How Fitness Creates Leverage For Success

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What's up, everybody, and welcome back to the Anthony Eamon Show. Digging the new gear. Come on. Don't forget, let us know if you want one. We'll ship it out to you. Yep. We're excited. Free shipping. Mr. Yao. Yep, what's on it? We're gonna talk about a topic near and dear to my heart. Okay. One that I've done, no pressure, by the way, over 400 episodes on. And we're gonna tie it in because it's the episode that is gonna combine my life together. Okay. With fitness, how do you use that to create leverage? And what about fitness is important, especially when it comes to being wealthy?

Just in general. In general. Well, if you want to be here for long and be successful, if you want to be here for long and be successful in any industry and you have to take care of yourself, what's wealth without health? Never gonna get to enjoy it, you're never gonna get to see the fruits of your labor. I mean, it's number one. Why? You know, when we have a whole bunch of problems in life, but do you notice when you become sick, you have one problem? When you become very, very sick, do you care about the bills anymore? You care about the guy that the friend that you were just think about when you have the flu or whatever sickness that you went through. When you got hurt, right? When you slipped. What did you think about at that moment? At that very moment, getting better. That's it. That's that's my point. And sometimes we lose grasp to that because of all the things that we go through in life. But when you become sick, you have one problem. When you're not sick, you got tons of problems. That should tell you health is priority.

So, how do you know someone is gonna be successful? Can you use fitness as a metric? 100% right. But how many people, how many people in your life do you know that are not fit that are successful?

I before I answer, I get what you're saying. The correlation fitness has a direct correlation with success because it takes discipline. That's it right there. Now, there are few information this people that are not um no, yes, there is. Yes, there is. Oh no, yes, there is anything. Every successful person's in shape and fit and healthy. No, no, no, I'm talking ultra high net worth.

Oh, like top 10 status.

Damn. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I respect the country. The president doesn't seem like he's in shape. The president does not seem like he's in shape.

He's not top ten richest per people.

He's talking about just status, though. You're talking about finance like net worth.

Net worth. Donald Trump pre-president was he in shape?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Um he was at his peak, I think a prank just stays.

You got a good point there.

Uh you ever listened to interviews with Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk when it comes to fitness? Yeah, I know.

What do they say? They work on all every day. Every day. Every day. Why? Uh what's the name? What's the guy's name? Um Bezos. Same thing. Every day. Well, mental clarity. Clear as you're people when you're thinking about this. Let's just get step away for a second. Not even top 10 riches. If you want to be successful, the first thing you have to start with is yourself. And usually people that are not successful tend to not lack discipline, they tend not to take care of themselves. And it shows physically. When you take care of yourself, you have the discipline to go to the gym, be healthy, or work out, walk, whatever it is, you start to gain discipline in other areas of your life. Something as simple as I'll give you this is actually a good one. I love this. This is a really good one. Do you know this is Elon Musk? I'm trying to remember Elon Musk Bezos. I think it's Elon. Elon Musk makes his bed every day. Listen to this for a second. Do you think is because he has to do it? No. So he can afford somebody to clean up his house and his room. It's discipline. And it starts with the little things. And that's why you grow up in a household or an environment where you don't have you're not trained to make your banner, clean up your room, um uh uh uh be on time at your job, go to school, all those things, it takes discipline. It trickles into your adulthood and it shows. So Elon Musk, at however old he is 50 something years old, makes his bet every day.

But yeah, I'm busy. I can't do that stuff.

Well, uh again, of course, you give other people the job and stuff that leverage your time is everything to make money. But I'm saying if you're able to implement that type of discipline into your life, like Kevin O'Leary said with Elon Musk, it's noise. He cancels out the noise, man. If you're able to zone in and be disciplined enough to make your bed, it's just start with the little things. You don't have to do it forever. Of course, your time is money, I get it. But the discipline to go to the gym, the discipline to make your bed, start with those little things and see how your life changes. So, yes, there is a direct correlation with fitness and and and and success. There's a direct correlation with with people that are neat and clean and success. That's what I'm trying to say. There's a correlation between the two. You're going to find that more people that are in shape take care of themselves. That includes getting a haircut, shaving, smelling good, working out, dressing neatly, um, tend to be more successful than those that look filthy, dirty, don't take care of themselves, musty, out of shape. Statistically, you're gonna find that true or false. You're right. I'm telling you, it's true. How can you most people have a company, entrepreneurship? How can you take care of people and do it render a service to people if you can't take care of yourself? That doesn't make sense.

