Your Transformation Station - 11. "Krav Maga" Utilizing Mixed Martial Arts Paul Fritsche w/ Favazza

Episode Date: May 14, 2020

"How can you create a transformation in others if there's no transformation in yourself?" Join Greg Favazza podcast host and creator discuss with Paul Fritsche how Krav Maga principles can be translated into problem-solving techniques and used for critical thinking habits.   Support the showPODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://ytspod.comApple Podcasts: https://ytspod.com/appleSpotify: https://ytspod.com/spotifyRSS: https://ytspod.com/rssYouTube: https://ytspod.com/youtubeSUPPORT & CONNECT:- Check out the sponsors below, it's the best way to support this podcast- Outgrow: https://www.ytspod.com/outgrow- Quillbot Flow: https://ytspod.com/quilbot - LearnWorlds: https://ytspod.com/learnworlds- Facebook: https://ytspod.com/facebook- Instagram: https://ytspod.com/instagram- TikTok: https://ytspod.com/tiktok- Twitter: https://ytspod.com/x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is your transformation station. And this is your host, Greg Favaza. Episode 9, I got to sit down with Paul Fritchie. He is the lead self-defense instructor at Midwest Cromagah. Now, there are tons of Cromagah organizations. However, Midwest Cromagah has its own hybrid system, where they're incorporating different styles of fighting and applying it into one well-rounded system.

This system respects the fact people have these fears of walking into the gym, being afraid of getting hit in the face, being afraid of the what-if. But when you go here, when you attend to Midwest Cromagah, you, honestly, I really just don't. want to spoil it for you guys. Paul, I appreciate you coming on to your Transformation Station. How are you? How are you doing? Thanks for having me. How are things going with the business with

this whole pandemic going on? I mean, it's definitely an interesting time. Jim is basically closed. For the most part, we have, we're still running small classes. You'll have one or two people jump into a class maybe once or twice a week. We're running the online classes as well for our members. Every day we do a fitness class every day at noon. And then we do our regular classes, like our self-defense or our sparring classes. We stream those online every evening, as well as our jihitsu classes. But again, you know, it's just a different way to train. It definitely has an effect.

Try and find out what can you focus on now. You know, what can you bring to your members to keep them training, to keep them engaged? And that's kind of what we're focusing on is things that we can do. If you focus on the things you can't do right now, you're going to drive yourself crazy, you know. And things may never go back to the way they were. So we have to learn to adapt. We have to learn to, you know, be ready to go when things open back to. up and, you know, try and be a leader because there's a lot of uncertain things right now,

whereas, you know, if we can be that one little spot of certainty in someone's life, like, hey, look, I know they're going to be there every day at noon, they're going to run a class for me at noon, they're going to run a self-defense class every evening, they're going to run a sparring class every evening. It gives some type of structure to where some people can follow that. And that's kind of what people are looking for. They're looking for good advice. They're looking for some structure. They're looking for a little bit of certainty right now. And right now it's really uncertain, it's an uncertain time. Just trying to be consistent in this environment is kind of my biggest goal and being consistent

on focusing on things that I can do. And what are things that I can do to improve my gym during this time? So I run a gym for a long time and there's always things that I'm trying to improve or work on. And this has given me an opportunity to redo my website, redo my customer retention software, redo my ability to communicate with my students. So setting up a new email program. So things like that on the back end that when we do open up

and we do start to bring in new members, that we're just more efficient at doing it, more efficient at communicating with our members, more efficient at running programs. So I just looking to improve the things that I can during this time and then train my members the best way possible during this time, where they get the most out of their membership. A lot of cleaning of the gym and a lot of online classes.

That's what we're doing as well as behind the scenes as well. We're doing a lot of work. So that's kind of what we're doing right now. The impact has been pretty significant, I think, for any small business, not just myself. You know, I mean, there's people that own restaurants, you know, that are struggling. There's people that own cleaning companies, like right down the street from us. There's one of the cleaning companies that they go around and clean people's house as well. Nobody wants you in their house right now.

