Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show - 195. 3 Things Men Do That Keep Them Average

Episode Date: June 23, 2026

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Guys, welcome to the Bedros Koolian show. My name is Bedros Kulian. And this episode spawned from a question that I got from someone. The question was, Bredros, how do I become the best version of myself? I happened to run into some guy at UFC gym in Brea, California. And after a little bit of talking, he said, hey, man, how do I become the best version of myself?

And I think he was waiting for some kind of metaphysical answer, like, dude, you got to start meditating and journaling and doing interpretive dance and all these things, ice baths and, I don't know, sound bowls, but the reality is you can become the best version of yourself in three very easy steps. I'm going to share them with you right here. But first, we've got to talk about human potential because I think human potential is pretty interesting. Think about this for a moment. You've got someone like Elon Musk. In 2018, Elon Musk put a Tesla, he put his Tesla roadster in a rocket, and he launched it. And the intention was for this rocket and his Tesla to orbit the

sun, right? Like you can go online right now and track what that rocket is doing and where it's at in its orbit with his Tesla in it. Now, why did Elon do this? Just to prove a point that his SpaceX rockets are the best and that he can do something amazing and he knows how to get attention. And of course, attention is the highest form of currency today. And that's one of his greatest marketing strategies. But we'll leave that for a business episode in terms of how Elon uses practically no paid advertising, yet still grows Tesla, SpaceX, a boring company, and his solar company and all these other things so quickly and efficiently. But I share this with you because look at the human potential of Elon Musk.

And by the way, he's not the only one. There's so many people out there doing amazing things, right? You think about Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett for the last whatever, 50, 60 years together they have been growing, Brookshar Hathaway, picking companies. that are going to scale on the stock market and making all the right moves to get their shareholders a lot of money. That is a pretty impressive thing

to be able to understand economy, business, demand, consumerism so well to be able to predict Haynes or Fruit of the Loom or Coca-Cola or whatever organization that they invest in is going to grow next and then knowing how to tap into that. That's a pretty impressive superpower, right? And you think about Jeff Bezos.

He had this wild idea in what was it? Late 1990s. I'm going to create some online bookstore called Amazon, right? And look at it today. Like you could literally go buy anything off of Amazon. And today it serves not only products, but also gives us entertainment through Prime and Amazon owns grocery stores now, like Whole Foods. And it continues to grow.

But I share this with you because human. potential while being so great. It's not just, you know, for the elites like the Bezos, like Elon Musk, like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. There's so many other great people that have done amazing things. I certainly won't compare myself to Bezos and Elon Musk or Warren Buffett, but I'll tell you this, some immigrant kid comes from the Soviet Union, doesn't speak English, doesn't understand the language, lives in Section 8 housing, grows up and becomes the American dream. Like, that's me.

I've had the good fortune to become the best version of myself and that version of me keeps evolving into the higher level of potential that I have, right? My goal is to never peak. It is to continue to evolve as the Japanese say, Kai Zen, to keep improving over time.

And I've been able to start this international fitness franchise, Fit Body Boot Camp, the Truly Wellness Shot, and become part of Fuel Hunt and create all these business partners, And give back to Shriner Children's Hospital, Toys for Tots, Compassion International, millions of dollars. And all because I had these ideas and I was able to bring them to market and be able to have enough

organization and structure and people around me to help launch these things and then learn how to market it and sell it. None of these things were factory installed in me. But I knew that I had the potential. Guys, quick interruption to the Bedrose Coolion show. I want to tell you about the Man Up bundle that I have for you for $29 and 100% of it goes so Shriner's Children's Hospital, where we're going to do a lot of good, and you're going to build an awesome business and have a great life because of it.

