In this unedited vlog, Maxime Warnault reviews the three most important lessons he learned in 2024 across the domains of health, wealth, and relationships, and outlines concrete actions for 2025. Health: family cancer experiences prompted him to eliminate risk factors (excess alcohol, smoking, chronic stress) and adopt a rigorous daily routine of exercise, sauna, cold plunges, weight training, and a return to running to improve VO2 max and preserve muscle mass. Wealth: after years coaching at a $100 M business‑coaching firm, he concluded that true wealth cannot be achieved working for others; he will focus on his own software business, leveraging his engineering background and coaching expertise to create systems that help other businesses scale, prioritizing peace, profit, and purpose. Relationships: inspired by a Jim Carrey quote about impact as currency, he emphasizes deep, purposeful connections—regular contact with family, building a solid circle of friends in Barcelona, and seeking a committed romantic partnership—while continuing to serve clients who express gratitude for his work. He also announces a commitment to weekly YouTube videos, with future content shifting toward business topics.
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This video I'm gonna share the three biggest lessons I've learned in 2024 and what am I going to do about it in 2025? I review my goals every week, every month, every quarter, every year. I have my 10 year vision and this year at the end of the year I reviewed my goal and I generally break down my goal into three different life categories. The first one is health, second one is wealth and the third one is relationships. I'm gonna go in order because they are pretty important lessons and health. Unfortunately I had a few family members either having cancer currently or passing from. This year has been a little bit tough in terms of diseases in my family and I'm doing everything I can already to make sure that doesn't happen to me. But when that happens to someone in your family, there is not much you can do about it. And, but I reflected on their lifestyle and what they've been up to and all of these things and they are like I would say three major factors and common denominator that made in my opinion the cancer to propagate. Number one is alcohol consumed. Two of my uncle drank a lot of alcohol, both of them smoked cigarettes which is the second cause in my opinion. And the third one is not a substance but it's related to stress. We all face a lot of stress in life and this year one of my goal is really to reduce the amount of stress that I'm facing and really focus on having peace and not always chase the next thing and the next thing and the next thing and be able to be present in the moment rather than chasing and stressing myself out because I know it's not good for me and that's also one of the reason of that cause cancer. So that's the health lesson and doing everything that I do right now I am in the best shape of my life and I'm exercising every single day. I go to sauna every day. I do cold plunge multiple times a week. I lift weight and this year I'm going to start running again to be more like a hybrid athlete. Okay. So I want to improve my VO2 max and keep going to the gym and increase my muscle mass because as you grow you actually lose muscle mass. So the more muscle mass you have as you grow, you're going to eventually lose it. But the more you are, the, the lower it is for you to lose the weight. So that's for the health lesson. Wealth lesson is very simple. It's. It's something that I reflected on and comparing this year to the last few years and I haven't made any progress in terms of my income, but I learned a lot. I've had a lot of skills the last three years. But the lesson is you're never going to get rich working for someone else. So the last three and a four years I've been working for these business coaching company in the US they, they are like a $100 million business coaching company and I've learned a shit ton of skill at this point. I've coached like thousands of clients. So I've helped thousands of people start and scale their businesses. So I have a lot of skills, a lot of knowledge and I want to use that knowledge to, for me, for my business to be able to make more money. Because right now I'm relying on this income. I have a few other clients on the side, but that basically covers the business expenses and I want to be able to make profit. So the. I heard something recently. It's a quote that says if it doesn't bring you peace, profit and purpose, don't give it, don't give it your time, energy and something else. I feel research to code before but basically peace is the first one, profit is the second one. So being able to make more money from my business and really do what I do the best and what I love. So I have this software that I have created and I have a background as a computer engineer and this is really what I shine where I shine. I love to create system that makes other people's life or businesses easier. And I want to focus on my zone of genius which is creating system that help businesses scale. So that's what I'm going to do this year. I'm going to prioritize my business above everything else to make more money, help more people and ultimately have the time, financial and the location freedom that I want want. Okay, so that's lesson number two. Lesson number one was about l don't wait until it's too late before you focus on your health. Lesson number two is you're never going to get rich working for someone else. And lesson number three, which is about relationship. And it's a quote that I heard from Jim Carrey at the end of this year that I never heard before. Somehow and the quote says the impact you have on other or the effect you have on other others is the most valuable currency there is. And I can tell you from experience, I've traveled the world for the last six years and like travel is great, the like making money online is great, but there is nothing that Compares in terms of feeling, of satisfaction, of feeling on purpose than a client telling me, max, thank you so much for helping me. Thank you so much for creating this system that helped me do X, Y and Z. I get so much satisfaction out of this that I want to just keep going and stay on purpose. Okay, so that goes for clients in the business, but that also goes for my, my personal relationship. I want to keep calling my parents every single week. I want to be more in touch with my siblings because right now I only see them and talk to them when I go back to France, which I want to increase. And for my friend, I moved to Barcelona right now. So I'm slowly but surely building my circle of friends. And it's super easy to meet people if you guys watch this video. I love you guys and I can't wait to deepen our relationship and meet new people, network and really surround myself with people who are on the same journey of peace, profit and purpose. Being able to make a full time income doing what you love, helping other people and being fulfilled like following your passion. And in terms of love, relationship, I want to focus more on one person than just seeing different people. And so I'm going to work on this. That's why I moved Barcelona as well and trying to help as many people as I can have a solid, not a lot of friends, but like solid group of friends and one girl with which I can share my life and do pretty much everything together. Share everything together. That's the update for 2024. What I've been learning in 2024 and what I'm going to do about it in 2025. This is raw. I'm not going to edit this video. I'm just going to post this right now because I committed on posting one YouTube video every single week. And I just came back today to Barcelona. I had no idea what to record. So that's the first video. It's going to go up. I'm going to post it. Let me know in the comments if you guys like it. The next videos are probably going to be more about business. I have three pedals that are. I might share that actually. So if you want to stay on for the journey, hit the like button. Subscribe, you know the drill on YouTube and let me know what you think of this video and I will see you guys in the next one.
