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What Wrestling Taught Me About Pain, Purpose & Pushing Through | #Success - Ep. 21
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Colette Brunson
Um, I think I just won my taxes. Yeah, I just switched to HR Block in about one minute. All I had to do was drag and drop last year's return into H and R Block and bam. My information is automatically there so I don't have to go digging around for all my old papers to switch. Nope. Sounds like we just leveled up our tax game.
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Russell Brunson
Switching to H and R Block is easy. Just drag and drop your last return. It's better with block.
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Russell Brunson
This is the Russell Brunson Show. What's up everybody? This is Russell Brunson. Welcome back to the show. Excited to be hanging out with you guys today. And this is like an old school show. For those who are newer to the podcast, you probably don't know this, but the podcast has taken a couple of different changes over the years. When it first launched, it was called the marketing in your car podcast. Then it shifted to the marketing secrets podcast. Now it's just the Russell Brunson show. Cause I'm talking about all sorts of stuff, not just marketing, all the fun things. So. But when I first started the podcast, I literally would. I had a four minute commute from my house to the office every day and I would hold my phone up to my mouth like I'm doing right now and I would talk while I was driving. Anyway, today I have a 30 minute commute to the doctor and so I thought I would jump on and record an episode with you guys right now while we're hanging out in traffic like the good old days. So, and just to give you context, so the time I'm recording this right now, in the last 30 days, my life's been a little crazy. My life's always a little crazy as you know. But twice a year or, sorry, once a year, I basically, I try to get back in shape and relive my glory days by going out and wrestling. And there's a tournament every single year for, for basically all age groups, all the way up to veterans, which are like the really old, like 70, 80 year old guys who wrestle in this tournament. And it's funny because I remember when I was wrestling in college, I remember going to an open tournament and there were these guys that were like in their 70s wrestling. And I was like, that's so cool. And I forgot about it. And for almost 20 years I didn't wrestle. I was just doing my thing, doing my business. And then when I, when I moved into our house, I'm now, about 10 years ago, I have, 10 years ago I built a wrestling room. And so I just built it to be able to wrestle. And so I invite a bunch of my friends over, started wrestling and it was just kind of fun. Like we get together three or four times a year and beat each other up and it was just like, ah, reliving the glory days. It was so great. And then after one time, one of my, one of the wrestling guys was wrestling became one day he's like, yeah, I compete in tournament this weekend. I'm like, what? He's like, yeah, there's a tournament every year. I went wrestled in. I'm like, why didn't you tell me? And so the next year I was like, I'm going to go wrestle in this tournament. So I remember we start. I was gonna, I was gonna try to get in shape, but ran out of time. And so the week before the tournament we started working out. And then my very first practice, it was like Monday morning we got to, you know, I had a practice to get prepared for the tournament that weekend. The very first practice I had tore my neck and like could barely walk and had a chiropractor coming over like every single day. Tried putting back together but like, I couldn't, it hurt so bad. And so I literally had half of a practice before we went to this tournament. Show up the tournament. I'm, I'm sore. Can be. And there's two styles. There's two Olympic styles. There's a freestyle and a Greco. And so I went. And anyway, did the. Did the freestyle tournament or. So it was Greco first and I can't remember. I think I. I think I took third place in that tournament with a stiff neck. And then I did freestyle and I think I took second. Second or something like that. But anyway, I placed it at both the tournaments and, and I had so much fun. But there's a. There's a moment that was like, really cool. And I remember what happened is we were warming up before and there's this old guy came over to me. It was Tony, I think, from, from London. And he's probably 70, 70 to 80 years old somewhere in that window, right? Older guy. And he came up and we were warming up and he walked over and he's just wearing like a wrestling singlet and knee pads. He's an