Your Health and Fitness Purpose -Day 04 -Develop — Transcript

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1. 0:06Hello and welcome to day four of
2. 0:09Lifebook's 30-day challenge. It's great
3. 0:10to be here with you today.
4. 0:12I really want to congratulate you for
5. 0:14caring enough about your life to do this
6. 0:16work.
7. 0:17And I want to encourage you to give it
8. 0:18everything you have because I will tell
9. 0:21you there's a huge payoff. There's a
10. 0:23serious pot of gold at the end of this
11. 0:26rainbow. People who do this kind of work
12. 0:28get rewarded for it. If you really
13. 0:31engage with this challenge, if you if
14. 0:33you take the exercises seriously and
15. 0:35take advantage of all the resources that
16. 0:37we're providing you, I promise you by
17. 0:40the end of this challenge, you're going
18. 0:41to be so much closer to the
19. 0:44extraordinary life that you want to be
20. 0:45living than you are today. You're going
21. 0:48to be in better physical shape. You're
22. 0:50going to have a stronger sense of
23. 0:51purpose in your life. Your love
24. 0:52relationship could improve. Your
25. 0:54spirituality can be more fulfilling to
26. 0:57you. Your financial life could improve.
27. 0:59If you do the things that we're asking
28. 1:00you to do, you will definitely see
29. 1:04results in your life.
30. 1:05Now, as we start our exploration of
31. 1:07health and fitness for today, I want to
32. 1:09share something with you that you might
33. 1:10find surprising.
34. 1:12You know, we've been studying these 12
35. 1:13categories for a long time. We've been
36. 1:15studying best practices in every
37. 1:17category. We've researched how these
38. 1:19categories relate to each other. We've
39. 1:22seen a lot over our years of
40. 1:24experimenting with the 12 categories and
41. 1:26seeing thousands of people go through
42. 1:28Lifebook and we've noticed some really
43. 1:31interesting patterns. But by far, the
44. 1:34biggest pattern that we've seen by a
45. 1:36mile is in the health and fitness
46. 1:38category. And I'm going to do something
47. 1:40that I usually don't do and just state
48. 1:43this as a fact instead of an opinion
49. 1:45because the evidence has just been so
50. 1:46consistent over the years.
51. 1:49Here's what it is.
52. 1:50Success in the health and fitness
53. 1:52category almost always comes down to
54. 1:56your purpose. to the reasons that you
55. 1:59have for wanting to achieve success for
56. 2:03your health and fitness. Like 99% of the
57. 2:05time is going to come down to your
58. 2:06purpose. Why?
59. 2:08Because everyone knows how to get in
60. 2:11great physical shape.
61. 2:13Eat right and exercise effectively.
62. 2:16That's how to get in great shape. Now,
63. 2:18clearly you can spend an entire lifetime
64. 2:21studying those two subjects and
65. 2:23fine-tuning your knowledge and skills,
66. 2:25but that's pretty much the strategy.
67. 2:27That's how to be in great shape. Eat
68. 2:30better and eat less. Exercise better and
69. 2:33exercise more. There it is.
70. 2:36It's your purpose that's going to
71. 2:38determine whether or not you do that,
72. 2:40whether or not you do what is required
73. 2:43to have high levels of health and
74. 2:44fitness. It's your reasons for wanting
75. 2:47to do it.
76. 2:48In other words, when it comes to success
77. 2:51in this category, your why is
78. 2:54everything.
79. 2:56If your why is weak, anything can derail
80. 2:59you. Anything can knock you off course.
81. 3:01Oh, it's raining. I'm not going to go to
82. 3:03the gym today, right?
83. 3:05But if you have a strong enough purpose,
84. 3:07it is literally transformational. I mean
85. 3:09that literally, meaning you can
86. 3:11transcend just about any challenge, just
87. 3:14about any situation. You can take it out
88. 3:17of play and and achieve your goals more
89. 3:19easily. So, what we want to do is we
90. 3:22want to dive a little bit deeper today
91. 3:24into the concept of purpose in your
92. 3:26health and fitness category.
93. 3:29Over the years, we've seen three
94. 3:31fundamental reasons why people fail in
95. 3:34this area of their lives, why they don't
96. 3:36achieve the level of health and fitness
97. 3:38that they really want, why they have bad
98. 3:40health habits, you know, like eating too
99. 3:42much or drinking too much, smoking,
100. 3:45eating horribly unhealthy fast food,
101. 3:48being obese, you know, whatever their
102. 3:50challenges are.
