How To Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals | Ed Mylett

25:42We've all had that time when we're laying in bed at night and we think we hear a noise, right? You become so focused. You hear every little creak in the ceiling, don't you? Every little movement of the floor. You hear your sheets move. Oh my gosh, there it is again. You become hyper aware and hyper focused when you increase desperation. So become intentional is step two. Third, what is your plan? What is your strategy to increase your hunger level and to increase your focus level? So part of that plan might be, I need to be around people more immediately who can hold me accountable and repeat back to me what I've told them my outcomes are.

26:19I need to put myself in situations where I'm accountable, where I'm a part of a group where I have to report my results to them. Perhaps it's going public, if it's your body, and going public with this is my intention the next 30 days, this is what I'm going to do, putting additional pressure on yourself. Perhaps it's shrinking the time frame down. The sooner we must do something, the more desperate it becomes. In other words, if something has to be done within 10 years, how desperate is that? But if it has to become sooner and sooner and sooner, or even if it just has to be a real date put on it, gives us some desperation knowing that date is coming sometime soon.

26:53So what is your plan and strategy to increase your desperation, increase your hunger level, and then focus? What's your plan to increase focus? Oftentimes that could be a plan to eliminate distractions. What's your strategy to eliminate distractions? Might be, I watch too much television at night and it distracts me from my goal. Perhaps you should remove that television from the room. That's a plan and a strategy to eliminate the distraction. Perhaps it's you're being on the internet too long or playing video games. Maybe you need to eliminate them. Perhaps in your nutrition, you're trying to get fit.

27:24The distraction are snacks that you have in your home or alcohol. Maybe they need to be removed from your home. What is your strategy and plan to eliminate distractions and increase focus because without the evaluation, without the intention, and without the plan and strategy, an actual plan to increase desperation, an actual plan and strategy, get creative, get resourceful. It's only with a plan that you can begin to make changes and a strategy. Otherwise, it's just a thought. And then fourth, what immediate massive action are you going to take right now? I'm talking about right when this audio or video ends, what's the immediate first massive action you're going to take towards that plan?

28:03The first step, the first, it's unplug the TV, it's remove the video game, it's throw out the junk food, it's remove a certain person from your life. I don't know what it is, but what is the immediate massive action? Because if we can evaluate where we are and get very clear, because we can't know where we're going if we're not very clear about where we are. In other words, if life is like a GPS and we want to get to a particular their destination. The only way we can get clear on getting there is to understand and evaluate and be specific about where we currently are. That way we can build the directions.

28:38There's no sense of direction, not just with where you're going, where are you? You must know both places. Evaluate what you want and be very honest and evaluate where you are. Now the directions can be drawn out. So we must evaluate number one. Number two, we must make it our intention to do so. We must get intentional, get specific. There's a power to intention. There's a power to pointing our mind, which is a weapon, at these issues. Third is our strategy. What is the exact plan we're going to take? Without a strategy, you have no shot. You must have a strategy. The strategy doesn't have to be perfect.

29:14The strategy can evolve, but there must be a game plan. There must be something you're doing immediately to start towards this journey. It tells our mind we're making progress. It sends a message of, I'm serious about this. And then fourth, you must take immediate massive action. Knowledge is not power unless it's applied. And you haven't really made a decision and changed anything until you've taken an action. And if we delay the action to later, we can have all the evaluation, all the intention, and a great game plan. No action, no momentum, no progress. So So what's the one step, the one action that you're going to take immediately towards increasing your focus and increasing your desperation level?

29:57What is the immediate action? Once you have those four things, we now have a recipe to change. And so today's message to you was to wake you up as a friend, as your brother, is to say, listen, if we're going to get this done, if you're going to make things great happen, you got to get very clear on what you want, very clear. But we have got to get starving. We've got to get desperate. We've got to get hungry to perform at the elite level and for some of you who are already Performing pretty high the reason these next goals are coming more and more slowly The reason that progress is slower the higher you climb is because you're less hungry You're less desperate and you've got more distractions some of you that are starting on the very beginning of your journey Towards chasing goals.

30:39I'm giving you the recipe you must increase the hunger level the desperation level and you must get more focused But for some of you have already achieved that are listening to this. I'm telling you I understand it I relate to it You're like that champion who's trying to repeat and although you're not satisfied with where you are and you have big goals and ambitions You must get honest am I as starving and as desperate as I was in the very beginning of my career in the very beginning of my Business in the very beginning of my journey in my faith the very beginning in the journey of my fitness Whatever it is because I can promise you if we drew a line back to where you made the most progress you were the most desperate and the goals start coming slower don't they as we become less and less desperate you've got to feed that and then the other thing is there was a time in your life if you were achieving at a high level whether it was getting your master's degree or graduating college or passing an exam for your business or getting to your first big promotion I can promise you if I went back and looked at you you were laser focused and all the distractions went away this is the same formula and the same recipe success leaves clues.

31:43I have a great audio you should listen to called Unlocking Your Success Code. It's one of the original ones I've done. If you're on YouTube watching this, go over to my audio platforms on iTunes or Spotify and search for Unlocking Your Success Code. I talk about how the fact that you have a code to your success, if you can repeat that code and apply it to all your goals and dreams, you'll produce the same results in different areas. And so today, I want to challenge you to get very clear on what your recipe is. If you've already been achieving in your life. Evaluate these two areas.

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33:37I'm fired up about today's show because we're getting right into what it takes to win. And that is this, write this down, one more, one more. See, I accepted a long time ago, I wasn't the smartest, the best looking, the fast enough with the best background, the most connections. I didn't have any of those things. What I could control was my work ethic. You've heard me speak many times about outworking everybody, but I think that just feels good when we hear it, but most people don't take it seriously. If you think that I have a little bit of success in my life, I can tell you what I attribute it to.

34:10Yes, self-confidence, yes, mindset, visualization, goals, all the things I talk about all the time, listening skills, influence, energy transfer, how to be happier, all of that stuff applies. When you get to winning, for me, it's come down to maxing out. What maxing out means is you do one more at least than you think you're capable of. So when you're done, whatever you're doing, whether it's at the gym or phone calls or meetings or in sports, one more shot, one more throw, one more swing of the golf club or the baseball bat, the separator is for the winners. They do one more. I'm addicted to one more.

34:45And so I want your mantra going forward to be one more. What does that look like if we're working out? That means when we're in the gym and we say, I'm going to do five sets of 10. I'm crazy. Like I'm a psycho because I want to win. I want to be somebody. I want to separate. I want to compete. And the way I do that isn't with my giftedness. Because I wasn't born with a bunch of gifts. And I think gifts are crap. I think for the most part, gifted people struggle in life because things come easy to them. I like that things haven't come easy for me in my life. I like that I don't have natural talents in every area.

