Hi everyone, Joe for JaspeysCaseBreaks.com coming at you with 2022 Gold Rush Autographed Jerseys. It's a multi-sport break. It's a full case. All six boxes are inside here and it's a random letter break. We're going to go by the first letter of their first name, first letter, first name. So if there's a Zion that pops out of here, it'll go to, to see, pretty self-explanatory. There's an example of what you could get right here and we'll go by the checklist right here. An example, like Pele would still be P, Ronaldinho still R, Cristiano Ronaldo C, so on and so forth. I think, I think it should be pretty clear. Big thanks to this group here for making this happen. Appreciate it. There are the letters right there. Let's roll it. Let's randomize names and letters five and a one, six times. One, two, three, four, five, and once more, yes. Once more, six and final time. So after six, we got Joel down to Diego. Five and one, six times for the letters. One, two, three, four, five, and once more, six and final time. After six, we got Leg right up there, LEG on top and that big combo letter group on the bottom. All right. Joel with the letter L. Barry David, E, Greg with G, Nancy with C, Allen with J, Diego with H, I, hi, TJ with R, Silvio with M, Mike with F, Barry with D, Justin with T, Eric with B, Ryan with S, Nancy with A, TJ with N and P, no problem, Allen with K, and Diego with VWICSIA, VWYZ, VWYNZ. So let's order these numerically. Alphabetically, and there it is. I'm going to pause the video when we come back. We're going to see if there's any trades, and then we'll have the break. Stick around. We'll be right back. All right. Welcome back, everybody. So no trade chatter, no deals done. That's all good. Once again, list remains the same. Big thanks to everybody who got into this. Now, if we pull a multi, a jersey that has multiple autos on it, yes. We will have to do a randomizer on it. So like Eagles quarterback legends. Ron Jorsky, Donovan McNabb, right, among others. Michael Vick, so the first letters of their first names would be it. All right, so there's the case right there. You can see the gold rush sticker right over there. My knife. So let's pop this open so you can see this sealed case. Randall, right, Randall, not ours. Ron Randall, first jersey. No, we wouldn't send it to E. We would go by the players on there. All right, so I'm actually going to turn off the top camera right there because I don't want to give the jersey away too quickly. Saw a little bit of color there. Who are you? Oh, OK. I know who you are. It's just a different jersey. All right, who am I? I am an active player in the NFL, a running back. Was a second round pick. I stand 5'9", 2'11". Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Went to St. Joe's Prep in Philly and went to college in Georgia. First team all SEC. And currently in my career, I have a little over 1,100 rushing yards, 4.3 rushing yards per carry, 13 rushing touchdowns, 108 receptions, 809 receiving yards, four receiving touchdowns. Second round running back out of Georgia. I feel like I could still do more. He thinks he's pretty good. There you go, Tom's got it. DeAndre Swift. And it's in his college colors. So I think most of these are going to be custom jerseys. So that means it doesn't have any of the official licensing and everything kind of tell by just that size tag right there. So I'm going to leave it folded nicely in here. Got the Georgia colors. Pretty nice. Big bold autograph on the number I dig that to. So that's Barry David with D for DeAndre. 24th RL1, random letter break number one. There you go, Barry. On the board. Let's see what we got. Where's the autograph on this? All right, let's look at the checklist. We're going to have to take this. Why am I blanking on this guy's first name? Oh, right. So this is actually not on the checklist, but there's no controversy here in this person's first name. But who am I? I'm a coach, a basketball coach. I've been coach of this university since 2009. And I won the NCAA championship with this college in 2012. I've been named the Naismith College coach of the year three times, 96, 2008, and 2015, inducted into the NBA into the basketball hall of fame, that is, in 2015. Before coaching this team, I guess I was previously head coach at the University of Massachusetts, coached the Nets for a few seasons, and Memphis for almost a decade before becoming the coach of the team that I'm still currently at right now. I currently rank 17th on the NCAA Division I all-time winning as coach league. Yep, Diego's got it. Yep, Calipari. Calipari, Calipari. John Calipari. Anthony's got it too. Allen's got it as well. So right here it says coach Calipari, John Calipari. So it'll go to Jay. That's going to be for Alan Murdock, who may not like this, but I'm wondering, where's his autograph? They usually sign it on the number. Where did he put his autograph? Oh, over here. Oh, this is the University of Kentucky one. Oh, no. Oh, I'll bet if I look that number up, I'll get all the names on here too. So we have to look up all of these. No, Mike, as I mentioned before, it'll be all the names here. It might be. Wait, where's the, where can I look this up? Yeah, it's University of Kentucky on the checklist, but with the multi-players, we're going to randomize it by letter. You know what, I'm going to have, I could take a picture and bark with my phone. I was just going to look all this stuff up later, but let me, that's a good idea, Anthony. Yeah, I definitely jinx myself on this one. All right, so we got it. Thanks, Anthony. Very good call there. So also signed by Damien Collins, Taitai Washington, Davion Mintz, Jacob Toppin, Dante Allen, Keon Brooks, C.J. Frederick, Callen Grady, Bryce Hopkins, Lance Ware, Sevier Wheeler, which were Beckett witnessed on 825, 2021 in Lexington, Kentucky. So I'm going to set this aside. So this is also not a officially licensed jersey, but it's got all the Kentucky trim on there as well. All right, so I'm going to set this aside. We'll do this randomizer at the end of the break. Onwards, next box. All right, good luck. This one's a much easier one. It's only one person. All right, boy, where do I start with this basketball player? A former point guard in the NBA, List63175, played for one team my entire career. And then a couple of years after my retirement, coached this the same team for a couple of years. As a player, I'm an NBA champion, an NBA Finals MVP on a losing team. I think one of the very few times that's ever happened. 14-time NBA All-Star and All-Star Game MVP, 10-time All-MBA First Team, a 4-time All-Defensive First Team, NBA All-Defensive Second Team, a scoring champion, assist leader, part of the 35th, 50th, and 75th NBA Anniversary Team. My number retired, an NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player, two-time Consensus First Team All-American, as an executive, an eight-time champion, and two-time NBA executive of the year. I've got 25,192 total points, 27 points per game, averaging 5.8 rebounds a game, and a 6.7 assists per game. I think that's even, that's a pre-3 point line as well. Not Michael Jordan, not Spree, not Terry Porter. Yes, Lonnie and Mike's got it, Jerry West. Tom's got it too, nice. We've got the JSA card and JSA sticker in here. Tom's out of the way there, and there's his autograph. And I think this is also, yeah, no officially licensed, I guess there would be a logo man, him. Jerry West would be on the back, right there, all right. So that's letter J, Alan Murdoch with the letter J, nice. Nice, there you go, Alan, thanks for getting in. But wait, there's more, next one. Oh yeah, when did he become the logo man? When did that happen? That's a good question, Mike. Yeah, I don't know when he became the logo man. We'll have to do a little more research on that. Let's see who we got here. Another round of who am I? Anthony says he became the logo in 1969. I think he was still playing. He was still a few years away from being, a few years away from retirement. All right, who am I? Former linebacker in the NFL. Currently 63 years old, was born in Houston, Texas. I think my playing height and weight, six foot, 230. Went to Worthing High School in Houston, Texas. And then Baylor College and was a second round pick, played for one team my entire career. And then did some coaching. I was a Super Bowl champion, two-time NFL defensive player of the year, a man of the year, seven-time first team, all pro, 10-time pro bowler, part of the 80s all decade team, part of the PFWA all rookie team. And probably has almost 1500 tackles, 19 sacks, seven interceptions in his career. Probably has one of the best quotes ever. And of course, the heart of the defense. Yep, TJ and Todd's got it, Mike Singletary. I want winners. I want players that want to win. There's the big number 50 right there, Hall of Fame inscription. His autograph right across the top, Singletary on the, this also looks like a custom jersey. But you got the Beckett card, Beckett sticker over here as well. And it looks like it's got like, the numbers on the sleeves, but yeah, no official licensing here. It's all good. Still looks nice. Better for framing, I think. You're not covering up any logos or anything like that. All right, letter M, that's Silvio with M for Mike. This is random letter break number one. About two more to go. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, Mike and Anthony who looked up this information. I don't think it was confirmed that Jerry West was the logo on the logo man for a long time. So I don't know if he had to deal with the, to deal with that, you know what I mean? During his playing days, like Jerry West, the other opposing players being like, you're the logo man. Who do you think you are? I want to say that they didn't actually confirm that for a long time. Oh, NBA logo is created in 69 by brand consultant Alan Siegel. You're actually designing the MLB logo. There's a little debate on, on who the logo man is for the MLB. I think this is this person, right? That's his number? Yes. All right. I think it's Kilibru. I think it's Harman Kilibru as well, Corey, but I've heard some people say otherwise. All right. For this particular person, who am I? Currently 75 years old, a lefty, career 262 average, 2,584 hits, 563 home runs, over a little over 1,700 runs batted in. A 14 time All-Star. I'm a five time World Series champion in AL MVP, a two time World Series MVP, two time Silver Slugger, four time AL home run leader, AL RBI leader. Two teams have retired my number and was a first ballot Hall of Famer in the early 90s with 93.6% of the vote. I'm pretty good, especially when it mattered most. Oh, TJ got it right away. It's Yankees edition of Reggie Jackson. And that's for you TJ. Let her are. So you got his nice penmanship right here. The JSA sticker and card. Got Jackson running across the back. Also looks like a custom jersey.  