You will be terrible the first time you do anything.

The lessons are in the things that so many people are avoiding.

Hey there, I'm Matt Diabella and welcome to my short form podcast, Three Rules.

Each episode, I ask a guest to share three rules that help them find success and happiness.

Today I'm joined by James Smith, personal trainer, content creator, and bestselling author of Not a Diet

Book. His videos have been viewed hundreds of millions of times online, and he's here to share

the rules that got him to where he is today. James, rule number one, what do you got for me?

All wins feel the same. To people listening to this, maybe seeking aspiration from what you've done, maybe what I've done,

they seem to think that on a linear scale, hitting your silver play button, it's going to be amazing,

but your gold play button, oh my God, even better.

I don't think many creators talk about how numb they feel when they hit landmarks because we,

to get to the point of success that you've experienced,

I know for a fact that every time you've hit something really worth noting,

you just disregard it and move the goalpost to the next one.

And the kind of systems that we have in our mind for dopamine, any reward system we have in our brain,

you don't get 10 times the amount, 15 times

the amount as you go through life. And if anything, I kind of look back to earlier stages

of my life. And weirdly, I think that I was happier at 100K than I was at a million. And I'd

like to remind people that whatever they have in front of them, that every single, let's

say you do an event and there's 100 people that, when you then go to 1,000 people, it's going to

feel the same. When you get to a million people, it's going to feel the same. So enjoy those wins that

are coming in front of you. And I suppose if we turn this into a fat loss perspective, people say, oh, I need to lose 10 kilograms. I'm like, oh, well, how about we try and lose one kilogram and do it 10 times?

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