So starting something is literally just as simple as starting it
But we like to complicate
there are entire 300 page books with 20 chapters
just on how to start.
Let's do a focus meditation for one step at a time.
Good morning guys, it's 6:30 AM here.
A beautiful wednesday in Medellín.
I'll be honest guys, I'm exhausted.
Last night I hung out with friends
for the first time since the documentary.
So, first time first time since September.
First time that I'm actually hanged out with other humans
that weren't my videographers or my salsa teacher.
But, whenever I go out, even though I didn't have any alcohol,
I didn't even have water just to try not wake up to have to pee the middle of the night,
I still just got a really crappy night of sleep.
5:30 this morning, about 5:45 this morning,
I was kind of rolling around and I thought to myself, I could try sleeping more, but
what I'm going to do is just wake, have my coffee,
I'm going to kick some ass,
I'm gonna feel tired.
When I do feel tired, I'm just going to take a nap.
And then I'll wake up, and then I'm going to kick more ass.
Sleep is definitely not one of the things I'm good at,
I really struggle getting good quality sleep.
For many, many years, I've tried many different things.
Right now, I'm taking a product called Yin Reserve with Reishi mushroom
a couple hours before I go to sleep.
I'm also eating a little bit of almond butter before I go to sleep
which has Tryptophan, which is that thing that you hear about that turkey has,
which is why everyone falls asleep after their big Thanksgiving dinner.
I think right now I'm having trouble sleeping just because I'm just excited.
And there's so much going on my mind is just.
I'm meditating even more, I'm meditating 3 times a day now.
Yeah, my mind is just ..ugh...
It's really hard to just get it to stop.
Anyway, I'm gonna work for a little bit,
I'm going to get my juices flowing, so to speak,
and today we're gonna talk about
just getting started.
But let me collect my thoughts first, because I'm still kind of scatterbrained and
I'm trying to wake up.
Alright guys, so let's get into it:
How to get started.
So we'll also talk a little bit about how not to stop but, one step at a time.
So this is something that I've thought about, and really really studied for many, many years.
But, as you guys know, I spend a lot of time alone,
And I've never really verbalized any of this, and I'm also not the best speaker.
So, I'm gonna do my best here, and please bear with me.
First, let me start by saying that as a whole the Western civilization,
we love to complicate things,
and we love to complicate things because that gets us justification for why we suck at those things.
Specifically, in this case, like, why we suck at starting things.
So starting something is literally just as simple as starting it
But we like to complicate
I think that there are entire 300 page books with 20 chapters
just on how to start.
And the main reason for that is that we live in capitalistic societies,
and unfortunately, the more confused you are,
the more you think that things are outside of your control,
the better you are at just being a consumer,
and capitalism is designed to create consumers.
There's no money in having control over yourself.
So, the first thing you need to do is realize that it's probably not as hard as you're making it out to be.
And that needs to be your mindset, and it's the truth,
and I'll show you why in a second when we impact that.
So, historically, I suck at starting things.
My main issue was that I was always a perfectionist,
and admittedly, I'm still like a little bit of a perfectionist,
but nothing that keeps me from ever starting anything.
So, my form of procrastinating, not starting, was basically just waiting for the conditions to be perfect.
And I think that's what most people struggle with.
And I would literally repeat this exact same pattern in everything,
like gym, diet,
I remember, for years, what I would always do is
I would eat a bunch of crap on the weekends,
and then I would always tell myself that I'm gonna get serious about things on monday,
and then monday would roll around and I would just make up some other excuse
and that's how I got fat
So ultimately what happened was I actually developed a habit of not being able to start things,
telling myself lies and really believing them.
And every single time it was, okay,
"This time is gonna be different",
And it never was different because I just never went any deeper.
And another huge part of that equation, I think,
was that I was tremendously afraid of failure.
So, if you don't start something you can't fail at it.
I think that's an issue that most people have as well
I just thought the failure was this horrible bad thing that had to be avoided at all costs.
So, after my epiphany,
what happened is that I started taking a lot more risks,
and risk is risk of failure.
And I failed a lot.
And at first it was it was really painful.
But then I came to link two very positive things in my head.
First was that after every failure I had 2 options, right,
I could sit there and sulk, which I did a lot,
or I could learn from my mistake and take action.
Over time, I came to realize that whenever I failed and I sulked,
nothing happened, and whenever I took immediate and powerful action,
I always came back stronger than the moment before I failed, every single time.
So, I came to understand the significance of the the Phoenix Rising.
That's why a phoenix is it's actually one of my tattoos.
As humans, we don't improve linearly,
like we have to destroy ourselves repeatedly,
to understand our limits and how to move past them.
