The Bossticks - Ed Mylett Pt. 2 - How To Achieve Your Goals, Enjoy Success, Strive For More, & Hold Yourself Accountable, All While Avoiding Burnout

Episode Date: December 31, 2019

#238: On this New Year's episode we are sitting down with the one and only Ed Mylett! Ed is a best selling author, top 50 wealthiest under 50, global speaker, and serial entrepreneur. This is Ed's second appearance on the show. His first appearance was on January 1st of 2019 and it's a top 10 listener favorite. In this episode Ed is back to help kick off 2020 and as always he delivers! On today's show we discuss how to achieve your goals, enjoy your success, strive for more, & hold yourself accountable all while avoiding burnout.  To connect with Ed Mylett click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by Joovv. Experience the benefits of red light therapy by one of the best in the business; JOOVV! To experience the Joovv and receive a free gift with purchase go to joovv.com/skinny This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox This year it's time to eat better and spend less time and money at the grocery store. Thanks to ButcherBox this is all possible. ButcherBox is a meat delivery subscription that delivers high quality meat for a better price than the grocery store. All meat is free of antibiotics and hormones. Options like 100% grass-fed and finished beef, free-range chicken, wild caught salmon and more. Right now you can get two pounds of salmon absolutely free, plus twenty dollars off your first box. Visit ButcherBox.com/SKINNY or use promo code SKINNY at checkout. This episode is brought to you by RITUAL Forget everything you thought you knew about vitamins. Ritual is the brand that's reinventing the experience with 9 essential nutrients women lack the most. If you're ready to invest in your health, do what I did and go to www.ritual.com/skinny  Your future self will thank you for taking Ritual: Consider it your 'Lifelong-Health-401k'. Why put anything but clean ingredients (backed by real science) in your body? Produced by Dear Media

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Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. So what I would say to you is absolutely I can tell you exactly what to do. You need to begin to make promises to yourself. Set up the game early where you can keep them. Stack that stuff and create momentum. And what happens is you will begin to build a reputation with yourself that you can trust you. And that's what a self-confident person has.

That's what you have. That's what you have. Is you built a pattern with you of keeping the promises you make to yourself. That's what self-confidence is. Happy Happy New Year. That clip was from our guest to the show today, Ed Milet. Ed Milet is one of my favorite guests we have ever had on the show. if you have not listened to his first episode, I highly recommend.

Guys, like Lauren just said, we started off 2019 with an Ed Milet episode all about peak performance. That was all the way back in January 1st of 2019. So you're getting this one a day early, December 31st, 2019. Great way to kick off the new year with one of the most motivational speakers we've had on this podcast. I'm telling you if you haven't heard him before, go back all the way back to a year ago when he first came on. On today's episode, we're talking about motivation, how to find strength, empathy, most of all how to find confidence within yourself, guys. This is one of our favorite guests on the show. Ed, open invite anytime you want, brother. And also, I just want to say that when I consume content in the

morning while I'm making the bed and making my sports tea and, you know, getting ready and doing my almond butter and walking to Pilates, it's typically Ed Milet, probably 75% of the time. He's become, like, an online mentor to me. I have learned so much from him. You guys are going to see why I'm so in love with him secretly. Sorry, Michael, from this episode. So I personally think this is an insane way to start your new year. Hopefully you're making your sports tea in the kitchen ready to conquer the day. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Ed Milet, we're going to hop right into it. He is a serial entrepreneur. He's a vision leader. He's a global speaker. And he is a performance coach to some of the gnarliest people in the world. Think top politicians, celebrities, athletes, influencers. You get it.

With that, let's welcome Ed back to the skinny confidential him and her show. This is the skinny confidential him and her. All right, one of our favorite people. One of our favorite people. One of our best performing all-time guests. Didn't believe me, but I swear to God, it's true. Ed Milet, back on the show. Last, it's been one year.

Yeah. We had you kick off 2019 new year episode, and we're going to do the same thing in 2020 because so many people love the episode, love you, love the conversation. Welcome back. Thank you. Great to be with you. I love you guys. and you look so good for, you're so far along for your praise.

Eight and a half months pregnant. I'm about to pop. Yeah. And you said it was pretty easy too. It's been pretty easy, but I have to be honest. I really miss alcohol. I knew you would say something like that. I do.

And also the gaining weight thing. I've talked about this on my show has been like hard. Where did you gain it? I don't see any weight. Oh my God. She's too hard on herself. She's too hard on herself. Yeah.

Are you? Yeah, you're not hard on her, but she's hard on you. No, she's way hard. I tell her, listen, you're growing a head. healthy baby, like have fun. That's exactly right, by the way. And the genetic combo is completely unfair between the two of you. This kid's going to be gorgeous. Listen, I'm just happy it's healthy right now, you know? Yeah, let's hope that it gets my nose though still. I'm putting that out into the ether. Okay, so let's hop right into this because this is a theme that I keep hearing on your

show, you on other shows. And I just, I think that this is a good way to start the new year. Why is perfectionism hurting you? Well, perfectionism is a cop out, number one, because, you, Because you know going in that it's not a real standard that you can maintain. And so it's your way out. Most people say they're perfectionists as a way out of doing things, right? And it's hurting you because it's an impossible thing to achieve. Because if you are a perfectionist, you've already set the game up where no matter what you do, you're deficient.

And it's funny because on my show, when I started my show, it's mainly achievers, right? And I wondered when I did it, what will they all have in common? Like, is it hard work? They got lucky brains. and ironically, like I've been shocked, not every single person, but the vast majority, what they have the most in common is a mild touch of depression. Does that surprise you? Like on and off camera, a mild touch of depression.

And I know why that is, I think. And I think it's because people that are achievers set these incredibly high standards for themselves, and they're never measuring up. There's always this incongruency between what they think they're capable of and what they're doing. And the worst of those are the perfectionist people, because then they never live up. So not only is it a standard you'll never meet, it's a cop out to not doing things,

but it's wiring yourself from misery your entire life because you'll never live up. You'll always have that gap. You've already pre-wired yourself for some form of depression, anxiety, worry, all of the time. One of the worst things you could do to yourself is to call yourself or make yourself a perfectionist. What are other excuses that you keep hearing?

Like, I'll give you one in mind that I hear all the time. Well, I can't go blog on Instagram because it's saturated. I can't stand that. That's a biggie, too. Yeah, the other one is that that people think they have nothing to offer. People sell themselves super short, right?

So it's not imposter syndrome. That's different where when you're achieving, but you sometimes think maybe people are going to figure out I'm not as great as I am. I have a little bit of that from time to time. I think everybody does. The big one I have is, I don't have anything to offer.

Nobody's going to listen to me. Somebody's already doing it. My brother-in-law, for example, just started a dad podcast. And he came and he goes, I just want to do a podcast. And I said, well, I think what's your best at is being a dad. He's not a super big earner in life. You know, he's not in unbelievable shape.

He's a wonderful father. And I said, you ought to podcast about that. You want to talk about that. He goes, nobody wants to hear about that. There's already a dad podcast. I'm like, Brian, there's not your version of it, dude. It's not your message, your way of doing it. And you shouldn't do it to get downloads or likes.

