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#30 - 5 Moves to Raise Your Baseline and Crush Weakness
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In this episode, I rip the lid off the lie that goals and hype will save you when life explodes. They won’t. Your baseline will. That invisible floor you fall to when chaos hits—that’s what decides if you rise or break. I walk you through five ruthless, battle-tested principles I’ve lived, bled, and built my life on. From auditing your habits, to choosing pain, to tracking with brutal honesty, to surrounding yourself with killers—I’m giving you the tactical blueprint to stop faking progress and start becoming unbreakable.
This isn’t for the average. It’s for the savage.
So ask yourself: Are you ready to raise your f**king baseline—or stay stuck pretending you’re working hard?
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Introduction & Call to Action
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<unk>s up, everybody? Welcome back to Mindset Mutiny. I want to just say real quick, hit that subscribe button. Get me some followers. Appreciate the help. More importantly, share it with somebody who needs to hear it.
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ah This is an important message, and I'm doing it to try to help others, so share it with them. I
Understanding and Raising Your Baseline
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think that will help them. It's something that people need to hear. And if you are trying to get better every single day, you need to fly that flag and you need to let others know that that's what you're doing. So share a little mindset mutiny with them.
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And that'll tell you exactly, you know, what you, what you're, what team you're on. So share with others. Okay. Get that message out there. It's very important for us to identify who we are. If we're interested in growing and trying to get better, we need to tell everybody around us and encourage them to get better with us.
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On that subject, you know, we talked about baseline. Baseline is very, very important and a lot of people have a hard time changing it. And when you start to raise that baseline, you will find that others will distance themselves from you because it's hard work and they don't want to have to join that battle with you.
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ah But bring people along if you can. Always encourage them. If they don't want to grow, no big deal. Find others who do. They are out there. And it's important to put those people in your circle that want to grow so that we can achieve everything that we've ever desired.
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But for those of you who are just joining, why am I always screaming about baselines? It's a fair question. The reason is, is that because when life hits you, right, and it will, your baseline is what saves you.
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Your ambition isn't going to fucking help you. Your goals aren't going to help you. The version of you that posts on Instagram isn't going to fucking help you. Okay. When everything falls apart, when the chaos surrounds you, when the weight of life comes crashing down, you fall back to your lowest locked in standard.
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It's that simple.
Discipline as a Safety Net
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And if that standard is weak, you break. That's what most people don't get. They think discipline is about achievement. It's not. Discipline is your fucking parachute without it. You free fall without it. You don't float. You crash.
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I've lived both sides of that equation.
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There were moments in my life where the old version of me would have spiraled. The old version of me wouldn't be able to sit here and even talk to you. I couldn't even look into the camera.
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All right. We've come a long fucking way, right? But the stress, the pressure, the voices in my head would have won. Some years ago, I would have self-destructed with all this pressure coming down on me.
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I would have medicated the pain. I would have disappeared from my own life. A lot of you do that. But that version of me is fucking dead. Because I built something stronger.
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I did it. Nobody else. It was lonely. But it was so fucking worth it. And I'm still
Ownership and Personal Change
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climbing.
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And I'll tell you that shit didn't come from me wishing or hoping. It came from the pain of staying the same. It came from realizing that my situation was my fault.
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My decisions, my excuses, my refusal to take ownership, that was the moment it all changed. When I finally understood that no one is coming to save me.
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It was always up to me.
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Most people, they'll never realize they can carry more because they never try. They live in an illusion. They think they're already maxed out.
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But you can't level up. based on belief. You level up based on action in hell. The baseline doesn't move until you bleed for it. The baseline doesn't shift until you're so far past your comfort zone that everything inside you is screaming to quit and you still fucking show up.
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But here's the magic. Once it moves, your identity changes with it. You become a different animal. Your brain starts recognizing pressure is fueled.
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Your body starts to adapt. Your spirit will harden. And what used to crush you becomes just another fucking Tuesday. That's why this matters.
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Because raising your baseline isn't just about doing more. It's about becoming unbreakable, becoming the person that you're supposed to be.
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So last
From Survival to Domination
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week. you haven't listened to it, go back. But I made a pretty fucking brutal case for changing your baseline. I expose your weaknesses. I forced you into that uncomfortable truth that mediocrity is not acceptable.
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So today, I'm going to argue you with five ruthless principles that I've used over and over again to elevate my life from mere survival to absolute domination.
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This isn't a theory. This isn't some feel-good fucking bullshit. This is battle-tested. This is lived experience.
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Ignore these principles. It's a fucking shame, but that's fine. I've learned this path isn't for everyone. And mediocrity will always be there, waiting comfortably for those who want to choose it.
