THE ED MYLETT SHOW - Are You Living… or Just Watching?

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

Eliminate Distractions and Pay the Price to Win What’s stealing your focus right now? Is it politics, sports, gossip, or endless scrolling on your phone? Most of us are willing participants in our own distractions—and those distractions are quietly robbing us of the life we’re capable of living. In this episode, I’m getting real about what it takes to win: the ability to cut through the noise, become obsessively focused, and embrace the price you’ll have to pay along the way. I’ll walk you through why true obsession feels different—it pulls you away from everything else in your life because it consumes your thoughts, your energy, and your actions. If you’re not being distracted by your obsession, then you’re not obsessed enough. I share stories from my own life, including how I went from knowing nothing about my dad’s cancer diagnosis to becoming nearly an expert through sheer immersion. That same kind of laser focus is available to you—and it can transform any area of your life. But focus alone isn’t enough. You’ve got to accept the suffering and sacrifice that come with chasing something great. Too often, people treat setbacks and discomfort as signs they’re on the wrong path. I’ll show you why it’s actually the opposite—why suffering is proof you’re growing, and why sacrifice is a down payment on your dream. The real danger isn’t paying the price; it’s paying the bigger price of regret when you never go after it at all. In this conversation, I give you practical tools to stop negotiating the price in your head and start seeing your dream as worth it. Because when you stop fixating on the cost and start focusing on the worth, everything changes. Your energy shifts. Your strategy sharpens. And your story becomes one worth living. Key Takeaways: Why distractions are the greatest enemy to your dreams The difference between being interested and being obsessed How to reframe suffering and sacrifice as signs of progress Why negotiating the “cost” of your dream keeps you stuck The mindset shift from cost to worth that frees you to execute Distractions steal your destiny. Obsession delivers it. It’s time to choose focus, pay the price, and claim the life you were born to live. Max out. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠👉 SUBSCRIBE TO ED'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW 👈⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   → → → CONNECT WITH ED MYLETT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ← ← ←  ➡️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   ➡️⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FACEBOOK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   ➡️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LINKEDIN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   ➡️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  ➡️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WEBSITE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When you're with Amex Platinum, you get access to exclusive dining experiences and an annual travel credit. So the best tapas in town might be in a new town altogether. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more at Amex.ca. c a slash ymex welcome back to max out everybody ed myelette today we're going to talk specifically about distractions

and paying the price to win both sides of the coin you know one of the things that human beings underestimate dramatically is their capacity to get great at something if they're totally immersed in it, totally laser-focused on something. But as I've coached the very high-end athletes in my life, the top business people and entertainers, I can tell you that most people underestimate what total obsessive laser-focused really is and what it looks like, because you are way more powerful than you know you are if you went crazy, psycho-obsessed, laser-focused on anything, even something you're totally ill-prepared for. Humans have an unreal capacity to get great it things, even if they don't have a natural talent for it, if they're immersed in it, and

to learn something and acquire a ton of knowledge in a short period of time as well. I'll give you an example of that. Unfortunately, right now, many of you know that my dad has cancer. He has a type of cancer called liposarcoma. Three years ago, I had no idea what that word even meant. I had never heard that word uttered in my life, liposarcoma. And maybe you've had this experience before, too, if a family members come up with diabetes or a heart issue or any type of health issue, even for yourself, you're not a doctor

probably most of you listening to this, but you've become pretty knowledgeable, haven't you, about some area of your life, whether that's something you've studied in school or a career you've chosen you think you'd choose, or like in my case, there was an illness for my dad. I consider myself pretty damn close to an expert on that topic now. I've read so many books. I've studied. I've Googled. I've read about the different chemos, alternative treatments.

I've read about eating green. I mean, you name it, right? Like, I've gone crazy on that topic. And again, I'm not an oncologist, but I went from knowing absolutely nothing to three. years later, having an immense amount of knowledge is probably one of the ten things I know most about in my life right now. And so that's because I got obsessed with it. Can you do that with where your goals and dreams are?

Like really can you do it? Because the truth of the matter is, in society today, society is conspiring all the time in our culture to completely distract you so you never win. To just divert your focus and attention. Look over here, look at this shiny thing, look at this TV show, look at this sports team. Worry about what's going on here in this war. and they get these different things on television in our phones and in our lives

and just get us distracted so we never get obsessed. We never get laser focused for an extended period of time. Ask yourself truthfully, your big goals and dreams, are you really clear on what they are? Because if you don't have that, we can't even get started. But assuming you've listened to all of my previous content before, you know how mandatory it is to be clear and specific for what you want, right?

