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commitment can be defined as The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, or activity, etc. And today, in McKenzie joins me again he is up as a result of doing the 12 hour walk, and we just did an ice bath. So let's quickly just have a quick 10 to 15 minute chat, and then went for 10 minutes around commitment and the commitment that you saw from our Academy members during the 12 hour walk, but also why you feel people lack commitment, and what you can do to turn around your levels of commitment, because there are a lot of blokes who make promises, right. And the promise is easy to break. So many people are breaking promises, whether it's towards their relationships towards their mate towards their health, they just don't back them up. And one thing that I observed from this walk the other night was just how much more you can get out of yourself if you show up and put in the work. And not everyone finished the walk. But it wasn't about finishing the walk is more about focusing on the journey. And throughout the journey, if you can learn to love that journey, if you can learn to be present in that journey, you can see how beneficial the journey is over the outcome. We all felt satisfied from not finishing like you know, for those who didn't finish, it still felt satisfaction still felt like they accomplished something because the journey was pushing themselves more than they ever had before. So if you struggle with commitment, this is going to be a great episode for you.
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And I wanted to be held accountable and I wanted to learn more about myself so I can build that confidence and my ability to create the life that I want. And that's what this does. So I look forward to seeing you in there. Enjoy this episode. But then have a great day. The man that can project podcast, a podcast empowering driven men to live more fulfilling lives. We are here to challenge your beliefs, redefine success and talk about the important stuff in a reliable way. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review. My name is Stuart let's get into it. Well I'm excited to bring you guys a special guest episode it's going to be short and sharp and to the point in McKenzie is currently sitting right beside me. We did our ended his first ice bath because he flew up from Melbourne on Friday to join us on the 12 hour walk even though we had a broken foot so why I thought this would be a cool little cameo appearance for me and we could talk about accountability and commitment because there are two things that you embody and I think you'll be able to pass on a few words of wisdom for why you're so committed and why you hold yourself accountable but also how you use our community communicability our community as a sense of accountability as well but awesome work on the ice bath Thanks Mike. Wasn't as cold in as Victorian standards Victoria, Queensland, Queensland cold Melbourne called a little bit different but mate so How was the ride so you wrote obviously with a broken foot but journey broke your foot a couple of weeks ago is still for Lux
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products yesterday so it's I'd be right down but I was really pleased that actually could still get up here and I when I started the ride I thought myself you know, why am I going to get through this because it was you know, it's quite painful but I said on the bike path member of saw but and I pedalled with my with my heel and just idle along and
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you're in a bloody moon boom. Yeah Can Moon boat say
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now I was really glad to see it. No, it's really good to see that blokes putting in because I can, I think a lot of likes didn't realise just how hard it was going to be. I didn't even I think I went in, I went to mindset, because I've done the oxygen trial walking, you know, walking 33 hours solid, you know, 1212 12 hours to me actually didn't seem that long. Yeah, I ended because I knew what to expect. Yeah, you know,
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I think that's a cool thing to sort of touch on, though, because I didn't know what to expect in everyone else, except for yourself had never done anything like that. Yeah, that's right. So my head was like 12 hours, that's, you know, should be quite fine, I was more worried about the lack of sleep, but then about six, seven hours in my feet were just on fire.
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But after speaking to a lot of the lads after it, like the sense of empowerment, that we have to now know that we can do that, it's the cost
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of achievement, it's a really big achievement, I can look at the general population, there's not a lot of people out there can do
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it can walk for 12 hours, 50 Ks, yeah, and come out the other end. And, and, you know, I, the bikes at different stages of boats pulled out, that was right near the end. So they should feel totally wrapped with themselves, if you get through 10 or 11 hours, because it's not something you where you can do every day. And that, that just shows just goes to show the the commitment, and and how we bounce off each other and how we support each other. And that was what I love the most. So I'd be walking along a ride along and no doubt, I'd come along with one group and I have a chat to them for a while and and then like say now the group didn't.