You should do it as a form of expression of yourself. Not enough people just give themselves credit that one of the things you born to do is express yourself, whether that's through spoken word, written word, music, the way you treat people. These are forms of expression, right? And so for me, I think the big one is, well, no one will listen to me. I don't have anything to offer. Every human being does. And I don't say that in like a corny way either. I learn a lot from my own audience, as I know you guys do too. And not all of them make millions of dollars a year or have built huge companies. I learn a lot about how to treat one another, about different ways of thinking, about experiencing the world, particularly

For me, as you were saying before we went on, a lot of my following is women. And for me, kind of being, I don't know, at least on outward appearances, sometimes, you know, a masculine male, I have an awful lot of followers that are women or feminine. And I've learned a lot about how to treat people differently, how to communicate differently from my audience. So everybody has something to teach somebody else. You know, it's funny. Sitting in my seat, 90% of the talent that I find to be the most successful are the ones that set out without an intention to try to earn money or money. It was because they wanted to do what you said, express themselves.

They wanted to create something to put out in the world and provide value to people listening, watching, reading, whatever it is. The business kind of just popped up out of nowhere once they started doing that. Brother, that's the most amazing thing. I had a whole day. There's a well-known celebrity person that I coach. And I was with him yesterday. And that's exactly what I told him. I said, you need to stop trying to start with the money in mind first and start with the expression, the need, the desire, your gift.

I can honestly tell you, I've obviously been blessed financial. I've not started any of my businesses with the idea to make money in the very beginning. When I started in the financial business, I had just come out of the group home, the orphanage that I worked at. And I was like, these kids all come from broken families. I'm going to go serve these families. I never computed in the beginning. Like, this is going to make me a lot of money.

It wasn't my intention to do it, nor have any of the businesses that I've started. 100% right. It's so funny. I mean, I think they believe now with any type of content with Arthur, there needs to be, a monetary association with it in order to be successful. They don't think like, hey, I'm just going to go out and create anymore. People just can't, they can't wrap their head around. They're like, if you just get out and create things, that that will start bringing value

to people and they'll want to support you. They won't support you. And maybe you won't make a ton of money doing it, but maybe you'll create change doing it too. I had a guest on my show. Maybe you'll be happy. Maybe you'll be happier. You're certainly fulfilled when your fulfillment is the process of giving your gift or

serving other people. It's the only thing that ever fulfills you. There's a lie out there. people say, well, material things won't make you happy. Total lie. When I bought my jet, I was happy. You buy a nice car, you're happy. You get a nice pair of shoes. You have a nice meal. You're happy. It's just a lie that those things don't make you happy. What they won't ever do is fulfill you. It's fleeting. It's not long lasting. It doesn't fill your soul up with something. One of my most impactful guests ever is a lady named Kayla Stockline. And she makes no money with the

speaking she does. I love that episode. Thank you. And her husband was a pastor, three children. six, four, and two years old. He goes to one of their football games, kisses his children, goes back to their church to prepare his message, and hangs himself. Yeah. And she's, she has taken that message of what it's done to her family, and she's changing lives, man. And when she started, because I knew her before, she's like, well, who would want to listen to me? No one wants. I'm like, maybe you won't make a ton of money doing it. But I'm going to tell you something, you're going to change the world. You're literally not going to change lives.

you're actually going to save lives with your message. Lo and behold, just now she's starting getting paid to do some of this speaking. It was never the intention. We never saw that coming, but it was her form of expression. It was also, for many people, it was her form of healing. She was healing herself by helping other people by expressing her pain, right? So for some of you, some of your businesses may be to express yourself. It may be to heal you.

It may to make a difference for other people. And ultimately, there's a high probability it'll be profitable if you get good at it. You have to get good at it, too. It takes practice. It takes time. You speak a lot about serving people. You said that you've, you sort of had it all, but you've said in your podcast that what gets you off now is serving people.

Yeah. Can you speak on that? Yeah. You guys are the best of this, by the way. It surprises me how much I like it. To be really honest with you, I think when I was, I think when I was younger, I think this version of me as a grown man might even surprise me when I was young to the extent of how much I love helping people. It's not work for me. It's like my calling. It's almost like I found my home

in my life. And so the first chapters of my life are all about business and making a difference for other people. I made a lot of money. But I really wanted to, I kept telling myself, this isn't even filling me up. And so for me, every time I'm down, every time I'm hurting, every time I'm lost, I get anxiety, I get worried. I have this button I push, which you may sound crazy, but how can I make a difference for somebody else. How can I help them? When I'm really feeling my worst is when I call my friends and check in on them. What I'm really hurting the most is when it's nuts. I just did this. I got into the elevator in the parking garage here. This is going to sound so twisted, but it's little things that I do that make me feel fulfilled. I press the button to go in the elevator to come down to come

see you guys. This guy walks up next to me and he presses up to go up and it was a parking garage. For some reason I got this sense. This just happened. This guy was sitting next to me, looked at him, gave me a great smile. I said, hello, bro. He just had this look on his face, right? And I wanted to ask him if he was okay, but I didn't. But I went up with him in the elevator just now. I went up. And while we were in there, it makes me emotional now. I don't know why I did this, but we were in the elevator.

I just set a prayer for him. I just said, God, give him peace, give him comfort, give him strength right now. And he got out of the elevator and he turns around. And I said, hey, man, have a great day. And he gave me this huge smile, like his whole disposition changed on the ride up. I think he knew I wrote up with him. I don't think he knew why I did. And for me, that gave me the gift not him.

Like, I feel great having done that. I feel energized. I'm not having a great day coming here. My mom and dad are both really in a bad space. I was talking to them all the way out of that. The pathway out of that for me was to serve somebody else. Quick break to talk about New Year, New You, New Jove. I have been standing butt naked every morning in my man cave with red light therapy all over

my body for the past three months. I am so on point. My skin has never been better. stronger than ever. Man parts are working better than ever. I am fucking on point, Lauren. And you know what's funny is that today I woke up and I was grumpy. I had my second cry of the pregnancy last night. My hormones were all over the place. And Michael looked at me in the most loving way and he goes, I think you need to go stand in front of the juve. And the reasons that he wanted me to stand in front of the juve is because it gives you more energy. It puts you in a better mood.

honestly, I always say that it feels like it turned the lights on. Like, you know, when you get adjusted by a chiropractor and it feels like the chiropractor turn the lights on, that's how it feels after you use a juve. It enhances sleep, reduces pain, inflammation, and increases libido, which we don't need any more of your libido right now, Michael. No, no. For those of you that are on the fence, I really, I highly suggest you, you go and listen to episode 233.