But then the next layer is this. Can you get laser obsessively focused Almost to its exclusivity, almost, but for an extended period of time. Can you honestly say you've done that? For an extended period, I'm talking about a year, two years, three years, four years, five years, even a decade towards something you want so badly you want it like oxygen. It's like you want it like you want to eat. You want it like you want to live, right? Well, are you extendedly laser focused on it or do you get distracted easily?

And then we're going to talk secondly on the back part of the audio and video today. about paying the price and the sacrifice for a second. But let's talk first of all about getting laser focus. And I mean this is your friend. I mean this talking to myself too. I always covered things that make me better, things that I struggle with. But I gotta tell you,

I think there's a different level for you. I mean, I think there's a different level for you to get obsessed, crazy laser focus. I say all the time, our obsessions become our possessions. But we won't possess them if we're not truly obsessed. I bet there's been a person in your life you've been obsessed with. If you're over 20 years old, listen to this, more than likely you've had somebody you were pretty obsessed with, haven't you? That you wanted in your life, you wanted to date, you wanted as a girlfriend or a boyfriend or a significant other.

How many times a day did you think about them? How many times a day did they distract you from what you were doing with just the thought of them? In other words, this is what I want you to understand. When you're laser-obsessed-focused, your obsession distracts you from what you're currently doing, not the other way around. You're not really obsessed with it if you're easily distracted from it. This is so important. You right now can test whether it's your obsession with whether it distracts you constantly the first thing you think of when you wake up.

Last thing before you go to bed. When you have a big laugh, it comes up. When you cry it comes up. When you're watching TV it comes up. When you're doing your regular job but it's your side hustle it comes up. You can't stop thinking about it. It distracts you from the rest of your life. That's what an obsession does.

it's not really your obsession the rest of your life distracts you from it and so the it in your life is so important but there's all these things that distract us today i'm going to give you a recommendation turn your damn tv off turn the radio off most of the time turn your phone off a lot too so here's the deal the tv's competing constantly to distract you with stuff that really doesn't matter i'm not saying by the way don't be informed don't know what's going on in the world because that makes you more interesting right you should know what's going on in the world But let's be real. Does it really matter what's going on with the Kardashians right now?

Does it really matter? They live on my street in one of my neighborhoods, right? And they're very nice people, but I've got to be honest with you. What happens in their life doesn't dramatically impact my, but how many people are more obsessed with the Kardashians? And I can say this is good friends. We have many good friends in reality television. They're even listening to this right now, and they would tell you this. Don't be so obsessed with them.

Be obsessed with your own reality TV program called your own life, right? How about the news? All the time they're trying to distract this. Before it was Obama. Now it's Trump. You better, Trump's going crazy today. Obama's nuts about this. Health care, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, right?

Like all these things. And most of these things don't impact our own lives. I'm not saying don't know about them, but it's such a convenient escape from the work. It's such a convenient escape from our obsessions. The left against the right, Republicans against Democrats. Who's going to be the next president? Who's going to get the Democratic nomination?

Can they beat Trump, right? Who cares? Who cares right now? You got to win in your own. life it's like when I say this people say well that's not you know a very professional evolved opinion I'm just telling you what it takes to win what it takes to win is not worrying about all that stuff that should be the background noise but talking about it thinking about it watching TV about it who cares

what's going on in the real whatever's of anywhere who cares what the Kardashians are doing who cares who's running for office for now you say well wait a minute aren't you socially conscious here's all I know I've been alive through many different presidents Republican and Democrat none of them changed my life. None of them did. And none of them are going to change your life for being real. People ask me all the time, why don't you run for office? Because I think entrepreneurs change the world. I think grassroots movements of good people and communities change the world. I don't think politicians change the world. And I don't mean that negatively.

I've coached several of them. I want there to be good ones. I want them to make good decisions. But I don't obsess about it because it doesn't dramatically impact my own life. In fact, if you think about it, the majority of people obsessed with politics have, I'm just mean this nice. They don't have much going on in their own life. So it's a convenient distraction to be mad at a politician because you're losing. It's a convenient distraction to get caught up in some issue outside of yourself, so you have to focus on your own life. If you can spend enough time obsessing about what these politicians or reality stars do, no one will look at you. But eventually in your life, you're faced with you.

