September 24, 2024 • 26 mins
Ever felt like you're just spinning your wheels without making any real progress? I, Tommy Heitz, totally get it. On this episode of the Observation Station, we tackle the all-too-familiar feeling of being stuck and how to break free from it. You'll laugh along with my childhood tales of outlandish class presidential promises while we unpack the absurdity and challenges life throws our way. With the pandemic offering a rare window into self-reflection, we’ll also talk about reevaluating the company you keep, spotting unproductive habits, and why solid advice from trusted sources is worth its weight in gold. By the end of this journey, you’ll be ready to ditch the pity party and gear up for some real, actionable self-improvement.
Think of your personal growth like a plant that craves sunlight, water, and nutrients. Just as plants thrive under the right conditions, this segment emphasizes the essentials of physical health, proper nutrition, and the pitfalls of poor dietary choices. It's not just about food, though—we dive deep into the mindset shift needed to turn minor inconveniences into laughable moments and the importance of self-accountability. And let's not forget genuine mentorship; we'll discuss making decisions based on your own convictions rather than blindly following others. Get ready for a refreshing outlook on how to nurture your growth, hold yourself accountable, and live a more fulfilling life.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Do you ever lift your head up from your phone, look
around and think to yourself myGod, everything is weird.
Well, we do A lot.
This is the Observation Station, a unique, entertaining and
hilarious podcast.
If we observe it, we talk aboutit.
(00:24):
Anything and everything,anything and everything,
anything and everything.
Let's get weird and let's havesome fun.
This is the Observation Station, and now your host Tommy
Heights.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hey, hey, hey.
What's going on everybody?
It's been a little bit of aminute since I've been on the
observation station here, got alot of explaining to do here on
the fun trip that I took Veryextended, but I wanted to get
into this episode.
So this one's going to be likethe premise is feeling like
(01:07):
you're stuck in a rut.
The whole point of this wholepodcast is going to be how a lot
of people feel.
And then there's going to be alot of the people that say, oh,
you don't know how I am or whatI've been through and this
nonsense.
Okay, look, everybody has adifferent path.
(01:28):
So I wanted to start this offby having it where I just tell
you a little bit about my lifeand the observations that I've
made about being stuck in a rut.
So now, with the pandemic, afterwe've lived through that has
given myself and a lot of otherpeople time to reflect.
(01:50):
When it is like, ok, you saywhat are you going to do with
your life?
Or someone goes hey, you know,when you're a young kid, what do
you feel like doing when yougrow up?
These people say the presidentof the United States of America,
back when we were kids that wasfunny.
We were like, yeah, I'll be thepresident of the United States
(02:11):
of America, you know.
And people would be like, okay,well, what about class
president?
Okay, class president.
So, man, I wish that those were.
They probably were filmed.
But just like the classpresidential races, the absurd
(02:31):
things that you would hear, likewe will give free double pizzas
on every other Friday orsomething, I'm like yo, who in
the hell is going to enact thisstuff?
And I remember at third gradethat that was just bogus.
Somebody even ran there andsaid, like we're just going to
have recess forever.
(02:52):
Yeah, like this guy.
If there's a cheer, this guyshould win.
Okay, first off.
Never heard anything like it.
It was almost hitting a grandslam walk-off home run to win
the World Series.
That was like recess forever.
The teacher's like no, no, kids, sit down, sit down.
So that was a good time.
(03:15):
Back when you really didn't knowhow crazy the world was as a
kid, before social media, media,everything seemed cool.
Because now if you look onthere, you're seeing some 14
year old going how to make 10million dollars in 30 seconds.
(03:36):
Okay, that's bullshit.
First off, half of these peopleare just like sign up for my
course first, and everything isa funnel to the course.
God bless capitalism and makingmoney selling courses.
There's nothing wrong with that, though it's just like you
haven't even added any value onyour videos to buy your course.
(03:59):
You're just like here.
Let me show you a little bitlike what's going to be on my
course.
Nobody cares If you give outfree content.
People will buy your coursejust in support, and they may
not even use the course, justlike now.
You know, at least I got it.
I can get gifted to somebody orsomething like that.
So here it is.
That just wanted to say.
(04:20):
When you're feeling like thingsaren't working out for you, a
big thing to ask is who are youhanging out with really?
Are these people saying oh yeah, man, you're going to do it?
Don't listen to these otherpeople.
Or is it somebody that you trust, that's given you at least some
other sound advice in your past, and you just say, okay, let me
(04:45):
absorb what this person'stelling me because I trust their
advice?
From there you have to deductis this something that is going
to be implemented or are youjust going to sulk there and
just want to have it?
Where people pity you come upoh my, I'm so sorry You're going
to find something.
You're such a good person.
(05:06):
Nobody cares about that At theend of the day.
Here's how it goes.
It's only you yourself and Godpretty much, and even if you
don't have faith, you can deduceGod for you then, and then just
say you and yourself.