old guy. And like, you know, we're nowadays, like, we don't want to walk around in our singlets. We're. We're all wearing shorts and T shirts and there's singlet underneath. But like, we're not just walking around. This guy's walking around in it with his knee pads on. He walks over, he's like, hey, you want to wrestle? I was like, I guess. And so he's like, cool. He's like, I've had two knees and two hips replaced, so just don't shoot on me. I was like, what? Like, wrestling's all about shooting on people. So anyway, so we warmed up and we drilled together and it was just so funny. And then I remember watching him and he went out there and he won one or two matches and I was like, okay, if this dude who's in his 70s has got double knee replacements, double hip replacements is still competing at this age, I'm like, I'm making a commitment to myself right now. I'm going to do this every single year till I die. And so that was kind of the. That was the. The promise myself, right? And so I did that year, the next year, and then Covid year hit. And so we, during that year we went in actually down Florida, which was usually. These are in Vegas, this was in Florida. There was a beach wrestling tournament we got to do which was like insanely cool. So we're wrestling on the beach. And then they had the regular tournament and this tournament there was this old guy and. And he was terminal. In fact, if you watch my YouTube channel back there, we did a whole vlog about it. But he's. He was a judge and he'd never wrestled his whole life but for some reason, like 10 years earlier, he decided he wanted to become a wrestler. And. And he told. And anyway, I pulled my side because I wanted to interview him a little bit. He said that, you know, he's like. He's like. When I was a. As a judge, he's like, it's tough because he's like, there's people that love me or they hate me, and there's. There's always this. This politics, these things. Like, when I show up as a. As a wrestler, he's like, I'm a wrestler. He's like. He's like, there's no judging. He's like, I'm part of a community and, like, that's why I'm here. And he was not good. Like, he'd walk out on crutches, and then he put the crutches down, he'd hobble out in the middle. He started wrestling. And so we watched these matches. It was just like, crazy watching this old guy do it. And I remember at the end of it, over the speaker, they made an announcement, and basically. And somebody hasn't heard me tell the story before, but in wrestling, when you retire, if you're. If you're good, I mean, not for most people, but, you know, you retire, you take your shoes off and you leave them on the side and that. So Funnel Hacking Live this year, by the way, that's something that I did, is that when the event ended, me and Todd took off our shoes and we had Dave Woodward's shoes, and we left them on the stage and we walked off stage to kind of symbolize, like, the ending of an era. But at this wrestling tournament, they announced sort of a speaker, that this judge said he has a terminal illness and this was his last time having a chance to wrestle. And I remember he took his shoes off and let it on side of the mat, and everyone clapped for him. And I was like, oh, man. I'm looking at this guy who had never wrestled till 10 years prior. He's in his, you know, 70s, and he just wanted to wrestle, you know, like, it wasn't even something he was doing his whole life. He just wanted to be a wrestler. And he. He. And he was dying. He did all the way till, you know, to the end anyway. So for me, it's like, kind of recommitted. Like, this is something I do every single year till I die. It's been fun, like, since I've been doing this, I've had a lot of people message me who are like, oh, like, I used to do karate when I was a kid. Now I do karate again, right? I used to do this when I was a kid. Now because like you're doing, you're chasing these dreams of yours, I'm doing it as well. So one of my main goals in sharing any of this is just hopefully for most of you guys to think back, like when you were a kid, what was the thing that brought you the most happiness? For me, 100% it was wrestling, right? And then we, we get done wrestling, our career ends and we stop doing it. And I think other sports are probably better, you know, like I have friends who play basketball and they still go find pickup games here or there and stuff, you know. But in wrestling it's hard. There's not really stuff happening other than Jiu jitsu. Jiu jitsu is like the, that drug for, you know, for wrestlers to get to, to do something similar. So Jiu jitsu is a big one out there. But anyway, I'm hoping that by sharing some of these stories and gets you guys to figure out like, what was the thing that you loved