October 20, 2025 • 37 mins
I’m days away from running 31 miles through the Canyonlands, my second 50K. On the surface, it’s a race. But underneath, it’s a test.
This training block has been built on five simple but demanding pillars: the work, the fuel, support, consistency, and patience. Each one has tested me. Each one has shaped me. And each one contains a lesson that reaches far beyond running.
In this episode, I break down what those five pillars look like on the trail and in everyday life. From early mornings and long miles, to what we feed our bodies and minds, to the people who hold us up when we’re ready to quit.
Endurance isn’t only about finishing a race. It’s about living with the discipline to do the work, the awareness to fuel yourself well, the humility to accept support, the persistence to stay consistent, and the wisdom to be patient.
If you’ve ever wondered how to keep going when life stretches you thin, this episode is for you.
Expect to learn:
- Why the unglamorous work is the real price of admission for progress.
- How your “fuel”—food, habits, and mindset—determines your performance in every area of life.
- Why support, consistency, and patience are often the overlooked foundations of endurance.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
What is up, guys?
Welcome back to the GettingAfter Podcast.
I'm Brett Rossell, your host,and I missed you all.
I'm happy to be back in thisseat and doing my thing.
Getting the podcast up andrunning.
I love recording these episodes.
Today I was I was thinking aboutwhat I wanted to discuss.
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This race I have coming up.
So in on Saturday, I'll berunning 31 miles in Canyonlands.
To some, that sounds like I'mcrazy.
I'm absolutely insane.
To others, that's just a normalSaturday.
But to me, it means somethingcompletely different.
It's very it's a special thingfor me, really.
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Because what it is, it's anopportunity for me to test
myself after months of training,months of trying to get into
shape to be able to do my beston this race.
Uh and Saturday, we're gonna seeif all that work has paid off.
I'm gonna do my best.
I'm not necessarily worriedabout time.
My most uh important thing, atleast for me, with this race is
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completion.
Like I want to make sure that Iget this done.
I want to have a betterexperience in my my last 50k.
So today I want to talk aboutfive things that I've used in my
training, this training blockthat have helped me stay
focused, stay on track, hitmilestones, um, stay motivated,
and stay disciplined through thewhole thing.
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So we'll talk about those, butthis isn't just going to be an
episode about running.
I want to make that clear.
I'm gonna be talking aboutrunning quite a bit.
It's a great metaphor and it's agreat analogy that I'll be able
to tie into how these principlesthat I've used for training also
apply to everyday life and othergoals that you might have for
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yourself.
So I want you to kind of putyourself in your own shoes
wherever you're at.
Think about the goals that youhave and how these certain
principles can translate over tothose areas and help you get one
step closer to your goals.
That's what getting after it'sall about.
It's not about being perfect,it's not about being the best,
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it's not about you know justgrinding until you have nothing
left to give.
What getting after it is aboutis making slow progress.
Not slow.
I wouldn't say slow.
Progress sometimes can be slow,but the goal with this podcast,
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with this community, is to helpyou stay motivated, to stay on
track, to have these resourcesthat uh when you do feel like
you're faltering or you feellike you're getting off track,
it helps bring brings you rightback, right?
Um and so the first thing I wantto talk about that applies to my
training block is the idea ofthe work.
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And let me be clear the work isthe ticket to the starting line.
Without it, it's not gonna getyou very far.
How you prepare for any race ishow you're going to show up on
race day.
Like you have to be focused, youhave to be driven, you have to
stay consistent, you have toshow up when you don't want to.
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And there are days where Ididn't want to do it.
Like even yesterday, I was uh,like I said, this race is this
weekend, so yesterday was alittle bit of a lighter training
day.
It was just half marathon out inthe trails, which leading up to
the 50k, like got all the way upto a marathon distance.
So this was kind of nice for me.
It's kind of a break.
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Um, I was feeling great.
One of the best runs I've had ina long time until around mile
six, and I fell.
You can kind of see on my hands,like it's still all jacked up.
My knee looks worse.
It was bleeding and it washurting, and I was like, I still
have to go back to the car.
I could have, from where I wasat, I could have gone back to
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the car.
It would have come out to belike a nine-mile run, and I
could have blamed it on thefall, the injury, whatever you
want to say.
But I was determined because II've told myself in my head, the
race, you have no idea what'sgonna happen to you.
It could be raining, you couldfall at the beginning of the
race and have blood going downyour knees.
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Is that a good is that a goodreason for you to quit?
It depends on the severity ofthe injury, but I would say, for
me, in that moment yesterdaywhen I was like, I'm gonna just
go back to the car, call it ninemiles, and be good.
I told myself, no, that's notwhat we sought out to do.
Like, are you okay?
Can you still run?
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Do you are your your hands arejust bloody and uncomfortable
and your knee, it's bloody andbruised, but are you still okay?
Like, can you still get out andgo?
And the answer was yes.
So I had to dig deep and I hadto put those those uh little
painful thoughts aside thatwanted me to quit.
And it was hard to ignore them.
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But that work I know will havetrained me for if something does
go wrong in the race, I willalready have been prepared and
say, Hey, I've dealt with thingslike this before, I can keep
going, I know what needs tohappen.
Like, that's the thing, is isyou can't cheat the work.
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Tomorrow, like if you say I'mgonna push it off till tomorrow,
tomorrow becomes next week, andnext week becomes next month,
and next month becomes never.
Like, throw that out of yourto-do list, you're not gonna do
it.
Might sound harsh, but that'sthat's human nature.
That's that's how kind of we alloperate.
Is if we're not bought into thething that we're doing, and we
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start missing days, we startgetting lazy, we start not
really being in it for the longrun.
We start losing sight of thevision, we lose sight of the
goal, and comfort decides for usthat we'd rather have it a
little bit easier today, youknow, whatever the scenario
might be.
But that is a trap that many ofus can fall into.
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Is if you miss a few days, youcould be telling yourself, like,
maybe I'm not set out for this,or you could be telling
yourself, hey, I missed a fewdays, let's reset, let's get
back on track.
It's up to you.
But um also, I think back to umtwo weeks ago when my brother
and I we ran a marathon on atreadmill because the area we
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were going to go, it wasbasically just a bunch of washes
in in the desert of Arizona andlots of flash floods.
We got rained out basically.
So we decided, hey, the workstill needed to be done.
We still had to go out and getthe 26.2 miles, and we were
going to either figure out howto get it done on roads which
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were flooded, or we're gonnajust go and get it done on a
treadmill.
We we decided for the treadmillbecause we wanted to get it
done, we wanted to make surethere were no excuses, and it
was not glamorous, it was notlike the most exciting marathon
I've ever done.
It was on a treadmill, and itwas three three hours and 44
minutes, it was horrible.
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But, anyways, that's still itwas important because we had to
get it done, and I know thattraining from the treadmill run
that I did with Drew, it'll helpme stay strong in the actual
race because I'll be like, hey,you know what?
If things get boring, I know Ican run a marathon on a freaking
treadmill, so I can do this.
This is fine.
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Um, but that's that's theimportance of doing the work.
It builds evidence that you arewho you say you are, and it
builds that proof that hey,you're gonna be fine on this
race.
You've trained enough for it,you're gonna be fine.
And again, that's not just forrunning, because you can apply
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that principle to everythingthat you do in business.
It's just oh, let me let me backup.
