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Andrew Chau
Feeling stuck? Do you feel like your life is in a rut, wanting to make a change but you find that you keep falling backwards on your commitments? Have promised yourself you’ll start looking after your fitness and find it impossible to get off the couch? Or find that you’ve been stuck in the same dead-end job, hating your life, drinking/partying on the weekend? Achievement Unlocked is hosted by Andrew Chau who within a few short years has transformed his life from being an unemployed pothead to conquering the corporate world and now leading an enterprise of successful fitness coaches with the sole purpose of guiding and enlightening those who feel they are destined for more. Achieve Championship has changed hundreds of lives through the core principles learned through fitness, completely transforming their identity allowing them to step into a higher version of themselves and freeing them for their mental limitations. Each daily episode is designed to empower you to better understand yourself and how you can fully unlock the best version of yourself in all faucets of your life, from fitness, personal development and even business/career opportunities. Remove uncertainty and build confidence by listening to Achievement Unlocked!
Maybe you should single down a few things that you want to work on in your life and really, really focus and master those crafts and then you move on. And then number three is if they are your goals right now, you are prioritizing it. Think about and understand how important it is for you to actually tick off that goal. Now take what I say with a grain of salt. I am a fitness coach, so I am, I guess, financially obligated to say this, but I genuinely believe that fitness is the number one most important facet of your life. Because without health, you cannot have wealth. And even the most successful people in the world wish they had taken better care of their health. And if you are, for example, overweight, even if you are successful with your business, you are successful with your career, you may not have the health to be able to enjoy that. And so therefore, you may even be reducing your life expectancy, but also living a lower quality of life as well, right? And especially as you get older, your body doesn't bounce back from these health elements as easily. On top of that, like things like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke, diabetes, these are the things that you cannot undo should you have it. And I'm not saying this. If you monger you speak to a medical professional, go speak to a doctor, tell them, I am 30 kilos overweight right now. Do you think that's okay? And I think most of us I go out and ask that because we already know the answers. Like it's common sense. If you're carrying that much body fat, you obviously know that they're there are going to be some health elements that you are going to be facing, exposing yourself to. So why do that to yourself? Okay? So I think just being able to tick off your health and fitness goals once one, is going to allow you one facet that you no longer need to spend as much effort on. Right now, if you guys are chasing your tail, you're trying to starve yourself throughout the weekdays, doing excessive amounts of cardio and then maybe going out binging and drinking over the weekend, think about how much time you have spent thinking and stressing about being unhappy of yourself.
So many people tell me that their scale, their body weight scale tells them how much body fat they have. Like, how the fuck is your scale going to know? It might send an electromagnetic impedance and it can estimate, but there's no way it's going to be accurate. And you can't even say it's going to be consistently inconsistent, right? So if my scale reads 15%, and then in like a month's time it reads eleven, maybe I lost 4% body fat. No, because scale, like, actual the scale itself of how much each percentage on the scale represents, it's not linear. There's no way to guarantee that just because the scale went from 15 to eleven, there was actually a delta of 4% body fat. Does that make sense? So I just want to preface that I gave you guys my calculations, my estimation, the films of where I'm at. And based on that, I'm going to be down to, like, 63 kilos on stage. I can't imagine being 63 kilos. I don't remember the last time 63 probably just growing up, my weight went up, up, and it probably plateaued around, like, 70 to 75 for years. But I don't remember the last time I was 63. Probably like, I don't know, 15 years, maybe. That's why I reckon maybe 15 years ago. So it'll be really interesting. That's where I'm at. So I've just rambled up with my update. Just wanted to give you guys that. But today we're going to be talking about your three options in life. Okay, I want to break things down, make everything super simple for you. Your three options in life, in the description, is one, you go backwards. Two, you stay the same. Three, you move forward. And honestly, all three options are extremely uncomfortable. Moving backwards in life, regressing in life is one of the most depressing feelings you can experience, because you would think in life, given how everyone else in the whole world is moving forward if you're moving backwards. Woods that's a really depressing monster.
Like to just put into perspective when I did projects when I was grade three, grade four, I had to read encyclopedias. We had a 26 Book Britannica encyclopedia collection that I had to go through to research about fucking spiders. I had to read through those pages. I used to play Pokémon. I don't know if you guys used to play poker, you played Pokémon and Game Boy. And back then we didn't have access to the Internet. So we can't just go online and figure out how to play it. And that's what makes games fun. Back then, it was all about exploration. You don't have access to that information, and you have to figure it out yourself. And that's what made it fun. And if you did want a guide, you'd actually have to buy a book. You'd actually have to buy like, a Pokémon guide book. And like, my parents were stingy. They never let me buy it. And so when I went to Toys R US when I was young, I'd walk past it all the time. I'd read standard toys and read and try to collect the information. So access to information is getting more and more readily available. And now in recent months, we've been talking about it, and I think we're going to continue to talk about it over the next few months and years. Is AI right? Now, where GPT? Number three. And there's actually drafts and models of GPT number four, and it's hundreds of million times more advanced than number three, and it's only going to continue to get better. And so you can use AI to assist of your work. So rather than fight the wave, why don't you just ride it? And so we capitalize on AI as a business to help leverage, speed up our work process. Time. If you guys have actually dabbled in it, it's so impactful and so powerful, and it's going to add so much value to your life.
Consistency is one thing, but also understand they're on your journey, that things will get difficult. And honestly it actually gets harder. It doesn't get easier. People say it gets easier when you start, maybe like before you start or when you are considering starting and you want to start, maybe that's hard. That first step is really difficult. And once you cross that first step, it gets a little easier. You generate a little bit of momentum and then a couple of weeks in the momentum starts to die down on and it's always going to happen and you need to learn how to get through it. And honestly, I'm at that point, I'm at the hump of discomfort because when I first started going on live, it was April 2021. Now that I think about it, I've almost been going on live for like two years. That's actually crazy. April, july is when I started, so maybe a year and a half. And during that time our business was just taking off. So I felt, I wouldn't say desperate sprit, but I felt like I had to do whatever it took. If it meant going alive every single day, I was going to do it. And that became my identity. And as we started to progress over the last few months, I started to assume new roles, being able to move the direction of the business forward. And I think there's a part of me that felt like I was starting to move above these things that I knew I was supposed to do. But that's not true. That's never true. You're never above any particular task. There might be certain tasks that are better suited towards your skills and capacity as you progress and get better, but you're never above anything. And I realized for the last few months that I really need to get back to baseline to rebuild that foundation because that was my identity, that was daily lives. And I let that get to my head and I started to fall off track and I started to go on some days and make excuses on others, decide to go this time, that time. But I've made myself a commitment that this is the hump of discomfort that I need to get through to get our business to that next level. This is my plateau that I need to get through.
I no longer require or yearn or seek the validation of other people. Honestly, I don't even care what people think. Because if any of you guys are in this position, you guys will understand that if you are intrinsically happy with yourself, the opinions of other people just almost don't matter because it's just not the truth. Does that make sense? Like, if you know that you're a confident person, that's consistent, that shows up for themselves. So it's almost irrespective of what you tell me, because I know what I am, and I have the data to back that up. And so a statement that misaligns with my reality, it's just not the truth. And then I was actually talking to someone earlier yesterday. Actually, I was talking to one of my clients yesterday, and we were talking about how he's a skinny guy growing up, and one of the reasons why he wanted to join the program was he wanted to gain weight. He wanted to hit this magic 100 kilos. And like, 100 kilos don’t really mean anything. Like, why would anyone want to put on weight? And as we started to talk, we started to explore that he just hated people calling him skinny. He hated the opinions of others and what they thought of him. Then I asked him, what does he think of himself? Does he think that he's skinny? He's like, yeah. And it really comes down to, like, I don't think it's the opinions of other people that really affected him. It was actually the opinion that he had of himself, and that was his own opinion. And other people validated that opinion. And so he's on this journey. You think that if he were to gain weight, those opinions are going to go away? They're not. People are going to complain about something else. People are always going to complain. But if someone called me lazy, I wouldn't care. Why would I care? Like, I know the type of work that I have to put in and invest into myself and my team and my clients, everything. Like, I know what I do. So even if you say that, and it's like, cool, if you call me fat, I'm like, all right, it's your opinion.
Reality is they should have started two years ago and worked towards creating a life where you have full control over. I want to bring to your attention that you guys don't actually have control over your life, and you've never had control ever since that you were young. You know, say you were three, four years old, right? You would have ran around and maybe being a bit hyper, jumped on this, jumped on the coffee table, or throwing things around, and then your parents, your people around you, your teachers, they tell you how you should act. And so you're already controlled from that aspect. Everything you learn is from the media, and schools are funded by the government, which has an agenda to push. And so as you grow up, you've always been molded and shaped, and you don't even have control. And you've been molded to feel like the nine to five job is the end destination. Study hard, finish your degree, get a job, work a nine to five, and buy a house and live a happy life. And that's not a happy life, to be honest, because guess what? You cannot travel tomorrow if you wanted. You'd have to ask someone for permission. Hey, I'd like to go and leave on this day to this day. Can you please approve it? Oh, no, Joe's already booked it. In this day, you can't actually go. That's not freedom. It's tomorrow. If you wake up and you didn't feel like working, you can't you feel obligated to because you actually might get fired. Does that make sense? Like, you guys don't actually have control. And so the mindset from what I can see right now, people are living this life that has been pressured onto them.
Most importantly, you can't build motivation. Does that make sense? Motivation is an emotion and it just comes. What you should do instead is actually build momentum. Momentum is something that can build and compound. It can actually make your journey a lot easier. And it can actually even make your journey in terms of progression exponential as well. Everyone knows, like going to the gym, that the first day back is always the hardest. And then it starts to get a little easier because you build momentum. So tip number one is when you are feeling motivated at the start of your journey, rather than acting out on that motivation and going as hard as you can, doing as much as you can because you want, to get a head start or you want to get done as fast as you can? I want you to channel that energy elsewhere into building momentum. How can I go the distance? That's what I want you to ask yourself, how can I go the distance? Don't ask yourself, what else can I do? How can I speed this up? How can I fasten up the process? I want you to just sit there, breathe, relax. This is where meditation comes into play as well. And then you start thinking about, how can I go the distance? What's something that's realistic that I can actually do? Segue to point number two. When you start a habit, never stop it. Don't start 50 different habits tomorrow and try to radically change your life just one habit at a time. And as long as you start a habit and you never stop it over a period, you're going to have a lot of changes. And so if you can just do one habit a week, you know how what people say 1% a day? 1% is a lot. 1% is honestly a lot. Like 7% in a week, 15% in two weeks, or 14% if you want to be accurate. That's a lot. That's a big jump. And 1% a week.
In six months. We're now at 2000 followers. So my projection was that in one year I should I'm aiming to get 5000. I don't really care about vanity metrics and how many followers I have but it's a good indication that my content is actually resonating with the right people and I'm doing what I need to to actually build a social media presence. And so those numbers metrics for me is just engaged that we're heading in the right direction and so I'm pretty happy with that. The Mentorship we actually redid our whole systems, our SOPs, our processes, everything from the ground up, automations. And that has been in preparation so that we can scale up even throughout the toughest periods. We are preparing for the scale up because once the economy goes back to normal, once I become better as an entrepreneur, three, we operate better as a team. We actually have the team members that really thrive really well and want to be a part of the team. I think we're going to do like in terms of our projections this year 2023, we're looking at opening a gym. So all the goals that we had from the previous year carry over, we weren't able to reach it last year, which I'm actually not faster, but I would actually say that I've learned more about being an entrepreneur and running a business this year than I did last year. So previous year we were just about trying to get things done, trying to put our foot in the door, which is great. And then we're like, okay, we need to actually get back to baseline, build a really solid foundation and start building from there. And that we have.
Sometimes time off is actually needed for you to actually work more efficiently at later periods. And so, yeah, I've just been trying to think of like a more I don't want to say sustainable, like what we have right now is not sustainable, but I want to find a new system or a flow that I can create content and shop in these lives a lot more efficiently with minimal resistance. And sometimes I'm just in a bit of a dilemma. If I am not at 100% energy, should I even go on live? Is that the right message that I want to send? And that's something I'm battling because there's always going to be two camps. One camp is like, yeah, you should, you're being lazy. And that's what I normally think. And sometimes I push myself too hard. And the other camp is maybe I'm just making those excuses in my head. So I'm trying to find that balance and I want to make sure, like, every time I am here, I've got immense value to provide. I don't want to show up just for the sake of it. And if I ever feel like I'm just showing up for the sake of it, that something needs to be done. But yeah, just wanted to share that with you guys. But welcome, Maddie. Thank you for tuning in. Hope you're well shared with me a big win over the weekend and let me know how your weekend has been going as well. Today I want to talk to you guys about three things that coaches don't tell you. And I have not seen any coaches in any industry actually talk about this stuff. I think a lot of the times coaches are often showing the best examples of the best clients and they kind of imply that that's the typical, typical results that you would get. And honestly, that's just not the case. Number one, one thing that most common coaches’ number one, I feel like the most common thing that coaches don't tell you is how many of their clients actually fall off track. Okay, for those of you guys don't know, we are premium coaching, which means there is a big financial barrier to entry and there's a reason behind that because you actually have a whole team behind you.
How can you be a head judge in a position of objectivity, be able to talk down in your competition like that? And that increases the pressure that she's applying to people to actually go to her as a coach. She didn't say, hey, he's just because he's a pro, I'm a head judge, but she might as well have. That's pretty much what she was alluding to. She was trying to discredit someone based on their status to insinuate or imply her. That is I thought that was absolutely BS. And I remember that that was solidified into my mind. And there was actually about like six, seven or eight of us there as witness. Hang was there as well. There was Ethan, his ex-girlfriend was there. JD was there. Kaya was there as well. They all witnessed this. And I'm like, I can't believe a head judge would actually say that. You know what I mean? Like, just imagine this in any other scenario. Imagine that you went to court and it was a civil case, right? Someone suing you or you’re suing someone just for argument's sake, and then it turns out that the judge is related to your opponent. How would you feel? Or someone in the jury actually knows someone from the opposing team. How would you feel about that? That will be considered mistrial and that is in a place where objectivity is the utmost importance and you got to think about it. Right? I understand the bodybuilding is a sport that's subjective. However, you want to try to minimize the subjectivity as much as possible because why would anyone want to compete if they are just going to be exposed to either favoritism or just the fact that someone is financially sensitivities to want someone else to do well? Does that make sense? Just think about it. Let's just say you go to a coach and they happen to be a head coach. And because they're a head coach, they're very influential and you happen to win.
Now I'm interested. Does it really change anything? No, not really. I think it just helps me understand situations a little bit better. And so one of the things that we're going to be doing as a company is doing the My Briggs for everyone, right? For everyone to understand exactly where they're at. These things change as well. These things change as your personality changes, as you start to realize and you mature and the way you outlook, the way that you are actually changes, then those letters that you are assigned also change. So I don't think the purpose of doing these things is to define who you are. It's just to bring into light that some people operate a little bit differently. And so whether you're introverted, extroverted, whether you don't have any mental blocks or you have some kind of I don't know, I don't know what you would call it. Like a mental disorder. I don't know if you want to call it that. If you have some kind of, like, mental hindrance, if you will, it doesn't really matter. None of that really matters. And when I found out I had ADHD, I didn't want to go a Psych or a therapist to get treatment because honestly, like, 99% of the time, they're going to prescribe you some kind of drug. And I'm like, I don't want to be defined as this. I don't want to define myself as someone that has it, and I don't want that to dictate who I am going to be as a person. And I don't want to have to rely on a certain drug just to be a certain way. And that's why I've been so liberated over the last few years. Haven't taken alcohol out of the equation.
I see business as an investment to invest into things that minimize my resistance. For example, we invested into a production team that's going to create content for us. And fun fact, the first reels are going to be coming out today. And my goal is to be producing two reels a day on all platforms. I'm going to be on YouTube. Shorts, Instagram, reels, TikTok, Facebook, reels everywhere. I want to be omnipresent. And so having a team that actually helps me generate that content is going allow me to focus on moving the direction of the business forward rather than doing the repetitive stuff each and every single day. Rather than spending my time rolling up my blinds and turning on and off my lights. I can just do all that in a blink of an eye and I save time. And one of the things that I've learned growing up now over the last couple of years is that the most valuable resource is time. And there isn't enough time in a day. Honestly, there isn't enough time. We're waking up early as it is. I don't think we can wake up any earlier. Wake up any earlier. We'd have to sleep at 08:00 in our summertime 08:00, the sun is still up. I just don't think that's going to be physically possible. We're trying to work and be as productive as we can from the moment, we wake up to the moment we sleep. So every minute actually counts. And if it's just a couple of minutes a day every single day for the rest of your life, that adds up. Why would you want to spend it doing repetitive things? Why not buy back that time so that you can actually spend time on what actually really matters?
I think an appropriate response for someone that organized that that wasn't able to cater to anyone is, hey, I'm sorry. I didn't know that, you know, or, I didn't expect that this would happen. You know, I don't mean I would have been all right, but he was like, Ha. I knew that would happen. Well, in my mind, like, if you knew that would happen, why would you organize it? And I realized that it's the exact same situation that happened when I was six years old, that I was the afterthought. And then and then I had to sit there and watch my whole family eat. I was hungry. If he knew he goes to restaurants, he eats out, like, I don't know, three, four, five times out a week, maybe. I don't know how many times he eats out. And he messaged me afterwards saying that he kind of thought it would happen. He just doesn't know. But he kind of had a feel he could have told me, so I couldn't have eaten beforehand. So from my perspective, a lot of resentment in terms of the decisions that he made. But that's fine. I'm willing to overlook it. If he had just, hey, I'm sorry you weren't able to eat. You know, we'll try to find a better place next time. And he was just like, I knew that would happen. And then and then hang, and I had to leave early because I have to go home, eat, and go to bed. He's like, I'll send you the bill, and he messages me the bill after my opinion. It's not about the money, but I wouldn't send anyone a bill if I had poorly organized that that excluded them. If you and someone else were organizing a dinner and you seem to have overlooked some factor that excluded them, it might be some kind of dietary requirement. Maybe they're gluten free, or they're vegan, or they can't eat seafood, whatever it is, whatever allergies they have, and you organize it, and to the best of your ability, you thought that they could eat it.
How am I going to pay for the bill? So I just thought to myself, if I invest my time and effort into making videos, there's so many things I could be. I could be a videographer; I could be a photographer. And a contingent plan would have been for hang a night for us to get to that place where we can record people, record businesses and help share their story, like documentary style. We could have been wedding videographer and wedding photographers. I think that was cool. I thought during this weird economic time, I'm like, people are always going to get married, regardless of how shitty things are. Yeah, maybe most of the middle class are going to suffer, but people are always still going to want to get married. Health, wealth, relationships, those are the things that are always going to be important. So I felt like learning how to record videos excuse me, is going to scale in any economy. I thought, even if it's not wedding videos of photography, if I were to start a business, I can record videos for that. And I think we live in a digital age where media is super important. It's what we consume. And I feel like it can increase the perceived value of a business based on the production.
The top impact I can have on someone. And over time, I started to see more changes. But when I did my YouTube series, I helped five people, right? Four people fell off. Things got hard and they fell off. There was no obligation to keep them locked in. And when things got hard, I just felt like I'm helping someone and they've just spat that back in my face. And then I realized there was a call to actually be a coach. I thought, okay, maybe I can help people that want to actually be helped. They can make a financial investment into themselves and I can actually help them. And when we first started, our program was much cheaper. And within the first two months, we signed, like, 50 clients. But you know what? Like 75% of them end up falling off track. And fast forward to now, the program is much more expensive. Our fall off rate is much lower. It's like 10% right now. And because people are making these big financial investments into themselves because they actually want to change. And for this bro to come at me to say that I never really cared, like, what does he expect? Does he expect someone to come into his life completely change his life, change his perception, change his mindset, help him each and every single day, and then help him for free? I told you, no one is going to outwork me in this industry. But the work I do is to help people. And I cannot help someone that doesn't want to be helped. And if you are not willing to make a financial investment to yourself as a token to represent your commitment to your goals, you're going to come tell me that you suffer from being lazy, you procrastinate, you've set yourself these goals. It's costing you years. You're sad, you're depressed because you're out of shape. And it hasn't just affected your fitness. It's impacting your mindset, your work, and your demeanor, your attitude, your morale, your energy, your mindset, your outlook on life. And you want someone to come and change that. And you're not willing to invest, like, a decent amount. Like, think about how silly that sounds for you.
Definitely possible. If you make sure that you lock down everything and results that you could expect, you could lose anywhere between like four to even six kilos, maybe even more, depending on how overweight you are. You can actually do a lot of damage in those six weeks. And we're super excited. And we're also giving away $2300 worth of cash prizes. This is sponsored by EFOODS and Nutrition Capital and Achieve apparel. I want to give a big shout out to those guys, jose from Nutrition Capital an Andy from EFOODS for setting this up. And yeah, so basically the challenge is you show up, do what you're supposed to do, tick things off, lose a whole bunch of weight, and we're giving away weekly prizes. And the grand prize winner let me get the numbers up. I don't actually remember. So grand prize is $300 nutrition capital voucher, $200 EFOODS voucher, $500 coaching voucher, and $200 achieve apparel voucher. We also have a runner up, one as well, and that is $200 for Nutrition Capital and $200 for achieve apparel for memory. I think that is basically the crux of the challenge. Registrations are going to open within the next couple of hours. We're just getting everything ready on our end. But honestly, I feel like this is going to be the best challenge that you guys are going to run. Unlike most challenges, which are super restrictive and foods are really boring and resemble cardboard, you're going to be eating stuff like pizzas, burgers, and even desserts. We're going to show you how you can lose weight rapidly without starving yourself. And I would actually bet that most people that will join are probably going to be eating more food than they did when they came in. And they're not even going to be doing excessive amounts of cardio. The waste is going to strip off. And in the process, unlike other challenges that just put them on the program and leave them there.
You know, looking after your nutrition, whether you should start exercising, whether you should start working on your hobbies, whether you should start stop drinking, whether you should start working on your personal development, whatever it is. There's this version of you that actually does it and the version of you that doesn't. So that's a choice. And so those are your two choices. You either work towards your personal development or you don't. And that's who you should compare yourself to, the shadow version of yourself. And so you should ask yourself, like, sometimes it might be easier for you to choose the easier short term Pleasure decision, but there's always going to be a shadow of you that actually goes out and does that. And then over a million decisions, it's going to lead to a particular version of you, and then you get to choose what version of you can be. And I think about that every single day. I go through resistance every day, just like everyone. I wasn't always quite hard working or mentally resilient. That's a choice that I decided to make because I thought and I saw a version of myself that I wanted to be. I didn't compare myself to anyone else. Honestly, I don't really care what everyone else does. I would just for the sake of it, do the opposite of what everyone else does. Because if I do what everyone else does, I immediately limit myself to what their potential is. And I feel like there's so much more that we all can do that is way beyond the standard that's currently set right now. So let's think of running 100 meters, sprints the record. No one was able to get below 10 seconds for like 50 or 60 years. And suddenly when the first person breaks 10 seconds, then the second one breaks 10 seconds. And now we have more and more people that are able to break below 10 seconds. And it becomes almost a standard for the world class elite runners. Same thing with Powerlifting record. They're constantly being broken again and again and again. And as more people start to break these records, people start to realize that the potential is so much higher. Our limitation right now is actually our mindset.
And when I started my business, I didn't have the same mindset of trying to save money. I didn't spend recklessly. I just thought about investments. I just thought like, why would I want to keep cash in my bank account? Because as a business, I want to pay tax on everything that I have. So why don't I invest it towards things that's going to generate income later? So that's why we launched our peril, that's why we renovated our office. That's why I bought the M two as well. It was all to minimize tax. And you know, that's a mindset that not a lot of people have. And the mindset that most people have is save up wherever they can, try to be as frugal as they can and save up for a house. I think the mindset a lot of people have is also is instead of like, don't buy a coffee because you're saving $4 a day and that's like 1200 a year, I'm like, why don't you just work harder so you can afford that coffee? Why don't you just work harder? Think about if you are trying to save which people don't save, just so you guys know. Think about it this way. There's a limit to how much you can save every year. That is the difference between your income minus your expenses and there's a finite amount that you can save. And it's going to require you to make a lot of sacrifices versus you thinking about how you can get a promotion, or how you can get a pay rise, or how you can get more income. And if you put that effort in rather than savings to think about how you can accumulate another stream of income or get a pay rise, you get to pay for all those expenses that you had. So you not only to live a higher quality of life, but you're also going to build yourself more opportunities to generate more income. So I didn't try to save it for them too. I was just able to afford it in terms of building the business for a year. And now I have other goals and aspirations.
And I think a lot of people are the same. They get injured, and that's the reason why they fall off track. I want to remind you guys, when you get injured, that is not the time for you to stop training. When you stop training, you lower your body's actual capacity, which means that when you get back to training, you're very likely to reinjure it. So train around it. If you injured your arm, you can still train your legs, you can still train your upper body. You just can't train your arm. View, injured your leg, train your upper body, train everything around it. And even though I've injured my shoulder, I still went forward with a push workout, probably at like 40% to 50% capacity, just to get the blood flow in. Really focus on the form of technique to perform the exercises in a way that doesn't aggravate it. I'm just making sure I'm not overworking it, but just getting blood flow to those regions, it's actually going to help recovery. And we're more conscious of sleep right now. We're also, like I said, taking that sleep aid and yeah, I just got to ride it out, recover. I've rehabilitated this before many times, so I don't see this being any different. This is not going to be a reason why I'm going to not continue prep. Even if I can't train chest all the way up till prep day, I'm still going to compete. But just today, Hang and I actually after we trained, we went to film some videos, film some footage for the next YouTube episode. And it was about my car. And as we'll filming, I reminded myself of how grateful I am of everything else that's happening to me in my life. And I'm not saying this to boasts or to show off or anything like that. I think I want you guys, as an exercise, to actually practice gratitude’s every day. Gratitude’s and affirmations things that you're grateful for. I think in life, it's very easy to dwell on the things that aren't going your way.
And so the reason why I want to start educating and teaching you these things is it's these attributes that you focus on that's going to determine your long term success. Success is not luck. It's not whether someone is born with it or not. Means some people might have it easier than others, but it's something that can be replicable within anyone. And so one of the reasons why we have these core company values is it gives our team something to, like I said, standard to hold themselves to and things for them to work towards. So in our hustle and bustle of our job, it's easy to get caught up in the minutiae of creating content, serving our clients and being present. But sometimes we get lost in terms of why we're doing it in the first place. And our ultimate goal is actually to tick off and hone in on these attributes. Accountability, someone that is accountable, that can be relied on. Someone that helps keep others accountable. And being accountable is not just for your job. Being accountable for your partners, family, your friends, people that support you, people that believe in you. Number two is consistency and commitment. If you're consistent every single day, you're committed towards your goals. You're committed to the people that believe in you. You're committed to your team; you're committed to the mission. How aren't you going to achieve success? H is honorable actions. Everything you do needs to be with honor. You're not doing anything that is morally misaligned with the mission, the goals, or who you want to be. You're a person of integrity. Integrity is the next one, right? You're integral towards your own word. You're integral towards your goal. You're integral as a human being. You work with integrity. E is emotional intelligence. You exercise emotional intelligence. This involves social skills. Being able to exercise empathy, understanding your mission objective and staying motivated. Emotionally regulating yourself so that you're not making irrational decisions.
If you're not over saturated, then figure out like when things get tough in your life and you're starting to add things in, just understandable your health and fitness. You don't have to put in like a thousand percent effort. You can just dial things back a little bit, but set that expectation first. So I think the mistake that a lot of people make is when work gets busier, when family comes down, they just give up their health and fitness. What's? Like completely? Because it becomes hard. It's tough. And, you know, say you have family over. It's not like you're going to wake up at six in the morning and spend the whole entire 16 hours of them. You're probably not even going to talk to them until maybe later in the afternoon. You guys might go to lunch, you take them around and have dinner. You have the early hours in the morning to yourself. Why don't you wake up a little bit earlier and then fulfill your fitness obligations and then spend time with them throughout the rest of the day? That's possible, but it's just hard. And a lot of people think that it's hard. So I don't actually do it. Does that make sense? You understand there's always a way to work around it as long as you want it bad enough. And like I said, when you have nothing in your way, you can put in what I call a level five commitment. Level five commitment is when you're doing everything, everything to the highest capacity. Well then when you start to get a little bit busy, just dial it back to a level four commitment. Right? I'll give you an example. Level five commitment could be your meal prepping every single day. You're able to go to gym five times a week, able to do your cardio. So get an eight hour sleep, rest every single night. You stay hydrated, everything. Level four commitment. Maybe work gets a little bit busy and there are some days that you have to stay back after work. So instead of going to the gym five times a week, maybe you only go four times a week, two of those days on the weekend. So out of the five weekdays, only two days are actually spent going to the gym. And then maybe you can do the cardio on the weekends instead. And then instead of meal prepping, you only meal prep maybe two of your meals. Or you can buy lunch or you can buy rice meals. That's the level four commitment. Level three commitment. Maybe you're really busy, work is busy, but then you also have to look after your family.
You made a choice to put the food in your mouth. We live in the 21st century right now, and, you know, dealing with obesity is something that we've been dealing with for over 20 plus years. It was like, 20 years ago that there was that show, Supersized Me, to show people the effects of fast food. Everyone already knows, you know, making poor choices with their food is going to lead them to be overweight, but people choose to ignore it. They choose to do other things, they choose to indulge, they choose to be overweight. That is a reality I grew up overweight. Now, can I say that I've been obese? No. Right. I don't think by definition I was obese, but I was very overweight, and I've been overweight since I was young. However, it was still my choice. Yes, there was some ignorance, a lack of education, a lack of information, and I've tried many times and I failed many times, but I still chose to go back to the drawing board each time I failed, despite the gap between every time. Me trying might have been weeks, months or even years, but it was still my choice. And it took me ten years plus to figure out how I can overcome my challenges. Again, that's still my choice. When I die, it 90% of the time I have to die on lower calories than what my clients died on. That's what I've been born with. But it's still my choice to actually either work around it. I used to think to myself, like, every time I die, to be in such low calories. And I think to myself, that's a choice. That is a choice on whether I want to put in the effort and work towards it or not. And honestly, like, needs a bit of a tangent, like my hair. The reason why I wear a hat is my hair is actually quite long.
We've actually got something that is real and has helped people. It's transformed Hang's life, it's transformed Josh's life, transformed my life. And so we figured, imagine, we can make a profession out of this. But I think one of my limiting beliefs is not having the systems to be able to run a successful online fitness business. And then I found a mentor. I found a mentor that laid everything out and it made, everything made so much sense and we were able to, to create amazing results. And during this time, it was perfect timing that we were just on the bottom end of lockdown. We're going to be out of lockdown in 2020. And so I pulled the trigger. I joined the mentorship and I started opening the business. And in the first week, I signed up 15 clients. It was crazy, honestly, it was mind blowing. But that's because I had some skills and attributes that I was able to combine into health and fitness. I was good at sales; I was good at digital media. So I combined everything together. And in that week, I probably had like maybe 20 phone calls. I landed 15 new clients. Everyone's super excited. And the more that I started to land, the more self-doubt started to cast in my mind. And I was thinking, am I actually scamming these people? Am I over promising and promising something that I can't actually and so how did I overcome this? Because they have put their trust and faith in me. I had to make sure 1000% that I would not disappoint them. So I overdelivered to overcome my self-doubt. I over delivered by providing the best service possible, providing the best support possible, providing what I believe was the best program.
And then you feel guilty about it, and then you start punishing yourself again. And as you progress throughout the weeks and bad habits start to seep into your lifestyle, you start to make no progress and you lose motivation and you fall off. Or you make a decision to not eat out or hang out with your friends because you're on a diet. And then maybe in the first month or two, the decision is quite easy because you're making good progress. But after three or four months, you realize that you've missed out on a few birthdays you missed out on. And if you feel weddings or maybe you've gone and you started to have these binges, then you feel like maybe the fitness journey isn't really worth it anymore. I have to make so many sacrifices. Being lean is not worth it. If it means that I don't get to spend time with my family and my friends, it's not really the case. But that's actually what happens 90% of the time when you're dieting without guidance, you're taking that approach. So that's something to be mindful of, that your fitness journey is actually quite repetitive. And it's not about special workouts or special foods. I think everyone tries to find the secret foods or the secret workouts. Nothing like that. It's just simplicity is the best approach. So that's talking about the slow fat loss, fast fat loss. Now, approaching fat loss with a fast strategy is not necessarily a bad thing. Now, I think 99% of the time it's taken to the extreme where people practice restrictive diets like keto, intermittent fasting, one meal a day. They're the three main really popular ones. And basically, you're going to lose a lot of weight at the start, which can be very motivating. But then also you have this expectation that you should be losing, say, a kilo a week. So that's what you are losing. And so you think, okay, in twelve weeks I want to lose twelve kilos, and I'm going to be happy for someone and I could maintain it. But that's not really the case because when you take a faster approach, your metabolism is going to adapt.
Whatever you're afraid of, just put yourself out there. So on Friday, we talked about one of my clients. And one of the things he was dealing with was his insecurity in terms of how he looks. And so what we did was the complete opposite of that. If you're afraid of something, do the complete opposite. Same example I was afraid of heights. And so what did I do? I'd put myself in situations that made me uncomfortable. And over time, I want you guys to remember the more things that you do that are outside your comfort zone, your comfort zone will eventually expand and less things will actually be outside of more things will be inside your comfort zone. Does that make sense? As you start to do more and more different things, if you're afraid of running your business, just pull the trigger and do it. One, it's not only different, but two, it's something you're afraid of. And when you actually start, you realize that there is nothing to be afraid of. So in the example of my client, I told him to put himself out there, put a transformation. And not only was he not judged because of how he looked, but he received an overwhelming amount of support from his family and his friends because he put himself out there. And I told him, like, who cares if people make fun of you? It's a win-win situation. You either get support or people make fun of you. But the only guarantee that you really have is that you are going to push forward and persevere on your journey. And when you persevere on your journey, you are going to succeed. You'll make them eat their words. Does that make sense? So doing things that make you uncomfortable. So just to recap, number one, just do things that are different. Number two, do things that make you uncomfortable. And number three is start dreaming. Actually, start envisioning what it is that you want in your life. And I think a lot of us are afraid to dream because we've had patterns in the past that have showed us that we've dreamt before. We've had a goal and an ambition before and we weren't able to feel our end of it because we were inconsistent. Step number three is go back to dreaming. Go back and start ticking off the goals that you once had when you were young. Because those goals were indicative of what we want in our purest form.
You start thinking about all the things that are important to you. You start thinking about your family, your friends, everyone that's ever invested or believed in you, everything that you fought for, all the sacrifices that you've made. Now you suddenly become desperate. You become desperate to survive. You don't want to just die like that. Then you go into a flight mode and then you become like a hunter. And then you end up surviving. So you don't know what you're capable of, what you're truly, truly capable of, until you're in that circumstances that actually push you to your limits. And that's where I was. And I was very grateful because when I didn't have anything, all I thought about was the things that I wanted. I thought about the job that I wanted, the life that I wanted to live. I was thinking, I always imagined myself having a family one day. And I thought, how can I ever have a family if I was in this hole right now? And maybe one day my children are going to be in a hole very similar. How am I going to teach them how to get out of this? And every day I thought about having nothing. And that fear, that pressure, was what led me to pushing. Every single day I went to work, I put more effort in than everyone else because I wanted to stand out, I wanted to excel. I always thought about the moment that I slack; I want to end up right back where I started. Because the reality is you are the generating positive momentum when you're going backwards. And I remember what it felt like to constantly make decisions that were comfortable. It was a slippery slope. And before you know it, you're six to twelve months in a hole and you don't know how to get out. And I just thought, I'm in a hole right now. This mountain that I need to climb, it feels very daunting. But you know what? For you to climb a mountain, it's made up of just each individual step. You take a step by step, day by day. And just remember, it's feels really tough when you're going through it and it feels like there's no end.
There’re so many people that I speak in terms of my team about tax, for example, and they're like not good with numbers. Like, why are you saying that? Like, I think acknowledging that you're not that good with numbers and that's something that you want to work towards is how you're going to build up your knowledge. It's how you're going to improve. And being self-aware is being able to look at yourself. Think about like, playing a game. I don't know if you guys play games, games, but if you've played a game before, whatever game you play, there's going to be some stats. You might play a roleplaying game, or a racing game, a fighting game. Everyone has stats and you can see those numbers and you can play, OK, that car is faster than this one, or this character has better stats than the other one. And then you work towards building those stats. You do that in a game, do that in life. You are the character of your game. And so when you learn how to be self-aware, it's you being objective about yourself, of the skills and attributes that you are weak at and you are stronger. And then you work towards building it. As you start to develop your personal development that you develop as a person, well, your confidence is going to grow because you've collected more data that you are someone that has weaknesses, but you're able to implement some changes and resolve those weaknesses and turn them into strengths. Right? Makes sense. Number four is humility. Okay. Humility is very important. That humility leads to confidence because humility is being able to acknowledge where you fall short and asking for the help that you need and asking for the help that you need is going to help you be on that pathway to developing yourself. I'm very open about the mentorship that I receive. I'm very open about my weaknesses, and that is me being humble, exercising humility on the stats that I'm weak at. But if I'm good at something, I should have the right to express that I am good at something. Am I the best compared to everyone else? It's irrelevant. I've never mentioned that before, but I'm the best that I can be. But I'm also very self-aware of stats and attributes that I am good at. I can choose to continue to nurture that and take that to the next level.
Like imagine that like getting to financial freedom at the age of 50 and your whole life has been spent at a lower quality. I don't think that's the right thing. And so for me, I have never had an interest in buying a house until I am ready. And I think a lot of people have been saving for years so that they can put down to 1015 or 20% now to the down payment deposit that the banks are after. And the banks are the ones that make the money, they make the interest of you and they have your house as collateral and you are stuck, you're financially bound. So maybe when you're young you had a dream of being able to run your own business and then you had a decent paying full-time job which allowed you to generate enough capital, not enough to be financially free, but enough to save it for a house. And you're thinking well I should buy a house because the price is going up. Everyone says you should buy a house. I mean, that's the Australian dream, right? And they buy a house, they upload a photo on Facebook with next to the sold signs with a smile on the face. And when I say that, I'm like I feel sorry for you. I feel sorry that you are now going to be trapped for the next 20 or 30 years and you lose the liquidity and the freedom to actually do the things that you actually want. Now there are some people that are working their dream job and they buy a house. And by all means, like I said, I don't think it's for everyone. I think if you are in a place of financial liquidity where you don't know what to do with your money, then yes, I think at that point in time, looking at investments is an awesome idea. To generate more capital and buying properties is awesome.
Because your body is trying to preserve whatever energy that it has. Does that make sense? Our bodies are very smart and you know, just because we have a conscious mind, we can make decisions that could be destructive and harmful to our bodies. But our subconscious mind, our fight or flight response has certain responses that prevent us from doing anything to destructive. So we might to lose weight at the start, but it's going to come to a point where our body is going to fight our ability to lose weight because it doesn't want us to empty our energy storage. Because that's what fat is. The fat that you have is just reserved energy, excess energy that you've consumed through food that you haven't been able to burn off. And your body stores that as energy reserves for later on. So you have to think about our ancestors when they were hunting. There might be periods of hours or days where they don't have food. And imagine that if you don't eat for 2 hours, you die because you have no energy. It's like your car, if you run out of fuel while your car is just going to stop. Right? Our bodies are a little bit more intelligent than that. As we start to deplete our energy stores, our body would actually prevent us from burning too much energy. So things start to change. Your body starts to produce less body heat. Anyone who's been lean would actually experience this one. You have less fat, which is less insulation, but then also your body is going to produce less heat, it's going to sweat less small little changes that are not crucial to your survival. But your body is just being more frugal. I want you to think about your body fat is very similar to your bank account, okay? If you're earning more money than you're spending, you are going to store it in your bank account as your savings. If you're eating more energy than you are burning, your body is going to store that into your body savings, which is your adipose tissue, which is your body fat. And as you start to spend and tap into your savings, well maybe when your savings bank account is full, you are very happy to spend. You might get different TV subscription services like Stand and Disney Plus and Netflix and maybe YouTube as well. But then as you start to deplete through your savings, you see that over a period of time there's a trend that you are spending more than you are actually savings.
Eating more frequently boost your metabolism. Okay, so number two is keto can make you burn fat faster. I think I can speak for a lot of us. We've tried keto before. I've tried keto before. I was a true advocate of keto, probably back in 2011. I was in school and I was doing a lot of research online. I tried intermittent fasting, had great results to that quotes, great results. And then I tried Keto. I had quite a great result of that as well. I lost around ten kilos in about eight weeks. So in my mind, I always associated keto as the go to fat loss method. So throughout the whole entire year, I wouldn't do keto. I'd eat whatever I want. And when I needed to lose weight, I'm just thinking to myself, well, I'm out of shape right now, but I can always get back into shape within the next few weeks. I just need to do keto. And it became like at the start, like I said, I've got some decent results where my weight went down. Now, there's a difference between weight loss and fat loss. My weight did go down, however, I ended up looking sick. My brother, who actually studied interstate, he'd come down to visit us every few months, and him and I were both into fitness. So I was super excited for him to see the progress I had made in the time that he had been away. And by the time that he came back, his first impressions were, Andrew, you look sick. As in, I looked unwell. I lost a lot of muscle. I was really skinny. I was skinny fat, and that was attributed to keto. Now, we also have to understand, why do people feel like keto makes them lose fat fast? It's because when you're on keto, your weight will go down. Why does your weight go down? Because you're cutting out carbs. Carbs binds with water. It forms glycogen and it stores into your muscles. And when you cut out your carbs, you are going flush out a lot of that water And so a lot of people who are really out of shape, they evaluate their progress based on the numbers that they see on the scale.
So first off, I think you need to have a clear expectation of what it is that you're trying to achieve and the journey that you're actually about to embark on, because having a false sense of what you're actually embarking on is what's going to lead you to being unmotivated. Does that make sense? Because you start your journey, you're doing things that you don't want to do as a means to an end. And then somewhere along the way the effort required no longer outweighs the fulfillment you get from actually doing those things right. You want to go for a run at the start because you hate yourself. First off, you're embarking the fitness journey for the wrong reasons. You're actually punishing yourself. You don't like where you are. And you're like, I hate the way I look. I hate feeling like this. I want to make a change, so I'm going to run. And you know what? First off, you don't even need to run. You just need to make some small changes. Not even like drastically change your day, just some small little changes, but progressively make more changes each week. And that's going to lead you to getting the results you want. But because we are overwhelmed by a feeling of discomfort, we end up overreaching and starting to do more things that we can't actually sustain. We go for a run every day. We eat chicken and broccoli every single day. We try to do keto and intermittent fasting. And then on the weekends we when we snap back, it's just too intense. And then on the weekends, we end up binging. We end up going back to our old habits, which undoes all our work. And then that's when we start to feel unmotivated again. And then you feel shitty about out yourself. You go out ball to the wall, guns blazing guns. Does that make sense? So first off, curve your expectations.
And honestly, it was also my habits and all my decisions. And I started to assume responsibility for my own decisions. And I told myself, things aren't going to get better unless I made it better. And honestly, this thought, that line has been so ingrained into my mind. I want to share with you guys another story. This was when, during the time that I was actually going out and partying in a lot, and I think this was like, 2017, so just five years ago, so it's quite recent. And during the time, I was partying a lot. And this one night, I went out to clubs. I got really drunk and unconsciously. I know how to get myself home when I'm getting to that point where I'm like, okay, this is a little bit too crazy. I need to get myself home. I didn't tell anyone. I just left the place, jumped into the cab, got home. That's my last memory. And then I'd be in and out of consciousness. And I remember when I was in and out of consciousness, I was actually lying on the ground. I was super cold, and I was lying on the ground. I was, like, really drunk. I don't know what's going on, but these are just like, the flashes. And I realized that I was cold and I was on the road. And then the same thought went into my mind. I was just thinking, like, I want someone to come save me. I was drunk, passed out on the street somewhere. I don't know what street. And in my mind, I'm like, someone saved me. Someone saved me. Someone saved me. Then that thought came to my head that this isn't going to get better unless I make it better, regardless of what challenges are. I was freezing cold, half conscious, and I eventually got up, and I realized that I was actually in front of my house. This is a bit of a tangent. I walked up the driveway and I fell backwards and hit my head. But regardless, I was extremely intoxicated. However, that thought was still ingrained in me to my mind, and it allowed me to actually take action.
You're either lifting weights to build muscle or you're doing cardio. And when you do both, you're not going to be able to effectively build muscle and you're not going to be able to effectively burn calories. And then when you do those type of cardio as well, you're going to end up eating. So you might burn 200 calories for a cardio session, then you get hungry afterwards, then you drop by at your local kabab shop and then you have a kebab, which is 800 calories. And so you're wondering why you're doing all this cardio, eating all these clean foods, but when you have just this one meal, it undoes all that work and so long term, you're not going to lose anyway. Does that make sense? Just to recap, number one is you're eating clean, which leads to lack of adherence. Number two, that leads to you binging on the weekends or having cheat meals or cheat days, and you're doing either excessive cardio or too much cardio, or you're doing the wrong types of cardio. OK. Instead of doing sprints or heat cardio, just walk. Honestly, just walk. It's low impact. It's something you can do each and every single day. You don't even need to get dressed for it. You can just try to get extra steps in throughout the house. Just park a little bit further from work, park a little bit further from your groceries, park a little bit further from your gym, and suddenly you get additional steps in. You're burning more calories throughout the day without actually needing to do cardio. I feel like kit cardio is a tool used for performance athletes that need to increase the Vo to max, for example. But for most of us, you guys aren't performance athletes. You just want to lose a little bit of weight. And so, unless you plan on doing sprints and excessive cardiac forever, well, you're probably not going to get the results you want. Number four mistake you're making? Number four is you're not eating enough. This might sound very counterintuitive, but most people might practice some form of restrictive dieting. So, it could be keto, intermittent fasting, maybe just cutting out meals, or excessively low calories as well.
Who aspires to be a person that just sits on the couch, that's comfortable, who aspires for that, no one? But who aspires to be someone that's hard working to be consistent, that shows up for themselves, that's uncomfortable? So, you need to chase the discomfort for you to actually be able to take off these milestones. Makes sense. Number four is you broke your house at once. You gave yourself a reason to break your habit, to break your streak, and to fall off track. You gave yourself that reason and you did it. And when you do it, it's very hard for you to get back on track. And I'm not saying that in your life, you're not allowed to ever break it. You really need to pick your battles on when you break it. And you have to understand that when you break it, there is a very, very high likelihood that you're going to continue to fall off track. You remember, momentum is always compounding positively or negatively. There's no such thing as a maintenance. So every time you go to the gym and you're being consistent, you're ticking off your workouts, you're taking up your steps, you're eating good food, you're generating good momentum. And yes, eventually things get hard. It's going to go up and down, peaks and troughs. However, with momentum, it's going to help carry you throughout those peaks and troughs, and it's going to minimize the variance. And that is what consistency is. Consistency is not flatline. You're ticking everything off. Consistency is okay. Over a year, I've set myself a goal of hitting 200 workouts and I've hit 190. That's me being consistent. And there are some times where you miss, but you can't always miss it. Does that make sense? And when you break your habit once, it makes it much more likely that you're going to break it again.