when you were a kid that that was like, that meant the most in the world and like, go start doing that thing again. Go, go to a wrestling tournament, Go play soccer. Go, go act in a play like whatever your thing is. Because like, man, I can't tell you how much life and excitement it brings. So for me, it's like once a year I have this thing and it's like I've, you know, for me to compete, I gotta, I have to get back in shape, I gotta wrestle, I gotta get my cardio up, I get my strength training back up. But it means the world to me. Like it's, it, it's the best, right? And so this year was interesting because they're so there's freestyle and Grackler, Olympic styles. There's a third style which is, you call it collegiate style or folk style, which is the only style that we wrestle here in America. And so I was so excited because I wanted to. There's, there's every single year they have it, but it's like during spring break. So every year I'm with my family on a cruise ships. Like I, I can't do it right, because the cruise ship leaves at a certain time and you just can't make it. And so this year our family decided for Spree rig not to go on a cruise, but just to go on a vacation. And so I was like, wait, based on that, I don't have to be at the vacation Spot, like right would happen. So I told Cloud, I'm like, okay, you're gonna take the kids to Hawaii and then I'm gonna go wrestle and I'll fly there a day late. I think she was a little annoyed with me. Cause, you know. Yeah, especially this year. It was first spring break where our twins down the Bowen weren't with us. Like, down was home working bones on a mission. So it was already like a smaller family anyway. But I told Claire, I want to do this. I need to wrestle in this tournament. Like, it's a collegiate salvage. I better, I'm better at that style than the other ones. I'm so excited to go. And so anyway, long story short, I'm. I'm prepared for this tournament. I start wrestling and things going well. I'm like, I'm doing well. I'm getting back in shape. And then this Sunday, it was March 2nd, I believe. So it's like two weeks before I was out cleaning up the restroom, getting ready to like, turn on where we're going to be doing, like, you know, at least one, maybe two practices a day, getting ready for the tournament. And I had this big tire. Like, it's a big tire that you can flip and you can, you know, hit. And it's, it's a. It's a really big tire. Like, it's hard for me to lift. In fact, usually it takes two people to actually be able to lift the tire and flip it. But I was cleaning the rest of the room. I was like, I wanted to move the tire. So I went to the lift to try to pick it up. I'm like, I can't pick it up. I'm gonna hurt my back. And so I didn't. And then a few minutes later, I'm like, I just want to move it. So I walked over and I started lifting it again. And what's crazy is I had, I had had like my noise canceling headphones on so that. Because I was listening to music and stuff, and so I couldn't hear anything in the room. And so I started lifting it. As I'm lifting the tire, I get underneath it, I have both my hands underneath it, and all of a sudden I hear a pop in my left forearm. Like a, like a. Like I could hear it through noise canceling. It's like, pop. I'm like, what the crap? Like, what was that? I'm like, oh, well. And it's like you got kind of readjust, start lifting in and it pops again. And I was like, oh, no. So I Dropped the tire. I looked down on my arm, and my arm looks like it's broken. Like, it's. It does not look good. And I try to, like. I'm like, like, what's wrong with that? Try to pick something up. I couldn't pick anything up. I'm like, oh, no. So I called one of my friends, Ty Ogata, who lives in the neighbor next to me. He's a chiropractor. He's awesome. And he raced over, and he's like, dude, your ulna popped out of your elbow or whatever, or something like that. And so he goes. And he snaps it back in. Oh. And it was hurt. Um, but then, like, the muscles looked really. My arm looked deformed. I was like, what's happening? It's like, he's like, your muscles all freaking out because, you know, the bone moved. And so he spent, like, an hour, like, massaging my form to get it back to, like, so it looked like a normal arm. And then I started doing some basic pressure. I pressure my hand over up. And then as soon as I put some pressure up, my ulna popped out again. And I'm like, oh, no, it's gonna reset it back in there. And I was like, dang it. And so CL was so happy. She's like, all right, you know, cancel wrestling. You're gonna come. And I'm like, like, wait, don't cancel yet. Cause, like, maybe there's a way we can heal. And so then, in true Russell Brunson fashion, I was like, all right, how do we solve