Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show - 157. 5 High Performance Traits Every Man Must Master

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

Most people think success comes down to luck, talent, or money.That’s the lie.The truth? High performers aren’t born different, they build traits that anyone can develop.In today’s video, I break down the five traits every high performer has; the same ones used by Navy SEALs, pro athletes, and world-class entrepreneurs. You’ll see how winners plan and prepare with precision, push through setbacks with resilience, get resourceful when resources run dry, make fast decisions before opportunities close, and prioritize their health and a growth mindset so they can perform under pressure.If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or like success keeps slipping through your fingers, this episode shows exactly what separates the top 1% from everyone else.Stop waiting for the “right time.”Start training these traits today and watch how fast your life changes.DOMINATION DOWNLOADSTRAIGHT FROM THE DESK OF BEDROS KEUILIANYour weekly no B.S. newsletter to help you dominate in business and in lifehttps://bedroskeuilian.com/MAN UP SCALE BUNDLE: $29 (100% Goes to Charity)Get your Digital Man Up book + Audiobook + 2 Exclusive MASTERCLASSES & Support Shriners Children’s Hospital. https://www.manuptribe.com/limited-offerREGISTER FOR THE LEGACY TRIBEGet the Life, Money, Meaning & Impact You Deservehttps://bedroskeuilian.com/legacytribeJOIN MY FREE 6-WEEK CHALLENGE:Transform into a Purpose-Driven Manhttps://bedroskeuilian.com/challengeTHE SQUIRE PROGRAM: A rite of Passage for Your Son as He Becomes a ManA Father and Son Experience That Will Be Remembered FOREVERhttps://squireprogram.com/registerTruLean Supplements | https://www.trulean.com/pages/bedrosGet 50% Off Trulean Subscribe & Save BundleUse Code: BEDROS Few Will Hunt Apparel | https://fewwillhunt.com/Get 20% Off Your Entire OrderUse Code: BEDROSOPEN A FIT BODY LOCATIONA High-Profit, Scalable Gym Franchise Opportunity Driven By Impacthttps://sales.fbbcfranchise.com/get-started?utm_source=bedrosPODCAST EPISODES:https://bedroskeuilian.com/podcast/STAY CONNECTED:Website | https://bedroskeuilian.com/Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/bedroskeuilian/LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bedroskeuilianTwitter | https://twitter.com/bedroskeuilian

So you have to understand that if you want to make it, if you have ambition, drive, goals, dreams, you have to be able to develop this ability to be resilient when the odds are stacked against you and resourceful when you run out of resources. Welcome to the Bedroft's Koolian show. Back when Q was rolling with Lorenzo and a Benzo, I was banging with a gang and instrumental. There are five irrefutable traits that high performers have developed that you need to develop as well if you want to win in business and in life. Guys, welcome to the show.

If you watch or listen to the Bedros-Coolion show that I know something about you, you are a person that is driven, you are ambitious, and you know you're meant for more in life. I can relate to you because when I go back 25 years in my life, I can relate to being ambitious, driven, driven, and knowing, knowing that I was meant more for life. However, even though I was meant for more and even though I was driven and I had this hard work ethic, I simply could not achieve the traction that I needed in terms of goals and success. And so I remember struggling and getting frustrated because I felt so much friction and resistance each time I tried to get myself to that next level of success and prosperity.

Now, before we move on to these five traits that the high performers have, I want to tell you and define what high performing humans are. And at 51 years old, having been around hundreds, if not thousands of high performers in my I can tell you with certainty that people who are high performing, they're successful in a way that most people don't define success. Because the average person will define success as financial success, financial freedom. And that to me is just one of several pillars. Because if you have financial success, but you don't have friends and family members who you love that you can have these awesome experiences and memories with, how successful are you really? or if you have financial success but you don't have the health and so you're always struggling

you're low energy your stress you're overwhelmed you're having emotional breakdowns and meltdowns how successful are you really or if you have financial success but you don't have a sense of meaning purpose and significance to your life then how successful are you really what i found is that high performing people are successful in every category of life and they've done these specific five things to get there and i want to share that with you they're successful financially they're successful relationally, they're successful in purpose, and they're successful in mental and health state, right? And if you're in a positive mental and health state, you now have more runway to achieve even greater success. So without any further ado, let's dive into this. Now, as I look into like my