We had the founders of the juve team come on the show and talk about the benefits of red light therapy. Guys, we're living in a world where our circadian rhythms are messed. up. We're working under all these bright lights all the time. Our sleep patterns are off. Our health is off. Our skin is off. Our hormones are unbalanced. And it's because we're lacking a lot of the benefits that red light therapy can bring. So we had the founders on this show just to talk about all the benefits. And like Lauren said, who doesn't want better skin, better sleep, better libido, all of these things red light therapy can help you accomplish. And that's why we partnered with Juve to give you a special offer just for our beloved listeners. Go to juve.com slash skinny. That's J-O-O-V-V-V- dot com slash skinny and use code skinny to receive a free gift with your purchase. I'm telling you this is a game changer. Lauren and I both love this product so much. I know you guys will too. And definitely check out the one that I use the mini. And with that, let's get back into the show. Going back to you when you were younger, younger days, what would your older self tell your younger self now? Like,

think yourself 20s, 30s. How would you, you know, because you're so different now, you're focused on different things. Like how would you coach yourself back then? And I would even like for you, just because I'm a consumer of your content to tell yourself what you would tell yourself at 20, 30, and 40. Because those are different eras. So is there certain things that you would give advice in separate sort of segments? We're doing this selfishly because we want to know. Yes. Well, the first thing for me is I would go back to that 5-year-old, 10-year-old, 20-year-old, 30-year-old, even 40-year-old me.

And I'd just say, hey, man, everything's going to be okay. I have this thing about me. it's why I love helping other people. I kind of just was wired as a little boy with worry and anxiety all the time. I wish somebody would have said, hey, man, it's going to be okay. I relate to that. Yeah, do you? Yeah.

100%. And I would say that to the whole audience. It's going to be okay. God loves you. You're blessed. You're favored. Everything's going to be okay. You're wonderful.

You're amazing. You're special. You're chosen. You were born for a reason. I wish I could go back to that little boy or even the 20-year-old go, hey, man, you were born to do something great with your life. And you're going to find it and just keep serving. people, keep making a difference, keep believing yourself, keep improving yourself, keep growing.

That's what I'd say to the younger version of me. The 30 year old version of me, I would have told myself back then, probably the 30 year old version of me, I would have said, enjoy the journey more. I think in my 20s, I was all about achievement and running. Maybe I'm backwards for most people. I think a lot of people in their 20s are partying. And I was like, man, I wanted to win. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to make it. And I think if I could grab me at 30, I would have said, hey, man, enjoy this. Like with the two of you having your children regularly, Cristiana will say, do you remember when Max, you know, my little boy,

and I go, I don't, I don't remember, you know, or do you remember when Bella had her first? I don't remember. You were just out there working too hard. I was too much. And for everybody that's out there, I want you winning. I want you achieving. I want you growing. But the greatest gift you could actually give yourself is to be present more often,

to just put your phone down, be present, enjoy the moment. The thing about social media, it's wonderful is we get to do all this stuff. the downside is we're far less present than we used to be. And between social media, between how hard I was working, I wasn't there enough. In other words, I just went moment to moment to moment, to moment, win to win to win, and never just took it in and enjoyed it. That's what I would have told the 30-year-old me is, hey man, you're only in your 30s once. Everybody listen to this. You're only in the prime of your life, which is probably 25 to 55 years old, at least physically for most people. That's a short window of time and eternity. Enjoy it. Have

some more bliss in your life, win, compete, achieve, but I'd have told myself to enjoy it a little bit more. And that's what's happened to me in my 40s. I figured out, I know, you know, I talk about this a lot about being blissfully dissatisfied, but I figured out, I used to think, man, if I enjoy this right now, if I start to take this all and I'm going to lose all my drive, all my desire, all my ambition is going to go away if I start enjoying it, which was a total lie. Actually, the more you enjoy the moment, the more you celebrate it, the more your brain gets this dopamine hit that says, let's do this again. Let's do this. again, I started to burn out, literally burn out is the process of not enjoying the previous winds,

the previous moments. And your brain fries and goes, I don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to do this work anymore. So that's what I've done in my 40s. It's different is I've celebrated more. I've enjoyed more. That's really good. We need to do that more, both of us.

Because we're probably in, at least me speaking personally. I'm in the seat where it's like, achieve. Okay, achieve. Achieve. And there's never a moment. We're like, oh, that was good. We could celebrate that a little bit. We could take a step back and enjoy it.

You need a composition notepad for that. So do I. So do I. I'm going to talk to guys like that because. Both of us too. So do most people, by the way. This is the human condition. And then here's why.

Our few friends who seem to be enjoying themselves all the time are the ones not achieving sometimes, right? You're like, well, yeah, I got my buddy from high school. He's always having a beer and a blast and he doesn't do shit. So that formula doesn't work. So we equate celebrating and partying and enjoying to lack of achievement. They're not correlated at all. blissful dissatisfaction means this.

You can be blissfully dissatisfied. People conflate two different things. Satisfaction and happiness are completely separate things, but people think they're the same thing. They think, well, if I'm satisfied, I lose all of my desire. No, I'm blissfully. I'm happily dissatisfied still. I like chasing stuff.

I like the journey. I like the run. But if the whole journey is you never stop and see any of the places you've been, I've seen you guys in some of these beautiful places you guys go. And every once in a while, I feel good at least on your social when I see you, Michael. I'm like, I think he's enjoying this moment right now. I think they're enjoying this drink. We do enjoy travel.

I think we enjoy travel. You take some time off. Those trips are the ones time. That's probably an instance where I am enjoying. I am taking time off. But there should be more. There's a danger. Can I tell you what that pattern is?

I have a few friends. I had that too. Your pattern is I only enjoy things when I leave my environment. So when I'm in my environment all the time, that's the place I don't enjoy myself. And so, and the challenge with that is you're going to be in your environment, 95 to 99% of your life, right? So that's the next level guys go, well, that's not true.

When we go to Cabo, man, I let it go, man, for like three days every 150 days. Yeah, that Calbo airport's seeing me in some bad states. So you know what I'm saying? So you've got to make sure that you're not, you have that pattern where your environment is a place you don't enjoy yourself because you're going to be in your environment all the time. What does it look like when, I mean, you coach all these high performers and athletes and celebrities, what is it a coaching session with you look like? You mean like the first one? Yeah, like give us, it could, it could even be the third one.

And what is it? And what's a common denominator you see in these individuals? Like, what are they lacking? What are they looking for? What do they need to help with? Happiness. 100% of the time. Everything in the universe comes back to, I want to be happier.

So I want to build a big old company. Why? So you have a bunch of green pieces of paper? No. you think all those green pieces of paper will make you happier. Well, I want to have, you know, a jet. Well, why do you want to have a jet? Because I think flying around on my own plane will make me happier.

Everything comes back to happiness. And the irony is that most of the people that are achieving things are not wired to have more happiness. So usually with the first session is like, is a lot of listening for me and getting them clear on what it is they actually want. Because 99.9% of them come to me for what they think they want, which is, would you show me how to get more movie rolls? Can you show me how to get out of this slump I'm in because I've two for my last 40 at the plate or I've missed six straight putts to win golf tournaments, right? And they think that's what they want.

