Mind Over Matter: How to Break Through Mental Blocks and Thrive! With Jay Reace

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Living Podcast. I got my friend Jay here with

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me. He's a public speaker, a motivator. He works

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to help others become the best versions of themselves.

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And he's very passionate in everything. And so

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I'm going to let him. speak. Welcome on the show,

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Jamie. Well, thank you, Jimmy, for having me.

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And yeah, like you said, I am a motivational

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speaker. I write books. I publish some of them.

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I do my best to make sure that everyone is living

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their best life. And I try my best to help them

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do that, whatever their vision is for their best

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selves. That's just what I try to do. I'm a person

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that believes everybody has the right. to love

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themselves and be the best versions of themselves.

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And I don't think that's exactly what we get

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taught in school and in life. So that's just

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me. I totally agree with you on that one. And

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man, I was looking forward to, I was definitely

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looking forward to this episode today because

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this whole week has been nothing but a, let's

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just say a sparring rollercoaster downhill. Oh,

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I'm sorry to hear that, my friend, because I

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love getting to talk to you. You were on my show

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not too long ago, and me and you had talked before

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that. And you are just an inspirational person

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that I love to talk to. And to hear that you

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had a bad week, which I know everybody has trying

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times, but what happened in your week that made

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it so bad? Well, let's just say just a bunch

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of tools just kind of just didn't want to work

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for me anymore. I don't know. Have you ever heard

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of this tool called Crowdfire? It's a social

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media managing tool. And they work with, let's

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just say, some of their APIs are not working

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from third -party companies. I'm not going to

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say them who they are. Pinterest. What did I

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say that out loud? I'm sorry. You coughed. You

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coughed. That's all it was. Yeah. It's coughing

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and sneeze. So, yeah. So, anyway, they were just,

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every time when I go open up my, like, to post

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something in my account, in my all -in -one managing

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tool, I get a message that says, reconnect your

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Pinterest account. I just said it again. Whoops.

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And the company said that there's nothing that

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they can do to help me out with this because

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they only have so much access to Pinterest because

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of their API restrictions. And I was like...

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Well, it was working for a period. I mean, like,

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it's one thing if it worked, like, okay, every

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60 days I have to reconnect. But it's not even,

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like, 24 hours that go by, and I try reconnecting

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every single time. And then for, like, a short

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while, and then to reconnect it again, it's like,

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oh, it's not even, like, 24 hours. It's like,

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nope, got to reconnect again. And it's like,

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this is stupid. Yeah. Yeah, that definitely sounds

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not cool. I wonder if there's a different service

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that you can use. I know for me, I believe you're

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more tech savvy than I am, but you know that

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I use a company called StreamYard to stream a

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lot of my show and other things to different

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social media platforms. But Instagram is one

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of those platforms that they don't allow third

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parties to infiltrate their system. to let you

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like do live through it for some strange reason,

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which is weird because they're owned by Facebook

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and you can do that to Facebook, but you can't

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do it to Instagram, which I still don't understand.

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But anyway, I sent an email to StreamYard saying,

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hey, how can I get to this? How can I stream

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to Instagram? And they were just like, hey, you

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can't. And we're working on it. We're working

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with them to see if we finally can. But as of

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right now, you cannot. So now I have to figure

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out another way to do that. And I think a lot

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of times there's always going to be these challenges

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that present themselves and as stressful and

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as challenging as they can be. My philosophy

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is I change what I can change and what I can't

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change. I try my best to move on and hopefully

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God gives me the knowledge to know the difference.

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Or should I say the wisdom? I definitely agree

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with you on there. I've even been told from my

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therapist that you should just lower your expectations

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on things. Because for me, I kind of have these

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high expectations. And somewhere in my brain,

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I think, well, all these companies have all this

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much money and everything. You would think that

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they would just, oh, you know, we should have

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high expectations as well. But some of them do

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not. I'm not going to name any names. Even though

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I already just probably named a few. Not anything

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about Crowdfire, but the other one. One of them

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is Peak. Well, I agree with you because I think

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there's a lot of companies and even people who

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don't have high expectations. So when you're

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trying to start a business, have a business or

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run your business and you run into people who

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don't have the same expectations that you have,

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it causes conflict, which can be frustrating

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because like you. Yeah. If people aren't moving

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at a. What's the word I want to use? If they're

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not moving at a high level or they're not trying

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to be the best version of themselves willingly,

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that usually bothers me. And that's something

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that I had to learn to deal with a long time

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ago that I can't control how everybody else acts.

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I can only control how I act. And I just realized

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that, you know what? I'm going to try my best

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to be an example. And I'm not going to say I

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lowered my expectations of people. But I try

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my best not to expect so much, maybe. Maybe.

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Man, I definitely got to try some of that because,

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yeah, I think just. This whole week has just

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been weighing on me because I didn't expect I

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had to change some of them. I didn't change from

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Crowdfire or anything, but I changed my calendar

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tool, like I told you before we got on, because

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they did a bait and switch, in my opinion. I

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don't have any proof, but I definitely know that

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the Zoom integration was working. And everything

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correctly. Yeah. And people's emails and everything.

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And then one of my guests on Wednesday, I was

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interviewing. He told me, he's like, I didn't

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get the Zoom link. Really, company? I was like,

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I thought a scheduling tool was supposed to help

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me. Right. Interaction. And I got all this scheduling

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myself. And like, what's going on here? Exactly.

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Which I knew, I wish I knew one that I could

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suggest to you because a lot of the scheduling

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apps that I use are for posting. They're not

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really for connecting and sending emails and

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stuff like that. I know because Hootsuite is

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one that I use and I like. I'm trying to think.

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I have, what is it? Chip, monkey, monkey chip.

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MailChimp. Yeah, MailChimp. There you go. Thank

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you. I have that one, but that's for mail. Well,

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actually, yeah, maybe you could use MailChimp

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to do that. I don't know if you can integrate

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it with something else. Well, I went back to

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Calendly again because I like the tool. I was

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just trying to find one that integrates with

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my two services that I offer for speaking and

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my podcast. I finally found a way I could tweak

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this tool to combine them. So I asked a question

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at the bottom. I was like, which service are

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you requesting for? Speaking or podcasting? I

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guess podcasting. So it helps me differentiate

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who's who so I don't go crazy. I mean, fully

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crazy. I agree with you there. I'm not crazy

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myself. So how do you help people live a better

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version of themselves? Well, not to sound selfish,

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but at first it starts with me. So I try my best

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to be an example of the best version of myself

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that I can do right now. And for other people

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to help them. I help them break down mental barriers.

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So we'll have a conversation and say if someone

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wants to be a famous gamer, right? And they tell

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me, oh, I want to be a famous gamer. I play video

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like, okay, so have you posted something? Forget

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Well, no, not yet. Okay, why haven't you posted

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something? Well, I don't know if people will

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like it, yada, yada, yada, all those excuses.

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I pretty much help. Break down all the excuses

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and get to the core root of everything, which

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usually tends to be mostly fear. That's usually

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the number one thing that stops a lot of people

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from being the best versions of themselves, whether

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it's the fear of what people are going to say,

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the fear of not being able to sustain themselves

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or just the fear of the unknown. But I just try

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to break it down to the core essence of what

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people want and try to help them achieve that

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goal by giving them tangible steps. So let's

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say if somebody wants to have a. I don't know.

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A hundred thousand dollar yearly income. Right.

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OK, cool. So what do you have to do to get to

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get to that? Let's break it down. Let's just

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say by month. So you probably have to have what

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I'm horrible at math. I usually have a piece

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of paper beside me. You have to have like what,

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$10 ,000 monthly income, right? Okay, sure. So

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how much, what do you have to do to have $10

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,000? So we start breaking it down. Like, do

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you have to sell books? Do you have to do some

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kind of money mark, multi -level marketing thing?

