The Russell Brunson Show - Why Does The Fuel You Eat Actually Matter For An Entrepreneur?

Episode Date: September 15, 2017

My thoughts as I detox from Lucky Charms. On today's episode Russell talks about the effects of putting negative fuel in your body instead of positive. Here are some of the informative things you will hear today: What started Russell on a carb binge that he couldn't stop. Why eating junk will make you feel like junk. And why putting positive fuel in your body will help you compete in business and you'll be more able to get a billion things done in shorter period of time. So listen here to find out why putting negative fuel in your body could be making your work suffer. Transcript - https://marketingsecrets.com/blog/why-does-the-fuel-you-eat-actually-matter-for-an-entrepreneur Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How are entrepreneurs like us who didn't cheat and take on venture capital, we're spending money from our own pockets. How do we market in a way that lets us get our products and our services and the things that we believe in out to the world and yet still remain profitable? That is the question and this podcast will give you the answer. My name is Russell Brunson, and welcome to Marketing Secrets. All right, everybody, so it's been a fun day, long day, and I'm beat up and tired and ready to go pass out, but out here trying to get a bottle of water because I'm parched. We're about probably three or four weeks away from our kitchen being done with our remodels.

We can move back into our house, which is going to be oh so nice. I cannot wait. So typically, it's interesting. This is kind of an off-topic sort of. It's still on topic, though. So typically, when I'm doing everything throughout the day, I eat really, really, really, really, really good. So I do intermittent fasting,

so I don't eat breakfast in the morning. I take about a billion vitamins and supplements in the morning, I feel like I'm glowing, I feel tons of energy, I feel really, really good. When I do eat during the day, Melanie, my assistant, makes me this huge salad. It's like a, I don't know, like a 1600 calorie salad with spinach and kale and salmon and, uh, peppers and, uh, oil and avocados. And it's like

most amazing to ever eat that all day long. And then I'm full and I'm not hungry the rest of the day. And, and then at night I'll eat just whatever my wife makes, I'll eat the meat and the vegetables out of it. And that's it. And I feel really good. And I get through the days and it's just like I can get so much stuff done. I was joking on an earlier podcast about funnel years, how each funnel days, or each year's, each day's a funnel year. Anyway, how much stuff we can get done in a day. Anyway, today was Saturday and my wife had a church thing

that she was gonna be at all day. So I was playing dad. So this morning I woke up and started good, and then my wife bought Lucky Charms. Lucky Charms! I don't know about you, but that is by far the best cereal in the history of cereal mankind. In fact, when I was a kid, we used to eat Lucky Charms. Then we found out we could get Marshmallow Mateys, which came in the bigger bags. Every year for Christmasmas we'd get one

sugar cereal from santa claus and so we always want marshmallow matey so we all all the kids my family get a big old bag of our own bag of marshmallow mateys and we get like a salad bowl and fill the whole thing up with the with the marshmallow mateys it's been like five hours eating all the oats out of it and then and then at the end drinking all the milk with the marshmallows is insanely good in fact uh last year for christmas i trained my kids on how to do that because the tradition has now been officially passed on anyway for some insane reason my wife didn't just buy marshmallow mateys she bought freaking lucky charms which are the best thing ever she bought two boxes of them so today i'm like eating my supplements i look over i see a box of lucky

charms i'm like i don't got enough willpower to stop myself from Lucky Charms. So, yeah, I just, I don't, that and cookie dough, I can't say no. I won't even attempt it. So I don't even try it. So I'm like, done. Boom. One bowl of Lucky Charms, two bowl of Lucky Charms. And then, for me, it's like a slippery slope. I'm like, well, I'm already on a carb binge today.

I might as well just go all out. So then, yeah, so then for lunch, I was like, hey, kids, let's go out to eat. So I went to a hamburger place. We had hamburgers and french fries. And I ate everybody else's french fries. They were really, really good. And then I came home. And then I was like, barely came my eyes open.

