What if the very things you think disqualify you are actually your greatest gifts? Markus Kaulius—entrepreneur, founder of Magnum Pharmaceuticals, and author of Play a Bigger Game—shares how he turned adversity into fuel and built his life around one principle: take action today, not tomorrow. In this conversation, Markus breaks down the power of choice, the integrity of keeping your first promise to yourself each morning, and the small daily wins that create unstoppable momentum.
Key Takeaways:
- Transformation happens through immediate action—90% of learning comes once you’re on the path.
- Your biggest obstacles can become your greatest gifts when you reframe your perspective.
- Daily habits like movement, preparation, and a personal scoreboard of wins compound into extraordinary success.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But my number one tip in life is to start taking
action today.
Don't wait for tomorrow.
The opportunities of todaymight be gone tomorrow.
The opportunities today are theopportunities that you're
supposed to step into, and thereis so much you will learn once
you start taking action.
I can't more highly recommendyou just start putting one foot
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in front of the other, one ofthe other.
One of the things I teachpeople constantly, especially
entrepreneurs, is that I willlearn 90% of what I need to know
on the path.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Do hard things.
Help one person, be good and dogood, live a life of discipline
, and you will always win.
You have all the tools that youneed to succeed.
Welcome to win today.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
My name is Ryan Cass and I amyour host.
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My purpose in this world is tohelp push people further and
harder than they believepossible and become unshakable
in what matters most to them intheir lives.
Every week, you're going tolearn from either myself or a
renowned expert in their field,and we're going to unveil pieces
of our playbook to help you wintoday.
Please, if you love this show,subscribe and share it with
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somebody that will benefit fromit.
Let's dig in.
When I serve, when I give, whenI support in silence, when I
serve, when I give, when Isupport in silence, I am filled
with something beautiful.
I feel as though I am feedingmy character and soul.
Not only do others receive thebenefits of my service, but I,
too, receive so much.
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Once again, I receive theincredible feeling you get when
you know you are doing what youhave been sent here to do the
fulfillment of your true purposefor being.
There are a few feelings in ourlives that can match this.
This is a feeling worth chasingAlways.
That's from Play A Bigger GameSeven universal principles to
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experience true fulfillment andwin at life, and I'm bringing
this conversation back with mygood friend and mentor, marcus
Collius.
Marcus is a massive entrepreneurin Canada, founded Magnum
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Pharmaceuticals and released hisbook Play a Bigger Game in 2024
, which has really broken downwhat winning is to very simple
concepts.
And, as we're on this new kickwith winning, is, I figured, who
better to bring back than aconversation with Marcus, and
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perhaps this is also my call toaction to have a refreshed
conversation with him here onthe podcast.
He truly embodies what it meansto be present with people and
serve them in a genuine way,which you're about to find out.
He brings the energy, thespirit, the fire that lights
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people up, and that's ultimatelyone of the reasons why I chose
to work with him, and he hasmade a significant impact in my
life.
So, as we're in the back halfof 2025, there's still plenty of
time to completely rewrite orrefine your story.
Then let's look at how we canplay a bigger game and continue
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to win.
Let's go when I think aboutsomebody who truly serves as the
epitome of energy and gratitudeand service to this world.
It's our guest that we havewith us here today, marcus
Collius.
He's an incredible human being,someone who has impacted over
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10 million lives, has helpedpeople lose over 3 million
pounds, serial entrepreneur,founder of Magnum
Pharmaceuticals and newly mintedauthor of his book Seven
Universal Principles toExperience Real Fulfillment and
Win in Life.
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That is play a bigger game andwe're going to learn all about
that and all about the amazingthings that Marcus does to help
you live your best life, marcus,welcome to the show, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think we're going to have an amazing conversation.
I know we're going to impactsome lives today.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We absolutely are.
My favorite thing to understandabout high performers is the
genesis of why they do what theydo.
But first a simple search onGoogle.
We search your name, we can seethe Guinness World Record and a
lot of really cool things.
But I have a sense that ifsomeone asked you who you are,
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you would identify yourself bywhat you do to help others, and
that's really what lights you up.
What is it that you would saymakes you human just like the
rest of us?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I love that, brother, thank you.
I really appreciate what you'resaying.
Like the rest of us, I lovethat, brother, thank you, and I
really appreciate what you'resaying because it's the truth.
What lights me up is not oh,here's what I got to do in my
life.
Here's the accomplishments.
Man, when people read my resume, I'm always like holy smokes,
are they talking about me?
That's wild.
But what really gets me excitedis helping others achieve.
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Helping others achieve theirgoals, lifting them up, aha
moments, just something thatbroke through to somebody.
So what really makes me humanis not only how much I want to
help humanity, but where I camefrom.
I think my story is the perfectstory of if this guy can do it
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story is the perfect story of ifthis guy can do it, anybody can
do it.
In my opinion, in my first 15years there was nothing special
about me.
I didn't have a leg up in anyway.
We were so poor.
We were so poor financially,spiritually.
Love just broke broken everyway, and the fact that I could
have taken that life and turnedit into what it is today, it's
proof that absolutely anybodycan do anything they choose to.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's beautiful and what you and I share in common.
As we were speaking off cameraand you just mentioned it here
that your first 15 years if welooked at that, it here, that
your first 15 years if we lookedat that, then we may not have
predicted that you'd be whereyou're at today.
And I believe that one of themost beautiful things about high
achievers it's almost for mostof them.
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It's almost as if the troublingtimes is like a prerequisite to
becoming a high achiever,because I've not met a single
one that hasn't had somethingvery deep that has driven them.
In those early years and I'llcall them the formative years
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did you have this vision ofbecoming who you are today, or
did it evolve over time?
I remember growing up in thehousehold that I did, where
there was the systemic trend ofalcoholism.
I would always spend timeenvisioning like, all right,
what am I going to make my life?
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And I made a promise to myselfearly on that I'm not going to
carry on this trend, and I hadthis vision of helping people
and doing something in thebusiness world, but I couldn't
have painted this exact picturethat exists today.
So what did that look like foryou?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Brother, you brought up some beautiful things.
Number one the answer is no.
I had no clue what it was goingto look like.
I had no clue what it was goingto look like.
All that I cared about was justlike you not being here where I
was anymore.
Just, I have to break the curse, All the family curses, all the
systemic garbage that hasplagued the Collius name.
(07:58):
I just needed to break it,that's all I knew, that's all I
cared about, and so that was big.
The other piece that you broughtup that I just want to talk
about, that I just I love,actually, you know what.
I think that one's going tocome up naturally again in a
minute, so I'm going to leavethat one.
But, brother, what I, what Ilove, that you and I talked
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about off camera, was when yousaid and this is one of my
favorite lines that Tony Robbinsalways talks about that life is
not happening to you, it'shappening for you and the people
who achieve great things inthis world.
It seems like they're the oneswho just figured that out and
not just heard it but reallyunderstood it, and so I know
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this is happening for you and ithappened for me.
So I want to.
I want to make sure anybodylistening hears this right now.
We have so many, so muchgarbage, so much baggage in our
past and we go, marcus.
This is the reason why I won'tsucceed.
This is the reason why howcould I?
And this is what my friend EdMilet always says.
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You know, it's the stuff thatwe think that disqualifies us is
actually the stuff thatqualifies us.
Yes, and it's really what you'retalking about.
This stuff didn't happen to me.
It happened for me.
We grew up so poor so that Iwould learn work ethic, so that
I would have something on.
You know, you want to call it achip on the shoulder.
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I'm fine with that.
It was a chip on my shoulderthat said I will not be this
poor.
I will not grow up with thiskind of pain and pass that onto
my kids.
I will do what it takes.
Being in a house where therewasn't enough love in the house
that changed me into a man.
That's like when I have my ownhouse, when I have children,
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they are going to receive somuch love.
My wife is going to receive toomuch love.
That's the kind of man Idecided I was going to be when I
was a child.
Now, had I not gone throughthat stuff, I can confidently
say I would not be anything likethe man I am today.
So for anyone who hasn't turnedthat corner yet, I just want to
encourage you today.
What if?
Just ask this question, what ifthat stuff you think is all
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your baggage, your garbage, thestuff that disqualifies you?
What if it was the biggest giftyou've ever received?
Just try to answer that.
Try to answer how could that betrue?
How could it be a gift?
And don't just get stuck withno, there's no way, there's no
way.
Well, if you're going to saythere's no way, then you're
right, there's no way, right.
But in any situation you cansay well, because of a divorce,
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I figured out what love was andI made a decision I won't get
divorced.
I will do everything I have todo, become who I have to become,
to not have divorce.
There's a million ways you canfind the answer to that and, hey
, I'd love to help you with that.
So reach out to me, let me helpyou.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You're living up to what I said at the beginning.
Just the epitome of energy, andI'm getting this, this huge
dopamine hit right now Like ifwe could have these
conversations all day, every day, or I feel like we could.
We could go for hours right now, and I also share being a huge
fan of Ed Milet and I love whatyou said.
(11:14):
The things that you believedisqualify you are the things
that actually qualify you.
When I go speak, especially tostudents, and I'll occasionally
take a poll how many of you havecome from a broken household or
in a household right now thatthere's something difficult
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going on, some form of adversity, and a lot of hands go up?
Because right around that age,as you and I know, right around
that 15-ish teenage years can bethe times where you're looking
at that situation as the worst.
And I tell them, each of youhave a gift that you have no
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idea how much this can serve youright now if you simply start
looking at it as a gift yes, itas a gift, and when you flip the
script on any sort of adversityin life, you will always,
always have a gift.
You talked in a recent podcastjust on Ed Milet for a minute
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meeting the man, the myth, thelegend, interacting with, with
him.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
What's that been like ?
Uh, so I I think we're talkingabout when I met tony robbins.
So tony robbins, I mean there's, there's the king of the castle
.
I mean, with all due respect toed, ed's my boy.
I love ed.
Even ed points to tony as theman and you know what?
I would argue that the next guyon the list, that's Ed and Tony
is going to run out his time.
(12:50):
He's moving past a point wherehe's ready to pass that torch
soon and Ed's going to be theguy Tony.
I've spent the last year and ahalf.
I've traveled with Tony.
I've got to spend so manyamazing hours with Tony.
But Tony actually startedchanging my life 30 years ago.
I came across Tony's cassettes30 years ago and he put me on a
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better path.
And he is the guy who talks likeyou and I are talking, which is
whatever you're going throughright now.
What if you get to see it as agift?
How could you reframe itdifferently?
How can you use it as yoursuperpower?
And that's truly what it is.
You know this idea.
By the way, everybody who'shearing this and who isn't quite
grasping you know this idea ofwhat I think disqualifies me.
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It's not just the stuff that'shappened to you, it's who you
are.
You fill in this blank withlike, yeah, but I'm not pretty
enough, I'm not skinny enough,I'm not talkative enough, I'm
not extroverted enough.
You fill in all these things.
The argument is and I fullybelieve this 100% with all of my
heart there is only one of you.
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You've been made exactly howyou're supposed to be made.
How quiet you are, how tall youare, all of those things.
Now should you become a betterversion of yourself?
Absolutely.
However, the stuff that you wantto hide away from the world,
that you don't want to showcase,is usually the stuff that makes
you unique and special and thatthe world needs you to step
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into that, because, whateverthat is well, yeah, but, marcus,
I had a problem with drugs, Ihad a problem with alcohol, I
had a problem with pornography.
Well, guess what?
There are literally millions,on millions, on millions of
other people who are goingthrough the same thing, who you
might only be one step ahead ofthem and they could learn so
much from you, or you're 10steps ahead of them and you
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could radically change theirlife.
But if you're going to hideaway and go.
Well, no, not this, though.
This is too embarrassing.
This is what disqualifies me.
You're missing the chance toserve so many people and change
so many lives.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I love that you brought up Tony Robbins and
corrected me on that.
I thought that I had heard on apod that you were up, Tony
Robbins, and corrected me onthat.
I thought that I had heard on apod that you were maybe going
to meet Ed Milet.
But yes, it is out there thatyou are a disciple of Mr Robbins
and I love him and the goalboards you're looking at right
behind me.
When I decided to make the shiftin my life and again carry on
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that promise that I'm not goingto be the next one, I started
researching people like Tony andI read about everything I could
about Tony.
I was like what is it thatmakes this guy so successful?
What's the secret sauce?
Is it anything complex?
And then I discovered, oh well,he writes his goals down and
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makes things clear.
I was like, okay, well, if Tonydoes that, let me give it a
shot.
And I would say that, yeah, man,Marcus, you've, you've, you've,
(16:09):
you've touched 10 million lives.
And, man, I just maybe, maybe,if I wait a little bit longer,
then I can launch that thing andand launch, and then I'll
impact X amount of lives.
And making an impact in thisworld really starts with just
helping one person, we neverreally know the impact we're
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going to have.
You've met Tony Robbins?
I haven't, but Tony Robbins hasimpacted my life.
Talk through the power ofimpacting just one life, Because
I think so many people stopthemselves thinking I need to
wait until I can help the massesbefore I do anything.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, that is truly human psychology.
Right now, let me become a.
I can't keep working on me fora long time before I step
outside.
But you're so right.
You impact one person and youdon't know who that's supposed
to be.
So you got to go outside.
You got to.
That person's going to be drawnto you who you are today, and
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that one life that you impactcan have a ripple effect that
you could never know.
You could never know how manylives that person could change.