Yeah. There you go, TJ. Nice. Yankees edition as well. Mr. October, the straw that stirs the drink, he once said to a bit of controversy. Congrats, TJ. Reggie Jackson, yeah, excellent penmanship. According to Wikipedia, he's 75 years old. Born May 18th, 1946. Mr. October, right, there's Joe P. Go sons, he says next man up, yeah. That's what they gotta do. Good luck. So we've had, what did we have? Have we had basketball yet? Football, basketball, we did have basketball. Jerry West, right? Football, Mike Singletary, baseball, Reggie Jackson. We've got all those college players right there. So let's see what we have for the sixth and final box. Think we're going baseball here. All right, who am I coming your way? All right, some more trivia here. I am currently 44 years old, a retired baseball player, right-handed batter. Lifetime 254 average, 434 home runs, and almost 1,300 runs batted in. Played for one, two, three, four, five major league teams my entire career. Spent the last two years in Japan. Five-time All-Star, a 10-time gold glover, a Silver Slugger award winner, an L. Hank Aaron award winner, and MLB home run leader in 2005 was also the MLB RBI leader and part of this team's Hall of Fame. Who am I? There's, I think, I think Chris Jaspy will make a very strong argument that he should be a Hall of Famer. I made my MLB debut in the 1996 season with this team. And in this World Series, I became the youngest player to hit a home run in the postseason. And just the second player ever to homer in my first two World Series at bats. And then the following season, I finished fifth in Rookie of the Year. But then went to a team and maybe destroyed his reputation. Is he still, is he eligible for, what's his Hall of Fame status here? I think as of 2022, his first year had 7.3%, next year 7.5%, 2020, 19.4%, 2021, 33.9%, and 2022, 41.4%. Does he get into the Hall of Fame? Fifth ballot, so he gets a few more, I think. Diego nailed it. Andrew Jones, who also has some great penmanship, went to my Dodgers for a couple of seasons, was just not good, was just not good at all. Came to camp a little overweight and just never quite, never quite got to what the Dodgers thought he would be. There's the JSA sticker in the card. You can see A Jones right here, not to be confused with Chipper Jones. I can tell by, yeah, not officially licensed, just has a regular custom tag right there. Diego saying his son will be a top three pick this year. Nice, so letter A will go to Nancy with the letter A. Andrew Jones. All right, so random letter, break number one to you, Nancy, thank you. A lot of players on here, so we gotta do that randomizer. So once again, we're going by that list right here. So let's go to random.org. Let's get those letters there. So there's John, Calipari, there's Damien Collins, Ty Ty Washington, Davion Mints, Jacob Toppin, Deontay Allen, D. You know what, this is gonna look kind of confusing. Let me just write these out. Davion Mints, Jacob Toppin, Antae Allen, Keon Brooks, Jr., Rice Hawkins, Lance Ware, Xavier Wheeler. That would be a cruel twist of fate, Mike. So once again, John Calipari, among others, there's John Calipari, among others. Just make sure I got that. Damien, Ty Ty, Davion, Jacob, Dontay, Keon, CJ, Kallen, Rice, Lance, and Xavier. All right, so only one randomizer we gotta do. We're gonna roll the dice and the name on top will be the winner and will go by the first letter of their first name. So let's randomize that list. Four and a four, eight times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. After eight, goes to letter T. Thanks to Ty Ty Washington, and that'll be for Justin and the letter T. There you go, Justin. Once again, there's your certification number right there, all the different players right over here, and of course the main autograph right there and all the other players. This is a really cool idea. I guess if, I don't know if you're a Kentucky fan or not, but if you sell it, I'm sure some Kentucky fan will love this. All right, and there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for, fold this up nicely when we turn off the video and stop the video. Thanks for watching, everybody. I'm Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com and I will see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


Hi and welcome to another card making video, today I am featuring products from the latest card kit by Simon's Stamp. In the kit this month includes this wonderful paper pad, along with a big stamp set with windows and lovely sentiments, there are envelopes, a page with sticker sentiments that you can use on your cards, there are three markers from the distress line, these work exactly like watercolour markers, and there are more bits and pieces in the kit including dies, and if you want to win this card kit make sure to visit my blog and leave a comment there. For today instead of using the stamp set and other bits and pieces from the card kit I decided to work exclusively with the patterned paper. The paper pad included in the kit has lovely designs, perfect for spring, and I am going to use my deckled edge trimmer to cut out a couple of panels, I am using this beautiful flower paper and I will use another one that matches the pink of these flowers. This paper trimmer is going to give a very interesting edge on my panels and I am going to place that on top of the card base that I created using the craft cardstock so you can see probably the detail and I am going to use one more pattern here just trying to pick which pink I am going with, I think this is very pale but it could work as well, so I decided to go with this one just because it is brighter. If you don't have this paper trimmer just use your paper trimmer, your regular one and cut out the panels and you can work with that. If you want to get a similar edge then just use your scissors along the edges to distress them. The design that I am going for is based on layers so I am going to use my scissors to cut out a few slits on three of the sides and then this way I will be able to curl up the paper and when I place those two panels one on top of the other you will be able to see the color peeking through from those slits. This design works with any paper pad that you have at home. By having a paper pad you know that all the different papers match together, they have similar colors so it's easy for you to layer them one on top of the other which is exactly what I am going to do here. However I made sure that one of the panels has a busy pattern, the one with the flowers, while the other one is pretty much solid and you can see that when I layer one on top of the other I can see the pink coming through. Now the next step is completely optional if you want to turn this into looking more vintage then you can go and ink up the edges, I am going to do that with my blending tool and ink up the edges of both the panels just slightly by using my Distress Ink, this is the original ink which goes more vibrant and the color is vintage thought of course, one of my favorite and I go to probably the most used Distress Ink I have in my stash for years. I did go ahead and inked up the edges of my craft card base as well and now I am going to use the scraps from that 6x6 pattern paper with the flowers and I am going to use my scissors and fuzzy cut some of the leaves and some of the flowers. In terms of design if you are recreating this with another paper pad then when you pick your busy pattern paper then look at what is the design on top of that. If it is flowers you can cut out flowers like I am doing here, if it is cupcakes for example you can fuzzy cut a few of those. If it has I don't know little cuts cut out a few cuts, just look at the design and see what you can fuzzy cut from it. I am going to put the card together for that I am using my Nouveau Deluxe Glue, I am going to stick the first panel on top of my card base on an angle then at the top I am going to again stick the other panel but this time with foam squares just to add some dimension and again I am not going to align it with my card base, this is going on an angle as well and now wherever I have those slits I am going to tuck inside my fuzzy cut images so I am going to stick underneath a couple of flowers as well as leaves. This is going to add something extra on the card and at the same time whatever you stick on top is going to match beautifully with the rest of the design after all it is part of the actual paper. This design is perfect for using up those beautiful pattern papers that you have been holding onto, it is going to be the star of the show here and I am not going to cover it up, it's a beautiful pattern paper full of flowers so I did add the interest with the slits and the things that are tucked inside and all I have to do now is to just stick a sentiment. For the sentiment I went with the two dies that were included in the card kit by Simon's stamp. I cut out the outline from pink pattern paper which is from the same paper pad so everything matches perfectly with the pinks in the flowers and I cut out the word beautiful from white cardstock however I do ink up lightly both these pieces so that they match with the rest of the design. This is going to give a nice big bold sentiment but at the same time it's not going to cover up that beautiful background. I do have foam tape at the back of my sentiment and now I'm going to bring in the stickers and I will use the one that says hello friend instead of using the whole thing I'm just going to use hello and tuck it underneath so that the whole thing reads hello beautiful it is a lovely card perfect to send as spring is coming you can of course stop here if you want to make your card extra special then you can add some gems I'm going to add a few at the center of some of the flowers and I'm even going to add some on the slits underneath. I always loved a lot playing with pattern paper I still love it although it's not trending so I hope that this video was inspiring for you to go grab whatever you have from your stash and create some lovely cards using the pattern papers that I'm sure you all have and that was the project for today using products from the latest card kit by Simon Zestam. Don't forget that I have a giveaway for this card kit for a chance to win it make sure to visit my blog and leave me a comment there. I hope that you had fun today that you got inspired thank you all so much for visiting and I'll see you all next time