103. 3:52In the absence of of real physiological
104. 3:55or emotional challenges, which I have no
105. 3:57competence to address,
106. 3:59we've discovered that failure in this
107. 4:01category comes down to one or more of
108. 4:03the three following mindsets.
109. 4:06One,
110. 4:07I don't know.
111. 4:09Two, I don't care.
112. 4:12Three,
113. 4:14I can't help myself.
114. 4:16So, let's take a closer look at these
115. 4:18three mindsets.
116. 4:20The first is I don't know.
117. 4:22Ignorance. I literally don't know that
118. 4:25two double cheeseburgers and a large fry
119. 4:27and a big sip and a supersize Snickers
120. 4:29for dessert is a nutritionally inferior
121. 4:32meal. I have no consciousness of that
122. 4:34fact. I I don't understand that
123. 4:37shoveling a 2-lb bag of Ruffles into my
124. 4:40face and washing it down with a liter of
125. 4:41Mountain Dew while I'm sitting on the
126. 4:43sofa watching TV is not a good wellness
127. 4:45strategy. I just don't know.
128. 4:50The second mindset for failure is I
129. 4:52don't care.
130. 4:54Laziness, which really comes down to
131. 4:56apathy. Meaning,
132. 4:58yeah, I know that stuff's not good for
133. 5:00me, but I just don't care enough to
134. 5:02change my behavior, so I'm going to do
135. 5:03it anyway.
136. 5:05You know, I had a brother who lived like
137. 5:07that, who I loved. He didn't live long.
138. 5:09He died when he was 27.
139. 5:11But when he was alive, that was his
140. 5:13deal. I know this is bad for me. I know
141. 5:15it's bad for me to drink too much. I
142. 5:16know it's bad for me to smoke every day.
143. 5:18I know it's bad for me to take drugs. I
144. 5:20just don't care.
145. 5:22That's a bad road to get trapped on.
146. 5:24That is a recipe for disaster.
147. 5:26The third reason that people fail in the
148. 5:29category of health and fitness is I
149. 5:31can't help myself.
150. 5:33Lack of self-control.
151. 5:35I know this behavior is bad. I know it's
152. 5:38self-destructive. And I really do care.
153. 5:40I wish I could stop it, but I can't seem
154. 5:44to help myself. I know I shouldn't be
155. 5:46doing it, but I do it anyway.
156. 5:48And this one is sucks. This one is so
157. 5:51bad because there's all kinds of
158. 5:53negative painful emotions like shame and
159. 5:58guilt involved in this one and those
160. 6:01hurt. Lack of self-esteem, frustration.
161. 6:06I mean, you can literally do amazing all
162. 6:09day long with your diet and workout if
163. 6:11you suffer from this particular one and
164. 6:14and it The end of the night, after
165. 6:16you've done great all day, you can
166. 6:17completely ruin it in 10 minutes by
167. 6:20gorging on whatever, giant piece of
168. 6:22cake. And then it's like, "God, can't
169. 6:24believe I did that."
170. 6:26Can't believe I did that. Instant
171. 6:27regret.
172. 6:29Now, most of us can relate to this in
173. 6:31some respect. I think as a matter of
174. 6:33fact, if we're totally honest with
175. 6:34ourselves, I think that all of us can
176. 6:37relate to all three of these challenges.
177. 6:40We've probably had to deal with them all
178. 6:42at some point in our lives. I know I
179. 6:44have, for sure.
180. 6:46Take a look at I don't know.
181. 6:48When Missy and I were first married, we
182. 6:50used to feed our kids a six-pack of
183. 6:52powdered sugar donuts, you know, Little
184. 6:54Debbie's or whatever for breakfast and
185. 6:56SpaghettiOs with meatballs for lunch. We
186. 6:59didn't know, you know? It took us years
187. 7:02to educate ourselves and get a solid
188. 7:04grip on on our health and fitness. We
189. 7:06started out ignorant like everybody
190. 7:08starts out ignorant.
191. 7:09You take a look at I don't care.
192. 7:12I just don't feel like working out right
193. 7:14now, so I'm not going to do it.
194. 7:16I know I shouldn't be eating or drinking
195. 7:18this much right now,
196. 7:19but it feels good, so I'm going to do it
197. 7:21anyway.
198. 7:22Who can't relate to that? I know I can.
