I Asked Mike Thurston How To Get Jacked, Rich and Happy...

Summary

In a candid discussion with Simon Squibb, Mike Thurston shares his holistic approach to achieving success, happiness, and a fit lifestyle. Throughout the conversation, Mike outlines various strategies that have helped him over the years, emphasizing mindset, personal development, and the importance of perseverance. The talk touches on critical aspects such as embracing failure, making time for relationships, and nurturing self-belief. Mike's journey offers insights into balancing career aspirations with personal life, adapting healthy habits, and creating an environment conducive to personal growth and contentment.

Highlights

• Mike's five-step blueprint to unfuck your life includes Mindset, Dating and Relationships, Environment, Productivity, and Health and Fitness. 🏋️‍♂️
• Embracing failure is crucial for success; learn from your mistakes and keep moving forward. 🔄
• Consistency in creating content and building skills will eventually lead to success. 📈
• Building a healthy relationship with oneself helps in establishing more meaningful relationships with others. 💕
• Balance is a myth; prioritize and focus on what's essential for growth and happiness. ⚖️

Key Takeaways

• Mindset is key: Understand that the beginning is tough, but perseverance breeds success. 💪
• Fail forward: Use failures as learning opportunities to propel yourself forward. 🚀
• Stay motivated: Listening to inspiring people can fuel your journey. 🔥
• Embrace positivity: Focus on the potential upsides and maintain a positive outlook. 🌞
• Identify and work on your weaknesses to maximize success. 🔍

Overview

Mike Thurston shares his journey and the valuable lessons learned over 15 years. He stresses that starting any new venture is challenging, but maintaining a positive mindset and embracing the initial difficulty is essential for long-term success. Mike encourages people to befriend failure as it's a crucial teacher on the path to success.

Dating and relationships also play a vital role in personal growth, according to Mike. He advises prioritizing one's career without guilt and stresses the importance of fixing the relationship with oneself first before investing in others. Transparency and setting clear expectations in relationships can lead to more robust and supportive partnerships.

With a dive into productivity and health, Mike talks about the significance of understanding personal rhythms, creating efficient schedules, and incorporating fitness into daily life. His practical advice extends to establishing a personal environment that's inspiring and focused on growth, proving that a balanced life is not only about work but integrating health and personal happiness.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 22:00: Mindset The chapter titled 'Mindset' opens with a straightforward yet challenging premise, as presented by Mike. Mike offers a five-step blueprint aiming to help individuals drastically improve their lives. He implies a no-nonsense approach, emphasizing the importance of a readiness to learn and adapt. The focus here is the first step: 'mindset'. Mike makes a critical point that the initial stages of any transformation or self-improvement endeavor are likely to be difficult. He suggests managing expectations early on and mentally preparing for challenging beginnings as foundational to making significant life changes.
• 22:00 - 43:00: Dating and Relationships The chapter discusses the challenges and realities of starting a business or pursuing a new venture. It highlights that initial stages often come with difficulties, regardless of the enterprise. The speaker reflects on their own experience starting as a personal trainer and the misconception that clients would line up immediately. It emphasizes that while the beginning is challenging, with time and experience you gain resources to grow and delegate tasks effectively.
• 43:00 - 56:00: Environment The speaker discusses the challenges of starting as a personal trainer. Initially, they struggled with marketing themselves and had difficulty making money. Despite these hardships, they emphasize the importance of persistence, stating that successful individuals never quit but continue to improve over time. The speaker also touches on the necessity of consistently creating content as a foundational step in their journey.
• 56:00 - 71:00: Productivity The chapter titled 'Productivity' discusses the importance of embracing the learning process, acknowledging that initial attempts at a new skill will not be perfect. It emphasizes consistency and patience in honing a craft, using the metaphor of playing golf to illustrate the journey from being a novice to becoming skillful. The key message is to find value in being 'bad' at something initially as a natural step towards improvement and growth.
• 71:00 - 85:30: Health and Fitness The chapter "Health and Fitness" focuses on the concept of embracing failure as a part of the journey towards success. The narrative encourages a shift in perspective where failure is not seen negatively but as an opportunity to learn and grow. Observing and learning from other people's failures can act as a preventive measure, saving one from making similar mistakes. However, it acknowledges that regardless of how many successful figures one might observe, personal failures are inevitable, and they contribute to individual growth and resilience in health and fitness.
• 85:30 - 87:00: Conclusion The Conclusion chapter emphasizes the importance of learning from failure, as success can often lead to complacency and a false sense of brilliance. Key points include the value of making mistakes and understanding that failure is an integral part of life. The chapter also discusses the role of motivation, suggesting that while some individuals may possess an innate drive and do not require external motivation, many people benefit from the encouragement and insights of motivating others.