So it's hard for a lot of people to make money. So that's basically how it's affecting us. I really do appreciate you taking your time just to give us this interview. Let's zoom out a little bit. What got you into self-defense in the first place? I remember when you first stood up, I was one of your students out of the group that started up, and you played enormous impact in my life. Yeah.

Well, I appreciate that. I hope it was a positive impact. What got me started into it was, honestly, I'd always been into athletics, played sports growing up, you know, was never the best, most dominant athlete, was never the worst, you know, kind of a middle of the pack athlete. You know, willing to work pretty hard. Lifting weights, because that was kind of my thing. After high school sports, I got into bodybuilding, like lifting weights, a lot of working out.

And I was at the gym one day, and a buddy of mine I was working out with had Crogma Gah. And this was probably 2006, 2007. And we were at the gym working out one day. And he did this defense. And I was like, oh, my goodness. I was pretty impressive, pretty athletic and always lift the weights. I was a strong guy. Even with that, like being a pretty strong guy and being pretty confident in my physical

abilities, I was never confident in like a violent encounter or a physical encounter. So I always had that like nervousness about those situations. Like the fear of just the end of physical confrontation. Okay. Physical confrontation. You know, you're going out to the bars and you're constantly seeing people getting in fights and things like that. And that's about the age I was, 21, 22. And I'm like, man, you just don't feel real confident in myself.

So when he started showing me that stuff, I asked him where he was going, found out where he was going, went down, took one class, and I was hooked. And then unfortunately, that gym closed down like two weeks later after I signed up. And then another place opened up and I started training there. That was Gateway Krav Maga. And I started underneath a individual named Sam Sadei, former Israeli IDF soldier. I learned a lot underneath him. And that's where it all started, man. That's how it all got started.

So that was it. Basically, it was at the gym one day working out, lifting weights, buddy showed me a choke defense. And I was like, wow, went and checked it out, and I was hooked. That's amazing how just that one event played a key fact. in your life's transformation. Yeah, absolutely. So if we were to explore the background,

could we talk about your credentials a little bit? I mean, sure, absolutely. So as far as you were a black belt and Kravaghan, is that correct? I'm a fit to fight, Krav Maga Black Belt. So Fit to Fight is an affiliation. Kind of like, and that's the thing, there's so many affiliations. There's Krav Maga worldwide.

There's Krav Maga Global. There's International Kravagathega Federation. There's Kravagat Alliance. There's just so many. So yeah, yeah, I'm a fit to fight Prameda a black belt. Now, how long did that take you to get to that? Well, I started training in 2007.

I got my black belt in 2012. And that's training basically every day. So I train every day. You know, I'm not to where I train once or twice a week. I teach every day. I train every day. The only day I take off is Sundays. So it's not just like I was,

going two days a week, doing two hours a week, and I got my black belt in five years. It was an everyday thing, hours a day. And still to this day right now, I'm still training hours a day, working out physically, and then just teaching technique, drilling technique. I'm still looking at probably one to two to three hours

every day of physical activity. So if we had somebody look at from the outside looking in, how can somebody start implementing a routine to become good at something. I understand the underlying factor is consistency, but what was the driving motivator to make you want to learn? I wanted to be more confident in my physical abilities

to handle myself, whether or not it be for me or to help someone else. That was my number one driving thing. And then after years of training, like four or five years of training, and I really started to see the benefits, you know, just by training with other people, going hands-on with other people, being able to hold my own against people that I know were maybe bigger, faster, stronger.

And being able to hold my own, I started to realize, okay, you know what, I do have an idea what I'm doing here. I'm pretty proficient at it. I feel like I can deliver it in a certain manner. And so that's kind of what led me to start teaching. but the underlying desire to get started training was simply I wanted to feel more confident in a physical confrontation. However, that transitioned to, hey, look, I learned this. It's had a tremendous impact on my mental well-being, my mental preparedness.

