#82 | New Year's Aspirations |

It's too late at this point , but I wanted to just wish everybody a happy new year . I hope everything went really amazing for everybody during the holidays . Hope you got to spend some time with some family , enjoy disconnect from work a little bit disconnect from social media and just live presently is kind of the name of the game in terms of the holidays .

For me . They go by so quick . Just look how fast the fall has already gone . It's the middle of the winter now and spring is gonna be here and it's right around the corner . So we have to enjoy the time that we have and cherish every single moment that we do have .

If you have goals such as getting stronger , getting more physically fit , eating better , advancing your business , being a better father , being a better son , husband , whatever it might be daughter , doesn't matter . Now is the time to do it . Versus you know , three months from now and you look back and you go oh man , I got to start this already .

The time has already passed , so you might as well start today .

And whatever your goals are in life , you need to just be able to narrow them down , understand that there are challenges that come along with them , and those challenges are actually what make you stronger , and the journey and the process of getting to the final destination is actually the most gratifying part of the journey .

It's not necessarily reaching the end , because the end is short-lived . Then you make another goal and you wanna do something different . So for me , I wanna continue to build up the production company Rizzles Productions . I wanna continue building this podcast up , reaching more people and sitting down with more amazing guests over the coming year .

Especially , I wanna be an amazing son to my mother , because she means the world to me and without her I wouldn't be the man that I am today . I wanna be a good dog dad for Kenji and make sure that he's okay , healthy and happy , and giving him every opportunity for the healthy and happy life that I can .

I wanna compete in a jujitsu tournament , at least one , so I'm gonna decide which one I wanna do . It's super nerve-wracking for me because I'm very competitive and I'm also very nervous about injuries , but I have to honestly get over it and just be able to spearhead my goal of competing . If I lose , I lose . If I win , I win .

But it's a learning curve and I'm still very new to this sport . So there's tons of development on this journey that I have in front of me and I wanna remind people that , oh man , I wanna remind people that it's an election year and I know all of you guys know this , it's January 3rd .

As I'm recording this right now and this is probably gonna come out tonight or tomorrow morning . Politics have really fucked up a lot of people's relationships with others . It's fucked up the world .

They've consistently , no matter which party , divided us against one another and it's truly disgusting the lows that people will go to to ram a candidate , to ram a policy , to ram a thought process down another person's throat if they don't 1,000% agree with somebody else . It's not okay .

It doesn't matter if you're on the right , it doesn't matter if you're on the left . What it comes down to is we need to all be in unity together because we can't be divided and hating each other , because that's what they want . They want us to be divided .

They want us to be bickering about stupid shit and having our own personal identity in some random person who says they care about us but they don't actually , because if they did , things would change . If you look around , things are basically the same as when this candidate promised you that four years ago they'd come in and clean something up .

It's a tough pill to swallow and things are gonna get shaky this year . I've been hearing it from a lot of different sources . I've been hearing it from a lot of different people and , truth be told , we're not stupid people Like .

We can see trends , we can see things that go on , and already the COVID narrative I know the big C word and Google YouTube will take me down a couple of pegs for even mentioning it . We have to talk about these things .

We have to not allow these people , these conversations , our thoughts , our words to get suppressed and to be lost , because the people that don't want you saying things have an awful lot to say . So , when it comes down to it , we need to stick to our guns .

If you truly believe in something , if you believe something is not right or you believe that things should be a different way . Start making the change . The change starts with you and then it trickles out to everybody around you .

When I started my weight loss journey and I started sobriety and I started all of these different journeys , I had a lot of friends that became interested in doing it for themselves as well , because they saw the path that I was going down , the path of bettering myself , of personal excellence .

It's a tough journey , but when people start seeing that you're doing it and you're out here just making yourself a better person , they want to join in on it because they don't want to be left behind and they also see that it can be done .

So when we talk about making a change in our government , in our country , in our state , in our city , in our town , whatever it might be , the change starts with you as a person . Be an example , set the standard and the other pieces around you , the people . They will follow and they'll ask how did you become so resilient , how did you become so strong ?

I got rid of vices . I trained my mind , I trained my body . I stopped letting all of these outside people and chatter and their own bullshit conflicts from around the world . I stopped letting that affect me , because I'm not going to .

When it comes down to it , you're in control of your own life and although these decisions , that these people , the higher ups , the elites , whatever you want to call them , I call them fucking jerk offs , because that's what they are they're jerk offs . Their decisions although , do affect you in certain ways the grand scale of things , they do not .

You can control yourself . You can control the preparedness that you have , and I don't mean go out and buy 50 barrels of dehydrated food for the end of the world , because guess what ? The bunkers for the end of the world . It's probably not worth living in anywhere . Let's be completely transparent on that .

So , when it comes down to it , you're in control of your own life . Keep yourself on the plane of personal excellence . Be the example that others look at and go God damn , nick's killing it . So and so is killing it . I wanna be that way with myself and I wanted to translate into my everyday life . And guess what ? We're three days .

I have to keep looking at it because I keep forgetting what day . They all blend together at some point . But we're three days into the new year 2024 . Now's the time . You know you could do 75 hearts . It's a great program . A lot of people are doing it currently . You know you can start reading and just gaining knowledge on different things .

Maybe you wanna learn how to grow your own vegetables . Maybe you wanna learn how to grow your own fruit . Maybe you wanna learn how to do video or content creation or podcasting , whatever it might be .

Start doing these things now and leveling your game up , because as you level your game up , not only does your anxiety come down and your internal negative chatter come down , you become more confident , you become more knowledgeable across a wide variety of topics and things in life and you just feel better . I mean people without purpose and people without drive .

They drift through life . They're miserable . We all know these people . Don't be one of those people . Set this example for yourself and for others around you . And guess what ? If the others around you don't match that energy and they're not able to bring themselves to that next level , you're out growing your circle and that's okay . That's part of life as well .

But that's a totally different podcast , totally different topic . I wanted to keep this super short , super concise . I'm selling a lot of gear in the studio and I have a gentleman coming to pick up some stuff that's behind camera , a right here that I'm looking at . So in closing , I wanna thank everybody for the support on the podcast , the love I mean .

Without you guys and without the views , I wouldn't be able to continue growing . I wouldn't be able to continue doing this . I mean , I would be able

to continue doing this . But having the numbers and the metrics back , what I feel is the show growing and getting a message out and trying to help others see multiple sides of life , perspective , stories and whatnot . Seeing those metrics grow helps me to feel like I'm actually doing what I'm supposed to be doing . So thank you guys . I do appreciate you .

As usual , I have to say comment , share , subscribe all the list of engagement for the actual show . So this way , the metrics do continue to rise and I am seen more organically from others , but I'm not sure who the next guest is gonna be . We're gonna do some cool shit .

Maybe I'll do a solo episode on a couple of different topics and I'll actually have some prepared notes for next time . But I did wanna pump this episode out and I wanted to just keep it super organic , super real , as I usually try to do on everything , and raw . But on that note , I appreciate all of y'all for fucking with me . Peace .