I Asked Mike Thurston How To Get Jacked, Rich and Happy... Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 mike's just stepped me through his five-step blueprint to unfuck your life and if you can't take five minutes to learn everything Mike's taken 15 years to learn I've got news for you you're probably not going to make it what are we going to learn today Mike number one mindset the second one dating and relationships number three environment number four productivity and the fifth one health and fitness mindset so the first point is just having an understanding that the beginning is probably going to suck it's not going to
• 00:30 - 01:00 be easy and I mean with any business venture or company that you start it probably will never be easy but at least further down the line you've got more experience and you got the resources where you can hire staff and they can take care of a lot of things that you don't necessarily need to be doing or they're better at just doing anyway but the with whatever venture you choose to pursue the beginning is always going to suck like for me I remember when I first started being a personal trainer I thought people were going to queue up
• 01:00 - 01:30 and want to work with me cuz I I had a six-pack i was like "Right I'm a personal trainer now." Silence nobody cared i was like "Fuck this." Like this is hard like I have to I have to go and talk to people i have to try and sell myself i have to be a better coach it was I wasn't making much money to begin with but put effort into it gain experience and then over time I was like fully booked successful people never quit they just keep going and then I think it's something you need to do to begin with especially when it comes to creating content just get used to creating content because you just get
• 01:30 - 02:00 better at that craft and eventually over time if you've been consistent with it then you start to build a bit of an audience but you're never going to get your first piece of work or content is never going to be your best i think learning to enjoy sucking at something is actually a really interesting one like my friend who plays golf when he first started playing golf he sucked at it and now he's good at it but you kind of need to like embrace being bad at something there's something really interesting about that building yourself through the pain of being bad at something and getting good at it yeah
• 02:00 - 02:30 embracing failure yeah basically yeah it's another way of putting it so just get get used to failing and don't see it as being a bad thing just see it as an opportunity to learn from something that didn't work out or go to plan it's obviously going to help if you can actually observe and look at the failures that other people have made because then that saves you from making that same mistake but ultimately it doesn't matter how many successful people you observe you you will make
• 02:30 - 03:00 some mistakes of your own but that is it's a part of life 100% you only really learn from failure success doesn't really teach you much because you just unfortunately you think you're brilliant if you're successful and that's it but failure really teaches you stuff i wouldn't be successful today if I hadn't failed next point is uh listening to motivating people so I think you could be the type of person that has already an amazing mindset and you don't necessarily need to listen to other people to motivate you because you motivate yourself i think a lot of people need a bit of a a kick up the ass
• 03:00 - 03:30 from somebody who is who speaks very inspiringly and just gets you going and I've noticed that this has helped me sometimes so particularly if you're the type of person that lives alone you know it can be eerily quiet sometimes when you live by yourself and it can feel quite lonely so I always have a podcast playing in the background because it's just nice to h to hear interesting people having a conversation in the back and I can't fully lock into the conversation but I am picking up
• 03:30 - 04:00 things here and there but if we look at people for example like David Gogggins like you go listen to a David Gogggins podcast you're going to be fired up especially you like you start your fitness journey that exact thing happened the other day i was like "Yes I'm going to run i'm going to push through the pain i'm going to do it." Yeah the last one I listened to was when he went on the Human podcast uh I think it was the start of last year so the start of 2024 i mean that was an amazing way to get fired up for the new year unfortunately that motivation doesn't stay with you it kind of trickles off a
• 04:00 - 04:30 little bit but I will go back and listen to these people that get me fired up particularly when I'm struggling self motivation is something I wish people could work on a little bit more like you actually say it in your own head I'm capable of this i can do it you know like tell yourself motivate yourself well that's brings me on to the next point very nicely which is positive thoughts only and I think that's one of the reasons why people don't pursue their dream they don't take the risk because automatically they just think of oh but they think about all the bad things that could happen instead of well
• 04:30 - 05:00 what are all the good things that could happen of course you have to tread with caution and maybe prepare for things not going to plan but ultimately you you want to constantly fill your head with positivity and when things don't go to plan doesn't work out maybe your relationship ends maybe you lose a bit of money just say well you know I'll make it back i'll find somebody else or you know it happened for a reason i learned from this mistake this chapter ends i start a new chapter you know how
• 05:00 - 05:30 you approach a problem or a challenge or something bad happening has a massive impact on your your well-being and how you will take action after that by the way it's a way of helping you take risk because if you think about the negative the worst thing that can happen if you start making content and you put a video up what's the worst thing that can happen a few of your friends laugh at you that's the worst right but what's the upside well the positive focus on that more because the upside could be
• 05:30 - 06:00 the video gets a million views your product sells you suddenly can quit your job you can do what you love if you give more emphasis to the positive um because again I think someone else's quote but it was like more likely the stuff's going to work out better than you thought then it's likely to turn out bad like you thought so the upside's more than you think and the downside's less than you think next point address your weaknesses okay so again be very honest with yourself
