The Elite Comeback Plan

the movement and the increase to my goals. So I am so happy that I get to do this on my birthday. Share this content with you. Because today we're talking about how you take back your life. How do you have a full freaking comeback in your life to where you are a different person and you are making changes, and you are tackling all of the areas that you know you have been a little crazy with. You know, that you've maybe been negligent on so that you can

have the life that you want. And I don't say this in order to brag. I don't say this in order to like, say, you know, look at me. My life is perfect. Am I like this? Wonderful. My life is not perfect, but my life is freaking wonderful. And the reason it's wonderful is because I don't hold myself to the lies that I tell myself, which is that work doesn't matter, or that my house doesn't matter, or that my environment doesn't matter. No, I take a lot

of responsibility for these things. And so I break down in this particular episode, the specific five areas, plus the first requirement, which is a little controversial, that it takes in order to have a full freaking comeback. Let's dive in. First up is to stop altering your brain. You do not need drugs, so stop doing them. You cannot change your life if you are high while trying. There is nothing good that comes on the other side of taking drugs.

Even just the mentality of thinking that you have some sort of dependency because you need something in order to perform, you need something in order to feel okay. You need something in order to help you out. You have everything that you need at your fingertips to be able to

create the life that you want. So thinking that you have to pop some pill, thinking that you have to use marijuana or anything else that forces you to be in a different mindset, is what's actually holding your incredible brain from actually being able to create the life that you want. Because its an inhibitor, its something that's getting

in the way of the actual you. And it is so easy in today's society, and I'm so okay with getting canceled for this to just make it seem like I can pop an antidepressant, and all of a sudden I'm going to be happy, I promise you, you're not. We are being sold lies. This is not the truth. And for people who really want to get a handle on their life, they do not need drugs in order

to do it. Now, you might be thinking that, you know, some high performing people that do use drugs do not think for a second that just because they use drugs, that's actually why they are performing. These two things are not connected. So antidepressants, marijuana, recreational drugs, anything that you think you need to take in order for you to get an edge off in order for you to perform better? Take that mindset away because you don't actually need them.

What you don't realize is these substances are hijacking your perceptions and your thoughts. Drugs do not make you more creative. They are just big distractions. Eliminate anything that interrupts your natural thoughts from you, thinking something and taking massive action.

This drug conversation is an important conversation to me because most people just say you need to change your mindset, you need to get healthy, but they're not actually willing to attack the thing that is holding the person back from being able to do the things that are required to get them to where they want to go. So now the drugs are out of the way. Let's talk about what you're going to replace a bad habit with

a good habit, something that makes you stronger. The right way to remove anything is to remove it and replace it with something else. So get addicted to the gym, not distraction. When I was first starting my reboot, it was all about getting into the gym as fast as I possibly could in the morning. I knew that if I put it off in the afternoon, if I was going to do an evening workout, make some time throughout

the day, it just wasn't going to get done. And forcing myself to wake up at 530 every single morning in order to get my butt into the gym, made it so that I couldn't do anything very fun. The night before. I had to be in bed by 930 because I didn't want to have to wake up early and be exhausted and tired because I made the commitment

to be in the gym. Your ability to take control of how you look, how you feel in your body, how strong you are, the confidence that you can have all by going to the gym is a game changer. Getting into the gym and associating yourself with people who do that discipline daily will change how you view yourself. It just feels good. You fit in your clothes nicely. There's nothing better than having a great pair of pants that actually fit the way that you want them to.

The nice thing about forcing yourself to go to a Pilates class or meeting a friend at the gym is you cannot be high and have the remnants of that still lingering over while you're on a Pilates reformer, or while you're benching £50. I would like to be able to bench £50. I'm not quite there yet, but you get the point. You can't have that life while also having this life of making yourself well and getting stronger.

These two things do not collide, so you're forcing yourself to get in an environment that is like the environment you're trying to create. You just haven't created it yet and it's not a discipline. So book the workout class in order to fill this void in your life. Next up, we have to audit. Now, this is not the traditional audit.

I'm not going to make you pull out a set of financials, but I am going to make you audit the people you're around because the people you're around are either fueling your future where they are feeding your failure. Do an audit of who you spend your time with. When you think about the five people that you spend the most amount of time with. Are they assets to

you or are they liabilities to you? Are they people who are going to help you, feel inspired to take actions that are going to help you get to where you want to go, or are they people that you feel like you really have to justify yourself to the people you spend your time around? Will change your life and it will either be for the positive or for the negative. Last night I had a birthday dinner. I

just turned the ripe age of 32. It's actually my birthday today and we were celebrating last night and I got a chance to look around at the people who were at this birthday dinner, and I had a moment of overwhelming emotion. I was just sitting there watching everybody talk, and it's almost like a movie scene where everything moved

to slow motion. And I looked at each person that was sitting around the table and was so appreciative, like, from the bottom of my heart, appreciative for the people who were there, because each one of them supports me in my goals and my dreams. They believe in me and actually see that I'm capable, and it's possible for me to get to where I want to go. And

they are also rooting for me like real cheerleaders. And when they ask me the question of what is the next year going to bring for you, it's like, man, I can't wait for this thing to happen and this thing to happen. I'm going to spend my time here. And there was genuine interest and excitement and where I see my life going and most importantly, all the people would defend me. Think about that. I have people in

my life who would defend me. They believe so much in me because they have consistency with me, and they see who I am day in and day out, that they would be willing to go to bat for me because they know and trust the type of person that I am. You have to build that. That doesn't just happen. So when you think about the five people that you spend the most time around, do they defend you? Do

they even defend themselves. Sometimes you get yourself caught up with friends who they're cool people, but they don't have a backbone. They don't have opinions on something. They don't have a point of view. They don't really care about themselves, much less for you and for your goals and for your dreams. So this defending thing, this protecting thing is such an important quality. But you only get people in

