotage. What
Speaker 1: am I currently doing? That is a waste of me
Speaker 1: and my time and my genetics and my energy and
Speaker 1: my potential. What am I doing? We need to live
Speaker 1: consciously and intentionally, and that means being aware of what
Speaker 1: we're doing and what we're not doing, being aware of
Speaker 1: our choices and responsible for our choices and also lack
Speaker 1: of choices. When you don't make a decision about that
Speaker 1: thing that you know you should make a decision about,
Speaker 1: or you're making a decision, it's like when I talked
Speaker 1: to somebody about a bad habit and they're like, look,
Speaker 1: I don't want to make a decision about that yet.
Speaker 1: Well that's your decision. Your decision is you're not going
Speaker 1: to address it. So question one is what do I
Speaker 1: need to get better at? And that kind of is
Speaker 1: the catalyst for a decision, that's the catalyst for action,
Speaker 1: that's the catalyst for a different operating system or approach
Speaker 1: or paradigm. Do you have a plan, do you have
Speaker 1: a strategy, do you have a system or are you
Speaker 1: just kind of bumbling along doing the thing that doesn't
Speaker 1: really work well. Well. If you are not consciously and
Speaker 1: intentionally observing your own behaviors and choices and outcomes, then
Speaker 1: you are doing life on a form of autopilot. That
Speaker 1: doesn't work. And if I said to you, do you
Speaker 1: want to produce better outcomes than you are currently with
Speaker 1: your body, with your whatever, relationships, money, relationship with God, spirituality, lifestyle,
Speaker 1: whatever it is? Do you want to get better? Do
Speaker 1: you want to do better? Do you want to create better?
Speaker 1: Nearly all of you will say absolutely, I do cool?
Speaker 1: What's the plan? What does better mean? What needs to stop? Stop? Not?
Speaker 1: Oh soon? No fucking stop? Is it uncomfortable? Yes? Is
Speaker 1: it hard? Yes? Is it inconvenient? Probably? Do you want? Like?
Speaker 1: Deep down? Do you you know? Like? Do you want to? Ah?
Speaker 1: How much? Like? Here's the thing. You can listen to
Speaker 1: a million of me. You can listen to Tony Robbins
Speaker 1: and Oprah and Deepak and the Dalai Lama and read everything,
Speaker 1: But it still comes down to what the fuck will
Speaker 1: you do? Really? What the fuck will you do? Not?
Speaker 1: What do you know? What? Not? Not? What do you intend? Not?
Speaker 1: What do you want? Not? What are your goals? Not?
Speaker 1: What's your plan? But what the fuck will you do,
Speaker 1: because what the fuck you will do determines what the
Speaker 1: fuck you will create. Let that sink in next question
Speaker 1: what matters to me? What matters to me? I'll do
Speaker 1: questions two and three what matters to me? And question three?
Speaker 1: What is success for me? So let me give you
Speaker 1: a couple of examples for me success. There was a
Speaker 1: period of time where it was all about building a
Speaker 1: brand and business and money and all of those things.
Speaker 1: And that's not good or bad. At the time, that's
Speaker 1: what that's where I needed to be. And I did that.
Speaker 1: I built a business, and I built a brand, and
Speaker 1: I had lots of people working for me, and I
Speaker 1: was making lots of dough. And that's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1: That's in the context of my life at the time,
Speaker 1: that was good. But guess what, Over time, we evolve
Speaker 1: and we change and we realize, hopefully we realize that
Speaker 1: success isn't only about things. Success maybe isn't only about
Speaker 1: our bank balance, or our car, or our house, or
Speaker 1: our brand or what people think. It's not about all
Speaker 1: the scene stuff. Sometimes success is about what no one
Speaker 1: can see. Sometimes success is about your emotional and spiritual
Speaker 1: and psychological bank account. Sometimes poverty has got nothing to
Speaker 1: do with food or running water, or job or bank balance.
Speaker 1: Sometimes poverty is an internal state. I know lots of
Speaker 1: rich people who are living in poverty lots, I mean
Speaker 1: fucking lots. From the outside looking in razzle dazzle, but
Speaker 1: the inside out they are poverty stricken. They are socially, emotionally,
Speaker 1: sometimes spiritually, mentally living in poverty, living in their own
Speaker 1: self created prison. This is not a criticism, This is
Speaker 1: an observation. And as long as we keep looking for
Speaker 1: things for solutions and answers and nirvana and fulfillment in
Speaker 1: the wrong place, we're always going to be trapped in
Speaker 1: that in a turmoil, that inner bankruptcy, that inner poverty.
Speaker 1: And it's not about one or the other. There's nothing wrong,
Speaker 1: of course, with building financial wealth. I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: Be rich, be richit e fucking rich rich. Somebody says
Speaker 1: to me, Craig, We've got a corporate gig for you
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. We've got two one's worth X and the
Speaker 1: other one's worth ten X. Guess which one I'm choosing.
Speaker 1: But this is not a you know, but these things
Speaker 1: don't need to be mutually exclusive. But we live in
Speaker 1: such an externally focused culture and mindset and society that
Speaker 1: we are all about what we can see and what
Speaker 1: we can see of others and what they can see
Speaker 1: of us. And in the middle of all of this
Speaker 1: fucking preoccupation and obsession that we have with things, We've
Speaker 1: never had more broken people, We've never had more emotionally, psychologically,
Speaker 1: spiritually poverty stricken people, because we think that all of
Speaker 1: that external shit is going to make us happy. We
Speaker 1: think that all of that and that alone equal success.
Speaker 1: So when you are thinking about what matters to you,
Speaker 1: think about what can be seen and what can't be seen.