You could do it in business, youcould do it in your
relationships, you can do it inyour hobbies, you can do it in
really anything that you aretrying to accomplish in your
life.
The work is your preparation,the work is your practice,
whatever you want to call it,but the work is you showing up
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for the thing on a regularbasis.
When it's hard, when it's noteasy, and that's life.
How are you going to show upwhen life is hard, when life is
not going the way that youexpected it to?
Are you gonna still get the workdone?
Because, like I said at thebeginning, the work you do is
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your ticket to the startingline.
Like you don't get a show up onrace day without it.
So think about the things thatyou're trying to accomplish.
What's the work that you need tobe doing on a regular basis to
get you there?
To get you to that next nextlevel, which will immediately or
eventually get you to your goal,right?
And so, takeaway from you inthis section is ask yourself,
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what are you avoiding?
Like, what is the thing that isdifficult and you know it's
gonna take a lot of effort andyou're procrastinating?
What is that thing?
Where are you waiting formotivation to show up instead of
just showing up yourself?
Like, put in the reps, earn yourspot at the starting line, and
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the work is the way to do that.
Equally as important as the workis the fuel.
Now, fueling for a race, I wantto explain why this is so
important for anyone who mightnot be runners out there, but
fuel will make or break yourraces.
And what I mean by fuel is food,electrolytes, um, water, all
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that kind of stuff, right?
And you have to dial in yourfueling before you go on a race.
Because if you just go out andtry new things when you're in a
race, that could lead to youbonking, that could lead to you
shitting your pants, that couldlead to you um feeling terrible
and not having any energy.
And so prior to the race, youneed to experiment during your
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runs with fuel to make sure thatyou're feeling good and all that
um all that stuff that allowsyou to perform the best.
So we're talking calories,carbs, electrolytes, and
caffeine a lot of the times.
Um yeah, you mess this up andyou'll bonk.
Like it's so important.
And I've had moments where um Ihave struggled with fueling.
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Like my first marathon, I didn'tknow anything about this stuff.
I didn't know anything aboutnutrition, I didn't really know
anything about um a strongtraining plan.
I didn't know anything aboutthat stuff.
And it's until you startexperimenting, you start
learning, that you start to feelbetter.
And um it's so interestingbecause at the beginning of my
training block, I was like, Idon't want to eat when I'm
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running, I don't want to slowdown, I don't want to just eat a
bunch of candy, like whatever itis.
I was like, that can't be goodfor me.
I'm just gonna do it and pushmyself.
The problem I was having thereis I would get into a run and
about 10 miles in, I would feelexhausted and I wanted to quit.
And it wasn't until recentlywhere I was just like, screw it.
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I'm just going all in on fuel.
And so I would eat goose, Iwould eat candy.
Uh candies actually, I thinkthey're better than goose for me
at least.
Like, I like them a lot more.
One, I always enjoy eatingcandy.
Who doesn't?
So that's something I alwayslook forward to on my runs.
And then two, it tastes betterthan goose.
And basically, if you look atthe ingredients, uh it's
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basically just sugar in both ofthose things.
Uh, so why not eat candy?
It's great.
Uh, and then also protein, likeall that kind of stuff,
electrolytes, like experimentingwith all that.
But fuel is your food, and thatis what's gonna make you
successful in a race.
It's gonna help you endure more,it's gonna help you have more
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energy throughout the run.
So that's why fuel is soimportant.
Um, but it is an important piecefor me to be able to recover,
it's important for me to be ableto show up and feel strong for
the next day, um, be able tostay out longer on the trails
and be able to be stronger withmy time on feet.
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Uh, so that's basically why fuelis so important, because fuel
can make or break your entirerunning.
Um, but along those lines, fuelis also what you consume
mentally, like your brain,whatever you put into your mind,
that is also your fuel.
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And that's the podcast that youlisten to.
So hopefully, this is a good onefor you.
It's the conversations that youhave with people, and it's the
people that you follow, youknow, the content you're seeing
all the time.
And a lot of the times, like Iwill ask myself, is what I'm
seeing on social media or is thepodcast I'm listening to, is it
worth my time?
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Am I learning something?
Um, sometimes like I do havepodcasts I listen to uh where
it's basically just forentertainment, and that's that's
fine too.
Like, I think that's okay.
Like, you don't want to be arobot and just be super
hyper-fixated on what comes inand out, but it is very
important because what youlisten to becomes what you think
about, and what you think aboutbecomes who you are, and you
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want to be adding things to youryour library and your brain that
are helpful, that aremotivating, that help you in
times when you are struggling.
And so if you're just sittingaround listening to uh people on
TikTok explaining theirproblems, or I don't I don't
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know what people watch onTikTok, but all I'm saying is
that you must audit what's goinginto your brain.
You must take a step back everynow and then and say, is this
knowledge worth my time?
Is this making me smarter or isit making me dumber?
And a lot of the times when I goon TikTok, it tries to make me
dumber.
Even Instagram to some, yeah,Instagram too.
But I go on there and I'm like,I feel like I'm just losing
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brain sales.
Uh so I've I've tried gettingoff social media just a little
bit.
Uh, and it's it's been nice,honestly.
Um, but there are also timeswhere I go on social media and I
feel motivated.
Like I see David Gogginsfinishing the Moab 240, which is
an unbelievably difficult racein southern Utah.
And I see that guy who hascountless knee surgeries and who
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has legs that don't work great.
Like, I saw him cross the finishline, and he obviously looked
like he was in pain, but he didit.
And so, like, that's a goodthing for me to see is like,
hey, this guy knows how to pushhimself.
It is possible to have legs thatare destroyed and still be able
to run a 240-mile race.
That's pretty cool.
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And so when I started payingattention to what I'm putting in
both physically and mentally, Istarted seeing a difference.
Like, my runs got stronger, butalso so did my mindset.
And that's one of the reasonswhy I want to have this podcast
in general, is because there'ssome things I wish I would have
known when I was younger thatcould really have helped me in
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the time that I I might haveneeded it.
But it's also an opportunity forme to help others learn from my
mistakes, from the lessons I'velearned, and hopefully it leaves
a positive impact.
That's the goal with this.
Um, and when I started fuelingmy mind and my body kind of in
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tangent with one another, likekind of the same fuel, right?
Good whole foods, and same thingwith like the information I'm
studying.
It's like I want good content, Iwant things that are gonna make
me better, and so I would auditwhat your fuel is, and that
could be both physical, likeyour food, and mental, what's
going into your brain?
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Like, what are you consumingthat gives you energy and
motivation to keep going, andwhat's draining you?
Make some kind of change.
Because what you put in is whatyou're gonna get out.
Like I said, the in the middleof that one, what you listen to,
what you look at becomes yourthoughts, which becomes who you
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are.
Support is the next thing thatwe're gonna talk about today,
because support is somethingthat is critical for really
anyone that's going after a biggoal, like you have to have some
kind of support.
And if I've learned anything inthis training block, it's that
no race is ever run alone.
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And I'll I'll get into that, butyou know, I'll be the one with
sore legs on Saturday after ourrace, but I would not have been
able to make it to the startline without the support that I
have with me.
And I'm I'm training with mywife and my brother for this
race, they're both doing it aswell, and it makes it easier
because, of course, they'redoing the same thing.
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We have the same goals, so wehold each other accountable.