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But know this. If you stay average, you can't come on this journey with us. So time to raise your fucking baseline. All right. and here's how we're going to do it. Number one, audit your current habits.
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Stop pretending that your life is fine. Drag those weak fucking routines into the light and address it. You know, most people, they think they're like working on themselves, but they're just repeating the same broken shit with new words.
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They'll slap on a motivational quote, take a couple pictures of their gym shoes, post it, write down some goals they'll never touch, and then they fall back into the same autopilot bullshit they've been doing for years.
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If this is you,
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I'm glad you've realized it.
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That's the first step.
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And let me make this clear. You don't need motivation.
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It's fleeting. It's all fucking cooked up bullshit. You need an audit. You need a ruthless, raw, no bullshit interrogation of all your habits. Not the habits that you wish you had. The ones that you actually live with.
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Ask yourself with no filters, no fluff, no bullshit. Don't lie. What do I actually do every single day?
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What are my real non-negotiables?
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What do I keep promising myself that I will fix that I never do?
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Those last three really fucking hurt, man, if you're honest with yourself.
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And there's more. Where am I wasting time? Where is my energy leaking out? Where am I giving away my power? What am I doing that's silently killing the man I'm trying to become?
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You think you're locked in because you hit the gym for a few times? Fuck that, bro. That ain't locked in. Look at your screen time. Look at the number. Tell me you're fucking locked in. Four hours, five hours. Some people have heard crazy shit. Eight hours.
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Are you fucking kidding me? Check your food log. Oh, you don't have one, but yet you're eating healthy, working on your diet. Fuck that. Look at your calendar. Oh, it's empty. You're really locked in. You're really trying to get better.
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That's your real audit. That's your truth. I'm sorry that it's not what you want it to fucking be. But
The Power of Habit Tracking
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here's the deal. Today, you can change that. You can make a difference.
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You can do something different. And every day, you can be somebody new. You're not locked into these old bullshit habits. You chose them. And you keep choosing them. That's your fucking problem.
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Nobody's coming to save you. You have to decide to change it. Most people live like that on default. They sleepwalk through their routines. They hope their life will change by some fucking luck.
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Luck is for amateurs. We don't wait for change. We declare war on every single thing that keeps us average. Your baseline right now, it's not what you tell people.
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It's not your goals. It's not your plans. It's not the version of you in your own fucking head. Your baseline is what you do in the dark when nobody is watching. It's what you execute on when you're tired, frustrated, anxious, and empty.
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If you've never mapped it out, if you've never taken the time to break it down and stare it in the face, then you don't even know what's controlling you. So going give you a little work, a little fucking homework here, okay?
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Track everything for seven days. And let me just start with, if you're not willing to track everything for seven days meticulously, fucking shut this shit off, dude.
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Don't even listen any further. Because if you're not willing to do that, don't waste my fucking time. It's okay, man. I'm not upset with you. It's fine. I get it. Like I said, this path's not for everybody.
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But if you're not willing to make the effort in literally just tracking everything you do for seven days, you're running from something. You can't lie to yourself. You can't write shit down there just to make you feel better because I know some of you will.
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People do that every day. Okay. It needs to be true. If you did nothing that day, but go to work and come home and sit on the couch, watch TV, write it fucking down, dude. Write it down. So what, man? We could all get better. That's what this is about.
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But you got to tell the truth. I can't work with people that don't tell me the truth. When I'm coaching young men and they lie to me, I fire them. Straight up. Hey, you're not you're not part of this fucking program anymore. Thank you much.
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Appreciate it. All right? It's about telling the fucking truth as hard as it is. Track what time you wake up. What's the first thing you do? Do you grab that fucking phone, lay in bed for 20 minutes before you get your ass out of bed?
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Or do you fucking get up, go drink some fucking water? Pack a healthy lunch. What do you do? Just track it. What do you eat all day? Did you train?
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Did you fucking tell yourself you were going train and then bail? You got to be really specific and you got to tell yourself the truth. Then going to have to think about where do I put my attention during the day? Am I thinking about like checking Instagram?
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You know, am I, am I thinking about what I'm going to do when I get home? I watch the fucking TV. You know, am I going to go get, what am I going to get later? am i get some takeout? No, fuck all that shit, dude. None of that's going to help you. So figure out where you're goingnna put your attention.
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And then what do your nights look like? Do you drive right home from work? Kick your shoes off when you get through the door and then just sit down, start swiping away. what do you do?
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You got to track that stuff. Okay. There's so much that can be accomplished after your regular job. Okay. What gets your time? What gets your excuses?