There's multiple sides to this coin. Hold on. It's not just working out, it's also diet, it's also getting enough sleep. And yeah, what I've learned over the last decade, wow, it's been doing this a decade. Wow. Um people don't understand truly that we were saying the little victories and the little things matter more than anything in the world, but not only the little things, the little things that are gonna give you the biggest ROI. And what has the biggest ROI out of everything?

Your health. Why? I mean, that you take care you the longer you're here, you feel better.

That's the only thing that pushes you forward. Look at it analytically. Time alive. You get more time alive, right? Statistically speaking. So you have more days and hours to work. You get sick less, right? More days to work. You're not in bed dying of some virus or whatever, like that. Less chronic disease that's gonna weigh you down, diseases like type 2 diabetes, where you're just gonna debilitate you because you feel groggy and restless. Less of that every single day. Less visceral fat on your body, right? You're happy have a higher metabolic rate with the more muscle mass you have. So being able to sustain higher metabolic rate means more energy. You're burning more calories a day, you're up, you're moving. Those little things compound. Those little hours. There was a study done six years ago about the cost of obesity. Do you know how much it costs our country every year for obesity?

Yeah, that's insane.

Yes. 10 billion, 20 billion. One and a half billion dollars. How much? One and a half billion. Oh wow. Roughly that number. Every year. What number we got the actual number? Yeah, tell me, go. What's the actual number? Cost of obesity in the US per year. It's like one and a half billion. Is it really? It's something ridiculous. Oh, that's insane. But why? Why does it cost so much? Well, it's taxpay dollars.

Uh no, you can say that loud. I was off buying a tire zero. Let me see that. I'm sorry, guys. This is light and out.

173 billion per year.

No, it's over 1.3. What? 1.4 trillion? What do you got? Guys, this is like guys. We're talking about this right now. Hold on. Obesity cost the United States healthcare system nearly 173 billion. That's the healthcare system. So the trillion numbers correct. Yeah.

They're both correct. I'll explain both.

Yeah, yeah, because okay.

I'll explain both. So my number was coming off the healthcare system, which is the obvious answer.

Which is what? 1.173 billion.

173 billion three billion. 173 billion. And what was the other one? It was 1.4 trillion. So why the discrepancy? Yeah, what you very easily to explain. Okay. The healthcare system, meaning the effect on hospitals. How much money we're outputting, right? So paying doctors, nurses, staff from the chronic. That's what it's costing. But then there's the cost that you're not seeing. Simple costs. It costs more fuel to get places.

Yeah.

It costs more sick days. You're out of work. So it's costing our economy the opportunity costs because you're not affected by work. You're not going to work as much. And that's where the trillion number comes in because it inflates all of that. Wow. God. Wow. But we sit here and argue over tax codes that cost us a half a percent. Yeah. We're not gonna look at a big fancy number. That's still more than Elon Musk's net worth. Yeah. And everyone's like, well, look at look at his net worth, look at the cost of obesity. Which is wild. Yeah. And people just refuse to take accountability for their health. You want to spend less money? Get healthy. You want to make more? Get healthy. You want to live longer? Get healthy. You want to manage the grandkids? Get healthy. You want to not get all these chronic diseases? There's so many of them that are caused just from not being healthy.

Yes.

But people turn the blind eye. I don't have time. I'm busy. I'm busy. No, no. Are you too busy to not be able to live a long life? You know, you know, you want a wake-up call? You want a real wake-up call? Go to a nursing home. Or that's gonna do it for you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right right there. That's not only go to a nursing home, go to a nursing home. That's gonna do it for you. And as their ages.

Dude, you hit gold. You'd be shocked when some of them start imaging it. You shout when some of them start saying, I'm 61. You'll be so shocked. Bat hunched over, can't walk. One eye is if you can't see out of one eye hold you. 63. What? You're 63? You look 98.