• 06:00 - 06:30 and just decide what things do do you currently suck at which you need to work upon in order for you to maximize your rate of success addressing your weaknesses is very important and it's going to be different for everybody depending upon what it is that you want to do with your career was there anything that you were not necessarily very good at to begin with well I was just thinking about what as you're saying again like interestingly I'm I'm really good at business like I I
• 06:30 - 07:00 I genuinely think without being arrogant I'm good at business i wasn't always at 15 i knew nothing but I I do think my health and well-being is my weakness i need to spend more time being healthy because I can't continue to be good at business if my health isn't 100% so you can be really good at something but if you leave your weaknesses and you don't address them you can't continue to be good at that thing uh next point believe in yourself so this is kind of associated with positive thoughts only only but there's the positive thoughts where
• 07:00 - 07:30 you're constantly telling yourself good things but believing in yourself is something completely different like it's it's genuinely having this belief that you can do this thing that you said you were going to do and I think a lot of people just don't have that belief it's probably the number one reason people aren't following their dreams when I meet people they don't believe it's possible they don't believe that they can do it like this lady who wants to sing doesn't sing she's a good singer she doesn't believe in herself people going to laugh at her when she sings how do you get this how do we How do we give this to people i as I asked myself this
• 07:30 - 08:00 because when I look back at my life I have always I've thought I can whatever it is that I want to do I I've first of all thought I'm going to be okay that my life is not going to end like whatever happens I'm going to be okay and second of all it was almost like I I I believed I could do it but also that I deserved it i deserved it for myself a parental upbringing thing do you think do if you think back your parents very supportive what's the what's giving you this I
• 08:00 - 08:30 think so I mean there's obviously the very early years I can't even remember but I you know I went I went to a good school I wasn't necessarily showered with the words you can be anything that you want to be but it it must have had something to do with it I think a lot of pe a lot of the reason why people don't believe themselves has to do with their upbringing to some extent maybe something has happened recently where they just don't feel like they can they can do it but it's this like you said
• 08:30 - 09:00 it's one of the biggest things but how do you how do you get people to think you you can do this i don't know i I was just thinking is it having no choice but to believe in yourself so if a lot of people have time to doubt themselves and if they don't believe in themselves and they don't sing then life's still okay life won't be too bad they kind of need to have no choice but to believe in themselves yeah i I think I don't think I believed in myself at 15 i think when
• 09:00 - 09:30 I had no choice but to I knocked on that door and I managed to get a customer and I managed to start a gardening company and slowly I believed in myself i think sometimes you got to have no choice but to believe in you yeah i I think once you once you realize that the thing that you might be the most obsessed with when you can turn that into a reality you start to think hey hang on a second if I actually become obsessed enough with this thing I want to do I might actually be able to do it so I think an example
• 09:30 - 10:00 for me is like I really wanted to be in shape in great physical condition and when I after a couple years of going to the gym and doing it and looking at myself in the mirror I was like "Hey I actually freaking did it like after a couple years of doing this." And I'm like "Okay well if I did that what else can I do?" Interesting and I I have I've noticed that from everything that I've done in my life it sounds ridiculous but I do believe I can achieve anything that I set my mind to but I have to want it badly enough there's lots of things that
• 10:00 - 10:30 I've wanted to do but realized I don't care about it enough for me to actually make it a reality well you can't be consistent because it's not important enough to you yeah yeah when I if if I set myself off to to do a task I know that I can do it but I will have to put everything into it okay and I think that's the case with most people if you want to do something you can make it happen but you're just going to have to put everything into it another thing
• 10:30 - 11:00 which I think is quite important is make quick decisions now of course you have to you have to spend a bit of time thinking about a decision that you'll make but if you dwell too much on a a decision that needs to be made progress is going to be very slow but some of the most successful people in business is they make decision quickly they don't waste too much mental energy on thinking about this decision which needs to be made yeah again a lot of times if you've worked out a business you're thinking of launching if you spent too long thinking
• 11:00 - 11:30 about it you definitely won't do it like my book when Penguin said "Do you want to do a book?" I I didn't hesitate i said yes if I'd known how much work was in it to write the book to publish the book I probably would have said no i'm glad I just said yes yeah and the last point again probably one of the most important similar to believe in yourself don't give up too many people give up too early on i think if you just persevere work a
• 11:30 - 12:00 little bit harder and smarter it will succeed to some extent now the the only problem with this is maybe you might be pursuing a business that is maybe it's just not a good business maybe it's it's was doomed from the beginning and I think sometimes you just need to call it a day if something is not working out which is that's the most difficult thing to decide because maybe it would work if you just had some better strategies in place there's a part of me
