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Travis
Foreign you're listening to the Travis Makes Money podcast presented by gohighlevel.com for a free 30 day trial of the best all in one digital marketing software tool on the planet, just go to gohighlevel.com travis what's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the show. Today on this episode, it's just me, you and the mic and we are going to be talking a little bit about how when you excel in one area, it affects all other areas and it's really difficult to operate in a silo. And when it comes to different sections of your life. And specifically it's been in my mind recently more about fitness really, because my producer Eric has been on his own little on his own personal fitness journey recently. And so we've just been talking a lot more about it. And Jackie and I talk about it a good amount, but it's always, it's fun for me anyway when friends of mine get into it more because we get to talk about it more and I like talking about it. And it sort of was dawning on me the other day just because I've been talking about it a lot more, about how much my overall confidence and ability to show up in my business, ability to show up as a father, as a husband, the it, it bleeds into everything when you really start taking your health seriously. And so my challenge on this episode of the show is to challenge those of you who are listening to get into the best shape of your life this year. Now, I don't know what that means. That could be very wide ranging. I'm not trying to encourage you to become a professional bodybuilder, okay? I'm not saying you have to weigh all your food, count all your calories and not enjoy life for the next year. To, for, for some reason, I'm not, I'm not suggesting that I'm just get in the best shape of your life, whatever that means for you, because I think there's a lot of value in the extreme measures that you sometimes need to take to be able to see those types of results happen. Because I don't know about you guys. But I put on my goal list, like my New Year's resolution list every year for like six years, essentially the same exact fitness goals. It was every single year, like clockwork. And it was interesting because I, I would, I would hit those goals, but I did them in such an unsustainable way that by the end of the year, I was basically right back to where I was starting the previous year. And it was just sort of this, this cycle right where it was just like I was up and then I was down and I was up and then I was down. And this was after I got really big. I was like 250 back in 2016 was crazy. That was a decade ago. Now I was 250. I've never touched 250 or even 240 since then. I think maybe 230 once since then, but I got to 250 and then I lost all the way down to 200 in about a year, year and a half after I was 250. And then from that point forward, from 2018 to 2023, 2024, let's call it. So 6ish years, it was basically this. It was like every, every year, writing down my fitness goals. I hit them, you know, five, six months into the year by summertime. And then, and then if, and then instead of making progress from that point, I just basically let myself go. And then I would end the year basically what I started the year at. So I would, I would end the year, you know, let's call it 2017 or whatever. I would end the year at 225 pounds and, you know, 18 body fat or 20% body fat or something like that. And then I would get my ass into gear January 1st, and by July I was 200 or 202 and 16% body fat or something like that. And then I'll go, cool, that worked. And then I would just go right back up to 2, 27 by the time the year was over. And a couple of years ago, I just got fed up with it. I was just like, this is not like the times that I'm taking pictures of myself and, and calling it, you know, my, my before after pictures. By the time I'm taking pictures for the before, it looks exactly like a year ago before does. Why am I continuing, Excuse me. Continuing to go on this. Yo, yo, you know, this roller coaster ride up and down and up and down and look, I am not a bodybuilder. Spoiler alert. So I, I didn't ever have the intention of, you know, becoming 5% body fat. And, and frankly, you shouldn't. That's, that's too lean. You, you need to have a little bit of fat on it. It's good to have a little bit of fat on you. But, you know, when I was big, I was pushing 30% body fat, and that's too much. That's obese. That is. I was, I was clinically obese at one point, which is difficult for me to say because I always identified as an athlete growing up, but it's just so easy to lose control.
