Hey, welcome back to the Big Deal podcast. I'm Cody Sanchez. Let's get into it.

I wanted to do something different this episode, which is bring in my favorite podcast

guests we've had and steal their truths, their secrets, and their lessons from 2024 so that we

can make 2025 the best year ever. So let's get into it, shall we?

The first one is from Ali Abdel. If you don't know Ollie, he is a former medical doctor turned huge YouTuber turned multi-time business owner. And he

said this line that lives rent-free in my head. A great piece of advice I got from one of my

medical school professors. An hour before 9 a.m. is worth two hours after 5 p.m.

And I thought about this a lot this year because I have this belief that most of your problems would be solved by getting up at 5.45 a.m.

And if you woke before the sun, went and started working before everybody else did and did the uncomfortable

thing that most of us won't do, that your life would probably be richer and more successful.

And so, you know, he now has this New York Times best-selling book about procrastination with

this other line I love, which is that procrastination is an emotional problem. You don't put

things off because you're lazy, unmotivated, or lack discipline. You put it off is an emotional problem. You don't put things off because you're lazy,

unmotivated, or lack discipline. You put it off for an emotional reason. And I think that

is the same idea. That if we do what Mark Twain says, which is if you're going to eat a frog,

eat it first thing in the morning. If you're going to eat two, eat the big one first,

or the hairy one first. I go back and forth between big or hairy, what would be the worst type of frog to eat?

And so I think this idea of, man,

maybe we can't do all 452 things we need to do

to make our life perfect next year.

But what if we just got up a little bit earlier?

Do we think that that time might actually be more valuable

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