May 29, 2025 • 34 mins
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about potential—not the kind people talk about in vague, feel-good quotes—but the kind that sits deep in your gut and makes you wonder: What if I actually went after it? What if I stopped waiting and started working?
In this solo episode, I share stories that have lit a fire under me recently—like Cameron Hanes running 250 miles with a broken foot, David Goggins’ wild transformation, and how Stoic philosophers like Epictetus teach us to stop making excuses and own our response to life.
I also talk about my own journey—from the kid who used to binge frozen chimichangas after school (yes, Fat Brett was real) to someone trying to show up every day with discipline, consistency, and purpose.
Here’s what we cover:
- What it actually means to live up to your potential
- Why discipline beats motivation every time
- How small, daily goals create massive change over time
- Dealing with self-doubt and fear (and why they’re not going away)
- The importance of surrounding yourself with people who see you
- And why you don’t need to wait for the “perfect moment” to start—because it’s never coming
If you’ve been coasting, playing small, or doubting what you’re capable of—I hope this episode snaps you out of it.
Because you’re capable of a hell of a lot more than you think.
Let’s stop waiting. Let’s start getting after it.
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Brett (00:01):
Welcome back to the show.
My friends, I am pumped.
You're here today, because thetopic that we're going into is
very important to me.
It's recognizing your potential.
I've said it many times on thisshow I think everyone is
capable of doing great things.
It takes a lot of work and ittakes a lot of commitment, but
through setting goals and doingthe work that's enough to get
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those goals done, you canachieve great things and become
someone that you never evenimagined you could become.
So strap in, because that'swhat we're talking about today.
Let's dive in.
All right, what is going on,guys?
I've been thinking about this alot, lot.
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I've been thinking aboutpotential quite a bit, and I
don't know if it's because I'mreading a book right now, called
undeniable, by cameron haynes,who's one of my favorite people
out there in terms of being anexample of discipline,
consistency and hard work, butin it he talks about this way um
, that he started ultra runningand, to give you some context,
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cameron Haynes, he just finishedthe Cocodona 250, which is a
race that starts in SouthernArizona and goes all the way up
to Flagstaff.
Now, this guy he went into thisrace with a broken foot.
People told him not to do it,but he's, like I, committed to
it.
I got to get this done A littlecrazy, but he still did it.
And the reason I'm bringingthis up is at the beginning of
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this book Cameron Haynes talksabout how he was kind of just
going wherever life was pushinghim.
He lived in Oregon and he livedin this little town and his
dream at the time was to have asingle wide trailer and a truck
to get him to work.
That's all he wanted in lifewas those two things.
But once he started bow huntinghe realized that there's a
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little bit more out there forhim.
So he pushed himself on thehunts and realized that maybe he
needed to discipline his bodymore so he could be more ready
to be a better hunter.
And so he started signing upfor races.
And he talks about how, in thebeginning of his running, his
running career, he signed up fora 10 K but dropped out at mile
five and if you're not familiarwith the distance of a 10 K at
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6.24 miles.
And so he's right there at thefinish line, pretty close to it,
and he drops out.
But then you switch back towhat I told you at the beginning
.
This guy just finished a 250mile race with a broken foot.
What I told you at thebeginning this guy just finished
a 250 mile race with a brokenfoot.
So how do you get from thatpoint where you drop out of a 10
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K at mile five to running a 250mile race with a broken foot?
I can guarantee you, the entiretime he's like I want to drop
out but I got to keep going.
How do you do that?
You have to recognize yourpotential.
You have to believe that youcan do great things and then
start setting small goals to getyou there.
So let's break it down, becauseat some point we all hit a
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crossroad, like we have a visionof what we could be and there's
a potential that's just waitingto be unlocked.
And the question that we haveto ponder and think about is are
we willing to do the work toget there?
Because you might want to be apodcaster, but are you willing
to sit, study, record, edit anddo all the things that's
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required of you to do a podcast?
You might want to be anultramarathoner, but are you
willing to spend hours a daytraining and and beating your
body to a pulp just to see ifyou can do that race.
Are you willing to try and losethat 20 pounds you said you
were going to two years ago, butyou haven't yet, because the
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the decisions to choosehealthier foods, to exercise, to
supplement your diet is hard,right.
How do you get there?
Well, what does living up toyour potential really mean?
For me, I think it's aboutknowing your capabilities,
pushing your boundaries andgetting a little bit
uncomfortable in the process andhaving the confidence to go
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after bigger goals.
That's the key is, you have tosee what your capabilities are,
understand where you're startingand then have a vision for
yourself and say am I evendisciplined enough to get there
and what can I do in my life tofind a way to do it?
I often think of Epictetus, whois a he's an ancient Stoic, and
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Epictetus actually has a veryinteresting story because he was
a slave and then he, when hewas, I think he was released.
I don't really know how thathappened, but eventually he was
released at some point and hebecomes a Stoic philosopher and
he becomes a teacher and he'she's telling everyone about how
all of these problems that wethink about are mostly in our
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minds and this is coming from aguy that was literally in
bondage.
Right, he was owned by someoneand told to do certain things
every day.
But he has this thing, thisquote that I often think about,
and he says we cannot choose ourexternal circumstances, but we
can always choose how we respondto them.
Again, this guy was a slave andso he somehow came up with the
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idea that you know what?
I'm a slave, but I can'tcontrol that.
I can control how I respond toit.
I cannot fathom that mindset.
That's a different type of humanbeing, but still the principle
applies.
We can't control what happensto us, but we control how we
respond to it.
And you've heard that before bymany other people.
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Because it's true, you don'thave control over external
circumstances.
You can't control if you loseyour job.
Or you can't control if youknow there's a fire in your
house, as terrible as that is.
Actually you might be able tocontrol that if it's in the
stove or whatever.
But like I don't know, let'sjust say it's an electrical fire
.
But terrible things will happento you and the important thing
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is recognizing how you respondto them.
So take that principle andapply it to your current
circumstances.
You may not be where you want tobe.
That's's an importantrealization to make, because if
you understand that, hey, thisisn't the life that I imagined
for myself, that's a startingpoint.
Then you can ask yourself thequestion of okay, well, what is
the life that I imagined?
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Where did I see myself in 10years ago, like, where did I
want to be now?
And that's a good startingpoint for you to think about,
because at this point, if you'rethinking, man, I wasted 10
years of my life, or I wastedtwo years of my life just kind
of messing around, letting thewind blow me place to place, you
don't want to regret that.
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You can learn from it.
But don't regret it Becauseagain, that's only going to get
you in a worse spot.
And so at this point yourecognize that, hey, you know
what.
I'm not where I wanted to be,but I know I can still get there
If I push myself, if I test mylimits, if I do the hard things
that's required to do it.
And everyone starts in adifferent place, like I often
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think about the times when Istarted running, how those runs
were always difficult for me,and I've mentioned it before.