I remembered that when I was going alive every single day at 09:00, without fail, I felt awesome because it was like a checklist thing that I was ticking off every single morning. And because I wasn't ticking those things off, I would start off the week strong. I'd have the dip towards the end of the week, and that would make me feel really shit, especially Wednesday, because Wednesday the rest day, which means I want to wait, go up. I take things, like, much slower. I'm not as productive as I want to be in the morning. I'm not taking those things off. It doesn't generate the momentum that I need. And I end up being really unproductive on Wednesday. And then on Thursday, Hang hangs out with her mum. I'm by myself, which makes me even more unproductive. And I feel like a really big dip psychologically, regardless of the withdrawals. I think the withdrawals just amplified everything. And then by Friday came by, and I'm like, well, it's almost the weekend, and my productively dips even more. That's a trend that I have noticed within myself over the last couple of weeks. I'm like, okay, what are some changes, some adjustments that I need to make? So if you guys are going through this, I think it's important for you to self-reflect on your actions rather than just blame your circumstances. Figure out what choices that you can make a better that's going to increase your likelihood of being able to do the things that you want. So being able to sleep earlier, getting more rest, is going to give you more energy throughout the day. And in the morning, we hang. And I had a discussion about tightening up the time. For example, I'd wake up at five, but sometimes we don't get to the gym by 06:00. We have to get ready, and in the morning is really slow. And I think the thing that bothers me the most is that I'm waking up an hour earlier, but I'm not getting to the gym for like, an hour, and I'm not doing anything in the morning. And it's just a waste of time of waking up early for nothing, just to be tired. And so hanging out. 515, we're getting out of the house. So 05:00, we wake up. 515, we're out of the house today without a 520, which is actually pretty good. Get to the gym by 530. We got home at 07:00, which gave us a bit of time, almost 730. So we had time for our team meeting.
Maybe like, four or five sessions. I got the cortisone injection, probably spent maybe like, seven to $800. But it's money. It's money that you can just make back. I'm not saying it from a perspective, like, money doesn't mean anything. Like, money means a lot to us. Does that make sense? Like, money means a lot to everyone. But what's more valuable to me being mobile, being able to move my arm. I couldn't even take off my hoodie. I had trouble sleeping at night. I had to sleep on one side. I couldn't sleep on my right side every single morning. It's cold in winter. As soon as I wake up, I like to put on a hoodie. I can't even do that. I can't even take up my hoodie without pain. I couldn't even raise my armor past shoulder or height without pain. I have my cover up there that I shove a lot of my clothes that I wear. I can't even put my jumpers up there, and I have to get hang to put it up there for me. Does that make sense? Like, that's the cost of not actually paying for the treatment or the help that I actually need. And so, I made my mistake once. And I always think back, like, what would I do in hindsight? Obviously, you can't change your decisions in hindsight, but you can change your decisions in foresight. And sometimes it's a bit of pill to swallow that you're better off spending the hundreds of dollars fixing your arms so you can move versus going out partying and drinking all the things that you do to pretty much destroy yourself. I think the biggest lessons I've learned over the last five years is investing in yourself. Honestly, I invest myself knowledge. I invest myself any help that I need, because I want to grow. I want to be able to compete. I want to be able to move my arm. I want to be mobile. It's one of those things that you don't realize until it's taken away. I've been injured a lot in my life. I've been riddled with injuries. I recently had to go to a few probably ten plus sessions to rehabilitate my fatal attendant opinion. And rehabilitation has been on point.
You know, 2500 calories. That's how much I was eating at that time. And I just see my weight every single day. And my weight went up over a couple of days. Okay, maybe I ate a little bit too much. Maybe the next day I'll dial down a little bit less. I'll try to get some more activity and self-regulate. Does that make sense? That's how you can go out and be intuitive. And most people won't bring a scale You know what they'll bring? They'll bring like six sets of clothes and bring all these random shits that actually adds no value to them whatsoever to us. When you're on holiday, just bring a few sets of clothes, you're going to wash it over there, and out of all the luggage space that you can bring, a spotty weight scale is going to keep you accountable and it's going to make you happier long term forever. Because you can stay accountable for the whole trip. You come back, you do no damage, and you get back on track. And you know what? When you take when you do it like that, you look back to the trip and it's all happy memories. I enjoyed this trip. I got taste and experience, everything. I came back, I'm still happy. I can't wait to travel again. I feel great about myself. I can't wait to travel again. And then you look forward to traveling again. No bad memories versus you go out, you're overindulge, you come back, you're five kilos up, and now you feel shit about yourself and you're like, I got to lose this way. I got to undo all this damage. That makes sense. Like, that's a choice. You made a choice, and it's about understanding the choices that you make. It's just like in my day. I work all day. We're up at five. We wrap up around eight to 09:00. And we haven't been able to wrap up as early as we like, so we ended up most of the time we end up working past 08:00, sometimes even 09:00. Last week we're sleeping around eleven, so sleep was much lower. Wake up super tight. We still want to be adherent to our goals. Wake up at 05:00, go to the gym. And that's where things started to fall short. And then I had to think, okay, we got to think about our choices now. I'm not sacrificing the time that I'm spending working in the business. I'm making a choice to work a little bit less so that I can get better rest, so that I can wake up a little bit more refresh. And then when I work, I'm much more productive.
I want to show you guys. I want to show everyone that it's the same formula that can achieve success. And I'm not just randomly cherry picking anyone. Anyone can literally achieve success. I'm really excited for this episode. Episode Two of The Blueprint We go through Varix story and I actually got to hear a side of the story that I've never I heard before. And that was the first time I heard it. And it's actually crazy. I think once you guys watch it, you understand what I mean. That's what the vision is. I think that's really important because that's where we started off. And as I'm recording, I realize how much I love recording, how much I love videography. You know, if it wasn't for fitness, I'd probably be a videographer, and I reckon I'll be doing a pretty good job of that as well. So, I want to get back to that. In terms of content for Instagram and Facebook, we're setting ourselves a new schedule to actually plan and film all that in one day, so I don't have to work on that throughout the week. And throughout the week, I can allocate my time and resources for my clients and actually editing YouTube. Editing YouTube probably is one of the most time-consuming events and it doesn't actually generate any revenue. We do it out of passion. We do it out of love. And I think, honestly, that's the biggest gift that I can give you guys. To do something that I am extremely passionate about, to provide value for those that may not have the financial resources to afford coaching. Or maybe they're not in a position where they need it yet. And I feel like I can give away all my knowledge. And there's still going to be value for coaching because being able to make objective decisions about yourself is very, very difficult. And that's where coaching comes into play. But yeah, that's our objective. We've been planning out all the episodes and I'm actually so excited. I can't explain how excited. I love editing. I love creating videos. I feel like it's visual communication. It's being able to tell a story. I think the most successful people in the world, they share their stories.
Pump down to like a high volume, like 30 pieces of content a day. That's it. That's how you scale up and that's how you build by locking down the simple things. Don't try to over complicate it, you know, don't try to wake up early just because people tell you don't have a morning routine with like 35 different components because you hear people who succeed do it. Try to copy people, like figure out your own flavor, but just stick to the basics. Honestly, stick to the basics. So, my client, he has goals and aspirations of being at achieve a lot one day. Maybe becoming a coach, running his own business, being financially free. And a lot of his goals that he was talking about revolved around money. And let me just be clear from his perspective, it's not like I have to earn a certain amount and that's going to make me happy. For him, it's like a checkpoint that he's reached that point, but it still revolves around money and I think that's the wrong way to look at it. My goal doesn't revolve around money at all. Obviously, I want the business to continue to grow and if it were to grow, I have realistic projections of where it could be. But ultimately at the end of the day, my goal is the process and I want to enjoy and I love my job. I don't even consider it a job and that's why I'm able to put in so many hours dedicate so much of my time into it. I want to get better at it. I want to get better at content creation, I want to get better at creating reals. I don't want to move away from that. I want to get better at creating YouTube videos, I want to get better at going on live. I want to get better at communicating, I want to get better at productivity, I want to get better at being mentally resilient, I want to get better at being disciplined. Like these are the things that those are my goal. And if I were to focus all my time and effort and energy on the really simple fundamental attributes, I will achieve success. Someone that is we talk about it all the time. Someone that is mentally resilient, consistent, disciplined and has a sense of structure and direction like why wouldn't you succeed? Does that make sense? Success is literally that simple.
I am super excited because I haven't been able to train any pushing movements, shoulders and chest in about almost two months. Took some progress photos and videos this morning where again everything is going to be on YouTube. One document this whole process and in this whole process I'm also going to be teaching you guys how you guys can be on your own journey as well. So you're going to get free value. Everything that you pretty much need to know, I'm going to incorporate into this video series and me competing is going to be proof of concept of that. I want to explain to you guys the differences between lifestyle, dieting, contest prep, what you really need to do. There's so much conflicting information out there. Everyone out there is an expert, everyone has an opinion. I'm going to consolidate everything that I've known over the last ten years of training and experience for you guys and for your entertainment. You see all this camera equipment around so I'm just going to roll with it where I'm putting in as much effort as I can into this YouTube series utilizing all my skills. And for me, honestly, this YouTube series is like we're not even monetizing YouTube. I don't think we'll be monetized for a very long time. I don't really care about that. I enjoy making YouTube. You know, the first episode I cried on camera talking about how passionate I was doing the things that I love and I love making videos. I want to document this whole process and record content. This is going to be the stories that I'll be showing my kids in the future. So yeah, that's it guys. I just want to come out here short and sweet to share with you guys that this is day one. Things are going to change. Content creation is going to go up. I am 100% fully focused on this one goal right now. I missed out on my birthday, I missed out on my brother's birthday, I missed out on Christmas, I missed out a new year, I miss out on my mum's birthday, I miss out on my cousin's wedding. Like, these are the sacrifices that I'm willing to make.
In your life's, guys, you're always going to have these moments that again require your attention, you know? And the reason why we decided to wake up a little bit later towards the end of last week was we weren't able to function properly, honest. One of the reasons why I wasn't on my stories, one of the reasons why I wasn't on live like, I could technically go live throughout the day, but I was also very sick as well. I've been sick I've been sick for about a week and a half on the tail and getting better. I'm also getting some reactions to crunchy as well. So that's been really hard to manage, to be honest. Like 80% of last week, I was not in a presentable state at all. My eyes were like other puffy, so I had to try to time creating content to when I was puffy. I think when I was making reals towards the start of last week, there was one where I looked like I was crying. It just feels like really bad hay fever. I've been fortunate enough to be able to grow out of hay fever. I've been able to grow out of asthma as well. And my reactions to country have subsided substantially over the last week. When I first got in, I started to get itchy. It wasn't bad compared to what it used to be because over time I've already adapted to interacting with dogs over the last however long. When I was young, my reactions were really bad. My eyes would be all puffed up. I've had respiratory problems. I had respiratory problems over the last week. Sporadically, random. It might be at night; it might be in the morning and it feels like my lungs are at half capacity because they're just so swollen and inflamed just from the reactions. But after every time I get through it, it gets easier and easier. And after what I used to get sick, I get a sore throat. I'd have respiratory problems afterwards like 89% of the time. And I used to use the Asper pump all the time and yeah, it did help, but over time, I never really adapted to it. And it wasn't until one night I didn't have it and that was a really tough night to get through it when I was younger and as I got through it, I don't know, my body just started to adjust back. But now I want to have it. It's not as bad anymore.
I'm allergic to dogs, by the way, being allergic to dogs since I was young, every time I went to a family friend's house or my cousin's house and they had a dog, I would just get super inflamed. I'd, you know, get really itchy. I wouldn't even better open my eyes and I'm pretty much paralyzed. As I got older, I started to get better. I haven't had a reaction to a dog in a very long time because to minimize my exposure. But a couple of weeks ago we went to a friend's house. They had a poodle able to play with it. I felt fine. They also had like two salmonids and my jacket was filled with their fur. I haven't had any reactions to it. So I think that's a big component of growing out of the allergy. I've had many episodes with the dog and well, I'm almost dead. So I guess the saying is true. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. So I've grown out of my hay fever, I've grown out of allergies. However, over this weekend I had some reactions. But I think that's because the breeder interacted with crunchy, interacted with the breeders, other dogs, and they weren't Hyper allergenic. And so I think it's just traces. But right now when I'm playing with it, I don't get any reactions to my hands, my face or anything like that where it touches me at all. So like I said, I think it's just remnants of the other dog. But even if it is crunchy, it's such a small reaction that I'd probably get used to it. But I've also been sick at the same time. But yeah, when hanging out on the way home, we were so scared because my dad, we've seen him watch videos before of dogs. And when he watches these videos of dogs, he watches it with the most disappointed and disgusted face. To be fair, he was watching like the world's most dangerous dogs and he was sitting there and my brother had cat, a Scottish fold cat, which is beautiful.
I operate at a higher level because of that pressure, and without that pressure, it becomes very hard to apply the same level output. But that's my challenge to overcome rather than just making excuses about it. I'm like, well, I complained about not having time. Now I have time and not even utilizing the problem here is my mindset in my decision, So I need to work, work towards becoming more productive. And reading atomic habits really helps in terms of pinning these habits that you need to do things that you enjoy. And so, yeah, that's been what our goal is. And having yesterday to kind of, like, rebase line was much needed, and it made me realize when I compared working a nine to five job, you'd work Monday to Friday, you'd have the weekends off. Yes, I did do a lot of overtime, but I still have the weekends off. And then out of the 52 weeks in a year, 48 weeks is spent working with one month annual leave on holiday. And then you'll have, like, your sick leave as well. And last year, we didn't take any leave at all. I don't think we even traveled at all last year. Do we take time off last year? Yeah, I'm pretty sure we work like, 52 weeks last year, and we took some time off this year to go on holiday That was only for ten days. We've gone some weekend trips and whatnot, but yeah, so to accumulate all that psychological fatigue, I think, in exchange for one day of not doing anything is a pretty good deal. And I feel good today. I don't feel like I'm behind the ball at all. I can acknowledge that there's work that needs to be done, but yeah, I don't feel like I'm behind the ball. Hanging out at 05:00 today, and we've been working since we're almost completed check ins. We're going to go to the gym, finish up some check ins, do some more work in the afternoon, and call it we started painting. We bought the acrylic paint set like a week and a half ago, maybe two weeks ago. We still haven't besides painting the blue, we haven't even had time to paint the goldfish yet, which is actually the main RP. So I actually want to make it a priority tonight, hopefully to be able to get some painting done.
When you spend more money, you actually not only get more value back, but you value the actual product even more. Does that make sense? Versus say, something that's disposable? If something is disposable, you don't really care about it versus something that you do, you're going to have a lot more mileage out of it, right? And secondly, when you invest into the best, not just things that are overpriced, but actually the best, and you understand why it's the best, it's going to improve your quality of life. That's really important. It's going to save you a lot of time, a lot of effort, a lot of energy. For example, these blinds that we have, they are motorized. You can just get regular blinds and you can buy the unit that attaches to the drawstring. And each unit, I believe, is $300. Very expensive. It costs more than the actual blind itself. But every day, I actually get to operate the blinds with my voice and think about how much time I save every single day. Opening and closing the blinds. For example, in the morning, hang on, I want to be able to see the sunrise. And so, first time we got to open it all the way up and then the suns in our eyes, we got to go down. When I go live, there's actually a certain setting of the blinds that I need to set it to. I close the main blind. I have the other one on half just so the lighting is going to be perfect. Otherwise, the lighting gets all out of whack. And I can imagine if that's one up and down again. One up and down again, say, at the end of the night, we've worked, it's dark right now. We want some privacy. I had to go and wind it up again. Wind it down again. Reality is, I'm probably not going to do that, and I don't actually end up doing it. And so me investing in $300, I have not even thought about the investment I put into it until, like, I actually talk about it. By the way, I reap the benefits each and every single day. I've saved a lot of my time, a lot of my energy, and I could just use my voice. I just tell, Siri, it's time to go live. This blind closes. That blind goes up into half, and I'm ready to go. That light turns on that's automated as well, and these room lights. So, I saved myself so much time, effort, and energy, right? Because I got the premium product, and it's served me really well.
I actually am not happy with where I am. He's been comfortable. Comfortable does not mean happy. You can be comfortable and very unhappy. And when I first met Hang, I was very, very comfortable But I was also very, very unhappy. And there were many other moments in my life where I was very, very comfortable. I was very, very unhappy. So he was kind of in this. I finally watched his video this this morning. It was a 13 minutes video. And for someone who said that they had never spoken about their goals or talked about their goals before, he was actually able to be very visual. And it meant that in a two-hour call that I had with him, he was able to retain a lot of that, if not all of that. I also went on live just as a recap to make sure that he doesn't miss out any details. But he filmed the video right after the call, and when I was listening to it, it was very visual. He was able to open up in terms of, like, little things that would be very hard to acknowledge to outside people. Just like I think a lot of people out there are also afraid to say that they want to be loved. A lot of people are actually afraid to say that, like, I want to be loved, because a part of them feels like they don't deserve love. It's because they don't love themselves. Unconscious level, you connect those dots, and if you don't love yourself and you don't see value in yourself, then how can you ever expect anyone out there to see value in you? Does that make sense? How can you ask that of anyone? It's like, hey, I don't love myself, but I want you to love me. It doesn't work like that. And so I think because they kind of connected those dots on an unconscious level, it's hard for people to say, look, I want to be loved. You know, growing up, I was made to feel so inadequate, and I didn't realize this is how I thought until when I spoke to my friend of the skin and then he said that he doesn't feel like he deserves success or you feel like he deserves to be loved, and it's because of how he sees himself. And then that just immediately gave me flashbacks of my whole entire life.
Having a positive mindset was me not being realistic or was compassionate towards their challenges. And the reality was that I was compassionate of the challenges, but it doesn't change the fact that they made certain decisions given the circumstances. And you have to understand that if you have goals of where you want to be, that distance needs to be traveled regardless of what your excuses are. And you don't want to grow old and be a person. That said I had goals, I wasn't able to achieve it because ABC, if it wasn't for this, I'd be there. If it wasn't for that challenge, I'd be here. I could have done this if it wasn't for that. Like, no one cares about all these excuses, and you either live with excuses and why you're not able to reach your goal or you actually go out and reach your goal regardless of what it costs and how hard it is. And that's the reality of it. Going back to Jim, I told him the first step is he just needs to think about what his goals are because right now he doesn't have any consequences. Okay? If he doesn't stick to his program, if he doesn't go to the gym, doesn't track his food, nothing happens because he's just like, well, I'm not really not working towards my goals because I don't have any goals. So, the first thing is we need to figure out what his goals are. That's going to be his compass. That's going to keep him going. And he hadn't thought about it before, so we're going through a brainstorm process. I told him over the weekend to record me a video. Haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Then we're going to go through it together, understand what his goals are, and help them push towards that. And so let's just say he has a goal of one of the things that we talked about was, you know, being financially free, being able to work on his own time and stuff like that.
This morning, we're in the kitchen, and I was telling Hang like, hey, we need to leave the house to go to gym at 530 because we have a meeting at 730 and we didn't make sure we would make it. And then she's like, hey, I think we need to wake up earlier. And that really surprised me. I said it really surprised me because Hang and I, we would not consider ourselves morning people, but we're now in a position where we see these benefits of waking up earlier and how much more time that we have in a day and how much better that makes us feel. And so we want more of that. And I'm very fortunate that I spend my free time with Hang. I spend my work time with Hang, and I wouldn't want to spend it with anyone else. And so I don't have any problems sleeping earlier, you know, because I have nothing better to do at like, 09:00 p.m. Like, honestly, anyone who sleeps late. What are you doing productively after 09:00 p.m.? Let me rephrase. What are you doing productively after 08:00 p.m.? Be honest. Probably not a lot. I mean, there's some people I know out there that are studying while they're working, and they need those additional time But for the most part, most people are not doing anything productive after 08:00 p.m. So why in those circumstances, it's not that they're busy or they don't have time. It's that they're choosing to allocate their time towards the end of the day doing stupid shit that doesn't actually benefit or help them with their personal development. And so they're throwing the two hard basket like, I need to relax and unwind for work. No, you're making a choice that you don't want to utilize those three or 4 hours of your day from 08:00 to 12:00. You want to just watch Netflix and chill and do random stuff versus allocating those 4 hours to the start of your day. And so by the time you finish work, you can just wrap up. Does that make sense? That's the reality of it. And so when we have clients that come in and they tell me they don't have time, I help them restructure their day. And then as soon as I say, like, I know that you've been like one of my clients. Alan was like that. He's like, I only go gym at night. I feel like I'm stronger. You're making a decision right now. Do you want to train at night versus is in the morning? So you're making a decision that you don't want to have time because I'm giving you a solution where you can get more time, but now you're saying that you prefer to try it not because of a preference.
Shifting things around has allowed me time in a day. So now I feel like I have, you know, eight to 10 hours of concentrated work lock time so I can actually focus on what I want. And so that's the difference between being busy and being productive. I was very busy beforehand and I had an attachment to how that schedule was You know, I wasn't as open or I haven't thought about making any big changes. And I was very grateful to have these morning meetings with my mentors at four in the morning that spawned an idea that, okay, maybe our schedule isn't as optimized as it could be and maybe moving things around is going to allow us more time. And after I spoke to Hang this morning, because Hang and I work together, I can't just think of a new schedule and implement it. Because we work together, we have to figure out what works for both of us. And this morning, Hang was really open to the idea of going to the gym early. And we both felt awesome. We talked about it when we got to the gym, we were like, hey, maybe our day isn't as optimized as we had wish. We're not getting a lot of work done, we're just doing a lot of things back and forth. And so, we discussed the plan to rejig things around. She was immediately on board, and as we were training, I felt awesome. I'm like, man, this is super early right now. But by the time I'm done, I actually have a whole day that I can focus on. And to be honest, throughout the week, the time that I look forward to the most is actually the times I'm not going to the gym. My days off, because I'm thinking on the days I have off, specifically Tuesday when I have a morning meeting and I don't have to go to the gym. I can just work all day and I become super productive. And for me, having ADHD, it's very hard for me to get into that productive zone in the first place. And sometimes I'm might get into the productive zone and suddenly I have to go for a walk. And that for me is a really big, like it's a lot of resistance every single day.
So, every mistake that you've made up to this point, you just need to learn why you made that mistake, figure out the triggers that led you to that point and then making better decisions so you can work towards a better you. Does that make sense? And that's it. So that's basically my fitness journey in a nutshell. Over summarize a lot of some of the points, but let me know if there's any stories that you want to know more about that I talked about today. I can actually shed some more light. But yeah, that's about that. It is my fitness journey. And what's next? Well, today I want to get a pro card. I want to get a ProCard in men's fitness. Maybe men's physique. The first time I died last year, I didn't have a lot of size. I would say that I have more size now, but I don't know. We'll see. My coach doesn't recognize I can do well in men's physique. Let me rephrase. Not that doesn't think I can do well. It doesn't think I can dominate it. I think I can still place respectively. But men's fitness might be a better division for me. So I guess we'll see. Anyway, guys, that is it for today. I hope you guys enjoyed this. I want you guys to know that I've gone through ups and downs, but with all ups and downs I've learned. And you know, last year in December last year when I got did my diet, I didn't overdo it. I didn't rebound. I haven't rebounded to binge in over a year and a half. So, I feel like I've gotten things unlock right now in terms of mindset, in terms of lifestyle integration, understanding these habits and triggers and how to prevent it. So I guess we'll see. I think things will change during contest prep. I'm going to start to get hungry again. I'll start I'm going to have these urges eat and that's the reality of contest prep. But I feel like I have been I have built up the foundation I need to help get me through it.
Now, I'm not just speaking about this from the perspective of fitness. I'm talking about everything. Everything that you do in your life. If you track it, you measure it, it's going to get improved. And believe it or not, this is actually the chapter that I'm at right now for atomic habits. And this is something that we have been advocates of for a very long time. Just the process of tracking in itself in terms of your calories. If you track your calories, you are much more likely to be able to reach your goals. You're much more likely to be accountable. And let's just say you don't weigh yourself. I know when I was overweight, when I was getting overweight, when I met Hang, I didn't weigh myself for months. I didn't want to jump on the scale. I didn't want to see what I have done. I had a big weekend eating out or binging, and I didn't want to jump at the scale. The following day, I was in denial. And that went on for months. And by the time I jumped on the scale, I was up around like twelve to 13 kilos. The last time I weighed myself, I was around like 73 kilos when I met her. And then when I finally jumped on the scale again, when we were ready to make a change, I was the most overweight I've ever been. I was close to 85 kilos. And to be honest, I don't know if I was 85 kilos or not because I weighed myself on a day where I didn't feel the heaviest. And I was around like 82. And I'm pretty sure at my peak I would have been closer to like 85 because I had never been that overweight before. And before that, most overweight I've been was like 82, 83 killers. So, yeah, I didn't weigh myself. I didn't want to see it. And because I didn't see it out of sight, out of mind, I didn't think about it. And one of the things was, it's funny, we're talking about these neuropathy tablets. When I went to my physio, he didn't prescribe me. He suggested that I take this.
Being part of anything new is really scary. You know, I spent the last year or so, year and a bit, year and a half with this old group and they have been able to help us with everything. You know, I'm not saying this is ineffective. I'm saying it is effective. I definitely would recommend it. I would say that first mentor I was part of is like a first relationship this many times before. It's not necessarily the best one, but you learn a lot about yourself, you learn about a lot about what you want and you learn a lot about the world and then you move on that's life. And so when you're spending your time trying to make all these people around you happy, all these people, we live in a world where we're connected to so many people. You know, you're connected to hundreds, if not thousands of people via your social media network. People that you have met at some point in time. And if you are spending your time trying to make these people happy, you are holding yourself back, you are limiting yourself from growth and you are clinging on and you are attaching to these old phases of your life. Imagine me trying to still impress people that went to my high school despite what I went through. And if I'm trying to get back to them, I'm clinging on to that. I'm the one that hasn't moved on. Does that make sense? I'm the one that's still holding on to whatever I was and whatever the situation was back then. I need to move on from that. And I can't care about their judgment. If I care about their judgment, I'm stuck. I'm bound. I'm emotionally and psychologically bound to their opinions and I'm always going to conform my actions to what they think and being afraid of whether they're going to judge me or not. And it's crazy that over the last however many years, two or three years that we started being active and social media, there was a lot of limiting beliefs that I had that I needed to overcome.
Similar principles. Sometimes you got to evaluate way up the pros and cons of, you know, being able to balance such a tight schedule that you jeopardize your energy levels, your sleep. And I am someone that is an advocate of sleep. Obviously, things seem to help your calories, cognitive functions and all that. However, sometimes based on the things that you want to achieve, getting whatever amount of sleep that you ideally want might not be possible. I think it's idealistic to think that anyone could just sleep 8 hours a night. Then I think in the stoke of health fitness, sleeping 8 hours a night, you're going to get better progress, cover more effectively, you better lose that more efficiently. You got to weigh up everything else that you have on your plate as well and whether that's going to be feasible. And for me, every hour, every minute is time that I can utilize to work towards generating revenue, generating income, working towards a greater goal. So, what's going to be more important to me getting 8 hours sleep every single day and trying to build a business? I'm going to be honest with you. If you're trying to build a business and you're getting 8 hours sleep, you're not working hard enough. That's got to be 100% honest with you because every hour that you get to spend on working towards your goals, especially at the start, they say the first million dollars you make is going to be like the hardest. And after that you generate momentum. And so, like with starting a business, I don't care about how much sleep I have. I think if you want to build a business and you're worried about getting your beauty sleep, you have your priorities wrong. That's me being 100% honesty.
Do what you feel like is gonna be the most realistic for you to check off. And week one, I set him a goal of my 7000 steps. He was actually able to meet 7000 steps on average every single day, which is really good, but just some days he felt a bit shy, some days a little bit overboard. So I told him like, as long as you're an average, it's ticked off in my books. And then I also set him a goal of drinking like four liters of water. It's 152 kilos. And he said that he was only able to get three. So I'm like, OK, cool, I'm going to adjust your goal back to three. OK, I'm going to set it down to three. Is like, no, no, leave it at four. I'm like, no, no, let's go to three. Because what we need right now is some momentum. Okay? Now, I know that he's been fully committed in the first week. It's cooking his meals and everything, but his physical limitations right now is preventing him from being able to tick things off. I want to generate some momentum and I want him to see the calendar with things like tick off rather than just blanks because he's put in the effort. But that effort is right now not reflected on the calendar. We're talking about long term strategy. I don't care about being perfect and meeting an unrealistic benchmark. So I'm like, I'm going to dial back your expectations just so you can tick things off. And when you go through this week and you ticking everything off already, we can then increase our goal next week and the week after. Drinking three liters of water versus four liters of water over span of like two weeks is probably going to make minuscule of any difference at all. It's about like what you do long term. And right now it's unrealistic for him to be able to get in the four liters. Let's aim at three right now and just lock that down. So he's taking off his steps, ticking up his water intake. He's able to take off his training sessions because he's got crutches now and he's tracking his calories. And he's better get through his fishing trip. That's going to generate immense momentum because it teaches him that he didn't really need to make any unnecessary sacrifices. He's just had to make some better decisions that allowed him to get in everything that he wants. He wants to go to the gym, he wants to get his steps in, he wants to enjoy his fishing trips, he wants to be able to drink alcohol.
How much money I would make in a month or a year and divide that and it can't just be equal. It needs to be more than that because you're obstructing my ability to function, obstructing my ability to operate, as usual, taking my time out. It needs to interest me. Does that make sense? If you want to get advice from the world class elite, going to have to pay a premium price. But you're paying for the best. And as much as you think that these rich people are just scammers and whatnot, that's also just a weak mindset because that's your opinion versus seeing things for what they are, being logical and rationalizing and understanding why they are the way they are. Again, if you compare component for component, you will always choose the cheaper product. And that's a flaw in your mindset. And that's why for us to be successful as a business, I'm sharing some tactics and strategies with you that we don't even class ourselves as the same product as this, so we can't even be compared right? I have my clients that join into these lives. You can actually reach out to them to communicate with them, communicate with anyone. We don't hide any reviews. We don't have any bad feedback. We actually deal with things as they are. So you can speak to any of our clients and they can vouch for the type of service that we provide. That is way outside the box. We have most of our clients that join the program. They say they ended up getting more than they thought. And the program is already expensive. So put that into perspective. Not only is the program not cheap, people have to make ends meet to join the program. And I'm comfortable acknowledging that because I know that my program isn't a scam. I know 100% confidence that it generates results. And I am proud, I'm honestly so proud that I actually have a premium product. Don't you guys want to have a premium product? Or do you want to have a product that is a commodity that people don't even care about? You can sell something for a dollar, but you can sell millions of that.
And honestly, when I was younger, I used to think there was just so much more complexities to it when it's actually really just super straightforward. Yeah, it's just, honestly, life is actually quite simple. And honestly, I see life is like chess. Seriously, you guys should play chess. You guys should play poker. You guys should play chess because it's a game about strategy. You can play just thinking about one move at a time, like, oh, it's my move. Do I move my pawn here? Do I move my rook here? My bishop? But then you actually need to have an overarching holistic strategy as well. And yes, you will change your strategy on the fly. But isn't that what life is? You have a strategy that you feel like, ideally, it could work, and it doesn't work out. You figure out why, you rebase line, you go again, you re-strategize again. But you need to have a clear indication. So the first step to getting promoted or getting your hairs is having a clear sense of direction and where you're going. That's probably the biggest step. And once you have that clear sense of direction, every step is working towards that. And yes, when things change, circumstances change, opportunities arise, you make new decisions, you rebate baseline, you do it again. The whole process is what you'll be repeating for the rest of your life. Rinse and repeat, right? Re-strategize, go again. And that's literally the scientific approach.
Well, that work that I need to do is still going to be due. But I'm also going to remind myself throughout this whole process that I didn't follow through with my morning routine. And that thought itself is going to do more harm to me in terms of my productivity than if I just taking half an hour 40 minutes back meditated, read my book. I even wrote a journal. Journal today, as I normally do every day, planned out my tasks. And then I wanted to have breakfast. And when I did that, I did all my morning routine. I felt so much better. Opened up. She knew that my head was about to burst, so she just did her thing. She just went and off and did her thing, gave me my space and opened up the door to the kitchen. And I'm like I feel good again. And that's all I needed. I needed that morning routine. Now, how does this apply to you guys? If you guys feel stressed and overwhelmed and 100%, you need to have a proper morning routine to look after your mind. And I thought of an analogy today that would make sense. Say that you're running late to work. You might take public transport, for example, and you're running late to work and your shoelaces are untied. Do you run without tying your shoelace and try to get to work, risking tripping over every five to 10 meters, or maybe not every 510 meters, you might not trip at all. But when you trip, you're going to face plant and you'll end up being even later for work. And so even though that you're already late, the best thing for you to do is invest more time to prevent any future delays. Does that make sense? So right now, at that time in the morning, I had a million things I needed to do. And so me skipping the morning routine going to give me back another half an hour, 40 minutes. But is that going to allow me to be more productive later in the day? Probably not.
So every day. Imagine for someone that was used to eating so much and I told him you're not allowed to eat throughout the whole day at all. You're going to eat breakfast and wait until lunchtime and then dinner the whole day for the 5 hours. He's going to fight all this friction and resistance because he has these urges to eat, whether it be because he's hungry or whether it be because he's bought or it's habits. And so what do we do? We're like, eat. I want to give you some food that you can eat to make this freaking enjoyable. So he's going to be sitting there nibble on food all day, and he goes home, eats good food with his family. Why wouldn't that be easier, theoretically, wouldn't you, if you've never experienced it? Well, doesn't that sound much more enjoyable and much more feasible that you can actually adhere to a long term versus doing something that's completely different for you? I gave him two special meal plans. One for when he's at camp, when he's working, and one when he's actually at home. And I gave him flexibility. I'm like, man, feel free to deviate from this as you like. When he eats pizza on Friday, he actually gets like baker's dough, baker's Italian dough, real Italian pizza dough. And I'm like that's very hard to track. And so I gave him two options. You either estimate and overestimate, or you have your own base, but you have that choice. Again, I'm empowering him with the ability of choice for him to understand the consequences. When you eat something, you can't track, it carries risk. It's risk that you might not make the progress that you want versus other alternatives. There are different levels. It's not like you can either eat pizza or you can't. It's like you can eat pizza at a restaurant. You can eat a pizza of bakers, though. You eat pizza. The bass you made yourself, you eat pizza. Pizza with really boring low calorie cauliflower puree based, for example, right? There are all these varying levels of commitment that you can still incorporate pizza in. And you choose which one is going to be most beneficial for you.
What will you think is going to generate a better output or generate a better result? You working and having a lot of problems that you have to deal with, personal problems that you have to deal with, and maybe like a traumatic event that happened in your family and you can't produce the same sort of work that you normally can. You don't call out to anyone, and you're still trying to impress your superiors and your boss, and then you end up failing because you can't reach the benchmark and you've set for yourself. And so do you think in that case, you've impressed work, you've impressed your team leader that you were able to do that. If anything, you've disappointed them. And even if you were able to stay afloat and they can see that you're visibly distressed, and then they find out later on that you had problems in your family or a family emergency, but then you chose to ignore it for work. That's not going to make anyone feel better. Do you think that's going to make your team leader feel better knowing that you made that choice? Do you think your team leader or your boss is going to put your pat you on the back and be like, good work? I'm glad you prioritized work over the passing of your family member. No one's ever going to say that. And if your boss ever says that, just give him an uppercut to the jaw and never come back to work again. Like, for real. No one's ever going to expect you to do that. Versus the alternative, which is, hey, I'm going through this at the moment. I'm just letting you know that I'm not going to be able to reach the same level of output that I can. And I'm going to put forward the idea of delegating some of the work. I still want to work. I still want to do some of it, but I might not be able to do all of it. And I just want to manage your expectation. And yes, your team leads me. Like, that's not ideal, I might have to do some overtime. But if you communicate to them and you had a passing in the family, I think it's reasonable that you guys share that load. Does that make sense? Like, true leaders call out for help and doesn't matter how experienced you are, how much you know, whether you're in a position of teaching. And I feel like once you're starting in a position of, like, teaching unconsciously, there is going to be an aspect of ego that takes over that's going to rob you of opportunities to actually ask for help.
The ultimate goal is to create impact and create a community in a hub that people feel like they belong. And I can tell myself that each and every single day, but sometimes, you know, lines can get a little bit blurry and sometimes you have self-doubts. I have self-doubts. It's not doubting my capacity, it's doubting how genuine I am. And I feel like doing things like this, it reminds me that I'm doing things for the right reason. I have Vlad, who is another online coach overseas, and we've had numerous lengthy conversations and this person I was talking to you about yesterday, and there are other people as well. There are other people who have once been in the program when the value was a lot lower. They didn't get the results they wanted. And I see them and they still see me as a friend, they still see me as a coach. And I feel bad that they didn't get the results that they wanted because it was their fault. They didn't stick to it because for whatever reason but I'm compassionate, I understand these situations and I actually reach out to these people and I say, hey, man, you worked for me the first time, you didn't get results. How about we go back and we try it again? And are we on the house? I'm getting emotional thinking about this. And those are the real wins. Those I feel like they're the real wins, worth the value. And I just know, like, any one of my clients, you can speak to any one of them, pass, present, even future, they will vouch for the impact that I can create. So I know that I can create that impact. But then when I want to call and it's for a pain, I don't enjoy it like 100%. I enjoy it, but I feel like I help them. But then it also comes down to like, because they paid me. Do you know what I mean? And I want to feel like I'm able to help someone, not because of the dollars they finished up on the program. And I don't want to see them struggle and say, hey, man, I know that we spent like this big chapter of your life together, but you know what? Since you're not paying me, I'm not going to help you. You know what I mean? I feel like that just undoes everything that you guys have ever went through. And it honestly, it's the opposite of what I think, which is I genuinely want to help people in the financial investments, for them to stay committed. They're in this place of almost like desperation where they need help. Like, how can I ever turn them? And I know that they can afford it. Just at that point in time, daniel might not see the value in it yet.
Theory verse application. Over the last two days, everything, like I said, has been as per normal. I've been reading I'm reading atomic habits. Atomic Habits has been recommended to me for a very long time now. Do recommended me by some clients, some other friends as well. And a lot of the things that I preach and I believe in, my ideology, it really aligns with the book. And it started to make me realize a lot of things that I think a lot of people out there doing a lot of reading, which I think is really good, but that's all they're doing. And some of these people who have recommended these books to me as I'm starting to read through it, it's starting to solidify a lot of ideas. I currently have. It's teaching me some new ones, and I'm getting a lot of value. And for me, I am a very practical person. I would apply everything as I start to learn it, and I start to realize that there's so much information in this book and some people finish it in like a week. And so you're overloading yourself with so much information, but you're not applying any of it. You're going from one book to another. It's like really good to know, but you're not applying any of it. And it also starts to make me realize in terms of these lives, sometimes it can get like quite lengthy and get like 40 minutes an hour. And even if I am as detailed as possible in one live, people aren't going to remember and retain the information. And I can just do almost the same live the following week. And people would feel like, wow, this is awesome. This is new information. It really goes to show how much information goes over your head, goes in one ear and out the other year. And especially when you're reading as well. There's no guarantee that you can maintain 100% full attention. You may not fully understand and engrams the concepts as you're reading it. Like, it might make some sense, but you won't be able to read all the books. Einstein says that you only truly understand something, and you don't truly understand something until be able to fully explain it.
Most people, if they had already wanted to live that life, they would have really wanted to live that life. They would have really wanted a bad enough to go online to try to get information for free and read it and apply it. But the problem is the gap. That's what people don't understand. It's the gap. What is preventing people from actually going out and doing these things? What's preventing people from actually getting the steps in, what's preventing for people from actually getting to the gym or even wanting to go to the gym? What's preventing people not from eating bad foods, but preventing people from what's triggering them to even want to meal prep to prepare food for the week in the first place? And if you understand those behavioral points and psychologically why people make those certain decisions, that's how you can fill in that gap. Our goal here is to get you to understand why you should make a change, to help you identify a lot of the things in your life that have just been habits right now. And just because believe it or not, I know people that have read way more books than I have. The last book that honestly, I read, I haven't even finished that book was Rich Dad, Poor dad. And I read that maybe 2014. That's when I started working on my personal development. I read three quarters of that book. I didn't even finish it. And the last book I read before that probably like year ten, probably maybe your ten or year eleven, right? I think might have been year eleven, might have been like the Crucible, maybe twelve. I did well in year twelve, so it might have been your twelve. So 2011. So eleven years ago. I hadn't read a full book in that long, but I'm able to achieve what I have from practical knowledge, from life experiences rather than just reading off a book. Like what would you rather honestly, would you rather if you wanted to hire a fitness coach? Would you rather someone who has been learning theory for five years, very intelligent, got in HDS and everything? Would you rather them coach you and they've never had any experience coaching or dealing or working with a client before? Or would you rather a personal trainer who has just been same level of success but with no education? But I've coached people over five years and I've coached thousands of people.
In life, it's not about comparing yourself to other people. It's about looking at yourself, understanding what your weaknesses are, focusing on building those weaknesses, and nurturing your strengths. You know, just things like having ADHD. I don't think you guys realize, if you guys don't have it, how hard it is to maintain eye contact. You know? And I think on this one, on this life, I didn't even try to because I wanted to fully focus. And for me to fully focus, I always lose eye contact, right? I remember in year ten, I was talking to some people and they were talking to me, and I was just looking around, and I'm like, I'm listening, but that's just my way of listening. And they were like, hey, are you listening? And then someone else was like, yeah, he just normally does that. I didn't even realize that. And so when I want to get lost in my thoughts, I lose eye contact. But for me to speak to someone, I actually have to consciously engage and maintain eye contact. And it's not easy because you guys maintain eye contact as an unconscious thing, but for me to do it, it becomes like a manual thing. I'm just thinking like, all right, I'm looking them in the eyes. Am I looking at it for too long? Am I staring into their souls? Right now? All that comes into my mind, it's very hard for me to have to deal with it. But you know what? That's my story, and that's my struggle, my journey to overcome. You guys will have your own. So rather than just focusing on what makes you inadequate or think about how can you work around that, you know? And the moral of the story that I want to try to tell you guys here the biggest takeaway is everything is a choice. Everything is your choice. Regardless of what you've been brought up, regardless of what deficiencies that you have, it's still your choice. If you are like, obese, for example, I personally still believe that it is your choice. Even if you have a medical condition that makes it very easy for you to be obese, it's still your choice. That's the hard reality of it. Even if you have whatever it is that you have, is still ultimately it comes down to your choice. You either say that it's not my fault and it's the world's fault, it's the people around me's fault, it's God's fault for it's my parents'fault for giving me this. But you can blame them all you want, and you can hold the resentment and hatred in your life all you want, but that's not going to get you to a place where you're going to be be happy.
Why would I want to wake up every single day? And I thought to myself, honestly, if you gave me a choice, would I want to live the life I'm living now or just fast forward to a time where I made, like, $10 million? Like, I would choose this because I wouldn't even know what to do with it. I wouldn't even know what to do with my life. I wouldn't know what makes me happy, what makes one a wake up every single day. I love freaking grinding. I honestly love grinding. And I want you to know, I was never like this. I was not born like this. I have just been able to nurture my strengths and focus on my weaknesses. I worked around my challenges at ADHD, which makes this whole patient thing hard for. How is it I'm able to get into a place where I love every single day? I literally look forward to waking up every single day. And for someone, you may not understand that you may not even be able to relate to that feeling of waking up every single day. Maybe when you wake up, you're like, I don't want to wake up. Don't get me wrong. When it's cold, it's hard to wake up still. I'm not lying in bed. As soon as the alarm goes, my body just, like, stands up. There's still a process, but for the most part, I enjoy and look forward to every single day I wake up. And I'm like, there's so many things I need to do. Sometimes I complain to hang, like, so many things I need to do, but I have to let that motion flow through me and just start chipping away at things slowly. And I love every bit of it. I honestly and I genuinely love every bit of it. I shared this story with you guys previously. I went to a music festival, and a friend of a friend came back with us. And then he was like he laughed when I said, I look forward to every day. He's like, AHA. What? Really? Like, imagine that actually waking up every single day and looking forward to I'm like, did I fucking start up? We're just here to kick back after a music event. I'm not here to try to sell you or anything. If you don't look forward to working every single day, there's something wrong with your life.
The things move and the meta changes. And when the meta changes, you need to be on board with that as well. And you need to constantly be adaptive to growth. You need to be open to new ideas. And then a lot of people are so numb when it comes to technology because it's like there's so much to learn. But that's going to improve your convenience. It's going to improve your quality of life. It's going to and generate a better output. Like compare someone who is old school and all they do is just write things down on paper. Like, yes, that is a great way for them to work. That works well for them. But you think about how adaptive I can be if I use technology and I can move things on the flight set myself. Reminders, notify me. At certain times, set automations, like with our businesses, are all automated. It's automated. It's not so that I can take some emotionally disconnecting myself. It's to ensure that the service and support are always going to be there when they need it. Right now, in talks of getting postcards being sent out to our clients each and every single week, as well as another medium to be in their face, sending out automated emails, text messages, all these, all these things make a big difference. And imagine your old school and you have to write out every single postcard by hand. So instead of focusing your time building a business, you're writing out every single postcard by hand. Yeah, that was an awesome personal touch. But you know what? That's not going to help you grow your business. So that's an example of how you need to get on top of your game. You need to be in tune with what's going on right now. And it doesn't matter if you've climbed this massive mountain in the past if it means that you're never going to climb ever again. Life continues. And that's the shitty, that's the shitty thing. That's also the beautiful thing. You know, you might have like an awesome workout. You're so happy because you felt like you didn't want to go to the gym. You had no motivation to go to the gym. And then you finally went to the gym and you have this great workout and then you celebrate and you're eating in Kabab. And then you stop going to the gym for the next three weeks.