list of coaching clients, for example, I go, huh, who do I have that literally are the epitome of these five things. And as I started thinking about it, some of my most recent coaching clients that I've gotten on board in the last 12 months have literally every single one of these components. And it's no surprise, they're always looking to better themselves. So, for example, Jordan Moffitt. I actually talked to him, talked about him, oh, I don't know, probably three, four episodes ago. And I accidentally called him Jason Moffitt. And I said, Jason Moffitt, he's a dentist in Iowa. It's actually Jordan Moffitt because a few people actually reached out to me and said, hey, I searched out of Jason Moffitt in Iowa and I couldn't find a dentist under that name. That's because his name is

Jordan Moffitt. And he epitomizes every single one of these traits. Same with Cody Hoffnine, right? He's out of Utah. He's a real estate investor, coaching client of mine. He epitomizes every single one of these things. Same with Dr. Gabriel Lyon, right? Epitomizes all five of these traits. Same with Dr. Doug Lucas. Epidomizes every one of these traits. And so when I think about all the people that I know and the people that I've worked with, like I've had the good fortune to coach on the business side, guys like Phil Heath, right? A seven-time Mr. Olympia, guys like Steve Weatherford, who was a Super Bowl winning champion. And, you know, guys in special operations, right? When I think about guys who were green berets and Navy SEALs and Marine

recon guys who I've coached as entrepreneurs, I see these traits in them. And when I look at some of the most high performing entrepreneurs out there. I see these traits in them. And when I think about the first mentor that I had, I've talked about him before Jim Franco, again, I see all five of these traits in him. So success leaves clues. And I've gotten really good over my years in acquiring and identifying what these five traits are because I wanted to remove the friction. I wanted to remove the frustration and I wanted to get to my goals and ambitions as quickly as possible with the least amount of loss and least amount of headache and least amount of frustration, right? And I imagine you do too.

So without any further ado, let's dive into the five high performing traits and habits that the high performers have, right? Thing number one, trait number one is a plan and prepare. And when I think about high performers, I see this one thing in them. They plan the night before for the next day. So, for example, with me, I plan the night before what my next day is going to look like. Now, already my calendar might have calls and zooms and meetings, et cetera. But beyond that, I make a list on my phone before I go to bed, the emails that I need to

attack, the text messages that I need to send, the calls that I need to make, right? Because I want to wake up and then attack my plan. Because if you plan and prepare, then you're not going to be distracted by trivial things. They're going to waste and kill time, right? If you don't plan and prepare, what happens then? Well, you wake up, you're like, I don't know what to do, but I'm ambitious and driven. So let me do a little research. And it sounds healthy and it sounds like it's under good intentions.

But your research ends up eating up two, three, four hours of social media scrolling to no end, right? To no desired outcome. But if you plan and prepare the night before of what your morning is going to look like and then you work that plan, you're good to go. I mean, you've heard the saying, right? Plan the work and then wake up and then work the plan. It's as simple as that. And so when I look at some of the most successful people on the planet, they are always planning and preparing.

They never go into something with, even like a weight loss, let's say program. They don't go into it. Well, I want to lose weight. Someone who's a high performer, if their goal is to lose weight or to build muscle, they usually go into it with the intention of, I want to lose 30 pounds. I'm going to do it in 90 days. And this is the rate of fat that I want to lose. And they're going to hire a coach.

they're going to do the research and they're going to start the program and they're going to stick to it and they're going to have a end date with a desired result or outcome. See how much more intentional and specific that is then, well, I think I need to lose some weight. I'm too fat. My pants don't fit right. My shirt don't fit right. So I need to lose some weight. All right. So today you got a workout in. Tomorrow you don't. Today you eat right. But tomorrow you don't. And the next day you eat right. The next day you eat halfway right. You're never going to get there. Yeah, you might lose a couple pounds, but you never reach your goal. conditioning yourself to be one of those people that sets expectations but never reaches them,

