16 Aug 2019 · 7 min
Gabby Reese talks about building a success infrastructure: know your weaknesses, make small habit changes like removing junk food, and surround yourself with people whose messaging supports your goals. She emphasizes daily reset and self-compassion when you slip.
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We have one of the greatest women's Beach volleyball players of all time, Gabby Reese here, and she's also a successful model, actress, writer and fitness expert.
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This is the thing is how do you create Infl structure around you to be successful. Know your weaknesses. If you don't want to eat it, don't buy it at the grocery store and have it in the house, right? Say, okay, that's a go out to get thing, right? So I always say on the nutrition side, take out your worst thing. So if you're a smoker, what I say to you, stop smoking? No, I'd say, could you smoke less? Just today, could you smoke less? Right? If you eat Twinkies, could you take that out of your diet? And just substitute, like, The three sodas, could you have one and drink water? Is it finding ways, baby steps, to kind of deal with the pillars. I gotta move consistently and eat and eat well to support my belief system because I can't get through here, get there through here and through here if I feel miserable. I just think it's very difficult. So I think that that's one thing. I think having the understanding that everything sort of has its process and so nothing happens easy. I have not had one thing in my career, in my relationships, parenting or otherwise, just happen easily. Now they happen and they're pretty good, they've never happened easily, right? So it's going into things, when you're integrating your belief system, know that it's gonna be a little bit of work. Doesn't mean you have to beat yourself up, that's the other side though. When it can be easy, allow it to be easy. And who you surround yourself with. Your belief system is still a reflection on the people around you. So I'll give you another example. Laird will have people around him if they're his same age or younger and they'll go, oh, well yeah, 'cause now I'm 48 and I don't do that. They gotta go. They're in the way. They gotta go. Because for Laird and his belief system and what he's trying to accomplish, he can't be around those kind of people. So if you are trying to create a situation where you feel good about yourself, you have to have people around you that their messaging is similar.
They're nagging you or talking about it.
Or like, why do you think you can do that? Or that's gonna be really hard. They could say, it's completely doable. What's your plan of action? It's gonna be tough, but you can do it. You cannot have people go like, why do you think you can do that? I mean, questioning you. Correct, they gotta go. So I think it's all of these things and seeing this, But then understanding that, you know, and I'm not particularly a religious person, but there's a verse in the Bible that says that God knows each hair on each of our heads, right? Is it understanding each of us is special and has a special voice and a special mission, but we have to just believe in that and understand what that is, but be honest with ourselves. Not, Hey, I'm gonna do X to make this dollar, or if you are, be honest about that. Right. Cool. Or, Hey, I'm gonna do X, so I can get this attention. Like it's just about understanding why you're doing things. And sometimes, like for example, I do photo shoots that I know why I'm doing it. It's to get attention. And certain jobs, it's to get money.
Right.
Right. But be clear and be honest, because if you're not, then you lose control and you don't really know why you're doing things and then you lose yourself. You got to be straight up. So I think it's that too, but creating a really good environment And when you feel scared and you doubt, know that that's part of being a human. And having a safe place. -No, have a safe place. It's like people who are trying to eat better and they blow it one day. Get over it. It's okay. Tomorrow's another day. That's the great thing. You know, it's like we don't need to wait to New Year's to start over. -New Year. -Every day is New Year. -You can start over.
-Yeah, I love that approach.
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