And so that's when I started wanting to teach other people because I could see the profound effect that it had on me. and I wanted to help other people have that same thing, that same boost of confidence, that same increase in their physical ability, being able to throw a proper punch, a proper strike. You know,

that's, to see that happen, like when you see the average person come in and they can't, they wouldn't be able to punch themselves out of a wet paper bag. And after, you know, six months to a year of training

to see someone throw an educated right hand, it's pretty rewarding, actually. That sounds very satisfying, just how you describe, that. That's what I miss about the military is watching my soldiers grow right in front of me. Yeah, I'm sure. Let's go into the philosophy and understand the guiding principles of Kravagha. To be honest with you, we have, we, Matt can speak on that, okay?

But our system, and we can talk about this a little later if you want, our system is more of a hybrid Kravima'a system. So we incorporate a lot of other techniques from other systems. So we do a lot of wrestling, a lot of clinch fighting, a lot of hand control and grip control. But as far as like the underlying principles of what we would consider, you know, Krav Maga is really self-defense. You know, what they what they market, what they what they promote is it's for the streets. It's for real life violence. It's, you know, it's a lot of, it's a lot of, you know, great marketing. What I mean by that is defend as you, you know, or excuse me, attack as you defend

simultaneously. But the truth is, if you're, you know, as far as underlying philosophy, it's to, it's to end the fight as quickly as possible. It's to defend and attack at the same time. That's what you're always going to hear at Krav Magoskoskos. And the threat as quickly as possible, which should be anyone's goal in a self-defense situation. Attack while you're defending and things of those situations. So those are the main principles that you're going to hear from a lot of Krav Magoskules.

There's all kinds of neat slogans and sayings and things like that that people put on t-shirts that make people feel good about themselves. But for me, my underlying principles for what we teach here is, number one, if you can avoid bad places, don't go. Okay? If you can avoid bad situations, don't go. If you find yourself in an altercation with someone, let's just remember that 99.99% of all situations have some type. of pre-contact dialect with them. People don't typically jump out of a bush

and start attacking you, all right? I'm not saying it never happens, but it's very rare. So number one, can I stop myself from being put in those bad situations? Number two, if I am, can I use verbal communication to de-escalate the situation if I can? If not, then I need to go as early as possible, which means either escape as early as possible,

try to escape. If I can't escape, try and de-escalate. de-escalate. If I can't de-escalate, I need to maintain distance. And then if I have to go first, I need to go first. Whether that's a groin kick, whether that's a right-straight, whatever it is, I need to go first. And those are the principles that we're teaching here. Basically is, you know, keep yourself out of bad situations. If you get no-one, can you verbally de-escalate or can you run away. If you can't run away, do you have the ability to maintain the distance, keep separation, meaning that can you keep someone at least our length away? Because for someone to attack you,

they have to get close. Okay. So can you do those things? If the physical, if it becomes physical, if you can't, you can't walk away, you go first and then it turns into a physical altercation. Then the principles of your training should be not so much collecting techniques, but understanding what happens, what are the things that are happening in a fight? So what are the things that are happening? Their pushes and their pulls. So someone's either going to push on you or they're going to pull on you for the most part. Okay.

So can you read an energy? Can you read a push or a pull? Okay. Number two, how to create angles. Okay. So can I create angles meaning get my hips facing the other person, the other hips facing away, right? Are their hips facing away?

Can I, we call it the elbow rule here. Can I get outside someone's elbows? Don't stand in between their elbows. And the third one is just winning small moments in time. So fights do not happen, you know, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, like in a linear progression. So if you train in that way so that every time this happens, you do that, you're going to find yourself in a lot of trouble with the first time you try and do something, the other guy doesn't give you that exact energy that you're used to.