199. 7:24I've I've been there.
200. 7:26Then you take a look at I can't help
201. 7:28myself.
202. 7:30I know that I'm going to be so pissed
203. 7:32off at myself tomorrow for what I'm
204. 7:33doing right now.
205. 7:35I know this is a bad choice,
206. 7:37but I'm going to do it anyway,
207. 7:38apparently.
208. 7:40Terrible, you know, it just makes you
209. 7:41feel so bad that just it does so much
210. 7:45emotional violence and damage to your
211. 7:47self-esteem.
212. 7:50Well, here's what I have discovered over
213. 7:51the years. You can either continue to
214. 7:53struggle with one or more of these
215. 7:55issues in your life, with one or more of
216. 7:57these mindsets for failure, or you can
217. 8:00literally transcend them and take them
218. 8:03out of play simply by getting your
219. 8:06purpose on in this category.
220. 8:09I've done it in my own life many times
221. 8:11over the years and I've seen it done
222. 8:12hundreds, if not thousands, of times in
223. 8:15the Lifebook community.
224. 8:17Your health and fitness purpose, your
225. 8:20why, can wipe out any obstacle that's
226. 8:23standing in between you and your goals,
227. 8:25internal obstacles and external
228. 8:28obstacles alike. You got a strong enough
229. 8:30why, that purpose can totally wipe out
230. 8:33ignorance. It can completely eliminate
231. 8:36that I don't know mindset. Because the
232. 8:39information you need is out there and
233. 8:41you're perfectly capable of finding it
234. 8:43and applying it to your life.
235. 8:45If you want to lose weight, best
236. 8:47practices are known. I mean, you can
237. 8:50barely get through a day in America
238. 8:52without encountering dozens of different
239. 8:54programs or pitches on how to be
240. 8:56healthier, or thinner, or stronger, or
241. 8:59faster. There are a thousand hows, it's
242. 9:02your why that matters. You got to want
243. 9:05it enough to do the work to get it.
244. 9:08It's your why that can wipe out the I
245. 9:10don't care mindset, apathy.
246. 9:13Simply put, if you don't care, it's
247. 9:16because you don't have a strong enough
248. 9:17reason to care. So, find the reason and
249. 9:21that apathy is going to disintegrate.
250. 9:23Now, if you know and you care, but you
251. 9:26can't seem to help yourself,
252. 9:29it's 100%
253. 9:31plain and simple because your purpose
254. 9:33isn't strong enough. You don't have
255. 9:35enough leverage on yourself to stop
256. 9:37yourself from doing what you shouldn't
257. 9:39do and to get yourself to do what you
258. 9:41should do. If you did, you wouldn't even
259. 9:44give that fast food a second thought.
260. 9:47You wouldn't even be a slight
261. 9:48consideration in your life.
262. 9:51When it comes to health and fitness,
263. 9:53purpose is everything. Your why is the
264. 9:55issue. So, if you get that right,
265. 9:57everything else will fall into place for
266. 9:59you in this category.
267. 10:01So, here's the big question. How do we
268. 10:03get our purpose on? How do we create a
269. 10:05purpose in this category that's so
270. 10:07compelling that it'll wipe out every
271. 10:09obstacle that stands in between us and
272. 10:12our vision for the category of health
273. 10:14and fitness?
274. 10:15Now, I'm going to share with you a
275. 10:16life-changing concept right now that
276. 10:18you're going to become intimately
277. 10:19familiar with by the end of this
278. 10:21challenge. It's called category
279. 10:23interconnectivity,
280. 10:25which addresses how the 12 categories
281. 10:27relate to each other, how they support
282. 10:30each other, and are supported by each
283. 10:32other. Now, the mission here is to take
284. 10:34a look at the effect that your health
285. 10:36and fitness has on the other categories
286. 10:38of your life
287. 10:40and find your leverage. Which category
288. 10:44does your health and fitness purpose
289. 10:46live in? Is the leverage you need in
290. 10:49your intellectual life?
291. 10:51Cuz research shows that being in shape,
292. 10:53getting proper exercise, getting proper
293. 10:56nutrition, getting proper sleep
294. 10:58significantly increases your ability to
295. 11:01think clearly. There's no question about
296. 11:03that. Your mind works better when your
297. 11:06body is working at optimal levels
298. 11:08because your mind is obviously an
299. 11:09extension of your body.
