Million Dollar Days
Welcome to Million Dollar Days with Robby Choucair & George Passas. Your go-to podcast for a deep dive into the world of Life and Business Mastery.
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Million Dollar Days
If Your Habits Were A Person, Would You Respect Them?
A $4.5k VicRoads fine. A broken loop of forms, phone transfers, and “come in-store” dead ends. And somehow, that’s the spark that pushes us to dissect why most goals die by February—and how to build a system that won’t.
We get real about the 83% who abandon resolutions, then map a simpler path: shrink the goal, raise the stakes, and win the moments. Think two-minute windows where a burrito becomes a short black, or a snooze becomes gym shoes. We share the tools that make those choices easier—packing the night before, scheduling workouts as meetings, daily weigh-ins with an accountability partner, and tracking simple metrics like steps, protein, and sleep readiness. No heroics, just repeatable systems that survive hot days, bad sleep, and bureaucracy.
Underneath the tactics is purpose. Humans move faster to avoid pain than to chase pleasure, so tie your goal to a consequence you can’t ignore. Picture yourself at 70: playing on the floor with grandkids vs. watching from a chair. That image changes decisions today. We also tackle flexibility as a longevity skill, why “all or nothing” challenges backfire, and how separating personal goals from company targets reduces stress and boosts clarity. If your habits were a person, would you respect them? If not, change one habit now and let compounding do the rest.
If you’re in construction, join us at the Builder Summit in Melbourne this month. It’s free, packed with systems, branding, scaling, and real-world playbooks—and one attendee will walk away with a Makita toolkit worth over $2,000. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs a February reset, and DM us on Instagram with the one goal you’re committing to this week.
So the other day I got a fine here again to the office and I looked at it and it was notice of final demand. It's like four and a half thousand dollars. Again. And I'm like, what's this about? And I was doing seven K's over. Uh because the cars under a company name, they issue you a huge fine, right? Yeah. So I go, it's a fine, I'll just flip it and put my mum's name on this. And so I go to flip it.
George:Because she was driving the carpet vehicle. Of course. Why else would you?
Robby:Yeah, clearly. Of course. And I go to flip it and there's no uh section to nominate someone.
George:Yep.
Robby:Do you know why? I think I know why. Because you can't nominate them once it's become a yes, that's right. You have to, it's a process. Anyway, so now I've put in this whole thing to go and say, hey, there was an issue with the address. I just saw this fine now, blah, blah, blah. Uh part of that I had to go and find my email from Bick Rhodes when they didn't let me get a business account because I got done driving unregistered. So I thought, you know what? I should probably reapply. So I go and I reapply to Vic Rhodes again, reject it again. So I apply again and I put in a help request. They reply saying, Oh, yeah, you gotta do this over the phone.
SPEAKER_03:So you call up and they say you gotta do it online.
Robby:Dude, sorry. So I call up and they're like treating me like I'm an absolute But you are. Yeah. Anyway, like I'm autistic. They're like, are you spelling everything? Are you spelling everything correctly? I'm like, yes. They're like, can you read out your ACN? I'm like, yes. They're like, that's not your ABN, is it? I'm like, no, the ABN's longer. They're like, okay, we don't know why this is happening. I'm like, so what do you want me to do? They're like, we're not sure. I'm like, well, if you can't fucking fix it, who can? And they're like, oh, we've worked it out. You need to go into store. And I said, no, no, no, no, no. I was in your store, and they told me not to go into the store. And they told me they have to do it online. They thought I was in the store with my fucking letter from my business that I signed saying I can talk on my behalf. And they told me I have to do it online. I even spoke to the technical person and then she then she said, I've worked it out. And I'm like, what is it? She's like, Do you have to come in store? They made an error when they changed the address. And I said, Okay. She's like, Yeah, you're gonna have to go into store to fix it. And I said, Sorry, wait, who made the error? She's like, the person at the store. I said, How the fuck is this my problem? Like, why should I have to go and take two hours out of my day now? Pay me for that? Yeah, like who's gonna you know what I mean? And and you guys are now admitting that I can't make the account due to a fault of your side. I said, I want this in writing. Why should I have to pay a fine? I thought I was gonna pay it. Why should I why should I be fined for this incident? Anyway, um, so yeah, I just wanted to start off this conversation just by letting you know that VicRoads has in 2026 has made zero improvements. I've regressed. Uh yeah, but AI I can't wait until AI destroys Vic Rhodes.
George:They're gonna destroy a lot of that public sector bullshit because they're gonna realize we don't need people to do this.
Robby:I can't wait. I can't wait. Might actually be good. It's gonna be sick. They might actually get things done. It's gonna be great. I cannot wait. That's gonna upset a lot of people. I don't care. I'll be in upset this whole time at Vic Rhodes.
SPEAKER_03:In the upset Robbie movement. Movement? Is that what they're calling me? That's a word on a street.
Robby:Did you say Robbie movement? Oh upset the Robbie movement. Upset. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's it's passed. That's done. That's where it's at.
George:Excellent. Well, I mean, we all know your love affair with Vic Rhodes. It goes deep, and I'm sure this won't be the last. So, did you end up resolving it, by the way? Yeah, just update.
Robby:I'm gonna call Vic Rhodes and uh just fucking stage. I'm gonna call and I'm gonna speak to them and um I'll get them to call you. And I said, I'm gonna be in a meeting. And then she said, That's fine. Can we leave you a voicemail? I said, Yeah, that's fine. And then she says, So This was just now. Yeah. And then three minutes later, yeah, dude, it just happened. Yeah. And then three minutes later, my phone rings. And I say, hello, Robbie's picking. And she says, sorry, Robbie, I didn't mean to call you. And that's like the the lady I was talking to at Vic Rhodes. And I'm like, man, these Vic Rhodes people. No wonder why you can hear replaced by AI. So there's a so there's a lot of people. I I'm really upset at Vic Rhodes. If you can't tell, now you know. Now you know. But yeah, so that's uh that's been my my day so far.
George:So my month so far. January's done. It is done and dusted. Yeah. We are one twelfth of the way through the year. Who would have thought? How much percent is that? Boom. One twelfth. Of a percent. Of a hundred percent. Quick maths. Quick maths, good maths. Um, yeah, so I wanted to talk about something. I want to talk about goals. But why do we want to talk about, or why do I want to talk about goals? Now, for one clear reason, and it's fact and it's science, and you can check it. So about 83% of people who set goals at the start of the year have already failed or given up on that goal by the end of January. That's a lot. Yes. Now, why do you think that is? Because everyone has the right intention. Everyone wants to have a change, everyone wants to do whatever it is that they want to set out and achieve in the year, but they've already failed in the first four weeks. Why is that? People suck. They do, but it's also there's probably no substance behind their goals in the first place. There is probably an element of new year, new me. I'm gonna do it right here, right now, and make the change in my life. I think also people will go the first week and do that change, and then they miss two, three days, and it's like, oh well, fuck that, give me cake. Or uh, that's all right, Jim's. I'm tired. I had a late night, went out for drinks, I can't do this. So they end up sort of putting it on the back burner. It's like, oh no, no, I'll go next month. All right, start on Monday. I'll start on Monday. That's it, no excuses, and then bang, straight back into the same habit.
Robby:Uh why, why such a large portion though? And it's like, what's what are the people who what is it, what's the seven percent, 17% doing differently?
