Real Chalk — When Preparation Meets Opportunity w/ Anders Varner — 42
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Do you want to do big things?! Do you want to create opportunities for yourself that get you closer to where you want to be? Even if you don't know where you want to be EXACTLY.
Anders Varner, Host of Barbell Shrugged, and myself, explain our story of preparation. What exactly were we doing before all these great things happened?! What were the steps we took to get here? Why did these things happen to us? Why don't they happen to other people? What should you be doing more of to create more opportunities for yourself?!
This episode is an "all the feels" kind of episode that will get you inspired to want to work hard today. Think of Anders and I like your morning cup of coffee, and come hang out with us on this week's episode on carrying opportunity through massive amounts of preparation, NOT luck. This episode was filmed in the Mecca of podcasting, my couch in Orange County ;)
- Ryan
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Real chock nation Ryan Fisher here coming back actually with another one this one's called preparation opportunity |
| 0:06.1 | It's got all the feels |
| 0:09.0 | My main man Anders Varner one of the hosts of barbell shrugged and myself hanging out in my apartment on the couch |
| 0:16.2 | Going over what we think |
| 0:18.7 | The definition of preparation and opportunity really is and I think it's sad that a lot of people out there are looking for opportunity |
| 0:25.7 | All the time, but they're not really preparing themselves for the opportunity |
| 0:31.0 | So it's really really hard to get great opportunities if you're not preparing yourself all the time |
| 0:36.0 | Every single thing that you do is |
| 0:39.0 | Preparation and Anders and I go over exactly what we did in |
| 0:43.0 | Our past that got us where we are right now |
| 0:45.8 | So I'm ecstatic about my life at the moment and is ecstatic about his life at the moment |
| 0:51.2 | We've been getting opportunities to do great things travel all over the place talk to awesome people |
| 0:56.5 | We've run great businesses. I still run mine |
| 1:00.5 | And I have |
| 1:02.6 | Programming that I do for thousands of gyms all over the world |
| 1:05.2 | So it's it's been an amazing ride and I love to help other people at this point |
| 1:10.4 | I think you hear these stories of people helping other people |
| 1:14.0 | And they're trying to you know financially benefit from it, but this is a free podcast |
| 1:18.3 | And I'm here telling you my story because I genuinely want to tell you my story |
| 1:22.0 | I genuinely want to help you and I hope that all the things that you hear in this episode |
| 1:27.0 | Are something that really really helps you get through the day or through the week or through the month or through the year |
| 1:32.4 | And you listen to this and you're like, you know what? |
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