What Would It Take To Make Failure Unreasonable?

Want a life that leaves little room for failure? We pull the thread on a single question—what would it take to make success unreasonable—and follow it through health, business, and the quiet moments at home that end up meaning everything. Fresh off our biggest Builder Summit, we break down why 500+ registrations produced just over 100 attendees, how data made headcount eerily predictable, and which levers actually move bodies into seats: skin in the game, friction removal, confirmation calls, time and place, and a value promise strong enough that not attending feels costly.

From there, we zoom out to redefine elite. Is it being world-class at one thing, or does true excellence require strength across all domains—health, wealth, relationships, leadership, and character? We argue for multi-domain mastery and the self-awareness to know your constraints. Ownership doesn’t mean blaming yourself for everything; it means correcting faster, firing sooner when needed, and aligning effort with outcomes you can control. We also challenge the “brand of elite”—saying the right words on stage—versus the behavior of elite: training when it’s inconvenient, eating clean, and being present with the people you love.

Health becomes the keystone. We share practical wins from consistent training, mobility work, and tracking food that turned injuries into progress and energy into confidence. Then we shift to presence: initiating a board game with your kids, calling your parents, and choosing gratitude over autopilot. A simple thought experiment—your 80-year-old self gifted 24 hours in your body today—reframes ordinary time as scarce time. Add boundaries around email and attention, and you get a blueprint that compounds across work and home.

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Transcript

Better Sleep And Daily Performance

George 0:00

Did you wake up this morning and were like, can't wait to have an average day.

Robby 0:08

I don't reckon I've ever thought that. I've had days where I've woken up and thought, ah, today's gonna be fucking today's gonna be a tough day. Yep. Uh but you know what, George? I had a great sleep. That's important.

George 0:20

That makes a huge difference to your day.

Robby 0:22

With no alarm.

unknown 0:23

Yeah.

Robby 0:23

I woke up and I'm like I forgot to set an alarm.

George 0:28

Yeah.

Robby 0:28

That's the truth.

George 0:29

But I woke up early. Yeah. Yesterday I did. I I slept in yesterday, but had a big day the day before. And I was happy to though. I was like, nah, cool. Like I've whenever I get up, I get up. And for me, 7 a.m. was a is a massive sleep. And so it was good.

Robby 0:44

Yeah, I just felt I felt awake in this morning, like I was on the way. Yeah, I felt awake. And I was like, man, like I that was a good sleep. Like I slept throughout. And I think every day. You feel like that every day?

George 0:56

No, so imagine you feel like that every day.

Robby 0:58

Yeah, I was reading this thing the other day, and it says your sleep, the sleep you miss out on is irreversible.

George 1:04

That's cool.

Robby 1:04

Yeah, so it's like it's not a I'll catch up on sleep tomorrow. No, you won't. The damage done by the sleep you've missed out on is irreversible.

George 1:11

Yeah, and it's massive too. Like people don't understand how detrimental it is to your health. And to your mood, and to your day.

Robby 1:19

And to how you like your your ability to cognitively think about things. Do you know what I mean? How angry you get, how how well you control stress.

Builder Summit Recap And Prize Story

George 1:28

Yeah. It would definitely affect your performance. Put it. Yep. That's performing at the peak of your abilities. Um so we just came off our event last week. Or the other week, whenever this is, and it was the Builder Summit. It was our biggest event to date. So well done. Thank you.

Robby 1:51

Biggest event so far. Thanks everyone who everyone for everyone who showed up and attended. Uh congratulations to the lucky uh Yeah, lucky winner.

George 2:00

Lucky winner. On the 10-piece Makita toolkit. Uh I spoke to him the other day, actually. Yeah, excellent.

Robby 2:05

Yeah.

George 2:06

After the event.

Robby 2:07

Yeah. Oh, nice. I said, How's the toolkit? He said, I'm a Milwaukee guy.

George 2:12

How funny.

Robby 2:14

Yeah. He was like, it's like, okay. Give it back. Really good guy, by the way. He's like, yeah, I gave it to the boys. They loved it. Gave it to his guys that to his team, yeah. Oh, good on him. Yeah. Well done. Um well done to him for attending.

George 2:30

Yeah, and stayed to the very end and got the reward. And there was a guy who we drew on the random selector. The first person that came to the city. The first person that got called out. He wasn't there. Ben V. Okay. I don't know. I don't remember the surname. I just had his first initial. But Ben, if you're at the Builder Summit, you left and you didn't win a$2,000 prize, mate.

Robby 2:49

You could have walked away with a 10-piece Makita combo, brushless, brushless combo. And you didn't. But uh no, it was a good event. Great event. Uh good crowd.

George 3:00

Yeah. Um, we tried different things. I love look, we we've been testing a lot over the years, and we keep testing and testing and trying to do different things, spending more money, taking more risks, and it it's become very predictable. From a from a money in, money out, from an attendee point of view, like the numbers have been very consistent. Yeah, we've got the data now. It's not like a random thing where we go, I don't know what to expect. I don't know how many people are going to rock up. And you know, the funny thing is I always think that at the start of the day. I'm like, fuck, what if there's like six people?

Robby 3:36

But how I've got them pretty good at predicting it.

George 3:39

Yeah, but look, bang on. Yeah, it's almost it's a science. It's almost like okay, the maths, numbers don't line.

Robby 3:45

Exactly. Uh funny. I was listening to this, like uh our pre-ramble before the podcast started from the last episode. And I was saying to you, hey, I reckon let's let's account for about a hundred.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

Yeah.

Robby 4:01

We end up getting 102. Yeah, yeah. Like, fuck, that's pretty damn close, dude.

George 4:07

Yeah, pretty good.

Turning Events Into A Predictable System

Robby 4:08

Like, pretty good estimation to be within two percent. Can't uh can't fault that. The numbers don't lie, yeah.

George 4:17

And it it begs the question, right? Because you said it to me, was it on the day? I think it was on the day. And it's like, okay, it was, it was pre it was like five minutes before we let people in. And it's what do we need to do? What things would you need to do? Like list everything. If you took all chance out and you're like, you've got to get 500 people in this room, what are the things you would do? List them all out. Now that could be unreasonable. It could be like, well, you know, get Elon Musk to be a guest speaker. Like, what are the things that would get people in the room? Because we had over 500 registrations. So over 500 people registered, took the time, click the ad, click the link, put their name, email, phone number, did all that aspect, got all the emails, got the phone calls, got the text messages, they got everything. What would it take to get those people in the room? And then it starts asking the question. We're going, well, am I doing enough? Are we doing enough? We this time round, we filmed lots of ads, as in different content, talking to camera, going on site, being creative. We had a prize, we've never given a prize away. That's the first time we've done that. So as as great as it was to get 100 people in the room, what does it take to fill to get 200 people in the room? And I'd like to think it's not just spending an extra 30 grand. I want to think it's more than just that. Is that bad of me to think that? Or is it just throw money at it? Because no, no, it can't be. It'd have to be a combination of it. Because if I just threw money at it and didn't do any new ads, didn't do anything, didn't do any prizes, I'm sure the result would be worse.