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Like, what do you have to do? And we break down

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those things. I clearly. I know I said like $100

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,000 and a lot of people are like, well, who

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can make that? Unless you're famous. Well, no,

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everybody can have that if that's what you want.

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You just got to figure out how to get it. And

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I help people figure out how to do that with

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their best selves. And it could even be just

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to lose weight. It could be to make sure that

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they stay more disciplined. Everybody's vision

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of their best selves vary. Some people want nice

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cars. Some people just want to be healthy. Some

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people want to live to their. In their 70s, you

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know, everybody's definition is different. So

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I just help them realize those definitions. So

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I have a question for you. This is a question

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for you. Would you be willing to do an example

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of you just between you and me during this podcast

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interview just to give my listeners a just kind

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of a, I don't know, a trial run? Oh, absolutely.

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You want me to test you out? Yeah. Okay. Okay,

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no problem. So, hey, Jimmy, welcome. I know,

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right? So, Jimmy, thank you for calling me today.

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I appreciate you spending this time with me.

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So, what is one thing that you want to work on?

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I would like to... I've been working on this

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project and I can't really specify what the project

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is, but it's kind of a, to kind of abbreviate

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it, it's basically kind of like, it's kind of

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like a marathon, but not, and it's not a sprint.

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And I'm trying to remind myself of that. We are

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And basically I'm trying to finish this. I've

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been trying to work on this project steadily,

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but I can never find the time to literally figure

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out the best time because when I try to write

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for it at night, it is... not work very well

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because then I get caught up in my emails and

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later on before I even go to bed. And I might

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see some kind of annoying email that's like,

00:16:39.710 --> 00:16:42.990
great, I'm going to bed angry now. Cool. No,

00:16:43.090 --> 00:16:46.870
I get that. So I had to tell you, I do my best

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to never check my email at night because like

00:16:48.850 --> 00:16:50.809
you said, it always irritates me. And like, I

00:16:50.809 --> 00:16:52.549
usually check my email in the middle of the day.

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That's just for me because it helps me either

00:16:56.710 --> 00:16:59.590
cool down or get ramped up depending on how the

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day is going. If I'm understanding correctly,

00:17:02.899 --> 00:17:04.960
like you have a secret project, which I love

00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:06.680
secret projects. Like it makes me feel like I'm

00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:08.220
working for the government or a spy or something.

00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:10.740
So it's very cool. So you're doing have a double

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life. So you have this project and you're saying

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that it's more of a marathon type project and

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not a sprint. Right. Yeah. OK, so. one of the

00:17:25.130 --> 00:17:27.029
issues that you find that you're having is that

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you haven't been able to figure out the time

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to work on it and actually progress. Is that

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correct? Does that sound right? Okay. So I tend

00:17:35.309 --> 00:17:39.069
to wonder if you had to pick the best time of

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day to work on this project, what time of day

00:17:42.890 --> 00:17:48.170
would that be? I probably would have to say maybe

00:17:48.170 --> 00:17:54.680
around three or four o 'clock ish. Okay, that's

00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:56.599
cool. That's a very good time. A lot of people

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tend to be like very work efficient at that time

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of day. So around three or four o 'clock, what

00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:10.000
are you normally doing that time of day? Well,

00:18:10.019 --> 00:18:16.779
around four o 'clock -ish, I'm either, well,

00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:20.460
it kind of depends. Like sometimes during the...

00:18:21.579 --> 00:18:28.380
middle of the week, I'm either asking my parents

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what we're doing for dinner because I still live

00:18:31.180 --> 00:18:36.000
with my parents because my college is a commuting

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school and they don't have dorms. And since it's

00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:48.079
the pandemic, it's amazing. And so what I'm trying

00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:53.839
to And then sometimes when I go downstairs, I

00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:58.759
get sucked up in... My dad has a TV on, and then

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I kind of get wrapped up in stupid TV. Yeah.

00:19:02.819 --> 00:19:05.720
And I don't try to watch TV during that week

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because I just have... I have so many different

00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:12.420
things happening at night. I might, I have something

00:19:12.420 --> 00:19:17.319
at night on Monday. I have a book club on Tuesday.

00:19:17.779 --> 00:19:21.359
Yeah. Karate three days, different times of the

00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:27.740
week. And so, yeah. So four o 'clock and like

00:19:27.740 --> 00:19:31.220
three o 'clock, I'm usually either, I might be

00:19:31.220 --> 00:19:33.700
interviewing someone or I might be on an interview,

00:19:33.859 --> 00:19:36.680
but like four o 'clock, sometimes I'm either.

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Sometimes on the interview or whatnot, but not

00:19:43.529 --> 00:19:49.089
always. But sometimes when I go downstairs, I

00:19:49.089 --> 00:19:53.190
get sucked up in stupid television. No, I get

00:19:53.190 --> 00:19:55.349
that completely because there's plenty of times

00:19:55.349 --> 00:19:59.059
where... I could be doing something and my phone

00:19:59.059 --> 00:20:01.220
will ding because I forgot to cut the ringer

00:20:01.220 --> 00:20:05.079
off or notifications and it'll suck me into whatever

00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:07.720
it is. And I got to remember to disconnect or

00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:11.220
leave from that situation that I found myself

00:20:11.220 --> 00:20:15.119
in looking at the phone now. But I want to ask,

00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.579
what happens if you don't finish this project?

00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:28.400
I wouldn't say anything would happen, but I would

00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:32.799
say more along the lines is that it would help

00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:40.819
me get more exposure of who I am. Okay. And I'm

00:20:40.819 --> 00:20:43.180
not trying to give away too much detail, but

00:20:43.180 --> 00:20:47.660
it would help me expand my reach across. It has

00:20:47.660 --> 00:20:50.079
nothing to do with social media, but it would

00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:56.200
help me get my name out there. And yeah, you

00:20:56.200 --> 00:21:01.380
might be on the news. Well, I understand you

00:21:01.380 --> 00:21:04.039
completely. And I wouldn't want you to give away,

00:21:04.099 --> 00:21:05.880
not give away anything that you're not ready

00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:09.420
to give away. So let me ask, it sounds like this

00:21:09.420 --> 00:21:15.240
project is important. So let me also ask, is

00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:17.660
the project more important than what's on TV

00:21:17.660 --> 00:21:21.539
or is TV more important than the project? The

00:21:21.539 --> 00:21:25.579
project is more important than TV. But sometimes

00:21:25.579 --> 00:21:28.400
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00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:11.099
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00:23:11.099 --> 00:23:15.000
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00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.279
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00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:19.880
the ways that I've found that I've been able

00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:23.640
to do it is a reward system. So if I were in

00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:27.279
your shoes and say when I came up my room to

00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:30.799
ask about dinner or for whatever reason that

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I had an interview or whatever the case may be.

00:23:34.380 --> 00:23:37.920
When I'm able to just to break away and to come

00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:41.980
back to my work and I do, I don't know, 15, 20

00:23:41.980 --> 00:23:44.640
minutes or so, whatever you think is a good time,

00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:47.789
I would celebrate. I mean, it doesn't have to

00:23:47.789 --> 00:23:50.410
be like a whole big party and going crazy, but

00:23:50.410 --> 00:23:52.710
I would take that moment to acknowledge, you

00:23:52.710 --> 00:23:55.170
know what? Yeah, I came back. I would pat myself

00:23:55.170 --> 00:23:58.170
on the back to help me understand how important

00:23:58.170 --> 00:24:02.089
and how good that feels that I was able to commit

00:24:02.089 --> 00:24:05.910
and stay true to myself. And also what I would

00:24:05.910 --> 00:24:10.170
start doing is realizing that. Don't get me wrong.

