How to Optimize Your Health

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Well, let's talk about your everyday state.

Of energy and where it comes from. We all know mindset stuff.

If you've been with us in growth.

Day we cover the mindset stuff all the time. Like how to be more happy, how to be more energized by bringing the joy, by having reverence for life. I think that's the most important thing. Waking up, feeling motivated and energized for the opportunity to breathe today, the opportunity to serve the day, the opportunity to care for your kids, for your family, for your team, to do things you want to do today, like this is just a huge, huge, huge part of the energy. But let's step outside of mindset and talk about biological factors. Your biological energy state throughout any given day is usually a result of the last 72 hours of sleep. Rest, recovery and fueling, aka eating your nutritional plan, right? So listen, one bad, you've all felt one bad night of sleep before kind of hits you in the early afternoon. Three bad nights of sleep, you're wrecked that afternoon, right? It's a three. Your energetic biological state. Always think about it, it's like a three day average. And that's why consistency in health routines is so key, right? And that's why it's so important that you definitely work out at least every other day if you want a heightened or sustained energetic state. So if you vary up a bunch of things over a three day period, that fourth day can really hit you hard. The three day average is the way to think about your biological state and energy. So huge. I cannot tell you how huge it is. But obviously what's the biggest CO factor there is that last 2430 hours. So that's why we talk about having more morning routines. That's why we talk about getting outside. That's why we talk about eating well. That's why we talk about, you know, one night of, you know, one or two glasses of wine. Okay? Four nights of that. And your energetic state, it's like. And you don't realize it because most people who are tired don't realize how extraordinarily tired they are. And people who have good energy have no realization of the rim in which they could hit if they actually went for high performance energy. If they said, I'm going to make this year the healthiest year of my life, what they would find after three months of even trying that, that the energy they feel in an everyday state is like they thought their energy was going to improve, you know, 2x after months of trying a healthy routine, their everyday energetic state is like 10x. They're like, Whoa. So whatever you think good energy feels like, my friends, I want to let you know it's way better than you think. When you get like so much, you have no clue how good it feels to live life until you've been on a consistent health routine for months. It just takes that body reset to like months. But I hope that that's helpful in some ways. How do I do it? Like, my energy is. We call it meds Rx, right? You got to take your meds every day. Meditation, exercise, diet, sleep. Then R stands for relationships. Good people in your life are energizing biologically. We're social animals, right? It's not just mental, we are social. And then X is your supplement routine, right? What your supplements are to make sure you balance out Whatever it is that you aren't getting or to repair the damage that you are doing. Like from probiotics to, you know, nootropics for your mind and how your brain operates to making sure you're getting basics, depending on what your workout routine is or are you pregnant or are you, like, whatever you're at, you need to make sure your supplement game is topped. Like, is just like on point, I think. You know what, Jamie? People will spend more time browsing the thread count of their sheets they're about to purchase on Amazon. Then they'll spend, oh, I wonder what nootropics I can take to optimize my mind and my focus and my mood. Yeah, that, you know, so they'll, they'll take the, they won't think about mood enhancement. They'll just think about, you know, all these weird things people buy. I'm like, no, if you're going to spend time thinking about buying something, buy something to optimize your energy. Because when you do that, you feel so good. I have the ultimate unfair advantage of feeling so good so often that I outperform people who are way smarter than me. Okay, everybody, but you know what I mean? Like, everyone's smarter than me, but I'm just saying it's like, it's unfair when you have joy and rest and wellness. Yeah, we know how important that is. And I don't pretend to make that easy because Jamie said I've had brain injuries. I've broken almost every bone in my body. I've had just every possible calamity in some way or another. So I feel mostly self caused my own problems. And I feel that it's such a good reminder. You can't fulfill the vision if you have no energy for the vision.

So good. So many people are writing in the comments. I wish I learned this in school. Right. These are the things that's probably why we're tempted to use your example. Read about the thread count. Is this Egyptian cotton? And is this. But then when it comes to our own.

I knew you'd know more details. That was the whole detail I had. There's sheep and there's thread counts. I had. No. Thank you for filling in this detail. You're so good at that.