So that comes back to being able to read energies, be able to create angles, and be able to win small moments in time back to back to back. Those are the underlying principles that we teach here as far as the physical part of fighting. But as far as the underlying principles of crime of gods, defend encounter, and things like that. The mentality would be a never back down mentality? Well, no. No. That's ego, right? that's ego when you're facing to an altercation yeah so if i'm faced to an altercation and some guy

wants my wallet and i can give him my wallet and walk away with my family intact why would i say i'm not giving you my wallet that's just terrible that that's an ego okay it's an ego it's the same thing a guy puts a gun on me and tells me he wants my wallet am i going to do a gun defense if it's just me it's just me i don't have my kids he's not trying to take me anywhere he's not trying to take me anywhere He's not trying to take my kids anywhere. He just wants my car. He just wants my wallet. He just wants this.

Give him what he wants. Okay. There's a lot of, there's a list. There's a lot of bullshit in this industry. There's a lot of instructors running around in tactical pants and all kinds of silly garb, wearing shirts that say lions and wolves and all kinds of. of silly things like that. Okay?

And it's all to prop up these, prop up these egos. You know, like you go to most Kravagoskoskoskos and like, people talk about their instructor like they're a superhero. No, they're not. They're just an average person. There's better ways to handle a lot of situations

than just smashing someone in the face. So if I can de-escalate, again, if I can de-escalate, again, everybody always thinks it's going to be, this is how it's going to go. if you're out with your family and some guy walks up on you and it's it's real easy to say I would just do this I would just do that how many times have you been in a situation where you're fighting for your life and your kids and your wife are 10 feet away never most people never so to sit here and say this is how you'd handle it or I would just punch this guy in the face or my favorite I would just shoot him okay that's just not realistic I'm Okay. So no, there's not, there's, there's, there's, I don't believe in the never back down mantra.

There are times when I'm going to back down and go home and be safe. The goal is to go home safe. The goal is not to go around smashing people. That's very intelligent. That's powerful. And that's the right way to think. Now let's compare Cromaghan with other martial art practices. Sure.

What's the difference in the mindset, the application? All the fundamental principles. I don't know. I can't speak intelligently enough on all the other martial arts. Okay. To me, fighting's fighting. There's no superior system. Okay.

Systems, and that's hard for some people to hear, especially people in the jiu jitzu community. Okay, because jih Tjitsu is really big right now. It's awesome, and I love it. It's super fun. But you'll hear people say, oh, this is the best martial art, or that's the best martial art, or jihitsu's this or jih Tijitsu is that, or, you know, things like that. I love Jiu-Jitsu.

I do it. It's fantastic. But I also do a little bit of wrestling. And I think that's fantastic. And I think that boxing is fantastic. And I think Muay Thai is fantastic. I definitely think there's arts that are more proficient in street fighting or self-defense than some. But you also have a lot of arts that have been practiced for thousands of years.

And, you know, I don't know the lineage of them, but you hear about how they've been watered down. Like, for example, Taekwondo, great martial art. teaches you how to use your body really well, teaches you how to move your body, how to kick, get you great flexibility, great mobility. But I wouldn't suggest teaching that for a self-defense system. You're using too many kicks. Your hands are typically down at your chest to face level.

You're in a bladed stance. So it's just a lot of things that don't work well for a fight in, you know, for like an MMA fight or a real fight. It's just too dynamic. Taekwondo fighters are really good at fighting other Taekwondo fighters. Jiu-Jitsu fighters are typically really good at fighting other jiu-suitzu fighters, wrestlers with wrestlers. So for me, I don't think there's a superior martial art.

That's just my opinion. There's no, I don't have anything to back that up. But I don't think systems win fights. Okay. I think people win fights. So, you know, if, you know, like you always hear, always hear to say grappler versus striker, strikler versus grappler, blah, blah, blah. It's the person.