My goal health, wealth and relationship. My health goals are I want to continue to be in my fitness journey and just see how far I can push it. I want to incorporate going to the gym, getting my steps in, eating right for the rest of my life because it means that I can live longer. It's not just because I hadn't even mentioned about looking a certain way. I just want to feel healthy. I want and how I look is just going to be a representation and a byproduct of how my body feels. I feel like if I can keep my health on track, it's going to give me the opportunity to better help and inspire other people to do the same as well. When I go for my walks, when I go for my training session, no matter how hard it is, it's just me. Aliasing my mind continue to push my journey to show people what people are capable of and what is possible by just being consistent. And as a result, it's going to allow me to live longer, which means that I'm going to be able to spend more time with my family, my future family, my kids, set a good example for them and show them the life that they could live. Full potential. Not living a life where your health is holding you back because you're tired, you're diabetic or you're obese and you can't even like if you're self-conscious insecure. I want to show people how to live a life without that. So that's my health, my wealth goal is I want to be in a place where I can look after the people that matter. I don't really have a goal in terms of how much money is going to make me happy because money doesn't make be happy. I think once you actually start making realize that. But my wealth goal is I want to be in a place of comfortability. Hang on. I want to have a mansion one day because why not, right? It's just going to be a token to represent our growth. And it's not so much that we want to have that mansion, we want to build our business and be in a place of financial liquidity that allows us to buy the mansion.
I believe that when things happen, it's up to you to make the most of it. And so, if that happened to him and he was told that he can't walk or can't run ever again while he decided to do something about that and that led him to where he was, did it happen for a reason? Did like God say, hey, I'm going to break your back so you can go become a physio? No, faith doesn't exist, but it's causing reaction. So, figure out what your cause is. You have so many causes in your life. Things are happening that are good for you, things are bad for you. They happened. But now make a decision based on that, to capitalize on that opportunity. As simple as that. And so, yeah, I would say my mistake was not hiring a mentor, not getting the help that I needed, because I would have been in a different place. So right now, just like him, I want to right the wrongs that were done to me by myself, not having that direction. And I feel like the education system, like, there's so much things that could be improved on. They teach you a lot of these fundamental stuff that you're never going to use, and you end up just hoarding information that you don't use, when in reality, people would benefit so much more of information that they'll actually use lifelong, like how to do your taxes, your financial literacy, how to start a business, right? And people learn shit that they're never going to use ever again. When's the last time you guys have drawn a quadratic graph? You know what I mean? When's the last time? Be honest. When is the last time you've actually had to draw a quadratic graph? Yes, I think math’s is important, but in a lot of cases, you're not going to need it. Okay, I'm not saying I just think this is just too big of an issue for anyone to resolve. But I just think that the current education system, like very foundational stuff. But I think given what the syllabus was over like 13 years, I think that could incorporate some aspects of financial literacy for a lot of people that is going to put them off in a much better placed because people you know what, this is what I think this is like conspiracy here. But the problem is I think not everyone should start businesses because they need people who are employees.
Time is a very big investment. Time, I would say, could be more important than money, because time can generate money. Money cannot generate time. And so, if you can double down on yourself and double down in terms of the hours that you spend while, you're going to have a much higher likelihood of success. Does that make sense? I want to just recall that quote. I want you guys to remember, and I really want you guys to remember this. Like, how big would you dream if you knew that you couldn't fail? And I choose to believe that I can't fail. I choose to believe that because hope is what gets people excited about the future. It's hope. People say, I think in some cases, in some very specific cases, hope is bad, like false hope and stuff. But hope is what makes people excited. And I think it's the outcome that disappoints people. But hope is not a guarantee, otherwise it would be a guarantee. Does that make sense? Like my success, no one in life has guaranteed my success. I choose to have that hope that I will. And I choose to see in my mind that it's going to happen. And the variable is time. And my only guarantee for that actually happening is me just showing up and being consistent every single day. And so, just like with everyone on the planet, there are going to be many moments of self-doubt, because if you don't have any moments of self-doubt, then you're just really egotistical, potentially. And it's just like action. Like things are just happening for you. Last year, that's what it was like for us. I just felt like the sky was like the limit and I could just keep progressing. And this year it was when I really got rounded, grounded as a person. And by far in the last six, seven, eight months, I would consider myself much more of an entrepreneur than I ever was last year, even though I financed me being 100% honest. And it's me trying to figure out how to up to the market and trying to work around that. And so, what did we do? We doubled down on ourselves. We paid for a mentorship.
When you're born, you're not just born knowing what to do to get in shape, but some people are really just inherently in shape. But the skill or the knowledge required to teach someone, that's something that is acquired, so you can acquire all this knowledge that you want. And if you find that you're struggling with consistency despite thinking that, you know, it's actually one of the most common things. Talk to people, they tell me about, like, their weight loss in the past. Like, yeah, you know, I was able to lose like, ten kilos in like, two months, and now I rebounded back. You know, I know I need to do I just need to get back there again. I'm telling you, like, that's exactly how I felt. That was exactly me. I associated every time I lose weight, like keto, or cutting out carbs or intermittent fasting. And so, I'll just go off track and I'm like, look, right now in my life, I just don't want to be in shape. I just want to eat right now. And then when it comes summertime, I'll die down for summer. And then when I go to diet mode, I then eat in diet mode, which then get short term results. It's not even like, high quality results as well. I don't want to get into the technical side unless you guys really want to. I'll do it on a separate life. But you die down and then you end up just rebounding back again. And then I realized that this pattern kept happening. So, this is part of the trial-and-error process, even though this is me being consistent on a macro level, right? I'm not talking about macronutrients, like counting macros. I was consistent. Holistically. So, every year I would try to diet. And so, because I tried to diet, every year I collated the data. And as this happens, when I do this, after like the fourth, fifth, or 6th or 7th time I tried to diet, I'm like, this time I want to do this properly. I'm actually going to learn how to count calories and count macros. So, I was talking to friends at the gym, figuring out how they did it, how they got awesome results, and then I went online to learn myself. And that honestly blew my mind. It was a lot of a big hurdle for me to have to overcome because I knew that my missing ingredient was consistency. Whatever I was doing, it was impossible for me to be consistent. So I needed to find a new strategy that minimized the resistance and the friction for me to adhere to it on a longer term scale.
Every episode of The Blueprint we did, we tried a new effect. Every single video, you know, that for me was just like it was just like my sandbox, essentially. And I went through and nurtured every skill. And you know what? It was a hyper relevant then because no one knew who I was then. Not many people watched my content then, and none of that converted. But I did it because I loved it. And I'm grateful that I did that because fast forward to this weekend. I'm finally able to utilize all these skills that were essentially useless to me for a very long time. I hadn't used motion graphics in a very long time. It just takes a very long time. My computer, my laptop isn't actually fast enough to do it, so it actually takes a very long time to sit there to do it. But the end result is actually worth it because I haven't seen, honestly, any other video fitness video that is on this level. Okay? I'm not saying that it's like the most valuable, but on this particular wavelength of the visuals. For those of us who are interested in terms of the entrepreneurial side, it's got a VSL. A video sales letter. You guys may have heard it in reference to like a click funnel, for example. So, we are building our own Quick funnel. I've built my own from the ground up, like literally from the ground up. I started off with a template and start like, jigging things around and started making all these customizations myself up to do all the coding. I'm not like a very good coder. I just try this is why I feel like when before we started everything, I started to learn vicariously through YouTube. I just went on YouTube and watched all these tutorials and stuff about how to record, how to build websites. And even though I wasn't doing anything at that exact time, it was just to add to my database in my head of things that I could do in the future.
Talks about how we're also soft and we think like we're putting in too much work already and when reality, we're not efficient of it. So, think about whatever service or product that you sell, how can you make it better? How you level up from there again and level up from there again and again and again. And as you over deliver and you provide extra value, the market then decides what your values were. As we start to take and too many new clients, we have to have some kind of filtration so that we can work with select few. I don't want a business where I'm coaching 100 people myself. Does that make sense? I don't think that's going to be effective. I don't think it's going to be efficient. And people even say you can only have 30 meaningful friendships in your life and nothing more than that, anything more than that, they're not meaningful. So same thing with clients. I don't want to just add numbers. I want to scale up and be able to impact more people. But there's got to be a way for us to do that. And that's the model that we've decided to take. So yeah, I just wanted to share that with you guys. Again, if you guys on the fence and looking at making a changing in life, now is the opportunity. Like the best time to start is yesterday, but the second-best time is now. And so, if you guys miss out on this, I'm sorry, but not sorry. It's your cost that you're going to have to pay and it's your life that's going to fall short and yeah, that's about it. Hopefully you guys enjoy this one. Again, I want to just share with you guys more of the business side of things and also what we've been working on and.
And so I want you guys to just like, reflect back on what goals is it that you have? OK? And I watched hang on. I watched like a tik Tok. It was like a real one of those shorts, shorts on Facebook or YouTube. And this is a really powerful thing I heard, and I remember it till now. And it was just I don't know what the context was. I think this guy was like it was an older guy, maybe in his 70s. He was wearing a suit. And I think a bunch of youngsters were just on the street and they bumped into him and he was really motivational and they recorded a portion of what he was saying and he was saying, how big would you dream if you knew that you couldn't fail? How big could you dream if you knew that you couldn't fail? And as soon as I heard that, that really resonated with me and really made me think. And I honestly got teary as soon as I heard that because it made me realize that so many people out there, they don't dare to dream because they think they're going to fail. So, like, just straight off the bat, like the first step, they don't even dare to dream. I think that's just robbing them of potential happiness of where they actually could be, because you have no idea what you're able to achieve. Like I said, a lot of society people just become so soft. But there's a very big portion of the population that doesn't dare to dream anymore. And the idea of success is just finding a decent nine to five jobs. And again, there's nothing wrong with that. If that's so what makes you happy, gives you fulfillment.
Success, like speed. And it's when you take action and not hesitate and not sit there and think about it for like a thousand years, you know? And one of the things I've actually learned as well, this is the last golden nugget I want to give you guys. Sometimes I talk to people, you know, whether it be on the phone and about the sign on board, and they're pretty much brought in, but then when they realize how much the program costs, they're like, I need to think about it. And people think that the longer that time that they spend and as they think about it, they're going to get more information and more data. But the information has already been provided. And so, the longer that you spend, you're not going to get any more information. You're just going to eventually talk yourself out of making a decision. Because the longer that you think about things, the more reasons why you think why you shouldn't do it. Just like going to work. If you just go to work, you go to work and you think about, if I drive, I might get into like, a car accident or this is going to happen, or it's going to work, and this and you eventually think of like a million reasons of 1% scenarios that probably never going to happen, and you're going to eventually talk yourself out of it. And the way I see things is try to think as fast as you can and just go out and do it. And that is going to improve your decision-making process. I used to be terrible at making decisions. I honestly hated making decisions because the longer I thought I would think about all the negatives of both sides and I would never be able to make a decision. Paralysis by over analysis, that's a phenomenon. And so, I'd never make decisions. So now I just make decisions. I'm like, yep, let's figure it out, find out. And over time, that improves your ability to make decisions on the spot because you have a better pattern recognition process. Your ability to process data that you have to make better decisions improves over time. And so over time, decisions for me, isn't that tough anymore. I still spend time making decisions, but I'm like, you know what? Let's just do it. It's not going to be forever. We can always revert, but we need to find out as soon as possible.
Where we are now in our business. Like, we are at a turning point in our business right now. We're doing well and then we want to take things to the next level and really want to grow. And I don't want like, the business to die before me to think about like, OK, we need to like, make some changes now. Like, this is our turning point. Like, we're in a place of generating momentum and I'm like, you know what? This is going to be a turning point. Today could be the turning point. Tomorrow could be the turning point. My opportunity to make a change could be at any time. It doesn't have to be Monday, it doesn't have to be next week, next year. It could be today; it could be a turning point. And I think most people only see these opportunities as turning points when they've hit rock bottom, because they think when I hit rock bottom, it can only go up. And there has to be my turning point, right? But it doesn't necessarily have to be that you don't have to hit rock bottom for you to want to make a change in your life. You could just decide that today, moving forward, that you're going to assume a new identity, break free from this attachment. People have an attachment of self, they have an attachment of reality, they have attachment of status, they have attachment of who they are and what they do for work, how people see them. And they're so attached to that. You don't want to be that person that quit your job just to figure things out because people around you are going to call you above. But like I said, it's probably the most valuable time you're ever going to have right now. You don't have a mortgage; you don't have so much bills you need to pay. You have all these freedoms. Like, now is the time for you to quit your job. Because if not now, then it's only if you're unhappy of where you are and you feel like you could achieve more. And maybe deep down, somewhere inside you have a dream of you wanting to be better and wanting to be in a different place. Like quit your job, figure your shit out. It's going to give you so much more time to understand what it is that you truly want and stop this site cycle of just doing the shit you don't enjoy, just participating short term pleasure stuff and just rinse and repeat that cycle. I don't have any regrets in life, but if I were to turn back time and I had the opportunity to turn back time, I would have made better decisions before the real shit things happen in my life.
The people who run successful businesses, chances are it's not the only business that they have to have more businesses. They apply the same blueprint, the same formula, and they continue to build content to build, continue to build that for them successful. And people only see the destination. They just see the financial reward that they get. Like, wow, how much money do they make? That's crazy. They're so successful. No, success is not the dollars that they make, but it's who they've become. The characteristics and the traits that they've needed to develop to get them into a place where they can generate that. I think that's so powerful. I don't mean when. I mean power. I want to just set up a blanket rule. I want to talk about power. I don't mean power as power over someone. I mean power as a definition to define the ability to create. Like you generate power, for example. I think it's very powerful what we do, that we're able to create people. We're able to create new identities. Maybe not even create, but discover, help people discover new identities, bring out the best in people. That is the ultimate power. The story of Midas everything you touch turns to gold. I don't see that in like an egotistical way that everything you touch becomes really valuable. I think it's beautiful that instead of being toxic and being the one that drags the people around you down because of who you are, your traits and what you believe in, that you can be someone that can elevate your company. Not companies as a business, but company, the people around you. You can elevate the people around you that the people that you speak to, anyone that you speak to, they start to make positive changes. Anyone that you interact with or what you do in your day creates a downstream impact that allows people to want to be better. Don't you think that's most powerful thing, like, that's the type of power that I want. I want to be able to just touch people, look at people, and suddenly they become the best versions of themselves. That, for me, is my sense of happiness. And that, for me, is success.
Self-doubt, confidence, pattern recognition. You can't fake it, establish new patterns. You got to look back, self-reflect, and understand why you haven't been able to achieve in the past and figure out how you can move forward and make the change that you want to see in yourself. Otherwise, you're going to continue to be unhappy where you are. And if you are aren't going to continue to be happy where you are, then you're just going to continue to be unhappy with where you are. And you're just going to watch people around you succeed. And the world is moving so quickly right now, it's actually crazy. I want to share with you one quick thought. I don't want to ramble on. I used to be really into technology with all these iPhones that came out. I used to just be on top of everything. I remember year twelve, first year, second, uni. I'd watch WWDC all the time, which is like the Worldwide Developer Conference where all the big tech companies like shop all the new stuff and then I'd watch all the videos. I'd actually watch the whole thing. It would be like 3 hours long. And then I'll get like the beta software and I'll just fiddle around with it. And during that time there were only like a couple of features that came out and a couple more. It was very easy for me to learn. And I'm at a point where technology is just moving too fast for me and I don't know if it's because I'm getting old or my brain is just getting slower to adapting to change. And I don't know if it's because I want to adapt to change, but it scares me that in ten years’ time I might not be able to keep up with all the technology, but that's the challenge in life. You have to stay on top of things. You honestly you have to. Otherwise, you're going to fall behind. I've said this before and I say it again. Mark my words. In the next five or ten years there's going to be a technological revolution in terms of the online Fitness Coaching 100%. And I think the direction that's going to take is going to be VR.
Your decision to be consistent is also a mental one. So how much weight you lift once doesn't outweigh the mental aspects that are involved to get you to be consistent, to get you to go to the gym and get you to continue to push. Okay, so if you're going through a lot of mental friction, especially after being mentally spent, after a long day of work, you're stressed, you're tired, you're physically tired. You're probably physically tired because you've been glued to your desk. You've been sitting at your desk the whole time. And because you've been sitting at your desk all the time, like, imagine if you laid in bed for three days. It would literally be hard for you to walk because your muscles would atrophy. So, if you're inactive for most of the day, being active becomes so much harder because you've been accustomed to being inactive. Right. You start to develop aches and pains. Why? Because your muscles start to become loose if you sit on a chair. How you guys can set up your desk for maximum ergonomics so that you can work for long hours without experiencing pain. I think that's something that I've experienced quite a lot. I used to sit really bad posture because for me, that was comfortable. It allowed me to work in a state of flow. However, it developed a lot of injuries and pains and aches for me, because your muscles, especially in the back of your sitting curve, they're going to start to become relaxed. And over time, as they become more relaxed, for like, eight to 10 hours a day, they become weak. As they become weak, you go to the gym, they're not strengthened a level that they need to be to contract efficiently to perform the exercise. Or you can just strain very easily and develop some pains. And if you develop some pains and you don't treat it properly, while the problem is only going to get worse,
Yeah, you can learn to do it yourself, but the things that you might miss and it's going to cost you a lot of time and it's not even a guarantee that what you're going to do actually works as well. And it's actually crazy. Like when you go online, you see so many people like DIY doing stuff for their car and then and things start to break down, something happens, something doesn't get done right. Why wouldn't you just want to get an expert to just do it for you so you don't have to worry about it? But then there's like a hybrid in between. If you had someone there, like a friend who was like a mechanic, for example, or you could have done it yourself and you get to learn in terms of how you can resolve for next time. I really put things into perspective. Like some people that want to do everything themselves, imagine trying to put parts together without even reading the instructions. And the point is, you're learning off someone and you're always going to be learning off someone. It's not like you're going to really figure this out on your own. And does it make it any less impressive if I got help to put on the past? Not really. Like, people don't really care. Honestly, people don't really care. And so, people that say they want to do it themselves, to be honest, I just consider them arrogant, stubborn and unwilling to really accept that they need help. And I don't know, I feel like that the most intelligent and the most successful people in the world are the ones that continue to accept mentorship. They continue to accept learning from someone else. Like even the best sports athletes. Like, I want you to think about this, wrap your mind around this. The best sports athletes in the world still have a coach. They are the best in the world, genetically speaking, in terms of their ability to form, their stamina, endurance, their sports IQ, whatever it is, they are one of the best in the world, but they all still have coaches. So, what does that say about you, who is not yet at the world class elite level and you're unwilling to accept the mentorship for something that is very important to you?
Last year, statistically, we had high performing months. I would consider myself double the entrepreneur or business owner that I was last year. I've learned more about how to run a team. I've learned more about how to make systems more efficient. I've learned more about understanding sales and marketing. And the knowledge I know is literally exponential from where it was last year. And the only difference is what allowed me to get to that growth was just being consistent. Through every single challenge, I've allowed myself to feel whatever emotions I feel. And now I learn to work around it. I don't complain about it. I'm honestly and genuinely very grateful for every challenge that we get. Every time we go into it makes us work harder. I think this might be the mindset I've gotten from, like, drag ball z. If you guys remember, I've spoken about this on a previous podcast that drag balls, they're a race. They're called Saiyan’s. And every time they go near death, they recover the growing and they come back way stronger. And that is actually symbolic for life. Honestly, it really is. Every time you go through a challenge, rather than acknowledging that you're a victim of your circumstances, this shouldn't have happened to you, that this is not your fault, just pretend like it is your fault and just think about how could you have played a different role? How could you have made different decisions that could have generated a better outcome? Not the best outcome, because you'll never be able to get the best outcome every time. But if you can make better the decisions, you're going to get better outcomes more often than not. IT DOESN'T GET EASIER
There was a time where I was like that when I was younger, I was very selfish. I almost an only child because my brother was a ten-year gap away from me and so I was always very emotionally isolated from everyone. I was really spoiled. So, my life was about me and what I wanted and I think there was some resentment for my brother because of that. But anyway, this topic for another day and then it wasn't until when I was 21 that's when I really long-term relationship pretty much during that time and I was just figuring out who I was and I wasn't really happy where I was and this was during the time when I quit my university degree. And then I started to meet a lot of new people from going out, going to raves and all I wanted to do was to do other people favors. I was known as a really nice guy because as humans we have this innate desire to want to feel significant. I've mentioned it before and I wanted to feel significant. I wanted to feel important to the people around me and also how I met my group I'm still close with to this day and yeah, I would like to drive them around and every time they want to hang out with them and putting them first whenever they need. Even if driving people from the group home was not convenient or not in the same way home, I'll still do it like what I wanted to do. But I realized that doing that was my own insecurity that I wasn't where was and people didn't see value in who I was. So, I needed to put extra effort to nurture these friendships. Not saying that's a bad thing, but I was nowhere in life.
You can't fake confidence. Confidence is just pattern recognition and it's based on whether you doubt yourself or not and if you don't doubt yourself, then you have the belief that you could do it well. That's confidence. And confidence is also not arrogance, and it's not necessarily the opposite of humility either. Does that make sense? And so, I think sharing wins, sharing the things that you've done well in your life or in your journey or whatever it is, is a crucial and important step. And I think a lot of people, they don't want to talk about how much money they make. They don't want to talk about the accomplishments they make. And it's mainly because they are afraid of the opinions of other people. So they lack the self-doubt in themselves. Potentially. They feel like people might criticize them for sharing wins. I know talking about money is a very touchy subject for a lot of people. And I don't understand why it would be. I guess if finances are difficult for you, that might be the reality check that you need to actually make some changes rather than just avoiding it altogether. I think it's something that I talk about food, right? Talking about food is not really taboo, but then people have addiction to food. They have bad relationships with food, they struggle with eating foods. So, like all the common problems associated with money, you're going to get associated with food as well. But why are we able to talk about food or we're not able to talk about how much money we make about people feeling uncomfortable? Does that make sense? Like it's just reality and you got to be able to face reality. And I think Sharon wins is such an integral part of achieving success because, one, you remind yourself of all the things that you've done well on the journey. If you don't remind yourself, you're going to be constantly just focused on all the things that you feel like you need to improve on. And it's going to be a really dark, deep rabbit hole when all you think about is the negative. You're thinking about the negative space.
Why you shouldn't keep your goals to yourself, okay? There's a lot of people out there that say, you know, succeed in silence, keep it to yourself. I am an advocate of the opposite. I think that you should go out and tell everyone what your goals are. Because let's say you talk about your goals, one of two things is going to happen. You're either going to achieve it or you don't. That's life, that's fitness. That's the same thing. It's binary. You either achieve your goals or you don't. And if you know that you're going to achieve your goals with certainty, why wouldn't you go out and say it? Does that make sense? If you knew 100% certainty, like, you would tell your friends sometimes, hey, I'm going to the gym after work because you know that you're going to the gym after work or I'm going to go for after work because you know that you're going to go to it. So, you can verbalize and vocalize it. But it's when we aren't sure whether we're going to achieve it or not that we feel a hesitation to speak about our goals. It's also why a lot of people won't put out that they're on their fitness journey until they achieve their goals. I myself were included. I remember four years ago when I started this chain of consistency, I was getting back into the catalyst for it was when I was Vietnam and I broke my hand. I didn't upload a physique photo and say, hey guys, I'm on my fitness journey. I'm going to do it. Because deep down, I had a doubt within myself whether I could achieve it. Because I had disappointed myself many times. There’re many times where I got close, I'll be consistent for how many weeks or however many months, and then I'd end up falling off track. So, for me, that was my pattern and we've spoken about it already. Confidence and self-doubt is just pattern recognition can't be faked, right? I mean, you can put an aside if you doubt yourself. You doubt yourself. If you have confidence, you have confidence. And so I had a lot of self-doubt because of my patterns. And so, I now understand why I didn't want to put that photo out there. And just like of a lot of us, we want to get that transformation. Because while we're working towards that fitness goal, we're thinking about that day that we upload that transmission information photo that's going to blow everyone's mind. Everyone wants to do that.WHY YOU SHOUDN'T KEEP YOUR GOALS TO YOURSELF
Do you have a morning routine? Because on the days those things go really well and we're hyper productive, that's when our morning routine is flawless. We journal, meditate, we plan everything. We have a focus group meeting, and we start the day like you're warmed up, ready to go. I remember when I was working at a corporate of a job and I moved out because during that time we got caught drink driving and I was literally a 15 minutes’ walk away from work and I didn't know what I broke me to work and I would wake up at 810. And I started at 830. I wake up at 810. I'm logging in right away. I'm always feeling really overwhelmed, just like you live this reactive mindset where you're not even preparing. You're just behind the ball, react like, shit, I've got to wake up, get to work, shower, I got to go have breakfast. Shit, I got to leave the house. Shit, I've got to get into work. I got to start. And so you're using your mental capacity just trying to figure out what you need to catch up on, and you're constantly just trying to pick up the pieces as opposed to when I used to. After I started to get back into fitness, I started to come into work early because I wanted to beat the traffic. And if I leave at a certain time, it will take me an hour and a half to get to work versus if I leave 45 minutes earlier, I would get there in 45 minutes. I'll get to work early, but then what I did was I just have a nap in the car and then I'll wake up 15 minutes before my shift started, get into work, and then just start preparing and organizing my day. During that time, I didn't understand a morning routine, but these are the things I did that felt like work for me. Just being prepared and being early.
What is it that makes you happy? And I want you to take a step back. Anything that's not productive and I think you yourself would know that if all you're looking forward to at one point in my life, I was looking forward to drinking all the time. Well, that can't be your passion, that can't be your obsession because is very toxic, it's detrimental to your mental health and it's destructive. So, think of something that you like in your life that is constructive in some ways don't think about the money they can generate, just think about something that you like and you enjoy and start nurturing that and start nurturing that skill. Because right now the place where we are in our business, we've been able to combine various skills that were not really related graphics design, web design, with videography photography and then fitness project management, right? These are just skills and traits that are just plucked out of nowhere. These are the things that I enjoyed. Now put things together and be able to create something of our own and be able to create something new and that's what I was talking to you guys before the million-dollar idea, you guys probably are sitting on it right now but you need to look to figure it out because it could just change your life. could be something you're doing every single day that causes your pee suddenly just because you put time and effort you might even better find a solution to that and then it could be million-dollar system, million-dollar product, million-dollar service, whatever it is.
Intelligent people know what they don't know. It's not about not asking for help. That's what I think a lot of people think. They think that if they try to figure things out themselves, they have this title that they figured it out themselves. And it's amazing, but it just shows your lack of ability to be your lack of humility, to actually ask for help because you want the title to say that you did it yourself. And there's no way that you yourself, the things that you created yourself, or the ideas that you think of, the brain power of one exceeds the brain power of many. In some scenarios, maybe. But for the most part, for us to think of things ourselves is nowhere going to be as effective as if a team has already thought of it. And so that's why myself, I see immense value in paying for guidance, paying for some kind of mentorship. Because, yes, I could have just gone on Google or YouTube and watched hours and hours and hours of videos on how to build a website. But you know what? The information is not going to be exactly what I need. I'm going to have to extrapolate that data and try to figure things out myself. And yes, I am going to figure things out myself, but at what cost? Time for you to get your solution the fastest and talk about a long-term solution, not just get to a solution how to build a website. Once, if I wanted to do that, I would have just invested thousands of dollars for someone to build a website for me. I would just like, hey, here it is, and just build it. One, it's not the most cost effective, and two, I don't have ongoing support. If I do, I'm probably going to have to pay for that as well. So eventually that's going to be it's not a very great financial decision. Option number two is I learned how to build a website from scratch. That's going to take them longer. You have coders that go to university for years before they can actually, they implement good systems. I've seen people who have graduated because they have a degree. It doesn't mean that they're qualified. I've seen some pretty dingy websites if I want to be honest. And yeah, it's just, again, not time efficient.
The most influential people in the world. The ones that we don't forget about are the ones that have been able to create the greatest impact. And our lives are just so insignificant in terms of the scope of humanity. And that's why I really look up to guys like Elon Musk. If you look into him now, he talks about no one's ever been able to really change the world working just 40 hours a week like some people. But for the most part, you're going to have to put in more time. And if, you know, if you've watched any of his interviews, he actually sleeps at the factory. And the reason why he sleeps at the factory is he wants to put in the work to show people. Why do you think? Myself, as the owner of the company, I still put in so much work, rather than just trying to outsource everything, even if I outsource everything, I'm still going to put in extra work. I want to be seen as someone who puts in this work because it creates a model for people to live their life off. My clients can see what hard work and mental resilience can achieve. It will inspire them to continue to push forward. I feel it's like I'm motivating them and they motivate me and I'm motivating them. It's like self-perpetuating almost. I want to put in work for the rest of my life, and I want to show people what is possible, just as long as you just keep climbing one step at a time. One step at a time. And just hearing, like, Elon Musk stories is super inspiring that he puts in that's.
I've always been a car guy. I haven't driven a manual car in, like, eight years. I lost my license for a very long time. I drove my dad's family car for a very long time. And I got the M two. I love driving it. I wanted to not hurt on the roads and still be able to, like, drive because I love the feeling of drivers. So, I bought a SIM racing rig, and before bought a SIM racing rig, I was playing Gran Turismo just on the controller. And I'm not very good at racing games. Other racing games, I played, like, Neva Speed and stuff like that. But ground tourism is completely different, more SIM racing orientated. And so, I have to learn how to drive on the controller. And it took me, like, two weeks to kind of get the rhythm. Then I got the SIM racing rig, and then I had to restart that all over again. I had to restart the learning process all over again. And that was extremely frustrating. I couldn't even make it around one lap. Hang tight as well. And she kept hitting the wall. It's not easy driving the racing week. It doesn't feel like a real-life car. There are some similarities. Eventually, once you become proficient at that, skills do cross over. But it's a whole new thing I had to learn. And it was extremely frustrating to even learn how to just drive and then doing the drive tests, which are notoriously known to be very difficult as well. And I'm spending hours and hours of frustration ripping my hair out. And I'm like, I want to continue to push through this because I know that as soon as I get through this, I'm no longer going to feel this way again. Whatever I'm feeling right now is only temporary. People think whatever the feeling is going to be permanent, but it's never going to be like that. And if I stop now, I rob myself with the opportunity of seeing what it is that's on the other side of that tunnel. I rob myself with the opportunity of seeing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And the longer that you spend and the more struggles and challenges that you're facing, the more that you should actually double down on yourself. Because if you quit, even if it takes you six months and you quit, you just wasted the whole six months because you quit. And so, even though you're digging, it feels like you're digging yourself into a hole. And then the more that you're digging, the harder other things are. There will come a time where you will get to the other side of the tunnel.
You're less likely to rely on an escape when the things that you do give you deep fulfillment. And from my experience as a coach, I've noticed that a lot of people participate in these things, including myself, when I didn't really enjoy my job. But that was my reality. I had to wake up every in one day, and I didn't want to shop to work, but I knew that I had to because it was a job and everyone else in the world was waking up and doing the same thing. And so it felt like it wasn't okay for me to want a different life. Or if I were to want a different life, that would just be a dream. Yeah, it must be nice. One day, maybe we can think about it. One day I'm hoping this, one day I'm hoping that, and then that's all it is for most people. It's just hopes and dreams, and no one actually manifests that vision into reality. And what helped me was having like what helped me break a free from that attachment from reality is snapping back in the opposite direction. It's when I didn't have a job. It's when I was just at home smoking weed, doing nothing all day. That, for me, taught me that I've stripped everything away. That was me breaking free from that reality completely. And that made me realize that I can do anything I want with my time. And now fast forward to after finishing up a full-time job. Now we're working for ourselves. This is our reality now. But this wasn't always our reality. The fact that we get to wake up whenever we want, the fact that we get to have a job, that's actually not a listed profession, right? When you apply for, like, a passport, for example, there's like a list of professions and online fitness coaches in there. So it's actually not a typical job that people will collaborate, classify, even as a job.
I think having an obsession is actually healthy. I think a lot of people say some obsessions are unhealthy, but like, who are we to say? I think as long as you have an obsession that doesn't harm anyone else, I think that's okay. And I think having obsession in terms of self development, that's also okay as well. But I think people in in the fitness world get some bad flack for trying to look a certain way. Training to look, I don't think that's bad at all. I honestly don't think that is a bad thing. I think training because you want to look good, I think that's an awesome reason. It's just like your house. You'd want to decorate your house to make it look nice, right? And when you're proud of it, like when we built our office here, I want to look at it all the time. I feel awesome being here. I feel super appreciative and grateful to even just sit down and feel the table, look at the view, have all you know, I feel proud of that stuff, and I'm very proud of my car. I'm a big car guy and very proud of that. And when I'm shredded, I have a good physique. I want to be able to look at that as well. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. So I think it's very healthy. I think it's good that people should have an obsession so you can be laser focused on something in your life. Does that make sense? And so when you're laser focused on something, you don't have time to look at other people's lawn. Does that make sense? I don't have time to look at other people's lives and wish that I lived their life when I'm so laser focused on creating the life that I want to live. So I genuinely believe that if you guys focus on your life and put all your time and energy into that, you're going to be so happy with yourself. And only then can you bring happiness into other aspects and avenues of your life, like the people around you and the people that you care about. You cannot bring happiness. It will be very hard for you every day to bring happiness if you are not happy with yourself. We live in this landed world of opportunity.
We started the online fitness coaching business before we were ready. But we followed the instructions of our mentor and they were like, just start before you're ready. Figure out your gaps are, learn the modules and then implement. And that's exactly what we did and that's exactly what we're continuing to do. We actually set the launch tag of our apparel before we were ready. The website wasn't even ready. But we set ourselves that deadline and we started working. We figured out what the gaps are and went online to figure it out. There were some people that we asked who had run it before we got the experience. We went online, we utilize our pillars of support and it's very frustrating at the start, but guess what? We have now generated that momentum. It's now given me the confidence to start not just one businesses, but multiple businesses. And I have now the confidence to start even more businesses. It's the same structure. I have now been able to overcome that fear. And being able to erect these visions and goals and manifest into reality doesn't seem that far fetched now. Because guess what? These small steps that we took, these videos that I've watched on YouTube hundreds and hundreds of hours over the last years has now accumulated to some big changes. And so guys, big changes is there for you to take. But you need to actually fight for it. You need to just start. Just start and put your foot in the door and tell yourself that the end goal is definite and you are going to get there. It's just a matter of time. And you've got to fight for it and be relentless with your goals. Otherwise you're going to spend the rest of your life watching other people succeed, other people take off goals and you're not able to take off your own goals.
How you do one thing is how you do everything. And when you focus on your attributes, your mental resilience, your ability to problem solve, and your ability to persevere, not only are you going to be more successful in what you do, you are going to be a better partner, you're going to be a better friend, you are going to be a better mentor. Because you should be mentoring someone doesn't mean you have to sit in a seat of a mentor. But if you start to achieve success, there are many people to look up to you and you providing advice. In a sense, you become their mentor and so you become much more valuable as a human being. As humans, we have this innate desire to want to feel significant. And we are programmed to want to feel significant. And so acknowledge that and realize that the best way for you to feel significant is impact, is helping one another. As humans, our whole purpose of survival, I've mentioned this many, many times before, is to literally serve one another. And so sometimes when we don't serve or we don't help other people, sometimes we feel useless. And that makes us feel really shit. But when you help someone, even though you don't get anything back, you feel good. Why? Because it comes back to that. Your innate desire to feel significant to someone. If someone was homeless and you gave $50 and not given enough food for the whole entire week or a month, you feel very significant to them. And that makes you feel good. And that's okay because we are programmed to feel that way. Does that make sense? So your journey to push forward is not just for yourself. People need to understand that you being in your fitness journey is not just for yourself. Like, yes, you get the direct benefits 100%. However, you just being on your journey, you just showing up impacts. It influences those around you more than you actually know.
I'm grateful to have my previous mentors, ten K Mastermind. For me. I consider that, like, my first relationship, and I'm very, very grateful because of them. They've been able to radically change our lives. But I think we're just at a new chapter in our lives right now. Where for me. I just find that after after a period of time when you're with someone for a very long time. In terms of. Like. Mentorship. You reach a cap in terms of how much you can learn. And you just have to find something new to progress. I'm grateful to be in good health. I'm grateful to growing up. I had asthma, eczema. I had all these allergies bad, dry skin. I'm grateful to no longer have that anymore. I'm grateful to be happy every single day. I'm grateful that every time I drive to the gym, I get to drive my dream car with my fiance in the car. For me, that's everything that I've always, ever wanted. So regardless of how shitting are, those are the things that remind me that I've got it pretty good. And so you guys don't want to hear me complain about what I'm going through. I say these things to you to share with you guys that we all have our struggles and we have our challenges, and that it's easy to look at someone's success only from the bright side of the moon. We don't look at the dark side of the moon. We look at just the bright. Well, they would be happy and do all these things and have this and better by that, but we don't see the work that goes behind it. I just want to share with you guys to be transparent, everything that's involved in the journey to success, whatever that definition is for you. I'm grateful to have my parents bring me up the way that they did. I may not have agreed with a lot of their teachings, maybe not a lot. I would agree with a lot of the teachings. However, we had a lot of disagreements growing up. I was immature, and I'm grateful to have them as a support network that has always been around and helped shape me to who I was. I'm very grateful for the way my dad raised me when young anger give me problem solving questions when I was young, teach me the inquisitive mindset which has crafted who I am today. I'm very grateful for that.
Letting go of your attachment to your current reality sometimes for you to be I used to think that I was a night out because I would stay up late playing games until five in the morning. I would like waking up at 11:00 to like one, two o'clock in the afternoon. And that was my life, and I never like to do anything in the morning. I felt I could be productive in the morning, but fast forward to today, I find that I can't be productive at night. The sun's down. When the sun's down, people finish work. You're more likely to have conversations with people during that time. People ask you to go out, your family asks you to go out, you have dinner. So let's just say I wake up at work for a little bit and it's like late in the afternoon, the sun is beaming in and you feel tired, and then you take a nap, and as soon as you wake up, the sun's down, you can have dinner. And Sunday's, 08:00, everyone else is starting to go to sleep, and now it' much harder for you to be productive. So I had to be okay with shifting my day to wake up in the morning because I found that I was way more productive in the morning. And yes, it was very difficult for me to wake up at the start, but I didn't understand the purpose of waking up early. I remember when I worked a sales job and we used to start at 830, and they changed to starting at 08:00, and I'm like, oh my God, I need to wake up at like 07:00. And you know what? Waking up 1 hour before work was way too soon. I came late a lot of the time. Times I kept getting in trouble, I kept getting ad hoc. That's what it was. I kept writing it down, it kept coming late. But I did not want to wake up any earlier than 07:00. That's far too early. When I was in uni classes, I didn't go to most of them.
If you wake up early every single day, you wake up early for work, that becomes easy because that's your routine. You do it every single day because that's just all that, you know. But then when you go on holiday and then you start to sleep in, it's going to be much harder for you to actually start waking up early again. And so what we did was when we were over there, we still wake up up early. The first couple of days, I was waking up at 05:00 because of the time difference. We had a focus group meeting. And that became really hard because we're waking up at 05:00 and I'm like, okay, I'm up. I want to start working. I'll work until for 3 hours, maybe it's eight until 09:00, where everyone else starts to wake up, get ready, and then we'll go on our tour. We'll do whatever we want. That became really hard to sustain because we would end up sleeping at around 12:00. And all the days are much more action packed than what it is over here. And it became too hard for me to maintain that, which meant that if I continue doing that, I would break momentum very easily. And so we started to meet in the middle where I wouldn't necessarily sleep in super late, but we just gave ourselves an extra bit of time to rest and recuperate. And we'll try to do whatever we can later in there just so we can maintain that rhythm and we're not just going to completely switch off. Does that make sense? And so life is always going to give us curveballs, whatever it is, to break momentum, okay, could be locked down, it could be the weather, could be holiday festivities, could be getting injured, changes to your work schedule or workload. The break in momentum is inevitable, and we need to understand and accommodate that into our strategy. And I think if you have this idea that when you're generating immense amounts of momentum, that you feel like you can do this forever. I see this all the time. I see clients who before they join, they might be crash dieting, for example. And when they crash died, they're like, yeah, it's so easy for me to do this. I can just keep eating like this every single day. It's not going to be a problem. I can do this forever. Everyone feels like they can do that forever when they're in peak momentum. But life is always going to give us a curveball and it's going to jeopardize our ability to continue making that progress. And when life gives us that curve ball, we either have a choice of breaking that momentum and having to regain it later on, or trying to maintain that. So in an ideal world, I think we should always try to maintain some level of momentum.
The cardio that you need to do right now, the hours and hours of endless cardio that you need to do for months on end, if not years on end, are consequences of your actions. When you look at yourself in the mirror and you grab that belly fat and you grab it to make faces that's the consequences to action. The reason why you feel sad when you put in a shirt that used to fit you the reason why you're insecure and self conscious about your body image the reason why you don't want to go out as much as you used to because the clothes don't fit you anymore. The reason why you don't even go shopping in the first place because you don't want to accept the biggest size the reason why you can't take off the top of the beach the reason why you need to adjust your clothes every single time you stand up and you sit down the reason why you struggle to breathe and complain and bitch and moan about climbing a couple of flights of stairs. The reason why you look at the clock every 8 hours to determine if you can eat or not at the start of every day. The reason why you're scared of eating chips and bread and carbs every time you eat out and sometimes there's a lapse of judgment and you do it and you feel guilty afterwards. The reason why you feel sad about yourself where you need the next binge to feel happy is it worth it? No. You need to evaluate the consequences of your actions afterwards, not just the instantaneous gratification you get when you eat that food and yeah, you can lie to yourself and deny yourself the opportunity of making a change. At the end of the day, you're the one that's going to be unhappy. And to be honest, it's also the same reason why you look at others and you think they have good genetics but in reality it's just your poor decision making. Fitness is a privilege. We're over here in Bali, technically a third world country and what our driver told us a story yesterday in terms of how he eats with his family. And over here you eat big large bowls of rice and very little amounts of food.
For you to change the world, you need to change yourself first. JD's mileage varies a little bit. To me, his social circle hasn't changed, which is awesome. So that was like the neutral environment that we were talking about, right? Where they didn't necessarily, hey Judy, go and do this, go out and do that, but they were just kind of neutral, love them as a banker, as a full time worker, and how they love them as a coach. It's still that neutral environment. There's nothing wrong with that at all. It's just being aware of the environment that you're in and those environments while your circle will never change. While for me, I kind of had a negative environment. Not that my friends were negative, it's just the actions that they did every single week where didn't resonate with where I wanted to be. And I still have my group, which I'm very close with, but they go out and party all the time, but I don't feel FOMO anymore, you know what I mean? They don't bother inviting me. Well, I don't want to go out every week. I don't want to go out and do drugs every week and do all these things every week. Like we'll hang out occasionally when there's a big event or something like that. And when we hang out it's awesome because we haven't seen each other in a long time. But for me, my social circle went from this looseygoosey to this nice and tight. So the quantity reduced, quality increased. When I used to go out clubbing, I used to know so many people, friends, according to Facebook. And on my birthday, I had more people that say happy birthday to me that I met in the last six months than I did over the last six years. So it really showed me who your true friends are, where the value is. And so do I feel sad? No, because they're not providing me any long term value. They don't have an emotional investment interest in me as a human being being. And because I have made no impact on their life doing these things well, they're not going to make much of an impact on my life.
When you get uncomfortable, when you are pushed to your limits, sometimes you feel like you're at your breaking point and you just need to put this on pause and you just want to shy away and call into the ball. But that's not how life works. Life continues. Life moves on each and every single day. And so whatever you don't to do today, you're going to have to do eventually. So the weight that you're not losing today, you're eventually going to need to lose that weight. Otherwise you need to accept that you're going to be the same for the rest of your life. And that's me being honest. Those are your two options. You either make a change today or you eventually make a change. And you're going to look back and wish you made the change today. Or you don't make a change at all. And today is what you're going to look like for the rest of your life, if not get worse. Okay? And when you see things from that perspective, and that's how I spoke to my client, we always know that he's going to get back on track eventually. So why waste that time from now until then and for him to look back and be like, I wish I just started several months ago. This is it. This is the cost of change. Everyone thinks that they want change. Everyone likes the idea of being different, of being where they want. But they don't understand that this is what the cost of change is. It's making this decision, this one decision to be relentless and to continue your journey no matter how hard it is. And that's how we've been able to get to where we are today. Because when things get tough, you need to double down on yourself. And so to summarize, I had a client that's been working with me for a year and he wasn't able to make the financial investment he was, but because he doesn't have a job, he just wants to be a little bit more intelligent with his managing his finances. Completely understandable. I'm saying, you know what, the fact that you feel comfortable with your finances right now despite not having being a job is not a good thing. You should feel the squeeze. That's how we've been able to succeed as a business as well.
Affirmations was what coaches would teach people if they didn't know what else to do. And I just thought to myself, how can words affect reality? How can your thoughts or anything that you say to yourself affect reality? I just felt like saying I'm rich, but I'm not. Well, don't really believe it. So saying it's just going to sound pointless. Saying it's just going to sound cheesy. However, I didn't realize how much of an impact that our language makes on our actions. Our thoughts determine our mood, our feelings, and effectively our mindset. And so in terms of what we do as online coaches, we actually do sell support, which is we help each other in terms of talking to new clients, new prospects, and we try to understand them. And so what makes us different is I genuinely, genuinely want to help our clients find a solution to their problem. We're not just throwing meal plans and nutrition plans. We want to understand why our clients feel the way they feel and what led them to where they are. Because we need to solve the root cause. And if the root cause of what led them to being out of shape was perhaps their mindset, their actions, their decisions, we need to understand what was that trigger? And we resolved that. And then when we can give them solutions, they're going to be able to keep it. Otherwise, if we throw just nutrition and training plans, they're going to do it temporarily just to go back to the old habits. So a way for us to better understand and explore what our clients are going through, we have to try to read between the lines. Okay. And it's very interesting, right? We were born just for context. We were born with the ability to speak. Unlike other animals, we have the ability to speak, but without language, which means that our initial thoughts when we were young were not based on our language. They were just raw, subconscious thoughts, impulses and feelings. Just like how a dog would bark when an intruder comes or a bear or attack. Right? These are all our subconscious thoughts. But then over time, we develop our conscious mind to help understand the subconscious thoughts process and override these decisions so we can make better decisions. And then once we learn that language, we then think in that language. We don't necessarily think in raw thoughts. You can't even try not to read. When you see words, your brain will instantly recognize it, process it as the language or the dialect that you understand, and then generate certain emotions or feelings based on that. So I'm internal dialogue in our dialect essentially becomes our thoughts.
