Welcome back to another your Friday, five.

So I wanna talk today a little bit about how mastery matters.

Okay?

And I was watching this talk a while back here.

It was a virtual conference that I was attending and.

This speaker was just otherworldly the level of which, not only the stories and how they were connecting things, but they were so present with the audience.

Like it was very clear that there was not this like, you know, slides on the stage that they're going through all scripted.

They were so connected with the audience.

They were able to pivot based on things that were said.

I was blown away, and even before the speaker said anything, I sat there and I thought.

Wow, this person has done this for a long time.

This person's getting out and the speaker disclosed how many, how many talks they'd given.

I'm gonna give you a second here just to guess how many you think for me to be just blown away, how many that this person gave.

I thought, I don't know, 5,000, 10,000, 13,000 was the answer.

13,000 talks for this person to be able to get up and just.

Blow me away with how amazing it was.

And what it made me think of is, wow, what went into the mastery of that moment?

And I think about we talk about this a lot, right?

How we're trying to develop new habits and then we think instantly things are supposed to be easy, which of course they can't be because we've never done them before.

There's discomfort involved in the beginning, we're not familiar with them.

We make errors'cause we don't know what we're doing, and then we think somehow it's like a moral failing and.

If you stopped chasing new novel, weird things to do and you focused on the basics and you really mastered those, how much further would you come?

I was sitting there with this person thinking they were not doing this version when they started out probably 20, 30 years ago.

They were probably doing something really simple.

And this person was actually joking how their first book had I don't know.

30 chapters and was only 80 pages, and they were saying how bad quality it was and that they wanted the publisher to stop making the book because they knew it was so bad.

The first one, this person's written dozens and dozens of books and they said, look, I'll buy them out, but they're like, no, people buy them.

So we won't stop making them.

But think about in your life, can you stop chasing novelty.

And focus on the basics so that you can get some mastery over it.

Mastery requires you to focus on less things and do it really well.

It's not a constant new thing you have to do.

Now, you might get confused because you hear me sometimes say, well, what got you here doesn't get you there.

Don't be confused.

You've solidified certain things, but you've let go of a lot of other BS that didn't serve you and so what ends up happening is.

You over time are really refining down this is what matters, this is what doesn't.

I'm gonna give an example here.

Recently my skeletal muscle went up and I was really proud of it and I thought, honestly, guys, I was like, this is bs because I've never done less strength training.

But you know what?

I have been doing really, really, really long walks and I have been doing some strength training completely, consistently for months.

So about five minutes in the strength room.

Every so often with walking around that track, I do a few squats and what I thought to myself, yeah, it's a small amount of strength training, but it's never been more consistent.

Other periods, I would be going balls out for a month or two and then I would drop off for three weeks and then I'd be all in, and then I would drop off for two months and then I'd be all in and I always had good reason for it, by the way, like, oh, I'm really hungry, or this or that.

I always had a lot of.

Legitimate reasons that I could say that, but you know what changed?

Even when I would get very hungry with the strength training, I'd say, okay, we're gonna cut it back to X, Y, Z, but I didn't a hundred percent eliminate it, and I was more and more consistent with it, and I allowed exercises, given the genetic mutation that I have where I don't deal well with a stress response.

The walking does not trigger me at all.

I feel fantastic at the end of it.

I'm not like, oh my gosh, I need to lay down and recover.

You hear these people that say, I don't feel super amazing after workout.

Yeah.

I can tell you the genetic problem that you have.

Like it's, it's, if we were to get a test, we would see it, but the point is, why did the muscle go up?

Super consistency with less doing the walks that really serve me well.

Consistent protein every single day.

There is no day when oop, we just didn't get protein.

No, no, it's happening.

So there's mastery of less things, tweaking the smallest things, not going crazy, adding new products, but taking the same protein drink and tweaking.

When am I having it?

How am I having it?

I started put to put in this snack between lunch and dinner.

'cause I was noticing, eh, sometimes this would happen at dinner and I actually did better when I had one of those strawberries and cream, those built bars that I'm obsessed with.

I'm sorry if none of you can get them.

'cause they're sold out 24 7.

I literally don't even judge me.

I got like 10 boxes last time.

They're lasting for a while in this house.

Okay.

Yeah.

And I'm happy for people to have them because we finally have enough, but.

Yes, that helped me.

Little tweaks, not massive overhauls, not trying to find a new program, a new way, small tweaks so that I can be a master of what's happening.

So look at your life.

I want you to think about, am I chasing novelty and new and different and a new beginning, or am I actually mastering the basics of what's required here?

Making small pivots in that you always know that someone's a master because they can solve the problem really quickly.

They're not entirely redoing everything.

It's like a lot of the times when I talk to people, within the first five, 10 minutes can see exactly what they need to do, but it's because I've worked with people in this area for a long time.

I can look at their InBody, their nutrition log, hear what they're saying and think, boom, boom, boom, are the things that's gonna get them the furthest.

It's mastery because I have a limited scope of what I'm doing.

This is what I'm.

Become really great in all these areas that are the intersection of actually being able to manage this long term.

That is what I do.

So for you, if you're wanting to work on your health, you're gonna have to become a master at it, and that does not require messy action all over the place.

It's focused.

You change small things and you are really a master.

Alright, I'm gonna leave it here.

I hope you have an amazing weekend.

Gentle reminder, if you wanna do the, the September 30 30 program, this is the time to register because we need time to ship you physically, the workbook that goes with it.

I am incorporating this time more of the working genius types, if you've ever read that business book in the past.

'cause I see lots of relationships with how that relates to our health.

And so that's entirely new content.

That is something that I think is gonna change not only your health, but also how you.

Deal with work and what you do there.

If that's something that you want to explore, we're gonna be bringing that more into this next round.

Make sure that you sign up now.

'cause otherwise there does come a point, it's about two, three weeks ahead of time where we just can't mail you it anymore because we ask them to mail it to you when you sign up.

We don't have a bunch sitting.

At a location.

And so that just takes time for them to do that.

If you're wanting do that round.

Gentle reminder, this is probably one of the last weeks that you can register.

So the link for that will be in the show notes and I hope to see you there.

Alright, have an amazing rest of the weekend and we'll talk soon.