And then just say, have you andyourself.
So look, the whole point offinding out why you're in a rut.
(05:30):
Did you bring this ontoyourself?
Maybe that's someself-reflection.
What is it that you've beendoing before and say, okay,
let's see what's going on there.
That is a recurring habit thatis being done in my daily
routine.
To say, okay, I need to takethat out, because if I do that
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over and, over and over again,it's going to result in this
manner of whatever's coming toyou.
So stop playing the pity game.
This is not for the faint ofheart here here, some people
like it, some people.
When you have it, you the, thesolutions are right there in
front of you as a good friend.
There's a time where it's like,okay, you have to figure it out
(06:17):
here.
Are you just here to give goodadvice and somebody's not going
to take it, wasting your breath,or do you need to have it where
this is an audit, to say am Igetting something out of this
friendship or is it just a, adrinking buddy that I can just
bs around with and waste timewith?
That's the apex of your life.
(06:38):
What are you surroundingyourself with?
The whole thing is it's greatto be told.
At 20 years old, 21 years old,hey, you know, surround yourself
with good people, and there'ssometimes that you get lucky to
get a couple of good friendsthat stick around from.
You know high school, middleschool, things that you know.
They know stuff about you thatnobody else has lived through.
(07:00):
That's a good thing to have.
A blessing, though, when you goreally through life and travel
around, which is highlyencouraged, when, even if you
live in new york city, it's bestto go and travel around to
different places so that thewhole world is in perspective to
(07:22):
you of like, what is thedifference from what is
accustomed to you?
That is the biggest part aboutwhat people don't understand.
They think their own 50 mileradius of the place they were
born at is what the whole worldsurrounds themselves with uh,
their ideology.
So the whole thing now isself-reflection.
(07:44):
That is the biggest thing.
Accountability is not going tobe there with the vast majority
of people.
Look, if somebody is fat, theydon't have accountability.
You can just say I'm fat, okay,so what?
I mean you could ride down ahill, crash into a wall and say
(08:08):
I crashed, great, good job.
Now let's help you out, get yousome medical attention.
But the announcement of youbeing crashed and the bikes
folded up and you're allscorpioned up on the wall when
you smacked up against it andsomebody saw it, is not going to
add much value to your medicalneeds.
So here's the thingAccountability is the biggest
(08:32):
problem.
Where is it that you're messingup?
Where is it that the world ismessing up?
So that it can be cleared inyour mind about how that's you.
Again, that reverts toaccountability.
It's not the best thing to hear.
If you're eating wrong, you'renot going to feel good.
That's another thing.
That'll be in a rut.
And if you don't feel good, getfat and you feel bad and then
(08:56):
people don't want to beassociating with.
You know somebody that's obeseand having it where they're
going out and you know if theyrespect their self-image a lot
of times, unless you're somekind of famous something if that
makes any sense that you haveany credentials behind you
already.
So it's like, okay, well, da,da, da, da da.
But for the most part, evennowadays, just bringing up
(09:20):
directly what is the issue topeople, they find offense to it.
Look here, this is theobservation station.
I'm here to tell you anobservance.
This is one observance out ofbillions of people.
It is added with a little bitof extra nuances and
(09:44):
characteristics and semanticsthat I add onto it and sprinkle
and pepper here and there, butthese are the things that I see.
First off times can be saidright now in the economy.
That are you go in the grocerystore.
Things are expensive.
I understand that.
Everybody understands that.
It's something that is a factof life right now.
So what are you going to doabout it?
You got to get it where youmake more money and then that's
(10:05):
the whole point right now.
So what are you going to doabout it?
You got to get it where youmake more money and then that's
the whole point right now.
People need to takeaccountability.
It's not.
Oh, I need to save more.
No, geez, inflation, thatinflation.
If you save more, you're losingmore.
Figure out how to startinvesting, and quick.
And if you don't know how tostart investing and you have an
internet connection and say, hey, at least I need to start
(10:26):
figuring out here and don'tstart investing for yourself
unless you're specialized indoing that, people might have
said, oh yeah, you know, I gotlucky putting it in this stock.
I read up hours and hours andblah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah.
That's like talking about ifyou've read slot machine
algorithms and said, yeah, Iknow that it's after the 746
(10:47):
pool, it's going to be like a.
No, this is somebody that hasno idea about why the house
always wins.
Look at these casinos, ladiesand gentlemen.
These places don't becomeskyscrapers for letting all
these people win.
Come on now.
How do you think they spendbillions of dollars?
Keep putting up buildings rightby giving everybody jackpots.
(11:08):
You know, these are therealities.
Okay, so the whole point of lifeis to advance, grow, keep going
, be a plant that adds thatlittle bit of water, nutrient
and sunlight to grow.
And if you don't, you don't getany of that water, which is
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knowledge, or you don't have anyof that sunlight which is
socialization or whatever bringslight to your day.