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By the way, both these programs require no equipment whatsoever. Maybe just a broomstick for one of the assessments. That's it. So, you can do these at home. Again, great programs. So, I was working out this morning, finally, by the way. Oh, yeah. You're hitting it back. They're starting to come back. This is the first week and the first day, actually, where I felt like I could push it a little bit, get a little bit of a pump. I'm staying in the low reps and all that stuff, because my stamina is still low. And when you get in that good workout zone, you just have to have a lot of good ideas. And I was just thinking, the most, what's the most important thing, we've communicated this on the podcast several times, but what's the most important thing that somebody can work on and focus on that will contribute, that has the greatest odds of contributing to success when it comes to fitness, like the greatest odds of contributing to long-term, healthy, fit, build muscle, burn body fat, stay lean, stress-free lifestyle of fitness. And easily, number one, by far, and again, we've mentioned this on the show so many times, is mindset. The mindset that you have around fitness. And this actually took me as a trainer a long time. It took me a long time to really realize this. I think initially, when I first became a trainer, I thought that the most important thing was just do what I say, diet is the most important thing, work out the right way. That's the most important thing. I got to get you all hyped up and motivated. And after training for probably took me, I would say six, seven, maybe even longer years, that I really started to see a divide between my clients. And I started to realize that the most important thing that I could focus on as a trainer and working with my clients, it wasn't teaching them how to exercise properly. It's still important, but it wasn't the most important thing. It wasn't teaching them macros and calories in versus calories out. It was all about working around, and we've mentioned it as psychology, the psychology of it, but really it has to do with mindset. It's interesting because you do think about mechanically what you can do to provide answers for your client coming in. And this is something that I definitely got caught in. I can do this, and we can do these exercises. I can restructure your nutrition plan, so it makes sense for your lifestyle, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff. And it's like, the further you get in terms of your career, you start making your way up to the mind and really getting into the psychology and the behaviors. And that has just so much more impact on everything else, and it all trickles down from there. And it's like, why don't we start there? It's just a lot of times we don't initially think that it's as powerful as it is. Well, I love this conversation. One of my favorite things to read is psychology. What you see with this is, of all the things that we talk about, how fitness parallels so many other aspects of your life, this is the part that does that the most. Yeah. If you have somebody, and that's why one of my favorite quotes is, how you do anything is how you do everything. And so if you have that client that we've all had, that just has the right mindset and approach, and listens to everything you tell them to really takes heed to the advice that you're giving them, really approaches their fitness goals with the right mindset, it never fails.  And the ones that are kind of a mess that you're constantly having to remind and kind of constantly speaking to their thought process and the way I think those are all the ones too that are all scattered everywhere else in their life. Isn't it funny though that you'd get clients like that, like very sporadically, and you get so excited, like, oh, they get it, like they're doing everything. And you don't realize like you can train that part to the other clients who don't come in with that, you know, type of mentality. That's what took me so long to realize, because I just thought, oh, this client over here is just doing what I say more, and this one doesn't. And then I realized that mindset is the source. It's the root of all the success that you get, long term consistent success that you get in fitness. And what you said, Adam, was that I learned that through training kids. When I would train teenagers, because this happened later on, you know, I'd be training clients and I'd, you know, they'd be parents and eventually they liked that what I was doing a lot and they had kids themselves and say, Hey, would you mind training my son? He's 15 years old or can you train my 17 year old daughter? And I would, and I would, they would always come back to me and rather than commenting and complimenting me on the kid's fitness success, which, you know, that would happen too, but that wasn't the thing that stood out. It wasn't like they came to me and said, wow, my kid is so much stronger. I can see my son's abs now when we go swimming or my daughter's posture. They would say that sometimes, but the thing that blew them away the most was all the other stuff. They would come up to me and say things like my kid's doing better in school now. They're picking different friends. You know, my son doesn't seem to be succumbing to peer pressure anymore. I had one kid that I trained, a 16 year old boy, wasn't doing good in school, had issues with marijuana. In fact, his parents were contemplating sending him to one of those camps where they kidnap you in the middle of the night and take you off in the woods or whatever. You guys hear those? I had a girlfriend and he hit it to their brother. Oh, crazy, right? So they were actually contemplating that. And the step before that was let's get him fit and see what happens to have these conversations with the parent. And he did. He stopped, first he started cutting it back, then he stopped. And I didn't, it's not like I talked to him about it.   It was communicating mindset through fitness. And what I love about fitness is it's such an easy way to communicate it. Like telling a 16 year old kid to not smoke weed. That's a tough conversation. Good job. I mean, good luck trying to do that. Talking to a 16 year old kid about mindset and why that's going to help them become fit, easier sell. Then when they gain that mindset, then it bleeds over into everything else. I'll make this statement right now. And this is when I want to really hit home for me. Clients who had zero knowledge about fitness, nutrition, and health, but who had the right mindset, consistently outperform my clients that had lots of information, but had the wrong mindset. It was like night and day. I knew, I could tell, I could see clearly this person's going to be successful. This person knows a lot. You know, we would sit there and discuss nutrition and exercise and they've been working out forever and work with trainers forever. This person's not going to succeed. And I would see it, in fact, that's how I started hiring people as a manager later on. I stopped hiring people based off their experience and started hiring people based off the mindset. Somebody has no experience with the right mindset succeeds almost every single. That's why it's so important. And you're right. I saw this with some of my younger clients. One of them being a student that was trying to get back into school and had a really hard time studying and had a really low self-esteem. And this was a mindset that he carried with him through basically everything. Didn't apply that towards relationships with girls and all these types of things. And it's just really interesting to watch everything that transpired after this quest to self-improve. And it just started with the body and just trying to each and every day try to do something to improve the strength, improve the movement and all this. And then led to then being able to start on the rugby team and get back into school, has a girlfriend. It's just like this root that you build off of from there. It's this microcosm for the rest of the life. Just think about all the attributes that made a successful client. And when you look at those attributes and then you unpack it, it always leads back to mindset. 100%. Example, consistency. I think we would all agree that one of the most important things for a client to see incredible results, change physique, hit their goals, is just pure consistency. Now, is that client the one that's super consistent? Are they seeing more results than the other client that's struggling with that? No. They're not seeing anymore. If both have got 12 days of consistency down, is one necessarily seeing more results than the other one? No. It's just that the one that has the right attitude and understands like, hey, this is going to be a process. It might take me a little longer to do this. My coach or my trainer is telling me I got to be consistent with it. I'm going to stick to the plan. I'm going to stay consistent. And that's the mindset that's allowing them to do that. And you can go through every other part of training consistency, the ones that everybody ends up slipping up on a diet. Nobody runs it. No one is perfect. Unless I'm training a competitor that is paying for their food to be monitored for them, average people that are trying to get in shape, everybody has pitfalls or setbacks. But it's the ones that beat themselves up over it and then spiral out of control from that.  