this problem? There's gotta be a way. So I'm calling everyone I know, trying to figure out the right things, right? So the guy who does my Doug Grant, who does my blood work and does my supplements, I tell him. So he's like, okay, there's this. These peptides, it's called the Wolverine Protocol. So he ships me out, overnights me. These peptides, they're supposed to make you heal super fast. So twice the day, I'm giving myself peptide shots directly into my arm, right? I'm doing all sorts of stuff, try to get this thing healed as fast as I can, and. And it just hurts. Every time I try to do anything, it hurts. And so I was about to spot where I was going to give up, and then Ty, my chiropractor, came over, and he's like, I have an idea. So he went. He taped my wrist really, really tight on that side. He taped about 3 inches deep on my wrist. And by taping it, it. He. It kept the two bones together closer. And so I actually move my wrist. I'm like, oh, my gosh. Like, it still hurts, but not like, I think I could actually wrestle this way. And so I was like, okay, I'm test tomorrow morning. I called Mike Vanbrill, who's my. One of my wrestling partners. I was like, hey, come out tomorrow. Let's wrestle. I'm gonna see if I can do it. So we came out the next morning and wrestled. And yeah, it hurts a lot. But I was able to. I was able to do a whole wrestling practice. I'm like, okay, I'm back in. Told my wife. I was like, sorry, Colette, I'm gonna go wrestle. She's like, what you. Like, you literally dislocated your arm like two days ago. I'm like, I know, but I'm gonna do it anyway. And so I committed to doing it again. Right at this point, some of you guys are like, russell's insane. And I remember I posted on Social something because everyone's like, oh, sorry, you're gonna miss your wrestling. I was like, I don't think you guys understand. I was like, if I was missing a leg, I would still go to wrestling. This has nothing to do with like, oh, I'm healthier or am I healthy? Like, like, this is something I committed to that I'm gonna do every year till I die. Like, I'm. I'm going to this tournament. And so that was kind of planned. So then fast forward now a couple days now it's like, okay, now as I get close to the tournament, there's two weight classes. And in old guy wrestling, the weight classes are bigger gap, right? When you're competing as a younger guy, like, like every eight to ten pounds there's a different weight class. So you're kind of in there. But with my age group, there's like a. There's like a 20 pound gap. So, like, there's one, I think kilos. But if you were, if you were to put it into like pounds, there's like 194 pound weight class, which is what I, nor I normally weigh about. And then there's one down below, which is 172, which is a huge gap, right? That's like a 22 pound gap. But the problem is everyone's cutting weight. So if I wrestle 194, I'm going to be wrestling. People are cutting down from 220. If I wrestle 172, I'm wrestling people my same size. And so I'm like, okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna cut down weight for this. And so I decided and committed to actually cutting weight. Um, and so that was kind of the game plan. Uh, and so I gotta lose. You know, I was coming down from. I was actually £195 on Sunday, and I'd weigh ins that Friday, which I'd weigh 171.9 technically. So, yeah, that's a lot of weight. It's 20, what? 23 pounds. And so I started the weight cut.
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Russell Brunson
So first meet at my house. Before we left, we were cutting weight, so putting on Plastics, you know, cranking the heat of the wrestling. Go up to 90, whatever degrees, and I'm wrestling like crazy, right? It's like that was the first pass at it, right? And so we lost five or six pounds from there. And then I did the next thing and then we flew out to Iowa, the tournament's at. And then the night before now, Plastics went out there, we started wrestling again to lose some weight. And in that wrestling practice, I'm wrestling in my. My arm's hurting a little bit. But in one of our scrambles, Mike is spinning around to get behind me to get points, and I went and lifted my right arm so the other arm to kind of block him. And as I do it, like he's spinning behind, it pops my other. My right forearm. I was like, what the heck? So now I've got my left elbow thing jacked up. My right forearm's hurting so bad, but I'm still cutting weight, right? So we get down that night, I go In, I'm like 13 pounds over. I'm like, okay, 13 pounds, weigh insert tomorrow. And normally one of the ways we cut weight is we fill the bathtub up with, like, scolding hot water. And you sit in it and it makes you lose a lot of weight. You can lose, like, two