I don't know if this is in the category of the I hate people thing that we kind of started a couple podcasts ago. I don't know if it's I don't know if it's in the same category. It's more entertainment purpose now than when it's happening. I've told you many stories. One of the jobs I have here at the radio station is going to our arena we call the Save March Center here and picking up tickets to give away to the listeners.
Yep. So I've told you many stories about me standing in line and there's always something with the people in front, where it's always something happening, just takes a long time. It could be anything. It's always a wild story.
Okay. So an example of stories I've told you before where somebody was in line and then finally they got up to the front and they go to the window and they show their phone and they say, I bought tickets online and I want to trade them in for hard tickets, and so the when the lady at the window was like, wait, so you bought tickets already, like and he shows it, Yes, it's right here. He's well, those are your tickets, and it's like, well, can I can
I have the paper ones? Like no, and she's a no, like those are the tickets. I wonder if some people do that because like for like a scrapbook or something like they like to hang on to memories, because I do know that people like to save like their movie stub ticket ticket stubs, So maybe there's that. But yeah, it's the same thing, and I guess we could save paper, right. I mean there's also that other thing too that makes me think, are you not enjoying the simplicity of having
tickets on the digital phone? Yeah? Man, that's game changer. Well, some people are against it. Some people that are against it may find difficulty in it, maybe like the older generation doesn't like those m I mean for us, it's like you keep them in our like wallet, right, or you know you them saved on your phone somehow, but I don't know. I mean, also, I'll also say this where people buy the hard
tickets is they don't want to pay the convenience fee. Yeah that's a good one, which I can get that it could get a little pricey, but yeah, man, sometimes it's worth not standing in a long ass line, Yeah, to get these tickets straight to my phone. Another story I've told you about is somebody waits in line. Finally they get up to the front
and then they say I want seats, and they pick their seats. They'll like look at the map and say these are the seats I want, and they'll say, okay, that'll be three hundred dollars and they're like, wait, I looked it up. It was only said forty nine dollars. Bro, that's the that's the nosebleed seats, sir. They're looking at the wrong section. Well, they don't know. They just think they saw one price and they that's the tickets for everything. No, no, yeah, so
I've experienced that. That's general admission. Yeah. And now I just recently got back from picking up it's again and once again, long ass line. And wouldn't you know it, there's always something, there's always a story. And there's two particular ones that just happened just right now. One was a gentleman. He's an older gentleman. He was trying to pick seats. To make the long story short. He wanted good seats, but every time the lady was saying good seats cost this much, He's like, no, I
only want to pay fifty bucks. He wants the best seats for the cheap You want the best cheap seats, I guess. So he keeps picking, like no, I want to sit here, and she's all, well, those are three hundred and then he's like, no, I want to sit here, but pay fifty bucks only. So they were going back and forth them like bro, and then finally he's they have one. You know how sometimes they release seats behind the stage. Yeah, and you know it could
be cheaper, but you're not really seeing anything good exactly. So he picks that one and then he goes, but can you see the stage? And the lady's like not really, That's why it's cheaper because it's behind the stage. And it was just a back and forth. It's like people don't understand the concept of you get what you pay for. I'm somebody that's always understood
that concept. If you get what you pay for. That's why a lot of times if I like, I'll just fork out the money because I want to get what I pay for, and then if I go the cheap route, I understand what I could be getting myself into. Some people don't have that mindset. The last one, this one was wild I saved the wildest one. It was a long ass line today. Oh wwe came out said that's probably why, right, maybe that's what it was. But people I
could hear what they're wying. It's all different shows. It was a long line. Finally, this gentleman maybe two people ahead of me, finally gets to the front, so you could tell he's been waiting there for a while. He finally gets to the front and he's all four tickets to the women's basketball game on Monday. And they're like, oh oh. The guy in the window says, basketball tickets are in the other box office, like the Fresno State box office around the corner, but still at the same mar CENTERI
yeah, but it is a walk. It's on the other side of the building. That's that's interesting. Okay, so if you go there, you're actually familiar with this, you know where it's at. So the guy's like what He's like, yeah, it's not the sports tickets are not available here. You have to go around and follow the path and it's all the way in the other side of the building. And of course the guy kind of low key blows up like are you kidding me? Like I was waiting in