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But their their support and commitment to HLA was was come through. And that that's it's all about, you know,
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probably ties into accountability then. So we'll hit there first, and then we'll come back to commitment.
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But for yourself, like how do you utilise it for accountability, because what we're saying before as well, even whether it's within our community, or just in life in general, people really struggle with accountability. And often the accountability with that with themself right, they set a goal or they make a promise, never really a commitment, because if they committed that really follow it through, yep.
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But people do this, and then they just don't hold themselves accountable. And for me, it's one of the most fucking frustrating things. Obviously, everyone's running their own race, which is fine. So it doesn't directly affect me. But it also frustrates me. Because when you speak to people, and you understand their potential within them, and then they lack accountability. So for me, having people like yourself and our whole community that hold me to a higher standard, and when I say something, it's like, if I, you know, forget about it, or haven't written it down, and somebody asked, Where do you go with that? Fuck no, back home with that. So for you, why is accountability? So important?
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And how does it help?
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It's huge, calculated for me is, I, I don't want to be that. I'm 57 years old, one of the older books in the seven years young man, young, 57 years young. I don't want to be that bloke who's 70 years old, and sit in the couch because I'm fat and lazy and haven't committed to anything, you know. So I'm accountable to myself. But I, I think, Bobby, what I really love about the programme with the accountability groups is and I really, really want to say advice, get in there and use them because you go in there and and sometimes when you got your question, your, your, your commitment or your ability, and you go, am I going to do this?
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Or am I going to do that? And then you get online and you have a chat and whatnot, for example, a classic example me was the was the row 20. Okay, row, I'm thinking, fact, that's a long way. 21 case? And am I going to be able to do that? Yeah. I got a line. I remember, I started it. And that was I remember all the young folks like yourself, we're doing it like an hour and 25 or hour and 30 minutes. And I didn't do it an hour and 44. But I was wrapped with that. Because I thought okay, I plotted along, going into it. And then you got like people like when you go live in your pillow George over in the UK, cheering you're on and same with you to the inmate and that's all that I I wanted to achieve for myself but also for my mates. Yeah. So I think that the programme is great that the the being cannibal that you check in on the groups and say be doing all that. And I think if we communicate and help each other through then we can achieve so much.
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Yeah, and that's why it's so important to think about who you're spending the most time around, you're hanging around fat lazy people chances are you probably gonna have fat lazy habits. And that's the sample Yeah. Is it toxic, bro, whatever it is. So you think about if you're clear on who you are, and then the next steps what you want from your life.
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The most important thing I ever did was find people who had what I wanted and surround myself around those kinds of people.
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Even though my life is 10 times better than where I was doesn't mean I go back to hang out with the same people I used to hang out with. I still need to surround myself because as you sort of said it's when we set tasks like the 12 hour work You know, I probably would have quit had it. You know, not everyone else was still going all the row or various other things, you know, we're doing exercise this week about getting feedback from from people in your life, like, the first two weeks has already done this before I won't do it.
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And then I started to hear, you know, listen to you guys on the calls and I'm going to start redoing this stuff again. It's been a while since I've done it now I'm getting so much value from that as well. So when you continue to do that, I guess.
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Grab energy of the people you spend around and do what they do your life's only going to improve it the way that theirs does. It
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was in such a positive environment. And that's and that's how I found it with the walk. I was actually like, pumped when I was going along with bikes. It just it was such a positive vibe. Yeah. Yeah, it really got taught tired and near the end, because it was a big task. Yeah. But the positivity and the the commitment and the way blokes would help each other get through. Yeah. I mean, that's what's all about, we're like, humans are pack animals. I love to, you know, they feed off each other. Yeah. You know, you're not the sort of, we're not we don't like to sit around and just do things. I'm we like to do things as a group.