35:18And maybe you like that about you too. Maybe you've looked at yourself all your life and thought, man, I don't have that natural beauty or that natural talent or this gift for creativity or intellect or humor. I don't have any of those things. But what I got is I will outwork you. And so at the gym, one of the things I focus on, they say it's five sets of 10. When I'm at 10, I go one more, bam, 11. If I'm running on the treadmill and it's a 45-minute run, I never finish at 45. I always go one more minute, 46. If I'm at the office and I'm supposed to make 25 phone calls that day, when I'm at the end of the day, I always do one more.

35:53If I've got meetings, I always do one more. My mantra for three decades in business has been one more. Why? Because we get out of life what we think we deserve. And I'm the kind of guy that I know when you do 45 minutes on the treadmill and I do 46, I deserve to be fitter. I know that when I'm lifting weights and I watch you do five sets of 10 and every single time I do one more. When it's a set of five, I do six. When it's a set of eight, I do nine. When it's 45 on the treadmill, I do 46. When it's supposed to be 20 phone calls, I make 21. When it's supposed to be an eight-hour workday, I work nine.

36:29Whatever it is, I always do one more. And what that does is it makes me eventually think I'm doing things other people aren't willing to do, so I should get things other people aren't going to get. And if you go to the root of the things I believe philosophically about winning, the people that win, the great athletes that I coach, when I watch the really gifted golfer and the one who actually wins, the gifted golfer, they do what they're supposed to do. You'd never know they weren't working hard. It's not like people don't work hard. Everybody works hard. That's a given now. But what's the separator to where you become the maxed out version of you?

37:05See, the gifted golfer, they hit their hundred balls because they're supposed to. But the not so gifted one that ends up winning, they hit 101 or 110 or 120. I watch them on the driving range and you can hear them say, one more, one more. What's the difference between Kobe Bryant and other gifted NBA players when he played or Michael Jordan when they played or right now Kevin Durant, people tell me, or Steph Curry. They're constantly, when everyone else is done shooting in the gym, they say one more. Larry Bird was legendary for one more, one more. The people that would throw the passes to him, the ball guys in practice say he always wants more, he always wants more.

37:44The great hitters that I know, the Mike Trouts and MLB, they're gifted, but they just take a little more. They take that extra batting practice, that extra session. They're always doing extra. That's the separator. Like you can learn all this stuff. You can digest all the tactics and information that I give out. But if you're not willing to do one more, eventually there's a part of you that says, maybe, maybe I don't deserve it. I'm just doing what everybody else is doing. And that's not good enough. It's not even good enough to do more than everybody else. It's your maxed out level. It's one more of everything.

38:16And so whether that's a phone call, an email, a text, an appointment, one more time you tell your spouse you love them, one more time you go in and kiss your children goodnight, one more hug of somebody, one more phone call, one more everything. I want your theme to be one more. Have I said that enough times for you today? So what's that really look like an application. Well, the second thing it does for you is you actually do more reps of whatever it is you're doing. And when we do more repetitions, we get better. And when we do more repetitions, we're more productive. So number one is the psychology part.

38:48If you're someone who's always doing things other people aren't willing to do, you always max out, you always go to the next level, you convince yourself you deserve to win. You can take low self-esteem, low identity, low confidence, and change it over time by building this habitual addiction to doing one more, this obsession of one more. All the greats do one more and all the average don't. It's not that the average don't work hard. It's not that the average at your company, it's not that they don't work hard. They probably work pretty hard, but do they always do extra? Do they always do one more?

39:21Do they always do 10 more if they need to? Do they always get after it? The other part of it, number two, is you just get better because of the reps. You're just doing more of something, you get better. You get stronger. You become a better phone caller when you make one more phone call every day. You become a better communicator when you do one more meeting every single day. You get better at coordination in your sport or at the gym by just doing more reps. Yes, you get better. So that's the second layer. But the third one is you stack the odds in your favor. See, for me, I want the odds that I'm going to win to increase.

39:55The larger numbers we play in life in every area more is always better people tell you more isn't always better and almost everything more is better just so you know and almost everything people who tell you more isn't better and most things are lazy and they try to justify their own weakness don't let people who are justifying their own weakness convince you that you working hard you doing more isn't the pathway to your success people say well you got to work smarter not harder that's a lie because everybody who wins works smarter the separator is who works harder and by the way we become smarter through working harder all the new revelations all the breakthroughs all the new discoveries always come when you're doing one more always come through more repetitions you find new ways new strategies new words new keys by higher repetitions so even if you believe working smarter is more important you will become smarter by doing more so if you work 300 days a year let's just say 300 days a year that's 300 more phone calls every single year over five years that's 1 ,500 more contacts.

41:011 ,500 more contacts. Just think about that just for a second. Over 30 years that's 9 ,000 more contacts. What are the odds the person who makes 9 ,000 more contacts or even 300 more a year are gonna win? You give me two average people that walk in a room. Same ability, same skills, same backgrounds, same product. One of them makes 300 more contacts a year than the other one. Who's gonna win? We know. How How about over five years? One of them makes 1 ,500 more contacts over five years. Who's going to win? Over a lifetime, 30 years of work, one makes 9 ,000 more contacts. Who's going to win? You stack the odds in your favor.

41:38Never mind the person who made the 9 ,000 more contacts is better. They've got more reps. They've got more confidence. They believe they deserve to win. They just have 9 ,000 more opportunities. How about a golfer? One of them makes 300 more swings a year. A year. And that's just one more swing a day. right? And over five years, 1 ,500 more, 9 ,000 over a lifetime. Who's more likely to win? So you pick anything you want. You begin to stack the odds in your favor. How about at the gym? If every day you went one more minute in your cardio, so it's supposed to be 45, you do 46. Do you know what that starts to do to you?

42:11You start knowing you're different. You start knowing you obliterate standards. You start knowing you can break through. When you break through an artificial barrier, like 45 minutes, you do one more. It sets a catalyst for your entire day. It sets a syntax. It sets a mindset for the rest of your life. Never mind the fact that if you do 300 more minutes, which is 9 ,000 more over your lifetime, who's going to be more fit? So you begin to stack these things and your entire life changes. This is what I like to call compound pounding. Most people underestimate what time can do when backed up with massive activity.

42:47Right as I'm speaking to you, I'm looking out at the ocean right now, and there's a massive rock formation. and you can see the rivets in the rocks. And what caused those rivets in the rocks was compound pounding of the ocean hitting that rock over and over and over again, over and over, compound pounding against that rock. And over time, that ocean breaks the rock down over time, where you can see the breakdown in a rock that water does hitting it. Think about that over time. Not one time when the water hits it, not two times, not five times. When you add up years and years and years of that water hitting the rock, it breaks it down.

