The Secret to Being Healthy & Successful

Most stress is self talk. Most stress are your thoughts of worry and catastrophe. We all know, like, as soon as you have heart problems, what's the doctor going to tell you? Hey, check your stress superiority. It's an enemy to your fitness because superiority is an enemy to learning. This is the overall killer. Sedentary lifestyle. I know you already know this, so I don't have to belabor it. Sedentary lifestyle. What's the number one difference between those who live longer and those who don't? All the longevity research says one thing. People in the past moved more. People in the past, they moved more. What was. How do you have all these people living so long? Even in the 17, 1800s, they moved more. Even though they had less access to local care, they still lived. Why they moved. And you would not think that we have to belabor this so much. But the issue is today we have an epidemic of obesity, we have an epidemic of natural lifestyle, cause of diabetes. We have a tremendous problem with heart disease tied to poor state of health. And it's time that we face this dead on and go like, okay, this is the most common enemy we, you know, I'm not going to prioritize all these, but this is the one we know across everything I've talked about. Mental, emotional, physical, yes, spiritual, yes, social, these all overlap. When you're not moving, you're more irritable with the people around you. It hurts your social relationships. Couples that work out together have higher life satisfaction together, or at least couples who work out. Let's just take the basics. Okay? I know you already know this. I'll go fast through some of these and give you some ideas on some of these. Sleep. We know that one many of you, if you haven't done it before, do the three, two, one sleep routine tonight. Add some magnesium supplementation, some glycine supplementation, and watch yourself sleep like a champ. Okay? Three, two, one. Sleep three hours before bed. Don't eat. Stop snacking going into your sleep period. Don't just stop. You do not need to eat three hours before bed. Just stop. I wake up hungry. It's not because you ate during that window. It's because what you ate was not satiating. That's the difference. We'll come back to that one. No more. I don't know why I can't sleep. You know exactly why you can't sleep. 3, 2, 1, sit. 3, 2, 1. Then you already know all the other basics. Drop the room temperature down to 68 or below. Make sure you and your spouse understand each Other's sleep routines and preferences. Keep the animals. Sorry. Keep the animals. I'm sorry. Sorry. Cats and dogs don't belong in the bed. I know you like them, but they're not good for your sleep. Sorry. I know you hate me already. They're just. I'm just letting you know the science. They wrestle and they move and they take you out of REM sleep in their little movements. I know you like that. The cat jumps up and curls and licks your face and whatever. I'm just letting you know. Bad for you. That's all I'm telling you. Good for cat, bad for you. Okay, number three, this is really important. I want you to write the word down because it sounds funny. Satiation. The common enemy here is people haven't taught themselves to be satiated. And I'm going to take this one from multiple angles, so bear with me here. But what do I mean by satiation? Well, satiation is this idea. Let's talk about diet and nutrition first, okay? Many people aren't satiated three hours before bed. So they snack. Going to bed, throwing off their metabolism for the night wakes them up. They don't understand they're waking up because of the snacking. And we have to teach ourselves to be satiated. And when we lack satiation, then we're in trouble. So for example, in. You all know this in your nutrition, right? You got to make sure you get your macros. You have to have a proper allocation of protein, fats and carbohydrates throughout the day so you feel satiated, you feel full, right? Think about our modern big breakthroughs in, you know, biomed. It's like, oh, oic. Wow, that's amazing. What's it do? It makes people feel full. So it changes how you eat. It just makes people feel more full. Well, you can teach yourself to feel more full. You can have the proper allocation of protein and fats and carbohydrates and an eating schedule that makes you feel satiated. Now, I know this sounds no fun because I'm telling you to stop eating the whole piece. Number four, some of these I won't belabor too much because I think you get them. Number four. Number five, I won't spend too much time, but I think it's important. I think we all know sugar is the common enemy. And I think we all know snacking is a common enemy. Now why am I calling these common enemy? Because these are. These are wiping out your mental strength. Too many people don't recognize that, that these things, sugar and snacking are not supporting you. Now I know when people say, well no, no, snacking is fine, you're, you're supposed to eat four or five times a day. I, I, I studied that. You know, Brendan, we got a kick in our metabolism. Eat more small snacks throughout the day, you'll burn more fat. And there's all these beliefs. Now I believe this is the difference of actually working with humans versus knowing philosophy or even science. In North America, where I work primarily when I work with people, we have an overweight epidemic. When there's this idea and it's true that if you eat more often, you can change your boost metabolism, that is actually true