this line. You need to have signs. Yeah here that says that the guy in the window goes you mean the signs right up there in the windows so clear. Football basketball tickets man at the Fresno State box office around the corner with an arrow. Although with that being said, that is kind of dumb. Though I don't know. I mean, I guess they have their reason, but if I'm going to the box office, it should just be all in one area. You're right. I agree with you, because the
football one I could see because it is in a different area. But you're right, the basketball game happens there. Yeah, it happens in the arena in the box office. It should be the box office. But I don't know if it's just because it's part of our job to be It's part of my job to go there a lot. So I see that sign. I see it all the time, all right, So sports is in one area and then everything else is another area. But every time I pick up tickets,
it's always something. This could give me fire podcasts. What if I'm just so that is John Magic and we are back. This episode is about turning on a mental switch. Not in this I mean, I guess it could go to mental health. But what I mean by turning on a mental switch is things about being motivated, about turning things into habits, about willpower. You have to turn sothing on in your brain to kind of make that
switch. And you know, you and I have done this in the past couple of years, with you know, with my recent weight loss, with your gym going, even with yeah, going to work, even those things, just everything that has to do with how did we get to this point mentality? Yeah? How did we get this mentality of like, this is just what we do to better our lives. And the one thing I want to start with, the reason why I came up wanted to talk about this
on this episode is I want to start with willpower. Because I was delivering one of the radio stations is has a contest where you deliver a lunch party sandwich trade to an office, Like there's an office that wins a prize and the prizes we deliver lunch to you. And I was in charge of delivering
this particular party platter to this office. And I don't know if I was hungry because it was lunchtime when I was delivering it, but I had the platter in the car, and it just smelled so good to take a bike bro not on. I wanted to open it and take a few because I knew they that they wouldn't miss out on it. There was so much food in there in this platter that I knew the business that I'm taking it to the office, They're not even gonna notice. It looked so good. It
was just the sandwiches, the little desserts that I was in there. When I tell you, I almost opened it and did it, because like I said, I knew they wouldn't tell the difference that I took some. I was almost there, but something just I just told myself to stop. Will power, will power, so I didn't used to do that. I would have opened it. I know I would have opened it, especially you know when we come into work, they always leave little things in the break room,
oh like donuts, cookies. The other day was cupcakes. You know, sometimes we get dropped off certain things and it's kind of free for all whoever wants to grab some. And I walk in there a lot because I'm always filling up my water bottle in there, and I just see it, and yeah, man, it's the willpower to be like, nah, I'm good. But you know, for you, someone that in the past would have reached for that donut, what's the mentality that gets you not to do
it this time? So, I honestly think it's because of the only thing I could think of was going keto. When I went keto a year and a half ago, something does switch in your brain. I don't know how to explain it. But is it that the craving goes away? It does? It really does. So, I mean, I think there's something to be said about once you do something that repetition, your body and your mind sort of just gets used to it. But obviously it's hard in the beginning.
So I'm sure you know when you first started keto that was tough. But now that you're a year and a half in, it's it's a lot more easier to say no to those things now. So let me ask you this, How did how does someone get People call it the hump? You have to get over that hump? Yeah, what's the mental thing of getting there? Because well, let's use you for an example. How did you
get there? I think there's a I do believe in the hole. If you hit rock bottom when you hit rock bottom, something switches, something switches where because there's you. You, You've known me for years. I've tried just the workouts, I've tried dieting, and it'll like, it'll stick for a little bit and then it just goes back to whatever I was doing. But there was a point where my rock bottom was hitting almost three hundred pounds. I was like right there to ninety nine, and I told myself for
years, I better not reach three hundred. And this is when I was like two fifty ye, like, as long as I don't reach three hundred and I can fluctuate anything, Yeah, okay. But when I saw two ninety nine, that's when my mind was like, okay, let's be serious about this, because I just said that to myself. Now, Yeah, there was a hump that I was trying to get over, But I think it was that because I hit rock bottom that I needed to push through.