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Just 45 miles from here where I live in Chino Hills, California, 45 miles from here, you'll see tent cities. You'll see Skid Row. And you can see this in Seattle. You'll see it in Portland. You'll see it in the streets of New York. You'll see it all over the country. People that are addicts, as much as we want to call them home. people, let's call them what they are. They're not homeless. It's not like once they have a home,

they'll be fine. They will find a way to sell everything in that home to get more drugs, to get more alcohol, to get more fentanyl, to get more meth, to get more heroin, right? The reason they are homeless is because they are addicts. So let's not call them homeless. Let's call them addicts. Majority, are there some people out there that are down on their luck living in their car are homeless and they're probably going to be homeless temporarily because they're doing something proactive to get themselves out of that situation? Absolutely. But by and large, a majority of people out there, they've lost all desire to reach their human potential. And we could argue all day long, like, why are they addicted? You know, could have been from trauma, could have been

a bad shake at life, could have been a lot of things. But I would argue we've all had a bad shake at life. You've had a bad shake at life. Didn't mean that you grabbed the fucking needle and stuck it in your arm, right? Didn't mean that you're going to start popping pills and get all hopped up on meth, snorting cocaine until your sinuses burn out. The reality is we've all had a bad shake at life, but we have to do what we're designed to do,

which is problem-solve and work through our problems, count on the people around us to support us. But I shared this with you because the other side of human potential isn't just putting a Tesla in a rocket and flying it around the sun or knowing which stocks to pick for 50-plus years to grow the wealth of the,

people that invest in your organization or to create a franchise or a supplement company or to or to create the world's biggest bookstore that becomes this big shopping mall of of products and services that you can get through Amazon. The other side of it is people who are absolutely degenerates addicted to drugs, alcohol and living on the streets, putting a needle in them, so addicted to fentanyl that they will take a hit. I was in Seattle. I was in Seattle. at an event probably about three, four months ago. And the black car picked me up and took me, is taking me from the airport to my hotel in downtown Seattle. And as we get off the exit to the

hotel, I realize that there's a dude who's holding a sign that says, like, I need money. I'm homeless, I need money. But he's hunched over and his eyes are glazed and he's just kind of staring into nothingness. And I asked the driver, I'm like, dude, what's that about? He goes, oh, that's the fentanyl fold. Like he was hunched over, somehow folded over, hopped up on fentanyl, had just enough power to stand up and hold the sign while completely checked out and staring into nothingness. That's human potential, being wasted, right? But I shared this with you because human potential can be fostered or it can be absolutely neglected. It's almost like if you're a little acorn, we know that that little acorn seed can eventually become an oak tree.

But if I just put that acorn seed here on the tabletop, I don't water it, I don't plant it, I don't till the soil, I don't pull the weeds around it that are going to choke it out otherwise, that little seed's never going to become a tree. It's just going to sit there and eventually rot and die, right? While the genetic potential exists of that little seed becoming a massive oak tree, it's not just going to happen on its own. to be planted and then Mother Nature needs to water it, right? And then over time, it will push

through the soil and it'll be a little seedling and a little sprout and then ultimately a big giant oak tree. But there's a lot of effort that's going to go into that. Now, some might argue, well, as long as that seed is in his environment, it can become the oak tree. We don't operate that way. I would argue that soon as a fish is born pops out of its mom as little a vagina, it knows how to swim. Doesn't have to take swimming lessons. Doesn't have to learn how to breathe underwater. That's factory installed.

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to the show. Factory installed for humans is the most basic of survival. sustenance, food, water, air, and some form of basic shelter. Right? Again, go to L.A., go to Seattle, go to Portland, go to New York. You'll see people sleeping in front of, in doorways of businesses in the middle of the night, on a cardboard box piled up with blankets, right? That is the human, the basics. Genetically, that is what we're designed to do.

That's why we were cavemen. We figured out, all right, well, I'm not going to sleep in the elements. I'm going to scoop myself into this rock cave so that I could have some level of safety from the animals, the saber-tooth tiger, and all the other animals roaming in the middle of the night trying to eat something. And I'm going to create fire so I can have some warmth.