You could never know how manylives that person could change
and you should still feelchallenged to become the best
version of yourself.
But my number one tip in life isto start taking action today.
Don't wait for tomorrow.
(17:35):
The opportunities of todaymight be gone tomorrow.
The opportunities today are theopportunities that you're
supposed to step into, and thereis so much you will learn once
you start taking action.
I can't more highly recommendyou just start putting one foot
in front of the other.
One of the things I teach peopleconstantly, especially
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entrepreneurs, is that I willlearn 90% of what I need to know
on the path.
That means at most, I can learn10% before I start.
So I have to start walking andyou won't believe how quickly
you're going to go.
Oh my goodness, this is not theright path.
I'm just going to.
I got to deviate, but youwouldn't know it until you start
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moving.
Like any path, you start goingdown, and you're not going down
the wide road.
You're going into the bush andyou hack through some of the
bush and all of a sudden you'relike, wow, this is not where I
wanted to be going.
You hack through another partand you're like, oh man, look at
the gold mine that's behindthis one.
And you start moving forward onthat and the fact that you're
taking action will fill you upin ways that only action can
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fill you up.
That growth this is part of thelife journey that is so critical
that not enough people aretalking about.
It's the growth that Iexperience every day that gives
me so much energy, that gives meso much fulfillment, allows me
to make impact on so manypeople's lives, because people
just see me and they're likethis guy is changing, this guy's
doing stuff.
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It's not because I dounbelievable things every single
day I wish that was the caseand I'm sure one day maybe it
will be but the fact that I justchange a little bit 1% every
single day.
That's what people take noticeof.
So make your move, take someaction today.
Become a 1% better version ofwho you were yesterday.
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That is going to add up sodramatically and in a year you
will be a different human being.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Absolutely.
This makes me think of.
I interviewed the founder andCEO of Spartan, joe DeSena, and
one thing that he said thatreally stood out is you know,
the antiquated approach of readyaim fire.
Where that originated was backin the old war days where you
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had to load the musket withblack powder and you really had
to think through before takingyour shot because we didn't have
these weapons that we couldreload and not to make this a
discussion about war, but theapproach we say ready aim fire,
joe said no, no, no, no Fireready aim.
(20:17):
Because we live in a worldtoday, especially with the
technology that we have at ourfingertips, we could take a
thousand bad shots.
Yes, so good and go reload, andgo do the next one and keep
going, because eventually you'regoing to hit that target.
Now I believe there is some,some prep work.
You don't want to go intoanything totally blind, but
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picking up, picking a bit ofwhat you said there, marcus,
that you focus on growth everyday, and what I heard is you
incorporate intentional growthinto your.
I'm curious as to what thatlooks like.
How do you manufacture growthinto your day-to-day?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Brilliant question.
So in many ways, let's startwith habits.
You have to put habits intoyour life.
You have to make this stuffpart of your everyday.
If it's not a habit, you'regoing to go weeks and you're
going to go oh shoot, I haven'tdone anything for growth lately.
It's such a key part of my lifeand it is a critical part of
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success.
Any successful person you comeacross, this is the probably one
of the number one things you'regoing to find that they haven't
caught is we create habits andand we dump bad habits that are
going to hold us back.
So for me personally, there's afew things that I'm going to
grow every single day for therest of my life.
One is in my health.
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So what do I have to do toimprove my health every single
day?
Well, I got to get someexercise and, by the way, for
anybody who's like, this is theonly type of exercise.
Let me help you Turn thatperson off.
Don't listen to that personever again.
They're just trying to get yourattention.
On social media, there are abillion ways to get your
exercise in.
Yeah, some are going to be morebeneficial than others, but
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what's most important is thatyou get some exercise in, get
your body moving.
We are designed to move.
All the bad stuff in life comesfrom us being sedentary.
So get moving every single day.
So I get my workouts in Plus.
What am I consuming?
What data am I putting into mymouth?
I look at food as data.
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What is it telling my body?
What is it telling my mind?
The food that I consume?
I'm telling my body and mindI'm freaking.
Michael Jordan, you better beready to dominate this world.
I need to show up as a 10 outof 10 every day or I'm missing
opportunities to impact life.
So when I eat, I'm eating sothat my body's going to be at
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its best, my mind's going to beat its best, my digestion, my
energy is going to be at itsbest.
My mind's going to be at itsbest.
My digestion, my energy allthese things are critical.
And then the most simple way tomanufacture it start listening
to more podcasts, start readingmore books and if you don't like
reading, I know there's so manypeople that are reading.
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Audible books are awesome, andif you are on Amazon Prime, you
get a free book every singlemonth.
Like there's no excuses here.
People, if you have 20 minutesa day in the car, you can be
listening to a book.
You will read a book every weekto two weeks.
That's massive, as opposed tojust listening to music or talk
radio or other garbage thatdoesn't benefit you.
(23:28):
It's just entertainment value,which I get.
There's a point, hey, you needsome entertainment value, but my
quickest argument would be oh,you really need that one.
Just out of curiosity, how muchNetflix do you consume every
day?
I don't think anybody needs sixhours of entertainment value
every day.
So you can drop 20 minutes.
(23:48):
Give me 20 minutes of a bookand now you're going to start to
change your life.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I listened to you on a podcast recently with Josh
Cadillac and he asked you aninteresting question about what
do you believe is the biggestopportunity in the market right
now, and your response was rightalong those lines that it is
fairly easy to stand out in theworld today because the majority
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of people are consumingnon-value added information.
And even if you commit to 20minutes, as you said, of
consuming valuable information,whether it's an audible book or
a podcast, and doing that everyday or almost every day, you're
going to set yourself so farahead of the majority of the
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pack, and it's not rocketscience.
And here's what I want to knowis you said you need to show up
as a 10 out of 10 every day, andI love that.
Now said you need to show up asa 10 out of 10 every day, and I
love that.
Now you and I are humans.
I'd be willing to bet there'sdays where, internally, you feel
like a two out of 10, maybe athree, maybe a one out of 10,
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maybe a zero out of 10.
But I also am willing to betthat that doesn't matter because
you're going to push past that.
So, on the days that you feellike a two, but the standard is
a 10,.
What do you do to?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
bridge that gap?
Oh, fantastic question and Iwant to come back to the
opportunity thing in a moment.
But this idea of not feelingperfect every day yeah, nobody's
going to feel perfect every day, so make sure you listen to
that everybody.
(25:36):
This is not about no, no, no,now it's 10 out of 10 every day.
No, it doesn't work like that.
We're human.
Stuff happens.
But you know what's wild Out of365 days a year, if you were to
have 50 crummy days, 50 dayswhere you didn't show up at your
best, do you know what thatwould look like on a scorecard?
You'd still have an A.
That's 50 days.
So you can give yourself somegrace.
(25:57):
Now, I'm not saying I takethose 50 days off.
Some of those days I givemyself the grace to go.
You know what?
I am going to rest todaybecause clearly my body needs
some rest.
But more often than not, if I'mwaking up and I'm not feeling my
best, then I'm just a littlebit off.
So, if I'm being honest withyou, I don't experience twos and
threes anymore, which is reallynice, because my average is so
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high in front of my average,even for my crappy days.
So to me, when I'm feeling likea six or seven, it feels like a
one or two, because I'm used to10.
So on that six or seven day,that is when I challenged myself
because, listen, anybody canhave an unbelievable, stellar
day If you're waking up at 10out of 10, oh, I got the energy,
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I got this.
Okay, is there a story to tellthere?
There really isn't.
But the guy who felt like a sixor seven or a one or two, but
then performed at a 10.
Now, there's a story, there's amemory.
So one of my favorite things todo when people are like, but
Marcus, I don't feel likeworking out all the time, what
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do you do?
Okay, so on those days when I'mlike, ah, today is just not the
day for working out, that'swhen I go all right, marcus,
let's go.
Buddy, this is the day.
Show me what you're made of.
Set a new record, set a newstandard, tell a story.
Make sure you're doingsomething so that you have a
story to tell later.
(27:20):
Those are my favorite workouts,because I push and I push and I
have to find new gears.
I'm like, bro, you got to findsome more heart.
There has to be more heart inthere.
And when I push and I actuallyset a PR on that day, bro.
That's a story to tell.
And now I go.
Man, I'm a fricking animal.
I thought this was my level.
I'm actually up here, bro.
(27:43):
This is not arrogance speaking.
This is confidence buildingevery day in who I am and who
I'm going to be tomorrow, sothat I can show up tomorrow
going man, I know what I didyesterday.
I don't even have to tell thestory.
I'm telling the story to myselfand it's a reminder.
We need these stories.
(28:03):
By the way, we all have so manystories.
If you said, hey, ryan, why areyou a failure?
Why might you fail in life?
We've all got those stories.
Oh well, let me tell you, man.
I did this, this, this and this.
Oh, what a piece of crap.
We've all got those stories.
So how about building somestories on the other side,
(28:23):
marcus?
Why are you going to win today?
You know what?
Yesterday, I didn't feel like awinner and I freaking dominated
.
I got a PR.
I put in the work, I showed up.
Today, I'm going to succeedbecause of boom, boom, boom,
boom.
Give yourself the argument.
Whatever you focus on, that iswhat is going to happen.
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So if you focus on, I'mprobably going to lose today.
Yeah, my bet is you're going tolose today.
If you walk in going, I'm goingto lose today.
Yeah, my bet is you're going tolose today.
If you walk in going, I'm goingto win today.
For these reasons, I'll putmoney on you.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Man, look at that.
You're making me want to jumpthrough the screen and give you
a hug.
Now go back.
You mentioned that I'll ask youthe same question.
Is it that I heard you say onJosh's podcast yes, what do you
see as the biggest opportunityout in the market today?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah.
So listen, you already coveredpart of it, but I'm going to
give you a slightly differentanswer.
So number one I truly believethis is the easiest time in
history to stand out like byfall, because most people and
when I say most, I'm not talkingsix out of 10 people.
I truly believe 99 out of ahundred people are asleep.
They are sleepwalking throughtheir days.
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Their idea of success is justmaking it through today.
If you are 1% more ambitiousthan that, you will stand out.
Now imagine if, every day, youput a little effort into that
ambition, you try to improveyourself a little bit every
single day, you will stand outso fast.
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As somebody who has owned morethan 25 companies, I can tell
you when I'm speaking to someonewho I'm going to hire I'm going
to hire, I'm going to promote,I'm going to give a raise to.
To me it's black and white.
It is really simple.
The conversation goes like thisWell, I've done the average of
what you asked me to do, so I'dlike money.
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Easy, no, thank you so much.
Have a good day.
Or hey, you told me to do this,this and this.
Not only did I do those things,but I did this, this and this,
and here's where I see myselfgoing over the next few years.
I'm like there's your money,easy peasy.
But now here's the other way Iwant to answer.
This question Right now has awhole other set of opportunities
(30:40):
for you.
In a downed economy, wherepeople are sure it's going to
get worse and they're probablyright 99.9% of people are living
in fear.
And what happens when peoplelive in fear?
They make really bad decisionsand they batten down the hatches
and they hide and theyhibernate.
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If you can just stay clear ofall the fear and try and have an
abundance mindset, now, it'snot just words.
This stuff takes time.
This stuff takes work.
I'm happy to work with you onit, and there's many different
ways you can build thatabundance mindset.
But if you can do that, you canchange the world, because 99%
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of everybody else is not doingthis.
You are going this way.
You will stand out.
Some of the greatest historysorry, some of the greatest
businesses in history, most ofthe greatest businesses in
history were started during theworst economic times, and I'll
(31:46):
tell you just real quick whythat is, because I don't know.
Yeah, but what the heck am Isupposed to do?
Bad times hey, remember we'renot doing fear talk.
We're going to talk abundance.
Here's why If you are a big,established company right now
and the world is tanking, it'sreally hard for those big
companies to turn.
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They're so set in their ways.
Companies to turn.
They're so set in their ways.
Now a new company comes duringthis very tough time.
They can make moves in thistough time to get far ahead, to
stand out.
You can do it.
Just start with the rightmindset.
It takes a match.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
You talked about reading books and that's one way
to experience this abundancemindset and, as you were saying
that, specifically, with thecompany, some of the greatest
companies today we know startedin the darkest of times.
Yes, I just finished readingthe Obstacle is the Way by Ryan
Holiday.
Love Ryan Holiday.
That is a book that I willrecommend to everyone, because
(32:52):
what I'm hearing you say thereis even the aren't really
obstacles.
They are.
Those are the qualifiers, thoseare the gifts just being thrown
right at you.
And if people, when people cansimply shift their vision a
little bit, which takes time andtraining and a lot of rewiring
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and a lot of programming in thebrain, which is available to
anybody, yes, is it fair to sayyou don't believe that bad times
exist?
Oh, ryan, this is really good.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
This is really good.
That's a tough way.
It's a tough question to answer.
The truth is, I believe at somepoint you will look at any time
in your life and say that wasnot a bad time.
I don't know if I want to be asbold as say bad times don't
exist, only because I'm worriedthat people who are still at
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level one are just going to nowshut us out.
At level one are just going tonow shut us out.
They'll go.
Ah, these guys are just.
They're such looney tunes.
What are you talking about?
If you knew what I'm goingthrough right now, you wouldn't
say bad days don't exist.
I would agree with what yourprinciple is, which is man, at
some point we're going to lookback at it.
Like, look at COVID.