or three pounds every 15 minutes. So I'm like, okay, here's the plan. So we go that we got an Airbnb, we fill the hot. Fill up the bathtub with water, and two things happen. Number one, the hot water heater does not have enough hot water to fill the bathtub. So it's, like, halfway filled. I get in, I'm like, it's not covering my whole body. And number two is the bathtub is draining. So within, like, two minutes of me getting in, the bathtub's half empty and I'm not covered in water. I'm like, oh, no, this is my. This was my catch all to be able to lose weight. And now I can't do it. And so, yeah, so. And again, some of you guys are like, russell, I thought this was a podcast about marketing or sales. Like, yeah, some days. But today is about. About you doing what it takes for you to go live the life you want to live. So there. There's the theme for today is we're going to go. Because this is all I want to do, right? I want to go wrestle, I want to go compete. Anyway, so. So we go to bed that night. I'm still 13. I wake up in the morning, I'm 12 over, and I'm like, okay, what am I going to do? I lose £12 the next, like, 12 hours. And so we went and we started looking for saunas. We go to this first place, we find sauna. They let us go in there. And, you know, I'm like, hey. I'm like, we have, like, two hours in here. They're like, no, you know, you're capped at one session today. And each session's 40 minutes. So, like, okay, so we go in there for first sauna session. We do 40 minutes, come back out, go check our weight. I lost three pounds. Like, now I'm nine over. I'm like, okay, that's not enough. So we find a different sauna place. This place had, like, saunas with bikes in the saunas. So we go there throwing the plastics, ride bikes for an hour straight, come out, lost £4. Now I'm within £5, right? So then we go back, we need another sauna. So we went another place that's a sauna, but they also have a cryo, a cryotherapy chamber. And so we went there, got cryotherapy, froze it off just because. Not to lose weight. Just because it felt good. We were so beat up at this time. Hadn't drinking anything in like two or three days. Completely dehydrated. So go do cryo sauna, go back home, check our weight. I'm still, I can't remember. Four or five pounds over. So we go back, do, get down to like right on weight. Go back, check my weight at the, at the hotel. I'm right on. So we race over to the, to the place to go do our weigh ins. I get the weigh ins and the way weigh ins work is there's an hour for weigh ins, right? But as soon as you step on the scale, like, like, like that's your time. You can't go and like leave afterwards. So I go, go get in line, get on the scale again. At the hotel, I checked, I was right, right on weight. I get on scale and every scale's a little different. So I get on the scale and they're, they're like, you're 02 pounds over. And I'm like, what? He's like, yeah, sorry. And he's like, you, you have two challenges. If you want, you can challenge, but like, you can't leave. They can't go lose any more weight. Like, you're done. And so I'm like, yes, let's do the other check scale. So we got to this other check scale, check on that one. I'm still, I'm 0.1 over on that one. And I'm like, if I don't do this, I have to wrestle 194. And I just lost 25 pounds in the last five days. Was all for nothing. And I'm like almost in tears, which would've been nice if I could cry, I could lose some weight, but unfortunately I completely dehydrated my body, so I had no tears left. So I'm kind of freaking out, you know, on the last scale I jump on and sure enough, I'm at 78 kilos exactly. I jump off and he's like, they count. So I'm like, oh my gosh. And so we do that, we go back and then again, this is not like weight cutting, like smart weight cutting where you're like losing calories. This is just purely, you're, you're dehydrating your body, right? So a gallon of water weighs eight pounds. So basically it was three gallons of water I had to suck out of my body to lose the weight, right? And so you're so dehydrated and like, it's funny, I, I looked my abs Looked awesome. Like you could actually see I had a six pack and I had like, no love handles. It was amazing. But my face is like, sunken in. My eyes are sunken in. Like there's. It's just dehydrating your body. So you get done and you start drinking like crazy, but it actually hurts to drink because you haven't drinking or eaten anything. So I'm just drinking as much as I can, as fast as I can. And then the place we'd gone into the cryotherapy, they also do IV drips. And so when they went over back back to there, and we did an IV drip, rehydrated through IVs and then water. And what's crazy, that night we got back and I already gained 14 