It could be a cup of coffee,whatever it is, and you don't
have proper nutrients, which iseating correctly.
Then everything goes down thetoilet.
That's something that a lot ofpeople now have noticed.
(11:55):
The older people are not evendying of older age.
And we have all this greattechnology.
It's the 40, 50 years of eatingjust straight trash, for you
know two, three, four, five, sixtimes a day of garbage food.
They're obese, and right whenyou see them at the bitter end,
(12:20):
you're like, oh my god, you lookgreat.
Yeah, that's because I havecancer.
It's like, oh my god, that'sterrible.
So it's like every time you seethese morbidly obese people
after you haven't seen them, forit couldn't even be years, it
could be one year, it could bebe, you know, eight months,
something like that these peoplelose all this weight and it's
(12:42):
like, oh, you look great.
And the next thing, you knowthey're, they're, they're passed
away.
So you know, things really haveto come down to the health,
which is how I stress all thetime figure out what you're
eating.
Look, the cheap meals are fine.
Everybody has the milkshakesand quintuple cheeseburger
(13:06):
deluxes.
You know, with the supersizedwhatever and people can be smart
asses and go.
Well, supersized does does notexist.
Oh, there's places that it doesexist with the same amount of
ounces, somewhere out there,probably in Texas.
So look Look at yourself.
(13:27):
Why are you feeling down?
Okay, it's because this, this,this, this and this.
Some people might say oh, it'sbecause this person makes me
feel like this at work.
Or my parents make me feel likethis, my dog makes me feel this
way.
Okay, again, it has to comeback to the self-accountability.
(13:54):
Where is it the blame game?
Everything's going to go aroundin circles, not coming back to
you in a certain sense ofaccomplishment, just having it
where it's like I'm casting theunderstanding that it is not my
fault, which is somehowsubconsciously comforting,
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saying, well, it's not going tobe my fault, but let me pawn
this on some external thirdparty so that I feel like you
know, this is the proper thingto do.
That is weak.
It's something that you can'tbe doing.
This kind of stuff it's weak.
You know that.
(14:35):
That stuff that, when it comesdown to it, makes it seem like
you're not a grown person.
At the end of the day, youmight pay bills, have children
and you're like I'm grown, andon paper you are grown, but
again comes back to the way thatI was talking about, like the
flower to be growing.
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That's the growing.
If you're dying, it's just awilting.
Just like in front of a bank,just some dusty-ass bush that's
half dead, not well-kept.
Notice that the extremelyhigh-end neighborhoods don't
have unkept, even at your ChaseBank, bank, whatever it is,
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things that you know should benormally manicured.
Trust me, that's what I'mtrying to say is don't you
always need to be flourishing?
You have to be given the rightnutrients, and that's something
that many people being stuck inthis rut feeling, saying okay,
(15:42):
well, it's going to be like thisforever, just like a tide the
tide comes in and it goes out.
Sometimes things are great andsometimes things aren't so great
.
What I figured is having moregreat days than bad days, and
sometimes even when you havesome bad things happen.
(16:03):
Just figure, did it cost meanything?
Yeah, maybe an inconvenience orsomething like that.
But the time that you startactually laughing is when it's
something that 99.9% of the timewould piss you off.
Saying like, hey, you droppedsome ketchup on your shirt or
(16:27):
something like Stubbing your toeis pretty hard, that one is
just kind of a natural reaction,I think.
But just small things, likemaybe having it where you get
cut off in traffic instead ofgoing all crazy.
You're just like this guy.
He must be really important,he's got a rush to be at, so
(16:48):
just let me lay low here.
This guy's adding so much toour tax system here, paying into
our corporate america, soplease go ahead and it.
It's funny Obviously that's notthe truth, but it's a hilarious
outlook on saying, ok, well,this is going to be happening
anyways.
These people don't care who I am, didn't even matter if I was a
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high profile person in a nicecar.
They're going to cut you off.
They have their own prerogative.
When you're in the car, it'syour own bubble.
So sometimes you want to go outthere and get it where you say,
let me see if I can talk to atrusted person.
And that trusted person even inthat instance may have had 10
(17:34):
years of great advice and theysay, well, you know, I don't
know, I don't know, this isn'tgoing to be maybe your best idea
or business venture.
Something like don't go to thisschool, it's not where you want
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to go.
Those people, they never getgood jobs.
So that's another way of beingstuck in a rut, not wanting to
displease others, keeping acertain facade and are you
really going to have it whereyou're going to live your life,
based 110% off of somebodyelse's advice that they give you
(18:20):
?
You can't.
The biggest thing is tounderstand, to find good
guidance and mentors.
Everyone says they have mentors.
Look, meeting your local drunkat the bar that has it where he
talks about deep poems and stuff, can be your mentor.
(18:41):
Uh, maybe.