Covid was such a horrific timeIn the beginning of COVID for
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sure the scariest, mostchallenging times in business
for me and for everyone else.
However, you'll talk to mostbusiness people who are still
around, who are doing well,saying COVID was kind of awesome
.
Like, with all due respect, Iwouldn't wish it again.
(34:32):
I wish all those people didn'tdie.
I wish all the mental healthproblems didn't happen.
So none of that.
But as far as for business goeswhere I was freaked out the
most.
It was phenomenal.
If we could just learn to seethat the obstacle is the way,
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and when an obstacle is in frontof us, to not go ah, this is so
scary and what am I going to do?
But we went.
Hey, this is an opportunity.
This is an opportunity to grow.
One of my favorite analogies isjust to break it down into our
school years.
How did you get into grade six?
Well, you had to go through thetests of grade five.
If you don't pass those tests,if you are just like no tests, I
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can't do it.
No, well, guess what you'redoing next year, still in grade
five, but if you can go, it'sokay.
I, these tests, thesechallenges are supposed to be in
front of me so I can get tograde six.
So when I see that challengecoming at me, I don't go.
Oh, no, no, I go.
Yes, awesome, I'm about to goto the next grade.
(35:36):
This is amazing.
And hey, if the challenge ishard enough, I might skip a
grade or two.
Awesome, and think if you havethat kind of attitude, not only
are you going to get through it,but you're going to get through
it with better ideas.
Not only are you going to getthrough it, but you're going to
get through it with better ideas.
You come up with way betterideas if you're this guy going.
(35:57):
Yeah, I can do this.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
I can do this versus please, no, perhaps a better way
, as you were saying that, I wasthinking through it, like how
would I answer that question?
And perhaps it's not that badseasons don't exist or bad times
don't exist, but life is fullof seasons good and not so good,
or perhaps great and difficultbut all seasons deliver.
(36:24):
The good times deliver plentyof great things and the rough
times also deliver, and maybenot immediately, but you'll be
able to see them later in thefuture.
And when I run, man, I wasthinking about you when I was
running this morning, like mydopamine hit in the morning,
especially being a marathonerand getting ready for Boston
(36:46):
here in 40 days, 39 days.
Boston here in 40 days, 39 days.
There's times where I just putmy arms out wide, like this,
marcus, and like man, I'mgrateful for this day.
But specifically, what I say is, man, I'm grateful for the good
(37:07):
times and I'm grateful for thetough times.
I'm grateful for the good timesto come and I'm grateful for the
tough times to come, becauseit's not that I wish for the
tough times to come, but Iunderstand that those tough
moments are eventually, if notimmediately, going to give me
just as much as those goodmoments, because it's the tough
moments that have you and I heretalking today today.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
This is so beautiful, Ryan.
You are on such a beautifulpath, brother, I'll put money on
you becoming somebodyabsolutely spectacular Not that
you aren't already and you aregoing to impact a lot of lives,
man, this is the mindset.
This is what we're talkingabout.
I want to add one more point,because it's something you and I
are kind of dancing around whenwe're talking about all these
tough times.
I think one of the words thatwe should really talk about here
is acceptance and I.
(37:53):
This is a big difference fromthe people who see something,
some sort of challenge in frontof us and they go the right way
or they go the wrong way, andit's acceptance.
So the people who go the rightway are the ones who go.
Yeah, this is a challengingtime, but it is what it is.
Let's find out a solution.
But 99 out of a hundred peoplego ah, this is too difficult of
(38:19):
a time, this isn't right, thisshouldn't be happening.
No, I can't accept this.
So this idea of acceptanceeverybody, it doesn't mean you
have to agree with it.
So this also absolutelypertains to the baggage that
you're carrying with your life.
Most people can't move on fromit because they don't accept it.
(38:40):
So, no matter what has happenedto you, you need to accept it
Again.
You don't have to agree with it, you don't have to go.
Oh yeah, it's so great that myparents divorced.
Oh yeah, it's so great thatthis trauma happened to me.
But if you can say, yeah, ithappened to me.
And now, what am I going to doabout it?
You are going to free yourselfto grow, to become the person
(39:03):
you're supposed to become.
So just accepting it, going.
This is where we're at.
This is the reality of thesituation.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Amen, brother, we're talking through things that are
in your book.
You're a newly minted author.
Play a bigger game.
Let's cover one of the sevenprinciples that are in the book.
What's the one that you know?
If, if, if folks only read thisone principle, and and and I
(39:34):
want you to read all seven folks, but if they, if they, just
skipped a one, which one wouldyou want them to see?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Oh man, that's.
That's really tough.
That is like having sevenchildren and being like you get
to save one.
Which one?
I think I'm going to reach forchoice.
I'm such a big believer inchoice, and choice changed my
life.
So the principle around choiceis this If you can learn to
recognize that absolutelyeverything that's happening in
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your life is your choice, thatcan change your world
dramatically.
Now, of course, you're rightaway.
The skeptics are like what areyou talking about?
I didn't choose to have thatcar accident.
I didn't choose to have thistrauma.
I didn't choose this or that.
(40:22):
Okay, if I'm right.
What if?
Just answer me that question.
What if I'm right?
And what if it was a choice?
How could you peel it back to achoice?
What would that look like?
So much of what we have goingon in our lives.
It's like, well, okay, myhealth is failing.
(40:42):
I guess 10 years ago I couldhave started eating healthier
and exercising.
Okay, there's one choice.
That's awesome.
And of course, my next questionwill be well, what would you
like to do for the next 10 yearsIf that was a choice that you
could have made?
What if it's not too late?
What if you made that choicetoday?
(41:04):
And now, what if you lookedinto every single aspect of your
life and said how could it betrue?
Here, what you're going to findis choice after choice after
choice that can changeeverything today and that really
excites me, and my life hasbeen putting this into practice.
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I am just a product of theseprinciples.
I am just a product of theseprinciples and how I live in
this.
Whenever I face anything I go.
What choice led me here?
Speaker 2 (41:42):
What choice can get me out of this?
You know, as I was listening toyou and getting ready and again
just going to compliment yourenergy and your radiance again,
because it's here Now that I getto experience it, live man, I
wish that a lot of people get toexperience this conversation
and pick up the book.
And on the principle of choice,I've said for a while now that
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you know how we choose to showup every day, and even I just
said it right there, but how weshow up every day.
Every day, we wake up Every day.
You wake up Every day thatsomeone listening wakes up.
You have a choice to make onhow you're going to show up.
I believe it's easy to wake up.
(42:28):
Let's say it's raining outsideor you had a flat tire, the dog
threw up, the kids are screaming.
You have a choice in thosemoments.
Okay, this non-ideal event isoccurring right now, but you can
still choose.
You know what.
I'm going to choose to come tothis conversation with Marcus
(42:48):
and be joyful, and I'm going tochoose to go to the office today
and smile and be happy, andthat's the conversation I
usually have with myself in themornings.
That, even if something.
Again going back to what wesaid good seasons, bad seasons.
There's days that things aren'tgoing so hot, but I still tell
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myself all right, ryan, you havea choice right now, before you
even go into the office howyou're going to show up for
people.
Talk through, talk through,talk through that a little bit
more man.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Oh, please, I love this, ryan.
That is the mindset right there.
Everybody rewind it back threeminutes to go over this again.
You have the choice every dayon how you show up to this world
.
Now, part of what work I doevery single day on myself and
the people that I spend my timewith, the people who I work with
, the people at PerformanceCoach, the people in my
(43:43):
mastermind I work on this factorevery day, and one of the
thoughts I want to put inpeople's heads is factor every
day.
And one of the thoughts I wantto put in people's heads is what
if you showed up every day asyour best self?
How much bigger of an impactwould you make on all the lives
all around?
Who would you be saving?
Who would you be changing justby showing up as your best self?
(44:05):
Now I want to tell you the nextlevel of thinking here, which
really excites me, because thisis the stuff I was learning as I
was growing up and I wasgrowing into this.
I was like, yeah, I want toshow up as my best self.
But, ryan, you and I havealready talked about oh man, but
there's so many things that aregoing to fight me every day
from showing up as my best self.
(44:26):
What if I could put in a wholebunch of habits that made it so
it wasn't even a choice anymore,like, let me pre-make the
choice so that I'm going to havean amazing day, and on the flip
side, what habits can I takeout of my life that made it more
likely that I was going to havecrappy stuff happen?
(44:46):
If you apply that principle,your world, it's inevitable.
It's inevitable what's going tohappen.
Success leaves clues.
One plus one equals two everysingle time.
If you do this consistently,you will get this result.
So I'm going to give you somereally quick ones.
(45:07):
So really quick, actionableitems.
Try them immediately.
Every night, before I go to bed,my next morning is already laid
out.
I know everything that's goingto happen in the morning, so
there's no choice.
When I wake up, my clothes formy cardio session are already
picked out, because you knowwhat.
When you wake up, what should Iput on today?
(45:27):
That becomes such a biggerdecision than it needs to be
Should I wear this or this?
And all of a sudden you're 15,20 minutes in.
But guess what happened inthose 15 to 20 minutes?
You also checked your phone.
Ah, crap.
Okay, give me a minute, I'mgonna.
Just, I got two emails, ah no,oh.
Social media, oh no, what anhour went by.
Now I can't even do my card.
(45:48):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, myno, no.
Clothes are already there.
My water bottles are alreadyready.
I am on my treadmill within sixminutes of waking up and I've
just made a couple of choicesand I've ordered some things.
It's going to take that down tofour minutes.
That's how serious I am aboutgetting on that treadmill.
On that treadmill, I am incardio mode, I'm getting blood
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flowing, I'm getting clarityhappening, I'm in prayer, I'm in
gratitude for all the amazingthings all around me.
And, one of the most importantthings I have not looked at I am
not letting my phone dictatethe kind of day I'm going to
have.
There is no good news on yourphone in the morning, so why are
we checking it first thing?
Before we're prepared, beforeyou've put on your armor, you've
(46:34):
already let some weapons stabyou.
Don't do that.
Make a commitment to say thisis how long it is before I'll
check my email, before I'llcheck social media, before I do
any of that stuff.
You have to make thatcommitment and you have to stay.
You have to say this is a nonnegotiable, and you do that
every day.
You have to make thatcommitment and you have to stay.
You have to say this is anon-negotiable, and you do that
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every day.
You won't believe how quicklyyou transform.
Now, because I've got my cardioin, because I've had my time
and gratitude, my time in prayer, I am so focused and ready for
what comes at me.
So now, when I check my phone,I'm ready, I will be dictating
the day.
I have not the phone.
What a difference.
Look at that.
That was less than 30 minutes,less than 30 minutes into the
(47:17):
day, and I am prepared to have away better day than what I
could have had.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Look at that.
Winning today started yesterday.
Yes, and for people that arelistening right now, if you want
to win tomorrow, it startstoday, tonight, this morning,
right now, right in this instant.
The last thing I do every daytwo things.
Before I leave the office, Ialways print my calendar for the
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next day and then I write downwhat are the three things that
I'm going to do tomorrow.
So when I get in the officetomorrow, I'm not scratching my
head because here's the thing,here's the principle that I have
for life my head because here'sthe thing.
Here's the principle that Ihave for life, personal and
professional Eliminate guesswork.
How do you eliminate guesswork?
Write down what you want, Builda plan, Lay out your clothes
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the night before, just like yousaid.
I come downstairs every day.
The first thing I see is thatgoal board.
There's never a what does 2024success look like?
It's right there and it's themost simple thing and everything
you said, Marcus.
Yes, it requires a choice, butit is simple.
It requires no calculations,nothing.
(48:28):
We have choice.
One more principle.
One more principle.
Pick one more.
Pick one more, Because I wantpeople to actually get the book
and dissect all seven of themthemselves.
But if we get a little sneakpeek of one more principle.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
I love it.
You know what I'm going tochoose one that ties into choice
, and it ties into everythingthat we've been talking about.
It's integrity.
Integrity is a word I lovetalking about it.
It's almost an old-fashionedword now because people don't
use it enough.
Integrity has so many meanings,but the one I want to focus on
is are you being the person thatyou want to be?
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Are you being the person thatyou're supposed to be?
Are you being your authenticyou and I mean all the way
authentic?
And part of what integritymeans is there are some
conditions, there are some rulesthat you need to start
reapplying to your life.
We've allowed our integrity toslide in ways that we had no
idea we were doing it.
(49:23):
So I'll tell you one of thefirst ones.
Every single day where peoplebreak their integrity and it
changes the course of their dayand it's usually about three
seconds into waking up they hitthe snoo their day, and it's
usually about three seconds intowaking up they hit the snooze
button.
The snooze button is the firstchance to prove that you're a
person of integrity.
By hitting that snooze button,you've broken the first
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agreement that you made for theday you said you were going to
wake up at this time and youdidn't.
You said, ah, you know what.
All agreements are negotiable.
Here's what happens the rest ofthe day.
You're subconscious all day.
When you say, hey, I said I wasgoing to eat healthy today,
your subconscious goes yeah,yeah, yeah.
But remember, everything's upfor negotiation.
(50:06):
Remember the snooze button thismorning.
It's not a big deal.
Oh, we're going to go to thegym.
There's so much going on.
Do we have to go to the gym?
There's so much going on.
Do we have to go to the gym?
You've already slid.
Now, I'm not saying this toguilt you.
Please people hear this.
As a man who loves so much, Ilove you so much.
I don't care if I don't knowyou.