43:26And that's like getting through to your dream. You have to be like that water hitting the rock I'm staring at right now, that over time, that compound pounding breaks down the barriers, breaks down the obstacles, breaks down anything in your way of getting to your dream. So I'm sold out on all the strategies and tactics that I teach you. but what I believe in completely is the power of compound pounding and here's the crazy thing about most people they will give up on their dream before the compounding has been allowed to kick in so they'll work at it and they'll work at it and they'll work at it and they don't see the breakthrough but what they don't understand is that rock was getting ready to break if you just keep pounding against it but because most people don't see the evidence see if you watch that water hit that rock over one day, you're going to see no difference.

44:12Two days, no difference. Five days, no difference. Maybe even a year, there's no difference. Maybe even five years. But you have the compound pounding of every wave hitting that rock over and over again. There's an inevitability to the breakdown of the rock. That's true of your goals and dreams as well. There's an inevitability to success. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when, when we adopt one more, when we adopt compound pounding. Do you know the kind of confidence you begin to have when you just accept in your life that I am going to be relentless, I'm always going to do extra, and you accept the fact that all things break down over time.

44:51All the barriers will go away. All the obstacles will go away. Everything in your way will go away if you keep after it over an extended period of time. Most people overestimate what they can do in a year. They do. They set up goals for a year and they overestimate where they're gonna get to and they dramatically underestimate what they can do in a decade. And the reason for that is most people don't understand the power of compound pounding. So I want you to accept today that you're gonna be relentless, that you're gonna keep coming, that you're like a dripping faucet. You're like those waves hitting the rock.

45:24Other people are gonna get slowed down. Other people are gonna take a break. Other people are gonna flinch. Other people are gonna cool it. Other people are gonna believe they've made it. Or maybe some people are gonna believe they can't make it. But you're gonna be relentless. You're going to be repetitious. You may not be the fastest. You may not be the smartest. You may not be the strongest. You may not be the most beautiful. You may not have the most articulate thoughts and ideas in the world, but what you got is compound pounding. What you got is one more. And when they get weak, you just keep company.

45:50When they flinch, you blow their doors off. That's how you win in life is you keep getting after it and keep getting it after it until the job gets done. You show me somebody who can succeed. So a lot of people can be excited for a day. They can be excited for a month. Some people can be excited for a year or two or three years, but the winners, they stay excited as long as it takes to get the job done. They keep after it until the job gets done. They never stop. They're always after it. And that's where their strength comes from. That's where their confidence comes from is knowing their capacity to keep coming at you and that all your competition is going to get weak.

46:24They're going to get tired. They're going to surrender. They're going to give in. They're going to think they made it. They're going to take a break. They're going to cool it. And you just keep coming. It's just nature. Just like the nature of the ocean against that rock. It's just nature that you run down your dream, that you knock down your dream. I want you to implement all the things that I teach on Max Out, all the tactics, all the strategies, but more than anything, I want you to buy into the fact of an inevitability of you winning, that it's inevitable, that it might not be a year or two years or three years, but you're going to stay excited and you're going to keep doing one more until the job gets done.

46:57Today's message is very simple. You can win. You should win and you will win. I want you to feel this. You will win if you just keep coming. You keep getting after it. You keep doing one more. You can control this. You can't control all the exterior things in your life. People's attitudes, how they treat you, who cancels on you, who changes their mind, who hates on you, who lets you down. But you can control this. You can always go 46 instead of 45. You can always go 11 instead of 10. You can always make the next phone call. Always do one more meeting. Always do one more. Always, always, always.

47:32And I promise you, you will knock down that rock that's in between you and your dream and make them come true. Today's really simple. You're going to knock down whatever that rock is that's in between you and your dream. You're going to keep after. You're going to be relentless. You're not going to give in. You're going to be the person who stays excited until the entire job gets done, until that dream is real. And you know, long-term, all these other people. They're going to flinch. They're going to get weak and you won't. You've adopted a max out mindset. And I want to remind you today to stay connected with me.

48:03I want you to win. Hope you can feel it today. I want to break it down to its most simple form, which is that you use nature to your advantage. You use the force of you, the force of effort, the force of sustained effort over an extended period of time to wear out the obstacles in front of you in your dream. I want you to feel the confidence that comes with it. I'm telling you, look at me, listen to me. You're going to do this. You're going to win if, and it's a big if, if you'll just adopt it. It ought to be written everywhere. One more, one more, max out everywhere you can put it. It's inevitable.

48:37It's not if anymore. It's just when. But let's talk first of all about getting laser focused. And I mean this as your friend. I mean this talking to myself too. I always cover things that make me better things that I struggle with but I got to tell you I think there's a different level for you I mean I think there's a different level for you to get obsessed crazy laser focus I say all the time our obsessions become our possessions but we won't possess them if we're not truly obsessed I bet there's been a person in your life you've been obsessed with if you're over 20 years old listen to this more than likely you've had somebody you were pretty obsessed with haven't you that you wanted in your life you wanted to date you want it as a girlfriend or a boyfriend or a significant other how many times a day do you think about them how many times a day did they distract you from what you were doing with just the thought of them in other words this is what I want you to understand when you're laser obsessed focused your obsession distracts you from what you're currently doing not the other way around you're not really obsessed with it if you're easily distracted from it this is so important you right now can test whether it's your obsession with whether it distracts you constantly the first thing you think of when you wake up last thing before you go to bed when you have a big laugh it comes up when you cry it comes up when you're watching tv it comes up when you're doing your regular job but it's your side hustle it comes up you can't stop thinking about it it distracts you from the rest of your life that's what an obsession does when When it's not really your obsession, the rest of your life distracts you from it.

50:09And so the it in your life is so important. But there's all these things that distract us today. I'm going to give you a recommendation. Turn your damn TV off. Turn the radio off most of the time. Turn your phone off a lot too. So here's the deal. The TV's competing constantly to distract you with stuff that really doesn't matter. I'm not saying, by the way, don't be informed, don't know what's going on in the world because that makes you more interesting, right? You should know what's going on in the world, but let's be real. Does it really matter what's going on with the Kardashians right now?

50:38Does it really matter? They live on my street in one of my neighborhoods, right? And they're very nice people, but I got to be honest with you. What happens in their life doesn't dramatically impact mine, but how many people are more obsessed with the Kardashians? And I can say this is good friends. We have many good friends in reality television. They're even listening this right now, and they would tell you this. Don't be so obsessed with them. Be obsessed with your own reality TV program called your own life, right? How about the news? All the time they're trying to distract us. Before it was Obama, now it's Trump.

51:05You better, Trump's going crazy today. Obama was nuts about this. Health care, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, right? Like all these things. And most of these things don't impact our own lives. I'm not saying don't know about them, but it's such a convenient escape from the work. It's such a convenient escape from our obsessions. The left against the right, Republicans against Democrats. Who's going to be the next president? Who's going to get the Democratic nomination? Can they beat Trump, right? Who cares? Who cares right now? You got to win in your own life. It's like when I say this, people say, well, that's not, you know, a very professional, evolved opinion.