Uh, just comedically, it's like, yeah, this guy, he's my hero.
He tells me uh, the light, goodlife advice, or something like
that.
No, you need to find some actualpeople that care about you, not
something that's like, yeah,you know, lay it on me, man,
tell me what you got going.
I've been through so much morethan that and you're a couple
(19:02):
drinks in.
You're thinking this guy's gotit in, he gets it.
Now, that is not who you'retalking to to get life-sound
advice.
This is something that has tobe where you can be both 100% on
the same level and it's anenergy matching to say this guy
gets it and it's something likeyou can't even explain it.
(19:27):
It's so natural, talking to thisother person, feeling
comfortable divulging sensitiveinformation, that you wouldn't
be telling other people becauseyou feel comfortable that they
have some sense ofconfidentiality.
I mean with that, having youknow a couple mentors is going
to be something good.
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The mentors are not only goingto have it where you could have
a couple of them.
That'd be good, because if youhave it where, say, I'd like a
second or a third opinion,that's a lot of different,
altering opinions that I canhave it where it's like oh,
maybe these guys are trying tosay the same thing about me.
(20:10):
I should take that adviceInstead of having just one
almighty hey, I'm going to dothis because he told me or she
told me and that's it.
I can't do anything else.
It's the life of the individual.
Sometimes it comes down to thatNobody's here to tell you in
(20:32):
this country you need to do thisor that based on what somebody
tells you to do.
You know, within parameters ofreasoning, there are situations
where I mean if you're in legaltrouble, that's understanding.
But I'm saying we're walkinglike a thin line here saying you
have a clean slate right.
I know I'm repeating myselfaround here because it's a very
(20:55):
deep conversation.
I'm trying to explain out hereto people to say these are
things that happen to mostpeople.
You know it's like a breakup.
People go oh, it's never gonnabe the same without you.
Know, xyz, you're stuck in arut.
I'm never gonna talk to anotherperson.
That's because I'm nowheartbroken.
I have nobody else in the wholeworld.
(21:18):
It's like, bro, have you gone toa sports game?
There are a lot of people outthere and that's not even a
portion of the population outthere.
So big thing is get your assout there, figure it out.
Why are you complaining anymore than you have to?
A lot of people just make itworse than it really is.
(21:39):
Get out there.
Get on the internet, youtube it, figure it out.
No one's going to be cominghere to help.
That's the biggest thingEverybody's like.
Well, the government and I paidmy Social Security and my 401k
and my retirement.
No, that's for years down theline.
(21:59):
You got to help yourself out now, many times a lot of people are
thinking about.
Maybe they're saying, well, I'mjust going to give up because
at some point somebody's goingto come and rescue me, some
fairy person.
And then they realize when it'stoo old to be mobile and moving
(22:20):
around and being how would Isay able to pivot on new
ventures, not having a family orobligations, that's when life
is going to bog you down and somany things are going to be tied
into the responsibilities.
Energy is going to be put intothat when, at the end of the day
, the choices are made.
(22:41):
Do you want to be with yourfamily or significant other or
your business?
Is there a right or wronganswer?
It's up to you.
But so I'm glad to be back here.
You know I took a trip down fromAlaska having it, where we
drove all the way back down hereto South Florida, going through
(23:01):
all the states.
So it was a long trip, met alot of people.
It gives you a perspective ofhow just different states are
living.
North Dakota was kind of boring.
I can't even apologize.
Even North Dakota people haveto tell me that place is boring.
So it does give you perspectivewhen you travel, even if it's
(23:24):
within your own country, justways different people are living
and saying well, you know, mysituation is not that bad.
I need to be way more gratefulof my daily things that are
given to me just by default thatthese people obviously don't
have.
Whatever that is in your life,you can make that assumption.
So usually I want to have itwhere I give a teaser for the
(23:45):
next episode.
Right now.
It's going to be a contentcalendar that I need to be
coming up with so that there aremore just, creative angles to
these episodes.
Artificial intelligence ishelping me out a lot with
finding different angles I canadd on to the observation
station, though, with that Ijust want to leave you there and
(24:07):
thanks, guys, for coming backhere.
I know it's been a little bitof a time since I've been on
here and I just want to have itwhere, if it's ever something
that I can at least leave youwith here on the podcast.
Self-reflection is a huge, huge,huge thing.
One of the best places, I think, to ever self-reflect is if
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you're in a sauna just byyourself, or if you're with just
a place at a sauna, a quiet one, not somebody coming in there.
If you're in a gym and thesepeople are blasting music and
whatnot.
Go in there, get that heatgoing, because all you're
starting to think about is like,wow, it's so hot.
(24:52):
But that's the self-reflectiongoing there.
It's like, okay, how can I makethis?
Where it's not so hot, I'mbreathing, maybe drinking my
water, doing whatever needs tobe.
That is the best place to saywhere am I at with my life?
In a flaming hot sauna?