But what's really blocking them is their inability, their lack of patterns, their lack of skills to be happy. If you think about it, everywhere in the world, right, you learn how to do different things. There's no course. Our parents didn't teach us. our parents probably weren't that happy. We probably weren't raised around happy people. And so there's no course, no mechanism, no learning, no environment, no large group of associations where we learn to be happier. So the truth is, the vast majority of humans aren't quite as

happy as they'd like to be. Well, it makes sense because if you think about the people that for your level of coaching, they already kind of hit the society benchmarks. A lot of them probably already have the money and the success and the companies and the jets and they're still not happy. They're in the most. Michael, you're brilliant. They're in the most dangerous place. They're like, I did this. Because society's validated them. It still didn't get me. It still didn't fill me up. It still didn't do it for me. And usually when you ask them, crazy question, what have you been doing to serve other people? What are you doing to make a difference? Like all of my athletes, number one

requirement if you're going to work with me, paid or unpaid, is you're going to start some type of a foundation. And they're like, why in the world is that one of the first? Because I'm going to force you egomaniac, selfish athletes, since you were 12 years old. You were. were the biggest, fastest, strongest, everywhere you went, you've been treated special. You don't relate to normal people very well. All your life you've been this way. I'm going to get you out of you, out of your ego and into serving other people. I'm going to force this with you with these environments. And the athletes that I know that take their profile, their money, their influence to serve other people are always the happiest athletes. And here's what's ironic. They make more puts.

It's not that I don't teach them as you know my stuff. I teach them neurolinguistic programming. I teach you might have to use a reticular activating system. I teach them all the triggers and anchors and skills to get into peak states and filter things out. All the technical things I teach are mandatory for them to win. But to get them to be a whole human being, I have to get them serving other people. It sounds like you give them a whole toolbox. I try. I give them the tools I have. I don't have the whole toolbox, but I give them what I have. And again, from working with them, I often learn things. So, you know, I don't have all the tools. I don't have all the answers. And the reason that I'm a little bit effective at helping people is because I had to learn these tools out of necessity for myself.

In other words, usually when you find somebody who seems to have their act together on personal development or self-confidence or achievement, if you met them way back when, they weren't even baseline. Like I wasn't even a baseline person. I was a super low identity, super lack of confidence, super introverted, super shy, super down on myself, super, super insecure. I had to learn these things to function as a human, never mind achieve. So what happened is it just became an addiction of how to get better, how to make my brain work better, how to be happier, how to help people, how to program myself. All that stuff was necessity because I started so far back down the ladder. I think that there's something that you don't talk about often, but you have a tool in your toolbox, which is your wife.

And you, I just was listening to you and Matthew. I don't know his last name. Pussy. Yeah, he's awesome on your podcast about relationships. And he said something so interesting. to me, he said that you're actually selfish if you want to start your own business. That's a selfish thing. It caught me too. And yeah, and he said that to you and I could tell like, I was like, whoa, he's right. Why should you think that your partner should just co-sign your dream and be all about your dream when you're doing something that is so incredibly selfish? So I guess what I would like you to speak on is how has your wife's selflessness given you a foundation for your business and for you to thrive. Hot little break to talk about the meat that you're eating.

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All right, let's get back to Ed. I just ended up with this. Like you guys, we met really young. We met when I was five years old. But first of all, I think God introduced me to her because I think had we not meant when we were and I'd probably be incarcerated by now, right? Like, I think I had to just have this really, I had to have someone in my life who wanted to make me want to be a better man. So she makes me, we have a normal relationship, as you know, all the time with fights and disagreements. but she makes me want to be better. What's selfless about her is that she really enjoys watching me win.

She really enjoys watching me succeed. She wants me to become who I'm capable of becoming. Since we were little kids, she's wanted that. Now, there's quirks to it. I mean, like, I'd like her to be more excited when I do win. Like, when we do it, she's something like, babe, I did it. You know, and she's like, yeah, great, babe. You know, I'm like, hello.

You know what most people are. I think that gets both you guys hard, though. I think you guys like that. I think you like when we're not overly excited. You know what it is? I don't give him, you can't give him too much. Do you have that too? Probably have that too.

I can't stroke it too much. But I think both on the same side, it's, I think the reason she's like that with you is because she believes in you so much that she's not surprised. That's exactly what it is. That's what she'll tell me.

She goes, I know you're going to do that. When my entire life, like with Lauren, Lauren used to put on this little act where she ran around with like a little dog and the blonde hair. It's like a real, you know, like, it was like,

was that legally blonde, like in high school. Like not demeaning her, just, I just knew her potential. And so everything she's achieved, like, you know, when she launched her blog, when she launched her brand, I'm never, I'm not surprised by any of it. Like, this was already destined for you. And it's like, and I believed it so much. So she sometimes will even get upset with me if I'm not celebrating.

I'm like, listen, I already knew this was going to happen for you. You just know it about something. She probably liked that with you. Well, I think you uncovered something huge. That is what she tells me. And I think you just hit on something huge. Because spouses will ask me often, like, how do I get my spouse to support what I'm doing? Cristiana has not always supported what I'm doing.

she hasn't even always believed in what I'm doing. She's always believed in me. Yeah. So the key thing I would ask you, if you're in a relationship where they're not supporting the business, you're starting, whatever you're doing is stop talking about the business. By the way, they might be right. Your business may not work. You need to ask them if they believe in you.

I think love is what you just said you have for her and what she has for you. I think love, if you distilled it way down is like, you really believe in them. You really believe in who they're capable of and who they really are. You could almost equate love and belief. Like if I look at my children, I believe in them so much about what they're capable of. That's my love for them. I see them as their best self, not as the mistakes they make all the time. And so, Christina, the key in our relationship, she is selfless.

It's her belief in me. It's not her belief in the businesses that I've started or even the people that I've associated with. It's her belief in me. And if you think about it like that and it's a real belief in you, then it's hard to jump up and down and celebrate because it's like you're not surprised. So jumping up and down is an actual, it's fake, right? Because you already knew this was going to happen. You believe it so much. When it happens, it's like, cool, we're here.

This is what it is. One other thing that's been pretty special that may seem really small that I would just say is a gift that she gives me is she's grateful. She doesn't take it for granted. So although she expects me to do it, I left yesterday. I had a long day yesterday. And she just texted me in the middle of the day, which was cool. She's just like, thank you for working so hard for our family.

I love you so much. Or even when we leave dinner, which is weird because she's my wife. It's our money, right? but we'll leave dinner with the kids and she'll say in the car, she's at every single time with the kids in the car too. She'll go, thank you, daddy for dinner. Tell your daddy, thank you. And I say thank you, babe, because it's ours, right?

But the point is that she's always reminding herself to be grateful. If I could give you one little key to that, she was raised with a model of it. When we were dating, I've talked about this a lot. I really believe you have to stay intimate in your relationship. You've got to touch each other. Otherwise, over time, I'm not just talking about sex either, but I do think that's important.

I told you guys this before, but over time, people grow apart because they're not as intimate. They don't touch. They don't hug. They don't hold hands. There's a intimacy to it. When I was a little boy and I'd go pick her up for dates with her house, you could look into the living room. I've told you this, but you'd look into the living room. Maybe a Saturday.

I'm going to pick my girlfriend up. My parents loved each other, but they didn't express it in front of us, right? And I'd look in the living room and her mom and dad would have the TV off. I'm talking, this has happened over a hundred times. It's a Saturday night. TV's off. They were in their 60s and they're slow dancing in the living room. Just just in love.

