9. Tri-Fit Games - The Stress and Success

Far out. Man, what a journey that was. What a trip. That was a tri fit games 2019. Nothing says can you handle the heat, can you handle the pressure? More than being involved and really organizing and running. And I had so much help. I'm so grateful for the judges, the volunteers, all of that. But having an 11 hour period where you had to perform constantly with over 50, 50 people on the floor every single 20 minutes for 11 hours straight, with over 1500 people take part in the day with 600 athletes, probably one of the biggest, if not the biggest competition in the world when it comes to competitors and athletes involved. G' day boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, My name is Big Red, but of course you already know that. And welcome to the Real Dad Movement podcast. Wow, what a far out. I think I'm still recovering. That was something else, I'll tell you that much. I've run some pretty big comps before in the past and I wouldn't say. I used to say I'm naturally an introvert. I don't believe that to be true. I believe we can be anything that we want to be and we're naturally inclined or lean towards certain elements or areas of our life that are strengths and weaknesses and we see it that way. But I love having my own time, me time, being alone and just reflecting, kicking back, playing, playing some music, doing my own thing, chilling out, love, nature sort of stuff, but also love being at the forefront of performance service and adding value in some way, shape or form to people's lives. And what better way to try and challenge myself and to showcase that in running the tri Fit Games 2019, I'll take you on a little journey through the processes. What happened, what's involved for that to come to fruition and actually be real and happen happened with massive success, mind you. And also what's going on in my head and al can you handle it all? What sort of stuff are you made out of? What have you got? Have you got what it takes to really pull this off? Here we go, the Tri Fit Games. Now look, I've done personality tests before. There's one called a disc profile. I think that's pretty extensive. That's one of the best ones that I've seen around to date and it goes into quite a fair bit of detail. And my end results became very high level, influencer, high D and high I. High influencer or highest influencer and highest. Can't remember whether it's dominator or determined. I think there's both. I think it's a Collective of both actually what the D stands for and the other two actually can't even remember. I think one is conscientiousness and the other one, I can't remember the size. Nonetheless, it actually turned out that when you do those two, it sort of tags you in a line. And mine is the promoter. I am the promoter. And I found that really funny because first I was a bit offended because that whole snake oil salesman, old school type mentality of the old promoters. Ladies and gentlemen, gather, gather around here. We got this, this and that, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, well, I don't know, like promoters there. Somebody just pushes something fake for their own agenda or. And obviously it came to light that that's something that can mean whatever you want it to mean. And I am naturally a great promoter because A, I only ever promote something that I truly wholeheartedly believe in and B, those things that I truly wholeheartedly believe in add value to people's lives in the health and wellness space or not. They absolutely add value to people in wanting to be their greatest version and be the best they can be. So when I ran them through that test and did it, it was a really funny one because I thought, jeez, is that really true? Surely you could jig the system or do this. It was pretty comprehensive with the results in going into all the details of what entails with this personality trait. And you can be many, many things. Everyone's a chameleon in their own right. Obviously have a different, I wouldn't say version of Al, but approach in part of who I am, a part of who I am. When I engage with my grandparents or my nan, she's the only one left now on mum's side as opposed to my parents, as opposed to my friends, as opposed to members. And it's not that you put up masks or different things, things. We have a whole range, a whole series of different facets, so to speak, that collectively make up who you are. You're not just one person. You have all different forms and feelings of emotion and who you are and that is how it is. And I think one of the best skills and traits you can have, and all of this is always from a lot of love and genuineness, mind you. It's not through manipulation, it's just being who you are to collectively connect with the other person in who you are and the part of who you are that's inside of who they are. And that's what, that's what life is. Coaching is coaching's connection. Everything's connection and a transaction or a transfer of energy. Now when I looked at all of that it's like, well, I look back, I've got some pretty good runs on the board in getting people together. I've run some successful comps and I just had a good feeling about tri fit this year. I thought, you