your life like that. If you become the type of person who is trustworthy, who is consistent, who is building something great, who can be believed in because you're not going to create great relationships with people who have real backbones. Unless you are the type of person who is a great person and has a real backbone and goes after massive, incredible,

unbelievable targets. So when you do make this list of your friends, the five people asset column, liability column, if they're in the liability column, I promise you they will not help you be successful, be productive and create the life that you want. So you have to figure out

how to handle those people in your life. I'm not saying that you just stop being friends with them altogether, but I am saying, hey, maybe you should stop spending so much time with them because you're reducing your chances of getting unstuck. And if you're watching this and you really do feel stuck, I have a feeling you wouldn't still be here if you didn't actually feel stuck. You

really feel that painstaking, stuck feeling. You have to create this environment that allows you to not be stuck any longer. And there is nothing that changes this faster than the people that you surround yourself with. Negative relationships keep you stuck in old patterns, and even one toxic friend can block you from reinventing yourself. So ask yourself if these people help you feel confident or make you feel sad when you're around them. It is so important to curate

your friend group with brutal honesty. The next area of your comeback has to be your finances. You will not feel confident in your comeback if you do not have clarity on how you can make more money. And in order to make more money, you have to be the best of the best at what you do. I don't care what you do. You could be a salesperson. You could be a recruiter. You could be a head of operations.

You could be an accounting. Doesn't matter. What would it take for you to be the top 1% in your field? Who do you need to know? What questions do you have to ask? What content are you not familiar with? What the top 1% in your field is actually doing? To the extent you don't know these questions, you're not the top 1%. Maybe you have a lot of ego. You're thinking you're hot shit, you're doing great. You're already cruising. If that's the case, but you're not actually clear on

the criteria to become the 1%. Your ego is too big and your ego is what's going to keep you stuck. Check your ego at the door. Figure out in your field what the top 1% are doing and do that today. This is not a Monday thing. This is not a wait till over the weekend thing. What is required of you to be the top 1% in your field? The

next area is targeting growth. So when you think about growth, how do you take growth in being the top 1%, so that you get paid disproportionately more than you're paid right now, because you are the best in your field, you need to get the data and the understanding of what is actually required to be the top 1%. There's no better way to grow in 2025 than utilizing ChatGPT. I literally just have this conversation with one of my team members last week. We're going through a new set

of challenges. This particular team member has a whole department that they need to do a massive overhaul in, and they felt a little overwhelmed because they don't have the knowledge, they don't understand how to make all of these changes. So I said, listen up. You're going to type into ChatGPT. What do I need to read, listen to, or watch at least for an hour every single day in order to get myself in the top 1% in this field.

Create a syllabus for me and lay this out with links with all references, so that I can use this as my study guide and keep me accountable. ChatGPT whipped this up in a matter of 15 seconds, and all of a sudden there is a full list of the exact actions data Characteristics that this person needs to embody and have and do in order to be the top 1%. You be the freaking best, but you might not know how to be the best. And in the past, it was a little challenging to figure this out. You had

to read a bunch of books. There was a lot of data. There were so many YouTube videos out there. All of a sudden, ChatGPT can create a personalized roadmap for you to figure out the exact areas you need to grow in, and you can also give it feedback to say, this is where I'm at right now, so it customizes your learning plan. It has never been easier to grow and to learn than it is today. We are in an unprecedented time, so take advantage of this.

But the way that you take advantage of it is by recognizing and owning the fact that you are going to be in the top 1%. You are never going to make a comeback if you do not master this final step, which is getting shit out of your life. To get to a new place, you have to leave the place that you currently are in. You cannot go where you want to go while still being where you are. And if where you are is a mess. You have unread text messages, unread emails, communication cycles that are left

open because you're not following up. You're not cleaning your house. You're not taking responsibility for your car. What condition is your bedroom in? What is your nightstand look like? If you really want to get out of the rut, the environment around you has to change and you are the only person who can change it. What's masterful about this is you could knock this out in eight hours. This is not a one week project. This is not a

month long project. You could shut your computer right now and say, I'm going to take control of my entire surroundings. And by tomorrow morning, I'm going to wake up and I'm going to be in a brand new environment. That is what's required if you truly want to get unstuck. And here's the thing I believe that you can get unstuck. There's no reason for you to continue to make sense of being upset with yourself, being frustrated with yourself, feeling

down about what your life looks like. What's really cool for me is I mentioned earlier, today is my birthday, and I made this cute little Instagram post earlier today about being really proud of myself. And I remember when I used to wake up on my birthday every single birthday. And I would cry because at some point throughout the day, I would remember that I am getting older and I am not getting closer to where I want to go,

and it was painfully emotional for me. I couldn't get out of my own head around the other 364 days that I had spent the previous year, and the fact that I didn't do things that I needed to do in order to make my environment the way that I wanted it to be, in order to get out of the rut that I was in. And so on my birthday, was just this fat, freaking reminder to me of looking in the mirror and saying, I'm not any closer. So on this birthday, I'm not shedding a single frickin tier.

I've never been more excited about my life, and I haven't cried on my birthday for at least six years because I decided to make a change and I no longer listened to my own bullshit that being stuck is okay, and that the disaster that was my environment is somebody else's job. It's my job. Your environment is your job.

So let's figure out how do you declutter your space, make it nice, feel good in it, It's actually respond to people when they reach out to you in a fast manner and get your inbox in a good place. So people don't think that you're somebody that they just can never get Ahold of and fully own. The fact that you are not going to be the same person that you have been, that feels like they're in a rut.

Most people avoid looking at these areas because the truth can be uncomfortable, but when you are radically honest with each one of these categories, you can truly reset your life.

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