No, it makes sense. And you know, one thing I want to talk about too. Just, just the idea. Let me just pull an elementary idea out of that for myself because maybe this will help someone else out there too. The idea of, oh, wow, if I make a choice that's not optimal for it's Going to impact me, how I feel in 24 hours, and in 72 hours, it's literally going to affect my day. Three days from now is a big idea. That's a big aha that I think is super powerful. And one more thing I want to share, as people are asking for some tips as well, is I do every single morning, I go for an hour walk.

Yes.

Every single morning. And I almost never want to. And what I do, it's literally my favorite part. One of my favorite parts of the day now. And what I do is I flip my mindset around it because I get DMs in my Instagram every single day from people who are not able to walk or are no longer able to walk. I have people in my family who are differently abled and literally cannot go for a walk. And so what I did was in my own mind around your brilliant words, Brendan, about, are you feeling the day? I flip it in my mind every morning and I go, wow, I get to.

You get to. What a blessing.

And like, literally, right? And so many times we're so busy, we're going through the motions. We're all the things. And just reframing in our mind, like, wow, when's the last time we even thought about what our legs feel like as we walk and the fact that we get to take a step and what does the ground feel like as our foot is coming down on it? And what is the. I try to walk outside almost every single morning, but it's like, what does the breeze feel like when it hits our skin? It's like all these little things we can do that are free that allow us to feel the day. And even this morning, it's pouring down rain in Southern California, which. Which is really rare. I'm like, all right, I walked in circles around my kitchen and my little. Literally for an hour, literally, just walk. And there's not that much space in the room I was walking in. It's pretty small room. And I just walked for an hour because it's like, okay, I know, but what you just added to it for me was just the impact of what we do. The fact that I was packing books last night in these boxes and. But the decision I made to eat Peanut M and Ms. With everybody out of this Costco, Peanut M and M, that will impact for three days. For three days. And I need this energy. I have a lot of people to show up for doing a big insider launch group, right? So everyone, anyone who buys the book early gets into this, like, insider group with Me and I have never done that before. And I am like yesterday I showed at, I brought in a special guest. We literally did. And we talked for an hour and sobbed our eyes out. And just all of us, there are all these things going on. But like, that's what I need to show up for. So now when I'm tempted to grab the peanut M and Ms, now I'm thinking, oh, the next. This is a three day decision on top of everything else that probably impacts. Thank you for that, Brendan.

Yes, your biological energy on any given day is a three day average. And so the good news is for everyone else to hear that too. Because I don't want to be a downer. It's like, oh, no, the M and Ms. That can also. It's a three day average. So you're like, you don't have to hate yourself or beat yourself up because you have two more days to do healthy activities to hopefully compensate for the maybe not so good, right? So as an example, the M and Ms. Is going to spike blood sugar, it's going to change up your insulin, it's going to change how you sleep, it's going to change all those things depending on how many eat. But you also have two days to repair yourself. That's why people like, even the Rock has a cheat day because he knows he can have a cheat day because.

He'S got two other days.

He's gonna be so disciplined and so healthy. So his energy will be there. When I, if I have alcohol as an example, I'm always thoughtful, like, what is the next two days? So I usually, I'll like, if I'm gonna drink, it's gonna be like a Friday or Saturday because I don't want my Monday afternoon to dip. I want to be high performing throughout it. And everyone's like, oh my gosh, you're so disciplined, Brandon. Like, because I care about serving my family, because I care about you guys, because I care about the energy I bring out to the world. You get healthy often for other people. If it was just up to me, for those who are on Instagram, you can see my background. It's like that's a beach 30ft away. I would be. It was just up to me. If my life was just like, if I was a selfish bastard, I would have pina coladas from noon to midnight every day. I would be unhealthy, unwell, unable to serve. It would not be a good situation. So optimize your health for service of others, to be a better mom, to be a better Caregiver to be a better leader because when your energy goes up, everybody around feels that, hey, it's Brendan.

