Live.Love.Matter: Behind the Scenes on the Habits Tour

I'm a kid from a small town. People wonder what it's like to speak to arenas full of people, to travel the country, working hard every day to inspire people. I'm on a mission to say that with deep motivation and high performance habits, you can be extraordinary. This is what it looks and feels like to be me. Brendon Burchard.

Run it through your mind, you know, 30 minutes before you're going on stage to 20,000 people. Make producers happy.

Number one, whoever's putting on the show, just absolutely celebrate them, honor them because they gave you the opportunity. Number two, don't think about yourself. And right now I'm just. I'm getting excited. Like, I feel anxiety like anybody else does, but my whole thing right now is like, I just want to have fun. I want them to have fun and I want them to have takeaways. I want them to be inspired. And it's a total focus on them. That's it. So now I just remind myself to be a geek because it's so easy to be on stage and be like. Instead, I want to go on stage and be real, but allow myself to geek out about the things that are important to me and show them my enthusiasm for what I'm teaching, for what I care about and really just connect with their heart at one level. But then also make the speech like this. I want them laughing. I want them surprised. I want them deep in their heart. I want them thinking about their family. I want them thinking about their career. So the whole speech should just move and dance. And that only happens if you can be loose and happy and enthusiastic for what you're doing. So okay. Hey, y'.

All.

It's a quick update from the road on the book tour for my new book, High Performance habits. How Extraordinary People become that way. And I thought I'd give you a little inside look.

I don't know if you've ever been.

On book tour, but I thought I'd give you sort of a look at it. The last couple weeks, it has been all hands on deck as I've traveled everywhere starting to share the message about high performance habits. It's a book about the six habits that most correlate with your ability to succeed over the long term. So not just about, you know, what gets you in the game with initial success, but what helps you maintain long term success in your career, in your health, in your personal relationships. And what's powerful is we conducted the world's largest and certainly most comprehensive study of high performers worldwide. What are the habits that they do deliberately and consistently that allow them to succeed. Anyway, I've been talking about that and I thought I'd give you an inside look at the tour. I went out to Los Angeles and did interviews with Larry King and Lewis Howes. And then I went and met with my Oprah Winfrey Network friends to talk about our new course. And then it was just, man, speech after speech. I went to and spoke to 20,000 people at the Superdome in New Orleans, went and spoke to 20,000 people in Los Angeles, Anaheim Convention Center. Just getting back to speaking to another thousand some people in on the East Coast. And I'm telling you, it's been such a blessing to share this message and see its impact with people. And with that, I thought I'd give you a little bit of tour. Let me walk you through my last couple weeks. I thought you'd get a kick out of it. We start with my trip to Los Angeles.

Okay, we're in LA and I'm heading over to Larry King show to do an interview for High Performance Habits, which we're stoked about. It's probably the fifth or sixth time time I've done an interview with Larry. Either me interviewing him or him interviewing me. And I still feel like I'm gonna throw up. It could be the huevos rancheros, but I definitely am a little concerned about it. But it'll be great. I've got Jess Manning with me and the guys from Kajabi.

What's up guys? Hello.

Got my suit on, good to go. This is kind of the cool back area that he's got all these amazing celebrities up on the wall and it's super cool in here. And I'll show you the studio fast. So I'll show you inside here. Thanks, guys.

Welcome to Larry King. Now our special guest is one of my good friends and one of the most talented people I know, Brendan Burchard. He's one of the most successful coaches in the world today. Brendan is a New York Times best selling author whose videos have been viewed over a hundred million times online. Today we'll be talking about his new book, High Performance Habits. How Extraordinary People Become that Way. When's it coming out?

September 19th.

Look, you're a busy man. Do you deal with anxiety and how do you cope?

I used to deal with anxiety, a lot of it, especially before a big speech or an interview. I still get nervous all the time. And like Bruce Springsteen says, you know, he'd retire if he didn't feel nervous backstage. So I think it's really important that sometimes nerves are okay.

Great talking with you.

Great seeing that.

Brendan Burchard. The book High Performance Habits. How Extraordinary People Become that way. It's coming your way in September and you can find me on Twitter at kingsthings. I'll see you next time.

I never know what I'm saying, you know. Okay, so we did it.

Finished.

Awesome, awesome time with Eric King. As always, he's been such a huge inspiration of my life. So being in his studio and getting to an interview with him and doing courses together, it's been a huge honor of my life and I hope you guys enjoy the evening. Make sure you pick it up.