• 12:00 - 12:30 that admires some of the YouTubers that just give up there's a part of me that admires that because it's not working for them anymore and they're not doing it anymore that's hard to give up that sort of stuff but there's part of this I think is um there was a guy I know in Hong Kong who's very successful banker and he decided he wanted to open up a cup cupcake brand which sounds strange but that's what he wanted to do so he started it and it was really hard it wasn't the glamorous business he thought it was going to be like having his big brand all over the world uh it was work had to bake the cupcakes and hire people to do it anyway long story short he gave
• 12:30 - 13:00 up the business and went back to the banking job the problem was he had a plan he had a plan B he could go back to sometimes if you've got no choice like my gardening company in my first few businesses I really had no choice but pushed him right to the end i had no choice but to not give up yes like failure is not an option yeah if if you give yourself options if you say right well I can always get that job back and you know that job I can go back giving up when it's easy is a big mistake but giving up when it's hard is probably quite smart thing to do uh dating and relationships so the first point I would
• 13:00 - 13:30 say is whenever you are building a business or you're you're going through this big rapid change in your life where you're pursuing this dream of yours the harsh reality is in my opinion is that it needs to be the priority yes it you have this thing in life where you're trying it's all about balance you're trying to balance everything like balance yeah pick what we which balance is right pick which one yeah it's I it's very difficult to balance everything
• 13:30 - 14:00 simultaneously throughout your life some things will need to take a hit whilst you're prioritized on building other things so prioritize your career i don't have the things you're going to write so I don't want to interrupt in case you're going to mention this but like for me it's like I dated someone who was my business partner yeah you know I I merged the two i I wouldn't be I've been married 23 years i wouldn't be with my wife today if we hadn't been business partners yeah cuz I prioritize work I said I wanted to build something and if she wasn't sitting in
• 14:00 - 14:30 the office with me building it too I would have probably dated her it's it's difficult because some relationships will take more work and effort and time than others but the the reality is if you want a successful relationship it does it just requires your investment to make it work particularly as that relationship progresses over time so just understand that if you are really trying to focus on building your dream building your career which is what I was doing when I started my journey with social media um I didn't really
• 14:30 - 15:00 have time for a relationship you be very upfront about it and then the relationship can be good because I told my wife my girlfriend at the time well I'm work is the number one for me so if they then you know accept that because otherwise you're going to be like you're going to be working at 8:00 p.m on a Friday and like where are you thought we were having dinner together don't you love me you know and it's caused you pain exactly uh next point fix yourself first now what I mean by that is fix
• 15:00 - 15:30 your relationship with yourself first okay so I mean maybe when you're starting your dream you you have a good relationship with yourself most people don't most people realistically if you look in the mirror they probably hate themselves they don't like the way they look they don't like uh the skill sets they have they don't like where they are in their life the fact they have like no money you need to be in a position where you love yourself and admire yourself before you can start building relationships with other people or trying to pursue your career okay for me
• 15:30 - 16:00 I remember I would look in the mirror i like the way I looked because I've always been going to the gym i've been active but I didn't like the fact that I wasn't very confident i didn't like that I was quite shy i didn't like that I didn't like to speak on camera so these things I needed to fix first in order to actually like the person that I was so then I could continue to do everything that I was supposed to do did you make a list of all the things that you weren't happy with listen when people are
• 16:00 - 16:30 listening to this what they how they going to identify what to fix cuz they don't know what they don't know maybe right did you How did you identify i think I I realized there was situations I was very uncomfortable in and that was just down to my own selfconfidence i I just needed to become more confident in myself interesting because sometimes if someone's not confident you might think that's just who you are yeah you're not you're not good on camera for example alexi talked about this in the blueprint I did with him he's like "No no you can train
• 16:30 - 17:00 yourself." Yeah whatever your weakness is can be fixed you just need to work on it it's just a repetition Yeah thing again yeah so good good point fix yourself next thing you need to do is ask yourself if you're going to be better off being single or in a relationship now what I mean by that is is the relationship you're in cuz a lot of you people probably half people who are watching this they're in a relationship you need to ask yourself is the person that you're with the right person to be with when it comes to you pursuing your
• 17:00 - 17:30 dream and growing in your career because if you are with somebody who is not going to be understanding of what your mission is what you're doing the fact that you will be investing a lot of your time and effort into doing this then it's just going to come with a lot of headache right you need to be with someone who is going to support you mhm and ideally for my experience you need to be with somebody who has their own thing going on as well because I I've been in a couple of relationships before where they don't they don't really do a whole lot maybe they just do a little
• 17:30 - 18:00 bit on social media and they just sit around the house or wait for me to be finished with what I'm doing and they're like "Oh my stereotypical Dubai lady from Yeah exactly like just influencer girl all they have to do is post a couple pictures and they make money." You want them to be busy too ideally and have their own thing going on yes because I cannot be in a position where I'm constantly entertaining you it's just not going to work but just understand don't worry if like you make decision or you are single you maybe you are single for some time because you're prioritizing your career the