Just dancing. Just touching each other. Why don't you slow dance with me in the living room? I was slow dancing with the Chihuahua the other day, but I'm off the day. And we don't slow dance in our living room either. The point I'm making is they showed their gratitude that way. Yeah, they're showing love to each other. They're showing love.

One last thing I want to say about relationships that we have done pretty good job of is that you know how like when you're with someone a long time, you think you know them. Okay? Like I know him. I know her. We don't have that. We're constantly trying to learn new things about each other. When you think you got them figured out already, then there's no interest. There's no dating. There's no nothing. The truth is she's very different at 47. Smart.

Than she was at 27. Then she was at 17. Then she was at 7. There's a different woman there. I'm interested in getting to know her all the time. And I don't take for granted that I know everything all the time about her. That's when your relationship gets staled too. Yeah. Matthew said like something about a landscape. It was a quote. I'm going to flub it. It was something about looking at the entire landscape and finding something new each time you look at it. Yeah. And he also said something powerful that I'd never heard before, whereas he said, you know, I said, do you believe there's a one?

And he goes, it's not about finding new relationships all the time. It's about being in a new relationship with the same person. That was pretty powerful. Let's switch gears here a little bit, not too much. But one component is key. We've been getting a lot of questions about you're the perfect person to ask about this. But in order to have fulfillment, in order to be having a successful business, a successful relationship, to be happy. You have to have competence, right?

You have to have some self-confidence. There's so many people, young people, especially, that write in and say, I'm lacking confidence. How do I build confidence? Good. Question. Self-confidence is self-trust, and it's self-confidence is the process of keeping the promises that you make to yourself. So the way we begin to build our self-confidence up is we start setting promises up with ourselves that we keep. And when you begin to stack those promises, when I mean someone who's not self-confident,

I know this is someone who is consistently broken promises they make to themselves. They start a diet. They don't stay with it. They say they're going to get up at a certain time. a day, they don't do it. They say they're going to make a certain amount of contacts a day in their business. They don't do it. When I meet a confident person, this is someone who trust themselves. So what I would say to you is absolutely, I can tell you exactly what to do. You need to begin to make promises to yourself, set up the game early where you can keep them, stack that stuff and

create momentum. And what happens is you will begin to build a reputation with yourself that you can trust you. And that's what a self-confident person has. That's what you have. That's what you have. is you've built a pattern with you of keeping the promises you make to yourself. That's what self-confidence is. And so for the people that aren't doing that, it's just they just continuously break them. And so like, is it,

they're setting two big of promises? They're setting two bigger promises and they're unintentional about it. They don't connect that. Me not doing these things I tell myself is destroying my self-confidence. They think, well, if I don't go to the gym, I'm just going to get fatter.

Uh-uh. It's way worse than that. If you said you're going to the gym and you don't go, not only do you get fatter, but you erode your own self-confidence, which makes the nest promise even more difficult to keep. Well, I'm going to make this many contacts today. Well, punishment for that is I don't get the business growth.

Bullshit. Not only do you not get the business growth, you've eroded more confidence with yourself. It's like any relationship. If you kept telling her, you kept telling Lauren things over and over again that you were going to do that you didn't do. She's like, I don't trust this guy. Nothing he says. He doesn't keep his word.

Imagine how detrimental is to do it to yourself because you don't believe your own lies. At least if you were BSing her, well, I got stuck at work or this. You might be able to convince her. You can't do that with yourself. There's no way of law. lying it with yourself. So absolutely you need to start setting things up initially that you know you can do and you need to be intentional because it's destroying you when you don't do those things.

Have we talked about that? Have we talked about that? Have you ever? Have I told you? If we talked about that? I swear we talked about it. There's compelling people as a book. He checks the list. Well, you check the list. But I think when I say to you'll understand it. So it says there's two components. It says strength and warmth. They're two components of a compelling person. And you can't have just one. You have to have both to be somebody that is compelling to people. They say strength is like Ed tells you you're going to do something and I believe that you actually are. Like I fully believe whatever you tell me you're going to do, you're going to do.

Right? But if you just have strength and that's it, you don't have warmth. Warmth is the component that when you do that thing, you're not just doing it for you. You're doing it to help others as well. So strength and warmth is Ed's telling me he's going to do this, but I know when you do it, it's not just to help yourself. It's also to help me.

So there's a lot of people that you can think about that are very strong and they tell you you're going to do something and you believe they're going to do it, but they have no warmth because you believe they're only doing it for themselves. or there's people that are very warm, you believe that their intention is they want to help you, but they have no strength to follow through. That's awesome.

You have to be a compelling person. You have to have both. That's so good. And I think that's something that you can work on too. I don't think you just have to like, you know, be five years old and be a compelling person. It's something that you constantly have to improve on. Of course, nothing. Nothing that makes most people successful they're born with.

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at ritual.com slash skinny. Perfect way to start the new year. All right, let's get back to add my lad. You've really, you've really become a practitioner of learning how to better yourself. So have you. Yeah. I try. I try. And so does anybody listening to this? Yes. Anybody listening to this, you're so, you don't give your warmth. You said something there, of it I would flip that I'm going to use, actually. And that is, I wish more people had both those components with themselves. So I both wish for most people that they were both, they believe themselves and they made promises and that they were warmer with themselves, meaning they're kinder to themselves.

They gave themselves a little bit more credit. You ask the average person, make a list of like 50 things that are deficient with you. They're like, boom, give me six things you're great at. I can think of one, right? Most people are so cruel to themselves. They treat everybody else in their life far better than they treat themselves. I wish for more people listening to this, you'd just be a little kinder and gentler and warmer with yourself. You'd find, and I know that could be connotated a lot of different ways, but I mean it in the good way.

I wish more of you would give that gift to yourself, especially starting out the year. No, but that's, I think that's all of us. That's even, that's Lauren. You know, whenever I do something and I'm in and I screw up or I fuck up something, I always, and I have to get better at this. There's nobody that's harder on myself than me. The things that go, sometimes the things that I say to myself in my head, I'm like, holy shit, okay, like pump the brakes. This is not healthy. And I think that there's that's just like that's wired into us, right?

Yes. For whatever reason, maybe it's the way we grow up, whatever. But it's it's why you need to be intentional. This, this word intention is monster, man. Like even having negative thoughts, you're, you're so good at this, bro. Like even negative thoughts, there's a giant power of just being intentional, being, being aware when you have them. When you're thinking stupid shit and you go, I'm doing it again. Most of the power that thought has over you is diminished.

just starting to be aware and intentional in your life has huge power. Because I do it. I'll be like, I'm so stupid, right? Like, I can't believe I did it. And I have this really weird mechanism where I go, I'm doing it. And then I kind of aware of the thought and it loses all of its influence over me. Like all of the feeling of my body goes away just by being aware of how stupid that thought was to have. So that's just a gift I'd give the audience.

So this whole episode is like a new year. We're starting fresh. What are some tools, like micro tools, little tools, little habits? little systems, tiny ones, could be setting an alarm on your phone that people can take and use to hold themselves accountable. I'm going to give your audience the biggest gift that I haven't done this anywhere yet. So I'm writing about it, but since it's a new year, actually, this will be out with your show before mine.