right? And when you do that, you start creating new neuropathways that really make you a loser instead of a winner in life. So understand some of the highest performers in the world, the number one factor that they have going for them is that they plan and prepare and then execute. Trait number two is that they are resilient and resourceful. And you have to understand this, that when you are trying to do anything big, if you have any level of ambition, if you have any big goals in life, if you know you're meant to do something big, you're going to be a change maker, there is going to be resistance pressed upon you. There is going to be inertia that is working against you and you have to work towards breaking out of that momentum or inertia of average,

right? I've talked about this before where most people, most of humanity is swimming in the sea of mediocrity. You know, so the currents of mediocrity, you know, so the currents of mediocrity, is taking everybody in the same direction, just being average, being in debt, being of average health, being a few pounds overweight, not really being so ambitious, not having a sense of purpose, a slight level of anxiety and depression is always weighing on them like a wet blanket. That is the sea of mediocrity and the currents that are taking them. So if you're ambitious, you're driven, you have to be able to push through that resistance, right? And that means you need resiliency and resourcefulness.

And let me explain. Resiliency because you have to push through the resistance of being average and the pressures that are trying to keep you mediocre. Resourcefulness because there will be many times throughout your journey that you will run out of resources and you will have to figure out how to get resourceful. Resources show up by way of money. You run out of money before you intended to. You have to get resourceful. Resources might be you run out of people. You hired a team. and half your team quit. Like, I remember a time the year was 2012. At the time, I had a small, tiny little company.

I only had six employees. In one day, half of them quit. I was a bad leader back then. I was not effective as a visionary. I was not a great communicator. And I did not plan and prepare like I do today, right? And so half my team fired me. I had six employees, three of them quit on the same day.

Now, guess what? we still had to get resourceful with the three employees that we had and then the work that I was going to do, right? I can't just be like, well, my human resources are gone, so I guess I can just give up. So your resource might be money, it might be access, it might be people, it might be timing, it might be opportunity. But when the resources run out and they will, can you get resourceful or will you roll over and die? So let me give you a great example of resiliency. And it's an example from my dear friend who's a retired Navy SEAL and a business partner of mine. His name is Jason Redmond.

And he wrote a book about it. And in his book, you can find greater detail about it. But in 2007, Jason Redmond, along with a small group of Navy SEALs, were on a mission to kill or capture a bad guy, right? Obviously, the goal was to capture the bad guy. But if the bad guy and his team start shooting, then obviously they're going to smoke him and kill them. But he's telling me, he's like, hey, Pedro, we're on this mission and I'm leading this group of seals. we landed in the dead of night, like 500 yards away,

and we're slowly sneaking up in the middle of the night to this guy's house. Now, this bad guy makes roadside bombs, and they're killing American and coalition forces with these explosive bombs. And so Jason and his fellow seals, their job is to go and kill or capture the bad guy. So as they're sneaking up on the house before they can get close enough, about 50 yards away, there's all this tall shrubbery and foliage.

And all of a sudden, machine guns start firing. And they don't see where those machine guns are coming from until they see the flashes, right? They don't know where the bullets are coming from until they see the flashes. And they're like, holy shit, it's coming from those bushes. Well, Jason gets shot across his body with the machine gun immediately. And as the bullets are going across his body, one of them hits his left arm. And what he thinks is blew off his left arm. So he goes flying around.

And as he goes flying around, another machine gun round hits him right in the face, right through the jawbone, blows out his orbital plate and his nose. Now Jason finds himself on the ground bleeding and there's this massive gunfight. His team jumps behind a tractor tire that's able to give them some fire and they're returning fire towards the bad guys who have the machine guns. Now Jason's like, hey, B, now you have to imagine the seals, we have this rule and it's called Mission Over the Man. I go, what does that mean, Jay? He goes, well, simple. If I'm down, I have to tend to my own wounds while my guys are trying to kill the bad guys. Once they're able to successfully suppress or kill the bad guys, then they'll come and rescue me.

But in that time, their job isn't to save me. It's to continue on with the mission and kill the bad guys. I was like, holy crap. He goes, so I had to tend to my own wounds. I had my med kit on me and I had to like in between going in and out of consciousness. I had to bandage myself up. if I had to take mud and dirt and stuff it in like wounds, and that's what I had to do.

Now, if that's not a high level of resiliency, I don't know what is, right? But it gets even better because once his team is able to suppress and kill the bad guys and rescue him and they airlift him out, Jason has then sent back to stateside and over the next two years, he has 39 different surgeries.