We're making sure thateveryone's feeling strong and
ready for this thing.
And for me personally, you know,I am so grateful for like the
fact that I have Allie and Drewdoing this with me.
Like Allie puts up with all mytraining, she does the same, and
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we have different schedules, butlike some days I'll get home
from work and have to go on arun, and you know, we don't see
each other very much, so sheputs up with that, which is
pretty amazing, especially onthe long training days.
She's uh she's very patient.
And Drew, who's he's loggedcountless miles with me by my
side.
Um, and it's it's been fun, youknow, with him.
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Like we're we're learning, we'regrowing together, we're building
our endurance, and it's it'sbeen so cool to be able to share
that experience with him so far.
And it's true what they say, youknow, suffering with someone
makes you closer to that person.
Um it's it's been a blessing tobe able to run with Drew.
Like, we've had some greatconversations.
Uh, I ran with Allie a fewtimes.
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She doesn't like running with mebecause she says I'm too fast,
but I I don't I don't care, Al.
Like, I will I'll go as slow asyou need.
You're fast though.
Allie's fast.
She likes to downplay it.
She's pretty fast.
Um she ran a half marathon theother day, and at the end of it
ran like a seven-minute mile.
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So she's pretty fast.
Um, shout out to Cakes.
But, anyways, having um havingpeople by your side who you can
rely on, who you can askquestions for, um, is really a
game changer when it comes topursuing your goals.
Like, there is a saying you cango fast alone, but farther
together.
And I felt that.
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And with this pillar, I'll callit, it's difficult because not
everyone has the opportunity tofind some kind of support
groups.
Um, they don't have people intheir lives that are cheering
them on, they don't havecheerleaders like Ali for me.
Um, there's people out there whoyou know don't have a supportive
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family, they don't havesupportive friends.
Um, and that's a hard place tobe.
I I've been there a few timeswhere it kind of feels like
you're alone.
But the beautiful thing is withtechnology and with so many
things out there, you know,there's if running's your goal,
if that's what you want to do,run clubs have been popping up
everywhere, and so I'm sure youcould do a quick search on
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Facebook or wherever and saylike running groups in Wichita.
Like, I don't know, randomplace.
Like, I'm sure you can findsomething there.
Also, you know, there's there'sI uh kind of shot social media
um in the foot why just like bytalking crap about it, but
social media is great forconnecting with people, like
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that's what that's what thepurpose originally was.
Now it's kind of just like tobrag and do random crap, but try
and connect with someone.
Like, if there's someone at workthat likes to run, ask them if
if there's a time where you guyscan get together and you can run
together.
I don't know.
But if you need support, ifyou're trying to seek out
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support, one reach out to me.
I will always support anyonewho's trying to do great things.
I'm always here, even if it'sjust you're you're trying to
make some life changes, I willalways be someone who you can
reach out to.
That's what getting after it isabout too is building a
community of people who are allin the same mindset, who all
have the same goal, not goals,but the same drive and the same
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the same hunger to become thebest version of themselves that
they can be.
And so eventually I want it tobe able to you know reach across
the US, eventually the world,and have people just in this
community who are like, yeah,let's let's go, let's, let's,
let's bring the heat.
Hey, you know what?
Why not?
I'll go on a run.
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Um, or you know, if if someone'slike, hey, I'm struggling, I
want people to be like, hey,this is what I was in that
similar situation, here's what Idid, this is what helped me,
could help you.
Like, I want people supportingother people.
That's what's gonna make thisthing great.
Is if we're all in it togetherand we're all trying to make
each other into great people andachieve their goals, that's the
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thing.
That's what we gotta do.
That's what getting after it'sabout, and that's why support is
so important because, like Isaid, you can go fast and loan,
but farther together.
Um excuse me.
I mean, it's very different.
Um, like I said, everyone's in adifferent situation, but maybe
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text one person today thatsupported you recently and just
thank them.
Like don't assume they know howhow grateful you are.
Like, you'll be surprised by howmuch it matters to those people
who do support you.
And so try and find one personwho supported you and just send
them a text.
Say thank you.
Because support goes a long way.
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We only get stronger together.
Now, the fourth pillar arguablymight be what the most important
um, consistency.
I've talked a lot aboutconsistency on this podcast, but
there's a reason for it.
It's because consistency is whatgets you to the finish line.
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If the work gets you to thestarting line, consistency is
what's going to pull you acrossthe finish line.
Consistency is showing up on thehardest days.
The this one, I mean,consistency in general is just
boring.
Like it's not a flashy or sexything to talk about, but it is
everything.
Consistency is everything.
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Anyone can go crush one bigworkout.
Anyone can go show up and andrun a long distance and call it
good.
But can you show up for months?
That's the real question.
Can you show up for months whenit's hard, when it's cold, when
you're tired, when you're sick,when you have no motivation,
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when you question if this iseven the right path for you.
Consistency it is what buildsthe base, week after week, mile
after mile.
Some days the hardest partsometimes is not even the
workout or the run.
It's putting your shoes on.
As weird as that sounds, becauseyou know what's gonna happen
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happen next.
Once you put those shoes on,you're gonna have to do the
work.
You're gonna have to show upeven when you don't want to.
That's hard.
You have to confront thosefeelings.
But the boring stuff, that'swhat win wins races.
Like, this applies everywhere.
Like I said, I'm talking aboutrunning, but it's universal,
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this this principle of beingconsistent.
Like, you want to build acareer, you want to build a
relationship, you want to builda body that you're proud of.
Guess what?
I have some news for you.
It's not built on one gianteffort, it's built on those
daily unsexy steps, on showingup, on trying to be your best,
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even when it's hard.
But consistency is crucial foranything that you do.
Like a piano player isn't gonnagreat be great overnight.
He's gonna have to have, he orshe is gonna have to have
trained for years to get to thepoint to where they're playing
Claire Delune, like a master.
Like that takes a lot of work,it takes practice, it takes
patience, it takes consistency.
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And consistency is the easiestone to throw out the boat.
It's like I was saying any likeearlier, with the work, is you
know, you might want to putsomething off today.
You might not feel like goingout and and and running or
working out or anything likethat.
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You just might have nomotivation.
Are you gonna push it off?
Because if you do, you're gonnalose momentum.
And momentum is the fuel thatkeeps consistency going.
It's so much easier to you knowdo something one day and then
show up and do it again the nextand then keep that that cycle
going.
But as soon as you throw in alittle wrench in uh in those
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areas, once you make it achallenge for yourself to be
able to get back on track, thatactivation energy is a real
thing.
It's gonna take a lot moreeffort for you to start again,
and so consistency.
One thing that's helped me thatI think can also help you, is
even on the days when you haveno motivation, you have nothing
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left to give, you just gothrough the motions.
You show up and you still gothrough the motions.
I promise you, you'll be proudof it, even if it's not your
best, it's something, and that'sbetter than nothing.
And so when those times comewhen it's difficult, just show
up for yourself.
Show up for the fact that youwill know that you fought those
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thoughts of quitting, you foughtthose thoughts of comfort, and
you're here now, and that's athat's that's something that you
should be proud of.
And so that's a a tool that'shelped me, is on days when I
literally have nothing to give,when I'm tired, when I'm done, I
just go through the motions.
And that that's a lesson I Itake from Jocko.
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Um, where he says that like, ifall you can do is go through the
motions, then go through themotions.