I'm going to bring a bucket of water or I'm going to hollow out this tree stump and use it as a bucket and bring some water from the river so I can have some water to drink throughout the night and the morning. But that was basic survival. You know, they're eating twigs and berries and maybe rotten meat and having dysentery and diarrhea throwing up out of both ends.

But they survive to another day. Like that is our genetic potential, just like a fish's genetic potential, is just to swim around all day and hope to find some kind of food and hope to not get eaten by the bigger fish. A little seedling, right, can grow into an oak tree, that acorn,

but it's not going to do it until it's planted. The difference with us, our genetic potential is basic survival, food, water, air, some level of coverage, shelter, et cetera. But that's how you become homeless. That's how you become addicted if you decide then to partake in drugs. But we have so much more potential, right?

That fish is not going to spawn into a school of fish unless it could find another, you know, fish to make sweet love to and then pop out a whole bunch of baby fish. Outside of that, its genetic potential is just that. Same with that tiny little oak tree that's going to become this giant oak tree, right? However, we have so much greater potential And so what do we need to do to get there?

It's not something that is necessarily luck. Like some people got it and some don't. Elon got lucky. Jeff Bezos got lucky. Warren Buffett got lucky. I got lucky. No, it's not luck. I like to think that I'm probably about as average as it gets,

average in terms of mental capacity, genetic capacity, right? I'm a fat kid by nature. Yes, I'm 51 years old. I've got abs. And that's because I train twice a day. I eat clean. I make sure that I prioritize my health and fitness. I don't drink alcohol.

I don't waste time on negative thoughts and input from people on rumors and gossip and things like that. I keep a positive mental attitude. All of that compounds into a healthy physical and mental state for me at 51 years old. And I plan on being that at 61, 71, 81, and as long as God has given me time on this earth. But it's through conscious effort and prioritizing, not because I got lucky and and have great genetics, because I got fat genetics. Let me tell you, I was in Brooklyn for a couple days, ate a lasagna, ate a couple bagels, ate a few slices of pizza, came back about four

pounds heavier. Like, bam, I could put on the weight with a quickness. But I share this with you because it's not luck. It is development. You can develop yourself in to the best version of yourself. And the way you do that is through actual decisions that you're making, right? So I want to break that down because when you make a decision that I'm going to, for example, tonight, let's say you decide that you're going to wake up tomorrow morning and work out first thing in the morning. I don't care whatever time you wake up, right?

Like I wake up somewhere around 4.30 in the morning. Some people wake up 6, 7 o'clock in the morning. Doesn't matter to me. As long as you get your shit done, what do I care, right? But I'm an advocate of working out exercising in the morning. It doesn't have to be first thing in the morning, but definitely in the morning. For me, I'll wake up at 4.30. Usually by 9 o'clock, 9.30, I'm working out.

Between 4.30 and 9 o'clock, I'm showering, I'm getting some work done, things that move the money and the meaning needle for me. And then I'll go exercise. Then after that, shower, clean up and focus on more work. come to HQ and run a half-day coaching session with my clients or work with my team to grow the different brands, et cetera. But I believe when you exercise first thing in the morning, you're literally kick-starting your body, the endorphins, the dopamine, all the happy hormones. They're like keep you in a positive state of mind, especially as an entrepreneur, right?

I'm guessing if you watch my show, you're a high achiever. You're looking to achieve more in life. And so if you want to become the best version of yourself, it's a decision to make. Tonight you're making a decision that tomorrow morning you're going to work out. Now watch what happens next. Tomorrow morning comes, your alarm goes off and you hit snooze. You hit snooze a couple more times and now you're behind the eight ball. Now you decide I can't work out because I literally slept through the amount of time I was going to work out.