Some of these surgeries end up, you know, getting infected and he has to get different surgeries. Sometimes the skin grafts, that they do to fix his face and his nose and his orbital plate, the skin graft doesn't take so they have to redo it. So over two years and 39 surgeries, they're piecing him together. Now, one of the times the doctor says, son, we've got good news for you. We were able to save your arm. We didn't have to amputate it, but you are stuck in this like 90 degree position with your arm. He's got some mobility, but not 100% full mobility in his arm. He's like, hey, awesome.

Then he says, hey, doc, is there any chance you can give me a little bit more mobility, I need 10 more degrees of mobility where I can bring my hand to my chest. And the doctor's like, man, we did 39 surgeries. You fought off so many infections. We were able to save your arm from being amputated. Why exactly are you looking for 10 more degrees of mobility? He goes simple. If you can give me 10 more degrees of mobility where I can bring my hand to my chest,

then I can take a magazine off my chest rig, put it in my rifle, and go back to battle. And the doctor says, son, I've got to tell you something. You don't understand. You're done. you're done being a Navy SEAL. You are now officially retired. Now look at the resilience it takes to go through 39 surgeries, battle all these different infections, and still have the mindset that if I can just have 10 more degrees of movement

and mobility, I can grab a magazine off my chest rig, put it in my rifle and go back to battle against the bad guys. That is a high level of resiliency, a high level of being able to push through adversity no matter what. And high performers have that ability and have developed that ability. By the way, none of these high performers are born with these abilities.

It's not like any of this is factory installed because if you're like, well, you know, Phil Heath, he's a pro bodybuilder. And Steve Weatherford, you know, he played pro NFL. And this guy's a Navy SEAL and that guy's a pro entrepreneur. They all started just like you and me,

little babies who shat themselves and threw up all over themselves. The difference was they started to, develop these skills. Yes, some of them developed them earlier on, the skills, traits, and habits, others develop them later in life. Me, myself, I developed a lot of these traits later in life. I'm talking like in my 20s and on into my early 30s. And so if you're like, man, this is, I'm too late for this. No, you're not. You're not. You can start planning and preparing and you can become resilient and start pushing yourself through adversity and hardship so that you get used to

the idea of experiencing setbacks, challenges, and friction, and still pushing through. Just like Jason Redmond did when he went through those 39 surgeries and then now has redefined himself as a great motivational speaker and entrepreneur. And today he's using those same five traits that I'm sharing with you here to scale his business, his personal brand, and his speaking platform, right? Now let's talk about resourcefulness. because as I said, trait number two is resiliency and resourcefulness. There's going to be plenty of times in your journey of success or ambition that you're going

to run out of resources. You can't just give up and go, well, I guess that was God's will. I guess I'm destined to fail. No, you can't do that. Because if God put that dream in your heart, you have the ambition, you have the desire, you have the goals, you know you're meant for more, you cannot just quit. In fact, I think God gives us the resistance, the challenges, and helps us run out of resources so that he could test us and to see, do we really want it bad enough?

For me, the answer was yes. And on this show, I've told you guys many of times where I've run out of resources. The resources could have been money. It could have been people that quit on me. It could have been a million different things. But you have to get resourceful. Now, when my family and I came to the United States from Armenia, right, my dad decided that we're going to escape the Soviet Union and come to the United States.

I was six years old. We were living in Section 8 housing. And when you're living in Section 8 housing, government-assisted housing, sometimes, especially back then, government-assisted housing was pretty filthy. It was these apartment complexes that were subsidized by the government, so you just have to pay a little less, far less rent than the average person. And because we're foreigners to this country and trying to make it, the government was kind enough to help us out. But one of the apartment complexes that we were in within the first two years that we got here was filthy, full of bugs and little critters and specifically lice. So within a week of moving into that apartment, I got lice. And I'm like seven or eight years old.

Well, my parents were still working hard trying to make ends meet. My older brother, older sister, they're working their nuts off trying to make ends meet. My mom and dad have all these little wacky little side jobs, paper route, gas that work in a gas station, doing, you know, cleaning people's homes just to make ends meet. And so we couldn't afford lice treatment when I got lice. And so my mom decided that since we don't have the financial resources to afford Lice treatment. She would have my dad siphon out gasoline from a parked car and he siphoned it out like in a in a glass jar.