know what, I reckon this is going to be massive. We've got the runs on the board, we've run it well in the past. This is going to be a big comp. And we had over 130 teams register within 48 hours. And I was down in Melbourne at the time, checking my phone going, oh no, we've got all this. What I need to do, there's all different categories. I need to tick this off and tick that off and maybe stop that many entrance of the intermediate females because they just filled right up and blah blah blah and ended up getting home and putting a video out and going all right, we've had to stop it for now. I'm going to try and open up some spots. And then I rejigged and worked some different things out and the heats, the exercises, the movements, the flow, all those sorts of things and ended up opening up to 198 spots or 200 spots, whatever it was, it could be multiplied into the three heats and they gave us collectively 600 athletes because it was three to a team and far out. And when we opened that up it filled up right away again. We probably had about another 30 teams that missed out unfortunately. And people have said you can move it to the entertainment center or different areas and this, that and the other. The logistics of it become a nightmare at that stage. And I think we were capacity for that day in having an 11 hour event like non stop every 20 minutes, every 20 minutes you're rolling out another heat, another heat, another heat. And it was funny because I felt like I lost my Voice at about 10, I think it's 10, 10am and I was like, oh man, what am I going to do here? How am I going to get on top of this now and be able to sustain the rest of the day with my voice already gone. But just to not backpedal but take a step back and look at organizing that, guys, just share some insight. It's pretty phenomenal. The hundreds and it is hundreds of hours that go into organizing this. The amount of moving parts, the categories, how the categories feel, following all each other, the flow of the events, the exercises where they can be either cheated or not flow, equipment, equipment breakdowns, all These sorts of risks, the amount of people, the amount of people on the floor, safety risks, all these different things. There's so many things that go into this it's crazy. People don't truly understand what goes in it, nor do they need to. But it, it just really is phenomenal in looking at all the moving parts that collectively make up organizing it all. Now I didn't do that alone, but in terms of the brains behind it all and what's needed to cover every single. Like we're looking at the fat bars that we use, loading them with fives and then tens for the intermediate males because three heats down the track, three of those bars are female beginners. So they've only got 5 kilos on the bars. So you're going to be in position so you can strip the tens back so you're not taking them on it off because those bars get sticky with the plates and the tape to bulk them up. So it's going to take extra time, which means we're running over all these things in three different events or three different workouts in three different stations. So you've got 18 teams, 54 people on the floor plus 18 judges. So you've got 72 people on the floor every 20 minutes, recalibrating, checking, changing and then obviously I'm emceeing, trying to run it all. We've got our helpers, not just the judges, but the people who are running the score sheets make score sheets are right. Oh man, so much can go wrong. It's crazy and I don't get it that often, but I've had it a couple of times and I'm happily open and transparent and honest with everything. It's really crazy when I do get, it seems every year now, I guess, and even this year being the bc, someone sort of either messaging me and I've had that people messaging me asking where the money goes, which to me is like I don't go in your house and go what do you earn for your money and where do your bills go and what do you spend your money on? Firstly, which was just baffling. But secondly, people looking at it and going this is just a big money spin for al. People have no idea what goes into this. Firstly, and secondly, when you're thinking small minded like that, you truly don't understand what is possible with the time when you have a certain skill set or an element of value that you can add. And right now, today, this day, right now, the value that I have and the skill sets that I have to have impact in the world and create a source of income or monetary return or award. Let's just do the maths here. All I would need would be roughly 10 to 15 clients. Whether it was RDM, personal like mindset and perception coach clients or Gym members, roughly 10 to 15 would be all I would need. And to have those stay for one year, which I've got a very high retention rate in the value in what I do with my members and how I work with them, that's all I would name 10 to 15 people to basically assimilate into a system that's already running, it's already smooth. There's no risks, liabilities, responsibilities, no moving parts, no monstrous events, reputation on the line risks. All these different things, extra insurances I had to take for the competition, all these things that are not a