What was the point of working? What was the point of putting the work in the Edward into life? I know a lot of y'all feeling this in a he's too directly to go to college. You're right. You spent $100,000 in college, then you went to the workforce, you worked your butt off for this company crying, this career ladder, and then you were forced to retire because you couldn't take care of your health. Oh, because you made bad decisions.

You don't, yeah. What's the point of working hard if um you're not gonna get to enjoy? It's gonna end early for you because you're very, very unhealthy.

I see it all the time. I see so many people they wake up, they are forced into retirement and they can do things they want because of things going on. Now they used to say there are things that aren't preventable, right? Yeah, but we're not talking about it. But statistically proving most of them are preventable.

Cancer, I mean, certain things are not. Certain rats are not preventable, yeah. But you have control over so much, so much more.

Yeah. People pretend, and now now we're gonna go step further. This is what gets me, this gets me fired up, yeah. Look at a moving. It's so deeply embedded into our society to be unhealthy, we don't even realize it. Exclean. Hey Yao, having a party. Wanna come over? Sure. What do you can bring something? What's y'all grabbing? Oh, yeah. What are you grabbing? The beers, the snacks. Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna bring a dessert and come over. I'll be right back. Yeah, cakes. If you bring if you walk up with a fruit tray, that's over for you. People are gonna win. You're gonna be like, what the hell? I don't want I'm bringing it for the party. Gotta go. Oh, this is my favorite. I had this conversation today with somebody. I mean, I'm gonna I'm gonna keep it real. We're gonna keep it real. I'm gonna talk directly to camera on this one because this is so freaking real. My least favorite answer is I have it in the house for my kids. I'm gonna be real. I'm gonna I'm gonna be totally straight because I want people to really understand this. And it's is it's funny hearing it from an outside perspective, but it's said no, it's a lie. It's not a lie. Yeah. No, no, hold on, hold on. No, people really get snacks and unhealthy desserts for their kids. Yeah, half is for the kids, half's for them. No, of course, because they can't control themselves. Hold on, that's not the point. I get what you're saying, though. Yes. The point is if something's unhealthy and you know it's unhealthy, why are you feeding it to your kids? Yeah, I mean, yeah. Why do you have it in the house? What's gonna happen? The kids are gonna be around it, they're gonna start eating all the time, and it's not gonna affect them right away. They're young. To the metabolic. Right, the metabolic bridge, they'll be fine. But now they're developing these habits to get addicted to it. Yes, and now over time, they're gonna be in the same boat you're in because they can't lose weight because they're so addicted to sugar, and they're so addicted to desserts, and they're so addicted to everything because they grew up with it. It's hard to break.

Then that's where they're embedded in our society, right?

So it's still gonna be embedded in society, it's still gonna be around everywhere. I'm not saying go cold turkey. I have kids, I get it. This is the difference. You make it a tree. It's a tree. We go out for it. We eat home most days of the week. We go out once a week for ice cream.

You're going out. You're speaking for yourself too. This is what you do? This is what I do. You have hey, yes, it is. You have any snacks at home? I do not buy unhealthy snacks, you'd ask my wife. Me personally. You don't? Do you ever have a craving for unhealthy snacks? I get craves on human. What do you what do you what do you do? What do you do when you get craved? What do you eat?

I've been on a I can't have ice cream because I'm very lactose intolerant. But sorbet's in particular.

Okay.

Life is high all the time. Like, you know, honey, don't get ice cream. So we go out to the ice cream shop, we get in line, and we can experience we're going out. Right? And it's not in the house. We have to go out and get it. What size do you want?

Mostly grabbing the large and medium. Small. You're getting a small.

Because most of the time when we have a craving, just a little bit satiates. And the rest is garbage. Wow.

So you just get a small. So even in those times that we that you get these cravings, you still have to keep that discipline in there.

But it's minor. It's just getting a small. I'm still getting it.