And then my mom washed my hair with gasoline to kill the lice. Now, is that something that I would recommend you do for your kids? Absolutely not. I think today that would probably be considered child abuse. Back then, it was love. And I'm so grateful my mom did that because not only did I learn a lesson in how to be resourceful, but she also was able to use that money for the lice treatment to help buy us food. And if the gasoline killed the lice, then so be it.

Right. So you have to understand that if you want to make it, if you have ambition, drive, goals, dreams, you have to be able to develop this ability to be resilient when the odds are stacked against you and resourceful when you run out of resources. Trade number three is to be decisive. Quick interruption to the Vedderals Coolion show. Listen, if you're like me and you love fitness, you love helping people and you love being an entrepreneur,

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They make fast decisions. Now notice I didn't say they make the right decision every time. But high performers are decisive and they make fast decisions. Why? Why? Because when you are pushing towards a dream, a goal, an ambition, there's usually a small window of opportunity, a small amount of time that that opportunity exists for you to capitalize on. And if you're the type of person that procrastinates that you get very afraid to make a decision, you're indecisive, you have to ask a lot of people for their opinions and their approval,

the window of opportunity might close on you. I've seen this happen to so many people. In fact, the late great Colin Powell once said in his book, to make a decision, all he needs is as little as 40% of the information and as much as 70% of the information and he will make a decision. Notice again, he'll make a decision as little as 40% of the facts and as much as 70% of the facts. Because if you wait to gather 100% of the facts or the information you need to make the right decision every time, you may. You may lose out on the opportunity. You may lose out on the battle. You may lose out on the business.

You may lose out on the greatness. And so what ends up happening is you have to make a decision with minimal information. But then when you do, if it's the right decision, you keep pushing forward at high speeds. If you come to the conclusion that this decision was not the right decision, you'll find out soon enough because you made the decision. And when you find out, you course correct and then you make the next decision, which might be the better decision for you. But indecisive people never win. And so if you're asking yourself, well, then how do I become more decisive? Like, I'm just a procrastinator. I'm so indecisive. I don't even

know what to pick when I'm in my closet trying to pick out clothes for the day. Well, let's start there. Let's start there. If you want to become more decisive, study after study show that your brain does not know the difference between small decisions that are inconsequential and big decisions that might be monumental. Your brain doesn't know the difference. All your brain knows is this person is either a fast decision maker or they're not. And so if you could get better at making those smaller inconsequential decisions faster, you will condition yourself to be a better and faster decision maker for big and monumental

decisions. And it'll be less scary for you because you'll be like, dude, I'm the type of person And when I wake up, I don't sit there and go, okay, which jeans am I going to wear? What shirt am I going to wear? Should I wear shorts? Should I wear a hoodie? Should I wear a hat today? Should I not?

Pick something and wear it. Make the decision fast. Same with like if you're going to go somewhere for dinner tonight, right? So let's say like you and your honey are like, hey, we should go out to dinner. Okay, well, where do you want to go? I don't know. Where do you want to go? I don't know.

Do you want sushi or do you want steak? Do you want chicken or do you want tacos? I don't know. Do you want to go at 6 p.m. or 7.30 p.m.? Oh, I don't know. look how much indecision takes place and you're like ah but that's so inconsequential be but it's not because you're conditioning your brain to be indecisive to not make a decision and therefore when it's time to be decisive

during bigger more important times your brain's like we don't make fast decisions homie we take our time we question ourselves we have doubt we're uncertain we we we think about it well if it's a big decision and times ticking and money's burning, you gotta make a decision. Even if it's not the right one, make a decision because it might be sooner than later that you realize it's not the right one and you course correct, right? General Norman Schwartzcoff once said to, I think it was to George Bush, it was during the first Iraq war back in the 90s.

