Anyone with a busy, demanding job will know the feeling that, sometimes, there just aren’t enough hours in the day. Sometimes, you have lots of work to do, but you realize that time is seriously against you. You may even have become so worried that you no longer know where to start. Today hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about how you can get more tasks done faster throughout your day. In a bid to get work done faster, you don’t have to use all the 24 hours you have each day. We all ha...
Feb 07, 2023•17 min
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase; just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Taking the first step can be daunting and actually very hard. Imagine leaping a chasm in the pitch dark; one misstep, and you’ll fall into a deep, endless abyss. It really can feel dramatic when it comes to stepping outside our comfort zone to follow our dreams. In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about the importance of taking the first step and having the courage to do it no matt...
Feb 06, 2023•27 min
Although self-confidence can mean different things to different people, in reality, it simply means having faith in yourself. Self-confidence is not a static measure. Our confidence to perform roles and tasks and deal with situations can increase and decrease, and some days we may feel more confident than others. In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros share ways that you can start building your confidence. Confidence is not something that can be learned like a set of rules; confi...
Feb 05, 2023•28 min
Being broke sucks. Worrying about bills and living paycheck to paycheck also sucks. And the thought of that being for a lifetime is demoralizing. While all our financial situations are different, we all have the ability to change our “broke status.” Today hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros share money mindsets that can get you out of your financial quicksand. Will it be easy? Not at all; it will take practice and awareness to make your financial life completely switch gears to a more abundant...
Feb 04, 2023•20 min
In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about working on yourself to attract the right partner. Focus on self-improvement so that you are ready for your dream relationship when the time comes. Be the love you want to find! Once you're in your dream relationship, continue working on yourself. Grow! Love was not built in a day, and it requires continuous work on yourself and on your relationship. Link mentioned: Next Level Live on April 1, 2023, will take your life to the ne...
Feb 03, 2023•27 min
Being selfless means that you care about others as much or more as you care about yourself. It means that you feel their pain, share their struggles and go out of your way to be a positive force in your life. Sadly, being selfless also means you have to deal with many things that selfish people never even think of. Today hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about some things that we see as negative but can be looked at as something good about us. Although helping others can benefit our hea...
Feb 02, 2023•24 min
The important things depend on your core values and context. Importance and urgency are relative. Without the full context, you will be unable to correctly assign importance and urgency. In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about setting priorities based on importance and urgency. They also discuss the different factors that help you gauge value and opportunity cost. What was important to you 5 years ago may not be important to you now. It also depends on your self-beli...
Feb 01, 2023•27 min
Following the trend can be exciting and may feel like progress. It's true that there have been people who got their break and succeeded from trend hopping, but most of the time, they are the exception. In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about the illusion of progress that holds back dream chasers. They highlight examples of the illusions of progress that people base their career or business decisions on. You have to look closer and be critical about measuring your pro...
Jan 31, 2023•26 min
Fear, just like love, is a powerful emotion. They can motivate us beyond what we believe is possible. Fear of losing health can drive us to exercise, eat nutritiously, or stop smoking. But fear has a flip side. It can freeze us in place and bind us to a mindset that steals our ability to live a fulfilling life. In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about fear and how our ability to overcome it depends on our courage to see through its lies. Links mentioned: Next Level Live ...
Jan 30, 2023•26 min
Life can be overwhelming. Our minds fill with chatter, our view of the world becomes tainted and distorted, and our ability to be present is lost. We all can relate to that. Today hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about mindfulness, what it means to them and what it means to you. Mindfulness offers an incredible opportunity to flourish in life. You will learn how to stop, breathe, see beauty, and live with compassion and joy. While mindfulness does not change all that happens to you, it...
Jan 29, 2023•25 min
Anyone who has ever tried to achieve a demanding goal knows that consistency is critical. Whether it's working out, eating healthy, or studying for an exam, there is no substitute for consistency when it comes to reaching your goals. Today hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros share another reason why consistency is of utmost importance. Aside from building your momentum and it being the critical driver for success, consistency is also where you learn what works, what doesn’t, and what never wil...
Jan 28, 2023•26 min
Doing the same thing repeatedly, day in and day out, for a long period of time without proper rest can cause you to burn out. What can you do when you're burned out? In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about burnout and their different analogies for how it happens and what to do when it happens. To recover from it, change your routine. Introduce a new or better activity, and retire ones that don't serve your purpose. When you’re really burned out, it is hard to improve...
Jan 27, 2023•25 min
In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about the fear of judgment. Everyone is afraid of judgment at different levels in different situations. The advice to not care about other people's opinions is not simple. It does not have a switch you can turn off. You can care about other people's opinions, but do not let them control you. Additionally, this fear of judgment stems from thinking that you should be perfect. Well, you're not, and that's okay. To some degree, judgment ...
Jan 26, 2023•25 min
It takes discipline to keep habits and achieve a goal. Discipline can mean missing out on the fun. It is also associated with some level of pain. In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about discipline and its effect on your trajectory to success. They discuss when discipline reaches a level that makes you sick of it. The opposite is also possible, in that you can miss discipline when you are not growing or seeing progress. They also talk about the correlation between dis...
Jan 25, 2023•27 min
When we talk about personal growth, we refer to expansion, blossoming, and transformation. Transformation can be challenging because it requires significant changes in our behaviors, attitudes, values, relationships, and self-image. It’s not a stretch to say that personal growth is hard. Today hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about one thing that comes with personal growth: growing pains. They also share their growing pains, such as the pressure they are under as they continue in their...