Like my whole body's like shutting down. I'm like, can I get my eyes open? And then my wife gets home and she's tired. She's been, you know, this emotional thing all day, crying her eyes out and everything. And then the kids are like, we're hungry. And like, we want pizza. I'm like, sweet, get my phone. I ordered Domino's pizza and chicken wings wings and like that was like amazingly good and

then yeah and then tonight there's a wedding receptionist went over and they had cheesecake so like today was a carb to head down to the carbs uh but it's funny because i am now walking back in to go to bed and i just want to just kind of more mostly for me and hopefully you guys as well I feel like crap my voice hurts my throat hurts my brain hurts I have like brain fog I can't focus I can't concentrate I feel like oh my body hurts like my legs hurt like it's just like feeling um and I know there's a lot of entrepreneurs who are like that's the fuel you're putting in your body most days like if I put that much if I put that there's a lot of entrepreneurs who are like, that's the fuel you're putting in your body most days. Like if I put that much, if I put that fuel in my body, I don't know how I could get anything done. Like I got nothing done today other than playing with the kids. Like I feel like crap. I feel like garbage. Um, anyway, so yeah, I just wanted to put it out there because

first off for me to remember like what I feel like now, a lot of times we associate the pleasure on our taste buds with the food we eat. We're lucky charters are like, this tastes so good. But I want to consciously remember this that I feel right now because I want to associate this with carbs so I quit eating them because, God, they just thrash you and destroy you and make you feel like garbage. So for those of you guys I'm competing against, please keep eating crap. I love it. It makes it so I can get done more in a week than you get done in a day.

But for the rest of you guys who I'm coaching and consulting, I want you to succeed. Look at your diet. Seriously, shift how you're eating. If you're trying to figure out how to eat for energy, a couple things I'd recommend. Number one, Google intermittent fasting. That'll change your entire day around. If you're not trying to lose weight just from shifting, so you don't eat in the morning, you need, you know, fats in the afternoon, the carbs at night, it'll keep your energy high

throughout the day so you can compete and do well. And then, um, the bulletproof diet is really, really good. Uh, most of you guys know I'm Mormon, so I don't drink coffee. Um, but there's different ways to make that. And, um, anyway, Dave Asprey, his whole mission and stuff is really, really good and most of you guys know i'm mormon so i don't drink coffee um but there's different ways to make that and anyway dave asprey his whole mission and stuff is really really good i love his stuff um minus the coffee so yeah but you can do bulletproof other things in the morning if you want or you do coffee if that's what you like to do as well but that whole concept high fats um strongly strongly believe in that um it's been a huge thing that's helped me succeed as an entrepreneur. And then the last one is Anthony DiClemente's Biohacker's Guide, which is another amazing book.

It gives 10 ways to eat for energy and other things for energy as well. So anyway, it's just some help, you guys. If you're struggling, if you're hard to get through the days and it's hard to focus and have concentration and you want to just go out there and thrash everyone, like think about the fuel you're putting in your body. Because this right now, how I feel right now is a testament of what? Lucky charms. The devil.

I think I also had lucky charms for dinner. I may have had some for lunch too. Yeah. Box number two is almost gone. Look at this thing. For those watching today, God, lucky charms. Are you kidding me? That's why I don't like my wife to go shopping sometimes.

She buys all the good stuff. But I can't say no to. Anyway, so just think about that. The feel you're putting in your body is affecting how you're competing. So this business is a game. It's competition. And I know that the athletes out there understand that, but a lot of people who maybe not have been in athletics don't understand that. You're in a competition. You're competing with people like me who are obsessed with this kind of stuff. What you put in your body doesn't matter. Look at that. Figure it out. Even if you don't want to lose weight,

it doesn't matter about losing weight. It's about keeping your brain sharp 8, 10, 12 hours a day so you can get a lot of crap done and accomplish what you want to do so you can serve the people you need to serve. There you go, guys. Hope that helps. We're going to bed tonight. I'm going to crash and tomorrow we're back on cue because I got a big week coming up.

If I survive this week, it's going to be 90% diet, 10% motivation, 30% inspiration, and a whole bunch of happy thoughts in the middle. Yeah, that's not 100%. That's way over. Anyway, it's going to be fun. All right, guys, I'm out. See you tomorrow. Bye. Want more marketing secrets?

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