Yeah, but it's like you go to the movies, it's 50 cents more to get a large. Are you upgrading to that never? Why? Discipline. That's discipline. Yeah. You want it though. People you still want it. I want the large, but you have to tell yourself no, but you train. No, but I'm trained that way. Exactly. You can't just say no, you don't want you trained yourself not to. If you just let yourself go, like I would like a little more. It's 50 cents more plus an extra thousand calories. It's not just 50 cents. No one's thinking of that. Then I'm thinking about the extra, it tastes good. I want more. It's only 50 cents. So you have to be disciplined enough to know if I eat this, forget about the financial part that it's cheaper, it's 25 cents more. It's hurting me. It's 50 cents more, but it's a thousand calories more. Satisfy myself just a little and be able to say, no, I don't need a large. I don't speak for myself because I had that problem where I would go to like the ice cream store or something like that. And they're and the large, you know how they do, you know, the business to 25 cents more for the large. They put it close together. So you just screw it. Let me get the biggest one. And it took me so many years to be able to tell myself, no, you don't need the large, dude. You don't need the large. You don't need the medium. You just get the smaller. That is that so many people go on. Some people don't even begin the bow. It's just screw it. I'll just get the large. That's the hardest thing, is making that transition to tell yourself, no.

But I didn't, I didn't say no to myself. That's the difference. Because when you start saying no, then you start, I want a more, I want a more, you start craving and you start feeling depressed, and you start getting one. You give yourself the opportunity to go get it because you treat yourself for it.

But you're still telling yourself no, you're still telling yourself no. No, I will not get this upgrade. I'm going to get a small. So you have to, you have to. To an extent. That's what I'm saying. You still reward yourself with whatever you're eating, but I don't mean to get the biggest size.

I set boundaries, though.

Exactly.

Right. So now if it's not home and it's a shitty day outside, we're not getting ice cream because I don't want to go in the car and it's not worth driving there.

What do you tell? What do you say to those people that will drive there for it?

You know, if you're gonna take the extra if you go, it's fine. But for most people, that it's discouraging enough. Nope. It yes, Anthony.

Let me tell you something. Hey, dude, I just found this out. Researchers, sugar is more addicting than cocaine. This is what Anthony, Anthony. Let me yo, bro, when you would you just said that most people, well no, most will take that ride. Sugar's a serious thing, man. It's addicting.

It's extremely addicting. But it does not have the same effects of cocaine. That's where people get a f I mean it does release based upon dopamine schedules, yes, but that's an over Okay, but okay. Yeah, would you agree with that? You know, it's it's actually artificial sweeteners are more addicting than sugar. Okay, they're 10 times more sugary, and then what happens is like, so we let's say we eat like zero sugar diet of diet coke, for example. I was about to say that. Yeah, yeah. Take sucralose. So we drink sucralose, it's 10 times more powerful per gram than regular sugar. So our brain gets that kick. It's like a lot of kick you get with sugar, right? It's like wakes you up, it's like, oh, that's exactly what I wanted. But then what what studies have found is those that have diet products, because it's such a high craving level inside of it, you crave more. And then you tend to have more sugar than those that just have plain sugar stuff, which is pretty wild, like to think about. So those drinking diet are way more likely to have more sugar throughout the day than those that just have regular soda, because it's overconsumption of it. Yeah, because you it's the cravings of the 10 times addicted back.

So you're better off having real so and how what do you say to those people that are watching right now that have that? Like you said, you won't because you trained yourself and you think it's absurd for me to jump in a car, it's raining. I'm gonna go get no ice crack and wait. What do you tell those people? Where do they start? Where do you where do you tell them to start if they have that problem? Like, yo, I'm watching this show, I'm watching this podcast right now. Accountability, come on now. You see it. You gotta take accountability. You gotta look in the mirror and and admit I have a problem.

Right?