There's nothing wrong with that.
We're not gonna be perfect everyday.
Getting after it is a journeythat looks a lot like the stock
market.
It's up and down, it's up anddown, but eventually, if you
look at it over a few years,eventually it's net positive.
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So that's the power ofconsistency and consistency
compounds.
If we want to take the stockmarket analogy and take it a
little further, consistencycompounds.
But the reason it does isbecause of momentum.
Lastly, the last pillar we'regonna talk about today is
patience.
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This one might be the hardestfor me if I'm being completely
honest.
Patience.
Being patience sucked.
Well, well, I cannot talk todayfor some reason.
Being patient sucks.
Um, I mean, I think about themarshmallow test with the kids.
Uh, I'm sure you've heard ofthis before, but the experiment
where they gave they put kids ina room and said, Hey, we'll give
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you this marshmallow now.
You can eat it, or you can wait15 minutes and we'll bring you
another one.
And many of the kids ate themarshmallow right away.
Some of them waited a fewminutes but then ate it.
But there were a few that theydid wait and they got two
marshmallows in the end.
And a couple things that areinteresting there.
One, that study continued tofollow the people throughout
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their lives, the people who umboth ate the marshmallow and who
waited until they got a secondone.
And the people in the group whowaited, they were successful in
almost everything that they didfrom their careers to their
relationships to um all theirendeavors.
And the other group that ate itright away, they struggled with
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some of those things.
And so it's kind of aninteresting concept to think
about is patients played intothe success of those kids.
It's just a simple test, butthey saw a lot from it.
They got this this data backthat said, like, hey, um the
kids who waited were much moresuccessful.
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And I think there's a fewreasons why.
The first being that anythinggreat that you pursue requires
patience.
You're not going to get itovernight.
And so if you think that that'sthe case, if you think if your
mindset is wired for instantgratification, you got to throw
those thoughts out there becausethat's not how it works most of
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the time.
And I wish it did, but itdoesn't.
Um, the second thing is peoplewho are patient are able to be
more resilient.
Because there will be days whenyou feel like you're knocked
down.
There will be days when it feelslike you're making no progress.
There's days when you don't getthe answers that you want.
But if you're able to staypatient and have a positive
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mindset through this time, it'llget you further.
And so if we bring this backinto training, this block has
taught me a lot about patience.
Patience to recover, patience totrust the plan, and patience to
let them the miles stack up.
Because even on runs when I'mwhen I'm going for long
distances, it takes patience toto keep going.
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Because, you know, it'ssometimes you're like, man, I
could be doing so many betterthings right now, but really,
can you?
Like uh, it's just a questionyou gotta ask yourself.
Um, but you have to be patient.
You have to be patient if youwant to see any of your goals
through.
Because that work, pillar numberone.
That's gonna take time.
Like I said, it's a dailyeffort, a weekly effort, a
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monthly effort, and you have tobe patient to see those results.
And then with consistency, thesame thing.
Like you have to be patient tosee the results.
There's a this stoic idea thatis pretty interesting, and I
love it.
And it says, nature does nothurry, yet everything is
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accomplished.
And that's patience.
Because the truth is, progressprobably will be slower than we
want it to be.
And that's okay.
Can you stay in the fight whenthere's no gratification?
When there's no instantgratification, you have to wait
and have delayed gratification.
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Can you have delayedgratification?
That'll set you apart.
That'll make you a strongerperson.
In your career, if you'reworking for a promotion, do the
work and don't expect a rewarduntil that promotion comes.
Just dig deep, focus, put yourhead down, and keep working.
Same thing with fitness goals.
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Like you need to show up everysingle day.
My buddy, his name is Tyler, uhDJ Take Two.
But he started running probablya year ago, I think.
Um, he's been running for awhile now.
And Tyler, if you're listeningto this, I apologize.
But he wasn't like out of shape,he just kind of looked like a
normal guy, right?
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And now he started running, hestarted being really consistent,
and he's been lifting in thegym, and he posted a picture on
his story and he looked freakingjacked.
So I sent him a message like,dude, you're jacked.
What happened?
And he's like, Yeah, I've beenthrowing in a few weightlifting
sessions at the gym.
And I'm like, that's awesome.
But that pro that didn't happenovernight.
That took, like I said, probablya full year to get there.
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And he's resilient, he'spatient, and now he's he looks
like a different person.
It's awesome.
And so the thing with patienceis it always requires you to ask
yourself, like, are there thingsthat I'm rushing right now?
Like, am I frustrated withanything that's not happening
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fast enough?
My advice to you there is ifthat's kind of where you find
yourself in, is having thosekind of thoughts.
Like, what am I rushing?
Or where am I frustrated?
Like, why aren't things movingso fast?
I would say slow down.
I would tell you to trust theprocess and to be patient.
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Because the results are coming.
You just don't know when.
You'll find support when youneed it, and you'll fuel
yourself to be able to getthere.
Those are the things that havemade this training block well,
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training block for me muchdifferent than my first ultra
marathon.
It's because I have structure,and a lot of the times with
getting after it, you know, I'lltell you these things that um
have helped me, and I'll bringon guests to tell their stories.
But one of the most importantthings that I've learned through
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doing this is the importance ofstructure.
Structure with podcast episodes,structure with the business,
structure with fueling,structure with my runs, with my
goals in life.
But I broke it down to thesefive things.
Like, what are the mostimportant things that I believe
are gonna affect this tradingblock?
And I came up with the work,with the fuel, support, with
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consistency, and with patience.
It was those five.
And that was the basic structureI took into my uh ultra plan,
and I said, if I can followthese rules, if I can work on
each of these individualbuckets, basically, I will have
a much more successful race.
And I think that's the case.
I've put more time, I've putmore thought into it, so I'm
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excited to see what happens.
Um, but like I said, I know thisthis podcast episode, I talked a
lot about running.
And those five pillars havecarried me through.
But it's not just about running,it's about living as well.
Like each of these areas thatI've talked about, it matters
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when you show up.
It might matter the most,honestly.
And if you have a goal thatyou're going for, if you have
something in mind that you wantto achieve, I would tell you to
pick one of these five pillars,just one of them, and apply it
to your life this week.
Do the work, feel right, lean onyour support if you need to,
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stay consistent, and choose tobe patient.
Because at the end of the day,that's really how we move
forward.
That is how we grow.
Um before I wrap this up, I wantto read something that my dad
sent me yesterday.
Um he said it was from a he saidit was from a coach, I can't
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remember where, but I reallyliked what he said with this.
And it kind of shifted aperspective with me, with how I
think about achieving goals orpushing myself.
And I hope it does the same foryou.
But here it is.
What a privilege to be tiredfrom work you once prayed for.
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What a privilege to feeloverwhelmed by growth you used
to dream about.
What a privilege to bechallenged by a life you created
on purpose.
What a privilege to outgrowthings you used to settle for.
That last one hit me hard.
What a privilege to outgrowthings you used to settle for.
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Growth is uncomfortable.
But think about where you camefrom.
Think about how far you've come.
And recognize that where you'reat now is not the end.
It's just a beginning foranother growth spurt.
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Like you might have you mightfeel like you're you've been
stagnant for a while.
And maybe that's a uh a sign foryou to level up your game, to
push yourself just a little bitmore.
There's nothing wrong with that.
That's life.