Speaker 1: My next one is how do I self sabotage? How
Speaker 1: do I get in my own way? How do I
Speaker 1: get in the way of whatever my genetic potential or
Speaker 1: intellectual potential or academic or creative or sociological whatever that
Speaker 1: is right? How do you get in your own way?
Speaker 1: What is the thing or what are the things that
Speaker 1: you currently do that is you creating an anchor for yourself?
Speaker 1: What are those things like? Is it avoidance? Is it procrastination?
Speaker 1: Is it massive self doubt? Is it fear? What is it?
Speaker 1: And again this is just an next size and self awareness.
Speaker 1: It's cool if you're scared of stuff, yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: If you're an overthinker, me too. Like, here's the thing, though,
Speaker 1: You can be scared and still take action. You can
Speaker 1: feel like a fraud and still step into the unknown
Speaker 1: and take a chance. You can be full of self doubt,
Speaker 1: but nonetheless roll the dice knowing that there's going to
Speaker 1: be an outcome and more than likely you'll be okay.
Speaker 1: Whatever the outcome is. My next question is what's in
Speaker 1: my control and what can I do? What's in my control? Okay,
Speaker 1: So what's in my control is my mind for the
Speaker 1: most part, if I try to manage it is my body,
Speaker 1: is my nutrition? Is my exercise? Is the lifestyle I choose,
Speaker 1: is the decisions that I make, Is the action that
Speaker 1: I take? Is the way that I treat others? Is
Speaker 1: the way that I waste or use? My potential is
Speaker 1: fill in the blank. And based on all of that stuff,
Speaker 1: all the stuff that I can control. Not not what can't
Speaker 1: I change? Your control? But what can I control? And
Speaker 1: what am I doing with that? What am I doing
Speaker 1: about that? What do I have to work with? Imagine
Speaker 1: if I optimized my potential. Imagine if in the middle
Speaker 1: of my fear and overthinking and self doubt and self loathing.
Speaker 1: Imagine if I went right. This is. I know I've
Speaker 1: listened to a thousand podcasts and I've done this and that,
Speaker 1: and i know it's nearly Christmas and it's not the
Speaker 1: right time and I wasn't ready. But what if you you?
Speaker 1: So I don't think about anyone else listening to this.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking to you directly, and I know that
Speaker 1: sounds weird, but just think about it. What if you
Speaker 1: what if today you did that thing. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to inspire you, I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: motivate you. I'm literally asking you. And if this makes
Speaker 1: you feel uncomfortable, maybe that's a sign. What if today
Speaker 1: you did it, even though today's not the day allegedly.
Speaker 1: What if if today you make a decision. What if
Speaker 1: today you go fuck, I'm just going to find discipline
Speaker 1: and self control. Anyway, this is uncomfortable, and it's okay.
Speaker 1: This scares me, and it's okay, this is inconvenient, and
Speaker 1: it's okay. This is this is and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: I'm the high watermark, but this is how I live
Speaker 1: my life. You know, a part of it anyway. Of course,
Speaker 1: I still want to have fun and beautiful relationships and
Speaker 1: be silly. But in terms of me optimizing me, like
Speaker 1: you listen to this show at least in part because
Speaker 1: you want to optimize you. That is why you listen.
Speaker 1: You listen to me because you want to be better.
Speaker 1: You want to think better, do better, choose better, create better.
Speaker 1: That is part of why you listen, and for some
Speaker 1: of you, it's all of why you listen. It's all
Speaker 1: of why you listen. Well, here I am for the
Speaker 1: millionth time I'm telling you there is no fucking magic.
Speaker 1: There is no right time, there is no tap on
Speaker 1: the shoulder from the Guardian angel. There is just you,
Speaker 1: There is just now. There is just this moment. So
Speaker 1: many people have an opportunity. Do you know when it's
Speaker 1: an opportunity? When it's a day. Are you in the
Speaker 1: middle of a day? Is it a new day? It's
Speaker 1: an opportunity. Are you hearing what I'm saying? It's an opportunity?
Speaker 1: Is it relevant for you? It's an opportunity. Can you
Speaker 1: make a decision now? That's an opportunity. Can you change
Speaker 1: a behavior or at least change a course of action?
Speaker 1: It's an opportunity. Can you walk? Can you talk? Can
Speaker 1: you think? Do you have a brain, do you have
Speaker 1: a little bit of courage? Do you have a body
Speaker 1: that work? Walks and works, walks and works? What do
Speaker 1: you have at your disposal? What are your resources? I
Speaker 1: know I get passionate about this. But the reason that
Speaker 1: I'm so passionate about helping you is because most people
Speaker 1: that I meet, and I do not say this insincerely,
Speaker 1: most people that I meet, in general terms, I think
Speaker 1: have more natural talent and ability than me. But people
Speaker 1: don't want to believe that, because I'd rather tell themselves
Speaker 1: that I'm somehow a bit special because of the stuff
Speaker 1: that I do. But I'm not. But if you're more talented,
Speaker 1: naturally talented than me, and I'm not a genius, of course,
Speaker 1: but maybe you can go and do something fucking amazing.
Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't matter that you don't have a cheer squad.
Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't matter that the thing that you wanted
Speaker 1: to do you haven't done. Maybe it doesn't matter that
Speaker 1: your genetics aren't awesome. Maybe it doesn't matter that you're
Speaker 1: forty or fifty kilos overweight. Maybe you can just start.
Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't matter that you lack confidence or skill
Speaker 1: or understanding. Maybe you can build those things. Maybe you
Speaker 1: can make a tiny decision today and create momentum. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe your mediocrity can become your superpower.