Jason Wasser, LMFT 🎗️Founder, Shevet Collective · Therapy & Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Family Businesses 🖥 Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Founder Shevet Collective 🎧Host:You Winning Life Podcast 🎤

Drink more water with Joe Desena, Founder of Spartan #joedesena

18 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, Joe Desena, founder of Spartan, shares the core ideas from his inexpensive booklet "Ready for Anything," emphasizing a straightforward approach to health and discipline. He advocates drinking water to make up 90% of daily intake, claiming it boosts mental happiness and physical fitness. Desena stresses the importance of sweating before breakfast—"earning your breakfast"—drawing on Jack LaLanne’s philosophy that early physical effort prepares the body and mind for nourishment. He critiques modern conveniences like Uber Eats and instant dopamine triggers from smartphones, arguing that they disrupt natural reward cycles and undermine personal accountability. The overall message is that returning to simple, biologically aligned habits—hydration, early exercise, and delayed gratification—leads to better well‑being.

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Now that you've got that pressure, that accountability, it really is this simple, what I'm about to say. Life is this simple. I wrote a tiny little book, cost me 40 cents to print them. You can get them for free online. It's called Ready for Anything, okay? And in the book it explains what I'm about to say, which is just drink more water, less of everything else. 90% water every day. Just drink more water. You're going to be mentally happy, you're going to be more physically fit, You're gonna feel better. Sweat every morning before breakfast. Earn your breakfast. Came from Jack Lalanne. It's so true because for most of our existence on the planet, we had to earn our breakfast. We didn't have a fridge in the cave or Uber Eats back then. We had to do the work in order to eat. Sure. There's a whole host of other biological benefits to sweating before you eat. Like, we shouldn't get dopamine hits in our brain before we do the work. And now we can get dopamine hits in the brain before we do because we can just swipe up, we could order, we could turn the temperature up, and so we don't have to do any work to get this dopamine, to get this food, and that, for lack of a better word, that fucks with our heads.