But at the beginning I had, youknow, a 10 minute pace per mile
.
And now, um, I just got donewith a run and it was about
seven minutes a mile.
But shaving off three minutesdoesn't come naturally.
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That comes through consistentwork.
It comes through daily,dedicated effort.
There's times where I wanted toquit and I'm like why am I
doing this to myself?
This sucks, this is freakinghard.
But I believed that there wassomething at the end of the
tunnel that I knew would make mea better person.
Come to find out that's beentrue and that's why I've stayed
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dedicated to running, topodcasting, to being a loyal,
dedicated husband, to all thesethings that are important in my
life that I want to becomebetter at.
But it all requires work.
People who say like, oh yeah,marriage doesn't require work,
it does.
If you don't show up every dayfor your person, the
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relationship is not going toflourish as it should.
Same goes for running, samegoes for podcasting, same goes
for anything that you'rethinking about.
If you want to be a painter,same thing.
You're not going to get betterif you just paint once and then
put it on the shelf for a yearand then try it again.
It's a daily thing and Iactually I love watching people
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who are amazing at that kind ofstuff, like people who paint.
That's like all my my Tik TOKfor you page is just people
sharing art, people cooking, uh,people sharing their hobbies.
I love seeing what they're ableto do, and that's what I'm
trying to get across now is likeyour thing doesn't have to be
running, it doesn't have to bepodcasting, but I know that
there's something deep downinside you that you long for
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that.
You want to do that, you want tospend more time on, and you
have to recognize your potentialin that area.
And if it's something that isthat important to you, maybe
it's time for you to maybe takea step back and think, okay,
well, how can I make this happenfor me?
What can I do?
It all takes effort, and that'swhere setting goals comes in,
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because now you have this ideaof like, where can I be?
What do I want to focus on?
I want to focus on getting mypainting better.
Great.
Now how do we do it?
Let's start by setting somegoals together.
That's step number one, and Idon't think it's good to go
right out the gate and be like,okay, well, I want to start
being a runner, maybe I can goafter a marathon in two months.
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I've never really ran but Ithink I can do it and you might
be able to.
But, man, you are going to hurt.
Start out small.
Have a big overarching goal butstart small with micro goals.
So if your goal is to run amarathon, say, okay, well, I
just need to start running more,like let's just get into shape.
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So three days a week I'm goingto dedicate to running.
Your first runs might look likea mile each.
They might look very small, andthen at the end you'll think,
how the hell am I going to run amarathon?
But I'll tell you how.
You show up every day, you dothe hard work and you keep going
.
Like.
I always think about that whenI'm, I'm struggling in in
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anything that I'm doing.
If it's podcasting, if I feelstuck in that area which over
the past couple of months, therehas been times where I've I've
questioned where the future ofthe podcast is going, and in my
opinion, I think it's going tobe a very educational formatted
podcast with also teachings ofdiscipline and fitness to help
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along with those things.
Because, as I mentioned before,I believe if you're able to be
disciplined in that area, itbleeds into every other aspect
of your life, making you betterin them.
And so I've thought about wherethe goal of the podcast is, and
the whole thing that I want totalk about is you know, I have
different interests than you do.
Like I said, running podcasting, business building content,
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like I love that kind of stuff.
But yours might look verydifferent, and so a goal for
this podcast now is to haveother people come on and share
their stories.
I had a guest scheduled forthis upcoming Thursday episode,
but they fell through, so I justyou know we're we're going
today solo and that's okay.
Things like that will happen,which is a great segue to go
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into that.
Along the journey to get tothat goal, road blocks will come
up, things will not go assmoothly as you have wished.
You will fail at times, youwill question your ability, you
will run into self-doubt, but ifyou're able to accomplish small
micro goals on a weekly,monthly, yearly basis, that big
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overarching one that we talkedabout will be a little bit more
reasonable to achieve, and itjust starts with one decision to
actually get after it.
You will run into doubt andfear, and that's what we're
talking about next, because Ican't tell you how many times
I've doubted myself or fearedwhat the outcome could be on my
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own personal getting after ajourney, like when I first
decided to run a sub three man.
I was scared of that.
I was scared of that because Iknew the training was going to
be incredibly difficult, whichit was.
I knew that in the race it wasgoing to be so hard to keep that
pace.
And then even on race day, itwas freezing outside, it started
pouring rain on us, we were alldrenched, all the runners were,
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and I still had to push throughthat.
And even during the race I wasscared that I wasn't going to be
able to make that time becauseof all the work that went into
it up to this point.
Even with podcasting, when II've mentioned when I first
started creating this and Ifirst hit upload, that was tough
for me.
And now it's like I'm trying tocreate more content for people
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to kind of get an idea of who Iam and what I do and the things
that I'm interested in and how Ilive my life, to to be
disciplined and to achieve thegoals that I want to.
So maybe that you can learnsomething from it along the way.
But creating content.
It's pretty scary, like I'vebeen on been on TikTok and
Instagram and all those placeswhere the comments just kind of
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rule the world there and some ofthem are just brutal, straight
up, pretty mean, and one of thereasons why I haven't done
content this way is because I'mlike I'm subjugating myself to
that, I'm putting myself outthere and I know I'm going to
get lit up a few times, but atthe end of the day, I think of
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the quote that no one doingbetter than you will hate on you
.
No one who is doing better thanyou in life will shoot you down
.
In fact, those are the peoplethat will build you up and in
fact, those are the people thatyou need to surround yourself by
to help you achieve those goals.
Shout out to my wife, becauseanytime I create a piece of
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content, she's always like yeah,this is good, this is good, or
she'll even give me somesuggestions or feedback.
But the most important thingthat she does for me is that she
believes in me, which helps mebelieve in myself.
Same thing with my brother,drew.
He says the same thing, and I'mnot saying that to boast, I'm
trying to say that, as you needto surround yourself by people
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who will build you up, becausethey see potential in you that
you do not see in yourself andmaybe you can recognize it
through their eyes.
Getting a little personal here,but sometimes I don't feel good
about myself either.
Physically, like I think I'm afat slob because maybe I overate
for a few days.
And, sorry, I'm drinkingelectrolytes.
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I had a hot run today.
I wish this was sponsored byElement.
I'm actually drinking TraceMinerals electrolytes, which I
think are better than element.
Um, they're delicious and theyhave a lot of uh, good minerals
in them.
So check out trace minerals ifyou're a endurance athlete or
just want some more electrolytes.
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It'll change your life.
Back to what I was saying.
So I think a lot of the times,like when I'm beating myself up,
I'll go and I'll talk to mywife about it and you know,
usually I'm there to like justkind of vent a little bit.
But she always says something.
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She always says try and seeyourself the way I see you, and
it sounds cheesy, but I will andI'll try and picture that.