51:39I'm just telling you what it takes to win. What it takes to win is not worrying about all that stuff. That should be the background noise. But talking about it, thinking about it, watching TV about it. Who cares what's going on in the real whatever's of anywhere? Who cares what the Kardashians are doing? Who cares who's running for office? for now. You say, well, wait a minute. Aren't you socially conscious? Here's all I know. I've been alive through many different presidents, Republican and Democrat. None of them changed my life. None of them did. And none of them are going to change your life if we're being real.

52:08People ask me all the time, why don't you run for office? Because I think entrepreneurs change the world. I think grassroots movements of good people and communities change the world. I don't think politicians change the world. And I don't mean that negatively. I coach many of them. I've coached several of them. I want there to be good ones. I want them to make good decisions, but I don't obsess about it because it doesn't dramatically impact my own life. In fact, if you think about it, the majority of people obsessed with politics have, I'm just meaning this nicely, they don't have much going on in their own life.

52:39So it's a convenient distraction to be mad at a politician because you're losing. It's a convenient distraction to get caught up in some issue outside of yourself, so you don't have to focus on your own life. If you can spend enough time obsessing about what these politicians or reality stars do, no one will look at you. But eventually in your life, you're faced with you. Eventually in your life, it's you. Eventually it's your life. Eventually they won't be on TV. Eventually it'll all be gone. Remember how obsessed you were with President Obama, whether you loved him or hated him? He's gone now.

53:12It's a new guy. And in either two more years or six more years, it'll be a new woman, hopefully, right? So getting obsessed with these things doesn't matter men so many of you obsessed with sports You're fans of these teams. Did it really change your life when the Patriots won the Super Bowl? Like if you're a Patriot fan on Saturday, they hadn't yet won on Sunday night. They won how different was your life? Tom Brady's life was different yours wasn't you Laker fans or basketball fans Does it really matter like if your team wins does it really matter? I got news for you guys You don't play for the team.

53:46You don't I know you think you do. I know you wear their jerseys I think it's one of the funniest things in life, and I don't mean this critically, please I mean this as a brother guys, but you running around wearing a jersey With an other grown man's name on the back of it. Isn't that a little bit ridiculous? I mean I really some of you ladies are not random. My husband needs to hear this. Hey, dude I don't mean this critically, but really a grown ass man You're wearing the name of another man on the back of your jersey every single day literally your name isn't bryant or james or trout or brady but you wear their name on the back of you isn't that a little bit odd we won sunday no um we didn't win they won you got to go back to work on monday you don't play for that team and it's time you wake up and start getting focused on your own life i'm not saying don't watch the game but being obsessed with it throughout the week who's injured who's hurt are we going to win we aren't doing anything because you don't play for them.

54:41In fact, players trade teams so much, what you really are rooting for is like laundry. You root for the team that has like this jersey that's your color, but the players change all the time. Yet you keep rooting for these teams. What a catastrophic, and I mean this as love because I'm a sports fan. I love the Red Sox, the Patriots. I'm a New England area sports fan, but I don't really get real caught up in it. I go to enjoy the game once in a while and how great they are as athletes, but what a catastrophic waste of your own life to be worrying about what professional athletes do and pretending to be on their team you're not on the team you don't win or lose they do right they do so wake up and get focused on your own goals you're oh I can hear all the women going amen tell him preach right ladies and in your cases it might be your sports team it might be your politics it might be the television star it might be some author you love it might be something like that for men or women for women some of you it sports as well but the fact of the matter is all of these things are a distraction from our own lives.

55:39You don't play for these teams. You're not on these shows and you don't know these people. And whoever wins a Grammy or an Oscar doesn't change your life. You winning in your life is what changes it. So tune out the distractions. Will you please turn your TV off? Get focused in your own life. Invest those hours on podcasts like this that actually impact your life. Invest it on someone's social media like mine who's actually putting out messages about your life and by the way I say this as somebody who has many of these people on my show many of these people that you admire are friends of mine as many of you know there are things to learn from them absolutely they're at the top of their craft but I don't I'm not deluded into thinking a top NBA player is any better a person than a top school teacher or a top nurse I don't think a top politician is a superior human being over a top landscaper or a top banker or a top entrepreneur.

56:36I think the people at the top of everything, there's things to learn from. And guess what the people at the top of everything have in common? They're obsessed on their own lives, not other people's. Those athletes you admire didn't get there by worrying about your life, did they? And so tune out the distractions in our lives. Turn the TV off. Get some perspective. Get obsessed because we do it because it's an escape because we don't have to look at ourselves. I'm challenging you to look at yourself. Even on the podcast space, narrow it down to the three, four, or five of us that make the biggest difference for you.

57:06And then when you're done listening to us, go to work and execute, right? You can get overtrained. You can listen to too many different shows. I happen to think you should be listening to mine because I think it's the best content. But pick a few, right? Don't be listening to 40 of them because there's time that you could be executing in your life. If you listen to it in the car, at the gym, listen to as many as you want. But in half of those times pick three or four the rest of the time be executing on your dream So what I'm telling you is CNN ESPN Fox News, right? The e-channel I have friends on all those channels.

57:36They're out to take you from your dreams They're part of the enemy of stealing your dreams because they had just not consciously, but they take your time They divert your focus. Can you get obsessed on one thing? What other things divert our focus? the things in life that don't matter our own negative thoughts our own insecurities our own weaknesses these distract us failure distracts us gossiping of other people distracts us talking about other people worrying about haters getting caught up in things that don't matter in our life drugs and alcohol distract us there's all these things when you start to pile them into life what's your distraction just be honest is it living vicariously through your children is it living through them and their soccer team and their little league and their grades are you distracted by living through your children are you distracted by ESPN are you distracted by movies Netflix video games gossip haters Fox News CNN right your problems are you distracted with things that don't matter in your life there's all these things competing to get you to not be focused how about your insecurities how about your fears how about your worries or your problems are you using all of these do you kinda your relationship issues does it distract you from your big goals do you let these things do you almost willingly do it here's what I think most of us are willing participants in our own distraction and we need to be willing participants in our own focus in our own obsessions and getting ourselves back on plan because remember what I told you if you're really obsessed the obsession will distract you from these things but if you're not obsessed these things will distract you from that thing And this requires self auditing on your part.

59:18And so that's the part one that I think steals more dreams than almost anything in life right now is this obsession with distraction. It's the obsession with other people. Think about us. It's all of these things competing except the one thing that matters. The one thing. But the best of the best. Listen to me. The one thing dominates their life. The reason some of the athletes I work with have a hard time when they retire. Can I be honest with you? because they were so great at what they did because they were so obsessed on that one thing. When that one thing is gone, they don't know what to do with themselves with all these distractions now because the best in everything don't live with distraction.