Confidence is just pattern recognition. And it's just like an emotion that can change up and down based on certain trends. And so, yeah, it's good to see once we actually have been starting to take these steps, that things are starting to fall into place the way that we had envisioned it. And believe it or not, video that I'm talking about, the promotion video, that was one take. That was one take on one take off. And I had to try to plan everything. And the fact that it was so successful, it just meant that we've got the vision, we've got the plan, we've also got the execution. And this is just a testament of what's possible. And you know what? We're no longer one man's team. That's probably the best thing. We're full squad right now. I think that's one of the best things. And that's why I wanted to talk to you guys about as well, a few things that I've learned over the last four months. Four months of a lot of ups and downs, four months of a lot of things that are actually been quite tough, right? And I want to share with you guys quickly some things that I have learned. Okay? So number one is things are always going to be tough. Things are always going to be tough through quiet periods. That's the calm before the storm. Okay? So throughout the last few months, our peril has been on the lower priority. Even though we've done a lot of the marketing stuff, like three or four months ago, we couldn't fully invest into it because we needed to rebuild our coaching. Okay? Now, take it from me, like my accountant as well, who has exposure to many businesses, it's a really weird time that we're going through right now in terms of the economy. All businesses at the moment are feeling the squeeze. And I'm being honest with that, right? All businesses are feeling the squeeze. And I honestly feel like it's because of inflation, right? Things are being inflated, things are costing more, but people just aren't earning more dollars. So there's a lot of a scarcity mindset right now, the government is trying to pump money, trying to print money, but people just aren't spending it. And so that's been tough. But you know what? The market will always recover. It just takes time. And you just need to las long enough to weather the storm. And through every piece of hardship this is number two. Through every piece of hardship or challenge, it's an opportunity for you to grow. And I truly believe that. And I have preached that while we're going through challenges, while we've overcome it, and we talk about things in hindsight, but I feel for fortunate to be able to share these things with you guys as they go through.
The five reasons why you're always tired. Number one is diet from an energy balance perspective. Diet from a micronutrient perspective or macronutrient perspective. Number three is your sleep. Number four is your hydration levels. And number five is your mindset. Okay, guys, if you guys are catching us to the the replay, hashtag replay, let me know that you are watching and let me know which one of these resonates with you the most. For me, I was all of them at one point in time. It was not a coincidence that I was tired. Lethargic unmotivated. And I wasn't able to make a change until I started locking these things down. I had a new sense of energy and have almost superhuman energy right now. And I'm not even joking, if you like. Over the last week, Hang and I, we've been working 13 to 15 hours a day. And yeah, it is mentally fatiguing. Yeah, it is tiring. But one, we have a great sense of purpose to our diet is on point in terms of energy balance, in terms of micronutrients sleep. Not ideal, but we do nap throughout the day. So total time that we spend sleeping a day, probably seven to 8 hours. How much do we get a night? Six and a half, maybe seven. And then we might have a nap early in the morning, or might have a nap in the afternoon, but we do try to supplement that sleep for hydration. I've got this big bottle of water here that I am choking through throughout the day. To be honest. I'll talk about another one. I don't really like these big water bottles. I just tried it out just to experience it. I prefer smaller water bottles, but either way, make sure you're hydrated.
I still have the capacity to make better decisions. It doesn't matter what your limitations are, because this is the only life that you have when you tell someone about these limitations just to justify where you are, but you still have the power and you still have the capacity to still fight for the things that you want and still achieve and be in a better place than where you are now. That's it. Life is not about perfectionalism or nothing at all. It's about finding a balance and doing the best that you can. It's like telling a kid that they shouldn't play basketball if they can't make it to the NBA, or they shouldn't play soccer it they can't make it into the Champions League. Everyone has different varying levels of skills and attributes, and we can't necessarily control that, but we can control being the best that we can with the cards that we've been dealing with. Today, as a reminder, is your day. Today is your opportunity to make a difference. Today is your day that you are finally going to make a change. Change doesn't need to be drastic. It starts small. Start with something realistic that you can achieve every single day. Every single day. Add on to what you've done yesterday. Small steps amounts to big things. My day. One was Boxing Day 2018. And I remember that specifically because I knew everyone else in my shoes would have started in five days time when the New Year hit. And I knew that I kept pushing it back to next week, next month, next year. This is it. And all I did on Boxing Day was we still had a party that night, and I just made the decision to stay within my calories and not drink any chases when I drank that's. It. Simple as that. That was my first step.
Build your consistency in everything that you do. Focus on being consistent. Showing up every day, no matter what, how hard your journey is, it will eventually get easier if you're consistent. Why is being consistent important? Even if your fitness, your work, if you're consistent, you have consistent data, optimize as many variables as possible. And so when you are making an adjustment, you're going to get direct feedback with your health and fitness goals. If you're changing what you eat every day, changing the amount of steps you're having every day, or you're not tracking that, or you're doing different workouts, you're going on YouTube, watching YouTube workouts and try to do different ones every day, doing different forms of cardio, every single day is different. You don't have a pattern, you don't have any trends. So you're not able to assess that data. So when you're making a change, you're changing your food, well, your waste is going to go up and down and you're not going to make any progress. Same thing of building a business, right? I used to be terrible at sales and now I'm able to communicate. I would say I'm pretty good at sales because of consistency. I'm consistent in how I communicate and I change the way I communicate on different conversations over time. And I'm able to see trends. So let's say I communicate one way, I get this feedback, communicate differently, I get this feedback, I start to make some adjustments, try and error. And through that consistency you just naturally learn, develop and grow. Same thing with any skill or hobby that you're looking to improve. I was never good at videography. Inherently. I used to be terrible. You get a phone and just record like everyone else would. And over time, as I started to learn more, more I learned about videography, the more I realized there was to learn and the tougher I got. But I still was consistent. I showed up for my YouTube series, the Blueprint series, every single week. Just continue to generate content. And over time it started to improve the content. Same thing with my health and fitness goals. Same thing on building my business. I made sure everything was consistent day in, day out in terms of my personal branding, being consistent with my life every single day. Why? Because it was a token that represents my consistency. Because going on live doesn't take that long. And it's the knowledge that I already know. And so there's no reason for me not to go on live. And some days I encounter more mental resistance than others. Some days I don't feel like going on live. Some days I feel like giving myself excuses. But none of that matters because I just want to be consistent with it.
How things changed in terms of my perspective then and my perspective now. Right? So my previous ideology of balance was I used to think balance meant starving myself weekdays so I could binge on weekends. You know, work hard for five days a week to go on a three day bender, slave away for 48 weeks in a year to go on all our bins for two or three weeks overseas. That's what I thought balance was. I spent time doing things that were productive, that I didn't necessarily enjoy, and now I want to flip the other way and do the things that I enjoy and completely give up that discipline. I thought that was balanced. And at the end of the day, every time when a holiday or had these trips, I would gain two to five kilos at a minimum. Right, EDC? I went to Vegas in 2017. I was in the worst shape of my life. And then five weeks before that, I crashed. I did. I crashed. I lost five kilos, and I literally gained that five kilos. Back in a week. Vietnam again. I was in the worst shape of my life. You guys are starting to see a trend here. I was depressed, and this is the first trip that I went upon it. I didn't want to be in any photos. I just continued to eat because I just thought to myself, when I get back from Vietnam, I want to get back on track. And so I remember I was at my grandma's house. I was so upset at myself and so disappointed with how I looked. And guess what? We ordered Uber eats, and we ordered fried chicken, and we just ate ate from greed and gluttony. And that's the only thing that gave me comfort. I didn't enjoy where it was. I hated where it was. And food was the only thing that gave me comfort. Japan, 2019. I was in the best shape of my entire life two months prior. And then I got mugged, which meant I couldn't train. My head was swollen like a watermelon, and so I couldn't train a month leading up to Japan. And by the time we got to Japan, I gained weight. And literally, by the time I got back, I looked like melted ice cream. And again, I was just so disappointed with myself. And after every diet, we would have a binge episode and would go on a getaway trip for maybe two or three days. And when we did go on these trips, I would actually always over order, overeat get by all these snacks and put on a lot of weight. So I'll spend months getting into good shape just to spend a couple of days, maybe a week, to undo all of it and more. And psychologically, such a difficult thing to accept.
Everything is a choice. You're stuck at a deadend job because that's your choice. You're out of shape because that's your choice. Everything is your choice, and you need to accept that it's your choice. For me, I used to be the person that used to point things and blame everything around me. And I used to wonder why I'm always in this unique circumstances, like, I'm not able to train because I have a shoulder impingement. I don't know anyone else that has a shoulder impingement. Or I'll be consistent for a couple of weeks and then I'll get sick. And then I'll get sick. And it's the reason why I get out of shape and I start eating and I order Uber eats, and I tell myself I need to eat to recover. And then eventually got out of shape. And because I got out of shape, it's so hard to accept psychologically that you've slipped back on your progress because the weeks and months leading up to that, you've been trying to make progress, make positive progress. And then despite your best attempts, you go backwards, and then you kind of slip out of momentum. And so I want you guys to know that it's your freaking choice. And right now, hang on, I sick because of Covert. That's our freaking choice. We chose to go to the rave. And you know what? I actually asked a group of coaches, knowing that we would like, hypothetically, knowing that we would get covered, would we have still gone to that event? And I'm going to be honest, I couldn't answer this for the last couple of days. I didn't know how to respond to it. And one of our other coaches, Nam, he said he would because it's one of the first biggest events in the last three years. Everyone was there. It was one of the first events where not even just like a music event, but just one of the biggest events that I have been to in the last 33 years, we have been able to see people. And I remember when I was there, I remember when I was there, I was thinking, like, it's good to have these things back again, where we're able to see people and just go out and meet all our friends. And it was a really good times.
We're constantly changing, we're constantly getting with the times, we're constantly adapting, evolving. I don't cling on to any status or notion of success or whatever. I am willing to start fresh with the opportunity, unity of becoming something better. And it's the same thing with business. We're not using the same systems where willing to adapt, evolve and grow. All the coaches that we take on board, we say these are systems right now because these are developed based on yesterday's problems, but we want a new solution for tomorrow's problems. And we accept feedback from our community. We put in effort to create this survey to understand exactly where everyone is so we can continue to adapt, evolve and grow. And the community and the coaching program itself is going to constantly change based on the times and how we used to run. Like these challenges, these four day challenges, these two week challenges. We're changing that as well. We're completely changing that. And it's crazy to think that how we're running these challenges a year ago is going to be different to how we're running it this year and next year and the year after that. Otherwise it's going to be the same thing over and over again. And we need to get with the times, we need to understand the market. The market changes, the market matures, it evolves, it grows. The ads that worked on you last year don't work on you this year. I want you to think about product placement in movies. They're so much more subtle now, so much more subtle. And it's to a point where the logo doesn't need to even be in the movie because people recognize it as product placement, right? If you see someone with a can of Coke and they're drinking and you can see the logo, you're like that's product placement. It kind of detracts away from the experience. But now when they're in the movie, they'll tilt the bottle of the can so you can't see the logo but you recognize it from the color scheme and that's still product placement. It's like when you're in the movie, sometimes they blank out the logo but you can kind of tell that it's like an Apple laptop or an iPad iPhone. That's a recognized, that's how advanced product placement is right now.
One of the things I do want to say, though, the thing that one of the things I appreciate the most was having a coach throughout this whole process. It just meant I didn't have to worry about it. I didn't have to think about my training, didn't have to think about my nutrition. Just having someone there that I can speak to for an objective point of view, just not knowing that my circumstances have been considered, it just makes it so much better for me to actually recover. I don't have to think and stress, like, should I try and should I not? And it's just impossible for you to make an objective decision about them yourself. And for me, when I have to make decisions about myself, I would always choose the more uncomfortable option. But in terms of recovering from being sick, being uncomfortable is probably not a good idea. I'm sure that my clients feel the same way when they're sick and I get to provide them some guidance. So, I'm very fortunate to have a coach. Just let me know what I need to do. In terms of my calories, I haven't been tracking my calories, but over the last four days, Hang and I, we did not order out once. We eat home cooked meals and actually very healthy meals as well. Very nutritious. Mostly whole foods. Mostly whole foods. The only thing that I would say was whole foods was probably, like, yogurt and cereal. But we had, like, pasta, we had meat, we had rice, a really well bound side, lots and lots of fruit, lots of water. We had hydrolyte. I'd say our diet is 100% on point. The only thing is we didn't track it. I just didn't want to have to think about tracking throughout the times when I'm sick because I've developed an eye for my nutritional IQ. I know exactly how much I'm eating. So just to give you guys an update, each of our meals is anywhere between 400 to 800 calories. We have three meals a day, plus, like, supper or dessert, if you will. And it would just be like, yogurt and cereal night. But all our other meals are extremely healthy. Like the first day or two, we had, like, kanji and some chicken. We had some, like, pasta and fish. We had mince and fried rice. And I got my mom to make it, like, the healthier version without, like, excess amounts of oil.
The mistake a lot of people make is when they're sick, they give up on everything for some stupid reason, right? You're sick. Yes, you feel a little bit tired, but they won't weigh themselves. They won't get the water in taking they won't get their steps in, and they'll just be in bed ordering Uber eats. And that's just intentional right now, to be honest. Everyone is sick. Being sick is a part of your life. And so, if every time you're sick, you throw away three weeks’ worth of progress where you never actually going to get the results you want, because it's not just going to be your sickness that's going to hold you back. It's going to be other things that are going to hold you back. And you're just making up excuses. Because in reality, sticking to your fitness or staying committed to yourself is fucking difficult. It's honestly really difficult. And when challenges come your way, a lot of people like to use it as an excuse just to give up on their progress. I actually had a conversation with one of my clients yesterday. He's a new client. And over the weekend, for those of you guys don't know, went to Carnival, which is like a hard style music festival. But anyway, my client, he didn't go, and he said that because he felt like he was missing out on Carnival. So, he had a binge. He had a binge, and it went over his calories by 1800. And the next day, he wanted to spend time with your friend, so he went over by another 800 calories. And I just gave him straight up, I was just super honest. This is what you get when you're with the program with me, right? I give you some tough love, and I'm like, let's be honest. And that's bullshit has nothing to do with the event, has nothing to do with you wanting to spend time with someone. It's just easier. It's just self-sabotage. You've made good progress. It's been on the program for seven weeks. Made awesome progress. Looks shredded already. And as human nature, we always do things to self-sabotage because it's our identity We see ourselves as that old person, right? There are two parts to change your identity and your habits.
It doesn't matter where you are right now, today, or your past, or what happens. You can make a difference tomorrow. And sometimes, depending on how far away you are from where you want to be, that journey might feel like infinite. It might feel like it's forever. It might feel so far away. It might be your fitness journey. It might be that you made some mistakes over the last three to 510 years, and you've gained 1015, 2030, 40 kilos, and you're extremely upset about yourself and the journey. For you to lose 40 kw just seems so daunting because you can't even get past the first kilowatt. But I want you to know that you need to take that first step for you to get to step 1000. And it's easy for people to judge you based on where you are. I get judged now to this day, but I could judge positively. It doesn't make a difference. People still judge you based on where they think you are. And none of that matters. None of that freaking matters. None of where I am today doesn't matter. None of that matters. What matters is where I'm going to be tomorrow. That's what I care about. And that's what I care about with each and every one of you guys that you can change really who you want to be. And I bet you most of you won't even have a story as bad as what I just shared, right when you hear that story, you're like, what the hell is wrong with you? And most of you can't even imagine being in that situation where you actually had no money out of the call. My brother I've never called my brother asking for money. That was the first and only time I've ever done that. And he was like, no questions asked. He's like, yes, here it is. I pay him back when I had the chance, but that was a pretty tough time. I've shared this previous podcast. I wouldn't say there was animosity, but there was some tension between my brother and I growing up, because we grew up from a different time. I was much more privileged than he was. I always had it easy. He only had himself, essentially. But for me to always get the easy way out, and he still loved me enough to support at the time that I needed. And it's crazy to think that that was just only, like, eight years ago. That was me and we're I am now for me to explain to you how I feel at where I am now, I don't forget where I came from.
When times get tough, the challenges that we face that don't freaking matter. What matters is where we're going to be tomorrow. And it doesn't matter if he spent the last ten years working at Crown building those relationships, because guess what? In ten years, time is probably still going to be stuck there because of that comfortable shell. And in ten years’ time, he's going to look back and be like, man, I wish I had left. I wish I had left Crown then to start something. Because in ten years, imagine you spent ten years building a business, where would that go, right? And so, it doesn't matter how arduous your journey seems ahead, it's worth fighting for, because you're fighting for your own life. You're fighting for your ability to be happy every single day. And I just felt so grateful and so fortunate yesterday that I have the ability to speak about what I do each and every single day. And I show up here on Live every single day talking about it. Anyone that knows me in person knows I speak like this in person, as I do on lives like, this is me, 100% genuine, and I genuinely believe that. I look forward to waking up every day. I don't dread every single day whatsoever. Yes, there are aspects of our job that we don't like to do, but that's reality, right? Every single job has that. Every single job. You think that your dream job is just going to be all rosy and daisies and smiles every single minute? No, there's going to be tough times, but none of those matters, because what you're fighting for makes it worth it. And if it's your fitness, you're fighting to be happy with yourself. If it's your career, you're fighting to be financially free, so you're no longer bound. Like, just the idea of working a nine to five job. I have to be there at a certain time. I have to finish at a certain time. If I want to go on holiday and I want to see the world, I have to ask someone's fucking permission. Can I please get annual leave on these days? Can I please do that? I think it's so bullshit.
I am prepared to rebuild my Instagram if I need to. But I just wanted to come out here to talk to you guys about sometimes things in life don't turn out the way that you expect. It might be a bit of pill to swallow. Things happen all the time. You know, last you, when I competed, I didn't do as well as I wanted. I didn't even place. And you know what? Shit fuck happens. And you can either spend time being upset about it, which doesn't get you any closer to finding a solution, or you try to have a positive mindset. And I think in hindsight, it's very easy to talk about having a positive mindset when things are going well. I'm here to share with you guys when things aren't going well for us, right? So, for me, a lot of my clients, a lot of my leads, a lot of my following is based on Instagram. And I'm very active on Instagram. I post every day. I go live every single day. But you know what? Shit fucking happens. I'm grateful that I still have access to my Facebook. I'm grateful. That what made my Instagram blow up in the first place. I can replicate that. And it's the same thing with our fitness journey. Sometimes we invest a lot of time, months, years, building our fitness, and something happens. Maybe we get sick, maybe we get injured. Maybe it was covert and we weren't able to continue our fitness journey, and we might have lost some progress.
Sometimes we got to force ourselves to kind of, like, go out and watch a movie and have dinner, because otherwise it's not like we're getting old. I just feel like I value time, and every time I go out, it's going to cost me the following day. I find that, like, doing these extra recruits’ activities is not something that supplements your life. It ends up taking away from your life and being destructive as well, because you're destroying yourself. You're destroying your time. Think about it. For me, if I think, like, from Friday afternoon to evening to Saturday being written off and going out Saturday and then Sunday being written off, that's two and a half days that I've wasted. Two and a half days every single week. Imagine that almost half a year. Like, in a whole year, that's like, four months that spent completely written off, wasted. And we always ask ourselves, we don't have enough time to start a hobby. I don't have time to go to the gym. I don't have time to learn a new skill. In reality, we're actually spending time wasting time. And so now for us going out, we don't go out very often at all right now. I think in 2021, how many times we drink? Maybe like, four times, maybe five times. Honestly, that's how often we do we drink to celebrate. I think it's just part of the culture, and I don't think that it's just reasonable for anyone that are going to cut it out completely. It's just part of life. And so, I find it now that when I go out and I drink, it's for a different reason. And I don't find I need a goal as hard because I'm there to celebrate the moment. I'm there to celebrate the occasion, whether it be like a birthday or a wedding or an engagement or whatever it is. And when you find that, you have to celebrate, and it's had fun as opposed to escape. Right? And I think if you're going out to escape, there's something wrong with your life. And I think it's the same thing with your diet. If you find that you need to have a cheap meal in your diet or there's something wrong with your diet. And I watched a video from Cody Greg. If you guys watch Kurds, Greg let us know. But he made a really good analogy. It's like your relationship, right? You won't cheat on your girlfriend if you're happy in your relationship. And if you find that you need to cheat, well, there's something wrong with your relationship.
Your body knows that you've been starving yourself. It knows that you've been under eating. There's a difference between dieting, like being a small deficit, eating a little bit less energy than you need, that your body needs to burn throughout the entire day so you can chip away your body fat versus under eating. The problem is that we go from one ended extreme to the other. We either go from binging or, like diet mode. Binging or diet mode. You need to find a balance. That's actually one of the reasons why you're binging. And chances are you trying to be healthy is actually why you're binging as counterproductive. And counterintuitive that is, you trying to be healthy is actually what's causing you to binge. You not understanding the nutritional value of the foods that you're eating. And you're just eating things because they're branded as healthy or as diet foods. It's like what we say before, right? It's like trying to save up money to buy a house, but you're not setting such a budget and you're just buying things that are on sale, thinking that you're saving money long term. In a sense, yes. But the magnitude of the things that you buy might be disproportionate to the amount that you actually need to save up. Does that make sense? The same thing with dieting. Nuts and avocado are healthy. Yes, but they are very calorically dense. I'm not saying don't incorporate it, but knowing how much to incorporate is key because you can spend all this time in the day making all these unnecessary sacrifices for your diet, and then you eat like a handful of nuts, just like this much nuts, and suddenly it's like, throw 400 calories. Does that make sense? Like 300 calories for this much nuts? It's not even going to keep you full. Anything is going to make even more hungry, and it's a couple of hundred calories.
Life is everlasting. It's a forever journey, at least in your scope, right? Your life is forever for you. And so figuring out solutions that you don't have to deal with again and again and again and again means that you save a lot of time. Think about I want you guys to think about how many times you have fallen off track of your health and fitness and got them back on track. And then every single time you go off track, that's time that's wasted. And then you have to spend time to retransition back to get to where you were. And think about that like, say it might be six months, it might be six years. And if you were to add up all that time, that's time that had been wasted, had you not found the actual root cause and the solution to your problem in the first place, if you knew at the start why you were gaining weight, or you could have worked around it, does that make sense? So, in the three examples that we said, someone that's been overweight the whole entire life, well, you've been overweight your whole entire life, you know that there's nothing that you can do about it in terms of changing your genetics. You just have to work around it. It's like if you have short legs or you have small feet, you're going to have to buy small shoes. Does that make sense? You just have to work around it. It's just the way of life. If you have been fit before and now, you're starting to gain weight, you need to look at what are you doing with your lifestyle habits? Are you doing anything different with your food? Are you doing anything different with your lifestyle? How can you work around it? Because guess what guys. At the end of the day, those three camps of people, every single one of them, it's going to come to a point where there are so unhappy with themselves that they want to make a change. So, you know that the day is going to come and you're going to have to face the music. You might as well face it now, so you don't have to deal with it down the line.
These long-term solutions are what makes me fall off track and need these shortcuts in the first place. Does that make sense? So, I remember the first time I did keto. When did I do this? This will be in 2011, and I lost eight kilos in two months. And I thought that was incredible progress. And during those two months, I didn't eat any carbs. My dad, he would normally buy fish and chips after work, or he'll fire Kebab on his way home. I would fight sensation. I would resist. And I remember he would always compliment me. He was like, you have a very strong mind. And so, I'll let that get to my head, and I'm thinking, like, that's what I needed. I needed to have a strong mind. I have a strong mind. I'm able to make the right sacrifices. When I went out to eat and all I eat is this salad, I made all these unnecessary sacrifices. And during that time, I felt like what I was doing was right, because I got the feedback, I've got the results. But what happened afterwards was I ended up binging. Afterwards. I ended up falling completely off track. And when I did get a taste of carbs, I went hard, and I gained a lot of weight back. I gained all that weight back and more. And so, I would then need the short-term fixes again. The short-term fixes are the reason why you need short term fixes, because in my mind, I had associated my quick fix as a solution. That was what I needed to do to achieve my results. I needed to cut out carbs. I needed to restrict myself because I got the feedback, right, I've got the results, I lost weight. So, by definition, that was successful. So, I associated that as the most ideal strategy. And then I just thought, like, the exception was that something happened in my life and I fell off track, and I just need to get back on track, and I've done it once, I can do it again, right? I lost eight kilos once, I can do it again. So, I always thought that that was the right solution, but that inquired solution was what led me to gaining weight afterwards in the first place is what led me to actually binging. Because I have abstained from eating certain foods. I wasn't able to eat pizza, pasta, burger, rice, bread. Something so simple and primal, right, that you deprive yourself of. And it's only until you don't eat it anymore that you realize how much you actually relied on it.
The mistake that people make is that they endure moments that make them uncomfortable, the hopes that one day they're going to reach a point that they no longer need to change. You spent your childhood growing up establishing identity, going to university, going to school, and then graduate rating. And then once you have a full-time job, your identity starts to stay the same. You start to become stale. You stop growing. You stop going through all these different phases that you once went through when you were younger. Thinking about it in the scope of your 1st 20 years, you go through so many different phases in the first 20 years. You go from being a toddler to being a young child. Like going to primary school, going to high school, and then becoming a young adult, graduating, becoming your own identity, figuring yourself out. And then what happens after that? Most people end up just becoming stale. They close them yourself off to change because they become comfortable. Now, you spend your 1st 20 years to establish a good job or a job that you might be able to establish, a foundation to build your life, maybe get married, buy a house. And once you pass that phase, you end up just staying the same and that becomes your identity. But you know what? If you are not changing, you're not growing, or you are going to be what you see in your parents, someone that's outdated and someone that is kind of old fashioned and doing things the old way, while as the world evolves and advances, you're going to miss out on these opportunities, right? And so, at the end of the day, you may have your goals and ambitions, maybe it's your health and your fitness goals, but if you're too comfortable within your current routine, you're never going to be able to experience these things that you could have in your life. And like the idea of having to reschedule or redshifts or radically change your day, it feels uncomfortable. And some of my clients tell me that after work you don't have motivation; you don't have energy to go to the gym. And then with the suggestion that you can shift it to the morning, some of you close off that idea. It's scary. If you're used to waking up at 07:00 to go to work. I believe it or not, night used to wake up at 08:00 to start at 830 when I used to live so close to work. And that was when I was in the worst shape of my life.
Stop chasing fast, short term progress because anything fast is going to disappear even faster. Long term strategy. Being able to eat food and hang and I are very fortunate right now that we weren't always like this. But now we get to be in shape while being able to live life, be able to eat out, enjoy the holiday Christmas season, be able to diet through because we have the nutritional IQ. And yes, it takes a bit of time, but you know what? It's just like your financial literacy. It's something that you just need to know.
What we actually help our clients with is changing their identity, changing who they are and how they perceive themselves and how they perceive the world, how they perceive goals, their mentality, their mindset shift. Change the outlook on life, on how they see their ambitions and show them what they could be without the limitations of the mental hurdles.
How many of you guys have experienced this where you look back and, like, if I had started my fitness journey three months ago, I would have achieved my results by now. If I had tried a little bit harder and worked a little bit harder for last three years, I would have been in line for this promotion. Right? And we're always in this position where we look back, we wish we can change one single factor. I'm teaching the reverse engineer that so you can look forward to the next three months and you can be grateful and thankful that you actually made the decision to make a change today. And that's going to serve you getting closer to whatever your goals are in the long term, as opposed to waiting the next two or three months, then looking back to this moment today that you watched or heard this live and you thought to yourself that you should have made a difference because you would have been somewhere by now.
When things don't go towards the way you plan and expect, it's because of the expectation, you're going to be disappointed. Because a lot of people expect their pathway to success or their journey to be an unobstructed, ideal. All journey where they're not going to have any obstructions, they're not going to have any adversity, they're not going to have any challenges. And the first sign of challenges that come their way, they become disheartened, they become demotivated, they become impacted and they become disappointed. But the reality is this it's part of the journey.
The biggest lesson that I've learned playing poker is trying to emotionally isolate yourself with a poker like practice, because in life, you are going to make a lot of decisions that involve you emotionally. It could be like, for example, when I was competing, I needed to understand why I needed a coach competing because it was so hard for me to make objective decisions about myself. My clients are going through the same thing. They commit to themselves. They want a diet halfway through the diet and feel like they're getting too skinny. And then if they didn't have an objective guidance that would just go around in circles, they would go for maybe a couple of weeks of bulking and a couple of weeks of dieting, a couple of weeks bulking, and end up nowhere. And so having someone objective allows you to make more emotionally sound decisions, being more strategic, applying logic, rationalizing all your emotions, and figuring out what you need to do. And poker teaches that poker is all about chance. It's all about probability. It's about making the right decisions. And in poker, it's not every hand is equal. It's about picking your battles, knowing when to commit and when not to commit.
My experience at Airport West. I like gym, I like the layout, I like the equipment, I like the lighting, I like everything about it besides the etiquette and the culture there and that could be tweaked it'll be an amazing gym and that's my experience. But anyway, just figured out come out here and share my experience. But I'm interested to know have you guys had any bad experiences at the gym? I think that's probably like my worst have you had any bad experience? Hangs actually in the car with me here. Have you had any bad experiences at the gym as well? At this gym before? Yeah. Yes. I don't know. Normally we always go when you see someone you kind of smile at them, they'll smile back or like hey, how's your day? That's. Like the culture at Caroline Springs in Honolulu. But then I went here before as Mars is I want them to surveillance weird and then they just walk away. It's like a very weird vibe here. There are too many heroes. Honestly, I don't understand going to the gym should be like your safe haven. It should be a place where you work on yourself, where everyone working on themselves, making themselves feel better. But when you're in it's almost a hostile environment to be honest with you. I wouldn't say I'm intimidated or anything like that because I'm not a violent type of guy. But man, it's just not a fun environment to be in and I want to go to the gym, I want to be able to talk to people, communicate, get along, have the culture and when I used to train a brave book at it used to be like that. We all used to finish work, we see each other, just talk, train, we help each other, we support each other, hip each other up. But here it's not anything like that. So anyway, rant over besides that had a great workout today. Hang was kind enough to record the whole workout. So, I'm actually going to be starting like swipe workouts. Some of you guys have requested that so I want to get some more of that done. So, we recorded the whole workout. I'm going to upload it sometime next week. So, I'm going to make it intention and a declaration that I am going to be more intentional creating more short form content for you guys whether that be like mentality related or fitness tips like common mistakes and things that you can do is to improve to get better value out of your workout.
Just like your training session, if your coach has you on, say, five sessions a week and you weren't able to train on Wednesday, we'll make up for it the following day. Don't miss it and just accept that you missed it. Make up for it. And that way you still get the work done over a long period of time, holistically speaking. And also understand, like, these things, it's normal. It happens. And when it happens, you need to figure out how you can make up for it. Everything comes to cost. Everything has consequences. If you miss your training session, figure out how you can make up for it. If you miss that work, figure out how you can make up for it. If you miss a commitment to yourself, a journal, figure out how you can make up for it. And it's also about being compassionate to yourself as well. I think a lot of people, when they break the streets, they feel disheartened. They may feel like demotivated, and they say, fuck it, and they end up just completely falling off track. They skip gym once, which sets a precedent that's okay to skip gym again and again and again, and then they end up skipping it every single week. So, what you do is never really a once off. And I'm telling you right now, even though I broke this week, yesterday, it's my first time, but it's probably not going to be the last time. And I want to try to write this out. I've been consistent since July last year, and I'm very proud of that consistency. And it's all about consistency that leads to growth. And it's everything you do. Whether you're nurturing any hobbies or you want to get promoted at work, or you want to be with your fitness, it doesn't matter what it is. It's all about consistency. Any skill or talent only gives a head start. But it's the hard work, consistency, and discipline. You showing up each and every single day. That's what's going to help you achieve your goals and your results. And so yesterday, things weren't ideal, but guess what? We're still going to show up in some capacity or another. It's the same thing. If you're sick, I get a lot of questions, like, if you're sick, do you go to the gym? I think there's two parts or multiple parts of this part. One is like, are you over positive? You are? Sorry. Then maybe it's best for you to isolate homes, but just because you can't go to the gym, should you exercise? The next question, and it really depends. Some people are asymptomatic, then by all means train. But if you feel like you've been hit by a truck and take some time off, like, listen to your body. But I want you to ask yourself, is it within your capacity?
Untrue thing that I believe for very long time. Yeah, something that you maybe just found out recently that blew your mind or you're just a smart kid and never believed in anything ridiculous, that you needed to study, graduate and get a degree, get a good job, love to live a happy life. One untrue thing that just pretty much that living life down that pathway and how people thought. When I was a bum, I was literally like a bum. And technically it's untrue. I didn't believe that. I thought for a long time that the nine to five job life was the way to go. And yes, I wasted a lot of years doing that to really figure out what it was. I also wish in school they taught you, you know what, I was telling you this the other day. We went to train in Kola. I bumped into a high school friend. And then just seeing how much he's grown and how much he knows now he was one of those like, loud mouth, popular kids and kind of thing, kind of like mess around and he's so mature now, it's like, yeah, I've got a family now. I've got kids. He runs his business and he's learned all these things he's stuffed up many times. And he wished that in school that taught us the skills that we needed, like understanding money, tax, how to make something of yourself, things like that. While in school, they're so busy teaching you all these fundamental stuffs, which I think is great, but you know, how many times do you guys’ fucking use algebra? I'm not saying that you shouldn't learn it. I think there should be an equal emphasis on other important skills that you are going to need and use for the rest of your life. Like, you want to do taxes freaking every single year, but you're not going necessarily do calculus or draw graphs and stuff like that. I think it valuable, but I think it just needs equal emphasis on other things.
For you to lose weight. And the most core fundamental principle, losing weight, you need to be in a calorie deficit. You're going to hear this term very often and we're going to reference it very often moving forward. But being a calorie deficit is a deficit of calories, meaning that you are eating less calories than you are burning. So, everything that you do in a day, movement, whatever it is, requires energy. And this actually comes from the law of thermodynamics right. It's the law of the conservation of energy. That energy cannot be created nor destroyed. It can only be transferred from one form to another. And that's just a lot of science jargon for basically saying that in order for you to move, in order for you to survive, you need energy. Just like your car, you need to put energy in for your car to move. You put fuel in your cars are able to burn off that fuel and then propel the vehicle forward. US, we require energy for maintenance of our bodily organs, movement, exercise, everything thinking. Even our brain uses energy, so we need energy to survive. And if you eat less energy than your actual burning, the energy has to come from somewhere. Otherwise, we're not going to move. Otherwise, we're going to die. And our bodies, over thousands of years of evolution, eons of evolution, has developed the capacity to store excess energy. So, if we eat more energy than we need, our body's going to store that. Does that make sense? So, let's just say in a day, I burn and exercise this much number of calories. If I eat this much, I want to store that delta. I pay this much. I want to burn off that energy in that delta from my reserve energy storage so that's my body fat. Does that make sense? So, what is a calorie? A calorie is a unit of energy. So, it's basically the amount of energy required to heat up 1 gram or 1 water or one CC by one degree. That's it. The most core fundamental form. That's what one calorie is. And in a day, you can burn and thousands of calories. And this really depends on your daily energy levels, your activity, whether you have a sedentary job, an active job, whatever it is. Everything that you do in your day, remember, requires energy.
A matter of time. Is it going to take you two days? Two weeks, two months? Two years, two decades? It doesn't matter. As long as you keep being consistent, you're eventually going to be in a better spot than you are now, which is going to open up many, many opportunities. But I'm telling you now, many people are not able to achieve success because they lack the consistency to get past the initial hurdle or hump of difficulty. It's hard embarking on a new chapter. It's hard. It's overwhelming. It's scary making that change. But once you make that change, you go down this rabbit hole, it unlocks so much more out of your life that you may never have realized that you're capable of. And that's exactly why and what we teach part of the Achievement Championship Academy, that's why we help our clients outside the health and fitness realm, because we want to teach them that, yeah, maybe they don't have the genetics to be in shape eating McDonald's and KFC every day while some people out there do. And none of those matters. Even if they've been overweight for the last 23456 decades, they can still change what they look like and who they are tomorrow. And so, when you prove to yourself that the gap between you and achieving your fitness goals is not your genetics or your inherent abilities or something magical about you that allows you to eat more, eat less, or feel energized or whatever it is, it's your decision.
If they were to have committed to the health and fitness? Let's answer the question. Is it selfish or is it selfless? Let's talk about the pros, all the benefits they get if they look after the health and fitness. So, number one is focusing on the health and fitness means that they're less likely to be insecure and self-conscious. They're on a journey of self-acceptance and being happy with themselves. Their mental health is in a much better condition, which means that they're going to emit an aura of positivity, spreading the right message to understand how fitness has impacted their life. And if any of you guys have achieved your fitness goals at old wages, most of you guys would want to share and spread that with other people. You see it all the time. People get great results and they give advice to others and you take them out and walks, teach them how to eat healthy, make the right decisions. Because you know what it feels like to feel stuck. You know what it feels like to be unhappy with yourself. So, once you're able to find salvation in terms of health and fitness, people naturally just want to share that and you become positive. When you are happy with yourself deep within you imminent and aura of positivity that is intoxicating and people want to be around. Does that make sense? When you're truly happy yourself, like I said, only then can you bring happiness into your relationship. You will help bring others up. People will help bring you up. And you guys are just bouncing off each other. That's honestly the environment that we have within the chief championship community, within the coaches, we're all bouncing off each other and it feels good. It feels good being in a positive environment. It doesn't feel good coming home. And the person that you talk to are unhappy with themselves. And that was me. That was me unhappy with myself. Deflect on those around me. Focusing on your health and fitness means that they'll actually live longer. Preventing health ailments before they actually happen. Most people who are overweight now may not have been overweight when they were in high school, right? Some of them have, like me. Some of them only became overweight later on. And they may never have considered any health ailments because they're young. The body is going to bounce back and recover. I remember when I was young, I can trip over and be fine. But now if I bump myself into a table, I'm out for three days. The reality is our body eventually doesn't respond the way it used to anymore. And health ailments are actually real. You don't want to push the bounds and suddenly be diagnosed with diabetes. And that's not something you can really undo. Have a stroke, for example, right? You've got to be prevention is better than remediation. So, looking after your health and fitness and not being overweight and obese literally means that you are more likely to live longer.
Looking after your mental health, okay? Your mind controls everything. Your mindset gives you a perspective on life and your perspective is going to determine how you approach a certain situation and how you actually handle it and what ultimately your outcome. Looking after your mental health means, means that you can show up with better energy and intensity to work towards your goals. It will allow you to be a better teammate, a better colleague, a better partner, better friend. We spend so much time in our day on social media consuming content like mindless zombies. We should be allocating time looking after our mind. Having a morning routine is time that we do that. It allows us to focus on looking after our mental health, being more mindful of our thoughts and actions. And it allows us to better process these thoughts and emotions. Your body will not function if your mind fails. And if you're experiencing any mental challenges or difficulty processing your thoughts and emotions, just know that it's okay to not be okay and ensure that you're getting the help that you need. Whether that be maybe a counselor, maybe a therapist, may be a friend, it doesn't matter what it is. Speak to someone and it's going to give you a greater sense of already because you can only see things from your perspective. And if you hold things to yourself, the difficulties to open up, you're going to hold those problems to the grave with you. So make sure you open up and make sure you speak to someone and look after your mental health because it's going to help you achieve your goals.
Something along these lines going to paraphrase here. Like, think of like, the ten things or 15 things that you want to accomplish in your life. Pick the top three and give up on the rest. I think I used to not understand that. Now that I do, it's what I was telling you guys at the start of this podcast, there are so many things that I want to do. And when you're motivated, you're driven, you're Action Jackson, you're like more, let's add more, right? It's only going to impact your mental health, and the more things that you do, the more saturated you're going to be. And so, for me, I'm not quitting on the gym. Definitely not. It's still going to happen, and I think it can still happen this year. But right now, it's about being selective of where I allocate my time and resources to ensure that I'm able to put in quality and the level of work output that I can be actually proud of. And my mental health and my energy levels and my morale and everything up here is equally as important because if I don't have that, I don't have any sense of direction. So, it's knowing when to dial back and it's not quitting. I'm not quite quitting because it's hard. I'm quitting because right now there are things that require my time and energy. And in life, it's about drawing that line. So, a takeaway for you guys, if you guys are working a job that you don't enjoy, thinking about it, is it easier for you to make a change now or later and just understand that your lack of action is going to lead you to being more and more unhappy? You only have one life. At least spend it doing the things that you enjoy, the things that you love, things that make you happy. And I'm telling you that your life doesn't need to be the way it is. Society tells you that you need to just get a job, and you stick to that job, get a mortgage but you know what? Most people are not happy with their job, so why would you take their opinion into account unless you as well want to be unhappy with your job?
It doesn't matter about the last 10,20 kilos that you lost, because if you quit today, none of that matters because you're going to end up right back where you started. So, all these accomplishments, people are so set on thinking about all the things that they've been able to achieve in the past or they haven't been able to achieve, and they suddenly think that it defines what they're going to be able to achieve. Just because you're on track to achieve progress or you've been able to achieve progress in the past, none of that matters if you can't hold on to that today and tomorrow. So, for me, I knew that there was no way I was going to quit. I just needed to get through it. That was the most frustrating part. The frustrating part was I can't relieve or relieve myself of distress and overwhelm. I can't just switch off. Because when you quit, you switch off. You feel stressed, like, oh, you know, I'm going to give up. Don't have to deal with it anymore. And then you distract yourself, maybe go drink and go party, whatever it is, and then you end up right back where you started. Okay? So, most people, when they go through these moments, they break. They break because they consider quitting. Quitting was always an option for them. I think when they come into the journey at the start, it's the language and the internal dialogue on how they speak to themselves. And maybe they're like, well, I'm going to give it a go. I'm going to try. That's what all my clients say when they first start. And they're like, yeah, I'm going to give it a go. I'm going to try. And that is your first step to failure. Because when you say that you're going to try, you're accepting that there may be a moment where you're going to quit. If there's going to be a consideration when you quit, when you go through adversity and you face challenges, it's going to validate your wants and your desire to quit, because in reality, people want to quit because it's uncomfortable to continue. That's being honest. Your mindset is like, I found, and it needs to be solid from the start. Coming into your journey, you need to decide from the start whether you're going to go to the end of the line or not. It has to be a decision that you make from the start, and then you make it all the way through until you get to where you need to be.
Assign a level commitment of all avenues of your life. I want you to just break down in your mind, or write it down, five levels of realistic commitment that you can apply to that particular field. And I want to give you an example, but basically the level is to just help ensure that you stay on track with your goals, right? Ensure that you don't fall off track, which is the most important part of achieving anything. It's the consistency, right? All the decisions that help you maintain consistency is far more important than any decisions that give you a short-term high magnitude of work output. And the key here is that you don't waste time and although you are still making progress, albeit at a slower rate, but you're still trekking away making some progress. And like I said, there might be times in your life where some avenues or one avenue of your life may need to take precedent over another that is just temporary. But it's important that we don't give up on all the other priorities, break momentum and have to spend time to regain. We're still trekking away making small amounts of progress, but still moving positive in the right direction. So over time, this is going to put you in a constant state of accumulation of progress, right? Same thing with fitness. Why do we need to get the results in twelve to 16 weeks? Why don't we get it in six months, a year or two years and still be able to achieve our work goals, still be able to run our business, still be able to maintain a social life, and still inevitably, but ultimately slowly achieve your fitness goals. Does that make sense? So, over the scope of your whole entire life, you're going to be able to achieve more goals with this approach. One, you're going to be happier because you're setting yourself realistic and fair expectations. And three, it's going to be much more manageable for you.
Everything that you do affects two people at least, okay? And if you're not happy yourself, well, that's going to affect the other person as well. And if you truly care about another person, well, you should be making that change. Whether it be in a formal, like a father figure, mother figure, whatever it is, a role model, your cousins, your family, your friends, you have the capacity to make a change, to be the best possible version of yourself for the people around you. Otherwise, the real selfish thing to do is to not change yourself because you don't want to. And it has an impact on those around you. Does that make sense? So, it's probably counterintuitive to what you would think. Some people think that because I have to commit to my health and fitness, it's a selfish thing. I don't get to spend time with family. No, it means you get to spend more time with your family because you get to freaking live longer. You're setting a good example for your children, your kids, your family, your friends to show them what it means to live an active lifestyle. As humans, you should have lived an active lifestyle, like with a dog. If you had a dog, you don't want to take it for walks, otherwise the dog is going to get fat. And when you see a fat dog, you judge that owner, right? When you see the fat dog, you're like the prodigal take them for walks. The pronouns neglect them. And so, when you see a dog that's running around, it's healthy. That's the life you'd want for the dog. Well, why wouldn't that be the life that you want for yourself? When you're more active, when you're actually able to do the things that you want to do, does that make sense? We're given lengths so we can run and perform physical activity. But then if we're just living sedentary lives and it's because we want to give it to our own temptations and be comfortable, well, I would say that selfish because that's going to reflect on other people. Your mentality is going to reflect and deflect onto other people. And so, the least selfish thing for you to do is to actually be the best version of yourself.
There were a lot of things that I needed to improve on. When I came back, there was a lot of feedback that was given to me, but I kept the business afloat, and I think that's what mattered the most, and it's what we teach our clients through holiday season as well. You're not going to be able to get your ideal and do as perfect as you think you wish you could, but it's about damage control. And so, I damaged control, and over time, Max ended up becoming a senior before me, a senior representative before me, which I initially at the start, felt pretty salty. But then I realized that Max had leadership traits, and I have nothing but respect for him. I remember when I first found out he got promoted, I was very upset. And as the dust started to settle, I started to see why he got promoted over me, and I couldn't be happier. And so Max eventually moved on to become my boss's boss. He became the head of client services. Well deserved, honestly, well deserved. And that is another part of this story, thinking about the challenges that Max had faced, and it landed him an opportunity to become head of client services when I moved off to a different team to be a project manager. And so, both of us ended up doing well in our own respect, and it was all blessed through the opportunity of being faced with these challenges. And guys, as a moral of this story, your life, your perspective, you choose to see how your life is. You get to choose whether you see your challenges as obstacles or as opportunities that lead to growth, whether they're challenges that break you, lead you to giving up. It's tempting, honestly, to give into excuses. It's because it's easier to not try. It's easier to bitch and moan and complain about your circumstances and get people to sympathize and empathize with you. And you know what? As humans, we want people to empathize with us. We want people to sympathize with us. And sometimes when we complain in, we get a little bit caught up. We get a little bit excited that people are relating. They're like, oh, wow, you're going through that. And then you start bitching and moaning and complaining more. But only you truly yourself know whether they are just excuses or actual challenges that actually stopped you or opportunities that lead to growth.
Sports is just a manmade physical activity that in terms of our body on a fundamental level, we'll just treat it as if our ancestors were hunting. It's just a form of physical activity. And that's why if you break a bone, your bones are going to heal and get stronger. It's why when you go to the gym, you apply stimulus, you're going to just get stronger. Our body doesn't know what training is or sports is. It's just some physical activity that has pushed us maybe to our physical limits. And our body needs to adapt, evolve and grow to cater to that additional stress It's why you keep running. It doesn't matter. Unfit you are at the start, you're eventually going to become fitter, increase your two max and increase your cardiovascular endurance. Does that make sense? So, in terms of our football journey, the parallels that I can draw to this is that in life, it's easy to commit to activities and things that we're good at. We get compliments and recognized for our efforts. It's motivating, it motivates us. But the opposite is also true for anything that we're not good at. We're afraid of criticism. We're afraid of looking stupid. We're afraid that we'll let those around us down. And to be honest, it's uncomfortable to continue when we feel like we're not getting any better. And that was pretty much my life story. I wasn't good at a lot of things and I was afraid of criticism. So, I just never continued, never tried, and I never got to see what could have come out of it had I just continued. But I also remember that this is how some of our clients feel when they sign into our program, who may never have stepped into a gym before. And they feel intimidated going into the gym, surrounding themselves and other maybe meat heads that are just throwing their weight around and they're not sure what they're doing right. They don't want to be able to look at them and criticize them. It's intimidating. So, it's easy for us to encourage them to build the confidence to start going to the gym. But if we don't apply ourselves, there's a bit of a hypocrisy factor to there, right? And so, for us, we understand how hard it is for our clients to put themselves out there to make a major life change. And so, it only makes sense for us to do the same for our lifetime.