You have to take accountability for your help. If you can't take accountability for your health, you can't take accountability for anything. You have nothing left. Nothing. You can't take care of business, you can't take care of your family, you can't take care of anything because you can't even take care of yourself. It goes to what we talked about happiness, right? When we get an episode on happiness, who are you most responsible for happiness to? Yourself. Because if you're not happy, how do you accept to make other people happy? So take your fitness, take your health. If you're not keeping your health in check, how do you expect to take care of someone else's health? Now I can sit here, another least favorite game that people play. Especially men, no offense. Man, when we hit the age of like 50. Man, my wife looked so much better when she was younger. Yeah, that yeah. Bro, have you looked in the mirror? I know. Like, talk about like you need to take accountability for yourself. I know. Take care of your own health. So focusing on yourself, and then your wife will pick up on your habits. You don't tell her what to do. I'm not gonna go to my wife and be like, honey, you're fat, go get in shape. Go start working out, and she'll pick up the habits of being around. What if she doesn't? She will.

What if she doesn't? I don't believe it. Anthony, yes. Hey man, there's some people, yes, you're the average of who you're around, you do Facebook, but there is some people that are just lazy. It doesn't matter what you do. What do you do in that situation?

Okay. I if once we're doing that situation, I say, honey, I want you alive for a long time with me. Let's take ourselves together. We have to do it together. You can't say you need to do it, you need to do it. You have to do it together. Let's go on this journey together as collaborative. And what if the answer is still no? Like, I'm okay, I'm fine. Honey, I totally get it. But I know somebody, that's why I'm that's why I'm I'm gonna go to be them. Honey, I totally get it. And I I understand that you really don't feel like you need to do this, but I need to do this, and I know how much I cave, and I don't want to have caving patterns around me. So if you do me a favor, you don't have to follow along with anything, just don't have It in the house.

So correct me if I'm wrong. What you're saying is you try at first. You don't try to get to motivate them to go to the gym with you, join you on this journey. But if they decline and they say no, you choose yourself first and tell them, fine, you're your adult, you do what you want to do, but I'm going to tell you just don't have these sweets and sugars and all these fatty foods in the house around me because of that temptation, whatever the case is. But it is what it is. What's gonna happen? Somehow. What if that person now still goes outside and drives to go get those foods?

They're still burning calories to go outside and go get it. They still have to go out and go get it. They still have to break away from the busy schedule to go out and go get it. I understand you're going to have extremes and people are got kids. That's what I'm saying. Take it even for your kids, for example. You're the role model to your kids. 100%. Like if you're as a parent have teenagers and you're not working out, how do you expect your kids to work out? How do you expect your kids to eat healthy if you're not eating healthy? Hmm. Well, mom, you're not doing it. Or dad, you're not doing it.

Yeah, yeah. You come so the parents watching, you complain your kids don't eat veggies, all those things. You gotta ask yourself, are you eating veggies? Were you the kids are gonna consume Anthony? Would you say people are just kids?

Listen, I have a one and a half year old, so I could talk from personal experience when it comes to picky eating. That's what I'm about to say. They rejected that, right? So my son eats about what I do, 80% healthy. Okay. Easily. He doesn't read okay. Yeah. Of course, it has to be the same exact healthy things that he craves for. Like I thought it was hysterical. His favorite food in the when he was like seven months old was ground bison. Okay. Yes, I fed my son bison. Wow. I was like, wow, okay. And he loved it. Really? He used it all the time. He loves it. Wow. Ground beef, ground bison, loves it. His uh his cave is he loves bread. He's obsessed with bread. Stole a piece in the fridge yesterday. He like, I don't even know we could reach the bread draw. Apparently, now we can. So I just see him walking around like, how did you get that? Wow. So I could have a half piece of bread, it's fine.

Okay. How often? Once a day at best. Okay, good. But it's not two, three times. No. How about you? What's your cave? I get cravings and I go have my cravings. How do you keep the discipline though? It it comes from the accountability from a lot. So it's just the account, the whole point is the accountability trickles into everything. Everything. Because of the health, it went into every aspect of your life. Taking full accountability, I'm not blaming anyone out. It trickles into everything. My health is my responsibility.