But that's okay. I'll go to work. I'll do my thing and I'll work out tonight. But tonight comes and you didn't work out. So your decision led to in action instead of action. So you made the decision to work out and had you woken up early and got that workout in, that action would have led to self-respect. But instead, you made a decision,

and then you leaned towards inaction, and therefore that is disrespecting yourself, right? And what I found is when over time you continue to disrespect yourself versus respecting yourself, you begin to erode your confidence. You begin to erode your reputation with yourself. Your reputation with yourself is like a self-credit score, right?

And if you constantly break promises to yourself, what you're doing is you're lowering your credit score with yourself, your reputation. You become someone that is not trustworthy, right? And so as I got to think, and I was like, all right, what does someone need to do if they are ready to become the best version of themselves? And so here's the lineup. Number one, exercise in the morning. I don't care if it's first thing in the morning or sometime in the morning, but exercise

deliberately, intentionally without screen sucking, pushing yourself on a structured training program in the morning. And if you're going to exercise, then you know that exercise is like 20% of the transformation that your body's going to achieve. So number two is eat right. Eat clean. Eat clean. What does eat clean means? Figure out what your goal is. If you're six foot and 230 pounds and your 25% body fat and your goal is to get to 200 pounds, you got 30 pounds of fat to lose, well, that means you've got to take in 200 grams of protein per day, right? One gram of protein per pound of body weight. You might take maybe 450, 500 grams of carbs, maybe 600 grams of carbs on a back or leg day. And then the rest of it, 40, 50 grams of protein, right? Whatever those macros

work out to. You can go to chat GPT. You can go to Claude and you can say, hey, here's who I am. Here's where I want to go. Here's how much time I want to do it in, six months or a year in terms of transformation, I work out five days a week. How do I eat to achieve this desired body fat percentage? And boom, you're going to get your macros, proteins, fats, and carbs, right? And then you eat the foods that meet those macros and you produce the outcome. Now, if you can do that first thing in the morning and then eat so that you can develop the body and the physique that you want throughout the day, the next thing is to keep the promises to yourself, right? Keep promises to yourself. Like I said earlier, the biggest and fastest, most effective way to erode your confidence

and to ruin your reputation with yourself is to make a promise and then break it. Make a promise and then break it. Each time you make a promise and you break it, you are not becoming the best version of yourself. You're becoming the most loser version of yourself. You're becoming the most despicable version of yourself. The version of yourself that you can't trust, that you have lost respect for. Like, you don't want that, right? So keep your promises, not. not only to yourself, but to others. Don't be that guy who's a flake, who just doesn't show up and doesn't really explain why.

Doesn't just ghost people, right? Don't be that person. Don't ghost yourself. Don't flake on yourself. Don't flake on others. And if you can keep your promises to yourself, the next thing is develop emotional discipline. A dude who's always reacting to things

and is getting emotionally charged and people can emotionally manipulate you by bringing gossip rumors. You know, did you hear about Trump? you hear about Israel? Did you hear about Kamala? Did you hear about Newsom? Who gives a shit? As though you can control, you and I can't control anything in politics. Yes, we want to know what's going on. But if I'm going to allow myself to get emotionally charged to the point where I have lost all focus on the work that I'm doing on my business, on my family, on my faith, on my finances, what's it all for?

On my fitness. It's like, I can't go work out. I'm too fucked up. Or you have an emotional meltdown and you start going on social media, writing on all caps, multiple exclamation points, post, that'll teach him, and then what? And then what? So a man that has emotional discipline is going to become the better version of himself. And a man who has emotional discipline thinks this way. Very easy concept. You ready for this? It says, all right, what are the things that are in my locus of control? And whatever those things are, my health, what I think about, my belief systems, my actions, My thoughts, those are all within my locus of control. That is what I will focus on, period.

The things that are in my external locus of control, politics, the weather, sports teams, gossip, rumors, disasters, things that are outside of my control, the economy, inflation. I can't control that. I'll be aware of it, but I will not let my emotions get the best of me to then drive me insane to the point where I can't focus on the things that are within the locus of control. And if you can maintain emotional discipline, then you go to the next thing. And this is the final thing. And that is to have this never peak mentality, this mindset of I will keep evolving until I die.