It's the person in the fight that's going to make the difference. If there was one superior martial art, then every organization in the world that has fighting, so Risen, UFC, Bellator, they'd all, their champions would be one style martial art. That would be it. You don't have that. In fact, if you want to argue that point, I would say that wrestling is the most dominant martial art. Why? Because if you look at the champions across most organizations, a majority of them come from a wrestling background. And why are they so good? Because a lot of these kids have been wrestling since they were five years old. So they've been feeling someone else's pushes and pulls their whole life. So their ability to read and react to those

energy is as far superior than the average person. So now you have a, so now you take a kid who's been doing this whole life. And now you start to teach him striking jujitsu. And these guys have these strong bases. Wrestlers have phenomenal, usually have phenomenal work ethics. So their, so their ability to take that drive that they developed in wrestling and the way that they drill in wrestling, they can take that template and put it to any other martial art and they learn it really really well. Look at the UFC right now. 125 pound champion

if they even have one. I can't remember if they do or not. 135 pound in Suhudo, wrestler. 145 Volcanowski. I'm not sure if he was a wrestler or not. I know he played rugby. 155. Kabib, wrestler. 170. Usman, wrestler. 185 is

who's 185? Adasania. So, phenomenal, high-level striker. great wrestling take down defense. And you have John Jones at 205 wrestler. Heavyweight, steep A is a boxer wrestler background. So, I mean, if you want to say that what martial art is superior, probably wrestling. But again, I'm not going to tell you that it's the end-all be-all.

I'll tell you that it's a great skill set to have. And I think all martial arts, each of them, have great skill sets that will blend together. So, and that's kind of what we do here, meaning that whether it comes from moitai, wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, and that's kind of what we do at Fit to Fight as a, the Fit to Fight organization is basically a well-rounded, hybrid self-defense system that teaches some boxing, some kickboxing, some boytie, some wrestling, some takedowns, really big on grip control, creating angles, reading pushes and pulls. So just a well-rounded self-defense system without having to have some type. of attachment to a lineage from whether it's Krav Magh being 100 years ago or Taekwondo being

2000, I could care less about how Emi taught self-defense in World War II Israel. I could care less. You know, it doesn't translate to how we fight here today. You know, what you see in a battlefield over in the Middle East or wherever from 100 years ago is nothing like you'll see in a bar fight down on Main Street. you're saying to have a generalist mindset versus to specialize. Absolutely. If all you have is a hammer, and this is a great analogy I got from Ryan Hoover,

if all you have is a hammer, everything you see is a nail. Okay, so if I'm a grappler, all I do is grappling, everything I see is a chance to grapple. Okay, so when you are, when you never defend strikes, okay, when you never defend strikes, and all the sudden you're grappling with somebody, whether it be stand-up grappling or, you know, what they would call rolling in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and someone gets to start punching you in the face, the entire game changes.

Okay? So what I mean by that is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, again, it's fantastic martial art, the guard in Jiu-Jitsu. If we're just in a Jiu-Jitsu tournament, and I'm the one utilizing my guard, meaning I'm on my back, You're trying to get past my legs, whatever, how you want to describe it.

I am in an advantageous position if all we're doing is grappling. So if I can get you into my guard, get my guard close, start working my submissions, breaking your posture down, you know, things like that and start looking to establish my grips and start working my game, then I'm in the dominant position, okay? I'm in the more offensive position. But if you're in my guard and you can start dropping elbows on my face and punches, Now you're in the better position. Okay.

So, yeah, absolutely. There is no, if you are really interested in learning self-defense, you would probably be best to train multiple systems. For me, if someone said, what are the systems you want to train and to be proficient at fighting? I would tell you boxing, wrestling, Muay Thai, Brazilian jiu-jitsu. So if you had to take four combat sports, those are the four that I would take.

I'll be sure to link that in the show notes. What's the process like to getting started from Kramaga? I mean, you have to go find a gym, a training center. But be careful. There's a lot of really bad stuff out there. There's a lot of schools that are really good at marketing. They're really, really good at marketing, and they make you feel good.

Why they make you feel good? because everybody wants to hear all you have to do is this. This is all you got to do. If someone chokes you, all you have to do is this. Because it makes us feel good. We like that.

