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Next Level Pros
#142: Alex Hormozi: Why you're still broke // Next Level Pros Podcast
So you guys have learned this principle and I would argue even mastered this principle of taking massive action, being decisive and committing to it. Was there ever a catalyst for you guys that actually caused you to learn this principle? Because I'm sure at some point you probably weren't taking decisions seriously and putting off your pain for later.
Next Level Pros
#142: Alex Hormozi: Why you're still broke // Next Level Pros Podcast
We've talked a lot about like on the micro level, these decisions, you know, working out, having these hard conversations or whatnot. But in this Alex Ramosi clip, he references in the podcast, too, is being willing to say no to fast money now for big money later. Absolutely.
Next Level Pros
#142: Alex Hormozi: Why you're still broke // Next Level Pros Podcast
And I think as entrepreneurs and business owners, we've worked with so many that they'll get like the classic entrepreneurial squirrel like, oh, well, we can add this on to our offer and package it this way. And then we could add this vertical and partner with this guy and whatnot.
Next Level Pros
#142: Alex Hormozi: Why you're still broke // Next Level Pros Podcast
I think it also relates to this ability to make decisions and committing all the way through that decision to be willing to say no and decide no on things that might sound good in the moment.
Next Level Pros
#142: Alex Hormozi: Why you're still broke // Next Level Pros Podcast
Oh, I mean, I think the easiest thing that I can relate to is just fitness, like fitness and nutrition. Like it's so easy for me. Oh, like I want to wake up in the morning and work out now, but I can always go later. But then when I wait to go later, I can always say I could go tomorrow or the next day and whatnot. And I think a lot of times we like I'm 27 years old. Yep. I'm still pretty young.
Next Level Pros
#142: Alex Hormozi: Why you're still broke // Next Level Pros Podcast
I'm taking advantage of my youth by not setting myself up for the future of when I could be experiencing more pain of like joints or whatnot by not being in shape and doing what I should be doing now to prepare myself for the future.
Next Level Pros
#142: Alex Hormozi: Why you're still broke // Next Level Pros Podcast
Have you heard the analogy of like eating a frog? So it's like, if you are told that you need to eat a frog today, a whole frog, You can eat at any point of the day, but your day can't be complete until you eat the frog. When are you going to eat the frog? And a lot of people, you know, they'll say, well, eat the frog first thing in the morning.
Next Level Pros
#142: Alex Hormozi: Why you're still broke // Next Level Pros Podcast
But if you don't eat the frog first thing in the morning, you got two frogs you got to eat that day. You got the frog that you got to eat later that day and the frog you're thinking about all day long.
Next Level Pros
#142: Alex Hormozi: Why you're still broke // Next Level Pros Podcast
It's cool because in the podcast, he references at the beginning like this. how he was just a big fish in a pond when he needed to be playing in the ocean. And the catalyst for him selling Gym Launch was at our mastermind a few years ago.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
like no other and like employees that went through that you're tied to each other i recently learned this when you experience the same emotion strong emotion with someone like it bonds you whether that's a good or a bad emotion when you experience the same emotion together in the same situation it bonds you so fear anything yeah like all the as long as it's the same right if you go to a haunted house and one person thinks it's funny and the other person seems scared no bonding
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
But if you guys both go and you're both scared or both excited.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
The other thing we talked about, another strategy was finding strategic partners. If things get really, really tough, it is not just you. There's a lot of people out there that are also struggling. And if you can figure out strategically, how do I piece things together to create a better opportunity for all of us? Like, dude, everybody wants to be a part of an opportunity.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
Yeah.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
Yeah.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
I think what we see is there's always these moments in time where you have to change the way you think. And so we're talking about recession-proofing your business, but truthfully, it's recession-proofing your mind. How do you think? Because a lot of times you just get comfortable. It's like, hey, it's working. Why change? This is the time where it's like, okay, things are going to change.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
And I mean, I even love what President Trump's doing. Everyone's like, this isn't going to work. This is going to crash our market. And he's like, and I think all he's doing is negotiating.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
Correct.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
I've got a quote here. It says, your experiences are a reflection of your inner state, thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, not your external circumstances.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
I think, I don't know what book it was, but this book talked about the concept of boxes that we create. And then we always think through those boxes. And the strong, where this drew a strong point for me was a marriage, right? You always think like we have to be married together. And so you limit the way you think based off of we have to be married.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
And it's like, just remove the box of like, no, we don't have to be married. But what would it be like if we had created the happiest marriage, right? Same thing with business. Like, you don't have to be a business owner. But what if being a business owner was the greatest thing you could do in your life? What should that look like?