The ones that look at it and go like, oh, it was a hiccup. Tomorrow I'm back on. I'm good. That have that attitude. Again, really unpack that. That's their mindset that they can apply to that. Totally. So one of the biggest, easiest ways to communicate this is through the the initial drive or the impetus for working out. I went through this change myself. What I'm about to talk about. I not only saw in my clients, and this is something that if you've been training people for a very, very long time, you learn this first through your clients, then you apply it to yourself later on. I've said this many times, trainers tend to train their clients and tend to be far more aware of how to get their clients to their goals than they are with themselves. And I experienced this again myself. Now my initial impetus, what really got me to start working out, if I really boil it down to the root was I hated my body. I didn't like it. I was really skinny. I was a skinny kid. Insecurities. Insecure. I heard all the comments, you know, bony and stick legs and whatever. Skeletor, this is back when He-Man was around. Skeletor. That's a good one. And it got to the point where if you just said the word skinny, it was like an ice pick, you know, in my gut. Like I hated it. So that was my initial impetus for working out. Now, self-hate can be a very powerful motivator. Definitely can. But that road leads to failure, because what it leads to and what it led me through were workout methods that were too intense. Workout methods that served more as punishment than they were as things that would help me. It was more about punishing my body, hating my shoulder, killing my shoulders, hating my chest, destroying it, like just not liking my body. It led to feeding myself through motivation of self-discuss. You're so skinny, force feed. You're so skinny, take these supplements.  I don't care. I just hate myself. It drove me to make a lot of bad decisions. Now, in extreme cases, the way that self-hate looks in some people is anabolic steroids for men, plastic surgery for women. And the problem with self-hate is it never, ever, ever ends. It never ends. It never gets satisfied. No, we all know the guy that takes tons of gear, force feeds himself. He's 240 pounds. He's jacked. He hates it. He hates the way he looks. Still too skinny. I need more. I need more. I'm going to push my, or the other person who, plastic surgery after plastic surgery, after a procedure, and it's never enough, that road is a road to failure. And I saw it with my clients, and I definitely saw it with myself. Well, I want to make it clear, though, that it's not as obvious as it sounds like the way you're presenting it right now, though. It doesn't present itself as like, I know you didn't do this, and I know I didn't do this.  I was a positive person. I was confident, too. It's insidious, isn't it? Exactly. It's such a deep-rooted insecurity that it really motivates the behaviors, but it wasn't like I was having this time. I didn't go in the gym. You were looking in the mirror and like, yeah. No, I was like, I looked in the mirror and said like, I'm going to go train hard. I was positively motivating myself to go do it, but it was rooted in an insecurity. Yes, yes. That's what makes it so hard. Insidious is the right word for it, because that's what it is. It's not something that is so surface level and clear that someone listening right now is like, oh, yeah, no, I don't have that, because I don't talk to myself that way. Or I'm not, no, you have to really unpack your behaviors and go like, why am I doing those things? Now, here's why it's so insidious, because a lot of the behaviors that come out of that can be looked at as positive. Yeah, positive. What do you mean? I'm working out. What do you mean? I'm just eating healthy. What do you mean? I'm just pushing myself. That's a good thing. Well, I know the obvious one is definitely your body and image and visually what you look like, but it can also take the form of being inadequate in terms of my performance isn't as good as my competitors.  And then that mentality, then when I'm not playing sports, that does not serve you. That is not a good mentality to carry around with yet. And sure, it seems like it does, because it does produce.  It does. And think about it this way. And by the way, self-flagellation and self-punishment can actually feel good when it's rooted in hate, because you get this feeling of satisfaction. I'll give you an example. I'll give you an example. It's like, you know, maybe this happened to you, right?    And I feel satisfied because now you beat down that shame. That leads to destruction. And in using myself as an example, this happened in my, this was in my late 20s, early 30s. This was after I'd already been working out for 15 years and after I'd already been training people for over 10 years. And the way I'd learned this was my body literally rebelled. I was forced. I developed severe gut health issues. I lost 15 pounds, couldn't figure out what the hell was wrong with me, go into doctors. Here I was insecure about my body and now I'm losing 15 pounds. I thought I knew everything of diet and exercise and I had to force myself to stop caring about the way I looked. I had to. I had to say to myself, I don't care how I look, I just want to get healthy. I'm over this. And then I focused on health and what that led me to was I need to work out to take care of myself. My body needs to be taken care of. I need to eat in a way that takes care because it's obviously not healthy. After a year of that, I healed my body and I had this huge realization. I'll never forget what one of the strategies I had leading into this was I stopped paying attention to my image, my reflection in the mirror. I just didn't look at myself. And by the way, this is not that uncommon. I've trained many, many people who really obese or whatever, and they tell me I just, I don't, I don't look in the mirror. I don't really pay attention to how I look. I don't take my clothes off and stare at myself. I avoid that. Well, I did that. And in that year, I was at a friend's house. We were, you know, going swimming and I went to the bathroom and I caught a glimpse of my body off of the reflection of another mirror. So it wasn't something I could avoid. I just saw it. And I, for the first time, I looked at myself and I realized something that blew me away.  And that's when I realized, holy cow, motivating myself through self-care not only feels better emotionally, it actually produces better results because you're more likely to make the right decision.  You may say to yourself, ah, I'm going to blast through that. I don't care. Like I need to, I need to change this body. Somebody who has a self-care mindset will go to the gym and say, my knees are sore. I think I need to work on mobility. I think I need to change my exercise order, which incidentally produces better results. It's an example of how that mindset switch. It's smarter. It's smarter. You work out better. Your nutrition is better more consistently and you suffer from less of those extreme, you know, on one end I'm highly, highly focused and disciplined because that's, here's what happens too at some point.   And then you say this, how many, how many times have you guys, yeah, how many times have you guys heard this from a client?  I just want to enjoy myself. I just want to, I just want to have fun. I just want to love, you know, eating cupcakes. I just want to live life. You know why people say that? You know why you may have said that?    I just want to live my life. It's because you were hating yourself when in reality, taking care of yourself feels good. It always feels good. You don't have that opposite approach. I love the point that you make that it promotes bad behaviors when it comes from this place. And I love that. Again, this is so parallel to other parts of your life. Like what comes to mind for me personally is I think of like, much of my financial success in my 20s was deeply rooted in my insecurities of what I came from. I didn't want to be poor. I didn't want to be in the situation that my parents were in. And that, and it got me really far. And that's what's so dangerous about this is, and I think examples in fitness, we see this a lot with some of the greatest fitness physiques that we see out there. Most, a lot of those people have some of the deepest rooted insecurities. That's what drove them to that level. They've been so insane about it for so many decades that they've built this incredible shell of a physique that's hiding these deep insecurities. And I think of all the decisions that I made financially because I was projecting my own insecurities. I wanted other people to know that I had made it and I'm wealthy, so I was spending money on my friends. And it started to do all these other things that had cascading effects that ended up backfiring on me years later, all because it was driven from the insecurity of I didn't want to be poor, I didn't want this to happen. And then when that got flipped, it completely changed my whole financial situation because it no longer was that important to me and it wasn't driven from the insecurity. So it's not just what we see with bodies and fitness and image, but other aspects of your life if, and that's why I always tell people that many times your greatest strength is also your greatest weakness, not just in the gym world. And when you learn to look at it like that, you learn so much more about yourself. Like, yeah, I'm really successful at celebrating all your success, but you know, how often do we ask ourselves like, well, why am I really good at this? Or why am I so successful at this? Am I happy for real? Right. And because that's what we find a lot too, is we set these goals, whether it be personal, financial, fitness goals, and we drive so hard at them. And a lot of times people, this is where like depression kicks in, they reach that goal, they get there, and they're still not happy. They weren't happy because they were driven by something that didn't make them happy. They were driven by an insecurity. That's one of the worst, by the way, that's one of the most painful realizations.  Lots of money, lots of fame, lots of power. The suicide rate. Yeah. Access to everything. Access to sex.  