George:You know, it's yeah, that's right. That that's a great question. And I feel I was having a similar conversation just about something else today, actually, with someone. And they were talking about, or we were talking about how you know everyone does the same thing, and they're all, you know, it was a very pessimistic conversation from this person's part, but saying everyone's doing the same thing, everyone, no one works hard anymore, no one does this, you know, those old, you know, I'm old school, I like to get things done. That's a diet. These damn Gen Z. That's exactly right. That was kind of yeah, it was actually right. Yeah. It's pretty much on that. But it's also, I feel that it's look, habit, it's easy, it's comfortable to fall back into those bad habits that got you to where you are. That's the really the, I think, the most simplest form of it. They're not disciplined enough, and there's probably a level of self-love that they're not giving themselves, that they don't have, to sacrifice and be disciplined and go and get that thing that they want. Because generally, to achieve a goal, there has to be some level of sacrifice, I would have thought, with any goal. That's a trade-off. Yeah, that's right. You are trading one thing for another, and often these goals are not necessarily I want to walk 500 steps today. Like you're gonna walk that going to the toilet and back. Their goals how far's your toilet. I mean, if you live in a mansion, you get it. But so their goals aren't really anything that so most goals that people set have a required level of effort to it. And I think that when they realize, oh, it takes it takes months to get a six-pack, I have to eat and train, like there's that disconnect, and I feel that they fall back into the habit because it's easy, that's their comfort zone, that's what they know, and that's what they do, and that's what their default is.
Robby:Yeah, I also think um it's moments. You know what I mean? Like there's mo like Okay, I've got a uh actually the thing the other day, you should do it. It's a great oh you may have done it, I'm not sure. Never spoken to you about it, but keep talking. I sat down with my um I sat down with my team and went through so we do a team catch up. Uh because you know, some of our teams virtual, they're they're offshore, overseas, or they work only online. Uh and uh we do a catch up on some months just to get everyone together and chat and talk shit. And and we did a um like what's your focus for the year kind of thing. Yeah. It was great. That's good. Because I got to hear what everyone's like, what's what's front of mine? Like, not not you know, I said everyone should set goals. You know what I mean? And I uh honestly I'll probably set the least amount of goals this year that I've set. Me too. How funny you said that. Yeah, I'm actually the very much. Um and I I spoke to everyone about what's everyone's goals, blah blah blah. And my thing that I mentioned to them was health. You know what I mean? And and I say it's all about moments because like today I was having a sh I was having a somewhat average uh day. Like just stuff wasn't connecting, shit was pissing me off, and I just thought, you know what, fuck it, I'm trying to go eat. I've also vowed to go back to eating one meal a day. And I was like, you know, I'm trying to eat, I'm trying to eat, like, this is all shooting me, blah blah blah, I'm just trying to go and get a burrito from Busmans. Anyway, I didn't go in that moment. I said, nah, like don't do that's the thing that's not gonna that is this is the difference between you putting on weight and not putting on weight. Yeah, it's like you're either gonna skip lunch, which you you're more than capable of doing, like that moment of oh no, if I just ate now, if I just ate now, it'd kind of settle my mood and you know what I mean? The moment between that and choosing to do that and saying, you know what, I'll just have a short black. That decision like that is it's those little things. Because like right now I could be sitting here and be like, I'd be full and I'd also not be working towards my goal. Yeah, or I chose to go left instead of right, and it's like cool. Now I'm working more towards my goal, but it was all in a I reckon I had a two-minute window. Yeah. You know what I mean? And I just chose to no no no no, like I just need to distract myself, and I knew having the coffee would suppress my appetite and let me continue to stay on edge. I get fucking on edge.
George:Yeah, I'm finding that I'm getting hangry as well lately. Yeah, uh very short. And it's I'm kind of fortunate that my sister works with me now, so she can handle that. Like, she'll just tell me to shut up. I'm like, Yeah, you're right, sorry about that. But it's um yeah, very much the same. Like yesterday, Simon came into my office and say, Hey, do you want to go to lunch? I'm like, no, not really. Like, yeah, but training, I'm not like, and it's it's gonna burn an hour, like 45 minutes of my day, I've got shit to do, nah, I'm just gonna stick out. Yeah. But yeah, exactly right. You're you're bang on with the moments. And look, there's a few things that you can use that as far as strategies are concerned. You you understand, like, so let's use health for example. Like, one chocolate cake isn't gonna make you fat. One carrot isn't gonna give you a six pack. Like it's got to be compounding, like the effort has to be there. So if you do have a day where you go, fuck it, you know what, I'm gonna have a piece of cake tonight, I'm gonna go have ice cream, I'm gonna do this, gonna do that, like it's not gonna be the end of the world. But it's when you make it twice in a row, then the habit starts to form. That's when you start to go, all right, now I'm doing this on a regular basis, and there is gonna be adverse effect with that. So I think it's important just to stay focused that you're gonna have bad days and accept that you're gonna have days that aren't in line with your goal. But it's like one foot after the other, one foot after the other.
Robby:Yeah, I think it's the the bringing yourself back in.
George:Yeah.
Robby:You're gonna veer off.
George:Yeah, without a doubt. Do you know what I mean? Not everyone's David God's, you know what I mean? Like not everyone has that mindset and that mentality, and shit happens throughout the day. Like, okay, great example. One of my goals, which we'll we will go through some today if you want to, as Paul Express, but one of my goals is exactly that, as far as health is concerned, to be the best shape I have been in my life. And now I've said this goal multiple times. And even it was one of my goals last year, to be in the best shape in the six-pack abs, all that sort of stuff. This year, like really for the last eight weeks, I feel that I've been closer to that than ever before. I feel that I don't know, maybe it's a mindset shift, maybe it's a habit thing, but I feel stronger. I'm training regularly, it's not negotiable, like I'm doing the things I need to do. I'm tracking my food like I never have before. I'm eating a proper set high protein diet. So there's elements of me going, wow, this is actually happening. And then I'm seeing results in the mirror at the gym, like I'm seeing positive results. I'm like, okay, cool, let's keep going. It's not that hard. And I'm hungry now. I haven't eaten today. I've had a protein shake in the morning and that was it. And normally I'll have a smoothie, but I just didn't get the opportunity to do that today. But regardless, like I'm hungry, it's cool, man. Like I'll survive. I'll go get have a good dinner tonight and I'll be fine till tomorrow. And then repeat. Last night I had um a very average sleep. I had a very shit, I had a shit sleep last night. And like my aura ring, I checked the bot, like they checked the details. I'm like, hey, you're fucked. Just give up today, don't bother. Like I take it easy. I went to Jim, does it give you a percentage? Yeah, it shows like uh yes, it does. It gives you a score um out of a hundred or whatever it is. It shows your heart rate, it shows stress levels, it shows a whole range of things. And it was it was poor performance, like it wasn't great last night, didn't have a good sleep. What was the score? Oh, I can't remember now, but it was under 50. Okay. So uh the but aside from that, like I woke up, I was groggy when I woke up, I was just tired. I I remember waking up at like 4 15 and going, Oh, you know, I could get up now. I felt awake uh enough, I felt awake enough to get up and start my day. And then like, oh fuck it, I'll I'll go back to sleep. My alarm was going to go off at 5 30, which I knew. The alarm went off, and then I kind of fell into a deep sleep. So I kind of slept past my alarm a little bit and then ended up getting up at 6. And at that moment, everything in my body was saying, don't go to the gym, man. You've had a shit sleep. Just for like, just take the morning. Take go tomorrow. Go tomorrow. Go tomorrow. I'd already packed my gym bag the night before. Had I not packed my gym bag, I guarantee you I wasn't going to the gym. So I was already packed with my clothes for work in the gym bag. So I had my gym clothes ready to get changed in. So I got to my table, because I I always, every night before, I've always got my clothes ready for the next morning. Something I've been doing for a really long time. It's just one less thing you have to think about in the morning. You know, what shirt do I wear? What pants, what shoes, what socks, like it's all there, ready to go. But I had my gym clothes ready to go. So for me, I got up and I was like, everything was saying, don't like my mind was saying, you're not going, you're not going. But I got changed. I got changed. I was wearing my gym gear. I'm like, well, fuck, what are we gonna do? Look, let's just go there. Let's just go to the gym. At the worst, just walk on the treadmill. Get there, did the first exercise. Now, truth be told, I didn't lift PBs today. Like I was noticeably weaker, like noticeably less energy. Sorry. I felt less energetic. But I did not walk out of the gym going, fuck, I'll regret going to the gym. I still like I felt good after the workout. I felt good that I got the blood pumping and that everything was um that I did the exercise, that I did the workout. And I felt glad that I pushed through that difficult moment in the morning where I was like, I don't want to do this. And I think that's what separates you from achieving goals and not achieving goals, those little moments like you just said.