I've been working on, like, how come so many people set up all these goals and then they don't happen, right? And so I'm going to take you through a little process, probably longer than I should be on a podcast, but just here's the reason why. In order to get something to work for you, you have to have your body and your mind incongruence. So your body is like your unconscious mind. It's how you feel things. Your mind is a thought, right? So what happens for most people is they write a goal down, I'm going to make $300,000. Immediately as they write that thought down, their unconscious mind, which is their body,

where their home is, immediately doesn't feel that that's true. They're not in a peak state. They don't feel that it's true. The feeling overrides the thought. The reverse could also be true. You can have great feelings, but you don't have a very consistent, clear goal. So most people never align their feelings and their thoughts. It's powerful as hell when you get congruency between your feelings and your thoughts. Now you're unstoppable. What I've been doing for about five years that I now know why it works scientifically is when I'm working out, when I'm training, okay, when I'm moving my body is when I'm doing all of my visualizations of my goals. I simultaneously have my body in this peak state of, boom, bam, I anchored the thought. It could be 30 seconds when you're doing yoga,

when you're walking, when you're running, when you're doing cardio, when you're doing any of your workout, that's when you need to be feeding yourself your goals because what's happening is you're wiring your thoughts in your body simultaneously. This now gives you a power because your body is beginning to get trained to embody that goal, literally embody. It's why like when you take a shower, sometimes you have the best thoughts you've ever had or when you're having a sec, like you're moving your body, there's a certain way you feel power. If you can begin to align your thoughts during those powerful moments physically, you're a force that you aren't when you're just thinking something.

And so this old school, I'm going to write my goals down. I'm going to read them when I'm brushing my teeth. We've proven it doesn't work because there's a body that's in the old mode when the mind is trying to think a new thought. The last thing I do, and athletes do this naturally, most athletes do this, by the way, they're moving their body. That's when they're visualizing scoring the touchdown. The other thing that athletes do unconsciously very well is they visualize the

celebration of the goal. There's a gratitude they have for the goal before its achievement. More and more athletes to tell you, dude, I literally pictured catching that touchdown in the end zone before it happened. So if you'd move your body while you're doing your visualizations for your goals and then project yourself into the video of that goal happening and feel flood yourself with gratitude for its achievement before you have it, you'll begin to step into that space more regularly. So I'm writing about this. Body, mind, gratitude in the visualization, they'll shift almost everything for you. What are some things that you're seeing are generation 30 to 40 maybe?

And I don't want to say wrong because that's negative. But what are maybe things that we can improve on? Not being present is 100% number one. Number two, I think there's a lost art form of what the two of you are great at, which is the ability to transfer energy to people in person. We won't do this show on Skype. We won't do it. We did it three or four times.

It's just shit. And I'm sorry for the guests that came on. It's just I don't, you don't have this interaction. I want to feel the energy of the person that's across to me. And that's a muscle you've built, too, that I think a lot of 30 to 40-year-olds I meet because of what they were raised with with technology don't have that skill set, and it's killing them in business. It's killing them in their relationships, too.

Everything's very surface. If you're listening to this, you feel like, I don't have a lot of deep, deep relationships like I had when I was back in high school. The reason you had deeper relationships when you were high school, it was a face-to-face. There were human beings interacting with each other. There's a transfer of energy. As we get into our 30s and 40s, more of our relationships become very surface, both in business and personally, because that transfer of energy, the skills are being lost, the repetition of it's being lost. So that would be that one.

It's true, though. There was a deal I'm working on, and basically, the people I'm working on are in New York. And I don't, you know, Lawrence Pregnant and I'm time to travel. And it's like, oh, you can maybe go. You can do a Skype. I can do this. I'm like, no, I'm going. I flew for 30 hours came right back because it's these certain things that you just don't get done without having this.

Yes. And it's not the same impact. I just like, hey, pick up the phone or let me look at you on Zoom. I know everybody loves technology and want to use these tools to optimize, but there's certain things that are so important you need to have a human connection. Monster connection. So that would be another one. Totally agree.

And then I think that a lot of people have separated their calling in their life from their work. I think more and more people, not all of you, your calling is going to be your vocation. It's not going to be. But for a lot of you, it should be. And you need to start to get more creative with how could you move this calling you have for the environment or for children or for healing people or for, you know, your faith, whatever it is, finding a way to create something that can be profitable doing it as you go. It's almost back to where we were in the beginning that I think that not all of,

you shouldn't start with the idea of making a profit, but too many of you are at a job right now listening to this and it doesn't pull on your heart for making a difference in the world. It's, you're the reverse. You literally do your job just for the money. and I think that you'll wake up when you're my age, when you're almost 50 years old and go, I took 20 years of my life literally just slaving for some money. And I should have got more creative, at least on a part-time basis, by doing something that my heart wanted to do.

You've talked about a lot how you've had to improve your skill of listening, which is another one I think is something that you constantly have to practice. I mean, for me, it's a practice. How can you tell our audience to become a better listener in person? I'm not just talking about like listening to a podcast. I'm talking about listening and communicating. Yeah, a lot of things I do wrong, but I still do wrong. I did a few of them today. Well, we were talking, but stop nudging people along in the conversation. In other words, this is such a hard thing to do. Could you actually listen to their entire sentence without already pre-programming your response halfway through?

And that's what we all do. We've been wired to do this. There was a time where people didn't do that. nowadays, once you've started to figure out, oh, I know what they're saying. They're a third of the way through, and there's what you're doing. You're like, I kind of get their point now. I'll let them finish these last 25 words. I'm kind of listening to those, but I'm already getting, I'm ready to come back with my response. So one is, because here's why. You're afraid you may not have something to say in response to them, right?

Just listen. It's okay that there's silence with people. Not enough of us allow a little bit of silence. If you go watch a great comedian or when I speak on stage, if I'm speaking well, most of the great speakers, the great comedians are most comfortable in the silence. That's when the joke's funny. The joke's not funny when you're saying it. The joke's funny when you stop saying it and there's silence.

In human communication, you're a great listener if you're a little comfortable with some silence after they're done speaking. That silence makes them think and it's true. You actually listened all the way through. It doesn't have to be, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't have to do that. Listen, be quiet and then respond. You'll enjoy the conversation more and you'll build deeper connections with people too. The other one is don't nudge them along.

Yep, right, yeah. You think you're agreeing with them, but what you're really saying to that person is, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up. It's called a verbal nudge that you do with people when you listen. And then also repeat back to people what they've said. Tell them good question or thank you for asking or, wow, I never thought about it that way. Like actually let them know that you've heard them. That's one of the biggest things you talk about marriage again too. My wife's big thing, man, is like, you don't need to.

fix this shit every single time I tell you something, right? In fact, I already know you could probably fix it. That's not why I'm telling you it. I'm expressing myself, like, shut up and like listen to me. And here's a big one that I tell my wife when I talk to her. Could you please look at me when I'm talking to you? Okay? Like, this may seem simple. So what I do is I verbal nudge her. What she does is she does not fucking look at me for the whole time I'm talking. And I'm like, when you look away, she's like, But the kids, the dime, like, when you're looking away, it makes me think you're no longer listening to me. Do you know, like look at me when I'm talking to you. Please, babe, right?