00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:12.839
I understand parents are authority. Like I would

00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:15.099
never intentionally disrespect my parents. And

00:24:15.099 --> 00:24:17.299
I'm not suggesting that you or any of the listeners

00:24:17.299 --> 00:24:21.740
out there. But every person on this earth tends

00:24:21.740 --> 00:24:26.579
to be selfish. So we don't always notice when

00:24:26.579 --> 00:24:29.500
somebody else is busy. Well, like, have you ever

00:24:29.500 --> 00:24:31.500
been in a situation where you could be hard at

00:24:31.500 --> 00:24:34.420
work? Your head is down looking at the book writing.

00:24:34.819 --> 00:24:37.819
Someone will come up to you. Hey, by the way.

00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:40.359
And they'll start going off in this whole long

00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:43.339
tangent of some story that has nothing to do

00:24:43.339 --> 00:24:47.920
with anything that's around. Right. Yep. And

00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:50.619
then they've been they've ate up your time for

00:24:50.619 --> 00:24:53.819
a good, I don't know, 30 to 40 minutes. And by

00:24:53.819 --> 00:24:55.420
the time they leave, you don't remember what

00:24:55.420 --> 00:24:57.099
you were doing. You have to get back. You have

00:24:57.099 --> 00:25:00.299
to reengage to what you were doing. So whenever

00:25:00.299 --> 00:25:03.069
you leave your room. Try to have that thought

00:25:03.069 --> 00:25:05.769
and say, OK, I come in here to ask a question

00:25:05.769 --> 00:25:07.750
about dinner. That's all I'm going in for. I'm

00:25:07.750 --> 00:25:09.869
having a thought about dinner. Once I get that

00:25:09.869 --> 00:25:13.130
information, I'm back to my room and then recognize

00:25:13.130 --> 00:25:17.750
that it's OK to say, hey, mom, dad. I want to

00:25:17.750 --> 00:25:19.630
I'll answer your question or we can have this

00:25:19.630 --> 00:25:21.190
conversation, but I really have to get back to

00:25:21.190 --> 00:25:24.250
this project because of X, Y and Z, if that makes

00:25:24.250 --> 00:25:27.220
sense. Yeah. So it's help is. It's setting those

00:25:27.220 --> 00:25:29.940
boundaries to let people know that you are accessible,

00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:32.640
but at the same time, you have to be able to

00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:35.380
go and do your work. Yeah. If that makes sense.

00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:38.140
I don't know if you have ever been interrupted.

00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:41.740
Oh, never. I've never been interrupted at all.

00:25:41.900 --> 00:25:46.579
Oh, yeah. Or what about somebody literally coming

00:25:46.579 --> 00:25:50.660
into your room without even knocking and then

00:25:50.660 --> 00:25:55.460
it's like, oh, Jimmy, what you been up to? Mm

00:25:55.460 --> 00:26:03.619
-hmm. I'm on my computer. I'm working. Right.

00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:08.380
What are you up to? Well, I only have 100 ,000

00:26:08.380 --> 00:26:12.680
tabs in my open in Google Chrome. Right. Exactly.

00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:15.720
Well, Jimmy, I don't think we said it to the

00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:17.700
audience, but I think you know, Jimmy, I have

00:26:17.700 --> 00:26:20.680
two children. I have a wife. Plus, like. The

00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:22.519
guests that I talk to, like, there's a lot of

00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:25.400
things that I actually currently stay with my

00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:27.839
in -laws just because of COVID and some things

00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:30.279
that were happening in my life. But I say that

00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:34.599
to say, like, I actually had to have a come to

00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:37.299
Jesus meeting with everyone that's in my house

00:26:37.299 --> 00:26:40.319
to say, hey, when I'm downstairs in the office

00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:44.180
with the door closed, don't come in. That clearly

00:26:44.180 --> 00:26:46.799
means that I am I'm doing something. If you can

00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.140
hear my voice acting like I'm having a conversation

00:26:49.140 --> 00:26:52.180
with myself, chances are I'm talking to somebody.

00:26:52.180 --> 00:26:53.980
It's not just me and they're goofing off. So

00:26:53.980 --> 00:26:56.839
you guys got to give me some boundaries. I mean,

00:26:56.859 --> 00:26:59.519
it was a little more than that, like not as blunt,

00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:02.230
but. Essentially, it's all about setting boundaries

00:27:02.230 --> 00:27:05.710
in that particular type of situation where people

00:27:05.710 --> 00:27:07.809
have to understand that, like, you're busy and

00:27:07.809 --> 00:27:09.089
there's things that you have to do. And sometimes

00:27:09.089 --> 00:27:11.569
people just honestly don't know and they're not

00:27:11.569 --> 00:27:13.769
aware that you're busy and you have stuff to

00:27:13.769 --> 00:27:18.890
do, particularly if we've been. If we have been.

00:27:21.230 --> 00:27:24.730
Trained to not show that we're busy because it's

00:27:24.730 --> 00:27:27.130
the polite thing to do is to not tell people

00:27:27.130 --> 00:27:29.589
that we're busy is to let them unload or vent.

00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:32.880
And then go back to what you do. We're not really

00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:35.039
taught to say, hey, you know what? I'm working

00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:36.720
right now. I'm more than happy to talk to you

00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:40.119
later. But right now I have to finish this. Yeah,

00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:44.299
definitely. I've been in a few of those situations

00:27:44.299 --> 00:27:50.140
and that being an understatement, a few. So how

00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:54.859
many years have you been a motivational speaker?

00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:59.059
I like to jokingly say all my life, because even

00:27:59.059 --> 00:28:02.059
as a kid, I was always very positive and I was

00:28:02.059 --> 00:28:03.960
always the one saying, you know, we can do it.

00:28:03.980 --> 00:28:06.640
Let's go. We got this. Oh, dad, we got this.

00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:08.420
Let's go, mom. You know, all that kind of lovely

00:28:08.420 --> 00:28:12.279
stuff. But professionally, I have been a motivational

00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:16.799
speaker for about five years now. Geez, that's

00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:23.220
longer than me. You make me look bad. No, no.

00:28:24.039 --> 00:28:30.539
Not at all. Not at all. But man, I wish I met

00:28:30.539 --> 00:28:36.059
you sooner than... Well, you know, everything's

00:28:36.059 --> 00:28:39.180
in due time because trust me, a long time I was

00:28:39.180 --> 00:28:41.599
like, man, I wish I had done this or I wish that

00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:43.680
would have happened sooner. But everything happens

00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:46.319
in its time when it's supposed to. So how many

00:28:46.319 --> 00:28:51.569
books have you written? Oh, wow. I don't know

00:28:51.569 --> 00:28:53.490
if I can answer that. I've written a lot of books.

00:28:53.569 --> 00:28:55.950
I have one published, to be honest. I have one

00:28:55.950 --> 00:28:58.589
that's published, Legacy, a sign -on book series.

00:28:58.990 --> 00:29:03.089
I'm holding it up now. And that is my first published

00:29:03.089 --> 00:29:06.170
novel. I actually published that last year, July,

00:29:06.549 --> 00:29:09.049
where you can get that where all finer books

00:29:09.049 --> 00:29:12.869
are sold. And all the other books that I have

00:29:12.869 --> 00:29:16.089
written, I'm still either in the editing process

00:29:16.089 --> 00:29:19.309
or they just don't feel... right yet to release.

00:29:19.470 --> 00:29:22.210
And that's not me being afraid to drop them out.