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Yeah, we think we think you know, I enjoy alone time. But if I say my own time i Yeah, you know, some people like I'd love to live my life. But would you have you ever actually done that? That would be quite fucking miserable. For you, though, you said before when you're set, you know, you don't want to be fat lazy when you're 70? How do you remain so committed to you know, you're, we've already spoken about it on the last podcast, but you know, you just jumped in a fucking ice bath. Then at 57, you did the 12 hour walk with a broken foot, you have all this travel coming up. And you're still you still work, right? You still have a career, a family, you do all these sorts of things. But you're still so committed to making sure you squeeze the juice out of life. How do you stay so committed? Because that's, that's like a golden question for so many blokes.
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I just see, you've got to be positive. Every day.
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There's so much sadness and bad stuff in the world. And it's, and as I've said, during the big pop big podcasts, are they with you? I've seen a lot in my life, through my career, and just to personal things. And I've really got a positive attitude because of that, because I don't, I think we need to have something to aim for every day and be committed and you know, be kind, be kind to yourself or to you know, try and achieve. And so, yeah, I just the option the, the opposite of the opposite. For me, the opposite is not me on the mind. I want to be positive I want to keep on achieving, I want to make a difference to someone every day. I want to be a fun bike to be with I want to be fun to be with my family and things like that. So all those things drive me and and I found with being with all you legends, and I've been overwhelmed by just the kindness and how there's so many of us who want to catch up in wild Pepe in Brisbane. Yeah. And I love that, you know, it's so nice. Yeah, genuinely good blokes, genuine good blokes who want to make a difference to their selves and their lives. Yeah. And others.
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So yeah, just this positivity keeps you focused in case you want to achieve more.
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Yeah. And commitment. So for you, like, it's good to sort of tie that up. But what advice would you say to someone who's sitting out there right now, I'd love to hear this from you. What advice would you give to a bloke out there who knows he doesn't keep his word with his commitments and keeps shying away whether it's you know, bailing on a dinner at the last minute or, you know, not continuing to do the things go to the gym or take the holidays that he said he was going to take what advice would you say to that bloke? I think so put you on the spot.
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Now. That's what I think that he's being untrue to himself and in people around him and like, I'm not a good. I'm very close to both my kids. And I got a lot of close mates and I think they see me as being an active healthy, committed individual. Yep. I've got a lot of respect my workmates. Yep.
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I've got a really good working relationship. And I think being a Manchester manager, I'm a leader in my, my station. And I'll say that I'll buy my own trumpet there because I, I feel I have a great team. I work with a delay so that they see that I'm committed, or I want to achieve I want to help people and things like that. So yeah, I think if you don't commit or don't, you end up getting to a stage where you'll be older and you'll start to think it'd be harder to do because you're you're physically won't be as healthy. And then if you're not physically healthy, it can affect your mindset and things like that. So and I don't want that happened to me. So you Did you just gotta just get involved commit yourself and try and achieve giant, you know, little things each day a small habit becomes right you do things small things and they become habit. And then it gets better and better easier and easier as you go along.
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If you haven't been in Taurus person who bails on your commitment, like I used to always do that I definitely wasn't a man of my word. It's just commit to doing better, right, as you said, do those small things. So right now it could be okay, well, tomorrow, I'm gonna commit to getting up at 5am and doing something whatever it is making the coffee but it might just be committing to something or it might be I'm committed to catching up with a mate or giving a made a phone call, just do one thing. And then pat yourself on the back for you know, achieving those commitments because it's more so if you can fall in love with the process in anything. It's, I was reading a quote the other day, we're not even quote just a book. But it's if you can fall in love with the process or the journey over the outcome, or the destination. Like that makes everything worthwhile. But so many of us are focused on the outcome and say, we see someone ripped walk past or we see someone drive past in a four hour we go on to earn more money or I want to work out more but that's destination outcome focused. It's not what actually has to go in there and am I prepared to commit to that? Or is it just me emotionally being charged? We got to wrap it up because we go for a steak with the boys. Thanks for the impromptu chat as awesome as always. It's been great having you up in Queensland. Thanks a lot, buddy.