He said, let us either go into Iraq or pull us out and tell us to come back home. but being staged here in the middle of the desert with tens of thousands of military men and women and all this equipment is costing the taxpayers more money than if you made the wrong decision. Please be decisive, Mr. President. Do we go in or do we not go in? Be decisive because indecision is costing the American taxpayers more money than if you make the wrong decision. And so that is a great example of being a good decision. decision maker, right? Make a fast decision, course correct. If it's not the right decision, if it is,

then accelerate full speed forward. But start making decisions on the smaller things in life. Like if you're like, hey, tonight's dinner, we're going out. Okay, great. Make the decision. We're going to have steak. We're going to go to Mortons and we're going to go at 7 o'clock. And if your honey or your friend is like, actually, I crave sushi, great. We'll get sushi here and we'll go at 7 o'clock. No, I want to go at 6 o'clock. Great. We'll get sushi here. We'll go at 6 o'clock. But be the faster decision maker. And if you can do that, you're going to win in life. Trait number four that high performers carry that low performers don't.

High performers prioritize health and fitness. They simply do. You think about someone who is healthy and fit. When they walk into a room, you automatically have respect for them before they open their mouth. You automatically have this like, wow, okay, they carry themselves differently, right? You think about someone who is fit and healthy to have a higher stress tolerance. In other words, they can deal with stress that's higher and they could prolong their ability

to deal with stress longer. And in the business field, that's an important thing. If you want to be successful in business, that's important. If you want to be successful in life, that's important. If the smallest little inconveniences make you fall apart, it's probably because you have poor health, you have low energy, you're always stressed, depressed, anxious. You carry too much fat on your body. You have no muscle tone. Therefore, you lack confidence. And if you lack confidence, you're probably not someone that follows through with the things you say you're going to follow through on.

So you condition yourself to be a loser by making promises and then not keeping those promises. Someone who works out and stays healthy and fit is someone who's a promise keeper. Because there's no way you can have one awesome, great, amazing workout and one day of perfect. eating and then all of a sudden be fit and healthy. It's impossible. It's impossible. So that means you have to work out an exercise over a long period of time, months, years, a lifetime to get it and to maintain it. And then you have to eat clean to fuel your body. Eat like an athlete. You're like, but I'm not an athlete. That's the problem. You should see yourself as an athlete even if you're an entrepreneur. I'm a entrepreneur athlete. The field that I play on,

is in the business battlefield. And there's people in the bleachers watching who wish they can get on the field and play with me and others who are on that field. And they think there's something special about us. And I'm here to tell you there isn't. There's nothing special about us. We just do these things that I've talked to you about today.

And one of these things is to prioritize fitness and health. Because if you have prioritized your fitness and health, that tells me that you're disciplined, you're focused, you have delayed gratification, you know how to be consistent, you have high stress tolerance, you have a higher level of self-confidence, which means you're going to be more competent in the things you do. You're a promise keeper. That means you have a higher reputation with yourself. And that means I would be a better business partner for you. I would want to be a business partner for you and with you. But if you do not value your health, the thing that is the most important thing and the vehicle that you

live in your body, then you're not going to value our working relationship. You're not going to value your relationships. You're not going to value your kids. How can you value their health and their well-being if you don't value your own health and well-being? How can you value our business partnership and the growth of our business? And how can I count on you to do your part in the business if you can't even keep yourself fit and healthy? Because you've chosen. and to look fat and sloppy, to skip your workouts, to break your promises, to not eat right, to emotionally eat, to not fuel your body, but to feed your body emotionally. I can't trust you.

You can't be my business partner. We can't be friends. That's the reality of it. Your stress tolerance is lower. You lack confidence. You're not consistent. You're not focused. You're not disciplined.

That is not who I want as a business partner. And that is not who I want to bring around. my friends and my community. Simple as that. And the fifth and final trait that high performers have is that they are growth-minded. They are growth-minded.

The alternative is to be fixed-minded. Fixed-minded is, well, this is how I am. All I know is what I know, and it's because I'm Armenian and we're not good at remembering names, or it's because I'm this and I'm not good at math, or it's because of that I didn't do good in school. Okay.

So you could be fixed-minded and say, I'm just not good at this, right? Fix-minded people. are set in their ways and are not willing to grow beyond what they already know. A growth-minded person says, you know what? I see challenges and adversities as opportunity and not as finality as in the it's over. The opportunity is gone, right? A growth-minded person will look at a challenge or an adversity as an opportunity and not finality. And so a growth-minded person is someone who's curious. A growth-minded person as someone who is constantly learning new skills, abilities, languages.