Just try it out and uh, seewhat happens to you.
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There's a lot of great benefitswith that.
With that being said, there guys, thank you for coming back
there.
I love having it where I get tocheck these stats of different
countries.
Especially, I got that guythat's out there in Frankfurt,
germany.
He's a loyal guy.
Hopefully he's listening tothis episode too.
Everybody else have a good one.
I just want to have it whereyou know.
(25:34):
A rut is something where youjust need to grow that tree out
of that rut.
Keep going, it's not too badhere.
Let's get over this wholepolitical crazy stuff on TV so
that I don't have to hear foranother four years any more
political advertisements.
Take it easy, everybody,bye-bye.
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Do you ever lift your head up from your phone, look
around and think to yourself myGod, everything is weird.
Well, we do A lot.
This is the Observation Station, a unique, entertaining and
hilarious podcast.
If we observe it, we talk aboutit.
(00:24):
Anything and everything,anything and everything,
anything and everything.
Let's get weird and let's havesome fun.
This is the Observation Station, and now your host Tommy
Heights.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hey, hey, hey.
What's going on everybody?
It's been a little bit of aminute since I've been on the
observation station here, got alot of explaining to do here on
the fun trip that I took Veryextended, but I wanted to get
into this episode.
So this one's going to be likethe premise is feeling like
(01:07):
you're stuck in a rut.
The whole point of this wholepodcast is going to be how a lot
of people feel.
And then there's going to be alot of the people that say, oh,
you don't know how I am or whatI've been through and this
nonsense.
Okay, look, everybody has adifferent path.
(01:28):
So I wanted to start this offby having it where I just tell
you a little bit about my lifeand the observations that I've
made about being stuck in a rut.
So now, with the pandemic, afterwe've lived through that has
given myself and a lot of otherpeople time to reflect.
(01:50):
When it is like, ok, you saywhat are you going to do with
your life?
Or someone goes hey, you know,when you're a young kid, what do
you feel like doing when yougrow up?
These people say the presidentof the United States of America,
back when we were kids that wasfunny.
We were like, yeah, I'll be thepresident of the United States
(02:11):
of America, you know.
And people would be like, okay,well, what about class
president?
Okay, class president.
So, man, I wish that those were.
They probably were filmed.
But just like the classpresidential races, the absurd
(02:31):
things that you would hear, likewe will give free double pizzas
on every other Friday orsomething, I'm like yo, who in
the hell is going to enact thisstuff?
And I remember at third gradethat that was just bogus.
Somebody even ran there andsaid, like we're just going to
have recess forever.
(02:52):
Yeah, like this guy.
If there's a cheer, this guyshould win.
Okay, first off.
Never heard anything like it.
It was almost hitting a grandslam walk-off home run to win
the World Series.
That was like recess forever.
The teacher's like no, no, kids, sit down, sit down.
So that was a good time.
(03:15):
Back when you really didn't knowhow crazy the world was as a
kid, before social media, media,everything seemed cool.
Because now if you look onthere, you're seeing some 14
year old going how to make 10million dollars in 30 seconds.
(03:36):
Okay, that's bullshit.
First off, half of these peopleare just like sign up for my
course first, and everything isa funnel to the course.
God bless capitalism and makingmoney selling courses.
There's nothing wrong with that, though it's just like you
haven't even added any value onyour videos to buy your course.
(03:59):
You're just like here.
Let me show you a little bitlike what's going to be on my
course.
Nobody cares If you give outfree content.
People will buy your coursejust in support, and they may
not even use the course, justlike now.
You know, at least I got it.
I can get gifted to somebody orsomething like that.
So here it is.
That just wanted to say.
(04:20):
When you're feeling like thingsaren't working out for you, a
big thing to ask is who are youhanging out with really?
Are these people saying oh yeah, man, you're going to do it?
Don't listen to these otherpeople.
Or is it somebody that you trust, that's given you at least some
other sound advice in your past, and you just say, okay, let me
(04:45):
absorb what this person'stelling me because I trust their
advice?
From there you have to deductis this something that is going
to be implemented or are youjust going to sulk there and
just want to have it?
Where people pity you come upoh my, I'm so sorry You're going
to find something.
You're such a good person.
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Nobody cares about that At theend of the day.
Here's how it goes.
It's only you yourself and Godpretty much, and even if you
don't have faith, you can deduceGod for you then, and then just
say you and yourself.
And then just say, have you andyourself.
So look, the whole point offinding out why you're in a rut.
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Did you bring this ontoyourself?
Maybe that's someself-reflection.
What is it that you've beendoing before and say, okay,
let's see what's going on there.
That is a recurring habit thatis being done in my daily
routine.
To say, okay, I need to takethat out, because if I do that
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over and, over and over again,it's going to result in this
manner of whatever's coming toyou.
So stop playing the pity game.
This is not for the faint ofheart here here, some people
like it, some people.