You can get a pre order on Amazon right now. High Performance Habits.

This book is going to change your life.

Go get it right now. High Performance Habits. Make sure you go follow Brennan right now on Instagram.

I love you, Lewis. I love you. I love Lewis House.

Perfect.

Welcome everyone back to the School of Greatness podcast. We have an exceptional human being, Randy Burchard in the house.

My man.

Such an honor to be here.

I'm very excited.

Me too.

I'm excited to talk about your new book, among many things, which is called High Performance Habits. How Extraordinary People Become that Way. So if you haven't already picked this up, I've already been talking about it. Make sure you go get it right now on Amazon. You can go to brendan.com. you can go to Barnes and Noble. You can go anywhere where books are sold. Get this book. You spent the last two, three years researching consistently, constantly on how people become extraordinary.

Yeah.

And I'm.

I'm obsessed with greatness.

I know you love this stuff.

That's why I knew this interview is gonna be amazing. It's like we could vibe on this all day long.

Exactly.

I probably haven't done the in detailed research like the scientific.

It's a mess in my room this morning and it super sucks because I'm crazy sick right now. And being on the road when you're sick and speaking can be brutal. Especially, you know, this week. I so wanted to enjoy it because I get to first. It's kind of the first time I get to talk about high performance habits. But oh my gosh, I'm barely alive. So I've got some kind of crazy cold. And I gotta do the interview with Larry King this week and Lewis Howe is. And the Oprah Winfrey Network, Success magazine Beachbody. Like all these big meetings while I'm out on the road and I don't feel good. But it's kind of like that's part of the it's part of the journey a little bit, is you don't really get the choice when you're trying to lead others of, like, how you feel sometimes naturally you have to summon and generate the energy you want. So I'm a mess right now, but I'm doing about 20 minutes of yoga, hit a really cold shower to wake myself up, do some calisthenic stretches and some body qigong to open up my body and my meridians and iron a few shirts. And then I'm going to hit the road. And today we're heading over to the Oprah Winfrey Network to talk about the launch of another one of my new courses with them called Reignite youe Life. And so when you go to meet with the Oprah team, you don't want to look like this. So it's time to get ready.

Hi, Teresa. Nice to meet you.

So my favorite thing about the own headquarters here, for sure is the design is beautiful. But also on all the walls, they have this huge I mean, look how huge this is, right? Pictures of Oprah over here. There's Oprah with Maya Angelou, who I love. So if you shoot that over there, that's super cool. These are huge. It's really beautiful because it captures the spirit of her show, and we love that about this entire place. So it's always an honor to be here and be working on the courses with the Oprah team because they're caring, they're compassionate, they're the best practice in the world. They've advised me a lot, my brand, and I really love it. It's, I don't know, day two or three of our meetings in Los Angeles, which I'm so excited about. And today I am hanging out with Beachbody, where my famed friends Tony Horton created P90X and Chalene Johnson created Turbo Fire and Turbo Kick.

And Piyo.

You know, most of America is working out with somebody from Beachbody. So hanging out with them, talk with our CEO today about how we can help them with some online marketing and also, I'm sorry, speaking at their convention to, like, 25,000 people at the Superdome. So it's a kind of a conversation about what I might be speaking about on stage and about how I might be able to help the company. So this is really cool stuff. I feel like I'm gonna die, which is funny because, you know, this is health and fitness today, but I'm still recovering from that cold I told you about. So it's been a long day, long trip. In Los Angeles. But I'm super stoked. Last meeting. Then I get to go home to my lady.

How are you?

Good morning, man.

Good to see you. Good to see you.

So I'm in Minneapolis right now and I don't really know how this is going to go. My hope is I can fly over to, I think it's Bradley International Airport. My sister can pick me up. She lives near there. Say hello. See my little buddies, my little nephews, you've seen them in the vlog. Then get transported to a helicopter pad somewhere. Fly the helicopter down to where my friends are. Then go up to New York City to do a series of interviews, including one with Marie Forleo. See the Oprah Winfrey production team. Holy cow. It's a lot. This is kind of the fun thing when you're doing book launches. You actually never know exactly where you're going to be or what's going to happen. But I kind of love that part of it all. So my buddy heard about this helicopter idea of mine and this is the text he sent me. And then this more even supportive one right there.

Let's get on this place.

So it's the next morning and I am in a car with New York.

Times best selling authors, Nick Ortner, Alex.

Ortner and Jesse Partner. Well, he's not a New York Times bestselling author.