pounds of water weight by the time we got back to our hotels that night. So all the water we'd sucked out in the pri the previous 24 hours was back just by drinking and doing the IV drip. But anyway, so that's what got me to the spot, right? And I'm like. A lot of you guys are like, russell, why would you just like, this seems insane. This is like torture. And the answer and the reality is, yes, it is torture. It is insane. But also like, I don't know, like, for me as a wrestler who used to do this every single week for a decade of my life, like, it was so much fun. It was. It was like making me feel alive again. To like go through the pressure and the pain and the sweating and the cutting weight and the deprivation and all this stuff, all to like, to be able to have the opportunity to compete was just. Anyway, yeah, it was horrible and amazing at the same time. So then we fast forward next day, we go to the tournament to wrestle. I strap up my arm and I'm so excited because we're doing collegiate style, which means I can do my favorite moves, like a cheap tilt and leg rides, which you can't do in freestyle and Greco. My first match, I go out there, we're wrestling. I give the guy to cheap tilt. My. My favorite move, I turn him and he starts spazzing out. And as soon as he does, he's like jumping, he's kicking back and forth, and I feel my arm pop. The. The ulna pops out again. I was like, oh, crap. I heard it, felt it, and literally I can't even remove my. My left arm mic. That's how bad it was. And so I finished that match. I lose the match. I'm trying to like reset the arm myself, and it just it hurts so bad. They call me for my second match.
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Russell Brunson
I'm doing really, really well against him. I get on top, same day, I'm trying to cheap tilt him and it just, it hurts so bad. And then we get back on our feet and he locks in with this weird throw and throws me right on that arm again. And so my left arm is just destroyed. I can't flex. There's no bicep. It's all like bruised. It just, it looked horrible. And so I lost two matches. Means usually you're two and out. And I was just like, man, that sucks. Oh, like, I lost both matches and my left arm now is completely jagged. I can't flex my bicep. It. It's swollen. It looks bad. And so we're getting ready, like, you know, we're about to leave the tournament. All of a sudden I hear him call my name again. I'm like, what? And run over like, yeah, you're up again. I'm like, okay. So I already, like, I already like had like undone my, my wrist wrap everything. So I go back, I re wrapped my wrist. While I'm running out there to wrestle, I shave you guys hand. We start wrestling and, and I shoot a shot on this guy with my right hand. So it's now the other arm, the one that I kind of hurt a little bit during the practice when we're cutting weight, I shoot on that leg. He sprawls back and I hear my right bicep go pop. And I was like, oh my gosh. I let go of his leg. And also I'm like, I have no arms. Both my arms, the biceps are torn now. I don't even know what's happening. And so I start wrestling this guy and luckily I'm able to flip him over and pin him, get the match over with. I come off, I look down and both my arms look deformed. I was like, oh, no, this is not good. And so anyway, tournament's done. I go over, I have the trainers, like wrap them in ice so that we're icing these, these my biceps. I go back, you know, to our, to our Airbnb afterwards, I unwrap them and I look at my arms. I'm like, they both look deformed. Like my bicep does not look normal. It doesn't go to like, where it normally hooks. Like, it looks, it looks really, really bad. And so I'm calling some of my doctors and friends. I'm like, what do I do? And they're like, if you have a torn bicep, like, you need to get in surgery and stuff. I'm like, well, I would love to stuff from flying in, like, five hours to Hawaii for my family spring break, and I cannot miss that, or my wife would literally destroy me. I don't have an opportunity to do that. And. And so, yeah, they. Yeah, basically, my arms swell up, I take a bunch of ibuprofen and stuff, and then I. I don't go to bed that night because my flight's like, at three in the morning. I jump on the plane and I fly to Hawaii. And both my arms, like, I can't move them. I can't. I get hurts to lift it. I can't lift my backpack up. Like, excruciating pain. And as I'm flying to Hawaii, I have this realization. I'm like, my wife did not want me to wrestle number one. She wanted me to spend time with her, the kids. You know, she's got the. She definitely got like, the I told you so attitude, you know, which rightfully so. But I was like, I don't want to ruin this trip for her or for my