Makes us feel safe. It's not real. There's no such thing as all you have to do is when someone's got their hands are on your throat or someone's trying to crack your skull with an elbow or a pipe or anything else. There is no all you have to do is. Okay?

So first off, go find a school that you feel comfortable with, that aligns with your goals in self-defense. You know, what are your goal? What's your philosophy? Go to a school where they're open to questioning, you know, they're not panning you an 800-page manual and say, here, look, this is how you learn,

Cromagau, make sure you can do all these, you know, techniques on call. No, you go in, you train, you get hands-on. You find a school that, again, is, safe, you know, you don't want to go in and get pummeled your first day. So you want to go in and go to a place that has a good sparring program to get you involved in sparring because that can be really daunting as well, walking into a kickboxing or boxing gym and seeing people get punched in the face. So you just want a program that will slowly bring you into the system, you know,

kind of progressively knock you into, you know, physical confrontation. Because if someone's never had, never even been in a fight. And then you ask this person to come into your gym, that right there is intimidating enough. Okay? Like even walking in the door is intimidated enough. So now you want to walk that person in the door, make them feel comfortable.

You know, there's so much bad stuff out there with like Cromagall, like the screaming of your students, like, yell and tell them to go, go, go, go. Drive pound that pad. That's great stuff. Get your heart rate up. It's really good. But, you know, as far as finding a school,

find a school that you feel comfortable at when you walk in, find a school that is affordable, find a school that has a schedule that fits what you can do, find a school that's close to you. Because the first couple of things, for example, if the schedule doesn't fit, if it's not close to you, then you're not going to go. So find those things first.

School that's close, a schedule you can make. Go in and check out some classes. If you like the classes and you like the people there, you know, maybe you continue training or maybe you go check out somewhere else. But as far as just getting started, get started. Just to wrap things up a little bit, I just have some personal questions. What hold you accountable every day? What's your primary driver, your inspiration to being the man you are today?

I mean, I think it's a combination of things, you know. You know, I mean, first and foremost, I just want to be a good person. You know, regardless of the interactions I have with people, whenever someone walks away from me, from an interaction that I have, I want them to be glad that they had that interaction. So that's one thing. I want to set an example for my daughter that hard work pays off, discipline pays off, you know, to get what you want,

it takes drive, it takes, you know, it takes focus, it takes having a vision, writing those goals down, and then taking the steps necessary. So, you know, throughout your day, you know, what do you do throughout the day that helps you get to where you want to be? You know, do you, or are you just waking up going through the motions? And for a long time, that's what I did. I would get up and I would react to the day.

Whereas over the past, you know, year and like you follow on and off of your, you know, sometimes we'll waver and, you know, I'm really focused on trying to get back to where I was. But yeah, I mean, you just want to set an example for your kids. It's an example for, you know, the kids that I teach. So like my members, the youth students that I have. So I just try and be consistent. I try and be a good person. I want people to value my relationship with them.

And so those are the things that motivate me to do what I do. What are some good advice to follow? Always look for new challenges. You know, growth is in discomfort. Now that's a really big saying that fit to fight. You are going to stay the same person. So these things that you're afraid to do, go do them. Or else you're just going to stay the same person.

So, like, I have, you know, I have students who could be phenomenal instructors and they're absolutely terrified of standing in front of the class. And I'm like, look, just, you know, again, it's different for everyone. But you just stay the same person that you are. Okay. Unless you can go out and make changes to get outside, you know, your little comfort zone, your little circle. You know, growth is outside that circle. So if you can, you know, for me, you know, for me, you. Me personally, I grew up with a terrible speech impediment.

I stuttered all the time. I was afraid to teach people at first because I stuttered so bad. And it's teaching that got me over stuttering. So, yes, I get it. Things can be scary. You know, it's kind of funny because these are what we're talking about right now with the kids. Our kids program, we're focusing on courage right now, you know. And we talk to the kids about what courage is and they tell me what courage is.