Robby:Yeah, I I think you gotta you gotta try and catch yourself when you sway.
George:Yeah, and I think it's good to have someone that can, like even someone that can keep you accountable, a partner, a person, a a friend, something like that. They can keep you accountable with that too. And you know, for me, it was my PT. So he's like he's actually away this week. He's gone overseas there. His um his wife is in the top eight of in the world for high rocks, and she's competing at a global level. They've gone to the States and they're doing their competition and whatnot. But he's set the the thing for the program for me. He goes, Cool, you've got to train four times at least this week. All right, and do your 10,000 steps. Go. All right. And yesterday was 40 degrees. And the last thing I wanted to do, and I hadn't walked much because it was indoors most of the day because it was so hot, and the last thing I wanted to do was go out and do walk and walk because it was a 40 degree day. It was hot, it was bothered. I was just like, again, so easy for me to sit at home in an air-conditioned room, watch TV and eat dinner and go, ah, it's all right, it's 40 today, let's do the steps tomorrow. Let's do 15 tomorrow, which I was never gonna do. And again, it's the same thing tonight. It's like cool, like I've had a few steps, I've gone a couple of walks, went to site today, so my steps are a little bit higher, but it still means I've got to go for a walk tonight. And I think that level of sacrifice is needed, and you have to be like I have to understand there's a level of effort that you're gonna need to put in and discipline when it comes to achieving any goal whatsoever.
Robby:Uh, what is it that allows you to say, let me get up and do this, as opposed to because we've all done it, and you're like, ah, just fucking sort it out some.
George:You know what? Every I've had okay, I'm gonna be stereotypical for a second. I've had a dad bod for the better part of 10 years. Okay, let's be like, to be brutally honest, like I haven't been in the I'm not, I'm not, I've never been obese. Okay, I've never hit triple figures. Okay, so I'm happy about that. Never hit triple figures. Got close, I think I got to like 96 once. Oh, really? Yeah, that was when my my son was born, and I think I I was uh sympathy eating with my wife, you know. She was whatever she had, like, yeah, I'll have a packet of Tim's Ams, like, let's do it. One packet each, yeah, that's it. Um, but then I I I rem recall I was like, nah, I can't be a fat dad. And I went, got some training and dropped a whole bunch, or dropped like 10 kilos, so it was good to get back to that. But I've hovered from anywhere between sort of 84 to 89 for the longest period of time. Now I'm sort of I'm pretty much 85 to 86, but I'm a lot more muscle mass, which is good, and tracking food, and and I feel stronger than I have felt in many years. So it's uh for me, it was it's a level of self-love that I'm I'm willing to do this for myself. It's a it's a level of like fuck you, you like you can do it.
Robby:So would you say people who don't do it don't have self-love?
George:No, I just think it's an ultimate form of it when you are willing to sacrifice something for yourself, like it's an ultimate level of self-love. Not to say you don't, like I didn't hate myself because I had a donut on the weekend, or when we go to a builder summit, we stop at the airport and get a home a Simsa donut.
Robby:Did you have a burn on the weekend?
George:No, I didn't. Did you I didn't, but now I will.
Robby:I haven't had a donut this year. Me neither. Sorry. You have to think about that. No, I can't. I was disappointed. Maybe that was last year. Disappointed. Has this been uh there was this was a very long well how how did you feel about uh January?
George:Because I feel like it was it was a long I think the start of January was uh I was annoyed at just life, yeah, at work. I I just didn't want to be here that first week, so we got back on the 12th. So that first week was challenging. I I'd done a lot of traveling, I'd done a lot for like I just hadn't I wasn't in the zone, and I think I wasn't prepared to come. To work on that first day back. I've never had that happen to me ever before. And then the following two weeks have been quite productive and quite busy. So I've been, I felt good so far about the month. But yeah, flown by, like gone so quick. I think about how much I've traveled, like how much I've done over the break, and just back into it, and like you blink, and things are and it's already happened. Like we've had our holidays. I've gone to America, I've gone to Noosa, I've been at the beach, I've done all the things that you know most people would be like, that is a wild three weeks. I've done all that and I'm back at work, and it's like, well, it's game time again. And it's amazing sometimes just to think how quickly things happen and life happens, and it's like, man, like you're gonna wake up one day and you're gonna be 50, you're gonna be 60, you're gonna be 70, and you're still not gonna achieve those things that you want. And I just like that that's really what's driving me at the moment.
Robby:That's a perfect segue into what I was gonna talk about. But before I go on to that, talk about um not getting what you want. Uh a good little accountability. You mentioned accountability before, and there's this little thing I reckon it's great, and I want to share it because I've been doing it. And you talk about the health thing, right? Like I'm trying to actively trying to lose weight at the moment. And I've done this thing with my cousin who we're in a group chat, and we've both agreed to it that every single day we weigh ourselves. Yeah, cool. And so you gotta show you weight in the group chat. And dude, like I can't tell you the amount of times I'll be like, I'm just gonna eat that thing, and then I think, oh, I'm gonna weigh myself too long.
George:200 grams more, and he's gonna fucking know.
Robby:He's gonna know I have the time. I can't yeah, like I can't, because then if there's no progress over a certain amount of time, that level of accountability is it it it keeps you accountable.
George:Gotta turn this aircon on.
Robby:It keeps you um, it keeps you very accountable.
George:So oh without a doubt, and what like what you what gets tracked gets measured. Yeah, and it's a great way to see that as well and go, okay, cool. Uh that these this diet, this exercise, this regime is working.
Robby:I think also we ain't doing it daily, there's no there's no like if you said do it once a week, you'd be like, I can probably get away. I can probably sneak something in. Of course. It's like when you do it daily, you're like, I'm gonna really sneak much in here.
George:But look, there's meant there's more factors to it too. Like your weight's always gonna fluctuate when you're dieting and when you're trying to lose weight or get to a certain body percentage factor. It's always gonna fluctuate. You're gonna have more water on one day than you are another.
Robby:Yeah, you should lose things out. It doesn't have to go down every day, but overall the progress should be lower trajectory.
George:Yeah, you know what I mean? Well, it's it's a calorie deficit at the end of the day. Like you're consuming less than what you're burning. That's how ultimately you're gonna be getting to where you want to get to.
Robby:Yeah, you know I'm baffled about with the calorie discussion. Yeah, I know you're saying that. Yeah, it's like that blew me away. Like that mean meant that made the whole calorie discussion very difficult for me.
George:Yeah, I but I still I still think what was happening in that instance is you were still consuming less food than the amount of work that you were doing. So you were training twice a day with seven.