That's what you feel like, that's what motivated you for sure, because like you said, you've tried in the past, BEFO, but you hadn't quite reached that two ninety nine, So maybe you weren't mentally taking it as serious. Maybe and maybe you were in a position this time where you were just like damn, like I never thought i'd be here, and I'm here. Now it's time to really take it serious. Yeah. Do you feel have you had tried keto before? Never? No, So do you feel that
maybe that also helped because you had found a diet that you liked? Yeah, I think so. I've always You know what, something that I've learned through this whole process is people need to find something that works for them. Yes, stop listening to other people that what's worked for them, because everyone's different. That's and that's the biggest thing. And you know me, you've never heard me preach keto to other people. I've talked about me being in
keto sort of sharing your experience exactly, and that's all. But I never tell people, hey, that's what you should try. Yeah, because what I've noticed is this, I found something that worked for me, and that's what I'm going with. Yeah. But if something else is worked for you, then just keep keep going with that. If you guys have any questions about Keto, I'll be happy to answer him. But I'm never going to try to preach it and force it on other people, because that's what I've
noticed. Is I found something that worked for me, So this is for me. I wanted to ask you this. If this is a bad way to motivate yourself, I don't know this, this might be. I'm not trying to clown anybody. I'm not clowning anyone because this particular thing happened to me about a year and a half ago. There was this guy trending on TikTok. He was a musician and he just happened to show up on my for you page. And this guy was a Filipino dude, super big glasses.
And when I tell you, I watched all his videos. He all he wore were hats, so he had the magic accessories exactly fil a hat. And this is when I was still big. I would watch his videos and the first thing that would come to my head was people are gonna say I look like him. I already know. I felt it. I felt it to the point where I was reading his comments just in case someone put there's this guy his name is John Mas. I was waiting for that,
but never saw that. No one ever sent it to you or anything. No, that's another thing I was waiting for. I just because this guy was going viral and he was a dope musician. This guy is dope by the boy, amazing musician. And you're probably saying, oh, what's the next I forgot. I don't This was a year and a half ago. I don't remember. He's not weirdly enough, he's not on my for you
page anymore. You don't watch him no more. Well, you know how algorithms are so weird, Like, wait, it's because I lost all this weight that he's not on my But this is what happened. I went to a public event. It was a baseball game in town, and I was walking around the park and a gentleman says, I think I told you this story. This is this is, this happened for reals, This is no lie. Walking at the baseball park. A guy says, Hey, you're the TikTok guy. And the minute he said that, I knew what he
was talking about. He said, you're the TikTok guy, and I already knew it was because you were like you were just waiting for it to happen, and it finally happened. And it happened in person, which almost feels worse. So I played it off where I didn't know, I played it off saying, uh, no idea, who he's about. You know, the guy that plays the instruments, the singer that's you Like, he was
so excited to think het met the guy. I was like, I don't know, I have no I wonder if he thought you were playing dumb or something. Yeah he could maybe, yeah, people do that. And I was just like, no idea. This whole time, I knew exactly who he was talking about, but okay, so he just said yea. So
that was another Is that a bad motivation when something like that happens? Because after I tell you that story, that's when I was like, I'm really motivated to like, I mean whatever he motivates someone to do something, I don't see a good or bad that works. It works, you know what I mean. Some people get motivated differently. I'm somebody that gets more motivated off of like the negative more than like the positive reinforcement. So is that
like an example of that, I would think? So, you know what I mean? You know, I know a lot of people are more driven by positive reinforcement. I was all more driven by like you could do better type of thing. I don't know, it's just maybe how I was raised. So maybe that's what you kind of like took like that that feeling you didn't like that feeling that you were feeling in that moment, and that's what
motivated to you to like want to change. Do you ever lose motivation like during you know, how about someone that's that loses because even would work. Yeah, sometimes you do. I lose motivate sometimes to be at work. Do you have what do you do? You have any things that you do to kind of get motivated again to get work done or I've always been a self motivator. I don't know where that comes from, but I'm I'm somebody that could literally stop on a dime and change, Like it doesn't take me
a while. If I just put my mind to and I go, okay, I want to stop doing this or I want to do this, It's never like a hard climb for me. I can literally just like snap and do it. I've always been like that. I don't know where that comes from. Maybe it's just I don't know, Maybe it was how I was raised. I know my dad was really, I don't want to say, like tough on me, Like he wasn't like Joe Jackson tough on me, but he expected a lot from me with school, education, sports, just
being you know, in life in general. I've told stories about it on the podcast, so everybody should know about this point that I've always been like that through my dad and just becoming an adult. It just formed me into be a self motivator. So I don't ever like, yeah, there's things I can watch and like, oh that's motivating, or someone talks to you
and that can be motivating. But at the end of the day, if I want to do something or make a change, I'm always like, all right, I'm gonna do this, and literally like I'll just do it. I don't know. I've always been like that. You brought up when people when you hear people say things to you when it comes to motivating you. Even watching Little TikTok motivational speech, Yeah, yeah, that is all great.
