The Be Relentless Podcast

Strength and Conditioning, Mental Toughness, and No BS Talk About Life and Being Relentless

Be Relentless Podcast Monday Quick Hit 21 – You’re Always In Mid-Life Crisis

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be relentless podcast monday quick hit 21 - you're always in mid-life crisisI was listening to a great podcast with Ed Mylett and Jasmine Star and they started talking about a mid-life crisis happening at 25.

That got me to thinking:

At any point when you’re about to make a change your life is divided into two parts:

The part that was before, and the path afterward. This means that, while it might not actually be the MIDDLE of your life (nobody knows that), you’re always at a mid-life point.

That means that any big change can be a Mid-Life Crisis, and that isn’t necessarily bad! It can give some fire and intensity to your change, and in this podcast I get into why I think that’s the most telling sign of an impending transformation.

Ed Mylett

Jasmine Star

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Be Relentless Podcast Monday Quick Hit 18 – Smooth the Roadblocks

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be relentless podcast monday quick hit 18 - smooth the roadblocksYou Don’t Need a New Map Or Car Until Your Road Is Cleared

So many people spend their whole life looking for the next plan. When things aren’t going well, it’s always the first thing you do is look for a new road. They rev up their engine and plow right down the road… until they hit a roadblock.

Then it all blows up.

Where do they go then? Looking for the next road.

The truth is, they probably already know the road will get them where they want to go. They’ve researched it. They have the map. They probably know the basic way.

They probably have the car that will get them there.

That means the answer isn’t to get a better road or a better car.

The first step is to clear out the roadblocks.

That’s what we do at Relentless – We smooth out the roadblocks first.

Once the path is clear, you can really get a strong sense of what you need to do as far as changing directions or upgrading your vehicle along the way, not the other way around.

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Be Relentless Podcast Monday Quick Hit 10 – Consistency Is King

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be relentless podcast monday quick hit 10 - consistency is kingWhenever someone is successful at something people love to talk crap about how they were lucky, got given a good hand, or happened to be in the right place at the right time.

That does happen.

It doesn’t happen very often, though.

The one attribute I see people who are successful when it comes to losing weight, getting stronger, gaining muscle, building a business, being successful parents is that they are consistent.

They do the small things every day that add up to big things down the road.

Success takes hard work, but it doesn’t take as hard a work if you’re consistently doing the right things.

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Be Relentless Podcast Monday Quick Hit 05 – What Is Your Daily Ritual?

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be relentless podcast monday quick hit 05 - what is your daily practiceOne of my hobbies is looking at what successful people do and breaking that down to its parts, looking for commonalities.

One of the traits that I see show up often among high achievers is that they have a “daily practice”, if you will, that revolves around making themselves better.

It may not be directly related to their chosen field (although sometimes it is), but there’s something they do every day or nearly every day that improves them.

Some meditate.  Some practice music.  Some go for a daily walk.  Some have elaborate rituals while others have a daily cup of coffee and read the same sections of the newspaper.

Regardless of what that practice is, choosing it with intention and implementing  your own version of it will help anchor you and your success.

My own version, which I’ll be releasing soon, nails down these components a little more, but really who am I to tell you how to implement your own daily practice?

Just find something that resonates with you and do it, every day.

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Be Relentless Podcast Monday Quick Hit 04 – Don’t Do What Ordinary People Do

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be relentless podcast quick hit 04 - don't do what ordinary people doOrdinary people are all around you.

There are a lot more of them then there is of you.  That’s because they’re ordinary.

They spend their day leading lives of quiet desperation or even worse, quiet acceptance.

If you listen to this podcast then you aren’t ordinary.  Chances are very good that you don’t want to be ordinary.

So why do you do what ordinary people do?

Why do you exercise like they do?

Why do you talk like they do?

Why do you eat like they do?

Why do you even STAND like they do?

The fastest way to be extraordinary is to see what ordinary people do and don’t do it.

That’s your Monday Quick Hit.

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Be Relentless Podcast Episode 20 – Lies We Tell Ourselves

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Whether you want to admit it or not, chances are very good that you lie to yourself every day.

be relentless podcast 20 - lies we tell ourselvesOr, rather, your brain lies to you.

It’s not because your brain has gone bad on you or hates you.  Actually, much the opposite.  Your brain loves you and wants you to be successful… by IT’S definitions. The unfortunate thing is that you and your brain might have VERY different definitions of success!

The way it does it is that it tells you lies.  In this podcast I’m going to go into why this happens.

We’ll talk about:

-Why the Map and the Territory are different, and what I mean by that.

-The four BIG lies I hear every day from clients that they’re telling themselves, even if they aren’t liars.

-How to overcome those lies and get past them.

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Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 01 – Master One Thing

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be relentless podcast quick hit monday - master one thingAnnouncement:  I’m going to start doing a new, weekly podcast on Mondays, in addition to our normal Thursday episodes.  These Monday episodes, called Quick Hits, will be shorter (think 5-10 minutes), to the point episodes where I won’t be focused on giving deep explanations but instead on actionable and/or thought-provoking.  Thursdays will be for the bigger, more detailed podcasts.

As for today’s episode… Master One Thing:

I used to teach my wrestlers to learn and master one takedown, one escape, and one pin.  That was going to be their bread and butter.  Everything else was just extra.

That didn’t make them easier to beat.

As a matter of fact, it made them much better wrestlers.

The same thing applies to life.  Learn a few simple things and MASTER them until they’re on point.  Then move on to more things.  Stop chasing your tail and hammer what IS working.

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Be Relentless Podcast Episode 13 – Past Teachings Today’s Lessons

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Be Relentless Podcast Episode 13 - Past Teachings Today's Lessons“The Past Is a School”
-Jim Rohn

As the above quote from the great success teacher, Jim Rohn, says:  You learn an awful lot by examining the lessons taught to you in the past.

Here’s four great lessons that I’ve picked up from my own “School of Life”.

We’ll talk about how a FAILED long-term relationship taught be some life-saving lessons.

Then we’ll go on to the difference between being two kinds of people, and are you being honest with yourself on which one you are?

After that we’ll get into worst kind of person to be around, how to recognize them, and how to deal with them.

Finally we’ll wrap up with a discussion about how one of those old, popular phrases that we throw around can SOMETIMES be the right advice…

but sometimes isn’t.

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