And most of the times I'm likeokay, well, maybe I'm
overthinking this thing, maybeI'm being too hard on myself
Sometimes.
That's needed being a littlebit hard on yourself.
But it's always important totry and see yourself through
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other people's eyes, and thatcomes from surrounding yourself
with great people, and they helpyou overcome that doubt and
fear.
I'm not sure if you're familiarwith the story of Post Malone
starting his career, but it's avery interesting one because he
suffered a lot of self-doubt andrejection early on in his
career and he still believed inhis potential and eventually
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he's become this globalsuperstar that almost everyone
knows.
But think about that at thebeginning of his career.
You know he shows up to therecording studio and he's got
these tattoos on his face, he'sgot this gold grill, he's got
super long hair.
If you don't remember the oldpictures of Post Malone, I'll
put one up right here.
There he is, and it's just kindof-millennial.
I'll put one up right here,there he is, and, um, it's just
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kind of like scary.
I can't even imagine that, buthe still was like hey, whatever,
some people are rejecting me,but I think I have something I
can offer here and he kept going.
So there might be people whocriticize you, you might get
some critics, but again, no onewho's doing better than you in
life will ever critique you.
They might give you somedestructive or not destructive
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criticism, constructivecriticism, but listen to it.
It's feedback.
It's not a personal attack.
It's feedback.
That's how you should look atit.
That's how I do and it helps mea ton.
I also.
I frequently think of the quotethat fear is a mile wide and an
inch deep.
You know, it looks like thisbig, scary river and it might be
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going fast.
But you step into it and you'relike actually this is not as
bad as I thought.
This is not as bad as I thoughtthat's my fedora boy accent
there.
Allie's going to get mad at mefor that.
But anyways, the principleapplies.
Fear is just a construct of themind.
Step into it.
See what happens.
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If you get hurt or no.
I don't want to take aliability for that.
I was going to say if you didget hurt, come back and tell me
I was wrong.
But listen, just step into thefear.
You got nothing to worry about.
I'm rooting for you and youshould be rooting for yourself
too, because when you feel likeyou're in an uncomfortable
situation, you're out of yourcomfort zone.
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That's a good sign.
That means you're doingsomething right, because you've
never been here before.
So celebrate that Once you,once you get over that feeling,
be like hell, yeah, pat yourselfon the back, say I did
something different today andI'm getting shit done, baby,
that's right Now.
One thing I always talk aboutdiscipline and consistency.
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Oh, brett, you're going in thediscipline and consistency thing
again.
Yes, I am, because only throughthat can you actually recognize
your potential.
Discipline is the foundationfor reaching your potential,
because this is what's going toget the daily effort across the
finish line.
When motivation wanes, whenit's not there, discipline is
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the bridge between potential andachievement.
I've had many days where I wakeup and I don't want to lace up
my shoes and go run, but I knowwhat I want and I have to do it.
Sometimes my body hurts, it'ssore, it's like why are we doing
this again?
But I say, hey, let's go.
You know what you signed up for.
You have a goal in mind, let'sgo.
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The podcast same thing.
I run into doubt, I pivot and Ijust I do the daily work to
make something happen.
I'm trying to make somethinghappen in this podcast, at least
something where someone listensto this.
The goal of this whole thing isif I had to have one person
listen to this, to recognizesome potential in themselves, to
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see that they are capable ofdoing more.
That's why I'm trying to havemore guests on to talk about
their stories, to coverprinciples like recognizing your
own potential, because youdon't want to live a life of
regret, you need to take chanceson yourself, you need to be
confident in yourself, and thattakes work.
It comes those results.
That confidence comes fromdiscipline and consistency.
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That's the reason I alwaysreference Jocko's discipline
equals freedom mantra, becauseit does.
And I think about David Goggins,who was this 350 pound
overweight man but decided tomake a difference, or decided to
make a change one day that madeall the difference.
He became a Navy SEAL.
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Now he's running ultramarathons nonstop.
The guy has metal rods in hisknee, but he still goes and he's
unbreakable.
In the same book, undeniable,by Cam Haines, he shares the
story of David Goggins.
That is just.
It's scary Because he says thatlike, oh yeah, david Goggins is
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a really cool guy to hang outwith, but once he gets in a
competitive mode, once he getsin the gym, once he goes on a
run or anything like that, heturns into Goggins, which is a
unrelenting force to deal with.
So it all comes from thisdiscipline and consistency.
So it all comes from disciplineand consistency.
If you've read any of DavidGoggin's book, he talks about
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all the pain that went into thisdrastic change in his life and
how he would spend four hours aday exercising, eating 1,200
calories a day, studying for sixhours a day, studying two of
those hours while he's on a bike.
So he's exercising during thattime and he just did not stop
because he had this goal tobecome a navy seal and he saw
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that there was potential there.
He recognized that.
Okay, other people have donethis before.
That means I can do it, but itmeans I'm gonna have to make a
ton of life changes.
This is david goggins old photoand this is david gogggins now,
if you're watching.
That didn't come overnight.
That came through sheer willand just doing the reps daily,
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even when you don't want to.
That's an important principleto live by in all aspects.
It doesn't have to just befitness too, because how are you
going to be successful at workIf you just show up on the days
that you only feel like it?
What about the chores aroundthe house?
Laundry's probably going tostack up pretty quickly If you
don't just get it done.
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Clean the dishes same thing,but it applies to every aspect
of your life.
You can't just pick to bedisciplined one day in one area
and then choose to bedisciplined in another, and then
maybe on one day you let yourfitness go for quite some time.
And whatever, you must bedisciplined in all areas of your
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life.
Getting after it is not alifestyle for everyone.
Not everyone's going to live upto it.
Getting after it is not alifestyle for everyone.
Not everyone's going to live upto it.
Not everyone's going to havethe desire to, to put themselves
through chosen suffering everysingle day.
But I guarantee you, if youdecide to do it, you will become
better and becomeunrecognizable.
It takes commitment, but I'mtelling you you can do it,
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because if I have, if I was ableto do it, you can too.
We've talked about fat bread onthis podcast.
What a cool guy.
But fat bread was a fiend.
He would grab all the Cheetosso many, so many Pepsis, felt
fully leaded Pepsis and all thesnacks in the house and just
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chow down.
Here's a.
This is a little it'sembarrassing story about fat
brett, but here's, here's mydegree.
Um, I would come home fromschool and like sometimes we'd
have like microwavable pizzas orlike random frozen chimichangas
you know that frozen stuffthat's just terrible for you but
tastes like liquid gold and Iwould grab them and I'd heat
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them up right, and then I wouldgo into my living room and sit
on the table and I'd pretend Iwas like in a food review and
I'd be like, yes, thischimichanga has a good spice to
it.
Or, yeah, this pizza's cheesepull, hmm, that mozzarella is uh
a class that's that's importedfrom italy.
Yeah, I'd do stupid things likethat.