So I hope that um some of thesethings have helped you guys.
I try and put a lot of thoughtinto these podcasts um just
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because I want them to bebeneficial for everyone.
So I hope it was for you.
And uh, if it was, please leavea comment.
That always helps on Apple, uh,Spotify, or even YouTube.
All those things help.
But I would love to hear fromyou guys uh if there's any
topics you would like me tocover, anything like that.
So um always let me know.
But I appreciate you guyslistening.
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This podcast would not be athing without you.
So as always, keep getting afterit.
Thanks, guys.
What is up, guys?
Welcome back to the GettingAfter Podcast.
I'm Brett Rossell, your host,and I missed you all.
I'm happy to be back in thisseat and doing my thing.
Getting the podcast up andrunning.
I love recording these episodes.
Today I was I was thinking aboutwhat I wanted to discuss.
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This race I have coming up.
So in on Saturday, I'll berunning 31 miles in Canyonlands.
To some, that sounds like I'mcrazy.
I'm absolutely insane.
To others, that's just a normalSaturday.
But to me, it means somethingcompletely different.
It's very it's a special thingfor me, really.
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Because what it is, it's anopportunity for me to test
myself after months of training,months of trying to get into
shape to be able to do my beston this race.
Uh and Saturday, we're gonna seeif all that work has paid off.
I'm gonna do my best.
I'm not necessarily worriedabout time.
My most uh important thing, atleast for me, with this race is
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completion.
Like I want to make sure that Iget this done.
I want to have a betterexperience in my my last 50k.
So today I want to talk aboutfive things that I've used in my
training, this training blockthat have helped me stay
focused, stay on track, hitmilestones, um, stay motivated,
and stay disciplined through thewhole thing.
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So we'll talk about those, butthis isn't just going to be an
episode about running.
I want to make that clear.
I'm gonna be talking aboutrunning quite a bit.
It's a great metaphor and it's agreat analogy that I'll be able
to tie into how these principlesthat I've used for training also
apply to everyday life and othergoals that you might have for
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yourself.
So I want you to kind of putyourself in your own shoes
wherever you're at.
Think about the goals that youhave and how these certain
principles can translate over tothose areas and help you get one
step closer to your goals.
That's what getting after it'sall about.
It's not about being perfect,it's not about being the best,
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it's not about you know justgrinding until you have nothing
left to give.
What getting after it is aboutis making slow progress.
Not slow.
I wouldn't say slow.
Progress sometimes can be slow,but the goal with this podcast,
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with this community, is to helpyou stay motivated, to stay on
track, to have these resourcesthat uh when you do feel like
you're faltering or you feellike you're getting off track,
it helps bring brings you rightback, right?
Um and so the first thing I wantto talk about that applies to my
training block is the idea ofthe work.
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And let me be clear the work isthe ticket to the starting line.
Without it, it's not gonna getyou very far.
How you prepare for any race ishow you're going to show up on
race day.
Like you have to be focused, youhave to be driven, you have to
stay consistent, you have toshow up when you don't want to.
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And there are days where Ididn't want to do it.
Like even yesterday, I was uh,like I said, this race is this
weekend, so yesterday was alittle bit of a lighter training
day.
It was just half marathon out inthe trails, which leading up to
the 50k, like got all the way upto a marathon distance.
So this was kind of nice for me.
It's kind of a break.
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Um, I was feeling great.
One of the best runs I've had ina long time until around mile
six, and I fell.
You can kind of see on my hands,like it's still all jacked up.
My knee looks worse.
It was bleeding and it washurting, and I was like, I still
have to go back to the car.
I could have, from where I wasat, I could have gone back to
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the car.
It would have come out to belike a nine-mile run, and I
could have blamed it on thefall, the injury, whatever you
want to say.
But I was determined because II've told myself in my head, the
race, you have no idea what'sgonna happen to you.
It could be raining, you couldfall at the beginning of the
race and have blood going downyour knees.
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Is that a good is that a goodreason for you to quit?
It depends on the severity ofthe injury, but I would say, for
me, in that moment yesterdaywhen I was like, I'm gonna just
go back to the car, call it ninemiles, and be good.
I told myself, no, that's notwhat we sought out to do.
Like, are you okay?
Can you still run?
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Do you are your your hands arejust bloody and uncomfortable
and your knee, it's bloody andbruised, but are you still okay?
Like, can you still get out andgo?
And the answer was yes.
So I had to dig deep and I hadto put those those uh little
painful thoughts aside thatwanted me to quit.
And it was hard to ignore them.
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But that work I know will havetrained me for if something does
go wrong in the race, I willalready have been prepared and
say, Hey, I've dealt with thingslike this before, I can keep
going, I know what needs tohappen.
Like, that's the thing, is isyou can't cheat the work.
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Tomorrow, like if you say I'mgonna push it off till tomorrow,
tomorrow becomes next week, andnext week becomes next month,
and next month becomes never.
Like, throw that out of yourto-do list, you're not gonna do
it.
Might sound harsh, but that'sthat's human nature.
That's that's how kind of we alloperate.
Is if we're not bought into thething that we're doing, and we
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start missing days, we startgetting lazy, we start not
really being in it for the longrun.
We start losing sight of thevision, we lose sight of the
goal, and comfort decides for usthat we'd rather have it a
little bit easier today, youknow, whatever the scenario
might be.
But that is a trap that many ofus can fall into.
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Is if you miss a few days, youcould be telling yourself, like,
maybe I'm not set out for this,or you could be telling
yourself, hey, I missed a fewdays, let's reset, let's get
back on track.
It's up to you.
But um also, I think back to umtwo weeks ago when my brother
and I we ran a marathon on atreadmill because the area we
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were going to go, it wasbasically just a bunch of washes
in in the desert of Arizona andlots of flash floods.
We got rained out basically.
So we decided, hey, the workstill needed to be done.
We still had to go out and getthe 26.2 miles, and we were
going to either figure out howto get it done on roads which
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were flooded, or we're gonnajust go and get it done on a
treadmill.
We we decided for the treadmillbecause we wanted to get it
done, we wanted to make surethere were no excuses, and it
was not glamorous, it was notlike the most exciting marathon
I've ever done.
It was on a treadmill, and itwas three three hours and 44
minutes, it was horrible.
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But, anyways, that's still itwas important because we had to
get it done, and I know thattraining from the treadmill run
that I did with Drew, it'll helpme stay strong in the actual
race because I'll be like, hey,you know what?
If things get boring, I know Ican run a marathon on a freaking
treadmill, so I can do this.
This is fine.
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Um, but that's that's theimportance of doing the work.
It builds evidence that you arewho you say you are, and it
builds that proof that hey,you're gonna be fine on this
race.
You've trained enough for it,you're gonna be fine.
And again, that's not just forrunning, because you can apply
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that principle to everythingthat you do in business.
It's just oh, let me let me backup.
You could do it in business, youcould do it in your
relationships, you can do it inyour hobbies, you can do it in
really anything that you aretrying to accomplish in your
life.
The work is your preparation,the work is your practice,
whatever you want to call it,but the work is you showing up
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for the thing on a regularbasis.
When it's hard, when it's noteasy, and that's life.
How are you going to show upwhen life is hard, when life is
not going the way that youexpected it to?
Are you gonna still get the workdone?
Because, like I said at thebeginning, the work you do is
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your ticket to the startingline.
