Michael Chernow
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 Apr
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I want to feel better. Feel anything I don't want to feel.
And so I got really good at being a Houdini and just like, poof, like disappearing in plain sight, you know? And so when I was coming out of that, I got introduced to a couple of guys who like just showed up and just like winged me and told me about and introduced me to fitness for the first time in my life, really. And they said...
there's two things, there's three things you gotta do, and we can't force you to do it or make you do it, but if you can do these three things, the chances of your life growing in a really positive way are strong. And if you can't do these three things, we can't guarantee you anything, right?
But they basically said, if you can commit to moving your body fitness-wise, eating well, and connecting with the sober community, like nothing else should matter in your life. Those are the three things. You gotta commit to those three things. So like, we're gonna write this plan for you. It's gonna be, and I mean, I can tell you the plan, but the plan was basically, these guys were like,
We want you to wake up as early as you can in the morning. As soon as you wake up, you roll out of bed and right onto the floor and ask God for help, and get on your knees and ask God for help. Take a piss, wash your face, brush your teeth, put on a pair of sneakers, go outside and take a walk. That could be a five-minute walk. That could be a five-mile walk. That could be a run.
That could be a jog. Whatever you want to do, but move your body. When you're done with that, come back in and eat a bowl of oatmeal. That's kind of where my business now has come from. Start with something nutritious, satiating, healthy, easy, accessible. Oatmeal costs nothing. You can add whatever you want to it. When you're done with that, go to a sober community meeting.
Fucking tell them who you are and why you're there. Right when you're done with that, meet us down at the gym. And these guys told me this gym to go to. It was a Muay Thai gym. And they said, we're going to teach you how to be a man, really, is what they said. But they were just like, we're going to come and we're going to train with you here and we're going to kick your fucking ass.
And they taught me about so much there, you know, mentally, physically, spiritually. And then they said, right after you get out of here, you're going to go to the deli on the corner. You're going to get chicken and broccoli. You're going to go and take a nap. You're going to go to work. You're going to have chicken and broccoli again for dinner. And you're going to go to bed as early as you can.
And right before you go to bed, you're going to drop on your knees. You're going to say thank you and go to sleep and then rinse and repeat. That was it. That's what those guys taught me. So I learned there that if I can just commit to that, like the commitment to the fitness and developed confidence for me. And then once I started doing that consistently, like that is what changed my life.
That is 100%. I am absolutely confident. I have complete confidence in the fact that fitness and nutrition changed the course, the trajectory of my life. Period. And if there's anybody out there who's thinking about like, oh, you know, I just need that thing. I need that relationship. I need that job. I need that fucking, that raise. I need this, like, I'm feeling lost. I'm feeling directionless.
Like, all I'll tell you is this. If you're not moving your body and you're not eating well in a healthy way, you should immediately start doing that because that is going to give you far more confidence, far more strength, far more ability to feel like you're in control of your life than the car, the bump and raise, the fucking relationship, the whatever.
All that shit will come once you're a confident, courageous person, but you gotta get right with the commitment, you know?
Yeah, and in my opinion, it just really does start with one thing.
Yeah, and by the way, it sucks for everyone in the beginning.
Every person that walks into that
Yeah, so my sort of answer to that is like if you thought about everything in your life as how long, you'd never do anything. So I kind of see it, and obviously this was taught to me along my sobriety journey, but I really do look at life as a day because that's all I got. Yesterday's long gone. It's long gone.
There's not a human in history that's ever been able to go back and change what happened yesterday. And tomorrow, I mean, I say this kind of like as a cliche, but it's true, right? Like tomorrow is not guaranteed. So the whole like I'll start Monday, I'll start tomorrow is just a cop-out and it's a fearful response to... like the, the situation at hand. So I kind of look at my life as a day.
Like I've got today to show up and man, like 85% of the time I win and winning doesn't mean winning the fucking competition. Winning the race means I just showed up and did what I had to. I gave what I had to give, to give. And 15% of the time I'm like, fuck it. I'm going to like totally just do whatever the fuck I want to do today. And I'm cool with that. And so I kind of live my life that way.
But I do believe that like if you think about everything is like, oh, how long? Like if I thought about business, right? I've been in business as an entrepreneur since I'm 28 and I'm 43. So whatever that is, you know, 15 years I've been opening businesses. And at 28,
If I was like, man, you know, even in 15 years later, I'm not going to be where I see myself being like, it's going to take 25 years. If I, you know, if that was like my plan at 28 to be like, yeah, you know, 25 years, you know, I'll be all right. Like no one's, no one's putting in, no one's, no one's investing in a 25 year long, like plan, like opportunity.
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