I love motivational quote speeches. I'm all for it. But when I read or listen to these things, what my mind tells me is like, I already know. I know these things. I know what you're saying. I get it. So same to the same aspect of I don't need words to those positive words to motivate me. Sometimes I just force my I have to force myself to do it. So an example for that is the gym.
You know, we've been going on this gym craze, Like I go to the gym every day, but there are days where I'm unmotivated to go. Yeah, but I think what works for me is if you force yourself to go, it always turns out the same. Meaning the thing we always say is after the gym, regardless of regardless of how you were feeling before, you never regretted. Yeah. By the way, let me give myself
credit because that's my quote. Okay, there it is. Yeah, I've never I always tell people, you know, sometimes it's it's hard to go to the gym. And it's even hard for me sometimes, like especially after like a Friday, it's been a long week. I'm gonna go home. Sometimes I just like want to rest, but I'm not going to I'm gonna
go straight to the gym after we get done here. And uh, you know what gets me over that hump is as soon as I get the gym clothes on, Like I feel like as soon as if I just get the gym clothes on, like I'm going but The thing that Magic just said is there's never been a time where I went to the gym and regretted going to the gym. So that's the thing that's like, if you need some motivation, you can always tell yourself that, like, you know, you're not
going to regret it. You know what I'm saying. You're never gonna regret going to the gym. You could regret not going to the gym. I say, I go home today, I'm tired. I don't end up going I know tomorrow and be like, man, I should have just pulled through and went. But if I go to the gym, I'm tired today, I make it through. After the gym, I'm be like, I'm glad I did. I didn't regret going, you know. Yeah. So I guess that's what I mean by forcing it. Yeah, you even though your
brain is telling you you're not motivated, I don't feel like going. I say, more of like a push through it, put okay, yeah, yeah, just get that push yourself to just be there. Yeah, and then see what happens at the end. Because I feel like, you know, maybe not everybody, but once you get going, I feel like you kind of just get in that mode, everything kind of just disappears and that thought of man, I'm tired kind of goes away, especially when you're in
the environment. I don't know. There might be some people to even like as they're going through working out, they're kind of just going through themotions like why am I here? But the thing is you're there your min as well. Just push through it, make the best of it, and yeah, you're not gonna regret it afterwards. You're just not Speaking of the gym, there's something you know before I before I started going to the gym every day,
I've always known you because I know your schedule. Ye after work you always go to the gym pretty much six to maybe seven times a day. You go seven times a day or a week sometimes a yeah, definitely. I used to have a schedule where I would go like Monday through Friday, and I'd give myself the weekends off. But then I would notice there would be times during the week where I might miss the day and I would still have that weekend off, and it just kind of like, like, why
why am I taking a weekend off? I'm giving myself this break, but there's no reason, like I could still go not to mention. Let's say I miss something during the week and then I'm taking the weekends off. Now I'm only going four times and I got three days off, so I kind of just go every day if I can, and then if there's a day that I can't for whatever reason, work or whatnot, then like that's my
day off. You know what I'm saying. But to have to have set days off, I feel like that wasn't working for me because it then that I'm now I'm like not going as much when like I could have went, but I'm taking it off. What just because it's the weekend. But yeah, I have time not working or anything, so I could still go. That's sort of like what I did. So I don't have a day off schedule. My day offs kind of just come when I can't make it.