Eventually in your life, it's you. Eventually it's your life. Eventually, they won't be on TV. eventually it'll all be gone remember how obsessed you were with President Obama whether you loved him or hated him he's gone now it's a new guy and in either two more years or six more years it'll be a new woman hopefully right so getting obsessed with these things doesn't matter men so many of you obsessed with sports your fans of these teams did it really change your life when the Patriots won the Super Bowl like if you're a Patriot fan on Saturday they hadn't

yet one on Sunday night they won how different was your life Tom Brady's life was different. Yours wasn't. You Laker fans or basketball fans, does it really matter? Like if your team wins, does it really matter? I got news for you guys. You don't play for the team. You don't. I know you think you do. I know you wear their jerseys. I think it's one of the funniest things in life. And I don't mean this critically. Please, I mean this as a brother, guys. But you running around wearing a jersey with an other grown man's name on the back of it. Isn't that a little bit ridiculous? I mean, I really, some of you ladies are non-random. My husband needs to hear this. Hey, dude, I don't mean this critically, but really a grown-ass man, you're wearing the name of another man on the back

of your jersey every single day. Literally, your name isn't Bryant or James or Trout or Brady, but you wear their name on the back of you? Isn't that a little bit odd? We won Sunday. No, we didn't win. They won. You got to go back to work on Monday. You don't play for that team. And it's time you wake up and start getting focused on your own life. I'm not saying don't watch the game, but being obsessed with it throughout the week. Who's injured? Who's hurt? Are we going to win? We aren't doing anything because you don't play for them. In fact, players trade teams so much, which you really are rooting for is like laundry. You root for the team that has like this jersey that's your color, but the players change all the time. Yet you keep rooting for

these teams. What a catastrophic, and I mean this is love because I'm a sports fan. I love the Red Sox, the Patriots. I'm a New England area sports fan, but I don't really get real caught up in it. I go to enjoy the game once in a while and how great they are. as athletes, but what a catastrophic waste of your own life to be worrying about what professional athletes do and pretending to be on their team. You're not on the team. You don't win or lose. They do. They do. So wake up and get focused on your own goals. You're, oh, I can hear all the women going, amen, tell and preach, right? Ladies. In your cases, it might be your sports team. It might be your politics. It might be the television star. It might be some

author you love. It might be something like that for men or women. For women's of you at sports as well, but the fact of the matter is all of these things are a distraction from our own lives. You don't play for these teams. You're not on these shows and you don't know these people. And whoever wins a Grammy or an Oscar doesn't change your life. You winning in your life is what changes it. The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is an eight-episode Hulu Original Limited series that blends gripping pacing with emotional complexity, offering a dramatized look as it revisits the wrongful conviction of Amanda Knox for the tragic murder of Meredith Kircher and the relentless media storm

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invest it on someone's social media like mine who's actually putting out messages about your life. And by the way, I say this is somebody who has many of these people on my show. Many of these people that you admire are friends of mine, as many of you know. There are things to learn from them. Absolutely. They're at the top of their craft. But I'm not deluded into thinking a top NBA player is any better a person than a top school teacher or a top nurse. I don't think a top politician is a superior human being over a top landscaper or a top banker.

or a top entrepreneur. I think the people at the top of everything there's things to learn from. And guess what? The people at the top of everything have in common. They're obsessed on their own lives, not other people's. Those athletes you admire didn't get there by worrying about your life, did they?

And so tune out the distractions in our lives, turn the TV off, get some perspective, get obsessed because we do it because it's an escape because we don't have to look at ourselves. I'm challenging to look at yourself. Even on the podcast space, narrow it down to the three, four, or five of us that make the biggest difference for you.

And then when you're done listening to us, go to work and execute, right? You can get overtrained. You can listen to too many different shows. I happen to think you should be listening to mine because I think it's the best content. But pick a few, right? Don't be listening to 40 of them

because there's time that you can be executing in your life. If you listen to it in the car or at the gym, listen to as many as you want. But in off of those times, pick three or four and the rest of the time be executing on your dream. So what I'm telling you is CNN, ESPN, Fox News, right? the e-channel I have friends on all those channels they're out to take you from your dreams they're part of the enemy of stealing your dreams because they had

just not consciously but they take your time they divert your focus can you get obsessed on one thing what other things divert our focus the things in life that don't matter our own negative thoughts our own insecurities our own weaknesses these distract us failure distracts us gossiping of other people distracts us talking about other people worrying about haters getting caught up in things that don't matter in our life. Drugs and alcohol distract us. There's all these things when you start to pile them into life.

