The Pursuit of Personal Excellence with Alvin Brown #202
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.7 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
At age 26, my first-ever mentor and role model, Alvin Brown, was the ultimate representation of a man who had achieved true greatness in all areas of his life: family, business, health and fitness. This live studio-recorded conversation with Alvin continues our Muscle Intelligence Podcast focus on the highest levels of human potential!
Over a decade after I met him, Alvin remains an exemplar of character, integrity, and wisdom. Alvin had a huge positive influence on me at a time in my life where I felt lost, and was unsure of even the first steps to take toward change.
Alvin and I cover a lot of ground in this episode on what excellence and happiness truly mean, as well the pillars of mind-body-soul health! If you're striving for greatness in your own life, listen to gain wisdom about:
- The difference between perception and reality.
- How to create space between stimulus and response.
- Vulnerability, surrender, and letting go of control.
- Intentionally surrounding yourself with great people.
- What it takes to change your perception.
Alvin is the CEO and founder of The Centre for Healing and Peak Performance in Ontario, Canada. Alvin is a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner, a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, and holds a Diploma of Osteopathic Manual Practice. Alvin and The Centre for Healing and Peak Performance emphasize health and excellence for the whole person — mind, body, and soul.
Learn more about Alvin Brown:
- The Centre for Healing and Peak Performance
- Journey to Personal Greatness: Mind, Body, & Soul: A Blueprint by Alvin Brown
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, ladies and jents, I'm your host, Ben Pocoski. This is the Muslim Intelligence |
| 0:18.0 | podcast. Today's podcast is going to be a very special. I'm going to start off with a bit of a solo cast, a bit of an introduction to this amazingly special guest, someone who has had some of the greatest impact on my development as a human. Maybe I would call him the catalyst for change in my life when I was really, really lost and unsure of how to change. He was the guy who I |
| 0:38.7 | looked to for guidance, for wisdom, for mentorship. And before I get into talking a little more |
| 0:44.6 | about our guest, I want to talk to you a little bit about that thought process. So as we develop |
| 0:49.1 | as humans, our objective ultimately is to find the most effective way to live. We're all looking to achieve |
| 0:58.2 | some semblance of fulfillment, maybe it's happiness. Defining what that looks like for you is |
| 1:04.0 | incredibly important. And one of the most valuable maybe lessons I've had along the way are the |
| 1:09.8 | most valuable assignments that I've |
| 1:12.3 | partaken in. Ironically comes from a book that I bought for my daughter and I at the time she was |
| 1:18.0 | six, she's now eight, and it's a little experiment that I suggest every one of you do. So you all |
| 1:23.2 | heard the statement that you become the five people you surround yourself with. And in 2012, |
| 1:28.8 | I was sitting by myself, realizing that the people in my life were not a representation of the |
| 1:36.8 | person I wanted to become. And there was no fault of anybody. It was simply the life I was |
| 1:41.1 | living at the time. I spent most of my time with my children, with my partner, with my training partner. |
| 1:47.5 | And it wasn't an exact reflection of the vision I had for the man I want to be. |
| 1:52.9 | So fast forward, you know, a few years from there, I come across this amazing experiment slash writing assignment. |
| 2:03.2 | And all the writing assignment said was, |
| 2:07.3 | on the left side of the page was for my daughter, on the right side of the page, or for myself at the top, it read, who are your best friends and why do you love them? And so my daughter |
| 2:14.0 | answered first, and she said she had four or five and wonderful friends or maybe a |
| 2:17.7 | couple more and she loved them for these very particular reasons and then I went ahead not thinking |
| 2:22.5 | anything of it and I started listing all the people who I saw as the greatest contributors to my life |
| 2:27.9 | for the people who I just knew that I loved and if I didn't see them for a long period time they would |
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