So I bring that up because there was a time where in mind I'm like, like, how how do you do that? Like rooteam man, are you going every day? Now? Fast forward to me for the past I've been a member for two months now and I've hardly missed a day. Yeah, I've gone pretty much every day, but like you said, there's one or two days that where something comes up where I can't and you just kind of write that as your day off exactly. But I'm in that mode now
of going every freaking day without missing a day. And I guess the next thing I want to ask you about that if you have thoughts on how the fuck did we get here? How? Who? How did we get into this mentality where going to the gym every day is a good thing? Because I was never like that. I'm surprised at myself for going. I'm to the point now where it's weird to me to miss a day, yeah, where I'm almost set, like it bums me out if I'm not going.
Yeah, how did we turn that mental switch on? You know? I first, once again my dad again, I first got into working out with my dad because my dad was a big workout person. He had transformed our garage into like a legit gym and he'd had all his partners come and so
I had gotten into it like that. And of course, you know, when you're younger, you like that you see like your body growing, you kind of get that confidence, and you know, especially being in sports, you kind of just need to like work out and stay in shape still, And I've always wanted to be somebody that that I wasn't going to let that part of my life like stop. There was a point in time where a
few years I did slack off a little bit. I was kind of going through some personal things and I was not really motivated, if you will. But then again I just had to get myself self motivated again. I could tell that I was getting out of shape, and as you get older, it gets harder, and so I just made it a deal with myself. Was like, you know what, as you get older, you have to
work harder for this shit. You know, your metabolism slows down. It's not like I could just eat whatever I want anymore, or I could just work out a few times and I'd be good. I just started to realize as I was getting older, I wanted to take care of myself more and have a better longevity life. And especially you know, I'm sure you do this. You see people that maybe you went to school with, or your age, and you're just like, man, it looks like life got the
best of you. Like you, I'll be real like some of these people, you look like shit, and we're the same age, if not some people younger than me. And I see that. If you want to talk about motivation, I see that, and I don't want to be that. So I'm gonna do everything I can to not be like that. And if that means I have to go to the gym every day, if that means I have to cut out certain things in my diet, then that's what it is. Man. And again it's not easy. It's not for everybody.
But once again, I was somebody that was self motivated. I'm not gonna do that to myself. What I tell people, especially when it comes to the gym aspect, is you really just got to find a routine and what works in your schedule, because I know there's always like excuses, Oh I work, Oh I have kids, Oh I got this. And at the end of the day, you have time. You know that at nights when you're streaming and you're binge watching for those few hours, you know what those
few hours could be. You can take a couple of those hours towards the gym. Oh, but I got it. Okay, you know what if you got to take the kids to school, wake up early, Oh, you got to pick up the kids. Like, to me, there's no excuse. You don't even have to go to a gym. You can run around your fucking block, you can do pushups, you there's things you can do to work out. You just gotta find a schedule and a way of doing it that works for you. Now, for me and you like our
schedule after work, it kind of works out perfect for us. And then we just stayed consistent with it. All right, So how did I get to this point where now I'm going every day once again? I was not like this, Yeah, I was not. I was going maybe once every other day, so like three times a week was my former schedule. And you kind of brought up what it is. It's a routine, meaning you
have to make it part of your life. That's what had That's when it becomes something that you do all the time over and over, it just become it is what it becomes. It. Yeah, like waking up to get ready or going to work, like those things that your routine about. Like just add the gym to that, just like everything else that we talked about where there's that hump. It's gonna be hard in the beginning. But what like I said, I'm two months in. The mental has changed. It's
the brain is a weird thing. It's such a powerful thing that it just changes your mind. So yeah, there's the initial thing of you pushing through it, but I'm just telling you from my experience, it made a switch where now it's a norm Yeah, exactly, and it's almost like it's just part of your schedule and you kind of go and it doesn't feel as bad as it used to because you've gotten over that hump and do things to help
you out. If it's a workout partner, if it's going to a certain gym because the environment's better, or you know, for me, in the beginning, I got really into Jim clothes. That was something that really motivated me. Is I liked the way certain gym clothes looks, certain gym clothes felts. I'm somebody that like sweats a lot, so like getting into like the dry fit stuff like really helped me. And then I started to build
this collection of Jim clothes and Jim shoes. And you can say what you want about it, you know, because some people just go regular clothes or whatever. But for me, like that worked for me buying money spending money on gym clothes. There were there were good quality like actually helped motivate me to like being them, feel good in them, work out in them. The certain gym that I would go to helps, you know, I like the environment of it, not the social part of it. I go by
myself. But it's it's things like that, going with your partner maybe I don't know. It's finds something that can help you motivate yourself a little bit. Here. It is creating habits. There you go, that's what it is. It's just and this is a real thing. Good habits and bad habits. Yeah, so creating good habits that like again, I'll say it again, I'm experiencing this in real life because I was not like this. I've just created these better habits and it just becomes part of your life.
