Workout: Get Up

How many of you in this room actually know already how to improve your life? You already know where to focus on your life, and you probably know what to do, but you haven't done it yet. Be honest. Raise your hands. Okay, about half the room of truth tellers and half the room. I'll just pretend you didn't hear the questions. Because who knows exactly what you need to do to change already, right? People say, oh, I want to lose weight, Brendan. I don't know why I haven't lost weight. I'll say, do you know how? Yes. Have you gone to the gym? So people know what to do, it's that they fail to do it. That essence is called common sense. We know what to do, but the failure in the practice comes from a failure. Sometimes of will, sometimes of circumstance, sometimes of something. But here's what I'd love you to do. If you're failing to implement something you know you should already do, please tune in. If you are failing to implement something you already know you can do, your vision for your life is stuck to today. Your vision is stuck to yesterday. Because if you have a different vision for your life and you know what to do, and that vision is compelling, that vision is something that is real and important and exciting for you, guess what? You do it. If it's a fake vision, a half vision, a mimicry vision, a follow the leader vision, not your vision. That's why you're not doing the basics right. If you haven't lost the weight, you don't have a vision for your life healthfully yet. You want to lose pounds, but you haven't envisioned a healthy life. So even the commonsensical things, you don't do it right? Who has eaten a friggin bag of chips in the last 30 days? A whole bag of chips. Who ate that bag of chips at one sitting? Who ate the bag of chips in one sitting and had to fight not to open the second bag? Okay, who opened the second bag? Anybody? Okay. Okay. I'm just making sure you're all being real here. It's not just health. Think about that dream you have, you know, you want to write like, my dream was to be a writer and a coach, right? I want to be a writer and I want to be a life coach or business coach. Okay, cool. That's what I wanted to do. Common sense says, Brendan, sit down and write every day. But I didn't see it yet. I didn't visualize that vision and own that dream yet. It was an idea, but it wasn't a vision in my heart. I didn't see it, feel it, walk through it. And so I would lay in bed every morning and I would visualize myself on a stage and I would see myself walk into one side and saying something amazing. And they would stand on their feet because I said something amazing. And then I went to the other side and I said something equally amazing. And all the amazing just kept coming out. And people would stand and they would shout and they would scream. You've never seen a vision of your future and it kind of freaked you out. If you haven't, you're not dreaming big enough yet, babe. If something in the future doesn't scare you, like, ooh, that, like, see, if I want to be a public speaker and I don't think of a stage that big and I don't sweat, I better think of a bigger stage until I start sweating, right? To allow that discomfort, that vision, that's bigger. But I'm here to tell you a lot of the reason people don't take daily, real, practical, common sense efforts towards their dreams is they don't see the dream yet. They haven't laid awake and thought about it long enough. They thought, wouldn't that be nice? There's a difference between wouldn't that be nice? And I own this dream. It is in my heart, it is in my legs, it is in my body. I feel it, I sense it. That's mine. Let's go. You don't luck into that. You decide what you want and you see it and you visualize it and you step into it mentally, day after day after day.