But that was fat brett.
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Um, I thought that was just akind of funny story, fat brett,
and you should.
Honestly, if anyone out thereis a graphic designer, can you
make like a fat brett person tome?
Just use my face right here andthen, uh, I don't know, add it
on to like a little fat kid'sbody with a lollipop.
I don't know, that's kind offunny.
Um, anyways, I've useddiscipline, I've been consistent
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over time and now fat bretthe's, he's still in there.
He comes out from time to timebut, um, I've taken over.
So so you can too.
It's just the small habits and,like I said, it's those micro
goals.
So if you feel like you need tolose weight, then start.
Your goal is now I'm going tochoose healthy foods, and then
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you start losing a little bitmore weight and you want to lose
more.
Okay, I'm going to starttracking my foods and understand
where I can cut things right.
But it starts by small thingsand then that compounds into
bigger, bigger, overarching and,and I guess, efficient goals.
So think about that.
Now, the other thing that goesalong with this whole goal
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setting and that kind of thingis is understand perspective in
this, because perspective playsa big role.
One simple perspective shiftcan help a lot, and I've talked
about this before, that I'vedone a couple episodes on it.
But when I was talking about itwith Dustin Ilgner he's the guy
that explored in the Amazon andgoes on survival expeditions
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but we talked a little bit aboutamorphity, which is the stoic
principle of love your feet,love your feet, love your fate.
That basically teaches us toembrace challenges as
opportunities for growth.
So you might be thinking I havea big challenge ahead of me If
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I'm going to start this journeyof getting after it, if I'm
going to see if I can level upmy game, if I can get better in
this journey, like what can I bedoing differently?
There's going to be challengesalong the way, as there are in
all things in life, and insteadof recognizing them as like damn
it, I have to go through thisagain.
Why are all these bad thingshappening to me?
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Say no, I knew this was goingto happen.
How can I use this as growth?
How can I use this as fuel forgrowth instead?
It's important to make thatdistinction.
The power of perspective helpsyou see obstacles rather as
stepping stones and not barriers.
And I love the story of SteveJobs.
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I read a book by him, by WalterIsaacson, that if you haven't,
if you, if you like biographies,I would highly recommend this
book because it's veryinteresting seeing the beginning
stage of Steve Jobs and how hewas just this little you know
guy, this computer nerd, withhis friend, uh, steve Wozniak.
They made a computer in thegarage and that kind of thing.
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And it's interesting seeing aman who's faced countless
setbacks but never lost hisvision for Apple.
There were times when he almostlost the business, when he was
ousted as the CEO of the company, but he eventually came back.
He faced many challenges withthe many different products, but
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at the end of the day, his goalwas to deliver amazing products
to brands or amazing productsto people and get that in their
hands.
And that ability to turnfailure into opportunity was key
to his success and it can bethe same for you too.
So whenever a setback comes yourway, I want to challenge you to
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be able to take a step back andlook at it and say, okay, this
sucked, but maybe what can I doto better the situation?
How can I make the most of it?
Maybe there's something I canlearn.
It's important to think that Ican learn.
It's important to think that.
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It's important to take time topause and be with your thoughts.
I've had many times where I'vehad to have um, where I've had
setbacks in my life and I've hadto have a different perspective
shift, and a lot of those timesit's not comfortable, it's not
fun to go through that, but atthe end of the day, those always
make me a better person.
They have made me a betterperson, I should say.
And same thing can go for you.
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But if you choose thealternative and when obstacles
and challenges come your way andyou're like, damn it me again,
like why me.
All this crap happens to me allthe time.
Why doesn't it happen to Jimover there?
Like that guy's got a greatlife, seems like his life's
going fine.
Why is it all happening to me?
You can take that approach, youcan take that victimhood
mentality, but it won't get youanywhere.
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It's not going to do anythingfor you.
And guess what?
Jim over there, who you pointedat, he's got his own issues.
He's got so many challenges andsetbacks that he has to deal
with on a daily basis.
So don't call out Jim.
Everyone's going throughsomething.
Everyone has something thatthey have to go through.
That sucks A lot of the times.
You're going through it nowbecause life always throws
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challenges.
It's never going to be perfect,and when you recognize that,
that's the first step.
So try and see setbacks andobstacles and challenges as more
of an opportunity to get betterand improve.
Let's wrap this up or go fullcircle here, because the first
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step to living up to yourpotential is to take action.
Taking action is not easy,because it's easy to talk about
your potential.
It's where the action comes in,where it gets difficult.
The real transformation startswhen you start walking towards
it, when you take actions to getto that point.
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Like I don't believe in, I'mgoing to wait for the right time
.
Action starts now, because ifyou start today, you'll be far
ahead than when you thought theright time would be Like.
Regardless of the circumstances, start taking action now and,
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no matter how small the stepsmay seem, you're making progress
.
Progress is progress if it'snot never been done before in
your life.
If you're getting better atsomething, track it, reflect on
it and then keep going.
I want to talk about thebeginning of this podcast for a
second, because, yes, it's notwhere I want it to be.
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It's not a viral podcast, whichI'm fine with, because I'll
tell you why.
When I started this journey, Ididn't really know what to
expect from it.
I didn't know what would comefrom sitting down and talking to
a camera every week for acouple hours.
I didn't know what would comefrom that, but what has come
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from it is I've sharedconversations with some amazing
people on the show.
I've been able to learn fromthem, ask them deep and thought
out questions that I want tolearn out, questions that I want
to learn.
I've been able to hear them getemotional and share their own
stories, and I've also been ableto do work on my own and study
topics that I'm interested in,like discipline, consistency,
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potential and all those thingsthat I talk about on a regular
basis that I know make youbetter, but they all require
work and it's not easy.
That's why I call this podcastGetting After it, because you're
always trying to accomplishsomething and you know it's been
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a journey for me ofself-education, self-improvement
, and that reason alone I'mrecognizing what my potential is
, which is why I'm trying topush more guests to come on and
share their stories and pushmore content out, because I want
you to feel that you can do thesame.
Life is short.
We don't have a lot of timehere, and so how can you get the
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most out of life?
It's by trying to live up toyour potential, trying to be the
best that you can be on a dailybasis and see what you can do
to make your life and othersaround you better.
You guys have so much in you.
You guys seriously can dowhatever you like.
That might take years, it mighttake decades, but if you want
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it, bad enough, you can find aplan, and if you want it bad
enough, you'll learn a way to beconsistent and find the
discipline in order to do so.
That's what it takes.
It takes patience, discipline,consistency and a vision for
where you want to go.
Show up every single day and Ipromise you you have to listen
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to this and believe it foryourself you can do great things
.
You can.
Don't wait for the right time,because it's never going to come
.
You'll talk yourself out of itevery time.
I promise you that.
Recognize your potential and doit through these ways.