300. 11:11So, if you care about your intellectual
301. 11:13life, there's big leverage here to keep
302. 11:15your mind sharp.
303. 11:17Same exact thing in your emotional life.
304. 11:19Is the leverage that you need in your
305. 11:20emotional life? Cuz what you put into
306. 11:23your body controls your brain energy and
307. 11:25your brain energy controls your
308. 11:27emotions.
309. 11:28Proper health and fitness is critical to
310. 11:30a healthy emotional life. Science has
311. 11:32proven that over and over and over
312. 11:33again. So, if you're having problems
313. 11:36with depression or anxiety or unwanted
314. 11:39emotions, you might just find your
315. 11:41leverage here in this category.
316. 11:43Or is there leverage for you in the
317. 11:44spiritual category?
318. 11:46Becoming more self-actualized,
319. 11:49you know, really striving to become the
320. 11:50best person you can be, treating your
321. 11:52body as a temple, showing gratefulness
322. 11:55every day to the universe, to God, by
323. 11:58just taking really, really great care of
324. 12:00yourself. Can you find some good
325. 12:02leverage here in the spiritual category?
326. 12:05What about your love relationship? Could
327. 12:07the leverage that you need be found in
328. 12:09that category?
329. 12:10Being in great shape can have a profound
330. 12:13positive effect on your love life in so
331. 12:15many ways. It can increase the quality
332. 12:17of your sex life. It can increase your
333. 12:19admiration for each other.
334. 12:21And it can really increase the quality
335. 12:23of the experiences that you have
336. 12:25together. You know, Missy and I have run
337. 12:27marathons together. We've conquered
338. 12:29Machu Picchu twice. We've walked the
339. 12:31entire French coast from Nice to Saint
340. 12:34Jean Cap-Ferrat. We One of our favorite
341. 12:37things to do, whenever we get to a new
342. 12:39city, is we run, literally, from one
343. 12:42side of the city to the other. We've
344. 12:43done that in dozens of cities worldwide.
345. 12:46Even small things, like if I'm getting
346. 12:49ready to go on a trip with Missy, I say
347. 12:50to myself, "Going to the beach, got to
348. 12:53crank up my workouts." Or if we're going
349. 12:55to do a video shoot or a photo session
350. 12:57for some project I'm working on, better
351. 12:59take it to the next level in health and
352. 13:01fitness.
353. 13:02My love relationship with Missy has been
354. 13:04one of the biggest sources of leverage
355. 13:06for me to stay in great shape over the
356. 13:08years. So, I've really found a
357. 13:10tremendous amount of purpose here. Maybe
358. 13:12you can, too. Parenting is another big
359. 13:15one, probably the biggest one when it
360. 13:17comes to finding leverage in the health
361. 13:18and fitness category. This is probably
362. 13:21where most Lifebook members get their
363. 13:23breakthroughs in this category.
364. 13:25In order to be a good parent, you've got
365. 13:27to set a good example for your kids,
366. 13:30period. That's the number one job of a
367. 13:32parent, to show your kids what it looks
368. 13:34like to have a healthy, happy,
369. 13:36successful life. And taking good care of
370. 13:38your body is critical to being a good
371. 13:41parent. So, teaching your kids about
372. 13:44health, teaching your kids about
373. 13:45nutrition and exercise, it's one of our
374. 13:47primary responsibilities if you want to
375. 13:49be extraordinary parents. And I will
376. 13:52tell you that this is an area where
377. 13:54we're seeing parents fail more and more
378. 13:57and more over the years. The most
379. 13:59important thing that you can teach your
380. 14:01kid about food is that food isn't just
381. 14:04about taste. You know, the primary
382. 14:07purpose of food is not just to give you
383. 14:09some sort of a of a euphoric, sensual
384. 14:12experience three times a day. That's a
385. 14:14nice bonus, but it's not the primary
386. 14:16purpose of food.
387. 14:19The primary purpose of food is to fuel
388. 14:22your body. It's to give your body the
389. 14:24proper balance of nutritional components
390. 14:26that it needs to function at an optimal
391. 14:29level. So, if you get that into a kid's
392. 14:31head early on, that's going to put them
393. 14:33on the right path for life. Now, this
394. 14:36doesn't mean that food can't and
395. 14:37shouldn't be pleasurable. It should be
396. 14:39pleasurable. But the primary purpose of
397. 14:41eating and drinking is to fuel your
398. 14:43body. When you see people who are in
399. 14:45good physical shape, they're doing a
400. 14:47good job with this. They get it. When
401. 14:48you see people who struggle in this
402. 14:50area, they just haven't made that
403. 14:51connection powerfully enough.