Robby 5:57

The the ads are not you're you have to do the ads. That's part of the requirement. That's right. Okay. But the other elements, like the confirmation calls, the uh incentive to come and hang out and stay for the day.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

Yeah.

Robby 6:17

Uh other things like, you know, days, times, uh, location, cities, yeah, all that stuff is the variables. Yeah. And it's like, okay, you don't have to we don't have to do confirmation calls. We don't have to send them emails and sms.

George 6:33

Yep, don't have to give them a prize. Yeah, you don't have to do a door prize. You don't have to do, we do registrations, we give people books, like just rock up, have it. Here's a notepad. We've got it from Officeworks. You know? You'd what like at what what do you need to do so that it becomes unreasonable for you to fail?

Robby 6:50

Well, define fail.

George 6:53

It becomes unreasonable for you to be really successful in it. But yes, what is that level? What is failure? What is success? You know, had we got 150 people, would I have said, oh, great success. An amazing success. If we got 200 people, so if we got 200 people, we wouldn't have fit them in the room. Yeah. That that room, I think max would have catered for like 120, 130, and probably maybe some standing room on the sides. Yeah. Oh no, no, and we had no, it was probably 130.

Robby 7:24

Yeah, it would have been pretty full at 130.

What It Takes To Fill The Room

George 7:26

Yeah, it'd be a full room at 130. And then you're like, okay, well, is it you need more sponsors, more attractions, more guests? Like, what's the thing? And it got me thinking not just for that event, because it is like my the wheels are turning over. Because I know if we it it's not a numbers thing as far as would you be nervous if there was 400 people in the room to talk on stage? A little bit. Yeah, I don't know if I would. I think maybe initially, but I think it's this like give it literally 30 seconds and be like, all right, game on. I wouldn't even think about it after that.

Robby 7:58

Yeah, but I think anything new, you tend to like it's the same thing, it's just more.

George 8:03

Like, what's the what's why would you be different? Why would you be nervous in front of 400 and not nervous in front of 100?

Robby 8:10

The same reason why you're nervous spending 400 grand and not nervous spending$4.

George 8:17

It's a bigger it is, but yeah, I know in that sense, but it's like you're you're it's fear of judgment. Why are you nervous? What if I say the wrong thing? What if people laugh at me? What if this? Well, why what's the difference if 100 people laugh at you or 400 people laugh at you? I don't think it's a fear of judgment. What do you think it is, though? Why would you be nervous being in front of 400 people? I don't know if I would actually. I think I'd be pumped. It's just like bigger stakes. That's all it is. Yeah, I mean, from the stakes from a sale perspective, yeah. But the actual the actual performance per se being on stage, I don't think I would be nervous at that. Honestly, I don't actually don't think I'd be. But then you say, okay, well, is there a number? There's a little is there a thousand? If it's a hundredth, if you're in front in the MCG and you're doing a bookstore.

Robby 8:59

There's a little bit of like antsiness there, yeah. Like kind of like just like uh until you get into your groove, you know what I mean? Yeah, there's got to be a point where you're like, okay, now it's a little bit. Yeah, doesn't mean you won't flow or go well. It might not show it all. Yeah. But I'm sure if there's a room full of 20 people and a room full of 20,000, you're gonna feel a slightly different.

George 9:21

Yeah, yeah, without a doubt, you would. I think so. I think so. So yeah, Hormosy does say this. He's like, you have to do a level, like what amount of work would you do, would you need to do for it to be unreasonable for you not to succeed in this? And that's not just in our event space and what we're doing there. Everything. And I think about that a lot. I don't know what you what you're like, but even in my construction business, I'm like, well, what do I need to do so that's unreasonable that I'm gonna succeed in this? What do I need to do? Who do I need to contact? Who do I need to hire? What do I need to learn? What needs to happen? What's the change there that has to happen?

Robby 9:56

So that so that it's unreasonable that you it's unreasonable that you fail. Yeah. So like the your chances of succeeding are through the roof.

George 10:03

Yeah, it's exactly right. It's like there's no way. And then I look at it again in health. All right, so I've been training pretty hard for about eight weeks now, nine weeks. It's like, well, what do I need to do so that it's unreasonable that I'm not in an amazing shape in another in the next eight weeks? All right. And it's like, okay, I know what has to happen. If I went for a run every if I got 20,000 steps every single day, if I worked out every single time, every single day, if I tracked every bit of food that went in my mouth and I made sure it was all clean, it was all natural, it was high protein, it was all that stuff, it would have to be un unreasonable for me to fail.

Robby 10:40

Yeah. Yes, I agree. So then, okay, going back to the people who registered and the people who showed up to the event, yeah. Why do you reckon a large portion didn't show up?

Nerves, Stakes, And Performing At Scale

George 10:54

Okay, I think there's a couple of reasons. The first one is 90% of the people that were registered for the event, it was a free event. So I think they had no skin in the game whatsoever. So, regardless of them rocking up or not, it wasn't really going to make a difference to their life. So I don't think they had a vested interest in being there in the first place. I think that does have something to do with it. I think most people will because they didn't, they've got no skin in the game, anything else that's a little bit more important than going to that event will take priority. So they'll go and do that. If it's a little bit hard for them to get there, I think they go, well, it's too hard, Basket. I'm not going to do that. Again, people always take the path of least resistance. It's built into them. And I think that's what happens there. Like they don't show up in a lot of aspects. I like I think that if you look at their lives and what they're like in their day-to-day operations, I think you'll see a lot of that pattern happening in everything they're doing. As in where else are they not showing up at work? When I say showing up, as in the best at work, where are they not showing up at home? Where are they not there for the showing up for their kids or showing up for their health or any of those things? I reckon you would see patterns everywhere in their life just from the fact of them not rocking up on the day. And I did, I actually said that when I did, so when I got people to do an activity, I won't give it away here, but when I got people to do an activity and then I asked them the question, I go, the point of that activity was to highlight to you, not to the people that won the activity, but to the people who didn't take action, like where else is that showing up in your life? And I, for the first time that I've ever done that, I noticed a lot of people nodding, a lot of people in agreement with what I was saying. I'm like, well, why didn't you take action? Why didn't you take action? I go, you were the closest. Why didn't you take action? You were the furthest away. And so was the person that won. He was the furthest away, but he still got up and took the action. Why didn't you? And I said, forget that you didn't win the prize. Where else is that showing up in your life where you're not getting those results in your life? And it just makes me think, well, where else am I not showing up? Where else am I not doing something I should be doing in my business, in my personal life, in my relationships, with friends, with family, with children, with partners, with whatever it is? And I like that I'm thinking like that. Because now I'm looking for those shortcomings, and I want to remove them and eliminate them as far as practicable.