So, dang, now she's going to be pissed at me when she hears this. Taylor, pull this whole clip for me, put this whole segment for me and put it on my desk so I can listen to it every morning. So don't verbal nudge, listen all the way through, be comfortable in silence, actually listen to them and they look at them when they're talking to you. These will make you all better listeners. Repeat back to them what they said to. But this is why I want to have people like you on the show because I think to the idea here was to do this show. for our audience's benefit, but honestly, this is to our benefit. Like, I'm not joking, like, Taylor, pull that clip for me.

I need to play it like 10 times a week. I need to get better. But you know, it's funny. I think people when they, like, I have this problem with my wife. I'm actually really listening, but I don't verbally repeat back to her what she's, what she said. And so she looks at it and says, like, you're not listening. It's, I really am listening, but I need to be better at acknowledging that I'm listening. Yeah, because people, so you said listening is a skill.

Part of list, most of listening is making the other person feel as if you're, listening to them. Not that you actually listen to them. So the mistake I make is I nudge her along and I give her an answer. She's like, you didn't even let me finish how I feel about this. I don't need you to fucking fix it. And in her case, I'm like, I need you looking at me when I'm fucking talking to you so that I know that you're listening to me. Right. So the best listeners make you feel like you listened to them. That's the point. I also think people that listen are influencing people. I mean, I try to listen to my audience. every single day. I know you're the same way. What do you think makes someone influential?

Okay. So I want to say one thing about you on that. I just showed you on my phone. And I don't mean this to all my friends. There's lots of podcasts out there. Tell them, I showed you on my phone. How many podcasts are on my phone that I was. He does listen to the skinny confidential. I feel very, I hope it's a good one. I hope it's not one about like Taylor's one minute man situation. No, I listen to the vast majority of them. Right. And so there's two that I won't say what the other one is, but there's my show and yours and one other that I listen to because you are great at that. You don't come into interviews. Here's my set of questions, and that's all I'm going to ask.

There are a lot of podcasts like that. I don't do that either. I actually listen to them and respond to what they're saying. What makes somebody influential is, one, is a transfer of energy. You make people feel something. And here's the key thing. You can't transfer to somebody that which you're authentically, truly not experiencing. Like, I think the reason that we have a pretty good connection is I think you guys really

do feel that I think you're pretty incredible. Like when we met, I told you, when I met you, I felt like I'm going to know these people most of my life. I don't think we're going to be together every single day because we're both busy, but I'm going to know you a long time. I'm interested in you guys. I think people feel that. There's a transfer of energy that makes you influential, right? And I think the other part of influence is you can get people to change their states. So if they're down, you can help them not be down and be up.

If they're up, you can get them to take action on something. people of influence get people to change, to take actions. And so I'm always kind of monitoring that with myself as well with the way that I talk. And then I think the big thing for me is this, does this person feed my energy or drain it? So I have people in my life all the time that I love, but they take energy from me. They're out of my life. I don't have them in my life anymore. You either feed my energy or you drain it.

People think, man, all of your friends seem to be these, you know, well-known people that you're working with or whatever. My best friend, man, he owns a transmission shop. You know, my other dearest friend is a flooring contractor. These dudes are hilarious. They give you the energy. They give me energy. They love me. They believe in me.

For me, like, my most closest friends are weirdos. Like, they make me laugh, right? Like, that's influence to me is you can change my state. I'm such a serious dude. I'm always grinding and working. My great influential friends are the ones who make me laugh that just bring my state change. They lighten me up a little bit. They cause me to do different things.

They cause me to be a better person. To me, that's influence. So someone's listening, it's a new year, they have a toxic family member, a toxic friend, what do they do? Do they just cut him out? Listen, I would argue that's a form of influence, but negative influence. It is. It is a form of it. Because they make you feel something.

That's true. And they change your state. We all know those people that we love them, but you get around them and they drain your energy, they're always down, they're always complaining, and it makes you feel bad. That's interesting. It is the form of a different influence. Big time. Someone said to me, they're like, you don't cut someone off, you slowly back away.

Is that your opinion or black or white? No, it's not. So I think you need to distinguish between this. Is this person purposely antagonistic towards me? Or are they just an energy-draining negative person? About 5% of the people in your life are intentionally antagonistic. In other words, they are rooting against you, they are programming against you, they are lobbying against you, they are actually scheming against you. You have people like that in your life, and you need to be able to distinguish who those people are.

And you do have one or two. Those people need to be gone. I don't care if they're your blood relative. If they're literally scheming antagonistically against you, they need to be out of your life. I have a huge family. There's one person in my family who is out. They're gone and they're going to probably stay gone because they're intentionally antagonistic towards us. The rest of the other people in my life, the negative downers, you know, those people,

I've reduced my proximity to them over time. In other words, and it starts out. It may seem really organized, but once I figure out of this, who they are, instead of them getting a text back to me immediately, it's two, three days later, right? And then the next time, it's four, five days later. And just over time, if they don't get the message, there's going to be a message that our proximity to each other is going to be reduced. And even when I'm in your physical presence, I go into the meeting with a force field around me. You're not going to influence me. And here's again, it's the awareness thing.

Once they start doing their little routine, I'm aware of it. It has no impact over me. That's why that awareness and that intention is a big deal. Some people find this thought a little bit, I don't know, dark. But I read it a long time ago, and it was interesting. Like you said, even if it's a family member, sometimes you have a family member that it's a blood relation, but they're just, if they're either rooting for your downboil, they're negative, or whatever. You've got to distance stuff.

It says that the devil gives you relations. Thank all gods. You can choose your friends. Have you heard that one? But it's a little dark, but it's, but they're, you know, I think some people, they, they have a family member or somebody that's really close. Like, I can't get rid of this person because it's my blood. And they stick around and they don't know how to switch.

and get away from that negativity. And sometimes you have to take care of yourself to come back later and help that person. Big time. You said that better than I did. I agree with that. I just think there's one or two people in your life that shouldn't be in it. Not a whole bunch, but there's one or two. They're out after you, man.

And that's just sad to know. But as I'm saying it, some of you are picturing that person. You're like, yeah, I still go to lunch with her once in a while. Why would you still go to lunch to her when you know the minute you leave, she's texting all your girlfriends, everything you said in a negative way, talk it. That person should not be in your life. There shouldn't be any proximity. Now, if you have another girlfriend, every time you go to lunch, she's like, he broke up with me or a buddy of yours like, man, I'm down, I'm broke.

That's different. I'd reduce proximity to them. These antagonists of people, bye-bye. Sounds like you categorize them. I do. You got to put them in categories. What are Ed Milet's routines? And I don't, I mean like, like, do you have a morning routine, a night routine?

Do you stop in the middle of the day and meditate? Like, even your like little tiny routines. Not like overall picture. I'm more interested in the little ones. Okay. So, well, all of us have routines. So does everybody listening to this? You have a routine.

It's whether or not that routine serves you and whether you're intentional and conscious of it. So you have a routine. Everybody does. I do too. So my morning one I took control of. So my whole theory was, if I could control the first 30 minutes of my day and the last 30 minutes of my day, the probability of me having some control over the rest of it is higher. So not always.