404. 14:54Kids need to know this. And it's their
405. 14:57parents that should be teaching it to
406. 14:59them.
407. 15:00Do some soul searching here, cuz I've
408. 15:02seen massive leverage here. And I found
409. 15:04it here myself.
410. 15:06What about your career and your
411. 15:07financial life? Does the health and
412. 15:09fitness leverage that you're looking for
413. 15:12live in one of these two categories?
414. 15:14Having a high-powered career is not only
415. 15:17an intellectual challenge, it's a
416. 15:18physical challenge. It requires energy.
417. 15:22It requires strength and stamina. And
418. 15:24there's simply no way, in my own life I
419. 15:27know that I can accomplish my career
420. 15:28goals without being in good physical
421. 15:30shape, as well as being in good mental
422. 15:32shape and and good emotional shape. In
423. 15:35order to maximize my career potential,
424. 15:37I've got to have the ability to stay
425. 15:40focused, to stay grounded, to think
426. 15:43clearly, to make good decisions, to have
427. 15:46high levels of energy, to develop, you
428. 15:49know, a forcefulness and power that's
429. 15:51going to propel my career forward and
430. 15:53help me change the world. All of these
431. 15:56attributes live in the health and
432. 15:57fitness category. So, I've always known
433. 16:00that if I want to manifest my potential
434. 16:02for wealth and for career success, I've
435. 16:04got to manifest my potential for
436. 16:07physical fitness.
437. 16:08Okay, now we're going to move on and
438. 16:10we're going to take a look at today's
439. 16:11exercise in the health and fitness
440. 16:13category, which is to find your
441. 16:14leverage, to get your purpose on for
442. 16:17this important category of your life.
443. 16:19Everyone wants to look great and feel
444. 16:22great. The challenge is that we might
445. 16:24not have a strong enough reason to
446. 16:26motivate us to actually go out there and
447. 16:27make it happen.
448. 16:29When we get crystal clear on our reasons
449. 16:31for wanting to achieve a goal, our why,
450. 16:34that's what's going to give us the fuel
451. 16:36we need to take action.
452. 16:38So, today, with your health and fitness
453. 16:41goals in mind, we'd like you to take a
454. 16:43look at the other areas of your life and
455. 16:45write down the answers to these
456. 16:47questions in your journal.
457. 16:49What are the most important reasons why
458. 16:52I want to get in shape?
459. 16:54What's my purpose for achieving my
460. 16:56health and fitness goals? What's my why?
461. 16:58And which categories of my life do my
462. 17:01reasons live in? Which categories
463. 17:04contribute the most to my purpose?
464. 17:07This is a super powerful exercise. Your
465. 17:11answers can be as long or as short as
466. 17:13you want them to be, but we I that you
467. 17:15take at least 15 minutes to deeply
468. 17:18connect with your purpose for your
469. 17:20health and fitness goals.
470. 17:24All right, before I say goodbye to you
471. 17:26today, I want to ask you an important
472. 17:28question that refers to tomorrow's
473. 17:30program.
474. 17:31When it comes to creating the
475. 17:33extraordinary life that you really want
476. 17:35to create for yourself,
477. 17:37what would you say is your single most
478. 17:40valuable asset?
479. 17:42What's your single most valuable asset?
480. 17:45Would you be surprised if I told you
481. 17:47that it's your mind?
482. 17:49Tomorrow we're going to explore one of
483. 17:50the most exciting categories of all,
484. 17:53your intellectual life.
485. 17:55Why is it so exciting?
486. 17:57Because your thoughts control just about
487. 17:59everything you will ever be, everything
488. 18:02you will ever do, and everything you
489. 18:04will ever have in your life.
490. 18:07Your intellectual life is where the
491. 18:09power comes from, to not only build your
492. 18:12life vision,
493. 18:14but to bring all of your dreams into
494. 18:16reality. Tomorrow's going to be a
495. 18:17powerful experience for you, I promise
496. 18:19you that.
497. 18:21It's been great to spend this time with
498. 18:22you today. Thanks so much for being
499. 18:24here. Have fun with this health and
500. 18:26fitness exercise, it's going to be great
501. 18:28for you, and I'll see you tomorrow as
502. 18:30we'll explore your intellectual life.