59:53They live with obsession and focus. I'm not saying don't be a complete person, but I'm saying for you to complete your journey towards maxing out, for you to completely max out your life, you must eliminate all of these things that take you by the wayside. And so now the second part of the coin, if we're going to win, right, is the sacrifice. I want you to write this down. I need to embrace the suffering. You know, there's something powerful that once you just sort of embrace the fact that in order to achieve something big, you've got to get rid of these distractions. And then the other layer of it is you're probably going to have to have some suffering to get there or some sacrifice to get there.

1:00:29And so once you've embraced and decided that this suffering, this sacrifice you're making is an indicator of progress. It's an indicator of obsession, suffering and sacrifice and hard work is an indication of progress towards our dreams. The lack of sacrifice, the lack of suffering in our lives, its removal, its non-existence also equates to a non-existence of a great life, a non-existence of a dream happening, a big one anyway. And so embrace the fact that you're going to have to sacrifice and suffer to some extent. Once you've embraced that it's going to happen, it's almost not that bad. It's kind of like those of you that are fit.

1:01:06we already know and you already know even if you're not you've sort of accepted that before you go to the gym and get there you're gonna have to suffer and we go anyway it becomes a habit no one goes into a gym thinking I'm not gonna have to sacrifice or suffer there'll be no discomfort or no pain but millions of people go anyway don't they to the gym on some level they're suffering in the gym whether it's breathing heavy or sweating or aches or pains or stress you know everything in the gym is a sacrifice and to some extent you're suffering going through some pain you know it before you go don't you yet most of us go all the time yet in life outside of that one area most of us worried about suffering we're afraid of it when we're suffering and sacrificing we wonder whether it's worth it we wonder whether we're supposed to we wonder whether sacrifice or setbacks or suffering is a sign it's not our real dream don't we see at the gym you never think oh I'm going through some pain and discomfort this must be a sign I shouldn't be at the gym you'd never think that it goes with the territory everyone knows just build a bicep or a tricep or a chest or legs you have to break it down suffer and sacrifice for it to grow so while it's happening there's no part of you that says this isn't right in fact the indication of the pain and sacrifice and sweat don't you feel better at the gym you're like wow I really sacrificed today I really suffered so in that area we all know to the extent we suffer and sacrifice is to the extent we grow.

1:02:30And your body is a metaphor for the rest of your life. But the rest of our life, every time we sweat, every time we sacrifice, every time we suffer, we don't do what we do at the gym. We start saying, well, wait a minute, maybe I'm not supposed to be doing this. Maybe I'm not cut out. Maybe it's not my destiny. Maybe I just can't do it. It's the most unbelievable, ridiculous conclusion we draw, but it's what everybody does, which is another form of distraction is doubt. The coins flip on each other all the time, don't they? Another form of distraction is just doubt. And doubt comes from the sufferer.

1:03:01It comes from a loss. It comes from fear. It comes from the sacrifice. And so just remember this, you're supposed to suffer and sacrifice. So let me ask you a question. What are you willing to risk in order to make your dream come true? Nothing ventured, nothing gained. You're gonna take a risk. Maybe it's financial. Maybe it's a risk of time. Maybe it's a risk at your job Maybe it's a risk of looking bad Maybe it's a risk of failing of falling on your face of going broke of going through pain of going through anxiety Maybe it's even a risk in a relationship. That's just gonna be difficult while you do this What are you willing to risk in order to win?

1:03:37And you have to accept that because remember what I'm gonna tell you the price you will pay for not making your dream come true is far greater than the one that you will pay to make it come true. Want me to say it again? The price you will pay, the suffering you will go through to make your dream come true is incredibly small, infinitely smaller than the price you will pay if you never do. You'll pay that one the rest of your life. And so ask yourself what you're willing to risk. What's the price you're willing to pay? Because what most people do when they're trying to chase their dream or their big outcome, the whole time they're negotiating the price in their head.

1:04:12They're negotiating it should I continue to do it is it worth it I don't know if I can continue anymore it's getting higher and that price is failure that price is setback that price is looking back that price can be financial literally a physical price and what happens is if you don't negotiate that price in advance it's going to steal your focus and energy and become another distraction one of the great distractions of chasing our dreams is this thing that goes off in our head as we're negotiating the price we're paying should I keep paying it is it getting too high is it too much and you'll have people in your ear it's too big a sacrifice you're going through too much and you begin to negotiate it in your mind it distracts all your focus you can't be executing and negotiating simultaneously if you're in your head negotiating and negotiating and negotiating you can't execute so negotiate it now negotiate it with me now what are you willing to pay for me when i'm after something big as long as it's legal ethical and moral i'll sacrifice everything else but i will not sacrifice anything legal anything unethical or anything immoral.

1:05:12But beyond that, I'm going to get it. And I know that negotiation comes up front. I accept the suffering. I accept the sacrifice. I know the sacrifice is far smaller than the one I'll pay if I don't do it. And I eliminate distractions and I go freaking get what I want in my life, just like you can. And this needs to be your recipe as well. If you're one of these people who's still negotiating whether it's worth it, maybe you've got someone in your head making you question it. That is a poverty and scarcity mentality. Let me prove it to you. When I didn't have money and I spent most of my life with none, just like you, what do we do when we go into a store?

1:05:46We don't go get what we want. We go get what we think we can afford. And so I spent the majority of my life flipping price tags over. I didn't buy the shirt I wanted. I buy the one that I could afford. I bought things based on price, not worth. And so I'm sure you do. I didn't buy the car I wanted. I bought the car I could afford. So when I was broke and I had scarcity. What do you do when you're in that position? You negotiate price. You flip price tags. What's the cost? What's the cost? What's the cost? What's the cost? Not what do you want? When I was poor, everywhere I went, flip the price tag.

1:06:18What's the cost? What's the cost? What's the cost? What's the cost? I was constantly negotiating the price for everything in my life. You do that when you come from a place of scarcity, of being poor. Successful people and wealthy people have a subtle distinction. They don't look at price. They look at worth. is this worth it? If you're constantly looking at the price tag, you'll eventually relent. You'll eventually give in. Stop negotiating the price. It's a freeing experience to totally commit. When you totally commit to a relationship, to a business, to your fitness, to your faith, it's a freeing, powerful.

1:06:53It's almost like removing kryptonite from your life when you totally commit. Can you do that? The people around you always say, it's costing too much. It's costing too much. And you're going, maybe it's costing too much. You gotta start going, no, it's worth it. It's not the price, it's the worth. It's a subtle distinction in your life. That same scarcity mentality we do in going after our dreams. We want to acquire our dream. You can't be in price tag mode. What's it cost? What's it cost? What's it cost? You never get what you want. Decide in advance what it's gonna cost and then decide, here's the subtle distinction.

1:07:27Successful people don't negotiate the cost of something. they negotiate whether it's worth it that's subtle it's very subtle if you're a person who's always thinking about what it's costing you in the sacrifice towards your dream you're always going to be negotiating it but if you can decide in advance that the cost is worth it the negotiation stops and you go execute what i'm telling you is if you really want something bad enough it's worth it it's worth it so start to feed yourself the worth question over and over and over again not the cost question. Cost is a distraction. Worth is a focus mechanism.