Robby:Like I was going for a walk. I wasn't training. I would say, I would dare say I train harder right now.
George:Yeah, but here's the thing it's like you people underestimate how how massive walking is. And for 45 minutes, like you'll get if you did one 45 minute walk a day, that's probably the equivalent of six, seven thousand steps, something like that. Yeah, but like uh 13 gillas in 10 weeks. Uh but comparatively to what you were doing, you went from doing nothing to weight training. And oh, you were still training at the time? Yeah, but it's always less again, you're probably less energy out. So I think that I think there would be still have been, there had to have been. You had to have been burning more than what you were consuming. Yeah, but there's a source of protein, like there was low carb, like you I wouldn't imagine you didn't have any carb actually because you did the carnival diet. So it yeah, so you had a very, very high protein and probably relatively high fat uh diet as well. But there's like the studies show that your fats are really good for you, like certain fats are good for you. And uh, and obviously the protein is massive for muscle strength, for losing weight, losing fat on your body is is is really good as well.
Robby:Yeah, it just it makes this thing of like, oh, as long as the calories are low, and then you try that and you eat a smaller meal that's rice and something else, and then you go and eat this and eat as much as you want. I wasn't weighing my food, I wasn't eating as much as I wanted, like custard, anything, honey, cheese, so much cheese, dude. Fell full fat milk and losing weight. Yeah, and it's like it just it makes your brain say, What the fuck? Yeah. Anyway, um not achieving your goals or not getting what you want. Yeah. You said uh uh that uh it was your goal last year as well, to do the same thing that you're talking about this year. Yeah. At what point in time do you turn around and say, Okay, cool, like this thing's been on my list for fucking seven years and like nothing changed. Yeah. It's like because there are there and and I can admit this about myself, like there have been years where something has been on my list and nothing has been actioned about it. I wanted to do the weight thing last year, and I just never got around to it. It was just like the thing, and then bang life just kept kicking. And yeah.
George:Well, my coach said it to me as well. It's like there's certain points in your life where something matters more to you than something else. And he like he said it to me last year. Forget the fact that I I had an operation which sort of put me out for let's say four months, five months of training. But he was saying to it, he goes, For you, your most important thing hasn't been training. He goes, It's been work. And he goes, it still is. Like, you know, I said last year the first you know eight months of the year was fucking stupid busy. Like I was on the tools every single day. Like it was, and my tools are a computer, but like I was doing the do. I wasn't being a CEO of my business. So he goes, that was your most important thing for you. Whereas now I've got that shift, and it sort of light ties into one of my other goals, but it's like that shift of well, no, this needs to be one of the most important things. And I've come to realize that your health, uh my business is very systemized, so much so that we're looking at potential um growth in interstate as well for my construction company, not for Builder Elite, which is already a national company for everyone wanting to attend any events. Speaking of which, this is a nice little segue into that. The Builder Summit is coming up this month. So if you are keen, if you are in construction and want to take it to the next level and learn how to systemize your business, how to scale, brand, market, and all of the above, just find me somewhere and click a link. You will find it. If you can't find it, then you're not invited. But there is a link to get to the Builder Summit. It's a free event. And if you get there, I promise, I promise, I promise you will not regret spending a day with us and us teaching you all the things that you can be using in your business. It's going to be a pretty amazing day.
Robby:What uh what might someone get out of?
George:Nice. I was hoping you would put pick that up, put that down to the phone. You can at least so you know, for okay, let's go business a little bit. We're going a little bit sideways, guys, but hey, we haven't we've normally actually been pretty good the last probably 50 episodes, as far as not going sideways too much, but we are today. So one of the biggest things we often teach in business and also try to do in business to my clients is to provide exceptional value. Make it a no-brainer for people to buy into whatever you're selling. Now, whether it's a product, whether it's a service, whatever it is, make it a no-brainer. So for us to give you guys a little bit more incentive for one lucky person that attends the Builder Summit. Now, this is a free event. There are paid options for those of you that want a bit more of an experience. We are going to give away a Makita toolkit valued at over$2,000. So it's a 10-piece toolkit over$2,000 worth of value. Someone on the day is going to win that. Now there are some T's and C's with that, but ultimately you just need to know you get to the Builder Summit. There's an opportunity for you to win a$2,000 prize. Now, here's the thing: if you leave there with$2,000 prize and nothing else, you've I've I haven't done my job. Because ultimately, the stuff that I'm going to teach you should really feed you for a lifetime. It should make you hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, and Robbie as well. The value that you should get out of the day isn't about the$2,000 toolkit. It's about the lessons that you're going to get out of the day and implement into your life and business.
Robby:And um this toolkit, are they are they brushless?
George:They are brushless, they are batteryless. No, no, they had them with batteryless, they're wireless, cordless. It's good stuff. It's good stuff. Whether you're an experienced tradesman just starting out or want to give some extra jump to your team. What a great way to do it.
Robby:Yeah, whenever you're in DIY kit, you get to keep at home.
George:Yeah, that's right. Could be that too.
Robby:So did you mention the date?
George:25th, good one. 25th of February. So it's only in a few weeks. In Melbourne. We are doing Melbourne and Melbourne only this quarter. We decided to stick it home, groan for the start of the year, and uh and go all out with everything. One of our I reckon it's going to be our biggest event. So you're definitely going to want to get there and get there early.
unknown:Okay.
George:So if you are coming, you already have secured your ticket, get there early because you want to get the best seat in the house, which is close to the front.
Robby:You should you should um camp out the night before. Without a doubt.
George:That's the truth. I'll buy you coffee.
Robby:I won't. Um moving on. Moving on, back to what we said.
George:Where were we? Pascon being a national. Oh, yeah. So there was that element of going interstate. The reason I can do that is because I'm my business is systemized and process driven.
Robby:Now, what was it again?
George:What was the actual question before that?
Robby:Uh I said, at what point do you stop uh putting a goal on your list and use?
George:Oh yes, okay. Sorry, I know my train of thought now. Thank you. Yeah. So um it wasn't my my business was always one of the most important things to me, and I used to always prioritize that over my health because I was never fat, I was never overweight or unhealthy, I was out of shape. And there's a there's a difference there. So for me, it was like, no, no, that's acceptable. I am still a high performer, I'm still doing this, I'm still doing that. But now there's been a shift as of late last year where I've started to get rid of, we've finished some projects, we're moving on to other things, so on and so forth. And I'm like, all right, cool. Now I can actually put a fair focus on that aspect of my life. I go, no, no, this is important. That's what I was saying. So my business is systemized, and what I've come to realize is myself and my health needs to be systemized. There has to be a process for me to do this. And that's helped me get through the idea of, okay, go to the gym, go do this, go do this. I book, I set a meeting request. So, regardless of whether my PT is doing it or I'm doing it myself, I set a meeting request to go to the gym. So that way no one books an appointment with me. I've blocked out that part of my day. It's my most important meeting at that time of the day. And I make it a system of my business. No, you have to work out. This is a system of the business because if I'm in the best possible mental, physical, spiritual condition, then I'm gonna be the best for all aspects of my life and people in my life. So that is what's been a real driving force. And I feel that the other things will also fall into place as far as well, you're gonna be really good there. Well, guess how good you're gonna be at this? And then it's gonna be like, wow, how did I ever go about my life not doing this? And that's my focus at the moment, making it a system. My health is a system of the business right now, or of my life, sorry.
Robby:Um, yeah, but so at what point do you not? Yeah.