for most people. The issue is when you have 70% of a population who have issues already with overeating, you don't tell them to eat more often. I know it's kind of hard to understand that, but that's what we did for a long period of time. We'll just eat more small meals throughout the day. You'll kick up your metabolism. That can be true. But there's this difference between understanding science and compliance. Will people comply with eating small meals five times a day? Most of them won't. They'll eat four big ones and a little one. They won't comply with the idea of that particular type of diet. Right. So I bring that up because when we get into snacking, people have lots of feelings. Now if you're trying to gain muscle mass, great snack, have high protein snacks throughout the day. But as we talk about, there's a common enemy coming up. Most snacks are flooded with sugar. Most people are overc consuming their sugar or carbohydrates and that's causing the overweight. And so I think it's important I am sharing this as a personal story to you. I want you to hear this. I cut out snacking. Just, I just said, you know what, snacking, it doesn't matter if it's a healthy snack. If I'm consuming something throughout the day, I'm more likely to cheat. I'm just going to stop. And I went back, I was like, I'm just going to have three great meals a day. I'm going to make sure that they're satiating, they have the right levels of protein, fats and carbohydrates for my fitness goals. I'm going to stick to that. Cassettes are for me. I'm not compliant. If you look at it, you're like, wait, it's 250 calories and 14 grams of sugar. This is why physically and mentally, you shut down a couple hours later. And so it's just important to understand all this. I know you already know this. I want you to have the ideal plan for you. I'm not pushing mine on you in any way. I'm trying to suggest these are something that our society has gotten so out of whack with, including this one. I think this is important. Common enemy. You hear all biohackers talking about this now, how dangerous seed oils are, especially in the North American diet. We're frying everything, especially your snacks. Almost every snack is fried. And it's fried in contaminated seed oils that are terrible. Most seed oils cause major problems in your metabolism and your gut. Major, major, major, major problems. They disrupt your endocrine system. They lower testosterone. They cause greater problems in your gut, which, of course, there's that gut brain barrier. And you know, seed oils are common things. You look at it like, oh, sunflower oil or soybean oil or canola oil or peanut oil. When you see those things in the products you're eating, you have to understand those are poisoning your system. More poison, less energy. And so as you understand this, you're like, okay, I gotta be wary of these basic things. The reason I took out most snacks is because most snacks are flooded in seed oils. As soon as I understood, wow, it's funny, after I have a snack, my stomach is upset. Then I understood why my energy was decreasing. Okay, again, please recognize I know we've got a lot of health experts here, a lot of biohackers. We have so many nutritionists who watch my work. Please recognize I began with, go see a professional on this. I think it's important every adult as early as possible, go see the nutritionist for what's right for them and their outcomes and goals. Hey, guys, it's Brandon. I'm jumping in here real quick. First, I want to make sure you've gone to progressmode.com to join the newsletter because I have a resource for you related to this episode and I have an upcoming meetup with my private group, Ultra. If you've ever liked to be in a private group with me where I help you get more progress towards your passion projects or to build your business or your brand in a bigger way, just go to progressmo.com click on private group to apply to. See you can get into Ultra and we can take it to the next level by getting in person and meeting up virtually once a month online as well, just go to progress mode.com stress this is a common enemy. Today Most people feel like they're victim to stress. And I want to share this as your personal development coach. You're not victim to stress. Stress most often is self manufactured. At some point you decide to stop manufacturing it. Do we have environmental stress? Do we have relational stress? Do we have physical stress? Is some stress that we experience as externally caused? Absolutely. But notice what I said. Most stress. Most stress is happening where is up here? Most stress is selft talk. Most stress are your thoughts of worry and catastrophe. We all know like soon as you have heart problems, what's the doctor going to tell you? Hey, check your stress. Check your stress because your stress ties to blood pressure. Okay, let's get aware of how your stress is whacking out your thyroid. Let's check out your stress is whacking out your digestion. Let's check out your stress is ruining your sleep. Let's check out your stress makes you a jerk to your spouse. That's why dealing with stress is so fundamental. And here's the funny thing. Move more, decrease stress, sleep more, decrease stress, be more satiated, decrease hangriness, less sugar snacking and seed oil stressing the biological system, the more the emotional and mental system is online. Okay, what else? Superiority. It's an enemy to your fitness because superiority is an enemy to learning. You might not say superiority, but