• 18:00 - 18:30 relationships will come yeah I I do think I mean I I remember going back to myself at 19 I did actually tell my girlfriend as well I want to travel I wanted to do she didn't listen she what she had what she wanted to do so if you can't if you can say what you want maybe you can both you can change yeah you can evolve she either travels with me or she she stays and but she comes with me and it's okay we could have made it work but she didn't want to do that i think you have to set the rules out about what you want and be selfish when you're young i think it's well brings us on to the next point which is it's okay to be selfish
• 18:30 - 19:00 it is especially when you're young and you don't have kids i can't be selfish now because I've got a kid i have to privatize him but yeah I think I I think which one thing which I noticed when I was younger is I would try to people please too much so I would try I wouldn't try it was just something I did i I would focus more on making other people happy and helping them with their pursuits whatever it might be and it actually got to the point where I was so
• 19:00 - 19:30 nice that people would see that and they would take advantage of it and it was coming at a cost to me because I didn't have the time or the energy to actually focus on the things which I needed to do in order to get my life in order so I think there's it's seen as bad to be selfish but understand that if if you take care of yourself first you sort everything out then you can be in a position to serve others learning to be alone one of the best things that I
• 19:30 - 20:00 could have possibly done for my career was to go move to London and get a place for myself i had spent the previous 10 not 10 years maybe six seven years living with people in shared accommodation and what I noticed when I was always living with other people is I never really had time to myself and you need that time to yourself to actually think and reflect and to plan and to just have conversations with your inner self and a lot of people don't do this i
• 20:00 - 20:30 know some people who are in relationships they're just always together or they're afraid of not being with their partner or with their friends because they don't like the sensation of being alone and usually that's the case because they're not happy with themselves no self-reflection or they're scared to even face themselves yeah that usually tends to be the thing so I have a friend who was like this he's like 30 years old he used to he couldn't handle being by himself and what he did recently is he he he's still in a relationship but he went to Bali and he
• 20:30 - 21:00 just locked in and forced himself to be alone and just to to to work on himself and his career and it's probably been the most productive couple of months he's ever had in his life and now he's at a point where he's like actually I love being alone like I I I no longer feel the need to be with someone all the time because I thought it was this person that made me happy but in reality that was not what I needed to be happy it's actually me being more comfortable with myself and of course he has all this extra time where he's not being distracted where he can think he can
• 21:00 - 21:30 listen read self-reflect and it's an absolute wonders for him so don't be worried about being alone if you've never been alone before just try it moving on from that I would say that it's important to make time for dating and relationships now this is this is just from my experience okay so when I moved to London and I was living by myself it was great for work and productivity but I isolated myself too much and I didn't allocate any time for this so I actually noticed that it made me a little bit sad and depressed and
• 21:30 - 22:00 affected my mood so although the career is the priority at this point in time I would recommend setting some time aside to just go on dates or if you are in a relationship make time for your partner but ideally do it in a a constructive manner okay so don't go get [ __ ] up with your partner and drink a load that's probably not going to be very productive but do do something to the gym together morning for example or Yeah so definitely make time for it but just understand that at this point in time there's not going to be a huge amount of
• 22:00 - 22:30 time which you can allocate to it but later on you can next point is uh be honest and upfront if you are meeting somebody for the first time or if you are in a long-term relationship just sit down and talk to them and say "Hey look I am embarking on this new venture of mine it's going to be very demanding you know mentally and physically and I'm going to have to prioritize it at this point in time so our relationship might suffer a little bit there may be less time that I can give to you but don't worry because when this all works out in a couple years time because it is going to work out I will be able to spend more
• 22:30 - 23:00 time with you and be able to go on all these amazing trips and travel the world and so on so and the same thing with dating i think just say if you are on a first date just tell them what your life is like i've done this before i'm like "My life is pretty crazy at the moment like I'm traveling all around the world um I have all these things going on with my career my podcast you know my YouTube channel my fitness app like all these things like I'm a I'm a busy guy so I would like you to understand that before we take this further last point
• 23:00 - 23:30 for the guys who are listening don't spend all your time and energy chasing women use that time and energy to chase your dreams ironically they'd be more interested in you if you're chasing your dreams anyway it's it's ridiculous i've noticed that the more I've been focused on my career and working hard being that guy who's on a mission who knows where he's going and what he's doing they notice that and they are attracted to that and as particularly the past few years as my career has has elevated my social status
• 23:30 - 24:00 has elevated that financially things have been much better you're flexing now you're flexing women just keep coming at you it must be hard for you mate it must be hard we're all feeling sorry for him right now aren't we but it's I think it's absolutely true it's like in the investment world is another parallel it's like if you want to we want to raise money for your business you know what you need to do not go ask people for money you want to build a business that people come to you and say I want to invest it's business and this stuff is so you know entwined because it's like if you want the perfect partner in life then build the life you love and