George:At what point do you turn around and say, like, for I think you've got to really be honest and just say, is this the is this important enough to me? Or am I just doing it because it would be nice, or because it's external pressures, because my girlfriend or boyfriend doesn't like me anymore or thinks I'm overweight, or society says I need to look like this person in a magazine? Like, what's the reason behind you wanting that thing? And it must, if you're if you're constantly not achieving it for 10 years or five years, or whatever it is, and every year you fall short, well, what is it about that goal that you're that doesn't make you want to wake up in the morning and go and get it? So there has to be an element, like on a subconscious level potentially, or just a genuine belief that you either don't deserve it or don't think you can obtain it.
Robby:So the people who the 83%, let's talk to them.
George:Yeah.
Robby:What should if that person now says this and thinks fuck, they're right. Gotta go to the gym, yeah. They're right. Gotta do this. I gotta do that. I said I was gonna do it, and I haven't done anything about it. Yeah. And you know, it's fucking February, and all I'm thinking about is how I can't wait for this year to be over.
George:The same way that the 31st of December is a date, so is the second of February. It's a date. There's no cosmic shift that happens on the first of January that then means you have to go out and do that thing. Now, yes, there's a cultural thing about New Year's Eve, the start of a new year, new beginnings, all that sort of stuff. Yes, there is that cultural thing. But if you break it down to the what it actually is, it's a moment. So whether you do that moment on the 1st of January or the 2nd of February or the 15th of July, just commit at the best time. Like the best time to have started was last week. The second best time is right now. So start now. If it's something important to you, like again, you've really I think there has to be an element of not just going, all right, first of December quitting smoking. Like, no, why do you want to quit smoking? Why? What is the purpose? And this was a great exercise that I'm I want to do with someone. I won't mention who, but they don't have they smoke, they shouldn't smoke, they don't want to smoke, but they do. And I'm like, okay, you smoke you're gonna die. Like there is a high you've you've said it before. It's like they don't have the the connection between the cigarette and the result and the consequence and the result of potential death or sickness. You don't have that connection, so there's not there. So that's not a driving force for them. Like you're gonna die. Well, we're all gonna die. Okay. Let's pretend they're gonna link the death, dude. No, but yes, I but some people it's not about that for them. Like, okay, I'm gonna everyone's gonna die. Yeah, young. And when it happens, it's like they gotta freak out.
Robby:Yeah, but they gotta link the oh like you're sick now, and it's because of that.
George:Yeah, yes, yes, there is like look, I'm sure there is a huge element of it. But a lot of people are like, I just can't, I can't do that. I can't stop. I know, I understand I'm getting sick. I get it. I just can't. All right, so then maybe if you die, your husband's gonna remarry. And they're like, Oh, what is he? Like, well, fuck, you're dead. What's he gonna do? Just sit around mo mourning you because of your decision to stop to not smoke to keep smoking, like he's gonna remarry. And they're like, Oh, well, fuck, I'm not having that. And like that's their that's the driving. Or you say, Oh, your that happens. Yeah, is that your mother and your mother-in-law is gonna raise the kids, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, like just whatever that fuck that bitch, she ain't touching the kids, and then throws a cigarette out. So there has to be a connection to that, like there's got to be a driving force. Like, what is the core reason why they need to either stop that habit or pick up the new one or drive them in that direction? What is it that has to change there? And I think when you can connect with that value, that's when it's more likely for you to achieve the goal. And I feel that I've connected with that value this time around.
Robby:Well, so what's driving you?
George:Uh, you know, you actually pointed it out to me in a previous podcast. It's sick. What a life. I'm I'm keen to hear what it said. What did I say? You mentioned you called me out on something that was very true, as far as I don't I never reward myself. I think you you had said it on something. You'd seen, like, yeah, you you've done that, but you don't like you don't talk about it, you don't mention this, you don't say this, you don't you don't you don't mention it to me. Like I'm you're you're a close friend of mine. I see you every fucking day, but I wouldn't mention it to you. Like, talk about it, say it. What's what's going on? And it it sort of made me stop and think. Not in that moment, it was like, oh yeah, you're right. But also it's then stuck on thereafter. And it's like one of the things that I've struggled with over the years is I'm very much the type of person that will give to loved ones, to friends, to others. You know, I I like giving. I think it's it might is that a love language? A love language giving to other people? One of them. I don't know. I don't know. I get joy from helping technical ones. Yeah, I don't think it is one of the technical ones, but I get joy from that. Like I'm I would love to give if it was in my power and means to give you a fucking Porsche. Here, man, like do it. Like that would bring do it. Don't fuck around. Like that would bring me joy, right? Or if it was to get my son that bike he always wanted, or a friend that electric guitar, I don't know, whatever, or do something nice for someone, I would feel better than receiving the Porsche or getting that guitar or doing that exercise. So I thought there's got to be a time now where that needs to change, and that had to flip. And this leads me into one of my second goals was a little bit more, not a little bit more. I wanted to look after myself more. I wanted to do more for myself because, you know, I deserve it. I'm deserving. I put in a lot of effort, I do a lot of things for a lot of other people. Uh, I sacrifice for everything and everyone business, my my companies, you know, they take a lot of me, the uh my family, my friends, whoever it might be. And then I don't do that for myself. And I live with myself all the time. I don't escape. So why wouldn't I want to reward myself? And then getting so I've I've got that connection and drive with my health. Then the next thing's gonna be uh around my mindset as well. So sort of inner peace and balance. I've felt uh a lot of stress and pressure over the last few years, which is totally fine. I kind of feel that that comes hand in hand with a running a business, but also being a man. I feel there's a big connection to that. So I don't I don't feel that I always need to be, you know, in like happy, for example. I'm happy to be under, I'm happy, I'm content to be under stress, I'm content to be um under pressure and you know, maybe have some anxiety on certain things. Like that's totally fine. I have moments of happiness, but for me, I'd I want to, as I've said it before, like focus on being proud, I'm more focused on being proud. But that's not to say I don't want to be happy, I just don't think it's sustainable to have that sort of mindset 24-7. Um so yeah, a little bit more, no, not a little bit more, showing myself more self-love.
Robby:Did you watch the um podcast between Hormosy and Robbins?
George:Yep, and he called him out on that, which I saw. That's what I messaged. I said, Hormosis is gonna have a baby after this. Like he's always been no, I'll never have a kid. But what was really interesting, I I listened to it, I didn't watch it, but what I he called him up on Hormosy actually goes, fuck happiness. Like he goes, just grind, like work. And he goes, Well, like why? He goes, but there's your fucking issue right there. He goes, You've just shown me your cards. He goes, You've associated your success with the sacrifice of happiness when you just don't have a strong enough purpose to drive you in the direction that you want to be. You know, as Tony was saying, he goes, I've felt I've fed a hundred million people, and that's brought me more happiness than the billions of dollars companies that I've made and raised and money and all these sort of things. He goes, because I I've had a greater purpose to what I was doing. He goes, I see a lot of joy out of this. He goes, you just need to find that joy that you're getting. And he goes, your business isn't that. That's a numbers game for you. Like this is a game because his podcast name, you know, he's this is all a game. This is a challenge. This is something that he's got to do and the mindset he's got to have. And he goes, whilst it's very admirable, because you're sacrificing things that you could have in your life, but you're not giving yourself that gift because of XYZ. So I thought it was really interesting. It was more like a coaching session for Alex, uh, that whole podcast. It was very interesting to listen to that um and see and take that out. I thought it was very good chat, you know. And I've always said I'm not the biggest Tony Robbins fan, but I heard him on Diary of a CEO, and then I'm literally the next podcast I'll listen to was the um Alex Alex chat as well. So he's obviously promoting his upcoming event, the the free event that he's doing or done. Yeah, it would have just passed. So uh he's promoting that, getting his name out there and whatnot. Not that he needs to, but you know, it's doing the doing the runs. And you know, I I resonated a little bit with that.