Yes, it's two out of three.

Hey, it's only a matter of time.

Stop begging on the non New York Times best selling authors, people, man. Just a total. I mean you really got to be qualified these days.

Yeah.

So what's happening?

He's a driver.

Is it turned out that it works out. We are.

Are able to catch a helicopter to New York today, which is.

Really exciting because it's your first time in a helicopter.

I'm so excited.

Hey, you look so pretty. You're talking to Cosmo today.

Yes, I'm speaking at Cosmo in Seventeen magazine. I happen to have a meeting and I happen to get a helicopter ride there.

So we were like this worked out so good.

Are you ready?

I'm ready.

I'm so excited for you.

Thank you so much.

I'm so excited.

This is gonna be awesome.

So pretty here.

Look how green it.

Oh yeah.

My backpack back there, right?

Yep.

That's the way to fly to New York. Okay.

On the streets of New York. Just finished an interview with Marie Forleo which was super awesome and she's darling. I'll make sure I get you guys a link to it and I'll tell you What? If you ever do a tour in New York, the main thing is to just enjoy it and to spend a lot of time just walking. And as you're walking around, just be present with everything because you'll be so good in your interviews when you're present. And nothing like New York to pull you right into paying attention to things. I really enjoy it and love it. Is in the book.

I read it.

It's fantastic. It just works. That means just release tension.

Yep.

Set intention. It's just your transitions are where most people's bleeding out their energy and they don't know. And if we can just get you four or five times of transition really well throughout the. Every morning, the shower.

We all don't. Every day. Not every morning. No, we do not. It just doesn't happen. It does not happen. It doesn't happen.

I told you like 24 hours ago.

I was staying at a barn in.

The woods at a friend's house.

Yes.

But the second thing I ask myself in the shower every morning is what might happen today that could trip me up.

And she just showed up for some guacamole. Hi, it's me. For though she's the best ever.

Thank you for the interview.

What did you think?

I thought you did fantastic. And I thought we had a great time and it was nice to have you in the studio finally, because our last interview was years ago and it was on tight, so this is much better. And now someone's calling me and I'm not gonna.

Okay.

I hope you enjoyed that look into what we're doing. So I thought I'd show you just highlights from two of my recent trips that were just awesome. One was in New Orleans at the Superdome. That was a beachbody convention that was about 20,000 people. And then another convention in Los Angeles at Anaheim. So I thought I'd give you a little bit behind the tour source so you can see what it's like to be in my life and to be practicing these high performance habits. Check it out. Super dope. Doing big presentations at two venues. Oh, good.

Sam, how you doing?

Good.

Me?

Okay.

Hi.

Don't assume what's going to happen because.

Your grand going to go crazy.

Exactly.

With his leg. It was like his leg was around me. I was like, oh, I loved him.

I was like.

And when we launch it, we're going.

To be launching it not just in English, but in Spanish and French.

Your own pain.

You're good at that.

No. Yeah.

Oh, that's working.

Yummy. Help.

It's not awkward. We're totally dressed. I met your wife, dude.

Yeah, see? See?

She's great.

Yes.

Beautiful, and she's smart and.

Yeah.

I don't know what she's doing with you, man.

I don't have a clue.

You got so lucky.

I genuinely don't know what she's doing, you know?

You're all right.

You're all right.

So I'm gonna do some.

Some fun stuff out there.

Get you.

Get them really revved up for you. I need to get them super revved up.

You got a big one here I should get you.

Yeah, you gotta get me.

That's. Oh. Oh, gosh.

Yep, that's warm.

That'll do you.

That's great.

God, that's really. That one right there, that's just painful. So pain, you know, that's painful.

It is, it is.

So, you know, when I was in San Diego, I'm gonna tell.

Tell the story. I think it's funny.

And we're backstage, and I had never been to one of your events, you know, doing a presentation like that. And he's looking at me. He's going, how you feeling?

How you doing?

I feel good.

I feel relaxed. And right before I go on stage, he comes up to me and he says. He says to me, don't screw it up. Oh, my gosh, man.

I think I could just go like this.

Boom. And then pick up.

No, what I was gonna do. You want to come in again?

You want to come in tight? So I'll show you. I'll show you. So you want to be here. So you kind of want to go down with some momentum.

Okay. All right.

And when you go down, you kick.

Up and then kick through. I just kind of don't want to know what's coming. Oh, I'm gonna be like, you know.

I don't know what I'm gonna say.

