Comparison your internal comparison of what you once took on to what you're willing to take on now is what will minimize your past challenges at once felt like big challenges and we're back with another episode of he said she said.

And this morning I asked Chris a question that I want to share with you guys because I really want you to ponder this in your life because you have a version of this and there's also a version of this that we are always striving to attain even more.

And I asked him I said okay so a lot of the things that you have to do in a day or the things that you used to get really stressed out over aren't even a thing anymore you just do them without even thinking about it you do them without resistance you do them without reactions.

The things that used to stress you out or feel like huge deals or looking in your calendar and going oh my god I have eight coaching calls today like it's not a thing anymore we're in the past that would have been more stressed than we could have possibly handled so we were sitting here thinking about capacity and pondering how does that happen.

It's going to say we talked about capacity several episodes back right like capacity is kind of like your muscles the more you go to the gym the more you add weight the stronger your muscles get well capacity is the same thing the more you take on challenging things with repetition the things that once seemed challenging are no longer as challenging because you built your capacity.

So people can go back and kind of listen to some of the episodes on capacity but I think what we're really talking about this is really where episodes come from so we talk about a dinner when we talk about on the morning walk you know I was turned into an episode but we're really talking about earlier was.

Why don't things just seem to bother me the way they have in the past and it's similar to that concept of capacity but it's really this comparison will always determine.

What feels big or small to you now this means bigger small problems or bigger small muscles or bigger small bank accounts or bigger small houses or bigger small dreams or whatever right comparison and don't mean like comparing yourself to other people but take the dogs for instance so bananas and bonkers that's the name of our two dogs they're pretty big dogs right bananas by 70 pounds and bonkers got these nine months old is already probably 80 something or whatever.

And every day when I'm around them like all those are big dogs but then once well will be a great day or will be to get the name of those other dogs there in the neighborhood in our ears on a neighborhood and they're massive right and all sudden by comparison bananas bonkers don't seem so big anymore so comparison your internal comparison of what you once took on to what you're willing to take on now is what will minimize your past challenges at once felt like big challenges let me give a better analogy.

In high school I had a job at Hansen's dairy which isn't even around anymore but it was a pizza and sub shop and ice cream shop right how many of those subs did you eat I could do I used to experiment with what could I deep prides it had a deep prior for the fish so I like make subs and deep fried I would love to make a deep fried so my god we made up see after like meals and stuff but you know back then the big challenge was a crabby customer.

Yeah for the big challenge was I burnt something for the pig challenge was I can't believe how hard it is to close up at the end of the day and do the mopping or do the cleaning my god that would even hit the radar now like imagine a customer who's buying pizza or ice cream or a sub who's upset with something rattling my cage now like one even register compared to the size of the challenges that I've taken on now same as you.

The size of the challenges that you've taken on now and the size of your challenges will always be in direct proportion to the size of your goals so the hack is this when you're fighting for average goals average problems are going to feel pretty damn big to you but when you switch the goals that you're chasing down right I'm building a billion dollar app company when you elevate the size of your goals.

And make them so damn massive. Then the problems that come along with that size challenge are so large that the past ones seem like nothing.

I remember we were in a mastermind probably in like 2016 I think it was loose house mastermind he had.

Grant Cardone come and speak in Elena Cardone was there and they were really I remember them talking about this so I remember we were at an event probably in 2016 2017.

Elena Cardone was there with Grant Cardone and they were talking about the same thing and how they have started to have to not sweat the small stuff because they said when you have big fish to fry everything else seems like nothing like you actually have to start treating it that way.

And so I think it's part conscious ever and also what you're saying like by comparison because I even look at my schedule now I'm like oh my God one things that I do in one day I do in a week or two weeks back in the day.

So I was on the treadmill not too long ago and I remember I was running out like something really really low like 5.1 or 5.2 like a really light jog for me because guys I'm tall.

So that's like kind of almost like a shuffle walk little faster than a and I was thinking how hard it was I was like this is so hard I don't want to do this I just didn't feel like running that day.

And I thought what's the best way what's the fastest way that I could make this feel easy and I thought give myself a challenge I'm going to make myself have to run for five minutes at seven miles per hour.

And so what I did was I immediately made something harder to make what I wanted to be doing easier.

Yeah so I think what you're trying to say is after you did seven miles an hour for a while also in five miles an hour which felt tough in the moment felt like nothing.

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