Like you don't get a show up onrace day without it.
So think about the things thatyou're trying to accomplish.
What's the work that you need tobe doing on a regular basis to
get you there?
To get you to that next nextlevel, which will immediately or
eventually get you to your goal,right?
And so, takeaway from you inthis section is ask yourself,
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what are you avoiding?
Like, what is the thing that isdifficult and you know it's
gonna take a lot of effort andyou're procrastinating?
What is that thing?
Where are you waiting formotivation to show up instead of
just showing up yourself?
Like, put in the reps, earn yourspot at the starting line, and
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the work is the way to do that.
Equally as important as the workis the fuel.
Now, fueling for a race, I wantto explain why this is so
important for anyone who mightnot be runners out there, but
fuel will make or break yourraces.
And what I mean by fuel is food,electrolytes, um, water, all
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that kind of stuff, right?
And you have to dial in yourfueling before you go on a race.
Because if you just go out andtry new things when you're in a
race, that could lead to youbonking, that could lead to you
shitting your pants, that couldlead to you um feeling terrible
and not having any energy.
And so prior to the race, youneed to experiment during your
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runs with fuel to make sure thatyou're feeling good and all that
um all that stuff that allowsyou to perform the best.
So we're talking calories,carbs, electrolytes, and
caffeine a lot of the times.
Um yeah, you mess this up andyou'll bonk.
Like it's so important.
And I've had moments where um Ihave struggled with fueling.
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Like my first marathon, I didn'tknow anything about this stuff.
I didn't know anything aboutnutrition, I didn't really know
anything about um a strongtraining plan.
I didn't know anything aboutthat stuff.
And it's until you startexperimenting, you start
learning, that you start to feelbetter.
And um it's so interestingbecause at the beginning of my
training block, I was like, Idon't want to eat when I'm
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running, I don't want to slowdown, I don't want to just eat a
bunch of candy, like whatever itis.
I was like, that can't be goodfor me.
I'm just gonna do it and pushmyself.
The problem I was having thereis I would get into a run and
about 10 miles in, I would feelexhausted and I wanted to quit.
And it wasn't until recentlywhere I was just like, screw it.
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I'm just going all in on fuel.
And so I would eat goose, Iwould eat candy.
Uh candies actually, I thinkthey're better than goose for me
at least.
Like, I like them a lot more.
One, I always enjoy eatingcandy.
Who doesn't?
So that's something I alwayslook forward to on my runs.
And then two, it tastes betterthan goose.
And basically, if you look atthe ingredients, uh it's
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basically just sugar in both ofthose things.
Uh, so why not eat candy?
It's great.
Uh, and then also protein, likeall that kind of stuff,
electrolytes, like experimentingwith all that.
But fuel is your food, and thatis what's gonna make you
successful in a race.
It's gonna help you endure more,it's gonna help you have more
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energy throughout the run.
So that's why fuel is soimportant.
Um, but it is an important piecefor me to be able to recover,
it's important for me to be ableto show up and feel strong for
the next day, um, be able tostay out longer on the trails
and be able to be stronger withmy time on feet.
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Uh, so that's basically why fuelis so important, because fuel
can make or break your entirerunning.
Um, but along those lines, fuelis also what you consume
mentally, like your brain,whatever you put into your mind,
that is also your fuel.
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And that's the podcast that youlisten to.
So hopefully, this is a good onefor you.
It's the conversations that youhave with people, and it's the
people that you follow, youknow, the content you're seeing
all the time.
And a lot of the times, like Iwill ask myself, is what I'm
seeing on social media or is thepodcast I'm listening to, is it
worth my time?
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Am I learning something?
Um, sometimes like I do havepodcasts I listen to uh where
it's basically just forentertainment, and that's that's
fine too.
Like, I think that's okay.
Like, you don't want to be arobot and just be super
hyper-fixated on what comes inand out, but it is very
important because what youlisten to becomes what you think
about, and what you think aboutbecomes who you are, and you
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want to be adding things to youryour library and your brain that
are helpful, that aremotivating, that help you in
times when you are struggling.
And so if you're just sittingaround listening to uh people on
TikTok explaining theirproblems, or I don't I don't
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know what people watch onTikTok, but all I'm saying is
that you must audit what's goinginto your brain.
You must take a step back everynow and then and say, is this
knowledge worth my time?
Is this making me smarter or isit making me dumber?
And a lot of the times when I goon TikTok, it tries to make me
dumber.
Even Instagram to some, yeah,Instagram too.
But I go on there and I'm like,I feel like I'm just losing
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brain sales.
Uh so I've I've tried gettingoff social media just a little
bit.
Uh, and it's it's been nice,honestly.
Um, but there are also timeswhere I go on social media and I
feel motivated.
Like I see David Gogginsfinishing the Moab 240, which is
an unbelievably difficult racein southern Utah.
And I see that guy who hascountless knee surgeries and who
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has legs that don't work great.
Like, I saw him cross the finishline, and he obviously looked
like he was in pain, but he didit.
And so, like, that's a goodthing for me to see is like,
hey, this guy knows how to pushhimself.
It is possible to have legs thatare destroyed and still be able
to run a 240-mile race.
That's pretty cool.
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And so when I started payingattention to what I'm putting in
both physically and mentally, Istarted seeing a difference.
Like, my runs got stronger, butalso so did my mindset.
And that's one of the reasonswhy I want to have this podcast
in general, is because there'ssome things I wish I would have
known when I was younger thatcould really have helped me in
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the time that I I might haveneeded it.
But it's also an opportunity forme to help others learn from my
mistakes, from the lessons I'velearned, and hopefully it leaves
a positive impact.
That's the goal with this.
Um, and when I started fuelingmy mind and my body kind of in
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tangent with one another, likekind of the same fuel, right?
Good whole foods, and same thingwith like the information I'm
studying.
It's like I want good content, Iwant things that are gonna make
me better, and so I would auditwhat your fuel is, and that
could be both physical, likeyour food, and mental, what's
going into your brain?
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Like, what are you consumingthat gives you energy and
motivation to keep going, andwhat's draining you?
Make some kind of change.
Because what you put in is whatyou're gonna get out.
Like I said, the in the middleof that one, what you listen to,
what you look at becomes yourthoughts, which becomes who you
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are.
Support is the next thing thatwe're gonna talk about today,
because support is somethingthat is critical for really
anyone that's going after a biggoal, like you have to have some
kind of support.
And if I've learned anything inthis training block, it's that
no race is ever run alone.
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And I'll I'll get into that, butyou know, I'll be the one with
sore legs on Saturday after ourrace, but I would not have been
able to make it to the startline without the support that I
have with me.
And I'm I'm training with mywife and my brother for this
race, they're both doing it aswell, and it makes it easier
because, of course, they'redoing the same thing.
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We have the same goals, so wehold each other accountable.
We're making sure thateveryone's feeling strong and
ready for this thing.
And for me personally, you know,I am so grateful for like the
fact that I have Allie and Drewdoing this with me.
Like Allie puts up with all mytraining, she does the same, and
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we have different schedules, butlike some days I'll get home
from work and have to go on arun, and you know, we don't see
each other very much, so sheputs up with that, which is
pretty amazing, especially onthe long training days.
She's uh she's very patient.
And Drew, who's he's loggedcountless miles with me by my
side.
Um, and it's it's been fun, youknow, with him.