Let's take it to the a true story recently. Because people like heart evidence. If you follow me on Facebook, you were doing that story. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. In January, a week before we had my daughter, my son was uh 14 months old. He was a tough kid. We didn't sleep, we were stressed. I was going to a lot of a lot of things going on in the gym. And I was working out very haphazardly, I was eating like shit, always on the go, whatever. I went and got blood work. And I was like, I need to take accountability for my eld again. Like I was getting lazy. I went six months, got lazy. Cholesterol was through the roof. Like 278, 280-ish. My LDLs were very high. Triglycerides high. And my mom's side of the family, most people have heart disease by the age of 50. 52. It's like very strong family history. They go to the doctor. I know what he's gonna say, and I just want to hear him say it. You need to go on statin. And I look up to the face, he was like, I'm not going out of statin. Can you tell what it is? People don't know. Statin is a drug that they use to help lower cholesterol in the body. I'm not getting into the science behind it, but that's basics of it. Problem is, statins are there's evidence showing now that they cause memory loss and early on said dementia. So and I don't want to put drugs in my body if I don't need to. So that's the whole point. That's the whole brand. Yeah. Yeah. The fitness is the medicine. I said, I'm gonna take responsible man and hold them. I'm gonna drop my blood work. He goes, nah, you can't, it's family history. I was like, yes, I can.

He totally holding me. He told you no, you can't?

He's like, you're not gonna be able to get a lot of love. So he said that's what he said to him. He knows what I do. Maybe it was a challenge. Maybe he just knew he wanted to challenge me, right? I got blood work six months later. My total cholesterol dropped 57 points. My LDL dropped 75 points. And I'm only slightly above average now in six months.

Wow. And this is the fitness is medicine.

I mean small changes.

But it takes it starts with accountability.

Small accountability changes. Did I start myself with sweets? No. Oh, you didn't? No. I'm still it's awesome. I'm still the same accountability system. I would go out and go get it if I wanted to, but I had no time. I was busy, I was working seven years.

How often is that? That's the key, right there. Is how often is that?

So for me, it's very seasonal. Oh. In the winter, I don't go at all. See, see, that's different. I don't eat desserts for like six months.

Oh no, no, no, no. This guy's different. There's people to do it every day after dinner, every dinner.

Bro, I'm not going out in zero-degree weather.

Oh, but the key thing is he does not have it at home. That's what I keep forgetting. It's not there. So you who goes shopping? Your wife goes shopping? My wife and I both. Now, what do you what do you what do you do in that grocery store and see if they see some of those cookies sitting there looking back at you, man? Glazing, that's light from the grocery stores hitting the cookies. You don't get cravings. Did you grow up on sweets?

Did your parents? That's my parents. Really? I used to eat candy like it was going out of style. And then one day you stop.

What made that when what would change that? My accident. So would you say it takes a traumatic experience to that's what I would say. It takes traumatic experience to change people, bro. So Anthony, if you never had that accident, where would you be? Health-wise. What do you think? Not elder. So what you're saying is easier said than done. We know that. But the real reason you change and this whole your whole brand is because of that accident.

Right. And that's something I've always struggled with. I've done, like I said, over 400 episodes with the Health of Fitness Redefined podcast. I keep going back to that same point. And it's been such a struggle. Every person I had on that changed their lives, got it together, had such bad adversity in their lives. Like, I'm talking, you think my story's bad? My story is nothing compared to what I've heard some of these people went through. Nothing. And it's mind-boggling that the people that truly embodied health all had some crazy health scare accidents. Like death experience. People losing limbs. Like on their deathbed scene. And I'm just like, what that stuck with me? There was a woman. She was traveling in uh New Zealand or Australia, I forgot which one. Middle of nowhere. She's at fields thousands of miles. What do you see? Fields on the road in the middle of nowhere. Her steering wheel got stuck. And the car rolled over and flipped three times. She's like full of time. And she shattered her leg. No one. Like she said, no cars, nothing. And she's by herself in the middle of nowhere. She managed to get herself out of her car. She crawled through. And noticed a farmhouse like all the way in the fucking distance. There was a gate, and then you saw a house all the way over the business. She crawled, she said, for five hours with a broken leg through these fields to get to this fence and then like meandered through this fence and it's getting dark. And this finally sees someone, the guy is a shotgun pointing at her. What? There's a farmer. Someone came out of his land. And then he ended up talking to her and realizing and like helped her for like that's what she had to go through, she said. To live. To be like, oh, this is what I need to do. To live. To live. I need to take care of people.