I'm famous.  I could travel anywhere. I got this beautiful house, amazing cars, all this attention. Everybody, you know, tells me they love me. And then the suicide rate is so high. And I think it's because if you're driven by these negative feelings toward yourself, and then you get, like it's like this, look, imagine if you're, you hate your body so much that that's what drives you to work out. You can't stand the way you look. You're disgusted with your body. And you think to yourself, you know what? If I just, I got to look perfect. And then you win a high level bikini competition or bodybuilding competition. Now what? Yeah.  No. Where do I go from here? I've already hit the pinnacle. Yeah. And it didn't feed me the way I wanted it. It's not sustainable. No, it feels terrible.  So mindset is in this part of mindset is extremely important. If you go to the gym or you work out at home and you think to yourself, how can I take care of this body versus what do I hate about myself?  If you, if you change that to the other one, to the self care one, your decisions will be better. Your progress will be more consistent. And it would lead to the next big factor. And this is a huge one, which is the difference between the mindset of motivation and the mindset of discipline. This is a very, very, very big one. The, the motivation mindset is this. I got to get hyped. I got to get motivated. And that's going to get me excited. And then I'm going to work out. And this is going to be great. The trouble with the motivation mindset is motivation goes away. It always does fleeting. Nobody's ever always motivated all the time. It goes eventually, it goes away. And then what ends up happening is you stop. So you stop long enough until motivation kicks back in. Oh, now I'm motivated again. Now I'm ready to work out. And the fitness, and by the way, the fitness industry, because we're the consumers drive all industries, right? So this is how people get themselves to work out as they wait for these waves of motivation. The fitness industry capitalizes on it. So the workouts that they design and the way that they, that they talk about diet is all based off of motivation. It's like, Oh, now you're motivated. Excellent.  Or here's, here's a group exercise class that beats you up and everybody in the class is just like you. They all get this wave of motivation and they're ready to work out. It's that mindset and the same thing with diet. Like, Oh, how many times you guys heard this from people like, you know what, that's it. I'm going to lose 30 pounds. They go home and they change everything all at once. I'm throwing everything away. I'm buying only healthy food. And you know, for sure, they're going to fail. It's literally like fire. Like you created a fire that's burning right now, but you have to keep constantly throwing logs on it.  It burns out. Motivation burns out. And then what? Well, I think this is, I think we're all guilty of this, especially in our, probably our first five, maybe even 10, for sure the first five years, maybe some, I think somewhere between five and 10 is when this really started to come together for me. And I think for me, it was, I don't think I had the knowledge, the experience that I really needed to truly help people the way I did. And motivation is just an easy default from that. It's like, I didn't have quite enough experience to have said, man, I've trained a hundred clients just like you. I've trained a hundred other clients and to be able to really help this person. So the go-to move is what I can do though is rah-rah, excite them. Razzle dazzle. That's right. Razzle dazzle them with, you know, different types of exercises and hype and motivation and like pump them up.  I'm loud. You know, I've got personality like that. I could do this. And again, it served me. I was getting clients and I had my book was full and I was doing well, but I really wasn't giving people long lasting results.  You're getting a show. Right. And that, it only, it got me so far, but it got, man, I got tiring after a while. I got tired. I got tired of being a, this cheerleader and knowing that like 80% of the people would end up going right back to where they were when they first started with me eventually. Totally. It's, it's a tough one. It really is because if, look, by the way, we're not saying that motivation is bad. And I'm not saying that, that trainers who, who inspire their clients and motivate are doing something wrong. It's the reliance upon it and it's the focus on it. It's the motivation mindset. That is the problem because we all go through periods of different feelings and different drives. And when that motivation does kick in, it's great. That's when things are easy. By the way, I've never, ever had to talk of client and to be consistent when they were really motivated.  Don't, you know, make sure you don't go up when they're motivated. It's easy. You're motivated. Of course it's when you're not that it becomes a challenge. Now think of all the things in your life that you're most consistent with. Think of all the things that you do every single day, no matter what. Are you motivated to brush your teeth every morning? Are you motivated to take a shower every morning? Are you always motivated to show, you know, if you have a successful marriage, are you always motivated to show your spouse that you love them? I guarantee no. If you've been married for a long time, there's going to be times when the motivation to show your spouse you love them is not there. I don't want to show, but you know what? If you have a successful marriage, you're probably disciplined enough to do it. That's the discipline mindset. So the discipline mindset says this, I am going to take care of my body and exercise regularly, whether I'm motivated to do it or not. My motivation is, it's great when I'm motivated, but when I'm not motivated, it's not going to stop me. And I think, I think the important point to make to that is that sometimes that it, you know, when it's, when it's rooted in self-care and because you love yourself, sometimes you don't have the motivation, but you do it out of the discipline. But sometimes the discipline too, doesn't mean that you have to like kill yourself every time. No. You know, sometimes it means like, oh man, I just, my body aches today. I feel tired. I just got bad news about someone, someone close to me that's got COVID right now. I'm thinking about it. So that, you know what though, if I just go for a walk or I spend an hour of doing yoga or, you know, maybe I'm just going to work on getting better squats today and do, like there's nothing wrong.   And sometimes the part of that, the minds connect to that. Sometimes it's meditation you need. Maybe you've got this issue where you've got a lot of anxiety that's starting to build up or you're, you're, you're stressed about family and all that. So maybe actually beating yourself up in the gym that day, isn't the best way to serve your body. And, and you know that because you're really not motivated to do that, but don't not take care of yourself. Still feed something else, feed another part of your body or take care of another part of your body that is going to, that's going to help you. So it doesn't always have to be this, you know, my goal to lose 15 pounds or my goal to build 15 pounds of muscle. And so, you know, I got to be disciplined. Like Sal said, every single day, not miss a workout. No, sometimes you're working in, you know, sometimes you're working inside versus working on the, your physical aspect. Yes. And so here's the big, here's the big difference with, with, between motivation and mindset. Okay. The motivated person, all, when they're motivated, loves the workouts. Okay. I love my workout because I'm motivated. I love my diet right now because I'm motivated. The disciplined person loves the discipline. Okay. There's a big difference there. The discipline person doesn't always love the workouts. Sometimes they don't like the workouts, but they love that they'd love being disciplined. This is very different. I, I had a client, probably the client for me that really exemplified this more than any others was a client that I trained. His name was Jim, Doug knows Jim. In fact, Jim helped us film the original maps in a block. This was a client that I had for a very, very long time. And he was in his late sixties. I've talked about him before. I don't think I've ever said his name. Very fit, very healthy.  It was in the high seven hundreds. Yeah. He was, you know, he was lean. He was, you know, strong, you know, great guy, just extremely consistent and had been working out and swimming and exercising since his early thirties and never stopped, right? Just never stopped. And I would ask him this and I'd say, no, Jim, how the hell have you all, have you been so consistent for so long? I said, you must just love swimming because he used to swim. This guy would swim, you know, like I think one or two miles, almost every single day, for example, said, you must just love swimming. And I remember he said, I thought this was, I did not expect. I thought he would say to me like, yes, I love swimming. Swimming is my favorite thing in the world. He said, sometimes I love it. I'm like, what do you mean? Sometimes I don't like it. Sometimes I don't like the way it feels. Sometimes I'm tired.  He says, it's not that I love the swimming. He goes, I love the discipline. He goes, it's just the part of my day. What it produces. Yeah. He goes, I just love the fact that I have the structure and I wake up in the morning and I go to the gym and I'm just, I'm disciplined. He goes, sometimes he goes, I, of course, sometimes I really, really enjoy what I'm doing. He goes, but a lot of times I don't, he goes, but I just don't stop. He goes, and I remember hearing that from somebody who exemplified it. So when I thought, gosh, that's, that's the secret right there. Well, I know we all like listen and have read books by Jordan Peterson kind of touches on this a bit, but like order and chaos, like there's things that you can control.  And it's something that you can lean on that and that feels good because that provides freedom now. Like the thing about the motivation is it's, it's a roller coaster. It's always up. It's always down. It's always up. It's always down. That's stressful.  