So create those good habits. This next thing that I'm kind of fearful that I'm going through is what I want to talk about next, is so keto is basically low carb, no sugar. Right, So I did that for a year and yeah, did that for a year and a half. Now my work my workout routine is every day strength, like you know, little cardio, a lot of lifting and like you know, building muscle. Because now what's happening is I'm slowly incorporating carves and sugar back into what I eat.
But I've been noticing that I'm still losing, like on the scale, on the scale. So but the thing I'm fearful of just because this is all this, you know, this past year and a half is all new to me, like me eating sugar or carves. Am I going to get into that habit again of you know, going full out just eating anything a little bit more? You know, I did a little bit carbs yesterday, so oh, I had a soda yesterday, so I can have one today. Yeah, I can see that. Well. So as of right now,
I'm control. I'm balancing into pretty well where I'm not going overboard. It's maybe once a week maybe you know, I was gonna say a weekend. But to me, I don't even want to give myself the oh only on Saturdays. It's just I don't deprive myself just because I know I'm working out. I think that's what's helping me too, is I know, let's say these carbs, will you know I'll gain five pounds in one day or
whatever. I know I'll lose ten in the week. That's what's keeping me going but this is happening right now that I hope my mind doesn't go back to how I was before, and it scares me a bit. And depending on like what you're looking for when it comes to a diet, Now, if you just like want to flat out just lose like weight, you know, a diet is probably the way to go. Food is yeah, man, it's all food you eat. But if you want to just maybe be
in a better shape, drop a few. The thing that works for me is throughout my life because I've been able to balance like where I want to be my weight is I just cut things out, I switch up my eating habits. I don't. I've never gone on a diet to this day. I've never gone on a diet. I've just cut back on things, you know, Like recently it's been like sugar, sodas, I've like cut that
out. I've cut out on or eating less even likely eating less, not getting that extra bites or not getting the candy or you know, on the weekends, even though it's the weekends, not like necessarily needing to go out to eat. It's just little if you can cut back on little things, or maybe you don't need that fucking frappuccino that has like over a thousand calories
or whatever. Every fucking morning, you know, switch it up. Maybe it's just it's a couple of times a week just doing those little things. Obviously you're not going to see it fast because you're not on a diet, but just incorporating those little cutbacks, man, you're gonna see change over time. And I've seen it. There's things that I cut out and then I've seen it even just this year. But if you're somebody that just like wants to like lose a lot of weight, then yeah, you probably need a
diet and go to the gym consistently. But a lot of times I tell people, man, it just cut little things out of your life. Yeah, it might hurt a little bit, but it's you're gonna see a difference. I think people need to understand too that it is a process. I know it's kind of cliche, trust the process, but I mean, come on, like a year and a half. You know it took me to
get to this point. You know you brought up diet. Yeah, in the beginning, I guess Keto was a diet, but the way I kind of saw it more was I needed a life change, and it's I'm still doing it. So yeah, I brought up me eating putting carbs in a little bit of sugar now, but you're not eating like you used to two years ago during during the week. It's not that I cheer like, oh let me today, let me not eat. I don't think it. I just don't. Carbs and sugar is not part of my thing on a daily
Yeah. Yeah. The part that happens once in a while is when you're out with friends, you know, oh, let's do a dinner. Then yeah, I don't deprive myself. Yeah, you're at a theme park, you know, shit like that. But when it's just a your regular week, I guess you could call it I'm on keto. But when people say, are you still on keto? Like, I don't even know how to answer that because the answers no. But you just to me, you just
switched up your eating habits. That's just like how I tell people, like I don't diet, you know, I just I switch up my eating habits. If I see that, maybe you know, let's just for example, the holidays coming up. You know what I'm saying, there's gonna be a lot of food you know with the Tamali's like all that good shit Thanksgiving,