00:29:22.289 --> 00:29:24.049
It's just no, literally like there's things in

00:29:24.049 --> 00:29:25.950
the book that I still need to tweak or stuff

00:29:25.950 --> 00:29:30.210
like that. So does the editing process take a

00:29:30.210 --> 00:29:35.269
long time? I think every book is a little different,

00:29:35.329 --> 00:29:39.269
to be honest. With Legacy, that took me editing.

00:29:40.650 --> 00:29:44.769
About six months. Three months was my self -editing

00:29:44.769 --> 00:29:47.190
and then going back and forth with the editor

00:29:47.190 --> 00:29:58.549
that I hired. Just curious. When I first started

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this podcast, I interviewed my friend on Twitter

00:30:05.730 --> 00:30:10.400
who's an author. I think he's writing his fifth

00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:17.299
book now in this series. Nice. I mean, fifth

00:30:17.299 --> 00:30:22.440
total book, and he has a different series. And

00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:27.119
so I'm just kind of curious because I don't think

00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:31.809
I asked him on the podcast. Man, I wish I could

00:30:31.809 --> 00:30:35.490
have him back for part two. Yeah, exactly. Just

00:30:35.490 --> 00:30:37.029
bring him back. Have that part to get all the

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00:30:39.089 --> 00:30:41.970
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00:30:41.970 --> 00:30:45.329
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00:30:45.329 --> 00:30:47.509
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00:32:02.140 --> 00:32:07.319
Like I was horrible at English, talking it, writing

00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:09.940
it. I just because at the time I didn't read

00:32:09.940 --> 00:32:13.299
and I didn't want to read. But becoming into

00:32:13.299 --> 00:32:15.759
adult, I started reading more to the point now

00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:20.049
where I read every day. My writing. is a reflection

00:32:20.049 --> 00:32:22.329
of what happened in my youth, at least grammar

00:32:22.329 --> 00:32:24.329
wise. Like my writing is really strong, coming

00:32:24.329 --> 00:32:26.049
up with stories, the concepts, all that lovely

00:32:26.049 --> 00:32:28.549
stuff. So me and my editing process takes a little

00:32:28.549 --> 00:32:30.349
bit longer because I have a lot more mistakes.

00:32:30.589 --> 00:32:32.609
But trust me, all those get worked out before

00:32:32.609 --> 00:32:35.250
the books get published, I promise. Hey, we can

00:32:35.250 --> 00:32:37.630
all be perfect. Even James Patterson makes his

00:32:37.630 --> 00:32:41.509
mistakes. Right, exactly. Yeah, I was just reading

00:32:41.509 --> 00:32:47.190
a book recently and I knew what the author wanted.

00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:50.839
I knew what the word he wanted to say, but it

00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:53.940
was just a mis -edited word. I mean, it wasn't

00:32:53.940 --> 00:32:57.400
typed incorrectly, but it was just not for the

00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:01.400
sentence. And I was like, yeah, that doesn't

00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:07.039
look right to me. And I make my own mistakes,

00:33:07.140 --> 00:33:14.559
too, because I use this tool to help me think

00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:18.309
of... different titles for my blog post. Okay.

00:33:18.450 --> 00:33:21.509
And it doesn't always have the grammatically

00:33:21.509 --> 00:33:25.410
correct title. I might miss a word and it's perfect

00:33:25.410 --> 00:33:27.750
by any means are perfect. That's why you can

00:33:27.750 --> 00:33:31.410
go back in there and just type it in there. And

00:33:31.410 --> 00:33:36.789
so I kind of, uh, on this one blog post, I published

00:33:36.789 --> 00:33:41.569
it. And then after the fact, the next day I was

00:33:41.569 --> 00:33:44.299
like, That's how it was not grammatically correct.

00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:49.859
It was like, learn to how to. Yep. Learn to how

00:33:49.859 --> 00:33:56.339
to. And like people were still sharing it. And

00:33:56.339 --> 00:33:58.460
it's like, well, I'm glad that people liked the

00:33:58.460 --> 00:34:01.960
post besides the grammar. Well, it's like you

00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:04.480
said, like everybody makes mistakes and it makes

00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:08.539
us human. I can't live my life trying to be perfect.

00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:11.780
I try to live my life. In a progressive state,

00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:14.280
I've always getting being better than I was yesterday,

00:34:14.460 --> 00:34:21.619
and it brings me joy when I see mistakes on blog

00:34:21.619 --> 00:34:24.059
posts and books, not because I want to laugh

00:34:24.059 --> 00:34:25.760
at that person, but it just lets me know, like,

00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:29.880
hey, this person is human, too. And like to this

00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:32.679
day, I don't think I've ever seen a an error

00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:35.760
in a Stephen King book, but I know there are

00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:37.340
some other authors out there which I won't put

00:34:37.340 --> 00:34:42.010
them on front street. that I've seen a grammatical

00:34:42.010 --> 00:34:45.489
error, and it's just like, okay, cool. I like

00:34:45.489 --> 00:34:48.869
it. All right. Luckily, in my novel that I know

00:34:48.869 --> 00:34:52.090
of, I haven't found any. The people that have

00:34:52.090 --> 00:34:55.389
read it so far have not found any. But even if

00:34:55.389 --> 00:34:58.110
they find some, it's just like life's too short.

00:34:58.269 --> 00:35:01.590
You know what I did? It is what it is. There's

00:35:01.590 --> 00:35:04.389
an error. Now anyone who reads my book can try

00:35:04.389 --> 00:35:06.250
their best to find the error. You know what I'm

00:35:06.250 --> 00:35:09.849
saying? It's all good. And to be honest, for

00:35:09.849 --> 00:35:12.869
those people who will listen to this episode,

00:35:13.590 --> 00:35:19.690
when I said James Patterson, I really like his

00:35:19.690 --> 00:35:23.449
books and I have no disrespect with them whatsoever.

00:35:23.630 --> 00:35:27.670
I love his books. I read a lot of his books.

00:35:27.849 --> 00:35:32.980
I'm a big fan of his books. bashing him or anything.

00:35:33.800 --> 00:35:36.679
It's okay, Jamie. I'll bash James Patterson.

00:35:36.699 --> 00:35:38.980
I can't stand that dude. I hate all his writing.

00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:43.059
He took all my best ideas. Can't stand him. James

00:35:43.059 --> 00:35:45.239
Patterson. I'm joking. Please don't take me serious

00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:49.219
out there. I'm just messing. But yeah, I'm a

00:35:49.219 --> 00:35:55.880
big fan of his. His books that keep flying out.

00:35:56.059 --> 00:35:59.559
I was like, does he ever sleep, I wonder? Which

00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:03.739
it's funny because like a couple of days ago,

00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:08.820
I saw an interview with with Stephen King and

00:36:08.820 --> 00:36:15.119
J .R. Tolkien and. J .R. was interviewing Stephen

00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:19.050
King. And JR was like, how do you write so many

00:36:19.050 --> 00:36:21.110
books? I don't understand. Why do you write so

00:36:21.110 --> 00:36:24.909
books so quickly? Which everyone knows JR Tolkien

00:36:24.909 --> 00:36:27.289
is like notoriously takes forever to write his

00:36:27.289 --> 00:36:29.530
Game of Thrones novels and all that stuff. And

00:36:29.530 --> 00:36:33.309
so everyone laughs. And Stephen King, he just

00:36:33.309 --> 00:36:35.150
kind of looks and he's like, well, honestly,

00:36:35.349 --> 00:36:39.150
I write for two to three hours every day and

00:36:39.150 --> 00:36:42.960
I write about six pages every day. Right. I know.