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Travis
got fed up with it and, and then eventually was just like, okay, it's okay to have my weight fluctuate again. I'm not a bodybuilder, so I'm not, I'm not trying to, you know, be, be super lean 12 months out of the year and not be able to drink a beer and, or eat a burger or have some French fries and ranch or something like that, or eat a brownie or cookie every once in a while. Like, I'm not, I'm not trying, I'm not trying to live that kind of life. And I'm okay with trading a few years at the end of my life where I'd probably be in hospice care anyway. Like, I, I, I am okay with that. I'm not Brian Johnson. I'm not trying to live forever. And, and so I just got to this point where I was like, look, I need to get, instead of starting the year off and being like, all right, let's do, let's do another challenge, you know, and then 60 days later, I shred £20. But I did it in A really unstainable way. I was like, what if I just, what if I just took the most simple approach to this possible and instead of setting this type of a goal where it was like a challenge, like a, like a short term challenge, I was like, why don't I just make more of a, what I call a consistency goal, like a habit goal. And, and I, and the first time I did this was back in 2020 and it was helpful from the, the work outside. So from basically from 2020 all the way till now, I've been in the gym the majority of the year. Like there's some days off and you know, take a vacation, whatever. But before that it was always like three months in, three months out, three months in, three months out. And it was just this up and down thing. And so in 2020, instead of doing like this six week challenge thing, I did a 300 workout challenge for the year. And I was just like, I'm gonna, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna try to clock in 300 workouts over the course of this year. And it happened to be great timing to do this challenge, to pick, to pick 2020 as the year to do this challenge because obviously this was Covid time. And had I not done this, it would have been really easy for me just to give up on the idea of working out during COVID But I set this 300 challenge goal. 300 workout challenge goal. So even during COVID I was doing garage workouts basically every day and walks and jogs and weight vest workouts, just a bunch of stuff from home. I did like basically mini, mini Murphs, so I call them. So if you're familiar with the Murph, this, this Memorial Day thing that you do, because I think it was Chris Kyle or someone came up, some former Navy Seal that ended up committing suicide came up with this thing. And you like run a mile and you do a hundred pull ups, 200 pushups, 300 squats, body squats, and then you run another mile at the end of it. And so I started doing a mile and then half of all of them. So 50, I think this is, I think that's what I did. Fifty pull ups, a hundred pushups, and then 150 squats and then I would do another mile. And I was doing that like every day and did some like pyramid up and down things. And then anyway, I, I, I was able to remain consistent throughout that year and pulled it off and did all 300 workouts before the end of the year. And since Then I've been able to maintain relative consistency in the gym. So when I was looking at it from the, from the perspective of like, I'm so sick of getting back up into this threshold that I'm not comfortable at this weight that I don't want to be at, I said okay, well how can I do something similar to what I did then? But instead of focusing on the workout side now I focus on the nutrition side. Cause that was what I was realizing was like, okay, I've been consistent in the gym. That's clearly not the factor that I am losing at right now. It is clearly a hundred percent the nutrition side. So why don't I make a similar goal this year and instead of trying to lose all of the weight in two months, let me see what happens if I just do it for the course of eight months. And so I started just doing like body weight workouts, body weight exercises. I did a, a thousand pull ups a month and like a hundred. A hundred miles a month. Yeah, I was doing 100 miles a month, a thousand pull ups a month, 2,000 push ups a month or something like that. And so that was, that was all I was doing in the gym. I wasn't like going for PRs. I wasn't lifting heavy weight and throwing a bunch of weight around. It was just like how do I just make sure I maintain my work in the gym but then focus more on the nutrition side. And then when I, then by August of that year I looked and somehow had gone from 2:27, 2:30 at the beginning of the year. And by August I was down to like 1:80. And I never thought in my mind I didn't believe that it was possible for me to get down under 200 again. And here I am at 180 and 10.5% body fat or something. And, and then, and then since then I've gone up and I've gone down and up and down and up and down. But now the fluctuation is within a weight range that I'm comfortable with. When I'm heavy, I'm pushing like 205, 210. But it's also because the bot my got, my body composition at 210 is wildly different than my body composition at 210 five years ago. It's much more muscle than it is fat. And so like I, I still push up sometime to that, to that 210 mark. I'm like probably two 05 somewhere in there right now. But it's, you know, a much better composition than it was before. And then when I'm dropping weight, I go down back to 190 or 195 or something. And so like, that feels like much better to. And then now it's been