Robby:Hey, you want to talk about fucking value? Yes, I do. This guy's on a free fucking event. Yeah. Like, think about that. Yep. For three days. Think for three is it? Three days.
George:Yeah, three days. It's like three hours a day for three days.
Robby:Dude, this guy does not have to, doesn't have to do any of that. Billionaire. Doesn't have to do he could turn around and say, hey, motherfuckers, I am Tony Robbins. You want to come see me? Thousands. Yes. Thousands before I'll even look at you. People will pay. And people will pay, and they do. And it's like, he's still sitting there. Alright, there's still a free event. Yeah. Like think about the level of value. You know what I mean? That is that is he, but I think it's like you feel he's genuine, do you? Yeah, dude. He I I would be if he turned out to be like a snake, yeah.
George:You'd be I would lose my faith in humanity. Yeah, that's what I mean. So he seems so and I got that from the last two. Because as I said, I've never been a fan of his. Not in the sense I didn't like him, I just didn't resonate with a lot of his messages. But over the last two podcasts, I got that feeling from him. He goes, I just want to help people. He goes, I'm here for 65. He goes, I'm 65, 66, whatever old he is.
Robby:And he's yeah, he could have helped at this point. He would have checked out. Yeah, he would have been like, I got my money.
George:Still does his ice baths every single morning. Yeah, no, no, all that stuff. He's he's one of the pioneers. Like before ice baths were even fucking cool. Like he was doing it every single day. For he goes, last 50 years, I've done it every single day. He goes, My mind says, I say go, my mind like we go. Mine doesn't ever find it.
Robby:No, don't negotiate. Yeah, it doesn't.
George:That's it. So, and that's kind of what it was like this morning for myself. It was like, no, we're going to the gym. We said the night before we packed the bag, we're ready to go, and that's why I went. So, yeah, great value. But I feel that he he wouldn't do that if he didn't get a level of happiness from it or fulfillment from doing that. So I feel that you do need to have a level of drive to achieve the goal because otherwise it's just it's more of a dream. It's more the dream body, the dream car, the dream finance, the dream partner. Yeah, you've got to have that drive to go. It's what I want.
Robby:Okay, but there's something you said there. So you said you're doing this out of self-love.
George:Yeah, I I maybe that's not the best word, but yeah, something along those lines. Kind of like a reward for myself. Yeah, I don't reward myself enough. Yeah, that's anything.
Robby:So I I would then like there's people who are listening to this thing and say, hold on, too. Like you you rewarding yourself is I I go to the gym.
George:Put myself through.
Robby:Like I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go and make myself uncomfortable and tired and uh put myself through this discomfort.
George:Yeah, because I want to live, I want to be healthy, I want to live for a long time. I don't want to get to 80 years old, I don't want to be 60 years old, like Tony, and be like, fuck, my back hurts, my legs hurt, stand on stage, Jesus, what's the worst thing I could possibly walk? Fuck. We've got a wheelchair, I've got the electric wheelchairs now. I've got Optimus pushing me around everywhere. Why am I going to uh shout out to Elon? Why am I gonna walk anywhere? Just ride Optimus, I'll get a piggyback. And that to me, I I saw this image a few years ago of two men side by side, but they were both 80 years of age. One was absolutely jacked, six-pack, really strong, really fit, and the other one was frail in a wheelchair with a blanket over him like this, both 80 years old. The exact same age, different choices when they were 40. And that to me was a driving factor going, well, fuck, I want to be the guy that is playing with his grandkids at 60, 70 years old, whilst the in-law is sitting on the porch watching. So that's all right. Sit, relax, you've worked hard enough today. I'll take it from here.
Robby:You know, so you're already competing with the in laws?
George:Yeah, fuck that guy. I'll heard him, I'll hear him. I'll bench press him.
Robby:Wait, hold on. Yeah, so these are your kids. My kids, my children's children. Your children's your children's partners, parents who you have no idea who the people are yet.
George:They're gonna listen back to this episode.
Robby:Yeah, and be like, hey, George.
George:This is episode 120, you'll understand. So the decision had to be made today. And the again, it's like all the research, all the algorithm that I'm looking at, it's all that sort of stuff that comes up, the bone density, the strength, it all happens from the decisions that you make in your 30s and 40s so that you're not that weak, frail person.
Robby:Yeah, but you must have so going back to that thing you're talking about with the smoking, right? It's like you must have attached some level of pain.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
Robby:Because pleasure is a like pain and pleasure are the two drivers, right? Yeah. And it's like most people, everyone knows making a billion dollars would be fucking great. It would feel sick, but most people aren't it's not enough of a driver, like it doesn't pull you enough. Yeah, and we usually do more. The humans will do more to avoid pain than they will to gain pleasure.
George:Yeah.
Robby:So what's the pain? What's the pain?
George:Yeah, really good question. Don't know.
Robby:You don't know consciousness.
George:Yes, yes.
Robby:Yeah. You know, but but it's like sometimes so there's this thing, uh Japanese, maybe, maybe Japanese people do, where they do your own funeral. Oh wow. Yeah. And you get to experience your own funeral and you have to sit through it. Yeah, and the whole thing is like if you're super depressed or whatever, like this is supposed to reinvigorate you. Uh I I think it's quite powerful. I don't know anyone who's ever done it personally, but it's that reminder, man.
George:Like that Memento Mori. It's the the coin, the as Latin. There's a coin that I've got, it's in my laptop bag. Memento mori on one side and Memento Viveri on the other. And the coin effectively translates to saying, You're gonna die. All right. So like every single day, man, you're gonna die. Like generations in two in a generation, no one's gonna remember your name. Like, no one's gonna say who you were. Like all of your possessions, everything you own, it's temporary. The house, it's gonna be someone else's, the car, someone else's, the money, it's gonna be someone else's. You're not taking anything with you. Everything is borrowed that you have in your life. You might own it for now, but it's not gonna be yours one day. And then on the other side of the coins is Memento Viveri. You're also going to live. You're gonna live. You've got a long time ahead of you. And you know, mid-40s, I don't think it's a midlife crisis for me. I don't feel that. I feel strong, I feel fit, I feel a whole range of things. I don't, I feel young, like I'm ready to go, like, let's go. I just think it's uh a combination of the experiences that I've had to date setting me up for this next innings. Like I've got runs on the board, now it's about time to hit the home run, time to use all my experiences and everything I've learned over the years to really take it to the next level.
Robby:Yeah, I think it's good. And I think um, you know, it's uh it's a good feeling to have something to be locked into. Yeah, it is. It's like a level of focus, you know, that level of you know, stay, stay reminded and always bring yourself back into the lane. Yeah. You know what I mean? Um, so for someone who, you know, maybe had that weight goal, or for someone who maybe they wanted to quit smoking, or maybe they wanted to run a marathon or go overseas, or whatever their goal might be that they've laid out this year, and it's kind of fallen off the fallen off the path.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
Robby:What should that person do?
George:Well what's what I said before. Like it's not the end. You're not dead. You got time. You can you don't have to wait till the 31st of December 26th. You can do it tomorrow, you can do it today, you can make the change. But I I feel that there still has to be that connect. There still has to be that main driving reason. Why do you want that thing? Do you want it or is it something your parents wanted?
unknown:Okay.