00:36:43.019 --> 00:36:45.539
Right. And me as the author, I'm just like six

00:36:45.539 --> 00:36:48.519
pages. Holy. Even if I sat at my desk for two

00:36:48.519 --> 00:36:50.159
to three hours, I can't guarantee I'm going to

00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:55.320
pump out six pages. Like, wow. But J .J .R. is

00:36:55.320 --> 00:36:57.539
just sits there and he's like, so you're telling

00:36:57.539 --> 00:37:00.019
me you never have a bad day. You don't have writer's

00:37:00.019 --> 00:37:02.460
block. Your kids never come downstairs and mess

00:37:02.460 --> 00:37:05.179
with you. The power is always like you never

00:37:05.179 --> 00:37:07.420
have an issue. So, of course, at that point,

00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:09.280
Stephen King's like, OK, well, yeah, every so

00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:11.340
often. Yeah, I don't hit my mark, but he says

00:37:11.340 --> 00:37:14.019
generally that's what I do. And that's why I

00:37:14.019 --> 00:37:16.500
write. That's why I have so many books. And I

00:37:16.500 --> 00:37:18.440
only share that story because I'm sure it's probably

00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:21.260
the same type of scenario with Jane Patterson,

00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:24.820
James Patterson, that he probably has a dedicated

00:37:24.820 --> 00:37:28.820
mindset to commit committing to writing so many

00:37:28.820 --> 00:37:32.650
pages or chapters a day. Which I can tell you

00:37:32.650 --> 00:37:35.190
now, I do not have that commitment yet. That

00:37:35.190 --> 00:37:41.289
is not something I have. I mean, I would love

00:37:41.289 --> 00:37:44.650
to have that mindset, but I have other stuff

00:37:44.650 --> 00:37:50.070
I'm doing. And I'm not saying I'm even being

00:37:50.070 --> 00:37:54.130
lazy. I run my own website, which is my job.

00:37:56.360 --> 00:38:01.719
I also host this podcast, and I enjoy that more

00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:08.139
than my website at a lot of times. And I love

00:38:08.139 --> 00:38:10.179
motivational speaking, even though I haven't

00:38:10.179 --> 00:38:13.239
spoken on stage yet. It's nice that I got to

00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:19.820
spoke on stage. Stupid pandemic. Right? Oh, man,

00:38:19.900 --> 00:38:22.420
this pandemic has changed a lot for several,

00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:24.300
or I shouldn't say several, a lot of people.

00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:28.900
I think when Stephen King said that he writes

00:38:28.900 --> 00:38:31.659
six pages a day, I think that was more along.

00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:35.260
He's in his I hate to use the word passion, but

00:38:35.260 --> 00:38:38.139
he's like in his lane. Like he found what he

00:38:38.139 --> 00:38:40.179
loves and he finds what he's he found what he's

00:38:40.179 --> 00:38:42.500
good at. So he just doesn't. He makes the time

00:38:42.500 --> 00:38:45.099
to do it. And he's dedicated towards it. Right.

00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:48.869
And I think a lot of us. We undervalue what we're

00:38:48.869 --> 00:38:51.630
good at and we don't do it enough to hone it

00:38:51.630 --> 00:38:54.550
and make it perfect and to just keep going. I

00:38:54.550 --> 00:38:56.130
mean, there's nothing wrong with being multi

00:38:56.130 --> 00:38:57.949
-talented and doing multiple things because just

00:38:57.949 --> 00:39:00.889
like you, I have a show, I write books, I go

00:39:00.889 --> 00:39:02.329
out and speak. Well, I don't go out and speak

00:39:02.329 --> 00:39:07.030
anymore. I speak via web. And then plus, like

00:39:07.030 --> 00:39:08.989
I have a family and all that stuff. So yeah,

00:39:09.050 --> 00:39:11.309
we're all busy and we all, I think it's just

00:39:11.309 --> 00:39:13.389
a matter of what you decide to make time for

00:39:13.389 --> 00:39:16.070
and what's the priority in that moment. Yeah,

00:39:16.070 --> 00:39:30.030
definitely. So just out of curiosity, what are

00:39:30.030 --> 00:39:33.469
some of the things that you speak about besides

00:39:33.469 --> 00:39:39.829
the personal self -growth? Is there other topics

00:39:39.829 --> 00:39:43.500
you speak about as well? Oh, Jimmy, thank you.

00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:47.679
I'm glad you asked. Thank you. Well, honestly,

00:39:47.860 --> 00:39:51.159
I actually speak about veganism as well, about

00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:54.039
living a healthier lifestyle for yourself, the

00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:57.500
animals and for the world. I also go on parenting

00:39:57.500 --> 00:40:00.500
because, again, I am a father and that doesn't

00:40:00.500 --> 00:40:03.500
mean that I'm the best at. being a dad or that

00:40:03.500 --> 00:40:05.400
I don't make mistakes. It's just, I have a level

00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:07.880
of experience because I have two healthy children

00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:11.860
that one is 15. The other is 11. So as of right

00:40:11.860 --> 00:40:13.880
now, I think I'm doing pretty good and they're

00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:15.619
still alive. So, you know, it was good. Oh, that's

00:40:15.619 --> 00:40:20.400
good. And, and I just speak about being, just

00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:23.119
being your authentic self. I speak about the

00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:24.900
things that I know and that I've experienced.

00:40:26.440 --> 00:40:32.309
You know, When you say authentic self, something

00:40:32.309 --> 00:40:40.510
jogged in my memory. Every time when I write

00:40:40.510 --> 00:40:43.710
something on social media, I get feedback from

00:40:43.710 --> 00:40:49.409
my dad because he follows me on LinkedIn. That's

00:40:49.409 --> 00:40:52.010
the only network I let him follow me. I mean,

00:40:52.030 --> 00:40:54.989
he follows me on other stuff. Smart man, smart

00:40:54.989 --> 00:41:01.010
man. It's not like I say anything stupid or anything.

00:41:01.369 --> 00:41:13.719
Right. I type pretty fast on a smartphone. And

00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:16.320
sometimes I even just type just with my thumb.

00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:22.719
So I might not catch every single error. And

00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:27.360
like you said, not being perfect. And so sometimes

00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.480
I just post it right on social media. Because

00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:33.960
basically, if I looked at it later on, okay,

00:41:34.139 --> 00:41:45.780
there's a mistake in the word. basically boycotting

00:41:45.780 --> 00:41:49.719
the Golden Globes, I can fit everything into

00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:57.280
280 characters on Twitter and post it on LinkedIn

00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:01.179
and so on and Facebook. And so I kind of, so

00:42:01.179 --> 00:42:05.400
I, and my dad pointed out and was like, well,

00:42:05.500 --> 00:42:08.800
can you go back and edit this? And it's like,

00:42:08.900 --> 00:42:13.440
you missed the word here. Yeah. I'm pretty sure

00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:16.360
people would understand what the gist of everything

00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:21.260
meant. Right. Just because I miss one word or

00:42:21.260 --> 00:42:26.599
a few words, the overall gist of the idea is

00:42:26.599 --> 00:42:31.420
right there. And so sometimes I feel like I kind

00:42:31.420 --> 00:42:34.960
of get just stressed a little bit because everybody's

00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:36.920
just telling me, oh, you have to be perfect.

00:42:37.059 --> 00:42:40.849
And it's like, well. If you find that perfect

00:42:40.849 --> 00:42:50.289
person... The internet can be a distraction place.

00:42:51.289 --> 00:42:53.710
It's full of distractions like social media,

00:42:53.969 --> 00:42:57.849
shopping, and so many more websites that are

00:42:57.849 --> 00:43:01.769
very distracting. Just like video games and whatnot.