headache as well as an entire weekend. And other people, like I said, helped me. It was phenomenal, the help I got. But for myself, doing all of that as well would equal having 10 to 15 people come on board. It's not, it's not that hard. You crunch the numbers and crunch the numbers and work out quite quickly. It's quite fitting off into that stage, that alert, crunch the numbers and work that out. Al had 200 teams time, $240 per team, crunch, all that sort of stuff. People have no idea what goes into those sorts of things. A, the expenses, taxes, all different things that come into play. And then B, what it's actually holding me back from is actually a two pronged approach. Because what happens every time when I run a compet is it wears hard on the members. And I really feel for them and love that they give me their support and we support each other as a family and a community. Because they get a lesser version of Al because he's looking after all these different things in the later to the event. And B, I am restricted and don't have the ability to expand my stretch my reach. And what I'm doing is a lot of you listening to this stuff now obviously see and understand where I'm going with this. And the rapid growth, which really is a collective of over a decade, people one day will look and when everything explodes, go, Al just got it. Or he's lucky as an overnight success. No, mate, you have no idea what I've gone through in the last 20 years, as I have no idea. Unless you've opened up with Shea, collectively what you've been through. We all have our lists, but collectively what that held me back from was a huge amount of growth in different areas of my life. So this is something that I truly and absolutely do for the people. This is for the community. This is for everyone to be part of something special. An experience that you will not get anywhere else. An experience you may never get again, depending on if we run another one, if we do it, if you can compete at that stage, if you get in, you don't miss out, or if you're not injured, all these different things. And it's something that I love doing. My heart and soul goes into that. If you're there at the time, you'll see that. When we are switching gears from that and seeing that this is something I truly do for the people and sharing that stuff with you guys, I'm completely open and fine with sharing all that. And this definitely isn't about slagging on those people. Obviously, I didn't name their names and there's only ever a select few and they obviously always ridicule or criticize what they feel, what they don't understand. But it really is something when you break down the nuts and bolts of it all. It's something that I'm doing for you and for the community and it's phenomenal and it's worth it. And far out. What a day it was. It was massive. I think my voice is still recovering and I've taken it very easy the week after. It's what we're up to now, five days in to really make sure that I'm looking after myself and make sure I recover so I don't burn out. Years gone by when I've run comps. I've been very, very fit. So I've maintained that high level of fitness and exercise and just really burnt out by flogging myself. But that was a massive day. It was unbelievable. The whole day collectively having. I wish we did videos of the outside. Apparently I went up both ends of the street. It was just crazy. People everywhere, tents everywhere. And it was raining. It was quite poor weather, so I couldn't imagine if the sun was out and shining. But I guess we'll have to wait and see for next year. If I feel that I'll run one. And the opportunity presents itself to run without being a detriment, like I said to other areas of my life that are having high level of importance through both Roar Commando and rdm. But it was a phenomenal experience and being there, out on the floor. The gyms, I think nearly 700 square meters, so we could probably fit. We take away some of the, like the Walls and the offices and all that sort of stuff. We're probably looking at anywhere from 500 to 650 people inside the gym there at any given time, including the athletes on the floor, of course. And what an experience. It was electric. The atmosphere was crazy. I've got some videos I'll be cutting up and putting out as well as we have a heap load of. I think we've got over a thousand photos for the day that it was truly a phenomenal experience. The energy there was crazy. It was electric. And I just felt like I never felt the nerves or butterflies or any of those sorts of things. Together with all of it and the experience, I just knew I was like, man, I made for this. This is me, this is my jam, this is my bread and butter. I'm going to get out there and I'm going to kill it. I'm going to give these people the best day they've ever had. And I lost my voice in three hours. All right, plan two. Where's plan B? What do we do now? It's somehow recovered. I don't know how. One of the members, Natty, gave me some peppermint drops. They really helped, actually. Should have some now. It was incredible. Just the energy, everyone getting there. And what I loved about it this year was there were people from all walks of life. We had beginners, intermediate, advanced, male