Most people peak. And they go, well, it's all downhill from here. I'm 35 years old. It's all downhill from here. Dad bod, they accept the dad bot. Yeah, guess what, motherfucker? It gets difficult to stay leaner on the other side of 35, 40 years old. I'm 51.

I turned 52 in a couple of months. It is far more difficult to stay lean. It is far more difficult to be injury-free. So I do more mobility, more flexibility. I've adjusted my training program from super heavy and low reps to moderate weight, higher reps. More flexibility and mobility, like I said, more time warming up. And that's okay. But I found myself active on the jiu-jitsu mats.

I found myself more capable in the gym than ever before, and I have to keep my diet even more dialed in because my metabolism is not what it used to be, but that's okay because I've developed greater sense of discipline. Why? Because I've kept the promises to myself for 30 years straight. I wasn't that guy as a young man in my teens and 20s, even in my, actually not even 30 years straight, up to my mid-30s. I was a guy that would make a commitment to myself

and then break it if there was a better opportunity or if I didn't feel like it. So really when I think about it, it's probably been since 35 years old. So maybe 15, 16 years, I've kept my promises to myself and my business has changed because of it because the leader is the lid,

as John Maxwell says in his book, 21 irrefutable laws of leadership. So as the leader, if I start getting more disciplined, I set higher standards for myself, and then I keep the promises to myself and I go and work out and eat right, maintain emotional discipline. And then I continue to use this never peak mentality.

And I'm like, all right, I'm 35, great. I'm going to keep going. I'm 45. I'm going to keep going. I'm 51. I'm going to keep going. And so this never peak mentality breaks down in three specific areas, right? Because I want you to be able to challenge yourself.

If you want to become the best version of yourself, you've got to continue to challenge yourself. How does that show up? Well, it shows up as this. One physical challenge a year, right? Notice I didn't say, do it one time. One physical challenge a year that's really going to suck. I call it suck fest.

You might have heard me talk about it before. Every December, when it gets really cold here in Southern California, believe it or not, Southern California can get pretty cold. Well, probably not as cold as in the Midwest, but it'll hit mid-30s. It'll hit high 30s. And so late at night, when the sun goes down, I start hiking throughout my community until the sun comes up. So once a year in December, when it's cold, I'll work a normal day.

I'll have a normal day. except instead of calling it a day at the end of the night, when the sun goes down, usually around 435, 440, I'll start hiking all night long, typically 35 to 37 miles, doing hills and flats until I see the sun peak up at around 635, 640 in the morning, and then I allow myself to go to bed. That means I've been awake for over 24 hours.

I worked out in the morning, had my whole workday, and then had a sucky experience throughout the night. Now, why do I do that? Because I want to test myself physically. Knowing that once a year I'm going to do that, that means throughout the year I have to keep myself fit in strength, mobility, cardiovascularly, and all of it. Because otherwise, come December, it's really going to suck.

I'm going to cramp up and not be able to finish. Or I'm going to give up and become a phony, right? So if you can do something physically challenging, I would challenge you to do your own suck fest once a year. One of the best things to do is pick a time if you're like, hey, in December, it's like fucking whatever, you know, 12 degrees where I live. Great. Do it in the summertime.

From sundown to sunup, hike through the middle of the night, right? Don't sleep throughout the day to catch up on sleep. Just have your normal day, but then sun down to sunup, go hiking. Challenge yourself. And when you feel like giving up at night and you know no one will know if you gave up, don't. Just keep going. Because when you do, guess what?

You've beat this conversation that takes place in your head between the inner bitch and the inner advocate. The inner bitch is like, hey, give up. You're done. You went 20 miles. No one will know if you quit. The advocate says, but you will know. You'll be a promise breaker.

