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Stressed about anything?

Feeling pretty, pretty good. Nerves obviously starting to creep up a bit. Just been sitting here and reflecting a bit as well. Like, actually, one of my clients that said this to me the other day, he asked me like, Lucas, what is your secret to being as mentally tough as you are and having as good of a mindset as you? I think both me and Ludvig can agree on this, but we're no different than anyone else. I wouldn't say that I'm even close to mentally strong. It's just repetitions. It's showing up for yourself, doing the work, and getting proof that you can achieve what you set out to achieve. That is the secret behind it. I struggle just as much as everyone else. Do I feel super, super confident going into this? No, absolutely not. There's so many things that can go wrong, so many things that are outside of my control that I simply just can't control. But one of the things that I do know that I can control going into this is my mentality and mindset and how I view this whole thing and trying to see everything from a positive perspective and just trying to be positive in general. There is no secret to it. Trust me, I struggle just as much as anyone else. I'm a human too. And it just comes down to repetitions, putting in the work. Like, there's plenty of days There's been days where, you know, I've been waking up, the last thing I want to do is jump on the bike or go out for a run or go down to swim. But I'm doing it anyways, because I know that if I want to achieve the things that I've set out to achieve, I have to put in the work, my actions have to reflect that. Otherwise, I'm never gonna achieve it. Super, super simple. I love this, this quote that says, there's 2 types of pain in life, we have the pain of discipline, and we have the pain of regret. And no matter what path we seem to go down, these forms of pain always seems to appear. I think everyone could relate I don't know if you've ever thought about this, but it's like if we wake up and we know we have this task that we should be doing, we should be going down to swim. That's the last thing we want to do. You know, that's going to come down to the pain of discipline, you know, doing the work even if you don't feel like it. But if you skip the swim, if you lay in bed, you pick up your phone, you don't do what you plan to do, it's going to suck as well. It's not going to be fun laying in bed there. It's not going to be nice. And what you will experience after that is going to be the pain of regret. It sucks regardless of what you do today, but tomorrow you will thank yourself for choosing the right option of them two. I think Ludvig would agree on this as well. Like, we're no different than any of you watching this. We're also humans. It's just putting in the work, staying true to your values, staying true to the things you've told yourself you're going to do, and repeat that time after time after time. That's what builds this confidence and the so-called strong mentality and strong mindset, because you know you have You have so much proof that tells you that if I put my mind to something, I will achieve it because you've done it so many times. It's hard in the beginning, it sucks, but there's no secret to it.

And that's the reason for growth as well overall. If you never push your boundaries or your edge, you don't have a clue where it is and how you're supposed to grow overall then. All heard, easy life, hard choices. Easy choices in the short term, probably not the good results in the long term. Exactly like consuming versus investing, making the easy choice in the short term That's probably gonna affect you great in the short term and you're gonna feel great in the moment. But on the other hand, you probably know that in the long term—

You will experience the pain of regret.

Exactly, probably. It's the same thing with Ironman too. We're not the fastest, we're not the best. We're probably quite average. Why be bad at one sport when you can be average or bad at 3 at the same time? But still, I think we're doing pretty good and we've learned so much from the Ironman prep. Not only sports-wise, but when it comes to, yeah, mental.

Like knowing yourself and pushing your mind to its limits. And the thing is, like, we're not doing this for anyone else. We're doing this for ourselves. So no matter what time we're gonna cross the finish line, no matter any of these, like, materialistic attachments that comes with this, it's just about kind of once again, as Ludde said there, like pushing our own boundaries and challenging ourselves. That is the main thing here.