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Like we're we're learning, we'regrowing together, we're building
our endurance, and it's it'sbeen so cool to be able to share
that experience with him so far.
And it's true what they say, youknow, suffering with someone
makes you closer to that person.
Um it's it's been a blessing tobe able to run with Drew.
Like, we've had some greatconversations.
Uh, I ran with Allie a fewtimes.
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She doesn't like running with mebecause she says I'm too fast,
but I I don't I don't care, Al.
Like, I will I'll go as slow asyou need.
You're fast though.
Allie's fast.
She likes to downplay it.
She's pretty fast.
Um she ran a half marathon theother day, and at the end of it
ran like a seven-minute mile.
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So she's pretty fast.
Um, shout out to Cakes.
But, anyways, having um havingpeople by your side who you can
rely on, who you can askquestions for, um, is really a
game changer when it comes topursuing your goals.
Like, there is a saying you cango fast alone, but farther
together.
And I felt that.
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And with this pillar, I'll callit, it's difficult because not
everyone has the opportunity tofind some kind of support
groups.
Um, they don't have people intheir lives that are cheering
them on, they don't havecheerleaders like Ali for me.
Um, there's people out there whoyou know don't have a supportive
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family, they don't havesupportive friends.
Um, and that's a hard place tobe.
I I've been there a few timeswhere it kind of feels like
you're alone.
But the beautiful thing is withtechnology and with so many
things out there, you know,there's if running's your goal,
if that's what you want to do,run clubs have been popping up
everywhere, and so I'm sure youcould do a quick search on
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Facebook or wherever and saylike running groups in Wichita.
Like, I don't know, randomplace.
Like, I'm sure you can findsomething there.
Also, you know, there's there'sI uh kind of shot social media
um in the foot why just like bytalking crap about it, but
social media is great forconnecting with people, like
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that's what that's what thepurpose originally was.
Now it's kind of just like tobrag and do random crap, but try
and connect with someone.
Like, if there's someone at workthat likes to run, ask them if
if there's a time where you guyscan get together and you can run
together.
I don't know.
But if you need support, ifyou're trying to seek out
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support, one reach out to me.
I will always support anyonewho's trying to do great things.
I'm always here, even if it'sjust you're you're trying to
make some life changes, I willalways be someone who you can
reach out to.
That's what getting after it isabout too is building a
community of people who are allin the same mindset, who all
have the same goal, not goals,but the same drive and the same
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the same hunger to become thebest version of themselves that
they can be.
And so eventually I want it tobe able to you know reach across
the US, eventually the world,and have people just in this
community who are like, yeah,let's let's go, let's, let's,
let's bring the heat.
Hey, you know what?
Why not?
I'll go on a run.
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Um, or you know, if if someone'slike, hey, I'm struggling, I
want people to be like, hey,this is what I was in that
similar situation, here's what Idid, this is what helped me,
could help you.
Like, I want people supportingother people.
That's what's gonna make thisthing great.
Is if we're all in it togetherand we're all trying to make
each other into great people andachieve their goals, that's the
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thing.
That's what we gotta do.
That's what getting after it'sabout, and that's why support is
so important because, like Isaid, you can go fast and loan,
but farther together.
Um excuse me.
I mean, it's very different.
Um, like I said, everyone's in adifferent situation, but maybe
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text one person today thatsupported you recently and just
thank them.
Like don't assume they know howhow grateful you are.
Like, you'll be surprised by howmuch it matters to those people
who do support you.
And so try and find one personwho supported you and just send
them a text.
Say thank you.
Because support goes a long way.
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We only get stronger together.
Now, the fourth pillar arguablymight be what the most important
um, consistency.
I've talked a lot aboutconsistency on this podcast, but
there's a reason for it.
It's because consistency is whatgets you to the finish line.
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If the work gets you to thestarting line, consistency is
what's going to pull you acrossthe finish line.
Consistency is showing up on thehardest days.
The this one, I mean,consistency in general is just
boring.
Like it's not a flashy or sexything to talk about, but it is
everything.
Consistency is everything.
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Anyone can go crush one bigworkout.
Anyone can go show up and andrun a long distance and call it
good.
But can you show up for months?
That's the real question.
Can you show up for months whenit's hard, when it's cold, when
you're tired, when you're sick,when you have no motivation,
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when you question if this iseven the right path for you.
Consistency it is what buildsthe base, week after week, mile
after mile.
Some days the hardest partsometimes is not even the
workout or the run.
It's putting your shoes on.
As weird as that sounds, becauseyou know what's gonna happen
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happen next.
Once you put those shoes on,you're gonna have to do the
work.
You're gonna have to show upeven when you don't want to.
That's hard.
You have to confront thosefeelings.
But the boring stuff, that'swhat win wins races.
Like, this applies everywhere.
Like I said, I'm talking aboutrunning, but it's universal,
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this this principle of beingconsistent.
Like, you want to build acareer, you want to build a
relationship, you want to builda body that you're proud of.
Guess what?
I have some news for you.
It's not built on one gianteffort, it's built on those
daily unsexy steps, on showingup, on trying to be your best,
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even when it's hard.
But consistency is crucial foranything that you do.
Like a piano player isn't gonnagreat be great overnight.
He's gonna have to have, he orshe is gonna have to have
trained for years to get to thepoint to where they're playing
Claire Delune, like a master.
Like that takes a lot of work,it takes practice, it takes
patience, it takes consistency.
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And consistency is the easiestone to throw out the boat.
It's like I was saying any likeearlier, with the work, is you
know, you might want to putsomething off today.
You might not feel like goingout and and and running or
working out or anything likethat.
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You just might have nomotivation.
Are you gonna push it off?
Because if you do, you're gonnalose momentum.
And momentum is the fuel thatkeeps consistency going.
It's so much easier to you knowdo something one day and then
show up and do it again the nextand then keep that that cycle
going.
But as soon as you throw in alittle wrench in uh in those
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areas, once you make it achallenge for yourself to be
able to get back on track, thatactivation energy is a real
thing.
It's gonna take a lot moreeffort for you to start again,
and so consistency.
One thing that's helped me thatI think can also help you, is
even on the days when you haveno motivation, you have nothing
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left to give, you just gothrough the motions.
You show up and you still gothrough the motions.
I promise you, you'll be proudof it, even if it's not your
best, it's something, and that'sbetter than nothing.
And so when those times comewhen it's difficult, just show
up for yourself.
Show up for the fact that youwill know that you fought those
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thoughts of quitting, you foughtthose thoughts of comfort, and
you're here now, and that's athat's that's something that you
should be proud of.
And so that's a a tool that'shelped me, is on days when I
literally have nothing to give,when I'm tired, when I'm done, I
just go through the motions.
And that that's a lesson I Itake from Jocko.
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Um, where he says that like, ifall you can do is go through the
motions, then go through themotions.
There's nothing wrong with that.
We're not gonna be perfect everyday.
Getting after it is a journeythat looks a lot like the stock
market.
It's up and down, it's up anddown, but eventually, if you
look at it over a few years,eventually it's net positive.
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So that's the power ofconsistency and consistency
compounds.
If we want to take the stockmarket analogy and take it a
little further, consistencycompounds.
But the reason it does isbecause of momentum.
Lastly, the last pillar we'regonna talk about today is
patience.
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This one might be the hardestfor me if I'm being completely
honest.