But it's something like, you know, I'm.

Just, you know, hanging out with Tony Horton. You never know what's gonna happen.

He might still.

He might just go, you know, donkey kick. Just kind of, like, sudden.

All right. Like.

All right, so walk into it. Can you show me how to walk?

Yeah.

So I walk into it. If I fall, it'll be better, right?

Yeah.

People love the drama.

Tony Horton. And then just before you know it. Oh, I did this, man, with the stuff on.

Yeah.

It's a little hard. Okay.

But when you.

When you.

You want us to keep tight, you don't want to go to that plank position or.

So here's one thing.

Yours in the plank pile.

Flip pile, flip. Oh, beautiful.

All right.

I'm glad you got this all worked out. I have no idea. But you know what, you know, if you're not taking risks, who knows?

Amen. I'm not known for my athleticism on stage, right?

No, but you know, this.

Oh, that was nice.

This here then.

Hey.

That'S beautiful.

Look at all this stuff you need before a speech. I mean, who would have thought it.

You know, you can't come in this part though.

No, we get here, there's no metric volume of air.

I have the pleasure of introducing Mr. Brendan Bouchard.

Yes, there you go.

Now, Brendan is a personal friend. He and I co created my course Living Large. And he's smart, he's thoughtful, he's funny, he's authentic, he's truthful. And he's one of the best at what he does in his business. And I kind of googled some of his credits, so I just kind of. For those of you who don't know who he is, I want to let you know this man's journey and how much he's accomplished. Brennan is one of the most watched and quoted and followed persons in personal development history. He is the author of not one but three New York Times best selling books including the motivation Manifesto. He is the top 100 most followed public figures on Facebook with over 10 million fans on all of his pages. His personal development videos have been seen by over a hundred million people.

Two.

Million students, myself being one of them, and maybe some of you as well have taken one of his online courses. And there are tens of thousands of people who have attended his live seminars all around the world. He's a P90X grad, loves Beachbody and what we do. And it is my honor and pleasure to introduce to you Mr. Brendan Burchard, everybody.

You can make it if you try. You can make it if you try, you can make it.

And what I'd like to share with you is the five personal musts for motivation and success. Jump right in. Because I think it's so important to get these points for those who have families, you love them. Just love it with everything you got, you know? Well, here I would have never got to meet people like this. I didn't.

Me, the kid from Butte, Montana.

They're so driven and they have high ambitions and not just for you, but for themselves and their family. For me, they both raise my game as much as I try to raise them. And I love hanging out with the back. You're hanging out with Tony Horton or Celine. You never Know what they're going to do? They're going to surprise you because they always got a big dream for you. They're going to challenge you.

Do something.

You're going to be hanging out with Tony Horton him as he walks along.

And be like boom. Clean off y'. All.

Second chance somehow.

Yeah. Look around the room. Look around the room.

Most of us have gotten there.

It was knocked me out.

Oh man. I couldn't do anything wrong. After you got nipped.

I felt hurt.

Great job, Sam.

This is cool.

Look at all the power back here.

To get this thing going.

And they got stickies on the way in and out.

I think sometimes right before an event, especially like right now, if I have slept, I've traveled in, there's lots of expectations. Just like I feel really grounded in gratitude. To get to walk out on stage and talk to 10,000 people twice in one day, you know, it's a blessing.

So.

There'S more people in this room.

Than who are the only town that I grew up in.

Is that true for any career? That's your small towners out there. Personal muster, motivation, success. If you write them down and you remember just visit them every couple of days, this could be that moment that.

You say that's what I needed to hear. The last month sales record. Some of you are living your dreams because maybe he left. Maybe the kids are proud. How many know exactly what I'm talking about. Raise your hands.

It's like here for you.

It's right here for you.

How many of you already have someone in your life who they think you are crazy for being here?

Yeah, Lulu. How many people think you're crazy? How many think you're crazy? Something to celebrate.

I felt life drain out. And I remember looking down, feeling like I was gonna pass out. And then I saw this glint. It was a reflection in the blood that was going off the hood of the car. It made me look up.

And there.

Was this bright, big beautiful moon that happened. This moon is so made me wonder why. The boon is emine the whole sky is there.

When I understood this, everything changed. If you never heard my full story before, it kind of started for me.

The reason I'm huge.

When I was a 19 year old.

Kid, I was in an accident and it reset sort of the direction of my life. I had gone to little bricks or rocks they put up to irrigate a nearby sugar cane field pop something. I wham. I hit myself. And I could look there and see my sister to it. Swing it and smile.