I don't know, I don't remember the name and all that other stuff, but Anthony does a movie. Uh it's called like 187 hours. You hear about it if you're gonna go. Yeah, of course. It's a real story, man. I know. His leg got stuck while he was rock climbing. He fell, his leg got stuck. He took a little pocket knife and had to cut his leg off to live. What will you how far will you go to live? We're not telling you to crawl with a broken leg. We're not saying cut your leg off with a pocket knife. I don't know if you can fathom how insane and how painful it is to cut through bone, skin, ligaments with a pocket knife. Just work out. So you people naturally will go far to live if put in extreme conditions, but all you gotta do is work out. You don't have to do those things.

Right. So what is the answer for those that don't do the adversity, right? Let's go back to that. Because that is that is truly the defining worst. So most people, I don't want them going to that shit. They don't want to. I don't know nobody. No one wants anyone going to that shit, right? You have to build your own accountability systems and leverage them in order to help get your fitness in order and your health in order because that is the most important thing. So you asked me under Overrated a while back that personal training. So a company like redefined fitness takes out all the guessworks and builds in accountability systems. So you don't have to fucking think about it. You show up. You just show up. Yeah. That's what you need. You need some way you're just gonna show up. You need something in your life that's gonna force you to go. Otherwise, it's gonna be the scared route. And you might even not even be lucky enough to live. You might end up the other route. Or maybe it's so severe that you're permanent issues the rest of your life, like some of these other people I I talked to. Like you don't want that. It's gonna take that to get there.

That's what I'm saying. It shouldn't have to, it shouldn't take that. But if you think about it, those people, the lady that you spoke about and all that other stuff, with the guy in the mountain, all that stuff, everyone had a traumatic experience. I don't care what it is. Don't compare it to anyone else's, but everyone had some type of traumatic experience in their life. If you're a lot, something, something happened, and it comes down to what your why is. The guy cut his lead off because he had a huge why. Had to be. Had to be something in his mind said, I'm not gonna die here. No way. The lady crawled, she had the will to live. Why? And at those moments it clicks and says, My two kids is why I want to live. So, regardless if you didn't go through what Anthony went through or what the other people were referring to went through, just think about what your why is, and that is the reason you should change your life and start getting healthy.

If you truly want to be successful, like I said, a lot of people want success and success they measure by their wealth. Correct. There's no wealth without health. 100%. There's no, it's not when I get rich. It's oh no, no, I get healthy to get rich. I get healthy to get successful. Yeah. Because you need that burst, you need that mental clarity, you need that motivation, you need that accountability. And whatever you have to do to move forward, you do that. It's the little simple tricks that go a long way. I got asked a bunch of comments. How did you do it? How did you do that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw, I saw, I saw, I saw it. Right? And then I give people the answer and they hate the answer. Give us the answer. Really? You set an alarm to go to bed.

Yep, not doing that. What else? Well, let me do a response that people are gonna get back. I'm not doing that.

Simple. So you go to bed, it makes you go to bed the same time and wind down, not not being electronics an hour before bed. You do deep breathing, a couple minutes a day. We waste the time, not doing that. What else? This is what they get. This is the responses. Eat a high protein, high unsaturated fat diet.

Yeah, under saturated. Yeah, I like fries and burgers. That's all right, but keep going.

Well, you're gonna have burgers, just have 90% lean meat.

Yeah, cheese. We'll gotta have that. Keep going.

Is it we're strength trained four days a week?

There you go. And go for walks. There you go. And all five things require discipline. Discipline. That's all everything he disciples discipline. That's not just it.

Do you hear what I didn't say? What? Yeah, take this really magical potion shake. Exactly. It's gonna lose 30 pounds 30 days.

And number six, the answer he just gave is what they're waiting for. Because everyone thinks, and this is why the next episode we're talking about, Elon Musk. Everyone, when they hear those things, it wasn't. I hate this. He's so rich. That's not fair. He should be giving his money. No. Everyone that's successful, everyone that's in shape, it takes work. There's no one that wakes up with muscles, man. Flat stomach muscles, the super muscle, all the people. Oh, you're dead, but what me? Well, we can watch it. I was like, what? It's good. It takes work. That's the point. That accident? You weren't supposed to recover from that.

