[Music] YouTube, good morning! It is, oh, y'all can barely see that, but 5:07 it up, obviously, since 4:45, um, three slots down on my checklist: made the bed, 32 ounces of water, showed up my journal for the morning.

Next, I go outside and do my little push-ups video for Instagram.

Then I take a cold shower and then boom, I instantly get started on my checklist. Today's my active recovery day so sadly I'm not training, but I thought today would be a perfect day to vlog my morning routine all the way through, you know, me working during the day.

Um, there was something in there about me going to do cardio, but I just wanted to take you guys with me along on my morning routine and um, just talk about really what I go through and how I feel on a daily basis.

So I just woke up feeling like [ __ ], to be honest.

Um, you know, sometimes if I don't get to bed at a decent hour, the morning wake-ups start to take a little toll on me.

Like, not overly mentally anymore; like, it's not, it's still hard sometimes but I just get out of bed because this is like the best hack you could ever use.

Instead of just sleeping with your alarm like within arm's reach, put your alarm or put your phone across the room because, number one, you don't need to be sleeping with your phone beside you [ __ ] anyways, because it's awful for you.

And number two, then when your alarm goes off, you physically have to get out of bed and walk across the room to turn it off.

So that's what I've been doing for like over a year and that's been like the biggest help I'm looking for like the low rascal, bro.

Um, so yeah, as soon as I wake up, I walk across the room, my alarm goes off and I'm fine, but I feel like I'm so congested and my throat feels a little sore this morning.

I take a good amount of supplements, so I don't usually feel bad at all.

Um, so it's probably just something that's passing because it is getting super cold outside.

It's like I'm in Georgia and it's in the low 30s, so that sucks. It's pretty crazy, but um, you know, it just makes it harder and I like that because the more struggle that I go through, the greater it will make my story.

But yeah, let's jump outside and do the push-ups and then come back in here. I'm going to talk to you guys a little bit about taking imperfect action when you're getting started, and I'm going to show you actually what it takes.

I've got some proof, you know, when you look out the window and you can just tell, you can just tell that it's cold outside.

That's how it is right now, but this is the spot where I do my push-ups every single morning.

Literally right here. If you all want to know something hilarious, humans are creatures of habit. So, um, my sister leaves a bunch of stuff right there, not the golf clubs obviously, but just leaves a bunch of stuff right there.

I can always count on this one water bottle just sitting right here.

So every morning I come out here, I stick the water bottle right there, I prop my phone up on it, and then I do my push-ups, so I'm about to do the same thing that I've done for the past few months and post a video on my Instagram, but I cannot wait until January 1st when I'm in my apartment.

You know I love my family, but man, I can't wait to get out on my own and have my own energy, and not be distracted by the negative mindset that circulates in this place.

That's good. 50 push-ups done. Like every morning, I'm feeling like pretty soon I'm going to have to maybe up it to 75 because the 50 is getting a little easy since I've done it for so long.

But yeah, I just try to hold a nice squeeze as much as possible before any of you guys comment about anything for hypertrophy from push-ups.

That is it. I'm not doing it for any type of muscle-building gain or anything like that. It is just that the more things that I do that I don't want to do in the morning, and the more that I stick to my systems and my habits that bring my mindset back to positive.

Because I wake up so negative, man. I just wake up having the worst thoughts, the most negative thoughts. But every single time, without fail, I get that wake-up done.

That's one win under my belt. I knock off my morning routine, and by the time I'm done, I feel I'm right back on that positive vibration, that positive frequency again.

Without fail, so that's my system that I always revert back to. By the time I'm starting on my task list for the day, I'm just buzzing.

I'm right back to that high-frequency state, so I head back into the room and jump into the cold shower. Some of you guys know I've been bodybuilding for like half a decade, almost over five years.

I've been doing it true; I've always worked on myself, um, but you know, I had a pretty dark past and went through um some really bad stages with a life-threatening injury that I had.

Um, if you don't know about that, I'll have a video coming up very soon where I go into detail on everything that happened.

But um, you know, just the depth of your struggle determines the height of your success, and um, you know, I wouldn't have it any other way about some of the things I've been through.