I need to ask myself, what would shred Andrew do? What would fit Andrew do? What would Hardworking Andrew do? I had to create this identity in my mind of the person that I wanted to be. Who is it that you want to be? This is what I want you guys to do. I want you to think about your identity, unity in terms of who it is that you want to be. I want to be someone that's hard working, someone that has integrity, someone that is consistent, someone that is a loving partner, is able to be a good leader. These are the things that I would tell myself, like, that's who I wanted to be. And, you know, you can be that person. You just need to think about what actions you need to do today that's going to lead you to become that person. What makes you think that you're ever going to become lean or shredded if your actions are in alignment with a couch potato that opens and deletes a bag of chips and a block of chocolate every single night and drink after work beers every Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. And go out clubbing on Saturday. What makes you think you're ever going to be a different identity if your actions are always going to lead down that same path? So, when I realized, you know what, you see this on movies and TV shows all the time that we're bands like, what Would Jesus Do? That is exactly what you need to do. Rather than having someone else's identity, like, what would Jesus do? What would the ideal version of you do? What would the identity that you would want to have do? And so, your actions will then start to follow. And I want you to know your identity is a byproduct of your actions. Your actions define your identity.
Meditation has really helped us in terms of me as a person, as a human being, to be a better partner, a better business owner, a better coach, because it allows me to be more in tune with my emotions and my thoughts. I think a lot of people think that the purpose of meditation is to clear your mind. Well, that is one of the exercises. However, if you find that when you're meditating and your thoughts are racing, everything in there is chaotic. Well, that's exactly why you should be meditating. It's for you to be more aware that your mind and your thoughts are racing for you to better take better control. And I want you to understand that your thoughts are one thing, but your actions are another thing, right? And if you don't meditate, you are going to be living a very reactive life. So, whatever your thoughts are, you react based on that. And if you can't control your emotions, your emotions control you. A really good example is when you're feeling stressed, when you're feeling overwhelmed. That's our emotion. That's what the thoughts are in our mind. However, we don't know how to respond and cate our actions to work around the feelings that we feel. We react based on the stress and overwhelmed. We literally tense up, we shut down and we feel burnt out. And being able to better process that emotion is going to allow you to have taken better action, be able to slow down a little bit, understand exactly what you need to do to overcome that challenge and then work through. Okay, so ten minutes of meditation. And I want you to understand the meditation is just like going to the gym. Doing it once isn't going to do anything. If you go to the gym once, you never do it again. While you're not really going to benefit much from that one training session, now, are you? Same thing with meditation. If you just meditate once and finally it just doesn't work for you, well, you don't really know what you're expecting in the first place. And secondly, you're not doing long enough to use the benefits.
By the time I'm 30, that not necessarily be successful, but just to know where I'm going. Does that make sense? I just want to know that I'm on a particular track to continue, not like, trying to figure myself out. And I feel like me not being able to control my life and being the person, I wasn't happy with, I was never going to be able to get there. Because same thing with your work, your business, whatever it is, if you fail to stay committed to yourself, your health and fitness, chances are you're going to fail to stay committed to everything else as well. Shiny object syndrome. Everyone has it, right? It's the same reason why you're only motivated for the first four to six weeks of your fitness journey, because the object is shinier than ever. It's new, it's exciting. So, you're fully committed to it. But then, just like with everything else in your life, you eventually get bored, you eventually lose motivation, and you eventually fall off track. And that's when you feel like you want to find a new job. People work for a year, two years, three years, doing the exact same thing over and over again before they realize that they're bored, they lose motivation, and then they find a new job. I never wanted to be like that with my job. Day one, I asked them, where can I go from here? I want to make sure that the work I'm doing, I'm actually going to get the return on it. It was very hard for me to open up, to hang, to tell her that. And when I did, I felt like I had nothing to lose. And that, for me, was that was rock bottom. But rock bottom is a solar foundation to build. And I remember that moment, Cliff, that for me, that was realization. During that time, I also broke my hand as well. So as much as I wanted to train, I wasn't able to train. And then I thought about all the moments, all the opportunities I had to train. I chose not to. You know, think about all the times I met her. Look, when we met, we live five minutes away from the gym, and we still drove to the gym. I live 15 minutes’ walk away from work. Work, and I would wake up at 08:00, have a shower, leave the house at 815 to get to work at 820, and I would not walk.
Being able to look at yourself and understanding what your skills and attributes are and how you can actually improve as a human being, not as an entrepreneur, not as an employee, not as an athlete. None of that actually matters. It's just you improving as a human being and as a byproduct. Your job is going to fall into place. Your status is going to fall into place, your financial income is going to fall into place. But it really comes down to you intrinsically improving yourself and working yourself for the purpose of your personal self-development Focus on that as the center of your core and everything else is going to follow and think about in a job, if you're doing certain different actions just for that job, it's not intrinsic, it's not truly you, and it's going to be temporary. And eventually you're going to fall off track. And the jobs that you're investing so much time and you may not be part of that forever. So, you need to think of your best interest at heart and think about all the skills and attributes that you can collect within a certain amount of time. Say you start your professional career at age 22 or 25, whatever it is. Set yourself goals on where you want to be, realistic goals by 30, 35, 40, and that's just for you to set your compass. And during that time, collect as much experience as you can. If you think about it, if you spent ten years or 15 years collecting as much experience as possible, like every year, you find a new job and you fully invest to learn as much as you can within that role. And you move on to something else. You move onto something else. Imagine that ten to 15 years of skills and experience. At that point, I can almost guarantee that you will reach financial freedom by the age of 35 because you have so many tools in your arsenal that when you figure out an idea or an idea finally falls onto your lap and that could be a once in a lifetime opportunity, you're going to be ready. All these tools that you have fine-tuned and finesse over time as opposed to wasting away with all these short term pleasures that don't provide you any long term growth or value. And then when these opportunities come, you realize that you weren't ready and you missed it. And then because you're sad, you disheartened and demotivated. You then veer off and prioritize short term pleasures again.
once you understand your workload, prioritize it based on the things that need to be done today, this week, next week, next month, etc. And actually, going through that each and every single day. Part of your morning routine, part of your management of daily activities, to make sure you're clear on what that needs to be done today. If you don't have a productivity software of any kind that manages your items that you need to do, you're setting yourself up for failure because you're keeping everything in your mind. And if you're keeping everything in your mind, you're not able to 100% execute your mental capacity to complete the work at hand because you're spending your time worrying about the other things that need to be due. That needs to be done, that are due. Wow. If you have everything set up, clearly you can just focus on the things that need to be done today. And sure, there still might be ten things that haven't been done, but your time to rest and recover today so you can do those things tomorrow, is going to allow you to manage that workload. Does that make sense? So, number three is using someone as support. Having support, whether it be your friend, your partner, a mentor, a coach, whatever it is, utilize support. And I know for me, when I get stressed over, I keep everything to myself. And this is something I learned working in a corporate environment. It had a lot of work, a lot of expectations, a lot of obligations that you need to get through. And when there's a high amount of work, I would just sit there and I'll just think like, I have so much work and I'll try to reach out and ask for help, but I wouldn't even know how. That's why having a productivity software is so important, because you can be clear in terms of what needs to be done and then you can potentially delegate out and seek support on the items that you need help. But communication to the ones around you who are providing you support is imperative to making sure that you stay afloat. Otherwise work that's overdue is going to stack up and you're going to feel like really behind. And this is also relevant to your fitness goals.
You can see my ABS, but I'll still like skinny fat, you know? And after Vegas or after Vegas, in Mexico, I want the 69 to 75 kilos. So, two weeks against six kilos. I don't think you guys understand how much I ate when I went to, like, we're in Vegas, we didn't eat. Okay, so the first night we went like, clubbing. That was really wild. I don't know if I've shared this Vegas story. I don't know if you guys are ready for this Vegas story, but we're going to share that, and I don't want to hide this relationship. One. So, Vegas for the first week, because we've had ADC, which is an Electric Daisy carnival, none of us ate that much. Everyone wants to stay in shape. After the three days, that's when we start to eat, we start to eat like crazy on all the American Comfort diner foods. And then we flew to Mexico. So, is this after the carnival where you didn't need to take off the trip anyway? Yeah, we just need to chill. So, like, none of us cared. Raft the whole time, just eating like, fish. We went out to eat and you wouldn't eat? Yeah, I wasn't that crazy. I ate, like, decent, but I just didn't go overboard. And then after ABC, that's when we went ham. We went to Mexico. And we went to Mexico. I went to Cancun near the main trip. We booked an Airbnb, so we had a whole house. But what we should have done was got an all-inclusive hotel, because you would have had, like you would have better eat as much as you want there. There will be pools by the beach, everything. We should have got that. But I don't know why we went Airbnb. But anyway, we wanted to experience the all-inclusive hotel. So, you can actually go to one of these hotels to get an all-day pass. So, it was 150 us for a whole day. I'm thinking, like, this is expensive, but you have access to seven restaurants and you can eat as much as you want. As much as you want? Yeah. If you're there, you eat as much as you want It's part of the whole thing. Is this like a strip then? No, it's a hotel.
Your once Ina lifetime opportunity has yet to come. I've spoken about this many times, and I haven't heard many others speak about this, but your once in a lifetime opportunity hasn't come yet because chances are you've only lived the first quarter or the first third of your life, and you're live your life at least two times over, right? If all things go well, you're going to live your life at least two times over. So, the likelihood of you encountering you once in a lifetime opportunity is more likely twice as likely to be in the future. Also, you're still discovering yourself. Right? I still consider myself to be really young. I'm still discovering my own identity and I'm figuring out what I'm capable of and what our potential is. And if we limit ourselves in terms of thinking once in a lifetime opportunity has passed, and what we are going to do from today for the rest of our life is going to be the same. It's already predetermined, and we're just going out to live it well. Your quality of life is going to be much lower because you don't aspire to be anything else. You don't look forward to a new checkpoint. You're not going to make any courageous decisions that could potentially radically change your life. You're going to be set in stone. As the days pass on, your identity starts to solidify and your habits start to become harder to adjust. And most people consider middle age should be 30 to 40 because, well, if you've, quote, figured out who you are and you've assumed the same identity for the last 20 years, then yeah, at that point you probably feel quite stale and you feel like the peak of your life has already passed. Your prime is in your twenty s. Right. And you've already passed that prime. So, you're just kind of degrading as the days go on but that's not the way to live life. You can continue to climb and become a better version of yourself each and every single day. The more life that you go through, the more experience that you're going to have, the more you learn about yourself, the more you learn about the world, the culture, and how you can actually get along with inside terms of the development and the evolution of mankind. You have people like Gary Vee, he's 40 something, 50, and he's leading the pack in terms of where the economy is growing at the moment, getting on to the hypes, understanding social media, marketing.
People who try to make posts or make funny videos with the sole purpose of trying to gain attention, trying to gain likes, and just doesn't feel that genuine because it doesn't come from within. They're doing for extrinsic reasons rather than intrinsic reasons. And so, the thing that I have to come was when I had to make these posts on Instagram to build my personal brand, I had a choice to make. I'm either going to be I'm either going to cripple myself from worrying about what other people might think or I'm going to cripple myself by disappointing myself. And I realized that, you know what? The opinions of other people don't actually matter. They don't pay my bills. And I would rather fail because I tried rather than not try at all because I was afraid of what other people might think. And I'm going to tell you this right now, guys, the number one reason why you guys aren't going to be successful is because you worry about what other people think too much, that your actions are tailored based on what you think they think of you. And you know what? These are the opinions that you haven't even heard yet. And even if you were to hear, it immediately validates your hypothesis on what other people think and you know what? Because you're tailoring yourself and bending yourself to these thoughts and opinions, you're never going to find your true identity. So, you're never actually going to be truly happy with yourself within because everything that you do, you're always going to second guess it, wondering if others are going to accept it or not. And you know what? At the start I had those fears but at the end of the day, there was nothing actually physically shackling me down or holding me back from actually doing the things I wanted to do. They were just thoughts. They're just voices that it's not even real. It's literally just ideas in my head. And you know what? I had to go out and weather the storm and go do the things that I wanted to do regardless of what other people thought.
I want you guys to know that in life, when you do what is hard, your life will be easy. And when you do what is easy, your life will be hard. That's just the reality of it. And for us to get here, this wasn't just something that happened overnight. I actually had to grind over the last five, six years, maybe the longer since 2013, that was technically one. And I've got my first valuable job learning how to sell, learning how to communicate, and it started from there. So, for you to become an overnight success, it's 510 years’ worth of work. But eventually you're going to get to a point, a point where you start to hit snowball and things actually start to become easier and it starts to head in your favor. But you need to pay your dues and you need to put in the work for you to actually get here. I think so many people are so set and they set their goals on being able to live a life like this. They put their head in the clouds, but no one is actually willing to put in the hours to actually work. Because before we actually were able to achieve all this, I would work 16 hours a day, and sometimes we still do. Last week, Hannah, we clocked in 14 hours a day pretty much every single day. And basically, today is our first work there back that we're going to be doing a skeleton model where we're working minimum. As long as that the business stays flat and we're heading back tomorrow. So, we can just pick up everything tomorrow. But this is actually symbol for journey for the rest of our life as well. So not just fitness with personal development and your career, everyone sets this time frame. There's minimum time frame for them to get there. You look at these transformations online, you think it's going to take you twelve weeks. So, you say to your mind you're going to go as hard as you can for twelve weeks because that's how long it takes for someone to get the results. But it doesn't actually work like that. Seldom do you actually have unobstructed pathway to success. I think Covert has taught us that and has taught us that you're always going to have these struggles, you're always going to have these challenges. It's about how you work around these challenges and being realistic with your expectations. While I'm talking about all that is instead of having just an idea of where I want the business to be or how I want to build a brand and everything in the minimum shortest amount of time possible, well, why don't I just be realistic with my goals and curve down that expectation?
I was too impatient with everything I did, and I wanted results straight away, which is what led me to falling on track. Maybe I didn't get the results that I wanted, or maybe I didn't want to put in the time and effort to actually learn properly, how to diet properly, how to train properly, to make progress that I can keep. I just wanted short term, quick fixes. I wanted things that gave me into instant gratification, instant feedback, instant results. And I think a lot of us are like that because there's so much uncertainty when it comes to fitness and training. Reason is there's so much conflicting information. Everyone has their own ethos or own plan or own strategies on how they achieve the results. And you know what? Most of them probably work to some extent or another. We don't understand the mechanics, the mechanisms behind why these strategies work, and we're just following it blindly as a rule. Of course, it's going to be very hard for you to get the results because those particular strategies may not work for you specifically based on your genetics, based on your metabolism, based on your lifestyle, based on your habits, based on your capacity to adhere to it long term. And so with all these information, everyone's contradicting each other to some certain extent, and it's very overwhelming. And for you to actually put in effort, try a particular strategy, and see if it actually works, it's going to take you four to six weeks of latency to figure out if what you're doing works or not. Imagine you shop to the gym every single day. You cook the meals, you do everything. You shop to your steps, you walk into everything to a tea, and you don't get results for four to six weeks. And then you think, okay, I've got to try different strategy now. Then you do it again. Or how many of those four to six week blocks can you handle before you run out of motivation and you'll give up again? Inevitably.
Every single week. There were decisions that needed to be made not only with the business, with coaching, and also with my personal fitness journey as well. When you run a business, every decision has consequences, right? Unlike when you work a nine to five job where most people don't make important of decisions, when they do, they'll have to be approved by senior management or whatever it is. You don't just make decisions and implement typically unless you have a senior management role. And if that's the case, you'll know how fatiguing making decisions can be. So, you're making decisions for the business. I'm making decisions every single week when I'm doing check ins for my clients. And at that point I have 50 clients and that was really, really tough to get through. So, I had to make decisions every single week, which also has consequences. And then I have to make decisions about myself. Now, the difference between lifestyle dieting and contest prep dieting is lifestyle dieting, you can take as long as you want. That honestly is what we preach and it's what I prefer. Reason being is why do you need to lose weight as soon as possible? Concept prep is completely different. It's when you have a time frame and you're bringing the best result you can under that time frame. It's very unhealthy. It's actually, despite being fitness, contest prep is extremely unhealthy. One, your body isn't supposed to be at body fat levels that low. The protocols that you have to execute to actually get into that shape is not only stressful for you psychologically, but physiologically as well, because you actually have to deplete yourself of water. It's not a natural thing for you to do. And then also it's the psychological impacts of having to set yourself this goal. Constantly push yourself to zones that make you really uncomfortable. But you know what? You don't compete just to look a certain way. You compete because you want to push yourself past your mental limits and it conditions you. It teaches you mental resilience and discipline and stuff that we preach all the time. So, in terms of the contest prep, for me, I've already reached my physical a goal the months prior. But I wanted to continue pushing zones that make me feel uncomfortable because as a coach, I want to be a leader.
Herd mentality is for our survival. Think about all animals or our ancestors. We want to be accepted by the tribe, alright? Because being with the tribe is going to increase the likelihood of survival. So, our body is actually very smart. Our brain and our mentality, our unconscious mind is very is smart. It's going to do whatever it needs to do to be liked to be part of a tribe, to increase its chances of survival. So over time, in terms of modern society, we end up fearing the judgment of other people, which ends up being what prevents us from going out and achieving our goals. The biggest limitation is our own limiting belief. And sometimes we are afraid of the opinions of other people that they haven't even given us yet, just because we've been conditioned to anticipate or expected. But these are the projections that we have in our own mind. So, when we're talking about making progress, I want you to understand that everything that you do, every journey that you're on should be a forever journey. Unless it's a journey that you only see yourself being on temporarily, it means that inevitably there's going to be a time where you're going to fall off track. So, with your fitness, I think what people look at most of the time when they're online as they see these transformation photos, twelve weeks, 16 weeks, four months, six months, whatever it is. And in their mind, they've unconsciously registered that they only want to be in this journey for like six months. And then afterwards they're just going to go back to homeostasis and hopefully just maintain. But remember, their idea of homeostasis is what has ended up needing to make a change in the first place. Our body has a natural body fat set point. Our body fat that we're comfortable, the ball being and whatever body fat you guys are, if you're not actively being conscious of your fitness, well, chances are that's what your body fat set point is.
Why you're not making results and what adjustments you need to make, essentially. Okay, so first off, the number one reason why people don't get results is this is the number one reason out of all of it is consistency. Are you consistent enough? Have you been consistent for whatever strategy that you're deploying? And I think the problem that most people make is they go online; they try to find the perfect strategy. They'll do research for hours, weeks, months to find the perfect strategy that's going to get them the results as fast as possible. And this is why people veer off to die fats like Keto intermittent fasting, all these quick, fixed rules that they can apply to their life, and they feel like it's going to get them progressed as fast as possible. And the reason why diehards don't work is because you can't be consistent with-it long term. Okay? Any changes that you make, quick changes, are probably going to disappear very quickly. Things like Keto intimate fasting, I'm not saying that they don't have its own merits and benefits, but for the purpose of weight loss and achieving your fitness goals, it's not recommended and it's not ideal because it's not something you can realistically maintain forever. Okay, so people who practice Keto diet, unless you plan on not eating carbohydrates for the rest of your life, and that's something you're willing to accept as a lifestyle change forever, more inevitably, there is going to be a time where you're going to break that consistency and end up going back to your old habits, your old diet, or whatever eating pattern or structure you're following beforehand, which is going to lead to rapid weight gain. And it's not because you took out carbs and you add it back and you're going to gain weight. It's because you're going through it's been a very long time since you've had carbs. And so, once you have it again, your body's not going to be able to stop and you're going to break consistency. I want you guys to know that in terms of whatever strategy that you deploy in any avenue of your life, you need to be consistent.
There's a law of the conservation of energy. That energy cannot be destroyed nor created. It can only be converted from one form to another. Now, what does that actually mean to a lot of people? OK, it means that you can't create energy. You know, when you watch movies and people have like they can shoot fireballs out of their hand and all this energy. Well, the reason why that's not realistic is because you cannot just create energy. The energy has to come from somewhere. All the energy in the world has already existed. And say, for example, a car is not going to move automatically. You need to burn energy. It needs energy so that's from fuel, you ignite fuel and that's going to create that energy and the car is going to move. But that fuel itself has energy and that fuel itself comes from fossil fuels. Right? So, there's inherent energy which has been converted from one form of fossil fuels to actual fuels that actually propel your vehicle forward. Same thing with our body. Do you have a question or wonder how we are able to move our arms and move around and function if we can't create that energy? The energy has to come from somewhere. That energy comes from the foods that we consume and the unit of energy that we use universally to calculate the energy in foods is the kilojoules or calories, simple as that. So, the energy that you feel and how energized you feel is directly correlated to the amount of energy that you consume. If you don't eat for two days, you are going to feel very tired. As much as you exercise willpower and discipline to override that and to keep tracking forward, you cannot perform optimally if you don't eat foods.
Animals. They have unconscious mind to act purely off instinct, off just unconscious mind and instinct. And we have the exact same thing. It's why we feel angry. It's why we feel sad, why we feel anxious, overwhelmed. These are our survival instinct. And we feel certain way days based on pattern recognition. Does that make sense? Think about this. When our ancestors let's just say they're going hunting and they have never encountered a wild, dangerous animal before, and they're just picking out berries, and then a bear jumps out at them and scares the shit out of them. Well, the next time they're going to be in a similar scenario, trying to pick berries, they're going to be a little bit more cautious now, aren't they? They're going to get some form of PTSD. They're going to feel anxious. Why do we feel that way? Pattern recognition. We have experienced something traumatic, and our brain chooses to remember that because it could have been a fatal incident. And so, the next time we're trying to find some berries, well, we're going to be a little bit more cautious. We're going to feel a little bit more anxious. So, we have these fundamental emotions. These are like the elements of the raw elements of the world, like water, earth, fire, wind. We have the same thing, these emotions on our unconscious mind, very similar to animals. But what differentiates us animals is we have a conscious mind. This allows us to better adapt, grow and evolve, because we can override our unconscious mind. And if we are just making decisions purely on impulse, how different are we to an animal? A lot of us are saying that we don't have the self-control, right? And when we acknowledge ourselves that we don't have that self-control, we're allowing our unconscious mind to take over. And I want you to know that your unconscious mind is not something that you can control. And I've been through periods as well where you can become a prisoner or a victim of your unconscious mind, these thoughts that spiral down. But it's important to understand why we feel this way.
If you go to the gym and you have a workout that makes you comfortable, then you feel good. Yes. This feels good, right? It doesn't burn. It's not hard at all. Well, you're not going to grow from that. But when you mentally push yourself, I want to tell you this right now. Most people at the gym, they don't push hard enough. I want to tell you that straight up. Most people at the gym, they don't push hard enough. If you're not making funny faces when you're training, chances are you're not pushing hard enough. And if you are pushing hard enough and you're not making faces while you're working even harder, because you're trying to control your face while you're trying to push as hard as you can. And at the end of the day, you get what you put in, whether it be life, your fitness, your work, your career, whatever it is, personal life, it doesn't matter. You get what you put in. And if you decide to let these hard moments break you, I'm telling you, you're always going to face hard moments. You think right now, where you are, you face the hardest challenge you ever faced in your entire life. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. We spoke about that yesterday. You're going to face more and more difficult challenges as time goes on. And so how are we going to be prepared for those difficult challenges if we can't overcome the challenges today? Okay, so I want you, as some homework, is to chase moments that make you feel uncomfortable. And when there are moments that make you feel really stressed and overwhelmed, I want you to realize that these moments of stress and overwhelmed is a figment of your imagination, because your life is not under threat.
Would you say that this whole opportunity was luck? It was luck that I went on a car, meet with these guys I hadn't met before. It turns out I could work with one of them. Is that luck? I think most people would say yes and I think any successful person would see it in a much more much more in-depth way. And what I mean by that is opportunities in your life is always going to come and a lot of people think that it's luck when you have a rare opportunity pop up on your lap. But you know what? We spoke about this concept yesterday, him and I, this new potential business partner and I and it's not like it really comes down to whether you are ready or not. I want to give you some more examples. We were lucky in a sense that when we started coaching that it was day one. That lockdown ended in 2000 and 22,020 lockdowns ended in 2020 in November. We were lucky that I had graphics design background, videography background, photography background. We're lucky that I had corporate experience to be able to build and establish a company structure. But you know what? Was it actually luck or was it the fact that I've accumulated these skills over time and an opportunity came up and I happened to be ready? I've missed out on many opportunities in life because I wasn't ready. When the market crashed last year and I wasn't ready. I didn't have enough capital to invest. I knew that it was a good opportunity. You guys are going to hear a lot of stories of people saying the exact same thing. One of my close friends, he told me about Ethereum 2014 was when I found out about Ethereum that's when I sold my Integra, I had a lump sum of cash. There was an opportunity but I wasn't ready. I wasn't mentally ready. I didn't understand what it was and I didn't make that investment. I just let it pass me by and in hindsight is 2020. And so, I can give you a handful of scenarios where there are opportunities that came up but I just wasn't ready for at that time.
Going alive every day keeps me grounded, makes me wake up early every single day. You know what? Truth be told, I actually slept in today instead of waking up at 5:30 to do my cardio, I was just going to do my cardio after training because last week I did 60 to 70 minutes on the bike, like, plus the steps, only to undo some damage that I did over Christmas and New Year. And so, this week, I think I'm going to go back to what my prescribed cardio is, which is just 30 minutes in the water. I technically didn't need to do the card in the morning. I can. But I was a little bit tired and I slept in. Okay, now, versus other people's idea of sleeping in, I only slept in about 45 minutes. So instead of waking up at 530 at work, it was 615. I actually set an alarm for 630 at 530. The alarm went off, and then I was just really tired. And so, I'm like, okay, I'm just going to set the line for 630. But at 615, I had my body ended up waking up, and I'm like, okay, I still want to wake up early to get stuff done. I don't want to sleep in too early. So, my idea of sleeping in at 615, I did a lot of work in the morning. I built some, finished building up some programs, and planned my content for the day, plan my life, and then jumped on live. So, the latest I'm ever going to wake up is probably going to be 07:00. 630. Honestly, I'll probably say it's 630. I'll probably wake up at 630 maybe like once a month. But going alive every day sets that schedule, that responsibility. It's just like when you have to go to work, you have to wake up a certain time because you have to show up to work at a certain time. And when you work for yourself and you break free from that routine, then it's very easy to fall into a trap and wake up at 12:00 at noon. Because I used to do that when I didn't have a job. I didn't have a reason to wake up early. Technically, I don't have a reason to wake up early now. I wake up early now because, one, I want to show up my life in the morning, and two, I feel like I'm more productive in the morning, and I want to bang out as much work as I can. And so, in the afternoon, it's a little bit easier, as opposed to feeling stressed and overwhelmed in the afternoon when you have so much work to do.
Set goals both on a macro and on a micro level. Ok, think about where you want to be in five or ten years. Believe it or not, I had this thought when I was 25, 24, 25. And I always thought I want to figure out and know where I'm going to be in my life by the time, I'm 30 and that's not just going to happen. You're not just going to turn 31 day and suddenly have an idea of where you want to be and have everything figured out. A lot of people go to quarterlife or midlife crisis because they leave everything to the last minute. They spend their youth and their years in their prime partying and doing all these stupid shits. And by the time that they need to figure out where they are, it's too rushed. Fine. At the 30 they realize that they wait for the last five, six, seven years and they're not getting any younger. They're suddenly competing with people who are a decade younger than them, with more experience, with more drive, more motivation. And then they start to accept their identity in terms of who they are and then their efforts start to go downhill. You don't have to be successful, but for you to know where you're going to be by the age of 30, you need to figure out where you at least try to find your path of success way before that. So, I figured that when I was 24, whatever I had to do, whatever I was doing next had to be Endgame. It had to be Endgame. So, I'm very fortunate that I had that time where I didn't have a job and I was just smoking weed at home all day because it really gave me time to reflect and think about what it was that I wanted to do. I think 18 is way too young for you to decide what you are going to do for the rest of your life. I chose civil engineering. I was pressured into choosing it. It was still my decision but I didn't want to disappoint my parents. I was good at math’s and physics so I thought the only logical thing to do and the thing that was most lucrative in terms of my other parts and opportunities was civil engineering. Maybe go work in the mines. I can earn 100 and 5200 thousand dollars a year and I chased that money because I thought that was what I was supposed to do.
What I wanted to talk to you guys about today was excuses. Are you guys giving yourself excuses? And I'm going to be honest. No one can answer this question for you. I would never tell any of my clients that they're making excuses. This is something that you have to answer and evaluate yourself and you have to be honest yourself to figure this out. And how I come in is I help the clients empower themselves with being able like it's a framework for you to actually evaluate. Are you making excuses? If you think about it, if you had the intention during lockdown and say August, September, October to get back on track with your fitness journey and then we're out of lockdown, there was a campaign that got back on track with the fitness all this trying to and another camp that just went out, got to eat, exercise, freedom. Nothing wrong with either. I'm not saying that you have to do one or the other, but if you're unhappy with yourself and you've been unhappy with yourself, especially during lockdown, and now that we're out of lockdown, I personally believe that that should be your priority to get back on track and to Easter one. But anyway, if you had the intention and then you're caught up with seeing people that you haven't been able to see in a very long time, going out, and then you get roped up into holiday season and then work, maybe start to get busy and you're constantly bouncing between family festivities and social events and then the covert situation has happened in terms of the cases spiking up. And so over the last couple of months we're filled with a lot of challenges and struggles and excuses and it's up to us to really determine are these challenges roadblocks that are actually preventing us from achieving our goal or we're just copying out on the easy way out by just saying that because we experienced this challenge, we weren't able to commit to ourselves.
Certified as a personal trainer. And so, hang and I registered for NASA certified personal training and nutrition. So, I think that should only take us a couple of months, but it's being able to integrate that into our workflow. And yes, I'm Super excited. I want to enhance my education, continue to push the envelope, continue to push bounds that make me feel uncomfortable. I'm going to be honest, being in a position where the business is successful, the business is running very smoothly. The intention or the motive to want to continue education starts to dwindle a little bit. And again, I think there's two parts to this. One, I'm an entrepreneur. The other one, I'm a fitness coach and I want to make sure I have a healthy balance of those two because fitness coaching or life coach or whatever it is, is something that really excites me. It makes me smile; it makes me happy knowing that I'm able to create an impact. And being able to build the business has also been a position where I'm comfortable enough to support the people I care about. So, I'm trying to balance those two things. And being able to further my education is for my personal growth and development. It's going to teach me mental resilience and discipline as an indirect impact of furthering my education. So that's something that we want to get done as well. Number seven is established affiliation with clinics. We're looking at integrated clinics and also think of how we can serve in terms of corporate packages. I think that's how we're going to be able to level up. We had a pitch to brick-and-mortar businesses and for us to do that, we need to have an established website. So, I haven't added that to the list, but I'm going to add that to the list right now, which is having our Achieve Championship website. Just so you know, our websites are going to be branching off into two websites. It's going to be achieved. Championship.com and Achieverparal.com, for now, they're both linked to the same place, which is achievedcampscript.com. But for this year, we want to eventually split up those two because they are technically two different business entities under the same trademark of two. But I want to be able to split those two and the only reason why we can't right now is our Close. We bought the Tags attached to the close and there's a QR code. When you scan it's going to send you more or less like a personalized thank you message from the coaches.
Money wasn't a factor were that’s what financial freedom is. We spoke about on a previous life talking about financial freedom. Financial freedom is not just about having so much money that you can do whatever you want. I guess in a sense, if you had that much money, then you would have financial freedom as well. But financial freedom is there to make decisions when you're not financially bound. And I was able to make a decision because I wanted to go for a drive and I got to do what I love and I've got to pull up my camera and just take photos all day and drive all day. And that for me was financial freedom. I made that decision because thinking about it, when we work a nine to five job, we may not be able to make that decision. If we had work, we can't go because we're bound by work, we're bound by work because we're bound by our salaries. So, in a sense, that's not being financially free. And I was able to exercise that freedom and it felt great doing the things that I love and hanging going because it was just a bunch of guys. And I think she wanted the first time I met those guys to just be all guys. But I definitely want to take hang along on the next one because she loves cars as well. Like I said, we were planning to buy an A 45 AMG, and there was two of those on that day. And yes, it would have been good if she could come along, even jump the car and experience what it's like to be an A 45 before we buy one. But yeah, I never thought I'd do that. For me, that was me pushing myself outside my comfort zone. And it's crazy to think that I still carry over some of my mental conditioning since high school. Seeing successful people or popular people, it's very easy for me to feel intimidated and feel this social anxiety. And even though we've been able to achieve what we have achieved membership; I still get those tendencies.
I think the most relevant example is what most of you guys are going through right now is you're making the most of these couple of days before you start next week. And I told you a story yesterday. One of the clients who just recently signed on, his name is Justin. And I put the application last week and told me this week he needed to retake the photos because he went on a bit of a binge because of that mindset that he wants to get out of his system. He wants to make the most of it before he gets out of it. And you know what? It's a terrible quote. I honestly feel like I think all quotes, they have its merit and have its value. And I think unless you truly understand how you can apply it to your life, I think a lot of people actually just use quotes just to justify their impulses and why they feel the way they feel. It's greed, essentially, because making them the decision to look after your health and commit to a fitness journey because you feel so terrible about yourself. It's a very hard and daunting decision. And it's not easy to just immediately pull the trigger and be like, okay, I want to start my diet. So before that, you want to make sure you get things out of your system by eating as much as you can, getting it out because you feel like you're not going to have it again. Again, we talked about it's a scarcity mindset. It's a mindset that is supported by fear and scarcity that we may not have the same opportunities. So, for example, eating at a buffet, people are eating out at a buffet like they're never going to be able to eat again in their entire life. But in reality, that's just their way of internalizing in their mind why they should just give up that discipline for that one day and really give into their temptations. And you have these fleeting thoughts in your mind. You know that you shouldn't be eating so much, much to a point where you have to unbutton your pants and seams are splitting and you're feeling really uncomfortable. But the thought goes into make the most of it. You have a buffet.
You only feel like you want a diet after you had a big binge because you're so sick of food. Does that make sense? So we try to teach that balance. And, you know, it's exactly three years ago that I started my fitness journey and it was a Boxing Day. I remember that day so clearly because I know that everyone else on this planet in my my shoes would have decided to start next year. I'm starting today, which is Boxing Day. And we actually had a party that night. And it doesn't mean that I didn't attend the party or I didn't eat. I just registered in my mind that this is day one. Day one of me making a change. One small step, and tomorrow is going to be another small step. The day after that is another small step. The day after that is another small step. Boxing Day. So all I did was I knew that I was going out to have a party and have a few drinks at night. One, I told myself and I promised myself that I wasn't going to binge and go overboard and just drink until I'm absolutely plastered, ate low calories throughout the exercise. I did my cardio training, and when I did drink, I made sure I drink no chase until this day. Fast forward three years. I don't drink chaser with my alcohol. And it's crazy to think that three years sounds like a long time. We actually haven't drank that much throughout the three years. One, because we're in lockdown, too, because we've been on a fitness journey. But being able to create that disconnect and make that small decision. I was actually talking to one of new clients I signed on. His name is Alan, and we were talking about the game plan for New Year. And I want to share this with you guys. The game plan for New Year. And he said that he's going to have a big one. And I told him, this is where you need to start making different decisions. As a coach, I'm never going to tell my clients whether they can or can't drink, because it's not up to me to decide. I want to teach you how to self regulate and make your own decisions. You are the pilot of your own ship. You can't live your life listening to instructions from someone. I empower our clients ability to make their own decisions.
Basically, when you generate momentum, you require less force to continue moving. Does that make sense? Because the cars are already rolling, it's already generated some momentum, and then you only need a little bit more force to keep the momentum going. And as you keep pushing, it becomes a little bit easier and easier. That's symbolic for life as well. At the start, it's always harder making that first step to make a change. And suddenly when you break that momentum, it becomes a lot harder for you to regain that. Let's talk about how this applies to all other avenues of your life. Going to the gym is easy when you have a routine, waking up early to go to work is easy. When we do it every day. Things like brushing your teeth, having a shower, those are the things that we don't even think about anymore. It becomes part of our everyday routine, part of the pattern. And our brains are actually very good at identifying patterns. And once we identify these patterns, our brains are very good at ignoring them. Just, for example, the background noise that you hear right now, or maybe the birds chirping or the sound of the cars on the street. You don't recognize that anymore because it's something that you hear all the time. And every day your brain will filter that out. And so you can focus on the important things that actually matter. And it's the same thing with all your habits. If you haven't established a routine of your habits yet, then it becomes very noticeable that you're doing all these things, waking up early, going to the gym, eating healthy. They become tedious contact points that you have to focus on. And it's hard at the start because it's so drastically different from what you were doing or where you were before. But then once you establish a routine bit of momentum, those activities become easier and it becomes second nature to you. So, for example, hanging out, eating good foods, tracking our calories, tracking our weight every morning, going to the gym, those are the things that are just background noise for us each and every single day. Now.
Last year, the mistake I made was I try to die through the holiday season because I thought that was the right thing to do. That's what happens when you don't have a coach, even though you have the theoretical knowledge, but being able to apply and understand the best possible strategy given the current at your circumstances. I overdid throughout New Year, throughout Christmas, throughout New Year, and then I went straight into a contest prep, which put me even more into an overedited state. I was under a lot of physical and psychological stress, and I couldn't even lose any weight afterwards. And I just drove my calories into the ground and it was terrible. And that's what led me to the post show binge, because you're so low calorie, you're depriving yourself, you're under so much stress. Your body is under extreme survival mode, and it's just waiting for that moment for you to be able to eat food again. And it's going to cause you to overeat. And it's not within your control as much as you tell yourself your body is just going to do it because it needs to survive. Right? Your conscious mind is just to understand your impulses, but your impulses are so strong at that point because your survival is far more important than what you look like. So you're going to eat and you're not going to be able to stop eating. So learning from the mistakes of last year, I did the exact opposite. And even though I wanted to get leaner, when you die, you're always going to think, I can be leaner. I can push a little bit more, a little bit more. I'm like, that's just not the right thing to do. And I need to play it smart for my contest at the end of next year as well, because if I go into a state of overdrive, it's going to take me longer to recover before I can get into a state where I'm able to build right now. The fact that I'm able to reverse diet now, I actually don't get cravings right now. So when I eat, I can actually just stop and not feel like I'm fighting myself. That was the most uncomfortable thing at the start of the year, having to fight my urges to eat. And it was just this desire under the skin to continue to eat. And even though you're fully stomachs full, you still feel like you want to eat. And that's such an uncomfortable feeling. I hated feeling that way, and I'm glad I don't feel that way coming into this holiday season.
I'm going to throw down, at least for a couple of days and then get back on it next week. I have a lot of exciting things planned ahead for 2022 like I've spoken about in my previous life, I've realized a lot of things, and I want to get back to the fundamentals of what I enjoy doing. It's really hard for me to say this, but it's like I don't necessarily need the business to grow anymore. I just need to focus on being happy and the business is going to grow as a byproduct. Why the last couple of months the focus has been getting the business to a certain place. It's just something I need to have. I think it's the ego. I think deep down I want to the ego of being able to create something huge in such a short amount of time. But then it does come with the cost of my sanity. It comes with the cost of the sanity and mental health of everyone else as well, because there is this pressure and yeah. So next year we're going to be focusing more on the things that we love, which is an actual coaching aspect. I have so many transformations I need to post. I think I have like twelve or 13 transformations that I haven't posted. So I want to get back to the bare bones of being a happy coach. And wherever the direction the business goes, direction it goes. But yeah, I just wanted to show up here in life, so I didn't have to think about it for the rest of the day while I'm just getting a workout in. But anyway, guys, that's it. I hope you guys enjoy your holiday season. Yeah, enjoy time with your family. Bye.
I want to talk to you guys about some moments that really define who you are, and I want to help you identify these moments so that you can actually make better decisions. Sometimes we make decisions based on emotions, rash emotions based on how we feel and these impulses that arise.
And then we have this inability to process these emotions and impulses and make better decisions. We act on those emotions. And as you know, sometimes emotions are fleeting, and it comes and goes. So I know for me, I'm very impulsive having ADHD. One of the cons of having ADHD is you can be very impulsive.
You act on impulse, and it's like an itchy feeling under your skin, and you just have to act on it. And from my understanding, it's like having a filter. So everyone has these impulses, but then they have this filter that allows them to process their thought and then make a better decision. For me, it's much more difficult because that part of my brain, naturally by birth, is more under developed.
So I've had to learn how to make these decisions because in my life, there are a lot of these moments that come about that challenge me. And for the most of my life, I failed. Through these challenges. I let these moments be reasons and catalysts for failure, for resetting.
And I'm always looking back and thinking like, man, I wish I could turn back time just to be able to make some small changes. And I'm always learning in hindsight that's my brother told me I've always been the type to learn in hindsight. So I'm thinking, okay, how do I work around that? How do I instead of learning in hindsight, how do I be more Proactive? Rather than be reactive, how do I be more Proactive.
That's what I want to talk to you guys about today, which was who I was before coaching. Today is going to be super casual. Just want to talk to you guys and just share you guys a little bit about who I am. I've had a lot of people new followers to the channel and what not over the last year.
I've shared some of these stories previously already, but I don't expect people to listen to each and every single one of these. So being able to share bits and pieces just to let you guys know about who I am as a person, as a human being, I think it's quite interesting to reflect back because if you guys have just only found out about me recently, followed me recently, you'd only see me as the fitness coach, Andrew.
But I've got a lot of stories that shared in a previous podcast about who I was. But the reason I wanted to share with you guys who I was before coaching.
In today's Episode I am going to share with you about we Drank till 6am. Sunday morning. Yesterday I woke up the leanst I've been in throughout this whole entire diet. To be fair, it's because we had alcohol. And alcohol is a diuretic. However, because I didn't get dingo overboard with food and everything else, I didn't wake up bloated. I didn't wake up soft.
I actually woke up in really good shape and conditioning and things like that make me not regret going out. And now the memories are looked back untarnished. Think about how many times you guys have gone out, maybe gone a little bit overboard, and the next day comes with regret.
You're really hungover, you're broken, and then you end up ordering Uber Eats and that takes you back for 3456 days of your progress. And then even though you had fun, it's always a but does that make sense? So making sure you don't have that. But on Friday I wake up early. So the night that I go out, I probably get like three or 4 hours sleep. I just wake up based on my body. And then I try to make the most of the morning. I try to shower, start doing work, whatever it is that I need to do. And then later in the afternoon when we get tired of sleep again, rather than waking up and then trying to force yourself to go to sleep and then you waste that whole day.
Then you feel sick because you haven't moved that whole day. Because you haven't moved at all for that whole day, your body starts to feel achy and tired and moving just becomes even harder. So I try to wake up, be as active as I can. And yes, because I'm more than 4 hours a day, I'm going to get tired.
I'll sleep later in the afternoon and then carry on with my day. That's our strategy and how we manage the following day as well. I didn't get any hangover. We actually balanced everything out. I paste out my drinks throughout the whole night as well.
Today, I'm going to be talking to you about how you can get through holiday season. Because for you to get to those goals that might take you three, four, five years, you need to be able to maintain the consistency even through the holiday season.
The holiday season is not an excuse for you to fall off track. Because let's be honest. Honest, it's not the holiday season that is causing you to be out of shape. It's actually your habits and it's your decisions. And the same reason why I became out of shape. It was no reason but my inability to adhere and stay committed to myself.
And think about how many holiday seasons you guys have experienced. You get it every single year, multiple times a year, throughout different months. And guess what? Christmas is coming around next year. And so it's New Year.
And unless you want to keep repeating the exact same cycle of setting yourself this New Year's resolution expectation, not following through with it, getting into bad shape, and then find out it's Christmas and New Year, and then set yourself the expectation again, rinse and repeat. I want you guys to be honest. If you're watching this, how many New Years have you told yourself that you're going to get back on track? And how many of those New Year did you actually stick to it? And unless you're actually in shape now, the answer is none, because it was inevitable that you kind of fell off track anyway.
I don't care about the New Year's you spent five years ago where you got on track with your health and fitness. And you did amazing. If you're out of shape now because you're out of shape now, does that makes sense? Your path? None of that matters. What matters is today moving forward.
So I want to share with you guys ten quick tips with one bonus, one on how you can get through the holiday season.
In today's Episode, I want to talk about the fears that I have just as a person. I just want to share with you guys from the perspective of a business owner what type of fears that run through my mind and to let you guys know that it's normal.
It's normal to be, be afraid. It's normal to feel stressed. It's normal to feel uncertain. And that's life. Life is filled with uncertainty. Life. It's a lot of things you can't control in life. And it's very easy for us to get caught up with the things that we can't control and really focus on that negative parts in our life. And yesterday we talked about being grateful.
I made a post about being grateful, being grateful about the things that we have. Because when we caught up on chasing the things that we don't have, the things that make us feel we're in adequate, we lose track of the things that we do have. And I just wanted to let you guys know the things that make me feel scared and to share that with you guys.
Today, I just want to talk about having these difficult conversations. And although it was difficult, I think that the hardest part of those conversations over the first five or ten minutes where we'll kind of like breaking the ice. But then once we got into the meat and potatoes, I'll be honest. Tears were shed.
It really showed how much we actually cared about each other, how much we all wanted to really say and be with each other. And I'll be honest yesterday, depending on how the conversation went, it might have even been the end. Maybe not the end of Chief Championship, but the end of the working relationship, as we know. And I want to be transparent.
I want you guys to know that we celebrate wins, and we have these milestones accomplishments we've been able to achieve, but there are no highs but lows, and it's exactly what we have on the back of our shirt. There's no success without failure. And yesterday needed to happen.
Yesterday's low needed to happen for us to really realign our vision and really understand that we actually care about each other more than our business. We care more about staying with each other and growing with each other. And yeah, I wanted to make sure that all the coaches and everyone involved felt like they had a voice to be heard. And I don't know if you guys ever seen the celebrity roast where a celebrity goes on and everyone just roast shit out of them. That's pretty much what happened to me.
But I didn't feel like I was roasted. If anything, I was very appreciative of that opportunity that I had people be honest with me in terms of who I was, how I treated everyone. And I'm going to be honest with you. I feel like I treated everyone well from my perspective, but there are also expectations for me that added a lot of pressure for them.