Like there's a lot of anxiety that goes with that. And I just, yeah, there's going to be days where you're not going to want to do it, but having that sort of structure established, it just provides a result that, you know, will always benefit you and you will feed off that. Well, the secret is it's very similar to how we talk to people about nutrition. It's learning to connect those behaviors to other aspects that it feeds in your life. For example, like we talk all the time about like, you know, making good food choices. And is, you know, instead of always connecting it to weight loss, up and down the skill, it's thinking about all the other things, my stool, my energy, my sleep, how does it affect that? Well, having good discipline at taking care of yourself, which could encompass a lot of things, reading, walking, meditating, yoga, stretching, hard training session, all those are taking care of yourself. It's not always connecting it to results. Like what, like physical results, what am I, did I build X a pound a muscle or did I lose the weight I needed to lose? Sometimes it's, it's, did it give me like a break from my day? Sometimes it is, did it open up this creative thought process in my head? Did it make me think about the things that I really value in my life? There's a lot of other aspects of being consistent with taking care of yourself every day, bleeds into other than just physical results. And sometimes a lot of times in the fitness space, that's what we get with clients. They come in and it's like, I want to look a certain way. I want to lose a certain amount of weight. I want to build so much muscle. And they're so focused on that that their success to them of a workout has to be making this huge progress towards that goal in order for it to be worthwhile doing it. And it's like, no, that's not true. That's not why you eat good. It's not just so you can look a certain way. It's also because it feeds all kinds of other aspects of your life. The same thing goes for when you're taking care of yourself, fitness wise. Sometimes it's not about, did you get closer to that strength goal, that weight loss goal? Sometimes it's what your body needed that time for other parts of your life. And so along those lines is sometimes not working out taking care of yourself? Yes. Is sometimes eating a cookie taking care of yourself or having a glass of wine taking care of yourself? Yes. When you have the right mindset, now these tools are used appropriately, which is one of the hallmarks of a fitness person who is motivated and has the wrong mindset is the person who never veers off, who is so stringent with their diet that going off, going to a restaurant, going on vacation stresses them out.  How am I to get my perfect meals? How am I to get my macros? How am I going? They're missing out on the big picture. And look, here's another way to talk about this. I've heard this before and I think this makes a lot of sense. And psychologists talk about this. It's the growth mindset versus the fixed mindset. So the difference between the two of those is growth mindset says the way I behave, the way I think about things, the way I am is moldable. I believe I can change. I believe I can grow. I believe I can change my mindset. The fixed mindset says this is just how I am. This is how I am. It's never going to change. I can't. It won't. There's nothing I can do to change. This is just the way things are. Now, we have studies on this and they're very, very clear. People with the growth mindset have much higher positive outcomes in everything. Anything, whether it's business, family life, or fitness. Let me put it this way. If I have a client that comes in and they say to me, look, it's just the way I am is the way I am. Nothing's ever going to change. Actually, they probably wouldn't even hire me. But even if they did, I've worked with clients with the fixed mindset.  It's just the way it is or whatever. And I understand the whole acceptance part, but that's very different from the person that says, I know it's going to be hard, but I believe in my ability to make changes. It's going to be difficult. It's going to be a struggle, but I am growth-minded. I know that I can accomplish things through effort, through work. It's possible. You have to believe it's possible for it to even happen. If you believe it's not possible, if you say to yourself, these permanent changes are never going to happen. It's just not going to happen. You're right. You're right. That's a quote from Henry Ford, whether you believe you can or you can't. You're probably right. You're probably right. Belief is so important with this. And so having that mindset of, I can change. It doesn't mean it's easy, by the way. I think you have to acknowledge that change is difficult. That's a very important thing. But you've got to believe that it's possible. Otherwise, you're stuck. I also think that a growth mindset too requires the ability to question everything that you do. I think that, and I think Lewis Howells touched on this in his mini-mass book or whatever. I forget the title of it. But a lot of times, when you're doing well or you're hitting goals, you're following your meal plan, you're not questioning anything because you're doing what you're supposed to do. But sometimes that is rooted in the insecurities that we're talking about. So you first have to have the ability to question everything that you do and why do you do it and ask yourself. It's something that to this day, I am always challenging myself on. Even when things go right and well, that's when it's hardest.  Some people have that ability.  But man, when you get to the next level, you even question the things that go right and well in your life. Do you have the ability to question yourself, why did that play out that way or why did I respond that way or why did I say that or why am I doing this and really look to your true motivators behind that? To me, that's where the real growth comes is in the areas that we're blinded because we have this false perception of success. And to me, talking about fitness and comparing that, the greatest examples are some of the people that we look up most to in the fitness space, the people that are on covers of magazines that we all, not we all, but many people worship and idolize and look up to and think that, oh, they're killing it in life because it looks all great. But man, when you dive deeper into those people, those are the people that have avoided questioning their true motivators and why they do what they do. You're right, because if you're sitting in a situation where you're shredded, you're muscular, you are consistent with your diet, but so super consistent and your workouts never miss a workout, it's really hard to look at yourself and say, why am I, like, what's driving this, right? Because you're getting the results and from the outside, people think you're doing a good job and it's easy to fool yourself, but you're absolutely right, Adam, because in my early days, that would have been me. I would have never questioned what was driving me to work out so hard and what was driving me to follow a particular diet. I wasn't questioning, what was driving me didn't matter. It was getting great results. I didn't question it until my body rebelled. That's when I had to question it, but had I questioned it when I was doing good, I would have never hit that roadblock. I would have never been run over by that, my body's rebellion, that happened to me. I'm going to keep going, because here's the thing, I was lucky that the way that my body rebelled was in a way that I could fix and reverse. I know people who, the reminder was severe and permanent, where they ignored a lot of signals and it got to the point where things went really, really bad and things they couldn't recover from. That's a great point. Well, it's because it's the ego. The things that feed the ego are the most difficult to look into. That feels good. If I look good, I'm doing good. I'm not challenging what my motivation is behind this.  Those are the times though, when I think it matters most to really look deeper into what's driving and pushing. Yeah, and I think this speaks into how distractible we are as well. We don't want to self-reflect. 100%. Being calm, quiet, and not having any outside stimulus and things to focus on besides just yourself and your inner thoughts and besides what you look like, how do you think? How do I think about things in life? When hardship comes and what's my mentality through all these things, you need to create the space for that. I know we're going to get into this with the next points, but this is something that I just don't feel like the environment that we have today really promotes this. No, actually, it's funny. Just the other night, I did my Q&As and people were asking me about the positive things that I've seen since COVID. It's funny because the news promotes all the bad shit, but I actually have seen a lot of really cool positive things. And what I think it is, is that we're forced to have this quiet time that we haven't had before, and people are starting to reevaluate things that they value. Dude, I've never seen so many people outside of my life. I've never seen so many people play with their kids. Sunshine feels great. Play with their kids, take walks with their spouses, smile and wave at neighbors when they walk by. It's courteous to each other in the grocery store.  I was in line in my butcher line.  Thank you for doing your job. We appreciate it. It gets me chills because it renewed my faith in humanity is what it is, is we live in such a distracting world today. It makes us shitty. All these, it does. It does because we don't stop, but we are good in our root. I believe we're good.  And, and you start to think that way.  