1:08:02This is so worth it. It's so worth it. It's so worth it. Focuses you. Cost distracts you. What I want to remind you of is on the other side of that suffering, on the other side of that sacrifice, on the other side of that laser focus is your dream. It's one of the greatest places you'll ever be in your life. And here's what I know, by the way, the times where you've been the most laser focused in your life, listen to me on this, you've been the most happy. The times you've been the most distracted, you've been the most unhappy. Ladies, if you're listening to this, you think about the times where maybe when you were pregnant, for example, if you've been pregnant before, and the amount of focus that went in on that beautiful baby you were going to have, the preparation for it.

1:08:40I mean, you're carrying that child right next to you. You can't get more focused on something than something you're carrying, right? And I'll guarantee you during labor, you weren't thinking about your electric bill or some email you had to return. You were damn focused in that moment. and I'll bet that baby made you almost happier than you've ever been in your life. For some of you that when you were cramming for finals in your life, right, that first time you were cramming and it was so laser focused on something and you were happy. You know, the truth is that was a happy time in your life. For some of you that have built some businesses or maybe when you were in your courtship dating who you're now married to, you were so focused, weren't you, during that time with that person?

1:09:18I mean, it was some of the happiest times of your life. the most focused times in our life the less distracted times in our life also equals the happiest times in our life so if you really want true bliss you want true fulfillment it comes from eliminating the distractions and becoming obsessed there are healthy obsessions in life and the more obsessed we are about healthy things the happier we are whether we're obsessed with the happy times of carrying that baby and having that baby the happy times of achieving a degree we've had no the obsession we've had when we were dating somebody and we were so in love with them.

1:09:49These times when we're in the healthiest of our obsessions is when we're the happiest. So I want to challenge you today to make that shift of eliminating these distractions and elevating your level of focus in your life. And remember this, there's three things that I want you to be controlling, your state, your story, and your strategy. State, story, strategy. What's your state? Are you in a state of focus? Are you pumped up? Are you breathing deeply? Are you Lasered in on something are you completely in there? Where's your stated distracted? Diverted state right hunched over watching TV looking at your phone worrying about Iraq worrying about North Korea worrying about Trump worrying about Obama Worrying about an election worrying about who's in a fight on a reality show right all of that stuff distracts us Are you in a state totally pumped up totally focused on your dreams lasered in number two?

1:10:37What's the story you're telling yourself? Are you telling yourself the sacrifice is worth it? The suffering is worth it. That the price you're going to pay is worth it. And that you're going to get on the other side and great things are going to happen and your obsessions become your possessions. And this is the happiest you've ever been before. And your life matters. And you're not some fan of some team. You're a fan of your own life. That when we win, we really win. When you win the game of your own life, you really win. Not when the Patriots or Lakers win, but when I win. And you're telling yourself that story.

1:11:06Or are you telling yourself the other story? Hey, man, I hope we get our quarterback on Sunday. I hope LeBron can drop 25. And you tell this distracted story that's completely meaningless in your own life about some sports team, right? Which story are you telling yourself? The one of your own life or hiding in the story of other people's lives? Let me say that to you again. Are you telling the story of your own life or are you hiding in the story of other people's lives? We hide in the story of other people's lives through gossip of people that are around us, talking bad about them. We hide in reality TV.

1:11:38We hide in the news. We hide in politicians. and we hide pretending we play for these sports teams. Those are all stories about other people's lives. Are you in the story of your own life? And then lastly, what's your strategy? You've got to execute on your strategy. You have a very detailed plan to make that story you're telling a reality and everything transforms in your life.

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1:12:51Very short intermission here, folks. I'm glad you're enjoying the show so far. Don't forget to follow the show on Apple and Spotify. Links are in the show notes. Now on to our next guest. Hey, have you ever thought about like running a marathon? Because I've thought about it. I'm like, there's an Ironman in Coeur d 'Alene where I spent my summers. Just the marathon part of it, I was like, that's bananas, 26 miles, you know. And have you ever thought about doing that? Or have you ever watched one of these Ironmans and go, man, I'm going to do that someday. Then I want you to contemplate thinking about doing it 30 freaking days in a row.

1:13:27How about 50 days in a row? How about a hundred days in a row? Guess what? I got the dude here today who did it. A hundred in a row in a hundred days. His name is Iron Cowboy, James Lawrence. Welcome to the program, brother. Hey, Ed, man. I got to tell you, huge, huge love, adoration, and respect for you. So he's, by the way, the reason I started with 30 and 50 is he's done that. And then when you the 50 and 50, I'm like, bro, I like you're out of your damn mind. Right. And then to go do the conquer 100, but I'm reading about both, you know, both of those last two, it's inspiring. Right. But this time, like day five, your shins start exploding, right?

1:14:11Like you're on day five. Talk, talk us through that. Did you think of quitting then? So, so two really cool things happened. Um, that took me a little bit of time to realize, um, I went into it, um, knowing that you can't train for a hundred consecutive, you have to adapt and evolve along the way. And I knew, look, the first 15 and 20 of these are going to be hell because you've got to get to the point where you're broken physically, mentally, and then push through that. And that's where everybody quits. And if I can push through that, my body's going to adapt and evolve and it's going to become the new normal.

1:14:47Everybody, I want you to write this down, pull over, adapt and evolve. That's in your business. That's in your family. That's in your fitness. That's the key. Go ahead. Keep going. Yeah. And so when I went into it with an ankle problem that I didn't tell anybody about and it immediately exploded into my shin to where we developed a stress fracture in the bone and super long story but a miracle happened. We ended up getting a carbon-plated shin brace that allowed allowed the, the allowed us to offload the shin and continue on to heal that stress fracture by doing the marathon portion every single day.

1:15:29It was a, it was a total miracle, but a complete testament to me that you give the body, the tools and assets that it needs to recover. It can still do so under stress. And that was amazing to me to watch the body heal like that. Now, the shin and the imbalance that created a hip problem became so painful. Some of my worst days, I don't remember them, but we have the video footage where I would be trying to move and the pain would get to a point that I could no longer manage it and I would black out. And we called him the wingman. My wingman would catch me. I'd come back to and he would do a 10 second countdown and then say, here we go.

1:16:13and we would repeat that until I got to the, I'm going to be emotional, but until I got to the finish line that night. And, um, again, it's just a testament to how powerful the mind is. Now I, I was angry because, um, I wanted to showcase how strong our team was mentally and physically. And I wanted to make the a hundred look easy. I believed we could do that. And I was angry that I couldn't run and that I was forced to walk.