and female, and some of the beginner teams. It was awesome just to see the ladies and the guys get stuck into it. And there was still tough movements. They still use the fat bar and the ski ergs and the rowers and the bikes and had to use the sled and weighted and boxed step ups and all those sorts of moving parts that make it a pretty tough competition. They got in there and they got stuck in. It was really impressive to see. I loved it. It was awesome. And that's what this is about. Having that reciprocal energy of engaging and putting yourself in that environment that A challenges you, but B returns and gives you that return on your investment of energy and rewarding you with energy for that, for that moment, with that purpose. And the biggest. One of the biggest hollows for me was seeing the dads get in there. The RDM dads. We had a crew, the RDM All Stars. The fellows did amazingly, did amazingly well. Didn't podium first comp for them, but that's not what it was about. And I know it's good to have that natural competitive nature or competitive edge to want to be better and other people in your close proximity or your Environment are going to push you for that. And that's what for me, true, genuine competition is whether I ever used to beat Prezzo or some of the guys that I trained quite closely with, or Chris Manoradi was our guest last time. Whether I beat them or not, after the fact, it's all done. It's like the footy matches, you see, they rip and tear and afterwards the fellas shake hands and they leave it out there in the field knowing full well that they couldn't have been their best version or stretched or reached for a greater, a greater level of performance within themselves if they didn't have that, that opposable, that equal or opposing force against them, denying them that easy or quick access that's so important. Guys, I feel like there's some real philosophical or foundational viewpoints you can take from this stuff when it comes from a lot of competition, which is why I love CrossFit. And nothing, nothing in this world, in any lot or any industry, is either purely genuine or purely non genuine. You know, it's a case by case basis. There's good and bad in every area. But having that platform there, which I set from the top and that standard with everyone else out there in the rules, the foundations we had in place for the judges, how they were to be treated, the athletes, getting the standards, getting clear on everything and how we worked. The day ran beautifully and it was awesome. It was a great opportunity for me to stretch. I can do many things well organizing this competition, running rdm, which the fellows are doing amazing, and running Roar Commando, as well as being a father to Lillian, who's. She's only, I think eight weeks old now, nearly two months. And all these different moving parts. Being a husband as well and trying to look after myself and create space for myself so I can stay strong, all these different areas, man, it's put me under the pump. Farah, I'll tell you what, this isn't a podcast about whinging or complaining. It's not about that. It's just sharing a part and a piece of who I am. I'm not invincible. I'm not unbreakable by any means. I can certainly bring myself unstuck. I do stand by a post I put ages ago saying I am unshakable. That absolutely unshakable in my long term pursuit of greatness and who I am. But at periodic moments of my life, there are periods where I am not invincible. I'm not unbreakable. I need to make sure that I'm looking after myself and Pull back a little bit and be smart in my approach and what's important for me now. I feel that I've executed all of those elements of my life quite well. But I've never completely dominated or owned any one or two of them. And that is the hard part. When you really spread yourself out and divide, divide your forces, so to speak. It really does play a role in your own growth, your own belief and what you can do to stretch. And that's another thing. There's a lot of lessons that I drew out of this guys, and I love sharing the experience of tri fit, being out on the floor. I didn't dress up of course, this year. Last year I was the paddle pop line because, man, that was something else. I remember my mum's hair used to look like that actually sometimes in the early morning. Sorry mum, I love you, you know that. Yes, it was quite, quite funny last year, the dress ups. But I love sharing insights into different experiences of my life but the meaning behind it, the purpose that I can draw from that to be greater. And it really made me realize the value and the importance of not settling on being balanced across the board in how you spread your energy. And a lot of people do that and I'm a big fan of balance. I'll do a video on that soon about balance and what it means. Quick drinks break. My throat's tearing me in half. Balance is something that is open to your viewpoint, your opinion, your perception of what you believe balance to be in your life. It's really racked my brain a lot over the years when I've looked at some of the elite athletes or coaches talking about balance is bad, you don't want balance in your life, blah, blah. And the problem is people haven't communicated