Robby 13:30

Do you reckon that's a healthy way to think?

George 13:32

Yeah, why not? I don't think it's unhealthy.

Robby 13:35

I think if you always look for something wrong, you'll probably always find something.

George 13:38

Yeah, okay. Sorry, I mean in the sense of but I'm looking for improvement, not something wrong. Maybe that's probably a better way to look at it. I'm not looking for wrong things going wrong. I just want to always because there always is room for improvement, isn't there? Yeah. There's always something you can do better. And I don't think that's a bad thing by wanting to always improve. No, it gives you a level of drive, it gives you a level of like purpose. It gives you something to do. Yeah, like fuck, imagine you win the lottery tomorrow and you you got 200 million in the bank. Like, I'm still gonna want to do something. Like this will be a full-time gig. You know what I mean? It'd be a full-time gig. And how good would it be? Like we'd have so much fun doing it, but then I'm just like, okay, forget that we've got money in the bank and we don't, we this is a fun thing for us. Well, how do we make it so that we become better, that it actually we get proper guests on that we do this, that we do this, that we do, and then make it self-sufficient? I think that would be a goal in itself. Because if I just go, well, we're multi-millionaires now, I don't we do this for fun, I don't need to improve it, then I think the conversations might get pretty boring. You reckon? Potentially, because now we're going to be a little bit disconnected. Like every episode we've done, the whole 120-something that we've done to this date. If someone's been with us since day one, and hey, thank you if you have, we love that you've been here since day one. Man, we've grown a lot since episode one. I kind of hope so. Yeah, but that's but that's people have been along with that journey. They've come along with that journey. If you've been here since day one and watched us in everything we've done, we've done, not only have we grown in the podcast space, like we're more, we're more skilled delivering a podcast than what we were on the first time we did one, or the first 10 or the 20, whatever it was. But we've also come a long way in our own personal growth and development too. So the people you see sitting here two years later, very different from the the guys that you met day one.

Robby 15:30

Yeah, dude, you'd fucking like 124 weeks straight. Yeah, this is 124 weeks. Imagine looking back 124 weeks and saying, cool, this is all exactly the same. It's like you're still doing the same. There's nothing that scares me more in life. Yeah. So that's great, great, great.

George 15:51

You said that. What needs to change here? With the podcast. So so that it's unreasonable that we're not up there.

Robby 15:58

How do we make the podcast elite?

Making Success Unreasonable

George 16:01

Elite. Is that what you're asking? Yes, I'm asking, how do we make this podcast elite so that we're in the same conversation as Stephen Bartlett? We're in the same conversation as Joe Rogan. We're in the same conversation as all the guys that are massive in podcasts across Australia, across the world. What needs to happen in that space? So you see how I start looking at it from here, from my other business, from my personal life, from all those things, and I don't see how that's a bad thing in any way. I'm not saying this is shit. I'm not looking for the bad things. I'm not saying that because this million dollar day sign doesn't change colours, and my wife's a failure for getting that for us, that it only has a single colour. I'm not saying that I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that either. I'm not uh it's like I'm trying to look for the the things that are gonna make it elite, the things that are gonna make it in the top 1%.

Robby 16:57

So what's your definition of elite?

George 17:00

I think you have to okay. The definition of elite is someone or something that is the best of the best. Okay, because I said it to you before. So you've let's just use AFL. There's what, 500 players, a thousand players in AFL at the moment, at the at the elite at the highest level. How many elite players are there? Maybe 20.

Robby 17:24

AFL is one of those sports where 20? AFL is one of those sports where um there's a big discrepancy between the best and the average.

George 17:32

Let's use the Olympics. We've just had Winter Olympics, the new course I watched it. The Summer Olympics, yeah, of course. Did you see Can you believe it's not summer anymore? Uh no, that upsets me. Yeah, might have to sell my jet ski. So yeah. Um use the Olympics. Yeah. So you've got whatever. The 200 meter sprint in the pool. You've got uh in the pool? Yeah, the yeah, the 200 meter swim, whatever it is. Oh yeah. I thought you said sprint. I did say sprint. Ah, because they are running in the pool. They can do whatever they want in the pool. All right. So the three But you've got you've got however many countries. I don't know how many lanes there are, but let's just say there's 30 people. All right. Eight lanes? Yeah, whatever it is. But there's so let's just say there's 30 people that actually qualify to get into the 200 meters um um qualify qualification to bear there. Yeah. To get in there. So you've got the best, you are the best in your country to represent your country in the 200 meter sprint. In this, yeah, in this sport. But there's three people there that are going to get a medal. All right. There's three people, or there's eight people that are gonna get to the final round of those 30. So those eight are elite. But are you then elite in your country? Yeah, you could be.

Robby 18:44

Yeah, so okay, how long is it?

George 18:46

There is that elite stick. Yeah, I I don't know. The best of the best, yeah. Yeah, well, depends what you measure. Yeah, there is a there's got to be a definition on that.

Why Registrants Don’t Show Up

Robby 18:54

Okay, my definition of elite is someone who has someone who excels in all facets. Do you know what I mean? So, like, I'll give you an example. Uh Cristiano Ronaldo, elite, business, brand, sport, fitness, health. Like, it does every doesn't cut any corners. Okay? Yes. Um who's another example that's really good. Dave Chappelle.

George 19:30

Yeah.

Robby 19:30

Dave Chappelle. Arguably best comedian ever. Not only smokes, drinks, you know what I mean? Yep. Doesn't have the greatest habits, but comedian, gun. Yeah. But he hasn't really excelled. And that's like good on him, like he wants to live his life. I'm a big fan of Dave Chappelle, just to be clear. But in my books, this guy sitting on this couch telling people how to live their life, but in my books, that guy is not elite. Do you know what I mean? Elite means having it together in all facets of life. So excelling in everything, excelling in health, excelling in wealth, excelling in uh your relationships, personally, professionally, uh, excelling in in uh yourself, your own ability, your identity, the the your professional development, who you become, um you know, business, brand, uh, just fucking kicking goals in every sector, dude.

George 20:24

So do you think that's a good pursuit? Me? Yeah, yeah, fucking off. Yeah, so we're looking at Chappelle, going, Oh, you smoke, you drink, you you fuck, you do whatever you do. Dude, I think he's just a unique individual. I know, but I'm just saying, like, if you asked him, hey Dave, are you elite? You might motherfucker, yeah. Like, is he gonna say that? Yeah, maybe in his opinion, yeah, I am elite. I'm the best comedian in the world. Or if you ask other comedians who's the most elite comedian in the world, he's a great comedian. Yeah, but that's right. Maybe for him being elite in the comedic space is is what it's at, is where it's at. And that's part of him drinking and smoking, is part of him being elite too. Who knows? So it does have a level of it's what does it mean to you? But I I do like that. I I like that concept.