And I ask them for examples and, you know, they give me examples. and, you know, the question we had last night was, is courage the same for everybody? And they're like, no. You know, first they're like, yeah, and then a couple of them were like, no, it's not. And so we just kind of explain, you know, courage is different for everyone.

For some people, coming in this door takes a lot of courage. For some people, it doesn't. They walk right in, they fit right in, they hop on the mats, they go and they start, you know, learning. For other people, coming through that door is traumatic. So courage is different for everyone. So that's just basically, you know, kind of the things that we focus on.

I can definitely relate to being one of those individuals. It took a lot of courage for me to come through this door every time I came. What's some bad advice to avoid? Bad advice. I mean, it's different for everyone, but I would say one of the things that I hear all the time that people tell people is, you're fine just the way you are. That's not true. Okay?

If I'm, you know, a drug addict, then I am non-responsive in my own. my close relationships and I have no connection to anybody in my life, you are not fine just the way you are. You know, if I'm 300 pounds overweight, I've got type 2 diabetes and the doctor's telling me that I've got a year to live, you're not fine just the way you are. You know, if you, so, so that's, to me, you hear that all the time because people don't want to hurt people's feelings. But yeah, I think that's really bad advice.

You can be really bad advice. You're fine just the way you are. I appreciate that. What's an action item, a piece of homework that our listeners can take and start implementing today to start surpassing the expectations and start their transformation? Read. Read. That's the number one thing.

Or, you know, I mean, there's lots of things. You can say read. I can say start making positive changes in your day. So for me, an action that you can take is sit down, take 20 minutes, get on a piece of paper, get on a word document, or whatever the case may be, and write down 10 to 12 things that you need to do on a daily basis to put structure into your life. Okay, without structure, you're, there's no successful person in the world that doesn't have a schedule. So if you're not scheduling out your week, okay? And these are things that like I've learned before, again, didn't implement for a while, and now I'm coming back to implement them again.

So you have to have a schedule. So that means, you know, once a year, you plan out your quarters. At the beginning of the quarter, you plan out your months. At the beginning of the month, you plan out your weeks. At the beginning of the week, you plan out your days. At the beginning of the day, you review your day. So every morning when I get up, if you go to my house, I have a list, a daily list, and it's everywhere in my house. It's literally on my garage door front and back.

It's on my pantry. It's on my refrigerator. It's on my bedroom door. It's on my closet door. It's on my bathroom mirror. And it's just a list of 10 or 12 things. You know, and some of them are as simple as make your bed. Meditate.

E-clean. Be careful on what you focus on. So all these people right now that get online and they get into their echo chambers and they get on their Facebooks and it's my side versus your side and my political side versus your political side, that's just eating you up, man. And it's just, you know, so be careful on what you focus on. Okay. So that's another one of mine. I journal, you know, and that's a struggle for me as well. Sometimes I don't make it and that kind of is frustrating.

I make sure I work out every day. You know, I put, you know, so those are action things. Those are things that you can do as far as action is get some structure. Get a daily schedule, weekly, monthly schedule. And that's basically, you know, for me, that's as far as action items. That's kind of how I got started. It was just getting yourself on a schedule, scheduling out times to do things. And it'll make your life a lot better.

When you start living by a schedule, you will start learning that, okay, look, I have plenty of time. I have plenty of time. So learn how to block time, you know, time out for certain things. So just follow a schedule. That's what I would tell you is the number one action item and read. Read as much as you can. There's lots of great information out there. Lots of great books on communication and, you know, language and, you know,

how to structure your day and things like that. That is some great information. I'll be sure to link that in the show notes. How can our listeners get in touch with the effect to learn more about Kroa McGa? I mean, you can check out our website. it's MW. Cravemaga.com. You can also email me at info

at Midwestcravmaga.com. You can find me on Facebook, Paul Fritchie. I'm on Twitter at MW. Crav Maga. And then Instagram as well, Midwest Crabb Maga. Paul, I really appreciate your time today.

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