When you have it, you the, thesolutions are right there in
front of you as a good friend.
There's a time where it's like,okay, you have to figure it out
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here.
Are you just here to give goodadvice and somebody's not going
to take it, wasting your breath,or do you need to have it where
this is an audit, to say am Igetting something out of this
friendship or is it just a, adrinking buddy that I can just
bs around with and waste timewith?
That's the apex of your life.
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What are you surroundingyourself with?
The whole thing is it's greatto be told.
At 20 years old, 21 years old,hey, you know, surround yourself
with good people, and there'ssometimes that you get lucky to
get a couple of good friendsthat stick around from.
You know high school, middleschool, things that you know.
They know stuff about you thatnobody else has lived through.
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That's a good thing to have.
A blessing, though, when you goreally through life and travel
around, which is highlyencouraged, when, even if you
live in new york city, it's bestto go and travel around to
different places so that thewhole world is in perspective to
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you of like, what is thedifference from what is
accustomed to you?
That is the biggest part aboutwhat people don't understand.
They think their own 50 mileradius of the place they were
born at is what the whole worldsurrounds themselves with uh,
their ideology.
So the whole thing now isself-reflection.
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That is the biggest thing.
Accountability is not going tobe there with the vast majority
of people.
Look, if somebody is fat, theydon't have accountability.
You can just say I'm fat, okay,so what?
I mean you could ride down ahill, crash into a wall and say
(08:08):
I crashed, great, good job.
Now let's help you out, get yousome medical attention.
But the announcement of youbeing crashed and the bikes
folded up and you're allscorpioned up on the wall when
you smacked up against it andsomebody saw it, is not going to
add much value to your medicalneeds.
So here's the thingAccountability is the biggest
(08:32):
problem.
Where is it that you're messingup?
Where is it that the world ismessing up?
So that it can be cleared inyour mind about how that's you.
Again, that reverts toaccountability.
It's not the best thing to hear.
If you're eating wrong, you'renot going to feel good.
That's another thing.
That'll be in a rut.
And if you don't feel good, getfat and you feel bad and then
(08:56):
people don't want to beassociating with.
You know somebody that's obeseand having it where they're
going out and you know if theyrespect their self-image a lot
of times, unless you're somekind of famous something if that
makes any sense that you haveany credentials behind you
already.
So it's like, okay, well, da,da, da, da da.
But for the most part, evennowadays, just bringing up
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directly what is the issue topeople, they find offense to it.
Look here, this is theobservation station.
I'm here to tell you anobservance.
This is one observance out ofbillions of people.
It is added with a little bitof extra nuances and
(09:44):
characteristics and semanticsthat I add onto it and sprinkle
and pepper here and there, butthese are the things that I see.
First off times can be saidright now in the economy.
That are you go in the grocerystore.
Things are expensive.
I understand that.
Everybody understands that.
It's something that is a factof life right now.
So what are you going to doabout it?
You got to get it where youmake more money and then that's
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the whole point right now.
So what are you going to doabout it?
You got to get it where youmake more money and then that's
the whole point right now.
People need to takeaccountability.
It's not.
Oh, I need to save more.
No, geez, inflation, thatinflation.
If you save more, you're losingmore.
Figure out how to startinvesting, and quick.
And if you don't know how tostart investing and you have an
internet connection and say, hey, at least I need to start
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figuring out here and don'tstart investing for yourself
unless you're specialized indoing that, people might have
said, oh yeah, you know, I gotlucky putting it in this stock.
I read up hours and hours andblah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah.
That's like talking about ifyou've read slot machine
algorithms and said, yeah, Iknow that it's after the 746
(10:47):
pool, it's going to be like a.
No, this is somebody that hasno idea about why the house
always wins.
Look at these casinos, ladiesand gentlemen.
These places don't becomeskyscrapers for letting all
these people win.
Come on now.
How do you think they spendbillions of dollars?
Keep putting up buildings rightby giving everybody jackpots.
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You know, these are therealities.
Okay, so the whole point of lifeis to advance, grow, keep going
, be a plant that adds thatlittle bit of water, nutrient
and sunlight to grow.
And if you don't, you don't getany of that water, which is
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knowledge, or you don't have anyof that sunlight which is
socialization or whatever bringslight to your day.
It could be a cup of coffee,whatever it is, and you don't
have proper nutrients, which iseating correctly.
Then everything goes down thetoilet.
That's something that a lot ofpeople now have noticed.
(11:55):
The older people are not evendying of older age.
And we have all this greattechnology.
It's the 40, 50 years of eatingjust straight trash, for you
know two, three, four, five, sixtimes a day of garbage food.
They're obese, and right whenyou see them at the bitter end,
(12:20):
you're like, oh my god, you lookgreat.
Yeah, that's because I havecancer.
It's like, oh my god, that'sterrible.