• 24:00 - 24:30 they'll be attracted to that environment what do we need to know you need to ask yourself where is the action and the opportunity where did you grow up i grew up in a small town in England called St nets okay was there a lot of action and opportunity there but I didn't know what I didn't know i thought because I lived just outside the town center so I thought the action was a town center turns out there's no action there either but I thought cuz it was busier than there's a little village next to St
• 24:30 - 25:00 little Paxton so that was quiet then the town center compared was the action mhm now I realize no yeah that was not what the action was but you don't know what you don't know right exactly uh so I feel like in in today's world you can you can do quite well just you mean you can build a business in a social media following just being in your bedroom but if you want to continue to elevate your career networking opportunities and meet interesting people and be inspired you
• 25:00 - 25:30 need to go to where things are happening that's exactly what I did i came here now it's not to say that everybody should move to Dubai there's many places where you could move to where there's more action and opportunity it depends on what you want to do like so for example people don't realize maybe Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook would never have made it it would be not exist today if he hadn't moved to San Francisco mhm he moved to San Francisco because the action for fundraising for tech companies is in San Francisco so he wouldn't that business wouldn't exist today if he hadn't gone where the
• 25:30 - 26:00 actions yeah yeah so you have to identify for you where is the action and you he could have probably tried to raise capital remotely but there's no substitute for actually being there in person and meeting people and then being introduced to I I moved to Hong Kong by the way in 997 that's where the action was there was a whole slew of opportunities because it was happening in 997 Hong Kong was happening and so you know China just taken over Hong Kong it was investing in the city it was all happening people don't they don't do it they don't think about this you need to
• 26:00 - 26:30 ask yourself should you relocate it's a really hard thing for people to do this was I like I don't mind taking risks i don't mind i guess this is something to do with self-belief i've just thought wherever I go I'm going to be okay so born and bread in Leeds was there until 18 went to Newcastle University ended up building quite a good relationship with a lot of people there decided to stay in Newcastle for longer but it got to the point I'd open a gym i realized there's not actually a huge amount happening here london seemed to be the place where more opportunity was available for me so
• 26:30 - 27:00 I moved to London and then after a couple years of being in London I was like yeah of course London is still a lot of place for opportunity but I for me I wanted to be somewhere different and that's well you wanted sun right that that side that's another interesting thing to think about what what's good for your body it's an interesting thing for people to think about so so I I think there's two ways of doing it you could either relocate and position yourself to where the action is so one of the reasons why I chose Dubai is because there's so many people coming in and out it's like there's so many
• 27:00 - 27:30 people that can meet you know throughout the year or you could be the person where you don't necessarily have a base you could stay I don't know leave all your possessions at your family house or whatever it might be but you're the person who goes and does all the traveling so you're like a digital nomad constantly traveling around i've got a base in England i've got a home in England but I kind of travel all over this one is I don't know if this is going to be the most sound advice but this is what is important for me and that is invest in where you live okay so
• 27:30 - 28:00 the the apartment or house whatever it might be especially people who come here they take a look around this apartment they're like "Oh my god like this must be an absolute fortune." And it certainly is not cheap but when I wake up every single day and I see this view it's inspiring i absolutely love it and it puts me in the right frame of mind for me to operate at my very best and even just for doing this podcast like even when guests come it's like a it's a nice environment for them to be you doubled up because you can make this your home and where you work again don't separate work and life that's what I
• 28:00 - 28:30 tell people all the time so you can use it for the business as well this is something which I did when I I moved from Newcastle to London I was not making much money at all but I knew I wanted to create a lot of content in my apartment so I needed to have a semi-presentable apartment for those people watch my old school videos you'll notice I had the the white kitchen and white living room it was like quite a nice setup which I needed and I needed to be by myself in order to film without any interruptions but at the time I couldn't afford it so I took a huge risk
• 28:30 - 29:00 and said "Look okay I know this is going to cost this much but I'm going to make it work." And it almost forced me to work my ass off because I was in a position of desperation where it's like you have to earn this amount of money otherwise you're you're going to get kicked out the house basically yeah it makes you have no choice but to make the money so productivity so this is operating at your best and get things done and not wasting your time so first of all you need to understand yourself okay just have an honest
• 29:00 - 29:30 conversation with you and be like look what do I suck at what am I good at what am I wasting my time doing what time in the day do I function at my best when do I struggle so me personally I find as though first thing in the morning or the first third of the day I have a higher chance of me doing difficult things or doing the things I don't want to do all right if if I leave those things and try and do them in the evening it's just not going to get done because my brain is not wired that way to do it but some people are the opposite way are people morning people