00:43:02.210 --> 00:43:05.349
But it is all over the place. So much noise going

00:43:05.349 --> 00:43:09.690
on. With a blocker tool like Freedom Blocker,

00:43:09.690 --> 00:43:12.829
it can block all those distraction websites that

00:43:12.829 --> 00:43:17.889
you find distracting. I block RuneScape, Facebook,

00:43:18.469 --> 00:43:21.909
Twitter, and all the social media marketing tools.

00:43:22.349 --> 00:43:24.909
Without Freedom Blocker, I wouldn't be able to

00:43:24.909 --> 00:43:30.510
run crazyfitnessguy .com because I'd be distracted

00:43:30.510 --> 00:43:35.750
all day long. But thanks to them. I'm no longer

00:43:35.750 --> 00:43:40.449
distracted. Go to visit the web link in the show

00:43:40.449 --> 00:43:43.110
notes for more information about Freedom Blocker,

00:43:43.110 --> 00:43:46.690
for more information about what they do, what

00:43:46.690 --> 00:43:51.610
they are, and whatnot. And the best part about

00:43:51.610 --> 00:43:54.409
Freedom Blocker, you can use it on all of your

00:43:54.409 --> 00:44:00.269
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00:44:00.570 --> 00:44:11.980
Visit them to follow more. Let me know. Right.

00:44:12.099 --> 00:44:13.739
Exactly. I'm with you on that. But let me know

00:44:13.739 --> 00:44:21.679
as well. Exactly. And let me answer your question,

00:44:21.900 --> 00:44:25.079
Jimmy, by sharing a short story. So when I was

00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:27.460
a kid, I had a really big imagination, like a

00:44:27.460 --> 00:44:32.079
huge imagination. It wouldn't necessarily get

00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:33.860
me in trouble, but it would definitely bring

00:44:33.860 --> 00:44:36.579
attention to a lot of different people in every

00:44:36.579 --> 00:44:38.360
different type of scenario. Like I came from

00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:43.150
a family of. sports addicts and just adrenaline

00:44:43.150 --> 00:44:45.789
junkie type people. And that necessarily wasn't

00:44:45.789 --> 00:44:48.250
me. I like to go outside and play Power Rangers

00:44:48.250 --> 00:44:51.030
or pretend I was who knows what, play with Legos,

00:44:51.070 --> 00:44:53.389
build these whole different worlds, write stories

00:44:53.389 --> 00:44:55.949
like that was me. And I would often get in trouble

00:44:55.949 --> 00:44:58.130
because we could be who knows where we could

00:44:58.130 --> 00:45:00.050
probably be at a funeral. And I would be that

00:45:00.050 --> 00:45:02.590
kid in the bag, oblivious to the dead body in

00:45:02.590 --> 00:45:03.889
the front. I would just be sitting there playing

00:45:03.889 --> 00:45:07.369
and doing whatever. Right. So my father sat me

00:45:07.369 --> 00:45:11.559
down one day. And he meant this in the most caring,

00:45:11.699 --> 00:45:16.659
loving way possible. But he told me, son, sometimes

00:45:16.659 --> 00:45:20.699
you stand out too much and I need you to be like

00:45:20.699 --> 00:45:23.579
water. See, water can fit into any container.

00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:27.320
Water can be like anything anyone needs it to

00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:31.460
be. And I need you to be like water. And for

00:45:31.460 --> 00:45:36.659
me, that. sent me down a path of trying to conform

00:45:36.659 --> 00:45:39.440
to what everybody else needed and wanted me to

00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:42.460
be instead of being my true, authentic self.

00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.199
And it took me years to break out of that mold

00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:47.940
because, again, my father, he was loving me the

00:45:47.940 --> 00:45:51.260
best way he knew how. Unfortunately, he was projecting

00:45:51.260 --> 00:45:55.639
his fear of ridicule and me being ostracized.

00:45:56.659 --> 00:45:59.829
On to me. Not knowing that if he had just helped

00:45:59.829 --> 00:46:04.210
me live to be who I am supposed to be or be the

00:46:04.210 --> 00:46:07.469
most authentic self version of myself, how much

00:46:07.469 --> 00:46:11.130
better could or would I have been? And I think

00:46:11.130 --> 00:46:13.929
a lot of different people are stuck in those

00:46:13.929 --> 00:46:16.469
type of situations and do that to people without

00:46:16.469 --> 00:46:19.590
being known. Case in point, like I'm not perfect.

00:46:19.630 --> 00:46:23.110
When my kids were younger. I'm trying to think

00:46:23.110 --> 00:46:25.429
of a good example. I know there were times where.

00:46:26.170 --> 00:46:28.730
I might have told them, hey, stop smacking your

00:46:28.730 --> 00:46:32.610
food or don't do this because I was afraid people

00:46:32.610 --> 00:46:35.849
would laugh at them in public. When in reality,

00:46:35.849 --> 00:46:38.130
who cares if people laugh at them in public?

00:46:38.170 --> 00:46:39.730
My kid is my kid. They're going to be the best

00:46:39.730 --> 00:46:41.829
version of themselves regardless. And I think

00:46:41.829 --> 00:46:43.349
that might be what was going on, which currently

00:46:43.349 --> 00:46:45.110
I've never met your father. I'm sure he's an

00:46:45.110 --> 00:46:49.630
awesome dude. But it sounds like from hearing

00:46:49.630 --> 00:46:53.269
your side of the story is that he might be projecting

00:46:53.269 --> 00:46:57.320
his fear. of whatever the issue is on to you.

00:46:57.380 --> 00:46:59.860
But that's my personal opinion. Again, I'm not

00:46:59.860 --> 00:47:01.860
saying anything bad about your father, but that's

00:47:01.860 --> 00:47:04.280
me because a lot of people do that out of love.

00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:08.059
But at the end of the day, just be you. Granted,

00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:10.179
it don't hurt to spell check sometimes or go

00:47:10.179 --> 00:47:13.380
back and look over it, but just be you. Life's

00:47:13.380 --> 00:47:16.760
too short to worry about grammatical errors.

00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:23.539
I mean, I did try to spell check, but like, it

00:47:23.539 --> 00:47:27.900
just, I was doing a social media post like literally

00:47:27.900 --> 00:47:33.099
before, like maybe an hour before I went to bed,

00:47:33.179 --> 00:47:37.039
before I went to go read my book. And then I

00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:41.239
just wanted to get to it. And then my dad told

00:47:41.239 --> 00:47:44.280
me the next day, he's like, you should pay attention

00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:48.440
to it. And it's like, well, I kind of just kind

00:47:48.440 --> 00:47:52.519
of missed at it. Well, I have to I have to like

00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:55.019
I have to come from a parent perspective because

00:47:55.019 --> 00:47:56.840
I know there are a lot I had to get to a point

00:47:56.840 --> 00:48:00.699
of a lot of times I'll see. So let me give an

00:48:00.699 --> 00:48:04.460
example. My daughter, like I said, she's 15.

00:48:04.639 --> 00:48:08.800
So right now she has she has Pinterest and she

00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:13.639
has TikTok. OK. And on TikTok, she can kind of

00:48:13.639 --> 00:48:15.539
do what she wants to do on TikTok. I don't monitor

00:48:15.539 --> 00:48:18.219
her TikTok, but I'm I follow her there and I

00:48:18.219 --> 00:48:22.159
can see what she posts. And she made a post replying

00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:24.840
to someone's negative comment about her post.