So it's like every time you seethese morbidly obese people
after you haven't seen them, forit couldn't even be years, it
could be one year, it could bebe, you know, eight months,
something like that these peoplelose all this weight and it's
(12:42):
like, oh, you look great.
And the next thing, you knowthey're, they're, they're passed
away.
So you know, things really haveto come down to the health,
which is how I stress all thetime figure out what you're
eating.
Look, the cheap meals are fine.
Everybody has the milkshakesand quintuple cheeseburger
(13:06):
deluxes.
You know, with the supersizedwhatever and people can be smart
asses and go.
Well, supersized does does notexist.
Oh, there's places that it doesexist with the same amount of
ounces, somewhere out there,probably in Texas.
So look Look at yourself.
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Why are you feeling down?
Okay, it's because this, this,this, this and this.
Some people might say oh, it'sbecause this person makes me
feel like this at work.
Or my parents make me feel likethis, my dog makes me feel this
way.
Okay, again, it has to comeback to the self-accountability.
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Where is it the blame game?
Everything's going to go aroundin circles, not coming back to
you in a certain sense ofaccomplishment, just having it
where it's like I'm casting theunderstanding that it is not my
fault, which is somehowsubconsciously comforting,
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saying, well, it's not going tobe my fault, but let me pawn
this on some external thirdparty so that I feel like you
know, this is the proper thingto do.
That is weak.
It's something that you can'tbe doing.
This kind of stuff it's weak.
You know that.
(14:35):
That stuff that, when it comesdown to it, makes it seem like
you're not a grown person.
At the end of the day, youmight pay bills, have children
and you're like I'm grown, andon paper you are grown, but
again comes back to the way thatI was talking about, like the
flower to be growing.
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That's the growing.
If you're dying, it's just awilting.
Just like in front of a bank,just some dusty-ass bush that's
half dead, not well-kept.
Notice that the extremelyhigh-end neighborhoods don't
have unkept, even at your ChaseBank, bank, whatever it is,
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things that you know should benormally manicured.
Trust me, that's what I'mtrying to say is don't you
always need to be flourishing?
You have to be given the rightnutrients, and that's something
that many people being stuck inthis rut feeling, saying okay,
(15:42):
well, it's going to be like thisforever, just like a tide the
tide comes in and it goes out.
Sometimes things are great andsometimes things aren't so great
.
What I figured is having moregreat days than bad days, and
sometimes even when you havesome bad things happen.
(16:03):
Just figure, did it cost meanything?
Yeah, maybe an inconvenience orsomething like that.
But the time that you startactually laughing is when it's
something that 99.9% of the timewould piss you off.
Saying like, hey, you droppedsome ketchup on your shirt or
(16:27):
something like Stubbing your toeis pretty hard, that one is
just kind of a natural reaction,I think.
But just small things, likemaybe having it where you get
cut off in traffic instead ofgoing all crazy.
You're just like this guy.
He must be really important,he's got a rush to be at, so
(16:48):
just let me lay low here.
This guy's adding so much toour tax system here, paying into
our corporate america, soplease go ahead and it.
It's funny Obviously that's notthe truth, but it's a hilarious
outlook on saying, ok, well,this is going to be happening
anyways.
These people don't care who I am, didn't even matter if I was a
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high profile person in a nicecar.
They're going to cut you off.
They have their own prerogative.
When you're in the car, it'syour own bubble.
So sometimes you want to go outthere and get it where you say,
let me see if I can talk to atrusted person.
And that trusted person even inthat instance may have had 10
(17:34):
years of great advice and theysay, well, you know, I don't
know, I don't know, this isn'tgoing to be maybe your best idea
or business venture.
Something like don't go to thisschool, it's not where you want
(17:54):
to go.
Those people, they never getgood jobs.
So that's another way of beingstuck in a rut, not wanting to
displease others, keeping acertain facade and are you
really going to have it whereyou're going to live your life,
based 110% off of somebodyelse's advice that they give you
(18:20):
?
You can't.
The biggest thing is tounderstand, to find good
guidance and mentors.
Everyone says they have mentors.
Look, meeting your local drunkat the bar that has it where he
talks about deep poems and stuff, can be your mentor.
(18:41):
Uh, maybe.
Uh, just comedically, it's like, yeah, this guy, he's my hero.
He tells me uh, the light, goodlife advice, or something like
that.
No, you need to find some actualpeople that care about you, not
something that's like, yeah,you know, lay it on me, man,
tell me what you got going.
I've been through so much morethan that and you're a couple
(19:02):
drinks in.
You're thinking this guy's gotit in, he gets it.
Now, that is not who you'retalking to to get life-sound
advice.
This is something that has tobe where you can be both 100% on
the same level and it's anenergy matching to say this guy
gets it and it's something likeyou can't even explain it.
(19:27):
It's so natural, talking to thisother person, feeling
comfortable divulging sensitiveinformation, that you wouldn't
be telling other people becauseyou feel comfortable that they
have some sense ofconfidentiality.