You'll ruin their reputation with yourself. So keep going. Listen to the advocate, not to the inner bitch. Most of your problems in life are a byproduct of constantly listening to that inner bitch. The inner critic that is constantly telling you to stop. Don't do it. You're tired. You can do it tomorrow.

Just put it off for another day. It really doesn't matter. What's the big deal? Your inner bitch can find a million excuses to stop doing something, to give up on something. It's the inner advocate that's like, hey, man, I got you. Do it. It's going to suck. But you're going to be proud of yourself.

And so if you're willing to do that, a physical challenge like suckfest once a year, you're forced to keep yourself healthy, fit, active, mobile, cardiovascularly, physically strong so that you can do your suck fest whenever it's going to be, right? then the next thing is do a mental challenge for me twice a year i'll do a 48 hour fast believe it or not that's a mental challenge not a physical challenge you can go good 30 days without eating anything as long as you're drinking water and getting your electrolytes right sodium potassium magnesium you're good you're good so 48 hour fast is nothing when knowing that you can go 30 days without any food but you do a 48 hour fast and you start realizing how hunger, like what real hunger is, most of the time,

99% of you out there, you eat when you're thirsty. You eat when you're angry. You eat when you're sad. You eat when you're stressed. You don't really experience true hunger like I used to when I lived in Armenia in a third world country. You won't experience real hunger. You give yourself a 48-hour window of time to experience real hunger, knowing that there's food in the closet, cupboard, pantry, refrigerator, grocery store, you could order something off your fucking app, but then you have the willpower and the discipline not to. That's why I say that is a mental challenge. Knowing that food is right there at your fingertips and your body's like, go eat, you feel lightheaded, you feel weak, you might pass out, the inner bitch begins to

hiss again, doesn't it? What's the point of all this? You did 24 hours. Why go 48? Because I committed to it, motherfucker. That's why, right? That's your answer to your inner bitch. And when you do, you develop mental toughness at a whole new level. You realize how much more willpower it takes to control your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. And if you're like, man, I'm going to try this 48 hour fast. Well, you might want to also try it with doing this.

Whenever I do my 48 hour fast, and you've probably heard me talk about this, the Truling 48 hour fast, just go to truline.com, use my name Bedros. and buy a box of 30 wellness shots. Drink these every day, every morning. Just open this envelope, poured in four ounces of water, stir and drink. And you're going to get your electrolytes. In addition to that, you're going to get ginger,

turmeric, vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, B12, echinacea, estragulus. And more than that, boost your immune system fights off inflammation. And whenever I do a 48-hour fast, I'm just drinking this every morning. That's it. Zero calories, so it doesn't spike any kind of insulin or blood sugar.

and you get the electrolytes that you need. The only difference is when I do a 48 hour fast, I drink two of these a day instead of just one a day. I drink one in the morning, one in the afternoon. But I share this with you because now that you've done a physical challenge, suckfest once a year, you do a 48 hour fast, the truly in 48 hour fast once a year, right? You got willpower and you got this mental toughness that you're building.

The other thing is do one six-week challenge a year. That's it. do one six-week challenge a year. This is how you're going to become your best self. Because the truth is, all these things that I listed off, exercising, eating clean, keeping promises to yourself, developing emotional discipline, never peaking and constantly evolving, right? And then doing a physical challenge like suckfest, doing a mental challenge, like the 48-hour trueling fast,

and then doing a six-week challenge. I've talked to you guys about my six-week challenges. I first started my first six-week challenge, probably 13, 14 years of. ago. I trained, I hired a running coach, a marathon running coach, I trained for six weeks and ran the San Diego Marathon because I considered myself, I'm not designed to run. I'm a big boy. I'm designed to lift weights, right? I'm six foot, 240 pounds back then. Now I'm 216. And I'm on my way to 205-210 by July 22nd, my birthday. That's where I'm shooting for. But I share this with you because when you do a six-week challenge, you take on a new physical challenge or even a mental challenge