family. I was like, I'm going to go to this trip and I'm going to have extreme annoying happiness and optimism to the point where, yeah, just to. Just because I don't want to really strip my kids. And I don't. I don't care about myself. Like, this is not about me. This is about them. And so I go to the. I go to Hawaii, and first off, we're in Hawaii, and I'm like, it's beautiful. And I was, like, so happy to be there. And even though I couldn't lift my own bag up, I couldn't. I couldn't move. Both my arms at this point are swollen. Like, they are huge. It looks like Popeye arms. It's kind of cool other than it's just swollen with fluid on both. It's like from my wrist to my. To my armpit, like, both arms are just completely swollen. I can't even bend them. And it was crazy because I was there at Hawaii and I was like, again, extreme happiness and optimism and, like, everything's positive. Trying to have no. No thought for my pain or for any of these things, because this was about them. And anyway, the Hawaii trip was insane. We had so much fun. It was such a good time. So I'm almost the doctors, which leads me to why I do this podcast. I'm actually. Now we're back from Hawaii and I'm Going to the doctors to have them check my arms and do MRIs. And I'm going to find out here a little bit if I tore both my biceps, which I have a weird inkling that I have. It's been over a week now. And again, from my wrist to my armpit is completely. My arms are completely yellow and purple, just of pretty bad bruising. Both my biceps don't look normal, which sucks. I'm like, these don't look like my arms. So we're about to find out. But I share this for a couple reasons. Number one, guys probably think I'm crazy now. You know, I really am. Number two is I want to kind of go back. Like. Like, a lot of people don't. They don't want to do things. They don't want to get hurt, right? Like, what else do I have to do, right? Like, I have a desk job. I'm sitting all day making funnels and talking with my. Like, I don't need my body, my arms, you know, like, anyway, I think a lot of people are so scared of getting hurt or they're so scared of something happening, they don't do anything. Whereas for me, it's like, I don't care if I get hurt. Like, that's the point of it. Like, I want the soreness. I want that. Like, I want to relive my glory days. I wanted to have that. That fun experience again, you know? And so it wasn't about, like, if I don't get hurt, it's like, I'm probably hurt. Like, every year I've done these tournaments, I've gotten hurt, like, consistently. There's not been a year that I haven't. I always get hurt in them, but it's okay because I have a year to heal, right? Like, but it makes me feel alive, and that's the key, right? And so the lessons I hope you get from this, number one, is do things that make you feel alive. Don't be scared of getting hurt. Like, worst case scenario, like. Like, like, what else am I doing with my life, right? Like. Like, this is such a fun, exciting thing. It made me feel alive. Like, all the. The. The pain, the suffering, the torture, all those kind of things all made me feel alive. So that's number one. Number two is looking through the pain I was in and, like. And by just mentally shifting, like, I'm Have a positive attitude. I'm like, I'm not gonna let my wife or kids know how bad this is hurting me. I'm just gonna be extremely optimistic and Positive. And we made this Hawaii trip so much fun for everybody. And nobody. I mean, I'm sure they kind of knew I was being. That I was being a wuss because I heard I couldn't do ziplining with and a couple things like that. But I brought my happiest, most optimistic attitude to it, and we made the trip amazing. And now I have a chance to heal and figure it out. Probably have to get some surgery. Who knows what's going to happen? But I don't regret it. I would do it again in a heartbeat because just that, that. That reason to exist, that reason to work out, the reason to cut weight, the reason to, like, be excited was worth everything like it. It added energy and excitement on every other piece of my life. My business, my writing, my everything. And so I didn't want to lose that. And it's worth the pain and the suffering. So there you go. I hope it helps you guys again. Some of you guys are gonna ride this episode off like, Russell's crazy. And some of you guys are like, I'm gonna go and do the thing I want to do now. And hopefully you give yourself permission, and that's be afraid of being hurt because the worst case scenario, you get a surgery and you're back at it. I got a year to heal before next year's tournament, so thanks, guys. I appreciate you all and I'll talk to you all soon.
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