I have so much love and so muchmercy for this human condition.
(50:30):
This is not coming from a placeof.
This is why I think you're abad person.
Furthest thing from it.
This is actually the reason Ilove you.
I love you because you arefacing the same decisions
everyone else is making and,unfortunately, by these issues
that we just let slide everysingle day, and it and it has
molded us into the people wedon't want to be.
(50:52):
So all I'm trying to do is drawyour attention to it to go.
What if, tomorrow, you saidhere's what time I'm trying to
do is draw your attention to itto go.
What if, tomorrow, you saidhere's what time I'm going to
wake up.
And then you wake up.
What's so beautiful about that?
You now have this the rest ofthe day to look at.
To go, hey, remember thatcontract I made this morning?
I did it.
I said I'd wake up.
Then my yes means yes, my nomeans no.
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I am a person of integrity.
There's my proof.
And all day you can look atthat.
And by the way, just in casethat wasn't enough information
for you, on the snooze buttonthe snooze button is actually
called the dream killer for areason.
It ruins your sleep so bad.
It disrupts your REM cycles.
It disrupts your sleep cycles.
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It screws you up.
So do not think you're doingyourself a favor.
You're not.
It feels good only in the idea.
Like I have control over this,I'll take 10 more minutes of
sleep.
Take the control the nightbefore.
Set the alarm for when you wantto set it.
For Now, be in control of yourintegrity.
That is going to make for aspecial day.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
And that's powerful.
And if we go back to thescoreboard we talked about,
there's an easy way to put a winon the scoreboard within not
even a minute, not even oneminute.
You can start racking up thatscoreboard and then you put on
the clothes that you laid outthe night before Now we're up
two to zero.
(52:19):
You make the bed Now we're upthree to zero.
You do your workout we're upfour to zero.
It's like there's so manylittle things we can do every
day that then let's saysomething doesn't go our way
that day, or maybe even a coupleof things.
I highly doubt that that.
Let's just say you build in 10to 15 small wins and you go for
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your walk.
Man, if the score is like thebad things have to go against a
10-0, 10 to zero man, I highlydoubt that you're going to lose
many days.
Oh man Will, you guys listen tothe brilliance of what.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
Ryan is talking about .
This is how successful peopletalk and think, but most of us
overlook.
Uh, it wasn't that big of adeal.
I just did this.
I just it is a big deal.
Put it on the scoreboardbecause you are 10 and 0, 15 and
0 before you even started yourday.
And, yeah, one bad thing, whocares?
It's 15 to one.
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I'm killing this day.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
So look at that.
Here's a real live example,folks, that Marcus and I have
just been racking up wins inthis conversation.
I think the score might be 100to zero and your internet went
out.
Here you are.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
You're back again, Dude we're up 100 to one.
Doesn't even phase us.
Here you are.
You're back again, dude, we'reup a hundred to one.
Doesn't even phase us, Doesn'teven phase it.
I love it, brother, Dude, that,that idea of keeping that
scoreboard.
That is life-changing stuff.
So if you guys get nothing elsefrom this today, take that,
keep a scoreboard, keep itrunning all day long and just
make sure you feed those wins.
(53:52):
You can keep feeding it, eventhe little stuff.
And if you feel like you'reslipping behind in the score,
just do something.
That's a win.
Go for a little walk and go.
You know what?
I took some time to myself.
Say some gratitude thoughts fortwo minutes.
There's a win.
Eat something healthy.
There's a win.
Easy to get your score padded.
You're going to win.
(54:12):
If you do those things everysingle day.
Think about how that compounds.
How do you think that is notgoing to turn into a successful
life?
Speaker 2 (54:21):
100%, amen, amen, brother.
Now I want to go back on onething we talked about what would
it be like if you showed up asyour best self, your most
authentic self, every day?
Some people may be questioningI don't know what my best self?
What does it mean?
What does it mean to be my bestself?
(54:41):
I don't know what that lookslike.
What type of inventory orquestions should people ask
themselves to arrive at thatself-discovery?
You know what?
All right, this is the bestMarcus, this is the best Ryan.
How do we clearly identify whatthat really means showing up as
(55:03):
our best selves?
Speaker 1 (55:04):
What a brilliant question, legit brother you are.
You're really good at what youdo, man.
I I'm honored to be on thereceiving end of these questions
.
This is a great questionbecause I think there's tons of
people who are like I don'tnecessarily know, I wouldn't say
I'm my most authentic self.
How do I figure that out?
Absolutely, it's a process.
I will give you a few questionsto start you off, but just
(55:27):
please know that it's not justlike two questions, you answer
them and boom, oh, I don't feelit.
Therefore, I'm going to stop.
You have to look at it as likea journey and like any other
journey in life.
If you want to start gettinghealthy and you're like okay, so
I'm going to go work out.
You do one workout.
Did you change your body?
Did you change your healthradically?
No, it's not about one workout,but it starts with one.
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So a couple of key questions toask.
Number one to find out yourauthentic self.
Start recognizing that theanswers are inside of you.
And here's what I mean.
What are the things in yourlife that really light you up,
like really get you excited?
Like if someone were to pay meto do that all day, I would be
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the happiest human on the planet.
Okay, that's who you weredesigned to be.
Now there might be multipleanswers or there might not be
one answer that you're like.
I don't think there's one thingthat's okay.
Again, this is a process.
Try and write down 10 thingsthat even interest you a little
bit and then try and filter thatdown.
Now that I've written down 10,actually you know what these bit
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.
And then try and filter thatdown Now that I've written down
10, actually, you know whatthese three really get me
excited.
Awesome, see how you'restarting to figure out who you
are authentically.
Now, on the flip side, anothergreat question to ask it's a
negative question what thingsreally piss you off?
And I don't mean like, well,when someone cuts me off in
traffic, no, no, no, I mean thatpiss you off to the core.
It's like an injustice.
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When people don't recycle, itpisses me off.
When people abuse children infront of me, it pisses me off.
That's the kind of thing thatI'm talking about.
Again, that is unique to you.
Of course, there's universalthings that upset us all, but
when something you might go ohman, sex trafficking to my, to
my core, it upsets me so much.
Yeah, sex trafficking, I thinkeverybody would agree, is bad.
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But some people are like, yeah,it's bad, but I'm not going to
do anything about it.
No-transcript.
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As a human race is, we seethings that piss us off.
We see things that light us up,but I'm going to just spend a
couple more hours in front ofNetflix before I think about
doing anything else.
So take those actions.
Take some action on First,write it down and then start to
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explore it.
Do something about it.
Listen to a podcast on thesubject.
Spend some time with a smallgroup who also feels that way.
There's so many chat rooms aboutthis stuff.
You watch how quickly you startto develop a different sense of
who you are and you go.
I'm actually feeling moreenergy.
Yeah, you will, because themore you walk into your
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authentic self, the more energyyou have, because this is who
you're supposed to be.
It feels right, it feelsaligned, and the more in
alignment you are, the moreopportunities are going to come
to you.
Why?
Because you're going to attractthe right people.
You're going to repel the wrongpeople.
It's wild how we put off thisenergy and I'm not just talking
about energy like oh yeah, youknow, the earth is going to blah
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, blah, no, no, no, I do believein this stuff.
It's really easy.
If I love working out, oh, Ilove it so much.
Who do you think is attractedto me?
Other people who like workingout or the people who hate
working out?
Of course it's the people wholike working out.
And all of a sudden, now we'regetting around each other.
And guess what happens when youput two of us together?
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Ooh, the energy gets evencrazier.
But we're not doing thatbecause we're avoiding being our
authentic selves.
We're avoiding being the personwho this planet needs us to be.
Everything feels like it's anuphill battle.
Everything feels uncomfortable,and I love the way that that's
designed.
That discomfort should piss youoff enough to make you get up
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and do something about it rightnow.
Speaker 2 (59:51):
Right now.
Amen, I love that you mentionedthat the answers are already
inside of you, that you have theanswers.
We have the answers, marcus.
Our conversation embodies this.
But to define it now you have acommunity play a bigger game.
Title of the book play a biggergame.
(01:00:12):
If you had to define, what doesit mean to play a bigger game?
Or what does someone that playsa big game in life look like?
Just to paint a picture aroundit that's really beautiful
brother how would you do that?
Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
beautiful lead up.
By the way.
Uh, you know, I think it's kindof the.
The easiest way for me to sayit is it's the opposite of what
most people are doing.
Most people are playing a verycontent small game.
It's comfortable.
I get food delivered right tomy couch, I spend a lot of time
on the couch and again, peopleplease, I'm not blasting anybody
(01:00:46):
, I'm not condemning anybody,but I am calling it like I see
it and if you feel convicted bywhat I'm saying, that's you,
your authentic you is going.
He's talking to us.
Let's listen up.
How do we play this bigger game?
It's about just taking action sothat you can do the things that
you are designed to do and thatyou want to do, that want, that
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need that you have.
That's how you were designed.
You don't need to fight it,just do something about it.
When you take action, it feelsso good.
You're taking control.
When you don't take control,you're giving control to others,
and there are a billioncompanies right now who are
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happy to take your control.
They're happy to take the keysto your cuffs and lock you up
for life.
I'm the person going.
I want to set you free.
I want you to become theauthentic you.
Not only are you going toexperience success in every area
of your life, but you're goingto enjoy your life more.
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You're going to experience morefulfillment, more joy, more
love.
Everything about your life willget better.
There is no downside to this.
And when you say, well, is itthat easy?
Isn't it going to be work?
It's going to take work andit's going to take effort.
But you know what else takeswork and effort.
Being complacent, being on thatcouch takes way more work and
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effort than people realize.
Where.
How much are you going to thedoctors?
How many medications are youhaving to take?
How much pain and discomfort doyou experience every day from
the foods you eat, from the wayyour body is not working like
you know it should be working?
That is a huge cost that I amnot willing to pay.
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I will put in the work ahead oftime so that I get all the
benefits of what this beautiful,amazing human body can do and
what this earth has been such abeautiful conversation and, god,
if people aren't jumping out oftheir seats and jolting to go
(01:03:01):
take action, I'm not sure whatelse they'd want to do.
Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
After listening to this and that's credit to you,
brother.
And before we hit our rapidfire session, which is the
customary closing, what are allthe ways that we can keep up
with you, experience you, yourcommunities?
What do you have going on thatwe can tap into, in addition to
the book that's out now?
(01:03:25):
Oh, thank you, brother.
Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
First of all, you have done a spectacular job on
this, man.
It has been an honor spendingthis time with you.
If you want to come spend timewith me, if you want me in your
corner, if you want to plug intothis energy and this kind of
mindset mumbo jumbo more often.
I have an amazing mastermindthat I love spending time.
It's at play a bigger gamecomplay a bigger gamecom, and I
(01:03:53):
have different masterminds fordifferent levels of human being
who want to play differentlevels of game.
Uh, but you can also alwaysfind me on social media at
Marcus Collius.
Instagram is the best place toreach out to me.
I would love a DM from you.
If you found me here, please DMme like it means so much to me.
If you reach out to me, I wouldlove to cheer you on in life.
(01:04:15):
So much to me.
If you reach out to me, I wouldlove to cheer you on in life.
You're going to get just alittle bit of this at your
disposal.
And, ryan, man, I hope we'vestarted something real here.
Man, I think you're just anamazing dude.
I think you're going to doincredible things in this world
not that you aren't already and,man, I've been blessed with our
time together.
Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Man.
Thank you so much, brother.
That means the world to me.
Now here's the customaryclosing.
It's one gem, one step, onebook let's go.
And the way this works is youand I are together, we're going
to lunch on some cool rooftopand we're going up an elevator
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and someone gets on each floorand they ask a question.
The amount of time you have toanswer the question is the
amount of time it takes to go upone elevator floor, all right.
So the first person gets on theelevator and they recognize you
.
They've, they've read, play abigger game or they're part of
the community, they listen tothe podcast.
They say Marcus, what's one gemthat you live your life by,
(01:05:19):
whether it be a quote or amantra that I can put in my back
pocket to live my life by Bemore grateful today.
Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Be so grateful for absolutely anything and
everything that happens.
Don't just say thank you.
Let it come from here.
I am so grateful for this.
This has been very special.
If you do that, it will changeeverything else in your life,
and the more you do it, thewilder the changes.
Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
I love that Next person gets on.
Marcus, what's one step that Ican take today to start playing
a bigger game in life?
Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
Go today and spend some time in the woods.
Go for a 30 minute walk in thewoods, out where it's quiet, out
where you can get some goodfresh air, out where you can be
alone with your thoughts.
Be in gratitude.
Make a couple of decisions ofwhat you are going to do from
now on to play a bigger game inlife.
Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Last one, Marcus.
What's one book in addition toyours that I can read to enhance
my mindset?
Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Atomic Habits, james Clear.
It's going to teach you how toput habits into your life.
Why to put them into your lifeand do it now.
Take action.
One of the best books there is.
I love it.
I read it every single year.
It will change your life.
Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
I call that book like one of the personal development
Bibles that are out there.
It's one of the mosttransformative books that anyone
can read and pick up.
And, man, marcus, this has beensuch a blast.
And, folks, if you want to playa bigger game in not just 2024,
(01:07:04):
but in life, then keep up withMarcus, grab the book and take
action on these simple mindsetshifts, these simple frameworks,
and you are not only going toplay a bigger game, but you are
going to win today.
(01:07:25):
Thanks so much for tuning in.
But my number one tip in life is to start taking
action today.
