What is going on, everybody? Welcome back to the Mind of a Macros podcast. As always, I am your host,

Mike Milner. And today's episode, first let me apologize for not having the best sound quality today.

It was a situation where I had to be adaptable to what life was thrown at me.

So I actually had a podcast guest episode ready to go,

which was an amazing episode.

But the person that I interviewed had a special request

to push the episode back a couple of weeks,

or really like three weeks.

So that left me with an empty slot.

And I happened to be

traveling a ton lately. First, I was in Vegas for the Real Coaches Summit, which is an amazing

event for nutrition and fitness coaches and something that I go to with my team at Pop every

year. And then Mel and I took a very short vacation to the bahamas from

friday to monday so it kind of left me in a bind and so here i am without my podcast equipment

just getting it done while finishing up the vacation that we're on.

So this is really our last day of full vacation mode.

And I wanted to get this episode done because done is better than perfect.

And I think this is a great analogy for just health, fitness, life in general.

It's not always going to be the perfect conditions. There's going to be curveballs. There's going to be random situations that come up.

And you've got to find a way to just do what you can to the best of your ability and not let

perfection get in the way of consistency. because those are two very different things.

And sometimes we conflate them and think that we have to be perfect in order to be consistent,

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