clearly. It's like those old classic cliches on certain sayings or motivational quotes, all these things. It's like, why? Just because I'm going to listen to that or what's the meaning? What's the purpose behind it? Now balance is something on which you equal or opposing weight to be upright, correct in position, to be spread across in a correct nature. You look up the definitions, it's something very similar to those lines. I looked it up yesterday, actually did a video for my dad's with it. But what does that mean being upright or having the correct balance or proportion? What does that mean to you? You may be a female athlete that wants to go to the CrossFit Games for the next 10 years and not have kids. People will look at them from their own value system and say they're not balanced, well, that's on you, not them. And their level of balance is on them, not you. And when you have that realization, I think you really understand that balance can be whatever you want it to be. Like my work output, both collectively from being more effective and more efficient, is higher than it's ever been, with more stresses and more mouths to feed and more people who depend on me, my immediate family and those around me than ever. How why people look at that from the outside. I've had people contact Corinne going, are you okay, Corinne? Are you alone? Is Alex doing any of you right here, right now? I was at home. We took Stella to swim. I did everything with my family this morning, apart from a real early gym session up until I think 10:30 or 11:00'. Clock. And then I'm here right now doing this podcast around midday, whenever you guys hear it. Midday, June 6th, 6th or 6th, 2019. But my day today is going to be from 11 till, I don't know, maybe around 4, 4:30pm, like 5 and a half hours of work. Now, I'm being extremely effective and efficient in my work there. My output is higher than ever, but I'm being smart in how I manage that. People look at that and go, look at all these post sales doing or what he's doing. He's not balanced, man. He's going to fall apart. He's this, he's that. I don't know. I'm not suggesting that people are saying that, but I don't really care actually either. And that's the beauty of you living life on your terms. Both when critics are trying to pull you down or people are trying to raise you up, take them both with a grain of salt and say thank you and keep moving forward to your own standards and your own value system. That's where balance really strikes true in you creating whatever definition you want of balance. You know, some people might work 40 hours a week, which entitles them to have alcohol and eat shit food over the weekend, and that's balance. I've worked hard, now I'm relaxing. That's their form of relaxing. That's their form of working hard. Cool. Awesome. Whatever you want to do, whatever works for you in your life. The key thing to understand now, I'm getting to a point with this as well, guys, is when you look at spreading your forces thin or trying to work on your weaknesses, you will lose. I'll tell you that right now. You will absolutely lose because you can't focus on Too many things at once and focus on things or gifts in this world that aren't yours to give. You're not supposed to adopt that line. You shouldn't have to be that person or feel like you need to do that. Now admittedly, being competent at certain elements is important. I used to hate whatever you would call sales. Sales or calling people, talking to people, or trying to promote or push something onto them that I firmly believe in. I used to hate that I'm phenomenal at it. Like I do it really well. I don't call it sales because I don't invite anyone into my gym or into my, my dad's group. It's a consultation and I find out whether they're the right fit and if I can no longer add value to their life in any way, shape or form and that isn't seen or apparent, well, then they're no longer valuable to me. Awesome. It's a win win in our own ways of parting ways. So when I look at this, I'm like, okay, I'm not the greatest at picking my clothes up off the floor. I'll put my hand up and admit that and maybe I never will be. And it's not about comparing myself to Einstein or these brilliant minds who are so quirky and crazy in their own ways. They're house was a mess or this or that fell apart, but they were just phenomenal at this. It's not about that. It's about helping you understand that a level of competency in certain areas of your life, whether it's business, family, relationships, personal. Yeah, cool. Experience those come across all of those with the mindset and the perspective of this is something that I can taste or dip my foot in or get a feel for what it is and get a base level of competency or ability to perform and execute that. But don't ever do it at the prolonged or continual deprivation or deterioration of your strengths. You've got to focus on your strengths. And I'm pretty sure it's clear to all of you guys from my life and where I am, it can be whatever you want. But eventually, if you keep asking the right questions of yourself, the right questions that are knocking on enough doors, life will find you, your gifts will find you. And it's pretty clear that my gift is