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I have an idea where most of your excuses lie, but track your actions like your futures on trial. It's that simple. And then sit down, look at it and ask yourself, does this man or woman deserve to win?
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Because I'll be honest, most of you don't. Not yet. Not with those habits. Not with that routine. Not with that soft ass morning full of snooze buttons and scroll sessions.
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But I have some good news for you too. You're not done yet. This audit is not a punishment. It's the beginning of your uprising. Once you can name the
Adopting Fearful Habits for Growth
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patterns, you can break them.
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Once you see where your excuses are in writing, you can obliterate them. Once you shine that light on you, that what you're hiding, you can kill off that weakness and you can start replacing it with power.
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So audit your life like your back is against the fucking wall. Because it is. The enemy isn't out there, okay? It's internal. It's the daily decisions that you have normalized.
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And until you can confront them head on, you will stay stuck at the same fucking level.
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So sit with it.
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Own it. Break it down. And make this promise to yourself right now.
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I've had to do it. It's hard. And you don't necessarily recognize the magnitude of it right now. But the promise needs to be that this version of me dies today.
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Step number two, choose one habit that scares you but could change everything.
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So pick one, just one thing, just one. I'm not not trying to overwhelm you. Not 10, one. Not a list, just one. And not one of your bullshit New Year's resolutions. That shit's trash. We already talked about that.
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One habit that would change your entire life if you had the fucking balls to do it every single day.
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This habit should make you uncomfortable. It should punch you in the gut. Okay? When you say it out loud, it should fucking scare the shit out of you.
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All right? You know you're hiding behind excuses. If you've been wanting to wake up at 4.30, fucking do it. If you don't, that's a you problem. You want to train twice a day? Good. Fucking lock in. If you don't, that's a you problem.
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You want to quit sugar? You want to quit drinking alcohol? You want to eat healthy? Cut it all out. That's up to you. You don't do it, that's you problem. You want to join a gym? Fucking do it.
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Stop making excuses. Stop telling me that you'll sign up tomorrow. That's all a fucking you problem.
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You want to sign up for jiu-jitsu?
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Do it. If you don't, I know why you won't because it's the same reason that I didn't. It's because you're afraid. And that's a fucking you problem.
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You want to launch a business? Fucking do it. Commit now. The only reason you don't is because you're afraid of making fucking excuses. You're blocking yourself. You're letting fear get a fucking vote.
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One thing I know with absolute certainty that has changed my life. If it doesn't scare you, it is not strong enough to change you. Growth doesn't come from what's convenient. It comes from what costs you something.
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It's not about productivity. This is about violence against weakness. This is about declaring war on the version of you that's still playing small.
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You've been living under the illusion that you're doing your best. You're not. Stop hiding behind the weak words of I'm doing my best. That shit's for fucking losers. That's self-limiting speech.
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That's the language of people who justify staying average. You know what doing your best really means? It means that you've already accepted your ceiling.
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You've decided what you're not capable of. You've let your mind put a cap on your effort.
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We don't do our best. We do what's necessary. I did my best is what you say when you're ready to quit. When you want a part, when you want a pat on the back for falling short, that's when you say I did my best.
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I did my best. Fuck you. Fuck off. Anytime I ever hear that, that's all I think. When somebody says that, I'm like, yep, fuck you, fuck off. I know it's brutal and shit, but you know, come on, man.
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I did my best. No one wants to hear that. And if you say that, just to understand that nobody wants to hear it. Same as your excuses. Nobody wants to fucking hear it. So why say it? Just makes you look look stupid. Makes you look weak. Fuck that.
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Don't say it. As soon as you say it, your brain grabs a hold of it and it like kind of becomes who you are. I did my best. Oh, man.
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I fucking hate that shit. Your best? What the fuck does that even mean? You don't stop when you're tired. You know stop when you're frustrated. You don't stop when you're out ideas.
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You stop when the job is fucking done. You do what has to be done, no matter what it takes. The world isn't waiting for your best. It's demanding your absolute commitment until you win, until you break, or until you become something unrecognizable.
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Your best. What a fucking joke. You're doing what's comfortable. You're doing what's safe. You're doing what doesn't threaten your fragile identity. But you really want to raise your baseline.
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You need to choose a habit that scares the fucking hell out of you. Then chain it to your soul and do it so often that that fear bows down to the discipline.
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You want change? Stop trying to rearrange your schedule to make things fit. Make your life fit around the things that scare you most. That's how you grow.
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That's how you kill off weakness. That's how you raise the fucking baseline. So what is it? What's the one thing you've been avoiding? Because you know it would change everything if you actually committed to it.