• 29:30 - 30:00 or they evening people i'm I have to get up and go to the gym in the morning yeah if I don't do it which I don't do it enough but I I I didn't do the gym this morning will I do it this evening probably not because I feel full or I get hungry or what you know like one of those two just because one person said "Oh this is the best way to do it." Doesn't mean it's the only way to do it got to know yourself you need to understand like what works for you what doesn't work for you and the same thing with work like some people work really well with other people around them because they bounce
• 30:00 - 30:30 ideas off each other and it just works but for me I can't focus when there's loads of people around me like my best work is done when I'm alone and there's no distractions and I've noticed as well like here in Dubai I'm four hours ahead of the UK god knows how many hours ahead I am of America if I wake up early peace everybody's asleep so I can focus and do the thing which needs to be done for a couple hours i can lock in before my phone starts getting bombarded with messages so you need to understand that i would
• 30:30 - 31:00 realistically ask yourself how are you spending your time i think if you actually realistically looked at a a list or a chart of what you're spending your time doing it would be pretty alarming I think well people get that with the amount of time they're scrolling on social media instead of learning and doing you know giving themselves knowledge or looking after themselves they're scrolling all day long pointless content like you know your your phone does it sometimes that says this is how many hours per day you spent looking at
• 31:00 - 31:30 your screen last week and you're like oh my do you know um I just interviewed Ali Abdal and he said that he he was a full-time doctor right he built a YouTube channel yeah he's been on my podcast okay oh I didn't know that and he um but he said one thing that stuck out he was like I said how did you how did you become a YouTuber while being a full-time doctor he said all I did is cut out watching TV I didn't watch TV and I used that time to do build a YouTube channel that's that's simple So just this point stop wasting time i
• 31:30 - 32:00 mean not all of your time is going to be wasted time there might be some activities which are not productive but it might be good for your own uh relaxation well-being and so on you know I I don't know like if you if you're watching TV you could be watching something which is completely useless or it could actually be a really interesting documentary or a YouTube video like this so just decide on the things you're doing is it is it genuinely helpful in some way or is it
• 32:00 - 32:30 actually just waste there's nothing worse for me when I commit to watching a film cuz I'm like if I'm going to watch a film this is like an hour and a half two hours right this needs to be a good film otherwise I'm going to be pissed off so I check the reviews before to see if it's actually a good film because if it's not a good film I'm so annoyed that I've just wasted two hours watching a [ __ ] film next point create a schedule so uh we kind of mentioned this a little bit about you have to make time to do these things which actually need to be done in order for you to execute this
• 32:30 - 33:00 plan that you have okay so you know if we take for example content creation you know you don't just accidentally you know find some time to create content you really need to put some time aside to decide okay we're going to be filming this specific piece of content for this platform or platforms and I've noticed is it's something which I I I have to schedule i don't schedule it it just doesn't get done other things will get in the way i think schedule I schedule like time with my wife i schedule like when I'm going to eat mhm i schedule
• 33:00 - 33:30 when I was like to go to bed like literally try to put all of it in your diary some people like some people like to do that you know they would have the whole day planned out every single hour at least try to allocate some time and that for some people maybe that's what they need to do i notice I find that quite hard like I like to have a bit more flexibility so what I do is I'll list out okay so there's certain things that need to be done this week these are the
• 33:30 - 34:00 days when I'm going to do it and then I can you know be a bit more flexible with it because I think having goals in general for the week and then putting in when you're going to try and get them done is it's pretty cool to think if you if you have days or set hours where you will tackle particular tasks that's great and the thing which I've noticed is as I've tried to take on more I have more responsibility of the podcast now too as well it's like okay where am I going to find this extra time i'm already busy so it just means I have to be more organized and more uh scheduled
• 34:00 - 34:30 with everything which I'm doing next point is do the hardest or do the most important tasks first now maybe this is not applicable to everybody but for me at least I've noticed this needs to be done okay if if I put off the hardest most challenging task and leave it to the end of the day I either don't do it or I don't execute it as well as I could have done uh had I tackled it first thing in the morning but that's because I understand myself i understand that my brain is wired in a way that I can
• 34:30 - 35:00 handle the more challenging or mundane tasks first part of the day okay and then once I've done that then I will go to the gym because it requires less mental focus i enjoy it a little bit more then later on in the days when I'm a little bit wiped out I do more of the chilled stuff like social media stuff it's the things which it takes time but doesn't I don't find it that difficult okay okay so I structure my day where I'm doing the hardest and most important task first oh my god I've got some great
• 35:00 - 35:30 news guys thanks to you and your support of this channel and what we do this book just became the number one book on the Sunday Times bestseller list number one because you bought it and you supported our mission to fund people's dreams and help people do what they love you can now go review it on Amazon if you enjoyed the book go review it the link's down below it will make a hell of a difference thank you so much for supporting what we're doing let's get back to the video right health and fitness this is something sitting next to you i know you know a lot about so with this topic a couple things we need to go through okay the the first step