Know your potential and setgoals that will give you clarity
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that will lead to action.
Embrace that discipline and theconsistency that's required,
because small daily actionscompound into greatness.
Shift your perspective whenthings get hard, because
obstacles should be looked at asopportunities for growth and to
improve.
And again, take action.
No more waiting.
Start now and keep going.
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You guys are capable of morethan you think, so stop waiting
and start acting.
I really appreciate you guystuning in for today's episode
and I hope this lit something inyou that is going to help you
move, to take that action, thatfirst step towards your goal.
That's what getting after it'sall about and until next episode
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, everybody keep getting afterit, guys.
Welcome back to the show.
My friends, I am pumped.
You're here today, because thetopic that we're going into is
very important to me.
It's recognizing your potential.
I've said it many times on thisshow I think everyone is
capable of doing great things.
It takes a lot of work and ittakes a lot of commitment, but
through setting goals and doingthe work that's enough to get
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those goals done, you canachieve great things and become
someone that you never evenimagined you could become.
So strap in, because that'swhat we're talking about today.
Let's dive in.
All right, what is going on,guys?
I've been thinking about this alot, lot.
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I've been thinking aboutpotential quite a bit, and I
don't know if it's because I'mreading a book right now, called
undeniable, by cameron haynes,who's one of my favorite people
out there in terms of being anexample of discipline,
consistency and hard work, butin it he talks about this way um
, that he started ultra runningand, to give you some context,
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cameron Haynes, he just finishedthe Cocodona 250, which is a
race that starts in SouthernArizona and goes all the way up
to Flagstaff.
Now, this guy he went into thisrace with a broken foot.
People told him not to do it,but he's, like I, committed to
it.
I got to get this done A littlecrazy, but he still did it.
And the reason I'm bringingthis up is at the beginning of
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this book Cameron Haynes talksabout how he was kind of just
going wherever life was pushinghim.
He lived in Oregon and he livedin this little town and his
dream at the time was to have asingle wide trailer and a truck
to get him to work.
That's all he wanted in lifewas those two things.
But once he started bow huntinghe realized that there's a
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little bit more out there forhim.
So he pushed himself on thehunts and realized that maybe he
needed to discipline his bodymore so he could be more ready
to be a better hunter.
And so he started signing upfor races.
And he talks about how, in thebeginning of his running, his
running career, he signed up fora 10 K but dropped out at mile
five and if you're not familiarwith the distance of a 10 K at
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6.24 miles.
And so he's right there at thefinish line, pretty close to it,
and he drops out.
But then you switch back towhat I told you at the beginning
.
This guy just finished a 250mile race with a broken foot.
What I told you at thebeginning this guy just finished
a 250 mile race with a brokenfoot.
So how do you get from thatpoint where you drop out of a 10
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K at mile five to running a 250mile race with a broken foot?
I can guarantee you, the entiretime he's like I want to drop
out but I got to keep going.
How do you do that?
You have to recognize yourpotential.
You have to believe that youcan do great things and then
start setting small goals to getyou there.
So let's break it down, becauseat some point we all hit a
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crossroad, like we have a visionof what we could be and there's
a potential that's just waitingto be unlocked.
And the question that we haveto ponder and think about is are
we willing to do the work toget there?
Because you might want to be apodcaster, but are you willing
to sit, study, record, edit anddo all the things that's
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required of you to do a podcast?
You might want to be anultramarathoner, but are you
willing to spend hours a daytraining and and beating your
body to a pulp just to see ifyou can do that race.
Are you willing to try and losethat 20 pounds you said you
were going to two years ago, butyou haven't yet, because the
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the decisions to choosehealthier foods, to exercise, to
supplement your diet is hard,right.
How do you get there?
Well, what does living up toyour potential really mean?
For me, I think it's aboutknowing your capabilities,
pushing your boundaries andgetting a little bit
uncomfortable in the process andhaving the confidence to go
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after bigger goals.
That's the key is, you have tosee what your capabilities are,
understand where you're startingand then have a vision for
yourself and say am I evendisciplined enough to get there
and what can I do in my life tofind a way to do it?
I often think of Epictetus, whois a he's an ancient Stoic, and
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Epictetus actually has a veryinteresting story because he was
a slave and then he, when hewas, I think he was released.
I don't really know how thathappened, but eventually he was
released at some point and hebecomes a Stoic philosopher and
he becomes a teacher and he'she's telling everyone about how
all of these problems that wethink about are mostly in our
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minds and this is coming from aguy that was literally in
bondage.
Right, he was owned by someoneand told to do certain things
every day.
But he has this thing, thisquote that I often think about,
and he says we cannot choose ourexternal circumstances, but we
can always choose how we respondto them.
Again, this guy was a slave andso he somehow came up with the
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idea that you know what?
I'm a slave, but I can'tcontrol that.
I can control how I respond toit.
I cannot fathom that mindset.
That's a different type of humanbeing, but still the principle
applies.
We can't control what happensto us, but we control how we
respond to it.
And you've heard that before bymany other people.
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Because it's true, you don'thave control over external
circumstances.
You can't control if you loseyour job.
Or you can't control if youknow there's a fire in your
house, as terrible as that is.
Actually you might be able tocontrol that if it's in the
stove or whatever.
But like I don't know, let'sjust say it's an electrical fire
.
But terrible things will happento you and the important thing
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is recognizing how you respondto them.
So take that principle andapply it to your current
circumstances.
You may not be where you want tobe.
That's's an importantrealization to make, because if
you understand that, hey, thisisn't the life that I imagined
for myself, that's a startingpoint.
Then you can ask yourself thequestion of okay, well, what is
the life that I imagined?
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Where did I see myself in 10years ago, like, where did I
want to be now?
And that's a good startingpoint for you to think about,
because at this point, if you'rethinking, man, I wasted 10
years of my life, or I wastedtwo years of my life just kind
of messing around, letting thewind blow me place to place, you
don't want to regret that.
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You can learn from it.
But don't regret it Becauseagain, that's only going to get
you in a worse spot.
And so at this point yourecognize that, hey, you know
what.
I'm not where I wanted to be,but I know I can still get there
If I push myself, if I test mylimits, if I do the hard things
that's required to do it.
And everyone starts in adifferent place, like I often
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think about the times when Istarted running, how those runs
were always difficult for me,and I've mentioned it before.
But at the beginning I had, youknow, a 10 minute pace per mile
.
And now, um, I just got donewith a run and it was about
seven minutes a mile.
But shaving off three minutesdoesn't come naturally.
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That comes through consistentwork.
It comes through daily,dedicated effort.
There's times where I wanted toquit and I'm like why am I
doing this to myself?
This sucks, this is freakinghard.
But I believed that there wassomething at the end of the
tunnel that I knew would make mea better person.
Come to find out that's beentrue and that's why I've stayed
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dedicated to running, topodcasting, to being a loyal,
dedicated husband, to all thesethings that are important in my
life that I want to becomebetter at.