So, I learned to connect taking massive action
after failure as an extreme positive,
as a key to growth.
And after you fail a thousand times,
after I failed a thousand times, I came to learn that failure is literally the
most powerful way to learn.
It's better than any book, any teacher, any lecture,
failure, repeated failure, the more frequently I was failing
the more I came to understand that I was doing the things that were helping me to grow as a person
I actually began to seek failure,
I began to seek discomfort,
And I developed a very positive association with those things.
Not that I would literally start a project and try to fail,
but I would give everything that I had without restriction,
without holding back.
So fast-forward to now, and when I think something is a good idea,
I start immediately.
I don't wait for Monday morning.
I don't wait for New Year's
I don't wait for the perfect condition because, really, it is always the perfect condition.
But ,seriously, last year I had the idea to do a youtube series,
And literally within a day I had two videographers,
I put a bunch of equipment,
I hired a production assistant,
and within one week we were traveling to places, and
recording for this Colombia travel/lifestyle series.
I mentioned this specifically because it ended up being a huge failure.
The scope of the series was way too broad,
I spent tons of money, and time, and energy,
and my core business, Agent Fire, really, really suffered
I thought I knew it all,
and then the floor fell out, my business suffered,
it took me a full year, it took me pretty much all of 2017 to actually recover.
Moral of the story is that I destroyed myself,
and then I was reborn.
I was sulking and it took me a while to get out of that funk,
but then I took action, massive powerful action.
So in November of 2017, towards the end of the year,
I started having the idea to do a documentary,
where I took massive action in three important areas in my life.
And I didn't wait.
I had the idea to do the documentary and, within 24 hours,
I had most the ideas planned out,
I had a videographer again, and within a week,
I was filming this documentary.
And there were challenges, there were lots of them, and I failed in a lot of ways.
But, overall, the documentary was a tremendous success as far as experience.
And I can't wait to actually put it all together for you guys to hopefully see it.
But my business, my spirituality and my expressive abilities,
they all thrived like never before,
and none of this would have happened had it not been for the massive
failure of the youtube series a year prior.
Because I failed that youtube series, but I learned.
And I learned why it failed,
and the reason that failed was because I was doing something that was pulling me away from my nest egg,
my core business, my core focus.
With this vlog, my business is a primary focus,
many of these episodes focus on things that I'm doing
and my ability to grow my business at an exponential rate.
I can't stress enough, like, that is how you grow.
Growing is not a linear thing,
It is taking a risk, failing, taking massive action, and coming back a little bit stronger
So guys the key to getting started is just to,
at first, it takes some time to really reflect on
why you are having so much trouble getting started in the first place,
and not the superficial symptomatic bullshit.
Sit in a chair for hours, alone, without a TV, without a cell phone,
and really ask yourself, be honest with yourself, about why you're having so much trouble getting started.
Maybe take a few days, or weeks, or months to figure it out.
But then once you do figure it out, once you have some sort of idea,
don't wait, just start. Just fucking start.
You don't need to read a 300 page book,
I promise you, you don't need to watch Oprah.
Just start. You will fail and you will have challenges,
but the important thing is that you start.
And just start, and everything else will fall into place.
Hope that was helpful. Hope that makes sense.
Anyway. I'm gonna get back to work
Gym time.
They write that on all the cups.
Anyway, today is definitely a double coffee kind of day.
I don't like to drink more than one cup of coffee a day,
but my options are go to the gym exhausted or
drink two cups of coffee, so...
I think I've made my decision.
Gym is another thing I always used to have a ton of trouble starting.
When I finally did get around to starting and I would stop,
and I had trouble starting because I was self-conscious about my body,
I was self-conscious that other people go to the gym,
people they were actually like really in shape,
they'll be like looking at me, when really nobody gives a fuck.
Everyone's just kind of doing their own thing.
Well, I was hyper self-conscious of that, and
Yeah, finally. I just stopped doing that one day.
I don't remember exactly the process for that.
But I can tell you that I stopped.
I started and stopped the gym probably like 20 times
for the first 10 years that I was working out.
And then every time I would stop,
I was basically always waiting for the the perfect conditions to just start.
I was always just procrastinating it and again just fear of,
You know, really subconsciously
I didn't want to start again because I was afraid that I would stop, I was afraid that I would fail.
I was really really stupid.
But, again, this is stuff, for me personally, that had to happen,
and it had to happen that many times for me to finally get it.
Hey guys, I'm in a lot of pain.
I feel like throwing up, got a headache, but
kind of happy because, look at this delicious Ketogenic meal.