Robby 21:10

Yeah, because it's like, well, if you're elite, like think about the term elite. It means like like you said, it's like you're the best of the best. And it's like at the end of the day, let me okay. You gave the swimming thing as an example. Imagine two people and they swim and they get like almost the same or the same, the exact same time. They finish like the draw. I know that almost can't happen, but let's just say it did. Wouldn't the if I asked you who was more elite, wouldn't the factors that define that be the other elements of that person's life? For you to turn around and say, Okay, cool, like uh they both swam at the exact same speed.

George 21:51

Yeah, this like this bloke cheats on his wife.

Robby 21:54

This guy, yeah, cheats on his wife, has horrible relationships, broke, um, horrible human shit person. Yeah, just shoot. And this guy. As like rich, successful, health charity. Yeah, you're like, well, who's elite? You're gonna be like, well that guy's elite.

George 22:07

Yeah, very true. Yeah, that that becomes a defining factor because it's like because you're then you're gonna step away and go, Yeah, well, what's the other factor?

Robby 22:13

You're not just judged in life by one thing, like you know, there's very few things in life where you're judged only by that thing. Like I think a lot of other things come into account as well. Do you know what I mean?

George 22:24

I I really like this pursuit. I must say, like, there's the there's a level of that making me want to get out of bed. Because are you elite?

Robby 22:35

I am I elite? I think I'm I'm on route.

George 22:41

On route, but are you elite?

Robby 22:43

I don't think I'll ever hit a point where I think I've no uh no.

Ownership, Limits, And Firing Faster

George 22:46

Yeah, I'd say I'd say no as well. I would say no as well. I'm really good at many aspects of life and many aspects of business, and there's lots of boxes that I'm ticking. But am I elite? I can't say I am. Yeah. Hand on heart. Am I in good shape for a 40-year-old? Yeah. Am I in the best shape I could be? No. Am I do I have successful businesses? Yeah. Are they bigger and better than other businesses? No. Are they as big as they could be? No. Do they deliver great projects? Yes. Do they help and employ and do like is there good things? Yeah, absolutely. But now I want to look at that and say, okay, I it I don't want it just to be average. I don't want it just to be existing. What does make it a leak? So what is it? In which for those elements?

Robby 23:37

Yeah, like what do you what do you need to do that you're not doing now that's gonna help you get that?

George 23:44

Can I I don't wanna there's no blanket rule for each of them. I think well if I have to give it a blanket, it has to start with me as far as my decision to want that. Can I can I add something?

Robby 23:59

You know the whole I think everything has a limit in which you can't there is a point in which it's not your fault anymore, too. Like I think that thing is like if you looked at it at a spectrum, it's like the the worst thing you can do on the complete let's just say like the the this end of the stick, the left side of the stick, the worst thing you can do is blame everything else. Yeah? You talk you to you're talking about taking responsibility here. And then it's like, okay, when you take responsibility, there is benefit, it's in your control, blah blah blah blah. But I think some people can go too far with that, and like all of a sudden you're taking responsibility for things that aren't it's like this person made a mistake, and you're like, oh, it's my fault. It's like, no, it's not like that person is retarded.

George 24:46

I agree, I 100% agree. There are factors that are outside of your control.

Robby 24:49

Yeah, it's like no no, that person's retarded and you need to fire them. Yeah, and then you but then it's me like, oh, but it's my fault. I hire it.

George 24:56

I would say then the responsibility shifts from you saying it's my fault that this that I hide them. So no, no, it's your fault if you keep them. So that's where I think the responsibility needs to shift a little bit, not just saying it's all me, it's all me. Yeah, you hide them. All right, great. It's now your fault if you keep them. It's now your fault if it's detrimental to the rest of your team. It's now your fault if the bad things that they're doing, you're rewarding, and now other people are seeing that and then mirroring that. So I reckon that's where you've got to then shift. And it's self-awareness, isn't it? Yeah, you know, because I could be 40 years old and saying, Well, I want to be an elite footballer. That's never gonna happen. I need to have that self-awareness to say, look, I could get into the best shape I've ever been in my life and be probably stronger than some of those footballers, but I'm never gonna get picked up by any of those teams because I'm not as good of a player, I don't have the skills. And even if I practice every single day, no one's gonna hire a 40-something year old that's never played AFL before in his life at the at the highest level. So a self-awareness does have to come into it too.

Robby 26:05

Yeah, back to what you're saying, but yeah, I just wanted to touch on that because I think that's important, yeah.

George 26:09

Think it um because I do try and say that as well, try and take responsibility for everything that's going on. But yeah, you're right. You cannot, and the Stoics say this, we've spoken about this the other day, you cannot control other people at all. You cannot control other people's emotions, how they act, what they do. You can only control your thoughts, your character, your actions.

Health First: Training, Diet, Recovery

Robby 26:29

So, what are the things that you are now pursuing that are going to I guess you said you said you know it's it's giving you drive and it's getting you out of bed. Yeah. What's that?

George 26:41

One of the things at the moment that I'm I've been really focused on is my health. And it's great because I'm I'm seeing results for the efforts that I'm putting in now. I'm dropping weight, I'm I'm starting to feel stronger. I've had like, I don't know if I've told you, like my shoulder is fucked. I don't I've never had shoulder issues in my whole life, ever. And then it's like the last 12 months of training, the last two years of training, it's like my right shoulder is just cooked. And I it's it's so bad that it I couldn't, I can't lift weights in certain movements, right? It hurts me too much and I can't physically move it. But ever since now that I've gotten to this point where I've been eating really clean and training really well, my shoulder's been getting better. And I'm starting to lift more weights and I'm starting to do more, I'm starting to have more mobility and less pain and all that sort of stuff, which is fantastic. So at the moment, I'm really focusing on my health and my fitness and my strength because I can, because I've been able to make it a priority because work hasn't been as hectic. When I say it hasn't been as hectic, my team's doing a lot more now, so I don't have to pick up the slack in certain areas. So I'm focusing on that, and there's some goals there that I want to definitely achieve. But then, yeah, the other aspect of it is I do also want to go out and hire another three, four people, but the only way I do that is if I win another three, four jobs or one massive job or whatever it might be. So there is the business aspect of it too. The events bus space that we're talking about too. I want that to grow. We were talking about that yesterday, saying, okay, it's good that we've got that that event under the book, under the bag, under the belt, sorry.

Robby 28:17

Under the bag. Under the bag.