Don't wait for tomorrow.
The opportunities of todaymight be gone tomorrow.
The opportunities today are theopportunities that you're
supposed to step into, and thereis so much you will learn once
you start taking action.
I can't more highly recommendyou just start putting one foot
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in front of the other, one ofthe other.
One of the things I teachpeople constantly, especially
entrepreneurs, is that I willlearn 90% of what I need to know
on the path.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Do hard things.
Help one person, be good and dogood, live a life of discipline
, and you will always win.
You have all the tools that youneed to succeed.
Welcome to win today.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
My name is Ryan Cass and I amyour host.
(00:55):
My purpose in this world is tohelp push people further and
harder than they believepossible and become unshakable
in what matters most to them intheir lives.
Every week, you're going tolearn from either myself or a
renowned expert in their field,and we're going to unveil pieces
of our playbook to help you wintoday.
Please, if you love this show,subscribe and share it with
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somebody that will benefit fromit.
Let's dig in.
When I serve, when I give, whenI support in silence, when I
serve, when I give, when Isupport in silence, I am filled
with something beautiful.
I feel as though I am feedingmy character and soul.
Not only do others receive thebenefits of my service, but I,
too, receive so much.
(01:36):
Once again, I receive theincredible feeling you get when
you know you are doing what youhave been sent here to do the
fulfillment of your true purposefor being.
There are a few feelings in ourlives that can match this.
This is a feeling worth chasingAlways.
That's from Play A Bigger GameSeven universal principles to
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experience true fulfillment andwin at life, and I'm bringing
this conversation back with mygood friend and mentor, marcus
Collius.
Marcus is a massive entrepreneurin Canada, founded Magnum
(02:21):
Pharmaceuticals and released hisbook Play a Bigger Game in 2024
, which has really broken downwhat winning is to very simple
concepts.
And, as we're on this new kickwith winning, is, I figured, who
better to bring back than aconversation with Marcus, and
(02:44):
perhaps this is also my call toaction to have a refreshed
conversation with him here onthe podcast.
He truly embodies what it meansto be present with people and
serve them in a genuine way,which you're about to find out.
He brings the energy, thespirit, the fire that lights
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people up, and that's ultimatelyone of the reasons why I chose
to work with him, and he hasmade a significant impact in my
life.
So, as we're in the back halfof 2025, there's still plenty of
time to completely rewrite orrefine your story.
Then let's look at how we canplay a bigger game and continue
(03:31):
to win.
Let's go when I think aboutsomebody who truly serves as the
epitome of energy and gratitudeand service to this world.
It's our guest that we havewith us here today, marcus
Collius.
He's an incredible human being,someone who has impacted over
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10 million lives, has helpedpeople lose over 3 million
pounds, serial entrepreneur,founder of Magnum
Pharmaceuticals and newly mintedauthor of his book Seven
Universal Principles toExperience Real Fulfillment and
Win in Life.
(04:12):
That is play a bigger game andwe're going to learn all about
that and all about the amazingthings that Marcus does to help
you live your best life, marcus,welcome to the show, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think we're going to have an amazing conversation.
I know we're going to impactsome lives today.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We absolutely are.
My favorite thing to understandabout high performers is the
genesis of why they do what theydo.
But first a simple search onGoogle.
We search your name, we can seethe Guinness World Record and a
lot of really cool things.
But I have a sense that ifsomeone asked you who you are,
(04:52):
you would identify yourself bywhat you do to help others, and
that's really what lights you up.
What is it that you would saymakes you human just like the
rest of us?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I love that, brother, thank you.
I really appreciate what you'resaying.
Like the rest of us, I lovethat, brother, thank you, and I
really appreciate what you'resaying because it's the truth.
What lights me up is not oh,here's what I got to do in my
life.
Here's the accomplishments.
Man, when people read my resume, I'm always like holy smokes,
are they talking about me?
That's wild.
But what really gets me excitedis helping others achieve.
(05:24):
Helping others achieve theirgoals, lifting them up, aha
moments, just something thatbroke through to somebody.
So what really makes me humanis not only how much I want to
help humanity, but where I camefrom.
I think my story is the perfectstory of if this guy can do it
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story is the perfect story of ifthis guy can do it, anybody can
do it.
In my opinion, in my first 15years there was nothing special
about me.
I didn't have a leg up in anyway.
We were so poor.
We were so poor financially,spiritually.
Love just broke broken everyway, and the fact that I could
have taken that life and turnedit into what it is today, it's
proof that absolutely anybodycan do anything they choose to.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's beautiful and what you and I share in common.
As we were speaking off cameraand you just mentioned it here
that your first 15 years if welooked at that, it here, that
your first 15 years if we lookedat that, then we may not have
predicted that you'd be whereyou're at today.
And I believe that one of themost beautiful things about high
achievers it's almost for mostof them.
(06:35):
It's almost as if the troublingtimes is like a prerequisite to
becoming a high achiever,because I've not met a single
one that hasn't had somethingvery deep that has driven them.
In those early years and I'llcall them the formative years
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did you have this vision ofbecoming who you are today, or
did it evolve over time?
I remember growing up in thehousehold that I did, where
there was the systemic trend ofalcoholism.
I would always spend timeenvisioning like, all right,
what am I going to make my life?
(07:17):
And I made a promise to myselfearly on that I'm not going to
carry on this trend, and I hadthis vision of helping people
and doing something in thebusiness world, but I couldn't
have painted this exact picturethat exists today.
So what did that look like foryou?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Brother, you brought up some beautiful things.
Number one the answer is no.
I had no clue what it was goingto look like.
I had no clue what it was goingto look like.
All that I cared about was justlike you not being here where I
was anymore.
Just, I have to break the curse, All the family curses, all the
systemic garbage that hasplagued the Collius name.
(07:58):
I just needed to break it,that's all I knew, that's all I
cared about, and so that was big.
The other piece that you broughtup that I just want to talk
about, that I just I love,actually, you know what.
I think that one's going tocome up naturally again in a
minute, so I'm going to leavethat one.
But, brother, what I, what Ilove, that you and I talked
(08:19):
about off camera, was when yousaid and this is one of my
favorite lines that Tony Robbinsalways talks about that life is
not happening to you, it'shappening for you and the people
who achieve great things inthis world.
It seems like they're the oneswho just figured that out and
not just heard it but reallyunderstood it, and so I know
(08:41):
this is happening for you and ithappened for me.
So I want to.
I want to make sure anybodylistening hears this right now.
We have so many, so muchgarbage, so much baggage in our
past and we go, marcus.
This is the reason why I won'tsucceed.
This is the reason why howcould I?
And this is what my friend EdMilet always says.
(09:02):
You know, it's the stuff thatwe think that disqualifies us is
actually the stuff thatqualifies us.
Yes, and it's really what you'retalking about.
This stuff didn't happen to me.
It happened for me.
We grew up so poor so that Iwould learn work ethic, so that
I would have something on.
You know, you want to call it achip on the shoulder.
(09:22):
I'm fine with that.
It was a chip on my shoulderthat said I will not be this
poor.
I will not grow up with thiskind of pain and pass that onto
my kids.
I will do what it takes.
Being in a house where therewasn't enough love in the house
that changed me into a man.
That's like when I have my ownhouse, when I have children,
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they are going to receive somuch love.
My wife is going to receive toomuch love.
That's the kind of man Idecided I was going to be when I
was a child.
Now, had I not gone throughthat stuff, I can confidently
say I would not be anything likethe man I am today.
So for anyone who hasn't turnedthat corner yet, I just want to
encourage you today.
What if?
Just ask this question, what ifthat stuff you think is all
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your baggage, your garbage, thestuff that disqualifies you?
What if it was the biggest giftyou've ever received?
Just try to answer that.
Try to answer how could that betrue?
How could it be a gift?
And don't just get stuck withno, there's no way, there's no
way.
Well, if you're going to saythere's no way, then you're
right, there's no way, right.
But in any situation you cansay well, because of a divorce,
(10:35):
I figured out what love was andI made a decision I won't get
divorced.
I will do everything I have todo, become who I have to become,
to not have divorce.
There's a million ways you canfind the answer to that and, hey
, I'd love to help you with that.
So reach out to me, let me helpyou.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You're living up to what I said at the beginning.
Just the epitome of energy, andI'm getting this, this huge
dopamine hit right now Like ifwe could have these
conversations all day, every day, or I feel like we could.
We could go for hours right now, and I also share being a huge
fan of Ed Milet and I love whatyou said.
(11:14):
The things that you believedisqualify you are the things
that actually qualify you.
When I go speak, especially tostudents, and I'll occasionally
take a poll how many of you havecome from a broken household or
in a household right now thatthere's something difficult
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going on, some form of adversity, and a lot of hands go up?
Because right around that age,as you and I know, right around
that 15-ish teenage years can bethe times where you're looking
at that situation as the worst.
And I tell them, each of youhave a gift that you have no
(11:54):
idea how much this can serve youright now if you simply start
looking at it as a gift yes, itas a gift, and when you flip the
script on any sort of adversityin life, you will always,
always have a gift.
You talked in a recent podcastjust on Ed Milet for a minute
(12:27):
meeting the man, the myth, thelegend, interacting with, with
him.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
What's that been like ?
Uh, so I I think we're talkingabout when I met tony robbins.
So tony robbins, I mean there's, there's the king of the castle
.
I mean, with all due respect toed, ed's my boy.
I love ed.
Even ed points to tony as theman and you know what?
I would argue that the next guyon the list, that's Ed and Tony
is going to run out his time.
(12:50):
He's moving past a point wherehe's ready to pass that torch
soon and Ed's going to be theguy Tony.
I've spent the last year and ahalf.
I've traveled with Tony.
I've got to spend so manyamazing hours with Tony.
But Tony actually startedchanging my life 30 years ago.
I came across Tony's cassettes30 years ago and he put me on a
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better path.
And he is the guy who talks likeyou and I are talking, which is
whatever you're going throughright now.
What if you get to see it as agift?
How could you reframe itdifferently?
How can you use it as yoursuperpower?
And that's truly what it is.
You know this idea.
By the way, everybody who'shearing this and who isn't quite
grasping you know this idea ofwhat I think disqualifies me.
(13:36):
It's not just the stuff that'shappened to you, it's who you
are.
You fill in this blank withlike, yeah, but I'm not pretty
enough, I'm not skinny enough,I'm not talkative enough, I'm
not extroverted enough.
You fill in all these things.
The argument is and I fullybelieve this 100% with all of my
heart there is only one of you.
(13:57):
You've been made exactly howyou're supposed to be made.
How quiet you are, how tall youare, all of those things.
Now should you become a betterversion of yourself?
Absolutely.
However, the stuff that you wantto hide away from the world,
that you don't want to showcase,is usually the stuff that makes
you unique and special and thatthe world needs you to step
(14:22):
into that, because, whateverthat is well, yeah, but, marcus,
I had a problem with drugs, Ihad a problem with alcohol, I
had a problem with pornography.
Well, guess what?
There are literally millions,on millions, on millions of
other people who are goingthrough the same thing, who you
might only be one step ahead ofthem and they could learn so
much from you, or you're 10steps ahead of them and you
(14:45):
could radically change theirlife.
But if you're going to hideaway and go.
Well, no, not this, though.
This is too embarrassing.
This is what disqualifies me.
You're missing the chance toserve so many people and change
so many lives.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I love that you brought up Tony Robbins and
corrected me on that.
I thought that I had heard on apod that you were up, Tony
Robbins, and corrected me onthat.
I thought that I had heard on apod that you were maybe going
to meet Ed Milet.
But yes, it is out there thatyou are a disciple of Mr Robbins
and I love him and the goalboards you're looking at right
behind me.
When I decided to make the shiftin my life and again carry on
(15:22):
that promise that I'm not goingto be the next one, I started
researching people like Tony andI read about everything I could
about Tony.
I was like what is it thatmakes this guy so successful?
What's the secret sauce?
Is it anything complex?
And then I discovered, oh well,he writes his goals down and
(15:42):
makes things clear.
I was like, okay, well, if Tonydoes that, let me give it a
shot.
And I would say that, yeah, man,Marcus, you've, you've, you've,
(16:09):
you've touched 10 million lives.
And, man, I just maybe, maybe,if I wait a little bit longer,
then I can launch that thing andand launch, and then I'll
impact X amount of lives.
And making an impact in thisworld really starts with just
helping one person, we neverreally know the impact we're
(16:29):
going to have.
You've met Tony Robbins?
I haven't, but Tony Robbins hasimpacted my life.
Talk through the power ofimpacting just one life, Because
I think so many people stopthemselves thinking I need to
wait until I can help the massesbefore I do anything.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, that is truly human psychology.
Right now, let me become a.
I can't keep working on me fora long time before I step
outside.
But you're so right.
You impact one person and youdon't know who that's supposed
to be.
So you got to go outside.
You got to.
That person's going to be drawnto you who you are today, and
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that one life that you impactcan have a ripple effect that
you could never know.
You could never know how manylives that person could change.
You could never know how manylives that person could change
and you should still feelchallenged to become the best
version of yourself.
But my number one tip in life isto start taking action today.
Don't wait for tomorrow.
(17:35):
The opportunities of todaymight be gone tomorrow.
The opportunities today are theopportunities that you're
supposed to step into, and thereis so much you will learn once
you start taking action.
I can't more highly recommendyou just start putting one foot
in front of the other.