What's your distraction? Just be honest. Is it living vicariously through your children? Is it living through them and their soccer team and their Little League and their grades? Are you distracted by living through your children? Are you distracted by ESPN? Are you distracted by movies? Netflix, video games, gossip, haters, Fox News, CNN.

Right? Your problems. Are you distracted with things that don't matter in your life? There's all these things competing to get you to not be focused. How about your insecurities? How about your fears? How about your worries or your problems? Are you using all of these?

Do you kinda, your relationship issues? Does it distract you from your big goals? Do you let these things? Do you almost willingly do it? Here's what I think. Most of us are willing participants in our own distraction. And we need to be willing participants in our own focus, in our own obsessions and getting ourselves back on plan.

Because remember what I told you, if you're really obsessed, the obsession will distract you from these things. But if you're not obsessed, these things will distract you from that thing. And this requires self-auditing on your part. And so that's the part one that I think steals more dreams than almost anything in life right now

is this obsession with distraction. It's the obsession with other people think about us. It's all of these things competing, except the one thing that matters, the one thing. But the best of the best, listen to me, the one thing dominates their life. The reason some of the athletes I work with have a hard time when they retire, can I be honest with you? Because they were so great at what they did because they were so obsessed on that one thing. When that one thing is gone, they don't know what to do with themselves with all these distractions now.

Because the best in everything don't live with distraction. They live with obsession and focus. I'm not saying don't be a complete person, but I'm saying for you to complete your journey towards maxing out, For you to completely max out your life, you must eliminate all of these things that take you by the wayside. And so now the second part of the coin, if we're going to win, right, is the sacrifice. I want you to write this down. I need to embrace the suffering. You know, there's something powerful that once you just sort of embrace the fact that in order to achieve something big, you've got to get rid of these distractions.

And then the other layer of it is you're probably going to have to have some suffering to get there or some sacrifice to get there. And so once you've embraced and decided that this suffering, this sacrifice you're making is an indicator of progress. It's an indicator of obsession. Suffering and sacrifice and hard work is an indication of progress towards our dreams. The lack of sacrifice, the lack of suffering in our lives, it's removal, its non-existence also equates to a non-existence of a great life, a non-existence of a dream happening, a big one anyway. And so embrace the fact that you're going to have to sacrifice and suffer to some extent. Once you've embraced that it's going to happen, it's almost not that bad. It's kind of like those of you that are fit.

We already know, and you already know, even if you're not, you've sort of accepted that before you go to the gym and get there, you're going to have to suffer. And we go anyway. It becomes a habit. No one goes into a gym thinking, I'm not going to have to sacrifice or suffer. There'll be no discomfort or no pain. But millions of people go anyway, don't they, to the gym? On some level, they're suffering in the gym, whether it's breathing heavy or sweating or aches or pains or stress.

You know, everything in the gym is a sacrifice, and to some extent, you're suffering, going through some pain. You know it before you go, don't you? Yet most of us go all the time. Yet in life, outside of that one area, most of us are worried about suffering. We're afraid of it. When we're suffering and sacrificing, we wonder whether it's worth it. We wonder whether we're supposed to. We wonder whether sacrifice or setbacks or suffering.

is a sign it's not our real dream don't we see at the gym you never think oh i'm going through some pain and discomfort this must be a sign i shouldn't be at the gym you'd never think that it goes with the territory everyone knows just build a bicep or a tricep or a chest or legs you have to break it down suffer and sacrifice for it to grow so while it's happening there's no part of you that says this isn't right in fact the indication of the pain and sacrifice and sweat don't you feel better at the gym you're like wow i really sacrificed today i really suffered so in area we all know to the extent we suffer and sacrifices to the extent we grow and your body is a metaphor for the rest of your life but the rest of our life every time we sweat every time we sacrifice