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
And so you remove the box of like, I have to run this business or I have to survive this. It's like, remove those things that constrain your thinking.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
But they're very subtle too. They're subtle and they're very constricting. And What was interesting, so I'll just share with me and my wife, we talked about it, like, okay, if we were dating again, what would we do differently? How would we act differently towards each other? And it really did change a lot in our relationship of like, hey, we don't have to fit in this box.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
Let's treat each other like... We would if we were dating each other or whatnot. And I think the same thing with business is like, you get stuck in this fear loop of like, oh no, this is gonna be tough. This is gonna be challenging. So now everything you approach, you approach with like, it's gotta be tough, hard. It's tough times.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
Things are getting harder and harder versus like, this is the best opportunity of my lifetime. Everything's changing and I gotta figure out the niche. And the reality is if you look at businesses, like most businesses are ran by older people, right? Right. And, and it's a great time to be older people, but like, there's a lot of opportunity for younger people who have like a lot of ambition too.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
So there's just, no matter where you're at in life, like there's so much opportunity. You just need to change your lens and realize what's going on and take advantage of it.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
That's pretty wild.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
You know the greatest story of all time that I think about, like, this aspect of like something hard coming and then you have to fix it is, um, is, uh, George Foreman. His story is incredible. He like quickly rose in boxing, became world champion, went to the Olympics, made a ton of money. And then his manager lost all his money.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
And then he found himself in the 40, I think he was 40 something years old, 48, I think, or something. He was really old. it seemed impossible for him to get back into boxing. Um, but he knew like, that's how he could make his money, went back into it and like became world champion again.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
But I just think of that as like, there's always this, this take two or step or like the second act that can be so much bigger than where you're currently at. And so instead of like, um, you know, worrying about how it's going to play out, like just know it's going to play out for your benefit.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
I think what would be really good is let's kind of recap our phone call from yesterday for people who are like in a situation or get in a situation where it's like, man, we've got three months of cash flow. We've got six months of cash flow.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
You just mentioned a few things you could change, but I think there were some really important things we talked about on that call that I think could really benefit people. One of them is just having the honest conversation, the hard thing about hard things.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
And I think what that looks like for you, and we've had that before, where it's like you sit down with your people and you say, hey, here's our situation. Here's what we got to accomplish. Otherwise, we're out of business.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
Yeah, I think it's a really interesting aspect because people are really concerned with what to do. And the concern comes from what used to work isn't working anymore. And really that's the point that we're at is like everything's got to change.
Next Level Pros
#145: why playing it safe might be the most dangerous move //recession prediction // next level pros podcast
I think what this gives you, you have two outcomes. You have buy-in and you have people that leave. And I think the people that leave, you need gone. You need those people out of your business because they're hurting your business if they're not there fighting for the business.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
144 - The Hollow Earth Cult Nobody’s Talking About (Until Now)
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Ninjas Are Butterflies
144 - The Hollow Earth Cult Nobody’s Talking About (Until Now)
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The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
Just finishing up some work and got a call that I was able to join you today. So I'm excited to be able to speak to you. Excellent, brother. What's up, man? So I have a brother who's just over 40, living at home currently because he got out of his second marriage a little while ago and moved back in with my parents. And he's entering into his third marriage pretty soon. He's engaged.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
And we're just wondering, it's, How he does this, he seems to be going into this really quickly. He just met this woman. It's kind of similar to previous relationships where he met her. She lives three states away. And all of a sudden, we hear about her. And three weeks later, he's engaged and he wants to get married. He wants to get married in March. And we're just trying to figure out
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
how to talk to him. He suffers from pretty severe depression, puts a lot of weight of his value into his relationships that he has. He completely changes who he is, everything from religious beliefs to activities he's interested in for these women that he's somewhat dated, but mostly he dates one woman and all of a sudden they're the one, they're the best thing in the world.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
And he ends up marrying them, you know, six months later or so. And with this woman, my, my sister's met her. I've heard about her and she seems great. My sister's talked really well of her, but again, we, we feel like he's almost pressuring this woman into getting married as soon as she can, where even my sister said, she feels like she's trying to say, Hey, let's,
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
Let's hold off a little bit longer, maybe June or so. And we're just wondering, because he's suffered from such a severe depression with things, how do we bring this up to him? How do we talk to him? Is this something we have to kind of let him go forward with? Or do we try and have some sort of intervention?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
