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uh most people their associations are to avoid anything that's uncomfortable but it's so illogical because when you look at comfort and you look at success and progress and the eventual the feelings of accomplishment and of getting past certain hurdles in in terms of like how you feel about life a lot of those are connected to discomfort like discomfort is your friend a lot of people say oh I just want to sort of they kind they're kind of dabbling in the idea of improving themselves and the real way to do it is you got to write

down what the you want and then go after it cuz otherwise you live in sort of a wishy-washy world you know if you decide I'm going to get down to a bang I'm going to do this I'm going to run a marathon in less than 5 hours I'm going to you know whatever the it is you got to write that down and go for it there's been many many many many many many many days where I didn't want to work out I just didn't feel like I had the energy and I just forced myself and

I think there's very few people out there that know how to force themselves that's a learn that's a learn skill it's that that kind of discipline and focus you have to have like real rigid requirements of yourself where you don't allow yourself to back out of things and you don't allow yourself to slack off and I don't think people put those kind of requirements on themselves as if it's um it is a a daily principle of life like what you must get done you know you must brush your teeth you must exercise for 45 minutes

and if you did that I think you'd be healthier and happier and you your body would perform more smoothly and if you require your body to do things like that I think it rises to the occasion there are very few people that have that kind of discipline so because of that they come up with excuses and excuses are a giant part of the problem it's not simply a physical health issue there's also mental aspects of it and disciplines a big one I just know way too many people who are weak mentally and I I I

can't I can't just chalk It Off to only you know their physical the way they physically feel because I felt like [ __ ] 100 times and then I worked out and then I felt way better it's just it's just a fact of life that's real you know you just got to and people don't know how to do that it's not a and if you're used to doing this get in your car sit down drive to the office sit down go to the lunch sit down you know go to the board meeting sit down get

in your car on the way home sit down get home in front of the TV sit down then go to the gym they don't have any energy you know their body's not their body's like I don't have it eny to do this and I don't believe that I don't believe that I think it's it's a lot of it is the the mindset but there's been many many people that have just put their foot down and said enough I'm I'm going to change my life and they they don't take any excuses and they feel way way

better diet is most certainly a part of that but there's also a discipline aspect and these things are not mutually exclusive they they exist together they're all together there's and they work symbiotically the way you your your mindset affects the choices you make with your diet and the mindset also affects the choices you make in terms of like whether or not you require yourself to exercise and I think these are these are critical aspects that people like to gloss over or they like to make excuses about and they get very angry if you don't accept

those excuses and that's a sign that they're trying to they're trying to enforce this standard and this idea and push it on you and give themselves an excuse it's one of the reasons why they get angry it's one thing if someone has an legit physical issue like you do but there's a lot of people who do not they just have poor diet choices they have sedentary lifestyle and they have the momentum of this sedentary lifestyle that's holding them back they're they're accustomed to being lazy to give people this excuse I don't have the energy to

exercise that is crazy to say can you walk to the refrigerator well you can exercise you don't have to do anything crazy just walk around the block there's a there's 80-year-old ladies who take yoga with me they they they're really old and they're in there they're they're going after it they can easily say I don't have the energy to do that but they don't it's a mental attitude they make a decision I agree like there's a lot of it discipline you're going to get people who just want exercise you don't have to kill yourself you

don't have to go to a CrossFit class and try to do the workout of the day you don't have to go nuts and do clean and presses while 150 lbs you don't have to do that but you have to do something just get get your blood moving your body has requirements it wants to move it really does and when it does you feel better but people like to give themselves this excuse I do not have the energy to do this whatever if you decide that that's true but if you watch a motivational video there's a

hundred of them on YouTube thousands even go watch one you'll get fired up you're like and I'm going to jump some rope you jump some rope you do something just do some push-ups do something do some body weight squats you'll feel better but it's also like learning that learning that and having that as a part of your daily life you can do it there's a lady who's like 450 lbs that takes yoga with me she's enormous she's in there she is probably really embarrassing very hard to do yeah you know and she's in there we