Jan 24, 2023•34 min
Have you taken the time to understand your highs and lows, ebbs and flows? In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about scarcity and abundance. As always, they share real-life and relatable examples to help you better understand these two extremes. At the end of this episode, they hope to give you enough information to uncover how scarcity and abundance are playing in your life right now, how it feels, and how it may affect your life. Links mentioned: Next Level Live on A...
Jan 23, 2023•27 min
You only get one shot at life. There is no do-over, and like chapters in a book, you have moments in the different stages of your life journey that deserve to be cherished. In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about finding a perspective that lets you see that there are moments in life when you need to be present. These moments cannot be repeated and will be written in your history. If you miss it, you will regret it. Pay attention to these moments and realize that you onl...
Jan 22, 2023•28 min
When you have reached your goal and claimed success, you have to work even harder to keep it. In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about how keeping success means you have to remember the fundamentals. When you stop doing what you did to get there, you can expect some failure. The work does not come full stop when achieving success. Success needs maintenance. It means you can grind less, but you can't stop, or you will lose your momentum and find yourself struggling again....
Jan 21, 2023•26 min
We have often heard that showing up is 90% of success. It is anchored to the thought that if you are not present, even if you have the talent or skill, you will not succeed. In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros dissect this belief. They share that success requires more than just showing up. Hand in hand with being present, what you do before, during, and after bears weight in the outcome. In addition to that, it takes a lot of tries over a period of time to achieve success. Lin...
Jan 20, 2023•26 min
All of us procrastinate on some level, with no exceptions. What is procrastination, and why do we do it? In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros explain why we procrastinate. They also discuss what makes us stop procrastinating. We all know that up to a certain point, we stop procrastinating and do what we need to do. Other times, when we're lucky, it has already been done for us, which in a way, rewards our procrastination and increases the chances that we will do the same next t...
Jan 19, 2023•24 min
The common definition of self-love is doing something for ourselves that may not be entirely good for us but feels good at the moment. In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros zero in on what self-love really means. They describe the moments when they were doing something for themselves after a hard day, week, month, or year. Sometimes we can go overboard on self-love and border on putting our future success at risk. The self-love we choose to do may not always move us forward to o...
Jan 18, 2023•23 min
You don't have to look far to find what you need to succeed. You just need to look inside yourself. Tactics are available and easy to build, but they do not matter when your beliefs are not aligned. Maybe you have beliefs that are keeping you from moving forward. In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about the importance of having a deeper understanding of yourself and your actions toward your goals. It is not just about the technicalities of your strategy or the step-by...
Jan 17, 2023•19 min
We all have a story we tell ourselves. Whether it is true or not is a question we must ask ourselves because this story determines our path toward the future. If the story is not true, we could be undermining our chance at success. In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about the story we tell ourselves and how it affects the course our lives are taking. They share their own stories, their beliefs, and how it has shaped their lives. Sometimes the story we believe holds us...
Jan 16, 2023•23 min
You might be experiencing a situation that isn’t working and wondering whether you should persevere a little longer. You might wonder whether more time will allow you to fix the problem or reach the goal. After all, people always say, “Never give up.” But how do you know when it’s time to give up on people, places, things, and ideas? Today hosts Kevin Palmieri and ALan Lazaros talk about it and share how to differentiate whether it’s time to move on or hold on just a little longer. Making the de...
Jan 15, 2023•19 min
We oftentimes confuse happiness with fulfillment. We were taught when we were young that life is about finding happiness. In chasing happiness, we can end up lost, confused, and filled with regret. We can try to balance happiness and fulfillment, but it still does not guarantee that we will be happy every day. Today, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about what happens when we optimize for happiness. They share that we will come across barriers that keep us from succeeding and being ful...
Jan 14, 2023•28 min
The reminder to “let go of what doesn’t serve you” is everywhere. You’ve probably seen it floating around on your social media feed at some point. In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about the process of letting go of what does not work for you anymore – persons, places, things, and ideas. Sometimes in order to let go, you need to figure out what you want to embrace instead. Letting go creates space for fresh beginnings: stripping you of what happened yesterday and enabli...
Jan 13, 2023•19 min
Business relationships are critical for top-performing growth. Relationships are a means of cultivating ideas, encouraging collaboration, and contributing to the community in your industry. But you need to stop networking if you want to see true success in your business relationships. In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about networking and why it’s the one big piece of advice they stopped taking. Networking assumes that you are meeting fellow peers and industry player...
Jan 12, 2023•25 min
Do you want to know the one person who will be there for you no matter what? Take a good, long look in the mirror. Yes, that person is you! Today hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about the importance of betting on yourself. When you bet on yourself, you permit yourself to chase after your dreams. You deserve to bet on yourself, but no one can make you do it. Either you become the master of your fate or wait for someone to decide when you get to play and when you have to ride the bench....
Jan 11, 2023•26 min
Has anyone commented that you are too much? Or, have you thought that someone was too much? It could be you or someone who talks loudly, someone who boldly says what they want to achieve, or someone who seems to boast about their success. In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about the difficulty in distinguishing whether someone is genuinely confident or talking out of their wazoo. They share that sometimes confident or successful people do not admit their confidence or...
Jan 10, 2023•32 min
Starting a career comes with excitement and anxiety about the future. The thought of starting over after achieving success, of starting from scratch, is enough to make someone overthink. To actually have to start over is a different kind of struggle and anxiety. In today’s episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about how they started over after achieving success and earning six-figure incomes. They describe the experience of living at the bottom of the ladder, after having reached t...
Jan 09, 2023•19 min