I got healthy kids right here. I'm so lucky. I've got, I still got a job. I'm fortunate. Yeah. And so it does really start to shift. And I'm watching this happen right now. I'm seeing entrepreneurs that were stuck doing kind of the same thing forever, reinventing themselves and doing two different things. There's a lot of really good things that are happening. And it's, it's tough when you turn on the goddamn news or you open up social media, because the things that get shared in the most viral are the things that are negative and alarming and scary. But we are seeing because we're all being forced to be very present right now. It's pretty wild. It's, you know, I'll give you, here's a good example. Jessica in some ways is a great example. She grew up, and I hope she doesn't mind me sharing this, but she grew up poor.  They, you know, hiding from the bill collectors, don't answer the phone, you know, gotta move so we can't pay this, lights get turned off, and that kind of stuff. Now, if you ask her about her childhood, I mean, at one point, she slept, no joke. Her bed was a old recliner because she, they couldn't afford a bed, right?  It was fun.  I got to sleep on a recliner. Oh, you know, moving around was really cool because I got, one time we lived in this big house that, you know, we shared with other people and there were these hidden, and she talks about it like it was a fun time. In fact, not that long ago, the lights went out in my house. I got all pissed off, right?   We get to light candles and we get to have a good, and it was, I realized like, because if you talk to people who grew up with her, they have a very negative, you know, opinion about how things were. It's like, it's like two different stories. Like, what the hell? But they all grew up the same. Her attitude is what made her, and her mindset is what made her come out of that. You know, far less, far more unscathed than other people. It was the mindset. It's all about reframing your perspective. There's a silver lining in everything. And the people that have the right mindset have this ability, no matter how dark it is, how bad it is on the outside or what everybody else sees, they have the ability to see the silver lining in all those things. And so this is the thing that her and I are most connected in. That's why Jessica and I get along so well is that I think that we can relate to each other, because we have this in common that, you know, I look at my childhood, and I don't know if she's like this, but a good part of my teenage years and early twenties, I wasn't this way. I was, you know, angry at my parents. I had resentment, animosity, and my life completely changed when I flipped that perspective. And I thought, you know what's crazy though? If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have done this. It wasn't for those things. I wouldn't have been like this. If I wasn't like, if I didn't go through that, I wouldn't be able to have empathy for these people. If I went, and all of a sudden I started to see like all the positive things that happened because I went through that. And then all of a sudden I became grateful.  Yeah, you're chill. Yeah, really. You have that ability to be that way. So, yeah, that to me is, man, some of the secret sauce of success is, I believe a lot of the most successful people I've ever met have always been able to reframe the situation that they're currently in. Now, here's an important thing that I want to communicate about this. It doesn't happen automatically for most of us. Okay, it's far easier. It's far easier to have the negative fixed, you know, blame everything else mindset. That's a really easy one. It's self-serving. It absolves your responsibility because now actually temporarily makes you feel good. It does because, oh, I don't, it's not my fault. I can't do anything about it. So, and I feel good for a second because now I don't have to change it because change is hard, right? So this is not something that happens overnight. So it's not like you can listen to this podcast and be like, oh, that's it. Boom, switch. Doesn't work that way. You got to train it just like the following. Just like if you listen to a podcast that we put out on how to get a better squat, right? You're not going to hear what we say immediately have an awesome squat. You got to go to the gym or go in your garage and practice, practice, practice. You got to practice frequently. You got to practice often and you got to practice perfect. And you got to do this on a consistent long-term basis. And over time, you develop a far better squat. And then over time, you develop an awesome squat. So this mindset is not going to happen overnight. This mindset requires awareness and conscious training. So I'll give you an example of the conscious training. So, and you got to be aware first, right? So you look in the mirror and you look at yourself.  What did I just say? What did I just think to myself? Become aware. Okay. I'm aware of what I just said. I got to say something positive about myself now. By the way, don't lie. I don't want you to lie. I've told this to clients before. I'm like, well, I can't say something positive about my belly because I'm like, I don't care. Say something positive about something that's real.  Oh, wait a minute. Hold on. That was negative mindset. That was a fixed mindset. That was self-hate. Let me think of something good to say, you know what? I'm a really good friend. You know what? I'm a really good mom. You know, I'm a kind person or I really, I really do try hard. Offset it. Say something consciously to train that mindset. Your, the learning process doesn't go to, right away to automatic.  I'm guarantee you're not thinking about taking a left step, taking a right step, got a balance, don't fall. You just walk, right? You walk. You could think about whatever you could eat to sandwich. You could talk to your friends while you're walking. But when you first learned how to walk, when you were a baby, you ever watch a baby learn how to walk? They're paying attention. Every, they have to consciously think about what they're doing. That's, that's the, that's the first phase before it becomes automatic. So you have to train yourself and it all starts with awareness. Now there are practices that can help a lot with this. Stoicism is a great ancient philosophy. It's not rooted in, you know, mysticism. You don't have to believe in spiritual, you know, gods or anything like that. It's just a philosophy, but a big part of stoicism is accepting what you can't change and then focusing on what you can. Oh, that's a really big one. I just respond another question I had. Somebody asked me how I was dealing with the anxiety over everything that's going on. I said, I don't have anxiety. That's wasted energy on things that I, focusing on the controllables. That's something I can't control. I can't control COVID-19 spreading all over the place. I can do what I can control the best, which is shelter in place, wash things, stay healthy, eat good, exercise. I focus all of my energy on the controllables, the things that are uncontrollable in my life. You just accept it. It is what it is. And what happens is many people get stuck on the uncontrollables, pondering them, stressing over them, having anxiety over them, trying to worry about them, talking about them to their friends, gossiping about you. That is all wasted energy that can be put towards doing something to better your own life. 100%. So when they do studies on people who have like terminal diseases or whatever, they've done these studies now with like psychedelics, like mushrooms or MDMA. And they're finding that with therapy and these psychedelic substances, that these, because one of the big, the hallmarks of knowing you're going to die soon is extreme depression and anxiety. I've seen this firsthand. I had somebody close to me who was terminal and you see this process. It's like, that's one of the most painful parts. You know, it's terminal. Now you get anxious for the unknown.  I'm depressed from all this. So it's a very painful time. Lots of antidepressants, lots of anxiety, medicines, lots of pain pills. And so when they do these therapies with these psychedelics and a therapist, these people are coming out and they're, they're, they're at peace. They're all of a sudden, they're not depressed, not anxious. And you asked them, when they asked them, what was it, they'll say to you, I just accepted it. I was just able to accept it. Now I'm not saying go take psychedelics to do this. I'm saying the key is the acceptance part. Another thing that helps with that is a spiritual practice. If you talk to people who are religious, truly, like really religious, like really, you know, they follow their religion. They really live it. They're not the hypocrites or the people we don't like or whatever, you know, the good people, you talk to them and they tend to be, you know, it's not like they don't feel sad or they don't get scared or that kind of stuff. Well, they're very stoic about things. They're, they, they, you know, like I have somebody I knew, I know who lost a child and, you know, and they're, but they're very religious. And of course they were sad and it was terrible. But, you know, they, they, they couldn't control what happened. And for them, what they said was, is they, that's, that wasn't, that's in God's hands. And they just, they let go of something that they couldn't control and that dramatically and greatly reduced a lot of their pain. So spiritual practices is another one. So if you, if you, if you like the mystic, mysticism, if you want to believe in those types of things, then the spiritual practice is one way to train your mindset. It's one way to achieve a more successful mindset. And, and letting go doesn't necessarily mean not doing anything either. Right.  Right. I mean, I think about like, so something that like that I think about, right, is, you know, there's, there's a very good chance that we are going to see serious economical ramifications from this COVID-19. That's a fact. Now me dwelling just on that and going, Oh my God, what if the housing market goes down 50% and we lose equity in this and what if I lose my job? What if, if, if I spend all my time just worrying about that, then it's wasted energy that I could be putting towards being creative and thinking, okay, that like, okay, there's a good chance it's going to happen. Let's pretend it happened now, right now, and it's this moment. What am I doing to pivot and think of things that I can be creating still revenue for myself or making sure that my family has food? Like you cannot be stressing and worrying about that because it's sucking energy from what you could be possibly doing. Reminds me of the joke where the guy, there's this guy that prays every day to win the lottery. Every day I pray, please, God, let me win the lottery. Let me win the lottery.  