And I want to jump in the middle of this episode here real quick and tell you about something I'm really excited about and something that answers a question that many of you have for me all the time, which is, Brendon, where do you get this crazy focus and energy in your life? And the truth is I've developed a supplement line that really helps me do that. And frankly, I needed to. I don't know about you, but sometimes when you're trying to achieve big things, a lot of stress comes along. And as you're trying to achieve bigger things, you need to be on your A game more often. You need to be mentally sharp. You need to be mentally prepared. You need to be mentally energized and productive. And not once in a while, but like every day, you have to be on and sometimes guzzling more coffee isn't going to do it. You have to use what we call nootropics, which are, you know, basically supplements that help optimize your brain. And yes, we have a product for exactly that. It's called HPX optimized and it is our most popular product. And you can get it. It's back in stock at HPX Wellness. That's HPX Wellness.com you'll find HPX optimized for your mental focus and energy there. You'll also find my favorite powdered energy drink that we created that's 100% organic and vegan. And you'll find my essentials, which is my daily multi that I take that covers my energy, that covers my longevity, that covers my immunity, that covers my brain and body health that I absolutely love.

And you will feel the difference.

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Every day we bring this energy. In growth day, all of our coaches bring this energy. Even when we're tired, we summon that energy because you can summon for service and that's how you achieve a vision you want to summon for the service of that vision. I summon the best out of myself. I summon better decisions for myself. I summon better health for myself. I take supplements and pills and things that I'd like. I'm like, okay, I make sure I take my green tea at 1:30 in the afternoon. I have a little green tea in 1:30, one in the afternoon that powers me through the rest of the whole day because I'm a lightweight on caffeine. For those who don't know, but it's just, you got to discipline yourself for other people. And because I'm here to tell you there's another level of health and wellness and energy that everybody can experience that literally is 10 times better than you thought it was. It's like a 10 times better mood, a 10 times better focus. Imagine if you just had more mental energy just for like four more hours a day, meaning you didn't have those real dips where you felt like, I'm so tired. So you swiped through things that weren't, you know, helpful or motivating or personally empowering to you. If you just think about four more hours of mental clarity a day, man, when you got that, it's a game changer. So I know I'm going way off on this. And you have, you want to reach.

Four more hours of joy or of feeling the day, right?

Presence, energy, emotion.

Yeah. It's so easy to numb out for four hours. It's so easy to, you know what I mean? Literally scroll Instagram for four hours. It's so all the things, right?

And you're not. Here's what I want to tell everyone. When you do that, it's not because you're lazy. It's because you are tired. You're tired. The tiring think of it.

Tired is a trigger.

Tired is a trigger. When you're tired, you have a pattern in which now you want to consume more. When you're tired, you just want to sit back and scroll and not have to do things. And it's not because you don't have dreams or because your money is solved for life. It's because you're tired. And so when you get your health in order and everybody can do it, it's four more hours of joy, four.

More hours of emotion, four more hours.

Of presence, four more hours of mindfulness, four more hours of creativity. And we're not adding four hours of work to you. We're giving you zest every hour. When you have zest on the hour because you took care of yourself the last three days, it feels different. So if you missed a night or the night didn't turn out well, asleep, get that nap in or that meditation the next day, catch up. Some of those minutes, 10 minutes here, 20 minutes there, if you can, of meditation to reset the mind or sleep, like a nap to try to catch up. I mean, new moms know all this, right? So it's like you got to sneak in those naps. But people forget that when they're high achieving entrepreneurs, they're like I don't need that. No, you need to catch up on sleep, too. Everybody needs to do it.

And especially when it's your own business or your own dream or your own book or your own course or you're a coach or when it's your own thing, it's really hard to not keep driving yourself 247 because you're not clocking in and clocking out. Like it never stops. Right.

But you have to make it stop.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, you have to make it stop so that you have. That's what we call the pit stop. Right? You need the pit stops in the day or at the night. Like last night. I'll give an example. I have this huge to do list right now. Like, huge. I was like, okay, it's 8:30 at night. It's 8:30. I'm either going to work inefficiently for the next hour and a half and most of you know I'm a night owl, so I'll stay up till 2 o' clock working on stuff I just love. I'm a creative person at night and because I have so much energy, I just keep going. No, I have to go. Okay. I need to be amazing on a bunch of projects that's happening over these next five days. I'm going to call it a night. I'm going to make it stop. The to do list for you don't stop. You stop to recharge, to refuel so the next day you can feel the day and feel the energy and do well. Because if it's always a never ending to do list and it's always a.

Slogan, if it's always a slog, what are we doing?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think that's powerful and I think it really is a new movement starting because I think for a long time people got the message of, oh, just drive harder, sleep less, pack more in a day. Here's how to opt like, you know what I mean? And it's the wrong message. And so I think it's a new movement.

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