What'd the doctor tell you? Sending above my arm above my head again, I wouldn't be able to move my neck again.

Can you move your head for me? Yep, seems fine to me. That's the point. And he's just one case of point. There's a whole bunch of stories where people, doctors told them, you're not gonna be able to walk again. And they end up walking. It's discipline and the will, man. And number six, the thing you list is what people look for and expect when they ask you that. You and I spoke about it. Well, you know the answer. It's the same thing. Eat healthy, work out. That there's no magic potion and pill to make you lose the. And I think for some odd reason, we chase that, even with success. You see someone who's a millionaire, and you got 10 gyms in two, three, four years from now. How'd you do it, man? We all know the answer. It's work hard, be disciplined enough to take care of yourself and make hard decisions. But they somehow are searching for some type of answer they never heard of before that no one has. You know why? What is it? It's I think because uh no, I do know why. They want to escape the hard work. Not all people, but most people want to escape the hard work and think if Anthony's successful, maybe he can give me an answer that makes me circumvent the hard work. Yeah, Anthony, yes, it is, dude. 100%. Not everybody wants to work hard, bro. They want to go around it. What do you say? What do you what do you mean no? What do you think?

Because then they have to look in the mirror. Because if it's easy enough for them to do it, just because it was a simple answer, and they look in the mirror, and they have to now say to themselves, wow, I didn't do these easy little things to make myself successful, it's my fault. And nobody wants to do that. Nobody wants to do that. So if Yao had superpowers, I could say, well, Yao has Yao could fly, he's Superman, right? It's easy. Yao is just like me and is no different, and was given the same opportunities I was given.

And look at him.

And all he did was these little tiny changes that I could have easily done because a third girder can apply them. And I couldn't do it.

They're tiny changes to make, but difficult to sustain. That's what it is. Don't eat that, don't those wings. Okay. Can you not eat those wings for two, three, four months? It's this being able to sustain it. How many times did you fail? This gentleman, you already know your story. I mean, can you go again, Anthony? How many bad seasons did you have? Can you still stand there and say, I'm coming back again? You're no happy where you're in the sales thing. You jumped in it. So it's it's easy to mentally make the change, say, I'm going to do this, I'm not doing this no more. Accountability is leveraged. I'm taking control of my life. I'm not blaming anyone else. Can you sustain it? Can you not blame someone tomorrow? Next week, when the problem comes, can you not blame that person? Can you take a calendar and find out how you can take accountability in that? Keep that mind. People break. How many people join the gym New Year's? Oh, I'm changing. I'm gonna get in shape this year, man. It's New Year, January 1st. By February 6th, they're Burger King with six burgers. Then Burger King. February 6th, two weeks. In two weeks. So, famous quote from Denzel Watson: it's easy to make money, but it's hard to sustain it. Anyone can make anyone can make money, but can you keep it and keep making money? Anyone could be an actor, but can you keep going through the failures? Anyone could be a gym owner. Yeah, you own a gym. But when you when things go bad, like Kirk said, when the water came through and flooded his gym, do you have the strength, the mental fortitude that said, I'm going to do it again? That's how this stuff is born. That's how Elon Musk is born. The risks, the chances.

And this podcast, and while I'm here, is that platform where you'll see us keep ourselves accountable. Correct. Start from the beginning because I can promise you and everyone listening this right now. I am not the brightest, smartest, most intelligent person. I do not have advantages over people. There's no like special this dad that I was given. If I can do it, you all can do it. There's, and that's what I want to prove. I want to document this journey as we go through.

So that day that we hit the massive success, you knew it was stated here. We didn't start like that. And no one said, Oh, he got lucky. Yeah, that's the game they play. When you start reading successes, oh he's lucky because there's no excuse. You saw it. So you see big studios and all that stuff, we started here. Thanks, yeah.

Thanks guys for watching. Don't forget, account of his leverage. Comment below right now how you're gonna keep yourself accountable to keep your health in check. Until next time.

Peace.