But so I do control the first 30 minutes. biggest change I've made in my entire life is that I do not look at my telephone the first 30 minutes after I've woken up. It was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. It was a habit that was difficult. I broke it a few times. Now that phone does not get looked at the first 30 minutes. Why? Because everything on there requires a response. And if I start out my day in the dynamic that I respond to things, I react all day long, I'm not in control of my day. I'm going to dictate the terms of my day. And there's nothing on that phone that can't wait 30 minutes from when I wake up. And so I'm not going to start my day as a reactor. I'm going to start my day as a dictator, meaning I dictate the terms. And so that first 30 minutes is pretty routine for me every single day. It's pretty detailed. So I'm not going to get into all of it, but I do get up. I do a quick prayer and meditation right away. I do some stretching. So I move my body and my mind. I get them in congruence right away. I do a gratitude exercise very quickly where it's in my book, but it talks about, you know,

who loves me, who do I love? What am I grateful for in my life? What am I excited about right now? I learned that from Tony Robbins many, many years ago. It stayed there. I do. a cold plunge every morning, whether it's a cold shower or the ocean or this little pool that I jump in. It's two minutes. It just absolutely activates my flight or flight. My nervous system is completely alive. I do that. Then I go through my goals and visualizations and then I get into my day. And some days I work out first, then I eat. Other days I eat first and then I work out. But those first 30 minutes are totally dictated. And then at night, it's reversed. One thing I do that's different at night is I sleep in a cold place because it helps me get deeper sleep. But I actually do something

warm before I go to bed. So if that's of a hot bath, hot shower, hot something, it activates my body into sleep mode when there's heat. And then if you sleep in a cold environment, you'll sleep deeper. So I sleep on top of a chili pad. You can get one of those on Amazon if you wanted one where it's a cold thing underneath me. But I keep the room, drives my wife crazy, but I keep the room pretty cold when I sleep because it just helps with deeper sleep. I don't do blue screen. I don't eat way before I go to bed. I don't do. I do all those things that you probably heard before, but I'm pretty routine. But the biggest thing I probably do that most people don't do is like I'm constantly selling myself the dream. So like when I'm in the car driving, I'm just, it's a habit. I just

visualize the future. I visualize where I'm going. I visualize what my life's going to look like. Like I'm a hyper crazy dreamer person. I'm just, I'm a big believer in dreaming and an excitement and in picturing the future of my life. And I give myself that gift all the time. Because here's the truth. Your present isn't all that great most of the time. So I give myself the gift of escaping into the future pretty regularly. And that's something I don't know. that most people do, but like I do it, I did it driving up here, I'll do it driving back. Little moments of just, I'm dreaming about the future. Give you one last quote.

I'm sure you've heard it. Abraham Lincoln said, the best way to predict the future is to create it by yourself. You're loaded with quotes today. Yeah, Michael, what that's going on? Duggy Hauser. I'm on that four-sigmatic focus job. I swear to God, that stuff gets me, it makes me recollect. Okay, if you can leave our audience, it's a new year, it's a way to start fresh,

with a couple tangible takeaways. It could be just a medley of all different things from the same. episode, just a couple sentences. What would you leave them with? One, I would tell you that you need to start to anchor yourself, anchor your goals when you're working out again. I cannot emphasize that enough. You're going to begin to change your damn life when your body and your mind getting congruence. Okay, that's number one. Number two, I'm going to tell you something. You are enough and you're supposed to do something great with your life and not enough people are telling you that you were born to do something great. Forget tangible. Forget tangible. I'm telling you the truth.

You were born to do something special. You were born to do something great. And you ought to start to believe that. You ought to start to chase that. You ought to stop settling. If you're in relationship, stop settling. Stop settling for your life. Malcolm X has this great quote that says, that which you do not hate, you will eventually tolerate. And maybe there's got to be a part of you that as you start this new year, and this may sound uncomfortable, maybe there's a part that just despises that former life. Like you hate it. You're no longer going to tolerate a life like the one you've been living, that you want to step into a new space. You are the author and creator along with God of your life, you can write a new chapter any freaking time you choose to.

Like any time you choose to, you can turn the page your life and be an entirely new human being. And this is a time of year where that ought to be the time. This ought to be the time where you go, what an occasion. It doesn't need January to do it. You could do it in July if you wanted to. But right now you could step into this new person, walk different, talk different, think different, bow your back a little bit. Decide to be a new character in your life.

this is the greatest time in the history of the world to be alive between what we can do with technology, what we can do to connect with one another, the access to information like your show. This stuff did not exist 20 years ago. There's no reason why you can't be bigger, dream bigger, do bigger, become something more special in your life. And we want to help you. Your show, my show, our content, it's like our honor to do it. And guess what? If you get to my age, you get to 50 years old.

And by the way, even if you're 50 listening to this, there's a few, okay? You still got time on your time. your hands too. But trust me when I tell you, did you do not want to get to my age and look back and regret the chances you didn't take? The opportunities you didn't pursue. The times you didn't show yourself more confidence and more kindness. You're going to regret it when you get to my age. You're going to think, I had it all. It was there and I didn't know it. It was like the matrix. I thought I was in this box. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I was destined for something. And had I just started to think differently and act differently and be differently.

I could have a completely different life by the time I get to 50 years old. And I want, you to get there and love it. I want you to get to that stage of your life where you're at my age and you're like, you know what, I'm maxing out my life. I'm doing all I'm capable of. So that would be my message. And my let I fucking love you. You're the best. You are the best. I want you to pimp yourself out. But what I would love is if you could give them one episode that they could start with on your podcast. If they're not already listening. I'm sure there's a ton of already listening. Like for like I'm obsessed with your listening episode. Guys, I love your solos. Thank you. I know. You like when I do just my own stuff. If you went way, way, way old school, audio only, so it's not on YouTube, way, way, way back. There's one called unlocking your success code. I think that there'd be a whole bunch of notes in that one for you. I'd go there. The keys to maxing out is another one.

Blissful dissatisfaction is pretty good too. But I would go back all the way on the audio platforms to unlocking your success code. When you were talking, I almost flipped the fucking table. I got so jazzed up. Instagram handle. Ed my let, E, D, M-Y-L-L-T-T-T. And what are you you doing next? What's in the works? What's brewing? What's brewing? My podcast is going to blow up. I've got more great guests coming next year. I'm going to be doing some things on social media that a little bit different. And I have a Netflix show that I think that you'll see come out in June or July. So we'll be looking for that. Amazing. Yeah. Thank you so much for coming on. Happy New Year. Taylor, I hope you took notes,

man. Hope this episode brought you as much value as it brought me and Michael. We are obsessed. We want to go re-listen to this episode. Before we go, we're going to do a quick New Year's giveaway. If you want to win some TSC swag, we got all kinds of stuff, some really sick new pop sockets, guys, they're like little tiny hearts stuck together that say TSC. I can't explain it, but I'll show you on Instagram story. Just tell us your favorite part of this episode on my latest post at the Skinny Confidential. And as always, make sure you've rated and reviewed the podcast so we can continue to enter you into these giveaways. Hope you all have a Happy New Year and we will see you next week.

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