And sometimes I get so lost in terms of where I want the business to go, I kind of lose track of what the coaches wanted as well. So, yeah, I felt like it was a really good conversation. I really enjoyed the conversation.
Today is going to be catch up day, and that's actually something I wanted to talk about as well. Being able to take these breaks, you guys do it when you're gone, leave, and then eventually come back, and then you've got to catch up on the work by going and leave is super important.
It's just a day, one step back, a couple of steps forward forward. And getting back into momentum can sometimes be quite difficult. But that transition period to getting back into momentum is incredibly important because the longer that you drag out that transition period to get back into the swing of things, the harder it's going to become.
And you realize that there's a lot of time that has passed. It's actually going to tie into today's topic, talking about how sometimes we take today for granted. We have the mentality that we're going to work really hard today so that one day we can enjoy it.
We're going to grind hard for five days so we can enjoy the weekend. We're going to grind hard working a full time corporate office job. Just so one day we're going to reach that state of financial freedom. Maybe we buy a house, we will pay off that mortgage, and one day we'll be able to sell it and be able to yield a return on our investment, whatever it is, we always have this mentality of life working hard now and enjoy later.
And I think life is not black and white. So it's not about having this mentality or not, but it's about having this balance, because if we're so focused on tomorrow, sometimes we lose track of today, we lose track of what's important. A really big lesson that I learned last week was what I was explaining to you so caught up in reaching a monthly revenue benchmark that lost track of what was important.
And the whole idea and purpose of me working really hard wasn't just for ourselves. It's for the ones that come after us, that the ones that are around us, the ones that are with us, who are supporting us, and that gives me the greatest sense of fulfillment. So being realigning myself with that vision, really it helps me understand what is mportant.
In today's Topic I am going to share with you about this will change your life. I always thought in life there were just these goals that were just always going to be out of reach. Things I just couldn't achieve. One of the first things was when I was in high school, when I started I started training. I wanted the six pack ripbody, whatever terms they used back then in 2009.
And I tried many times, but I never committed to the end of the line. I always had that burst of motivation momentum at the start, and I'd always eventually fall off track. And it would happen time and time again to a point where I just don't even bother dreaming about it anymore.
You just start to accept that it might not be in your lifetime. Maybe you're never going to have that. And other people are lucky enough to be born with the ability that gives them that opportunity and that way of thinking eventually seeps into other avenues of your life.
Then you eventually start to settle. You start to settle for mediocrity. You start to settle for good enough, because maybe not you. But life has disappointed you so many times. And when we really look back and reflect about our actions, are our actions to benefit us? I mean, we only have one life. You guys only have one life. Make the most of it. Like trying yourself. Well.
In todays episode I am going to share about When I made a mistake. The mistake was when I started online coaching, the first thing I said within the first month, I started initiating conversations with other coaches about, like, working together. And we have this thing called Team Bali.
And you can work from anywhere in the world and do whatever you want. Spend time with the people that matter and stuff. And then throughout this year, I was very caught up in growth that I kind of lost track of the things that actually matter. And one of my biggest regrets was that I didn't retire my parents earlier.
The true life is not simply about having an abundance mindset or not. I still battle with my scarcity mindset. Even though we've been able to accumulate a lot of growth and revenue every single month. I'm just thinking like, well, I'm not going to be able to open up a gym or money this.
And I'm thinking none of that stuff is going to matter to me. Being able to open up a gym if it comes at the cost of my parents. My family hangs mum all those things. So we reconvene as all the coaches to make sure that our core values now is about being able to allocate our time where it actually matters so that we can enjoy this journey.
So we don't have the same mentality as my parents where they're thinking about growing today, reap the rewards tomorrow, grind today, reap the rewards tomorrow, about finding a balance, where you're making progress, but you're not losing track of what's important to you.
New Year is approaching right now. I think I actually made a post recently talking about what's everyone's New Year's resolution. I don't really have a New Year's resolution. I personally don't believe that New Year's Years resolution should be a thing.
You should have your goals, and regardless of when it is, you should still have those goals. And it's interesting, some people that I've spoken to, I asked them what their goals for 2022 are. And they told me that I haven't thought about it yet. And these are the same people who said that they are high performing individuals who are motivated.
And I'm thinking like, we're about three weeks away and we haven't even started thinking about our goals for 2022. You should already have your goals for the next five years, ten years, because that's how you're actually going to achieve the results that you want.
Because if you don't have a clear sense of direction in terms of where you're going, well, you're never actually going to get there. Having a goal is like having a Compass. You can't rely on a Compass to get you from one address to another, but it's going to give you that general direction.
And when you're actually there, then you can read the streets, street signs and whatnot and get you to where you need to be. But having a plan on a macro level is going to give you a sense of direction and purpose.
So every day you're not actually just going in blind and just hoping for the best. You actually have a clear sense of purpose and direction. Everything that you've do.And In today's Episode I am going to share 10 Lessons I learned In 2021.
Today's Episode I want to talk to you guys about a time where I was pretty much depressed. I wouldn't say I had depression, but I felt depressed. That's the emotion that I would feel. And deep down, I honestly hated myself.
And that person I was telling you before, when they poured the heart and soul out for the ten to 15 minutes, they understood that when I share these stories, it's to let people know that life doesn't have to be like this and that I wasn't born with all the attributes that I had.
It was something that I've had to build over time. And it's a very tough journey. And I just wanted to talk to you guys and be more visual about my experience. When I was in that rut and when I was going down, I spent a bit of time kind of remembering everything.
I remember when I was going through this period as well. I documented everything internally. I wanted to make sure I remembered this because I never wanted to be there again. And of course, this is very short. It's not that long ago.
Yeah, this is just five short years ago, maybe 2016. 2017. And during this time was when I started to work at a bank, and I felt like I wasn't a bum. During this time, I was partying every single week when I was a bomb. But once I started work, I took a step away from that for a little bit.
And then once I got into the momentum of work, I started to become a bit more confident. And then I started getting to the worst place of my life. Essentially, I would say this made me feel worse than when I was a bum.
At least when I was a bum, I knew what I felt and I knew what I needed to do. And I knew that I just needed time to really figure myself out up and map out the game plan to become something more I just need a time. That's how I felt.
Today I have a really big announcement to make. The podcast is finally launched. Achieve Championship podcast called Achievement Unlocked. It's finally launched. It's available on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. You can just search up my name, Andrew Chau or search up Achievement Unlocked and you're going to be able to see it should be one of the first results. So subscribe to it, follow it, write a review.
I would honestly, really appreciate it. It would mean the world to me. And all these lives that I'm currently doing will be repurposed to the podcast. So the first podcast is already an introduction episode which goes about a minute giving you a taste of what you're going to get.
And then after that, the first podcast episode is going to be a live data in July. So about four or five months ago. And yeah, that's it. I'm actually super excited. This is a huge win. It's something that I've been working towards for a very long time.
Today I am going to be talking about balancing everything in life when you're trying to achieve a lot. Because most of the time in life, we're not just trying to achieve one thing.
It might be trying to progress in our career. We want to look after our health and fitness. We want to improve our social life, our relationship, relationships, or friendships, whatever it is. There's always going to be multiple things that we're currently working on.
And I think right now it's so appropriate because just in the last week, I've actually had a few of my clients talk to me about them. Feeling burnt out, reaching width and feeling really tired, feeling lethargic getting all these signals to eat, this unsatiable desire to continue to eat. Mike and I are going through the same thing. Mike is a lot leaner. He's been dieting for a little bit longer, so I can only imagine how he's feeling at the moment.
But look, if you're trying to balance a lot of things in life, it's going to feel tough sometimes. And people tell you grind, work harder, hustle harder. And it's very hard for us to evaluate and determine how hard should we push? Are we grinding ourselves into the ground and the harder we push and when we are grinding ourselves into the ground, it's just going to be more likely that we're going to relapse and fall backwards on our commitment.
We might be work, have our primary job on nine to five, and we're working on other streams of income. And then we also have the balance of health and fitness. Sometimes we feel like we're stretched too thin and it's easier to throw everything into the too hard basket and say, I don't have time for fitness.
I've got my nine to five job. Then afterwards I'm trying to learn. I'm doing like a diploma or studying to further my education, whatever it is. Sometimes we feel like we're spread very thin.
Today's topic.I wanted to talk to you guys about being grateful in gratitude. I would like to do this once in a while and just to remind myself keep myself grounded of all the things that are doing, that is going well in my life.
We'll talk about the morning routine previously, check out my previous live. If you haven't, we talked about how you can build your morning with 10 and how you should be. Do your gratitude and affirmations every morning.
And I guess I just wanted to share with you guys the things that I've been grateful for as of recent, weeks and months, and yeah, to share with you guys that at all levels. There's something to be grateful for in life.
It's very easy for us to look at the things that don't go well and our life and dwell on that and feel like the whole world is against us, but being able to take a step back and acknowledge and appreciate all the good things that we have in our life. Yeah, it puts into perspective that we're in a pretty good place.
And In today's Episode I going to share When I was stuck and depressed.
The reality is when you feel stuck, you feel like you're not progressing.That's what leads to depression, because people sometimes think that a status or a milestone.
Whether you get a promotion, whether you get a certain income, whether you have a certain amount of digits inyour bank account, where you have a certain product orcar or house, that you're going to be happy, but you're not the idea of happiness.
And success is not a location or destination.As cliched as it is, it's actually the trajectory.It's the journey. It's the process.It's the anticipation.If they're looking forward to tomorrow.
In today's episode Im joined with Coach JD and Coach Ethan.They just competed yesterday and I wanted to have just a round table discussion to talk to them about their experience. I'm a self competitor as well.
So they we'll just share their ideas or challenges, struggles, wins, losses, everything related to contest, prep and natural, competing itself.
Guys to get into today's topic is how to cut calories without noticing. This is going to be really quick, short and easy. So whatever you guys are currently doing at the moment, society typically so C eight food volume with dieting.
So so I want you to do the exact same thing. Eat exactly what you're currently eating at the moment, but start learning how to make smart substitutes. That's going to put you into a calorie deficit to lose weight.
what is a calorie deficit? That's the core principles of weight loss. It's eating less energy than your body needs to burn consume to stay alive. That's essentially it everything stems off that whole premise, including all the diet fats.
Think about keto.You're cutting out carbohydrates, the whole macronutrient category. So it's going to put you in a deficit because you're eating less food than you were before.
That same thing intermittent fasting. You're cutting out one whole meal calorie for calories. You choose keto, intimate, fasting or well balanced diet. You're going to get the exact same results. That's just the reality of it.
Today, I want to share with you guys really quick ten ways that you can Avoid burning out on here. You guys will hear us talk about trying to be productive when you are feeling stressed and overwhelmed. It's just a good indication of where you're supposed to be.
Now. The idea is that when you get through moments that you become comfortable or where you're not overwhelmed, it's an opportunity that you could progressively overload. Does that make sense? Like going to the gym the first time you ever go to the gym? Exercises feel really tough.
It's heavy, your joints are all sore, everything is sore. And then you eventually recover. And when you recover, you become stronger and doing the same weights become easy. So you then progressively overload again.
So when you're always progressively overloading in your training and in your life as well, it's very easy for you to get to a point where you become burnt out. A couple of weeks ago, we actually talked about I helped you identify whether you're actually burnt out or you're just not being efficient with time.
So that's the first thing that you should ask yourself, are you being 100% efficient with your time? Because most of the time when we feel like we're stressed and overwhelmed, it's because we're not efficient with our time. We're busy, but we're not necessarily productive.
And there are two different things. You can be busy and not be very productive and you can be very productive and not necessarily be very busy. So that's the first thing you want to do, assess whether you are efficient of your time. But let's go through the ten things that I think is going to help you manage being burntout and stress overwhelm whatever it is.
Today. Just want to quickly talk to you guys about the dark sides of guiding. When you see people who are shredded and you're going on Facebook, you think it's amazing. You think that's what you want to be your goal.
But it comes at a cost. Everything in life comes at a cost. When you see a luxury item like an expensive watch. I'm not saying this is an expensive watch, but you know how people have expensive watches.
You say that's amazing to have, but then there's a financial cost that comes along with that same thing with being in shape. There is a cost that comes with it comes with the cost of some decisions. Not being able to eat out as much as you want.
You're still able to eat out. Now. You can't party until the a. M. You can't just binge eat whatever you want. You can't have Macs every single day. It's things that you shouldn't be doing, not just in the scope of being in shape, but you shouldn't be doing that as a human anyway. But it does remove some of that freedom. And also along the way, there are things that happen and changes to your body that occur as you progress in your diet.
Today we are talking about how you can get results fast. Okay, now that attracts everyone's attention. I want results fast. And the reason why I wanted to share this with you was one of the new clients that has recently signed on. His name was Drew his from Singapore and he's been doing really well for the first week.
And we had our first catch up call yesterday. And one of the questions he was not so much concerned about, he was asking or he was unsure of was whether he's making progress fast. And the first thing he said to me was, yeah, I've made a little bit of progress, I've made some slow progress.
And I told him, I want to stop you there. Slow based on what? Like slow is a subjective adjective. But what does that actually mean? Based on what standard are we comparing our progress to? And I think sometimes we get caught up with trying to understand the minimum amount of time that we need to achieve a certain result.
If the conditions are 100% ideal, we get no distractions, no objections, no challenges, no obstacles, 100% time commitment towards our goals. And realistically, that's not life. And when we set ourselves up for that idea that we're going to get results fast or that we're going to get done as fast as possible, we don't give ourselves the minimum amount of time.
We're setting ourselves up for failure because no one out there has achieved success without any obstacles. So you need to plan in your obstacles. And the mindset that you're going to get results fast is exactly why you never get there as well. Because one there are any expectations comes disappointment.
Because that's just how life works. However long you think you're you should take the diet, you should actually double it. Because real, ever lasting change actually takes time.
So today it's just a reminder, guys, that tomorrow is not guaranteed. Make the most of today. We always preach that you should always make decisions that lead to long-term growth.
Why? So that you can enjoy every single day? When you are choosing decisions strictly and solid only for short-term pleasures, it's going to come with the cost of long-term growth. So you're always going to use a bandaid.
So I want you to think about short-term pleasure decisions as a bandaid. And long term growth is actually being able to overcome your current challenges like healing a bone.
So you need both the ability to heal your wounds and bones and you also need a bandaid. There's a time and place for everything and life is about finding that balance.
So you should always have a holistic long-term game plan that's going to lead to your long-term growth. But also I don't want you guys to forget the short-term pleasures along the way to make you enjoy the journey.
Today we're going to talk about why you will never lose your belly fat.
Now, five top reasons that I believe play a really big factor in why you never lose your belly fat.
And I just want to also preface for you guys to understand that this is not a real statistical number, but there's probably like a 99% chance that you may not get to where you want on your first diet.
That's just how it is. And we're going to go through some of the reasons why.
Today, we are talking about you probably not who you think you are.
So the first exercise I want you guys to do is describe yourself. Who are you? We actually did this as an exercise with all the coaches as well.
I think this is a part of being self-aware, where it's not about being obsessed with yourself. It's about you looking after the only vessel, the only thing that's going to last you a lifetime, which is yourself.
And in life, it's very easy for us to point fingers rather than point thumbs. And this is an exercise to show you how you can actually start pointing thumbs, becoming more self-aware, and be on your journey to self-improvement and self-development.
That's how you can bring happiness into all other aspects of your life, whether it be your friends, your workplace, your relationship, whatever it is, it's hard for you to bring happiness into other facets of your life. If you've you are fundamentally unhappy with yourself.
Today we're going to be talking about three ways that are going to help you improve your relationship with food. And I think a lot of people will be able to relate to this.
This is what's honestly helped me and my clients. Number one, you guys might not want to hear this, but you need to invest time to learn about nutrition, and how it has an impact on your body. I think a lot of us, I included. Back then, I didn't want to invest time to learn about nutrition.
I just wanted a quick, easy fix, a quick rule that I had to follow. No carbs. Carney at this time. Carney at that time, do this do cardiology. I just wanted everything to be simple and realistic. It doesn't take you that long to actually go out and learn. The only issue is a lot of conflicting information out there.
So you're going to read online, someone with X credentials or X experience is going to give you this point of view, and someone else is going to give you another point of view. And the only problem is when you're actually going out and doing your own research, there's going to be a cognitive bias, which means that you're more likely to side with an argument or a strategy that you have a preference for.
Today, I'm going to be sharing with you three beliefs that held back my personal growth. And after shell view my three personal beliefs, there's actually an overarching theme.
And I want to teach you guys this process of being selfaware and pattern recognition because being able to identify these patterns in your life, I'm very huge on pattern recognition. Everything that we do yesterday's live that we talked about in terms of the voices in our head, our internal dialogue that's also based on our internal pattern recognition.
So the more familiar we are with these patterns that arise, the better we can actually make decisions moving forward. So the first belief that held me back was I cared too much about what people thought of me. And I think we all go through this. It's how we're designed. Why? Because as humans, we're designed to fit in to be with the herd. It's the tribe, the herd mentality. Same thing with all animals.
Typically, they will hang out in tribes and herds because it's going to be much safer. So for you to comply with normality tens of thousands of years ago, that would put you in a much safer scenario or situation because you're around others who are doing the same thing and you can protect each other rather than being by yourself.
Today we are talking about voices in my head. I just want to preface. I'm not a psychologist. I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not a specialist in this field. I'm just going to share with you guys my experience.
And you guys can take what I say for grain of salt. Maybe if you can apply, you can relate. Amazingly, we can't be on your bike. I just want you to know I'm not giving any advice. I'm not providing any guidance.
I'm just sharing my stories about how I understand my own thoughts, my internal dialogue, and the voice in my head. Think saying that you have voices in your head can sound a little bit touchy for some people because it implies that you don't have your shit together or whatever.
But you know what? Everyone has a voice in the head. It's called your internal dialogue. And it's important to understand or how I understand how my brain works. It works in two wavelengths. You have your conscious mind and your unconscious mind.
Guys, I'm just going to share with you what I've learned going on in live each and every single day. As I said, things July, August, October, November 4 to five months, I've actually lost count and I'm just going to share with you guys some things that I have learned. So no one is consistency.
Over the last four to five months, it's been a consistent habit part of my morning routine to actually get out there and do the live. One of the things that I did at the start was I will go live at different times throughout the day, sporadically. And I found that when I was going on live later in the day, my energy wasn't there.
I was less likely to fall backward on my commitment because I was tired or I'd give myself any excuse or I got busy and I just never ended up doing it or I was just super inconsistent. So for me, I made the decision to go and live in the morning at 08:00 because it was when I was fresh ideas come to the head the morning.
Sometimes I think of these great ideas and then later in the day, they kind of get lost through fatigue and just being lethargic and tired. So I shifted out to the morning. We were able to establish a morning squad.
I know some of the morning squad has dropped off, but it really goes to show that the true Champions are not the ones that attend, but the ones who consistently attend, the ones who stay committed to themselves each and every single day. And the difference between me and someone else is that I've just maintained consistency.
We do have a very special one today, coach JD in the house, one of the coaches of the Chief Championship. Super, super excited to bring this to you guys.
And for those of you that know, JD is actually going to be competing in just over two weeks now. Really exciting times ahead. He has been a coach for 4months in the achievement championship.
Today we going talk about integrity.Integrity not just like with others, but integrity within yourself, like who you are as a person.
First off, you guys need to learn how to be self aware and really reflect on who you are as a person and whether you're unhappy or have happy. Sometimes it's actually very easy for us to just tell ourselves and accept that we are happy.
We don't want to feel sad. We don't like the idea of being depressed or feeling down. So we tell ourselves that we should be happy because the world and internet tells us that we should be happy.
Sometimes we're not. And that's the reality of it. I don't know many people around me that can actually honestly say that they're 100% happy. Very few are the ones who are integral with themselves in terms of their commitment for self development. Being happy with yourself.
It's not a stationary destination where you reach this point and you say, yes, I have Ads, I'm now happy with myself. It doesn't work like that or I'm going to get X job or X pay rise or X promotion. Whatever it is that you're going to be happy is just looking forward to tomorrow.
Happiness is looking forward to the growth. Happiness is understanding that, okay, where I am today may not be where I want, but it's exciting thinking about where I can be tomorrow. That's happiness.
Today.I want to talk about how tomorrow's not guaranteed on here. We always like to talk about long term growth and how our decisions usually broken up into two ones, where we are choosing long term growth or short term pleasure.
And I want you guys to understand that we are not one dimensional and we're always going to choose long term growth as humans.
If we come in with the mindset that whatever we do or the sacrifices that we make today is a means to an end, so that we can reach this one goal, one day, the line that will finally make us happy.
Today we are talking about how you can stop over eating. I've actually got a few messages over the weekend from my clients and from others as well, talking about how they've gone overboard over the weekend and it's done some damage or they ask how we can actually manage eating out.
And it's crazy to think that hanging out right now. I'm three months into my diet. I'm about six, maybe seven kilos down. But to be fair, some of that would have been a body recomposition because I've just regained some lost muscle as well.
But we've been able to eat out like three times twice a week and it really breaks free from that stigma of what dieting really should be. And this year is really different to all the other years because all the other years we finished dieting and then we started to incorporate eating out.
While this year we're actually incorporating more eating out into our diet. I'm honestly achieving the best results I have while being able to manage eating out as well. And that's exactly what we want to talk about today.
We want to talk about the balance. So how can you incorporate eating out without doing doing damage are so bad that one causes you psychological pain, emotional stress, and also potentially doing physiological damage in terms of making you gain weight and hurting your metabolism.
Let's get into today's topic. I want to talk about five things that I've learned over the last year. This is in no particular order. When I show you my thoughts.
Those are the five things I've learned in the last year. Number one, the collective effort. The collective effort of many five seeds out of one. Number two, the more we suppress our ego, the more we'll be able to grow. Number three, dreams come true, but everything comes at a cost for the higher levels you are and four uncertainty that follows. Number five, people in your life come and go, and the important ones, just work itself out and just stay.
Today we are going to be talking about financial freedom. Now, this topic comes about from various types of people I've been talking to over the last couple of months.
And one of the things I asked or talked about is what the goal is. And I think a lot of people say they want to be financially free.
Do you guys actually you know what it means to be financially free? Having financial freedom covers multiple definitions. It's not just one true definition.
Everyone has their own kind of spin and what it means to them. But I'm going to be honest. Most people consider financial freedom to be no different from winning the lottery.
People when they say they want to be financially free, they want to have so much money that they don't need to work another day in their life. There are people out there that say that people who want to run their business, they say they want to be a CEO where they work for 3 hours a day day.
That's exactly why you're never going to get there. And if you think that being financially free means that you have so much money that you don't need to work anymore, you're never, ever going to be in a position where you have that much money, I'm going, to be honest with you. And the only time that's ever going to happen is if you win the lottery.
Today we are talking about how you can improve your confidence. This is actually a question that I actually get a lot. And just so you guys know, I haven't always been confident my whole life. I haven't always been able to speak publicly.
I was actually very terrible at speaking publicly. I think I've shared this story a couple of times, guys. But in high school I used to hate doing oral presentations. It was the worst thing in the world. I would hide behind tables. And it's actually one of the things that the teachers tell you not to do hide behind a table.
You feel more comfortable just being behind something. It might be like a podium or a table, but being at a hide behind it is going to help with that anxiety that I felt. And I would just read off cue cards and the cue cards are supposed to queue you to speak or present information that you have prepared beforehand.
And I would just literally just read off that. And I will just try to pretend to have eye contact. But really I'm more present and just reading off it.And I wasn't very confident as a person. I hated asking for things in public.
I remember when I was younger, I'd go around and help my dad a lot and I'd actually tell him to ask questions for me, even though his English wasn't the strong point. So he'd want me to come with him because I could speak English.
But then I'd end up making us because I was a really shy person. So just know, I'm just practicing that I wasn't born with any of these traits. And these are the things that I've developed overtime.
Today. I just wanted to jump on here real quick just to talk about the fact that we are now out of lockdown. And what that means is you're going to have access to go to the gym again.
But it also means that you have access to eating out and going out to restaurants, seeing friends that you haven't seen in in a while, and drinking. So just wanted to talk to you guys about how Hang and I are currently dealing with it.
Today. It's going to be really short and sweet. We have an announcement to make us all the coaches in the chief Championship at 12:00 p.m.
Today. So I need to get cracking this morning to get everything ready for today is going to be the start of a very rough week for all of us. It's a lot of work, but we have the short sprints and yeah, we'll announce everything at noon.
I think you guys might be able to guess or predict what it could be. We did something similar last year around this time. Yes. I also just wanted to spend today as a quick reflection on what we've been able to achieve in the last year.
So it was actually about a year ago. I can actually say I've been an online coach for about a year now, which is crazy. It was about a year ago that I signed on for my mentoring course actually started in November exactly one year ago. Twelve months ago.
Today's topic is talking about It's Okay To Not Be okay. I've shared this previously a couple of months ago. I think it'll be a good refresher for any of you guys who only just started listening to these live recently.
But I never knew that had a mental health issue growing up. I just always thought that I was different. I didn't understand why. In social settings I'd feel really weird.
I was never in the moment. In the present, I wouldn't talk much. I believe I'm an extrovert by nature, but in social settings I'd be introverted, especially when it really highlights how different I am to everyone else.
Just my thought processes would always be different. I didn't understand why and when I'm in a social setting and I'd only think about the fact I'm in a social setting and the fact that I'm not saying anything, I'll be really drawn away and taken away from the actual moment itself.
I just wanted to share with you guys my experience and what I've been going through this morning. So hang on.
I woke up, I went through a morning routine, and I spent an hour trying to write an Instagram post that would normally take maybe a maximum of 15 minutes, including proofing and doing all the fonts and stuff like that.
But I felt like as I was writing, I wasn't really going anywhere with my writing. I didn't know. I felt like my mind was very distracted. And I just want you guys to know that it's normal to go through, like, writer's block or periods where your brain isn't operating the way that you expect.
And I'm not going to lie, I feel very stressed and overwhelmed at the moment based on the things that we're planning for next week. And your success isn't made up of those great moments where you're showing up every single day.
There's someone who would have just found my profile, for example, said, I'm showing up on the line every day, making all these posts, everything's all positive. But I want you guys to know it's not always like that. And I want to be transparent and show you everything that's been going through my mind. So.
Today, I'm going to be talking to you guys about a time that I felt burnt out. I think some people get confused feeling burnt out with actually feeling stressed and overwhelmed.
And in some cases it's laziness as well. You're going to find online, including people like myself, sharing my point of view, my opinion. I think all the opinions from people sharing value, they come from a good place, but it really depends on how you interpret it.
And unless you've experienced the full spectrum of like, working hard, I think it's very hard for us to evaluate whether we're actually burnt out or not.
And I just want to preface here that I'm not born with whatever traits and attributes I have. A lot of this was actually something I attained overtime.
And it comes from working for yourself or the fruits of your labor. Now, it wasn't always like this. I want you guys to know that. And it wasn't just handed to us.
We needed to work at it. And all this became a byproduct of me resolving the three mistakes that I made that held me back.
First. One is I was obsessed with perfection over progression.
Two, I was inconsistent and I was impatient.
And number three was I cared more about the status of being self-made rather than the actual outcome.
So, Today I am talking about my top three mistakes that held me back.
I want to share with you guys more of this kind of format just to give you guys some quick tips and hopefully, you guys can relate and see some of your own attributes in my mistakes.
Today's topic is going to be more business and entrepreneurship. You guys are interested in that. So we're going to talk about how achieved Championship became.
However successful it is right now in 2021. 2021 is arguably one of the most difficult years in, history.
This global pandemic that we're currently going through, it's a once in a lifetime event. It's caused the market and economy to tumble. We're recovering.
We're actually prospering now in some economies, especially crypto and whatnot. But it just goes to show that this idea and preconception of what we had of life and what we expect from life is completely out the window.
In today's topic, I wanna talk about how to avoid overeating. I want to try to help you guys out since we're going to be out of lockdown. I imagine you guys are going to be seeing your friends that you haven't seen in a while, being able to eat foods you haven't been to eat in a while, and drink and spend time with people.
So I want to make sure that I want to equip you guys with the knowledge that you need to make sure that you set yourself up for success.
Now, just like with everything, when you abstain from a particular activity or a particular indulgence for a very long time, like an elastic band, you're pulling it back. And once you let go, it's going to come backswing, and it's going to hit you pretty hard.
So tonight, you guys are all very likely to potentially go overboard, and it's not within your control. I want you to understand that on a hormonal level, it plays a factor as well. If you guys have been dieting for the last four, five, or six months, that's a very long time to be dieting and to put your body in that position of depriving yourself of food.
Ghrelin, which is a hunger hormone, is going to go into overdrive. And so when you get that first taste of like delicious food that you haven't had in a while, even if for the last three months, you've had no issues with falling off track in your discipline.
But when you get that taste, it's going to be outside your control. For some part of it, it's going to be outside your control, but you can't make a difference. So how can we prevent overeating?
There's no way that the struggles we're going through right now are the hardest struggles ever going to go through. We are going to go through new struggles, new demons, new levels, and new challenges, and I look forward to being conquered for you so I can share my journey and my battles.
I know that there are different people from all walks of life to follow our content people in it for the Fitness for the Mentality and for the entrepreneurial people who are just tuning in, checking in every couple of weeks to see how I'm failing. But to their disappointment, we are just leveling up every single time.
So I just want to say I appreciate every single one of you who actually spent their time reading the post and even commenting, regardless of where they came from. As I said, I look forward to being able to educate and inform and be able to be in alignment with them and let them know how they see the world.
It doesn't have to be like that. And it's really up to them whether they want to let go of that negative, toxic feeling and embrace what it feels like to just be another person on this planet.
And the sooner they can accept that and stop dwelling on the owner in personal life and seek to improve the quality of life of other people, regardless of what they went through, I think. And when they find inner peace, they're going to be much happier with where they are in their life.
in today's episode, I'm going to talk about feeling stuck and how to get unstuck.
Actually today's topic, this episode is going to trigger some people. What I'm talking about is a lot of people that I have been speaking to lately, say, oh man, can't wait for gyms to open up, open back up again, we're getting out of lockdown so I can get back, back into shape.
So the first question I asked someone that says that is when gyms were open a year and a half ago, were they consistent every single time? Most of the time people are going to say no.
Those who were consistent most of the time, have managed to find a way to maintain that momentum during the lockdown, maybe not make the best progress of their entire life, but still, make progress and still Trek through.
So there's a camp of people that have attributed the reason why they're out of shape to closures of gyms. And then I guess my question for them is, well, now that we're locked down, I'd imagine that you'll be saving time commuting to and from work, what are you actually doing in that free time?
And then they say nothing. After work, they'll order Uber Eats, they'll go on Netflix and just watch a TV show and whatnot. And then they'll just waste their time. So what this means is it's not actually the gyms or the closure of the gyms that have led them to be out of shape.
And my clients know this gym plays a very small role in terms of being able to create progress. In terms of weight loss, most people want to lose weight. That's the reality of it because most people are overweight.
That's also the reality of it. So when you're looking at losing weight, the gym is actually irrelevant to losing weight. It plays a small part, but its habits, mindset, and nutrition are the three things that attribute to making progress.
Let's get into today's topic. Let's talk about why you shouldn't join a fitness program. Now, first off, this is just based on some of my previous experience of some clients joining even our program.
Sometimes our lifestyle decisions have led us to a place where it makes us very unhappy with ourselves and unhappy with where we are in our lives. We might feel stuck. We might feel stagnant and feeling stuck and feeling stagnant.
At the end of the day, there's nothing physically that oppresses us and makes us make those decisions. Nothing is really physically holding us back. Ultimately, what it comes down to is our decisions, our thought processes, our decisions, and our internal dialogue, which ultimately gives us the output that we have.
When joining a fitness program, some people have this sense of hope that joining the program, and making a big financial investment is going to magically get them the results that they are after at the end of the day.
Coach Ethan on the onboarding call yesterday said it very well, we're here as coaches to put in 100% for you guys each and every single day.
But clients need to meet us in the middle and also putting 100% in where we come into play is we can't make you eat, we can't make you train, we can't make you stick to habits and track everything that has to come from your own accord. And it has to be genuine inspiration deep within for it to be everlasting change.
A scarcity mindset is a fear of whether tomorrow you're going to have enough fear. I think we all live in a scarcity mindset.
Fear is worrying that you're not able to find another job. Fear is worrying that you're not able to afford the things that you want. Fear that your life might be a combination of luck rather than skill.
So, for example, if you guys are stuck in a job that you aren't happy with, then go out and find another job. If you have dreams and aspirations of starting a business, go out and start your business.
I mean, quitting your job isn't that big of a deal. It's not like you can't find another job again. And most people have a scarcity mindset. They feel like they're never going to be able to find another job again.
Or if they do start their business, they're worried that next month they're not able to put food on the table or not able to generate income. And when you live with a scarcity mindset, you live very close-mindedly.
And when you live very close-mindedly, it really prevents you from being able to do things with conviction or put 100% effort in, because there's always going to be doubt at the back of your mind whether you're going to be able to achieve it. And you're very and living by a very scarcity mindset is literally like living in fear.
And In today's episode, I'm going to talk about thinking Bigger to live Bigger.
Today I don't feel so good, I just wanted to come up here to show up every single day. I don't want to break my strength, no matter what the cost is.
I still want to show up because I tell you guys this time and time again, and I freaking mean it.
Your success isn't made of these accomplishments that and milestones along the way in your journey. When you've done something amazing,
it's the times when you don't want to show up, but you show up anyway that maintain your strength. That way, you're going to be able to get to where you need to be.
Today, I really want to talk to you guys about your journey and how it actually gets hard.
When you guys actually think about what part of your journey actually gets hard.
If you're doing the same thing, things that you can do on week one, why does it become harder for you to do it in week one, week ten, or week eleven or week 30 or week 50?
Does that make sense? Why does it become harder? Because you're doing the same thing. And the reason why things get harder is for multiple reasons.
But I also want to preface that it's your overall strategy is that will be the determining factor why it actually gets harder.
Let's get into today's topic. We think before we are, I'm going to share as a story. Back then when I started my fitness journey, I would try to get shredded. That was my biggest goal when I was in year tent. I just wanted a solid rig.
And I'd read men's health magazines. Men's fitness magazines go online. They'll see guys on YouTube like Steve Cook, guys like these. Out of the bodies, out of this world is crazy. And that's where I started to have growing up.
I was overweight my whole entire life. My brother would always tease me for being fat and he was a skinny one and I was a fat one. My cousins would bag me as well. In school, in primary school, the same situation happened. I actually left my old primary school in grade four because we moved houses.
So I went to a different primary school in grade five, grade six, and then same deal kids are they're just bullying you because you're different? And yeah. So my whole life I've always felt like I was the fat kid. And I think over time when I realized that I had the capacity to make a change and become better, I always aspire to have that body. I always aspire to have ABS.
I just thought, it must be nice. The idea for me of getting ABS was like the idea of me becoming a millionaire. It was just like, it must be nice. Maybe. I hope I can get it one day. and I started of my training.
See yourself as a successful person, see yourself as that fit person before you actually get there. Because how you subconsciously view yourself makes a big difference. If you see yourself as an overweight person, even when you lose weight, you're always going to get yourself back there because that's how you see yourself.
And honestly, that was one of the hardest things for me to accept. When I was losing weight, I was waking up every single day that I didn't look like what I did, like two years ago. That was mind-blowing for me to actually fathom. so it is a long process. You're not just going to get to that point overnight.
It's a work in progress. So work on your mentality, work on your self-perception, work on how you view yourself, work on starting to value and respect yourself. And you'll actually get to where you need to be.
Today I am going to be talking to you guys about how I used to be a gambler. Now it sounds bad. I don't gamble, just a chance it was poker. If any of you guys have a poker, you guys understand.
I honestly feel like running a business is very similar to poker, very similar to chess, chess, poker, all very strategic games. And yes, there is a luck variable in it. However, the top poker players remain in the top tier. Does that make sense?
And it can't just be luck that they're remaining in the top tier. There is a skill factor involved. And the thing I love about poker is I love how there's a way for you to tell a story. You have very limited ways for you to tell a story. I'm not talking about the stuff you see in movies and all these gestures and stuff, but poker is about either betting, checking, or folding.
So you only have three things that you can do every step of the way and how you approach those turns, what route that you take. And if you add a bit of the bet sizing that you make, it tells a story.
And I think there's something very artistic about it because like I said, depending on how much you bet and whether you choose to bet or you check and you let the other person make a move, it's very similar to chess.
And there is that luck factor. But you know what is going to war? Going to war, you have a strategy, and if you're lucky, your strategy works. If it doesn't, you lose. So it's very symbolic for life. And what poker has actually taught me is it's not about that split decision that you make.
I said the reason why I love poker, it's very strategic. And look, when I played, I used to think poker was about making a split-second decision, like making a decision then. And what I learned, what poker taught me was sometimes making the right decision does not yield the right outcome. This is true for everything in life.
Let's get into today's topic. This is going to be a nice short and sweet one and I want to talk about keeping it simple. So for me, one of my drawbacks is that I have a need to be perfect. I have a need to always want to perfect my execution.
And over time I've kind of narrowed this down and kind of figured out why I feel the way I feel it's because you guys know the story. I grew up having ADHD always made to feel inadequate and less compared to other people, always behind the path. I was never the best at anything that I did.
There was always people that were better and I was always last. I was picked last. And yes, over time I felt the need to want to be perfect. I felt like if I were to do anything I wanted to be the best at what I did and I didn't want to put myself out there until I was the best.
And so when I'm talking about my fitness strategy I would go online or spend hours and hours if not days and weeks researching putting together the perfect strategy. I remember there was a time this is probably 20 10, 20 11 when the keto diet first started to take popularity and I tried keto.
I got some results short term and then I learned about intermittent fasting and I got some results short-term. And then one day I was just putting everything together. I bought like expensive fat burners. I did keto and intermittent fasting. So I was eating between and then the windows.
For intermittent fasting, most people will be like 16 hours fast eight-hour eating window. I would take it to the extreme and I'll have a 20 hours fast four-hour eating window. So I'd literally eat from one to. 05:00 p.m.. And that's when I would eat.
So I'm trying to create this perfect strategy where I'm like yeah I'm going to do cardio and I planned out how much cardio is going to do each week for two or three months. And I did like the diet, everything. I try to put together the ultimate strategy and guess what, it didn't work.
I wasn't able to adhere to it for a very long time as you can expect like intermittent fasting and you have a window as drastic as 4 hours is tough enough. But having all these restrictions imposed upon your diet and all these rules that you have to follow, all these touchpoints become, they make it impossible for you to actually adhere to a long term.
And I want you guys to know that the key to achieving success and getting to the edge end of the line or achieving your results is actually the simplest. Why? Because you can adhere to simple strategies for the longest amount of time.
Let's get into today's topic. Let's talk about building momentum. I want to share with you some stories, but the reason why it's been really hard for me in the past to regain momentum again is that I kept comparing myself to what I used to do.
for example, going to the gym, you have to work up your frequency. You can't just first day into the gym be able to train six, seven days a week. It just doesn't work like that. You guys know, if you haven't trained for a while, you get into the gym, you don't exercise.
The day after you're going to be maybe the week or two after you're going to be super sore, like really sore. Or do you guys remember when you did its school sports and then you sprinted the next day, your legs are really sore because you don't do that very often.
Same idea when you train and you haven't given your body that much of a stimulus before, it's going to take a lot to recover. So that's one. Secondly, your strength is going to be reduced compared to what you used to be.
So because your strength is reduced, it's obviously you can't lift as much as you can, but you also can't last as long in the gym as well. You don't have the same endurance.
So there are all these factors that come into play why you're not able to match the performance and the frequency and the structure you did previously. And I think the number one key reason why people find it really hard to regain momentum is they are doing too much.
In today's episode, I am going to talk about I can do it. I've done it before. This is something that I told myself for a very long time.
And this is what I've been telling myself for the last couple of months. And mentality is so it's huge. It's honestly huge.
When it comes to training, I would say it's 99% mentality. And I want to explain to you why how can you train and commit to fitness if you can't even wake up in the morning? Does that make sense? The mentality is huge.
Your will and drive to one particular exceed will surpass the amount of physical effort that you can put into.
Today is what we're going to talk about I can't make you want it. To be honest, in the past there have been people who have joined the Achievement Championship program expecting to magically get the results.
And I want to say this, it's more also the people who first joined when I started coaching when the program was a much lower ticket and there was hype, I did my 14-day challenge-free challenge. It was on November 14. It was the first day that we went out of lockdown in Melbourne.
And when I announced that a whole bunch of people wanted to join and along with the type, they end up joining the full program. As I said, it was a much cheaper, lower ticket. So what that meant was they didn't have a very big financial incentive to comply with themselves due to the financial obligations.
And so yeah, some people, promise themselves the world when they join. Like, yeah, I'm going to commit and everything. And as the days and weeks go on, they end up falling off track maybe, like they start going out and partying and drinking over the weekend and not tracking their food and they're not really getting their steps in and the efforts start to go down.
I want to tell you this right now. We go through right now a very stringent application process before we onboard any of our clients right now, I'm telling you, we want to help as many people as we can. But I want to tell you this right now, we're only going to help the people that actually want to be helped.
I can't make you want it. I can give you the best program in the world, the best nutrition plan, the best everything. But you know what? If you don't want it and you're not going to put the effort to fit in, you're not going to do it.
Let's get into today's topic, and it's talking about don't do it, don't break your strict. Today there was an excuse for me not to show up in my life.
I don't think I ever had the intention to not go on live. I think I always had the intention that was going to go on later in the day.
But as the hours pass and you get more and more tired, you sometimes put it off because you've already put off for a couple of hours. No one said anything.
So it's very easy for you to make an excuse and say, maybe I don't want to do it today, maybe I'll just take the day off. People understand there's an outage. And for me, the strict is important.
Why is strict important? We've mentioned this previously and for me, I'm just living by my example. I said it before that you shouldn't evaluate your accomplishments or your milestones, your success is based on all of the things that you do once or twice, not just based on an amazing podcast. But success is measured by how long I can be consistent.
if you guys are listening to this, take it from Ethan, it has not impacted him at all. And the biggest lesson here is that people think the clear road to success, that's the expectation they always give themselves the minimum, minimum time required.
Like if I train every single day, I can lose the way I need to in twelve weeks. Like that's the absolute minimum time, assuming you have no obstacles and challenges in your way.
. It's when you have challenges, that's the expectation you should plan with contingencies so that when you're assessing yourself and giving yourself a realistic deadline, you factor into account all these little challenges to set yourself up for disappointment.
Because when you think that you're going to have twelve weeks unobstructed to make your progress and suddenly one week in you have a challenge. Maybe a car broke down. You're not able to drive to the gym.
Now you're like, well, I'm just going to put back my goal for another couple of weeks until I'm able to fix my car, walk to the gym. If you need to run to the gym, it doesn't matter. Workaround it. At the end of the day, it really comes down to how much you want that end result.
In today’s episode, I sit down with Coach Ethan. We talk about the Mindset of a champion.
Today, I wanna talk about what once made me feel special, made me feel.
I think in life some people are going to say you shouldn't aim for materialistic possessions. Not many people live a minimal life. That's just the reality of it.
And for you to tell yourself that you should just go out and achieve success and live in your means and not by the things you want. I think it's honestly, it's bullshit. Like buy the things that make you happy and whatever makes you happy, do it.
And for me, these two things where others would see as materialistic or superficial. For me, I never said anything about flexing on anyone or being better than anyone else. It was just me presenting myself in a way that I felt made me happy.
And at the end of the day, none of this would happen. If you don't work for yourself, you're not going to get to these points. If you have a superficial goal, if you have a goal to just fit in the suit, you're never going to get there.
Because some days you're going to think, well, maybe I don't want to fit in a suit. But for me, I wanted to work hard deep within my bones, because I wanted to be that person that I wanted to be.
Today I am going to do a review of the Blueprint series that we did last year. I just want to do it for my own personal reflection.
Hopefully, you guys will enjoy it as well. But I'm going to share what we did last week. I want to watch through it and I want to react to it. It's a bit of a long one.
One, I wanted to see how far I've come over the last year because the first episode came about a year and two or three months ago and I want to see if the information I provided back then I still agree with.
All right, let's get into this.
Today, we are going tobe talking about rewarding yourself. This is a really big topic. So I had a client last week. They joined the program for about two weeks.
They've been doing really well. They've been sticking to the program. They've lost a whole bunch of weight, like in our after two or three weeks are down like three kilos.
The ABS is starting to come out just straight off the bat. And we haven't even started our dieting phase or the cut phase yet. That's just the reverse diet. The fat loss is indirect impact. So that's a plus. However, over the weekend, I finished this other challenge, this 45 day challenge that he did with his friend.
And he finished that challenge and he decided to in quotes, this is word for word, reward himself by having some pizzas and beers and straight up. Like, this is how I coach my clients.
I'm real straight laid out and direct, and I painted the picture. How is that rewarding yourself? How is indulging in these types of foods that, you know, that is going to take you back on your long term goal? How is that rewarding yourself? So.
Today we are talking about how I used to procrastinate and waste a lot of my days and I want to give you three quick, easy tips that are going to help you become a little bit more productive. It's going to help you increase productivity. So put in.
I used to be the master of procrastination to a point where a job was bumped for a year. I knew what my responsibilities were, I knew what I needed to do, but I couldn't just go out and execute and I'd always put things off. Power has been my nature since in school. I'd always hand him homework late.
I'm always that guy that hands in the homework late and you guys know it. I just have to forge a lot of my permission slips so that I can actually be exempt from handing in work late. I'd always just forget I'd leave it to the last minute.
If I had three weeks to do an assignment, I'd leave it until the last two days to do it and I'll just relax. In those two weeks. Someone told me that this was due in like three weeks. Three months. I'll be like, Yup, I don't have a deal for right now because it's not immediate and because I didn't have a clear structure or plan or a strategy to tackle these tasks, I wasn't very organized and I was very messy.
I'm actually a very messy kid by nature as well. But it's only when I started to grow up that I started to become a little bit more productive and become more organized. And that is key to achieving more.
Just to talk about needing to take a break after August. August was our biggest month for sale by far. But after every high that you have, when you go through these periods where you're super busy, you need to take a break.
That's just how it is. You can't just maintain 100% intensity each and every single day. I mean, you can, but that's how you're going to get burnt out.
And my definition of a break is different from other people's definition of a break. I would say for the last month, I've been taking a break. So in terms of my training, I haven't been training five times a week, which I normally do.
I've been training three to four times a week. So I'm still getting my workouts done. I'm keeping the intensity there, doing the cardio, doing the steps. I'm not getting the steps in every single day.
Maybe out of seven days, I'll probably get like five days. I'll get my steps in my cardio sessions, I'll get maybe be like three or four sessions.
So that's our idea of a break. And to be honest, our idea of a break is probably more effort than what most people are willing to put in for themselves.
Today we are talking about not having enough time.
This is one of the most common things that as a challenge or an excuse, if you will, that I hear from my clients or prospects, whatever.