that you have convinced yourself you're not designed to do. Like I had convinced myself that I'm not designed to run. I'm designed to lift weights. Until one day I was like, you know what? I'm shortchanging myself. I am going to start learning how to run. Well, what's the best way to do it? Hire a running coach, train for six weeks, three times a week for six weeks,

and then go run a marathon. And it just so happens that the San Diego Marathon was coming, so I committed to that. By the way, if you want to do that, if you want to try that, go to bedrosecolion.com, scroll down to like the fifth or sixth box on bedroscolian.com, and you can download my free Marathon Challenge guide. It's the whole training program that I use, the nutrition program, the recovery program, and six weeks of mindset and motivation videos and audios from me for free, right?

Bedroskollion.com go all the way down to the Marathon Challenge. It's the 26.2 because a marathon is 26.2 miles. And you can download the entire six-week challenge for free. and then run yourself a marathon. Either sign up for a marathon, or if you don't want to pay for a marathon, drive 13.1 miles one way, and then 13.1 miles back home,

there's your path for 26.2, a marathon, right? Do the marathon challenge. But since then, I'll do one or two, six-week challenges a year. Guitar lessons, salsa dancing, surf lessons, MMA, Jiu-Jitsu, that's how Jiu-Jitsu stuck, right? A lot of things stuck. Surfing stuck. And it could be chess.

I've done a chess challenge. for six weeks. So you can do mental or physical challenges, man. But the whole idea here is to have that never peak mentality. That's how you become the best version of yourself. Because we talked about the potential that you have. Like, I never thought I could be a really good surfer. I didn't think that I could be a decent jiu-jitsu. But here I am three years into jiu-jitsu. I'm pretty decent. All that goes out the window when I start rolling with people way better than me. But people at my level, I'm pretty decent. And it gives me a greater sense of confidence. And, And I've developed new friends because of Jiu-Jitsu,

and all because I took it on as a six-week challenge. Because I was like, I don't know if at the age of 48, I can take on a new combative sport and actually get good at it. Well, I actually believe that one day I might actually get a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu. Think about that, right? Again, I share this with you because if you do these six-week challenges, just pick one or two a year, something that's out of your comfort zone,

something that makes your butthole clench that you don't want to do, something that's uncomfortable, and it could be something mental. Like I said, you know, I've done improv classes. I've done chess challenge. I've done sign language. I've done salsa dancing. I've also done physical stuff. Six weeks of MMA, six weeks of jujitsu, six weeks of running, right? And so you begin to develop these new skills and attributes and you don't even know what you're going to end up falling in love with. thought I would enjoy surfing or jujitsu. I just thought, okay, well, let me do it since it's out of my comfort zone and I don't think I'm going to be good at it. And over time, as it turns out, you do something, you get good at it. And make no mistake about it. Every time you do a six-week challenge, you're creating

neuroplasticity. You're like creating new synapses in your brain that start firing. And the areas that are built in your brain to help you become better at whatever that challenges, spill over into the other areas of your life, into your relationship, into your fitness, into your personal discipline, and into your business, because how you do anything is how you do everything. I've taken lessons from marathon and from sign language and from surfing and from jujitsu and applied it to every category of my life. And had I not done those six-week challenges, I would never have been able to discover those new levels of growth that I had.

So if you want to become the best version of yourself, that's what you do, my friend. Is meditation good? Is journaling good, sound bowls and all that stuff? Yes. But it's the daily decisions that you make, the commitment that you keep to yourself, the promises that you don't break, and each time you do something that puts you out of your comfort zone,

you begin to expand that comfort zone. And when you do, you end up developing yourself into the highest version of yourself. Guys, if you got value from this episode of the Bedros Kooling show, do me a favor, especially if you're watching this on YouTube.

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