Ok, so, just to give you guys a quick macro rundown,
we got a 100 grams of avocado, two eggs, 50 grams of 70/30 beef,
and 25 grams of almond cheese.
Let's give this a taste, see see how this turned out.
And threw some mustard in here.
It's such an insignificant amount. This is sugar-free mustard, so we're just not going to count it.
There are a million different ways to make eggs and
pretty much all of them are tasty.
Anyway, I'm gonna eat this and I'll see you guys in the next scene.
I love when these packages arrive
I never have any idea what's inside of them.
I'm a huge advocate of MCT oil, and this is C8 MCT oil.
So, I've been hearing a lot of good stuff about this.
This is actually an even more refined version of MCT oil, which is already a refined version of coconut oil.
This is red reishi mushroom.
I've been using this before I go to sleep. It's been helping a little bit.
I'm still having sleep issues,
so it's supposed to relax you,
so I usually mix it in with a tea or with some magnesium stuff before I go to bed
This is a chef's hat.
I got a little outfit for Luz.
Chlorophyll concentrate,
I've been hearing a lot of amazing stuff about this as well, and as a workout supplement, so,
let's give this a shot for the next couple of weeks, and see how that works.
I'm a huge fan of ghee.
Okay, I love cooking with it and that's what I throw into my, in addition to MCT oil.
That's the other half of what I throw into my bulletproof coffee in the mornings,
and so, I found this ghee online, and it's a little expensive.
it's 40 bucks a bottle.
It's called Eat good fat.
This is a Four Sigmatic coffee.
Truthfully, I'm not a huge fan of this.
But, it has less caffeine than regular coffee, and sometimes I need coffee in the afternoon
I don't want to drink a regular coffee because that'll affect my sleep.
These are Fat Snacks Cookies, so I have been wanting to try these out.
I had a friend recommend these to me.
These are basically keto friendly cookies.
Ghee.
I wanted to get two because I go through this stuff pretty quickly.
It's a new mouse.
So this is another Gorillapod from Joby.
We already have got two of these,
but they they look a lot bigger in the photos so the ones that we got,
they're just too small.
The camera that we're using right now, especially with the microphone on top, and the lens connected to it,
It's heavy.
Anyway, that's it for this episode's package time.
Just another Nelson food creation.
This is a hundred grams of cabbage,
Sauteed with a tablespoon of coconut oil, that is 30 grams of almond butter,
this is a hundred grams of 70/30 beef with two medium sized eggs
And this is mustard with ketchup.
The ketchup is like a calorie free, sugar free, ketchup,
and the mustard is what I bought this morning, which has
I'm not even going to count it in the macros, but it's like 20 calories, okay
Yep, healthy. It is sugar-free.
The Salsa was another thing that was,
it was a little hard for me to start, but at this point, I got to Colombia about four years ago and
I was already at that point where I was getting really, really good at just being able to start things.
Again, starting, especially anything that it's skill-based
means you have to basically start from zero and that's the hardest part is just getting past that.
But, like, once you start, when you get past that first class
I think the second class is easier, then the third class,
it's like your first day of work, so the first day is really scary,
you don't know anyone and then you start to know people,
and the second day is a little less scary,
and then you start to make friends, and then, you know, becomes like home.
Then even with Salsa, like we were doing just now, I basically I realized
Daniela showed me a guy named Jeremy, you guys will be formally introduced upon shortly,
And, I saw his style and I realized that this guy really understands energy.
Like, really, really understands energy and movement.
And so now, like immediately even though I was already advanced very far with what I was doing with Daniela,
I realized: I have got to learn from this guy.
And now here I am, like immediately, the second I saw that I knew,
I reached out this guy,
and now we're working together now.
I'm basically having to start again from zero.
I mean, not from zero, but all of the movements now, everything is different.
Everything I'm doing now is new.
But I know that this is the sort of stuff that, not only this is the way I want to do it,
but this is the sort of stuff, learning this is, once I get the basics down,
I'm going to be able to excel at a much, much faster rate than what I was doing previously, so...
Start. You start. Just start, Just start
Speaking of starting, I'm gonna start to eat the rest of this food, so I'm gonna go.
Honestly, this is my favorite video that I've made so far.
this morning, I love, love sharing this stuff,
and it's really cool to give the thoughts, stuff that has just been inside of me for so long
It's really cool to give that, form, with words. It's really special to me.
I really enjoy it.
If you guys enjoyed this episode, please I'd love for you guys to leave comments,
please, please, as always, subscribe, like,
And I'll see you guys in the next episode.
And I haven't forgotten that now that we talked about how to start,
now, we also need to talk about how to continue,
and we're going to talk about that, not tomorrow, but in two episodes.
Bye.
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