It is, just everyone in general that I talk everyone seems to think they don't have enough time.
Now it's all about time. I'm going, to be honest with you. I'm going to be straight up here.
You guys can feel free to disagree, but I am not speaking on behalf of everyone, but from the people that I know, only very few can actually validly say I don't have enough time.
Let's get into today's topics. Three Reasons Why You Are Not Successful So before I actually get into this, I also want to preface, success is in the eye of a beholder.
There is no general standard for success. There is no definition. That's said, once you reach this point, you are considered successful.
I'm going to be honest with you. I considered myself successful before I even began because I want to talk to you about what success means to me.
Success means for me is being happy with where I'm going. Success is a trajectory. Success is a gradient. It's a slope. It's your direction. That is a success. Success is knowing that tomorrow is going to be a better day.
Success is looking forward to tomorrow. Success is it doesn't matter where you are today. If you know that tomorrow is going to be a different place, that is successful. Sets.
Today, I'm talking about feeling like we failed as all of us. We felt like we'd failed before. Now, this is applicable to your life, your personal, and also your fitness journey. You set yourself a goal.
And maybe because your bad habits have evolved over time, one bad day becomes two bad days, becomes one bad month, two bad months, one, two bad years.
And then you've solidified these habits. But because we've disappointed ourselves before, we try to make this time difference. I'm sick of feeling this way. I actually want to make a change.
For me, it took me 15 kilos to realize that I wanted to make a change. I started with 70 kilos, and I gained all the way up to 85 kilos. And I felt so disgusted and so ashamed of myself.
I remember that day so clearly. I was in Vietnam. I was paying. I didn't want to be in any photos. You guys have heard this story before. And I chose to ingrain in my mind every feeling and every sensation that I had. And I promised myself that I'd never feel this way ever again.
Let's get to today's topic. I was ashamed of where I placed in my competition.
There was a lot of hype leading up to the contest, and afterward, I didn't actually post any of my show content.
So I want to talk to you about the guy, about my experience competing.
I want to tell you guys the whole story about why I could and my entire experience of what I learned from it.
Today we're going to be talking about progressive overload everything.
The idea of having the same job or doing the same thing for a prolonged period of time scares me.
Especially someone like me who has ADHD like the lack of progression, that scares me. I get bored very quickly. I need a stimulus of some kind. I always need something to look forward to. Otherwise, I'll get bored really quickly. So that's how I saw it in life.
In life, I always needed a checkpoint. And back then for me was the checkpoint was just something for me to look forward to was going out and partying every single week. But that was a short term.
It wasn't anything that I can take onto the next chapter of my life. It was just something that allowed me to pass time bite that I made out of paradigm shift. I shifted my perspective to not chase these checkpoints, but correct checks, points.
Let's get through today's topic. So the title I was caught cheating. It's not what you guys think. It's when to paint the picture.
This was for me in high school, and I was relatively smart in high school.
It wasn't always like this. I felt like I had a learning disability from when I was young to VA later in high school, but I never really understood what it was.
And later on, I realized it was ADHD.
Today we are talking about how you can work towards never having a bad day ever again.
Now I'm just going to give you guys some context. I used to have bad days all the time.
I want to tell you about what my morning habits and rituals were before I actually made a conscious effort to take control of my life.
Just want to talk about why you will never achieve your goals. So there are actually a few reasons why you'll never achieve your goals. I want to try to go through them.
So the first one is that your goals keep changing from one day to another. Your goals keep changing or you don't understand your goals. It's so important, it sounds so straightforward. You'll never achieve your goals if you don't actually know where it is.
You're never going to arrive at your destination if you don't know where your destination is. I'm not saying that your goal is your destination, but if you don't have a sense of direction to take you to keep pushing you forward, then of course you're never going to reach your goal.
You're going to be like a dog chasing a hot dog and a stick. You think it's ahead of you, but you're chasing it, but you never actually going to get it. And then because you don't get it, you're just eventually going to give up dogs not going to keep chasing that forever. So understanding your goal, understanding your why is super important.
Today. I am talking about. Do you really have a choice? I'm going to preface something before I start this.
This conversation might get a little bit spiritual. It might get a little bit abstract. You may not agree with what I'm going to talk about, but that's perfectly fine. I like a difference of opinion.
So I will be interested to know what you guys think about everything that I'm going to say. And from my perspective, I'm only going to state the facts that I know.
So yeah, this is just going to be an interesting discussion topic. So this is going to be discussion live, sharing with you. My thoughts now may be polarizing, but it is what it is. And I want to share with you, me, and be honest.
Guys, let's get into today's topic, which is I don't recognize who I am. And honestly, this is me. I would categorize my life, and I think most people might be able to do the same as, like, different periods.
So I would say every half-decade can catch categorizes a period. So from when you're born to when you're five, you're just a toddler. From five to ten, you start primary school. From ten to 15, you embark.
You start going to high school. 15 to 20, you start to become a young adult. You start to have to make real-life decisions. Decisions. And then you transition into being technically an adult.
When you're 20 to 25, you may graduate school, graduate from diploma, you start to really find your identity of who you are. 25 to 30, whatever you're doing from 25 to 30, there's a chance that you'll be doing that for the rest of your life.
So you go through all these periods. And for me, the periods that I've been through are actually so crazy. I feel like with every five years, absolutely completely different person.
Today, I just wanted to come out here just to say thank you to everyone who gave their support. And I was happy for us that we're doing better.
And yeah, I just want to say thank you. I can't show my gratitude and appreciation for every one of you guys enough.
Today, guys. I want to talk to you guys about a time when I went to court and I got charged for careless driving. I want to tell you about all the accidents I've had as well.
So when I got my peas, it was when I was 18 years old. My dad had a 99 Toyota Camry. It's a very typical Asian car. It's a very typical Asian color. Although for that car, there's, like two main colors.
There's like this ugly green and ugly Marrone. It happened to be an ugly Marrone car. Okay, so my dad was going to give me that car for my first car. I got my license the day that I got my license. That night, I went out to drive.
That night, I had an accident. And my car was parked parallel passed. And I was getting out. I don't remember if I had checked or not, but I remember going out. And as I went out, I saw lights on the side of my peripheral vision.
And I can't remember exactly what happened. But I think maybe instead of pressing the brake, I press the accelerator. I don't know. I went out and cleaned up. The car was written off.
Guys, I want to talk to you about for everyone, three options.
Life is not going to lie to you. They're actually all really shit options. But now that I'm making you aware of these options, you're going to become a little bit more self-aware, a little bit more mindful so that you can better take control of your life.
So I want you guys to know your three options in life. Your first option is that you go backward. The next option is that you stay the same. The third option is that you move forward.
Now, I know this sounds super straightforward and it sounds very self-explanatory, but everything that you do in your life, you're going to follow the three options for your fitness, your life, your personal life, your career, personal development, everything.
You're either moving forward, moving backward, or you're going to stay the same. And they're all shitty options. They all have their own cons, they all have their own drawbacks.
Let's get into today's topic, and we're going to be talking about you're not worth the dollars that you're paid. Now when you read this, you can think of things in one of two ways. You're either worth more or you're worthless.
Either way, you're never actually worth the dollars that you're paid. And I want to explain explain to you why a lot of people, they evaluate their effort and the time that they spend on the money and the dollars that they are getting paid.
I'm telling you right now, your real friends want you to succeed. Your real friends are going to encourage you.
Your real friends are going to be freaking happy and over the moon when you do something amazing, you get a job promotion.
When you earn more money when you buy something that makes you happy. Because your true friends want you to be happy. Just like how you want your true friends to be happy.
Well, let's talk about who are your real friends. I have a few stories that I want to share. I want you to buckle up because I want to try to bring the heat today.
That's what we're going to talk about today. I have a confession to make. This is going to be a short, sweet one. But for the last couple of weeks, I would say for the last almost two months we've been in and out of lockdown.
But I would actually say my training hasn't been 100% optimal. I haven't put 1000% in like I normally do. It's just really mentally fatiguing last year to be trained to fail every single session and constantly doing so much cardio.
So before I started my diet, I had two weeks where I kind of just relaxed. I still was on point in my training. I just stopped counting. Just for those two weeks, I was still good. I started my diet. So far I'm down about four kilos. So I started like 79 kilos. I'm now around 75.
So I'm down four kilos. I'm still progressing, resting and just the training itself, I'm just not putting my heart and soul into it. Also because I do have that back injury that I'm still rehabilitating from. It's better now and then when I was actually working on the room, it actually aggravates my back.
So I've been training four times a week, so I've been flat four times a week. And I want to get that back up to like five. And it's hard for me, it's really hard for me to try to balance everything because I'm just working through random hours of the day.
So I wanted to come out on here to tell you that I am not happy with where I am and I am going to make that change.
Today we're gonna talk about why you never reach your goals. So first off, who is living their high school dream? And I want you guys to let me know. What was your high school dream? Your dream job in high school.
So I remember in high school how people were saying that they want to be actors, doctors, surgeons, astronauts, whatever these goals are. Everyone has these ideas of what they want to do for their life. And then as they get older, going from transition from being a teenager to being an adult, life starts to break, break them down.
And maybe it's their own commitments to themselves. We might be influenced by those around us. Peer pressure, going out partying, becoming, doing teenager-type things. And then because we fail to commit to ourselves, maybe deep down our potential was that we could achieve our dream job.
But maybe we forgot to study for a test or we went out. We were procrastinated on MSN. I spent hours on MSN. And I didn't have that many friends of just being on it, trying to, I don't know, just chat shit, you know what I mean? Like, just waste time. And when you go through that phase, you might disappoint yourself.
And then you change your goals. Maybe your goal was to be, like, a doctor, for example. And then you realize how hard it was and how much you have to study. And that your last week's math exams, you're like, well, probably don't have a chance to be a doctor. So over time, you start to adjust your goals based on your work input.
Today, I actually changed the title is going to be The Way to the World on your Shoulders. But I changed it because I think I'm a disappointment. A little bit more clickbait and I want to talk to you guys a little bit about that.
You guys are all on your journey, whether you're inside or outside the program, whether you're following along. And I'm telling you this right now that you are going to impact the influence more people than you actually realize now going to realize that your actions create waves.
And especially for myself, I'm in an Asian community, all agents in like, Melbourne and stuff kind of know each other and you create waves. And I know that my actions carry weight, but your actions will carry weight too. But I don't want you to feel like people are relying on you, that you're disappointing other people.
The only person you're disappointed is yourself. Because when you try to spend your every living waking moment thinking that you're going to disappoint other people, you spend your days trying to make other people happy Rather than make yourself happy, which ultimately is going to hurt your progress, it's going to hurt you because you set this unfair expectation that, yes, you are going to go out and change the world.
Look, I'm not going to say you can't change the world, maybe not today if changing the world is not something that happens overnight like Rome wasn't built in a day, but we've got to change the world overnight. You have to change the world from consistent actions over time, and it's going to create an influence.
But when you set an expectation of yourself that's too unfair for you to actually realistically reach and you feel like you disappoint yourself, you're going to fall off track. You're going to feel like you're a failure because you set yourself this standard and you didn't meet that standard and you consider yourself a failure, but then you forget to look in the grand scheme of things, how far you've actually come.
Today we are going to be talking about I hated where I was. Now, what does this actually mean? I'm not just talking about where I was physical. I'm talking about where I was in life, but everything else as well. Today, can I talk about how we are responsible for our environment?
Everyone wants to be motivated. Everyone wants to motivate them. Everyone wants their friends to be, let's just say you're into fitness and your friends aren't into fitness. And then I get a lot of their excuses or complaints.
People saying, oh, my friends aren't motivated. This is their normal. And they want to step outside their comfort zone. But their friends aren't motivating them or whatever their friends are currently doing.
They've set to become their normal and they might not enjoy that environment. And people joining the program, one of the predicaments that they encounter is that their friends might ask them to go out, eat clubbing, or whatever it is.
And they want to make different decisions. And it's very hard for them to be on track when their environment isn't what they want. And then they ask, what do I do? Do I leave these friends behind or something else?
Let's get into today's topic talking about like, I felt empty. I used to feel empty a lot. And this is when I used to go clubbing every single week. I used to spend a lot of money going clubbing. I used to spend a lot of money just buying random shit. And eventually, it put me into a lot of credit card debt.
But for me, it was just something for me to look forward to. I didn't enjoy the grind at work. I still ground anyway, but I just didn't enjoy the grind. And for me, I just thought, well, my progress is more important. Whatever helps me pass time faster is by definition going to help me get to my goal faster.
So every week I would actually look forward to going out, go clubbing, go out for drinks, go to bars. At one point, I was drinking like five times a week and I was just spending a whole bunch of money. And there are times when I spend like $500,000 a night and I and a friend would go clubbing. We'd just buy drinks. We buy 50 drinks just to see the drinks line up just because ego.
And then after that, we'd go karaoke and spend a whole bunch of money on that room as well. Just like real shippers like that. And yeah, there were times I'd spend $500,000 and I'd wake up the next day and still feel empty.
And that's why you and I would still want to go out again. That was a rinse and repeat. And then I'd always look forward to buying material things just to make myself feel better. And also it gave me something to look forward to. I always wanted to buy something because I wanted to fill in that void.
And I realized that the more money I spent, the more of a void I had because I just put myself more into like, credit card debt. And then I just wasn't happy. I realized that I was just trying to put on a facade to the kind of mask where I am with my life. I wasn't happy where I am. I wasn't happy with my physique.
Today, I actually want to talk about accepting feedback, letting go of your ego, accepting feedback. And I just want to like, put some context. I had a previous life talking about saying it was my fault and how in certain scenarios, just acknowledge for the sake of it that it's your fault so that you can accept feedback and move forward.
And I listened to a podcast of GaryVee like a couple of days ago yesterday actually, and he actually had the same concept but worded it a little bit better. So I kind of want to update you guys and share that. I'll give credit where credit is due. Career talks about pointing thumbs instead of pointing fingers because when you spend your life pointing fingers and saying it's other people's fault, you're never going to grow.
So point thumbs because you're the only thing that you can actually control and have an impact. You have an influence on every single interaction ever. So look at yourself to see how you can improve rather than thinking about how the universe can improve for you. That's a sense of entitlement that actually blocks you from actually growing.
Today. I want to talk to you guys about the vision of reality. You guys know I'm part of my online mentoring course, and I'm part of level two, which we call yesterday morning in our session, which is why I'm super tired. We're talking about vision coming into reality.
And it was a really, really good session because before joining level two Mastermind, we had to record a video of ourselves, like a vision letter with write down on the letter, things that we're grateful for what our goals are, some of the challenges that we're experiencing and where we wanted to be.
And part of our morning is that we're supposed to watch that every single morning. Truth be told, I don't watch that every single morning. I still think about my goals every single day. I talk to hang about it every single day.
So I'm always envisioning my goal each and every single day. That's what helps me maintain that consistency.
In today's topic, I wanna share with you guys when I thought my car was stolen so not really clickbait. and share a quick story of what happens when you don't have enough sleep 1000% a true story.
When lack of sleep and putting your body into overdrive and just running on adrenaline for like weeks on end can really be detrimental to your mental health and your mental clarity.
Yeah, my brain was working on 50% capacity. I was just trying to do too much, but not in the right way as well. So my car wasn't stolen. I genuinely thought it was. And that was a big wake-up call that I needed to take a chill pill.
No, I don't need to take a chill pill. I don't need to take anything I shouldn't like, anything. I should just relax and sleep. And that's exactly how I feel today.
Today we're going to talk about the events that have transpired over the weekend. And I have been very passive about this topic for a very long time. I don't really like talking about politics. Our channel is not about politics.
We're about spreading positivity. And I feel like politics is just arguments. That's all it is. It's just two sides of the coin. And at the end of the day, people are just not going to be able to agree on it. So there's really no point.
We're trying to bring people closer to solutions, not to create more problems, but due to the events that have transpired over the weekend, I feel like these moments, my defining moments as a leader, the pathway that I've chosen, and I can't be negligent and I can't ignore what's happened.
And I feel like when I started out going on social media, I always thought social media was a place of influence, a place of impact where you may not have thought you had a voice, you may not think that people want to hear what you have to say, but it's a channel and a platform where you get to be social, where you get to reach out to a lot of people on the internet if you can't be there on a physical level.
So right now, that's what I wanted. I wanted to spread positivity. I wanted to create an impact. And my first YouTube video, I cried saying that I want to be able to create an impact. And this is my way of doing, doing it. I need to speak up about this.
We're going to talk about today When I failed as a coach. Not just when I failed as a coach, but when I actually realized what it meant to be a leader.
After six months working ain't that there was an opportunity for me to become a coach or not me, but a coaching opportunity came up, but it wasn't like an official coach. Like, that's your title. You're still on phone consultant, but you also have additional responsibilities to become a coach.
And I'm like, I put my hand up, and when I put my hand up for that, I felt like I should be in pole position. I'm like, I'm a superstar right now. I'm doing really well. And I felt like I was the most competent to teach at this point. Didn't understand what it meant to be a leader, and I was a terrible coach.
This is a time when I failed as a coach. I actually got bad feedback from other consultants. I was always trying to impose my ideology on them. Like, my method of doing I'm like, you have to do it like this. You have to do it like that. Because in my mind, I'm thinking, like, well, my way is the best, but because I've gotten the best results.
So my way is the best. But that's not what being a coach is about, because it's what works for me based on my traits, based on my abilities, based on what I'm efficient and what I'm good at. But being a coach is about bringing the best in other people, not making them do what you wanted to do.
And when I was a coach, I was so obsessed with having this role that even when I was on the phone, I didn't perform as well on the phone. I started to hate my job. I started to hate being on the phone because all I wanted to do was teach other people to coach because I felt a sense of authority, I felt a sense of power. I wanted to be one step above other people. As I said, I always had this complex of wanting to be better than other people.
I want to talk about today was the feeling of being a fraud. And I want to tell you guys this right now, every single online coach has felt like this, not just online coach, but any profession. When you're trying to achieve the world and actually achieve greatness, you are going to take steps and strides that may be a little bit more than you can chew, more than you think that you can actually achieve.
And one of the examples, before I get into how it's applicable to my online coaching, was when I worked in the corporate environment and I had no qualification, no degree. I'm just a young gun that's just trying to grind and climb the corporate ladder. And I was a customer service representative. I became a senior. And that's pretty much the extent to which I thought I was capable.
And I always wanted to be a business analyst because I felt like being a business analyst wasn't extremely difficult. As long as I'm involved in the business, I know the ins and outs I can eventually climb there.
I never in my mind even considered a project manager role because I just didn't think I qualified for it at all. So for me, it was just like outside the realm of possibility. And one of the things I did was because I wanted the business analyst role. I want to try to get ahead of the pack.
So what I did was I went to the head of that Department and say, hey, I actually want to spend an hour or two out of my week in your Department just to learn. I'll do it for free out of my own time. And I want to do that because I know there are no positions at the moment, but when the position opens up, I want to be in pole positions.
Today we're talking about Practising affirmations is BS, Telling you right now, I now realize before I actually understood the concept of affirmations that I had actually practiced affirmations before I understood it. And this was episode one of the Blueprint. I affirmed my success. I affirmed my definition of success. S was being happy with where I am and where I'm going to be. Success wasn't a destination and I confirmed that I am going to make a Mark in the fitness industry.
I affirmed that I am going to get out of the nine to five life. I did that by making that video, my first YouTube video. And all I did was go out to realize it. So when we talk about affirmations, another way of framing that was what a concept that I created, which is visualized vocalize.
Realize you visualize your goal, figure out where it is that you want to be in terms of your goal vocalize. It is that process of vocalization. That is the affirmation. And the next step is just to go out and do it that simply.
Honestly, it is that simple. I want to tell you guys this right now. After you affirm your success, are you going to achieve it? You have to accept that there is a chance that you may not achieve what you affirm.
But does it matter if you end up being the best version of yourself anyway? What's the point of complaining about the things that you can't control your actual capacity? Or it might be on a genetic or on a lucky you cannot change that. What is the point of fussing about it?
But what you can change is your capacity to actually commit to yourself and your ability to be the best version of yourself.
Today's talk is going to be a little bit more on the abstract side. Okay? So I want you guys to bear with me here. And there is going to be a moral of the story. So what I want to talk about today was why I got so obsessed with videography and photography.
I've always been kind of into photography. I enjoyed taking photos. And my first I did photography in the 11th. So I started to learn the basic fundamentals of photography. Things like leading line contrast, the rule of thirds, all those basic things.
But I've always been really interested in taking photos. Why? Because I feel like when you take photos or record videos, you're able to capture that essence in time and in life. We often have these experiences that we may want to relive. We want to re-experience.
Over time, I started to develop this obsession with videography. And I feel like a successful videographer can not only capture the event in time, but the actual emotion and that essence so that you can actually experience it on a newer level, on a new height.
So you know how when you watch, like, movies, things just look better in movies than they do in real life. So that's just taking that videography or cinematography to the absolute next level where there's an art to it, obviously, I think you guys know that, but it's just not as simple as just pulling out a camera and recording it by being able to compose the photo or compose the video.
So you can capture as much information as possible. And I figured over time I realized that I came to this obsession because our memories aren't real. We can't relive those memories. And over time, our memories fade. And we actually remember past events incorrectly.
We replace ourselves in our bodies all the time. And every seven years or so, the cells in your body are completely new. So even including your brain cells. And so over time, you don't actually remember the memory. You just remember that you remember the memory.
Today we're talking about being afraid to dream. Perhaps Don't be afraid to dream. And sometimes we think that we are confident in ourselves and we do believe in ourselves. But I bet no one wants to go out broadcast to the world what the ultimate end goal is.
We just don't do that. It is because they are afraid to fail. They are afraid of dreaming because that's how society has commissioned us. When you go out and say that you want to go out and start a business, people will look down on you straight away.
They look down and you doubt. So over time, when all you know is the people around you and they're all giving you doubt, you start to feel that and you start to change your goals based on your efforts and based on the perception of people around you. So you need to believe in yourself before anyone else can believe in you. And how do you start believing yourself? By fucking working. I'm serious. By freaking working.
Today we're going to talk about never missing a day. And I think people think that when they start their journey, it's eventually going to get easier. It's hard at the start. But you know what? It's easy at the start. It's new, it's fresh, it's exciting. You're motivated.
I really don't like the word motivation at all. But I want to use that word way because that's what most people refer to, that emotion or that drive to actually want to be better for themselves. And yeah, motivation is not a real thing. It is a real thing, but it's not really enough to get you to the end of the line. It's just a little nudge. It's just to get you started. And when you have that initial motivation at the start, everything is easy.
And the first thing that they teach us on level two is never miss a day. Make sure you lock down your morning routine and don't miss a single day. And why? Because if you miss it one day, you're going to miss it every day. You're setting yourself a precedent. That it's. Okay.
Do you think the scenario, the circumstances answer that you're dealing with today is different every other day? Well, you're right. But every scenario is different. So once you miss a day, you're going to set yourself a standard. That's okay.
And even if you show up and you're not 100% still freaking show up every freaking day. Even to your training session, your cardio session, getting your steps in, showing up on your lives, producing content for your work. Show up every single day.
Today we are talking about self-acceptance. I think deep down we all need to learn how to accept ourselves and sometimes it's not the easiest thing to do. It's not easy to admit our flaws. It's not easy to acknowledge that we have areas that we need to improve.
Unless we learn how to accept ourselves for who we truly are, we can't make an objective decision on what we need to improve on. Because in life, when things don't go our way and we don't get the outcome that we want, it's very easy for us to just blame the circumstances around us.
It's easy for us to blame those around us. It's easy for us to blame others with any altercation that you have any argument, any dispute, any disagreement. We'd like to think that we're the protagonist in our story. And I've mentioned this before and I think it's because growing up we've always watched movies and read books. In the eyes of protagonists, we've vicariously lived our lives through them. So we would like to think that we are right.
We would like to think that we are the hero of our story. But then that's only our story, only our perspective. It's very hard for you to look at the objective truth. You've only ever seen things from your perspective and your perspective is always going to be skewed. Your perception of reality is not even real. Everyone perceives reality differently.
Today I want to talk to you guys about voices in my head. Anyone's head. And everyone has voices in the head. It's called your thoughts. It's called your conscious mind. And the reason why we have thoughts is what differentiates us to animals.
We have the ability to process our subconscious of stores. So our mind works in two levels. We have our subconscious mind, which is impulsive. We feel the way we feel based on. Through thousands of years of evolution.
So that's things like feeling anxious, feeling hungry, feeling sad, or on our subconscious mind. We feel this way because of certain patterns that we've been able to recognize. And our conscious mind will then process those thoughts and then feed us some signal.
Sometimes they just naturally sieve away and you start to attract more people who are like you. That's just the way things are. And if they are important to you, then, of course, then you have to fight to maintain that. But at the end of the day, you can't cling to the past as much as you want to, because the past is something that is forever moving away.
The more you think about the past, the further and further away from it actually gets from you. So you're constantly living in the past. We talked about this. You compare yourself to a previous version of yourself. That's why you're not going to grow. So you have to keep thinking about the future and you have control of your future. So this is going to tie into me.
Reflection after everything hit the fan, I spent the year 11-12 by myself. Pretty much just those two or three friends. And I'm happy. Still, I'm happy with the way things did turn out, the way they did. It taught me character. It taught me compassion. All the disadvantages that I've had with acne, eczema, my ear infection I've had for ten years.
Being overweight having ADHD, that for me, built character. It taught me to try to see things from other people's points of view because no one knew that I had ADHD. But then I also don't know what other people have. And especially with these mental conditions, it's so hard to diagnose because some people just don't qualify for help. You just don't know.
I just didn't even know I had it just had these tendencies I didn't understand. These impulsive tendencies I didn't understand. And now that I know, I'm just thinking. It just opens my mind so much more. And I realize everyone has their stories.
So today I want to talk to you guys about self-reflection. So how did I come up with all these life philosophies and ideas? It's because I spent a lot of time reflecting on myself.
What we're talking about today is falling off track because we've had a few people kind of fall off track. Like, I'm being transparent as an online coach, you're never going to get 100% adherence, even if you have the perfect program. It's also the reason why that I come up with these lives and give you guys free. You value each and every single day.
Even if I can give you all the tools in the world, you may not have that glue that gets you to stay committed to yourself. And I think a lot of us have been in that position before. Let me paint the picture for you. Sometimes it feels like you're living your life in autopilot.
You're living your life in third person almost. And it's an out of body experience. And you have this intention to get off the couch, go to the gym. You're telling yourself, all right, you should go to the gym. You said that you'd start today. Your body just continues to eat the packet of chips right in front of the couch. And then you pull out another tub of ice cream and you start eating it. And you're telling yourself, yeah, you know what? I should stop.
You should stop doing this. You can't be eating like this. You stop and you're telling yourself while watching yourself do it, like you have no sense of control, like an out of body experience. And it happens. It happens to a lot of us because we don't know how to process these thoughts and emotions, these subconscious impulses. And at the end of the day, we have this innate ability to always want to be comfortable, and we need to figure out a way to work around it. And to be honest, the fitness journey is hard. The fitness journey isn't easy.
It's never supposed to be easy. It's always supposed to be uncomfortable. And maybe when we're motivated, when we have a clear, unobstructed pathway to our success or our goals, we're motivated because it's clear and that we know exactly what we need to do. Like what I said on Friday, the clear road to success. That's the exception. The challenges along the way, that's the expectation. So you should learn to accept and expect these challenges and learn to work around them rather than working really hard, being super motivated at the start. And then the first timeline of a challenge that you get, you kind of just completely fall off track and you go like invisible.
In today's episode, my topic is about Lockdown again, The difference here with lockdown is you guys have more time. Lockdown. You need to see these challenges as opportunities. What does lockdown mean? You guys are either working from home, which means you save time in transit. Now some of you guys say that you don't have time to commit to your fitness, but now you have an extra 2 hours.
But then you still don't want to commit to your fitness. Like, when do you think the conditions are ever going to be ideal? When do you think that the conditions are going to be ideal? That's a little bit different. You've actually got a gym at home so you have a contingency plan.
That's what I want to get to as well. You guys need a contingency plan. You cannot put your success in pot luck hoping that the conditions around you are going to be ideal because seldom are they going to be ideal. You need to figure out a way to work around all your challenges.
It really comes down to how much do you want it? Honestly, how much do you want it? Last year when we face locked down and I committed to making my YouTube series, I think 90% of people would have just given up as well. But we're like, no, we're going to work around this. This forms our success story.
The harder the tougher the challenge, the more proud you're going to wear that armor at the end of it when you're able to achieve what you can. And life, as I said, is never the conditions are never going to be ideal. This time, the global climate is covered. What about actual, real climate change? We don't know what the whole situation of the world is going to be in the next couple of years and you can't just keep putting your life on pause until you feel like there's a clear road.
Today I want to talk to you guys about alcoholic antics. That was my journey and experiences back in the day. And just to let you guys know that things weren't always like this. I want to share with you a story of when I got too drunk.
It goes to show how immature I was and I was really just a kid. It didn't matter how well I was doing at work, I was still, in their eyes, seen as a kid because of the poor decisions. And that's one of the reasons why I want to share with you guys my drunk alcoholic stories. I have plenty of these and it just really goes to show how immature I was during the time when I thought I actually had everything figured out.
To be honest, my whole life I thought I had everything figured out. And I think it also had to do with I made a post on Instagram recently about this, but it had to do with the fact that I grew up really alone. Even though I was around a lot of people because of how I saw things, because I had undiagnosed ADHD, I was always different to everyone else.
Even with my family, I was always the youngest at school. I was always isolated, made to be felt different because of how disruptive I was, my inability to concentrate, my inability to focus and engage other people properly in proper conversations.
Because of that, I've always had to try to learn everything myself self. And when I try to learn everything myself, you stop relying on people. And I start to develop this sense of stubbornness that I don't want to listen to other people because I find it hard to because I just don't relate to them at all.
Today we are talking about dealing with stress and overwhelm. I've got some stories to tell you actually I have learned to really enjoy being stressed and overwhelmed. I used to reject that feeling. Same thing with every other emotion.
And as humans, we feel these emotions as a survival trait. As living organisms, we evolve and we develop mechanisms that allow us to survive. So you have to think on a fundamental level, why would our ancestors feel stressed and overwhelmed? What purpose do these emotions have for us to help survive?
Okay, so think about our ancestors. Why would we have felt anxious? Why would we feel stressed? And when we feel anxious and stressed we produce Cortisol which is a stress hormone. Why? Because when our ancestors would have been trying to find resources, trying to find food, Hunt for food, we might go through hours or days where we're not able to find food.
And then we start to feel anxious. Because it's our way of subconsciously being able to identify patterns to help us to survive. So we start to feel anxious, we start to feel stressed. Our body starts to store whatever resources that we have because it anticipates that we may not have or we may not be able to find resources.
So if our ancestors were hunting and they weren't able to find any resources for a couple of hours, a couple of days, you start to feel stressed. Okay, now your body has these signals that it's feeling stressed, going to hold on to whatever resources it has to help you survive.
And so when knowing that it really depends on how we process these emotions. You're never wrong to feel these emotions, you're never wrong to feel stressed and overwhelmed. It's how you process on a conscious level.
In today's episode, I'm going to talk about what Being Crippled taught me, I'm grateful for everything that I have right now. And when one little thing gets taken away, I'm still grateful for the 99% of the things that I have at the moment. So that's what being crippled taught me, that this is always going to happen. So I think this is the last injury I'm never going to face is absolutely not. Absolutely not.
If I plan to be an online coach for the rest of my life, I'm going to experience more and more injuries. I'm going to get older. My body is not going to recover the same way it does when I'm young and these things will happen.
I want to share a quick story. When I was in nine years old, the year 2008, I broke my ankle, and guess how I did it. I ran and I just tripped over. There was no rock, there was nothing. I just ran and I just slip and I just broke my ankle just like that. That's how quickly the things that you hold so the value, but you don't hold, you don't have gratitude for can be taken away.
Thinking about how many lives each year are taken away by road accidents. Think about all the things that can happen to you that you just don't expect. You slip on a soap in the shower. It sounds stupid, but people have died from that before.
The point is, the things that you hold so the value can be taken away so quickly. So make sure that you show your gratitude. You show how grateful you are for these things that you have in your life.
Let's get into today's topic. And we are going to be talking about when I first started training, I actually hated cardio. I actually, really, really hated cardio for the longest time. And it wasn't even just cardio for the purpose of losing weight. It was just any physical activity. I really didn't like it.
Growing up, I had asthma. So I want to share some stories of my asthma episodes.
I think there was some rationale behind that. I figured that I just wasn't in the right mindset to commit to myself, and I just needed some time to kind of like, in life, there's no pause, but that, for me, was my life's pause. And at that time, time, it's not the right thing to do.
But in hindsight, I'm glad that I hit rock bottom multiple times. After every time I hit rock bottom, I'm like, can't be any worse. Yes, it can. I hit rock bottom. I'm like, can't be any worse. Yes, it can. It does. And when I was like a bum, I didn't think that was an issue, because, in my mind, I still thought I had potential. I'm like, I can do sales. I can always do something with sales. I have these skills, these little things that I collected over time, and I can piece them together to get a better job. But I just didn't do anything. I didn't make any changes in my life.
But during that time was a lot of self-reflection, election time. And I knew that the next time I start something, I'm going to put 100% into it.
So today that's just going to be sharing a story about when I got fired three times in a row. And this was probably what led me to become a bump. So that was my career change. I went from someone who was employed at different jobs and someone that was a full time bump. So let's start off.
Today we're going to be talking about the meaning of life. Now, some of you are going to be asking, what does this guy know about the meaning of life? Well, where I come from, I have found my sense of purpose in life. I find that my life has meaning.
So I want to share with you my perspective on it and you're free. So have your own perspective. I'm not saying that this is the be-all-end-all. But this is up to your interpretation, and hope you enjoy it and you take something out of this. And I really, honestly hope that this is going to shift your mindset and your perspective because look, you figured it out once I tell you.
When you set yourself a habit, a thinking process, and a pattern of actually procrastinating and putting things off because you're not ready, you're never going to be ready because, in life, you can never be 100% well equipped for the next chapter of your life.
Life is always about treating the unknown. Going to unknown territory. Going to venture into new heights. Life isn't about being comfortable. Life is not about trying to chase that point. That makes you feel comfortable. And then you can kind of like cruise and chill.
Today I am going to talk about, you're never going to be ready. So let's talk about this when you want to start your maybe your fitness journey or your career or whatever it is.
Let's get into today's topic. I want to try to keep this short and sweet because, to be honest, I'm actually in a lot of pain right now. Sitting down actually hurts. It extends like any rounding on my back. When you sit down, it does cause me some discomfort.
So actually, I am going to pull up a message that Liz Linden, who is our strength and conditioning coach, sent me yesterday, so I want to read that out. Okay. So I want to explain to you what's happened first. So yesterday actually happened a while ago. Nine days ago. I deadlifted.
So let me give you guys some context, okay? I got to not jump the gun. Here is some context for actually, the last month, my training has been kind of like. So it's because I'm supposed to be in my off-season at the moment, but I am carrying a little bit more body fat than I'd want to carry because of a hostile rebound.
And for me to actually fully 100% commit to off-season, I got to be eating more calories, but it's just very hard because right now, I'm at the fringe of what I consider to be acceptable for an online fitness coach because I honestly believe that if anyone were to be an online fitness coach, you need to be in shape around.
The reason is you need to have the knowledge that allows you to stay a day and shape yourself around. And you need to discipline. You need both to be a successful online coach.
Today, we're going to be talking about dealing with doubt. So on any given journey, the reason why I think this topic is so valid right now and so relevant is we've had a lot of people join our program,
and I want to tell you an example of one of my client's name is David. He recently joined, and I could tell he has a lot of intent and motive to actually achieve greatness. And that's exactly why he signed on to the program. He was super motivated as soon as he signed on, and he wanted to make a really big difference in the first couple of weeks.
And one of the first things that we actually tell all our new clients to do is to actually make an introduction post. And because you're joining a community, you need to meet other people within the community and put yourself out there to kind of break that ice. So you're going to see the names flying around.
And when you actually finally get to meet someone or your little bit about them, you kind of feel like you know them a little bit more, as opposed to just a name that you've never interacted with. So we always get our clients to introduce themselves and also tell the group why they wanted to join the program. It's actually really interesting, because when I told him to do that, he said, no, not happening.
And he just completely dismissed. It is like, no, not happening. I'm like it's just an introduction post. It's not going to take that much more of your time. And he said I'm just a guy that just wants to put in the work. I just want to work in Jonathan's program. I just want to work. And then we had this 30 minutes conversation and I told him, this is exactly why you're not going to achieve success, even though you think it's menial, you think it's, like, so small, it's because maybe you doubt yourself. Maybe you doubt your ability to actually achieve that result, because if you are 100% certain that you are going to get fit, for example, why wouldn't you want to vocalize that?
Maybe it's because on a subconscious level, you're doubting yourself whether you think you can do it and you think it's cheesy. You think it's lame saying, oh, hey, guys, I'm out here trying to achieve this goal, and you don't think that you can get it. But if you know, deep down that you can get it, why wouldn't you, if you knew 100% certainty within your bones that you had the capacity and you could, why wouldn't you? That's the real question. So the first thing when we talk about dealing with doubt, there are two parts to it. It's internal doubt and external and or doubt.
Today, we're going to talk about why talent is only going to give you a head start. And just to give you a bit of background, I would be. I would consider myself a talented kid. I was a kid with a lot of talent. I was very witty. I learned very quickly. Now I'm not saying this from a place of arrogance. I'm going to tell you where I fall short and I fall shorter than everyone else.
So even though I had a lot of potentials, I was very smart. I learned very quickly. I'm very lazy by nature. I've shared with you a little bit about myself in high school. I'd always handed my assignments late. I'd leave it to the last minute, and I'd even write, like, permission slips to exempt myself from handing in my assignments. I've got caught a few times. I used to just skip school just to stay home, play games. I would always procrastinate on everything I did if I had a month to do an assignment.
I'd always do it in just the last week. I like to put myself under that pressure. And even though it wasn't enough time for me to do it, the fact that I had a limited amount of time, I was under that pressure. Otherwise, I'd fail. That's when I worked the hardest. So I always that got to my head. I became overconfident thinking that I don't need a whole month to do what to do. I just need to spend, like, a week doing it. And that's where I fall short.
Today, I want to talk about when I hated public speaking. The reason I want to talk about this for those of you that know, the lives that I talk about are usually the issues that I deal with throughout the week with my clients. And I feel like I should share this with you, give you guys some quick, free Golden Nuggets. And this is a topic that's is really sort out after I've actually had about four people this week, ask me about public speaking and how they can actually improve their public speaking presence.
So I want to give you guys a quick golden nugget and also share with you guys a story of how I was never good at public speaking. And just as a proof to you guys that every skill is learnable, it doesn't matter where you are today. As long as you're striving to be better today than you were yesterday, you're eventually going to get somewhere.
You're going to see that as a pattern across the team Championship because I was not born of any of my skills. All my skills were actually something that developed over time in our primary school. I was actually very bad at English. I had teachers pull up my parents saying that he's not learning English at a fast enough rate. He's not making any sense. He doesn't understand. He's very disruptive, very hyperactive.
That's also because I had ADHD as well. But the point was that's the conditions that always dealt and it's important to not let us define us what we go through, but how we make the most of that.
So throughout my primary school and high school life, I actually hated oral presentations. Okay, oral presentation. When you go out, you have to present a piece of information. It might be what you researched when you did like a project. For example, I always hated it. I really struggled with self confidence, struggle
d with being able to present myself, struggled with being able to articulate myself clearly because English was really bad for me. English wasn't my second language, but it was almost because my family was Vietnamese and would only speak Vietnamese at home.
So for the first six years of my life, all I spoke was like Vietnamese, and it wasn't until the grade prep that I started to speak English, so I was really behind the ball on that. I don't think later down the line had any impact because I just learned English, Sam's, everyone, but I wasn't able to articulate myself myself the way I do right now. I really didn't have any confidence.
When I was stepping up to go up in the classroom and present, I'd always just have cue cards. Cue cards are supposed to be cue cards to queue you to speak about certain topics.
Today. Guys, I want to get into this. I want to share with you guys a story of when I got mugged and I want to talk to you guys about bad Karma. And before I get into this, I've never been a spiritual person. I never believed in the universe and what you put in putting out that's for me. I was always like, the guy that likes to and take shortcuts.
Always thought I had everything figured out. I thought I'd know all the loopholes, all the systems, and I could cheat the system and do whatever I want to get around it. And to be honest, that was just me not accepting the consequences of my actions. And some examples would be like, in high school, I'd always handed my work late.
I'd always fake my permission slips, exempt myself from handing in things late. I'm like, I've got things figured out. I used to skip school, not even to hang out with anyone. I didn't have any friends. I just stayed at home playing games. I just wrote myself a permission slip, so I always try to cheat the system. Okay? And I'd always get away with it.
And I realized no system is actually perfect. You can always get away with every single system. That's exactly what I did. And it was me without integrity. And I can acknowledge that because I've learned how to develop and grow from that and mature from that. But that's the type of person that I was. And a lot of bad things always happen to me.
And I always consider myself someone that was unlucky. I thought that maybe it's just not in my cars to be lucky. I'd always see people succeed. People, for example, win the lottery.
So what I do, I always try to buy the lottery. I'd gamble. I wouldn't gamble, gamble. I play like poker, trying to make money. I always thought to myself, Well, maybe I have some contribution to the result.
And for me, I was just playing that because I was trying to again, trying to cheat the system. I was going out partying every single weekend. I'm like, Well, if I can make that money back. Well, amazing.
So it's a combination of bank had decisions. But I want to tell you one specific story about when I got mugged. And this was three years ago.
Today, we are talking about why the comparison is killing in progress. Now, I think you guys might have heard this before. Now, I think you guys might have heard this before. People have said different variations of this, how you shouldn't compare yourself to others.
But I want to give you my spin on it and talk a little bit in detail about why the comparison is actually killing your progress. So I was going to give it another minute for everyone else to join. But like I said, in the meantime, share with us your biggest win.
What would my biggest win be? My biggest win would be this week will be my fourth week in a row where I've gone live each and every single morning, every week. That's going to be my win. So I'm continuing my shriek. All right, let's get into this.
Comparison is killing your progress. Now, let's talk about this. Why is comparison killing your progress? First off, we need to have a look at and think about what are we comparing it to? So there are two things you compare to other people. And why is comparing to other people killing your progress? Because it doesn't matter where you are in your life.
You can't compare yourself to someone else because they've gone through a different upbringing. They've had different influences. They have different genetics, different varying levels of luck, varying levels of financial circumstance, varying levels of education.
So you can't compete if you are unique.
Today, we are going to be talking about making your morning routine now. I've actually covered this in a previous life already, but I'm going to cover it in a little bit more detail this time around because we actually have made some improvements to our morning routine.
I want to talk to you guys about the morning routine, as always, share with me one of your biggest wins reiterate that sharing your wins is so important because it doesn't matter what journey you're on, whether it be your life or your fitness journey. Sharing your wins is key to actually being able to achieve your goals because it reminds you of what you've been able to accomplish because, on our quest for perfection, we often overlook what we've been able to accomplish.
And over time, we end up going on this path of just being ultra-critical of ourselves, and we don't think we've done enough. We don't think we've accomplished enough. We don't think we've actually achieved enough by being able to remind ourselves what our accomplishments are is key to actually being able to move forward.
Speaking of morning, I'm a little bit late today on Today's Live because of our morning routine. We've actually made a lot of improvements to our morning routine, and so should you. When you start building your morning routine, first off, you need to understand the purpose, which is what we're going to be going through in a minute.
But once you actually start building your morning routine, you'll be able to make adjustments to that over time to actually fit you and fit your lifestyle based on how you operate in a day. But basically, I'm going to give you a brief rundown on why you need your morning routine. How you start your day determines how the rest of your day is going to go.
Let's talk about today a bit of a story. When I started my fitness journey, I'd say for the first five years, I was trying to get shredded, trying to chase that six-pack ABS. And I was trying to lose fat because I've been overweight my whole life.
So how did I get overweight my whole life when she give you guys a bit of a story in Grave prep from Go prep to, like, grade one, grade two, my mom would give me lunch orders every day. I think the guys in Australia will know what lunch order is. It's when you have this paper bag, parents put money in and you right at the front what you want for lunch.
And then that gets sent to your canteen or the cafeteria. And then at lunchtime, they'll bring in like, this big basket and all the food in there to get lunch order. So my mum would give me lasagna every single day when I was a kid. And that really contributed to me getting fat. And at home, when I'd be eating my family, you normally eat like one bowl of rice and some mine. I'd always eat like two or three balls. My parents would always force me to eat more food. And that's pretty much why I became so fat.
So for the first five years of my training, I just wanted to try to get lead and try to drop down that fat as much as I can. And I tried everything at the start. The consensus back then was to eat five times a day to boost your metabolism because the more times you eat, the more times your body is going to break down that food.
So I tried eating five times a day that didn't do anything. They just made me fatter because I was eating more often. I tried eating clean food, so I was eating street potato and chicken. Yeah, that works for what, maybe one or two months. And then I stopped losing weight and I didn't know what to do. I thought those foods were magic types of foods that would give me weight loss. And over time, I just got stuck.
And I was sick of eating that food and ended up binging afterward because I haven't had pizza and chips in so long. I remember that's the thing I craved the most was fried chips, couldn't eat those types of things not sustainable. And then fast forward a couple of years of doing absolutely nothing productive with my training. I would then try to do keto. This is when keto was first becoming a fad. Back in 2011. I was doing a lot of research and everything.
The studies were saying ABC is really good for ABC. I'm like, okay, all right. I'll give it a go. So I tried keto for a couple of months and I lost, I think, eight kilos, eight to ten kilos in two months. I thought that was really impressive. And then my brother, he's actually a doctor who was actually studying to be a doctor in Queensland.
At that time, he'll come back to visit us every couple of months. And then when he came to visit, he said, I lost weight. And in my mind, I'm like, wow, that's amazing. And he'll just say, you look sick. I'm like, Well, that wasn't really the intention I wanted, but I didn't see it that way. In my mind, I've lost weight. It's working on the right track, and I wouldn't lose any weight after two months.
Today, we're going to be talking about making time, not finding time. Okay. So I've been through it. Sometimes it feels like you don't have enough time in the day. And there's so many things that you want to do, and it just never seems to be enough time. This might be relevant for if you're studying and you feel feel like you don't have enough time to finish all your work and your studies. Maybe at work, it feels like you have a thousand emails to respond to.
When I was working corporate, I used to send 150 to 200 emails each and every single day. So I know what it feels like to feel like you don't have enough time and then try to balance your lifestyle with training, with fitness, trying to balance that with work. Sometimes you feel like you don't have enough time right after work. You're so tired and you don't have enough time in the day to actually make it and show up to the gym.