But it all requires work.
People who say like, oh yeah,marriage doesn't require work,
it does.
If you don't show up every dayfor your person, the
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relationship is not going toflourish as it should.
Same goes for running, samegoes for podcasting, same goes
for anything that you'rethinking about.
If you want to be a painter,same thing.
You're not going to get betterif you just paint once and then
put it on the shelf for a yearand then try it again.
It's a daily thing and Iactually I love watching people
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who are amazing at that kind ofstuff, like people who paint.
That's like all my my Tik TOKfor you page is just people
sharing art, people cooking, uh,people sharing their hobbies.
I love seeing what they're ableto do, and that's what I'm
trying to get across now is likeyour thing doesn't have to be
running, it doesn't have to bepodcasting, but I know that
there's something deep downinside you that you long for
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that.
You want to do that, you want tospend more time on, and you
have to recognize your potentialin that area.
And if it's something that isthat important to you, maybe
it's time for you to maybe takea step back and think, okay,
well, how can I make this happenfor me?
What can I do?
It all takes effort, and that'swhere setting goals comes in,
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because now you have this ideaof like, where can I be?
What do I want to focus on?
I want to focus on getting mypainting better.
Great.
Now how do we do it?
Let's start by setting somegoals together.
That's step number one, and Idon't think it's good to go
right out the gate and be like,okay, well, I want to start
being a runner, maybe I can goafter a marathon in two months.
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I've never really ran but Ithink I can do it and you might
be able to.
But, man, you are going to hurt.
Start out small.
Have a big overarching goal butstart small with micro goals.
So if your goal is to run amarathon, say, okay, well, I
just need to start running more,like let's just get into shape.
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So three days a week I'm goingto dedicate to running.
Your first runs might look likea mile each.
They might look very small, andthen at the end you'll think,
how the hell am I going to run amarathon?
But I'll tell you how.
You show up every day, you dothe hard work and you keep going
.
Like.
I always think about that whenI'm, I'm struggling in in
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anything that I'm doing.
If it's podcasting, if I feelstuck in that area which over
the past couple of months, therehas been times where I've I've
questioned where the future ofthe podcast is going, and in my
opinion, I think it's going tobe a very educational formatted
podcast with also teachings ofdiscipline and fitness to help
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along with those things.
Because, as I mentioned before,I believe if you're able to be
disciplined in that area, itbleeds into every other aspect
of your life, making you betterin them.
And so I've thought about wherethe goal of the podcast is, and
the whole thing that I want totalk about is you know, I have
different interests than you do.
Like I said, running podcasting, business building content,
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like I love that kind of stuff.
But yours might look verydifferent, and so a goal for
this podcast now is to haveother people come on and share
their stories.
I had a guest scheduled forthis upcoming Thursday episode,
but they fell through, so I justyou know we're we're going
today solo and that's okay.
Things like that will happen,which is a great segue to go
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into that.
Along the journey to get tothat goal, road blocks will come
up, things will not go assmoothly as you have wished.
You will fail at times, youwill question your ability, you
will run into self-doubt, but ifyou're able to accomplish small
micro goals on a weekly,monthly, yearly basis, that big
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overarching one that we talkedabout will be a little bit more
reasonable to achieve, and itjust starts with one decision to
actually get after it.
You will run into doubt andfear, and that's what we're
talking about next, because Ican't tell you how many times
I've doubted myself or fearedwhat the outcome could be on my
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own personal getting after ajourney, like when I first
decided to run a sub three man.
I was scared of that.
I was scared of that because Iknew the training was going to
be incredibly difficult, whichit was.
I knew that in the race it wasgoing to be so hard to keep that
pace.
And then even on race day, itwas freezing outside, it started
pouring rain on us, we were alldrenched, all the runners were,
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and I still had to push throughthat.
And even during the race I wasscared that I wasn't going to be
able to make that time becauseof all the work that went into
it up to this point.
Even with podcasting, when II've mentioned when I first
started creating this and Ifirst hit upload, that was tough
for me.
And now it's like I'm trying tocreate more content for people
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to kind of get an idea of who Iam and what I do and the things
that I'm interested in and how Ilive my life, to to be
disciplined and to achieve thegoals that I want to.
So maybe that you can learnsomething from it along the way.
But creating content.
It's pretty scary, like I'vebeen on been on TikTok and
Instagram and all those placeswhere the comments just kind of
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rule the world there and some ofthem are just brutal, straight
up, pretty mean, and one of thereasons why I haven't done
content this way is because I'mlike I'm subjugating myself to
that, I'm putting myself outthere and I know I'm going to
get lit up a few times, but atthe end of the day, I think of
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the quote that no one doingbetter than you will hate on you
.
No one who is doing better thanyou in life will shoot you down
.
In fact, those are the peoplethat will build you up and in
fact, those are the people thatyou need to surround yourself by
to help you achieve those goals.
Shout out to my wife, becauseanytime I create a piece of
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content, she's always like yeah,this is good, this is good, or
she'll even give me somesuggestions or feedback.
But the most important thingthat she does for me is that she
believes in me, which helps mebelieve in myself.
Same thing with my brother,drew.
He says the same thing, and I'mnot saying that to boast, I'm
trying to say that, as you needto surround yourself by people
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who will build you up, becausethey see potential in you that
you do not see in yourself andmaybe you can recognize it
through their eyes.
Getting a little personal here,but sometimes I don't feel good
about myself either.
Physically, like I think I'm afat slob because maybe I overate
for a few days.
And, sorry, I'm drinkingelectrolytes.
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I had a hot run today.
I wish this was sponsored byElement.
I'm actually drinking TraceMinerals electrolytes, which I
think are better than element.
Um, they're delicious and theyhave a lot of uh, good minerals
in them.
So check out trace minerals ifyou're a endurance athlete or
just want some more electrolytes.
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It'll change your life.
Back to what I was saying.
So I think a lot of the times,like when I'm beating myself up,
I'll go and I'll talk to mywife about it and you know,
usually I'm there to like justkind of vent a little bit.
But she always says something.
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She always says try and seeyourself the way I see you, and
it sounds cheesy, but I will andI'll try and picture that.
And most of the times I'm likeokay, well, maybe I'm
overthinking this thing, maybeI'm being too hard on myself
Sometimes.
That's needed being a littlebit hard on yourself.
But it's always important totry and see yourself through
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other people's eyes, and thatcomes from surrounding yourself
with great people, and they helpyou overcome that doubt and
fear.
I'm not sure if you're familiarwith the story of Post Malone
starting his career, but it's avery interesting one because he
suffered a lot of self-doubt andrejection early on in his
career and he still believed inhis potential and eventually
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he's become this globalsuperstar that almost everyone
knows.
But think about that at thebeginning of his career.