Never wins a lottery. He dies, goes up to heaven. And he, and God, you know, he sees God and he goes, I got one question for you, God. He goes, every day I pray to win the lottery and I never won it. And God says, you never bought a lottery ticket. Like you never, you never took action. You know how you can't win unless you buy a lottery ticket. I love that. Yeah. Here's another thing you can do that will help train your mindset. Cold and hot therapy is effective at this. Now there's the physiological effects of it, how it strengthens the body and all that stuff. But a big part of this, a big reason why some people can go longer in the cold or the hot is because they don't, they accept the uncomfortable aspect of it. Yeah. This is something that I mean, I've stressed this a few times about cold therapy and ice baths in general about when you're in that situation, you can't rely on your own initiatives of tightening and bracing and like bearing down and getting through it. You have to accept how cold it is and you have to get into a calm state. A calm state benefits you so much more in the admits, like the highest performers, athletics wise, the ones at the top, the superstars know how to find that calm state under pressure. So like your Michael Jordan's, everything is relying around this last second shot. And right, the buzzer beater, right? This is something that not a lot of people have this ability. It's something that you have to train and you have to immerse yourself in. And so, and again, this is something too, like people don't realize that even after training, it's, I'm going through this stress to better myself, but also I have to recover from that stress in order to then propel myself forward. So you could take it down just to the workout level. I worked out hard. Now, how am I going to recover? How do I find this calm state? This calm state is something a lot of people neglect. And this has to be trained. This can be trained through hot cold therapy. This can be trained through meditation and breathing practices. Meditation is a big one because if you're stuck in a loop of the wrong mindset, sometimes it can be really hard to get out of it because you're so frozen by this bad mindset. And so sometimes what you need is a break from it long enough to where you can become aware, examine your mindset and change it. Meditation does that. Meditation is the practice of being present. And essentially what it's doing is it's giving you a break. It's giving you a long enough break from this looping thoughts, this poor mindset state, long enough to where you can look at the new mindset. Now, I've gotten this break. Now, how do I, now that I'm done with meditating, let me move forward with this better mindset. Now, and there's tool, by the way, there's tools out there to help you. Meditating is hard, requires practice. We're talking about how you need to train your mindset. One thing that I found that helps a lot. There's a lot of meditation apps that help. Brain FM, brain.fm is my favorite. There are guided meditations on there and there's unguided ones.  And for me, it was a tool that, because meditating is so hard. If I sit there quietly, I'm just thinking about everything. It's impossible. That helped me quite a bit. My favorite way to break that loop that you're talking about, because let's be honest, it's not like fear doesn't creep in any of our minds. It's not like no one in here has it. Absolutely. But the way I break that loop when I can't, if I'm trying to meditate and I can't get out of thinking about, oh my God, what is, is accept that worst case scenario right then, right then and there. You know what? It did all happen. I lost my job. I have no money. This I can't pay rent. Okay. The question now is, what do I do?  Instead of waiting and thinking and pondering, like, okay, if my greatest fear is X, Y and Z could happen, let's pretend it did. It just happened. Now what am I doing about it? And now focus all my energy on that and my thought process on that. Get creative. What can I do? What are the switch right there and accept it? The minute you do that, that's how you break that loop. Totally. So I think the key with that is to train and practice your mindset. It won't change overnight. It takes time. It's daily practice.  Be okay with that. You're not going to automatically have the right mindset. You're going to go from, oh, I'm getting the right mindset. I'm getting the, oh, terrible mindset now for a few days or a week or whatever. You will stumble. Part of having the right mindset is being okay with the fact that you're going to stumble and that it's a practice. So be kind to yourself. Realize, make peace with the fact that you're not going to be perfect at all with this at first, that it does take practice. But once, as you start to improve in this, your odds of success long-term fitness and health success go through the roof. And with the wrong mindset, the odds of failure, long-term failure are astronomical. So this is a, this is again, the most important thing that you can focus on. And with that, go to mind pump free.com, download all of our guides, resources and books. You can also find Adam, Justin and myself on Instagram. This is where we're the most active. Justin can be found at Mind Pump Justin. You can find me at Mind Pump Sal and Adam at Mind Pump Adam.


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We are here at Lakewood Park Camp, which is in Painesville, for the second of our Cadets Training Weekends, which is targeted at our 16 and 17 year old senior members of CFA. What we are doing is we have brought them away for the weekend, so they can do training specifically targeted at their age group. So yesterday we went to West Sale VemTech, and they got to go on the pads, they were doing search and rescue, they got to do fire extinguisher work, they were looking at how to put out fires and burning cars, and they did some XVR as well, so that was trying to be incident controller at an incident, and working their way through that, but through a computer simulated program. And then today, here at the camp, we've been doing activities such as raft building, we've been trying to build teamwork through those kind of things, and we've also been seeing the trucks from the local Painesville Brigade. They've brought along their pumper and tanker, and let us see a bit of show and tell of what's going on there. And then we've also had the virtual reality team, so again, young people have got the opportunity to try their skills in a safe environment, through virtual reality to learn more skills of putting out fires and using extinguishers, using the aviation simulator to see what it's like flying a water bomber and being able to put out fire from the sky and support those on the ground. It's been a really great experience to see young people, young members from all around the state come together, make new friends, some of these friendships I think will go on for the rest of their lives, but skills that start them at this beginning part of their journey as CFA members and firefighters, skills that they can build on and they can take back to their brigade and put into action and show people everything that they've been learning. For me, it would have been the search and rescue activity that we did yesterday. We were placed in a pod with a bunch of containers that simulated a house and it was quite dark inside and it was also smoky, and we used thermal imaging cameras to detect bodies and dummies. I think at the end of the day yesterday at VemTech we got everyone on the gas pad and we lit up a gas tank and did a scenario of two lines from two tankers and it just, it was everyone from the camp doing it at once and coming together and building on their skills from the day and using them to help put out fire. This weekend we're doing the cadets camp for our 16 and 17 year old brigade members throughout the entirety of CFA. We're doing a lot of team building and learning a heap of firefighting skills. I've liked the rough building so far. It showed that we all needed good communication and good leadership to be able to make it work. A highlight for me would be yesterday we went to the VemTech training facility and we got to learn a lot about strategies of fighting fire. Most of it has been pretty good. I've enjoyed all of it but yesterday, Saturday at the VemTech training with all the different experiences and stuff was great. Before coming to this I've had no proper experience in the field. I learnt more about doing fire extinguishers. I got to put out real fires on the pads at VemTech. A highlight for me is getting to know some of the young people and seeing their enthusiasm and also their skill level. It's been really impressive and seeing them work together as teams as well has been great. The overall vibe has been very positive and uplifting. The sense of camaraderie I think and the enthusiasm really stands out for me. We went on the gas pad as well at VemTech and we had real fires going. We all had to roll out hoses as a team from the trucks and work together to put it out while rescuing other people from inside a car. Before coming here I wasn't really that excited about it. I didn't think too much of it and then going through the weekend and it's probably the best thing I've ever done with CFA. I was expecting to meet some more people from throughout CFA and build on my relationships with other brigades and use that to hopefully meet people like this on the fire ground in the future and use these skills also I've learned with these people. If you are the young ones coming through definitely 16, 17 year olds come along. You'll meet a heap of great people and you get to learn a lot of skills. I would highly recommend this camp to all other 16 and 17 year olds. It's a great way to start off the CFA volunteer career and great introduction to the firefighting pathway. I would definitely recommend this to other young people in the CFA so you get to learn a lot and try new things that you don't really do at your local station.