Designing Events That Convert

George 28:18

It's you heard it here first. Yeah, feel free to use it. Joined by George Basses. That's it. Well, the next training that we do, that's where we start to get people involved in the mentoring program. And then that's where we start to really grow that avenue of the business. So that needs to be successful overall in order for this to be viable. And it's like, well, again, I come back. So what do I need to do to make it unreasonable for people to come to that training and go, I if I don't join up with George, with this program, with this, it's going to be detrimental to me. I'm not going to have the success that I need. I can see he can help. I can see he's the one that I that I need to connect with. Go. And get, instead of getting four people signing up, you get 30 people signing up. So back to that event space that we're talking about. I'm looking at it and going, well, where are the elements in my life, in my business, that I need to improve so that I can get closer to that elite level? And I'm looking at it in many facets, you know, personal as well. How do I need to be the best father? My kids the other day were like, he bought my I bought my son this board game, clue Hughes and Clues. All right, he saw it online and I bought it. We randomly went into a a game shop at Chadston and I bought it. If we found it there, I go, is this the game? He's like, Yeah, yeah, that's it. So I bought it. And um that night, he's like, Oh, do you want to play? Can't be bothered. I said, Yes, absolutely, I want to play. And we played. Sat there, played for half an hour, whatever it was, and he loved it. And my daughter played, she loved it. I was like, Oh, can we play tomorrow? Said, absolutely we can. All right, because one day it's gonna they're gonna be 16 years old and they're not gonna want to play board games with me. Okay, but that's me showing up and being the absolute best father in that moment. That's what they want to do, and I want to be there and remember that and have those memories and have that connection with them. So I feel that having that whole mindset in the back of my uh having that whole mindset is really helping me improve my life.

Robby 30:21

But what's driving it? Like, you know what I mean? Like, what if you peeled it back one further and it was like, well, why do I want like why not just chill out and relax? And yeah, no, no, but like, so you you you gave the example of you know, dad, can we play? And you're like, I'm tired. I won't play. What if you weren't tired Yeah? Yeah, like what if you weren't tired? If you're like, of course we can play. I'm gonna I'm gonna play by myself if you don't play. Do you know what I mean? Move, I'm gonna play by myself. That's it. You can you can't play. Yeah, I'm playing. Um, but it's like, how do you do how do you how do you take it to that level? Yeah, why why can't you? Yeah, you can. You can. Yeah, you can absolutely um yeah, there is the element there's also the the law of familiarity, right? Like you get so used to what you have that it just becomes blase. And I heard this thing once, I can't remember who said this, man, but someone maybe it was Tony Robbins, maybe I don't know, I can't remember. Shout out to Tony, come on, podcast. Big T. Big T. You don't call him that?

George 31:31

I don't know. Not at that level, yeah. No, you've you've known him much longer than that.

Robby 31:34

Um said something along the lines of like, dude, you know, that that when you're there and you can't be fucked, there is people who would uh do anything in your and this applies to like kids, uh siblings, parents. There are people in that same position who would do anything to have uh that chance again. Yeah what I mean, because they don't have it, because you know, best case scenario, their fucking kids grow up, worst case, something horrible happened and they don't see their kids anymore at all. Yeah, and it's like that person would do anything for that moment, and in that moment, you're like I'm and I'm not picking at you, but like first thought is like I'm tired. And it's like man, you would give you would they fucking tired like that, like you would give everything, you would throw your whole fucking everything you own down the drain in a in a heartbeat to some people would to have that moment again. Yeah, do you know what I mean?

Being A Present Parent

George 32:30

Man, it's so true. I saw this video online the other day, and it was along those lines, and I'm gonna paraphrase a little bit because I don't know off the top of my head, but she was like, I was speaking to uh imagine your 80-year-old self, you know, being able to go back in time to when you were 40, to when you were this age right now. Like, what would you do if you had 24 hours? You're 80 years old, and you had 24 hours to live in your 40-year-old body or in your 35-year-old body, like how would you live that day? And then she went through everything she would do from the moment she woke up to the moment that she went to bed. 80-year-old wasn't yeah, as in if they were back in their 40. It's like I would wake up in the morning and I would see my dog who died, you know, who died. I would pat my dog, I would take her for a walk, I'd give her the biggest hug, and then I would make breakfast, the kids would be running around, I would make breakfast, I would sit with my children and I would eat breakfast with them. We would play games, I wouldn't even touch my phone, like who gives a fuck about the phone? Right? I would play games with them, I would go to the park, I would kick it, I would see my husband there, and he'd walk into the room and I would just give him the biggest hug because I could, and he was there, and then she goes, I would call my mum, I would call my mum up and just talk to her. Talk to her. I'd call her up in the morning, I'd say, What are you doing? How was your day? And I'd just connect with her on that deep level because her mum's dead. This is a real 80-year-old. Yeah, like as in they were going, but yeah, man, it's tearing me up now. I'm trying to thinking about it. So I would go, I would call my month and I would just have that conversation with her and I'd tell her how much I loved her. And I would tell my husband how much I loved him. I would hold my children in their, in their in my like in my hands and just like hug them and embrace. And it's like, you're living in that now. I'm living in that right now. I I can call both of my parents right now.

Robby 34:15

What is it? Why, why do you think, yeah?

George 34:17

I think it's human nature. We just take things for granted. Like my my parents are on a trip somewhere, right? At the moment, they're interstate and they're taking the caravan around the country. And it's like, I could call them at any stage if I want. And it's like, have I called them every single day just to say, hey, what are you doing? I love you. You haven't. Not once. No, I have called them. I have called them, sorry. But is it daily? Not, but also not to the extent of having that level of gratitude that they're still alive. You know, I'm gonna go home tonight. I'm gonna see my daughter. She went to camp last night, uh, yesterday for the first time. She's gone to camp. I'm gonna see her. Your daughter? Yeah. And she came back now. She came back this one, just one night. Uh but hated that night. Yeah, she was got, yeah. My little girl wasn't near me. And it's like, you know, those moments are like they're fleeting. But so many people would just come home, go home tonight, and we'd be like, hey, how was camp? Was good? Oh, that's good. I sit on the couch. Oh, it's just gonna watch YouTube, I just want to watch the news, I just want to watch that Netflix. We just become used to it, that they're there. We take it for granted that all these things are there and that they're always gonna be there. It's like we forget that these things are temporary, our life is temporary. And I don't want that scares me. Like you said the other day, you the the thing that scares you the most is like being exactly the same spot as you are right now in 12 months' time.

Robby 35:39

The other day, it was like 20 minutes ago.

George 35:42

There you go. There you go. But you did say that you have said that in the past as well. I said it 20 minutes ago. You said 20 minutes ago and in the past on other days, so I'm not wrong. Yeah, but and that's I think there's a level of uh Simon would love that. Simon would absolutely love that, yeah. I think there's a level of fear, not fear, but just that does scare me too.

