How To Feel Your Best In Any Decade Of Your Life
11 Jun 2021 · 9 min
Dean Graziosi urges listeners to prioritize health, energy, and vitality across their lives, stressing small sustainable habits (eat better, move more) over fad diets. He uses personal anecdotes (father at 84, decades of life: 30s–50s), prompts listeners to write down three benefits of improved energy and three inevitable results of inaction, and invites them to join his texting community.
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What if you just didn't have the energy and the vitality and the freaking power to just take the business that you're starting or whatever it is that you're doing? What if you just didn't have the energy to do it? And a year from now, you are exactly where you are right now. How does that feel? Welcome to the Dean Graziosi Show. All success starts right here. What are three things that would be a huge benefit to you? You like right now? We went through that process. So what are they? Like, you know, the whole thing. It's a year from now, you're looking back and it's been the best year of your life. With your energy, with your health, the way you feel, the way you look. What are three things that would just make you feel alive? Or three benefits, literally right now? Write it down right now and put it in here. But also put it in your. Hopefully you have a better life journal, but put it in your journal right now. Three benefits. It's a year from now, you have more energy than you've ever had. And that's. Listen, let me just tell you something. I remember people saying to me when I was in my 30s. Oh, you're in your 30s? 30s. Enjoy your 30s. Tell me if you've ever heard enjoy your 30s. Because, Dean, when you hit your 40s, just. Everything changes. You don't feel good, your knees hurt. 40s were amazing for me. My energy ramped up in my 40s, but then the big one was, yeah, 40s, brother. You got through the 40s, but you have no idea what the 50s are like. Everything goes fast. It changes. Like, dude, it's just not the same. It's like you eat one bit of sweets and boom, the stomach goes out. You forget cardio. 40. Like, all these stories. Don't listen to anyone. Don't even let your subconscious say, well, we are 40. Well, we are 50. Well, we are 70. My dad's 84. My dad was in my gym yesterday killing it in the gym. He's 84 years old because he's adapted. And his life. He's made a lot of mistakes. And I'll just be honest. I love him to death, but one thing he hasn't, maybe I got this from him, is his health and his energy is his number one priority. And staying youthful. And that guy, he is just my example. 84 years old. The guy can still run, jump, leap. I mean, if you met my dad, you would think he was 60, max. Legit 60. It's. It's crazy, right? But he's got brothers and sisters. It's not in his genes because he's got brothers and sisters with the same genes, same DNA, but they didn't take care of himself, didn't obsess on it. And you know, he's. There's 12 in his family and there's only two left out of 12. Right. And he's one of them. And. And one of his sisters who took care of herself is 97, I think. So it's just a great example. So I shared that because I want to know right now. I want to know right now for you, what are the three benefits of making this real? Right? Taking action with that, but then the part that most people miss, right? And you know, I love doing this too. Depending on if you're a move away or move towards person, if you're moving away from something, what are you ready for? This one. And I love this. Greater confidence, endurance, productivity. I love this. What says mindset, health, body, have loads of energy, confidence, mental clarity, happiness, positive energy, feel energized, Awesome. I love all of this. I love all of this. Better routines, better life, better choices, more time with family. Right? I mean, think about that. I don't want to leave my kids, especially now I'm. I'm having new kids. I want to be here. So I know what my three are. I know what my top 10 are. But then let's go to the other side. This is the part I want you to be real. I want you to put it in here. Like, don't mess around, Just say the freaking truth. What are three inevitable results? What are three inevitable results? A year from now or 20 years from now, if you don't take action to improve your health, vitality and your energy, let's just be honest. If you just ignore it, if you push it to another day, if you don't make these small shifts, if you don't find a way to focus on the outcome, to know who you're doing it for, why you're doing it, what it looks like in your life. Three things that can benefit you if you don't make these small shift in a year from now, what's the inevitable result? Or 20 years from now? Will the business never get started? Will you not have the energy to do it? We gain another five pounds. Will you stop taking the stairs and just be the elevator escalator person? Let's get more serious. Could it be diabetes? Could it be that you'll die early? Could it be that you get a disease because you're not taking care of your body. But we all get to draw a line in the sand on a certain day, because we can talk about this till we're blue in the face, but let's just get real today. Let's not sugarcoat it. Let's just not be rah rah, motivation, yell, jump up and down. Let's do this. Yeah, I love all that. I also love to just be real. Like, this is. We're like a family, right? Let's just get real. If you don't make shifts, what's inevitably going to happen? Let's just say it like it is, right? If we don't make shifts, what if it wasn't? What if you never got sick, never got diabetes? Let's not talk about dementia or death. What if you just didn't have the energy and the vitality and the freaking power to just take the business that you're starting or whatever it is that you're doing? What if you just didn't have the energy to do it? And a year from now, you are exactly where you are right now? How does that feel? Why not just decide today? Listen, let's just be honest. There's been fad diets, fad exercises, all the stuff. And I don't know which one's the best. I don't. I just choose a balance, right? And we'll talk more about that in a minute. But couldn't we agree that if you say you wanted to lose a little weight and have more energy, be a little healthier. Can we agree right now that if we ate smarter and worked out more, we would be healthier? I'm not trying to be a jerk. Can we agree with that? Do we all know that too much sugar is bad for us? Can we all agree that that's true? Right? Do we all. Can we all agree that more live green or multicolored vegetables, more of those is better for us? Right? I'm not trying to be a jerk. I'm just saying some things are simple. Do we know that if we had more cardiovascular movement in our body that it's good for us? Do we know that a little weight training to keep our bones and muscles, you know, keep our muscles strong and keep our bones in place is good for us. Again, I'm not trying to. But the problem is we get. We get sucked into counting our macros, counting our calories. And this new diet, like you're really going to count your macros, your calories every day and put it into an app. I'm just being honest. Let's. Let's just say it real. Come on. Is it really going to put you in shape, give you the energy? No. We got to find stuff that matches in our lives, that builds into a routine that's like, you already know how to eat healthy. If you don't go watch a video on YouTube, find something that you can do that's sustainable. Say no to the breads. The extra bread, the extra sugar, the extra soda, the dessert. Most of the time, you say no to that. Say yes to the things that fill your body. We know good carbs are, you know, sweet potatoes and oatmeal or whatever, right? You just. You kind of know it. So stop waiting for the magical. Like I always say, don't wait for the magical money machine. Don't wait for the magical diet. Just eat healthier and exercise and move more. Like, eat better, move more. We're all in better shape now. The shit that's not going to get you is not the tactical. It's the practical. It's the things that I just shared here. And we say, can we agree? Listen, can we just do. I didn't expect this to go here, but can we just freaking all agree? There's so many of you who are in amazing shape here. Right? I'm getting it. I. I don't want you to think I'm preaching to everybody and think you're all like, I know most of you take care of yourself, but there's another level, and there's older. There's more years coming our way, no matter What. The next 10 years is coming, no matter what. If you like today's podcast, then you're going to love being a part of my texting community. What's that mean? You could text me right now at 480-40090 19, or it should be below right here. And it comes directly to my phone. Doesn't go to my team. It comes to me. I. I've been absolutely loving the interaction. I send out some cool things about once a week. I text nothing but things to get your week going, to get your mind thinking. And when we have new videos and things like that, I always text my community first. It has absolutely been a blast. And I'd love for you to do it right now. Text me. 480-40-0090 19. Do it. Text me.
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