probably two or three years of consistency within that range where I'm not pushing past the limits that I've set for myself a long time ago. So why am I saying all of this? Because I also noticed that when I got back in shape, it just started bleeding into every other area of my life in a really positive way. And then you just feel better about yourself. Overall, I feel more confident about myself walking around. I think it signals to other people that you are somebody, Especially if you're like, you're a young, young person. There's no excuses, man. Like, you don't have any responsibilities other than maybe a job or something like that. It's like, you don't have kids, you don't have a spouse. Like, it is. Now is the time to get in really good shape. And I think that it will help with your career. I think it'll help with making money. I think it signals to people that you at least have some base level of competence, some base level of discipline, some. It's a signal that you're willing to put in the work. And I think that that is highly valuable in any business situation, in any career. Sit. It's valuable to be the person in the room who is in good shape. And for men especially, I like, it's. A lot of. A lot of men get in shape for the thought process of, like, oh, I want to get more girls, or I want women to be more interested in me or attracted to me. What ends up happening is you're basically just more impressive to other dudes. That's sort of the lagging effect of this is, like, you get in shape because you want to be more attractive. But ultimately what it is is, like, all the dudes in your life are like, man, look at. You're looking. You're looking. You're looking good, bro. Like, you're in good sh. Like you're getting jacked. Like, tell me what you're doing. What's going on? And people, like, immediately get more interested in what you have to say because they. They see that. They perceive this as some sort of additional value that you can bring to the table. And it is.
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Travis
It's additional value that you can bring to the table. And again it signals that level of competence. In fact, one time I was at this event, this was right around the time where I, I had lost a good amount of weight and it had been a few months since I'd seen a bunch of people at like the event circuit that I was on previously. And so I go to this event in Utah and I'm backstage and to be fair, I also shaved like for, for the first time in a while. So I was clean shaven and I was 40 pounds less than I was before. So I walked by like two or three people and kind of gave them the like nod, you know what I mean? Like when you see somebody, you make eye contact and kind of give them like the eyebrow raise and just like expecting like a hey, what's up? And then they just, they, they made eye contact with me and then walked by me. I had to pull people aside and be like, hey, what's up? It's. And then they like looked and then looked again and they're like oh my gosh, that's that it's you. It's tr. I didn't even put two and I didn't even realize that that was you. And so it just like things like that start making you feel better about yourself. They start making you realize that oh, there is a value here to putting in the work and then getting the result that you want. And so I think now clearly there are a bunch of people who are jacked, who are also broke. So it's not a direct correlation to making money in business, but it is the building blocks of what's required to make money in business. It's just the daily, it's the daily boring discipline compounded over time that is the core learning the thing to take away from this. And I think it's more valuable on the nutrition side even than it is on the workout side, frankly, because the Nutrition side's like 24 hours a day. It doesn't ever go away. There's always a way to break that. Going to the gym is easier to me than eating correctly all the time because I can force myself to get up in the morning, go to the gym and I'd get it out of the way and it's an hour, hour and a half, maybe two hours of my day if I am, you know, wanting to walk as well as do my, my, my weight training routine. But that, that's like easier to me to, to do. And then when you add in the nutrition side, it's like, well now you're staying disciplined basically all of the time or at least a level of discipline for the majority of the time. And then it teaches you how to manage. It's the, the, the managing of your calorie intake versus the man and, and the output of the calories you're expending like there' into the money realm and into business and make money. Like just the idea that like okay, I have a budget for my calories. What do I want to put in that budget? What do I want to remove from that budget? Very similar on the personal finance side, on the making money side, just basically starts making you audit things and go, okay, well it's not worth it to me to spend 300 calories on beverages today, so I'm going to switch everything to zero calorie beverages or something like that or. And then you apply that to the, to your finances. It's like, okay, well you know, it's not worth it to me to, to go to Starbucks. Not worth it to me to eat out or to order doordash like that. Those things are not worth it to me. And I'm losing 700 bucks a month doing those things. So I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna cut that out and do something different. So like the, the bare bones principles of staying, of being in good shape will be really helpful when it comes to making money. The