Robby 36:11

Yeah, but I think you can use fear for the right things, dude. Like I think if something scares you, it's like that's that's a driving emotion. Fear is that thing that kind of uh pushes you away from it. So it's like if that thing you're worried about that thing, you should use that as power to make sure that's what I feel I'm doing at the moment.

George 36:28

Yeah, that's what I feel like. I feel like I'm trying to use that as a driving factor to improve my life, you know. In all areas, and uh, I think about that a lot. Yeah, time is flying, man. Time is I don't know, maybe it's uh you know, 40s. You said the other day, you're fucking 35, you're old. Yeah, you said it before this podcast.

Gratitude, Mortality, And Perspective

Robby 36:50

You you've you've been over like, oh shit, I'm getting old. The other day the other day, it was this was the other day, we had a couple of gentlemen come into the office to see us, and he goes, uh we came to the first event, and I was like, Oh yeah, you know, 2024. No, sorry, I said 2023, and he's like, 20. Sorry, I said 24. Yeah, it's like feb twenty four, and he's like, nah, feb twenty three, and I was like, nah, and he's like, Yeah, and then I was like, Holy fuck, you are right. Like, that's just 36 months. 36 months, think about that.

George 37:32

Um and it was funny, we did it in Feb, but then the crew, it was like December before we were in the training, we were doing a training about that event, like being taught how to speak on stage and all that sort of stuff, and then three months later we did the first event.

Robby 37:46

Yeah, and then it's like that was that's gonna soon that's gonna be four years ago. Isn't that wild? That's wild, dude. Very wild, man. Like time is just fleeting so quickly. Uh we're giving it a nudge. Yeah, but you also said that thing, like your your your time here is so temporary, you know. I've been reading this book called The Blind Watchmaker, and the whole book is about Darwinism. Do you know what Darwinism is? So Darwinism's the it's like a a theory of evolution that this is all chance.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

Yeah.

Robby 38:24

Do you know what I mean? Like this is all biology over millions and millions and millions and millions of years, and then and then we've started to think, and you know, everything else has come from that. Because like civilization is not that old. It's not a few thousand years old. It's not that old. And at one point we're all killing each other, not that long ago. It's it's still wild, isn't it? Still are, yeah, still are. Um but isn't that wild? Yeah. Like to think about like, okay, maybe you maybe it is true. Maybe we are just here by luck, and there is nothing after this. And it's like this doesn't you know the same way you can almost take away from all emotion with it, in the sense of like, none of this, like you literally, literally, in a hundred years, you're gonna be irrelevant. You're not gonna people are gonna do you can you name anyone from your family line in a hundred years ago?

George 39:22

No, because they didn't do any podcasts like we do. So everyone's gonna know us. Of course, yeah. Everyone's gonna know this because you're all subscribed, and then your children's children will subscribe, and then they'll know about it.

Robby 39:32

But dude, that's the thing, you the world might completely change, and to the point where it's like, imagine people saying there's gonna be a time where people turn around and say to people, hey, uh, you used to have to log onto a computer to do that. And like, what? What's that? Yeah, what do you mean? And like you have to well, you have to access things online. Like, where was it? It was like it was on the internet. Well, the what? The internet, what's that? Now I just gotta plug myself into the wall and turn into this world. Yeah, and I just tap my root, my yeah, my partner. I go into this, I go into this virtual reality world and my body is being Yeah.

George 40:05

I mean, it's so funny. You say I remember being in primary school. It's like you've watched Star Wars. Have you ever watched Star Wars? Come on, you're kidding me. Come on, man. Stop fucking around. You've never seen Star Wars. I've seen one. Which one? One of the old ones? No. Anyway, well, the new one, regardless. Have you ever seen like have you ever seen where they have like the something, a device here, and then it's like a 3D object comes up and you're talking to a 3D object? Come on, man. I can't have this conversation with you. I need to fuck. We're gonna end it. I'm telling you the truth, guys. This is a lost podcast we're ever doing. It's the final episode. It's the final episode. So anyway, it's like a hologram that comes up from the ground, up from a device, and then all the people are talking to this hologram, and he can turn around and see everyone. Here's the thing like, wow, imagine one day when you can actually do something like that. You know, will it? It's like it was so you just couldn't. I couldn't comprehend that nah, that'll never happen. That's like movies, that's sci-fi, it's pretend, that's make-believe, that's like magic. And now we have screens where it can FaceTime anyone. And it's like, yeah, cool, I'll just FaceTime him. You know, like today, I've had like three FaceTime calls. The guys were on site, they said, Hey, what do I do here? Just FaceTime.

Robby 41:24

I'm just gonna start FaceTiming everyone. I'm not gonna take calls anymore. If someone calls me and FaceTime them back, yeah, show me a face. I want to see who I'm talking to. Wait, calling me only with you. What is this? What do you think this is 2009?

George 41:34

Yeah, it was so out of our comprehension of where we would be 20 years later that we'd be able to do stuff like that. And here we are today. We don't even think twice about it. So imagine what 20 years' time is gonna look like, how far AI is gonna be, and what that's gonna look like. It's just gonna be phenomenal to be around. I think we've lived in the greatest period to be able to see technology come from where it was to where it is now. Like we're very fortunate.

Robby 42:05

I have a strong argument, like a strong case to argue to say we're in the greatest generation. Yeah, I think I don't care what anyone else said. Everyone else argues, no, we're the 60s. It's like, no, no, you're too old for AI.

Time, Technology, And Change

George 42:18

Yeah. Like we lived through all we had we had all the analog technology and now we've got all the typical. We'd grow up as a kid and still experience outside and then still be young enough for the digital world. Yeah, you knew exactly you knew where all your friends were because there was fucking 13 bikes outside someone's house. Yeah, like that's how we used to get places.

Robby 42:38

You've never had to call a house phone to speak tone of your friends, or it was your friend's house phone to call back home.

George 42:43

Yeah, and say I'm I'm at Josh's house. Let me just let you know I'll be here for dinner. I'll come home at about 7 30. And you ride your bike home. There's no Ubers, none of that. You ride your bike home. What sort of bike did you have? I had a mountain bike. No brand. Fuck if I know. Mongoose. Mongoose? I don't know. Mountain bike. I had a BMX when I was young. But I had a Huffy. Huffy. Do you remember Huffy? Come on, man. Sorry, I wasn't into that space. I just had a bike that got me A to B. A bike with two wheels. Yeah. He's a rollerblade as well. Uh moving on. You still can. Can you seriously? Yeah, fucking earth. You give me some blades, I'll tear it up.