so you know, I'm gonna eat probably a lot of that. So maybe now it's like I need to cut back on some certain things or maybe be a little bit more easy during the week because I know that these big meal days are going to be. It's just switching things around, you know, taking a cut back on certain foods, eating less like it's all that. But it is a habit thing for sure. I think that's the biggest thing about you know, not necessarily for motivation, but it's just creating habits.
I think that's what got us to this point of the mental switch, was creating a habit. I think that's like the biggest advice I can give people is you just have to push through it, like you said, because once it becomes a habit and part of your life, it's a lot easier it is, and it'll just be a part of your life. Like you just said, it's just my every day now. Like I don't even think like, ah shit, I gotta go to the gym today. I just know
that, oh, after work, I'm going to the gym. It's not like you know, I mean, because it's just part of my schedule now. And I think going back to like the willpower question that I have, I think it's just kind of connects with everything that we just talked about creating habits is because yet it's tempting, but you've created this habit within your life that you know you're gonna be okay without it. I mean, at the end of the day, we're humans. You know what I'm saying. This
shit's hard. It's not like this is again, it's hard. If this is something that you want to do, I'm gonna tell you right now, it's not easy. It's hard, but once it becomes a habit, it becomes a little bit easier. Is there anything you know more on the Funsi Funsi end of the conversation conversation? Is there anything that in your life where you know you're not supposed to do it, but you do it anyway? And an example I give you is there's chocolate bars in the front desk.
I don't know if you saw it. It's in like the side of the front I've been eyeing those. They've been sitting there for a minute. I've been tempted to be like, yo, are you doing anything with those? So there was a stack of five, I believe, and yesterday I noticed there was four. So I'm like, okay, so obviously someone took I'll
tell you right now it wasn't me. It wasn't me either. But also I'm fine with it, by the way, because maybe it helps you a little bit, right, And also, yeah, I don't want it to go to waste, like yeah, that's why I leave it there like anyone. And it's these big hershey chocolate bars, you mungus ones, And so there's four left. I took one yesterday, all right, I took one. I'm not gonna lie. I took one. But again, they've been
sitting there for weeks and the weeks you took one though. See that's good. Yeah, maybe in the past you probably would have had two in a day one, but again you're human, Like you know what I'm saying, This shit's gonna happen. And you know something too that I'll say to that is I'm not gonna beat myself up for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I enjoyed it. The weird thing is I again, I'm
just saying this because I'm going through this now. I'm experiencing this now, is maybe it's because the habit that we created, I'm not I don't feed it. I don't feed another there's because now there's two more left. Yeah, I don't feed to grab another one. I was good with the one I grabbed yesterday. So maybe it's because the habit that I created the past few years that yeah, I'm okay with just grabbing that one and I'll be
good for months. Yeah. Maybe I'll grab another chocolate bar months from now. Yeah. Yeah, but there's there's a couple more left and I don't feel like taking it. But is there is there anything where you're like, I know I'm not supposed to do this, but then you do it. I mean, yeah, there's times, you know, like on the weekends especially, or you know how I say, sometimes there's stuff in the break room. There's been a couple of times where I might have grabbed one or
took a bite of something. But it's definitely a lot easier than what I would have before. You know, I would have seen that and grabbed it and ate it and maybe ate it too and took one home and before I'm like, I'm good. The only time I really will do it is if I feel the need like damn, I have like no energy right now, you know what I'm saying. So like sometimes I make that trip to the store and I'll go get myself like some beef jerky or you know, an
energy drink or something like that. That's the only time that I'll really do it is if I feel like, man, I got like no fuel in me. I need something. And then I don't really feel guilty about it then because like, well, fuck, I didn't want to pass out at work either. You know for sure that kind of makes me think of back