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Number three, one of my favorites. Lock it in during chaos, not after. Here's the biggest lie people tell themselves. I'll start once things calm down.
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Hey, that's almost as good as my best. I'll start once things calm down. I hear that shit all the fucking time, man.
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That's setting yourself up to fail. No, you won't. Calm never comes. Calm's a myth. Later's a trap. The right time is a fucking lie. Life doesn't hand you peace, it hands you pressure.
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And you're waiting for life to slow down before you commit? Are you fucking kidding me? You've already surrendered your power. I've lived with this. I launched this podcast in the middle of pure chaos.
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I was moving, my whole life was in boxes. There was no routine, no structure, just noise. And right in the middle of that storm, I said, fuck it, I'm building this anyway. Hadn't even unpacked.
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The house looked like a fucking storage unit, man. And I walked in and told my wife, hey, I'm starting Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Another demand, another layer. And then I let the fuse again and launched my mindset and performance coaching business.
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All in the same season, all in the middle of uncertainty. Why? Because I wasn't going to wait for life to calm down. I wanted to see what I was really fucking made of.
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And guess what? I didn't crumble. I rose. That's a testament to this fucking mindset that I'm trying to get you to adapt.
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That's the shit nobody tells you. When you think you can't do more, you can. When your mind says that's enough, you're actually just getting started.
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You want to raise your baseline? Lock it in when life is fucking ugly. Build it when you're tired. Commit when everything is screaming for relief. If you can stay consistent in the storm, you own that habit forever.
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So stop waiting for the right time. The right time is the pressure. The right time is the fucking chaos. The right time is the exact moment your weak self tells you not to.
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That's where transformation is born. You don't build strength in silence. You build it in the noise. You don't build your baseline in peace. You raise it in the fucking fire.
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Number
Tracking Progress and Data-Driven Growth
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four, track the path. Use the data. So if you need to refer to episode 17, the data will expose you.
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I did an in-depth dive on tracking the data. So if you're not tracking, you're just guessing. And guesswork, well, guesswork is for fucking losers, okay? Guesswork is how people stay stuck, broke, fat, and frustrated.
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You can feel like you're working hard. You can feel like you're eating clean. You can feel like you're putting in the effort. But we all know your feelings are fucking liars. Numbers don't lie. Data is your mirror.
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If you're serious about raising your bar, raising that baseline, you have to track everything that matters. not because you need another app on your phone, not because the scoreboard of your life is built on cold, ruthless facts.
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I track my workouts.
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I track my weight. I track my macros. I track the number of podcast episodes I've produced. I track my coaching conversations, my runs, my lifts, my food, my life progress. I track everything. Why?
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Because the truth only lives in the numbers, not in my fucking emotions. not about using Fitbit, Strava, Lose It, or any of that fucking bullshit on a spreadsheet. It's about forcing yourself to stare the reality with no filter.
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The scoreboard is the only thing that fucking matters. It doesn't care how tired you are. It doesn't care how hard it felt. It doesn't care about your story, your excuses, your feelings. The scoreboard is fucking brutal.
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I love it. It's ruthless. It's cold. And that's why it's the most important tool that you have. If you're willing to look without tracking, without it, you're playing blind.
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You're swinging at shadows, thinking that you're making progress when you're just running in circles. When you track, you kill the illusion. You stop living in fantasy land. You start operating with precision. You start working on facts.
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If you aren't tracking what matters, you don't even know if you're winning. How do you know? By feel, by emotion. already told you, emotion will fucking get you screwed, man. If you don't know if you're winning, you're fucking losing.
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How about that? If you don't know if you are winning, you are fucking losing. Facts. So track your work. Track your food. Track your workouts. Track your habits. Track your life.
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Get surgical about your execution. Track everything that defines your future. Because if you can't measure it, you can't manage it. And if you
Surrounding Yourself with High-Achievers
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can't manage it, you'll never control it.
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The real question comes is whether you got the guts to face the numbers.
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Because they will punch you in the fucking mouth.
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Remember, data is your sword. Data is your shield. And without it,
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Without it, you're just another dreamer. Talking proof. Talking tough with no fucking proof. Dreamers talking tough. Zero proof.
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Proof's in the data. Track it. Unleash the person you're supposed to be.
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Number five. My most favorite.
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You really need to listen up for this one. Stay in the proximity of monsters.
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I'll make this real simple. Your environment is either your fuel or your fucking cage.
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Your baseline will never rise if you're surrounded by people who are okay being average. You can be disciplined, driven, obsessive, but if your circle's soft,
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You are eventually going to absorb that weakness. You can't out-discipline your environment forever. You might be able to hold a line for a while, but sooner or later, you will start slipping.