Patience.
Being patience sucked.
Well, well, I cannot talk todayfor some reason.
Being patient sucks.
Um, I mean, I think about themarshmallow test with the kids.
Uh, I'm sure you've heard ofthis before, but the experiment
where they gave they put kids ina room and said, Hey, we'll give
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you this marshmallow now.
You can eat it, or you can wait15 minutes and we'll bring you
another one.
And many of the kids ate themarshmallow right away.
Some of them waited a fewminutes but then ate it.
But there were a few that theydid wait and they got two
marshmallows in the end.
And a couple things that areinteresting there.
One, that study continued tofollow the people throughout
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their lives, the people who umboth ate the marshmallow and who
waited until they got a secondone.
And the people in the group whowaited, they were successful in
almost everything that they didfrom their careers to their
relationships to um all theirendeavors.
And the other group that ate itright away, they struggled with
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some of those things.
And so it's kind of aninteresting concept to think
about is patients played intothe success of those kids.
It's just a simple test, butthey saw a lot from it.
They got this this data backthat said, like, hey, um the
kids who waited were much moresuccessful.
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And I think there's a fewreasons why.
The first being that anythinggreat that you pursue requires
patience.
You're not going to get itovernight.
And so if you think that that'sthe case, if you think if your
mindset is wired for instantgratification, you got to throw
those thoughts out there becausethat's not how it works most of
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the time.
And I wish it did, but itdoesn't.
Um, the second thing is peoplewho are patient are able to be
more resilient.
Because there will be days whenyou feel like you're knocked
down.
There will be days when it feelslike you're making no progress.
There's days when you don't getthe answers that you want.
But if you're able to staypatient and have a positive
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mindset through this time, it'llget you further.
And so if we bring this backinto training, this block has
taught me a lot about patience.
Patience to recover, patience totrust the plan, and patience to
let them the miles stack up.
Because even on runs when I'mwhen I'm going for long
distances, it takes patience toto keep going.
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Because, you know, it'ssometimes you're like, man, I
could be doing so many betterthings right now, but really,
can you?
Like uh, it's just a questionyou gotta ask yourself.
Um, but you have to be patient.
You have to be patient if youwant to see any of your goals
through.
Because that work, pillar numberone.
That's gonna take time.
Like I said, it's a dailyeffort, a weekly effort, a
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monthly effort, and you have tobe patient to see those results.
And then with consistency, thesame thing.
Like you have to be patient tosee the results.
There's a this stoic idea thatis pretty interesting, and I
love it.
And it says, nature does nothurry, yet everything is
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accomplished.
And that's patience.
Because the truth is, progressprobably will be slower than we
want it to be.
And that's okay.
Can you stay in the fight whenthere's no gratification?
When there's no instantgratification, you have to wait
and have delayed gratification.
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Can you have delayedgratification?
That'll set you apart.
That'll make you a strongerperson.
In your career, if you'reworking for a promotion, do the
work and don't expect a rewarduntil that promotion comes.
Just dig deep, focus, put yourhead down, and keep working.
Same thing with fitness goals.
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Like you need to show up everysingle day.
My buddy, his name is Tyler, uhDJ Take Two.
But he started running probablya year ago, I think.
Um, he's been running for awhile now.
And Tyler, if you're listeningto this, I apologize.
But he wasn't like out of shape,he just kind of looked like a
normal guy, right?
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And now he started running, hestarted being really consistent,
and he's been lifting in thegym, and he posted a picture on
his story and he looked freakingjacked.
So I sent him a message like,dude, you're jacked.
What happened?
And he's like, Yeah, I've beenthrowing in a few weightlifting
sessions at the gym.
And I'm like, that's awesome.
But that pro that didn't happenovernight.
That took, like I said, probablya full year to get there.
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And he's resilient, he'spatient, and now he's he looks
like a different person.
It's awesome.
And so the thing with patienceis it always requires you to ask
yourself, like, are there thingsthat I'm rushing right now?
Like, am I frustrated withanything that's not happening
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fast enough?
My advice to you there is ifthat's kind of where you find
yourself in, is having thosekind of thoughts.
Like, what am I rushing?
Or where am I frustrated?
Like, why aren't things movingso fast?
I would say slow down.
I would tell you to trust theprocess and to be patient.
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Because the results are coming.
You just don't know when.
You'll find support when youneed it, and you'll fuel
yourself to be able to getthere.
Those are the things that havemade this training block well,
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training block for me muchdifferent than my first ultra
marathon.
It's because I have structure,and a lot of the times with
getting after it, you know, I'lltell you these things that um
have helped me, and I'll bringon guests to tell their stories.
But one of the most importantthings that I've learned through
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doing this is the importance ofstructure.
Structure with podcast episodes,structure with the business,
structure with fueling,structure with my runs, with my
goals in life.
But I broke it down to thesefive things.
Like, what are the mostimportant things that I believe
are gonna affect this tradingblock?
And I came up with the work,with the fuel, support, with
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consistency, and with patience.
It was those five.
And that was the basic structureI took into my uh ultra plan,
and I said, if I can followthese rules, if I can work on
each of these individualbuckets, basically, I will have
a much more successful race.
And I think that's the case.
I've put more time, I've putmore thought into it, so I'm
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excited to see what happens.
Um, but like I said, I know thisthis podcast episode, I talked a
lot about running.
And those five pillars havecarried me through.
But it's not just about running,it's about living as well.
Like each of these areas thatI've talked about, it matters
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when you show up.
It might matter the most,honestly.
And if you have a goal thatyou're going for, if you have
something in mind that you wantto achieve, I would tell you to
pick one of these five pillars,just one of them, and apply it
to your life this week.
Do the work, feel right, lean onyour support if you need to,
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stay consistent, and choose tobe patient.
Because at the end of the day,that's really how we move
forward.
That is how we grow.
Um before I wrap this up, I wantto read something that my dad
sent me yesterday.
Um he said it was from a he saidit was from a coach, I can't
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remember where, but I reallyliked what he said with this.
And it kind of shifted aperspective with me, with how I
think about achieving goals orpushing myself.
And I hope it does the same foryou.
But here it is.
What a privilege to be tiredfrom work you once prayed for.
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What a privilege to feeloverwhelmed by growth you used
to dream about.
What a privilege to bechallenged by a life you created
on purpose.
What a privilege to outgrowthings you used to settle for.
That last one hit me hard.
What a privilege to outgrowthings you used to settle for.
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Growth is uncomfortable.
But think about where you camefrom.
Think about how far you've come.
And recognize that where you'reat now is not the end.
It's just a beginning foranother growth spurt.
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Like you might have you mightfeel like you're you've been
stagnant for a while.
And maybe that's a uh a sign foryou to level up your game, to
push yourself just a little bitmore.
There's nothing wrong with that.
That's life.
So I hope that um some of thesethings have helped you guys.
I try and put a lot of thoughtinto these podcasts um just
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because I want them to bebeneficial for everyone.
So I hope it was for you.
And uh, if it was, please leavea comment.
That always helps on Apple, uh,Spotify, or even YouTube.
All those things help.
But I would love to hear fromyou guys uh if there's any
topics you would like me tocover, anything like that.
So um always let me know.
But I appreciate you guyslistening.
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This podcast would not be athing without you.
So as always, keep getting afterit.
Thanks, guys.
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