Robby 43:27

Calm down. Um, yeah, life life is going, man. And uh, I think it's cool that you've got you've you've uh you've found something, you know, these these things they're limited, dude. Like that thing, whatever you've got now that's kind of pushing you, like that's not gonna last forever. No, it might change. Yeah, and you you're using it now to the best of your ability to to fuel the flame. And I think you always need that thing in life. You know, someone came to me the other day and they're like I I I remember. this very very is it distinctively the word I'm looking for how it works yeah when I was um I was 22 years old I wanted out of being a mechanic dude I wanted out like so bad and I started doing my cert form building construction I went to master builders doing night school believe it or not I know what a waffle slab is believe not talking about food couldn't talk yeah not talking about food is that the right word waffle slab yeah yeah cool um I remember thinking what the fuck why are we putting these things in concrete um yeah I was doing all that I wanted out and then I became a service advisor and I started making good money and I was pumped like I was like fuck I've never made money like this in my life I was pumped for a bit and then I got to the point where I thought is this it like this is it like this is gonna be the next 30 years sitting at this fucking desk and I had that feeling then and then I went on this big real estate journey and then while trying to work out what I was going to do I went back to Mercedes and I was sitting there and I got that feeling again and I remember walking out into my kitchen and talking to my cousin and saying like is this it man like this is it like this like you know like just going to keep working this job and fucking living this fucking pointless life like well this is fucking sucks dude do you know what I mean I was like fucking work Monday to Friday weekends go like that um so tired from work during the week that the weekend comes and I'm just like I don't want to do anything like just leave me alone like I just want to fucking lay here and it's like that's no way to live man and I think that comes around from time to time and you need the things that fuel you like what you have now whether it's you know excitement about a thing or a goal that you're trying to reach or uh something to look forward to or or like something where you're like man I don't want this to happen and I'm gonna fucking do everything in my power to make sure it doesn't happen. I think those things are the greatest in life and and everything we do is like you just you need that at all points through life to constantly drive you because then everything else becomes difficult when you don't have it.

Nostalgia And The Analog Childhood

George 46:23

Do you think that comes from a level of adversity as well because you know you just said you were sitting there it's like fuck what I do here what can I do does it force change yeah I think because like if everything's going amazing in your pump like are you going to want to go to that next level isn't there a there could be a level of complacency at that point in time. And that happens to a lot of people yeah it happened to me years ago I I look back at myself I wish I slapped myself in the face you take your foot or you have you you start making profit and all of a sudden you're like like I can breathe and it's like hey don't keep your foot on the pedal bro and you don't most people don't very few people can keep the yeah you know what I mean very see I feel though that because I've gone through that I feel like I would now but is that a way to live too it's almost like a a level of scarcity and but I feel like you also I'm not saying not you don't even if you've experienced it before it's like you would do it now at that level and then you know you start making a million bucks a month and then it becomes like a all right like relax like yeah now you're like let's just enjoy this a bit just stop it's human nature man but that's what I mean that's coming back to what we said before right that complacency when you go home and you see your kids it's like the million bucks a month is the same concept say hey just relax now just relax now you're fucking doing all right hey it's okay I've got my kids I'll see my kids tomorrow I'll play board games with you tomorrow I'll call my parents tomorrow what's the big deal I've already spoken to them once this week why do I need to call them every single day why do I need to call my siblings every single day I haven't spoken to my brother in oh I saw him on Sunday but before that might have been three weeks you know it's like there's times where you go you can use that with so many scenarios but why why do you take things for granted all the time why do we get complacent is it the biological thing that's wired into us that we can't shake of um trying to consume as little energy as possible as a survival mechanism because you're stretching yourself it takes effort it takes effort to call that person it takes effort to practice to be so grateful it takes effort to exercise and be and eat healthy and everything takes effort you want all those amazing things it all comes from effort it doesn't come from just existing yeah there's it's uh it's like the difference between being you know proactive and reactive like you know being broke is hard make money is hard pick your fucking hard dude being fat is hard having a six pack is hard pick your hard you know you you pay the price whether you pay through discipline today or through a lack of freedom tomorrow you pay the fucking price dude you always pay the price every single time and I think with the reason why we take time for granted is because your time isn't earned it's not your time is not earned you don't you didn't you didn't sit there like I'm gonna fucking earn tomorrow you didn't you just fucking slept and woke up and you're like well I'm here and then it happened so many times in a row that you were just like well this is life and now I've got to go live into this civilization thing and get a job and I'm gonna work past 530 non we no one else does that if my boss calls me after hours I'm gonna take him to fair work I'm gonna take him to um has that been is that a law now that's yeah I'm pretty sure it's in place like the right of something peace or some shit.

Robby 49:59

I'm gonna call all my employees to I'm I'll be up so I'm gonna call your employees as well um yeah man I I'm I think the constant pursuit of greatness is a great thing to have like it's such a good driver there's nothing bad that comes from a dude unless you start to neglect things. Yeah if you just work 47 days a week and don't see your family and you know don't go out to your health yeah like yeah absolutely and it's like okay well but this is where we're saying it has to be a that's not the definition of elite then is it?

Email, Boundaries, And Focus

George 50:45

Because I was I use his example there was a a gentleman I used to work with many years ago and I saw him on TV and he was you know sponsor of a major sports team and very successful in his space and he was standing up there and saying this team is a you know we we have very shared we have shared values between our company and this team you know we operate at elite levels we have a high level of accountability with this with this with this you know all these amazing words and I'm sure a lot of those things were true but the guy was 150 kilos and it's like come yeah you can't stop in your mouth yeah I look at that and said man you're probably gonna die in the next five years um here's a question you just made me think about it then you said you know doing all the things so you want to be the best dad yeah the best dad again I suppose it'd have to be to my standard because yeah if you look at it and go we're gonna be an elite dad so what are all the dads here that's where you are like what what's the measuring stick of elite yeah so I I'd want a level of I want that contentness to know that I've at least left left very little on the table.

Robby 52:01

Yeah but so then then the argument comes from the other side of someone who says like you you you have a limited resources like you only have so much time in the day right yeah it has to be sacrifice yes that's what I'm saying so it's like okay well then is the the dad who works four days a week and is home four o'clock every day and he's there for everything for his kids.

George 52:23

Yep or he stays at home like doesn't a stay at home dad's the best dad it's like well can you because he has an online business maybe can you compete with that? Yeah that's right it's what's your definition of elite in that instance yeah and I think um for me I I'm content with the level of sacrifice and aspects of it for sure because I am the part of what I do is being a provider and in order for me to provide I do need to sacrifice time. But I'm willing to make that sacrifice that's fine. I'm content with that but you know for me in that instance it's about being present where you go okay cool let's play the game like when you get home it doesn't maybe it's not just even them asking let's play a game maybe it's you get home and say hey let's go kick the footy then you're like fuck bad I'm actually 23 leave me alone but by then are you going to them see me going to them like why should I wait for my child to come to me and say hey can we play a board game hey who wants to play a board game who's pumped tonight absolutely I will absolutely like we should be doing that stuff not waiting because there's going to be a time when they're not going to want to play board games or they will maybe they you have your family night where you all get together and play it every Friday whatever it is but those habits happen from today. So yes there's levels to it it's what is your definition it's I think it's a very personal question.