00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:27.460
She didn't say anything mean to this person at

00:48:27.460 --> 00:48:32.179
all, but she did have some grammatical errors

00:48:32.179 --> 00:48:34.239
or she didn't do it exactly the way I would have

00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:38.340
done it. And when I first saw it, my ego was

00:48:38.340 --> 00:48:42.159
like, hey, tell her to ignore that person. Just

00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:44.579
don't give them the attention. Don't give them

00:48:44.579 --> 00:48:48.039
any energy whatsoever. But then the rational

00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:51.039
side of me was like, you know what? She did an

00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:54.460
awesome thing by standing up for herself and

00:48:54.460 --> 00:48:58.659
doing it in a respectful manner against this

00:48:58.659 --> 00:49:03.659
person. So that next morning I went to my daughter

00:49:03.659 --> 00:49:06.900
and I was like, hey, I saw your video that you

00:49:06.900 --> 00:49:09.219
were about you replying to a negative comment.

00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:12.159
I'm proud of you for standing up for yourself.

00:49:12.440 --> 00:49:15.670
Great job. And I left it at that because I've

00:49:15.670 --> 00:49:18.550
learned out of past experiences that if I would

00:49:18.550 --> 00:49:22.829
have gave her the compliment and or then gave

00:49:22.829 --> 00:49:25.710
her like a critique about what she did, that

00:49:25.710 --> 00:49:27.969
compliment would have went away. So what I've

00:49:27.969 --> 00:49:31.590
learned to do now is give a compliment. And then,

00:49:31.590 --> 00:49:35.289
I don't know, a couple of days later, if the.

00:49:35.820 --> 00:49:38.380
If the circumstances present themselves, then

00:49:38.380 --> 00:49:40.699
I might try to say something about the behavior

00:49:40.699 --> 00:49:43.559
that I feel could be altered or changed, if that

00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:49.320
makes sense. Yeah. Right. So. So I think your

00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:51.960
dad is I think your dad is trying to help you,

00:49:52.019 --> 00:49:53.900
because in the long term, there probably is nothing

00:49:53.900 --> 00:49:57.760
wrong with checking a grammatical error. Could

00:49:57.760 --> 00:49:59.719
he have maybe said that to you in a different

00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:04.440
way? Possibly in a nicer way, probably. But in

00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:06.719
the end of the day, I'm sure... I probably should

00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:12.800
have also double -checked, but I was kind of

00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:16.179
just getting a tweet out there because I know

00:50:16.179 --> 00:50:20.119
for myself if I don't do something right there,

00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:24.239
I'm going to wait until the next day, and then

00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:26.880
I'm going to get caught up in some other project.

00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:30.960
I'm going to do it the next day. That's not a

00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:35.280
thing. That next day is not coming. No, I get

00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:38.280
you completely. And it's always hard hearing

00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:42.400
criticism from the ones that we love just because

00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:44.940
like we want them to see the best versions of

00:50:44.940 --> 00:50:46.940
ourselves. We want them to see what good we're

00:50:46.940 --> 00:50:49.340
doing. So when they happen to tell us about a

00:50:49.340 --> 00:50:51.820
mistake that we made, it tends to hit us a little

00:50:51.820 --> 00:50:54.179
harder than it would if a stranger told us, you

00:50:54.179 --> 00:51:00.369
know. Yeah. And what's funny, when you were saying

00:51:00.369 --> 00:51:03.030
about when you were growing up and everything,

00:51:03.289 --> 00:51:08.809
playing with Legos and whatnot, here's a fun

00:51:08.809 --> 00:51:14.090
fact. I used to have a lot of, I mean, I still

00:51:14.090 --> 00:51:18.800
have them. full of Legos. I had this huge, big

00:51:18.800 --> 00:51:22.239
box full of Legos. And I mean, it's not those

00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:25.420
kits. And sometimes I had those kits where you

00:51:25.420 --> 00:51:28.460
can put that whatsoever on the box together.

00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:32.599
But sometimes I take those kits and I put, I

00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:36.219
add it to whatever I was making and just put

00:51:36.219 --> 00:51:41.900
it along with it. And I had, like we had, Our

00:51:41.900 --> 00:51:45.340
house is a very big house, right? I mean, I'm

00:51:45.340 --> 00:51:48.019
not saying we're rich or anything. No, I know

00:51:48.019 --> 00:51:49.880
what you mean, yeah. I just grew up in it. It's

00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:54.500
like stories. I mean, the basement and three

00:51:54.500 --> 00:52:02.559
floors, that's it. And we had this – and our

00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:07.869
basement is a Finnish basement. And I used to

00:52:07.869 --> 00:52:10.530
have all my Legos spread around the basement.

00:52:11.969 --> 00:52:16.070
But basically, I was building a huge, big Lego

00:52:16.070 --> 00:52:21.610
city. And it got so big that my mom had me put

00:52:21.610 --> 00:52:25.909
it into this storage, this room that no one else

00:52:25.909 --> 00:52:29.650
was using, which is other games and everything.

00:52:30.170 --> 00:52:34.389
So I put it in there. I kid you not. I took up

00:52:34.389 --> 00:52:39.860
the whole. whole room of that room nice and like

00:52:39.860 --> 00:52:44.679
you can the only people and it's why my mom had

00:52:44.679 --> 00:52:47.179
to go into that room uh -huh you couldn't figure

00:52:47.179 --> 00:52:51.460
out how to maneuver in that room the only person

00:52:51.460 --> 00:52:56.719
who knew how to maneuver around it was me And

00:52:56.719 --> 00:52:59.119
I was like, I knew where to step. I knew where

00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:01.679
to do this. And I was like, sometimes by accident

00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:04.360
I knock one thing over, but then I put it right

00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:06.679
back off where it's supposed to be. But I was

00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:10.420
like, I knew the game. It's like, this is my

00:53:10.420 --> 00:53:14.940
only... This is the space that no one can get

00:53:14.940 --> 00:53:17.360
to me and no one can annoy the hell out of me.

00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:21.260
I love it. I love it. That was like my safe spot.

00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:25.789
And I just surrounded my... Don't ask me what

00:53:25.789 --> 00:53:32.650
happened to that city because that city went

00:53:32.650 --> 00:53:35.550
crumbling down. I'm not going to know what happened.

00:53:35.630 --> 00:53:38.429
I'll tell you after the show, but let's just

00:53:38.429 --> 00:53:43.230
say it was London bridges falling down. You're

00:53:43.230 --> 00:53:44.789
making me want to go out to buy Legos real quick.

00:53:44.869 --> 00:53:47.750
That's what you're making me want to do. I have

00:53:47.750 --> 00:53:51.780
plenty I share. Oh, nice, nice. I love it. I

00:53:51.780 --> 00:53:54.400
kid you. It's not even a box. It's literally

00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:59.400
a huge big carton, I think. Not even a carton.

00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:03.880
One of those big plastic bins. Just mixed puzzle

00:54:03.880 --> 00:54:08.539
pieces. Not puzzle pieces. Lego pieces. Lego

00:54:08.539 --> 00:54:16.920
pieces. Every day when I came home from school,

00:54:17.179 --> 00:54:21.300
and this was before i didn't say before i got

00:54:21.300 --> 00:54:24.960
into video games but uh even when i wasn't playing

00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:27.119
video games or when i was playing video games

00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:31.719
um i'm like basically that was basically my safe

00:54:31.719 --> 00:54:36.880
spot because uh i got bullied a lot uh i might

00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:39.239
have told you when uh when i was right yeah in

00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:45.280
school and so when i got home i i was in i went

00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:48.139
to my lego room and that's why i called it because

00:54:48.719 --> 00:54:51.780
It was filled with my logos. I even had Playmobil.