I mean with that, having youknow a couple mentors is going
to be something good.
(19:48):
The mentors are not only goingto have it where you could have
a couple of them.
That'd be good, because if youhave it where, say, I'd like a
second or a third opinion,that's a lot of different,
altering opinions that I canhave it where it's like oh,
maybe these guys are trying tosay the same thing about me.
(20:10):
I should take that adviceInstead of having just one
almighty hey, I'm going to dothis because he told me or she
told me and that's it.
I can't do anything else.
It's the life of the individual.
Sometimes it comes down to thatNobody's here to tell you in
(20:32):
this country you need to do thisor that based on what somebody
tells you to do.
You know, within parameters ofreasoning, there are situations
where I mean if you're in legaltrouble, that's understanding.
But I'm saying we're walkinglike a thin line here saying you
have a clean slate right.
I know I'm repeating myselfaround here because it's a very
(20:55):
deep conversation.
I'm trying to explain out hereto people to say these are
things that happen to mostpeople.
You know it's like a breakup.
People go oh, it's never gonnabe the same without you.
Know, xyz, you're stuck in arut.
I'm never gonna talk to anotherperson.
That's because I'm nowheartbroken.
I have nobody else in the wholeworld.
(21:18):
It's like, bro, have you gone toa sports game?
There are a lot of people outthere and that's not even a
portion of the population outthere.
So big thing is get your assout there, figure it out.
Why are you complaining anymore than you have to?
A lot of people just make itworse than it really is.
(21:39):
Get out there.
Get on the internet, youtube it, figure it out.
No one's going to be cominghere to help.
That's the biggest thingEverybody's like.
Well, the government and I paidmy Social Security and my 401k
and my retirement.
No, that's for years down theline.
(21:59):
You got to help yourself out now, many times a lot of people are
thinking about.
Maybe they're saying, well, I'mjust going to give up because
at some point somebody's goingto come and rescue me, some
fairy person.
And then they realize when it'stoo old to be mobile and moving
(22:20):
around and being how would Isay able to pivot on new
ventures, not having a family orobligations, that's when life
is going to bog you down and somany things are going to be tied
into the responsibilities.
Energy is going to be put intothat when, at the end of the day
, the choices are made.
(22:41):
Do you want to be with yourfamily or significant other or
your business?
Is there a right or wronganswer?
It's up to you.
But so I'm glad to be back here.
You know I took a trip down fromAlaska having it, where we
drove all the way back down hereto South Florida, going through
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all the states.
So it was a long trip, met alot of people.
It gives you a perspective ofhow just different states are
living.
North Dakota was kind of boring.
I can't even apologize.
Even North Dakota people haveto tell me that place is boring.
So it does give you perspectivewhen you travel, even if it's
(23:24):
within your own country, justways different people are living
and saying well, you know, mysituation is not that bad.
I need to be way more gratefulof my daily things that are
given to me just by default thatthese people obviously don't
have.
Whatever that is in your life,you can make that assumption.
So usually I want to have itwhere I give a teaser for the
(23:45):
next episode.
Right now.
It's going to be a contentcalendar that I need to be
coming up with so that there aremore just, creative angles to
these episodes.
Artificial intelligence ishelping me out a lot with
finding different angles I canadd on to the observation
station, though, with that Ijust want to leave you there and
(24:07):
thanks, guys, for coming backhere.
I know it's been a little bitof a time since I've been on
here and I just want to have itwhere, if it's ever something
that I can at least leave youwith here on the podcast.
Self-reflection is a huge, huge,huge thing.
One of the best places, I think, to ever self-reflect is if
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you're in a sauna just byyourself, or if you're with just
a place at a sauna, a quiet one, not somebody coming in there.
If you're in a gym and thesepeople are blasting music and
whatnot.
Go in there, get that heatgoing, because all you're
starting to think about is like,wow, it's so hot.
(24:52):
But that's the self-reflectiongoing there.
It's like, okay, how can I makethis?
Where it's not so hot, I'mbreathing, maybe drinking my
water, doing whatever needs tobe.
That is the best place to saywhere am I at with my life?
In a flaming hot sauna?
Just try it out and uh, seewhat happens to you.
(25:12):
There's a lot of great benefitswith that.
With that being said, there guys, thank you for coming back
there.
I love having it where I get tocheck these stats of different
countries.
Especially, I got that guythat's out there in Frankfurt,
germany.
He's a loyal guy.
Hopefully he's listening tothis episode too.
Everybody else have a good one.
I just want to have it whereyou know.
(25:34):
A rut is something where youjust need to grow that tree out
of that rut.
Keep going, it's not too badhere.
Let's get over this wholepolitical crazy stuff on TV so
that I don't have to hear foranother four years any more
political advertisements.
Take it easy, everybody,bye-bye.
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