And what you see is all these.

Images in your life that are surrounded by people that you care for, that you love. And it makes you wonder who you're going to miss.

Sam.

Believe, even if you don't have.

A reason to believe, be intentional, jump.

Be courageous. Fight for your family. Do that every day because you can bless this opportunity. My friends go out there and.

Earn this. It's been an honor to be here.

I feel great.

And one GRATEFUL two My mind immediately goes in after speech and I go, what could I have done better? You know, what could I have given better? What story could have landed better? Where was my energy? This, this one, you know, the audience gave a standing ovation.

10,000 people gave me a standing ovation. You feel that it's real, but also.

In your mind if you know you're not at your best. And I'm not disappointed. Anyway, I'm super grateful. I'm just always, when I get off stage, I'm like, like, I want that match mastery process in my head going, okay, what else?

Next time.

All right, so that's been my last couple weeks on the road sharing the message about high performance habits. Please support the book. If you've been wondering how to reach that next level of success, you need some new practices. You know, we all think that, well, it's certain kinds of people who get ahead and that maybe they're just lucky. But what we found from the research is it's not about a specific type of person or personality or strengths profile that makes someone successful at all. It's not about a specific type of person. It's about a specific set of practices. And in the book, you can see, I don't know if you guys can see this, but there's these six habits. There's clarity, energy, necessity, productivity, influence, and courage. And those might sound like common sense, but it's not always common practice for people. And so if you really want to go to another level of life success, please look at your habits, do a full audit. Being like, how are you really spending your time? What are you really focusing on? What's really important to you? Because people want practices and they want to know, Brendan, what do I need to do specifically on a daily or weekly or monthly basis to succeed over the long term? And not just like financial success, which is important, or career success, which is important. But what's important about this book is it shows that you can succeed over the long term and be less stressed than your peers, happier than the average person, and that you can maintain your own well being, health and positive relationships. As you succeed. Because a lot of us are scared that we, we go to the next level, that it's going to make compromises on our family or our relationships or even our character. And it's just not that true. If there are ways to succeed over the long term that are replicable, you can do. And I say if you're going to start any new habits, start the habits in this book. Because out of 100 different performance variables that we measured in the world's largest high performance study with data from over 190 countries, these six habits mattered the most. Helping somebody succeed over the long term. So please check it out. If you want to go to the next level, you have to speak up more for what you really feel, what you really think, what you really need, what you desire, what your dreams are. Share them with the world. I never thought I'd be on private planes flying around the world. I'm this kid from a small town in Montana. I never thought I'd be on those big stages. I never thought I'd be working on my sixth book, my third New York Times bestseller. I hope I never imagined that for myself, but I also never limited my vision. Never limit your vision for tomorrow based on your current circumstances. I know you might be in struggle or challenge and really want to go.

To the next level.

And it's been a hard road. Believe in yourself. Believe in your ability to figure things out. All you have to do is get a new set of habits that help you stay more focused on what matters and do a better job in those areas. And there's productivity strategies, there's influence strategies, there's ways of developing clarity and generating your energy so that you can sustain success over the long haul. That's what the book is about. That's what this tour has been about, and I hope that you'll support it. So if you've watched any of my videos before or enjoyed any of my books, please support High Performance Habits. It's my most important book. And that's all I'm doing, is working 247 on planes, trains, automobiles, helicopters, trying to serve you and bring this message to the world. You don't have to be a specific type of person. You have to practice a specific set of practices. Practice these six practices and you will get ahead in life. Thank you for your time. And I thought I'd just show you.

This beautiful view to end this video.

It's up here a minute. What do you mean? Well, you're.

You're one of those guys. I said I'm Sorry, I don't know what you mean. He goes, you're one of those guys who has yet to learn to listen through the fear. Thanks for watching. Make sure you subscribe to my new podcast, the Brendon Show. It's available on itunes and Stitcher and wherever else you get your podcasts. And it's the exclusive place where I share my thoughts about life, about current events, about what I'm going through, about my advice for you as you seek to live an even more extraordinary life. It's called the Brendon show and it's available anywhere you get your podcast. So make sure you subscribe. And if you're ready to take your life to a whole new level, make sure you grab my book, High Performance Habits. How Extraordinary People Become that Way. It's available on Amazon right now and when you order your copy, you're really supporting my channel and the message. And you're also getting a book that will reveal to you 20 years of my research into what is it that.

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