Building Your Formula for Prosperity Through Fitness & Discipline | Steve Weatherford EP 849

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11how important is uh mastering your body and your health in terms of achieving any other goal in your life that's that's one thing i really love to to go and speak to kids about is is my formula for prosperity and and it's real simple it's you know it's identifying what your vision is and for me at 14 my vision was to be a pro athlete one day and right now my vision is different but I'm just as far away from being where I wanted where I want to be in this journey as I was when I was 14 there's a lot of things that I'm going to need to do before I'm able to realize that but I've already done it once I know what it takes and it's just about maintaining my focus trusting my plan and then working every day and being diligent and consistent and optimistic and positive because you have your vision and then, okay, that's my vision.

1:16That's where I want to be. You set your goal and then after you set your goal, you have to spend some time researching and seeking out advice and wisdom and humbling yourself to people, providing them value so they want to help you. And then you can put this plan in front of yourself of what you need to do. And that's the third step of the formula for prosperity. And then the fourth step is where 90 % of people will fail in reaching their full potential or reaching their goal and making that dream become real to them. And it's work. People just, they don't execute. There's dreamers everywhere.

2:00This is Los Angeles. There's dreamers everywhere. But how many dreamers are consistently making that daily investment, that daily sacrifice that it's going to require in order for those tiny, very small decisions over time, the compounded interest of sacrificing this to get just that much closer to your goal. People have a real problem choosing what they want 10 years from now to what they want today. I did that. I was able to be able to experience seeing the manifestation and the culmination of all those sacrifices and all those those times that instead of going out and smoking cigarettes and smoking dope and drinking beers with my buddy I decided to go to bed and wake up early and you know put the work in in the weight room and it's not just about being in the weight room and you know going through the motions it's being committed and being present in that moment and invest in everything you have because that's one of the things that I love about fitness is it's one of the only things in life that you're going to get out exactly what you put in you know doesn't lie you're a really kind person you're a really generous person you're you're one of the the most well-rounded guys that i know but you're not always going to get what you deserve man you know but if you take that well-roundedness and you funnel that into fitness a fitness journey you're going to get what you deserve.

3:46You can't cheat on a diet and then expect the results of your body to reflect the sacrifice because you didn't make it. So that's one of the things that I don't use my body to compete in athletics anymore but we were talking about it the other day. There's something I really enjoy and I admire about people when they walk into the room and they're real fit. not like oh he's pretty fit like i'm talking about a one percenter when a one percenter walks in and you you know they don't even have to have their shirt off i'm just talking about somebody's got a t-shirt on but you can tell they're tuned up there's several things you can tell about them instantly you know you can tell that they practice self-discipline self-denial consistency hard work having a vision a work ethic so all of those things you can tell about somebody without them even opening their mouth right and that's one thing that that i like about fitness because it says a lot of things about me when i enter a room that i don't even need to tell people you know they know i'm a hard worker they know uh that that i'm goal-oriented they know that i'm willing to be disciplined and work towards a goal like you don't it's gonna say arrogant to say but But you can't look that way with genetics.

5:09Genetics play a role, but there's no way that you can be a one percenter with just genetics. It's going to take some work. It's going to take some sacrifice. It's going to take consistency.

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