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You will start letting things slide. You will start celebrating the bare minimum because everyone around you calls it hard work. And that's how killers go quiet.
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That's how savages get soft. They take their finger off the trigger. Not from failure, but from influence.
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Let me tell you something. When you walk into a room full of monsters, real ones, not fake shit, not people pretending, real monsters, your entire sense of self gets shattered.
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That lift you thought was heavy, they warm up with that shit. That pace you thought was fast, they sprint right by it. That discipline you thought was so fucking locked in, they live like that on autopilot.
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And at first, it'll piss you off. It'll blow your fucking ego up. It'll make you uncomfortable. You might even leave, run, quit, whatever. It'll challenge your identity. And that's good. That's the whole fucking point.
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Monsters, they raise your fucking mirror. They drag your weakness into the light. They fucking point at and say, what the fuck is that? Let's go fix that shit. Bro, you can't live that way.
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That's why most people avoid that mirror. They avoid it because it exposes how far they really are from where they claim to be.
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Most people would rather be the king of the kiddie pool than the underdog in a savage den. But if you want real growth, Real growth. You don't get it being comfortable.
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You go where you're out of your depth. Where you're not the example. You're the fucking student. Where your ego gets stripped and your standards get rebuilt. Where people question if you've even been trying.
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That's how you raise your baseline. By bleeding next to people who make you want to rise. Not relax. Stop clinging to be the strongest in your circle. That's not leadership. That's ego protection. And ego is the enemy of evolution.
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So here it is. If you're the most disciplined person in the room, don't get proud. Get out. Find a new room. Go sit at the fucking table with giants.
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Let them expose your flaws. Let them challenge your excuses. Let them make you feel like a beginner again. That internal pressure you feel, that discomfort, that's the birthplace of your next evolution.
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Get uncomfortable. Get humbled. Get hungry. Or stay soft.
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What's beautiful about this whole thing is it's your fucking choice.
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That will tell me who you are.
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So to address
Embracing Struggles for Continuous Growth
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some of the weak thoughts, that are probably bouncing around right now in your head. If you think you're tired, you think you've hit your limit, you haven't.
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You're tired because your standard is low. Your identity hasn't caught up to your calling yet.
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You want to change your life? You raise your baseline. You want real confidence? You stack the pain and carry it until it feels light. You want power?
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Add pressure until it becomes second nature. Stop waiting for life to get easier. It won't. So start making it harder on yourself. Raise the bar, raise the weight, raise the pressure.
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And when your old self screams, drown it in discipline. You're not here to survive. You're here to dominate. And I know that's true. When I really step back and look at my life, it's all there.
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My entire journey has been one relentless climb in baseline. Didn't feel like it at the time. It felt like chaos. It felt like I was barely holding it together. I felt like an alien in my own fucking body, but underneath the pain was evolution.
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Every brutal stage raised the floor beneath me.
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There was a time Okay, when getting through the day without collapsing mentally was a win.
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There was a time when responsibilities felt unbearable.
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And I haven't forgotten those moments. I still carry them. Who I am now, the strength, the clarity, the leadership, it didn't appear out of nowhere.
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I earned it in the trenches, rep after rep, night after night, through fear, through insecurity, through doubt. I formed the deepest belief in myself, the deepest belief in my mission,
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the deepest belief that I can do anything.
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Every time I survived something I thought would break me, my baseline moved. When I hit rock bottom in 2019 and chose to fight instead of fold, my baseline moved.
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When I returned to lifting, still haunted by panic and self-doubt, the baseline moved. When I cleaned up my diet, set a priority on sleep and self-growth, the baseline moved.
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When I chose to get my master's while still keeping everything else locked in, the baseline moved. When I stepped onto the mats and jiu-jitsu after four years of absolute fear, the baseline moved.
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When I picked up this microphone to speak when it terrified me, the baseline moved. Those weren't just wins. Those were declarations. I will not stare stay where I was.
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I won't stay there. I will not get comfortable. I will always evolve. That's what this is all about. Not hacks, not motivation.
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It's about reconstructing your identity. So I will ask you, what the fuck have you done?
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I'm not saying it to shame you. I'm saying it to wake you the fuck up. For real, think about it.
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What the fuck have you actually done?
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What are you building?
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What are you working on? What are you reading?
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What the hell are you doing every day to become dangerous, to become disciplined, to become something more?
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If you don't have answers, you got work to do. You need to suffer with intention. You need to carry the weight until it becomes who you are.
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One day, if you do this right, What used to break you will become your warmup. So raise your fucking baseline or get buried under the version of you that you never want to become.