could anyone could do it we can do it and again I'm not saying do what Michael Phelps does I'm just saying just do something got to do something we we have up Lifestyles the lifestyles that people have are just the human body is not designed to sit down all day and it's certainly not designed to be stuck in traffic and be in an office and just be you know fluorescent lights and just sitting there in front of a computer monitor watching your soul get sucked through the the the the the LCD screen it's crazy if

you make furniture you make furniture for a living and you you feel a great satisfaction out of that you sell that furniture look man making Furniture feels good if you can do that you could you could cut those Corners perfectly and everything down nice and stain it and then it's done and you get this satisf and you sell it to someone and that pays your bills that is infinitely more satisfying than being stuck in some cubicle working for someone that you don't want to work for having to have these stupid office meetings talking to people

in Human Resources sitting down with your supervisor where they evaluate your job performance and you know you're not really you know you you really need to be enthusiastic about this company this company is your future this like you like kill me now you know there's a lot of people out there that would way rather do something else and I hope they understand that they can I didn't start out thinking this is going to replace my income this is going to be I just did it as a passion project and I think if people have a

regular day job if you could just find some one thing that you do as a passion project and just keep building on it just keep at keep watering it keep adding fertilizer keep giving it attention keep giving it focus and you can escape you can escape and you can be self-serving you could be okay and people that are trapped in bad situations one of the problems is you feel like this is your future you feel like you're and you can't get out of that there's no hope there's no light at the end of the tunnel

there's no rainbow and if you feel like that that alone can be incredibly defining and limiting but if you can look at if you look at yourself objectively and say okay I kind of am here I'm in credit card debt I'm working in a shitty job I I I don't like what I'm doing but I have some ideas I need to feed those ideas and I I I need to feed them and water them and I need to set aside a certain amount of time every day to just try to make those things happen you

can do that the thing that people that makes people the most sad in life and I already have a couple of friends my own age who are there is the regrets right they don't they don't they're not sorry they failed they're sorry they didn't try and the funny thing is there some of them are only 50 and they think okay my my my window to try is already gone which is wrong too but folks you will be so happy there's so many things that have happened in my life because I mean I got my first

talk radio show job I was I was a reporter I covered the story there was some big guy showing up at the local radio station and as I was leaving I wrote a letter to the program director to say thanks for having us and I thought do I mail this do I not mail it do I mail it do I and just you know I closed my eyes and I mailed he called me two days later said you want a job what if you didn't send that letter it's so stupid the little things that your

life can hinge on but if you don't do them you don't give fate an opportunity to intervene I think here's an important thing too failure is important it I think failure teaches you things that you don't learn from success I think failure gives you an opportunity for self-examination it also gives you a feeling that is very uncomfortable and that very uncomfortable feeling helps you grow that when you feel like you screw something up like when I've had bad podcasts my podcast has always gotten better afterwards when I've had bad standup sets I've always gotten better

after that because those bad sets motivate you they get they give you a perspective like hey here's some clear examples of where you what not to do yeah don't and don't look at these failures as like proof that you suck look at them as opportunities for growth look at them as opportunities to be motivated to do better if you hate your job that is like nature telling you to try something different and it's motivating because the motivation is you might not have to do that Soul killing job anymore well if you look at someone who's

doing really well like say if you focus on like Kevin Hart or someone like some very famous and successful comedian all you see is him now flying around private jets wearing a new pair of sneakers every day driving around in Bentley's you just see that you don't see him being a young kid in Philadelphia going to open mic nights scratching and clawing Hammer selling the the tapes out of the hatchback all that stuff man there's a path and you we we think of people like you see an old person walking down the street you go

oh that person's always been an old person no that was a baby that was a baby maybe that became a 90-year-old man there's a there's a progression that you're not witnessed to you don't see it and that that that takes place in everything it takes place in authors it takes place in Comedians and musicians there there's a starting point and then with time and focus and as long as you re-evaluate and reassess and constantly objectively look at what you're doing and then pursue it with passion and focus you get better at things