00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:57.659
And I basically played with both of them at the

00:54:57.659 --> 00:55:00.940
same exact time. I made up these weird different

00:55:00.940 --> 00:55:05.780
stories in my head. But I was like, I think the

00:55:05.780 --> 00:55:08.780
reason I got hooked on video games and logos

00:55:08.780 --> 00:55:12.699
was because I got to control something. And I

00:55:12.699 --> 00:55:15.599
can't control everything in my own life. I mean,

00:55:15.659 --> 00:55:21.260
like you say. companies and this and that and

00:55:21.260 --> 00:55:25.340
right and so on now and so i was like wait i

00:55:25.340 --> 00:55:28.679
get to control something in a in a game thanks

00:55:28.679 --> 00:55:34.199
yeah uh yeah i spent one too many hours on video

00:55:34.199 --> 00:55:37.559
games uh growing up i kid you not i probably

00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:41.139
was playing around like maybe 90 plus hours a

00:55:41.139 --> 00:55:47.550
week uh whoa wow Yeah, I still did my homework,

00:55:47.690 --> 00:55:52.889
but I mean, it wasn't like I was staying up very

00:55:52.889 --> 00:55:57.269
late at night. I mean, I played when I got home

00:55:57.269 --> 00:56:02.650
after homework, and I played from that to before

00:56:02.650 --> 00:56:06.190
I went to bed. And I mean, the weekends were

00:56:06.190 --> 00:56:11.750
just like, get up in the morning, the rest of

00:56:11.750 --> 00:56:16.050
the day. I don't play video games much now, but

00:56:16.050 --> 00:56:19.849
I know back in the day, oh, wow. I don't know

00:56:19.849 --> 00:56:22.429
how many hours I play a week, but I definitely

00:56:22.429 --> 00:56:25.949
would play two to three hours a night. Definitely.

00:56:26.110 --> 00:56:28.289
After school, got homework, finished watching

00:56:28.289 --> 00:56:31.489
Power Rangers, jump on the game. Yeah. Yeah.

00:56:32.909 --> 00:56:35.750
And it's funny, when you said about the Lego

00:56:35.750 --> 00:56:38.309
part, I was like, man, are you sure we're not

00:56:38.309 --> 00:56:41.289
long -lost cousins or something? I know, right?

00:56:41.369 --> 00:56:44.070
Exactly, right? I see the family resemblance.

00:56:44.110 --> 00:56:48.809
It's all good. Me and my cousins on my mom's

00:56:48.809 --> 00:56:51.710
side of the family, we got into, they were into

00:56:51.710 --> 00:56:57.250
Legos too. So yeah, it was just one fun event

00:56:57.250 --> 00:57:01.110
after another. I love it. I think we played in

00:57:01.110 --> 00:57:04.469
the basement for like, I kid you not, the minute

00:57:04.469 --> 00:57:08.510
that me and my cousins got together, we went

00:57:08.510 --> 00:57:11.250
to the basement. He didn't see us until lunchtime

00:57:11.250 --> 00:57:17.340
or dinner time. That sounded like me. Even to

00:57:17.340 --> 00:57:20.340
this day, as an adult, if there's Legos around,

00:57:20.679 --> 00:57:22.679
yeah, just leave me alone. I'll be there for

00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:27.179
hours. I said to my mom, do we really have to

00:57:27.179 --> 00:57:30.179
move from this house? Because I would love to

00:57:30.179 --> 00:57:38.139
get my Legos out again. People come to the house,

00:57:38.239 --> 00:57:41.769
trying to look at the house, and it's like, Why

00:57:41.769 --> 00:57:45.650
is there Legos all over the place? I'm like,

00:57:45.769 --> 00:57:49.969
oh, I'm sorry. Did I do that? My parents probably

00:57:49.969 --> 00:57:54.230
like, Jimmy, put those stupid Legos away. Make

00:57:54.230 --> 00:58:02.550
me. Right? So before we wrap up, where can people

00:58:02.550 --> 00:58:08.739
find you? So finding Jay Reese is almost on every

00:58:08.739 --> 00:58:12.539
social media platform. I'm on Twitter, Instagram,

00:58:12.880 --> 00:58:21.099
Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Clubhouse. And I

00:58:21.099 --> 00:58:23.400
want to say Thriller. I think I'm on Thriller

00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:27.739
too. But yeah, Thriller is kind of like Instagram

00:58:27.739 --> 00:58:32.599
meets TikTok. But I'm on there as well. Like

00:58:32.599 --> 00:58:36.900
I joined because everyone thought that TikTok

00:58:36.900 --> 00:58:38.900
was going to go away. It was going to get banned.

00:58:39.579 --> 00:58:42.139
So I was jumping on different platforms and I'm

00:58:42.139 --> 00:58:44.440
guilty of that myself. So I'm on Thriller as

00:58:44.440 --> 00:58:47.960
well. So, yeah, if you are on social media, just

00:58:47.960 --> 00:58:51.239
find just look for Finding J. Reese. And that's

00:58:51.239 --> 00:58:53.989
if I'm there, that's what I'll be. You know,

00:58:54.090 --> 00:58:58.929
before I let you go, I really loved that you

00:58:58.929 --> 00:59:04.730
said I'm on pretty much every platform. That

00:59:04.730 --> 00:59:08.909
would be me. I'm probably on more platforms than

00:59:08.909 --> 00:59:13.130
you would possibly imagine. Well, trust me, I

00:59:13.130 --> 00:59:16.329
don't mean intentionally to be on every platform.

00:59:16.429 --> 00:59:18.710
It's just for different things that I do or to

00:59:18.710 --> 00:59:21.030
network with certain types of people or to help

00:59:21.030 --> 00:59:24.559
certain people. Certain types of platforms do

00:59:24.559 --> 00:59:29.599
the job. I get it. I'm just making a joke because

00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:32.800
even though that you might see like a set of

00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:36.840
number of social media icons on my website for

00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:40.340
creating this guy and me, on the back end, it's

00:59:40.340 --> 00:59:49.250
one long list of so many. No one has as many

00:59:49.250 --> 00:59:52.630
profiles as I do. Yeah, you're definitely better

00:59:52.630 --> 00:59:55.010
than me, man. Having to manage all those, I can

00:59:55.010 --> 00:59:58.510
barely manage the ones I got. So, yeah. And it's

00:59:58.510 --> 01:00:01.010
funny. I don't even think any company in the

01:00:01.010 --> 01:00:04.610
world has that many profiles as I do. It's like,

01:00:04.710 --> 01:00:07.130
oh, yeah, we're on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

01:00:07.289 --> 01:00:09.969
It's like, yeah, and I'm on one too flippin'

01:00:09.969 --> 01:00:12.670
many. So that's because you're about to take

01:00:12.670 --> 01:00:14.150
over the world, Jimmy. You're about the world

01:00:14.150 --> 01:00:20.500
domination. Sure. Not yet. Secret plan. Oh, sorry.

01:00:20.599 --> 01:00:26.900
My bad. Sorry. Secret agent. My fault. I got

01:00:26.900 --> 01:00:30.800
a mission. I could be Michael Weston from Burn

01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:36.800
Notice. Oh, yes. Maybe. Well, thanks for coming

01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:39.360
on the Crazy Fitness Guys Healthy Living Podcast,

01:00:39.460 --> 01:00:42.820
and I hope we can get you back again. Oh, thank

01:00:42.820 --> 01:00:44.599
you, Jimmy. Yeah, me and you are cool. We're

01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:46.940
friends. Yo, anytime you want me back, as long

01:00:46.940 --> 01:00:49.679
as our schedules meet, I'll be here, man. My

01:00:49.679 --> 01:00:55.400
schedule's always open. Well, I say this humbly.

01:00:55.840 --> 01:00:58.900
Luckily, mine is not, but when we can work something

01:00:58.900 --> 01:01:01.880
out, I'll be back. I promise. Okay, my schedule's

01:01:01.880 --> 01:01:09.400
busy, but I promise. Have a good day. All right,

01:01:09.440 --> 01:01:19.150
you too. Thanks, Jimmy. Thank you. Thank you.

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