to the feeling unmotivated. I guess these So for example, if I saw you one day, if you were feeling unmotivated and you even tell me, let's say you told me like, yeah, man, like today at work, I'm just not feeling it or yeah, or like I don't feel like doing anything. I don't feel like working, I don't feel like going to the gym later with you. I would just take it as it would just be today. It would just be the day. Oh yeah, and it's
okay. It's almost like just because I know how you are, that go ahead and feel that way today, be unmotivated today. I mean, I know you're gonna snap out of that. That's a good point. I'm glad you brought that up because there has been times where like that where I just had a bad day. There's personal shit going on again, where human life happens, and sometimes life fucking slaps you in the face and sometimes you don't want to do anything. And I know, like how you said, I
know myself. I know that I'm never gonna go down that dark hole. I know that it's just a one day thing for me, and I'll give myself that day, yeah, because I know that tomorrow it's gonna be a new day and I'll be able to bounce back. So yeah, you're right, it's okay to give yourself a day like that, and it has happened. You know, the life will get the best of me. Sometimes I'll take the l for that day. It's okay. I'll sleep on it, I'll wake up it's a new day and I'm back at it. Yeah,
exactly. I I'm for that too, Like, yeah, rest rest today. Feel the way you're feeling, It's okay to feel that way, just because I know the kind of person you are. I mean, you know, the machine breaks down sometimes, but you know, sometimes you just fix the machine and it's back running the next day. For the people that you know that need that extra motivation that maybe it's not part of their life yet. Is it just one of those things that we brought up in the beginning
where they have to create that still. Yeah, motivation is something you just got to find what motivates you. And for me, it's always been self
motivation. So a lot of times I'm just talking to myself in my own head about why I need to do something or why I need not to do something, and that alone, it's almost like it's almost like there's two people one and one is telling me like, yo, I don't want to disappoint this part of me, and that part of me goes, yeah, I don't want to disappoint you either, and then we come to a conclusion like
a let's get this shit done, you know what I'm saying. So it's like it's a lot of talking in my own head of not wanting to let myself down. Essentially, I don't do things for other people. I do a lot of this for myself. So I don't know. Maybe it's because I've been an only child, but I've always been just self motivated. I don't do things for other people. I do it for myself, and that's
what works. Again, that's what works for me. Now that you're saying it, to be honest with you, I think that's I don't want to say the only answer, but in my head the way I'm thinking, it makes sense that self motivation is the only answer. And this is why I say that, because you know, people will, oh I listened to this thing, or I saw these inspirational quotes. Oh I saw this speech from this motivational speaker, which are all great. Yeah, but what's the common
denominator. You still have to do it. Yeah, they can't do it for you at the end of the day, right, it's just that self willshit exactly. So I think that's really what it comes down to. It's still self motivating. Now you can use these things as like tools to help motivate yourself, but at the end of the day, Yeah, you're right, you just you have to do it yourself. I mean you just said
it. These are like tools that you can use, but if you think about it, even with or without it, it's still you still have to do it. So I think that's something you guys have to think about is it does have to come within you create these good happens are you're a most important person? Yeah? Man, and I like what you said. I'll end it with this one. I like what you said. I think a big part of it is you do have to do it for yourself and not
for anyone else. You It has to be for your happiness, for your peace of mind. Don't you know how some people do it for Oh I'm gonna do this to get back to make my exit. Yeah you know, no, those usually don't last. Yeah, you might might maybe for the moment, you know what I mean. You look good now, you proved your point, and then you just lose it again. Yeah, it has to be for yourself. I like that.