But I want to tell you this right now. It's a matter of making time, not finding time. If it's important to you, you need to make time for the things that are important. And if you're not being Proactive about your time management, time, prioritization and planning, and we're only making split decisions at that time, spontaneous split decisions.
You're always going to prioritize one thing over another. So let's say in your day, you haven't actually planned out or scheduled a set time for you to actually go to the gym. And after work, you're feeling tired. You're not justifying your mind. I had a long day at work. I need to rest up so I can actually wake up early for work. I need to eat dinner. I need to do all these things.
These are all the things I need to do. How long that work? I need my time to unwind. So you start prioritizing other things over what's actually important to you. What's actually going to get you to your goals.
We're going to be talking about. Are you afraid to fail now? Embark on any journey. It is overwhelming, and sometimes we doubt ourselves? It is scary. It is overwhelming, and sometimes we doubt ourselves without ourselves in our mind, whether we think we can do it or not. And that self doubt comes from our ability to identify patterns. Maybe we we've disappointed ourselves in the past before. Maybe we've embarked on a journey.
We gave it a good go. We really tried, but the results didn't turn out the way we had expected, and we didn't get the results or you might fall off track or we lost momentum. Maybe we didn't have the toolset that allowed us to achieve the results that we wanted. Maybe we didn't have the mindset. Maybe it's a combination of both. It doesn't matter. Maybe we've just disappointed ourselves in the past and we haven't been able to get the results that we had wanted. And because we've seen that pattern in the past, we don't even bother trying anymore.
And over time that conditions us to be afraid to fail. We start to choose the safe option, things that are safe, and we don't have to put ourselves out there. We don't have to be uncomfortable. And a really good example of a safe option is having a nine to five job.
Some of you guys don't like your nine to five job. You hate it, and what do you do in turn? You try to ride it out the week just so you can go out and party and binge on the weekend to kind of forget it and you go into this loop. It's not. The conditions aren't ideal, really enjoy where you are, but it's the lesser evil. It's the best that you've got, and you don't want to try to go for a new role, for example, because you're afraid that you might get it. You don't want to set yourself up for disappointment again because putting yourself out there, you're afraid to be ridiculed. You're afraid that people might make remarks and comments about you trying.
I think that's what I learned in high school. I was taught to not try in high school. I was taught to try hard for trying. You were insulted and ridiculed and bullied for trying. That's what you learn in high school, and sometimes we carry over the mentality that we've conditioned ourselves to have since high school and know for me how I think now is very heavily related to how I thought in high school.
Today, I want to talk about something that's really close time. I've been thinking about this one, actually, for the last couple of days, and I really want to share this story with you guys. But today I'm questioning whether your actions actually reflect your vision.
Vision is so important. You guys don't have vision, and you don't have a sense of direction in terms of where you want to go. And I would actually say vision is actually the key to happiness because it's you looking forward to tomorrow, these checkpoints, these milestones in your life that you look forward to.
Now, if I were to say that your job right now Now, if I were to say that your job right now that you're going to do the exact same thing for the rest of your life, no promotion, no pay rise, absolutely nothing. Would you stay in it? Of course you wouldn't. And how depressing would that be knowing that you're capped you're doing the exact same thing?
So it really begs the question, are you actually happy within your current role, or is that just a stepping stone for you to actually get somewhere else? You need to actually think about these things now and not leave it down the line. Whenever I started my job, any job that I started day one in the interview, I automatically thought to myself, Where can I go from here? Having an idea of where you're going sets you on the right path. And even if you don't go according to plan, vision is like a Compass. It's your personal Compass that guides you in whatever direction that you need to go.
Otherwise, you're going to get stuck. If you do a maze and you don't think like two steps ahead and you're just guessing where the next turns are, of course you're going you to dead end. But if you try to see at least two steps ahead, it plans you like a set path that allows you to understand where you're going. So you're not going to feel like you're stuck. And because you always have that goal to look forward to, that's exciting.
Today we're talking about when is the best time to start? It doesn't matter what it is because how we do one thing is how we do everything and how you approach one journey. Chances are you're going to approach the other journey in a very similar fashion. That's a high probability. Ok, now when is the best time to start and I'm going to be straight up. This is honest. It was yesterday. It was the day before. It was three years ago. It's already passed.
Most of us have a procrastination mentality where we push back the deadline of when we need to do things. We get into the mindset. That is because it's not crucial or crucial to our survival right now. We can always do it later. A
s humans, we want to get away with whatever we can get away with. If you can postpone your fitness journey for another week just so you can indulge for another week in the foods that you want, you're going to do that. And even if you've mentally committed to starting next week, I want you guys to tell me right now in the comments, how many times have you told yourself? I'll start Monday. I'll start tomorrow. Guess what? Today is Monday. Mondays come due. Today is the time for you to start because that's what you promised yourself last week.
Actually, that's actually what you promised yourself last week, like three years ago. And that's kind of just replayed each and every single week. I'll start next week. I'll start next week. I'll start next week. I'll start next week. Never works. It never does, because it's a thought process. Next week is always relative. It's always relative to today.
So when you're uncomfortable today, when in doubt, just start next week, just start next week. What's the difference between Monday and every other week? But when you come in with the mentality that I don't need to do this now to need to take action now, I can just move this to next week and I can just start next week. You're always going to do that. It's a thought process that's going to allow you to procrastinate each and every single time.
Today, I want to talk about how I didn't actually want to show up today. So in whatever our journeys are, it doesn't matter what it is, whether it's a fitness or business. There's going to be a time where you don't feel like showing up. When you first start your journey, you're going to be really motivated. You have this momentum. It doesn't matter what it is is I'm going to talk about two scenarios, and I want to show you how both of these scenarios are hand in hand. And I've said it before in previous episodes. How you do one thing is how you do everything.So let's talk about fitness. Sometimes at the start of the journey, we're going to feel really passionate and motivated about our journey. We say that we want to go hard. We felt so sick of the way we've been, our habits that have finally built up. The consequences of our actions have finally come, and it's due. And all our lifestyle decisions over the last couple of months or a couple of years have led us to where we are today to a point where we're so disappointed. Whatever adjectives you want to use by yourself, these are the adjectives that I use to myself. When I was really out of shape, I was disappointed. I was disgusted. I was ashamed that despite all my knowledge and my experience, my decisions have led me to where I was today. And I've felt that way for a long time. A lot of our peaks and troughs. A lot of our peaks and troughs. And every single time that I felt that way, I'd be extra committed to getting into my fitness journey. I would say yes.
I'm going to show up to the gym every single day for three months, eat chicken and Brown rice and do everything I need to do to be on track. For my fitness journey. To get me back on track, three months should be enough time for me to lose 15 kilos. And then what happens after maybe one or two weeks? You're super motivated. You have this momentum, you speed up a routine and then you think, look, I've trained two weeks in a row now, taking one day off shouldn't hurt. I've trained for 14 days. Eating right.
One day off shouldn't hurt. Holistically speaking. It's only one out of 14. It should be okay. Then you end up taking that one day off and then you set yourself a habit. Remember what we just said. However you do things, it's a thinking process. The thinking habit. How you do one thing is how you do everything. So when you take that one day off, you've set a precedent that it's okay to take a day off when you feel like an ad hoc day.
Today, we are going to be talking about one of the investments that you can make. Now, I'm just going to give it another minute for everyone else to join. Meanwhile, if you guys are just dropping in drops of fire, as always, let me know how your day is going, let me know, and share with us what your biggest wins are of our biggest wins is the Apparel apparel line is where we've got some traction. We're moving forward with that. We're getting another sample for our jobs, which is going to be coming very shortly.
I think we've got the material unlocked. We just need to wait for it to come through, just to cross-examiner to make sure everything is 100% before we put in the order hoodies in the process of being done as well and just finalized logo for the hoodies socks. I think we're putting through the order for that one. The Tags are coming through, and as soon as the tags come through, we've got a whole marketing campaign to launch it, so hang out running with that one. So I'm actually really excited to see how the whole marketing campaign comes together for this apparel line.
And I was actually just thinking, like, actually ties in today's topic about one of the best investments. So one of the best investments, ones that's going to last you all global climates, all economical situations is yourself. The best investment is in an asset that's going to generate you more income. And that asset is yourself. You need to invest in yourself right now. We're living in a world where everyone's investing in crypto stocks and shares and managed funds.
So everyone wants to obviously generate more money for the money that they have. And that's exactly what we're doing with Chief Championship, and that's why we started the apparel line as well. It was just being given the opportunity of being able to create something, be able to create a business where we don't have to think about capital because we're generating capital through the coaching. And that's just a way for us to reinvest the money and be more like, just create something right?
Create something that felt like it was ours. Create something that if money wasn't a factor or limitation, what would we create? And that's what the Achieve apparel line would be. So we actually should be excited about that. But that only started off because we started investing in ourselves. We invested in the most important, important, and most valuable asset ever. And that is ourselves. Even the most successful people say they wish they'd taken better care of their health.
Today, we are talking about one of the most cliched lines I see as an online fitness coach myself seeing a lot of other online fitness coaches posted. But it doesn't change the fact that it is true that you're the average of the five people that you spend the most time with.
So today we're going to be talking about that. I want to give you guys my spin on how you are, the average of the five people you spend the most time with. So if you guys are just tuning in, as always, drop some fire in the comments below. Let me know that you're watching and also share with me one of your biggest wins. So one of my biggest wins was, well, last week, as you guys know, we're on board with two coaches. We started collaborating.
One of the wins was the meeting that we had this morning putting together a dream team, putting together a company that's going to take over the industry. It's going to take some work. And today this morning, we had a tough conversation. These tough conversations are needed to help each other grow because it's going to tie into today's topic.
But if you care about the people that are around you, you honor them with the truth. You give them real talk. You give them your honest opinion, you give them real feedback, feedback that's not the intent to make them feel inadequate or to condescend, but it's feedback to help them grow.
And I think sometimes you've got to have to draw the line because as much as you want to build a dream team and they're your friends and you're loving my family. Sometimes you need to have that difficult conversation. So that for me, was the biggest win. It's not a conversation I like to have, but I love my team to death, and I honestly think they're capable of living.
I need that push from them as well. So when we have these conversations, we're all holding each other accountable because we're setting ourselves a common standard.
We're going to be talking about how you're the average of the five people that you spend the most time with.
Today, I want to talk to you guys about why failing to plan means you're planning to fail. You guys have heard this. Maybe you've heard this saying before goal without action is just a dream. Okay, so all of you guys out there would have a goal or a dream of some kind or what you want to achieve, whether it be work or your fitness. You have an idea of where you want to be. And unless you have a plan that's actually going to get you there, that's no different from a pipe dream. It's no different from a dream that you had last night. It's no different from saying you're going to be a gazillionaire when you don't actually understand the steps that it takes to actually get there.
Let's have more realistic goals here. Let's just say your goal was to lose five or ten kilos. Now five or ten kilos. You'd like to think that's going to take you three to six months, but three to six months requires you to put in that work today, tomorrow, and the day after having a plan that allows you to stay consistent towards your goal until you get to that point. You're not just exchanging time like it's money like there's no actual action to it. The time that you spend on your journey is going to get you closer to your goal. But you need to actually have a proper actionable plan that's going to allow you to get there.
So if your goal is to lose five to ten kilos in six months, how much do you need to lose in three months? How much do you need to lose in two months? How much do you need to lose in one month? How much do you need to lose in a week? Otherwise, if you don't have that plan, that strategy that allows you to lose that much over that period of time, you're going to be spinning your wheels. You're going to be putting in 50% effort or whatever you feel like putting in for that particular day, literally hoping, playing pot luck whether you're actually going to get that progress enough.
So yeah, today we're talking about why if you don't plan, you fail to plan, you plan to fail because you're being negligent and you're kind of ignoring your responsibilities on what you need to do. Because I think on a subconscious level, we all know the steps that we need to take on a granular micro level that's going to allow us to achieve our macro goals. However, if we don't have that plan in place, then you're going to be wasting so much time. Like how many of you guys out there have set yourself a goal to lose X amount by summer.
But because you never had a consistent plan, you can't just go into the gym and just did whatever you did or you went to the gym and you've worked out like six, seven days a week, and you start eating chicken breast and broccoli thinking that's actually going to get you the result. But you're not actually tracking your data each and every day. You're not tracking your weight every single day. You're not tracking your calories every single day. You're not tracking your water intake, your sleep levels so you that you're being consistent so you can make adjustments because there are so many variables involved in part of your fitness journey, whether it be your life and your career, your career, and your life even has more variables.
Fitness is literally the easiest thing you're ever going to do. And the reason why I'm going to tell you this time and time again is that the key to success in life is fitness.
Let's get into today's story. I want to talk to you guys about a time that when I was overweight, I was actually in the worst shape of my life. At this point. Hang and I will be pro dating for about five or six months and went to Vietnam and I was actually in the worst shape of my life. I was 83, 84 kilos and I even gained weight when I was over there, obviously because we were traveling. it held me back from wanting to take photos, held me back from or even wanting to leave the house.
When I was overweight, I found a sweat lot more. I didn't fit into any of my clothes. I didn't actually go out to buy any new clothes because I didn't want to accept the fact that I was overweight and I had to buy new clothes to fit. So I'd try to fit into whatever clothes were the loosest.
And it was just things like every time I'd walk in the wind, I'd have to pull down my shirt to hide my rolls. Or before I sat down, I'd have to pull my pants a couple of inches just to tuck my fat. But it came to a point where there was just too much tuck in and I didn't want to be in any photos. Hang, relax, take photos, take selfies record selfies to capture the moment. And I didn't want to do any of that. I just felt like I didn't want to leave the house at all. I was so disgusted with myself. I was so disgusted with myself. I didn't even want to look at myself in the mirror.
And every time I'd walk past, maybe at the shops where you kind of see your reflection or the mirror in the bathroom, just subconsciously try to avoid it. Just didn't want to see me in that state, especially when I had over ten years of training experience and when I had over ten years of training experience and I had absolutely nothing to show for it. That was probably the worst feeling of all knowing that I had potential. I was in shape at one point in time and all my decisions in my life have led me to where I am today, and that was probably the most disappointing. It was a really bitter pill to swallow.
But during that time when I felt that way, rather than just feeling sorry about myself and not doing anything about it, I took a step back. I paused. I remembered and I ingrained into my mind exactly the emotions that I felt and how I felt about myself. I remembered the feelings and the emotions really deeply. And the reason why I did that is that's going to be your strongest emotional driver for your progress.
I consciously said to myself like this is the last time I'm ever going to feel this way because, in that ten years of training experience, there are so many times that I went back and forth. I trained for a couple of months. I went off for a couple of months. I trained for a couple of months. I went off for a couple of months, and I never was consistent. And even though I had all this experience, I'm always that guy that would go up to you and tell you, hey, are you used to bench this?
Oh, hey. I used to look like this. Hi. I used to do this. No one cares about that. No one cares about what you used to be. It's who you are today and who you are. Moving forward was that Matt.
Today we are talking about the key to success and fitness. It's about visualizing, vocalizing, and realizing your goals. I know it sounds super simple, but most of us won't even have the courage to do it. So if we don't have the courage to take the first step, what makes us think that we can even have the tools or the mindset or the knowledge to be able to take us to the next step? Does that make sense?
So for those of you guys that know, last year, when I was working a full-time job, and when Lockdown first started happening, we actually made YouTube videos just to share value because I felt like I had the key to success. And first off, we needed to find what success is. Success for different people means different things. But for me, and I think I can speak for some people out there as well. That success is about knowing where you're going to be tomorrow. I think about your job. Would you consider yourself successful in your job if you hated your job and that you couldn't see yourself working there for 50 years or there was no progression in your job?
And now we flip it. You really love your job. You're not making a whole lot of money, but you really love what you do, and you look forward to showing up every single day and you know that you're going to get promoted in a couple of months. You'd feel pretty happy about that, and you feel like you're kind of on track. So in your mind, you consider yourself successful because you kind of know or you have a direction of where you're going to go.
So that's what I would consider success, just knowing where you're going to be and really looking forward to waking up every single day. And that's the position I was in. Even though I was working a corporate job, working a nine to five job, I still enjoyed it because I knew there were roads to progression. I knew where I could be before that. I wouldn't say that I had depression, but I was depressed waking up every morning, not knowing what I was doing. I was just jobless smoking weed all day.
And you've heard it before. Even my friends didn't want to be friends with me anymore. And that was a shitty feeling. Wake up, do not have a sense of certainty of where I'm going to be tomorrow, and just kind of like going day by day.
So today we're going to talk about the form of the formula that I put out before I've even achieved anything in the last year. So the formula is super simple. Three steps, you visualize your goal, you vocalize it and you realize it. It's literally that simple.
Our topic for today, the cost of an online coach. So the cost of an online coach. First off, you need to understand what an online coach is. A lot of people evaluate an online coach as a meal and a nutrition plan. It's not. Otherwise, it will be advertised and nutrition and the training plan. An online coach is completely different from that. So when you are evaluating whether it's worth your budget, if it's something for you, remember, it's not training and a meal plan, because ideally, if you're going to have to rely on training and a meal plan for the rest of your life, how effective is that? If you always need someone to tell you what to do, online coaching is completely different. Online coaching is about time prioritization. Why people can't adhere to the program. I don't have time too tired after work. I don't have any motivation. That is what an online coach helps you out with, not the training and the nutrition plan that's easy. Any online coach out there can probably give you a good nutrition plan and a good training plan. And that's me being honest, saying that there are plenty of other coaches that can probably do the same thing because when you actually realize fitness is actually so easy, it's one of the easiest things. It's one of the simplest things people try to overcomplicate. The simplest and the easiest way for you to get the result is one without the most points of contact, ones with about making unnecessary sacrifices or completely drastic changes to your lifestyle. That is so difficult that you can't actually maintain it long-term. Now, for every single one of my clients, I coach them differently. Yeah, sure. I put them on a training plan, and at the start, we give them a meal plan to show them start we give them a meal plan to show them the type of foods that they can eat. And then I'll show them the relationship between the caloric intake that they have and the effects that they have on their bodies. Most of the time when people are feeling not motivated or feeling tired, that stems from a poor diet because your energy levels are based on your energy intake levels.
Your energy output is directly correlated to your energy input. That's pretty straightforward. It's actually really straightforward. So if you ever feel tired, look at your nutrition. How is your nutrition? Are you eating healthy? So like I said, a lot of the challenges that my clients face is not having that time. Time prioritization is one of the most important things because I can prescribe someone the best training plan. The best nutrition plan. I can spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars getting nutritionists to build the optimal nutrition plan. But you know what? If they can't stick to it, what use is that? Does that make sense? Same thing with the training plan. I can design you the best training plan. Work for the best strength and conditioning coaches. But then if you can't show up to the gym, what use is that training plan? Absolutely no use whatsoever. So what does an online coach do? An online coach basically coaches you through your challenges.
We give our clients a toolset so they can actually go out and make changes for themselves. The program is completely flexible based on their capacity, what their availability is, what their goals are. And then we teach them. We show them the template that allows them to work through challenges. And that's why as soon as Melbourne was announced that we're under lockdown a month ago, we immediately went on life as to make an announcement to tell people that they'll tell our clients that that week is no different to any other week. It's no different to any other week that they've broken commitments and promises to themselves.
When you look at the last five years that you've been going to the gym, how many days did you miss? How many days were you too tired to go after work? How many days were you too motivated because you're sitting on the couch? How many days did you want to just keep watching the Netflix series and not want to go to the gym? And suddenly, when the gym facility is taken away, everyone likes to blame someone else saying, I can't wait for the gyms to open. I'd been meaning to go to the gym. I was going to get my fitness back on track. And suddenly the gym is not open. And you know what? When locked down, ease and people were able to go to the gym, it was even busier than before it goes to show how ungrateful many people were roof for the guards to the gym.
First off, there's no one topic, one idea or anything that you can do that's going to make 100% of the people happy. There's always going to be a camp of people out there that don't agree with you. There are people out there that think the Earth is flat to each their own. But my point is everyone has their own perspective based on their upbringing, their beliefs, their values. So you're never going to be able to have one common ground or topic that allows 100% of people to agree. So you already know off the back that there is going to be a camp of people that don't agree with you whether your intentions are right or not. It's almost irrelevant. There's always going to be that camp, right?
And then for me, I always spent a lot of my time because growing up, I was always isolated to make me feel inadequate. Right? So for those of you guys that know, I've undiagnosed ADHD and it affected my whole childhood. I was disruptive. I was always made to be isolated from everyone else, made spelled inadequate. So for me, I always yearned to be accepted by other people. Growing up, I was never part of a social group or anything like that. So I didn't even know what it feels like to be around a social setting. I was always awkward being around other people. So being accepted by other people was always something that I wanted. And being the youngest in my family, my extended family as well, I was different from everyone my whole life. I was always made to feel different.
And so once high school ended and I had all this freedom and I was able to go out. Going out partying was a way for me to feel accepted. It was a place where other people who also weren't happy with their lives and went out for escapism. And I felt like I belonged because everyone's drinking, everyone's having a good time. I felt like I was actually part of the community. But this community is not a real community. It's actually a very toxic community. And I spent hundreds, if not thousands of dollars each and every single week going out multiple times a week just to impress people that I didn't really care about. And during that time, I was actually going out like I said, two or three times a week. One of my friends was also going, I can't speak on behalf of him.
But for me, it was like I said, going out clubbing and partying was just a way for me to feel accepted made me feel like I was actually a part of something. And I remember there will be times where I spend a whole bunch of money just buying shots. I just wanted to buy, like, 50 shots just to see that line up it was just stupid things like that, really trying to impress people that I don't really care about. So what it made me realize is the people that you hang out with now, I want you to ask yourself, how relevant are those people going to be are they going to be in the next three years?
We're talking about five top reasons why you can't lose stubborn belly fat. So just for a bit of context, let's talk about why body fat starts to get harder and harder as you progress in your journey. Because fundamentally, the reason why we have fat in the first place, when we think about our ancestors, the reason why we saw body fat, it's excess energy. So it's energy. That is the energy that we consume more than we actually need. Our body uses it, stores it as a survival mechanism because if you think about our ancestors, we used to go hunting for food. We might go through hours or days where we're not able to get any food or get a Hunt. So our body has developed a survival mechanism allowing us to store body fat as a form of excess energy so that we can survive through periods where we don't have food.
Now, because our bodies have developed the storage of fat as a source of energy. It's literally a survival mechanism. So on the way to actually losing it, our body will actually give us signals to fight that ability to lose weight. Now, I want you to think about the fact that you have in your body like your savings bank account. If your savings bank account is full, it's inflated. You're less conservative when it comes to spending, you can be a lot more generous. But when you see your savings account starts to go down, then you start to become more frugal. You become more conservative. Same thing with your body. Your body is going to fight your ability to lose weight. And now we're going to talk about the five most common reasons why you can't lose your stubborn belly fat by stubborn belly fat. I'm talking about the last piece of fat, like the last bit of fat. Maybe the last two to five kilos. You might have been on your journey before you've lost 510 20 kilos, but you can't get shredded. You can't get super lean. And why your body fights that. Okay. So the reason number one is you're not consistent enough. Okay, so maybe at the start of your journey for you to lose, that the first five killers on your journey. So you're 20 killers overweight. You don't actually need to do much. You clean up your diet a little bit, maybe make some smart substitutes like instead of using sugar, you use sweetener. Instead of using oils, you spray oil, and you swap out your greatest for lower calorie alternatives, and you've reduced your deficit or you start walking more. Now you're losing that weight again because, at the start of the journey, our body is very generous in terms of fat burning. And then as we progress, our body is going to start fighting that. So you require to be a little bit more specific with whatever that you do. Now, if you're not consistent enough and you're only putting in maybe like 80% of the work and expecting 80% of the results. That's where you fail.
Today we are talking about why most diets fail. The reason why most diets fail. When we talk about the effectiveness of a diet, we need to think about the time, right? The time frame in which diets are effective is important and relevant to us. Okay, so now you can go on. If you find these diets like keto, intermittent fasting, one meal a day, they all have their benefits that they're more lifestyle-related. And in terms of losing weight or losing fat, you have to be in a calorie deficit. It's energy balance. It's a basic law of thermodynamics it's the law of conservation of energy that its energy in versus energy out.
Basically, what that means is whatever energy that you eat, if you don't burn it, you're going to store it as fat. And if you're eating less energy than you burn, then you're going to burn fat. The energy has to come from somewhere. So all these diet fads, have to leverage off the basic concept of being in a calorie deficit. Okay. So the reason why most diets don't work is that it's very restrictive. It doesn't matter what program or what diet plan that you're on. It has to be something that you can be able to sustain, definitely for the rest of your life, essentially, because when you have free reign on what to do, you end up being comfortable. And that's why you're in the position you are in in the first place, because as society develops, we become much like overall, say, Australia and America. The rate of obesity and the rate of people who are overweight increasing, which means society as a whole is leaning more towards eating more food rather than exercising more. So in terms of balance, the exercise versus food, we're eating more food. We're learning to overindulge more than all these creature comforts. Everything is becoming more convenient, with more technology, allowing us to preserve more energy. For example, with the lights that we have, we can actually just use our voice rather than just switching on and off all the energy that you burn in the day it adds up. And if you're not moving around, you're much more sedentary working desk jobs and you're eating a lot more food, then obviously you're going to gain weight.
So with these diets become really restrictive, and it's such a drastic and stark difference to your regular lifestyle. It's not something that you can feasibly maintain for the rest of your life. So it doesn't matter what program or what diet plan you go on. It really doesn't matter as long as you're in the calorie deficit. But if it's so much so drastically different from your current lifestyle, you can't maintain that. So my clients, we actually incorporate all the foods that they love and enjoy into the program. It doesn't matter what it is. Pizzas, burgers, brownies tacos, cheesecake sandwiches. Nothing is off-limits.
Today, we are talking about why the scale doesn't matter now, especially on our fitness journey. t's very easy for us to be obsessed with the scale and the weight. So if you guys are tuning in at the moment, drop some five in the comments below. Let me know that you guys appreciate these lives. I can continue to do it. I think this week we're at like, three, three or four lives of this week. So I really love doing these lives. One of your biggest wins. One of my biggest wins this week is being able to eat different varieties of food. Right? Because especially after my contest, all I wanted to eat was just sweets. I had this unhealthy obsession just eating sweets. And now I'm very fortunate to actually have hang to actually program for me my food.
So I have my calorie targets for the day, obviously, just like everyone else would. But I'd actually have hang to be able to Cook my food. So you better see that in my story, super interesting types of foods, lots of desserts in there as well, but well balanced diet. Get into the main potato today we are talking about why the scale doesn't matter and the scale is only going to give you only one side of the picture. It's one dimensional. It's only one number, and it doesn't define whether you're losing or gaining weight at all. It definitely doesn't. What happens if you're going to build muscle while losing weight at the same time, you could be dieting. You're going on this journey.
Your scale doesn't actually move. And what do you do? Do you think like you're not losing any fat and then you end up cutting your calories again. And we've spoken about it before. And the reading is why you're not losing weight because you're not giving your body enough energy or fuel to actually lose weight.
So how do we work around this? Why doesn't the scale matter? Let's talk about the factors that Let's talk about the factors that are involved in your weight reading. Water retention. Water can fluctuate in the kilos from a day to day basis. Right. So one day you might drink more water than another. You might feel stressed. Stress. You start to produce Cortisol, which is a stress hormone, and that's going to make you retain water. Let's think about why we retain water when we're stressed, right? It could be emotional stress, physical stress. Any stress you need to look at things fundamentally. T
hink about our ancestors. Why would our ancestors feel stressed? It could be through periods where we're not able to Hunt or find any food. When we're afraid of danger, we might need to hide for shelter. So our body produces that stress hormone as a survival mechanism to retain onto whatever resources that we have. So we can go through periods where we might not have any food or water and we can still survive.
Our bodies are very intelligent. It's just constantly adapting and growing to our environment. So even though we're in modern society at the moment and we don't have to Hunt for foods, we still go through stress a lot. A lot of physical stress, a lot of emotional stress. So stress, water weight is going to fluctuate within the kilos. Okay, now, if you're losing weight, what happens if you're losing weight, maybe half a kilo a week. But then your weight is fluctuating in the kilos. How are you going to see that?
So the scale is not an accurate representation of whether you're losing weight or gaining weight. Another one is if you go onto a diet fat like, for example, keto, when you're depriving yourself of carbohydrates, right?
We're gonna talk about what happens and how do you regain momentum when you fall off track. So before I get into that topic, we got to talk about being perfect, okay. So when you have an expectation of being perfect, whether it be starting a program or embarking on any journey, you have this expectation that you want to be completely perfect your starting position, you were very emotionally driven about where you are in your life or where you are your fitness and you want to be committed to this new goal that you've set yourself. And you put together this amazing plan, you want to eat clean, you want to go to the gym five, six times a week, wake up, like two hours early the normal word make this drastic change to your lifestyle.
So drastic to a point where it's unrealistic for you to actually maintain that long term, because it's such a drastic change any changes that everlasting they don't just happen overnight, if you can make a change overnight, you're going to change back overnight. Does that make sense? So when you have this unfair expectation of yourself on what you should do them, if you don't meet one of the objectives that you set yourself 10 new things to do on the first week, 10, new things that you haven't done before.
And when you miss out on one of them, you have this all in all out mentality, this Fuckit mentality and because you slipped up one thing, you kind of throw away the rest of your cards in your hand. So you kind of fall off the wagon, or you know, you might have disappointed self by not being able to go to the gym when you wanted to. And then you just used to give up your whole journey. So because you you set yourself such an unfair expectation, you're setting yourself up for failure.
So for us to talk about what to do before you regain momentum, Let's prevent this whole situation from happening, right? And how do we prevent that by taking small steps which accumulate over time. Okay, so before I get into this, thank you guys for joining in today, spending your time out of your day to join into today's live talk about regaining momentum when you lose, get off track. While you're joining just job safer. In the comments below, let me know that you appreciate these lives. And I'm going to make a commitment to start doing these live lives every day.
Again, I kind of fell off track a couple of weeks ago, because I was on the four day challenge, a lot of preparation, a lot of work behind that. And now Melbourne is actually going into lockdown. And we've actually been going live in our Facebook group each and every single day. And there are lives actually take up a lot of time, we want to look after our premium members. But now I've actually found some more time in my day. And I want to make sure I'm also giving you guys value because not everyone's actually in the program. And right now lock downs affect people outside the program as well. And I want to make sure I'm providing value to everyone. That makes sense.
Okay, so now for us to prevent losing momentum and falling off track, we have to change our perspective about momentum compounds over time. So instead of trying to do 10, things at once completely flipped the life around think not of all the amazing things or all the differences you can make in your life overnight. To get the progress as fast as possible. I want you guys to think the fastest way for you to get progress is the longest time that you can stay on your journey Does that make sense? Anything in your life worth getting is not going to be achievable within a couple of weeks or a couple of months, it's going to take years and I want you to get into your mind that fitness is something you're going to have to do for the rest of your life. You don't maybe not don't have to diet for the rest of your life, but you're going to have to be on some kind of journey for the rest of your life. No, you're gonna have to train every single day, maybe every single day, but a couple of times a week you have to do your cardio, you have to eat right because the moment that you go back to your old habits you become comfortable, you're going to get back to right where you started.
And that's exactly what we want to avoid. So for us to establish that for us to be that person make that change that we want to say we have to just accumulate these small steps over time, you can't be a completely different person overnight. If that person isn't real, that's not true genuine inspiration from within. seldom does someone just flip a switch and become completely different overnight. Like you have habits, thought processes, and thinking patterns that you need to change over time. So when you see these programs online, you know, 12 weeks, 16 weeks amazing transformation, you have no idea what it looks like afterwards. And if you're gonna treat your journey like a sprint, what happens after the sprint, you can't maintain that intensity for the rest of your life, you eventually have to rescue a sprint. And what happens when you sprint you're much more puffed out than had you just walk or jog the hallway. Does that make sense?
So that's a perspective shift that you should have in terms of your fitness journey. So instead of trying to do 10 things in one week, just think of how you can improve a small step every single week, because fitness is an indefinite journey, a journey that can last years upon years, there's no rush for you to actually be a change to be completely different. If you were to make one single change a week in a year that's 52 changes. If I asked you can you name 10 changes that you've made this year, they've actually stuck, right? Not many people can't if you can, that's That's amazing. But for the 99% of people out there that can't name the 10 things that they've been able to implement a change over time. It's because they don't even bother trying since they're disappointed themselves when they're not able to achieve these targets and then they break momentum.
So we talked about it just before right? The fastest way for you to get the results is the longest time that you can stay on this journey. I want you to guys write that down. That's an important lesson for you to remember about everything in life not just fitness. The fastest way for you to achieve your results is the longest time that you can spend on your journey.
Okay, so small steps accumulate over time and when you lock down one simple change a week once a week change for me my fitness journey started on Boxing Day Three years ago and the reason why I was boxing day because I knew everyone else wanted to start on New Year's Day and wanted a fresh new year before they made these changes. And it was psychological for me For me to actually commit that starting today starting on Boxing Day despite everyone else wanting to start in five days time I started to generate momentum.
Today we are talking about a time that I hit rock bottom. So one of my last lives I was about how I became a coach. So he explained a little bit of background of why I wanted to become a coach. And I want to I want to talk about a time that I've hit rock bottom. And the reason why I want to inspire you guys with this story is if I was able to do it in the conditions that I have in the condition those in anyone else can do is absolutely 100% possible.
I think honestly, I honestly believe that we are all equal as humans, and we all have a chance for success. Now some people may have a higher chance than others, right? This is the cards you've been dealt with, but a chance nonetheless shouldn't be focusing on you know, when you hear other people's success stories, you shouldn't that should dishearten you that should actually motivate you knowing what you're capable of.
Alright, so I want to talk about a time that I hit rock bottom so a bit of background I studied in high school I was actually really good graphics designer. I was a freelance graphic designer I gave up and after high school I studied civil engineering I was really good at like metaphysics I also gave up when I was I had a few jobs are worth a crown. I've got fired for misconduct for overpaying accidentally and just bit of background, I overpaid, because I normally work in like the premium area for a crown and then the one day that pulled me down into the main gaming floor overpaying.
And you know, when you're dealing with all that muscle memory, and it's a serious mistake, but it wasn't a mistake, that was an issue, but the one time I did make a mistake, there's actually sound behind me and anyway, I got I got fired for that. So at that point in time, I felt like my life was just in shambles. I didn't have a degree, I didn't have any job. So you know, I was just pretty much at home smoking weed just escapism, right. Just I wanted something to escape and kind of forget, in my mind, I always thought like, okay, Future Me is going to deal with it. Right? I've gone through all this education,
I've gone through everything. There's no way I'm going to be bumps in my mind. I didn't accept I didn't realize that I was a bumper by definition. I was just a home jobless educationalist. You know, a lot of my friends didn't even want to be friends with me anymore, right? Because like, where I was going, I was just this person was so much potential and added nowhere. I just threw everything away. And in my mind when I was just going through uni, I always thought like my life would be set. I always thought as long as I just keep studying, I'm eventually getting the job. You know, engineers are pretty good gig, I'll probably get a six figure salary, maybe work in the mines. You know, I felt like I had everything kind of figured out. And then when I didn't have that degree anymore, I still kind of thought that one day I would have success, if that makes sense. I don't know why I kept thinking that it was going to be possible. It wasn't my timeline, or realistically actually had nothing that was going for me all I was looking forward to was literally just playing games going out partying, and honestly, that was just my escapism, something that I look forward to it's kind of to run away from the troubles that I had. And you know, one bad habit after another one bad choice after another, I was in a position where I had absolutely nothing. And you know, I kept dreaming about success. I kept thinking that one day I want to drive supercars. One day, I want to be financially free one day, you know, think about all these things that I want, right is there's so many things I'm dreaming about wanting, but not my actions weren't leading me to that. And that was the worst feeling of all right, constantly reminding yourself of what you could have, by us don't, whatever you're doing takes you no closer to that. So the dream just feels like further and further away every single day. And I knew that my life wasn't going to get any better unless I made it better. And that was literally the split decision that I made. One day I woke up and I said, You know what, my life isn't gonna get better unless I made it better.
And man, it's going to be a frickin long journey up because I don't have any experience. You know, at this time, I was like 23, 24. And by people my age do it. They graduated, they actually worked in their full time jobs. Now I'm behind. Right, I'm really behind right now. And what was once an advantage, I had a lot of potential actually behind. And, you know, I thought maybe I want to get my foot in the door finance. And you know, how was I going to get a job at a bank have no experience. So I had to actually start from the bottom rung, I had to start working at retail. Right. And, you know, working there for a couple months made me realize why I didn't want to do retail. I felt like I also wish I was capable, so much more. I felt like I had so much more potential. But you know what, no one in this world or this planet is going to believe me, right? Because I didn't even believe in myself.
Why has my actions shown for people to believe and trust that I could be something. And so I thought to myself, You know what, instead of just complaining and saying that I think I could do it. I put my effort in I just decided to put my effort in and I was literally bottom rung, I started off the bottom rung working retail. You know, I just deep within my bones, I just knew I was capable of more. And right now, it's just about proving to myself that I was so after a couple months, I applied at a job at a bank. And you know, at first I didn't get it for one of the banks. And then I apply for another one. And then I got it. It was a tough journey up and I knew like this is it.
This is my chance of actually making a difference in my life and getting out of it. And it was literally just a split decision. And I got a job at you know, one of the major banks, I used that as an opportunity to work as hard as I could. I felt like my time to Slack, be comfortable, be lazy. It was over right? I spent 24 hours of every single day just doing whatever I wanted no job nothing.
So I had my fair share of that and it's time for me to pay my dues. If I ever think that I'm going to deserve a life of success. This is my chance to prove it not just to the people around me but prove to myself that I can because the missing ingredient and everything I've ever done in my life was discipline.
Today I'll be talking about how and why I became coach. And like I said, today marks one year since we came up the blueprint video series, six months, since I became an online coach, I just want to share with you guys a bit of the story, how I achieved championships started and how my whole journey became page came about. So hopefully today is just going to inspire, motivate, super casual, nothing really to learn, just want to share with you my story just explained to you guys that anything that you guys want in life is 100% possible as long as you actually work for it.
Okay, so it started off a couple years ago, four or five years ago, I was literally, you know, a bum, you know, I had no job, I had quit my degree at that time I quit my job, I didn't really have anything, I was just at home playing games, smoking weed. And all I had was just a vision, right? I didn't feel like what I was doing was wrong at the time. Because I always felt like I had potential. I always felt like I could do something, if I tried, I could be fit. If I tried, I could be successful at work if I try it, and I just became lazy, or I just let myself become complacent. In my mind. In my own perspective, I didn't feel like what I was doing was wrong, I didn't feel like I was a bum I didn't realize that only when you look at it in in hindsight. And during that time, you know, even my friends didn't even want to be friends with me.
So it was a really hard position to be in, I constantly kept dreaming about living a better life. I wish things were better, you know, hoping that one day, you know, be financially free, have, you know, maybe run my own business, I didn't really know what I was doing. I didn't know what I wanted to do. I just you know, committed to one or two things for a short amount of time, then I'd always give up, right? I'd commit to training and I give up commit to going to uni I'd give up commit to a job. And I'll give up I'll always hit this sticking point, the sticking point that I end up losing motivation. And when I lose motivation I never push through, right. So I knew that my missing ingredient was that discipline, I had all this potential and all these things that I've done in my life, but I just needed to push through all that to the end of there never really went to the end of anything. I was always that person with you know, potential, right? It's all I've always I was good at things because I was a quick learner, I pick things up very quickly. But I never executed discipline or mental resilience.
So I never really went to the end of the line of anything. I just knew things on theory, I understood things on theory. So yeah, one day I had to I realized that my life wasn't going to get any better. And so I made it better. And I realized that after all this all these years of tuition all these years of going to school and all these experiences that I've had, I'm actually nowhere in life and I didn't have a job and people around me will stand to overtake not overtake. But I realized the world around me was revolving around me whether I was developing or not right in life, you either progressing or you're regressing. There's no in between, there's no maintenance, because the world actually revolves around you. Right, it moves forward. Regardless whether you move forward or not. If you're not moving forward, everyone around you is going to move forward. And that's exactly what was happening. And I was approaching almost mid 20s with no ambition, no goals, no roadmap to success, just life just dreams, right? No different to the dreams I had the previous night, I didn't really have any direction.
So I started from the bottom. And you know, I started working at retail. And I felt like the skills that I've had enough accumulated over time was worth more than just working retail. But you know what, that was my own opinion. That was my own thought. And I needed to prove that to people. And then I needed to put in the work. And I felt like it was easy, I needed to kill it, I needed to absolutely crush that job to prove to myself and those around me that I deserve something more rather than just saying that I deserve more saying just rather than just saying that, you know you're destined for so much more by all you're ever capable of doing is retail. So I needed to prove to myself and everyone around me, I knew that eventually I have to move out from working retail. So once I learned all the skills that I needed, which was mental resilience, and discipline was showing up each and every single day. Even though I didn't want to that was the most important thing that I needed to learn. For me to be like successful any other job, I needed to be successful at the easiest possible job for me to be successful at a harder job.
So I then found a job in finance because I knew that's what I wanted to do. So I started from the bottom and finance and I worked my way up over three, four years, I eventually became a project manager. And at that point in time when I got $100,000 salary, that's what I thought success was right, I felt so happy and proud of the accomplishments that I've been able to make considering that I went from, you know, less fortunate beginning starting position than most people around me. Most people around me already graduated, they already know they had their job. And all they needed to do was just progress. But for me, I didn't have anything at all. And I went you know and got $100,000 salary without any qualification.
So I was super proud of that. And I wanted to explain to people, I try to help and inspire them so they can actually achieve their own success. And I attribute 90% of my success within my work my career through fitness, it was through fitness that I learned discipline, I learned mental resilience, I learned how to push through when times get hard because anyone can go 80% of the journey but the last 20% is what differentiates someone that Good to Great, that makes sense.
So I wanted to go out and share that and I would go to these parties, you know, have these drunk DM conversations as you do. And if deep down genuinely, I'd want to help people. I understand why people are going through the way they like what they were why they needed to go potty every weekend what it needed to drink because that's what I went through. So I kept trying to help people and when you have these drunk conversation that you wouldn't have normally had otherwise, they start to open up and start to talk about their dreams and ambitions and things that made them feel insecure and uncomfortable that you wouldn't talk about to your regular friends.
So this morning I actually had a mentoring business meeting, so I have that usually Tuesday, Thursday. These guys are based in Canada, so it's actually Monday Wednesday for them at four in the morning. On Saturday mornings, I actually have three in the morning. So I've had very little sleep. I've had about 5 hours sleep.
I'm super tired. Usually we have a shower, get ready before show up on lives. But today I'm just here to show up because I'm committed and that actually ties into what I want to talk about today, which is the cost of success. Now, often in life, we always dream about what our end goals are, where we want to be, but we don't actually consider the cost of success and what it actually takes for us to get there. So I just want to share with you guys some stories about me in my past and the decisions I've had to make to get us where we are today.
And honestly, every single day for the last week, I've been waking up feeling extremely grateful. We've been going to bed extremely grateful, knowing that the fruits of our labor are finally coming into fruition. The vision that we've had, the decisions we've had to make, the sacrifices that we've had to make to be where we are today. I'm so grateful to have such a supportive and collaborative team and seeing everyone really synergised and be the best version of themselves. Right?
Because Hang and I our vision going to our online coaching was to make an impact on the world, whether it's actually inside or outside the program. And it's the most fulfilling job that you're ever going to get. And we honestly feel like we're living the dream right now. We have the dream job. We have to spend all our time with each other.
We could actually be anywhere in the world, but we actually choose to just be at home with each other, just working. And that's the life that we're living at the moment. And we want to just focus on the work. We're not making withdrawals more than deposits. We're focusing on making as much deposits as we can, not in terms of money, but like effort and time, and we want to build a legacy and time for us to make the withdrawal is going to come later, but it's going to come at the cost of our growth at the moment when we do make those withdrawals.
So I want to talk to you guys a little bit about the cost of success. Now let's just go back in time, a little bit before any of this happened before. We had such a successful business, a team of like, eight people, seven people go back. Let's say three years ago when I was working a corporate job, this is what Hang and I just met. I was grinding by each and every single day and every single day, I actually saw the vision in my head that one day I was going to be successful.
I didn't know how I was going to get there yet, but I always imagine a life where I'll be driving like a supercar, living the luxurious life. It's not like I had a superficial goal. It was just a goal that I had since high school and in high school I had three goals. It was one to get shredded, two to drive a supercar and three to own a penthouse one day.
Those are my high school goals. And there's something so fundamental about achieving your high school goals because we always have these goals, these ambitious goals when we're younger, whether it be in school or in high school, it doesn't matter what it is when we're younger. But as we grow older and life starts to break us down and we start to disappoint ourselves, we start to be influenced by peer pressure, by our environment, by the people around us. Maybe people who actually have our best interests at heart encourages us to not pursue our dreams.
Right?
I know for me, starting a business, it was against kind of like the Asian thing. You got to study hard, have a job, have a stable job, start a family. And I kind of broke free from that. I had a good job and I quit my job.
And then now I'm starting my business. So I'm really going against the grain here. But that's the cost. That's the cost of success. So a few years ago, when I was working my corporate job, I had the vision and the dream and the goal of actually achieving success being financially free.
I knew that deep down I was destined for it. I just knew because I just couldn't imagine myself doing the same thing, showing up to the same job for the rest of my life. So in my mind, I already defined my idea of success as just not doing the same thing every day. The fact that I was just going to go to the same job, rock up to at the same time every day, doing the same thing. That, for me, felt depressing.
That for me felt like I wasn't successful. But if I knew I was going to get a promotion, if I knew that I was going to progress to a new role, that for me, was a success. That gave me something to look forward to, short little Masters that lead to a bigger objective. So with every promotion or with every new job opportunity, that day one, day one of my job, I thought of, Where can I go from here? Not day two, not day three, not after three months.
Day one, I would actually ask an interview. Where can I go from here? I had my eyes on the next promotion, day one, before anyone else, when everyone else is just sitting in there, going through this transition period, kind of enjoying riding the wave of motivation and momentum. When they start a new job, everyone's going to be excited because it's all new. And then after three months, when they get bored of the job, that's when they start looking for a new role.
But you know what? I'm ahead of the game. I'm three months ahead because day one, I'm already thinking about the next step. So every single decision that I make is to get myself into a better position. That is the cost of success, right?
That's the same thing with going to the gym. When you go to the gym, you need to understand what your goals are, what you're trying to achieve and when hold yourself accountable to those goals. Smaller checkpoints that lead to bigger things. Not just go to the gym when you're feeling motivated and that doing exercises that you think you should because you read it online or you eat the meals that your favorite influencers are watching and expecting these results. And after three months, when you lose motivation, you're like, well, why am I not getting the results that I want?
Do you see how the two go hand in hand? The road to success for your fitness in your career? Go exactly. Hand in hand. You nail one you nail the other.
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