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“There's people, you know, a lot of the people in my circles, because of who I coach and everything, they're billionaires and they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to try to arrange a life that they enjoy. And it doesn't fucking work. So they actually…”

“So oftentimes the critical voice in the head says you need me to be productive, but it's usually a huge detriment to being able to really be successful. And even if you are successful with a really critical voice in your head, you never get to enjoy it.”

“Every single time the voice in your head is, is wrong. So it's not the critical voice in your head. So to be specific, I'm talking about the voice in your head that is critical and repeats. So, you know, there's the voice that says the same thing over and over…”

“If you understood the problem there would be no question about the solution. You can't, if you fully understand a problem, you know, the solution.”

“There's no such thing as a logical decision. You know, that idea is like, I'm just going to be logical and just make a logical decision. It doesn't neurologically, it's just untrue.”

“When people feel overwhelmed, it's usually not the amount of crap that they have going on in their life. It's the fact that they have emotions that they are not Sitting, feeling, or expressing.”

“What's efficient is if at the end of whatever you did, you feel like you have more energy, like you're stoked, like, oh, I can't wait to do this again tomorrow. That that's efficiency is that you've actually used the least amount of energy to get something don…”

“If you learn to enjoy the things that you're doing, you're going to naturally start doing the things you enjoy. If you only do the things you enjoy, you will not learn how to enjoy what you're doing very well.”

“If you really want to interview somebody, And they claim that they've done something. You ask them like kind of six levels down. So you improve sales. How did you do that exactly while we improve the pipeline? Okay. How'd you do that exactly? Well, we made t…”

“What's required to make every one of your meetings five stars? And if you do that, that that's one of the things we'll do inside of a company is like work with them to figure that out. If you do that, every single problem with your company will come to the sur…”

“I was in like a big 40,000 dollars in credit card debt or some crazy shit. And we just did it. And literally was a three months later, my credit card was debt was gone. Six months later, I had 60,000 dollars in the bank.”

“Doesn't matter if the thing that you feel like you lack is time or the thing that you feel like you lack is love or the thing that you feel like you lack is money. If you can really do a gratitude practice on the thing that you lack, that's there's a superpowe…”

“Another really big one that are in a large category, I would say is their relationship with emotions is all facada. They are, Either trying to pretend they don't have them or compartmentalizing them or trying to manage them rather than harnessing them and fall…”

“Joy is the matriarch of a family of emotions and she won't come into a house where her children aren't welcome. And so Like a very joyful life is a life where all the other emotions are deeply welcomed, not accepted, not non-judgmentally aware of.”

“Every way that we go to avoid a feeling becomes the way that that feeling gets invited towards us.”

“It's really where you come from. It's the emotionally where you come from. That's the important part. Not, not as much what you say.”

“The reason I do the should thing is that as soon as you say you should, and then you don't, then you can fail. And if you fail, then you're less likely to try it again. That's why the should just, it ends up usually in stagnation”

“If you're conflict avoidant, you're not gonna be able to make an a team because there's nothing that is alive. Doesn't require tension. A cell requires tension. Breathing requires tension. Playing pickleball requires tension. A good team requires tension.”

“Some of our meetings are started with what are you scared to say? Because we want to embrace that intensity because we know that if we lean into the thing that we're trying to avoid, our life is going to get better. Our business is It's gonna get better.”

“If you're gonna do your set of principles and you wanna do them on your own, the main thing I would say is keep it to five. I wouldn't even do six. I don't do six, but I keep it to five and I would test each one of them for like five days.”

“The atomic structure of a company is the meetings and the decisions.”

“If that's true, then it's measurable and it can be a leading indicator. And it absolutely is. Like if you really pay attention to the culture on a team by team basis, it's an amazing, very effective way to drive results, but also a very effective way to know w…”

“And if you have a full body sensation of gratitude and you experience that for seven minutes a day, it'll change your life dramatically, really quickly, really, really quickly.”