You know he shows up to therecording studio and he's got
these tattoos on his face, he'sgot this gold grill, he's got
super long hair.
If you don't remember the oldpictures of Post Malone, I'll
put one up right here.
There he is, and it's just kindof-millennial.
I'll put one up right here,there he is, and, um, it's just
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kind of like scary.
I can't even imagine that, buthe still was like hey, whatever,
some people are rejecting me,but I think I have something I
can offer here and he kept going.
So there might be people whocriticize you, you might get
some critics, but again, no onewho's doing better than you in
life will ever critique you.
They might give you somedestructive or not destructive
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criticism, constructivecriticism, but listen to it.
It's feedback.
It's not a personal attack.
It's feedback.
That's how you should look atit.
That's how I do and it helps mea ton.
I also.
I frequently think of the quotethat fear is a mile wide and an
inch deep.
You know, it looks like thisbig, scary river and it might be
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going fast.
But you step into it and you'relike actually this is not as
bad as I thought.
This is not as bad as I thoughtthat's my fedora boy accent
there.
Allie's going to get mad at mefor that.
But anyways, the principleapplies.
Fear is just a construct of themind.
Step into it.
See what happens.
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If you get hurt or no.
I don't want to take aliability for that.
I was going to say if you didget hurt, come back and tell me
I was wrong.
But listen, just step into thefear.
You got nothing to worry about.
I'm rooting for you and youshould be rooting for yourself
too, because when you feel likeyou're in an uncomfortable
situation, you're out of yourcomfort zone.
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That's a good sign.
That means you're doingsomething right, because you've
never been here before.
So celebrate that Once you,once you get over that feeling,
be like hell, yeah, pat yourselfon the back, say I did
something different today andI'm getting shit done, baby,
that's right Now.
One thing I always talk aboutdiscipline and consistency.
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Oh, brett, you're going in thediscipline and consistency thing
again.
Yes, I am, because only throughthat can you actually recognize
your potential.
Discipline is the foundationfor reaching your potential,
because this is what's going toget the daily effort across the
finish line.
When motivation wanes, whenit's not there, discipline is
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the bridge between potential andachievement.
I've had many days where I wakeup and I don't want to lace up
my shoes and go run, but I knowwhat I want and I have to do it.
Sometimes my body hurts, it'ssore, it's like why are we doing
this again?
But I say, hey, let's go.
You know what you signed up for.
You have a goal in mind, let'sgo.
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The podcast same thing.
I run into doubt, I pivot and Ijust I do the daily work to
make something happen.
I'm trying to make somethinghappen in this podcast, at least
something where someone listensto this.
The goal of this whole thing isif I had to have one person
listen to this, to recognizesome potential in themselves, to
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see that they are capable ofdoing more.
That's why I'm trying to havemore guests on to talk about
their stories, to coverprinciples like recognizing your
own potential, because youdon't want to live a life of
regret, you need to take chanceson yourself, you need to be
confident in yourself, and thattakes work.
It comes those results.
That confidence comes fromdiscipline and consistency.
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That's the reason I alwaysreference Jocko's discipline
equals freedom mantra, becauseit does.
And I think about David Goggins,who was this 350 pound
overweight man but decided tomake a difference, or decided to
make a change one day that madeall the difference.
He became a Navy SEAL.
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Now he's running ultramarathons nonstop.
The guy has metal rods in hisknee, but he still goes and he's
unbreakable.
In the same book, undeniable,by Cam Haines, he shares the
story of David Goggins.
That is just.
It's scary Because he says thatlike, oh yeah, david Goggins is
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a really cool guy to hang outwith, but once he gets in a
competitive mode, once he getsin the gym, once he goes on a
run or anything like that, heturns into Goggins, which is a
unrelenting force to deal with.
So it all comes from thisdiscipline and consistency.
So it all comes from disciplineand consistency.
If you've read any of DavidGoggin's book, he talks about
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all the pain that went into thisdrastic change in his life and
how he would spend four hours aday exercising, eating 1,200
calories a day, studying for sixhours a day, studying two of
those hours while he's on a bike.
So he's exercising during thattime and he just did not stop
because he had this goal tobecome a navy seal and he saw
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that there was potential there.
He recognized that.
Okay, other people have donethis before.
That means I can do it, but itmeans I'm gonna have to make a
ton of life changes.
This is david goggins old photoand this is david gogggins now,
if you're watching.
That didn't come overnight.
That came through sheer willand just doing the reps daily,
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even when you don't want to.
That's an important principleto live by in all aspects.
It doesn't have to just befitness too, because how are you
going to be successful at workIf you just show up on the days
that you only feel like it?
What about the chores aroundthe house?
Laundry's probably going tostack up pretty quickly If you
don't just get it done.
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Clean the dishes same thing,but it applies to every aspect
of your life.
You can't just pick to bedisciplined one day in one area
and then choose to bedisciplined in another, and then
maybe on one day you let yourfitness go for quite some time.
And whatever, you must bedisciplined in all areas of your
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life.
Getting after it is not alifestyle for everyone.
Not everyone's going to live upto it.
Getting after it is not alifestyle for everyone.
Not everyone's going to live upto it.
Not everyone's going to havethe desire to, to put themselves
through chosen suffering everysingle day.
But I guarantee you, if youdecide to do it, you will become
better and becomeunrecognizable.
It takes commitment, but I'mtelling you you can do it,
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because if I have, if I was ableto do it, you can too.
We've talked about fat bread onthis podcast.
What a cool guy.
But fat bread was a fiend.
He would grab all the Cheetosso many, so many Pepsis, felt
fully leaded Pepsis and all thesnacks in the house and just
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chow down.
Here's a.
This is a little it'sembarrassing story about fat
brett, but here's, here's mydegree.
Um, I would come home fromschool and like sometimes we'd
have like microwavable pizzas orlike random frozen chimichangas
you know that frozen stuffthat's just terrible for you but
tastes like liquid gold and Iwould grab them and I'd heat
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them up right, and then I wouldgo into my living room and sit
on the table and I'd pretend Iwas like in a food review and
I'd be like, yes, thischimichanga has a good spice to
it.
Or, yeah, this pizza's cheesepull, hmm, that mozzarella is uh
a class that's that's importedfrom italy.
Yeah, I'd do stupid things likethat.
But that was fat brett.
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Um, I thought that was just akind of funny story, fat brett,
and you should.
Honestly, if anyone out thereis a graphic designer, can you
make like a fat brett person tome?
Just use my face right here andthen, uh, I don't know, add it
on to like a little fat kid'sbody with a lollipop.
I don't know, that's kind offunny.
Um, anyways, I've useddiscipline, I've been consistent
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over time and now fat bretthe's, he's still in there.
He comes out from time to timebut, um, I've taken over.
So so you can too.
It's just the small habits and,like I said, it's those micro
goals.