George:I one of my uh a family member of my he loves smoking cigars. He loves it. Cigars? Yeah, like it's his favorite pastime. Like they'll smoke two, three cigars a day. But he loves it. Just it's relaxing for him. Sit there, they'll have a drink. He enjoys it. For me to for me to get him to stop smoking or having cigars, it'd be monumentally difficult. But he genuinely enjoys it. So like you've got to have that want as well. For him, maybe he's happier to sacrifice shorter lifespan because he gets to enjoy his cigars every single day.
Robby:Yeah, nicotine's a hell of a drug.
George:Yeah, like you've got to want it, otherwise, you that's that's like the smoking example. Like, what's the what's the thing that's gonna drive you to say, that was my last cigarette, guys? And like this person used to be a smoker as well. And he was like, he's he had an uncle that died at like 41 because he and they were identical in every single way. All right, and he had an uncle that died at 41 and he was a pack a day smoker, and he stopped smoking immediately. And he stopped, well, not immediately, but he stopped smoking because of that fear because he was in his I don't know, mid-30s, and like shit, I'm coming up to my 40s, and I've been smoking, and now he's picked up cigars, which supposedly less harmful for you, and you're not completely inhaling the cigar smoke, but it's not exactly a health habit, yeah, and it's not, and also I'm sure the the compound drinking as well doesn't help either. You know, that's another thing. Like, I I went out last year to Rufus DuSol, the concert, and uh it was with my mates, we all bought tickets the year before. Like, it was just a boys' night out. We had a lot of fun. It was one of the honestly, it was one of my most fun nights last that that I had with my mates out. I drank more than I'd had in a very, very long time. I was I was very intoxicated. The next morning, the next two days, I was fucked. There was like I was like, look, that was a lot of fun. I've got no desire to do that again this weekend. None. Almost to the extent of like, you know what, I could go without drinking ever again. And like I haven't had a drink since and feel totally fine. Um but it's like the as she said, the pleasure and the pain. Like, what is it for you? What's gonna drive you to get that thing and and want it? I think that has to be. It has to be what else could it be? I mean, do you think anything differently as far as for someone to have like what's gonna make them achieve that goal?
Robby:I I think it's a trade-off. I think it is if you aren't taking the action of what that thing is, you either don't think it's gonna be good enough or you think doing it's gonna cost you pain with something else in your life. You know what I mean? Like, oh, like we'll use the smoking as an example. They feel like they're gonna the pain of missing out on CGs right now. They're gonna be like, oh, but I gotta quit now, that's gonna be so difficult.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
Robby:Do you get what I'm saying? Yeah, like that's the it's the and it's like that whole thing of like most people can't do the delayed gratification. Most people can't, dude. Do you know what I mean? People's people's most people suck. The average human, if I say to you, hey, you are average, the the term average is not bad. The reason why we hate the term average is because we genuinely associate it to the average human, yeah, and which is lower, which is which is we tend to have a pretty low barfall because most people suck. Yeah, the term average is not a bad word, it just means the middle, like the kind of the middle tier. Yeah, right, right. Yeah. And it's like, or most people kind of. And it's like because we associate it to what we think when we think the average person, uh, we tend to think that the we most people tend to have a real negative connotation to the word average. If you cooked a meal for someone and they said it was average, you'd be like, what the fuck? Yeah, yeah. What do you mean it's average? Oh, yeah, how was my performance? It was average. Average.
George:That wasn't bad, just wasn't amazing. Just there. Yeah. But if it's like But I've come to the Builder Summit, it's up here.
Robby:You're not allowed to say average at the Builder Summit. We don't let you through the door. Yeah, you'll get kicked out. Um but yeah, I I think it's having that ability to, you know, either connect to the pleasure or dis disconnect from the pain and understand that it's what you do now that's gonna impact what might happen in the future. You know what I mean? Quitting those darts now. Dude, I could you know, I used to smoke.
George:Which I found surprising the first time I met you. Oh, when you told me that, sorry.
Robby:Like eight, um darts, like cigars, whinny blues, ten dollars eighty woolies, it's great.
unknown:Right?
Robby:Now 25, now 50. Now 50 bucks, yeah. It was$10.80 when I was 18. I think when I quit, they were about$13 or something like that. Uh but I haven't smoked for like 10 years.
unknown:Yeah.
George:Do you ever feel the urge? My old man used to always say, You you you're always a smoker. It's just the day between your last cigarette and your next one. Never never smoked since. Like he used to smoke a pack a day, you know, when he was in his 30s or whatever, but he still he quit when we're in primary school still. But he goes, it's just you're always a smoker. He goes, It's just the cigarette between the last time you had one and the next one. That's all.
Robby:Nah, even like maybe eight years ago or something, seven years. I couldn't even tell you how long ago, but I tried to have a ciggy, yeah. Couldn't have one. Good. Yeah, it just did, it was horrible. I can't live you see this. Yeah. Um anyway, when I funny you mention that though, do you ever feel like a ciggy? I was watching uh Dave Chappelle's new comedy special last night, and he just munches darts throughout the whole thing. But he smokes so well he makes you feel like a ciggy. You look at him and you think, Wow, like man, if someone was on the verge of like wanting one, yeah, wanting one, you should not watch this. Yeah, you should not watch this. Uh, because I never want one, and I almost wanted one, but I didn't. Uh, but yeah, I I was having the ciggy one time, and I remember thinking in that moment, dude, I had no, I wasn't like, I'm gonna quit soon, and none of that jazz, none of it, and I was smoking a ciggy outside. Oh, I can't remember the name of the kebab shop. No, it's in Essendon.
George:Now I'm disappointed. I thought you were kebab van in Essendon.
Robby:Kebab Van in Essendon. So people are gonna know it, it's very well known. I know.
George:I've got mates, I've got a few of my mates are from that side of town.
Robby:No idea. Kebab shop, Essendon, just off Pascal Road, where the car wash is. If you know, you know. And I was there and I just had a kebab, and it was like it was like a week before New Year's or something like that, around that, or four days before New Year's Eve. And I was having a Siggy and it was going down so horribly, dude. And I remember dick in the Siggy and saying, I'm gonna quit. And everyone looked at me like this guy. I was like, Yeah, I'm gonna quit. I'd say I'm not smoking anymore. And I didn't. I didn't finish my packet. Yeah, like just from that. And have I had a cigarette?
George:Yes, but like But it wasn't a habit, you didn't do it the next day, never the next day, or next smoked again full time. There you go.
Robby:You know what I mean? Ever. And it all just went away from there. Simply because I in that moment, the only thing I associated to it was this is fucking cooked. Yeah, I was like, this is this is horrible. I didn't, I had no I didn't wasn't even thinking I'm gonna feel better. If I'm being honest, I didn't feel better. Um, but the only thing I thought in that moment was I'm hating this so much. Yeah, like why the fuck am I doing this? This is stupid.
George:I don't want to do this. It was a similar thing. My wife used to smoke as well, and similar thing when we were at a friend's wedding and she got real sick, like she was just flew, and she had a cigarette, and it was like the worst. And she's like, This is fucking disgusting. And like when we were dating, like she was a smoker. I've never smoked myself, but she was a smoker before we were married, um, and even into when we were married a bit as well. But again, for her disconnect from that was a, she did feel sick, but also we were like, Well, we're gonna start we're gonna try to have kids, and she didn't want, like, she obviously didn't want to be a smoker and be pregnant at the same time. So for her, she found that greater value in something else other than herself. Because if if he she had the mindset of, we're not having kids, like that's it, no kids. I guarantee she would have been smoking from then till now, no doubt, because she had no connection with no reason not to. Yeah, no reason not to. Maybe some people it's the money. Yeah, 50 bucks a packet, a packet a day, fuck. It's a lot of money. Maybe people like, if I put that away and put it into shares or did something, I'd have I could go have a down payment on a Porsche. Like, who knows? Maybe that's their connection, maybe that's what it is for you.