Or how much do we tiptoe around him versus sit him down and say, hey, things need to change, or you need to do some introspective seeking?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
Yeah. Our response would, you know, we'd still be there for him. We'd still support him. We'd still come to his wedding, you know, if we're able to.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
It's good. You know, I'm not close to him. I'm on the other side of the country. So I speak with him. every couple of weeks on the phone. My sister sees him every couple of weeks. So we have a pretty solid relationship. He was running into his last relationship with his girlfriend pretty quick. And even to the point where he brought her out here to visit me and my family.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
And I kind of sat him down. I was like, hey, she seems really nice, but she seems very cold to you. And I don't know if that's the right thing for you. And To the point where he even said, like, hey, that's one of the reasons why I separated with her was because of that conversation. So we have a good relationship.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
Yeah. We're trying to communicate, I guess, to him that He puts so much value into these marriages, whereas the second relationship fails, he spirals into this depression. He talks about suicide. Sure. Has he ever gone and done like an inpatient? Not to that point. He's seen psychologists on a regular basis from what my parents have told me. And he's told me a little bit about it.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
I think it's been a while since he's had regular visits. Yeah. But I think our big thing is trying to see that he needs to be happy by himself. And once he's happy being alone, then he can be happy with somebody else. He suffers from chronic pain from an injury that he had. And he constantly focuses on finding these women who are super successful that financially can kind of take care of him.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
Even though he works, it's more entry-level work that he does. So here's the thing.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
Yeah. Yeah. No, of course. And he's a great person. He's always here for us. You know, he's always offered to help. He has really good, you know, conversations with him and, and we want to be there for him, but obviously there's, there's this blind spot that he just can't see that we've, we try talking a little bit out and, um, you know, pretty passively.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Boyfriend Just Revealed His Troubled Sex Life . . .
And I'm just wondering, okay, if we go too aggressive, does it spiral them even more into depression or, um, like you said, hurt now for, for long-term happiness, which, which I think is the right, the right solution.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
Hey, Ken. Hey, George. Thanks so much for taking my call. Sure. I'm getting ready for about $100,000 in expenses at the same time that I'm going to be losing my income. My wife and I are getting ready for graduate school. We're both going to be starting grad school this year. I'm going to get a doctorate in physical therapy and she'll be getting her master's in dietetics administration.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
And I mean, eventually we'd love to start a business together where we can kind of help people improve their health through diet and exercise and Um, so we've known this has been coming for a long time. We've been married for four years and we've been preparing since the moment we knew that we wanted to start this career.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
Yeah. So, well, I also, my current job, I take care of a kid with autism and he graduates in May. So it just happens to work out really nice that, um, I don't, there's no more need for my job. So I lose my job. And then the next two weeks later, I start school.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
So we've been saving a lot of money. We've been blessed in so many different ways. So we have about $70,000 in a high yield savings account. We're closing another investment account that's got about $30,000 in it. And we're going to transfer that money into our high yield savings account.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
And then we've got about $20,000 in another investment account and about $20,000 in cash between our savings and checking accounts.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
So my grad school will cost $90,000 and hers will cost $20,000, but her family has graciously offered to pay for her tuition. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
Yeah. No, we have zero debt. We own a house and we've got three bedrooms and we rent out two of the bedrooms to friends and they pay 550 a month. And so really after... taking all our living expenses and our rental income. We only have to pay about $12,000 a year for our housing expenses.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
So my big question is, um, we want to be good parents. We didn't think that we'd be able to have a child and now, uh, the due date is the week after my wife is supposed to start graduate school. And so,
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
um i'm worried that the money that we do have won't quite stretch far enough through grad school and i'm also worried about how can we buy time with our child we don't necessarily want to do daycare or anything like that but um how long is your program we're not three years so you won't be working for three years
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
So I'll be out of a job for three years and my wife will not be able to work for the first year or program is accelerated, but we're also.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
Yeah. Health insurance will be covered through my graduate school.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
And Medicaid for me not having a job.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
So if she doesn't go to grad school right now, she's making well under $20,000. This year she made less than $10,000 this year. That's not even real money.
The Ramsey Show
Getting Your House In Order Is The First Step To Financial Success
Yeah, she's a full-time student and president of lots of clubs at our university. But if she gets her master's degree, then she could potentially be earning $70,000.