I bet you understand stubbornness. Okay, we're using a very similar terminology now. Many people are very stubborn about changing their diet. No, they're self righteous. They think they know better. They think they need to prove something. Their ego is in the game. Now. They won't call it superiority, but spiritually that's what's going on. Their ego is saying I'm just this way. That's who I am. I don't change. You're wrong. I'm not open to learning that stubbornness, that superiority. I know if this was a more grace filled situation I would say oh, they must just feel guilt or shame. And, and you know, they're, they're fearful of looking stupid so they don't want to try something new. I'm like, yeah, no, I actually am in charge of human behavior change with people. And when you're in charge and it's your job and you tease it out, you call it for what it is. Most people have a high level of stubbornness and superiority. They're self righteous and their ego is so high when it comes to this topic. Okay, I'm not making broad proclamations about, you know, that people have huge ego. But many people, when it comes to their mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and social fitness, their capability level, their readiness level, their flexibility level, their energy level, their adaptability levels like we've been talking about. Oh, do they get defensive? It's just. It's really unfortunate and it's really something that I think we dance around too lightly in our society. I think we should. Hey, listen, I'm noticing you are not open to this conversation, and yet you can acknowledge you've got some patterns of behavior that are hurting your energy. Are you okay with not feeling more energy? Are you okay not being here? What's going on? Let's have the conversation. But. Oh, that's so offensive today, to have that conversation. I think it's responsible. I think it's responsible when you see someone doing something that's hurting themselves to address it. You don't have to tell them what to do, but to address it to see if they're okay. Ask their goals. I think it's important. Okay. Number nine. This is so good. No supplementation. I'm shocked on how many people have never learned what supplements are necessary for them. Again, coming back to a nutritionist, but I think it's so important that you know what supplements make you your best? What supplements make you awesome? What supplements make you feel incredible? What are they? You should know that. What supplements do you do that help you with focus and energy? What supplements do you take that help fill in the gap in your nutritional habits? What supplementation helps you deal with stress? What supplementation helps you sleep better? All of those would. I would be considered a baseline. Just a baseline. And if you don't think about it or study it or work with the nutritionist or biohack for it, then I really start worrying for people because they don't understand that. What if that gave you just 10% more energy or edge throughout the week? Do you know you're competing with people who understand supplementation and they're getting 10 to 20% more productivity on top of you every week? And you think that they're like super men and super women. I'm like, they're just supplemented better than you. That's it. And we. And we think it's some unfair. Oh, she's a genetic amazing. I'm like, no, she probably had a little more protein than you, and she's probably on a nootropic. Like, you didn't see. She. She's like, she just had 300 milligrams of cordyceps before that meeting. So she's in a different place than you are. That's all. So I think this is important. People always ask me about mine and I always say, it's not about mine, it's about yours. What's your definition? What are your objectives? What are your obstacles? What are your routines? How are you socializing? Okay, I'll say the last thing. Downward social energy. What's happening is a lot of people are in a community where it's a downward energy. The people around them are downers, the people around them aren't uplifting, the people around them are negative, the people around them are pessimistic. The people around them don't have that high level of energy that we all need or want to feel ultra happy, ultra successful, ultra energized. Hang out with more healthy people, seek out more healthy people. Go with people who are striving people to the people with church, who are good attitude, who are of good cheer, being around awesome social energy. I want to let you know, it's the secret of my success. When I think about a career this long, reaching this many people, doing this many trainings, it's like no way would I've had the energy to do that if there wasn't uplifting spirits around me. I think it's really important. Again, since we're talking about fitness, I think it's important that you do consider seeing a nutritionist or a health advisor who can help you specifically in the stuff you might not already think about, which is often supplementation. Again, I'm not selling anything here. I think it's very important that people realize there's gaps and we don't account for the gaps. You don't feel as good. You can do all this stuff, but if you're super low on a. On a basic vitamin or mineral, then it's like, it's not shocking that you don't feel good. You know, a lot of people do all the things right, but they have thyroid dysfunction and they need some supplementation. Right? There's simple things like this. So I think it's important to consider all this.