every time we suffer we don't do what we do at the gym we start saying well wait a minute maybe I'm not supposed to be doing this maybe I'm not cut out maybe it's not my destiny maybe I just can't do it it's the most unbelievable ridiculous conclusion we draw but it's what everybody does which is another form of distraction is doubt the coins flip on each other all the time don't they another form of distraction is just doubt and doubt comes from the suffer it comes from a loss it comes from fear it comes from the sacrifice and so just remember this you're supposed to suffer and sacrifice so let me ask you a question what are you willing to risk in order to make your dream come true nothing ventured nothing gained you're going to take a risk maybe it's financial maybe it's a

risk of time maybe it's a risk at your job maybe it's a risk of looking at bad, maybe it's a risk of failing, of falling on your face, of going broke, of going through pain, of going through anxiety. Maybe it's even a risk in a relationship that's just going to be difficult while you do this. What are you willing to risk in order to win? And you have to accept that because remember what I'm going to tell you, the price you will pay for not making your dream come true is far greater than the one that you will pay to make it come true.

Want me to say it again? The price you will pay, the suffering you will go. through to make your dream come true is incredibly small, infinitely smaller than the price you will pay if you never do. You'll pay that one the rest of your life. You can get protein at home or a protein latte at Tim's. No powders, no blenders, no shakers. Starting at 17 grams per medium latte, Tim's new protein Lattees, protein without all the work at participating restaurants in Canada. And so ask yourself what you're willing to risk. What's the price you're willing

to pay? Because what most people do? when they're trying to chase their dream or their big outcome, the whole time they're negotiating the price in their head. They're negotiating it. Should I continue to do it? Is it worth it? I don't know if I can continue anymore. It's getting higher and that price is failure.

That price is setback. That price is looking back. That price can be financial, literally a physical price. And what happens is if you don't negotiate that price in advance, it's going to steal your focus and energy and become another distraction. One of the great distractions of chasing our dreams is this thing, thing that goes off in our head is we're negotiating the price we're paying. Should I keep paying it? Is it getting too high? Is it too much? And you'll have people in your ear, it's too

big a sacrifice. You're going through too much. And you begin to negotiate it in your mind. It distracts all your focus. You can't be executing and negotiating simultaneously. If you're in your head negotiating and negotiating and negotiating, you can't execute. So negotiate it now. Negotiate it with me now. What are you willing to pay? For me, when I'm after something big, as long as it's legal, ethical, and moral, I'll sacrifice everything else. But I will not sacrifice anything legal, anything unethical, or anything immoral.

But beyond that, I'm going to get it. And I know that negotiation comes up front. I accept the suffering. I accept the sacrifice. I know the sacrifice is far smaller than the one I'll pay if I don't do it, and I eliminate distractions, and I go freaking get what I want in my life

just like you can, and this needs to be your recipe as well. If you're one of these people who's still negotiating whether it's worth it, Maybe you've got someone in your head making you question it. That is a poverty and scarcity mentality. Let me prove it to you. When I didn't have money, and I spent most of my life with none, just like you,

what do we do when we go into a store? We don't go get what we want. We go get what we think we can afford. And so I spent the majority of my life flipping price tags over. I didn't buy that shirt I wanted. I buy the one that I could afford. I bought things based on price, not worth. And so I'm sure you do.

I didn't buy the car I wanted. I bought the car I could afford. So when I was broke and I had scarcity, what do you do when you're in that position? You negotiate price. You flip price tax. What's a cost? What's a cost? What's a cost?

What's a cost? What's a cost? What's a cost? What's a cost? Flip the price tag. What's a cost? What's a cost? What's a cost?

I was constantly negotiating the price for everything in my life. You do that when you come from a place of scarcity of being poor. Successful people and wealthy people have a subtle distinction. They don't look at price. They look at worth. is this worth it? If you're constantly looking at the price tag, you'll eventually relent.

You'll eventually give in. Stop negotiating the price. It's a freeing experience to totally commit. When you totally commit to a relationship, to a business, to your fitness, to your faith, it's a freeing, powerful. It's almost like removing kryptonite from your life when you totally commit.

Can you do that? The people around you always talk, it's costing too much. It's costing too much. And you're going, maybe it's costing too much. You're going, no, it's worth it. It's not the price. It's the worth.

It's a subtle distinction in your life. That same scarcity mentality we do in going after our dreams. We want to acquire our dream. You can't be in price tag mode. What's it cost? What's it cost? What's it cost? You never get what you want.