One of the things I teach peopleconstantly, especially
(17:57):
entrepreneurs, is that I willlearn 90% of what I need to know
on the path.
That means at most, I can learn10% before I start.
So I have to start walking andyou won't believe how quickly
you're going to go.
Oh my goodness, this is not theright path.
I'm just going to.
I got to deviate, but youwouldn't know it until you start
(18:19):
moving.
Like any path, you start goingdown, and you're not going down
the wide road.
You're going into the bush andyou hack through some of the
bush and all of a sudden you'relike, wow, this is not where I
wanted to be going.
You hack through another partand you're like, oh man, look at
the gold mine that's behindthis one.
And you start moving forward onthat and the fact that you're
taking action will fill you upin ways that only action can
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fill you up.
That growth this is part of thelife journey that is so critical
that not enough people aretalking about.
It's the growth that Iexperience every day that gives
me so much energy, that gives meso much fulfillment, allows me
to make impact on so manypeople's lives, because people
just see me and they're likethis guy is changing, this guy's
doing stuff.
(19:05):
It's not because I dounbelievable things every single
day I wish that was the caseand I'm sure one day maybe it
will be but the fact that I justchange a little bit 1% every
single day.
That's what people take noticeof.
So make your move, take someaction today.
Become a 1% better version ofwho you were yesterday.
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That is going to add up sodramatically and in a year you
will be a different human being.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Absolutely.
This makes me think of.
I interviewed the founder andCEO of Spartan, joe DeSena, and
one thing that he said thatreally stood out is you know,
the antiquated approach of readyaim fire.
Where that originated was backin the old war days where you
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had to load the musket withblack powder and you really had
to think through before takingyour shot because we didn't have
these weapons that we couldreload and not to make this a
discussion about war, but theapproach we say ready aim fire,
joe said no, no, no, no Fireready aim.
(20:17):
Because we live in a worldtoday, especially with the
technology that we have at ourfingertips, we could take a
thousand bad shots.
Yes, so good and go reload, andgo do the next one and keep
going, because eventually you'regoing to hit that target.
Now I believe there is some,some prep work.
You don't want to go intoanything totally blind, but
(20:39):
picking up, picking a bit ofwhat you said there, marcus,
that you focus on growth everyday, and what I heard is you
incorporate intentional growthinto your.
I'm curious as to what thatlooks like.
How do you manufacture growthinto your day-to-day?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Brilliant question.
So in many ways, let's startwith habits.
You have to put habits intoyour life.
You have to make this stuffpart of your everyday.
If it's not a habit, you'regoing to go weeks and you're
going to go oh shoot, I haven'tdone anything for growth lately.
It's such a key part of my lifeand it is a critical part of
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success.
Any successful person you comeacross, this is the probably one
of the number one things you'regoing to find that they haven't
caught is we create habits andand we dump bad habits that are
going to hold us back.
So for me personally, there's afew things that I'm going to
grow every single day for therest of my life.
One is in my health.
(21:40):
So what do I have to do toimprove my health every single
day?
Well, I got to get someexercise and, by the way, for
anybody who's like, this is theonly type of exercise.
Let me help you Turn thatperson off.
Don't listen to that personever again.
They're just trying to get yourattention.
On social media, there are abillion ways to get your
exercise in.
Yeah, some are going to be morebeneficial than others, but
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what's most important is thatyou get some exercise in, get
your body moving.
We are designed to move.
All the bad stuff in life comesfrom us being sedentary.
So get moving every single day.
So I get my workouts in Plus.
What am I consuming?
What data am I putting into mymouth?
I look at food as data.
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What is it telling my body?
What is it telling my mind?
The food that I consume?
I'm telling my body and mindI'm freaking.
Michael Jordan, you better beready to dominate this world.
I need to show up as a 10 outof 10 every day or I'm missing
opportunities to impact life.
So when I eat, I'm eating sothat my body's going to be at
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its best, my mind's going to beat its best, my digestion, my
energy is going to be at itsbest.
My mind's going to be at itsbest.
My digestion, my energy allthese things are critical.
And then the most simple way tomanufacture it start listening
to more podcasts, start readingmore books and if you don't like
reading, I know there's so manypeople that are reading.
(23:08):
Audible books are awesome, andif you are on Amazon Prime, you
get a free book every singlemonth.
Like there's no excuses here.
People, if you have 20 minutesa day in the car, you can be
listening to a book.
You will read a book every weekto two weeks.
That's massive, as opposed tojust listening to music or talk
radio or other garbage thatdoesn't benefit you.
(23:28):
It's just entertainment value,which I get.
There's a point, hey, you needsome entertainment value, but my
quickest argument would be oh,you really need that one.
Just out of curiosity, how muchNetflix do you consume every
day?
I don't think anybody needs sixhours of entertainment value
every day.
So you can drop 20 minutes.
(23:48):
Give me 20 minutes of a bookand now you're going to start to
change your life.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I listened to you on a podcast recently with Josh
Cadillac and he asked you aninteresting question about what
do you believe is the biggestopportunity in the market right
now, and your response was rightalong those lines that it is
fairly easy to stand out in theworld today because the majority
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of people are consumingnon-value added information.
And even if you commit to 20minutes, as you said, of
consuming valuable information,whether it's an audible book or
a podcast, and doing that everyday or almost every day, you're
going to set yourself so farahead of the majority of the
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pack, and it's not rocketscience.
And here's what I want to knowis you said you need to show up
as a 10 out of 10 every day, andI love that.
Now said you need to show up asa 10 out of 10 every day, and I
love that.
Now you and I are humans.
I'd be willing to bet there'sdays where, internally, you feel
like a two out of 10, maybe athree, maybe a one out of 10,
(25:05):
maybe a zero out of 10.
But I also am willing to betthat that doesn't matter because
you're going to push past that.
So, on the days that you feellike a two, but the standard is
a 10,.
What do you do to?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
bridge that gap?
Oh, fantastic question and Iwant to come back to the
opportunity thing in a moment.
But this idea of not feelingperfect every day yeah, nobody's
going to feel perfect every day, so make sure you listen to
that everybody.
(25:36):
This is not about no, no, no,now it's 10 out of 10 every day.
No, it doesn't work like that.
We're human.
Stuff happens.
But you know what's wild Out of365 days a year, if you were to
have 50 crummy days, 50 dayswhere you didn't show up at your
best, do you know what thatwould look like on a scorecard?
You'd still have an A.
That's 50 days.
So you can give yourself somegrace.
(25:57):
Now, I'm not saying I takethose 50 days off.
Some of those days I givemyself the grace to go.
You know what?
I am going to rest todaybecause clearly my body needs
some rest.
But more often than not, if I'mwaking up and I'm not feeling my
best, then I'm just a littlebit off.
So, if I'm being honest withyou, I don't experience twos and
threes anymore, which is reallynice, because my average is so
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high in front of my average,even for my crappy days.
So to me, when I'm feeling likea six or seven, it feels like a
one or two, because I'm used to10.
So on that six or seven day,that is when I challenged myself
because, listen, anybody canhave an unbelievable, stellar
day If you're waking up at 10out of 10, oh, I got the energy,
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I got this.
Okay, is there a story to tellthere?
There really isn't.
But the guy who felt like a sixor seven or a one or two, but
then performed at a 10.
Now, there's a story, there's amemory.
So one of my favorite things todo when people are like, but
Marcus, I don't feel likeworking out all the time, what
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do you do?
Okay, so on those days when I'mlike, ah, today is just not the
day for working out, that'swhen I go all right, marcus,
let's go.
Buddy, this is the day.
Show me what you're made of.
Set a new record, set a newstandard, tell a story.
Make sure you're doingsomething so that you have a
story to tell later.
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Those are my favorite workouts,because I push and I push and I
have to find new gears.
I'm like, bro, you got to findsome more heart.
There has to be more heart inthere.
And when I push and I actuallyset a PR on that day, bro.
That's a story to tell.
And now I go.
Man, I'm a fricking animal.
I thought this was my level.
I'm actually up here, bro.
(27:43):
This is not arrogance speaking.
This is confidence buildingevery day in who I am and who
I'm going to be tomorrow, sothat I can show up tomorrow
going man, I know what I didyesterday.
I don't even have to tell thestory.
I'm telling the story to myselfand it's a reminder.
We need these stories.
(28:03):
By the way, we all have so manystories.
If you said, hey, ryan, why areyou a failure?
Why might you fail in life?
We've all got those stories.
Oh well, let me tell you, man.
I did this, this, this and this.
Oh, what a piece of crap.
We've all got those stories.
So how about building somestories on the other side,
(28:23):
marcus?
Why are you going to win today?
You know what?
Yesterday, I didn't feel like awinner and I freaking dominated
.
I got a PR.
I put in the work, I showed up.
Today, I'm going to succeedbecause of boom, boom, boom,
boom.
Give yourself the argument.
Whatever you focus on, that iswhat is going to happen.
(28:44):
So if you focus on, I'mprobably going to lose today.
Yeah, my bet is you're going tolose today.
If you walk in going, I'm goingto lose today.
Yeah, my bet is you're going tolose today.
If you walk in going, I'm goingto win today.
For these reasons, I'll putmoney on you.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Man, look at that.
You're making me want to jumpthrough the screen and give you
a hug.
Now go back.
You mentioned that I'll ask youthe same question.
Is it that I heard you say onJosh's podcast yes, what do you
see as the biggest opportunityout in the market today?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah.
So listen, you already coveredpart of it, but I'm going to
give you a slightly differentanswer.
So number one I truly believethis is the easiest time in
history to stand out like byfall, because most people and
when I say most, I'm not talkingsix out of 10 people.
I truly believe 99 out of ahundred people are asleep.
They are sleepwalking throughtheir days.
(29:32):
Their idea of success is justmaking it through today.
If you are 1% more ambitiousthan that, you will stand out.
Now imagine if, every day, youput a little effort into that
ambition, you try to improveyourself a little bit every
single day, you will stand outso fast.
(29:54):
As somebody who has owned morethan 25 companies, I can tell
you when I'm speaking to someonewho I'm going to hire I'm going
to hire, I'm going to promote,I'm going to give a raise to.
To me it's black and white.
It is really simple.
The conversation goes like thisWell, I've done the average of
what you asked me to do, so I'dlike money.
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Easy, no, thank you so much.
Have a good day.
Or hey, you told me to do this,this and this.
Not only did I do those things,but I did this, this and this,
and here's where I see myselfgoing over the next few years.
I'm like there's your money,easy peasy.
But now here's the other way Iwant to answer.
This question Right now has awhole other set of opportunities
(30:40):
for you.
In a downed economy, wherepeople are sure it's going to
get worse and they're probablyright 99.9% of people are living
in fear.
And what happens when peoplelive in fear?
They make really bad decisionsand they batten down the hatches
and they hide and theyhibernate.
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If you can just stay clear ofall the fear and try and have an
abundance mindset, now, it'snot just words.
This stuff takes time.
This stuff takes work.
I'm happy to work with you onit, and there's many different
ways you can build thatabundance mindset.
But if you can do that, you canchange the world, because 99%
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of everybody else is not doingthis.
You are going this way.
You will stand out.
Some of the greatest historysorry, some of the greatest
businesses in history, most ofthe greatest businesses in
history were started during theworst economic times, and I'll
(31:46):
tell you just real quick whythat is, because I don't know.
Yeah, but what the heck am Isupposed to do?
Bad times hey, remember we'renot doing fear talk.
We're going to talk abundance.
Here's why If you are a big,established company right now
and the world is tanking, it'sreally hard for those big
companies to turn.
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They're so set in their ways.
Companies to turn.
They're so set in their ways.
Now a new company comes duringthis very tough time.
They can make moves in thistough time to get far ahead, to
stand out.
You can do it.
Just start with the rightmindset.
It takes a match.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
You talked about reading books and that's one way
to experience this abundancemindset and, as you were saying
that, specifically, with thecompany, some of the greatest
companies today we know startedin the darkest of times.
Yes, I just finished readingthe Obstacle is the Way by Ryan
Holiday.
Love Ryan Holiday.
That is a book that I willrecommend to everyone, because
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what I'm hearing you say thereis even the aren't really
obstacles.
They are.
Those are the qualifiers, thoseare the gifts just being thrown
right at you.
And if people, when people cansimply shift their vision a
little bit, which takes time andtraining and a lot of rewiring
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and a lot of programming in thebrain, which is available to
anybody, yes, is it fair to sayyou don't believe that bad times
exist?
Oh, ryan, this is really good.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
This is really good.
That's a tough way.
It's a tough question to answer.
The truth is, I believe at somepoint you will look at any time
in your life and say that wasnot a bad time.
I don't know if I want to be asbold as say bad times don't
exist, only because I'm worriedthat people who are still at
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level one are just going to nowshut us out.
At level one are just going tonow shut us out.
They'll go.
Ah, these guys are just.
They're such looney tunes.
What are you talking about?
If you knew what I'm goingthrough right now, you wouldn't
say bad days don't exist.
I would agree with what yourprinciple is, which is man, at
some point we're going to lookback at it.
Like, look at COVID.
Covid was such a horrific timeIn the beginning of COVID for
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sure the scariest, mostchallenging times in business
for me and for everyone else.
However, you'll talk to mostbusiness people who are still
around, who are doing well,saying COVID was kind of awesome
.
Like, with all due respect, Iwouldn't wish it again.
(34:32):
I wish all those people didn'tdie.
I wish all the mental healthproblems didn't happen.