discipline, the boring consistent work that you just gotta do in order to maintain that type of shape like you, those, those principles translate directly to making good money. But then it's like I said, also the consistency discipline, the signal that you're giving to other people that you're somebody who's valuable, who's, who, who, who values themselves. At least it signals to other people that you are capable and competent and that you can learn how to do anything at that point. So I think it's, I think there's a huge, huge value in just putting your health first. And then if you're telling yourself, because for a while I told myself like, oh, it's just not important enough to me for, to prioritize right now. I'd rather be making money right now than I would, than I would then I would prefer to like look good. And it was just an excuse because at the time, like, when I was my fattest, I didn't, I didn't even have kids. Like, now looking back at that, having kids, I'm like, oh my God, dude, how much time was I just wasting? Just not using for anything productive that, that now I covet that time because I don't get a lot of it because I also have kids and I'm trying to run the podcast and pump out content and do the circuit and go through some events and, and be in, but also trying to stay home and be with my wife and spend time with my kids and, and then I need to work out, I need to make sure that I'm eating the right things. And like, the bottom line is if you're telling yourself that you don't have enough time, it's just an excuse and you got to figure out a way, a hurdle or you got to figure out a way to, to jump over that hurdle or it's never going to go away. And so if you are in that position, you may as well just commit to being in bad shape for the rest of your life because there's never, it's never going to get easier. Like, the only theoretically time that's going to get easier is like, oh, kids are out of the house, I'm tired now. But at that point it's too late. And you're like 68 and now you're going to get in good shape. And it's like, look, if that's the position that you are in life currently, then it's never a bad time to get in shape. But my point is, if you're consistently just punting this decision for a later date, you got to ask yourself, at what point does it stop? And that was initially what got me to lose the weight to begin with was when I was up at 250, in my mind, I was like, yeah, but I'm making good money for the first time. And there was a bunch of other excuses that came in. And then I was like, this doesn't make any sense. Like the, the logic doesn't play out accordingly with my goals. Because if I'm always going to be sacrificing personal health for the pursuit of business health, then theoretically, like, we play that out. It's like, okay, great, you might build an eight figure business, but you're 120 pounds overweight. Like, I don't want that version of life either. Not to mention it's more difficult to build an eight figure business when you're 120 pounds overweight. It just is like, it just, that's, that's a fact. It's not a, oh, it's, it's, it's subjective based on your experience. Like that is a fact. It's, everything becomes more difficult when you're that overweight. And I'm speaking from a position of having been, you know, 80 pounds overweight at one point, let's call it 70 pounds overweight because that's why I ended up losing from like my peak to my best. So yeah, I, I just, this was sort of just a free flowing thought conversation that I wanted to have on the podcast because it's been something that's top of mind for me recently and I just see so much value in making sure that you prioritize your health and even, even value in, when it comes to your career, your business or making more money. You're getting that promotion or connecting with somebody that you want to connect with. Even like the. I, I did a dinner party thing recently and I had Alex Ramosi come out. He was one of the guests that was on the show and obviously somebody who's in really good shape. And the first thing, like when I first met him, first thing he did was like pat me on the arm a couple times and was like saying that, oh, you're solid man. Like, like he was immediately recognizing the work that I'd put in, into the gym and it was this immediate recognition of the discipline that it takes because he obviously knows even to a greater extent than I do what being in good shape means and, and how difficult it is to prioritize that. And so the very first thing that he did was recognize that discipline in me. And it was sort of like a point of commonality now. And I think that that's, that's like I said, really valuable, really helpful. And if you, if you, you will never regret the time that you put in to valuing, to placing a high value on your health. So get in good shape. Get in the best shape of your life. Again, the best shape of your life is very subjective. Like, I'm not trying to tell you to again, go, go enter a bodybuilding competition or physique competition. I'm just saying get in the best shape of your life, whatever that means for you. Whether it's a weight that you've never gotten to, or building a certain amount of muscle that you've never built before, or it's training for a half marathon or a full marathon, or it's just walking, like whatever that looks like for you, just do it, and I promise you, you will reap the rewards of doing so. But that's it for this episode of the show. Thanks so much for tuning in. Catch you guys next time. Peace.
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