Decide and advance what it's going to cost. And then decide, here's the subtle distinction. Successful people don't negotiate the cost of something. They negotiate whether it's worth it. That's subtle. It's very subtle. If you're a person who's always thinking about what it's costing you in the sacrifice towards your dream, you're always going to be negotiating it. But if you can decide in advance that the cost is worth it, the negotiation stops and you go execute. What I'm telling you is if you really want something bad enough, it's worth it. It's worth it. So start to feed yourself the worth question over and over and over again, not the cost question. Cost is a distraction. Worth is a focus mechanism. This is so worth it, it's so worth it, it's so worth it, focuses you. Cost distracts you. What I want to remind you of is on the other side of that suffering, on the other side of that sacrifice,

on the other side of that laser focus is your dream. It's one of the greatest places you'll ever be in your life. And here's what I know, by the way, the times where you've been the most laser focused in your life, listen to me on this, you've been the most happy. The times you've been the most distracted, you've been the most unhappy. Ladies, if you're listening to this, you think about the times where maybe when you were pregnant, for example, if you've been pregnant before, and the amount of focus that went in on that beautiful baby you were going to have, the preparation for it.

I mean, you're carrying that child right next to you. You can't get more focus on something than something you're carrying, right? And I'll guarantee you during labor, you weren't thinking about your, you were thinking about your electric bill or some email you had to return. You were damn focused in that moment, and I'll bet that baby made you almost happier than you ever been in your life. For some of you that when you were cramming for finals in your life, right, that first time you were cramming and it was so laser focus on something and you were happy. You know,

the truth is that was a happy time in your life. For some of you that have built some businesses or maybe when you were in your courtship dating who you're now married to, you were so focused, weren't you during that time with that person? I mean, it was some of the happiest times of your life. The most focused times in our life, the less distracted times in our life also equals the happiest times in our life. So if you really want true bliss, you want true fulfillment, it comes from eliminating the distractions and becoming obsessed. There are healthy obsessions in life. And the more obsessed we are about healthy things, the happier we are,

whether we're obsessed with the happy times of carrying that baby and having that baby, the happy times of achieving a degree we've had, the obsession we've had when we were dating somebody and we were so in love with them, these times when we're in the healthiest of our obsessions is when we're the happiest. So I want to challenge you today to make that shift of eliminating these distractions and elevating your level of focus in your life. And remember this, there's three things that I want you to be controlling. Your state, your story, and your strategy.

State, story, strategy. What's your state? Are you in a state of focus? Are you pumped up? Are you breathing deeply? Are you lasered in on something? Are you completely in there? Whereas your state a distracted, diverted state, right?

hunched over, watching TV, looking at your phone, worrying about Iraq, worrying about North Korea, worrying about Trump, worrying about Obama, worrying about an election, worrying about who's in a fight on a reality show, right? All of that stuff distracts us. Are you in a state totally pumped up, totally focused on your dreams, lasered in? Number two, what's the story you're telling yourself?

Are you telling yourself the sacrifice is worth it? The suffering is worth it. That the price you're going to pay is worth it. And that you're going to get on the other side and great things are going to happen and your obsessions become your possessions. And this is the happiest you've ever been before. And your life matters and you're not some fan of some team. You're a fan of your own life.

That when we win, we really win. When you win the game of your own life, you really win. Not when the Patriots or Lakers win, but when I win, and you're telling yourself that story. Are you telling yourself the other story? Hey, man, I hope we get our quarterback on Sunday. I hope LeBron can drop 25, you know. And you tell this distracted story that's completely meaningless in your own life about some sports team, right? Which story are you telling yourself?

The one of your own life or hiding in the story of other people's lives. Let me say that to you again. are you telling the story of your own life or are you hiding in the story of other people's lives we hide in the story of other people's lives through gossip of people that are around us talking bad about them we hide in reality TV we hide in the news we hide in politicians and we hide pretending we play for these sports teams those are all stories about other people's lives are you in the story of your own life and then lastly what's your strategy you've got to execute on your strategy have a very detailed plan to make that story you're telling a reality

and everything transforms in your life. Man, I hope this helps you today. It helped me. I'm pumped up right now. If you're listening to this, you can probably hear it. If you're watching it, I know you can see it. And that's a reminder, by the way. If you're listening to this on audio, on iTunes or Spotify,

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