I got a question from Christopher Young. He asks, how do you cope with always

having to be on or inspiring to others? Obviously we don't see you 24-7 so I know you

have downtime but with social media etc it must still be

difficult to shut down and recharge do you ever say I just don't have it in me today

or do you fear loss of inspiration many people who are inspirational slash

motivational slash fitness leader roles just seem to lose that momentum, but you've

been pushing forward for so many years. It's impressive. Thanks brother. Well Christopher, thank you so much for

the compliment. Thank you for the question. I appreciate it. And here's what I'll say. For the first 30 plus years of my life, I was never really on.

I certainly wasn't inspiring. I just stayed in my comfort zone. I hid.

I did what was safe. And I was kind of a medium energy guy I don't think anyone

would describe me that way today but that's why I was unless I was in the gym you

know if I'm in the gym I own the gym I control the music I'm dictating what's going on I'm writing the programs I'm doing the coaching I'm yelling I'm firing guys up I'm getting am am getting am am am am am getting amped up I push my clients. But to take it to that next level

and live life at all times like that took a ton of deep work and personal

development. I spent several hundred thousand dollars and many

many years working on myself and since I started the deep work it hasn't stopped it

will never stop but But, you know, that included moving across the country so I could reinvent myself.

Two years of improv classes at Second City, speaking classes, workshops, reading tons of books, hiring coaches

and mentors, flying new events, paying to get in the room.

It just doesn't happen. I think there's a lot of people that have this

misconception that over time humans get better with age like we're wine, we're not wine. We don't

get better with age. Sometimes we get worse, we get more cynical,

we get more negative.

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