1:16:56And it turned out to be the biggest blessing of the entire campaign. Why? My pain and discomfort forced me to walk. and every single day we had people from around the country fly in and locals to support us and without fail they said I'm so grateful you're walking because I wouldn't have been able to join you if you if you weren't walking and uh and I was hard on myself because I was like look look, I'm an athlete. I want to destroy this. And as, as I, as I got deeper into it, I was like, I'm so grateful for this injury. I'm so grateful I'm walking and, and my, my pain has turned into a blessing that other people can join and have an experience.

1:18:01And every single day, somebody did their first 10 K with me or their first marathon or their first full distance or their first hundred, a hundred mile bike ride. And every single day I got to experience somebody else's first. And it was humbling and it was, um, yeah, humbling. Wow. I mean, by the end of this, you guys, a couple hundred people riding the cyclists with them and you, I actually, for you, I'm grateful that it didn't look easy because I think you connected at least with me watching you struggle. I'm on Instagram every night watching these videos and it was happening. And like, there were literally times for me watching you, like I'm in tears, like not wondering the next day, just, but it's one of the most, I don't even like to say one of the most, because when I say that, then I have to think of something that I think is more, it's just insanely inspiring and I can't think of something mentally or physically I've ever seen close to this because of the adversity because of all the people that got caught up in it with you also though there's another element of this that you know this idea of adapting man I'm just so glad that you said that for everybody's sake but I I'm curious of all of them the one time you did 50 or this time was there a moment where you're like i'm out i'm going to tap like you're literally blacking out right so that's insane to me but was there a time when you just consciously went i'm in too much pain i'm in too much because guys these are icy roads snowy sometimes you imagine shin issues on a snowy ice oh my gosh like like was there a point or are there lots of points where you're like i'm out was there one particular bro where you're like no no no like this time I'm really out.

1:19:53So, um,

1:19:57my team is world-class. Um, and, and there's, there's the core four of us. It's my wife, Sonny, Joe, um, and then the two wingmen, Casey and Aaron, and they were, they were the four of us thick and thin through the 50. And then, and then I brought those boys back on for the hundred and they played massive roles. And Sonny is obviously the head of this, this entire thing. And we, we just know from experience that it's okay to feel and it's not okay to quit. It's okay to problem solve. It's not okay to quit. And it, and it's okay to process. And I think that's what a lot of people don't do, especially men is they, they don't allow themselves to feel and process before they hunker down and keep going.

1:20:47at no point in time was ever any of us saying, you know, we're quitting. We got to be talked back into it. But every single one of us had moments where we just needed to cry to feel,

1:20:59be supported to where we said, okay, I've had my two minutes. I'm not going to dwell on it. We're going to, we're going to quickly turn this around and we're going to get back to work. And, and, and that's the reason the four of us are so strong together because all four of us have that mindset. And I will tell you this, the closest that I ever came to even considering it was somewhere between 15 and 20, where we were at the peak of that pain, where I had a couple of days where I was blacking out. I don't remember portions of it. And I remember standing in the shower and I kind of just shrugged my shoulders at Sonny.

1:21:39And I said, I don't know how many more days I can manage the pain at that level. Because when you've got 85 more days to go, that is so, it's so daunting. And when you're broken, you, it's hard to conceptualize what it's like. And I'll never forget what she said. she said um you're done today and you don't have to do anything else and all you have to do is now trust in the team get out of the shower go lay on the table and let them take care of you and then we will face whatever comes tomorrow together gosh and i think that's what a lot of people don't do is is you've you've got this today's mentality of the people that do decide to show up that it's like, I got to go in all the time.

1:22:28I got to go all in all the time. I got to hurt more than he does. And they don't take two seconds to reset mentally. And I can't tell you how important that was. And the valuable lesson that I learned was you've done enough today to take two seconds and reset. And as soon as I got into that rhythm, knowing, and again, it takes, it takes putting the right team together. And then it takes letting go and trusting the team that you have put together to do their job to do their part. And that's hard to as a man to let go of like control of every piece of that puzzle and to go, I surrender and I trust you to do your part.

1:23:17And it's hard to find good people nowadays that are willing to do their part. Yeah. And I have that team. And so when Sonny said, you've done enough today. Beautiful. And I think that's so important because we go through life and I think we're so hard on ourselves. We see ourselves differently. And how many times in our lives, on our journeys, do we take a minute and say, you're enough? You've done enough. And I think it's so important, especially as men, to be vulnerable and just say, I've done enough today. I'm going to take on tomorrow when tomorrow comes. Today's special. It's not every day you sit across from a three-time Super Bowl champion.

1:23:58But actually, as impressive as his football career was, I like the fact that the dream didn't stop there and he was able to post-football create an incredible brand, an incredible career, an incredible life post-football. So I just want to pick the brain of the great Troy Aikman. Troy, good to have you. Yeah, great to be on. Great to meet you. I've always wanted to ask somebody who's won a lot this. I'll be honest with you so the things that have happened in my life where I've kind of won in business or whatever there were there were um it was amazing there were elements of it that were better than what I thought it was going to be but there are also elements of it that surprised me and I'm curious you win this as much as you can go back and really be there you win this first Super Bowl maybe you're still on the field you're in the locker room it's the next day was it what you thought it would be like did you feel what you thought you would feel because there's these new studies that actually say that you get more dopamine in the pursuit of something that actually when you hit it there's like a dopamine crash in your brain and it's like is that all there is there's a little bit of a letdown yeah did you have that happen to you what did it really feel like i'll take you back a little bit earlier than that when when i was about 14 years old i couldn't wait to get my driver's license okay i mean i thought that anyone who could drive, how could they ever have a bad day in their life?

1:25:16I mean, I just thought that, how could you ever be upset about anything? I mean, you can drive. Well, you turn 16, you get your driver's license and you learn to drive and all that, and you've got a car and then you realize that, hey, you still have bad days. And that always stuck with me. So I've always known that achievement isn't going to, it's not going to fulfill you anymore. I mean, you're proud and you're working towards that and you reach these goals, but it doesn't, it's not going to make you any happier. It's not, you know, that comes from a totally different place. Now I will tell you, I was in my fifties before I really figured that part of it out really and so uh but when i won my my first super bowl i i knew it was at least i knew that was in my back pocket and that's what i was drafted to do so that's where the satisfaction came like for the rest of my career they can't say i can't win the big one was it was it satisfaction or relief uh great question i i would say in all honesty was it was more relief yeah yeah because I was never one of these athletes who people would say, how come you don't smile more?

1:26:33How come you don't look like you're really enjoying playing? I didn't smile or enjoy it until it was over. Until we won. Until we won the game. That's when you were really able to enjoy the effort. But during it, no. It was a grind. But yeah, I think in all honesty, it was more more relief. That's been my emotion too. It's interesting you say that. It wasn't what I thought it would be, although there's other benefits that come with it that you don't dream of or imagine as well, but it's almost like, okay, a little bit of relief. But the other thing that's unique about you, brother, is that you repeat.