Robby:Yeah, I think I think it's clarity.
George:Definitely clarity on what you want to do.
Robby:Ask yourself a question. Why did you if if you haven't written any goals down, maybe pick one. Even if it's just one. Yeah you know, me having one and achieving it's greater than you having ten and getting none. That's right. Um and pick something, pick whatever that thing is that you focus on. Like for me, I always do the health, wealth, relationships experiences, and then I do an idea identity one. Like something about you specifically that you might not like you might go and choose to learn a skill. That's an identity thing. Speak language, that's none of the other things. Learn to cook. That's not health, that's not wealth, that's not relationships, that's not experiences. Like you don't do that for the experience of it. You're doing it because you want to gain a skill that you can bring in. Do you know what I mean? Um, what did I say? Learn a language. Would you ever like that? Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, what did I say? No, experience. Um you said learn a language. Yeah, that's a really good uh a really good example of it.
George:Would you ever learn a linear language? Oh, I speak Greek. Would I learn another one? Yeah. I mean, maybe, yeah.
Robby:Would you?
George:Oh no. I I'm not, I don't have that try. Like, there's nothing pushing me to do it. But yeah, I I think I would maybe mandarin. Yeah. I used to be really good at that when I was in primary school.
Robby:I would freak if you came here and started Nihalma.
George:I would absolutely, I think.
Robby:Um, but I think picking one of those things that you really want to focus on. You know what I mean? Saying, okay, cool, like the the healthing is the thing. And have that be your north star, like for everything you do.
George:Yeah, because there's there's there's things that'll flow off that too that you probably never even knew. Maybe you getting into the best shape attracts that one person that you've been missing in your life. But who knows?
Robby:That's true. Yeah, or you may. Making more money, or you be more confident, or getting a new skill, or choosing to get a new skill and meeting them somewhere. You know what I mean? Like I went to learn how to cook.
George:If I had a person come into my office that weighed 160 kilos applying for a position, and then another person came in and he was 80 kilos, like I've already discredited that 180 kilo person.
Robby:I would judge what would it take? What would it take for what? For them to get the job.
George:Yeah.
Robby:Like what would what would have to be the discrepancy between the two?
George:Like what if the maybe knowledge, skill, like what they're bringing to the table. But there's that's detrimental. Like I feel that they're losing at that aspect of their life. Like, what if he dies on my side? Heart attack. You know what I mean? It's possible. Possible. Then what? Um, but like there's a there's opportunities will open up for you if you're morbidly obese. Like that's problems. That's a that's a bad thing to have, to be. Hard thing to change, hard thing to change. Oh, it's massively hard things to change. Yeah, let's not discredit that, that's for sure.
Robby:And I heard this saying, and I think this is um fuck, who did I hear it from? I can't remember. They said, if you don't make time to exercise now, you will make time for sickness later.
George:Yeah, so true.
Robby:So true. And I was like, fuck.
George:Yeah, that's exactly what it is. That's exactly what it is.
Robby:You will be forced to make time for sickness later. Yeah, so if you don't make time to do to be healthy now, you'll be forced later. You know, and I I read this other thing, it was on uh this guy's Instagram, and he had this thing pinned on his uh feed, and it said, if your habits were a person, would you respect them? That's cool. And I thought, fuck, that's fucking cool.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I like that a lot.
Robby:You know what I mean? If your habits were a person, that's like you're doing the wrong shit, you're eating, or you're not training, or whatever it is, whatever it, whatever the thing is that you value not spending time with your family or your kids or your parents, that thing, it's like if that was in another person, would you respect if that was the person, would you respect it? And if you say no, then change that habit. Good thing is you're still alive, still alive, you still got time.
George:Memento viveri.
Robby:Memento viveri.
George:I'm sure it's not pronounced exactly like that, but it's close. It is now. It is now. So uh before we wrap it up, so I've said a couple of my goals. What was is there some one that you want to share that we haven't covered?
Robby:Um my goals are quite simple, man. I had a wealth focused goal, I had which is purely income related. I had a health goal, which is purely weight loss. And this has been on my mind for like over a year now. Flexibility. Have you ever done it? Oh, yeah, yeah. No, uh, yes, I have. Have you done it recently? No, not for a long time. Because I think you'll realize, oh fuck, I thought I was, I thought I was okay. Like I can touch my toes and shit. I thought I was alright. Yeah. But then you realize I'm not flexible at all.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
Robby:Like there's so many people, like you look at some people, you think I can't even bend that way. You're like, how does that? And then you realize, like, oh, I'm I'm not putting my bodies into positions that allows that part to stretch. You know what I mean? And then you're like, okay, probably should do something about this. Because flexibility is super, that's it's prevents injuries, it prevents, you know what I mean? You can talk about getting old, and you you don't want to have a fall and die, you want to have a fall, and your muscles can absorb the impact, and you know what I mean? So flexibility. Um and then I've just got a couple of travel things that I want to kind of tick off the list this year. I've made it purposeful to not I used to put business goals as my goals. They're not my goals, they're the business's goals. That business has its own goals, it's its own entity.
George:Yeah, I like that.
Robby:Yeah, I like that.
George:And it's got its own goals, and it's that was yeah, that was something a while ago you said, you know, PASCON has that problem, not George. Yeah.
Robby:It's a Pascon problem, it's not a George problem. Yeah.
George:I separate the two. And that made me that just gave me a bit more clarity and made me feel better about potent that issue that I was dealing with.
Robby:Well, you just don't take it personally anymore.
George:Yeah, that's exactly what it was. Yeah.
Robby:This person wasn't doing something like that. They're not attacking me, they're attacking the business. Yeah. Because at one point the business is you, and then you're like, oh man, like this person's attacking me, and it hurts your ego. Um, but yeah, that's the health one's the big, the big, you know what I mean? Um it's the core focus. Um so far, so good. I'm also focusing on not completely. Every time I've done it, I've completely like the 75 hard. And it's like, cool, that was great. But like I wasn't gonna maintain that forever. So I'm so focused super focused on like, well then do it gradually. Because it tends when it's when it tends to melt off, it tends to kind of melt back on. Yeah, just as quick. Um so I'm like, cool, do it gradually.
George:Like, don't Yeah, you don't have to have it in in 75 days.
Robby:Yeah, don't um don't do something that you can't kind of keep up forever. Or for as long as you go. Which is gonna be forever.
George:The way things are going.
Robby:Yeah, AI is gonna make everyone live forever.
George:Well, that's a topic for another day. It is another topic for another day. But um, yeah, like get back on the horse. Get back on the horse. Don't be one of the 83%, come over to the dark side or the light side, let's call it, and just be the best that you can be. You know? Things take time, they take sacrifice, and I believe in you. I know you can do it because someone out there can. Yeah, it won't be easy. But it'll be worth it. Damn straight. Damn straight. Well, I think if if I was an everyday person listening to this podcast, I would definitely set a goal for myself to be like, you know what, I want to get better at life, I want to get better at everything business focused. My immediate goal would be to subscribe to this podcast. It would be to find the red button somewhere on some platform and just go bang.
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George:Thanks for tuning in, guys. Can't wait to see you next week.
Robby:All right, thanks everyone.
George:Bait good shots.