But I would say I've been on true, consistent, and um disciplined personal development for maybe coming up on over a year and a half.

But when I started this journey and I set a goal with entrepreneurship, when I decided I was going to truly take my physique to the next level, and when I decided I wanted to get to the point mentally where I could inspire and serve others, I didn't know what the path was going to look like.

I didn't fully grasp the things I would have to go through, um, but what I'm so thankful that I did understand is that you have to just start.

A lot of people get caught up in analysis paralysis because they don't understand that you have to take imperfect action to get where you're going.

I want to show you guys something as an example.

So I've got a few; there's like three journals right here, got another one right here. When I first started, let me find the journal from Where I first started, I had no idea what I was doing.

This is the very first page I ever wrote right here, and I was sick. I was sick and tired of not living up to my fullest potential.

But looking back, God was I stupid! How much I've learned since I started this journey has been astronomical.

But if I would have sat there and been like, I don't know exactly what to do, I don't know exactly where to start, I never would have started.

I just started, and I improved and made tweaks along the way. This journal is absolutely full. Look at this; it is absolutely full all the way!

Boom, boom! Every single solitary day. This was my first journal. I did not miss; I did not miss. This journal is completely full, and then like this is, you know, decently thick.

And then you have this journal, and this is ideas, morning routines, things I'm learning, things I'm writing down.

This journal—oh, that was a blank page—but completely full, completely full! Like, all the way; you can see I never miss, never miss.

And I go back, and I can read, you know, about my first business that I was starting, talking about different things that I would do with it, and writing down ideas—just about money, about mentality, anything like learning the language of money, because it's a financial language.

Talking about sex transmutation, and I was a lot younger.

Like, these are things that most kids my age were not thinking about, and I had no idea what I was doing.

I was writing down goals for myself, but like I said, this kept going on right here. This is full of habits; this is full of morning routines and habits, and this is one that I used.

This was back in February, but this one is all the way full every single solitary day, all the way full.

I'm making adjustments, I'm improving this one right here, and these are just the ones that I have out.

I've got so many more journals than this, but these are sketches. This is one of the projects that I was trying to work on that also failed, about making business planners and daily planners.

Like you can see these, you can see the effort, you can see the change.

But to be honest, dude, I'm drawing out entire calendars like this is drawn with pencil.

Um, Thomas Edison quote: 'I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways to not do something.' I was learning, I was giving the most effort that I could, and I was still in high school.

And this is my current journal. You know, we've got today and all the days prior to today.

This is just absolutely so deep and so full. But what I'm trying to tell you guys is what I'm trying to tell you guys is, in a year I'm going to look back on my journal now and be like, I didn't know but I did it anyways, and I learned and I gave my 100% best effort.

You have to give all the effort into something, even if you have no idea the magic that comes. And I'm trying to whisper so I can be respectful of my family.

When I get in my apartment, I'm going to be yelling. I'm going to be yelling but you cannot deny the magic that comes from knowing that you are so naive in a subject but putting your all into learning about it.

Every day, anyway, is wild. You will boost your self-confidence; you will boost the belief that you have in yourself that you can do anything.

The harder the battles that you conquer, the more steep hills that you climb, the more you work that muscle of 'I can do this, I'm going to figure it out,' the better you will get, the more ambition you will gain, the more you will add to that fat stack of wins that you are building, and eventually you will gain so much momentum that you will feel unstoppable.

When you have momentum, do not take it for granted; do not let up when it gets easy. That's when you need to go hard.

When it gets easy, that's when you need to go hard, because if you take the momentum for granted, the pendulum swings.

When you're in a season of life where you're going up, like everything's working for you, you're making progress, the pendulum will continue to swing until it reaches a peak, and then it'll go back the other direction, as high, if not higher, than the peak of the good.

You will go through a peak of low, but you have to understand that that also means the pendulum is going to swing back and go through another peak that's even higher than that low.

Life is cyclical; life is cyclical, the market is cyclical.

Your happiness—no, your joy. I measure joy, not happiness. Happiness is fake. How much joy do I feel in this moment? How much fulfillment do I feel in this moment?