1:27:13And I know it's a team sport, but we're going to get into broadcasting in a minute. Then you repeated, I mean, most of you know this, but if you don't, I mean, Troy has had this prolific career at Fox. Now he's at Monday Night Football at ABC. He's the number one sports broadcaster in football now. He's also become number one of that. So he's a guy that has to leave college to go to UCLA because the offense didn't work for him. Ends up becoming the number one pick in the draft, ends up being one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. And then after that, duplicates it with a career that's been dominant.

1:27:39And by the way, he could be a professional bodybuilder if he wanted to be right now, too. So the guy finds this way to the top position. But a lot of people don't deal very well with rejection or failure. But a lot, a lot, and you know this, whether it's been business people you've met in your life or people that are in a good relationship or an athlete. Like we were talking about the UFC guys that I work with or the boxers. Guys work really hard to win a championship. And then something happens to them after they win a championship. That hunger, the drive, whatever it is. Most people deal very poorly with winning is the truth.

1:28:12It seems like that has not happened to you. No, it hasn't. And I think in general, most people, well, my approach, whether it's in football or whether it was in broadcasting or it's in my personal life, is that most people aren't willing to do the work. I mean, that's what I believe. And I don't know where it came from for me. I don't know if it was the way I was raised by my father. But that, to me, is what has driven me throughout my life and everything that I've done. Now, the Super Bowl, as far as that goes, I can't imagine winning a Super Bowl and then not being more hungry than you were.

1:28:57And the reason I say that is because it is such a great experience. that how could you not want to go and do that again and again. But you played with the guys you didn't. You played with the guys. I've been with – and I've seen those teams and we all see – because it is. It's a bit of human nature. Jimmy was great in our repeat, Jimmy Johnson. He treated us harder. I mean, he worked us harder the second year. And there was a reason for that. Jimmy was a psychology major and he felt that, hey, now is when people get complacent. I'm not going to allow it. And so he worked us even that much harder.

1:29:33But, you know, Ed, I'm asked a lot about why I work out so much, why I do all this. And the reason really is simple, that I feel like my success as a player was because I just refused to be outworked. And so I was going to do whatever was required. And when I got into broadcasting, I'm not the greatest speaker in the world. and uh but i just said i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna give myself at least a fighting chance and i'm gonna i'm gonna put more time into this and so i i work hard at trying to be as prepared as i possibly can be to go into a broadcast and then with the working out now in my personal life it's been about discipline uh and commitment and if i let myself go i feel like it i feel like then I become a bit of a fraud in what I believe is the foundation of who I am and why I've been able to have some degree of success.

1:30:31And so I think it's, you know, when you talk about a through line, when you've been asking me those questions, that's the through line for me. It's discipline, it's consistency, and it's commitment. Yeah, you're the product. Everyone, you know, this is an audio show, but we're on YouTube as well. But I mean, Troy's in better shape right now than when he played. I have one of the great fitness icons of all time right here, Mike O 'Hearn. So Mike, thanks for being here, man. Thank you, man. So good to have you, man. What do you mean if you don't miss meals? I don't miss meals. Do you do cheat meals?

1:30:58Do you eat... I saw something on your birthday. It looked like you were almost pained to eat some bad food. It was like a bite of cake or something you had. Tell me at least you have some meals that you're like, this one's not good for me. I get to eat this. Do you at least have some? I do. It makes sense. He eats fruit. He eats what? Fruit? Fruit? Fruit's my cheat. fruit i do cheat i i wouldn't say cheap because now today everybody's like well i got my high day on sundays yes because it's sunday come on that's what i'm always on a plan i know let me i'm glad this is you because all my boys are that way and um there's a little give on things i don't give it unless it's going with what my plan is at the time yeah i'm always getting ready always and have never not been getting ready and well they go well you don't compete anymore and i haven't competed right but i get paid to travel to shows and this is one thing i grew up with when i saw guest poses as a kid they would show up and they'd be these big um fat guys on stage and uh and i'd be like wait a minute he doesn't look like the magazine what's going on And then you do the sport and you understand there's an off season, there's non-season.

1:32:13And I got to a point where I started doing guest appearances and I like, I'm going to give them me. Yeah. I want to be me 24-7. And I was one of these guys, I'm old enough to be around before Photoshop was created. So the cover is the cover. That's the cover. The weights are the weights. There's no fake weights. You know, it's one of those things that I'm too old school to cheat. Yeah, the process. And by the way, even though you don't compete anymore, you're still getting covers still. Still getting covers, getting cover stories Just a couple quick things But what I mean, I don't compete, I don't compete against other people In a sense, I compete every day I know you do I've seen your sessions, I've talked to you about training with you I damn well know that you compete, dude, trust me Do you get off Which is more fun I know it's more fun, by the way, I totally agree with you The reason I love fitness or I love bodybuilding Or UFC fighters I've had on here It transcends whatever the business is Like if you're going to win any business you're in You're going to win any of your faith, you're going to win anything you're going to compete that way you have to compete to get there right so you got to have that hunger and that desire to go i can do this i know i can do this um do you get off on doing stuff do you get off on doing stuff other guys won't do do you think that's why you eat cleaner while you train there are parties like i'm doing what they're not doing so it's got worse what do you mean it's got worse man this uh i want to give a shout out to my boy yeah and and it's one of these things where when you're thinking you're giving it all yeah and then somebody goes and i I can do one more percent and something triggers you and something fires you up even more.

1:33:42For my entire career, I won the universe. And I hate the guys that go. Because when I was too young, it was like, well, you can't compete against the men. Yeah, I can. Yeah, I can. And then I was at the Middle Ages and I was beating everybody and I was still doing the covers. And I was still doing powerlifting and going to bodybuilding and doing the martial arts and doing the gladiators. And I was like, you guys keep saying you can't do things. Who is this that says you can't? You can't model for 40 years. I'm still on the cover. So I don't get it. So now at this stage, it's like I get too many people.

1:34:15And I say, don't change your mindset. Because when you come up to me and you go, pretty good for 35, right? And I'm like, for 35? Well, I got achy knees. Why do you have achy knees at 35? What's going on? So my mindset is it's not that I'm doing well for a 49, almost 50-year-old guy. I'm still crushing 20 year old athletes the elite athletes in the point I'm trying to not yell yeah and as you hear I think both of us will go into the world is becoming an echo yeah you're right and and I so I'd rather be the guy I love this that shuts his mouth and does it does it yeah and and and I live my life with my dogs and my girl and I train at four in the morning and I and I I don't talk about it so much in the sense of, look at me.

1:35:06Right, I know. I'm doing it. Yep, you are doing it. And then if that motivates you, awesome. My favorite part about you is your example, like, screams. You don't have to say anything. It's just, like, so loud. Like, looking at you, watching you train, your example. Like, it just, it freaking screams, man. This is the Ed Mylon Show.