Defining Elite Across Life Domains

Robby 53:50

You know when I think about um when I look back and I think about the best things I've ever done or like the best times I've ever had sorry like they're very rarely anything I was chasing. Do you know what I mean? Like you think back to like what was your best times and it's like it could be like a time that you were with the boys and you laughed so hard and it was like the stupid you've done the stupidest thing but it's like the best uh the best thing you remember like one of your mates fucking fell over and did some fuck shit and you're like dude that was you love it when people fall over falling over is the greatest thing in the world dude like I'm telling you right now you have my full permission if you ever see me fall over you you laugh. It's okay. You have my full permission make sure I'm okay but then laugh a lot then laugh a lot yeah and I'll laugh with you and it'll be great.

George 54:40

Uh dude laughter's the greatest thing in the world it's so good. You're so right man there's so many memories I have yeah it's like and a lot of them I look back and it's like honestly one of my best memories was I remember being in Greece in 2006 and I remember being on a beach in Mykonos and I had nothing to fucking worry about. Yeah I had no job. Your biggest worry is like your next meal my biggest worry was like how much sleep do I need to function properly before I go out tonight again and repeat and wake up at 6 a.m on the fucking beach like what the what do I need to I just remember sitting back going I was at uni couldn't give a fuck about like the assignments that were due didn't have a job was with some mate with mates just having the best time just life was amazing and not to say it's bad or anything but that's just that in that moment it's like that was so cool. I remember one night you've never seen this movie but there's a movie Jim Carrey made and it was called liar liar no no no no yeah something about yes like he had to say yes to everything it might have been called yes man actually and he had to say yes to everything and then me and my mates had this whole concept say let's have a yes night and it got dangerous like it was fucked and say yes to we had to say yes to everything and so hey but we kind of knew there was boundaries there because if someone said hey do you want to jump in the Yarra I'd say yeah absolutely obviously you want to jump in the Yarra too don't you it's like yeah absolutely so there was boundaries there you were fucked if you made someone do something too stupid but it's like hey do you want to who want do you want to go do shots it's like yeah absolutely I do it's like hey do you want to go talk to that girl I was like yeah absolutely I do uh like we there was this night and I remember it's like we ended up stealing pot plants like from the bar that we're at it's like hey do you want to take that pot plant home? It's like yeah fucking I do of course and it was just so much fun and forever in a day we're like that's the yes night you know we just all got stupidly drunk we had so much fun we're all single we're all just it was just so much fun yeah and it's like all those things you weren't ever sitting there like brown my goals I'm gonna have a yes night yeah what and it's like it's one of those things that just happened and it's like when you look back at uh you'd you'd be sick if in the future they gave you like a highlight reel of your life be fucking great or if you had stats yeah like you've taken 4700 steps today you're like whoa um but when you look back at or you reflect it's like the things that mattered the most to you tend to be the things that you and the moment like just just little things yeah like the little things it is always gonna be that I'm really pursuing it's always gonna be that I think on your death deathbed you're gonna be thinking about those things you're gonna be thinking about the moments it's never gonna be fuck I wish I could wish I got more emails you know yeah you said that thing to me once you're like if you died today your inbox would be full tomorrow fuck yeah who's gonna reply to those emails yeah no one and no one cares no one gives a fuck I'm gonna delete my email yeah I fucking hate my email man uh I'm up there with you hate my email hate my phone yep me too reckon that's an age thing I don't know maybe some people love their phones enough nothing less like I've got my email notifications turned off and I love it like I would never I like I still check there's no numbers there.

Sacrifice, Presence, And Standards

Robby 58:16

I can't see anything but I still check it so much it's not even funny. Yeah it's not even funny.

George 58:23

Yeah um I don't check it on my phone very rarely you don't but no I I sort of leave it till Monday morning if to get in there. You don't check your emails over the weekend no very rarely very rarely unless I have to unless there's something there that I need to action but most things can wait till you know the next time I'm in the office sometimes I will but only if I like turn my laptop on to do a bit of work yeah I'll check my emails but tend not to look at them on my phone. Most emails are problems most of them or action items it's it's other people's agenda for your life.

Robby 58:57

That's what an email is I'm gonna delete the email up why not right well I'm um I'm with you on the constant pursuit to be elite I think it's a great thing I think everyone should have some level of and maybe it starts off with an area in your life yeah it doesn't have to be everything. Maybe you're just like I want to get this thing right.

George 59:26

Yeah you know and then focus on the next one. I think that's a great way to look at it.

Robby 59:29

And then build on it yeah exactly because it's like let's pretend it's health health's probably a really good one to start with I think yeah purely on the basis of like this is the one thing of like if everything else if this went down everything else doesn't matter yeah you know and uh Stephen Barlett put up this quote once and he said if you don't make time if you don't make time to train if you don't make time to work out today you will make time for sickness later and I was like oh so good dude and it's like the amount of times I say to myself in the morning man like there's so much on just going to the office like don't train and then I think no because if you got sick it the all that office shit everything you're gonna go do fuck all that. Yeah it doesn't even fucking matter like if if if you got really sick tomorrow you would fucking burn all that shit to the ground in a heartbeat because it become irrelevant do you know what I mean?

George 1:00:21

And it's like sometimes you need that I I fucking love that quote so much dude I don't have any tattoos if I get a tattoo fucking that on my forehead that's that's the one that's it um that's the one but I I'm I'm with you man I think the the I would start with the pursuit of it because I think I I would start with health too but I just think because that will just that will flow onto so many more things. You know when you're feeling good when you're strong when you're healthy it's gonna motivate you to just do so much more with your mindset with your business with everything. You walk with confidence you know you walk more with a lot more confidence when you're fit and healthy. I reckon I do you know at the times that I felt strong and whatever it was I've always walked with more confidence even if it was a subconscious thing.

Robby 1:01:09

Yeah I I I agree I like it I think it's very important I think it's a great place a great place to start.

George 1:01:17

Excellent well thank you for the chat thank you for listening and thank you for tuning in and you can always tune in to every single episode by simply subscribing to the channel and sharing it with all your friends with all your family and particularly with your mother. Episode 124 George What a journey I'm looking forward to the elite episodes to follow and what that means and how we get it to that level when's the next uh celebratory episode oh I suppose um 150 is that a is that your a target or is it 200? You know um probably 200 I would say I'd say that's the next celebratory celebratory So you can't eat cake till 200? Yeah well I'm shredding so I can't eat cake won't fit in my macros. My coach will yell at me make me do more push ups good good good uh thanks for tuning in guys as always look forward to catching up next week thanks everyone see ya