• 35:30 - 36:00 you need to make is to join a gym or invest in some home equipment so I I think this is the tricky thing because if you have loads of money then you have the the luxury of joining lots of different gyms and joining all the premium gyms which obviously if you go to a more premium gym it's just generally a better experience investing in a home gym could be a good thing to do particularly for those people who work from home maybe I think this is particularly for those people who have a family they want to spend more time with
• 36:00 - 36:30 their family if you can just literally go into another room work out 45 minutes and then get back to doing what you want to do that could be uh the thing that would be suitable for you and it's really not that expensive people see these videos of u everyone making these home gyms costing like 50 grand 100 grand i spend 50 grand on my gym at home so it's probably a pretty good gym yeah but I I know exactly what you mean though like my another friend of mine he just basically turned his living room into the gym which was pretty cool he he got a divorce so he wanted to get back
• 36:30 - 37:00 into shape but he turned his living room into the gym and he just bought secondhand equipment i think the whole thing cost him two grand this is the thing when I I started off doing this when I went to I was a I had a membership at the university i went to Newcastle University but every time I came back home during the holidays I had no gym membership and there's no gyms around that would do like day passes so I invested in literally an adjustable bench goes up and down adjustable dumbbells that would go from literally you know 1 kilogram all the way up to 40 kg and a chin-up bar that was it that is
• 37:00 - 37:30 enough to cover all the bases and to train all the muscle groups okay so you just need to ask yourself which one is going to be more suitable for you if you live in a place where the gym is miles away like literally it takes you an hour to go to the gym probably not the most efficient use of time if you have to go there every single day and back probably having a home gym is going to be more suitable right so that's just step one if you don't have either you got to invest in yourself basically if you don't invest in yourself you can't move forward so people don't people don't invest in themselves it's crazy to me
• 37:30 - 38:00 they'll buy crappy meme coins and they do all these weird things that they won't spend money on themselves yeah next thing is removing temptation okay so by temptation I mean all the crap that you have in the cupboards you have you look around my kitchen it's extremely boring there's just a lack of anything interesting and it's designed that way on purpose because there are times even with me I'm very disciplined but my willpower will go down from time to time particularly if I've not slept well or if I am dieting whatever it might be I'm stressed out i will go to the naughty
• 38:00 - 38:30 food if it is there but if it's not there then it's more of an obstacle to get to it i think if I did have a family and a partner whatever it might be if they want to have their like naughty snacks whatever might be I say to them please store it somewhere where I don't know where the hell it is i don't want to know where that naughty cupboard is right or if if you are enough because my wife actually hid chocolate in the house and I found it but I know what you mean yeah like I I would have to do that or I would have to replace these snacks with
• 38:30 - 39:00 healthier snacks yeah i I think it's really good advice i mean maybe getting your partner to join you on the journey is a big part of it like just get rid of it because if it's easily accessible Yeah then it's a problem yeah next point is to prioritize consuming nutrientdense whole foods okay and what are they because a lot of people listening to that might not know what that actually is so a whole food is basically something which is in its natural state that hasn't undergone a lot of processing the easiest way to know whether something's a whole food or
• 39:00 - 39:30 not is to look at the ingredient label if it's like one thing i.e chicken it's it should just be chicken if you look at something that's heavily processed it will have an ingredient list which is extremely extensive and probably has a load of words and things in there that you can't even pronounce properly that's usually a sign to stay away from it it's full of garbage and it's not good for your your health nutrient-dense basically packed full of micronutrients
• 39:30 - 40:00 so these things could be vegetables fruits leafy greens complex carbohydrates things like that okay understanding the basics of the macronutrients of what's in the food and tracking okay so for for me I think one of the biggest leaps I made in terms of my understanding of nutrition and my physique was actually just doing some basic research into what was actually in the food okay so how many grams of protein is in you know like 200 gram of chicken one of the best things that
• 40:00 - 40:30 comes from doing something like this is you can look at a plate of food and you can reasonably guess with pretty high degree of accuracy of how many calories is in it how much proteins in it the carbs and the fats a lot of people are put off by this because they think that oh if I'm tracking calories and meal prepping I have to do this for the rest of my life no it's just a short-term process where you're learning about what is in different types of foods and then off that you can then reasonably guess what's in foods coming on from that the
• 40:30 - 41:00 topic of macros I think don't get overwhelmed of trying to count everything and being obsessed with everything because it can be a little bit overwhelming i think to begin with just have a basic understanding of how many calories you're consuming per day and protein most people underconume protein and protein is the building block to actually putting on muscle mass staying satiated rebuilding cells everything like that so if you were to worry about anything just worry about these two things don't be too concerned about your carbs and your fats because
• 41:00 - 41:30 ultimately I I've been there i've done that i've tried high carb diet i've tried low carb diet with the high fats and they kind of look the same it's usually just down to personal preference so make these two the priority thanks for sharing all your knowledge no worries hope that was helpful for everybody we're uh we're off to have some chicken now we'll see you later i keep meeting people who feel stuck they're tired not because they're lazy but because nothing feels meaningful they overthink everything and still don't know what they want they bounce from one thing to the next hoping that
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