So none of that.
But as far as for business goeswhere I was freaked out the
most.
It was phenomenal.
If we could just learn to seethat the obstacle is the way,
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and when an obstacle is in frontof us, to not go ah, this is so
scary and what am I going to do?
But we went.
Hey, this is an opportunity.
This is an opportunity to grow.
One of my favorite analogies isjust to break it down into our
school years.
How did you get into grade six?
Well, you had to go through thetests of grade five.
If you don't pass those tests,if you are just like no tests, I
(35:14):
can't do it.
No, well, guess what you'redoing next year, still in grade
five, but if you can go, it'sokay.
I, these tests, thesechallenges are supposed to be in
front of me so I can get tograde six.
So when I see that challengecoming at me, I don't go.
Oh, no, no, I go.
Yes, awesome, I'm about to goto the next grade.
(35:36):
This is amazing.
And hey, if the challenge ishard enough, I might skip a
grade or two.
Awesome, and think if you havethat kind of attitude, not only
are you going to get through it,but you're going to get through
it with better ideas.
Not only are you going to getthrough it, but you're going to
get through it with better ideas.
You come up with way betterideas if you're this guy going.
(35:57):
Yeah, I can do this.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
I can do this versus please, no, perhaps a better way
, as you were saying that, I wasthinking through it, like how
would I answer that question?
And perhaps it's not that badseasons don't exist or bad times
don't exist, but life is fullof seasons good and not so good,
or perhaps great and difficultbut all seasons deliver.
(36:24):
The good times deliver plentyof great things and the rough
times also deliver, and maybenot immediately, but you'll be
able to see them later in thefuture.
And when I run, man, I wasthinking about you when I was
running this morning, like mydopamine hit in the morning,
especially being a marathonerand getting ready for Boston
(36:46):
here in 40 days, 39 days.
Boston here in 40 days, 39 days.
There's times where I just putmy arms out wide, like this,
marcus, and like man, I'mgrateful for this day.
But specifically, what I say is, man, I'm grateful for the good
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times and I'm grateful for thetough times.
I'm grateful for the good timesto come and I'm grateful for the
tough times to come, becauseit's not that I wish for the
tough times to come, but Iunderstand that those tough
moments are eventually, if notimmediately, going to give me
just as much as those goodmoments, because it's the tough
moments that have you and I heretalking today today.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
This is so beautiful, Ryan.
You are on such a beautifulpath, brother, I'll put money on
you becoming somebodyabsolutely spectacular Not that
you aren't already and you aregoing to impact a lot of lives,
man, this is the mindset.
This is what we're talkingabout.
I want to add one more point,because it's something you and I
are kind of dancing around whenwe're talking about all these
tough times.
I think one of the words thatwe should really talk about here
is acceptance and I.
(37:53):
This is a big difference fromthe people who see something,
some sort of challenge in frontof us and they go the right way
or they go the wrong way, andit's acceptance.
So the people who go the rightway are the ones who go.
Yeah, this is a challengingtime, but it is what it is.
Let's find out a solution.
But 99 out of a hundred peoplego ah, this is too difficult of
(38:19):
a time, this isn't right, thisshouldn't be happening.
No, I can't accept this.
So this idea of acceptanceeverybody, it doesn't mean you
have to agree with it.
So this also absolutelypertains to the baggage that
you're carrying with your life.
Most people can't move on fromit because they don't accept it.
(38:40):
So, no matter what has happenedto you, you need to accept it
Again.
You don't have to agree with it, you don't have to go.
Oh yeah, it's so great that myparents divorced.
Oh yeah, it's so great thatthis trauma happened to me.
But if you can say, yeah, ithappened to me.
And now, what am I going to doabout it?
You are going to free yourselfto grow, to become the person
(39:03):
you're supposed to become.
So just accepting it, going.
This is where we're at.
This is the reality of thesituation.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Amen, brother, we're talking through things that are
in your book.
You're a newly minted author.
Play a bigger game.
Let's cover one of the sevenprinciples that are in the book.
What's the one that you know?
If, if, if folks only read thisone principle, and and and I
(39:34):
want you to read all seven folks, but if they, if they, just
skipped a one, which one wouldyou want them to see?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Oh man, that's.
That's really tough.
That is like having sevenchildren and being like you get
to save one.
Which one?
I think I'm going to reach forchoice.
I'm such a big believer inchoice, and choice changed my
life.
So the principle around choiceis this If you can learn to
recognize that absolutelyeverything that's happening in
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your life is your choice, thatcan change your world
dramatically.
Now, of course, you're rightaway.
The skeptics are like what areyou talking about?
I didn't choose to have thatcar accident.
I didn't choose to have thistrauma.
I didn't choose this or that.
(40:22):
Okay, if I'm right.
What if?
Just answer me that question.
What if I'm right?
And what if it was a choice?
How could you peel it back to achoice?
What would that look like?
So much of what we have goingon in our lives.
It's like, well, okay, myhealth is failing.
(40:42):
I guess 10 years ago I couldhave started eating healthier
and exercising.
Okay, there's one choice.
That's awesome.
And of course, my next questionwill be well, what would you
like to do for the next 10 yearsIf that was a choice that you
could have made?
What if it's not too late?
What if you made that choicetoday?
(41:04):
And now, what if you lookedinto every single aspect of your
life and said how could it betrue?
Here, what you're going to findis choice after choice after
choice that can changeeverything today and that really
excites me, and my life hasbeen putting this into practice.
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I am just a product of theseprinciples.
I am just a product of theseprinciples and how I live in
this.
Whenever I face anything I go.
What choice led me here?
Speaker 2 (41:42):
What choice can get me out of this?
You know, as I was listening toyou and getting ready and again
just going to compliment yourenergy and your radiance again,
because it's here Now that I getto experience it, live man, I
wish that a lot of people get toexperience this conversation
and pick up the book.
And on the principle of choice,I've said for a while now that
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you know how we choose to showup every day, and even I just
said it right there, but how weshow up every day.
Every day, we wake up Every day.
You wake up Every day thatsomeone listening wakes up.
You have a choice to make onhow you're going to show up.
I believe it's easy to wake up.
(42:28):
Let's say it's raining outsideor you had a flat tire, the dog
threw up, the kids are screaming.
You have a choice in thosemoments.
Okay, this non-ideal event isoccurring right now, but you can
still choose.
You know what.
I'm going to choose to come tothis conversation with Marcus
(42:48):
and be joyful, and I'm going tochoose to go to the office today
and smile and be happy, andthat's the conversation I
usually have with myself in themornings.
That, even if something.
Again going back to what wesaid good seasons, bad seasons.
There's days that things aren'tgoing so hot, but I still tell
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myself all right, ryan, you havea choice right now, before you
even go into the office howyou're going to show up for
people.
Talk through, talk through,talk through that a little bit
more man.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Oh, please, I love this, ryan.
That is the mindset right there.
Everybody rewind it back threeminutes to go over this again.
You have the choice every dayon how you show up to this world
.
Now, part of what work I doevery single day on myself and
the people that I spend my timewith, the people who I work with
, the people at PerformanceCoach, the people in my
(43:43):
mastermind I work on this factorevery day, and one of the
thoughts I want to put inpeople's heads is factor every
day.
And one of the thoughts I wantto put in people's heads is what
if you showed up every day asyour best self?
How much bigger of an impactwould you make on all the lives
all around?
Who would you be saving?
Who would you be changing justby showing up as your best self?
(44:05):
Now I want to tell you the nextlevel of thinking here, which
really excites me, because thisis the stuff I was learning as I
was growing up and I wasgrowing into this.
I was like, yeah, I want toshow up as my best self.
But, ryan, you and I havealready talked about oh man, but
there's so many things that aregoing to fight me every day
from showing up as my best self.
(44:26):
What if I could put in a wholebunch of habits that made it so
it wasn't even a choice anymore,like, let me pre-make the
choice so that I'm going to havean amazing day, and on the flip
side, what habits can I takeout of my life that made it more
likely that I was going to havecrappy stuff happen?
(44:46):
If you apply that principle,your world, it's inevitable.
It's inevitable what's going tohappen.
Success leaves clues.
One plus one equals two everysingle time.
If you do this consistently,you will get this result.
So I'm going to give you somereally quick ones.
(45:07):
So really quick, actionableitems.
Try them immediately.
Every night, before I go to bed,my next morning is already laid
out.
I know everything that's goingto happen in the morning, so
there's no choice.
When I wake up, my clothes formy cardio session are already
picked out, because you knowwhat.
When you wake up, what should Iput on today?
(45:27):
That becomes such a biggerdecision than it needs to be
Should I wear this or this?
And all of a sudden you're 15,20 minutes in.
But guess what happened inthose 15 to 20 minutes?
You also checked your phone.
Ah, crap.
Okay, give me a minute, I'mgonna.
Just, I got two emails, ah no,oh.
Social media, oh no, what anhour went by.
Now I can't even do my card.
(45:48):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, myno, no.
Clothes are already there.
My water bottles are alreadyready.
I am on my treadmill within sixminutes of waking up and I've
just made a couple of choicesand I've ordered some things.
It's going to take that down tofour minutes.
That's how serious I am aboutgetting on that treadmill.
On that treadmill, I am incardio mode, I'm getting blood
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flowing, I'm getting clarityhappening, I'm in prayer, I'm in
gratitude for all the amazingthings all around me.
And, one of the most importantthings I have not looked at I am
not letting my phone dictatethe kind of day I'm going to
have.
There is no good news on yourphone in the morning, so why are
we checking it first thing?
Before we're prepared, beforeyou've put on your armor, you've
(46:34):
already let some weapons stabyou.
Don't do that.
Make a commitment to say thisis how long it is before I'll
check my email, before I'llcheck social media, before I do
any of that stuff.
You have to make thatcommitment and you have to stay.
You have to say this is a nonnegotiable, and you do that
every day.
You have to make thatcommitment and you have to stay.
You have to say this is anon-negotiable, and you do that
(46:56):
every day.
You won't believe how quicklyyou transform.
Now, because I've got my cardioin, because I've had my time
and gratitude, my time in prayer, I am so focused and ready for
what comes at me.
So now, when I check my phone,I'm ready, I will be dictating
the day.
I have not the phone.
What a difference.
Look at that.
That was less than 30 minutes,less than 30 minutes into the
(47:17):
day, and I am prepared to have away better day than what I
could have had.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Look at that.
Winning today started yesterday.
Yes, and for people that arelistening right now, if you want
to win tomorrow, it startstoday, tonight, this morning,
right now, right in this instant.
The last thing I do every daytwo things.
Before I leave the office, Ialways print my calendar for the
(47:44):
next day and then I write downwhat are the three things that
I'm going to do tomorrow.
So when I get in the officetomorrow, I'm not scratching my
head because here's the thing,here's the principle that I have
for life my head because here'sthe thing.
Here's the principle that Ihave for life, personal and
professional Eliminate guesswork.
How do you eliminate guesswork?
Write down what you want, Builda plan, Lay out your clothes
(48:05):
the night before, just like yousaid.
I come downstairs every day.
The first thing I see is thatgoal board.
There's never a what does 2024success look like?
It's right there and it's themost simple thing and everything
you said, Marcus.
Yes, it requires a choice, butit is simple.
It requires no calculations,nothing.
(48:28):
We have choice.
One more principle.
One more principle.
Pick one more.
Pick one more, Because I wantpeople to actually get the book
and dissect all seven of themthemselves.
But if we get a little sneakpeek of one more principle.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
I love it.
You know what I'm going tochoose one that ties into choice
, and it ties into everythingthat we've been talking about.
It's integrity.
Integrity is a word I lovetalking about it.
It's almost an old-fashionedword now because people don't
use it enough.
Integrity has so many meanings,but the one I want to focus on
is are you being the person thatyou want to be?
(49:03):
Are you being the person thatyou're supposed to be?
Are you being your authenticyou and I mean all the way
authentic?
And part of what integritymeans is there are some
conditions, there are some rulesthat you need to start
reapplying to your life.
We've allowed our integrity toslide in ways that we had no
idea we were doing it.
(49:23):
So I'll tell you one of thefirst ones.
Every single day where peoplebreak their integrity and it
changes the course of their dayand it's usually about three
seconds into waking up they hitthe snoo their day, and it's
usually about three seconds intowaking up they hit the snooze
button.
The snooze button is the firstchance to prove that you're a
person of integrity.
By hitting that snooze button,you've broken the first
(49:45):
agreement that you made for theday you said you were going to
wake up at this time and youdidn't.
You said, ah, you know what.
All agreements are negotiable.
Here's what happens the rest ofthe day.
You're subconscious all day.
When you say, hey, I said I wasgoing to eat healthy today,
your subconscious goes yeah,yeah, yeah.
But remember, everything's upfor negotiation.
(50:06):
Remember the snooze button thismorning.
It's not a big deal.
Oh, we're going to go to thegym.
There's so much going on.
Do we have to go to the gym?
There's so much going on.
Do we have to go to the gym?
You've already slid.
Now, I'm not saying this toguilt you.
Please people hear this.
As a man who loves so much, Ilove you so much.
I don't care if I don't knowyou.
I have so much love and so muchmercy for this human condition.
(50:30):
This is not coming from a placeof.
This is why I think you're abad person.
Furthest thing from it.
This is actually the reason Ilove you.
I love you because you arefacing the same decisions
everyone else is making and,unfortunately, by these issues
that we just let slide everysingle day, and it and it has
molded us into the people wedon't want to be.