That's what you need to start measuring, because as a man, your emotions don't Matter, all that matters is what you are going to accomplish, what you have accomplished, and the vision that you have—the goal that you have towards it.

Molding and crafting the highest version of man that you can be and gifting that man to the world, serving as many people as you can.

So when you truly decide that you are ready and you're going to start this journey, nothing is going to hold you back, and you are ready to become the highest version of yourself.

Start! Take shots, take shots in the dark. Just take them, even if you think you're not going to hit anywhere near the bullseye. Take a shot because the only way you can adjust to where you can get on point with the target is by taking the first shot.

You have to take the first shot. You have to—minute and a half, 2 minutes—that's all you really need. Um, just the dopamine spike over baseline, it's amazing. And it still sucks; I've been doing this for 2 years.

I have not missed, and literally sometimes I still sit there and I just stare at the water, and I know it's cold and I'm like, '[ __ ],' but it's worth it every single time.

Just working that muscle of something that you so badly don't want to do, just because it takes that like 30 seconds of discomfort. Because it's not that bad after you get in it, you feel so good after it.

It just trains your mind that discomfort, doing things you don't want to do, leads to positive outcomes, high frequency, high vibration, and it just completely changes that mindset.

This morning, I woke up negative. My girlfriend is...

pissing me off like there are things today that I don't want to do. I woke up to some texts related to my business, things that I don't want to deal with, and I'm like man, I feel like it's cold outside.

And then I'm like I got to take a cold shower, I got to go do push-ups, I got to start this Vlog.

I literally thought in my head, nah, I'll just like, no one even wants to watch my morning routine.

I thought that not even 30 minutes ago. I was like I can just, I'll just Vlog tomorrow, and I said no because I've built those habits.

I've built those systems in my head that know when I try to make excuses and push it out to the next day, it's like a flashing red light, red alert, no film right now.

I didn't even know what I was going to talk about, but I got out the camera and I started talking, and it's like you guys give me a you guys give me a feeling, feeling of like I'm not doing this alone because I did this for a year and a half to two years alone.

Like even when I wasn't consistent, it was just me by myself, and you know now that I can inspire others, even if I inspire one person, man, it makes it all worth it.

It makes my struggle worth it. My morning routine is completely finished, that means boom, today's the 29th.

Started my Vlog, cardio, knbs baby, man it's chilly! [Applause] Oh, let's see, oh wonderful podcast by the way, Jordan Peterson with Chris Williams.

Usually, I only listen to um like the business podcast, but um you know I love philosophy and, um, you know, anything that has to do with bettering your mind as well.

So sometimes I'll listen, like if it's Jordan Peterson, Andrew Huberman, and those are just some basic names.

But, um, you know, I usually listen to those no matter how long they are.

Let's close the garage, and then this is the most beautiful time of the day. I wish you guys could see when I get a better camera.

This is going to look way cooler, but the stars, you can kind of see them. They're kind of out a little bit.

It's freezing cold, but it's silent out here, man. These are the magic hours. I'm telling you, the magic hours.

So, headed to the gym. Damn, it's cold, and I'm going to do some cardio. I'm not forcing you, Carl, talk to you, 'cause mine does um, I'm not going to film, uh, like my whole entire cardio, but you know, I definitely, I might, I'm thinking about doing the seated bike.

Um, damn, all my tires need air. See, it's always something. It's always something. If you don't have your vibration in check, and then you're taking all these problems as if they're taken away from you instead of as if they're building you up, you're always going to—everything's going to affect you.

All the little things are going to drag you down. But when you start thinking about all the hurdles that come at you and all the little problems as, oh, you know, that's just something that's just going to—it's just going to make it harder for me, which is going to make me better.

Damn, you can see my, um, and obviously my tire pressure being low is not something that is like Oh gosh, that sucks, but there are things that happen all day long where I'm like, [ __ ] I don't want to deal with this.

Right now, this sucks, but you just keep that mindset. I'm telling you, it becomes magical. Um, I'll see you guys at the gym.

[Applause] [Music] Just finished up 20 minutes, finished my cardio and abs, so now it's time to get to work.

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