going to be a high level and it currently is now will continue to grow to be a high level influencer in helping people move forward. Motivation, yeah, but you know, moving forward and seeing the greatness in their life, like truly believing that they can have A new set of eyes in which they can choose to see the world from which they can take actionable change, to step up in their life instead of being retracted, withdrawn, staying in their lane and just living the way it is just because it is what it is. I'm downplayed, my posture's bad. I'm just accepting it. I. I'm being passively vulnerable instead of being actively vulnerable in liberating and taking ownership over my circumstances and living life on my terms. It's all possible. We can do all of it. I communicate that really well. I've got a great level of charisma, presence. My belief and love for humanity is endless and is paramount to my success, which is why it continues to grow. And I realize that more and more. And I know there's shit going on in the world. I know there's some bad stuff going on. I'm aware of some pretty deep, dark stuff that, you know, whether people want to call them conspiracies or not is irrespective of the fact that I make sure that even though I can be aware of that, I don't live there. I don't live there. I'm not saying everyone in this world is a saint. That's always from a viewpoint of perspective. So looking at yourselves, guys, in your lives and just taking a chance, diving into things where you can taste stuff as an example, where you can try stuff and see where you're at. And I feel that this is something that's a great benefit of value to anyone who's under 35, because generally your risks, liabilities, or the pressures are lower than people as we get older, as we age and get older, more mouths to feed, established or set careers, things become a little bit harder. We slow down a little bit. I'm not saying as you get old, you should fall apart. I've got a dad who's 70, Steve Cotton. He's phenomenal shape. The guy's unbelievable, super fit, and he runs a very, very successful painting business. And even his son, Dan Cotton. Unbelievable men, and very, very fit as they get older. I'm saying you need to adopt the normal, be common or average in your pursuit of living your best life as we get older. But it does get harder as you get older. We all realize and understand that, myself included. Now, it's really hard to express your best version of being you are if you're not asking yourself the right questions and you're not diving into trying a few things and really feeling. It's an intrinsic nature, an intuition that you have inside of you of the gift that you have to give the world. We've all got different gifts. And bringing that point back around to Trifit games, to collectively bring together probably the last 10 minutes of me speaking without mentioning Trifit games, it is absolutely what that has been for me. It's been a phenomenal lesson. It has been something I've looked at and gone, man, you've done it, Al. You've achieved this the whole time. No word of a lie. And this isn't ego or arrogance, and I know you guys feel that, but it's good to reinforce and really share that with you. Because if I'm aware of that, then I can make sure that I'm constantly humbled with a level of humility that I don't ever engage in something, that I'm greater, that I'm greater than X, Y, Z. I'm just trying to be greater than myself, who that person was yesterday. And that's what we should all do. But no word of a lie. The whole time when I was running Tri Fit, I was like, apart from, obviously, the stresses, every five to 10 minutes, in case we lost a dumbbell, which we did, but we found one. And a barbell breaking. I mean, the reality is, because of the way that hinged, they all hinged on each other. All it would take was one skier or one bike to break, and the entire day would have been screwed. I don't think people realize the level of risk involved when it's too late. That stage is too late. So I think I'll make sure that I probably cover those ends a bit better. But the whole time apart from that, when I was doing it, I was like, this is amazing. This is so easy. I'm so much stronger now. I'm so much stronger than last year in my performance, my delivery, emceeing, supporting people, supporting each other, helping raise up the standard of my own ability in this competition. What's next? And I was literally visualizing. There's a great video by Les Brown called It's Not Over Until I Win. And he dives into a story where he beats his son at connect 4, 10, 12, 15 times. And I'm tired. John. Leslie, I'm going to bed. No, dad, we're not going to bed. No, I'm tired of this game board. It's not over until I win. And the son started ranting and raving. He's all right. Let's win. And then he played a few more times, and the son ended up winning. Whether he Let him or not, who knows? But then he goes, all right, dad, I've had enough. I'm ready for bed. It's a phenomenal video because he's in a stadium of over 80,000 people just delivering some awesome, awesome value in people looking to get after their lives and being the best they can be. That's all I was thinking about the whole time. I was like, this is