(50:52):
So all I'm trying to do is drawyour attention to it to go.
What if, tomorrow, you saidhere's what time I'm trying to
do is draw your attention to itto go.
What if, tomorrow, you saidhere's what time I'm going to
wake up.
And then you wake up.
What's so beautiful about that?
You now have this the rest ofthe day to look at.
To go, hey, remember thatcontract I made this morning?
I did it.
I said I'd wake up.
Then my yes means yes, my nomeans no.
(51:13):
I am a person of integrity.
There's my proof.
And all day you can look atthat.
And by the way, just in casethat wasn't enough information
for you, on the snooze buttonthe snooze button is actually
called the dream killer for areason.
It ruins your sleep so bad.
It disrupts your REM cycles.
It disrupts your sleep cycles.
(51:34):
It screws you up.
So do not think you're doingyourself a favor.
You're not.
It feels good only in the idea.
Like I have control over this,I'll take 10 more minutes of
sleep.
Take the control the nightbefore.
Set the alarm for when you wantto set it.
For Now, be in control of yourintegrity.
That is going to make for aspecial day.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
And that's powerful.
And if we go back to thescoreboard we talked about,
there's an easy way to put a winon the scoreboard within not
even a minute, not even oneminute.
You can start racking up thatscoreboard and then you put on
the clothes that you laid outthe night before Now we're up
two to zero.
(52:19):
You make the bed Now we're upthree to zero.
You do your workout we're upfour to zero.
It's like there's so manylittle things we can do every
day that then let's saysomething doesn't go our way
that day, or maybe even a coupleof things.
I highly doubt that that.
Let's just say you build in 10to 15 small wins and you go for
(52:39):
your walk.
Man, if the score is like thebad things have to go against a
10-0, 10 to zero man, I highlydoubt that you're going to lose
many days.
Oh man Will, you guys listen tothe brilliance of what.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
Ryan is talking about .
This is how successful peopletalk and think, but most of us
overlook.
Uh, it wasn't that big of adeal.
I just did this.
I just it is a big deal.
Put it on the scoreboardbecause you are 10 and 0, 15 and
0 before you even started yourday.
And, yeah, one bad thing, whocares?
It's 15 to one.
(53:15):
I'm killing this day.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
So look at that.
Here's a real live example,folks, that Marcus and I have
just been racking up wins inthis conversation.
I think the score might be 100to zero and your internet went
out.
Here you are.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
You're back again, Dude we're up 100 to one.
Doesn't even phase us.
Here you are.
You're back again, dude, we'reup a hundred to one.
Doesn't even phase us, Doesn'teven phase it.
I love it, brother, Dude, that,that idea of keeping that
scoreboard.
That is life-changing stuff.
So if you guys get nothing elsefrom this today, take that,
keep a scoreboard, keep itrunning all day long and just
make sure you feed those wins.
(53:52):
You can keep feeding it, eventhe little stuff.
And if you feel like you'reslipping behind in the score,
just do something.
That's a win.
Go for a little walk and go.
You know what?
I took some time to myself.
Say some gratitude thoughts fortwo minutes.
There's a win.
Eat something healthy.
There's a win.
Easy to get your score padded.
You're going to win.
(54:12):
If you do those things everysingle day.
Think about how that compounds.
How do you think that is notgoing to turn into a successful
life?
Speaker 2 (54:21):
100%, amen, amen, brother.
Now I want to go back on onething we talked about what would
it be like if you showed up asyour best self, your most
authentic self, every day?
Some people may be questioningI don't know what my best self?
What does it mean?
What does it mean to be my bestself?
(54:41):
I don't know what that lookslike.
What type of inventory orquestions should people ask
themselves to arrive at thatself-discovery?
You know what?
All right, this is the bestMarcus, this is the best Ryan.
How do we clearly identify whatthat really means showing up as
(55:03):
our best selves?
Speaker 1 (55:04):
What a brilliant question, legit brother you are.
You're really good at what youdo, man.
I I'm honored to be on thereceiving end of these questions
.
This is a great questionbecause I think there's tons of
people who are like I don'tnecessarily know, I wouldn't say
I'm my most authentic self.
How do I figure that out?
Absolutely, it's a process.
I will give you a few questionsto start you off, but just
(55:27):
please know that it's not justlike two questions, you answer
them and boom, oh, I don't feelit.
Therefore, I'm going to stop.
You have to look at it as likea journey and like any other
journey in life.
If you want to start gettinghealthy and you're like okay, so
I'm going to go work out.
You do one workout.
Did you change your body?
Did you change your healthradically?
No, it's not about one workout,but it starts with one.
(55:51):
So a couple of key questions toask.
Number one to find out yourauthentic self.
Start recognizing that theanswers are inside of you.
And here's what I mean.
What are the things in yourlife that really light you up,
like really get you excited?
Like if someone were to pay meto do that all day, I would be
(56:14):
the happiest human on the planet.
Okay, that's who you weredesigned to be.
Now there might be multipleanswers or there might not be
one answer that you're like.
I don't think there's one thingthat's okay.
Again, this is a process.
Try and write down 10 thingsthat even interest you a little
bit and then try and filter thatdown.
Now that I've written down 10,actually you know what these bit
(56:35):
.
And then try and filter thatdown Now that I've written down
10, actually, you know whatthese three really get me
excited.
Awesome, see how you'restarting to figure out who you
are authentically.
Now, on the flip side, anothergreat question to ask it's a
negative question what thingsreally piss you off?
And I don't mean like, well,when someone cuts me off in
traffic, no, no, no, I mean thatpiss you off to the core.
It's like an injustice.
(57:05):
When people don't recycle, itpisses me off.
When people abuse children infront of me, it pisses me off.
That's the kind of thing thatI'm talking about.
Again, that is unique to you.
Of course, there's universalthings that upset us all, but
when something you might go ohman, sex trafficking to my, to
my core, it upsets me so much.
Yeah, sex trafficking, I thinkeverybody would agree, is bad.
(57:25):
But some people are like, yeah,it's bad, but I'm not going to
do anything about it.
No-transcript.
(57:57):
As a human race is, we seethings that piss us off.
We see things that light us up,but I'm going to just spend a
couple more hours in front ofNetflix before I think about
doing anything else.
So take those actions.
Take some action on First,write it down and then start to
(58:17):
explore it.
Do something about it.
Listen to a podcast on thesubject.
Spend some time with a smallgroup who also feels that way.
There's so many chat rooms aboutthis stuff.
You watch how quickly you startto develop a different sense of
who you are and you go.
I'm actually feeling moreenergy.
Yeah, you will, because themore you walk into your
(58:40):
authentic self, the more energyyou have, because this is who
you're supposed to be.
It feels right, it feelsaligned, and the more in
alignment you are, the moreopportunities are going to come
to you.
Why?
Because you're going to attractthe right people.
You're going to repel the wrongpeople.
It's wild how we put off thisenergy and I'm not just talking
about energy like oh yeah, youknow, the earth is going to blah
(59:03):
, blah, no, no, no, I do believein this stuff.
It's really easy.
If I love working out, oh, Ilove it so much.
Who do you think is attractedto me?
Other people who like workingout or the people who hate
working out?
Of course it's the people wholike working out.
And all of a sudden, now we'regetting around each other.
And guess what happens when youput two of us together?
(59:24):
Ooh, the energy gets evencrazier.
But we're not doing thatbecause we're avoiding being our
authentic selves.
We're avoiding being the personwho this planet needs us to be.
Everything feels like it's anuphill battle.
Everything feels uncomfortable,and I love the way that that's
designed.
That discomfort should piss youoff enough to make you get up
(59:47):
and do something about it rightnow.
Speaker 2 (59:51):
Right now.
Amen, I love that you mentionedthat the answers are already
inside of you, that you have theanswers.
We have the answers, marcus.
Our conversation embodies this.
But to define it now you have acommunity play a bigger game.
Title of the book play a biggergame.
(01:00:12):
If you had to define, what doesit mean to play a bigger game?
Or what does someone that playsa big game in life look like?
Just to paint a picture aroundit that's really beautiful
brother how would you do that?
Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
beautiful lead up.
By the way.
Uh, you know, I think it's kindof the.
The easiest way for me to sayit is it's the opposite of what
most people are doing.
Most people are playing a verycontent small game.
It's comfortable.
I get food delivered right tomy couch, I spend a lot of time
on the couch and again, peopleplease, I'm not blasting anybody
(01:00:46):
, I'm not condemning anybody,but I am calling it like I see
it and if you feel convicted bywhat I'm saying, that's you,
your authentic you is going.
He's talking to us.
Let's listen up.
How do we play this bigger game?
It's about just taking action sothat you can do the things that
you are designed to do and thatyou want to do, that want, that
(01:01:10):
need that you have.
That's how you were designed.
You don't need to fight it,just do something about it.
When you take action, it feelsso good.
You're taking control.
When you don't take control,you're giving control to others,
and there are a billioncompanies right now who are
(01:01:31):
happy to take your control.
They're happy to take the keysto your cuffs and lock you up
for life.
I'm the person going.
I want to set you free.
I want you to become theauthentic you.
Not only are you going toexperience success in every area
of your life, but you're goingto enjoy your life more.
(01:01:52):
You're going to experience morefulfillment, more joy, more
love.
Everything about your life willget better.
There is no downside to this.
And when you say, well, is itthat easy?
Isn't it going to be work?
It's going to take work andit's going to take effort.
But you know what else takeswork and effort.
Being complacent, being on thatcouch takes way more work and
(01:02:16):
effort than people realize.
Where.
How much are you going to thedoctors?
How many medications are youhaving to take?
How much pain and discomfort doyou experience every day from
the foods you eat, from the wayyour body is not working like
you know it should be working?
That is a huge cost that I amnot willing to pay.
(01:02:37):
I will put in the work ahead oftime so that I get all the
benefits of what this beautiful,amazing human body can do and
what this earth has been such abeautiful conversation and, god,
if people aren't jumping out oftheir seats and jolting to go
(01:03:01):
take action, I'm not sure whatelse they'd want to do.
Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
After listening to this and that's credit to you,
brother.
And before we hit our rapidfire session, which is the
customary closing, what are allthe ways that we can keep up
with you, experience you, yourcommunities?
What do you have going on thatwe can tap into, in addition to
the book that's out now?
(01:03:25):
Oh, thank you, brother.
Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
First of all, you have done a spectacular job on
this, man.
It has been an honor spendingthis time with you.
If you want to come spend timewith me, if you want me in your
corner, if you want to plug intothis energy and this kind of
mindset mumbo jumbo more often.
I have an amazing mastermindthat I love spending time.
It's at play a bigger gamecomplay a bigger gamecom, and I
(01:03:53):
have different masterminds fordifferent levels of human being
who want to play differentlevels of game.
Uh, but you can also alwaysfind me on social media at
Marcus Collius.
Instagram is the best place toreach out to me.
I would love a DM from you.
If you found me here, please DMme like it means so much to me.
If you reach out to me, I wouldlove to cheer you on in life.
(01:04:15):
So much to me.
If you reach out to me, I wouldlove to cheer you on in life.
You're going to get just alittle bit of this at your
disposal.
And, ryan, man, I hope we'vestarted something real here.
Man, I think you're just anamazing dude.
I think you're going to doincredible things in this world
not that you aren't already and,man, I've been blessed with our
time together.
Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Man.
Thank you so much, brother.
That means the world to me.
Now here's the customaryclosing.
It's one gem, one step, onebook let's go.
And the way this works is youand I are together, we're going
to lunch on some cool rooftopand we're going up an elevator
(01:04:54):
and someone gets on each floorand they ask a question.
The amount of time you have toanswer the question is the
amount of time it takes to go upone elevator floor, all right.
So the first person gets on theelevator and they recognize you
.
They've, they've read, play abigger game or they're part of
the community, they listen tothe podcast.
They say Marcus, what's one gemthat you live your life by,
(01:05:19):
whether it be a quote or amantra that I can put in my back
pocket to live my life by Bemore grateful today.
Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Be so grateful for absolutely anything and
everything that happens.
Don't just say thank you.
Let it come from here.
I am so grateful for this.
This has been very special.
If you do that, it will changeeverything else in your life,
and the more you do it, thewilder the changes.
Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
I love that Next person gets on.
Marcus, what's one step that Ican take today to start playing
a bigger game in life?
Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
Go today and spend some time in the woods.
Go for a 30 minute walk in thewoods, out where it's quiet, out
where you can get some goodfresh air, out where you can be
alone with your thoughts.
Be in gratitude.
Make a couple of decisions ofwhat you are going to do from
now on to play a bigger game inlife.
Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Last one, Marcus.
What's one book in addition toyours that I can read to enhance
my mindset?
Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Atomic Habits, james Clear.
It's going to teach you how toput habits into your life.
Why to put them into your lifeand do it now.
Take action.
One of the best books there is.
I love it.
I read it every single year.
It will change your life.
Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
I call that book like one of the personal development
Bibles that are out there.
It's one of the mosttransformative books that anyone
can read and pick up.
And, man, marcus, this has beensuch a blast.
And, folks, if you want to playa bigger game in not just 2024,
(01:07:04):
but in life, then keep up withMarcus, grab the book and take
action on these simple mindsetshifts, these simple frameworks,
and you are not only going toplay a bigger game, but you are
going to win today.
(01:07:25):
Thanks so much for tuning in.
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