So if you feel like you need tolose weight, then start.
Your goal is now I'm going tochoose healthy foods, and then
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you start losing a little bitmore weight and you want to lose
more.
Okay, I'm going to starttracking my foods and understand
where I can cut things right.
But it starts by small thingsand then that compounds into
bigger, bigger, overarching and,and I guess, efficient goals.
So think about that.
Now, the other thing that goesalong with this whole goal
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setting and that kind of thingis is understand perspective in
this, because perspective playsa big role.
One simple perspective shiftcan help a lot, and I've talked
about this before, that I'vedone a couple episodes on it.
But when I was talking about itwith Dustin Ilgner he's the guy
that explored in the Amazon andgoes on survival expeditions
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but we talked a little bit aboutamorphity, which is the stoic
principle of love your feet,love your feet, love your fate.
That basically teaches us toembrace challenges as
opportunities for growth.
So you might be thinking I havea big challenge ahead of me If
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I'm going to start this journeyof getting after it, if I'm
going to see if I can level upmy game, if I can get better in
this journey, like what can I bedoing differently?
There's going to be challengesalong the way, as there are in
all things in life, and insteadof recognizing them as like damn
it, I have to go through thisagain.
Why are all these bad thingshappening to me?
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Say no, I knew this was goingto happen.
How can I use this as growth?
How can I use this as fuel forgrowth instead?
It's important to make thatdistinction.
The power of perspective helpsyou see obstacles rather as
stepping stones and not barriers.
And I love the story of SteveJobs.
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I read a book by him, by WalterIsaacson, that if you haven't,
if you, if you like biographies,I would highly recommend this
book because it's veryinteresting seeing the beginning
stage of Steve Jobs and how hewas just this little you know
guy, this computer nerd, withhis friend, uh, steve Wozniak.
They made a computer in thegarage and that kind of thing.
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And it's interesting seeing aman who's faced countless
setbacks but never lost hisvision for Apple.
There were times when he almostlost the business, when he was
ousted as the CEO of the company, but he eventually came back.
He faced many challenges withthe many different products, but
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at the end of the day, his goalwas to deliver amazing products
to brands or amazing productsto people and get that in their
hands.
And that ability to turnfailure into opportunity was key
to his success and it can bethe same for you too.
So whenever a setback comes yourway, I want to challenge you to
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be able to take a step back andlook at it and say, okay, this
sucked, but maybe what can I doto better the situation?
How can I make the most of it?
Maybe there's something I canlearn.
It's important to think that Ican learn.
It's important to think that.
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It's important to take time topause and be with your thoughts.
I've had many times where I'vehad to have um, where I've had
setbacks in my life and I've hadto have a different perspective
shift, and a lot of those timesit's not comfortable, it's not
fun to go through that, but atthe end of the day, those always
make me a better person.
They have made me a betterperson, I should say.
And same thing can go for you.
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But if you choose thealternative and when obstacles
and challenges come your way andyou're like, damn it me again,
like why me.
All this crap happens to me allthe time.
Why doesn't it happen to Jimover there?
Like that guy's got a greatlife, seems like his life's
going fine.
Why is it all happening to me?
You can take that approach, youcan take that victimhood
mentality, but it won't get youanywhere.
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It's not going to do anythingfor you.
And guess what?
Jim over there, who you pointedat, he's got his own issues.
He's got so many challenges andsetbacks that he has to deal
with on a daily basis.
So don't call out Jim.
Everyone's going throughsomething.
Everyone has something thatthey have to go through.
That sucks A lot of the times.
You're going through it nowbecause life always throws
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challenges.
It's never going to be perfect,and when you recognize that,
that's the first step.
So try and see setbacks andobstacles and challenges as more
of an opportunity to get betterand improve.
Let's wrap this up or go fullcircle here, because the first
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step to living up to yourpotential is to take action.
Taking action is not easy,because it's easy to talk about
your potential.
It's where the action comes in,where it gets difficult.
The real transformation startswhen you start walking towards
it, when you take actions to getto that point.
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Like I don't believe in, I'mgoing to wait for the right time
.
Action starts now, because ifyou start today, you'll be far
ahead than when you thought theright time would be Like.
Regardless of the circumstances, start taking action now and,
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no matter how small the stepsmay seem, you're making progress
.
Progress is progress if it'snot never been done before in
your life.
If you're getting better atsomething, track it, reflect on
it and then keep going.
I want to talk about thebeginning of this podcast for a
second, because, yes, it's notwhere I want it to be.
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It's not a viral podcast, whichI'm fine with, because I'll
tell you why.
When I started this journey, Ididn't really know what to
expect from it.
I didn't know what would comefrom sitting down and talking to
a camera every week for acouple hours.
I didn't know what would comefrom that, but what has come
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from it is I've sharedconversations with some amazing
people on the show.
I've been able to learn fromthem, ask them deep and thought
out questions that I want tolearn out, questions that I want
to learn.
I've been able to hear them getemotional and share their own
stories, and I've also been ableto do work on my own and study
topics that I'm interested in,like discipline, consistency,
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potential and all those thingsthat I talk about on a regular
basis that I know make youbetter, but they all require
work and it's not easy.
That's why I call this podcastGetting After it, because you're
always trying to accomplishsomething and you know it's been
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a journey for me ofself-education, self-improvement
, and that reason alone I'mrecognizing what my potential is
, which is why I'm trying topush more guests to come on and
share their stories and pushmore content out, because I want
you to feel that you can do thesame.
Life is short.
We don't have a lot of timehere, and so how can you get the
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most out of life?
It's by trying to live up toyour potential, trying to be the
best that you can be on a dailybasis and see what you can do
to make your life and othersaround you better.
You guys have so much in you.
You guys seriously can dowhatever you like.
That might take years, it mighttake decades, but if you want
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it, bad enough, you can find aplan, and if you want it bad
enough, you'll learn a way to beconsistent and find the
discipline in order to do so.
That's what it takes.
It takes patience, discipline,consistency and a vision for
where you want to go.
Show up every single day and Ipromise you you have to listen
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to this and believe it foryourself you can do great things
.
You can.
Don't wait for the right time,because it's never going to come
.
You'll talk yourself out of itevery time.
I promise you that.
Recognize your potential and doit through these ways.
Know your potential and setgoals that will give you clarity
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that will lead to action.
Embrace that discipline and theconsistency that's required,
because small daily actionscompound into greatness.
Shift your perspective whenthings get hard, because
obstacles should be looked at asopportunities for growth and to
improve.
And again, take action.
No more waiting.
Start now and keep going.
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You guys are capable of morethan you think, so stop waiting
and start acting.
I really appreciate you guystuning in for today's episode
and I hope this lit something inyou that is going to help you
move, to take that action, thatfirst step towards your goal.
That's what getting after it'sall about and until next episode
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, everybody keep getting afterit, guys.
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