You know, I tell you guys about all these different challenges I do, right? 12 years ago, I decided I was going to hire a running coach, train for six weeks, and run the San Diego Marathon because I told myself over and over again that God has made me big and strong. God has made me to lift weights. I pick weights up. I put them down. I'm not made to be a runner.

I'm not designed to be a runner. It's not factory installed for me to be a runner. And you say something long enough. as a fixed-minded asshole like I was, you began to buy into it. You begin to believe the bullshit that you're selling yourself. And one day it hit me. You know what? I could do whatever I put my mind to.

And so immediately I hired a running coach. And I signed up for the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon, 26.2 miles, having never run, not even a mile in my life. trained for six weeks and then ran the San Diego Marathon. Since then, I've done a rock climbing challenge, MMA challenge, Jiu-Jitsu challenge, surfing challenge, improv, salsa dancing. You name it. You name it.

There's so many challenges, chess challenge, guitar lessons, guitar challenge. I just find things that are outside of my comfort zone. And then I hire a coach for six weeks and I go just teach me as much as you can, three times a week for six weeks. I'm going to see how good I can get. And if I like the thing, like Jiu-Jitsu, I fell, in love with, I stuck to it. And I continue to do it. I'm on year two of doing Jiu-Jitsu. And it'll be a lifelong thing as long as my body doesn't betray me. Same with surfing. Right? But if you are not

growth-minded, you're going to be like, well, this is all I am, this is all I can do. God's not not designed me to do these things. A fixed-minded person is not someone who's going to be a great leader, who's going to be a great visionary, who's going to be able to drive forward towards goals and dreams because they're going to constantly find limitations everywhere they go. The first sign of resistance, they're going to give up and not show resiliency. The first sign of lack of resources, the fixed-minded person is just going to be like, sorry, I ran out of resources. I got to quit.

Right? The fixed-minded person is someone who just says this, everything has to be perfect and perfectly suited to fit my needs if I am to succeed. The growth-minded person says, I will be flexible, I will be pliable, I will be curious, I will take feedback. I will constantly change and challenge myself. I will grow until the day I die. You know, recently I started learning sign language.

I'm 51 years old. I don't personally know anyone in my life who is death. Yet I was like, you know what? Time to take on a new challenge. Learn sign language. Why not? Why not, right? Because that reinforces a growth mindset.

That builds new neurons. in my head, new neuro pathways in my head. That gets me to think differently because every challenge I've done has helped me, not just in the challenge itself like rock climbing or running or surfing, but it's bled into other areas of my life. I've had other epiphanies and understandings about life. I've taken so many lessons from the jiu-suitzum mats and I've brought it into the business world. And I'm like, aha, this is like when someone's trying to smash pass and they're suffocating you and you're just like if I could just breathe for five more seconds and the timer runs out and then voila it's a draw right a lot of that happens in business if I could just have a little bit more

financial runway I can get to a place a safer place to make a better decision that's directly from the jiu jitza mats that's a growth mindset but if I said man I'm 49 years old two years ago jujitsu is not for me I'm not going to do this I'm too old that lesson would not have been learned So guys, I hope you got a ton of value from these five irrefutable traits that high performers have. I want you to develop them. Understand that it is not factory installed in any of us. It is traits and habits that we can develop, nurture, and grow into. And when you do, you can achieve more of your dreams, ambitions, and goals in life.

Because I don't want you to deal with so much friction and frustration. And I also want you to go to bedroseculion.com and drop your name and email address in for the Domination Download newsletter. If you're watching this on YouTube, I'll be sure to put that in the first comment so you can get the Domination Download newsletter where every Sunday I send out a fresh brand new email newsletter full of strategies and tactics and systems that are working in my life and in my business to help me perform at a higher level, make more money, and have a more meaningful and purpose-driven life. Thank you so much for watching and listening to this episode of the Bedros-Culian show and always remember this that averages the enemy. Success is your responsibility and change

can take place in an instant if you are willing to flip the switch. I'll see you next time. Me and you Back when Q was rolling with Lorenzo and a Benzo I was banging with a gang of instrument