awesome. And I wasn't saying that I've outgrown or better than anyone else who would have trouble getting that position. It's just my journey. It's who I am. I looked at it, I was like, this is unreal. Five to 600 people, maybe 700, who knows? Inside the gym, over 1500 people through on the day. Who knows the exact number? Might have been 1200, doesn't matter. Huge amount of people, huge amount of pressure, impact, energy all around. And I want more. Give me more. This is my element. This is my jam. This is what Al does best. And it's something from which I truly feel that I will continue with this path. And whether I do a collective of RDMRC and then I start doing some keynote speaking or something, or trying to speak at different events or create my own events where I'm really trying to help people and just deliver a message that's got a level of comprehension so that anyone can look at it and go, yes, I can do that. It's not about screaming down your throat going, pump up this, pump up that, and just motivating you for two minutes or two days, and you disappear and fall apart again. It's about putting things in place that help you ask that question. Ask yourself the question, why? Why am I doing this? Why am I doing that? What is important to this and such is about your why. It's about who. Who do I want? Start with that first. Who do I want to be in this lifetime? Who does Alex Ranieri want to be in this lifetime as he is right now, and then in future, present moments? Why is that important? What does that look like and how do I get there? And the power of visualization is real because everything happens twice in this world. First, in the internal inside of yourself. Second, on the external outside of yourself. Another quick drinks break. My throat is falling apart. Thank you for your patience. What a day. Far out. It's phenomenal when you find that and you can align with that. Don't sell yourself short. And there's no definitive answer. I don't know where this will go. Maybe I won't do that stuff. Maybe I'll continue and do everything I can to reach massive amounts of engagement involvement in rdm. You just don't know. I didn't grow up saying I was going to own a gym. I didn't grow up saying I was going to talk it. I want to talk at stadium, stadiums to 50 to 100,000 people, helping them liberate themselves of the constraints and the traps they feel in their own life, turning them from a victim into a victim. These are all things that came to fruition over a period of years on a deeper internal yearning and love for humanity and helping the common man, helping fellow man and woman, obviously saying be better within themselves and see that, see they can be better. Because sometimes it takes someone else to believe in you first for you to then believe in yourself. And it's so true. I live that every day with people, every day, because I'll always believe in you. I will always have a high level and a high level of belief in you than you may have of yourself. Because of the scope and the range in which I can see the world and people, I don't see you as you currently are. I see you as who you can be and so much more. And what a powerful thing when you, when you have someone like that in your life, someone influenced you that way, someone be a part of your life in that respect. That's powerful stuff. And I'm not saying I'm the man and you have to have me in your life. I'm saying this is something where it truly is a gift and an opportunity that we both have together. You're listening to this now and me sharing this with you, because I can't just go off talking to myself in the woods and create the change that I want. And it's not that I rely on external validation or metrics of people's results, successes in their life, to validate my own life. Your victories are yours. If I get one person from this podcast episode go out there and kick ass tomorrow, that's a win for them. Good on them. I may never even know about it, which reinforces my point about not having to rely on that. But what a beautiful synergistic relationship that we have. Like, it's. It is the, that reciprocal energy, the swings and roundabouts that we have here. And that is what I've found and that is what I continue to harness. And there are other areas that I may be competent at, but not excel or great at in my Life. I'm not Mr. Invincible, who can just dominate every single area. I learned Very, very quickly. I'm very sharp, I'm very witty. I'm not bad at jokes. My dad jokes. My dad's got thousands. I think I need to take a leap out of his book for that one. Maybe do a. He should do. Actually do an apprenticeship of dad's jokes. That's an amazing opportunity. I think dad would probably kill that. But there's certainly areas of my life that I will never be extremely effective or excel at. But that's okay, because by focusing on the few, the few key points in my life that I can just own and dominate and be that gift to the world just like you have and just like someone else down the street has and someone else in that suburb, we've all got our own gifts to offer the world. When you start to focus on finding that and realizing that instead of just all the fluff in the outside noise and drilling on, opportunities will create themselves. The ability to be better within yourself and stretch and grow at a rapid rate, but also with the patience of the macro goal at hand over a period of 10, 20, 30 years. It's amazing. It's phenomenal. It truly is an opportunity that we have. It doesn't mean you have to own a gym or talk or be a motivational speaker. It's within your own right. It is crazy how the universe works. These opportunities will absolutely present themselves. And that's what I love here, here and now and what I'm doing. I look at the growth I've had and it's like I've had a huge amount of growth in the last eight months. It's been crazy at a much higher accelerated rate. Even though right now there isn't a high effectiveness of monetary reward or fame or. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's not about that. If that's the forefront of your focus and you will lose, and I know that stuff will come anyway because of the value and impact I'll add to the world. But seeing the last eight months, that accelerated growth, man, it scares me in a good way. It scares me where I'm going to be in five years again, not tooting my own horn, just that hunger. Once you flick that switch, you can't stop. You can't go back. You continue to be hungry, to find, to navigate, find and pursue in pursuit of your greatness and what you align with. And there's plenty of dead ends. You come back a little bit and then go find another path. That is your path. It's like a whole network in which you're ingraining or in rooting the system of the massive tree that you'll become. But you've got many different routes and lines in which you're discovering that for yourself and drawing your strength from in who you can be. And when this is happening, I always look back and reflect and go, well, you know what, Al? This has been happening for 20 years, mate. When you were that obese fat boy, this is when it started. This isn't something that the last eight months, last two months, last six weeks is just giving you this massive growth. It's a collective your entire life. When you have that ability to tap into that and see that guys, then some amazing things will certainly enter your life and including the opportunities from which you can choose, which is absolutely what life is choice. And that's what I love about the Trifit Games. What I did in helping running that competition and I appreciate all the feedback I got for that and I love putting this on for the people and it was an amazing experience. It truly was. It's awesome. I'd love to run it again next year. I just don't. You know, I know where I'll be as well in that stage and what's happening. I might have other people help me, who knows. But it was an amazing thing that I would absolutely love to do again if the opportunity provides. Anyway, guys, this will wrap up our episode of the Trifik Games. The greatness within and really stretching and striving and pushing towards your strengths. Having that awareness, that acuity to go. Yes, I'm going to focus on this for a while and just get that tunnel vision. Get after that. That's important. Please do not listen to. I'm not calling it. It's not a conspiracy. The mainstream or the masses or don't listen to something that's been predisposed or conditioned or put onto you either. Now, last week, 20 years ago, just because. Don't listen to it or do it just because. Question yourself. Challenge yourself. Balance. What does balance mean to you and your life? Greatness in your life? Does it mean being even across the board like a stereo mixer with all these different sort of controls and levers? Or maybe it's just three points of your life you absolutely dominate. Knowing those other seven or eight or 15, it's okay. I'm not going to be that great at it, but I'll be confident. But it's not going to affect me in my life where I'm just running around in the mouse wheel and feel like I'm going nowhere. Fast and trying to blend and balance all different skill sets that I have. Hope you enjoy this, guys. Really appreciate your time. And yes, the drinks breaks are real. If you're watching this on YouTube again, my throat's falling apart. I appreciate your time as always, guys. Thank you. And please, if you ever need anything, please let me know. I'm always here for you. Any way, shape or form you need, anything. You don't need to be a dad. You don't need to be an athlete or a member of my gym, or a member of a CrossFit gym. If there's something in your life where you feel you need that little nudge, that little push, something or someone to help you just see something a bit differently, throw a new set of eyes in there, in there for a second. Or change the lens in which we can see certain hardships. They may have been around for a while. I'm your man. I can help you. We can help each other in helping you move forward. Because your success is my success. And I'll always be relentless in my pursuit for humanity to be better in and within themselves, in and for each other. Thank you, everyone. Take care and have an awesome, lovely afternoon. Evening, day, morning. Now, if I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Or as Chris Mataridi says, and that's the way that cookie crumbles. Take care, guys. See you soon.